Vancouver Is Awesome #48 - March 4, 2021

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Vancouver’s ‘official’ town fool profiled in new book Life and times of Joachim Foikis explored in Jesse Donaldson’s latest history title from Anvil Press  A4

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DTES parklet approved for safe alcohol consumption

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New book profiles Vancouver’s 'official' town fool

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68 an inttelllecttuall named d Joach him n 196 (Kim) Foikis was deemed Vancouver's "official" town fool by the Canada Council for the Arts, and Anvil Press has released a book about his life and times.

Written by Jesse Donaldson, Fool's Gold takes you on a journey into Vancouver's past, as well as the global origins of the practice of having a town fool.

Through interviews with friends as well as newspaper archives from the time, Donaldson has pieced together Kim's turbulent personal life, and what might have inspired him to essentially throw away his two university degrees to... well... act the fool.

Kim's goal in taking on the persona of a fool—complete with a colourful costume that included a pointy hat and bauble— was to challenge people and their beliefs, and what they felt was important in life.

He began this as a personal project, then was given a $3,500 grant by the Canada Council to take it on as a full-time occupation. You could get by for a year in Vancouver on that kind of money then.

While not an official position in the eyes of the City of Vancouver and its conservative mayor, it was as official as we've seen for this bizarre job, which has not been occupied since the early 1970s when Kim left his post.

He spent most of his days as our fool outside the courthouse on Georgia,

which is now the Vancouver Art Gallery, and while Donaldson's book goes into great detail about what he did there, he digs even deeper into the personal life of the fool, and what drove him.

While thorough, it's a quick 113-page read.

This pocketbook (it will literally fit into your back pocket) is the second in a series from Anvil Press called "49.2: Tales from the Off Beat", which shares stories from our city's eccentric and unusual past.

While both Fool's Gold and the first book in the series, Land of Destiny (also penned by Donaldson), are worth picking up, the author takes some creative liberties that you might not see in other local historical works, sometimes offering opinions in place of agreed-upon facts.

For examplle, wh hile illusttratting the decline of the town fool and his project in the early 1970s, he attempts to paint a picture of a city in a state similar to the fool at that point; sad. He describes the Georgia Straight newspaper of that era as becoming "little more than a repository for advertisements and adult personals." But the paper was founded in 1967 and was arguably in its heyday in the early 1970s. It would be more than four decades later that the grim description he offers might be even close to being a fair one.

Similarly, Land of Destiny, which offers a look back on the real estate industry, sometimes reads like a critique written by an outsider with access to only half of the facts. Sure, real estate in Vancouver is out of reach for most residents to purchase, but an unbiased look at its history has yet to be published.

I'd be a fool if I didn't point out the differences between these and local history titles that choose not to editorialize their subjects as heavily.

However, again, you should definitely pick up both of these books if you're interested in learning about the history of our city. A ton of work has gone into researching them, they're well-written, and are thoroughly enjoyable to read.

You can find them in local bookstores or online, direct from Anvil Press.

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Canucks don’t need to rebuild — they just need to build

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he 2020-21 season couldn’t be going much worse for the Vancouver Canucks.

By points percentage, the Canucks are 29th in the NHL, ahead of only the Detroit Red Wings and Otttawa Senators. The difference is, the Red Wings and Seenators entered the season with zero expectations and with som me of the cheapest salary cap hits in the NHL, while the Caanucks spent right to the salary cap and were hoping to bu uild off their 2020 playoff run.

With the team’s two biggest stars, Elias Pettersson and Qu uinn Hughes, on the final year of their ultra-cheap entrylevvel contracts, this should have been a season where the Caanucks could have added some serious talent to make a run forr the Stanley Cup. Instead, they had to let several talented plaayers walk in free agency and still had so little cap space that theey were forced to wait to place Micheal Ferland on longterrm injury reserve before they could sign Travis Hamonic at thee start of the season.

Affter years of rebuilding, do the Canucks need to start over and d rebuild again? Is it time to lock up a couple of core pieces and d blow up the rest of the team, tanking for a few more years to build a team capable of winning the Stanley Cup? No ot just yet. A full rebuild isn’t necessary — the Canucks just neeed to do a much better job of, well, building.

Th he foundation for a Stanley Cup team is in place in Vaancouver. Some of the framing is done too. The Canucks jusst need some proper plumbing, electrical, insulation, dryy wall, siding, roofing, flooring, countertops and fixtures, and d eventually the finishing touches like paint, decor, and lan ndscaping.

Okkay, so there’s a lot of work left to be done, but the point is thaat not everything needs to be torn down to start over.

The high-end talent that forms the foundation for a Stanley Cup is already here: Pettersson is an elite number one centre, Hughes is an elite number one defenceman, Brock Boeser is a top-tier goal scoring winger, and Bo Horvat is a solid second-line centre.

Along with those four, the Canucks have a potential number one goaltender in Thatcher Demko, a high-end top-six winger in J.T. Miller, and an intriguing young talent in Nils Höglander.

That’s a pretty good core group of players.

The problem is building around that core — the plumbing, electrical, etc.

When it comes to putting together a talented BOB KRONBAUER young core, Canucks general manager Jim Benning and his staff have done fairly well Vey, Sven Baertschi, Erik Gudbranson, and Brandon Sutter. thanks to several top-ten draft picks from finishing in the Building around Benning’s current core has meant an league’s basement. He hasn’t, however, been able to build overstuffed and overpaid bottom-six, including $3 million around that core to create a playoff team. contracts for Antoine Roussel and Jay Beagle, as well as a Consider this: the basement finishes that garnered the potential boat anchor $6 million contract for Tyler Myers and Canucks their elite talent were largely unintentional. It took a two-year, $4.3 million deal for goaltender Braden Holtby, until the 2017-18 season for the Canucks to finally admit they who was coming off the worst season of his career. were rebuilding — previously the team was trying to compete Putting together a young core of talent isn’t easy, but it’s only for the playoffs and failing miserably. They’re also facing some half the job. The question facing the Canucks is whether long-term consequences from past attempts to build around Benning and his management team are the right crew to their core. build around that core by finding complementary players The Canucks are still feeling the cap pinch for Loui Eriksson, on the cheap with smart trades, savvy free agent signings, but also for Sam Gagner, who was signed for three years then and proper prospect development. Their track record so far waived a year later and eventually traded for Ryan Spooner, suggests they’re not. whose buyout is still on the Canucks’ books this season. Then there are the assets jettisoned in trades for the likes of Linden

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“As we continue to navigate these unprecedented times due to COVID-19, it’s essential that we also celebrate the resilience and strength of our Indigenous communities,” MARGARET GRENIER

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Coastal Dance Festival to celebrate Indigenous art and culture virtually

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.C.'s annual Coastal Dance Festival is returning to celebrate Indigenous art and culture through your computer screens this month.

But more than that, the festival's 14th iteration will celebrate resilience. Amid the hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, Dancers of Damelahamid— the B.C.-based Indigenous dance company that produces the festival— suffered a massive loss to its

community last year when Elder Margaret Harris died on July 15, at the age of 89.

She and her husband, Chief Ken Harris—who passed away in 2010—founded Dancers of Damelahamid in 1967. The couple was recognized throughout their lifetimes for having a profound impact on the revitalization of Indigenous song and dance along B.C.'s Northwest Coast. Some of those honours included the Centennial Medal from

Queen Elizabeth in 1967, the Golden Jubilee Medal from British Columbia’s Lieutenant Governor in 2003 and an induction into the National Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame in 2019.

Elder Harris will be honoured yet again during the upcoming Coastal Dance Festival, this time with the world premiere of a newly-choreographed short dance work created in her memory by the company she founded.

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“Elder Margaret Harris worked hard to ensure that the cultural practices and knowledge of our Indigenous people were not lost,” explained Margaret Grenier, the festival's executive and artistic director—who also happens to be Elder Harris and Chief Harris' daughter.

“She had a transformative impact on families, communities, and culture.

Through her unwavering commitment and passion, she brought life back into

artistic practices along the Northwest Coast, having dedicated her life to sharing her knowledge with others in order to preserve and uphold their own ancestral songs and dances.”

In addition to this special performance, other highlights of the festival will include work from artists that share Harris' dedication to preserving Indigenous culture, like the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers—a Whitehorsebased dance group focused on reclaiming their languages and traditional values through singing, drumming, dancing, and storytelling.

Viewers will also be able to enjoy performances from Washington-based Git Hayetsk Dancers, Git Hoan Dancers, Squamishbased Spakwus Slolem, ‘Yisya’winuxw Dancers, and Alaska's David Robert Boxley, who will tell ancient stories of the Tsimshian people in both Sm’algyax and English.

“As we continue to navigate these unprecedented times due to COVID-19, it’s essential that we also celebrate the resilience and strength of our Indigenous

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“While the festival will be presented in a very different way than in past years, we are committed to providing a vital platform for the protection and preservation of Indigenous dance and protocols.

"Indigenous identity and cultural wellbeing are lived practices and it’s essential for Indigenous people to continuously practice and share their songs and dances in order to maintain them, for the wellbeing of our communities.”

This year's online festival is set to run from 9 a.m. on March 12 to 9 p.m. on March 18.

All of the Coastal Dance Festival's 2021 performances will be available for free viewing via Vimeo. In lieu of ticket prices, organizers are welcoming donations to Dancers of Damelahamid via Canada Helps. According to organizers, these donations will help fund the dance company’s educational outreach efforts, including workshops, demonstrations, and artist talks with school and youth groups.

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Temporary parklet approved in DTES for safe alcohol consumption

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ancouver city council has approved turning a piece of land at 111 Princess Ave. into a small parklet to allow the safe consumption of alcohol by the Alexander Street Community Centre in the Downtown Eastside.

The centre, run by the PHS Community Services Society, provides low-barrier housing and a variety of social services including the Drinker’s Lounge, the society's Community Managed Alcohol Program. It's that program that the new temporary parklet was approved to help.

"This program exists to bring a harm reduction approach to the consumption of non-beverage alcohol such as hand sanitizers and mouthwash, with participants benefiting from controlled access to alcohol, basic resources, cultural engagement, and access to healthcare," states the city in a press release.

Last year the city ran a pilot program to allow public consumption of alcohol in certain locations in response to the pandemic after there were reports of increased public drinking and "street activity"; that pilot has ended and staff are working on a report now about how it went.

This new parklet (and the allowance to drink in it) is being created following the closure of the pilot locations.

“PHS is grateful for the opportunity to support a place for illicit drinkers to come together and socialize in a COVID-respectful way," says Susan Alexman, PHS Director of Programs. She notes that it will also allow the society to engage with people using the service, who struggle with severe alcohol use disorder and may turn to mouthwash or rubbing alcohol.

In a report to council city staff suggested there were a variety of benefits, including decreased isolation for people who use the service, less public drinking, fewer issues related to public intoxication for area businesses (notably around the Astoria Hotel) and increased access to supports for those looking for support.

"This pilot project is, in a way, an example of unlikely allies working together over many months and through difficult conversations to arrive at a new way forward,” says Theodora Lamb, Executive Director of the Strathcona Business Improvement Association, in the release.

The parklet is approved to be open until July 31 and providing PHS with $75,000 to run the space.

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The European Space Agency released a video this weekend showing just that. Every Friday they feature a different place and this past Friday was Vancouver's turn.

In the short video, the space agency talks about the geography around Vancouver, focusing on waterways and what can be seen in the different images. The most recent one they show is from Feb. 21, 2021.

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Vancouver mother has shared a video of her daughter’s journey fighting a rare disease for Rare Disease Day which took place this past Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021.

As previously reported by Vancouver Is Awesome, Barbara Insley’s daughter Makeda was diagnosed in 2019 with Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU), a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative disease.

In the pursuit of getting Makeda on a gene therapy clinical trial in the U.S., Insley has raised $271,195 through the Rare Trait Hope Society, just over half of her goal.

To celebrate this milestone, Insley has released an emotional video detailing Makeda’s journey from her adoption to how she is coping with the disease today.

“I want to share it with everyone who has helped us to spread the word so far, and extend my deepest gratitude for your help,” Insley

wrote in a recent email to V.I.A. “We are just slightly more than halfway over our goal of $500,000, but our impact will last for much longer than a clinical trial.”

In a previous interview with Insley last December she said that even if the goal was reached she would not stop fundraising.

"If the $500,000 was met honestly we would just keep on going,” she said. “This charity that I've set up is not just for Makada, it is for AGU kids that haven't yet been diagnosed or have been diagnosed that we don't know about yet.”

Insley acknowledged that times may be tough for people to donate money but says there are other ways people can help out, asking for people to share her story to raise awareness.

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Sharing this photo here, his caption encouraged tourists to visit B.C. in the future, starting with "When we get through Covid and it’s safe to travel, bring your beautiful family to British Columbia, Canada."

He then went on to specifically praise the home of Triple O sauce, writing "Don’t miss out on White Spot Restaurants, a Legendary place to have a burger & Caesar."

The proud B.C. boy, raised in Burnaby, ends the post with the hashtags "#hometown #childhood #noplacelikehome," and you can tell he represents not only from the post but from the shirt he's wearing.

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because, if I remember correctly, she was wearing a CBC scarf.

But if I was enjoying a Legendary burger and the dude in this photo walked in, I'd keep my head down and keep eating. No craning my neck to check out the famous crooner.

As we all know, Bublé's persona as a performer is a sharp-dressed man, and he can be spotted easily because he's always carrying a twelve-pack of Bubly (pronounced Bublé, of course) fizzy water wherever he goes. His low-key everyman attire seems to double as a disguise when he's out and about locally.

I kid, of course, but I would have missed him if I was eating at the same White Spot as he was when this photo was taken. And that's pretty awesome.

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It's a Muhammad Ali Deer Lake boxing training camp longsleeve, but you know he bought it because he grew up hanging out at Burnaby's Deer Lake Park.

However, if you saw Bublé at White Spot, you might simply walk by him as—in this photo, anyway—he's dressed like any other dude from B.C. When Dal Richards was alive and there was a White Spot across the street from City Hall at 12th and Cambie, he and I once sat at nearby tables.

I knew he was big band leader Dal Richards when he walked in because he looked the part, wearing a jacket and tie.

Another time, Margaret Gallagher from CBC was eating at the White Spot I was enjoying a meal at. You would have recognized her

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According to TMZ, the resident of Michigan was pulled over after midnight on Saturday morning after going through a red light in Auburn Hills, MI. Police believed he was under the influence of alcohol and, while he refused a breathalyzer test, showed obvious signs of impairment.

Bertuzzi was booked at Oakland County Jail on suspicion of DUI and later released.

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B.C.’s vaccination plan leaves little ‘room for error’ NELSON BENNETT, CHUCK CHIANG, GLEN KORSTROM AND TYLER ORTON

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If it’s best practice to under-promise and over-deliver during a vaccination campaign, B.C. and Canada may already be heading down the wrong path.

With Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. contracted to deliver as many as 120 million combined COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, federal and provincial officials have repeatedly declared all Canadians who wish to be vaccinated will get their jabs by the end of September.

“While it is certainly possible that the stated goal could be hit, it doesn’t appear to leave much room for error or contingency,” said Steve Waters, CEO and founder of Contrace Public Health Corps in Washington, D.C. He pointed to real-time data from COVID19tracker.ca, which is administered by the University of Saskatchewan, that reveals Canada has administered 76 per cent of doses that have been delivered as of late February.

B.C. is doing slightly better at 79 per cent. “[It] doesn’t lead to confidence that a large increase in delivery of doses will mean a massive increase in the rate of administration. In fact, a large delivery of doses at one time could potentially create logistical issues that could even reduce the administration rate,” Waters said. “Considering there is a global shortage of vaccines, existing production and delivery delays, and increasing geopolitical pressures around the most complex logistical challenge in modern history, Canada is certainly at a disadvantage having to depend on other countries for vaccines.”

Mahesh Nagarajan, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business whose focus area is supply chains, said effectively vaccinating a population involves a two-step process: sourcing the vaccine and distributing it.

He commended Canada for quickly acquiring options to buy hundreds of millions of doses of a range of drug makers’ vaccines, and said that had a different drug developer than the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership been able to

Vancouver’s Precision Nanosystems Inc. will help boost Canada’s domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity. CHUNG CHOW first get its drug approved for use in Canada, it is “quite likely” Canada’s vaccine rollout would have been faster.

“The Canadian government has not opened up its books, and shown us the exact nature of these contracts,” he said.

What the Canadian government should have done, he said, was revise its strategy over time.

“You cannot say in June of 2020, ‘We have option agreements for 400 million vaccine doses,’ and then you do nothing after that,” Nagarajan said.

Had the Canadian government swapped its options to buy vaccine doses for concrete commitments to buy those vaccines, backed with top-dollar prices, Nagarajan said, Canada would likely have been a world leader in getting its residents vaccinated.

He pointed to Israel, which has long been the No. 1 country for per-capita vaccinations.

“We know that Israel paid more money,” he said.

Nagarajan added that the federal government, knowing that Canada has little drug-manufacturing capacity, should have done more to ensure sufficient vaccine supply.

Some critics have suggested that were Canada equipped with a robust drug-manufacturing sector, similar to the U.K.’s, its manufacturing companies could have reached agreements with the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership or the second fastest vaccine producer, Moderna, to produce vaccines in Canada.

But Nagarajan said Canadian drug manufacturers would have had to pay the drug developers a significant sum for the right to produce the vaccines and that any such partnership would be feasible for the drug developers only if the prospective manufacturers could produce huge volumes of the vaccines – not merely enough for 38 million Canadians.

Another challenge is that Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s mRNA vaccines are more complicated to manufacture than AstraZeneca’s, which is based on double-stranded DNA. As such, established drug manufacturers may have had difficulty producing the vaccine.

“That said, having a large manufacturing capacity can definitely help a country,” Nagarajan said.

With Canada facing sharp vaccine shortages in January and February, Ottawa revealed last

month it’s tapping Vancouver-based Precision Nanosystems Inc. to boost domestic vaccine manufacturing capacity in the coming years.

Plans for PNI’s new $50-million biomanufacturing facility in Metro Vancouver are now underway after the federal government revealed last month it was earmarking $25 million for the endeavour.

“The government support … has been a great catalyst to be able to bring that to fruition,” he said.

PNI is a provider of technology for the development and manufacture of genetics medicines that deliver RNA or DNA directly into cells to treat disease at its molecular root cause.

Last fall, Ottawa earmarked $18 million for the company to pursue its own COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to enter Phase 1 of clinical trials this coming summer.

PNI specializes in a class of vaccines known as self-amplifying RNA vaccines.

These have the potential to create more potent vaccines as they amplify the signal, allowing PNI to manufacture more doses for less volume.

The new 40,000-square-foot facility, expected to be completed in March 2023, would be able to produce up to 240 million of those self-amplifying RNA vaccine doses.

Moderna and Pfizer, meanwhile, have been manufacturing conventional messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.

Taylor said PNI’s facility would be able to manufacture two million to 24 million mRNA doses – a significant difference compared with the manufacturing capacity for a self-amplifying RNA vaccine.

With PNI’s facility slated to open in 2023, the Vancouver company’s expanded manufacturing capacity does not fit into the federal government’s timeline for vaccinating all Canadians by September 2021.

Instead, it’s poised to play a part in future responses to health crises.

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Province aims to immunize 4.3 million by end of September Continued And then in times of pandemic needs, it will be utilized for pandemic response,” Taylor said.

“If [PNI’s COVID-19 vaccine] came earlier than [when] the facility was ready for us, our company already partners and provides our technology to contract manufacturing organizations all over the world.”

Upon announcing the $25 million earmarked for PNI’s facility, Trudeau said the arrangement will offer the country more domestic manufacturing certainty for years to come.

“We don’t know what the future looks like a year from now, two years from now, three years from now,” he said.

“What we’re very clear on is Canada will be developing domestic manufacturing, so regardless of what could happen in the future, we will have domestic production.”

In the short term, one potential bottleneck could be scheduling.

Once people have registered online – likely through the BC Centre for Disease Control website or health authority websites – they will need to be notified when and where they can get their first shot. Once they’ve had their first shot, they will need to be scheduled for a second shot a few weeks later.

“There is a very strong likelihood we will not get it done by September,” said Nagarajan.

“Actually, I think the chances are very, very high we won’t get it done by September.”

He’s not convinced the province will be able to secure all the vaccines it will need on schedule. Even if the province is able to secure all the vaccines it will need on schedule, he fears there could be problems getting the provincial Panorama health-care data system synced with the IT systems of five health authorities.

“One of the issues is that each health-care authority has its own IT system,” Nagarajan said. “What is needed is a way to get these systems communicating with each other. This needs to be pretty seamless. You do not want citizens showing up to a vaccination centre where the bottleneck is the IT system trying to record the citizens’ information and then cross-checking it.

“You need to have a very smooth process where all of these transactions get recorded so

UBC professor Mahesh Nagarajan, whose focus area is on supply chains, says vaccinating a population involves a two-step process. CHUNG CHOW fast and so seamlessly that the focus is unrelentingly on getting the vaccine in somebody’s arm and getting them out.”

The federal government awarded Deloitte Inc. a $16-million contract late last year to provide a national vaccine management IT platform meant to assist provinces with vaccine rollout, administration and reporting.

The NVMIP isn’t meant to replace B.C.’s existing system, but the province confirmed it would be used to record all immunizations electronically and track vaccine inventory.

“I know that there’s going to be glitches, there’s going to be bumps,” B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry told reporters in late February. “We will not let people be left behind.”

Bill Tam, chief operating officer for the B.C. Digital Technology Supercluster, said he thinks a new purpose-built scheduling system, called Project ABC, can be in place by the time Phase 3 starts in April.

With the help of the Digital Supercluster, Cambian, a B.C. software company specializing in health care, developed the Project ABC software, which stands for “authorization, booking and confirmation.”

“We’ve got the scheduling software that allows people to book these appointments,” said Cambian CEO Bruce Forde.

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Project ABC was originally designed to manage COVID-19 serology testing, but has since pivoted to scheduling vaccinations on a large scale.

“Think of it as a bit of a rules engine that will ensure the right population demographics have the access they need to go ahead and book their vaccinations,” Tam said.

The Project ABC software, which will likely be embedded as a widget in the BC Centre for Disease Control or health authority websites, will confirm a person is eligible for a vaccine according to age, occupation and other criteria.

“You get an email, or text, if you’ve chosen text,” Forde explains. “It brings you to a website – same place where you registered – then you choose a site that is convenient for you. So if you’re within a certain area, maybe you have like three or four or five options to choose from, you can look at a time, pick the location, and when you’re finished you get a QR code.”

Using their smartphones, people can simply flash their QR code when they arrive at the clinic at the designated time, which will allow them to move quickly through the queue without having to fill anything out.

“We don’t know where the bottlenecks will be until we actually run through the system,” said Nagarajan.

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Valorie Crooks, professor of geography at Simon Fraser University and the current Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geography, noted that – at least in northern, remote communities where vaccination clinics are likely limited – the opportunity is there for the province to deploy targeted marketing to achieve a better result.

The rise of anti-vaxxer sentiment in North America and throughout the world in the last few years has raised concerns among many experts that a COVID vaccination drive may be impeded by misinformation.

That is why, Crooks said, the key will be avoiding a one-size-fits-all public awareness campaign. The priority should be to identify trusted message-carriers – whether that be local newspapers, community leaders, online platforms or other individuals – whose delivery of vaccination information would be more easily accepted at the micro-local level, she noted.

“We need public health communication strategies that make sense in the places where people live,” Crooks said. “People who are health authority liaisons or on-site providers need to be involved in leadership in how information is shared. It may involve turning over the messaging to people who are members of the community who are reliable relaters of key information.”

Rhea Dubois-Phillips, Vancouver general manager of public relations firm Edelman, agreed.

She said relying on daily news conferences will not by itself lead to a successful public awareness rollout.

Dubois-Phillips noted examples during the early days of COVID-19 where provincial news conferences were aimed at urging people to stay home and flatten the curve; some of these efforts, she said, were unsuccessful because the information wasn’t readily available in the languages of certain ethnic and religious communities – meaning the messaging did not reach all of its intended target.

“You have to figure out what barriers are there that would prevent certain stakeholders from getting the vaccine,” Dubois-Phillips said.

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Court case against councillor ‘brought with heavy influence from political party’

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he lawyer acting on behalf of Vancouver Green Party city councillor Michael Wiebe argued last Thursday that the conflict-of-interest case initiated against her client was being “brought with heavy influence from a political

party.”

Aurora Faulkner-Killam made the statement on the second day of a hearing in B.C. Supreme Court but didn’t elaborate on the influence or name the party, although Glacier Media and other news outlets have reported on the case’s links to the Vancouver NPA. Those links include lawyer Wes Mussio, an NPA board member, acting on behalf of the 15 citizens, or petitioners in the court action. NPA president David Mawhinney and retired lawyer Michael Redmond, also a member of the party, are among the petitioners.

Both Mussio and Redmond, who was the citizen who triggered an investigation into Wiebe’s votes in May 2020 over a temporary patio program, have previously denied to Glacier Media that politics was at play in the legal fight with the councillor.

In court, Faulkner-Killam said the B.C. legislature recognizes that elected officials “operate in a different world,” that they “take collective action” and are accountable at the ballot box. The system and rules that apply to politicians “have to differentiate from us [lawyers] so government can function,” she said.

“My submission is this petition is being brought with heavy influence from a political party and it is not the intent of the

[B.C.] legislature to provide a vehicle for partisan disputes,” Faulkner-Killam said. “Rather, legislation is intended to balance the needs of local governments, with the need for accountability.”

The case concerns Wiebe’s decision to vote on the program that allowed restaurants, bars and breweries to apply for a permit to set up a temporary patio for customers. The purpose, as stated by council in its unanimous votes in May 2020, was to assist businesses hit with financial hardship because of the pandemic.

Wiebe owns Eight ½ restaurant in Mount Pleasant and is an investor in Portside Pub in Gastown. Both businesses were awarded permits, with Eight ½ restaurant among the first 14 successful applicants.

Both Faulkner-Killam and Mussio largely focused their arguments Thursday on sections of the Vancouver Charter and whether Wiebe had a pecuniary interest in voting for the program. Mussio said Wiebe did, Faulkner-Killam said he didn’t.

Mussio argued Wiebe did not consult the city manager, the city’s legal department or his own lawyer before his votes. He also pointed out that Wiebe amended the temporary patio policy to allow city staff to deal directly with businesses.

In addition, Mussio argued, the program did not provide a benefit city-wide to the estimated 450,000 electors in Vancouver.

Instead, just over 300 businesses, including those connected to Wiebe, benefited from council’s decision.

Faulkner-Killam argued Wiebe’s ownership of his restaurant

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and being an investor in a bar were declared in his financial disclosure statement posted on the city’s website in January 2020, which is accessible to citizens.

Her argument is that Wiebe acted in good faith in voting for the temporary patio program.

The case was originally scheduled for two days but it’s expected to take at least another two days to complete and resume May 31. Wiebe, meanwhile, continues his duties as a councillor on the 11-member council, where the NPA holds four seats and the Greens three.

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he filmmaker behind a short documentary on urban salmonids is hoping others will share his enthusiasm for how remarkable the elusive journey of steelhead trout and coho salmon can be as they travel through streams and creeks adjacent to bustling cities.

The Urban Salmon, a new documentary by North Vancouver resident Fernando Lessa, premieres online this week.

“It’s just a beautiful story of how salmon have been brought back from extinction. They were almost gone in our urban waters,” says Lessa, who moved to Lynn Valley by way of Brazil in 2016.

As soon as he moved here, Lessa, an experienced nature photographer by trade, became enamoured with Metro Vancouver’s local waterways and the salmonids that populated these once-bustling spawning grounds and salmon run spots.

In large part, the short film traces the stories of Metro Vancouver streamkeepers and their passion and dedication to rehabilitate ecosystems, ultimately turning many creek beds, streams and rivers into hospitable environments for salmon.

“Those people put in so much restoration and dedication and passion for so many years before salmon were brought back,” he says, highlighting an interview in the film with conservationist Elmer Rudolph, who spent decades restoring the Brunette River into a habitable waterway for salmon.

The documentary also highlights British Columbia’s oncebooming cannery industry, during a time when salmon runs were more plentiful and businesses consolidated around the commercial practice looking to make a profit. And before that of course, was an era where First Nations maintained stewardship over marine resources, notes Lessa.

“We used that in the trailer to show how salmon were brought into the picture. The only reason people settled in Vancouver – First Nations or white people – was because of salmon. It used to be so common and plentiful, and now they are all gone,” he says.

But while the canning industry has all about disappeared, more and more urban salmon have been returning to local waterways over the years due to the good work of streamkeepers, environmentalists and other groups.

Lessa filmed 32 rivers, creeks and waterways around Metro Vancouver for his documentary, including Brunette River, Stoney Creek and Still Creek in Burnaby, the Fraser River, and Seymour and Capilano rivers, as well as Lynn Creek, on the North Shore.

The Urban Salmon is premiering online on March 4 at 7 p.m.

The free event will be followed by a roundtable discussion. For more information visit www.bit.ly/urbansalmon2021.

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t the new Hello Nori in downtown Vancouver, customers sit on stools affixed to a U-shaped wooden bar.

Overhead, hanging wooden pillars create the distinct feeling you are sitting under a massive wave. In the centre of the bar is like a kind of sushi-focused theatre in the round. The product is a sushi purist's dream: Perfect hand rolls served one at a time.

Hello Nori is a concept from first-time restaurateur Jean-François Eap and Jennifer Zhang, and the restaurant at 1165 Robson Street opened its doors in mid-February. It won't be long now until Hello Nori expands its reach in the region; up next are outposts at Park Royal in West Vancouver and at Brentwood in Burnaby.

While the scope of the business might be broad, the focus of the food is tight. There are no platters heaving with pieces of nigiri packed shoulder-to-shoulder alongside cut rolls heaped with sauces and garnishes. No brimming bowls of edamame, no towers of tempura, not a noodle in sight.

Hello Nori is laser-focused on hand rolls:

Warm, seasoned rice wrapped in a mindblowingly crisp piece of fresh nori. Inside, your choice of veg or seafood filling; keep it as simple as strands of sliced cucumber or as decadent as meaty morsels of truffle lobster.

The menu is done checklist-style and is in the hands of longtime Vancouver chef Jay Pugong (most recently head chef at Minami). Choose from three set menus of four, five, or six hand rolls, order hand rolls a la carte, or mix and match. When it comes to individual pricing, the spectrum ranges from a cucumber hand roll at $3 to Truffle Lobster at $8 apiece.

There are about a dozen kinds of hand rolls, like smoky torched unagi streaked with a bit of sweet sauce, or a memorable spicy tuna that doesn't temper its punch with a bunch of mayo, but rather walks that fine line between a deep heat and the pure flavour of the fish.

Hello Nori in Vancouver is open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.. We can expect both the Park Royal and Brentwood locations to open sometime this spring.

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By virtue of the warehouseman's lien act on behalf of Drake Towing Gotcha Recovery Storage will assist in disposal of the list below after Feb 28th 2021 The following vehicles will be sold or disposed of, all amounts owing for storage as of Feb 16th 2021 1.

2011 Hyundai Elantra Vin: 5NPDH4AE3BH003248 Registered owner: Chaves Cruz current amount owing $9000

2.

2014 Hyundai Genesis Vin: KMHHT6KDXEU116766 Registered owner: James Frouz current amount owing $5500

3.

2016 Nissan Sentra Vin: 3N1AB7AP7GL654996 Registered owner: Qin Han current amount owing $8000

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2017 Chevy Cruze Vin: 1G1BE5SM3H7181095 Registered owner: Wong Kee PinX current amount owing $10000

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