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Some of your new neighbours on the North Shore in the last year may have included Power Rangers, reindeer and a robot with flailing appendages warning “Danger! Danger!”
SEVENS HEAVEN Three members of New Zealand’s national rugby team, in town for the Canada Sevens tournament, came to Hollyburn Country Club to work with students in West Vancouver’s rugby academy Wednesday. In photo, Rockridge’s Kai Toku-Contreras and Sam Clothier work on a drill. The All Blacks won the inaugural Canada Sevens event last year and will try to defend their title against the world’s best Saturday and Sunday at BC Place. Visit nsnews.com for a photo gallery. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
All three of the North Shore’s municipalities are reporting record numbers of film shoots and revenues for 2016. The District of North Vancouver hosted 122 TV, movie and commercial productions in 2016, 38 per cent more than the previous year. That brought in $643,000 in fees for general revenues, up 17 per cent from the year before. West Vancouver almost doubled the number of film permits issued to 60 and more than tripled the amount of cash it brought in from film permits, inspection and location fees, and contributions to park amenities at $175,000. The City of North Vancouver, meanwhile
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Ride sharing services will be picking up and dropping off in B.C. by the end of the year according to Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone, who announced what amounted to a legislative first draft Wednesday. “It will be here in time for the holiday season in December, of course, that is assuming we’re fortunate to be entrusted with another four years through this election,” Stone said.
Taxi companies voice concern about announcement despite plan by Liberals to cut more ‘red tape’ However, at least one observer dubbed the announcement: “an election-year stunt.” “They kind of met some of our expectations but on the other hand failed most of it,” said North Shore Taxi general manager Moonyem Mohammad.
The taxi industry can be competitive if Uber and Lyft roll into B.C., according to Peter Fassbender, the minister responsible for TransLink. Fassbender touted the province’s plan to provide cab companies $1 million to access “enhanced technology.” That $1 million is a “waste of taxpayer money,” according to Mohammad, who noted there are already multiple apps connecting passengers with cabs. The legislative plan gives taxis “exclusive rights” for street hailing and taxi stands, Fassbender noted.
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Competition big issue for local cabbies From page 1 “That will be, again, a competitive advantage,” he said. But Mohammad differed, noting Uber drivers aren’t ordinarily hailed and don’t use stands as there’s no cash transaction. Mohammad blasted plans to eliminate municipal boundaries for taxis, which he said might plug Vancouver’s downtown core while leaving Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond and New Westminster underserved on Friday and Saturday nights. One of the most notable reductions in “red tape” Fassbender discussed Wednesday was the plan to do away with the Class 4 driver’s licence currently used by cab drivers. That’s a “terrible idea,” according to Mohammad, who anticipated a rise in collisions and an accompanying jump in ICBC rates. Many companies will be unable to compete with Uber, according to Mohammad. If the phone stops ringing at North Shore Taxi, Mohammad predicted reductions among his 22 office workers. He also suggested
cab drivers may slide into debt if they can’t recoup the large costs that come with getting a car and a licence. His position was echoed by the Vancouver Taxi Association. If there is no restriction on taxi licenses, “there will be a free-for-all that will result in a situation where no one can make a living,” according to a release from the organization. Mohammad agreed. “I do applaud the decision of having background checks and vehicle inspection checks in place for all transportation companies. But it isn’t sufficient.” The change is a “mixed blessing,” according to former Sunshine Cabs general manager Paul Gill, who advocated consolidation throughout the industry. “There’s no need for us to compete with each other for various stands, it can be all one big industry throughout the Lower Mainland,” he said. “Service will get better … if it goes all into one dispatch system.” While Uber may cut into profits, cab companies could dramatically cut overhead by getting rid of dispatch offices, he said. Gill suggested there
Moonyem Mohammad, general manager of North Shore Taxi, is concerned about the prospect of Uber moving in to the local area. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
could be one phone number connected to every cab company. “And then it doesn’t matter whether it’s North Shore Cab or Sunshine … whichever is empty at the time will come.” Wednesday’s announcement raised both expectations and questions, according to Nitesh Mistry, director of business operations for digital dispatch car service Ripe Rides.
“They’re definitely taking an approach to try to make sure … all of us can stay competitive if a bigger, multinational were to enter the market,” he said. The removal of “artificial municipal boundaries” should open up great opportunities for many companies, according to Mistry. While ride sharing likely has a place in B.C., Uber may be less than a perfect fit, according to North
Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP candidate Bowinn Ma. “We know that Uber treats their drivers as independent contractors and regular working people (have) ended up being burned,” she said. Ma emphasized the NDP is “open to ride sharing” but stressed protecting jobs. “I don’t think bringing in more precarious jobs is appropriate,” she said. The province’s legislation is in dire need of updating,
according to Stone. “The existing passenger transportation legislation … some would say hasn’t been significantly streamlined or modernized since the horse and buggy days,” he said. It’s critical to harness technology and address the public’s desire for more choice, according to Stone. Under the new rules, hired drivers must be at least 19 and have no convictions for violent or sexual offences.
Squeezed out generation discusses challenges Housing affordability target of public discussion on generational inequity facing young North Shore residents BEN BENGTSON reporter@nsnews.com
A leading voice on generational inequality says North Shore residents feeling squeezed out of the community due to its overheated housing market should seek change by voicing concern to their provincial election candidates.
Paul Kershaw of Generation Squeeze made those comments at a forum on housing affordability held March 2 in North
Vancouver. “We can be influential – and no more than in the weeks in advance of an election. You don’t need to have deep pockets to affect electoral politics when there’s an election in place,” Kershaw said. “Use that influence now.” Kershaw is a UBC public policy expert who founded the Generation Squeeze campaign in order to draw attention to the economic and social challenges facing Canadians primarily in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
Generation Squeeze, North Shore Community Resources and Economic Partnership North Vancouver hosted the forum for residents to discuss their frustrations on housing and other challenges. During Kershaw’s opening remarks, he said that exorbitant housing prices, whether in owning or renting property, have changed the notion of what it means for people to be able to make a home for themselves. “Hard work doesn’t pay like it used to,” Kershaw said. According to the Real Estate Board of Greater
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Generation Squeeze founder and public policy expert Paul Kershaw addresses a forum on housing affordability issues in North Vancouver March 2. PHOTO BEN BENGTSON
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Carnival scene on pier featured in Death Note From page 1 enjoyed a 47 per cent increase in film permits to 178 and brought in just under $378,000 in revenue, 95 per cent more than in 2015. “I’ve got three film permits on my desk I haven’t even processed yet,” said Clare Husk, the city’s filming co-ordinator. “This is the busiest we’ve all been.” Some of the bigger productions shot locally draw on nostalgia, albeit from different generations. Remakes of Power Rangers for the big screen and Lost in Space for Netflix had extended film stays here. Other features included more of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, Everything, Everything, Tully featuring Charlize Theron and The Soloutrean, which brought a herd of reindeer to Princess Park. “I find it fabulous when kids come across them … and think ‘Santa Claus is just taking a break,” said Alice To, the district’s business and film co-ordinator. Major TV series shot on the North Shore include DC: Legends of Tomorrow, Lucifer, Prison Break, The Man in the High Castle and ZOO. As always, there were a plethora of commercials as well, especially for the auto industry. Perhaps the most recognizable location when it hits the screen is a scene shot on the Burrard Pier for Netflix’s production of Death Note, a
psychological thriller adapted from a Japanese comic book. Crews dressed the pier up to look like a carnival, including a partial ferris wheel, while a helicopter swooped overhead, late into the night. “I should have had them tell people at least six blocks up the hill. I really didn’t realize how loud that helicopter was going to be,” Husk said. “I had a lot of interaction with the public the next day.” Following the fiasco, the Death Note production made a number of donations to local community groups. Similarly, the production of the TV show ZOO made a donation to the North Vancouver City Library Foundation after occupying the civic plaza for a shoot. Appropriately, the foundation intends to spend the money on a video production table for city residents, Husk said. To said, despite record filming, she is generally receiving fewer complaints from residents. The two largest payroll companies that work for the film industry reported $79 million in wages was paid to workers with addresses in North Vancouver in 2015, with the city having the highest per capita number of film workers in the province, Husk noted. Increasingly, the cheques are being signed not by traditional Hollywood studios, but rather streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube and Hulu, according
to To. “They need product. That’s what’s driving filming up here,” she said. The province rolled back the tax breaks it offers production companies on their labour costs in 2016, although the industry has been shielded by a number of other advantages, according to Peter Leitch, president of North Shore Studios. “There are so many factors that determine where a production goes. When the dollar is low like this, Canada becomes a very attractive jurisdiction. We’re also in the same time zone as Los Angeles. There are so many other advantages of coming here – the infrastructure we’ve got, the crews, the cast members that we’ve got here. We’re just a very desirable location,” he said. 2017 is shaping up to be another marquee year, with Deadpool 2 and a remake of Predator being shot in the Lower Mainland, Leitch said. Husk is hoping some of the city’s locations can woo the wildly popular Deadpool and its star Ryan Reynolds over. Although she’s signed non-disclosure agreements preventing her from dishing about what shoots are coming, she’s expecting a very busy year. “Putting it mildly, I’m excited,” she said. “This March is looking like it’s going to be busier than last March and last March was outstandingly busy.”
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Vancouver, in February of this year the benchmark price for a detached home in Metro Vancouver was approximately $1.4 million. “The prices are particularly high in North Vancouver and West Vancouver,” Kershaw said. “If you were audacious enough to think that you might get in to an average home in our region, let alone here, you would have to start saving (while you were still) in child care.” Thursday’s event wasn’t just attended by adults in their 20s and 30s hoping to get into the housing market. Many attendees were teenagers and seniors who similarly had a stake in the housing market and ensuring their own families had equal opportunities in the future. While Kershaw
sympathized with the struggles people are going through, he suggested that building a home has always been a difficult thing to do. “I don’t want anyone to think that because we’re starting the conversation by saying it’s challenging to build a home for oneself today, to have in any way, shape or form the sense that building a home is supposed to be easy or that it ever was easy,” he said. Kershaw argued that instead of over-lamenting the difficulties of housing on the North Shore and elsewhere, a conscious effort should be made for different generations to acknowledge each other’s challenges and come up with positive solutions. He said the reality is that older generations have counted on their home equity to fund financially secure retirements. But he added it should be
acknowledged that ensuring the older generation has a stable, fruitful retirement also means putting a burden on a younger generation of Canadians. “In part because we want to protect an older demographic – people we love – then we need to get that group on board to say ‘Hey, we recognize that means we’re asking our kids and grandchildren and the children after them to pay much more for homes than we did, and are there not some ways we could meet them part way?’” Kershaw said. Following Kershaw’s remarks, attendees got into smaller groups of about 10 people each and had a conversation on housing led by a Generation Squeeze facilitator. In one group, North Vancouver resident Brad Martin attempted to reach a consensus with his
tablemates regarding a solution to the housing crisis. One thing they agreed on was that solving issues of housing affordability and generational inequality would require a greater investment from provincial and federal governments, even after the B.C. Liberals put in a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers last year. “Any solution has to recognize that maybe there (are) those multiple levels (of government) and it has to be tackled at all of those levels,” Martin said. B.C. NDP candidate for North Vancouver-Lonsdale Bowinn Ma, who attended last Thursday’s event, also said it was up to higher levels of government to help with the squeeze that a younger generation is experiencing. But she said that ultimately housing inequality is part of a larger system
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jalopy. Transportation Minister Todd Stone announced this week that the province will soon start writing the legislation necessary to allow app-based ride-for-hire companies like Uber and Lyft to begin operating in B.C. Of course, this act of governance is actually more like a campaign promise as it’s completely contingent on you-knowwho being re-elected on May 9. In any case, we hope our new drivers have good strong backs because this ride comes with a lot of baggage. Companies like Uber and Lyft have achieved dominance in the markets they exist in not by providing friendly, affordable, on-time service but rather by picking and choosing which licensing, inspections,
regulations and taxes they’ve felt like observing. And Uber and Lyft are representative of a new “sharing economy” where people pick up whatever extra work they can in order to get by. Sadly, this is a model that’s ripe for exploitation and Uber is frequently called out by its drivers for underpaying them. The province is also promising subsidies for the taxi industry to soften the blow for them. While that may rub some the wrong way, recall that taxi drivers have been soaked for years with exorbitant licensing costs. Still, it seems, you can’t stop progress. And there’s no question the public would like to see the change made. We all know the frustration that comes when there’s not a cab to be had out there. So we urge the government, whichever one we may have come June, to step lightly on the accelerator. We all just want to get home safe.
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’m less quick than some are to play to the parochial peanut gallery about big bad CN Rail bullying our innocent little town of West Vancouver. Equipped with a circa 1957 university course in English constitutional law, I am, as the judges nobly say, reserving judgment. On the face of it, the train people’s insistence – that WV pony up $3.7 million annual rent for lease of CN Rail land used in part for West Vancouver’s popular Centennial Seawalk – is a mite greedy. (And CN is itself a tenant, leasing the land from the British Columbia Railway Company, successor to the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and then, way back to 1913 when the PGE began building the line, the province was and remains the ultimate landlord.)
This Just In Trevor Lautens But leap to this embarrassing fact: West Van hasn’t paid a nickel for use of this land since 1994. Yes, 23 years and only now under threat of eviction. Which is what CN Rail seeks from the Canadian Transportation Agency. Yet town hall believes CN Rail should be grateful. It hasn’t paid a nickel either, for the riprap and West Van’s
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make the hottest homer uneasy: West Van town hall “does not have records whether these amounts were paid.” In 1995 B.C. Rail jacked that up to $500 each. The next year it proposed consolidation of the three leases and rent of $2,500. Again, the town’s records are stunningly shaky: That lease “was not executed’’ and “it does not appear” that WV made the proposed payment. It gets worse. In 1998 B.C. Rail provided another draft contract, proposing $8,900 per year. The town didn’t pay. The next year B.C. Rail served notice that rent of $9,523 was outstanding. Town hall responded that it was “raising issues” with some terms of the proposal including rent escalation provisions. Didn’t pay. Again, WV’s own records
indicate B.C. Rail gave up trying: “It does not appear” that the company requested rent any time after 1999, “and no payment has been made since 1994.” Leap to September 2015. CN Rail is now landlord. It met with WV representatives seeking to “regularize” the lack of a written agreement, sought compensation, and – suck breath in – proposed rent based on the market value of adjacent land. That’s where the $3.7 million comes in. Last December CN Rail demanded a 10-year deal at that rent, raised at the end of the fifth year by the rate of inflation or 15 per cent, whichever is greater. After the tenth year, the railroad boys would determine the rent “in a commercially reasonable manner.” On Feb. 10 West Van counter-proposed continued
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use of the Seawalk, its maintenance of shoreline protection, a 25-year lease renewable for a further 25 years, and would pay “annual compensation” of $12,500. Just $3,687,500 less than CN Rail’s asking price, so to speak. CN didn’t dally. Seven days later it served notice of termination of the three leases and removal of buildings – that would include the gazebo – and other non-CN property, and on Feb. 20 served notice of legal action. West Van in turn seeks an order from the Canadian Transportation Authority allowing use of the Seawalk crossing and access to shore protection work, and dismissal of compensation claims. The town also argues that its Seawalk reduces trespassing and vandalism on
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INQUIRINGREPORTER Would you support a summer ferris wheel? All the best cities seem to have ferris wheels. Singapore, Chicago, London. Even Seattle has one! North Vancouver City has been pondering one for a while now. After plans were scrapped a few years back to install one by the Shipyards, council has been looking into simply renting one for part of the summer. While for some a ferris wheel might be a marvelous addition to Lower Lonsdale’s burgeoning scene, others aren’t yet necessarily sold on the idea. We hit the streets to find out if anyone wants to go for a spin. Weigh in at nsnews.com — Ben Bengtson
Sara Deines North Vancouver
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“I’d be into that for sure. Kids love that sort of stuff, it brings everyone together.”
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No sharing: bike dodger sees red on Green Necklace Dear Editor: I have been quite upset about the modifications to the Grand Boulevard area with regard to the paving and loss of green area. Last night walking my dog in the dark along the east side outside paved trail, I was yelled at and almost hit by a cyclist stating I was not allowed to walk on that pathway (small sign I noticed afterwards). I moved to the middle paved pathway: two bikes came down fast without lights and almost hit me and an older couple. I then moved to the west side pathway and was yelled at again by the cyclist who was going faster than the cars and who subsequently went right through 15th Street without stopping. Keeping in
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Dear Editor: Re: Would You Take a High-speed Train to Seattle?, Feb. 17 Inquiring Reporter. Instead of a bullet train
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Day of reckoning on rail seems inevitable From page 8 the track. It bases its $12,500 counter-proposal on “the last offer of $9,800 per year made by CN’s predecessor B.C. Rail in 1998, adjusted for inflation since 1998 to 2016.” As a taxpayer, I warmly hope West Van succeeds. As
a newspaperman, I’m not a parish-pump cheerleader. Before even reading the above-quoted documents, I mused: Since WV hadn’t paid anything for 23 years for use of CN’s leased land, were previous councils and top staff naive or worse in letting the issue slide – as if a day of
reckoning wasn’t inevitable? Town hall wouldn’t answer that, with the stock response that the matter is before the courts. I cite Voltaire’s shrewd insight: “A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.” rtlautens@gmail.com
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Culture clash to create moving, still-life mural West Van secondary students and Hartley Bay artists to collaborate on movable mural for Harmony Arts JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Young artists Maddy Scott, Mackenzie Bolton and Keona Wishart chat with MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones at a funding announcement for the mural project. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
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Hartley Bay students took part in a welcome breakfast and attended a Canucks game before starting on the art project last week. “Some of the students have never flown in a jet before,” said Hartley Bay school principal Cam Hill, who was on hand with the students for the funding announcement Feb. 27. Hill said part of the goal for him is to show his students “what the outside world looks like” beyond their small community and introduce them to the future opportunities that await there. At the same time, he said, it’s important for students to know where they come from. That’s something his students will be showing to the West Vancouver students when they visit Hartley Bay – focussing on traditional ways and the community’s relationship to the land. Hill said he hopes to show the West Vancouver students some traditional gathering food in the wild when they visit later in the spring. “We are exchanging art and we are exchanging culture,” he said. West Vancouver artist Cori Creed is helping the students with the creative process and with production and installation of the mural. The mural will be on display at the West Vancouver Museum and Archives at the beginning of the summer, and will be featured at the Harmony Arts Festival as well as shown at the University of Northern B.C.
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NEWSBRIEFS METRO PRIORITIES As battle lines form in the weeks leading up to the May 9 provincial election, Metro Vancouver’s municipalities are grilling the major parties on the issues that hit close to home, including affordable housing, transit, environmental protection and funding for major capital projects. Each party has been sent a survey asking for their platforms on provincial issues that municipalities still bear the brunt of. “We’re right there on the front lines. We hear every day what the concerns are and we’re hearing loud and clear it’s housing and congestion and transportation issues. The North Shore is not separate from the others,” said City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto. On the capital projects front, Metro is still hoping the province will put up one-third of the cost for the new $700-million Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant, lest the burden fall solely on local utility bills. Mussatto said he is optimistic that funding announcement will happen before the election writ drops. “We’re anxiously waiting. We’ve heard some positive signs out of the province and we haven’t had any ‘Nos’ so we really hoping we hear something in the next
couple weeks,” Mussatto said. “I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we get a significant contribution from the province still.” The parties have until March 31 to respond to the survey. Soon after, the results will be posted online at localgovernmentmatters. com. – Brent Richter CYCLING AWARDS The District of West Vancouver, the City of North Vancouver and Lynn Valley elementary were each recipients at the fourth annual HUB Cycling Bike Awards. The cycling advocacy group handed out the hardware at a Feb. 28 ceremony at Science World. For the second consecutive year the prize for best elementary school was bestowed on Lynn Valley elementary. The school recorded 928 two-wheeled trips during Bike to School Week, accounting for 52 per cent of commutes to and from school, according to HUB. West Vancouver captured the first Infrastructure Improvement Award for its work on the Ambleside Spirit Trail. The district did “exceptional work” in creating safe, separated walking and cycling routes, according to a release from HUB. The City of North Vancouver also got into the
action, snagging a silver award for providing bike storage and a repair station at city hall and the library. HUB awarded North Vancouver for “the close proximity of these buildings to bike routes (and) the provision of innovative bike racks.” A total of 32 cities, schools, advocacy groups and companies received awards. – Jeremy Shepherd UNDERPASS REPAIR The underpass that takes traffic over Highway 1 on Horseshoe Bay Drive is getting a four-month, $2.8-million upgrade. A detour will move drivers to the ramp between the Eagleridge roundabout and the Marine Drive intersection during construction. The work is intended to help the structure “better withstand an earthquake,” according to Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone. The work involves repairing and extending the bridge deck and removing the joints over the piers. Steel brackets will be placed at the base of each pier as reinforcement, according to a release from the province. The project is scheduled to be complete in June. – Jeremy Shepherd DOOR-TO-DOOR FRAUD That repairman at your
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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath WV Scouts 90th birthday party The 1st West Vancouver Scout Group held their annual Baden Powell Family Pot Luck Supper Wednesday, Feb. 22 at Gleneagles Community Centre, to celebrate the memory of Scouting founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and also 90 years of youth learning to “be prepared” in West Vancouver. The 1st West Vancouver Scout Group formed in 1927 at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, where the Scouts still meet to this day. More than 120 Scouts and family members along with Scouting alumni, including past Scout leaders, gathered to enjoy a delicious sit-down potluck dinner and a special birthday cake in the Gleneagles gymnasium.
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Sam Bob (Snaw-Naw-As/Coast Salish) is part of a seven-member cast who helped create the interactive Theatre for Living production.
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In order to build up tolerant and empathetic attitudes towards Truth and Reconciliation, it’s important to break down walls.
Vancouver’s Theatre for Living, like many of the productions it’s put on over the last 36 years, takes this approach with a new play it’s had underway at the Firehall Arts Centre in the Downtown Eastside since March 2. That new play is called 2#1&(0,3', a Coast Salish "3.,*3, 0!.,30, word that translates to “home.”
Renae Morriseau, a 30-year North Vancouver resident and the play’s associate director, says part of what makes the production a success is its desire to bring the audience into the fold. “We want people to interact with the subject matter we’re bringing up,” she says. And 2#1&(0,3' (home) lets the audience interact with its subject matter by breaking down walls – fourth walls, the “wall” separating audience and actor, that is. The production was originally workshopped and created by a cast of seven diverse individuals from across the country under the direction of David Diamond. The actors and production team met up over the course of two and half weeks to create the unscripted play through a series of dialogues about the kinds of characters and scenarios they wanted to develop. Throughout the show, the cast of indigenous and
non-indigenous actors asks the audience to consider what Reconciliation really means through scenes, stories and conversations. According to Morriseau, the play keeps building tension, asking questions, but never offers any concrete resolutions. This is when the fourth wall breaks down. After an initial viewing, the play is then run again with audience members given the opportunity to “freeze” the action at any moment where they see a character engaged in a struggle, subsequently offering that character a solution, or just another perspective. It’s a daunting, complex proposition for live theatre, but it’s one that Morriseau sees as important. “When you are able to create a play that has a fourth wall…
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RIVERS OF AWARENESS The award-winning documentary RiverBlue is showing at Centennial Theatre tonight at 7:30 p.m. with partial proceeds going to the Seymour Salmonid Society. Tickets $15/$13. For an interview with North Vancouver’s Roger Williams, the movie’s producer and co-director, go to nsnews.com/entertainment/film/riverblue-tracks-ecologicalcost-of-fashion-1.2355368. For more information visit riverbluethemovie.com. PHOTO SUPPLIED From page 14 nvartscouncil.ca Dreamscapes: Landscapes, seascapes and dreamscapes paintings by Diego Samper are on display until March 27. CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Limited Editions – The Art of Printmaking: An exhibition showing the artistry, processes and techniques of contemporary printmakers Mariko Ando, Elisabeth Sommerville and Richard Tetrault runs until March 18. Call for Artists and Artisans: The North Vancouver Community Arts Council seeks visual artists and artisans to participate in the upcoming Art in the Garden tour which runs May 27 and 28. Deadline for submissions: March 11, 4 p.m. DISTRICT LIBRARY GALLERY 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca The Kindness Project: An art exhibition where students of Upper Lynn elementary represent kindness through art on small wooden blocks until March 11. City in Flux (Work in Progress): An exhibition of digital paintings and photography by Carolina de la Cajiga focusing on the hasty changes cities are going through runs March 15-May 13. Reception: Saturday, April 8, 2-4 p.m. FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Beyond Surface: An exhibition of acrylic on canvas by Sylvia Bayley, mixed media on rag paper and hand-coloured etchings by Ingunn Kemble and textiles by Fariba Mirzaie runs until March 12. Making – A Journey: A
retrospective of Barry Cogswell’s art making journey showcasing his ceramics, sculptures, furniture and paintings from 1960 to present March 14-April 2. Opening reception: Tuesday, March 14, 6-8 p.m. Meet the artist: Saturday, March 18, 2-3 p.m. Artist talk: Sunday, March 19, 2-4 p.m. THE GALLERY AT ARTISAN SQUARE 587 Artisan Lane, Bowen Island. Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appointment. 604947-2454 biac.ca GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. WednesdaySaturday, noon-5 p.m. Adult admission by donation/children free. 604-998-8563 info@ smithfoundation.ca KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 2-4 p.m. 604981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Persian Calligraphy and Paintings: An exhibition by Mojtaba Daneshi March 18 and 19, 6-10 p.m. The event includes performances by Fereshte Zakeri, Alborz Rahmani and Sina Etehand. LAWSON CREEK STUDIOS 1756 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. THE MUSIC BOX 1564 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. NORTH VANCOUVER ARCHIVES AT THE COMMUNITY HISTORY CENTRE 3203 Institute Rd., North Vancouver. Tuesday-Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 604-9903700 nvma.ca Steppin’ Out: Street photography of Foncie Pulice is currently on display. NORTHVANCOUVER MUSEUM AT PRESENTATION HOUSE 209 West Fourth St., North Vancouver. Thursday-Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 604-9875612 nvma.ca
Water’s Edge – The Changing Shore: An interactive exhibit that examines the significance of North Vancouver’s waterfront from historical, geographical and personal perspective runs until May 18. The North Vancouver Story: Experience an ongoing exhibit defining life in North Vancouver. PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 My West Coast: Painter Elizabeth Austin shows her acrylic on canvas landscapes of the West Coast and potter Jochen Schliessler shows large vases, jugs, bowls and planters until April 9. SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery. com Viveka: New works by contemporary ceramic artist Samantha Dickie from March 10 to April 22. Artist talk and reception: March 19, 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 Storm: A series that explores the beauty in disaster by painter Tiffany Blaise runs until March 19. Cherry Blossoms: A Textile Translation: An exhibition of textile art in a variety of mediums including quilting, needlework, fashion and more inspired by the cherry blossom March 21-April 9. Opening reception: Tuesday, March 21, 6-8 p.m. STUDIO E 161 Pemberton Ave., North Vancouver. TARTOOFUL 3183 Edgemont Blvd., North
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ARTSCALENDAR From page 15 Vancouver. 604-924-0122 tartooful.com WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca In the Gallery – Nature Studies: An exhibition of detailed drawings of insects, birds and plants by Sibeal Foyle runs until March 26. In the Gallery – A Lasting Impact – The Effect of Residential Schools on the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations: An exhibition that provides insight into how the residential school experience has affected B.C. First Nation communities March 29-April 30. 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 Wes Taylor are on display until May 2. WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St., West Vancouver. Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7270 westvancouvermuseum.ca Drawing the Line – North Shore Works 1962-1967: An exhibition featuring ink, gouache, mixed media drawings and intaglio prints by Ann Kipling is on display until March 25. Admission by donation.
PERSIAN CELEBRATION The Vashaan Ensemble (featuring Ali Razmi, Saina Khaledi, Ali Sajjadi, Fathieh Honari, Reza Honari and Hamin Honari) perform a free concert tonight at the West Vancouver Memorial Library in honour of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. The band, formed in 2011, explores forms of music rarely heard in North America. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information on this locally based world class ensemble visit vashaan.com. PHOTO SUPPLIED YEATS STUDIO & GALLERY 2402 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 778-279-8777 yeatsgallery.ca Artist Craig Yeats is currently featuring a large collection of West Coast landscape paintings done by palette knife until March 31. The gallery also has the work of seven other artists.
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p.m. and performance is at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $10/$8. Tickets available at the door. KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Ashley MacIsaac, fiddler and roots musician, performs Wednesday, March 15 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $55/$48/$15. Cabaret Series: The Danilo Brito (mandolinist) Trio perform a Brazilian genre of popular music March 16 and 17 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $35. Let the Music Take You Home: Jim Curry’s tribute to the music of the late John Denver Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $42.50. Cadet Honour Band: A free performance featuring a special pipes and drums section by cadet musicians Saturday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. LYNN VALLEY UNITED CHURCH 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. Friday Night Live: A storytelling and musical experience for all ages Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: March 10, Matt Grinke (24hour piano marathon); March 17, Countermeasure (a cappella); and March 24, Blake Harvard (singer/songwriter). Tickets: $10 at the door. Info: fnlnorthvan. com. SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Rising Stars – CapU at the Silk Purse: The Jessica Toplak Quintet comprised of vocalist Jessica Toplak, vibraphonist Saul Alviar, guitarist Parker Woods, bassist William Chernoff and drummer Miles Wong perform jazz, R&B and folk Saturday, March 11, 7:30-9 p.m. Tickets: $20/$15. Classical Concert Series: Daughter/mother duo cellist Danielle Markle and pianist Linda Falls perform Thursday, March 16, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $15. Rising Stars – CapU at the Silk Purse: Trumpeter Ben Frost plays his original jazz compositions alongside his band Saturday, March 18, 7:30-9 p.m.
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ARTSCALENDAR From page 15 Tickets: $20/$15. Classical Concert Series: Pianist Michael Aston performs a program of piano nocturnes Thursday, March 23, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tickets: $15. Rising Stars – CapU at the Silk Purse: Soprano Ashley Gonzales and pianist Daniel Nguyen team up for an evening of art songs about love Saturday, March 25, 7:30-9 p.m. Tickets: $20/$15. ST. CLEMENT’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 3400 Institute Rd., North Vancouver. Fire Victims’ Benefit Concert: An evening of acoustic guitar and song with Stephen King and friends to raise funds for those who lost homes and belongings in the Upper Lonsdale apartment fire Saturday, March 11, 7-9 p.m. Admission by a suggested donation of $20/$15. Tickets: eventbrite.ca/e/ stephen-king-benefit-concertwguests-in-aid-of-fire-victimstickets-32486904205? WESTERN FRONT 303 East Eighth Ave., Vancouver. Cap Jazz: The Ben Allison Quartet featuring Ben Allison on bass, Jeremy Pelt on trumpet,
Steve Cardenas on guitar and Allan Mednard on drums, performs Friday, March 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $30/$27. WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Friday Night Concert: The Vashaan Ensemble, classic Persian musicians, perform joyful and diverse songs from Iran’s rich musical past March 10, 7:30-8:45 p.m.
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at 2 p.m. Tickets: $24/$15/$10. CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc. ca/centennial-theatre Irrelevant Show CBC Radio’s comedy show of sketches and songs Thursday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $35. DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. The Marvelous Wonderettes: A musical featuring over 30 classic ’50s and ’60s hits WednesdaysSaturdays until March 10 at 8 p.m. with a matinee Saturday, March 11 at 2 p.m. Admission: $20. Tickets: 604-929-9456 or firstimpressionstheatre.com. KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Disney’s 101 Dalmatians: North Shore Mountain Theatre performs a play based on the classic animated film March 10 and 11, 7 p.m. with a matinee March 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $8. Vancouver Iranian Theatre: A live play of Caligula Friday, March 24 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $55/$45/$35. MULGRAVE SCHOOL 2330 Cypress Bowl Lane, West
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Edgemont Village actress Eileen Barrett has longed to be Viola her whole life.
“And so at the grand old age of 54, it’s my first chance to play this boy,” says Barrett, in between rehearsals for Western Gold Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Barrett was 10 the first time she was entranced by Twelfth Night’s gender-bending heroine. Her mother took her to a touring production of the romantic comedy put on by the Royal Shakespeare Company. “So it’s always been one of my favourites of the Bard’s works,” she says. A veteran stage and film actress, Barrett is enjoying working with the Western Gold cast staging the Twelfth Night reading. Set in the ancient kingdom of Illyria (the western Balkans), twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck. Viola disguises herself as a boy to become a page in Duke Orsino’s court, but ends up falling for the duke, who is in love with the Countess Olivia, who falls for “Viola.” And let the confusion, mistaken identity and conniving begin. What sets this production apart, says Barrett, is that it’s less about the pageantry and more about the words on the page. “I think what Anna (Hagan) our director is trying to do is go back to the text and have it be about listening to the text … because really with Shakespeare if you pay attention to the text and the punctuation he gives it all to you,” says Barrett. At one point Viola is forced into a swordfight with Sir Andrew, a buffoonish caricature of a character, describes Barrett. It’s a purposely “very bad sword fight” staged on a rudimentary set similar to Shakespeare’s Globe. “Fortunately for me there isn’t actually any (sword fighting) skill involved,” says
Eileen Barrett plays Viola in Western Gold Theatre Society’s production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. PHOTO SUPPLIED Barrett, with a laugh. The show is set around a thrust stage – where the audience sits on three sides – which is great, says Barrett, “because it makes it seem like the audience is another character, which they should be.” Playing a cross-dressing character was a study in social constructs for Barrett. “One of the things that’s quite lovely about Twelfth Night is there is a fair amount of gender fluidity in terms of who becomes attracted to whom,” says Barrett.” It actually says a lot about: Is gender just a construct that we have come up with as a society? So it’s very interesting.” Barrett launched her acting career in 1984, after graduating from Langara College’s Studio 58, picking up roles with theatre companies from coast to coast.
When asked what her big break was, Barrett laughs. “I think I’m still waiting for it, actually,” she says. “I am like most of us – a working actor.” However, Barrett admits she has had some wonderful opportunities along the way. Her favourite stage role, which won Barrett a Jessie award, was portraying a child who was sexually abused by her uncle behind the wheel in How I learned to Drive. The longtime North Vancouver resident also performed in My Mother’s Story at Presentation House Theatre a few years ago. Sixty women from North Vancouver submitted their mother’s stories, spanning multi generations, for the project. Ultimately eight were chosen to be performed. Calling it a really cool project, Barrett says it was an honour to portray these
women. “We are talking about a generation of women who say: ‘I don’t know why you would want to write about me, I’m just an ordinary person.’ I think what it brought up for us is that ordinary people have extraordinary lives.” Barrett counts Supernatural, Stargate and Ramona and Beezus among her film and TV credits and she will next be seen in Little Pink House, starring Catherine Keener. Barrett plays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Erin Brockovich-esque film about a small-town nurse who fights to save her neighbourhood from being sold to the Pfizer Corporation. Speaking on International Women’s Day, Barrett says it was an honour to play Ginsburg, who she calls “a kickass force for women.”
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Talented cast wasted on forgettable comedy ! The Last Word. Directed by Mark Pellington. Starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried. Rating: 4 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD Contributing writer
She looks great and appears to be in good health at age 82, but please, Dear Lord, throw Shirley MacLaine another worthy role or two so that The Last Word is not remembered as her last picture.
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A woman who has been winning statuettes and accolades since 1955’s The Trouble With Harry deserves more than the role of town curmudgeon in an utterly forgettable film about wanting to be remembered. MacLaine plays Harriet Lauler, a rancorous old woman held captive by memories and lovely things. She rattles around her stately home, ordering around her domestic staff and pushing them aside to perform each chore to her exacting standards. She thinks about ending it all, but not before
commissioning a stellar obituary, one that contains the four essentials: being fondly remembered by loved ones; being respected and missed by former co-workers; making a difference in the life of someone less fortunate; and lastly, that mysterious obituary “wow” factor that makes people want to read beyond the first line. To that end, Harriet requests a formal introduction to Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried), writer of obituaries for the local paper where Harriet, a former ad executive, is something of a living legend. “The thought of leaving my obituary to chance is completely unreasonable to me,” she tells Anne, who is secretly a struggling essayist living in a predictably dark and dingy writer’s apartment, just killing time writing about dead people. “She puts the bitch in obituary,” Anne groans. But it’s the digital age and newspapers are hurting, her editor reminds her: if Anne swallows her pride and devotes all resources to Harriet, maybe she’ll leave a chunk of her fortune to the paper. But after interviewing scores of people, from Harriet’s priest (“I hated her”) to her gynecologist (“angriest vagina this side of China”) Anne comes up empty. The strength of this universal vitriol is over the top: Harriet sounds like she was a tough female boss in a male-dominated industry, sure, but there’s no evidence she did anything extreme enough to necessitate therapy, a contract killing, or the disintegration of priestly vows.
So begins a far-fetched road trip to check all the obit boxes before she dies, including a visit with her long-estranged daughter (Anne Heche) and the procurement of a juvenile delinquent to mold. Tenyear-old Brenda (Ann’Jewel Lee) fits the bill, and is the most discomfiting thing about The Last Word: Harriet is initially on the hunt for a token minority and the film never establishes Brenda as anything more than that, making the trio’s late-night undies-only dip in a lake (ridiculous) and the three of them sharing a bed in a seedy motel (preposterous) creepy, not cute. The child’s main function is to make those four-letter words peppering the script seem more shocking. Harriet gives a good speech when she and Brenda first meet about how that sort of language implies that you have nothing more intelligent to say. Too bad she didn’t give Anne – who, as a writer, should have more weapons in her vocabulary arsenal – the same lecture: Anne drops swear words indiscriminately, including from the lectern of a church, and no one even blinks. The camera pauses too long for pretty shots while sacrificing opportunities to spend more time on the narrative and add believability to the plot. More artful shots disappear after the first few frames, and any optimism that Mark Pellington’s film will take a novel turn wanes soon after. We haven’t even delved into Harriet’s twilight career as a disc jockey and a half-hearted romance, but I’ll spare you the details. The
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Wigs add world of confidence for women Abuse survivor feels pretty for first time MARIA SPITALE-LEISK mspitale-leisk@nsnews.com
Tears welled in her eyes as she gently touched her hair and recognized her reflection in the mirror again.
It’s been almost 20 years since she has seen her inherited, long raven-hued locks. Since the day Michelle suffered a savage attack at the hands of her ex-husband, who slowly burned all the hair off her head. Her husband also denied her immediate medical attention, instead locking Michelle inside the house for days while she was suffering from serious scalp burns. Michelle (her name has been changed by the News to protect her identity) found the strength and courage to leave her extremely controlling husband but was left with permanent reminders of that abusive relationship. “I used to have really beautiful hair,” she says. The small amount of Michelle’s hair that grew back did so finely and in patches. There is visible scar tissue on her scalp. Still, Michelle says, “I’m very lucky.” In the decades since, Michelle has searched for hair replacement options: weaves, wigs, extensions, taping. It’s been an unpleasant trial and error hair journey to
Dye Lot hair salon co-owner and wig specialist Christina Thomson adds the finishing touches on Michelle’s new hairpiece. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN this point, one that Michelle says she could write a book about. Her previous hairpieces screamed fake, says Michelle, and weren’t very functional. She found places that would just sell the wigs, without giving customers a chance to really see what they were committing to
wearing every day. One time Michelle went to a salon and observed everyone in the salon staring at her. “It was one of the most uncomfortable experiences I’ve ever had for my confidence,” she says. “They are all staring at your scars. It’s a place of beauty.” Eight months ago fate
intervened when Michelle was walking past The Dye Lot hair salon in Lower Lonsdale and spotted a private room dedicated to wig fitting. Michelle met Dye Lot coowner Christina Thomson, who helped develop the salon’s Wig Room for clients who are dealing with hair loss.
The Dye Lot has three specialists trained in wig fitting. There are synthetic and human hair options depending on how much clients want to spend or what purpose the hair pieces will serve. Rows of wig-coiffed mannequin heads in a variety of styles line the perimeter of the Wig Room, a brightly lit,
welcoming space at the side of the salon. A bouquet of cheerful fresh flowers sits by the long mirror at the fitting station furnished with a comfortable chair. Michelle was fitted with a topper, not a full wig but a custom-made hairpiece that
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A longtime Dermalogica fan (in University I would scrape together my part-time job earnings to splurge on a tube of Active Moist), I always get a little thrill when a new product from the 31-year-old Californiabased skincare line comes across my desk. One of the most recent such prezzies is the Daily Superfoliant. My first thought upon tearing open the signature silver packaging: “An exfoliator and it’s Dermalogica? I’m already practically sold.” Let me explain. Exfoliators, whether in the form of a mask or a cream, are an essential component in my skincare routine. They immediately slough away dry, dead skin cells to reveal the new healthy layer underneath, making way for nourishing serums and moisturizers to penetrate the dermis. The Superfoliant, Dermalogica’s second iteration of the brand’s uber-popular Daily Microfoliant (released in 2002), does everything a good exfoliator should, and more. Unlike the Daily Microfoliant, which uses rice enzymes as its active ingredient, this one contains binchotan charcoal
to purify the skin, alpha-hydroxy acid to smooth plus niacinamide, red algae and tara fruit extract to protect skin from pollutant damage. What the Superfoliant doesn’t have is the rough particles often present in other exfoliators, such as ground shells and sugar, which can be harsh on the skin and cause tiny tears. Instead the Superfoliant has a fine powder consistency, gentle enough to be used daily. The first time I tried it, I followed the package directions, shaking half a teaspoon of the charcoal-coloured powder into my palm (careful, it comes out quick). Next, I dribbled a quarter teaspoon of water onto the small pile of powder, and combined the two with my fingers to create a silky-smooth, bubbly paste. Using circular motions, I massaged the mixture onto my face and neck for about 60 seconds, avoiding the eye area, then rinsed with warm water. Immediately I noticed my skin was baby-soft – the “resurfacing” claims definitely held up.
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clips on top of her crown to mask the hair loss and marries naturally with her remaining hair. Thomson then went in and added wefts of hair, making Michelle’s mane look really full and long. Before Michelle wore the wig home that day, Thomson coloured and cut it to complement her client’s features. And talk about
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low-maintenance hair. Michelle hasn’t had to wash her wig for a month and it looks like a fresh salon blowout with bouncy curls. “My God, I felt pretty,” says Michelle of that first glimpse in the mirror. “I have never felt pretty like I have since I was 18. I got a lot of my confidence back because of the Wig Room.” Having a custom-made wig has made a world of difference for Michelle. “For the first time this
year since I was 18 years old I was able to go on a vacation and not be worried about my hair getting wet if I go into the ocean,” she says. Dye Lot co-owner Alison Alexander says it’s been gratifying to be able to help women suffering from hair loss for myriad reasons including radiation treatment, alopecia and hormonal imbalance. “And it’s been quite different than what we thought we were getting into,” she adds.
“Every story seems to be so different.” Michelle is now remarried and in a loving relationship with an “amazing” man. When asked how her life has changed and how her story helps other women, Michelle lights up. “Ever since I have been open about it not only do I feel empowered, I’ve let my guard down and people get to know why I feel excited every day. Because I’m excited to be alive,” she says.
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Though my face felt a bit tight and dry, as it normally does after an exfoliation, my newly polished visage drank up my moisturizer (I use Dermalogica’s Active Moist mixed with Dermalogica’s Skin Hydrating Booster and a bit of SPF) as soon as I smoothed it on, leaving a glowy dew that lasted all day. Like my Active Moist in my university days, this product is definitely worth the splurge. Cost: $79 for 57 grams. Available on the North Shore at Fruition Skin Therapy, Mary Beauty Spa and Hennessey Salon and Spa at Park Royal South or online at buy.dermalogica.ca.
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To authorize the City of North Vancouver to adopt “Parks Dedication Bylaw, 2004, No. 7628, Amendment Bylaw, 2017, No. 8541” (Sunrise Parkland Adjustment) to remove a portion of parkland required for the Keith Road and Brooksbank Avenue intersection to accommodate the Mountain Highway Interchange project. NOTICE is hereby given in accordance with Sections 94 and 86 of the Community Charter that the Council of The Corporation of the City of North Vancouver intends to consider adoption of: “Parks Dedication Bylaw, 2004, No. 7628, Amendment Bylaw, 2017, No. 8541” (Sunrise Parkland Adjustment)
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Horrific tales tackle reality head-on at festival
Women in Film fest showcases stellar projects ! Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, VIFF Vancity Theatre, until March 12. For more information visit womeninfilm.ca. JOHN KURUCZ Contributing Writer
Karen Lam’s monsters manifest themselves internally before getting released on a TV or film screen.
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, on the other hand, speaks to resilience in the face of a monster etched into Canadian history as the worst serial killer the nation has seen. Both women will relay their own versions of horror this week as part of the 12th annual Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, which runs until March 12. Tailfeathers stars in the film On the Farm, which serves as a dramatization of journalist Stevie Cameron’s book of the same name delving into the Robert Pickton murder case.
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers plays the role of Nikki Taylor in On the Farm, which chronicles the life of a woman who escaped the trappings of life on the Downtown Eastside. PHOTO SUPPLIED DAN TOULGOET The Vancouverite plays the role of Nikki Taylor, a fictionalized character who perseveres through forced sex work and addiction in the Downtown Eastside. Her story highlights both
redemption and indictment. “She’s a truly resourceful, and incredible survivor and a resilient young woman,” Tailfeathers says. “But the film is essentially a huge indictment on the Vancouver
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cycle sees On the Farm up for three Canadian Screen Awards: Best TV Movie, Best Director for a Dramatic Program/Limited Series and Best Lead Actress. The winners will be
announced March 12, but Tailfeathers will have already returned home to the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta to kick off her next project – a film about the deadly synthetic narcotic fentanyl and its impact on her people. “Our community was essentially ground zero for the fentanyl crisis,” she says, adding the film will be released next year. “It impacted us nearly three years ago and we’ve lost quite a few people to fentanyl-related overdoses. The film is meant to share the ongoing work of our community and how you deal with a crisis like this.” While Karen Lam’s role in the festival also centres around horror, hers is of the fictional variety. A writer, producer and director, Lam will lead a pair of workshops on March 9 that delve into the creative process and the optimum elements required to tackle the horror movie genre. “The stories that I’m drawn to are worlds that are fully realized,” Lam said. “When you watch something like Game of Thrones or you immerse yourself in a really good book, you have all the details really thought out. It’s
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Female voices celebrate women in song
Special musica intima concert will honour International Women’s Day ! musica intima vocal ensemble: Womeninspiration, Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St., Vancouver. Tickets $25/$15. For more information visit musicaintima.org. LISE BOULLARD Contributing Writer
When musica intima’s artistic manager, and North Shore native, Joanna Dundas joined the ensemble as a soprano in 1999, she couldn’t have predicted she would remain with the organization for the next 18 years.
But now, after almost two decades with the three-time Juno-nominated, Vancouverbased group – founded in 1992 and known for its collaborative approach to music-making – she is preparing to retire from the role that has fulfilled her talents for so long. And she will go out on a high note, so to speak, as the last show she will help direct will be a first-ever for musica intima: a special program called Womenspiration, timed to this week’s International Women’s Day on Mar. 8. Taking place tonight at Heritage Hall in East Vancouver, the program was
In Womeninspiration the vocal ensemble musica intima (artistic directorJoanna Dundas and violist Isabelle Roland, in photo) perform a program of works written by women, including a new work commissioned by composer Jennifer Butler. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD designed with a feminine theme in mind and will showcase a new commission by Canadian composer Jennifer Butler, using the words of Canadian playwright Maria
Reva’s short story Uta’s Escape. There will also be a work by composer Katerina Gimon, with accompaniment by instrumentalist, and principal viola, Isabelle Roland
of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. Although it’s “a bit of a departure for us (to have a female-only repertoire),” says Dundas, it is an opportunity to work with a piece that will reflect “the textures in the female voice.” For this show, the ensemble will consist of nine singers and guest violas (instead of the usual eight to 12 members), the benefit of a smaller group being that “you can hear more of the individual voices; the tonal ranges that they can represent.” When commissioning the story that would inspire the program, Dundas was very specific about the type of work she was looking for. She started to ask writers, including Maria Reva, who also happens to be a composer, which pieces they thought would work well with music. “Maria sent us a short story that had been published by The Guardian online, and we worked with her to adapt the text so that it would work (for the program).” For the concert, Uta’s Escape,– which is about the disappearance of a synchronized swimmer at the pool during a group training session – fit the bill. “It’s a
Siri Olesen is musica intima’s new artistic director . very evocative story, very well written with some very dark humour. There were many layers that we thought we could explore,” explains Dundas. In addition to featuring this commission, tonight’s performance will be an opportunity to showcase a variety of other pieces that Dundas feels will be given texture with the all-female voices. “There was just so much good music that we wanted to (present),”
emphasizes Dundas. Before this evening’s performance, Butler, Gimon and Reva will hold a discussion where audience members can get a behind-the-scenes perspective on the program. This interaction is consistent with Musica Intima’s philosophy of ‘intimate’ engagement – the ensemble is known for using eye contact with audience members. As Dundas puts it, “it’s not just a performing group, it’s a culture onto itself.” When asked how she feels about leaving her role at musica intima (longtime member Siri Olesen will step in as artistic manager), Dundas says, “I’ve come to a point where I’m very good about where the ensemble is at and I feel it’s a good moment to pass it on and have the next person’s ideas come to fruition.” And with Womenspiration, her departure couldn’t be more harmonious: “We’re having a great time and we’re really in love with the program.” Womenspiration takes place at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Heritage Hall, 3102 Main St., Vancouver. The pre-concert discussion will commence at 6:45 p.m. Adults $25, Students $15.
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Saturdays until March 12 at 8 p.m. with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15-$28. ST. MARTIN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 195 East Windsor Rd., North Vancouver. THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca
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DEEP COVE BREWERY 170-2270 Dollarton Hwy., North Vancouver. Dino DiNicolo performs a solo show Saturday, March 18 from 7 to 10 p.m. FINCH AND BARLEY 250 East First St., North Vancouver. Dino DiNicolo performs a solo show Thursday, April 6 from 8:45 p.m. to midnight. GREEN LEAF BREWING CO. 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr., West Vancouver.
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WAVES COFFEE HOUSE 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. Music Medley Showcase comes to Waves the first Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604985-5646 or musicmedley@ gmail.com.
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“Creating safe communities means protecting the environment and the people.” – Dion Arnouse, Emergency Management Consultant, Kinder Morgan Canada
Trans Mountain’s emergency management team has connected with over 130 Aboriginal communities along the BC-Alberta pipeline route. We assess each community’s capacity to respond to a civil emergency, then provide support to upgrade emergency response skills accordingly. The primary objective is to ensure an organized response to a spill. However, as the chances of a spill are low, local residents who are trained well with a safety mindset are equally prepared to respond to a more likely natural event, such as a fire, flood or ice storm. Putting safety first is our number one priority.
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Peter Neville-Hadley Meridian Writers’Group
LONDON – From Piccadilly Circus the long, straight boulevard of Piccadilly leads to some of the most distinguished names in British retailing such as Hatchard’s booksellers of 1787 and venerable victualler Fortnum & Mason, on the same site since 1840.
Ancient arcades to either side contain tiny premises selling handmade hats, shoes and gentlemen’s
In Maison Assouline, the flagship shop in London’s Piccadilly street of publisher Assouline, a visitor can sit among objets d’art while browsing coffee-table books and sipping a cocktail. photo supplied Peter Neville-Hadley/MeridiaN Writers’ GrouP
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Spectacular view of Vancouver harbour & city skyline. Enjoy excellent food in a Brew Pub atmosphere. 20 draught beers and ciders, featuring local microbreweries & our own 6 craft-brews. Happy Hour daily 11am-6pm! Brunch served weekends and holidays & free pool every Sunday! Darts, pool, foosball, lotto games, 11 big screen TVs & heated patio.
The corner store has served the Pemberton Heights community since the early 1920’s. The store has evolved to offer organic coffee/espresso service & baked goods; fresh made soups, sandwiches & lunch items; ‘take & bake’ pizzas on Wednesday; full brunch service on Saturday & Sunday; & set dinners on Friday and Saturday evening. We have become the first ‘fully licensed’ corner store/cafe/bistro in the province.
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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. www.woonleeinn.com 3751 Delbrook Ave, N. Van. | 604-986-3388
“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. We now allow children and minors for lunch Mon-Fri. 11am-2pm when accompanied by an adult. Our weekend & holiday family periods remain unchanged 11am until 4pm.
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prints and other items to back the Assoulines’ claim that culture is the finest accessory of a luxury lifestyle. London’s is the only shop with a café and bar, though. In 1994 ,Prosper and Martine Assouline published their first book, a glossy tome celebrating their favourite hotel, La Colombe d’Or near Nice, a watering hole in the 1970s for a generation of cultural icons from David Niven to Picasso and from Jean-Paul Sartre to Roger Moore. The book was well-received and the couple continued producing books they could not find elsewhere, pleasing as physical objects and both elevating and comforting. In a little over 20 years their list has grown to range from small books on Dadaism to a vast and waterproof volume on the British Antarctic Expedition weighty enough to make any coffee table groan; yours for merely US$4,500. The linking theme is style expressed in travel, art, food and fashion. The Assoulines will also design and stock a personal library or can have your treasured books rebound. But while you consider all this there’s the choice of exotic afternoon tea sets or a mean Charlie Chaplin or two, and the pleasure at having found somewhere rather different, hidden in the middle of London. ifyougo: For more information on Maison Assouline visit assouline.com. For information on London go to the Visit London website at visitlondon.com. – More stories at culturelocker.com
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waistcoats with an alarming lack of marked prices. A slightly blank building to one side of Christopher Wren’s St. James’s Church has windows too high up to see through, but displays on a simple sandwich board at its entrance the enticement “Books, Gifts and Café,” which those who push through the heavy wooden doors soon discover to be rather coy. Maison Assouline discreetly offers rather more than the equivalent of a Starbucks in a big-box bookstore. It’s out to elevate your experience of life with an injection of culture. In the high-ceilinged former banking hall, built by the doyen of 20th-century British architects, Edwin Lutyens, long lines of shelves crammed with substantial art books look down on a comfortable sitting room scattered with objets d’art which is a café in the day and a cocktail bar at night. “We have plenty of people who come here because of the bar. For them this is a beautiful cocktail bar that has a lot of books around it,” says manager Martyna Dargiewicz. “Then we also have customers who are big fans of Assouline as a publishing house and who collect the coffee-table books. They come here for the books and the bar is a secondary experience once they’ve seen the new things we have to offer.” The Piccadilly premises are in fact the flagship outlet of Assouline publishing, which also has shops in New York, Paris, Venice, Geneva, Rome, Seoul, Lima, Santiago and Mexico City. In addition to books, they sell stationary,
n Polaroids by sante d’orazio, Chronicle Books, 135 pages, $41.95. In the pre-digital era photographers relied on polaroids to check lighting and composition for their work. Sante D’Orazio shares this collection of images from many of his portrait sessions with celebrities and supermodels. D’Orazio’s work is marked by a strong rapport with his subjects. The trust between model and artist is apparent in every photo. While the photo session that followed the taking of these polaroids would have involved multiple photographs, what makes the Polaroid unique is that it is a singular moment when the very first image is captured. It is the
introduction and the establishment of what would follow. Kate Moss, Georgina Grenville, Niki Taylor, Janet Jackson, Julia Roberts, Keith Richards and many more subjects fill the pages, each one shown in that distinctive Polaroid format. – Terry Peters
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ARTSCALENDAR Lam turned to TV and film after career in law
From page 31 Vancouver. 604-984-4484 nvrc. ca/centennial-theatre River Blue: A documentary of an unprecedented river adventure led by river conservationist Mark Angelo Friday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15/$13. Double Bill Feature Presentation: Inversion shows at 3 p.m. and Immortality at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, March 11. In Farsi with English subtitles. Tickets: $20/$15. CHAPTERS INDIGO BOOKS Park Royal South, West Vancouver. Author Book Signing: North Shore author Lawrence Verigin will sign copies of his books Dark Seed and newly released Seed of Control Saturday, March 18, 1-4 p.m. lawrenceverigin.com CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Build Your Art Business: Learn how to photograph artwork for archiving, reproduction, promotion and exhibition submissions Sunday, March 26, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Fee: $60/$48. FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. TuesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com
From page 28 a cohesive, real place.” Lam entered the TV world in the early 2000s after a career in law. She’s produced four feature films, eight short films and three television series, including horror titles Evangeline, Chiral and The Meeting. For Lam, horror is a safe place to examine real world issues. “It’s a way for me to discuss really hard issues and ideas, but in a more of a surrealist or symbolic ways. A lot of the anxieties, danger and fear that we have of the world around us, I can personify through the horror.” Lam’s first panel discussion, Creating the Universe, runs from 10 –11:30 a.m., while Shooting the Horror Film is slated from 1 – 3:30 p.m. Both events take place at Vancity Theatre. – John Kurucz writes for our sister paper the Vancouver Courier
A PLAY, A PIE, A PINT The North Shore Celtic Ensemble performs at Centennial Theatre on Wednesday, March 15 at noon as part of the monthly series A Play, A Pie, A Pint. Following the performance lunch is provided by the Aussie Pie Guy and a beverage of choice in the theatre lobby. Tickets: $22 advance, $25 at the door. Contact the box office for group rates at 604-984-4484. PHOTO SUPPLIED KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Film Series: A screening of Maliglutit (Searchers) Monday, March 27 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 Shore Community Arts Council screens Canadian, independent and
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REMEMBRANCES obituaries
HUMPHREY, Eleanor June 30, 1930 − March 3, 2017
LISHMAN, John 1926 - 2017 John Lishman passed away at the North Shore Hospice at the fine old age of 91. John was born in 1926 in Cardiff, Wales. His father died when he was 12, and he was raised by his mother Dora. John attended the Welsh school of Architecture at the age of 17, and then joined the Welch regiment in the Second World War at the age of 18, where he became a lieutenant. After returning from the war he continued his architectural studies and graduated in 1952.
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Eleanor Humphrey. Predeceased by her loving husband, Al, and survived by her children Ted (Sandra), Jo (Murray), Mark (Karen) and Cathy (Don), 7 grandchildren and 2 great−grandchildren. Eleanor loved life, laughter and red wine. Her passions included bridge, bowling, skiing, curling, golfing and sailing. She was often found on a cruise ship or in Palm Springs. The family would like to express their gratitude to all who provided care to Eleanor. A service will be held Sunday, March 12th at 2:00 PM at First Memorial Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the Arthritis Society or Parkinson Canada.
MARTER, Joan September 6, 1940 − February 23, 2017
Long−time resident of Lynn Valley, Joan passed away on 23 February, 2017 surrounded by her family. She is survived by her sons: Peter (Joan), Paul and Mark (Mary); grandchildren Caroline and Louis; sisters Irene (Glenn) and Betty (Dick). She will be missed by her extended family and many friends. Joan loved life and spent many hours volunteering at Molly Nye House and other community organizations, perusing cookbooks and cooking for family and friends. We will miss her love of life and especially her kind and generous nature. She will be missed by all those whose life she touched. A Celebration of her Life is planned for an unscheduled date in the weeks to come.
John married Julie in 1950, and they emmigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1953 with their 5 month old son, Jonathan. John became a member of the A.I.B.C. and worked for John Lovatt Davies, where he became a partner and took over the firm when John retired. John and Julie bought an old house in West Vancouver, which they renovated, and where their second son Peter was born in 1957. They both spent considerable time with their family at their cabin, which they built at Bridge Lake.
OECHSLER, Peter 1936 - February 19, 2017
John was a member of the West Vancouver video club and enjoyed making travel videos, which he showed at the community center. John was a member of the Capilano Community Church, and we thank them for their love and support . John is survived by his wife (Julie) of 67 years, son Jonathan (pre-deceased), son Peter (Karen); grandchildren David (Melissa), Chad (Jenna), and their great granddaughter Emilia. John was a real gentleman with an amazing amount of patience and will be missed by his family and friends. Special thanks to Dr. Lakha and the staff at the North Shore Hospice for their care and compassion. There will be a Celebration of Life at St. Stephen’s Church on March 18 starting at 2pm, 885 22nd Street, West Vancouver. If you wish to make a donation in John’s memory, please consider the North Shore Hospice.
RILEY, Norma Isabella (nee Jamieson) October 17, 1928 - February 27, 2017 It is with great sadness that Norma’s family shares the news of her passing. Predeceased by her father Norman, mother Margaret (Peg), and sisters Margaret and Jane Jamieson of Winnipeg, Norma will be lovingly remembered by her adoring husband Bill; their children Jane Green, Margaret (Neil) Cody, Barbara Riley, Jim Riley; grandchildren Brady (Stacey) and Laura Green, Ryan and Carolyn Cody, Veronica Schober; great-granddaughter Hilary Green; nephews and nieces, and many friends. Norma was a figure skater in her youth, studied painting at the Banff School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of some of the Group of Seven painters, and was a debutante who enjoyed a cultured and refined upbringing. A caring person, she graduated from Vancouver General Hospital Registered Nursing in 1951 and worked with the Victorian Order of Nurses off and on for many years.
MULLEN, Albert C. December 27, 2016
"Bert" passed away peacefully in LGH at the age of 94. Born and raised in Edmonton, he joined the RCAF as a pilot in 1943 and while posted to England, lost his leg in an aircraft accident. In hospital he met the love of his life, RAF nurse, Jose. They married and returned to Canada where he graduated from UBC in Mechanical Engineering. His career in Pulp and Paper with the Powell River Company (later to be M&B) developed his management and people skills earning him the position of Project Manager of the $110,000,000 mill expansion in Powell River from 1965 to 1968. Bert was a master woodworker and an ardent guitar player. He later became involved with the Choir at WV Community Centre where he was also instrumental in founding the woodwork shop. Predeceased by Jose in 2013 and survived by his five sons, Brian (Jasna), Paul, Hugh (Cheryl), Robert (Jill − deceased) and Bruce (Joanne) as well as 12 grandchildren (1 deceased) and 7 great grandchildren. His life lessons will remain with us forever. Celebration of Life to be 1PM, March 25, at the WV Senior Centre, Marine Room.
The North Shore Time Travellers Motorcycle Club is sad to report that Peter passed away at Lions Gate Hospital following a medical emergency while snowshoeing. Peter was a Club Member and one of our regular riding buddies. Our rides won’t be the same without his quirky sense of humour, stories and unique take on all things. A real “Trooper” to the very end, Peter will be missed.
She was a docent at the Vancouver Aquarium for 23 years which she loved, becoming very knowledgeable and teaching countless young people about aquatic life in BC waters, guiding VIP tours, and scuba diving and specimen gathering in the South Pacific with Dr. Murray Newman. Over the years she travelled the world with Bill and was proud to say that they had been to 133 countries, accomplishing her personal goal of visiting as many of the ancient wonders of the world as possible. She was a talented seamstress, pianist, bridge player, and hostess who loved cooking, and entertaining family and friends. She was a devoted and active grandparent and her legacy for the grandchildren will be their memories of all the fun times they shared with Grandma and Papa. The family gratefully declines to receive flowers and asks instead that Norma be remembered with a donation to the BC Cancer Agency. There will be a celebration of Norma’s life at Westerleigh Retirement Residence, 725 22nd Street, West Vancouver, BC, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Saturday, March 18, 2017. Special thanks to all who provided compassionate care at Lynn Valley Care Center in North Vancouver, BC.
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WOLFIN, Louis March 3, 2017 It is with heartfelt sadness that the family of Louis Wolfin announces the passing of our loving husband, father, brother, grandfather and father in law. He is survived by his loving wife of 57 years Joan, and children LeeAnn Wolfin, Lisa Wayrynen, Samra Mitchum, and David Wolfin, daughter in law Debbie Wolfin, son in law Matt Wayrynen and sister Sandy Roy. He was a proud grandpa to his precious grandchildren Allexanne, Talin, Taisha, Skyla, Ryan and Amanda. Born in Winnipeg from immigrant parents from Belarus as a young man he made Vancouver home and found his bride from Australia. He had a stellar career in the mining industry with the success of the pyramid mines in the 1960’s, reopening the Avino mine in Durango Mexico and the Bralorne Mine in British Columbia and the Coral gold property in Nevada. In the 1970’s, he was involved in the first disposable camera, owned the patent on holograms and had a keyless door lock entry system that is only coming to the market now. He was a true visionary. He had an open door policy and was a mentor to many people in the mining business. He was a true giver with a large heart. He had many friends all over the world as he travelled extensively. He was a generous person and a contributor to the VGH hospital heart division, the Vancouver police, RCMP, and many Jewish organizations including planting 2000 trees in Israel in honor of his parents. The funeral is at Har El synagogue, 1305 Taylor Way, on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 12:30pm followed by a gathering at 1985 Bellevue Ave, Buzzer #47. Although you are in our hearts and we have many fond memories We will miss you forever.
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The Infiniti Q60 provides a dash of two-door sizzle to Nissan’s luxury brand, dropping a 400 horsepower engine into a well-equipped and very handsome coupe. It packs a powerful punch for a luxury ride, but is more of a grand tourer than a race track terror. It is available at Infiniti North Vancouver in the Northshore Auto Mall. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
Infiniti Q60 is a quality coupe
BRENDAN MCALEER Contributing writer
It’s the one that’s a coupe.
That’s just a quick clarification, as it’s likely Infiniti’s Q-based naming system might have you scratching your head a bit. Like BMW and Mercedes-Benz, Infiniti is another brand that wants you to identify with the big badge, not the
alphanumerics. Whatever the marketing eggheads might want, things boil down rather simply. With the G37 coupe a longgone fond memory, the Q60 is here to provide a dash of two-door style for fans of Nissan’s luxury wing. On the surface, things look pretty good. Let’s have a quick flick through the spec sheet: the topline Q60 comes with a 400
horsepower twin-turbo V-6 (a dash of GT-R light? Sounds promising), all-wheel drive as standard, and a whole laundry list of luxury and safety features. There are hardly any options, so picking a model is relatively straightforward. It all sounds – and looks – like a slick new entry to the luxury coupe segment. However, as with the name, there’s a lot of careful market
positioning going on here. Sure, the Infiniti Q60 might seem perfectly crafted for brochures, but how does it do as a car?
DESIGN As mentioned previously, this is one good-looking machine. The front grille, while large, is dialled back from the overaggressive scowl of a Lexus product, and the muscular swelling of
the wheel arches seems to hint at the power under the hood. Regrettably, there are fender vents and side badging, but if you want to do battle with the German brands, you end up wearing similar clothes. The detail to the rear window is also a little self-conscious, as if penned by somebody who wanted to emphasize that this definitely isn’t a BMW
Hofmeister kink. But overall, the Q60 has a great deal of cohesion to its design, and looks sharp from pretty much any angle. The 19-inch alloys that come as standard aren’t overly large by luxury car metrics, and look just right. It’s a well-executed exterior effort, one that splits the difference between the
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Brendan McAleer Technology advances, and we move on. Nobody is pining for the days when you had controls for throttle and ignition advance on the steering wheel. However, the manual transmission persists even as it is surpassed by various types of automatic transmissions, both in speed and efficiency. Increasingly, it’s a rare offering, and not something that the average consumer looks for. However, demand is still out there. The reason for this is a little hard to explain. I can’t really tell you why it’s more fun to row through the gears in the manual version of the Golf R than it is to simply floor the throttle in the dual-clutch version and let the transmission sort things out. It just is. Perhaps it’s a question of skill and driver involvement. It’s considerably more difficult to slurp down coffee and a bagel when you’re driving a stick shift, because you’ve got more to do. Secondly, driving a manual gives you a greater sense of what the car is doing. Longtime stick-shift enthusiasts will know that blipping the throttle at just the right time spins up the engine so that a downshift can be perfectly smooth. With a little practice, you can nail it with the side of your foot or heel, turning your regular commute into a bit of a waltz. These are tricky skills to master, and if you’ve never driven anything other than an automatic, you have to keep an open mind. It’s not just a case of enthusiasm either: a friend of mine who competes in club-level endurance races found himself having to teach a winning young racer how to rev-match downshift, simply because the young man had gone directly from karts into race cars. He’d never even driven a manual. So, the future for the manual doesn’t look particularly bright. It’s disappeared from supercars entirely, and can’t be found on the majority of vehicles sold today. Crossovers? Forget it. Only Subaru still offers a manual version of pretty much everything they sell (though not with every engine option), and that’s something they do pretty much only for the
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many left of the road. He was, of course, correct. Yet even so, even as the pool of manual-transmission vehicles shrinks, you kind of get the feeling that the days of the stick shift aren’t as doom and gloom as everyone keeps saying. There’s still something special about shifting for yourself, and until we’re all confined to autonomous pods, there’ll still be at least one person out there nailing a perfect heel-toe downshift with a grin on their face.
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It comes with a naturally aspirated flat-six engine that revs to 9,000 r.p.m. It has 500 horsepower and is only available with rear-wheel drive. It seats just two, and is fitted with huge tires and aggressive aerodynamics. And, if you’d like the option, you can get it with a manual transmission. This is a pretty big deal. When Porsche released the previous version of this car, the only option was their PDK dual-clutch gearbox. The argument went that, as the 911 GT3 is the choice of car for the track enthusiast, the quicker shifts and overall better performance of the PDK made a great deal more sense than an old school stick shift. Generally speaking, Germans tend to be a people who embrace common sense solutions. Certainly German engineers aren’t known for being willfully nostalgic. If a solution is quicker and more efficient, it is the best. What’s everyone complaining about? The problem is that the 911 GT3 is not an actual race car. Yes, it has many of the attributes of a racing machine, and will no doubt be very quick indeed around a racetrack, but it’s unlikely to be entered into any actual races. Real race cars need roll cages and fire suppression systems, and usually can’t be driven on the road. The GT3 is intended for a person who really likes a fast 911, and wants something pure, and elemental, and raw. That sort of person still wants at least the option of getting a manual transmission. When I last wrote about Porsche’s pig-headedness in not offering a proper manual gearbox in their halo 911, I received a few complaints from people who wished to argue that the dual-clutch gearbox was a manual. Yes, it had no clutch pedal, they argued, but you could shift it with the paddles on the steering wheel. That’s manual. These people were – what’s a polite way to say this? – wrong. While current modern transmissions can incorporate clutches instead of torque converters, and while everyone offers some sort of way for the driver to have control over gear selection, they are not true manuals unless they will not move without you manually selecting each gear. PDK may be the best path to being flawlessly fast around a track, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most satisfying method. Sometimes, you just want to do your own shifting by hand. Now, as the car has evolved, we’ve left a few things by the wayside.
Canadian market. And yet, the manual transmission persists. People seek out manual Subaru WRXs and manual GTIs. Manual versions of used cars often fetch more than their automatic versions simply because of rarity and demand. When Porsche released the 911R, a crazily expensive version of the GT3 that came with a manual, it sold out immediately. A few weeks back, I found myself parked beside a 911 C4S. The C4S (all-wheel drive, S for slightly more power) is a pretty subtle car, devoid of the big wings of the GT cars or the big power of the Turbo models. It’s expensive, but not showy. Ordinarily, they’re almost all equipped with the PDK. I peeked in the window – manual! When the owner came out, I thanked him for sticking with the stick shift. He grinned, said that there weren’t that
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The Q60’s twin turbo 3.0-litre V-6 engine can match the straight-line speed of a V-8 Mustang.
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Offers available from March 1 – 31, 2017. 1Bonus cash discount of $3,500/$1,500/$1,250/$1,500/$1,500/$1,000 will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and is applicable to customers who lease, finance or purchase any 2017 Titan/2017 Rogue/2017 Sentra/2017 Pathfinder/2017 Murano/2017 Micra. Certain conditions apply. 2Nissan parts and accessories credit (“credit”) is available on select new and previously unregistered 2017 Nissan models purchased/leased/financed and delivered between March 1, 2017 and March 31, 2017. Maximum $4000 credit available on 2017 Titan models only. Other models qualify for lesser credit amounts as follows: $1,300 (2017 Micra, Versa Note)//$1,625 (2017 Altima, Sentra)//$1,950 (2017 Maxima, Juke, Rogue, Murano, Pathfinder, Armada). Credit consists of a discount that can only be used at the time of initial purchase/lease/finance and applied towards the purchase of Nissan accessories from an authorized Nissan dealer. Credit cannot be used towards the costs of installation of Nissan accessories and cannot be deducted from the negotiated selling price of the vehicle. Credit will be deducted from the price of Nissan accessories after taxes. Any unused portion of this credit will not be refunded and may not be banked for future use. Customer is responsible for all costs not otherwise covered by credit. Credit has no cash surrender value and cannot be applied to past transactions. Conditions apply. Offer is subject to change or cancellation without notice. See your participating Nissan dealer or visit Choosenissan.ca for details. ~ $10,000 Cash Credit is applicable on the cash purchase or finance through NCF at standard rate of 2017 Titan Crew Cab Platinum Reserve (AA00/AA50) model which will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. Rebate is not combinable with lease offers. My Choice Bonus Cash of $3,500 is included in the advertised offer. ‡Claim based on years/kilometer coverage for Maritz 2016 Full Size Pickup Segmentation and Compact Pickup Segmentation v. 2017 TITAN and TITAN XD. Nissan’s New Vehicle Limited Warranty basic coverage excludes tires, corrosion coverage and emission performance and defect coverage (applicable coverage is provided under other separate warranties). Other terms and conditions also apply. See dealer for complete warranty details. Warranty claim is current at time of printing. Payments cannot be made on a weekly basis, for advertising purposes only. *Representative monthly lease offer based on a new 2017 Rogue S FWD/2017 Sentra SV CVT Style Package/2017 Micra SV AT/2017 Pathfinder S 4x2 at 0.99%/0.99%/0.99%/1.99% lease APR for 39/39/39/39 months equals monthly payments of $251/$211/$165/$384 with $1,495/$995/$995/$1,495 down payment, and $0 security deposit. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $11,270/$9,224/$7,419/$16,479. Lease Cash of $0/$1,760/$0/$0 is included in the advertised offer. My Choice Bonus Cash of $1,500/$1,250/$1,000/$1,500 is included in the advertised offer. ▲Models shown $38,393/$27,898/$18,738/$50,273/$58,895 selling price for a new 2017 Rogue SL Platinum (PL00)/ 2017 Sentra SR Turbo CVT Premium (RL00)/2017 Micra SR AT/2017 Pathfinder Platinum /2017 Titan PRO-4X (AA00). All Pricing includes Freight and PDE charges ($1,795/$1,600/$1,600/$1,795/$1,795) air-conditioning levy ($100), applicable fees, manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. Certain conditions apply. ©2017 Nissan Canada Inc.
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604.984.9211 ▼0% APR Purchase Financing is available on select new 2016, 2016.5 and 2017 Mazda models. Terms vary by model. Based on a representative agreement using an offered pricing of $17,595 for the new 2017 Mazda3 GX (D4XK67AA00), with a financed amount of $18,000 the cost of borrowing for a 36-month term is $0, monthly payment is $500, total finance obligation is $18,000. Offer includes freight and P.D.E. of $1,695 and $100 air conditioning charge (where applicable). Offer excludes PST/GST/HST. ‡Complimentary Navigation offer (value up to $425) is available to qualifying retail customers who cash purchase/finance/lease a select new, in-stock 2016, 2016.5 and 2017 Mazda model from an authorized Mazda dealer in Canada between March 1 – May 1, 2017. Note: In the event the selected model is pre-equipped with navigation, or selected model is not equipped for navigation, customer may substitute for a cash discount of $425. Cash discount substitute applied before taxes. If Navigation is not available at time of purchase, customer can substitute for a Genuine Mazda Accessory ($425) or Navigation would be provided at a future date. Note: Navigation offer not available on 2016/2017 Mazda5 models – cash discount substitute of $425 can be applied. Cash discount substitute applied before taxes. Some conditions apply. Limited quantities apply. See dealer for complete details. ♦ Genuine Mazda Accessory Credit Offer is available to qualifying retail customers who cash purchase/finance/lease a select new, in-stock 2016, 2016.5 and 2017 Mazda model from an authorized Mazda dealer in Canada between March 1 – May 1, 2017. Genuine Mazda Accessory Credit Offer value of $425. Customer can substitute for a $425 cash discount. Cash discount substitute applied before taxes. Genuine Mazda Accessory Offer will be deducted from the negotiated accessory item price before taxes. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. †Based on a representative example using a finance price of $37,620/$22,715/$25,790/$17,220 for the 2017 CX-9 GS (QVSM87AA00)/2017 CX-3 GX (HVXK87AA00)/2016.5 CX-5 GX (NVXK66AA50)/2017 Mazda3 GX (D4XK67AA00) at a rate of 3.56%/2.99%/1.99%/1.99% APR, the cost of borrowing for an 84-month term is $4,937/$2,488/$1,859/$1,241 weekly payment is $117/$69/$71/$51, total finance obligation is $42,557/$25,203/$27,649/$18,461. Taxes are extra and required at the time of purchase. All prices include block heater, $25 new tire charge, $100 a/c charge where applicable, freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3/CX-3, CX-5, CX-9. As shown, price for 2017 Mazda3 GT (D4TL67AA00)/2017 CX-3 GT (HXTK87AA00)/2016.5 CX-5 GT (NXTL86AA50)/2017 CX-9 GT (QXTM87AA00) is $26,120/$31,315/$37,215/$47,820. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment (or equivalent trade-in) are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. Offers valid March 1 – May 1, 2017, while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details. *To learn more about the Mazda Unlimited Warranty, go to mazdaunlimited.ca.