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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

By Sarah Berman

To honour International Women’s Day this year, Guidebook has reached out to international students who are leaders in their schools (and also happen to be women).

centres and overseeing campus clubs.

They were gracious enough to share their challenges, as well as some advice for other newcomers to Canada.

Please join me in celebrating all these women have achieved.

Keeping up with school assignments while adjusting to a new country is a challenge for anybody who studies abroad. Yet despite Vancouver’s language requirements, unfamiliar transit system and unfortunate lack of relatives or childhood friends, these young women have shared their stories of community building, mentorship and solidarity.

Each of these women arrived in Canada to study within the last few years.

During their first couple semesters of post-secondary, they’ve already shown immense curiosity, strength and initiative.

Nubwa Wathanafa Second-year sociology and political science student at Kwantlen Secretariat for KPU’s Model United Nations

“My advice is to not to have second thoughts, to just do it … Don’t think about it, just say yes.”

-Nubwa Wathanafa

They’ve supported their peers, moved far beyond their comfort zones and brought new conversations to light.

“My mom has a Canadian colleague, since she works at the United Nations,” Nubwa recalls of her decision to study in Vancouver. “My mom was excited.”

Through a German study abroad program called Academic Embassy, Nubwa chose a program in Vancouver that suited her learning style.

Through their extra-curricular commitments, these four women have helped fellow international students and the wider student body better understand the world around them. From Kwantlen Polytechnic to Alexander College to Simon Fraser University, I have to say, I’ve personally learned so much from the way these women challenge assumptions and make tangible impacts in their communities.

Without further ado, meet the young women who are planning student socials, organizing model United Nations conferences, volunteering at women’s

Nubwa is a second-year sociology student who was born in Nigeria and grew up in Germany. She is part of a secretariat at Kwantlen that simulates the United Nations’ general assembly in cities around the world. Nubwa will be representing Eritrea at Harvard’s upcoming World Model UN conference in Belgium.

“Be honest, be truthful and ardworking.”

-Kirpanpreet Dhillon

“What I liked about Kwantlen’s profile is that you have a chance to talk to professors on a one-on-one level,” she explains. “I’m someone who likes being in a smaller environment. Because of the English language, I don’t always understand right away. I had to raise my hand in classes and

ask the lecturer to slow down.”

Having attended English and bilingual schools growing up, Nubwa found language was an unexpected challenge in Canada.

“I thought my English was perfect and on point, but when I attended my first polisci class I noticed that no—it wasn’t as good as I thought it was,” she says. “Some of my professors would tell me the syntax and position of the words were wrong. I still think in German; when writing I still have the German sentence structure in my head. I have to tell myself I shouldn’t think in German.”

Nubwa co-organized Kwantlen’s first ever Model UN conference, with 15 delegates attending. What is Model UN? She explains: “It’s a simulation of the real UN general assembly, which is held a few times throughout the year… We reenact a debate related to a world issue. Each participant represents a country, so that person needs to know his country’s foreign policy and allies and enemies.”

“It’s really interesting you see how students take on the role of real diplomats,” she says.

Kirpanpreet Dhillon Second-year criminology student at Kwantlen Director of Student Life, Kwantlen Student Association Kirpanpreet is the Director of Student Life for Kwantlen’s Student Association. That means it’s her job to make sure students at Kwantlen are able to enjoy many social, academic and extracurricular events.

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She came to study in Canada from India three years ago. Kirpanpreet uses her language skills to reach out to the international students she represents in student government.

“I know three languages and I’m very social,” she says. (Kirpanpreet speaks Punjabi and Hindi as well as English).

“When I came here, I didn’t know anything that was going on—there’s no functions, there’s no fun,” she recalls of her first year at Kwantlen’s Surrey campus. “So I organized a great event where a singer came here and he performed ... I decided to go further, and applied for the position of Director of Student Life.”

“Get out of your comfort zone. Initiate the conversation, talk to people from other cultures you are not familiar with.

You will be amazed.”

-Gia Xu

Kirpanpreet studied at Sheridan College near Toronto before transferring to Kwantlen’s criminology program. “It was a great shock,” she says of her first few months adjusting to Canadian culture. “Everything was new, everything was so overwhelming. I went into a depression for some time. Being away from my parents, there was nobody to talk to me.”

“But fortunately there were many international students, after a few months I talked to them and made friends with them.” Over the three years she’s lived in Canada, she has learned a lot about bringing students closer together.

“The more students come to an event, the more they they’re going to help each other. If you put them in one room together, it is just human nature—they exchange, they become friends, they help each other out.”

Gia Xu Second year general studies at Alexander College Student Clubs Manager

“Definitely meet people who are from a different place than you … engage with people who are different.”

-M.Baratova

As student clubs manager, Gia oversees Alexander College’s nine campus clubs.

She first moved to Edmonton, Alberta from China three years ago, where she completed ESL training. Then she enrolled at Alexander in January of last year. Gia plans to transfer to the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business when she completes her studies at Alexander.

“A friend of mine who attended Alexander College told me that most of the courses are transferable to UBC,” explains Gia. “It is a smaller community, which I believe gives me a competitive advantage compared to other colleges that have hundreds of students in a class.”

Gia collaborates with the school’s student activity officer, “making sure each club functions properly, giving advices to club presidents when

necessary, and planning club joint events, such as school club recruitment at the beginning of every semester.”

From one day to the next, Gia says one of her biggest challenges is learning to think in English. “I’ve been learning English since I was 15, although I could express myself clearly most of the time, occasionally I find myself struggling when it comes to deeper conversation,” she says.

“It is not always about the language itself— things like the vocabulary and grammar; most of the time it’s about the way of thinking. English is my second language; I have to translate English to Chinese in my head when I’m talking.

“It takes time to train my brain to think in English, but I’m confident that I’m able to do that someday.”

M. Baratova Second-year communications at Simon Fraser University Organizer at SFU Women’s Centre M. has played an instrumental role in reaching out to students at SFU, gathering signatures and raising awareness on behalf of the women’s centre on campus. She’s also represented the women’s centre during important student government decisions—an area she plans to explore more deeply in the future. Arriving in Vancouver from Uzbekistan in 2012, M. is now in her second year of a communications degree.

“The women’s centre provided a place to speak about issues that I had been thinking about by myself and had been getting tense about,” M. says of her self-initiated journey. “I just realized the things I’ve come to understand over a long time come out when people to have these discussions, which is the most important thing.”

Reaching out to people with different backgrounds and experiences has been both a challenge and a reward for M. “As an international student, I think it was challenging to meet people who do not have the same international perspective,” M. explains.

“I used to go through the international school system, and there was a different understanding of things like colonialism … It’s less that people are being colonial or subscribing to it, but they don’t make the same considerations about that.

It’s not the same kind of mindset.”

Through storytelling and dialogue, M. gained a greater understanding of Canadian cultural context, while passing on a perspective unique to the part of the world she comes from. “It’s also good because it makes you a person who’s more critical and eloquent, I think,” she says. o

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Editor’s Note

Welcome to the February issue of Guidebook.

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Dearest Guidebook readers,

Sarah Berman Editor

Here in your hands is a special International Women’s Day issue of Guidebook, in which we’ve shared the creative and academic achievements of women who have come to Vancouver from around the world.

First, we celebrate international students who go above and beyond their studies. Over the last two weeks we’ve reached out to some gifted community leaders at Kwantlen Polytechnic, Simon Fraser University and Alexander College who have relocated from China, India, Germany and Uzbekistan to study in Vancouver. Sharing these young women’s challenges and achievements with you feels like the perfect way to honour International Women’s Day, which is coming up fast on March 8.

Speaking of strong young women, Guidebook contributor Tanvi Bhatia shares a personal story with us about her involvement with a group of immigrant and refugee youth who are challenging the education system to include English Language Learning (ELL) for credit toward high school graduation. By the way, the name English Language Learning officially replaced English as a Second Language (ESL) in British Columbia thanks to the hard work of her peer group.

Next up, our cover story is a preview of the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, which is happening at the Vancity Theatre from March 6 to 9. On the cover we have a scene from the short film L’Autre Femme by Senegalese filmmaker

Marie Kâ. Read about this film and others made in Venezuela, Iran, Pakistan, Germany and right here in Canada—all crafted by women filmmakers.

Also included in this issue, is a guide to discovering Steveston, BC by reporter David P. Ball. He learned it’s a great place for a scenic stroll and a catch-of-the-day meal. But it also carries a history that has greatly contributed to British Columbia’s modern-day social fabric.

Want to relive your favourite Olympic-sized moments? Not sure what “curling� is, or why Canadians are so proud of their teams? Our UBC and Emily Carr interns have laid out a few highlights from the Winter Games, along with a beginner’s introduction to “chess on ice.�

As always we’ve selected all kinds of events and resources to help you plan your free time. Many thanks to our contributors and advertisers for helping us put together the magazine you see in your hands.

Finally, a big heartfelt thank you to our readers. I invite all of you to send me an email, to let me know what you’d like to see in the magazine. Send your suggestions, reactions, and your favourite fashion accessory to sarah@theguidebook.ca.

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ALL EVENTS in VANCOUVER Vancouver Diversity Health Fair - Vancouver Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC March 1, 2014 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

This free, family-friendly event features over 50 health and wellness related exhibitors, interactive culinary demonstrations, health screenings and onsite tests, spectacular multicultural entertainment, and children’s activities.

communities with access to a wide range of health and wellness resources, presented in a number of languages including Cantonese, French, Korean, Mandarin, Persian/Farsi, Punjabi, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Festival Du Bois - Coquitlam Mackin Park 1046 Brunette Coquitlam, BC February 28 to March 2, 2014 www.festivaldubois.ca The SociĂŠtĂŠ francophone de Maillardville presents its 25th anniversary festival of QuĂŠbĂŠcois, folk, Celtic, and roots music.

The Vancouver Diversity Health Fair, sponsored by the City of Performers include the Yves Vancouver and the Vancouver Park Board, provides newcomers, Lambert Trio, De Temps Antan, Bon DÊbarras, Vishtèn, Matuto, immigrants and ethno-cultural

JouTou and Friends with Oscar Villaneueva, Les Bucherons, and Charlotte Diamond.

Crystal Shawanda @ the Talking Stick Festival Vancouver York Theatre

Hope, Sweat, and Breathe North Vancouver

639 Commercial Drive Vancouver, BC V5L 2W2 March 1, 2014 8:00 p.m. www.talkingstickfest.ca

Lynn Valley Elementary School 3207 Institute Road North Vancouver, BC March 1, 2014 12:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Yoga-themed tradeshow and fundraiser features yoga studios, apparel companies, yoga-product manufacturers, classes with Mike Nichols, Chris Duggan, Lindsay Collins, and Melissa Donohoe, as well as a diamond-necklace raffle.

Proceeds go towards finding a cure for Hunter Syndrome.

Admission by donation.

Crystal Shawanda‘s country roots run deep. Born Native American, on the Wikwemikong Native Reservation on Canada’s Manitoulin Island in Ontario, she was automatically country— joined to the land and the real stories of everyday people.

Her latest album, Just Like You, was released in 2012 on her label New Sun Records, based in Vancouver, BC and Nashville, TN. Following this release, Crystal

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What’s Going on About Town

Clay Workshop with Gu Xiong - North Vancouver The Gordon Smith Gallery Shadbolt Studio, 1st Floor 2121 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver, BC Saturday, March 1, 2014 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

(604) 998-8563 Join internationally-renowned Canadian artist, Gu Xiong as he leads North Vancouver community members in an interactive art workshop. Xiong will share insights into his artistic practice while guiding participants in the creation of small clay pigs that will be shown in our upcoming Summer 2014 exhibition at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian art as part of Xiong’s new HuangPu River installation piece.

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NHL Heritage Classic Vancouver BC Place Stadium 777 Paci ic Boulevard Vancouver, BC March 2, 2014 1:00 p.m.

The Vancouver Canucks take on the Ottawa Senators at an outdoor hockey game.

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony - Vancouver Orpheum Theatre 601 Smithe Street at Seymour Vancouver, BC March 1, 2014 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.

March 2, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.

(604) 876-3434 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents: Beethoven’s Ninth. Considered by many to be the greatest piece of music ever written, Beethoven’s immortal, beloved Symphony

No. 9 is an extraordinary ode to hope, joy and brotherhood.

Resonating through the centuries with its emotional message and sheer power, hearing Beethoven’s Ninth is one of the most inspiring and thrilling musical experiences you can have in a concert hall.

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Don’t miss an evening with a Canadian icon who is out of this world.

Friends of Chamber Music present Ébène Quartet Vancouver Vancouver Playhouse 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver, BC Tuesday, March 4, 2014 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

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This highly-regarded young French ensemble has received glowing accolades. They were part of the BBC New Generation Artists series, have toured France, England, Germany and North America, and in 2009 Gramophone awarded their Ravel, Debussy and FaurĂŠ disc the grand prize: Record of the Year.

Admission: Free Registration is required.

The Ébène often stretch the range of quartet literature.

Unique Lives: Chris Hadfield - Vancouver

For a group to step outside their own genre and succeed is a rare thing. To do it with such originality and verve is astonishing.

The Orpheum 601 Smithe Street at Seymour Vancouver, BC Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

1 (866) 449-8118 “Good morning, Earth.� That is how Colonel Chris Hadfield— writing on Twitter—woke up the world every day while living aboard the International Space Station for over five months.

During his stay in space, Hadfield became something of an extra-planetary media star.

He not only tweeted photos, he tweeted Queen Elizabeth, William Shatner, talked to school-children, strummed his guitar and provided videos about daily life on the station.

On his last day on the ISS he posted his farewell music video online—a reworking of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity�—it exploded, garnering millions of views in its first hours alone.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the astronaut has done an “absolutely remarkable job as the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station and has brought the

Programme: •Franz Joseph Haydn: •Quartet in F minor, Opus 20, No.5 •BÊla Bartók: •Quartet No.3 (1927) •Felix Mendelssohn: •Quartet in A major, Opus 13 Former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks - Vancouver Queen Elizabeth Theatre 630 Hamilton Street at Georgia Vancouver, BC Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:30 p.m.

(604) 684.2787 Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State, is the keynote speaker for the Women’s Leadership Circle.

The Women’s Leadership Circle (WLC) is a signature program of The Vancouver Board of Trade.

Launched in 2007, the WLC is one of the largest women’s business networking groups in Metro Vancouver.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak to a Vancouver audience leading up to International Women’s Day Who: Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted by the Vancouver Board of Trade’s Women’s Leadership Circle When: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.

Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 630 Hamilton Street

In honour of International Women’s Day, the Vancouver Board of Trade is bringing Hillary Rodham Clinton to Vancouver, as part of its Women’s Leadership Circle program.

Clinton served as the 67th U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 until 2013, after nearly four decades in public service. Her “smart power� approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the 21st century. “Throughout her remarkable career, and in her roles as mother, daughter, First Lady, senator, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s steadfast focus on the political, economic, and social empowerment of women has been an inspiration,� says Jill Schnarr, vice president of community affairs at Telus and chair of the Women’s Leadership Circle at Vancouver’s Board of Trade on the Vancouver Board of Trade website.

As First Lady and Senator from New York, Clinton traveled to more than 80 countries as a champion of human rights, democracy, and opportunities for women and girls. Clinton also worked to provide healthcare to millions of children, create jobs and opportunity, and support first responders who risked their lives at Ground Zero. In her historic campaign for President, Clinton won 18 million votes. “Clinton is recognized as an incredibly resilient leader, boosted by her remarkable dynamism and energy. She has cultivated a talent to stay positive and unwavering, with the ability to bounce back from hardship to be even stronger than she was before,�

Schnarr continued. “On behalf of the Women’s Leadership Circle, I am thrilled to welcome Hillary Rodham Clinton to The Vancouver Board of Trade this spring.�

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What’s Going on About Town|Guidebook Events Calendar connections, conversations, recognition, and advocacy, the WLC is an inclusive business community which embraces diversity and elevates women.

The Vancouver Board of Trade believes that businesses thrive when woman are fully engaged at all levels.

Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Vancouver Vancity Theatre 1181 Seymour St Vancouver, BC V6B 2E8 March 6 to 9, 2014 www.womenin ilm.ca/ Coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8th, VIWIFF will screen a diverse selection of shorts and feature films produced by established and emerging women filmmakers from all over the world.

With 33 films in the lineup, gala and industry events, workshops, visiting filmmakers, and panel discussions, this 4-day event is something you don’t want to miss.

Student discounts available.

Guangdong Modern Dance Company with Goh Ballet Vancouver Vancouver Playhouse 601 Hamilton Street at Dunsmuir Vancouver, BC March 7 and 8, 2014 8:00 p.m. www.vidf.ca (604) 662-4966 The Vancouver International Dance Festival opens its Vancouver Playhouse series with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, China’s oldest professional modern dance company, and Vancouver’s Goh Ballet sharing an enjoyable evening of contemporary dance and ballet.

Goh Ballet treats Vancouver to the Walspurgisnacht Ballet

by George Ballanchine, the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet, while GMDC makes its Vancouver debut with Voice After, a work choreographed by its resident choreographer Liu Qi. Inspired by the poetry of Bei Dao, Liu Qui depicts the tranquility of ocean waves,

flocks of gulls, and the hidden storm surging below.

The evening culminates with the premiere of Mustard Seed, also choreographed Liu Qi, but combining the dancers of both GMDC and Goh Ballet to create a large-scale work that bridges the Pacific Ocean by connecting the vibrant energies and technical virtuosos of these two companies.

Sun Tzu and The Art of War - UBC Irving K. Barber Learning Centre UBC Point Grey Campus 1961 E Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Saturday, March 8, 2014 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. cstudies.ubc.ca/one-day (604) 822-1444 In this One Day @ UBC Course, explore the main ideas of Sun Tzu and The Art of War and discuss how this ancient work continues to influence strategy today.

The Art of War is widely read not only in military academies around the world, but also in business and political science programs.

Instructor Colin Green teaches history at UBC. His current research focuses on the role of the military and militarization in modern China.

To find out more or to register, call 604.822.1444 or view http://cstudies.ubc.ca/one-day.

International Women’s Day Celebration: Inspiring Change - Vancouver 1489 McRae Avenue Vancouver, BC Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

This celebration is cosponsored by the Pacific Immigrant Resource Society and The University Women’s Club. With its theme, “Inspiring Change,” the event features four accomplished speakers who have transformed lives in their own ways. Speakers include: •Patsy George, Women’s Rights Activist •Meharoona Ghani, Inclusion and Diversity Specialist •Carmen Aguirre, Actress and Writer •Rosa Tatiana Celis, Elementary Educator and Flamenco Dancer

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Edward Burtynsky’s photography Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition opens March 1 What: Edward Burtynsky photo exhibition, work from 1983 to 2013 Where: The Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street When: March 1 to May 26, 2014

The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the addition of 34 photographs by world-renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky to the gallery’s permanent collection.

Burtynsky personally donated the 34 works, all of which will be featured in the upcoming exhibition A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky at the Vancouver Art Gallery from March 1 to May 26, 2014.

“We would like to express our gratitude to Edward Burtynsky for this significant body of work,” said the Gallery’s Director Kathleen S. Bartels in a press release.

“This extraordinary addition not only greatly expands the range of Burtynsky’s oeuvre in the Gallery’s collection, but also builds further depth to the Gallery’s already significant photo-based collection of works by leading contemporary artists.”

Burtynsky’s large-format colour photography has aligned him with outstanding artists such as Stan Douglas, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth who are also represented in the Gallery’s collection.

Burtynsky’s works focus on human incursions into the natural landscape, documenting the impact between human beings and their evolving environment. His subjects include marble quarries, the oil industry, ship breaking, the Three Gorges Dam and more recently, water.

A prolific artist, Burtynsky’s film directorial

debut Watermark has recently won the 2014 Best Canadian Documentary Film prize, awarded by the Toronto Film Critics Association. Shot locally, in British Columbia, nationally and around the world in Australia, Iceland, Spain and China, these 34 works speak to the tremendous global scope and the universal nature of Burtynsky’s subject matter through eight different series.

The Breaking Ground series features images of cars, structures and roads in British Columbia, documenting the C.N. track as it traverses the sublime landscape of this province. Burtynsky travelled to India, Italy and China to shoot the Quarries series to find architecture within the landscape itself. The extraction of resources has been an ongoing subject matter for the artist, forming the series of Oil, Fields, Mines and Tailings.

In the China series, Burtynsky documented the controversial construction of the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric engineering project in the middle of the Yangtze River. The most recent series Water has led Burtynsky to travel around the world to understand the use and misuse of this ubiquitous resource. These works include the depiction of the result of human-inflicted disasters such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, as well as imagery of circle pivot irrigation, farming, marine aquaculture and rice terraces. o

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Event Guide, Calendar professional dance artists. From its studios at Main and 8th in Vancouver, The Goh Ballet Academy has become an internationally renowned leader in training and performance productions.

These companies come together to present the world premiere of the Mustard Seed by GMDC resident choreographer Liu Qi. The production’s name refers to a Buddhist metaphor, in which a grain as tiny as a mustard seed can reveal the wonders of the universe.

In addition to the collaboration, each company will perform select pieces from their celebrated repertoires, including Voice After from GMDC, also choreographed

by Liu Qi, and Walspurgisnacht Ballet from Goh Ballet, choreographed by George Balanchine.

CHINA’S GUANGDONG MODERN DANCE COMPANY MEETS VANCOUVER’S

More performances by Kokoro Dance, Modus Operandi, Michael Sakamoto and Rennie Harris, Dancers Dancing, 605 Collective, Yui Kawaguchi and Aki Takase, Israel GalvĂĄn, 10 Gates Dancing Inc with Public Recordings, CrĂŠations Estelle Clareton, and MontrĂŠal Danse.

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Tickets are available at www.vidf.ca/tickets. o What: The Vancouver International Dance Festival When: March 7 to 29, 2014 Where: Various Venues How much: Free to $60

The Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) will feature a globespanning roster of artists and creators who will take to the city’s stages from March 7 to 29.

This vibrant festival features a diverse array of international icons, including China’s Guangdong Modern Dance Company and Spain’s flamenco innovator Israel Galvån, coupled with

local favorites Dancers Dancing, the 605 Collective, among many others.

A standout event features Guangdong Modern Dance Company, China’s first professional modern dance company, appearing with Vancouver’s awardwinning Goh Ballet in “Select Works/ Mustard Seed� at the Vancouver Playhouse on March 7 and 8 at 8:00 p.m. “Performances like this are why the Vancouver International Dance Festival exists,� says Barbara Bourget, artistic director for the festival. “In this evening we bring together artists of different place, age, style, and experience to share the stage in a unified expression. I think the chemical reaction of this cultural exchange will be an enormously

rewarding experience for artist and audience alike.�

Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC), founded in 1992, is mainland China’s first professional modern dance company. Based in one of the most vigorous regions in China, the company has attracted some of the finest and boldest artists in the country. Works created by its dancers, resident choreographers, artistic directors and international guest artists have won critical acclaim and overwhelming audience responses around the world. |

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Event Guide, Calendar RSVP via info@pirs.bc.ca or office@uwcvancouver.ca 12th annual Shakti Awards Gala - Surrey Bollywood Banquet Hall Payal Business Centre #201 - 8166 128th Street, Surrey, BC V3W1R1 March 8, 2014 5:30 p.m.

The Shakti Awards have become a tradition that Vancouverites now look forward to year after year as local women in our communities are recognized for their achievements, determination and courage.

This year 12 awards will be given out to women who have been nominated for their achievements, in honour of International Women’s Day. The event will include: •An inspiring keynote address from Ms. Eileen Mohan, advocate and mother of the late Chris Mohan •Shakti Awards •Lively entertainment by Zahra Habib •Fashion show by Zaira‘s Couture •A spectacular silent auction •Dinner and dancing Tickets are $35.00 per person and $315.00 for a table of 10. To confirm your seats, take advantage of our online payment system.

All proceeds will go to Shakti: Empowerment of Women, Children and Families Society.

For further information about Shakti Awards or Shakti Society, contact Sonia Andhi at 604-307-8796 or Anu Pala at 604-551-3287.

Magician Wes Barker Vancouver Vogue Theatre 918 Granville Street Vancouver, BC Mar. 8, 2014 7:00 p.m. www.northerntickets.com Langley stunt magician presents a high-energy show filled with magic tricks, stunts, comedy, and audience participation.

Vancouver, BC March 9, 2014 2:00 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.

(604) 876-3434 Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Sunday presents: One of the most critically-acclaimed violinists of her generation, Viviane Hagner makes her VSO debut performing Glazunov’s brilliant Violin Concerto. Also - Bartók’s Dance Suite, one of his most popular works, was written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest into the city of Budapest. This concert includes Kodaly’s exquisite Dances of Galanta that movingly recall the composer’s childhood in what was then his northern Hungarian home town. Michael Francis is conductor.

Homegrown 101 - Delta Sungod Recreation Centre 7815 112 Street Delta, BC V4C 4V9 March 11 and 13, 2014 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

(604) 952-3000 It’s time to plan your vegetable garden. Learn the basics to growing your own food including garden design and crop rotation.

Find out how to amend your soil to ensure maximum growth this year and learn what seeds you should start now. Draw prize!

Admission is free, but registration is required.

Louis Lortie performs Chopin’s 1st Piano Concerto - Vancouver Orpheum Theatre 601 Smithe Street at Seymour Vancouver, BC March 15, 2014 8:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.

interpretative voice across a broad range of repertoire rather than choosing to specialize in one particular style.

The London Times, describing his playing as “ever immaculate, ever imaginative”, has identified the artist’s “combination of total spontaneity and meditated ripeness that only great pianists have.”

Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Burnaby Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 6450 Deer Lake Avenue Burnaby, BC March 12 and 13, 2014 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Leonard Cohen’s powerful and inspirational music is the heartbeat of Chelsea Hotel.

With extraordinary new arrangements, six performers play seventeen instruments in this concert, a tribute to the remarkable writer.

Through Cohen’s transcendent songs and the honesty of his lyrics, you will be transfixed by this eclectic cabaret of loves won and lost.

Check into New York’s infamous hotel—a place full of music and enchantment, desire and passion.

Rock art of Indian Arm Vancouver Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch Special Collections, 7th Floor 350 W. Georgia Street March 12, 2014 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

A photographic tour of the pictographs (rock art) of Indian Arm will be conducted by author Ralph Drew who has studied these archaeological sites for his recently published book Forest & Fjord.

Admission: $20 (plus service charges and fees)

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Masterworks Gold presents: One of Canada’s all-time favourite artists, Louis Lortie plays Chopin’s beautiful, romantic First Piano Concerto, in a concert that also features Canadian composer Dorothy Chang, and the Finlandia-like, Nordic landscapes of Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1.

Symphony Sunday: Glazunov, Bartók and Kodaly - Vancouver Orpheum Theatre

French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has attracted critical acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Richmond Nature Park 11851 Westminster Hwy Kinsmen Pavilion Richmond, BC Saturday Mar 15, 2014 - Sunday Mar 16, 2014 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

601 Smithe Street at Seymour

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Drop in to see snakes, lizards

Admission: Free Exotic Reptile Show Richmond

and geckos. This is a great opportunity to talk with the people who know reptiles best.

Presented by the West Coast Society for the Protection and Conservation of Reptiles.

Admission by donation.

Celtic Village and Street Market - Vancouver Granville Street between Robson and Georgia Mar. 15, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Mar. 16, 10:00 am to 5:00 p.m. www.celticfestvancouver.com Two-day celebration of Celtic music, dance, food and shopping. Includes music on the Mahony & Sons Music Stage, local dance troupes on the CelticFest Community Stage, a mass Celtic-drum session, a penny-whistle workshop, street performers like the Unipiper and the Green Men, sword fighting

by Academie Duello and the Society for Creative Anachronism, and a street market featuring food and the work of artisans.

Part of CelticFest Vancouver.

The event also runs at Robson Square.

Admission: Free Constantinople - North Vancouver Capilano University 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver, BC Mar 16, 2014 7:30 p.m. www.caravanbc.com Caravan World Rhythms presents Persian music from the 16th and 17th centuries, featuring singer Sepideh Raissadat.

Admission: starting at $36 Countries in Focus - UBC 2205 Lower Mall, Building 1 Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

The ‘Countries in Focus’ series aims to put a spotlight on a specific under-represented country for a duration of approximately one month.

Throughout this time, UBC’s International Student Association puts together events to create more cultural

awareness of the designated country in partnership with students, student clubs, and faculty members.

For more info email ISA@ ubcinternational.ca Vancouver Fashion Week Vancouver Various Venues Vancouver, BC March 18 to 24, 2014 www.vanfashionweek.com Industry event showcases international designers from over 30 global fashion capitals.

Participating designers include Green Embassy, Susana Bettencourt, Martins Paulo, Nina Tan, Noe Bernacelli, Ophelia Song, and Lisa Loveday.

Admission: $30-300 Blue Man Group Vancouver Queen Elizabeth Theatre 650 Hamilton Street Vancouver, BC March 25 to 30, 2014 www.ticketmaster.ca Blue Man Group present multimedia performances featuring a live band playing tribal rhythms, a prosceniumsize LED curtain, and a highresolution screen. Their wildly popular theatrical shows and concerts combine comedy, music, and technology to produce a totally unique form of entertainment.

The New York Times heralds the show as “One of the most delightful performance pieces ever staged.” E! Entertainment News exclaims, “Blue Man Group is what every live performance aspires to be.”

The Baltimore Sun raves, “Blue Man Group packs a wallop. It’s a big, loud, funny, silly, visually arresting production!”

Although it is impossible to describe, people of all ages agree that Blue Man Group is an intensely exciting and wildly outrageous show that leaves the entire audience in a blissful, euphoric state.

With no spoken language, Blue Man Group is perfect for people of all ages, languages, and cultures.

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For Refugees, Starting Over Just Got Harder The federal government has denied funding for BC’s largest refugee mental health agencies, leaving hundreds of trauma victims without help. This investigation first appeared in TheTyee.ca.

By Kristian Secher, TheTyee.ca Kristian Secher is a journalist from Denmark completing a practicum at The Tyee. His work is republished here with permission.

Carlos Mauricio Cruz, who fled Honduras fearing his life, found help he needed at the Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture.

Photo by Kristian Secher.

By the end of the month, refugees arriving in British Columbia will no longer receive free help to cope with the traumas they endured before fleeing to Canada.

The change comes after Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) denied funding to refugee mental health services in BC. As a result, organisations that have been offering free counselling programs for years will be forced to shut their doors to refugees effective as of March 31, 2014.

After that, refugees without the money will get no professional help to process their experiences—a crucial step in getting settled in a new country.

‘A mental health crisis’ “This is a mental health crisis,” says Dylan Mazur, executive director of Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture (VAST).

They have lost 75 percent, or about $250,000, of their budget after funding from the federal government was cut. VAST is the largest organisation that provides refugee mental health services in BC. In 2013 they saw 633 clients and the year before that, 655.

Carlos Mauricio Cruz was one of those clients. His mother, an influential lawyer and social rights advocate, was murdered by gangs in their home country of Honduras. He fled out of fear that he would be targeted next.

When Cruz arrived in BC late summer 2011 he had nothing. In Honduras he was a lawyer, taught at the university, he owned a house, a car, had friends—he had a life. In Canada all that was gone and Cruz didn’t speak a single word of English.

His immigration lawyer saw how Cruz was struggling and referred him to VAST. Initially, Cruz was hesitant to go but when he finally did he found the centres translators helped him express himself.

It was the first time after his arrival in Canada that he could talk about his feelings and experiences. It changed him, he says.

For 10 months he visited the centre once a week. The place was like a community. People would meet up, cook food, drink coffee, and share their stories.

“There were so many people with bigger issues than my own who went to VAST and received help and support,” says Cruz. “I don’t know what will happen to them if there is no VAST.” Neither does Mazur.

“There’s nowhere to send these people,” he says. “There are the settlement services but for mental health there’s no one.”

Denied without explanation Chris Friesen, settlement services director of Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISS) is worried as well.

“These programs are providing crucial help to men, women, children and youth who require specialised mental health intervention. At the end of March this will no longer be the case,” he says.

Friesen says it will have a tremendous impact on the refugee settlement process. If traumatised refugees are blocked from proper help, he says, it will only add more barriers to their settlement process.

ISS has been responsible for distributing the funds for refugee mental health services in B.C. since 2008. Each year they received close to $800,000 from the provincial government and divided it between three B.C. organisations: VAST, Family Services of Greater Vancouver, and the Bridge Refugee Clinic under Vancouver Coastal Health.

The funding came as part of a larger sum that the federal government sent to British Columbia each year through the Canada-BC Immigration Agreement to fund the provinces settlement and immigration programs.

In April 2012, CIC Minister Jason Kenney announced that he was revoking the Canada-BC Immigration Agreement effective in two years.

Starting in 2014, organisations like ISS and VAST would have to apply directly to CIC for funding.

Both organisations did so in the summer of 2013 but it wasn’t until January this year—three months before their previous funding ran

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out—they received notice: their applications had been rejected.

“It was a four line email,” recalls Mazur. “There were no reasons given just that we didn’t fit their criteria.”

No appeal process is available under CIC funding.

Friesen responded promptly and requested a debriefing to the federal government from CIC on why ISS would not receive funding.

“Our proposal was based on a model that is currently being delivered in Manitoba and in Ontario where it has been funded by CIC for several years,” he says.

Why would CIC not deliver funds to crucial programs that already exist elsewhere in Canada? Friesen wanted to know. He sent the request on January 16, 2014. So far he has heard nothing but an electronic acknowledgement that his message is received.

Nowhere to turn At Family Services of Greater Vancouver there is also concern as to what will happen to the refugees once funding runs out.

Family Services of Greater Vancouver received close to $100,000 each year through the now-discontinued funding. They used the money to fund two therapists who did group or individual counselling for refugees.

When March comes to an end, so does the counselling.

“These are adults and children that have witnessed shootings and war, seen family members being killed or they were maybe shot themselves,” says the organisation’s manager of counselling and trauma services Christina Melnechuk.

“Some of them show all the symptoms of anxiety and depression and really need help before they can even begin to feel strong enough to learn the language and try and find work,” she says, echoing Friesen’s concern that the loss of services will delay refugees’ settlement process.

Melnechuk says they will continue to see refugees through their regular counselling program but that it won’t be for free anymore. If they don’t have the money they won’t be able to access service, she says, adding that refugees will have nowhere to turn then.

Government owes refugees support Friesen says the federal government has an obligation not to let it come to that.

Unlike other immigrants, many refugees are selected as Government-Assisted Refugees (GARs). They are invited to Canada, where they will receive permanent residence upon arrival and support for up to one year.

In 2012 BC took in 711 GARs. “The government invites and supports these people to come to Canada and I think we owe it to provide as much support as we can to this particular vulnerable newcomer population,” says Friesen.

Melnechuk agrees. She doesn’t think we should be bringing people that have had these kind of experiences into the country and then not help them.

“On one hand we open our hearts and say with compassion that we’re going to get you out of this terrible situation,” she says. “But then we bring you here and then we’re not going to give you the help you need.”

The Tyee reached out to Citizenship and Immigration Canada who was unable to comment before publication of this article. o

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Immigration minister hints at new investor visa to Chinese media Immigration Minister Chris Alexander gave an interview to the South China Post after scrapping Canada’s controversial Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) which was popular with wealthy Chinese applicants.

He told the South China Morning Post that Chinese citizens are still welcome in Canada and will be able to apply for Canadian visas under a new investor program which will open later this year.

On the heels of the federal budget announcement, Guidebook reported the investor program was frozen in 2012 with over 65,000 applicants—45,500 of which are Chinese—on a waiting list. Some of the people who applied for resident visas under the IIP had been waiting for nearly ten years.

In his interview with the Post, Alexander said that he wanted to encourage wealthy Chinese citizens to apply for Canadian immigration. In particular, Alexander referred to two new programs which are expected to open later in 2014; an Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Fund and a ‘business skills’ visa program.

He said, “Our message to would-be immigrants around the world, but especially in China and Hong Kong, is that we are recruiting talent on a scale that we never have before.”

“There is a range of pathways open to them,” he continued. “All of these programmes are dominated by Asian countries. We expect that to continue and grow.” Other Asian media outlets have suggested Chinese investors are looking away from Canada, and looking into immigration to countries like Australia. 

Chris Alexander, Canada’s current immigration minister, told Chinese media two new visa programs for investors and entrepreneurs are expected to open later in 2014. Over 45,000 Chinese investors had their visa applications scrapped in February.

‘Long transition period’ available for schools aiming to meet new requirements for international students Schools will have an additional 18 months to gain Education Quality Assurance status, a ministry spokesperson confirms

By Sarah Berman On February 14, Guidebook reported that British Columbia will introduce new requirements for post-secondary schools that accept international students. The changes are meant to protect people from around the world who come to BC to study longer than six months. The change will come into effect in June 2014, with a grace period extending until December 2015.

There are currently more than a hundred public and private schools that meet BC’s Education Quality Assurance (EQA) requirements, out of 317 registered career training institutions.

Some well-known private schools such as CDI College, Visual College of Art and Design (VCAD), and Vancouver Career College (VCC) have not yet received the EQA designation. All three of these well-marketed private schools are owned by a company called Eminata Group. Eminata’s VP Academics Bohdan Bilan said his company plans to apply for EQA status in the future.

“In the past few years, international students have not been a large part of the student body of

our colleges and the EQA designation has not previously been a requirement for acceptance of international students,” Bilan said in an email.

“As a result of the changes occurring with respect to study permits and the EQA designation, and the increase in interest we are receiving from international students at the college level, we will move forward with the application for EQA with the Ministry of Advanced Education.”

“Currently those three institutions do not have EQA,” confirmed Scott Sutherland, communications manager for the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, reached by phone last week.

To gain EQA status, these colleges will have to implement federally-prescribed policies, such as a transparent tuition refund policy.

The Ministry of Advanced Education says career colleges like VCC, CDI and VCAD will have an extended 18-month grace period to meet the new requirements, as long as they show some progression towards the new standards.

“As long as they continue to progress toward EQA, as long as they’re on the road to meeting those criteria, then they can continue to enrol students,” Sutherland said.

Sutherland said that the EQA registry requirement is in response to the federal government’s International Student Program, and that BC is the first province in Canada to implement these changes. He says currently-enrolled international students at CDI, VCC and VCAD have nothing to fear. “Those schools that currently do not have EQA status will be able to continue to enroll students,” he said.

“We are confident all of our educational institutions qualify for EQA,” Bilan said of CDI, VCAD and VCC. “We look forward to receiving the EQA designation for all of our educational institutions and the increased support of international students.”

Sutherland said the ministry will be sending more information about these changes to post-secondary institutions in the coming weeks. o

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Vancouver ranked highest quality of living in North America,

5th in the world

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Vancouver is the city with the best quality of living in North America, according to a survey conducted by an American firm called Mercer Group.

Canadian cities dominate North America’s top-five list.

Vancouver is followed by Ottawa (14th in the world), Toronto (15), Montreal (23), and San Francisco (27).

The continent’s lowest-ranking city is Mexico City (122), preceded by four US cities: Detroit (70), St. Louis (67), Houston (66), and Miami (65). “On the whole, North American cities offer a high quality of living and are attractive working destinations for companies and their expatriates,� Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer commented. “A wide range of consumer goods are available, and infrastructures, including recreational provisions, are excellent.�

But when including the rest of the world, Vienna is the city with the world’s best quality of living. Zurich and Auckland follow in second and third place, respectively.

Munich is in fourth place, followed by Vancouver.

Mercer evaluates local living conditions in more than 460 cities. Living conditions are analysed according to 39 factors, including political stability, media censorship, pollution, education, housing, and even weather.

Ranking 25 globally, Singapore is the highest-ranking Asian city, followed by four Japanese cities: Tokyo (43), Kobe (47), Yokohama (49), and Osaka (57). Dushanbe

(209), Tajikistan, is the lowest-ranking city in Asia. “Asia has a bigger range of quality-of-living standard amongst its cities than any other region,� said Parakatil. “For many cities, such as those in South Korea, the quality of living is continually improving. But for others, such as some in China, issues like pervasive poor air pollution are eroding their quality of living.�

With their considerable growth in the last decade, many second-tier Asian cities are starting to emerge as important places of business for multinational companies.

Examples include Cheonan (98), South Korea, which is strategically located in an area where several technology companies have operations.

Over the past decades, Pune (139), India has developed into an education hub and home to IT, other high-tech industries, and automobile manufacturing. The city of Xian (141), China has also witnessed some major developments, such as the establishment of an “Economic and Technological Development Zone� to attract foreign investments. The city is also host to various financial services, consulting, and computer services.

Dubai (73) ranks first across Middle East and Africa. The city of Pointe-Ă -Pitre (69), Guadeloupe, takes the top spot for Central and South America.

Mercer conducts the quality of living survey annually to help multinational companies and other employers

compensate employees “fairly� when placing them on international assignments. Two common incentives include a quality-of-living allowance and a mobility premium. A quality-of-living or “hardship� allowance compensates for a decrease in the quality of living between home and host locations, whereas a mobility premium simply compensates for the inconvenience of being uprooted and having to work in another country. “Political instability, high crime levels, and elevated air pollution are a few factors that can be detrimental to the daily lives of expatriate employees their families and local residents. To ensure that compensation packages reflect the local environment appropriately, employers need a clear picture of the quality of living in the cities where they operate,� said Parakatil. “In a world economy that is becoming more globalised, cities beyond the traditional financial and business centres are working to improve their quality of living so they can attract more foreign companies. This year’s survey recognises so-called ‘second tier’ or ‘emerging’ cites and points to a few examples from around the world. “These cities have been investing massively in their infrastructure and attracting foreign direct investments by providing incentives such as tax, housing, or entry facilities. Emerging cities will become major players that traditional financial centres and capital cities will have to compete with.� o

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Complete the survey and enter our Readers Contest. There are four ways you can enter: 1) Fill in the survey questionnaire in this issue of Guidebook and mail it to us at: Guidebook, #206-508 Clarke Road Coquitlam, BC V3J 3X2 2) Fax the completed survey questionnaire to us at 604-936-6099 3) Scan the completed questionnaire, and email it to info@theguidebook.ca 4) Visit our website at www.theguidebook.ca and complete the online survey questionnaire

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9. What is your main source of transportation?  Bicycle  Taxi  Public Transit  Rent car  Car share (Car2 go, Modo, Zipcar)  Own car 10. Do you shop for your own groceries?  Yes

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(Please check any that apply)  Buy-Low Foods  Choices Market  Extra Foods  Granville Island  London Drugs  MarketPlace IGA  Nesters Market  No Frills  Overwaitea Foods  PriceSmart Foods  Safeway  Save-On-Foods  Shoppers Drug Mart  Stong’s Markets  SuperValu  H Mart  Hannam Supermarket  T&T  The Real Canadian Superstore  Urban Fare  Walmart Canada  Whole Foods 12. In the last six months, approximately how many times have you gone out to an art gallery or museum?  Never  Once or twice  3 to 4 times  More than 4 times 13. In the last six months, approximately how many times have you attended a live theatre performance or live concert?  Never  Once or twice  3 to 4 times  More than 4 times 14. In the last month, approximately how many times have you gone out to a movie or film festival?  Never  Once or twice  3 to 4 times  More than 4 times 15. In the last month, approximately how many times have you gone out to a

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22. Do you participate in any of these activities?

17. When eating out, how many times a month do you eat the following types of restaurants?  Chinese  Indian  Italian  Japanese  Korean  Western  Other (please specify) __________ ___________________________ ___________________________ 18. If you went out to restaurants in the past month, how much per person, on average, did you spend each time?  Less that $10  $10 to $25  $25 to $50  $50+ 19. Do you plan to purchase any of the following items in the next 12 months while you are here?  Automobile  Books/CD/Magazine/DVD  Computer/Laptop/Tablet  Financial Services/Banking  Home electronics/Appliances  House/Condo  Movie/Performances  Musical Instruments  Phone, Mobile Phone  Ticket to Sports event (hockey, soccer, football, etc.)  Travel/Airline/Hotel  Insurance  Golf item  Healthy Food/Vitamin  Personal Care (Cosmetics/ Perfume, etc.)  Lawyer Service 20. Do you plan to travel while you are studying here?  Yes

 Alberta  California  Kelowna/BC Okanagan  Interior of BC  Toronto  Montreal  Ottawa  Niagara Falls  New York  South America  Other (please specify) _________ ___________________________ ___________________________

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21. If you are planning to travel, will you go to any of these locations?  Victoria/Vancouver Island  Rocky Mountains/Banff/Jasper  Seattle

 Bowling  Cycling  Golf  Gym  Hiking  Skiing/Snowboarding  Snowshoeing  Swimming 23. What do you think of the design of Guidebook?  Perfect!  It’s good  It could use some improvement 24. What parts of Guidebook’s design stands out most, what could use some work and what should be improved?

Please specify ________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ 25. What do you think of Guidebook’s cover?  Perfect!  It’s good  It could use some improvement 26. What parts of Guidebook’s design stands out most, what could use some work and what should be improved?

Please specify ________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ 27. Do you participate in any of these activities?  Politics  Immigration policy  Art and Culture  Food Reviews  Events around town  News/Current Events  School/Education information  Other (please specify) _________ ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________

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Organ donation from deceased donors has risen 17 percent in Canada Canada still behind other countries when it comes to registering as donors

Good news: organ donation is on the rise in Canada, according to a national report.

For the first time in a decade, the number of deceased organ donors in Canada has exceeded the number of living donors, according to a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

Of the 2,225 organ transplant procedures performed in Canada in 2012—an increase of nearly 5 percent over 2011—1,686 were from deceased donors, according to Canadian Organ Replacement Register Annual Report, which was released on February 25, 2014.

Deceased donors are important because they can provide up to eight organs for transplant to Canadians in need, while a living donor can provide only a single organ.

CIHI’s report shows that the rate of deceased Canadian organ donors has risen by 17 percent over the past 10 years. This may be explained in part by heightened public awareness of organ donation due to both greater media coverage and the growth of social media campaigns.However, even with this increase, Canada’s deceased donor rate continues to lag behind that of other countries, according to a CIHI press release. The total number of deceased donors in the country in 2012 was 540 people — a small number compared to Spain, which has the highest donation rate in the world due to its “opt out� system. “There is still a significant gap between donations and need,� says Dr. Joseph Kim, a transplant nephrologist with the University Health Network and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. “We need to engage both the public and the health system to increase awareness and improve efficiencies in identifying and evaluating potential organ donors.�

And, Dr. Kim explains, while increasing the number of donors is both important and encouraging, it is equally important to ensure that sufficient resources are in place to get patients with end-stage organ failure onto waiting lists for transplant procedures.

End-stage organ failure presents complex issues and challenges for the health care system.

While transplants cannot and do not cure patients, they can improve their quality of life dramatically. They are also more cost-effective than the alternatives. “Over a five-year period, a kidney transplant is approximately $250,000 less expensive per patient than dialysis,� explains Greg Webster, CIHI’s Director of Acute and Ambulatory Care Information Services. “That’s good for both patients and the system.�

Furthermore, type two diabetes—a largely preventable disease— continues to be the most predominant cause of end-stage kidney disease in Canada. “Focusing efforts on prevention initiatives, such as nutrition and lifestyle education, may result in fewer patients requiring dialysis in the first place,� says Webster. o

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Talk of the Town Police crime stats show decrease in homicide, increase in sexual offenses

Coquitlam RCMP accepting students for Intro to Policing course

The Vancouver Police Department released its latest crime statistics on February 20, revealing a record low murder rate in the City of Vancouver.

For 16 years, the Coquitlam RCMP has offered a course for Grade 11 and 12 students interested in learning about becoming a police officer.

“We have no greater priority than preserving life,” says Chief Constable Jim Chu in a press release.

“We have targeted those we know who are most capable of murder and then we get them off the streets before they can kill or be killed.”

The Vancouver Police Department does this through careful intelligence analysis leading to proactive investigations into criminal conspiracies and other serious murder precursor offences, simply making it very difficult to engage in “gangsterism” in Vancouver.

The result: Last year Vancouver recorded six homicides. It reflects a steady decrease from past years when Vancouver has recorded over 40 homicides per year. In nearly every category Vancouver continues to be a safer city.

The course includes presentations, hands-on training and real-life demonstrations from police officers and associated community partners.

Training presentations include general duty, air services, forensic identification, police dogs, traffic enforcement, emergency response and more.

Fewer banks were robbed. Last year there were 47. In 2008, there were 173. Fewer shots were fired. Last year there were 23 compared to 51 in 2008.

Fewer homes are being burglarized. Last year there were 2,347 residential break-and-enters compared to 3,551 in 2008.

Property crime in general has also fallen significantly over that time period.

“While we have hit our goals in reducing the numbers of property crimes, they are still unacceptably high,” says Chief Constable Jim Chu. “There is not a member of the VPD, sworn or civilian, who is not tasked in some way with helping to reduce property crime in our city. We are also proud of the efforts of our hundreds of volunteers in programs like Community Policing Centres, Block Watch and Citizens’ Crime Watch.”

While crime prevention programs and information campaigns are a useful tool in driving crime rates down, in some cases increased awareness can actually contribute to higher rates of reporting of crimes. When victims are encouraged to step forward, that increased reporting is sometimes reflected in higher crime stats as we have seen in sexual offences.

Sexual offences have risen from 412 in 2008 to 526 last year.

“The majority of these offenses are stranger gropings, and we believe more used to go unreported,” says Chief Chu. “We are grateful to the women who have the courage to step forward and report these assaults, because only then can we amass the evidence we need to put these criminals away and stop them from attacking another woman.” o

In addition, a field trip to a maximum security correctional facility, hands-on police defence tactics and the police physical evaluation test— known as PARE—are in the syllabus this year.

The course costs $125, includes nine sessions, and takes place on Monday evenings and Saturday mornings in March and April. The classes are held at the Coquitlam RCMP Detachment near Pinetree Way and Guildford.

Some School Career Preparation Programs have recognized the course for school credit and have also paid the student fee. Financial assistance is available.

Feedback from previous students as well as teachers who sat in on classes has been overwhelmingly positive. These students observe areas of police work that regular police officers deal with daily. Some previous participants in the program are now of the age that they have initiated the application process to become peace officers while others are enjoying the rigours of police work after having graduated from ‘Depot’ training as RCMP Constables.

To register contact Coquitlam Continuing Education at 604-936-4261 between 11:00 am and 8:00 pm. Space is limited. o

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Students participate in hands-on training during a Coquitlam RCMP Intro to Policing course.

Kwantlen Polytechnic gets BC’s first publicly-funded Chinese medicine school Kwantlen Polytechnic University will host British Columbia’s first public school of traditional Chinese medicine, according to sources at Kwantlen.

“Government is making solid progress on its commitment to establish the province’s first public school of traditional Chinese medicine,” Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk said in a press release. “At the end of the day, our focus is on giving British Columbians more choice and greater options in health care.”

With the appointment of a Parliamentary Secretary for Traditional Chinese Medicine in December 2013, and now the selection of the host post-secondary institution, the next step will be the creation, later this year, of a program advisory committee.

“Establishing the public school at Kwantlen Polytechnic University is an opportunity to strengthen and consolidate British Columbia as the country’s leader in traditional Chinese medicine,” said TCM Parliamentary Secretary Richard T. Lee. Currently, B.C. has no traditional Chinese medicine schools in its public post-secondary system. Having the school in the public sector will complement the six private schools already operating within the province that are accredited by the Private Career Training Institutions Agency and recognized by the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine of British Columbia.

“Traditional Chinese medicine is increasingly popular,” said Minister of International Trade and Minister Responsible for Asia Pacific Strategy and Multiculturalism Teresa Wat. “We are making progress in the implementation of a public traditional Chinese medicine school.”

The TCM school - combined with potential international partnerships - will benefit British Columbians by expanding access to preventative and complementary health-care education.

“This is a unique opportunity,” said Kwantlen Polytechnic University president Alan Davis. “We are excited to start working with the Province to make the school a reality.”

The commitment to create an environment for a school of traditional Chinese medicine at a British Columbian publicly funded, post-secondary institution was included in the February 2013 speech from the throne and is a government platform commitment. o

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BC coroner announces inquest into the death of a Mexican woman who died in Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) custody

The BC Coroners Service announced a public inquiry into the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez, a Mexican woman who died while in the custody of the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) at the Vancouver airport. The BC Coroners Service announced the inquest via press release on February 25, 2014, following public outcry by migrant and civil liberties activists.

Ms. Vega Jimenez was taken to hospital the morning of December 20, 2013, after she was discovered hanging in a shower stall at the Immigration Holding Centre at Vancouver International Airport. She did not regain consciousness and was removed from life support with family present on December 28, 2013, according to the coroner’s media release.

Langara will host a social justice film festival The Just Film Festival: bringing social justice and environmentalism to the big screen in Vancouver

Langara College will bring the voices of undocumented migrants to the big screen during a weekend film festival that merges art and activism.

This weekend, Amnesty International, CoDevelopment Canada, Village Vancouver and Langara College will present BC’s largest social justice film festival. These organizations will be screening over 40 social justice and environmental documentaries.

The inquest is scheduled to begin in September 2014, at the Coroner’s Court in Burnaby. An inquest is a formal process that allows for public presentation of evidence relating to a death.

“The Just Film Festival uses activist documentary film to educate people about social justice and environmental issue and inspire them to act for change,” says festival coordinator Erin Mullan in a press release.

During the inquest, presiding coroner Margaret Janzen and a jury will hear evidence from witnesses under oath to determine the facts surrounding the death. An inquest jury may not, by law, make any findings of fault or legal responsibility. However, the judge will make recommendations related to the evidence presented. 

The festival kicks off Friday, February 28 at 7:30 p.m. with a double bill featuring two inspiring films about the transformative potential of art for people on the margins of society. Trash Dance documents the daily lives of sanitation workers, culminating in an inspired performance piece.

“These films show the different ways communities both locally and around the world are working for social change.”

The second film, Inocente, relates the intensely personal story of a young undocumented migrant who is inspired by art and colour to take control of her own destiny.

Inocente is a 40-minute film recounting the personal story of a young undocumented migrant who is inspired by art and colour and endeavours to reclaim her own destiny.

The film won an Academy Award for best documentary short. Playing at Langara College as part of the Just Film Festival Friday, February 28, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver is known for its storied history of art and activism. The world-famous environmental group Greenpeace started here in 1969. It has since grown to a multi-million dollar non-governmental organization with offices in over 40 countries.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Just Film Festival daytime programs will be packed with insightful and motivating films on the challenges facing our world. At the same time a Social Justice Bazaar of up to 20 community groups is on hand to help educate and connect with budding and seasoned activists alike.

Formerly known as the Vancouver World Community Film Festival, the festival has been produced by CoDevelopment Canada, Comox Valley-based organization World Community and Langara College Continuing Studies for the past 12 years. This year, Amnesty International and Village Vancouver have come on board to join in producing the festival. “Our new name reflects this exciting new partnership,” says Mullan.

The Just Film Festival is part of the Travelling World Community Film Festival, which brings activist documentary to a dozen Canadian communities.

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Protests in Venezuela grow, opposition leader arrested Venezuelan security forces arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez last week on charges of fomenting unrest, bringing tens of thousands of angry supporters onto the streets of Caracas. 13 people have died in street protests involving fires and barricades.

The demonstrations that began in February across the nation have become the biggest challenge to president Nicolas Maduro since his election last year following socialist leader Hugo Chavez’s death.

Protestors demand Maduro’s resignation over issues ranging from inflation and violent crime to corruption and product shortages. The student-led uprising first began as sporadic outrage over an attempted rape. Lopez helped rebrand the nationwide effort as “La Salida” or “The Exit” meant to end Maduro’s rule.

Via Reuters

Pakistani drone activist has been freed A prominent anti-drone campaigner from Pakistan who was abducted from his Rawalpindi home last week has been released, according to Al Jazeera reports.

Karim Khan told Al Jazeera he was kept blindfolded and handcuffed for eight days

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in a basement “torture chamber”, where he was beaten and physically abused before being released late on Thursday night.

Khan said he had been taken from his home by approximately 20 unidentified armed men, some of them in police uniform, during the night of February 5—just days before he had been due to testify before European parliamentarians about US drone attacks.

Khan had been due to fly to Europe on February 15, on a trip that would see him testify before members of the European parliament in Brussels, UK legislators in London and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, on the United States’ use of drone strikes in Pakistan.

Khan’s 17-year-old son, Zahinullah Khan, and brother, Asif Iqbal, were killed in a drone strike in the Machi Khel area of North Waziristan on December 31, 2009.

Via Al Jazeera.

Ukrainian president leaves Kiev, former prime minister freed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich left the capital Kiev for Kharkov on February 21 as parliament voted to strip him of his powers.

Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) held a new emergency session, during which it passed a law on a return to the 2004 constitution without the president’s signature, saying that the president had removed himself from power.

It also appointed a new head of the Ministry of Interior and a new head speaker of the Rada. In addition, parliament ruled to free former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison and set early presidential elections for May 25.

At least 80 people were killed in clashes between protesters and Yanukovich’s police.

Via RT.

12-day worker strike in Egypt Workers of state-owned Mahalla Spinning and Weaving factory reached a deal with the labour ministry and concluded a 12-day strike, according to Daily News Egypt. The workers had initially requested the payment of their late bonus for 2013, which they were supposed to receive in December, but its delivery was delayed until February. The workers began their sit-in on the factory premises earlier this month.

The workers’ demands escalated on their first day of their strike to request the resignation of: Chairman of the Holding Company for Cotton Spinning and Weaving Abdel-Alim Hassan, the Commissioner of the Spinning and Weaving Company Abdel Fattah Al-Zoghby, and the re-election of the workers syndicate.Workers from Mahalla Spinning and Weaving returned to work Saturday, February 22.

Via Daily News Egypt.

The other kind of ‘football’ is catching on in Brazil Brazil is and always will be a soccer country, especially during a year in which it hosts the World Cup. Yet the major U.S. sports leagues for football, baseball and basketball are seeing massive growth according to Yahoo. The National Basketball Association (NBA) became the first U.S. league to open a permanent office in Brazil, in 2012.

America’s National Football League (NFL) saw its average TV audience in Brazil double in 2013. Major League Baseball welcomed the big-league debut of its first Brazilianborn player in 2012 and at least two others are expected to make professional rosters this year.

Via Yahoo.

Bahraini human rights activist may face more prison time In Bahrain, court proceedings against human rights activist Zainab Alkhawaja were postponed until March 3. Alkhawaja could return to prison after she was released on Sunday following nearly a year behind bars, according to Democracy Now “We’re calling for a country where every Bahraini is respected, every Bahraini is treated equally,” Alkhawaja told Democracy Now. “We’re calling for a country where we feel we have rights, where we feel we have

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| Guidebook NewsWorld dignity, where people can’t step all over us, can’t torture and kill and get away with these things. We’re living in a country, basically, where the criminals are the most powerful people in the country, and where a lot of us actually feel proud when we’re in jail, because we know that in Bahrain, when you go to jail, it means you did something right and not wrong.”

The pro-democracy uprising in Bahrain marked its third anniversary in February.

Via Democracy Now.

Facebook purchases texting app for a record $19 billion Facebook beat out Google to acquire WhatsApp, a messaging start-up, for $19 billion in cash and stock, according to the New York Times.

The mind-boggling price is Facebook’s largest acquisition by far.

Facebook will pay $4 billion in cash and $12 billion worth of Facebook shares for WhatsApp. An additional $3 billion in restricted stock units will be granted to WhatsApp employees and founders.

Via the New York Times.

Ugandan president signs tougher punishments for homosexuality into law Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a measure that toughens sentences for those convicted of engaging in homosexual acts.

Museveni said last month he wouldn’t sign the bill but then backtracked because he said Ugandan scientists determined there’s no gene for homosexuality and it was abnormal behavior, CNN reported.

While Museveni was mulling whether to sign the bill into law, U.S. President Barack Obama warned that enacting the bill would affect U.S.-Uganda relations, describing the legislation as an “affront and a danger to the gay community” in Uganda.

The White House released a statement Monday calling the law “a step backward,” adding the United States will continue to advocate for “protection of the universal human rights of LGBT persons in Uganda and around the world.”

Via CNN.

Spotlight on: Bangladesh Elections Sheikh Hasina wins third election amid political turmoil

By Shafiqul Bashar, TheAsian.asia

The Bangladesh Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina has become the prime minister of the government again for the third time, as her party has achieved massive victory in the just-concluded parliament elections. The AL secured 232 seats in the 300-seat unicameral Jatiya Sangsad (parliament).

Sheikh Hasina, who was sworn in as Prime Minister on January 12, formed her 49-member council of ministers by inducting lawmakers of four other parties into her cabinet. Three lawmakers belonging to Jatiya Party (JP), which has 33 seats in the parliament, are in the cabinet.

The JP will also act as the opposition in the parliament while Hasina described her new cabinet as the ‘government of consensus.’

The elections of the 10th parliament of Bangladesh held on January 5 was boycotted by the main opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headed by former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, who is leading an alliance of 18 political parties including the Islamic fundamentalist party Jamaat-e-Islami. The BNP-led alliance had not only boycotted the polls, but also tried to resist it through hartals (general strikes), blockades and violence.

The Election Commission (EC), however, succeeded in holding the polls in which 40.56 percent of voters turned out to cast their ballots. The turn out rate was described by both AL chief Sheikh Hasina and Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad as satisfactory, since according to them, the elections were held amidst boycotts and violence of major opposition parties.

A total of 12 registered political parties including the Awami League and its allies participated in the polls. Some 153 candidates, mostly belonging to the AL, were elected unopposed as they had no rivals during the elections for the 147 seats on January 5.

The BNP and its allies rejected the polls results and demanded fresh polls due to alleged rigging. The opposition vowed to continue their movement against Hasina’s government. A total of 22 persons were killed during the polls and post-poll violence was present across the country.

On January 6, the day after the polls, Sheikh Hasina addressed a press conference and expressed her satisfaction at the outcome of the elections. She claimed the polls as free and fair and said a 40.56 percent turn out of voters in a situation created by the opposition, is good enough.

Opposition boycotts the polls Sheikh Hasina urged opposition leader Khaleda Zia for talks on the peaceful holding of the next elections for the 11th parliament. She called upon Khaleda to come for talks discarding the path of terrorism and violence and severing ties with war criminals of 1971 and militant Jamaat-e-Islami. “A solution could be reached on the next elections only through talks and for that everyone will have to have restraints, tolerance and stop political violence of all sorts,” Hasina said.

The demand, for which the opposition is agitating and boycotting polls, is the “holding of general elections under a non-partisan caretaker government.”

But Sheikh Hasina rejected the demand saying, “Elections cannot be held under a government of unelected persons. The independent Election Commission would conduct the elections while the outgoing government should do the routine work of administration. This is the normal practice in the parliamentary system.”

But, Khaleda Zia remained adamant on her stance and declined to take part in elections if Hasina remained as Prime Minister. On this issue, the opposition has been agitating since November 25 when the EC announced the schedule of the elections for the 10th parliament. The opposition enforced hartals, blockades on highways, railways and waterways to put pressure on Hasina’s government. The opposition’s agitation programme often became violent, causing many losses to the country’s economy.

Trains, motor vehicles, buses, trucks were burnt or damaged in many places including the capital city. Many lives were lost in the violence while hundreds sustained injuries.

The activists of fundamentalist Jamaat-eIslami have been playing a key role in antigovernment agitations. The registration of Jamaat as a political party with the Election Commission was earlier cancelled and its leaders are facing trials in the International Crime Tribunal in Dhaka for their crimes against humanity during the country’s war of liberation in 1971. The Jamaat-eIslami collaborated with the Pakistani army during the war and now the party’s leaders are facing trials in the tribunal. One of the accused Jamaat, central leader Abdul Quader Mollah, has already been hanged while five other leaders have been sentenced to death and two others sentenced to imprisonment for life. In such a situation, Jamaat joined the alliance led by Khaleda Zia and its activists are playing the leading

role in the agitation against Sheikh Hasina.

The policy makers of the government believe that Jamaat is the main force in the opposition political alliance and therefore Sheikh Hasina has been asking Khaleda Zia to cut ties with Jamaat.

Despite the opposition’s violent agitation, the Election Commission carried on with its polls schedule on January 5. While Sheikh Hasina is set to run the new government, Khaleda Zia has announced fresh programmes of movement demanding cancellation of January 5 polls and the holding of fresh elections. The country’s religious minority community Hindus have become a target of opposition activists and their houses and temples were attacked in many places. The Hindu community has become a target, since the opposition believes they voted for the Awami League.

The government has already deployed the army all over the country and law enforcing agencies have been asked to take stern action against those responsible for such attacks and violence. Sheikh Hasina also warned that severe action would be taken against those who are responsible for attacks on the minority community.

The worst sufferer in the recent political violence and agitation is the country’s business community and national economy.

The general strikes and blockades seriously affected business and economic activities.

The country’s exports have slowed down for the last couple of months, affecting export earnings. Bangladesh’s export earnings largely depend on readymade garments (RMG), but due to volatile situations, many orders from foreign buyers of RMG have been cancelled.

The country’s apex business body, the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI), has appealed to both the government and the opposition to sit together and reach a consensus to settle political issues to save the country’s economy.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Bangladesh’s two major parties to resume talks after the elections and to urgently address the expectations of the people for an inclusive political process.

In a statement issued on January 7, the UN chief said, “Violence and attacks on people and property can never be acceptable.”

Besides the UN Secretary-General and the country’s business community, AL chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also underscored the need for meaningful dialogue between the two sides for political settlements. The people of Bangladesh also expect a political solution ending all sorts of violence for the welfare of the people and protection of the country’s economy. o

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YOUR QUESTIONS, ANSWERED As a newcomer to BC, it’s natural to have a long list of questions about life in your new country. That’s why Guidbook would like to dedicate this space to answering the questions of our readers. If you have a question about finding housing, applying to schools, applying for visas, saving money or even discovering Vancouver’s nightlife, send your query to sarah@theguidebook.ca. If we don’t know the answer, we’ll find an expert to advise.

Q1: As an international student, do I have to file a tax return?

A1: As a resident of Canada for income tax purposes for part or all of a tax year (January 1 to December 31), you must file a tax return if you: •owe tax; or •want to claim a refund.

Even if you have no income to report or tax to pay, you may be eligible for certain payments or credits. In order to receive the following payments or credits, you must file an income tax return.

•the goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax (GST/ HST) credit; •Canada child tax benefit payments; and •payments from certain related provincial or territorial programs.

Q2: What are my tax obligations?

A2: Your residency status determines your income tax return filing requirements in Canada.

•If you entered Canada during the year and have established significant residential ties with Canada, follow the filing requirements for newcomers to Canada [see A3].

•If you have not established significant residential ties and are not deemed to be a resident of Canada, follow the filing requirements for non-residents of Canada [see A4].

•If you are a deemed resident of Canada, follow the filing requirements for deemed residents [see A5].

Q3: This is my first year living in Canada. What form do I use?

A3: As a newcomer to Canada, you should be aware that most individuals who reside in Canada file only one income tax return for the tax year, because the Canadian government collects taxes on behalf of all provinces and territories, except the Province of Quebec.

For the tax year that you are a newcomer to Canada and for each tax year that you continue to be a resident of Canada for income tax purposes, use the General Income Tax and Benefit Package for the province or territory where you resided on December 31 of the tax year.

[Available online at www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1gnrl/ bc-eng.html] Q4: I spend a lot of time in my home country. Do I still have to file a return?

A4: You are a non-resident for tax purposes if you: •normally, customarily, or routinely live in another country and are not considered a resident of Canada; or •do not have significant residential ties in Canada; and ◦you live outside Canada throughout the tax year; or ◦you stay in Canada for less than 183 days in the tax year.

As a non-resident of Canada, you pay tax on income you receive from sources in Canada. The type of tax you pay a nd the requirement to file an income tax return depend on the type of income you receive.

If you receive only income from employment or business use the General Income Tax and Benefit Package for the province or territory where you earn the income along with Guide T4058, Non-Residents and Income Tax [available online at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/t4058/ README.html].

However, if you also receive other types of income (capital gains and/or taxable scholarships, fellowships, bursaries, or research grants), you will also need Form T2203, Provincial and Territorial Taxes for 2013 - Multiple Jurisdictions [available online at www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/ pbg/tf/t2203/README.html].

If you receive only other types of taxable Canadian-source income (such as scholarships, fellowships, bursaries, or research grants, capital gains, or from a business with no permanent establishment in Canada), use the Income Tax and Benefit Package (for Non-Residents and Deemed Residents of Canada) [available online at www.cra-arc.

gc.ca/formspubs/t1gnrl/nnrsdnts-eng.html].

Q5: What is a “deemed resident”? How does a “deemed resident” file taxes?

A5: You are a deemed resident of Canada for tax purposes if you are in one of the following situations: •You lived outside Canada during the tax year, did not have significant residential ties, and you are a government employee, a member of the Canadian Forces including their overseas school staff, or working under a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) assistance program. This could also apply to the family members of an individual who is in one of these situations. For more information, see Government employees outside Canada.

•You temporarily lived in Canada for 183 days or more (the 183-day rule) in the tax year, do not have significant residential ties with Canada, and are not considered a resident of another country under the terms of a tax treaty between Canada and that country.

If you are a deemed resident of Canada for the tax year, you: •must report world income (income from all sources, both inside and outside Canada) for the entire tax year; •can claim all deductions and non-refundable tax credits that apply to you; •are subject to federal tax and instead of paying provincial or territorial tax, you’ll pay a federal surtax; •can claim all federal tax credits, but you cannot claim provincial or territorial tax credits; and •are eligible to apply for the goods and services tax/ harmonized sales tax (GST/HST) credit.

For each tax year that you are a deemed resident of Canada for tax purposes, use the Income Tax and Benefit Package (for non-residents and deemed residents of Canada).

[Available online at www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1gnrl/ nnrsdnts-eng.html].

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We launched

a CAMPAIGN to

#MakeItCount

Valuing the hard work of migrant students learning English in high school

When a high school student in BC learns a new language, they get credit towards graduation.

Unless they are a migrant student learning English.

By Tanvi Bhatia

My first encounter with the Youth Advisory Team (YAT), a group of immigrant and refugee youth supported by the Vancouver Foundation and BC Representative for Children and Youth was in 2011.

Someone recommended I attend a conference for immigrant and refugee youth, and the chance to miss two days of school to meet new people and potentially learn something was an opportunity I couldn’t pass on.

I didn’t know what to expect, because this whole idea of dialogue between immigrant and refugee youth was alien to me.

The Make-It-Count.ca campaign collected over 2,000 signatures and over 25,000 YouTube views.

Imagine my surprise when those two days turned out to be more than anything I could have possibly expected.

I found myself immersed in a diverse, insightful group of people not so different from myself. I learned about issues I had been unaware of, that could affect my family as well as the people around me.

It was like a door that I had never noticed before had been pushed open and it wasn’t closing anytime soon.

All at once, there was so much going on around me that was wrong and I had so much admiration for the people who were trying to make it right.

[Editor’s note: For three years, Tanvi Bhatia has been part of a team of immigrant and refugee youth that advocates for the rights of new Canadians in British Columbia. The group’s successes include changing the name of English as a Second Language (ESL) courses to English Language Learning (ELL)—to better represent the multilingual youth that arrive in Canada. In this issue, Tanvi reflects on her team’s ongoing awareness campaign aimed at crediting ELL courses toward high school graduation.]

After the summit, my life lapsed back into normalcy.

Yet, something had started that couldn’t be stopped—I didn’t want to forget everything I had heard and said in the past few days. Four months later I received an email from the very group of people who had put the summit together, looking for new members.

From there it was a whirlwind. I remember getting started, planning dialogues and learning how to facilitate conversation, traveling to Nanaimo, Prince George, Victoria, and Langley and having these important conversations with immigrant and refugee youth across the province.

While I was immersing myself in doing my best to

help these conversations happen, the team began to see patterns in what we heard from the youth at these dialogues. Through our four main focuses (immigration, education, family, and building bridges), some main issues emerged: obstacles that were affecting people’s daily lives, obstacles that many of us had faced, and are still facing.

Thus emerged Make It Count. What began with a few people became something bigger, and soon we were working with more and more people to form recommendations based on what we heard.

From those recommendations came a report. From the report came the idea to focus on one recommendation in particular. From that idea came the Make It Count campaign. We knew, when we discussed the idea of centering our campaign on one recommendation, which one we would choose. It was a unanimous decision— we wanted the work immigrant and refugee students did in English Language Learner (ELL) courses to be credited.

I took ELL back in elementary school, when it was still called English as a Second Language (ESL). The name change, by the way, can be accredited to the Youth Advisory Team, though it was long before I ever joined their ranks. It was simple and over in a flash. I never gave much thought to it, because I was out of the system before I was ever really in it. So I was appalled when I discovered that ELL courses didn’t count for graduation credits.

As it turned out, the only people who really knew ELL courses weren’t being counted were the high school students who had been enrolled in those courses. We not only needed to get the public on board to remedy the situation, but to first educate them on it.

The mountain in front of us was big, but none of us doubted that we could climb it. We spent months

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“I learned about issues I had been unaware of, that could affect my family as well as the people around me.”

-Tanvi Bhatia

Members of the Youth Action Team (YAT) meet to discuss their campaign to credit English Language Learning (ELL) towards high school graduation.

working on this campaign, molding ideas and fixing all the little cracks until we had something that satisfied us all.

We had a report. We had a video. We had a launch date.

When Make It Count launched, it was kind of surreal. To see the campaign that the team had put so much work into go public, to hear people talking about it, to watch my English teacher bring it up in front of the class—it made it all feel real.

We had a website and a petition, we made presentations and we talked to friends, and as it turned out, it wasn’t difficult for people to see the unfairness of what we presented before them.

It was like this little campaign had exploded and turned into pure force, gaining momentum and preparing to break through any barrier.

Tanvi Bhatia is a Guidebook contributor and member of the Youth Action Team (YAT) which advocates for the rights of immigrant and refugee youth.

In the end, the petition on make-itcount.ca received 2,399 signatures.

As of right now, the YouTube video has 21,962 views. Our campaign was featured on Upworthy.com and we even had a spot on CTV news. Somehow, we reached people, and consequently made a dent in the surface of a much greater issue.

There is still so much more that needs to be done, like actually getting around to implementing a credit system for ELL students, as well as addressing some of the other recommendations in the report and making sure conversation like these don’t stop happening, but the Make It Count campaign was a pretty great start.

There is not a single day when I’m not proud of the work the YAT has done for Make It Count and otherwise, and likewise there is not a day when I am not grateful to be a part of it. Through the YAT I’ve met some amazing people, I’ve been educated and I’ve been humbled, and I’ve seen the difference it makes when one chooses to listen to voices that usually remain unheard. o

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From the cover: a short film

by Senegalese filmmaker Marie Kâ called Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Autre Femme. See page 37.

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Women Making Movies

For all the career advancement women have gained over the last century, the Hollywood film directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair is one place still dominated by men.

In fact, across the top 100 highest-grossing films in 2012, only 16.7 percent of the 1,228 directors, writers, and producers were women.

Just in time for International Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, a Vancouver film festival has selected 33 highquality movies made by women. Female writers, directors, producers and cinematographers from around the world will show off their filmmaking

talents at the Vancity Theatre from March 6 to 9, 2014.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve rounded up a selection of international short and feature-length films playing during the festival, created in Venezuela, France, Turkey, Pakistan, Senegal, Germany, Iran and right here in Canada.

A black comedy by German writer and director Frauke Finsterwalder. See page 36 for details.

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Film blurbs by Katja de Bock and Emily Yakashiro, courtesy of www.wiftv.wordpress.com.

Noor (France, Turkey, Pakistan) by Ă&#x2021;aÄ&#x;la Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti Friday, March 7, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Young, handsome Noor wants to be a man.

He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong to the Khusras, Pakistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eunuch and intersex community, anymore. After narrowly escaping a violent incident at the truck stop where he works, he heads off on a magical road trip across northern Pakistan hoping to find a woman who will accept him as he is.

Inspired by the lay actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true biography, the filmmakers embarked on a fascinating road movie through a Pakistan we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally hear aboutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one with a stunning landscape, hopeful romantics, and entirely devoid of notions of terrorism and natural catastrophes. Most of the actors and extras play themselves, as the FrenchTurkish veteran documentary filmmakers take a vĂŠritĂŠ approach for their fictional debut.

Beautifully framed in a wide screen format, the film premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and has been collecting awards ever since. Eponymous lead actor Noor, who had never met western people before meeting the directors, is an astonishing talent who

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El Regreso (Venezuela) by Patricia Ortega Saturday, March 8, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

El Regreso, a.k.a. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Returnâ&#x20AC;? is a narrative fiction that explores the tragic and true events of April 18, 2004 in the Wayuu community of BahĂ­a Portete, at the Colombian Guajira, a territory split between Colombia and Venezuela.

The cast consists of mainly non-actors from the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indigenous peoples whose moving performances are captured by Venezuelan debut filmmaker Patricia Ortega.

The story is told from the perspective of Shuliwala (Daniela GonzĂĄlez), a 10-year-old girl who is forced to flee her home for an unknown city. The film is a bold contribution to the fight against racism while portraying little-known images of the Wayuu indigenous community.

By focusing on a specific ethnic group, Ortega proposes a universal approach that vindicates the struggle for the rights of indigenous people.

Awarded Best Feature Film, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Actress (Daniela GonzĂĄlez) at Festival entre Largos y Cortos de Oriente â&#x20AC;&#x153;ELCO 2013â&#x20AC;? in Venezuela.

The film was considered "one of the jewels of the IX edition of the Venezuelan Film Festival in MĂŠrida.â&#x20AC;?- Correia, Alexis. El Nacional.

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BOTTOM French and Turkish documentary filmmakers Ă&#x2021;aÄ&#x;la Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti debuted Noor at Cannes.

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Finsterworld: a daring, charmingly absurd reflection of the broken German soul, 70 years after World War II.

has captured the hearts of festivalgoers worldwide.

Finisterworld (Germany) by Frauke Finsterwalder Saturday, March 8th at 7:00 p.m.

Who says Germans donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a sense of humour? This black comedy (â&#x20AC;&#x153;finsterâ&#x20AC;? means â&#x20AC;&#x153;darkâ&#x20AC;? in German, and the title is a wordplay on the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last name). Finsterwalder wrote the film with her husband, Swiss novelist Christian Kracht, which is a daring, charmingly absurd reflection of the broken German soul 70 years after World War II. While a group of independent high school students has a gruesome experience at a

former concentration camp, â&#x20AC;&#x153;furriesâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; people dressed up in costumes portraying anthropomorphic charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gather together looking for acceptance. A well-todo couple clinging to their youthful ideals speeds toward Paris in a rented, â&#x20AC;&#x153;no Naziautos, pleaseâ&#x20AC;? car, and an esthetician who despises German folk songs develops a peculiar taste for his elderly female clients.

These tales of loss of national identity, and the search for love in this ensemble piece are elegantly filmed, and often surprisingly morbidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;watch out for the optical illusion of a rotating Cadillac sign turning into a swastikaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no SFX required.

How A People Live (Canada) by Lisa Jackson Sunday, March 9th 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.

The Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations invited award-winning filmmaker Lisa Jackson and producers Catrina Longmuir and Sharon Bliss to trace the history of their nationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; forced relocation from traditional territories on the coast of British Columbia in 1964. Candid and moving interviews, striking archival films and photos dating back over 100 years, as well as a visit to their stunning â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Homelandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bring to life the story of a people known for their theatrical dances, their strong connection to the land,

and the strength that has enabled them to overcome incredible hardships. Following the rise of the Idle No More movement, this masterfully lensed and edited documentary emphasizes the importance of remembrance and reconciliation when meditating on Canadian history at large.

"In the film How a People Live we depict the land, we talk about what happened over a period of 150 years, and we demonstrate a strength of will and soul that is moving us toward a healthy and vibrant society once again,â&#x20AC;? explains Colleen Hemphill, Chief Treaty Negotiator Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations.

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More scenes from the short film Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Autre Femme, shot in Dakar, Senegal.

Chi (Canada, India) by Anne Wheeler Saturday, March 8, 1:00 pm.

This feature documentary follows Canadian actress Babz Chula to Kerala, India, where she is to undergo treatment by a renowned Ayurvedic healer in an effort to manage her six-year battle with cancer. The bare-bones Indian clinic at first disappoints, but Babz is uplifted as her condition seemingly shows marked signs of improvement following treatment and introspection. Returning home, however, it is revealed that her cancer has actually advanced. Amazingly, the irrepressible actress invites filmmaker Anne Wheeler to continue bearing witness to her journey into the unknown.

From the Iranian short film Saba.

For more information, and to buy tickets, visit www.womeninfilm.ca

Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Autre Femme (Senegal) by Marie Kâ [SHORT FILM] Friday, March 7 at 4:00 p.m.

From Senegal comes a bold film set in the mysterious world of polygamous households.

Kââ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film hones in on the story of Madeleine as she and her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new, young second wife develop a relationship far beyond conventional norms. The intimacy has the potential to blow apart a stable domestic situation, but it also has the potential to rewrite the story of both women's lives. A tender film, beautifully acted and sensitively filmed against the backdrop of colourful, beguiling Dakar.

Saba (Iran) by Roqiye Tavakoli [SHORT FILM] Friday, March 7 at 9:00 p.m.

Award-winning filmmaker Roqiye Tavakoli shot this beautifully-lensed story about one womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predicament in rural Iran: choosing between her heart and tradition. o

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RESULTS Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics How did o each country do at the lym mpics?

Sochi Winter Olympics?

Many Vancouverites woke up early in the morning to watch the game live on television at 4:00 a.m. Metro Vancouver watched these Games with fond memories of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record-breaking 2010 Olympic performance here in Vancouver. Although Canada fell just short of the 26 medals won four years ago, Canada still took home a total of 25 medals in Sochi. The end of the $51 billion extravaganza came on a day when Russia captured the medals race with 33 gold, silver and bronze.

Golden moments for Canada Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hockey team won a tight 3-2 overtime game against the USA that left many players and viewers in tears. The Canadian menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hockey team also won gold for the third time in the last four Olympics, winning all six of their games in Sochi.

Jonathan Toews scored in the first period and team captain Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the tournament in the second. Chris Kunitz also scored and Carey Price made 24 saves for Canada. Quebec sisters Justine and Chloe DufourLapointe won the gold and silver medals respectively in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freestyle moguls on the first day of competition, another golden moment for Canadians watching at home.

Canada also swept the gold medals for curling in both the

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menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitions. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team won eight consecutive games, while the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curling team were undefeated.

(If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never heard of the sport â&#x20AC;&#x153;curlingâ&#x20AC;? we suggest reading Euihyeon Namâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refresher on the following page).

Highlights from around the world Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen claimed his 13th Olympic title in the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mixed biathlon. What makes his achievement even more awe-inspiring is that the 40-year-old athlete didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t begin his career until he was 20.

Meanwhile, Belarusian Darya Domracheva became the first woman to win three biathlon gold medals at one Olympics.

In the last issue, Guidebook reported that Paraguay and the Philippines both sent athletes for the first time in 2014, though neither won medals this time. Russian skiers occupied all places on the podium in the 50km mass start race on the final day of the Games. Aleksandr Legkov, Maksim Vylegzhanin, and Ilya Chernousov swept all the medals after a dramatic finish, securing Russiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top spot on the medals table. Finally, a massive fireworks display marked the end of the Winter Olympics.

The breathtaking finale marked the passing of the torch to the next Olympics hostâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;PyeongChang, South Korea.o

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[Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve calculated the country rankings for the Winter Olympics using all medalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;gold, silver and bronze. This means Canada came in 4th place instead of 3rd, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re okay with it.]

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Canada is known as a powerhouse in winter sports due to the number of participating athletes and their great results.

Among the various sports, ice hockey, skating and curling are especially popular with many Canadians.

This article will help those who are not familiar with curling.

The Origin and History of Curling Curling originated in medieval Scotland in the early 17th century. It was developed as a winter sports game from throwing a heavy stone on the frozen lake or river. In Canada, Royal Montreal Curling Club was founded in 1807. Moreover, Canadian Curling Championships started in 1927 and World Curling Championships is held from 1959 to the present.

International Curling Federation was organized in 1965 and reorganized as World Curling Federation in 1991, and the organization hosts various international competitions. Curling became an official sport in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

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At the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Brad Jacobs (skip), Ryan Fry (third), E.J. Harnden (second), Ryan Harnden (lead), and Caleb Flaxey (fifth) won gold for the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curling team.

The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team is represented by Jennifer Jones (skip), Kaitlyn Lawes (third), Jill Officer (second), Dawn EcEwen (lead), and Kirsten Wall (fifth). Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team also won gold in Sochi. Jennifer Jones is a 39-yearold Canadian woman skip on the curling team. She started playing curling at the age of 11 and participated in many competitions since childhood.

Interestingly, she is now working as an attorney in a Canadian financial group called National Bank Financial. Jones has won four Canadian championships and became a world champion in 2008. When she led the Canadian womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curling team to a gold medal win, it was Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second gold in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curling.

Brad Jacobs, the captain of the Canadian menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curling team, brings his exceptional talents to the team for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

He began curling at the age of 10 and won a silver medal in the Victoria 2013 World Championship. He was selected to represent Canada with his cousins Ryan and EJ Harnden. With his background of curling in the family, he successfully set out to relive the glory of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, when Canada claimed a second gold medal in curling. o

team that has the closest stone wins.

Winning team gains points by numbers of the stones that are closer to the house than the other teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closest stone to the house. When points are calculated, the parts of the stone have to be on the circle.

Sometimes, it is hard to determine whether the stone is positioned on the circle or not. To deal with these scenarios, there is a special machine that calculates the distance between the circle and the stone but it cannot be used during the game. So, players have to set up strategies based on their experience and intuition, which sometimes change the results of the game.

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You Said What Guidebook explains some common English idioms

Every language has expressions that have special meanings. The meanings are more than the sum of the words. These expressions are called IDIOMS. English has many idioms. The meanings of these expressions are not always clear. You might hear these phrases on the street, or in conversation with English speakers. Guidebook presents some common English idioms and their meanings. We hope this will make these expressions easier to understand.

Devil’s advocate Meaning: to pretend to be against an idea or plan which a lot of people support in order to make people discuss it in more detail and think about it more carefully.

“I like tacos, but let me play devil’s advocate

and suggest we consider eating curry instead.”

Hold a candle Meaning: To compare; to be even remotely of the same quality or skill as another.

Typically used in the negative when something does not compare, as in the example.

“My old computer can’t hold a candle to the new model my friend bought.”

Kill two birds with one stone Meaning: to solve two problems at one time with a single action.

Take five Meaning: to take a five-minute rest period; to take a short break.

“Hey Soojin, can we take five? I’m tired.”

Heart to heart Meaning: a serious conversation between two people in which they talk honestly about their feelings.

“Do you have a minute? I’d like to have a heart-to-heart about our friendship.”

Long in the tooth Meaning: old, aged.

“If I can pick up some milk while I do my laundry, then I’ll kill two birds with one stone.”

“I may look a little long in the tooth to you students, but reading The Odyssey makes this old professor feel young again.”

Lead the charge Meaning: a military concept, where one person leads the rest of the soldiers into the particular battle. To lead a group into action.

In a nutshell Meaning: a description of something using as few words as possible.

“You’re really leading the charge when it comes to riding a bike to school. Now everybody’s doing it!”

“I could give you a long answer, but the short answer, in a nutshell, is no.”

When in Rome Meaning: to behave however the people around you behave. To adapt yourself to the customs of the places you visit.

“I don’t usually ride a bike, but now I live in Vancouver, so I’m going to try it out.

What’s the saying? When in Rome, do as the Romans do.”

Seize the day Meaning: to enjoy the present and not worry about the future; to live for the moment.

“Instead of studying I’m going to seize the day and go sing karaoke with my friends.

It’s Friday night!”o

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| FoodReview

A TASTE for TACOS Brightly-painted Mexican taquerias are all the rage among Vancouverites Judging by the reckless expansion of taco-focused restaurants around the city, Vancouverites have been hungry for authentic Mexican taquerias for quite some time. What began as small food trucks and hole-in-the-wall taco shops a few years ago have now become empires with several franchised locations.

Having been exposed to the small, round soft shells and spiced fillings doused in homemade salsa, it seems nobody is willing to return to â&#x20AC;&#x153;tex mexâ&#x20AC;?-style hard shell tacos anytime soon.

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Guidebook has ventured out to test these tasty (though extremely messy) tacos, yet thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still more to discover. If you would like to share your favourite taco experience in Vancouver, or another restaurant visit, send your story to sarah@theguidebook.ca.

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Tacofino Commissary 2327 E Hastings Street Vancouver, BC www.tacofino.com (604) 253-8226

In Mexico and many parts of the United States, tacos are a fast and cheap comfort food bought from trucks parked in alleys and side streets. But what started as a food truck in Vancouver’s downtown area has now evolved into a trendy kitchen or “commissary” in the East Vancouver neighbourhood Hastings Sunrise.

Keeping a taco truck inspired menu, Tacofino offers many marinated meats and vegetables on basic corn tortillas, paired with interesting seasonings, cheese and sauces.

I suppose it makes sense that Tacofino

charges more than average for a softshell taco, because they have injected many creative fusion elements, including a seared tuna taco with soy, sesame, wakame and wasabi mayo.

These Japanese ingredients, normally seen in a sashimi dish, taste like an exciting Vancouver novelty. The tacos are also slightly bigger than those offered at other taquerias in the city.

At lunch time, Tacofino also offers a selection of wrapped-up burritos. In the evenings the commissary offers high-end tequila cocktails. o

Los Cuervos Taqueria Y Cantina 603 Kingsway Vancouver, BC www.loscuervos.ca

Los Cuervos is the newest shop to follow Vancouver’s taco trend, having opened in the late summer of 2013. The shop combines elements of both Tacofino and La Taqueria, with a pan-seared albacore tuna dish, as well as a delicious chorizo topped with cilantro, onion and of course a salsa of your choice.

The design is also similar to La Taqueria,

with brightly-coloured tiles and decorated chalk boards. With so much demand for tacos in Vancouver, the owner recently told the Vancouver Sun the restaurant is planning to expand into the yoga studio next door.

This spot is for tacos only—so don’t ask about their burrito or quesadilla selection. o

La Taqueria Pinche Taco Shop 2549 Cambie Street and 322 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC www.lataqueria.ca (604) 558-2549

La Taqueria is a slightly cheaper option which uses smaller soft shell tortillas. A popular option is to buy four tacos for just under $10. Each taco comes with two shells, which can help contain the inevitable mess that comes with eating this type of food.

If you are an adventurous eater, there are beef tongues and cheeks to sample; and if you like fresh and spicy chili, be sure

to try the homemade habanero salsa.

Quesadillas are also available in most of the taco flavours.

Be warned that the downtown location on Hastings Street is only open until 6:00 p.m.—so watch the time if you are planning an early dinner there.

Both locations are adorned with colourful tiles and bottle caps, coupled with iconic madonna imagery, making for a vibrant ambiance. o

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English Guy

Do popular movies point where the future of advertising is headed?

Columnist John Boucher suggests ad tech is accelerating faster than we thought

By John Boucher Did you see the 2002 Spielberg movie Minority Report with Tom Cruise and Max Von Sydow? It was an urban/crime/scifi plot set in the Washington, DC of 2054. It was based on a 1956 tale by Phillip K. Dick (who also wrote Blade Runner).

The story involved the use, by the police/military, of a team of three psychics, or “Precogs,” who could predict exactly where, when, and by whom a crime—usually a murder—would be committed within the following two weeks or so.

The essential point of the tale was the question of free will and justice. How can you arrest someone for a crime they have not committed? Not yet, say the police.

The claim is that the crime would have been (inevitably) committed if the cops had not intervened. Of course, to keep the fast pace, they always intervene at the last second, just as the ‘perp’ is about to ‘pull the trigger’ thus establishing the opportunity, the weapon, and the motivation for the criminal-to-be (all essential for a conviction).

But I’m not writing to discuss the profound ethical, judicial, and philosophical problems presented by this masterful work. To quote from the Guardian newspaper, June 16 2010: For a lot of geeky fans, however, the plot was incidental to the possibilities offered by the technologies on show. And there were plenty: pre-crime (predicting that a particular person will commit a crime); iris recognition (picking you out from a crowd on the basis of the unique pattern of your iris); personalized advertising (where what you see on hoardings is targeted specifically at you); e-paper (electronic paper, for newspapers with moving images that people can read on trains) [they missed the iPhone revolution]; 3D video (do we have to explain this?); computer-guided cars (which follow [not-necessarily] preset patterns); spider robots (for tracking people); jetpacks; and some rather unpleasant police restraint technologies – including the sick stick (makes you sick on contact) and “the collar” (which effectively paralyses you once fitted).

Things such as gesture computing (think Wii) were still way off (though a jetpack had been used in the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games). But, eight years on, Spielberg and his technical advisers look as though they were too cautious …

That word—”hoardings” meaning billboards on buses, trains, highways, and so on is much too limited. The

most pervasive visual feature of the film was the constant barrage of advertising on every available surface. The ads were personalized, (i.e. targeted at YOU) and seemed to be projected onto walls, doors, [including those in toilet stalls], above urinals, onto the backs of airplane, train and bus seats.

Plus those huge roadside billboards featuring moving images: talk about distractions. The movie was set in 2054, but this onslaught is almost upon us; With respect to the advertising, Spielberg was wrong by about 40 years.

Two years ago, I had the privilege of visiting Cuba, one of the two remaining Marxist/Communist states left on the planet. I must admit I found the lack of advertising extremely refreshing.

I hear that commercial TV is not as popular as it was, say, five years ago, but it still has a strong grip on the population: it is a very large industry. As an industry it should have customers and a product, yes? Who are the customers? What is the product? You might say that we, the viewers, are the customers and that the programmes/shows are the product ------ Blaaaaap!

Wrong on both counts. Let us get it the right way around. By far the biggest income of the TV companies comes from the advertisers. They are the customers. We are the product. If the advertisers are the fishers, the TV companies are the rod and line, the programs are the bait, and we are the fish.

I hear some of you say, “Yeah, Yeah, blah-blah. We know all this” but an informal survey (I forgot who did it) showed that a large percentage of the viewers keep that wonderful mute button close to hand for avoiding having to listen to the ads [always louder and higher colour-intense than the shows].

On YouTube, most ads still have the option—”you may skip this ad in 5, 4, 3…seconds.” But I wonder for how long we will still have this luxury.

So, we have a kind of love/hate relationship with the advertising industry. They seem now to be the backbone of our culture and seem to give the glitter and glow to everyday life.

We have brand-loyalty; we give driving directions in terms of corporations- “turn left at Home Depot, then right at McDonalds”. And yet we do so much to avoid their siren songs. How long can this split-brain existence last? Just a thought. o

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WHAT’S NEXT FOR GUIDEBOOK?

We’ve got some tricks up our sleeve.

Our next issue will preview international designers coming to Vancouver Fashion week on March 18. Plus, an opportunity for businesses to become part of Guidebook’s Discover Vancouver special issue and supplement, coming in summer 2014.

With five issues now under our belt, the Guidebook team of business partners and editorial contributors is growing every week. So, you may ask, what is coming up next for Vancouver’s newest magazine for international students and new Canadians?

PHOTOS: Emma Jorn’s label Takaokami is starting a “rainvolution” by mixing waterproof wearables and chic fashion.

See the next issue of Guidebook for the full story. Image via www.emmajorn.dk

Wonder no more, as we have some exciting plans to share with you.

For our next issue, we will be sharing the stories of a few international designers that are coming to Vancouver for the city’s bi-annual Vancouver Fashion Week, beginning on March 18, 2014. One of those designers will be Emma Jorn from Denmark, who has designed “rain-volutionary” urban clothes for the rainy seasons.

Jorn insists that her Takaokami designs will stay chic in Metro Vancouver’s wettest weather.

We’ll also take a look at the fashion designs of Ophelia Song from China, Soojin Lee from Korea, Susana Bettencourt from Portugal and Yuhshi Takahashi from Japan.

All of these designers are talented media-making women who could have easily been included in our International Women’s Day issue.

Stay tuned for this fresh and sassy content coming up in the March 13 issue of Guidebook.

Plus, a few more months down the line, Guidebook will be releasing a fold-out map and infographic that explores all the resources, history and shopping opportunities that Metro Vancouver has to offer newcomers to Canada. We’ll be mapping out restaurants, fashion boutiques, tourist destinations, wellness resources and the best places for students to socialize.

If you have a business in

Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Delta, New Westminster or any other municipality in the Greater Vancouver Area, we would love to hear from you. You can get in touch with our business partnership team by emailing us at info@ theguidebook.ca.

The Discover Vancouver issue and fold-out supplement will be an invaluable resource for students that arrive in Vancouver for the first time during the August shopping season. Watch this space for more updates about the latest Discover Vancouver opportunities and developments.

As always, if you are a student in Vancouver and would like to receive academic credit as an editorial intern please send your resume and writing sample to sarah@theguidebook.ca. o

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Nothing fishy about a day-trip to a historic Fraser River factory Want to explore some less-known BC history on your day off? Check out the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, BC, where immigrant fishing villages are woven into British Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social and economic fabric.

By David P. Ball

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Guidebook | FEB 28, 2014 | British Columbia RIGHT: Finn Slough community Photo: Ulrich Gaede/Finn Slough Heritage & Wetland Society FAR RIGHT: Gulf of Georgia Cannery Photo: Children learn how to clean and prepare fish in one of Canada’s only intact historic fish factories.

Photo: Parks Canada

PHOTO: Britannia Shipyards historic site Boardwalks and marsh moats connect this village on stilts.

Photo: City of Richmond website

Perhaps you might dismiss this as a fishy idea, but a visit to one of Canada’s historic fish factories makes a fantastic day trip.

Have no fear, though—the 120-year-old Gulf of Georgia Cannery has long-since shut down its extremely stinky herring and salmon operations. Instead, visitors to the nearly fivesquare-kilometre plant can see for themselves how many thousands of mostly immigrants caught, prepared and tinned BC’s once-plentiful fisheries, and how they lived.

Built in 1894 on the serene banks of the Fraser River, the Cannery is one of Canada’s National Historic Sites and takes about an hour to reach on transit from downtown Vancouver (half that if you’re driving).

If you get an early start from town, you can also check out the boardwalk village where workers lived in cramped conditions, an enormous Buddhist temple, and even a mysterious Scandinavian settlement built on wooden stilts.

Here are a few reasons to visit Steveston for a day, especially if you think you’ve already seen all the sights in greater Vancouver: 1. Seriously, the Cannery is a really impressive factory. It’s worth grabbing a guided tour to learn how its employees – mostly Chinese, Japanese and First Nations people—worked at breakneck speeds to catch, clean and chop 700,000 fish every year. Children were put to work stacking thousands of cans. They’ll even let you try out sorting rubber fish with a long hook.

2. For many thousands of years, fishing has been part an essential part of West Coast culture, long before Europeans arrived. Today, despite shrinking fish populations, it remains a part of BC’s lifeblood. The quaint village of Steveston still hosts Canada’s largest fishing fleet and many restaurants where you can taste the day’s fresh catches.

3. Other attractions in the Steveston area include Canada’s largest active fishing fleet, a beautiful and giant Chinese Buddhist temple, as well as the historic Finn Slough, where Scandinavian fishing families built rickety houses and a drawbridge on top of the water a century ago; a handful still live to this day.

For its small size, there are also a surprising number of places to eat in Steveston, including some waterfront restaurants where you can try some of the freshest seafood you’ll find anywhere – including Shady Island Seafood Bar & Grill, Pajo’s Fish & Chips, Crab King, the Charthouse, Zen Fine Chinese Cuisine and Yokohama Japanese restaurant.

Bring a pair of comfortable walking shoes, because not only is the Cannery a very large factory to explore, but it’s worth the half-hour stroll along the Fraser River’s shores to the Britannia Shipyards, another national historic site.

It was there the factory’s workers lived, alongside people building and repairing fishing boats nearby. Not only have the dozen-or-so buildings been authentically restored so you can glimpse how workers a century ago slept, ate, and entertained themselves—but you can only reach them by wooden boardwalks sunk on posts into the tidal marsh. Imagine your house had a moat, like a medieval castle, but of course

significantly smaller.

Be sure to also go inside the shipyard village’s Murakami House, which tells the story of Asayo and Otokichi Murakami and their family. From 1929 to 1942 single grey-wooden house hosted them and their 10 children. It faces the giant warehouse where they built their own gillnet fishing boats every winter in preparation for the next fishing season.

But if you think twelve family members to a tiny house is spacious compared to the two-storey bunkhouse for Chinese labourers further east down the boardwalk, which once served as the shipyard’s “main street.”

After hundreds of migrant workers from China died during construction of Canada’s national railway, many of the 17,000 workers who survived stayed and found work in the fishing industry.

Yet despite the racism they continued to face and the terrible conditions they worked under here, the rows of bunk beds in the Chinese bunkhouse also show that the 75 workers living there became friends, ate together, read political newspapers, and played games of mah jong in their spare time.

If you feel like being a little more adventurous, you can continue following the shores of the Fraser River east another 90 minutes walk to discover Finn Slough. (A Finn is a person from Finland, and a slough is a muddy swamp).

This miniature real-life village includes a wooden drawbridge, crumbling riverbank boardwalks, and some floating houses. It was built in the late 1890s, without any government permission, right on top of the waters by fishing families who moved here from Finland.

Like the Gulf of Georgia Cannery to its west, Finn Slough is a reminder of how crucial salmon fishing has been to the economy of B.C. A small number of people, including some of the original families, still live in this community—so please be respectful if you visit. It is not a developed tourist destination but a living community. There is, however, one historic sign explaining how the Finn Slough Heritage & Wetland Society is currently trying to save the village from being closed down.

If you find yourself with time to spare on your way back from the cannery and shipyards, another beautiful nearby Richmond attraction is the International Buddhist Society’s massive Guan-Yin Temple on Steveston Highway.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary last year, this intricately designed complex includes numerous meditation halls, several enormous golden Buddha statues (including one with at least ten thousand arms), and a small dining hall where you can have lunch or tea by donation.

The temple’s motto is “inspire your mind and spirit,” and you can spend your time peacefully enjoying its gardens, ponds and artwork, or experiencing traditional ceremonies offered by its nuns and monks.

There’s much more to discover in Richmond, even if you won’t find these attractions in most tourist brochures. But the area’s quirky sights makes it my top place to take guests when they visit—and maybe learn a little more about the history of our province. o

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Rep Tel. 604 937 7979

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| Guidebookinfo

Book of Lists

in BC On the following pages you will find lists of important resources that are valuable to international students and new Canadians. Here you will find everything from entertainment to housing, from schools to libraries, from hospitals to consulates.

We even have employment listings to get you started on your new life in BC.

Guidebook | FEB 28, 2014 | British Columbia Institution Capilano University Emily Carr University of Art and Design Fairleigh Dickinson University Kwantlen Polytechnic University Quest University Royal Roads University S.F.U. (Simon Fraser University) Thompson Rivers University Trinity Western University U.B.C. University of Victoria University Canada West University of the Fraser Valley University of Northern British Columbia Vancouver River Island University

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North Vancouver 1968 7,500 0 7,500 Vancouver 1925 1,870 28 1,898 Vancouver 78 2007 78 [not in citation given] 0 Richmond, Surrey, Langley 1981 16,811 0 16,811 Squamish 2002 300 0 300 Victoria 1995 887 3,385 4,272 Burnaby, Surrey & Vancouver 1965 29,697 5,507 35,204 Kamloops 1970 13,072 100 13,172 Langley 1962 2,130 730 2,860 Vancouver & Kelowna 1908 41,700 8,630 50,330 Victoria 1963 18,863 3,542 22,405 Vancouver 2005 n/a 0 n/a Abbotsford, Chilliwackand Mission 1974 8,124 40 8,164 ColumbiaPrince George 1990 3,068 490 3,558 Nanaimo, Duncan,Parksville & Powell 1969 6,116 163 6,279

E – Established, U – Undergraduate enrolment, P – Postgraduate enrolment, T – Total enrolment

604-599-2100 8771 Lansdowne Rd, Richmond, BC V6X 3V8

Simon Fraser University

778-782-3111 www.sfu.ca 8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6

Institute BCIT(British Columbia Institute of Technology)

www.jibc.ca 604-525-5422 715 McBride Blvd., New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5T4

Nicola Valley Institute of Technology www.nvit.bc.ca 1-250-378-3300 4155 Belshaw St.

Colleges Acsenda School of Management

www.acsenda.com 604-430-5111 9th Floor, 1090 West Pender St., Vancouver, BC V6E 2N7

Thompson Rivers University

www.tru.ca/ 1-250-828-5289 900 McGill Rd, Kamloops, BC V2C 6N6

Fairleigh Dickinson University view.fdu.edu 604-682-8112 842 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6

Vancouver Island University

www.viu.ca 1-250-753-3245 900 Fifth St, Nanaimo, V9R 5S5

Royal Roads University www.royalroads.ca 1-250-391-2600 2005 Sooke Rd, Victoria, BC V9B 5Y2

University of Victoria

www.uvic.ca 1-250-721-7211 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, V8P 5C2

University Canada West

1-800-360-7213 www.ucanwest.ca 1111 Melville St, Vancouver,

camosun.ca 1–877–554–7555 3100 Foul Bay Rd, Victoria B.C. V8P 5J2

Douglas College

www.jibc.ca 1-888-865-7764 715 McBride Blvd., New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5T4

Quest

www.unbc.ca 1-250-960-5555 3333 University Way, Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9

www.questu.ca 604-898-8000 3200 University Blvd, Squamish, BC V8B 0N8

University of the Fraser Valley

www.ufv.ca 604-504-7441 33844 King Rd, Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M7

Trinity Western University twu.ca 604-888-7511 7600, Langley, BC V2Y 1Y1

Capilano University

www.capilanou.ca 604-986-1911 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

www.ecuad.ca 604-844-3800 1399 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9

University of British Columbia

www.ubc.ca 604-822-2211 2329 W Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

Kwantlen Polytechnic University www.kpu.ca

Vancouver Community College (VCC)

www.viu.ca 1-888-920-2221 900 Fifth St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5S5

Langara College

www.langara.bc.ca 604-323-5511 100 West 49th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 2Z6

College of New Caledonia

www.cnc.bc.ca 1-800-371-8111 3330-22nd Ave., Prince George, B.C. V2N 1P8

Nicola Valley Institute of Technology www.nvit.ca 1-877-682-3300 4155 Belshaw St., Merritt, B.C. V1K 1R1

North Island College

www.nic.bc.ca 1-800-715-0914 1685 South Dogwood St., Campbell River, B.C. V9W 8C1

Northern Lights College

www.nlc.bc.ca 250-782-5251 11401 8th St. Dawson Creek, B.C. V1G 4G2

Northwest Community College

www.nwcc.bc.ca 1-877-277-2288 4815 Swannell Drive Box 338 Hazelton, B.C. V0J 1Y0

Okanagan College

www.okanagan.bc.ca 1-888-831-0341 2552 Trans Hwy. NE,

Therapy

shitsu.vc 604-904-4187 142 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, V7M 2E8

Academy of Learning College www.AcademyofLearning.com 604-987-4277 1221 Lonsdale Ave., Suite 300 North Vancouver, V7M 2H5

www.tourismcollege.com 604-582-1122 #320 - 10362 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C. V3T 2W5

Alexander College

www.alexandercollege.ca 604-681-5608 #100 - 602 West Hastings, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 1P2

Alive Academy of Natural Health www.aliveacademy.com 604 295-9333 / 1-800-663-6580 100 - 12751 Vulcan Way, Richmond, B.C., V6V 3C8

All Body Laser Corp.

Training Institute

www.allbodylaser.com 604-773-7515 140-2627 Shaughnessy St., Port Coquitlam, V3C 0E1

Alliance Career College

alliancecareercollege.com 604-498-0701 202 - 10114 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C. V3T 2W4

Amethyest College

www.amethystcollege.com 604-559-9123 201 - 6125 Sussex Ave., Burnaby, BC. V5H 4G1

Arbutus College

www.arbutuscollege.com 604-681-7701 #580- Spencer Bldg Harbour Centre, Vancouver, V6B 4N5 BC College of Optics www.bccollegeofoptics.ca 10070 King George Blvd, Suite #208 Surrey, BC V3T 2W4 604-581-0101

Aveda Institute

www.avedainstitute.ca 604-669-6992 101-111 Water St., Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1A7

Blanche Macdonald Centre

www.blanchemacdonald.com 604 685-0347 100 - 555 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC. V5Z 3X7

Cambridge College

cambridgecollege.ca 604-438-7246 454 -4800 Kingsway, Burnaby, V5H 4J2

Canadian College of Performing Arts

www.ccpacanada.com 250-595-9970 1701 Elgin Road Victoria, V8R 5L7

Canadian College of Shiatsu

604-738-0285 395 West Broadway, Vancouver, V5Y 1A7

Gente Bella Beauty Academy www.beautyschool.ca

Canadian Health Care Academy 604-795-9158 canadianhealthcareacademy.com 604-540-2421 93 Sixth St 2nd floor, New Westminster, V3L 2Z8

Canadian Tourism College

www.tourismcollege.com Vancouver : 604-736-8000 #300 - 530 Hornby Street.

Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2E7 Surrey : 604-582-1122 #320 - 10362 King George Hwy., Surrey, BC V3T 2W5

CareerGate Community College 604-855-8808 107-33119 South Fraser Way Abbotsford, BC. V2S 2B1

CDI College

Career Colleges

AD Canadian Tourism College

Justice Institute of B.C.

University of Northern British Columbia

www.selkirk.ca 1-888-953-1133 301 Frank Beinder Way, Castlegar, B.C. V1N 4L3

Vancouver Island University

www.douglas.bc.ca 604-527-5400 PO Box 2503, New Westminster, B.C. V3L 5B2

BC V6E 3V6

Selkirk College

Justice Institute of British Columbia

Camosun College

University

www.cotr.bc.ca 1-877-489-2687 2700 College Way, Box 8500, Cranbrook B.C. V1C 5L7

www.vcc.ca 604-871-7000 1155 East Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V5T 4V5

www.educacentre.com 1-800-747-4825 896 West 8th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2

o University o Institute o Colleges o Career Colleges o ESL School o School District

College of the Rockies

www.bcit.ca 604-434-5734 3700 Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2

Collège Éducacentre

List of School

Salmon Arm, B.C. V1 E 4N3

www.cdicollege.ca 1-800-675-4392 710-626 West Pender St, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1V9 500 - 5021 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C. V5H 4A5 180 - 4351 No.3 Rd, Richmond, B.C. V6X 3A7 100 -11125 124th St., Surrey, B.C. V3V 4V2

Centre of Art & Technology Canada

9222 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. V2P 4R2

Greystone College

www.greystonecollege.com 604-682-3880 560 Granville St., Vancouver, V6C 1W6

Hair art Academy

hairartacademy.com 604-541-1541 15585 24th Ave., Surrey, BC. V4A 2J4

Insignia College of Health and Business

insigniacollege.com 250-381-7733 / 1-888-681-7733 200-607 Yates St., Victoria, BC. V8W 1L1

John Casablancas Institute of Applied Arts www.jcinstitute.com 604-688-0328 Suite 150-220 Cambie St, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 2M9

Kosmetae Academy

www.kosmetae.com 604-850-5777 / 1-800-661-5755 3-32700 George Ferguson Way Abbotsford, BC. V2T 4V6

www.digitalartschool.com 250-860-2787 100-1632 Dickson Avenue Kelowna, V1Y 7T2

Lions Gate Career College

CG Masters School of 3D Animation and Visual Effects

Lost Boys Studios- School of Visual Effects

academy.cg-masters.com 604-553-2462 800 Carnarvon St. Suite 320, New Westminster, B.C. V3M 0G3

Coastal Pacific Aviation

www.lionsgatecareercollege.com 604-639-9075 2nd Floor - 321 Water St., Vancouver, V6B 1B8

www.lostboys-studio.com 604-558-4999 200-495 Railway St., Vancouver, B.C., V6A 1A7

www.coastalpacific.com 604-855-1112 30575 Approach Drive Abbotsford, V2T 6H5

M.C. College

Drake Medox College

Metropolitan Community College

www.drakemedoxcollege.com 604-629-0196 200 - 535 West 10th Ave. 2nd Floor, Vancouver, V5Z 1K9

Discovery Community College

discoverycommunitycollege.com 1-877-737-0758 22141 119 Ave. Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 2Y7 Unit A&B 1713 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, B.C. V9S 1G8 266 Moilliet St. Parksville, B.C. V9P 1M9 6151 Russell Place, Port Alberni, B.C. V9Y 7W3 201 - 1025 Cliffe Ave, Courtenay, B.C. V9N 2J9 1325 Shoppers Row, Campbell River, B.C. V9W 2C9

mccollege.ca Vernon 1-250-542-8393 3409 31 Ave. Vernon, B.C., V1T 2H6

www.metropolitancollege.ca 604 320-3332 5675 Boundary Rd., Vancouver, BC. V5R 2P9

Mirage Spa Education Canada

miragespa.ca 604-217-6631 2520 Turner St., Victoria, V8T 5J2

Ms. Lorea's College of Esthetics & Nail Technology Inc www.msloreas.com 250-561-9192 1593 3rd Ave., Prince George, B.C., V2L 3G3

MTI Community College

www.excelcareercollege.com 250 334-2452 / 1-888-280-2452 203-1995 Cliffe Ave., Courtney BC. V9N 2L2

www.mticc.com Vancouver 604-682-6020 541 Seymour St., Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3H6 Burnaby 1-604-437-6030 Suite 100 - 6446 Nelson Ave., Burnaby, B.C., V5H 3J5 North Road 1-604-559-6020 106 – 3433 North Rd, Burnaby, B.C., V3J 0A9 Abbotsford 1-604-864-8920 308 - 2777 Gladwin Rd, Abbotsford, B.C., V2T 4V1 Chilliwack 1-604-392-6020 45860 Cheam Ave., Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 1N6 Surrey 1-604-583-6020 10072 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C. V3T 2W4

Fraser Valley Community College

Nimbus School of Recording Arts

DiveSafe International

www.divesafe.com 250 287-3837 / 1-888-325-3483 342 - 1003A Island Highway Campbell River, B.C., V9W 5B6

Eton College

www.etoncollege.ca 604-677-4431 706-333 Terminal Ave., Vancouver, V6A 4C1

Excel Career College

www.fraservalleycommunitycollege.com 604-599-5535 210-8334 128th St., Surrey, V3W 4G2

Gateway College

www.gwcollege.ca

nimbusrecording.com 604-875-8998 242 East 2nd Ave.,Vancouver, V5T 1B7

North American Montesorri

School

www.montessoritraining.net 604-531-6665 13469 27 Ave., Surrey, V4P 1Z1

Omni College

omnicollege.com 604-279-1800 8788 McKim Way Suite 3180, Richmond, B.C. V6X 4E2

Pacific Coast Community College pacificcoastcommunitycollege.com 604-730-1106 202 - 1338 West Broadway, Vancouver, V6H 1H2

Pacific Flying Club

www.pacificflyingclub.com 604-946-0011 Unit 4 - 4335 Skeena St., Delta, V4K 0A6

Pacific Horticulture College hcp.ca 1-250-479-6162 505 Quayle Road. Victoria, BC. V9E 2J7

Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts

www.picachef.com 604-734-4488 101-1505 West 2nd Ave., Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3Y4

Pacific Rim College

www.pacificrimcollege.ca 250-483-2119 229-560 Johnson St., Victoria, V8W 3C6

ProCare Institute Inc.

www.procare.ca 640-291-0030 / 1-800-2820030 4411 Hastings Street, Suite 240 Burnaby, BC. V5C 2K1

Q College

qcollege.ca 250-298-5059 301 - 771 Vernon Ave., Victoria, V8X 5A7

Rhodes Wellness College

www.rhodescollege.ca 604-708-4416 280-1125 Howe St., Vancouver, V6Z 2K8

Sprott Shaw College

www.sprottshaw.com Vancouver 604-683-7400 200 – 885 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, B.C., V6C 1N8 Vancouver East 604-251-4473 2750 Rupert St, Vancouver, B.C., V5M 3T7 New Westminster 604-520-3900 420 – 88 Sixth St, New Westminster, B.C., V3L 5B3 Richmond 604-270-8867 7920 Cambie Road, Richmond, B.C., V6X 2B8 Surrey 604-583-1004 217 – 9801 King George Blvd, Surrey, B.C., V3T 5H5 Nanaimo 250-754-9600 6 – 140 Terminal Avenue, Nanaimo, B.C., V9R 5C5 Abbotsford 604-504-3323 1 – 33655 Essendene Ave. Abbotsford, B.C., V2S 2G5 Victoria 250-384-8121 2621 Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C., V8T 4M2 Kelowna 250-860-8884 200-546 Leon Ave, Kelowna, B.C., V1Y 6J6 Penticton 250-770-2277 2603 Skaha Lake Road, Penticton, B.C., V2A 6E8 Kamloops 250-314-1122 301 – 340 Victoria Street, Kamloops, B.C., V2C 2A5

Stenberg College

www.stenbergcollege.com 604-580-2772 750-13450 102nd Ave., Surrey, V3T 5X3

Suki’s Hair Academy

www.sukis.com/academy 604-738-0519 206-1030 Georgia St., W Vancouver, B.C. V6E 2Y3

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TEC The Education Company Inc. www.tecglobal.net 604-634-1113 200-13889 104th Ave., Surrey, V3T 1W8

Thompson Career College

www.thompsoncc.ca 250-372-8211 744 Victoria St., Kamloops, V2C 2B6

Tru Spa Institute

truspainstitute.ca 250-754-8637 #1 - 77 Victoria Crescent, Abbotsford, V9R 5B9

Utopia Academy

www.utopiaacademy.com 604-681-4450 220-181 Keefer Place, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6C1

VanArts - Vancouver Institute of Media Arts

www.vanarts.com 604-682-2787 570 Dunsmuir St. Suite 600, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1Y1

Vancouver Career College

www.vccollege.ca 1-800-651-1067 1100 - 626 West Pender St. Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1V9 5021 Kingsway, Burnaby, B.C. V5H 4A5 5-1180 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, B.C. V3B 7L2 Suite 230 Gateway Tower - 13401 108 Ave, Surrey, B.C. V3T 5T3 2702 Ware Street, Abbotsford, B.C. V2S 5E6 1649 Pandosy Street, Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 1P6

VANCOUVER COLLEGE OF COUNSELOR TRAINING

www.vcct.ca 604 683-2442 / 1-800-667-3272 206 EAST 6TH Ave., Vancouver, BC. V5T 1J8

WESTERN ACADEMY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

westernacademyofphotography.com 250-383-1522 / 1-866-889-1235 755A Queens Ave., Victoria, BC. V8T 1M2

Western Maritime Institute

www.maritimeed.com 250-245-4455 3519 Hallberg Rd., Port Alberni, V9G 1B5

Windsong School of Healing Ltd.

www.windsonghealing.com 250-723-3307 6199 Smith Rd., Port Alberni, V9Y 8M1

Winston College

winstoncollege.com 604-357-8022 1176 Eighth Avenue, New Westminste, V3M 2R6

ESL Schools

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604-981-1000, Fax : 604-981-1001

EF International Language School

School District No. 044 (North Vancouver)

www.ef.com 1-800-387-2457 #400 – 929 Granville St., 4th Floor, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1L3

Eurocentres – Vancouver

www.languagecanada.com 604-688-7942 #250 – 815 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC V6C 1B4

www.ctvancouverenglishschool.com 604-358-7292 #120-1020 Mainland St., Vancouver

Archer College

604-608-0538 Main Floor – 788 Beatty St., Vancouver, BC

Bodwell Language School

604-602-7633 www.bodwell.edu 473 West Hastings St., Vancouver

CSLI – Canadian as a Second Language Institute

Inlingua Vancouver

www.sd40.B.C.ca 1001 Columbia St, New Westminster B.C. V3M 1C4 604-517-6240, Fax : 604-517-6390

www.inlinguavancouver.com 604-605-0960 #300 – 150 Water Street (1) Vancouver, BC, V6B 1B2 #300 – 816 Granville Street (2) Vancouver, BC V6Z 1K3

International House

www.ihvancouver.com 604-739-9836 #200 – 1215 West Broadway Vancouver, BC, V6H 1G7

International Language Schools of Canada (ILSC) www.ilsc.ca Vancouver 604-689-9095 555 Richards St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 2Z5

Intrax International Institute

www.intraxinstitute.edu 604-609-9934 827 West PenderSt., Vancouver, BC

Kaplan Aspect Vancouver

www.kaplanaspect.com 604-602-9818 #150 – 1111 Melville St., Vancouver

Language Studies Canada (LSC) Vancouver

www.lsc-canada.com 604-683-1199 Suite 200, 570 Dunsmuir St., Vancouver, BC

Newton College Vancouver ncv.ca 604-683-7218 #790 – 555 Seymour St., Vancouver, BC

Pan Pacific International English College

www.panpacificcanada.com 250-380-9030 3rd Floor – 810 Fort St., Victoria, BC

Vancouver English Centre

www.vec.ca 604-687-1600 250 Smithe St., Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Georgia College

www.vgcanada.com 604-688-9057 #101 – 1190 Melville St., Vancouver,

VanWest College

www.vanwest.com 604-731-5256 ext. 109 #200 – 1016 Nelson St., Vancouver, V6E 1H8 www.wtccanada.com 604-844-7660 #100–626 West Pender St.,Vancouver

Zoni Language Centre Vancouver

www.zoni.com 604-687-7000 568 Seymour St, 4th floor, Vancouver, BC V6B3J5

School District School District No. 039 (Vancouver)

www.csli.com 604-683-2754 188 Nelson St., Vancouver, BC

www.vsb.B.C.ca 1580 West Broadway, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 5K8 604-713-5000, Fax : 604-713-5049

Canadian College of English Language

School District No. 045 (West Vancouver)

www.canada-english.com 604-688-9366 #450 – 1050 Alberni St., Vancouver,

School District No. 041 (Burnaby)

GEOS Language Academy

Western Town College Come Together Vancouver English School

www.nvsd44.B.C.ca 2121 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2K6 604-903-3444, Fax : 604-903-3445 www.sd41.B.C.ca 5325 Kincaid St, Burnaby, B.C. V5G 1W2 604-296-6900, Fax : 604-296-6910

www.geosvancouver.com 604-684-6407 #298 – 1199 West Pender St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 1B6

www.sd45.B.C.ca 1075 21st St, West Vancouver, V7V 4A9

Hospitals

School District No. 040 (New Westminster)

School District No. 038 (Richmond)

www.sd38.B.C.ca 7811 Granville Ave, Richmond, B.C. V6Y 3E3 604-668-6000, Fax : 604-233-0151

School District No. 043 (Coquitlam)

www.sd43.B.C.ca 550 Poirier St, Coquitlam, B.C. V3J 6A7 604-939-9201, Fax : 604-939-7828

School District No. 042 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows)

www.sd42.ca 22225 Brown Ave, Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 8N6 604-463-4200, Fax : 604-463-4181

School District No. 075 (Mission)

www.mpsd.ca 33046 Fourth Ave, Mission, B.C. V2V 1S5 604-826-6286, Fax : 604-826-4517

School District No. 078 (Fraser-Cascade)

www.sd78.B.C.ca 650 Kawkawa Lake Rd, Hope, B.C. V0X 1L4 604-869-2411, Fax : 604-869-7400

School District No. 037 (Delta)

www.deltasd.B.C.ca 4585 Harvest Dr, Delta, B.C. V4K 5B4 604-946-4101, Fax : 604-952-5375

School District No. 036 (Surrey)

www.sd36.B.C.ca 14033 92nd Ave, Surrey, B.C. V3V 0B7 604-596-7733, Fax : 604-595-6307

School District No. 035 (Langley)

www.sd35.B.C.ca 4875 222nd St, Langley, B.C. V3A 3Z7 604-534-7891, Fax : 604 533-1115

School District No. 034 (Abbotsford)

www.sd34.B.C.ca 2790 Tims St, Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 4M7 604-859-4891, Fax : 604 852-8587

School District No. 033 (Chilliwack)

www.sd33.B.C.ca 8430 Cessna Dr, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 7K4 604-792-1321, Fax : 604 792-9665

School District No. 061 (Greater Victoria)

www.sd61.B.C.ca 556 Boleskine Rd, Victoria, B.C. V8Z 1E8 1-250-475-3212, Fax : 250 475-6161

School District No. 064 (Gulf Islands)

www.sd64.B.C.ca 112 Rainbow Rd, Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2K3 250-537-5548, Fax : 250 537-4200

School District No. 062 (Sooke)

www.sd62.B.C.ca 3143 Jacklin Rd, Victoria, B.C. V9B 5R1 250-474-9800, Fax : 250 474-9825

School District No. 068 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)

www.sd68.B.C.ca 395 Wakesiah Ave, Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 3K6 250-754-5521, Fax : 250 741-524

Directory Emergency Police/Fire/Ambulance Poison Control Centre Emergency First Aid Provincial Emergency Program BC Gas / Terasen Gas (Leaks) BC Hydro (Emergencies) Fortis BC (Emergencies)

911 (If available) 1-800-567-8911 604-822-4444 1-800-663-3456 1-800-663-9911 1-888-769-3766 1-866-436-7847

Non-Emergency Numbers P : Police F : Fire A : Ambulance Abbotsford P 604-859-5225 F 604-853-3566 A 604-872-5151 Aldergrove P 604-532-3200 F 604-532-7500 A 604-872-5151 Anmore / Belcarra P 604-945-1550 F 604-937-4102 A 604-872-5151 Bowen Island P 604-947-0516 F 604-947-9324 A 604-872-5151 Burnaby P 604-294-7922 F 604-294-7190 A 604-872-5151 Chilliwack P 604-792-4611 F 604-792-8713 A 604-872-5151 Coquitlam P 604-945-1550 F 604-927-6400 A 604-872-5151 Davis Bay P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151 Delta P 604-946-4411 F 604-952-3100 A 604-872-5151 Egmont P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Garden Bay P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Gibson P 604-885-2266 F 604-886-7777 A 604-872-5151 Halfmoon Bay P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-5712 A 604-872-5151 Langley City P 604-532-3200 F 604-514-2880 A 604-872-5151 Langley Township P 604-532-3200 F 604-532-7500 A 604-872-5151 Lions Bay P 604-892-6100 F 604-543-6700 A 604-872-5151 Maderia Creek P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Maple Ridge P 604-463-6251 F 604-463-5880 A 604-872-5151 Mission P 604-826-7161 F 604-826-2313 A 604-872-5151 New Westminster P 604-525-5411 F 604-519-1000 A 604-872-5151 North Vancouver City P 604-985-1311 F 604-980-5021 A 604-872-5151 North Vancouver District P 604-985-1311 F 604-980-7575 A 604-872-5151 Pender Harbour P 604-885-2266 F 604-883-9270 A 604-872-5151 Pitt Meadows P 604-463-6251 F 604-465-2401 A 604-872-5151 Port Coquitlam P 604-945-1550 F 604-927-5466 A 604-872-5151 Port Moody P 604-461-3456 F 604-469-7795 A 604-872-5151 Richmond P 604-278-1212 F 604-278-5131 A 604-872-5151 Roberts Creek P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-6871 A 604-872-5151 Sechelt P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151 Secret Cove P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-5712 A 604-872-5151 Selma Park P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151 Squamish P 604-892-6100 F 604-898-9666 A 604-872-5151 Surrey P 604-599-0502 F 604-543-6700 A 604-872-5151 University Endowment Lands P 604-224-1322 F 604-665-6000 A 604-872-5151 Vancouver P 604-717-3321 F 604-665-6000 A 604-872-5151 West Vancouver P 604-925-7300 F 604-925-7370 A 604-872-5151 Whistler P 604-932-3044 F 604-935-8260 A 604-872-5151 White Rock P 778-593-3600 F 604-541-2121 A 604-872-5151 Wilson Creek P 604-885-2266 F 604-885-7017 A 604-872-5151

B.C. Children’s Hospital 604-875-2345 4480 Oak Street.

Vancouver, BC, V6H 3V4 B.C. Women’s Hospital 604-875-2424 4500 Oak Street.

Vancouver, BC, V6H 3N1 Cambie Surgery Centre 604-874-1349 2836 Ash St, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 3C6 Holy Family Hospital 604-321-2661 7801 Argyle St. Vancouver, BC, V5P 3L6 Lions Gate Hospital 604-988-3131 231 15th St E, N. Vancouver, BC V7L 2L7 Mount St. Joseph Hospital 604-874-1141 3080 Prince Edward St, Van. BC, V5T 3N4 Providence Health Care 604-876-7191 4875 Heather St, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 0A7 St. Paul’s Hospital 604-682-2344 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6 St. Vincent's Hospital 604-325-4116 Langara 255 62nd Ave W, Vancouver. BC, V5X 4V4 UBC Hospital 604-822-7121 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5 Vancouver General Hospital 604-875-4111 855 West 12th Ave, Vancouver, B.C., V5Z 1M9 Campbell River & District General Hospital 1-250-287-7111 375 2nd Ave. Campbell River, BC. Central Vancouver Island Health Region 1-250-755-3010 610 495 Dunsmuir. Nanaimo, BC. Chemainus Health Care Centre 1-250-246-3291 9909 Esplanade. Chemainus, BC. Cowichan District Hospital 1-250-746-4141 3045 Gibbins. Duncan, BC. Cumberland Health Center 1-250-336-8531 2696 Windermere Ave. Cumberland, BC. Eagle Park Health Care Facility 1-250-752-7075 777 Jones St. Qualicum Beach, BC. Hospital Port Alice 1-250-284-3555 1090 Marine Dr. Port Alice, BC. Hospital St George's 1-250-974-5585 182 Fir. Alert Bay, BC. Hospital West Coast General 1-250-723-2135 3841 8th Ave. Port Alberni, BC. Kyuquot Red Cross Hospital 1-250-332-5289 100 Okime Isl, Kyuquot, BC V0P 1J0 Ladysmith General Hospital 1-250-245-2221 1111 4th Ave. Ladysmith, BC. Nanaimo Regional General Hospital 1-250-755-7615 1200 Dufferin Cres. Nanaimo, BC. Port Alice Hospital 1-250-284-3555 1090 Marine Dr. Port Alice, BC. Port Hardy Hospital 1-250-949-6161 9120 Granville. Port Hardy, BC. Port Mcneill & District Hospital 1-250-956-4461 2750 Kingcome Pl. Port Mcneill, BC. Red Cross Outpost Hospital 1-250-728-3312 245 Bamfield Boardwalk.

Bamfield W, BC. St George's Hospital 1-250-974-5585 182 Fir. Alert Bay, BC. St Joseph's General Hospital 1-250-339-2242 2137 Comox. Comox, BC. Tahsis Health Centre

1-250-934-6322 1085 S Maquinna Dr. Tahsis, BC. Tofino General Hospital 1-250-725-3212 261 Neill Tofino, BC. Trillium Extended Care Hospital 1-250-947-8230 401 Moilliet St, Parksville, BC V9P 1J9

Youth Clinics Access for Deaf/Hard of Hearing 604-660-0508 Richmond or Vancouver TTY/TDD Vancouver, BC Boulevard Youth Clinic 604-261-6366 2110 W. 43rd Ave., Vancouver, BC Tuesday: 2:30pm-5:30pm Broadway Youth Resource Centre 604-709-5720 691 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC Monday: 2:30pm-5:30pm Thursday: 4:30pm-7:00pm Commercial Drive Youth Clinic 604-253-3575 1145 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C. Thursday: 2:30pm-6:00pm East Youth Clinic 604-872-2511 3452 Crowley Dr., Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday: 3:30pm-6:00pm Friday: 2:00pm-4:30pm Knight Street Clinic 604-321-6151 6405 Knight St., Vancouver, B.C. Monday: 2:00pm-4:30pm Thursday: 5:30-8:00pm Main Street Youth Clinic 604-709-6400 3998 Main St., Vancouver, B.C. Wednesday: 2:30pm-5:30pm Pine Community Health Clinic 604-736-2391 1985 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. Mon, Tue, Thu, & Fri: 9:00am-12:00pm, 2:00pm-5:00pm Wed: 9:00am-12:00pm, 2:30pm-7:30pm *except third Wednesday of each month: 9:00am-12:00pm, 4:30-7:30pm Sat. (youth under 25 only): 1:00pm-4:00pm Three Bridges Youth Clinic 604-736-9844 1292 Hornby St., Vancouver, B.C. Monday to Friday: 8:30am-8:00pm **FREE CLINIC**

Consulates Australia 604-684-1177 1225-888 Dunsmuir, Vancouver Austria 604-683-5808 1380-200 Granville Street, Vancouver Belgium 604-684-6838 570-688 West Hastings Street, Vancouver Britain 604-683-4421 800-1111 Melville Street, Vancouver China 604-734-7492 3380 Granville Street, Vancouver Colombia 604-685-6435 890-789 West Pender Street, Vancouver Croatia 604-871-9170 3550 Commerical Street, Vancouver Denmark 604-684-5171 755-777 Hornby Street, Vancouver Equador 604-420-7767 9032 Lyra Place, Burnaby Finland 604-688-4483 1100-1188 West Georgia, Vancouver Germany 604-684-8377 704-999 Canada Place, Vancouver Greece 604-681-1381 500-688 West Hastings St. Vancouver

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604-430-5454 3819 Sunset Avenue, Burnaby United States of America 604-685-4311 1095 West Pender Street, Vancouver Uruguay 604-681-1377 1818-1177 West Hastings St. Vancouver

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$BNFSPO 4U #VSOBCZ #$ 7 + - McGill Branch 604-299-8955 4595 Albert St. Burnaby BC V5C 2G6 Tommy Douglas Library 604-522-3971 7311 Kingsway Burnaby, BC V5E 1G8 Coquitlam Public Library library.coquitlam.bc.ca/default.htm Poirier Branch 604-937-4141 1PJSJFS 4U $PRVJUMBN #$ 7 + " City Centre Branch 1169 Pinetree Way. $PRVJUMBN, BC. V3B 0Y1 604-554-7323 Fraser Valley Regional Library Abbotsford Administrative Centre 604-859-7141 1-888-668-4141 (Toll free within BC) 34589 DeLair Rd. Abbotsford, BC Canada V2S 5Y1 Abbotsford Community Library 604-853-1753 33355 Bevan Ave. Abbotsford, BC, V2S 0E7 Agassiz Library 604-796-9510 7140 Cheam Ave Agassiz, B.C. V0M 1A0 Aldergrove Library 604-856-6415 26770 - 29 Avenue Aldergrove, B.C. V4W 3B8 Boston Bar Library 604-867-8847 Boston Bar Elementary School 47643 Old Boston Bar Road Boston Bar, B.C. V0K 1C0 Brookswood Library 604-534-7055 20045-40 Ave. Langley, B.C. V3A 2W2 Chilliwack Library 604-792-1941 45860 First Avenue Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 7K1 City of Langley Library 604-514-2850 20399 Douglas Crescent Langley, B.C. V3A 4B3 Clearbrook Library 604-859-7329 32320 George Ferguson Way Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 6N4 Fort Langley Library 604-888-0722 9167 Glover Road Fort Langley, B.C. V1M 2R6 George Mackie Library 604-594-8155 8440 - 112th Street Delta, B.C. V4C 4W9 Hope Library 604-869-2313 1005A - 6th Avenue Hope, B.C. V0X 1L4 Ladner Pioneer Library 604-946-6215 4683 - 51st Street Delta, B.C. V4K 2V8 Maple Ridge Public Library

604-467-7417 130-22470 Dewdney Trunk Road Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 5Z6 Mission Library 604-826-6610 33247 Second Avenue Mission, B.C. V2V 1J9 Mount Lehman Library 5875 Mt. Lehman Road Abbotsford, B.C. V4X 1V5 604-856-4988 Muriel Arnason Library Township of Langley Civic Centre 130 - 20338 65 Avenue Langley, B.C. V2Y 2X3 604-532-3590 Murrayville Library Unit 100 - 22071 48th Ave. Langley, B.C. V3A 3N1 604-533-0339 Pitt Meadows Public Library 604-465-4113 #200 - 12099 Harris Road Pitt Meadows, B.C. V3Y 0E5 Sardis Library 604-858-5503 5819 Tyson Rd. Sardis, B.C. V2R 3R6 Terry Fox Library 604-927-7999 2470 Mary Hill Road Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3C 3B1 Tsawwassen Library 604-943-2271 1321A - 56th St. Delta, B.C. V4L 2A6 Walnut Grove Community Centre Library 604-882-0410 8889 Walnut Grove Drive Langley, B.C. V1M 2N7 White Rock Library 604-541-2201 15342 Buena Vista White Rock, B.C. V4B 1Y6 Yale Elementary School Library 604-863-2279 65050 Albert St. Yale, B.C. V0K 2S0 Yarrow Library 604-823-4664 4670 Community Street Yarrow, B.C. V2R 5E1 Gibsons and District Public Library 604-886-2130 gibsons.bclibrary.ca 470 South Fletcher Road Gibsons, B.C. V0N 1V0 Greater Victoria Public Library Central 1-250-382-7241 735 Broughton St. Victoria BC. V8W 3H2 Bruce Hutchison 1-250-727-0104 4636 Elk Lake Dr. Victoria, BC. V8Z 7K2 Central Saanich 1-250-727-0104 4636 Elk Lake Dr. Victoria, BC. V8Z 7K2 Emily Carr 1-250-475-6100 3500 Blanshard St. Victoria, BC V8X 1W3 Esquimalt 1-250-414-7198 1231 Esquimalt Rd. Victoria, BC V9A 3P1 Goudy 1-250-391-5702 119-755 Goldstream Ave. Victoria, BC V9B 0H9 Juan de Fuca 1-250-391-0653 1759 Island Hwy. Victoria, BC V9B 1J1 Nellie McClung 1-250-477-7111 3950 Cedar Hill Rd. Victoria, BC V8P 3Z9 Oak Bay 1-250-592-2489 1442 Monterey Ave. Victoria, BC. V8S 4W1 Saanich Centennial 1-250-477-9030 3110 Tillicum Rd. Victoria, BC. V9A 6T2 New Westminster Public Library 604-527-4660 716 - 6th Ave New Westminster BC V3M 2B3 North Central Library Federation c/o Burns Lake Public Library

Burns Lake BC V0J 1E0 1-250-692-3192 North Vancouver City Library 120 W 14th St North Vancouver BC. V7M 1N9 604-998-3450 Fax:604-980-8145 North Vancouver District Public Library www.nvdpl.ca/ Lynn Valley Branch 604-984-0286 1277 Lynn Valley Rd North Vancouver, B.C. V7J 2A1 Capilano Branch 604-987-4471 3045 Highland Blvd.

North Vancouver, B.C. V7R 2X4 Parkgate Branch 604-929-3727 3675 Banff Court North Vancouver, B.C. V7H 2Z8 Pemberton and District Library pemberton.bclibrary.ca/ 604-894-6916 7390A Cottonwood St. Pemberton, B.C. VON 2L0 Port Moody Public Library library.portmoody.ca/ 604-469-4575 PO Box 37 Port Moody BC V3H 3E1 Powell River Public Library 604-485-4796 4411 Michigan Ave Powell River BC V8A 2S3 Richmond Public Library www.yourlibrary.ca Brighouse Branch 100-7700 Minoru Gate Richmond, B.C. V6Y 1R8 604-231-6404 Ironwood Branch 11688 Steveston Hwy, Unit 8200 Richmond, B.C. V7A 1N6 604-231-6468 Steveston Branch 4111 Moncton Street Richmond, B.C. V7E 3A8 604-274-2012 Cambie Branch Unit 150 - 11590 Cambie Road Richmond, B.C. V6X 3Z5 604) 273-2223 Sechelt Public Library PO Box 2104 Sechelt BC V0N 3A0 604-885-3260 Fax:604-885-5183 Squamish Public Library PO Box 1039 Squamish BC V8B 0A7 604-892-3110 Fax:604-892-9376 Surrey Public Library www.surreylibraries.ca City Centre Library 10350 University Drive Surrey, B.C. V3T 4B8 604-598-7300 Cloverdale Branch 5642 - 176A Street Surrey, B.C. V3S 4G9 604-598-7320 Fleetwood Branch 15996 - 84 Avenue Surrey, B.C. V4N 0W1 604-598-7340 Guildford Branch 15105 - 105th Avenue Surrey, B.C. V3R 7G8 604-598-7360 Newton Branch 13795 - 70th Ave. Surrey, B.C. V3W 0E1 604-598-7400 Ocean Park Branch 12854 - 17th Avenue Surrey, B.C. V4A 1T5 604-502-6304 Port Kells Branch 18885 - 88th Avenue Surrey, B.C. V3S 5X7 604-598-744 Semiahmoo 1815 - 152nd Street, Surrey, B.C. V4A 9Y9 604-592-6900 Strawberry Hill 7399 - 122nd Street Surrey, B.C. V3W 5J2 604-501-5836 Vancouver Public Library www.vpl.ca

Central Library 350 West Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C. V6B 6B1 604-331-3603 Britannia Branch 1661 Napier Street Vancouver, B.C. V5L 4X4 604-665-2222 Carnegie Branch 401 Main St. Vancouver, B.C. V6A 2T7 604-665-3010 Champlain Heights Branch 7110 Kerr St. Vancouver, B.C. V5S 4W2 604-665-3955 Collingwood Branch 2985 Kingsway Vancouver, B.C. V5R 5J4 604-665-3953 Dunbar Branch 4515 Dunbar St. Vancouver, B.C. V6S 2G7 604-665-3968 Firehall Branch 1455 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6H 1J8 604-665-3970 Fraserview Branch 1950 Argyle Drive Vancouver, B.C. V5P 2A8 604-665-3957 Hastings Branch 604-665-3959 2674 East Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. V5K 1Z6 Joe Fortes Branch 604-665-3972 870 Denman Street Vancouver, B.C. V6G 2L8 Kensington Branch 604-665-3961 1428 Cedar Cottage Mews Vancouver B.C. V5N 5Z1 Kerrisdale Branch 604-665-3974 2112 West 42 Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6M 2B6 Kitsilano Branch 604-665-3976 2425 MacDonald Street Vancouver, B.C. V6K 3Y9 Marpole Branch 604-665-3978 8386 Granville Street Vancouver, B.C. V6P 4Z7 Mount Pleasant Branch 604-665-3962 1 Kingsway Vancouver, B.C. V5T 3H7 Oakridge Branch 604-665-3980 191 - 650 West 41st Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 2M9 Renfrew Branch 604-257-8705 2969 East 22nd Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V5M 2Y3 South Hill Branch 604-665-3965 6076 Fraser Street Vancouver, B.C. V5W 2Z7 Strathcona Branch 604-665-3967 592 East Pender Street Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1V5 Terry Salman Branch 604-665-3964 4575 Clancy Loranger Way Vancouver, BC V5Y 2M4 West Point Grey Branch 604-665-3982 4480 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, B.C. V6R 2H9 West Vancouver Memorial Library 604-925-7400 1950 Marine Dr West Vancouver BC V7V 1J8 Whistler Public Library 604-935-8433 4329 Main St Whistler BC V0N 1B4 Alert Bay Public Library 1-250-974-5721 PO Box 440, Alert Bay BC, V0N 1A0 Kootenay Library Federation 1-888-664-4553 PO Box 3125 Castlegar BC. V1N 3H4 Beaver Valley Branch beavervalley.bclibrary.ca

1-250-367-7114 1847 - 1st Street PO Box 429 Fruitvale, BC V0G 1L0 Castlegar Branch castlegar.bclibrary.ca 1-250-365-6611 1005 Third Street Castlegar, BC V1N 2A2 Cranbrook Branch www.cranbrookpubliclibrary.ca 250-426-4063 1212 2nd St. North Cranbrook BC V1C 4T6 Creston Branch www.crestonlibrary.com/ 250-428-4141 531 - 16th Ave. S Creston BC V0B 1G5 Elkford Branch www.elkfordlibrary.org 816 Michel Road PO Box 280 Elkford BC V0B 1H0 Fernie Branch fernie.bclibrary.ca 1-250-423-4458 492 Third Avenue PO Box 448 Fernie BC V0B 1M0 Grand Forks Branch grandforks.bclibrary.ca 1-250-442-3944 7342 Fifth Street PO Box 1539 Grand Forks BC V0H 1H0 Greenwood Branch invermere.bclibrary.ca 1-250-342-6416 201 - 7th Avenue PO Box 989 Invermere BC V0A 1K0 Kaslo Branch kaslo.bclibrary.ca/ 1-250-353-2942 413 Fourth Street PO Box 760 Kaslo BC V0G 1M0 Kimberley Branch kimberley.bclibrary.c 250-427-3112 115 Spokane St Kimberley BC V1A 2E5 Midway Branch midway.bclibrary.ca 1-250-449-2620 612 - 6th Avenue PO Box 268 Midway BC V0H 1M0 Nakusp Branch nakusp.bclibrary.ca 1-250-265-3363 92 - 6th Avenue, NW PO Box 297 Nakusp BC V0G 1R0 Nelson Branch nelson.bclibrary.ca 1-250-352-6333 602 Stanley St Nelson BC V1L 1N4 Radium Hot Springs Branch radium.bclibrary.ca 1-250-347-2434 Unit #2 Main Street West PO Box 293 Radium Hot Springs, BC, V0A 1M0 Rossland Branch rossland.bclibrary.ca 1-250-362-7611 2180 Columbia Avenue PO Box 190 Rossland BC V0G 1Y0 Salmo Branch salmo.bclibrary.ca 1-250-357-2312 106 - 4th Street, PO Box 458 Salmo BC V0G 1Z0 Sparwood Branch sparwood.bclibrary.ca 1-250-425-2299 110 Pine Avenue PO Box 1060 Sparwood BC V0B 2G0 Trail Branch www.traillibrary.com 1-250-364-1731 1051 Victoria St Trail BC V1R 3T3 Lillooet Area Public Library PO Box 939 Lillooet BC. V0K 1V0 Lillooet Library 1-250-256-7944 930 Main Street PO Box 939 Lillooet, B.C. V0K 1V0 Gold Bridge Library Branch 1-250-238-25211 Haylmore Street. General Delivery

Gold Bridge, B.C. V0K 1P0 Bridge River Library Branch 1-250-259-8242 41 Bridge River Town site PO Box 19 Shalalth, B.C. V0N 3C0 Burns Lake Public Library 1-250-692-3192 PO Box 449 Burns Lake BC V0J 1E0 Cariboo Regional District Library 1-250-392-3351 180 - 3rd Ave N Suite D Williams Lake BC. V2G 2A4 Castlegar & District Public Library 1-250-365-6611 1005 Third St. Castlegar BC. V1N 2A2 Chetwynd Public Library 1-250-788-2559 PO Box 1420. Chetwynd BC. V0C 1J0 Cranbrook Public Library 1-250-426-4063 1212 2nd St. North. Cranbrook BC. V1C 4T6 Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library 1-250-782-4661 1001 McKellar Ave. Dawson Creek BC. V1G 4W7 Elkford Public Library 1-250-865-2912 PO Box 280 Elkford BC. V0B 1H0 Fernie Public Library 1-250-423-4458 PO Box 448 Fernie BC. V0B 1M0 Fort Nelson Public Library 1-250-774-6777 PO Box 330 Fort Nelson BC. V0C 1R0 Fort St. James Public Library 1-250-996-7431 PO Box 729 Fort St. James BC V0J 1P0 Fort St. John Public Library 1-250-785-3731 10015 - 100th Ave. Fort St. John BC. V1J 1Y7 Fraser Lake Public Library 1-250-699-8888 PO Box 520 Fraser Lake BC V0J 1S0 Grand Forks & District Public Library 1-250-442-3944 PO Box 1539.

Grand Forks BC. V0H 1H0 Grand Forks & District Public Library 1-250-442-3944 PO Box 1539 Grand Forks BC V0H 1H0 Granisle Public Library 1-250-697-2713 PO Box 550 Granisle BC. V0J 1W0 Greenwood Public Library 1-250-445-6111 PO Box 279 Greenwood BC. V0H 1J0 Hazelton District Public Library 1-250-842-5961 PO Box 323 Hazelton BC. V0J 1Y0 Hazelton District Public Library 1-250-842-5961 PO Box 323 Hazelton BC. V0J 1Y0 Houston Public Library 1-250-845-2256 PO Box 840 Houston BC V0J 1Z0 Hudson's Hope Public Library 1-250-783-9414 PO Box 269 Hudson's Hope BC. V0C 1V0 Invermere Public Library 1-250-342-6416 PO Box 989 Invermere BC. V0A 1K0 Kimberley Public Library 1-250-427-3112 115 Spokane St Kimberley BC V1A 2E5 Kimberley Public Library 1-250-427-3112 115 Spokane St. Kimberley BC. V1A 2E5 Kitimat Public Library 1-250-632-8985 940 Wakashan Ave. Kitimat Bc. V8C 2G3 Mackenzie Public Library Box 750 Mackenzie BC. V0J 2C0 1-250-997-6343 McBride & District Public Library 1-250-569-2411 PO Box 489 McBride BC V0J 2E0 Midway Public Library 1-250-449-2620 PO Box 268 Midway BC. V0H 1M0

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56 | Nelson Public Library 1-250-352-6333 602 Stanley St Nelson BC. V1L 1N4 Okanagan Regional Library 1-250-860-4033 1430 KLO Rd Kelowna BC V1W 3P6 Armstrong Branch 1-250-546-8311 #10 - 3305 Smith Drive Armstrong, B.C. V0E 1B1 Cherryville Branch 1-250-547-9776 1114 Hwy. 6, Cherryville, B.C. V0E 2G3 Enderby Branch 1-250-838-6488 Box 226 (Mailing Address) 514 Cliff Avenue (Location) Enderby, B.C. V0E 1V0 Falkland Branch 1-250-379-2705 5771 - Highway 97 P.O. Box 33, Falkland, B.C. V0E 1W0 Golden Branch 1-250-344-6516 819 Park Ave., Golden, B.C. V0A 1H0 Hedley Branch 1-250-292-8209 789 Scott Ave., Hedley, B.C. V0X 1K0 Kaleden Branch 1-250-497-8066 101 Linden Ave., Kaleden, B.C. V0H 1K0 Kelowna Branch 1-250-762-2800 1380 Ellis St. Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 2A2 Keremeos Branch 1-250-499-2313 638 - 7th Ave., Keremeos, B.C. V0X 1N0 Lake Country Branch 1-250-766-3141 #2 - 10150 Bottom Wood Lake Rd. Lake Country, B.C. V4V 2M1 Lumby Branch 1-250-547-9528 2250 Shields Ave., Lumby, B.C. V0E 2G0 Mission Branch 1-250-764-2254 4105 Gordon Dr. Kelowna, B.C. V1W 4Z1 Naramata Branch 1-250-496-5679 3580 Third St. Naramata, B.C. V0H 1N0 North Shuswap Branch 1-250-955-8198 3867 Squilax Anglemont Rd Scotch Creek BC V0E 1M5 Okanagan Falls Branch 1-250-497-5886 #101 - 850 Railway Lane Okanagan Falls, B.C. V0H 1R4 Oliver Branch 1-250-498-2242 6239 Station St., Oliver, B.C. V0H 1T0 Osoyoos Branch 1-250-495-7637 8505 68th Ave., Osoyoos, B.C. V0H 1V0 Oyama Branch 1-250-548-3377 15718 Oyama Rd. Oyama, B.C. V4V 2E1 Peachland Branch 1-250-767-9111 Peachland Village Mall #40 - 5500 Clements Crescent Peachland, B.C. V0H 1X5 Princeton Branch 1-250-295-6495 107 Vermilion Avenue Princeton, B.C. V0X 1W0 Revelstoke Branch 1-250-837-5095 605 Campbell Avenue Revelstoke, B.C. V0E 2S0 Rutland Branch 1-250-765-8165 #20 - 301 Hwy. 33 West Kelowna, B.C. V1X 1X8 Salmon Arm Branch 1-250-832-6161 #285 Piccadilly Mall 1151 10th Ave. SW Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 1T3 Sicamous Branch 1-250-836-4845

#2 - 446 Main Street Sicamous, B.C. V0E 2V0 Silver Creek Branch 1-250-832-4719 921 Salmon River Rd. Salmon Arm, B.C. V1E 3G3 South Shuswap Branch 1-250-675-4818 #1 - 2676 Fairway Hills Road Blind Bay, B.C. V0E 1H2 Summerland Branch 1-250-494-5591 9525 Wharton Street Summerland, B.C. V0H 1Z0 Vernon Branch 1-250-542-7610 2800 - 30th Ave. Vernon, B.C. V1T 8S3 Westbank Branch 1-250-768-4369 #31 - 2484 Main St. (Hwy 97 S) West Kelowna, B.C. V4T 2G2 Pender Island Public Library PO Box 12 Pender Island BC V0N 2M0 Pender Island Public Library Branch 1-250-629-3722 4407 Bedwell Harbour Road Pender Island, BC V0N 2M0 Mayne Island Public Library Branch 1-250-539-2597 411 Naylor Road Mayne Island, BC V0N 2J0 Galiano Island Community Library Branch 1-250.539.2141 2-1290 Sturdies Bay Road Galiano Island BC V0N 1P0 Eddie Reid Memorial Library Branch 1-250-539-5312 140 East Point Road Saturna Island, BC V0N 2Y0 Penticton Public Library 1-250-770-7781 785 Main St. Penticton BC. V2A 5E3 Prince George Public Library Bob Harkins Branch 1-250-563-9251 887 Dominion Street Prince George, BC V2L 5L1 Nechako Branch 1-250-962-9710 6547 Hart Highway Prince George, BC V2K 3A4 Prince Rupert Library 1-250-627-1345 101 6th Ave W Prince Rupert BC V8J 1Y9 Radium Hot Springs Public Library 1-250-347-2434 PO Box 293 Radium Hot Springs V0A 1M0 Rossland Public Library 1-250-362-7611 PO Box 190 Rossland BC. V0G 1Y0 Salmo Public Library 1-250-357-2312 PO Box 458 Salmo BC V0G 1Z0 Salt Spring Island Public Library 1-250-537-4666 129 McPhillips Ave Salt Spring Island BC V8K 2T6 Smithers Public Library 1-250-847-3043 PO Box 55 Smithers BC V0J 2N0 Sparwood Public Library 1-250-425-2299 PO Box 1060 Sparwood BC V0B 2G0 Stewart Public Library 1-250-636-2380 PO Box 546 Stewart BC V0T 1W0 Taylor Public Library 1-250-789-9878 PO Box 730 Taylor BC. V0C 2K0 Thompson-Nicola Regional District Trail & District Public Library 1-250-364-1731 1051 Victoria St Trail BC V1R 3T3 Tumbler Ridge Public Library 1-250-242-4778 PO Box 70 Tumbler Ridge BC V0C 2W0 Valemount Public Library 1-250-566-4367 PO Box 368 Valemount BC V0E 2Z0 Vancouver Island Regional Library 1-250-758-4697 Box 3333 Nanaimo BC V9R 5N3 Bella Coola Branch 1-250-799-5330

450 MacKenzie St Bella Coola BC. V0T 1C0 Bowser Branch 1-250-757-9570 Box 181 #111 - 6996 W Island Hwy Bowser BC V0R 1G0 Campbell River Branch 1-250-287-3655 1240 Shoppers Row Campbell River BC V9W 2C8 Chemainus Branch Phone: 250-246-9471 2592 Legion St Chemainus BC V0R 1K3 Comox Branch 1-250-339-2971 1720 Beaufort Ave Comox BC V9M 1R7 Cortes Island Branch 1-250-935-6566 1255 Seaford Road (Linnaea Farm) Manson's Landing, BC. V0P 1K0 Courtenay Branch 1-250-334-3369 300 6th Street Courtenay BC V9N 9V9 Cowichan Branch 1-250-746-7661 2687 James St., Duncan BC., V9L 2X5 Cowichan Lake Branch 1-250-749-3431 68 Renfrew Avenue PO Box 918 Lake Cowichan BC V0R 2G0 Cumberland Branch 1-250-336-8121 2746 Dunsmuir Ave., Cumberland BC Gabriola Island Branch 1-250-247-7878 #5 - 575 North Rd, Gabriola Island BC V0R 1X5 Gold River Branch 1-250-283-2502 Gold River Branch 396 Nimpkish Dr Gold River BC., V0P 1G0 Hornby Island Branch 1-250-335-0044 1765 Sollans Rd Hornby Island BC V0R 1Z0 Ladysmith Branch 1-250-245 2322 #3 - 740 First Ave., Ladysmith BC., V9G 1A3 Masset Branch 1-250-626-3663 Box 710, 2123 Collison Ave Masset BC V0T 1M0 Nanaimo Harbourfront Branch 1-250-753-1154 90 Commercial St Nanaimo BC., V9R 5G4 Nanaimo Wellington Branch 1-250-758-5544 3032 Barons Rd Nanaimo BC V9T 4B5 Parksville Branch 1-250-248-3841 100 Jensen Ave E Parksville BC., V9P 1K3 Port Alberni Branch 1-250-723-9511 4255 Wallace St, Unit B Port Alberni BC V9Y 3Y6 Port Alice Branch 1-250-284-3554 Box 190, Marine Drive Port Alice BC, V0N 2N0 Port Clements Branch 1-250-557-4402 Box. 283, 35 Cedar Ave E Port Clements BC V0T 1R0 Port Hardy Branch 1-250-949-6661 7110 Market Port Hardy BC V0N 2P0 Port McNeill Branch 1-250-956-3669 4-1584 Broughton Port McNeill BC V0N 2R0 Port Renfrew Branch Phone: 250-647-5423 PO Box 108, 6638 Deering Rd Port Renfrew BC V0S 1K0 Quadra Island Branch 1-250-285-2216 654 Harper Rd Quathiaski Cove BC V0P 1N0 Qualicum Beach Branch 1-250-752-6121 660 Primrose

Qualicum Beach BC. V9K 1S9 Queen Charlotte Branch 1-250-559-4518 Box 339, 138 Bay, Community Hall Queen Charlotte BC V0T 1S0 Sandspit Branch 1-250-637-2247 Box 228, Seabreeze Plaza, Alliford Bay Rd. Sandspit BC V0T 1T0 Sayward Branch 1-250-282-5551 641C Kelsey Way Sayward BC V0P 1R0 Sidney / North Saanich Branch 1-250-656-0944 10091 Resthaven Drive Sidney BC V8L 3G3 Sointula Branch 1-250-973-6493 280 1st Street Sointula BC V0N 3E0 Sooke Branch Phone: (250)642-3022 2065 Anna Marie Road Sooke BC V9Z 0A4 South Cowichan Branch 1-250-743-5436 Box 118, 310-2720 Mill Bay Rd. Mill Bay BC V0R 2P0 Tahsis Branch 1-250-934-6621 977 Maquinna Dr S Tahsis BC V0P 1X0 Tofino Branch 1-250-725-3713 331 Main St Tofino BC V0R 2Z0 Ucluelet Branch 1-250-726-4642 500 Matterson Dr Ucluelet BC V0R 3A0 Union Bay Branch 1-250-335-2433 5527 Island Hwy Union Bay BC V0R 3B0 Woss Branch 1-250-281-2263 4503B Railway Ave Woss BC V0N 3P0 Vanderhoof Public Library 1-250-567-4060 Bag 6000 Vanderhoof BC V0J 3A0

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Shopping centres Metropolis at Metrotown 604-438-4700 4720 Kingsway Suite 604, Burnaby, V5H 4N2 www.metropolisatmetrotown.com Park Royal 604-922-3211 2002 Park Royal South, West Vancouver V7T 2W4 www.shopparkroyal.com Pacific Centre 604-688-7236 701 Georgia St W, Vancouver V7Y 1G5 www.pacificcentre.com Guildford Town Centre 604-585-1565 2695 Guildford Town Centre, Surrey V3R 7C1 www.guildfordtowncentre.com Coquitlam Centre 604-468-5650 2929 Barnet Hwy Suite 2201, Coquitlam V3B 5R5 www.coquitlamcentre.com Uptown Centre (formerly Town and Country Centre) 250-383-8093 NP, Victoria V8Z 0B9 www.shopuptown.ca Richmond Centre 604-713-7467 6551 No 3 Rd, Richmond V6Y 2B6 www.richmondcentre.com Woodgrove Centre 250-740-3555 6631 Island Hwy N, Nanaimo V9T 4T7 www.woodgrovecentre.com Lougheed Town Centre 604-421-3434 9855 Austin Ave, Burnaby V3J 1N4 www.lougheedtowncentre.com Willowbrook Shopping Centre 604-530-2115 19705 Fraser Hwy, Langley V3A 7E9 www.shopwillowbrook.com Central City Shopping Centre 604-588-5271 10153 King George Blvd, Surrey V3T 2W1 www.centralcity.ca Lansdowne Centre 604-270-1344 5300 No 3 Rd, Richmond V6X 2X9 www.lansdowne-centre.com Sevenoaks Shopping Centre

604-853-7153 32900 S Fraser Way Suite 201, Abbotsford V2S 5A1 www.shopsevenoaks.com Aberdeen Centre 604-273-1234 4151 Hazelbridge Way, RichmondV6X 4J7 www.aberdeencentre.com Brentwood Town Centre 604-299-0606 4567 Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby V5C 3Z6 www.brentwoodtowncentre.com Tillicum Centre 250-381-7123 3170 Tillicum Rd, Victoria V9A 7C5 www.tillicumcentre.ca Aberdeen Mall 250-374-3400 1320 Trans Canada Hwy W Suite 275, Kamloops V1S 1J2 www.aberdeenmall.ca Westshore Town Centre 250-474-3269 2945 Jacklin Rd, Victoria V9B 5E3 www.westshoretowncentre.com Mayfair Shopping Centre 250-383-0541 3147 Douglas St Suite 221, Victoria V8Z 6E3 www.mayfairshoppingcentre.com Capilano Mall 604-990-5426 935 Marine Dr, North VancouverV7P 1S3 www.capilanomall.com

Movie Theaters Ü Vancouver Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas 604-806-0799 88 West Pender Van, V6B 6N9 Dunbar Theatre 604-222-2991 4555 Dunbar St. Vancouver, BC V6S 2G7 Fifth Avenue Cinemas 604-734-7469 2110 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC V6J 3H5 OMNIMAX Theatre at Science World 604-443-7443 1455 Quebec St. Vancouver, BC Pacific Cinematheque 604-688-3456 1131 Howe St. Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7 Rio Theatre 604-878-3456 1660 E. Broadway V ancouver, BC V5N 1W1 Scotiabank Theatre 604-630-1407 900 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC, V6Z 3G5 The Park Theatre 604-709-3456 3440 Cambie Street Vancouver, BC V5Z 2W8 Vancity Theatre 604-683-3456 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver, BC V6B 3M7

Ü North Vancouver Landmark Cinemas 6 Esplanade 604-983-2762 200 West Esplanade North Vancouver. BC V7M 1A4 Park & Tilford 604-985-3911 333 Brooksbank Ave. North Van. BC V7J 3S8 Ü Pitt Meadows Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Centre Cinemas 604-460-6455 410-19800 Lougheed Hwy. Pitt Meadows, V3Y 2W1 Hollywood 3 19190 Lougheed Hwy Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 1B3 604-459-6004 Ü Langley Colossus 604-513-8747 20090-91A Ave. Langley, BC V1M 3Y9 Ü White Rock Criterion 4 604-531-7456 2381 King George Hwy White Rock, BC V4B 1A6 Rialto Twin 1732 Johnston Road (152 Street) White Rock, BC V4B 1L3 604-541-9527 Ü Burnaby Dolphin Cinema 4555 Hastings St. Burnaby, BC V5C 2K3 604-569-3369 SilverCity Metropolis 4700 Kingsway Ave Burnaby, BC V5H 4M1 604-435-7474 Ü Surrey Hollywood 3 Cinemas 604-592-4441 7125 138th Street Surrey, BC V3W 0E1 Landmark Cinemas 12 Guildford 604-581-4218 15051-101st Avenue Surrey, BC V3R 7Z1 Strawberry Hills Cinemas 604-501-9400 12161 72nd Ave. Surrey, BC V3W 2M1 Ü Coquitlam SilverCity Coquitlam 604-523-2911 170 Schoolhouse St. Coquitlam, BC V3K 4X9 Ü Richmond SilverCity Riverport 604-277-5993 14211 Entertainment Way Richmond, BC V6W 1K4 Ü New Westminster The Landmark Cinemas 10 604-549-9292 390-800 Carnarvon Street New Westminster, BC V3M 1G2

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Rent Property WESSEX GATE 3408 Crowley Drive Vancouver, BC V5R 6C3, Near Collingwood Village & Joyce St Skytrain Key property details Great selection of contemporary studio and one and twobedroom apartments. Features include a resident lounge and a large, bright central laundry facility Modern exercise room with cardio equipment, universal gym and a TV located in neighbouring Earles Court. 1.888.460.3108 Maple Apartments 1220 Cardero St. Vancouver, BC V6G 2H7 Near Cardero St & Davie St Maple Apartments is a 9 storey character building Clean & quiet building. 1.888.311.0754 Regency Park 1225 Cardero St. Vancouver, BC V6G 2H8 Near Cardero St & Davie St, The views alone are worth the rent, All suites are fully renovated In the heart of Vancouver’s West End 1.888.534.0536 Ocean Park Place 990 Broughton St. Vancouver, BC V6G 2A5 Near Nelson St. & Broughton St. Private balconies. Just minutes to the beach 1.866.921.1905 Collingwood Village 3528 Vanness Ave. Vancouver, BC V5R 6G4 Near Collingwood Village & Joyce St Professional on-site staff maintains the building premises and grounds. Fitness Room, roof top barbecue area and tenant lounge. Security measures, such as computer-controlled card access and a video surveillance system give you peace of mind. 1.888.460.3108 The Melbourne 3433 Crowley Drive Vancouver, BC V5R 6C5 Near Collingwood Village & Joyce St Computer-controlled card access and a video surveillance system give you peace of mind.

Meeting room and a large, bright central laundry facility. 1.888.460.3108 Barafield Apartments 1260 Harwood St. Vancouver, BC V6E 2S4 Near Jervis St & Harwood St Aquatic and Recreation Center nearby Parking available. 1.888.556.5171 Georgian Towers 1450 West Georgia Street Vancouver, BC V6G 2T8 Near West Georgia St & Nicola St. $700 Move-in Bonus, Fabulous views from apartments Large gym on site. 1.866.757.0896 Forte 1755 West 14th Avenue Vancouver, BC Near West 14th Ave & Burrard St. Forte Apartments is surrounded by beautiful gardens and majestic mountain and city views. Resident managers on-site. FOB access security system. Large updated units. Pedestrian-friendly streets and lively cafe-strewn sidewalks. 1.866.941.7403

600 Drake 600 Drake Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5W7 Near Yaletown, This apartment community includes furnished and unfurnished suites with heat and hot water, balconies, carpet or laminate flooring A well-lit and gated underground parking facility and bicycle storage.

1.888.459.6068 Metropolitan Towers 930 & 980 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1B4. Near Seymour St & Smithe St Now offering 3 month leases on Furnished Bachelor Suites! *Please call for more details Games / Social Room & Theatre/Media Room Guest Suite. 1.888.430.8149 Bayview at Coal Harbour 1529 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6G 3J3 Near W Pender St & Nicola St, Concierge Service Brand new stainless steel appliances, Great ocean and mountains view 1.888.431.2158 Dunway Court 3550 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V6R 2B6 Near Alma St & W Broadway Unique California style building with superior customer service. Indoor parking.

Close to Kitsilano Beach. 604.714.4082 Laurier House 4750 Arbutus Street Vancouver, BC V6J 4A4 Near Arbutus Street & W 33rd Avenue Laurier House offers sophisticated West Coast living. Beautifully landscaped gardens Wheel Chair Friendly. 1.866.454.9857 Larchway Gardens 2475-2485 West Broadway Vancouver, BC V6K 2E7, Near Larch St & W Broadway, Unique California style building, Indoor parking, Superior customer service. 1.877.640.1781 Kingsley Manor 2121 Franklin Street Vancouver, BC V5L 1R7 Near Lakewood Dr & Franklin St. Great Unit! Freshly Painted Brand New Kitchen Clean Quiet Building You have to come and see it!

Simon Fraser University is nearby.

1.888.540.6758 The Westridge 4170 & 4180 Nanaimo Street Vancouver V5N 5H7, Near Nanaimo Skytrain Station Conveniently located near Nanaimo Skytrain Station. Many with views of the North Shore mountains and city Smoke free environment 1.888.460.3235 Cheryl Manor 210 East 2nd Street Vancouver, BC V7L 1C5 Near 3rd St. E. & Lonsdale Ave. Bach/ Studio. Heat & Water Included - Plus Electricity. 1.888.310.0541 Shelley Court 230 East 2nd Street Vancouver, BC V7L 1C5 Near 3rd St. E. & Lonsdale Ave. 1.888.858.1781 Gary Manor Near Yew St. & W 8th Ave. 2225 West 8th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6K 2A6 1.888.544.8031 Cassiar Court 1710 Cassiar Street Vancouver, BC V5M 4R9 Near East 1 Ave & Cassiar St. This well-designed complex offers contemporary 1 & 2 bdrm garden apartments and 3 bdrm townhomes.

Concert’s professional on-site staff maintains the building premises and grounds Cassiar Court is pet friendly 1.888.459.4001

Fraser Pointe I and II 3033 & 3083 East Kent Avenue North Vancouver, BC V5S 4R2, Near River District. 1.888.544.8031 Townhomes also at this location Pets are permitted with some restrictions Located in Vancouver’s newest neighbourhood - The River District 1.888.459.4207 International Plaza Apartments 1989 Marine Drive, North Vancouver, BC These apartments for rent in Vancouver are just minutes away from the sea and mountains. Located just 10 minutes from downtown and 30 minutes from Vancouver International Airport. 604980-3606 Dolphin Square Apartments 8200 Park Road Suite 114, Richmond, BC Short walk to the Richmond Centre and in close proximity to the future Skytrain station at No3 Road and Saba. Being close to major shopping centres, schools and community 604-273-0269 Carlton Park Gardens Apartments 10951 Mortfield Rd, Richmond, BC Located south of downtown Vancouver, is close to the Steveston Highway and other major commuter routes. Beautifully landscaped grounds and the perfect community for your next home. 604-2752664 Cypress Gardens Apartments 1114 & 1132 Howie Street, Coq., BC Located in the established central area of Coq., 1114 and 1132 Howie St. Close to parks and all conveniences, it is your best choice for apartments for rent in Coquitlam. 604-931-3273 Sydney Place Apartments 544 Sydney Ave., Coq., BC These apartments for rent in Coquitlam are Located in the parkland community of the city, with mountain views, this mature site with large trees and gardens is the ideal location for commuting or working in the area.

604-931-3273 Sherbrooke Manor Apartments 329 Sherbrooke St., New Westminster Closeness to the Sky Train.

The short commute to downtown Vancouver or for those who work close by makes Sherbrooke Manor Apartments the ideal place to live for all.

604-980-3606 Royal Ridge Apartments 315 Agnes Street, New Westminster Close to the Columbia Sky train station, the Fraser River, Quay Public Market, Douglas College. Columbia Square Plaza and Royal City Centre Shopping Centre.

A fitness room is also available for your use at no extra charge.

604-521-7259 Park Regency Apartments 612 Clarke Rd., Coquitlam Just 15 kms from the city of Vancouver and bordering New Westminster and Burnaby, A small property with ample access to shopping at the Lougheed Mall and other retailers provides everything you would need in your day.

604-931-7376 Gateway St. 1000 Brunette Ave. Coquitlam, BC .

Near Brunette Ave. & Nelson Newly renovated suites.

Only minutes from Lougheed Mall, Braemar Gardens takes pleasure in having shopping, restaurants and a movie theatre at its doorstep.

1-888-617-4868 WHITGIFT GARDENS 550 Cottonwood Ave. Coquitlam, BC V3J 2S1. walking distance of both Mountain View and Roy Stibbs Elementary Schools.

Lougheed Town Centre, hiking or biking on Burnaby Mountain, Simon Fraser University and the Millennium Skytrain

Line are also nearby.

604-980-3606 Gateway It's only a short walk to Lougheed Mall Shopping Centre and public transit offering transportation. Westview Manor tenants enjoy large, renovated, one- and twobedroom suites. Rents include heat, hot water and a storage locker. Underground parking is available.

1-888-617-4868 Tantus Towers 810 St. Andrews Street, New Westminster, BC wonderful views of either the Fraser River and Mount Baker. The units are very large and come in various layouts, some with eat-in kitchens. All units are equipped with energy efficient windows.

604-521-7259 Princeton Place Apt 1021 Howay Street, New Westminster, This beautifully maintained property is ideal for commuters given the closeness to the Sky Train or the short commute to downtown Vancouver.

604-521-8831

Rent/ Room Rent/ Homestay [Rent] Finished Basement Rent home in Tynehead Region Surrey 8319 170A St Surrey. BC 1 Bedroom + den, 1 Bathroom : 1 Huge parking lot is ideal for RV parking or multi family use. Come see this beauty!

5 minutes by walk from Elementary School Bsmt is finished w/1 bdrm + den w/ separate entry Kitchen and Laundry facility ready. Huge parking lot is ideal for RV parking $800 per month + Utility 1/3 Ask 778-388-1767 [Rent] 1Bed+Den Rent, DownTown SKY Train 689 Abboott St. DownTown Vancouver 1Bed + Den+1 parking+ Gym+ swimmingPool, South East face 270 View, hard wood/ new style interior/ SKY Train ¡°China Town- STADIUM, Costco, T&T 1ºÐ, Library, near Robson Street. $1,600 per month,No Pet ,NO Smoke. 604862-5959 .

[Rent] Near DownTown 2 Bedroom + Den Condo 587 7th Ave W. Vancouver West False Creek's prestigious Condo at Affiniti.

Featuring 2 Bdrms + 2 Baths, floor to ceiling windows w/ large balcony overlooking DT, False Creek and N/S Mtns.

High-end appliances for superb modern living. Close to all amenities and one block away from Olympic Village Skytrain Station.

Don't miss it. $2500 per month (utilitiy not included) Ask 778 839 7671, rental@alspm.ca [Rent] $2600 / 4br - 2508ft- FURNISHED 4 BED + 4 BATH HOUSE RENT in FRASER HEIGHTS, SURREY (Fraser Heights, Surrey) 108XX 166A STREET SURREY BC FURNISHED 4 BED + 4 BATH HOUSE RENT in Fraser Heights, Surrey Main & Upper floor, 2508 SQFT, (NOT including BASEMENT).

Main floor...Living room, Dining, Kitchen, Eating area, Family room, Laundry, 1 bath.

(1 SMALL DEN IS NOT INCLUDED).

Upper floor...4 bed rooms, 3 bath rooms.

Close to everything, school, transportation and shopping..etc. monthly rent...$2600 per a month + 2/3 utilities.

NO PETS, NO SMOKING, PLEASE. Available from APRIL 01ST, 2014.

For viewing, please contact Peter, Text (604) 307-2737, or Email.

[Homestay or room rental] measj@icloud.com Hi, I'm looking for a student(s) who needs a Homestay or room rental.

Walking distance to royal oak skytrain station, nearby bus stations(including To sfu) and Safeway, assi(Korean market) etc.very convenient location, 1st floor, separate kitchen and entrance door- 1 room: $500 or Homestay:$800

[Rent] $2600/2br/815ft Luxury 2 bedrooms at Jameson House 2903-838 West Hastings St. Vancouver BC View : Ocean view, City view, Security deposit :$1300 1 Parking No Pets, No Smoking (including on the patio), No subletting [Room Rent] 4961 IRMIN ST, BURNABY , BC. V5J 1Y6, Canada Duplex in Metrotown, Year Built1970 Over 5000 sq ft of a nicely renovated legal side by side duplex on a 66' x 125' large duplex lot on a quiet cul-de-sac in prime metrotown location. lots of renovations over the past 15 years including roof, windows, kitchens, doors, and paint.

1 Bedroom & 1 Bathroom, $400/ month Ask; 604-438-0492(home), 604-8385836(cell).

BEST open layout and spectacular southeast views on the 29th floor! Designed by the world renowned Foster + Partners, Jameson House features ultra sleek & modern design with leading-edge energy efficient technology.

OPEN living room, spectacular views of city, 9-ft ceilings, in-floor radiant heating, contemporary kitchen by Dada Cucina of Italy, Gaggeneau & Sub-zero appliances(Washer/Dryer, 24” Stainless Steel Oven), & imported Travertine flooring. Enjoy 24/7 concierge service & the first FULLY AUTOMATED valet parking system in Canada. Within steps to the prestigious Terminal City Club & high-end shopping, #2903 is truly THE HOME to rent in the centre of Downtown Vancouver.

Ask 778-881-2396 [Rent] [UBC] 2BD&2Bath Luxury, Modern Condo 2280 Wesbrook mall, Vancouver, V6T 2K3 2 Bedrooms and 2 Bathrooms Condominium on 2nd floor at Keats Hall in centre of UBC campus. Around 840 sqft. Built by Polygon in 2005. Directly across from UBC's medical building (Life Science) and pharmacy building, 5 minute walk to Woodward Library and UBC hospital. 5 minute walk to UBC village restaurants and services, less than 10 minute walk to UBC bus loop, pool, and gym. Clean, in excellent condition, quiet, and secure. Well lit and sunny with many windows, large living room, and private patio overlooking a large garden. 2 private bathrooms, secured underground parking space, large washer and dryer included in unit. Not furnished.

No pets please. $2000/month. Hot water and heat included. Available on January 1st, 2014.

For more information or to schedule a viewing, please send an email or text/call (604-715-3741). Serious inquires only please!

[Rent] New Condo next to Olympic village.

Downtown 1Bed, 1 Bath, 1 Den, 1 Parking , Rent $1450 Close to every amenites including public trans, shopping and restaurants P: 604-216-2915(9am - 5pm only) C: 778-288-9965, cms4070@hotmail. com [Rent] UBC Campus 2BD&2 Bath Condo at Keats Hall Condominium on 2nd floor at Keats Hall in centre of UBC campus. Around 840 sqft. Built by Polygon in 2005.

Directly across from UBC's medical building (Life Science) and pharmacy building, 5 minute walk to Woodward Library and UBC hospital. 5 minute walk to UBC village restaurants and services, less than 10 minute walk to UBC bus loop, pool, and gym.

Clean, in excellent condition, quiet, and secure. Well lit and sunny with many windows, large living room, and private patio overlooking a large garden. 2 private bathrooms, secured underground parking space, large washer and dryer included in unit.

Not furnished. No pets please. $2000/month. Hot water and heat

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Available on Jan 1st, 2014.

For more information or to schedule a viewing, please send an email or text/call (Ethan 604-715-3741). Serious inquires only please!

[Rent] ****ABSOLUTELY STUNNING & SPACIOUS TOWNHOUSE FOR YOU**** (fleetwood) $1900/m, Townhome 3Bed + den, 3 Bath 16355-82nd ave. Surrey This place is beautiful in every way ..and them some! Everything is 100% pristine, the location is great, the home warm and gorgeous, everything you could want is here...so call me before it's gone.

First and foremost , this beauty is an end unit and while that might not seem like a big deal, But IT IS! With an end unit you get more space for the whole family, you only have one shared wall so this place is super quite, you have way more natural sun light from windows on 3 sides And you will get a great breeze in the summer when other places are all stuffy, but not here!

Secondly, you have tons of space! With over 1850 square feet of living space on three full floors... that way everyone has their own room and you can retreat fully fenced and professionally landscaped backyard perfect for relaxing or even entertaining. Your new place is located just off the Fraser Highway in Surrey, 16355-82nd ave, so you're off the main road for peace and quiet, but close enough so you can get anywhere quick, fast and in a hurry.

Call Now : Emzuck 604-272-1264 [Rent] 2893 Munday Place. North Vancouver $1400 a month Large 2 bedroom ground level suite for RENT!!!

2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, In suite Laundry and Dryer Just a few blocks from Boundry Elementary school, tennis courts, parks and playground.

No pets non smokers please. Avail Now Ask 604-786-66300 [Rent] 846 Westview Crescent North Vancouver 1,030sqft, 2 Bed, 2 Full Bath Rent: $1,600/ month(Heating included) Welcome to Cypress Gardens, our housing complex located in North Vancouver. Our nine acres and a half lot is surrounded by creeks on the North and West sides, limited by Westview Drive on the East side and by the Westview Commercial Centre on the South. It contains 177 units between apartments and town homes.

We enjoy one of the most desirable locations in the North Shore and in the Lower Mainland, close to amenities such as William Griffith Recreation Centre, Delbrook Recreation Centre and the already named Westview Commercial Centre. Lonsdale Ave. and downtown North Vancouver are at a short distance and we can even take a leisure stroll to the City Hall and the modern main Library.

Several Primary and Middle schools are at a walking distance.

Available Jan 1st or 15th. 2014.

Ask: 778-997-2496 [Rent] North Vancouver Esplanade 3 Bed 2 Bath Codo $3,500/ month. 188 Esplanade Street.

North Vancouver 3 Bed, 2 Full bath, Parking: 1 car.

Approximately 1350 sqft.+ 500 sqft Balcony Lonsdale Quay Markets, IGA, Empire Movie Theater, Famous Restaurants are located walking distance.

Lions Gate Hospital, Capilano University, Park Royal Shopping Center, Grouse Mountain, Seymour Mountain and Cypress Mountain ski hill are 20 minutes by cars.

Ask 778 839 7671 or email rental@ alspm.ca [Rent] 866 38TH Ave, Vancouver East Rent: $1,600/ month, 2 Bed, 1 Bath Excellent home with 10' ceilings & welldesigned living area.

This home has 2 suites built-in by the

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This home has a tile roof, private backyard with a detached garage & warranty.

Shows well.

The interior of the home has been nicely maintained, & the separation of bdrms & living area makes this a nice family home.

Built in vacuum system, security system, H/W floors & big kitchen/breakfast area adds to the livability of this property.

The 2 suites have access from the interior for a family who want to use more space. 2 years remain on the Developer's Warranty.

Located on a quiet street w/ large, oak trees in a very nice neighborhood. Easy access to transit, schools & services.

This would also be a great investment with potential rental income in the $3,500 per month range. A nice place to come home to. Ask Hanad: 778-9603332 [Room Rent] 1 Room, Townhouse Coquitlam $530 Lougheed Sky Train 5 minutes by walk T4601 3970 carrigan CT. Coquitlam GYM, SWIM, SAUNA, HOTTUB, internet wifi Insuite Washer, Refridgrator, Furniture etc.Ask 778-242-4246 [Rent] House 1 floor. 2853 Mccoomb Drive. Coquitlam.

Walk Score of 80 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.

This location is in Coquitlam. Nearby parks include Scott Creek Ravine, Lafarge Park and Walton Park. Nearby schools include School Board Coquitlam, Academy of Learning Computer & Business Career College and Hot Salsa Dance Zone.

The closest grocery stores are Sun Tung Fat Supermarket, T & T Supermarket Inc and Coquitlam Integrated Health.

Nearby coffee shops include Tim Hortons, Starbucks and 7-Eleven. Nearby restaurants include Tanoor. Pizza, Church's Chicken and Mini Malaysia Restaurant. no pet no smoke $1000/ month (utility 1/3(elect. gas) ASk 604-249-8707 [Rent] Brand new Highrise Codo near Coquitlam Centre 2 Beds, 2 Baths, Rent $1700, Damage deposit $850 Outdoor Swimming pool, Hot tub, Professionally equipped Fitness Centre, Outdoor Barbeque area, Social Lounge with full kitchen and media room and Putting Green. Shopping (Coquitlam Centre, Target, Superstore, T&T), Library, Transit (West Coast Express, Evergreen Line - 2016), Lougheed Hwy, Parks and Schools (Douglas College). Brand New Insuite Washer, Dryer, Stainless Steel Appliances (Fridge, Dishwasher, Gas Stove, Microwave) and Laminate floors, Flat screen TV, Dining table, Leather Sofa, Queen size bed & Double bed with brand New comfortable Mattresses.

Ask 778.986.7653 [Rent] 2 Bedrooms and 1 Bathroom condo at Great Location in Surrey Central Rent - $1200 / month, 13399 - 104th Avenue, Surrey, Near Surrey Central Shopping Center, Brand New Public Library, North Surrey Recreation Centre, SFU Surrey Campus, Secondary & Elementary Schools Convenient Commuting Location - Steps away Surrey Central Skytrain Station 9ft ceilings, Stainless-steel Appliances and Beige/Black quartz Counter-tops. Available From Dec 1st. Main Floor equips with Fitness Centre & Amenity Room including Media Room, Library, Party Room and Pool Table. Rent including the following: - 5 Brand New Appliances (In Suite Laundry), - 1 Parking Stall, 1 Storage Locker, Cold/ Hot Water Resident Building Manager & Night Security Guard assist your homelife.

Contact : Matt 778 839 7671 or email rental@alspm.ca [Rent] Two Bedroom +One Bathroom Condo Near Lougheed Skytrain - Cora Rent : $1,300.00 / month Great Location at the boundary between

Burnaby & Coquitlam. Steps away from Lougheed Skytrain & Lougheed Mall.

PriceSmart Foods, Shopper’s Drug Mart, lots of restaurants and more shopping along North Road and Austin Ave. 10 minutes to SFU, 15 minutes to Burnaby High Tech and Business Park. Available From Dec 1st. Small Pet Allowed but No smoking Contact : Matt 778 839 7671 or email rental@alspm.ca [Rent] 3 Bedroom & 2 Full Bathroom Town House. North Vancouver-Tanager Bedroom : 3, Bathroom : 2 Full bat, Parking : Garage fits 2 cars. Size : Approximately 1500 sqft. Number of floors : 3 [Rent] New spacious town house $2800/month, This spacious town house was built in 2006 and is occupied and managed very well by the owner. The unit is equipped with : - Hardwood floor - High-end Stainless appliances Location is also great in a beautiful neighbourhood which is peaceful,safe, and also is conveniently close to : - Ron Andrews Rec Centre, Canlan Ice Sports, Parkgate Shopping Centre, Windsor Secondary, Blue ridge Elementary school, Seymour mountain park, Deep cove, McCartney Creek Park.

- Minimum 1 year lease required. No Pet/ No Smoking, Available from : Jan 1st, 2014 Contact : Matt 778 839 7671 / rental@ alspm.ca [Rent] Metrotown, 4959 4961 IRMIN ST, Burnaby $3650 / month, Over 5000 sq ft of a nicely renovated legal side by side duplex on a 66’ x 125’ large duplex lot on a quiet cul-de-sac in prime metrotown location.

4 kitchens, 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, lots of renovations over the past 15 years including roof, windows, kitchens, doors, and paint. Present rent $3650 to long term tenants.

604-438-0492(home), 604-8385936(cell) [Rent] 903-9262 University Crescent, Burnaby $1,650/ month, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, 993 Square Feet Beautiful, fantastic, panoramic inlet and mountain view. Sub-penthouse unit in Novo II built by reliable Intergulf. Large balcony offers all around open view. The suite has a formal dining room and spacious den for home office or 3rd bedroom with a wonderful floorplan. Total 993 sq. ft. of floor area plus 108 sq. ft. of balcony provides a perfect living space. New & quiet SFU residential community, steps to SFU campus, Burnaby Mountain Park & public transportation, close to indoor/ outdoor recreation facilities, hiking trails & all levels of schools and more. 604 2916267 [Rent] New 33rd floor, 2 br, 766ft² apartment for rent at Surrey CityCentral $1200/month. New 33rd floor, 2 br, 766ft² apartment for rent at Surrey CityCentral, 2min walking distance to King George Skytrain (35min to downtown), T&T, SFU and library. 7 min away from Hannam Supermarket. 778300-0727.

3 beds, 2 baths, kitchen and laundry room $1200/month, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1 living room, 1 kitchen (stove + oven + fan + fridge) and 1 laundry room (washer + dryer) Whole new basement sweet for rental. Close to Willowbrook Mall (5 mins drive), Real Canadian Superstore (5 mins), H-Mart (5 mins), Costco (8 mins), easy to transit, 10 mins drive to Kwantlan University, 15 mins drive to Trinity Western University Located in Township of Langley 778-8384391. ease contact Eric Chang for more information.

[Rent] Single House in Township of Langley $1950/month, 6957 197B St Langley, BC. 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1 living room, 1 kitchen (stove + oven + fan + fridge) and 1 laundry room (washer + dryer).

Close to Willowbrook Mall (5 mins drive),

Real Canadian Superstore (5 mins), H-Mart (5 mins), Costco (8 mins), easy to transit 10 mins drive to Kwantlan University, 15 mins drive to Trinity Western University. Please contact Eric Chang for more information at 778-838-4391 [Rent] 903-9262 University Crescent, Burnaby $1650 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, 993 Sqft Beautiful, fantastic, panoramic inlet and mountain view. Sub-penthouse unit in Novo II built by reliable Intergulf. Large balcony offers all around open view.

The suite has a formal dining room and spacious den for home office or 3rd bedroom with a wonderful floorplan. Total 993 sq. ft. of floor area plus 108 sq. ft. of balcony provides a perfect living space. New & quiet SFU residential community, steps to SFU campus, Burnaby Mountain Park & public transportation, close to indoor/outdoor recreation facilities, hiking trails & all levels of schools and more. All furniture are available. Just new laminate floor, toilet & paint Call 604 2916267 [Rent] 1 Bedroom Condo near Surrey City Central $920 a month, 13399 104 Street, Whalley, Surrey Located 2 blocks away from the Central City Mall and SFU Surrey Campus, and close by is Surrey's premier public amenities includingSurrey Recreation Centre, Surrey Public library, Central pub, Blends, Starbucks, Royal Kwantlen Park, shopping, schools and golf courses.

With the Surrey Central Sky Train Station less than 200 meters away, D'Corize is connected to everywhere. Go downtown, visit New Westminster Quay or head to Metrotown in minutes. Fully equipped kitchen, activity room with pool table, fireside lounge, library and a multipurpose flex room. Ask Peter Kim, PeterKim907@hotmail.com or 778 317 2990 [Rent] D’Corize Condo- 13399 104th Avenue, Surrey Luxury finishes include 9-foot ceilings, floor to ceiling windows, engineered laminate floors, spacious balconies and patios with wonderful views, stainless steel appliances that compliment kitchen decor with imported polished granite countertops, full-wrap walnut or zebra wood laminate cabinets and ceramic tiled backsplash.

Elegant bathrooms feature the ?Millenium Spa?? which is an exquisite ceiling mounted rain shower, white ceramic wall tile and imported polished granite countertops.

The amenities at D?Corize include a fully equipped fitness center, a business centre, media centre with plasma TV, fully equipped kitchen, activity room with pool table, fireside lounge, library and a multi-purpose flex room.

Ask Peter 778 317 2990 or PeterKim907@hotmail.com [Room Rent] 1 Bed + Den, 1 Bath.

Thunderbird Lodge

Harron Place Apartments 12128 222 Street, Maple Ridge BC, V2X 5W5 Features include in-suite storage, attractive landscaping, secured underground parking, elevator and balconies or patios for each suite. The rental rates are below market for the area; strong potential exists for future rental increases on turnover.

Harron Place located in quite peaceful setting, while having everything nearby.

Being close to Parks, Elementary and Secondary Schools makes this a great place to raise your family. It is minutes away from Haney Place Mall, Valley Fair Mall, great restaurants and pubs, and the Golden Ears Bridge which makes commuting to the Lower Mainland simple. Public transportation is nearby as well. $450/ month (included utility) ASk 778-988-9224 [Rent] Close to Skytrain Station (West Coquitlam) 1 room in a private house for rent for a Student, International Student or single working professional.Quiet neighbourhood, clean, bright furnished bedroom with shared bathroom, kitchen, laundry facility, and shared living room. · Great and convenient location. · Close to schools (SFU, Coquitlam College) · Close to Superstore, IKEA, SilverCity, Bowling Alley, many shops and restaurants. · Close to bus stop and close to Skytrain.

We are looking for a tidy, quiet, respectful, and responsible. $1,000/ Month, Wi-Fi internet access included.

Please call 604-612-8562.

[Homestay] Hi, I'm looking for a student(s) who needs a Homestay or room rental.

Walking distance to royal oak skytrain station, nearby bus stations(including To sfu) and Safeway, assi(Korean market) etc.- very convenient location 1st floor, separate kitchen and entrance door- 1 room: $500(2room& 1bath are available) or Homestay:$800 604-434-0550 or 604-773-9984 [Homestay] $700 in Fraser Heights We have a 2 furnished bedrooms in our large, clean, non-smoking home for a responsible, clean, quiet, non-smoking student(s). You will be sharing our home with our family, for a monthly shared accommodation fee of $700 per month which does NOT include meals. For an additional fee, we can provide: meals for $200 per month).

- Large 2600 sqft home, yard, private bedroom, semi-private bathroom, shared TV room, shared kitchen and laundry, and wireless internet.

- Bus stop is right outside the door - Walking distance to Fraser Heights Secondary School PLEASE NOTE: - you must provide verifiable proof of enrolment at a college or university. you must provide verifiable proof of your identity. you must provide verifiable references.

NO smoking or drugs. NO pets. NO parties.

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Editorial Internships , New Immigrants

Guidebook offers editorial internships: The internships are full-time commitments offered for six month periods, and include an honorarium of $250 per month plus $100 value of certificates.

Duties include participating editorial meetings, writing small & medium articles for the magazine, have interviews with people, international students and new immigrants.

Please email us a cover letter, resume to info@theguidebook.ca

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[Sale for Business] Large Dry Cleaner and Commercial Laundry We are a medium to large dry cleaner and commercial laundry in the beautiful seaside town of Campbell River. All our equipment is brand new, replaced December 2013, we are the only drycleaner in the area as well as the Comox Valley. We have a location in each town. Our 2 dry-cleaning machines are one of the very few brand new organic K4 solvent in BC. We have been in business over 35 years . Asking price is $ 599,000 Please kain94@telus.net for more information.

Employment Advertising Sales Representative (Metro vancouver) "Guidebook" is looking for advertising sales representative in Metro Vancouver.

The Guidebook is published bi-weekly for international student and new immigrants. · Duties: - Responsible for sales of advertising for the publication.

- Developing new business accounts.

- Maintaining existing relationships and expanding professional networks. · Qualifications: - One or more years proven (advertising) sales experience - Excellent communication skills - Self motivated with a strong work ethic - Achievement oriented · Compensation: Basic salary plus Commission. · Please email us a cover letter with resume info@theguidebook.ca Edo-Ya Sushi (Delta) is looking for Japanese/ Korean Food cooks - Position Type : 2cooks, Full time, 37.5 hours per week - Position requirement : Complete secondary school. Minimum 3 years’ experience in Japanese and Korean-style western cooking Basic English · Duties: Developing new Korean & Korean style western menu, Prepare and complete dishes Ensure quality of food and determine size of food proportions Inspect kitchens and food service areas Supervise kitchen staff and helpers · Work Location : 0875995 B.C. Ltd. dba Edo-Ya Sushi 1350 56 Street, Delta, BC V4L 2A4 If you are interested in this opportunity please send your resume to edoyadelta@ hotmail.com or the above address.

Sushi House in Prince Albert is looking for kitchen helper/ Food server · Position type : Full time, 30hours per week, hours will vary with weekend work · Number of positions (Vacancies) : kitchen helper 2/ Food server 1 · Job requirement : Some of secondary school, Experience is an asset, but not required. · Job duties : - Kitchen helper Helping cooking-Prepare simple foods when the chef requires, Dish washing cleaning kitchen area Wash and peel vegetables and fruit Unpack and store supplies in refrigerators, cupboards and other storage areas - Food server Provides food and beverage service to guests using good customer service skills Goal is to exceed guest expectations, Set up tables , Services food, coffee, water and other beverages Clears tables throughout the dining experience using proper methods for removing Dishes, glassware and silverware Cleans banquet and dining rooms during and after the dining experience • What we Offer : • Compensation : $ 11 per hour • Benefit : 2 weeks paid holidays. Meals provided, employee discount If you are not live in Price Albert we will provide Transportation fee, and 1 month free accommodation and we will assist you looking for house

· Work location : 9-77 15th Street East, Prince Albert, SK, S6V 1E9 If you are interested, Please send your resume to sushihousepa@gmail.com or above address Office administrative assistant Logos Holdings Ltd .(dba. Canadian Greetings) is looking for office administrative assistant. · Position Type : Full Time, 30.0 hours per week · Requirement : Completion of secondary school is usually required. More than 2 years clerical experience required. Positive, energetic, lots of patience and able to communicate effectively · Duties : Open and distribute incoming regular and electronic mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information internally and with other departments and organizations · Schedule and confirm appointments and meetings of employer Order office supplies and maintain inventory Answer telephone and electronic enquiries and relay telephone calls and messages Set up and maintain manual and computerized information filing systems Determine and establish office procedures Greet visitors, ascertain nature of business and direct visitors to employer or appropriate person · What we Offer : $21.00 per hour · Benefit : 2 weeks paid holidays · Location : 1014 Robson St. Vancouver, BC Please send your resume to s.jeehyun@ hotmail.com or to the above address.

Outlook Motor Hotel is looking for a Light duty cleaner · Position Type: Full Time, 35.0 hrs per week · Number of positions (Vacancies) : 1 · Job requirement : Education : Completion of secondary.

Experience : Not required . We will train. · Duties : - Clean the public area such as lobbies, hallways, office and rooms of hotels - Attend to guests’ requests for extra supplies.

- Provide basic information on facilities.

- Make beds, change sheets and distribute clean towels and toiletries. · What we Offer : · Compensation : $15.00 per hour · Benefits : 14 days paid holidays · Work location : 105 Franklin Street, Outlook, SK S0L 2N0 If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to hoteloutlook@ gmail.com or the above address.

Hiring for a Logistic specialist We are now hiring for a Logistic specialist.

If you are responsible, active, easy-going person, looking for a great job opportunity with a stable income, this job will suit you. · About company: We are a business unit delivering services to European customers. We are a global brand and the world’s third largest logistic company. We present virtual addresses for customers from Europe and Asia. · Requirements : - Constant access to the Internet; - Possibility in making the photos of the packages; - Flexible shipping options; - Responsibility; - Activity; - Readiness working in one team; · Duties; - Stay at workplace (home address) from 9 am till 5 pm; - Receive packages during the working hours; - Inform your coordinating manager with the photos of received packages; - Print the shipping label; - Place the shipping label on the package; - Deliver parcels to the FedEx facility; - Report your coordinative manager with the receipt Compensation.

Your salary will be 1500$ per month (Base Salary), plus 20$ for each parcel you have received (Parcel’s Payment).

You will get paid Base Salary monthly starting of the day you sign a contract.

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