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NEWS: ESL at Langara 7/ OPINION: City budget redux 10

Homeless population remains stable MIKE HOWELL Staff writer

A taste of Oakridge photo Dan Toulgoet

HOLD THE SALAMI: In the latest instalment of our Vancouver Special neighbourhood series, we proﬁle the ever-

changing Oakridge neighbourhood, where you’ll ﬁnd Eppy Rappaport’s Omnitsky Kosher deli, a social gathering of passionate ping pong players, an adult Lego club and more. See main feature story page 23. Scan page with Layar to see a photo gallery and watch a video, both of which can also be viewed at vancourier.com.

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lmost 500 homeless people who resided in the city’s shelters have moved into permanent housing over the past five years, city council heard Tuesday. The news was welcomed by Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang, who congratulated city staff for its work with B.C. Housing and non-profits to find homes for 480 people. Jang repeated the number — 480 — several times as he addressed council. “That’s just simply amazing,” said Jang, adding that he felt vindicated about supporting the city’s shelter program. He noted he was spit on by some residents upset about having shelters in their neighbourhoods. “We’ve got the proof now.” Brenda Prosken, the city’s general manager of community services, told council that many of those 480 people have moved in to new social housing buildings funded by the provincial government. Eight of 14 social housing buildings to be built under an agreement involving the provincial government, the city and the Streetohome Foundation are now open. They are located from the Downtown Eastside to Dunbar and include a building in Kitsilano. Prosken said 42 per cent of the 331 residents in those buildings were either previously on the street or in shelters. She said another two buildings are expected to open over the next few months, adding another 126 units. Prosken said the goal is to have 50 per cent of tenants in the buildings come from the street or a shelter. That goal, however, is difficult to reach when homeless people, many of whom have a mental illness, prefer to stay on the street. “It is not getting easier, it is getting more difficult,” she said. “The more hardened these individuals are, having been on the street for so many years, the more supports, the more partnerships and the more challenges we face.” See 500 on page 3

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ELECTION WIN SUPPORTS POLICY, SAYS B.C. TRANSPORTATION MINISTER

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ransportation Minister Todd Stone says he will not quash a referendum planned for next fall’s civic elections that will ask voters whether they want to spend money on transit improvements in Metro Vancouver. Stonereiteratedhisgovernment’splantohold a referendum for Metro Vancouver voters while taking questions Tuesday from reporters at the Waterfront transit hub downtown. The minister had just returned from riding the SkyTrain and bus system in Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey. “I am under no illusions that the referendum was not a popular concept with most, if not all, of the mayors,” said Stone, noting details on the referendum are expected to be released before Christmas. “But this was a policy that we put before the people of British Columbia in the last election and we won that election. So we intend on following through on that commitment.” In June, the mayors’ council on regional transportation announced it wouldn’t support a referendum, predicting it would fail and jeopardize transit projects. The mayors’ council, which includes Mayor Gregor Robertson, noted the replacement of the Port Mann Bridge and other major road projects did not require a referendum. Stone said the Port Mann and the George Massey Tunnel, which the government recently announced would be replaced with a bridge, are “provincial assets” whereas transit improvements fall under TransLink’s budget. Stoneacknowledgedthecongestionproblems at the Commercial Drive/Broadway transit hub and said major transit improvements requested

by Surrey and Vancouver will “likely” happen as an estimated one million people move to the region over the next 30 years. But he didn’t say when or how a referendum would affect future transit needs. Vancouver wants a $2.8 billion subway from Commercial Drive to the University of B.C. while Surrey wants a $1.8 billion light rail system. “No one disputes the fact that Surrey is one of the fastest growing municipalities in British Columbia, if not the country,” he said. “And some form of LRT solution or rapid bus along a number of different corridors, as currently identiﬁed by Surrey, is likely to be projects that we will see move forward. Likewise, when you’re moving 80 to 100,000 people along that Broadway corridor line every day, clearly there’s a demand there — not in ﬁve or 10 years from now, but today for some form of rapid transit.” Stone has met with the mayors’ council and said there is “a high degree of willingness to engage and work with the province by many of the mayors around the table.” He didn’t name the mayors, telling reporters they’d have to talk to each mayor. Ian Jarvis, the CEO of TransLink, accompanied Stone in the Tuesday morning rush hour tour. Jarvis declined to comment on whether he supports a referendum, saying it was an issue for the provincial government and the mayors. Jarvis said TransLink is focused on its long-range plan, which he said will inform the level of investment and options required to meet transit needs before the referendum. “We’ve got adequate resources to provide the level of service that’s there today,” he said. “What we don’t have is money for expansion.” mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

500 moved into housing Continued from page 1 Despitetheintakeofhomelesspeopleinsocial housing buildings, council heard that an average of 300 people have continued to live on the street since 2010. That number was recorded at 273 in the city’s homeless count in March. Another 1,327 people were counted as living in a shelter for a total of 1,600 homeless people in Vancouver. Last year, the city’s count revealed 306 people were living on the street and 1,296 in shelters. Prosken noted those numbers could rise with the pending closures of the Dunsmuir Hotel and the At Home/Chez Soi mental health program at the former Bosman Hotel. Those closures could translate to another 300 people turned back out onto the street. The city, however, is working with B.C. Housing to set up interim housing, including 100 rooms at the former Biltmore Hotel and 57 rooms at a Ramada on East Hastings. The city also purchased the Kingsway Continental to accommodate tenants from the Old Continental and renovations to Taylor Manor on Boundary Road are underway.

The city’s 2013 homeless count found 73 per cent of people were male and the largest group was 35 to 54 years old. Three out of every ﬁve people surveyed reported an addiction and 46 per cent said they had a mental illness. Thirty per cent were aboriginal and 16 per cent reported having no income, which has more than doubled since 2008 when seven per cent of homeless people reported not having an income. The majority of the homeless were found in the Downtown Eastside and the northeast side of the city. The number of homeless on the street dropped from 811 in 2008 to 273 this year, according to the city’s counts. NPA Coun. George Afﬂeck urged city staff to consider having two counts per year to get a more accurate number of people living on the streets when shelters are closed. Council learned Tuesday that the provincial government will fund four city shelters this winter. The shelters are considered “low barrier,” meaning people can bring carts and their pets inside the facilities. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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Oakridge fitness club suits active seniors SENIORS CENTRE ‘BEST KEPT SECRET’ AT OAKRIDGE MALL SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer

earing a hot-pink T-shirt and black tights, Jean Eeckhout is running, doing leg lifts and completing complicated step crossovers while barely breaking a sweat at the Oakridge Centre auditorium Wednesday morning. The fact Eeckhout is 89 years old is a non-issue with the crowd gathered for the Fun and Fitness class offered twice a week by the Oakridge Seniors Centre, located on the southwest side of Oakridge Centre, located at West 41st Avenue and Cambie Street. “I’ve been attending for 10 years,” Eeckhout told the Courier during a brief water break halfway through the hour-long session. “But some have been coming for 20 and 25 years.” It’s not just the Fun and Fitness classes drawing seniors to the centre. They also come for other programs centre manager and programs coordinator Fe Alluri has introduced, such as the Latin-inﬂuenced Zumba and belly dancing. Alluri is introducing the classes to attract aging members of the Boomer generation, also known as “Zoomers” for their continued interest in keeping active. “We have a lot of Boomers living in the area,” said Alluri. “I’d also like

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Jean Eeckhout takes part in a Fun and Fitness class at the Oakridge Seniors Centre Wednesday morning. to see us host an occasional pub night and a brunch or breakfast on Saturdays.” While the centre offers classes typical of most seniors facilities, such as osteoﬁt, whist and tai chi, the daily activities calendar also includes Spanish lessons, travel club meetings and manicure

and pedicure sessions the third Wednesday of every month. And just to keep things interesting, in July Alluri organized a rafting trip on the Squamish River for a group of the centre’s more adventurous seniors. Alluri recently had the menu in the centre’s café revamped to better suit the increas-

ingly multicultural membership. The October menu includes such offerings as butter chicken, liver and onions, stir-fried chicken, and meat loaf and yellow rice. Eeckhout said the main reason she enjoys the exercise classes is instructor Kathy Feay, a sentiment shared by 90-year-old Beau Jor-

gensen, who has been attending the ﬁtness classes for more than 20 years. On Wednesday, Feay was not going easy on the group of more than two dozen seniors working out to classic songs such as “Kansas City,” “Stay (just a little bit longer)” and the 1961 doo-wop hit “Blue Moon.” Dressed in a neon-yellow T-shirt and black tights, Feay good-naturedly encourages her students to “run for the bus,” “do the Charlie Chaplin,” and “lift those knees.” Feay calls the seniors centre the “best kept secret” of Oakridge Centre. “There are so many seniors who come to the mall and don’t even know we’re here,” said Feay. “I’ve got my ﬁngers crossed that will change once we’re in our new space.” That new space is expected to be included within a community centre proposed as part of a massive redevelopment of the Oakridge Centre property, currently undergoing public consultation. Alluri said so far the seniors have been told there will be no need for the centre to close during the large construction project because a new civic centre has been deemed a priority. But what exactly that space will look like has yet to be decided. According to Alluri, it better be large enough to accommodate a couple dozen Latin-dancing seniors. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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lanning work for a policy statement guiding future development of Langara Gardens is expected to begin soon. Langara Gardens is a 20.8-acre site between 54th and 57th Avenue west of Cambie Street on the southeast edge of the Oakridge neighbourhood. It features 605 units of market-rental housing — 335 of the units are located in four 18storey towers and the remaining units are garden apartments and townhouses. In June, council voted to initiate the planning program at the request of the Peterson Group, which owns Langara Gardens. The policy statement will address issues including density, height, public beneﬁts, trans-

portation, built form and character, sustainability and how a redevelopment would be phased. James Cheng of James KM Cheng Architects Inc. is handling the Langara Gardens project for the Peterson Group and its other investors. Cheng said to expect one open house before Christmas. “We’re just starting our process to consult the neighbours and the stakeholders,” he said, adding redevelopment would be mostly residential. “We’ll probably update the corner commercial that’s there right now because it’s kind of hidden. The main reason for the rezoning would be to replace the low-rise wood-frame rental buildings because they are now 50 to 60 years old and some of them are not in great shape compared to current standards,” he said. “So for the longer horizon they would need to be upgraded or redone. We have a commitment to the city that all rental units have to be replaced — you cannot eliminate any rental units. So

there will be additional density but there will be no loss of rental stock.” Cheng said towers would be considered because it’s more efficient use of the land, but he’s not sure about heights. “That’s what the consultation will be all about,” he said. “The [open house before Christmas] is just a first consultation, probably with a blank piece of paper just to understand what the neighbours would like to see and what their potential issues are.” Langara Gardens is located just north of the 25-acre Pearson Dogwood site, which is owned by Vancouver Coastal Health. The City of Vancouver and Vancouver Coastal Health are working on a planning program for that property to also produce a policy statement to guide its redevelopment. Open houses featuring the final draft concept for the Pearson project were held recently. The concept envisions a mixed-use development with health care housing and related services, housing, community amenities and park space. Building heights could range

from three to 28 storeys. The concept also includes a new transit station at West 57th and Cambie on the Canada Line. City staff expect to bring the Pearson policy statement to council for approval in January. If council approves it, VCH can ﬁle a rezoning application. Matt Shillito, the city’s assistant director of community planning, said he couldn’t speculate on potential tower heights for Langara Gardens because no design work had been done. “It would be safe to say in terms of location the two sites are quite similar. There are some different constraints on the Langara Gardens site because there are obviously existing residents there and it would be more of an incremental redevelopment.” he said. Shillito said what’s important for Langara Gardens is maintaining and expanding its rental housing stock. noconnor@vancourier.com twitte.com/naoibh

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OPE lives! Remember that civic party? The same party that won a landslide in 2002 and crushed the

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NPA? Well, COPE is not exactly dead, although school trustee Allan Wong is the party’s only elected ofﬁcial. Like every party or candidate that wants to knock off Vision Vancouver in the 2014 election, COPE needs a wedge issue or issues to differentiate itself from Gregor Robertson and his buddies. So what is COPE on about with a little more than a year before voters go to the polls? Homelessness and news this week that 1,600 people are still without a permanent home in this world-class city. After reading what I’m about to write, you’ll be quite clear who COPE blames for the homeless problem and where the party

ﬁrmly leans on the political spectrum. Hint: I’m not seeing any dinners or harbour cruises with developers in the party’s future. Not when Stuart Parker is writing press releases, anyway. Take it away, Mr. Parker… “People think homelessness increases all by itself but it’s actually taken council years of diligent work through literally hundreds of individual votes,” he began a release that COPE issued Tuesday. Parker, by the way, is an executive member of COPE. I’ll provide more background on him after you get through the remainder of his attack on Vision Vancouver. Please continue, Mr. Parker… “Vision Vancouver has been truly dynamic and innovative in its breakneck destruction of affordable housing stock, removal of social housing requirements for the developers that fund it, and taking other cutting edge measures to get more Vancouverites than ever living in temporary shelters in time for Christmas.” And there’s more… “What we are seeing is a project far more focused and larger scale than the previous great demolition waves of the early 70s under Tom Campbell and the early 90s under

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—COPE’s Stuart Parker Gordon Campbell. I don’t know how the NPA can show its face anymore. Once upon a time, they were the masters of driving people into alleys to die. But no more.” Whoa! He goes on to say that Vision has “outmaneuvered the now-obsolete NPA in delivering not just development but development at the maximum human cost.” His points: • Vision has redeﬁned “affordable housing” to refer to “something that somebody can afford” such as a $2,000 a month bach-

elor suite. • Vision has delivered “up-zoning and zoning variances” to corporate donors at a fraction of the commission rate charged by the NPA. • Vision has incrementally redeﬁned “homeless” in the last three annual counts so as to “artiﬁcially depress statistical measures and justify service cuts.” “Don’t be fooled,” he added. “There is a plan. It’s being carried out by experts and it requires not just cross-departmental collaboration at city hall but long-term planning and innovative public-private collaboration.” More background on Parker as promised: He was the founder of the B.C. Green Party’s youth wing in 1998. He also served as the party’s “second leader” from 1993 to 2000, according to a bio I found online. That same bio also included this info: “Since being prescribed the Basic Dungeons and Dragons boxed set by a child psychiatrist at the age of nine, Stuart has been an avid player of tabletop roleplaying games and still runs a weekly game.” The election is November 2014. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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Langara ESL students form public speaking group TOASTMASTERS TOO ADVANCED SO GROUP STARTED ITS OWN ASSOCIATION CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

nglish as a second language students at Langara College discovered Toastmasters moves too fast for them, so they started an ESL Public Speaking Association at Langara last year. “If they go to Toastmasters, most of them feel embarrassed or they don’t really have the courage to stand on a stage,” said association president Elizabeth Jia, who says the club has 60 members, most of whom are Asian international students. “English programs, they just mainly focus on writing and reading or listening but they don’t really give students chances to talk,” said Jia, who has moved from English language to university transfer courses.

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Elizabeth Jia is president of the ESL public speaking association at Langara College.

Jia notes students from Indonesia and Malaysia who speak English well also attend the association’s weekly meetings. They come to make friends and share their stories and advice. One student from India wasn’t sure what to study next, according to Jia. He knew others who were being forced by their parents to study business but he didn’t want to go that way and a student from Iran encouraged him to take his time to explore his options.

The Langara English for Academic Purposes program, which falls under Continuing Education, started in 1997 to serve international students and the growing demographic of “domestic” students or young people who completed Grade 12 overseas and moved with their families to Vancouver to pursue their post-secondary education, says Vicki Vogel, manager of the English proﬁciency program. The daytime program has expanded since 1997 to offer more basic levels of English to meet a growing demand. The program enrolled close to 40 students in 1997 and serves between 550 and 600 students now. Seventy per cent of those enrolled are international students, mainly from China, and 30 per cent are domestic students. They receive 20 hours of instruction per week and are told to expect another 20 hours of homework. LEAP aims to provide its learners with a full “toolkit” to succeed in post-secondary classrooms in Canada. Vogel wishes students would complete the entire LEAP program, which costs $2,888 for international students for seven weeks, but students can write English proﬁciency exams and move on to university transfer classes. “Although not many [high school] students

take that [LEAP] option, it would be a great opportunity for them,” she said. “It will just give them that much more language and conﬁdence and skills going on to post-secondary education. It’s a tall task, especially for a student who’s coming in and joining the public system in Grade 10, 11, 12… without sufﬁcient English language ability.” Vogel has promoted the ESL Public Speaking Association to LEAP students. “The more support that can be provided within the college as a student initiative is fabulous,” she said. Daniel Thorpe, dean of Continuing Studies, said Langara has expanded its services for international students and helps them secure volunteer opportunities in the community. Jia notes Langara is a good stepping stone to university because learners can receive more attention in classes of up to 40 students. She hopes to study psychology at the University of B.C., Simon Fraser University or in Toronto. Jia is a the secretary for a Toastmasters group that meets at Granville Street and 43rd avenue now and says she’s helping the two clubs improve each other. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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minute, said Chum. It isn’t a cheap hobby. In the store, the pick-a-brick pieces are $10.99 for a 16 oz. cup of bricks or $19.99 for the 32 oz. cup. Sets can run anywhere from $10 to $500. In order to save money, serious Lego enthusiasts buy, sell and trade pieces on unofﬁcial Lego selling websites such as Bricklink.com. The Vancouver club showcases their work at many local community events such as at the VanDusen Botanical Garden’s Festival of Lights with the Make a Wish Foundation. Chum said parents who come out with their kids to see the builds are often looking for something that gets the family away from electronic screens. The Lego creations seem to do the trick. He recalls a little girl about seven who was so fascinated with three of the club’s displays at this summer’s Mini Maker Faire — a crawler town, a ste-

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o document more clearly states an organization’s political intentions than its budget. That is certainly the case with the “2014 Budget outlook” presented to Vancouver city council this week. We will get the final version with more detailed numbers in December. But what we have in this 30-odd page document is a statement of the ruling party’s strategic goals, its underlying values and the politically motivated behaviour that all that supports. It’s all expressed in numbers and wrapped in commentary. This is where the ruling party puts its money where its mouth is, which the document states this way: “The purpose of the city’s budget is to allocate resources to enable achievement of Council’s goals.” In it we can find what Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision see as risks they face and what they see as opportunities to aggressively exploit. We see the direction they hope to go in and what they want to remind you are their accomplishments. We can understand better who or what they will favour and have favoured — cyclists, things green and housing the homeless — and, at least by implication, what they have chosen to ignore—cars and drivers. And this budget, as it becomes more detailed over the next few months, is of most importance because, while the election is more than a year away, this is the last budget before we head to the polls. Consider it notes for the campaign trail. (It is a peculiarity of the B.C. political calendar that determines municipalities have November elections and December year–ends and, because one council cannot bind another, in election years a new budget does not get fully formed until after the new council is sworn in.) So what you see is what you get. And what you see, not coincidentally, is a document that is remarkably accessible. Dare I say, even “engaging?” While that is not new, it exceeds past documents for its simplicity, its clarity of text and user-friendly graphics. Give it a read. You will find none of the thickets of jargon or cesspools of acronyms that plague more conventional financial reports. But let’s start out with the subject that is most often cited in news reports: increased property taxes. This is clearly an area of political risk, particularly when the commentary points out that household income in Vancouver has not kept pace with inflation. That is why staff is decidedly vague, saying the increase in property tax will be “aligned” with the rate of inflation, giving their political masters room to decide how much risk they want to take. And just in case Vision’s business buddies get fidgety, the document reminds them of a past favour. The property tax shift from commercial to residential that carried on partly during their watch and ended in 2012; now business picked up 46 per cent of the tab compared with the 1980s when they paid 60 per cent. No actions caused the city’s civil service a case of the jitters or captured the public’s attention in the early days of this administration more than Vision’s aggressive centralization of power all in the name of increased productivity while shedding jobs along the way. In an organization where 55 per cent of revenues go to wages and benefits they want you to know that this exercise — still in progress — has proven to be a success. It has reduced the number of “active regular full-time staff back below the 2008 year-end level.” And a kick at the previous Sam Sullivan/NPA administration with the observation that wage settlements under Vision have been much lower than “they have been in the past.” But life, it appears, frequently begins with Robertson’s ascendency. There are a number of references to the last four years and the strides made as a result of the Greenest City Action Plan among other initiatives. Although there is some notice of trends that cover the past decade most of the commentary focuses on Vision’s time at the helm from cultural investments to social enterprise successes. You could say these details are not strictly speaking budget stuff, but then budgets are political documents designed to put those they serve in the best light. And this certainly does that. agarr@vancourier.com twitter.com/allengarr

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man in Calgary recently told landlord Rebecca Caverhill that he was a “Freeman-on-the-Land” and that her house was now his “embassy.” Mario Antonacci has since been evicted and arrested, his diplomatic immunity as convincing as a fright wig from a costume shop. The Freeman-on-the-Land movement appears to be gaining ground in the Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. Its adherents take a unique approach to law and language. They believe statute laws are contractual, and can be voluntarily accepted or rejected by “sovereign citizens” living under “natural law.” Not surprisingly, the practice of such beliefs has led to confrontations with police officers and court judges. Some of the more adventurous Freemen drive around with hand-drawn licence plates on their motor vehicles, and are intercepted by police when “exercising their right to travel.” When asked for proper documents, the drivers offer papers of their own making, and/or say they are a private entity, not a person. You can find some of these encounters on YouTube. Freemen insist that birth certificates are actually financial instruments that are sold by the state and traded on the “sea of international commerce,” with your state-defined self as security. They have a special fondness for Admiralty Law, describing a court as a “ship,” its occupants as “passengers,” and insisting that those who exit during a trial or hearing are “men overboard.” This may sound like an extended Monty Python sketch, but it’s serious stuff to the thousands of people convinced that laws can be abrogated once lawmakers interpret them properly. Yet I have found no evidence of successful Freemen court challenges in any country. (On RationalWiki, the entry for “Freeman successes” is a text-free section featuring a gif of rolling tumbleweeds.) In a 2012 Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decision on “Her Majesty the Queen vs. Daren Wayne McCormick,” Justice Gerald R. P. Moir rejected the defendant’s appeal to Freeman philosophy to undo his charges for weapons offences and threatening to kill police officers. “While respect can be shown for the interest of the Freeman in law and legal history, no respect is due for the next level of teaching. They say that an individual who withdraws from the social contract is beyond the jurisdiction of the state, and the courts, to enforce statute law. That is patently false,” wrote Moir in his decision. “This teaching is not only wrong in the sense that it is false. It is wrongful. That is, it is full of wrong.” Even Alex Jones — a gravel-voiced fixture of libertarian webcasts — rejects Freemen philosophy as “quackery.” I prefer to see it as a unique form of eschatology. That’s a fifty-dollar word assembled from the Greek words eschatos, meaning “last,” and logos, meaning “reason of the word.” It commonly refers to the theological study of the end point/salvation of humanity. There have been colourful eschatological belief systems across the world for centuries. For example, the Ghost Dance was a prophetic belief system that spread among North American indigenous people in the late 19th century, during the time of their forced relocation onto reservation lands. The correct practice of the dance promised to reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and usher in a golden age for peacefully united tribes. Needless to say, the rituals have failed to achieve their goal in the historical near-term. A much less violent process of dislocation, involving a half century of increasing income disparities in the U.S., the U.K. — and to a lesser degree Canada — has created a sense of economic desperation and disconnection among the chronically unemployed and the perpetually underpaid. The Freeman movement represents a quixotic effort to resurrect a world — partly but not wholly mythical — predating globalization. This effort involves enacting obscure rituals in courts that lawmakers fail to honour. The Freemen’s faith in word-magic about natural law echoes the Ghost Dancers’ belief that circular movements would back-engineer paradise. And while you can’t equate Freemen grievances to the continental destruction of hunter-gatherer/pastoral cultures, you also can’t expect a massive, decadeslong transfer of wealth from the middle class to a technocratic elite won’t result in eschatological mass movements. We’d be wise to pay as much attention to the provocation as to the responses. www.geoffolson.com

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COMBINE ESL WITH OTHER SUBJECTS FOR CREDIT

To the editor: Re “ESL students want credit for learning English,” Oct. 4. Recognizing ESL as an elective is not the answer. This would limit the graduation program and give credit for what other students already have accomplished The new graduation plan is being shaped to cut the number of topics required. The objective is to provide greater depth in fewer topics. Comprehending topics in depth requires greater facility in English hence requires more time spent by immigrants learning English. This cannot be shortened and English learners rightly ask that this extra time on English language learning be recognized in the graduation program. Accommodation is needed so immigrant students can complete and graduate before they turn 19 years. What is required is to combine English learning with subject material so that credit is given according to topics covered. An example would be combining math with ESL. Most immigrant students do well in math and many ﬁnd B.C. curriculum easy in comparison to what they have experienced before arriving. This combining language with an existing skill set would put them on fast track to complete graduation

requirements. It would also remove the reason many immigrant students leave ESL programs too early: the stigma attached by immigrant parents to their children being in “ESL” or, in current jargon “English Language Learning.” Ken Denike, trustee, Vancouver Board of Education Sophia Woo, trustee, Vancouver Board of Education

QUESTIONS ON B.C. SALMON NEED HONEST ANSWERS To the editor:

Re: “Film fest docs for your viewing pleasure,” Sept. 27. With reference to VIFF’s Salmon Confidential film showing, an important question is: Is B.C. salmon safe to eat? In nearly every big box store, salmon are of two different pedigrees: wild and farmed. We have listened to a variety of views about salmon sources and continuation of the species. But, after years of arguing and conflicting statistics, important questions about the health of our fish, and by inference our own, are still not satisfactorily answered. Nor is much attention paid to disturbing discoveries of dead and diseased fish stocks on the coast, where there was nothing of this magnitude years ago. The public is following the conflicts: accusations and

denials, questioning of evidence sources and of testing methods. What some experts view as facts, other commentators view as ideologically-tinged ranting. John Q Public, however, clearly sees scientists being muzzled, foreign fish farm companies with the upper hand, and government agencies passing the buck and denying culpability. We are nauseated by the “debate” while we await serious scientific testing, government responsibility, and food safety information. We won’t be cowed into accepting any “silent spring,” because we know we can’t afford complacency. Are any B.C. salmon infected by new and highly dangerous European viruses, as much of the evidence suggests? Will the Canadian community publicly affirm our indigenous neighbours’ beliefs that wild salmon is precious, and that we must do everything we can to protect this awesome natural wonder? We call upon the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Department of Fisheries to come clean. There’s health and peace of mind for the people and region somewhere in all of this. The public admires honesty, truth-telling, and above all, civil servants — and their masters — doing the right thing. Some whistle-blowing might get Canada back on the right track. Derek Spragg and Sandra Bruneau, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Loss of West 4th parking worries Vancouver businesses,” Oct. 8 Jonathan Baker @jonbenbak: Were any [councillors] curious enough to ask to see the traffic count that the engineers claim to have relied on? #yeahright Alaini the Greek @Alainiv: That’s a good idea. COURIER STORY: “Vancouver Giants tribute jersey honours aboriginal hockey players,” Sept. 19 44j: As a child growing up at Alkali Lake I watched some of the players on a rink dad made for every one, they were great on skates .Most of the players I knew, one was mom’s brother inlaw. Glad they are being honored. COURIER OPINION: Editorial cartoon, Oct. 4 Cameron: I have always been of the mindset that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. But I have to get this off my chest after a dozen years of being a Courier reader, and I say this without trying to be a troll — Geoff Olson is the laziest cartoonist in the world. His Photoshop cut-and-paste jobs and gloomy, all-too-real-looking sketches don’t just break the rules of political cartooning (I’m all for breaking with convention), but they also violate the entire spirit of editorial cartooning, making these pieces more off-putting than funny. Then occasionally we get these stock photos that are barely altered, but altered enough to make them unreal enough to be visually disturbing rather than amusing. I also have to wonder why the photos he uses aren’t credited to the original source. Doesn’t that break some kind of journalistic ethics? Well, to say something nice now — I enjoy Geoff’s columns. He’s a thought-provoking scribe and always writes intelligently about issues that don’t get attention in the rest of the local press. Keep up the good work on that front! Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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school. “Hearing her walk up to other kids and asking ‘What nation are you?’ at six years old… that’s really huge,” she said. Vonnie Hutchingson, principal of Sir William Macdon-

students all have aboriginal backgrounds with the exception of one who is Asian. Hutchingson said most of the school’s first 16 students returned. Those who did not moved away or found it too onerous to travel from other parts of the city or Burnaby. Most of the new students are in kindergarten but some transferred from other schools. “Enrolment had been, in this school, declining for many years and this is the only place we have any kind of renewal from,” Hutchingson said. Total enrolment at Macdonald remains at 70 students in a school that served more than 200 students in 2000. Associate superintendent Maureen Ciarniello says the school board expected the focus school to start slowly and that fewer children live in the area now. Macdonald’s students are mostly of aboriginal descent and Ciarniello believes they’re benefiting from having an aboriginal principal, two aboriginal teachers in the focus school and a full-time aboriginal education enhancement worker. “There’s actually a number of staff there that are also modelling and connecting all of the kids in the school and staff to an aboriginal world of learning,” she said. “And it’s something we’re interested in more broadly in the whole school district.” In 2011, 32.1 per cent of aboriginal students in Vancouver achieved their Dogwood Diploma within six years of first entering Grade 8, as compared to 82.5 per cent of nonaboriginal students, according to the school board. Proponents of the aboriginal focus school hope knowing who they are and where they come from will help First Nations students succeed.

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PIXAR CLOSES STUDIO Pixar Canada’s Vancouver studio is shutting its doors, eliminating about 100 jobs. “The team at Pixar Canada is incredibly talented and we are so proud of the excellent work we have produced there,” Pixar said in a prepared statement. “However, as we look at the creative and business needs of our studio, we’ve

made the decision to refocus our efforts and resources under one roof in Emeryville and will be closing the studio in Vancouver,” referring to its headquarters in Emeryville, Calif. Pixar opened its Vancouver location in 2010, just prior to launching its blockbuster Toy Story 3. This was the animation company’s ﬁrst studio outside of California.

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The Vancouver Police is launching “Operation Lock-Up,” a campaign directed at combatting auto theft. Over the past ﬁve years, Vancouver’s property crime rate has reduced, but last year, there was a spike in the number of stolen vehicles over the year before. “It aims to prevent vehicle theft by offering a complimentary

steering wheel lock — free of charge — to Vancouver residents who own one of the top 10 most frequently stolen vehicles,” said the VPD. Among the top 10 stolen cars are Honda Civic (pre-2000), Ford F150 trucks (pre-1999), Ford F250/F350 trucks (pre-2007) and Honda Accord (pre-1998). Go to vancouver.ca/police for a full list.

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Public Hearing: October 22

Tuesday, October 22 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber to consider zoning amendments for these locations: 33-49 East Hastings Street To rezone 33-49 East Hastings Street from Downtown-Eastside/Oppenheimer District (DEOD) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a mixeduse building with commercial use at grade and in the mezzanine, with 12 storeys of residential use above. The proposal includes 102 units of social/supportive housing (60 per cent of the total) and 67 units of market housing (40 per cent of the total) secured as rental for 15 years. A height of 38.7 metres (127 feet), a ﬂoor space ratio (FSR) of 8.28 and a total ﬂoor area of 9,190 square metres (98,926 square feet) are proposed.

2 4412-4488 Cambie Street To rezone 4412-4488 Cambie Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit two six-storey residential buildings and two-storey townhouses with a total of 102 dwelling units. A height of 21.1 metres (69.3 feet), a ﬂoor space ratio (FSR) of 2.60 and a residential ﬂoor area of 9,467 square metres (101,897 square feet) are proposed.

Come to an open house to see a revised structure plan for the future redevelopment of the Great Northern Way Campus Lands. The structure plan establishes a new system of roads, open spaces and development parcels but does not consider new heights or land uses. It also provides for the future extension of the Millennium SkyTrain line and the relocation of Emily Carr University from Granville Island.

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Public Hearing: October 24

Thursday, October 24 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber to consider zoning amendments for these locations:

1. a) 1412-1480 Howe Street, 1429 Granville Street and 710 Pacific Street (see A on map) To rezone a) 1412-1480 Howe Street, 1429 Granville Street and 710 Pacific Street from FCCDD (False Creek Comprehensive Development) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit two mixeduse buildings with 407 market strata units, 98 secured market rental units and retail, service, and office uses. A floor area of 60,645.7 square metres (652,806 square feet) and a maximum height of 151.5 metres (497 feet) are proposed. b) 1410 Granville Street (see A on map) To rezone b) 1410 Granville Street from BCPED (B.C. Place/Expo) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a commercial building containing retail, service and office uses. A floor area of 5,264.7 square metres (56,671 square feet) and a maximum height of 26.2 metres (86 feet) are proposed. 2. 2290 Main Street (see B on map)

1526-1560 Kingsway 3 To rezone 1526-1560 Kingsway from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a six-storey commercial and residential building with all 77 residential units secured as market rental housing. A height of 23.6 metres (77.5 feet), a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.85, a residential floor area of 4,609 square metres (49,608 square feet) and a commercial floor area of 599 square metres (6,452 square feet) are proposed. This is a concurrent rezoning and development permit (DE416646) application.

To rezone 2290 Main Street from IC-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit a 9-storey mixed-use building with a partial mezzanine in the ground floor, 85 residential units and ground-floor commercial spaces. A height of 30.0 metres (98.5 feet), a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.92, a commercial floor area of 701 square metres (7,548 square feet) and a residential floor area of 7,268 square metres (78,241 square feet) are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually before 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing, by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by

calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@ vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Department, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City's website.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting October 11 at the City Clerk’s Department in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, and in the Planning Department, East Wing of City Hall, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at

vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver. ca/councilmeetings. (Minutes are posted approximately two business days after a meeting.)

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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Oakridge resident sees real North Korea ANDREW FLEMING Staff writer

estern media outlets are rarely granted unfettered access to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Courier managed to visit the secretive regime, although the newspaper wasn’t there to cover any major news stories regarding North Korea’s ballistic missile testing program, supreme leader Kim JongUn’s recent execution of an ex-girlfriend by ﬁring squad or even the unlikely state visit by colourful former NBA star Dennis Rodman.

Chris Czerwinski holds a copy of the Courier while standing in Pyongyang’s Kim Il-sung Square last December. Instead, an Oakridge resident who works with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) brought a copy of the paper along to

pose with for our Exotic Courier section on a visit last year. Chris Czerwinski, 58, spent several years helping to organize emergency food distribu-

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tion to the remote north Asian country during a famine in the mid-’90s, but his visit last December marked the ﬁrst time he’d actually stepped foot inside the so-called Hermit Kingdom. He said he was nonetheless given quite a bit of freedom to explore the country unaccompanied by government ofﬁcials due to his humanitarian history. “If you were to go as a normal Canadian, you would have a minder with you from the moment you leave the hotel,” said Czerwinski, “but I had a very enjoyable experience because the new deputy country director for the WFP was also new to the country, and every

weekend we could travel quite freely around the country and visit all the monuments.” Czerwinskibroughthiscopy of the Courier to a number of North Korea’s main attractions, such as the massive Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, the 170-metre Juche Tower, a monument built to symbolize the national philosophy of self-reliance, and the tomb of Mao Anying, Chairman Mao’s son who was killed in action during the Korean War. Although he didn’t get his photo taken with any of them, he also witnessed a few of Pyongyang’s famously robotic trafﬁc cops in action. “The trafﬁc police are all

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women and they are all very tall and very beautiful and they have these blue uniforms and black high heel boots,” he explained. “Just go on the Internet and Google them and you will see all these videos that people have taken. It’s kind of a quirky fetish thing and there seems to be a very large following.” Czerwinski’s career as an agronomist has brought him to a wide variety of different countries since graduating from UBC in 1979, including Egypt, Chechnya, Mali, China, Sudan and Madagascar, where he met his wife Rachelle. North Korea was truly unlike anywhere else he’d ever been. “It’s like the people are all uniform,” he said. “I mean, they are polite and the ones who speak English seem nice but people don’t seem to have any individuality.” He added that he also found it hard to tell if their legendary nationalistic fervour is genuine or expressed out of fear of their totalitarian government. His visit coincided with the country’s launch of its first satellite into orbit, an act most countries condemned as a threat to global security because the technology is the same as that used with intercontinental ballistic missiles. Czerwinski, whose Vancouver home falls within potential missile range, watched the event unfold from a restaurant inside a diplomatic compound where the staff all spoke English. “The waitresses were all standing in front of this big flatscreen TV that was showing this missile being fired off,” he said. “One of the more vocal ones said to us: ‘Aren’t you going to congratulate us?’ and we were like ‘what!’ It is so hard to tell if the devotion is real or feigned.” Czerwinski’s trip wasn’t simply for pleasure, however, as he was also there on WFP business. Whatever their social problems, he said mass starvation is no longer a major concern for North Koreans. “The project I helped to develop last December really only concerns pregnant or lactating women or children, not like it was back then when it was blanket, when we were feeding most of the country.” afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic

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news Coalition asks BCers to survive on $26 of food for a week CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

riter D.M. Gillis doesn’t have to participate in the annual Welfare Food Challenge starting next Wednesday to know social assistance isn’t enough to get by on. During the last week of the month when he’s run out of money to buy food, Gillis, a social assistance recipient, says he eats spoonfuls of sugar to prevent his medicine from making his blood sugar levels go too far down. Gillis, 52, has had insulin-dependent diabetes for 24 years. He’s on social assistance for people with disabilities and receives $900 a month because he copes with bipolar disorder. He pays $600 a month to rent in the West End, the same apartment he had when he lost his advocacy job with the Canadian Diabetic Association four years ago. “The stress of losing my job made me sick,” he said. He says he lived on disability money from a private insurer until that ran out and then went on social assistance. Once he pays his bills, he has insufficient money left for food. For the first three weeks of the month, Gillis skips lunch and takes less insulin in the afternoon. “I haven’t bought a pair of socks in four years,” he said. “If I wasn’t such a clothes hound to begin with, I’d have nothing.” Diabetics need to maintain their blood sugars to avoid health complications including nerve damage, kidney disease and blindness. Gillis says he could apply for an additional $50 allowance per month from the government but he hasn’t. “I apply for work continuously and I have this magical thinking going on in my head that with my background, my education and my experience I’ll get a job,” he said. Gillis experiences extreme anxiety in crowds and a visit to a welfare office triggers stress. “It’s a welfare office. I’m a person with a disability. I get treated, when I go in there, almost like a criminal when I ask for something,” he said, noting clients can’t download a form, get it signed by a doctor and fax it in. Anxiety also keeps him from queuing up at food banks. Gillis wrote about eating sugar from the bag for the summer issue of the Right to Food Zine that’s published through the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House to draw attention to food insecurity in Canada. “I’m lucky because I’m on disability. I get $900 a month, but yesterday I was handing bananas out to people standing in line for a cheque for $600,” he said. “They will have to get along as best they can for the rest of the month, standing in line here, standing in line there waiting for a meal, spending big chunks of their lives waiting for something to be given to them.” Gillis wants a living wage instituted in B.C. He also wants more vocational rehabilitation for people with disabilities. Raise the Rates contends social assistance and minimum

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Public Auction: Sale of Land for Taxes – November 13 The City of Vancouver will hold a public auction of lands on which taxes or other charges have been delinquent for two years. Under the provisions of the Vancouver Charter the auction will be held: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 10 am Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Seating is limited and on a ﬁrst-come, ﬁrst-served basis. The list of properties to be offered for sale is available at vancouver.ca/taxsale on Thursday, November 7.

wage rates must be increased and indexed to inﬂation. The coalition of organizations concerned with poverty and homelessness is asking residents of B.C. to eat for $26 a week, the amount of money it calculates a single, able-bodied person on social as-

sistance has to spend on food, Oct. 16 to 22. For more information, see welfarefoodchallenge.org. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

Property Tax Exemptions for 2014 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-proﬁt properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2014 taxation year). A bylaw will be brought forward to Council on October 22, 2013 in accordance with Section 396(1)(g) of the Vancouver Charter.

The properties to be considered for exemption in 2014, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2014 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

Est Taxes 2014

Est Taxes 2015

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BAPTIST FOUNDATION OF B C

266-772-26-0000

13,300

13,700

14,200

BAPTIST FOUNDATION OF B C

765-266-06-0000

31,700

32,600

33,600

BAPTIST HOUSING SOCIETY OF BC

631-232-04-0000

51,600

53,200

54,800

BEULAH GARDEN HOMES SOCIETY

634-300-04-0000

28,900

29,700

30,600

BEULAH GARDEN HOMES SOCIETY

634-300-39-0000

8,100

8,300

8,600

BEULAH GARDEN HOMES SOCIETY

634-300-52-0000

35,500

36,600

37,700

BEULAH GARDEN HOMES SOCIETY

634-300-92-0000

18,700

19,300

19,900

BROADWAY PENTECOSTAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION BC

650-274-27-0000

18,000

18,500

19,100

CALLING MINISTRIES

710-072-06-0000

44,300

45,600

47,000 13,000

CHAU LUEN KON SOL SOCIETY OF VANCOUVER

192-592-92-0000

12,200

12,600

CHRIST CHURCH OF CHINA

192-592-04-0000

10,600

10,900

11,300

COLUMBUS CHARITIES ASSOCIATION

306-720-45-0000

14,700

15,100

15,600 9,500

FINNISH CANADIAN REST HOME ASSOC

828-251-94-0000

9,000

9,200

FINNISH CANADIAN REST HOME ASSOC

828-258-06-0000

4,400

4,500

4,700

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

605-113-66-0000

12,500

12,900

13,300

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

638-077-07-0000

11,400

11,800

12,100

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

641-234-20-0000

6,600

6,800

7,000

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

648-078-05-0000

5,700

5,900

6,100

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

665-230-68-0000

5,200

5,400

5,500

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

670-230-83-0000

3,900

4,000

4,100

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

670-230-89-0000

5,200

5,400

5,500

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

683-230-82-0000

4,500

4,600

4,700

HFBC HOUSING FOUNDATION

722-283-48-0000

23,000

23,700

24,400

KING EDWARD COURT SOCIETY

710-072-95-0000

23,400

24,100

24,800

M KOPERNIK NICOLAUS COPERNICUS FDTN

817-300-22-0000

4,200

4,300

4,500

MENNONITE SR CITIZENS SOCIETY OF BC

755-237-51-0000

29,400

30,300

31,200

MOUNT PLEASANT HOUSING SOCIETY

645-194-47-0000

7,700

7,900

8,100

NEW CHELSEA SOCIETY

270-670-95-0000

8,400

8,700

8,900

NEW CHELSEA SOCIETY

693-253-64-0000

32,600

33,500

34,600

ODD FELLOWS LOW RENTAL HOUSING SOC

318-725-95-0000

8,900

9,200

9,400

PARISH OF ST PAUL VANCOUVER

609-117-44-0000

25,100

25,800

26,600

ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF VANCOUVER

596-196-49-0000

9,100

9,400

9,700

SOC FOR CHRISTIAN CARE OF ELDERLY

613-119-54-0000

63,200

65,100

67,000

SOROPTIMIST CLUB OF VANCOUVER BC

683-165-54-0000

8,400

8,700

8,900

SOUTH AMHERST HOUSING SOCIETY

244-805-96-0000

4,100

4,200

4,400

THE V E L HOUSING SOCIETY

577-259-06-0000

7,100

7,300

7,600

THE V E L HOUSING SOCIETY

596-250-04-0000

5,200

5,300

5,500

UKRAINIAN SR CITIZENS HOUSING SOC

300-810-95-0000

8,800

9,100

9,300

VAN KIWANIS SR CITIZENS HOUSING SOC

300-811-05-0000

7,900

8,100

8,400

VANCOUVER KIWANIS SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING SOCIETY

125-832-84-0000

10,300

10,600

10,900

642,800

661,900

682,100

THE LIST OF PROPERTIES IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Purchasers at the sale are required to pay the upset price by cash or other certiﬁed funds. Delinquent taxpayers may make payment before the sale starts. FOR MORE INFORMATION: 604-873-7816 or phone 3-1-1

Est Taxes 2016

NAME

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Property Tax Ofﬁce 604-871-6893

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tival and Christie, wearing camouﬂage pants and resting on crutches with a foot in a cast, led the charge at 11 o’clock sharp. Within minutes, everybody was at their stations. A retired physician, who wanted to learn how to improve upon the only thing he knows how to cook on his boat, was in charge of cutting onions. Four women from Mexico, three of whom are grandmothers, took over the cooking of the meat and vegetarian chili, making sure the choppers knew to cut out the garlic heart — the part they say is responsible for garlic breath. Christie led another group to make his favourite part of the meal — cornbread — all the while enthusiastically punctuating cooking instructions with “Alright!” and “Awesome!” The cramped quarters made the mix of cultures all the more evident. The women from Mexico, having been in Vancouver as long as four years and as short as one month, spoke in their rapid-ﬁre Spanish. Over at the cornbread table a French-Canadian woman struggled with opening a jug of milk. “It’s because they only have bags of milk in Quebec, not jugs!” explained a fellow standing next to her. Klara Silva, originally from Slovenia, said she volunteers at the Gordon House to give back because the neighbourhood house was so helpful to her as a young immigrant to Vancouver in 1980. And this is the impetus behind the community kitchen class, said Gordon Neighbourhood House executive director Paul Michael Taylor. “Food is a mechanism which brings people together,” he said. “We can learn from one another,

share and have intelligent conversations, and build community.” The West End Food Festival is a ﬁrst for the Gordon Neighbourhood House. The four-day festival started with a yard sale/barbecue, a walking tour of the neighbourhood’s community gardens, a Tin Pan Chef competition where two chefs made a meal out of a box donated by the Vancouver Food Bank, and ended with Monday’s panel discussion on food security. All in the name of food, and that’s something that Taylor, who previously worked for the Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, feels is important for West End residents. “The Downtown Eastside has a strong, cohesive, lowincome community. Here, it’s a little more hidden,” he said. “I grew up as a hungry kid and there’s that feeling that you’ve done something wrong, that you should hide the shame, hide the hunger. But, with an event like this, it brings people together. “ Taylor, who says he is critical of the “charity model and poverty mentality” of food banks, says he saw change when food was presented with dignity and education to low-income Downtown Eastside residents. “Because it’s so much more pleasant than being handed a bag of stale bread.” Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, the cornbread was in the oven and the pots of chili were simmering on the stove. Somebody asked Christie if the class included eating the meal. “Eating? Of course we are!” he said. “You think we’d go through all this trouble without eating something?” info@rebeccablissett.com twitter.com/rebeccablissett

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amilies and friends all across the city are getting amped up for the annual Thanksgiving feast. This cornucopia of food, drink and good conversation is made even better by ‘shopping local’ this fall season. The Courier queried Vancouver Farm Markets’ operations manager, Roberta LaQuaglia, about what’s popular this year at the markets: Brussels sprouts have seen a resurgence lately, so I’d say that is one veggie that is growing in popularity,” says LaQuaglia. “Lately, growers have been bringing them still attached to the stalks, which is a real conversation piece when you’re walking home from the market! “Interestingly, cauliflower and broccoli are very much sought after these days,” she says. “If you don’t like cauliflower but you haven’t tried it fresh from the market, it will change your mind. Sweet and nutty - it’s awesome roasted.”

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You know an event is going to be scary when the press release includes a warning that the occasion is absolutely not for children under the age of 12 and seniors 65 and older, as well as anyone with a sensitivity to strobe lights, high blood pressure, a heart condition or is pregnant. So what fresh hell can this be? The annual Fright Nights at Playland, which starts this weekend and continues through the entire Halloween season, including Nov. 1 and 2. That means for the first time, Fright Nights will be operating an extra two weekends, while closing some Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That translates to a reduction in ticket prices this year. Guests can face their fears in six haunted houses and, for those who survive, risk their lives on 12 rides and be entertained by the Monsters of Schlock, a two-man comedy, circus act and stunt show influenced by the early days of vaudeville, the Three Stooges and “carnivals of yore.” And just a reminder, absolutely no guest costumes will be allowed so leave that Miley Cyrus finger, Duck Dynasty beard or Sharknado chainsaw at home. For more information, go to frightnights.ca.

Fright Night at Playland begins again this weekend. and runs through Nov. 2, is classic horror movies so expect appearances from Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy and the Phantom of the Opera. Take a seat on the miniature train, while keeping an eye out for these creatures from the silver screen as they slither and crawl out from their cofﬁns and tombs. The Pumpkin Patch is open for all hours of operation, but pumpkin carving only takes place Oct. 15 and 22 at 6 p.m. Costumes are encouraged Oct. 29 and prizes will be awarded for originality, personality and design. Learn about the night creatures of Stanley Park with hands-on activities hosted by the Stanley Park Ecology Society. Lantern-lit wildlife walks take place Thursday through Sundays from 6 to 9:30 p.m. for an additional fee. For more information visit vancouver.ca/ parks-recreation-culture/ghost-train.

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7 to 11:30 p.m. at St. James Community Square, 3214 West 10th Ave. (The society runs Jewish group homes for adults living with mental disabilities.) Lend a Hand features special guests Michael Dunn and Alan Zisman, jazz vocalist Nancy Newman and Friends, the Noodniks, a roving magician and silent auction. Advance tickets can be purchased at Zulu Records, 1972 West Fourth Ave., or at the door the night of the event.

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OAKRIDGE a journey through our city’s neighbourhoods Vancouver Special is a year-long journey through each of Vancouver’s unique neighbourhoods. Join us every two weeks in our weekend issue for another look at a different community in our city.

Kosher deli serves up blintzes, knishes and friendship

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT A GLANCE Oakridge stretches from Granville to Ontario street between West 41st and 57th. It’s largely residential aside from prominent sites at its edges such as Langara College and Langara golf course on the southeast corner, and Oakridge Centre and the Jewish Community Centre along West 41st between Oak and Cambie. The neighbourhood was one of the last developed in Vancouver. “It’s one of the last pieces of the original CPR land grant, so it was bush until the mid-1950s — until about ’56 or ’57 when they began to develop Oakridge [mall],” recalls local historian Michael Kluckner who grew up in the city. “There was actually a shooting club on Oak at about 45th until 1955 or ‘56. I can remember the sound of the shooting. It just says how much out in the toolies it was.” Vacant lots gradually ﬁlled in with rancher and splitlevel style houses. Kluckner’s book Vanishing Vancouver, published in 1990, notes that in May 1957 80-foot wide building lots went on sale for an average price of $7,125. Some of those houses have already been knocked down and rebuilt into larger homes. Even those that haven’t been demolished list for upwards of a million dollars today. “I don’t know that there’s an area that you could say that’s done such a rapid turnaround from the original houses, which were typically well built,” Kluckner says. “They certainly seemed posh to me when I was a kid.” The introduction of the Canada Line along Cambie in 2009 and the city’s appetite for densiﬁcation is sparking further redevelopment in the neighbourhood. Oakridge mall was developed in the late 1950s and renovated in 1984, but the city is weighing a controversial proposal that would double its size, potentially feature towers up to 45 storeys and include a 70,000 square foot civic centre. A staff report to council on the proposal is expected in early 2014 and will likely be followed by a public hearing.

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Leona Pinsky was one of Eppy Rappaport’s ﬁrst customers when he opened Omnitsky Kosher on Cambie Street almost two decades ago. Behind the counter is kosher supervisor Eli Cohen. NAOIBH O’CONNOR Staff writer

ickie Rothman pushes a grocery cart full of comfort foods — egg salad, potato and kasha knishes, matzo balls, cucumber salad, smoked turkey breast, blueberry blintzes and chopped liver — down the aisle at Omnitsky Kosher on Cambie Street near West 41st Avenue. Rothman is on her way home from a visit to Whistler on this sunny October afternoon. She’s been a regular customer since the business opened almost two decades ago. “Everything is fresh here. [It’s] kosher, but I come here because of the service and the food,” she says. “You should see this place on the weekend — sometimes it’s packed.” Business is steady today. Plain White T’s “Hey there Delilah” plays softly on a radio perched behind the deli counter as a customer orders egg salad to go. Another shopper orders a hotdog and matzo ball soup from a menu that has options ranging from a Noah’s Ark “Epwich” (chopped liver/pastrami/coleslaw) to salad plates.

The customer eats at a table near a large window facing Cambie Street and Oakridge Centre. Owner Efrem “Eppy” Rappaport juggles duties, including ringing in purchases. “Pickles, corned beef, two rye and hockey back on — what more could you ask for?” he tells a pair of shoppers while bagging their groceries. Customer interaction is why he fell in love with the business. “You build relationships, especially with weekly clientele. You get to know them. I would consider them friends even. You feel their pain when they go through pain in life. You feel their joy when they go through joy in life. I’ve developed many, many good relationships from loyal, repeat customers.” Leona Pinsky was one of the ﬁrst customers through Rappaport’s door when the deli opened. She’d been to Omnitsky Kosher in Winnipeg, where the business originated, and heard through word of mouth it was opening on Cambie Street. “At that time there was only one other place to buy kosher meat in Vancouver, so it was a big deal when someone new was opening up,” she says. Continued on next page

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and preparation of the food. A person on staff ensures such conditions are met and a supervisory third party from B.C. Kosher also inspects two or three times a day. The deli’s grocery line is almost exclusively stock that’s difficult to get elsewhere, including non-dairy “parve” chocolate chippits and rennet-free cheeses. Rappaport also sells bread products, frozen and dried foods — all certified kosher. Rappaport works between 60 and 90 hours a week, partly at his office and plant on Annacis Island. Over the years he’s weathered the unpredictable marketplace and more recently disruption caused by Canada Line construction. His former landlord gave tenants a break on rent during that period and Rappaport adapted by rebranding packaging, selling hotdogs and salamis under the name Eppy’s Kosher in other stores, and buying a refrigerated truck for deliveries. He may have to adapt again as his building has a new owner and city hall is considering a massive redevelopment proposal for Oakridge Centre across the street. But Rappaport is prepared for what lies ahead. “There’s no small business in the world that doesn’t evolve and change. Everything always changes,” he says.

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Pinsky now shops weekly. “You can’t beat the quality of his kosher meat. I have people come from out of town and say, ‘This is the best meat I’ve had in Vancouver — where did you get it?’” Pinsky also appreciates Rappaport’s community contributions. “He’s very generous. He just quietly supports so many different things in the Jewish community and outside of the Jewish community,” she says. Rappaport describes himself as a Conservative Jew — he wears the skullcap worn by observant Jews and keeps a kosher home. He spent his youth in Winnipeg where his father was a rabbi. A photo of the now 56-year-old at age 13 in a pin-striped suit at his bar mitzvah hangs on a wall. An American accent hints at his New York birthplace, but he lived in Winnipeg from age 10 to 36 and it’s where his business career started. Louis Omnitsky opened the original Omnitsky Kosher in Winnipeg in 1910. Omnitsky’s son William took it over. At retirement age, he approached Rappaport’s father to see whether he knew anyone who’d like to buy the shop. Rappaport was studying at the University of Manitoba, but had taken a year off. He didn’t have money to buy a business. Omnitsky offered to train him and recoup the cost once he was making money. “I did fall in love with the business and four-

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The Hass family moved into the Oakridge-area rancher in 1960. It’s still owned by the family, but it’s up for sale.

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Property: 728 West 52nd Ave. $1.9 million Norm Hass “vividly” recalls moving into his family’s custombuilt, rancher-style home in the Oakridge neighbourhood in 1960. Hass, now 61, was seven years old. His father, Horst, began building the home, located at 728 West 52nd Street near Tisdall Street, in 1959. The family, which included Horst’s wife Lucy and four children, moved in the following year. “During that time when I was a kid, they had a pile of houses and stuff around, but there were still quite a few vacant lots. And down where Langara Gardens is was still comprised predominantly of just bush,” he told the Courier. “As kids, we used to go down there — the whole neighbourhood — and build forts and do whatever kids did in those days.” Hass never asked his father why he chose to build in Oakridge, but he recalls seeing the original deed for the land. “It was actually from Marathon real estate, which used to be CP — that was what the actual purchase was through, Marathon Realty,” he said. After more than ﬁve decades, the property is still family-owned, but maybe not for long — it’s up for sale for $1.9 million. “The house is all customized inside — it must be one of the only houses, even in today’s standards, to have low voltage switching throughout the whole house, so that you have control in the master bedroom, so that you can control all the lighting around the house if you so desire,” Hass said. “It was the nouveau thing at the time. My father was an electrical contractor and he was always doing the cutting edge things.” Go to vancourier.com for more photos.

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neighbourhood numbers The year the development of Oakridge Centre was announced.

The highest tower in the proposed billion-dollar redevelopment of Oakridge Centre. The height limit for towers in the 2007 Oakridge Centre Policy Statement. The year Canadian Paciﬁc Railway built Langara Golf Course. Canadian architect Thomas McBroom redesigned the course, according to the City of Vancouver. The percent of the Jewish population in Vancouver, many of whom live in the Oakridge area, who are low income. The number of Courier editorial staffers who attended Langara College’s journalism program. 101013

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The VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ends Oct. 11, but have no fear. Vancity Theatre, the Rio Theatre and SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts are hitting repeat and screening a whack of crowd favourites from the festival (26 in all) Oct. 12 to 17. Highlights include Ben Wheatley’s strange and sinister period piece A Field in England, the documentary Finding Vivian Maier and A LADY IN PARIS, starring the doyenne of French cinema, Jeanne Moreau. For details and show times, go to viff.org. Vancouver’s charismatic “King of the Ukulele” RALPH SHAW and the Vancouver Ukulele Circle take over St. James Hall (3214 West 10th Ave.) Oct. 15 for the Halloween-themed SPOOKULELE BALL. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Group singing begins at 7:30 with an open mic of Halloween songs at 8:45 p.m. Costumes are encouraged (though not mandatory) with prizes for the best get-up. Admission is $8 at the door.

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Mad props, as the kids used to say, to our home-girl Alice Munro for snagging a hunk of that Nobel Peace Prize cheese for Literature on Thursday. In your face, Haruki Murakami. Nah, just messin’ with you H-Man, you’re still our dawg. We caught word of the dope news while chillin’ in our crib and hitting snooze on Rick the mother-effin’ Cluff and CBC Radio’s It’s Too Early Edition, yo. First we thought, are you punking us, Cecilia Walters? Canada’s master of the contemporary short story finally gettin’ to wear the crown? But no, she was for real. For her literary efforts, A-Bomb also receives a big bag o’ cash. According to our journo-homies at the T-dot Star, the award money fluctuates, but in 2012 the monetary value of the prize was 8,000,000 Swedish kronor (roughly C$1.3 million). That should buy a lot of Cristal and Courvoisier, which you just know will be flowing like Niagra mother-effin’ Falls when Munro and her crew hit the clubs in rural Ontario this weekend. So in honour of Ms. Munro and her sumptuous achievement, we’re going to kick it old school this week by sparking up a blunt, cracking open Who Do You Think You Are? and immersing ourselves in Rose’s universal struggle to accept herself as she grows up and attempts to escape her whack humble beginnings. You know, keepin’ it real.

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN On what will forever be known as Black LOLless Wednesday, customers of Rogers Wireless experienced untold anguish and heartache after “hours-long” outages of cellphone service Wednesday evening. The cause of the devastating disruption remains unknown, but the telecom giant restored its wireless voice and text messaging services within a few hours.

Silenced like a digital Helen Keller, customers somehow managed to.... use their Internet service provider rather than Rogers Wireless and give voice to their pain through social media. Rogers Wireless president and CEO Nadir Mohamed issued a statement to customers, saying the service breakdown was “unacceptable” and that he sincerely apologizes for this “significant inconvenience.” But for many of the company’s 10 million wireless customers, the damage is already done. Silenced like a digital Helen Keller, customers somehow managed to find a computer, tablet or cellphone Wednesday night and use their Internet service provider rather than Rogers Wireless and give voice to their pain through social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Then there were those brave businesses which, in the face of such human misery, immediately started the rebuilding process, such as A&W, which tweeted, “#Rogers is down? I needed both hands to hold this Teen Burger anyway.” But the real tragedy is the untold number of voicemailmessagesthatweredeleted(although who leaves voice messages these days, anyway?), the self-taken photos of nether regions that never reached their intended destination or future blackmailer, the pictures of restaurant meals that went unseen, and the unheard pleas for assistance such as “Wher can I find Hazmat suit 4 BreakingBad costum 4 Halloween?” or “Shelly, when u showing up? bostonpizzasux” and “Rogers, why you doing me like this?” To help customers and their families recover from Wednesday’s tragic events, Rogers Wireless plans to issue a day’s worth of free credit to those whose lives were forever changed on that dark night. Stay strong, Canada.

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Hungry like the Good-Wolfe really surprised to discover that recently unveiled GoodWolfe (1043 Mainland St., 604-428-1043) has hit the ground running. Owners Richard Goodine and Josh Wolfe are longtime industry professionals. Goodine (who runs things out front) has managed some of the top rooms in the city, such as Black & Blue and Joe Forte, and was international export director for stellar Tuscan wine

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house Banfi for 10 years. Chef Wolfe originally headed west from Toronto’s Centro to take over Coast Restaurant. He also runs Fresh | Local | Wild, one of the city’s most popular food trucks, is a keen forager and makes some of the best fish ‘n chips anywhere. There’s no shortage of good tastes on this adventuresome, bistro-inspired menu. We’d head back in a flash for more of Wolfe’s wicked cured steelhead pastrami served with house-made maple mustard, nicely textured terrine with blueberry mustard and fresh baby greens, and a special of tender venison stew with black pepper spaetzle. The plates are creative without being fussy and the flavours vibrant. One unexpected bonus: home-baked baguettes served in a miniature bucket. The room is relaxing and casual, dominated by the large, central square bar. A unique twist, the blackboard back wall doubles as a tonguein-cheek wine list, with bottles attached and some amusing chalk graffiti. It’s a real attention getter — and fun. Plus, there’s a decent (heated) small patio out front where, if you’re lucky, you can still

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Longtime industry professionals Richard Goodine (l) and Josh Wolfe have opened Good-Wolfe. catch some early fall rays. These are tough times for diners and restaurateurs alike. Kudos to these two for keeping the prices reasonable. Most dinner entrées are around $20 while appetizers/small plates range from $8 to $18.

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At the Cultch until Oct. 12 Tickets: 604-251-1363 thecultch.com t’s ironic, isn’t it, that with the huge amount and variety of food available to us, we find ourselves scrutinizing labels as if our very lives depended upon it. In my extended family, two are allergic to wheat, one is caffeine-sensitive, one can’t drink red wine, one is vegan and three are on the cusp of veganism. The grocery store is a minefield. What’s going on? What’s going on is what Inside The Seed is all about. Written by Jason Patrick Rothery, this is a scathing look at a fictitious corporation so large it has lost track of its subsidiaries. While one part of the company isgrowinggeneticallymodified rice, another is manufacturing defoliants. It’s about a corporation eager to ship 100,000 tons of its “Golden Rice” to Africa without knowing — or caring

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— about the “statistically insignificant” incidents of birth defects the product causes. The information that these defects are “locked” — that is, the defect is passed from parent to offspring and so on — has also been suppressed. Thisrivettingpieceoftheatre is superbly directed by Richard Wolfe for Upintheair Theatre on a simple but effective set designed by Jerguš Opršal. The Culture Lab has been reconfigured for this show with two banks of opposing seats and a narrow alley between. At one end is Peter Paul Rubens’ masterpiece, The Slaughter of The Innocents — recently purchased for the corporate offices of Demetech. CEO Foster Bryant sits at the opposite end at a sleek, expensive-looking glass and steel desk. In between are eight log rounds of varying heights for the rest of the characters who remain on the set throughout. They watch, listen, lean in, and turn: they are a chorus of witnesses

to all conversation that happen in that office. In turn, each one stands and moves forward to interact with Bryant and/or Cole, the corporation’s CFO. Although it’s clear the playwrightcondemnscorporations such as this, he sets up the debate fairly: millions of starving Africans will benefit from the shipment of the rice and Bryant (Patrick Sabongui) really does not know about the “statistically insignificant” birth defects. But there are others who do know and don’t care; or who know but are prepared to make a deal. Inside The Seed is a riveting production of this world premiere. If you care about the food you eat — or the food our country ships to the Third World — put this one on your menu. —Jo Ledingham A longer version of this review can be found at vancourier.com/entertainment. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca

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PHOTO FEST: The city’s inaugural Capture photography festival launched at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV). More than 50 events have been programmed for the six-week run dedicated to celebrating local and international photography and lens-based art. Founded by Kim Spencer Nairn and Julie Lee, Capture features exhibitions, public installations and a series of community-based photo workshops, artist talks and panel discussions. Lee, along with co-curator Katie Huisman, kicked things off with an evolutionary look into street photography, now showing at MOV. FAMOUS FOODS: Named enRoute Magazine’s Canadian Bartender of the Year and most imaginative barkeep by GQ Magazine, Jay Jones, Donnelly Group’s master mixologist, was inducted into the B.C. Restaurant Hall of Fame. Jones, along with his boss, Jeff Donnelly, and nine others were feted at an awards dinner held at the Italian Cultural Centre.

MOVERS & SHAPERS: The Museum of Vancouver hosted its second Legacy Dinner & City Shaper Awards. Nearly 200 guests gathered for the tribute dinner honouring individuals and businesses who have signiﬁcantly contributed and shaped our fun city. Feted were architect and planner Ray Spaxman, Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman and Mountain Equipment Co-op. Organizers hope to surpass 2012’s $50,000 haul beneﬁtting the local museum.

IZM founders Jerad Mack and Shane Pawluk showcased their modern minimalist furniture at a pop-up shop on Columbia Street in Chinatown until Oct 22.

Brian Howell’s modern take on Foncie street photography was part of Kim Spencer Nairn’s Capture Festival, the city’s ﬁrst ever celebration of photography and lens-based art.

Architect and planner Ray Spaxman and Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman were feted at MOV’s Legacy Dinner & City Shaper Awards.

After 20 years, Tourism Vancouver CEO Rick Antonson will leave his post. Before his June departure, Antonson opened the doors to the city’s new visitor centre.

Bar stars Jay Jones (l) and Jeff Donnelly were among 11 individuals honoured at the BC Restaurant Hall of Fame awards dinner.

Townhall Marketing’s Leeann Froese presented Friend of Industry Award to Okanagan Crush Pads Christine Coletta for her contributions to the development of the B.C. wine industry.

Taking an evolutionary look into street photography, curators Julie Lee and Katie Huisman ﬂanked artist Angela Fama at the Capture opening at MOV.

Walrus’s Caroline DaCosta and Daniel Koslowski displayed photos from Sudan captured by Obakki Foundation founder Treana Peake.

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I think Heaven exists. I think I was taken there in the early ‘90’s. First, something happened that I am sure was connected a few months or a year earlier. In meditation, I was travelling through the clouds. I came to a place where a bearded middle-aged man sat at a table in the clouds. He examined me with his gaze, then stamped something on my forehead. I felt accepted, but to what was a mystery. The similarity to St. Peter didn’t escape me, but no heavenly gates opened. Later in this trance, ﬂoating again in the same sort of sky, I saw a glowing book and asked to know the story or the names on the pages, but an angel said only: “It’s the book of Life.” “Is my name in there?,” I asked. “Am I judged there and how did I do? Is there knowledge there?” The angel answered, but I can’t remember what she said. The main thing I understood was that I was not allowed to plunder it with my curiosity. With some regret, I realize that I still don’t desire heaven enough. Earth is still too interesting, and lust and love too beguiling. But I have a quiet, warm belief and faith that we will all get there someday — when we desire it!

Work to complete, not start. Larger projects might hit a slow down next week, especially in health, ﬁnancial and intimate areas. Meantime, the accent continues on relationships. Make love, not war. This is a nice, easy week, though it might start with a wee bit of turbulence Sunday to early afternoon Monday — but these two days are also optimistic, fun, ﬂirty — and could make a wish come true.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness remain high, Libra — use them to wrap up projects rather than start new ones. (A period of mistakes and delays begins next week.) Friends and siblings bring some sweet affection your way until early November — give ‘em a call. The past seven weeks boosted your popularity and friendships, but more importantly those weeks opened the door to achieving a relationship wish.

It’s your last week of drudgery, of work and health burdens, Taurus. Concentrate on ﬁnishing tasks and/or on establishing health regimens as the next few weeks will bring delays and mistakes. Be wary of making promises or agreements, for these might be embarrassing — or unfulﬁlled — over the weeks ahead. Just lower your head and plow through chores.

Continue to rest, lie low, protect your health and reputation. But do stir yourself enough to complete neglected or half-ﬁnished tasks. Next week your energy will soar, but at the same time a mistake-prone slow down begins. The best way to keep your wits about you in the mildly confusing weeks ahead is to clear away all large chores this week. Your money picture looks good until early November.

Step lightly now to Dec. 7 as friction potentials rise at home, and to some degree everywhere. You might, during this period, abandon an old dream/wish and begin brewing a new one. This might change your romantic goals (e.g., the kind of person you want to chase). This week, strive to complete both work and creative projects and to ﬁrm up child-related or romantic situations, as a slow down begins next week.

One last wish could still come true this week, Sage. Your popularity remains high, social delights arrive and ﬂirtation or light romance is very possible, especially Sunday (casual friends) and Wednesday night (not advised) through Friday. You might even fall madly in love! Sunday p.m. is great for siblings, friends, short trips and conversations.

A period of extra income and extra spending ends. Now to early December, you’ll be writing, calling, travelling and lobbying for your career/ambitions. Strive to complete projects rather than start new ones. You continue to be focused on home, kids/parents, security, retirement and your foundations in personal life and business. Get plenty of beauty sleep, as next week begins a month of romance and creativity.

Finish rather than start projects, especially in social and organizational areas. A period of confusion and delays begins next week. This is your last week of extra striving, of intensiﬁed ambition (and/or of having to face the music involving authorities). You’ll be more socially busy than usual over the weeks ahead yet your private life, solitude, will provide intervals of sweetness and affection.

Finish rather than begin projects, Leo. A slow down looms and will begin in earnest next week. Mars leaves your sign this Tuesday, ending a period of romantic and intellectual bravado, of determination, and beginning a phase of “quick money” that will last to early December. For eight weeks, more money will ﬂow to you but even more can ﬂow from you. Be wise, bank it rather than yielding to a subconscious urge to splurge.

A phase of mistakes and delays will begin next week, so use this week to complete rather than start projects, especially in business, career and ambitions. Your social life has improved a bit lately, will stay sweet and affectionate through early November. If you have your mind on marrying someone, now would be the time to propose.

Chase money, but don’t start new income or spending projects — instead, wrap up as much as you can this week as the 21st begins three weeks of mistakes and delays. For example, type up all your invoices and mail them now (Tuesday best) or compose the mailings now and send them out Nov. 11 onward, when the slow down ends. Six weeks of worry (or private dreaming) about a sexy person or about a ﬁnancial situation ends.

Next week everything starts turning in circles, so complete projects now rather than start new ones. This applies especially to cultural, legal, travel, love and learning projects. Your career is protected for the weeks ahead, VIPs and bosses like you. You end seven weeks of hard work this Tuesday; and eight weeks of intense relationships begin. For best results, make love, not war.

Monday: Usher (35). Tuesday: Sarah Ferguson (54), Emeril Lagasse (54). Wednesday: Angela Lansbury (88). Thursday: Eminem (41). Friday: Chuck Berry (87). Saturday: John Lithgow (68 Sunday: Tom Petty (63).

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AtLangaraY,tablesservemorethanpingpong FRIENDSHIPS AND POTLUCK BREAKFASTS SHARED OVER TABLE TENNIS BYLINE NAME Staff writer

Ping pong keeps Harry Luk 63 years young. The one-time tennis player switched to the table version of the sport more than 25 years ago and visits the Langara YMCA for at least one game every day of the week. “Some days twice,” he said. The split-second pace and lightning strikes that enliven a table tennis rally require unrelenting concentration and tightly wound reﬂexes. For 45 minutes, players stay on their feet with their eyes ﬁxed on the ball while maintaining balance and engaging all their muscle groups. “It’s good for your whole body, including your eyesight,” said Luk during an interview this week. His friend leaned forward and added, “It enhances your sex life.” Luk laughed and nodded. “It’s cardio!” On a recent Tuesday evening at the Y on 49th Avenue beside Langara College, Luk wrapped up a match with Umesh Lakhanpal, 20 years his junior. “I want to be like him when I’m 63 years old,” Lakhanpal said. Their T-shirts were wet with sweat and Luk, a trim man who had few laugh lines despite a frequent smile, had tied a neatly folded paper towel around his bald head. “If you play with a good player, you become a better player yourself,” Lakhanpal added. The Langara YMCA tables are elbowed into a hallway between children’s play areas and two racquet sport courts, which are used every day for table tennis. Nets were strung up between tables six years ago to keep errant balls from bouncing away and under the feet of nearby players. The tables are so popular, players are limited to booking only one 45-minute session each week yet bookings remain very high at 80 per cent capacity every day. Stephanie Chan, who has won medals for Canada at two Para-Pan American

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Canadian table tennis Paralympian Stephanie Chan trains every day at the Langara YMCA.

Games, trains at the Langara Y. The tables are busy from opening to closing with a quieter lull at lunchtime. When the Y was designed and built more than 35 years ago, no one could have anticipated how the space would be repurposed or predict the social gatherings, breakfast potlucks and friendships that have formed around the tables. “This is like a second home,” said Nina Cheng, who was at the YMCA with her husband to play doubles with married friends they’d met around the very same tables. Before their match, one of the husbands, Lawrence Chang, played a video on the health beneﬁts of ping pong. “It’s good for reﬂexes,” he said. “Doctors even say it’s good for balance and eyesight.” Cheng hadn’t played since she was a high schooler in Taiwan but was frequently at the YMCA for yoga and was eventually drawn to the crowd playing ping pong. “In the morning, there are even more people,” she said. Players rotate through games and bring food to share such as steamed buns and congee plus you

tiao, or crullers, to dip. The YMCA provides a coffee maker. “This is the only group that I know of at this YMCA as well as probably any other YMCA that integrates their activity and sport with aspects of socializing and food,” said general manager Ian Broadbent. The Langara Y has a membership of 7,200 people and roughly 150 people arrive to play table tennis at least once every week. “It’s pretty special and a unique aspect of this building,” he said. “A lot of the players have been members for quite some time, anywhere from 10 to 20 years, so they’ve played a large role at our Y for shaping the types of programs and the use of space.” The YMCA on the two-acre lot next to Langara College will be torn down in the near future for a housing development. Planning is in the very initial stages but eventually there will be a new Y at a different site that could better accommodate table tennis. This possibility, while only speculative, pleases Luk. “Membership would go up by at lease 10 or 20 per cent,” he said, noting the crowded, cramped space is far from ideal despite the high use. Luk once played with the Chinatown Ping Pong Club, a social recreational institution that has since closed. He met Lakhanpal five years ago at the Y after Lakhanpal migrated to Canada with his wife and two children. (The family became citizens this summer. Luk said of his friend: “He can sing you the national anthem if you ask.”) The younger man dropped in to play table tennis because it seemed like good exercise although he didn’t see many people who looked like him in the games. Lakhanpal now plays four times a week after work and fits in with a group of friends he might not have otherwise met. “Not a lot of Indians are playing here,” he said. “Most of the time I see 90 per cent Chinese people and look at their age — some of them are older but quite fit. People here are good, they know the game and they give training to the kids.” He added: “They need 10 tables.” mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

Runners race in best-of-five rivalry MEGAN STEWART Staff writer

ord Byng harrier Max Trummer and Killarney’s Aran Rafie-Pour are on a best-of-five showdown. The cross-country runners have exchanged wins at three public high school meets and have two more to go to crown an unofficial city champ — that is if no one outpaces them both to claim the spoils. Rafie-Pour won the first race Sept. 26, beating Trummer by 45 seconds around the 7.6 kilometre course at Fraserview. The next time they met Oct. 3, again at Fraserview, Trummer kicked it up and

out-stepped his rival by less than one second. Both boys’ times were faster the second outing. On Wednesday afternoon for a third meeting at Fraserview on a crisp, sun-soaked fall afternoon made for running, Trummer made it two-for-three when he beat Rafie-Pour a second time. The next meeting is Oct. 16 and the regional zone meet is scheduled for Oct. 23. The top 20 regional racers advance to provincials Nov. 2 at Aldergrove Lake Provincial Park. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart photo Dan Toulgoet

Killarney’s Aran Raﬁe-Pour (left) and Max Trummer of Lord Byng go toe to toe in the third of ﬁve high school crosscountry meets Oct. 9 at Fraserview. Trummer won.

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Angels’ depth is their advantage Four choices for MEGAN STEWART Staff writer

he senior girls volleyball team at Little Flower Academy returned to the court this season with a AAA provincial championship banner and strength from their 2012 roster. The Angels are undefeated in eight league games and are ranked 8th in B.C. “So far this season we’ve pulled out a couple close ones. It’s been good so far,” said head coach Ross Ballard. They beat Crofton House latelastmonthinaclosematch when Crofton was unranked — they have since jumped to No. 2 on the AAA tables. Rankings are only numbers though, said Ballard. Winning close, clutch games is what matters.

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Little Flower Academy volleyball coach Ross Ballard goes through some drills with his senior girls team. “It’s still early in the season,” he said. “It does make a good story because we beat them. This squad is learning what it takes to win tight matches. The little things make that difference in a big game.” The Angels have reached

the AAA ﬁnal two years in a row (they lost and then beat Seaquam) and the team has depth that will take them through this season and next. This year they are without the experienced talent of Kristiann Man and Francesca

Pietrantonio, who are both attending university. The core is younger compared to last year and includes outside hitter Nini Breukels and Sarina Trasolini who are both in Grade 11. Breukels also plays volleyball for Team B.C. Jessica Drew and Tehlana Durty-Wingson also return. “Last year we had ﬁve Grade 12s and a really experienced squad,” said Ballard. The Lower Mainland zone tournament begins the second week of November. Ballard expects his squad is good enough to advance and compete with the best at provincials Nov. 28 to 30 in Delta. “We’re right there but we have to stay healthy,” he said. “It looks promising still for the next couple of years.” mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

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It is time to resurrect the winter bike. Every time I see someone riding a brand new bike, I think of the movie Toy Story and I feel sorry for the old bike. With a new bike taking its place, the old bike has been left in the garage or in the back of someone’s storage locker to collect dust and quickly be forgotten. I want to see these winter bikes resurrected and put back in their places on the road where they belong. Having a second bike is helpful but definitely not necessary to riding in Vancouver all year round. As long as you clean your bike after every ride, you don’t need more than one. But if you have a second bike, especially a bike that you no longer care that much for, it will help preserve the life of your true love, your newest bike. A winter bike is the workhorse of your fleet. It doesn’t have to be light, look pretty, stay clean or have expensive components. In fact, a heavy winter bike will do a lot to help your fitness training. There are a few keys elements to a good winter bike. The first is that it must be safe to ride. If you wouldn’t feel comfortable letting your child ride the bike, make sure you fix it before tryingtorideit,especiallyinharsh winter conditions. Once you deem the bike safe to ride, you will need to spend some time and maybe a bit of money to set up your winter bike to the same geometry as your main bike. Afteraseasonormoreofriding, your body is accustomed to sitting in a specific position and pedalling with precise muscles. If you force a change by switching to a different set up, you may find your muscles will rebel. If you have a bike in a slightly different size, you can sometimes make up the difference by moving the handle bars by changing the length of the stem, which is the ex-

tension that holds the handle bars to the frame. You can also move the seat forward or back as well as moving it higher or lower. Your goal is to make the winter bike feel almost as comfortable as your everyday bike. I say almost because it is never going to be perfect and this is why it’s your winter bike. This may mean your first bike is no longer a good fit for you — that’s fine. Sell it to someone who does fit it and use the money to buy a second-hand bike. Althoughitmayseemlikean extra expense up front to service your old bike or exchange it for something else, having a second bike will save you money. It reduces the costs of replacing the expensive parts on your newer bike because you’re not as frequently riding in the rain and getting road grime, salt and sand into the parts. If you don’t have an old bike or you want to purchase a second bike, consider these suggestions based on how you want this bike to improve your riding skills or provide some variety to your training. • Cyclo-cross: A cyclo-cross bike is a versatile choice. Not only has it been designed to ride in mud and dirt, but you can also transition the bike for non-technical off-road trails like those at Pacific Spirit Park foramentalandphysicalbreak from road traffic. Because of small obstacles, riding on trails will also improve your bikehandling skills. • Mountain bike: A hard tail or cross-country mountain bike allows you to ride more aggressive trails and still get a cardio workout. The geometry of a mountain bike is so completely different that you don’t have to worry about matching your fit, but I would recommend a professional set-up. • Fixed-gear single speed: For more experienced cyclists, riding a fixie will build leg strength, improve your riding skills and help develop a faster, more comfortable cadence. Since the bike has only one gear, you are forced to pedaling whenever the bike is moving. You will quickly learn how to climb Spanish Banks in the same gear you’d use to sprint for the ego win at Iona Point and spin down a hill. kristina@kitsenergy.com

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ritish Columbian homeowners are less likely to renovate their homes within the next 12 months than anyone else in Canada, according to the results of a Scotiabank study released earlier this month. A poll of homeowners across the country found that 55 per cent of owners in this province are planning to renovate — signiﬁ-

cantly lower than the national average of 74 per cent. In addition, those in B.C. who are planning to renovate expect to pay less than those in any other province. The survey found that British Columbians plan to spend an average of $5,700 — 36 per cent less than the Canadian average of $8,992. And 32 per cent of B.C. homeowners planning to renovate in the next 12 months say they do not have a renovation budget, compared with the national aver-

age of 25 per cent. In B.C., 20 per cent of homeowners planning to renovate in the next 12 months plan to do all the work themselves rather than hire contractors. Homeowners in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are the most likely to renovate, with 74 per cent saying they were planning to do so. The average amount owners in those provinces plan to spend is $12,920. Among respondents across Canada, the top reasons cited for renovating include:

• adding comfort to the home (45 per cent); • increasing the value of the home (22 per cent); and • repairing damages (19 per cent). The survey found that 73 per cent of those planning to renovate intend to pay for the projects in cash, while 25 per cent intend to use a line of credit and 16 per cent plan to use a credit card. ecrawford@biv.com twitter.com EmmaCrawfordBIV

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dashboard Aston Martin strangles the Cygnet be used in the same way a luxury yacht has smaller craft which it dispatches while in harbour — call it an automotive dinghy. Drive one’s DB9 on the weekend but pop down to the shops in a nicely appointed tinker toy that’s easier to park than a bicycle. In reality, the Cygnet’s extremely low emissions also allowed the supercar maker to balance out its whacking great V-12s, bringing the company’s average fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions down by being, literally, the weakest link. A bit of a cynical move, but there you go. Then they had the cheek to charge $50,000 for the thing, but again, it actually seemed to sell well for a while, and even Stirling Moss bought one. Happily, improvements throughout the range now mean that Aston doesn’t need the pint-sized outlier to dodge average-consumption restrictions. The 97 horsepower Cygnet has squawked its last.

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n the children’s book, the Ugly Duckling turns out to grow into a beautiful swan. Seemingly without a hint of irony, Aston Martin has been selling a rebranded version of the Toyota iQ as the Cygnet (the term for a baby swan) for the past few years. Let’s just say the corporate beak looks a little out of place on a city runabout. I suppose the Bond connection would work if it folded up into a suitcase, but it sadly does not. Aston Martin’s justiﬁcation for the car was that it could

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Goji 100 is 100% pure, wild harvest, organic and kosher. The 4,000 year- old recipe also ensures it’s free of gluten, soy, corn and sugar.

480-530g • reg 4.99

Rice Bakery

500g • product of Canada

340ml

Andalou Naturals embodies beauty in action. They infuse the best of nature and knowledge into mindful and effective products that are good for people and the planet.

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90 capsules

This original, great-tasting Yummi Bear Vitamin is now better than ever! Now with more of the vitamins and minerals that youngsters need to grow up healthy and happy. Fat-free, no artificial colors or flavours.

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4.98

3lb bag

Bulk Department

Organic Country French Bread

Stalbush Island Farm Frozen Organic Rice and Beans or Lentils

2.99

397g • product of USA

5.98

5lb bag product of Canada

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white or 60% wholewheat

assorted varieties, various sizes

2.99

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Bakery Department

4.49

Liberté Méditerranée Yogurt

product of USA

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Andalou Naturals Shampoo or Conditioner

375ml product of Canada

Frontier Organic Package Spices

from 2.59

Organic Table Carrots from Fountainview Farm Lillooet, BC

Health Care Department

orange brandy or Shiraz

SAVE

product of Canada

20% off regular retail price

The Funky Gourmet Cranberry Sauce

2 rolls

1.98

8 oz package

bags or bins

product of Canada

Stahlbush Island Farms Frozen Vegetables

1L product of USA

Cascade Extreme Paper Towels

Choices Own Cranberry Sauce, Cranberry Stuffing, Specialty Turkey Gravy or Vegan Miso Gravy, Stuffed Specialty Turkey Breast, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Winter Root Vegetables and Grab & Go Specialty Turkey Meals.

250ml

29%

15 pack product of USA

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Organic Ambrosia Apples from Harvest Moon Cawston, BC

Everything You Need to be Thankful for the Extra Time!

Gather Red, Green or Yellow Pepper Jelly

Pacific Foods Organic Creamy Tomato Soup

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Deli Department

750ml • +deposit +eco fee

assorted varieties

27%

3.49lb/ 7.69kg

2/6.00

from

product of Canada

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Boneless Toupie Ham

from

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1L • +deposit +eco fee

41%

product of Canada

R.W. Knudsen Sparkling Beverages (Apple, Pear, Cranberry)

3/4.98

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Organic Cranberries from Quebec

3.99lb/ 8.80kg

1.66L

cheddar or sour cream & chive

product of Canada

from

6.99

Boulder Canyon Vegetable Chips

assorted varieties

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Produce Department

assorted varieties

from

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J.D. Farms Grade A Specialty Turkeys

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