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Payless says company shut out of Hwy 1 work BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver tow truck driver says the RCMP’s Port Mann Freeway Patrol is making traffic on Highway 1 and the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing worse that it needs to be by failing to quickly clear stalls and accidents.

The Burnaby-based freeway patrol division has jurisdiction over Highway 1 up to Capilano Road, as opposed to local police agencies. The freeway patrol has discretion to call any towing company they want to clear the highway.

But Payless Towing operator Michael Uyeyama said his company is frequently turned away – even though his trucks can be on the scene faster than other companies.

One such incident happened in mid-January when two dump trucks collided just north of the bridgehead, creating traffic backups deep into West Vancouver.

“We’ve been on the Second Narrows bridge, on scene with two trucks . . . and been told to leave because Mitchell’s Towing is en route – only to find out later they haven’t show up for an hour, hourand-a-half,” he said.

Mitchell Martin, owner of Mitchell’s Towing, said that claim is “ludicrous.”

“That’s not even remotely close to being any bit true

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Tow truck driver Mike Uyeyama with his rig waiting for a call along Highway 1 just north of the Ironworkers Memorial bridgehead. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

SPCA seeking owner who ditched starving dog BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

West Vancouver SPCA investigators are looking for the person who left a badly emaciated dog abandoned at an Ambleside pet food store.

The owner of Cute Paws Pet Food and Supplies noticed the rail-thin border collie tied up to a shelving unit inside the store around noon Feb.

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“They kept waiting for someone to come back for him and no one did so they ended up bringing him into the shelter,” said Dragana Hajdukovic, branch manager of the West Vancouver SPCA. “At this point in time we’re looking for the owners for information and an explanation.”

Investigators tried to find out if there was any surveillance video of someone walking the dog in the neighbourhood earlier that day but had

no luck. Now they’re hoping a tip from the public can help them find the six-year-old dog’s former owner. Only then will they be able to determine if this is a case of animal cruelty.

SPCA staff have since renamed the poor pup Louis and are getting along with him swimmingly. “(Louis) is emaciated but he’s a complete sweetheart and becoming a favourite of all the

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ARGYLE REBUILD: LOOKING FOR OPTIONS

Trustees won’t seek patrons for Argyle Private fundraising to build schools a ‘slippery slope’ JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

North Vancouver school trustees aren’t counting on a wealthy patron to ride to the rescue of their preferred option for rebuilding Argyle school, which was to include a performing arts theatre and public sports facilities.

In a split vote, trustees recently voted down the idea of getting staff to report on what would be involved in seeking out philanthropists to fund capital projects like the preferred Argyle replacement.

Trustees who voted against the idea said the school district doesn’t have the time or expertise to mount a major capital funding campaign before decisions are needed on the Argyle project. They said the topic also raises philosophical concerns about who should pay for capital projects in public education.

The idea of seeking out private funding to help close

the deal on an Argyle school replacement was raised by trustee Megan Higgins at the board’s regular public meeting Feb. 16.

Higgins told her fellow trustees it’s time the school board started looking at other options to fund desired capital projects.

Scaling back the Argyle project “is not a preferred option,” said Higgins. She added continuing to fund capital projects by selling off lands to developers is also “not sustainable in the long term. We just don’t have enough surplus properties to fund new schools going forward.”

Higgins said she’d like staff to put together a report on what would be involved in seeking funding from noncorporate private donors for both Argyle and future projects, like the replacement of Handsworth secondary.

But others trustees weren’t sure that was a good idea.

Trustee Cyndi Gerlach described it as a “slippery slope.

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“It will send a message the government doesn’t need to fund capital projects,” she said. “I’m really concerned about where this goes.”

She added it’s too late to start fundraising for Argyle.

“We could have had this discussion last year if it was something we were seriously going to consider.”

Schools superintendent John Lewis reminded trustees the school district has raised enough money – $11.3 million – through land sales to pay for a full school replacement, rather than simply a seismic upgrade, which would have cost the province $8.9 million. But it doesn’t have enough to pay the full $13.7 million required for the school district’s preferred option.

That means that some of the extras trustees were hoping to include in the project – a 250-seat performance space, capacity for an extra 100 students and additional recreational space – may have to be cut from the project. So far, the board hasn’t discussed what the priorities for the project would be, said Lewis.

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Students at West Vancouver secondary outside the Kay Meek Centre. Some have questioned why private philanthropists couldn’t be pursued for an Argyle project. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Lawyer for former MP grills writer on sources JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

The lawyer for a former West Vancouver MP who is suing The Province newspaper over an article published about him verbally sparred with a former reporter in court this week over whether she did enough to verify facts secretly provided by a political opponent.

Former Liberal MP Blair Wilson is suing The Province, former reporter Elaine

O’Connor, former Liberal MLA Judi Tyabji Wilson, her company Tugboat Enterprises and blogger Steve Janke for defamation, saying untrue statements published or circulated to party members about his business debts and alleged federal Election Act irregularities destroyed his political career.

The defendants have denied those allegations.

Province lawyer Dan Burnett told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jane Dardi in his opening submission the article published about Wilson on Oct. 28, 2007 was substantially true and fair comment on a public official.

This week O’Connor testified, describing how at the time she wrote the article, Wilson had recently been

appointed as national revenue critic for the official opposition and presented himself to the public as fiscally responsible.

That wasn’t borne out by some of the information she discovered in her research, said O’Connor, adding it was important to make the public aware of Wilson’s real financial status.

But in cross-examination, Wilson’s lawyer Jay Straith suggested to the reporter she hadn’t done enough to check the facts provided by personal and political enemies of Wilson’s, who were the main sources of her information. Those people included Wilson’s father-in-law William Lougheed – who was locked in a legal battle with his adoptive daughter, Wilson’s wife, over her late mother’s will at

the time, said Straith –. and Neil McIver, the campaign manager for Wilson’s political opponent, West Vancouver Conservative candidate John Weston. “By you not checking things out directly, the Lougheeds and Neil McIver were able to use you,” said Straith.

O’Connor testified she trusted that the Lougheeds were acting in good faith and that she had done her best to verify as many facts as possible. In his questions, Straith suggested that contrary to suggestions in the article, Wilson didn’t owe any debts to the Lougheeds because they had been repaid.

But O’Connor replied there were still significant mortgages on properties registered to Wilson’s wife that Wilson also

had an interest in, which were being used to prop up Wilson’s failing businesses. That was of public interest, she said.

In his questions, Straith also criticized O’Connor for writing that a “citizen of the riding” had written the anonymous complaint letter to Elections Canada alleging Elections Act violations by Wilson, when she knew it had been written by McIver.

“I could not as a journalist divulge who had given me this information,” said O’Connor.

“He was a confidential source.”

“Would you agree with me that the public and the Liberal party would probably have a different take on it if they knew this was the campaign manager for (Conservative candidate) John Weston?”

Straith asked.

O’Connor testified that she tried to reach Wilson several times to give him an opportunity to comment on the allegations but “unfortunately he chose not to make himself available. . . I worked with what I had.”

Wilson has since filed a separate defamation suit against McIver, who was called to testify by Straith at the beginning of the trial, and asked to read emails that described how he met with the reporter and passed on information about Wilson.

Liberal strategist Mark Marissen reached an out-ofcourt settlement with Wilson.

The judge dismissed the suit against Lougheed last week after Lougheed died in January, partway through the trial.

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whatsoever,” he said. “The most important (thing) when you work for the RCMP or West Van PD as we do, is (estimated time of arrival). I bet you nine times out of 10, if Port Mann RCMP were to release some information…. they’d say they’re never waiting on a tow truck. Our ETAs are probably 10 to 15 minutes for major motor vehicle accidents.”

Lower Mainland District RCMP, which oversees the Port Mann Freeway Patrol, acknowledged that Payless isn’t called to stalls or accidents anymore but did not address why or what impact it may be having on traffic.

“We are aware of Payless Auto Towing’s concerns. We have utilized the services of Payless Auto Towing in the past and they are well aware of why we terminated that relationship two years ago,” said Sgt. Annie Linteau, spokeswoman for Lower Mainland District RCMP in an email. “Over the course of the last few years we have had numerous discussions with them in an effort to come to a successful resolution. We invite them to contact us to discuss any further concerns they may have.”

The RCMP did not respond to any follow-up questions.

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Carmichael said he believes the issue is related to the past conduct of one of their drivers.

“One of our drivers went down the Cut on the highway and apparently pulled a car out of the ditch and didn’t report it to the police department, which is a no-no. You’ve got to report it,” he said.

But, the Port Mann RCMP never gave Payless the opportunity to investigate the incident on its own, nor did they give the company a chance to make amends, Carmichael said.

While Port Mann RCMP has seemingly blacklisted Payless, North Vancouver RCMP continue to have a contract with them, Uyeyema pointed out.

But regardless of the reason, restricting which towing companies get called to accidents means collective punishment for anyone who commutes on the North Shore and gets caught in traffic snarls, Carmichael said.

“What people don’t see is that when you wait that long, all the arteries plug up. You can’t even get an ambulance in through some of the roads.

People miss planes. People miss their jobs. It affects everybody,” he said.

Mitchell said his company’s response times speak for themselves. The RCMP calls his company because they’re

happy with the service, he said.

“Realistically, if the RCMP had to wait, we wouldn’t be towing for them either because ETAs are super important. It’s not like they’re waiting around for us or it’s affecting how long it takes an accident to be cleared,” he said. “Occasionally things have to be turned upside down. You need competition. It makes you button up your shirt. That’s what it’s all about.”

That’s something Staff Sgt. Dale Somerville, Port Mann Freeway Patrol spokesman confirmed.

“It all boils to the best service for the public at the time,” he said.

Though Payless’s grievance isn’t specifically on the radar of the District of North Vancouver, the issue of clearing bridge traffic is, according to Dave Stuart, chief administrative officer for the District of North Vancouver.

“I’ve recently had discussions with the assistant deputy minister (of transportation) and he indicates this whole issue of jurisdictions on bridges is a chronic problem throughout the province and they are in fact looking at that,” he said. “I think there’s recognition that what we have now is minor fender benders creating what you could call havoc.”

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Fundraising too much to take on From page 4 The school district is still waiting on official word on a project agreement from the Ministry of Education.

Without that, the school district can’t start work on a replacement project.

Trustee Jessica Stanley said she’d welcome any discussion that explored how to move forward on the project that doesn’t rely on land sales.

“My community is wanting creative thinking,” she said. “People are looking for creative fundraising options that (don’t) involve selling off community assets.”

Trustee Barry Forward blamed the province for the situation, adding in the past the school district only had to have a plan in place to pay back any capital debt, while now the ministry insists the money be in the bank.

He said he thinks the school district should be allowed to carry a small capital debt to fund its preferred option.

But he added, “Someone has to take leadership on this.”

Higgins pointed to other public facilities that have been funded through partnerships with private donors – like the new emergency room and HOpe mental health centre at Lions Gate Hospital and the Kay Meek Centre on the site of West Vancouver secondary.

Earlier in the evening, Samantha Mason, a parent involved in advocating for an Argyle replacement, urged trustees to look into “every possible avenue” to raise the extra money needed to build the preferred option.

But Lewis warned trustees previous reports that looked into private fundraising for projects like the outdoor school concluded the time and money required to mount a major capital fundraising campaign would be too much for the school district to take on.

In the end the motion for staff to put together a report on the issue was defeated, with trustees Franci Stratton, Cyndi Gerlach and Christie Sacré voting against it.

FIELD OF DREAMS Local resident Cecilia Curtis looks over the updated proposals for the new artificial turf at Mahon Park adjacent to Fen Burdett stadium. The City of North Vancouver hosted an open house on the project at Carson Graham secondary Feb. 24.

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riday afternoons or in midst of major events are known in the PR business as time to “take out the trash.”

If you have to fess up about something or release a damning report, it’s best to do it when you’ve got the best chance of keeping it out of the news cycle.

That’s precisely what happened when the premier’s office intervened to make sure the provincial government’s response to a troubling report on a teen who was failed by the social safety net was released at 3 p.m. on the day of the federal election.

We know this only thanks to emails obtained through freedom of information requests filed by local freelance journalist Bob Mackin.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s children’s advocate, called it a case of

“cynical calculation” and we must agree.

This wasn’t a report about a small government faux pas or item of negligible interest. It was about a young aboriginal teen named Paige who spent most of her life getting shuffled around various types of government care before she aged out of the system and died of an overdose.

The way the province handled the issue highlights the deeply self-interested way our politicians and their staff go about our official business.

While strategizing how to spin news is as old as politics itself, the practice has been elevated to a dark art form in the last decade. We live in the perpetual election campaign.

Sadly, the actions also highlight the way ‘the system’ appeared to care as little about a troubled teen in death as it had during her all-too-short life.

Hotel, casino could lure fun-loving to WV

I interrupt a half-written diatribe on the West Vancouver waterfront for a different diatribe.

Here are three moneyspinning strategies for West Vancouver revival. Sure to alienate some faithful readers, all seven of them. And free.

If I had a lot of professional initials after my name I’d demand $100K. One: Old proposal, but like a fine whisky aged in sherry barrels.

When, interviewing new West Van planning director Jim Bailey, I began repeating this brilliant idea, communications spokesman Jeff McDonald quickly jumped in. He’d checked this column’s archives. Had done his homework.

It’s ingenious but obvious: Attract (international?) money to build an internationalquality hotel above the Upper Levels Highway near West Van’s premium Salmon House on the Hill.

The big draw? It would be, (though not exclusively), a luxurious magnet for Whistlerbound skiers.

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Even the most jaded would be awed by the exhilarating drive to Whistler in their rented Bentleys, clutching to Howe Sound’s contours and witnessing the stunning spectacle of sea and mountains.

This Just In Trevor Lautens at Vancouver’s outstanding airport in the dismal dark or the grey six hours of our winter “sunlight.” So lure them.

Of course with the fluffiest comforts world-class travelers expect. But also with the pitch that after a cosy sleep and great, bountiful breakfast to stoke their anticipated calorie-burning pleasures on Whistler’s slopes, and with the reluctant rise of the fuzzy brass doorknob of the sun, they can anticipate a matchless experience they would have missed had they whipped through during the other 18 hours of the “day.”

Even the most jaded would

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be awed by the exhilarating drive to Whistler in their rented Bentleys, clutching to Howe Sound’s contours and witnessing the stunning spectacle of sea and mountains.

Which have their grey-tones, painterly beauty even on sombre days. Repeated, the view not quite so dramatic, returning to Vancouver International.

But more: Spin-offs for Hollyburn, Seymour and Grouse (on a clear night, dinner with a sparkling view) mountains. Night skiing for the real keeners who just can’t wait. Snowboarding, hiking, summer mountain biking.

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(in late afternoon/evening when there’s actually parking available). That could fire up Mayor Michael Smith’s Ambleside and Dundarave renewal goals more than the bureaucratic BIA (Business Improvement Area) initiative.

Why hasn’t a top hotel chain glommed onto this idea? Has town hall ever pushed it? Or does West Van’s drawbridge mentality head off serious marketing before it’s allowed to be thought of?

Two: You’ll love this. Or not. A casino for Horseshoe Bay. Perfect location: The B.C. Ferries parking lot, with the casino built over it, minimizing annoyance to neighbours and keeping the footprint. A lesser alternative: The site of the Boathouse, the restaurant perhaps combined with the casino.

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Horseshoe Bay – dare I say my favourite West Vancouver area – has it all. Excellent, existing road access. Striking beauty. Friendly. Easy charm.

People-on-the-move holiday atmosphere. (But town hall shamefully ignores the village’s litter.)

Its reach: North Shore residents, of course. Southof-the-inlet gamblers who bet they can cross Lions Gate Bridge. Ethnic Chinese from the British Properties.

A very big draw: Access by foot passengers – from the Sunshine Coast, Bowen, and much of southern Vancouver Island – without the ferries’ repelling vehicle costs, then short steps to the casino.

And those giddy, fun-loving Victorians could drive to Nanaimo for a day, park, and return there by nightfall to live it up with their ill-gotten gains.

A casino could explode spin-off business growth in all West Van. Smart marketing, anyone?

I see some readers frowning with moral indignation.

But I rate gambling as among the lesser societal sins. (A view corrupted by my just

winning $20 on Lotto Max?) Compare the big, rising societal costs of drug and drink use, smoking, obesity, you name it. A little flutter isn’t so wicked.

Three: This’ll knock your socks off with its originality: Turn Ambleside’s historic Ferry Building into … a ferry building!

Yes, for the proposed West Van-Vancouver service.

Build a perfect replica on the Vancouver side. Charming, cheeky, cheerful. A draw for tourists. Face up to it, Vancouverites: For all its international prestige the city, a bit seedily raffish when I arrived 53 years ago, is now stiff, unimaginative, funless – especially for children.

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MAILBOX Silent spring is already here in treeless blocks

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must include your name, full address and telephone number. Send your letters via e-mail to: editor@nsnews. com. The North Shore News reserves the right to edit any and/or all letters based on length, clarity, legality and content. The News also reserves the right to publish any and/or all letters electronically.

Dear Editor: I was heartened to see your Feb. 21 headline that West Vancouver is to consider measures to preserve its urban tree canopy. When I first saw aerial photos of Greater Vancouver some 40 years ago, West Van and much of the North Shore jumped out as green oases. Over the past 10 years, onceverdant blocks in Ambleside and Dundarave have been rendered almost treeless by relentless redevelopment and the gratuitous removal of beautiful, healthy trees.

Reasons cited for tree removal are that they block sunlight and views, are

“dirty” in shedding leaves and needles, or cause bad feng shui. While retained large trees soften the visual impacts of new construction and help preserve the neighbourhood streetscape, it has become standard procedure to clear-cut building lots stem to stern. Often all that is replanted is lawn and a few small trees and shrubs, ensuring that the urban canopy will never be restored.

West Vancouver is doing important and sensitive restoration work along its foreshore. The lack of any protection for the upslope urban forest that provides wildlife habitat, shade and

at least some semblance of a natural ecosystem, is a huge oversight. As for the argument that private property rights give one the right to obliterate landscapes and disrespect your neighbours – this is West Vancouver 2016, and not the wild west.

With spring approaching, take a walk through a welltreed neigbourhood, hear the songbirds and squirrels, and breathe in the scent of the cedars and fir. Contrast this to the sad bleakness of blocks dominated by steroidal new construction – there, the “silent spring” has already arrived.

David Sheffield West Vancouver

Provincial budget ignores those most in need of help

Dear Editor: I do not even recognize the North Shore of my childhood and certainly the Vancouver I once knew.

From the demolishing of fine homes and shadow flipping, to the 100 people having to live in their cars on the North Shore to the story of an 82-year-old lady having to go to a shelter because of a (rental apartment renovation) ... it’s unbelievable.

It is high time we brought back affordable rental housing and co-ops and we sent the developers and their expensive self-serving strata condos packing.

The City of Vancouver is literally at a breaking point.

You do not need the Urban Development Institute’s vision of more densification by creating more stratified, extremely expensive condos.

You need apartment blocks of rent-controlled housing and a Canadian citizenship requirement for all real-estate purchases. Goodbye, foreign ownership.

It is absolutely criminal that the average house price is well out of reach of Canadians and unforgivable the (provincial) budget does nothing to address this. We do not need more studies.

It is painfully obvious we should act immediately. The budget announcement of a $100-million prosperity fund is disgraceful when you have those on disability worse off now than before the budget.

With food bank use on the rise and more children in poverty than ever before, you would think that money could be spent now, not set aside for a ridiculous fantasy.

Please write to your MLA and tell them how outraged you are about this. Perhaps if enough us do, we can make a difference.

Rachel McDonnell Victoria, B.C.

Full up and fed up on North Shore Dear Editor: On Feb. 4 it took me over an hour to get from Lonsdale Avenue to the 15th Street exit in West Vancouver at 4 p.m. A family member was gridlocked on the highway trying to get to Deep Cove for two and a half hours. We were fortunate, as a neighbour was unable to cross the Second Narrows bridge for three and a half hours – so

much for living on the North Shore.

I hear (another) massive highrise apartment is to be built in the (Seylynn Village) area of North Vancouver. How do they get to work? They drive of course. Who are all these jokers who are giving out building permits? Tell them we have a population explosion.

We are full. Our two bridges should have notices on their entrances “no more room, we are full.” Full up, and fed up.

Where do we go when the promised earthquake strikes and we have to evacuate, maybe take ferries to Squamish or swim for it as the highway is in rubble?

Jessie Tompkins West Vancouver

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Myths and Facts… and the New Museum Project

We all know that if a myth is repeated often enough, that myth can eventually be perceived as fact.

Such is the danger in the aftermath of North Vancouver City Council’s decision to scuttle the campaign for a new museum in the Shipyard’s Pipe Shop and the need to now look for an alternative site.

Let’s set the record straight so that the search for a viable alternative location to the Pipe Shop is grounded in fact – rather than misinformation.

MYTH The museum proposal was not “fiscally responsible.” “City taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill for a $170,000 annual operating deficit.”

FACT The new museum was NOT planned to run deficits. Its financial model includes an 11% fundraising component designed to avoid deficits. Due to the generosity and commitment of community supporters and the responsible fiscal oversight of a City/District Commission, the Museum has enjoyed an operating surplus for over a decade. If a gap between expenses and revenues were to emerge, action to address it would be taken immediately.

MYTH A smaller museum would require less on-going financial support.

FACT A smaller museum could have higher net annual operating costs if it is in a less desirable location that cannot generate as much revenue from admissions, facility rentals, retail sales, fundraising and memberships.

MYTH The Museum’s failure to reach the City’s December 31st capital fundraising deadline means a lack of public support.

FACT The campaign reached 89% of its $10 million goal within 40% of the originally designed timeline. While the fundraising plan called for a timeline of 42 months, City Council imposed a deadline of 17 months.

MYTH North Vancouver only needs a small-scale museum, not the 15,500 sq. ft. one planned for the Pipe Shop.

FACT Architects and consultants have completed seven feasibility studies involving the new museum. Given the size (20,000 artifacts) and significance of the museum collection, a museum of closer to 20,000 square feet is recommended.

Studies have also concluded the new museum concept, focused on the extraordinary story of North Vancouver, would attract locals and visitors alike – contributing significant tourism revenue to the local economy.

We respectfully request North Vancouver City Council actively work with the North Vancouver Museum and Archives to identify and secure a viable location for a new museum.

Let’s move forward on the basis of fact rather than myth.

Sincerely, Friends of the Museum and Archives Society

Historic home holds happy memories

Dear Editor: Re: Historic Grand Blvd Home Gets Makeover, Jan. 29 news story.

My wife and I read this article with interest and appreciation, but it contained an omission. There have been, in fact, three owners – first E.V. Young and his wife, and then most

recently the Hendersons.

Between them, however, were my parents G.R.E. Wilkins and his wife Joan, who were there from for a period in the late 1950s to early 1960s. They eventually sold to the Hendersons before moving to the Gulf Islands. (This was partly because my father was

appalled by a sudden rise in the property taxes – still a timely topic today!)

However, my own family has many happy memories of the house, and it is good to know it’s likely to remain much as it has been, at least externally.

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INQUIRING REPORTER: Should medical pot shops operate without regulations?

Business owners are seeing green and wanting to get in on the ground floor as the federal government appears to be on the doorstep of legalizing marijuana. Weeds Glass and Gifts in Lower Lonsdale and on Marine Drive started selling medical marijuana to its registered compassion club members in December, said store co-owner Michael Wuest. Currently there are no regulations for medical marijuana shops in the City of North Vancouver. We asked: should these shops be allowed to operate. Weigh in at nsnews.com.

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“I’d prefer they didn’t. They are essentially illegal, so why are they allowed to be there to do business?”

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“There definitely needs to be regulations so you don’t have criminal organizations opening a dispensary.”

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loss. The prevalent view is that hearing loss is “only” a quality of life issue.

What price are you paying for vanity?

If, quality of life is defined as “greater enjoyment of music,” then one might agree.

But studies clearly demonstrate that hearing loss is associated with physical, emotional, mental, and social wellbeing. Depression, anxiety, emotional instability, phobias, withdrawal, isolation, lessened health status, lower self-esteem, and so forth, are not “just quality of life issues.” For some people, uncorrected hearing loss is a “life and death issue.”

Untreated hearing loss is far more noticeable than hearing aids. If you miss a punch line to a joke, or respond inappropriately in conversation, people may have concerns about your mental acuity, your attention span or your ability to communicate effectively. The personal consequences of vanity can be life altering. On a simplistic level, untreated hearing loss means giving up some of the pleasant sounds you used to enjoy. At a deeper level, vanity could severely reduce the quality of your life.

If you are a lawyer, teacher or a group psychotherapist, where very refined hearing is necessary to discern the nuances of human communication, then even a mild hearing loss can be intolerable. If you seldom socialize, then perhaps you are someone who is tolerant of even moderate hearing

If you are one of those people with a mild, moderate or severe hearing loss, who is sitting on the fence, consider all the benefits of hearing aids described above.

Hearing aids hold such great potential to positively change so many lives. The myth that untreated hearing loss is a harmless condition is wrong. You won’t know what you are missing until you . . . just try.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016 SPIRITED Carolyn Kennedy from the City of North Vancouver and Matthew Harbut of RF Binnie discuss potential Spirit Trail routes through the Lynnmouth area at a public open house held Feb. 16 at North Shore Neighbourhood House. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

West Van driver’s roadside suspension upheld by judge

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A West Vancouver driver has lost a bid to have a 90-day roadside suspension for drunk driving overturned.

John Bower Good asked a B.C. Supreme Court justice to overturn the suspension handed out by a West Vancouver police officer on April 3, 2014.

Police were called out at 1:30 a.m. that night for a report of a possible impaired driver, according to court documents. An officer waited at the north end of the Lions Gate Bridge, spotting the car heading into West Vancouver

at about 1:46 a.m. The police officer then followed the car for about a kilometre, observing it swerve from side to side in the lane. After stopping the car, the officer noticed a strong odour of alcohol on the breath of the driver, identified as Good. When the officer asked Good what time he had his last drink, Good responded, “It’s not important.”

Good then failed the roadside Breathalyzer test.

He was handed a 90 day-suspension and his vehicle was impounded.

Good requested a review of that decision by the B.C. Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, but the suspension

was upheld in September 2015. In court, Good argued that the roadside test is unreliable because it’s possible the sample was taken less than 15 minutes after he’d had his last drink. That could have a produced a false high reading, he said.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Keith Bracken didn’t agree, however, noting the time the test was administered, at 1:49 a.m. was about 20 minutes after Good was seen by someone getting out of one vehicle and into his own at the Hyatt hotel in downtown Vancouver.

Bracken noted Good had also been offered a second roadside test, but had declined.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman Anti-Bullying Day at Norgate elementary Diversity was celebrated at Norgate community elementary’s Anti-Bullying Day Tuesday. The school community welcomed guest speaker and Norgate mom Teri Thorson from the Rick Hansen Foundation and B.C. Wheelchair Basketball Society. Students engaged in the society’s Let’s Play program, which promotes inclusive play for children with physical disabilities and saw Norgate kids play games in wheelchairs, offering an enjoyable, memorable and valuable experiential lesson in awareness. Students were also encouraged to wear pink.

Norgate community elementary administrative assistant Terri Koke with principal Lisa Upton

Grade 7 students Madison Baker and Aaliyah Joseph try wheelchair basketball.

Nadine Barbisan, Janet-Lee Nahanee, Owen Joseph and Maddy McDonald

Kaleb Rozee, Sofia Kapetanakis, Telisia Baker and Collette Aird

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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FEST Sweden’s Memory Wax and Cuba’s Retazos perform two Canadian premieres Possible Impossible and Crisálida at the 2016 Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) March 11 and 12. Curated by VIDF co-founders Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi, this year’s festival features a varied roster of internationally celebrated artists and local favourites, including Quebec’s Virginie Brunelle, Japan’s Natsu Nakajima, an encore performance of Kokoro Dance’s criticallyacclaimed Book of Love and Company 605 (formerly 605 Collective) Feb. 28 - March 19.

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Film ACADEMY AWARDS Four British Columbians are up for Academy Awards on Sunday thanks to their work on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant: Cameron Waldbauer (Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects), Chris Duesterdiek (Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing), Robert Pandini (Outstanding Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling), and Hamish Purdy (Outstanding Achievement in Production Design). The 88th Academy Awards airs this Sunday, Feb. 28 on CTV.

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MEMORY WAX PREMIERES WORK Sweden’s Memory Wax and Cuba’s Retazos perform two Canadian premieres Possible Impossible and Crisálida at the 2016 Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) March 11 and 12. PHOTO SUPPLIED MIGUEL AZCUE

MUSICAL HISTORY TOUR Jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) take concert-goers on a musical history tour of New Orleans at UBC’s Chan Centre (chancentre.com) on Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. There will be a pre-show talk with Nou Dadoun at Royal Bank Cinema at 7:15 p.m.

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CITY ATRIUM GALLERY 141 West 14th St., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-9886844 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.

CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca North Shore Art Crawl: A free weekend event to explore artists’ studios and galleries from Lions Bay to Deep Cove at 72 locations with over 250 artists participating March 5 and 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Ebb and Flow: A delicate rice paper installation exploring water by Tony Yin Tak Chu as well as paintings motivated by water by Carole Arnston, Sylvia Bayley, Tracey Tarling and Michal Tkachenko runs from March 11 to April 16.

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Variations on Landscape: A special exhibition of mixed media art from artists Bob Araki, Colette Chilcott, Anne Griffiths, Fred Peter and Mong Yen runs until March 13. Meet the artists: Saturday, Feb. 27, 2-3 p.m. Artist demo: Sunday, Feb. 28, 2-4 p.m.

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RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Red Earth and Rotation: Cindy Goodman shows her photography and mixed media newest works and Monica Gewurz presents her paintings of imaginary landscapes until April 10.

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From Here to There: An exhibition of Meghan Charich’s leather and mixed media spirit masks and Lynda Manson’s acrylic skyscapes and paintings of nebula will run from March 8 to 20.

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EAST SIDE SET Singer/songwriter John Wort Hannam performs tracks from his new album, Love Lives On, at Buckerfield’s at Warren Murffit Guitars (210 Northern St., East Vancouver) on March 14. Tickets: $20. For more information call 604-328-1908. PHOTO SUPPLIED From page 16 and the Infinitus Trio: Middle Eastern and South American music Friday, March 4 at 11:45 a.m. Free.

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com East Meets West: Lions Gate Sinfonia collaborates with Pars National Ballet as well

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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.

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In the years following the Second World War, the attention of the international art world was focused squarely on New York City where a new movement was taking hold.

Abstract expressionism had emerged as a fresh and unconventional genre. Today, the movement is perhaps

most associated with Jackson Pollock and his signature splatter paintings, but there was a whole generation of American artists, such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell and Adolph Gottlieb, creating large-scale works characterized by spontaneity and non-traditional techniques.

Among this circle of artists, also known as the New York School, was Mark Rothko.

Born Marcus Rothkowitz in Dvinsk, Russia (now Latvia) in 1903, he immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1913.

Rothko is best known for his massive colour-field paintings, which feature stacked rectangles of colour, often in

shades of red and black.

In the late 1950s, Rothko received a major commission to create a series of murals that would decorate the highend Four Seasons restaurant located in the brand new Seagram Building on Park Avenue in Manhattan.

The two years he spent working on this project, and his contentious eleventhhour decision to ultimately withdraw his murals and return his cash advance after deeming the Four Seasons an inappropriate place to display his work, is dramatized in the 2009 play Red by John Logan.

Local actor Cameron McDonald will disguise his Aussie accent to play the renowned American

artist when First Impressions Theatre presents Red at the Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

“I’ve had to do a lot of research on the guy, so it’s been pretty exhaustive because the more I read about him, the more I feel I don’t know him. There’s just so much to the character,” McDonald says. “He comes across as a narcissistic bully, but the more I read about him from his children he was a very kind, gregarious, sweet man.”

Directed by Jim Hebb, the play is a two-hander featuring McDonald as Rothko and Mike Bodzanowski as Rothko’s fictional assistant Ken. The

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thought of being in the spotlight for the full 90-minute, one-act play was initially a bit daunting, McDonald admits.

“When I first looked at (the script) I was very intimidated because it’s 70-odd pages of me talking,” he says.

But the rich dialogue carries itself, he notes, and he and Bodzanowski aren’t alone on stage. There’s a third and very important character: the art. Adding an element of unpredictability to the show, the actors will be stretching, priming and painting large canvases while juggling their lines. “Anything can happen,” McDonald says.

Red follows Rothko and his assistant as they feverishly work on the Seagram commission inside a rented studio in the Bowery neighbourhood of New York. What starts as an odd pairing (Rothko is deeply passionate, intellectual and temperamental, while Ken is youthful, nervous and questioning) grows into a mutually respectful friendship.

McDonald suspects the two get off to a rocky start because Ken represents a new generation of pop artists that is taking over from the

abstract expressionists, just as Rothko and his contemporaries took over from the cubists and surrealists of previous decades.

“I think what (Ken) represents for me is the new age that (Rothko) was rallying against – the popular art, the Andy Warhols, the Roy Lichtensteins – all those guys who were coming up with comic books and soup cans and, as he called it, zeitgeist art,” says McDonald.

As the two characters converse and debate, questions are raised about art, commercialism and success. “(Rothko) wanted the paintings to move people and unfortunately, to this day, a lot of people see them as blocks of red colour and black,” McDonald says. “Red (is) the story behind what his intention was and the passion he had for painting and illuminating the canvas just from within through colour.”

Although Logan’s play is a fictional account of the Seagram commission, his script incorporates real quotes from Rothko that demonstrate how conflicted the artist was about hanging his work in a posh restaurant.

“I know that place is where the

richest bastards in New York will come to feed and show off and I hope to ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who eats there,” McDonald recites.

Rothko suffered an aneurysm in 1968 and struggled with depression. He committed suicide in his studio in 1970 at the age of 66. For years, he kept his Seagram Murals, as they are now called, in storage, but the series was eventually dispersed and is now housed in three separate galleries: London’s Tate Modern, Japan’s Kawamura Memorial Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. McDonald, who knew next to nothing about Rothko when he first took on the role, says he’s developed a new enthusiasm for 20th century art history.

“I’m really interested in going back and tracing the roots of a lot of this stuff,” he says, adding that he hopes the play has the same effect on audience members, particularly those who may not be familiar with Rothko and his work.

“I’m just hoping that people take notice of him now and identify another tragic passing of an artist.”

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REVIEW: TRIPLE 9

Macho, moody thriller features standout cast ! Triple 9. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Anthony Mackie, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson and Kate Winslet.

Rating: 6 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

Everyone is doomed from the start of Triple 9, indebted to the wrong people or clinging to nonviable moral ideals on the mean streets of Atlanta.

The city is on full display during the opening sequence, a daylight bank heist and subsequent rollicking pursuit over a freeway bridge that recalls Deadpool’s intro pileup.

The well-orchestrated chase becomes more visually arresting after a coloured smoke bomb goes off inside the car, leaving a bright red smoke trail that nicely foreshadows the bloodshed to come.

Also with a penchant for red is bleached-blond Kate Winslet as Russian Jewish mafia matriarch Irina Vlaslov, working stateside to secure the release of her husband from the gulag. Not sure how she’s raising the bail money but it involves people stuffed in car trunks and bags full of

fingers or teeth, possibly both.

Michael Atwood (Chiwetel Ejiofor) had some business with the Russians back in his special-ops days and is now permanently and lamentably intertwined with the crime family, and at Irina’s beck and call. Dissatisfied with the bank job, Irina coerces Michael into one last seemingly impossible heist guaranteed to wipe the slate clean.

There’s never one last job, as any self-respecting heist movie fan knows.

Michael once again rounds up his crew of corrupt cops and ex-soldiers, including Markus (Anthony Mackie), Russel and his unpredictable little brother Gabe (Norman Reedus, Aaron Paul) and cool cop Franco Rodriguez (Clifton Collins Jr.).

Enter Chris Allen (Casey Affleck), a cop fresh off crossing-guard-calibre duty who swaggers into the precinct ready to make his drunken uncle, senior cop Jeffrey Allen (Woody Harrelson), proud.

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Addictive Designs heading to Hollywood Collection of T-shirts and tanks inspired by recovery

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

With any luck, Heidi Smith will be rubbing shoulders with some A-list celebrities this weekend as she heads down to Hollywood for the 88th Academy Awards.

The North Shore-raised designer is the creative force behind Addictive Designs and she’ll be handing out tank tops and T-shirts from her apparel line at an Oscar gifting suite the day before the big event. Common during the lead up to glitzy red carpet affairs, gifting suites give companies the chance to distribute their products to celebrities, snap photos of the stars sporting their swag, and then use the endorsements to build brand recognition.

“All of the celebrities walk through and it’s kind of a big party event,” Smith explains.

“I will be gifting each one of them.”

With a background in graphic design and fashion, Smith launched Addictive Designs in August, inspired by her own history with drug and alcohol addiction.

Today, she is proudly five years sober and her collection celebrates recovery.

The simple black, white and grey shirts and tanks feature words like “courage,” “faith” and “freedom” paired with brief, original messages of

North Shore-raised Heidi Smith (front and centre), the founder of Addictive Designs, will be handing out her apparel to celebrities during the lead up to the Academy Awards this weekend. The messages on her T-shirts and tanks are meant to inspire those recovering from addiction. PHOTO SUPPLIED Smith’s creation. The words are meant to inspire all those who are in recovery, or who know someone in recovery, whether it’s from substance abuse, an eating disorder, the loss of a loved one, mental health issues, or something else.

“What I’m trying to do is

identify that we are not alone.

We’re just all in this together,” Smith says. “My main message is that to recover is to regain what has been lost or stolen temporarily.”

Wearing words of encouragement loud and proud is a departure from the notion that being in recovery is

something to hide. Smith thinks recovering addicts should be open about their stories.

“This new movement that I strongly believe in with recovery is that we have to stand up and be seen and have no shame,” she says. “I had shame for so many years

of my life.”

Smith isn’t shy to talk about her 25 years of active addiction.

“I started very young. I don’t know why. I came from a solid family background,” she says.

But she had pain in her life, and drugs and alcohol

numbed that pain. Several years ago, though, she hit rock bottom.

“Eventually, when I came to the end of the line, I was 90 pounds soaking wet, I wasn’t really able to take care of my son so the Ministry

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Addiction makes you think you’re alone, Smith says

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From page 27 of Children (and Family Development) got involved in my life,” she says.

Add to that a couple of near-death experiences that pushed her to make a change.

“Eventually a little bit of something in me said ‘enough was enough’ and I decided to start listening to other people. I was very resilient, I was very opinionated and thought I could do it my way, and eventually I realized I could no longer do it my way.”

Smith opened up about her situation with a couple of trusted people and soon realized she wasn’t alone in her struggle.

“Addiction makes you think you’re very alone; that’s part of the disease.”

Smith has been in recovery on and off for the past 10 years, and has been successful the last five. Her son, now nine years old, is back in her care.

“Recovery isn’t anything that I can do alone, I have a whole support group of women,” she says.

Working on Addictive Designs has helped keep her going through tough times and reminded her that support is close at hand.

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“I’ve dressed them up and I’ve dressed them down.

They’re good for the gym, they’re good for leather pants and heels,” Smith says.

She also has a smaller line of men’s shirts.

When Smith gets to Hollywood, she has no idea who will come by her gifting

FASHION FILE DOORS OPENING A fashion collaboration between two Deep Cove friends who met and bonded over boating will be the first retailer to open its doors in the new Northwoods Village plaza March 1.

Fashionistas Colette Bennett and Lori Sutherland conceived Little Pink Door to create a new boutique shopping destination east of the Seymour River. A few of the clothing lines Little Pink Door will carry inside the 1,138-square-foot tastefully decorated boutique, described by the ladies as a “women’s dream walk-in closet,” include Bella Amore, Boo Radley, Joseph Ribkoff and Desigual.

Little Pink Door, located at 111-2120 Dollarton Hwy., will host a wine and cheese event on Saturday, Feb. 27, 5-8:30 p.m. that includes live music and door prizes. For more information visit littlepinkdoor.com.

— Maria Spitale-Leisk CLOTHES FOR KIDS Redfish Kids is opening of a new clothing store location in Dundarave Village and is throwing a party to celebrate.

This Saturday, Feb. 27, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Redfish will host festivities to ring in the spring and celebrate the launch of the new store.

Roaming Dragon food truck and Temper Pastry will be serving sweet and savoury treats

booth, but says she would love to see her apparel worn by celebrities who are openly in recovery, such as Demi Lovato, Steven Tyler, and others, like herself, who have beat the odds.

“I work on my recovery every single day,” she says.

“It was not easy, but it was definitely worth it and it’s still worth it.”

Visit addictivedesigns.ca for more information or to shop online.

and Scruffles the Pirate will be designing balloon creations.

Located at 2474 Marine Dr., the 2,500-square-foot store is stocked with the newly-launched Redfish spring 2016 collection, alongside an assortment of toys and treasures, including Petit Bateau, Hansa, Oeuf NYC, Little Lux, Hello Shiso, and Etiquette Clothiers. redfishkids.com.

SYMPLI FASHION Phoenix, located at 1411 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver, is holding a Sympli Fashion and Trunk Show Saturday, Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Enjoy a continental breakfast and light lunch and browse pieces from the Sympli fashion line.

VINTAGE MARKET The Deja Vu Vintage Market returns to The Pipe Shop March 6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Browse more than 30 vendors selling vintage furniture, jewelry, home and garden décor, collectibles, home baking, gifts and antiques. Admission: $5. Children free. dejavuvintagemarket.com Compiled by Christine Lyon. Send North Shore fashion info to clyon@nsnews.com

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 21 Tickets: $10/$7.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: 604-9816335 kaymeekcentre.com Steelin’ in the Years: A tribute to Steely Dan featuring vocalist Billy Mendoza Feb. 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. Tickets; $35 or $100 for a table of four.

Musically Speaking Series: Guitarist Daniel Bolshoy performs Friday, March 4 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $20.

Harry Manx, blues/folk singer plays lap slide guitar, mohan veena (a 20-string guitar/ sitar hybrid), banjo and blues harp Friday, March 11 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $42/$34/$25..

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Classical Concert Series — Cello Classics: Cellist Lee Duckles and pianist Lixia Li present a program of diverse classics Thursday, March 3 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

CapU at the Silk Purse: Classical guitarist and CapU

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Tickets: $20/$15.

Classical Concert Series: Cellist Laine Longton and pianist Clare Yuan present a concert of works from the likes of Brahms, Beethoven and more Thursday, March 10 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15.

ST. ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH 1044 St. Georges St., North Vancouver. 604-985-0408 st-andrews-united.ca Refugee Fundraiser Concert: Singer/songwriter Paul Rumbolt performs songs ranging from Celtic ballads to folk rock to blues Sunday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. Admission by donation with proceeds benefiting the Syrian refugee project.

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604-926-4381 Jazz Vespers: Vocalist and pianist Jennifer Scott returns to front her jazz quartet Sunday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m.

Admission by donation.

WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St., West Vancouver.

Silk Road joined by multiinstrumentalist Andre Thibault present a concert Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m.

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DESIGNING WOMAN The work of North Vancouver set designer Shizuka Kai is featured in Go, Dog. Go!, the latest musical production from the Carousel Theatre for Young People opening Feb. 28 at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island. For more information on the show visit carouseltheatre.ca. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Search for a dirty cop From page 22 decided that Chris will be the sacrificial lamb to facilitate Irina’s job.

The target is a heavily guarded Department of Homeland Security building that houses sensitive information awaiting transfer. The job can only go down with a diversion tactic known as triple 9, cop-talk code for an officer down. With all those officers swarming the copkiller suspect, there won’t be many eyes left on Michael and the boys.

A 999 goes down, though not necessarily as planned.

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John Hillcoat’s film is macho, moody cop thriller stuffed with some standout performances (Michael K. Williams in a small role as Sweet Pea) and some very fancy stunt driving.

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Q&A: JANN ARDEN

Everything Almost tour spans entire career Centennial hosting Canadian superstar ! Jann Arden’s Everything Almost tour comes to North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre Monday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. Sold-out.

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Juno Award-winning, multi-platinum artist Jann Arden stops

by North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre for a sold-out show March 14.

The evening promises new material from Arden’s recent album Everything Almost with a mix of ‘90s nostalgia and old favourites such as “Insensitive” and “Could I Be Your Girl.”

Everything Almost, helmed

by Grammy Award-winning producer Bob Rock who has worked with rock legends Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, was released in 2014 and peaked at No. 2 on the Canadian Billboard chart.

The album’s lead single, “You Love Me Back,” is described as “poignant, progressive and distinctly Jann Arden.” The North Shore News caught up with Arden in Las Vegas this week.

North Shore News: What’s your opinion of North Vancouver, either through firsthand experience or what the Internet tells you?

Jann Arden: Don’t take this the wrong way but it was one of the unhappiest times of my life, there busking on the street and being broke. But

Jann Arden performs a mix of old and new songs at Centennial Theatre on March 14. PHOTO SUPPLIED other than those memories, I love it.

North Shore News: Let’s talk about Everything Almost.

How far out of your comfort zone were you at first and how did you push past any feelings of self-doubt? Did Bob Rock’s rock background intimidate you?

Jann Arden: He did intimidate me but not anymore.

Now he inspires me and pushes me to recreate myself. When you work with great people and record live off the floor, you tend to get

a very honest piece of music.

He really spends a lot of time on keys – singing a song in the right key is supremely important. Sometimes it’s a little out of my comfort zone and sometimes it’s lower than I normally like to go.

North Shore News: When you heard the finished product and the diversity of the music on the album did you view yourself differently as an artist?

Jann Arden: No, not really.

It’s another project and another rung in the ladder.

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North Shore News: “You Love Me Back” is mesmerizing, infectious and upbeat and clearly a departure from your early, signature emotion-laden ballads. What headspace were you in when you wrote it?

Jann Arden: I was thinking about simple sentiment and how easy love should be and could be. Sometimes we complicate things a lot.

North Shore News: “This is

not the life she planned” is a line from “Karolina.” My question is: Is this the life you planned?

Jann Arden: I have never planned anything, thank heavens.

North Shore News: How did you hook up with Kristen Hall for a collaboration? Would you consider a country album or future contributions to this music genre?

Jann Arden: No, I wouldn’t consider a country album.

Kristen and I share a mutual

friend. She is a great talent.

North Shore News: On collaborating with Michael Bublé. What was your initial impression of his music/talent? What is it about your personalities or music interests that allows you guys to work together and create great songs?

Jann Arden: I think a lot of the time funny people are the most sensitive ones. He is a wonderful person.

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Moorish griot ensemble bend tradition

Noura Mint Seymali finds new ways into music ! Noura Mint Seymali, Sunday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University. Tickets: $30/$27, visit capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre.

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Drawing from both the ancient and modern worlds, Mauritania’s Noura Mint Seymali and her ensemble, set to take the stage in North Vancouver Sunday night, are currently the only band hailing from the West African country actively touring on North American soil.

“There are no other artists from Mauritania doing what we’re doing right now.

It’s an opportunity to see music from a part of the world that is very under-represented in pop culture and an area that’s really interesting geographically. You’ll hear a lot of Arab influence and a lot of West African Sub-Saharan influence too. I think it’s the missing piece of the puzzle in a lot of people’s mental maps of the music in Africa. Even people who are very well-versed in African music don’t even know it sometimes,” says Matthew Tinari, the group’s drummer and producer.

Noura and her band are deep into a lengthy tour across the United States and Canada. With a month to go, they’re set to make a stop at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University this weekend.

Born into a prominent line of Moorish griots, Noura Mint Seymali began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her stepmother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba. PHOTO SUPPLIED “We’ve gotten a good reception everywhere,” says Tinari, reached Monday from Chicago where the ensemble was completing a visiting artist residency, Feb. 22-27, hosted by the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network.

Other bandmates include Noura’s husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly, a renowned guitarist, and fellow Nouakchott, Mauritania resident Ousmane Touré on

bass.

Tinari, originally from the Philadelphia area, studied jazz and African studies at the post-secondary level.

Based in Dakar, Senegal for the last eight years, he met his future bandmates at a music festival in Dakar in early-2010.

“They needed a drummer and they saw me playing with this other artist and invited me up to Mauritania to work with them. It was a serendipitous kind of a

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thing,” he says.

“Mauritania music is quite mind-blowing and different from everything else in the region and so it’s always really exciting to be able to play in Mauritania,” he adds.

The ensemble is comprised of vocalist and frontwoman Noura, described by the band as “one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries.

Born into a prominent line of Moorish griots, Noura

began her career at age 13 as a supporting vocalist with her stepmother, the legendary Dimi Mint Abba.” Noura received further musical training by her grandmother, Mounina, and plays the ardine, a nine-string harp reserved only for women.

Further influential in her life was her father, Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, “a seminal scholar figure in Mauritanian music,” who adapted music for the national anthem.

“Noura has so much

energy. It’s unlike working with any other vocalist for me. She’s got a lot of power vocally and that’s really exciting. She’s very adept rhythmically. . . . She has a very commanding presence and I feel like that’s something that imbues the whole band. It’s not just her, Jeiche is an amazing musician and so is Ousmane. So it’s really great to be working with everyone,” says Tinari.

The ensemble’s last album was 2014’s Tzenni, its name inspired by both a whirling dance performed to the music of Moorish griots in Mauritania, as well as a general concept open to interpretation.

“Tzenni is the first international release that we did in this current formation.

The title track means ‘to spin’ or ‘to turn.’ We thought it was an interesting concept that could be applied to a lot of things, specifically the cyclical nature of modern life,” says Tinari.

That said, subject matter on the record ranges, with some songs about love and another about Mauritanian cooking.

“It’s a mixed bag,” says Tinari.

Recorded in the Hassaniya language – Noura’s tongue – and produced and recorded in New York City, Dakar and Nouakchott, the songs are mainly original interpretations of pieces in the canon of Moorish griot music as well as works written by Noura’s father.

“We have this well-spring of music that we can draw on by right of both Noura and Jeiche being from griot backgrounds. For me the job has always been how to distill from that something that makes sense in the pop idiom. So if it’s taking a melodic theme or a rhythm and rearranging it to work in

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Tiny seaside village alive with charm and luxury NIKI HOPE Contributing writer

Visiting the Riviera Nayarit just days after Hurricane Patricia hit the coast, an uneasy calm had set in.

After all, Patricia, the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western hemisphere, was predicted to do “catastrophic” damage. While it brought lashing rains and winds, there were no fatalities or major damage as a result of the storm.

Ultimately, it hit south of Puerto Vallarta much harder than the northern region, which was our destination: the charming beachfront village of Punta Mita, located on the north end of Banderas Bay in the Mexican state of Nayarit.

Located about about a 45-minute drive (about 20 kilometres) from Puerto Vallarta, and known locally as simply Mita, the surf town is home to Cinco Hotel. The boutique-style hotel has spacious suites, equipped with kitchens, two baths and bedrooms (some suites even have three bedrooms), that go from roughly $290 to $350 US a night. Every unit has a balcony with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, relax and listen to the meditative sound of waves slapping against the beach.

It is that surf that calls so many foreigners to this tiny seaside spot. A stay at Cinco offers a resort alternative – a way to experience the sleepy town (at least during the October low season, when it felt like the entire hotel was ours) in a way that is about as authentic as a tourist can have. Stand-up paddle boarders and surfers can swiftly scoop up their boards when the waves hit and head out for a session. Then relax with a cerveza and freshly made guacamole and chips poolside at one of the resort’s two pools: an infinity pool on the roof, and a lower beachside pool.

Part of the beach at Cinco is rocky, but if you’re a surfer who wants to spend time in the water and not laying on a towel, it’s worth trekking over a few rocks to hit the reliable point break just off shore.

Cinco is ideal for families with kids in their late teens, or a multiple family or couple’s getaway – especially if everyone digs the surf. But

The Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita delivers the ultimate luxury experience in Punta Mita, Mexico, with more offerings and adventures than one could imagine, but all the magic comes with a price tag. Check out Hotel Cinco for a thriftier option when it comes to staying in the charming seaside town, located on the north end of Banderas Bay. PHOTO SUPPLIED if you go, definitely rent a car, or hop on a bus, for the half-hour trip to the utterly charming seaside town of Sayulita.

Another tip, while in Punta Mita, visit Tacos y papas, which is supposed to be the best taqueria in town.

Also worth noting, we felt completely safe throughout our stay and at ease in the seaside town, where locals were clearly happy to have the tourist business – especially during the slow season.

Luxury: Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita

Those hunting for the ultimate resort experience in Punta Mita, must visit the gorgeous Four Seasons compound. Situated in a gated enclave, the picturesque resort with white-sand beaches has virtually every treat you could conjure up for a dream vacation and then some.

Release baby turtles to the ocean, play a round on one of two Jack Nicklausdesigned golf courses, enjoy a freshly caught fish dish for lunch, frolic with the kids in one of the kids’-only pools, complete with a lazy river, or let the kids enjoy the day in a play centre with on-site childcare and an outside playground, while you hop on the SUP (stand-up paddle board).

For kids, let them have a break from the heat (and a break for yourself from them) as they play in the games rooms.

The Four Seasons is an ideal location for families, with an exhaustive list of activities, including horseback riding, snorkelling,

tennis, and the world-class Apuane Spa. Go for the intoxicating tequila massage, which fuses indigenous sage and tequila for a ridiculously soothing experience.

One of the most intriguing elements of the resort is how it embraces the history and culture of the region.

Enrique Alejos is the resort’s onsite cultural concierge, who has worked for more than two decades on biological conservation programs and preserving the country’s indigenous cultures. Alejos hosts tequila tastings, nature hikes, whale watching tours,, art walks and lectures all with a cultural edge.

The Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita doesn’t come cheap, with rates that fluctuate between approximately C $780 a night for the Casita room during the low seasons upwards of C $1,300 a night for the same room during high season (the rate goes up with suite bookings), but if you’re looking for the optimal luxury getaway – and are fortunate enough to be able to afford it, the resort is a magical option in one of the most breathtaking surf regions in the world.

Despite it being the low season for surf, I would suggest going during the fall, if you’re looking for a quiet vacation. Rates are lower, and there are no crowds to get in the way of your paradise getaway.

Must visit: Sayulita

If you’re in the area, do not miss a visit to the region’s most charming surf town.

Find a gourmet cup of coffee, hip boutiques, and all-around good vibes.

Bite into crispy fish tacos, enjoy chorizo torta on a soft ciabatta bun at El Metro Torteria, or buy an inexpensive (about $10) half chicken from the local woman grilling them on the street. This

was the most delicious meal we ate in Mexico – she had a grill set up to cook the chicken, which she basted constantly, and sold them to-go with soft tortillas, a savory red sauce for dipping,

and a crunchy coleslaw.

After lunch, relax on the beach with a $20 massage, or a fruity cocktail, shop in one of the many hip boutiques, or hit the waves to take in the town’s famous surf.

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com The Wizard of Oz: Sentinel Stage presents this classic Feb. 29-March 4 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee March 3 at 11 a.m. Tickets: $20/$17. Info: sentinelstage.ca.

4000 Miles: An uplifting story of growing up and growing old March 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $50/$39/$25.

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Dance CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Snowmotion: The North

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Tickets: $23/$19/$16.

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HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Live Music and Entertainment from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Schedule: Feb. 26, variety show (7-9 p.m.); and Feb. 27, West Van Morrison (pop/rock trio).

Variety shows are $15 and tickets can be purchased at fowlieandfriends. brownpapertickets.com.

Open Mic Night every Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.

PAT’S PUB IN THE PATRICIA HOTEL 403 East Hastings St., Vancouver.

In Concert: Henry Young on guitar, Doug Louie on keyboards, Paul Blaney on bass and John Nolan on

drums Sunday, March 6, 2-5 p.m.

RED LION BAR & GRILL 2427 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Friday and Saturday starting at 7 p.m.

WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver.

Music Medley Showcase comes to Waves the first Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. 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: A Tale of Love will be screened Friday, Feb. 26 and Tragedy will show Saturday, Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Info: vanif. ca/festival.

CAPILANO LIBRARY 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-987-4471 x8175 nvdpl.ca Monday Night at the Movies: Steve Jobs will be screened Feb. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484

CLASS ACT Sentinel Secondary students rehearse for their upcoming production of the Wizard of Oz, taking place at the Kay Meek Centre Feb. 29 - March 4 with shows at 7:30 p.m. as well as a Thursday matinee at 11 a.m. Tickets available at SentinelStage.ca. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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MAGICAL HISTORY TOUR Jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) take concert-goers on a musical history tour of New Orleans at UBC’s Chan Centre (chancentre. com) on Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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North Shore News: Who’s the bigger comedian, you or Michael?

Jann Arden: Let’s put it this way; he steals my jokes.

North Shore News: What’s your opinion of Taylor Swift as an influential artist of her generation?

Jann Arden: I love Taylor Swift. I think she’s an amazing writer more than anything and that is mainly what has propelled her forward. Great material is all.

North Shore News: Do you have a funny story about being on the road with him?

Jann Arden: I can’t go there because he’s got some stories about me.

North Shore News: When’s the last time your humour got you in trouble?

Jann Arden: Just now.

North Shore News: What was going through your head as you hung off the edge of the CN tower?

Jann Arden: Holy eff!! Blank blank blank!

North Shore News: What artists currently make your playlist cut?

Jann Arden: Daughter. Dolly Parton! Coldplay. Beyoncé.

Rose Cousins. Trisha Yearwood. Celine Dion. And I

North Shore News: What music did you grow up on?

Jann Arden: Abba, The Carpenters, Better Milder, James Taylor and lots of other stuff.

North Shore News: Have you ever talked about collaborating with fellow Albertan k.d.

Lang?

Jann Arden: We have never talked about it. We have tweeted a few times and I’m always slightly excited.

North Shore News: Who would be your dream collaboration?

Jann Arden: Abba.

North Shore News: You’re a social media maven ... what value do you get out it?

Jann Arden: I love social media. It’s my bitch.

North Shore News: What will the set list be like for your Centennial Theatre show?

What can the audience expect, a mix of familiar favourites and new material?

Jann Arden: They are going to laugh and cry, and will be sad to go home. That’s what we are hoping anyway. It will be a mix of old and new.

North Shore News: Are you sick of “Insensitive,” even if it’s what the fans want?

Jann Arden: Never, ever.

Perfectly written song. Wish I had written it.

North Shore News: Your memoir Falling Backwards, was it a cathartic experience writing it and why the decision to get personal?

Jann Arden: Believe it or not, I didn’t think I was being all that personal. I guess I’m used to writing songs that are

personal, so this wasn’t a big departure.

North Shore News: Your parents were diagnosed with dementia ... did you find music to be therapeutic for them or help bring back some memories?

Jann Arden: Yes, they love music. They’ve both always responded to it very positively and further to that, they can remember certain songs.

North Shore News: You came on the Canadian music scene relatively around the same time as Celine, Shania, Sarah and Alanis. Reflecting on that era in Canadian music, what do you think led to that explosion of talent and did you ever feel pressure to change your image?

Jann Arden: I never felt any pressure. I knew that if I was to ever have success it was going to depend on me being myself.

North Shore News: Where do you see yourself in the next decade?

Jann Arden: Las Vegas!

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a more contemporary way then that’s what we do. The bassist and I are both very into funk and soul and R&B music and so I think putting the bass and drums behind it gives it a little bit of meat and makes it a little more palatable. Harmonically, it’s really out there for a lot of people that have never heard anything like this. It’s quite a particular melodic tradition and so I guess

rhythmically we try to . . . make it relatable in some way,” says Tinari.

The four-piece is currently working on their next record, having completed one recording session so far.

“The sound has changed a bit but it is cohesive with the last album. . . . We’re stretching the sound a little bit further and developing it a little more,” says Tinari, adding if all goes well, they’re shooting for a potential release in September.

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Fiat pays tribute to its roots with a Fiat 500 1957 Edition, a tip of the hat to the original debut year of the little cinquecento. The retro styling adds a lot of flair and should age well. There are lots of fun features too, although the price shoots up quickly for a car that doesn’t pack a lot of power. PHOTO SUPPLIED

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What’s sweeter than la dolce vita?

Why, a double gelato scoop of retro-nostalgia of course. Say hello to the latest flavour of cutesy fun from Italy, the 1957 edition Fiat 500.

The original 500, the cinquecento, was first released in 1957, bringing transportation to the masses. Well, at least if the

masses weren’t too massive – the original tiny little people’s car wasn’t just as cute as a bug, but about as big as one too.

The new 500 is a bit like that car, except photocopied at about 150 per cent. It’s been around for nearly a decade now, and developed a following all its own. Underneath, it’s got the practical underpinnings of the somewhat prosaic Fiat Panda, yet with lashings of style inside and out.

Consider it a smaller, less-expensive version of the Mini. However, coming up to 10 years old, does the 500 still feel fresh enough?

DESIGN One of the nice things about retro design when it is done right is that it tends to age well. There are numerous exceptions, of course (see: Chrysler PT Cruiser), but like the original New Beetle, the Fiat 500 still looks good. It has a happy little

face, the docked tail of a lapdog, and the short, scooty little wheelbase of a city car plucked from the streets of Rome. Except without the dents.

This one being a 1957 edition, there are some exterior extras to go with your stylish little Italian clutch.

The badges, for instance, are like those found on the original car, and there are a number of paint options that you might get on your retro-modern Cuisinart. A

set of 16-inch alloy wheels completes the look, colourmatched and ringed with chrome.

Driving the 500 around, you still get glances from passersby, and isn’t that the whole point of a stylefirst car? It helps, too, that chief rival Mini Cooper has ballooned more than a little, while the 500 is still petite as it ever was.

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CAMARO 1LE RETURNS TO EAT MUSTANGS Camaro: a small vicious animal that eats Mustangs.

So Chevrolet’s pony car was introduced to the media some fifty years ago, and so it remains today. In the battle of the Blue Oval versus the Bowtie, you pick your side and cheer whenever your team lands a knockout punch.

Ford’s had a lot to shout about lately, with the new GT and the followup Shelby GT350 looking like a pair of haymakers. But here’s Chevrolet’s roundhouse, and it’s got some muscle behind it.

Already, the standard SS-grade Camaro is knocking out performance numbers not far off that of a Corvette.

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instance – but both Camaros should be extra vicious when so equipped.

Fitted with the new aerodynamic package, they also look the part. Best of all, this isn’t the final salvo from GM, who still has whatever the Z/28 is going to be tucked up their sleeve.

JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, MASERATI NOW HAS AN SUV It’s called the Levante, and it’s based on a rich heritage of motorsports and gorgeous grand tourers and will be assembled in Turin and I can’t take it any more. Stop. Stop with the luxo-crossovers. I give up.

Uncle.

They may wish to call it the Levante, but I hereby dub this unnecessarily large, unnecessarily expensive SUV the Quattroportly.

Given what the current range of Maserati sedans is like, the Quattroportly will probably be pretty decent to drive, with an eight-speed automatic transmission and twin-turbo V-6 engines that will somehow be breathed on by Ferrari.

Possibly they’ll be assembled in the same room as a large picture of Enzo himself.

And you’ll likely see them soon enough at Park Royal, a fusion of Italian style and Grand Cherokee underpinnings with fair-to-moderate curb rash on the passenger-side rear wheel. I’m sure it’ll be very profitable.

Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, then perhaps there’s a long-term solution to grow the company. Well, as long as nobody types “VW” and “Electrical” into a Google search.

switching over to EV production would be a great way for Volkswagen to clean up its tarnished image, and it would now seem that the EPA is in agreement.

All is still at the rumour and innuendo stage, but one possible penalty applied by the EPA could be to force VW to convert some production of their Chattanooga plant to EV production. And yes, Chattanooga is a real place (in Tennessee), and not just the sound an old-timey Model T horn makes.

If you think about it, VW converting to heavy EV production makes a lot of sense. After all, the company grew out of an alternative to traditional motoring with the cheap, simple, air-cooled Beetle. If they can bring all the might of German engineering to bear to make an e-Golf that can best the range of the Chevrolet

EPA MAY REQUIRE VW TO BUILD ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN U.S.A. VW’s diesel woes seem to have everyone chiming in with possible solutions. Some months back, Tesla founder Elon Musk suggested that

VOLVO SAYS GOODBYE TO KEYS Key fobs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes these days, from the discreet little Nissan ovals to the giant crystal-encased Aston Martin “Emotion Control Unit,” which you’re supposed to take out and wave around like a – well ... you get the picture.

Volvo thinks the age of the keyfob is dead, and you should be able to use your smartphone instead. Makes sense – we generally always have our phones with us, and most people feel like they’re missing an internal organ if they forget theirs at home.

Volvo’s app would also allow you

to share your car with a co-worker or friend without giving them the keys, and give access remotely from thousands of kilometers away. Overseas on a business trip and somebody needs to borrow your ice scraper, or get the insurance out of the glovebox to make a claim? No problem.

It all sounds great, but there’s an asterisk here for Canadians.

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Little Fiat much more a city cruiser than hot hatch From page 42

little runabout, not an Alfa Romeo with cheekbones like a snow plow. Thus the buttons for the air-conditioning controls look very dated and the seating position is a bit wonky, and the cabin is very tight. If you’re more Luciano Pavarotti than Michelangelo’s David, you’re going to end up wearing this little car like a pair of Lululemon yoga pants.

And as for your rear seat

ENVIRONMENT Inside, this 500 is equipped in what Fiat calls Lounge trim, and that’s the sort of feeling you’re supposed to take away. The blend of brown leather and white interior accents are as elegant as Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday – at least until you peer closer.

This is an inexpensive

passengers, they’d better be miniature marble figurines as space is very tight. However, the hatchback trunk is actually acceptable for such a little car.

When the 500 first debuted, it had a set of retrolooking analogue gauges and a very aftermarket approach to navigation. Now you get a sharp display up front that changes when you hit the sport button, and a small

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PERFORMANCE There are three engine options available for the Fiat 500 in the North American market: the ferociously

turbocharged Abarth 1.4-litre, the less-manic-butstill-zippy turbo 1.4, and the basic naturally aspirated 1.4-litre four-cylinder engine.

Here, it makes 101 horsepower at 6,500 r.p.m. and 98 foot-pounds of torque at 4,000 r.p.m.

That is not what you’d call a lot of power. Why, that’s only just enough Dalmatians to make a coat.

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However, the 500’s very

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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 Study SM. 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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upright seating position and high centre of gravity aren’t conducive to highspeed antics, and while the handling is acceptable, it’s certainly no hot hatch.

It’s actually a shame you can’t get this 1957 trim package with the zippier 1.4-litre turbo engine, considering how close the ticket price on this little car is getting to $30,000 ($26,910 before freight). That extra dose of torque would make an automatic version of this car just the ticket for urban drivers who want style and substance.

In the meantime, the 500 rides slightly choppily on its big 16-inch alloys, but remains composed as a cruiser. Slow down to a Mediterranean pace, pop open a sunroof, and save the con brio motoring until after you’ve had your eighth espresso.

FEATURES The retro design package for the Fiat 500 costs $2,000 and is comprised of a full leather interior, those 16-inch alloys, and white exterior and retro accents.

If you don’t need the retro look, the Lounge has pretty much everything you need from USB charging ports to automatic climate control and a central touchscreen.

GPS is a reasonable $450 add-on, and well worth it. A spare tire is an extra cost.

Fuel economy is

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Retro styling should age well acceptable for a small car, with official ratings of 7.6 (litres/100 kilometres) city and 5.9 on the highway. You can do better elsewhere, but given current fuel prices, the Fiat 500 qualifies as a pennies-per-kilometre proposition.

GREEN LIGHT Styling ages well; compact size for easy city driving; lots of fun features.

STOP SIGN Performance very mild; interior cheapness evident; price tag shoots up quickly.

THE CHECKERED FLAG A fun little retro machine that provides a little sizzle on the surface.

COMPETITION MINI COOPER ($21,490) Now considerably larger than the Fiat 500, Mini’s basic Cooper provides an engaging ride thanks to a sprightly and quirky three-cylinder turbocharged engine. At just 1.5-litres of displacement, it’s no heavyhitter, but the Cooper scoots better than you’d expect – just like its ancestors.

It doesn’t take much, however, to start pushing the price of even a basic Cooper up into the stratosphere. Keep the options simple and don’t bother with the big wheels; like proper city cars, both the 500 and the Cooper do their best work as cheaply as possible. mcaleer.nsnews@gmail.com

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