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Q&A: Year-end interview with Mayor Kennedy Stewart

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in social housing. But really, the focus of it was climate change and public safety. The average homeowner will pay an extra 100 bucks a year. So that's really the question: Is that investment worth it? And I would say yes. If you look at public sentiment, public safety was I think the theme of this budget.

We fully funded the police, which included the arbitration decision [for police wage increases], which was a lot higher than we budgeted for.

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umulative property tax hikes have reached almost 30 per cent in four years, homelessness is pervasive and more people have died of a drug overdose this year in Vancouver than any time in its recorded history.

Rents continue to rise, home ownership is a fantasy for many and random assaults on citizens have reached almost five per day, an unheard of trend in the 34 years Police Chief Adam Palmer has been a cop.

All of this has happened under the watch of Mayor Kennedy Stewart.

Is it all his fault?

Hardly, but the mayor knows citizens need a political scapegoat.

Stewart will be the first to say that senior governments have a role to play in turning some of these issues around, particularly related to housing, homelessness and overdose deaths.

Funds for extending the Broadway subway to the University of B.C. also have to come from senior governments.

At the municipal level, the city has responded to the frenetic real estate market with an empty homes tax. To address homelessness, the city has added up to $30 million to secure homes and shelter for people.

It was the mayor’s idea to triple the empty homes tax, it was his idea to unlock the $30 million for homelessness and it was his idea to formally push for decriminalization of small amounts of illicit drugs.

He has also said many times recently — at news conferences and in a state of the city address to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade — that he alone secured $1 billion in funds from senior governments for up to 10,000 units of housing.

As he heads into his last calendar year as mayor before the October 2022 election, Stewart sat down with this reporter at city hall Wednesday to discuss some of these issues and others in a year-end interview.

When you walk in our door, the boss gets up to help you.

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The following is a condensed and edited version of some of the conversation, with a focus on taxes, the overdose death crisis and another possible bid for the Winter Olympics in 2030.

For the better part of a year, you told citizens that you didn’t want a property tax hike for 2022 to be higher than five per cent. In the budget vote last week, the tax hike agreed upon by you and five other councillors was 6.35 per cent. How do you explain that to the public?

Well, first, I'll say I'm really proud of the budget. I think we hit a good balance there.

It allows us to keep moving on housing.

Our processing times [for building permits and licences] are speeding up and that takes investment. Then there’s all our investments

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I think many people were confused when Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr introduced the climate tax amendment at the budget debate. You told me the previous week that you would be introducing it. What happened there?

It was a chairing thing.

A chairing thing?

Yeah. So when I chair a meeting, I actually can't enter debates. So I'd already ceded the chair once to councillor [Melissa] De Genova when I introduced changes to the police budget. It just gets to be too much to chair and do the amendments at the same time.

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Why add another tax for people when the cost of living continues to rise?

I talked to Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun about what happened to his city [with the flood] and surrounding cities like Merritt.

Climate change mitigation is essential. So $9 million a year of new investments into both mitigation and emissions reductions would bring things like electric vehicle chargers and the retrofitting of community centres.

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So I was really grateful councillor Carr did that.

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But you must have known that would happen when it came time to introduce your climate tax amendment. Some people might say this is just politics, and you didn’t want to wear this tax and instead had a Green Party councillor do the work for you.

No, not at all. I’m really proud of it. I'm glad councillor Carr did it. She explained it very well and it passed. I stand beside this 100 per cent. I know from my days in Ottawa [as an MP], that no one ever really remembers who introduces what, it's just that it gets done.

When you include the 6.35 per cent tax hike for next year, property taxes have cumulatively gone up almost 30 per cent since you were elected mayor in October 2018. How do you explain that increase to the public?

We listen to what people want to invest in and we invest in it. Again, this budget equates to $100 a year for the average homeowner whose home values are just around $1.8 to $2 million. We spend over a million dollars a day here in policing, and it's almost entirely labour-based.

Wages are going up faster than inflation.

The BC Coroners Service released another report last week on the number of people who have died from overdoses. More than 1,700 people died between January and October. You’ve formally asked for

decriminalization, but the federal government doesn’t seem to be interested. What more can you do?

Decriminalization is the main thing we can do as a city. For a safe supply of drugs, we can work with partners but there's not much we can do other than provide space. It's really up to the doctors and the federal and provincial governments on that one. But the decriminalization application would be held by the city.

At this table, I had a two-hour discussion with Carolyn Bennett, the incoming federal minister of mental health and addictions. I said you've got to act on this. I was assured that she's not a minister that says no. I told her we've had this [application in to Health Canada] since July. We’ve had some good conversations, but I told her you just have to sign the bottom [of the application]. We are ready to go.

And the most important thing with our application is it has the support of the medical community and the police.

Last week, you joined Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton and four Indigenous nations — the Lilwat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — in signing a memorandum of understanding for a possible bid to bring the Winter Olympics here in 2030. Is that bid going to happen?

For me, the announcement was really important for reconciliation. The fact

that it’s an Indigenous-led exploration is what was key for me and Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton. We both love it and happy to sign on as partners. But it's four plus two, right? It's four nations inviting two municipalities, whereas in the past it was the other way around.

So reconciliation is the important part for me, and then as partners we’ll decide whether to go forward on a bid.

There will be a formal vote here in council sometime next year. I'll come to council with a recommendation as to whether we go forward or not. Now that we've signed this [agreement] with the nations, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Paralympic Committee can actually do a feasibility study, which they're doing right now, which will tell us what the costs would be. I didn't vote for the last one in the referendum. So I have a healthy skepticism here. It has to make sense for the city. That will be decided by council. That's not a decision that I make alone.

So you don’t see another plebiscite coming like the one to decide the 2010 Winter Olympics?

Saying that we want a plebiscite now would basically say we can't do it. It's such a compressed time period [before the bid deadline]. However, the nations will make their own decision, and they may have different community decisionmaking processes, and I think that's important.

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How B.C. flooding, COVID-19 led to a McDonald's potato shortage in Japan

YOUR ONLINE SHOPPING SPREE AND THE JAPANESE SPUD SHORTAGE The Japanese potato shortage is the latest disruption in a global supply chain under significant pressure over the past 18 months.

Over that time, COVID-19 has led more people to stay home, spending money in an online shopping spree rather than at a restaurant, a movie theatre or to travel, explains Trevor Heaver, a professor specializing in supply chains at UBC’s Sauder School of Business.

As more North Americans buy goods produced in Asia, the cost of shipping a container of goods west across the Pacific has soared roughly 150 per cent since last

year, according to the U.K.-based. shipping consulting company Drewry.

That’s meant shipping companies have every incentive to dump cargo in a port like Vancouver and immediately send the empty container back to China for another high-value trip back to North America.

“The steamship lines are just running the containers empty,” says the former head of a Vancouver-based importer.

With so many containers going back at once, ships are overwhelmed, leading to long waits, from English Bay to ports in Seattle and Los Angeles.

At one point Wednesday, 44 ships were floating off the coast waiting to dock at one of the port authority’s berths. Why is this happening several weeks after the flood?

Think of it like a traffic jam, says Heaver.

A cascade of events — from increased shopping at Christmas to a ship blocking the Suez Canal — compound delays, one on top of the other, until for some businesses at the far end of the supply chain, the system breaks.

“When cars back up at the entrance to a freeway, it takes a hell of a lot longer to get rid of that backup than it did to create it,” says Heaver.

shipping containers known as reefers.

When a reefer full of French fries arrives in Vancouver waiting for a ride to Japan, it needs to be plugged in. But with containers piling up at ports, space for even a regular sea can is hard to find.

At sea, there are only so many ships that can plug in a refrigerated container, adding another bottleneck.

So when in mid-November a tongue of warm, moist air dumped record rain across southern B.C., knocking out the rail lines and highways that feed this already strained system, everything came to a head.

As a spokesperson for the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority said in an email, “B.C.’s recent floodevent exacerbated supply-chain challenges already occurring on the west coast of North America.”

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early 3,000 McDonald’s locations across Japan are being forced to ration French fries over the holiday season after a shipping bottleneck in Vancouver created a potato shortage an ocean away.

On Dec. 21, president and CEO of McDonald’s Japan Co. Tamotsu Hiiro said in in a translated statement its locations usually ship potatoes through Vancouver on a large scale.

But recent flooding and the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 have forced the iconic fast-food chain to take drastic steps. From Dec. 24 to Dec. 30, McDonald’s Japan will suspend the sale of medium- and large-sized French fry orders — instead, rationing out the fries in small-sized portions.

In an email to Glacier Media from McDonald’s Japan, the company said the move is a “proactive measure” and that there have so far been no “breaks in supply.”

The potato shortage comes only days before many Japanese fast-food diners descend on chains like McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken in droves — a holiday tradition in Japan.

The small fry news was met with big reactions from customers in Japan.

“A truly disastrous end to 2021,” wrote one British transplant on Twitter.

“The end of the world (as we know it) is here,” wrote another.

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the Shepody potato, which is mostly grown in Canada.

What do they all have in common? They “have gone through extensive testing to determine if they will fry up crisp and light in colour with a mashed potato texture inside,” according to the Idaho Potato Commission.

Ross Johnson, the commission’s international marketing director, says Japanese import restrictions on raw vegetables mean McDonald’s French fries have to be processed in North America before they are shipped.

Companies like McCain, Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston and J.R. Simplot are among a small handful of processors that cut, prepare and export McDonald’s French fries from North American farms to fast-food locations around the world.

Whether from Idaho or Washington, every French fry a Tokyo resident pops in their mouth has spent weeks on refrigerated

Heaver says companies around the world are beginning to question the just-in-time ethos that has dominated the import and export business for decades.

First made popular on Toyota’s automotive production line, the just-in-time model means a company doesn't need to keep a large inventory, helping them cut costs. But in an unpredictable world, 'just-in-time' shipping has a hard time adapting to the shocks of a pandemic and more frequent extreme weather.

Just like a family preparing an emergency kit packs an evacuation plan, extra water and freeze-dried food, businesses need to create backup plans, says Heaver.

Instead of just-in-time shipping, he says, keep more inventory on hand. And when that runs out, a company better have other sources to supply their hungry customers.

Until then, Japanese French fry junkies will have to make do with a 0.56 cent discount.

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man has been charged after a Vancouver photojournalist was randomly punched in the face while covering a pro-Tru rump rally earlier this year.

The alleged attacker is 25-year-old Chris Savv v a. He was charged on Dec. 13, released on conditions, and is set to appear in court rt to face a single charge of assault on Dec. 30.

The attack occurred while protesters were gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Vancouver Ar Art Gallery r on Jan 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The group had gathered to show their sup pport r for outg going g U.S. President Donald Trump.

Some held signs saying "TRUMP 2020," others waved U.S.A. flags with the country r 's Second Am A endment scrawled on them, and some paraded placards containing anti-science statements, such as "BIBLE OVER LOGIC OVER SCIENCE 100%."

At times the number of media gathered to cover the story r was a larger than the number of those protesting.

A ound the midway point of the Ar protest, one of the people involved lunged at CBC photojournalist Ben Nelms, punched him in the face, then casually walked away.

That person allegedly was as Savv v a.

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The day the as assault occurred, the photojournalist released the following statement: “I was covering the pro -Tru rump rally outside of the Vancouver Ar A t Gallery r this afternoon. I was taki k ng pictu t res of the group of protesters when one of the men charged at me and punched

me in my face unprovoked. He was upset that I, along with other members of the media were taki k ng pictu t res and reporting the event. Physical violence against members of the media is wrong and doesn't just happen outside of Canada, but here in Vancouver.”

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How a Vancouver man ruptured his spleen, got his bike stolen outside a hospital and got it back again

insurance company about a replacement; his deductible cost would be $1,000, a sum that turned him off looking for another bike.

Then Vancouver police Const. Laura Coburn called. At first, Ye suspected it was a scam.

Then he heard Coburn provide more details about his bike and that it was recovered by officers doing a walkthrough at a single-roomoccupancy hotel in Gastown.

“It is like an early Christmas gift, and I’m so happy my bike was found,” he said this week, noting he was reunited with his Trek after police dropped it off to him Dec. 15.

Coburn traced the bike to Ye after running

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the serial number, make and model with Trek, which told her it was purchased at West Point Cycles on West 10th Avenue. An employee registered the bike before Ye left the store with it last year.

West Point staff provided Coburn with Ye’s contact information, which led to the happy ending.

But those type of endings don’t happen as much as police would like, largely because owners don’t take the simple steps to register their bikes upon purchase. Ye was fortunate the bike store did it for him, but not every bike seller does.

From January to November of this year, 2,131 bikes were reported stolen to police. In 2020, it was 2,049 bikes and 2,742 in 2019, according to Vancouver police data.

The number of stolen bikes not reported to police is difficult to quantify, but investigators suspect it’s significant.

Police recommend bike owners register a profile on Project529.com, complete with serial number, value, description, make, model and photo of them and their bike. Keep a receipt, too. Also, use a good lock to prevent it being stolen in the first place.

At the very least, Coburn said, an owner should record their bike’s serial number and keep a photo of themselves with the bike, if they choose not to register on Project529.com, which is a registry approved by police to assist with returning stolen bikes to owners.

“If everyone followed that, we would just be able to quickly run the bikes [through Project529] and get them out of here,” she said, adding that it's also crucial for owners to report their bikes stolen.

Otherwise, chances of returning a stolen bike to an owner are slim, as evidenced by the 400 kept in the Vancouver police’s property storage building, where Coburn works with a team to return bikes and other stolen property to citizens.

The majority of the bikes are stored on what resembles a dry-cleaning conveyor belt that runs up the side of a warehouse wall and high into the ceiling.

Mountain bikes, race bikes, BMX bikes, kids’ bikes and electric bikes are all accounted for in an aisle similar to a Costco store, with the quality ranging from low to highend, including a $3,600 red Giant Anthem mountain bike.

'Never thought he'd see his bike again' The Giant was among nine stolen bikes recovered by police Nov. 22 from a rooftop “stash spot” in Gastown. The owner reported his bike stolen Nov. 8 to Surrey RCMP but erroneously provided the wrong serial number; it was off by one digit.

Meanwhile, the thief created a fraudulent profile with the proper serial number on Project529.com to report the Giant stolen.

Staff at Project529.com noticed there were multiple profiles for stolen bikes set up likely by the same person.

“He just posted a picture of it on the street and left [his profile] blank and then said ‘stolen,’ VPD

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f it were a sunny day, chances are Fei Ye would be riding his bike.

Check that — would want to be riding his bike. His doctor told him no cycling until his spleen heals.

That would be the spleen he ruptured after crashing his Trek mountain bike during a ride in Stanley Park in mid-November. Ye ended up in St. Paul’s Hospital for three days before he was discharged.

The good news is the 52-year-old semi-retired businessman didn’t require surgery.

The bad news is that when he left the hospital to look for his bike, which paramedics locked up for him near St. Paul’s front entrance, it was gone.

His reaction?

“I was a little bit upset, but then just thought somebody needed it more than I did,” said the Point Grey resident. “Also, maybe it was a way of someone telling me I shouldn’t be riding the bike anymore, I don’t know.”

'An early Christmas gift' Up until last Wednesday, Ye believed he would never see his Trek again. He paid about $800 for the bike last year and bought it to continue the exercise he was no longer getting from his regular swims; contracting COVID-19 at the pool was a real concern for him.

Ye didn’t bother to report the bike stolen to police. He did, however, check with his

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hoping police would actually give it back to him,” said Coburn, noting the investigation is ongoing.

In the end, police contacted Giant Canada with the serial number and an employee told Coburn the bike was purchased in 2018 at a store in Jasper, Alta. A call to Jasper Sports Store secured the owner’s contact information.

“He's thrilled because he never thought he'd see his bike again,” she said, noting the owner lives in Victoria and plans to travel to Vancouver during the holidays to pick up his bike.

If police are unable to find an owner within 90 days, the bike goes to auction, proceeds of which go to a City of Vancouver general revenue fund.

Asked what the solve or return rate is, Insp.

Mark Wooldridge, who is in charge of property and forensic storage services, was candid: “It’s not very good, it’s frustratingly low.”

At the same time, police returned 35 stolen bikes worth $34,000 since September to their rightful owners. In the past few months, other teams of officers have recovered bikes worth a total of more than $100,000 from Facebook Marketplace and other online selling platforms.

Police also continue to operate a “bait bike” program, arresting 23 people since April.

Wooldridge pointed out that police are not just after thieves who steal high-end bikes.

“We treat every bike the same that comes in [to the property office], whether it's a kid's bike that cost $100 at Walmart, or a $3,000 Trek bike or a $6,000 mountain bike,” said Wooldridge, who credited Const. Tammy Berzins for her early work in building contacts in the cycling community to help return bikes to owners.

“We make sure that the data is correct [serial number, make, model], so we have the best opportunity to return it.”

'I was so moved' Meanwhile, Ye continues to recover at home from his accident, which happened after he hit a patch of wet leaves on the park’s main road. A break in the rainy weather got him out that day.

“I was going to go to Richmond to buy something, but there was a sunny break and I just wanted to take advantage of that,” he said, noting he had worked his way up to riding 40 kilometres per day since he bought the bike.

Ye wanted to publicly thank all the doctors and nurses at St. Paul’s Hospital and the people who came to his aid when he crashed, including tourists and others, one of whom kept him warm with their jacket.

“And there was a doctor from Quebec,” he said. “He was checking my pulse and my eyes, and he comforted me. I was so moved.”

His bike, meanwhile, didn’t get too banged up and is now safely stored in his house.

When will he be back on it again?

“The doctor told me I could not do any exercise for three months.”

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No, the rope tying up the English Bay barge is not there because of an ancient maritime law

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hat dinky line connecting the at least 1,500-tonne barge beached on English Bay to some riprap is not intended to prevent it from being salvaged by a maritime do-gooder.

Last week Vancouver Is Awesome ran a column calling whoever tied the two-inch-thick line from one of the barge's cleats to a small boulder on the shoreline a "folk hero and a genius". Since then V.I.A. received a tip that the line was actually placed there to prevent anyone trying to claim salvage rights by securing a line themselves.

Maritime salvage rights date back to the golden age of piracy and when cross-ship communication was made through the raising and lowering of flags. Essentially, marine salvage laws reward others to salvage abandoned, wrecked or in distress vessels while also protecting the salvors.

Darren Williams is a marine lawyer with the law firm of Williams & Company in Victoria. Williams explained in a recent interview with V.I.A. that since the rise of modern communication, vessel owners can be reached more eas asily and, when they are, they generally prefer their propert rty t to be left alone. Even still, salvage laws have maintained a belief that if it looks like a vessel is in trouble, you can preserv r e it and reap the rewards. In other words, tie it to the beach so it doesn't cause more damage.

That belief is completely wrong, though, according to Williams, who says the act of putting a line on what is someone else's legal chattel is more aki k n to the crime of trespass.

Nonetheless, the "myth" as Williams calls it, persists.

When Williams saw photos of the rope on the barge during V.I.A.'s phone interv r iew he start r ed to laugh, suspecting whoever put the line there did it as either a joke or on the mistaken belief that it was as a legitimate salvage effort r.

"I mean, you might as well be using dental floss," Williams said.

As it turns out, the barge's owners were the ones who put the rope there -- on orders from the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.

"We did," a spokesperson for Marine Sentry Towing said.

"The Port of Vancouver asked us to put a securing line in there for... I don't know... no real reason so we just threw a line on there to appease them."

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the federal agency responsible for the lands and waters that make up the Port of Vancouver, has been working with the Canadian Coast Guard and Transport Canada to monitor the barge situation.

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