With traffic now using the new crossing, crews are removing the Pattullo Bridge’s steel arches, lowering them onto barges for dismantling and recycling. The full demolition is expected to take until the end of 2027.

At first, he says, the terrain was “nothing too extreme,” so he assumed he was on the right path — until it became too steep and too smooth to count as a scramble at all. Going back down, backwards, wasn’t an option, and neither was staying still on the rock face, he said.

“That’s when I realized something has gone terribly wrong,” Gowryluk said, but he kept climbing, focused on putting his hands and feet wherever they would fit.

Born in London, England, in 1944 Gablemann moved to Canada at a young age and grew up in B.C.'s labour movement, eventually becoming a founding member of B.C.'s New Democratic Party.

He was first elected as an MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour in 1972, as Dave Barrett led the NDP to its first government.

A monthly report from Rentals.ca and Urbanation said the figures mark two full years of annual declines, the longest downturn the Canadian rental market has experienced in recent history.

Now, more than 45 years after he began recording and cataloguing them, a unique online database is allowing anyone to get an earful.

“I told the boss, this was not in my job description. They didn’t train me for this.”

His common sense vision for public safety involves a big increase in addiction treatment programs, most of them private and some of them involuntary, meaning during incarceration. He wants indefinite apprehension of permanently brain-damaged habitual offenders now wandering the streets, on mental health grounds. That could involve invoking the notwithstanding clause in the charter of rights to bypass constitutional concerns if need be, he said.