Kitsilano Beach

And the shift is unfortunately impacting the oldest people in our society that are pensioners that use those community centers, and the youngest people in our society that, you know, "Yeah, okay, it's expensive to live here.

I live in a basement suite, but at least I get to go and play beach volleyball at Kits Beach for the summer, and that makes my life worthwhile." But now it's $25 for the day to go play volleyball at Kits Beach.

How does that make the city more vibrant? Uh, so Ken Sim's fallacy on the zero pro- p- percent in- increase, uh, is slowly being recognized.

Uh, I'm hearing this from grocery store, uh, owners, some of those mom-and-pop grocery store owners.

Uh, and then, you know, took a couple years and, uh, and looked around and saw there was still something to do here.

So, uh, myself and my co-founder, uh, Joe, were, you know, sitting at Kits Beach one day going, "You know, there's, there's still something to do here." And, uh, and, uh, we decided to try to, you know, ke- keep going on making eye care easy for people, making it less expensive, making it faster.

And, and so the business has...

That was 2018.

I had no idea we were poor when I was a kid because we had access to world-class frontline services.

We had Kits Beach, we had Kits Pool, we had the Stanley Park train, we had the most wonderful community centers and Muppet shows at the Marple Community Center.

Kids today don't have the same access to those services that enriched my life, and that's what I want to change.

The number one statistic that I want to be measured by at the end of my term as mayor is that the city got younger.

She literally was here on a layover as a flight attendant, was only here for one day, and then booked a Turf class, which was so cute, and it was a really hard class, and I feel bad that I recommended it because it's literally the hardest, most sweaty class ever, and I would've given her a hug afterwards, but we were both drenched in sweat.

And, um, and then she went on her affirmations walk down to Kits Beach.

It's, like, the perfect Eden Trin day.

Stop.

Tickets from $4.

The sixth annual Whitchilano Paddle starts at Kitsilano Beach, 1305 Arbutus, at eleven this morning and heads toward Granville Island.

Parallel 49 at 1950 Triumph Street keeps its Oktoberfest tent and live music going through Sunday.

On the case on both sides, a cap on some grocery margins is a Friday campaign promise from BC NDP leader David Eby in Kelowna, not a law passed this week.

Admissions are completely zero.

You can do Stanley Park, the 9-kilometer seawall, Granville Island, Queen Elizabeth Park, Kitsilano Beach, the Gastown Clock, and the Lynn Canyon Bridge all for free.

That is an amazing amount of free stuff.

But what about the bed?