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Vision nominators an insider’s who’s who VANCOUVER VOTES

Bob Mackin

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Vision Vancouver’s grassroots aren’t showing on campaign nomination documents filed with city hall’s election office, according to a Courier analysis.

The signatories on forms for Mayor Gregor Robertson and candidates for city council, park board and school board are primarily from the ruling party’s backroom.

None of the 2011 nominators, including Vision councillors, are listed on Robertson’s sheet signed Sept. 30.

Some of the names appearing on the 2014 form aren’t a surprise, such as party executive director Stepan Vdovine, former executive director Ian Baillie, Robertson’s chief of staff Mike Magee and policy and communications director Kevin Quinlan. Neither are Vision co-chairs Paul Nixey and Maria Dobrinskaya a surprise. Dobrinskaya was a Robertson aide during his one term as an NDP MLA and an aide in the Mayor’s Office.

Robertson’s wife Amy, from whom he is separated from, is listed on the form. So is

Suzanne Hawkes, Magee’s wife and partner in the Convergence Communications campaigning and financing firm.

Public relations consultant Nixey is Vancouver Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry’s former communications director. He is among a cluster of federal Liberals on Robertson’s form, including Young Liberals of Canada president Justin Kaiser and partner Braeden Caley, who is both an executive assistant to Robertson and president of the Liberal Party of Canada in B.C. Vision director Brittney Kerr is B.C. policy chair for the federal Liberals and a provincially registered lobbyist for the controversial Uber taxi alternative and the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association. Joining them are field Liberal organizer Paul Hershaw and Vancouver Centre Liberal riding president Jody Jollimore.

The most prominent NDP name is Jan O’Brien, who quit as the party’s provincial secretary in 2013. O’Brien chairs the Vancity board of directors and is married to Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs.

Veteran Vision strategist Mira Oreck spoke at the 2013 B.C. NDP convention about her role in campaigning for U.S. president Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election.

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Voters face capital ideas VANCOUVER VOTES

Sandra Thomas

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What will $10 million get you? Try 40,000 to 50,000 trees along streets and on private lands, new or enhancements of natural features and the addition of 10 new or expanded community gardens.

The trees and gardens are one of the highlights in the proposed $155-million capital plan for parks, open spaces and recreation for 2015 to 2018, which will be included on the ballot of the November municipal election.

The plan is the result of a two-phase public consultation launched in May and included in an online call for proposals for capital funding ideas as well as regular feed-

back on services and facilities. During the consultation, a survey showed Vancouver’s seawall, trails and natural areas are considered “core civic assets that people care deeply about.” That same survey showed that despite an increase in pools and rinks over the past decade, some residents believe there’s more work to be done to aging facilities. Some of the capital funding ideas submitted to the park board include renovations to address seismic concerns, playground upgrades, additional off-leash dog parks and another outdoor pool.

Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper said that outdoor pool will not be at Mount Pleasant Park. Members of that community have been fighting for a new outdoor pool since the original was removed in 2009 as part of that park’s redesign.

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Major parties grilled by lively crowd Mike Howell

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An energetic new organization of faith groups, labour unions and community advocates came together in the hundreds last Thursday night to hear which four mainstream civic parties would best represent its views on affordable housing, transit, poverty and social isolation.

In what so far has been a lacklustre election campaign, the Metro Vancouver Alliance gave the civic race a lively boost by attracting more than 600 of its delegates to the Italian Cultural Centre.

Representatives of the alliance outlined key needs on the four topics before challenging Mayor Gregor Robertson, NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe, COPE mayoral candidate Meena Wong and Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr to make commitments to their proposals.

All of the candidates, who sat in chairs on a stage at the front of a cavernous

hall, agreed to work with the alliance on solutions to combat social isolation, improve transit and develop a so-called living wage. They also committed to enforce bylaws to ensure decent standards of maintenance in rental suites, protect tenants from “renovictions” and set covenants for new developments that creates “truly affordable housing” for renters and buyers.

The evening marked the first time Robertson and LaPointe shared a stage together in the campaign but the format of the event did not allow for exchanges between candidates.

That, however, didn’t stop either party leader from criticizing each other’s views on the issues, with Robertson questioning LaPointe’s stance on the mayor’s push for a subway along the Broadway corridor.

“I must say I’ve been disappointed to not see a wholehearted, optimistic support from Mr. LaPointe and his party,” Robertson said.

An election forum last Thursday night at the Italian Cultural Centre marked the first time the NPA’s mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe shared a stage with Vision Vancouver’s incumbent Gregor Robertson in the campaign. Green Party council incumbent Adriane Carr also attended. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

LaPointe didn’t respond but he has said previously that Robertson’s campaign for a subway is but “an aspiration posing as a done

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deal,” with no commitments from senior levels of government to build a $1 billion underground transit service.

LaPointe did tell the crowd he supports the provincial government’s transit referendum scheduled for next spring but

or soup instead. They can also make simple meals in their own rooms – and host dinners for family and friends in one of the private dining rooms.

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opposes Robertson’s wish to redirect the existing carbon tax to help pay for transit improvements in the region.

“Under the law, the carbon tax must be revenue neutral and the biggest beneficiary of that revenue are lower income British Columbians,” he said. “So we’re penalizing lower income to take that revenue away.”

The crowd was arguably Vision-friendly territory, with a wide range of unions in the hall, many of which have traditionally supported the party financially and at the polls. Bus drivers, teachers and health care workers were among the delegates.

Most, if not all, of the Vision candidates campaigning towards the Nov. 15 election were present.

This observation didn’t seem to be lost on LaPointe, who used his opening remarks on the issue of social isolation to share his story of an impoverished childhood in Toronto.

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Nominations close for Nov. 15 election

Bob Mackin

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Nine people are challenging two-term Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson for the city’s top office in the Nov. 15 civic election, according to a list released to the media late Oct. 10.

Forty-nine candidates are vying for the 10 city council seats, 31 for park board’s seven seats and 29 for the nine-member school board.

Only 10 candidates for city council and five each for park board and school board are not affiliated with an elector organization.

Candidates from nine registered electoral organizations are vying for mayor, council and park board, while six are supporting candidates for school board.

The 119 candidates are significantly greater than 2005 when 96 people were

registered. The stakes are higher in 2014, with the winners getting an extra year in office. The provincial government opted to increase local government terms from three years to four, meaning the Nov. 15 election is the last general election for municipalities until 2018.

The candidate nomination office in room 115 on city hall’s main floor closed on schedule at 4 p.m. Oct. 10. Perennial mayoral candidate Golok Zoltan Buday’s application was refused for not containing the minimum 25 signatures.

Independent city council candidate David Angus and a member of the Work Less Party were among the last to apply. The list released in an email sent to media at 10:49 p.m. Oct. 10 from city hall’s communications department included Angus’s name, but the Work

Less Party was not among the elector organizations.

Past civic elections have had colourful names on the ballots, but few this time.

Independent school board candidate Tavis Dodds is listed as Dodds, T. “Mrs. Doubtfire,” the name of one of late comedian Robin Williams’s mostfamous characters. COPE park board candidate Ezra Bloom’s form lists the last name Fulford, not Bloom.

City council candidate Anthony Guitar is referred to in a B.C. Supreme Court injunction against the Oppenheimer Park protest camp as Anthony Gauthier. COPE city council candidate Audrey Siegl’s Musqueam name will also be included, a first for a Vancouver election ballot.

A Courier reporter was at city hall observing the close of nominations, but city clerk Janice MacKenzie,

who is also the chief election officer, refused a request after 4 p.m. to inspect the list of candidates who signed up on deadline day.

IntegrityBC executive director Dermod Travis said there is no excuse for such a delay.

“In Victoria at 4 o’clock, a city official read out — to all and sundry who were in the spot, who had been invited there — the list of candidates who had been nominated,” Travis said.

“No secret to it, no late night news release.”

Nomination forms and financial disclosure statements were online and available for public view at the city clerk’s office Oct. 14. Withdrawal or revocation of candidacy is allowed until Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. twitter.com/bobmackin

Meanwhile, on the NPA list …

Bob Mackin

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In a show of party unity, all 19 NPA city council, park board and school board candidates for the Nov. 15 civic election signed Mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe’s nomination papers.

The registration files Oct. 4 also lists NPA president Peter Armstrong and his Armstrong Group executive assistant

Paula Salloum and office director Ada Lam. Ex-NPA chair and expark board commissioner Alan Fetherstonhaugh, now vice-president of government relations and managing partner of Public Agenda Group, is also on the list. So, too, is Natasha Westover, executive coordinator of the NPA campaign. Westover was constituency assistant to ex-B.C. Liberal Transport, Health and Finance

minister Kevin Falcon.

A notable federal Conservative name on the nomination sheet is Michael van Hemmen, a former aide to Transport Ministers Rob Merrifield, John Baird and Chuck Strahl. He was most recently working in the business planning group of B.C. mining giant Teck.

Armstrong referred questions to NPA campaign manager Douglas Leung, who did not respond.

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Names tied to PR, HootSuite

Continued from page 1 Oreck is now director of strategic partnerships at the Broadbent Institute left-wing campaign thinktank. Also listed are Vision director Wei Qiao Zhang, constituency assistant to Vancouver Kingsway NDP MP Don Davies, and Kerr’s Earnscliffe Strategy Group colleague, Marcella Munro. Lobbyist Munro was a spokesperson on Adrian Dix’s failed 2013 provincial campaign.

Other signatories include Jonathan Bleackley and David Smith, executives of Vision’s research and polling company Stratcom, and Lesli Boldt, whose Boldt Communications public relations firm is located in the Stratcom office.

The list includes Nicole Seguin and Robert Hunter at the same Yaletown address. The personal website for Vision data and targeting manager Ja-

cob Hunter says he lives in Yaletown with wife Nicole Seguin. Hunter managed the Sensible B.C. marijuana decriminalization petition last year.

Another Robertson nominator, Tory Pearson, was a Vision fundraiser in 2011, but is now Hootsuite’s government sales specialist.

The social media analytics and marketing company hosted a Robertson campaign event in 2011 and moved into a city-owned building in 2012.

According to nominator Duncan Wlodarczak’s LinkedIn page, he was a community engagement officer from November 2012 to September 2013 for Ivanhoe Cambridge’s Oakridge Centre redevelopment, which coincided with his April 2012 to January 2014 post on the city’s Development Permit Board Advisory Panel. In a document promoting

Westbank Development’s Vancouver House, Wlodarczak was acknowledged under the heading of the Pottinger and Associates development lobbying company. Last fall, Wlodarczak formed Vision’s West End Community Action Network committee with fellow party activist Dean Malone.

While party bagman Joel Solomon is not a signatory in 2014, former Tides Canada and Renewal Partners executive Martha Burton is. Burton, Jollimore, Kerr, Public Health Agency of Canada consultant Sheena Sargeant and Sustainable SFU executive director Michael Soron are both members of the Vision board and nominators.

Nominations closed Oct. 10. Challenges are allowed until Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. and withdrawals until Oct. 17. twitter.com/bobmackin

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Fraser River park up for Nov. 15 vote

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The thousands of new residents expected to move into condo towers in south Marpole may soon be able to enjoy a new park by the Fraser River.

As part of its 2015 to 2018 capital plan, the Vancouver Park Board voted Sept. 29 to set aside $20 million to buy 10 acres of land to expand Fraser River Park at the foot of Cambie Street. City council approved the plan two weeks ago, and it will next be placed on the civic election ballot for Nov. 15. Vancouver voters have nearly always approved parks board capital plans in previous votes.

“I am delighted,” said Claudia Leroye, head of the Marpole Business Association. The city has been committed, in policy, to a continuous green public access along the Fraser River for many decades, she noted. This access came to pass, slowly but surely, since the development of the Fraser River Trail near the TransLink bus depot in

City voters have the chance to approve a new park on the Fraser River as part of the park board’s capital plan. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the mid-2000s, and now to Richmond Island and the Milltown Marina site, mainly due to community pressure.

TransLink, which owns the land and had planned to use it for a bus facility, said it would not reply to requests for comment before the civic vote.

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“The timing was probably decided by parks board as an opportune moment for the election,” she added. “But it’s also linked to capital plan, it was part of the Marpole Community Plan a year ago, and it rises out of many years

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Retired fisherman Terry Slack has been pushing for a salmon stream and bird habitat in the new park.

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He said he first raised the idea of the park to council in July 2011, and believes the Nov. 15 civic election is not the main factor in the parks announcement timing but perhaps a minor one.

He hopes the city will build a trail to connect the new park to the old Fraser River Park, and that the salmon streams will be brought to the surface (or “daylighted”). He added there are good fishing opportunities on that shoreline.

Slack says he won’t endorse any party in the election because he wants to see exactly what form the park will take in the new year.

Jasper said after the public votes on the capital plan, city real estate staff can start negotiating with TransLink to buy the land. He and four other commissioners are not running for re-election.

“We are proud to have brought this park forward, it’s a good legacy. Perhaps my kids will visit there some day,” he said.

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Off-leash parks key goal of plan

Continued from page 1 “We are not against outdoor pools,” said Jasper, who is not running for reelection. “But it needs to be tied to an existing pool so they can share the change rooms, cashiers, pumps, etc. The renewal of Britannia [community centre] is an opportunity to add an outdoor section there.”

Projects completed in the 2012 to 2014 capital plan include the new roof of the Bloedel Conservatory, Creekway Park, upgraded tennis courts at Kits Beach and the Jericho Park restoration.

“The Jericho Wharf is an example of the park board’s emphasis on natural spaces and habitat restoration,” said Jasper.

Some multi-year projects still underway include Empire Fields and Plateau Park, the False Creek Paddling Centre, Killarney Seniors Centre and the Mount Pleasant skateboard park.

Jasper said he’s proud of the park board’s ongoing

commitment to the Local Food Assets Plan, which offers opportunities for the park board and residents to grow more fruits and vegetables.

“There will be more community gardens and improvements to our farmers markets,” said Jasper.

“Our urban orchards will also increase.”

The proposed capital plan also includes $22.7 million dedicated to continued investment in sports fields, pathways, playgrounds, plazas and other activity-focussed infrastructure, including the replacement of synthetic turf at Hamber and Point Grey schools, safety improvements to the cycling and pedestrian pathways through Stanley Park, pond renewal at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden and a city-wide dog offleash area study and implementation. Jasper said there’s an increased need for off-leash dog areas, but added the system used

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Jasper said divided offleash areas are the way to go and he pointed to the success of Nelson Park as proof. He said once the capital plan is approved, the park board will have to rank where these new separated off-leash areas will go.

“With an increasing number of condos and apartments, there’s a higher demand on green space,” said Jasper. “But we need everyone to feel safe because not everyone wants to be around dogs.

Nelson Park has struck the right balance for its size.”

The park board is also committing $37.5 million towards new parks and renewals, $9 million for maintenance and repair of the seawall and waterfront improvements, including to public docks and ramps, $11.8 million for park infrastructure and buildings, and $5 million for public art.

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Historical laneway home a highlight of tour DEVELOPING STORY

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Newly built laneway homes are popping up in neighbourhoods across Vancouver, but they are hardly new in the city’s history.

In fact, one of them will be on display during the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s fifth-annual self-guided laneway house tour Oct. 25.

A character lane home built around 1890 is among eight properties being showcased. It has “all the detail and charm of a grand Victorian home, just in much smaller scale,” according to organizers.

“We’ve been saying for a long time that laneway housing is not a new idea in Vancouver, so it was a perfect opportunity with this tour to show an example and say this really isn’t new in Vancouver, that there are examples from over 100 years ago,” explained Kathryn Morrow, the foundation’s communications manager.

“We’re also showing a strata infill, which is another way of promoting densification without demolition and it’s another

option for certain neighbourhoods and it shows the difference in zoning rules and just the variation of laneway housing.”

The strata infill, designed by Canadian architect Paul Merrick, was built in 1989. It’s larger than most laneway homes and can be independently owned. (New laneway homes can’t be independently owned because they’re meant to provide affordable rental housing, according to the City of Vancouver.)

Morrow said the Merrick-designed home has West Coast modern stylistic influences. It features a lot of natural wood.

“All the windows in it are custom-built, so there’s a lot of oddly shaped windows that work with the shape of the house and bring in a lot of natural light,” she said.

The six other laneway homes on the tour are recently built ones.

“One of the [modern homes] would have been open last year, but it wasn’t finished, so this time people will get to see it all done up, landscaped and furnished,” Morrow said.

“Everything else is brand new to the tour.”

The foundation runs the tours because they continue to be popular and they

reinforce the organization’s view that heritage homes can be saved while adding density to neighbourhoods.

“We are really behind the idea that you can densify historic neighbourhoods without demolishing the principal homes,” Morrow said. “So this tour has always been a great example of how heritage can work with modern concerns in the city. That’s one of the main reasons we keep [running the tour]. And, it is one of our more popular

tours. [Participants] are a combination of people who are interested in buying or building a lane house behind their own heritage home and people who are curious about the idea and don’t know much about it and want to know more.”

Since 2009, the City of Vancouver has issued 1,402 permits for laneway homes as of Sept. 20 of this year and 968 final inspections have been completed.

This year, as of Sept.

30, 271 permits have been issued, almost the same number as 2013.

The highest number of permits issued over the past five years was in 2012 when 354 were issued.

Few complaints about such homes have been filed in recent years. The City of Vancouver recorded six complaints in 2014 — three about loss of private views and three about siting and shadowing.

Since the city’s policy was amended in 2013,

more one-storey laneways homes have been built.

They were allowed before the amendments, but they just weren’t that common.

The proportion of onestorey laneway homes has increased from six percent before amendments to 14 per cent.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s self-guided tour runs from 1 to 5 p.m., Oct. 25th. The cost of tickets and other details can be found at vancouverheritagefoundation.org.

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Housing, density and LNG companies increase the pressure activist architects Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com The dance moves are getting more intense, as the music swells to the finale.

A new alliance of prospective liquefiednatural-gas producers showed the government a few new steps last week, as the suggested Oct. 31 deadline nears on one proponent’s go or no-go decision. They’re presenting themselves as a skittish, anxious bunch, ready to reconsider their enthusiasm if governments don’t address concerns.

LNG Alliance head David Keane told a Vancouver business luncheon B.C.’s overall cost structure is “potentially too high” to make starting the new industry worthwhile. It’s an echo of the move Petronas made two days earlier, with its announcement the economics look marginal at this point, without some tax cutting. Little wonder the alliance repeated the worry, given that Petronas is one of the lead hands in the alliance.

Despite the government’s extravagant sales job on the amounts of money to be made by shipping B.C. natural gas to Asia, Keane said: “A new LNG industry in British Columbia is not a foregone conclusion.”

He outlined four major challenges and the paramount one is the fiscal framework, which will be made clearer when the exact tax rate for the new industry is revealed in legislation expected later this month.

Said Keane: “If we are going to have a viable LNG industry in B.C., our industry and all levels of government will have to make some difficult decisions. We must assess and adjust our sails to the competitive winds.”

The six proponents in the alliance want “certainty, clarity and a fiscal environment that recognizes the huge technical and financial challenges of very large and complex projects with significant risks.”

Keane said B.C. deserves fair value for the natural resource, “but in light of the global market we operate in, B.C.’s overall cost structure holds the potential to reduce our members’ competitiveness and their ability to succeed in the global market.”

The other challenges he cited are public misunderstanding of the industry, developing the workforce and recognition of the role LNG could play in lowering global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a disputed contention, given it will raise B.C.’s emissions.

Premier Christy Clark said later the speech was all part of the negotiations now underway. “Sometimes when parties are

“A new LNG industry in B.C. is not a foregone conclusion.”

— LNG Alliance head David Keane negotiating, they negotiate a little bit in public, and that’s what’s happening here.”

Thirty minutes after Keane issued the warning, the topic cropped up in the legislature, with the Opposition portraying LNG as an opportunity that has been bumbled.

Opposition Leader John Horgan demanded of Clark: “What can she say to British Columbians when she can’t deliver a tax bill to this house because Petronas hasn’t written it yet?”

NDP MLA Bruce Ralston recalled her “far-fetched” promises to eliminate debt and even cancel the sales tax based on billions in new LNG revenue. Now two outfits have walked away and Petronas is threatening to do the same. If the company does win a tax concession “it will surely mean the premier’s revenue promises are shattered forever.”

Clark said the NDP have been wrong on every single pronouncement and “will be wrong on this one, too.”

“It’s a little rich to stand here and listen to the NDP, who oppose every single proposal for economic development, and hear them say they’re worried about slow economic growth.”

Keane also referred briefly to one aspect of LNG that doesn’t get much attention.

The new industry wouldn’t all be an addon to the economy. Some of the benefits would replace those lost due to declining demand for B.C. natural gas in the U.S., which is bursting with new reserves.

Natural Gas Minister Rich Coleman has also noted that, saying northern communities are at risk, because B.C. has a 200-year supply of a product, just when the main market in the U.S. is awash in the same product.

Keane described the LNG industry and governments as being on two parallel tracks that “need to come together.”

If they mesh, it will be a huge economic boost. If they don’t, there’s the potential for a political train wreck. twitter.com/leyneles

The week in num6ers...

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The total number of candidates running for 27 available positions in the upcoming civic election.

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The number of people Gregor Robertson will need to beat to remain mayor for the next four years.

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Last week the Architectural Institute of British Columbia held its annual conference. The theme was Shifting Perspectives but you did not have to be an architect to be interested in many of the sessions being offered.

One addressed post-disaster building safety evaluations. While we may not like to think about an earthquake hitting our city, seismologists believe it is not a question of if, but when.

Many Vancouver buildings will be affected, including older rental apartments, few of which are being upgraded since landlords are reluctant to evict tenants.

Another session explored building design and energy performance. It is a pity some COPE and Green Party politicians who have been telling voters that highrises are the least energy efficient building form had not been in attendance.

They would have learned that new highrises are more energy efficient than most single-family dwellings.

That is because apartment suites only have one or two surfaces exposed to the outside, whereas a single family dwelling has six.

Another session examined the future of market and non-market housing on city-owned land along the south shore of False Creek.

Developed in the 1970s, these projects have less than 25 years remaining on their land leases. As a result, it is difficult for condominium owners to sell and nonprofits to operate.

The situation is becoming critical for those non-profits who have been providing housing for both low and moderate income households at rates significantly below market, since they have not put money away for repairs.

One of the panelists, the principal of a major Vancouver architectural firm, has been living in his subsidized cooperative for more than 30 years.

His current monthly payment is about half of what the market rent would be.

In addition, three and four bedroom family homes in his development are occupied by one or two person senior households who refuse to move out.

Many in the audience were struck by the sense of entitlement expressed by the panelists.

Given the urgent need for three and

four bedroom family units, it would seem appropriate for singles and couples to relocate to smaller homes, or possibly share homes.

Given the need to fund repairs, higher income residents should be making larger monthly payments.

As for the future, there is an opportunity to significantly increase density through infill housing and redevelopment. This was the topic of another popular conference session.

Titled “DenCity,” it explored different perspectives on density as viewed through the eyes of urban planners, developers, community activists, architects and ordinary citizens.

The objective was to offer a better understanding of how density is defined and how it influences and shapes urban environments.

As one of the panelists, I noted that in some jurisdictions, density is measured in terms of people per acre. In others, the measure is housing units per acre. In Vancouver, we tend to measure density in terms of Floor Space Index (FSR) or Floor Area Index (FAR) which is the ratio of building area to land area.

However, these measures can be misleading since it is often not clear whether the FSR is calculated over the entire land area including roads and parks (gross density) or just on the development site area (net density).

The session revealed that the public often confuses density and building height.

In fact, it is possible to achieve much higher densities in four storey buildings than in the 12 storey buildings found in Kerrisdale.

A fellow panelist, Green Party city council candidate Pete Fry, spoke eloquently about how citizens are often given little opportunity to provide their input into community plans, both in terms of density and height.

He urged the architects in the room to join the citizen activists as architect activists, and help communities to understand density and how best to plan their neighbourhoods.

I agree.

Architects and planners need to become more actively involved in neighbourhood planning, even if it means having to criticize the city administration.

While this could affect their ability to obtain approvals for future projects, their contribution could be invaluable. twitter.com/michaelgeller

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The number of laneway housing permits the city has issued so far this year. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation is offering a self-guided tour of old laneway homes Oct. 25

The approximate number of people who turned out at the Italian Cultural Centre to hear the main civic election parties speak.

In thousands of dollars, the amount the city estimates it will cost each year to offer free swimming lessons to kids under 14.

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Flutie sets new CFL record for passing

Oct. 12, 1991: B.C. Lions quarterback Doug Flutie sets a new Canadian Football League record for yards passing in a season with a 582-yard performance in a 4538 overtime loss to the Edmonton Eskimos. Flutie, in his second year in the league, finished the season with a record 6,619 yards on 466 completions, which remains unbeaten. He promptly accepted a multi-million dollar contract offer from the Calgary Stampeders and led them to the Grey Cup the following year. In 2007, the Michigan native was named to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, becoming the first non-Canadian inductee.

Expo 86 comes to a close

Oct. 13, 1986: Eight years in the making and with a total of 54 participating countries, the second World’s Fair held in Canada comes to a close. A total of 22 million people visited the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, better known as Expo 86, at the grounds located around False Creek. The last day was reportedly one of the busiest, with thousands of Vancouverites who avoided it during the busy tourist season coming out for a last look. Expo 86 is generally considered the turning point for Vancouver changing from a sleepy backwater to an aspiring world-class city and was considered a huge success despite a deficit of $311 million.

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To the editor: This weekend, Gwyneth Paltrow gracefully hosted an Democratic Party fundraiser dinner where you could presumably glad-hand President Barack Obama. Starting price to attend was $15,000. In March this year, Vision held a fundraiser lunch hosted by real estate magnate Bob Rennie, and apparently attended by some 50 development industry professionals. The suggested donation per plate was $25,000.

So why would anyone pay an extra ten grand more to backslap the likes of Mr. Robertson and his Vision cohorts instead of an opportunity to meet the president of the United States? Well it’s pretty obvious — you go where you’re most likely to get a return on your investment dollars.

These are the voices that the current incumbents at city hall are listening to.

This is the crowd who are on the Easter egg hunt for juicy pieces of Vancouver property that can be rezoned for highrise development using the ad-hoc spot zoning that been so carefully honed by city hall. Think the Rize, multiple highrise towers at Oakridge, increased density in Marpole and Grandview-Woodland, Little Mountain and the conversion of the scenic Cambie Heritage Boulevard

into the glass-fronted Cambie Corridor.

Vision Vancouver tell us that the plans for densification of Grandview-Woodland and elsewhere have been shelved until after the election. But after that?

Who will have the loudest voice?

Remember voting on Nov. 15 is free.

You don’t need to glad-hand during a $25,000 grand luncheon to make your voice heard.

Mark Stoakes, Vancouver

Hooray for hardworking Howell

To the editor: I’ve made it my business (some would say obsession) to follow Vancouver political coverage for many years. Mike Howell has been reporting tirelessly on the activity surrounding city hall for all that time.

While this has been a sleepy election season for news so far, Howell’s coverage has raised the bar for everyone else here. The questioning approach toward major city policies around housing the homeless and affordability measures has been balanced and thorough.

I hope that his peers in the media business take note.

Bravo, Mike!

Mike Klassen, Vancouver

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COURIER STORY: “Vision promises free swim lessons for kids,” Oct. 10. smackinnon: Everything has a cost, nothing is free. Perhaps Vision Vancouver proposes to take the costs of the swimming lessons from the fees for toddlers that they introduced in 2010? lrothney: So the already overcrowded pools will be even worse because, as you know, some people hear free and will line up forever just to get something, anything FREE which it is not to begin with.

Geraldine Doyle: Dictator Gregor had destroyed this city, I don’t believe a word out of his mouth. He does not care now that people are losing their homes due to renovictions. He is allowing Mount Pleasant to be turned into another Yaletown. He is a puppet for the rich developers, nothing but backroom deals being done at city hall. The public hearings are a complete and utter farce. He and his merry little band Vision need to be kicked out.

COURIER STORY: “Doors opened to city’s hidden places,” Oct 8.

Meg: “Some, such as the National Works Yard, are typically closed to the public so the tours satisfied the curiosity of the 10-year-old boy in everybody.” Does anyone else find that extremely sexist? Come on Courier, I thought you were above using gender stereotypes. I don’t know about others, but I don’t have a 10-year old boy in me; I do, however, have a 10-year old girl in me, and she is just as curious as her male counterparts. peakie: “The local version was initiated by the City of Vancouver’s Engaged City Task Force — the same group that started the mobile Pop-Up City Hall program that brought city hall to different communities.” And that did nothing! They had little information, no terminals and just handed out pamphlets promoting Vision policies at street fairs and the like. Permanent, or more than a single-day pop-up would be more useful. And since Vision does everything in secret, a fine day to see what the physical inner city is all about. Though rummaging through planners offices (and their computer files, read-only, of course) would be more interesting to some.

COURIER STORY: “NPA would curb parking meter hours,” Oct. 8.

Michael Patience: Straight out of Rob Ford’s playbook.

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1. Vancouver Angels goalies Eloise Haliburton, left, and Analise Legge help sisters Aniika Rinas, left, and Alexandra Rinas, suit up for the first time at Killarney Rink for Saturday’s Come Try Hockey Free clinic.

2. Tova De Forest-Gruman, 4, tries on some hockey gloves while sitting on mom Heather De Forest’s knee. 3. Vancouver Angels coach Bruce Pollock gives his young skaters some tips prior to hitting the ice.

4. The Vancouver Angels, also known as the Killarney Girls Ice Hockey Association, introduced younger players to some of the basics. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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Tova De Forest-Gruman probably could have outdone you when it came to knowing who’s who on the Vancouver Canucks roster last year, which is a pretty big feat for a four-year-old.

Dad Jeremy Gruman is a big enough NHL fan to have season tickets so he took his eldest daughter to some of last year’s games. His preschooler was so fascinated with the game program handed out to fans that she insisted on the roster part — yes, the part that reads the player’s name, hometown, and game stats — repeatedly read to her as her bedtime story.

“When she was learning her numbers, she was learning them by the jersey numbers of the Canucks,” said mom Heather

De Forest. “So we’d be driving along 22nd Street and she’d say, ‘it’s Daniel Sedin Street!’ We’d be driving by 14th Avenue, and she’d say, ‘it’s Alex Burrows Street!’”

But that was last year, and on Saturday De Forest-Gruman, age four and three quarters, was standing in the middle of the dressing room at Killarney Rink being outfitted with tiny hockey gear by members of the Vancouver Angels female hockey club as part of its Come Try Hockey clinic this past Saturday.

The event, which was so popular a second time-slot was added to accommodate all the skaters, happened to fall on World Girls’ Hockey Weekend where a Hockey Canada-sanctioned, day-long game that lasted more than 12 hours included 2,000 female players on 98 teams in 49 different places across the country.

(While the Angels could not participate this year due to an ice time conflict, they hope to host next year.) The Vancouver Angels are formally known as the Killar-

ney Girls Ice Hockey Association and was started in 1972 by girls who wanted to play hockey in the city but had nowhere else to play.

Even today, at least in Western Canada, hockey is a sport where most girls who start playing either have parents who actively seek out the association or have family who play. The Angels host Come Try Hockey clinics a couple times a year where gear is pooled together and girls between the ages of four to 17 are invited onto the ice to learn from the association’s coaches and players.

“It’s really nice to work with the younger kids,” said Eloise Haliburton, Angels midget C1 goalie and first-time volunteer. “I enjoy hockey so much and it’s nice that other girls have the chance.

Even if they don’t end up doing it, at least they tried it.”

Presenting hockey as an option rather than an exception to girls is part of breaking down the barrier-of-entry that

existed for decades. While most girls who show up for the Angels’ Try Hockey Free clinic end up playing (the join rate from March’s session was 75 per cent, according to association president James Nedila), there are still some, like Alexandra Rinas, age 9, who may not be converts. “I really want to play baseball!” she announced in the dressing room, while Angels midget rep goalie Analise Legge laced her skates.

It’s no big surprise that there was a surge in numbers for the association after the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.

Those girls, currently in the peewee age group, account for one of the biggest groups of players in the organization.

“Seeing the Canadian women’s team win the gold medal on home ice was a very powerful message. Our Canadian women and girls hockey players are the best in the world,” said Nedila.

“And this message starts with five and six-year-old girls coming out to try hockey.”

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Continued from page 3 “I am not the NPA leader that you might think you know,” he said, retelling a story he first told reporters during his campaign launch in July. “I grew up in poverty. I’m the product of a single mother who was a hero and had to decide whether to keep me or keep my older brother.

She sent my older brother away to live with friends.

So I understand isolation.”

Wong, who has received national media attention for her call to tax absentee homeowners, received the biggest applause of the four candidates when they were introduced to the crowd.

But Wong struggled with the one-minute response times allotted to candidates, often being cut off by the moderator while reading prepared notes.

What she did get across to the crowd was that aboriginal people and immigrants need a bigger voice in civic decisions. Also, she said COPE would put a transit pass in “everyone’s hands” by increasing taxes to corporations and lobby for a $15 an hour minimum wage, making it first effective for hotel workers and chain stores.

Carr kept to her party’s central campaign theme that people are being shut out of decisions at city hall and, she said, that has to change to develop better civic policies, particularly around social isolation.

“Number one, we have to put people in charge of the neighbourhoods and the places they live,” said Carr, who was the only one of the four candidates not running for mayor but

seeking a council seat. The alliance agreed to invite candidates whose parties held a seat on council over the last two terms.

She referred to the Whistler Housing Authority model when asked about affordable housing, saying a levy should be imposed on large new commercial developments to help pay for the construction or purchase of affordable housing.

The evening ended with Joey Hartman, president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, thanking the candidates for their commitments to work with the alliance to create affordable housing, improve transit services and decrease social isolation and poverty.

But, Hartman added, “we’re not so naive as to think there’s not going to

be some work to do and hashing out details.”

The alliance is comprised of 14 labour organizations, including the Hospital Employees’ Union, 16 community groups including the Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement Society and more than 20 faith groups representing various religions.

The alliance identified social isolation, or loneliness, as its top priority to be addressed.

A Vancouver Foundation survey conducted in 2012 with 3,841 residents in Metro Vancouver revealed that the region can be a hard place to make friends, that neighbourhood connections are “cordial but weak” and that many residents are retreating from community life. twitter.com/Howellings

Plaza may be named for Jim Deva

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The city wants to name the new plaza on Bute Street at Davie after LGBT activist Jim Deva, who died unexpectedly Sept. 21.

“Jim always stood up for what he believed in,” Vision Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson told the Courier.

“He was completely open and transparent and he became a mentor to all kinds of people.”

Deva and his life and business partner Bruce Smyth opened Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium on Davie Street in 1983, and shortly after became embroiled in a battle with Canada Customs, now called Canada Border Services Agency. When the federal agency seized copies of gay and lesbians books and comics from outside the country ordered by Little Sister’s, Deva, Smyth and store manager Janine Fuller launched a lawsuit that would last more than two decades and end up in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Prior to Pride Week last summer, the city closed off a short block of Bute Street to traffic and converted it into a mini park complete with picnic tables for community events and gatherings. The move was the first of more than 30 recommendations included in the Davie Street Revitalization Report. The plaza is closed

for the winter, but Stevenson said, if all goes well next year it will reopen permanently with improvements such as proper lighting.

The notice of motion, which went back to council Tuesday after the Courier’s press deadline, noted Deva’s passing had prompted a remarkable outpouring of “community reflection of his life and legacy as a champion for LGBTTQ equality, expression and social justice.”

The motion asked staff to report back on a recent consultation regarding the future of the Bute Street Plaza and the feasibility of making the location a permanent tribute to the legacy and contributions of both Deva and the LGBTTQ community.

LGBT advocate Barb Snelgrove got the ball rolling with a formal email request to mayor and council Sept. 22, the day after Deva passed away, for a permanent memorial with the Bute Street Plaza in mind.

“Jim believed so strongly in not only LGBTQ rights and freedoms, but worked passionately on preserving and enhancing the Davie Village district,” Snelgrove wrote in part. “So perfectly located, and so I formally propose, the renaming of the plaza, (to be reopened next year as a permanent structure) in his name would be a fitting tribute for one of the true leaders of this neighbourhood and its community.”

Snelgrove said the response from council was positive and immediate.

Stevenson added a permanent tribute to Deva is fitting considering his contributions to this city.

“With proper lighting it

will be a lovely plaza,” said Stevenson. “And we might make it bigger and include a mini museum to the LGBT community with plaques. I think Deva Plaza would be an appropriate name.” twitter.com/sthomas10

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Development Permit Board Meeting: October 20 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, October 20, 2014 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider these development permit applications: 1546 Nelson Street: To construct of a new three-storey multiple infill dwelling containing four rental units at the rear of the site as follows: • Level 1: one 2-bedroom • Level 2: one 1-bedroom room • Level 2 and 3: two 2-bedroom.

1071 Cardero Street: Interior alterations to the existing multiple dwelling building (1601 Comox Street) on the basement level laundry and bike storage rooms and constructing a new four-storey multiple infill dwelling containing 11 rental units as follows: • Level 1: two 2-bedroom • Level 2: two 1-bedroom and one 2-bedroom • Level 3: two 1-bedroom and one 2-bedroom • Level 4: two 1-bedroom and one 2-bedroom. The building would have two standard car spaces and one car share space at the rear, with vehicle access from the lane on this existing site.

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bodia. The production is a fundraiser for Freedom for Our Daughters, a youthrun organization partnered with the Maasai Women’s Development Organization in Arusha, Tanzania. The group works to help fund education and safe housing for Tanzanian girls.

St. John’s is located at 2215 West 10th Ave. For tickets and information email jacqueline@ freedomforourdaughters. org. Tickets will also be available at the door.

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West Side Family Place is hosting a night of comedy and fundraising in support of its Play and Learn drop-in program.

The annual Fall Frenzy Gala, the non-profit’s major fundraiser of the year, includes a comedy show courtesy of the Vancouver Theatre Sports League at the Improv Centre on Granville Island Oct. 23, with a cocktail reception and live and silent auctions starting at 5:30 p.m.

West Side Family Place offers early childhood learning programs and family support services to more than 500 families annually at the small blue character home at 2819 West 11th Ave. The house is a place where mothers and other care providers drop-in for a reprieve from their isolation at home, with their babies and tod-

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Tickets can be purchased in person at West Side Family Place or online at westsidefamilyplace.com.

••• A non-profit group dedicated to protecting young women from violations against human rights and that works to empower girls to take charge of their futures is presenting a documentary play at St. John’s School Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 15 with screenings at 2 and 8 p.m.

Freedom for Our Daughters presents Seven, a film based on personal interviews with seven women who triumphed over enormous obstacles to bring about major changes in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cam-

The UBC Apple Festival celebrates one of this province’s favourite fruits.

This family-friendly festival is ideal for everyone, including children learning about the diversity of apples to those who remember tasting the heritage species of their youth. The Apple Festival is a great opportunity to not only discover more about this delicious fruit, but have a whole lot of fun doing it. And don’t forget to check out the new Scarecrow Contest at the garden, 6804 Marine Dr. The festival runs Oct. 18 to 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $4 (cash) and children 12 and under get in free.

South Hill/ Little Mountain

Preparations for the annual Night for All Souls celebrations at Mountain View Cemetery begin Oct. 16 with volunteer orientation at 7 p.m. followed by a presentation and talk: Creating Personal Memorials. A lantern making workshop takes place Oct. 18 from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Celebration Hall at Mountain View will be open from 6 to 9 p.m.

Oct. 25 to Nov. 2 for tea and the creation of personal memorials. There are many events taking place during that time including a movie night, sugar skull workshop and a mourner’s tea. Historical walking tours take place Oct. 19 and 26 and Nov. 2, 9 and

16 from 2 to 4 p.m.

All Souls opening night, Oct. 25, begins at 6 p.m. with flowers, candles, music and tea. From 7:11 to 9:02 p.m., Mark Haney will perform a site-specific musical composition commemorating the World Wars dubbed, “11.” For a complete schedule visit vancouver.ca/news-calendar.

Downtown

The Vancouver Public Library’s writer in residence and award-winning Canadian author Gabrielle Prendergast is hosting a three-part workshop for teens who love writing and reading. Teens will have the opportunity to share their work with peers and get feedback and guidance from an experienced author. The workshop includes in-class exercises, take-away assignments, tips and advice about making it in the publishing world.

These sessions, for teens aged 13 to 18, take place Saturdays, Nov. 1, 8 and 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the board room on level seven at the Central Library, 350 W. Georgia St. The workshops are free but registration is required at programs@vpl.ca.

••• The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is presenting Nosferatu Oct. 30.

This spooky 1922 silent film will be shown on the big screen with the musical score played live by the VSO conducted by Gillian Anderson — (the conductor, not the X-files actor.)

Nosferatu is the original Dracula movie, but forget the handsome charming creatures of more recent times. In this film, the monster is a living corpse who feeds mercilessly on his victims, which means the kids will love it. The event is a special, one-night-only presentation of this Halloween spectacular and tickets always sell fast. VSO prizes will be awarded for the best audience member costume.

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If you see yourself as a powerless victim of life, you lose your confidence and sense of control. This leads to anxiety.

If all you focus on what is wrong in your life, you will no longer see what is good. This leads to depression.

An attitude more conducive to your wellbeing is gratitude.

Contrary to popular opinion, thankfulness is not a function of what you have or a luxury when life is good.

Lasting and authentic happiness doesn’t come when everything is perfect because it never is or when it seems to be, it doesn’t stay that way. In an imperfect world, we can still be happy.

We say that pessimists see the cup as half empty and optimists see it half full. With the perspective of wanting, we see what we don’t have and we get what we expect — more of less and more wanting. Happiness is not in the cards with the half empty attitude.

Pessimists may think that optimists are deluded. The cup is really not half full, and in a sense they may be right.

Water is not static just as neither our selves nor anything in life is unchanging.

People come in and out of our lives, love comes in many forms and the gifts we are given are gifts in trust; we hold them for a moment and pass them on. Everything is

fleeting, flowing and in flux.

Gratitude allows us to appreciate what we have been given in the past — the good that we have experienced, the way we were loved and the lessons we have learned. It allows us to see and appreciate ourselves, others and our world just as they are at this moment. It can allow us to see and create a positive future, the realization of potential.

When my children were young, I would make up a new story each bedtime.

In the tale of the “Daily Fairy,” a child is befriended by a beautiful fairy who has nothing but love to give in her short life which lasts just one day. Rather than grieving her impending loss, the child learns to appreciate the gift of her fairy’s one sparkling day.

We and everyone around us are like the daily fairy — flowers in bloom today.

Take stock of what you have this day. There are seeds and flowers. Be grateful for the flowers you see today and recognize that in your hands are the seeds for the future.

When you turn your problems into goals — reframing the negative into positive, you begin to create a more positive future.

You are no longer a victim of chance. You empower yourself. You see golden opportunities and you seize them. You plant seeds for future happiness.

Today, appreciate the flowers that now bloom in your life and give thanks for flowers past. Recognize the seeds in your life, and ask, “What can I do today to create happiness tomorrow?”

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Family Day event puts the spotlight on coping with juvenile arthritis Disease can strike children at any age, last weeks to months or be chronic and lifelong.

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Cassie Porte changed overnight from an active, waddling toddler to a 20-month-old who could no longer walk.

One morning, in 2006, parents David Porte and Debbie Setton took Cassie out of her crib.

“And she wouldn’t walk anymore,” Porte said.

“That was an obvious sign for us that something was wrong.”

One of Cassie’s knees was swollen, so it was x-rayed, tested for infection and scanned using an MRI. Finally, a blood test informed the family their youngest child had juvenile arthritis.

“The first thought for me was arthritis, but that’s impossible, she’s not two.

Arthritis is what you get when you’re 82,” Porte said. “Even my wife, who’s a doctor, knew very little about juvenile arthritis.”

Cassie’s family and five others with children with juvenile arthritis established Cassie and Friends Society for Children with Juvenile Diabetes and Other Rheumatic Diseases in 2007, to raise money for research and care for juvenile arthritis. They started a Family Day in 2009 to create connections among parents and children affected by juvenile arthritis and to provide reliable information.

The society’s sixth Family Day happens this Saturday, Oct. 18, at TELUS World of Science.

“I felt like I wasn’t the

only one who had arthritis,” now 9-year-old Cassie said of meeting peers with arthritis at Family Day. Approximately 3,000 children in B.C. live with juvenile arthritis or other rheumatic diseases, an estimated one or two children at each school in the province. Children with juvenile arthritis face painful joints, loss of mobility and inflammation of vital organs. Symptoms and complications often mean restrictions on regular childhood activities. Juvenile arthritis can strike children at any age, last weeks to months or be chronic and lifelong. Like lupus and Chrohn’s, juvenile arthritis is an autoimmune disease.

Cassie’s arthritis is chronic. From her knee, it spread to 16 joints.

“Both knees, ankles, fingers, toes, ribs,” Porte said.

“When she was little, she would have to take a warm bath every morning before she could even leave the house just to get her joints warmed up and loosened up enough that she could move around,” he said.

After multiple changes in medications, Cassie’s arthritis was under control until a year ago. One ankle has been causing her problems as of late.

“It’s a rollercoaster,” Porte said.

The keynote speaker at this year’s Family Day will talk about parenting a child with health issues and this address will be followed by a workshop.

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Nine-year-old Cassie Porte was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis at 20 months.

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Saturday event will be first of its kind in Canada Continued from page 19 “There’s such extra challenges that come with [juvenile arthritis] that isn’t in the What to Expect When You’re Expecting book,” Porte said.

The day will also feature workshops on juvenile arthritis and lupus and a youth panel on what to expect.

Porte anticipates parents will connect with one another

over lunch about the roller coaster they’ve been riding.

“It’s not only about the child with arthritis, it’s ‘Oh, you have an older child, how are they reacting?’” he said.

While adults connect and learn, kids bond through activities organized according to age group.

“There’re some really interesting discussions with

the high school kids about real issues that they’re confronting and they can talk to their peers about it,” Porte said. “A 14-year-old asking a 17-year-old what to do I do if I’m going on a date and I have a sudden flare in my arthritis… You wake up and you’re about to go on your date and your ankle hurts, what do you do? Do

you go? Do you not go?”

Physicians, researchers and care teams from B.C. Children’s Hospital also attend Family Day, allowing parents to ask questions they can’t fit into or overlook during an emotionally charged 10 or 15-minute appointment.

The society’s Family Day was the first event of its kind in Canada and the

only such event in B.C. Porte expects 200 children, family members, volunteers and clinicians to attend and he said families from as far away as Prince George, Vancouver Island and Kelowna have registered.

Family Day is meant for parents, grandparents, relatives, children with juvenile arthritis and their siblings.

“It’s particularly valuable for those that are more newly diagnosed,” Porte said.

Porte is proud the society he now chairs has raised more than $1 million since 2007, with a large portion of the money going to research.

For more information or to register for the free event, see cassieandfriends.ca. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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1 Oct. 15-16, 2014 1. Inuk throat singer, recent Polaris Prize winner and noted seal meat enthusiast Tanya Tagaq joins environmental activist Severn Cullis-Suzuki for an evening of oratory and music as part of the ongoing Beyond Words series. The two will offer a full-throated presentation on the roles women and indigenous culture can play in stopping the ongoing destruction of our planet. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16-17 in the Telus Studio Theatre at UBC’s Chan Centre (6265 Crescent Road). More info at chancentre.com.

2. Unlike banks themselves, Banks has plenty of fans more than happy to give her their hard-earned cash. The L.A.-based alt R&B singer checks into the Commodore Ballroom Oct. 15 in support of her new album Goddess, currently sitting at number 11 on the Billboard charts. Guests Movement and Lil Silva open the show. Tickets are $25 at all Ticketmaster outlets.

3. It’s been 20 years since Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, dropped his hip hop classic Illmatic chronicling strife life in the projects of New York City. Now one of rap’s most respected elder statesmen, the 41-year-old will perform the mostsampled album of all time in its entirety not once but twice on the same night Oct. 16 at the Vogue Theatre, as well as screen the new documentary Time Is Illmatic about the ground-breaking album’s conception. Shows start at 7 and 10:15 p.m.

Tickets available at livenation.com.

4. Bestselling Canadian author Carmen Aguirre brings her one-woman autobiographical show Blue Box back to town after a recent national tour. Veering from the mountains of the Andes to the streets of Hollywood and Vancouver, the play details her both her underground work as part of the Chilean resistance movement in the 1980s and a passionate love affair with a Latino TV star. Men sitting in the front row should be advised they may be asked to tango dance with her. Blue Box opens Oct. 15 at the Arts Club’s Revue Stage and runs until Nov. 1.

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There’s an old joke that asks how you get a bunch of Canadians out of a swimming pool.

The answer is you politely ask them to get out of the pool.

Mayor Gregor Robertson, however, is more interested in getting people into pools, pledging last week to provide free swimming lessons to kids under 14 if he gets reelected as head lifeguard next month.

The announcement comes shortly after yet another Vision election promise to dip into city coffers and donate 400 grand each year towards a program that provides free breakfasts for students in poorer neighbourhoods. Not to be outdone, NPA candidate Kirk LaPointe pointed out this was actually his idea first and vowed “no Vancouver child will go hungry” under his watch. LaPointe, don’t forget, grew up in poverty, living on butter and sugar sandwiches and probably sweeping chimneys or something after school.

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Making sure underprivileged urchins get basic nutritional needs met seems the sort of thing that probably should’ve been looked at years ago by a ruling party rather than, say, lending $690 million to the development firm behind the Olympic Village to finish building it in time.

But better late than never, although we’re a bit baffled as to why free swim lessons are suddenly such a top priority.

Especially seeing as how Vision Vancouver are the ones who decided four years ago that preschoolers had to start paying to use community centre pools in the first place.

Free cycling lessons seems a more obvious pick and might even help ensure their beloved bike lanes will remain busy in the years to come.

Maybe it’s an attempt to offset the inevitable number of future drownings after Stephen Harper shut down the Kits Coast Guard base last year.

(The federal government’s indifference to the city’s feelings on this are worth keeping in mind since, should the Kinder Morgan pipeline be ap-

proved, Vision claims it will try to stop an increase in tankers in waters the city doesn’t have actual jurisdiction over.)

But it’s not as if local community centre pools aren’t already overpacked.

The city estimates it will cost around $120,000 a year to offer the free classes, but it could end up being a heck of lot more if people stop refilling their OneCards due to pools being stuffed even more full of screaming, urinating youngsters.

Here’s an idea worth floating: how about building a few more pools instead?

Vancouver has a piddling nine public pools compared to Edmonton’s 15 or Calgary’s 12. On the East Side, where plenty of poor people actually live, New Brighton is the only outdoor one and this year it closed Sept. 1 despite another solid month of sunny weather.

Seems to us keeping pools open later in the season would be one way to allow people to improve their swimming. Unless this isn’t really about providing poor kids an important life skill but rather buying their parents’ votes instead.

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Rebel women fight for rights Stefania Seccia

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History is very selective, which is why playwright Joan Bryans laboured to breathe life back into suffragette women whose stories faded from the public eye with her play Rebel Women, which runs Oct. 16 to Nov. 1 at Metro Theatre.

Bryans said she only had a basic knowledge of suffragettes and what they endeavoured to accomplish, but never knew how widespread the cause was and how many heroines paved the way for gender equality.

“I read widely, and I must’ve read something and then I just was, you know how you wander around Google and the Internet, and I read something else,” she said.

“I was really reading about suffragettes in London, England and then I found there were some Canadians involved.

I thought that was more interesting.”

It didn’t take long for this discovery to lead to more and more tales of trailblazing women about their riveting and sometimes eccentric stories.

“Within a week I was totally hooked,” Bryans said. “And of course now, with the Internet there’s just so many stories out there.”

After scratching the surface, the stories started piling up.

“I was just swamped with stories and then I discovered that one of these Canadians was called the Slasher,” she said. “And I thought, ‘I have to write about this Slasher, whoever she is.”

Rebel Women opens Oct. 16 at Metro Theatre.

What curiosity Bryans had for Canadian suffragettes led her to write a play about the standout stories.

In its first rendering, Rebel Women had dozens of characters, but Bryans had to whittle it down, which was a painstaking process, she says, because she was connected to each story.

The storyline traces the fight to win the vote for English women, including the help from some Canadians in early 20th century England. It utilizes speeches, journals, letters and written material of the real women the characters are based on in an effort to tell their stories directly.

“I was just inspired by them,” she added. “It’s

incredible. History is very selective so I hope I’m redressing the balance a bit.”

After many edits, the play premiered at the Jericho Arts Centre last January to rave reviews and with a cast of about 15 — the biggest Bryans has ever written for and directed.

“I’ve done this before,” she said. “You write the thing and you hope for the best. It was preview night, it was the first time we had an audience and the show ended and the whole audience just erupted.”

That reaction led to a sold out, multiple-week run at the centre.

“There’s bits in the play that gives me goosebumps every night,” she said.

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“They also sing. There’s songs in it because these women had original songs in the period and they’re written by suffragettes.”

Many of these songs were written from jail, she noted, and her actors give them a haunting performance.

“It’s the original words of the women,” Bryans noted. “I had chosen to write the play using the material of the women themselves. It’s like 95 per cent their own words.”

Bryans’ Vital Spark Theatre Company has put on many plays either written or directed by her — sometimes both as is the case with Rebel Women.

She’s been involved in theatre for many years as an actress, producer, writer and director.

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Kosmic Mambo is out of this world THEATRE REVIEW

Jo Ledingham

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Nobody brings a curtain down like the students at Studio 58. Colourful.

Exuberant. Rowdy. Handclappingly, foot-stompingly boisterous. Two dozen strong, this ensemble blasts off with Ukrainian/ Cossack-style dancing.

Co-created by David Mackay and Wendy Gorling, Kosmic Mambo is inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the USA/ USSR race to space in the 1950s and 60s.

Linking the two is a stretch but everything about this production, co-directed by Gorling and Mackay, pushes boundaries: the interior and exterior of a spaceship complete with blinking lights, dials and switches by designer Shizuka Kai is amazing and made even more remarkable by Itai

Erdal’s “space-y” lighting; through a large portal in the ship we see infinity and we dodge hurtling space junk via Corwin Ferguson’s projection design; Brian Linds’ sound design takes us back to the 50s and 60s and the emergence of acid rock, which is totally consistent with Coleridge’s opiuminduced visions; and Mara Gottler puts the space travellers in simple, bright orange spacesuits but lets lavishly loose on Death and Life-in-Death, a pair of ragged spirits.

Everything about this show is big and spaceaged. And almost completely wordless.

While many of us read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in school, it’s worth reading the program notes. I had forgotten that the story begins and ends with a derelict mariner cornering a wedding guest and relating his sorry saga of the mysterious death of a whole ship’s crew but one — himself — at sea.

In this re-visioning, the mariners are 20th century

Marakian Tarasiuk is the Capt. Kirk in this Studio 58 starship.

cosmonauts and the albatross becomes Sputnik 2’s doomed dog Laika.

As always, it’s the enthusiasm and creative energy of the students that make Studio 58 shows achieve lift-off. The school’s trademarks are tight ensemble playing, physical movement, style and sharp choreography — all of which are abundantly illustrated here.

The opening number

pits the two opposing teams of cosmonauts — American and Russian — in a wordless battle for supremacy with flags flying and anthems swelling.

The choreography here is tight, lock stepped and precise. But the eruption of the wedding guests onto the stage is wild, unfettered and goofy. And, indeed, humour is used throughout the hour and a half show. The dog — a

charming, furry puppet exquisitely handled by Tom Krushkowski — let loose in the spaceship, sniffs crotches, bites butts and behaves like any exuberant puppy.

Between the upbeat beginning and the rousing conclusion, a whole lot happens that’s visually stunning but narratively vague. Certainly the most exciting aspect of Kosmic Mambo is visual not dramatic.

That’s partly because the hero is an anti-hero.

That he finds redemption is laudable but even Coleridge’s original poem was weak on this point: the character’s epiphany — all creatures great and small are loved by God and therefore should be loved by him — seems empty (especially as we approach Thanksgiving with all those roast turkeys on all those tables).

Without words, Kosmic Mambo relies heavily on exaggerated physicality that, for the most part, works. It’s possible that throughout the run,

however, some of it will feel less mechanical, more human.

Although Studio 58 always emphasizes the collective nature of its productions, Markian Tarasiuk, as the ancient mariner/ modern cosmonaut, is outstanding. A student of Ukrainian dance since early childhood, Tarasiuk executes the pike (the leap into the air with arms and legs flung wide) flawlessly again and again.

He does flips and leaps; he languidly floats in space. The Captain Kirk of this particular Studio 58 starship, Tarasiuk is a young artist to keep on your radar.

Bold and brash, this world premiere marries sci-fi and Romantic poetry sans words; it’s a leap into uncharted territory and you might experience gforce just watching it.

Kosmic Mambo runs at Langara College until Oct. 19. For tickets, call 604684-2787 or visit ticketstonight.ca For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

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Notre Dame (1-1, 1-3) fell short against the undefeated South Delta Sun Devils and lost 38-6 at Burnaby Lake Park Oct. 10.

Vancouver College (1-1, 1-3) dropped out of B.C.’s top-five ranked teams last week and recorded its first win of the regular season when it shut out West Vancouver at home Oct. 11. The Fighting Irish won 35-0.

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The Hamber Griffins (0-1, 2-0) have a winning record for a second week, a first in the program’s five-year history. The Griffins won 18-6, defeating Burnaby Central on their own turf Oct. 10.

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World-class ambitions possible for the Drive

Proposal means dramatic improvement for neighbourhood SPOKEN COMMENTARY Chris Bruntlett

This jersey is manufactured and sold by Ebbets Field Flannels, which creates vintage sports apparel. The Vancouver Asahi were a barrier-busting baseball team of first- and second-generation Japanese players. Founded in 1914, they played at Oppenheimer Park, known as the Powell Street Grounds, and pioneered a winning style of small ball dubbed brain ball. Starting in 1937, the Asahi won the Pacific Northwest Championship five years in a row. The streak ended in 1941 when the government interned all Japanese residents, including Canadian citizens. The 2014 film The Vancouver Asahi, directed by Ishii Yuya, had its international premier in Vancouver and was selected for the Rogers People’s Choice Award at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival on Oct. 10.

Our family loves living on Commercial Drive, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that — as a public space — it doesn’t work for everyone, particularly those who can’t (or won’t) drive everywhere.

The sidewalks are narrow and often too crowded to walk hand-in-hand. There are precious few areas to sit and relax, even at the bus stops. Last but not least, there is no safe space for cycling.

Which is why we all got incredibly excited when a group of community-minded citizens calling themselves Streets For Everyone released an inclusive, practical and well-considered proposal for the redesign of

Commercial Drive between East 14th Avenue and Graveley Street.

The proposal, still in draft phase and open to feedback, will better reflect the changing priorities of the community and really is a win-win-win-win.

It features widened sidewalks, increased public seating, bigger (and better)

bus stops, one-way, gradeseparated cycle tracks, and Dutch-style, protected intersections. Best of all, it simply removes one lane of through traffic and minimal on-street parking, which leaves little room for the protestation of local business owners.

This is truly a once-ina-lifetime opportunity to

Streets up for debate

Thanks to its clear vision for Commercial Drive, Streets For Everyone has succeeded in getting the attention of city planners and is one of the collaborative voices participating in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood review.

Sarah FioRito said the grassroots organization not only welcomes feedback on their proposal for the busy street but also urges residents to carefully consider how the Drive is used and by whom. “Essentially, our goal here is to encourage and inspire people in the city to really rethink their notions of what streets should look like. By putting out a very detailed and exciting design, our hope is that we can really inspire people in the city to really rethink their ideas about what streets are and

create a street that works for all of its users; a destination that Vancouverites will go out of their way to visit and where they can shop, dine and socialize. It means people of all ages and backgrounds will be able to live, work, and play on the Drive, regardless of how they get from A to B. Continued on next page

who they are supposed to accommodate,” said FioRito, who is on the city’s active transportation policy council.

She said Streets For Everyone formed following a February meeting for residents to discuss neighbourhood planning and is comprised of roughly 20 people with the support of a broader network of businesses, non-profit and community organizations.

FioRito is an instructor for the Pedal Foundation and teaches safe cycling skills to children and teens.

The work, she said, “made me think a lot about how the streets are not currently safe for those guys.”

Streets For Everyone will present to the Grandview-Woodland citizens’ assembly at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at a still unconfirmed location.

— Megan Stewart

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Sports&Recreation Better design good for business Continued from previous page In the grand scheme of things, Commercial Drive represents a tipping point for this city’s ambitions of world-class livability, sustainability, resiliency and accessibility. While Vancouver has a relatively functional bicycle network, it is primarily designed for recreational riding and longer, single-purpose trips (such as cycling to work). But those many other multi-purpose trips one makes in a day (shopping, dining, banking, etc.) become incredibly problematic — particularly with children — when frequenting destinations along West Fourth Avenue, Broadway, Robson or Main Street.

Having our family’s twowheeled travel relegated to residential side streets

means whenever we have a dance class, go grocery shopping, or treat ourselves to dinner on the Drive, we’re forced to either walk or take the bus. Neither is optimal, but they are the only choices we’re given since cycling involves going several blocks out of our way, then walking our bikes on the bustling sidewalk for a few more.

Worse yet, we often find ourselves pedalling to another part of town and spending our money at a business located on a more secure and convenient part of the city’s bicycle network.

When we first moved to Vancouver in 2007, we spent the better part of a year getting to know each and every neighbourhood, carefully considering where we would lay down our roots.

Six years later, we eventually sold our car and purchased a share in the Modo Car Co-op. According to the city, cycling rates have also soared an astonishing 157.9 per cent between 2008 and 2011, with nearly one in six trips in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood now being made by bicycle.

An estimated 85 per cent of what we spend on our cars annually (gas, insurance, purchase price, finance charges) leaves the city. Which means if a city can reduce car ownership by 15,000 cars — a number that could be replaced by 1,150 shared vehicles, according to Modo estimates — and a staggering $127,275,000 would stay in the local economy each and every year.

So in the coming weeks, now that the municipal election is in full swing, engage with candidates, business owners on the Drive and the voters who live there. Implore them to send the message that city staff must prioritize walking, cycling and transit in Grandview-Woodland, to everyone’s benefit.

Sign the Streets For Everyone petition and consider donating your time or money. While these crucial upgrades should eventually happen as part of the city’s 2040 Transportation Plan, they are needed sooner rather than later. Because time’s a-wastin’, and my kids are itching to ride their bikes on the Drive.

Chris Bruntlett is the cofounder of Modacity and is inspired to live a happy life of

Phil Kotter knits through Calgary Callie defenders in a Canadian men’s club championship quarterfinal in Vaughn, Ont. on Oct. 11. Croatia SC lost 3-0. PHOTO NICKY PEARSON / CANADIAN SOCCER ASSOCIATION

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Croatia SC didn’t get the result it wanted at the national men’s club championship, but team manager Andy Sulentic said sixth in Canada is nothing to scoff at.

“We were hoping to get a medal finish,” Sulentic said Tuesday morning once the club had returned to Vancouver following its first showing at the national tournament since 1985,

when it won gold.

Competing for the Challenge Trophy in Vaughn, Ont., Croatia SC won its group stage on goal differential after all three teams were tied with three points.

Croatia took the edge by scoring four goals and allowing only one.

They shut out the host Vaughan Azzurri to advance to the quarterfinal, where Croatia SC met Albertan contenders, the Calgary Callies.

“Unfortunately we came up against a very strong Alberta side,” said Sulentic.

“They lost in PKs in the final to Ontario and at the end of the day, they were a better side,” said the manager.

“They were more mature, they were stronger than us. We had a lot of young players on this roster and it showed. But, it was a great experience and we’ll make sure that if we succeed in representing B.C. next year, that we’ll make sure we have a better finish.”

Croatia SC was treated to a meal by compatriots at the semi-professional soccer club Toronto Croatia, and Sulentic said returning to

the national club championship was significant for the Vancouver side.

“This is the first time in 28 years and there is no question it is extremely meaningful for the club. We had a lot of support in Vancouver in the community and even in Toronto,” he said. “At the end of the day, you’re still the sixth best team in Canada and it’s nothing to be ashamed about.”

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