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Thinking of running for mayor this year? I’ve heard it requires working long hours, a thick skin and a revolutionary plan to make Vancouver more affordable. But it will all be worth it because your good work will be rewarded with some decent compensation: more than $160,000 per year. You’ll also go on trips to far-away places, probably meet some world leaders and take a lot of questions from some guy whose name rhymes with Hike Mowell. However, unlike previous election years, you and your party won’t be able to spend a Trump Towersized amount of money to win the right to make that $160K per year. That’s because new restrictive campaign ﬁnance rules that we media types continue to write about not only ban union and corporate donations, but set expense limits for candidates. Last week, Elections BC released some numbers. For Vancouver mayoral candidates, the maximum is $210,174.60. That’s still a lot of do re mi, but less than what a candidate for school trustee ($109,430.64) and council and park board

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($107,793.12) can spend leading up to the Oct. 20 election. The calculations are based on a government formula that includes a municipality’s population. Third-party advertisers also have limits. It’s $10,508.73 for mayoral, council and park board candidates, and $5,471.53 for school trustee candidates. The cumulative advertising expense limit is $150,000 and applies to

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sion Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, who is a professor of psychiatry at the University of B.C. and has done consultant work for the provincial government, and NPA Coun. Hector Bremner, who is vice-president of the Pace Group and works on behalf of various businesses in Metro Vancouver, it is not. And because it is not, their work outside of the council chamber may or may not put them in a conﬂict when a rezoning or topic related to a client comes up at city hall — as happened last week when at the end of debate on liquor policy, Bremner suddenly recused himself from discussion over concerns related to his public relations work. Reimer took to Twitter in reaction to the move: “Council: at the end of debate on liquor policy, and a councillor has just declared he has a conﬂict on two items after participating in all of the discussion and debate. Oy vey!” As regular readers will know, I’ve written about this issue before when Reimer tried a couple of times to get some action on her motion. I won’t go around the block again with all the details except to say that Reimer wants the province’s Financial Disclosure Act to be amended.

The intent of the Act is to “identify what areas of influence and possible financial benefit an elected official, nominee or designated employee might have by virtue of their office, and to ensure the public has reasonable access to the information.” But as Reimer wrote in this iteration of her motion, the Act “does not require disclosure of potential conflicts for municipally elected officials where the conflicts may be obscured as a result of them being employed as lobbyists or government and public relation consultants on behalf of other private interests.” The motion continued: “Therefore, be it resolved that the Financial Disclosure Act be amended to ensure that all potential conflicts and financial interests of municipally elected officials are disclosed per the stated intent of the Act.” Interestingly, before Reimer introduced her motion, the NPA councillors again — for a third time, I believe, on this issue — recused themselves from the discussion. The motion passed without them in the room. It’s now expected to go before the Union of B.C. Municipalities for review. @Howellings

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Hector Bremner ousted as potential NPA mayoral candidate Rookie councillor says NPA’s board of directors rejected his bid to become the party’s mayoral candidate

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NPA Coun. Hector Bremner will not get a chance to run as his party’s mayoral candidate in this fall’s election. The rookie councillor, who won a seat in last October’s byelection, posted a message on his Facebook page just after midnight Monday saying his party’s board of directors rejected his application to become a mayoral candidate. “Back in August when I began this journey with the NPA, when our party had 78 members, we were all so excited with our momentum, our by-election win and chance to restore this great party to a leadership position at city hall,” he said. “Tonight, unfortunately, was more clear evidence our board has been taken over by people with another agenda.” Bremner said the party’s so-called “green light committee,” which is charged with screening candidates, recommended that he get the

nod to compete in the party’s May 29 mayoral contest. The board, however, “rejected their advice,” he wrote. He said the board was “stacked by one of the candidates, the same candidate whose supporters attacked me with false accusations that clearly the green light committee rejected.” He didn’t name the candidate. “I will have more to say on this, as will the thousands of members we have signed up, our caucus, and all of the shocked members of the NPA tonight,” said Bremner, who didn’t return phone or email messages left Tuesday by the Courier. Gregory Baker, the NPA president, wouldn’t disclose reasons for not allowing Bremner to compete to become the party’s mayoral nominee. But Baker said the green light committee “had such serious reservations about [Hector’s bid] that they refused to put it in writing, and they communicated the problems to the board.” The decision by the NPA board comes as Bremner faces a complaint from NPA

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member Raza Mirza, who has accused him of a conﬂict of interest because of his work as vice-president of public affairs for the Pace Group. In an April 11 letter to city manager Sadhu Johnston and Mayor Gregor

Robertson, Mirza alleged Bremner’s work on behalf of various developers, including Aquilini Investment Group, compromises his position as a councillor when voting on matters involving development.

Raza has since received a letter from Robertson indicating that lawyer Henry Wood be appointed as an investigator to review the complaint. Wood is also an adjunct professor in the faculty of law at the University of B.C., where he lectures in professional ethics and responsibility. Baker wouldn’t say whether Mirza’s complaint was considered in the board’s decision. Mirza told the Courier that he hasn’t been contacted by the board about his complaint, although it has been previously reported in the media. “I’m not at liberty to talk about the details,” Baker said. The board also rejected engineer George Steeves’ application to become the party’s mayoral candidate. Baker wouldn’t elaborate. He said the race is down to three contenders: NPA park board commissioner John Coupar, ﬁnancial analyst Glen Chernen and entrepreneur Ken Sim. It’s unclear now whether Bremner will seek re-election as a councillor and whether

the board’s decision Monday will affect his chances to run with the party. Asked why Bremner was given the green light to run in last October’s byelection and rejected for a potential mayoral run, Baker replied: “The green light committee met, they reviewed the terms of reference, there were issues that came up. They presented those issues and perhaps those issues weren’t present at the time that the previous board had met and looked at them.” Bremner concluded his Facebook post by telling a brief story about a young volunteer he said was removed from the party in December. He called it a “shocking backroom deal” and in an attached video said he was “a good kid, in his 20s, wants to participate and they shank him tonight — and they shank him over a bunch of nonsense.” Added Bremner: “You wonder why more normal, rational people don’t get involved in politics. It’s unbelievable.” @Howellings

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City’s record-breaking homeless population at 2,181 people Mike Howell

rental rates, chronic poverty and the “stigma” related to being homeless as drivers of homelessness. Over the years, the number of people living on Vancouver streets has ﬂuctuated dramatically, with 591 recorded in 2005, then dropping to an all-time low of 154 in 2011 before increasing to 659 this March. The population in shelters has seen equally dramatic shifts, with a low of 765 people recorded in 2008. That jumped to an all-time high of 1,601 last year, although Whitty noted additional extreme weather shelters were opened during last year’s count; this year’s total of people living in shelters was 1,522. The increase in homelessness this year comes despite the city ﬁnding 850 homes for residents who were homeless, or at risk of homelessness in 2017. Since last year’s count, about 435 new social and supportive homes — these are homes where tenants have access to health care experts and counsellors — have opened. About 190 were rented at the $375 per

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Vancouver’s homeless population is now the highest it has ever been since data was ﬁrst collected in 2005 to determine how many people are living on the streets and in some form of shelter. Statistics released May 1 by the city’s director of homelessness services, Ethel Whitty, to city council showed 2,181 people were counted by more than 400 volunteers over two days in March. That’s 43 more people than were counted in 2017, which at the time was a record-breaking total. In 2005, a total of 1,364 homeless people were counted across the city. “Homelessness in Metro Vancouver and across the province is a humanitarian crisis that reﬂects a trend seen across the country and the continent,” said Whitty, noting 11,643 homeless people were recorded in Seattle’s 2017 homeless count. Whitty cited low vacancy rates, the loss of singleroom-occupancy hotel units, high rents at some of the hotels, overall rising

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month welfare shelter rate. The city also expects more than 600 permanent subsidized homes and all 600 planned temporary modular homes to open by the end of the year. So far, 156 units in modular homes have opened at sites in Marpole and in the Downtown Eastside. The ﬁndings from the count revealed much of what previous counts have shown — that the majority of homeless are men between 25 and 54, with many living with a medical condition or illness (44 per cent), mental health issue (43 per cent), a physical disability (38 per

cent), or a combination. That information was collected from 659 people living on the street and 791 in shelters. For the ﬁrst time in conducting the counts, volunteers asked people whether they had an addiction, with 35 per cent saying they didn’t have one. Whitty said questions about addiction were to provide facts on the proﬁle of a homeless person, despite sweeping assumptions and generalizations of people without a home. She referred to the debate that erupted with some Marpole residents opposed to the

temporary modular housing complex in Marpole. “For instance, we ﬁnd some hold a belief that all homeless people are injection drug users,” she said, before providing self-reported data that showed otherwise. Those with addictions cited cigarettes (28 per cent), followed by opioids (25 per cent), methamphetamines (23 per cent) and alcohol (22 per cent) as main substances. Marijuana was at 20 per cent and cocaine at 12 per cent. The data also revealed 523 people had multiple income sources, including income assistance (38 per cent), disability beneﬁts (29 per cent), full- or part-time employment (19 per cent) and binning (10 per cent) but still couldn’t afford rent. More than 50 per cent of the homeless told volunteers they had been homeless a year or less, with 31 per cent less than six months and 21 between six months and a year. Of those surveyed, 78 per cent said they paid rent in Vancouver prior to becoming homeless, dispelling a long-held myth that the city’s population is being fueled by migration from

other cities and provinces. “People don’t get on a bus with a big shopping cart and come here,” Whitty said in response to a question from NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova about where people are originally from before becoming homeless in Vancouver. Indigenous people continue to be vastly overrepresented in the city’s count, representing 40 per cent of the homeless population despite making up 2.2 per cent of Vancouver’s overall population. “We see that about 52 per cent of the Indigenous homelessness population is actually unsheltered, and that’s signiﬁcant for a range of reasons,” said David Wells, chairperson of the Aboriginal Homelessness steering committee. He said services and options for Indigenous people are not connecting to people on the street. “It’s endemic of the massive intergenerational traumas that have been experienced, the colonial history, things of that nature — we’re not seeing that connection to the services that are there.” @Howellings

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The foul smell that spread across Vancouver and several other municipalities Monday was likely from manure being spread on farms in Richmond and Delta, according to Metro Vancouver ofﬁcials. The odour was blown north into Vancouver by the wind. Complaints posted on social media came from numerous communities aside from the city of Vancouver, including UBC, Richmond, Ladner, North Vancouver and West Vancouver. Metro Vancouver hasn’t tallied up the number or location of complaints lodged through its sources, which include a complaint line and online complaint form, but Ray Robb, its manager of environmental regulation and enforcement, said he expects it will be more than 50 but fewer than 100. Last year, a similar incident that happened around the same time, on May 29 and 30, generated about 150 complaints. “The majority of what people were smelling is due to spreading manure

on farms in Richmond and Delta. We’re still tallying all our complaints, and we haven’t even gotten them into our data base to analyze them, but we had officers out responding to the complaints. We also had officers out doing other business and they were all noticing manure smells,” Robb said. “A couple of officers that were dealing with the usual composters that we have in Richmond and Delta observed odours from the composters near the composting facilities, but [the cause of the smell] was manure at a further distance.” Farmers collect manure but they’re not allowed to spread it on their fields except for as a fertilizer, which means they usually need to put it on before the crops are planted. However, they’re not allowed to put it on wet fields or when it’s raining. Robb said Monday’s conditions created the perfect storm. “We have a situation this week where it’s nice and warm and farmers’ pits are probably full of manure and it’s going to rain later this week,” he said.

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When Amber Branny needed help ﬁnding her stolen stroller, she knew who to turn to — other mothers. Branny, her husband and their two children live in a townhouse off Main Street. Usually she parks her $800 Mountain Buggy Duet stroller behind the building but on Friday night she was distracted with all the preparations for her oldest daughter’s fourth birthday party and left it near her front door, which is down a few steps from the sidewalk and around an L-shaped corner. On Saturday, when the couple realized the stroller had been stolen, Branny posted a photo of it on several mom-related Facebook groups, including the Vancouver Baby and Toddler Swap. At 10:50 that night, her phone pinged. There was a message from one of the group’s mothers who had spotted someone trying to sell the stolen baby stroller at a quasi pop-up sidewalk sale on the Granville strip. Branny immediately jumped in her car to track it down. While most people on the street were dressed up for a night on the town, she arrived in the heart of the city’s entertainment district in jeans and a comfy cardigan, determined to ﬁnd the person who was apparently trying to hawk the stroller for $20. “I just wanted it back,” she told the Courier. Her foot patrol was fruitless. The thief had moved on. Branny, however, was not willing to move on in defeat.

“Something came over me,” she said. “I thought, ‘Why don’t I drive by on Hastings? And lo and behold, there he was at Carrall and Hastings.” She recognized her stroller instantly — as well as the incongruity of a man who appeared to be in his early thirties offering it for sale to passersby. But while she’d been willing to confront him in person if she’d found him on Granville Street, caution became the better part of valour and she texted a friend who advised her to call 911. Sitting in her car and talking to the dispatcher on the phone, she saw the man starting to pack up shop. “Can I go out and get it,” Branny asked the dispatcher, who reassured her that ofﬁcers would momentarily be on the scene. When the ofﬁcers arrived, the man started running but he was soon apprehended, handcuffed and arrested. The man said that he hadn’t stolen it; instead, he said, he’d found it “in a ditch” near Main Street and East 15th Avenue — right where Branny and her family lives. When Branny posted about her adventures on Facebook on Sunday, some people responded that the story is really about homelessness and what people do to survive. Branny, however, says that while the man appeared to have a problem with drugs, he was probably not homeless. But he was in possession of something that was hers and she deserved to get it back. “I know that they’re ill and that they’re messed up

East Van rental project could be revised Public reaction about a rental project proposed for Renfrew Street means city staff could request that the rezoning application be revised. The proposal, which is for 708 to 796 Renfrew St. near the PNE, was presented at an open house April 5. The plan envisions a ﬁve-storey, secured market rental building with 77 secured market rental units replacing several existing single-family homes, some of which were built less than 10 years ago. There would be retail space and townhouses at ground level. The rezoning application is being pitched under the city’s Affordable Housing Choices Interim Rezoning Policy. At the recent open house,

concerns were raised around the height of the building proposed, the inclusion of at-grade commercial uses, the ﬁt within the neighbourhood and trafﬁc, according to the City of Vancouver. City staff are now going through the feedback. “These are matters that staff want to consider and review and could result in a request for the proposal to be revised,” city communications staff wrote in an email to the Courier. The project had been scheduled to go before the Urban Design Panel April 18, but that date was cancelled. Dates and timelines for next steps for the application have not been set yet. —Naoibh O’Connor

with drug use,” she says but that doesn’t make it right to steal. Her response was based on the injustice of the theft and wanting the stroller back. For Branny, the real lesson of this story is that “the power of the mommy community is amazing. Moms have a heart to help other moms.”

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Hold on, Vancouver’s election silly season has started early Mike Klassen

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The municipal election may still be 24 weeks away, but the lead up to the Oct. 20 vote has been something to behold. Low-profile candidates, new election spending and donations rules, randomized ballots and simmering public anger over Vision Vancouver’s failures is turning 2018 into one of the most disruptive election years the city has seen. And now with the NPA’s unceremonious dismissal of Hector Bremner — their leading mayoral nominee — Vancouver politics just got more bizarre. Local government elections typically have low turnout — only three or four out of 10 registered voters actually cast a ballot. With their long ballots with dozens of candidates listed, voters tend to cast the most votes for mayor, then school board, park board and finally council. The majority of those voters usually struggle to find names they know on the ballot, which leads them to select candidates by their affiliation to a party or elector organization (EO) brand. This is why joining the candidate slate of an EO gives you a fighting chance of getting elected. In 2018, however, EOs will be subject to new restrictions on raising campaign donations, thanks to new legislation brought in

Happier times for Hector Bremer at last year’s byelection. The NPA councillor’s mayoral hopes were dashed this week after members of the NPA board rejected his candidacy. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

by the B.C. NDP government. Candidates running as independents are not subject to the same limits that someone running with the Vancouver Greens, the NPA or Vision Vancouver are. New campaign spending limits — brought in by the previous B.C. Liberal government and only now taking effect — also will reduce the ability of individual candidates and elector organizations to advertise their candidates and election platforms. Do not expect TV

ads like the ones Vision Vancouver ran in their 2014 campaign, or large newspaper ads that local publications have long relied on. For weeks now, the Vancouver District Labour Council — made up of unionized worker representatives in the region — has been trying to ﬁnd “one candidate to rule them all.” That is, they are trying to ﬁnd a Vancouver mayoralty candidate acceptable to all left-leaning EOs such as Vision Vancouver, COPE

and the Green Party — so far without success. After failing to secure one of a handful of Vancouver politicians to run for the mayor’s job, it appears that the VDLC is casting its net into neighbouring Burnaby, by ﬂoating the name of BurnabySouth NDP MP Kennedy Stewart. Stewart narrowly won his riding against a Liberal candidate in 2015, which might be a factor in why he is looking at Vancouver as a place to run. Burnaby South is ground zero for one of B.C.’s most

egregious attacks on lowincome earners. Hundreds of modest apartment buildings have been razed there in recent years to make way for costly units in condo towers. Little or no accommodation has been made for those who are displaced, something their member of parliament could have helped with. Notwithstanding his carpetbagger status in Vancouver, Stewart’s mayoralty candidacy looks effectively D.O.A. based upon this lack of action for Burnaby’s poor.

While the left struggles to ﬁnd someone to lead them to the promised land, the NPA look completely discombobulated after the shocking rejection of Bremner’s candidacy by members of its board. To his credit, Bremner has worked harder and longer than any candidate in the race, and claims he has signed up thousands of supporters. The NPA’s green light committee had recommended that Bremner’s candidacy go through. Rejecting a sitting city councillor from running for mayor on the face of it seems to be a failure of board governance. Now the May 29 vote by members will focus on Bremner’s opponents Glen Chernen (formerly of the fringe Cedar Party) and park commissioner John Coupar. Candidate Ken Sim likely entered the race too late to win. Chernen’s candidacy is interesting in how it resembles Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House. Like the U.S. president, Chernen comes to the race with no political experience. A well-off West Side resident, he also likes to tweet about taking on the “elites” at city hall (even taking them to court). Did I mention we still have months of our election “silly season” yet to come? What a year this is shaping up to be. @MikeKlassen

School tax is concerning, but speculation tax remains bigger problem Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

Last week, an extraordinary amount of attention was given to a protest by West Side residents concerned about the B.C. government’s so-called “school tax.” Vancouver millennials were aghast that these people, the majority of whom owned multi-million-dollar homes, would dare to protest a tax that would cost many only a few thousand dollars. However, others, including many who did not own expensive homes, fully understood the protest. After all, in Canada, we have historically used income tax and consumption taxes, such as the GST and provincial sales taxes, to transfer wealth from rich to poor. They saw the school tax as an attempt by the NDP government to start taxing wealth.

In a CBC Early Edition debate, former Attorney General Suzanne Anton raised this concern with former NDP cabinet minister Moe Sihota. As expected, Sihota dismissed Anton’s concern out of hand. However, she was right. After all, this tax doesn’t apply when someone sells their property. It applies while they own their property. Around the world, governments tax assets of the well-to-do to fund programs for those who do not have assets. An example is Switzerland. There, a proportional property tax of around 0.3 to 0.5 per cent is levied on the total net worth of individuals. The tax applies to all assets, not just real estate, including investments, shares and savings accounts, less any debts. While Finance Minister

Carole James has never suggested her government might one day extend the school tax into an even broader wealth tax, many B.C residents fear this could happen. After all, by telling elderly homeowners to defer their taxes, this effectively becomes an inheritance tax. While I, too, have concerns about the school tax, my bigger concern is the socalled “speculation tax.” In the budget speech, James said her government is targeting property speculators to help make housing in overheated markets more affordable and available. She went on to say, “With this new tax, we’re targeting speculation in the housing market and freeing up vacant housing to be homes for British Columbians.” While this sounds admirable, this is not at all what the tax will do.

Firstly, while the university academics who ﬁrst proposed this tax tell me 80 per cent of the $200 million will come from foreign speculators, I see no evidence of this. Instead, I see this tax impacting a former NDP cabinet minister who lives up north and a B.C. interior mayor, both of whom keep second homes in Vancouver. Neither is a speculator; neither will be freeing up a vacant home. Ironically, they will struggle to pay the tax because they are too honest to cleverly avoid it. I cannot say the same for many others. This tax will also burden other B.C. residents and outof-province Canadians owning second homes in B.C. This brings me to enforcement. The government’s current proposal is to administer the tax outside of

the normal property tax system and property tax cycle. The administration cost of Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax more than doubled from the initial estimate, while the number of empty units converted to occupied homes remains uncertain. How much will it cost the province to set up a separate administration system? If, as SFU academic Josh Gordon says, 80 per cent of the so-called speculation tax will be paid by foreign speculators, then the government should exclude all Canadians from having to pay the tax. Currently properties awaiting development approvals are also subject to the tax. The government should exclude these properties as well. After all, how can the government claim this tax will produce more affordable housing when it adds to the cost of housing?

••• In 1991, the federal government introduced the GST. At the time I was president of the Urban Development Institute of Canada and warned former Conservative MP Michael Wilson and his ofﬁcials about unintended negative consequences of the tax. On Thursday May 10, at an SFU lecture at Harbour Centre titled “Looking back, Looking forward: Reﬂections on Housing Metro Vancouver,” I will be discussing how the GST has inadvertently reduced the supply of rental housing across Canada in the subsequent 27 years. You can attend by reserving a seat on the SFU Continuing Studies website sfu. ca/continuing-studies/events. Since the lecture is free, no tax is applicable. @michaelgeller

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Bikes taking over roads, parking Re: “Mobi bikes roll into East Vancouver,” April 26. Well, the Mobi bike stands already in place are taking away public parking spaces, in dense and very busy areas — Commercial Drive and Mount Pleasant. And more are to be placed, taking away public parking in Strathcona and the DTES. Just more of city council’s animus against car ownership and drivers — multi-taxpayers, all. And I’ve noticed that — in the West End, where the same has happened — the rental bikes are not much used, once summer tourism is over. Ah, well. Mike Tropp, Vancouver

Long division problem Re: “Adriane Carr awaits Vision Vancouver’s nod to run for mayor,” April 30. With the approaching general municipal election, I’m increasingly hearing that Vancouver’s Vision party needs to lose votes to independent and Green candidates, as overly comfortable ruling politicians and parties need an occasional correcting via the ballot box. Reactively, I’d wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion; however, progressive voters must be very careful when doing so. The recent Vancouver council seat byelection was won by the conservative NPA candidate by a relatively minute percentage, as the large majority centre-to-left votes got handily divided amongst ﬁve parties. Similarly did B.C.’s May 9 provincial elec-

tion night see the left-of-centre vote majority get divided between the Greens and NDP, while the effectively united-right Liberal party — as they were competing with the Christian Heritage Party in only ﬁve ridings, and 10 ridings with the BC Conservative party — was allowed to slide up the middle. And I found it disingenuous for some commentators I heard post-election suggest that the Green party had acted as a spoiler or swing vote, as though a notable number of their votes could’ve been taken from the conservative Liberals. Frank Sterle Jr, Vancouver

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Mayor Gregor Robertson talked to a group of kindergarten students from Lord Nelson school during a tree-planting event at Templeton Park last week. Since 2010, the city and park board have planted more than 105,000 trees in the city with a goal of reaching 150,000 by 2020. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

With less than two years to go, the City of Vancouver is closing in on its goal of planting 150,000 new trees by 2020. “Vancouver is aiming to be the world’s greenest city and I’m pleased that we’re on track to meet our goal of planting 150,000 new trees by 2020,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said at a

Public Hearing: May 22, 2018 Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. Zero Emissions Buildings Catalyst Tools To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to introduce discretionary relaxations and incremental increases in permitted floor area up to 5 per cent to encourage the voluntary construction of zero emission multi-unit residential and mixed-use buildings. Developing catalyst tools for zero emissions building is a key strategy of the Renewable City Strategy, which aims to achieve zero emissions in new buildings by 2030. 2. 425 West 6th Avenue To rezone 425 West 6th Avenue from C-3A (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 10-storey office building with commercial retail use at grade. A height of 43.2 metres (141.7 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 7.11 are proposed. 3. 2109 East Hastings Street To rezone 2109 East Hastings Street from C-2C1 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building with commercial uses at grade and 42 secured market rental housing units over two levels of underground parking. A height of 22.9 metres (75 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.20 are proposed.

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May 3 event at East Vancouver’s Templeton Park celebrating the city passing the 100,000 mark. “In Vancouver we’ve worked hard to build clean, green neighbourhoods with the world’s most spectacular urban forest,” Robertson said, thanking the city’s urban landscape team, as well as residents who are planting trees on private land. As part of last week’s event, the city planted, with a little help from a kindergarten class from Lord Nelson school, three more trees at Templeton Park bringing the total number of new trees planted since 2010 to 105,933. Forty-ﬁve per cent were planted on private land — in people’s yards and on development sites. Another 16 per cent were planted on city streets and 39 per cent in parks. “The park board remains committed to growing our urban forest well beyond 2020 with thousands of new trees

Urban forests are increasingly recognized as a critical part of a healthy and sustainable city. Nick Page

planned for community parks, natural areas in large parks such as Jericho and Everett Crowley and in neighbourhoods such as the Downtown Eastside where the canopy needs the most help,” said board chair Stuart Mackinnon. The park board has a number of “priority actions” outlined in its Urban Forest Strategy, including planting more street trees in the Downtown Eastside, Marpole, False Creek Flats and other neighbourhoods that have a low urban forest cover, and restoring the natural forests in the city’s larger parks — Stanley Park, Jericho, Musqueam, Everett Crowley and Renfrew Ravine — with a goal of reforesting more than 18 hectares in those areas by 2020. It also includes the goal of increasing the

city’s tree canopy to 22 per cent by 2050. In 1995, more than 20 per cent of the city was covered in trees. By 2013 that number had dropped to 18 per cent. Between 2013 and 2015, it increased to 19 per cent, with the bulk of the increase coming from new trees planted on public land — in parks and on streets. The next tree canopy measurement is planned for later this year. According to a report from park board biologist Nick Page, which was presented to commissioners last week, the tree canopy on private land is still decreasing but the rate at which it’s decreasing has slowed substantially since council brought in by-law amendments in 2014. Previously, a property owner could take down one healthy tree per year. Under the amended bylaw a tree can only be removed if it is diseased or dying, or causing damage to a water line or foundation. In the case of a site under development, a tree can be removed if it is within the building envelop, or is interfering with the location of a proposed garage or accessory building. For each tree that is removed, the property owner must plant one or two replacement trees, depending on the size of the tree. “Forests are part of the day-to-day life of Vancouver. Trees are waypoints that mark the changing of the seasons, enhance the physical and mental health of city residents, provide food in our gardens and support biodiversity,” Page said. “Urban forests are increasingly recognized as a critical part of a healthy and sustainable city.” In an effort to encourage residents to plant trees in yards and on balconies and patios, in 2015 the park board launched its ﬁrst tree sale. Taking place in the spring and the fall, the sale offers up 3,000 ﬂowering, fruit and shade trees — at $10 apiece. The latest tree sale is on now. Residents can pre-purchase trees online at vancouver.ca/tree-sale. Trees will be ready for pick up at Hillcrest Centre May 12 and 13. @JessicaEKerr

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It’s been a staple of Vancouver Park Board operations for decades, but the future of the city’s tree farm seems uncertain. The farm has been a part of the board’s operations for more than 60 years. It’s been at its current location, a 6.4-hectare plot of land in Campbell Valley Park in Surrey, since the 1970s. Before that it was in Cloverdale. The board leases the land from Metro Vancouver and last week staff told commissioners that it looks like the board will have to vacate the property. “We’ve been negotiating back and forth over the last several months and it looks like we don’t really have a choice,” Howard Normann, director of parks, told commissioners. “We’ll have to exit from that site. They do want it back.” He told commissioners that the rent is going up and the board is not able to bring in soil or water. NPA commissioner John Coupar, whose father worked for the park board for more than 40 years and at one time was responsible for the tree farm, said he was “quite shocked” by the news and added that he hopes to see the tree farm continue at another location. The board buys liners — young bare-root trees that

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Jan O’Brien Most of the trees planted along city streets started out at the Vancouver Park Board’s tree farm. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

are just a year or two old. The liners come in bundles of six to 12 and are planted at the farm. “Usually we bring them along for about another three to ﬁve years depending on the species of trees,” Normann told the Courier. Once the trees get to be around six to eight centimetres in diameter and two to four metres tall, they are harvested and wrapped for storage. When trees are needed they are brought to the park board’s nursery adjacent to Sunset Community Centre. “We usually have four planting crews that will go out and plant those trees,” Normann said, adding that most are destined for city streets. In recent years, the stock of trees at the farms runs, on average, between 1,600 and 2,300 trees a year. However, when it’s running at full capacity, there can be

upwards of 9,000 to 10,000 trees on the farm in different stages of growth. Normann said that as the city has matured, the demand for street trees has declined. “Back in the day we had hundreds of blocks of streets that required trees and now we’re pretty much maxed out,” he said. “We’re doing mostly replacements and some newer streets but we’re not doing it like we used to.” Normann said that the board is currently considering its options while negotiations continue. “There will always be a need for trees and we’re just evaluating the best way to get those trees,” he said. “But we will no longer be doing the massive planting of say two or three or four thousand trees a year on streets.” @JessicaEKerr

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Allan Buium, chairman of the Riley Park South Cambie Community Steering Committee, is worried about aspects of the Cambie Corridor plan. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Will Cambie Corridor experience more growing pains? Naoibh O’Connor

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City council approved the third phase of the Cambie Corridor plan last week, but one community organization worries about what the future holds. Allan Buium, chairman of the Riley Park South Cambie Community Steering Committee (RPSC), told the Courier members are happy with improvements to the public realm, but they’re confused about how the city is addressing affordable, social and non-market housing, and how the build-out will play out. They’re also worried about future trafﬁc congestion and that there won’t be enough schools to accommodate the anticipated population growth — the area’s population is expected to double by 2041. Phase three of the plan, which deals with growth and development in areas off of the arterials, aims to deliver 5,000 secured market rental units, 2,800 social housing units and 400 below-market rental units. Other targets within the plan include enabling the creation of many parks and plazas, as well as space for thousands of jobs in a new business centre in the Oakridge Municipal Town Centre, which covers the area around Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue. The RPSC group’s concerns were outlined in a letter sent to city staff, the mayor and councillors prior to the vote on the plan. Buium also anticipates group members will meet with city staff in the future. “To some degree we’re pleased. I think the public realm is a step in the right direction [but] we have con-

cerns with regards to some aspects of the housing. They talk about non-market housing, they talk about social housing. How are they going to do this with the [land] prices as high as they are?” Buium said. “What kinds of concessions are going to be given to the developers? That’s a factor that has to be considered in all of this.” The need for more affordable housing, especially given the high-price developments sparked by phase two, was cited as an inﬂuencing factor when staff worked on phase three. Between 2001 and 2017, the median income in Vancouver rose 18 per cent while the average market rent rose 75 per cent and the median sale price of an eastside single-detached home rose 365 per cent, according to city staff. But Buium isn’t clear what the housing mix in future high-rise developments will look like, and his group is concerned there won’t be enough economic diversity, which he says is critical for a healthy community. “If you create all nonmarket housing in one or two sectors, are we not going back to the whole concept of ghettoizing people? We think you need an honest socioeconomic mix, which is far heathier,” he said. Buium also isn’t convinced there will be enough housing produced over the life of the plan that working Vancouverites can afford. “The land costs are extremely high. We’d also like to see what we call alternative housing… there’s no mention of co-op housing coming in. If we’re going to bring in the other levels of government, what about the feds? What about CMHC

and co-op housing?” he said. And, given the population growth that’s expected, he wonders where incoming families will send their children to school, particularly elementary school. Buium maintains the school board and the city need to spend more time ensuring that issue is addressed, while the city should also focus on the potential for worsening traffic congestion. While he’s encouraged by plans to invest in areas such as walking and cycling infrastructure, he suspects most people won’t walk or ride as much in the rainy season and that there won’t be enough investment in transit infrastructure by TransLink. “We need a comprehensive traffic study and we haven’t see one. We think this is very, very important and needs to be done now, not five years from now,” he said. Ultimately, it’s unintended consequences of the plan, and the possibility of a faster pace of change than expected, that Buium particularly worries about. “People thought that phase two would be built out slowly. Well, it hasn’t. In five years, look at it. And we know other buildings are coming on stream,” he said. “That’s phase two. So, if the economy remains relatively stable, as some economists predict it will, and they’re talking about more job creation, and you’re also going to see Oakridge shopping centre start construction, probably in the latter part of this year, they’re going to be building out far more rapidly than the 20-year build-out that they often talk about now.” @naoibh

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SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com You name it, there’s a camp for that. In fact, the number of diverse summer camp offerings in Vancouver alone is astounding. A great place to start your search is your local community centres, which have summer programs listed on their websites. For the sake of this list, we’ve checked out some camps being offered across the city that focus on music. SUMMER OPERA CAMP: VANCOUVER OPERA vancouveropera.ca Kids attending this camp will write, stage and perform an original opera. Opera camp is an immersive musical and theatrical

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GIRLS ROCK CAMP VANCOUVER girlsrockcampvancouver.ca This camp is a project for female youth ages eight to 17, and provides young women the opportunity to explore, access and create music with the guidance of positive mentors. Girls Rock staff believe girls already possess the power, and that’s where they come in to provide the tools to amplify their already strong voices.

opportunity for female youth to move through their lives with success and confidence. JAM CAMP BY THE SEA jamcamp.org This all-ages camp is located on Salt Spring Island and if you like singing around the campfire, strumming a ukulele along the seashore, and dancing to marimbas with your whole family, this is the camp for you. Workshops include rhythm circles, cultural workshops, dancing, and creative song writing. Jam Campers write, perform and record songs in small groups facilitated by professional musicians. Jam campers learn new instruments and explore with instruments they may already be learning.

Girls Rock Camp Vancouver also believes in diminishing Jam Camp sexism and other forms of By the Sea oppression and that every person deserves to believe in themselves regardless of (but not limited to) economic status, sexual orientation, ability, age, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, citizenship, language, HASTINGS resources or size. The COMMUNITY CENTRE camp strives to provide an NOTE: check out your local community centre for music-themed camps close to home. hastingscc.ca Music-themed summer camp programs include Only Adventures in Music for $345! ages one to five, Music Together, a music and movement program for A program for singers, young children and the dancers and adults who love them, and actors ages 8-16 Musical Half-Day Camp, a fun-filled week of musical theatre, during which kids ages six to 12 create a mini musical, including props and costume pieces to JULY 3-13, 2018 10-4 DAILy West Point Grey United Church perform for parents on the www.bcchoralfed.com/choralstage last day.

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Elbow Room’s snarky days could be numbered Property slated for affordable housing by 2021 Alexander Kurial

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It ain’t over till the last insult is slung. That’s the deﬁant attitude of Patrice Savoie, owner of the Elbow Room Cafe on Davie Street — a staple of both the West End and Vancouver’s gay community since 1983. On May 4, the city announced the property, which houses the café and several other establishments, will be redeveloped into affordable housing by the year 2021, putting the restaurant’s future in limbo. There are some hints upon arrival that the Elbow Room isn’t your average restaurant, and no one who walks through the door is safe from becoming part of the theatrics. Before customers even take a seat, or grab a cup of coffee — heaven help you if you ask a server for a reﬁll — a vivacious waiter

will have already dished up a healthy jab or barb to cut them down to size. Like any good show, you need good actors. This is where the employees of the Elbow Room take centre stage, walking the line expertly between shrewd insults and good-natured — albeit raunchy — entertainment. “It’s really refreshing to work for a place where you can just be yourself,” says Piotr Konrad Jaskiewicz, who has been a waiter at the Elbow Room for the past ﬁve years. “It’s really liberating to be able to say what you want to customers.” The emphasis on ﬂair starts at the top. Savoie has operated the restaurant in the West End since 1983, and his prerogative has never changed: to leave customers a little fuller than when they arrived, both in stomach and in spirit. “We try to make it so that the people leave knowing they got a good meal, but at the same time it wasn’t just food that they bought but maybe a little bit of pleasure at the same time,” Savoie says. This approach has helped

The Elbow Room’s Piotr Konrad Jaskiewicz served up breakfast with a healthy side of sass Monday morning. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

him foster a deep connection with his patrons over the years, many of whom have developed into close friends. “I’ve had customers that have come in and go, ‘Oh Patrick I’m so down.’ And we talk and they go, ‘Patrick I feel like you’re

part of my family.’” It seems those days are numbered, however. The city is going ahead with its plan to develop seven Vancouver sites into affordable housing. While the Elbow Room sits within the boundaries of one such site on the corner of Davie and

Seymour streets, Savoie still isn’t convinced the development is a done deal. “They don’t even have yet the development permit sign on the building, or anything telling the people what they want to do with the area,” Savoie says. “So who knows what’s going to happen.” He is also interested to see what changes a new mayor and city council could potentially bring to the discussion this October. With the wheels in motion, however, at the very least Savoie expects customers to be entertained for another year or two while the process plays out. After that, he is unsure of what the future holds. Savoie says it will all depend on his staff. He adds he’s grateful for their support in the wake of his husband, and cofounder of the cafe, Bryan Searle’s death in December. If staff has the desire to continue in a new location, Savoie will do his best to make it happen. However, he stresses, the main impediment is being able to survive as an independent restaurant in

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Fear for safety of elderly with dementia prompts Silver Alert call Search and rescue volunteer promotes petition calling on the federal government to take action DIANE STRANDBERG A veteran Coquitlam Search and Rescue volunteer who has participated in numerous searches for missing elderly people with dementia — including two who died while lost — hopes a petition will prompt the federal government to adopt a national Silver Alert strategy. Michael Coyle was asked to provide advice and to support a Silver Alert

who was never found, and a Burnaby woman who was found dead on a park bench — said he’s frustrated by the lack of action.

The province is now testing an emergency alert system for wireless devices, with Alert Ready — a joint

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Still, he would like to see more action, with the federal government taking a leadership role.

Michael Coyle supports a petition calling for the federal government to take action on a Silver Alert program, which would alert people in the event an elderly person with dementia goes missing.

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Lifetime Talks + Tables Sam Noh with a poster of his dad, Shin, who went missing and was never found.

would check around their yards or neighbourhoods and keep an eye out, he said. “If the federal government is going to have an alerting system, why not a Silver Alert idea? We’d only need a ﬁve-km radius to start.” Coyle said most people with dementia could be found close to home if such an alert system were in place. What’s different about people with dementia compared to other people who go missing is that those with cognitive impairment don’t know how to get home or won’t seek help. “Other people who go missing, go missing for various reasons. It’s in their power to come back,” Coyle said, noting the exception is victims of foul play.

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He believes a Silver Alert system, which would give details and instructions over radio, television and wireless devices, would save lives.

The Vancouver Courier and St. Paul’s Foundation are once again partnering to produce the Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event at VanDusen Botanical Garden. And while this annual seniors’ event will once again take place in September, this year a second date has been added — June 6.

In the case of Noh, a credible sighting was provided to emergency rescuers, but it was too late to do anything about it, he said. Coyle would like to see an initiative to get information out to people more quickly.

“We need help getting the information out faster.”

Highlights of the day include Dialogue on Aging — a public presentation series with informative speakers, demonstrations and tables offering information on supports and services. Anyone looking to book a table (there is a cost) can contact Maureen Laventure at mlaventure@vancourier.com. Check out the following schedule to best plan your day.

11 A.M. Sleep Matters Sleep consultant Glenn Landry: Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Glenn Landry has studied circadian rhythms and sleep for more than 20 years and his postdoctoral research focused on sleep, aging and cognition. 12:45 P.M. Using Technology to Improve Safety and Quality of Dementia Care Lillian Hung: Clinical nurse specialist at Vancouver General Hospital 2:15 P.M. Getting Older and Getting Wiser: Mindfulness and Aging Elizabeth Drance: Geriatric psychiatric and clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the University of B.C.

TALKS + TABLES TIPS The Lifetime Seniors Talks + Tables event is four hours long so you should plan strategically. Here are a few pointers to make your day more pleasant. ! There will be a table with greeters set up at both the visitor centre, which is home to the BMO Theatre, and above by the parking lot outside the Floral Hall. ! Dress accordingly. (Fingers crossed the sun will shine.) ! No pets allowed, with the exception of service animals. ! Bring a snack: Trufﬂes cafe is located in the visitor centre, but it can be busy at peak times. ! Also under the topic of “planning ahead,” choose which talk you most want to hear and get there early to ensure you have a seat. Same goes with demonstrations.

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Currently, RCMP send out alerts but they have to be broadcast by radio or posted on social media to be immediately effective and that doesn’t always happen — and not everyone listens to radio or is on social media. “We need help getting the information out faster,” said Coyle.

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The word ‘tinnitus’ is derived from the Latinword ‘tinnire’, meaning ‘to tinkle’ or ‘ring likea bell’. The sounds heard can range from a humming to a high-pitched ringing or a roar. The vast majority of those with Tinnitus are told that there is no medical cure, no medication to treat it. In Canada, about 5 million people have a form of it. Interestingly, research studies conducted with loudness matching experiments, have shown that the loudness of an individual’s tinnitus is usually only 5 decibels above their hearing threshold during the test. Despite that, the effect on many peoples’ lives ranges beyond being only mildly annoying to severe enough to have a chronic impact upon their quality of life: the inability to concentrate, sleep disorders, anxiety, and depression.

Those with Meniere’s disease of the inner ear may report a roaring Tinnitus. One’s physician may find it pulsatile in quality, vascular in origin. But people with supersensitive hearing may suffer as well.

Those with Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) quite often experience a high-pitched ringing due to the damage to their cochlear hair cells, resulting in high-frequency, treble hearing loss.

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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT), an audiologic treatment encompassing the ear and the brain, has emerged as an effective method of treating Tinnitus. Using a desensitization approach, the patient uses environmental sound, or ear-level sound generators (with or without incorporated hearing aids) to partially mask their Tinnitus, so they can still hear their Tinnitus but are less aware of it. Counselling is an important part of TRT, helping the patient to accept that the objective is not to eliminate the Tinnitus but rather to minimize the perception of it by training the brain to treat the sound as meaningless, not Causes of Tinnitus can range from the simple, like cerumen (hardened ear wax) lodging something to be feared or dreaded. against the tympanic membrane (ear drum) to the complex, an imbalance between neurons carrying auditory information from the tiny hair cells of the cochlear (the spiral-shaped cavity forming a division of the internal ear) to the brain and back again. Antibiotics and high doses of aspirin can also aggravate Tinnitus. It is important for physicians to rule out a VIII cranial nerve tumour as well. For patients with hearing loss and Tinnitus, the

Dr Ted Venema earned a BA in Philosophy at Calvin College and an MA in Audiology at Western Washington University. After working for three years as a clinical Audiologist at The Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto, he went back to school and completed a PhD in Audiology at the University of Oklahoma. He was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University in Alabama. In 2017, Ted began teachinginthenewHearingInstrumentPractitioner program at Douglas College in Coquitlam BC. He continues to give presentations on hearing, hearing loss and hearing aids.

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More than a million people have seen the Vancouver Courier’s video about “the blob of Lost Lagoon.” You can multiply that by 135 when Discovery Channel features it in a new fall season of one of its popular shows. On May 1, Celina Starnes of the Stanley Park Ecology Society and I were back in front of the camera. However, unlike our first encounter last August when we filmed the YouTube sensation, we were being interviewed by the Discovery Channel for a show that they’ve asked us not to reveal. “People have never seen anything like [the blob],” director of photography Mark Goodhew said as we walked from the Stanley Park parking lot to the place where volunteers had found the blobs, a.k.a. bryozoans, lurking under the surface of the biofiltration pond that feeds into Lost Lagoon.

Celina Starnes of the Stanley Park Ecology Society describes how the blob of Lost Lagoon came to be to director of photography Mark Goodhew of the Discovery Channel. PHOTO MARTHA PERKINS

“There’s also a mysterious element of submerging into an underwater world,” he adds of what piqued the Discovery Channel’s interest. “When it’s so bizarre and alive like that, it’s fascinating to people — and ‘the blob from Lost Lagoon’ sounds like a ﬁlm.”

Goodhew is from Luton, north of London, England. The day before, he and Graham Evans, a London-based producer/ location director, were in Seattle ﬁlming what might be the world’s smallest horse. That night they were ﬂying to Colo-

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rado to interview a man who’s built a car with four hydraulic arms that allow it to climb rocks. All told, they will be in 13 locations over three and a half weeks. When the blob story and video appeared on the Courier’s website last

August, it was a low-key story about the invertebrate animals, which have gone largely unnoticed in the park for a few years. Best described as a large gelatinous mass that feels like an unpeeled lychee fruit that’s been left out for a few days, bryozoa have been moving north in freshwater lakes as North America warms up. Last summer was so hot and dry that the pond’s level dropped, undoing the blobs’ best attempts to camouﬂage themselves in the murky depths. The Courier’s video might have gone unnoticed were it not for National Geographic’s interest. It wrote a story on its website, as did Popular Science (which introduced us to the term “dragon booger”) and the Smithsonian. When the British tabloids got a hold of it, however, they made it worthy of a 1950s horror ﬂick. “Mystery of the slimy brain-like ‘alien blobs’ found in a Canadian

lagoon that appear to be SPREADING,” reads the Daily Mail story. “Terrifying blob creature that looks like a BRAIN discovered in spooky lake called ‘The Lost Lagoon,” screamed the Sun, adding more drama with its subhead: “Video shows hideously ugly organism jiggling and pulsating as it’s dragged from the water.” For Starnes, whose sultry voice helped made the blob seem even more fascinating, and who is a natural in front of the camera, reaction to the video was both fun and unexpected. She was out for dinner when someone recognized her as “the blob lady.” As for those who hope to catch sight of the blob, she says right now they’re in the cytoblast stage, “Their version of an egg. They’re still hiding out, waiting for conditions to be right.” You’ll also have to wait to watch the Discovery Channel show. It’s not yet known when it will air this fall.

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Sweeping changes related to booze and entertainment coming Patios on Granville strip, late-night live music in restaurants among new initiatives adopted by city council The way Vancouverites experience nightlife is getting a serious re-think, as changes to everything from liquor labels to licensing and live music were passed by council May 2. The suite of wide-ranging policy changes are aimed predominantly at the downtown Granville strip but also extend to restaurants and bars across the city. Some of the highlights from council’s four-plus hour discussion include: • Liquor establishments on the Granville strip will be allowed to apply for licensed patios, a shift that could see anywhere from six to 10 new patios open up. • A new type of liquor business licence will permit galleries, non-profits and other arts groups to sell booze during regular business hours, up until 11 p.m. • An amendment to the city’s noise bylaw will allow restaurants and other food and liquor joints to have live music until 1 a.m. • Businesses serving booze will now be required to post drink sizes and strengths, similar to the way some restaurants are required to disclose calorie counts and other health indicators. Those affected by the new bylaw have three months to make those changes. • Liquor advertising will be restricted in grocery stores to minimize visibility for minors. Outside of hard-and-fast policy changes, council also agreed to find more money for the downtown safety and advocacy group Good Night Out, while also asking city staff and the Vancouver Police Department to examine upping fines for fighting. The current penalty ranges between $500 and $1,000. A “nightlife council” that will act as liaison between businesses, venues, nightclubs, the arts sector and the city was also endorsed. Council turned down calls for CCTV in the downtown core after a staff memo cited research concluding security cameras were not entirely effective in deterring violence. About 10 speakers spanning academia, police, business improvement associations and the hospitality and liquor sectors helped shape the discussion, including Mirick Milan, who holds the title of “night mayor” in Amsterdam. Milan has been a direct advisor to the

mayor of the Dutch capital for six years. “I understand that Amsterdam sometimes has this image of a hedonistic Valhalla, but we are not … I think our open-minded and tolerant approach and really focusing on education and harm reduction from a really young age, these are the policies that work,” he said. Alongside an advisory group of 20, Milan’s work has seen the blending of public and private spaces in Amsterdam and the creation of 24-hour entertainment venues outside the downtown core. His work doesn’t focus exclusively on bars, pubs and restaurants as being nightlife. Instead, art galleries, familyfriendly programming and even co-working spaces all need to use the same space to dissuade widespread public drunkenness. “I really think diversity in nightlife can really tackle these alcohol-related problems,” he said. Milan noticed an exodus of young people from Amsterdam — similar to Vancouver’s current reality — starting about eight years ago. Many of them were leaving for Berlin, Germany, which now boasts the world’s second-largest tech sector. Many of them, he said, left because Amsterdam was no longer fun and the battle for talent and employee recruitment was being won by other European cities. Noting Amazon’s impending footprint in Vancouver — and the 3,000 jobs it will bring — Milan stressed the importance of varied nightlife to keep young people interested in city life. “A vibrant nightlife makes sure a lot of young creative people want to live in our city,” he said. Robert Catherall has spent the better part of the last decade studying those in the same sphere as Milan. Catherall works in urban planning and focused his master’s degree studies in nightlife around the world. He spoke to the similar night mayor positions in Pittsburgh, Sydney, Australia and London. Catherall’s statistics from London’s experience with nightlife and a night mayor, a position introduced in 2016, were particular telling. He said 12 per cent of the city’s workforce, or one in eight residents, work in the evening hours, an overall economy that generates 26 billion pounds a year. All-night tube service

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— similar to our SkyTrain system, but underground — was introduced in London in late 2016. That move generated 171 million pounds from evening ridership last year alone. The City of Vancouver is in talks with TransLink to extend SkyTrain hours on

weekends, though city staff offered little in the way of updates on those talks. The concept of a night mayor wasn’t formally adopted by council, largely because a pair of other policy documents — the Creative City and Vancouver Music strategies — are already

examining adopting that post and are expected to be before council this year. Binge drinking and sexual misconduct were also central to a number of presentations. VPD Staff Sgt. Damian Searwar noted the number of bylaw tickets written for ﬁghting on the Granville strip has jumped annually since 2014 — 15 at that point, compared to 87 last year. Vancouver Coastal Health medical health ofﬁcer Dr. John Carsley stressed the need for labelling drink volumes and contents, noting B.C. has one of the highest consumption rates in Canada. “B.C as a whole has a ‘Let’s drink until we fall down’ culture,” he said. Good Night Out Vancouver coordinator Stacey Forrester said her group recently conducted an eight-week study of all things nightlife on the Granville Strip, and talked to about 500 people in that timeframe. Overall, 87 per cent of respondents didn’t feel safe in, or moving

through, the Granville strip, an area of town she noted as having a “very precarious” reputation. “I get emotional when I think about how harassment and fear of violence prevents some people from partaking in the rich music, arts and cultural aspects of our city,” she said. Like Milan, Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association CEO Charles Gauthier stressed the need for diversifying the uses of Granville Street — making it more family friendly and accessible to groups through varying the business offerings along the street. News that the former Tom Lee building — 7,800 square feet of space — will soon be home to a co-working business that will house about 1,000 employees should help shift how Granville Street is used and perceived. “I think it’s going to turn the street around,” Gauthier said. @JohnKurucz

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Spike Lee. Robert De Niro. Aubrey Plaza. James Franco. My Little Pony. Seth Rogen. Dan Mangan. Morgan Spurlock. Bob Odenkirk. Mike Myers. Those are just a few of the names award-winning Vancouver documentary filmmaker Brent Hodge has worked with since creating Hodgee Films six years ago. How has he done it? “One of the things you have to know about Brent is that he has a magical power to open doors,” explains Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Mangan. “His work ethic is tremendous. He is wildly audacious in the most benevolent way.” Mangan should know. He was the subject of one of Hodge’s first films, What Happens Next? The Dan Mangan Documentary — about Mangan’s ascent to headline the Orpheum Theatre for the first time. Hodge’s own climb into the Hollywood documentary stratosphere has been astounding to watch. Before directing and producing movies for a living, Hodge spent his formative years in Victoria, playing Junior B hockey for the Victoria Cougars. He earned himself a business degree and arrived in Vancouver looking to break into acting and comedy. During the day, he held down a video production job at CBC Radio 3, even though he had no prior experience in media. (That’s where this scribe first met him.) By night, he was doing live comedy as a member of Grimaldi’s

In six short years, director Brent Hodge has amassed a sizable and colourful documentary resume.

Asylum. “That was a Vancouver sketch comedy troupe that had a totally amazing cast, but we drew flies,” remembers Hodge with a chuckle. “I mean nobody came to see us, but it’s where I met a lot of the incredibly talented people I still work with today.” At the same time, Hodge managed to fit in night school for film, and picked up shirtless bartending shifts at 1181, an infamous lounge on Davie Street. Within a year of working at the CBC, he had convinced his boss (former CBC executive Steve Pratt) to allow him to follow Vancouver pop band Said The Whale to the South By Southwest mu-

sic convention in Austin, Texas. Hodge filmed the whole thing. That became 2011’s Winning America, Hodge’s first full-length documentary. What Happens Next? (2012) with Mangan followed — Hodge’s first under the banner of his own production company, Hodgee Films. When that landed on TV, everything changed for Hodge. “When I saw that on TV it hit me — I had become a director. That’s when I realized that was exactly what I wanted to do with my life,” Hodge recalls. What happened next was Hodge’s first big directorial break: A Brony Tale (2014), starring Ashleigh Ball of Van-

couver band Hey Ocean! That doc focused on the fascinating world of the adult fan network for the cartoon My Little Pony, for which Ball is a voice actor. The ﬁlm attracted the interest of Morgan “Super Size Me” Spurlock’s production company, which led to much wider distribution and a red carpet world premiere at De Niro’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Next up for Hodge was the star-studded, funny and moving documentary/ obituary I Am Chris Farley (2015), which saw buy-in from almost every comedian Farley ever worked with, including Adam Sandler, David Spade and more. A well-received

sports doc called The Pistol Shrimps (2016) was next, about a celebrity female amateur basketball team in L.A. starring Aubrey Plaza. Several of Hodge’s ﬁlms have won awards. Hodge now spends plenty of time in New York, where he has recently worked with Spike Lee. Despite his part-time East Coast residency, Hodge maintains an almost entirely Vancouver-based crew and production company. He has also practically cornered the market on pop culture documentaries. “Our goal at Hodgee Films is to produce 10 docs a year,” Hodge says. “We have ﬁve in the works right now.” Hodge makes a triumphant return to Vancou-

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The joy of sex-positive photography Photographer Ricardo Scipio wants to celebrate sexuality in whatever size and form it takes John Kurucz

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For a guy who photographs couples having sex, Ricardo Scipio gets particularly uncomfortable when the P word is mentioned. Within minutes of speaking to the Courier, the 53-year-old photographer is quick to disassociate his vision with pornography. Instead, he uses terms such as joy, sex positive and celebration when referring to getting shots of couples getting hot. Scipio is in the midst of mounting a cross-Canada tour to take photos for the second instalment of his book, The Sex Goddess Project Book 2. He’s currently booking shoots in Vancouver and across the region before heading to the Maritimes this summer. It’s his seventh jaunt across the country in the last six years, all the while documenting the deed. “I’d spent my whole career trying to avoid doing anything sexual because I didn’t want my work compared to porn and I didn’t even want it compared to any sort of erotica,” he said. “I wanted to stay well away from that territory and I managed to do that.” Scipio characterizes his work like this — if porn represents one per cent of body types, his photos strive to capture the other 99. He’s worked with women ranging in weight from “90 pounds to 360

pounds,” with the end goal of celebrating variety. To that end, his latest offering focuses on men, women and those who identify as transgender who represent as many ethnicities, cultures and body types as possible. Scipio’s been in the photo game for three decades and worked in fashion for a decade before opting for the carnal side of the camera four years ago. And what a transition it was. Scipio was photographing a 70-year-old woman in the buff who, unannounced and rather unapologetically, began pleasuring herself. Scipio kept clicking away. Less than two months later, Scipio says a 53-year-old woman did the same thing. Again, he kept shooting. “I couldn’t ignore it and started to think back to other shoots and realized that other women that I had photographed wanted to express themselves more sexually but I didn’t allow it,” he said. “I had such tight constraints on what my work was about so I didn’t allow room for that. Then I realized I was just another man supressing women’s sexuality and I decided that’s not really the side of history I want to be on.” All of this is a far cry for a guy from a born-again Christian family who was once being groomed to be a church pastor. Much to his surprise, Scipio’s mom attended one of his shows in Toronto and — this part

wasn’t a surprise — was not particularly comfortable. She’s also seen images on his desktop that she described as “nasty.” Vancouver’s Amanda Sinclair falls on the other side of the ledger than the Scipio family patriarch. Sinclair and her partner are in a polyamorous relationship and were photographed by Scipio in late March. She defines a “sex goddess” as someone who embodies liberation, no matter how unorthodox that may appear to others. “It’s a woman who embraces, acknowledges and celebrates her sexuality and is real about it,” she said. “If you like to get dressed up in chicken suits and have sex, then that’s your sex. If you like to have missionary sex under the covers with the lights on, that’s your sex.” At 45, Sinclair has reconciled her appearance despite being a self-described “short and round girl” who pines for getting a $10,000 tummy tuck one day. “I’ve learned to accept and embrace who I am and how I look as I work to sculpt the most beautiful version of myself, which includes sharing it with others,” she said. “Part of it is acceptance. I’ve accepted that I’m five foot three and that I’ll never be five foot seven like I want to be.” Scipio’s work can be viewed online at the not-safe-for-work website ricardoscipio.ca. @JohnKurucz

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as an example of sciencedriven movie magic. The Pixar team set themselves the challenge of making Sully’s fur look soft, flowing and realistic. In order to accomplish this, “you have to have physicists figure out how fur moves, and then you have to have mathematicians write the formulas for those movements, and that has to be encoded by computer scientists, and artists are also involved with basically what the fur is going to look like,” says Lunde. “That’s STEAM in action right there.” The Science Behind Pixar is that rare exhibition that appeals to pretty much everyone, says Coggan: Millennials who grew up with Pixar films, parents whose children grew up with Pixar, and anyone who’s ever watched a Pixar film and wondered, ‘How’d they do that?’ “There’s nobody who isn’t going to get something out of visiting this experience, whether it be reminiscing or learning or gaining an understanding,” says Coggan. The exhibition begins with a five-minute intro video that lays out the eight different steps of Pixar’s digital pipeline, after which it’s up to the visitor to plot their own course through the 40 interactive elements, “which in reality is how a Pixar movie is made,” notes Coggan. “Yes, you start with the story and art, and yes, you end with rendering, but there’s a lot of back and forth throughout the process of making a movie.” Visitors can render one of the scenes from Inside Out, play with the lighting in Ratatouille and Up, and learn about the 3D graph-

ics in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory. There are videos featuring scientists, technicians, animators, and producers chock-full of anecdotes about making Pixar films. Coggan recommends visitors give themselves at least an hour to explore the exhibition. The Science Behind Pixar is an especially eyeopening exhibition in a city like Vancouver, where the animation industry is a flourishing and critical segment of the local screen scene. Several key players — including the Vancouver Film School and Atomic Cartoons — have been invited to use the exhibition as a venue to speak with kids who might be interested in pursuing a career in the animation field, says Coggan. “There’s so much opportunity right here in this city, let alone worldwide, and the technological advancements that are going on in animation and filmmaking in general, I think [the exhibition] is going to pique interest. I think kids are going to be inspired to be like, ‘I like art and science, this is something I could actually do,’ whether it’s in animation movies or videogames.” Science World is adding extended hours for The Science Behind Pixar — and every Tuesday beginning June 5, they’ll be screening a Pixar film in the order that they were released, beginning with 1995’s Toy Story. The Science Behind Pixar runs May 19 to Jan. 6, 2019 at Science World. Schedule and ticket information at ScienceWorld.ca.

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Although TV’s Freaks and Geeks only ran a mere 18 episodes, it found its way into the heart of many fans to become a cult classic. Beloved for its quirky humour and cast caught on the doorsteps of massive fame, the show is now the subject of a documentary by filmmaker Brent Hodge. Showing as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, the film screens first at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on May 11, then at the Cinematheque on May 13. Friday, May 11, 8:15 p.m. SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St. Sunday, May 13, 8 p.m. Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St. doxafestival.ca

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If there’s one silver lining for Americans frustrated with the presidency of Donald Trump, it’s the abundance of topical art, comedy and music born of the frustration. Rockers MGMT say the current political climate in their native U.S. inspired their latest album, Little Dark Age. They’ve hit the road to tour in support of the release, and will be in Vancouver at the Orpheum this week. Friday May 11, doors 7 p.m., show 8 p.m. Orpheum, 601 Smithe St. vancouvercivictheatres.com/events/ mgmt-may-2018/

A family drama centred on the emotional and financial costs of a changing real estate landscape right where they live sounds like it could be a story of contemporary Vancouver. But no, it’s the main thread of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. The Smoking Gun Collective presents this masterpiece of the 20th century at the Jericho Arts Centre, directed by the X-Files’ very own “Cigarette Smoking Man” William B. Davis. Until May 19, Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. jerichoartscentre.com

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Having the Courage to ﬁght for mental health services Martha Perkins

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Imagine a time when Coast Mental Health questioned whether it should put its name outside its new office and club house for fear of exposing the people who walked in and out its doors to discrimination. It wasn’t that long ago. Even in this #Let’sTalk era, people who speak openly about their mental health risk being stereotyped or, worse yet, becoming a victim of prejudice. Housing can be denied, careers sidelined and friendships rejected. Coast’s Courage To Come Back awards have done a lot to chip away at those stigmas, the organization says on the eve of the awards’ 20th anniversary ceremony on May 10. By honouring the people who have faced tremendous hardships and telling the story of how they found the inner fortitude to rebuild their lives, the Courage awards have offered a powerful and often uplifting message of hope. Although the award recipients are not necessarily directly tied to Coast Mental Health, or the services it provides in the Lower Mainland, the celebration of resilience serves several important roles for the organization. In 1987, Darrell Burnham joined Coast as its CEO, 15 years after its inception. One of the first challenges he was given was starting the capital campaign to raise the money to buy what is now the office on East 11th Avenue near Main Street. Another looming issue was the loss of provincial funding for one of its programs. At the time, not only did Coast not have much in the way of fundraising, but there was resistance to the very idea that it was necessary. “Among the clients there was a feeling we shouldn’t be fundraising because the government should be funding everything because it was an essential service,” says founding chair Shirley Broadfoot. They had to be convinced that if people are willing to open their wallets, it means you’ve touched them in some way. And by touching them, you make them care about the organization and the people it serves. “Fundraising requires

Courage To Come Back awards chair Lorne Segal, Coast Mental Health Foundation executive director Isabela Zabava, founding Courage chair Shirley Broadfoat and Coast Mental Health’s Darrell Burnham are looking forward to the May 10 awards night — the event’s 20th. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

you to talk about what you do,” Burnham explains, and people were very frightened of even mentioning mental illness. “I’ve had people say the stigma is worse than the impact of the illness itself. It’s very powerful.” Also debilitating is selfstigma, the feeling that if you have a mental illness you are worthless. “They feel, ‘People are looking at me so I’d better not go out there,’” he says of some clients. “But if you’re feeling depressed, isolation is not a good therapy. That’s what is good about Let’s Talk [Bell Canada’s initiative for people to share their stories of mental illness]. People feel less afraid to selfidentify, even though they are still very careful about who they tell.” “We once had a debate about the word ‘stigma,’” Broadfoot says. “It almost gives you a feeling that there’s some responsibility — that the person who is being stigmatized has done something to deserve it.” She says people are afraid of what they don’t know, which is one of the reasons she agreed to accept the invitation to join Coast — “I needed to challenge myself.” The stigmas around mental health held back the organization’s fundraising abilities for the ﬁrst few

decades. In the days before casinos were legal, its primary fundraising event was taking its turn running provincially sanctioned bingo nights, which were a lot of work for a relatively small return. Broadfoot’s arrival on the board was welcome in small part because she owned the Entertainment Coupon Books that charities vied for. (The books were sold to charities and service clubs on consignment; when a year’s new batch came in, she had to hire security to guard them.) “That was Coast’s fundraising plan — to raise $1 million for the building at $8 a book [in proﬁts],” Burnham says. Broadfoot was ﬁrst approached about being chair of Courage but when she declined — she’d just retired with the hopes of spending more time with her family — she was asked to join the board instead. It wasn’t long after, however, that Broadfoot agreed to be the event’s chair. “It was so exciting,” she says. “Courage was good in every way we could think of. We were giving people role models and mentors and telling stories that seemed almost impossible. We just knew it was something we needed to do.” “Most people hate events because they’re so

much work for the return,” Burnahm says. “There was something about Courage and the promotion of our mission and identifying heroes. In mental health, we had no heroes…. “We knew it would be an inspiring event. We believed that if we got people into the room, and told the recipients’ stories well, people would be inspired.” Media groups throughout the city were approached to be sponsors; Coast knew that it would be easier to get other sponsors involved if they knew the event, and the recipients, would be profiled. BCTV (now Global BC) was one of the first onboard, as well as the Vancouver Sun until the Province took over, Fairchild News and News 1130. (In 2017, the Vancouver Courier and its parent, Glacier Media, became the official print sponsor.) The first awards ceremony — they prefer not to call it a gala — was at the Hotel Vancouver and attracted 600 people. “There were five stunning recipients and, for a first event, everything went beautifully,” Broadfoot says. Getting up on stage to accept the award can be very intimidating. That first year, Coast hosted the recipients the night before

at a Grizzlies basketball game. This put them at their ease and provided the inspiration for what is now a dessert reception at which recipients can meet each other and ease into their starring roles. Most events have an arc of four to ﬁve years but Courage, Burnham says, “seemed to have other lives.” Although it was not initially a big money maker, the evening was so inspiring, and the recipients so deserving of recognition, Coast remained committed to the event. And then Joe Segal came to Courage. The Vancouver entrepreneur and philanthropist learned about Coast through its support of a housing project for people with mental illness in Vancouver’s Jewish community. He was deeply touched by the recipients’ stories. At a subsequent lunch at Chartwell restaurant at the Four Seasons — where Segal had a corner table under the portrait of Winston Churchill — representatives from Coast Mental Health told him more about the organization and the goal of the awards. “Why don’t you talk to my son, Lorne,” Segal said. Lorne soon agreed to take over the chair’s seat from Broadfoot, who was

burnt out after seven years at the helm. As she and everyone else involved with the awards says, “Lorne took it to a different level. He made it into a huge philanthropic event. His energy is incredible.” In a Courier profile after last year’s event, which raised a record $1.63 million in a single night, Broadfoot said, “He’s very into the details that it takes to do something well and that’s why he knocks himself out every year. And do you know what he’s spectacular at? Gratitude. He’s so grateful for what he has and anything anyone does to help him and he lets them know that.” While the evening brings together some of the titans of Vancouver’s business and political worlds, making it a mustgo charitable event, Segal makes sure that the focus remains on the Courage recipients. He has his fingers on every aspect of the awards and makes personal connections with each of the recipients. One of his recurring themes is “There but for the grace of God go I.” Just as the awards give recipients a profound sense of pride and self-worth, Courage has given Coast Mental Health a deeper sense of its ability to take on big projects as it strives to enhance its services for people with mental illness. It now helps up to 5,000 people a year through various services and houses 1,200 people from youths to people in their eighties and nineties. When it was approached about being part of Storeys, an innovative but expensive housing project in Richmond, “because of our success with Courage, we said ‘no problem, we can do this,’” Burnham says. “It’s created the confidence within Coast to go out on a limb. We have the confidence that Courage has given us — not just in what we have raised, but what we will raise.” Broadfoot remembers back to those early Courage awards. “We thought we would have really made it if we netted $100,000.” But she, like everyone involved with the awards, believes in the event because of the way it pays tribute to those with so little who have overcome so much. “The event is still right for all the right reasons.”

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Arts & Entertainment Local band caught up in Colorado controversy John Kurucz

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An ugly incident in Colorado involving racial proﬁling and bizarre misconceptions around heavy metal imagery has unexpectedly drawn a Vancouver band into the fray. The incident began April 30 when a pair of Indigenous brothers — Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, and Lloyd Skanahwati Gray, 17 — were detained by campus police at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. The prospective students had travelled from their homes in New Mexico to CSU for a campus tour, but arrived late and joined the tour group a half hour into the proceedings. Their late arrival prompted a woman on the same tour to call 911, fearful of the boys’ appearance and demeanour. Both teens were wearing heavy metal hoodies — one belonging to Californian extreme metal act Cattle Decapitation, while

the other featured the logo of Vancouver’s Archspire. “They just really stand out. Their clothing has dark stuff on it… weird symbolism or wording on it,” the 911 caller said. The caller went on to suggest the boys were Hispanic and their presence on the campus tour made her feel “sick.” The woman acknowledged she was likely being “paranoid,” though campus police intervened shortly after the call. The boys missed the rest of the tour and returned home. “I think it’s pretty discriminatory,” Thomas Kanewakeron Gray told the Associated Press late last week. “Me and my brother just stayed to ourselves the whole time. I guess that was scaring people; that we were just quiet.” The fallout in the week since has made headlines across the world. CSU president Tony Frank issued a statement May 4 condemning the incident, while also offering to cover the brothers’ travel expenses. Frank has also promised another tour of

the campus, should the brothers still be interested in going to school there. The pair’s mother, Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray, has been featured in numerous print and TV stories over the last week and addressed the 911 caller directly in a Facebook post. “I don’t believe the woman’s identity or name matters,” she said. “She represents a body of people with narrow minds who are walking amongst the general population every day. Her fear did not only include race, but social/ﬁnancial class, age discrimination, and freedom of expression. We don’t need her apology to validate who we are.” Archspire issued a statement May 6 in which the band offered free tickets to the band’s next gig in Denver to the 911 caller and her family. “With any hope, seeing the unity and undeniable joy that’s brought into the lives of these young music and art enthusiasts, might change her bias [sic] opinion about who they really are at their core,” the

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band said on Facebook. Archspire guitarist Dean Lamb gives lessons to one of the brothers whenever the band performs in Denver. “He’s seriously super nice and anything but suspicious, maybe a little shy?” Lamb wrote online. “I have nothing political to add, other than this sucks that they missed out on their college tour and were treated poorly by the authorities.” Via their Facebook page, Cattle Decapitation has offered the brothers free admission to their shows in perpetuity. Thomas Kanewakeron Gray responded to the band’s post over the weekend, noting the response from the heavy metal community has been “very overwhelming.” “I hope this teaches a lesson to everyone that is going through any sort of discrimination or racial acts,” he said. “Keep yourself going. What happened was wrong in so many ways and we wish this on no one else.” @JohnKurucz

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Golden Knights’ success could hurt a Seattle expansion team NHL general managers likely to be better prepared for next expansion draft

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Stick-taps & Glove-drops • A tap of the stick to the Washington Capitals for slaying their playoff dragon, the Pittsburgh Penguins. For the ﬁrst time in his career, Alex Ovechkin will play in the third round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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It’s been a Cinderella story for the Vegas Golden Knights, except even more grand. Instead of one underdog, the Golden Knights have a team full of them — all of them with something to prove to the teams that gave up on them. Instead of one night in a fancy ball gown and a magic pumpkin carriage, the Golden Knights have carried their success throughout the regular season and into the playoffs, staving off the stroke of midnight with every victory. Now the Golden Knights have made the Western Conference Finals and are just eight wins away from earning the Stanley Cup in their first year of existence. It’s easily the most successful season by an expansion team in any pro sport. Like many Vegas shows, that’s a tough act to follow. But that’s the task for Seattle, who are aiming to join the NHL in 2020. Vegas has shown Seattle first-year success is possible, but they have also hurt Seattle’s chances for having that same success. If anything, Vegas has been too good, too quickly. While the Golden Knights have been a great story, there has been plenty of grumbling from the stepsisters left behind by Cinderella. That could be bad news for Seattle, who are unlikely to start their inaugural season with a team as good as the Golden Knights. Seattle’s Oak View Group and their prospective NHL ownership group, led by billionaire David Bonderman and filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer, paid an estimated $650-million expansion fee to the NHL, up from Vegas’s $500 million, and will expect to be treated as well as the Golden Knights, starting with the expansion draft. “We would anticipate that the terms of an expansion draft for a 32nd team would be the same as they were for Las Vegas,” said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

• A tap of the stick to Nathan Walker, who made his playoff debut for the Capitals in the series-clinching game six, thereby becoming the ﬁrst Australian to play in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. To top it off, he tallied an assist on the opening goal.

This Oak View Group rendering of Key Arena shows what the NHL could look like in Seattle.

That means NHL teams will only be able to protect seven forwards, three defenceman, and one goaltender or one goaltender and eight skaters regardless of position. That limited protection list means good players will be available for Seattle, but this time around, NHL GMs will have more time to prepare and will likely be a lot more careful with the players they leave unprotected. The biggest issue for Seattle is it wasn’t the expansion draft rules that gave the Golden Knights such a strong team, but a handful of NHL GMs who misjudged their own talent. The most egregious offender was Dale Tallon with the Florida Panthers. Tallon, looking to undo moves made by the regime that replaced him as GM the previous season, made a deal with the Golden Knights: the Knights would take Reilly Smith and his $5-million contract off his hands, and the Knights would get Jonathan Marchessault in the expansion draft. Tallon did this to protect four defencemen in the expansion draft, limiting the Panthers to just nine protected players instead of 11.

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Smith and Marchessault formed twothirds of the Golden Knights’ dominant ﬁrst line and have led the team in scoring with 11 points each through 10 games. The likelihood of Seattle getting gifted two-thirds of a top line in two years’ time? Slim to none. And that’s just one example of the type of deals GMs were willing to cut with Vegas that they might not give to Seattle. That’s not to mention the bounty of draft picks the Golden Knights extracted from the rest of the NHL, including three ﬁrst round picks in 2017, that should make them a contender for years to come. The second time around, NHL GMs are likely to be much more stingy. With Vegas as the example to follow, Seattle hockey fans will expect success right from puck-drop on the 2020-21 season. They’re likely to be disappointed.

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round, the two leading scorers in the playoffs had 21 points and were both eliminated: Jake Guentzel and Sidney Crosby. The next best scorers on the Penguins barely had half as many points: Patric Hornqvist and Kris Letang, with 11.

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Truck drivers prevent suicide attempt

Earlier this week, an early morning suicide attempt was blocked by a squadron of Good Samaritan truckers. Detroit police received calls around 1 a.m. that a man was threatening to jump from an overpass, just north of the city. They moved quickly to close the highway. What happened next was a bit of genius. One by one, volunteer truckers positioned their trucks underneath the overpass, providing a barrier to break any potential fall or jump. It was a simple tactic, but it worked — seeing his path blocked, the unidentiﬁed man eventually surrendered to police, and was taken to hospital.

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