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Minister of Education Mike Bernier says the province will push to make sure First Nations students graduate high school with a dogwood diploma.

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Bernier made the announcement Friday on Squamish Nation lands in North Vancouver, after being greeting by a traditional welcoming song.

Bernier said in the past decade, too many aboriginal kids have been receiving evergreen certificates – certificates of completion that don’t count as high school graduation – instead of regular diplomas.

Evergreen certificates were originally introduced 10 years ago in B.C. as a way for special needs students – such as those with profound autism – to be recognized with their peers for completing school.

But in recent years, both the auditor general and aboriginal leaders have

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The province is moving ahead with a study into the feasibility of building a bridge or highway to the Sunshine Coast.

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure announced this week it will pay civil engineers R.F. Binnie & Associates $250,000 to report back on whether a highway link around Jervis Inlet or direct bridge connections along

Province funds $250K study to explore highway, bridge options the coast are technically possible, and what the costs and benefits of each option would be compared with existing ferry services.

A fixed link to the Sunshine Coast would be a boon to tourism and investment on the coast, according to Transportation Minister Todd Stone.

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But tourism and trade in Powell River and Sechelt could mean headaches for communities on this side of Howe Sound.

West Vancouver’s acting mayor Craig Cameron said the obvious concern of a new highway leading into his community is traffic.

“They query whether there would be a lot more traffic because there’s already a substantial amount of ferry traffic.

Would that many more people move to the Sunshine Coast

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How Cap copes

Inside Capilano University’s Nat and Flora Bosa Centre for Film and Animation, students are buzzing. Partly from caffeine, partly from their level of activity. Much like in the careers they’re destined for, students in the dozen degree, diploma and certificate programs require long days and nights on set, in the editing suite or at a mixing board.

At the high end, four years of tuition in the motion picture arts degree program can reach almost $60,000 but you won’t hear a peep of complaint from alumni. Some of the programs boast a near-100 per cent employment rate among graduates and those who leave before graduating tend to do so because they’ve already started careers in their field.

The centre thoroughly impressed Andrew Wilkinson, the province’s minister of advanced education for the last 13 months, during a recent tour.

“This is the first time I’ve been in this Bosa facility and it is remarkable,” he said. “It’s got

state-of-the-art equipment. It’s an almost-new building. It’s full of energy and vitality and students who really feel like they’re getting a great experience,” he said.

It’s a shining example of what the school is capable of and it’s something Cap’s leadership is eager to build on. But it’s only part of the story.

Conflict theory

Capilano has struggled with being the second-lowest funded of B.C.’s 25 post-secondary schools. Budget shortfalls followed by painful cuts have become routine.

In 2013, administrators found themselves short $1.3 million. After much controversy, the university’s board of governors balanced the budget by cutting a swath of programs that included computer science, commerce, studio arts and textile arts as well as arts and science transfer courses. That prompted student protests and a lawsuit from the faculty who successfully argued in court the cuts were illegal because they hadn’t been made with adequate consultation required by the University Act.

The faculty later called on university president Kris Bulcroft to resign, as did retired faculty members who accused the school of losing its vision and original mandate to serve the North Shore. The year 2015 saw a faculty strike at exam time that turned into a de facto power struggle over layoffs and by extension, which programs the school would offer. That was followed by a staff strike. Then the university was found to have violated an art instructor’s academic freedom after staff seized and cut apart an effigy of Bulcroft that was made to protest program cuts.

It was a period many at the school were glad to put behind them. Things went relatively quiet. Administration hoped that 2016’s budget would not only be balanced but possibly even in surplus. Then, last week, notice went out to the campus community that there was yet another shortfall, this time about $1.5 million.

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There’s been no shortage of finger-pointing over the years, but all roads seem to lead back to 2008 when Capilano College became

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freedom of information legislation at the request of former Capilano president Greg Lee. Factoring in inflation, negotiated wage increases and a two per cent cap on tuition increases, it’s left Cap stumbling from one budget shortfall into the next.

Political science In 2016, Capilano University will receive $6,575 per full-time equivalent student space from the province (that number remains the same even if the university is below capacity – at the moment only 79 per cent of the funded positions are actually filled by students).

Kwantlen’s grant, by contrast, was closer to $6,976. The provincial average is a little less than $10,000.

Cap’s poor-cousin plight is something that’s landed on the desks of successive NDP advanced education critics, including David Eby. Eby had a strange ally in West Vancouver-Capilano Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan, both of whom went to bat for Capilano, repeatedly asking the ministry for the formula used to set per-student operating grants but neither were successful. Eventually, Sultan gave up and concluded there was no formula. He continued to lobby within his own caucus for more funding for Cap. Wilkinson confirmed there is indeed no formula.

“We don’t use formulas because communities vary.

If you try to set up a welding program in Fort St. John for the same price it would be in Kelowna, that would not work because the cost base for each locale is different,” he said Speaking to Capilano’s basement-level funding, Wilkinson said, because of its program offerings, Capilano is less expensive to run compared to colleges and universities with more technical programming like engineering or aircraft mechanics.

“When programs are more academic like Capilano or Langara, the cost base is much lower and so we adjust their budget accordingly,” he said.

As for how Cap should deal with its chronic need to cut in

order to meet its provincially mandated balanced budget, that’s nothing the ministry manages, Wilkinson said, nor is what courses a school should offer.

“Each institution decides what it will offer. We don’t dictate to institutions what the academic content is because that’s what they have boards of governors for. What we do do is fund the institutions to the appropriate levels so they can deliver the programs they deem to be fit. Given the exigencies of budgets everywhere in the world, universities and colleges adjust themselves to their financial

Thornthwaite credited to lobbying from the North Shore’s MLAs. And Cap’s results also speak for themselves, she said.

“What we’ve been told and what post-secondary institutions have been told is to refine the programs that they’re doing so the kids who graduate are job-ready. Cap has been doing that,” she said.

Current NDP advanced education critic Kathy Corrigan has taken up the job of trying to push the government to fund Cap to a point it won’t have to budget by hatchet.

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North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jane Thornthwaite said she too is proud of the way Capilano perseveres.

“Cap is doing really well.

They are one of the stars, I think, with regard to provincial universities because they consistently meet budget constraints,” she said. “And yes, they do have to struggle, but they not only get the regular advanced education funding but they also get one-time topups for specific programs.”

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“When you’re starting in an unfavourable position, like Capilano, and then you had stagnant or decreased budgets, that translates into program cuts and that’s what’s happened,” she said.

“They’re making decisions about program cuts that don’t have to do necessarily with whether or not that program is useful, whether it is a good program, whether the graduates are needed. They’re making the decisions on the basis of getting rid of high-cost programs.”

Increasingly, Corrigan said she is receiving complaints

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about schools getting around the two per cent maximum tuition hike by either adding additional fees technically not considered tuition, or by shutting down and restarting a program with a new name.

Cap doesn’t have such a fee scheme, according to Rick Gale, Cap’s vice-president academic, and there is a threshold of necessary change to a program that must be met before new tuition rates can be applied.

“We’re constantly in a process of retooling our programs to make them in alignment with the industries. When a program gets re-costed, it’s only because those changes have reached the 51 per cent level,” Gale said.

In either case, Corrigan said the responsibility rests with the government that put them in an untenable position in the first place.

“These are all workarounds that I don’t particularly blame the institutions for doing because the bottom line is, the provincial government is badly underfunding the postsecondary system and I do not understand that. Education is the best way for us to have a successful, prosperous economy,” she said.

Urban economics Beyond the core funding issue, students have been crying out for some help on the housing front, said Zach Renwick, president of Capilano Students’ Union.

billion per year in our budget.

That of course depends on the state of the economy and the state of revenue coming into government,” he said.

If money for dorms were to come available, schools in northern B.C. could be at the front of the line “because there’s nowhere else to live,” Wilkinson said.

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Stiller, Wilkinson and Thornthwaite check out a sound mixing board at Cap U’s Bosa Centre. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD The lack of student residences on campus and the choking market rates for rent within commuting distance act as a deterrent for would-be students, Renwick said.

“I’m sure many more students would come to Cap but there’s just nowhere around, preferably for them to live by campus,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of research on housing insecurity and the low vacancy rates.”

The addition of residence, which would require capital funding from the province, would also help change the feel and identity of the campus, making it more appealing, Renwick added.

“The campus is kind of dead after classes end and as a student union, we’re always trying to build student life. If we had residences, it would help with that,” he said.

But, that too isn’t in the cards, Wilkinson said, mainly because Cap sits in an urban area where there is plenty of market housing.

“They might prefer to have housing on campus but it’s an issue of affordability. Can we afford to put up housing for them if they are in a position where they are already commuting?” he said.

“We would love to provide more housing on campuses if suddenly we had another $1

This year’s shortfall is mostly thanks to a 10 per cent drop in student enrolment and spike in costs for software, hardware and services that have been negotiated in US dollars.

Though there was some concern that last year’s labour disputes would dissuade students from enrolling, Bulcroft said it’s more a question of demographics.

“If you look at what you see happening throughout the Lower Mainland, in terms of the K-12 system, the demographics suggest there’s a decline in the school-age population in the Lower Mainland,” Bulcroft said. “Cap is not alone, by the way,” she added, noting schools around the region have had a similar drop in domestic admissions.

Declining enrolment is being felt mostly in the arts and sciences at Cap. That too is part of the trend in the Lower Mainland’s schools, Gale said.

It’s too soon to say how staff, faculty and the board will come up with $1.5 million in savings by the end of March. All options are

on the table but faculty and administrators have both said operating budgets no longer have any fat to cut.

Cutting expenses is only part of the strategy to get out of perpetual budget shortfalls.

The school is looking to boost its revenue, Bulcroft said.

“Lets face it. If government decides to adjust operating grants, you would hear a great cheer go up from the campus community, probably from our community in general. I realize the government has restrictions and commitments and maybe reasons why that isn’t going to happen immediately. We’re not sitting around waiting for government to adjust our operating grant,” she said.

Specifically, the goal is to woo back students by increasing space in its most successful programs, Gale said, like the ones in the Bosa Centre.

“We really are appealing to what the province is seeing as the important future for students coming out of post-secondary. It’s the creative industries, it’s tourism, it’s business, it’s legal studies. These are the programs that continue to be oversubscribed and these are the programs we’re going to continue to grow,” he said.

Capilano is also marketing itself to compete with other universities for international students, who pay much higher tuition than domestic students.

And there should be no reason for friction when it comes to schools actively courting more international students, Wilkinson said.

“There’s a misperception that international students displace domestic students.

That is wrong. It is incorrect.

What international students do is pay for spaces that were created for them and the surplus income they generate actually subsidizes the local origin students,” he said.

The province has a goal of increasing the number of international students by 20 per cent, up to 140,000 students.

Cap is also trying to retain more students, getting away from its reputation as a place for students to attend for a couple years before transferring to degree programs at a larger school.

Applied smarts Despite the recent rough years and no promise of more funding in the future, Bulcroft and Wilkinson both express confidence the school remains well positioned and that its graduates face a bright future.

“One of my greatest privileges as president here at Cap has been the ability and opportunity to get to know the business community, industry, CEOs, people in the non-profits as well – and every conversation always leads me to conclude that Cap is on the right track. Because we’re really paying attention to what, I believe, employers need,” said Bulcroft, who is retiring in July.

“I think the North Shore should be very proud of this university.”

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pointed to a disproportionate use of evergreen certificates for aboriginal students.

“How many of them were truly for special needs? How many of them were just because they didn’t get the extra push they needed to get a dogwood?” said Bernier.

According to ministry statistics, about four per cent of aboriginal Grade 12 students receive evergreen certificates compared to about one per cent of non-aboriginal Grade 12 students.

That’s resulted in both a lower graduation rate among First Nations students and

aboriginal students facing limitations in pursuing post-secondary training and education, said Tyrone McNeil, president of the First Nations Education Steering Committee.

Graduation rates for aboriginal students in the province are about 63 per cent compared to 84 per cent for the school population as a whole. Graduation rates in North Vancouver are similar, with 59 per cent of First Nations students graduating compared to 83 per cent of students overall.

Bernier said he’s heard too many stories of First Nations students being

encouraged to take easier subjects and being told they’ll still get an evergreen certificate. Often families haven’t understood that means their child won’t formally graduate high school, he said.

Bernier said from now on, evergreen certificates will only be available to students with recognized special needs and individual education plans.

McNeil called the use of evergreen certificates part of a “systemic bias against First Nations. It was a really easy out for high schools to take our kids out of the academic stream and put them in the

alternate stream,” he said.

He called this practice “racism of low expectations.”

“We have to accept that outcomes for our kids aren’t where any of us want them to be,” said McNeil. “Let’s get together and do something about it.”

About 11 per cent of the public school population is aboriginal.

John Lewis, North Vancouver schools superintendent, Christie Sacré, chair of the North Vancouver Board of Education and Brad Baker, district administrator of aboriginal education, all attended Friday’s announcement.

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“There may be an increase, and in any event, we’re seeing Squamish and Whistler growing and the traffic from Squamish and Whistler growing and adding to the general North Shore traffic, which just seems to be getting worse every year. Ultimately, there’s two ways to get out of the community. ... You’ve got the highway and you’ve got Marine Drive and there’s

many times of day when it’s just impossible to get through that intersection.

The idea also isn’t going over well with the Horseshoe Bay Business Association.

“Of course, for us, it would make a significant impact if they were to take the Langdale ferry off this route and drive people wherever it is they’re heading,” said association president Holly Kemp. “Is that really where we should be spending our infrastructure

dollars? Because it will be horrendously expensive.”

Kemp says she predicts the study will show a fixed link is technically feasible but too expensive to carry out.

“It’s billions and billions and billions of dollars to make that happen,” she said.

That potential for crossHowe Sound strife is not lost on Jordan Sturdy, West Vancouver-Sea to Sky MLA. “Gathering the data, assessing the practicality of options and the orders

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he province is planning to pay engineers $250,000 to study the feasibility of building a bridge or highway to the Sunshine Coast.

Questions the study will address include whether such a thing is technically possible and what the costs and benefits would be.

To save a significant chunk of change, not to mention a lot of teeth grinding, we’re prepared to skip lengthy study and answer those questions now, for free.

Here we go: yes, it’s technically possible. Since we can send satellites to orbit distant planets, this shouldn’t be surprising. All it takes is money.

That’s where the second question comes in. Bridges and roads are notoriously expensive. To build such a connection, the money involved would be in the billions. And the toll to use it would be so high as to soon make those

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drivers long for a comparatively cheap ferry ride.

It’s curious to consider that there’s nothing more pressing the province could find to drop $250K on.

But this study has never been about reality. It’s all about perception.

You’d almost think we were in the beginning stages of the lead-up to a provincial election.

To find out how this study is likely going to end, look no further than the equally inspired $200,000 study of a bridge to Gabriola Island, which after two years concluded that it would be technically possible but economically stupid – costing somewhere between $258 and $520 million.

We anticipate a similar dazzling glimpse of the obvious resulting from the Sunshine Coast bridge study.

Look for it – likely after the next provincial election.

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Being ‘most romantic’ is not a sexy look

Gentlemen of North Vancouver, we’ve got a problem.

With Valentine’s Day one week away our city/district has just been named the second most romantic place in Canada by Amazon.ca.

Before we start congratulating ourselves on our physical prowess and heading to the freezer to find something to ice down our overused genitals, we should probably have a quick look at what it means to be named “most romantic” by an online store.

I assumed, like I’m sure most of you did, that Amazon had used their Internet powers to somehow spy on us through our computers and phones, and they were reduced to steamy piles of Internet love dust by the rugged sight of us in our moisture-wicking mountain bike pants. And surely they were wowed by all the rugged yet sensitive North Vancouver love-making going on by the seaside, at the dog park, on top of mountains, in traffic

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Surely they were wowed by all the rugged yet sensitive North Vancouver love-making going on by the seaside, at the dog park, on top of mountains, in traffic jams and so on.

Laugh All You Want Andy Prest jams and so on.

I assumed that the Amazon folks had to go to the Home and Garden section of their own website after peeking in on passionate North Vancouver so that they could buy something to hose themselves down with.

This, however, is not at all the methodology Amazon used to shoot us in the face with Cupid’s arrow. So why did they declare us masters of romance?

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each city. And by “romantic” products they did not mean log cabins or double kayaks.

They meant “romance novels and relationships books, romantic comedies, romantic tunes and sexual wellness products.”

Relationships books?

Nothing gets a man’s blood racing like the sight of Dr. Phil.

Picture a locker room after an intense beer league hockey game.

Player 1: “Good game out there, Frank. How are things going with your new girlfriend?”

Player 2: “Pretty good, Dennis. We spent all weekend downloading romantic tunes off of the Internet together. I never realized that there were so many different types of

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Player 1: “Great, great. If you’ll excuse me for a second I’m going to use this skate blade to kill myself.”

In my life I have known only one person who loved to read romance novels: my grandmother. She was a lovely lady, but if anyone dared speak about her in a “romantic” sense I’d slap them in the face with a Harlequin.

The only thing on the Amazon survey that any self-respecting fellow could possibly construe as a gateway to true passion and romance is the vaguely defined “sexual wellness products.” I googled the term on my work computer and, after a

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chat with HR to convince them not to fire me, had a quick look at what constituted a “sexual wellness product.”

There were a few playful toys on there (I bet if you looked hard enough you could find something called a “double kayak”), but the truth is the top sellers all appeared to be male enhancement products. Be still my beating heart.

Seriously, heart, slow down … are we sure these pills are safe?!

The final kick in the groin came from Amazon’s revelation of No. 1 on the romance list, the one city that exceeded us in sexiness: Victoria, B.C. Right. The only place more romantic than North Vancouver has residents with an average age of approximately Wilford Brimley.

Hat tip to Victoria Times Colonist columnist (say that 10 times fast) Jack Knox for digging into the most recent census data to discover that 55 per cent of all singles in Victoria are women. This city – the retirement capital of the country, where women so far

outnumber men that any man who can eat cheese fondue without blinding himself with one of those long pointy forks is considered a catch – is the No. 1 most romantic city on this list? An old saying comes to mind: “it’s lonely at the top.”

I say we get ourselves off this Amazon list as soon as possible.

Maybe if we stopped sitting in front of the TV so much and started helping out around the house a bit, our partners wouldn’t have to buy so many books about fixing relationships.

Maybe if we finally got Dear around to fixing the leak in our own sex dungeons, our long-await partners wouldn’t have to ment go looking for thrills in Fifty after Shades of Grey. constructi Maybe if we planned more Va candlelight dinners … ah even heck, that all sounds like a lot catchment of work.

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Kudos to council for stand on school lands

Dear Editor: Re: Old vs. New School, Jan. 20 Viewpoint Your editorial opens with the assertion that members of district council, by turning down the rezoning application for the Braemar land parcel, had forced the option of rebuilding a seismically unsound school upon the board of education and had shirked their responsibility in the process. You later contradict yourself by stating that a new Argyle will still get its rebuild but likely with fewer of the public amenities that make a school truly part of the community. Let’s be clear, a brand new and enhanced Argyle can be built without the sale of the Braemar land parcel. In addition to the $37.8 million that the province will contribute, an amount equal to the cost of a seismic upgrade, the board also has $11.38 million from

the sale of the Monterey and Keith Lynn sites for a total of $49.2 million. The cost of the basic new school for Argyle is $45.7 million, leaving the board a surplus of $3.5 million to cover the cost of building one of the two facilities on the wish list of the “preferred option” now. The other, if essential, could be built at a later and more economically opportune time. On the wish list: a 1,000-square-metre multi-purpose/performing arts area and a 766 sq. m classroom/recreation space.

Rather than shirking their responsibilities and forgetting what they signed up for, as your editorial asserts, members of district council did precisely what they were elected to do. Cognizant of the fact that a new and enhanced Argyle would be built without the board continuing its fire sale on irreplaceable public

land; cognizant of the fact that a significant and meaningful investment in students was already being made; and cognizant of the fact that a public hearing would only confirm the existence of two diametrically opposed groups of citizens, the councillors made an informed but difficult decision based on principle and in the interest of the community as a whole.

Mark Twain once advised to invest in land “because they aren’t making it anymore.”

Holding public land for the benefit of the next generations will ultimately be of much greater benefit to the community as a whole than exchanging it in the present for depreciating buildings.

Council members should be applauded for taking a difficult but principled position.

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Dear Editor: Re: ‘Two-tier’ System Undermines Education, Jan. 31 Mailbox.

I am writing in support of the recent Mailbox submission decrying our province’s relative decline in financial support for public education. The author put forth a clear statement defending the importance of public education in supporting an equitable, viable and

democratic society. Of particular merit, the author advanced the need for a high-quality system so we can be competitive in the future, especially as we move to a sustainable “electron economy.”

The article also shone a spotlight on contemporary neo-liberal strategies and values of degrading public services by “slowly boiling the frog” through cutbacks,

government makes it next to impossible for the school board to raise money unless it sells off current school properties.

That is short-sighted almost beyond belief. How many tens of millions of dollars has the provincial government taken from North

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK: I just wanted to feel him on my chest and just hear that cry.”

— North Vancouver resident Sarah Manvell recalling the birth of her son Hunter, a “rainbow baby” born after an earlier pregnancy ended with a stillbirth (from a Jan. 31 news story).

It’s hard for me to rationalize why people are doing it.”

— North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks, dumfounded as to why skiers and snowboarders go out of bounds (from a Feb. 3 news story).

...sewage is not sexy and sewage is not one of those ones politicians love to cut ribbons on because it’s not a real big vote-getter.”

— City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto speaking at the annual mayors’ luncheon (from a Feb. 3 news story).

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath Winter Mingler The Appleback Grill at Gleneagles Golf Course in West Vancouver was the setting for a Winter Mingler on the afternoon and early evening of Jan. 21. A business expo hosted by Peake of Catering, current operators of the Appleback Grill, the event showcased the venue for upcoming wedding and event planners, allowing those in the industry to mingle and network, and gave potential clients the opportunity to meet vendors and discuss their plans. Featuring live jazz music by the Rossi Gang and tasty appetizers by Peake of Catering, the setting was warm and intimate.

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North Vancouver’s Kara Schwandt took a leap of faith.

After a decade of working in the film industry she came to realize it wasn’t her calling.

“There was something different I needed to be doing and so I started trying new things,” the 38-year-old says, reflecting on her thencareer, mainly entailing office work and buying within a set decorating department.

This journey eventually landed Schwandt in a 10-day silent vipassana meditation retreat in Merritt.

“There’s no eye contact, you don’t read anything, you don’t have a journal. It’s just really about you going inside and understanding yourself. It was amazing. You run the gamut of emotions that’s for sure, but you realize it’s all within you. You do really create your own destiny. So all the chaos, I created, and also I could create all the peace. It was really informative,” she says.

Over the course of each day Schwandt was tasked with sitting crosslegged for a total of 10 hours, broken into hour-long intervals.

“Obviously your mind attaches to your body and to pain. When

See Wraps page 13 Earth to Ethers’ Kara Schwandt illustrates one of the potential uses of her company’s Lotus Wraps, yoga and meditation support accessories. She’ll be among the local residents showcasing their offerings at next weekend’s The Wellness Show in Vancouver.

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Ten wineries and their principals will be in attendance for a variety of tastings surrounding the conference, which all sounds like a sweet deal for Wines of Chile (a promotional body representing 90 wineries in Chile). But there’s an interesting twist here.

Barely even a couple of decades ago, Chile was still fighting to be taken seriously in the world of wine. Sure, the country had a well-earned reputation for making pretty decent cheap wine. But it wasn’t particularly enviable or an ideal pathway to becoming known for more serious, quality-driven winemaking.

Most of Chile practised viticulture driven by its bulk wine production until a few winemakers initiated a drive

Notable Potables Tim Pawsey for organic and sustainable viticulture. This at a time when organic grape farming elsewhere in the world was still very much in its infancy.

Fast forward 20 years and it’s impressive to see how quickly Chile has progressed, with the likes of Emiliana’s Alvaro Espinoza setting the pace. Today Emiliana is fully certified organic, and its company-owned organic and biodynamic farms, plus some 1,096 hectares of vineyards in diverse regions, have very much helped to shape the new sustainable face of Chile.

Chile (which is the fifth largest wine producer on the planet) has announced its intention of becoming the

world’s leading producer of sustainable wines by 2025.

It’s a lofty goal. But judging by the experience of the last few years, it’s one that the country is well equipped to achieve.

During the various tastings and seminars behind the scenes, the Chileans will be asking delegates to consider how sustainability, if truly practised on a global scale, could positively impact planet Earth.

With measures such as switching to lightweight bottles and eliminating pesticides, it’s been interesting to watch Chile’s progress over the years, especially the way in which they’ve shaped their Viniculture Sustainability Code, with more than 50 per cent of Wines of Chile’s member wineries certified. That puts them well on the way to their goal of 100 per cent by 2025.

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WHITE CANE WEEK Amy Amantea, Diane Schwitzer and Rosamund van Leeuwen, along with guide-dog-in-training Pinto and seasoned pro Rory, invite community members to join them in celebrating the Canadian Council of the Blind’s White Cane Week by stopping into an open house at Park Royal South (on the second floor near the Osaka Supermarket) Friday, Feb. 12, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The open house is intended to educate the public about vision loss and showcase resources, services and available products. Guests with vision loss can arrange for a sighted guide from the Park Royal bus stop by calling ahead at 604-7632695. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Longtime barber reflects on life in Europe John Schleimer has been featured so frequently in the newspaper that he deserves a section all his own.

When the Sportsman’s Barber Shop closed in 1998, there’s John in the North Shore News with his partner, Hans Lattke, who’s holding a news photograph of the shop’s opening day in 1963.

Here’s one of John with the puck from the Vancouver Canucks’ inaugural game in 1970, a gift from referee, friend and loyal customer, Lloyd Gilmour – just one of the hundreds of heads John trimmed over the years. On Valentine’s Day (year unknown), an anniversary photograph of John and his wife Herma holding their wedding photograph was published in the North Shore News.

Born in 1928 in Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, John was first in his family to break away from the family farm, apprenticing as a barber at 13. Conscripted into the Hitler Youth and the German Army a year later, “the Titos,” (Yugoslav Resistance under the command of Marshal Tito), made him a prisoner of war when they liberated the area in 1945.

In the chaos of post-war

Memory Lane Laura Anderson Europe, it was a miracle that John and his family were reunited. With the farm that had been the family’s home for hundreds of years gone forever, they made a new life in Graz, Austria. One evening, after a long day scraping a living cutting hair, John offered a young woman a ride home on his bicycle. Another miracle was set in motion on that bike ride, a romance that lasted 60 years.

Jump ahead five years to 1951. “I wanted to go somewhere else to make my life, to America,” John recalls.

Time passed as letters went back and forth from Austria to family in New York City, but ultimately a former soldier in the Wehrmacht, however unwilling, was not welcome in

Retired barber John Schleimer is shown at right, and above as a boy at age 10 on a farm in Slovenia in 1938. John holds the family dog, joined by his brother, Henry, his parents and baby sister Hildegarde. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN the United States. Where else?

There was an uncle in Canada.

More letters, dispatched from Vancouver to New York to Graz. The news was good and not so good. Canada would accept John and there was a berth on a ship sailing from Bremerhaven – in one week.

One week gave John and Herma Schafer time to marry, on Feb. 14, 1951, and for the bride to provide her new husband with the fare.

After 11 days on the Atlantic and five more on the train from Halifax, without knowing a word of English, John arrived in Vancouver. “It got colder every day: 40 below in Winnipeg, even colder in Calgary, and the country, there was no end to it. I wondered what had I got myself into?

One morning I woke up and I was in B.C. It was so green and so beautiful, I fell in love with

the place.”

Within a year, John had earned enough cutting brush for BC Hydro to acquire his barber’s certificate and to bring Herma and his brother, Henry, to join him in North Vancouver. They enjoyed B.C.’s outdoors to the full, hiking, hunting and fishing all over the province. Most mornings would find John fishing Lynn Creek for steelhead before a day of cutting hair.

John wielded the clippers on some notable heads – Senator Ray Perrault, Mayor Jack Loucks, Coun. Ernie Crist – and many a lively discussion (politics, sports, fishing) heated up the Sportsman’s Barber Shop over the years.

John gives back to the community and to the province that helped him build a new life for himself and his family.

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Sport Fishing Advisory Board for 30 years. He is a life member of Ducks Unlimited, past president of the B.C. Wildlife Federation, Lower Mainland region, and of the North Shore Fish and Game club.

These days, John raises funds to combat prostate cancer, bowls with the North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club and walks several kilometres every day with Charlie, the family dog, when he isn’t fishing the Vedder or Squamish rivers.

Albums of photographs and shelves of trophies are a testament to John’s fishing prowess. He may be most proud of the 18-pound steelhead he landed at Little Qualicum River in 1961. The next year Herma caught her steelhead, 19 pounds. Of his beloved valentine who passed away in 2011, John said, “She never let me forget it.”

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Playing indoors needn’t be destructive Indoor canine playtime is very limited in my house.

I’ve learned from many, many years of experience that to maintain order, minimize destruction and preserve the peace, rough housing does not happen within the four walls of my home.

Just ask anyone who comes to visit and attempts to wrestle and play tug-of-war with my dogs. They get a time out! The visitors that is, not my dogs.

The reason for this is because my home is a place of tranquility. Once inside, it’s all about the cuddles and restfulness. I choose to spend my indoor canine time in quiet socialization and contemplation. It’s really quite Zen actually.

As I said, years of experience have taught me that indoor play sessions may be a great way to avoid walking in inclement weather conditions, but it can potentially lead to unwanted behaviours from your canine companion.

At one time in my 25 years of working with dogs, I used to play a scenting game inside the home. I would hide treats around the house and teach my dogs to go and

Canine Connections Joan Klucha find them. It was an awesome mental and physically stimulating exercise. Then one day I came home to find the carpet dug up around a heating vent as one of the dogs located residual odour coming from an area where a treat used to be. Now this game is played outside in the yard or on our hikes where the threat of destruction is inconsequential.

I still enjoy a game of tug of war with my dogs. When I initiate the game and end it on my terms we all have a good bit of fun – outside.

Zumi, my shepherd, gets highly stimulated during tug-of-war to the point of obsession and when played inside that obsession

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becomes obnoxious as she continuously demands I play with her. When the game only happens outside, there is no more obnoxious demanding behaviour. She gets to play one of her favourite games and I still get my quiet time.

A while ago I went to do a consultation regarding two adult dogs that were urinating in the house. Upon arrival I was greeted by two very excited 80-pound dogs who clearly had little leadership.

When I came into the home the owner opened the front and back doors to allow the dogs access to the yard.

“The doors are open all day, they can go out any time they want,” she said. But as soon as the doors were open, the dogs proceeded to engage in a game of chase. They raced through the house, out

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them mentally and are a perfect way to exercise a dog mentally. Chasing each other around the house into exhaustion is not. It only teaches a dog to disrespect your space and ignore boundaries.

From time to time I hide my dogs’ favourite plush squeaky toys around the house. Sometimes they locate them on their own, bringing renewed interest to the toy.

Other times I will ask my dog Raider where his piggy is, for example. He will trot off on his own in search of his toy. When he finds it he then plays peacefully with it on his own, squeezing it just to listen to the honking noise it makes. This is a good indoor game.

Obedience exercises are not just for training classes.

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the back door, through the yard then in the front door.

They ran this race track chasing each other while I stood, gobsmacked, watching it all.

After about 10 minutes the dogs stopped, went over to the leather couch and lifted their legs to urinate. They then started the game all over again.

“See!” the owner exclaimed.

“What do you expect?

You haven’t given them any boundaries to respect the inside of your home!

This game has to stop!” I responded “How am I supposed to exercise them?” she asked Solitary games like brain teaser puzzles where dogs have to figure out how to get a treat out of a toy are designed to challenge

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They can be fun indoor games when combined together, such as with puppy push-ups. A dog sits, then is asked to lie down, then return to a sit, then lie down again.

This is a good interactive indoor game that burns off energy and instills restraint and calmness.

If you are going to play indoor games with your dog, consider the long-term consequences or benefits of the game you choose. Will it encourage positive peaceful behaviour or unwanted destructive behaviour?

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Stick to a strategy but remain flexible Another year in the books!

The S&P 500 and TSX Composite fell 0.7 per cent and 11.1 per cent, respectively in 2015. There’s an old saying that investing in stocks is like walking up a never-ending staircase with a yo-yo, but 2015 was more like running on a treadmill for investors in the U.S. market – a lot of energy spent, but no ground gained. For all the ups and downs, the S&P 500 went essentially nowhere from where it started the year. Unfortunately, the TSX Composite fared much worse as oil and the rest of the commodity complex weakened further.

Indeed, it was a tough year for most money managers on both sides of the border, but it was also a have and havenot type of market. Sector selection was paramount as some sectors did well, while others plummeted.

The energy and materials sectors had one of their toughest years yet in Canada, down 25.7 per cent and 22.8 per cent, respectively. I have generally been bearish on the materials space for several years now and stepped away from energy stocks in 2014. By avoiding these two sectors, you would have saved a great deal of pain that, unfortunately, many Canadians are still experiencing. 2015 was a prime example of how it’s often more important what you don’t own (hopefully that was energy and materials last year) than what you do.

There are a few explanations for why the market was less than stellar last

Making Cents Lori Pinkowski year. Canada was all about commodities continuing their slide. Resources have a much heavier weighting in the TSX Composite than the S&P 500 and a much bigger impact on the Canadian economy. That’s why Canada went into a technical recession in the first half of the year and why the Bank of Canada cut interest rates – twice!

The U.S. economy continued its pace of moderate growth, but did face pressure from a slowdown in emerging markets. This is a direct result of commodity weakness. Consumer spending was solid throughout the year in the U.S., but the strong dollar hurt exports and overseas corporate earnings.

Corporate earnings are ultimately what drive stocks in the long run and at this stage in the cycle, earnings growth is what moves stocks higher.

S&P 500 earnings were saddled by a surging U.S. dollar and a collapse in the energy and materials sectors. So it’s not at all surprising that flat earnings led to a flat market, but keep in mind these two factors are

transitory. The U.S. dollar can’t rise against all currencies forever and earnings in the energy sector are expected to rebound at some point.

With 2015 behind us, let’s look to 2016. In the spirit of avoiding grand predictions, I’ll refrain from making them here. But, I do generally see corporate earnings growth bouncing back, the U.S. economy continuing to improve and the Fed maintaining its accommodative stance.

If I’m anywhere near the mark on that, 2016 should be a good one for investors.

If that outlook changes for better or worse, it’s important that investors adhere to an active investment strategy as markets change and adjust their exposure to equities if markets remain volatile.

Lori Pinkowski is a senior portfolio manager and senior vice-president, Private Client Group, at Raymond James Ltd., a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.

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The Seycove Seyhawks completed their rise to the top of the North Shore senior girls basketball world this week, grabbing the Premier League title for the first time in team history.

Seycove, a small AA-sized school, went undefeated against the best ballers on the North Shore, topping their regular season run off with a 65-42 win over AAA powerhouse Handsworth on Wednesday. The win gave the Seyhawks an 8-0 record in Premier League play, outscoring their opponents by 299 points in the process.

“It feels good,” head coach Darcy Grant said about claiming the Premier League banner. “Handsworth is a very strong team. For us I think the ability to match up against a good AAA team is always a good test for us, especially right before the playoffs. It’s exciting. It’s a small little victory that needs to be celebrated, but I think also at the same time for our girls and our coaching staff, our goals and expectations are on a provincial championship. We’re enjoying it but at the same time we know there’s an incredible amount of work left to be done to get to those goals that we’ve set out for ourselves.”

The Seyhawks will now turn their attention to hosting the North Shore AA playoffs where they will take on Collingwood Tuesday night as the second part of a semifinal doubleheader that will open with St. Thomas Aquinas taking on Windsor. The winners of those two matchups will play for the North Shore AA title Thursday starting at 7:30 p.m. at Seycove.

Given their results throughout the season, including an appearance in the championship final of the

Seycove’s Sage Stobbart makes a pass during a recent North Shore senior girls Premier League matchup. The six-foot-two Grade 11 forward has been tagged as a prospect by Canada Basketball, attending several age-group identification camps. Visit nsnews.com for a photo gallery. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN prestigious Top 10 Shootout held last month at Centennial, the Seyhawks will be heavy favourites in the North Shore AA playoffs. The team, however, will be taking nothing for granted, said Grant.

“Our focus is going to be the same as it has been all year,” he said. “It’s really not going to depend on who we play. Our coaching staff still feels that we’re far from playing our best basketball. Our focus is on trying to improve our offence and our defence, to limit mistakes and not turn over the ball and shoot better. Our focus is really on us and how well we can play.”

The Seyhawks are led by potent twin tower attack of forwards Claudia Hart and Sage Stobbart. Team captain Hart, who has committed to playing at Simon Fraser University next season, is the only Grade 12 starter on the young Seyhawks squad

and the team’s inspirational leader.

“She’s somebody that carries with her a certain swagger and a certain confidence,” said Grant.

“She never gets too high, she never gets too low. She’s very even keel, she’s very composed.”

Stobbart, meanwhile, stands six-foot-two and has a deft touch around the hoop that makes her a very tough player to defend.

“She runs the floor incredibly well, she has great touch and great finesse close to the hoop, when she boxes out she’s able to rebound just about anything,” said Grant. “Her foul shooting has improved incredibly. She’s slowly starting to step into a leadership role, not so much vocally but more as in a lead by example on the court.

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Seycove captain Claudia Hart powers her way to the hoop during a Premier League win over Carson Graham Monday. Seycove hosts the North Shore AA playoffs this week.

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She’s maturing, and she’s starting to come into her own in a real basketball sense.”

The Grade 11 player has earned interest from Canada Basketball, attending several national team age-group identification camps. That has helped her game but has also made her a target on the court, said Grant, adding that Stobbart has responded well to the challenge.

“For her, because she was always taller than everybody else, basketball was kind of easy for her,” he said. “It wasn’t until this year and last year when she’s being challenged more and we’re playing some of the top competition in the province and teams are beginning to scout her and kind of understand her game and to strategize against her that she now has to be a little more dominant.

And she’s learning that, she’s figuring that out. And as she’s gaining more experience she’s just evolving into that player that she can be and she’s going to become.”

Co-captain Kayla Krug rounds out Seycove’s leadership group.

“Kayla is somebody who has put in an incredible amount of work in terms of her skill and ability,” said Grant. “She’s somebody whose outside shot has really progressed and improved a great deal. And as she kind of finds her way through the senior league for the first time, she’s slowly gaining

experience and understanding the game and becoming more comfortable with it.

She’s really starting to come into her own.”

The Seyhawks have their sights set firmly on the AA provincial championships running March 2-5 at the Langley Events Centre.

Seycove finished sixth at last year’s championships and will be looking for more this time around.

“Last year with the team we had, we played well,” said Grant. “I think we played kind of above our own expectations. I think this year our expectations are even higher.”

The Seyhawks are currently fourth in the provincial AA rankings and they’ll be looking to move up into the medals at the big show.

Seycove has played a couple of close games against the teams ranked ahead of them this year.

“We’re still a young team,” said Grant. “We lack a lot of experience, experience we’re trying to gain by playing really top competition.”

With four starters slated to return next season as well, Grant is hoping that the Seyhawks will continue to rise for at least another year.

“Claudia will be somebody who is very difficult to replace, but we have a very strong core of young women,” he said. “We’re hoping that this year we’ll be very successful and the same next year as well.”

It’s all new territory for

the small Deep Cove school that was never known as a basketball hotbed before their surge over the past couple of years.

“It takes a bit of time, but it’s going,” Grant said of Seycove’s emergence on the hardwood that has seen the Seyhawks vault past traditional powerhouses like Handsworth and Argyle. “This is just a continuation of a culture change. Success is kind of breeding success. We’re happy over here, we’re happy with how things are going.

(But) it’s never perfect.” !!!

The senior girls AAA playoffs will also run this week hosted by the Handsworth Royals.

A semifinal doubleheader will take place Tuesday with Sentinal taking on Handsworth at 6 p.m. followed by Argyle facing off against Carson Graham. The winners of those two matchups will meet in the North Shore AAA final Thursday starting at 7:30 p.m. at Handsworth.

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Seycove’s Lindsey Bott challenges a shot from Handsworth’s Oana Lapuste in Premier League action. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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