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High Fiving Celebrities: Kirk McLean (by way of Bob Rennie)

As I was going through all 56 of the High Fiving Celebrities we've delivered over the years I realized this morning that we've actually brought you a ton of high fives from sports celebrities... 1. The Whitecaps' Bob Lenarduzzi 2.

As I was going through all 56 of the High Fiving Celebrities we've delivered over the years I realized this morning that we've actually brought you a ton of high fives from sports celebrities...

1. The Whitecaps' Bob Lenarduzzi

2. The Canucks' Henrik Sedin

3. Handles the Harlem Globetrotter

4. Wheelchair athlete (and my personal hero) Rick Hansen

5. Travis Lulay of the BC Lions

6. Legendary sports broadcaster Jim Robson

7. Street hockey aficionado (and CBC journalist) Ian Hanomansing

8. Pro skateboarder Lucas Puig

9. HNIC mascot Peter Puck

For our tenth sports-related High Fiving Celebrities I'm proud to deliver you one from former Canucks goalie, Kirk McLean. HIGH FIVE, KIRK!

Most of the fives we've delivered in the past have been shot by us as random passers-by, lucking into a photo op with a random celebrity spotted on the street. This one has a bit of a different story attached to it as I shot it at a speech I sat in on yesterday, where Kirk was SITTING AT A TABLE WITH ME! And by me, I mean us. It was the UDI luncheon where Rennie Marketing Systems' Bob Rennie gives an annual speech about the state of real estate in Vancouver, and I was invited by Gary Pooni to sit at his table. He also invited Kirk McLean and Vancouver-Hastings MLA Shane Simpson.

At this annual luncheon Bob speaks about where real estate in Vancouver is heading, what to expect in the coming year, etc. It was refreshingly candid and contained a lot of numbers and facts that debunk the theory that we're in a real estate bubble right now. His speech contained a ton of messages aside from the main one and what I was most happy to walk away with was confirmation that the trend is going towards building closer to transit, and that's one way to help address the affordability issue while getting people out of their cars.

Below is a CBC radio interview that Bob did with Stephen Quinn shortly after he delivered his talk, where he discusses some of the points made.