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Man, 61, dies in Wembley house fire JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A 61-year-old North Vancouver man is dead following a house fire Tuesday morning at 2831 Wembley Drive.

TOP MARKS Irwin Park principal Liz Hill chats with students Dylan Cunliffe and Alana Kim. The West Vancouver public school was ranked one of the province’s best by the Fraser Institute. See our story page 4. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

District of North Vancouver firefighters raced to the scene around 10:30 a.m. after receiving multiple 9-1-1 calls from neighbours who reported heavy smoke coming from an upstairs area of the house.

Fire crews arrived and found two bedrooms in the home engulfed in thick, black smoke and one window already blown out of the house, said Mike Cairns, assistant fire chief with District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.

Firefighters discovered the homeowner unresponsive in one bedroom, carried him outside to the front yard and immediately began

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CITY OF NORTH VANCOUVER

The Shipyards plan surges ahead BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

The City of North Vancouver’s grandiose plans for a waterfront destination have taken a big step from concept to reality.

The city has named Quay Property Management, the parent company of Lonsdale Quay Market, as its partner for developing The Shipyards on Lot 5 and work is expected to begin this year.

Outdoor ice rink, retail and hotel all included in major waterfront redevelopment The city debuted its detailed plans on Tuesday, including a covered seasonal ice rink/splash pool, movable event and concert stage, new retail and restaurant buildings, more hotel

rooms, underground parking and Spirit Trail connections.

Mayor Darrell Mussatto said it is a “turning point” for the city.

“I think this is a real positive legacy. It’s going to be a great public, open gathering space for everyone. For families, for younger people, for older people and it’s going to make that site usable 365 days a year,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a really great people place – one of the best in the Lower Mainland.”

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Residents call for sound barriers Highway noise ruins Burley Park, neighbours say BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Residents around Sentinel Hill in West Vancouver are hoping the province will step in and fix a deafening problem in Burley Park.

Nine-year-old Theo Meneguzzi and sister Milan, 11, gather with family and neighbours on the overpass near Burley Drive Park.

Residents say the highway fencing is an inadequate sound barrier that needs to be improved. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

W. Vancouver public school rated one of the best in B.C.

Irwin Park tops annual schools ranking, Ecole Cedardale and Mulgrave also grab top score JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

Irwin Park elementary school isn’t home to any fancy specialty education programs – it’s not a French Immersion or an International Baccalaureate school.

It’s a big school, with about 400 students, and an increasingly diverse one – about 26 per cent of kids who attend don’t speak English as a first language and about six per cent have special needs.

As Irwin Park principal Liz Hill puts it, “We are a regular school.”

But this regular West Vancouver public school earned special recognition this week when it was ranked among the top elementary schools in the province in the annual Fraser Institute’s school ranking report card.

Another West Vancouver public school – Ecole Cedardale – received the same top score of 10 out of 10 on the

institute’s rankings. The two public schools shared the top spot with 16 private schools, including West Vancouver’s Mulgrave school.

Hill credits dedicated teachers, supportive parents and a welcoming attitude for success in the classroom.

The school has a focus on teaching kids self-regulation skills early so they’re ready to learn, she said, and encourages reading with a special primary reading program.

“When you walk into a school you get a sense and feeling of what a school is all about. People say hi to you when you walk in.”

Overall, West Vancouver public elementary schools were ranked by the Fraser Institute as the best in the province, with an average score of 9.2 out of 10.

Chris Kennedy, schools superintendent for West Vancouver, acknowledges some of that academic success likely has to do with the relative affluence and

education of West Vancouver parents.

The school district’s small size is also an advantage, he said.

“We’re able to pinpoint students who are struggling,” he said, and offer support early on, while in a larger system, those kids can sometimes fall through the cracks. “We’re not overwhelmed by sheer numbers.”

The Fraser Institute’s school rankings remain controversial decades after the right-wing think tank began scoring schools based on results on standardized academic foundation skills assessment (FSA) tests administered by the Ministry of Education.

The B.C. Teachers Federation has long campaigned to scrap those tests, saying they are not a good indicator of learning, fail to account for large socioeconomic differences between schools and are used by the Fraser Institute to promote private schools at the expense of public education.

“We don’t put any credence in the ranking,” said Rob Millard, president of the West Vancouver Teachers

Association.

Test scores are only “a snapshot of what’s going on for that student on any particular day,” he said.

“We don’t have too many kids in our district who are going to school hungry.”

Kennedy said as a parent whose own kids wrote the FSA tests, “it’s another piece of useful information,” along with the assessment of the classroom teacher.

As an administrator, Kennedy said the test scores can be useful in flagging concerns in cases where kids aren’t meeting provincial expectations.

One criticism he has of the tests is “they do feel dated” in their focus on reading, writing and math. “In terms of what we’re valuing, how creative or innovative kids are is also important,” he said.

Kennedy said his advice to parents wanting to know how schools are doing is “go and visit the school” – starting with the one in the neighbourhood. He added more parents probably get their information about schools from chatting on the soccer sidelines than they do from the Fraser Institute.

When the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure expanded the Upper Levels Highway in the 1970s, it never installed sound barriers. Since then, the park has been largely unusable, nearby residents say.

“This park was given to the community for the use and enjoyment by the community and (the noise barriers) should have been done back then. It was not.

Now we’re left with an ever increasing noise factor. It’s so bad,” said Jacquie Semple, who lives near the park.

“There’s a low, pathetic wood fencing that’s always blowing out. It’s just not adequate.”

John Wilcockson, who grew up next to the park and now raises his family in his childhood home, said visitors in the park can’t even carry on a conversation there.

“We had to yell at each other in order to really hear each other. It’s just an unpleasant place to be. It’s kind of a forgotten park,” he said.

Residents worry the sound may be more than unpleasant, possibly dangerous. The District of West Vancouver sent a bylaw officer to measure the noise coming from the highway and noted volumes of about 67 decibels on the north side of the park.

Following numerous requests to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, neighbours were told installing noise barriers after highway expansion projects only became official policy in 2014.

The 2014 policy states: “Passive parks and other land

uses … for which tranquillity is a desirable, if not essential attribute, will be considered for mitigation on a case-bycase basis.”

The ministry did not provide anyone to be interviewed but instead sent a statement.

“The ministry has reviewed its sound mitigation policy that states the requirement for sound mitigation, if warranted, would have been provided at the time of highway widening. The policy, like others the ministry relies on, is not retroactive as standards for measuring and conducting acoustic analysis change over time,” it read.

But that date is arbitrary, and the park certainly would have been a candidate for sound barriers had the policy been in place sooner, the neighbours argue.

The ministry is willing to work with the District of West Vancouver to permit installation of a noise wall on their right of way, but the district has shown no interest in taking on the cost. According to the ministry, the cost of installing a new sound wall can run between $600,000 and $1.2 million per kilometre.

“The ministry will continue to meet with area residents to discuss their concerns and look into what solutions may be possible for Burley Park,” the province’s statement concluded.

The park, meanwhile, continues to be maintained, cleaned and occasionally even upgraded at district taxpayers’ expense while being used for little more than a place for dogs to relieve themselves, Wilcockson said “(My kids) call it poohpooh park,” he said.

West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan has gone to bat for the residents in the area on the sound barrier issue in the past but didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The neighbours are hoping to get a sit-down with Transportation Minister Todd Stone the next time he’s in town, but so far, their request has gone unanswered.

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for proposal process last year.

Quay Property Management’s proposal stood out based on the finances and the content of their proposal, Mussatto said.

“Council was very supportive and I think everyone is in the same direction,” Mussatto said. “They really captured the essence of what we’re looking for in terms of public space.

They have a great design.”

Taylor Mathiesen, director of operations for QPM, said the project is a natural fit for his company. The Quay’s management has been a stakeholder in the consultation process since the beginning and the company has a lot of experience developing and managing animated resort, market and community projects like this one.

“It’s been on our radar for a long time,” Mathiesen said.

“It’s really consistent with the types of projects we like to do and in a neighbourhood we’re already passionate about.”

The exact finances involved haven’t been made public as not all the papers have been signed, Mussatto said, but Quay Properties will

be paying for the $35-million construction of the amenities as well as lease payments to the city for the retail, hotel and restaurant space. The operating costs should be covered by the revenue the city brings in from the lease, Mussatto added. “We’re going to generate those funds from the money we make at the site. The revenue we see from Tap & Barrel, the Pipe Shop, and the lease will cover all the operating costs pretty much of all of the site. It will be a wash.”

The city, however, will be sharing the cost of 140 new underground parking stalls and putting up roughly $5 million to remediate the soil left contaminated from its time as an industrial shipyard.

Access to the rink should be free, Mussatto said, with skate rentals available on site. The splash pool will be shallow enough that lifeguards won’t be required. More public washrooms and change rooms are planned for the north side of the lot.

The 50 to 60 hotel rooms could be owned and operated

by Lonsdale Quay, Pinnacle Hotels or a new boutique hotel. It will be up to Quay

Properties to decide, Mussatto said.

The Pipe Shop, where until January, the North Vancouver Museum and Archives was planning to move to, will likely remain as a rentable event space but the city is planning to add washrooms, lighting and heating and air conditioning as well as a small commissary. Council will be deciding in the next year what to do with the historic building over the long term.

Not everyone loves what’s in the plan, Mussatto conceded, but every project has its critics – many of whom change their tune, he added.

“For the people who are not as keen, I hope they give it a second chance once it’s open,” he said. “There were people who were naysayers about the Friday Night Market.

There were people who were naysayers about the Green Necklace. Some of them changed their minds as well once it was constructed and built and they saw how great it was.”

Detailed designs and soil remediation at the site are expected to start this year and the project is expected to be completed by the fall of 2018.

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No official cause of death has been released, but preliminary indications are the man likely died of smoke inhalation.

Fire investigators, the North Vancouver RCMP and the BC Coroner’s Service are all investigating.

Investigators don’t yet know what started the fire, but so far there are no signs of anything suspicious, said Cairns.

The fire appears to have started in the bedroom, where most of the fire damage occurred.

Cairns said there were no working smoke detectors in the home, adding it’s important that people check

the devices and change batteries in smoke detectors that are not wired into the electrical system.

“Smoke can be very toxic and can knock you down in a second,” the assistant fire chief said.

Neighbours confirmed the identity of the homeowner as John Welch, who had lived in the neighbourhood for about 20 years.

Welch worked in the insurance department of the University of British Columbia for over a decade and had retired three years ago.

Ron Holton, chief risk officer for the university who worked with Welch, said colleagues were shocked and saddened at the news this week.

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Cairns said firefighters did all they could to save him.

“They did a great job of getting him out of the house quickly,” he said. “These are the tougher calls for sure.

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n chess, good players must think several moves in advance.

But none of the group of chess players who’ve been meeting at Park Royal for 50 years anticipated the shopping centre’s decision to unceremoniously oust them. A group of about 30 chess players at the mall were recently told it was game over at their regular spot in the mall’s food court.

The reason? They were taking up space meant for “paying customers.”

Mall management threatened to call the police on the players – many in their 70s and 80s – if they continued to “loiter” against mall policy.

The mall’s move has since ignited a storm of public indignation, and rightly so. Even Mayor Michael Smith weighed in suggesting the mall may want to rethink its play.

Just who are these hooligans the

mall wants gone?

Assorted philanthropists and retirees who have contributed to building their community and who have given back to the mall by hosting tournaments and offering lessons. Apparently not the sort the mall wants taking up valuable real estate.

It does seem deeply ironic that in an age when shopping malls strive to promote themselves as community “villages,” that when people actually create a community, they become personae non gratae.

The chess players are part of the mall’s culture, one its corporate owners should be embracing, not tossing in a short-sighted and mean-spirited move.

It may be the end game for chess players but we’d like to think it’s not yet the end.

Park Royal, it’s your move.

Love in a garden, and a less than smart chess move

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tunning blow to West Vancouver town hall’s Ambleside-Dundarave renewal vision (or fantasy): The Avant Gardener in the core 1400-block Marine Drive is shutting down.

After 28 years owner Darlene Sanders is holding a 30-per-cent-off closing-out sale and — romantically — is bound for new life and love on 14 acres of English soil.

The everything-must-go sale ends April 15. No one has come forward to buy the business as a going concern.

The wittily named Avant Gardener (how’s your French?) is just what Ambleside needs more of — beautiful goods, creatively displayed — if it aims to lure the rich residents of the most expensive real estate in the country, and to draw customers from a certain nearby expansionist shopping centre (see next item).

It’s strong on imaginative design and fine quality.

Yet it is street-appealing and browser-friendly, entirely without the intimidating air of some up-market

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Sanders herself is attractively smart and engagingly down-to-earth — appropriate for gardeners, to be sure — with roots (enough already with the horticultural puns!) in East Vancouver. She can’t speak too glowingly of her gentle sales assistant, Margaret Waddell — “a wonderful, wonderful woman, no pretense about it, honest, hard-working.” What a reference.

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element. Or true-life fairytale for TV? Some 25 years ago Sanders met a couple who shared her gardening passion.

When the wife passed away, Sanders and her now-widower friend kept contact with their enthusiasm for all things gardening.

She’s joining that friend, Maurice Foster, the owner of the 14-acre plot, a private arboretum in England’s garden county of Kent. Foster is a renowned British plantsman, holder of the rarest of English gardening distinctions, the Royal Horticultural Society Victoria Medal of Honour, attainable only through the death of a previous member: It’s restricted to just 63 living members — one for each year of Victoria’s reign. (I have a backyard I wish he’d look at.)

Trade has been brisk at the Avant Gardener. So are regrets, Sanders said. “There was an outpouring of affection this last week — ‘Oh no, we love the store, it has a soul, it’s different’ … ’’ But for the more hard of nose: This underlines Ambleside/Dundarave’s

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The family owns Park Royal Shopping Centre.

And much else. Canadian Business magazine last year rated the Laljis Canada’s 26th wealthiest people — assets, $2,688,080,424.

But every square foot is money, and for 50 years freeloaders have occupied costly retail space in PR’s food court.

Enough’s enough. PR’s patience is exhausted. Last month its general manager sent them a letter ordering them to leave. If they fail to comply, “it will give us no alternative but to reach out to the West Vancouver Police Department.”

Who are these putative criminals? These undesirables inviting a paddywagon trip to the Crowbar Motel?

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The Laljis know personally about expulsion. Brothers Amin and Mansoor Lalji were among the Ugandan Asians — ethnically, East Indians — kicked out in the 1970s by monstrous Uganda dictator Idi Amin, furious that they dominated business and the professions.

The expelled could take only $500 each. But the Laljis were Ismailis, a communitarian Muslim sect that collects and lends adherents’ money — better than any bank. Vivid childhood memory: A photo in Life magazine of Ismailis loading jewels and gold on a scale balancing their then leader, Aga Khan III. And he was no lightweight.

The Vancouver Sun played this story big — top front page, pictures. Friend Bill X reported the chess closure was the talk of a gala he attended. My opening words weren’t sarcasm. You have to truly pity people so dollardriven they don’t know there

isn’t money enough to buy bad publicity like this. !!!

Easter in post-Christian Canada: The Province splashed an atheist organization’s opposition to Bible distribution in Abbotsford schools by the Gideons, even if parents consent to it. CBC Radio re-ran a profile of a Toronto area United Church minister who is a practicing, preaching, proselytizing atheist. Maclean’s rang in with a front-page teaser: “Did Jesus Really Exist?” I drily await these forthright media’s searching stories on other major religions and their leaders. !!!

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I love your car column but I wish you would please stick to obsessing about cup holders or lack of and the fact that some new car is 10 millimetres longer, shorter or higher than before. I wish you would stick to talking about cars and leave the heavy lifting about road safety to others more qualified, like the cops. They see it all.

Regarding your comments that going up in the cherry picker was “unfair, unsporting.” So, you are saying it’s OK for the jerk in the Mercedes (or BMW) to talk on the phone and put my life in danger?

What you overlook is that driving is not a right, not a game and not a contest. When some self-absorbed, oblivious “my-time-is-more-importantthan-your-safety” driver does dumb things, it makes my blood boil.

I’ve been driving for 50 years. Talking, texting, handsfree ( yes, even hands-free) is an accident waiting to happen.

That selfish act is putting my safety and other innocent

third parties at risk. Nobody has to get hurt on the road.

Good on the cops, bad on the idiots.

Distracted driving is just like driving drunk. Take the phone and car away for a day, then I guarantee stupid behaviour will stop.

If the cops want to go up in a cherry picker or do somersaults in the middle of the road to get drivers to behave like responsible adults, then I’m all for it. The cops are doing a great job, and a ticket for unsafe behaviour is better than wrecking everyone’s family for the rest of their life.

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CNV, Lillooet to petition for return of rail

Sea to Sky passenger service makes sense, mayors say JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

There’s almost 250 kilometres between them, but the City of North Vancouver and the District of Lillooet are hoping to get on the same track.

The two communities plan to work together to petition the provincial

government to bring back passenger rail between North Vancouver and Prince George, following a council meeting Monday.

“I would love to see that,” said Mayor Darrell Mussatto.

The challenge will likely be working with CN, according to Mussatto. The national railway company owns the tracks and tends

to relegate passenger rail to their lowest priority, according to the mayor.

“My understanding is that there’s a lot less freight going up and down the tracks then their used to be,” he said. “There might be an opportunity for us to have that passenger rail back again.”

It’s been nearly 14 years since the former B.C. Rail line was leased to CN, who subsequently discontinued the Budd Car, a rail car Mussatto and other skiers rode on their way to

Whistler.

Closing the line left rural communities struggling to fill an economic void, according to Lillooet Mayor Marg Lampman.

Lampman appealed to North Vancouver council after garnering unanimous support from Lillooet council.

Lampman cited increasing pressure on highways, greater costs to travelling residents and a larger burden on the environment as reasons for restoring rail travel.

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The loss of the rail line has hampered the B.C.’s ability to showcase the province to tourists, she said. It’s also been a huge inconvenience for Lillooet residents, particularly in light of the loss of Greyhound service, she added.

“If you’re a senior or don’t drive in the District of Lillooet, you’re a little bit stuck.”

While the restored rail line could be a “wonderful

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The new line shouldn’t emulate the Rocky Mountaineer tour trains, “where only those tourists with deep pockets can afford the luxury of rail travel,” she said.

After being founded in 1912, the Pacific Great Eastern railway – running from North Vancouver’s Pemberton Avenue to Prince George – became the B.C. railway in 1972.

DNV firefighters trained in autism awareness JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

District of North Vancouver firefighters are now specially trained to help people with autism spectrum disorder, making the department the second in Canada to complete that training.

People with autism can face a greater risk in an emergency due to both an increased sensitivity to their surroundings and a tendency to flee. Almost half of children with autism have run away from a safe environment, according to the National Autism Association.

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The West Vancouver Legion is commemorating the 99th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge Saturday.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman North Shore Sport Awards The 17th annual North Shore Sport Awards were held March 29 in the West Vancouver Community Centre atrium. The annual event is intended to celebrate local sport achievement at all levels â&#x20AC;&#x201C; high school, provincial and international included. Representatives of the local sports community, coaches, athletes and their supporters were in attendance, seeing this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crop of winners awarded in a number of categories ranging from Master Male to Youth Leadership.

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Pippa Mackie, David Salvado, Daniel Doheny and Kerry Sandomirsky are featured performers in The Arts Club’s production of The Valley.

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Victoria playwright Joan MacLeod was born and raised in North Vancouver, so it’s not surprising that two of the characters in her 2013 drama The Valley would hail from her home turf.

In the Arts Club Theatre Company’s production of MacLeod’s play, Kerry Sandomirsky takes on the role of North Shore mom Sharon, whose 18-year-old son Connor (Daniel Doheny), a formerly high-achieving high school student, has just returned home from the University of Calgary

with anxiety and depression.

“When he comes home for Thanksgiving he stuns me by telling me that he is dropping out,” Sandomirsky explains. “I am thrust from empty-nesting into caretaking for someone who becomes increasingly ill, so a big switch from the stage of life I was expecting to go into.”

The catalyst driving the story forward is an incident in which Connor has a psychotic breakdown on the SkyTrain.

He’s arrested at Joyce Station in Vancouver, and is injured in the process.

“I interpret the police treatment of my son as excessive,” Sandomirsky says. “I become a bit of an advocate, obviously for my son, but also for how police deal with mental illness and the challenges they have.”

The arrest connects Sharon and Connor with the two other characters in the ensemble piece: Dan (Robert Salvador), the police officer involved in the SkyTrain incident, and his wife

Janie (Pippa Mackie), whose post-partum depression is driving a wedge through their relationship. The couple lives in Maple Ridge.

Sharon soon learns that she doesn’t know the full story of what happened the day of her son’s arrest.

“I leap to a conclusion because my son is injured, but I soon learn that there are a lot more extenuating circumstances,” Sandomirsky says. “When I learn how complex the real event actually was, I invite the police officer and his wife to a healing circle.”

The Valley is rife with topical themes, one of which is the rocky relationship between law enforcers and people with mental illness. The play examines these themes through the lens of two families, both struggling to stay connected in the face of their respective challenges.

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Images immerse viewers in B.C. history

Archival Langmann collection on view at PHG

! NANITCH: Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection at Presentation House Gallery until June 26.

– Saturday, April 16, 7:30 p.m., Exhibition Reception.

– Monday, April 18, 7 p.m., Gold Nuggets and Silver Salts: The Photographic Legacy of Frederick Dally, Lecture by Joan Schwartz.

– Thursday, May 12, 7:30 p.m., Exhibition Tour with Uno Langmann.

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Presentation House Gallery’s NANITCH challenges the dominant narrative of progress by balancing feats with failures, giving truth to the province’s history through a photographic exploration in time.

Drawing from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, donated

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to UBC in 2014, PHG curators sifted through 18,000 prints and negatives to create the exhibition.

“What we’ve done here

is we’ve really emphasized the importance of albums,” says curator Helga Pakasaar.

“In general the importance of how photographs were not

so much meant to be seen as single pictures on the wall, but rather as part of groups and sequences … to give this immersive sense of this

land that, in many cases, they wanted to indicate wasn’t really wild, but something that is being domesticated and is beautiful without the

negatives attached to that.”

Now a ghost town located near Kamloops, Walhachin was created as a packaged community to attract English settlers to the province. The album lays out Victorian homes placed in the middle of a flat, desert-like landscape.

Flourishing orchards are pictured at the height of the day with attractive patches of shade, and irrigation trellises are evidence of the engineering that portray the community as established and ready for the taking. But a misunderstanding of the land caused the vision to collapse.

Orchards don’t survive well in the centre of B.C.’s dry belt.

Viewers of the exhibition can flip through the album of Walhachin on touch screens that display scanned images from the collection.

A role of more singular images is represented in the form of postcards. Ranging from more photojournalistic genres, one postcard shows a free speech demonstration, while other postcards depict tailored, hand-tinted images of landscapes and people.

“We wanted to, in the way the exhibition is laid out, kind of emphasize the seriality of pictures and the proliferation,

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

Slivers of Silver - Wood + Fabric: Three installation works

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nvartscouncil.ca 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 until April 16.

DISTRICT FOYER GALLERY 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca The North Vancouver Community Arts Council presents an exhibition of acrylic paintings by Peter Manning and Ukranian jewelry by Tetiana Zaruba until April 26.

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PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org Nanitch: A display of early photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection runs until June 26.

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of police work after getting to know the Dan character.

“It just flipped my frame of reference. I felt like I was educated in some way about the challenges of policing in this city,” she says.

Directed by Mindy Parfitt, this production features an urban, pared-back set with a raked stage, meaning the floor slopes upwards from front to back so the actors appear at different levels.

That’s proven a challenge for Sandomirsky, who had a stage accident back in 2003 that left her with a chronic balance problem.

“This production is a bit like acting on a tilt-a-whirl.

I’m off balance all the time.

I’m wearing heels. I’m going upstage, downstage, so

Sandomirsky was immediately drawn to the script as a long-time fan of MacLeod.

She performed in the awardwinning playwright’s first full-length play Toronto, Mississippi in Regina back in 1990.

“It was one of the best theatrical experiences of my life,” she says, describing MacLeod’s writing as mature, witty, and hopeful, without being overly sentimental.

The Valley, she says, does not villainize police or victimize the mentally ill, but rather looks at the issue of care and public safety from a balanced perspective. In fact, Sandomirsky says she has a deeper understanding

there’s never a moment in the play that my brain isn’t having to recalibrate.”

She’s hopeful that being a bit physically unstable will be an asset to her performance.

“In some ways maybe I’ll be able to weave it into my character in that emotionally I’m off balance,” she says.

Although The Valley takes place in the Lower Mainland, it’s a story that could easily take place anywhere, Sandomirsky notes. That said, Arts Club audiences will likely appreciate the local settings and may even find some humour in the familiarity.

“It could happen in any city, but I always find it particularly delightful when I know the references.”

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IF THE SHOE FITS Painter Jacquie Manning is showing her work along with clay artist Carolyn di Pasquale, in a new show, If the shoe fits ... Animate, at the Ron Andrews rec centre. The exhibit opens April 10 and runs through June 5. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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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.

If the Shoe Fits ... Animate: Jacquie Manning shows a series of paintings with shoes and Carolyn di Pasquale shows sculptures of dogs, cats, mice and some pottery April 10-June 5.

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Start With Art An exhibition where established artists who work in a diverse variety of media have artwork hung at “kids-eye-view” and priced in a kid friendly range runs until May 7. There will be a special free reception to meet the artists and participate in button-making and face painting Sunday, April 10, 2-4 p.m.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Cherry Blossoms — A Textile Translation: A juried exhibition of textile art inspired by the cherry blossom runs until April 10. Artists will give live demos every weekend during the exhibition.

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NOTICE ROAD CLOSURE & REMOVAL OF HIGHWAY DEDICATION

BYLAW NO. 4888, 2016

In accordance with Section 40 of the Community Charter, the District of West Vancouver (the District) gives notice of its intention to close a portion of District highway adjacent to 2998 Park Lane and remove the dedication of that portion as a highway (the Closed Road). The Closed Road area is approximately 9,020 square feet (838 m2), more or less, and is shown outlined in bold and labeled as Closed Road in the sketch plan below.

TWO ROOMS North Vancouver Community Players present Two Rooms at the Theatre at Hendry Hall from April 7-23. The political drama, featuring (above) Laura Burke, Karen Golden, Pierce Ivan and Cyril Redillas, was written by Lee Blessing. To order tickets visit northvanplayers.ca or call 604-983-2633. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

The bylaw closing the portion of highway and removing its dedication will be considered for adoption by Council at its special meeting to be held at Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver, on April 25, 2016, at 6 p.m. Persons who consider they are affected by the bylaw will be provided an opportunity to make representations to Council at the meeting, or by written submissions addressed to Mayor and Council and delivered to the Municipal Clerk prior to the meeting. Submissions to Council will be included in the public information package for Council’s consideration.

Copies of the proposed bylaw and other related documents may be viewed at Municipal Hall from April 5 to 25, 2016 during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday except for statutory holidays).

For convenience only, some of the documents may also be available at westvancouver.ca or in the Reference Department of the West Vancouver Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive (call 604-925-7400 for current hours of operation).

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From page 17 featuring the works of Norman Vipond, Michael Brouillet, Neil MacDonald and Mary Winter runs until May 1.

WEST VANCOUVER MUNICIPAL HALL 750 17th St., West Vancouver.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 604-925-7290 Art in the Hall: Paintings by Don Francis are featured until April 22.

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Cap Classical and Choral — Grand Masters of Europe: A mix of music from some of the old European masters of choral music to some of the favourite North American masters performed by Capilano University Festival Chorus and Capilano University Singers April 9, 8 p.m. and April 10, 3 p.m.

Tickets: $25/$20/$10.

Cap Classical and Choral — Heroic Episodes: The 15th Artillery Regiment RCA will join Capilano University Wind Ensemble to celebrate the accomplishments of heroes past and present through music Tuesday, April 12 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $15/$10/$5.

Cap Global Roots: Lemon Bucket Orkestra performs Thursday, April 14 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $28/$25.

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

Traditionally Yours: John McDermott performs songs from his latest release as well as a variety of favourites Friday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $50.

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Hank Williams shows his dark side in new biopic ! I Saw The Light. Written and directed by Marc Abraham. Starring Tom Hiddleston.

Rating: 5 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing Writer

I Saw The Light, Marc Abraham’s biopic about legendary country crooner Hank Williams, does much to re-create the rigorous schedules that defined the postDepression country music scene but little to delve into the demons that chased Williams into an early grave at age 29.

Whatever shortcomings plague the film, they are not due to Tom Hiddleston. Never mind the criticism that a Brit shouldn’t be playing America’s first bona-fide country superstar: Hiddleston, known best to North American audiences as Loki in The Avengers franchise, does an outstanding job with both the accent and with Hank’s trademark yodeling twang.

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The film opens with a prettily lit but out-of-context dream scene of Hank playing “Cold Cold Heart” and black and white monologues from his manager Fred Rose (Bradley Whitford), which serve as periodic narration.

The story takes flight on a rainy night at an Alabama gas station, where Williams marries newly divorced Audrey (Elizabeth Olsen, great here) against the will of his controlling mama Lillie (Cherry Jones). “I haven’t been driving you all over the state for 10 years to let her swoop in…” barks Lillie, who fights with Audrey over the money from Hank’s gigs.

Audrey doesn’t just want the cash, she wants the glory, but proves to be a middling talent. Hank’s insistence that Audrey sing rankles his band (the Drifting Cowboys) and his handlers.

“At least turn her mic down for God’s sake,” says one radio boss.

Hank’s local success means nothing: he wants Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, the holy grail of country music. Hit records, marital discord and several stints in detox follow, until on June 11, 1949, Hank gets his wish of appearing at the Opry.

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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (PG) — Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 7, 9:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:30 a.m., 3, 6:30, 7, 9:30, 9:45; Thur 6:30, 9:45 p.m.

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Lemon Bucket Orkestra ready to rock

Gypsy punk ensemble pays visit to CapU

! Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Capilano University, Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $28/$25.

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“Experience Ukraine! We are open for tourism.”

That’s Ukraine’s real travel slogan. “Discover music, witness revolution and fall in love” is probably better, but it may only be applicable to Mark Marczyk.

The Toronto-born violinist and leader of Lemon Bucket Orkestra (imagine if Kool and the Gang rocked shaggy hair and flugelhorns) owes much of his life to the mountainous country on the Black Sea. The first time he hit Ukraine he was in his early 20s, and after falling in with some buskers who realized Marczyk played violin as a kid, his life changed.

The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, a “Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Party-Punk-Super Band” from Toronto, celebrate life and culture in their music. They play a Global Roots series gig at Capilano University on Thursday, April 14. PHOTO SUPPLIED “They found me a fiddle … and I started playing on the street with them and it just took over my life,” he said.

Marczyk went back to Toronto to earn a creative writing MFA at the University of Guelph-Humber, but much

like people with similar secrets tend to find each other, he once more found himself among musicians. There was a player from France, another from Mexico, and all three shared a yearning.

They wanted to play music

that was alive at the table or in a street, as spontaneous as a shout.

“That slowly grew into the Lemon Bucket Orkestra,” he says.

They’ve made good on their pledge to spontaneity,

blasting through klezmer tunes while waiting for the luggage to load on an Air Canada flight or cranking up the sousaphone at a Toronto railway station.

The band was garnering an international following when Marczyk headed back

to Ukraine.

He was there to work on a film score but ended up chronicling – and participating in – a revolution.

Teachers, pensioners, priests, rabbis, lawyers, students and a host of other Ukrainians disenchanted with what they saw as a corrupt, pro-Russia government took over the centre of Kiev, Ukraine’s capital city. They took over the cultural centre, the palace of art and city hall.

Marczyk had observed the Orange Revolution a decade earlier and was skeptical about what he was seeing, at first.

“It had gotten to such a point, that they said we can’t live like this anymore. … We’re going to be here. We’re going to stand here and support each other.”

They weathered temperatures well below zero, a blizzard, as well as riot cops “who don’t know any better,” according to Marczyk.

One protester made sandwiches, another chopped wood, some served as night security to ensure “no drunk provocateurs meandered into the protest site.”

There was a no-alcohol rule, Marczyk explains.

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WHERE: 433 East 12th Street

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Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6:30 pm Council Chamber, City Hall 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver

Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6:30 pm Council Chamber, City Hall 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver

Notice is hereby given that Council will consider:

Notice is hereby given that Council will consider:

Business Licence Application - Group Child Care Facility for a Business Licence to open a Principal Use Group Child Care with 20 children in care, under 36 months in age. If approved, there would be no further Residential Uses at the subject property.

Business Licence Amendment Application - Group Child Care Facility to amend the terms of the Business Licence to permit the expansion of “Les Petits Anges Child Care” from an Accessory Use Group Child Care with 8 children in care to a Principal Use Group Child Care with 12 children in care. The program would provide care to children under 36 months in age. If approved, there would be no further Residential Uses at the subject property.

All persons who believe they may be affected by the proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or email submissions should be forwarded to Jennifer Ficocelli, Deputy City Clerk, at jficocelli@cnv.org or by mail to City Hall.

Submissions must be received no later than 4:00 pm, Monday, April 18, 2016, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Meeting.

The proposed Business Licence application, including background material, will be available for viewing at City Hall between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from April 8, 2016, and online at www.cnv.org/publicmeetings.

Please direct all inquiries to Paul Penner, Community Planner, at ppenner@cnv.org or 604-983-7381.

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All persons who believe they may be affected by the proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or email submissions should be forwarded to Jennifer Ficocelli, Deputy City Clerk, at jficocelli@cnv.org or by mail to City Hall.

Submissions must be received no later than 4:00 pm, Monday, April 18, 2016, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Meeting.

The proposed Business Licence application, including background material, will be available for viewing at City Hall between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from April 8, 2016, and online at www.cnv.org/publicmeetings.

Please direct all inquiries to Paul Penner, Community Planner, at ppenner@cnv.org or 604-983-7381.

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From page 19 Strings Aloud performs Friday, April 15 at 9 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. and warm-up acts start at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $10 which includes coffee and goodies.

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca Jazz at the Gallery: A tour of the current exhibit followed by a concert with Mazacote Tuesday, April 12, 7-8 p.m. Tickets: $10/$7.

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THEATRE SHOWCASE Nightswimming Theatre has announced that North Vancouver-born, Montrealbased playwright Rhiannon Collett has been chosen as the recipient of their first 5X25 commission. Nightswimming has launched a 5X25 project to commission five new works, over the next five years, by performance creators born in 1995 - the same year that Nightswimming began. Collett’s submission Wasp is the first collaborative piece that will be brought into a production phase. For more on the ongoing series visit nightswimmingtheatre.com. PHOTO SUPPLIED

“I was totally shocked, especially being a Ukrainian myself and knowing how huge drinking culture is.”

He played a little music during the day, but mostly what Marczyk did was talk to people. He wanted to find out what protesters were doing, examine how the revolution was bringing people together and explore the “beautiful parts of the protest.”

One of those beautiful parts was meeting his wife, who would later collaborate with Marczyk on a folk opera inspired by the revolution entitled Counting Sheep.

The revolution was successful, the president was ousted, and shortly afterward, Russia annexed Crimea and troops stormed into the country.

“We had a war on our hands.”

Marczyk left, but not for the reasons you might expect. He left because he was supposed to record a new album with Lemon Bucket Orkestra.

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By the end of the rehearsal I said to everybody, ‘Listen, I’m sorry, we’re going to have to postpone recording this album. I have to go back to Ukraine,’” he recalls saying. “I don’t know what the purpose is or if there is a purpose, but I feel incredibly drawn to using, I guess, my skill set, using my ability to make music and to draw people together through music, and also my ability to tell a story.”

Protesters were donning military fatigues to repel Russian forces when he went back.

“We were travelling around the country at that point, playing these songs of revolution.”

Despite his experience, Marczyk is noncommittal about being a political performer, instead describing what he does as celebrating life and culture through music.

“Sometimes that celebration gets sidetracked by other things,” he acknowledges.

There’s more to the story, but Marczyk is due for sound check before a show in Banff.

“I’m being called to the stage.”

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To say Bayoush Mengesha is well-travelled would be an understatement.

The Lower Lonsdale resident has been to 18 different countries – so far – and her globe-trotting ways inspired her to found Devi Arts Collective in 2014.

“While I was travelling, I discovered that there’s so many talented and amazing artisans of all types,” she says.

Devi Arts Collective is an ethical lifestyle brand that works with artisans from around the world, mostly women living in remote areas, and sells their textiles, gemstones, beads, jewelry, fashions and household items in the North American market.

“Our goal is to support and to collaborate with talented women and individuals who might not be able to have their art showcased on a global level otherwise,” says Mengesha.

She currently works with individuals in Guatemala, Indonesia and India – all people and places she has visited personally. A selection of their products will be available at the annual Nifty for Fifty sale April 10 at Heritage Hall in Vancouver and everything sold will be ethical, fair trade and sustainable – a mandate of the social enterprise.

Devi Arts Collective includes weavers from Lake Atitlan, a Mayan village in the western highlands of Guatemala; Tanglad Village, located on a small island east of Bali, Indonesia; Kolompok Karya Sari Warna Ulam in the northeastern hills of Bali; and Klung Kung, also in Bali. From India, Mengesha sources ethically cut stones from a family of

gem-cutters.

“There’s no child labour and everyone works in safe working conditions.”

She incorporates these gemstones into her own jewelry line, Bayoush Designs, which is part of the collective.

“My inspiration, I would say, is nature. Growing up on the West Coast, it’s really easy to use that to draw from as your inspiration,” Mengesha says of her jewelry, which is also influenced by her Ethiopian heritage and things she sees in her world travels.

“There’s a little bit of everything that’s important to me that goes into my jewelry design.”

In addition to necklaces, earrings and custom creations, Mengesha also designs handbags that are sewn in Bali by a group of stay-at-home moms.

“The women who sew the bags work from home and they work in safe working conditions while they’re able to support their families.”

Another Lower Mainland jewelry designer, Shannon Wyatt, as well as Ibu Ayu, a Balinese woman who makes mala prayer bead necklaces, are also members of Devi Arts Collective.

Devi is the Sanskrit word for divine mother or goddess and the goal of the social enterprise is to support and empower creative women while connecting individuals and communities worldwide to produce ethical and sustainable things.

“I’m just trying to support individuals who have an amazing artistic ability so they can continue doing what they love as artists and allow

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Nifty for Fifty set for Sunday From page 25 them to have a living wage to be able to support their families and themselves day to day,” Mengesha says.

Devi Arts Collective products are available at select retail stores in the Lower Mainland and Sea-to-Sky corridor as well as online at deviartscollective.com.

Mengesha will be selling Devi Arts goods at the ninth annual Nifty for Fifty sale this Sunday, April 10, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Heritage Hall, 3102

A necklace by Bayoush Designs featuring African Amazonite. PHOTO SUPPLIED Main St., Vancouver. The event will feature 30 local designers selling accessories, clothing

and trinkets for less than $50.

Fellow North Shore jewelry designers Adea Chung, of Billy Would Designs, and Trudy Wynans, of Toodlebunny Designs, are also participating. Admission is $2. Visit niftyforfiftysale.com for more information.

Meanwhile, Mengesha’s personal jewelry line, Bayoush Designs, is currently on display in the Gift Box at CityScape Community Art Space, 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Visit nvartscouncil.ca for info.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING WHO:

City of North Vancouver

WHAT:

Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700, Amendment Bylaw, 2016, No. 8459 (Single Family Garage Cellars)

WHEN:

Monday, April 18, 2016 at 6:30 pm Council Chamber,City Hall 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver

TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES Artists Mechtild Morin, Tsawaysia Spukwus and Rebecca Graham teach a hand weaving workshop recently at Maplewood House in North Vancouver. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

Notice is hereby given that Council will consider: Zoning Amendment Bylaw, 2016, No. 8459 will permit unfinished cellars in accessory buildings (eg. garages) on properties zoned One-Unit ‘Single Family’ Residential (RS) and on properties with a One-Unit ‘Single Family’ Residential principal use. The amendment would permit cellars for the storage of personal goods or items, or for workshop or gardening uses. Residential Uses would be prohibited within garage cellars.

All persons who believe they may be affected by the proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or email submissions should be forwarded to Jennifer Ficocelli, Deputy City Clerk, at jficocelli@cnv.org or by mail to City Hall.

Submissions must be received no later than 4:00 pm, Monday, April 18, 2016, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing. Once the Public Hearing has concluded, no further information or submissions can be considered by Council.

The proposed Zoning Amendment Bylaw, including background material, will be available for viewing at City Hall between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from April 8, 2016, and online at www.cnv.org/ publichearings.

Please direct all inquiries to Christopher Wilkinson, Planner, at cwilkinson@cnv.org or 604-990-4206.

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ANOUSHKA SHANKAR AT CHAN CENTRE

Vancouver.

Swing into Spring: Milleraires Big Band plays music of the ’30s and ’40s Sunday, April 10, 2:30 p.m. Admission: $15/$10. Tickets: 604-786-3741 or at the door.

WEST VANCOUVER UNITED CHURCH 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver.

Sea to Sky: Chor Leoni performs a program that explores the elements of nature Saturday, April 9, 2-3:30 p.m. Admission: $40/$35/$30/$10. Tickets: chorleoni.org/concerts-events/ events/sea-to-sky.

West Vancouver Museum 680 17th St., West Vancouver.

“MISSTART”, AN HOUR OF PHYSICAL COMEDY Produced by Montreal’s Dynamo Théâtre, the company that brought you I On the Sky

Indian sitar player/ composer, Anoushka Shankar, the daughter of Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Norah Jones, performs at UBC’s Chan Centre tonight at 8 p.m.

Touring in support of her new album Land of Gold, Shankar will be joined

by Sanjeev Shankar on shehnai, Manu Delago on percussion and hang, and Tom Farmer on acoustic bass and piano. There will be a pre-show talk with UBC’s Renisa Mawani at 7:15 p.m. in the Chan Centre’s Royal Bank Cinema.

See more page 30 “Wacky and bewildering humour that remains deeply human and moving.”

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Audrey’s dream, meanwhile, is sidelined by newborn Hank Williams Jr (who would go on to his own fame in the music business).

Thanks to a spinal condition (diagnosed finally as spina bifida) and surgery, Hank’s addiction to pain meds and cocaine in snuff

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bullets worsens. By the time “Your Cheatin’ Heart” is released, Hank is under a doctor’s care and on “circus animal” tranquilizers. Add that to the drinking and spending some 100 out of 119 days on the road, and Hank’s early death doesn’t come that much as a surprise.

Hank Williams: The Biography serves as the

basis of the film, written and directed by Abraham. His film teases us with interesting facts and asides that are left unexplored, such as the real reason his father was committed to a VA hospital when Hank was six, or more info about Hank’s alter ego, Luke the Drifter. The scene where Hank more or less screws a movie deal because he won’t

take off his hat is one of the most interesting of the film.

“Everybody has a little darkness in them,” Hank tells a reporter, tellingly. More darkness and less bland vanilla would’ve made the biopic about the man who defined 20th century country music and had 35 Billboard Country top 10 hits, far more watchable.

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Theatre CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. 604-990-7810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com The Art of Hope: Handsworth students perform a love story that centres around a male artist, his girlfriend and their break up until April 9 at 7 p.m. Admission: $14-$18. Tickets: Centennial box office or at the school during lunch.

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage. com

Relatively Speaking: A comedy of errors April 8, 9 and 13-16 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18/$16.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Van. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Peter Pan: Mountain Theatre’s cast of 35 kids perform this Disney musical until April 9 at 7 p.m. with a matinee April 9 at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $10.

Fawlty Towers: Theatre West Van presents three more episodes from the iconic British comedy series April 15 (preview $15), 16, 20-23 and 27-30 at 8 p.m. with matinees April 23 and 30 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $23/$21.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Faux Departs (Misstart, a Production for Stage Clowns): Dynamo Theatre brings you into the world of the clown April 14, 10 a.m. and 1

p.m., April 15, 1 and 7 p.m. and April 16, 1 p.m. Tickets: $15/$10.50.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca Two Rooms: A political drama April 8, 9, 13-16 and 20-23 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $18/$16.

Clubs and pubs

HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Live Music Saturdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Schedule: April 9, Jana Seale (solo) and April 16, Donna Newsom and Tom Coley (pop duo).

Variety Show: Karen Fowlie and Friends perform a “fools” themed show Fridays, April 15, 22 and 29, 8-10 p.m. Admission: $18/$15.

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“I feel strongly that by listening to people, we are making better project decisions.”

- Lexa Hobenshield, External Relations Manager, Kinder Morgan Canada

For more than four years, we’ve worked together with our neighbours and local communities to hear what they have to say about our proposed pipeline expansion.

By listening closely and having an open dialogue, we’ve been able to create a stronger, safer and more responsive project. We are working to meet all the requirements of the regulators, as well as consulting with communities, Indigenous people, government agencies and municipalities – and we’ll continue to work with them throughout development, construction and operations. We know how critical it is to get this right. Most importantly, we’re acting on what we hear with significant changes to the Project.

How feedback has resulted in a stronger, safer and better project: •

A $100 million investment in the West Coast Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC) for marine safety enhancements.

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An increase in safety valves along the pipeline from 94 to 126.

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An increase in pipeline wall thickness in sensitive areas, such as urban locations and at river crossings.

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Routing of the pipeline to avoid 22 crossings at fish-inhabited rivers including the Fraser, upper North Thompson, Albreda, Coldwater and Coquihalla.

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Routing to avoid environmentally sensitive areas, such as Cheam Wetlands and three BC Class A parks.

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Routing of the pipeline to minimize community impacts to the Westsyde neighbourhood in Kamloops and the Westridge neighbourhood in Burnaby.

For more information, go to TransMountain.com/engagement Email: info@transmountain.com · Phone: 1-866-514-6700

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ARTSCALENDAR Hugos, Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas www.hugosvancouver.com 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van. | 604-281-2111 Showcase your musical talents Thursday evenings in our beautiful chateau-style room or simply enjoy our reopened heated patio. Global fusion menu inspired by our love of travel, warm atmosphere inspired by our love of the community.

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BRITISH The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar $$ www. cheshirecheeserestaurant.ca 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-987-3322 Excellent seafood & British dishes on the waterfront. Dinner specials: Wednesday evenings - Grilled Cod lemon basil sauce, served with rice and vegetables.

Thursday’s Pot Roast. Friday & Saturday- Prime Rib. Sunday - Turkey. Weekends & holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny.

Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

CHINESE Neighbourhood Noodle House www.neighbourhoodnoodlehouse.com

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Haida Sandwich www.haidasandwich.com Haida Sandwich 121 East 15th, North Vancouver | 604-971-6021 Bored of the same old sandwich?

Famously BIG hot & cold sandwiches.

Or try the loaded pizzas, choice of 8 salads & fresh juice to go. Open late 7 days /week.

Catering available.

C-Lovers Fish & Chips www.c-lovers.com Marine Drive @ Pemberton, N. Van. | 604-980-9993 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. | 604-913-0994 The best fish & chips on the North Shore!

Montgomery’s Fish & Chips International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-929-8416 The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

FINE DINING The Observatory $$$$ www.grousemountain.com Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. | 604-998-4403 A thrilling and epicurean experience 3700’ on Grouse Mountain above the twinkling lights of Vancouver.

FRENCH Chez Michel www.chezmichelvancouver.com 1373 Marine Drive (2nd flr), W. Van. | 604-926-4913 For over 36 years, Chez Michel has delighted guests with his Classic French cuisine. Seafood & meat entrees, a superb selection of wines & a decadent dessert list. Superior service with a waterfront view completes an exemplary lunch or dinner experience.

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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.

Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days a week.

Weekend buffet, free delivery.

PUB The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van. | 604.990.8880 “Your Favourite North Shore Pub” 20 years running. We do great food, not fast food. Full Take-Out menu. Reserve your party of 15-30 ppl except Friday’s. Monday night Trivia.

Sat. April 16 we have live music with Glen Pearson 8:30pm-Midnight Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub www.sailorhagarspub.com 86 Semisch Avenue, N. Van. | 604-984-3087 Spectacular view of Vancouver harbour & city, enjoy great food in a Brew Pub atmosphere. 18 beers on tap including our own 6 craft-brews.

Happy Hour Specials Every Day 11 am – 6 pm!

Satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

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Thai PudPong Restaurant $$ www.thaipudpong.com 1474 Marine Drive, W. Van. | 604-921-1069 West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner. $

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WEST COAST Pier 7 restaurant + bar $$$ www.pierseven.ca 25 Wallace Mews, N. Van. | 604-929-7437 Enjoy dining literally ON the waterfront with our inspired West Coast boat-to-table choices & extensive wine list. We’ve got 5 TV’s so you’ll never miss a game. Brunch until 2:30 weekends & holidays.

The Appleback Grill www.gleneaglesclubhouse.com/appleback-grill 6190 Marine Dr, West Van. | 604-921-7353 West Coast fare, craft brews and BC wines, served by welcoming staff, overlooking spectacular views.

Daily specials Appie Hour: 3 - 5 pm Daily Weekend Brunch: 10:30 am - 2:00 pm.

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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.

WATERFRONT DINING

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The MarinaSide Grill www.marinasidegrill.com 1653 Columbia Street, N. Van. (Under 2nd Narrows Bridge) | 604-988-0038 Waterfront dining over looking Lynnwood Marina under Ironworkers Memorial Bridge.

Open every day at 8 am. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Brunch weekends and holidays serving eggs benny to juicy burgers, hot scallop salad, clam chowder. Happy Hour everyday from 3 - 5 pm. Free parking.

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Acoustic Open Mic Night every Thursday 7-9:30 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 604-985-5646.

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We offer the best variety and quality Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese cuisine with no MSG or additives at a very affordable price. Family owned and operated for over 18 years. Conveniently located in central Lonsdale.

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KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre. com Tales (Ghesse-Ha) will be screened Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Farsi with English subtitles. Admission: $12.

Film: Jafar Panhani’s Taxi will be screened Tuesday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10/$7.

PARK & TILFORD CINEPLEX ODEON THEATRE 200-333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver.

The North Shore International Film Series: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will screen Canadian, independent and foreign films throughout the fall, winter and spring. Les Etres Chers (French with English subtitles) shows Wednesday, April 13 at 7 p.m.

Tickets: $11. Info: nvartscouncil.ca/events/north-shore-internationalfilm-series or 604-988-6844.

PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Debaters: Stand-up comedy and fundraiser Monday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. There will also be live and silent auctions and food. Tickets: $60.

— Compiled by Debbie Caldwell

People from all social strata posed for camera From page 14 really, of a lot of this kind of material,” says Pakasaar. “Often the names change or the information that might have been with this originally of course becomes something different when it’s more mass produced.”

In one display, starting with the original photograph, a lineup of First Nations chiefs is captured and titled “Indian Chiefs.” The original is followed by four other representations of the same image, each progressing to feature more colour and a closer crop. Pakasaar says that the indigenous leaders were on their way to England to petition land rights, potlach laws and hunting issues in front of the Crown.

“So a very momentous occasion, a very significant occasion, then is turned into a postcard which served very different purposes. It’s commodified in a way, you have to wonder why there are four different versions. Once it had that name on it, it was stripped of its political import. I would say all postcards probably were because they were so singular. So the context became quite neutralized.”

Photographers were in demand in this booming era of change, contracted by ethnographers, surveyors and businesses, but some of the images that emerged from this early period lend an element of mystery behind their intended purpose. Pakasaar has spent time delving into the vague inscriptions attached to each photo to try to discover their stories, however, for one section the curators have deemed the “sublime,” the mystery of the more abstract images is left to intrigue the viewer. “(What) we’re trying to bring out is invisibility or things that are hard to see,” she says. “We’re looking mostly at documentary photographs, so they’re very depictive and yet at the same time there are these vagaries like the aurora borealis … where things are not quite clear in terms of what exactly is being pictured.”

As the practice of photography became more commercial, people from all social levels began to pose for portraits showing their standing in a community and preserving memories in a way that wasn’t previously possible. The collection of portraits within the exhibition take on an eerie and magical presence as the faces framed stare back at the viewers from a time when each slide held an air of prominence and worth.

“You could dress up for the camera, be what you wanted to be and they were keepsakes,” she says. “The role of photography was so important, not just the camera being a tool for substantiating all these colonial ambitions and projects, but also in terms of how people of all social means were able to, not just participate, but were an integral part around the production of meaning around photography.”

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Temper your Tesla dreams A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird:

and Improved” on one corner of their mid-sizer’s packaging and called it a day. A revolution, the Tacoma is not.

But why would it be?

Not only does Toyota as a company dislike radical change, neither would their customers enjoy a total deviation from the script.

The Tacoma remains simple,

TESLA RACKS UP THE RESERVATIONS The Tesla Model S is a great drive, but far too expensive for most people. As an alternative to a BMW 5 Series or a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, it makes a compelling argument.

But what about the rest of us?

Well, the rest of us could put down a fully refundable reservation on a Model 3, the new Tesla hatchback for the regular Joes. At time of writing, reservations for the Model 3 are about to crest the 300,000 mark, making the car an instant success. There’s just one teensy-weensy problem.

Like the Model X, with its “nobody says no to Elon” rear gullwing doors (Tesla officially calls them falcon doors), the Model 3 is an example of promising the moon, and then

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Toyota is a company of gradual changes, and the Tacoma is already popular, so there was no need to go wild with a 2016 redesign. The new design follows the same recipe that has long given the Tacoma strong re-sale value. It is available at Jim Pattison Toyota in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

2016 Toyota Tacoma

Sturdy Tacoma gets a tweak

BRENDAN MCALEER Contributing writer

Consider Coca-Cola.

With a recipe composed of 21 secret ingredients, it is a known quantity that tastes the same no matter where you order it. Leave aside the urban myths about its ability to dissolve bone or whatnot, and Coca-Cola’s success is absolute; order a Coke

and you know what you’re getting. It’s an unqualified success as is; remember the disaster of New Coke?

Sometimes change isn’t good.

Now consider a car company, forced by regulatory pressure and customer expectation to refresh and update their models every couple of years. If you’ve already cranked out the

winning formula, then what do you do if you have to mess with success?

With the Tacoma, Toyota must surely have found themselves facing just such a question. Resale values are excellent. The fan base loves it. Sales are strong. But change is required, so something must be done.

Here’s the 2016 Tacoma, an update a long time

coming. Is it New Coke all over again, or still the same Tacoma Classic that quenches many a mid-sized truck thirst?

DESIGN On first blush: sorry, you said this was the new Toyota Tacoma? Despite a bluff new grille and updated tailgate, you’d be forgiven for thinking Toyota just wrote “New

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recognizable in silhouette, and slightly more butch looking than its ancestors. As is pickup truck de rigeur these days, you get a giant “Tacoma” script on the tailgate, but really it’s not much more than a surface reworking.

ENVIRONMENT Step inside the Tacoma, however, and previous owners will be impressed by the changes made. After something like seven years without a major update, the Tacoma’s cabin was rugged but deeply aged, and about as sophisticated-looking as the plumbing department at Home Depot.

Now it’s not dissimilar to the Camry’s country-music-lovin’ cousin. This being a Limited version, leather clad seats and a sunroof were the icing on the Tacoma cake, but the rest of the options were much better suited to modern life. The Entune touchscreen infotainment system is large, bright, quick, and comes with easy-to-use knobs. The seats are comfortable. There’s plenty of storage for cups and smartphones.

Everything is sensible, if a little on the tight side for a taller driver.

And never mind the sport truck pro-athlete image – if you’ve got kids to haul along with you, the crew-cab Tacoma makes for a surprisingly solid family car. Two child

seats bolted right in without much wrestling, and the low transmission tunnel made for extra space to carry stuff. Kids don’t take up much room – it’s their stuff that’s the problem. Throw a canopy on this thing for bikes and boards and whoknows-what, and you just might have the alternative to the minivan every crossover pretends to be.

PERFORMANCE New under the Tacoma’s hood is a 3.5-litre V-6 that replaces the old 4.0-litre six. I’m not saying the latter was getting a bit dated, but you can find references to it on the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb. It’s just short of predating agriculture.

The new 3.5-litre engine adds not much in the way of torque at 265 foot-pounds, and requires a bit of stick to get power out of it.

Rev it up and it’ll make a solid 278 horsepower at 6,000 r.p.m., but the six-speed automatic transmission requires a good solid prod to unlock the power.

As this is a proper body-onframe truck, you might expect the Tacoma to exhibit some rough around the edges road manners.

True, there is a tendency to judder over offset bumps, but there’s surprising on-road competency here in spades. The steering ratio proved decidedly un-truck-like on a winding country back road, and the long wheelbase contributed to a nicely controlled highway drive.

An easy-to-use touchscreen infotainment system, comfortable seats and plenty of storage are all part of a major upgrade to the Tacoma’s cabin that had gone many years without a refresh. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Oh horse, um, feathers. The Tacoma is already an expensive option – this Limited version stickers at $46K after freight – and a well-heeled customer would undoubtedly stump up for the added hauling torque and better fuel economy. While the V-6 is a solid performer that returns good

If you’re a member of the Toyota faithful, it’s about this time that we’ve got to ask why there’s no diesel option for this truck. The usual excuse is that a complex diesel engine, with its turbocharger and heavyweight construction, would add extra cost to the truck, cost the market would not bear.

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delivering some of the moon at a much later date. Tesla itself is claiming that “hubris” is to blame for the Model X’s slow rollout: that too much technology was built into the car and slow parts suppliers are hampering deliveries.

So when Elon Musk says that the Model 3 will start at a cost of $35,000, will go 215 miles (approximately 350 kilometres) on a single charge, and run to 100 km/h in less than six seconds, a rather large grain of salt should be consumed. Mr. Musk is an ambitious dude, and he’s perhaps telling you what he’d like his company to be able to do. The truth will probably be a lot more down to Earth.

Best guess is that the Model 3 won’t actually start showing up in reasonable numbers until 2018 or beyond, and that it’ll cost quite a bit more than anticipated. Think of it as an alternative to a BMW 335i xDrive, and you’re about on the money. As the reservations are totally refundable and require almost no commitment, you can view them as making a case for demand, but not necessarily being the same thing as a confirmed pre-order.

There’s a lot of hype

swirling around Tesla, and that’s a shame as the cars they have out are pretty impressive. The Model 3, when it finally arrives, will probably be pretty good too. But it’s still just going to be a car, not the revolution the Teslarati keep shouting about.

ASTON MARTIN PLANS TO USE AMG MANUAL If Tesla is the wave of the future, then let’s talk about the only way to get a blast from the past: the manual transmission. Manuals are going the way of the dinosaur, but with the speed of a slow extinction rather than a meteor strike.

They’ll be around for a few years yet, especially for boutique brands and enthusiast customers.

For Aston Martin, that’s a double whammy. It’s not just style that differentiates the company, it’s the ability to get what you want (for a price).

Now, if you want a hand-built twin-turbocharged V-8 mated to a six-speed gearbox, Aston Martin is going to be the only game in town.

The AMG and Aston partnership has been coming for a while now, and hasn’t pleased every purist. Aston’s V-12s might not be as efficient or powerful as the biturbo versions available from

Mercedes-Benz, but they’ve got plenty of character. We’ll be sad to see them go.

However, the 500 horsepower, 4.0-litre twin-turbo V-8 from Mercedes-AMG is just such a firecracker of an engine, how could you not get excited about it stuffed into a lithe little Vantage? It’s still the Battle of Britain, just now the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt have crashed into each other.

IIHS TAKES AIM AT LOUSY HEADLIGHTS Having trouble seeing at night? According to a recent study, the problem might lie with your car’s headlights.

Even among luxury automakers, poorly aimed headlights are commonplace, with many vehicles rated marginal or poor.

This despite the profusion of LED lighting technologies continually being trumpeted by various marketing departments. Sure they look cool, but LEDs aren’t a panacea. It takes proper aiming of the beams, as well as enough lumens to light the way.

Vehicles were evaluated at the IIHS research centre in Ruckersville, Va. Working at night, engineers used light detection devices to see how the cars handled sharp and gradual turns.

The results were surprising, rating the Prius V as best, while almost everything else did poorly. Even a BMW 3 Series, once considered to have among the best headlights out there, fell down to a marginal rating.

While manufacturers work to develop new technology, many lighting issues could be fixed with a simple headlight aiming. Consider having your car checked.

BMW Z4 REPLACEMENT TESTS IN ARCTIC The Z3 begat the Z4 begat the Z5. That’s the rumour anyway, with a new soft-top BMW convertible spotted hooning around in the snow in northern Sweden. And yes, BMW’s two-seat roadster is going back to a soft convertible top to help keep down both weight and complexity.

The really interesting thing about the Z5 is its co-parentage. Unofficially, BMW and Toyota are perhaps working together on this car, with the latter providing development money in the manner of the Subaru-Toyota partnership that came up with the FR-S and BRZ. You know what that means? Z5 begat Supra. Keep an eye out.

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off-roading didn’t phase it one bit, and even parking it around town became second nature after a day or so. You can get more power, more hauling, and more space, but everything that made the Tacoma popular in the first place is here again.

FEATURES Basic Tacomas come with a 2.7-litre four-cylinder engine and not much in the way of options. Call it delivery truck spec, just like the yellow machine from the first Toy Story movie.

However, move up to the Limited and TRD trims and you start getting a host of niceties. As-equipped, my tester had everything from navigation to satellite radio and a backup camera. Opt for the TRD trim if you’re intending to use your Tacoma for heavy duty, but if you’re a city slicker who occasionally makes forays into the wilderness, the Limited is by no means bare bones.

Official fuel economy figures improved significantly with the introduction of the 3.5-litre, rating at 12 (litres/100 kilometres) on the highway and 10 in the city.

Real world figures hit the mixed-mileage rating of 11, very livable in these days of inexpensive fuel.

CHEVROLET COLORADO ($23,115) With the Nissan Frontier essentially unchanged over a decade, it’s up to General Motors to take the fight to Toyota. Their mid-sized pickup trucks, the Colorado and Canyon twins, are surprisingly daring, offering plenty of options and having much of the curb presence of the larger Silverado.

And, if you like, GM will happily sell you a diesel. It’s a stump-puller of a lump, with 181 h.p. and 369 footpounds of torque. For those who like to get out and play in the wild, the GM has all the capability of the Toyota and then some, with a lower cost of entry.

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