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It’s been a year now sincethe public heard the tragicstory of Paige, a 19-year-oldwoman who died in 2013of a drug overdose in awashroom adjacent to Op-penheimer Park.That story was told in

detail in a report releasedin May 2015 by MaryEllen Turpel-Lafond, theRepresentative for Chil-dren and Youth.As regular readers will

know, the provincialgovernment has imple-mented some measures inan attempt to ensure such astory isn’t told again.They include the creation

of a so-called “rapid responseteam” to support andmoni-tor troubled young peoplein the Downtown Eastsideand promises of setting up anadolescent services unit andshelter. The government alsocommitted to providemoneyfor organizations to hire morestaff and extend their hours.That’s kind of old news.What you’re probably

more interested in is whetheranyone will be held account-able for what happened toPaige, who died after yearsof abuse, neglect and whatTurpel-Lafond said in her re-port was “persistent inactionfrom front-line professionals

and an indifferent social caresystem that led to this youngwoman’s demise.”Some of you may not be

aware the RCMP launchedan investigation into the al-legations in the report to de-termine why— in multiple

instances — police, healthofficials, social servicesworkers and others failedto report that Paige [whosesurname was not released]needed protection under theChild, Family and Commu-nity Service Act.

As Turpel-Lafond toldmein September 2015, in thelast three years of Paige’s life,there were literally hundredsof incidents where peopleshould have reported therewas a child in need of protec-tion and didn’t.Turpel-Lafond told me

last week that her under-standing is the RCMPcompleted its investigationand forwarded a report toCrown counsel.I checked with the RCMP

and the Crown to get moredetail. Their answers camevia email. This fromCpl.Janelle Shoihet, an RCMPmedia relations officer:“There is no update at thistime.” And this fromDanMcLaughlin, spokespersonfor the Criminal JusticeBranch: “We generally donot comment on, or confirmwhether we have received areport until we have com-pleted the charge assessmentprocess.We have nothing toreport at this time.”If a person or persons is

charged and convicted underthe Act, it could result in afine of up to $10,000 and six

months in prison. If there isno prosecution, then what?Keep inmind while all

this is going on that, by thegovernment’s own estimates,there are about 50 vulner-able children and youngpeople living in “high-risksituations” in the DowntownEastside; Turpel-Lafondbelieves it’s closer to 200.While the public waits

for some news on the in-vestigation, Turpel-Lafondsaid the Crown’s decisionon whether to approvecharges will ultimately an-swer what value is placedon the care of troubledchildren in this province.“This decision about

whether or not child welfareis meaningful or not is one ofthemost important decisionsBritish Columbia will face,”she said, noting the systemwill be “turned on its ear” ifthe investigation leads to aprosecution. “What we haveright now is a system basedon, ‘Let’s just pretend we’renot seeing what we’re seeingand let’s just pretend it’s OKto do nothing about it.’”

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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the Representative for Children and Youth, continues to pressure theprovincial government to domore for vulnerable young people in the Downtown Eastside.PHOTO DAN TOULGOET


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The provincial govern-ment says it will spend $1.2million on programs andservices in an effort to im-prove the lives of troubledyoung people in the Down-town Eastside.Stephanie Cadieux,

Minister of Children andFamily Development, said$800,000 will be spent tocreate an adolescent ser-vices unit at one of the min-istry’s offices on CambieStreet and $400,000 will goto youth services organiza-tions to expand outreach,extend hours and hire morestaff.“I won’t tell you it’s

enough, I will tell you it’swhat we’re doing today toaddress some of the gapsthat we believe exist thatneed to be filled urgently,”Cadieux told reportersMay 10 in a conferencecall. “There will alwaysbe more that we can andwould like to do. And whenwe determine what thoseare, or how we can addressthose additional gaps, we

will look to do so.”The minister said two

more positions will beadded to a so-called “rapidresponse team” created inOctober 2015 to monitorand support young peoplein the Downtown Eastsidefacing significant challengessuch as being homeless,abusing drugs and alcoholor victims of sexual exploi-tation. The governmentestimates up to 50 youngpeople fall into one or moreof the categories.Separate from the $1.2

million in spending will bethe creation of a shelter spe-cifically for young people.Unlike other facilitiesgeared to youth, tenantswill not be expected to ab-stain from drugs or alcohol,or participate in a detoxprogram.“While there exists a

range of safe houses andsupportive housing unitswhere young people canstay short term, the vastmajority of those resourceshave rules,” said Cadieux,noting the aim is to getyouth off the street be-fore assessing their issues.

“These requirements canpush away many of thehigh-risk youth who mightbenefit from a more ‘no-questions-asked approach’to first gain that stabilityand trust.”The cost, location and

number of beds have notbeen finalized but Cadieuxsuggested up to five spacescould be made available.The government is workingwith the City of Vancouver,the Provincial Rental Hous-ing Corporation, Vancou-ver Coastal Health andB.C. Housing to set up theshelter, which is expected toopen in 2017.The announcement

comes one year after theRepresentative for Childrenand Youth, Mary EllenTurpel-Lafond, releaseda report that documentedthe tragic story of Paige, a19-year-old woman whodied of a drug overdose inthe Downtown Eastsideafter years of abuse, neglectand “persistent inactionfrom front-line profession-als and an indifferent socialcare system.”

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Continued from page 5Turpel-Lafond told the

Courier by telephone thegovernment’s initiativeswere “woefully inadequate”and that much of what theminister announced will bedelayed in its implementa-tion, with the adolescent unitnot open until sometime inthe fall and the shelter notuntil sometime in 2017.She disagreed with the

ministry’s estimates onthe population of troubleyoung people in theDowntown Eastside. Sheput it closer to 200.Although the minister

described the $1.2 millionas “new money,” Turpel-Lafond said money forchild safety was indicatedin the government’s mostrecent budget.She noted theminister’s

announcement came theweek after she tabled a reportin the B.C. legislature andreminded the government ithad been one year since shereleased her report on Paige.“They’ve had to be

embarrassed into put-ting something forward,”she said of last week’sannouncement. “I’mnever going to pooh-pooh

something new. It’s good,we need it. It’s just when Ilook at what it is, and I lookat the faces and the needsof the kids on the streetand the crisis that they’rein — and they’re careen-ing literally out of controlevery day — and I say, ‘Ohwell, hang on guys, in 2017there’s going to be five bedsbuilt for you somewhere inthe Lower Mainland.’ Thisis the best we can do?”Cadieux said that Paige’s

story had a “profound effect”on theministry and causedstaff to review cases of 124

youth in care or receivingservices. From that, up to 50were identified as “high-risk.”Cadieux said she had

yet to speak to Turpel-Lafond in detail about thegovernment’s $1.2 millionpackage.“I’m sure that she will

welcome the changesand I’m sure that she willcriticize that they are yet notenough,” the minister said.“That’s her role as the ad-vocate to continue to pushfor more and better, and Irespect that.”

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Paige as a baby, as a child and before she died of a drug overdoseat 19 in the Downtown Eastside in 2013. Her story, whichwasreleased a year ago, had a “profound effect” on theMinistry ofChildren and Family Development, according toMinister Stepha-nie Cadieux. Photos courtesy of the office of B.C.’s Representativefor Children and Youth.


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The City of VancouverissuedMonday the first-ever business licence for apot shop in the city’s historyto operators of a marijuanadispensary that will soonopen onWest 10th Avenuein Point Grey.Wealth Shop Society at

suite 104-4545West 10thAve., which shares a park-ing lot with Safeway and isin a complex that includesa law office, dentist andveterinarian, is a new retaildispensary and did nothave an existing location inVancouver.As of Tuesday, it had not

opened for business but hadset up a website that gavesome insight into how itwould operate.“We are out to reinvent

how things are done,” saidthe website, noting WealthShop is now acceptingapplications to become amember. “Dispensarieshave a bad name in Van-couver. We want to createan approachable, accessibleand safe environment for allour members.”The website claimed

Wealth Shop only workswith trusted suppliers thatmeet “our rigorous prod-uct safety, sustainable andhealth standards.” TheCourier was unable to con-tact the owner before thepaper’s print deadline.

Andreea Toma, the city’schief licensing inspector,said Tuesday the societyhas met all of the city’s newrules to regulate a dispen-sary, including its staffundergoing criminal recordchecks and signing a “goodneighbour agreement.”“It signals that the city is

committed to this — it’s notthat we were never willingto issue a business licence,”Toma told the Courier.“If anything that they dodoesn’t meet our currentregulations, we will bringthem back in and have achat with them. The goodneighbour agreement signedyesterday clearly indicatedthat, and they were all will-ing to sign it.”Toma said the society

wants to open two otherdispensaries, which arecurrently under review. Thesociety is registered underthe B.C. Societies Act, butToma said the operatorshaven’t indicated whetherthey will seek to open acompassion club or retailbusiness in the other loca-tions.Toma said Wealth Shop

paid $20,000 for its busi-ness licence, which coversthe remainder of the year.The city has set the annualfee for a retail dispensary at$30,000, which the ownerswill have to pay once its firstyear of operation expires.The fee for a compassionclub is $1,000.

Toma said operatorsof two other dispensariesare close to having the cityissue business licences. Toacquire a business licence,applicants must first beapproved for a develop-ment permit. Wealth Shopwas one of 10 applicantsapproved for a developmentpermit.In June 2015, city council

voted 8-3 with a staff pro-posal that calls for annuallicence fees, criminal recordchecks and zoning regula-tions that prohibit pot shopfrom operating within 300metres of schools, commu-nity centres, neighbourhoodhouses and each other.Though council’s pur-

pose is to regulate the busi-ness — not the marijuana— the new regulations allowfor the sale of marijuanaoils, tinctures and capsules.Meanwhile, the city con-

tinues to issue $250 ticketsto those pot shops thatrefused to close their doorslast month. The shopswere given six monthsto close or find anotherlocation and participate inthe city’s business licenceapplication process. As ofTuesday, 30 stores hadcomplied, 61 remain open,139 tickets were issued andseven paid.The federal government

has promised to introducelegislation next spring tolegalize marijuana.

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Heritage Vancouver iswelcoming news that thecity has issued its first everheritage inspection orderto determine if one of Van-couver’s historic housesmerits conservation.The owner of the home

in question — located at1550 West 29th Ave. —wants to redevelop theproperty and is seekinga demolition permit toknock it down.When news of that pos-

sibility emerged more thana month ago, it ignitedpublic concern.Townley and Matheson

designed the Tudor-stylehome, which was built in1922. They also designedcity hall.Electrical Services League

of B.C. used the house as ashow home to demonstratehow a house could be wiredfor electricity.The heritage inspection

order affords it temporaryheritage protection whilethe city assesses its heritageand character. The order re-

mains in effect for 30 days.Results of the inspection areexpected to be presented tocouncil May 31.“What we’re really en-

couraged by is the city tak-ing action on something,”Patrick Gunn, a spokesper-son for heritage Vancouver,told the Courier.Jane Pickering, the city’s

director of planning, said itsvalue is worth investigating.“We just got author-

ity to use the [heritageinspection order] toolin September, when thebylaw was passed, and thisis one of the first homesthat we feel bears furtherinvestigation,” she said.Pickering explained

that the inspector willbe looking at the home’shistorical value, includingphysical components thatreflect the time in whichit was built, as well as thearchitects who built it andthe people who lived in it.“Because often times

who lived in the house orwhoever built the housecan be very important,so we’ll be detailing allof that out,” she said,

adding, “Sometimes theheritage value lies in thephysical landscape of thearea or landscaping, sothey’ll be detailing all ofthat out so we have a clearpicture.”Once the report is com-

pleted, staff will assess nextsteps, which could includegiving the house heritagedesignation or asking coun-cil for another 120 days toassess options.“The way the legislation

works is the city can des-

ignate, but the owner canrequest compensation forthat designation,” Pickeringsaid. Staff have been in con-tact with the owner. “Theirreaction has been, thankyou for your concerns butwe would still like to bringthe house down.”Gunn said the house is

valuable both because itwas a model electric homeand the fact Townley andMatheson— who wereamong the top architectsin the city in the 1920sand ’30s — designed it. AHeritage Vancouver surveyfound only between 40 and50 per cent of the housesthey built are still standing.“So far, we’ve confirmed

about 69 homes remain,”he said.Townley andMatheson

homes landed in eighth spoton the organization’s re-cently released Top 10 mostendangered sites list.Gunn said a typical

house in the era the homewas built had about 20 or25 electrical outlets, whileit featured more than 120sockets.It was open for public

tours for a month.“It was a sales tool to get

people to buy more electri-cal appliances,” he said. “Soit’s an incredible house justin that fact.”Gunn also said the wood-

work was locally milled.“It’s the most made-in-

B.C. house you could prob-ably come across.”A person whose family

owned it for 51 years pro-vided Heritage Vancouverwith details about its history.The person’s mother boughtit in 1954 for $24,000. Itwas sold in 2005 for $1.6million. The lot value nowfar exceeds that.A plaster frieze above the

fireplace in the living roommatches that of one in Gov-ernment House in Ottawa.The first owner was the

Anderson family, followedby the Browns who weregrandparents of PeterBrown of Canaccord.“EvenMackenzie King

would come to visit andhave meetings at thathouse,” Gunn said. “So ithas a really interesting socialhistory as well.”

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A section of an orchardand a downtown parkadewill soon be transformedinto temporary housing forup to 120 people on incomeassistance and fixed incomesas part of an innovative ap-proach by the city to createmore affordable housing.The orchard at 1500Main

St. and the parkade behindthe BosmanHotel at 1060Howe St. are expected to havemodular “micro suites” ofabout 250 sq. feet placed onthe city properties by late fall.The 40 to 80 suites on

the orchard site will beequipped with bathroomsand kitchens while the 40suites on the parkade willcome with bathrooms andshared kitchens.“The opportunity to put

modular housing in placeon sites that will somedaybe redeveloped really en-ables high efficiency, goodliving conditions and theopportunity to build a com-munity, in the short term, ata very affordable rate,” saidMayor Gregor Robertsonat a news conference held

May 12 in the orchard nearthe Main Street Skytrainstation, which is operatedby Sole Food Street Farms.Mukhtar Latif, the city’s

chief housing officer andhead of the Vancouver Af-fordable Housing Agency,said the housing could bein place for two to five yearsbefore having to be relo-cated. Latif said the tenants’rents will be subsidized andthe city will look to seniorgovernments and the pri-vate sector for funding.Typically, modular hous-

ing is pre-fabricated in afactory and will sometimesinvolve recycled shippingcontainers. Once built, thepieces are loaded onto atruck and transported to asite, where they are assem-bled and hooked up to cityservices and utilities.The city has chosen five

companies to compete andproduce the best proposalfor one or both of the proj-ects. They are: HorizonNorth, Britco, Atco, Dialog/Kindred/StackModularand Ladacor, a Calgarycompany working with AtiraWomen’s Resource Society.

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Modular housing plannedfor orchard, parkade

The City of Vancouver has ordered a heritage inspection of thishome at 1550 West 29th to determine its heritage value.PHOTO DAN TOULGOET


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Continued from previous pageRhys Kane, director of

business development forLadacor, was at the orchardThursday to survey thesite and said he also hasan interest in submitting aproposal for the parkade.Kane said the com-

pany uses repurposed steelshipping containers in theconstruction of its modu-lar developments, whichinclude a hotel north of Ed-monton, a rental apartmentbuilding in Edmonton anda seniors’ housing complexin northern Alberta.“It’s a very cost-effective

way of being able to supplya steel structure,” he said ofthe containers, also point-ing out the studs used inconstruction are steel, mak-ing the dwelling safe froma spreading fire, durable tolive in and to transport.Though a modular

housing project experimentis new for the city, Atiraalready has experience withcontainer housing, havingworked with JTWConsult-ing a few years ago to build12 self-contained apart-ments on Alexander Street.Atira has another proposal

for a seven-storey buildingconstructed from shippingcontainers onHawks Av-enue. That proposal went topublic hearingMay 17, aftertheCourier’s press deadline.Janice Abbott, CEO

of Atira, joined Kane atThursday’s news conferenceand said the society is at-tracted to the environmentalaspect of recycling contain-ers that might otherwisebe destroyed or left in ajunkyard.Kane and Abbott said

they won’t know howmuchit will cost to build a projecton either site until the cityreleases details in the request-for-proposal documents.“We don’t want to say too

much either because we’recompeting against othercompanies,” Abbott said.Whenmodular housing is

moved on to the orchard site,it will cover between 8,000and 10,000 sq. feet of the

28,000 sq. foot property. SoleFood set up the orchard so itcouldmove its trees withouthaving to re-plant them; thetrees grow in large plasticcontainers designed to allow aforklift to pick them up.“We’re well aware of the

high value of land, herein the city and that we aretemporary tenants,” saidMi-chael Ableman, “chief execu-tive agrarian” of Sole Food.“But if the city came to uswith an eviction notice andthey were going to put an ex-tension to the [adjacent] Fiatdealership, you’d be hearinga very different conversationright now. I would have beenquite vocal.”Ableman, who employs

workers from the Down-town Eastside, said he’sglad the city wants theorchard to stay alongsidewhatever new housing isbuilt, saying he doesn’tbelieve you can have onewithout the other.“A community is not

just a few modular housesdropped into place,”he said, standing in theorchard. “A communityinvolves all kinds of things,not the least of which issome semblance of a naturalenvironment, food, employ-ment — all those things.”The orchard has 500 trees,

including apple, pear, figsand persimmons that wereplanted three years ago.Herbs and vegetables alsogrow in the orchard, whichis one of five sites Sole Foodoperates in the city. About50,000 pounds of food isproduced every year and itgoes primarily to local restau-rants, community kitchensand farmers’ markets.Ableman said he is hope-

ful Sole Food will be includ-ed in the design of how themodular housing is incor-porated into the orchard.He also believes the tenantsshould have a connectionto the orchard, includingworking for Sole Food.“That’s our mandate,

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one odds. I bet a nickel it wouldn’t be.In our neighbourhood, where tear-

downs and reconstruction never seems tostop, this is what passes for entertainment.Betting the city or the province will do

anything about it? Well, you have got tobe kidding.

The subject of our wager is a bungalowin great shape and with a basement suite.It sold for $2.67 million ($800,000 abovethe list price). The last house sold on theblock previous to this one, sold a year agofor $1.8 million. That’s roughly a 50 percent increase in house prices — or ratherlot prices, on that one block in 12 months.That jump in value inspired another

owner who bought a house on the sameblock just over a year ago for $1.7 mil-lion; he intended to tear it down andbuild a new house but stopped in histracks. He’s now put it up for re-sale. Ifthings go as they seem to be going, hewill make a million bucks just for, as oneneighbour says, “doing nothing.”This week’s report from the Canadian

Real Estate Association should not come

as a shock to any of us. Housing salesand prices hit new highs in Vancouverand Toronto. They also say there areindications that the market is peaking.Where have we heard that before?Meanwhile, Mayor Gregor Robertson

is once again declaring that the city is fac-ing a housing affordability “crisis.” Tofully appreciate just how much of a crisiswe continue to face, a staff report to citycouncil on Tuesday noted that Vancou-ver has the highest housing prices andrents and the lowest medium incomes ofany major Canadian city.But what has been happening to Van-

couver house prices is now spreading upthe valley. Places people used to go whenthey couldn’t afford to live here are nolonger affordable havens. This week, weheard that year-over-year house prices inSurrey and Abbotsford increased morethan 38 per cent.Even one of the most seasoned veteran

observers of the real estate industry hasbeen shaken by this phenomenon. Econ-omist Tsur Somerville, who holds UBC’sReal Estate Foundation professorship,admits he is in a quandary: “The worldup to a year ago had a structure I under-stood,” he told me as he went on abouta fixed supply and an excessive amountof demand. But not all prices should beescalating everywhere. It is “reflective ofsome kind of hysteria,” people panickingand rushing to get into the market —anywhere.It does not help the affordability issue

that the city’s zoning bylaws allow folks totear down an 1,800-square-foot home andreplace with it with a much more expensive3,200-square-foot single-family dwelling.As for the province intervening, Somer-

ville observed that the premier “had to bedragged kicking and screaming” before she

would even consider gathering data on for-eign ownership and the impact it is having.After all, the real estate boom and the

massive amount of construction it isfostering, along with all the secondaryindustries that are benefiting, is what hasBritish Columbia’s economy along withits low unemployment rate leading thecountry.Finally, while it doesn’t significantly

affect the overall price of real estate,there is the matter of the shenanigans ofa relatively small group of unscrupulousand greedy real estate agents ripping offsellers by shadow flipping or failing to ac-curately report the source of funds fromoverseas clients. That behaviour, too,can be laid at the feet of the Liberals inVictoria.

While we await a report from B.C.’sSuperintendent of Real Estate Caro-lyn Rogers, expected at the end of nextmonth, there is something to consider.Until 2005, the B.C. Real Estate

Council was subject to a series of checksand balances and directly supervised bythe superintendent. That year, GordonCampbell’s Liberals stripped away mostof those controls and made the councilself-regulating.As a result, the superintendent’s in-

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There is aMexican res-taurant around the cornerfrommy house in what, I’verecently discovered, is nowcalled the “Fraserhood.” It’salways packed.Without fail,the line snakes out the doorfrom late afternoon to close,the too-close tables crammedwith young hipster couples,families with small kids andsingles waiting for takeout. It’squintessential East Van, rightdown to the astute observa-tion a recent houseguest madewhile we were waiting for bur-ritos: “Vancouver’s so white.”I hear this a lot from visi-

tors, mostly people who, likemy guest, have lived herebefore andmoved away. Ibristle every time this is noted.It threatens the narrative we,liberalWest Coasters, with astrong sense of social justice,tell ourselves about our thriv-ingmulticultural metropolis.Census data shows almost halfofMetro Vancouverites iden-tify as visible minorities andprojections hold that by 2031those “minorities” will be themajority. And if that weren’tenough, we have largelyembraced the language andrituals inherent in living in adiverse, contemporary culture:we open every public eventwith the acknowledgementthat we are on unceded CoastSalish Territory, we wish eachother GungHay Fat Choiwhile diving into dim sum, weknow to sayHappyNorooz,and celebrate Diwali.Wemay not be a white city,

but we are a segregated one.It’s this that my visitors pickup on. Compared to Toronto,Montreal, even Calgary orEdmonton, walking downthe street or dining out inVancouver yields a snapshot ofa population that tends to self-sort along lines of race, culture,language and immigrationstatus. But we are not very

good at talking about why thisis, about the role our history ofovert and rather brutal racismplays in a city that has unusu-ally hard and fast lines betweenthe tiles on its cultural mosaic.Nor are we very good at dis-cussing themore insidious andsubtle ways racism plays outstill. And we need to if we’regoing to get to the heart ofanother very pressing socialissue: our current housing af-fordability crisis.With amounting body of

evidence suggesting un-controlled foreign capital isresponsible for our distortedhousingmarket, we need todeal with the baggage trig-gered by the fact that this capi-tal, in this instance, happensto be coming fromChina.As researcher Andy Yan andjournalist Ian Young—bothethnically Chinese— haverepeatedly asserted, this is anissue of wealth, not race. Butwe have a long way to go inpulling those two topics apart.Our collective discomfort

with even themeremen-tion of race has been used bypolitical leaders to silence orredirect lines of inquiry thatcould prove very awkward,and potentially damaging, tothose whose political fortunesrely on comfortable relation-ships with the developmentand real estate industries. Justlook at how quicklyMayorGregor Robertson’s concernsabout “racist undertones” inYan’s recent study lookinginto ethnic Chinese ownershipofWest Point Grey proper-ties effectively shut down anyfurther discussion about thefurther analysis of the situationthat is desperately needed.At the same time, concerns

over racist backlash aren’tunfounded.We are not livingin a post-racial society. Oneexample of this is in the sala-cious media fascination withVancouver’s Chinese nouveauriche that has garneredan international audience

through theNewYorker andtheNewYork Times. Theproblemwith chronicling theantics of “Ultra Rich AsianGirls” or Chinese immigrantsshopping for luxury cars is it“creates this wrong correlationbetween their race and theirwealth,” says JackieWong, awriter and friend who recentlywrote an excellent piece aboutthe impact of this kind ofcoverage forThe Tyee.In contrast to the kind of

“neutral” gawking at opulencewe’ve seen before, througheverything from Lifestyles of theRich and Famous toMTV’sCribs, the overt focus on theChineseness of this wealthfeeds into the kind of danger-ous generalizations that stokeanti-Asian sentiment.Wong’semail inbox fills with racisttirades whenever she writesor speaks about the topic.What’s needed to get to theheart of the issue— that weneed better data and concretegovernment intervention inthe housingmarket— is for usto first establish an anti-racistframework in which to discussthe housing issue, saysWong.“A big part of it needs to

start with talking about rac-ism and talking about howwe’ve been quite universallycomplicit in promulgatingvery problematic racisms inVancouver,” she says. “I thinkonly after we’ve talked aboutracism can we talk aboutforeign capital.”It’s a tall order, for sure,

but I think she’s right. Atthemoment, our housingconversation is being domi-nated and derailed by the fear,guilt, shame and anger that’srolled up in issues of race andracism. Only after we unpackall that can we address thegovernment inaction andshort-sighted policies thathave created a city that is un-liveable for toomany people— nomatter their language,heritage, or skin colour.

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Kilian opined that thepeople of Fort McMurray“dropped their individu-alism and went commu-nist.” (“Not Bolshevikcommunism — more likethe Christian communismof Alberta’s Hutterites,”Kilian helpfully added.)The subtext of these re-

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number of historical disas-ters, including the 1906earthquake in San Fran-cisco, the 1917 harbourexplosion in Halifax, the1985 Mexico City earth-quake, 9/11 in Manhattanand 2004’s HurricaneKatrina in New Orleans.The testimony she un-

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an obscure sociolo-gist, Charles E. Fritz, toexplain the phenomenon.“Disasters provide atemporary liberation fromthe worries, inhibitionsand anxieties associatedwith the past and futurebecause they force peopleto concentrate their fullattention on immediatemoment-to-moment, day-to-day needs within thecontext of present reali-ties.” Fritz observed.“Disaster provides a form

of societal shock which dis-rupts habitual, institutional-ized patterns of behaviourand renders people ame-nable to social and personalchange,” he added.This doesn’t make

disasters good. But if in-stitutional mechanisms ofsocial cohesion vapourizein catastrophic circum-stances, the response ismore likely to be freelychosen cooperation overThomas Hobbes’ “war ofall against all.”In fact, the feelings of

liberation reported by peo-ple in disaster situationshighlights an unfortunatetruth: modern marketeconomies are engineeredto shape people intoisolated consumers ratherthan engaged citizens.When the atomizing lid isremoved, people becometremendously excited bytheir own sense of agencyand capacity to bond withtheir fellows.So it’s a bit galling when

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The Truth and Recon-ciliation Commission hasopened a lot of Canadians’eyes to the realities of histor-ical and contemporary lifefor indigenous Canadians.Yet even before that

seminal — and hopefullynation-altering — processand report Canadianswere deeply impacted by aprimary value of this land’soriginal inhabitants.As you read this, Rev. Ray

Aldred is probably unpack-ing boxes, making the movefrom Calgary to Vancouver,where he’ll be the directorof the indigenous studiesprogram at the VancouverSchool of Theology (VST).Aldred, a status Cree fromnorthern Alberta and aUnited Church minister,thinks something uniquelyCanadian—which most ofus probably intuitively knowbut do not properly attribute— comes from our indig-enous fellow Canadians.“I think in Canada

people intuitively wantto believe that the land isspecial,” Aldred told me byphone while preparing toput his Calgary house onthe market. “In the U.S.,they’re patriotic about theirnation-state, about beingAmericans. But in Canada,we are patriotic about theland. I think that’s a FirstNations value.”If non-aboriginal Canadi-

ans have a special, perhapsmystical, connection with theland, Aldred says, that maybe an instinctual responsenot only to the natural maj-esty our folk songs extoll, butsomething we inherited from

the earlier residents.The land, to indigenous

people, says Aldred, isinseparable from spirituality.Land represents creation—it is the embodiment of thecreator’s work and is there-fore sacred in its own right.Separating religion or

spirituality from the rest oflife is a European inven-tion. For indigenous NorthAmericans and many othersworldwide, spiritualityand our relationship withcreation is inseparable fromevery other aspect of being.“It permeates all of life,”

he says.The treaties between

Europeans and indigenouspeoples have become achapter in the longer cre-ation story of First Nations,Aldred says, but they arealso part of the creationstory of Canadians whocame later.

“At the heart of indig-enous spirituality, particu-larly I think among many ofthe Plains people, is the ideathat you know your creationstory. It tells you how youare related to the earth.”For Canadians whose an-

cestors came from elsewhere,these treaties should alsohave resonance, he argues.“If the newcomers em-

brace those, that’s their cre-ation story, that’s what tellsthem how they’re relatedto this land,” he says. “It’scontroversial what I say, butin one sense, newcomersought to embrace their in-digenous identity. Throughthe treaties, they have theright to be here. They’retreaty people too. That’stheir creation story.”Aldred wishes European-

descended Canadianswould stop trying tore-create Europe here and

“just embrace their religiousindigenous identity,” whichhe says means simply that“they’re related to this landand it’s a good land andthey should learn to live onit in a good way.”Born and raised near

Grande Prairie, Alta.,Aldred was baptized as aninfant in the United Churchbut rejected it as an adoles-cent. He loved the outdoorsand didn’t understandthe value of going inside abuilding to fulfill a ritual.“In the same way, I didn’t

like school because it tookyou away from your family,it took you away from yourhome, the land,” he says.“It took you away fromeverything that you loved.I just couldn’t make theconnection why this wasimportant.”Later in his teen years, he

became an addict and an

alcoholic.“When I was 19, I said,

‘God, if you help me quitusing, I’ll do anything youwant me to.’ And I neverused again so I guess Godkept his part and I’m tryingto keep my part,” he says.He went to Bible col-

lege for an undergrad andthen graduate studies. Heassumed leadership rolesin churches in Saskatch-ewan and began teaching,most recently at AmbroseSeminary and Universityin Calgary. He’s preparingto teach a course at VST inindigenous theology of land.During Aldred’s forma-

tive years as a theologianand clergyperson, Canadianchurches, especially hisUnited Church, evolvedsignificantly in attitudestoward contemporary andpast treatment of indig-enous Canadians. Aldred

was part of a movement tointegrate indigenous tradi-tions into Christian practice.In the past, many thoughtthe two were irreconcilable— indeed, it was preciselythis idea that led to most ofthe atrocities detailed in theTRC report.The changes Aldred and

others promoted were notdoctrinal, but more aboutsimple practical approachesto religiosity.“Just sitting in a circle

instead of in rows,” saysAldred. Using drums in theservice, smudging (“pray-ing with smoke,” he calls it)and, ultimately, confrontingand seeking reconciliation forwhat someChristians haddone to indigenous peopleand allowing a place for thevictims to express themselves.With such fraught his-

tory, it is hardly surprisingthat some have suspicionsabout Christian churches.Perhaps more surprising isthe number who have founda comfortable synthesisbetween indigenous identityand Christianity.“At first, at least in early

modernity, the Christianstory was that it had toreplace everything,” he says.“But indigenous spiritual-ity is more that Christianityhad a place in there thatsomehow fit in to help onthe journey.”At 56, Aldred says he

has seen progress not onlyamong non-indigenousCanadians but in his ownfamily.“As a kid, I didn’t want to

be First Nations,” he says.“I just wanted to fit in, likeeverybody else. You deni-grated your own identity.Lots of us did that.“But my granddaugh-

ter, she says to me, ‘I’ma First Nation,’” Aldredsays, laughing. “And I thinkthat’s a good thing.”

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these markets to list theirhome for sale, the issuefor many is that the deci-sion to move means theywould also be looking tobuy while competition forscarce listings is fierce,”said Gregory Klump,chief economist forCREA, in a release.“As a result, many

homeowners are decidingto stay put and continueaccumulating capitalgains. That’s keepinglistings off the marketsat a time when they arealready in short supply.”Vancouver home price

gains continue to outstripany other market by a widemargin. The benchmark

home sale price in Vancou-ver increased 25.3 per centbetween April 2015 andApril 2016; in Toronto, theprices rose 12.6 per centover the same period. Asidefrom Vancouver and To-ronto, most other Canadianmarkets saw either flat ordeclining average prices.The Canadian average

sale price increased 13.1per cent in April, but thatnumber drops to 8.7 percent when Vancouver andToronto are removed.When British Columbiaand Ontario are taken outof the data, the nationalsales price increase wasjust 1.7 per cent.

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It’s not an easy thing tobelieve at first sight— thatan average human with aver-age cycling skills can ride avelodrome track. The cornerbanks of the wooden ovalat the Burnaby VelodromeClub sit at 47 degrees, whichmeans it’s so steep one couldlean against it and still bemostly standing upright.Yet, most of the cyclists

that showed up to the Burna-by Velodrome’s annual openhouse this past weekendmanaged to get past theirnerves and find their way tothe blue pace line halfway upthe 200-metre long track.“We want to get people

excited about riding thetrack and take away theirfears,” said Burnaby Velo-drome Club coach JulianBase in between Saturdaymorning’s sessions. “Peo-ple, they see the wall andget nervous so we take themthrough it with a step bystep approach.”

The level of expertise ofthose who showed up forthe open house ranged fromkitted-out road riders withsinewy calves and mountainbikers used to Evel Knievel-ing their way around parkberms to beginners whowere so new to bikes it wasonly a year ago they wereflopped over the hood ofa parked car on AdanacStreet after an woeful at-tempt at unclipping fromtheir peddles. (Full disclo-sure: that was me. I’m alsoa member of the BVC.)Track bikes are single

fixed gear bikes with no fly-wheel. This means as longas the bike is moving, soare the pedals. There’s nocoasting and no brakes. Thelatter leads to the secondbiggest worry of how to getoff the track once you’reon and riding the necessary30 kilometres an hour sothere’s no sliding off. Baseunderstands this fear — hisfirst track experience hap-pened when his teenagedself visited the short and

steep Fonthill, Ont. trackand he couldn’t figure outhow to come down so hestayed up for more than anhour. “But I was a BMXracer so when I came off, Iwent right across the centreof the track, went up theend, did a 180 and camedown,” he remembered.“The coach was going, ‘I’venever seen that before.’”Once fears are squashed

(getting off the track is no bigdeal, just deaden your weightand circle down) and basicskills are learned through theclub’s affordable five-sessionLearn to Ride program, thetrack opens a whole newworld of cycling.There are the coached

group workouts (one of thebest fitness sessions thiswriter has experienced)open track (show up andride at your own pace),racing programs, a juniordevelopment program andaboriginal youth cycling(started by former programdirector Kelyn Akuna).Given the choices, the

fact that the BurnabyVelodrome, located in theHarry Jerome Sports Cen-tre bubble, is just one ofthree indoor tracks in thecountry, and the grim andgrey weather Vancouver isaccustomed to, it’s aston-ishing the club doesn’t seemore riders than its 160members.“What I findmore

shocking,” added Base whomoved to Vancouver fromOntario in 1996 to pursueskiing before discovering thelocal track, “is the amount ofcyclists we have, high-levelcyclists, and we don’t havea world class facility to trainat. This track is fun to ride,but it’s not anywhere near aworld class facility. And theamount of track riders wehave and people just lookingto get healthy, we shouldhave a new velodrome.”In comparison to top

tracks in the U.S. andoverseas, the BurnabyVelodrome is almost asrickety as the wooden roll-ercoaster at the PNE down

the road (there are somesimilarities in that bothappear to be patched to-gether with miscellaneouspieces of wood — the trackis finished with sheets ofplywood at the rail).Base and BVC program

directorMike Rothengatterthrew around names of noteassociated with the BurnabyVelodrome: JasminGlaesserandGillian Carleton (bronzein women’s team pursuit atthe 2012 LondonOlympics),Steph Roorda (bronze at thetrack cycling world cham-pionships in London lastMarch), Zach Bell (gold inthe 2013National Road raceChampionships) and SvienTuft (a two-time nationalroad race champion andnine-time national time trialchampion).That’s not even scratching

the surface of accomplish-ments of people who’ve rid-den the boards at the BVC.Vancouver has a long his-

tory with track cycling. The250-metre outdoor ChinaCreek Cycle Track was

built at the corner of GlennDrive and East Broadway,where Vancouver Commu-nity College is now, in 1954for the Empire Games. Itwas torn down in 1980, andthe Burnaby Velodromewas built as its replacementin the early 1990s, openingin 1997.While it may not be a

polished and duct tape-free world class track (theBurnaby Velodrome alsoshares the space with Vol-leyball B.C. which has mul-tiple courts in the middle ofthe oval), it’s the hub of astrong cycling community,said Rothengatter.“It’s what makes it so dif-

ferent, it’s a very grassrootsfacility,” he said. “Every-one’s really friendly, superwelcoming, and you’regoing to have people whoare Olympians training herealong with people who justcame through the Learnto Ride program. It’s a funatmosphere so check yourego at the door.”

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1. The Burnaby Velodrome opened in 1997 on the Barnet Highway to replace the outdoor China Creek Cycle Track that was located at the corner of Glen Drive and East Broadway until it was torn down in1980 tomakeway for Vancouver Community College’s Broadway campus. 2.Most cyclists in Vancouver seemunaware that they have the option to ride the velodrome, said Burnaby Velodrome Club pro-gramdirector Mike Rothengatter. “It’smore of a hidden gem,” he said. “Instead of being on the trainer all winter you can come in here and ride your bike, ride in a pace line, and you’re getting to sprint.”See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOSREBECCA BLISSETT


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Single-family lots inEast Vancouver are gradu-ally densifying throughcity bylaws that allow legalsuites and laneway houses,but builders say the ever-increasing cost of Vancou-ver property is making itharder to find propertiesand turn a profit.“It looks like every

minute house prices aregoing up, $5, $20, $100,”said Jas Jawanda, ownerof JDL Homes, a buildingcompany based in Surrey.“You’re seeing that ona continuous basis... It’shonestly very scary.”Properties increase in

value by around $900,000when a builder tears downan older bungalow and re-places it with a larger housewith a legal basement suiteand a laneway house.The trend pushes the

price of the built-out prop-erty into the $2.4 millionrange, the kind of heftyprice tag once reserved forVancouver’s West Side.While not every neigh-

bour may appreciate theconstruction and morecrowded lots, single-familylot densification increasesrental options in neigh-bourhoods such as Killar-ney and Renfrew and canfund about half of the$4,000-$5,000 monthlymortgage required to buysuch a property.“We’re in a huge trend,”

said Harjit Atwal, a realtorwith Sutton Centre Realty.

“This started at the end oflast year when prices reallystarted to rise.”Properties are in such

high demand right now thatbuilders often trade proper-ties among themselves inprivate deals that ofteninvolve using assignmentcontracts. That practice hascome under intense scru-tiny after media reports ear-lier this year detailed howsome realtors have been us-ing assignments — dubbed“shadow flipping” — toflip properties before thesale closes and avoid payingB.C.’s property transfer tax,all while inflating the valueof the property.Jawanda said the prac-

tice is common amongbuilders, but he doesn’tbuy properties that waybecause the risk is higher.“There’s a lot of that

going on and it’s gettingscarier and scarier,” hesaid. “There can be a lotof issues that can happenand I don’t want to getstuck. What if it doesn’tgo through? What if theseller decides not to pro-ceed with the sale?”Using assignments can

help smaller buildersreduce the risk of holdingproperty, Atwal said. Hedoesn’t believe assign-ments are causing a prob-lem in East Vancouver,but said it’s gotten out of

hand in West Side neigh-bourhoods like Dunbarand Arbutus.“I had someone try to

sell me an assignment for$1 million more than whatthey purchased it for inShaughnessy,” he said.“People are just taking

advantage of it and usingit to make a quick buckbecause there’s such ahuge demand and peoplecan’t find anything onMLS [Multiple ListingService].”The rapid price accel-

eration, combined withthe City of Vancouver’slengthy permitting process,

has led to another layer ofdeal-making: it’s commonfor builders to buy a house,tear it down and begin thepermitting process. Theythen sell the lot with thepermits in place, but notyet paid for, to anotherbuilder. Selling the lotwith the new house not yetstarted allows the secondbuilder to avoid payingGST on a new home.Since it can take up to

six months to get permitsapproved, the builder whodoes the teardown andpermit process can make asmaller but more guar-anteed profit of around

$40,000. Neither Atwalnor Jawanda said the prac-tice contributes to priceincreases, because the firstowner is doing valuablework that saves the secondbuilder money.Meanwhile, the builder

who actually buildsout the property makesbetween $150,000 and$200,000. That contrastswith the windfall receivedby builders who boughtin 2014 and were ready tosell in late 2015. Over thecourse of that year, single-family homes in GreaterVancouver increased by25 per cent. Prices havecontinued to accelerate:between April 2015 andApril 2016, single-familyhome prices rose by 30 percent.Atwal said he knows

builders who made$600,000 on a propertythey bought for $800,000in 2014 and were able tosell for more than $2 mil-lion in late 2015.“What’s happened is

that profit is not from thehouse being built, it’s fromthe appreciation of theland,” Jawanda said.All of the people buying

the redeveloped proper-ties Atwal has sold in EastVancouver have plannedto live in them; manyhave young families andare buying with a familymember such as a siblingwho plans to live in one ofthe other units.

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In Metro Vancouver’stight market, where bid-ding wars have becomecommon, builders have towork closely with real-tors to secure properties,Jawanda said. He hasdeveloped relationshipswith several realtors whooften let him know aboutclients who are thinking

about selling a home. Inreturn, Jawanda will listthe redeveloped propertywith the same realtor.“All these places we

purchased were throughrelationships, private dealswith the owner,” he said.“It’s such a dog-eat-dogworld. I don’t want to getinto that bidding process.”


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SWISH SPLASH:Model Mari Agorywas 10 years old when she fled SouthSudan as a refugee. She made her wayto the U.S. and eventually found herselfon the runway working for some of theworld’s top designers. With her fame asa top model, Agory never forgot the civilwar ravaged country she left behind — onethat struggles to provide the most basic ofneeds such as clean water for its citizens.Believing a reliable source of water is thefoundation for growth, Treana Peake, aVancouver fashion designer and ObakkiFoundation founder, invited Agory toparticipate in the charity’s first ever Walkfor Water benefit staged at Holt Renfrew.Agory was joined by fellow supermodelsHeather Marks and Grace Bol for the fash-ion fete. Monies raised from the runwayromp and post-event shopping spree atHolt Renfrew will support the constructionof more water wells in Africa.

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I live in Vancouver. Itis the place where I workand pay rent and oncegot unhealthily drunk at aBootsauce concert in 1993when the band was touringto promote their SleepingBootie album, even though Iwasn’t living in Vancouverat the time, and it’s not aparticularly great record.But that is beside the point.Leaving or staying in

Vancouver has become anincreasingly popular subjectof many a letter to theeditor, hashtag campaignand hyperbolic blog post inrecent months, and I chooseto join the conversation.I choose to let my

thoughts be known becauseI expect to be listened to. Iam entitled to an audience.Just like Bootsauce in 1993when I tried to get backstageto meet the band and theguitar tech for Pere Fume—Bootsauce’s axeman withthe way cool dreads— said,“No way, Jose,” and thensprayed my grey track pantswith beer so it appeared toeveryone in the bar that Ihad wet myself. Not cool.Sure, it is becomingmore

andmore expensive to livehere, and I can’t afford toboost all of my Facebookposts like I used to, and Ihave to wait for my Rogers

contract to end before I canupgrade to the iPhone 6Plus. But that isn’t the point.What matters is right now.

And right now you are read-ing this. Each and everyoneone of you. And that’s whyI’m choosing to believe thatyou care about what city Ienvisionmyself living in.(I’m not going to men-

tion the part of my visionthat involves owning a sweetloft with red brick wallsand all the furniture is justdifferent shapes and sizesof leather beanbag chairsand I’m chilling in my cribwith Bootsauce 24/7 andmaybe some afternoons themembers of I Mother Earth— even Edwin! — drop by.None of that’s important.)What’s important is that

you know I’m thinking aboutliving somewhere.Maybeit’s Vancouver, maybe it’ssomewhere else where yourneighbours don’t care if youcrank “LoveMonkey #9” onrepeat every night between11 p.m. and 3 a.m.I remember a time not

that long ago, before 1996’sgreatest hits collectionBootism, probably beforeBootsauce even wrote thefirst notes of “TouchingCloth” or “Let’s Eat Out,”when nobody seemed tocare where I lived. Nobody

shared my Facebook posts.Nobody retweeted myhashtags. Nobody had aplatform for me to share ev-ery last one of my thoughts.It was lonely as hell.But now it’s not.And this is why I choose to

live here— not in Vancouver,necessarily, but in this echochamber of my thoughtsand opinions and Instagramselfies and the belief that itall matters to you. Because ithas to. If it doesn’t, then am Ireally here?If I fall in a forest, do I

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right. But not all of it. In aHuffington Post interviewreferring to 5@50, he said,“When a woman turns 50,it’s such a milestone, and it’sa similarity within the gaycommunity. Finding a spe-cific focus was easy. What isthe major concern going onin my peer group? Addic-tion. A lot of people I knowmy age are either drunk orin AA. Addictions define usin middle age—we have toaddress them.”Having seen both sides of

50 and being female, I don’tbelieve that addictions definewomen inmiddle age. At 50,most of us are thinking aboutretirement and whether wecan afford it. A lot of us areon our own again.We worryabout our children and ourmortgage (if we’re luckyenough to have a home). Ca-reers. Aging parents. Globalwarming. Donald Trump.

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geously portrayed by theincomparable Deborah Wil-liams) has become an alco-holic, and it’s her friends —homemaker Fern (DonnaYamamoto), journalistTricia (Veena Sood) andmany-times married Lorene(Diane Brown) — whodecide something has tobe done about her. Olivia’slesbian partner and medi-cal doctor Norma (BeatriceZeilinger) is, unbelievably,OK with the status quo; shefears a reformed Olivia willstop loving her.

Supportive as they are,these women get really nastywith each other— our oldfriends are far too dear to usto alienate them. So theirdissing— name-calling thatcan never be taken back—doesn’t feel likely.Fraser writes very sharp,

very funny dialogue and thebest of the lines are given toSood, as Tricia. She’s alsothe character we like themostbecause she’s honest, smartand grounded.We don’t getmuch of a handle on Lorene(Brown’s character); after thefailure of a handful of mar-riages, she’s nowmarried toa guy who’s gay and she hasadult children with whomshe has lost touch. Loreneis self-obsessed and not verynice. Yamamoto’s characterFern has taken the conserva-tive route andmarried a guythat’s safe but boring. She

does yoga a lot.Williamsdoes a superb job of beingthe loud-mouthed drunk.But there’s one character inthemix that doesn’t re-ally work. Norma starts offgrumpy, gets grumpier andends sad.Without givingmuch away, Norma betraysOlivia and I didn’t believe itfor a minute. Zeilinger doesher best, but Norma remainsthe least credible of thisquintet.Set and costume design is

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After 85 years of callingDunbar and 28th home,Stong’s Market is temporar-ily packing up shop. Butthe family-run grocery storewill be getting a face lift andreturning home to Dunbarin the winter, settling downthe road in an upcoming,newly built complex.The Ivy on Dunbar, set

to be completed by Dec. 1,will be built in the heart ofDunbar Village at DunbarandWest 27th Ave. Thenew mixed-use buildingwill house 50 condominiumunits and the new Stong’slocation.“It can’t come soon

enough,” said ColleenMcGuinness, president ofthe Dunbar Residents As-sociation. “It’s a very lovely,community place and wethink of them as family. Ilike the idea of them cominghome for Christmas.”The new Ivy location

will be an upgrade fromits former spot, expandingapproximately 8,000 squarefeet. The additional spacewill be used for improvingthe produce section, boost-ing the “hot and ready”to-go food, and introducinga new café, said Cori Bonina,president of Stong’sMarket.Bonina, who is also the

great grand-daughter offounder Carson Stong,said the decision to movewas out of her hands.“The landlords were re-

developing and we didn’thave a choice,” she saidover the phone.Luckily, Bonina said,

the Ivy approached herand suggested Stong’smove in. “It was huge tostay in the area. That’swhat’s important to us.”The constant supply of

good produce, the unparal-leled customer service, andthe sense of community thatwill be missed most, accord-ing to regulars.“The visit to Stong’s was

a key part in a lot of seniors’socializing,” McGuinnesssaid. “They got me eatingrapini, but I can’t find itanywhere else. One time,the fellow at the producesection even gave me a fewrapini recipes.”The independent grocer

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ing the local communitieswhere it operates, with theDunbar location alwayshaving been its home base.It supplies all food anddrink in the annual CopsFor Cancer cycling tour andsponsors several youth soc-cer and hockey sports teamseach year. Stong’s first littleleague baseball team datesback to 1958 and has grownto two little league baseballteams.“Their contribution to

youth in Dunbar goes back58 years — that’s a longtime,” McGuinness said.Stong’s will be offering

a store-to-door deliveryservice seven days a weekout of its new North Van-couver store opening May28. Customers can orderonline or by phone throughStong’s Express, whichwas the first online grocerydelivery service in Vancou-ver. Dunbar shoppers canexpect a waived $8 dollar-delivery fee.Stong’s on Dunbar invites

the community to attendits Customer AppreciationEvent on Thursday eveningto mark the temporaryclosing of its historic home.“We just wanted to [say]thank you for supporting usfor so long,” Bonina said.The celebration runs

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I confess that wheneverI came across a green baglabeled for donation aftermy children had cleanedtheir rooms, I would rum-mage through it.There I might find

books and collectibleitems I thought theywould treasure forever.After all, I had spent manyhours finding just the rightbirthday or Christmas giftsat each stage of their lives.Over time, I realized

that such material things(though inspired by love)are not made to last forevernor should any of us clingto them. Kids grow up andoutgrow them all.The best gifts we can give

our children are those theywill keep forever.A priceless gift my

parents gave me continuesto enrich my life – and I’vedone my best to pass iton to my children. Theirgift was to always see (andexpect) the best in me.Though my parents

were very thoughtful anddeliberate in the decisionsthey made, I suspect thatthe ability to see the best inbrother, sister and myselfwas a natural byproduct oftheir love for us.We were each unique and

as flawed as any other kids.They would give us feed-back and correction whenwe could do better, but theyalways gave encouragementand praise when we did ourbest. Much more than look-ing for what’s wrong in us,they were always looking forwhat was good.That simple but profound

view— to the see the best inothers — is a game changerin everyday life.More often, we live on the

surface of society and whenlooking at others, stop onlyon the outer surface. Wejudge— and then behave— based on appearances,gender, dress or disability,race and roles. We makesweeping judgments, andwe forget that we see onlyglimpses of whole people.We forget that every

person that we pass on thestreet, sit beside on the busand interact with in thecourse of our daily lives isa complete and complexindividual.Every one of us has hopes

and dreams, pain and disap-pointment. Everyone issomeone’s friend or cousin,sibling or parent. When weremember this, we are moreopen to compassion and itbecomes more natural totreat others with kindnessand understanding.Consider this when you

disregard or ignore anotherhuman being or when youimmediately dislike some-one you don’t even know.We all have good and baddays, but we can alwaysmake someone else’s daybetter.With those we live and

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habits and differences. Wecan take one another forgranted and keep a runningtally of what we don’t likeabout each other. One ofthe secrets of a happy mar-riage is to deliberately makemore positive than negativecomments about your part-ner. It reminds us to lookfor and express the best inthe other, who in turn feelsmore appreciated.The teachers who see the

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their patients see themselvesas agents of positive changein their own lives will guidethem towards their potentialfor wellbeing.Today, take a good deep

look into the mirror and inevery face you meet. See thebest in everyone.Davidicus Wong is a

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Recent delays, indecision and mistakes end now.However, avoid taking irrevocable action, committingor launching new projects before mid-morn Thurs.(PDT) especially if a government agency, institution,sibling, assembly line, warehouse, spiritual contact,advisor or agent is involved. The general accent,now to late June, lies on far travel, wisdom, culturalvenues, higher education, legal affairs, intellectualpursuits, and gentle love.

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Be quiet within. Contemplate the situation(s) aroundyou, and examine various options or approachesto them. Meditate, connect with your soul. Getplenty of rest, nap often. Deal with governmental,administrative, committee, management and similarduties. Be charitable. All this, until late June. Recentdelays and indecisions end now, but don’t makeany practical commitments or launches before latemorning Thurs.

A period of delays, indecision and false starts endsSunday morning. However, practical, business,career, legal and similar launches should be delayeduntil midday May 26 onward. If started earlier,they will continually face headwinds or be mired insluggish developments. This particularly applies tolegal, far travel, media, intellectual, governmental,institutional, spiritual or administrative concerns(although all these can be fortunately handled Sun).

Recent delays, indecisions and snafus endnow; you can charge forward with your favouriteprojects. However, wait until well after dawn (PDT)Thursday, May 26 to start or commit to anythingsignificant. If you start before this, the venture islikely to fail. Overall, you’re just beginning a monthof celebration, light, friendly love, optimism,entertainment, popularity and social joys.Happiness lurks around a lot of corners!

You can charge ahead now, as recent delays,indecision and false opportunities end by dawnSunday. However, you’d be wise to wait untilmidday Thurs. to launch any new ventures orstart anything practical, business-oriented,or anything involving money, earnings andpossessions. (Especially avoid sexual, medicaland financial moves before Thurs.) The weeksahead boost your luck tremendously.

A recent trend of false starts, delays and indecisionends now, freeing you to charge after your favouriteprojects. Still, DON’T start any practical, business,financial, real estate or love venture before 8 a.m. PDTThurs., May 26. (Those started would live perhapsyears, and drain you of energy and/or money everyyear.) The general accent lies on ambition, career,worldly status and prestige relations until late June.Sunday/Monday steer you homeward – embrace thekids, putter around the house, garden.

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The number of yearsGlobal Relay will continue tosponsor the historic criteriumbicycle race, the GastownGrand Prix. Announced

Tuesday, the contract renewalextends to 2017.

3Thenumberofyears, from2009to2011, theGastownGrandPrix fellofftheracingschedulebecausetherewasnotenoughfundingandnotitlesponsor.Firstheld in1973, the33rdrunningis set forJuly13duringB.C.

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POINT GREYSECONDARY — Thelongest race of the track andfield city championshipslast week was also the clos-est. Less than a quarter of asecond separated BridgettBaziw and Kendra Lewis inthe bantam girls 3,000-me-tre race, capping the three-kilometre foot race with anear photo finish.For seven laps, Van

Tech’s Lewis held the leadas her Lord Byng com-petitor stayed right on herheels, stride for stride. Ashurdle events took place si-multaneously in the outsidelanes, the pair of Grade 8girls held everyone’s atten-tion as they circled the bluetrack and slowly counteddown to the last lap. On the

second turn of the final lap,300 metres from the finishline, Baziw broke aheadand overtook Lewis.Lewis attempted to

regain the lead once, twiceand then a third time as therunners chased down thefinal seconds of the endur-ance test.On the straight stretch

20 metres from the end,Baziw broke for the lineas her momentum angledher toward the outside ofthe track, which made itdifficult for Lewis to pass.Baziw collapsed from theeffort and adrenaline.Lewis, showing slightly pinkcheeks, walked towards thesideline.Baziw won in 11 min-

utes, 1.61 seconds. Lewiswas right behind, comingsecond in 11:01.84.“We just pushed and

pushed each other,” thewinner said afterwards. “Itfelt so good to win. I mademy move on the turn andusually someone will try toovertake just once, maybetwice. Kendra kept at it.”The runners are develop-

ing a healthy rivalry, onlyone year into their highschool track careers. Baziwwon gold in the bantamgirls 800m (Lewis didn’tcompete in the shorter dis-tance) and came second be-hind Lewis in the 1,500m.Lewis won in 5:05.97 aftersurprising Baziw by tak-ing off on a powerful kickbefore the final turn.Baziw finished fourth at

the junior girls B.C. cross-country championships atJericho Park in November.Lewis was fifth overall, justtwo seconds behind on afive-kilometre course.

Fast, faster,fastest, FisherPaul Fisher, a junior

racer for the TupperTigers, won the aggregateprize and established him-self as one of the fastestsprinters in the city.He took gold in the

200m, 400m and 800mraces. His winning timesof 23.19 and 50.50seconds were also goodenough to win the seniorboys 200m and 400mraces, respectively. His400m performance is thefastest recorded time inthe past 10 years at anyage group.Fisher anchored the

senior boys 4x400 relayfor the Tigers and laiddown an “epic” — in thewords of Tupper coachStan Jang — performanceto come from behind and

defeat Kitsilano in thefinal race of the champi-onship at UBC May 12.Tupper trailed by roughly10 metres when Fishertook the baton. They wonby 0.04 seconds.

AggregatewinnersKillarney sprinter and

hurdler Jesse Taylor wonthe bantam girls aggre-gate, two points ahead ofBaziw. Dylan Uhrich, ofTupper, won the bantamboys aggregate title onthe power of his wins inthe 800m, 1,500m and3,000m races. He justedged out Kitsilano’sChristian Petersen, alsoa friend and trainingpartner.In the juvenile divi-

sions, Halle Petek ofTupper won the girls title,and Kitsilano’s Benjamin

Ross took the boys.Julie Kawai Herdman

won the junior girls aggre-gate and also ran 12.61 inthe 100m sprint, the onlyperformance below 13seconds. She also won thehigh jump and long jump.Kitsilano’s Hayley

Madden and Van Tech’sAnnelise Lapointe tied forthe senior girls aggregatewith Point Grey’s DianaVoloshin coming in aclose third.The senior boys ag-

gregate also ended in a tiewith Thomas Nobbs ofPoint Grey locking downwith Killarney’s NikolaMilutinovic.

Fleet feet and photo finishes at city track champsAthletics city championships held over two days at Point Grey and UBC

The B.C. high school trackand field championshipsare scheduled for June 2 to4 in Nanaimo.

Right: NinaWatsonwon the junior girls 300-metre hurdles for Lord Byng. Above: Hannah Johnstontakes off in the senior girls 400-metre hurdles at the Point Grey Secondary TrackMay 11. The Van Techsprinter won gold in the 400mand 100mhurdles. PHOTOSDANTOULGOET


Diagnosed with breath-sapping, infection-pronecystic fibrosis at 14,Marga-ret Benson was not much ofan athlete before her doublelung transplant in 1999 atVancouver General Hospital.She was expected to live

a year without a transplant.Now 57, the retired elemen-tary school teacher and con-summate volunteer holdsthe record in the race walkfor the World TransplantGames, a bi-annual multi-sport event “powered bythe gift of life” that bringstogether organ recipientsand families of donors.She has dozens of

medals, has competedon five continents and ispreparing for the nationalchampionships in Torontothis summer. An ambas-sador for the B.C Trans-plant Association, Bensonsays, “Our whole mandateis that there is life aftertransplant and to live ahealthy, active life.”

What is your idea of perfecthappiness? Standing in frontof a group of students andteaching them anything,especially dance, and lettingthem realize their potential.

What is your most trea-sured possession? I havethis stuffed puppy dog,and that’s what his nameis, Puppy Dog. He waswith me through everyIV, plug-in, hospital…I know that’s crazy, butif somebody took him, Idon’t know what I’d do.Also, my new lungs, thatwould be my most prizedpossession.

What do you regard as thelowest depth ofmisery? Idon’t go there. My bloodtype is B-positive, and thatis how I live my life.

What TV showdo you bingewatch? So You Think YouCan Dance. I’ve seen threeof the live shows.

Which historical figuredo youmost identify with?Mother Teresa and TerryFox. Volunteering is one ofthe greatest things you cando. I wish I could have metTerry Fox.

Whatwas the first sport youplayed as a child?When youcan’t breathe, it’s hard toplay sport. I loved dodge-ball. I was a crasher.

Describe the first run youwent on after your trans-plant. I had this amazingphysiotherapist. She stucka Sun Run bib on my IVpole. I walked 10 steps andthought, that’s what I’mgoing to do. First race wasthe Vancouver Sun Run in2001.

When do you feel like quit-ting?Never.

What is your favourite livesportsmemory?The 4x100relay in Argentina, lastsummer at the WorldTransplantGames. Weput in awomen’steam forCanada andhad a girl, afour-year-oldheart transplantrun the anchor.She was threeweeks old whenshe had hertransplant andwas the youngestever at the Games.I was able to watchher cross the finishline. The Swiss team,they stopped and waited

for her so she didn’t crossthe line last, alone. She ranlike stink, she ran like notomorrow. It was beautifulto watch.

Whowould play you inamovie of your life? BetteMidler. She’s crazy andquirky, and I love her. Imet her in person. She isgorgeous.

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HAIR FORCE Kitsilano Blue DemonMorgan Guthridge dodges a tackle in a 33-12 zone tour-nament loss toWest Vancouver secondary at St. George’s School May 10. Kitsilano played Argylesecondary Tuesday, after theCourier’s print deadline, for the fifth and final berth to the B.C. Champi-onships. Lord Byng and Prince ofWaleswere eliminated. Because of a newplayoff structure in seniorboys rugby, a AAAA tier was created for provincials to draw the top four teams from four respectiveregional in an effort to bringmore parity to the tournament. St. George’s plays Carson Graham for theLowerMainland’s top spot at the BrocktonOval at 4:30 p.m.May 19.To readmore, visit vancourier.com/sports.PHOTODANTOULGOET


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N.Y. tests ‘textalyzer’to checkphonesUsing a cellphone while

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while intoxicated, andshould carry both thesame social stigma andpenalties — the former isthere, the fines have yetto catch up.But how best to

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close the barn door be-fore the horse has bolted,but in a case where acollision has occurred,police in New York statenow have a new tool.Called a “textalyzer,”it’s a device made by anIsraeli company that cancheck for recent phoneactivity on the spot.While it would be

simple enough to checkthe phone itself, thetextalyzer’s advantage isin its ability to dodge pri-vacy concerns by simplyindicating whether thephone was in use or not.Like the breathalyzer, po-lice who are suspicious ofdriver impairment havethe option to employ afield test.And, of course, there

are a few issues. Firstand foremost, voice-to-text via Bluetooth is stillperfectly legal, and it ap-pears that the textalyzercan’t yet tell the differ-ence. Visual confirma-tion is required, and youknow some text-addleddrivers are still going toget away with it. Still, it’sanother tool in the box.

Toyota feels earth-quakeaftershockThe recent earthquakes

in Japan’s Kumamoto cap-tured the world’s attention,not least because of the ter-rible tsunami that caused somuch damage not long ago.This time the quakes werestill deadly, but more con-fined in scope, and are nowsomewhat overshadowed bythe more major destructionin Ecuador.But for Japan’s automo-

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FordkeepsFocusEVa lowrangerWith the Model 3 mak-

ing headlines (despite notquite existing just yet)and the Chevy Bolt offer-ing a clearer picture of a320-kilometre-range EVfuture, you might expectFord to be fighting backwith a major upgrade fortheir Focus EV. Not so:the Focus will remain withits current 160 km range.Why not try to go the

distance? It’s all aboutFord’s strategy and salesdemographics. Most FocusEV owners are urban dwell-ers, and using only a smallfraction of that range daily.By keeping the range in thesame bracket, Ford is ableto keep the price of theirEV fairly low.Additionally, while Ford

may have something toworry about if the Model3 comes with its prom-ised 350 km range forUS$35,000 (which, basedon the Model S pricingstructure, it probablywon’t), the competition isstill a ways off in deliver-ing their vehicles. Andsales of EVs are low rightnow, in an age of inexpen-sive gasoline.So, Ford stays pat,

and maybe has a thing ortwo up its sleeve. It’s notpeople lining up outsideyour dealerships, but it’sthe smart play.

Subaru takesaimatthe IsleofManRecordThe Isle of Man TT is a

famous, dangerous, insane,and historic motorcycletime-attack event. Motorcy-cles, as you know, generallyhave two wheels. Somebodyforgot to tell Subaru.They’ve just announced

a new Prodrive-built STI,ready to tackle the courseand set a new record. DriverDavidHiggins has tackledthe TT twice now, and theofficial record sits at 19min-utes and 15.9 seconds.So why is a company

that makes their moneyselling Foresters trying toset a record on a motor-cycle track?

New York cops test

Using a phonewhile driving has been proven to be at least as dangerous as drivingwhile intoxicated,but what’s the best way to enforce the law? Cops in New York are testing a “textalyzer” device thatcan detect if a phonewas in use during a crash.


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A record that, it shouldbe pointed out, doesn’treally seem to be underthreat from any othermanufacturer? Simple.Given the huge publicityaround the TT, Subarugets to waltz in and be theonly show in town. SeeingHiggins hurtle aroundthe course is as good forSubaru’s publicity as KenBlock’s stunts are forFord.So yes, this new, hand-built

and aerodynamically-tweakedSTI has toomany wheelsto count as an official TTentrant. However, if Higginsstays airborne long enoughwith all four off the ground,maybe it averages out.

Tesla racksup thereservationsThe Tesla Model S is a

great drive, but far too ex-pensive for most people. Asan alternative to a BMW 5Series or a Mercedes-BenzE-Class, it makes a compel-ling argument. But whatabout the rest of us?Well, the rest of us could

put down a fully refundablereservation on aModel 3,the new Tesla hatchback forthe regular Joes. At time ofwriting, reservations for theModel 3 are about to crestthe 300,000 mark, makingthe car an instant success.There’s just one teensy-weensy problem.Like theModel X, with

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doors), theModel 3 is anexample of promising themoon, and then deliver-ing some of themoon at amuch later date. Tesla itselfis claiming that “hubris” isto blame for theModel X’sslow rollout: that toomuchtechnology was built into thecar and slow parts suppliersare hampering deliveries.So when ElonMusk

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AstonMartinplans touseAMGmanualIf Tesla is the wave of

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• LEATHER SEATING• 5-YEARWARRANTY

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Vancouver Courier May 19 2016