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West Van council approves 4.29% tax hike BRENT RICHTER

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West Vancouver residents and business owners can expect a 4.29 per cent increase in their municipal taxes in 2022.

In a series of votes Monday night, council approved a 1.79 per cent increase in the district’s operating budget, a one per cent levy to maintain and replace aging capital assets, and a new 1.5 per cent environmental levy dedicated explicitly to environmental programs.

For the single-family homeowner with a property assessment at the $3.7-million average for the district, that should result in a $280 increase over last year’s bill (specifically for municipal taxes, not TransLink, Metro Vancouver, utility fees or school taxes, all of which are added to the bill but not directly under council’s purview). For owners of a strata unit assessed at the $1.6-million West Vancouver average, district finance staff estimate a $123 increase over the 2021 bill for municipal taxes.

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Province eyes upgrades for Upper Levels Highway

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Bus routes on the shoulders, twinning the Capilano River Bridge, and more bicycle infrastructure – the province is eyeing significant changes to Highway 1/99 through the North Shore.

The Ministry of Transportation and

Infrastructure released a report Friday assessing challenges the North Shore’s highway corridor will face as it becomes much busier between now and 2050, and what can be done about it.

“The Upper Levels Highway is obviously very important for people and goods movement throughout the North Shore, and

it has largely remained unstudied since the 1990s,” said Bowinn Ma, Minister of State for Infrastructure and NDP MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale. “[This] provides all of us in government with a road map for a range of co-ordinated, multi-modal highway network improvements.”

Unlike previous studies, this one attempts

to look at the highway as transportation infrastructure more holistically, Ma said.

That means less emphasis on the single-occupancy vehicle and more emphasis on more socially and environmentally responsible modes like cycling and transit.

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Volunteers pull off Afghanistan animal airlift BRENT RICHTER

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Inside a 17,000-square-foot helicopter hanger at the south terminal of Vancouver International Airport, there are close to 300 dogs and cats that travelled more than 10,000 kilometres in search of a safe home.

Public warned after woman groped on trail JANE SEYD

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North Vancouver RCMP are issuing a public warning after a woman reported being sexually assaulted by a stranger on the Varley Trail in Lynn Canyon Park on Sunday.

There, amid the wet noses and wagging tails, are North Vancouver dog lovers Rick Crook and Mary Milton. The husband-andwife team have been volunteering in a rescue effort of international proportions.

“We’ve got dogs to walk here, and things to clean up after dogs, and get organized for this, that, and the other,” said Crook, jack of all trades, for Thank DOG, I’m Out Rescue Society, one of a coalition of non-profits aiding evacuation. “I’m looking at one right now who is just happy to be walking on the grass.”

Kabul to Vancouver

In August, there was a mad rush for people to evacuate from Kabul before the Taliban seized control over the country.

Not everyone made it. And people who’d planned on bringing their pets with them found themselves separated. As a result, hundreds of dogs and cats were released into the airport area and left to fend for themselves.

Kabul Small Animal Rescue spent months capturing the strays, attempting to get them identified, and working with non-profits from around the world that could help track down their owners and get the lost pets out.

Overseen by SPCA International, volunteers sorted out the considerable logistics of airlifting a planeload of animals to other countries, all of which have different rules for documentation and quarantine for animals. It wasn’t a small task. They were originally planning to stop to refuel the plane in Siberia, but tensions over a possible war

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North Vancouver’s Mary Milton comforts one of more than 150 dogs rescued from Kabul, Afghanistan, and brought to Vancouver for adoption. RICK CROOK

between Russia and Ukraine meant they had to pick a new route. They then opted for stops in Turkey and Iceland, where animals could get a walk, kibble, and water.

Before they arrived in Vancouver, it took about two months of work to put down new floors and build individual kennels, which was made possible by a discounted rental price from Modu-Loc fencing, Crook said.

Each animal has required hours of planning and labour, even before they arrived.

The plane landed with 154 dogs and 133 cats just before 6 p.m. on Feb. 1. Customs officials and a veterinarian were waiting to process each one and volunteers took them to their new temporary home.

“It went phenomenal,” Milton said.

Crook said he was in tears when they

were bringing the last pup off the plane, a dog named Soldier.

“There’s the old adage ‘No man left behind.’ This was no dog left behind,” he said.

The group thinks they can reunite about one third of the animals with their owners – those who can be tracked down. One lucky U.S. Air Force member who lives in California was on hand to collect his kitty when the plane landed.

“He was overjoyed,” Crook said.

“Overjoyed to get this cat back.”

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The North Van woman in her 30s was hiking alone in the park, and was exiting the Varley Loop Trail and crossing the foot bridge to Rice Lake Road at approximately 1:30 p.m. on Sunday when the incident happened, said Sgt. Peter DeVries, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP. A man approached from behind and grabbed the woman’s buttocks before walking away, said DeVries. The woman then pulled out her cell phone and began filming the suspect, who continued to walk away. About 10 minutes later, the woman called 911.

Officers attended the park but failed to locate the suspect.

DeVries said the woman described the person who grabbed her as a Black or South Asian man of medium complexion, 25 to 30 years old, standing about six feet tall and weighing 170 pounds.

The man is described as having a thin build with a thin moustache and chin hair. He is described as wearing large, round, silver-framed reading glasses, a black North Face hoodie with “Never Stop Exploring” written on the front, black athletic pants, and grey high-top sneakers.

Police are circulating information about the incident through internal police bulletins in the hopes of identifying the suspect. Anyone with information is asked to call the RCMP at 604-985-1311.

LONG-TERM CARE

Evergreen House COVID-19 outbreak declared over JANE SEYD

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A COVID-19 outbreak at Evergreen House long-term care facility in North Vancouver that killed at least one elderly resident has been declared over, three weeks after it officially began.

The outbreak was declared over by Vancouver Coast Health on Feb. 8.

The outbreak, so far the only one announced for a care home on the North Shore during the Omicron surge of the virus, was officially declared Jan. 20,

although both family members and staff at the facility indicated multiple residents had been infected with the virus in the weeks leading up to that.

The issue of care home outbreaks is complicated, because there are no longer provincewide standards for when a care home is considered to be in a COVID-19 outbreak. Those are now solely at the discretion of a local medical health officer.

As of Monday there were 39 declared outbreaks ongoing at long-term care facilities around the province.

Dr. Bonnie Henry, the province’s

medical health officer, said recently about 40 per cent of those who’ve died of Omicron in the past month have been elderly residents of long-term care homes.

Most of those dying outside of outbreaks have also been older people with underlying illnesses, said Henry.

Meanwhile, limited data available continues to point to a decline in cases on the North Shore. The number of cases reported by official PCR tests on the North Shore was 148 between Feb. 4 and Feb. 10. Of those, 118 cases were in North Vancouver and 31 were in West Vancouver.

PCR testing is not available to most people and so is considered only a small subset of the actual numbers of COVID infections. Those numbers, however, have declined significantly since a high of more than 900 cases in the first week of January.

Viral concentrations detected in sewage going into the Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment plant on the North Shore have also been steadily decreasing since peaking in the first week of January at 333,000 parts per litre. The latest concentrations on Feb. 7 were about 67,500 parts per litre.

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The revised project plan for Tantalus Gardens in Horseshoe Bay proposes the construction of 10 small single-family homes on four lots. DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER

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Revised plan for Horseshoe Bay project back for public hearing JANE SEYD

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A year and a half after West Vancouver council halted a Horseshoe Bay development plan on the site of a former church, the project is back – this time with four more small single-family homes, but minus the duplexes and parkade.

In the latest version of the plan for Tantalus Gardens, QUMA Properties is proposing to build 10 small two-storey single-family homes of 1,780 square feet each on four lots in Horseshoe Bay. The lots between Wellington and Nelson avenues at Rosebery Avenue include the site of St. Monica’s Anglican Church, which the parish members and the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster closed in 2013. The property was sold in July 2018.

The latest Tantalus Gardens plan comes more than a year after council voted to put the original development plan – which included a mix of single-family homes and duplexes over a parkade – on ice.

Neighbours at the time voiced concerns about traffic and parking, that the units wouldn’t be affordable, and would result in too many trees being lost. Mostly though, they lamented the potential loss of the public assembly zoning where the church stands.

In the face of those concerns, in October 2019, council voted to put off a decision on the project until after the Horseshoe Bay local area plan was completed.

The plan was completed in May 2021.

As it now stands, half of the four lots in the development are within the local area plan, and rezoned to allow for infill housing, while half are outside but directly adjacent to the plan boundary.

In the current plan, the parkade has been scrapped in favour of attached garages.

The development, which includes

three- and four-bedroom designs, would provide needed “missing middle” housing, according to a staff report, and be similar in size to older houses in the Horseshoe Bay neighbourhood, but significantly smaller to many homes being built in West Vancouver today. Basements could also be used as secondary rental suites.

The development would also bring in more than $373,000 in community amenity contributions that could be used toward promoting the goals of the Horseshoe Bay local area plan, according to staff.

At a public information meeting held earlier by the developer, some of the same concerns expressed by residents to the earlier plan were raised by those attending, including the loss of the historic community gathering space in the church and potential cost of the houses proposed.

Council members addressed the issue of the church while giving the rezoning and OCP amendment bylaws for the development plan first reading Feb. 7.

Coun. Bill Soprovich said some people expect the municipality to save St. Monica’s for public use, but said that would involve the district buying the property, putting money into a new facility and paying for staff and programming – which is unlikely.

“We don’t own it,” he said. “The developer owns it.”

Mayor Mary-Ann Booth pointed out that since the time the church was a focal point for the community, there have been other community amenities built like the Gleneagles Community Centre and private daycares.

She said it could be argued there are more community spaces now in Horseshoe Bay than there were in the past.

Council voted to send the project to a public hearing on March 7.

Coun. Nora Gambioli recused herself from the vote and discussion, saying she owns property in the area.

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NEWSBRIEFS VEHICLE FIRE ON LIONS GATE CAUSES GRIDLOCK Crews were called to douse a vehicle fire on Lions Gate Bridge Saturday afternoon, creating a traffic snarl for much of the North Shore well into the evening.

According to Const. Kevin Goodmurphy, West Vancouver Police Department spokesman, the driver of a Hyundai Tucson saw smoke coming from under the hood, and she and her passenger bailed out of the vehicle just before 2:30 p.m.

Officers had the task of keeping drivers, pedestrians and cyclists well back while West Vancouver Fire and Rescue Members doused the flames.

Vancouver Police Department members closed access to the bridge at the south end while West Vancouver officers closed the north end.

The two women who were in the vehicle were fine; however, a tow truck driver suffered an injury to his hand thanks to a small explosion, Goodmurphy said.

Vehicle fires happen from time to time, Goodmurphy said, most often because of a mechanical issue in the engine. Thankfully, though, it’s not usually on a bridge.

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A Hyundai Tucson burns on Lions Gate Bridge Saturday afternoon.

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Goodmurphy, who was on patrol that day, said traffic through West Vancouver was “just horrible” for much of the rest of the day.

“We did our best to get a lane open as quickly as we could,” he said. “I felt for the people that were having to sit in that. It was not a nice position to be in, for sure.”

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SKI STORE BREAK-IN LEADS TO SEABUS TERMINAL ARREST

Quick action on the part of store owners and police – and an

unfamiliarity with the SeaBus schedule – resulted in the quick return of more than $7,000 worth of high-end ski gear swiped in a North Vancouver smash-and-grab in the early hours of Thursday morning. Two suspects carrying garbage bags full of expensive ski jackets from a North Shore ski shop were arrested shortly after midnight after one of them ran into the SeaBus terminal – with no SeaBus in sight.

The drama started around 15 minutes after midnight Thursday morning when North Shore Ski & Board in the 1600 block of Lonsdale Avenue received a call from their alarm company, indicating a possible break-in.

The son of the owner called North Vancouver RCMP, who arrived quickly and were able to view the security video. Minutes later, other officers reported that two suspects had been located near the SeaBus terminal.

One man was arrested at the scene, while a second fled down the SeaBus ramp and found himself quickly at a dead end, said Sgt. Peter DeVries of the North Vancouver RCMP. “There was no SeaBus there.

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Growing pains

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he population of the North Shore is up 4.7 per cent since 2016, according to the latest census.

Not surprisingly, the bulk of that growth came along the Lonsdale corridor in the City of North Vancouver.

West Vancouver grew by 3.9 per cent, while the District of North Vancouver inched up 2.9 per cent, one of the slowest in Metro Vancouver, which is up 7.9 per cent.

The year’s census numbers, fortuitously, come during a municipal election year. Our elections tend to be fought and lost mainly over the angst of whether we are growing too fast. There’s a simplistic notion that more neighbours means more traffic and diminished quality of life.

Squamish, meanwhile, has grown by 22 per cent, a number that should startle anyone who has been frustrated trying to cross Lions Gate Bridge at rush hour. The Fraser

Valley is also rapidly outpacing us. We cannot solve our traffic problem by making people live farther away.

Currently, North Shore mayors are going hat-in-hand to TransLink, arguing we should be next for billions of dollars in rapid transit infrastructure. It could be a tall order, as transit investments tend to go where the people are.

The federal government announced Monday plans to settle more than 400,000 immigrants per year for the next three years to help solve our skilled labour shortage.

It’s time for our municipal leaders to abandon the quixotic and counterproductive notion that we can or should try to limit population growth. It would be a much greater service to both current and future residents to carefully plan for how we are going to sustainably live here, get around, and get along.

We’ve got a honkin’ big problem with the flag right now It’s a bit of an awkward time for the Canadian flag, isn’t it?

Well, the modern flag has always been a little goofy, which somehow suited this country quite nicely. Many other countries opted for cool stuff on their flags, like stars, or eagles, or even a dang sickle – you guys like cutting grass, errrr?? – while most others opted for bold stripes of colour, or crosses of various shapes and sizes.

But not us. Nope. What did we put on our flag? A leaf. Yes, the softest part of the tree. But Canadians, for the most part, liked our little piece of flora. And the world liked it too, or at least they liked what it stood for.

The world mostly still likes it, as far as I can tell. A Maple Leaf stitched on your backpack always told the locals that the traveller wearing that emblem would probably be polite and would maybe get a little drunk and would certainly say sorry after spilling their beer and would probably help clean up at the end of the night.

And this is usually the flag’s time to shine – during the Olympic Games. Nothing brings out national fervour like watching four dudes going sledding together.

The other traditional time for the flag

to fly high is on Canada Day, and in particular it’s new Canadians who are justifiably proud to wave the flag of the country that gave Laugh them opportunities All You Want they didn’t have in Andy Prest their homeland.

Last Canada Day, however, was different for many people. The discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools across the country was a jarring reminder of the role the Canadian government played in co-ordinating a system created to indoctrinate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian ways of living and assimilate them into mainstream white Canadian society. For many Indigenous people, the Canadian flag was never a source of pride, but rather a reminder of the colonialism that created the country, and persists to this day.

But for many Canadians, the flag is still a positive symbol. At least, it was until a couple of weeks ago. But has something changed? Take this personal quiz: What do you think if you’re driving now and a minivan

and a couple of pickups pull up behind you with Canadian flags flapping out the tops of all the windows?

I suppose this could be a “divisive” question. I suspect approximately 10-20 per cent might see that and say “Yes! Freedom!! Yes!!!

I agree with you, flag men! Honk honk honk HONK HONK HONK!!!”

But the other 80 per cent of Canadians might see that in the rearview mirror and say, “Oh, there goes some wackadoos.”

Then you might start asking yourself some questions. If you glance at those folks in the wrong way, will you get the finger?

That would be weird, because you are just trying to take your kid to soccer. Or if you stop to grab some flowers at the local market, what will happen if they pull up beside you as you’re putting on your mask? Will they start yelling “Wake up, Sheepple. Baaaa!

Baaaa! You’re poisoning your children.

Baaaa!” Again, weird, because all you want is some begonias.

And of course, flying a flag doesn’t guarantee that you’re a big honker. It’s quite likely that the guy in the flag car would be the first one to hop out and help you fix a flat tire.

But the thought that flag flying equals

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unstable shouter is still there, because that is what we have seen across the country during the “Freedom Convoy.”

We have long debated what it means to “be a Canadian,” and the answer to that will be very different for people in different life situations. But none of the definitions of being a Canadian that I’ve ever heard includes parking your vehicle beside someone’s home – you know, the place where they live – and then honking your horn for two straight weeks. And waving a Canadian flag while doing it? Anne of Green Gables must be rolling over in her grave.

Where do we go from here? First of all, stop honking at us please. As my driving instructor once told me, your vehicle’s horn is not a weapon, it’s a tool. Reminder: the horn should be a tool, not the driver.

Other than that, it would be nice if that dang COVID-19 would stop shutting down some people’s lungs and other people’s brains. And of course, the journey towards Truth and Reconciliation needs to continue, unabated.

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B.C. NDP worthy recipients of Code of Silence award KIRK LAPOINTE

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It should surprise no one that the province’s B.C. NDP government, its premier and its minister responsible for the freedom of information law would win an award last week.

The Canadian Association of Journalists bestows only one such recognition annually. By tradition it has taken hard work, discipline and persistence necessary for the accolade.

But there it was: the Code of Silence award in the Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy category, awarded to those who best exemplify dedication to deny transparency, openness and the public’s right to know.

Well-earned, we can agree. The honour is theirs to savour for a mission accomplished.

A couple of days later, the minister who oversees the provincial Freedom of Information Act, Lisa Beare, came in for a second round of attention in the legislature.

Beare was, might we say, exposed for telling MLAs she was still deliberating on an issue upon which she had days earlier decided: the new fees to apply for records. Short memory on her part, seemingly. And in parliamentary parlance, it’s called misleading the House, and it is a spot of trouble.

You have a public right to know much, much more than governments disclose and permit. There are laws at federal, provincial, and municipal levels specifically to serve this right. Problem is, there are substantial bureaucratic mechanisms – and resources – to thwart the right and to shield information from public view.

Beare and John Horgan are in a large club that cuts across party lines and undermines the spirit, and often the letter, of the law to provide the public access to government records on how decisions are made, how policies are shaped, how programs are operated and how money is spent.

There are, logically, many errors and embarrassments amid the activities and decisions of any government. They, like we all, make mistakes. That is why pencils have erasers.

Nobody loves embarrassment, but governments have the unique opportunity to use our tax dollars to ensure discomforts are kept to a minimum. They do this by narrowing the scope of which records can be disclosed, by creating impediments (like the new B.C. $10 application fee) and by a vast armada to stickhandle information and communicate the most positive messages possible.

The misery of freedom of information is part of a larger environment in which journalism finds itself increasingly weakened in efforts to serve as public surrogates in seeking accountability. The public has a point in complaining that journalists do not adequately extract truth from power, but principally it has to do with the enormous investment by governments, institutions and businesses in controlling the flow of information.

The public has far less of a point to claim

that media generally should not be trusted, because the sizable responsible media certainly can be. And it has no right to think that media ought to be harassed and hurt in their lines of work.

A large factor in this tug-of-war on accountability is how governments, businesses and institutions spend significantly – maddeningly, often employing ex-journalists – to stage the release of information to fill the daily demands of the craft for its newscasts, websites and publications.

This daily menu of self-serving announcements is often sufficient to occupy the time of journalists and provide a version of truth that, by extension, satisfies and keeps them from digging deeper. This acceptance of a substitute for a fuller story is a media fault.

Access has changed remarkably in the last decade. It is typical today for journalists to have access only to emailed, edited and kerned government statements on issues they are pursuing. There is little or no spontaneity in these exchanges. It is typical for governments, institutions and businesses to require journalists to provide their questions in advance of an interview. It is also typical for those interview subjects to request a review of their quotes, and even of stories, before they are published. This has distorted the process of inquiry to the point of inauthenticity.

The days of phoning a government official – even, dare say, showing up in that person’s office – and conducting an accountability interview are over. Journalists are routinely rerouted to communications officials and away from the expertise inside a bureaucracy, for fear the message will not match the talking points an administration wishes the public to receive. When officials appear at news conferences, they are heavily briefed and rehearsed with specific wording to answer anticipated questions, and usually with documentation to remind them of their lines at the podium.

What results is a sanitized, clinical version of society’s decision-making in the public and private sectors. Which is why a law like the Freedom of Information Act matters, because it can provide insight into how policies are built and implemented without the filter of public relations.

Yes, even the law doesn’t capture the full thinking. Public servants often use personal email to avoid the reach of the law or hold oral briefings on issues with no notetaking to avert disclosure.

But when the weak law is further diluted, when impediments are erected to its effectiveness, and when governments dismiss these concerns as Beare and Horgan did in recent months, we have a serious problem on our hands that should concern more than journalists.

(A post-script: I have a recording of the new B.C. Liberal leader Kevin Falcon from his leadership campaign promising to fix the law to bring about transparency. If he becomes premier, I invite him to follow through. You will forgive me if I remain skeptical.)

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One person’s path to opportunity My staff recently facilitated a virtual Oath of Citizenship ceremony from my office for a new Canadian. As a young Black man living with visual impairment, Bukhari has met many challenges head on, but he has persevered with his new life here, and was very proud to speak the Oath, sing the national anthem and be declared a Canadian in the virtual ceremony. Several of the people from the Regional Ecumenical Sponsorship Team (REST), a small refugee sponsorship non-profit here in North Vancouver, joined my office staff to quietly celebrate this milestone.

Bukhari was born in Somalia the year the war began there. He spent his whole young life with his family living with the uncertainly of no functioning government, no health care, and not a lot of prospects for young people like himself.

Courage and grit As a teenager, he suffered a head injury that resulted in him gradually losing his sight as a young adult.

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Meanwhile, REST, an ad hoc group of volunteers from several North Shore churches, was looking for individuals and families to sponsor here in North Vancouver. Bukhari was their first candidate. REST has now assisted more than 30 people to settle in the lower mainland - folks who work, study, and contribute to their communities in many ways; a number of them now also qualify for citizenship. The group has sponsored several individuals with disabilities, and some who were at particular risk while waiting to be accepted in a safe country.

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Lots to contribute He is the first of REST’s sponsorships to achieve his Canadian citizenship.

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Nurses have often been called heroes during the pandemic, but a new climbing film featuring Lions Gate Hospital nurses seeks to unpack this often one-dimensional label.

Frontlines, a film directed by both Casey Dubois and Zac Hoffman, follows three nurses living in Squamish as they balance their work and personal lives in 2021.

Dubois and Hoffman are fresh off making another climbing film in Squamish, called Crux: The Climb Towards Mental Health, which followed one man’s relationship with climbing and how it’s helped him through his mental health challenges.

Frontlines shows three nurses working What you don’t through the panget through a demic at Lions Gate Hospital social media while also finding post is the time to pursue humanization their passion for and the story climbing. behind it, and The two we’ve kind directors said that with these of made it a two films, they’ve goal to tell seeking to stories that are been create adventure relatable to films that are perpeople. sonal, intimate ZAC HOFFMAN and relatable.

They say they got the idea from a mutual friend.

It’s a common theme for the marquee climbing films in outdoor film festivals to feature sports celebrities accomplishing seemingly impossible feats.

Frontlines, however, is a picture that focuses more on the stories that can be found in the ordinary.

Hoffman said it’s now become quite common for spectacular athletic

Lions Gate Hospital nurses Mandoline Clark, Vikki Weldon, and Ashley Veevers are featured in Frontlines, a film by Casey Dubois and North Vancouver’s Zac Hoffman. The documentary will be showing as part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. ZAC HOFFMAN

accomplishments to be just a scroll on Instagram away, but there’s often something missing from those posts.

“What you don’t get through a social media post is the humanization and the story behind it, and we’ve kind of made it a goal to tell stories that are relatable to people,” said Hoffman, who’s based in North Vancouver.

He added another goal of the film is to inspire people to engage with the outdoors.

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“Other people who watch this film that might have families or busy lives and they don’t have time to pursue things they might want to – they can see bouldering and be like: you can bring your kids there; bring your partner there; throw a couple pads on the ground … people can watch that and be inspired, and it’s not such an ordeal to go and get started with that.”

The theme of relatability was one that Dubois, who lives in Squamish, had similar sentiments about.

Many people in the audience may not be able to relate to breaking a speed record on El Capitan, but they probably can understand what it’s like to clock out of work and try to find an outlet to burn off stress, he said.

“You have a sense of relatability as your typical audience,” said Dubois. “We’re not expected to try and race up [El Capitan’s] Nose in two hours. We’re going to be trying to get off work so we can go and climb.

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Continued from page 1 improvements over the short, medium, and long term, all of which should make the route safer, more efficient and give people more options for getting around.

Within the next five years, the province and municipalities could work on more minor interchange improvements, including extending some on- and off-ramps, add cycling improvements to most interchanges, replace the current Pemberton Avenue pedestrian overpass with a multi-modal one, and add a new active transportation route between Westview Drive and Pemberton.

In the medium term (five-plus years), the report suggests building a St. Georges Avenue overpass for cars, bikes, and pedestrians, improving active transportation infrastructure at the Lonsdale overpass, and extending the eastbound off-ramp for Lynn Valley Road.

And over the longer term, the province and TransLink could introduce a new bus service that travels on the highway’s shoulders, the report suggests, and the province could twin the Capilano River Bridge.

The report does consider adding general purpose lanes, but it also warns that traffic flow is constrained mainly by the bridgeheads, meaning more capacity on the Upper Levels won’t speed up overall travel time.

“Our transportation challenges won’t be solved by tripling or quadrupling the size of this highway. It’s far more complex than that,” Ma said. “And we know that doing that would likely only drive more people into

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their cars, and more cars travelling around the North Shore is bad for everybody.”

When it comes to safety, the report notes collisions at the Capilano Road interchange are by far the most common, followed by Lynn Valley Road, Westview Drive and Lonsdale Avenue. Crashes primarily happen to those who are driving eastbound.

The report also acknowledges that the North Shore continues to grow as a job centre, but because of housing unaffordability, it is increasingly reliant on importing workers from places farther afield. The modelling predicts trips on the corridor within the North Shore will grow between 20 and 45 per cent in the coming years.

“It’s creating a heck of a lot of travel,” Ma said. “I would say there’s some stark warnings about transportation in the future of the North Shore if we don’t do something differently.”

Ma said a major key to avoiding a transportation morass worse than we have already is also within the three municipal halls, where councils should be concentrating housing near jobs and services so that people aren’t reliant on the highway for everything they need.

If the North Shore is successful in its bid to bring rapid transit across Burrard Inlet, that would be a game changer, Ma added.

Although the report focuses on the highway west of Lynn Valley, it also acknowledges that, without improvements, travel conditions on the eastern stretch “will continue to degrade.”

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Tax levy targets shoreline protection, EV infrastructure Continued from page 1 Each levy prompted robust debate from council and the votes were not unanimous.

The operating budget includes staffing for new objectives council set out in their strategic plan late last year, but Couns.

Marcus Wong and Sharon Thompson both voted against the budget, arguing it should have been lower.

“I think it’s a little overzealous in the A 1.5 per cent nice-to-haves levy on the environment is versus what we need to have,” the right thing Thompson said. to do for climate Couns. Bill change now.

Soprovich and Craig Cameron COUN. BILL SOPROVICH sought to raise the asset levy by another 0.5 per cent, citing a $4-million shortfall from the “optimal” funding level needed to prevent the district from falling further behind in its ability to keep its infrastructure functioning.

The majority on council, however, voted against the extra half per cent. Mayor Mary-Ann Booth said the municipality has been making a lot of progress after years of neglecting infrastructure and added people are experiencing sticker shock of all kinds right now.

“The number 1 issue in the Lower Mainland right now is cost of living.

Everybody’s feeling really pressed. And I know that our residents have had the benefit of increases in their equity, but … everything is going up, vehicles, food, utilities,” she said. “I think we have to be judicious.’

Coun. Peter Lambur voted against the 1.5 per cent asset levy, albeit for the opposite reason. He preferred a more aggressive levy of two per cent.

New to the budget is council’s 1.5 per cent environmental levy, which will be reserved for climate change response, sustainability, and protecting the district’s natural assets. Some of the suggested uses from staff included: EV charging infrastructure and transitioning to an electric vehicle fleet for the district, shoreline protection, and the district is planning to hire an environmental manager.

Initially, staff had recommended just a one per cent environmental levy, but the majority on council agreed to add an extra half per cent. Soprovich cited the tremendous damage dealt by storms in the last several months and warned future ones would only be worse.

“The fact is that a 1.5 [per cent] levy on the environment is the right thing to do for climate change now, and it’s a little bit bolder than what we’ve experienced in the past, but I think it’s the right thing to do.”

Thompson and Lambur both voted against the environmental levy.

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The North Shore’s population reached 190,410 in 2021, according to the newest census data, a growth rate of 4.7 per cent since 2016.

“It’s not a Surrey level of growth,” said Andy Yan, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University.

It’s not a Surrey level “But it’s also not of growth. a Trail or But it’s also Merritt level not a Trail of decline.”

In both or Merritt raw numlevel of bers and as decline. a percentANDY YAN age, the City of North Vancouver led the way with 5,221 new residents, or 9.9 per cent growth. As of July 1 last year, the city’s population was counted at 58,120.

West Vancouver bucked its trend from the previous census, which showed a declining population, and grew by 3.9 per cent

since 2016, adding 1,649 new residents for a total of 44,122.

The District of North Vancouver, though, was among the laggards in the region with only 2.9 per cent growth over the last five years. The district gained 2,519 new residents for a total of 88,168.

Across Metro Vancouver, the average growth rate recorded in the census was 7.3 per cent, with the eastern cities along the Fraser River leading the way. Cities like Maple Ridge and Langley grew by more than 10 per cent.

To our north, Squamish grew by a whopping 22.2 per cent in five years.

Not surprisingly, the growth on the North Shore isn’t evenly spread. The blocks around Lower Lonsdale saw their population rise by 19.1 per cent in that time, while Central Lonsdale was up 8.7 per cent.

Moodyville to Park & Tilford grew by 10.8 per cent.

Upper Lonsdale/Braemar, meanwhile, had a 0.5 per cent net-loss of population, and Grand Boulevard saw only 0.7 per cent growth.

The area around the Lynn

Valley town centre was up 8.9 per cent, while the census tract that includes the emerging Lynn Creek town centre grew by 13.7 per cent. Some of those gains in the DNV were offset by losses elsewhere though. The neighbourhoods between Mount Seymour Parkway and Dollarton Road (with the exception of Tsleil-Waututh Nation land and Raven Woods) saw a 5.4 per cent decline in residents. North of Mount Seymour Parkway, including areas like Blueridge and Deep Cove, saw losses of between two and three per cent.

In West Vancouver, the blocks flanking Marine Drive saw about 3.5 per cent growth, while the census tracts for upper Ambleside, Dundarave, and the British Properties added between five and six per cent.

Census data is critical for policy makers to direct their resources, but changes in population are just the first piece in a mosaic of information that will emerge as Statistics Canada releases more stats over the course of the year. In time, we’ll know more about local incomes, age, household composition, language, ethnocultural

background, education and labour participation.

“We may know how many, but we don’t yet know who,” Yan said.

The 2021 census will always come with a bit of a caveat.

The data was collected midway through the pandemic, which resulted in major disruptions to normal living patterns, Yan said.

“A lot of this, we kind of wonder, if it’s a lot of folks bunkering down for COVID,” he said.

And in Yan’s line of work, there’s a joke that statistics are like French bathing suits.

“They reveal a lot, but they can cover what is critical,” he quipped.

The census data also includes tallies on the number of private dwellings. During the 2016-2021 period, the City of North Van had a net increase of 2,775 new homes. The District of North Van, meanwhile, added 1,555. West Vancouver only has 146 more dwellings now than it did five years ago, although in the 2016 census, West Vancouver showed a net loss of homes.

The 2021 census data is also coming out as candidates

prepare their platforms for the 2022 municipal elections in B.C. Those are often fought and won over the “teething pains of trying to manage that growth” and change more broadly, Yan noted.

“Too much? Not enough? My issue is how and why,” he said.

“It’s going into this idea of trying to build a much more complete community. I think that’s really where the world has changed.

There was a time when you thought you could isolate yourself from the rest of the world and be [viable as an incomplete community]. But then, really in the face of climate change, in the face of some sizable existential kind of questions, it’s the issue of completeness.”

And he cautioned, attempting to preserve the status quo when it comes to things like population and housing can have unintended consequences, like lopsided demographics and pushing the labour force away from where they work.

“It helps to frame the problem for which you decide the kind of leadership you need,” Yan said. “Trying to put a city under glass is just as problematic as becoming a city of glass.”

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Continued from page 4 easy, if not grateful, Crook said. They haven’t had one biting incident or one escapee in the first week.

“It’s amazing to me. … Maybe it’s just my imagination. They just seem to have a calmness that is general, in spite of what they’ve been through,” he said. “You figure there’s got to be some sort of trauma involved, but they almost seem to understand that this was being done for them.”

Inside, there’s a mix of every breed, size and shape imaginable, everything from Pekinese to German shepherds. Ironically though, no Afghan hounds.

They’ve been putting in long hours but it has been rewarding, Milton said.

“There’s a lovely little system here, where we have dog walking three times a day. We’re trying for four times,” she said.

“It’s just fun.”

Crook said he gets questions from people flummoxed by the effort to save animals from Afghanistan, especially when Canada already has animals who deserve forever homes. But his group, and others like them, work tirelessly on behalf of all dogs, Canadian and otherwise.

Since he retired from the Vancouver Police Department 10 years ago, Crook and Milton have been making trips to Baja, Mexico to find dogs in need of care.

“We don’t have borders,” he said. “We’re looking after them.”

What motivates him, and others like him, he suspects, is the innate ability for dogs

and humans to understand one another.

“It’s just natural. I love ‘em,” he said. “The bond happens very quickly.”

And, he added, he’s been heartened by the warm response they’ve received in emails and social media. One woman wrote to them saying, “Thank you for creating the kind of world I want to live in.”

Is four enough?

Crook and Milton already have four dogs of their own, all of them rescues, obviously.

Milton agreed for the two of them to join the Afghan rescue effort but it came with some very clear instructions for him: “‘Do not fall in love with any of them,’” Crook said with laugh. “It was too late because I had already seen, oh, this beautiful German shepherd.”

For that one, Crook brought in a doggy bed that belonged to one of his own dogs, who sadly passed away last year.

“He landed on a soft bed when he got here,” Crook said. “I’ve been watching him.

But Mary’s been watching me to say, ‘No more dogs.’”

In the coming weeks, pictures will start popping up on the SPCA website as the dogs and cats are eligible for adoption. Speaking Pashto isn’t necessary, as many of the dogs seem to respond to basic commands and hand signals, Crook said. Anyone who wants to help the effort, apart from taking a dog or cat or two into their home for the rest of their lives, can support through donations and volunteering, Crook said. North Shore

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Crook doesn’t have any doubt their Afghan mission will be successful. Already, the number of dogs and cats in the kennel goes down a bit each day. Thanks is owed,

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he said, to all of the groups around the globe that have made it possible: The SPCA, Thank DOG I’m Out, RainCoast Dog Rescue, Marley’s Mutts, No Dogs Left Behind, War Paws, Kabul Small Animal Rescue, and their team veterinarian J.J. Rawlinson.

“It’s an overused phrase that, ‘It takes a village,’ and I mean, we’re a damn city that’s been put together here to pull this off,” he said.

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Neptune Terminals has been part of the North Shore for more than 50 years.

We are driven by our commitment to safe, environmentally responsible operations, consideration for our neighbours, and support for our local community.

Wild Weather Brings Unique Challenges

Potash: Nourishing the World

Keeping the supply chain running for Western Canadian commodities and keeping our people safe are always our priorities. That was tested recently by unprecedented weather events. While this past summer’s heat dome was challenging, the more recent flooding and freezing temperatures tested our terminal in ways we’d never seen. In mid-November, following the floods in the Fraser Valley, we went three weeks without a train on site. “This was a rare occurrence—and we made the best of the situation, with the terminal team performing significant equipment maintenance during this down time” says William Robinson, Maintenance Manager.

Canpotex is one of the world’s largest suppliers of potash overseas, and for more than 40 years it has relied on Neptune Bulk Terminals to ship its bulk fertilizer through the Port of Vancouver. Canpotex markets and exports Saskatchewan potash to over 40 countries around the world on behalf of its shareholders, Nutrien and Mosaic.

is is loaded on to vessels destined for overseas markets like Indonesia and India. Neptune has annual throughput capacity of approximately 11 million metric tonnes (MT) and 230,000 MT storage capacity.

Potash is a non-toxic, naturally formed grouping of potassiumrich salt minerals, used mainly in agriculture as a fertilizer, helping increase the per-acre yield of crops. Less commonly, potash is also used as an industrial ingredient. Canada—specifically, Saskatchewan—has the largest and richest potash resources in the world.

“Our potash is exported overseas to help farmers grow healthier plants with higher yields,” says Gord McKenzie, President and CEO, Canpotex. “The work that we do with Neptune ensures that we are able to deliver potash around the world, ultimately contributing to global food security.”

These challenges left the team thinking: What can we learn from this and how do we apply that in the future? A revised winterization plan is underway, as are contingency plans for both extreme heat and cold. There is also a huge safety component to keeping teams safe. “We have a lot of knowledge and depth on our team, and that’s helped us plan and incorporate best practices,” says Craig. “People are our most valuable resource.”

Railcars began to arrive again in early December and had ramped up fully by Christmas. Cue the frigid temperatures and heavy snow… “This is not weather that we see often in North Vancouver,” says Craig Olley, Vice President, Operations. “We were challenged by both frozen materials and equipment.” Coal turned to frozen boulders, while water supply lines and washing equipment were frozen in place and inoperable. Ingenuity propelled the team into action with steam and hot water trucks brought onto site.

Canpotex has access to four marine terminals to help deliver its potash. However, the majority of its potash is shipped from Saskatchewan via railcar to Neptune’s terminal where it

Staff Profile: William Robinson William Robinson has been the Maintenance Manager at Neptune for just 10 months, but in that time he’s faced significant challenges to Neptune’s equipment, from extreme heat to extreme cold. He’s also met an incredible community of people, both at work and in his new hometown on the North Shore.

He Shoots. He Scores! Santa joins North Vancouver Minor Hockey North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association (NVMHA) held its first Santa Skate-a-thon in December. At this inaugural fundraiser, young hockey players gathered pledges for Athletics for Kids (A4K) in what will hopefully become an annual event. The delighted kids skated their hearts out alongside special guest Santa, and were rewarded with fundraising prizes, t-shirts, donuts and hot chocolate. Funds raised will go directly to A4K, an organization that provides families with financial assistance to ensure all BC children, regardless of socioeconomic status, can participate in organized sport.

William and his family moved from Jamaica 10 years ago six years in Labrador and four in Ontario – so he’s become accustomed to cold weather. He’s also familiar with what makes a great team and he knows he’s found it at Neptune. William’s vision for the team is to continue on its trajectory to world-class standards in the way it manages Neptune’s operating equipment, ensuring high reliability of the supply chain.

A huge believer in the power of knowledge and respect, William loves what he’s seen at Neptune so far. “The community engagement initiatives, notably the United Way campaign, are just one example of Neptune’s passion for giving back,” he says.

“I’ve definitely landed on my feet, not just at work but where we live. The North Shore trails are incredible and I get out as often as possible. I’m also loving the diverse cuisine available on the West Coast. This is definitely home for my family and me!”

Neptune is already a supporter of A4K, so partnering up with NVMHA was an easy decision. “Neptune matched our total pledge amount,” says Cynthia Curll, organizer of the event and NVMHA board member. “Together, we were able to donate $2,506. We’re really proud of our players and coaches.” These funds are enough to pay a full season of hockey fees for five North Shore youth — what an achievement.

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Buddy Check brings mental health awareness to high schools ANDY PREST

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North Shore high school athletes are accustomed to battling hard against each other, but this year they’ve all teamed up on a new mental health initiative.

Last month, athletes involved in the traditional winter semester sports of basketball, wrestling, and gymnastics could be spotted across the North Shore wearing warm-up T-shirts labelled Buddy Check For Jesse.

It’s a topic, The shirts are much mental more than a mere health, that fashion statement – they are one piece is hard to of an important open the program aimed at door for kids promoting mental and coaches health and opening to have that up dialogues with conversation. young athletes and their peers.

ALEC LEWIS, NSSSAA The Buddy Check For Jesse movement was started by Victoria’s Stu Gershman, whose son Jesse Short-Gershman took his own life in 2014.

The goal of the campaign is to “destigmatize mental health challenges and to empower and encourage youth and young adults to support one another.”

The Buddy Check initiative has been taken up by the District of North

École Argyle Secondary’s gymnastics squad is one of several North Shore high school teams sharing mental health messages through the Buddy Check For Jesse program. ARGYLE SECONDARY Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society, and they have partnered with the North Shore Secondary Schools Athletics Association to supply shirts and, more importantly, support materials and mental health information to North Shore high school teams. Aside from raising awareness about mental health issues, a major component of the program is having coaches open up conversations with their athletes, providing information and support.

“I think it’s great because of the conversations we’re starting,” said NSSSAA co-ordinator Alec Lewis, who teamed up with Jeremy Church, the district principal of healthy schools for the North Vancouver School District, to introduce the program into schools. “It’s a topic, mental health, that is hard to open the door for kids and coaches to have that conversation. And coaches have great relationships, hopefully, with all of their athletes, and that is an adult that they will take the information

from. It’s just great that the conversation could begin.”

The DNV Firefighters Charitable Society has helped introduce the Buddy Check program into other sports leagues and associations across the North Shore, including the North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association and North Shore Minor Lacrosse, but this is by far the largest partnership they’ve established so far.

“It’s huge,” said DNV Firefighters Charitable Society vice president Aaron Hoverd, about the link with high schools that has seen them deliver more than 600 packages to be distributed to athletes and coaches. “It’s something that the kids [never] really talked about or thought about, and now it’s on their radar.

They know that mental health is part of their everyday well-being, and to bring it through the sports, we treat it as no different than stretching or preparing for a game. That’s something that they’re going to have, hopefully, as a lifelong skill, of being able to identify mental health and the ups and downs, and if they do have downs, how to get help and reach out.”

The DNV Firefighters Charitable Society is championing mental health awareness, through the Buddy Check program, because of the impact it can have on a person’s well-being, said Hoverd.

“It’s not something that you need to hide or be afraid of, or be ashamed of it,” Continued on page 24

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Cammi Granato brings Hall of Fame leadership to Canucks DANIEL WAGNER VANCOUVER IS AWESOME

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Over the past three seasons, it’s safe to say that no one on the Vancouver Canucks’ management team has watched more Canucks games than Cammi Granato.

As a scout for the Seattle Kraken, based in North Vancouver, Granato was a regular in the Rogers Arena press box, watching games with a practised, analytical eye and writing a seemingly endless number of scouting reports.

That experience as a scout was an important stepping stone.

“Immersing myself in learning the league, learning the players, building a database for Seattle, watching games over and over, writing thousands of reports, sitting in on scouting meetings, sitting in with the management team, listening, watching, learning — all of that prepped me to walk into this role,” said Granato at her first press conference with the Canucks on Thursday.

The fact that she’s so familiar with the players on the Canucks doesn’t hurt either, particularly as the team heads into the trade deadline with an eye towards

creating cap space and beginning to reshape the roster into a Cup contender.

‘I’ve always had a team-first mentality’

Granato’s specific portfolio as assistant general manager will be overseeing player development and both amateur and pro scouting. It’s a big role and something that needs a lot of attention given the Canucks’ struggles in player development. The Canucks have drafted some excellent talent in recent years that has been able to jump directly to the NHL but haven’t been able to develop players within their system, with few graduates from their AHL team.

For Granato, her hockey knowledge is a given – she’s one of the greatest players of all time and in the Hockey Hall of Fame for a reason, and she’s spent the time scouting to know the specific ins and outs of the NHL. What sets her apart, and will be her greatest asset in a management role, is her leadership ability.

As an assistant GM, it won’t be enough to just know the players and have input on hockey decisions – though that’s certainly important. She’ll need to manage

the Canucks’ contingent of scouts and oversee a player development team that likely needs to grow. For that, leadership and interpersonal skills will be key.

Fortunately, Granato has that in spades.

“Cammi is a tremendous leader and has earned the respect of the hockey world,” said Rutherford.

Granato was captain of Team USA for nearly a decade, leading them to the first-ever gold medal in women’s hockey at the 1998 Olympics. It was there she honed her leadership abilities and leadership style.

“I’ve always had a team-first mentality,” said Granato. “I’ve always prided myself on personal skills, having good relationships with my teammates. I think I’m pretty good at analyzing people and what their needs are.”

“I wasn’t one that would go and have a long speech in a locker room before the game,” she added. “It was more my personal relationships with my individual teammates and them knowing that I had their backs. So, I’ll draw on that experience.”

It’s an attribute that even Granato’s opponents on Team Canada could respect.

Cammi Granato, already a Hockey Hall of Fame player, has joined the Vancouver Canucks as an assistant general manager. MIKE WAKEFIELD/NSN FILES “Especially later on in my career as I realized how influential she was to our sport, to hockey in the United States,” said Jayna Hefford. “She was such a leader and you could tell she was so respected within her own group.

And then it extended to players like myself and others who didn’t know her on a personal level, but could see the leadership she brought.”

Granato also has the educational background to back up her

experience. After graduating from Providence College with a degree in social science, she went to Concordia University and earned her master’s degree in sports administration while leading Concordia to three straight provincial championships on the ice.

That team-first mentality that Granato mentioned is also one of the main reasons why she was so excited to take the job as assistant GM when it was offered by Continued on page 24

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The hiring of Granato and, before her, Émilie Castonguay, shows that Rutherford’s claim to want a diverse group of voices for the Canucks’ hockey operations department wasn’t just talk. There have been just three women ever hired as assistant GMs in the NHL and two of them are with the Canucks right now.

Both Granato and Castonguay come from very different backgrounds. Granato’s experience comes primarily as a player, then into broadcasting and scouting. In many ways, it’s a very traditional way of getting into an NHL hockey operations job.

“I’m a hockey player. I always defined myself as a hockey player growing up, it was other people that defined me as a girl trying to play a man’s game,” said Granato. “I’m used to that sort of view but, for me, that’s not how I identify myself. Hockey’s been a part of my life since I was – I was pretty much born into it.”

Castonguay, on the other hand, played four years in the NCAA, then retired, knowing her future in hockey lay off the ice.

She came at the game from a completely different direction, getting her law degree and becoming the first-ever woman to become an NHLPA certified player agent.

While some might want to lump Granato and Castonguay together because of their gender, their own unique backgrounds will bring a diversity of opinion.

“It’s a really big day to have two women in management on one team,” said Granato.

“It just goes to show Jim’s vision to diversify, get different voices, get different people’s experience, and draw them together.

“So, I think it’s something to celebrate, looking at two women on a management team, it really is but on the other hand, maybe this conversation will change in 10 years, it won’t be a big deal, or five years, it won’t be a big deal, when other teams do the same and follow suit.”

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Continued from page 23 Rutherford. His vision for the team fed right into Granato’s leadership philosophy.

“It’s the idea of collaboration,” said Granato. “I’m a team player, I grew up in a team environment right from the start and that was one of the first things Jim talked about was how collaborative we’ll all be, how all voices will be heard. … And I really love that idea, that we can all work together – just on a flat level together and share our ideas.

“That’s really, really exciting and I think a super healthy way to run a team.”

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Continued from page 22 he said. “It’s something that we can all talk about amongst each other, and talk about when we’re having hard times, and use the resources around us or our buddies around us.”

The partnership with NSSSAA began back in December with material distributed to teams, leading to conversations about mental health. The T-shirts were distributed in January, and the initial aim was to share the message with spectators and fellow students at games, although COVID-19 restrictions on spectators made that impossible. The program, however, has still been a success, said Lewis.

“When the shirts came in January they’d had multiple conversations already about it, so it wasn’t just a one and done,” he said, adding that the coach-athlete relationship helps the message spread.

“It’s a trusted person to bring the message forward. It’s not just a random person that walks into the classroom or tells them about it one day and then disappears from their lives. This is someone that they have a relationship with, that they talk to over and over again, and they can touch base a couple of times throughout the season and it’s not forgotten.”

Lewis is aiming to keep the program going in North Shore high schools, potentially with an annual event going forward.

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Former tennis star fails to convince judge to overturn COVID-19 ticket JANE SEYD

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It was game, set, match for the Crown this week after a North Vancouver provincial court judge ruled former tennis great Grant Connell failed to lob a disputed COVID-19 ticket out of the court.

Connell was in court last week to dispute a $2,300 ticket handed out in May for hosting a “non-compliant” gathering at his home on Southridge Avenue in West Vancouver, contrary to the Protective Measures COVID19 Order issued by B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth under the Emergency Program Act. West Vancouver police issued the ticket May 15, 2021, after receiving an anonymous complaint about a loud party at Connell’s house.

At the time, a provincial order was in place to ban private gatherings of over 10 people.

I find In court, a West Vancouver police officer said he went to the house the more just after midnight, after getting an reliable anonymous report of a loud party. evidence is Const. Brock Harrington said he there were saw a number of cars parked in the well over driveway and outside the home, 10 people. several people inside the home, and between 25 and 30 young adults in JUDGE PATRICK CHEN the backyard, having a party.

Harrington said he spoke with Connell at the front door – who he recognized as a former tennis star and local real estate agent – and handed him a $2,300 ticket as the homeowner for violating the order on hosting or organizing gatherings.

On Feb. 8, Connell returned the serve in court.

Connell disputed the officer’s version of events, saying there were cars parked in the neighbourhood, but at least four of them were his. He told the judge he has a family of seven, including his five children who range in age from teens to young adults, and they had only six unrelated guests over that night, making sure there were only 10 people in the backyard at one time.

“The numbers the constable is referring to aren’t reality,” he said.

Connell added as someone who spent four months in hospital when he had a stroke just as the first wave of COVID hit in 2020, “I’m very aware of COVID restrictions and I don’t take it flippantly at all.”

In upholding the ticket, provincial court Judge Patrick Chen said it was difficult to reconcile the two versions of how many people were present that night. “In my view, there’s a great difference between 10 people and 25 to 30 people,” he said.

Chen added it’s likely Connell wasn’t observing the backyard party at the same time as the police officer because for the most part, Connell was upstairs inside the house while the party took place outside.

The judge said it was “extremely unlikely” that the police officer would mistake 10 people for 25 or 30.

“I find the more reliable evidence is there were well over 10 people. Whether that was 25, 30 or 20, I’m not satisfied there were 10,” he said.

Connell was given to the end of March to pay the fine.

Police on the North Shore and nearby communities including Whistler have handed out a number of tickets for “non-compliant gatherings” since the beginning of the pandemic. Several people are disputing those tickets in court.

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The province gave the go ahead for legalized e-scooters in six jurisdictions 2021, but left it up to municipalities to add further rules.

In a presentation to council, staff member Zachary Mutherin outlined the scope of the pilot. It does not include e-scooter share programs, like Lime Scooters, that are seen in other jurisdictions across North America, and scooters must be equipped with a bell or horn and lights. Riders must be 16 years of age or older, wear helmets, and use local and collector streets with a signed speed limit of 50 kilometres per hour. Scooters will also have a speed limit of 24 km/h and will be prohibited on arterial streets unless the rider is within a mobility lane.

“That will exclude some of our more major arterials that [have] higher traffic volumes, in an effort to ensure that safety is preserved and balanced between other road

users,” Muthurin explained.

Whilst councillors had questions regarding public education efforts about the program and safety features of the e-scooters, they were overwhelmingly supportive of the micro-mobility program.

Coun. Jordan Back noted that if the district is allowing e-scooters on bicycle infrastructure along arterials, “It really highlights the importance of having a built out, connected, safe network of mobility lanes.”

Coun. Jim Hanson said as the pilot ends officially in 2024, it will give time to assess the impact of the pilot, and the district can reverse track if need be.

Mayor Mike Little told council of the need to remind people who ride e-scooters of their responsibility under the provincial Motor Vehicle Act, saying: “If you’re operating on a public street, and you have a powered device, you definitely could be subject to ticketing or action” under the Act. Mutherin did confirm that as Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and Tsleil-Waututh Nation did not initially sign up to be involved in the pilot, it will still be technically illegal to ride scooters through their territories.

“But I know that they have expressed interest in other micro-mobility and active transportation matters. So that could change under the pilot’s timeline,” he said.

The pilot program will come back to council at a later date for adoption.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 COMMUNITY | A27

North Vancouver City Library celebrates region’s Black history

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February marks Black History Month across the nation, with this year’s theme being “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day.”

Programming at the library kicks off on Feb. 17 when it will host a special presentation about three legendary Black North Vancouver residents who made significant contributions to the community, but who also faced racism and adversity on their paths to success: John Braithwaite, Valerie Jerome, and Harry Jerome.

Braithwaite was one of the province’s first Black politicians after being elected to City of North Vancouver council in 1972. A torch bearer at the 2010 Olympic Games, Valerie Jerome is a former Olympian, educator and politician, and her brother Harry, who died in 1982, was one of Canada’s greatest track and field athletes.

On Feb. 24, the library is hosting an arts event facilitated by the Teen Creators Collective which will explore the power of protest and poster design. Looking at posters related to the Black Lives Matter movement and Civil Rights movement, the event is aimed at teenagers in grades 7-12.

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The North Vancouver City Library is celebrating the region’s Black history this month, with virtual events and learning opportunities for all ages.

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via Zoom, supplies for the poster making can be picked up from the library prior to the event.

On Feb. 26, Fran Morrison, director of the B.C. Black History Awareness Society, will be presenting an event that focuses on the economic, political, and social influences of Black history.

Morrison herself originates from Nova Scotia, with her mother’s side coming from Black Loyalists and her father’s side coming to Nova Scotia via Maryland and the Underground Railroad.

The presentation will use archival records, including photos, genealogy records, newspapers, and manuscripts.

Registration for all events is required, and more information can be found at nvcl.ca.

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Date of Hearing: 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Location of Hearing: Online via Zoom from Council Chambers, 400 Centre Road, Lions Bay, BC https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88122775730 Pursuant to the provisions of the Local Government Act, a public hearing will be held to consider the following bylaw of the Village of Lions Bay (the “Municipality”): Village of Lions Bay Official Community Plan Designation Bylaw No. 408, 2008, Amendment Bylaw No. 612, 2022 (the “Bylaw”) The purpose of the Bylaw is to update the existing Village of Lions Bay Official Community Plan and the Regional Context Statement (RCS) contained within it to reflect the distinct rural character of the Village. This change is required to support a request from the Municipality to the Metro Vancouver Regional District to effect an amendment of Lions Bay’s Land Use Designation for all lands within the Village boundaries in Metro’s Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) from “General Urban” to “Rural”.

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Honouring ‘Sharpie’: Hockey players set up fund in memory of West Van couple ANDY PREST

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Their goalie is gone, but these North Shore senior men’s hockey players are making sure that their friend “Sharpie” is never forgotten.

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Michael Sharp and his wife, Caroline Helbig, were killed in a tragic accident Jan. 2 when a tree fell through their West Vancouver home during a windstorm. The deaths of the two civic-minded citizens hit the community hard, including a group of hockey players who had been gathering for a game nearly every single Wednesday for the past 25 years (aside from a few COVID-19 hiatuses).

Known to his hockey buddies simply as Sharpie, Sharp was a regular at the games right up until his death, despite being the oldest member of the group at 69. A former major junior player with the Regina Pats back in the day, Sharpie still had skills, said Wayne Feyer, who shared the ice with him for more than two decades.

“Very solid goalie,” he said. “The irony is he could have played with my dad’s group at his age level, but he played with a much younger group and still consistently played a good game.”

Sharpie’s impact, however, was felt even more off the ice, said Feyer.

“He was a cornerstone of the dressing room,” he said. “He kept an eye out and watched out for everyone. If anyone was struggling, he’d come over to me and say, ‘Hey, make sure you get some time with this guy – sounds like he’s having a tough time at work or whatever.’ He really read the temperature in the room.”

Following the tragic accident that killed Sharp and Helbig, Feyer and fellow hockey player Perry Braun decided to set up a memorial fund to honour both of them. They brought

on Caroline’s sister Monika and friend Shannon Stewart to help get the fund going, and together they recently launched the Caroline Helbig and Michael Sharp Memorial Fund, with the assistance of the West Vancouver Foundation.

The fund will feed two memorial scholarships, one for environmental stewardship in honour of Helbig’s passion for the outdoors, and another to support a hockey player, in honour of Sharp’s devotion to the sport.

“Both of them were such great people, so tied to the community, so giving – we really wanted to honour them with a legacy, something in their name to carry forward,” said Feyer, adding that he is learning more each day about all the impacts that both Sharp and Helbig had in the community.

Sharp was a former coach and president of the West Vancouver Minor Hockey Association, and recently volunteered to help raise money for the West Vancouver Foundation’s Feed the Need Fund, which was created in 2020 to help support the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre’s food security program for vulnerable seniors during the pandemic. Helbig was an avid travel writer and photographer, and a founding member of West Vancouver’s Coalition to Save Eagleridge Bluffs. She also taught English to new Canadians on the North Shore, working hard to make them feel welcome.

“I’m learning so many more dimensions about them, because I only saw one dimension, which was hockey,” said Feyer. “The best part is talking to people who knew them in other capacities. … The legacy that Mike and Caroline built with the community is super strong, and everyone feels the same way.”

The organizers of the memorial fund are hoping to raise $100,000, and are

already well on their way, with more than $30,000 raised.

“It’s great to see the support,” said Feyer.

And the game will go on for the hockey players who suited up beside Sharp every week, but they will honour their goalkeeper in a number of ways, including renaming their group Sharpie Hockey. They also recently held a memorial game in his honour. It was an emotional event with a large turnout, including Sharp and Helbig’s adult son Alex, who showed up with a group of friends.

“He came on the bench on both teams and said hello to everyone,” said Feyer. “Given what he’s gone through ... it really just showed the foundation that his parents built, to do that, because that couldn’t have been easy.”

A number of Sharpie’s current and former teammates showed up as well, along with many others from the North Shore hockey community and community at large.

“It was really nice because some guys we hadn’t seen in years, who are no longer playing, came,” said Feyer, adding that the bonds forged inside a dressing room are strong.

“We’re all from different walks of life, we’re all in different industries, but we all see each other once a week,” he said. “We’re very much like a family. …

There’s a time on the ice and there’s time in the room, and I’d argue they’re both equally important.”

And the dressing room is now united in remembering two pillars of the community.

“Both of them lived life to the fullest,” said Feyer. “It’s a tragic accident, but it’s done. All we can do is honour them.”

Donations can be made by searching for the fund page at westvanfoundation.ca.

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City of North Van council rejects one six-storey project, approves another perspective, what is proposed is too much for the context of this neighbourhood and the impact it would have on the surrounding neighbours, as well as the greenway to the north,” she said.

Developer Polygon Homes had no such difficulty seeing their project at 1712 Lonsdale Ave. passed by council.

The Polygon project, which consists of a six-storey, mixed-use building with retail storefronts on the ground level, office space on the second floor and 64 strata homes on top, would replace the current Esso gas station and car wash at 17th and Lonsdale.

During a public hearing held immediately preceding the Feb. 7 regular meeting of council, only two members of the public called in, both of whom were in support.

Council members praised the project for its architectural design, amenities, close access to transit, public realm improvements and public art, contribution of more office space to the Lonsdale corridor and the fact that it would not displace any current residents. The vote to approve the project passed unanimously.

“I think this project has pretty much hit the marks on all the objectives that we, as a council, have outlined. Really, that is where we want to bend the curve in terms of the [official community plan] and where we need to go as a community, not just today, but for the future. We need a diversity of housing.

We need sustainability, and we do need a strong economy,” Buchanan said.

The city will receive $3.8 million in community amenity contributions, thanks in part to the council selling about 525 square metres of density from the nearby Harry Jerome lands and transferring it to 1712 Lonsdale Ave.

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City of North Vancouver has rejected one six-storey building for Central Lonsdale and approved another a few blocks away.

In a rare move, council voted down a six-storey, 85-unit all-rental building proposed for 144 West 21st St. At issue for members of the neighbourhood and for council was the building’s height and the shadows it would cast nearby, including on the city’s Green Necklace multiuse path, which runs immediately north of the property.

At the Jan. 31 council meeting, Mayor Linda Buchanan asked BDK Development if they would be willing to remove the sixth storey from the plan and shift the building about two metres to the south.

Developer representative Daisen GeeWing returned to council Feb. 7 with the message that more square footage would be needed for the project to work as a rental building.

“We were all quite surprised with that offer simply because we worked with your staff since Day 1,” he said. “The additional footage loss really puts a crimp, if I may, on the economic viability of this project. … I know it’s not council’s purview, but it’s going to take close to 20 years to pay back.”

With a take-it-or-leave-it motion on the table, council voted unanimously to leave it.

Buchanan said there was no question the city needs rental homes, including the mid-market ones included in the proposal, but she said she was not willing to support a project that didn’t fit in.

“It’s unfortunate that the applicant wasn’t willing to come down a floor. But from my

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Norgate project gets second chance as mayor brings it back CHARLIE CAREY

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The District of North Vancouver voted Feb.7 to continue with a rental/ strata development in Norgate, after it was initially knocked back by council in a tied vote last month.

Using his mayoral rights under the Community Charter, Mayor Mike Little brought back the application for 1210-1260 West 16th St., as he was not in attendance at the Jan. 10 meeting due to testing positive for COVID-19.

Councillors voted in favour this time, 4-2, with Couns. Betty Forbes and Jim Hanson once again voting in opposition.

Ironically, it was Coun. Lisa Muri who was not in attendance Feb. 7, after she herself voted against the bylaw amendments at the earlier meeting.

Little said the Marine Drive corridor is a “critically” important area for the district to be building new housing.

“It is one of the most well served transit corridors in the district. It’s also one of the flattest areas in the district and community, which makes it great for people to get around,” he said. “And this particular development fits with the neighbouring developments, in terms of both scale and the types of units that are produced.”

Couns. Megan Curran, Jordan Back, and

Mathew Bond were again in favour, citing the official community plan and transit opportunities as reason to support.

Bond also noted that the development is not on a major arterial.

“A lot of the time we place multi-family homes, either directly, [or] beside high traffic corridors right on the arterial, and I think there’s significant research showing that both the pollution from motor vehicles and the noise associated with major arterial roads has an adverse impact on human health,” he said. “And so I think even though this is only half a block off the arterial, I think that’s a good direction for us to look at.”

The development includes 31 market strata units and 31 rentals units; however, this was in turn the reasoning for Forbes and Hanson to continue to vote against the proposal.

Hanson acknowledged that as the mayor was now in attendance, the motion would pass, but added, “I believe there is not enough rental in this project. There’s too much strata, and too much parking, and specifically not enough affordable rental.”

The bylaw amendments associated with the development will come back to council at a yet to be determined date for adoption.

SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK Draft 2022 Operating Plan and 2022-2031 Preliminary Capital Plan Regular Council Meeting (Finance Committee Meeting) Monday, February 28, 2022 at 6:00 pm View the meeting online at cnv.org/LiveStreaming Or in person at City Hall, 141 West 14th Street (limited capacity) The City of North Vancouver’s Draft 2022 Operating Plan and 2022-2031 Preliminary Capital Plan will be presented for consideration at the above noted Regular Council Meeting.

To provide input: • Complete the online form at cnv.org/draftfinancialplan, or • Written submissions may be deposited in the drop-boxes outside City Hall.

All submissions must be received by 12:00 noon on Monday, February 28, 2022.

To speak at the meeting: Via Webex/phone: Pre-register by completing the online form at cnv.org/PublicMeetings, or by phoning 604-990-4230 to provide contact details, so call-in instructions can be forwarded to you.

All Webex/phone pre-registration must be submitted no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 28, 2022.

In person at City Hall: On the day of the meeting, a sign-up sheet will be available at City Hall reception (14th Street entrance) between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, and then outside the Council Chamber from 5:30 pm. Enter City Hall through the doors at the southwest corner of the building. Capacity is limited to 30 people. Masks are required at all times within City Hall.

Speakers who have not pre-registered will also have an opportunity to provide input. Once all registered speakers have spoken, the Mayor will call for a recess to allow time for additional speakers to phone in. Call-in details will be displayed on-screen during the livestream at cnv.org/LiveStreaming.

View the Draft Financial Plans for 2022 The Draft 2022 Operating Plan and 2022-2031 Preliminary Capital Plan reports can be viewed online at cnv.org/draftfinancialplan on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, after 4:00 pm.

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West Van school counsellor who downloaded naked photos of girls should go to jail, says lawyer for Crown JANE SEYD

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A former West Vancouver school counsellor who used his school computer to view and print off photos of naked girls, then arranged the photos in a collage on his fridge, should go to jail for six months, a Crown prosecutor has argued.

The prosecutor asked for the jail term at a sentencing hearing on Feb. 9 for Luke Lawson, 54, a former West Vancouver resident who taught at the private Mulgrave School for almost two decades before his arrest on Sept. 24, 2020.

Lawson entered a guilty plea in November to a charge of possession of child pornography.

Crown prosecutor Victoria Hanna told the judge how police searched Lawson’s apartment under warrant in September 2020 after emails sent between his personal email account and his work email account at Mulgrave School prompted an investigation.

In Lawson’s apartment, police found a stack of over 100 printed images of naked girls between the ages of eight and 13 on his kitchen table, Hanna said, along with another 17 images of naked prepubescent and pubescent girls on his fridge. Similar images were found on Lawson’s cell phone and a work computer police searched at Mulgrave School, said Hanna.

Web pages open on that computer led to sites on “nudism and naturism” said the prosecutor.

Lawson had used that computer to view images saved on his yahoo email account, then enlarged the photos and cropped out backgrounds to focus exclusively on the girls’ naked bodies, before using a school printer to print them off, said Hanna.

Hanna said Lawson should get jail time to show the seriousness with which the courts view child pornography and to acknowledge sexualized images of children are “inherently harmful.”

While Lawson didn’t know any of the girls in the pictures, it’s disturbing to consider he would go off to his teaching job each morning having just viewed the sexualized images of girls on his fridge, said Hanna. “This is a man who was in a position of trust and authority.”

Lawson’s lawyer, Mark Slay, asked the judge to consider a conditional discharge combined with probation – meaning Lawson would avoid a criminal record – in light of Lawson’s remorse and the high personal price he has already paid.

Slay said unlike many cases of child pornography, the images of children did not depict any sex and were at the “lowest end” of child pornography cases.

Slay said Lawson’s “maladjustment” to the COVID-19 pandemic also played a role in the offences, as Lawson was isolated from friends and family at the time “and ended up being drawn to these sites” which featured nudists, rather than pornography.

Before he was arrested, Lawson had an unblemished record at the school and was popular with students and parents, said Slay.

Since his arrest, Lawson has lost his career, his family and has struggled with depression, said Slay, adding the case was one where “exceptional circumstances” could be considered.

Lawson, who moved to P.E.I. before entering his guilty plea in November, appeared by video at the sentencing hearing.

“I’m so sorry,” he told the judge, adding he wants to take responsibility for his actions. “I just want to move on with my life. I want to use the tools and skills I have to do something good.”

A Charlottetown-based psychiatrist who met with

Lawson described him in a report as presenting no risk to children.

The psychiatrist said Lawson is not a pedophile, but had a “transient pedophilic attraction” to girls as a result of “maladjustment to COVID circumstances which exerted on him considerable psychological duress, which in turn brought about an alteration in his state of mind.”

Hanna took issue with the psychiatrist’s report, telling the judge it appeared to be based entirely on self-reporting by Lawson without any independent

testing or assessment.

The psychiatrist never saw the photos but described them as showing girls in “natural poses” in “peaceful indoor and outdoor settings,” she said. “We know that’s wrong,” she added.

“Very clearly, Mr. Lawson wasn’t being entirely upfront with his psychologist.”

Judge Patricia Janzen has reserved her decision to a later date.

She has ordered that Lawson be present in North Vancouver provincial court on the day he is sentenced.

PUBLIC HEARING Monday, February 28, 2022 at 6:00 pm Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 8883 for Coach House Requirements View the meeting online at cnv.org/LiveStreaming Or in person at City Hall, 141 West 14th Street (limited capacity) Purpose: To amend the Zoning Bylaw to incorporate siting and massing provisions for Coach House developments and to bring into effect the updated Coach House Development Permit Guidelines, all to guide the design of Coach Houses and streamline City review process.

To provide input: All persons who believe their interest in property may be affected by the proposed bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to speak at the Public Hearing and/or by written or email submission. All submissions must include your name and address and should be sent to the Corporate Officer at input@cnv.org, or by mail or delivered to City Hall, no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 28, 2022, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing. No further information or submissions can be considered by Council after the Public Hearing has concluded.

To speak at the Public Hearing: Via Webex/phone: Pre-register by completing the online form at cnv.org/ PublicHearings, or by phoning 604-990-4230 to provide contact details, so call-in instructions can be forwarded to you. All Webex/phone pre-registration must be submitted no later than 12:00 noon on Monday, February 28, 2022.

In person at City Hall: On the day of the meeting, a sign-up sheet will be available at City Hall reception (14th Street entrance) between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm, and then outside the Council Chamber from 5:30 pm. Enter City Hall through the doors at the southwest corner of the building. Capacity is limited to 30 people.

Masks are required at all times within City Hall.

Speakers who have not pre-registered will also have an opportunity to provide input. Once all registered speakers have spoken, the Mayor will call for a recess to allow time for additional speakers to phone in. Call-in details will be displayed onscreen during the livestream at cnv.org/LiveStreaming.

The proposed bylaw, background material and presentation can be viewed online at cnv.org/PublicHearings and at City Hall.

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TIMETRAVELLER A weekly glimpse into North Shore’s past from MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver

Keeping your heart healthy as you age is vitally important February is Heart Month in Canada.

Photo: NVMA 15079 Inman's Bowling Salon and Coffee Bar, shown in this photo from the 1970s, was located at 403 Lonsdale Ave. Bowling was a very popular all-ages sport in the middle of the 20th century. During this bowling boom, there were several bowling centres located on the North Shore.

Inman's once touted itself as “The North Shore headquarters for 5 pin bowling.” The bowling salon was built around 1940 by Sid Croll at the northwest corner of Lonsdale and Fourth Street.

Walt Inman bought the centre three years later and re-named it Inman’s Bowling. Bud Cawsey was the next operator for 11 years, starting in 1958, after which time Ron France took over operations, followed by France’s daughter and son-in-law Ron and Chris Alexis in the early 1970s.

Visit monova.ca for more information about the history of the North Shore and to learn about MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver now open Thursday to Sunday in The Shipyards.

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really a group of conditions that affect the structure and functions of the heart and has many root causes.”

The most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease which affects the blood vessels of the heart. Coronary artery disease is mainly caused by blockages that affect blood flow to the heart muscle, which interrupts the supply of oxygen and other important nutrients.

Some of the causes of heart disease are smoking, unhealthy diet, obesity, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol, diabetes, and the makeup of our genes.

Unfortunately, as we age, we are increasingly at risk to develop some of these risk factors.

It has also been suggested that a weakening immune system in older persons and inflammation in the body could be to blame.

The On Health Consumer Report, January 2022 issue, says that for older people, “your body is likely to produce less infection-fighting T-cells than it once did, and you may also have higher levels of inflammation. Both factors can make you more vulnerable to illness.”

Making healthy lifestyle choices may prevent heart disease and can also boost your immune system. We can quit smoking, eat well, move more, and have regular medical check-ups. The Canadian government’s website points out the link between smoking Continued on page 33

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This month is also when we celebrate Valentine’s Day, which is a day to celebrate romantic love with heart symbols, cupids, and yummy chocolate. But the month is also about raising awareness about heart disease and encouraging people to look after their hearts. The month Older reminds people how And Wiser important it is to Margaret Coates keep healthy and stay informed about the risks of heart-related conditions.

Essentially, rather than merely a symbol of love, the heart is responsible for pumping blood around our body and transporting oxygen and cells to our other organs. The blood takes away waste products and carbon dioxide. Veins carry oxygen-poor blood back to your heart and lungs to start the cycle over again.

The heart is a crucial organ in our bodies, so it is important that we make the right choices to keep our hearts happy and healthy. Heart disease is among the leading causes of death globally and imposes a significant burden on the health-care system.

The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada says that “heart disease refers to what is

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A timely reminder for Valentine’s Day Continued from page 32 and heart disease, showing that smoking increases your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, and common cancers.

Our diet should consist of eating a wide variety of foods and reducing the consumption of fast food and other fat-clogging foods.

Eating foods such as fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy, fatty fish, nuts, seeds, and legumes can help reduce the risk of a strokes and heart disease. Well, maybe we can have one bite of chocolate (OK, maybe two) for Valentine’s Day – eating everything in moderation is a key to healthy eating.

Get your body moving at least five times a week for 30 or 45 minutes. Take an exercise class (strength and balance are great), go for a brisk walk, and cycle if you are able.

Walking, strengthening and balance exercises also have the bonus of helping to prevent falls and hip fractures. Several times a day you could take a five- to 10-minute break to move around your home. Perhaps you could do some light or heavy gardening and tidy and clean your house, car, or garage. Find exercises that work for your level of comfort, and repeat daily.

It is important to know the signs of a stroke or heart attack. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, signs of a heart attack include chest discomfort, upper body discomfort, sweating, light-headedness, shortness of breath, and nausea. These can vary in men and women.

The signs of a stroke include sudden numbness or weakness in the face, arm,

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February is Heart Month, and not just because of Valentine’s Day. GETTY IMAGES or leg, especially on one side of the body, sudden confusion, trouble speaking, or difficulty understanding speech, sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes, sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance, or lack of co-ordination.

If you have had a heart attack or stroke, it is important to get care after either of these events. Rehabilitation programs can reduce the risk of a return to hospital within a year by 31 per cent. The North Shore Stroke Recovery Centre is a good place to start if you have had a stroke. For more information about their programs call 778-340-5803, or email them at info@nssrc.org. Lions Gate Hospital and seniors and recreation centres offer programs for cardiac rehabilitation.

Let’s be heart smart, everyone. Have a great month, and happy Valentine’s Day. Margaret Coates is the co-ordinator of Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. She has lived on the North Shore for 51 years and has worked for and with seniors for 26 of those years. Ideas for future columns are welcome – email lions_view@telus.net.

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What Changes: Bylaw 8526 proposes to amend the OCP land use designation of the subject site from Residential Level 5: Low Density Apartment (RES5) to Commercial Residential Mixed-Use Level 3 (CRMU3) in the eastern portion of the site (shown in red on the map) and to Parks, Open Space, and Natural Areas (POSNA) in the western portion of the site (shown in green on the map).

Bylaw 8527 proposes to amend the District’s Zoning Bylaw by rezoning the subject site from Single Family Residential 6000 zone (RS4) to Comprehensive Development Zone 138 (CD138) in the eastern portion of the site (shown in red on the map) and to Neighbourhood Park (NP) in the western portion of the site (shown in green on the map). The CD138 Zone addresses permitted and accessory uses and zoning provisions such as density, amenities, setbacks, height, building and site coverage, landscaping and storm water management, flood construction requirements and parking, loading and service requirements.

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Continued from page 13 We’re not in it for any accolades or in it to try and be the next best – it’s more just what those feelings give.”

He said he wanted the film’s main draw to be its subjects, rather than a groundbreaking athlete feat.

“We all watched other documentaries that aren’t related to sports and we get just as involved in them,” said Dubois. “Why not bring something that allows the audience to just put themselves in their shoes a little bit more?”

One thing the nurses have to deal with is having an extremely demanding job while also participating in an extremely demanding sport, which, for some, can seem like a source of stress in itself.

In the film, observations are made about how climbing can force people to focus on the present moment. As a result, the sport’s inherent dangers can relieve stress by taking peoples’ minds off their day-to-day problems.

“Part of it is because I love it, but part of it is because I force myself to go, because I know I’ll feel better after,” said Mandoline Clark, one of the film’s subjects. “But it has not been easy, and it has been for sure my hardest year of climbing I’ve ever had.”

Clark, who’s been climbing for about 20 years, said she’s faced injuries and other setbacks that have taken a toll on her.

She said the health-care system was already understaffed to begin with, and the pandemic has exposed the flaws already within the system.

Clark said that there is a problem with calling nurses and other health-care workers heroes.

“I think there’s this misconception in many professions, but in nursing in particular, that we can just keep piling on the work and that a hero can just do it,” she said.

“A hero can take more patients, work with less nurses, work for whatever amount of money you make, and, for sure, there is a part of nursing that is altruistic. You have to like what you do, especially in emergency ... but I think there’s a piece there that people can miss very easily. It is also a job. It is also how I feed my family and pay my mortgage, and it’s very difficult. If there’s this misconception out there – that we’re heroes – then we don’t need to be adequately compensated for our efforts, and right now our efforts are more than normal. So I just think it’s dangerous to brand us as heroes. It gives people the opportunity to devalue what we do.”

Ashley Veevers, another of the film’s subjects, said it was difficult to rationalize putting so much effort into climbing when there were so many other pressing issues.

Both nurses agreed it’s been a very long two years.

In a follow-up email from Waco, Texas, where she was on a climbing trip, Veevers said she had complex feelings about pursuing this interest.

“I have a complicated sense of guilt about not being in the hospital at the moment with my friends who are working really hard, being overworked and burning out. They are friends who are amazing nurses who will always step up and do their best even though the system is breaking and relying on people like them, who will sacrifice their well-being for their team and their community,” she wrote.

“When nurses are fatigued, burn[ed] out and working short-staffed, the chance for adverse events and poor outcomes for patients rises drastically. My friends are facing the stress of this likelihood every day and it isn’t fair that this burden is falling on them.”

Veevers said she hopes the pandemic will be a turning point for nursing that will spur more funding and resources to add and retain staff.

“We don’t want to be called heroes – we want this,” wrote Veevers.

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KRANGLE, Lawrence Stanley (Larry) July 29, 1926 - February 10, 2022 The family of long-time North Shore resident Larry Krangle is heartbroken to announce his passing on February 10 at Lions Gate Hospital.

He was 95.

Larry was born in Toronto, but grew up in Kitsilano after father Charlie moved west in 1929 to open a tailor shop on then-thriving West Hastings Street. With much of Kits still wild and swampy, Larry as a kid loved to explore neighbourhood forests and beaches. He attended General Gordon and Kitsilano High, where his favourite subject was sports.

Larry lied about his age in 1944 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he began training as a medic, then was transferred to the army.

Although he never saw action overseas, he was an enthusiastic boxer, leading his team to a national Forces’ championship. In 2013, he was awarded a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, nominated by The War Amps, which noted his service to Canada during the war and his contributions to the Association’s Vancouver branch, and the veterans’ community as a whole.

Post-war and for most of his working life, he joined his dad at Regent Tailors, where he made friends as well as customers, sometimes giving extended credit to those with trouble paying for made-to-measure suits.

He moved his family to North Van in 1956 and lived there ever since. He loved his friends and community and was always there to help out. We remember him sandbagging McKay Creek each time it flooded. A long-time member of the North Shore Winter Club, he was also an avid curler.

Larry lived a life of contribution and giving back, especially to vulnerable kids. As a young adult, and as a member of the Vancouver Optimist Club, he organized baseball and coached boxing for boys at risk of life on the street. Later, with the help of his mother, Min, he ran an ice-skating program for visually impaired kids.

Later, he joined North Van’s old-timers’ group the SOB club —meaning “Some Old Boys” — who got together every month or so for lunch and long reminiscences about the North Shore.

Larry is predeceased by his parents Charles and Minette, brothers Jack and Gerald, daughter Eileen and grandson Yaron. He leaves wife Lorna, children Karenn (Craig), Barry (Holly), Murray (Pam), Cheryl, Dennis (Marianne) and 10 grandchildren — and his dog, Benji.

A funeral was held February 11 at Schara Tzedeck Cemetery in New Westminster.

Many thanks to the home care aides and nurses at Vancouver Coastal Health.

BROOKS, Fredrick E. July 8, 1934 − November 21, 2021 The Brooks family are sad to announce the passing our dear father, Fred Brooks. He will be deeply missed by his daughters and son, Diana (Ross), Sharalyn (Dave), Colleen (Ken) and James (Lixian).

Also missed by his eight grandchildren and one great−grandson.

Fred is predeceased by his loving wife, Shirley, brother Bob, and parents Alethea and Fred.

Fred was born in Edmonton, but the family lived in Vancouver, Cortez Island, and then many years in Pender Harbour before moving to North Vancouver. He worked for many years in the plumbing and heating industry.

Fred had many fond memories of growing up on the coast, boating, logging, golfing and gate ball.

His many stories and sense of humour will be missed by family and friends.

CURTIS, Elsie October 3, 1931 - February 6, 2022 Elsie has reunited with her beloved husband Art, in Heaven. Together forever, lovingly looking down upon their daughter Colleen, granddaughter Jessica and great granddaughter Mabel.

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Marco Manfred Graf was born on December 19, 1968, in Neustadt, West Germany and passed from this world on January 30, 2022, in the North Shore Hospice in North Vancouver. He will be lovingly remembered by his mother Marie-Louise and Andrew, his sister Jeanine, Rob and Connor, as well as many relatives and friends. And while in palliative care, he became friends with a wonderful woman who would guide him and help him through the hardest time in his life. For this, we, his family, are so very thankful.

Marco leaves a great void in all our hearts. A son whose heart was filled with love, empathy, caring, sensitivity, kindness, and joy. A zest for life and a personality that made anyone, and everyone feel welcomed and included. He wanted everyone to laugh, live and enjoy every moment of life! His warm spirit, happy go lucky personality will never be forgotten. His smiling face and warm heart will be remembered by all those he touched.

Marco, or Archie as many called him, grew up in North Vancouver and spent most of his life living and loving the North Shore.

CAMERON, Nancy Elizabeth December 8, 1921 - January 21, 2022

CURTIS, Arthur January 2, 1930 - November 15, 2020

GRAF, Marco Manfred Goodbye! It’s the hardest word to say! When someone you love, with all your heart, leaves you too soon! “We’ll see you later”, Sweet Marco! Our hearts are broken into a million pieces! You will always be remembered in every ray of sunshine that warms our hearts and souls. Never ever forgotten!

Nancy was born to Ann and Peter Docharty on December 8th, 1921 in Vancouver, BC. Nancy lived a full life with her husband Jack Cameron, on the North Shore of Vancouver. Nancy and Jack met at a dancehall in Horseshoe Bay, right before WW2.

They spent their early days on Bowen Island and hiking up to Hollyburn to ski. Nancy worked as the secretary to the Mayor of Vancouver, Jack Volrich.

Nancy was predeceased by her daughter Holly Scoble and husband Jack Cameron. Nancy is survived by her children, Sandra, John, her grandchildren Warren, Graeme, Georgia, Payton and Jason and her great grandchild Louise. Nancy passed away just after passing 100 years with us.

She will be remembered with love and fondness.

No service, by request. Donations to the North Shore Hospice would be appreciated.

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Marco’s favorite stories and adventures included his closest and dearest friends – Ted, Aldo, Danny, Mike, Jimmy, Hunter, Joe, and especially his work family, as he called them, at Canadian Utilities Construction, and many more!

No words can express how much we love you and miss you! Not a day will go by that we won’t think of you! Always in our hearts!

Chances make you want to live To take a chance, you must always give Give all that you can, and not the least Live to live, like an untamed beast Do all the things that come to mind Then within yourself, ambition you’ll find One must always strive to reach a goal If one don’t try, you’ll end in a hole I love to think of my life as a gift A gift I cherish and won’t let go adrift I’m a dreamer at times, and imagine things Like a pirate looking for a chest of golden rings There is so much time, we have to do our best Sometimes I think that this life is one big test If, with the wink of an eye, your time goes by Always remember to live, before you die Author, Writer – Marco Graf “There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they are gone the light remains”

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JENKINS, Noel M. June 8, 1936 − February 10, 2022 It is with sadness we announce Noel’s passing after battling cancer for the last year.

He is survived by his wife, Phyllis (Phyl), whom he was married to for 63 years, his daughter Gail Hazell, son−in−law Richard Hazell (grandchildren Jake, Fynn and Ruby), his son David Jenkins Deagan (grandson Jordan) and daughter−in−law Nicole Jenkins Deagan.

BROMLEY, Mary Isabelle “Jackie” December 16, 1925 - February 3, 2022 Mom passed away peacefully on February 3, 2022 after a long and fulfilled life.

She was predeceased by her husband Jim (2019) to whom she was married for almost 69 years.

She leaves behind her children David (Kelly), Susan (Peter) and John (Verlee); grandchildren Diane (A.J.), Debbie, Daniel (Kelly), Jim, Stephen, Sean and David and great-grandchildren Adaline, Eloise and Liam.

She was born on December 16, 1925 on a farm near Chesley, Ontario - the daughter of David and Rose Jacklin.

Raised on the farm through the hardships of the 30’s, she lived without electricity for the first 14 years of her life. While she talked fondly of her childhood especially working with her dad making maple syrup, she hated cleaning the gas lamps and collecting eggs from the hen house.

Her fruit pies became renown within the family but she was largely self taught later in life as her mother did not want to risk wasting rationed sugar on a novice baker using a wood stove.

Noel and Phyl travelled from Australia to Canada in 1958, fell in love with Vancouver and chose to stay.

They travelled the world extensively, making friends wherever they went. Noel was an industrious, hard −working, disciplined man who dedicated a lifetime of work to be a Mechanical Technologist in BC’s sawmill and forest industry, raising a family and navigating maps. He fixed, maintained and constructed. He photographed, weaved, and welded. He wrote, filed and documented. He gardened, toiled and word−played. He always made time for his family, grandchildren, friends, friends of friends and neighbours.

We will miss everything that was Noel, Dad and Poppa, but cherish the time that we had.

A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.

Memories and photos may be shared at remembering.noel@gmail.com.

MACKILLOP, Marlow Bryan February 7, 2022 Marlow was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, to Patricia and Alan (deceased 2015). He is survived by his mother, Patricia, brothers Malcolm and Murdock, and their families. Also grieving his loss is his long− time partner, Julia Schweitzer. He spent his childhood in North Vancouver playing hockey at the Winter Club, skiing, and had a lifelong love affair with his Kawasaki motorcycle. For the past 16 years he lived in Port Moody. Marlow suffered a swift and steep decline and passed away in the Palliative Care Ward at Burnaby General on February 7th.

We are grateful for the amazing care he received from the staff there, and for the many other Fraser Health employees who cared for him at Eagle Ridge Hospital and at home. We would also like to thank friends and family for their loving support.

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After attending Chesley High School, she went to Toronto to train as a registered nurse at Wellesley Hospital. It was while in training that she received the nickname “Jackie” - a name she much preferred to her given names. To her family she remained Isabelle but to everyone else she was Jackie. She graduated in 1947.

While in training she met the love of her life, Jim though when they met, they were both on a date with other people. They married on September 9, 1950.

Dad worked for the CPR and there were many moves - Sudbury, North Bay, Toronto, Smith Falls, Schreiber, Toronto again, and finally West Vancouver where she lived for almost 50 years.

Dad’s job frequently took him away from home and Mom was often a single parent - a job she mastered.

She was a long-time bridge club member. As an empty nester, she took courses at Capilano College and volunteered for various charities. She was a regular worker at Meals on Wheels. She was an active member of the Capilano Golf Club to her late eighties. Mom loved entertaining and for years threw great Super Bowl parties. Her special love was Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s family dinners.

Mom and Dad spent their retirement years travelling the world. They loved cruising and there is virtually no place to which they didn’t sail.

She was a devoted grandmother and she and Dad were enthusiastic spectators at all their grandchildren’s activities attending countless hockey, ringette, lacrosse and baseball games.

The family would like to thank Mom’s caregivers, Mena, Joan and Marypil for all their assistance over the last few years and the home care nurses who helped ease her passing. An informal reception to honour her memory will be scheduled in the future.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Canadian Cancer Society or to the charity of your choice. To write a condolence to the family, please visit www.mckenziefuneralservices.com

MEYER, Anita Winnifred (nee Horton) April 10, 1940 - February 6, 2022 It is with sad hearts we say goodbye to Anita who passed away peacefully in Lions Gate Hospital with family by her side. Daughter to the late Frank and Susie Horton. Predeceased by her husband Rolf Meyer and her siblings Adele, Lenore, Edgar, Jean, Joel, Ron and Richard. Anita leaves behind her son Kurt (Lee); daughter Jo Anne (Dave, former spouse) and son Erich (Tree); grandchildren Markus, Steven, Aedan, Abby, Samantha, Ben, Bremen, Brock, Bexley and Alison (Lee). Also left to remember Anita are many friends and family across the country and in Germany.

Anita was born in Peterborough, Ontario and came to Vancouver in 1965. Shortly after she met and married Rolf and discovered Deep Cove, where they settled and raised their family. She loved her weekly girlfriend lunches and spending time at Lake Erroch, where she enjoyed many summers and met many great families over the years. Anita was a very witty lady with a great sense of humour and made us laugh often.

We love you forever. Close the friggin door!!

In lieu of flowers, please donate to Lions Gate Hospital, your local hospital or to your charity of choice. There will be no funeral service. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

STEWART, Gladys Marion June 5, 1927 - February 11, 2022 With the heaviest of hearts, Gladys’ family announces her passing after a heroic battle against declining health over the past year. She is now free to reunite with her beloved husband George after 34 years apart, along with Beau her beloved brown poodle, and many other family and friends who passed before her.

Gladys leaves to mourn her passing and treasure her memory, her beloved sons Brent (Kareen) and Keith, daughter (and best friend) Heather, grandsons Rudy and Mark, along with her niece Sharon, nephews Shawn, Sheldon, Bruce and Kevin.

Mom was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, and moved with her family to Victoria, and later Vancouver in the mid-1940’s. She worked as a bookkeeper and was introduced to her husband George (Dad) through a mutual friend. They married in 1954 in Vancouver and welcomed their first of 3 children a few years later.

They moved to North Vancouver in the early 1960s and Mom never left. Mom was well known on the North Shore, through her involvement in many sports, hobbies and interest groups - multiple bridge groups, the 55+ Murdo Fraser Ladies Golf Club, TOPS, Newcomers, the North and West Vancouver Seniors Activity Centres, and the North Shore Winter Club where she curled and supported Heather’s figure skating for many years. Through the hundreds of friends made through her community involvement, to this day Mom could hardly go anywhere on the North Shore without running into someone she knew. No one could forget Gladys once they knew her sweet, humble, and sunny demeanor, and she never forgot anyone, even in her last days.

Mom was blessed to travel the world over the past 35 years, from pole to pole, with friends and family, inevitably making many new friends along the way.

Our family is grateful to Dr. Paul Montemuro for years of support to Mom, and more recently, Drs. Zibbin, Dhalla and the amazing Dr. Justin Chan at Lions Gate Hospital, plus the entire LGH staff of nurses, care aids and allied health professionals who cared for Mom over the past 8 months. There are no words, but to say, you are all heroes, and we’ll never forget your kindness and commitment to Mom and our family and for giving us more precious, quality time with her. We are also indebted to the Vancouver Coastal Home Support Services Team of care aids who helped us keep Mom at home as long as we could, plus we are grateful to the care teams at Inglewood and Amica Lions Gate where Mom spent a short time over the past few difficult months.

Gladys was a woman of limited means but gave generously from what she had to The Lions Gate Hospital Foundation, The Heart and Stroke Foundation, The Red Cross, and The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Donations to any of these organizations in Gladys’ honour are appreciated.

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A celebration of Mom’s life and legacy will be scheduled later this spring or early summer when restrictions lift, so all who knew and loved her can come together, share their memories of this remarkable human being, and be inspired by her. Mom’s light burned so bright in life, and it will shine forever in the hearts and minds of the family and friends she leaves behind now. Our love for her is eternal - may she rest peacefully.

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MOON, John R. November 3, 1953 − February 1, 2022 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Robert Moon, who passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at the age of 68 years.

He was born in Oshawa, Ontario and raised in both Ontario and British Columbia. The tranquil North Shore of Vancouver was home to John and his family.

In his early days, John was employed in housing construction trades. His lifelong love of history drew him to the field of antiques and owning a furniture shop on the North Shore. After closing the shop, property management and restoration projects occupied him until retirement.

As a youth, John was known for his athleticism and physical strength. Throughout his life, his intellect, encyclopedic memory, and quick wit were some of his defining characteristics. He had a passion for literature, sports, genealogy, music, and found peace in the observation of nature. Above all, John treasured his family and his role as a devoted father and grandfather.

Predeceased by his beloved parents (Robert and Dorothy). John will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 42 years, Elena; children Erin (Jason), Nicole (Matt) and Nathan (Leila); grandchildren Liam, Clara and James; siblings Marilyn (Don), David (Vada) and Carol; and his nieces, nephews and cousins.

A private family memorial will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the Hockey Canada Foundation Assist Fund or the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

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MORRISON, Daniel January 24, 1949 - December 29, 2021 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Daniel Robert Morrison on December 29th, 2021, in Penticton, BC after a short battle with cancer. He will be deeply missed by his loving wife of 31 years Joan; daughter Georgia Mack (Warren) and grandchildren Katelyn and Ashley; daughter Kristina Fraser (Andrew) and grandchildren Quinn and Jaiden; stepson Jeff Pilkington (Jill) and grandchildren Erika and Luke; stepson Jim Pilkington (Julie) and grandchildren Mya and Preston; and stepson Mike Pilkington (Sarah) and granddaughter Jordan. Dan is also survived by siblings Diane Fushtey, Kathy Moore, and Brian Morrison (Peggy).

Dan was born in 1949 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, the middle of 5 children. At the age of 20, he moved to the West Coast and settled in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, where he raised his family. Dan was a bright, creative man with interests in mechanics and carpentry, operating a successful cabinetry company. He was an avid skier and tennis player, and in his later years a golfer. Dan and Joan enjoyed boating on the coast of BC and travelling to many different places in the world together. Since retiring, Dan appreciated warmer weather and a quieter lifestyle, spending his summers in Naramata and winters in La Quinta.

Dan most looked forward to the times when the whole family would gather for holidays in these special places. Dan had a unique ability to connect with people through his genuine interest, quick wit, and sense of humour. His family was most important to him, and he will be lovingly remembered as a caring husband, father, grandpa, brother, and friend. A celebration of his life will be held in Naramata for family and friends at a later date.

TILLEY, Barbara March 27, 1943 − February 3, 2022

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PERRY, Diane (nee Leichnitz) Diane was born October 7, 1942 in Ottawa, Ontario and peacefully passed away February 2, 2022 at her North Vancouver home in the loving arms of her husband of 52 years, Steve. Diane will be dearly missed by Steve, her four sisters in Ottawa; Lu (Golden), Johanne (Tomlinson), Nancy (Bow), Colleen (Denault); numerous nieces and nephews, and by brother Mark Leichnitz in Vancouver and brother-in-law Art Perry, and niece Lulu Perry, and her many friends.

Diane’s garden gate was always open and it is now closed with her passing. What a garden it was! Not only was she a member of the Capilano Garden Club, whose members often shared the leafy splendour of her lovingly tended garden, but Diane spent countless joyful hours watering, pruning, and nurturing her exuberant display of brightly coloured rhodos, happy hostas and many other beautiful plants, after she retired from a long career as the Regional Administrator for Metropolitan Life. When Diane wasn’t in her garden, another of her loves was travelling with Steve to the Four Corners of the globe: a safari in Kenya, cruising the Nile, a trip to Machu Picchu in Peru, and cycling numerous times around Europe with Steve and their friends. One thing about Diane that captivated everyone who knew her was her incredible mind. She was a thinker, a deep thinker. Diane was always the best company for her friends within her many clubs: The Capilano Garden Club, Trail Trekkers group who hiked the North Shore mountains, her tennis friends at North Shore Winter Club, her cherished book club, and her active bridge club. Another pleasure for many decades was Diane and Steve’s hiking, skiing and sharing good memories with friends at their condo in Snowater, Mount Baker, WA. Many a New Years Eve was spent laughing and bringing in another year at Graham’s in Glacier WA, or with their special friends in North Vancouver. Diane was special and unforgettable to everyone who was lucky enough to garner her warmth and genuine charm. Her life was full and shared unselfishly with so many others. Like her garden, colours grew and were displayed wherever Diane went. She will be missed beyond measure.

Diane’s Celebration of Life will gather in her glorious garden this spring when Diane’s dazzling display of welcoming blossoms return once more. You can make a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society or a charity of your choice in Diane’s name. Please no flowers, even though Diane loved them so very much.

Many will fondly remember Barbara, perhaps having met her at the Tilley Vancouver Store or a DeMolay or Job’s Daughters function.

OLIVER, Gerald and Margaret Gerald Oliver, born September 5, 1933 in the town of Biddulph, Staffordshire, England, passed away unexpectedly December 11, 2021 in Langley BC, Canada.

Margaret, his lifelong wife and partner born July 4, 1939 in the town of Congleton, Cheshire, England, passed away July 22, 2018 in Langley BC, Canada.

They married September 11, 1959 and immigrated to Vancouver, BC in 1962.

They had two sons; Simon and Stephen and four grandchildren; Charlotte and Trent (Simon), Alwyn and Ty (Stephen). As grandparents they were the most kind and caring people, always willing to help in anyway they could.

They will be missed beyond words but never forgotten and remembered with love and a smile.

With the current state of things there will not be a service but when things clear up we will have a gathering to reminisce and raise a glass.

"I’ve had a good life; a great hubby, John (we met 63 years ago), splendid children Jeff and Nikki (James) and grandchildren Emma and Charlie.

Initially trying nursing, my careers included banking and securities, and for 30−odd years, the family Tilley store in Vancouver." (Barbara’s introduction letter to just−found brother Jim in 2012). Barbara’s family also included her sister Marilyn (Ken), in−laws Alex Tilley and Hilary Clark Cole, and many beloved relatives too numerous to mention, except for Janet.

Our heartfelt thanks to Lions Gate and St. Paul’s Hospitals, and Drs. Samborski, Mak, Shokravi, Amiri, Mainra, and the Palliative Care Team.

R. Photo credit: Paul McGrath, North Shore News.

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A38 | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 REMEMBRANCES OBITUARIES

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ROGERS (née Ahlen), Monika Tyra September 25, 1943 − February 2, 2022

RICHARDS, Joan (née Rogal) February 2, 1932 - February 2, 2022

SCURFIELD, Dan March 31, 1933 - February 2, 2022

With heavy hearts, we say goodbye to our dynamo of a mom. Monika was a beloved mom, dedicated friend and partner, top tennis player, avid golfer and skier, world traveller and talented bridge and mahjong player. She has left this world too soon, passing away peacefully due to congestive heart failure.

Joan passed away peacefully on her 90th birthday, survived by her husband Ray, children Ann (Richard Lee), Barbara (Jeremy Moore), Jim (Johanne Poulin), and Catherine; grandchildren Stephanie, Nicolas, Michael and Matthew; brother, Ron (Jean Edwards), as well as nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was predeceased by her parents and younger sister Pat.

With great sadness the family of Dan Scurfield announce his passing at age 88. Dan is survived by his daughter Linda (Dan); son Bob (Jerri); granddaughter Shelby; grandsons Bradley, Nathan and Gavin; great grandchildren Ella, Juliette and Jack; nephews, nieces; former wife Helene; and longtime companion Joyann. Dan was born in Ninga, Manitoba on March 31, 1933 to Ralph and Ann Scurfield (nee Parsons). Dan’s father was a station master for the CPR line. In 1956 Dan and Helene were married and Linda was born in Regina, followed by Robert born in Edmonton in 1960. During these early years Dan was an office manager for an investment company. After a year in Toronto, Dan began his career with National College of Home Study - as B.C. Branch Manager and then owner/president until his retirement. Dan was a lifelong learner who was always eager to share his knowledge with others. Dan’s interests included many sports. At the North Shore Winter Club he enjoyed tennis, curling and his son Bob’s hockey. Dan loved to golf. He also enjoyed playing piano, especially at Christmas.

During his retirement Dan enjoyed regular billiards in his building. He also loved to visit the Wild Bird Sanctuary at Maplewood Flats. He was always “going to the birds.” Dan will be sorely missed by many.

No Service.

Interment Boal Chapel.

Celebration of Life has been planned.

Monika lived life with great spirit and exuberance, sharing many adventures with family and friends.

Her trips to Sweden (Toby) and Australia (Britt) meant the world to her. MorMor (Swedish for Mother’s Mother) watched soccer, field hockey and lacrosse games, joined family trips and got to share magical times with all of her grands, who were truly her greatest joy! She felt blessed to have the whole family close by and to share the special milestone moments of birthdays and graduations.

Monika worked as a physiotherapist in the 60s, and became a realtor in the 80s. She volunteered at the women’s crisis centre, and in the 90s, transformed her home into the popular B&B, "A Gazebo in the Garden" that she ran with her usual verve and passion. She met many special people from around the world, and in the early 2000s, an exciting opportunity gave her the chance to blend her skills to become a Tourism BC Inspector.

Retirement was anything but quiet! Monika biked around China, volunteered in Malawi as a preschool teacher, and then in Costa Rica as a physiotherapist, where her journey brought her full circle. She continued exploring the world playing golf, mahjong and learning Spanish! She lived life to the absolute fullest.

Mom was so loved and she will be eternally missed. A celebration of her amazing life will be held in May. Please email celebratemonika@gmail.com to stay connected.

Monika is survived by her brother Arne (Anna) Ahlen; her two daughters Britt (Grant) and Toby; grandchildren Cole, Cailan and Brayden; Summer and Jaden (Darran); former husband Jack, and many nieces and nephews. All of these she loved and touched deeply. She will be sorely missed as her energy and dynamic personality spread light wherever she went.

In lieu of flowers, donations to Ripple Africa in her name would be appreciated, as this was a cause near and dear to her heart from her time spent there. website: rippleafrica.org

Joan was born February 2, 1932, in Winnipeg to Dr. P.J. Rogal and Dorothy Quinn, and grew up in Milden, SK. Her early activities included CGIT, ladies’ hockey and playing the piano at church and other functions. She excelled at piano and obtained her degree at the Royal Conservatory of Music at the age of 16. At the University of Saskatchewan, Joan was ‘Senior Stick’ of her class. She interned as a Dietitian at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria and began her career at the Grey Nuns’ Hospital in Regina, SK. She met Ray at University and they married in 1954. She continued teaching student nurses until devoting her time to her family. She especially loved spending summers at their cottage on Katepwa Lake, baking fresh berry pies with a wood burning stove, and was a Snowy Owl for the Brownies.

Grey Cup parties hosted by Ray and Joan for their Roughrider fan friends became an annual event lasting more than 50 years.

In 1971 Ray and Joan moved to West Vancouver.

She was a Master Bridge player, teacher, and director. Joan was commended for conducting the registrations and hospitality arrangements for a major International Duplicate Bridge Tournament held in Vancouver in 1999. For the past many years, even during cancer treatment, she enjoyed directing the Thursday duplicate bridge games at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, where she knew all the many participants by name.

After the game she came home to do the scoring, a demanding task before computer programs were available to ease the calculations. Joan enjoyed sewing and was an avid quilter, giving many quilts to charitable organizations. She was a kind, smart and strong lady who will be missed by all who knew her, including the neighbours along the lane in Dundarave where she lived for the past 30 years, and especially by her family and husband Ray.

Joan was very appreciative of the care and attention she received from Dr. Mary Robertson and Dr. Paul Klimo over the years. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. A service will be held at a later date.

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STELTER, Lois Marie Lois Marie Stelter, age 84, passed away peacefully with family at her side, at the North Vancouver Hospice, Saturday, February 5, 2022, of gall bladder cancer. Lois is predeceased by her parents, James and Helen Bowman, and her sister Joyce Shearer.

Lois is lovingly remembered by her husband of 23 years Clifford Reinhart Stelter; her daughter Lori Jeanne Murton (David Richard Brown); her son Kenneth Bruce Murton (Amanda Galiffi); Cliff’s children Janine Brolly, Monique Helfrich (Dan), Mike Stelter (Nancee); grandchildren Chantelle Brolly and Alicia Brolly, extended family members and friends.

Lois was born in Neepawa, Manitoba on June 4, 1937. She graduated from Norwood Collegiate and went on to train as a laboratory technician at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She took pride in her skill to take a patient’s blood draw quickly and painlessly. Lois had a lifelong love of painting and art and was active in both the North Vancouver and West Vancouver Art Councils. She volunteered with the North Vancouver RCMP Community Policing office and was also engaged in local politics. As well as being a voracious reader, Lois enjoyed doing crossword and jigsaw puzzles.

Her artistic ability showed in her many paintings and the magical spaces she created in and around her home. She had a quick wit and loved spending time with her family and friends.

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A Celebration of Life is being planned for June 4, 2022.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 | A39

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE TAKE NOTICE THAT Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd. of 2400-745 Thurlow Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 0C5 applies to the Metro Vancouver Regional District (“Metro Vancouver”) pursuant to the Greater Vancouver Regional District Air Quality Management Bylaw 1082, 2008 for a new Permit.

1.

These reductions are being achieved through significant investment in new emission control equipment and optimization of operational conditions. Requested throughput limits on petroleum storage tanks and loading operations effectively restrict Volatile Organic Compound emissions. Finally, administrative amendments to update emission source information and reporting requirements are requested.

Website for more information: www.burnabyrefinery.ca

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The legal description of the land or premises where the plant, operation or source and treatment works are or will be located is: Area 1 / Tank Farm PID: 017-397-910, Area 2 / Refinery PID: 030-826-926, Area 3 / Wharf Lease BBY087-04290F-005.

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The purpose of this application is to request authorization to continue discharging air contaminants from Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd.’s (Parkland) existing petroleum refinery and tank farm located at 5201 Penzance Drive, Burnaby, BC V5C 1L7 and 355 N. Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC, V5C 1X4. Parkland is currently operating under permit GVA0117, which expires July 31, 2022.

Parkland is requesting to renew GVA0117 with term to July 31, 2032. The application incorporates significant emission reduction opportunities identified in technology studies undertaken by Parkland over the past several years.

Overall, requested reductions in permitted emissions are: • 45% Sulphur Dioxide • 23% Particulate Matter, and • 18% Nitrogen Oxide.

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Combustion processes:

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Maximum total number of sources: Maximum annual operating hours: Expiry date: Maximum Opacity:

Primary Refinery fuel gas and/or Natural Gas Current 30 8760 2022-JUL-31 20 percent

Secondary Fuel Oil (standby only) Requested 25 8760 2032-JUL-31 20 percent

The mass of material to be discharged, emitted or stored (per specific time period) is as follows:

Total Emissions from All Sources Based on Requested Limits and or Estimates* Current Permit Contaminant Emissions (tonnes/year)

New Permit Requested Emissions (tonnes/year)*

Coarse Particulate Matter – Authorized1

114.3

89.2

Fine Particulate Matter – Estimated1

149.8

122.3

Nitrogen Oxides - Authorized

479.7

394.6

Photo-reactive Volatile Organic Compounds – Estimated Maximum2

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493.4

Hazardous Air Pollutants – Estimated Maximum2

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881.4

481.3

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6.7

Ammonia – Estimated

11.6

11.6

Carbon Monoxide – Authorized

141.7

141.7

Methane – Estimated Maximum3

No limit (275)

275

Total 2,564.4 2,026.6 * Detailed methods for calculating emissions are contained in the full application document.

1 Current authorization is for 232.8 tonnes/y “total particulate matter (PM) (other than from combustion sources)” from source 19R, and current estimated emissions of “total PM (filterable and condensable from combustion sources)” are 31.3 tonnes/y from all other sources. To reflect Metro Vancouver’s recently adopted Bylaw 1330, PM values are expressed as “Coarse PM” and “Fine PM”, with the authorized emissions for source 19R split between Fine PM and Coarse PM fractions based on recent emissions testing results, and all estimated combustion PM from other sources allocated to Fine PM. 2 Current permit has no limits on emission of photo-reactive volatile organic compounds (VOC) or Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP). Some VOCs emitted by Parkland are also HAPs (benzene, toluene & xylene), so to avoid double counting, estimated emissions of these compounds are have been reallocated from “Photo-reactive VOC – Estimated Maximum” to “HAP - Estimated Maximum” based on Parkland’s 2020 National Pollutant Release Inventory submission, which indicated that HAP made up 2.14% of total speciated VOC. 3 Current permit has no limits on methane emissions This Notice is published pursuant to the Environmental Management Act, the Public Notification Regulation, and the Greater Vancouver Regional District Air Quality Management Bylaw 1082, 2008. A person who may be adversely affected by the granting or amending of the permit described in this notice may, within 30 days of its publication, notify Metro Vancouver’s District Director in writing stating how that person is affected. When making a decision on the permit or approval application, the District Director will consider the application, comments submitted and any responses provided by the applicant.

Information collected during the comment period and the time following until a decision on the permit application has been made is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Your personal information and comment will be forwarded to the permit applicant for response to the District Director. By submitting a public comment, you consent to such disclosure.

Please note that submissions in response to this notice may be made available to the public as part of the public record, subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Metro Vancouver Attention: District Director 4515 Central Boulevard, Burnaby BC V5H 0C6 Phone: (604) 432-6200 Fax: (604) 436-6707 Email: ParklandComments@metrovancouver.org

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