Vancouver Is Awesome #46 - February 18, 2021

Ocean Wise hiring ‘Director of Seaforestation’ It’s like deforestation but the opposite and underwater  A5

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Is it time to end the war on drugs?

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ometimes the w urst of times are the best of the times: A brandnew all-vegan hot dog concept just launched in Vancouver, offerring plant-based eats for pick-up and delivvery only.

Calleed Wurst of Us, the "ghost kitchen" conccept comes from the team behind Alep ph Eatery, the East Vancouver Middle Easttern cafe.

Thou ugh Aleph launched with some anim mal-based items on its menu, the

restaurant evolved its concept to be fully plant-based. Now they're doing the same for hot dogs with Wurst of Us. The restaurant describes itself as follows: "We’re just having fun and making delicious hot dogs along the way."

The menu features nearly a half-dozen hot dog options (all with dog-inspired names), including the Inu Dog (pickled cabbage, wasabi mayo, nori, nigella seeds, sesame seeds), the Bulldog (Buffalo hot sauce, celery, crumbled blue "cheese," and

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Those vegan hot dogs can be made gluten-free, and Wurst of Us suggests pairing th hem with some of their loadeed nachos, house-made roo ot beer, and plant-based cheeseccake for dessert. ("It’s our mam ma’s recipe. She always accep pted the wurst of us!" says Wurst of Us about their signatu ure house dessert.)

Wurst of Us is available for delivery via Doordash and can be ordered online for picck-up at Aleph at 1889 Powell St.

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Ocean Wise is looking to take on seaforestation

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ant to fight seaforestation?

Not sure, because you don't know what seaforestation is? Let's define it, or let Ocean Wise do that. "(It's) the act of restoring, planting, managing and caring for underwater seaweed forests," states the Vancouver-based ocean conservation charity ty on their website.

Basically, it's like deforestation but under the ocean and the opposite.

So, more accurately it's like reforestation.

"Seaweed forests are rich habitat for marine life, including commercially important fish and invertebrates.

In addition, they protect the coast from the impacts of extreme weather events," Ocean Wise states on their website. "And they naturally capture carbon in large volumes in seaweed tissue, some of which gets trapped in the ocean floor for centuries."

They're also where sea otters live.

Ocean Wise is now looking to hire a director of seaforestation to help lead the charge on a variety t of issues as seaweed and seaweed forests can be part of the solution to a few problems.

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"Seaweeds grow faster than terrestrial plants. There is ample space to grow seaweed in the oceans without compromising ecosystem integrity t . If we realise the potential of seaweed to sequester CO2, among other measures to mitigate greenhouse gases, we will have a fighting chance of avoiding the catastrophic implications of climate change," notes the organization.

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Ocean Wise's seaforestation initiative looks to partner with others to grow the issue and industry over the coming years. Already some seaweed companies have joined.

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toxic drug supply that was, and continues, to poison people.

Last year, with the onset of COVID-19, both overdose calls and overdose deaths were up across the province. This pandemic has proven that the progress that had been made was fragile and that we will always be behind the black market and organized crime that controls the drug supply with ruthless efficiency.

Our failure to end the overdose crisis begins with our failure in letting criminal elements to control the drug supply. A direct line can be drawn from the war on drugs to the rise of organized crime to the proliferation of fentanyl and the tens of thousands of overdoses that have resulted.

The solution, then, should be pretty obvious: take control of the supply chain and provide an alternative for people who use drugs to access a safer supply.

Access to a safer supply is, without question, the number one, most urgently needed intervention to stop overdoses and stop people from dying. Our response to this crisis should focus on improving access to treatment and recovery for those who want it, and making access possible to a safer supply for anyone who needs it.

When we talk about safer supply, we don’t mean treatment. It’s an important distinction. Not everybody who uses drugs has what would be diagnosed as a substance use disorder, but everyone who uses drugs is at risk of overdose because of the poisoned drug supply.

A safer supply would mean regulated alternatives to the toxic drug supply that would include heroin and would consider how people use their drugs. We would have multiple pathways to access, like the heroin compassion club model.

We can give people a choice to choose between the toxic, poisoned street drug supply that is fueling these deaths or regulated alternatives in the form of a safer supply.

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ast year was a difficult, devastating year for all of us. The latest BC Coroners Service report on overdose fatalities makes it clear that 2020 was even more devastating for people who use drugs, for their families, and for their communities.

Since the release of the report, we’re hearing that the number of overdose deaths in BC rose significantly compared to 2019 – to more than 1,700 – establishing a new record in the five years of this public health emergency.

Let’s stop talking about this in terms of records, as though it were some kind of achievement. Instead, let’s talk about solutions – because solutions are right there if we just act.

First, it’s important to understand what’s behind the dramatic increase in overdoses.

Why is the crisis getting worse?

Since the province declared a public health emergency in 2016, there’s more access to naloxone, more supervised consumption sites, more overdose prevention sites, more access to medications to treat opioid addiction. By 2019, we saw the impact these efforts were having, with fewer fatalities and lives saved.

But measuring our success in a public health emergency by reducing deaths alone isn’t good enough. Just saving lives isn’t nearly enough. It’s the lowest bar to clear.

If you look a little closer you see that while overdose deaths in 2019 were decreasing, calls to emergency services remained the same, if not slightly higher, than years before. More than 24,000 calls to 9-1-1 that year, and that doesn’t count the overdoses that were responded to in the community by peers. Overdose deaths were going down but overdoses themselves were happening at the same rate.

Collectively we’d gotten good at bringing people back to life, but made no progress in solving why people are overdosing in the first place. When overdose deaths are down but non-fatal overdoses are up, it shows how the response hasn't been enough. Those 24,000-plus calls are what an emergency looks like – each one a direct result of the

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The City transitioned from three-year to five-year targeted averaging in 2019. Under the targeted averaging approach, only those properties facing significant year-overyear increases in property values above a certain threshold (“hot” properties) would be considered for averaging. For eligible “hot” properties, the program calculates property taxes for the City and other taxing authorities using an average of the assessed land value for the current and prior four years, plus their current assessed improvement value, provided that this averaged value does not go below the threshold value. All other properties continue to pay property taxes based on their current year BC Assessment value.

The table presented shows the estimated effect of the targeted five-year averaging program on the City of Vancouver’s general purpose tax levy for sample properties based on the thresholds proposed for 2021 (10% above class average change), subject to Council approval. The program requires an adjustment to the tax rates such that properties below the threshold would pay slightly higher taxes to provide tax relief for those “hot” properties above the threshold.

Amounts levied by other taxing authorities such as provincial schools, TransLink, BC Assessment, and Metro Vancouver are not included in the analysis.

On March 9, 2021, Vancouver City Council will consider whether to use targeted five-year averaging for residential (Class 1), light industrial (Class 5) and business and other (Class 6) properties, and determine the appropriate thresholds for these property classes if targeted averaging is adopted.

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Ryan Reynolds just bought a Welsh soccer team

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ancouver-born Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds and “It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star Rob McElhenney are now officially co-owners of a soccer team in the north of Wales. Wrexham AFC issued a statement last week that RR McReynolds Company LLC has completed its takeover of the club.

"The new owners, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, have made a £2 million equity investment into the club under the terms of the deal," states the soccer team's website.

That's about $3.5 million CDN. “It is a special day for the two of us to become the latest stewards in the long and storied history of Wrexham AFC. Together with the players, the staff, the fans, and the local community, we can now pursue our goal to grow the team and return it to the (English Football League) in front of increased attendances, and in an improved stadium, while making a positive difference to the wider community in Wrexham," the new owners say in a joint statement.

While both are known for their comedy on the big and small screens (and social media) the statement has a more serious tone.

"All of these people will help us create the kind of commercial opportunities that the third-oldest club in the world deserves, and we will reinvest that revenue back into Wrexham AFC and the community," they say in the statement.

It was announced late last year that the pair would be taking over the team, but it only became official this month.

One of their new goals as owners is to invest in the women's side of the team.

"The work has already begun with Gemma Owen and Steve Dale in the community team on a new women’s football initiative," they state.

Wrexham AFC is the oldest soccer team in Wales and the third oldest in the world, having been established in 1864 (three years before Canada). They currently compete in the fifth-highest league in the English football league system.

They also won their game the day it was announced. The score was 2-1.

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he pandemic has forced the cancellation of Vancouver’s annual homeless count.

A memo obtained by Glacier Media that was emailed Monday to city council and staff cited challenges related to social distancing, concerns about transmission of COVID-19 and mobilizing several hundred volunteers as reasons for cancellation.

“As a result of public health orders related to the pandemic, the training and deployment of volunteers and activities related to carrying out the count this March is not possible,” said the memo from Sandra Singh, the city's general manager of arts, culture and community services.

Singh said staff will instead collect alternate sources of data “to paint a picture of homelessness” in Vancouver, which has had a homeless population that has hovered around 2,000 people for the past four years.

The city’s new approach will include: • Collecting occupancy data from shelters, no fixed address (NFA) data from the Vancouver Police Department and health authorities in a similar manner to the homeless count methodology.

• Collecting NFA income assistance data from the Ministry of Social Development and Income Assistance. This will show how many people on income assistance are listed as currently experiencing homelessness.

• Conducting an online survey with outreach service providers for an update on “street homelessness.”

• Conducting an analysis of the 2020 Homeless Count data to create profiles to better understand the experiences of Indigenous and Black people, who are overrepresented in homeless counts.

• Synthesizing and analyzing available data that is captured by different city, provincial and community sources related to homelessness.

Coun. Jean Swanson, whose primary focus since being elected in 2018 has been to get people off the street, had mixed feelings about the count being cancelled this year.

“I’m not too disturbed about it because everybody knows homelessness has gone up [since last year’s count], everybody knows there’s a high percentage of Indigenous homeless people,” Swanson said. “I don’t think it’s going to lessen the urgency of the problem by not having a count.”

Swanson said the city can count homeless people “until hell freezes over,” but until more housing is provided and supports are in place to help people, homelessness will continue to be an issue in Vancouver and the region.

The city has led or participated in homeless counts in Vancouver and the region since 2005. In recent years, volunteers have surveyed people who have agreed to give more details about their life and how they became homeless.

Survey results have provided the city with information where a person last paid rent, their health conditions, sources of income, whether they have mental health or addiction challenges and whether they are a Canadian veteran.

City officials have always cautioned that the counts have provided only a 24-hour snapshot of homelessness in Vancouver and the exercise is likely an undercount of the true number of people in the city without a home.

Even so, data from the counts and profiles of homeless people has been used to inform city policies and the municipal government’s requests of the provincial and federal governments for funding to combat homelessness.

“Everyone’s journey into and through homelessness is unique and first-person accounts about the pandemic’s impact on people experiencing homelessness will not be directly captured in this alternative approach,” Singh said.

“Unfortunately, this is an unprecedented time and the COVID transmission safety concerns and following public health direction prevent the necessary training and deployment of 500 volunteers across Vancouver to conduct in-person interviews with over 1,000 people experiencing homelessness.”

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Vancouver guitarist Don Alder and others honoured

Local writer pens book about adorable, lonely ghost PIERRE CHAN

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ave you ever thought about why ghosts say “boo”? A Vancouver children’s book writer has found possibly an adorable explanation for the phantom phenomenon.

Pierre Chan is a Vancouver-based advertisement writer. When he’s not writing advertisements he spends his time working on picture books. Chan’s previous works include Pfffffft: Illustrated Fart Literature, published in 2015, as well as a book called Dumb Answers to Kids' Questions, in 2018.

In a significant switch in tone, Chan's latest book, The Ghost Who Cried Boo, follows the journey of possibly the cutest ghost you have ever seen going from being constantly lonely to surrounded by new friends.

In Chan’s Kickstarter campaign for the new release,

he writes that this book has a more personal meaning to him and his family than his previous works.

“The Ghost Who Cried Boo is my first children's book, and perhaps the most rewarding thing I've ever written because I'll be able to read it to my 3-year-old niece,” Chan writes.

The Ghost Who Cried Boo is for children ages 3-8,

but adults can make good use of it too.

“If you don't have kids, you can always get a copy to balance out the pretentiousness of the Tolstoys and Dostoyevsky k s on your bookshelf,” Chan writes.

Learn more and help fund the Kickstarter project at ww www w .bit.ly/booghostbook.

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he 2020-21 honourees to the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame were recently announced, and include some familiar Vancouver and Lower Mainland names.

The two StarWalk Stars having their names added to the Granville Street sidewalk are Surrey-based R. Paul Dhillon and the North Shore's Walter Daroshin.

Dhillon is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and director who's also worked as a journalist, founding multiple publications.

Daroshin has also been active in the province's filmmaking community, notably founding the Leo Awards which recognize top films each year.

Vancouverites Don Alder and Candus Churchill, along with Lynne Partridge and Valerie “Valley” Hennell (both of whom have spent significant time in Vancouver) have all been awarded StarMeritus Stars and a plaque at the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame at the Orpheum Theatre.

Alder is an award-winning acoustic guitarist with an international following, while Churchill is a vocalist with a huge body of work ranging from rock/funk band DragonFly to soundtrack credits on the X-Files (among other shows and films). More recently she's become a foundational voice in the local gospel scene.

Partridge is known for her work behind the scenes, from the Vancouver office of BMI Canada to tour manager for the famed Irish Rovers.

Hennell has worked as an award-winning producer as well as an advocate for artist rights, among a varied career that includes book writer and radio host.

“The BCEHOF is proud and excited to present a very diverse and impressive group of StarMeritus and StarWalk inductees who represent artistic excellence in British Columbia,” says Rob Haynes, president of the hall of fame, in a press release. “While we are limited this year due to COVID-19, we look forward to scheduling and celebrating their individual inductions over the coming months to honour their contribution.”

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$4.9 million grant to fund washroom trailers and shelter beds forcing reductions in shelter capacity and leading to fewer washrooms open to the public or accessible to people without homes," said Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart. "That’s why we are extremely grateful to Minister Ahmed Hussen and the Government of Canada as well as Lu’ma Native Housing for their support through the Reaching Home program.”

David Wells, chair of the Indigenous Homelessness Steering Committee, agrees

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hanks to a recent grant, some Vancouver residents impacted the most by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive increased access to washrooms and additional shelter spaces.

The City of Vancouver has announced a federal funding injection of $4.9 million came from the Lu’ma Native Housing Society on behalf of Service Canada’s Reaching Home program. The funding will be dedicated to a number of services including installing two new washroom trailers, extending hours at several city facilities, and creating a new 60-bed temporary shelter.

“COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Vancouver’s most marginalized neighbours,

that Vancouver’s unhoused population has faced the most hardship during the pandemic and adds that a significant number of those people are Indigenous.

“Supporting the provision of additional washroom facilities and temporary housing, is a critical response that we can make to addressing some of the hardships being experienced by those experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Vancouver,” Wells said.

The funding will also ensure the continued operation of three existing washroom trailers that have given people to access basic hygiene services during the pandemic.

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to do regular cleanups, and this past January he posted a video of his dive and the group's haul to his YouTube channel.

They pulled out 792 pounds of tires, aluminum cans, and other assorted pieces of garbage.

In previous dives he has also found iPhones, sunglasses, full bottles of beer and other lost items, not discarded but simply lost by people who have dropped them in the lake.

Some of these items have been reunited with their owners.

As Helkenberg tells Vancouver Is Awesome in an email, last year he found 26 phones and was able to return 9 of them.

The strangest things he's come across are urns and "bags of [cremated human] ashes," which he finds sometimes and leaves where they are, as they've been placed by loved ones who want their relatives' remains to be in the bodies of water they loved in life.

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Divers haul 792 pounds of trash out of Cultus Lake

ost readers probably know of Cultus Lake for its waterslides and adjacent adventure park, which are located at the north end of the lake, out near Chilliwack. However, on YouTube, they're starting to be known for the litterbugs that leave their trash in the lake itself.

The 12 km-long body of water is hopping with swimmers and boaters in the summer, both near and far from the slides and park.

You wouldn't know that some view it as "the jewel of the Fraser Valley" for the amount of stuff that people leave behind. Mostly in it.

Chilliwack resident Clayton Helkenberg is one of a number of divers who gather

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011 was a devastating year for Japan; the country endured a major earthquake, an ensuing tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown.

10 years later, the triple disaster - and subsequent recovery - is being examined in a new exhibition at UBC's Museum of Anthropology.

The MOA's Curator for Asia, Fuyubi Nakamura, says the retrospective is an opportunity for Canadians to

consider the effects of natural disasters and reflect on how we are globally connected.

"A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake" features works by eight artists, groups, and institutions and is on display at the museum until September 5, 2021.

Learn more and watch our video about the exhibition at www.bit.ly/moajapan.

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Girl Guides restricted with sales of cookies

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irl Guides in B.C. are now selling their famous chocolatey mint cookies as part of their annual fundraiser.

But social-distancing restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic are stopping the members from going door-to-door to sell the treats.

Provincial commissioner Diamond Isinger said the girls are only allowed to sell to family, friends, and neighbours, or via contactless pickup.

And if that’s not possible, shoppers are asked to go online to purchase their boxes of 22 cookies for $5 each.

As well, some Sobeys and Loblaws stores — e.g., IGA, Safeway, Thrifty Foods, T&T Supermarket, Real Canadian Superstore, No Frills, Extra Foods and Shoppers Drug Mart — are also carrying the sugary snacks, which can be ordered online.

The money collected from the cookies pays for guiding activities for girls ages five to 18 in B.C. “Now more than ever, girls

need the support, connection and normalcy that Girl Guides provides during an unusual year for most youth, and cookies make that happen,” Isinger said. “We've sustained our programming through outdoor and virtual activities that explore essential topics like mental health, wellness and friendship while also providing learning experiences with science, the arts and more.”

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DFO SEIZES ILLEGAL CRAB TRAPS commercial crab traps were seized and a large number of crab and fish were returned to the water,” said the DFO. “This was a highly successful example of a joint Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)-CCG enforcement initiative that may occur several times per year. Fishery Officers will attempt to identify seized traps and gear and investigate further to identify the perpetrators. Charges may follow.”

As part of the work to end illegal fishing activity, the DFO asks the public for information on any suspicious or potentially

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recent five-day joint enforcement operation has netted more than 300 illegally set commercial crab traps in Boundary Bay. The operation involved fishery officers from the Langley and Richmond detachments, and the Vancouver-based Whale Protection Unit, working with their Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) colleagues, conducted an enforcement operation in the waters near White Rock.

“The joint operation spanned five days and 337 illegally set

illegal activities, or any contravention of the Fisheries Act and Regulations. Anyone with information can call the toll-free violation reporting line at 1-800-465-4336 or via email at DFO. ORR-ONS.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

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y the second half of 1902, if you were in need of an ambulance, you may have found yourself being transported in this “new and thoroughly modern” vehicle, as described by the Vancouver Daily World.

This ambulance wagon had been purchased using funds raised by the Ladies’ Hospital Ambulance Committee for Vancouver General Hospital.

It was built by the E.M. Miller Co. of Quincy, Illinois, a company that specialized in building omnibuses, hearses and ambulances.

Features included a pneumatic rubber mattress strapped to a stretcher, blinds and bevel plateglass windows that could open and close, three lanterns, a water tank, splint and bandage cases, and Swedish steel springs and rubber tires for the smoothest ride possible.

The carriage cost $625—the company gave a $25 discount with the rationale that this purchase was a “spot cash deal.” Just like modern online shopping, the carriage came with shipping and customs charges, which amounted to $111.60 and $219.25 respectively.

This ambulance wagon appears to have been used until 1910, when automobiles began usurping wagons.

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Opinion: I listened to the comedy station that replaced TSN 1040 so you don't have to

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n Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, Vancouver's TSN 1040 AM radio station officially went off the air, minutes after the staff were informed that parent company Bell Media had decided to pull the plug.

A minute-long message was played over the airwaves, in which an unnamed, robotic voice explained that the "quickly evolving broadcast media landscape" forced the company to make a difficult decision.

Somebody decided that it would be a good idea for them to play the Greenday song, "Good Riddance" over the air immediately following the robotic and unceremonious farewell.

Ouch.

The station's staff, others in the media, and listeners at large reacted swiftly, condemning Bell for not only taking the station off the air, but for the way that they did it; they gave employees 30 minutes to get everything off their computers, and that was it.

It was then announced that they were going to flip the format of the station over to 24-hour comedy which, as you can imagine, did not go over well with TSN 1040 fans.

This past Friday night, I committed an hour to listening to the most-maligned new radio station in Vancouver—heck, probably in all of Canada —so you don't have to.

It's called Funny 1040, and they don't

Kick vehicles to Hockey Helps the Homeless and others.

Here is the full list of commercials I heard over the 60 minutes I listened:

let you forget it as they often play spots letting you know you're listening to "Vancouver's all new Funny AM 1040."

The station has seemingly come up with a mathematical equation to insert the most number of jokes they possibly can into each hour.

A comedian's name is read by someone—sometimes they say "And here is [NAME]", other times it's just their name—then what follows is that comedian doing a 2-4 minute long bit.

These aren't bits made specifically for the station or for radio at all, in fact; they're taken out of what were previously full comedy sets. So it's almost as if you're listening to a series of one-liners, with little buildup and nuance.

Joke after joke slam you in the face, then every 20 minutes you're subjected to a commercial break.

The commercials seem to be leftovers from TSN 1040, as they range from concussion clinics to sales on Nissan

• Online counselling service • Concussion clinic • Hockey Helps the Homeless fundraiser commercial • Nissan Kicks sale • Subway restaurants • Personal Finance Podcast • Speedy Glass • Government of Canada COVID-19 travel advisory • Canadian Blood Services donation • CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme • Red Reishi mushrooms

Over the hour I heard jokes from 24 comedians, including six A-listers: • Freddie Prinze • Eddie Izzard • Robin Williams • Richard Belzer • Craig Ferguson • John Mulaney

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Activities, special events at parks down for 2020

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ith the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic affecting all aspects of life it's maybe not the most surprising news, but Vancouver parks saw a decrease in a lot of activities in 2020.

From filming to farmers' markets, park activities were closed or restricted in some way for most of 2020. In reports to the parks board, staff shared stats that measured the impact.

"The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the Park Board’s special event and filming operations in 2020, with volumes decreasing 60% relative to 2019," notes one on special events.

While city parks normally host over 400 public special events annually, only 148 happened in 2020. Medium and major events were, unsurprisingly, impacted more.

Of the major events normally held in Vancouver parks only a handful went forward, and almost all were either farmers' markets or for Remembrance Day. The exceptions were a couple of events that happened before the pandemic took hold and a couple that received permits for some activities that were then shared online (like the McSpadden Park Country Fair zucchini races). That's more than 100 events.

One small category that saw an increase was private events, like boot camps and yoga classes, as permits increased from 16 to 23.

Picnic events were also impacted, with a drop from over 700 in 2019 to 223 in 2020.

Staff note that sites stayed open longer last year and will reopen earlier this year due to

public demand. They also note that picnic sites were used for more than just picnics, hosting a variety of activities including baby showers and outdoor school programs.

Both the Bloedel Conservatory and VanDusen Botanical Garden each saw a drop in attendance. At the conservatory the drop was steep, from over 200,000 visitors in 2019 to just more than 60,500 in 2020.

While events aren't happening still, the conservatory is hosting micro weddings again. VanDusen's drop wasn't as bad, with fewer than 111,000 visitors in 2020 compared to more than 178,000 in 2019.

One bright point, to a certain extent, are the park board's golf courses. Despite not opening when expected, the city's three public courses saw only a small drop, with 162,448 rounds in 2020 compared to 167,436 in 2019. And in the last quarter of the year people were out a lot, as rounds were 388 per cent ab bove 2019, and d th he high hest since 2013 for that quarter.

And the pitch and putts were even more popular. Despite reopening in June instead of March they saw nearly 86,000 rounds played in 2020, compared to 71,677 rounds in 2019.

And while the film industry in Vancouver essentially shut down on-location productions, it's making a comeback.

Permits were down to about half of usual (236 in 2020 compared to 472 in 2019), but staff note there's a big rebound going on in that industry.

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Library names new Indigenous storyteller in residence

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or over two decades Kung Jaadee has performed for people.

Jaadee, a member of the Haida, Musqueam and Squamish First Nations, will continue that work with the Vancouver Public Library as their 2021 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence.

“I did not choose to be a storyteller. It chose me,” says Jaadee in a press release.

“For decades, performing for audiences of all ages across Canada has allowed me to share traditional Haida legends and my own personal stories from my birthplace, Haida Gwaii."

Through her stories, she also teaches the Haida language.

Over the next year, she'll be working on a play talking about how smallpox impacted her ancestors and other

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Indigenous people.

Along with her own creative work, she'll be running programs for people of all ages, including performances, drum circles, and workshops.

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RADIO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 16 not-quite B-listers: • John Caparulo from Ohio • Bill Engvall from Texas • Tommy Savvitt from New Jersey • Mike Birbiglia from Massachusetts • Gary Gulman from Massachusetts • Jesse Popp from Michigan • Brian Regan from Florida • Jeremy Hotz from South Africa • Dara Ó Briain from Ireland • Richard Jeni from New York • Doug Benson from San Diego

• Demetri Martin from New York • Jim David from North Carolina •Ron White from Texas • Jim Breuer from New York • Andy Sandford from Georgia

And two female B-listers: • Morgan Murphy from Oregon • Maria Bamford from California You'll notice that beyond the comedians being mostly white dudes, there were no Canadian comics that I heard.

So from my hour-long driveby it wasn't made clear to me

how they're going to fulfill their CanCon requirements that ensure they have at least some Canadian talent.

In summary, you're probably better off listening to reruns of Malcolm in the Middle or Frasier if you're looking for some laughs. Or comedy podcasts.

From the latter category I'd recommend starting with Vancouverite Sophie Buddle's debut album Lil' Bit of Buddle that recently won a Juno, or John Cullen's recent album Long Stories for No Reason which pokes a lot of fun at our fine city.

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Public Hearing: March 9, 2021

Public Hearing: March 11, 2021

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 6 pm to be convened by electronic means

Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 6 pm to be convened by electronic means

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations:

1. Rezoning: 183 West King Edward Avenue and 4088 Columbia Street

A. CD-1 Text Amendment: 100 West 49th Avenue (Langara College)

To rezone 183 West King Edward Avenue and 4088 Columbia Street from from RS-1 (Single-detached Houses and Duplexes) District to RM-8AN (Multiple Dwelling) District, to permit a townhouse development with a floor space ratio (FSR) of up to 1.2. If rezoning is approved, a subsequent development permit process would entail a review of a proposed form of development.

2. CD-1 Rezoning: 4118-4138 Cambie Street To rezone 4118-4138 Cambie Street from RS-1 (Residential) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a six-storey residential building containing 90 secured market rental units. A height of 22.0 metres (72 feet) with additional height for a rooftop amenity space and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.94 are proposed.

3. CD-1 Rezoning: 1943-1999 East Hastings Street To rezone 1943-1999 East Hastings Street from MC-2 (Industrial, Commercial and Residential) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of an eight-storey, mixed-use building containing at-grade commercial space, 131 strata residential units and two live-work units. A building height of 31.5 metres (103 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.0 are proposed.

4. CD-1 Rezoning: 5910-5998 Cambie Street To rezone 5910-5998 Cambie Street from RT-2 (Residential) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit a mixed-use development including a 15-storey hotel tower containing 270 hotel units and a 29-storey residential tower containing 168 strata units.

The two towers sit atop a podium containing ground-floor commercial space, hotel space, and nine live-work artist studios which are to be delivered turnkey to the City. The podium height is 23.1 metres (75.8 feet) for five storeys plus partial sixth and seventh floors. The maximum tower height is 85.7 metres (281 feet) with additional height for a rooftop amenity space.

The floor space ratio (FSR) is 10.41.

City-wide

To amend CD-1 (55) (Comprehensive Development) District at 100 West 49th Avenue to accommodate the college’s current phased masterplan for the campus which consists of academic and community buildings. If approved, subsequent development permits for specific buildings will be submitted individually with each phase of expansion.

B. Extension of the Rental Housing Stock Official Development Plan to C-2, C-2B, C-2C, and C-2C1 Commercial Districts To amend the Rental Housing Stock Official Development Plan (RHS ODP) to extend the requirement for one-for-one replacement of existing rental housing units to the C-2, C-2B, C-2C, and C-2C1 zoning districts. The RHS ODP currently requires rental replacement in new developments comprising three or more units in certain RM, FM and CD-1 zoned areas in the city. This amendment will further protect the existing rental stock by expanding the RHS ODP requirements to these other districts.

C. Amendment to Downtown Official Development Plan – Area K3 (Granville Street) To amend the Downtown Official Development Plan in Area K3 (Granville Street between Drake Street and Nelson Street) to allow developments where 100 per cent of the residential floor space is secured as rental housing or social housing up to 5.00 FSR, an increase from the existing 3.50 FSR. The amendment includes two conditions, namely that the increased density allowance would apply only to a site with a building constructed since 1930 and to a site with a maximum frontage of 23 metres (75 feet). This amendment would not change the existing maximum height, and ground-floor retail would continue to be required.

D. East Fraser Lands Official Development Plan and Public Amenity Financial Plan and Strategy: 10-year Review and Update To amend the East Fraser Lands Official Development Plan (EFL ODP) to add 143,604 square metres (1,545,745 square feet) of permitted floor area, to increase the package of public amenities, and to better align with City policy approved since 2006. Consequential to the EFL ODP, an amendment to CD-1 (567) for the Waterfront Precinct is proposed to increase the building height maximum from 24 to 28 storeys.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS, VISIT shapeyourcity.ca/ rezoning AND REFER TO THE REFERRAL REPORT FOR LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF SUBJECT PROPERTIES. These Public Hearings are to be convened by electronic means as authorized by Ministerial Order No. M192, “Local Government Meetings and Bylaw Process (COVID-19) Order No. 3”. Due to COVID-19, a Public Health Order currently prohibits members of the public from attending the City’s Public Hearings in person. Members of the public can listen and watch the proceedings via the City’s website or follow Twitter @VanCityClerk. Speakers can participate by telephone or by providing written submissions.

To participate in the Public Hearing process, you can register to speak beginning at 8:30 am on February 26, 2021 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing: • by going to the Council meeting page on the City’s website and selecting the meeting date, meeting type and agenda item(s) you can inform us that you wish to attend by telephone; or • by calling 604-829-4238 and specifying which meeting date, meeting type and agenda item(s) you wish to speak to by telephone.

If you want to participate by telephone then you must have access to a telephone, provide a telephone number that can be used to contact you, and an email address where instructions on when and how to call into the Public Hearing can be provided to you. Speakers can also call in during the Public Hearing. The telephone number and participant code are tweeted out and available on the live stream, while the meeting is in progress. For more information, visit vancouver.ca/publichearings.

Send your comments to Council at vancouver.ca/public-hearing-comments or by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

Get live updates on the meeting at vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or follow Twitter @VanCityClerk. Watch the meeting live at vancouver.ca/council-video.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing at all times on the meeting agenda starting February 26, 2021 at 1 pm. See the agenda on the City’s website at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings. Minutes of the Public Hearing will also be available at this location approximately two business days after a meeting. Details of all Council meetings can be found at covapp.vancouver.ca/councilMeetingPublic.

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n the wake of disastrous 2020 election results, the BC Liberal Party is seeking renewal.

It’s odd, then, that former BC Liberal Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon is the presumptive frontrunner to take the reins of a party battered by internal division and bad branding. Nostalgia from the Aughts — particularly as notable as Falcon — may spotlight BC Liberal baggage, just as Adrian Dix carried the albatross of the 1990s when he was the BC NDP leader.

Ask any BC Liberal in the know: Falcon is guaranteed to run for BC Liberal leadership.

Circulating gossip says that Falcon is already spending an exorbitant amount of money to keep strategists and communications professionals on retainer. Some rumblings suggest that he’s doling out as much as $50,000 per month. That’s a lot of money considering the BC Liberals have not set a leadership contest since Andrew Wilkinson has yet to step down as party leader.

Evidently, the BC NDP have noticed.

Kevin Falcon may have unofficially declared his nomination when he dropped a compassionate Vancouver Sun op-ed about mental health and homelessness. Four days later, former BC NDP Mental Health and Addictions Minister Judy Darcy responded with her own Vancouver Sun op-ed that partially blamed Falcon for creating the very homelessness and addictions crises for which he purported to have solutions.

On his own weekly podcast, The Dash, B.C. Attorney General David Eby dedicates a recurring segment called “The Falcon Report” to Falcon. This involves Eby painting Falcon akin to the perception that many voters had of Wilkinson: a rich, out-of-touch elitist.

Eby dredges up Falcon’s past as the B.C. Minister of State for Deregulation and Minister of Finance when Falcon “decimated social services” in the province.

Eby even calls out Falcon for his involvement in the infamous BC Liberal Zoom roast that sexualized BC NDP MLA Bowinn Ma;

Falcon being the only participant yet to apologize.

Moreover, Eby notes that Falcon described his time in public office as “an opportunity cost preventing him from making as much money as he wanted to make.” Falcon allegedly made these comments in a speech to alumni of the Shaughnessy private school he attended.

In Episode #113 of This is VANCOLOUR, B.C. Minister of Economy Recovery Ravi Kahlon describes Falcon as the “poster boy” for BC Liberal budget cuts which laid the bedrock for many of the province’s crises, including homelessness.

Kahlon recalls an incident in 2008 when a woman threatened suicide on the Second Narrows Bridge, prompting the Vancouver Police Department to shut down the bridge. “Kevin Falcon went out and lambasted the police for doing that. And this person now has the audacity to write an op-ed that he cares about mental health and addictions?”

At the time, Falcon also dismissed suicide barriers on bridges saying, “If people are trying to kill themselves, it is tough to stop them.”

Kahlon also invokes Falcon’s past endorsement of Maxime Bernier, the current People’s Party of Canada leader, who called Greta Thunberg “mentally unstable”, referred to transgenderism as a “fad”, and argued that Islamic extremists are infiltrating Canadian politics.

There’s also Falcon’s current position, for the last eight years, as the Executive Vice President of Anthem Capital, a prominent B.C. real estate developer.

Think of the optics: Falcon, as a former Minister of Finance, contributed to B.C.’s economic environment that allowed for rampant real estate speculation, only to leave public office and profit from the environment he created, now as a real estate development executive himself.

This line of attack writes itself, especially in this province.

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While Kevin Falcon amasses his war chest and charts his BC Liberal leadership run, the BC NDP may be staging the kind of disruptive messaging that tailspins their opposition’s leadership race — whenever that might be — into divisive disarray.

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espite the hurt and emotional trauma of reliving her sister and niece's death, Pauline Johnson said she has yet to miss a year of the Women's Memorial March in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, now in its 30th year.

Johnson was one of the hundreds of people who gathered in the snow for the annual march, which is held to honour and remember women lost to violence, abuse, poverty and systemic racism.

Johnson's sister Rose Marie Johnson died in 1980, and her death has been linked to a man who was convicted of another death in a separate incident.

Charlene Kerr, Johnson's niece, bb d to death d h in the h was stabbed Lamplighter Hotel in the 1980s.

"There should be some change. It's disheartening that there isn't," she said, adding that there needs to be more awareness of the violence Indigenous women and men face.

Johnson said little has been done to properly investigate the disproportionate amount of Indigenous women that go missing or are killed in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood.

"Because we're First Nation, we're meaningless to society. That gets to be tiresome," she said.

Serial killer Robert Pickton was convicted in 2007 on six counts of second-degree murder but is suspected of killing dozens of women who went missing from the Downtown Eastside.

Vancouver police were criticized for not taking the cases seriously because many of the missing were sex workers or drug users.

Myrna Cranmer, one of the event's co-organizers, said both violence and COVID-19 have had a profound affect on the health of women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood this past year.

She estimates 50 women from the neighbourhood have died under violent circumstances or from COVID-19 since last March.

"Some of the names that come up every year, it just really hurts my heart," Cranmer said. "I've known h women, I've I' worked k d with h these them and it's just very sad."

Vancouver police couldn't confirm the number, saying it would not be possible to accurately search for cases by gender or trace where someone from the neighbourhood may have died, such as a hospital or a different part of the city.

The case of Tonya Hyer, who was found beaten to death in a hotel operated by non-profit dedicated to ending violence against women on Jan. 19, 2020, has stuck with Cranmer.

"They still don't know who killed Tonya," Cranmer said. "We need to remember their names, even if it's only for that one day. The women in the Downtown Eastside are ignored to death. No one remembers them."

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Steve Addison said Hyer's death is still an active investigation and no arrests have been made.

Due to COVID-19, Sunday's march was livestreamed to allow people to stay home if they were i k or did nott ffeell comfortable f t bl sick attending a large event.

Provincial government officials issued a joint statement Sunday recognizing the 30th anniversary of the march and highlighting the challenges faced by Indigenous women, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The officials, including Premier John Horgan and Indigenous Relations Minister Murray Rankin, noted that one in five Indigenous women had reported being a victim of physical or psychological violence across Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They promised to continue working with Indigenous communities to end gender-based violence in B.C.

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Squamish Nation Elder turns to music project to soothe pandemic blues

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hrough difficult times, Squamish Nation Elder, Xwechtaal, Dennis Joseph, has often turned to music to soothe his soul.

So, when the coronavirus pandemic struck and lockdown ensued, the 63-year-old decided to focus his energy on something positive and embarked on a passion project.

He began renovating his basement into a personal recording studio, so he could have more opportunity to share traditional Squamish stories through “music and spoken word” with others to help uplift their spirits.

Joseph started renovating the room about 10 years ago, initially using it as a rehearsal space and somewhere to display his vast sports memorabilia. His colourful studio showcases his other great love – lacrosse. He has more than one hundred jerseys on show, from over 50 years of being on the field.

Now, thanks to a grant from the First Peoples Cultural Council, Joseph has been working on updating the basement with recording equipment which he hopes to one day, post-COVID-19, invite other musicians in the community to use.

“The recent highlight is that I got a recording equipment grant, so that includes new monitors, new microphones, and a new interface,” said Jospeh, adding that he was also training to become a recording engineer.

“I’m very fortunate to have gotten picked. My hope is to bring in various artists of all backgrounds to do recording.”

His love for creating music stems from his parents and grandparents.

“I was raised with music,” said Joseph.

“I was fortunate through my mother; she inherited all the brass instruments you can think of from her father who was an orchestra leader. Being the oldest, she inherited everything he had, a tuba, trombone, trumpet, saxophone, French horn, you name it.

“My mother was a singer in a choir and my dad played in an orchestra, and he was also a singer, both traditional and jazz and blues. His passion was trumpet, so he taught me the basics on pretty much every brass instrument there is.”

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“Starting next week, deliveries of the PfizerBionTech vaccine will start to resume at much higher levels and we expect to have a significant bump in supply in the coming weeks,” provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said during a Friday (Feb. 12) briefing.

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Health Minister Adrian Dix said 54,990 doses of the Pfizer Inc. are due to arrive next week after only a total of 21,000 doses were delivered the preceding three weeks.

Deliveries of the competing Moderna Inc. have also been throttled the past few weeks, leading to a major slowdown of both Canada’s and B.C.’s immunization efforts.

Pfizer began revamping its production facilities in Belgium last month to expand its manufacturing capacity last month, leading to ongoing delays to weekly deliveries to Canada.

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SQUAMISH ELDER CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 Joseph’s instrument of choice turned out to be the harmonica – greatly influenced by the smooth tunes of Paul Butterfield, an American blues harmonica player, singer, and band leader.

He enjoys playing the instrument, but he also collaborates with other musicians to make music, sings back-up vocals and traditional Indigenous chants.

He’s already recorded a couple of soundscapes, which were released on Spotify last year, including a song he wrote called "The Arrival," with music by Brent Joseph.

“This soundscape tells the story about the first tall ships coming through what now is First Narrows,” said Joseph.

“It’s also about change that was prophesied and told through the generations until the arrival.”

Another song he worked on is called "The

Sisters."

“You probably know The Lions mountains, we call them The Sisters,” said Joseph. “They're actually twin sisters that were transformed into mountains. The essence of the story is for all of us as human beings to get along. The creator transformed those sisters as a reminder to us to always work toward peace.

“I updated that story through spoken word and song with my cousin and other musicians to tell of the great battles back and forth and the ultimate peace accord and transformational story.”

As the pandemic continues, he hopes to keep creating music himself, and with close family members, as well as set up a live performance series from the studio via social media.

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