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Volume 55 | Number 2807

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GIFT GUIDE

From books to box sets

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GIFT GUIDE

B.C. publishers set the table for book lovers on your list

CONTENTS

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COVER

Mother Nature has sent a signal that old engineering standards aren’t sufficient when the climate is going haywire.

by Charlie Smith

By Charlie Smith Cover photo by Dale Klippenstein

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REAL ESTATE

Property owners usually appeal assessments because they’re too high, but one homeowner sought a review because he wanted a higher figure.

By Carlito Pablo

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ARTS

Artistic director Aaron Craven founded Mitch and Murray Productions so he could present plays that are relevant and timely, like Snowflake.

By Steve Newton

We’ve all heard the term “shop local”, but it’s also possible to read local over the holiday season, thanks to the bounty of books produced by publishers in B.C. Photo by Mel Poole/Unsplash.

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aybe we can attribute it to the pandemic, which has kept writers at home for longer periods. But for whatever reason, there’s been an onslaught of intriguing books from B.C. publishers in advance of the holiday season.

That makes things a little easier for those looking for gifts for people who would rather keep their noses in a novel than guzzle booze, make use of new cookware, or listen to the latest box sets from the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. People interested in gift-buying in those areas will have to look elsewhere in this newspaper.

In this article, the focus is on the printed word and, in the case of Anvil Press’s Heroines Revisited, some controversial photographs.

And for climate keeners, there’s a feature article on page 13 about how rising greenhouse-gas emissions are disrupting hydrological cycles, leading to massive floods.

This topic came to our attention via Victoriabased Rocky Mountain Books, which has been publishing the works of water expert Robert William Sandford for many years. It’s not the first Georgia Straight cover story that has been inspired by a book, and it most certainly won’t be the last.

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With all of that in mind, here are some worthwhile B.C. books listed in no particular order.

VANCOUVER VICE: CRIME AND SPECTACLE IN THE CITY’S WEST END

by Aaron Chapman, Arsenal Pulp Press Vancouver’s West End was once one of Canada’s sex-trade capitals until local residents, including a future councillor named Gordon Price, decided that wasn’t how they wanted their neighbourhood to evolve. In Vancouver Vice, Aaron Chapman delves into a colourful history of the thriving prostitution scene, uncovering secrets along the way about a controversial “chicken book” allegedly kept by a high-profile local resident named John Michael Lewis. It’s a rollicking read populated by well-known Vancouverites, just like Chapman’s other books.

HEROINES REVISITED: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LINCOLN CLARKES

by Lincoln Clarkes, Anvil Press Vancouver photographer Lincoln Clarkes caused a huge stir with his original photographic series Heroines, which was released in book form by Anvil Press in 2002. These portraits of marginalized women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside were criticized by

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Aaron Chapman's latest book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and ’80s.

HEROINES REVISITED

by Lincoln Clarkes This new edition features over 200 portr aits accompanied by three new critical essays that contextualize the five-year photo project and the controversial body of work , as well as an interview with the artist.

STANDOFF

by Bruce McIvor In clear, plain language, McIvor explains the historical and social forces that underpin the development of Aboriginal law, criticizes the current legal shortcomings and charts a practical, principled way forward.

Anvil Press $48.00

WHAT WAS SAID TO ME

by Ruby Peter, in collaboration with Helene Demers A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation.

VANCOUVER VICE

by Aaron Chapman

Arsenal Pulp Press $27.95

Royal BC Museum $24. 95

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CONSERVATION CANINES

by Isabelle Groc This nonfiction book for young readers celebrates the lives of dogs who work with humans to find new ways to solve environmental problems.

Nightwood Editions $21.95

Based on Papaschase and Métis oral histories and the lived experience of Indigenous youth in the urban, colonial val, environment in which they eke out survi tten. forgo be soon Kerr’s debut novel will not

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AVENUE OF CHAMPIONS

by Conor Kerr

THE ACID ROOM Donaldson & Erika Dyck e Jess by An examination of the history of New Westminster's Hollywood Hospital and the "psychedelic psychiatry" that took place there in the 1950s and '60s.

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some as exploitive and celebrated by others for drawing attention to deep inequalities in the city. In this new edition, Anvil Press has included essays by two academics and one journalist that offer context while not resolving the controversy. The photos are memorable, in part because Clarkes insisted that his subjects, including some who later went missing, look directly into the camera. But it’s the essays that define why these images remain an important chapter in the history of the Downtown Eastside.

BRAMAH AND THE BEGGAR BOY

by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Nightwood Editions This is a book unlike anything else available in British Columbia: an epic fantasy in verse about a female locksmith and an orphan beggar boy who are helping survivors of the climate breakdown.

Ten years in the making, Renée Sarojini Saklikar’s work is the first in her THOT J BAP series, which is inspired by Homer’s The Odyssey, the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, and One Thousand and One Nights, a.k.a.

The Arabian Nights. Bramah and the Beggar Boy is not for those in a rush to read

one book before moving on to the next.

The text needs to be savoured and appreciated—and reread a second or third time to find deeper meanings.

STANDOFF: WHY RECONCILIATION FAILS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND HOW TO FIX IT

by Bruce McIvor, Harbour Publishing This collection of essays by noted lawyer Bruce McIvor is a must-read for anyone trying to figure why it’s imperative for B.C. to come to terms with its failure to respect Indigenous land rights. He helps readers understand the crucial differences between Indigenous traditional governance and the elected chiefs and councils that are a product of the Indian Act. Systemic racism and treaty rights are both covered along with his experience growing up Métis in Manitoba. Standoff has received rave reviews from Price Paid author Bev Sellars and UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), which should give anyone a great deal of confidence if they’re considering buying this book for a friend or loved one.

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ALWAYS PACK A CANDLE: A NURSE IN THE CARIBOO-CHILCOTIN

by Marion McKinnon Crook, Heritage House Publishing Health-care workers have become our modern-day saints, given the courage that so many of them demonstrated in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. But they haven’t always been so admired. Marion McKinnon Crook’s memoir describes what it was like travelling around the B.C. Interior as a public-health nurse in the 1960s. She immunized scores of kids and also dealt with difficult patients and arrogant doctors. If you want to know what frontline healthcare looked like in this province more than 50 years ago, this is the book for you (or for the health worker on your holiday shopping list.)

It’s been on the B.C. bestseller list for 26 consecutive weeks.

DEEP, DARK AND DANGEROUS: THE STORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA’S WORLDCLASS UNDERSEA TECH INDUSTRY

by Vickie Jensen, Harbour Publishing This is a great book about a subject that’s rarely talked about in the media these days. Near the start of Deep, Dark and Dangerous, Vickie Jensen shares the

incredible story of Newt Suit inventor Phil Nuytten. He dove into Burrard Inlet after the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge on June 17, 1958, hoping to save ironworkers who had fallen into the water.

From there, the author serves up a cast of mavericks who set B.C. on a course to becoming a leader in undersea technology. Jensen, editor of Westcoast Mariner, is an old hand at writing sea stories—and it shows in Deep, Dark and Dangerous.

MUSHROOMS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

by Andy MacKinnon and Kem Luther, Royal B.C. Museum This amazing reference book by two mushroom experts features gorgeous photographs and illuminating write-ups of many species of fungi in B.C. It’s ideal for amateur mushroom pickers because it just might prevent them from scooping up the poisonous ones. B.C. lawyer Michael Doherty summed it up this way in a message to the Straight: “If you’re the kind of person who goes to a guidebook when you see a bird, or an animal, or a tree that you don’t recognize, well, now you can do the same with mushrooms.” g

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GIFT GUIDE

Durable kitchen gifts make for lasting memories

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create a drink that, unlike many storebought products, contains no preservatives. Making soy milk at home also makes it easy to control sugar content. It’s a great gift for the environmentalist or diet-conscious consumer on your list.

ne way to ensure that your holiday gifts will be remembered is to purchase something that will last for years. Here are five such products for use in the kitchen.

CLASSIC WHISTLING KETTLE

PANASONIC RICE COOKER

($120 to $180 at Le Creuset South Granville) Le Creuset’s eye-catching cookware makes for an ideal gift for any home chef. But even those who don’t cook will appreciate its Classic Whistling Kettle. The company likes to highlight the kettle’s premium carbon steel and its chip-resistant porcelain enamel, but the best reason to include this on your shopping list is how it looks. It provides the perfect background image for any loved ones who do regular kitchen Zoom calls.

($559.96 at Forum Home Appliances) This highly rated kitchen device not only heats up rice to a perfect texture but it also cooks porridge and bakes a cake. The hardcoated diamond inner layers make it less likely to scratch. And the five-layer induction heater, with copper-plated outer layer, means the entire pot becomes a heating element. It will impress any rice lover on your list.

EMILE HENRY CHEESE BAKER

($64.99 at Gourmet Warehouse) With this machine, it’s possible to prepare melted cheese toppings for veggie dishes or as spreads on crackers and breads that will impress any dinner guest. Toss in your own garnishes to add flavour, pour the baked results over pasta, and you just might feel like Lidia Bastianich. Better yet, give it to one of Lidia’s fans and savour the results

A classic whistling kettle (top left) will call you from any room; make your own soy milk with a handy home appliance (above); a cheese baker (left) prepares melted-cheese toppings.

while leaving the cooking to someone else.

JOYOUNG SOYMILK MAKER

($95.96 at Forum Home Appliances) Nowadays, climate-conscious consumers

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are avoiding dairy milk in favour of more planet-friendly alternatives. Do you want to impress family members by making tasty soy milk within 20 minutes? Then pick up the Joyoung Soymilk Maker and

VITAMIX 48 OZ STAINLESS CONTAINER FOR ASCENT

($259.95 at Cook Culture) Stainless steel cookware has two desirable qualities: it’s durable and it’s a breeze to clean. All you need to clean this Vitamix container is soap and water and it will dish up healthy smoothies with the best of them.

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We’ve finally made our way West and we’re eager to explore everything that makes Vancouver…well...Vancouver!

Seafood on the West Coast is, of course, a must. So first things first, save us a seat Joe Fortes! And as you might imagine, few things go better with pizza than wine. The wine-loving pizza people of General Assembly can’t wait to dive into your wine list, Chambar.

Our traditions are Italian, which means pasta is another one of our favourite things. We can’t wait to eat our way through Vancouver’s pasta scene - Cioppino’s, Autostrada Osteria, and Pepino’s, we’re coming. And as crust connoisseurs, we carry big love for all breads (especially ones made with freshly milled flour) so we’ll see you soon, Flourist Bakery.

Honey’s Doughnuts, we’ve heard so much about you over the years from our founder, Ali Khan Lalani. Fun fact, he used to work in your kitchen! You’re part of our history and we’ve been dreaming of your famous doughnuts.

make a grown pizzaiolo cry. We’ll be hitting up Nat’s New York Pizzeria for that traditional NYC slice we’re always craving.

Nook, in addition to perfect pizzas, we must trade playlists because we’ve heard your music taste is impeccable and we have our own pizza playlists we’d love to share. Thank You Pizza, let’s please exchange pizza memes over a world-class pie. And Pizzeria Farina, we can’t wait to drizzle some of your famed chili oil on our favorite pies. Our love for pizza is hot & spicy, and we know yours is too.

We’re honoured to be joining a community filled with fellow pizza lovers and flavour chasers. You see, Vancouver, we don’t want to be the only pizza you eat – we’re not even the only pizza we eat. We just want to be the best frozen pizza you eat.

And we’re so excited for you to try us.

Warmly, The General Assembly Pizza Team

Down Low Chicken Shack, we’ve been staring at your menu for DAYS, dreaming of that first bite feeling. We don’t yet know what “pizza dusted” chicken is, but you better believe we can’t wait to find out. We wouldn’t miss a stop by La Taqueria, we share the same passion for making delicious food with old world traditions. So call “Order Up!” on your famous tacos because we’re ready to dig in.

And then there’s the pizza….To all of our Vancouver pizza makers and lovers, we are so eager to meet you – we’ve seen the wood-fired oven at Via Tevere and it’s perfect enough to

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GIFT GUIDE

Liquor perfect for those who have all they need

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by Mike Usinger

s we head into the holiday season, let’s stop and think about an undeniable reality: whether it’s a new set of Le Creuset cookware, life-size Star Wars chess set, or Bengal tiger complete with its own enclosure, no one really needs more clutter in their lives.

That makes consumables the savvy choice of smart Christmas shoppers. The following gift ideas revolve around liquor, which is practically indispensable for making it through the holiday season.

ODD SOCIETY PEAT & SMOKE CANADIAN SINGLE MALT WHISKEY

Normally, when the words “peat” and “whisky” are put together, one thinks of

Scotland’s famously fog-shrouded moors, craggy windswept islands, and watermonster-inhabited lochs. East Vancouver’s much-loved Odd Society Spirits puts a local spin on the smoky-whisky game this fall with not one but two new offerings. Working with peated malt from the States and across the Atlantic, craft distillers Gordon Glanz and Joel McNichol came up with two standout offerings. Peat & Smoke Washington incorporates peat from the Skagit Valley for a whisky bursting with notes of fresh orange peel and toasted almonds—the smoke lingering in the background. Scotland provides the magic malt ingredient for Peat & Smoke Scottish, a more earthy offering where the smokiness takes centre stage, with Odd Society’s Peat & Smoke whiskies started with peated malt from Scotland and the U.S.A.

vanilla-laced caramel and dark chocolate part of the profile. Both bottles weigh in at 46 percent ABV, and come in compact—and kind of cute—375 ml bottles. Finally, while this double-shot of must-haves is covetable enough—as a gift for someone else, or yourself—just wait until Odd Society Spirits unleashes its Burns Bog peat edition in 2025. ($40 for each bottle at Odd Society Spirits, 1725 Powell St., Vancouver.)

ART BOOZEL BY JENNIFER CROLL.

Ever feel sorry for someone whose homecocktail repertoire consists of gin and tonics, Screwdrivers, and Sailor Jerry-spiked Five Alive? Help them elevate their mixology game with Vancouver author Jennifer Croll’s Art Boozel, a how-to guide which is as fun as it is informative. Subtitled “Cocktails inspired by modern and contemporary artists” the book offers exactly that with original recipes that capture the spirit of renegade visionaries ranging from Yoko Ono and Miranda July to Piet Mondrian and Jeff Wall.

Each cocktail comes with a Kelly Shami drawing of the artist who inspired it, along with a quick history lesson on why that artist matters. Mixology neophytes will have zero trouble following Croll’s instructions—after you’ve made a batch of pineapple ice cubes and picked up some gold sugar in the baking aisle, the rest of a Jeff Koons cocktail is easy as pouring brandy, Goldschläger, fresh lime juice, and Angostura bitters into a shaker.

Or making a rum and coke. ($27.95 at store. thepolygon.ca/products/art-boozel.)

SAINT JAMES AGRICOLE ROYAL AMBRÉ

There are those among us whose bucket-list goals include three nights at the Royal Hawaiian in Waikiki Beach, an apprenticeship at Los Angeles’ impossibly excellent TikiTi, and an extended visit from the ghost of Trader Vic. That makes our favourite drink the Mai Tai, which has traditionally led to 10

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something of a problem in Vancouver. To make a proper Mai Tai faithful to the original recipe, one needs not only Jamaican rum, orgeat and simple syrups, fresh lime juice, and orange curacao, but also something called Martinique rum. (Yes, different rums matter in Tiki drinks—as anyone who’s ever tried to make a Painkiller with Havana Club will grimly tell you). For years—which is to say right back to when government B.C. Liquor Stores were run out of tents and off of horse wagons—Martinique has been nonexistent in these parts. That changed this fall. Instead of having to fly to Paris to load up, you can now—finally—find St. James Agricole Royal Ambré Martinique rum at B.C. Liquor Stores. In a best possible world St. James Hors D’Age or Extra Old would also be available, but hey, one Martinique rum on the shelves is better than none. ($32.99 at B.C. Liquor Stores.)

SHAMEFUL TIKI SYRUPS

Let’s stick with the theme of tiki ingredients that are more difficult to find in Vancouver than snow at Christmas. Two of the secret ingredients in any tropical-drink bartender’s arsenal are falernum (a ginger-lime-andspices concoction) and pimento liqueur (made with allspice berries, not those red things in ’70s-style olives). Boozy versions of both can be found in grocery stores the next time you’re on Barbados, or made at home if you’ve got the time and ability to follow one of the many online recipes. Or.... you can head to Vancouver’s Shameful Tiki on Main Street the next time you’re only an ingredient or two away from executing an authentic Aku-Aku Gold Cup, Pearl Diver’s Punch, Navy Grog, or Three Dots and a Dash. Lotusland’s most authentic tiki bar is now offering house-made (and booze-free) falernum and allspice syrups, meaning instant gratification instead of having to mess see next page

Jennifer Croll’s Art Boozel will help those in a rut to up their cocktail game, while Allspice syrup from Shameful Tiki will save mixologists plenty of time messing around in the kitchen.

around with strainers, saucepans, and coffee filters at home, and then waiting a month for the ingredients to infuse properly. Also on the Shameful Tiki shelves are a small-batch orgeat syrup, an instant Mai Tai kit, and a line of ultra-cool tiki mugs. ($22 at shamefultikiroom.com.)

MARSHMALLOWS OVER A CAMPFIRE WHISKY

Sons of Vancouver’s first foray into the world of whisky was something of a celebrated one, with the distillery’s dramatic Cigarettes on a Leather Jacket landing gold earlier this year at the Canadian Artisan Spirits Competition. This November’s follow-up, Marshmallows Over a Campfire, again goes the bold route with a rye

whisky that started out in amaretto barrels four years ago before being moved to a used-Ardbeg vessel for a smoky finishing. If you’re a fan of SOV’s award-winning amaretto, and you’ve spent an evening or two with a snifter of peat-a-licious Ardbeg, you’ll have a good idea what to expect. Like Cigarettes, this is a limited release, which means smart holiday-season shoppers will have to act fast. Or, more proactively, show up at Sons of Vancouver in North Vancouver and start asking nicely if there’s a bottle in the back available for purchase. Tell them it’s Christmas and you’re desperately trying to complete your shopping for that someone who needs consumables, not clutter. ($119 including tax. Sons of Vancouver is at 1431 Crown St, North Vancouver.) g

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Box sets for lovers of the Beatles and the Stones

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by Steve Newton

f there’s someone on your Christmas list who’s a Beatles or a Stones fan—or, better yet, a Beatles and a Stones fan—here’s a couple of primo gift-giving options.

Any Beatles freak would love to wrap his or her ears around the “super deluxe vinyl” box-set edition of their final album release, Let It Be. (In case you didn’t know, Abbey Road was actually the last album the Beatles ever recorded, but it was released eight months before Let It Be.) The big draw of the five-disc Let It Be

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box is the fact that it includes 27 previously unreleased outtakes, studio jams, and rehearsals. Other goodies include a four-track EP, a 14-track Get Back: Apple Sessions stereo LP mix compiled by engineer Glyn Johns in May 1969, and a 100-page hardcover book with an introduction by Paul McCartney, track-by-track recording information, and previously unseen photos.

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For those who are more into the Mick and Keith side of things, there’s the 40th-anniversary edition of the Rolling Stones’ 1981 album Tattoo You, which, as you may recall, featured such classic ditties as “Hang Fire”, “Start Me Up”, and “Waiting On a Friend”.

And who can forget the Keith Richards–sung ode to groupies, “Little T & A”?

The box set includes five 180-gram heavyweight vinyl discs and features the original tracks remastered, “Lost & Found” (nine previously unreleased tracks), “Still Life” (a live recording from Wembley Stadium in 1982), a 124-page book, and lenticular artwork.

If you just happen to be one of those detestable subhumans who doesn’t care for either the Beatles or the Stones but appreciates a wicked guitar player, there’s a 50th-anniversary deluxe box set of Rory Gallagher’s self-titled debut solo LP. The five-disc package includes a brandnew mix of the original album, 30 previously unreleased outtakes and alternate takes, a six-song 1971 BBC Radio John Peel Sunday Concert, and four 1971 BBC Radio Sounds of the Seventies session tracks.

Also included is a previously unreleased 50-minute DVD of the Irish guitar hero’s first-ever solo concert, which was filmed in Paris for the Pop Deux TV show.

The box set comes with a 32-page hardcover book featuring rare and previously unseen photographs, essays, and memorabilia from the album recording, as well as a limited-edition poster.

If you’re the patriotic type who only buys deluxe box sets by Canadian artists, we’ve got you covered there as well.

What red-blooded Canuck-rock fan wouldn’t want a copy of the 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the Tragically Hip’s Road Apples. That’s the 1991 Hip album that’s almost as good as Fully Completely,

the one that opens with “Little Bones”. Yeah, you know it.

The five-disc box set includes a remastered version of Road Apples, the Saskadelphia EP that was released earlier this year, and the 15-track Live at the Roxy Los Angeles, May 3rd 1991, originally recorded for a Westwood One radio show.

But the best news for hardcore Hip fans is that the package comes with HoofHearted, an album that includes outtakes of “Cordelia”, “Fight”, and “Born in the Water”; demo versions of “Bring It All Back” and “Cordelia” (when it was known as “Angst on the Planks”); alternative versions of “Fiddler’s Green” and “Little Bones” (acoustic); the full-length version of “The Last of the Unplucked Gems”; and the 1990 demo of a previously unreleased song called “If You Lived Here”.

The box set also sports a 36-page booklet featuring reproductions of original handwritten lyrics from Gord Downie’s personal notebooks, previously unpublished photos from the Road Apples era, and commentary from the band.

If you’re a Canuck-rock fan who loves the Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Burton Cummings—and which Canuck-rock fan doesn’t?—then the ultimate gift would be Bachman Cummings: The Collection, a box set from former Guess Who bandmates Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings.

The seven-LP or seven-CD set includes five Guess Who albums from their prolific 1969-1971 p e r i o d —W h e a t f i e l d Soul, Canned Wheat, American Woman, Share the Land, and So Long, Bannatyne—plus material from BTO and Cummings’s solo career.

Bachman Cummings: The Collection certainly does include a lot of the best music the two Canuck-rock legends ever created.

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CLIMATE

Climate stability becomes a relic of the past in B.C.

Water-policy expert Robert Sandford says the implications are profound and far-reaching for everyone

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by Charlie Smith

ere’s a phrase that most British Columbians have never heard before: hydrologic stationarity.

But to Canadian water-policy expert Robert Sandford, hydrologic stationarity is a vitally important concept that people must consider in evaluating recent extreme-weather events in B.C. In a phone interview with the Straight from his home in Canmore, Alberta, Sandford said that if anyone wants to truly comprehend what’s going on with the climate, they really must understand water cycles.

“Hydrologic stationarity is the relative stability of the hydrologic system that we’ve relied on for the stability upon which we built our civilization,” Sandford, a senior policy adviser for the Adaptation to Climate Change Team at Simon Fraser University, said. “And we’ve lost hydrologic stationarity.”

Think about that for a moment. The basis upon which civilization has been built—relatively predictable weather cycles and rainfall patterns—can no longer be counted on, according to Sandford, who’s also a fellow of the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan.

That has profound ramifications for the economy, food production, and transportation systems, among other things.

Without a relatively stable water system, weird things can happen. Like hundreds of millimetres of rain falling on the Fraser Valley in a rapid-fire series of atmospheric rivers this month. Like a massive mudslide trapping and killing motorists. Like 75 B.C. Hydro power poles washing away along with large sections of Highway 8 between Merritt and Spences Bridge. Like an entire town of 7,000 people, Merritt, being evacuated due to the Coldwater River overflowing its banks. Like huge gashes being ripped into the Coquihalla Highway from rushing water that makes mincemeat of previously sacrosanct engineering standards.

According to Sandford, hundreds of engineering rules of thumb have been rendered irrelevant by the recent extreme weather. “As tragic as it is, what’s happened in British Columbia should awaken us to a really sweeping revelation,” Sandford said.

In a recently completed and unpublished paper, Sandford insisted that the truth of what just occurred in B.C. is “far more staggering than the scale of the flood damage and their impacts on people just like us that we see before our eyes on the nightly news”.

“That truth is that we have located our agriculture and built our communities and all associated infrastructure in places and to standards appropriate to what we thought was a relatively stable climate; climate conditions upon which we can no longer rely,” he

Earlier this month, the Highway 1 entry to Abbotsford was covered in water—and that was far from the only major road that became impassible by automobile in widespread flooding, raising questions about how often this will occur in the future. Photo by Richard Stawn/Getty Images Plus.

wrote. “What should be deeply alarming to all is that climate we have taken for granted for so long is, right before our very eyes, being replaced by a climate that, unless we act now, we may not survive.”

He also predicted in the paper that the Coquihalla Highway “could be wiped out again and again before being fully repaired, if, in fact, that will ever be possible again”.

“The costs of rebuilding to a new standard of risk—a standard that unless we stabilize our climate will forever keep moving beyond our grasp—are incalculable,” Sandford declared.

THE RECENT biblical-scale flooding is, of course, not the only freaky climate-related event of 2021. There were also B.C. wildfires that scorched more than 860,000 hectares—an area more than 75 times the size of Vancouver’s entire expanse—and a heat dome in the last week of June that killed almost 600 British Columbians, according to chief coroner Lisa Lapointe.

Sandford linked the heat dome to changes in the jet streams brought on by a warming Arctic. He said that the north-to-south modulation of these oscillating air currents has grown dramatically at different times of the year, slowing their movement eastward.

“It literally parks, like your heat dome,” he said. “So, consequently, what you’re seeing is these big events—whether they’re snow events, cold snaps, heat waves, or flooding events—are more intense and last longer.”

Sandford has been warning of this for

years in several of his books published by Rocky Mountain Books (RMB). In 2015, for example, Storm Warning: Water and Climate Security in a Changing World laid out how the planet’s atmosphere is warming at an astonishing rate, in part because of the acceleration of the global hydrological cycle.

Years before local TV weather forecasters were talking about atmospheric rivers, Sandford starkly explained in the book how these “corridors of intense winds and moist air” could wreak havoc on communities.

“It wasn’t until we ended up with really good satellite-based data that we could see the extent of what an atmospheric river was and does,” Sandford explained to the Straight.

“And now we find a strong atmospheric river

could be thousands of kilometres long, 500 kilometres across, and carry 10 to 15 times the amount of water that is carried in the Mississippi [River] in a given day.”

This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has studied the works of two influential 19th-century thermodynamics researchers: German physicist Rudolf Clausius and French engineer Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. Sandford pointed out that the so-called Clausius-Clapeyron equation determined that the atmosphere’s capacity to hold water increases about seven percent for every 1° C increase in temperature.

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n the 2019 election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau let voters know that open net-pen salmon farming would come to an end in B.C. in 2025. In fact, this promise was included in the Liberal platform.

In a mandate letter to then–federal fisheries and oceans minister Bernadette Jordan in 2019, Trudeau followed up on this pledge by advising her to work with the province and Indigenous communities “to create a responsible transition from open net-pen salmon farming in coastal British Columbia waters by 2025”.

But four environmental groups issued a news release on November 30 objecting to “12 site expansions including one entirely new 4,400-metric tonne open-net salmon farm” in B.C. The new site is slated to be developed between the Discovery Islands and the

Broughton Archipelago, where open-net salmon farming is being phased out.

“All proposed factory farm expansions should be denied by the government given their harm to wild salmon, the extremely poor returns of wild salmon and the federal government’s commitment to remove them by 2025,” Watershed Watch Salmon Society’s Stan Proboszcz said in the news release.

Others groups that attached their names to the release were the David Suzuki Foundation, the Living Oceans Society, and Clayoquot Action.

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Another RMB book, The Climate Nexus: Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World—one that Sandford cowrote with former senior B.C. government bureaucrat Jon O’Riordan—also highlighted changes to hydrological cycles.

In addition, it warned of the links between degraded soils and even more carbon being released into the atmosphere.

Sandford cited UN reports suggesting that at current rates of soil decline, there might be just 60 years left before the agriculture sector will suffer irreparable harm.

“The reverse is also true,” he added. “If we restore soil balance, we can draw [carbon] down from the atmosphere.”

Sandford declared that industrial agriculture, as it’s being practised nowadays, is “selfterminating”. And the breakdown of hydrological stationarity isn’t helping matters.

“You saw the impact on farmers in your region, which are just absolutely tragic,” Sandford said. “And that, unfortunately, is what we’re going to see more of. Welcome to the future.” g

just over 1° C since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Sandford noted that this means the atmosphere is now capable of holding seven percent more water vapour than back then. If that temperature rises to 2° or 3° C above pre-industrial times, the atmosphere will hold 14 or 21 percent more water vapour. To Sandford, this rise in average global temperature is one of the reasons why we’re seeing such intense rainfalls in different parts of the world, including B.C. “Rising temperatures have caused the water cycle to accelerate,” Sandford said.

“Water is moving more quickly and more energetically through the global water cycle.

And that is exactly the manifestation that we’re seeing as a result of climate change.”

According to him, a 4° C rise from pre-industrial times would amount to “living on a different planet”.

That’s not all. Water vapour is also a greenhouse gas, so as more of it is added to the atmosphere through evaporation from oceans, it traps more heat.

HEALTH

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ore than three decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was another viral scourge stalking the world.

HIV, a.k.a. the human immunodeficiency virus, was killing gay men, hemophilia sufferers, intravenous-drug users, and residents of southern African countries at frightening rates.

By 2020, approximately 36.3 million people had been killed by this retrovirus.

Wednesday (December 1) marked World AIDS Day to emphasize the impact of the pandemic and support equitable treatment for those living with HIV. The first official reporting of what came to be known as AIDS occurred on June 5, 1981. That’s when a research paper chronicled the symptoms of five gay men from 29 to 36 years old with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in Los Angeles.

“The patients did not know each other and had no known common contacts or

In the 1990s, Dr. Julio Montaner helped turn AIDS into a very manageable chronic illness.

knowledge of sexual partners who had had similar illnesses,” the paper stated.

Less than a month later, there was a report linking Kaposi’s sarcoma and Pneumocystis pneumonia to 26 gay men in New York and California.

By 1985, when actor Rock Hudson disclosed his AIDS diagnosis, the disease was dominating headlines around the world,

in part because there was no cure. Bloodscreening guidelines were issued, but the death count continued to rise.

From 1987 to 1992, AIDS was the leading cause of potential years of life lost among men in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, according to a paper by Simon Fraser University heath researcher Robert Hogg. In response to all of the deaths, an international grassroots group, ACT UP [AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), started employing direct-action tactics to demand greater access to experimental drugs.

The first substantial decline in AIDS deaths in the United States did not occur until 1997, largely thanks to highly active antiretroviral therapy, a.k.a. HAART. And the king of HAART, according to a 2006 article in the Lancet, was Vancouver physician Julio Montaner. He’s executive director and physician-in-chief of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

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“Montaner’s early research focused on the respiratory complications of AIDS and later shifted towards antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection,” wrote Angela Pirisi in the Lancet. “In the mid 1990s, he championed the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), turning it into a standard of care for AIDS patients.

“Another of Montaner’s contributions has been setting up HIV/AIDS treatment cohorts and showing their role in developing evidence of clinical outcomes.”

Thanks to Montaner and other researchers, AIDS has been transformed from a probable death sentence into a chronic disease. He has long advocated treatment as prevention to suppress viral loads.

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Homeowner appealed assessment as far too low

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roperty owners typically appeal the assessment of their homes on grounds that they are too high.

That’s understandable, because the higher the assessment, the more they have to pay in taxes.

However, some owners do the opposite.

They argue that the valuation of their properties is not high enough, so they want an increase.

On rare occasions, they get what they wish for.

This was the case for Davinder K. Gill, owner of a waterfront property in the Ocean Park neighbourhood of Surrey.

A Property Assessment Appeal Board (PAAB) panel has increased the valuation of Gill’s property by 56.3 percent, to $3,769,000.

That’s $1,358,000 more than the 2021 assessment of $2,411,000 for Gill’s 13531 Marine Drive residence.

Edwina Nearhood, chair of a PAAB panel, considered Gill’s appeal.

In her decision and order, Nearhood noted that the property is “located in an established neighbourhood of single-family dwellings with ocean view properties”.

For Gill, the $2,411,000 assessment was “too low”. That was broken down into

This home at 13531 Marine Drive in Surrey’s Ocean Park neighbourhood received a 56.3 percent boost in assessed value, an additional $1,358,000, after its owner appealed the valuation.

$1,357,000 for the land and $1,054,000 for the three-level home. However, the owner did “not propose an estimate of market value” for the South Surrey property.

An online search shows that the 13531 Marine Drive property was previously listed on the market for $3.5 million.

For the appeal, Gill and the assessor presented different examples of recent sales as evidence.

One common example they offered

to the PAAB was the sale of 13161 Marine Drive, which is on the same block as Gill’s property. The neighbouring property sold in December 2020, although Gill and the assessor presented different selling prices, of $3.8 million and $3,990,000, respectively.

Just the same, Nearhood found 13161 Marine Drive as the “strongest indicator of market value due to its location, proximity to the Subject, and similar lot size,

improvement size and age”.

“Based on the evidence available to me there is no significant difference in access to waterfront,” Nearhood said of the two properties.

The assessor applied a negative 5.5 percent time adjustment to the sale price of $3,990,000, resulting in a time-adjusted sale price of $3,769,000 for 13161 Marine Drive.

“The Subject’s market value would be slightly lower than this sale’s time adjusted sale of $3,769,000, because this sale is slightly larger and a newer build than the Subject,” Nearhood wrote.

The PAAB panel chair explained that this sale “sets the upper limit of the market value range”.

Because Gill did not propose a new market value, Nearhood did it for the South Surrey property owner. “I respect the Appellant’s wishes to increase their assessment to market value and I find the market value of the Subject to be $3,769,000, which is to be apportioned to the assessments of land and buildings on the same pro-rata basis as the 2021 assessment,” Nearhood wrote.

The new assessment is broken into $2,225,480 for the land and $1,543,520 for the house. g

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s a teenager, Aaron Craven didn’t seem like the ideal candidate for a future in acting. As he tells it, on the phone from his False Creek home, he was a jock who just wanted to play hockey and basketball and run track.

“I was a million miles away from anything to do with the arts,” he says.

But then Craven’s high-school drama teacher, thinking he had talent, plucked him out of a class and put him in the school play. That was the first spark to ignite his journey toward the life of an actor and artist, a trek that picked up speed once he got into university.

“I was taking pre-law at UBC and I discovered that the world of the law was not anywhere as fun and exciting and as visceral as I thought it was gonna be,” he recalls. “It was gonna be mostly paperwork and technicalities. So I started taking theatre classes at UBC—this was in the mid- to late-’90s—and as soon as I started acting in plays in university, I fell in love with it. And I realized, ‘Okay, I’m gonna have to tell my mom and dad that I’m gonna be an actor.’ ” Craven’s creative endeavours include the establishment of Mitch and Murray Productions, of which he is artistic director. The Vancouver company took its name from two characters that are referred to but never seen in Glengarry Glen Ross, a 1984 play by one of Craven’s favourite playwrights, David Mamet. It was made into a movie, with the screenplay by Mamet, in 1992.

“The theatre company was something I formed about 10 years ago out of a desire to see plays that I loved that I had read or seen in New York or London or other big cities in the world but I didn’t see playing in Vancouver,” he relates. “The type of play that we do is very contemporary, mostly urbanbased and about topics of the day; really relevant, timely ideas. And so the play that we’re opening next month, Snowflake—it’s the North American premiere—it’s from a British playwright named Mike Bartlett, who’s very well known, and it’s about political division—which, you know, you couldn’t get a more timely topic than that.

“I read the script and I was just so taken,” he adds. “On the one hand, it’s a really simple story: it’s about a father who’s estranged from his daughter. He’s a widower, the mother has died, and at the beginning of the play, you don’t know why he and the daughter are estranged from each other.

You come to realize that they have a political rift more than anything. He voted for Brexit and she didn’t. And it’s kind of what’s happened to families in Trump’s America, right? It’s like one person is on one side of the political line and one person is on the other, and the chasm that it creates within families. So it’s a play about grief, but it’s

Aaron Craven (left, with Snowflake costar Natasha Burnett) named his theatre company after two unseen characters from David Mamet’s 1984 play Glengarry Glen Ross. Photo by Shimon.

…it’s kind of what’s happened to families in Trump’s America…

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also a play about what political divisiveness has done to us just at a core level, even down to the structure of the family.”

Craven stars in the Jennifer Copping– directed Snowflake with Natasha Burnett and Anni Ramsay. As well as being a busy actor for both stage and screen—his credits include the film features Big Eyes and The Predator and the TV series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, NCIS, and iZombie—he’s a playwright. He just finishing writing a semiautobiographical play called Instantaneous Blues, which is about his family’s experiences with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

“That’s a labour of love and a personal little piece that I wrote,” he says. “Our company may produce it one day, we’ll see, but right now it’s kind of in the development stage.”

Craven isn’t content with just acting, playwriting, and artistic directing, though. He also writes and directs for film, and teaches

professional actors at the Working Actors Gym, the training wing of Mitch and Murray. He lays out what he thinks are the most important attributes of an acting coach.

“An ability to read people,” he stresses, “an ability to push people artistically but also make them feel safe. That’s a fine line, because acting’s something where you really have to break down people’s blocks, but you also can’t cross that line of doing in it in any kind of a way which pries into their personal life or makes them feel any degree of self-awareness. You really want to foster them in that journey to becoming a really confident artist, and that takes a certain type of psychology.

So it’s a very privileged position to be in, and I’ve been fortunate to have a base of students kind of studying with me over the years.”

When it comes to famous thespians who don’t need any training, the first one that jumps into Craven’s head when he is asked to pick a favourite is Gary Oldman.

Craven appreciates actors like Oldman for their versatility.

“He’s a chameleon, right; that’s what I admire so much about him. I think of him as a consummate actor because when I think of him, I think of 12 different roles all at once, all so different. I’ve always loved those kinds of actors, the shapeshifters, people that can play different things and aren’t necessarily locked into one persona.”

Craven’s appreciation of quality acting, coupled with his desire to nurture and promote it, has led to his establishment of the Trevor Craven Memorial Scholarship for Young Actors. The award—which consists of an eight-week block of classes and is open to actors between the ages of 18-25 who have had previous training and/ or professional experience—was created in memory of his older brother, who died tragically at the age of 15 in 1986.

“It was a car accident that rocked the community back then when it happened in the ’80s,” Craven explains, “and I wanted to give out a scholarship in my classes for young actors that are trying to emerge. I know that acting classes are expensive and that everybody needs somebody to kind of have them take them under their wing in terms of mentorships, so I do it once a year for a young actor under 25. I named it after my brother ’cause it’s kind of a way of keeping his name alive and a good reason to tell his story a little bit to people who get the scholarship, which is wonderful.” g Mitch and Murray Productions presents the Canadian premiere of Snowflake December 10 to 23 at the Red Gate Revue Stage on Granville Island.

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o create for the present, dancer and choreographer Ralph Escamillan needed to revisit his past.

“I’ve been looking into my history to find what is new,” the Vancouver artist says.

Escamillan spoke with the Straight by phone before a two-week residency at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

He and four other choreographers have been granted access to the resources and technical expertise at the state-of-the-art facility, as well as a chance to livestream their works in progress.

This was made possible through a project called NEXT: New Dance in Development.

Around the time Escamillan heard

about his residency, he was travelling and also working with emerging choreographers with the Toronto Dance Theatre.

This was a bit of a departure for the artist known for his previous solo work called “HINKYPUNK”.

“I’ve been working with larger units already, so that became a kind of catalyst to want to continue this exploration of what it means to work with more than one person in the space,” he said about what he is bringing into NEXT. Escamillan recalled that as a younger performer, he grew up with companies that had a lot of people on-stage.

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Vancouver choreographer and dancer Ralph Escamillan obtained a residency at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre to develop and showcase new work. Photo by Matt Korinek.

make my own work, to find what my vocabulary is and what my interests are,” he said.

As a teen, Escamillan trained in street and commercial dance genres, which he is now tapping for his new creation in development.

“My idea for the work that I want to create is a research on unison, meaning dancing at the same time to the same beat, a hyperprecision, which is something that comes from my earlier days,” he said.

Escamillan specifically recalled dancing for Fresh Groove Productions and Kill The Lights Co., two Vancouver companies known for hip-hop, freestyling, breakdancing, and other related forms.

“It’s such a big part of my history and my training and my technique as I was growing up before I found contemporary dance,” he said.

There’s also something else other than dance that Escamillan finds in going back.

“When I think of moments of joy, I think of youthfulness. I think of those times when I was younger,” he said.

Back then, he did things like travel to Los Angeles to visit family as well as take classes with the best commercial dancers in the city.

“I feel that commercial dance and also street-dance style continue to push innovation in the sense of finding newness, which is what contemporaneity is all about,” Escamillan said.

For the NEXT project, Escamillan said, he will be joined by performers Simran Sachar, Rina Pellerin, Marisa Christogeorge, and Daria Mikhaylyuk.

He and Mikhaylyuk have a duet in “whip”—a production by Escamillan’s company, FakeKnot—which premiered this fall in Montreal.

In “whip”, Escamillan said, there is a moment when he and Mikhaylyuk dance

in unison while they are completely blinded by leather hoods.

“We’re able to do it through sheer practice and rehearsal and understanding the music,” Escamillan said.

It’s that skill of mastering the pattern of music without seeing other performers that he also wants to explore with the NEXT project.

“In a way, they don’t necessarily need to see if they know the music and the counts and everything,” Escamillan said.

“It becomes like memory, more so than a reactiveness.”

Escamillan is also working with lighting designer Jonathan Kim and costume stylist Robyn Jill Laxamana.

DanceHouse and 149 Arts Society collaborated on the NEXT project, with support from the National Arts Centre.

The four other choreographers chosen for the November 29 to December 13 residency are All Bodies Dance Project artists romham pádraig gallacher and Lance Lim, Shion Skye Carter, and Zahra Shahab.

The participating artists will livestream their works in progress on December 15, starting at 4 p.m.

NEXT is also supported by Canadian Heritage, through the federal agency’s COVID-19 support measure; the Canada Arts Presentation Fund program; and the Support for Workers in Live Arts and Music Sector Fund.

As Escamillan readied for his residency, he told the Straight that one of the things he hopes to find early on during the process is “togetherness”.

“I’m always thinking about relationships: not just between people but how I am around objects and space and music,” he said.

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Tomasic, who is also Gateway Theatre’s director of artistic programs, recalled that first day during a recent phone interview with the Straight. Plexiglas separated the performers, but the music still warmed her heart. “It gets into your bones,” Tomasic said. “I had certainly forgot how much I missed it.”

A Broadway Holiday will be the Richmond theatre company’s first in-house production since the curtain came down in early 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19.

Tomasic is overseeing stage direction; Jenny Andersen is the musical director and one of the performers. The other performers are Devon Busswood, Sean Hara, Tim Howe , Catriona Murphy, Alexander Nicoll, and Gabrielle Rutman.

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Tomasic said that because the actors are playing instruments, there isn’t a lot of blocking in rehearsals, which reduces any likelihood of COVID-19 transmission.

“There’s no massive dance numbers,” Tomasic added. “There’s no romantic love scenes. It really is a concert, so we do have a little bit more leeway around keeping them safe.”

Songs will be performed from wellknown Broadway shows such as White Christmas and Holiday Inn, she said. In addition, there will be other songs from Broadway musicals that audiences don’t often think of in a holiday context, such as “Food Glorious Food” from Oliver.

“It’s fun and playful and heartwarming,” Tomasic promised.

Gateway Theatre can seat up to 500 people when the balcony is open. But Tomasic said that attendance at A Broadway Holiday will be limited to about 150 people in the downstairs area. She described that as a “simple and lovely solution to keeping people feeling comfortable”.

Barbara Tomasic is stage director and cowriter of A Broadway Holiday. Photo by Brandon Hart.

Tomasic said that Gateway Theatre was already in a process of “adapted planning” prior to the pandemic as it was trying new methods of community engagement. That accelerated and intensified during the past 20 months with Tomasic working closely with other staff, including artistic and community producer Jasmine Chen.

Rather than heavily focusing on recording plays and presenting them online, they focused more attention on what they felt the community needed. One example was an event called Mad Practice: Sanity Skills for Crazy Times, presented by self-decribed mad activist and comedian J D Derbyshire. There was also a Chinese shadow-puppetry workshop and a discussion about the sometimes difficult relationship between immigrant parents and their children.

“Jasmine did some awesome work in collaboration with Rumble Theatre and Upintheair [Theatre] around how to support artists and people during the pandemic,” Tomasic said. “That was really at the forefront of what we were curious about.”

In addition, Gateway Theatre has a new mural by artist Carmen Chan on the wall of its building along Gilbert Road. The company also held its first outdoor concert in Minoru Park, which Tomasic described as a “huge success” and something she would like to do again. According to her, none of this would have been possible were it not for the efforts of so many people.

“I always want to shout out to our staff and our community who’ve been supporting us through all of this,” Tomasic said. g Gateway Theatre presents A Broadway Holiday from December 16 to 23.

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