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Mayors reject buck-a-bridge tolling plan BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The North Shore’s three mayors are roundly rejecting a south-of-the-Fraser plan to put a $1-per trip toll on the Lions Gate Bridge and Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing.

Delta Mayor Lois Jackson made the suggestion of tolling all the Lower Mainland’s major bridges, saying it would be a fair and easily understood way of bringing in $378 million annually to fund transportation infrastructure. Her community is set to receive a new 10-lane, $3.5-billion bridge to replace the Massey Tunnel.

But, the north-of-Burrard-Inlet mayors say the buck-abridge plan is arbitrary, punitive and not an equitable way to fund transportation.

“A dollar a bridge, to me, just doesn’t cut it. There’s just no logic behind it,” said District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton.

The plan would raise money from people who commute to Vancouver in a north-south direction while collecting nothing from the people who drive east-west, despite the province spending billions upgrading Highway 1 east of Vancouver, he said.

“Everyone along that corridor benefits from it at no cost.

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Police seek rightful owner of pile of cash

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For the second time in as many weeks, a pile of cash has been found by a citizen in North Vancouver and turned in to police.

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In the latest incident, a North Vancouver man was walking down the street in a well-known business district on Tuesday when he stumbled upon a “substantial amount of money” on the sidewalk, said North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard de Jong.

When he bent down to pick it up, the man realized it was “a lot of cash,” said De Jong.

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Beach access incursion costs owner Owner of waterfront property must pay WV for encroachments JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

The owner of a West Vancouver waterfront home will be spared the prospect of dismantling parts of her $5.79-million house – but only if she buys the land her house encroaches on from the municipality, for fair market value.

That’s the decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal in a long-running legal fight between homeowner Jie Liu and the District of West Vancouver over 1,000 square feet of Liu’s multimilliondollar home which encroach on public land.

The court case concerns a house at 2998 Park Lane, built in the 1940s, which sits next to municipal land used as beach access at the foot of 30th Street.

Over the years, parts of the home, including the carport, family room, and fish ponds, were built on district land.

Liu bought the property in 2011. She maintained the previous owner, Raoul Tsakok, told her that the structures had been permitted under a grandfather agreement.

Soon after she bought the house, however, the municipality sent her a letter about the encroachments and the two sides started negotiating over the value of the public land covered by parts of Liu’s home and garden.

But after they failed to reach an agreement on a

price, in October 2012, the municipality took the case to court.

Municipal staff argued successive owners of the property had taken over public land for their private benefit.

Lawyers for Liu argued the district had authorized the structures, because municipal staff knew about them for decades and didn’t do anything about them.

A B.C. Supreme Court justice ruled in Liu’s favour in July 2014, stating the buildings that encroached on public land appeared to have been authorized by the district.

But the municipality appealed, and the appeal court recently reversed that decision.

In a Feb. 29 decision, B.C. Court of Appeal Court Justice Gregory Fitch wrote that the previous judge had made a mistake in deciding the building encroachments – which at some points intrude 30 feet into a 66-foot public road allowance – had been OK’d by the municipality, writing there was no evidence to back that up.

Fitch noted there are no records to show when either the house or encroaching structures were built, but added the district only acquired the road allowance from the province in 2004, so could not have taken any action prior to that time.

According to court documents, before Liu bought the property, she asked a friend with

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An appeal court judge has ordered a Park Lane homeowner to pay the municipality fair market value for parts of the home that encroach on adjacent public land. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD real estate experience to view it with her. After he raised concerns about the encroachments, they went to the municipal hall but were told by staff the district had no information about encroachment issues, despite correspondence on file between the municipality and previous owner on the topic. Liu went to the district hall once more before the sale closed and was told she should speak with the municipality’s land and property agent, but he was unavailable.

Liu’s lawyer told the court she would not have bought the property if she had known about the encroachment issues.

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decision, Fitch wrote although the buildings weren’t authorized, it would be “premature to grant an order that would entail destruction and removal of a large portion of Ms. Liu’s home,” especially as the buildings aren’t interfering with public access or future plans of the municipality.

In a dissenting opinion, Justice David Frankel offered a harsher assessment of Liu’s actions, saying she knew about the encroachments before she bought the house and should have made more effort to find out whether they were authorized.

If Liu and the municipality can’t agree on a fair price for the piece of municipal

land, it will be decided by a B.C. Supreme Court justice.

In 2012, when the two sides couldn’t agree on a price, the municipality had pegged the land value at $4.6 million, while Liu said it was worth $3.6 million.

But land values in West Vancouver have gone up in the past four years.

BC Assessment lists the 2015 land value of Liu’s property, immediately adjacent to the road allowance, at more than $5.2 million.

Mark Chan, director of corporate services for the municipality, said in an interview the district plans to keep a portion of the public property which contains a foot path and public beach access.

Regional congestion strategy needed From page 1 Why would you then charge somebody to go over a 75- or 80-year-old bridge? It just doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

According to the province, the average annual daily traffic on the Lions Gate is 60,700 vehicles while the Ironworkers takes 117,800.

City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto agreed the idea wouldn’t

fly here.

“You line up to get over the Second Narrows Bridge for 20 minutes and pay a dollar?” he asked.

West Vancouver Mayor Mike Smith said he understood Jackson’s perspective, given that four of the five existing or soon-to-be-built brides over the Fraser River will be tolled. But he said he couldn’t support North Shore commuters paying any more while our transportation needs aren’t been met.

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“We’re the only area in the metro region that’s had no new bridges and no rapid transit for 60 or 70 years.

Our traffic issues are getting worse all the time,” he said.

Smith, Mussatto and Walton all said any new system of tolling would have to be more along the lines of road or distance pricing for all users, as other modern cities are beginning to do.

“It has to be part of a regional congestion strategy.

That, we’d be happy to talk

about, but just tolling our bridges, which we’ve already paid for through tolls, is not something we have an appetite for,” Smith said.

That is an even larger and more complicated task suitable for the medium or long term, Mussatto said.

“It has to be well thought through. It has to be discussed with the public extensively. We need to consult. That takes years.

It doesn’t take weeks or months,” he said. “Right now,

we need to invest in public transit in a big way.”

Mussatto said the province is showing a lack of leadership by letting congestion worsen while telling the mayors it’s up to them to pay for their share of any transportation system improvements with property taxes.

“I can tell you one thing: I am definitely, definitely opposed to raising property taxes to pay more for TransLink,” he said.

of a prank, said de Jong.

But when he realized the wad of cash was for real, he turned it in to police.

Police don’t know who the cash belongs to or why it was lying on the sidewalk.

“Until we find out who the owner is, all options are open,” he said.

Anyone who thinks the money is theirs and can provide accurate details about it – like how much was lost and where it was – can contact the RCMP, said De Jong.

De Jong said police aren’t disclosing all the details of exactly how much cash was found or where in the hopes they can find the rightful owner.

“If it was you and you lost this amount of money, you’d want to come to the police to claim it,” he said.

He said nobody has come forward to claim it yet.

On March 4, a North Vancouver woman on her lunch break found $200 hanging out of a bank machine and also turned in the stack of $20 bills to police. She told police she turned in the cash because “’I just realized that it wasn’t my money and the person who lost it maybe needed it more than I did,’” said De Jong.

In that case, the bank was able to track down the rightful owner of the cash using security video footage.

De Jong acknowledged it’s unusual to have the public turning in found money to the police, rather than pocketing it.

“You like to think that North Vancouver has a community of people with integrity and an interest in helping each other,” he said.

“They did the right thing.”

Another question is why others are apparently misplacing significant amounts of cash. “That’s the question of the day,” said de Jong. “Maybe it happens more but people aren’t going to police about it.”

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City seeks public input on proposed building fee hike JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

How is the City of North Vancouver going to come up with $30 million in the next 10 years?

The best method is to ask developers to dig a little deeper, according to a consulting firm that addressed council March 7.

With North Vancouver expected to welcome 7,515 new residents by 2025, the associated cost on transportation, parks, water, sewer and drainage is estimated at $30 million, according to a planning firm’s report.

Levying heftier development cost charges could offset the price absorbed by the city, according to Sara Stevens, a planning consultant with Urban Systems who spoke to council Monday. Urban Systems was contracted to review the city’s DCC policy.

Development cost charges, or DCCs, is a price developers pay when building on a previously vacant lot or replacing an old building with something bigger and meant to house more residents.

“DCCs I think are one of the best tools that communities can use to ensure that

existing taxpayers are not saddled with the burden of growth,” Stevens said.

For Mayor Darrell Mussatto, the major issue is the cost faced by renters and buyers.

“At the end of the day, do DCCs contribute to higher costs for units, whether they’re apartments or single family homes?” he asked.

“We have not seen any data out there that would suggest that that’s the case.

The market determines how expensive a home is,” Stevens answered. “We took a look at some of the homes that were for sale in the city, and really, DCCs are only one per cent of the selling cost.”

The city is now looking for the public’s response on the issue.

If Urban Systems’ recommendations are followed, the biggest jump in DCCs would be on apartments, which would spike by about 26 per cent. Duplexes and townhouses would also hop up 26 per cent.

The rates on singlefamily lots would shoot up by approximately 15 per cent, from $12,821 per lot to $14,749 per lot.

The raised city rates would still be substantially lower than the District of

North Vancouver’s rates, which in the case of apartments and townhouses are approximately 50 per cent higher.

Enacting steeper development fees now is the equivalent to buying a barn lock when the horse is in the next county, according to Coun. Rod Clark, who asked why the issue wasn’t discussed prior to the influx of development in recent years.

“It would seem to me, as a defender of the taxpayer’s purse, that we left some money on the table here,” Clark said.

The city’s current DCC policy was crafted in 1997 by then-mayor John Loucks.

Coun. Pam Bookham asked if DCCs accounted for all the costs the city will face by taking in new residents.

“Can you say with certainty that all this new development that is happening is not imposing costs above and beyond what the DCCs generate?” she asked.

North Vancouver waives all DCCs for not-for-profit housing and has the option of waiving DCCs for affordable rental units.

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Molson Coors Canada has pulled a controversial advertisement from the air and online after accusations it was encouraging people to go skiing and snowboarding out of bounds.

North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks and the B.C. Search and Rescue Association both condemned the ad on Tuesday, which asked viewers if they would “brave going out of bounds” and depicted a group of skiers and snowboarders skipping past a resort boundary and down a slope through the trees to a waiting helicopter.

Sending the message that out-of-bounds skiing and snowboarding is cool was contrary to everything the volunteer rescue organizations had been trying to get out to the public, they both said.

A 40-year-old Surrey man died in late January when he fell into the Montizambert Creek drainage area while snowboarding out of bounds at Cypress Mountain.

But the campaign was only meant to “highlight the fact that any moment can be an opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and find adventure,” stated Greg Vallentin, manager of public relations for Molson Coors Canada in an email.

“We have the utmost respect for our drinkers, and the thousands of search and rescue professionals across Canada who risk their lives daily and would never want to make light of a situation that could, or has, negatively impacted someone, or their friends and families.”

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underneath their garage to add more storage space, pending the results of an upcoming public hearing.

Garages are limited to one level plus a crawlspace in the city, but staff have suggested allowing a 600-square-foot (55-square-metre) lair beneath a 600-square-foot garage.

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olling all drivers $1 every time they cross a bridge – something Delta Mayor Lois Jackson recently trumpeted – is inconvenient, ineffective and most of all, inequitable.

The notion a driver would have to pay to go from Norgate to downtown Vancouver but Coquitlam residents could cruise all the way to English Bay for free is ridiculous.

If Jackson is looking for all of Metro Vancouver to help pick up the tab on the new $3.5-billion Massey Bridge (which we’re tentatively calling The Lois Lanes) we can hardly blame her.

As ill-advised as we regard her comments, the real blame lies with our province.

When Premier Christy Clark was elected, she proudly talked about her mandate. With the will of the province behind

her, we wonder why our premier seems positively timid to touch our worsening transportation problems.

We don’t need another transit referendum to find out if anyone is eager to pay more taxes. We need leadership, and that doesn’t mean an interchange here and a bridge there.

While we may disagree with Jackson, the most egregious comments in this debate were voiced by Transportation Minister Todd Stone, who said there was “plenty of time” to figure out a regional strategy to deal with congestion and infrastructure.

Tell that to the folks crawling along on The Cut. They’re the ones who are going to be late for dinner.

Here in Metro Vancouver we have daily gridlock, frustration, and huge amounts of carbon dioxide being belched into the atmosphere: we have everything but time.

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orth Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto is becoming a one-man guardian of the environment.

When he’s not guarding the taps to prevent us from needlessly watering our gardens and washing our cars in his role as chairman of the Metro Vancouver utilities committee, he’s fighting unsightly cigarette butt pollution as the anti-litterbug.

As Jeremy Shepherd reported recently in these pages, North Van’s mayor is proposing a province-wide deposit on all cigarettes of $1 per pack and 5 cents for each butt returned.

The mayor (and who can blame him?) is fed up with people who think the world is their ashtray and continue to toss cigarette butts onto the street, out of their car windows, on the beach or in the tinder-dry forest.

On the one hand, you almost feel sorry for the dwindling cult of smokers who are increasingly challenged to find a place to

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... there must be a 10th circle in hell for those remarkable individuals who park their cars, open the car door and dump their overloaded ashtrays onto the street.

The North Side Paul Sullivan smoke. Not to mention what they’re doing to their health.

I say “almost” because they don’t endear themselves to the rest of us by besmirching the landscape with toxic waste. I especially love the ones who smoke with the windows down in their cars and toss their lit cigarettes onto the street because they don’t want their cars to smell or get cluttered by unsightly cigarette butts. Tough luck for the rest of us.

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park their cars, open the car door and dump their overloaded ashtrays onto the street.

It’s enough to make some people behave with extreme prejudice: Such as one guy, a natty individual with a handlebar moustache who was out walking his twin borzois. He had a unique response to a smoker, who was behind the wheel of a late-model land yacht.

Caddy Man stopped at a light, opened the door, and dumped about 50 butts onto the pavement. Borzoi Man carefully scooped up the butts, knocked politely on the Caddy’s window, and as it rolled down, proceeded to pelt the guy in the car with his own garbage. The window went back

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Not recommended, of course.

Mayor Mussatto is serious about this deposit thing. If the province won’t go for it, he’s considering a local ban, if it’s legal. I don’t see why not — if you can regulate dog poop, why not cigarette butts, which are also right up there on the obnoxious scale? And if you can’t protect your local environment without the OK from Christy Clark, what’s with that?

Of course, I’m not a lawyer. It’s probably a charter case for some enterprising legal beagle.

The question is, would it even work? In a way, in an effort to clean up the air, we’ve brought this upon

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ourselves, banishing smokers to the streets and then taking away their ashtrays.

Mayor Mussatto says we don’t want to normalize or making smoking acceptable, but removing the ashtrays without an alternative leads to littering. Apparently smokers don’t think it’s a good idea to deposit their smouldering cigarettes into their pockets. They like to live dangerously, just not that dangerously.

In fact, smokers may think it’s OK to litter more aggressively, if they’re paying $1 a pack for the privilege. Sounds crazy, but these are people who voluntarily ingest thousands of chemicals, including at least 60 known to cause cancer.

Talk about crazy.

I know, I know. If you smoke, the last thing you want to hear is some selfrighteous drone going on about your bad habit. I used to smoke once myself, although that was so long ago it was OK to smoke on the maternity wards of hospitals.

Smokers, think about it for a minute — you’d be providing binners and recycling jockeys with a whole new source of income: gathering and recycling 500 butts a day (which doesn’t seem like a stretch) would be worth $25. Do the math.

You could almost support yourself: that’s $750 a month, which is more than you get on welfare … and it’s income no one is going to declare. Trust me on that.

Whatever Donald Trump says, civilization is preserved through mutual co-operation. If we mutually assign toxic cigarette waste to the recycling bin, that’s one for civilization.

Thanks in no small part to Darrell Mussatto, or as he will be known going forward, Brother Nature.

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Province’s regressive taxation hurts families Dear Editor: Despite MLA Jane Thornwaite’s recent report to the Deep Cove Crier, I am not convinced of the overall merits of the B.C. Liberals’ latest “balanced” provincial budget. Amongst my many concerns is the gradual shift over the past decade or so of provincial revenue from progressively calculated income taxes to regressive taxation.

With regressive taxation, the less a family has the more that family hurts.

Sales tax is one of the biggest culprits of regressive taxation, though there are many others: BC Hydro and ICBC rates, for instance, have been inflated for years to generate a net income for the province, effectively turning crown corporations originally created to provide low cost services into profit-driven enterprises; B.C. continues to hold the unflattering status

of being the only province in Canada to charge a flat-tax MSP premium, effective rates which are on the rise again; and the province turns a blind eye to the ethically questionable practice of spending millions of dollars promoting gaming to collect billions in gambling profits while the number of people affected by problem gambling skyrockets.

And then there are the hidden costs: The taxes that never were and yet still have to be paid. These are paid by the parents and teachers dipping into their bank accounts on a regular basis to answer the fundraising calls underfunded schools are constantly putting out.

They are the charitable donations to the local food bank in an earnest attempt to subdue the hunger of hundreds of people left behind by a system that fails to

support them. Let’s not even get into the costs we pay by not addressing poverty with urgency: Higher crime rates, depressed communities, a repressed economy, loss of income tax revenue and production and a deepening of the cycle of poverty. All of this spells disaster for the future.

Poor fiscal management isn’t just about spending money on the wrong things: It’s also about collecting money from the wrong places and failing to spend money on the right things. It is time to do away with the hidden costs and side fees and accept higher income tax rates as a far healthier, more progressive, and cost effective strategy for keeping the province ticking long-term with the money we’re already paying all year round.

Bowinn Ma North Vancouver

Housing market seriously overheated Dear Editor: Overpriced housing in North Vancouver.

We are currently looking to purchase a house in our community, but with the

prices that we are dealing with these days we can’t afford to stay in the place we have been living for the past 25 years. There are houses for sale (example

920 Melbourne Ave.) that are almost $700,000 over the BC Assessment value for 2015.

What is happening?

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SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK AND NSNEWS.COM NSN OPINION: Paul Sullivan: Bully For Bikes, But What About the Bridge?

ARNO S.: Why the negativity? People riding bikes are a big part of the solution.

By building safe cycling infrastructure, more people will ride bikes. This means less people driving or taking transit, which means less congestion and crowding.

However, people cycling offer way more benefits to society, like less noise and pollution, improved health, a more vibrant and livable city. For all this, $7 million is super cheap. Note that recent research from UBC shows that each kilometre driven costs society $0.56 while each km cycled creates a $0.15 benefit to society. Cycling is a money tree. What’s not to like?

ANDREW CHOBANIUK: Because the benefits of cycling are fringe at best when talking about the whole picture of transportation in Vancouver yet they seem to get all the focus and hubbub. The biggest single difference that can be made to help congestion is more transit service. But even that still leaves places like the North Shore stuck using infrastructure that was built in the ‘30s and ’50s. It’s 2016 and the North Shore is growing faster than bike lanes, buses, bridges and roads can keep up. Cycling is great, but it can’t solve the region’s transportation problems.

CAJREIMER: I support the bike thing. That said, I believe the increase in the number of new North Shore dwelling units with at least one vehicle is growing faster than the number of dwelling units relying on only a bicycle or transit for all transportation.

Perhaps non-vehicle trips are increasing as a percentage but not as a raw number – and that’s the count that matters. I believe the increase in vehicle traffic congestion on the North Shore is far off-setting the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the use of transit and bikes. Sadly, no one has or is planning to collect data in the near future to make any evidence-based decisions so we just keep on building, which makes matters even worse. If we had a sold plan for improving transit to/from the North Shore, I’d have hope; but we don’t have a plan or funding.

BOB PUTNAM Traffic on the North Shore is bad. Barely a day goes by where it takes less than 45 minutes to get from West Van to Second Narrows at about 3:00 PM. 40,000 people are moving to Metro Vancouver every year so do you think it’s going to get worse? The transit referendum was a farce.

The fact that Christy Clark deferred a critical decision like transit funding to the people of B.C. shows weak leadership. We know that the public is very bad at making decisions that are in their best interest. She should have said, “This is a transit plan that the region needs, here’s how it’s funded, 0.5 per cent tax.” End of story.

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In service to all of North Vancouver There’s a reason why the signage on my storefront office at 3rd and Lonsdale doesn’t mention the political party to which I belong. And it has to do with who pays the rent: you.

Though I ran in the last election as the Liberal candidate for North Vancouver, the moment I was elected my role changed. As the Member of Parliament for North Vancouver, my job is to serve all citizens of the riding – not just the ones who voted Liberal.

In these hyper-partisan times it’s easy to forget that, in our system of government, Members of Parliament are intended to be non-partisan in service to their constituents.

That means all are equally welcome to visit my office or otherwise contact me and my constituency staff with questions and issues related to their dealings with the federal government.

Even the furniture The two salaries of the constituency office staff are paid for by taxpayers. As is the heat, electricity, internet, etc. The furniture is even owned by taxpayers – much of it, in fact, passed down from my Conservative predecessor.

While it’s my name on the sign outside, it truly is your office – and I encourage you to think of it that way.

Keith DeBelser, a successful businessperson, works in the office and is primarily responsible for addressing questions about government programs, for working on individual constituent issues such as immigration and for overall office management.

His colleague is Brittany Barnes.

Brittany is the constituency assistant with primary responsibility for community outreach and for engagement with the variety of constituency organizations. Brittany’s a recent grad from Capilano University where she served as student union president.

These two folks manage the office while I am in Ottawa – which, between September and June, averages about three of every four weeks. Between them, I can proudly boast you have the best constituency team this side of Halifax.

Listening post For me, the constituency office provides a key listening post to ensure that I stay on top of the everyday concerns of people in North Vancouver. That’s why, when I’m not in Ottawa, it’s a priority for me to carve out time to be available at the office.

Ottawa, rumour has it, can be a bit of a bubble that suffers from “centre of

the universe syndrome”. And in my role as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change there are days when my schedule is environment, environment, environment.

To be an effective MP, I need to be grounded in the reality that while the environment, climate change and the future of our planet are critically important to the people of North Vancouver, it is not the only thing on your minds.

At a recent event on the North Shore celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, I was struck by the range of issues people want to talk to me about.

One woman with whom I had a long conversation was particularly concerned about the inadequacy of pensions for the large group of people nearing retirement who have been unable to save enough to support themselves.

Others at the event were concerned about immigration, global affairs, jobs and the economy.

Two roles From time to time, confusion can arise about the non-partisan role of the MP because of my second role. Effectively, I am the leader in North Vancouver of the Liberal Party of Canada.

The Liberal Party has its own volunteersupported riding association in North Vancouver. It recruits supporters, raises funds for political activities both between and during elections and stages events.

These events are completely different from things like MP Town Halls (such as the recent pre-budget community consultation I facilitated). MP events are advertised broadly in the constituency, are free of charge and are open to everyone.

As I continue to learn on the job, I hope I’m continuing to grow. Part of that is not to take criticism of government personally.

Some chap named Winston Churchill said: “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same purpose as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

Criticisms, suggestions or problems - feel free to deliver them anytime to the little storefront office at 3rd and Lonsdale – the one with my name on the sign.

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Some might be hard pressed to think of a famous Canadian female, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking for input to find the woman who should grace the next round of bank notes. For almost 150 years the only woman on our currency has been the Queen, but in 2018 that will change.

Announced on International Women’s Day, the government pledged to replace an existing face with an “iconic Canadian woman.” We asked our local audience who they thought should be etched on the new notes. Weigh in at nsnews.

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Next Home Match West Van resident Kaylee Whittaker, pictured in 2013, urged council to redraft a bylaw that prohibits ownership of chickens. New regulations now allow backyard biddies. FILE PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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Don’t be surprised if you see chickens trying to cross the Upper Levels Highway – they’re making their way to West Vancouver where new bylaws can offer them a permanent residence.

Council unanimously passed a new bylaw March 7 which allows a maximum of six chickens over four months old in single family zones and a coop size measuring no taller than two metres with a minimum floor space of 4.3 square feet per chicken. Enclosures must feature a coop as well as a run, both with solid roofs and be set back from property lines by approximately a metre and a half. Food must be kept indoors and enclosure areas must be well maintained with noise kept to a minimum.

No roosters are allowed and slaughtering is not permitted on an owner’s property.

District staff pulled from the guidelines in Squamish and the cities of Vancouver and North Vancouver, giving them a place to start.

“They took what they know about our geography and our residents and put the best set of regulations forward for what they think that we should have here in West Van,” said Coun. Nora Gambioli, who has been a strong supporter since the idea was hatched.

A $50 registration fee will be put in place, which Gambioli says should cover the cost of sending bylaw officers out to do inspections.

A cluck of caution came from Coun. Michael Lewis.

He voted in favour, but warned new owners of the responsibility they’ll be taking on.

“I would just caution anyone embarking upon keeping backyard chickens that they do their research. I don’t think it’s as romantic, and as easy and carefree as one might expect,” Lewis said. He echoed concerns about the pets attracting wildlife and the lack of regulation around electric fencing to discourage larger predators from catching a quick lunch.

Responding to the debate over fencing, Gambioli said she wouldn’t want to deter potential farmers from keeping chickens, as was the case in Squamish. The municipality’s “draconian” bylaws requiring electric fences drove people to handle their business “under the coop” with few people, if any, registering their hens with the municipality, she said.

The City of North Vancouver has put together handbooks to advise owners with an overview of chicken facts and how to best care for feathered friends. Quality of life standards are outlined to give the fowls a comfortable area to roam and roost.

“I think our staff is planning on doing something like that, apparently it has worked quite well,” Gambioli said. “At least we’ve paved the way for the North Vancouver District, now they don’t have to reinvent the wheel, and they can copy our stuff if they want.”

In 2013, West Vancouver resident, Kaylee Whittaker, pecked at the heartstrings of council by telling them about her lifelong dream to own a chicken as a pet. Her

plea prompted West Van to redraft bylaws prohibiting ownership of chickens.

District staff have been plucking away since the beginning of the year, crafting new regulations to allow West Vancouver residents to own backyard chickens.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman From Here to There Artists Meghan Carich and Lynda Manson opened their joint art exhibition with a reception March 8 at West Vancouver’s Silk Purse Arts Centre. From Here to There showcases Carich’s leather and mixed media spirit masks, which are intended to transport viewers to a time when humanity’s connection to natural surroundings was tied to identity, inviting people to examine their relationship to the world, the past, to others and themselves. Manson’s acrylic skyscapes and paintings of nebula aim to ignite a sense of wonder and exploration, inspiring gallerygoers to look to the future and reach for the stars. The show continues to March 20. silkpurse.ca

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If you’re made for something, you always come back to it.

Mermaids slip back into the sea, Muhammad Ali climbed back into the ring, and this Tuesday night Camyar Chai returns to Neworld Theatre.

When the curtain rises on Doost at 8 p.m., it will represent not only Chai’s 11-year journey back to the theatre company he founded, but the culmination of a lifelong spiritual quest.

A storm has just passed when the playwright and actor answers the phone in his Burnaby home to talk about Windsor secondary, getting a part on The Beachcombers, and the three years he spent crafting the story of Doost, a Farsi word for friend.

“That’s always a good story to tell when you have one

individual who can galvanize and create a movement,” he explains.

For Chai, that one individual is Javad Nurbakhsh, a master of the Nimatullahi Sufi order, a mystical path to divine love.

The Sufi order was something Chai gravitated toward after years of reading sacred texts and seeking transcendence behind the words.

He studied the Bible, Torah and Koran. He puzzled through gnostic works and pursued both Buddhism and the Bhagavad Gita before coming to a realization: “They all said the same thing but in different languages.”

After years of spiritual wandering, Chai found a home in the order of Sufi. The order is about oneness, kindness and unity – three words that tend to precipitate a pronounced roll of the eyes, Chai acknowledges.

“People are very suspicious of any kind of spirituality or religion because there’s so many negative things attached to it,” he explains, mentioning the extremism some associate with the Muslim faith.

Other reject spirituality as something corny, “Kumbaya stuff,” Chai notes.

“Why are we rejecting those things right now?” he asks.

“Why do we tend to be drawn … to things that are about fear and negativity?”

For the theatre to be valuable to a community – not merely a diversion – it has to be about what’s going on in the community “or maybe what’s not going on in the community,” Chai says.

The challenge of creating a linear story cloaked in non-linear mysticism sparked Chai to pen Doost.

“To say I’m doing it for everyone would be disingenuous, because how can you do a play that’s going to please everyone?

Impossible,” he says. “There’s going to be a fusion of Persian music, flamenco and jazz. So that should whet somebody’s appetite to come and see what we’re up to.” !!!

Ever since putting on plays in the family living room in Iran, Chai has been enamoured with the illusion and substance of theatre.

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ROMEO AND JULIET William Shakespeare’s tragic tale of love, grief and redemption is danced by Ballet Victoria to the score of Sergei Prokofiev and original new music Saturday, March 19 at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre. (centennialtheatre.com) PROGRAM 2 Ballet BC continues its 30th anniversary season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre until March 19.

Under the leadership of artistic director Emily Molnar, Program 2 features a world premiere by French choreographer Medhi Walerski. For this special commission, Ballet BC is joined by artists of the Arts Umbrella Graduate Dance Program to expand the cast of dancers. (balletbc.com).

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FESTIVAL DIVERCINÉ Celebrating the creative and cultural diversity of the French-speaking world, Festival DiverCiné is an annual festival of acclaimed new cinema from the international community of countries and governments linked by their use of French as a common language and by their shared values. The festival is organized by the Embassy of France in Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage, and is presented in Vancouver in partnership with The Cinematheque, March 18-19 and 26. (thecinematheque.ca) ONLY YESTERDAY Never released theatrically in North America, this Studio Ghibli feature about a young woman escaping the city and re-evaluating her life screens until March 26 at Vancity Theatre.

English dubbed version: March 19, 22, 23 and 26; Japanese with English subtitles: March 21 and 24. (viff.org) – Christine Lyon

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This tour is great for children and adults alike.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 10AM-2PM Join us for our Second Annual Easter Egg Hunt (complimentary with lift ticket/pass) and Brunch (reservations required). Easter Egg Hunters will be grouped by age to ensure everyone brings home a treat from the Easter Bunny!

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The Arabian Nights, until April 2 at the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC. Tickets: $24.50/$16.50/$11.50 at ubctheatretickets.com.

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Aladdin and Sinbad are the more widely known stories from the book of tales One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folklore compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

It’s from these stories that Tony Award-winning theatre director and playwright, Mary Zimmerman, crafted her latest script, The Arabian Nights.

The play is being performed by UBC’s intermediate and final year theatre students, and among the 16-person cast is North Vancouver’s Parmiss Sehat.

She plays the character of Dunyazade, sister to the main character, Scheherazade, who has married the mad King Shahryar. The king weds a bride at dawn and beheads her by dusk, but Scheherazade is able to prolong her stay in the kingdom by telling him stories.

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teaches him things like mercy and generosity and kindness, and it’s interesting because the way Zimmerman has written it … there’s lots

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Allegiant. Directed by Robert Schwentke. Starring Shailene Woodley and Theo James.

Rating: 4 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer

It’s hard not to root for Divergent, the tag-along cousin to the Hunger Games franchise.

After all, both series are based on best-selling teen novels, featuring kick-butt heroines trying to effect change in dystopian worlds.

So why does JLaw get all the love when Shailene Woodley can’t even score a cool nickname? (Probably because her name would be ShWoo, not cool at all.)

But Allegiant, the first half of the Divergent Series’ farewell, does nothing to commend Woodley, or set the series apart from others in the genre, weighed down as it is by a too-long run time (over two hours) and more nonsensical twists and turns than there are futuristic costume changes for leading lady Woodley.

In the third – and weakest – film of the series, Tris Prior (Woodley) and beau Four (Theo James) are weary of the leadership in

walled, post-apocalyptic Chicago, where one corrupt leader (Kate Winslet) has been replaced by another, Four’s mother Evelyn (Naomi Watts). The couple finds an opportunity to venture beyond the walls in search for a better life outside, only to discover a pustule-ridden land with blood-red rivers known as the Fringe. Bummer.

We don’t tarry long, however, before being transported even further into the future and to a place known as The Bureau of Genetic Welfare, led by an overly kindly director named David (Jeff Daniels). Four smells a rat right away; Tris drinks the Kool-Aid, seduced by the fact that David deems her “pure” and tells her she holds the secrets to humankind. “You saved a city,” he cajoles, “now help me save the world.”

That’s right: the Divergent group, which includes Tris’ brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort), pal Christina (Zoe Kravitz) and comic relief Peter (Miles Teller), are split into factions again, Pure and Damaged. There isn’t time to extrapolate how our society already weeds out less desirable traits with author Veronica

Roth’s vision of the future, because we’re too busy flying in space pods, taking side trips to steal children, outrunning clouds of bright orange gas, and getting into lots and lots of fistfights, though it’s not always clear why.

A super-cool over-thewall stunt is ruined by the groaner line, “we’re gonna be OK,” which any selfrespecting movie fan knows means imminent death.

Some impressive computergenerated effects are overshadowed by equally horrendous green-screen moments. Worse still is the unconvincing civil war between Evelyn and Amity leader Joanna (Octavia Spencer) and the lack of motivation or rationale for much of what transpires.

Tris has gone from bold to blah: she’s stopped calling the shots and is led by David and Four. Romance is dialed down, too, since she and Four can’t even find a decent place to make out in, and Four is casting sideways glances at that angry-looking gal.

With a wandering storyline and a withering heroine, it remains to be seen how many fans will stick around for the finale.

Shailene Woodley (Tris) and Andy Bean (Romit) star in The Divergent Series: Allegiant.

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North Shore author Aislinn Hunter’s award-winning novel The World Before Us will be interpreted by Anusha Fernando, artistic director of Shakti Dance Society, in the style of Bharata Natyam, at Words in Motion, March 18 and 19 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Presented by The Chan Centre, in partnership with The Dance Centre, Words in Motion pairs three B.C.-based authors with local choreographers to create new performance works. Visit chancentre.com for tickets and info. PHOTO SUPPLIED

and playful adventure. Sehat poured her all into rehearsals, saying the play was a physically exhausting but fun experience to wrap up her time at UBC. “It’s going to be a very entertaining play, not to say that it doesn’t have great messages or that you won’t be able to take away anything from it, because it’s riddled with morals. It’s just a fun play to be a part of, as well as watch. It’s got lots of singing and dancing.”

Sehat said her character, described as a child in the text, is used as a ploy to delay her sister’s death in many situations, but is also applied as a learning mechanism for the king in the nightly tales. The young character holds the next place in line for whom the king is to marry next, and represents purity and innocence throughout her time on stage.

“The king will even say, if you’re going to tell an inappropriate story then maybe we should tell this little girl to get out of the room. And (Scheherazade) says no, you’ve got to keep her here because these stories may be licentious or lewd to those

pure of mind, everything is pure,” she said, impersonating the characters.

She emphasized that oral storytelling is an important instrument of communication to focus on. Throughout her training, she has seen how her work in theatre can contribute to the impact a story can have.

“We hear and we tell stories when we’re kids. As we grow older, and especially what this play is showing, is that that measure never loses its value. We can

always be affected through stories,” she said. “I think that it’s an incredible example for theatre in general, and how it is useful.”

Graduating in May, Sehat and her class are enjoying the atmosphere of their final year. She said the tone has changed and feels that the environment is more professional. The instructors have encouraged them to trust in their capabilities at this point, to ask fewer questions, and to conduct themselves as if they had been hired.

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Moving forward, the graduating class that Sehat is part of has formed their own startup theatre company called Gas Pedal Productions. They have already performed their original work of comedy at UBC, and will be taking it to the Vancouver Fringe Festival to showcase their fresh talent in September.

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Chai returns with Sufi message From page 13 same room,” Chai says.

“There’s an immediate magic element of theatre where you have to convince people to suspend their disbelief,” he says. “There’s a bit of a rush to that as well, because you could fail quite easily.”

His understanding of theatre was shaped in part by Gary Zimmerman’s tutelage during Chai’s days as a student at Windsor secondary.

“I wasn’t a jock and I always was very expressive,” Chai explains of his attraction to the drama program.

Watching Zimmerman take care with every aspect of the school’s theatre productions helped Chai with the founding of Neworld.

“I didn’t see the kind of theatre that I was interested in,” he says of founding the company. “I quickly realized that as assimilated as I want to be, there are other people who will still see me as the

other because I have immigrated, I’m Iranian.”

During Chai’s tenure with Neworld, the company produced an adaptation of Crime and Punishment and Devil Box Cabaret.

After nearly a decade with Neworld, Chai decided to move on.

“When a company becomes about one person it can get quite stale and not be inclusive in the way that I liked it to be,” he says. “It was hard, it was very hard leaving

something that you’ve built.”

On Tuesday night, Chai is scheduled to return, bearing a message from his journey down the Sufi path.

“I’m just a student on that path, I certainly can’t speak for that order,” he says. “But what I do know is that one of the big lessons is that this is not about convincing anybody that our path is the right path. … As long as the destination is love and kindness then however you get there is a Sufi path.”

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Last summer, Monica Sullivan started, and then quickly tripled, her equine family.

In June, the West Vancouver resident had zero horses and little interest in ever acquiring one. But by October, she was the proud owner of three rescue horses.

It all started with a mare named Connie, whom Sullivan encountered in the Okanagan Valley where she has a summer home.

“The horse was in a lot of medical distress, almost to the point of death, and nobody really had the resources to take her in,” she recalls.

Fortunately, Sullivan found a stable in the Summerland area that specializes in high-needs rescue horses and began boarding Connie there.

Next came Gunner, a middle-aged thoroughbred who used to race in the United States.

“Some of these horses, due to very strict confinement, have a lot of health issues and he definitely falls into that category,” Sullivan says.

Horses are social animals and Gunner made a perfect companion for Connie.

Sullivan’s third four-legged charge came from a large herd of feral horses that live in the area around her Penticton summer home. For many residents, these free-roaming animals are considered a nuisance, but she’s never felt that way.

“We’ve always loved having these horses there,” she says.

Two years ago, she spotted a charming little white foal among the group. Then last fall, at a time when measures were being taken to manage the region’s feral horse population, she

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All three horses now board in the same Summerland stable and Sullivan visits them regularly year-round.

In December, she was inspired to create a calendar to help raise money for other rescue horses. Through that endeavour, she rediscovered a former hobby – painting. Realizing her paintings of horses might translate well into other areas, such as fashion and home décor, she made a few T-shirts and pillows printed with her art.

“The results were actually quite interesting and I got a lot of comments on it from people who encouraged me to take it further,” she says.

So she made a website for her creative business, Horse Eye Designs, and held a small art show at a Vancouver gallery. Next up, she and her friend and fellow artist, Kim Aelicks, are hosting a joint show and sale at the North Shore Winter Club on March 23.

“The product line right now consists of paintings, cushions, T-shirts, jewelry, memory boxes,” Sullivan says.

Once her images are transferred onto the clothing and accessories, she then further customizes the pieces with paint touch ups or upcycled materials. All the products are inspired by rescue horses – hers and others at the Summerland stable – and, as the name of her business suggests, the items depict the horse’s eyes, a feature Sullivan has always been drawn to.

“I find the entire horse beautiful, but there’s something magical about their eyes.”

Connie, Gunner and Crazygood are not her first horses. Sullivan grew up in a rural area of northern Saskatchewan.

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“I’ll never be able to ride him,” Sullivan says. “He’s just going to be a companion horse, but he serves that purpose very, very nicely.” " " "

Monica Sullivan and Kim Aelicks host a joint art show and sale Wednesday, March 23, 6-9 p.m. in the seniors’ lounge at the North Shore Winter Club, 1325 E. Keith Rd., North Vancouver. Visit horseeyedesigns.com for more information.

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Motown Meltdown returns this weekend

Krystle Dos Santos among featured artists ! Motown Meltdown,

presented by Nicola Wealth Management, in support of Seva Canada, Saturday, March 19 at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom.

Doors: 7 p.m. Show: 8 p.m.

Tickets: $32 via ticketmaster. ca, or $42 at the door. Info: seva.ca/motownmeltdown. htm.

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

It was an incredibly tough decision.

Invited to perform at this year’s Motown Meltdown, an annual night of soul music taking place Saturday night at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom in support of Seva Canada, a Vancouver-based charitable organization working to restore sight and prevent blindness in the developing world, featured artist Krystle Dos Santos was perplexed when pressed to choose what song she wanted to sing.

“It was so hard,” laughs the singer-songwriter

Krystle Dos Santos will perform Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours” at her Motown Meltdown debut March 19 at The Commodore. PHOTO SUPPLIED ADELE THOMAS on being sent such an impressive list of songs.

Overwhelmed by the possibilities, she eventually took the plunge and couldn’t be more pleased, settling on Stevie Wonder’s 1970

classic, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”

The Edmonton native and current West End resident is making her Motown Meltdown debut this year and is among the diverse

array of featured vocalists set to take the stage this weekend, backed by a stellar, 12-piece band comprised of veteran session musicians. Featured artists (a number of North Shore

residents among them), include Alexander A-train Boynton Jr., Joani Bye, Leora Cashe, Candus Churchill, Oliver Conway, Olivia Steele Falconer, Warren Dean Flandez, Al Harlow, Angela

Kelman, Linda Kidder, Jane Mortifee, Marcus Mosely, Tom Pickett, Will Sanders, David Steele, Shari Ulrich and Garfield Wilson.

Following her performance at Motown Meltdown, Dos Santos will head off to Surrey’s The Taphouse for her second performance of the evening, joining the Ten Souljers, just one of the many ensembles she plays with. She also performs with Edmonton-based The Black Mambas and plays Friday nights at Vancouver’s Belmont Bar with The Smokin’ Soul Experience.

“The energy is cyclical, right? It’s amazing how you can put out a lot, but you can’t put out quite as much if it’s not coming back to you. I just find that the interaction and the energy that people give back to you is contagious and completely addictive, really,” she says, of her love for performing.

Drawing on a host of genres – jazz, soul, pop, funk and blues included – for her original songs as well as covers, Dos Santos enjoys bringing classic music to modern audiences, whether they’re familiar with it or not.

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ARTSCALENDAR From page 20 centennialtheatre.com A Play, a Pie and a Pint: No Mean Feat performs a lively and lyrical repertoire rich in old-time southern Appalachian tunes Wednesday, April 13 at noon. The show will be followed by a meat or veggie pie and a beverage. Tickets: $25/$22/$10.

La Gazza Ladra Overture: The West Coast Symphony Orchestra and guests perform Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m.

Admission by donation at the door.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Parva — Live in Concert: Parva performs traditional Persian music Saturday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $65/$55/$45.

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Friday Night Live: An improv comedy variety show for all ages every Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Schedule: March 18, Shalini Kumar (singer/songwriter); March 25, Christopher Arruda (musician); and April 1, Carolyn Neapole (singer/songwriter).

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Spring Concert: Ambleside Orchestra presents a concert of cello music and dances Friday, April 1 at 8 p.m. Admission by a suggested donation of $20 for adults and $15 for youth, children free.

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DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage.com Relatively Speaking: A comedy of errors April 1, 2, 6-9 and 13-16 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18/$16.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Sal Capone The Lamentable Tragedy: A theatrical powerhouse that follows a young hip hop group caught in the aftermath of a violent police shooting March 29 (preview), 30, April 1 and 2 at 8 p.m., March 30-April 1 at 1 p.m. and April 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15-$28.

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HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Live Music Saturdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Schedule: March 19, K.P. Duty (country/pop duo); March 26, Brian DenHertog and Jill Russell (original music folk duo).

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Vancouver Iranian Film presents a screening of I am Not Salvador — Man Salvador Nistam Sunday, March 27 at 3 p.m. and The Bodyguard will show at 7 p.m. Tickets: $12.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Arts Connection Networking Salon for Artists: Sara Robichaud of Golden Paints presents the A to Z of acrylics Wednesday, March 30 from 10 a.m. to noon. Fee: $10.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Film: Jimmy’s Hall will be screened Tuesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10/$7.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Authors in our Community: Sachi Rummel shares her story Hiroshima: Memoirs of a Survivor Wednesday, March 30, 7-8:30 p.m.

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Dos Santos at work on her next album From page 26 “It’s such amazing art ... that isn’t quite as celebrated as it used to be. It’s really cool to be able to bring that kind of stuff back,” she says.

On the first Tuesday of every month Dos Santos can be found with her band, the Lovemakers, running Underneath The Harlem Moon, a cabaret-style show at Gastown’s Guilt & Company. The concept grew out of her experiences three years ago when she went in search of inspiration and influence for future creative projects, travelling to Memphis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Austin.

“I really wanted that sort of eastern, southern American influence. What I saw was they really get together, the top-notch musicians who play and go touring, they come together as a community and they do poetry and they do awesome jams and songs together. I came back to Vancouver with the same intention and the same goal in mind,” she says.

Underneath The Harlem Moon has been running for the last two years and Dos Santos’ goal is to build community and bring people together who either don’t know each other or typically don’t get to share stages, and showcase their talents.

The cabaret night might see a musical theatre dancer take the stage with a jazz

singer, or a tap dancer with a flute player, as overall her goal is to create, “unusual and interesting combinations where people can really collaborate and jam together.”

“Sometimes it breaks out into a dance party and sometimes it’s just people really grooving to some neosoul from the early 2000s – Jill Scott and Erykah Badu.

It’s kind of like my guilty pleasure place where I get to experiment and bring people in so that they can do the exact same thing,” she says.

The next edition of Underneath The Harlem Moon will take place April 5 and will have a classic soul theme.

Apart from maintaining a busy performance schedule, Dos Santos is continuing to develop plans for her next album – most likely a brassy blues, soulful affair – that will serve as a follow to her 2011 Fame Fatale and 2008 eponymous releases. “‘I’ve been writing with a couple of local Vancouver people and with some people from my Edmonton team as well. We’ve just been pounding away, really trying to find that specific sound, but still working at it. I’ve got a couple of songs sitting in the bank, waiting to come together. You’ve got to get that group, sometimes you get those one or two songs that really work together and you just have to keep on building the bigger picture,” she says.

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The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel $$$ www.pinnaclepierhotel.com 138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. | 604-973-8000 Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood & the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Breakfast, lunch, dinner & late night lounge, 7 days/week. Live music Fridays 8 - 11 pm.

INDIAN Handi Cuisine of India www.handicuisineofindia.ca 1579 Bellevue Avenue, W. Van. | 604-925-5262 A North Shore News Reader’s Choice 2006 Winner, offering Authentic Indian Cuisine.

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Life awaits outside your phone Five a.m. Breath misting in the cabin as the heater works hard to wake up in the cold.

– this new global subcompact platform is more rigid and lighter, which combine to improve driving dynamics and ride comfort.

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The whir of the tires on damp asphalt. Behind, the city’s electronic soup recedes into the rearview; in a pocket, a jostled iPhone lights up and shows the two finest words in the English language: No Service.

We are told that the connected car is the wave of the future. Right now, automakers and governments alike are throwing cash at the problem of the autonomous car. Soon, they say, we’ll all be able to summon a safe little pod to the curb, curl up inside without the encumbrance of a steering wheel, and hurtle

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If you’re in the market for a first car or interested in downsizing, the Honda Fit may be the vehicle for you. Now in its third generation, the subcompact was clearly designed with the goal of maximizing versatility and space. It is available at Pacific Honda in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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It competes with the likes of Ford Fiesta, Hyundai Accent and Nissan Versa Note.

Honda introduced the allnew third generation Fit last year, so 2016 sees no significant changes. This new model evolved from the awardwinning foundation and added fresh styling, a more refined driving experience,

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This new generation Fit has a smaller footprint than before; most notably it is 1.6 inches shorter in overall length. Despite this, Honda was able to increase passenger volume by 4.9 cubic feet and rear seat legroom by 4.8 inches.

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toward our destination on a cloud of efficient electrons, all without lifting our eyes from a tiny screen.

Nuts to that. True, commuting is a joyless time-suck, and not having to spend your life at the wheel, grinding your teeth at the traffic report, would be a boon for most people. The autonomous car will open up transportation for the elderly, cut down on drinking and driving, reduce pedestrian fatalities, maybe make our roads a safer place.

But it’ll also be another day spent indoors in a cage of our own making. We’ve built these miraculous little boxes of stimulation and convinced ourselves that we’re still connected to each other, still huddled around the campfire in the dark, telling the important stories, listening to each other.

The fact is, we all carry a prison in our pocket, one that makes us miserable. Ten million tiny Ozymandiases, all digitally proclaiming, “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.” We see friends, coworkers, acquaintances, celebrities, every one of them presenting their best side, carefully crafting a digital life that only shows the positives.

We measure ourselves against these artifices, ask others to vote on how happy we should be. At mealtimes, instead of talking, fingers itch to check our statuses. How do we rate?

Nuts, as I’ve said, to that.

Because you can break free.

You can get up early, crank over the engine and run. Run from the electronic swamp and its poisonous miasma, run to the hills, to the flow of the road and the reassuring realness of the landscape. This really is the best place on Earth, and all you have to do is look up for a minute.

So, I run. In everything from a borrowed Jaguar convertible to my own Cheerios-strewn Subaru. Shoot past the traffic, out into the wild: life begins beyond Pemberton. It’s not the road as your own private racetrack, it’s the tarmac’d interior of this province as the best therapy you can buy.

There are trails to be found out here, campsites to chart. British Columbia is a place that rewards the explorer, and you don’t need the months-long expedition nor the mule-train those early pioneers did.

Now, this whole place is open to pretty much anyone: when you turn the keys in the ignition, you open the door to a kingdom three times the size of Texas.

The car is freedom, it pretty much always has been. Before, it was the chance to explore, to get out of the little valley where you might have otherwise been stuck and see the big city. It was the chance to open up the corners of the world, expand your mind, democratise travel.

Now, it’s perhaps the last escape from a future spent dabbing at a touchscreen like some dopaminedemented lab rat. No Service. No

The car has always symbolized freedom – a chance to explore, open up the corners of the world and expand your mind, writes columnist Brendan McAleer. PHOTO SUPPLIED BRENDAN MCALEER Facebook. No Twitter feed crammed with 140-character oversimplifications or nuclear-strength narcissism.

The marketers want to turn the car into the same sanitized, joyless experience you get from modern air travel. It’ll be easier, cheaper, less challenging. You won’t have to let go of your electronic crutch.

But nuts to that. Get up early, grab your keys, pick up a friend to

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Going for a drive for no reason comes with the best reason there is. It’s a chance to get clear of the buzzing and leave the electronic fog behind. The sun comes up, gilding

the coastal mountains in golden glory. Behind me, people are waking up, reaching for their phones, checking their email to see how they should feel today.

The road stretches out ahead, promising the lone and level sands of the desert. Empty your head of the modern cacophony; fill your heart with something real.

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~2016 RX 350 F SPORT Series 3 shown: $70,944. ^$1,000/$2,000/$3,000 F SPORT credit is available to qualified retail customers on the purchase/lease of new 2016 Lexus RX 350 F SPORT models only/2016 NX 200t F SPORT (sfx ‘F’ only)/2016 IS 200t F SPORT models only, and will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Limited time offer is subject to change or cancellation without notice. *Lease offers provided through Lexus Financial Services, on approved credit. *Representative lease example based on a 2016 RX 350 F SPORT sfx ‘G’ on a 39 month term at an annual rate of 3.5% and MSRP of $65,644. Monthly payment is $768 with $6,428 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $36,389. 39,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/km for excess kilometres. *Representative lease example based on a 2016 IS 200t F SPORT sfx ‘F’ on a 39 month term at an annual rate of 0.9% and MSRP of $45,993. Monthly payment is $388 with $5,728 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $20,842. 39,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/km for excess kilometres. *Representative lease example based on a 2016 NX 200t F SPORT sfx ‘F’ on a 39 month term at an annual rate of 2.5% and MSRP of $51,244. Monthly payment is $558 with $4,968 down payment or equivalent trade in, $0 security deposit and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $26,732. 39,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.20/km for excess kilometres. MSRPs include freight and PDI ($2,045), Dealer fees, AC charge ($100) and filters. License, insurance, registration (if applicable), and taxes are extra. Fees may vary by Dealer.

Lexus Dealers are free to set their own prices. Limited time offers only apply to retail customers at participating Lexus Dealers. Dealer order/trade may be required. Offers are subject to change or cancellation without notice. Offers expire at month’s end unless extended or revised. See your Lexus Dealer for complete details.

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2016 RAV4

RAV4 FWD LE MSRP FROM $27,125 incl. F+PDI

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COROLLA SPORT SHOWN MSRP incl. F+PDI $21,495

RAV4 LIMITED SHOWN MSRP incl. F+PDI $39,635

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0.49%

TACOMA DCAB 4x4 WITH TRD SPORT PKG SHOWN MSRP incl. F+PDI $40,190

2016 COROLLA

2016 TACOMA

2016 COROLLA CE MSRP FROM $17,610 incl. F+PDI

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until March 31, 2016. See toyota.ca for complete details. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on www.getyourtoyota.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. *Lease example: 2016 RAV4 FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A with a vehicle price of $27,125 includes $1,885 freight/PDI leased at 2.49% over 60 months with $2,475 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $129 with a total lease obligation of $18,007. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. †Finance offer: 0.49% finance for 39 months, upon credit approval. **Lease example: 2016 Corolla CE BURCEM-6A MSRP is $17,610 and includes $1,615 freight/PDI leased at 1.49% over 60 months with $1,150 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $78 with a total lease obligation of $10,562. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. ††Finance offer: 0% finance for 48 months, upon credit approval. ***Lease example: 2016 Tacoma Double Cab 4x4 DZ5BNT-A with a vehicle price of $38,905 includes $1,885 freight/PDI leased at 4.99% over 60 months with $3,250 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $199 with a total lease obligation of $27,177. Applicable taxes are extra. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. †††Finance offer: 2.49% finance for 39 months, upon credit approval. ‡Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services (TFS) on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 60 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. Down payment and first semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. ‡‡Don’t Pay for 90 Days on Toyota Financial Service Finance Contracts (OAC) on all new 2015 and 2016 Toyota models.

Offer valid from January 5 - March 31, 2016. Interest deferment on all finance contracts at no cost for at least 60 days. Interest will commence on or after the 61st day after the contract date. The first payment will be due 90 days from the contract date. Available with monthly or bi weekly payment frequency. Not available on lease. ‡‡‡®Aeroplan miles: Vehicle MSRP greater than $60,000 earns 20,000 Aeroplan miles plus 5000 Aeroplan bonus miles for a total of 25,000 miles. Miles offer valid on vehicles purchased/leased, registered and delivered between January 5 and March 31, 2016. Customers must be an Aeroplan Member prior to the completion of the transaction. Offer subject to change without notice. Some conditions apply. Other miles offers available on other vehicles. See Toyota.ca/aeroplan or your Dealer for details. ®Aeroplan and the Aeroplan logo are registered trademarks of Aimia Canada Inc. Visit your Toyota Dealer or www.getyourtoyota.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

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††Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov).†Based on Global Automakers of Canada New Vehicle Registrations in British Columbia for calendar year 2015 for the Subcompact (Fit), Compact (Civic) and Intermediate (Accord) Car segments and Subcompact SUV (HR-V) segment. *Limited time weekly lease offer and all other offers are from Honda Canada Finance Inc., on approved credit. #The weekly lease offer applies to a new 2016 Civic 4D LX 6MT FC2E5GE/CR-V LX RM3H3GE1/Fit DX GK5G3GE for a 60-month period, for a total of 260 payments of $56.97/$71.96/$43.97 leased at 2.99%/1.99%/2.99% APR based on applying $210/$280/$465 “lease dollars” (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes). ‡Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $14,812.20/$18,709.60/$11,432.20. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. **MSRP is $20,485/$27,885/$16,325 including freight and PDI of $1,595/$1,695/$1,595. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. */#/**Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent's fee of $5.25, tire/battery tax of $25, or air conditioning tax (where applicable) of $100, all of which are due at time of delivery. Additional charges for waste disposal fees, environmental fees and handling charges (all of which may vary by dealer and/or vehicle) may apply. Offers valid from March 1st through March 31st, 2016 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.