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Dear Editor, As the tragedy of residential schools continues to unfold in our country, I wanted to share an experience I had a couple of months ago. While visiting a park at the University of British Columbia with my children, I decided to visit a large totem pole located across the street.

We've passed by it a handful of times before, but I've never taken the time to understand what this Haida pole signified.

It turned out it was called the Reconciliation Pole.

At the time of our visit, it was only a little over a week after the discovery of the 215 children found buried at a former residential school site in Kamloops, B.C. As I stood and looked up at the Reconciliation Pole, I was stunned. There, on the underside of two suspended residential schoolhouse replicas were two big skeletons in bold, black oxidized copper nails. While taken aback, a man approached me and said he helped when UBC erected this

pole, back in April of 2017.

"The skeletons..." I said, pointing upwards.

The man chuckled and humbly said, "Yeah, the carver told us there were buried children under those schools... We all thought he was a little crazy, y'know?

And then we all heard the news last week... and well, he was right."

The signage for the Reconciliation Pole reads, “68,000+ copper nails covering areas of the pole are in remembrance of the many school children who died at Canada’s Indian Residential Schools – each nail commemorates one child.”

Each one of those nails was hammered into the pole by residential school survivors, their families, school children and members of the public.

While my kids are still too young to grasp the grief and shock of what really happened at residential schools, my oldest is very interested in First Nations art and totem poles. We took time

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to read the story carved on the pole. We are learning together.

The carver which the man was referring to is 7idansuu (Edenshaw), James Hart, Haida Hereditary Chief and Master Carver. I have no doubt that the master carver knew the copper nails, against the light wooden

surface, would oxidize to be a bold, black colour over time.

Photos that the media took when the pole was raised barely show the light copper skeletons.

But darker and louder they've become, waiting for someone to take notice and listen. I appreciate that foresight and brilliance,

although the symbolism is utterly heartbreaking.

I am holding space for the grief we feel and am listening to Indigenous voices that have gone unheard. I am committing to learn about Indigenous history. I also know that dark chapters from my country’s past do not change my love for my home.

But the awareness will make me work harder at making our country better. After all, as a Japanese Canadian, we too continue to hold the country accountable for the dark chapters of the Internment.

I will make mistakes but I want to be a better ally. I don’t think you’re crazy. I’m listening now.

Yumiko Sasakawa

For anyone wanting to visit the Reconciliation Pole, it is located on the south side of UBC campus, across from the Forestry Science Building at 2373-2435 Main Mall in Vancouver.

Sasakawa is the founder of the Vancouver Playgrounds website. She is on Instagram @vancouverplaygrounds.

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n June 10, 1958, David Pauls, 52 was shot three times in the head with a .22-calibre revolver by the back door of the family home. The killer then went upstairs and clubbed 11-year-old Dorothy Pauls to death in her bed. When Helen Pauls, 45, returned from work a short time later the killer shot her twice in the head and then beat her dead body with a blunt instrument.

It was Vancouver’s first triple homicide.

The Pauls were originally from Russia, spoke German, and before moving to South Vancouver in 1953, farmed in Aldergrove. David worked as a janitor for Woodwards, and in a period where most mothers stayed at home, Helen worked the afternoon shift at the Home Fancy Sausage Shop on Eas ast Hastings Street. Dorothy attended Walter Moberly Elementary r School.

No one kn k ew much about the Pauls, but that’s not surp r rising. They had stopped attending the local Mennonite Church after David no longer wanted to tithe a percentage of his earnings. They still farmed most weekends. Neighbours and co-workers described them as hard worki k ng, fru r gal, financially sound and having no kn k own enemies of any ki k nd.

The only clues police had to go on were a part r ial footp tprint in the garden, a bloody, but unidentifiable palm print on the bedroom wall, and a dislodged rock

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iin n the garden that indicated the way the k ller had fled. The murder weapon was ki never found, but forensics determined that the bullets came from a Rohm RG10 Revolver. An A other dead end, as the guns sold in stores throughout the US gu for $14.95.

Police investigated several theories in the Pauls murders including connections to Russia, the Mennonite Church and a communist plot. A botched robbery r and a potential home invasion were also ru r led out because nothing was stolen. An A other theory r was mistaken identity t . The Pauls had bought the house the year before from a Vancouver Police Depart r ment sergeant

who was the same age as David and lived there with his wife and young daughter. Police believed that David may have caught a peeping tom looking through Dorothy’s window.

Police found a chalked inscription that said DP-HT scribbled on the back door. It turned out that HT was a boy at Dorothy’s elementary school that she had a crush on, but he had an alibi.

Another HT—an 18 year old boy from Mission, BC and who four days later raped and murdered a woman and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl in Bellingham, was also cleared.

When the Pauls case was reinvestigated again in the 1990s by the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit, the theory r was that because Dorothy was as found with her head wrapped in her robe and wearing just her pajama top that she was the intended target of a sexu x al assault and the adults became collateral damage.

There were no suspects identified and the murder weapons were never found.

The $14,000 reward—the largest ever posted—went uncollected and the murders remain unsolved.

Eve Lazarus is a reporter and author, and she hosts and produces the Cold Case Canada true crime podcast. Her books include the B.C. bestsellers Murder by Milkshake; Blood, Sweat, and Fear; Cold Case Vancouver and Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History.

She blogs at Every Place has a Story.

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Opinion: We need to 'vaccinate' B.C.'s forests before it's too late

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The debate over how to end the pandemic has centred on two strategies: natural herd immunity versus vaccination. According to epidemiologists, herd immunity is achieved when a large proportion of the population has been exposed to the virus and in response, develops antibodies to the disease. When a large proportion of the population has achieved this state of natural immunity, it significantly slows the spread of the virus through the remainder of the population.

Unfortunately, achieving herd immunity through transmission of the virus means that many infected individuals will not be able to develop antibodies and will instead get very sick or die. Developing and administering a vaccine to a large proportion of the population is intended to achieve the same result but without the excess deaths and societal impacts.

Mitigation of the wildfire crisis centres on the same two strategies.

Herd immunity, in the context of wildfires, is achieved by creating large patches

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he public would be surprised to know that wildfires and COVID-19 have a lot in common.

The coronavirus disease is a contagion; it spreads from person to person through a vulnerable population.

COVID-19 spreads through entire populations because it is a novel virus, and we have little natural immunity to it.Wildfire behaves similarly.

Fire burns as a contagious process and can spread across western forest landscapes because they are in a highly vulnerable state and contain abundant fuel.

throughout the landscape containing very little fuel or fuel that is too moist to burn.

Grasslands, shrublands, wet meadows, aspen forests, woodlands, harvested areas that have been prescribed burned, and areas recently burned are all examples of patches that contain very little fuel.

When a wildfire encounters these patches, especially if there are many of them, fires burn less intensely, slow down and are more easily contained. This is the landscape of the Indigenous peoples of North America who proactively managed with fire.

If we stick with our current forest management and fire suppression paradigm, and climate change continues unabated, we will actually reach herd immunity in a few short decades.

Year after year these large, destructive wildfires will eventually convert many forests to grasslands, shrublands and

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woodlands. However, to reach this state of “herd immunity” B.C. will lose a large proportion of its forests.

The other option is to “vaccinate” the landscape against large-scale, destructive fire by building back in the network of inflammable patches generated by Indigenous burning at a scale adequate to limit the destructive potential of large wildfires.

Whether we’re managing a crisis centred on a dangerous virus or uncontrollable and highly damaging wildfires, our actions should be guided by a proactive management strategy. COVID-19 presented society with an existential threat – a crisis of such magnitude that it threatens our very existence.

Governments and individuals responded with actions needed to get the crisis under control, including subsidizing businesses

and personal incomes. All of this was for the common good and it was the right management philosophy. Wildfires, greatly exacerbated by climate change and forest management practices, are similarly an existential threat.

In the coming decades wildfires are predicted to result in 100s to 1,000s of premature human deaths a year due to smoke (disproportionately affecting children). They will also emit millions of additional tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They will cost our economy and society billions of dollars (e.g., suppression, businesses losses, infrastructure damage, emotional health, real estate losses, ecosystem services losses, etc.). Yet, government has not treated this crisis as if it is a significant threat to society – and it should.

Governments (provincial and federal) urgently need to develop a strategic plan that centres on solutions to the wildfire crisis at the appropriate scale, is informed by wholistic and inclusive policies, is supported by long-term sustainability, and recognizes social justice as a key component.

For more detail on what that strategic plan looks like, the government should look to a recent white paper presented by collaborators from academic institutions, the Indigenous community, government and industry.

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Former B.C. premier Christy Clark endorses Vancouver mayoral hopeful

The private event was held in the West End on Saturday, July 24, and included roughly 50 supporters from across the political spectrum.

Former Vancouver Greens board member Fernando Garci-Crespo Santalo, and former COPE Council Committee member Paulina Schwartz were among those in attendance.

In a phone interview with Glacier Media, Clark says she's supporting Marissen's bid to become the mayor of Vancouver because

she believes that city hall is currently lacking someone who has the ability to "get along with other people."

She goes on to say that “At this time in our city’s history, we need a mayor who’s really able to pull together people of different views,” and that she believes Marissen is the person to fill that role.

"Mark is exceptional at getting along with people from all political backgrounds. He is very good at negotiating with federal and provincial governments."

On policy, Clark says that while she and Marissen don't agree on everything, she's excited about his stated goal of "making room for the middle class" in the housing market.

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"The youth-grown plants will be distributed to over 50 local community organizations and schools to support urban bird habitat projects," states the EYA in a press release.

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When asked if she thinks the support of a divisive former premier might actually hurt Marissen's chances of garnering votes with a fickle electorate like Vancouver's, Clark notes that “Mark is a lot less partisan than I am... and I think that’s what city hall needs.”

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The Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF) announced today its continued support of the program with $21,501 in funding; it's the third year the HCTF has provided funds for the native plant landscape project. Some of the funds are going toward expanding the garden.

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e're still waiting for the first Vancouver location of Filipino fast food chain Jollibee to open up downtown, but in the meantime, the popular global brand seems to have inked yet another deal for a Metro Vancouver space - and this one is on a busy Vancouver corner.

Jollibee is reportedly one of the new tenants signed up to occupy retail space at 510 West Broadway, the new build on the southwest corner of Broadway and Cambie.

"Mario Negris and I are pleased to announce, in collaboration with CBRE, the successful leasing of 510 West Broadway," shared local commercial realtor Martin Moriarty on his Instagram.

"Located at the high-profile intersection of Cambie Street and West Broadway, these brand new retail units have been leased by tenants including TD Canada Trust, Starbucks, Jollibee, and Pi Co." An online job posting from late June indicates Honeybee Foods Corporation dba Jollibee is hiring a Restaurant Manager for Jollibee- Broadway & Cambie at 510 West Broadway in Vancouver.

Beloved for their Filipino-style spaghetti, crispy fried chicken, burgers, and peach mango pies, Jollibee is all about American-style fast food fused with Filipino flavours and influences.

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Winnipeg; now Jollibee operates locations in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area; Calgary; Edmonton; and Regina. There are over 1,200 Jollibee franchises world-wide, including in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, the Middle East, North America, and Italy.

B.C.'s first outpost of Jollibee, known in pop culture as the "McDonald's of the Philippines," has been in the works in Downtown Vancouver for ages now.

It seemed the opening was going to be sooner than later as 2021 got underway, however as one local food YouTuber noted earlier this month when checking in on the restaurant at 833 Granville

Street: "Looks like there’s still lots of work to do."

In January 2021, we learned Jollibee was going into a new 3,347 square foot build at 12101 72nd Avenue in Surrey's Strawberry Hill shopping centre.

Jollibee Canada's corporate website lists no B.C. address on its store locator, and no representative from the company has ever responded to V.I.A.'s inquiries.

Back in 2018, Jollibee revealed ambitions to open 100 stores in Canada within the next five years, including some in Vancouver.

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'The industry is broken': Inside the local restaurant labour crisis

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obert Belcham has never seen anything like it.

"Never in the history of my 25-year career has the labour shortage been so dire and I don't see an end to it anytime soon."

After over 25 years in the restaurant business, the co-owner of Granville Island's Popina Canteen and Popina Cantina is grappling with the worst labour crisis his industry has ever faced.

While B.C. restaurants are in the middle of the peak summer season, a massive struggle to retain employees continues to grow. As the cost of living in Metro Vancouver keeps rising, workers often

can't make a viable living wage.

According to Belcham, COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem but it was already an issue before the pandemic.

"The pandemic totally cracked it open; it exposed all of the bad parts of our industry and we have an opportunity now to fix it."

Many restaurants in the province are now being forced to reduce hours and simplify menus to deal with the ongoing dilemma.

So, what needs to be done?

"It's pretty obvious what needs to change and it needs to change across the board and that's just how people are

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Despite the woes facing his industry, Belcham does see a light at the end of a dark tunnel.

"The one saving grace that the restaurant industry has is it's unbelievably adaptable. We'll be able to figure it out, it's just how long is it going to take and what are we gonna be able to get out of it?"

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or the Vancouver Police Department, there’s no such thing as bad publicity when it comes to distraction thefts.

This month the VPD announced an awareness campaign devoted to keeping the public wary of distraction scams or thefts.

Whether carried out by using sleight of hand to switch real jewelry with fakes or pawning off fake gold for some quick cash, the VPD says these thefts are difficult to investigate as the victim only realizes there's been a crime well after the suspect has left.

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To help educate people the VPD, along with the Vancouver Police Foundation and the Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers, placed 19 billboards around the city, in four languages

(English, Chinese, Punjabi and Tagalog), to help warn people about the crimes.

Soon after the billboards were unveiled, many took issue with the way the English version of the sign was written: “Be cautious of strangers getting close or asking for help.”

Some wrote the message portrayed a dystopian society or taught the reader to fear all others.

Vancouver city councillor Christine Boyle offered an alternative message for the billboard: “Be kind to strangers. Help others and ask for help. We're safer and stronger together.” Boyle later tweeted the billboards “miss the mark” and said she hoped they would be taken down.

Tania Visintin of the VPD explained the billboard campaign is an effort to draw attention to the ongoing distraction thefts in the city, and the added coverage has done just that.

our goal. We want people to see these eyecatching signs, discuss the meaning and talk to the elderly in the community. We want the conversation to continue.”

“During my short time of a year and a half in public affairs, we have put out numerous news releases warning the public about this awful crime that typically targets the senior population.

However, distraction thefts have been going on for years in Vancouver,” Visintin said.

Visintin added the message the billboards carry is the message the VPD has been sharing for years.

“We are happy that these billboards are getting attention and creating discussion. That was

“Anecdotally, by this topic staying in the media, we hope this will bring down the occurrences and the scammers will stay away,” Visintin said.

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recent survey has found that Greater Vancouver has the most multiple property owners in Canada.

Carried out by Royal LePage, the online survey asked 1,500 Canadians in Greater Vancouver (500), the Greater Toronto Area (500) and the Greater Montreal Area (500) over one week in June. It was found that 12 per cent of property owners in the GMA owned more than one property, 13 per cent in the GTA and 14 per cent in Greater Vancouver. Over 40 per cent of those secondary

property owners in the GTA and Greater Vancouver used equity from their primary residence to make the purchase.

“While some secondary properties are used for recreational purposes, many of these homes are foundational to Canada’s critical supply of rental housing,” said Phil Soper, president and CEO, Royal LePage. “Entrepreneurial landlords supply housing to the thirty per cent of Canadians who rent, be they new immigrants, students, young people entering the

labour force or those who cannot or choose not to own their home.”

When survey respondents from Greater Vancouver were asked about the purpose of their secondary properties, more than two-thirds said they were collecting rental income, if only some of the time. In fact, 27 per cent of secondary property owners said they were not collecting any rental income at all, while 51 per cent said they are using the unit solely as a rental property.

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Witnessing home values across the country rising to new heights, younger Canadians who are financially able to purchase one home are confident in purchasing a second property as an investment, a Royal LePage release states.

“Canadian homeowners believe in the value of real estate because they have seen their investments grow over time,” said Karen Millar, sales representative, Royal LePage Signature Realty. “People feel confident investing in real estate because it is a physical entity that they can experience.”

Caroline Baile, a real estate broker for Royal LePage explains that real estate is an integral part of retirement planning for many Vancouver homeowners.

“While some are using their secondary properties, possibly a cottage or a ski chalet, many of those with multiple homes are looking to build future equity as a means of sustaining a desired lifestyle down the road,” Baile said.

Baile went on to say that younger Canadians are very business savvy and have a clear idea of what they want their retirement years to look like, putting a lot of emphasis on work-life balance.

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t's been over a year, but B.C.'s famed dragon boats are back on the water.

Dragon Boat BC members haven't been formally practicing since March 2020 due to COVID-19. However, teams are once again paddling in False Creek.

"It was very difficult; a lot of us missed the community.

But everyone's gone through it together and we're excited to come back," says spokesperson Michaela Wong.

Some safety protocols are still in place as the pandemic remains an ongoing issue.

Racing culminates locally with the annual Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival.

While the event was cancelled last year, the festival returns September 18-26.

Race weekend will take place September 25 and/or 26, depending on the number of entries.

The 2021 festival will also feature cultural programming with exhibits, installations, performances, and discussion panels focusing on the theme of re-creation.

Dragon boat races were run for the first time outside of Asia during Expo 86.

Since then, the Canadian

International Dragon Boat Festival Society has worked to promote diversity and racial equality within the sport.

"We want to make sure that we're welcoming and also celebrating as many different cultures as possible.

Obviously, Dragon Boat is a big part of Chinese culture and I think it's a great way to celebrate both sport and traditions from that culture," explains Wong.

Dragon boating has grown rapidly over the years, with an estimated 50 million paddlers worldwide.

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rtists have been announced for four of the stations along the new Broadway Subway line currently under construction.

Of the six stations being built for the new line running from VCC-Clark station to Arbutus Street and West Broadway artists or art teams have been selected for the Great Northern Way-Emily Carr, Mount Pleasant, Broadway-City Hall, and South Granville stations.

They are Lou Sheppard (who'll work with Emily Carr University of Art + Design students); Sylvan Hamburger; a team called Theatre Replacement along with Vanessa Kwan, Remy Siu and Cindy Mochizuki; and Derek Root.

Sheppard and the students will take on the Great Northern Way-Emily Carr station which will be built adjacent to the university's campus on Great Northern Way. Sheppard, who was born in Nova Scotia (where he currently lives) has exhibited large form art across Canada including at Toronto's biennial, Simon Fraser University and Saskatoon. The transmasculine artist is also internationally recognized, with residencies in Paris and Brooklyn and an upcoming collaborative exhibition in Turku, Finland.

Hamburger, who grew up in Mount Pleasant, will be

working in his childhood neighbourhood, designing a piece for Mount Pleasant station. He often uses printmaking techniques.

The Theatre Replacement team (James Long and Maiko Yamamoto) will be working with Kwan, Siu and Mochizuki on the BroadwayCity Hall Station. Artists involved with this station have a history of interactive and video installations.

Vancouver-born Root will be designing a piece for the South Granville station. The graduate of Emily Carr works with abstract geometric designs to play with perceptions of architecture and space.

All four projects were selected before the work begins on building the new stations. Artists will work with those designing the

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stations to integrate their installations. Concepts will be shared at a later date.

In addition to this group of artists, more art is expected in collaboration with local First Nations.

"The Province is working with Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation on a separate and parallel process for Indigenous art for the Broadway Subway Project," states the province in a press release. "The Cultural Recognition Program includes art across six stations, with prominent Indigenous artworks planned for Arbutus, Oak-VGH and Great Northern Way-Emily Carr stations."

The Broadway Subway is expected to open in 2025.

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Metro Vancouverites will be privy to a full 'sturgeon' moon on Aug. 22 at 5:01 a.m, according to timeanddate.com. The moon will appear nearly full on the evenings of Aug. 21 and Aug. 23, too.

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evels of illicit drugs entering sewage streams have risen in five major Canadian cities, including Vancouver, since the COVID-19 pandemic’s start, Statistics Canada reports.

The analysis indicates different cities have distinct drug use profiles and Vancouver showed percapita fentanyl loads more than four times higher than in any other city.

The agency also said results

signal an increase in drug consumption, which may be a contributing factor to the increase in overdose-related deaths.

“Of the 14 drugs measured, the levels of cannabis, fentanyl and methamphetamine were found to have significantly increased early in the pandemic” the Canadian Wastewater Survey (CWS) report released July 26 said of samples collected from March to July 2019 and from

January to July 2020.

In April 2020, the load of cannabis metabolite in wastewater was 28% higher than in March 2020. On average, wastewater loads of fentanyl in April 2020 were similar to those observed in the months preceding the pandemic, but were almost twice as high in May, and close to three times higher in June and July, Statistics Canada said.

2020 was B.C.’s worst year for illicit drug deaths, with

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2018, with 1,549 deaths. By April 2018, 535 people died, down from 555 in April of 2017, a year which saw 1,493 fatalities.

2021 is on track to be another year of tragic fatalities.

Statistics Canada said the wastewater information gathered in the CWS will help decision makers with public health strategies and allow public health authorities, law enforcement agencies and other organizations to target their approach in the overdose crisis.

The CWS has been testing wastewater samples from wastewater treatment plants in Halifax, Montréal, Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver since March 2019.

Analyses produce estimates of the amount of a given drug metabolite, a chemical made when the body breaks down a drug, entering the wastewater system, which is generally expected to reflect the overall quantity of the drug consumed by the population within a given area.

Moreover, the results support earlier findings of pandemic drug use.

Statistics Canada found more than one-third of those who had previously consumed cannabis reported that their consumption increased during the pandemic.

Furthermore, Statistics Canada said, using data from provincial and territorial chief coroners and chief medical examiners, the Public Health Agency of Canada reported that apparent opioid-related deaths—the majority of which involved nonpharmaceutical fentanyl— were at their highest from April to September 2020, following the introduction of COVID-19 prevention measures.

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Single-space parking meters to be replaced

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ingle-space parking meters will soon be a thing of the past for the City of Vancouver.

The meters, which sit beside thousands of street parking spots, are due to be replaced by multi-space parking pay stations. The city manages over 11,000 parking spots; they're looking to buy new parking meter equipment for more than 8,000 on-street parking spaces over the next three or four years.

"The City is currently in the process of transforming the majority of its legacy single-space parking meters to connected multi-space parking meter equipment (pay stations) to address issues related to maintenance, repair, limited payment options, and lack of communication ability," states a city report.

The city's preference is for the new parking meters to work on a pay-by-plate system.

A bidding process was opened up in September for the project; a report recommending a contract with Precise ParkLink Inc. is before the Standing Committee on City Finances and Services this week.

"The procurement will include connected parking meter equipment to provide parking payment security, a variety of parking payment options for users, and parking technology that will enable the City to address demand-based pricing, occupancy, and compliance," states the report from city administration.

The recommended contract is for five years for $10 million with four possible extensions of one year.

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Vancouver tapping $32M from feds' $1.5B Rapid Housing Initiative

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he City of Vancouver is setting its sights on creating at least 65 more affordable housing units with $31.8 million in new funding from Ottawa.

“We are partnering with the provincial government to see where we can have the biggest bang for the buck,” Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said at last week's announcement outside city hall, where he was flanked by Liberal MP for Vancouver

Centre Hedy Fry and Ahmed Hussen, federal minister responsible for families, children and social development and the Canada Housing and Mortgage Development Corp.

Stewart said the city and province will be considering using the funds for modular housing, buildings under construction that could be purchased as well as land purchases.

The funding comes from Ottawa’s Rapid Housing

Initiative (RHI), launched in October of last year.

The RHI was originally armed with $1 billion in funding — the first phase of which saw $51.5 million allocated to the City of Vancouver for the creation of 135 affordable units.

Vancouver is now tapping into the next phase of funding — $1.5 billion — announced earlier this year.

The latest phase aims to create 4,500 units of

affordable housing across the country.

The federal government is allocating $500 million directly to cities — no provincial involvement — while the remaining $1 billion has been allocated to the RHI’s projects stream.

The projects stream will deliver money to eligible applicants from last fall’s initial phase that did not receive funds.

Hussen said the goal was

to create “over 65” units in Vancouver.

If only 65 units are created, the latest phase of the RHI sees Vancouver creating those units at a cost of $489,230 each, while the previous phase cost was $381,481 each.

But the RHI has so far outperformed its goals.

The program initially sought to create 3,000 units last year but eventually created 4,700 units.

This initiative comes as

COVID-19 restrictions loosen and more people are widely expected to move to the Metro Vancouver region, both domestically and from abroad, putting additional pressure on housing prices.

“The pandemic has made the existing housing challenges that much worse,” Hussen said.

Money allocated to the city must be spent within 12 months of it being received.

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hile new statistics indicate growing crime around a pandemicfueled opioid crisis in B.C., the province’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions says providing safe injection sites can reduce those issues.

“We recognize there are concerns from some communities regarding public safety and property crime—and we hear those concerns—which is why we remain committed to supporting community safety and wellbeing throughout B.C.,” the ministry said in a statement to Glacier Media.

Statistics Canada reported July 27 that Canadian opioidrelated crimes rose heavily in 2020, part of an overdose crisis fuelled by the pandemic.

In 2020, there were 5,142 opioid-related offences in Canada, representing a rate of 14 per 100,000 population, a 34% increase compared to 2019.

The numbers, released by the federal agency July

27, said B.C. led the way with 54 crimes per 100,000 population, followed by Alberta with 12 and Ontario at 10.

The larger cities with the highest rates of opioid-related offences were Kelowna (208 per 100,000 population) and Lethbridge (97), followed

by Vancouver (43), Guelph (32), Abbotsford-Mission (31), Kitchener-CambridgeWaterloo (30) and St. Catharines-Niagara (29).

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In response to the report, the ministry said research indicates “establishment of safer injecting facilities results in measurable improvements to public order and no observed increase in the number of drug dealers in the vicinity of the facility.”

The statement said there have been no documented increases in charges for drug dealing or several markers of drug-related crime, including assaults, robbery, and vehicle break-ins around such sites.

And, it said, specifically regarding Insite, Canada’s oldest supervised injection site, researchers found that no change in the rate of crime could be traced to the establishment of the facility.

“Furthermore, 60% of those living/working in the area reported feeling that the site had a positive impact on public order; and more than 80% indicated that InSite should be either expanded, retained or modified,” the statement said.

The ministry said people struggling with addiction deserve to be treated with the same dignity, respect and quality of care as people living with any other health condition.

“We have a responsibility to each other, and our communities to keep compassion, respect and understanding at the forefront of our minds as we continue to continue to escalate our response to the opioid crisis,” the statement said.

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