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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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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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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.

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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.

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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 MikeHowelltwitter.com/JennyPengNow

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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.

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Sales of electriccars still slow

Its a classic case ofgovernment trying tomake a market work thateconomics wont.- Jordan Bateman

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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

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 THE VANCOUVER COURIER A9

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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.

GeoffOlsonColumnistmwiseguise@yahoo.com

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 Columnistagarr@vancourier.com

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

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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 letters@vancourier.com

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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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.

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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

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

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PACIFIC SPIRIT

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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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TOPCOMMENT Courier columnist Allen Garrs very first time at the 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 contributor Chris Cheungwas one of several journalism students whowon an award forstudent journalism. PHOTONAOIBHOCONNOR

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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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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 JOHNMASTERS/MERIDIANWRITERS GROUP

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