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Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper

Ink Fest Tattoo Arts Film Festival M

first of its kind

Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express

ark Allard got his first tattoo when he was 19 years old and living in Suffolk, England. His mother wasn’t too pleased, fearing her son might become a degenerate.

Now, almost 10 years later, Allard has 34 tattoos by his estimate and is on the cusp of making cinematic history — right here in Saskatoon. Allard has organized the Tattoo Arts Film Festival to be held on April 4 and April 5 at the Roxy Theatre. It is the first of its kind anywhere, he said.

The festival has Allard’s mother’s stamp of approval. She realized her son wasn’t a delinquent and wouldn’t become one because of his love of ink.

Allard has combined a number of his passions, including tattoo collecting, in planning the festival.

“It’s kind of a strange journey,” said Allard, who is the assistant manager at Rainbow Cinemas and the Roxy Theatre.

“It is partially mixed in with my background in filmmaking. I have a degree in film and television production. During my time in the U.K., I realized a couple of independent documentaries, which gained some Internet releases in Russia, Korea and India as well. So there is some kind of stuff like that that kind of propelled me into the filmmaking world. It never became paid. There were successes, definitely, and definitely some notoriety, but it never led to a full-time career.

“Instead I started to develop this career in events management within the cinema industry, and that came from working in the cinema industry in England and doing promotions in the cinema industry.”

He said he has learned how to navigate a successful event and how to steer away from events that aren’t successful.

“It is combining those experiences and understanding how the artistic process works in filmmaking – coming to learn how distribution works and then learning how events management works and then how the cinema industry can correlate with all of that. Before becoming a tattoo collector and getting so many tattoos, you learn about that industry as well. It’s taking all those little niches and nooks and crannies of knowledge and fashioning them into something that can work.”

The festival will feature six films, as well as a documentary on the tattoo scene in Saskatoon.

“Saskatoon has a huge tattoo scene, so much so that one of the big and major Canadian tattoo conventions is held here

Mark Allard says you don’t have to have tattoos to enjoy the movies at his festival (Photo by B. Jonathan Michaels) every year. So you have the Saskatoon Tattoo Expo. And you can correlate that to the really big ones in Vancouver and Toronto, which, I guess, is something important for the Prairies.”

The Tattoo Arts Film Festival isn’t just for tattoo artists and collectors, he stressed.

The festival will feature good movies from around the world. Anyone and everyone

will enjoy them, he said.

“The movies we have for the Tattoo Arts Film Festival aren’t necessary tattoocentric. It is a very mild underpinning. It is a theme and the theme that launches us into these films is tattoo. The whole narrative of those movies takes us into their own dynamics and their own narratives. They are very human stories in these

movies, not just tattoo-lover movies. These are not movies just tattoo lovers will be interested in.”

He cites a couple of examples.

“There is one about indigenous issues that faced the people of Tahiti, like the way colonialism stripped them of their art forms and stripped them of cultures.

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Farnam family asked for piece of history to be preserved

t is one of those calls you like getting in this business.

The caller was asking for information pertaining to a news story in Saskatoon. Through a column in the Express, he had become aware of the impending demolition of the Farnam Block on Broadway Avenue.

The caller was David Farnam Edgar.

Note the middle part of this name. He said he wanted to preserve a piece of his family’s history.

Before the 103-year-old Farnam Block comes crashing to the ground, Farnam Edgar hoped the façade would be saved. Specifically, he would like the insignia on the building, the part that says “Farnam Block 1912” reused or returned to the family.

Friday morning the piece was cut from the top of the building. UnforEditor tunately, Farnam Edgar couldn’t be reached for comment.

During the past few weeks, the Farnam Block story gained legs virtually every day in Saskatoon. The heritage folks are upset, a petition was launched to save the building and a group of businesspeople quickly formed in an attempt to purchase and restore the Farnam Block. Ultimately, the price was too high for them to proceed. There have also been countless fluffier pieces from down memory lane and pictures from every angle except an airplane.

The owners of the building knew of the Farnam family’s request. Whether it played a role in saving the piece of history is not yet known. A worker on the site said Friday there were a number of items on a list of things to preserve. It appears as though they were. Or at least the one most important to the Farnam family was.

Farnam Edgar is the grandson of Wellington M. Farnam, one of the builders of the well-known building at the corner of Broadway Avenue and 11th Street East. The other builder was Wellington M. Farnam’s brother, Arlington. Talk about cool names.

Prior to the name plate being salvaged, Farnam Edgar said, he would “like to get in touch with (the owners) and offer to take it off their hands.”

We made that call last week to Gaby Akl, the real estate agent representing the local developers, Roger Kiva and Dean Potapinski.

“Some features may be reincorporated,” Akl said. “I don’t know that yet until they get the project going.”

He now knows.

Akl said he would make Kiva and Potapinski aware of the

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The little house on the Farnam Block site was demolished Friday (Photo by Ken Paulson)

Farnam family’s interest in preserving the spot where the name of the builder is recognized.

“I will let them know for sure.”

Farnam Edgar said his mother, who died two years ago at age 95, would have wanted the piece of family history preserved.

“If she would have seen this article, she would have said, ‘David, we better get that off that building before they destroy it.’ ” The article to which he is referring is a column Joanne Paulson wrote in the Express in January. Farnam Edgar received it from a friend two weeks ago, and then contacted us.

At that time, he said he would be satisfied if the façade remained on display on a future building. It would be his preference. He is not sure what he would do with the building’s façade if he had it.

“If they are going to incorporate it into a new building that would be fine,” he said from Edmonton.

Farnam Edgar moved from Saskatoon to Calgary when he was five years old. He has fond memories of his grandfather, who died in 1954, when Farnam Edgar was 10.

“After we left Saskatoon there were many trips back and forth, both on our part and on his part, to visit. He was a builder and we would sometimes go with him to a house he was building at different locations around Saskatoon.”

The Farnam family home is still standing, just a few blocks from the Farnam Block. Farnam Edgar said an apartment building his grandfather built is in the same neighbourhood.

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Damon Bennett will appear at HomeStyles, which runs from March 19 to March 22 at Prairieland Park (Photo Supplied)

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Damon Bennett wants to help you Tammy Robert Saskatoon Express

amon Bennett knows you’ve got problems and he wants to help you fix them.

The construction expert and reality television star will be in Saskatoon for the 2015 HomeStyles show, which kicks off at Prairieland Park on March 19 at 3 p.m. It runs through Sunday, March 22.

Bennett is one of the two celebrity guests that will appear at the show. The other is Kate Campbell of HGTV’s Decked Out and Disaster Decks.

Famous for his years spent on the construction site, and on television as the right-hand man of Make It Right’s Mike Holmes, today Bennett is finding his stride after branching out on his own. He specializes in carpentry, structural reinforcement and construction coordination.

And he wants HomeStyles attendees to come armed with their toughest questions about their home construction and renovations.

“What I’m there for is for the audience and the show’s attendees to ask me questions,” said Bennett, taking a break from overseeing one of his busy con-

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struction sites to chat about his upcoming Saskatoon appearance. “I’m very interactive. I want to share my experiences with people and I want them to share their experiences with me. I don’t let anyone hide in the crowd.”

While it’s been over a year since Bennett parted ways with tough-talking Holmes, he acknowledges that the lessons learned during his years alongside the construction industry icon are still beneficial.

“I still draw from my experiences working with Mike — those were real jobs, involving real emotions and real money,” said Bennett. “But the audience needs to pick and choose what they can apply to their own lives and their own homes from reality shows. Television networks are giving us money to teach.”

With warm temperatures already prompting the snowmelt and creating significant run-off, water is an issue that tends to be on homeowners’ minds this time of year.

“That’s definitely one thing I do talk about — basements in Canada,” said Bennett. “We have one of the moistest climates in the world. There’s so much

moisture in the ground, and we have basements. We’re surrounded by water.

So I’ll talk about waterproofing basements, sump pumps, and what you have to do on the outside and inside of your home to protect it from water. Most homes were never constructed to manage this kind of water.”

Bennett describes his interaction with his audiences as Reno 101 — helping people identify both the benefits and the pitfalls that engaging with the construction industry can bring.

“Basically I want to help homeowners with anything I can teach them about contractors or renovators,” said Bennett.

“It’s so important to make sure they’re careful once they start going down that road.” He also plans on talking his audience through what new construction technologies are changing the landscape of his industry, as well as the basic tenets of owning and maintaining a home.

“I want people to come and ask questions — I’m there as a teacher,” said Bennett. “I’m not a talking head.

“There are not many home construction or maintenance problems I can’t tackle. I want to hear your problems. I want to help.”

Kate Campbell is a star on HGTV’s Decked Out and Disaster Decks (Facebook) Bennett will appear throughout the day at the Saskatoon HomeStyles show on March 19, 20 and 21.

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Bridge City Boogie replaced with Mayor’s Marathon Day Mayor Don Atchison and Lyndon Smith of the Running Room go for a jog after announcing the Mayor’s Marathon Day (Photo by Cam Hutchinson) Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express

The Mayor’s Marathon Day will include runs and walks of two kilometres, five kilometres, 10 kilometres, a half ising from the ashes of the Bridge marathon and a full marathon. There will City Boogie will be the Mayor’s also be a marathon relay. Various events Marathon Day. will begin between 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.

Mayor Don Atchison will lead the He said taxpayers will not be funding June 21 event by example, walking and the event. running a total of 54 kilometres from his “What we are really counting on is the starting point at Whitecap Dakota First support of the private sector and our citiNation to Wanuskewin Heritage Park. zens of Saskatoon to make this all come Once Atchison arrives at Prairieland Park together. It is important to remind citizens Hall B, there will be a number of running/ and the private sector that the Meewasin walking distances for the public, much Trail and the Trans Canada Trail need our like the highly popular Boogie had. support.”

The StarPhoenix announced it was The trails will link Whitecap and withdrawing its sponsorship of the Boo- Wanuskewin. gie last fall. In its eight years, more than Like the Boogie, there will be a regis30,000 people participated in the event tration fee for the event. Participants will and a total of $580,000 was raised for also be encouraged to donate to a charcharities. ity of choice, although he asks people to The mayor said planning for the new keep the MVA and Trans Canada trails in event began shortly after the announcemind. ment that the Boogie would be no more.

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fitness for 18 months. He jokingly said during a visit to the doctor more weight had to be added to the end of the scale to accommodate him.

“I have done a lot of these starting the races, not participating in them,” he said. “I always marvel at the families who come out that have strollers. They have the kids in the strollers and they are running along, pushing them and everything else, and I’m going, ‘I have trouble just putting one foot in front of the other, yet they are doing all of this. Surely to goodness we can do more, too.’ ” The event has the support of the Whitecap Dakota First Nation and the Saskatoon Tribal Council. The event will be held on Aboriginal Day in Canada.

“I am glad it’s the mayor’s marathon and not the chief’s marathon, but my family and I will be participating in some form,” Chief Felix Thomas of the Saskatoon Tribal Council said with a laugh.

He said his First Nation supports a

number of similar events, and will also get behind this one.

Chief Darcy Bear of Whitecap is a supporter of the event, the trail and the partnership between Saskatoon and his First Nation.

“We have a long-standing partnership with the City of Saskatoon. It goes back to Aug. 6 of 1882, when John Lake and Chief Whitecap met. It took 125 years, but finally Chief Whitecap was recognized as one of the founding fathers of the city,” he said. “So we are very proud of that partnership we have with Saskatoon.

“Our support will be there. We will look at what we can do from our corporate side of Whitecap for the Trans Canada Trail as well. We will take that forward to our board and come back to you.”

very exclusive opportunities to engage with the directors.

“It might be interesting and helpful for film students, for art students and really for just anyone who is interested in seeing award-winning movies. These directors are going to be somewhere one day. They are going to be the next Oscar winners or at least Indie Spirit winners.”

Allard has done the legwork for the festival pretty much alone.

“We are kind of making cinemaindustry history because this is the first of its kind globally. Hopefully it works as an idea. If it does, it means Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Canada itself are on the progenitor of a new niche of film festivals.

“We’ve had press and media coming from the U.K. There has been some inter-

est from the U.S., so there has been global attention. It has been recognized and heard and seen. It’s definitely something people are picking up on.

“This is a film festival that has very interesting, very engaging movies that have won awards and have been film-festival favourites. People are going to see Canadian premieres, world premieres and Saskatchewan premieres, and they are going to get to have exclusive Q and As with these directors. I am hoping people come out and have a good time and help us to cement Saskatchewan in cinema-industry history.”

Ticket information is available at picatic.com. People can purchase tickets for each film or buy a festival pass. More information on the Tattoo Arts Film Festival is also available on Facebook.

To register for the event and for more information, visit mayorsmarathonday. com. Registration forms are also available at www.events.runningroom.com.

Films are ‘entertaining and dynamic’

(Continued from page 1) nd it is about that revival — white French Polynesian people have helped the Tahitian people to redevelop and rekindle those arts, and discover them.

“We have this LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) pride movie called The Skin I’m In. It’s a movie with a very mild underpinning that a tattoo is used as this man’s spiritual journey to celebrate that he has come to this point in his life where he is happy to openly admit that he is a gay male and to celebrate that he has recovered from alcoholism and from years of self abuse and self harm.

“So they are very human stories. And they are very entertaining and dynamic as AS70189.C16 well.

Then we goAaron into other movies that

are very different. They are very different branches of what it is to be alive, what it is to be human. But they are also very entertaining. They are not just documentaries. This isn’t just a documentary fest.

There are award-winning movies in there, directed by award-winning directors.”

In addition to The Skin I’m In, other movies to be shown are Tattoo Nation, Flake & Flames, Tatau, Way of the Ink and COTL. Festival-goers will also get to chat with the directors.

“We are going to have Q and As with the directors. They are going to be by Skype, projected live on screen. We can get the audience members if they have questions about the filmmaking process, about the nature of the movies, and they can ask those to the director. Those are

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Music of Howard Cable featured at performance

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Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express

awn McLean Belyk’s upcoming performance with the Saskatoon Concert Band is a particularly special one — she will be playing music that was composed especially for her.

McLean Belyk, who plays bass trombone, will be the soloist during the March 21 concert, which will feature the world premiere of a new composition by celebrated Canadian composer Howard Cable. Cable wrote the piece, entitled Concertino for Bass Trombone with Band, with McLean Belyk in mind.

“It’s pretty special. I’m very excited about that,” she said.

Cable’s composition is a three-movement work. The first movement is called Somewhat Pentatonic.

“It’s really a cool first movement. It’s very typical of what you would hear at a music festival — you know, a solo with a cadenza, kind of flashy, but has a little bit of jazz elements into it,” McLean Belyk said.

The second movement is more of a jazz ballad, and it is “very slow, but thoughtful,” she said. The title of the second movement is Jade, signifying McLean Belyk and Cable’s 35-year friendship. Jade is a gift that is given as a 35th anniversary gift.

The last movement is called Swing Seven, which McLean Belyk describes as “a lot of fun,” with big band and jazz influences.

“So it’s not your typical music festival solo; it would be a nice mixture of everything,” she said.

McLean Belyk met Cable when he was conducting the Saskatoon Concert Band as a guest artist. They stayed in touch, and McLean Belyk later had the opportunity to study arranging with him.

“He’s just an awesome arranger. He’s got quite a style; when you hear his stuff, you know it’s him — his signature,” she said.

At age 94, Cable has arranged for many orchestras over the years and is “still in demand across Canada,” she noted. The Toronto-based Cable has been appointed to JW15201.C16 the Order of CanadaJames for his contributions to music in this

country and continues to “write prolifically,” she said.

“The man’s a legend.”

McLean Belyk is also an accomplished musician. Born and raised in Saskatoon, she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1981 with a degree in music education. She later attended Northwestern University, where she completed a Master’s degree in music, specializing in bass trombone performance.

McLean Belyk currently plays with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra and the Saskatchewan Brass Quintet, and teaches in the University of Saskatchewan’s music department. She has also taught elementary and high school band, finishing her 30-year career at St. Joseph High School. In 2012, she started the Saskatoon Youth Wind Orchestra (SYWO) with coordinator Troy Linsley. McLean Belyk will conduct the SYWO at the March 21 concert during the orchestra’s performance of two Cable pieces: Frank Slide and Howard’s Hoedown.

“They get to sort of be part of this whole extravaganza, so that’s pretty special,” she said.

Throughout her years in music, McLean Belyk has served as a role model for youth and for other female musicians. She notes bass trombone is an instrument that wasn’t typically played by females in the past.

“It’s much better now, but you can imagine back in the day it wasn’t as obvious an instrument choice for a girl. So it’s kind of nice to be able to say you’ve made it through all that stuff with men — you know, them looking at you like, ‘Why are you playing this instrument?’. . . . It was always kind of a thing. You know, you always had to be sort of almost better than your counterparts for them to even look at you seriously. So, it was a good motivator that way.”

McLean Belyk is encouraging people to attend the upcoming Saskatoon Concert Band event. She’s excited about the SYWO’s collaboration with the well-known community band, as well as the evening’s lineup of Cable tunes. The Saskatoon Concert Band, which is conducted by George Charpentier, will perform Cable’s Newfoundland Rhapsody, Quebec Folk Fantasy and Snake Fence Country, while the combined groups will

Bass trombone player Dawn McLean Belyk will be the solist on March 21 (Photo Supplied) perform Marchmanship and McIntyre Ranch Country.

“It’s just going to be an all-around big event, because all the music is actually Howard Cable arrangements.

There’s nothing else on the program, so that’s pretty cool,” she said.

The concert will be held on Saturday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. at Third Avenue United Church. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors, while children under eight are admitted for free. Tickets are available from Saskatoon Concert Band members and McNally Robinson Booksellers, as well as online at ontheboards. ca. Tickets will also be available at the door on the night of the concert. For more information about the Saskatoon Concert Band, visit saskatoonconcertband.ca.

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Gender parity a long way off, but there are bright spots

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here is a special among the barriers is a lack place in hell for of universal child care, which women who don’t would give families the widest help other women.” — Madflexibility in determining their eleine Albright, former United own economic futures.

States Ambassador to the And, as he pointed out, it’s United Nations (1993-1997) not just about empowering and U.S. Secretary of State women to reach for positions in (1997-2001) higher management or politics.

If Ms. Albright is correct, It’s voting for the right people Amy Pascal, former co-chair of regardless of gender or colour Sony Pictures Entertainment, to get the social justice job done.

Columnist may have a cloudy afterlife This is why it was great to prognosis. learn that the Women in the Pascal admitted recently that she pays Legislature group, based on campus, had women less because they settle for less, two men joining them on their fourth anand she has a business to run. Furthermore, nual trek to Regina. It was only two out of said Pascal, women should walk away from 23, but it looked like progress to me. their jobs when they are offered less pay.

We need progress. For example, only Pascal must be from Mars. (How close about 20 per cent of legislators in this is that to hell?) Women on Earth need work, province are women. On the boards of natuand the next job, judging by statistics on ral resources companies, 11 per cent are wage parity with men, is not necessarily women. About one-quarter of the MPs in going to pay any better. the House of Commons are women.

This was a disheartening thing to Let’s say gender parity is still a long, learn just before International Women’s long way off. And let’s be clear: as the Day. Indeed, the fact that there is still an Western population shrinks and ages, we’re International Women’s Day is disheartengoing to need all hands on deck in all parts ing. We still need a “day” to highlight the of the economy. issues women face, and those issues are not We’re not there yet, but there are bright simply work-related. They are related to spots. violence and religious persecution and lack Women are increasingly becoming of child care (which is, of course, workentrepreneurs, and that’s not just a Westernrelated, too) and poverty and sexism of all world phenomenon. It’s not always by forms. It’s hard to know where to start solv- choice, mind you, but taking on enterprise ing all of that. It’s a global mess. beats a lousy dead-end job.

If you take the Marxist view, it’s all Every woman who becomes a business about biological imperatives and econom- owner becomes an economic engine, and ics. While I am no Communist, I always we see that most particularly in the povertythought Mr. Marx had a pretty good grip on stricken countries of the world. Micro-loans the deep causes of inequality, if not neces- (often arranged or financed by men) and sarily the solutions. supportive women’s groups have been of I don’t think most folks in the Western enormous benefit to these entrepreneurs. world really took him seriously, due to Locally, just look down the street to the his very leftist leanings. Generations after Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Marx, we’re still learning about how to group, which provides mentoring, conduits welcome women into the workforce, and it to financing and many other services to definitely looks like he was on to somewomen in business. thing.

We need to get together on this problem, These days, the economic empowerment starting with the economics of it. As women of women is even more important than it are seen as more powerful, I hope and was in Marx’s time. If you are remotely believe the sexism and wage inequality and interested in economic imperatives, here’s all the other awful stuff will back off even one. Without women in the workforce, our more. We have made great strides – it’s just economy is pretty much doomed. That goes that more are necessary. for visible minorities, disabled people and This has nothing to do with feminism, just about everyone else who is marginalas most people understand the term. It’s ized in the workplace. strictly about fairness and common sense, Charles Smith, a professor of political and the need for understanding from both science at St. Thomas More College at the genders, as Amy Pascal has shown us.

University of Saskatchewan, explained Madeleine Albright got it. Maybe she’ll some of the present-day barriers in last give Ms. Pascal a call. And then, maybe week’s Saskatoon Express. Dominant someday, we can eliminate Gender Days.

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Get your priorities straight on filling potholes Question: You seem to be That’s a feel-good comment. The proud of the job the City has part about how many billboards, done in filling potholes this I can’t tell you that. I am not sure. past year. You don’t have your That was done through the civic priorities straight. On Circle administration. I am not sure how Drive West, between 22nd many are up.

Street and Avenue C, the same Question: Did we do fewer potholes remain that were residential gradings than were there a year ago before your anticipated this winter? campaign. Why don’t you put Mayor Atchison: We were a priority on high-traffic roads contemplating doing more snow like this? removal. What transpired was Mayor Atchison: This is exAsk the Mayor there wasn’t as much snow as actly what we are doing: focusing usual. We ask people with rutting on high-priority roads. Last year, on their streets of the six-inch we paved 200 lane kilometres of roadway type to let us know, and crews will go out — the equivalent of paving from here to and do those at that time. Again the phone Kindersley. This year we will pave 178 more number to call is 306-975-2476. What we are lane kilometres, which will take us nearly to doing right now, for example, is sending out Hanna. Perhaps next year we will get to Cal- crews throughout the city neighbourhoods to gary. We have a dedicated road fund that was grade those street where rutting is a problem. first established in the 2014 budget. I want to They have already been in City Park and continue building that fund through 2016. I Exhibition and more neighbourhoods are on believe we should invest $250 million over the list. While the weather is warm is a good five years in our roadways, sidewalks and time to do this work. A couple of years ago back lanes. I would encourage anyone who everything was going fine and then it got resees a pothole to report it. You need to be our ally warm and then it froze. It was a difficult eyes on the streets. Please call 306-975-2476 time for residents and I don’t want that to to report a pothole. happen again.

We are doing cold fill right now – and just Question: Do you think a micro newsso people understand, cold fill is a temporary stand on buses would increase ridership? action just to get us through the spring seaI’m thinking with the Express, Coffee son. As soon as it gets warmer, those nights Perks and Verb, etc. when it only goes down to zero and it’s dry, Mayor Atchison: I think it is a wondercrews will be out with the hot mix. ful idea. I think the idea of people being able Question: Why is the City spending to read the Express or Coffee Perks or Verb money on advertising to tell us they are or Planet S or a daily publication would plowing ahead with city snow removal? pass the time. And people would be better Our taxes are going up and you’re spend- informed when they got to their destination. ing money on this type of advertising?

Question: A recent article in The StarLook outside – we know the City is doing Phoenix and the Regina Leader-Post listed snow removal. How many other billsalaries of mayors and council members in boards are we paying for, for this type of Regina and Saskatoon. In Saskatoon, the redundant advertising? mayor is paid $141,340, compared to the Mayor Atchison: First of all, I am Regina mayor at $124,962 — a 13-per-cent delighted the reader is seeing that we are out difference. Saskatoon council members there moving snow. That’s really positive. make $52,000, compared to the $35,698

DON ATCHISON

A reader wonders why the City advertises snow removal

Regina councillors are paid. That’s a 45.9-per-cent difference. Please provide an explanation as to how you and council can justify such a salary differential.

Mayor Atchison: Salaries for the mayor and councillors in Saskatoon are based on a percentage of provincial cabinet ministers and MLAs. But salaries are only one component of a compensation package. I don’t know what else is included in the compensation package for the mayor of Regina or the councillors there. I don’t know if there are additional compensations that are not

included in the wage component. It is also important to keep in mind that Saskatoon is a larger city, with more than 260,000 people, and Regina has about 200,000 citizens. Each organization runs differently.

DID YOU KNOW? The Saskatoon Police Service had 266,694 calls to the communications centre and cars were dispatched to 75,369 calls for service in 2014.

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There are racist Aboriginal people, too

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Hnatyshyn column Ageist wasn’t misses joke the mark

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I enjoyed Camfor notinclusion “There is no excuse having is key to valuing older adults.

Hutchinson’s Through ID” Elaine Hnatyshyn writes in herpresentations in the community editorial (Making andElechigh schools, the Age Alive Photogdefence of the co-called Fair the Zombie Walk in raphy Exhibition and other initiatives, tions Act, repeating Minister Pierre Moose Jaw, SaskaSCOA has worked to educate the public Poilievre’s talking point that all the toon Express, 2-8, 2015) righteverything up about ageism. voter needs isMarch to bring some ID and would tobethe description of the Zombie Walk: As part of the SCOA Age-friendly hunky dory. Vouching is therefore not“It necessary was interesting watching the couples doSaskatoon Initiative, consultations with and should be abolished, she argues, chastising the ing the walk.

Most were middle aged or hundreds of Saskatoon’s older adults Bill’s opponents for making it an issue. older.But I feared oldies wouldfor beMs. peeing revealed there isthe also no excuse Hnatyshyn not that ageism is the greatest barrier intothe mineral water.”

Really? joke? to social inclusion, and that media repreknow how our voting systemBad works.

She apparently Bad jokes are one thing; ageist humour sentation, by reflecting negative views of does not realize that voting has become extremely isdif quite another.

Intentional?

Not likely, aging, reinforces ageist images associated cult ever since the 2008 introduction of tough but ageist jokes do perpetuate negative, adults. voter ID requirements, which demand an IDwith with older a disrespectful stereotypes of older adults,of validThe street address.

You can have a pocketful ID good news is that attitudes that however unintentional. create socially constructed — Classic Style Mould — and most Canadians have some — but none thatageism are Ageism is discrimination because of age we behave in a certain way because that has the essential street address. And worse, if your 5/8”x3”x14’ and a wayhappens of thinking about older adultsrural route is how learned to(90423) behave — and address to be a box number, or we have Primed MDFcan Casing that creates a negative stereotype.

Ageism is attitudes and behaviours be changed. general delivery, as is the case with Saskatchewan’s the last “ism” still considered acceptable by Let’s work on that.

Won’t we all be older ½”x4”x14’ (01240) rural population, First Nations included, that won’t sobemany despite the harm it does.

Ageism adults one day? acceptable either. In these cases you have to nd Primed MDF Base can also lead to eldertoabuse, which more is a good thing. It gets us “something else” vote with, butisthat is easierHumour said prevalent than one likes to think. through tough11/16”x3”x14’ times. It shouldn’t diminthan done.

Primed MDF Casing (90411) The Saskatoon Council on Aging ish or disrespect.

Thus Mr. Poilievre’s famous “39 options” for voter (SCOA) vision is positive aging for all.

June Gawdun, executive director, SasID, which Ms. Hnatyshyn promotes, on closer exami5/8”x4 ¼”x14’ SCOA recognizes that respect and social katoon Council on Aging Inc. nation often disappears into thin air, not providing the Primed MDF Base (90412) required street address or not being available to the voter. That is why in the 2011 election, over 120,000 Canadians relied on vouching or used the voter information card as their secondary ID. Those who couldn’t nd anyone to vouch for them could not vote, and their numbers are legion. This was documented in a post-2008 election survey in which nearly ve per cent of 13.7 million voters said “they didn’t vote because they lacked proper documentation.”

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Important for seniors to get all their benefits

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here is one thing for tax spouse. This, however, certain, no matter what does not work with CPP benelse is happening in the efits. In order to split these country – there will be changbenefits, you must apply to Service Canada for CPP penes in income tax. This week sion sharing.

I am focusing on seniors and Another item to consider, the multitude of rules they if you have income from your have to navigate to make sure investments, or get a large T5 they get all the benefits available to them. from your bank for the interest You’ve now settled into you are earning, is to move your retirement, collecting your savings into a Tax Free Tax Tips your Canada Pension Plan Savings Account (TFSA). If (CPP) and your Old Age properly set up, you still get Security Pension (OAS), but did you the benefits of having easy access to your realize that in 2015 the OAS is not a money if needed. However, the interest guarantee? If your net income is more and growth will no longer be taxable, than $71,592, you will have to start which will reduce your tax bill due in repaying a portion of your OAS benefit April. to the government (and you will no lonAfter you have reduced/equalized your ger receive any OAS once your income income as much as you can, other items reaches $116,103). to consider are making sure you claim all Living in Saskatchewan, residents over the medical expenses you have. The most the age of 65 can apply for the Seniors’ commonly missed expenses are attendant Drug Plan, which, if you qualify (have care expenses, whether that is home care, income less than $80,980), enables you to assisted living retirement homes (eligible pay $20 per prescription for drugs listed portion), or full-time nursing home care. on the Saskatchewan Formulary and You also want to make sure that you get those approved under Exception Drug detailed printouts of your prescriptions Status. from the pharmacy, your dentist, denturWhy am I telling you all this? It’s ist, hearing aids and accessories (includsimple. There are ways available to you ing batteries), optical, podiatrist and to reduce your income for tax purposes injections provided by your doctor. that you may or may not be aware of.

Other credits to be aware of are You have probably heard of the charitable and political donations as well ability to split your pensions with your as public transit or bus passes that you spouse. This allows eligible pension purchase. These may be able to be used income (including RRIF income for to reduce your tax payable. those over 65) to be split (up to 50/50) You can see that income tax preparation between spouses to equalize your can have a drastic impact on your benefits. income. This helps if one of you has a It is in your best interest to consult with high income and one is in a lower tax an income tax professional to make sure bracket. You are able to transfer some of that you make the best possible decisions the higher taxable income to the lower based on your specific situation.

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HEALTHY KIDNEYS FOR ALL

March is Kidney Health Month

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hronic kidney disease is an epidemic: 1 out of every 10 Canadians has some form of kidney disease (Kidney Foundation of Canada, 2015). March is Kidney Health Month.

Do you know if you are at risk for getting chronic kidney disease or if it is preventable?

Why are the kidneys important?

Kidneys, despite being small in size, perform vital tasks to keep us alive and healthy. They remove wastes from the blood, filtering up to 180 liters of blood a day. They also maintain just the right levels of water, minerals, and electrolytes and help maintain proper blood pressure, bone health, and red blood cell levels. When kidneys fail to do their job correctly, you can die. Treatment options for kidney failure are dialysis or a kidney transplant.

What is chronic kidney disease?

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is some level of kidney damage that is long term and cannot be cured. The more damaged your kidneys are the more severe the disease is. You can lose up to 90 per cent of kidney function before symptoms of CKD appear. The only way to know if damage is happening is to get checked regularly by your family doctor or nurse practitioner. He or she will be able to tell if you have CKD based on blood and urine tests.

Who gets chronic kidney disease?

Anyone can develop CKD, but people with the following conditions are most at risk: • Diabetes – when undiagnosed or poorly controlled for years, the kidney can suffer a lot of damage. High sugars make blood thick and sticky, damaging the kidneys’ filters.

• High Blood Pressure – puts unnecessary stress on the heart and blood vessels which directly damages the kidneys’ filters. It is important to have your blood pressure checked regularly as you may not know you have high blood pressure.

• Genetic and auto-immune diseases – some examples are glomerulonephritis, polycystic kidney

disease, lupus, IgA nephropathy.

Some will lead to direct kidney damage while others will indirectly harm the kidneys.

• Urinary tract obstruction – frequent kidney stones, prostate problems, and tumors are some examples.

• Reflux nephropathy – a genetic condition where urine backs up into the kidney and causes damage instead of flowing out of the body.

• Drug and medication damage– illegal drugs, and prescription or over-the-counter medicines that are misused can cause irreversible kidney damage.

Frequent long-term use of many pain relievers is a common cause of damage.

• Other – if you have a family history of CKD; are First Nations; smoke or chew tobacco; are not physically active; are overweight or obese; or frequently binge drink alcohol…you are at risk of developing CKD and other chronic diseases that cause kidney disease.

What kinds of treatments and cures are available?

There is no known cure for chronic kidney disease. Receiving a kidney transplant is not even a cure, as transplanted organs only function for 10 years on average. When diagnosed by a kidney specialist (Nephrologist) you may be prescribed certain medications and be asked to follow a special diet. These medications or diets may prolong the time it takes to need dialysis or a transplant, but should only be followed when ordered by your doctor, a nephrologist, or a registered dietitian.

Living a healthy lifestyle and cutting out unnecessary risks (i.e. smoking, obesity) will prolong your life and protect what is left of your kidneys for as long as possible. Leading an unhealthy lifestyle will cause your kidney disease to worsen faster than a healthy lifestyle would. If your kidney disease is genetic, it may be possible to prevent reaching end stage kidney disease by adopting the healthiest lifestyle possible and seeing your doctor regularly to

monitor your kidney health.

How often should I have my kidney health checked?

If you have one or more risks for CKD, you must have your kidney function checked yearly by a doctor or nurse practitioner. This involves having a blood and urine test done. People with more risks or poorly controlled chronic diseases may need their kidney function checked more often.

Preventing Chronic Kidney Disease We can prevent kidney disease by preventing the conditions that lead to it. Doing everything you can to prevent diabetes, hypertension, obesity, etc. will help prevent kidney disease. These things include quitting smoking, getting at least thirty minutes of exercise daily, drinking enough water instead of fruit juices or soft drinks, managing stress, and limiting the processed foods you eat. Check out www. kidney.ca/risk for an assessment and evaluation of your kidney health!

By: Carmen Berglund, Registered Nurse Chronic Kidney Disease Community Outreach Program Saskatoon Health Region

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My kid and a billion others watching unboxing videos

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let my three-year-old channel, I noticed something: watch YouTube.

30,000,000 is the number of There, I said it. Judge your views earned by that particular heart out. video. That is an enormous numI mean, binge-watching Suber, which millions of YouTube per Why and Team Umizumi videos – ones with genuinely essentially taught him to read interesting, thoughtful, nonby the time he was two years creepy content – aspire to reach. old, so I take some solace in Curious, I went down the rabbitthat. Watching his little fingers hole myself, and found thouwork an iPad like a pro, swishsands more unboxing videos, ing and swooping and tapping, many of which also had millions Columnist is also a bit entertaining for of views. Combined, the views me, but that’s not the point. were in the billions.

Anyway, I digress.

Hallelujah, my kid wasn’t a lone In the event my three-year-old is given weirdo! Now, what the heck is going on? some YouTube time, maybe in the car or How are millions of children watching on a plane, waiting for a doctor’s apsomething millions of times without it pointment (or, yes, when mommy needs involving Disney Pixar? to retain her sanity), we pick a theme in Well, they’re part of it, for sure. One advance — whether the above-mentioned of the most popular producers of these shows, or something like Thomas the videos, a 21-year-old woman from South Train, Curious George or a classic faAmerica who calls herself DisneyCollecvourite that I love that he loves, vintage tor, gives her shows names such as Angry Donald Duck cartoons.

Birds Toy Surprise Jake and the Never Once we choose an appropriate video, Land Pirates Disney Pixar Cars 2 Easter my three-year-old continues to watch new Egg SpongeBob (which has more than shows by clicking on the kid-friendly, sim- 100 million views, by the way). I know, ilarly themed recommendations YouTube it’s like a line of search engine key-word generates down the right-hand side of the cocaine. page. To be clear, mom is always close by DisneyCollector is no Dumbo. She has to monitor the content. earned an estimated double-digit million It doesn’t matter with which genre we dollars in revenue off of her well-manistart with, however, because every single cured hands unwrapping shiny new toys time, without fail, my three-year-old ends — primarily $1.99 KinderSurprise Eggs. up riveted by an “unboxing” video.

See, kids, so easily trained, will sit through An unboxing video, for better parents the sponsored advertisement at the beginthan me, is a long, drawn-out video of two ning of the video. They don’t learn about disembodied hands slowly, tantalizingly the Skip Ad option until they’re at least unboxing, or unpacking, a brand-new three and a half. So toddlers watch the ad, sealed toy from its original packaging. and she rakes in the cash. Other unboxing Sometimes there’s a voice, often soft, video producers are said to earn similar soothing and appropriately child-friendly, revenue, employing dozens of people describing the process as his or her hands full-time and running actual companies unveil the splendors of the new toy and all dedicated to opening new toys. its minute details.

And you thought you were in the wrong If it sounds creepy, even a bit fetishbusiness before. How ’bout now? like, it is. Which is why, within moments So, if you’re a parent of an unboxingof him landing on one of these videos, I watching toddler, take heart: You’re not would vehemently rip the tablet out of his alone. little hands and shut it down. Why was As for the videos themselves — to the my kid so weird? He’s got baskets full of best of my knowledge, and based on my perfectly good, sometimes even virtually own research — I think they’re harmless. new toys (though, admittedly, my procliv- Sure, there’s probably something that’s ity towards garage-saleing means he never not exactly pediatrician-recommended actually removed most of them from their about the hit of dopamine my kid is proboriginal packaging), and there are millions ably getting from watching the video, of entertaining, dare-I-say educational but that’s no different than the hit he’s videos on YouTube. getting opening a real present, or openThen one day, as the disembodied ing a granola bar. Today, the entire world hands appeared on the screen once again is packaged precisely for our unboxing JW15187.C09 James and I was snatching the iPad to change the pleasure.

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Neighbourhood’s concerns fall on deaf gov’t ears

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reat news emanated the Legislative Assembly when from the SaskatcheSaskatoon Nutana MLA Cathy wan Legislature last Sproule asked if the governweek. Minister of Correcment would provide a copy of tions and Policing Christine the outside consultant’s report Tell announced that youth on the effectiveness of Yarrow crime has declined and that Farm, the minister’s response we no longer need a number was a simple “No.” Apparently of open and closed young this is a top-secret document for offender detention centres. I government eyes only. don’t know if that means the Throughout the meeting, offenders have all grown up government flunkies kept stressColumnist and are now housed in our ing that this was the action of a over-crowded penitentiaries or whether fiscally responsible government saving we don’t even bother to incarcerate and/ taxpayers’ money. When questioned or rehabilitate them anymore. about these savings, they were unable to Additional news is that Saskatoon, a give a definitive answer. Minister Tell city that has longed for corporate head couldn’t answer the question either, and offices, is going to be the head office for would only say that it is obvious that a central Saskatchewan’s young offenders. consolidation would save money.

The government is dividing the province Ward councillor Charlie Clark was into three zones — north, central and brought into the fray and asked about the south. All young offenders in the north City’s role in the relocation. He claimed will be housed in Prince Albert, while blissful ignorance about the matter. Yet Saskatoon will get offenders from the in the last televised council meeting, a central zone and Regina will anchor the councillor asked administration what south. While this head office will not would happen with the Yarrow property be downtown, it will be a stone’s throw and the answer given was that it would away nestled in the established residen- be incorporated into the existing resitial neighbourhood of Buena Vista. dential development plan. And I have Needless to say, the residents of been informed by a reliable source that Buena Vista and surrounding neighbour- the City and province were in discushoods are concerned. This area has seen sion more than a year ago about the City a significant increase in crime, especially obtaining and incorporating the Yarrow relating to home invasions, property property in the planned residential develtheft and prowlers. If the perpetuators opment. If I am to give Clark the benefit are caught, nine times out of 10 they of the doubt, it only means he was kept are young offenders. Although Kilburn in the dark by his own administration.

Hall — a closed-custody facility — has From all reports, the Yarrow program been in the area for decades, it is secured is a good one. Young offenders learn and well-supervised and has not been a life skills and many, but not all, are problem. But an open-custody program rehabilitated. If – and that’s a big if– is a different story. consolidating open and closed facilities A quickly organized community is a good move, and based on the new meeting was held last week when the zone structure where errant youth will be neighbourhood became aware of the trucked into the city from other jurisdicgovernment’s plans to relocate the open tions, why not build and relocate Kilburn custody Yarrow Youth Farm to Kilburn Hall on the Yarrow site where there is Hall. It became clear that the purpose ample room, good supervision and flight of the meeting was not to address the by open-custody offenders is difficult? concerns of the community or to involve I tried reaching Minister of Jusresidents in the decision-making, but to tice Gordon Wyant, but this minions sell a done deal. blocked me and said it was a corrections issue and to contact Tell. But When the issue was raised about neighbourhood safety, one speaker who shouldn’t justice and corrections work identified herself as having represented collaboratively? Besides Wyant is in cabinet, the Yarrow Farm is currently many of these youth told the commulocated within his constituency and nity not to worry because offenders he, in all likelihood, had a hand in this that breach the terms of open custody flee the area and try to get back to their transaction. (Interestingly enough, Wyant’s staff in Regina didn’t know reservations or are picked up wandering in other areas of the city. She stated Yarrow was in his turf and his Saskatoon office tried hard not to acknowlthese were not violent youth. Really?

Our justice system does not incarcerate edge it until I actually presented the site location.) Did the fact that developers young offenders for spitting on sidewalks or chewing gum in class. They get contribute dollars to political purses or locked up because of violent crime and that Wyant’s constituency is held by the Sask. Party and Saskatoon Nutana is an a lengthy history of criminal activity.

NDP stronghold factor into the deciThese offenders then transition from closed custody to an open-custody facil- sion?

I left the community meeting before it ity such of Yarrow Youth Farm, which is currently located and relatively isolated was over because the stench in the room was overpowering. The odour emanated on the outskirts of town. from the bull---- the government flunkies A few people in the audience, who were forking over to residents as to why actually had experience in this field, expressed concern that this move would it is a good thing to house an opencustody young offender facility in their not result in successfully rehabilitatneighbourhood. It had nothing to do with ing youth in conflict with the law. One effective young offender rehabilitation. gentleman eloquently spoke about his personal experience as a young offender Nor does it have anything to do with and his time in both Kilburn and Yarrow fiscal efficiency, because today’s savings and more will be spent down the road in Youth Farm. He attributes his experithe Justice and Corrections departments ence at Yarrow as the turning point in as the young offenders reach the age of his life, and how that assistance made majority. It does, however, have a lot to him the productive citizen he is today. do with city development.

The government representatives reThe only solace Buena Vista residents sponded by saying the staff would move to Kilburn and the programming would have is that they won’t have to worry be enhanced, but were unable to explain about haphazard infill projects in their how, given the fact that there is less and ’hood. limited space at the Kilburn site. And in ehynatyshyn@gmail.com

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Cam Hutchinson & Friends: Leafs should let the clock run • From TC Chong: “Toronto Maple Leaf fans are asking if they could move their clocks one month ahead, or more specifically to April 11 at 10 p.m. local time — the end of the season, barring OT or a shootout.”

• Torben Rolfsen, on Tim Burton directing a live-action Dumbo movie: “Who will be acting NHL president during the filming?”

• Janice Hough, on the Houston Texans trading QB Ryan Fitzpatrick to the N.Y. Jets: “Not sure how Fitzpatrick feels about the deal, but isn’t it many little boys’ dream to grow up and join the circus?”

• Bill Littlejohn, on Amar’e Stoudemire dissing his Maverick teammates after a blowout loss to the Cavs: “Judging by what he wore at the presser, he also was upset that Sgt. Pepper threw him out of the band.”

• From Rolfsen: “A San Francisco man claims he is the biological son of Wilt Chamberlain. Experts put the chances at about 1 in 20,000.”

• Chong, on the Seahawks trading for TE Jimmy Graham: “The team immediately had concrete reinforcements installed for their goal posts at their practice field and CenturyLink Field.”

• When police pulled over a vehicle near Prince Albert, 17 people were found in the truck. My first thought was they are auditioning for the Shrine Circus.

• Hough, on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race moving 600 miles north due to a lack of snow: “Hmm, maybe they should have just moved it to Boston.”

• Corey Chamblain seemed different last year than he was during first year as Rider coach. His dealings with players and media seemed off, I wrote.

With his recent comments on Kory Sheets, I’m thinking he is still going down a wrong path.

• From Chong: “Rory McIlroy has fired his caddy and hired a scuba diver to carry his bag.”

• I wonder how the Frank Gore era will be remembered in Philadelphia.

• TSN might want to change its free-agent fren-

zies from the NHL to the NFL. • From Rolfsen: “The Florida Panthers held a contest to let a fan be their new practice backup goalie. Sad to see Martin Brodeur get beat out.

• Hough, on allegations two senior Secret Service agents were out partying last week in Washington D.C. and crashed their government car into the White House security barricades: “Well at least they didn’t have the car full of prostitutes.”

• Chong says he hopes Tiger never decides to fly his own plane. “Unlike Harrison Ford, he would’ve missed that fairway and the green too.”

• More John Morris moments from the Brier: 3. He fell over a rock; 2. He autographed and then kissed a baby; 1. He dropped a CS bomb on national television (it brought back memories of Roger Millions’ classic. Oh my gawd, we are live?).

• From Rolfsen: “No one has played for as many teams as Will Ferrell in such a short time span since Matt Stairs.”

• How about a Russ Howard drinking game?

You chug when he says pebble, draws the angles for shots, and says a team wants to make a rock disappear or go away. By the way, Howard is a great commentator.

• Steve Laycock is ready to win the Brier. I think it will take a couple of years before his teammates are.

• From Littlejohn: “If the Cowboys want Adrian Petersen to replace the now-departed DeMarco Murray, they would likely have to give Minnesota a ton of draft picks — perhaps justice for the Herschel Walker trade.”

• From Rolfsen: “With the flurry of NFL freeagent signing announcements, it seems like there was a lot of secret communications going on before the allowed negotiating period. Hillary Clinton has called for an investigation.”

• From Chong: “To Philadelphia Eagles fans, March Madness takes on a whole new meaning.”

• A question from Hough: “Does the Dolphins’ signing of Ndamukong Suh mean they are really putting their foot down on bullying?”

Views of the World

The Bieb no match for Bouchard

By RJ Currie • An Indianapolis building saluted Colts receiver Reggie Wayne by lighting offices to form number 87. Not to be outdone, Toronto’s CN Tower saluted Leafs’ management by only using dim bulbs.

• I made a mistake entering Kikidoll swimwear’s contest to win a bikini from the 2015 SI Swimsuit Issue cover. Turns out neither the top nor the bottom still has Hannah Davis in it.

• A 107-year-old U.S. woman is Facebook’s oldest registered user. And possibly the most sick of hearing “Wait’ll next year!” from the Cubs.

• Eugenie Bouchard played doubles with Justin Bieber at a celebrity tennis event. In the world of racquets, Bouchard is a genius, while Bieber just makes a lot of it.

• USA Today called Bill Belichick one of the most arrogant head coaches in all of sport. On the bright side, at least his ego stayed inflated.

• John Morris called dropping down to third for Team Canada “finding the right chemistry.” Which does sound better than “choking badly throwing last rocks.”

• Vlade Divac wants to be the NBA’s flopping judge. It’s hard to say whether he’d deserve the job or would have fallen into it.

• A work-saving tip for MLB groundskeepers. Add alcohol to your spring fertilizer — the grass will come up half-cut.

• Despite what many believe, National Napping Day was last Monday. It wasn’t last Wednesday, when the Maple Leafs played the Sabres.

• The Wilmington BlueRocks minor-league club introduced a hot dog in a Krispy Kreme donut bun, and people who try it are invited to name it. Assuming they live long enough.

• How is UFC challenger Cat Zingo different from UFC champ Ronda Rousey’s SI swimsuit pics? The first gets quickly pinned down, the other quickly pinned up.

• The Texans are reportedly interested in nose tackle Vince Wilfork. Houston makes sense — astronauts can root for a guy they can see from a space shuttle.

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Travel

Discover Victoria’s secrets

By Doreen Kerby for the Saskatoon Express ictoria is a favourite destination for prairie people.

The Parliament Buildings and the Fairmont Empress Hotel are landmarks.

They are charming by day and even more beautiful at night. Nearly every visitor will spend time at the Royal B.C. Museum, and many enjoy wandering around the Inner Harbour watching boats come and go, observing craftspeople at their work or watching talented buskers entertain.

Not far away, on Government Street, is a must for chocolate lovers. Rogers Chocolates, a Victoria enterprise since 1895, is famous for making the best. Just like high tea at the Empress or Butchart Gardens, it is a memorable experience.

But there are places in Victoria that are not as well known.

Take a Harbour Ferry and have your camera ready. The skipper entertains passengers with tales of the early days, interesting places and new developments.

Get off at Point Ellice House, home of the O’Reilly family for three generations.

The O’Reillys played an important role in the history of British Columbia. Peter O’Reilly was a magistrate and commissioner. He and his wife, Caroline, lived a privileged lifestyle, entertaining Victoria’s elite, and left behind a detailed record in their personal papers.

Acquired in 1867, the O’Reilly property was sold to the province 108 years later.

This beautiful Victorian home overlooks the Gorge Waterway. Admission includes a tour and tea. For the tours we donned headsets and the voice of the O’Reilly’s servant guided us through the house, as if the O’Reillys still lived there.

On display is the largest-known collection of Victoriana in North America still in its original location. The servant gives interesting details about his duties and facts about the family. In the living room, the harp and organ await their daughter, Kathleen, and the dining-room table is set for an elaborate dinner.

Out in the English garden, everything growing is historically accurate to the 1870s. In fact, it was the O’Reillys who planted the hollyhocks.

Tea was served on the front lawn, under the shade of a huge Sequoia tree, planted

by Peter in 1876. We were served home-

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Victoria is a popular place for Prairie folk (Photos by Doreen Kerby) made soup, fancy sandwiches, scones, Devon cream, jam, trifle, cakes and cookies. Our waiter confided that he loves his job, asking, “Where could I find a place in the city that is so beautiful and peaceful?”

The Ellis Point Bridge can be seen from the grounds. It was built in the 1950s near the spot where a wooden bridge collapsed on May 26, 1896.

Number 16 streetcar was designed to carry 60 passengers, but on that day 140 crowded into the car. Once on the bridge, two loud cracks were heard and the streetcar plunged into the gorge. Fifty-five men, women and children died and 27 were seriously injured.

Almost every family in Victoria was touched. The Union Jacks that flew so jubilantly to honour Queen Victoria on May Day were now at half-mast.

“Victoria mourns her dead!” read the headlines. “From a city of rejoicing, our city becomes a place of sorrow.”

It could have been worse. The trolley filled with water, but longshoremen loading a ship nearby raced to the scene in small boats, smashing windows with their bare hands. It is rated as the worst streetcar disaster in North American history. It is a story I know well — my great-grandfather lost a daughter in that crash and almost his own life as well.

Another place I love is the Chateau Victoria Hotel at 740 Burdett Ave. On the top floor there is a rooftop restaurant — Vista 18. It offers a menu of local produce that is exceptional. A 360-degree view allows one to see the Cascade Mountains and the snow-capped Olympics, Mount Tolmie and Mount Douglas, as well as the activity of the Inner Harbour.

There are many great restaurants and pubs in Victoria Carr House at 207 Government St. is the childhood home of Emily Carr, one of Canada’s most famous artists and authors.

Another building that predates the Parliament Buildings is St. Ann’s Academy, a convent school and the first four-storey masonry building in Victoria, built in 1858. The chapel is the oldest church in British Columbia and has been magnificently restored.

For an excellent meal, try Swans Suite Hotel, which is located on the corner of Pandora and Store, conveniently located in the heart of historic Old Town Victoria.

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official portraits of Pierre Trudeau. Images of the former owner, Michael Williams, also grace the premises. When he died, he left all his property to the University of Victoria. So dining at Swan’s is not only enjoyable, it also helps the university.

I always hate to leave Victoria. Lovely green lawns, hanging baskets and beautiful flowers set it apart from most cities. It has the mildest climate in Canada, but that isn’t the only thing that makes it so attractive. It has a rich history well preserved in heritage buildings, museums and art galleries.

For more information, visit tourismvictoria.com.

(Doreen Kerby is a Saskatoon freelance writer.)

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Vasectomy gone wrong could have broken up family Dear Lianne, things like this happen and I wanted to share a please don’t jump to conclurecent experience that has sions. This almost broke up a likely torn apart many beautiful marriage and family. lives. I’ve been happily I imagine the stress I was unmarried for years and der could have contributed to have two beautiful teens. my miscarriage. — Faithful My husband and I are in business together and Dear Faithful, living the dream. Several Thank you for sharing your years ago, my husband painful story. Nothing in life had a vasectomy. Six is 100 per cent. Things happen months ago, I became that are completely unexpected.

Matchmaker pregnant. I ended up Fortunately, your relationship miscarrying. It was horwas strong enough to get past rendous. My husband insisted that your loss and stress. Vasectomies are I was unfaithful. I have never been not foolproof. Statistics show a small unfaithful. I get all that I need from percentage of men who have vasectohim. He went to his doctor and had it mies still father children. Take good confirmed that his vasectomy is fine. care of yourself and cherish your husI just want people to understand that band and children.

LIANNE TREGOBOV

Dear Lianne, I dated a guy and now we see each other from time to time as friends. I know he’s bad for me. He is controlling, mean mouthed and insulting. But he makes my heart go pitter-patter.

I was talking to him today and he admitted that he was interested in someone else. I find when I have a distraction he becomes a faint memory.

When there isn’t anyone else, I pine over him. I feel so rejected by him. — Justine Dear Justine, I would urge you to discontinue contact with him. You seem to morph him into a saintly creature when he is away from you and realize he is a true nightmare when you are actually with him.

He is a fantasy boyfriend, not a reality.

You will find yourself in a better-thannothing relationship if you carry on with him, even if it is casual. I would suggest you feel sorry for the next victim, rather than obsessing on the rejection. Move on. Guys like him are a dime a dozen.

Find a great guy who will cherish you.

Make a promise to yourself to never tolerate behaviour that is unacceptable from a prospective partner. Life is stressful enough without a relationship that brings you more stress than pleasure.

(Lianne will be in Saskatoon from March 23-25 interviewing people who want her to find their perfect match. Call 1-204-888-1529 to book your appointment. Lianne can also be reached by emailing camelotintroductions@mymts. net. Questions for this column can be sent to the same address.)

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Hand-washing china your safest bet Hi Reena, My mom is turning 72 this We have rediscovered a week, and I am trying to make relative’s chinaware from a home spa for her birthday. the 1950s. The style is quite Can you give me an idea for a amazing for that period of cheap homemade face mask time. However, there is no treatment? — Vera mention as to whether or Dear Vera, not it is dishwasher safe. I’m Nice idea! Combine 1 tbsp. thinking it isn’t because of its regular plain yogurt with 1 tsp. age and the lack of automatic soft honey. Apply to face and home dishwashers at that leave for 7 minutes. Pat and time. I am wondering what rinse with a clean, hot washHousehold the difference is between becloth.

Solutions ing dishwasher safe and not Dear Reena, being dishwasher safe. What We recently moved into happens if we wash the dishes in the a new home. When I unpacked my silk dishwasher? Would it matter if we flower collection, I was horrified to see turned off the heated dry cycle? — David that they are completely squished and Dear David, wrinkled. How can I remove the wrinThis is one of those long-standing kles? — Darnia debates where china owners differ. Some Dear Darnia, experts claim they can actually tell the difSoak the flowers upside down in a ference between china washed in the dish- bucket of warm sudsy water for 15 minutes. washer several times versus hand-washed Allow them to dry and reshape them when china. Hand washing is the safest method damp. Other options are to let the steam for cleaning china unless your dishwasher from a hot shower draw out the wrinkles or happens to offer a button specifically to use a heat gun. However, a heat gun is designed for fine china. Harsh detergents less effective and more time consuming. containing bleach, along with high water temperature, can play a big part in damag- Feedback from a Contribuing china, specifically hand-painted china tor or weakened china containing small cracks.

Re: Car windows and stove grease Dishes with gold accents may become Dear Reena, damaged from high water temperature or With regards to the car, the absolute best water force. If you choose to place dishes in way to clean everything inside a car (and the dishwasher, select cold water, use mild deodorize it at the same time) is to use cofdishwasher detergent and air dry. fee! Take the remaining coffee from your Dear Reena, pot and two washcloths and go to town.

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hree years ago in the this case, while the mutual fund Feb. 13, 2012 column, I companies retain the difference challenged readers: “If of 1.3 per cent. you own mutual funds, go get More recently in February, your recent investment stateI examined a couple’s muments. . . . Now, find the fees tual fund portfolio valued at that you are paying.” $458,017. The overall MER was The point was that you in the same ballpark as the first would look high and low, but portfolio. However, the type of wouldn’t be able to find the fund used exclusively through fees reported on your stateall of their accounts was the ments — they’re hidden. (In Deferred Service Charge (DSC) Finance that previous column, I had variety. These are relatively also looked at a way to reduce inflexible fund types given they mutual fund fees, which I will not repeat are typically subject to an additional early here.) sales charge of one to 5.5 per cent above I had also stated that mutual fund MER and beyond the MER if they are sold fees should be reported transparently on within seven years. your statements. To review, Management A few years ago I investigated another Expense Ratio (MER) is a percentage couple’s retirement portfolio of mutual representing the annual costs and compen- funds valued at $892,271. Their oversation to the mutual fund company, your all portfolio MER was a very high 2.7 advisor firm and advisor. This information per cent, resulting in annual charges of is currently available, but typically you’ll $24,091. In addition, most of the mutual only be aware of it if you’ve been infunds were the DSC variety. In fact, at the formed by your advisor or you go digging time of my analysis, they would have to for it yourself. pay an additional $31,246 in early sales charges if they wished to make a change.

FORCED OUT OF HIDING As it happens, starting in July 2016 FORCED INTO HIDING mutual fund fees must be reported on cliWill there be sticker shock when muent statements for all firms serving retail tual fund fees are reported on statements? clients in Canada. Whether you’re a client It depends. If your advisor has let you of a registered dealer, bank or credit union, know about MERs, DSCs and such from any firm selling mutual funds to retail the start, this column provides no new ininvestors will be required to clearly report formation. You already know what you’re the fees. paying and the services you’re receiving But that’s more than a year away. So, in for that. the meantime, I want to bring to life what But if this is coming as news out of mutual fund owners will discover. I’ll base the blue, your advisor may be forced into it on a sample of mutual fund statements I hiding as mutual fund fees come out of have previously reviewed. hiding.

Derek Shevkenek

REAL EXAMPLES This past December, I conducted a review for a fellow that had a combined portfolio value of $516,933. The overall portfolio MER was approximately 2.3 per cent, which translates into annual fees of $11,889. Built into that, most of the funds in his portfolio paid an annual trailer of 1.0 per cent, which gets divided between the financial advisor’s firm and the advisor.

That works out to a trailer of $5,169 in

Derek Shevkenek is a Saskatoon investment advisor with RBC Dominion Securities Inc. Member CIPF. Inquiries are welcome at 306-956-7803 and at www.dereks.ca. Information is believed to be accurate at the time of writing and is subject to change. Past performance may not be repeated. Opinions are provided in good faith, but without legal responsibility.

Opinions are the author’s, not that of RBC Dominion Securities Inc.

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Show leaves Fringe circuit, joins Live Five season Shannon Boklaschuk Saskatoon Express show that received rave reviews during the 2011 Saskatoon Fringe Festival is the latest production on offer as part of Live Five Independent Theatre’s current season.

Two Corpses Go Dancing, by University of Saskatchewan graduates Andrew Taylor and Donovan Scheirer, is a musical about a mischievous demon that brings back two dead souls from the grave — Itche and Finkle — and sends them into Warsaw. As Itche and Finkle try to reclaim their lives, they find out they’re no longer who they once were.

The dark comedy is adapted from a short story by Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer, which Taylor and Scheirer have embellished and made their own.

The show was well received when it was produced for Saskatoon’s Fringe Festival a few years ago, said Taylor.

“We got a lot of community support. It was actually my very first Fringe, too, so it (went) incredibly well. It got some good reviews, good press, and (we) just had a blast doing it,” he said.

“The next year, 2012, we took it to Winnipeg and Victoria, which was fun. We packed two cars and headed there.”

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The current production is the show’s fourth and the largest in scale, given that there’s a now theatre house and it’s off the Fringe circuit, said Taylor. The show is being produced again because it was never intended to be a “one-off,” he said.

“When we first did the show for the Fringes, what we had in mind — our most ideal perception of what the show would be — kind of had to be stifled because it’s Fringe. You only have, at most, a 70-minute slot. . . . We always imagined this show to be bigger, so Live Five allowed us to do that.”

Taylor said a grant from the Saskatchewan Arts Board has also allowed for a set and a costume budget for the current production.

“We wanted to actually make it as we imagined it. We wanted it to be the size that we originally had kind of dreamed, I guess.”

Taylor is curious to see how local audiences will react to the show this time around. The final performance of Two Corpses Go Dancing at the 2011 Fringe Festival was a sold-out show, he said, and people have talked about it a lot since then.

Two Corpses Go Dancing is different from a play that audiences may see in a typical theatre season, given its macabre

vibe that is reminiscent of film director Tim Burton’s style, said Taylor. The show is also “a bit epic” and includes “cartoonish” slapstick comedy, he said.

“I think people are going to see just a very full show with lots of variety and just something kind of different all together,” he said.

The musical, which is directed by Joshua Beaudry, features Taylor, Scheirer, Nathan Howe, Danielle Roy, Anna Seibel

and Chris Donlevy.

Two Corpses Go Dancing, presented by Two Unruly Gentlemen Theatre, runs from March 20 to March 22 and from March 26 to March 29 at The Refinery, located at 609 Dufferin Ave. A pay-what-you-can preview will be held on March 19. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $22.50 for adults and $20 for students and seniors, and can be purchased by calling 306-6535191 or by going online to livefive.ca.

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By Madison Prosofsky s a person who thinks I’ve got it all figured out, I really don’t.

I’m a walking day-planner. I like to know what I’m doing, when I’m doing it and when I have to leave. My pet peeve is when people give me estimations: “You can expect me in a half hour to an hour.”

That doesn’t work for me.

The only time my detailed planning has failed me is when planning my life after graduation. I have my dress and shoes. My hair appointment is booked. I’m ready to graduate, but I’m not prepared for what’s coming after that.

There are various forms of the question every Grade 12 student is asked. “What are your plans after you graduate? Have you chosen a career path? Will you stay at home or move away?”

Back up the big yellow school bus.

I’m 17 years old and you would like me to plan the rest of my life? I love planning, but it’s a very large expectation to have to figure out what I’ll be doing forever.

I dance three days a week, blog, make attempts at learning calculus and manage to keep my sanity while doing all of that.

I’m sorry if the hour of free time I have in a day is used for napping and not planning eternity.

The pressures that every teen faces in his or her social and academic lives is great and often unrecognized by those around us. Everyone has days when they

wake up and would rather not deal with the world. Think about waking up every morning one step closer to adulthood and not even knowing what you’re having for supper that night.

There are no high school classes that tell you how to pay taxes or buy a house, but knowing how to solve for x is common knowledge. Adulthood is scary, and there are adults who still don’t know what they’re going to be doing for the rest of their lives.

If the thought of university is terrifying, the thought of failing is even more so, or not liking the classes for which you’ve paid $7,000 a term. The pressure just builds the closer you get to being completely independent.

Who do you look to for help? Yes, there are people to help you choose classes, but who is there to recommend whether you should take a year off or not? The confusion of other people’s opinions just seems to add to the stress of making a life-long decision.

Say you have made a decision about your career and you’re confident in what you want to do; everybody asks if you’re absolutely positive that that’s what you want to do. “Are you sure you want to do that? Are you sure you’ll be happy doing that?” Add that doubt to the unavoidable thoughts of not getting accepted and needing a plan B. Sure, some people have it figured out, or

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Madison Prosofsky plans to be a writer (Photo Supplied) they’ve known from Day 1 what they’ll be doing after school. I was never one of those people. I’ve thought about many careers in my lifetime. I wanted to be a fashion designer, an interior designer, a radiologist and now a writer.

I struggled with my decision. I knew that having a degree under my belt would open up opportunities for me, but there was also a thought in the back of my head that I could just make it big by writing a book and not having to worry about school.

Eventually I did figure it out, and most will, but until you do, take a step back and think about what makes you happy. Don’t think about planning the rest of your life; think about doing what you love, and if you don’t know what that is, take the time to find out.

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MARCH 19 AND 20 Raised in Punnichy by his church organist mother and his auctioneer father, singersongwriter-pianist Jeffery Straker won the 2014 Vina del Mar (Chile) song competition, performing live to a festival crowd of 20,000 people and to a TV audience of 100,000,000.

Straker’s two-night stand at The Bassment will feature songs from his latest CD, North Star Falling. Thursday showtime is 8 p.m.

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Tickets available at the door one hour before performances.$30 adults, $25 seniors, $15 student, subscriptions available.For more information, visit amatiquartet.usask.ca.

MARCH 21 Saskatoon Concert Band. World Premiere: Concertino for Bass Trombone with Band. Featuring: Dawn McLean Belyk, bass trombone.

Composed by Howard Cable. 7:30 p.m. at Third Avenue United Church (Orr Centre). Tickets: $20, $10 for seniors and students. Those under 8 free. Tickets available from members, McNally Robinson and at the door. For more information, visit www.saskatoonconcertband. ca Award-winning pianist John Stetch pushes the boundaries of his jazz and classical training to incorporate melodies from around the world and from American pop-culture, from Mozart to Ukrainian folk music to The Love Boat theme.

Showtime is 8:00pm. The Bassment. Tickets: $20 for SJS members, $25 for non-members.

MARCH 26 One of the most popular and respected groups on the Canadian folk music scene, The Once - Geraldine Hollett, Andrew Dale, and Phil Churchill - have recently returned from a world tour opening for Passenger. The group’s fourth Bassment visit will feature songs from their new release, Departure. Showtime is 8:00pm. The Bassment. Tickets: $23 for SJS members, $28 for non-members.

Newman Sounds Glee Club presents Disney Extravaganza at the Broadway Theatre. FeaturMARCH 21 Easter Ham Supper. St. Martin ‘s United Church ing songs from Disney movies, there will be a (2617 Clarence Ave. South) Four sittings: 4:30, concert at 7:30 PM on Saturday March 28 and a 3:00 matinee on Sunday March 29. Tickets 5:15, 6 and 6:30 p.m. Adults $14, children 5-12: $6, under 5 free. Wheelchair accessible. and information are available at www.picatic. com/disney or from the Broadway Theatre Box For tickets, call the church office 343-7101.

Office, 306-652-6556.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Friends of the Forestry Farm House holds its annual general meeting Sunday, March 22, 4 p.m. at the Superintendent’s Residence (the big brick house), Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park Second and Fourth and Zoo/Afternoon tea, coffee and goodies will Tuesday The Saskatoon Pattern Dance Club holds be served. Open to the public. dances at Grace Westminster United Church MARCH 22 (505 10th Street East) from October until April.

Historical clothing of the late 19th century.

We dance to old-time music from 7 p.m. to Come join us at the Marr Residence from 1 9:30 p.m. Beginner instruction during the p.m. to 4 p.m. as we explore the clothing that first hour. No experience needed. For further would have been worn when the Marr Resiinformation call 306-382-5107. dence was new. We will look at the methods and techniques that went into the production First and Third Saturdays of the month of clothing in the home in the 1880s, 1890s Lions Club’s Texas Holdem Tournaments. and 1900s. Try creating our own costume $60 buy-in gets $10,000 in chips, $40 goes elements based on historical patterns and techniques. This is a drop-in program. Dona- to the cash prize pool. No Re-Buys. 50 seats available. Registration opens at 6, tournament tions accepted. starts at 7 p.m. The Coachman bar at Market MARCH 22 Mall. Call 306-668-0015 for more information.

Saskatoon Heritage Society’s annual fundraisFirst Saturday ing luncheon and program, 1 p.m. until 3:30 of every month p.m. at the Top of the Inn at the Sheraton The MindFULL Café, part of the international Cavalier. Featuring Glenn Sutter, curator at Alzheimer Café movement, is an opportunity the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, speakto meet in a relaxed social setting for persons ing on Eco-Museums: Where Culture Meets Nature. Tickets are $48 and $42 for students. with dementia, family, care partners and other interested people. The Café is a two-hour get For tickets and inquiries please call Patti at together with refreshments, entertainment and 306-220-2027. For more information, visit information. First Saturday of the month from 3 saskatoonheritage.ca. p.m. to 5 p.m. Sherbrooke Community Centre.

MARCH 24

Save the Children - Canada (Saskatoon Branch). Executive committee meeting. The branch is seeking new members and prospective volunteers are cordially invited to attend the meeting. A light lunch will be served.

Edwards Family Centre (Fourth Avenue North) at 7:30 p.m. Please contact the branch chair at marci.macomber@gmail.com, or the publicity chair at lavonne.cloke@gmail.com for phone 306-373-9877 for more information.

MARCH 26 Raising Hope benefit for the Hope Cancer Help Centre. Featured performers are B.C. Read, Jay Semko, Theresa Sokyrka and Ken Marco.

Hope Cancer Help Centre has been active in the community for over 25 years and is accessible to all people with all cancers. The concert will be held on at the Cosmopolitan Senior Centre (614 11th Street East). Doors open at 7:30 with the concert beginning at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $20.

MARCH 27-29

The Saskatchewan Orchid Society is hosting the Canadian Orchid Congress March 27-29 in conjunction with Gardenscape 2015. This judged national show attracts many provincial societies and orchid vendors from Taiwan, Ecuador and Canada. The show will include displays featuring exotic orchid plants and an orchid related art show. A general admission to MARCH 12 to APRIL 16 Gardenscape gets you into this fabulous show CAREGIVER Support Group – Thursdays from entitled For the Love of Orchids. More informa1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Registration required, contact Karen (306-655-3427) or Jeanne (306- tion is available at http://www.saskorchids.

655-3426). This group is designed for people com/coc-2015/ providing emotional support and/or practical MARCH 27-29 assistance to an adult family member or friend.

Gardenscape takes over Prairieland Park Sponsored by Saskatoon Health Region, ComMarch 27-29 with 5,000 square feet of exhibmunity Social Work. No cost. its. General admission $12; students 15 and MARCH 18 under free. The show runs Fri. March 27, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sat. March 28, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Citizens Celebrating Citizens Luncheon, Learning about Islam. Sheraton Cavalier Hotel. and Sunday, March 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Registration at 11:30 a.m. Hot Halal Buffet.

MARCH 28 Tickets are $20. Call Laura at 306-931-6790 St. George’s UCWLC Easter tea and bake sale, or Marj at 306-374-0874 or email Lorna at from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at St. George’s Cathedral peoplethings@sasktel.net.

Auditorium: 208 Ave M South (Cathedral BaseMARCH 19 ment). Admission is $3 adults, $2 for children between six and 12 and free for those five and The Saskatoon Nature Society welcomes under. The sale features Easter breads, bake members and non-members to their March sale items, sausage, perogies, cabbage rolls, monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Biology Pysanky, raffles, door prizes and much more.

Lecture Theatre (near the big dinosaurs) on Lunch and fellowship included. the U of S campus. This month is members slide night. Come and view some of the best MARCH 28 pictures by member photographers from their Hindu Society of Saskatchewan’s 30th annual encounters with wildlife and plants. Everyone Vegetarian Banquet. Prairieland Park. Keynote is welcome to attend and it is free of charge. speakers: Perry Bellegarde (Assembly of For more information, visit www.saskatoonFirst Nations) and Swamini Shivpriyananda naturesociety.sk.ca.

(Chinmaya Mission, Toronto). Social 5:30, MARCH 20 – 22 seating at 6:30 p.m. $65 adults, $55 seniors and students, $40 children 10 and under. For Gateways to Freedom: 5Rhythms movement tickets, visit picatic.com/hsannualbanquet or workshop with Evangelos Diavolitsis, suitable for all abilities and all ages 19+. Tickets avail- call Isha Kumar at 306-979-4466 or Raj Dhir at 306-374-4882. able at Dance Saskatchewan Inc. 205 Pacific

EVENTS

MARCH 28-29

Every Tuesday Off-Broadway Farmers’ Market & International Bazaar and Bistro. Basement of Grace-Westminster United Church (505, 10th Street East).

11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ***** Spirit of the West 616550 Toastsmasters Club Downtown Saskatoon. Come and have some fun with speaking and leadership skills. Our club meets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Hospitality Room of Great Western Brewing Company. Follow the red fence on south side of building through the gate up the stairs into the building.

First Monday of every month

Third Thursday of the Month The Saskatoon Prostate Cancer Support Group meets every month except July and August at 7:30 p.m. in the W. A. Edwards Family Centre, across from the Saskatoon Funeral Home. For more information call Murray Hill at 306-2425893 or email murraydhill@me.com.

Every Thursday Saskatoon International Folkdance Club meets at 7 p.m. in Albert Community Centre (Rm 13, 610 Clarence Ave. South). Learn dances from many countries around the world. First night is free. For more information visit www.sifc. awardspace.com. ***** Le Choeur des plaines welcomes you to sing and socialize in French each Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at L’École canadienne française at 1407 Albert Avenue. The choir is directed by Michael Harris and accompanied by Rachel Fraser. All who wish to sustain or practice their French are welcome. For more information, call Rachel at 306-343-6641 or Jean at 306343-9460.

Every second Saturday of the month Memory Writers meet every second Saturday of each month from September to June, 10 a.m. – 12 noon at the Edwards Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue. Record and share the events and memories of your life in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. For more information call Neva at 306-343-0256 or Hilda Epp at 306-382-2446. ***** SCOOTERS indoor playgroup for children newborns to age five and their parents/caregivers will be at Emmanuel Baptist Church from9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. $40/family/year or suggested drop-in donation of $5/family. Visit our Facebook page (Scooters - at EBC) for more information. ***** Pop In & Play. 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Erindale Alliance Church (310 Perehudoff Cres).

Bring your little ones with you downstairs for a great time of fun and connecting. Monthly theme, learning centres, snack and the occasional speaker. More info at office@ erindalealliance.ca.

First and Third Wednesday of the month

Saskatoon Ostomy Association meetings at 7:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church. We meet the first Monday of the month except when there is a holiday, if so we meet the second Monday.

Resporados support group for people with breathing difficulties taking place at 1:30 p.m. at Mayfair United Church (33rd Street West). For more information, contact Debbie at 306-664-4992.

First Tuesday of every month

Every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday

Left Behind By Suicide is a drop-in support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 4th Ave. North, 7:30 p.m. 9 p.m. There is no cost to attend. For more information, email leftbehind@sasktel.net.

FROMI - Friends and Relatives of People with Mental Illness meetings will run from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at W.A. Edwards Family Centre, 333 Fourth Avenue North (wheelchair accessible). If you have a loved one or friend with a mental illness and you need understanding support, contact Carol at 306-249-0693, Linda at 306-933-2085, Lois at 306-242-7670 or e-mail fromisk@gmail.com.

Overeaters Anonymous: Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you binge, purge or restrict? Is your weight affecting your life? We are a non-profit 12-step group that meets on Tuesdays at noon and 7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information including locations visit www.oa.org.

First and Third Sunday of every month

Tuesdays and Thursdays

Pet Loss Support Group offers support and comfort to people who are struggling with the loss of a beloved companion animal due to old age, sickness or other sad reasons. The noobligation support group meets at 2 p.m. at the W.A. Edwards Centre, 333 4th Avenue North, Saskatoon. For more information or telephone support, call 306-343-5322.

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays Free art drop-in at the SCYAP Art Centre. All ages are welcome, all materials supplied, no registration required. Tuesdays 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursdays 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Every Wednesday Depression Support Group runs on the first and third Wednesday of each month, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CMHA building (1301 Avenue P North). This is open to anyone struggling with depression and family members wanting to support them. For more info, call 306-270-9181.

Fridays Karousels Dance Club, learn to dance. New class starting Jan. 9. Cued ballroom at 7 p.m.

Albert Community Centre(610 Clarence Ave. South). For more information, call 306-2905486.

Bridge City Senioraction Inc: Classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Registration is $20, drop-in fee is $2. For information, call Sheila at 306-931-8053 or Kathy at 306-244-0587.

Singles Social Group Singles Social Group - “All About Us” for people in their 50s and 60s. Events such as weekly Wednesday restaurant suppers, monthly Sunday brunches, movie nights, dances, pot luck and more. Meet new friends.

No membership dues. For more information email allaboutus10@hotmail.com or phone (306) 978-0813.

Saskatoon Mood Disorder Support Group The Saskatoon mood disorder support group for people with bi-polar, depression and other related mental health problem meets at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 323 Fourth Ave. South (south entrance) at 7:30 p.m.

For more information call Al at 306-716-0836 or Lindi at 306-491-9398.

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Drawing Board 2016 Nissan Maxima: The dramatically different Maxima borrows styling cues from the 2015 Murano tall wagon that went on sale late last year. Those cues include a bold logo, uniquely shaped LED running lights and a pointy sheetmetal sweep behind the rear doors. A 3.5-litre V6 is the expected power source.

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A little polish is all it needs to keep up with the times.

The interior update includes soft-touch materials and revised storage. The new Touring trim adds a suite of crash-mitigation/safety electronics

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he small--but-tall-wagon class is full of fuelsipping models that brag up their impressive passenger/cargo accommodations and all weather driving capabilities.

Most in this class were developed to compete with the hugely popular Honda-Civic-based CR-V, which helped nurture and develop this niche nearly two decades ago.

That the CRV-has retained its popularity over the years is in no small way attributable to the automaker’s continuing refinement and updating efforts.

The last major change was issued for the 2012 model year and now Honda has delivered a significantly refreshed model for 2015.

Most obvious is a new and cleaner grille and new bumper headlight pods and wheels that do wonders for the CR-V’s looks. Revised taillights, outside mirrors and some added trim make the rear end (one of the better-looking bustles in the business) more fashionable.

There’s a new configurable floor console bin, a new rear console and an available seveninch touch-screen display. Greater use of soft-touch materials for the door panels is another bonus while additional sound With direct fuel injection insulation helps and a continuously variable cut road noise. transmission, fuel economy Returning is significantly improved as unchanged is a is the peak torque rating of split-folding back the 2.4-litre four-cylinder seat that lowers by flipping a really handy pair of levers located just inside the liftgate.

Access through the large portal makes it easy to load large/bulky items onto the flat load floor, which is

more than five feet long.

Not a great deal of adjustments were made to the CR-V’s suspension, other than recalibrated shock absorbers for what Honda claims is a “refined driving feel.” There’s also a quicker steering ratio.

Honda saved its most extensive changes for the engine compartment. The previous 185-horsepower 2.4-litre fourcylinder engine has been replaced by a newer 2.4 that originates in the Honda Accord. It’s rated at the same 185 horsepower, but makes 181 pound-feet of torque, which is up by 11 per cent. The increase in twisting force is derived from a new direct injection system that sprays fuel directly into the cylinders instead of through the intake ports of the cylinder head. This means the fuel load can not only be tailored for engine speed, but for the use. Under light cruising conditions, for example, the mixture is very lean, which means higher efficiency and lower emissions.

Greater combustion efficiency also means more torque.

The 2.4 is mated to a continuously variable transmission (also from the four-cylinder Accord) that replaces the previous fivespeed automatic.

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For 2015, a new top-line CR-V Touring model includes a lengthy list of previously unavailable collision-avoidance systems. In the mix is Adaptive Cruise Control, which maintains a safe distance to the vehicle in front. There’s also Forward Collision Warning and Lane Departure Warning, plus Lane Keeping Assist, which steers the CR-V back into the middle of its lane if it begins to veer. (These systems can be manually switched off.)

Navigation and a power tailgate are also part of the Touring.

Ultimately, though, it’s the CR-V’s impressive passenger amenities and generous load-carrying capacity that will continue to keep it top-of-mind for shoppers. The enhanced performance, protective features and reduced fuel consumption are merely icing on the cake.

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ony DeFranco of BLK Wheels fills us in on the process of ordering/building custom wheels, what you can expect and how long it takes.

The basic fitment includes several key measurements beyond width and diameter and the bolt pattern. Perhaps the most critical for engineering is brake caliper clearance, which affects the shape and placement of the spokes.

It’s a crowded market full of fickle customers, but sometimes you just have to go for it

The wheel centres are cut out of forged

ing BLK Wheels from fledgling to estabblocks of aluminum called billets. This is www. wheelbasemedia . com lished remains the challenge for DeFranco BLK’s model 502 wheel early in the process. and Maroney and their striking designs.

(Photo, BLK Wheels) he Lower South Hall of the 2014 “For me, it is just a form of art. And Specialty Equipment Market Asdesigning wheels, I try to do my own sociation show — a.k.a SEMA — thing with it,” DeFranco said. in Las Vegas, Nev., is lined with perhaps “Everything is made to order, so we thousands of wheels. can do it exactly how the customer wants, They twinkle like casino lights as and that is part of what makes our apcorporate buyers mosey from the booth proach unique.” to booth and chat up the reps, which is DeFranco might be young but he is no a process that can literally take days to novice when it comes to designing and complete. Let’s be frank here: there is no making wheels, spending almost all of shortage of wheel variety, brands or exhis working years after high school in the perience. Not by a long shot. Names and industry. In that capacity, he saw what he trends come and go in a world of vehiculiked and didn’t like about the business Wheel assembly is done by hand. Noted lar fashion that’s more than a little fickle. and used those lessons when he launched that this is a three-piece design that is So why does 23-year-old Tony DeFran- BLK in his hometown of Los Angeles, bolted together. (Photo, BLK Wheels) co think the world needs yet one more Calif. brand? It’s a venture that seems doomed And while things haven’t necessarily before it even gets off the ground. gone as expected during the first eight “Why? Because I have a fresher mind months or so as a business owner, the each can be customized through colour, with a different take on a somewhat stag- company’s wheels are rolling along, often finish and size. Three different construcnant, repetitive wheel industry.” in markets and places he never expected tion methods are used: one-piece “MonoCall him what you want — a gambler, them to. block” design; two-piece design with a a dreamer, an artist, a bragger, a creator or Who are the customers? separate centre and outer barrel/rim; and a even a crazy fool — DeFranco has heard DeFranco says that about 75 per cent of three-piece design with a separate centre it all.

BLK’s business is being driven overseas and separate inner and outer hoops that all “What do I say to the nay sayers? out of Asian countries such as Thailand bolt together. This gives buyers plenty of Keep nay saying because it keeps things and Indonesia, from buyers who found design and cost options, while making the interesting.”

DeFranco’s company online through Face- wheels fit just about any vehicle alive.

Determined to find his own way in a book and/or Instagram.

At www.BLKWheels.com, buyers sebusiness he loves — and do it with pride “It has definitely been interesting,” lect their wheel design, configuration, size and style — DeFranco decided about a DeFranco said. “You wouldn’t assume and customization instructions and receive year ago to chase a passion, leave his full- somebody in Indonesia would find your a price quote back by email. time job with another wheel maker, start company, but they love their wheels.

“When I started my company, I wanted BLK Wheels and take his chances in a “We’ve set ourselves up so we can pro- no designs to resemble anybody else’s,” crowded market. duce 50 to 75 sets a month comfortably DeFranco said. “I’m not really big on Crazy endeavor? DeFranco and his and we are prepared to grow beyond that.” crazy wheels, crazy colours, or all that business partner, Miles Maroney, actually BLK’s three wheel designs — the stuff. It’s simple designs and intricate don’t think so.

501GTR, the 502GTR and the 901M — details and then just kind of focus more on “Let’s face it, you can’t really do too are all whittled from forged aluminum and quality and doing the small things.” much with a wheel. You can’t reinvent it,” DeFranco says with a laugh during a phone interview.

“So it really comes down to customer service and attention to detail to be successful in this business, the full presentation of the project, and that is what we think separates us from the rest.”

And separation is the uphill battle DeFranco and BLK face everyday, a hurdle these two young men are convinced they can overcome in the high-end wheel market.

Specialty wheel companies such as Advan, Volk, BBS, HRE, HKS, Vossen, Enkei and others have already found firm Wheel design is not to be take lightly as it can make or break a vehicle’s look. footing in the wheel market. In fact, many How many times have you seen a vehicle with terrible looking wheels that clearly of the wheels stocked by Volkswagen, looked like add-ons? By contrast, these bronze BLK wheels look like they could Porsche and BMW are from BBS, so takhave come with this BMW from the factory. (Photo, BLK Wheels)

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QUESTION: So, how does all this begin? Someone gives you a call?

DeFRANCO: It usually starts with something we post on social media. We'll post a certain setup or wheel and we'll get contacted about that exact post we made and that exact wheel. From there we find out exactly which car, model, etc., they have and we offer a few different fitment soptions for them. After the desired fitment is chosen we go over the finishes. This can be the trickiest part because everyone at some point wants to get a little crazy on their finish, but most resort back to something more neutral and classy like a brushed gunmetal. You can never go wrong with that finish.

After we select finishing, the order is essentially placed and it goes on us to start. We start off with engineering. Each order is specifically engineered to those specifications. We engineer the order to those specs and the wheels change based on those specs, so each order will differ on profile and looks. After engineering, we approve it and the profile gets lathed from a blank (aluminum) forging. After lathing comes the milling and that's where the wheel is machined out to its almost-finished look. The design is cut during this part. Once they're cut, they go to the finisher to get the desired look.

Depending on the configuration (threepiece or monoblock) they come back in different pieces. For a three-piece, each piece is inspected for quality control before assembly to make sure everything is perfect quality. Then they are assembled and testing is performed to make sure there is no vibrating and the wheels are true. After that, we send finished photos to the customer and see their reaction.

Then they get to wait a few days for it to get shipped to them and then they mount it up and everyone lives happily ever after.

QUESTION: About how long is the process?

DeFRANCO: From ordering to getting the product in their hands, we say four to six weeks. We like to underpromise and over deliver. We’re trying to cut down the process to about three weeks.

Question: That’s the biggest complaint we hear about custom wheels: how long it takes. Any horror stories, there?

Defranco: Not with us, yet.

But it's definitely possible. Every thing can add up and just extend the process.

For example, if a company has a lot of orders, it might take them three weeks or so to even get to the engineering side of it. Once it's engineered, there could be a backorder on forgings or rim parts that could be another four weeks or so.

Already at seven weeks there, and then say programming or milling is backed up so another one to two weeks, and then finishing is the same. Then you get the product back and the finish is spotty, you have to send it back to get refinished and etc. There are a lot of things that can go wrong.

Question: What does engineering entail?

Defranco: Basically just taking the design that we already have and adjusting the centres, if three piece, for the exact fitment. So you have to take into account brake profiles, offset, width front and rear, centre bore, hidden or exposed hardware, etc. Weight of the car as well.

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Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest interest rate. Example: $25,000 purchase financed at 0% APR for 36/60/72/84 months, monthly payment is $694.44/$416.66/$347.22/$297.62, cost of borrowing is $0 or APR of 0% and total to be repaid is $25,000. Down payment on purchase financing offers may be required based on approved credit from Ford Credit. * Until March 31, 2015, lease a new 2015 Ford Focus SE Automatic Transmission/Fusion S FWD/Fusion SE FWD/Escape SE FWD 2.5L with Cargo Package (200A) /Escape SE 4WD (200A) for up to 48 months, and get 0% APR on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Lease a 2015 Focus SE Automatic Transmission/Fusion S FWD/Fusion SE FWD/Escape SE FWD 2.5L with Cargo Package (200A)/Escape SE 4WD (200A) with a value of $21,344/$22,849/$24,803/$27,139/$29,439 (after $1,195/$995/$995/$1,195/$1,195 down payment or equivalent trade-in and $0/$500/$500/$0/$0 manufacturer rebates deducted and including freight and air tax of $1,665/$1,700/$1,700/$1,790/$1,790) at 0% APR for up to 48 months with an optional buyout of $9,067/$9,438/$10,44 0/$11,734/$13,024, monthly payment is $215/$259/$279/$280/$301. For example, ($215/$259/$279/$280/$301 x 12) / 26 bi-weekly periods = $99/$119/$129/$129/$139), total lease obligation is $11,515/$13,427/$14,387/$14,635/$15,643, interest cost of leasing is $0 or 0% APR. Offers include freight, air tax, and PPSA but exclude administration and registration fees of up to $799, fuel fill charge of up to $120 and all applicable taxes. Additional payments required for optional features, license, and insurance. Some conditions and mileage restriction of 64,000 km for 48 months applies. Excess kilometrage charges are 12¢ per km for Fiesta, Focus, C-MAX, Fusion and Escape; 16¢ per km for E-Series, Mustang, Taurus, Taurus-X, Edge, Flex, Explorer, F-Series, MKS, MKX, MKZ, MKT and Transit Connect; 20¢ per km for Expedition and Navigator, plus applicable taxes. Excess kilometrage charges subject to change (except in Quebec), see your local dealer for details. All prices are based on Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. ‡ See lease offer legal marked with [‡] symbol for monthly payment lease offer details. Comparison payments are for reference purposes only and are calculated as follows: the monthly payment is annualized (multiplied by 12) and then divided by the comparison period (26 for bi-weekly). For example ($299 X 12) / 26 bi-weekly period = $138. Ұ Based on Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association year-end 2007-2014 total sales data for Utility segment vehicles in Canada. ** Offer only valid from March 3, 2015 to April 30, 2015 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with an eligible Costco membership on or before February 28, 2015. Receive $1,000 towards the purchase or lease of a new 2015 Ford (excluding Fiesta, Focus, C-MAX, GT350, GT500, F-150 Raptor, 50th Anniversary Edition Mustang, and Medium Truck) model (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Eligible Vehicles of 2014 model year may qualify for the offer depending on available inventory– see dealer for details. Limit one (1) offer per each Eligible Vehicle purchase or lease, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. Offer is transferable to persons domiciled with an eligible Costco member. Applicable taxes calculated before CAD$1,000 offer is deducted. ®: Registered trademark of Price Costco International, Inc. used under license. ɸ Based on year-end 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 total sales figures for light vehicles in Canada from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. ©2015 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2015 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

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TRUCK MONTH EXTENDED WITH UP TO

10,000

$

IN TOTAL VALUE ON 2015 SILVERADO 1500 DOUBLE CAB TRUE NORTH EDITIONS*

SILVERADO

ALL-NEW COLORADO

SILVERADO HD

“Lowest Total Cost of Ownership in its Class” by Vincentric™ ‡

2015 Motor Trend Truck of the Year®

“Highest-Ranked Large Heavy-Duty Pickup in Initial Quality in the U.S.” by J.D. Power ‡‡

AWARD YOURSELF WITH A TRUCK FROM THE LINEUP FULL OF AWARDS

$

2015 SILVERADO 1500 DOUBLE CAB TRUE NORTH EDITION

UP TO

10,000

TOTAL VALUE*

Includes $4,500 Delivery Credit, $2,420 Package Discount, $2,080 Cash Credit, $1,000 Owner Cash††.

TRUE NORTH EDITION INCLUDES: AND MORE! See chevrolet.ca For Details

MyLink> with Remote Start Class-Exclusive Rear Vision 4G LTE Wi-Fi® ~ Camera Automatic Locking Rear Differential

2015 SILVERADO 1500

$

DOUBLE CAB 4X4 1WT

135 0% @

BI-WEEKLY FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $2,100 DOWN. BASED ON A LEASE PRICE OF $30,815¥.

INCLUDES $1,000 OWNER CASH FOR ELIGIBLE CUSTOMERS††, $4,500 IN CREDITS, $1,000 DISCOUNT CREDIT, FREIGHT & PDI.

OR STEP UP TO

$ 1500 CREW CAB 4X4 MODEL SHOWN

5-Star Overall Vehicle Score for Safety*^

Longest Pickup Powertrain Warranty in Canada, 60,000 KM more than Ford and Ram*‡

CREW CAB 4X4 1WT

145 0%

Available Best-in-Class V8 Fuel Efficiency†

@

BI-WEEKLY FOR 24 MONTHS WITH $2,100 DOWN. BASED ON A LEASE PRICE OF $33,560¥.

INCLUDES $1,000 OWNER CASH FOR ELIGIBLE CUSTOMERS††, $3,500 IN CREDITS, $1,000 DISCOUNT CREDIT, FREIGHT & PDI.

First Pickup Truck to offer Built-in 4G LTE Wi-Fi~

ALL 2015S COME WITH CHEVROLET COMPLETE CARE:

2

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PrairieChevrolet.com

OFFERS END MARCH 31ST

ON NOW AT YOUR PRAIRIE CHEVROLET DEALERS. PrairieChevrolet.com 1-800-GM-DRIVE. Chevrolet is a brand of General Motors of Canada. Offers apply to the lease of a 2015 Silverado 1500 Double Cab 1WT (K05/G80/B30/H2R), 2015 Silverado 1500 Crew Cab 1WT (K05/G80/B30/H2R), and purchase of a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Double Cab 1LT equipped with a True North Edition, equipped as described. Freight ($1,695) and PDI included. License, insurance, registration, administration fees, dealer fees, PPSA and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offers which may not be combined with other offers, and are subject to change without notice. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in Prairie Chevrolet Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer order or trade may be required. * $10,000 is a combined total credit consisting of a $4,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Silverado 1500 Double Cab, $1,000 Owner Cash (tax inclusive), a $2,420 manufacturer to dealer Option Package Discount Credit (tax exclusive) for 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Double Cab 1LT equipped with a True North Edition, and a $2,080 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) on Silverado 1500 Double Cab LS Chrome Edition, LT and LTZ, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $2,080 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates Discounts vary by model. ‡ Based on Vincentric 2014 Model Level Analysis of full-size pickups in the Canadian retail market. ‡‡ The Chevrolet Silverado HD received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among large heavy-duty pickups in the proprietary J.D. Power U.S. 2014 Initial Quality StudySM Study based on responses from 86,118 new-vehicle owners, measuring 239 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2014. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. †† Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year Chevrolet car, SUV, crossover and pickup models delivered in Canada between March 3 and March 31, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $500 credit available on all Chevrolet Spark, Sonic, Cruze, Volt, Trax, and Malibu (except LS) models; $750 credit available on other Chevrolet vehicles (except Colorado 2SA, Camaro Z28, Malibu LS, Silverado 1500 and Silverado HD); $1000 credit available on all Chevrolet Silverado models. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any Pontiac/Saturn/SAAB/Hummer/Oldsmobile model year 1999 or newer car or Chevrolet Cobalt or HHR that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2015 model year Chevrolet car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between March 3 and March 31 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive): $1,000 credit available on Chevrolet Spark, Sonic, Cruze, Volt, Trax, and Malibu (except LS) models; $1,500 credit available on other Chevrolet vehicles (except Chevrolet Colorado 2SA, Camaro Z28, and Malibu LS). Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. > Functionality varies by model. Full functionality requires compatible Bluetooth® and smartphone, and USB connectivity for some devices. ~ Requires compatible mobile device, active OnStar service and data plan. Visit onstar.ca for coverage maps, details and system limitations. Services and connectivity may vary by model and conditions. OnStar with 4G LTE connectivity is available on certain vehicles and in select markets. Customers will be able to access this service only if they accept the OnStar User Terms and Privacy Statement (including software terms). ¥ Lease based on a purchase price of $30,815/$33,560 (including $4,500/$3,500 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit, a $1,000/$1,000 manufacturer to dealer Option Package Discount Credit and a $885 Owner Cash) for a Silverado 1500 Double Cab 1WT (K05/G80/B30/H2R) and Silverado 1500 Crew Cab 1WT (K05/G80/B30/H2R). Bi-weekly payment is $135/$145 for 24 months at 0.0% APR, and includes Freight and Air Tax, on approved credit to qualified retail customers by GM Financial. Annual kilometer limit of 20,000 km, $0.16 per excess kilometer. $2,100 down payment is required. Payment may vary depending on down payment trade. Total obligation is $9,126/$9,621, plus applicable taxes. Option to purchase at lease end is $21,689/$23,939 Price and total obligation exclude license, insurance, registration, taxes, dealer fees and optional equipment. Other lease options are available. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Limited time offer which may not be combined with other offers. See your dealer for conditions and details. General Motors o Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. *^ Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). *‡ Based on wardsauto.com 2014 Large Pickup segment and latest competitive information available at time of posting. Excludes other GM vehicles. 5-year/160,000 kilometre Powertrain Limited Warranty, whichever comes first. See dealer for details. † 2015 Silverado 1500 with available 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine equipped with a 6-speed automatic transmission has a fuel-consumption rating of 12.7 L/100 km combined (4x2) and 13.0 L/100 km combined (4x4). Fuel-consumption ratings based on GM testing in accordance with the new 2015 model year Government of Canada approved test methods. Refer to vehicles.nrcan.gc.ca for details. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. Comparison based on wardsauto.com 2014 Large Pickup segment and latest competitive information available. Competitive fuel-consumption ratings based on 2014 Natural Resources Canada’s Fuel Consumption Guide. Excludes other GM vehicles. ^ The 2-YearScheduled LOF Maintenance Program provides eligible customers in Canada who have purchased, leased or financed a new eligible 2015 MY Chevrolet, Buick or GMC vehicle (excluding Spark EV) with an ACDelco oil and filter change, in accordance with the Oil Life Monitoring System and the Owner’s Manual, for 2 years or 40,000 km, whichever occurs first, with a limit of four lube-oil-filter services in total, performed at participating GM dealers. Fluid top-offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc., are not covered. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives available on GM vehicles. General Motors of Canada Limited reserves the right to amend or terminate this offer, in whole or in part, at any time without prior notice. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. ^^ Whichever comes first. See dealer for details