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The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club is throwing its support behind the City of Victoria’s efforts to regulate the increasing amount of marijuana shops in town.

“We’re very supportive of the direction the city is taking.

This is something that the oldest of dispensaries have been asking for, for more than 20 years, some form of regulation,” said Dieter Macpherson, advisor to the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries and executive director of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club.

During a meeting last week, city council voted in favour of moving towards a regulatory approach to marijuana-related dispensaries.

Council has directed city staff to draft new business and zoning bylaws that would regulate businesses that sell marijuana. Amendments could include imposing annual $30,000 business licence fees specific to the type of business, regulations regarding signs and merchandise in storefront windows, record keeping, limits on hours of operation and regulation to minors on the premises.

The proposed regulations shouldn’t have an effect on club patients, Macpherson said.

“We have to see how the regulations end up looking. We expect that we will participate in any public discussion of forum, so that we can ensure we’re still able to serve the people that we do,” he said, adding the proposed $30,000 business licensing fees are issues he thinks council can be moved on.

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Dominion Lending Centres Chief Economist Says US Style Housing Crash Unlikely in Canada Responding to recent news reports about the IMF warning of an overheated Canadian housing market, the Chief Economist for Dominion Lending Centres, Sherry Cooper, says the prospect of a soft landing is good news for homeowners, “there is no doubt that letting some steam out of the boiling markets is a good thing because were prices to rise rapidly for too long, a nasty correction would be likely.”

Bank of Canada Remains On Hold With Hopes of Economic Rebound As was widely expected, on Wednesday April 15, 2015 The Bank of Canada announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 3/4 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/2 per cent. Core inflation, at 2 percent, is a reflection of the dampening effects of a slowing economy offset by the pass through effects of the lower dollar.

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in the January MPR); however, the second quarter is expected to see a rebound to 1.8 percent growth, revised up from earlier expectation. The Bank continues to assert that, “Underneath the effects of the oil price shock, the natural sequence of stronger non-energy exports, increasing investment, and improving labour markets is progressing.”

This will be aided by an improvement in the U.S. economy and the easing in financial conditions.

Chief Economist for The Bank is hopeful Dominion Lending Centres that global growth will strengthen in coming months to 3-1/2 percent—consistent There remains a good deal of uncertainty with their forecast in January’s Monetary in this sequence: While March Policy Report (MPR)—as a direct result employment in Canada improved of central bank rate cuts and quantitative substantially, business investment easing in Europe. Lower commodity remains disappointing, manufacturing is prices will boost growth in some weak—especially in the auto sector—and countries. The Bank also believes that the improvement in trade has been less strong growth will resume in the United than expected.

States after a weak first quarter, which, of Real GDP growth is projected to rebound course, has yet to be confirmed. in the second quarter and subsequently First quarter growth in Canada has been strengthen to average about 2 1/2 per revised downward to 0.0 percent in the cent on a quarterly basis until the middle April MPR (from 1.5 percent growth of 2016. The Bank expects real GDP

growth of 1.9 per cent in 2015, 2.5 per cent in 2016, and 2.0 per cent in 2017.

The Bank also believes the risks to the outlook are balanced, an upgrade since the last policy meeting in March. As a result of this view, they judge that the current degree of monetary stimulus is appropriate and have left rates unchanged.

I am cautiously optimistic that the Bank has got it right, but I continue to believe that the risks are on the downside for the economy and inflation. My forecast for Canadian growth this year is 1.5 percent-below the Bank’s 1.9 percent forecast.

Much hinges on the U.S. economy. The April MPR revised down its U.S. growth forecast for this year from 3.2 percent to 2.7 percent.

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Cooper, one of North America’s most respected economic experts, points out that existing home sales were down 2 percent year-over-year in January, but were still up moderately outside of Alberta. Later data suggests that in February, sales rose month-over-month as gains in Toronto and Vancouver offset faltering markets in other parts of the country. More recently, Sales of existing homes in Canada rose in March from February, led by gains in the big Toronto and Vancouver markets.

Sales were even up in Calgary where sales had slowed in recent months in the wake of the oil price decline.

“With home ownership at a record high of 70 percent of households and interest rates at record lows, national sales growth will stabilize at a modest pace,” says Cooper. “However, steady demand from immigrants and non-resident purchasers in Toronto and Vancouver should continue to support housing markets. In addition, Millennials are in their first-time homebuying years. While many might be priced out of the single-family home market, many will take the plunge into condos.”

On the supply side, housing starts and completions are down and are now trending slightly above household formation rates. Taking replacement demand into consideration, the current pace of overall home construction is at appropriate levels to meet long-run demand. We have also seen evidence of a recent increase in dedicated rental housing construction as institutional investors are providing increased funding in this long-overlooked area of the housing market. Condos have effectively replaced traditional apartment units and are an affordable alternative for those who are priced out of Toronto’s detached housing market. Rental vacancy rates remain at extreme lows in Vancouver and Toronto.

Cooper says the bottom line is that there is little evidence of an upcoming U.S.-style housing crash anywhere in Canada, even in the hardest hit energycentered markets.

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UVic to resurrect Chinese Canadian artifacts Database will make history accessible to all residents, researchers Christine van Reeuwyk Black Press

A database is expected to launch this winter as the Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project officially finished the first phase with an announcement at the University of Victoria last Thursday.

Historical documents and artefacts “hidden away” for more than a century will become information in the public realm.

“That was a terrible shame, because over the years Chinese Canadians have made a tremendous contribution to the economic and social development of our province,” said Teresa Wat, minister of international trade and minister responsible for the Asia Pacific strategy and multiculturalism. She made the announcement of phase one’s completion last week at UVic. It is a milestone in the creation of the first computerized inventory of Chinese historical records and artifacts in B.C. Step one of a pilot project involving the Cumberland Museum and Archives and the Nanaimo Museum is complete, and will inform the work to establish an online database of artifacts.

Cumberland Museum and Archives and Nanaimo Museum were chosen for the pilot project because of their regions’ historically large Chinese populations.

There will be 10 or more museums involved in inventories moving forward with a total of $75,000 allocated for the project.

“This will culminate in a digital database that will include the inventories of Chinese Canadian artifacts from all the museums that participated in this project. The database will be available to the public and researchers alike so that everyone can access this rich cultural history,” said Wat. “By bringing attention to the artifacts held in museums across B.C., the untold stories of the Chinese Canadian experience will come to light. Many for the first time in communities throughout British Columbia.”

With the first phase complete, UVic has embarked on a new endeavour, in association with

Zhongping Chen, right, professor of history at UVic, explains two scrolls, Minister Dai hongci’s calligraphy from 1910, to RichmondCentre MLA Teresa Wat, minister of international trade and minister responsible for the Asia Pacific strategy and multiculturalism as well as Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee. the BC Museums Association and in partnership with the Nanaimo Museum and the Cumberland Museum and Archives, to compile a publicly accessible database of Chinese Canadian artifacts held by local museums in B.C. for use by libraries and museums.

The inventory contains culturally significant artifacts including Chinese coins, scrolls, photographs and historic texts. One of the most interesting finds is a 90-drawer apothecary chest used by a drugstore owner in Nanaimo’s Chinatown to store ingredients for herbal and mineral treatments in traditional Chinese medicine.

“The artifacts inventory database will become an invariable resource for all British Columbians.

It will become part of a legacy – a legacy that will honour and reflect in a very tangible way the contribution made by British Columbians, Chinese Canadians,” Wat said.

“We can all be proud of the role we will play in helping to honour those Chinese Canadians who where discriminated against in the past and who helped shape B.C.’s future.”

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Chen of the Department of History at UVic will lead CCAP, in association with Dr. Tusa Shea of the Cultural Resource Management Program.

“We consider this project to be a sacred trust that will allow us with our partners to highlight the resilience and contributions of Chinese Canadian communities and their allies in the past 160 years,” said Price. “We will build on the efforts of local museums by making accessible to all British Columbians the inventories of Chinese Canadian artifacts held in museums throughout the province as well as an index of historical buildings. It will also help museums and archives better identify some of the artifacts that they hold, further organize their CC collections and provide to museums and libraries free of charge a publicly accessible database of the artifacts with photos, essential background details and clear instructions on how to find related information on each and every one of the artifacts.”

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A consultation report was released at the same time that outlined eight legacy projects, which included a recommendation to identify historical and culturally important artifacts and locations.

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dian/Asian Canadian history as well as technical dimensions of the database creation. Throughout the duration of this 10-month research project that started in February, team members will continue to liaise with museums, provide museum training support and supervise student involvement from the CRMP. They expect to launch the database by winter.

“This project will highlight the many historical treasures that Chinese Canadians brought to and contributed to the province over the past 150 years,” said Chen, Department of History research director.

“Scattered in dozens of smaller towns and cities, they will now be accessible to all British Columbians and become our province’s common heritage. Hopefully more people will donate their precious heirlooms to local museums.”

The project is soliciting expressions of interest from local and regional museums and archives with Chinese Canadian holdings.

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“There’s no reason that dispensaries shouldn’t be treated like any other business, especially when it comes to community impact,” said Macpherson.

The motion comes in response to a staff report brought to council stating the number of unlicensed medical marihuana dispensaries has increased significantly in the past Ben Isitt year. According to the report, there are 18 medical marijuana-related shops, of which only seven are operating with a license.

The businesses have also generated a number of complaints from nearby businesses, regarding increased foot traffic, odour and exposure of youth to the sale of marijuana.

Coun. Ben Isitt, who put forward the motion at council, said he hopes the regulations will not have an effect on long-standing establishments such as the Victoria Canna-

bis Buyers Club, but will provide a framework for regulation of the substance.

“I expect, what a regulatory system will do is provide a pathway to compliance, rather than treating these establishments as outlawed establishments,” said Isitt.

“I hope it has a minimal affect on long-standing establishments like the Cannabis Buyers Club. I think they have a proven track record of operating responsibly in the community and providing a source of medicine to people experiencing pain.”

Isitt said the report by staff will be “substantial” in size and that it is a city council priority.

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Prostate cancer ride set for June 7

Owen Krigolsen, left, 7, pulls up in a motorcycle sidecar at the Vancouver Island Ride to Live launch on May 1 at Uptown Centre.

Kevin Worth, chair of the Vancouver Island Ride to Live, was also at the event.

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More than 600 motorcycle riders are expected to grumble through the Capital Region on June 7 for the Vancouver Island Ride to Live.

The annual ride raises prostate cancer prevention awareness and raises money for prostate research on Vancouver Island.

This year’s ride takes place on June 7 beginning at 7:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Fountain Tire in Langford (2924 Jacklin Rd.) “The folks out at Fountain Tire are spon-

soring a breakfast for what we expect to be 500 or 600 guys,” said Kevin Worth, chair of the Ride to Live, at a launch event last Friday at Uptown Centre.

The Ride to Live will begin at 9 a.m. with five stops across the Capital Region and will end at Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney in time for a closing ceremony at 1 p.m.

“We’ve got lunch included for riders, too,” Worth said.

The goal of the ride is to reach men over 40 who might not be getting screened on an annual basis for prostate cancer using the

Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test.

“There are guys who are at risk for prostate cancer who we want to reach. If you’re over 40, get checked once a year. That means a PSA test and a digital rectal exam. If you’re embarrassed, get over it. There’s too many people counting on you to let that stand in the way of your health,” Worth said.

Dr. Julian Lum, a researcher with the B.C. Cancer Agency, works closely with The Prostate Centre in Victoria. Lum has been participating with Ride to Live for the past

Young environmentalist earns national honour An 11-year-old Victoria boy has been recognized as one of Canada’s top environmentalists under 25 by The Starfish Canada.

Rupert Yakelashek’s largest environmental contributions are connected with the Blue Dot Movement, a program coordinated through the David Suzuki Foundation that focuses on the importance of healthy food, water and air for Canadians.

Since discovering that Canada is not included in the list of 110 countries that have recognized environmental rights, Yakelashek organized a rally called “Rupert’s Rally for a Healthy Environment” in front of City Hall with the hope of convincing city councillors to vote in favour of a declaration recognizing the right to a healthy environment.

“Rupert is an influential change-maker on Vancouver Island,” said Kyle Empringham, cofounder of The Starfish Canada. “He’s connected with a cause that matters to him and has cultivated a community that’s behind him.”

His mother Skye Ladell said the family is incredibly proud of his environmental advocacy and civic engagement.

Yakelashek will be recognized at The Starfish Canada’s Youth in Action event on May 19 in Vancouver.

four years and he said he’s noticed an uptick in awareness amongst men about cancer in general.

“This event lets people know that a PSA test isn’t something they should be hiding.

They should be working to catch the disease early and should be pursuing an active

lifestyle generally,” Lum said.

Lum and his colleagues at The B.C. Cancer Agency are currently developing an immunotherapy program, which looks at finding ways to boost the natural immune system to fight cancer.

“This is a gamechanger,” Lum said.

“More and more, we’re learning that if we can find a way to turn on your immune system better, we can make a major impact on survival of patients with prostate cancer. We’re moving into a new era where we’re treating patients very differently than we have been in the past.”

Ride to Live’s premier sponsor this year is Scotiabank, who are providing eight of the 20 volunteers needed to run the event.

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The technology exists so calls can be made or taken, hands free.

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Distracted driving is now the second leading cause of car crashes in the province, police say, and contributes to 88 deaths annually. That’s roughly 28 per cent of all car crash fatalities in B.C. Efforts to curb the carnage have resulted in stiffer fines, and aggressive policing campaign.

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New drivers, or those with a learner’s licence, are prohibited from using any electronic device – even hands free.

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Albertans have always laughed NDP premier-elect Rachel Notley is committed to a 50-per-cent about their long-standing increase in the minimum wage reputation as a reckless, and another “review” of resource immature society. royalties.

The classic bumper One headline in sticker, now available a national paper as a T-shirt or coffee summed it up: “Go cup in several home, Alberta. You’re variations, states: drunk.”

“Please God, give us In the sober days one more oil boom, we after the election, a few promise not to p--- it truths emerge. Alberta away this time.” hasn’t been a fiscally Now they’ve thrown conservative, smallout the government government place for a that finally tried to Tom Fletcher long time. Among other stop blowing money B.C. Views things, it has ratcheted like a roughneck fresh up teacher and nurse out of the bush. Jim wages across the country.

Prentice had the gall to propose Alberta is broke, again, and raising income taxes for high even the NDP is afraid to resort wage earners, doing away to a sales tax. with former Alberta treasurer The minimum wage hike is a Stockwell Day’s signature flat tax. pet policy of Canada’s labour In response, voters have federations, which somehow abruptly replaced the 44-year remain convinced that poverty Progressive Conservative can be eliminated by state dynasty with an upstart NDP order. that wants to tax the rich On the positive side, Notley and corporations even more. has promised to end corporate Facing an oil slump, layoffs and union donations to political and a huge structural deficit in Alberta’s lavish public service, parties, as has already been

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Here at the B.C. legislature, an NDP staffer passed out cans of Orange Crush to celebrate. NDP leader John Horgan pronounced himself “ecstatic,” and hastened to assure reporters that Notley is “as competent as she sounds.”

Notley now has to sort through a caucus that includes typical NDP place-holders, college students and union staff running in faint-hope constituencies. Soon after the result, the party pulled down its website platform and candidate biographies, as Notley began phoning energy companies to reassure them Alberta will be “A-OK” on her watch.

Horgan likes to describe the “capital flight” from new NDP governments as if it’s just a show put on by big business.

Plummeting stock prices and relocation of corporate offices are all staged, according to the party line, nothing to do with actual investment conditions

created by NDP policies. This fiction is all Horgan dares to say publicly, because it’s what his party base devoutly believes.

Besides, they’re only branch offices of multinational oil companies like Shell, Horgan said. He used his favourite Tommy Douglas quote, about the bad news of a big oil company leaving. “The good news is, the oil is staying here.”

B.C.’s natural gas might be staying here too. Horgan insists he supports a natural gas export industry, but his party seems more concerned with an ascending Green Party, and an urban base that believes you can run a resource economy on windmills and solar panels.

Notley supports twinning the TransMountain pipeline, while Horgan continues to insist he has no opinion on the project Adrian Dix so memorably opposed.

The Alberta NDP has a steep learning curve ahead. The B.C. NDP has a couple of years to see if the appearance of a likeminded Alberta government is a boost for them, or a cautionary tale for voters.

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Not just a place to live, but a place that was ours — a home where we could paint the walls and not have to live with gold shag carpeting and noisy neighbours.

But my mom, who runs her own graphic design business and is incredibly responsible with money, was told she couldn’t get a mortgage unless she had a husband or father to co-sign.

That experience is the reason I volunteer on the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity. Victoria has the second-most expensive housing market in the country and home ownership is out of reach for far too many hard-working families.

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those moves make it hard to build lasting friendships and feel connected to the community.

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“I never thought I’d be in a position to own my own home and provide this level of security for my family,” says Amanda. “My oldest son’s gone to four different schools already so being able to put down roots and have stability is a dream come true.”

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“I took the minister [Rona Ambrose] at her word that things were going well.”

Federal MPs from the ruling Conservatives and opposition parties voted unanimously on Dec. 1 to extend “full support” to Canada’s victims on an NDP motion put forward by Rankin and Vancouver MP Libby Davies The federal government sent lump-sum cheques to thalidomide survivors last month for $125,000 – half of what the Thalidomide Victims Association had asked for – but has provided few answers about what the group considers the far more crucial long-term support.

The Harper government has pledged “up to $168 million” in medical assistance paid out as annual compensation.

The group wants the money invested in a trust, based on a British model, then paid out in annual sums of $75,000 to $150,000 depending on the victims’ degree of disability.

“They will get what’s promised to them,” Calandra said.

“By the new year we want to be in a position to offer very specialized benefits to each indi-

vidual. You can’t really do one system fits all on this particular topic because each victim has different medical needs.”

But the matter is pressing for the association and Rankin: five months ago there were 97 thalidomide survivors living in Canada, today just 94 remain.

Victims of thalidomide are struggling with growing physical pain as their disabled bodies age, forcing many of them to abandon jobs and fight to maintain their independence.

The victims, whose mothers were prescribed the federally approved drug for insomnia and morning sickness, were born with partial or missing limbs, blindness, deafness and internal organ damage.

“I’m trying to do my very best for these people because I find their situation so poignant, so heart-wrenching,” Rankin said.

Rankin fears the Harper government won’t move forward on compensation until after this fall’s federal election, and he doesn’t consider that an option.

He wants a solution before Parliament takes summer leave.

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They need action now,” he said. klaird@blackpress.ca

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Victoria man wins national entrepreneur award A Victoria man is the recipient of national entrepreneur award for his leading-edge work to help understand the world’s oceans.

Clayton Hiles launched Cascadia Coast Research Ltd. in 2012, a company that focuses on providing physical ocean environment research services such as assessing marine renewable energy technologies, providing design criteria for coastal structures and projecting the potential for extreme events.

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School budget balanced but future not so rosy ‘Next year is going to be a tough year, says school board chair

additional revenues and savings from the previous budget.

For example, the winter was not as cold, so the utilities budget had less pressure.

“For us, we had a carry forward that Kendra Wong was used in part to Victoria News balance [the budget],” The Greater Victoria said Debra Laser, secretary-treasurer for School District was the district. able to balance this In order to make year’s budget, but up for the remaining may have to make $66,000 deficit, more cuts next year, trustees voted to says the board chair. eliminate an English “Next year is going Language Learning to be a tough year, it’s assistant, saving the going to be a much district just over more different year,” www.oakbayoptometry.com said board chair Edith $52,000, and reduced Dr. Neil Paterson its administrative Loring-Kuhanga.

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Nate Clark

Victoria photog in the midst of Nepal Eartquake Nate Clark is a Thailand-based photojournalist and former student at Victoria’s Western Academy of Photography.

Since the school closed a year ago, Nate worked for a short time at Black Press – contributing to Monday Magazine, Victoria News and Saanich News – before moving to Thailand a week after the Thai Army launched its coup d’état.

Nate’s dream has always been to tell a world story.

His heroes are the great storytellers like James Nachtwey and Victoria’s Farah Nosh. Like them, he wants change the world with an astonishing still image, but before he could book a flight to Iraq he would need a lot more experience.

Nate bought a 110cc Kawasaki motorcycle and travelled alone through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, clocking over 14,000 kilometres in nine months.

He photographed everything, but focused on the local people living in the rural areas – often impoverished and living under corrupt governments. His portfolio began to grow.

Nate bought his ticket to Nepal on April 19. He planned to buy a cheap motorcycle, ride through the Himalayas and shoot village life.

Halfway there, in Kuala Lumpur, his phone buzzed and he found himself en route to the biggest news story in the world.

Doctors at Paropakar Maternity Hospital in Kathmandu have been delivering up to 70 babies a day since the quake – many of them in tents set up in the parking lot. “There is no space in the delivery room and the babies are going to come whether we like it or not,” said Dr. Jageshwer Gautam, hospital director.

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“The babies are going to come whether we like it or not,” said Dr. Jageshwer Gautam, hospital director.

“At the moment of the first tremor we were performing caesarean sections.

We brought the patients outside and successfully completed the surgeries. These doctors and nurses never left the patients.”

Because of the danger of building collapse, improvised operating rooms have been erected in the parking lot in front of the hospital. About 20 women sit on thin mats with their husbands and families gathered around them, attempting to provide comfort. Only women experiencing complications go inside the hospital, which is actually preferable to most.

“Both the staff and the patients do not want to stay in the ward. They want to be outside in the open because of fear of another earthquake,” said Dr. Gautam.

Inside the emergency room it’s chaos; the smell of sweat and urine is overpowering.

Nurses run around frantically trying to monitor dozens of patients at once. Cries of women in great pain – sometimes shrieks – reverberate through the hospital hallways.

Days of waiting in the tents have begun to take a toll on the families outside and many feel they are being ignored.

Shiva Sedai, a farmer, and his pregnant wife travelled from a small village 80 kilometres from Kathmandu on April 23.

They still haven’t seen a doctor.

“We spend hours filling out forms and nobody talks to us,” said Sedai. “They give us no information. I have been here four days. We’re just sitting here.”

Sedai learned through phone calls with family that his entire village was destroyed.

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Durbar Square, Kathmandu. Self-portrait by journalist Nate Clark.

The 2015 Nepal earthquake, which killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 16,000, occurred on April 25, with a magnitude of 7.8.

“One hundred houses fell down and my brother was injured. All my animals are dead. Life will be hard now.”

It’s a small hospital, and Dr. Gautam says most of the care must be focused on women who are about to deliver. He also notes with

some pride that his staff are disregarding their own families in order to bring the babies into the world. Some have even lost family members or have had their homes destroyed.

“We’ve managed with great difficulty.

There has been huge destruction. It’s a national problem, and a local one. Houses are destroyed, even (the hospital staff) are living in tents; it’s a very difficult situation that is applicable to all of us.”

It should be noted that not all the scenes at the hospital are tragic. Outside, half a dozen proud fathers embrace their new sons and daughters with tears in their eyes.

Grandmothers, aunts and cousins hold out their arms and plead for a turn with the newborn, desperate to have another look at their little fat faces, but the dads just won’t let them go. editor@vicnews.com

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Perfection in yoga Harmony Lichty earns international distinction in ashtanga yoga Kendra Wong Victoria News

For Victoria’s Harmony Lichty, the phrase practice makes perfect is one she lives by.

Over the past decade, Lichty has travelled to South Asia a dozen times to study ashtanga yoga from Sri K Pattabhi Jois, who started the original practice in Mysore, India in 1948.

Ashtanga yoga is a specific discipline that encompasses a series of complex postures, internal self-practices such as cleanliness, telling the truth and living a moderate lifestyle, concentration, meditation and breathing control.

Certification is only awarded to students who have studied under Jois or his grandson for more than 10 years and have mastered the highest series.

After 11 years of studying yoga and making fundamental lifestyle changes, Lichty has become the first woman in Victoria (there are only 17 women and 30 men in the world) to earn her certification in ashtanga yoga.

It has become a way of life for Lichty and her husband Jeff, who practice six days of the week.

“It helps me to feel good in my day. It helps me mentally to feel more balanced and I feel more happy on the days that I’m practicing compared to the days that I don’t,” she said. “It’s very healthy. My body

feels good — it’s strong and flexible.”

Lichty’s journey to become a certified ashtanga yoga instructor began in 2004 with her first trip to India to study under Jois.

Students practice at 3:45 a.m. for several hours, learning new postures and in the afternoon move on to classes such as cooking, art, sitar playing or learning sanskrit.

“It’s a pretty big commitment to go to India and spend a good amount of time there. Your whole life has to revolve around saving up for that and the priority to go there and do that,” said Lichty.

It is a three- to four-month-long trip she has become familiar with, having travelled to India for 12 years with the exception of 2001 when her son was born.

“She’s able to put her mind to a task and goal and complete it no matter what,” said Jeff of Harmony’s certification. “That’s a good skill to be able to understand a goal, put your mind to it and complete the goal.”

According to Lichty, it is not just the ability to complete complex postures, but it is a self-realization and dedication that has been the key to her success in the practice.

“That’s when yoga starts to change people’s lives because they’re committed to themselves and to a daily discipline and a teacher,” she said.

Lichty and her husband now run an ashtanga yoga studio (203-560 Johnson St.), the first of its kind in Victoria. For more info, visit ashtanga-yoga-victoria.com. kendra.wong@vicnews.com

Harmony Lichty in the vrschikasana “scorpion pose” at the Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Victoria.

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Baroque play music gems Performing gems of Baroque chamber music, the Victoria Baroque Players will end their fourth season May 23 in Victoria.

Four core members of Victoria Baroque Players – flautist Soile Stratkauskas, violinist Christi Meyers, cellist Martin Bonham and harpsichordist Michael Jarvis – will give audiences a rare chance to hear Bach’s and Telemann’s chamber music played on 18th-century instruments.

The program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonata for flute and obligato harpsichord BWV 1030, sonata for violin and obligato harpsichord BWV 1015, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris quartets in D major TWV 43:D3 and E minor TWV:e:4.

“Bach wrote magnificent grand-scale works, but in his chamber music a wonderful intimacy and transparency shines through,” Stratkauskas said.

“His sonata in B minor for flute and obligato harpsichord demonstrates ingenious architectural contrapuntal writing and is one of the greatest and most monumental works in the flute repertoire.”

The other work by Bach in the program is Sonata in A major, will feature VBP’s violinist and Victoria Symphony’s assistant concertmaster Christi Meyers.

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A Victoria-based string ensemble are off to test the musical ambiance in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Coastline, a string ensemble of 15 young musicians ranging from ages 13-18, have been selected to represent Canada in the 2015 Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

“It’s a huge honour, and very exciting to be preparing for,” said their coach and mentor, Ivonne Hernandez.

Hernandez taught some of these kids in Victoria before she headed off to Boston to complete her musical studies on a full scholarship to the University

of Berklee. When they heard she was coming back to Victoria, they asked her to work with them.

“It was at the request of a few kids who wanted a challenge, and to work on tunes that were more complex,” Hernandez explained, “and they were instrumental in getting other people involved.”

For this group of young musicians, going to Scotland to perform is a highlight on the horizon.

The group sent videos of their playing to the festival’s selection committee, and the Scottish festival’s reaction was an offer to

come and play.

“A lot of these kids haven’t left the country, ever, or maybe even the province. It’ll be a lifechanging experience to go halfway across the world to perform and meet other people and to go to the “mecca” of fiddle playing.”

Hernandez, who now has an international career and tours with her band “Fretlass,” is a great role model for Coastline. She holds a music business and performance degree with a focus on string arrangement, is currently on tour in Cuba, and she still finds time in her

busy schedule to coach the group and work on its arrangements.

Her goal is to help these young musicians become professional performers, which, she says, quite a few of them aspire to.

“They are all such great kids, very smart and motivated and they want to be pushed. It’s a very elite group,” she added.

Coastline will be holding a fundraising concert in May for their trip to Aberdeen. More information on that can be found on their website, coastlinefiddle. com.

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Choir to perform Requiem Vox celebrates last concert Music has a powerful way of marking life’s big moments, whether in joyous celebration or as solace in times of loss.

This idea inspires the Victoria Philharmonic Choir’s performance of the Verdi Requiem on May 24.

Giuseppe Verdi composed his magnificently operatic Requiem in 1874 in memory of a fellow musician.

VPC’s performance is also a celebration of life, musical collaboration, and the choir’s 10th anniversary season, and offers an opportunity for the public to have an “In Memoriam” dedication listed in the Requiem program in exchange for a $100 donation to the choir.

Conducted by Peter Butterfield, the concert features soloists Ingrid

Attrot, Sarah Fryer, Richard Margison and Andrew Greenwood, a 125-member chorus of VPC members and guest choristers, along with a mass instrumental ensemble of the Victoria Chamber Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Victoria.

In Memoriam listings and donations must be received by May 17 to be included in the Requiem program. Please go online to vpchoir.ca and click on the Canada Helps logo to go to the donation page.

Tickets to the performance are $35 and $45.50, and available from the UVic box office, uvic.ca/auditorium or phone 250-721-8480.

Verdi Requiem is performed on Sunday, May 24 at the University of Victoria’s Farquhar Auditorium, beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Vox Humana Chamber Choir will feature works from Canadian and international composers in Sound Waves, its last concert of the season.

It will feature a premiere performance of Requiescat, by award-winning Canadian composer Rodney Sharman.

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Lusitania sinking was heard around the world Kate Humble Local History

This month marks the centenary of one of the most emotionally charged events of the First World War: the sinking of RMS Lusitania.

In my Grade 12 History class I was taught the sinking of

the Lusitania was a turning point in the war as it helped to sway American public opinion against the Germans as a result of the approximately 120 American lives lost when she was torpedoed by a U-boat,

eventually bringing the U.S. into the conflict in 1917.

The degree of this influence is still debated by scholars today.

I was not taught anything about the impact that the loss of this ship off the distant coast of Ireland had upon my own hometown. In May 1915, Victoria was featured in news stories across the world because of the terrible riots that ensued in the streets once news of the loss of the Lusitania reached the Island.

Lusitania was built for the Cunard Line in 1907 and at the time was a marvel of modern engineering: she was the fastest liner on the ocean, known as the “Greyhound of the Seas,” and with an average speed of more than 25 knots proudly claimed the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing.

She had a regular

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696 crew onboard. event of war.

Because of the With war on the great speed of the horizon, in 1913 she ship, it was widely was refitted, and said that she could eventually repainted in outrun submarines. “dazzle camouflage.”

In hindsight this was She featured a secret tragic overconfidence. compartment for On May 7, Lusitania carrying munitions, was in British waters and gun mounts on off the coast of Ireland, her decks which were only hours from concealed beneath the docking in Liverpool. teak overlay- ready for U-20, a submarine the addition of heavy which played a key guns if necessary. role in the blockade She retained AMC of Britain, saw her status on paper but approaching and continued carrying recognized her as a civilian passengers registered British AMC through the early days and therefore a valid of the war. Her bright target.

Cunard paint job was Kapitanleutnant restored, so she stood Walther Schwieger out against the grey was in command of Atlantic waters. the submarine and America remained gave the order to fire neutral, but Lusitania a single torpedo. It was a British ship hit the starboard side and as such highly > HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT - 7 Months below the bridge, and vulnerable in the ONLINE BLENDED LEARNING MAY BE AVAILABLE shortly thereafter waters around the a second explosion British Isles, which > PRACTICAL NURSE - 19 Months followed from inside were declared a war Lusitania. zone by Germany in > MEDICAL OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR The source of this February 1915. They HEALTH UNIT CLERK - 12 Months explosion has been announced that any widely debated. enemy ships in those > NUTRITIONAL CONSULTANT - 12 Months Some believe it waters would be sunk to be the result of without warning by VICTORIA: 250.384.8121 OR VISIT SPROTTSHAW.COM submarines. munitions components hidden in the secret There were rumors compartment, but that Lusitania was today most academics carrying concealed say it was the result of munitions cargo a boiler explosion. along with her Lusitania sank in 18 civilian passengers, minutes. Schwieger as America, though wrote in his diary officially neutral, was 15 minutes after he aiding the Allies by fired the torpedo, “It supplying arms. looks as if the ship On April 22 the will stay afloat only German Embassy for a very short time in the U.S. placed a warning in 50 American ... I couldn’t have fired another torpedo into newspapers notifying this mass of humans travellers that “in desperately trying to accordance with save themselves.” formal notice given by Of that mass, 1,191 the Imperial German people perished.

Government, vessels Amongst their number flying the flag of Great were 44 people from Britain … are liable to B.C., including a young, destruction in those popular Victorian waters (around the called Jim Dunsmuir, British Isles).” the scion of the Regardless of this wealthiest family in clear warning, tickets British Columbia. for the 202nd voyage When news of of the Lusitania were this tragedy reached offered at discount and Secondary 4980 Claremont Wesley Rd.Secondary Tickets $15/$12.50 4980 Wesley for students/seniors Rd. Tickets $15/$12.50 for students/seniors Victoria, the city when she set sail on May 1, 1915, there were erupted in violence.

This story will be told 1,266 passengers and route between Liverpool and New York, carrying visitors and immigrants in bright, luxurious surroundings. The crossing took on average around five days, with the fastest time being four days, 19 hours and 53 minutes.

There was a darker side to the Lusitania story, however. When she was constructed, the British government had subsidized the cost providing she could be converted to an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the

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Rugby with no boundaries Ebb Tide takes on visiting Japanese team for a friendly Dan Ebenal Black Press

same age as you, it’s fair game, but if he’s 30 years older than you then you go a bit easier.”

Knox said the Ebb Tide has been going for more than 40 years, making seven or eight trips to Japan during that time and playing host to close to a dozen Japanese teams.

“So it’s been a long-standing tradition,” he said.

The Ebb Tide regularly play their games in James Bay, but as those fields have been converted for baseball, the game was moved to Oak Bay. Knox estimates about a dozen of the team’s 55 regular players are from Oak Bay. “From now until September we practice every Thursday at Windsor Park, and I use the term practise lightly,” he said.

For more information on the Ebb Tide, visit www.ebbtiderugby.com. editor@vicnews.com

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Age and geography were no barriers to the Ebb Tide Rugby Club as they hosted a visiting team from Japan at Windsor Park last week

Florchuk Royals’ top pick Eric Florchuk was the Victoria Royals first selection, 13th overall, in the 2015 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft.

The Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. native spent the 2014-15 season with the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League where he collected 46 points (24g22a) in 33 games. In 14 contests in the 2015 AMBHL playoffs, Florchuk notched 11 goals and nine assists for 20 points as the Rangers fell in the finals. Florchuk was also named an all-star in this year’s Alberta Cup where he registered five points (4g-1a).

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A group of Greater Victoria rugby players are showing the love of the game knows no boundaries.

Age and geography were no barriers to the Ebb Tide Rugby Club as they hosted a visiting team from Japan at Windsor Park last week, with the players aged right into their 80s.

“It’s very much slow-motion rugby,” said the Ebb Tide’s Dave Knox with a laugh. “And we take very good care of our 80 year olds, so they won’t be flattened.”

The Ebb Tide is made up of players over the age of 40 from throughout Greater Victoria, competing in the Pacific Northwest Over 40’s Rugby Union with teams from the Lower Mainland, Nanaimo, Kelowna and Seattle.

The Ebb Tide squared off last week against the Osaka Gentleman, an over-40 team from Japan featuring a pair of 80 year olds (although they were both nursing injuries and unable to suit up for the match). While the Ebb Tide’s regular roster features players from their 40s into their 70s, they brought out an 83 year old for the game at Windsor Park.

“He doesn’t play any more, but he only quit three or four years ago,” said Knox. “He [came] out for this one particular game because there’s a couple of 80 year olds on the touring team.”

Knox said the players wear different coloured shorts based on the decade they were born in.

“That way you can tell the age of the person on the field if you’re about to tackle him,” said Knox, 63. “So if you’re going to tackle somebody the

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April Wine. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St. Tickets available at the Royal and McPherson Box Office.

Victoria Target Theatre Society presents I’m Still Here? James Bay New Horizons, 234 Menzies St., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Paul Nursey, CEO of Tourism Victoria, is the guest speaker at the Canadian Club of Victoria luncheon on May 19.

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