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Canyon Heights man to reunite with family after four-year wait JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

For Canyon Heights resident Hisham Wattar, one of the most pressing tasks in the next week will be meeting with North Vancouver school principals and finding classroom spots for two

children in his extended family.

“That’s the most urgent thing – to get those kids in school,” he says about his niece’s son and daughter.

Also on his list – getting family members signed up for English language classes.

But these are tasks

SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS Wattar is happy to have.

After a four-year wait, Wattar got word Thursday morning that his family of

privately sponsored Syrian refugees will arrive in Vancouver Dec. 20.

“The kids are jumping up and down. They can’t believe this is actually happening,” he said, shortly after hearing word from Cairo, where the family has been waiting. “They are ecstatic about this.”

Arriving in North Vancouver will be “the ultimate day”, he said. “It’s a day they’re going to start

a normal life.”

It’s a dramatic change in just three months. In September, Wattar’s biggest worry was convincing his 28-year-old niece not to risk taking one of the dangerous smugglers’ sea crossings to Europe – a move she considered after starting to lose hope the family would ever be welcomed in her uncle’s adopted country of Canada.

That was a journey

similar to the one attempted by the family of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old boy whose lifeless body was captured in a photograph that shocked the world after the boat he was in capsized, drowning many on board.

It was partly that concern that prompted Wattar to go public in September with his frustration over seemingly See Man page 3

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Murder suspected in death of sex offender JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

SOGGY START A morning commuter ploughs through pooling water Tuesday on Lynn Valley Road westbound near the Highway 1 overpass.

Weather experts are predicting a mild winter thanks to El Nino. See page 3 for the full story. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

A search for a high-risk sexual offender has turned into a homicide investigation after the 22-year-old man’s body was discovered in North Vancouver’s Mosquito Creek on Friday.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was called in after the body of Cameron Leon was found in the creek near Fell Avenue and 17th Street.

Leon’s death was immediately considered suspicious by North Vancouver RCMP officers and the coroner who was called to the scene, said Sgt. Stephanie Ashton, spokesperson for IHIT. “They determined we See Missing page 3

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Man credits new gov’t for fast action From page 1 endless bureaucratic delays.

He and North Vancouver’s Canyon Heights Church pastor Steve Moore had been trying for two years to bring the Syrian-born Wattar’s family to Canada as privately sponsored refugees. They had filled out reams of paperwork and spent months waiting – only to be told the family could face over three more years in stateless limbo.

Wattar, who immigrated to Canada in the 1980s, said his family lived a normal life in Syria until the country was torn apart by war. After his 22-year-old nephew took part in student protests during the Arab Spring, the secret service raided the family home with machine guns.

With Wattar’s help, his sister, two nieces and two of his niece’s children fled to Egypt in 2012 and were granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees.

And there they waited.

El Nino brings mild winter JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

It’s likely going to be a green Christmas again on the North Shore.

And that trend isn’t letting up anytime soon.

Chances of snow-filled winter wonderlands will be less than usual this winter, say meteorologists, as a strong El Nino will bring warmer than usual temperatures to the North Shore and the Greater Vancouver area between now and the end of February.

“It’s definitely a very strong El Nino,” said Lisa Coldwells, a meteorologist for Environment Canada.

El Nino is a pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean water in the equatorial Pacific, which often brings with it warmer than usual winter temperatures for the west coast of Canada.

Typically in El Nino years, “you end up with temperatures one to two degrees above normal,” in the Lower Mainland, said Coldwells.

El Nino often means winSee Warmer page 9

Hisham Wattar readies a bedroom in his Canyon Heights home with stuffies for his sister and her family who are settling here from Syria on Dec. 20. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Until now.

Wattar credits the public response to the refugee crisis during the election to prompting Canada to act.

“We have to thank the Canadian people,” he said.

“They spoke out.”

Wattar said he has high hopes for the refugees

under the new Liberal government. “I think this government will keep their promise,” he said. “It’s a whole new direction.”

Under the previous Conservative regime, the biggest problem was political will, he said. “They weren’t interested at all.”

Starting this fall, the family saw the sponsorship process suddenly speed up. They had medical examinations and interviews, followed by orientation sessions on what to expect in Canada – including tidbits on everything from health care to basics on our government.

Wattar said the adults in his family all have a basic understanding of English, though they will need more training.

When the family first arrives, they will be staying in Wattar’s North Vancouver home.

Eventually, he is hoping to help them find some affordable housing close to him. “I want them to stay on the North Shore,” he said.

Wattar acknowledges that since the terrorist attacks in Paris, it has been difficult to hear the

xenophobic tone of the anti-immigrant sentiment in some discussions.

“You feel like you have to defend yourself all the time for no reason,” says Wattar, a businessman who owns Best Falafel in Vancouver.

“I’m a Muslim. I’m very moderate. Someone has done something bad and then you have to defend yourself against the few who have turned into fanatics.”

Wattar said while he understands some people’s fears, there’s no evidence that refugees later turn out to be terrorists.

“These are people who were left with no home,” he said. “Obviously the people who leave want nothing to do with fighting and wars altogether.”

Wattar said he still thinks the majority of Canadians are “compassionate enough to understand (that).”

“I remain hopeful when we start seeing the refugees coming in, a lot of people will be out there trying to lend a hand.”

Couple terrorized in break-in

Man handed four years for role in Lions Bay home invasion JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A 20-year-old man who took part in a terrifying home invasion of a Lions Bay couple has been handed a sentence of four years in jail.

Afzal Ismail Desai will spend about two and a half more years in prison – after receiving credit for time already served – for his part in threatening the couple with a fake handgun and keeping them tied up for four hours as he and another man ransacked their home in the early

morning hours of May 27, 2014.

Desai was handed the sentence Nov. 30 after pleading guilty to four charges including break and enter, use of an imitation gun to commit an offence, disguising his face during an offence and theft of a motor vehicle.

Crown counsel Lori Ashton described how the home invasion began around 1 a.m. as Desai and another man entered the home on Bayview Road with their faces masked in balaclavas.

The homeowner first

became aware something was going on when he heard noises coming from the hallway and saw two men coming up the stairs.

The man ran back to the bedroom to warn his wife, said Ashton, but “he was hit on the head and pushed to the bed.”

The couple saw one of the men holding a black gun before they were forced to lie on the bed while their assailants placed blankets over them, then tied them up with duct tape and rope.

Ashton said Desai stayed to guard the couple while the other home invader demanded to know where the safe was.

The assailants took the contents of the safe, which included approximately

$11,000 in Canadian and U.S. currency, and a gold necklace as well as passports and diplomas.

The home invaders also went through the victim’s wallet and demanded credit and debit card pin numbers.

The man said he could hear one of his assailants talking on a phone, relaying those numbers to someone.

The Crown’s theory is that two other people who were part of the plot drove to banks on the North Shore during the home invasion and used the cards to withdraw money from the victims’ accounts. About $3,000 was eventually withdrawn. In total, more than $10,000 was stolen from the couple.

The couple were kept tied up for about four hours, during which time the home invaders verbally threatened them, saying, “We’ll break your bones and “we’ll cut your fingers off,” if they didn’t cooperate, said Ashton.

The victims described one of the two assailants in the house as “particularly aggressive” while the other – later identified as Desai – as “the kinder” of the pair.

When the woman asked why they were targeted, the home invaders said, “Your husband knows why we’re here” and “Your husband has been naughty.”

Ashton said the Crown’s theory is that one of the See Accused page 5

Missing man wanted on Canada-wide warrant

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needed to do an autopsy.

That was done yesterday,” said Ashton. “It was determined foul play was a factor in his death.”

The cause of Leon’s death isn’t being released.

Ashton said investigators are in North Vancouver, interviewing people in the area where Leon’s body was discovered. The top

priority for police is to find and talk to anyone who may have seen or been with Leon between Dec. 1 – when he failed to return to a Vancouver halfway house – and Dec. 4, when his body was discovered, said Ashton.

Leon’s body was found in the creek in a wooded area not far from North Vancouver’s homeless shelter on Bewicke Avenue. The area near

Mosquito Creek is known as a spot where homeless people sometimes camp.

Last week, Vancouver police issued a public notice about Leon, saying he was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after disappearing from the halfway house Nov. 30.

Leon had been released to the halfway house after serving the mandatory portion of a two-year jail sentence for a

violent sexual assault and beating of a woman in a Chilliwack alley in the fall of 2012.

Leon was found guilty in a B.C. Supreme Court in 2013 of sexual assault causing bodily harm and assault causing bodily harm in connection with the case. He also had a previous conviction for sexual assault and was considered a high risk to reoffend.

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people involved in the home invasion was a woman who was an escort whose services had been used by the husband. That’s how the home invaders – who included the woman’s boyfriend – knew there was a safe in the house, she said.

The assailants loaded stolen items including two laptop computers, an iPad, camera, liquor and wine into a suitcase, then took the couple’s car to make their getaway.

A subsequent

investigation tracked the location of the four people charged by cellphone tower to both the home in Lions Bay and banks on the North Shore. Investigators also tracked numerous calls between the four numbers.

When Desai turned himself in to the North Vancouver RCMP detachment on another file in December 2014, he was arrested and made a confession. Desai told police he had been approached to take part in the home invasion, and thought the home they were

going to belonged to drug dealers. Desai told police he was paid $1,000 for his role in the home invasion.

Desai’s lawyer, Jordan Allingham, told the judge his client was not the mastermind of the plot, and was only 18 at the time.

He comes from an abusive background and bounced between foster homes growing up, said Allingham.

At the time of the home invasion, he had just “aged out” of the foster care system and needed money to pay rent, said Allingham.

In handing down her

sentence, provincial court Judge Joanne Challenger she took into account Desai’s tragic background and that he was “a follower” rather than the leader of the plot. But she added the experience must have been terrifying for the victims.

Three other people – Christine Marie Kessel, 23, Malcolm Jamel Eric Drydgen, 26, and a youth who cannot be named, also face charges in connection with the home invasion.

Their cases are still before the courts. A trial is scheduled for next June.

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erhaps understandably, “monster house” isn’t a term popular with planners. But it’s stuck, because it captures the emotional essence of how people feel when one of these looming, overbearing edifices gets built next to them.

Perhaps understandably, “monster house” isn’t a term popular with planners.

But it’s stuck, because it captures the emotional essence of how people feel when one of these looming, overbearing edifices gets built next to them.

This week, West Vancouver council endorsed a multi-phase strategy aimed at reining in the monster house phenomenon.

But the first phase – dealing with issues like fencing and landscaping – falls remarkably short of addressing the real issue: huge homes being built on small lots out of all proportion to their neighbours. We question council’s timidity in getting down to it.

This is not a new issue. Council has discussed and consulted the public and

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wrung their hands for years on it. During that time, 150 massive homes have gone up each year in West Van. Monster homes are overwhelmingly unpopular with most of the public. Which begs the question: what’s keeping councillors from acting?

Most of the opposition to monster home regulation has come from developers. Their self-interest in the debate is obvious, but it should not drive the municipal agenda. Is the planning department understaffed or the culture of West Vancouver town hall just not comfortable in getting down to difficult discussions?

One concern voiced was if West Van moves too quickly it will result in division in the community. Well, news flash: not taking action will result in exactly the same.

Property rights are important but they aren’t absolute – all owners are subject to municipal rules, which aim at the greater good of the community. It’s time to tackle the monster houses head on.

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Deal directly with aggressors Dear Editor: In a pivotal time that is putting to test the core values of our civilization, culture and values and when we are reminded more often than ever before of how fortunate we are to live in a country that has fought so hard for all of us to enjoy freedom in the whole extent of the concept, I find that the District of North Vancouver’s proposal to censor any letters or emails sent to the mayor or council because they could contain “inappropriate, offensive, misleading, harassing or threatening” offensive and preposterous.

Just to learn that the staff, mayor and council have approved this brutal attempt in camera to get away with silencing anybody who does

not approve their ways, proves that this proposal is controversial and morally wrong. To block one of our core values: freedom of speech and to stop anybody who has a say on district policy is absolutely wrong, regardless of what the district’s lawyers say.

The District of North Vancouver should reverse such policy and deal with “offensive or aggressive communications from the public” the same way that any other citizen would do.

If an action, letter or email crosses the line, then report it to the RCMP and let them start the legal process to deal with this in a constitutional manner.

The filtering of communications through the municipal clerk means

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that one person will decide what is deemed appropriate and what isn’t. Did we not choose our representatives through an election so they would represent us in the district? We did not elect the municipal clerk to become the judge of our opinions.

The ban on direct communications must be stopped right now. We should value and show pride in every single one of our freedoms. We must show the world that a lot of Canadians have died for a reason: to protect our freedoms, that we value and will defend our rights, no matter what.

If the administrative officer’s reasoning is true that the fact is that there is a “very, very small number of people who repeatedly cross the line,” then, as I

said, deal with that very, very small number of people the legal way and don’t resort to punishing and silencing people with this draconian approach.

Mayor Richard Walton and council must stop this action immediately before we start a trend of silencing Canadian citizens for many other actions that could be interpreted as offensive.

Please remember that we live here because we believe in our constitution and in the values expressed in the Charter of Rights. We have a history of tolerance and understanding and we have a worldwide reputation on how we deal with adversity by the means of the law and not by the means of force.

Elias B. Merkins West Vancouver

Let science determine best pipeline scheme Dear Editor: The B.C. public heard the Liberals say: the national energy board needs to be fixed.

Our PM announced his belief in our scientists – so expect, in the public interest, that our scientists will produce a scientific study that shows we should have no concerns about the ever-increased shipping activity in southern waters.

Then decide.

A Washington state study concluded: “... simply ... there is no guarantee that risk increases ... can be fully mitigated.”

Also, where is the B.C. think tank (announced by the Harper government

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During the bustle of electioneering, Mr. Trudeau stated his preference for Kinder Morgan. Now’s the time, Mr. PM, to direct your scientists to show you, scientifically, that both B.C. pipeline proposals might be unwise.

A simple pipeline scheme stares us in the face. Yes, build one pipeline system from Alberta to a scientifically selected terminal location on our coast, to minimize the probability of a dreaded bitumen spill.

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Backcountry boneheads get a bailout ... again I think I’ve finally figured out the difference between lemmings and people.

Against all reason, lemmings jump off the cliff.

People jump into the mountains, also against all reason.

Then, the sun goes down.

They get lost. And because they’re dressed in capri pants and cowboy boots – and street shoes, high heels, gumboots, sneakers, purses, cotton hoodies, no jacket, and the proverbial Pekinese lap dog – they’re in danger of freezing to death and have to be saved by North Shore Rescue.

Lemmings, at least, have fur. They’re always appropriately dressed.

I mean, really. Who are all those people wandering around in the wilderness in their summer clothes, completely unprepared … for anything?

Do they stand there and look up at the snowcapped mountains and say to themselves: “Today, I’m going to put on my T-shirt, capris and cowboy boots and go get lost”?

Paul Sullivan

The North Side You wouldn’t think so, but it happens nearly every week. Check that. North Shore Rescue is involved in an average of 79 events a year, so it happens more than every week.

The latest are a couple of intrepid explorers who had to be rescued Dec. 1 on the Dog Mountain trail, 600 metres from the Mount Seymour parking lot.

As usual “they were not properly dressed for the conditions.”

A team of 12 rescuers had to be deployed to save these people from themselves. The resources

expended on saving people from themselves are not insignificant. North Shore Rescue is a volunteer organization, but it still spends $400K a year on training and equipment, and the volunteers average 500 hours a year wandering around in the dark looking for people who are lucky they don’t get lost on the way from the bed to the ensuite, never mind the deep winter woods.

In their defence, The Dog Mountain trail is characterized as an easy, two-hour hike with minimum elevation.

It’s also clearly seasonal, i.e., June to October. It takes a certain kind of intrepid explorer to set off in the late afternoon, out of season. The same kind of hero who thinks the Grouse Grind is closed for everybody else, that “Bounds” are just a handy way to go “Out of Bounds” when you’re skiing or snowboarding, and that it’s OK to go for a hike any time of the year in cowboy boots.

There is an argument, a

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strong compelling argument if you ask me, to make these people pay for their inclination to wander off the grid into trouble. And when the rescue helicopter costs $2,500 an hour of taxpayers’ money (ahem, that’s yours and mine), it makes dollars and sense.

But North Shore Rescue points out that people delay calling for help for themselves or their loved ones because they’re afraid they’ll be forced to pay for their rescue. Never mind what that says about how they value their lives, it also puts the rescuers at greater risk, as timing or weather conditions are often no longer on their side.

So North Shore Rescue continues to bail out these boneheads, and I guess that’s better than leaving them out there to figure out how to find their own way back to the Mount Seymour parking lot, even though it is only 600 metres away.

The problem with this beneficence is that it allows the above-mentioned boneheads to think that if

it all goes round in circles, they just dial 9-1-1 and wait for the guardian angels. Of course, because they are boneheads, it’s likely their phones aren’t charged or they haven’t figured out that reception on Crown Mountain is spotty, at best.

As long as we live five minutes from a hinterland that goes all the way to Alaska, some fool is going to wander off the beaten path once or twice a week.

And, life being a series of bitter little ironies, I’m

aware that the next fool could be yours truly, after twisting an ankle while running somewhere in Lynn Canyon. At least I think it’s Lynn Canyon … didn’t I turn left back there at the mossy tree?

Hmm … they’re all mossy trees.

Journalist and communications consultant Paul Sullivan has been a North Van resident since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of Madonna. p.sullivan@ breakthroughpr.com

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Shop local, stay charming Dear Editor: We are our own worst enemy. We want charm of a village, but then buy mostly from big chains for the pricing.

The article about Edgemont is so true and sad.

We will lose the charm. This is the battle in Chinatown.

New buildings with higher rent displace the old-time

charm and character of what we love. New York has gone through this, just on a larger scale and now it isn’t the same as it was. Safe, new and sterile.

Please don’t lose the charm. Support local.

Carefully move progress forward. Check motives.

Martin Vondruska North Vancouver

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Friday, December 11, 2015 - North Shore News - A9

Opposition to DNA testing costs growing The City of North Van isn’t alone in rejecting the province’s decision to download the costs of DNA crime-lab testing to municipalities.

Last month city council unanimously voted in favour of writing to both the federal and provincial governments to express its displeasure over the unilateral decision to change the cost structure for DNA testing.

Last week the Union of B.C. Municipalities also voiced its concern, calling on B.C. Attorney General and Minister of Justice Suzanne Anton to reverse the decision to shift provincial

costs for DNA analysis to municipalities.

In a letter written in response to the City of North Vancouver’s opposition to paying for crime-lab costs, Anton wrote: “The previous federal government made the decision to reduce its share of DNA costs.

Unfortunately, that means the costs fall to municipalities. I understand why municipalities like North Vancouver have concerns and I would encourage them to raise them directly with Government of Canada.”

Since 2004 provinces

and territories have contributed to the cost of the DNA service, with B.C. paying $1.37 million annually. But in 2013 the federal government advised provinces that “flat rate” contributions would be replaced by a user-pay model based on actual costs.

Under the new agreement, the feds will pay 46 per cent of the costs of DNA analysis, with the provinces and territories covering the remainder.

B.C.’s DNA analysis tab for 2016-17 will be $4.9 million, but the province is only willing to pay $1.37 million. That will result in a

$3.54-million shortfall that must be paid by individual policing agencies based on usage of DNA analysis.

The B.C. NDP also opposes the DNA download decision.

On Dec. 7, NDP MLA Selina Robinson, Opposition spokesperson for local government and sports, wrote a letter to Anton, stating, “It is disappointing that the province of B.C. is the only provincial government or territory in Canada that has chosen to pass this cost off on to local governments.”

Robinson also rejected the B.C government

Warmer temps bad news for local ski hills From page 3 ter storms are pushed further north, which can result in marginally drier winters too, said Coldwells – though that isn’t always the case.

Precipitation that does fall is more likely to fall as rain than snow and fall as rain at higher elevations, said Coldwells. None of which is great news for local ski hills.

“It’s not the type of pattern that’s the best for skiers,” said Erin Wenckstern, a meteorologist

with the Weather Network also predicting a strong El Nino winter.

This week, North Shore ski hills had most runs closed on Tuesday as rain and temperatures of between 5 and 7 degrees C made for less than ideal conditions.

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Mussatto said Metro’s water planners are reviewing what can be done better in the future, following the experience of last year’s drought. Watering restrictions will start two weeks earlier in 2016 than they have in the past – in May – he said, and run two weeks later. Metro is also trying to coordinate various municipal governments’ approaches to water use so that what’s allowed or not allowed and fines for not following the rules are consistent.

advising municipalities they must protest directly with the federal government.

“Furthermore, telling local governments that they have to negotiate directly with the

new federal government to address their concerns is an abdication of the provincial government’s responsibility to British Columbians.”

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A10 - North Shore News - Friday, December 11, 2015

INQUIRING REPORTER Real estate is always a hot-button topic among Vancouverites. A desirable location but increased development makes it especially relevant for North Shore residents.

Vacancy currently sits at less than 0.7 per cent in North Vancouver. Renters are finding it difficult to find a place to live, or can’t afford the high rent.

And the buyers’ market is much the same. We hit the streets to ask: Is the government doing enough for housing affordability on the North Shore? Tell us what you think. Weigh in at nsnews.com.

– Ben Bengtson

Julie Cluff North Vancouver “Nope, they’re not. There’s too much foreign investment.

There’s not enough focus on people who can actually live and work here. ”

Is the government doing enough for housing affordability on the North Shore?

Neill Dolmage North Vancouver “No, they’re not. You notice all this expensive stuff going up now? There’s no cheap place for food even.”

Yolanda Shayan North Vancouver “Not quite. I think the government should maybe step in and do something for young families or families with one income only.”

Daniela Diaz North Vancouver “Not at all. I think that at the very least the government should be contributing to education, that way people are motivated to go to school to make money to buy a house. ”

Bill Duggan North Vancouver “No, I don’t. I’m not sure what they can do, but I just think it’s hard for young people these days to get a start. I mean, to buy a house here now is kind of ridiculous. ”

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Friday, December 11, 2015 - North Shore News - A11

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Bennett a visionary, polarizing figure The recent passing of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett was a reminder that of the many people who have held elected office in this province, only a handful can truly be said to have left a major, lasting imprint on the society they served.

That is not to denigrate the achievements and sacrifices of those who win elected office, but it is to show how difficult it can be for any particular politician to stand head and shoulders above the crowd.

And Bennett — for both good and bad reasons — certainly stood out.

I covered him only briefly, at the tail end of his time at the helm of the province. Since then, I have covered seven different premiers, and none of them can match his record, either in terms of achievements or longevity in office.

Bennett was both a visionary builder and also a polarizing figure who added a large element of “class warfare” to his

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approach in government.

He certainly built things, many of which continue to be used by millions of British Columbians every year: BC Place stadium, SkyTrain, Canada Place, the Coquihalla Highway and the Alex Fraser Bridge, to name a few. Even the massive development of lands surrounding False Creek can be traced to his bringing Expo 86 to Vancouver.

While his legendary father, W.A.C. Bennett, opened up the province’s Interior and North with his policies in his 20 years as premier, Bennett the

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Younger left his mark more on the Metro Vancouver region with his building of infrastructure projects.

But for many other British Columbians, their lasting memories may be tied to some of the more controversial aspects of his time in power. His restraint program, aimed squarely at reducing public services and the number of people employed in the public sector, left a lingering bad taste in the mouths of many.

That restraint program, ramped up after he won the 1983 election, plunged B.C. into arguably the most turbulent time of its history, pitting one side of the province against the other. It seemed the province would grind to a halt with some kind of general strike.

In the end, the protest leaders realized Bennett could not be beaten and folded their hand. Always the tough politician, Bennett had won his most pivotal battle but the cost was a bitterly divided, polarized electorate.

That toughness was his

trademark, which people seemed to relate to. Of course, Bennett’s style of governing would seem out of place these days.

Never one to warm up to the media, he would be lost in the modern era of quick sound bites and the whirlwind world of social media, where things happen and change almost instantly.

One of Bennett’s biggest political accomplishments came before he actually became premier, and it has to considered an important and lasting part of his legacy.

He was able to woo into his Social Credit party fold several MLAs from the B.C. Liberal party, thus uniting the centre-right on B.C.’s political spectrum and making it almost impossible for his party’s chief rival, the NDP, to ever gain power on his watch.

He easily won the 1975 election, ousting the government of the NDP’s Dave Barrett, and then won two more close election battles in 1979 and again in 1983.

But while he honed the polarization of the B.C. electorate, the people of B.C. passed the ultimate judgment on his performance: they re-elected him twice, which is a critical point.

Winning a first election is one thing, but being reelected is an endorsement of a politician’s time in office.

Since Bennett, only one premier has received that endorsement: Gordon Campbell, who was also re-elected twice. Campbell, of course, remolded the B.C. Liberal party into a modern version of Bennett’s Social Credit party, and the dynasty continues in that form to this day.

And so there is little doubt that Bill Bennett will go down in the history books as one of B.C.’s greatest premiers. His political enemies may hate to admit that, but the people of B.C. are the ones who made that call.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. Keith.Baldrey@ globalnews.ca

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Dundarave Festival of Lights organizers Mary and Michael Markwick The Dundarave Festival of Lights kicked off under sunny skies Nov. 28 at West Vancouver’s Dundarave Park. Dozens of Christmas and community-minded members of the public, and representatives of local businesses and organizations were in attendance, decorating more than 100 Christmas trees. Free, live music in a variety of musical genres filled the air along with the aroma of homemade soup and hot chocolate as the sun set and the twinkling lights cast a glow along the beach.

Every Saturday through Dec. 19 free concerts will take place from noon until dusk. This Saturday, Dec. 12, World Christmas will be presented, followed by a Christmas Wassail and Bonfire Night Saturday, Dec. 19. Funds raised by the festival will go towards the Lookout Emergency Aid Society’s North Shore Shelter. dundaravefestival.com

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— A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media — Björk “Stonemilker” (360 degree virtual reality): http://bit.ly/1FBRgBw

Growing up on Bowen Island influenced Sarah Jane Scouten’s appreciation of music from a young age.

The honky tonk ways of Sarah Jane Scouten

Bully “I Remember”: http://bit.ly/1dIxWwn

Lyrical culture

Le Cinema de Serge Gainsbourg teaser: http://bit.ly/1NlsvOX Van Morrison with Them, 1964, “Baby Please Don’t Go”: http://bit.ly/1IYqPsC Julia Holter live at KEXP: http://bit.ly/1TDWLbB Sly Stone and Richard Pryor on Mike Douglas Show, 1974: http://bit.ly/1Y0lHjW

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BEN BENGTSON reporter@nsnews.com

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isiting a heritage town in the East Kootenay region of B.C. is not a hard sell for folk musician Sarah Jane Scouten. The town, called Fort Steele, is the sort of old-timey place that seems like it could have come from one of her songs.

Scouten and her band, The Honky Tonk Wingmen, are wrapping up a 21-date tour of Alberta and B.C. The group just played in Nelson and are heading up to Ymir, B.C. for a show later that evening. Scouten says a highlight of this tour has been discovering Fort Steele, a place that has went from being a gold rush town to a ghost town to a tourist attraction over its 150-year history. She excitedly describes the heritage town and

its many unique buildings. “There’s an old theatre,” she says. “There’s a photo emporium we went to, like an old saloon, and you go and take a bunch of photos. So we made a silent film the other day actually.”

Scouten’s interest in traditional, honky tonk activities like this isn’t usual. In fact, you could say it’s part of what defines her as an artist.

Born in Vancouver, Scouten spent her formative years living on Bowen Island and commuting to West Vancouver secondary.

Growing up on Bowen Island, she says, influenced her appreciation of music from a young age.

“As someone with an artistic tendency, I was exposed to so many other artistic types.

I think Bowen Island has got like the top five artist density in Canada,” she says.

Scouten says her father was a bluegrass banjo musician and seeing him and his friends play night after night was how she learned music. “Often times it was too much effort to go into the city to hang out with friends, so I’d just spend time with my dad and his friends and play music. I kind of cut my teeth that way,” she says.

While Scouten describes Bowen Island as

“idyllic”, she admits it could be very isolating living on an island and says as a teenager she often felt restless.

Scouten, who has been writing songs in a serious way since 2009, went on to explore Vancouver in an effort to hone her craft.

When she discovered the city lacked a serious folk community, she started one herself with a monthly folk music revue called Black Strap Sadie’s Old Time Jamboree, which was hosted at a venue on Main Street.

“I didn’t really realize what a beautiful thing we had,” she says of the revue. “Every time we’d be sold out, there’d be people spilling out into the street. That’s when I guess I started to maybe become more of a budding professional musician. But I made tons of mistakes; I kind of cringe at the thought of the way I sang or the leads in the songs I sang back then.”

Like many ambitious artists, Scouten eventually set off for Montreal, and this is where she says she became a professional musician. “Montreal treated me really well and because it’s so affordable and so artistfriendly I was able to spend a lot of time See Scouten page 26

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series: Stile Moderno comprised of violinist Arthur Neele and lute player Konstantin Bozhinov will perform Thursday, Jan. 7 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

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CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604990-7810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ In a Blue Moon: A love story about finding home in unexpected places Friday, Jan. 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $41/$37/$20.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604984-4484 centennialtheatre. com Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir: The Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir will be joined by a guest choir from Argyle secondary for a Christmas concert Friday, Dec. 11 at See more page 17

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THEATRE BMO Theatre Centre

Peter Pan prequel opens new space

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Just days before the opening night of Peter and the Starcatcher, the brand new BMO Theatre Centre in False Creek was still very much under construction.

“It was down to the wire,” says Bill Millerd, artistic managing director of the Arts Club Theatre Company. The West Vancouver native had originally expected the

$20-million venue would be set to open early in the fall, but, as is often the case with construction, things were delayed.

“And as it turns out, we were barely ready for the first performance,” Millerd says with a chuckle.

Everything came together, though, and Peter and the Starcatcher opened Nov. 26 without a hitch.

“It opened very well.

It’s got a great cast. I think it does show off some of Vancouver’s finest actors.”

Based on a 2006 novel

by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the play is a prequel to the Peter Pan story. It follows the young boy’s journey from lonely orphan to beloved hero, with plenty of pirates, mermaids and magic along the way.

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Benjamin Wardle and Elizabeth Cairns star in the Arts Club’s production of Peter and the Starcatcher. The play is the first presentation at the newly opened BMO Theatre Centre. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAVID COOPER

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THEATRE

Centre features four rehearsal spaces From page 15 Deciding what should christen Vancouver’s newest stage was no easy task. Millerd already had two holiday productions planned (A Christmas Story: The Musical is now playing at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage and It’s A Wonderful Life is on at the Granville Island Stage). He didn’t want a third Christmas show.

But he did want something that would make a proper spectacle of the shiny new performance space. Peter and the Starcatcher was just the ticket.

“It’s accessible, it’s certainly a family show, it’s theatrical, we use a lot a lighting and sound and there’s music. It just seemed like a good fit for our opening show.”

Directed by David Mackay, the play features a cast of 13 including Benjamin Wardle, Rachel Cairns, Colleen Wheeler and Emmelia Gordon.

“It’s probably larger than most of the productions we will eventually do in this space,” Millerd says.

Located on West First Avenue, the BMO Theatre Centre houses the corporate offices for both the Arts Club and Bard on the Beach theatre companies in addition to the 250-seat Goldcorp Stage, two costume shops and four rehearsal studios.

The arts facility was originally intended to house the Vancouver Playhouse, which went bankrupt in 2012. When the City of Vancouver, which owns the centre, started searching for other tenants, the Arts Club and Bard successfully applied.

Moving into the new space means the Arts Club has given up the Revue Stage on Granville

Emmelia Gordon and Colleen Wheeler are featured performers in Peter and the Starcatcher.

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Island. But it also means the theatre company’s offices are no longer scattered over several buildings.

“Everybody - the administration, marketing, development, most of artistic, some of production - we’re all in the same office area,” Millerd says. “From a communication point of view, I think it’s working really well.”

Aside from the new stage, the highlight of the False Creek facility for Millerd is the dedicated rehearsal space. Shared with Bard on the Beach, and available for other arts groups to rent out, the rehearsal area can get pleasantly chaotic when multiple productions are in the works.

“At one point when there were 50 actors

running around, it really felt like the kind of hub that I think we envisioned.”

A bit of a ghost town following the 2010 Games, Vancouver’s Olympic Village and surrounding area has since become a lively waterfront community with highrise condos sprouting up one after the other. In the weeks before the theatre opened, Millerd says neighbours would poke their heads inside the under-construction building, curious to know when the new cultural amenity would open its doors.

“Just having actors and theatre artists and others in this community creates the same sort of feeling that Granville Island has and to me that just brings a different dynamic,” Millerd says.

At night, when there’s a show on, the building’s two-storey glass atrium is lit up and visible from the street. It’s “like a beacon” among the surrounding condo towers, Millerd says.

“It has that feeling, much like the Stanley does as well, that you’re really in an urban setting,” he adds. “It’s right there, very visible, and I think that’s great.”

With his spacious new office unpacked, Millerd has already picked his go-to coffee and lunch spots. But he’s not quite ready to give up his former digs on Granville Island.

“The idea of closing that office and moving everything was too daunting,” he says. “So if I ever feel nostalgic for Granville Island, I go back to the office there.”

Next up on the Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre is the Arts Club’s The (Post) Mistress Feb. 4 to 28.

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MUSIC

Fusik ensemble finds common ground

Musicians combining Western and Persian forms in concert

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Hildegard’s Ghost (Jeff Gammon, Roisin Adams and Elisa Thorn) will perform with Sina Ettehad on kamancheh at Kay Meek Centre on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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One of the magical qualities about music is that it’s a universal language that knows no boundaries.

Roisin Adams and Sina Ettehad grew up worlds apart – in North Vancouver and Tehran, Iran, respectively.

While Ettehad was first introduced to music through the classical violin at 12 years old, with Adams it was the piano when she was five.

As he developed his musical talent Ettehad as a teenager became enamoured with the ancient Iranian fiddle known as the kamancheh, and has devoted

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“I became really fascinated with the sound,” says Ettehad, describing the bowed instrument as having the ability to produce a velvet warm sound or an emotional aggressive sound, depending on the pitch.

Adams, meanwhile, gained a good theoretical understanding of music during her formative years which set her up to become a masterful composer and improviser of jazz music.

Musical worlds and culture collided harmoniously a couple years ago when Ettehad and Adams crossed paths at Vancouver Community College where they studied music together and constantly brought up the idea of collaborating together.

“We share a mutual respect for the music we play See Hildegard’s page 22

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MUSIC

Hildegard’s Ghost will open with a set From page 20

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among other contemporary musical practices,” explains Adams, of the impetus behind their upcoming concert in West Vancouver.

On Thursday, Dec. 17, the audience at the Kay Meek Centre will experience Fusik: Worldly Approaches to Improvisation – a spontaneous evening of folkbending, culture-blending music.

Adams’ jazz quartet Hildegard’s Ghost will start the evening in the Euro-American tradition with a marriage of electroacoustic compositions and improvisations, featuring Elisa Thorn playing the harp, Justin Devries on drums, Jeff Gammon, double bass, and Adams at the piano.

Hildegard’s material is always fresh, thanks to the improvisational element, but the quartet will be drawing some favorites from their latest album, Stories.

“We will be sure to sneak some songs popularized by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in our repertoire, as they are known for fusing traditional European forms with African-American music,”

says Adams.

The audience will then be transported to another world where they will consume a fusion of traditional Iranian and Hindustani music, mysticism and poetry improvised by Ettehad on the kamancheh and accompanied by Amarjeet Singh, who will be playing the Indian tablas, a pair of hand drums contrasting in size and timbre.

Ettehad explains how the ancient Persian music system contains a collection of modes and melodies more than 2,000 years old that carries all the emotions ranging from sadness and happiness from generation to generation orally.

“I usually start from zero and improvise based on all Persian, Middle Eastern modes freely,” says Ettehad.

“At the same time I develop my way and add more elements such as rhythmic cycles, dynamics, questionanswer phrases, and tone painting, although there is no lyrics.”

Improvisation became the keystone of the Fusik concert, explains Adams,

to showcase its prevalence in the many cultures represented.

“No matter what someone is reading from or what they are playing, sound communicates,” she says.

Adams is effusive with her praise for Ettehad and Singh’s musical style.

“The way they are approaching improvisation is quite fearless in my opinion,” says Adams, adding, Ettehad is quite capable of making anyone “weep or jubilate at the touch of a string.”

Ettehad is equally appreciative of Hildegard’s Ghost, saying he’s observed the way jazz musicians approach to improvisation is totally different than the way he’s been trained in Persian modal music, yet he could see some similarities.

“I feel there is a common music sense between Hildegard’s Ghost and my music,” says Ettehad.

Hildegard’s Ghost describes their musical style as “existing in the realm of the unusual, collecting and disseminating curious sounds at a moment’s notice.” The musicians test the limits

of their instruments and imagination but never lose connection with the heart of the music.

The Fusik concert will culminate with an ensemble performance by all of the musicians “to fuse together all that you will hear during the night.”

“In true form we will be playing something new (an original by Adams) and something old (traditional tune) with a unique twist,” says Adams of what the audience can expect for the grand finale.

Ettehad, who now lives in North Vancouver, is a core member of Kereshmeh Ensemble, one of the world’s leading Persian classical music ensembles, an active member of the Vancouver Inter-cultural Orchestra, and teaches the kamancheh at the Nava Art Centre.

Hildegard’s Ghost, meanwhile, is brewing up a batch of new tunes as they prepare to return to the Silk Purse Arts Centre next year for their 2016 Jazz Waves Series on June 9.

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MUSIC

Felix Fung captures the magic of sound

Producer has finger on pulse of Vancouver’s indie music scene NIKI HOPE Contributing writer

“You’re going to get addicted to this thing” were the last words Felix Fung ever heard from the guy at the music shop on Fraser Street where he bought a Gibson guitar and a four-track recorder more than 20 years ago.

The guy wasn’t talking about the guitar.

He meant the recording device, and it might have been an omen of sorts because ever since Fung got his hot hands on it, he’s been obsessed with capturing the magic of sound.

“That (four-track) was the main instrument for us,” says Fung, who runs Little Red Sounds, where he’s produced the darlings of Vancouver’s indie-music scene: the Pretty’s, Girlfriends and Boyfriends, Les Chaussettes and the Ballantynes.

The latter’s recently released Fung production, Dark Drives, Life Signs, is getting heaps of accolades from local music press.

In the digital age, where music can be scrubbed clean of imperfections with the press of a button, Fung likes to keep it a little dirty. He follows the old masters who turned on the tape to capture the raw energy of live music.

“I don’t mess with it,” Fung says, describing his process. “At the same time, everyone who works here understands that we are trying to capture a moment rather than perfection.”

While he does some electronic music and layered singer-songwriter recordings, when Fung’s working with bands, he doesn’t

overcook it.

“Everything you hear, done here, at the heart of it, there is three or four people making something happen in a room together,” Fung explains. “It’s a performance – it’s a connection between people.”

From the black-and-white pictures of Serge Gainsbourg and a young Ringo Starr, to the vintage amps and guitars that line a wall, the Hastings Street studio is the kind of space that makes you want to hang out and create.

Fung, wearing red denim pants, a worn-in Levi’s jacket, his hair pulled back in a pony, revealing short sideburns, reigns over it with a quiet assurance.

What he wants is to create a space for musicians where they can shake off the outside world and feel like authentic artists, even if they have day jobs.

“I don’t want the cellphone warehouse manager to feel like the cellphone warehouse manager when they’re playing, and I don’t treat them that way,” Fung explains. “I don’t want to suggest that it’s a momentary dream.

I want to show them that they can live this way forever and still take care of their rent.

This is who I see them as. This is who they really are.”

Fung didn’t start playing seriously until his late teens, but loved music from a young age.

He remembers being six years old driving around Richmond in the backseat of the family Cutlass while Juice Newton purred “Angel of the Morning” on AM radio. He sat captivated by the melody and the sentiment.

When he was 12, his dad bought him The Beatles 20 Greatest Hits record, which had a profound impact on Fung, who cites Mickie Most, Phil Spector, Willie Mitchell, George Martin, Tchad Blake and Brian Eno as his influences.

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From page 24 Some of his favourite recordings – among many – are anything from the Beatles to Sun Records.

“I find it so futuristic and weird,” he says about those recordings. “Sun Records, all of that slap-back delay and the weirdness they did with all of those records, is the same to me as dub records, is the same to me as shoegaze, is the same to me as Phil Spector. The manipulation of reality to make a feeling or to get a point across is one in the same.”

Leaning back on a red couch in his Little Red Sounds studio, Fungs reflects, “That’s all I’ve ever wanted, is to be part of that conversation.

I don’t need to stick out, but to jump into the river and flow with it and see where it goes.”

honing my craft and learning from a lot of people,” she says.

In 2011, she recorded and released an album at the behest of a friend who was studying audio acoustics at Concordia University. “I kind of had a band that fell in my lap,” she says. “That’s how it kind of started. It was gradual, never particularly intentional.”

The rest is history.

Scouten and her bandmates now tour extensively around Canada and the U.S. She says a new album is coming out next year.

When Scouten isn’t touring she spends most of her time in Toronto these days. She’s quick to say, however, that she’s a British Columbian first, not an Ontarian. Her musical style draws from all aspects of Canadian geography, but her lyrics often focus westward.

“I tend to write about Western Canada,” she says. “Cowboys and hard rock mining settlers – maybe the music of those people.”

Scouten may be described as a country artist, but she says her style is more diverse. “I’m kind of a meat grinder of Appalachian string band music, classic country music, and then the legacy of Canadian songwriters,” she says. Scouten’s music, though, has its roots in folk, and she says that Canadian folk should deal with issues relevant

to the country. She says that Canadian folk music should be about “making our culture lyrical.”

Scouten’s latest album, 2014’s The Cape, explores family dynamics and personal relationships, topics Scouten doesn’t want to discuss any further for fear of upsetting the real-life individuals. The album, she says, also looks at things that have changed, such as Cape Roger Curtis, a 600acre patch of wilderness on Bowen Island that was turned into luxury residences by developers.

“It was hard for a lot of Bowen Island residents to see that being developed because we had just kind of had free run of the place,” she said.

Despite this, Scouten claims that Canadian folk music doesn’t overly glorify the past.

“Canadian’s will do it in a subtler, maybe less nationalistic way. But still doing it as an affection of where we’re from rather than a glorification. I think that might be what distinguishes Canadian folk music,” she says.

She admits she can envision a time where she’s no longer a professional musician, perhaps burning out due to road-weariness and a lack of financial stability. But that time hasn’t arrived yet.

“Fortunately my music career keeps getting better and better so it’s kind of like this compass that tells me ‘keep following north.’

I don’t have to question so much anymore,” she says.

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Full brows without all the fuss

Microblading likened to ‘calligraphy’ for the eyes CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

FASHION FILE Our weekly roundup of fashion and beauty events and activities. page 32

Big, bold brows are back.

Maybe not to the extreme of Brooke Shields’ famously lustrous set, but, if recent red carpet photos of celebs like Emmy Rossum and Sofia Vergara are any indication, trend-setters are putting away the tweezers and embracing a fuller look.

But not all of us are blessed with naturally heavy brows to pare down to perfection. Overplucking has left many a lower forehead sparsely populated. Eyebrows also tend to thin with age, and people with light-coloured hair might not have much to begin with.

Filling in bald spots with a makeup pencil is tedious and doesn’t always result in the most subtle look. But a new esthetic service promises to create natural eyebrows that last for months (or at least until brow styles change again).

Microblading (also known as 3D eyebrow embroidering) is a technique by which pigment is deposited under the skin with a handheld tool. It’s a service Heather White recently started offering at her Dundarave business, Stamford Spa and Salon. The procedure is “huge in Europe,” White says, and she recently returned from London where she trained in the semi-permanent makeup technique with Rebecca Chung, “the master of microblading.”

The procedure starts

with a two-hour salon visit.

White applies a topical anesthetic to numb the brow area. Then she uses a disposable handheld tool to etch very fine hair-like strokes, depositing tiny amounts of pigment into the upper layer of skin.

“It’s a bit like calligraphy for the eyes,” White says, explaining it takes an artful hand to achieve the desired effect.

About 45 days later, customers return for a onehour touch-up session. The faux brows should last well over a year before needing a colour boost.

The procedure sounds a bit like eyebrow tattooing, a more permanent makeup technique that uses a machine to implant colour deeper under the skin. But the results are worlds apart, White says. Traditional cosmetic tattooing is not as precise and will blur after a few months, resulting in brows that look as though they were drawn on with a Crayola. Microblading does fade over time, but the hairlike lines remain sharp.

“You actually have these lovely, fine, crisp hair strokes. It looks very, very natural,” White says.

“You don’t look scary.

It’s not a case of your eyebrows walking in the room before you do.”

With a price tag of $500-plus, microblading isn’t for everyone, but it’s a treatment White thinks will only get more popular in North America.

“I’m sure there’s going to be people catching on to it now.”

Heather White, owner of Stamford Spa and Salon in West Vancouver, uses a microblade to fill in a client’s eyebrows. The new semi-permanent makeup treatment is taking over traditional eyebrow tattooing. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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The inside of a North Vancouver salon has been named the best in the beauty business.

Supernova Salon took home the top award for Salon Interior Design at the 27th annual Canadian Hairstylist of the Year Awards (also known as the Contessa Awards), which recognize the best work of the year in the professional Canadian beauty industry.

Salon owner and creative director Dana Lyseng accepted the award last month at a gala at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto. In total, 24 trophies were handed out that evening to hair, nail and makeup artists across Canada.

Supernova Salon has been a mainstay

of brand new and usable presents, including bus tickets, toothpaste, toothbrushes, warm clothing, socks, gloves, toques, scarves and female hygiene products, as well as treats such as playing cards and mp3 players. The salon will also be collecting slightly used coats, scarves and cold weather wear.

Unwrapped donations should be dropped off at the salon, located at 227 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, before Dec. 24. vervehairlounge.com DEEP COVE POP UP Loungewear designer Paper Label is transforming the Artemis Gallery in Deep Cove into a pop-up shop for 12 days until Dec. 20.

In addition to Paper Label apparel, shoppers will find goods from East Van Lights, Kermodi Living Art, Vancouver Candle Co., Pillow Fight, White Lies Jewelry, and Rosel

in the Lower Lonsdale community for 12 years. In April, the business moved into a new and larger location at 232 Lonsdale Ave. with an interior space created by House of Bohn Design.

Lyseng and her Supernova colleague Mathieu Hubert were also among the finalists for this year’s Contessa Awards.

Lyseng was a contender in the Master Colourist category and Hubert was a finalist in the Texture Hairstylist category.

The Contessas are a photo-based competition produced by Salon Communications Inc. Judging is performed blindly with identities of the entrants remaining anonymous.

— Christine Lyon

The K-O.ME line, designed by Kjaer Pedersen, will be available at a pop-up Dec. 16 at 195 Studios. PHOTO SUPPLIED Heim. The store is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week, at 104C 4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

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Compiled by Christine Lyon Send North Shore fashion info to clyon@nsnews.com.

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Since time out of mind

Tsleil-Waututh culture writes themselves back into Western history books ! Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s History, Culture and Aboriginal Interests in Eastern Burrard Inlet prepared

by Jesse Morin for Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (Gowlings) on behalf of Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Published May 25, 2015, public version, 477 pages (twnsacredtrust. ca/trans-mountainassessment-report/).

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Tucked away at the tail end of the TsleilWaututh’s Trans Mountain Assessment Report online is a compendium of research that serves as nothing less than a primer for all things Tsleil-Waututh.

Through no fault of their own the word ‘Tsleil-Waututh’ has often been absent from official documentation for much of recorded history in the post-colonial era. They’ve Canoes at the foot of Richards Street, circa 1898. Photograph not from the report but illustrative of life on Burrard Inlet. been called Squamish, PHOTO SUPPLIED MAJOR MATTHEWS COLLECTION, VANCOUVER CITY ARCHIVES Musqueam, Burrard and other ancillary names but up marriage customs further bound the groups Inlet had no permanent inhabitants in the early until recent decades have rarely been identified together with familial ties. contact era.” And then he spends the next 400by who they actually are. Jesse Morin’s Expert “Our family in Tsleil-waututh has a creation plus pages showing why this is not the case.

Report, Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s History, Culture story that is unique from our Musqueam relatives Archaeological research suggests that the and Aboriginal Interests in Eastern Burrard Inlet, but we hold a tight kinship and connection,” says Tsleil-Waututh have lived in their present commissioned by the Gowlings law firm as part Aleck. “Our traditional tongue was very similar to location and the surrounding area for at least of the fight against the Kinder Morgan pipeline the Musqueam dialect. My late-great grandfather three millennia. At one time, prior to contact proposal, goes a long way towards correcting this had a seasonal longhouse at the mouth of the in the late 18th century and before smallpox oversight with statistics and maps backing up the decimated up to 90 percent of the population, the Fraser River and our family in Musqueam had a information. longhouse at the mouth of Indian River, which is First Nations tribe numbered in the thousands in Morin has been involved with the First at the head of Burrard Inlet.” seven to 14 villages situated along Burrard Inlet, Nations culture for quite some time, says TsleilThey lived and worked in tandem for up Indian Arm and Indian River.

Waututh Nation coun. Charlene Aleck. “Jesse’s centuries. “I still remember the stories about my Through intensive and regular resource done quite a few reports on the Burrard Inlet grandfather and his brothers building a lean-to harvesting the Pacific Northwest supported and he’s been working with us since the ’90s. up Indian River,” says Aleck. “My mom was just some of the largest indigenous populations in His report discovers and rediscovers a lot of the little but she was looking after her little brother, the pre-contact Americas. The Tsleil-Waututh areas we inhabited many years ago and along Leonard George, and she said our relatives from in particular had ready access to abundant with that he’s followed our oral histories. A lot Squamish and Musqueam would come and fish supplies in their own area and were also part of the stories were fitting into the places that and collect clams. It was that type of abundance of a larger Coast Salish network. Morin says in he was researching up along Indian Arm and that we always shared.” his report that they “made use of all aspects of Indian River. Going up the arm with us and Kinship with the Squamish goes back to their territory and the Fraser River by harvesting linking village sites to some of our stories. They pre-colonial times. “We have worked together resources in the vicinity of their villages, called were shared through the traditional-use study and inter-married for many generations,” says a foraging radius, and by relocating to other we did in the ’90s and that led to the writing Aleck. “Tsleil-Waututh is part of the Coast Salish villages or temporary camps as part of a seasonal of this report. A lot of that oral history – that’s peoples and traditionally most Salish peoples round ... resource harvesting sites allowed Tsleilus – we’ve had our culture handed down orally spoke two or three languages. For our family we Waututh people to sequentially make full use of but through the process with the NEB (National have a lineage and history of speaking Squamish, the extent of their territory from mountain top to Energy Board) we had to write it down.” too.” open ocean.”

Early on in the landmark study Morin states, At one point in the modern era Halkomelem The People of the Inlet shared a language, “after a superficial reading of the available was close to dying out but there are now Downriver Halkomelem, with their resource literature, including major works on the Coast partners the Musqueam, Tsawwassen, Kwantlen, Salish (e.g., Barnett 1955; Suttles 1951), one Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem and Katzie. Exogamous See Halkomelem page 38 could wrongly conclude that eastern Burrard

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John Goodman Top 10 Reads 1. Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s History, Culture and Aboriginal Interests in Eastern Burrard Inlet prepared by Jesse Morin for Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (Gowlings) on behalf of Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

(Not actually a book but essential reading nonetheless. Access online at twnsacredtrust.ca/wpcontent/uploads/2015/05/ Morin-Expert-Report-PUBLICVERSION-sm.pdf).

2. Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind by Josh Karp (Fantastic read about the making of Welles’final film which has yet to be released.

Research includes source material from Robert Aiken’s article“Citizen Welles”first published in the North Shore News in 1999. Aiken lived in L.A. at the time and worked on the film with his buddy Gary Graver).

3. The Other Paris by Luc Sante (The flâneurs of Paris bohemia (Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin and Guy Debord) inform Sante’s reading of the city’s underground history).

4. The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter (North Vancouver writer’s tourde-force novel rolls out like a gothic film made in the shadows).

5. Girl at War by Sara Nović (The before and after of a collapsing world).

6. Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives edited by Tatjana Ljujic, Peter Krämer, and RIchard Daniels (Collection of essays spanning filmmaker’s career with access to the Kubrick Archives in London).

7. Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting by Eilon Paz (The vinyl obsession).

8. Destruction was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the 20th Century by Jed Rasula (Dada in context).

9. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell (A French connection in revolutionary times).

10. 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded by Jon Savage (Brilliant prequel to England’s Dreaming).

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Mad Max: Fury Road (top, left), Spotlight, Brooklyn (bottom, left) and Sicario were all among the top films of the past year.

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The best of the cinematic bunch

Screen memories JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

Happy-go-lucky was in short supply at the movies in 2015. Gauging the current world economic and terror climate, perhaps, filmmakers put their best effort into making films that scared the pants off of us rather than ones that made us feel warm and fuzzy. With two cheery exceptions, here are the top films that frightened, educated and enraged audiences in 2015.

e:1. Mad Max: Fury Road

Relentless, visceral action plus restrained acting and astounding detail in costuming, makeup and production design: it all added up to one hell of a ride, a beautiful nightmare courtesy of Mad Max creator-director George Miller. Never mind the plot, which centres on one man’s lonesome strategy for survival versus a tribe of women who may hold the key to it ... Let’s start with the fact that Max (Tom Hardy, muzzled for a good chunk of the opening) shares equal billing with a woman, Furiosa (Charlize Theron), in the kick-ass department. Add agile, postapocalyptic “war boys”, People Eaters, Bullet Farmers, and fleets of flame-spewing monster trucks all vying for survival in a world whose most valuable commodity is water. It’s the

most hellacious cautionary tale of the year, but good fun.

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2. Spotlight Finest ensemble piece of the year goes to Spotlight, about the Boston Globe’s FILM breaking of the pedophilepriest scandal that racked Boston and the Catholic church in 2002. Liev Schreiber plays editor Marty Baron; Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Brian D’Arcy are the reporters who researched the story; Stanley Tucci and Billy Crudup play lawyers “who turned child abuse into a cottage industry”.

Exceptional performances all-round, a rare steady-handed treatment of difficult subject matter, and one of the most immersive newsroom films to come along in years.

3. Sicario Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Sicario is a relentlessly bleak but wholly engaging film about an FBI agent (Emily Blunt) who volunteers to participate on a multi-agency team assembled to bring down a Mexican drug lord, whose violence south of the border is spilling onto U.S. soil. But it seems some team members (Josh Brolin, excellent) are

determined to keep her in the dark while others (Benicio del Toro, superb) want to dispense their own type of justice.

Score by Johan Johannson is suitably thrilling; lensing by Roger Deakins has some truly inspired moments.

4. Brooklyn On the other end of the optimism spectrum from Mad Max is Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan as a young Irish immigrant bursting with hope and prospects in her new homeland.

It’s the 1950s and Eilis (Ronan) gets a crash course in all things American, including a lesson on how to eat spaghetti in advance of a date with Tony (Emory Cohen, playing what might just be the most earnest suitor on film this year).

But when tragedy calls her back across the sea, duty might just nudge Eilis into a relationship with a good, Irish boy (Domhnall Gleeson). Ronan superbly proves that a good, oldfashioned love story – even a sanitized one – still has a place at the multiplex.

5. Room Brie Larson is a wonder in this adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s best-selling novel, about a boy who spends the first five years of his life as prisoner in a backyard shed, with See Mustang page 36

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Mustang debut a powerful work From page 35

only his mother (Larson) to explain the world to him. The world, as far as Jack (Jacob Tremblay) is concerned, contains one Bed, one Lamp, and one Wardrobe, in which Jack hides when their captor comes calling. It’s a complicated world to create in such confined spaces (bravo, director Lenny Abrahamson), with complex emotional stakes, speaking to the adaptability of children and the powerful bond between a mother and son.

6. Anomalisa The brilliant Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) and Duke Johnson team up to direct this startlingly moving stop-motion animated film about a motivational speaker named Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis).

Michael checks into the Fregoli Hotel in Cincinnati and, briefly, thinks he’s met the one other person on the planet who isn’t pretending

9. Mustang Five sisters, raised by their grandmother but now deemed morally wild: first by gossiping neighbours, then by a suspect uncle. Doors are locked, windows barred. In a world of virginity reports and arranged marriage, is it any wonder the girls are desperate to escape?

“The house became a wife factory that we never got out of,” said the youngest, Lale (Gunes Sensoy), who watches her carefree siblings married off, one by one.

Debut feature from Deniz Gamze Erguven, Mustang is a powerful sisterhood movie about girls running out of time and being asked to grow up too soon.

to be someone else (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Nothing is as it appears to be: Fregoli Syndrome is the belief that one or more people have been transformed into someone else, hence every stranger you meet is someone you know, and hence the fact that actor Tom Noonan voices almost every character in the film, male and female. Filled with more longing and palpable loneliness than many live action films this year.

7. Inside Out It took an animated film from Pixar to teach us all a thing or two about the inner workings of the human brain, how to parent an angst-ridden tween, and how to navigate the painful yet inevitable process of letting childhood go. After Riley moves to a new town the emotions in her head responsible for making memories – Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling)

Mustang is a powerful sisterhood movie about girls running out of time and being asked to grow up too soon. PHOTO SUPPLIED – dispute the best way to get settled in. A refreshingly original concept in a mess of patronizing kiddie fare and uninspired sequels. Have some tissues at the ready.

8. Goodnight Mommy, It Follows (tie) Book your therapist’s appointment now if you didn’t see one of the above

horror films, which play on universal themes of child abandonment and the dangers of female sexuality, respectively. In Goodnight Mommy, twin boys (Elias and Lukas Schwarz) suspect that the woman who has recently returned, face bandaged, to their sterile and isolated home isn’t really their mother. But it isn’t

long before our allegiance shifts in a big way. It Follows tells a tongue-in-cheek but terrifying cautionary tale of a 19-year-old (Maika Monroe) who sleeps with her boyfriend for the first time, only to discover that she’s contracted a curse that is transferred through sexual contact, an altogether fresh take on an old horror trope.

10. Ex Machina The perils of Artificial Intelligence are probed in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, in which Domhnall Gleeson plays research assistant to mad scientist Oscar Isaac.

Ultimately both men face off with their graceful, tooknowing robotic creation, Ava, played beautifully by Alicia Vikander. Foreboding in every frame, with a narrative that keeps us guessing, Ex Machina is a new sci-fi classic.

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DeWitt weaves a brilliant futuristic tale TERRY PETERS Contributing writer

1. Under Major Domino Minor by Patrick DeWitt House of Anansi, 339 pages, $32.

Love and loss battle for control in this brilliant new book from the author of The Sisters Brothers. Lucien Minor leaves his family home behind to take a position in the Castle Von Aux but finds a cloud of despair hangs over his new residence.

A chance meeting in the village brings Klara into his life and while love grows there is danger and ruin on the horizon. DeWitt weaves a fantastic tale but stays true to a moral compass that swings as wildly as his characters activities but always finds its centre.

Funny, wise, subversive and utterly original, this is another incredible work by this talented author.

2. Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed, Knopf Canada, 140 pages, $22.

Author, columnist, speaker, teller of truths, Cheryl Strayed compiles a selection of her quotes and tosses them straight into your face. These are not general platitudes but instead are ideas to challenge you, demands for commitment, words to lead you into action.

Strayed will shake you from any complacency as she pokes and prods you into examining your life and the principles that guide you.

“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”

3. Rethink by Amanda Talbot, Chronicle Books, 311 pages, $40.49.

The world is changing and Amanda Talbot wants to offer insights into ways that we can all re-examine our

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own part of it. Rethink is not a bible for living; it is a guidebook to looking at how people around the globe are changing their priorities about how we live in our personal spaces.

From the opening pages through every section she questions current practices and looks to the future with innovative approaches to all aspects of our homes, how we connect, how we use technology and much more.

4. Natural Born Heroes

by Christopher McDougall, Alfred Knopf Publisher, 337 pages, $32.

McDougall examines the tools of the hero, natural movement, extraordinary endurance and efficient nutrition, and how groups throughout history and in modern times have applied their principals to make seemingly impossible tasks achievable. He looks at the special characteristics that sets those brave enough to try apart from those who won’t.

At the heart of the book he tells of a group of resistance fighters on Crete during Second World War and their daring capture of a German general. As he shifts from the past to the present, McDougall explores the nature of heroism and the various methods that

5. Wanderlust by Jeff Krasno, Rodale, 290 pages, $28.99.

From the couple that created the Wanderlust festivals comes this guidebook for your personal journey. The dictionary defines wanderlust as the innate desire to travel but in this case travel is presented both physically and spiritually.

Through the various chapters and ideas presented within the book Jeff Krasno has sought to bring the practice and lifestyle of yoga together.

6. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello, Blue Rider Press, 674 pages, $36.

From Liverpool pubs to the Royal Albert Hall Elvis Costello has played countless venues over his four decade long musical career. Hit songs have come from all aspects of his broad range of styles, from angry young man, crooner, classical arranger and pretty much every type of music in between.

This book offers a chance to understand the man behind the music and what went in to the creation of his extensive songbook.

7. All True Not A Lie In It by Alix Hawley, Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 371 pages, $29.95.

Throughout history certain characters have taken on heroic qualities that may well be based on embellished stories. A famous frontiersman, Daniel Boone left little personal information and much known about him is drawn from the writings of others. With spare language Alix Hawley presents Boone’s view of the world as he negotiates, war, poverty, parenthood, and captivity with

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Halkomelem again being studied in language classes

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thousands of people currently studying one of its three dialects.

“My grandpa (Chief Dan George) used to tell me we had our own language,” Aleck says.

“My uncles and my aunties used to talk Squamish because our grandmothers were Squamish. My mom still does and my dad is Halkomelem-speaking from up the Fraser Valley near Chilliwack. With our language revitalization I find myself swapping back and forth knowing in my head that was what was taught to me when I was little.

The Halkomelem that I’m learning now is a little bit different again.”

Researcher Wayne Suttles makes almost no distinction in his writing between the Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam cultures.

In otherwise authoritative works, such as the Coast Salish Essays (1987) and the Musqueam Reference Grammar (2004), Suttles goes into great detail about cultural practices without ever once mentioning the name Tsleil-Waututh even though he is writing about them. The groups were so close-knit they could seem one and the same to the outside observer.

“In our language there’s no translation (between brother and sister and close cousins),” says Aleck.

“So my grandfather’s brother that married into the Musqueam didn’t have a distinction between brother’s kids and cousin’s kids. I would say, ‘How is she my auntie when she is over in Musqueam?’ and it would be because she was related through my grandfather’s brother.

There was no distinction made and I know that draws a lot of confusion. In Western culture you have first cousin, second cousin, third cousin – ours is just our younger brother, older brother.

“I also remember my mom telling me that my grandfather Henry Jack had five villages that we always stayed at moving around Stanley Park. I can see how that could be confusing to the outside eye that these people are here and there and they are all together.”

The basis for much of Morin’s research draws on

“The precontact Coast Salish world was a densely populated place that was supported by a rich subsistence base and held together through a myriad of social, economic, ritual, and trade relationships.”

– Jesse Morin

the oral histories that the Tsleil-Waututh have shared over the centuries. Aleck was very small when she listened to her grandfather tell his stories but her Uncle Len has a similar knack as an orator.

“He would tell you about Tsleil-Waututh going into the land and hunting and a simple story like that had so much cultural meaning and teachings about the land and appreciation about who we are. I remember him saying something about how many houses were on either side of the inlet and it would take you days and days to get up there. Now I know what he meant: you’d stop and stay with relatives a couple of days and travel on and then you’d stop again – just having that knowledge of an action put into a story of the place of where we are is so rich in meaning.”

In the 1920s the TsleilWaututh rejected political proposals to amalgamate with other groups which for all intents and purposes would have erased their identity. Divisive Western notions of government were not appropriate or appreciated by the First Nations.

“My descendants said, ‘We have lived up and down the inlet since time out of mind,’” says Aleck. “‘We are small (we were down to something like 300 members at the time) but we are Tsleil-Waututh.’”

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CALENDAR From page 19

THE VILLAGE TAPHOUSE The Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver. 604-9228882.

Adam Woodall will perform acoustic music every Thursday, 8-11 p.m.

Vancouver.

Live Music Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley will perform every Sunday, 7 p.m.

SAILOR HAGAR’S BREW PUB 235 West First St., North Vancouver. 604-984-3087 Live Music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

TWO LIONS PUBLIC HOUSE 2601 Westview Dr., North Vancouver.

Adam Woodall will perform acoustic music every Wednesday, 7:30-10:30 p.m.

UNVEILING North Vancouver artist Jason Dussault unveils a ceramic portrait of Justin Trudeau Dec. 12 at the Kimoto Gallery (kimotogallery.com) from 2 to 4 p.m.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

The Celtic Medley Song and String Player’s Showcase comes to Waves the first Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free.

Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604-985-5646.

Other events

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-9257400 westvanlibrary.ca SFU Philosopher’s Cafe: Everyone is welcome to join a discussion with moderator Randall Mackinnon Friday, Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m.

Topic: Ethics and sociotechnological change.

Info: 778-782-8000 or philosopherscafe.net.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell. Email information for your North Shore event to listings@ nsnews.com.

Cinemas From page 16 Fri, Tue-Wed 6:35, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:35, 9:35 p.m.

Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci — Sat 10; Mon 6:30 p.m.

PARK & TILFORD 333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver The Hunger Games:

Mockingjay, Part 2 (PG) — Fri 7:10, 10:10; Sat-Sun 12:50, 4, 7:10, 10:10; Mon, Wed-Thur 6:55, 9:45; Tue 4, 6:55, 9:45 p.m.

The Martian 3-D (PG) — Fri-Sun 9; Mon-Wed 9:35 p.m.

Spectre (PG) — Fri 6:40, 10; Sat-Sun noon, 3:15, 6:40, 10; Mon, Wed-Thur 6:45, 9:45; Tue 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 p.m.

The Peanuts Movie (G)

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The Peanuts Movie 3-D (G) — Fri, Sun 6:30; Sat 1:10, 6:30; Mon-Wed 7:10 p.m.

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From page 35

the Shawnee Indians.

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The Mazda3 was an instant hit when it debuted in 2003 and it has only gotten better. The current model has already earned more than 130 awards globally. It is available at Morrey Mazda in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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Behind the Wheel daunting challenge for its rivals. Those taking up the fight include the Ford Focus, VW Golf and Hyundai Elantra. The Mazda3 enters the 2016

Design Mazda launched the all-new third generation in 2013. The redesigned Mazda3 was the third to adopt the brand’s KodoSoul of Motion design theme and the full suite of Skyactive technologies.

The Kodo design gives the Mazda3 its dynamic look. The large grille gives it a distinguished character, while the positioning of the A-pillars allow for great forward sightlines.

In addition to improving fuel efficiency and power,

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird:

Skyactiv seeks to create a direct connection between the driver and the car. The Mazda3 Sport makes even the daily commute exciting.

Available in two body styles, the standard Mazda3 is a compact sedan, whereas the Mazda3 Sport – the focus of this review – is a compact hatchback. The Mazda3 Sport comes in three trim levels: the base GX, more luxurious GS, and the sporty GT. This generation of Mazda3 Sport has a wheelbase that’s two inches longer, however overall

Australia falls in love with the Mustang Once upon a time, Australia had its own domestic car industry, catering to the specific needs of the country. You know, little corks all the way around convertible tops, paint codes to match the colour of Vegemite – that sort of thing.

But no longer. The spread of globalization means that Down Under now gets the same sort of cars we drive up over. If you’re an Aussie Ford fan, that means goodbye to the Falcon, and hello to a right hand drive version of the same Mustang the rest of the world gets.

The reaction from Australians? They can’t

See Stylish page 47

See Italians page 46

The rule of Mazda3

Now in its third generation, the Mazda3 is the best-selling model in the brand’s lineup.

The 3.5 million Mazda3’s sold worldwide since 2003 – 430,000 sold in Canada – account for one-third of the company’s global sales over that time.

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get enough of it.

That’s speaking literally, by the way; Australia can’t actually get enough Mustangs. Within just a short time of Ford’s pony car going on sale, it’s already sold out as far as the end of next year.

Australians seem mostly to be opting for the 5.0-litre V-8 and the coupe over the convertible; not a bad idea for the country that invented Mad Max. Forgive me for wishing global

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Chinese university develops mindcontrolled SUV For all its shiny appcentric touchscreens, the future isn’t really all that exciting. Self-driving cars?

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Even Ferrari’s had enough, and is banning all advertisements of rent-aFerrari services from near their museum. The police are out in force cracking down on speeders, and the hours that rental companies can operate are strictly limited.

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waves? Now that’s Jetsonsstyle futurism you can get behind.

Researchers at China’s Nankai University in Tianjin have done just that, creating a “crown” of 16 sensors that hook up to a laptop and let the wearer drive a Great Wall SUV around with the electrical impulses of the brain.

Brakes, acceleration, turning – it all works, even the door locks.

Practical applications?

There aren’t any, not really. The speed with which the rest of the industry is moving towards an autonomous future means that the braincontrolled car’s usefulness for, say, paralyzed drivers will shortly become moot.

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Ford tattles on hit-andrun driver Is there anyone worse than a hit-and-run driver?

Maybe that horrible guy who jacked up the price of HIV medication.

But for one Florida woman (and it’s always Florida, isn’t it?), karmic retribution wasn’t about to let her get away with her nefarious deeds. She crashed into another hapless road-user hard enough to deploy the

airbags, and then fled the scene. Her Ford, however, wasn’t going to let it be a clean getaway.

It called the cops.

Essentially, the Ford in question was fitted with a safety system to alert emergency services in the event of a crash. If you were seriously injured, this’d be a great boon as it would save precious minutes getting help on the way.

In this case, the Ford alerted dispatch, but the woman claimed she’d been the one hit, before changing her tune to say she’d never been in an accident. Suspicions were raised.

The police popped over and found the car with massive front-end damage, including paint smears to match the other car. Case closed, and serves her right.

Porsche renames Boxster and Cayman The 911. The 918.

Most of Porsche’s sportscars, new and historical, have come with some sort of numerical indicator. Now, the Cayman and Boxster get the same treatment.

Mind you, Porsche nerds have been calling the cars by their internal model designations (987, etc.) for years. This is different: this time the company is putting the code on the badge.

The change comes with the new generation of Boxster and Cayman getting four-cylinder turbocharged power to replace the screaming flat-six. Base cars get 240 horsepower, S models 300 h.p., and GTS versions something like 370 h.p.

Additionally, the Boxster now swaps places with the Cayman, becoming the slightly more expensive option.

The 718 was a succesful 1950s racing machine, so Porsche is seeking to use a little heritage to calm those who fear that they’re diluting their smallest sportscar in the name of emissions and economy. How successful will they be? Nobody mention the VW-engined 914.

Watch this space for all the week’s best and worst of automotive news, or submit your own auto oddities by email to mcaleer.nsnews@ gmail.com.

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The Mazda3 Sport is fun to drive but the suspension is comfortable enough to absorb most bumps and the cabin is well insulated from road noise. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

Stylish design stands out From page 45

length is almost two inches shorter. Its proportions are very pleasing to the eye and many believe it to be the best-looking car in this segment.

Performance The Mazda3 Sport is available with two versions of Mazda’s Skyactiv-G gasoline engine. Mazda believes these two meet the Canadian

market’s diverse needs.

Powering GX and GS models is a 2.0-litre fourcylinder. Output is rated at a healthy 155 horsepower and 150 foot-pounds of torque.

The sporty Mazda3 Sport GT is powered by a 2.5-litre four-cylinder. The increased displacement ups horsepower and torque to 184 and 185 respectively.

All models come standard with Mazda’s Skyactiv-MT six-speed

manual transmission, which is one of the best gearboxes in the segment. GX and GS models have the option of a Skyactiv-Drive six-speed automatic. The GT has an optional six-speed auto with a Drive Selection Switch and paddle shifters.

Mazda’s Skyactiv philosophy extends beyond the powertrain. The enhancements to the body See Regenerative page 48

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Regenerative brakes can power electrical systems From page 47

and chassis have made the Mazda3 Sport stiffer and lighter. This allows it to be lively and responsive through corners without compromising ride comfort on the highway.

Top of the range GT models with the Technology Package come with some interesting exclusive features.

Notably, they are equipped with a lane departure warning system and active grille shutters, but the highlight is Mazda’s new i-Eloop regenerative braking system.

Typically, about 10 per cent of an engine’s output is used simply to power the electrical systems. i-Eloop stores kinetic energy created during deceleration and then uses that power for the electrical systems, so 100 per cent of the engine’s power can go to the wheels.

What this ultimately means for owners is that they can step up to the sportier Mazda3 Sport GT without any penalty to fuel economy.

Environment The cabin inside the Mazda3 Sport is smart looking and well built.

Mazda has improved its quality in recent years and now genuinely competes with European rivals.

Controls are easy to use and they have a satisfying weight and feel.

All Mazda3 Sports come standard with a telescoping steering wheel, as well as height adjustment in the driver’s seat.

While the Mazda3 Sport is fun to drive on a twisty road, the suspension is comfortable enough to absorb most bumps and the cabin is well insulated See Cabin page 50

CLASS PHOTO Mike Schmee films and photographs vehicles during the Dundarave Porsche Show and Ride held earlier this year. The 10th edition of the annual show, organized by members of the Canadian West region of the Porsche Club of America, was a fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis Canada. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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a small, clear screen on top of the dash.

Unsurprisingly, rear seat legroom is tight. However, two average-size adults can make due, but three is a pinch. The rear seats fold 60/40 for extra versatility and reveal 47 cubic feet of maximum cargo space.

from wind and road noise.

This makes long journeys relaxing.

The dash is dominated by the standard seveninch colour touchscreen display. All models run an updated Mazda Connect infotainment system which supports app functionality, and GT models add a voiceactivated navigation system.

The GT models also comes with Mazda’s headup display system. Called the Active Driving Display, digital readouts of speed, navigation and other vehicle information are displayed on

Features Prices for the Mazda3 Sport GX start at $19,350, GS models at $20,850, and the GT starts at $26,350.

Standard equipment includes keyless entry, push-button start, air conditioning, cruise control, power windows and exterior

mirrors, rearview camera, six-speaker audio system, and Bluetooth.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include dual-zone climate control, auto-dimming rearview mirror, power moonroof, heated front seats, leather upholstery, and a ninespeaker Bose audio system.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for GS and GX models with a manual transmission are 8.2 city and 5.9 highway while automatics return 8.0 city and 5.9 highway.

See Luxury page 52

The dash of the Mazda3 is dominated by a seven-inch touchscreen that runs an updated version of the Mazda Connect infotainment system. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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It doesn’t have the most rear seat space and there are no hybrid or diesel engine options.

GT models are rated at 9.2 city and 6.6 highway with a manual and 8.7 city and 6.5 highway with an automatic.

Those equipped with i-Eloop return 8.2 city and 6.0 highway.

The bottom line The Mazda3 Sport is a fun-to-drive compact that boasts many features reserved for higher end cars.

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Volkswagen Golf While the VW Golf has been billed as the only car anyone will ever need, it’s not the most exciting car on the market – nor is it the cheapest or most efficient.

However, the VW Golf does offer a cabin with a luxurious level of refinement. It’s unfortunate that the current VW diesel scandal has tainted the brand.

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Hyundai Elantra GT The five-door Elantra GT enters 2016 with a new look. The bold new styling adds excitement to Hyundai’s fuel efficient and practical compact car.

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Get your vehicle ready for winter driving Winter is here and it’s time to make sure your vehicle is ready for the season.

This season the Canada Safety Council is reminding Canadians to winter-proof their vehicles to make any driving they may do easier, safer and more reliable.

One of the most beneficial preventative measures you can take is to install winter tires on your car. Get four tires that are suitable for your vehicle, paying special attention to the mountain/ snowflake symbol on the side to indicate that they conform to winter tire

standards. Don’t wait for the first snowfall to make the change, either — winter tires should be installed when the ambient temperature drops below 7 C. This is when the rubber in all-season tires hardens and starts losing grip.

According to the Tire and Rubber Association of Canada’s Winter Tire Report, only half of Canadian motorists outside Quebec — where winter tire use is mandatory according to provincial law — use winter tires, with 63 per cent of people surveyed incorrectly believing that allseason tires offer adequate

braking power and traction for Canadian winters.

However, the survey showed the biggest detractor for switching to winter tires was the cost. But, in addition to government incentives, some insurance companies also offer discounts to drivers who use winter tires. In Quebec, where the tires have been mandatory since 2008, crashes have decreased significantly; a study done for the province’s transportation ministers showed an 18 per cent drop.

In addition to the installation of winter tires, basic maintenance of your

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Especially in the winter, it’s important to see and be seen.

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• Know you’ll be able to stop safely. Winter tires are an important part of gaining traction when stopping, but you should also check that your brakes are working well. If they are squeaking, creaking, feel odd or seem to pull, get them serviced.

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C) and keep a second jug in your vehicle at all times in case of emergency.

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