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id you spot anybody you recognize on the cover of this paper? To celebrate our one-year anniversary of being in print, I aimed to include a range of notable Vancouverites who have appeared in our paper over the last year.

Below is a key, in case you’re wondering who’s on there!

A. Mayor Kennedy Stewart B. Dr. David Suzuki C. Nardwuar the Human Serviette D. Pete Fry, Vancouver City t Councillor E. Fin F. Premier John Horgan G. Jenny Kwan, MP H. Drum Circle Guy

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I. Bob Kronbauer, V.I.A. Editor-in-Chief J. Angie Quintanilla Coates, local artist K. Nigel Howard, ASL interpreter L. Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks M. Geoff Coates, local weirdo N. Jean Swanson, Vancouver City ty Councillor and activist O. Joe Buffalo, pro skateboarder P. Wayde Compton, writer Q. Ryan Reynolds, gin entrepreneur R. Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C. Provincial Health Officer S. Danny Ramadan, novelist and LGBTQrefugee activist

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Thanks for a great first year in print PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bob Kronbauer bobk@vancouverisawesome.com | 604-439-2688 DIRECTOR OF SALES Michelle Bhatti mbhatti@glaciermedia.ca | 604-630-3503 MANAGING EDITOR Lindsay William-Ross lindsay@vancouverisawesome.com REPORTERS Brendan Kergin | Cameron Thomson | Daniel Wagner Elana Shepert | Graeme Wood | Jeremy Hainsworth Megan Lalonde | Mike Howell | Thor Diakow EDITORIAL CARTOONIST Geoff Coates PRODUCTION + DESIGN Jodeen Hodgson SALES REPS Alison Clay | Brianne McKenzie | David Chiew Gerald Regio | Guy Fournier Justin Chen | Maureen Laventure | Samantha Greco FOR ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES PLEASE EMAIL advertising@vancouverisawesome.com FOR GENERAL EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES PLEASE EMAIL hello@vancouverisawesome.com FOR DISTRIBUTION INQUIRIES EMAIL viadelivery@van.net | delivery@vancourier.com or call 604-398-2901 SEND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TO bobk@vancouverisawesome.com or 303 W 5th Ave, Vancouver B.C., V5Y 1J6

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ver the past year, we’ve witnessed a lot of change globally, regionally, and also here within our organization.

When we launched Vancouver Is Awesome online in 2008, it didn’t cross our minds that we might one day publish a print newspaper to accompany our online media outlet.

Yet here we are 52 weeks into this and still going strong.

In fact, our print publication is growing with help from advertisers as well as readers like you who ‘subscribe’ to this free paper by way of our voluntary pay model starting at $5/ month (visit www.bit.ly/helpvia2021 for more info on that).

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, since the beginning of 2020 we’ve doubled our editorial staff, enabling us to deliver you more Vancouver news and lifestyle stories than ever before.

With more output comes more input, and one thing I can say about print newspaper readers is that you folks are a breath of fresh air. As we’ve ‘grown up’ on the internet, we’re mostly accustomed to receiving quick, snarky comments from people hiding behind their keyboards. I speak for the entire newsroom when I say that receiving communication from you print readers is a hundred times more enjoyable than wading through the muck of social media comments.

I personally delight in receiving well-thought-out emails from you, along with the odd letter in my actual mailbox at the office. Some of you leave phone messages too, which I find joy in listening to.

From critiques to praise to story ideas, or simply reaching out to say hello and that you appreciate what we’re doing, you’ve given us hope that there is still intelligent life out there.

Thanks for reading, and writing. Here’s to another year in print!

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Public Hearing: April 13, 2021

Public Hearing: April 15, 2021

Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 6 pm to be convened by electronic means

Thursday, April 15, 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. Miscellaneous Amendments to Various CD-1 By-laws To make miscellaneous amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law and Sign By-law to improve clarity, update references, correct inadvertent errors or omissions, and improve the administration of the by-laws.

2. CD-1 Rezoning: 325-341 West 42nd Avenue To rezone 325-341 West 42nd Avenue from RS-1 (Residential) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of an 18-storey residential building with a four-storey podium, containing approximately 215 secured rental units of which 20 per cent of the residential floor area would be secured as below-market rental units (approximately 40 units). A height of 56.3 metres (185 feet) with additional height for a rooftop amenity space and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 6.84 are proposed.

3. CD-1 Rezoning: 485 West 28th Avenue To rezone 485 West 28th Avenue from RS-1 (Residential) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building containing 27 strata-titled units.

A height of 21 metres (69 feet) with additional height for a rooftop amenity space and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.54 are proposed.

4. CD-1 Rezoning: 1616-1698 West Georgia Street To rezone 1616-1698 West Georgia Street from RM-6 (Residential) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 33-storey residential building containing 127 strata-titled units. A height of 99.3 metres (326 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 9.39 are proposed.

A. CD-1 Text Amendment: 1280 Burrard Street (formerly 1262-1290 Burrard Street) To amend CD-1 (587) (Comprehensive Development) District for 1280 Burrard Street by altering the land use provisions under Section 2.2 to allow a wider range of commercial uses.

B. Rezoning: 4825 Laurel Street To rezone 4825 Laurel Street from RS-1 (Single-detached Houses and Duplexes) District to RM-8A (Multiple Dwelling) District to permit a townhouse development with a maximum floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.20. If rezoning is approved, a subsequent development permit process will entail a review of a proposed form of development.

C. Sign By-law Amendment: 688 Hamilton Street To amend the Sign By-law at 688 Hamilton Street (Queen Elizabeth Theatre) to allow one new free-standing electronic static image sign along Cambie Street and to replace three freestanding electronic static image signs along West Georgia Street, Hamilton Street and Dunsmuir Street.

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 April 1, 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 D. Amendments to the Zoning and Development and participant code are tweeted out and By-law to Increase Social Housing in the available on the live stream, while the meeting is RM-4 and RM-3A Zoning Districts in progress. For more information, visit vancouver.ca/publichearings.

To amend the Zoning and Development Bylaw to allow development of up to six storeys Send your comments to Council at in the RM-3A and the RM-4 and RM-4N zoning vancouver.ca/public-hearing-comments or by districts where 100 per cent of the residential emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca floor area is developed as social housing, or or by mail to: social housing in conjunction with a child day City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office care facility.

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 April 1, 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING SUBMITTING COMMENTS AND REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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Can nucks have more no-movement and no-trade clauses than any other NHL team

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anucks fans know at least one of the team’s pending unrestricted free agents won’t be traded this season: Travis Hamonic.

Heading into the trade deadline, the Canucks should d be sellers. Trade conversations usually start with playerss who will be unrestricted free agents (UFAs) at the end off the season, so teams don’t just lose them for nothing in free agency.

For thee Canucks, the list of pending UFAs includes Tanner Pearso on, Brandon Sutter, Alex Edler, and Jordie Benn.

It also includes Hamonic, but a report from Sportsnet’s Elliottte Friedman on Hockey Night Canada made it clear that hee won’t be traded because he has a no-movement clause in his contract and won’t be waiving it.

A no-m movement clause (NMC) is exactly what it sounds like: th he player can’t be moved, whether to the minors or traded d to another team, unless the player approves. There is also the no-trade clause (NTC), which is similar: the player can’t be traded but could be put on waivers and sent to the minors. NTCs are sometimes modified, meaning a playeer can provide a list of teams to which they can or cannott be traded.

It’s a litttle unusual for a player on a one-year contract like Hamonic to receive a NMC, but he and his agent negotiiated it into his contract for a very good reason. He wants to stay in western Canada for family reasons — he requessted a trade from the New York Islanders and opted out of the 2020 NHL playoffs for the same reason — so took leess than a top-four defenceman would typically take in ordeer to get that clause. It’s the human side of hockey that sometiimes gets forgotten.

Hamo onic’s NMC is eminently forgivable and its addition is

what kept his cap hit low enough to fit him on the Canucks roster. Other NMC and NTCs on the Canucks’ books, viewable via CapFriendly.com, make a little less sense.

11 players on the Canucks, including five of their six defencemen currently in the lineup, have some form of trade protection. Looking at the rest of the all-Canadian North Division this season, the Canucks definitely stand out.

The Calgary Flames, Winnipeg Jets, and Montreal Canadiens have six. The Edmonton Oilers have three. The Ottawa Senators have just two. The Toronto Maple Leafs are closest to the Canucks with ten, but they’re at the top of the division and expected to contend for the Stanley Cup. In fact, no other team in the entire NHL has as many as 11 no-trade and no-movement clauses. The Canucks have the most.

It’s who owns those clauses as well that is baffling. Most teams give trade protection to a few of their best players.

Benning has handed out NTCs to the likes of bottom-six forwards Brandon Sutter, Jay Beagle, and Antoine Roussel and depth defenceman Jordie Benn.

The clauses aren’t overly onerous — Braden Holtby’s modified NTC allows him to specify just four teams to which he can’t be traded — but their very existence is puzzling. Fourth-line centres like Beagle rarely get trade protection and it did little to lower Beagle’s cap hit on his four-year, $12 million deal.

As another example, Micheal Ferland didn’t just get a four-year contract from the Canucks (something no other team was willing to do given his history of concussions), he also got a full NMC for the first two years, then a modified NTC for the next two.

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actual quality — belongs to Loui Eriksson. His six-year, $36-million contract has a full NMC in the first two years, becomes a NTC in years three and four, then becomes a modified NTC for the final two years.

We’re currently in the first of those two years, where Eriksson can submit a list of 15 teams to which he cannot be traded. Of course, the idea that his contract only allows him to be traded now — when he’s a consistent healthy scratch — is amazing. In reality, his boat anchor of a contract is the most effective no-movement clause in the world.

Hopefully, the Canucks’ other clauses won’t prevent the team from making trades before the deadline to improve the team for the future.

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The Irish Heather is moving out of Gastown

New local company offers $99 day adventure trailer rentals

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ast year Nic Tickner and Ryan Aitcheson decided to turn their passion for the outdoors into a business, helping others enjoy B.C.'s backyard as much as they do.

They launched Northirn Overland in 2021 with a variety of rental 4WD vehicles with rooftop tents, as well as a Taxa Tiger Moth adventure trailer.

Their intention is to make it much more than a rental company and more of an experience company.

We took their trailer out for a weekend adventure off the grid, and the company’s pre-planning included a call from Nic asking us what area we wanted to head to.

If you have zero camping equipment, the trailer comes equipped with everything you need, and then some. Chairs, stuff to light a fire with, all the basics. One of the best features is the pull-out kitchen unit that comes out the back, under the canopy.

As Nic tells us, "You don't need to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get out there with this stuff," and the price tag of $99/ day for the trailer is proof positive of that.

Have a look at their website at northirn.com to check out what they offer.

Full disclosure: Northirn founders Nic and Ryan work with V.I.A., and they loaned us the trailer for the trip free of charge so we could review their service. They're good people who help us put together the annual Awesome Grand Prix, B.C.'s Criterium Championships.

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took to YouTube back in April 2020 to share a video of himself singing a COVID-19 parody of Gloria Gaynor's might "I Will Survive."

Heather has been in business in Vancouver since 1997 and has been determined not to let the COVID-19 pandemic and its surrounding economic fallout take him, his businesses, and his staff out of the game.

"We are fighting for the life of our business right now, and all depending on its survival; our staff, our leases, our

community, our reputation, our family, our suppliers, etc.," explained Heather via the Irish Heather website last spring.

To address the businesses' financial struggles, Heather introduced an "employee pricing" program in order to encourage customers to order from his restaurants when possible.

In addition to the Irish Heather, Heather operates the Shebeen Whisk(e)y House (located at the rear of the Irish Heather) as

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or nearly a quartercentury, The Irish Heather has been welcoming patrons for drinks and eats in a convivial atmosphere on Carrall Street in Gastown.

But those days are coming to an end, as owner Sean Heather announced this week the veteran spot is packing up and moving to a new location elsewhere in Vancouver.

"After 24 amazing years in Gastown, we have decided to move to a new neighbourhood," reads a social media post from the Irish Heather. "Thank you to all of our loyal customers, & amazing neighbours. We look forward to welcoming you all once we get settled in our new location."

Details about the Irish Heather's new location have been kept under wraps, however, a plan is in motion, according to a follow-up post from the gastropub.

"We are moving so that we have a better chance to survive and rebuild when COVID is done with us," Heather said in an e-mail to V.I.A. "By moving to another location, we can reduce our overheads, including rent, insurance, property taxes, etc.," explained the chef and restaurateur.

Heather could not divulge the exact location of the new Irish Heather, but did indicate it would be "east" of the current spot.

According to the Vancouver Sun, the new location will be in Chinatown. There are a number of vacant restaurant spaces in Chinatown which could potentially be the destination, including those previously belonging to Mamie Taylor's, Campagnolo, and Bestie, among others.

As for what to expect at The Irish Heather 2.0?

"We are aiming to create a mixture of the original Irish Heather and the most recent version…..the best of both, if we get it right," added Heather.

"COVID knocked us down but it didn’t knock us out.

We have a plan to reduce our costs, and our overhead..... stay tuned for details of our new home," shared The Irish Heather Tuesday on social media.

It's been a tough go for The Irish Heather and its sibling ventures this year. Heather

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The Irish Heather's last day of business at its Gastown location is set for April 4.

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Tens of thousands of empty beer kegs sit inside Direct Tap's Fraser St. facility in Vancouver; it's yet another sign of the COVID effect on the local hospitality industry.

The company provides alcohol storage and delivery services for partner facilities in the province, essentially offering better logistical support to craft liquor manufacturers.

President Mike Macquisten says they usually see about one-tenth the number of kegs temporarily housed in the building.

"We have over 80,000 empty kegs in this building waiting to be filled.

50 percent of our business is in kegs

and that's down almost 80 percent from what it once was," explains Macquisten.

As bar and restaurant sales continue to slump in B.C., it's making for one crowded depot and a lot of thirsty businesses.

Macquisten adds, "As patios open up, as things loosen up a little bit, these kegs are going to start to flow and we're excited to get them back in the hands of the breweries that they're owned by."

The BC Restaurant and Food Services Association estimates the province's food and beverage industry has lost almost $3.5 billion during the pandemic.

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Rain or shine, volunteer members of the Punjabi Market Regeneration Collective have started dedicating their time to pick up litter surrounding Main Street in Vancouver's historic Punjabi Market.

The area holds great importance for

PMRC creative director Jag Nagra.

"This place was home for our parents who came to Canada. A lot of them left their families and this was a place that they could connect to their culture and it means so much to us," explains Nagra.

As local businesses continue to struggle in the area, the group sees litter removal as an essential part of preserving the

site's legacy and dignity. They hope to work with city officials to try and prevent future trash accumulation.

Last weekend the team spent several hours combing the streets, resulting in 15 full bags of garbage.

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At its peak, the Punjabi Market was home to over 300 shops and was the first and largest South Asian Market in North America.

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Jericho Lands Virtual Design Workshops

The Jericho Lands are changing and you can help shape its future. The City and the owners of the site, the joint venture partnership of the Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation, and Tsleil-Waututh Nation (MST) Partnership and Canada Lands Company (CLC), are co-hosting a series of themed virtual design workshops to discuss and refine the Emerging Site Planning Ideas.

At each workshop, there will be a presentation, followed by small facilitated group discussions seeking your feedback on the Emerging Site Planning Ideas. The Emerging Ideas will help shape the development of a preliminary site concept for the Jericho Lands. In addition to the themed workshops, Kick-Off and Wrap-Up events will introduce the process and report on findings.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Connections and Mobility, 1 – 3:30 pm Natural Systems and Open Space, 6 – 8:30 pm Thursday, April 15, 2021 Sustainability and Resilience, 1 – 3:30 pm Inclusive Neighbourhood, 6 – 8:30 pm Monday, April 19, 2021 Wrap-Up Event, 6 – 8 pm

Discussion guides: Guides are available on the website to provide more background for the workshops. If you can’t make it to a workshop, the guides and website information will also help you learn more about the Emerging Site Planning Ideas so you can take the survey and share your feedback.

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hile cuteness is in the eye of the beholder, one fluffy Vancouver feline commands countless "awes."

Pua, a six-month-old exotic shorthair, enjoys the world from the vantage point of his owners' shoulders. He visits multiple places around the city and isn't bothered by the hustle and bustle around him.

The petite pet is named after an adorable pot-bellied pig in Disney's 2016 animated feature film, Moana--and it isn't hard to see why.

Pua's owners, Maggie and Vincent Tsui, tell Vancouver Is Awesome they chose the name after noticing that their kitten bears a striking resemblance to the cartoon swine. They both have pink ears and a pink nose, as well as grey patches; they are both decidedly cute, too.

Maggie says Pua "is probably the calmest and chillest cat out there" and says they get numerous comments on his peaceful nature. "When he

went to the vet and he got his temperature taken up the bum, he didn’t even squirm!"

When he isn't enjoying his shoulder rides around the city, Pua loves cuddling with his owners. Maggie says they cuddle before she heads to work, when she comes home, and before she goes to bed, which she says she finds therapeutic. However, once it's lights out for the humans, the frisky feline comes alive.

When Maggie heads to bed "that’s when his playtime begins. He leaves my side jumps onto the ground and spends the night chasing balls and feathers."

"He loves playing with things and toys that are light and airy."

But Pua isn't only interested in people and playthings.

"He recently met up with some dog friends and he plays with them like any dog would - chasing their tails," Maggie says with a laugh.

See more cute photos of Pua at instagram.com/puabites

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anadian pop star Justin Bieber has been spotted wearing Vancouver skateboard brand Skull Skates in a press photo, and the founder of the company is loving it.

Promoting his latest album Justice, which was released last week, photos of Bieber wearing a vintage Skull Skates varsity jacket were posted to his Facebook Page as well as his Instagram account, where they generated more

than 5 million likes.

Skull Skates picked up on it and shared one to their social media accounts as a nod back to the star, and it got fans of the brand talking. Some found it "embarrassing" while others commented

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This isn't the first time a star has been pictured supporting the brand, and it certainly won't be the last. They're the oldest skateboard brand in Canada, and over the 43 years they've been around they've been worn by Adam Ant, Eddie Van Halen, INXS, Milli Vanilli, Axl Rose, Anthony Kiedis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and countless others.

Ducommun says "I always just feel flattered," to see people wearing it.

So far Bieber wearing Skull Skates hasn't resulted in a flood of new customers, like what happened when the singer wore a Thrasher sweatshirt in 2018 and set off a tidal wave of teenagers going out and buying them.

However, if you're interested in purchasing their go-to sweatshirt (the closest thing to this varsity jacket as you'll get), they're available for mailorder through their website (skullskates.com) and at their retail store P.D.'s Hot Shop at 3734 W 10th Ave in Vancouver.

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that they supposed "the Beebs ain't so bad after all," because he knows what's good.

Vancouver Is Awesome spoke to Peter Ducommun, the proprietor who founded the iconic brand back in 1978, to get his thoughts.

Ducommun tells us that the jacket is a vintage one that was produced in a limited batch in the late 1980s. As he tells it, "ten, maybe fourteen" units were manufactured in East Van. They were distributed to sponsored team riders and staff, and Ducommun still has his in his closet.

He's not sure how Bieber got his hands on one of the rare pieces of skateboard history, but he appreciates it, despite there being a seemingly wide gap between Bieber's pop personality and Skull Skates' hardcore ethos.

As Ducommun sees it, "Skateboarding welcomes everybody. It always has."

He goes on to say "The dude's a skateboarder, he's from Canada, I have no idea what his motivation was or how he got the jacket... but I appreciate the gesture."

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easy, he adds, and requires late nights searching online and patience.

"Exotic snacks and drinks do command a certain price because of the duties, the shipping, the tariffs, and whatnot, but we try and keep everything as low as possible," he explains.

Quarantine is something else they've had to contend with, he adds, which means some

things have arrived after they've expired, never to hit the shelf. Patience is a big piece of the job.

"That's part of the exotic snack game," he says.

Aside from the food, the store also carries a wide variety of Funko figures, including many uncommon ones (who knew Crash Bandicoot villains had a Vancouver fanbase?).

Then there's the Supreme clothing, along with some OVO and Travis Scott branded items. Oh, and an ever-changing selection of shoes.

For the trio, Voss says the shop is a passion project as much as a business. They all grew up in West Vancouver, and met when they were young.

"We haven't had a day off in a little of time now, everyone works 12-15 hours a day," he says, adding that the cliche 'do something you love and you'll never work a day in

Six arrested at Cambie St. Bridge anti-logging sit-in

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ancouver police arrested six demonstrators last Saturday after a sit-in protesting old-growth logging in B.C. blocked Cambie St. Bridge for much of the afternoon.

The demonstration organized by Extinction Rebellion's Vancouver chapter began at noon at City Hall, from where about 150 demonstrators marched to the bridge—"a major artery to Downtown Vancouver," police pointed out, adding that protestors "blocked traffic in both directions and caused major disruptions."

The Vancouver Police Department said its officers allowed the group to peacefully assemble on the bridge before eventually asking participants to step aside and allow for traffic flow to resume. Four adult women and two adult men who refused to move were

your life' applies heree.

That feeds into the chatty tyy nature of the Voss an nd the others, who greet and thank everyone in the store. That's why they went with the bodega name as welll, playing off the community naature of bodegas in the US. "We wanted to createe that whole vibe here in Vancouver," he says.

To that end, Voss sayys if anyone sees somethin ng on Instagram and are heeading down that day, they should message ahead and they'll put it aside. For those wanting to visit, it's located at 2641 East Hasting gs.

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arrested for mischief and intimidation by blocking a roadway, according to police.

The six individuals were taken to jail and released from custody upon promising to appear in court at a later date.

Extinction Rebellion Vancouver had issued a warning about its members' plans to occupy the Cambie Bridge and disrupt weekend traffic. On Thursday, the group dropped a banner over the bridge railings to announce that they intended to engage in "peaceful civil disobedience" on March 27.

The action was purposefully planned to take place on the same day as a mass mobilization at the B.C. Legislature that's calling for an immediate end to oldgrowth logging, particularly at the Fairy Creek watershed on historically Pacheedaht lands, near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island.

Prior to reaching the bridge, demonstrators in Vancouver also staged a "die-in" at Cambie and Broadway Saturday. Organizers said the act "symbolizes death, a pause to think about the small sacrifices we can make to avoid further catastrophe in this mass extinction."

Exactly one month ago, three of the group's "rebels" were also arrested after staging a similar Saturday afternoon sit-in that blocked the Hornby and Smithe intersection in downtown Vancouver.

Extinction Rebellion is a global movement that began in the U.K in 2018.

It claims to use non-violent civil disobedience to call for increased climate action, which group members say is necessary "to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse."

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Microsoft expanding Vancouver footprint, adding 500 new jobs

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icrosoft Corp. is turning up the pressure on Vancouver tech companies in the hunt for local talent.

The American tech giant revealed last Wednesday it’s expanding its local roster by 500 people this year at the same time demand for tech talent has been ramping up on the West Coast.

The new hires will be tasked with working on projects ranging from mixed reality applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud computing service.

The company also confirmed it was adding an Azure Edge Zone — infrastructure

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n Lucky's Exotic Bodega, Lady Gaga Oreos, Cheetos Mac'n'Cheese, Skittles drink and Walkers Prawn Cocktail chips all share shelf space, while supplies last.

The recently opened shop mixes the neighbourhood feel of a bodega with a snack selection dreamt up by someone who spent time in 7-11's around the world. T.J. (Tim) Voss started Lucky's with his business partner and longtime friend Sam Sabor; another childhood friend, Martin Sahami is the third part of the 'Bodega Boys.'

"The whole premise of our idea, the bodega, was to be somewhere in the community that everyone could come together," Voss says.

Lucky's has an eye-grabbing Instagram account (@ luckysbodega) that features some of the more bizarre, exotic or special items, including Simpsons Oreos, Pokemon cereal, and Funfetti Oreo pancake mix.

Voss says the snack selection is the heart of the shop.

One of their first big sellers was a Reese's cupcake, Sahami says, and more recently a triple flavour insect dish went fast. Because many of the foods are coming from overseas, the shop has a constantly evolving selection.

"Larvae," Voss says. "So they came in three flavours, bbq, Mexican spice and cheddar cheese."

They also have several coolers stocked full of different pops and juices (including, occasionally Sprite Fiber+) and two big shelves filled with cereals that either mash-up two flavours or are a flavour unrelated to cereal (like Tim Horton's or Dunkaroos).

"What we specialize in is snacks from around the world," he says. "So America, UK, Asia, those are the three major places we get our snacks from."

That explains why Walkers chips (a UK version of Lays) are everywhere, along with a lot of things that don't use the Latin alphabet.

"We've been waiting weeks and weeks and weeks for those UK chips that just came through," Voss says of a shelf of chips. The Skittles, Twix and Mars drinks (which are dairy-based) all come from the UK as well.

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backing Microsoft’s cloud services — to Vancouver.

The new local cloud infrastructure is meant to provide additional support to customers in Western Canada dealing with latencysensitive workloads.

This year’s 500-person expansion will bring Microsoft’s local presence to 1,700 workers and comes at a time when demand for local talent has been increasing.

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istorically, female sockeye salmon have outnumbered male salmon when they reach their spawning grounds, but UBC research is showing that's no longer the case in the Fraser

River.

The title of a publication captures the issue well: "Exceptionally high mortality ty of adult female salmon: a large-scale pattern and a conservation concern." It brought together data from nearly 20 studies of salmon.

Researchers have found that for every male salmon that doesn't return to the stream where it was born, tw t o or three female salmon don't return.

“This is causing skewed sex ratios in their spawning grounds, something that has been observed in recent years,” says lead researcher Dr. Scott Hinch in a press release. “The implications on the health of Fraser River stocks are concerning, particularly as Pacific salmon populations in British Columbia have been declining over the past several decades.”

The trend has been observed in sockeye salmon in other systems, and in coho and chinook. The implication of declining salmon stock has environmental and economic implications.

Hinch and the researchers believe there are four reasons this is happening: depletion of energy, reduced cardiac capacity t , stress and disease. For example, Female salmon

are more likely to die due to environmental changes, like warmer or more turbulent water.

“Females have higher heart rates and smaller hearts than males leading to reduced cardiac capacity ty. Because female gonads are so large compared to males, they have to divert way more blood to them especially as the eggs are developing and this requires even more oxy xygen supply from the heart, so it’s likely that when the migration is difficult, females are not able to get enough oxy xygen to swim," says Hinch in the release.

They're now recommending some changes to help reverse the trend.

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t took a white man murdering six Asian women in a massage parlor in Atlanta to instigate the public conversation on the racism and misogynist violence that Asian women face in North America. The COVID-19 pandemic has been used as an explanation for recent aggressive and violent expressions of racism against Asian people, but the harassment, exploitation, hyper-sexualization, and violence that Asian women endure is an ever-present reality.

A review of 500 cases of Asian women who called Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter in the last couple of years shows that: 230 women called us because their current, or ex, male intimate partner raped or had beaten them.

103 women called us because a man that they knew superficially (through a social circumstance like a party, or mutual friends, or as a service provider like a taxi driver, doctor, or salesperson) had sexually assaulted them.

68 women called us because their father or other adult male family members/family friends raped them when they were girls.

36 women called us because their male supervisor or coworker sexually assaulted them.

36 women called us because a man who was a complete stranger assaulted them.

The Asian women victim’s relationship to their attackers is consistent with what we see of how all men get access to women, regardless of race.

A closer look into what Asian women tell us reveals a particularly racist element to the male violence that they experience. Asian women tell us that their abusive male partners make pornographic films of them, playing up the misogynist stereotype of Asian women as sexually submissive. Asian women tell us that they were brought to Canada on a promise of decent work and when they arrive, they’re instead confined to servitude through exploitive jobs.

Asian women tell us that they, and other female workers, are repetitively harassed in Asian restaurants but that they don’t dare to complain for fear of being fired. Asian immigrants sponsored by violent husbands tell us that the men threaten them by saying that they’ll be sent back if she reports the violence.

Women from the Philippines employed as domestic

workers and caregivers in Canada tell us they’re being sexually harassed and assaulted by their employers, but if they leave those jobs, they’ll lose their ability to stay in Canada.

Many of the Asian women who call us don’t speak English. They did not find out about us through an internet search or seeing an interview with us in the media. Somehow, they got our phone number from someone who knew that we could help them. Regardless of the reason they call us, Asian women often tell us that they’re constantly propositioned to have sex for money by men that they know, as well as men who are strangers to them.

And there are the women who do not call us. There are the Asian women trapped in brothels disguised as massage parlours all over the Lower Mainland, with no English or alternatives to earn an income.

We don’t know how many women are in these “massage parlours” but a superficial Google search yielded dozens of advertisements in Vancouver of places offering “Exotic Asian massage.” The number of hidden, unadvertised places is likely much greater.

As the Asian Women for Equality group wrote in its statement on the Georgia shooting, “Asian women are fetishized as being submissive, exotic, and sexually available. Our bodies are used, commodified and trafficked for profit and men’s sexual pleasure. Arising, in part, from a history of exploitation, war, and imperialism, these harmful stereotypes of Asian women are embedded in the expectations and beliefs of white male sex buyers.”

We must respond to the plight of Asian women. Antiracism campaigns like the one that the BC government has just launched with the message “we can’t tackle racism if we can’t talk about it” are not going to cut it. We need concrete actions.

Upon entry, women who arrive in Canada from other countries must be provided with written information, in their own language, regarding their right to be safe and free from violence and exploitation, along with contact information for local anti-violence women’s organizations.

Men who batter, rape, buy, or pimp women must be criminally charged, and their women victims must be granted the ability to stay in Canada if they don't already have citizenship.

And last, the economic vulnerability of women that keeps them captive in exploitive jobs, abusive marriage, and prostitution, must be addressed with the provision of guaranteed livable income.

Hilla Kerner is a Collective Member of the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter

ne of the most delicious ways to celebrate those beautiful pink blooms signalling the start of spring in Vancouver is Sakura Night, a key fundraiser that's part of the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. With the fest shifting into virtual mode for 2021, B.C. chefs have created special "Sakura at Home" meals for a new way to celebrate - and raise funds - for the festive evening.

Among those taking part in Sakura at Home are Vancouver chefs Andrea Carlson of Burdock & Co; Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala of Vij's Restaurant; Kazuhiro Hayashi of Miku Waterfront; and the team from Salmon n' Bannock (Vancouver's only Indigenous restaurant). Will Lew of Nootka Marine Adventures resorts on Vancouver Island is creating a meal alongside Vancouver chef Clement Chan.

Additionally, Top Chef Canada 2019 winner Paul Moran, who has launched foraged food business Wild Origins, will be creating a meal kit for four that guests can prepare themselves at home.

"These flowers feed our spirit and fill our heart with hope and promise…feed your spirit and body with the variety of the seasonal selection of flavours and textures being showcased at Sakura at Home," said Darnell Stager of Salmon n’ Bannock.

The chefs have been tasked with creating meals that capture the beauty of the cherry blossom. Guests will choose which restaurant's meal they want when they purchase their tickets for the April 25 virtual event.

Learn more at www.bit.ly/vanblossoms2021

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f there's something strange in your neighbourhood, these are definitely the people you want to call.

Paranormal Spectrum Investigations BC is a Metro Vancouver-based volunteer group dedicated to looking into the unexplainable. The team, established in 2019, is now made up of six people and is always looking for more members.

If you encounter a bizarre occurrence in your home or business, they will investigate the matter on-site and provide a detailed report of the findings, free of charge.

According to their website, the group will "exhaust every avenue when looking for logical reasoning to paranormal claims, and by using the latest investigative equipment anything [they] can't explain will be presented to you in a way that you can understand and handle emotionally, spiritually and psychologically."

One of the most important aspects of the group's work is maintaining a judgment-free zone so people can feel comfortable sharing their experiences.

Co-founder Mike Lutke says about 60 per cent of their observations don't have a logical explanation.

The crew takes the work seriously while managing to have some fun, but skeptics still remain.

Member Paige Wilson says, "I get a lot of people coming up to me with a lot of different opinions; it almost becomes an argument of them trying to convince me that what I'm doing is a waste of time."

While individual inspections have been put on hold during the pandemic, the group is eager to continue their investigations once restrictions have been lifted and they encourage anyone to get in touch if they have a potential case.

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he TransLink Board of Directors has unanimously approved a motion that will increase Metro Vancouver transit fares in 2021.

With help from the BC Safe Restart Agreement, the increase to fares will be an average of 2.3 per cent instead of the originally planned 4.1 per cent increase.

This Transit Tariff amendment incorporates a 2.3 per cent increase to the regular and discounted fares effective July 1, 2021.

TransLink says the increase will generate an estimated $4 million per year.

Annual fare increases were approved and planned for in 2017 as part of the 10-Year Mayors’ Vision to help pay for transit expansion projects.

"An annual increase of 4.6 per cent and 4.1 per cent were originally planned for in 2020 and 2021 as part of Phase Two of the Mayors’ Vision," a spokesperson for TransLink tells Vancouver Is Awesome in an emailed statement.

"To provide economic relief to our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the planned 4.6 per cent increase to fares in 2020 was cancelled. 100% of the revenue gained from fare increases goes toward regional transit expansion."

The transportation agency says ridership on its system has been around 40 per cent of 2019 levels since the summer of 2020.

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art scavenger hunt, part hide-and-seek, and part race, bike tag is a relatively new activity in Vancouver with a growing roster of participants.

Ken Eucker describes it a little more succinctly, calling it a "mystery photo tag game." He's a software engineer from Portland and one of the people behind biketag.org, a website built to facilitate the games in 2018.

Bike tag is fairly simple.

A photo is posted online of a bike in a specific spot. You figure out where

that is, ride your bike to that spot and take a photo of your bike there.

Then you ride to a nearby spot and take your bike's photo at the second location and send both pics in to the bike tag team. And then, if you were first, your photo of the second location is posted as the next place to find for everyone else.

In Vancouver, the current game has seen over 200 spots found, and Tyrone Siglos is one of the local leaders.

"I think of it as a tag like when

TYRONE SIGLOS

New cycling game encourages participants to explore Vancouver

someone tags a wall," Siglos explains.

"You're tagging a spot; someone will tag a spot with their bike."

He says the game helps get people

out and about, exploring the city with a goal.

"That's really kind of the gist of it, it's pretty straightforward," he says. "It's easy to play, but it does take a bit of recognizing spots and solving clues."

Some spots are iconic and easy to find, others are more difficult and require deciphering a clue, which also may be easy or hard. Usually, the spots are close together, since they have to be done on the same ride.

"It's an awesome way to bike around during the pandemic," Siglos says.

The biketag.org website and community also make it possible for independent communities to influence each other; for example, Siglos's efforts on Instagram (@ vancouverbiketag) are used as an example for other cities.

Overall the bike tag community is run on enthusiasm and volunteers, Eucker notes. Where it grows from here is up to those who participate, he adds.

There are just two central tenets: exploration and getting active.

"The more it grows, the more it opens the city to casual biking," he says.

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