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Senior out of shelter, thanks to community BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

It’s a happy ending for Fran Flann, the North Vancouver senior who spent more than a week living in a homeless shelter while trying to recover from breast cancer surgery. But, the 82-yearold wants her case to be a reminder of the gaps in the system.

Senior Fran Flann and friend Robyn Brown share an embrace in a hotel room at the Grouse Inn. The senior became a media and political sensation when it was learned she was discharged to a homeless shelter while recovering from cancer surgery. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

After undergoing a mastectomy last month, Flann found she was unable to return to her apartment as it was being remediated for bedbugs. Vancouver Coastal Health funded her stay in a motel for a week but she soon after wound up at the Lookout Emergency Aid Shelter.

Following news of her plight, the widow and her friend and advocate Robyn Brown received a deluge of media interest and offers to help.

“It’s overwhelming,” Flann said Thursday morning after a night’s rest back in a hotel.

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West Van council decries shadow flipping BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Members of District of West Vancouver council want to see an end to real-estate assignment flipping – and a more thorough look the impacts of foreign ownership on the cost of housing.

The practice of “shadow flipping” home sales contracts two or three times before a deal closes in order to up the final selling price, often without the original seller’s knowledge,

Tracking home ownership, increased fees on vacant homes among measures considered

and avoiding property transfer taxes has been generating discussion about Realtor ethics since the Globe and Mail published a sweeping investigative piece about it on Feb. 6.

Coun. Michael Lewis suggested council write to the

province on the matter because it “certainly seem to be driving up the prices of real estate.”

The pitch was well-received by the rest of council.

“I think we could have that letter in the mail tomorrow,” Mayor Michael Smith said. “I’ve made that same comment to our MLAs on numerous occasions, about the need for changes, particularly to the (Property Transfer) Tax Act.” Other issues like non-payment of capital gains taxes and

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W. Van couple fined $100K for bylaw offences Hefty fine for dumping of illegal fill serves as warning

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A West Vancouver couple who caused a landslide to run into a fish-bearing creek after dumping truckloads of fill on their property despite a stop work order have been fined $100,000 by a North Vancouver provincial court judge.

Judge Bryce Dyer fined owners Mohammadreza Morshedian $60,000 and his wife Seyedeh Shahrbanoo Janani $40,000 for repeatedly violating several municipal bylaws when they began landscaping work on their British Properties lot without permits or a sediment control plan between January and March of 2013.

The District of West Vancouver took the couple to court to prove the illegal landscaping caused a landslide that sent sediment into a tributary of Rodgers Creek on March 21, 2013.

Dyer handed down the significant fine to the couple Monday in North Vancouver provincial court, saying the fine needed to be more than “a slap on the wrist” in order

District staff assess the scene of a landslide on Chelsea Close in West Vancouver in the spring of 2013. Illegal landscaping work led to the slide and a sediment dump into Rodgers Creek. FILE PHOTO KEVIN HILL to serve as a warning to others and to signal community disapproval of their actions.

Jeff McDonald, spokesman for the District of West Vancouver, said the municipality is “extremely pleased with the decision.

It sends a message not only to the homeowners but to everyone that our bylaws are important, are there for

a reason, and need to be observed.”

Dyer found Morshedian and Janani both guilty in October of eight counts of violating several municipal bylaws, including West Vancouver’s watercourse protection bylaw, creeks bylaw and soil deposit and removal bylaw.

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March 2013, the couple had many dump truck loads of fill trucked to their property at 2785 Chelsea Close from another site in West Vancouver and dumped without proper permits. A 29-ton excavator was then used to move the fill around the property.

At first, Morshedian told neighbours he planned to

build a garden on the property, said Dyer. But when they confronted him with concerns about the volume of fill and risk of a slope failure, he brushed off their worries. When one neighbour asked if the couple had permits, Morshedian told him, “The city officials were just a bunch of bureaucrats after his money,” said Dyer.

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“I’m just totally amazed. I just can’t believe it.”

An anonymous donor paid the cost of the room and offered “walking around” money. The Grouse Inn later reversed the charges and allowed her to stay for free until her Lower Lonsdale apartment is ready. Vancouver Coastal Health and Hollyburn Family Services Society are arranging for new furniture for Flann and covering the $750 cost of her apartment cleanup.

Up until her hospital stay, Flann was still working part time at a drycleaners in Vancouver. A regular customer stepped up and raised money to provide her with new clothes, linens, toiletries and a stocked fridge. SeaBus crew passed around the hat and

came up with another $500.

Any donations she receives over and above what she needs will be passed along to the Lookout Emergency Aid Society, which runs the shelter where she’d been staying, she said. “I’ve got to get a card for them too, to thank them.”

Flann said without Brown and the support of the community she would still be in the shelter. It should be a lesson for everyone else, Flann added.

“I would have bitched to everybody. You complain but you don’t do anything about it, whereas Robyn did something about it. I was told, ‘Don’t rock the boat.’ It’s the best thing that could have happened,” she said.

FirstService Residential, which manages Flann’s building, has expedited the repairs

to her suite. “We have been coordinating with Hollyburn to pull our collective resources to restore the living conditions in her apartment to a level that will allow her to return home as soon as possible,” said Judith Harris.

Harris said it was not time for “finger pointing” on why Flann ended up in the shelter.

“It’s going to have a good ending. Everybody has come to the plate and we’ve done the right thing,” she said.

Once things are settled, Brown said her top priority is for her and Flann to have a nice dinner out together.

Flann’s case came up in question period at the legislative assembly in Victoria on Wednesday, with NDP health critic Judy Darcy needling the government over her situation.

“That is a shameful way to treat a senior and a cancer patient – absolutely shameful,” Darcy said. “If a society is measured by how much it is willing to help the most vulnerable, to the finance minister: How does his government measure itself when it comes to treating Fran Flann?”

The health ministry issued a statement Thursday saying it was monitoring Flann’s situation and working closely with her to see that her needs are met but that the case was “predominantly an issue between a former patient and her landlord.”

“Health authority staff have gone, and continue to go, above and beyond their normal duties to help her, and paid for her to live in a hotel for one week, while her landlord cleaned her apartment,” it

stated. “There continue to be many VCH staff working with Ms. Flann, including a social support worker, a nurse practitioner, and home care support.

Her social worker is also working with her to help her apply for low-income housing.”

The NDP’s seniors critic Selina Robinson said she could not sleep after reading about Flann’s case.

“I was just sick,” she said.

Robinson said Flann never should have ended up in the shelter in the first place, and that the government should be prepared with emergency funding for cases like this.

“You can’t spring for another 10 days in a motel?

There are resources. I refuse to believe there are no resources to take care of the Frans of the world in instances like this. I refuse to believe.”

The judge added Morshedian also never told municipal staff “the true nature and scope of the work he was doing.”

In the sentencing hearing, Morshedian’s lawyer Derek Creighton suggested the fact English is not his clients’ first language resulted in a communication problem with municipal staff. In Farsi, the term “garden” can also mean very large and substantial parks, Creighton said.

But the judge rejected that explanation as a reason to hand out a more lenient penalty. “I simply do not accept it,” said Dyer. “How would a West Vancouver municipal employee know what an English word meant in Farsi?”

During the trial, the judge heard the Chelsea Close property was one of four the professional couple owned in West Vancouver at the time, and was rented as an investment property.

The fine for violating the district’s bylaws will go into to the municipality’s coffers. The municipality also intends to go after the couple to collect the approximately $75,000 cost of cleaning up the creek and remediating the landslide after it occurred.

Dyer said he accepted that the impact of the landslide was not long lasting, and that there is no evidence that fish were harmed.

Pedestrian struck at 15th and Chesterfield JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A 41-year-old North Vancouver man was taken to Lions Gate Hospital with head injuries for observation Feb. 12 after being struck by car as he crossed the street at an intersection.

The man was crossing Chesterfield Avenue at 15th Street just after 7 p.m. Friday night when he was hit by a grey Honda CRV as the driver made a left turn from 15th on to Chesterfield.

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District awaits decision on Lynn Creek bridge Feds, province asked to prioritize bridge replacement

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Basic design work and public consultation for a $50-million redesign of the Mountain Highway interchange is now largely complete, but we are still waiting to hear whether the preferred option involving a new bridge over Lynn Creek eastbound on-ramp for Lynn Valley residents will be funded.

“We’re in a stage right now where we’re trying to finalize the design – that whatever is built meets the needs of both North Vancouver district and those that are travelling on the freeway. It’s a very difficult section of the road because you’ve got all these on- and off-ramps,” said David Stuart, District of North Vancouver chief administrative officer.

The current design features a new four-lane Mountain Highway overpass connecting with Brooksbank Avenue, a southbound exit lane and off-ramp from the Cut, a new northbound on-ramp to the Cut from Mountain Highway and some painted bike lanes and

controlled intersections.

What it doesn’t have, many residents pointed out at recent public meetings on the project, is an eastbound on-ramp for residents coming down Mountain Highway from Lynn Valley.

“That’s not the ideal situation but the challenge is the ministry cannot put that left-turn or eastbound access route in without widening the orange highway bridge because you’ll need a merge lane that runs several hundred metres,” said district Mayor Richard Walton.

That would mean installing a new, wider Highway 1 bridge over Lynn Creek.

That’s something the province anticipates doing but not for 10 years, at least.

Whether or not it can be included in the interchange project will depend on federal and provincial funding.

Walton said North Vancouver’s Liberal MPs have shown great interest in coming through with their portion of the money.

“They’re in Ottawa, they’re still working on this, trying to co-ordinate things and asking us questions, trying to make sure they’re moving things forward at their end.

It’s optimistic.”

At the request of district staff, the province is also now looking to move the bridge replacement up in the schedule, ahead of a proposed redesign of the Main

Street/Dollarton Highway interchange, Stuart said.

Although not strictly part of this project, the district and province are now also looking to add a new southbound lane on Lynn Valley road under Highway 1 with an aim to better moving the flow of traffic during rush hour, Walton said.

One other group that’s not 100 per cent sold on the current design is cyclists.

The ministry is scheduling an extra stakeholder meeting with them to see if the design can be improved, Walton said.

“That being said, I think there’s recognition that what’s being proposed now is a significant improvement to what is there right now,” Stuart added.

Walton urged patience while the blockbuster concrete and asphalt project rolls out over the next number of years.

“I think what folks would like is some instant improvement but because there are so many connected pieces … you really need to be finished Phase 2, which is the Fern Street overpass realignment, which is still very much in the design phase, before you’re going to see the kind of fluidity that all the residents in the area would like,” he said. “But the train has left the station right now. That’s the critical thing.”

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DEVELOPER’S INFORMATION SESSION Homayoun Arbabian is holding an information session where interested members of the public are invited to learn about their rezoning application to subdivide the subject property into two lots, each with a two story plus a basement, single family building.

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Province awaits industry report on shadow flipping due back in April From page 1

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GST, and homes being left vacant are of concern to the community too, Coun.

Mary-Ann Booth noted, but municipalities are the least equipped level of government to address them.

“We’ve spoken with our MLAs. We’ve requested a meeting with our MPs. I think it’s time for us to put it on the public record because we have very limited powers. We are a creature of the provincial government. If we start trying to do anything that’s not within our jurisdiction, we get our hands slapped.

We tried meeting with our representatives and quite frankly, I’m not satisfied that they are paying enough

attention,” she said.

But, Coun. Craig Cameron countered, saying sending a letter would amount to a half measure without first researching what powers municipalities have at their disposal.

“There are mechanisms within our jurisdiction to start addressing some of the issues that we’re facing with the housing bubble,” he said, asking district staff to begin look into increasing property taxes or fees on vacant homes or forcing absentee owners to maintain their properties.

“And there may be ways in which we can start collecting data within our municipal authority, through the property tax levy to find out who owns these

properties,” he said.

“I don’t want to stop and say ‘Please do something’ and send a letter off into the ether, which gets ignored. I want us to have a discussion in the council chambers on this issue so the community can weigh in and we can have a more full discussion about what we’re doing.

We should get our house in order before we go to senior levels of government,” he said.

On Tuesday afternoon, the provincial budget provided measures to begin tracking foreign ownership as well as a higher property transfer tax for luxury properties.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Premier Christy Clark said she is expecting

the Real Estate Council of B.C., the industry’s regulatory body now studying shadow flipping, to report back on the issue in April.

“The most important thing is that British Columbians and I want to know that the Real Estate Council is crystal clear on how the rules are being enforced. And British Columbians want to know, especially in the Lower Mainland in this incredibly hot market, that any dishonest or unscrupulous behaviour, any unethical behaviour, is being found out and being penalized,” she said.

“If they are not doing those things, I’m going to make sure it gets done for them.

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WATERFRONT FOCUS West Vancouver director of corporate services Mark Chan discusses proposals for the Ambleside Waterfront Concept Plan at a public open house at the West Vancouver Community Centre Feb. 17. The final open house is March 1 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the West Vancouver Community Centre, with a town hall meeting to follow shortly after that event. A council report on the waterfront concept is expected in late spring. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

Rock slide sends boulder on to Hwy 99 Highway traffic was snarled in West Vancouver and multiple agencies were called out Tuesday after a rock slide north of Horseshoe Bay knocked down electrical wires and sent boulders over the northbound lanes of

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Nobody was injured and no vehicles were damaged in the rock slide, which happened around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. But drivers faced significant delays as crews shut down both northbound lanes for an hour to clear the

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The largest piece, which fell down on the shoulder of the highway, was about the size of wheelbarrow, said West Vancouver police spokesman Const. Jeff Wood. Most of the rocks were much smaller.

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n this week’s budget, B.C. Finance Minister Mike De Jong presented the Liberals as careful managers of the public purse strings, whose prudence with the public dime could soon give way to outright prosperity.

Many folks in B.C. could probably be forgiven if they don’t see themselves reflected in the happy economic state described by the finance minister – particularly if they are trying to pay everincreasing MSP and BC Hydro bills with a paycheque stuck in neutral, or happen to be among those shut out of the housing market, which Tuesday’s budget did little to address.

The prosperity envisaged in the minister’s optimistic speech isn’t equal opportunity. But budgets – and budget speeches – are as much about politics and optics as they are about reality.

Nowhere is this more apparent than

with the government’s dogged insistence on retaining the regressive Medical Services Plan premium, which many other provinces have scrapped.

Yes, health care consumes a massive portion of the provincial budget. But there’s no logical reason that MSP premiums shouldn’t be rolled into provincial income taxes. Doing so would make the payments fairer, since currently people of relatively modest means and the substantially wealthy pay similar premiums.

It would also be more efficient, since the MSP system comes with a bureaucracy that costs a significant chunk of provincial change each year.

The only reason for retaining MSP as a separate charge is political – to create an illusion about income tax levels. But a tax is a tax is a tax.

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Time to start thinking about re-electing our esteemed representatives to continue the good work they’re doing.

Or throw the bums out on their ears, mangling a metaphor.

However you see it, we could at least start thinking about the big issues we face here on the North Shore. Here, to get us started, are my top five:

DEVELOPMENT This is easily No. 1, as everything else follows suit.

If you freeze development, which has been suggested at various times and in various ways, you don’t have to worry about its impact on traffic or the environment.

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The North Side Paul Sullivan density. There are other factors (mountains, ocean, etc.) but it’s pretty much up to We the People where we want development to occur.

Oddly, We the People are divided into three distinct jurisdictions, even though any fool can tell it’s just one place, so development comes in three flavours. Unless there’s an unprecedented alignment of vision and an unprecedented spirit of co-operation, we could end up with three conflicting plans.

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Another SeaBus won’t solve traffic woes. It’s time for a rapid transit tunnel, writes columnist Paul Sullivan. FILE PHOTO Shore these days such as the Upper Levels highway.

Then there’s the old reliable parking lot, the Lions Gate Bridge. So far, the politicians’ answer to creeping (leaping?) congestion has been to agitate for another SeaBus. That’s like offering to improve bike lanes: a good idea for Nanaimo.

It’s time to get serious about a rapid transit tunnel to and from Vancouver, or maybe a new bridge with rapid transit. A big job, to be sure, but has anyone noticed we live in a big city?

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THE ENVIRONMENT The North Shore is the most awesome place on earth to live. Who else gets to live so close to both the Tour de Feast and a hinterland that stretches all the way to Alaska? If there’s a better combination of wild and civilized, I don’t know it. The problem is keeping it that way. The problem is also that there are so many jurisdictions, from First Nations to the feds with the municipal governments in between, everybody wants a piece of it. Who’s standing up for the firs, flowers and fish?

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AMALGAMATION This issue is usually confined to city hall nerds, who love to figure out how many angels dance on the heads of three separate pins, as opposed to the number on a single amalgamated pin. The rest of us just want to leave it alone even if it means electing three separate councils and three separate bureaucracies with three separate visions.

So what if Vancouver has a population of 603,500 and just one government, while the North Shore has three for a population of 176,000? We get the government we deserve.

And then some.

OUR IDENTITY This is probably the most important issue we face and the least likely to be addressed. It’s that vision thing. What is the North Shore? A perpetual bedroom community for that shining metropolis – over town – so near, yet so far (in terms of travel time)? Or is the North Shore something special, a unique presence on earth?

And while we know where it begins, where does it end?

Horseshoe Bay, Lions Bay? Britannia Beach? Squamish?

That’s not such a wild question, now that Squamish comes with traffic that funnels through the Lions Gate and the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge. But let’s just confine ourselves to the three traditional North Shore jurisdictions. Do we want to be Vancouver plus a compass detail? Or do we want to be something else?

I’m not sure any North Shore vision can be realistically drawn as long as three separate councils see the other two as inconveniences at best, threats at worst. But there’s lots of time, two years and eight months to be exact, for a leader to emerge who wants to take on the vision thing and at least get the conversation started. Of course, that’s after she addresses the four other problems.

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Trans Mountain working to earn public’s trust Dear Editor: Re: North Van No ‘Sacrifice Zone’ For Pipeline Project, Feb. 10 Mailbox.

Trans Mountain believes the safety of our coastline is paramount.

We’ve been safely loading vessels with petroleum products from our marine terminal in Burnaby for 60 years without a single spill from a tanker. Our goal is to have an industry-leading emergency response plan that’s never used.

While the region’s existing safety regime already meets global standards, we’re proposing additional measures informed by risk assessments, product testing and oil spill modelling that will further improve safety for the entire marine shipping industry – because spill response is about ferries, cruise and cargo ships, and all the vessels using our waterways.

This includes a $100-million investment in Western Canada Marine Response Corp. to create new response bases, fund new equipment and employ 100 new people.

This will double the spill response capabilities along the tanker route and cut mandated response times in half. WCMRC’s warehouse and response base is located in Burnaby across Burrard Inlet from Maplewood Flats and Cates Park.

About 6,000 large commercial vessels transit through the Salish Sea each year, and of those 600 are tankers.

Today our pipeline terminal serves about five tankers per month, and if our project is approved this could increase to up to 34 tankers per month. In reality, we’re only a small part of the existing tanker traffic, and our expansion proposes the same sized vessels, shipping the same products as we do today.

We share the value British Columbians place on the environment and we clearly understand the concerns raised about increases in tanker traffic, safety and emergency response. That’s why we’ve studied health risks, committed more air quality monitoring and carefully developed other

measures to protect the health of communities and our ecosystems.

For more than four years, we’ve been consulting with communities along the proposed route to identify and mitigate concerns. But, there is still more work to do.

The Trans Mountain team is committed to earning your trust and confidence. We’ll continue to work with communities, Aboriginal groups and our safety partners to support collaborative efforts to enhance safety and protect our environment.

We have a shared interest in the safe transport of oil through the Burrard Inlet, and we understand that our coastal waterways are of significant cultural, economic and environmental value to the people who live and work here.

I encourage you to learn more about our project and our proposed safety enhancements at transmountain.com.

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‘Business knows best’ approach to environment got us into this mess Dear Editor: The North Shore News is normally full of mild and moderate viewpoints. I was surprised, therefore, last week to find myself so outraged at Keith Baldrey’s column of Feb 10.

I refer to his unaccountable championing of a National Energy Board report and the dismissive slagging of the opinions of most of the world’s statesmen and the largest consensus of scientific opinion that has ever existed concerning the risk of climate change.

At best the NEB is limited in their scope and has been

discredited for not being allowed to consider the big picture and yet Baldrey finds that their report is “grounded in sober and scientific analysis” whereas the carefully constructed arguments of real scientists for the urgent need to reduce Green house gasses is trivialized as a romantic notion whose rhetoric the NEB tosses to the curb.

Where does this come from? This is the laissez-faire business-as-usual argument at its worst. The NEB report cited says we will continue to extract and burn fossil fuels simply because there is a demand for it. Period. It’s

obvious, right?

Both the NEB and Baldrey have got their heads in the sand and it would just be sad and pathetic if it wasn’t the most serious issue that man has ever faced.

It is not inevitable that climate change will take us to the edge of disaster and perhaps beyond. The cause has been known for 50 years, solutions are available and yet almost nothing has been done.

Economics based on “business knows best” got us into this mess. It’s time they got out of the way.

Doug Kay West Vancouver

Opposed in WV? No one asked me Dear Editor: The Jan. 24 issue of the North Shore News reported that representatives of the municipality of West Vancouver told the National Energy Board that West Vancouver was opposed to the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. I am a resident of West Vancouver and have lived in West

Vancouver since 1997. I am unaware of any effort by the municipality of West Vancouver to solicit the views of its residents regarding the Trans Mountain Pipeline.

Further, the opposition expressed by the representatives of West Vancouver does not reflect my view or the view, I suspect, of many of my friends and neighbours.

The expansion of the pipeline provides significant economic benefits and needs to proceed as the benefits substantially outweigh the risks. I have faith that the regulatory authorities can structure a permit for the expansion that is economically attractive and protects the environment.

Dan Potts West Vancouver

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February 19, 2016

Good to be back “on the perch” Every Friday for 40 straight weeks, this perch on Page 9 was home.

Some of you said my column leading up to last fall’s federal election helped establish a connection. I certainly felt that. The emails and phone calls generated each week helped to build a community conversation – a conversation that is even more important to me now that I am your Member of Parliament.

But there was a challenge continuing the column post-election: money.

The communication support provided to MP’s is currently geared towards household mailings – not column space in a community newspaper.

Fortunately, donations to the local Liberal riding association have made it possible to now resume the columns on a monthly basis.

The goal is to inform, stimulate discussion and generate input from the entire community regardless of political stripe – because my responsibility is to be the MP for all of North Vancouver.

Mr. Wilkinson goes to Ottawa

There’s nothing that can prepare you for the first time you step into the chamber of our House of Commons.

I’m not embarrassed to admit I was in awe. For a moment, I was again that kid growing up in Saskatchewan inspired by the words of the late Tommy Douglas about the noble calling of public service.

You can’t help but be struck by the traditions of the place – some of which are a humbling reminder of the responsibilities and high expectations of the job.

Fortunately, this is a job where you’re expected to dive right in and figure out how the place works on the run. Following my appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, I had the privilege to plunge into the deep end of what I believe is one of the defining issues of our time and will be one of the defining issues for this government: climate change.

Data is hard-hitting The urgency for action on climate change hits me harder and harder as I absorb the data crammed into my briefing books.

For example, while we all get the general sense Canada is growing

warmer, did you know that between 1948 and 2013 average temperature in Canada increased 1.6°C - twice the global average?

It’s even more dramatic in the Arctic, where the average temperature in that same period has increased 2.2°C - nearly three times the global average.

Clearly, meeting our climate change target will require a thoughtful strategy involving several elements including carbon pricing, regulatory mechanisms, infrastructure investments and other policy instruments. In addition, a key area of focus will be fostering the development and deployment of clean technology.

Canada is well positioned to be a clean tech world leader and we need to press our advantage. The global market for clean technology has surpassed $1 trillion and is forecast to rise to $2.2 trillion by 2022.

As a former clean technology CEO, I’ve said for some time that Canada’s plan to aggressively fight climate change does not have to come at the expense of the economy and jobs.

There is increasingly strong evidence that we can begin the transition to a lower-carbon economy while maintaining strong economic growth.

We’ve already started to see a reversal of economic growth and emissions growth moving in lock step. From 1990-2013, GDP increased by 70.7%, while GHG emissions increased by only 18.5%.

This decoupling has accelerated over time, but needs to continue and further accelerate.

To advance an aggressive panCanadian approach to climate change, the Prime Minister will be meeting with the Premiers here in Vancouver in early March to begin to chart an effective path forward.

During the election, the people of North Vancouver told me loud and clear that action to ensure a sustainable environment and a sustainable economy is a top priority.

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that it is also a top priority of the new federal government.

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INQUIRING REPORTER: Are you paying attention to the U.S. election race?

From Saturday Night Live skits to Donald Trump’s outlandish comments — and hair — we as Canadians can’t help but notice there’s an election race heating up south of the border. Sixty-five per cent of Canadians are terrified of Trump becoming president, according to a Leger poll released last week. The outcome of the U.S. presidential election has economic repercussions for us Canucks, so we should have a vested interest.

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Slide the City will be doubling up the fun Council votes to bring back popular attraction for two-day run JUSTIN BEDDALL jbeddall@nsnews.com

Get ready to slip-slide away longer this summer in the City of North Vancouver.

On Monday council voted unanimously in favour of bringing back the Slide the City and Car Free Day event this August and extending it to a two-day fun fest featuring a 300-metre (1,000-foot) water slide down Lonsdale.

The inaugural event took place last Aug. 22 and attracted around 15,000 visitors and 6,000 sliders.

According to staff it was the largest single-day event hosted in the city last summer and sold out in less than two weeks.

There were no police incidents or injuries on the slide but the popularity of the event led to some long lineups that raised some complaints.

Staff proposed extending the event to two days because of the positive response to the event, the difficulties of

setting up and taking down the slide in a single day and the high demand for tickets.

Staff hope to alleviate slide lineups this summer by running the event over two days and selling around 4,000 tickets per day.

There are also plans to reconfigure the slide route to higher up Lonsdale to reduce slide speeds. Last summer the slide ran along Lonsdale from Victoria Park down to Fourth Street.

Along with the slide, the inaugural Car Free Day was held between Esplanade Avenue and Third Street, which allowed for live music, a kids zone, on-street dining and refreshments, vendors, bicycle demos and various other activities and info booths.

“Feedback from the slide participants, community and media during the day of the event was overwhelmingly positive,” reads the staff report.

Partial proceeds from the event go to charity. For this

year’s event, city staff also recommend hiring an event planner, at a cost of around $10,000, which would be partially funded through ticket sales and sponsorships.

A traffic plan to deal with the influx of visitors will take into consideration transit, cycling, private shuttle buses, parking and street closures on Lonsdale.

Slide the City is a United States-based company and Coun. Holly Back noted that many slide-goers were surprised last year when they

bought tickets to the event online and were charged in U.S. dollars. Mayor Darrell Mussatto agreed that it was important to make it clear for online purchasers that the cost is in U.S. funds.

“It was a pretty amazing day last year. I was there the entire day,” said Mussatto. “I think this was their most successful slide and the reason for that was, and I’m really convinced, our staff – the volunteers and staff went above and beyond on this to make it successful.”

Slide the City attracted 15,000 visitors to Lonsdale Avenue during the single-day event last August. PHOTO LISA KING

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman Deep Cove Memories Seymour Art Gallery and the Deep Cove Heritage Society held an opening reception Feb. 7 to mark the launch of tandem exhibitions celebrating Deep Cove’s rich heritage. The gallery show, Deep Cove: Then and Now, features historical photographs from the heritage society’s collection that depict buildings and scenes from back in the day. The Deep Cove Cultural Centre’s lobby and auxiliary room showcase the heritage society’s exhibition, entitled Deep Cove Memories: Growing up in the Cove from the Mid 1940s to the Mid 1960s, and sees longtime local resident Wendy Bullen Stephenson incorporate heritage society photographs into her mixed media historical work. The shows will remain on display through March 5. A heritage chat group will meet in the gallery every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. seymourartgallery.com

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Featured artist Wendy Bullen Stephenson explores her childhood in Deep Cove.

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North Vancouver dancer Lexi Vajda works through a section of Telemetry with choreographer Shay Kuebler. The piece will be performed at the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre as part of this year’s Chutzpah! Festival. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAVID COOPER

Telemetry focuses on humans as transmitters of energy

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Master choreographer Shay Kuebler and his dance crew return with their head-spinning moves at the annual Chutzpah! performing arts festival this weekend.

This year’s high-octane offering from Kuebler and his Radical System Art dancers is Telemetry – “a work that focuses on human connection and the body as a filament for sound, energy and emotion.”

Kuebler has spent the past year fine-tuning the project, based upon a mixed language of swing, bebop jazz, house and

contemporary dance and the idea of relaying human communication and interaction around the science of radio systems.

“The human body being a receiver and transmitter of energy, intention, a person’s past, where they want to go,” explains Kuebler. “There are lots of different ways of looking at the body as a vessel to translate and communicate. The way somebody talks to you, if you removed the words. The physical language you read off of people, that’s already a language that we recognize.”

Using a telemeter, a device used to measure distances to remote objects, Kuebler and his creative team, as one component of the project, tracked and mapped the trajectory of the dancers, which in turn influenced and yielded new solo pieces.

Telemetry’s research phase was carried out by Kuebler – a Chutzpah! artist in residence – last summer in a remote community at the northern tip of Vancouver Island, Alert Bay.

Chutzpah! is building an arts community in the area with the local First Nations.

Being away from the hustle and bustle of Vancouver was a welcome change for Kuebler, while the tranquil environment got his creative juices flowing.

“It gives you space in a different way,” says Kuebler Tuesday, in between rehearsals for the Chutzpah! performances this weekend.

As with his past works, Kuebler infuses his lifelong love of martial arts into the program. He explains how the performing arts world and the martial arts realm share commonalities.

“In action films they always do fight scenes to music,” says Kuebler. “A lot of sharp fast movements to music, it just fell into a groove for me. Bruce Lee is and will be my biggest inspiration for his way of looking at art and philosophy.”

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MASHUP:THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE Three years in the making the Vancouver Art Gallery launches its largest exhibition ever Saturday, Feb. 20, tracing the emergence and evolution of mashup culture from 1912 to the present. The show, featuring 371 artworks by 157 artists, will take over all four floors of the gallery through June 12. For more information visit vanartgallery.bc.ca/.

Film THE FILMS OF SEIJUN SUZUKI Pacific Cinémathèque begins a major retrospective of the films Japanese iconoclast, Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki, on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m., with a screening of the yakuza gangster spoof Tokyo Drifter (1966). Initially conceived as a vehicle for actor/singer Tetsuya Watari to croon a title tune, Suzuki throws everything from Godardian pop art to Hollywood kitsch into the mix of goofy musical numbers and even goofier fight scenes. Who needs a script when you can have this much fun with the studio’s money? Quentin Tarantino is one cineaste who has been inspired by the creative lunacy of Suzuki’s work. The series, featuring 10 films on selected dates, runs through March 12. For showtimes go to thecinematheque.ca.

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BRING THE NOISE Italian futurist Luigi Russolo and his assistant Ugo Piatti in their studio with some of Russolo’s intonarumori (noise machines), Milan, 1914–15. The photograph is included in the new exhibit, Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture, opening tomorrow at the Vancouver Art Gallery. PHOTO SUPPLIED COURTESY OF MUSEO DI ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA DI TRENTO E ROVERETO, ARCHIVIO DEL ‘900, FONDO RUSSOLO

WINTERRUPTION The musical portion of Granville Island’s Winterruption festival this weekend features six stellar acts in two ticketed events (Tanga and Alejandro Ribera) and four free shows (ElkHorn, Grdina/Houle/Loewen, The End Tree and Sick Boss). For complete details visit granvilleisland.com/winterruption.

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Galleries CAROUN ART GALLERY 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m. 778-372-0765 caroun.net Watercolour Painting Exhibition: Works by Fereshteh Shahani will be on display until Feb. 27.

CITY ATRIUM GALLERY 141 West 14th St., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Information + Impression: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of works created entirely out of newspaper by Connie Sabo until April 11.

DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of paintings by Laurel Swenson and crystalline porcelain by Pat Schendel and Brandon Martin until March 15.

DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca The North Vancouver Community Arts Councilwill present Canada West Illustrators: Cultivating Imagination, an exhibition by illustrators for children’s books until March 29.

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REVIEW: THE WITCH

Dark forces at work in a puritanical world

! The Witch. Written and directed by Robert Eggers.

Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Ineson.

Rating: 8 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

We may not be much more evolved than the Puritans were, some 400 years ago. The fact that the witch is so prevalent an archetype – and sure box-office draw – speaks to a deep-seeded cultural fear of female autonomy and sexuality, then and now.

Robert Eggers acknowledges this in his moody, monstrous debut feature, which is a prequel, of sorts, for the Salem witch trials held in the 1690s. A family of seven is cast out of its rigid new-world colony after a religious dispute. Banished are the scraggly haired patriarch (Ralph Ineson), mother Katherine (Kate Dickie), eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), the barely younger Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw), unbiddable

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twins Mercy and Lucas (Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson), and infant Samuel.

“We will conquer this wilderness, it will not consume us,” says father, in an effort to reassure himself as much as console his family.

It is during a game of peek-a-boo that baby Samuel disappears, leaving no trace in the wide field or dark woods beyond. Thomasin, already indoctrinated and certain of her own damnation, oscillates between worry that it could be her fault and surety of her innocence. But the family suspects dark forces at work which the film, in gruesome flashes, confirms.

“We must turn our thoughts toward God, not ourselves,” instructs father, pointing out that they’ve been blessed in not losing any of their children thus far (a nod to the infant mortality rate of the time). But mother is inconsolable: her steady diet of constant prayer is increased even more, amid worries that the infant was damned. She wishes they had

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ACTION AND ANARCHY Carmen from Kawachi, a 1960s riff on the opera, Carmen, from Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, screens Feb. 25 and 28 as part of the Action and Anarchy retrospective. “This fast-paced gem is an overlooked classic from his creative late period at Nikkatsu Studios,” says Chicago Reader’s Ted Shen.

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 15 and Trevor Holgate will present his newest watercolours from France until Feb. 21.

Red Earth and Rotation: Cindy Goodman shows her photography and mixed media newest works and Monica Gewurz presents her paintings of imaginary landscapes from Feb. 21 to April 10.

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

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Curator’s Talk: Every Thursday at noon there will be a 20-minute curator’s talk with background on the current show in the gallery.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Wild Wood: An exhibition of works by artist Valerie Raynard which celebrates trees from the West Coast of Canada runs until March 6.

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Vexed that the twins won’t do anything they’re told, Thomasin tells them that she’s a witch and will gobble them up in the night if they don’t behave, a mistruth that comes back to haunt her.

Caleb may think his older sister is bewitching him, too, for he can’t stop sneaking peeks at her growing bustline.

Things go starkly downhill from there. Clearly father is neither a farmer nor an outdoorsman: he fails to shoot a rabbit (which reappears at several inopportune times at the homestead) and the meagre crops are failing. He spends any time not at prayer cutting wood with precision and no small amount of foreboding.

The twins whisper and seem to get direction from the family’s goat, Black Phillip.

The devil frequently takes the form of a goat; it’s the current mascot for the Satanic Church. After a trip to the woods, someone returns possessed. Mother is going off the deep end and resentful of her nubile daughter. “I have raised up no witch in this house!” shouts the father, again more to reassure himself than anyone. Clearly there is more than one witch candidate in

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Celebrating 50 Years: Centennial Theatre’s 50th anniversary concert featuring The Day Trippers, a Beatles tribute band, Thursday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $2.50.

A Play, a Pie and a Pint: The North Shore Celtic Ensemble perform a spirited original repertoire Tuesday, March 15 at noon. The show will be followed by a meat or veggie pie and a

this family.

The banishment and the severe isolation would be fodder enough for a horror film (it’s like The Shining set a few centuries earlier). Add to that certain starvation, the infant mortality rate of the time, fear of animals and attack by native tribes, Thomasin’s sure and assumed-sinful transition into womanhood and religious zealotry: is it any wonder the family spirals out of control?

The casting call for animals to appear in the film must’ve been a fun affair: Eggers has found the most demonic-looking goat and hare imaginable.

Plus there is verisimilitude in the costuming, and spare, confining set design; the relatively trim 93-minute film uses dialogue “from period sources” and appears to use mostly natural lighting from its northern Ontario locale to set the gloomy mood.

Characters in the film pray for mercy and for grace, but neither is afforded to the audience, treated to a steady, mostly atmospheric fear which is then punctuated by shocking brutality. Eggers has crafted a clever horror film about malleable souls in a starved landscape, where a taste of butter could be enticement enough to go over to the dark side.

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The Gift finds its voice in performance

John Aitken offers story as a bridge to healing

! The Gift, Feb. 19-21 at North Vancouver’s Presentation House Theatre. Evening performances: 8 p.m.

Matinee performances: 2 p.m. Tickets: $28/$20/$15. phtheatre.org ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

“These are my memories.

This was my experience and understanding,” says Coast Salish artist and activist John Aitken, describing The Gift, an autobiographical work of physical theatre that he both co-wrote and is co-starring in that opens today at Presentation House Theatre.

In the piece, Aitken offers insight into his personal journey towards finding his voice, all the while hoping to act as a bridge between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, as well as serve as a conduit to healing.

“It is a difficult story to tell but it is ultimately a story about overcoming adversity, overcoming a lot of violence, dysfunction. I didn’t speak until I was 18 and here I am today at 48, speaking for 30 years. . . .

How do I fit into society?

How do I fit in with my native community and how do I fit

Shelley MacDonald and John Aitken perform The Gift at Presentation House Theatre this weekend. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD in with the non-native community too? With my activist hat on I think how this is what we need to do, all of us, is start working together.”

Aitken co-wrote The Gift with fellow Mayne Island resident Gail Noonan, an animator, the result of a casual conversation between the pair while riding on BC Ferries. He had offered insight into his past, his late father’s challenges with alcoholism and mental illness,

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and ultimately the effect posttraumatic stress disorder had on him as a young boy, keeping him silent.

“When she heard that from me, it got her attention,” says Aitken.

Noonan called him a couple of days later and asked whether he would be interested in collaborating on a theatre piece.

Expressing his willingness, what followed was a flood of strong memories from his

childhood: growing up with six siblings and, “the death of mom when I was seven, the death of dad when I was 13 and then all the violence with dad beating my mom.

Those were pivotal points,” he says.

Slowly the work, Aitken’s first, grew to its current form as a 60-minute piece.

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through drumming, singing, vocal sounds, humour, mask, movement and dance. For the physical components of the piece, Aitken drew on his experiences as a dancer with an amateur company in Victoria when he was in his late-teens and early-20s.

Joining him for the North Vancouver performance is Shelley MacDonald, a friend and former Presentation House board member.

“It’s always been really

important for me as an indigenous person to work with non-indigenous people,” says Aitken.

Writing and performing The Gift has proven helpful for Aitken’s own journey of healing. When he originally started collaborating with Noonan, he thought the process would run smoothly, that he was in a good place, however the more they delved into the process, the more he realized he still had a lot of work to do.

“At this point, after five years, what I need to do to perform this so many times is I put my professional theatre hat on and I become just an actor. It’s not me, but it is me,” he says.

To help others on their respective journeys of healing, The Gift is concluded with a talking circle.

“Gail and I felt that we needed to be responsible as artists to permit people an opportunity to share what they were feeling and to ask questions to fill in some of the gaps,” he says.

The intense and emotional piece is making its North Shore debut this weekend, running through Sunday at Presentation House. So far The Gift has been performed only in the Gulf Islands and at William Head prison on Vancouver Island.

Aitken hopes to tour the work provincially, nationally and internationally. While its message is of course of interest to indigenous people, it’s also universal in

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Iranian artists collaborate with Lions Gate Sinfonia

Eastern mediations ! Lions Gate Sinfonia presents East Meets West, with special guests Hossein Behroozinia and the Vancouver Pars National Ballet, Saturday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. at Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: $12-$39 at centennialtheatre.com or 604-984-4484.

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Azita Sahebjam was a classical ballerina back in Tehran and performed on stages across Iran and Europe until the Islamic Revolution of 1979 put an end to dancing.

Under the new republic, the country’s national ballet company was dissolved and many of its members emigrated. When Sahebjam moved to Canada in 1988, she abandoned her goal of remaining a ballerina and turned her attention to a new mission: preserving the lost art of Iranian traditional and folklore dances and presenting these dances to the world.

To that end, in 1989 she founded the

to join, and there’s a mix of ages and ethnicities. Many of the group’s younger members were born in Canada to Iranian parents, she says.

“Some of them have never been in Iran, but they love to understand their ro ots and their culture.”

It’s been especially rewarding for Sahebjam to dance shoulder to shoulder with young women, including her own daughter, who have been under her tutelage since they were just children.

“That’s the best part of teaching and keeping the culture alive,” she says.

Vancouver Pars National Ballet will be performing two five-minute dances on Feb. 27, each featuring costumes from the group’s extensive collection.

Meanwhile, representing the “West” in East Meets West, Lions Gate Sinfonia’s principal horn player Duncan Shaw will perform Vaughan Williams’ English Folk Songs and Canadian composer Keith Bissell’s “Under the Apple Boughs,” a piece inspired by folk music, Dylan Thomas’ poems, and Canadian landscapes.

Notes from the Araxes Basin The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra is presenting, Global Soundscapes Festival: Notes From the Araxes Basin, a Festival of Middle Eastern music over the next 10 days.

Vancouver-based musicians and composers will collaborate with virtuoso soloists from Turkey, Armenia, Lebanon and Iran, and visiting Canadian ensembles from Victoria and Montreal, to present traditional,

contemporary and intercultural music of the Middle East and Canada.

On Tuesday, Feb. 23, as part of the festival, Hossein Behroozinia will perform with Gevorg Dabaghyan from Armenia (on duduk) and Neva Özgen from Turkey (on kemençe) at North Vancouver’s Gordon Smith Gallery, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

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Vancouver Pars National Ballet, a group of dancers dedicated to saving an ethnic art form at risk of extinction. Over the last quarter century, Sahebjam’s troupe has performed more than 800 shows worldwide.

On Feb. 27, the dancers are collaborating for the first time with the Lions Gate Sinfonia to present East Meets West at Centennial Theatre. The show, which brings together performing art and culture from the Eastern and the Western worlds, will also feature

barbat player Hossein Behroozinia, a master of the traditional Persian stringed instrument.

As Sahebjam explains, the name of her dance group reflects their use of classical ballet techniques to present their traditional and folk dances, most of which are inspired by classical Persian poetry and art.

The group has about a dozen members, though only about half will be performing at East Meets West. All are female, though Sahebjam says men are more than welcome

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A six-day trek through southern Alberta MICHELLE HOPKINS Contributing writer

Imagine this scene: 96 huskies barking, yelping and howling at once – a symphony unlike anything you’ve ever heard before. Unless of course you have taken part in dog sledding, a very ancient mode of travel.

My partner Brent Chysyk and I, along with 32 fellow outdoor adventurers, took part in the Snowy Owl Sled Dog Tours along Spray Lake, Canmore.

Sixteen teams of six huskies welcomed us with howls and excited licks.

After a 30-minute safety and instruction briefing, the anticipation was building, both amongst the dogs and us.

The Johnston Canyon Icewalk gives spectacular views of the Johnston Canyon below.

We took turns guiding the sled. Led by blue-eyed Saban, whom we often shouted

words of encouragement, our team of energetic dogs took us on an exhilarating ride

Fraudulent claims take a toll on B.C. drivers

While most B.C. drivers are honest when it comes to making insurance claims, there are a few that are hurting things for the rest of us in the province.

Industry studies estimate that about 10 to 20 per cent of all insurance claims contain an element of fraud or exaggeration. Applying those estimates here means fraud is costing us up to $600 million per year, or more than $100 annually on every auto insurance policy.

Fraud cheats everyone and comes in all shapes and sizes.

Some fraud is organized and orchestrated by a group of individuals, namely, staged accidents and stolen vehicle rings.

Other types of fraud are less obvious. Fraud like this includes exaggerating the extent of an injury, misrepresenting a previous medical condition or slanting the situation when reporting a claim. It s not unheard of for people to embellish

To learn more about auto insurance fraud, go to icbc.com/fraud

their claim by including vehicle damage unrelated to the crash, or to claim they can t work when they re actually back on the job. These tactics may not make the news, but the costs add up and come out of all of our pockets we all end up paying for those who cheat the system.

ICBC combats fraud with their Special Investigation Unit, which last year looked at more than 5,000 claims Hles. This includes a cyber unit that employs information publicly available on the internet and social media to investigate suspected fraudulent claims. They re in the process of increasing their focus on investigations, including training and analytics technology that Gags patterns and predictors of fraud.

By stepping up efforts to reduce fraudulent and exaggerated claims, along with managing injury claims costs, ICBC is working to take pressure off rising insurance rates.

Fraud. It cheats us all.

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through unspoiled mountainous terrain.

Our outing done, we all converged around the campfire and enjoyed hot chocolate and cinnamon buns.

That evening, with the snow lightly falling we walked 20 minutes from our hotel to the quaint town to Murrieta’s. Located above shops, our window seat offered magnificent views of the majestic Bow Valley mountain range. The food only competed with the rustic elegance of this popular eatery. With exposed wood beams, floor-to-ceiling wood bar cellar and a large fireplace, we enjoyed a wonderful leisurely meal.

As we laid our heads down in our Whistlerish suite at The Solara Resort and Spa we both agreed that our mushing expedition was a memory we would cherish.

We had arrived in Calgary a few days earlier, guests of Tourism Alberta. After picking up our rental car, we headed to the ultra-chic, contemporary Hotel Arts in downtown Calgary.

The city has changed a lot since Brent lived there more than 25 years ago. Alberta’s largest metropolis is filled with new bars, boutiques, restaurants, art, culture and entertainment venues. We often read that Calgary’s experiencing a downturn but it wasn’t evident downtown – the restaurants were packed, the city alive with energy.

That night, we feasted on some “Vietmodern dishes” at the award-winning Raw Bar. Sharing a culinary journey through crab and mango salad roll, prawn salad, maple ginger black cod and squid a la plancha, we departed with a new

appreciation for Vietnamese cuisine.

The next day, we explored the historical Simmons Building in East Village. The former mattress factory has been reinvented into a funky food lovers’ destination.

Breakfast at the celebrated Sidewalk Citizen Bakery was followed by lunch at Charbar – that was after a brisk walk along the boardwalk that snakes along the Bow River.

Charbar’s Chopped Canada winning chef Jessica Pelland kept sending over tantalizing dish after dish inspired by Argentina, Spain and Italy.

Our last night in Calgary was spent at the city’s first Relais & Chateaux Property The Kensington Riverside Inn, located across the Louise Bridge from downtown. After dropping off our bags in our room, we headed out for a walk through this historic, trendy urban village and discovered unique shops and colourful character homes.

As if we hadn’t eaten enough, that evening we dined at one of Calgary’s newest, hippest eateries, Native Tongues Taqueria. Great atmosphere was teamed up with some amazing Mexican street eats (must try the grilled prawns in chilmole butter and lime).

The next morning, we drove to Banff for a two-night stay at the Buffalo Mountain Lodge. We reached the bucolic lodge in the early afternoon just in time for a two-hour hike along the Tunnel Mountain Trail. Although steep, the trek awarded us with spectacular vistas of Rundle Mountain.

That evening, we dined in the resort’s restaurant.

Brent started with the elk and followed that with northern caribou medallions. A hunter, he was pleasantly surprised by

how delicious and tender the game was.

We soon retired to our rustic, cozy room with its wood burning fireplace. We spent the night cuddled around the crackling fire sipping on a nice bold red.

As a fan of icefalls, a Johnston Canyon Ice walk was a must for me. As soon as we strapped on our ice cleats, we hiked along steel walkways built into the canyon walls and witnessed nature at its best.

We traveled through frozen lower and upper falls and blue tinged icicles, while learning about the history and geology of Johnston Canyon. The grand finale is the Cathedral of Ice at the Upper Falls – simply stunning.

A few hours later, we headed to the historic Fairmont Banff Springs for a casual repast. The stately hotel, designed after a grand Scottish castle, opened in 1888 and sits above a scenic bluff overlooking the town of Banff, the Bow River, and the mountainous beauty of Banff National Park.

We dined in the Grapes Wine Bar, which in its former life (circa 1926) was a charming writing room. Chef Tyler Thompson put together a sampling of its most popular charcuteries (elk and buffalo), fine cheese and homemade breads. Couple that with a fine bottle of Poplar Grove merlot and lively conversation with fellow diners (the intimate room fosters chatter amongst tables), we left satiated and quite frankly pretty happy to be in the Canadian Rockies.

The following morning dawned bright and cold. It was off to Lake Louise, where we stayed at the Deer Lodge. A sister lodge to the Buffalo Lodge, it is also an ode to Alberta’s rich log/timber design.

That evening, after a pub meal in the aptly named Powder Keg Lounge (raucous and fun, it was filled with après skiers) in the Lake Louise Ski Resort, we went for a nighttime snowshoe. With a sky filled with stars, it was breathtaking journey through towering forest and untouched terrain next to ski trails.

On our last day it was yet another crystal clear day. We met up with Bill Keeling at Wilson Mountain Sports and headed out for an hour crosscountry through a snowy terrain up the Bow River Loop.

Heading home: When we planned our trip, we were looking for a vacation getaway with some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world, a place where we could witness unspoiled wilderness and wildlife, lead a dog sled tour, hike, snowshoe, cross country ski and eat some fine cuisine — we got it and more.

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Dahlia Drive collaborates with Haida artist Ravens, Eagles, Polka Dots collection launched Feb. 16

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

The village of Masset on the north coast of Haida Gwaii has the kind of tight-knit community that fosters new friendships and gives rise to creative collaborations.

That’s what North Vancouver resident Wendy Van Riesen found when she and her husband sailed to the B.C. archipelago in 2014. They ended up mooring their boat over the winter and stayed nine months in Masset where they felt warmly welcomed by the locals.

Renowned Haida artist Reg Davidson is among the estimated 1,000 residents of Masset. At the time of Van Riesen’s visit, Davidson was carving one of four sculptures that he unveiled at Vancouver International Airport last month. The carvings are intricate red cedar designs that represent the Haida stories of Raven Stealing Beaver Lake, Raven Steals the Moon, and Blind Halibut Fisherman. Van Riesen, who is an artist herself and the creative force behind Dahlia Drive fashion designs, was invited by Davidson’s cousin to watch him work one day.

“We ended up becoming friends, and then out of the friendship we were able to collaborate artwork that we do,” she explains. “It came out of eating together and fishing together and being together, and that’s just a lovely way to be able to create something.”

Van Riesen specializes in using screen printing and dying techniques to renew recycled garments and textiles. She had long been interested in incorporating indigenous art into her designs and approached Davidson with the idea. He was keen to work together.

The result of their collaboration is Ravens, Eagles, Polka Dots – a fashion collection that features Davidson’s traditional Haida artwork on women’s clothing. The pair launched their line Feb. 16 at a fashion show at the Skwachays Lodge in downtown Vancouver.

The collection is based on the two main clans of Haida lineage: the Raven and the Eagle. The Raven Dancing silkscreen and the Eagle Drum painting were chosen to decorate the fabrics and the palette was inspired by the Haida Gwaii landscape and traditional colours used by Haida artists on their carvings: red cedar, red ochre, ash black and sea foam green.

Meanwhile, the “Polka Dots” part of the collection’s

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Wearable art is like a moving gallery From page 25 name represents Van Riesen’s design influence, as she often uses the playful motif in her work.

For this project, Van Riesen sourced gently used white slips and curtain sheers, the flowy and translucent fabrics reflective of the transformational aspect of many Haida stories. Once the slips and sheers were sewn into the desired shape, they arrived at her North Vancouver studio like blank canvasses.

“I take dyes that I mix myself and thicken them if I’m going to use a screen or keep them thin if I paint them,” she explains.

One of her image transfer techniques involves painting the design pattern onto a piece of paper, pinning that paper to the garment, and then heat-pressing the image

onto the fabric.

“It goes right into the fabric so it doesn’t change the diaphanous flow of the sheers,” she says.

Van Riesen is familiar with transferring the work of another artist onto clothing.

In the past, she has created fashionable pieces for sale in the Vancouver Art Gallery gift shop that are decorated with famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Henri Matisse.

“We only have so many walls that we can put art up on, and so if we can create art that is wearable then basically the walls are now moving and it’s now more of a sculptural piece and women are the gallery.”

Of course, blouses and dresses do not lie flat, which means Van Riesen had to break up Davidson’s straight lines in order to wrap his images around the garments.

She says she is grateful that he gave her the flexibility to manipulate his designs in that way.

“What I really have to honour about him is his willingness … to let somebody that’s not indigenous play a little bit with the work,” she says. “I’m just very thankful to be able to be included in a wonderful culture and contribute in a small way.”

Pieces from the Ravens, Eagles, Polka Dots collection range from $100 to $375 and are available for purchase at dahliadrive.com, though Van Riesen would love to eventually get the items into gallery and museum gift shops.

Ten per cent of sales will be donated to the Iyoli Water Project, which is a partnership between Vancouver’s Strathcona elementary and a school in Tanzania to build a clean water well in the village of Iyoli.

This red dress is actually a recycled slip printed with a Haida design.

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 17 Home to Rest — A Syrian Welcome:The North Shore Celtic Ensemble performs a benefit concert for refugees resettled on the North Shore Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

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North Shore Music Festival and Workshops: The North Shore Registered Music Teachers present three concerts at the 45th annual event. March 9, a concert highlighting the noncompetitive section in piano, vocal, strings and winds, takes place and March 10 and 11 trophy winners in piano, strings and composition perform at 7 p.m.

Admission: $10/$5. There will also be free classes from Feb. 28 to March 1. Info: 604-987-1067 or 604-929-1592.

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca Musical Morning in the Gallery: A tour of the current exhibit followed by a classical music concert with Maestro Behroozinia on barbat, accompanied by percussionists Ramin Bahrami and Hamin Honari Tuesday, Feb. 23, 9:3011:30 a.m. Tickets: $10/$7.

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Aitken planning future projects From page 19 nature. He has received positive feedback to that effect with audiences expressing their take that, “this isn’t about colour, this isn’t about a specific culture. This is what many of us need to talk about - the violence, the alcoholism, the struggles, the demons,” he says.

Made possible thanks to a Canada Council grant, The Gift is the first of what Aitken hopes will be many works presented by his

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“I chose that (name) because I was told when I was a kid that when Coast Salish people pass away, that we all come back as owls. Being called Surrounded by Owls Productions just means that whatever I’m doing, I’m surrounded by my family, I’m not doing anything alone,” he says.

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BigMouth masters the art of persuasion

Valentijn Dhaenens brings his unique talk show to The York ! BigMouth runs until Feb. 21 at the York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr.). Tickets $20; tickets.thecultch.com.

KELSEY KLASSEN Contributing writer

If anyone can turn being called a “big mouth” into a good thing, it’s Valentijn Dhaenens.

With just five microphones and his voice, the Belgian theatre artist rather famously stitches together 2,500 years of speeches into BigMouth, his sell-out hit from the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe that uses the words of Socrates to Osama Bin Laden, Martin Luther King to George W. Bush to show how some things, incredibly, never change.

“BigMouth is actually a very personal history of the Western world through speeches,” says Dhaenens, who is making his first trip to Vancouver to perform the show Feb. 11-21 at the York Theatre, presented by The Cultch. “In my opinion, speeches always try to manipulate people so, in return, I manipulate the speeches – I

mix up a few speeches and make one speech of them, or use from the same person different fragments of different speeches.”

Between those speeches, the multi-talented performer also sings era-specific songs, using a loop pedal to enhance the effect.

“I wanted the show to be about the power of what we’re able to do with this small hole in our face,” he laughs.

As a co-founder of SKaGeN, one of Europe’s hottest theatre collectives, Dhaenens is no stranger to creating powerful work for the stage, however BigMouth was the first solo show he had ever attempted.

“When you work with other people, you always have to discuss everything . . . and I had an urge to work much more intuitively,” he recalls, “so what I did was I promised myself over the course of a year to read at least one speech a day, without too much of a concept.”

He read upwards of 10 speeches a day and, by the end, had almost 1,000

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Valentijn Dhaenens pays tribute to 2,500 years of oration in BigMouth, the sell-out hit of the Edinburgh Fringe.

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 29 3474 phtheatre.org The Gift: The story of a man who didn’t speak until he was 17-yearsold Feb. 19-21 at 8 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15-$28.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver.

604-983-2633 northvanplayers. ca The 39 Steps: A comedic mystery Feb. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $18/16.

Dance CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Lamondance and Friends Dance GalaNorth Vancouver’s Contemporary Training and Performance Company present a fundraising night to celebrate Vancouver’s extraordinary dance community Saturday, Feb. 20, 6 p.m. with a silent auction at 7 p.m.

Admission: $20. Tickets: 604980-3040 or at the door.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Snowmotion: The North Shore Academy of Dancing puts on its annual winter dance performance showcase Sunday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $23/$19/$16.

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Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604985-5646.

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BOSA THEATRE Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver.

Vancouver Iranian Film Festival: Born in 65 will be screened Friday, Feb. 19 and What’s the Time in Your World? will show Saturday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. To be announced shows will also play Feb. 26 and 27.

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Suffragette will be screened Feb. 22, and Steve Jobs will show Feb. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: A series of extreme adventure films and presentations will run until Feb. 20. Tickets: $9-$21. Schedule: vimff.org.

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The North Shore International Film Series: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will screen Canadian, independent and foreign films throughout the fall, winter and spring. Trumbo shows Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $11. Info: nvartscouncil.ca/events/northshore-international-film-series or 604-988-6844.

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TALKING STICK Squamish Nation member Orene Askew (a.k.a. DJ O Show) performs at the Talking Stick Festival’s Indigenous Unite/Industry Night at Studio Records (919 Granville St.) on Thursday, Feb. 25 starting at 7 p.m. Quanah Style and Enter Tribal are also on the bill. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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OFF THE CUFF: Noisemakers ! Luigi Russolo was the first noise composer and an artist in the musical branch of the Italian futurist movement in the 1910s.

He created noise instruments called intonarumori and is one of the artists featured in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new exhibit: Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture. The album Die Kunst der Geräusche features 13 of his recordings of the intonarumori: bit.ly/1KY6F8t

SAVING YOU MORE For more details go instore or online @thebrick.com.

! Action and Anarchy: The Films of Seijun Suzuki trailer. Retrospective of Suzuki’s work begins this weekend at Pacific

CiTR Pop Alliance Compilation, Volume 4! out now on Mint Records.

Cinémathèque: bit.ly/21bapro ! Seijun Suzuki interview March, 1997: bit.ly/1ou6DeP

! The Shilohs “English Roads”: bit.ly/1Lvxqfw.

The Vancouver band has a new track “Do the Modern,” ‘recorded in a shed behind the Lido,’ on CITR’s Pop Alliance 4 compilation out now on Mint Records (bit.ly/1QLTbct).

The record is released as part of the UBC station’s annual Fundrive, which runs from Feb. 25 to March 4 (citr.ca).

on Feb. 23 at 9:30 a.m. as part of the Vancouver

! Neva Özgen demonstrates the kemençe. The Turkish musician performs with Hossein Behroozinia and Gevorg Dabaghyan at North Vancouver’s Gordon Smith Gallery

! Parquet Courts perform at the Rickshaw Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 20.

Coverage of full performance from the band live on KEXP: bit.ly/1VpXwpL. – John Goodman

Inter-Cultural Orchestra’s Global Soundscapes Festival: Notes From the Araxes Basin, a festival of Middle Eastern music taking place over the next 10 days. For more information visit vi-co.org: bit.

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! The Witch official movie trailer: bit.ly/1Nv7l3T

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Chutzpah! kicks off this weekend

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As a child growing up in Edmonton, Kuebler studied a Japanese style of karate called shito-ryo. That led to his dance training in a variety of disciplines from contemporary to tap.

Kuebler moved to Vancouver in 2003 to grow his performing arts career and pursue being a choreographer. He started training out of Harbour Dance Centre, which Kuebler says is like a second home to him.

Since then Kuebler has become a fixture on the Canadian and international performing arts scene and performed with Naughty

By Nature and Neil Young, to name two collaborations with famous Canadian artists. His talents, meanwhile, have taken Kuebler, an award-winning choreographer, to Tokyo, Lebanon and Brazil.

Joining Kuebler on stage for the world premiere of Telemetry is North Vancouver dancer Lexi Vajda, who teaches at North Shore Academy of Dance.

“She’s amazing, she’s the only female dancer in the show,” says Kuebler. “She’s so strong and balanced with sensitivity and openness in the way she moves. She carries this duality that not many dancers have.”

With this piece, Kuebler

wanted certain sections where the dancers make their own choices, in terms of movements.

“That’s a window into someone’s past,” he explains.

The high-energy performance pushes the physical envelope while at the same time evoking a sense of refinement. That requires a lot of stamina on the part of the dancers.

“You can’t just gas out in the first 10 minutes and be sloppy for the rest of the show,” says Kuebler. “If it looks rough, most likely it’s hard on your body.”

Kuebler says it’s a treat to perform in the Chutzpah!

Festival in the Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre in Vancouver’s Jewish Community Centre. He describes the venue as having great sightlines and a slightly raised stage from which the audience can see the dancer’s fancy footwork.

As for the festival’s format itself, Kuebler says showcasing international artists with different influences, different languages and sets of beliefs is what makes Chutzpah! so unique.

Now in its 16th year, Chutzpah! brings together internationally celebrated dance, music, comedy and theatre artists from as far afield as Mexico, Germany, Cuba, Italy, the United States and Israel as well as Canada .

Dhaenens rearranges context of speeches From page 30 speeches divided into stacks of war speeches, eulogies, sermons and so on, in the hopes that he would start to notice connections between the widely disparate subjects.

“And that’s actually how it happened,” he continues.

“One of the very first speeches I was attracted to was a Goebbels speech at the end of the Second World War called the ‘Total War’ speech. You can still hear it on YouTube, it’s quite famous, and he’s shouting all the time, ‘Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg?’ (Do you want total war?).

It’s very impressive,” he adds, explaining that Goebbels’ rhetoric galvanized the Nazi propaganda movement. “So I had this feeling, because it was at the end of the war and he’s trying to get the women involved […] that if I were to do this speech quite the opposite from the original – very softly spoken and slowly, whispering in the audience’s ears – people would get what he’s actually

saying more than if I shouted it.”

A few months later, he came across a D-Day speech

by American general George S. Patton and saw some striking similarities.

“They’re trying to do the same thing,” Dhaenens says.

“They’re trying to persuade people to go to war, but this Patton guy is so different in his techniques,” says Dhaenens.

“He uses very short, simplistic sentences – very racist and aggressive in tone and content – so I made a mix of those two speeches.”

Dhaenens approached every speech thereafter in a similar fashion – rather than trying to impersonate famous speakers or speeches, looking instead to present each oration in a new way to reveal hidden meanings, human hubris, and social subtleties.

“You really get a display of how speeches work in a different way,” he says, “even when they have the same goal.”

— Kelsey Klassen writes for our sister paper the Westender

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Grinding Gears Brendan McAleer

Ski-Doos live on even as company crumbles This week’s big business argle-bargle is the decision whether or not to bail out Bombardier.

What should also resonate with the small-car crowd is the Spark’s new four-cylinder engine. The 1.4-litre unit makes 98 horsepower and 94 foot-pounds of torque. That compares to 84 h.p. and 83 foot-pounds for the previous model’s 1.2-litre powerplant.

The output is still modest, but then again there’s only

Canada’s largest aerospace manufacturer is in real trouble, and is looking to lay off as many as 7,000 people over the next two years.

But even as the politcos wrestle over what’s best for the economy and taxpayer money, the humble little vehicles that got Bombardier off the ground still crawl along gamely, some of them more than a half century old.

Half bus, half half-track, the Bombardier snowmobile is tougher than the company it founded, and might just be longer lived.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was born in Valcourt, Que., into a large farming family. He was a precocious lad, interested in mechanics from a very young age. At 13, he built

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See Bombardier page 39

The little Chevrolet Spark has been a big hit since its debut in 2013 with more than one million vehicles sold around the world. Canada gets a fully redesigned model in 2016 that improves on the original in substance and style. It is available at Carter GM in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

2016 Chevrolet Spark

Spark ignites affordable fun

MALCOLM GUNN Contributing writer

Despite falling fuel prices, 2016 promises to be a banner year for fuel-sipping vehicles.

Chevrolet, in particular, is relaunching the tiny hatchback Spark, along with the compact Cruze sedan and the electric Volt. There’s even a hybrid variant of the 2016

Malibu and a fuel-stretching turbocharged four-cylinder version of the Camaro.

Those moves represent a not-insignificant level of commitment to saving money at the pumps, as well as cutting pollution.

The stubby little madein-Korea Spark has been a surprise hit since its 2013 model-year debut, with more than one million cars sold

around the world. Now, a clean-sheet replacement that’s just arrived in Canada improves on the original in both style and substance.

As the Bowtie division’s least-expensive vehicle, the Spark remains both thrifty and spacious, although there’s a bit less of the latter, owing to a more slimmeddown design and a lower (by four centimetres) roofline.

All other key measurements – length, width and distance between the front and rear wheels – differ only slightly.

Both passenger and cargo space are down a touch, but that’s a small price to pay for a more mature-looking car that should appeal to more buyers, especially in North America where we tend to lean toward the mainstream for appearance.

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Base model has backup camera, Wi-Fi From page 38

about 1,020 kilograms of curb weight to deal with, which is about 450 less than a base Corvette.

Note that the electric Smart EV continues unchanged into the 2016 model year.

As with the previous-gen Spark, the engine connects to a five-speed manual transmission, or optional continuously variable unit (CVT). As with most cars in the Spark’s diminutive size range, it’s likely that going with the manual gearbox is the best way to wring

out maximum thrust when needed. It’s also more fun to drive. Either way, fuel economy is about the same, no matter the transmission: 7.8 (litres/100 kilometres) city and 5.8 on the highway with the stick; or 7.6/5.7 with the CVT (the 2015 Spark’s best numbers were 7.5/6.0 with the CVT).

There’s enough interior room to comfortably fit four adults and their gear, although there’s a middle seatbelt in back for those times when you absolutely must transport a fifth.

Chevrolet assures that all aboard will be treated to

New instrument and control panels and a touchscreen display are included in the redesigned Spark.

a quieter and more comfortable ride, thanks to strengthened body structure and added sound-absorbing materials.

The interior also receives

completely revised instrument and control panels along with upgraded seats, about which the Spark’s lead designer says: “You have a greater feeling of sitting in

them rather than on them.”

At $11,600 (including destination charges), the base Spark LS comes out of the gate with a 17.7-centimetre touchscreen display with

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability, a rearview camera, front disc brakes and a total of 10 airbags.

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The redesigned Spark lost a bit of passenger and cargo space, but that allowed Chevy to make it a more mainstream, maturelooking car that should appeal to more North American buyers. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD

Bombardier built reputation as mechanical genius From page 38

himself a clockwork toy locomotive from scratch; later he repaired a broken .22 rifle and converted it into a working toy cannon.

His somewhat bemused father, Alfred, had a great deal of trouble keeping his son from taking apart the family car all the time. So, he bought the boy a seized Model T engine, thinking the project would at least keep the Devil away from JosephArmand’s idle hands. Some hope.

Working with his brother Leopold, Joseph-Armand created a propeller-powered snow machine running on a pair of sleds – think of an Everglades airboat, but with an early 20th century teenager’s approach to safety standards. One boy steered, the other boy operated the repaired engine, and miraculously they both escaped with all limbs still attached. Their father ordered the infernal machine disassembled, but JosephArmand’s first snow machine had already run.

At the age of 17, he quit college with his family’s blessing (you have to expect

this was forged through much argument), and set up a garage. There, he repaired everything from cars to bandsaws, building a reputation as being a mechanical genius.

At the same time, the winter months are lonely in eastern Quebec. The government didn’t clear the roads, which were often so deep in snow that the widely spaced farmsteads were frequently cut off from their neighbours. Bombardier puzzled over a solution, working late into the night. It took him a decade, eating into his savings, causing his friends and neighbours to shake their heads at the mad inventor who is so good with wheels and engines and clockwork things.

In the winter of 1934, Joseph-Armand’s young son was struck by peritonitis.

The snow was too deep to be traversed, and the boy died, his father unable to do anything. Imagine the pain, of wrestling with an invention that might have saved your child’s life, of knowing so much about mechanical things, but not enough about the frailties of the human body.

The next year, he invented the sprocket and wheel combination that worked so well on the snow.

He applied for patent, and received his patent in June of 1937. Instead of selling the patent to a larger manufacturer, he started building snow machines, and the Bombardier B7 was born.

The first B7s were capable of holding seven people.

Each one had a simple, tapered shape, and its froglike headlamps appeared to give it a personality. If you’ve ever seen the Swedish kids character Moomin, they look a little like that.

Improvements to the wheels and tracks followed quickly, and the vehicle became popular with doctors, veterinarians, and as a school transport. The advent of the war brought an opportunity to expand, and Bombardier created numerous tracked machines capable of fighting in all conditions. In the postwar period, a much larger school bus was made, opening up education to snowbound areas. A tractor capable of crossing muskeg made oil and gas exploration possible as far away as Scotland.

Eventually, the iconic SkiDoo made its appearance. It sold for $900 and opened up Canada’s north for all kinds of outdoor activities.

But it’s the early “Snow Bugs” that are really interesting. Up in northern Saskatchewan, home to the polar bear, these early Bombardiers still roam the snows, some of them from the 1950s. These are workhorses, not relics, but thanks to simple construction that can be fixed by anyone handy with a wrench and a welder, they keep soldiering along. Many use slightly more modern V-8 engines, but they’re still old-fashioned machines, appealing to those with a certain self-reliance.

You have to think they’re the sort of machines JosephArmand would be happiest to see his name attached to, not a beleaguered aerospace company. Regardless of what happens in the air, the Bombardiers on the ground will still make their way over the snows, cutting a path which one man dreamed.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast.

If you have a suggestion

for a column, or would be interested in having your car club featured, please contact him at

mcaleeronwheels@gmail. com. Follow Brendan on Twitter: @brendan_ mcaleer.

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Wise customers read the fine print: *, ★, †, ≥, §, ≈ The Cold Days Hot Deals Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after February 2, 2016. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,745) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2016 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. ★The Make No Financing Payments for 90 Days offer is available from February 1-29, 2016, and applies to retail customers who finance a new 2015/2016 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram or FIAT vehicle (excludes 2015/2016 Dodge Viper and Alfa Romeo) at a special fixed rate on approved credit up to 96 months through Royal Bank of Canada and TD Auto Finance or up to 90 months through Scotiabank. Monthly/bi-weekly payments will be deferred for 60 days and contracts will be extended accordingly. Interest charges will not accrue during the first 60 days of the contract. After 60 days, interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay principal and interest over the term of the contract but not until 90 days after the contract date. Customers will be responsible for any required down payment, license, registration and insurance costs at time of contract. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. †0% purchase financing available on select new 2016 models to qualified customers on approved credit through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Example: 2016 Jeep Cherokee Sport with a Purchase Price of $27,198 with a $0 down payment, financed at 0% for 72 months equals 156 biweekly payments of $174 with a cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $27,198. ≥3.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2016 Chrysler 200 LX (28A)/2016 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package/2016 Jeep Cherokee Sport through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Examples: 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2016 Chrysler 200 LX (28A)/2016 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package/2016 Jeep Cherokee Sport with a Purchase Price of $22,998/$23,998/$20,998/$26,998 financed at 3.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 416 weekly payments of $63/$66/$58/$74 with a cost of borrowing of $3,367/$3,514/$3,075/$3,953 and a total obligation of $26,365/$27,514/$24,073/$30,951. §Starting from prices for vehicles shown include Consumer Cash Discounts and do not include upgrades (e.g. paint). Upgrades available for additional cost. ≈Sub-prime financing available on approved credit. Finance example: 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT with a purchase price of $27,595 financed at 4.99% over 60 months, equals 130 bi-weekly payments of $240 for a total obligation of $31,207. Some conditions apply. Down payment is required. See your dealer for complete details. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of FCA US LLC used under licence by FCA Canada Inc.

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NO PAYMENTS FOR IT ALL ENDS FEBRUARY 29!

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CARTER GM NORTHSHORE’S EVERY 2015 MARKED DOWN TO BELOW DEALER INVOICE

BIGGEST CLEARANCE EVER

51 59 69 81 97-2015’s Must Go Now!

2015 CHEVY CRUZE 1LT Backup Camera, 6 Speed Automatic, Power Sunroof, Air Condition, Power Windows, Power Locks, + Much More.

BRAND NEW

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

MSRP $24,515

19,498

Backup Camera, Power Seat, Power Windows, Power Locks, Air Condition, Bluetooth, 17” Aluminum Wheels, + Much More.

STK#Q82190

BRAND NEW

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

MSRP $30,455

21,988

Navigation, Leather Heated Seats, Adaptive Cruise Control, 20” Aluminum Wheels, Power Sunroof, This Vehicle Is Equipped With All Available Options.

STK#N76460

COMPANY DEMO

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

MSRP $46,790

35,800

Navigation, 7 Passenger, Leather Heated / Cooled Seats, Dual Panel Sunroof, Rear Camera, 20” Aluminum Wheels, Rear Camera, Trailering Package, This Vehicle Is Equipped With All Available Options.

STK#W35070

COMPANY DEMO

44,900

$

2015 CHEVY TRAX 1.4 Litre, 4 Cyl Turbo, 6 Speed Automatic, Air Condition, Bluetooth, Power Windows, Locks, Tilt Wheel, Remote Keyless, + Much More.

STK# STK#R93260

BRAND NEW 17 AVAILABLE

18,999

$

2015 CHEVY TRAX 1LT 16” Aluminum Wheels, Bluetooth, Cruise Control, Air Condition, Tilt Wheel, Power Windows, Power Locks, + Much More.

STK#TX15840

BRAND NEW

20,998

2015 GMC CANYON SLE

STK#200550

BRAND NEW

Night Fall Edition, 18” Aluminum Wheels, Driver Alert Pkg, Rear Vision Camera, Pwr Group, A/C + Much More.

MSRP $36,890

31,988

$

2015 CHEVY SILVERADO 4X4 CREW CAB

Air Condition, Bluetooth, Trailer Tow Pkg, Running Boards, Power Windows, Power Locks, On Star, Tilt Wheel + Much More.

MSRP $43,750

STK#7G56580

BRAND NEW

36,700

$

2015 GMC SIERRA 4X4 DOUBLE CAB Elevation Edition, 20” Aluminum Black Out Wheels, 5.3 Litre V8 Engine, Trailer Tow Package, Air Condition, Bluetooth + Much More.

MSRP $44,400

$

35,770

2015 GMC SIERRA 4X4 DOUBLE CAB SLE Premium Pkg, Rear Camera, 10 Way Pwr Drivers Seat, Remote Start, Air Condition, Pwr Group, Trailer Tow Pkg + Much More.

MSRP $45,190

35,900

$

2015 CHEVY SILVERADO 4X4 CREW CAB

STK#860360

BRAND NEW

STK#8600780

BRAND NEW

STK#8G41600

BRAND NEW

LTZ Plus, Z71 Off Road Pkg, Pwr Sunroof, Chrome Assist Steps, Navigation, Leather Heated/Cooled Seats, Driver Alert Pkg, 20” Chrome Wheels, 5.3L V8, Trailer Tow Pkg, Equipped With All Available Options.

$

STK#TX20860

MSRP $63,450

53,700

$

STK#827790

604-987-5231

*All cash purchase prices plus taxes and documentation fee of $598.

Vehicles not exactly as shown.

chevrolet • Buick • GMc • cadillac DL# 10743

36,900

$

CARTER NORTHSHORE CASH PRICE

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

MSRP $25,960

MSRP $43,840

CARTER NORTHSHORE CASH PRICE

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

MSRP $23,580

BRAND NEW

CARTER NORTHSHORE CASH PRICE

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

MSRP $55,300

Dual Power Seats, Power Sunroof, Navigation, Rear DVD Entertainment System, Rear Camera, Remote Start, Safety Package, This Vehicle Is Equipped With All Available Options.

CARTER NORTHSHORE CASH PRICE

$

2015 CHEVY TRAVERSE LTZ ALL WHEEL DRIVE

2015 CHEVY EQUINOX LTZ ALL WHEEL DRIVE

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

$

2015 CHEVY IMPALA LTZ

CING

UP TO 84 MONTHS ON VIRTUALLY ALL 2015’S

CARTER NORTHSHORE CLEARANCE PRICE

$

2015 CHEVY MALIBU 1LT

2.

99% FINAN

Northshore

Northshore Auto Mall, 800 Automall Dr. North Van www.carternorthshore.com

THE FASTEST GROWING AUTOMOTIVE on full-line brands, BRAND IN CANADA Based on 12 month, year over year rolling unit sales

0 Lease rates as low as

%

$

$

$ *

THAT’S LIKE PAYING ONLY

LEASE PAYMENTS INCLUDE FREIGHT AND PDE

65 ≈

OR STEP UP TO THE SV SPECIAL EDITION FOR

Featuring: • Aluminum-Alloy Wheels • Heated Front Seats & more

8

1.8 SL model shown

PLUS

APR FOR 24 MONTHS ON SELECT MODELS

ON ROGUE S FWD

WEEKLY

Platinum model shown

▲

AT

MORE PER WEEK

GET UP TO

IN FINANCE CASH‡ ON ALTIMA SL

6,500 NO-CHARGE FOR 36 MONTHS ON SELECT 2016 MODELS

MAINTENANCE

PLUS

NO-CHARGE

MAINTENANCE

$

▲

$

THAT’S LIKE PAYING ONLY

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89

≈

+

ONLY UNTIL FEBRUARY 29TH

2016 WITH NISSAN ROGUE® MONTHLY LEASE FROM $280 $750 DOWN ≠

When Equipped with Forward Emergency Braking

APR FOR 60 MONTHS

1.49%

+

SL AWD Premium model shown▲

2015 NISSAN SENTRA®

INCLUDES

GET UP TO

IIN FINANCE CASHS‡ ON SENTRA SL AND SR

5,500

J.D. POWER & ASSOCIATES HIGHEST INITIAL QUALITY AWARD (IN THE U.S.)

WEEKLY

MAINTENANCE

NO-CHARGE

PLUS

+

Available Features Include: • 17-inch Aluminum Alloy Wheels • Standard Bluetooth® Handsfree Phone System

TOP SAFETY AND TOP QUALITY ONLY IN 2015 NISSAN SENTRA

2015 NISSAN ALTIMA®

Safety Comes Standard: • Intelligent Key with Push Button Start and Remote Engine Start • Blind Spot Warning1, Lane Departure Warning2 and Moving Object Detection3

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ON PATHFINDER S 4x2

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MONTHLY 2016 NISSAN PATHFINDER® LEASE FROM $384 WITH $0 DOWN

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APR FOR 60 MONTHS

2.99%

Available Features Include:: • Class Exclusive EZ Flex Seating^ • Class Exclusive Intuitive 4WD^

Offers available from February 2 - 29, 2016. ≈ Payments cannot be made on a weekly basis, for advertising purposes only. + Offer is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (NCESI) and applies to any MY15 Micra/Sentra/Murano and MY16 Versa Note/Rogue/Pathfinder models (each, an “Eligible Model”) leased and registered through Nissan Canada Financial Services Inc., on approved credit, between Feb 12 – 22 from an authorized Nissan retailer in Canada. Eligible only on leases through NCF with subvented rates. Offer recipient will be entitled to receive a maximum of six (6) service visits (each, a “Service Visit”) for the Eligible Vehicle – where each Service Visit consists of one (1) oil change (using conventional 5W30 motor oil) and one (1) tire rotation service (each, an “Eligible Service”). All Eligible Services will be conducted in strict accordance with the Oil Change and Tire Rotation Plan outline in the Agreement Booklet for the Eligible Vehicle. The service period (“Service Period”) will commence on the purchase or lease transaction date (“Transaction Date”) and will expire on the earlier of: (i) the date on which the maximum number of Service Visits has been reached; (ii) 36 months from the Transaction Date; or (ii) when the Eligible Vehicle has reached 48,000 kilometers. All Eligible Services must be completed during the Service Period, otherwise they will be forfeited. The Offer may be upgraded to use premium oil at the recipient’s expense. The Eligible Services are not designed to meet all requirements and specifications necessary to maintain the Eligible Vehicle. To see the complete list of maintenance necessary, please refer to the Service Maintenance Guide. Any additional services required are not covered by the Offer and are the sole responsibility and cost of the recipient. Offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain offers NCESI reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. Ask your retailer for details. ≠ Representative monthly lease offer based on a new 2016 Rogue S FWD CVT (Y6RG16 AA00)/2016 Rogue SV Special Edition FWD (Y6SG16 AA00)/2016 Pathfinder S 4x2 (5XRG16 AA00). 1.49%/1.49%/2.99% lease APR for a 60/60/60 month term equals monthly payments of $280/$308/$384 with $750/$750/$0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $17,393/$19,228/$23,013. *Representative monthly lease offer based on a new 2016 Rogue S FWD CVT (Y6RG16 AA00). 0% lease APR for a 24 month term equals monthly payments of $433 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $10,387. ‡ $3,250/$5,500/$6,500 NCF standard finance cash available on new 2015 Micra 1.6 SR (S5SG55 AA00/AA10)/(S5SG75 AA00/AA10)/2015 Sentra 1.8 SL (C4LG55 AA00), 2015 Sentra SR Premium CVT (C4LG15 RP00)/2015 Altima 2.5 SL (T4LG15 AAOO)/(T4TG15 NV00)/(T4SG15 NV00) models when financing with NCF at standard rates. ▲Models shown $37,008/$25,998/$35,848/$48,758 Selling price for a new 2016 Rogue SL AWD Premium (Y6DG16 BK00)/ 2015 Sentra 1.8 SL (C4TG15 AA00)/2015 Altima 3.5 SL (T4SG15 NV00)/2016 Pathfinder Platinum (5XEG156AA00). See your dealer or visit Nissan.ca/Loyalty. *◆±≠▲Freight and PDE charges ($1,760/$1,600/$1,700/$1,760) air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, applicable fees (all which may vary by region), manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. 2016 Rogue recognized as IIHS top safety picks when equipped with Forward Emergency Braking. For more information see www.IIHS.org. 1The Blind Spot Warning System is not a substitute for proper lane changing procedures. The system will not prevent contact with other vehicles or accidents. It may not detect every vehicle or object around you. 2Lane Departure Warning System operates only when the lane markings are clearly visible on the road. Speed limitations apply. See Owner’s Manuel for details. 3Parking aid/convenience feature. Cannot completely eliminateblind spots. May not detect every object and does not warn of moving objects. Always check surroundings and turn to look behind you before moving vehicle. MOD operates at vehicle speed below 5 mph. ^Ward’s Large Cross Utility Market Segmentation. MY16 Pathfinder vs 2016 and 2015 Large Cross/Utility Class. The Nissan Sentra received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among compact cars in the proprietary J.D. Power 2015 Initial Quality StudySM. Study based on responses from 84,367 new-vehicle owners, measuring 244 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2015. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©2016 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Canada Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

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Unfortunately, you do get shorted on air conditioning and power windows, which are standard with the 1LT trim, along with fog lamps and fancier exterior/interior trim.

Moving up to the top-end 2LT adds such niceties as 15-inch alloy wheels (wheel covers are standard), up-level audio system, heated front seats and keyless remote entry with push-button start.

Also included is park assist that sounds a warning when you’re closing in on an object while moving forward or backward.

On the options list is a sunroof, navigation system and a Driver Confidence Package that includes the latest in crash-avoiding technology, including lanedeparture warning and forward collision alert.

In this time of cheap gas, it will be interesting to see how the Spark and similar

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The Spark’s engine makes a modest 98 horsepower, but for a car this light that is plenty of thrust. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD

Spark shines at zipping around town models such as the Nissan Micra, Mitsubishi Mirage and Mercedes-Benz Smart will fare. However, for zipping around town and looking good doing it, isn’t the Spark appealing anyway?

THE SPEC SHEET TYPE: Four-door, front-wheeldrive sub-compact hatchback Engine: 1.4-litre DOHC I4 (98 h.p.)

TRANSMISSION: Five-speed manual; optional CVT POINTS: Redesign gives the car a more grown-up look; base four-cylinder engine makes more power but is more fuel efficient; upgraded interior reduces cost-cutting impressions.

SAFETY: Front airbags; front/ rear side-impact airbags; side-curtain airbags; front knee airbags; traction control.

FUEL ECONOMY (l/100 km city/hwy): 7.6/5.7 (CVT) BASE PRICE: (including destination) $11,600 wheelbasemedia.com

The top-of-the-line Spark model gets lane-departure warning and forward collision alert.

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EARN UP TO

50,000

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Dealer #18732. Offers valid until February 29, 2016. See toyota.ca for complete p details. In the event of anyy discrepancy d p y or o inconsistencyy between b Toyota y a prices, p rates and/or / otther information contained on www.getyourtoyota.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. *Lease example: 2016 Tacoma Double Cab 4x4 DZ5BNT-A with a vehicle price of $38,905 includes $1,885 freight/PDI leased at 4.99% over 60 months with $3,250 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $199 with a total lease obligation of $27,177. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. †Finance offer: 2.49% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval. **Lease example: 2016 Tundra Double Cab SR 4.6L UM5F1T-A with a vehicle price of $39,235 includes $1,885 freight/PDI leased at 2.49% over 60 months with $925 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $219 with a total lease obligation of $27,258. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.15. ††Up to $2,000 Non-stackable Cash Back available on select 2016 Tundra models. Finance offer: 0.49% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval. Non-stackable Cash back offers valid until February 29, 2016 on select 2016 Tundra models and may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may by February 29, 2016. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers.***Lease example: 2016 RAV4 FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A with a vehicle price of $27,125 includes $1,885 freight/PDI leased at 2.99% over 60 months with $2,225 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $135 with a total lease obligation of $18,479. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. †††Finance offer: 0.99% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval. ‡Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services (TFS) on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 60 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. Down payment and first semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. ‡‡Don’t Pay for 90 Days on Toyota Financial Service Finance Contracts (OAC) on all new 2015 and 2016 Toyota models. Offer valid from January 5 - February 29, 2016. Interest deferment on all finance contracts at no cost for at least 60 days. Interest will commence on or after the 61st day after the contract date. The first payment will be due 90 days from the contract date. Available with monthly or bi weekly payment frequency. Not available on lease. ‡‡‡Aeroplan miles: Vehicle MSRP greater than $60,000 earns 20,000 Aeroplan miles plus 5000 Aeroplan bonus miles for a total of 25,000 miles. Sequoia qualifies for double Aeroplan miles bonus for a total of 50,000 Aeroplan miles. Double Miles offer eligibility is calculated on national MSRP and MSRP does not include freight/pdi, air conditioning charge, taxes, license, insurance, registration, duties, levies, fees, dealer fees or other charges. Miles offer valid on vehicles purchased/leased, registered and delivered between January 5 and February 29, 2016. Customers must be an Aeroplan Member prior to the completion of the transaction. Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. Other miles offers available on other vehicles. See Toyota.ca/aeroplan or your Dealer for details. ®Aeroplan and the Aeroplan logo are registered trademarks of Aimia Canada Inc. Visit your Toyota Dealer or www.getyourtoyota.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

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THE ALL-NEW 2016 LEXUS RX. TAKE EXCEPTION TO WINTER.

WITH A HEATED STEERING WHEEL, HEATED FRONT AND REAR SEATS, PLUS DUAL-ZONE AUTOMATIC CLIMATE CONTROL AND AVAILABLE TOUCH-FREE BACK DOOR, THE STRIKINGLY REDESIGNED 2016 LEXUS RX MELTS WINTER DRIVING EXPECTATIONS.

ALL-NEW 2016 RX 350 LEASE APR

3.9

%*

39 MONTHS

LEASE PAYMENT

F SPORT Series 3 shown~

699

$

*

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604-982-0033

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~2016 RX 350 F SPORT Series 3 shown: $70,944. *Lease offers provided through Lexus Financial Services, on approved credit. *Representative lease example based on a 2016 RX 350 sfx ‘A’ on a 39 month term at an annual rate of 3.9% and MSRP of $56,894. Monthly payment is $699 with $5,370 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $32,647. 65,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/km for excess kilometres. MSRPs include freight and PDI ($2,045), Dealer fees, AC charge ($100) and filters. License, insurance, registration (if applicable), and taxes are extra. Fees may vary by Dealer. Lexus Dealers are free to set their own prices. Limited time offers only apply to retail customers at participating Lexus Dealers. Dealer order/trade may be required. Offers are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Offers expire at month’s end unless extended or revised. See your Lexus Dealer for complete details.

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