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The Vancouver Park Boards threemost prominent electric vehicle
chargingstations, a showcase of Vision Vancou-vers Greenest City
2020 Action Plan,were rarely used during the rst sevenand a half
months of 2014.Data released to the Courier via Free-
dom of Information shows the threelocations in civic parking
lots at SunsetBeach, near the foot of Cardero Streetand near the
foot of Broughton Streetwere used for 760 hours the equivalent
of 31 days during the 226-day periodbetween Jan. 1 and Aug. 15.
A spread-sheet claims there were an average 1.4charging sessions a
day, for daily averagesof 12.24 kWh and 145.34 minutes.The pilot
project involves Telus, which
installed nine-metre tall cellular polesat each station to
expand its voice anddata network capacity. A May 30, 2012report to
the park board said there wasno cost to the city, only a benet for
20years. The sites were to bring in $11,500each on annual license
payments, but thecontract includes a $2,000 discount persite for a
total $28,500 a year under theve-year, March 26, 2013 contract
witha Calgary-based Telus subsidiary. Teluswas responsible for the
capital costs up toa maximum $10,000 per site and licence
fees are supposed to climb 10 per centafter each ve-year
term.The total energy used at the three stations
during the period was 2,761.19 kilowatthours, enough to displace
1,104.48 litres ofgasoline. The most power used in a singlecharging
session was 69.419 kWh during an11 1/4-hour period at the Cardero
lot from1:48 p.m. Feb. 18 to 1:03 a.m. Feb. 19.By comparison, the
charging station at
Edible Canada on Granville Island re-corded 996 charging
sessions during thesame period, delivering 5,529 kWh anddisplacing
2,212 litres of gas.The city issued a Jan. 18, 2013 pur-
chase order to Ecospark TechnologiesInc. of Toronto for a total
$25,739.43 forthe equipment.
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THE VOICE of VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS since 1908
Lonely times for electric chargers
Wongonthe record
Meena Wong is COPEs rst mayoralcandidate since 2002. Since then
COPEspolitical inuence in Vancouver haswaned. Even school trustee
Allan Wong,its only elected member in the 2011election, switched
allegiances to VisionVancouver.But the Bejing-born politician,
whos
lived in Canada for 33 years, has attractednational attention by
focusing attentionon issues such as affordable housing and aliving
wage and proposing policies such astaxing owners of vacant
properties.If Wong is elected, she would be Vancou-
vers rst female mayor and its rst mayorof Asian origin. But a
recent poll revealedshe has a lot of ground to cover. Of
thosesurveyed, only 16 per cent supported Wong,compared to 46 per
cent for Gregor Robert-son and 32 per cent for Kirk LaPointe.Last
week, Wong took questions from
the Courier during a livestreamed eventat Creekside Community
Centre. The fullinterview can be viewed online at vancou-rier.com.
Here is the condensed and editedversion.
Courier: Why are you running formayor?Meena Wong: Government
account-
ability and transparency and accessibil-ity, to me, means a lot
because I camefrom a system [where] Ive seen whatits like when
government has absolutepower and theres corruption and thereis
disrespect for the people, the rightsof the people and the voices
of people.Unfortunately, Ive seen that happeningin Canada at large
and in Vancouver aswell, where government is not account-able to
the people anymore. They pay33, I believe, [staff] in the
corporatecommunications department to stoppeople from accessing
information tothe city hall, which is owned by thepeople, paid by
the people. I believethat government has to be accountableto the
people, and COPE, Im proud tosay, is [the] peoples party.
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Second in a three-partseries with mayoralcandidates
Citys electric car chargingstations see little use
LISTENUPDowntown residentPeterKarrollmakesapoint at
apublicmeeting todiscussa temporaryhousing complex for
thehomelessonHoweStreet. At themeeting, neighbourhood residents
criticized theCityof Vancouver forwhat they considereda lackof
consultation.See related storypage6.PHOTODANTOULGOET
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This just in: Independentmayoral candidate BobKasting has become
thevoice of reason among thecrew hes battling for cityhalls top
job!Holy itshay, I just wrote
that.But what else am I going
to write about a guy who didme a solid at themayoral de-bate
heldMonday in Shawstelevision studio. I was therealong withGeorgia
Straightcolleague Charlie Smith tore questions at Kasting,Mayor
Gregor Robertson,the NPAs Kirk LaPointeandMeenaWong of COPE.Well,
maybe re is too
strong of a word.As Ive learned with tele-
vision and this live-streambusiness weve gotten intoat the
Courier, the formatdoesnt necessarily allowme to spend 10
minuteschallenging a candidate on asingle issue.Apparently, the
goal of
these types of broadcastsis to give viewers a taste ofwhere
candidates stand onmore than one issue and letthem prattle on.
Think ofit more of a public service,which is ne.That will all
change, of
course, when I get my ownshow. I promise to just tack-le one
issue and go all MikeWallace on my guest untilhe or she abruptly
leaves thestudio. (Re: Mike Wallacereference. For the young
folk out there, Wallace wasa legendary journalist at aprogram
called 60 Minutes.Google him).Anyway, back to the
Kasting stuffI asked all four candidates
to answer this: If elected,how will they accommo-date the huge
inux oftransit riders expected tobe dumped at the alreadycrowded
Commercial-Broadway transit hub whenthe Evergreen Line opens inthe
summer of 2016.Never mind the debate
over a subway for the Broad-way corridor, I said, just tellthe
viewers what you will doin the short term to createsome order to an
alreadychaotic choke point in Van-couvers transit system.Lobby
TransLink for
more buses? More bikelanes? Free bikes? Segwaysfor everyone?
Jetpacks?What?LaPointe and Robertson
partly answered the ques-tion and agreed more buseswere needed.
But theydidnt say how many or howthey would convince Trans-Link to
add more buses onthe congested route. Wongdidnt answer the
questionand instead oated her $30a month transit pass.The trio
spent more time
debating the subway andattacking each other thanproviding
specics on accom-modating what the citys trans-portation director
says will bea 25 per cent increase in transitusers to the
Commercial-Broadway hub in 2016.SoKasting interrupted the
debate and said this: Im go-
ing to respectfully suggest thatwe should be talking aboutwhat
the question was ratherthan the question you wish itwas. The
question really was:What do you do about thefact that theres going
to be alot more people who are go-ing to get off the [SkyTrain]and
get on to a bus, or geton to their feet or get on to abicycle. How
do you accom-modate those people?Nicely done, Bob.Robertson: That
is a
good question, that is a veryimportant question andthere arent
easy solutionsto this. Broadway is thebusiest bus route in
NorthAmerica right now and thatis a problem for usLaPointe: But it
was a
problem when you arrivedin ofceRobertson: Thats be-
cause the NPA did nothingprior to us coming inWong: Excuse
me
gentlemen, excuse megentlemenOn it went.Heres what Kasting
said,
in part, when asked thesame question: Certainly,having a subway
promisedfor ve years, or 10 yearsor 15 years or never is notgoing
to help anythingright now. What we need issomething that is
practicaland going to work. Thathas to be buses because wedont have
any other way ofgetting around.No specics, but he did
use the word practical.Which, it appears, is just
plain crazy talk for someonerunning for mayor.
twitter.com/Howellings
Practical talk froman independent
Independentmayoral candidate Bob Kasting is one of the
challengers aiming to unseat Mayor GregorRobertson in the Nov. 15
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Seven candidates forVancouver Park Boarddebated equity,
facilities,parks and planning fordensity at the StrathconaCommunity
Centre Asso-ciation near the DowntownEastside Tuesday night. Ina
freer format, in contrastto most of the electoral de-bates where
questions arewritten and pre-screened,any audience membercould
voice any questionfrom the oor.The debate began with
what the debate modera-tor Amanda Gibbs, theassociations
president,called the biggest local is-sue: equity.Some kids here
visit
West Side communitycentres and say why dontwe have that here? We
arefundraising our asses off,but it is never enough.She asked what
the partieswould do to spread parkboard funds to more
needyareas.
Non-Partisan Asso-ciation (NPA) candidateCasey Crawford
agreedthat public services varytoo widely across the city,and the
local commu-nity associations know thearea best, but this
Visionadministration wants tocentralize control toomuch. Vision
candidateNaveen Girn suggestedthat aid to Strathconacould come from
the $17million emerging prioritiesfund included in the parkscapital
plan Vancouveriteswill vote on Nov. 15.Green Party candidate
Mike Wiebe said that othercommunity centres, such asDunbar,
Marpole and Ray-cam are also suffering withcrumbling
buildings.Gibbs said that Strath-
cona and some other asso-ciations have an excellentrelationship
with thepark board. Yet some arebattling the city in lawsuitsfor
control. The NPA andVision candidates pledgedmore dialogue
andconsultation on improv-
ing relations but gaveno specics when askedwhat the model for a
newjoint operating agreementshould be. COPE can-didate Imtiaz Popot
wasthe most specic, sayinghis party would end thelawsuits and forge
a newdeal to make communityassociations joint owner-
operators of the centres.Some residents com-
plained of pool closures,and pleaded for more tobe opened.
Others focusedon parks. One woman saidshe had waited 24 years fora
park to appear in FalseCreek where the developershad promised one
to servicea rising new population.
All the candidates agreedthat one should be builtthere, but they
disagreedon the process and what isa park. Girn said it is avery
complex issue dueto contaminated soil onthe Expo lands and
otherlogistical problems, and thecity cannot force a
privatedeveloper to create a park.The last claimwas greetedwith
incredulity from theothers.Wiebe added that aplanned rooftop park
for theOakridge proposal does notqualify as a real park, whileShum
said, I live downtownand Yaletown Park is justone tree built in
concrete.The candidates were
asked to state their toptwo priorities. Theirreplies:Chum, NPA:
clean
parks and to build aseniors centre in SouthVancouver.Crawford,
NPA: a
strong independent parksboard and communitycentres, and more
kidssports activities.Coree Tull, Vision:
more recreational centreaccess for those with bar-riers and more
access tonature for kids.Girn, Vision: good
community action plansand building the seniorscentre.Ezra Bloom,
COPE:
more direct and transparentdemocracy, and fundingfor arts and
culture fromdevelopers amenities.Popot, COPE: better
relations with the associa-tions, and more commu-nity
engagement.Wiebe, Green: more
access to nature, and localfood production.Summing up the
event,
Gibbs said, I am heart-ened to hear that they areaware of the
inequities inthe parks system, but inthe absence of a good
jointoperating agreement, itshard to know how to pro-ceed on these
issues. Ourneighbourhood questionsare complex, and I thinkthey did
their best, butmany of the answers weretoo vague.
Strathcona residents push for equityParks, pools and community
centre control focus of park board candidate forum
Some voters believe theres a disparity in resources and
fundingbetweenWest Side community centres and East Side centres
suchas Strathcona, which hosts karaoke events. PHOTODANTOULGOET
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About 250 people cameto the Creekside Commu-nity Recreation
Centre inFalse Creek last Wednes-day night to hear 14candidates for
mayor andcouncil debate some-times heatedly union do-nations, a
lack of parks andtransparency at city hall.The Courier earlier
re-
ported on a union meetingduring which Vision Coun.Geoff Meggs
promised theCUPE union city staff local a large Vision contribu-tor
that his party wouldnot expand contractingout services. Vision
Coun.Raymond Louie, the onlyruling party member at thedebate
Wednesday, wasasked if the CUPE donationwas appropriate.The media
reports are
accurate, Louie replied.He pleaded that Visioncouncil had long
asked theprovincial government toban both corporate andunion
donations, prompt-ing some people to shoutof the CUPE donationThen
give it back!
Louie added the NPAhad voted against Visionsproposed change.Just
because they are
unions, that doesnt neces-sarily mean they are bad,said Louie.
They providegood value for money,and hiring cheaper is notalways
better.Kirk LaPointe, mayoral
candidate for the Non-Par-tisan Association, retorted,If the NPA
had madesuch a deal with a devel-oper, you would jump allover us.
So we are going tojump on you. It was a tradeof dollars for votes.
Visionreleased its platform today,but with no mention ofwhat this
deal with CUPEwould cost taxpayers.Louie interjected:
There was no deal.LaPointe turned to
him: Mr. Louie, are youincapable of keeping yourmouth shut for a
minute?Audience applause
ensued as the moderatorcalled for order.On the number one
concern of the evening,residents around Van-couvers False Creek
areshining green lights in their
windows calling for cityhall and Concord Pacicto fulll what they
call a24-year-old contract tocomplete Creekside Park.Most of the
panel called onConcord to do its duty,and Vancouver First
candi-date Jesse Johal gained the
longest applause of the eve-ning when he asked, Howcan Vision or
NPA get thatpark when they take fund-ing from developers?Most of
the other candi-
dates repeatedly hammeredcity halls enlarged publicrelations
branch and tight
grip on information, whichMeena Wong, mayoralcandidate for COPE,
saidreminded her of growing upwith propaganda control incommunist
China.Quipped Cedar Party
candidate Glen Chernen:The big difference between
Toronto mayor Rob Fordand Vancouver council isabout 150 pounds
and 33communication ofcers.Louie concluded that
a lot of the rhetoric youhave heard tonight is justnot true, or
telling onlyhalf the story. And ask Mr.LaPointe if he is
meetingwith any developers beforethe election.On scal
responsibil-
ity, Louie said that withevery promise comes acost, and he
recalled thathis party had inherited a$1 billion liability from
theprevious NPA council onthe Olympic Village deal.
We all know thatweve been developing tooquickly, LaPointe
said.There is an ad hoc process,there is no planning per se,and it
has been benettinga very few, and leaving a lotof people out of the
picture.Im beholden to no one.Other topics briey raised
were the need for moreamenities from developers,social housing
at Oakridge,the risk of more oil tankers,the fate of Marine
Gardens,a subway to UBC, and reservice cutbacks.
Candidates sparoverdonors, city communications
Jillian Skeet asks a question during amayoral and council
candidate forumat the Creekside Com-munity Recreation Centre in
False CreekWednesday night.PHOTODANTOULGOET
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More than 100 peoplepacked a heated publicmeeting Wednesday
heldby the City of Vancouverand many of them ex-pressed worries
over a 157-room temporary housingcomplex for the homeless.By
mid-November,
the Quality Inn at 1335Howe St. will be turnedinto a temporary
housingcomplex for many formerOppenheimer Park camp-ers. Some of
those campershave been placed in a tem-porary shelter in the
formerKettle of Fish restaurant at900 Pacic St.Yaletown resident
Gary
Lyseng said he neverreceived notices of the meet-ing and was
made aware onMonday through word ofmouth. Lyseng recountedseeing a
homeless man uri-nating on his building andnoticed other changes to
theneighbourhood with the on-set of three similar housingsolutions
near his home.Several years ago the
promise is that wed spreadthem out. Not put themall downtown.
Its notthat Im better than them.We paid a high price forthis
property already, whyshould we have to share oursidewalks, he
said.
Ive noticed that the
park is quite often, the rulesarent abided by. Like,youre
supposed to be out ofthere by 10 and when youwalk, theyre
everywhere.Theyre just sitting and alltheir [junk] are around.Court
documents led by
the Vancouver Park Boardreveal many of those mov-
ing in are suffering fromdrug and mental healthissues, or
both.Brenda Prosken, the
citys general manager ofcommunity services, saidthe city was not
able toconsult the public beforeleasing the complex onHowe Street
due to theinux of homeless campersfrom Oppenheimer Park.We were
under a lot of
pressure in order to seekand nd alternate accom-modations for
the homelessthat had gathered on thatsite, said Prosken.Both
temporary hous-
ing solutions are drawingcriticism from the commu-
nity on what they say is thecitys lack of consultationwith the
public. Accord-ing to the citys commu-nications branch, close
to1,400 letters explaining theopening of the shelter weresent to
area residents andat least 10 businesses werevisited by city staff.
Security
guards at the shelter con-tinue to hand out informa-tion sheets
on the shelter topedestrians.The crowd also heard
from Julie Roberts from theCommunity Builders Foun-dation, a
non-prot chosenby the city to operate thespace. The foundationplans
to provide stafng 24hours a day, tenant supportservices such as
offering twomeals a day and creating acommunity advisory com-mittee
to identity commu-nity concerns.Participants at themeet-
ing were divided into smallgroups led by city staff.
Thebrainstorming session gener-
ated several common con-cerns, which included callingfor tighter
security in thearea, childrens safety, tenantself-cleanups,
andmainte-nance of building aesthetics.Some residents wanted
thetemporary housing facilitiesremoved altogether.Debra Rooney was
one of
the residents turned away atthe door because tickets forspaces
at the event ran outat the last minute. She saidshe it was not the
additionalgarbage or people wander-ing the streets that con-cerned
her but hearing ofpeople being harassed orthreatened and
increaseddrug activity in the area.Its a political move.
Theres an election com-ing up, it makes them lookgood and on top
of that,theyre very developerfriendly. So when this isdone at the
end of the twoyears, therell be a high risecondo going into this
unit,added Rooney.The media was asked by
city staff to refrain from re-cording group discussions.Attendee
Peter Karrollobjected to the idea andcalled for a vote.
Proskendefended the citys posi-tion stating it was to protectthose
who wanted to sharetheir opinions safely.With les from
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It sent an Aug. 31, 2013overdue invoice reminderto Telus for
$29,935.40owing from a July 31,2013 invoice for the an-nual licence
fee.Vision Vancouvers plan
promotes electric vehiclesas a long-term replace-ment for gas
and diesel-
powered cars and trucks.City hall wants to meetor beat World
HealthOrganization air qualityguidelines by 2020, eventhough it is
subject to airpollution from neighbour-ing municipalities
andoperations of Port MetroVancouver, which is underfederal
jurisdiction.The 2013-2014 Green-
est City implementationupdate said 93 chargingstations had been
in-stalled. The park boardstaff report estimated 4.9per cent of new
vehiclepurchases would be elec-tric by 2017.Despite being in
park-
ing lots with postcardviews beside the denselypopulated West
End, theroot problem for the triomay be the slow salesof electric
vehicles inB.C. An Oct. 6 report byFraser Basin Council andBC
Hydros Powertechsaid there were only 1,300
electric vehicles in B.C.as of July, a sliver of totalvehicles
in the province.Statistics Canada report-ed 74,761 passenger
carswere sold in 2013 in B.C.Jordan Bateman, B.C.
director of the CanadianTaxpayers Federation,said traditional
fuel sta-tions would be fallingover each other to install
electric charging stationsif there was consumer de-mand for
electric vehicles,which cater to an upscaleclientele.They just
arent
being used that muchbecause there arent thatmany electric
vehiclesout there, Batemansaid. Its a classic caseof government
trying tomake a market work thateconomics wont.A provincial
Clean
Energy Vehicle programoffered subsidies up to$5,000 until March
31.Sales through July of 374electric vehicles weretrending to beat
the 505sold province-wide in allof 2013.Trevor Loke, park
board chair and VisionVancouver candidate inthe Nov. 15
election, didnot respond to an inter-view request by
Courierdeadline.
twitter.com/bobmackin
Sales of electriccars still slow
Its a classic case ofgovernment trying tomake a market work
thateconomics wont.- Jordan Bateman
Electric charging stations at three locations in civic parking
lots were used an average of 1.4 times a day. PHOTODANTOULGOET
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Martha Perkins
Five years ago, Van-couvers Drug TreatmentCourt gave Glenn Baker
asecond chance. Instead ofgoing to jail, he could optinto a program
that wouldhelp him break free of hisaddictions.Hes been clean
ever
since but the shadowsthat lurk behind his everythought the
shadows hetried to escape with drugsand alcohol are stillvery much
a presence inhis life.Enter Tona, a rambunc-
tious 90-pound goldenLabrador/retriever mix.He pulls me out
of
depression many times aday, Baker said, sittingunder a tree in a
park nearthe supportive housingcomplex where he livesnear Jericho
Beach. Tonais happy all of the timeand that happiness rubsoff on
me. I just lookinto his eyes and see magicand love and honesty.Tona
literally pulls Bak-
er out of his dark places.When I take him out fora walk, Im not
thinkingabout my past or all thethings Ive lost.But now Tona
needs
Bakers help. In earlysummer, the 16-month-old dog tore a
ligamentin one of his legs. Hun-dreds of dollars of vet billslater,
Baker was trying tohelp Tonas recovery byrestricting Tonas
playful-ness and enforcing a strictdiet. It helped but then, inlate
August, Tona tore theligament again, this timewith more serious
conse-quences.If nothing is done, Tona
is facing a lifetime of crip-pling pain.Its debilitating,
Dr.
Michael Orser of AlouetteAnimal Hospital in MapleRidge said of
the injurysimpact. The ligament isa crucial structure in theknee.
If you tear one, theknee is quite unstable andthe two bones slide
on oneanother.Dr. Orser examined
Tona after each injury andnow recommends ortho-pedic surgery to
rebuildTonas leg. It works verywell and theyre givena stable knee,
he said.Tona will be able to walkwithout pain.The surgery can
cost
upwards of $5,000 but,knowing Bakers situation,
Dr. Orser has offered toperform the procedure at areduced rate.
Baker is alsogetting ongoing supportfrom The Journey HomeDog
Rescue, an organiza-tion that helps people carefor their dogs.A
crowdfunding cam-
paign has been set up onTonas behalf. The goal is$2,700, which
will pay forthe surgery as well as someof Tonas needs
duringrecovery. Baker is com-mitted to paying a regularmonthly
amount, as well.Because you cant
perform half a surgery, thecampaign is whats calledAll Or
Nothing. Donorspledge money but thatmoney does not come outof their
bank account untilthe $2,700 goal has beenreached. Then the
moneywill ow to the AlouetteAnimal Hospital to pay forthe surgery.I
didnt bear Tona but
hes like my child, saidBaker, whose eyes tearup every time he
contem-
plates a future withouthis beloved companion.When I got him, I
wasntexpecting the payoff wouldbe so great.With Tona helping
him
cope with depression,Bakers next goal is to geta part-time job
to givepurpose to his days andprovide for a better life forhimself
and Tona.Now I get a second
chance, he said. I putalcohol and drugs behindme and maybe life
willturn out good. I considermyself to be the unluckiestluckiest
person. Theresa reason Im here and Iwant to gure out why.
To contribute to Tonascrowdfunding campaign,go to FundAid.ca
andsearch for Help TonaLive a Pain-Free Life.
More than adogTona provides emotional support and stabilityto
man suffering from depression
Community
InhisbookTheModernDog:AJoyfulExplorationofHowWeLiveWithDogsToday,UBCprofessorDr.StanleyCorenlooksathowdogscanhelppeoplewithdepression.
Oneof the important fac-tors in depression is socialisolation.
In a studyof peoplewhowere 60 andolder,four times
asmanypeoplewhodidnt have apetweredepressed compared to those
whoownedapet. owning a dog brings
you intomore contact withpeople. Weremuchmoreprone to talking to
a strangerwith a dog thanwe are astranger just out for awalk.
dogs provide uncriticaland always available socialsupport.
dogscanprovidethesameemotionalbenefitsofhavingcaringhumans
inyour life.
Dogs make people more social
Tona ismore than a pet for Glenn Baker, who suffers
fromdepres-sion. Tona has torn a ligament in his knee and nowneeds
surgery,which Baker cannot afford. PHOTOMARTHAPERKINS
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Theweek in num6ers...
102In thousandsofdollars, theamountCUPEhasagreed todonate
toVisionVancouvers
election campaign.
875At theCouriers pressdeadline,thenumberof hits a YouTube
videopostedMondayofKirk LaPointegrillingGregor
Robertsonoveruniondonationshad received.
800Thenumberof city-ownedsocial housingunitsCOPE
mayoral candidateMeenaWongsays shewould try tobuild each
year if elected.
2Thenumberof JackWebster
awardswonbyCouriercontributorsWednesdaynight. AllenGarrwon
for
best commentator andChrisCheung for student journalism.
13.1Inmillionsofdollars,theamountofmoney
someone recentlypaid for a8,250-square-foot condo inCoalHarbour,
settinganewVancouverprice record.
1.4Theaveragenumberof hoursperday threeof the citysmostprominent
electric vehiclecharging stationsareput to
use.
[email protected]
Dear Federal Government,May I call you Feds? I sincerely
hope
you dont try to exploit recent events inCanada for political
gain, and to furtherlimit civil liberties through national
secu-rity overshoot.Im concerned youre going to go all
Shock Doctrine on us and leverage pre-Halloween headlines like
Canada undersiege from within and Homegrownterror strikes at the
heart of Canada intoa windfall for the
military-security-prisoncomplex.Do we want the rest of the world
to
mistake this nation for a frozen expanseof shivering, quivering
wusses, who foldlike cheap lawn furniture the moment aderanged
person takes a soldiers life andan armed run at Parliament?The
violent death of Cpl. Nathan
Cirillo was a tragedy, that is undeniable.But it troubles me to
see you and our na-tional media squeeze his prole for everylast
telegenic ounce of militarism.On the very day of the attack,
you
were planning to table new legislation toincrease the powers of
CSIS and otherpolice organizations to spy on and arrestCanadians.
Conspiracy theorists canbash that factoid back and forth
withcoincidence theorists, but wouldnt itbe better to increase
security on Parlia-ment more cops, barricades, perhapsgun turrets
on the gargoyles than togo bonkers with surveillance measures
onyour own citizens and repeat the mistakesof our neighbours to the
south?I keep hearing about these home-
grown terrorists as if they are some kindof indestructible weed.
Muslims repre-sent 3.2 per cent of the Canadian popula-tion, Feds.
Are we to seriously believethat ISIS and other terror networks
havepoisoned the minds of a small percent-age of this small
percentage, throughtrackable social media sites, to the degreethey
now present an existential threat todemocracy itself?Or are you
expecting the Islamic ca-
liphate to zoom down the St. Lawrencein zodiacs, guns blazing
and kefyehsrippling, after crossing the Atlantic?(Perhaps then wed
have a momentaryproblem, just before a Halifax-class frig-ate blows
them to smithereens.)Theres no denying that there are
dangerous people out there who needto be monitored. But lets not
forget the
average Canadian still has a better chanceof drowning in the
bathtub or being hitby lightning than dying in a terrorist at-tack.
If you were to attach a threat levelto actual fatalities, it would
make moresense to declare war on tobacco, alcohol,automobiles, fast
food, or physician-prescribed drugs, which collectively
killthousands of Canadians every year.But no, youre going to war
against an ab-
stract noun with a rubbery acronym. ISIL,ISIS, or IS: what is it
now? Every otherweek, the newsrooms get another memo.And then
theres you two: Liberal
leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leaderThomas Mulcair. Why arent
you point-ing out that air strikes on Iraq and Syriawill result in
more casualties amonginnocent people while swelling the ranksof
terrorist groups? Has the attack onParliament scared you both into
fullcompliance with Harpers majority? (Iknow getting a one-armed
hug from thePM would certainly send a chill down myspine.)If you
seriously want to reduce the risk
of future terror attacks, Feds, you wouldbe well advised to stop
taking part inthe U.S. governments endless wars ofaggression and
redirect our tax moneyelsewhere. As British journalist SimonJenkins
recently observed, for the priceof a bombed pick-up truck you can
feed arefugee camp for a year.The objective of these attacks
was
to instill fear and panic in our country,Harper said one day
after the attack onParliament, even as the narrative was
stilltaking shape of a homeless, crack-using,Facebooking,
Muslim-converted Canadi-an who reportedly held up a McDonaldsto get
back into jail. Feds, you can defeatthis apparent objective by
refusing to turnCanada in a fearful, panicky place.Alas, Justice
Minister Peter Mackay
has indicated that new anti-terror powerswill include measures
for the preventa-tive detention of suspected would-beterrorists.
Guilty until proven innocent,in other words. Thoughtcrime.Contrast
this with the words of Green
Party leader Elizabeth May, who insistswe must ensure that this
appalling act ofviolence is not used to justify a dispropor-tionate
response.Thats one voice of sanity on Parlia-
ment Hill. I really want to hear others,Feds.Sincerely,Geoff
Olson
geoffolson.com
Anopen letter to thefederal government
Opinion
Allen Garr [email protected]
That noise you heard last Sunday wasthe sound of Mayor Gregor
Robertsonthrowing Vision Coun. Geoff Meggsunder the bus.It was just
the latest example of what
happens when Robertson is allowed outoff-leash.He does not
handle criticism well. He
often doesnt look comfortable in a mediascrum. And public
debates are denitelynot his thing.But more than that, as a result
of his
actions he has put at risk the possibility ofone of his most
effective and vulnerablecouncillors getting re-elected.
(Effectivebecause Meggs is smart and does a lot ofthe political
heavy lifting for Robertsonon difcult issues. Vulnerable because
hetends, even in good years, to come closeto the bottom of the
ballot as a vote get-ter in elections.)The occasion of Robertson
distanc-
ing himself from Meggs was a mayoraldebate last Sunday. The
subject thatled to Robertson abandoning Meggs ina clumsy attempt to
save his own skinwas a statement made by the Meggs toa meeting of
the citys outside workers,members of CUPE Local 1004, a
weekearlier. It was captured on tape andleaked to the Courier.Meggs
told the room full of trade
unionists that the mayor recommittedto Visions long standing
policy not toexpand contracting out.Later in the meeting, the union
local
agreed to continue with a long-standingpolicy of its own by
funding a number ofthe centre-left political groups in the
up-coming civic election, including $34,000for Vision. (According
to our story, bythe way, last time out in 2011 CUPE1004 donated
$42,000 to Vision.)The recommitment from the mayor
and the unions donation really wasnt anews story until Robertson
made it onein Sundays debate.Thats when NPA mayoral candidate
Kirk LaPointe said that Visions com-mitment on contracting out,
which hecharacterized as a corrupt deal done inexchange for
campaign funds, tied thehands of the city in the next round
ofbargaining.He asked Robertson if he was proud
of what his councillor was up to at thatunion meeting.Even
watching the exchange on You-
Tube, you got the sense that Robertsonwas squirming
uncomfortably. He madea poor job of ducking the question bychanging
the subject to NPA policy fail-ings.It didnt work.Again LaPointe
asked about your
councillor and his commitment to theCUPE local 1004 apparently
on behalf ofthe mayor.To which Robertson said: He is not
my councillor. If there was any doubtabout what Robertson was on
about withthat comment, his next statement madeit clear. Meggs was
acting on his own: Idont get representatives at meetings
likethis.Hard to imagine that Meggs or any of
the party heavies were pleased with Rob-ertsons response. But
for the NPA andthe media, now there was a story.Then a day later,
Monday: The sound
coming from our cycling mayor was thesound of a man
backpedalling as quicklyas possible. But now the headline, at
leastin the Vancouver Sun, was all about al-legations of
corruption. Mark one up forLaPointe.Robertson, who a few hours
earlier was
trying to step away from Meggs and thewhole issue of contracting
out, was sing-ing a different tune.As the Suns Jeff Lee reported,
now the
mayor says Meggs was doing the biddingof Vision and he is a key
member ofthe Vision team as well as their lead onlabour issues.In
fact, Robertson observed, Meggs
comment to Local 1004 that the mayorwould recommit to not
expandingcontracting out was totally in line withVisions
long-standing position, one thathas been in place since 2008 when
Visionrst came to power.No kidding.Then, rather than quit while
he
was still in recovery mode, Robertsoncouldnt resist going after
the NPA. Hesaid they are the ones that have a secretagenda to
contract out jobs at city hall.Of course LaPointe denied all
this.But the question remaining is this:
Will any of this stick to Vision or Meggs?Right now the latest
Justason Poll hasRobertson winning even though anInsights West
survey found him to havethe lowest approval rating of any mayorin
the region.But there is less certainty he can hold
the current majority of his
councillors.twitter.com/allengarr
BackpedallingmayorunderminesMeggs
A10 THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014
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LETTERS TOTHE EDITORLetters may be edited by the Courier for
reasons of legality, taste, brevity and clarity.Send to: 1574 West
Sixth Ave., Vancouver V6J 1R2 or email [email protected]
COURIER STORY: NPA attacks mayor over union deal,Oct. 29.Tara
Sundberg: In the 2011 election, Macdonald donated $960,000 to the
NPAcampaign. Its absurd for the NPA to criticize donations. Nice
try.Eugene: I think, Tara, the truth ismore nuanced, if you care to
know it.Macdonaldcommitted to fundraise and at the end of the
campaign therewas a shortfall. He donatedrather than continue to
try to raise funds after an election.He didnt donate to a party in
officewith the expectation of anything in return. Its been twisted
for partisan purposes ever since.On the other handVision has
engaged in arguable influence peddling. Big difference if youwish
to be honest about it.
COURIER STORY: Big spenders explain donations to civic
parties,Oct. 22.PamBookham: If government thinks that corporate and
union donations should becurtailed or cut or limited, then fine
well just comply with whatever the will of the peopleis, says Jon
Stovell of Reliance Properties. Do not confuse the government with
the willof the people. Its obvious why the B.C. Liberals have not
moved to ban corporate andunion donations. The developers
interviewed are big time backers of the Liberals. RobMacdonalds
rabid comments about the prospect of anNDPwin at
anUrbanDevelopmentInstitute luncheon were so over-the-top even the
developers were uncomfortable.BrettWalkin:BobRennie cant afford to
retire? BS.
COURIER COLUMN: Colander ban strains religious freedom,Oct.
17.Jeff Mo: Frankly, it shouldnt matter if I believe a silly
religion thats been aroundfor 5,000 years or a silly religion that
I made up yesterday. Pat Johnson is correct thatgovernment
officials shouldnt be deciding which religions are properly
recognized.Connie McCool @con4Connie: You gotta love those crazy
Canadians!
COURIER COLUMN: Union support of Vision hardly a scandal,Oct.
24Glen Chernen @GlenChernen: Full disclosure, correction and
apology required.AlanWoodland @arcwoodland: Your outrage doesnt
resonate with me, Glen. AllenGarr seems to be acting
reasonably.
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COUR IER ARCH IVES THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Oct. 31, 1918: American daredevil Harry Gardiner, better known
as the HumanFly, scales the 17-storey Sun Tower building at the
corner of Pender and Cambiein front of a crowd of thousands. Known
at the time as theWorld Building, the82-metre-high buildingwas the
tallest in the British Empire and the death-defyingclimbwas a
publicity stunt to encourage people to buy Victory Loans as part of
thewar effort. Gardiner, 47, wore ordinary street clothes and did
not use any safetyequipment. The First WorldWar ended 11 days later
due to unrelated reasons.
Human Fly scales Sun Tower
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have your say online...
DevelopersdeclarationsduplicitousTo the editor:Re: Big spenders
explain donations
to civic parties, Oct. 22.Kudos to Mike Howell for his
thorough
and interesting article. I wonder if the big-gest of the big
spenders (RobMacdonaldand Bob Rennie) recognize the duplicity
inwhat they say, or the likelihood that read-ers will, as a result,
fail to believe much orall they utter.First Mr. Macdonald says, in
answer to
the question of an expectation of favoursin return for a
donation roundly deniedby all of the many other interviewees in
thepiece: Without question, theres a signi-cant amount of what I
call crony capitalismgoing on in the City of Vancouver
today.Everybody in the development industryknows whos getting
favoured treatment.I congratulate him on one of the few
quotes in the piece that contains the ring oftruth, but then he
blows his credibility bysaying that he denies receiving
preferen-tial treatment in the years the NPA heldpower. This
despite donating to the NPA$960,000, the single biggest donation to
acivic party in Canadian history.As for Mr. Rennie, in defence of,
among
other examples of his largesse, his $25,000/plate fundraiser,
has the nerve to blame thepublic for not participating in the
politicalprocess: We all should participate andthat doesnt mean
just giving money. Itmeans being out there volunteering and
going door to door for people who youbelieve in. However, he
acknowledges do-nating to practically everybody. So, are weto infer
from this that Mr. Rennie believesin practically everybody?Readers
are smart enough to recognize
this duplicity and see through the untruths.In the bigger
picture, I wonder why therehas not been campaign nance reform
yet?The article states this wont happen till2018 at the earliest.
The B.C. and fed-eral campaigns both have nancial limitsand
disclosures. Whats taking so long atthe municipal level? Also, why
was theproposed voluntary limits/disclosures oncampaign nancing not
adopted? Appar-ently all the major political players backthese
limits. Again, more duplicity.I would also be interested in what
all this
money is being spent on, as I dont see alot of evidence of
campaign spending, suchas, for example, major advertising
initia-tives.I would be interested in hearing a full
airing of mayoral candidates views ontaxing non-residents on
their properties.If Mr. Robertson was sincere in address-ing
affordability in this city, he would beclearly pronouncing his
position on thismost critical issue.To me, if its good enough for
Hong
Kong, London, San Francisco and Aus-tralia, its good enough for
us. With limitsin these other international locations, evenmore
non-resident investors will continueto pour their money into
Vancouver, andraising housing prices even more than theyalready
have.
Mack Skinner,Vancouver
Canucks sign Russian RocketOct. 31, 1991: Russianwinger Pavel
Bure signs a four-year contractworth areported $2.7millionwith
an$800,000 signingbonus and immediately becomes theVancouver
Canucks secondhighest paidplayer behind teamcaptain Trevor
Linden.Burewas selected 113thoverall in the 1989NHLEntryDraft
andwas a controversialpick duemostNHL teamsbelievinghewas
ineligible. However, theCanucks headscout at the time,MikePenny,
discovered the 18-year-oldCentral RedArmy star hadplayed in
additional exhibition and international games
tomakehimaneligiblelate-rounddraft choice a year early. Burewon
theCalderMemorial Trophy as theleagues best rookie before leading
theNHL in goal-scoring in 1993-94 andhelpingthe team to
theStanleyCupFinal.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 THE VANCOUVER COURIER A11
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Continued from page 1If you were elected,
you would not only bethe rst female mayor inVancouver, youd be
therst of Asian descent. Isthat important?Of course. Vancouver
is
very diverse in its culturewe are built by immigrants,whether
you are immigrantfrom another city or fromoutside of B.C. or
fromoutside of the countryand also by the First Na-tions. They have
not beenrecognized enough, webelieve, and thats why inour
candidates, we havea majority women can-didates, rst ever, in
anyparty. And we also ineach slate, council, schoolboard and parks
board, wehave our Aboriginal, FirstNation representation. Andthat
is also a rst.
Your party once dom-inated city hall, schoolboard, park
board.What happened?I think some COPE
members had this ideathat by working withVision, that it
wouldchange make the Cityof Vancouver a better city.I think the
last six yearshave proved them wrong.And the city has becomeless
and less affordablefor the people of Van-couver its becomingharder
because their wageshavent gone up. You allknow that the living
wage
in Vancouver is $20.10,according to Centre ofPolicy
Alternatives. Andyet the B.C. minimumwage is $10.25 I dontthink its
right. I dontthink people who workhard should be workingpoor. This
is whats hap-pening in our city. Peoplewho work in our city
cantafford to live in our city.
But what happenedto the relationship thatyou had with
VisionVancouver? COPE rancoordinated campaignswith Vision over the
lastfew elections.In 2005, I was involved
and I saw the lack ofsincerity. Vision cameout of COPE, right.
AndI see that as a betrayal,but of course not every-body believes
that. And Ibelieve in loyalty. I believein principle, and if
COPEmembers say that we dontwant to accept moneyfrom developers,
and yetcertain elected candidatesdecided to go and thenaccept
[that] money. Wecan see the result whenthey are in governmentand
they [are] obviouslypro-developer
Lets talk about taxing[foreign-owned prop-erties]. How
feasibleis it? If I own a homein Vancouver and Ihave enough money
tovacation two or three
months out of the yearin Palm Springs, whyshould I be taxed?
Isntthis a privacy issue?Our policy is targeted
towards people who areaway 12 months, one year.
How do you trackthat?Through Hydro and
thats how a study ofdowntown condo[s] cameabout. And so there
isother ways, thanks tosmart meters I guess.Dont forget, [were]
go-ing to have a VancouverHousing Authority. Whenyou buy a property
youneed to register [with]Land Registry. So what wewant to do is
tap into thatas well, and then ownershave to register, whetheryou
are residential or com-mercial. You register, andthen we charge a
small fee.So its cost neutral to thecity. You buy a car,
youregister your car, whetherits for commercial useor for private
use, right.So we think its the samething.
Dont you think its aprivacy issue?Theres privacy I
agree, but theres alsoduty You live in the city.You own
property. Youhave a duty to the city. Theduty means that you
payproperty tax, right? Youcontribute to the city. Ifyou own you
need to
maintain your property.You have it rented out, youneed to be
responsible toyour tenants.
Your party has anidea to stop renovic-tions. How are yougoing to
do that? If aperson owns a buildingthats deteriorating andthey say
Im going tox up my building, butif I spend that bundleof money, Im
going tohave to raise the rentsto actually pay for it whats wrong
with that?You know, theres noth-
ing wrong with that. Justdont evict the tenants andjack up the
price of the rentsto the point that the tenantscannot afford to
come backin. I have to periodically doupgrades and maintenanceto
properties. I dont evictmy tenants if I want topaint it unless its
the pipesand its plumbing systemthat need to be revamped
refurbished and all that.Then I will ne, [but]I think the owner
needs tond a place for the tenantsand be responsible. This isthe
duty the owners havetowards the tenants. Also asgovernment, we are
goingto put a clause, a conditionon the permit for renova-tion and
for redevelopmentthat makes sure the existingtenant can come
backyou have to prove to the citywhether the renovation is re-ally
necessary or is cosmetic.
A big issue over sev-eral years has been therelationship
betweencity hall and neighbour-hoods that complainabout the
consultationprocess. How do youpropose to improve it?Its respect.
Why is gov-
ernment, the city, [beingtaken to court] over adozen court cases
going onright now. Its a waste oftaxpayers money, takingpeople to
court. Why cantyou talk to these people andnd out what their
needsare and negotiate? Im verygood at negotiations by theway, and
then talk about and come to a consensus.Its a respect for
neighbour-hoods needs.
But how, in a verypractical way, do youimagine changing
theconsultation process?In any development,
were going to make surethe neighbourhood has asay [in] what they
want.There was, in the 90s there was consultationgoing on. Theres a
plan,and Vision basically [tore]that up and then broughtin what the
developerswant. We would go backto those plans and thenwe would
want more because the city havechanged in the last 20years. We want
to go backto the neighbourhoodsand then we want to talkto them and
say, what
would you like to see hap-pening? And then bringin the
developer, say, canyou meet the demands ofthese areas?
A controversial issue inGrandview-Woodland,and inmany other
neigh-bourhoods, is highrisesand towers. What areyour thoughts on
towersin neighbourhoods?From an environment
point of view, glass towersare the least energy ef-cient. Theyre
as energyefcient as a medievaltower castle. Thatswhat I was told.
And so Ibelieve in low and mid-level shops, local shopson the
ground level andresidential buildings.If you look at a
vibrantneighbourhood, you seeKits, you see Commercial[Drive]. You
see MainStreet, and then you seeVictoria where its all lowrise and
with shops under-neath, where theres trafcaround. Guess where isthe
worst neighbourhood?Its Coal Harbour.
Your website says:COPE is proposing toabandon all
municipalbylaws that discrimi-nate against squattersand homeless
peopleand provide healthand safety supports tosquatters in
abandonedgovernment buildingsand properties.
Taxing emptyhomes and $30
COPEmayoral candidateMeenaWong told the Couriers Mike Howell
andNaoibhOConnor COPE needed to sever its relationshipwith Vision
because the ruling party is obviously
pro-developer.PHOTODANTOULGOET
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Can you name mea building where thatwould happen? Or isthat just
a uid thing?That if somebody ora group takes over abuilding and
they wantto squat there, that youjust let them continueto do
that?This is out of frustra-
tion. Compassion [is]my rst pillar. A city thiswealthy youre
tellingme that we cannot affordto nd homes for peoplewho are on the
street, whoare suffering with mentalhealth issues, who havedrug
addictions? Thesepeople need a home, apermanent location
wherehealth support work-ers can go and visit andprovide help to
thesepeople. A shelter, thatswhat Visions been doing.Stuff them in
the shelterand a mat on the oor,and to evict them fromOppenheimer
Park whenthey could feel safe thereand a liveable environ-ment. I
just cant imagineanybody thats healthyand well want to end upon the
street, want to livein a park, want to live inSROs lled with rats
andbedbugs and cockroaches.COPE [believes] that thisis up to the
city thedetermination of providingaffordable homes for thesepeople.
The situation isso bad under Vision, thatthey did not keep
theirpromise. That they failedthese people and the citi-zens of
Vancouver for notsolving the homeless issue.
But youre talk-ing about abandoningbylaws and allowingpeople to
live in aban-doned governmentbuildings. Some peoplemight say that
thatskind of radical thinking.But what youre sayingis, whats the
alterna-tive right now? Is thatwhat youre saying?Its a critical
time right
now and we need to takedrastic steps. The bottomline is, do you
want tosee people on the street,homeless and with mentalhealth
issues without pro-viding services and provid-ing a permanent home
tothese people? I believe theCity of Vancouver can dothat, can
afford to providethose services. We dontbelieve in giving our
cityland in a non-transparent,non-accountable way todevelopers so
they can
make big bucks on them.We believe that city wecan take over and
buildaffordable housing oncity-owned lands and city-owned
properties [andprovide] adequate, af-fordable residences to
thecitizens of Vancouver.
Vision is puttingtogether a HousingAuthority. How wouldCOPEs be
differentthan what you haveread about Visionshousing
authority?Their housing authority
is basically to cut all thered tape for developers sothey can
build $1,400,$1,800 rents for thoseSTIR programs and whileat the
same time, cut theirtax commitment to thecity COPE, we have aplan.
We have a 98-pagehousing plan. I encourageeveryone to go on [to
ourwebsite] and then have alook how were going todo it. We have
taken thelast few years to studythis issue because afford-ability
is a big, big issue inVancouver.
Youre proposing a$30-a-month transitpass. How is it going
towork?Im so excited about
this program because rightnow [its] $170, right,a month. In
Vancouverwe have 480,000 adults.Were not even count-ing students
because theyhave a U-Pass. This is
very similar to U-Passthat the university stu-dents are getting,
collegestudents are getting. Rightnow TransLink is getting$150
million from fares. If480,000 adults sign up onthis program,
TransLink isgoing to get a $160 milliondollars from this
program.$30 a month.
So people would sign up?Thats right. They could
sign up.
So you dont have to?No, you dont have to.
So what if you dontget enough [participa-tion]?So we have $10
million
surplus and then we canpay for people who wantto opt out of this
program.And with [that] money,we can actually improvetransit. We
believe [in]adding more buses onBroadway corridor, amajor transit
corridor inVancouver. That $3 bil-lion subway that Visionis
[behind] we dontknow where the moneycomes from. They nevermake any
commitment.Do people in Vancouverwant to wait 30 years for itto
happen?
Lets say everybodyopts in to the transitpass youve got aproblem
with accom-modating all those peo-ple at that point. Evenwith
U-Pass that
created very crowdedbuses.Not everybodys going
to hop on the bus rightaway the next morning.And many of these
peopleare part-time public transitriders. And its just thatthey may
not use their caras often once they have apass. They will go for
ex-ample, downtown to party.Everybody can afford a $30bus pass. So
this will reducecar rides and then reducepollution in our city.
The mayor set thisgoal of ending well,he actually said
home-lessness and he changedit to street homeless-ness by 2015. Do
youthink hes going to meethis goal?Not a chance. He can
hide people. He can take evict people out of Op-penheimer Park
and thenpush these people intoalleys and shop doorways.But without
a permanenthome for these people, itsnot going to happen.
Would a COPE gov-ernment promise to endstreet homelessness?We
will.
After four years in, itwill be done?Yes.
So at the end of yourfour year term, youwould end street
home-lessness?Yes, its all a priority.
Who do you serve? Obvi-ously we serve the peopleand they serve
developers.
But how would you dothat?We are going to build
affordable housing on city-owned lands.
And that would takecare of the homelesspeople living on
thestreets? You see enoughhousing being built overthe next four
years thatwe would no longer havea street homelessnessproblem in
the city?This is what I would like
to see.
Do you support moreinjection sites in the city?If there is a way
to help
these people, this is harmprevention. Do we want toseemore dead
bodies on thestreet?We dont, do we?
I know at the start ofour broadcast here youmentioned the
de-veloper parties. TimLouis has referred tothe NPA and Vision
asthe developer partiesmany times. And sothat Im clear, youresaying
that you dontaccept COPE doesnot accept money fromdevelopers, full
stop?Thats what my under-
standing is. Our membersand executives voted forthat. Our policy
camefrom the members. Itsnot like a top down. We
are bottom up. We listento the grassroots. And Improud that we
are not inthe pockets of developers.
According to therecords at city hall,COPE has a history
ofaccepting them fromdevelopers. In 2005Concord gave COPE$9,200
dollars.We gave [it] back.
OK. Then in 2008you received $2,000dollars from TerranceHui. Hes
the head ofConcord Pacic De-velopments. He gaveCOPE $2,000
dollars.At the time, that wasthe single biggest indi-vidual
contribution toCOPE. [Were] not sureif you gave that back.Last
year, Terrance Huigave $3,000 dollars toCOPE. He does a lotof
development in thiscity. So does COPEtake money from devel-opers or
doesnt it?Well, in this election,
when I am the mayoralcandidate, I can be veryclear to you that
we donot. Every paycheque [thatcomes] in, I talk to ournancial
agent, talk to ourexecutives. You make surethat its not from
develop-ers, because I want to beable to be honest and to beclear
and to be proud whenI stand there and I say thatwe dont accept
moneyfrom developers. Undermy watch, no way.
Where are you gettingthe money from?From people,
[individuals].
What about unions?[We] just want to be clearon are you
gettingunionmoney? Or is itmostly from individuals?It depends on,
as you said,
individual unions someunions, individual unions aregiving us
their support. Andwe also have other compa-nies, local companies
giveus support because they seethat our policy is benecial tolocal
business.
Why is voting for younot a throwaway vote?Because I believe in
the
people, and the peoplesvoice has to be representedin this
election. And theyneed to see the change, and Iam that change.
Next in the series:Vision VancouversGregor Robertson Nov. 5.
Feature
COPEs MeenaWong believes a $30 amonth transit passwill help
alleviate Vancouvers traffic woes. This is very similar to U-Pass
thatthe university students are getting, college students are
getting. PHOTODANTOULGOET
amonth transit passes
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Community
PACIFIC SPIRIT
Pat [email protected]
We avoid confrontingdeath. As individuals,many of us frolic
throughour days pretending wewill live forever. As asociety, we
quickly pullthe cover up over anythingthat reminds us of
mortal-ity. The funeral industry isa good illustration. At
leastamong Vancouverites ofEuropean Christian back-ground, when a
familymember passes, we calla number to set in motiona process that
collects thebody, performs an almostindustrial renovation andshoots
them out the otherside in an otherworldly giftbox, head nestled
amonglayers of satin.And yet, for one day a
year, we cast aside our in-hibitions and engage withthe most
explicit forms ofthe macabre.It is perhaps a hangover
from our hang-ups thateven now, when we cheer-fully confront
demons, wedo so in a way that seemsthe opposite of the way
weconfront actual mortality.Instead of hiding death andprettying it
up, on Hal-loween we caricature it andmake it as
unabashedlygrotesque as we can. Weadmire the most ghastlycostumes.
This may notbe so much the opposite ofour denial as another formof
it. By making fun ofdeath (and its accompany-ing cultural
accoutrements:ghosts, demons, skeletons,the undead, et al) are
weconfronting it, or candy-coating it? (I intend toexplore
Vancouverites cul-tural approaches to deathin an upcoming
multi-partseries Dead of Winter.Keep reading.)The Mexican
tradition
of Dia de Muertos, Dayof the Dead, seems to mecloser to a
healthy relation-ship between the livingand the departed.
Whileaccompanied by costumesequally or more macabrethan our own
best Hal-loween nery, families alsotake the time to visit thegraves
of their ancestors.This is a more in-your-faceconfrontation with
death.Here, we might dress up asan anonymous dead per-son, but it
would be overthe line to dress up as, say,ones recently
deceasedaunt. In the Mexican tradi-tion, there is an intersec-tion
of death as a source of
merrymaking and as a realfact of life. Here, we like tokeep
those two more neatlysegregated.Our own Halloween
tradition is one of thosereligious and culturalmashups that was
prob-ably usurped from pre-ex-isting pagan rites, whichmarked the
completion ofthe harvest cycle and thetemporary death repre-sented
by winter.Halloween contract-
ed from All Hallows Eve is the night before AllSaints Day, when
Chris-tians mourn the deathsof the saints (hallows).The evening
before was, at
times, when church towersand town crier bells wouldpeal, calling
Christians topray for souls in purga-tory. In parts of
Europe,people would go door todoor offering prayers inexchange for
food. Playingpranks the work of un-settled souls emerged inthe past
couple of centu-ries, as did the hollowingout of turnips and
othervegetables to form thepained faces of the eter-nally damned.
Dressingin costume seems to havemultiple explanations.Pagans are
believed tohave smeared themselveswith ashes from the sacred
bonre, while some laterEuropeans apparently be-lieved,
counterintuitively,that they could ward offevil spirits by dressing
likethem. In many cultures,there is, or was, a beliefthat this was
the one day ayear when departed soulsreturned to the familyhearth.
Leave it to theFrench to imagine a car-nival of the dead, in
whichthe burial grounds came tolife for one night only, in asensual
bacchanal. In fact,the variety of traditions isso immense that what
maybe most noteworthy aboutHalloween (and its siblingfestivals
disguised by other
names) is that it has beenpractised so widely acrossthe
Christian world for solong. And, whether it al-lows us to confront
death,in a way, or laugh in itsface, Halloween seems anoutlet, of
sorts, for our is-sues around the inevitable.Kids may not be
going
to church in any greatnumbers these days, butthey still cling
tenaciouslyto this ancient Christian-based festival. Of course,what
drives tradition todaymay be less ethereal andmore material.
Becausewho, after all, doesnt likeSmarties and
Twizzlers?twitter.com/Pat604Johnson
Halloween lets us lookdeath in the faceHoliday a cultural mashup
usurped from pagan rites
Instead of hiding death and prettying it up, onHalloweenwe
caricature it andmake it as unabashedly grotesque aswe can, as this
haunted house display did in Vancouvera few years
ago.PHOTODANTOULGOET
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annual JackWebsterAwards for journalismWednesday night was a good
one. He won the City Mike Award ascommentator of the year. Garr, a
veteran journalist who haswritten for the Courier since 1999,was
honoured for his popular weekly columnswhich focus on city politics
and civic issues. Therecognitionwas part of a range of awards
handed outWednesday by the JackWebster Foundationwhich honours the
best in B.C. journalism in print, broadcast and online. The
Couriers VancouverSpecial series was nominated in the best feature
print category but lost out to the Vancouver Sun.Courier
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briefcase inwhich it was carried from the Leipzig Post Office to
Stasi HQ.PHOTO JOHNMASTERS/MERIDIANWRITERS GROUP
[email protected]
A joke they used to tellin East Germany goes likethis:A grandson
writes a
letter to his West Germangrandmother: Thanks forthe pistol. Ive
buried it inthe garden.Four weeks later he
writes again: DearGrandma, you can sendthe tulip bulbs now.
TheStasi dug up the garden.The Stasi formally,
the Ministry of StateSecurity was the EastGerman secret
police.When the Soviet Unionbacked German Demo-cratic Republic
(GDR)collapsed in 1990, afterthe fall of the Berlin Wallin November
1989, theStasi were dissolved.Their agents managed todestroy about
a third oftheir les, but that stillleft dossiers on six
millioncitizens.In Leipzig, the Stasi
headquarters was a build-
ing known as the RoundCorner. The buildingand its contents
survived,more or less intact, andis now a museum whoseexhibition,
Stasi: Mightand Banality, lays out thebureaus workings.The
exhibition takes
up the rst oor of thefour-storey building (theother oors are
closed),which has been left in thesame drab state as whenthe secret
police werethere complete with tinyofces, dirty linoleum,
bare uorescent lights andeverything old and worn.The Stasi
penetrated
into the most privateaspects of peoples lives,says the
introduction tothe English audio guide,sowed mistrust
amongneighbours and violatedthe most elementary hu-man rights.The
displays, all in
German (so youll needthe audio guide), illustratethis. In one
room, forexample, are a series ofsealed glass jars.
Leipzig: Awalk through theshadowworld of the Stasi
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TravelPeeking into the spy bizInside are cloths im-
pregnated with the scentof suspect citizens. Oftenthe samples
were obtainedby calling someone in toanswer questions, thenmaking
them wait whilesitting on the absorbentcloth. If subversiveleaets
were handed out,the Stasi would havespecially trained dogs sniffthe
printed sheet, then aseries of cloths until theybarked. Even in the
GDRthis wasnt legally admis-sible evidence, but, saysthe audio
guide, the Stasigenerally found a way ofmaking the result ofcial.In
another room are the
specially made machinesused to steam open andthen reseal peoples
mail.Between 1,500 and 2,000letters a week were takenstraight from
the Leipzigpost ofce to the RoundCorner. The mail wasntjust read
the Stasi setup an index to registerevery sender of a letter
inLeipzig and to archive awriting sample from eachon a microche.The
Leipzig branch also
maintained a list of 14,000people to be put in intern-ment camps
or interrogationcells in case of civil unrest.You could make the
listfor having contacts withWestern media or being apersistent
non-voter.When the Stasi vanished
in 1990 they had about90,000 on-book employ-ees, plus nearly
190,000informers, called IMs.In most cases it wasnt
material considerations,but political convictionsthat convinced
the IMs tosign up, we learn duringthe tour.Payment was seldom
more than a packet of cof-fee or a bouquet of ow-ers. If you
were exception-al, you might also be givena medal. You couldntwear
it, of course.See more stories at culture-
locker.com.
The Stasi Museum in Leipzig has been kept in the same drab
stateaswhen the secret policewere there, completewith tiny
offices,dirty linoleumand bare fluorescent lights.PHOTO
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 THE VANCOUVER COURIER A19
Ask at the pharmacy or check online at www.safeway.caTalk to
your healthcare professional, including your Safeway Pharmacist,
about having your own immunization record reviewed to determine
your individual needs. Vaccines may not be suitable for everyone
and do not protect all individuals
against development of disease. Some vaccines may require a
prescription. Vaccines may not be available in all locations. Age
restrictions may apply. Check with our pharmacist for further
information.
FLU SHOTSavailable at SAFEWAYPharmacyCaring for your
well-being.
FREEWITH STAMPS*SHOPAT SAFEWAY.EARN STAMPS.COLLECT ZWILLING.
Collect stamps from Sept. 26th, 2014until Feb. 12th, 2015.
For every $10 you spend in asingle transaction, youll receive
onestamp at the checkout.
Collect stamps and fill your saver card.
Collect stamps and redeem freeZWILLING five star knives
orcompleters for a great price.
Collect all 10 different ZWILLING products.
You can redeem your products untilMarch 1st, 2015.
HOW DOES THE PROGRAM WORK?
SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2014 UNTIL FEBRUARY 12TH, 2015The collection of
stamps are awarded based on your total purchase made in-store in a
single transaction. Purchase exclusions include prescriptions,
diabetes merchandise, insulin pumps, insulin pumpsupplies, transit
passes, postage stamps, event tickets, tobacco, liquor or fuel
purchases, Starbucks or Tim Hortons Beverages, Rug Doctor rentals,
Redbox, DVDs, enviro levies, recycling fees, bottledeposits,
lottery, floral deliveries, specialty order hotline, online
purchases, all gift cards and sales tax. *Please see customer
service for terms & conditions or visit us online at
www.safeway.ca
www.safewaypromotions.ca
Shop Safeway during ourCustomer Appreciation Day this
Tuesday, November 4th and chooseeither 10%off or 20x your
baseAIRMILES rewardmiles on aminimum $35 grocery purchase!*
*Oer valid Tuesday, November 4th 2014 at your Safeway Stores.
Minimum grocery purchase of $35 required. Oer earn 10%o your
eligible grocery purchase or earn 20 AIR MILES reward miles for
every $20 spent on eligible grocery purchase. Limitof one oer per
household. Some conditions and exclusions apply. See your Safeway
store for complete list of exclusions.
Trademarks of AIR MILES International Trading B.V. Used under
license by LoyaltyOne, Co. and Safeway.
Its allaboutYOU
Tuesday,November4th
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A20 THE VANCOUVER COURIER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014
Sunlightliquid laundrydetergentselected varieties,4.43 L,96
washloads20305396
CottonelleUltra Carebathroom tissue12=24 rolls20688276
Tresemmehair careselected varietiesand sizes20315303 /
20322227
St. Ives body lotion600 mL, sprays 184 g,body wash 709 mL,or
facial skincareassorted sizesselected varieties20321930 /
20348574
444848 eaea 444848 eaea
.96.96 eaea 447878 eaea
Maple Leafbaconselected varieties,375-500 g20732366
Schneidersbolognaselected varieties,375-500 g20732366
pomegranatesproduct of USA20134767001
5 lb BAGFarmers MarketMcIntosh applesproduct of British
Columbia,Canada, Canada fancy grade20625305001
Healthy Choice orVH Steamers entreesselected varieties,frozen,
276-306 g20318616
142 gCLAMSHELLDole saladblendsselected varieties,product of
USA20307367 / 20124511 /20303817 / 20502603
Delissio thin crispyor Buitoni pizzaselected varieties,frozen,
340-630 g20749391
Kelloggs Vectormega jumbo, 1.13 kg20174430
SunRype FruitActive orOkanagan energy barsselected varieties,
400 g20794578
Old Dutchpotato chipsselected varieties,270 g20574988009
SunRype juiceselected varieties,900 mL20744072
Frenchsavouredmustard 325 mL oryellowmustard550 mLselected
varieties20318504003
Cadbury single barsselected varieties, 33-60 g20691851
Mio or Crystal lightliquiddrink mix20565119003
Orville Redenbachersmicrowave popcornselected
varieties,5-8S20629532002
Coke-Colaselected varieties,12 X 355 mL pack20318694
Prices are in effect until Thursday, November 6, 2014 or while
stock lasts.Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and
may not be available in all stores. No rainchecks. No substitutions
on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited.
Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour,
patterns, style) may vary