Vancouver Is Awesome #05 - May 7, 2020

The beavers of Stanley Park N E W S + L I F E S T Y L E — A N E X T E N S I O N O F VA N C O U V E R I S AW E S O M E . C O M

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Keep your distance in this t-shirt we just released Last week we launched sales of a "Listen to Nigel" poster, drawn by our editorial cartoonist, Geoff Coates.

With the blessing of Dr. Bonnie Henry’s sign language interpreter, Nigel Howard, we’ve so far sold thousands of them, with partial proceeds going to the Deaf Children’s Society of B.C., and the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. The remaining proceeds go towards keeping our publication afloat; we offer this paper and our website as a free service for readers, and the recent downturn in advertising revenue during COVID-19 has caused us to get more creative than ever.

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Ryan Reynolds gave an online commencement speech to a Vancouver high school The Kitsilano Secondary Class of 2020 will never forget their final days of high school, and not just because of the global health crisis that kept them home.

Beloved Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds delivered a commencement speech to graduates of the Vancouver school in a video posted on social media last week, which included the promise of pizzas for all the students.

Entitled "Kitsilano Class of 2020," the video starts with the Deadpool star seated in a cozy room, addressing the graduating class of his former school. He makes a joke about a former classmate, and then talks about the school he attended before he went to Kitsilano, where he says he was kicked out the 'Canadian way.'

"But I can pass on this little chestnut of wisdom," Reynolds notes. "One thing that's worked for me is practicing some form of compassion every day."

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Everything you need to know about the beavers in Stanley Park Known for building large dams, lodges, and canals, you're more likely to see evidence of beavers than you are to spot one of the large rodents. So, when the first one was spotted in Stanley Park's Beaver Lake in over 60 years, it made a considerable splash.

In 2008, the first semi-aquatic herbivore mysteriously appeared in Beaver Lake after an extraordinary hiatus. No one knows how it got there, but a second one joined it in 2011. Afterward, the pair had kits.

Vancouver Is Awesome spoke to Ariane Comeau, Conservation Projects Manager at the Stanley Park Ecology Society, about the park's semi-noctural rodents, as well as what role they play in the park's ecosystem. She notes the creatures are a keystone species, which means they play a vital role in sustaining other species.

"The beavers eat the water lilies, which are an invasivespecies in the park," remarks Comeau. "The lilies cover so much of the water, and the beavers also pool water and make it deeper."

By eating the lilies, Beavers allow more space for fish, invertebrates, and birds. More comfortable in the water, Comeau adds that they create channels while they swim.

She notes that they are able to move more quickly in the

We think we have 10 beavers, but it is difficult to be certain because we can’t see them all at once... water, which keeps them safe from natural predators such as coyotes and river otters. In front of the lodge in Beaver Lake, she notes that they have cleared a significant amount of lilies.

Of course, the creatures also eat a significant amount of bark and grass, but Comeau states that they aren't always taking down trees. While they will fall some trees to fix their lodges throughout the year, many of them will grow

back. She says that willow and aspen trees grow back new shoots after they've been felled by the pond dwellers, and they've even adapted to prevent future attacks. Essentially, these trees produce higher concentrations of protective chemicals in their bark that ward the rodents off when they grow back. Toxic to beavers, the strong chemical cocktail is enough to deter future attacks.

As for the beavers in Beaver Lake, she notes that, "The exact provenance of the individuals is not known, but it's possible that the adults would have traveled from nearby watersheds, possibly Capilano watershed, or the Fraser River."

"Beavers can swim for a limited time in ocean water to find a stream, and establish a territory if not already occupied by other beavers."

Lost Lagoon is also home to a family of beavers, and Comeau says that volunteers counted five of the critters in the body of water last year. Stanley Park has had beavers for a very long time in Lost Lagoon. According to the record, two are parents, one is a two-year-old, and the other two mammals are three years old.

She notes that beavers typically leave their parents after their second year, so it is rather unusual that two of the older offspring are still around.

"In Beaver Lake we had five animals last year. One kit, one yearling, and one two-year-old," she explains. "So we think we have 10 beavers, but it is difficult to be certain because we can't see them all at once."

"And the kits are born in May and June."

Seen mostly at dusk and dawn, the animals are shy, and it is easier to spot them if you are quiet and calm. Lost Lagoon has two lodges, but they’re nearly impossible to locate. One is in the east and one is in the west, but they’re hidden un-

derneath shrubbery and trees. On the other hand, the lodge at Beaver Lake is very easy to identify.

While the beavers create open water, which is a good thing, they are also responsible for raising water levels in the park.

As a result, the park has to ensure that work is done to maintain water levels so that they don't overflow. In addition, certain trees are wrapped so that the beavers do not take them, such as particularly beloved trees or ones that are close to the shore.

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he canadian retail sector w ill see a two-part return to business, with essential retailers getting back to work before their non-essential counterparts, says retail council of canada president diane brisebois. the key question that the sector is trying to answer, she said, is, “how do you try to mitigate and ensure commerce with citizens on a regular basis so you know they’re safe and protected?” and, said industry watcher craig Patterson of Retail Insider, that return could be in a few

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weeks if not a couple of months. in mid-april, b.c. officials publicly floated the idea of easing restrictions by mid-may. saskatchewan on april 23 released its re-open saskatchewan Plan, which aims to loosen by may 4 regulations for medical services and low-risk recreation, then to loosen restrictions on retail services by may 19. dates for further phases of reopening have not been announced. whether b.c. follows a similar pattern remains to be seen. brisebois said provincial governments reached out to the council for feedback on how retailers could be managed in an overall return to normal.

even as restrictions ease, brisebois said, business operators are going to have change the way they operate. the changes most obvious to consumers will be those they’ve already seen – social distancing and the transparent barriers at checkouts. store traffic will have to be monitored and staff would have to be ret ra i ned on clea n i ng procedures.

First, brisebois said, the curve of covid-19 infection needs to flatten. “we need increased testing before we move ahead,” she said. then, all sectors need to coordinate how they will return to business. companies will have

to ask, “is everyone involved?” brisebois said, citing the saskatchewan case. “is the chain of command singing off the same hymn book so citizens are not confused?” and, she said, bureaucratic interference needs to be kept to a minimum. businesses, she said, need cooperation rather than hindrance from government agencies and bylaw services – “they need to reach out; they need to come together.” in terms of physical operations, retailers need to deal with rules governing apparel fitting rooms, use of payment keypads and procedures for product returns, as

well as overarching concerns about employees, taxes and rent. “the greatest challenge for them is to ensure that their employees remain healthy and protected,” brisebois said.

Patterson said may could be too late for businesses that were already struggling as they came out of 2019. “we did see a decrease in retail sales,” he said. “we saw a decrease in foot traffic in malls.” w hat cov i d-19 may have done to the retail sector, Patterson said, is move more people to online shopping. the period may have been long enough to entrench e-commerce habits in some consumers, he explained.•

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t some point, even Provincial health officer dr. bonnie henry – who revealed she cut her own hair during the pandemic, after ordering hair salons and barber shops closed – is probably going to want to have a professional style her hair. she may have to wait until the end of may, unless she decides hair salons and barbers can reopen sooner than that. and like so many other british columbians,henrymayalsowant to go to a dentist for a teeth cleaning, an optometrist to get her eyes checked or prescription update, and maybe work off some stress at the gym. those types of personal care services will likely reopen on a staggered basis, and none of them will be offered in a way that could be described as “normal,” say the businesses that are preparing for a green light – which is actually more of an orange light.

going to the gym may involve having to make an appointment, not just dropping in, and members may not be allowed to change and shower after their workout.

Your haircut may be more expensive, and you may be expected to wash your own hair before you show up for your appointment, and wait outside until your turn comes, to limit the amount of time you are in the salon. “dr. bonnie henry’s order for our industry to remain closed is until the end of may,” said greg robins, executive director of the beauty council of western canada, which represents barbers, stylists, spas, cosmetologists and body waxers. “now, she could shorten that or she could extend it.” in order to plan for a phased reopening, the council has looked to other jurisdictions that are moving earlier on reopening and to those sectors, like grocery stores, that have managed to operate throughout the pandemic, for ideas on how to serve customers

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again, while maintaining enhanced health, safety and sanitary measures. “there are simple things, like tape on the floor people to stay a certain distance apart, hand sanitizers available for customer use, possibly barriers between client and provider, and perhaps the mandatory use of face masks,” robins said. laila testini, owner of crush

hair co. in surrey, said all of her 11 stylists have had to take an online sanitization course in preparation for reopening. “i’ve ordered masks and face shields for all of our employees, and i’ve stocked up on all our cleaning products because i’m worried there’s going to be a run on those,” she said. in some jurisdictions, a phased reopening will see hair salons and barbers allowed to reopen before other personal care services, like beauty spas and hair waxing salons. asked if that may be the case in b.c., robins said: “i wish not, but i think yes.” if you need dental work, expect a backlog, even when dentists are allowed to start performing nonemergency dental work, like fillings, crowns and cleanings. care dyck, manager at aurora dental clinic, expects a demand backlog to be exacerbated by expected limits on the number of dentists, assistants and patients in the clinic at a given time.

“if you normally have a full schedule, your full schedule now is maybe half the capacity that it was,” she said. “so there is going to be some backlog i think, for sure.” the same may go for optometrists. like dentists, they are currently allowed to deal only with emergencies, like eye infections. devin almond, a partner at nuvue optometry in kelowna, said optometrists had hoped for a phased reopening may 1, but now expect it in mid-may. as for fitness centres, gym owners are brainstorming ways to reduce contact between members and staff. club 16 trevor linden Fitness centres plan to add cleaning staff and cleaning stations and limit the number of members in the gym at any one time. linden is hoping for a reopening by the end of may. “we’re really in the ideas stage right now of just figuring out how we keep our members and staff as safe as possible,” linden said. •

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anycanadianbusinesses waiting for a reopening of the domestic economy may be anticipating the quickly approaching restart of the U.s. market even more.

With the United states accounting for 75% of canada’s foreign trade, how exactly the U.s. economy reopens will play a major role in the canadian recovery. but with reopening businesses falling under state jurisdiction, how each region reopens will differ greatly. but there are some key milestones that are universal, said new-York-based economic and trade consultant sean k ing. chief among them, he said, is announcements of coviD testing and tracking at state and local levels. “testing is key,” said king, an affiliated scholar with University of notre Dame’s Liu institute of asia and asian studies. “We’d have to be on the lookout for a second wave of the virus, which means people could be looking over their shoulders for the foreseeable future…. We can only reopen as much as it’s safe to.” b.c.’s closest neighbour, Washington state, has been among the slowest to roll out a reopening plan – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, said canada West Foundation trade & investment centre director carlo Dade.

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Washington governor Jay inslee has extended a stay-at-home order to least until may 4 and said the state’s coviD-19 testing capabilities need to go through “enormous expansions.” the state also joined a pact with oregon and california to coordinate their reopening; neither california nor oregon has specified a date for businesses – only medical procedures and surgeries are being phased back in. but many other states are playing by looser rules, Dade said. and in a system where the U.s. and canadian trucking sectors are essentially integrated, that means another major milestone that needs to be reached is a health-check policy for all truck drivers crossing the border. “it’s less of a problem for b.c.

because oregon, Washington and california have their heads screwed on straight,” Dade said. “but for alberta, for example, trucks pass through idaho, north Dakota, oklahoma, Wyoming.… states with the strongest resistance to public health measures. going forward, we have about six million trucks a year that cross the northern border; so how do you then have a border that’s completely open for six million potential [disease] vectors crossing the border every year?” states like tennessee offer a glimpse of how reopening can roll out in places that are already doing so. the state is allowing restaurants and retail stores to open at a maximum of 50% capacity. in order to reopen, the state’s restaurant employees must wear

masks and gloves, all customers need to be screened, tables must be set a minimum of six feet apart and menus must be disposable or sanitized. retail stores, meanwhile, are asked to stagger shifts to enforce social distancing, use plastic barriers between the cashier and customers and increase the use of curbside delivery. none of these rules, however, will be enforced on a state level and will be up to each business to manage. tennessee reported its highest single-day increase in new coviD-19 cases, at 478, just one day before restaurants reopened. as a result, a health checkpoint at the border, while needed, will bring with it the type of wait times last seen after 9/11 in 2001, when stricter security measures spurred a traffic crunch. that, Dade sa id, dents the potential for canadian exporters to quickly capitalize on a U.s. reopening until a vaccine becomes widespread.

“Do we stop trucks at the border and get drivers tested?” he said.

“You’ve seen the backups at the Peace arch during 9/11. Do we have to disinfect trucks coming in? Do we not allow drivers to exit the cab and use washroom facilities? You run into all these issues, and you have to worry about all the hidden things that don’t present themselves out front. “i don’t think the easy movement of goods across the border will continue,” Dade added,

noting that manufacturing will be the slowest to resume because it depends on supply chains beyond canada and the U.s. some foreign carmakers, for example, are planning to reopen plants in early may, although plans by domestic auto manufacturers have so far been scuttled by the opposition of United auto Workers union.

Even i f one d isrega rds the border safety issues, king said, canadian exporters should be cautious because the return to normalcy will be far from immediate – even if cheap gas may encourage some to spend.

“Even if individual states allow people to go out, work and spend again, will they feel safe enough to do so?” he said. “and how much will millions of newly unemployed americans want, or be able, to spend when things do reopen?” then there’s the worst-case scenario: a too-swift reopening that causes a second outbreak.

Werner antweiler, an associate professor at the University of british columbia’s sauder school of business, said that’s the most worrisome question for everyone in canada and the United states. “this may force the economy into a W-shaped rather than v-shaped recovery,” antweiler said. “if a quick loosening of restriction backfires, it could do yet more damage to the U.s. economy. t hat is what some call the risk of an L-shaped, non-recovery.” •

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hile canadian exporters looking at the U.s. ma rket conti nue to wait on the exact nature of the reopening, the picture is clearer – though not much brighter – for those looking at china. that’s because china, where the coviD-19 outbreak in January caused its first shutdown of a major global economy, has since been gradually reopening, culminating in the disease epicentre in Wuhan reopening earlier this month. the concern now, said one chinese economist familiar with the b.c. situation, is that beijing’s worries about a second wave of coviD-19 have prompted china to ban foreign citizens from entering the country. the rule was announced in late march after china reported coviD-19 cases returning to the country by way of travellers from russia into the northern chinese province

of heilongjiang. that means that in-person business meetings – vital for securing deals in the chinese market – simply isn’t possible right now, said bo chen, professor of economics at the huazhong University of science and technology. “because of the pandemic, china was in a serious situation two months ago, and the world closed its doors on china,” chen said. “now, we are seeing the reverse of china closing its doors to foreign visitors. this is actually a big problem for the investment community; and it has led to a big drop in both foreign and domestic investment, because domestic investors also cannot travel across regions before the reopening happened for most of the country in march.” beijing has tried to mitigate the situation by moving investment project details and contacts online. officials are also now encouraging domestic investors to step up as road and rail travel

within china returns to normal patterns. as for potential for imports from b.c. and canada, chen said the numbers will definitely be ugly for the months of march, april and may as the chinese l i m it i nbou nd i nternationa l traffic. “our trade data for Q1 was relatively fine,” chen said, even though the country saw its gDP fall 6.8% during that period. “our exports were down 11.4%, but our imports are down only less than 1%…. but i have to make myself clear: the reason that i think imports in Q1 were not affected was because it was Q1. before april, the seriousness of the pandemic had just begun to affect other countries. i think once we get the data after april, we will see an inverse picture.” chen noted, however, that the tried-and-true canadian exports such as seafood and agricultural goods are probably the best bet to recover faster in the chinese market, especially if the global

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pandemic subsides and allows for more travel and business to be conducted across borders. but even the agricultural sector may not face a bright prospect in china’s reopening, said canada West Foundation trade & investment centre director carlo Dade. the main problem is the U.s.china Phase 1 trade agreement that was announced in January, which gives a heavy advantage to U.s. producers of products like beef in the chinese market.

For example, Dade said, the deal allows the U.s. Food and Drug administration to give a list of U.s. beef plants to beijing and demand that china, at short notice,

take imports from these plants. that’s not the case for canada, which traditionally would submit a list of potential plants to beijing, in hopes that it would agree to order from one or more of them. “the americans have basically handcuffed the chinese’ ability to impose non-tariff barriers on U.s. agricultural products, and nowhere is that clearer than beef,” Dade said. “it’s not, ‘You send us a list and we’ll get back to you,’ but ‘We’re going to tell you from which plants you will take our beef, and we’ll tell you how quickly you have to approve them, no questions, no changes.’ so you can see the huge advantage the U.s. has in moving beef to china. You have certainty with a U.s. producer that it’s not going to be stopped by red tape.”

Dade added that canada earned some goodwill by sending medical supplies to china earlier in the pandemic, but he is uncertain if it will carry over onto issues like red meat or canola. •

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