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NV City to grow 42% by 2041 Draft OCP would eliminate all single-family zoning

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After two-and-a-half years and input from more than 2,300 city residents, council got its ﬁrst report

on the draft ofﬁcial community plan Monday — the master document that will guide the city through the next 50 years of growth and change. The draft calls for more

“high density” buildings higher than six storeys along the Lonsdale Avenue corridor between 13th Street and 17th Street and below Fourth Street, townhouses below Third Street around St. Davids Avenue and more mixeduse, medium-density development around Marine Drive to take advantage of

frequent transit service. Inﬁll development also features heavily as all single-family homes would be allowed to contain both secondary suites and coach houses under the proposed OCP. The draft also calls for three special study areas — properties that will require a more in-depth look before

any future council can decide on a land use change at what is now the Lucas Centre and Cloverley school properties belonging to the North Vancouver school district and the Cypress Gardens and Westview Shopping Centre just north of Highway 1 at Westview Avenue. The draft OCP projects

the city’s population to be at 68,000 by 2041. It was 48,000 in 2011. The CityShaping OCP is a departure from past planning documents in that it put more emphasis on sustainability, health and climate change as key factors in planning.

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Cap president committed to change Bulcroft envisions CapU as top-tier teaching university BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

When Capilano University ran into a deﬁcit and was forced to cut programs this year, it wasn’t just a story about budgets and numbers. It touched off a conversation about whether the school had lost its way. While the budget shortfall and program cuts were painful, lost in the conversation was the change happening both at CapU and around the world. More program cuts are likely on the horizon as the administration plans its 2014 budget, but that doesn’t mean the university is operating without a plan, said CapU president Kris Bulcroft in a recent interview with the North Shore News. After facing a $1.3million budget shortfall in 2013, the school cut several programs, among them: studio arts, computer science and commerce as well as arts and science transfer courses.The cuts prompted student protests on campus and strong condemnation from the Capilano Faculty Association. While a provincial election campaign complicated the process for planning in 2013, the university is working now to preserve its valued courses and chart a deliberate path for 2014. “We’re out there right now trying to get people to realize we’re probably going to have a budget shortfall. There’s no excess revenues or big gifts falling from the sky that will change that picture,” Bulcroft said. The province has signalled it will be offering up even less in postsecondary education grants in 2014, though Bulcroft said she continually lobbies the government for better funding, including at a recent sit-down with Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk. “We had an opportunity to sit and talk a little bit about ‘Why is Cap the lowest-funded university in the system?’” she asked. “Government too has their own problems. Let’s face it.The economy is not

exactly roaring, and so I understand the funding of post-secondary isn’t to the extent everybody would like it to be funded. Cap’s not the only one.” Expenses are going up as staff and faculty are both due for a two-per cent salary increase negotiated by the province. Tuition, meanwhile, is regulated by the province and is never allowed to go up by more than two per cent in a year. While the exact ﬁgures will depend on next year’s admissions and government grants, which won’t be known until the new year, the administration is projecting a shortfall of “about the same magnitude of last year,” Bulcroft said. Despite accusations earlier in the year that administrative costs were eating up what should be classroom budgets, Bulcroft said everyone from the top down has had to make efﬁciencies. Administrative salaries have been frozen since 2010 and cuts have been made to marketing and communications budgets, energy consumption, and the school let two vicepresidents go to make a leaner organizational structure. Bulcroft and the board faced pleas from the faculty association and students to spread smaller spending cuts over every department instead of cutting out entire programs. But that approach only works when there’s still some fat left in the system — and there is none remaining at Cap, said Bulcroft. “After a while, what you see happening in institutions that choose that path forward is all students suffer. Students can’t get access to the courses they need. The quality of the services that you can provide begins to dwindle for everybody. In my opinion, the overall quality of an institution suffers when you make yearafter-year, across-the-board cuts. So, we’ve had to be more strategic in the kinds of cuts we’ve made,” she said. The board extended its consultation period in 2013 but no viable or legal alternatives emerged that would spare the programs from a legally mandated balanced budget. “We still

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had people who were upset because the result of that consultation was that there were still program cuts in the mix,” said Bulcroft. While the campus protests and nasty letters that came in response were disappointing personally, Bulcroft said she was more worried about damage being done to the university’s reputation. The strategy the board of governors used to select which programs to cut last year is the same that will be used this year — aiming to impact as few students as possible. Cap has a policy to “teach out” closed programs, so students who had started their program could ﬁnish it.That meant two-year diploma

and certificate programs and non-accreditation classes were the first to be considered. “We tried to look at things that did the least amount of harm to current students,” she said. “We looked at programs that were low-enrolment, very high cost, that were not filling quickly. . . .We looked at things like student demand.We also thought about how Cap fits in the system of post-secondary. This is a system.” Consultation with the faculty, students and wider community is now underway and Bulcroft hopes it will be smoother this time. “I think we have a better sense of the lay of the land.We’re going to come up with some scenarios about how to move

forward, vet them with the campus community, make sure people are apprised of some possible scenarios, certainly get feedback in terms of anybody having a better idea, and we will hopefully be out there by the new year with some of these potential cuts and/or other solutions.” Absent from the criticisms Cap has faced in the last year is an acknowledgement of the huge ﬂux that is happening both in demographics and the way post-secondary learning is done, Bulcroft said. “Somebody said to me one time, ‘Look at all the change you’ve brought to Cap.’ I said ‘I haven’t brought any change to Cap. Change is happening. Our

job is to manage change in a way that does the right thing for our learners,’” she said. With fewer and fewer students to draw from North Shore high schools, the university must make itself appealing to students from beyond Burrard Inlet, just as other schools seek out students from the North Shore. “We’ve got to be more competitive if we want to remain viable as an institution that enrolls students because they’re not just going to come from the North Shore,” she said. Unlike most universities, which are primarily focused on research, Cap is a teaching university, making it better positioned to greet changes happening in post-secondary education, Bulcroft said.The trend around North America and the world is shifting as the schools face evolving demands from students. “The old model of a professor just blathering on and lecturing at people, it does not resonate with this generation,” she said. “The focus is on the undergraduates, getting people prepared for the world through the application of that knowledge. It’s a model that’s not been here. I think we’re seeing a differentiated system emerge in Canada and it’s hard for Cap to be one of the ﬁrst ones out.” Much of the consternation over 2013 has been rooted in those old assumptions about what teaching and learning ought to be, according to Bulcroft. “There’s an overemphasis on which ﬁelds should be taught. ‘We must have this, we must have this. A good university must have this.’ “I think the new paradigm shift is less about the narrow disciplinary focus and more about inter-disciplinarity and transferable skills.That message hasn’t sunk into the public because we cannot be all things for all people.” The loss of some programs, while regrettable, shouldn’t be confused with a lack of vision, Bulcroft said, “Actually, I think Cap has one of the best visions imaginable and that is to really serve the learners in a way that puts them in a community, turns them into agents of change,” she said. “I want Cap to be a top-tier teaching university.That is my vision.”

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While there wasn’t any debate as to whether the draft OCP was ready for public vetting and revision, council members did sound off on some of the pros and cons they saw in the nascent planning document. As presented, it doesn’t go far enough in addressing the “social infrastructure” or demographics on those who are choosing to make the city home and had too much emphasis on which types of buildings ought to go where, Coun. Linda Buchanan said. “We need to understand our social structure and infrastructure and then make some really good decisions around land use so we can be supporting that

social infrastructure.Then I believe we will truly achieve the objectives and I think it will give us a lot more guidance in terms of the infrastructure we’re looking at,” she said. Mayor Darrell Mussatto echoed the sentiment and called for supplementary plans, many of which are older than the outdated OCP itself, to be included “I do want to look at the bigger picture. It’s important that we recognize the OCP isn’t just about straight land use. It’s about much, much more than that. It’s about a lot of our plans and strategies and policies that we have, whether it’s a social plan, or childcare plan or cultural diversity plan or economic development.The list goes on,” he said.

Several council members called for a robust and meaningful new round of public consultation, especially for residents below Third Street, where quality of life has already been impacted by the Low Level Road and Port Metro Vancouver expansion projects. For Coun. Rod Clark, it was inﬁll density that he stressed needed to be highlighted in the next six months of public outreach. “No longer will we have single-family homes. We’ll have triplexes and I want that to be very well communicated. I hope the press is listening.That, for me, is a huge change,” he said. The city is planning to host a series of open houses

Public access remains an issue From page 1 over the fate of the Binning House, the former West Van home of artist B.C. Binning that is regarded as an important ﬁrst example of West Coast modernism. The Land Conservancy — now under creditor protection — announced this fall it plans to sell the house to the development company Wall Financial for $1.6 million and use the money to help pay off $7.5 million owed to creditors.

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Mixed messages E xactly what have the B.C. Liberals been doing since winning the May election? We know they’re not in the legislature, tackling issues and answering questions. The premier conﬂated her win in the election with a having a mandate strong enough to cancel the fall session and effectively reduce the legislature to a Victoria tourist attraction. That mandate, however, wasn’t strong enough to show leadership or planning when it comes to transit funding in the Lower Mainland, which Clark decided will be settled by a referendum. So with all this downtime to focus on getting the job done, how will this referendum be presented? Depends who you ask. The premier insists it will be multiple choice and held concurrent with the next municipal election. Transportation Minister Todd Stone

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Dear Editor: I wish to offer my apologies for any offence my remarks quoted in your Nov. 27 story, 6 Hours to Contain Inlet Oil Spill, about the Tsleil-Waututh “setting their hair on ﬁre” regarding the potential expansion of the Westshore Terminal may have caused. I sincerely regret my intemperate remarks made in the heat of the moment during council’s information-gathering

session on the topic. I have worked for many years with several members of this First Nation and their advisers and have developed what I hope are friendships that will endure. I have also developed a deep empathy for the concerns of the Tsleil-Waututh and other First Nations as they struggle to protect and enhance their culture and traditions including their deep attachment to the environment.

If my worst fears are realized and the federal government approves the pipeline projects, it will be much better for First Nations generally and the Tsleil-Waututh speciﬁcally to be active participants in the design and implementation of preventative measures to protect the Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm environments as well as to be active partners in any mitigation efforts. To rail against the general exploitation of

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“One of the things he said was, ‘You have courage to turn this tragedy into triumph.’” Etienne van Eck, a North Van resident and former bodyguard for Nelson Mandela, recalls Mandela’s words of consolation (from a Dec. 11 news story). “I didn’t let go until he dropped the knife.” WestVancouveriteYale Henry recounts saving his friend during a 2010 incident atWestVancouver secondary (from a Dec. 13 news story).

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I have some pretty rock solid rules when it comes to disciplining my two young boys. First rule: No blowtorches in the house. Nope, no way — I’m not falling for that one again. Second rule: uhh. . . . Sorry, drawing a blank here. And to be really honest, there’s probably some wiggle room on rule No. 1 — what if one of the toys needs a bit of spot welding? To be really, really honest, I don’t actually have much of a disciplining philosophy at all. My philosophy is to make sure the boys don’t kill each other and then, in all other situations, wait until my wife reacts to something and then copy her. My goal here, of course, is not to raise perfect little gentlemen who will have the social graces and self regard needed to one day secure a high decorum job such as Canadian senator or mayor of a major metropolis. No, my sole goal is to try to approximate a responsible parent so that my wife won’t get mad at me and maybe discipline me by taking away some of my favourite things like beer and potato chips and sex and beer (I like those things preferably in that order — isn’t my wife a lucky lady?). Recently my lucky wife has adopted a new disciplining technique that she picked up from parenting books and online guides.The technique advocates a very sensible approach that involves showing respect for your children while giving them the tools to help them grow into independent adults capable of making good choices and taking responsibility for their own actions. It all sounded good to me except for when I actually

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The successes I’ve seen have made me wonder if the technique would transfer over to other life situations. Maybe if everyone had someone giving them such guidance we could avoid a lot of life’s mistakes. “Mel, by telling a police ofﬁcer that ‘The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,’ you will have chosen to only make movies that star beaver puppets. It’s your choice.” “Miley, by stripping down to nude-coloured underwear and pretending to have sex on stage with Alan Thicke’s son, you will have chosen to . . . um . . . good Lord Miley what have

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North Shore soccer fans are invited to take in some high-level action while showing support for children in need at an upcoming fundraising tournament. The sixth Razi Network & Shaheen FC Indoor Soccer Tournament is being held Sunday, Dec. 22 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at North Vancouver’s Windsor Bubble.While team registration has closed, the result of a strong degree of community interest, tournament organizer and Shaheen FC player Farshad Hosseini says the event will offer much for spectators. “We will be selling food and there will be music at the event.There will also be some soccer shows by soccer freestylers,” says Hosseini, 20, a Sentinel secondary grad who is currently studying sciences at the University of British Columbia. “We do have some former professional players, some current UBC players, SFU players and they’re all varsity players, that are participating in the tournament so it is a pretty competitive tournament as well,” he adds. Partial proceeds will support the North Shorebased club, founded in 1991 by a group of IranianCanadian immigrants brought together by a shared passion for the game.Their home ﬁelds are at Windsor and Sutherland secondaries. Mainly an adult club with an open team and an over 35 team, Shaheen FC is part of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League. Community outreach is an important pillar of Shaheen

FC.The club hosts an annual summer Friendship Tournament, which began as a joint initiative with the North Vancouver RCMP, and is intended to bring local youth together and give them an opportunity to network with community leaders.The tournament has continued to expand and now sees teams take to the ﬁeld from throughout the Lower Mainland. Proceeds will also support the Razi Network for Children with Disability, a Vancouver-based nonproﬁt organization that works in partnership with the Nemooneh Care Center in Tehran, Iran. The centre provides care, rehabilitation and education for children and youths with developmental disabilities, ages four to 25.The cause is close to Hosseini’s heart as he hopes to eventually go to medical school and currently serves as a network director. Hosseini is pleased with the growth of the Razi Network & Shaheen FC Indoor Soccer Tournament. The inaugural event had a mere eight teams participate. This year’s edition will see 27 teams divided into a coed division and a separate men’s division. “It’s just been growing every year,” he says. “Our main goal with doing all these tournaments is to basically help develop cross-cultural relationships. We do have Canadian teams, Italian teams, German teams.We have teams from all ethnicities competing in the tournament. It’s not really the competition side that’s important to us, it’s basically to bring all these communities together,” he adds. shaheenfc.com facebook.com/razinetwork. org

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MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY CLINICS: North Shore Neighbourhood House will hold multicultural mammography clinics Dec. 16-20, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at 225 East Second St., North Vancouver.There will be interpretation services in Farsi, Chinese and Korean from Dec. 16 to 18. Call 604-9882931 for information on the interpreted clinics and 1-800-663-9203 for the English clinics. CAREGIVER EVENT — TUESDAY WALK AND TALKS Stroll on the Ambleside Seawalk and get to know other caregivers Dec. 17 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Meet at the covered picnic area in John Lawson Park,West Vancouver.The program takes place, rain or shine. 604-982-3320

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Cold, grey days along with increased amounts of stress can worsen symptoms of anxiety and depression. Poor food choices, lack of sleep and decreased exercise will only exacerbate symptoms. It is likely that your “feel good” hormones (neurotransmitters) are out of balance. Serotonin, dopamine, GABA, as well as other neurotransmitters influence our well-being, energy, moods and impulse to eat. If these hormones are out of balance, or are not produced sufficiently, fatigue, low moods, eating disorders, anxiety and/or sadness will worsen. Marine Drive Naturopathic Clinic offers successful treatments for mood disorders and emotional well-being. A simple urine sample will examine neurotransmitter levels and determine what may be deficient. Determining these imbalances, along with the appropriate nutrients and vitamins, will improve your quality of life and sense of well-being. Why not start the New Year off knowing how to feel your best? Call us today at 604.929.5772 to set up an appointment. Many extended health care plans offer Naturopathic medicine coverage. Consider using your benefits for 2013 while you still can!

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A colour-coded approach to bicycle ownership As bike to work week winds down, we are enjoying the beautiful colours of the trees, which got us to thinking about bike colours, which led us to thinking: what does your bike colour say about your personality? So a bit of Internet research later and the psychological information was at hand for both your bicycle and your car. We compiled the following statistics from a Road Bike Review online survey and a Forbes article about the top 10 car colours and then threw in our personality reviews. ■ Black: Classic, conﬁdent, aggressive. People who ride black bikes see themselves as rebellious. More black cars are involved in accidents, which may well also be true with bikes.Your local gangsters probably ride black bikes! Twenty-six per cent of you ride black bikes. That is a lot of gangsters. ■ Silver: Resourceful, aloof, trying to be sophisticated and classy.

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Interestingly, silver car drivers are also known as dangerous drivers.This must be why at least one of us Pedal Pushers rides a silver bike. Just more than 10 per cent of you ride silver, but 24 per cent drive silver. Being classy is clearly harder on a bike. ■ Green: Environmentally conscious, trying to be balanced, but more easily hysterical and a smarty pants. Two-three per cent of you are green, which is the same for cars as well. ■ Yellow: Exhibitionist, impulsive, joyful and novelty loving. Bet you didn’t plan to buy that yellow bike, but now with the yellow jacket and the black pants you have achieved a full bumblebee. ■ Blue: Cool and calm under pressure, loyal, introspective and cautious. Six per cent of you drive blue and 20 per cent ride blue. Clearly blue is the best

colour, shown by one of us who drives both a blue bike and car. ■ White: Steady, strong. Neat, tidy, even fastidious. You have low accident rates and thought the bike looked clean and pure. Thirty per cent of you drive white but only six-seven per cent ride white. Clearly neatness and purity is more of a car-driving virtue than a riding virtue. ■ Red: Action-oriented, physical, willing to try new things, romantic and energetic. Eight per cent of you drive red and 26 per cent of you ride red.That must mean that cyclists are more romantic than drivers. One last observation about the beautiful fall leaves and colours. A cyclist named the season fall for a reason: the slippery leaves make you fall. Be careful out there! The Pedal Pushers are Dan Campbell,AntjeWahl,Anita Leonhard and Heather Drugge. bike@northshorepedalpushers.com.

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Important for caregivers to give themselves a break JOSIE PADRO Contributing writer

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Invest in random acts of kindness Mike Grenby

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Make this your “random act of kindness” holiday season.

You won’t ﬁnd any other investment that yields such a guaranteed

positive (and tax-free) return — and one with the potential to compound

exponentially. One of my students created a “kindness

card” to be given to the recipient, encouraging that person to give a similar gift. “If you were to pass along three random acts of kindness in the next week, giving each person a copy of this card,” she said, “and if that person did the same, and on and on . . . in four months 4,782,969 people would have received random acts of kindness.” Here’s a list of just a few gift-giving ideas to enrich your life as well as someone else’s: n Buy dessert for somebody who is sitting alone in a restaurant. n Leave money in a vending machine. n Pay for the meal of the people in the car behind you at a drive-through. n Put movie tickets (or vouchers) in a random mailbox. n Pay the bill for an “obviously in love” couple at a restaurant. n Put some money into an about-to-expire parking meter. n Send flowers to somebody in long-term care at a hospital or in a retirement home — ask the receptionist for the name of a person who never gets any flowers. Jane Schwartzberg, who has stage four incurable cancer, asks: Would you have a different attitude to giving if you knew you had a terminal illness? She suggests the best gift is love . . . which is what random acts of kindness are all about. “In some ways, I wish everyone could have a taste of terminal, if that’s what it takes,” she said. “But I hate the thought of goodness coming at the expense of so much suffering.” Schwartzberg added the holidays are a great time “to cultivate a spirit of gratitude and to refocus on the things that are the most meaningful.” Mike Grenby is a columnist and independent personal financial advisor; he’ll answer questions in this column as space allows but cannot reply personally. Email mike@grenby.com

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f children’s literature has taught us anything, it is that chocolate factories are owned by eccentric tycoons, staffed by mischievous Oompa Loompas and traversed by chocolaty rivers that visitors should drink from at their own risk. So, when the North Shore News received an invitation for a behind-the-scenes tour of Thomas Haas Fine Chocolate & Patisserie in North Vancouver, it was eagerly accepted, but not without some preconceptions. On a weekday afternoon, the Harbourside Drive café entertains a steady stream of sweet-toothed customers. Some sit down with their cappuccinos and savory selections; others pick and choose from an assortment of handmade chocolates, pastries and confections artfully displayed behind glass in tidy rows and stacks. Everything is made in the adjoining kitchen, which lies beyond a set of swinging doors with peek-a-boo windows. Owner Thomas Haas leads the way into his boutique production facility, which, not surprisingly, bears little resemblance to Roald Dahl’s ﬁctional wonderland save for one important thing: chocolate. And plenty of it. The heady aroma of cocoa hangs in the air as a handful of staff prepare trays of ganache for decoration while others tie gift boxes with orange ribbons. An Oasis song plays softly in the background. Through the chocolate kitchen and into a special temperature- and humidity-controlled room, Haas surveys the day’s work. Several bakers racks are stacked high with tray upon tray of freshly made sweets. There’s a dark chocolate ganache with toasted pecans and chewy caramel, dipped in dark chocolate and sprinkled with French sea salt, a crunchy praline with Guinness beer ganache, and countless others. Haas tries out new recipes regularly, he says, the successes largely a result of trial and error. Asked if he has a personal favourite chocolate, he replies with an emphatic “no.” “It’s like asking if I have a favourite child,” he says with a laugh. Haas proceeds to another spacious room, the pastry kitchen, where buttery croissants glow golden yellow through oven door windows. Today, staff are also preparing Christmas stollen, a German holiday bread. “We are known for nothing, but we are known for this,” says Haas, motioning to a station where chefs brush melted butter on dense loaves before dusting them in a thin layer of sugar. The team produces 280 of these traditional treats per day during the holiday season. And they sell out every day. This is the busiest time of year for the family-run business, which has ramped up production more than 400 per cent to meet holiday demand. But despite a steady appetite for his handmade sweets, Haas limits his kitchen’s output, maintaining a strict quality-over-quantity philoso-

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Family and Canadian history entwined in e-books From page 28 remembers. Starting with information collected by her father, Evelyn’s research led to an interest in the story of Canada. “I realized that to understand my family’s history, I had to know the context, the time they lived, for it to make sense.” In 1650,William Colquhoun (or Cahoon, Calhoun and eventually Cohoon) was a Scot indentured in North America. Eventually, he

purchased his freedom, married a woman named Deliverance Peck and fathered six children, only to be ambushed and slain in 1675 at the onset of King Philip’s War.The Cohoon descendants were United Empire Loyalists, leaving America for Nova Scotia in 1760. By the 1830s, the family had taken up available land in Upper Canada, at the Talbot Settlement on Lake Erie. At the same time that William Colquhoun

was making his way to Massachusetts in 1760, the Lorain family departed from La Rochelle, France. Evelyn knows they were bound for Canada but knows little more than the name changed to Larin. “I keep running into a stone wall.” The Irish branch of the family, the Traceys, was in Newfoundland in 1815, Montreal in 1825 and in St. Columban, an Irish community outside the city by the time of the rebellions of Upper and

Lower Canada in 1837. “We Canadians have been trained to believe our history is boring. I don’t agree at all. The rebellion forced reforms that led to confederation,” says Evelyn of that period in Canada’s history. Like all good genealogists and family historians, Evelyn takes dead ends and multiple spellings of family names in stride. Evelyn’s ancestor Daniel Tracey, for example, is not to be confused with Dr. Daniel Tracey whose

legacy as a journalist and a politician was a factor in the rebellions. “I kept coming across his name in my research but Dr. Daniel Tracey was never married and had no children,” says Evelyn. “In my story, just to keep it interesting, I had the two Daniels meet and become friends.” Evelyn had already written one historical novel based on her family history, The Colquhouns in Canada, published as an e-book in

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Notable Potables Sparkling wines (and Champagne for some occasions) are a must-have this time of year. The question is: Are you getting enough bubble for your buck? There’s no shortage of selection. From Spanish Cava to French Crémant, German Sekt and everything in between on the heady ladder up to “Big C” Champagne.While most of us cherish the taste of real bubbles, when reality strikes we’re drawn to more walletfriendly drops. A growing number of sparkling wines taste as good as they look in the glass, put on a festive air and make pretty nice party companions.The Hired Belly knows living with Champagne tastes on a beer budget can be a challenge at the best of times, so here’s a quick list to pin to the fridge

or pixel into your iPhone. Dr. Loosen: easy-sipping bubble in classic Sekt style offers yet one more excuse (if you ever needed it) to drink riesling, with its lively mousse, fresh apple notes and natural fresh fruitforward style.Think anything spicy. A pretty smart package too (BCLS $16.99, 89 points). Spain makes Cava, arguably the best value bubble around.The more I drink, the more I come back to Segura.The regular Segura Viudas Brut is a very versatile food match.You can drink it with everything from cracked crab to curry. But this time of year, pink is the festive drink. Segura Viudas Brut Rosé: I tasted through quite a few sparkling rosés and found this was a whole lot less cloying than some. Good bubbles, with longlasting mousse, lively and fruity, with raspberry, cherry and citrus notes. (BCLS $14.99, 89 points). Prosecco:These days we’re all drinking more Prosecco than ever before. Why not? It’s affordable and easy to enjoy with all kinds of bites.There’s a full range, from affordable organics such as good value organic Villa Teresa Prosecco (BCLS $17.97) to easy-sipping, lively drops like apple and

pear-toned Valdo (BCLS $20.99). But Prosecco has also gone upscale recently. Take structured, and nicely mouth-filling Giusti Prosecco Brut: apple and floral notes on top with a good stream of bubbles, creamy and gently citrus on the mouth-filling palate (private wine stores $26ish. 90 points). Just about everywhere is turning out half-decent bubble these days. Nose around and you can find some great New World deals, such as Pascual Toso Brut.This well-priced sparkling Chardonnay from Mendoza (Argentina) sports a touch of apple, some creaminess and a soft finish. Easy quaffing and easy on the wallet, it’s a perfect party wine (Everything Wine: $16.99, 89 points). Meanwhile, back in B.C., I’m always delighted to taste Okanagan pioneer Blue Mountain Sparkling Brut Gold Label.This crisp and clean sparkler sports a stream of fine bubbles with a toasty nose and mouthfilling mousse with firm apple citrus notes through the mid-palate ($24-$26, private stores, 91 points). With some flattering imitators but no serious substitutes on the horizon, Champagne still rules.

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life experience has given them an air of complete peace and acceptance. Resting with Piper beside me is what I imagine resting beside a Zen master must be like. When I brought Raider into our home, I made sure it was not at the expense of my other two dogs. At just over one year old now, his enthusiasm is overwhelming at times, but it breaks the seriousness of my adult life and has unexpectedly sparked a childlike playfulness in me that I had long ago forgotten. A dog’s natural state of peace and calm can settle the busiest of minds.Try, if you might, to sit calmly with your

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It took North Vancouver’s Martin Jones a few years of toil in hockey’s minor leagues before he got his shot at the NHL but, now that he’s got it, he sure looks like he never wants to go back. Even when he made it to the NHL Jones had some more waiting to do, serving solely as a backup to Ben Scrivens for three weeks after getting called up from the American Hockey League following an injury to Los Angeles Kings star Jonathan Quick. The call ﬁnally came for a Dec. 3 road game against the Kings’ crosstown rivals from Anaheim and Jones was stellar in his league debut, stopping 26 out of

28 shots in a 2-2 tie and then turning away all nine shooters he faced in an extended shootout as the Kings ﬁnally claimed a 3-2 win. “It was intense for sure,” Jones told reporters following the game. “I wanted to make sure I was as focused as I could be but try to enjoy it a little bit if I could. It was a great experience, and something I’ve dreamed about for a long time — playing in an NHL game and getting a win. It was everything it was cracked up to be.” The 23-year-old earned praise for his performance in the drawn-out shootout but took it all in stride. “I’ve been in that situation before,” he said. “Obviously the shooters are a little bit higher level but I just wanted to stick

with what I’m doing and what I’ve been working on and I was able to make a few saves there.” Jones may have waited a long time for his ﬁrst start but there was no wait for the next one as head coach Darryl Sutter made him a surprise starter for the team’s next game, a home bout against the New York Islanders. The former North Shore Winter Club player didn’t disappoint his coach, making 16 saves in a 3-0 shutout win. Following the game reporters grilled Sutter on why he made a late swap, putting Jones in over expected starter Scrivens. That prompted the coach to chide the assembled media members for focusing on the wrong See Two page 35

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Manny just misses, Maëlle gets concussion in World Cup action NorthVancouver native Manuel Osborne-Paradis just missed reaching a World Cup podium for the first time in three years last week, finishing 0.04 seconds out of the bronze medal position to place fourth in a downhill held Dec. 6 in Beaver Creek, Colo. Manny, the fifth skier to race, clocked a time of one minute 44.74 seconds to set the early lead but was eventually pushed into fourth by Italian Peter Fill. “Another fourth!” exclaimed Osborne-Paradis in mock horror in an Alpine Canada release.The threetime World Cup winner was also fourth in the downhill in Kvitfjell, Norway, at the end of last season. “It’s just a matter of time before I get a podium,” he said. “I’m skiing better and I’m skiing faster and more confidently. It’s really just about putting it all together. My run was pretty clean. I made a mistake on the pitch

and came out a little low and that probably cost me the race, but that’s racing.” The result was encouraging for OsborneParadis who is picking up speed heading into the Sochi Olympics after being slowed by injury following the 2010 Olympics. “I finished off last year with a fourth and today I got a fourth on a course I normally don’t do well on,” said Osborne-Paradis, whose previous best result in a World Cup downhill in Beaver Creek was a 23rdplace finish in 2008. “I kind of knew I was getting the wooden spoon but Jan (Hudec) and I and Erik (Guay) are all skiing well — we are all there. It’s just putting it together at the right time.” ••• West Vancouver native and reigning Olympic champion Maëlle Ricker missed the first World Cup snowboard cross race of the season after suffering a concussion

in training. The injury kept her out of the season-opening event in Montafon, Austria Dec. 7. Her Canadian teammate Dominique Maltais won silver at the event while Ricker returned to her home in Squamish following the injury. “As the defending World Champion, Maëlle has already pre-qualiﬁed her spot on the Olympic Team for Sochi,” said Canada Snowboard high performance director Robert Joncas in a release. “We felt that it was the best decision for Maëlle and for the Canadian team to send her home to speed up her recovery before rejoining us in Lake Louise for the FIS World Cup later this month.” The Lake Louise event will take place Dec. 20-21. The Olympic snowboard cross ﬁnal is scheduled for Feb. 16, 2014 at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. — compiled by Andy Prest

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thing. Not hearing what he wanted during his postgame press conference, Sutter decided to ask himself a question. “So Darryl, how do you think Martin Jones played tonight?” he said before stepping to the side to answer his own query. “I thought he was really solid, made some big saves for us. He really held us in there in the ﬁrst period. He was outstanding.” The coach was impressed enough to give Jones the next start as well and was again rewarded as the rookie made 17 saves in the ﬁrst period alone, 31 saves in all, to earn his second straight shutout, 6-0 on the road against the famed Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night. Jones, already gaining a reputation as a low-key interview subject, once again played it cool in describing his shutout in hockey-mad Montreal and the impressive 3-0 start to his career. “Those are fun atmospheres and fun games to play in but I thought we did a really good job tonight of eliminating that,” he said. “It feels good. I’m happy with the start, obviously, but I don’t want to stop here. I want to make sure I keep working and keep getting better. I don’t want to win just three games, I want to make sure I keep improving here.” One day later the story got even better as Jones improved to 4-0 with perhaps his best performance yet, a 38-save effort in a 3-1 road win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. The game recap video is peppered with outstanding saves from Jones. The goalie is now the talk of the NHL following his shutdown appearances in the hockey heartlands of Montreal and Toronto. Not bad for a kid who wasn’t even drafted. Jones was eligible for the 2008 NHL entry draft but his name was never called. He played well enough as a member of the Calgary Hitmen to earn a tryout with the Kings that fall, however, and was given a pro contract after an impressive training camp. That winter he earned a spot on Canada’s World Junior team, replacing starter Jake Allen in the

championship ﬁnal and almost leading Canada to a stunning comeback against the United States — Jordan Eberle scored two late goals to erase a 5-3 deﬁcit — before losing in overtime. Later that year he was named the Western Hockey League’s goalie of the year and guided the Hitmen to the WHL title, earning MVP honours in the team’s 4-1 championship series win over the Tri-City

Americans. The team lost in the semiﬁnals of the Memorial Cup playoffs but Jones was still named a tournament all-star and the event’s top goaltender. His pro career started in 2010 and in four season with the Manchester Monarchs he’s racked up a record of 87 wins (including eight shootout wins), 56 losses and nine shootout losses with 11 shutouts. It’s all led to this moment, with Jones now

tied for fourth in the NHL this season with two shutouts despite playing just four games. Heading into this weekend’s games he sports a .974 save percentage and 0.74 goals against average and will likely get at least one start as the Kings wrap up their road trip in Ottawa on Saturday and Chicago on Sunday. As good as he’s been, Jones is still keeping it cool in regards to his hot start. “I try not to think

may have some tough decisions to make when Quick, the 2012 Conn Smyth Trophy winner, comes back from his groin injury in the next few weeks. Scrivens is no slouch either — he has three shutouts in 15 games and leads the league with a .943 save percentage. Whatever happens, however, there seems to be no doubt now about which league Martin Jones belongs in.

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