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PHSsurprised bysuggestion ofreceivership DTES NON-PROFIT’S BOOKS UNDER REVIEW MIKE HOWELL Staff writer

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MOVING PICTURES: “Station 12 — Jesus Dies on the Cross” is one in a series of Stations of the Cross paintings

by Chris Woods commissioned by a parishioner of St. David of Wales in the mid-’90s. The paintings, set in modern Vancouver, will be relocated to another church due to the closure of St. David’s in February. See story on page 4.

Downtown Eastside non-proﬁt society whose books are under review by the provincial government for irregularities in spending practices was caught off guard Tuesday by a media report suggesting the organization is headed for receivership. Mark Townsend, co-executive director of the PHS Community Services Society, said he has since sent a letter to Housing Minister Rich Coleman to clarify the comments Coleman made in an article published on The Tyee website. The article cited anonymous sources saying the PHS could be put into receivership as early as Wednesday. Coleman responded that “I don’t think it will come as quickly as that” but promised more information in a week to 10 days. The Courier requested an interview with Coleman but had not received a call before this story was published. Townsend had also not received a response from Coleman when interviewed by the Courier Tuesday. Townsend said his society

had no indication from B.C. Housing, which is the housing branch of the provincial government, that it was considering receivership. Townsend said the PHS last met in late January with B.C. Housing and the accounting firm Deloitte to discuss the ongoing review of the society’s books. “Our sincere, 100 per cent honest feeling is that was going well,” said Townsend, noting the PHS hasn’t got any creditors and the society is paying its bills. “To be clear, I don’t know exactly what [Coleman] said, we have no indication from B.C. Housing that he was going to be saying such a thing and we’re going to seek some clarification from him directly.” B.C. Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay announced in November 2013 that it discovered irregularities in spending practices of the PHS, which helps operate the Insite supervised drug injection site and manages several Downtown Eastside hotels. At the time, Ramsay said the PHS had to improve financial reporting, corporate governance, compliance with agreements and expense management. See PHSon page 9

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City fleshes out Downtown Eastside plan 12TH & CAMBIE with Mike Howell

y eyes are a little tired these days. That’s what happens after you attempt to read a draft of the new $1-billion, 30-year community plan for the Downtown Eastside. It’s 220 pages. Add the staff report that accompanies the plan and we’re talking 320 pages of text, photos, graphs and easy-to-explain terms such as floor space ratio. Not exactly a page-turner. I confess I haven’t read it all but I’m getting there and I did attend a media briefing at city hall last week on the plan, which goes before city council March 12. After the briefing, us media types got to ask Brian Jackson, the city’s head planner, questions about the plan. Didn’t get a chance to include his responses in my Feb. 28 web story, so here’s a bit of what he told us. What do you say to the people concerned about gentrification? “We have to provide the assurance that we are — through the plan — making sure that the people who want to continue to live in the Downtown Eastside have that opportunity. But it has to be in improved forms

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Brian Jackson, the city’s head planner, says the $1 billion plan for the Downtown Eastside will have a mix of housing. of housing. There is a lot of housing in the Downtown Eastside that is clearly not very habitable and we have to make those improvements. But at the same time, we have to allow for development opportunities to be able to leverage the private sector to

build even more housing for the people who want to live there.” What will East Hastings Street look like in the future? “It won’t be a wall of buildings that are 12-storeys high. It will be a series of build-

ings which vary in their heights, have retail at the base to allow for the opportunities for future development along Hastings for retail and community services and also provide a mix of condos, rental housing and affordable rental for all the types of people who want to move into the Downtown Eastside. What are developers saying about the plan? “We have the people who are saying that we’re too conscious of the people who are living there and we’re not providing enough development opportunities. And that’s why I’m hoping the plan going before council represents that good old Canadian compromise of coming down the middle, recognizing the pressures we have on the left as well as on the right in terms of being able to deliver a truly achievable plan over the next 10 and 30 years.” So what would you say to those owners in the Oppenheimer Park district worried about property values and limits on development in what many are calling a condo-free zone? “If an owner of a property there wants to take advantage of the density bonuses being offered as part of the zoning bylaw for the area, they will have to build 60 per cent of the rental housing as affordable units and 40 per cent as market rental. We believe that the plan and the policies for that particular area still allow a developer to achieve a reasonable rate of development for their property.” mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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Anthony Norfolk holds a copy of one the paintings from the Stations of the Cross series painted by artist Chris Woods at St. David of Wales church.

Iconicpaintingsfindingnewhome NAOIBH O’CONNOR Staff writer

n an elaborate religious ceremony 18 years ago, contemporary Stations of the Cross paintings by artist Chris Woods were consecrated at St. David of Wales Anglican church. Woods, well known for his painting McDonald’s Nation, was commissioned to do the works by a parishioner who has since moved and prefers to remain anonymous. The Diane Farris Gallery exhibited the series before they were installed at the East Vancouver church at 2475 Franklin St. in 1996. St. David of Wales parish closed in February due to lack of membership, and the paintings are being relocated. Randy Murray, spokesman for the Diocese of New Westminster, told the Courier in an email a decision is being made about the location of the paintings but it isn’t ﬁnalized yet. “I can tell you that the plan is that the paintings stay in East Vancouver,” he wrote. Anthony Norfolk, who chairs Heritage Vancouver’s advocacy committee, was at the blessing at St. David’s in 1996. “It was a big deal — oh yeah. [The paintings’] signiﬁcance is the way they incorporate the images of contemporary human beings in a series of paintings that depict, in a contemporary way, biblical events,” he said. “Every church of pretty well every Christendom denomination, if they have images of some kind, have Stations of the Cross. And this was a continuing tradition of creating a set of Stations of the Cross, but done by a young emerging artist of obviously enormous talent.” The paintings depict the suffering of Christ on the way to the cross in Vancouver of the 1990s. Woods used friends and family as models for the pieces. He doesn’t mind the works are being relocated and has been told they will be installed at St. Thomas Anglican church. “I was sad to hear that they won’t be where they started their life so to speak,” he said. “It was a beautiful little church and I think it served a very important congregation that obviously has reduced in numbers over the years. But I’m very happy that at least they are being loved and moved to a new site where

they are going to be put to their intended use. I would be pretty sad if they were being put in storage or something like that.” Woods, now represented by Gallery Jones, said the patron had viewed his work at the Diane Farris Gallery, which represented him in the 1990s and early 2000s. Though hesitant to do the commission, Woods agreed when the patron suggested they be done in a contemporary setting. “It was a really great experience,” he said. “The reason I took the commission in the ﬁrst place was because Christian themes were sort of the bread and butter for artists for a 1,000 years essentially before the camera was invented…. So if you were a young artist, you would work with religious themes — that’s where the work was.” The project took about 18 months. Woods did preliminary drawings to make sure the church and patron were happy with the concept, as well as to get used to the size because he was used to a larger scale. The paintings are 12 by 16 inches. He was pleased to be included in the dedication and blessing. “It was a very vaulted and important ceremony and lots of holy water was thrown about. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and certainly for me, at the centre of it, to have created works of art that are literally considered sacred — that’s something I treasure deﬁnitely.” He last saw the paintings at St. David’s this fall when he was in the neighbourhood with his wife. “It was really nice to see them. My father-inlaw was one of the models. He posed for the role of Pontius Pilate and he has since passed away. It’s really a wonderful memorial to him to have him represented in that series as well. So it really has a lot of extra meaning for us too.” He added: “I don’t feel like it was 20 years ago. The works feel just as fresh as the day I painted them and time just disappears when you stand in front of them. It takes you way back to the old days. I might now choose to do them slightly differently I think. But at the time I worked to the edge of my powers, so they still hold up pretty well — certainly to my eyes.” noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh

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he Parish of St. David of Wales at 2475 Franklin St. in Hastings-Sunrise closed at the end of February, but it’s unclear what will happen to the historic church in which it operated. The church, which since 1996 has been home to a series of contemporary Stations of the Cross paintings by artist Chris Woods, is a century old. The Anglican congregation voted Feb. 2 to ask their bishop to close the parish because there were no longer enough active parishioners. Management of the property reverts back to the Diocese of New Westminster and the Diocesan Council will make decisions about the future use or disposal of the property, according to a notice posted in the Hastings elementary school newsletter, which is located nearby. Randy Murray, spokesman for the Diocese of New Westminster, said about 50 people were at the ﬁnal service Feb. 23. He also attended. “[Rev. Michael Batten]’s quote from the sermon was, ‘for years we have been wondering when this day would come and now it’s here, but it’s really about the story that we’re carrying and the story that we tell,’” Murray said. Batten will become the full-time rector at St. Thomas Anglican Church, also in East Vancouver. Three parishes have operated in the church building over the years — All Saints, St. Saviour’s and St. David of Wales. St. David of Wales operated for the last 44 years. Murray said there are no plans to do anything with the building. “This is a parish closure, so they are closed. So they will now go through the rest of the legal procedures with the diocese to close. The building is the building,” he said. “Any decisions about the building are

made by the governing body of the diocese, which is the Diocesan Council and the executive officers and of course the new bishop [Melissa Skelton]. I don’t see anything on the next Diocesan Council agenda.” Kiwassa-St. David’s Preschool and Nisga’a Ts’amiks Vancouver Society will continue to operate out of the building for the time being, as well as a few community groups that use the space. Not all community activities will be able to continue, according to the note in the school newsletter. “Sadly, however, the parish premises will no longer be available to occasional users from the community,” it states. The 115.5-by-122 square foot property is valued at $1.96 million, according to B.C. Assessment. Janet Leduc, executive director of the Heritage Vancouver Society, said it is worried about the fate of heritage churches. “It is absolutely a concern and one of the things that we’ve encountered is it’s really hard to get a handle [on the issue]. We know that there are diminishing congregations and the churches don’t want to say, so you don’t find out until they’ve actually been sold or are up for sale,” she said. “The other thing that seems to be happening with some of the newer religions is they’re looking more for theatres… so the churches that are growing are not necessarily buying churches, which seems odd, but we definitely are interested [in the fate of churches]. It’s just trying to get information.” Leduc said the St. David of Wales building is historically important and is designated B on the city’s heritage register. Leduc also noted the importance of the Stations of the Cross paintings and that it’s important that they are preserved. Murray said: “I know that they are valued by all and they will be taken care of.” noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/Naoibh

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news Inner city schools worry about losing services CHERYL ROSSI Staff Writer

he Vancouver School Board wants to focus more resources on its six neediest schools. Recommendations about the Inner City school and CommunityLINK program are to go before the board Monday evening. The revised approach categorizes schools in three tiers based on their concentration of poverty using provincial statistics about income assistance and the numbers of children in foster care. The highest concentrations of poverty are at Macdonald, Strathcona, Grandview, Seymour, Britannia and Thunderbird elementary schools. Queen Alexandra elementary at Broadway and Clark and Tillicum annex combined with Hastings elementary fall in the middle tier and Nightingale, Selkirk, Cook, Fleming, Henderson and Roberts are in the third tier. The six neediest schools would receive universal breakfast and lunch programs, a pre-kindergarten program, a special education assistant in each kindergarten class, a full-time literacy specialist, counselling servic-

es, other support workers and out of school programming. Fourteen schools were previously designated Inner City. The revised model includes Fleming elementary at Knight and East 49th and Lord Roberts elementary in the West End as needing extra support, whereas Mount Pleasant elementary and General Brock elementary, near the demolished Little Mountain social housing site, have dropped off the list. The Mount Pleasant and Queen Alexandra school communities believe the statistics don’t adequately reﬂect their students’ needs. Queen Alexandra could be moved into the top tier because its needs appear to be swiftly increasing. Parent advisory committee member Lewis Villegas says Mount Pleasant’s school community is concerned it will lose its youth and family worker who has served the school for 20 years. He says parents worry their neighbourhood’s demographics will change yearly as low-income housing in the area opens or closes so support for their school could “yoyo in and out.” Villegas suggested decisions about how to assign extra services should be made by a principal in each area of the

city where the poorest schools are clustered and that neighbouring schools could share counselling time every year. A need for more centralized coordination was noted during the review to avoid service gaps and duplication, counters Valerie Overgaard, a board consultant. Mount Pleasant parents worry the loss of the Inner City designation would mean the Boys and Girls Club and the Sarah McLachlan School of Music would direct their resources elsewhere. “The fact of the matter is, the neighbourhood, as they acknowledged, has changed considerably and I’m sure that Sarah McLachlan and the Boys and Girls Club are quite aware of that,” Overgaard said. The report recommends a placebased approach of providing community supports and a focus on helping Grade 7 students enter high school. The Inner City program started in 1988 and focused on four schools and one annex, so Overgaard said the revised program returns to its roots. The school board funds the program from its operating budget and it is to be revised within this funding envelope. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Park board commissioner Sarah Blyth and her son Sebastian. her to run for a third term on park board. “But he said he wants to spend more time with me,” said Blyth, who works shifts as a senior outreach worker at a low-income apartment building in the Downtown Eastside. “He asked me not to run, so I’m not going to.” Blyth works day shift Friday, Saturday and Sunday and then evenings, Mondays and Tuesdays, leaving very little time to spend with her son. She also volunteers with the

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Park, the introduction of kite surfing at the city’s beaches and a project that would see shelves set up in community centres and field houses for book sharing. Blyth posted a public statement on Facebook earlier this week explaining her decision and said that while some day she might change her mind, for now her interests lie in grassroots community activism. “I am very thankful for the opportunity to serve the public as a Vision Vancouver park commissioner,” Blyth wrote. “I firmly believe we have a great team in place. I have worked with so many wonderful people along the way. We have a fantastic general manager in Malcolm Bromley and excellent staff who are always open to new ideas.” Blyth also added that she could no longer pretend to agree with the Vancouver Aquarium keeping and breeding whales and dolphins in captivity, which according to the comments on her Facebook page was a popular move. Blyth said she and her son are big fans of the aquarium and in particular its rescue and rehabilitation efforts. “It’s a difficult issue, but more and more people have been coming up to me and saying it’s just wrong,” said Blyth. “It’s one of the only issues that’s made me lose sleep at night.” sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter.com/sthomas10

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acting-sergeant Leslie Weeks said there would be no pursuit of the vehicle. Five minutes later, Charters broadcast over the police radio that his vehicle had been rammed by the suspect’s Jeep at Rupert Street and Kingsway. “Information contained in the [Police Records Information Management Environment] report indicates that on three occasions, acting-sergeant Weeks broadcast that there was to be no pursuit of the suspect vehicle and after one of the broadcasts, constable Charters acknowledged acting-sergeant Weeks’ instructions,” said a report authored by Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe released Monday. A subsequent VPD investigation revealed the collision could not have occurred as reported by Charters. The evidence showed Charters’ vehicle hit the Jeep on the rear driver’s side, Lowe said in his report. “The allegations in this case are inextricably woven and, therefore, I am of the view that a new hearing with respect to all allegations is necessary for a fair and thorough examination of the allegations against Const. Charters,” Lowe said. The VPD investigation also alleged Charters was guilty of neglect of duty and recommended a penalty of a twoday suspension without pay, which would be irrelevant if the ﬁnal outcome is the loss of his job.

The suspect was captured by police after he abandoned the Jeep and charged with several offences. Lowe didn’t release his name or indicate the status of the his court proceedings but noted Charters’ story of being intentionally rammed by the driver resulted in a charge of assault with a weapon against the man. No date has been set for the hearing. Meanwhile, the Independent Investigations Office announced Tuesday that it forwarded two VPD files to Crown counsel because Chief Civilian Director Richard Rosenthal believes officers may have committed an offence. In one case, a man suffered bite injuries from a police dog during an incident near Slocan and Ward streets on Oct. 7, 2013. The man required medical attention in hospital for his injuries. In the other case, a woman was struck by a police vehicle near Scotia Street and Second Avenue on Nov. 14, 2013. She also required treatment for her injuries in hospital. It’s now up to Crown to decide whether charges — and what type — are warranted. To approve charges, Crown must believe there is a substantial likelihood of conviction based on the evidence and determine if prosecution is in the public interest. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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ike Farnworth’s star-crossed career as a cabinet minister in the 1990s gives a glimpse of what kind of leader he might be. He confirmed the obvious this weekend and announced he’s running for the leadership of the New Democratic Party. By this point — six months since leader Adrian Dix put the job up for grabs — it looks as if he might pull a Mike Harcourt and take the job by acclamation. If so, it will be one of the few things in politics that has come easy for him. His ride as a cabinet minister, during which he handled three different portfolios through three different premiers, was a rocky one. He was handed a series of unpleasant jobs, brewing crises and outright stinking messes. It became such a pronounced trend that inside the legislature he became known as “The Janitor” — the guy called on to take out the garbage. It’s a tribute to his character that he emerged from that experience without having any of the garbage stick to him. Then-premier Glen Clark introduced him to the role in 1997, when he named the Port Coquitlam MLA to the Municipal Affairs portfolio. It’s usually a quiet, benign little fiefdom. But Clark had just finished enraging B.C.’s mayors by whacking their provincial grants by 40 per cent ($100 million). Farnworth was brought in to smooth things over and did a creditable job. He took a break at one point and went to Hawaii. He got a call there telling him Clark was planning to knock the grants back another $30 million. Farnworth flew back home and argued him out of the move. Clark thought enough of him to make him employment and investment minister in 1998. (Years later, testimony emerged that Clark called him in, berated him for his shortcomings, but then gave him the job with the warning: “Look, if you f**k up, I’ll fire you.”) That’s where the real nightmares started. The NDP’s massive investment in a derelict series of north-coast mills — Skeena Cellulose — was already unravelling. Farnworth got to preside over the realization the situation was hopeless. He also got named the front man when B.C. Hydro’s hilariously inept investment in a Pakistani power project went south in a big way. “The project will be completed, and B.C. Hydro will be in a good position at the end of it all,” Farnworth reassured everyone. The mysterious middleman Hydro was using ( “Who is Ali Mahmood?”) disappeared. So did millions in taxpayers’ money, and the project was dead on arrival. Along the way, he also picked up the gambling file. Farnworth started working on expanding gambling in a big way. It set the stage for the scandal that brought down Glen Clark. Farnworth was directly involved in approving the questionable casino fronted by Clark’s neighbour, the one that destroyed Clark’s premiership. But no wrongdoing on Farnworth’s part was ever implied. He approved it knowing he was backstopped by the need for a rezoning that would never happen. After the police arrived on the scene, Clark stepped down and became a free-range MLA for the balance of his term. At one point, Farnworth was attending the tear-gas infused world trade talks in Seattle (The Battle in Seattle) as part of B.C.’s official delegation, while Clark was on the streets as an observer of the riots. When Ujjal Dosanjh took over as premier, Farnworth became health minister, giving him another taste of strife and turmoil. Doctors at the time were whipsawing the government by demanding raises on a townby-town basis. Prince George doctors wild-catted and won millions, so Williams Lake doctors did the same thing. Then Cranbrook, etc. “It’s almost like blackmail,” he said, as he shelled out ransom payments. His health career came to a merciful end after the NDP was slaughtered in the 2001 election. There’s no telling if the NDP will ever form government again. But if they do, Farnworth will be the one person in the cabinet room — perhaps at the head of the table — with a lot of hard-earned experience in how to handle the dirty jobs. lleyne@timescolonist.com Regular columnist Allen Garr is currently on leave but will return soon.

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n a grainy clip of a bullring in Cordoba, Spain, a man stands a few yards away from a bull. He has a red cape in one hand and a small device in the other. The beast charges and suddenly stops in its tracks. A voiceover from a 1985 CNN report explains: “A scientific milestone came in the 1960s, when Dr. José Delgado demonstrated remote control over a charging bull. By connecting a radio antenna into electrodes inserted into the bull’s brain, Delgado proved the bull’s aggressive impulses could be thwarted by electronically manipulating the bull’s muscle reflexes.” Antenna implants are so last century. By the time of CNN’s report, Delgado, a Spanish-born doctor in Yale’s physiology department, had shelved his ’60s-era “stimoreceiver” in favour of stimulating monkey brains directly with pulsating electromagnetic fields. “Any function in the brain — emotions, intellect, personality — could perhaps be modified by this noninvasive technology,” he said brightly of possible human applications. We haven’t heard much of such mind-control tech since then, but that’s no proof it was abandoned by federally funded Dr. Strangeloves. More likely it went underground and became a line item in the Pentagon “black budget,” where funding is limitless and accountability nonexistent. Not that such things remain forever into a deep state sinkhole. Nuclear fission, Polaroid film, photovoltaic technology, Google Earth, Apple’s Siri, and the Internet itself were all incubated in the classified world before blooming in the commercial sector. In a 2010 interview at the Washington Ideas Forum presented by The Atlantic magazine, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked about the possibility of his company constructing a brain implant. “Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it,” Schmidt replied, adding that implants probably cross that line “at least for the moment, until the technology gets better.” Building on this weird contradiction, he observed, “As far as I know, we do not have a medical lab working on implants... I will check after this.” “Google does not have a connection inside of your brain,” Schmidt confirmed in a February 2014 interview with Glenn Beck. “We’re not that good. Maybe yet. Maybe never.” In other words, this is a problem of technical innovation rather than moral limits to the search engine czar. If Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants a piece of the drone action — another spinoff from the military industrial complex — why wouldn’t Google’s stakeholders and shareholders want a potential slice of Delgado’s vision? (Let’s not forget Google’s recent purchase of the DARPA-funded, Terminator-style robot firm Boston Dynamics. Where’s that on the company’s “creepy line”?) And how many consumers would reject a subdermal implant the size of a grain of sand if it meant a telepathic connection with a sexy, empathic OS like “Samantha” in Spike Jonze’ recent film Her? In his then-controversial 1971 book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, José Delgado argued humans have managed to tame and civilize nature. Now it was time to tame humanity, he insisted. Four decades later, the Spanish doctor’s “psychocivilized society” is closer to science fact than science fiction. For all the public level pushback from Google, Twitter and Facebook to the NSA surveillance programs revealed by whistleblower Eric Snowden, the worlds of public surveillance and private data-mining are not so much conflicting as complementary. They’re just different approaches to sheering the sheeple in virtual pastures. Zbigniew Brzezinski is the ultimate Washington insider: a Polish American geostrategist and statesman who has been a fixture in Beltway policy circles for decades. Three years before Delgado’s 1971 manifesto, Brzezinski breezily predicted the future course of technology in his Encounter article “America in the Technetronic Age.” “At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase,” he wrote. “It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behaviour of the citizen, in addition to more customary data.” That was written in 1968. And for now, this is their psychocivilized world; we’re just texting in it. geoffolson.com

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TRANSLINK NEEDS TO GET UP TO SPEED ON BUS USAGE To the editor: Re: “Bus service cut worries Champlain seniors,” Feb. 26. The new round of TransLink service optimization addresses bus route network structural deﬁciencies. It is important that TransLink rationalizes its bus network to provide value for both the taxpayer and the transit user, as well as provide a sound foundation for sustainable growth. A bus route detour may seem benign on a relatively low frequency route but it introduces inefﬁciencies which compound as transit ridership grows. The bus route 49’s diversion through Champlain Heights is a good example. They could have been overlooked decades ago, but they are unsustainable in 2014, with UBC, a Canada Line connection and Metrotown as major destinations along this route. The detour is an unnecessary inconvenience for 95 per cent of

route 49’s 20,000 weekday riders. It adds four to five minutes to each of the approximately 250 daily bus trips, which costs $500,000 annually (more than the cost to operate all the Ladner/South Delta community shuttle routes C84, C86 C87 C88 and C89 combined).This figure will only get worse over time. Understandably, any routing change affects some customers and their concerns need to be considered. In the route 49 case, virtually all Champlain Heights’ residents will stay within 500 metres of a bus stop (either rerouted bus 49 or bus 26, both being among the 20 per cent most frequent bus routes). In the context of a looming transit funding referendum, it is extremely important that TransLink addresses its network inefficiencies, especially when they impede greater benefits for most of the transit users, and reduce the transit value of our tax dollars.

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To the editor: Re: “Ukulele Circle strikes chord with beginners and pros,” Feb. 21. Many thanks for the nice story of the rise of the popularity of the much maligned ukulele in Vancouver and especially the role that St. James Hall has played in hosting a monthly event with Ralph Shaw. But missing from the article was a mention of the Rogue Folk Club, which has been instrumental (no pun intended) in partnering with the ukulele group to organise the events . The Rogue Folk club is a non-proﬁt society that has encouraged folk and roots music in Vancouver for 25 years and St. James Hall is the main venue. The club presents a concert series of over 50 shows per year. All shows are operated by volunteers and the club is always looking for new volunteers and members. Brian Jones, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Green space paved for parking on Point Grey bike route,” March 5. VanRamblings: We have a Vancouver park board that is dedicated NOT to increasing park space for the citizens of Vancouver, but rather a park board dedicated to taking park space away — be it their recent (now rejected) proposal to pave a significant portion of Hadden and Kitsilano Beach parks, or the decision referred to above in Sandra Thomas’ article, in which a substantial portion of green space within Margaret Pigott and Point Grey parks will be jettisoned, in favour of paved parking spots. Huntingbeachwalker: Makes NO sense to pave over green spaces and make parking spaces for a bike lane. COURIER STORY: “Trees too tall for Chinese consulate,” March 5. Carolina @TreesLady: There should be more discussion on the negative effects of topping. A certified arborist would likely not advise to top trees. David Gibson: Part of their defence against drone attacks. COURIER STORY: “Vancouver Courier up for five awards,” March 5. mtnbvan @mtnbvan: Congrats to all including Geoff Olson & @Howellings! #MaMurrayAwards COURIER STORY: “Downtown Eastside: Neighbourhood by the numbers,” Feb. 28. Lookout Society: Don’t forget these numbers: 63,166: number of bed nights provided by the Lookout Society’s four shelters. 16,905: number of times we had to turn away people because all of the beds were filled up. COURIER STORY: “Chico and the man whose life he changed,” Feb. 28. jsomm: What a wonderful story. Someone who has hit rock bottom finds a creature who depends on him, gives him back his humanity, and a sense of responsibility to self and his canine companion. Judy Fenner: This is such a nice story, brought tears to my eyes. Love is a cure for many things and addiction is one of them! COURIER STORY: “Billion dollar plan proposed for Downtown Eastside,” Feb. 28. Saint Bernadine @saintbernadine: And we just wanted a taco joint. COURIER COLUMN: “Working together to make neighbourhoods better for everyone ,” Feb. 21. Jonathan Baker @jonbenbak: A ‘hood geared to double reed instruments will make everyone hate the oboe. Stop forcing your bikes on the rest of us. Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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DOWNTOWN What’s even better than an annual, weeklong festival celebrating everything Irish? The 10th anniversary celebrations that make up this year’s CelticFest Vancouver run March 8 to 16. In honour of this landmark anniversary, here’s a list of 10 mustsee CelticFest events. • Celts on the Creek kick-starts the festival March 8 at Village on False Creek with a free afternoon of Celtic entertainment, including Willy Blizzard and the Green Man. • Irish Edge at the Rickshaw Theatre, March 8 at 9 p.m., is a night of all-Irish music, including a performance by Hermitage Green. • The annual scotch-tasting event Whiskey Kiss returns to the Cellar March 12. • The CelticFest 10th Anniversary Gala

takes place March 14 at 8 p.m. at the Vogue Theatre with a roster of Celtic music’s ﬁnest. • Ceili’s Kitchen Party, March 13 at 7 p.m. at Ceili’s Modern Irish Pub on Granville Street. • CelticFest Ceilidh takes over Vancouver FanClub on Granville Street, March 15. Doors open at 7 p.m. • CelticFest Sunday Session is back at Tom Lee Music Hall March 16. • The Celtic Village and Street Market has expanded to ﬁll not only Granville Street between Robson and Nelson, but also Robson Square, with music, dance, fun, food and frolic March 15 and 16. • Free CelticFest workshops, which offer an opportunity to garner a deeper understanding of Celtic music and culture, take place at the Tom Lee Music Stage on Granville Street March 15 and 16. • The popular St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes place March 16 starting at 11 a.m. from the corner of Howe and Davie streets before meandering along West Georgia and Granville. For a detailed schedule of all activities, concerts and parties, visit celticfestvancouver.com.

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The city and park board are marking International Women’s Day with events to celebrate and acknowledge this year’s Remarkable Women honourees. The Remarkable Women poster series, launched in 2008, recognizes Vancouver women who have served their community in an exceptional way. The 2014 poster series commemorates Vancouver’s Year of Reconciliation by celebrating women who have made their communities stronger by standing up to adversity and embracing diversity. They are described as “bridge builders, advocates and peace makers — community makers who foster healing, support and respect for all people.” The 12 women selected from more than 100 nominations include Judy Graves, Shehnaz Hozaima Cavey, Winnie Cheung, Anntuaneth Figueroa, Suki Grewal, Raven Wing (Lorelei Hawkins), Gwen Haworth, Keiko Honda, Lila Johnston, Angela Marie MacDougall, Darlene Frances Point and Carleen Thomas. A ceremony to mark the launch of the Re-

markable Women 2014 poster series takes place this Saturday, March 8, from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre Performance Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews. A reception will follow in the exhibition hall from 3 to 4 p.m. The event coincides with International Women’s Day.

SUNSET Do you have windows and doors that don’t function properly because of too many layers of old paint? Or are you curious about the best way to remove generations of paint from wood panels and railings? Then join master painter Colin Grifﬁnson at a workshop next Tuesday that will demonstrates the most effective way to remove paint and prepare original wood for restoration. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation presents Old School Workshop: Interior Wood Paint Stripping, March 11 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at 102-8380 St. George St. For ticket information, visit vancouverheritagefoundation.org. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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Tapestry’s own Move-in Specialist, Christina Capp, will discuss the seven fears of making a change. Ann MacKenzie, of Estate Property Services, and Ted Deeken of Asset Appraisals will present on downsizing and appraising your belongings. And Brian MacDougall, from Remax, will provide an overview of the current real estate market conditions. At the end of this seminar, you’ll feel confident and ready to make a move this spring! This is a free seminar open to seniors and their families. Please RSVP by March 15 to 604.225.5000 to ensure your spot.

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his week I’ll be spending a few hours with second year medical students. As part of the Advanced Family Practice curriculum, family doctors take time from their own practices to meet with small groups of medical students to discuss topics including the management of diabetes, headaches and congestive heart failure. This week’s topic is prescription writing. No, this isn’t the class where budding young doctors learn to write illegibly. There’s actually no such course. Messy writing is a

side effect of a doctor rushing to get things done. I’ve spent many hours trying to help nurses decrypt the handwritten notes of colleagues. This is less of a problem in family practices where a growing number of doctors type or dictate all their notes into their computers in what we now call EMRs (electronic medical records) and send prescriptions wirelessly to a printer. Occasionally, I might take out the old-fashioned prescription pad for old time’s sake (the feel of the paper has a pleasant nostalgic feel) or when I encounter a computer problem. Yet illegible writing remains a problem — and a risk to patients — in most hospitals. In spite of technological advancements in other areas of inpatient care, doctors continue to put pen to paper in the writing of their chart notes and their orders. Fortunately, most consultations are dictated and eventually hospitals may elimi-

nate handwritten orders. In the meantime, our hospitals have banned some of our traditional medical abbreviations. As medical students, we loved to learn the abbreviations of Greek and Latin words along with the vocabulary of the language of medicine. Sometimes, a handwritten prescription may not make sense to a layperson because of our abbreviations rather than handwriting. If a medication is to be taken before meals, we would write “ac” for ante cibium, meaning “before meals”. Similarly, “pc” means post cibium or “after meals.” A bedtime medication would be followed by “hs” (hora somni). Orders for a drug taken by mouth, would include the abbreviation “po” (per os). One for drops for the right eye would include od for oculus dexter. The abbreviation, “od” may also mean “once daily.” Hospitals are now banning more easily misinterpreted

abbreviations. The alternative abbreviation, “qd” intended to mean “each day” may be confused with “qid” which means “four times a day.” QOD may be intended to mean “every other day” but may be misinterpreted as “every day.” In both cases, the patients would take the drug too frequently. Similarly, we now avoid “U” because when handwritten it may be misinterpreted as O or zero. Instead, the full word “unit” should be used. In the case of dosing, a zero after a decimal point must be avoided. If the tiny

decimal point isn’t noted, a patient may receive 30 mg instead of 3.0 mg. Similarly, to avoid missing a leading decimal point, a zero should be written in front so that a dose of 0.5 mg will not be dispensed as 5 mg. If you’re in the hospital, all this takes place behind the scenes without your awareness. As your healthcare providers, we have to be conscientious and write clear, unambiguous notes and orders. If we’re not absolutely sure what a doctor has written, we have to conﬁrm the orders. Outside of the hospital,

it’s good to review your prescription before you leave the clinic to conﬁrm the dosage of your medication and how you should be taking it. In an upcoming column, I’ll review the key information you should know about every medication prescribed for you. Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician and Physician Lead of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice. His Healthwise column appears regularly in this paper. You can read more about achieving your positive potential in health at davidicuswong. wordpress.com.

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ANNE MARRISON Q. “Last year I tried Green Dragon cucumbers. The writing on the package says “never bitter.” The plant was a heavy producer but the fruits were all bitter. Could you tell me what would make cucumbers bitter?” Bernie Epting, Vancouver A. Even the so-called nonbitter cucumbers can become bitter if they’re stressed enough. My guess would be that our long, hot summer is the cause — not from the heat, but from the extremely dry conditions. If we get another summer/ fall that is so hot and dry, it would be best to water twice a day and mulch thickly around the plant to hold moisture in by slowing evaporation. Good drainage is best for most crops, but in drought wa-

termovesthroughwell-drained soil too fast and if you do spotwatering, the dry surrounding soil quickly wicks water away from the target plant. If you get the same problem again, increase watering even more and wait until a new ﬂush of fruit is ready. By then the bitterness should have vanished. Q. “Last year we had tremendous blossom development on our raspberries but then nothing happened — not one berry. I thought it might be a lack of pollination, but our blackberries, red currants and scarlet runners produced more than we could eat and I watered and manured them the same as the raspberries. Any ideas about what it is that I’m missing?” Forston Tylor, North Vancouver A. Raspberries have some ability to be self-fertile, although they produce far more and larger berries when pollinated. Even without pollination, you should have had a few tiny, half-hearted attempts at berries. Did you actually see bees around your raspberry ﬂowers? Disease is my main suspect. I wonder how old your raspberry canes are. The older

raspberry canes get, the more likely viral disease becomes. If you acquired new raspberry plants, planting them in the old raspberry bed would have exposed them to whatever problems the old canes had. Symptoms of viral problems include curly leaves, yellowing leaves or yellow mottles and streaks on leaves. You might try digging up one old raspberry and checking whether the roots show round root galls. This disease can be spread from wild blackberries. I wonder what kind of manure you used and whether it had been composted for a while before it was spread. Fresh manure can cause problems. Certain manures such as chicken, sheep and Llama manure can actually burn roots if spread fresh. I’d suggest experimenting by buying one, new certiﬁed virus-free raspberry plant and planting it in another part of your garden far away from your under-performing raspberry bed. It would be helpful to clean any tools used on the old raspberries with a one in 10 bleach solution before using them on the new raspberry or its new area.

Featuring six award categories for youth and children, adults and organizations. AWARD CATEGORIES ACCESSIBLE CITY BUSINESS INNOVATION CIVIC VOLUNTEER DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION GREENEST CITY LEADERSHIP HEALTHY CITY FOR ALL Awards will be presented at a ceremony in June 2014. Submit a nomination by 5 pm on Friday, April 4, 2014 at vancouver.ca/awards-of-excellence For more information vancouver.ca/awards-of-excellence facebook.com/CityofVancouver twitter.com/CityofVancouver Phone 3-1-1 TTY 7-1-1 Nominations are welcome for children and youth 18 years old or younger.

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SUNRISE And I thought Hawaiian sunrises were gorgeous. While visiting the Sunshine Coast recently, low-lying fog helped create some of the most beautiful early-morning light imaginable.

SECHELT This friendly coastal town, just a 40-minute ride with B.C. Ferries ride from West Vancouver followed by a short drive along Highway 101, is one of the largest municipalities on the Sunshine Coast. Tucked in between Howe Sound and the Strait of Georgia, Sechelt offers activities for all ages and abilities, including kayaking, ﬁshing, hiking, golf and diving. Foodies will love the community’s farmers markets and the surprisingly diverse restaurant scene, which includes many eateries specializing in local ingredients.

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SHOPPING Who knew? I only had a short amount of time to hit the shops of Sechelt, but scored big time at a local thrift store, which unlike comparable ones in Vancouver, still charge thrift-store prices. I also found a great consignment shop, Re Décor, specializing in vintage dishware and furniture. But if second-hand isn’t your thing, there’s Blue Magnolia, which specializes in highend women’s clothing with a focus on West Coast function. My favourite ﬁnd was at Fresh From the Coast where they sell a rainbow of T-shirts depicting those iconic Sunshine Coast rural bus stops complete with lawn chairs. Some years ago random chairs began to appear mysteri-

ously at bus stops that otherwise lacked a place to sit and the trend continues today. The store is also one of many in the area that sells locally produced Holy Crap Cereal.

STRAIT COFFEE This Wilson Creek coffee shop sells only fair-trade coffees from across the globe with a focus on organic. It’s also famous for its fresh sandwiches and scratch-made desserts, several of which I had the pleasure of trying, including a creamy cheesecake, a lemon tart and chocolate cake. But my hands-down favourite was a square made from sesame paste, nuts and seeds with a name I can’t remember. My fellow travel writers and I were also invited for an unexpected tour of the small warehouse where Strait Coffee roasts its own beans and where the magic happens. Owners Lyle Mumford and Grace Bland are just as passionate in their commitment to sustainability as they are to roasting great tasting coffee.

the incredible views from the summit. This popular hike is included in a project dubbed 52 Weeks of Trails, a blog that details a year’s worth of hiking, biking, snowshoeing and paddling on the Sunshine Coast. The 52 Weeks of Trails blog posts are available at sunshinecoastcanada.com.

SARGEANT BAY Not only does Sargeant Bay offer up some of the most beautiful scenery you’ll find anywhere on the West Coast, those views are even more spectacular when seen from one of the decks of Point House, which I was lucky enough to experience. Located in the rural area of Halfmoon Bay, Point House offers a vast expanse of glass, natural light and five-star comforts, including a walk-in, temperature-controlled wine room. The home was completely rebuilt in 2012 to include a new guesthouse. Point House is officially designated a bed and breakfast, but I’d best describe it as an architectural homage to the West Coast.

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Turns out the Sunshine Coast is full of surprises, including unexpected opportunities to snowshoe and cross-country ski. Considering that during my January visit the sun was shining and it was almost sweater weather down by the ocean, it was hard to believe there was enough snow above us at nearby Dakota Ridge to cross-country ski or snowshoe. I didn’t snowshoe that day, but other members of my group did and used the experienced Alpha Adventures as their guide and for equipment.

I think it’s safe to say the Sunshine Coast literally has a spa to suit anyone’s taste and budget. During my visit, I had the opportunity to check out the spa garden at Painted Boat Resort Spa and Marina, a ﬁve-acre resort at Madeira Park in Pender Harbour, featuring 31, two-bedroom villas. Our visit was on a cold, wet January day, but we hardly noticed the weather as we moved between

Sargeant Bay, as seen through the spacious windows of Point House, a waterfront estate turned bed and breakfast. hot tubs and the sauna. Due to the landscaping and towering trees overhead, the garden has a very West Coast feel, which was only enhanced by the pair of eagles circling overhead. The spa practices a centuries-old tradition of healing through “taking the waters,” inspired by the ocean its sits on. Tall windows in the villas at Painted Boat Resort allow for natural light and also highlight the forest and ocean views surrounding them.

SUNSET There’s nothing like watching a West Coast sunset in surroundings that include old-growth forests, ocean beaches and soaring eagles. — Sandra Thomas sthomas@vancourier.com

SKOOKUMCHUCK NARROWS This stretch of water puts on a spectacular show twice a day and it’s free. As the tide changes, the ﬂow of saltwater switches, reversing the powerful turbulent rapids, which pushes 200 billion gallons of water through the narrows connecting Sechelt and Jervis inlets.

SOAMES HILL This popular hiking trail is located just above Gibsons and three kilometres from the Langdale Ferry Terminal. Conquering the “Knob” can be accomplished in just 40 minutes, making it an ideal day trip, but you’ll want to leave plenty of time to soak in

They don’t call it “Spectacular B.C.” for nothing: sunset on the Sunshine Coast.

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JD SAMSON & MEN, the Brooklyn-based band and art/performance collective led by Le Tigre’s JD SAMSON, turns the Cobalt into a sweaty dance laundromat — we don’t even know what that means — March 11 in support of their latest album Labor. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife Records and ticketweb.ca. Irish ﬁve-piece acoustic band with a beﬁtting name HERMITAGE GREEN helps kick off the 10th annual CELTICFEST March 8 at the Rickshaw Theatre. Local Celtic group Vagabonds open. For a listing of CELTICFEST events, which run March 8 to 16, go to celticfestvancouver.com.

Feel uncoordinated in ways you never knew were possible when the VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL welcomes an eclectic lineup of limber peeps to busta-move across the city March 7 to 29. Performances include an intercontinental collaboration between Vancouver’s Goh Ballet and China’s GUANGDONG MODERN DANCE COMPANY, who will share the stage for a world premiere of choreographer Liu Qi’s MUSTARD SEED. For tickets and a full list of performers, go to vidf.ca. Set in Kentucky circa 1925, Adam Guettel’s musical FLOYD COLLINS follows the real-life events surrounding its titular character who gets trapped 200 feet underground in the process of turning a cave into a tourist attraction. It all goes down — get it? — March 11 to 30 at the York Theatre. Tickets and info at thecultch.com.

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arts&entertainment KUDOS& KVETCHES LUONGO’S TENDER GROIN: THE FINAL INTERVIEW

It was with great sadness this week that we learned Canucks woefully mistreated goalie Roberto Luongo had been traded to the Florida Panthers for a slanket and box of frozen Pizza Pockets — sorry, we mean prospect goalie Jacob Markstrom and centre Shawn Matthias. Although the elite goaltender and Twitter ninja has never granted K&K an interview, dedicated readers of this column will recall a number of surprisingly intimate conversations we’ve had over the years with Luongo’s Tender Groin. On Tuesday, we caught up with LTG at a urinal at the Vancouver International Airport minutes before his owner boarded a flight to Miami. LTG was gracious enough to grant us some face time in what might be our last interview with Luongo’s Tender Groin. K&K: First off, when did you first learn that you were traded? LTG: It’s funny. We were kicking back, enjoying a sauna alongside ELBK (Eddie Lack’s Bony Knees) and JGFU (Jason Garrison’s Forest-like Undercarriage) when Lou’s cell went off and there was all this muffled commotion. Muffled? Yeah, Lou is a private guy, so I was covered up with a few layers of terrycloth towel. I can only imagine what it must have been like for his boys, Geppetto and Giuseppe. They must have been suffocating. Man alive!

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Getting back to hockey. What are you looking forward to most about living in Florida? To be honest, not much. It can get hot and humid with Lou at the best of times, so I expect things to get downright swampy in Florida. The chafing, the heat rashes. Mamma mia! Are you friends with anyone on the Panthers? Of course. I may be a groin but I’m not a hermit. Let’s see, I know BCFC (Brian Campbell’s Fire Crotch). Those gingers sure are a weird bunch. I hung a few times with Tomas Fleischmann’s Hamstring. Just a little chitchat in the crease during a pileup. Nothing serious. We’re more acquaintances than friends. Are you disappointed you won’t be seeing Tim Thomas’s Tender Groin on a regular basis now that he’s been traded to Dallas? To be honest, there’s nothing “tender” about TTTG. That guy is a real bastard. But it’s nothing compared to Tim Thomas’s Taint. Talk about a buzzkill. I heard he wrote haikus. I think we should end this interview before things get out of hand and you start saying things that’ll make our readers uncomfortable. They’re uncomfortable? Give me a break. Try taking a five-hour flight with Leonardo pressed up against you the entire time and then tell me about being uncomfortable. This interview is over. Whatever. It never really began, if you ask me. That’s sounds deep. What can I say. I’m a tender groin. twitter.com/KudoKvetches

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DreyfussfilminspiredRealwheelsartisticdirector WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? EXPLORES RIGHT TO DIE WITH HUMOUR STATE OF THE ARTS with Cheryl Rossi

ames Sanders wasn’t sure whether he’d complete his actors’ training when, at age 21, an accident on New Years Eve left him quadriplegic. But a 1981 Richard Dreyfuss movie called Whose Life Is It Anyway?, which was adapted from a television play, renewed his resolve and determination. In the film, Dreyfuss plays Ken Harrison, a sculptor recently paralyzed from the neck down, who fights to have his rights supersede those of the medical system. “That was really empowering and inspiring,” Sanders said. “It was also ridiculously funny.” He saw humour connected to disability and himself in the playful Harrison. Sanders felt he couldn’t play the middleaged Harrison anytime soon, so he shelved the idea. Sanders went on to become the founding artistic director of Realwheels Theatre and when he sought a follow-up to the company’s 2010 production Spine, he read the three-decade-old Tony-award-winning play for the first time, contacted the elderly British playwright Brian Clark and convinced him to update it and waive the royalties. It seemed like the perfect time for a more mature Sanders to embody the character that had motivated him as a young man. The show was on the road with Sanders’ actor friend Bob Frazer set to perform the lead role at matinees and as Sanders’

Realwheels Theatre’s production of Brian Clark’s Tony-award-winning play Whose Life is it Anyway? runs March 11 to 22 at the Historic Theatre at the Cultch. understudy. But many months of serious medical problems made Sanders eventually withdraw from the role. Frazer worried that as an able-bodied person he shouldn’t play a disabled man. “Ultimately, [Sanders] said the smartest thing. He said, ‘Look, my company isn’t about giving jobs to people with disabilities. My company is about enriching peoples’

lives through the disability experience,’” Frazer said. Frazer and Sanders have been buddies since before Sanders, now on medical leave from Realwheels, became disabled and Frazer said he feels proud to get to play a version of his friend. “I’m lucky enough to be able to tell his story in a sense, his emotional life that very few people may know about,” he said.

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Sanders is pleased to have Frazer, who directed Spine and co-starred with him in Realwheels’ Skydive, to perform with a cast that includes Patti Allan, Jennifer Lines and Dawn Petten, along with director John Cooper. Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a complete departure from Realwheels’ previous productions Skydive and Spine. “Those shows were all about technology and mind-blowing staging or projections,” Frazer said. “This one is about heart and soul.” The young Sanders saw Whose Life is it Anyway? as a vehicle for him to do something interesting. Now he sees it through the eyes of a 43-year-old married father who wants to be around for his son when he’s an adult, and as someone who sees the play’s broad appeal, with questions about the right to die frequently grabbing headlines. Sanders hopes to further understandings of what it’s like to be disabled and to break down barriers and misperceptions. He also hopes seeing the show will spark discussion and reconnection among loved ones. “I want [the audience] to go out thinking, ‘Shit I’m going to die one of these days and I’d better make sure that my loved one knows what I want.’” Representatives from the Farewell Foundation for the Right to Die, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of B.C. and the artists will participate in question and answer sessions after performances on March 13 and 18. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Jumping on the Crazy 8s train

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hile the rest of the world was obsessing over the Oscars last week, many local film-lovers were more psyched about the latest episode of Crazy8s, a homegrown short film festival that’s now in its 15th year. This year’s edition was perhaps the craziest yet for organizers, with a total of 154 applicants competing to be one of six teams to score $1,000 and all the cameras and gear they need to shoot a movie — a 50 per cent increase over the number of applications from last year. Filmmakers are then tasked with making a short film that’s under eight minutes long in just eight days — hence the name, although picking eight finalists instead of six seems like a good idea to shoot for down the road. The half-dozen new shorts were unveiled last Saturday night at the former Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts and were typically

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TICKLED PINK: The creators of Earthlickers describe

their short film as the “cinematic love child of Barbarella and Ed Wood Jr.” eclectic Crazy8s fare. Films ranged from a musical rom-com about a woman who befriends a bevy of parasitic insects (Bedbugs) to a comedy about a telemarketer unexpectedly reunited with his formerly dead dog (Dial Y for Yesterday), the tale of a lonely embalmer who makes a connection with a corpse (Body Language), a dark drama about a devout, delusional dad and his dying daughter (Sacrifice) and a comedy about the consequences of dumping old mattresses in alleyways (Mattress). My personal favourite, though, was the campy scifi Earthlickers directed by Tony Mirza. (Which, full disclosure, is quite possibly because I spent a couple of

days working on set.) Co-writers Justine Warrington and Alison Araya describe Earthlickers as the “cinematic love child of Barbarella and Ed Wood Jr.” Having never seen Barbarella or any Ed Wood movies (apart from the Ed Wood movie), I’m going to describe it as like an elaborate Kids in the Hall sketch

with estrogen. Or maybe Mad Max on MDMA. Justine and Alison play two of the titular titillating planetlickers, a group of seven pinkhaired, scantily clad love goddesses from outer space who beam down to Earth in order to bring the power of sexual healing to a loveless postapocalyptic society. They arrive at a small town run by a cold-hearted sheriff (Mackenzie Gray) who is set to sacrifice a beautiful young woman (Carrie Anne Fleming, no relation) to a Minotaurish fellow named The Bill in order to uphold the social order Will they manage to stir feelings of love in the sheriff’s deputy (Jed Rees) before it’s too late? I won’t spoil the ending though, and hopefully people will be able find out for themselves at upcoming film festivals. Or maybe on YouTube someday if Crazy8s’ licensing rights ever allow it. afleming@vancourier.com twitter.com/flematic

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RECORD HAUL: Police chief Jim Chu and chairs Peter and Joanne Brown and Ryan and Cindy Beedie fronted the Vancouver Police Foundation’s Night Patrol Gala. More than 1,200guestsconvergedattheConventionCentrefortheevening of philanthropy and celebration. Feted were Sgt. Tim Houchen, constables Richard Lavallee and Heather Partridge, and the Vancouver Police Pipe Band, which marks its 100 anniversary. An impressive $2.3 million was raised for essential policing services and community outreach programs, including a new cadet program announced at the party. HAPPY MEAL: Since its inception in 1967, Health and Home Care Society of B.C.’s meals on wheels program has been providing nutritious meals to seniors and others housebound due to illness, injury or surgery. The program, which began with a handful of meals delivered in Kitsilano, now delivers more than 400 meals to isolated Vancouver and Richmond residents daily to some 1000 clients by a dedicated army of volunteers. Executive director Dr. Inge Schamborzki and president Tom Chambers fronted while yours truly emceed the society’s 6th Meals on Wheels charity dinner at Kirin Restaurant.

OSCAR WORTHY: Celebrating like Hollywood stars, local filmmakers and industry insiders paraded the red carpet for Cineworks inaugural Oscar party. Held at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre salon, the dress code was dress to impress for the cocktail party, dinner and viewing of the 86th Academy Awards. Proceeds from the fash bash to support Cineworks, an independent filmmakers society supporting independent filmmakers and media artists.

Sommeliers Roger Maniwa (Hawksworth), Brooke Delves (Wildebeest) and Jason Yamasaki (Chambar) raised a glass to the wines of Chablis at the wine and food-pairing event at Secret Location.

Martina Meckova’s Vancouver Police Foundation supports the NASKARZ program for at risk youth designed to promote inclusion of young people like Frankie Peters into automotive and educational opportunities.

Olympic rower Krista Guloien and Markit Group’s Lance Uggla were among five individuals feted at SFU’s Outstanding Alumni Awards held at the Four Season’s Hotel. Also cited: Tim Martin, Howard Sapers and Chelsea Reist.

Ryan and Cindy Beedie co-chaired the $2.3 million Vancouver Police Foundation charity dinner and auction at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Dr. Inge Schamborzki and president Tom Chambers fronted Health and Home Care Society of B.C.’s 6th Meals on Wheels fundraising dinner at Kirin Restaurant.

From left, Elizabeth Poon, Kelina Kwan and Ellie Chan are among the dedicated meals on wheels volunteers who deliver food to seniors and others housebound due to illness, injury or surgery.

Mark Davidson (Outstanding Industry Professional) and Mike Bernardo (Sommelier of the Year) were honoured at the Celebrating Excellence Awards held at the Vancouver International Wine Festival.

Actor and party emcee Paul Anthony welcomed Kelly Kenny to the Cineworks benefit. Proceeds of the Oscars hoopla went to support the efforts of independent filmmakers and media artists.

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SECRET’S OUT by May Globus

Secret Location’s menu has transitioned into an exciting new evening format: a choice of three tasting menus (three course, five course, or 10 course). We indulged in the 10 course option and dishes included tea smoked sockeye salmon with parsnip mascarpone and coffee crusted ostrich with burnt leek and black garlic puree, pine oil and heirloom carrot. To say, “Dinner is served” would be an understatement. 1 Water St., 604-685-0090 • www.secretlocation.ca Read the full review on & DINING & HEALTH NIGHTLIFE www.vitamindaily.com

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START NOTHING: Before 6:33 a.m. Sunday, 12:50 p.m. to 7:09 p.m. Tuesday, and 0:24 a.m. to 7:17 a.m. Friday. VIRGO’S LOVE FORECAST: A couple of years ago, Virgo, your planet of marriage, Neptune, entered your marriage sign. This was both a blessing and a curse. Better you ﬁnd it a blessing, as it continues affecting your partnership prospects for another 11 to 12 years. If you insist that your partner/loved one be logical, reasonable and practical, you’ll be cursing. But if you accept that you’re the logical and practical one, and that you might need a bit of the magic of intuition in a mate, of fantasy and awareness of things that exist far beyond logic’s grasp – the decade ahead can be a huge blessing. (This is general: Many Virgos have practical, logical and loving mates but these couples tended to form before 2011.)

Stay near home or visit the hardware store, Sunday to noon Tuesday. Only Sunday offers good fortune — if you can this day, aid your children’s future, review your retirement funds or ﬁx/install new plumbing. Don’t seek sensual intimacy with a good friend; you’d be rejected. Remember, your energy and charisma remain low until late March.

Let chores take precedence over all else, Libra, especially now to March 19. Use this period to clear your “job list” — late March will begin a month of new opportunities, fresh relationships and fresh horizons. You’ll want to be free to pursue these. The present week has a few bumps but is easy overall. Authorities and higher-ups notice you Sunday to Tuesday, so be on your best behavior and be ambitious.

Communications and travel take you to good friends Sunday but they hit glitches and barriers Monday and Tuesday. DON’T buy tools these last two days (nor try to reach agreement with a competitor in a career/ business situation). Be quiet, self-contained Tuesday eve through Thursday — take a nap or two and embrace your family. A good ally appears Wednesday and a wee disappointment occurs Thursday.

The general accent lies on romance, selfexpression, beauty and pleasure, creativity, risktaking, charming kids (and teaching them). You’re still in a great year for turning passionate love to social (e.g., wedded) love; think of this, especially Sunday p.m. when both sides of love appear and so, perhaps, might a brand new attraction.

The general accent lies on career, ambition, prestige relations, dealings with authorities. You can envision the best career moves Sunday but you might be befuddled by your options Friday. (If so, stick with Sunday’s plan or vision.) Chase money and new clients, buy/sell, Sunday to Tuesday evening Step carefully Monday and Tuesday morning.

Only a week and a bit of feeling tied down, Sage. During this time, attend to your home and kids, increase your security, adjust retirement plans, eat plenty of nutritious foods and rest. Life’s mysteries emerge Sunday morning to Tuesday evening Sunday. These mysteries inspire you, can nudge you to do something about your home, even buy a new one. But tread carefully in sex, health and ﬁnances Monday/Tuesday.

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It’s a wise, mellow month, Cancer, and a pretty easy week. Your energy and charisma soar Sunday to Tuesday eve — you attract attention, you can persuade others. Usually this would be a good time to begin new projects, but use your increased clout instead to solve problems, especially involving chores, workplace relations and your domestic situation.

Not everything goes to plan. During this busy but not important week, be ﬂexible, keep options open, seek variety and information. That applies especially Sunday to Tuesday, when others have some say in how you should act or what you should chase. Be diplomatic and eager to join, particularly Sunday, when a bit of affection can solve a whole bunch of relationship frictions.

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The general accent remains on mysteries, high ﬁnance (investments, mortgage, etc.) sexual urges and health diagnoses. Your subconscious bursts to the surface, heightening both your intuition and your desires. All these meet a welcoming cosmos Sunday. If you study a situation, you’ll dream up new solutions. You’re tired but satisﬁed.

The main accent lies on money, earnings, spending, possessions, rote learning, memory and sensual attractions. Usually, your work performance would determine (in the roughest way) your income. Sunday, that’s true, in, most likely, a future-oriented way. Your inspirations around suppertime could lead to a great new way to make money. It’s also an excellent time to buy videos or related equipment.

The emphasis remains on partnerships, counsellors, opportunities, co-operators and challengers. You face a whole new world in these areas; everything and everybody will tend, for the whole decade ahead, to rely more on “a feeling” than on logic. This can make it hard to pin down a clear agreement; on the other hand, it can bring odd, only half-realized beneﬁts, and very different, fascinating people and ultimately, if you’re single, the love of your life.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness remain handsomely high, Pisces! Get out, impress people, start important projects or tackle chores that formerly intimidated you. Passion, beauty, creativity, sports/games, charming kids, speculation ﬁll Sunday to Tuesday evening. These are superb Sunday and might even bring a new romance (or sweet love with your mate or steady squeeze).

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Without the heavy backpacks we toted around in our 20s, we explored some of the Renaissance City’s finer offerings. From the Gucci museum to the oldest pharmacy in the world, read the full Florence city itinerary on www.vitamindaily.com

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Chinatown’s boutique (and caffeine) scene has gotten a jolt with the addition of Lukes General Store. An institution in Calgary, Lukes’ eclectic new Vancouver shop is pop-up for now.

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Britannia girls lose to northern giants JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing writer

he AA Britannia Bruins girls won’t be bringing home a provincial banner this season after a 51-62 loss to the Duchess Park Condors on Wednesday night at the Langley Event Centre. The best the Bruins can hope for now at the 2014 B.C. Secondary Schools Girls AA Basketball Championships is ninth place. The deck was stacked in the Condors’ favour before the first buzzer. The Condors, fifth in the provincials last year, is a more mature team with 10 players in Grades 11 or 12 and no Grade 9s while the Britannia counts five Grade 9s and six Grade 10s on its roster. The Condors outsized the Bruins as well. The Britannia team doesn’t have a single girl over 5’ 11” while the Duchess Park team has a 6’4” post in Marcie Schlick and her 6’ sister Alexis, also a post. But the Britannia team is used to being the underdogs and hit the hardwood prepared to leave it all on the court. The thirteenth ranked Britannia scored first with a two-pointer from Grade 10 guard Julian Duong. The Bruins got ahead of the fourth ranked Prince George Condors 15 to 12 at the end of one period of play. In the second period, the Bruins started to have trouble stopping 5’ 9” Grade 10 Condors guard Nicola Erricson. Erricson, who played 21 minutes on the

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Britannia Bruin captain Naomi Morcilla (l) carries the ball past her Prince George opponent in first round of the 2014 B.C Secondary Schools Girls AA Basketball Championships in Langley Wednesday evening. Scan this page with Layar or visit vancourier.com to see more photos. night and scored 21 points, struggled to find the net in the first period but could not be knocked off her perch in the second. Good defence in the first half and strong scoring from 5’7” guard and captain Naomi Morcilla kept Britannia in the game. By the half the Condors were ahead 35 to 24. Britannia’s 5’7” Duong opened the third with a three-pointer. Duong played hard the whole 40 minutes and scored 18 points for her team, but the deep

bench of the Condors couldn’t be overcome. The score was 53 to 42 for the Condors at the end of the third. The Bruins’ girls upped their intensity in the last period and the score was within four points in the ﬁnal minutes of the game, but by then the Bruins’ workhorses were tired and it showed. “We made the run we needed, but when it was a four point game we couldn’t make the next shot,” said head coach Mike Evans

after the game. The most any Prince George player was out on the court was 24 minutes (by 6’ 4” post Marcie Schlick) whereas three of the Bruins’ players were out a full 40 minutes (Duong, Morcilla and Leena Yamaguchi) and two other players were in play for 29 minutes (Amanda Young and JD Le) Morcilla was the team’s top scorer with 24 points on the night. “It was the hardest 40 minutes I played all season,” she said.“Our team really wanted it, but we just gave out after the end of the third.” Amanda Young, normally a power shooter, had hoped to help pull off a win but had to leave the court a few times because she was sick and her knee, still healing from ACL surgery, was hurting. She played 29 minutes and scored two points, but in spite of her disappointment she saw a bright spot in the game. “I am proud that we kept the score that close the whole time,” she said. Veteran coach Evans was his usual philosophical self about the loss. He said getting to the provincials was a great experience for his young team and he expected his girls could pull off the ninth place ﬁnish in the end. “This is just the ﬁrst day of the tournament and they sure played well,” he said. The Bruins played after deadline on Thursday, and have two more games to play in the tournament. For more information, go to langleyeventscentre.com. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/thuncher

Soaring Falcons on a quest for national title TOP-RANKED TEAM NOT TAKING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR GRANTED KRISTEN MORAN Contributing writer

he Langara Falcons men’s basketball team will head to Quest University in Squamish next weekend to compete in the CCAA National Championships for the second year in a row. The team came out on top of the PacWest playoffs after beating the Capilano Blues in the semi-ﬁnals and then the VIU Mariners in the championship game. Ending their season with 20 wins and only one loss put them into the number one spot in the country going into the national tournament, but according to coach Paul Eberhardt, that doesn’t mean it’s smooth sailing from here.

“It’s nice to have the number one seed obviously, but as you saw from last year, VIU ended up winning it and they were the sixth seed. So when you get to that level, everyone is pretty close,” he said. The team went into nationals last year in the top spot, but after losing the semi-finals in what Eberhardt referred to as “a really tough, heartbreaker kind of game,” the Falcons took home the bronze. “I think the guys are pretty motivated this year by that loss and want to make up for it,” said Eberhardt. Guard Glenn Ruby is excited about the tournament, but agreed their ranking doesn’t guarantee anything. “All that really matters is what happens at Quest for those three games. Those rankings don’t really mean a whole lot,” said Ruby. “The number six ranked team won it last year and they’ve got the ring on their finger, not us.” Their first match-up in the tournament is the Concordia Thunder from Alberta, whom they’ve never played before. Eberhardt said he and his team will prepare by reviewing a

tape of Concordia’s final game. “We’ll be breaking it down and scouting them like crazy, but you never really know until you hit the floor,” said Eberhardt. “I think they’re a good match-up for us.” Eberhardt said the team will also get a chance to practice at Quest a couple times before the tournament to become acclimatized to their gym, which has been recently upgraded for the games. “It’ll be interesting there because it’s a small gym, but they’ve got some really good upgrades,” he said. “They got all new bleachers and got the floor redone. I think it seats 700 or 750 people now.” Quest’s close proximity to Vancouver will allow for more Falcons fans to come show their support, compared to last year’s championship which was held at John Abbott College in St. Anne De Bellevue, Quebec. With less than a week left, Ruby said they need to continue to practice hard. “We’ve just got to make sure we aren’t satisfied after winning that provincial championship,” said Ruby. We’ve got to make sure we go into nationals still hungry rather than

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Langara Falcons are competing in the national ﬁnals next weekend.

just being satisﬁed with the provincial title.” Guard Brody Greig, who was named PacWest player of the year award for the second year in a row, agreed. “It was a really good season, we had a lot of fun,” said Greig. “We tied our record for wins last year, but we still have one more goal and that is to win a national championship.”

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COACH PREDICTS WINNING WOMEN’S TEAM WON’T SURVIVE JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing Writer

BC’s women’s softball team will be missing in action as of September 2015, according to the Thunderbirds’ head coach Gord Collings. The softball team was one of five UBC varsity teams relegated to club status one week ago at the end of a lengthy review of the university’s 29 varsity sports. Collings said he was stunned softball was the only team sport, and the only sport among the five with a full-time coach, that was dropped from varsity status. While the announcement from UBC’s varsity review board stated that as a club, the softball team and the men’s and women’s ski teams will continue to receive honorariums for coaches, have access to facilities and retain their Thunderbirds name, Collings said the team won’t survive. “There is no one to play during the school year,” he said. To play other universities, teams must be affiliated with a university league. As a club, the Thunderbirds softball team will no longer qualify. Team captain and fourth year third base Cassandra Dypchey said she was confused and saddened by the decision. “A lot of us took it as a kind of a stab to the heart,” she said. She said she feels most for the younger girls who, unlike her, will be eligible to play in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics after this year. Second year Thunderbird Lauren du Toit said it is tough one of the main reasons she came to the school will no longer exist. “If I want to continue playing softball now you have to think of if you want to leave the university,” she said. UBC and SFU are the only two Canadian teams playing in U.S. competition, so her options are limited. The UBC summary review document lays out lack of

photo Rich Lam/UBC Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds women’s softball team captain Cassandra Dypchey takes a swing during a recent game. league competition, lack of a home ﬁeld and lack of community engagement as the reasons for the review’s decision. Collings said when softball was left off the original list of 16 teams to remain varsity in January, he presented a proposal addressing the review board’s concerns. “We were told that we did a very good job of addressing those issues,” he said. The team plays in the Association of Independent Institutions, part of the NAIA, as SFU has done successfully for 18

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years. The team also had its best season ever last year (25-21). So far the women have six wins and six losses this season. Collings said while the team doesn’t have a home field, he proposed sharing space with either the new field in the works for the UBC baseball team or on a portion of the field being built for the Whitecaps. For both of these home field proposals, softball would pick up the tab for the necessary softball modifications. He said concerns over lack of community engagement doesn’t make sense. The team was part of Lace up for Kids in support of the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation— the only team that came out in full force — and the players participate in cancer research fundraisers and support other varsity teams, Collings said. Ashley Howard, UBC managing director of athletics and assessment team chair, said the decision was more about how the team stacked up in comparison to other teams as opposed to meeting basic criteria. She said UBC student fan support was lower for softball than for other sports. She said she plans to meet with the players to explain the decision and the appeal process they can pursue. She recognized the situation was difficult. “They were a competitive club before they became varsity [five years ago] so they are used to a particular standard that they want to be in. And I understand that letting go of that would be hard if not pretty much impossible for most people,” she said. Down the road new students may want to start up a competitive softball club of their own, she said. The team costs the school $120,000 and the team raises an additional $50,000. The money accounts for less than two per cent of the UBC’s $6.4 million athletic budget. Both Collings and Dypchey said they would wait to hear what appeal options the team has, but in the meantime the team will take to the field. “Even though we’re down, our spirits are down, this is driving us to succeed even more, “ said Dypchey. The team plays the St. Martin’s Saints in Lacey, Wash. on March 11. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/Thuncher

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A beginner’s guide to brakes WHEEL WORLD

with Kay Cahill

hen it comes to bike components, it really doesn’t get much more important than brakes. Of course all of your components contribute to the feel of the individual bike and overall cycling experience, but being able to stop when you need to can literally mean the difference between life and death in some situations. I’ve had a couple of enquiries recently about the advantages and disadvantages of the various different kinds of brakes that are available, and whether I have a personal preference among them. So in response, here’s a rough guide to the basics of common bike brakes. RIM BRAKES Rim brakes, where squeezing the brake lever causes two pads to grip the rim of the wheel and slow it down, remain the most popular kind of brake. The primary advantages of rim brakes are their relatively low cost, easy maintenance and the fact that they’re considerably lighter than other types of brakes. Any rider who’s concerned about weight

will usually opt for rim brakes. On the flip side the pads wear out relatively quickly, and eventually they will wear out the rim. More importantly for Vancouverites, rim brakes aren’t as effective in wet or muddy conditions. DISK BRAKES Disk brakes, which were originally used mostly on off-road bikes but are starting to become more common on commuters and hybrids, consist of a metal disk attached to the wheel hub. On braking, pads grip this metal disk to slow the bike. Disk brakes are heavier and more expensive than rim brakes, and quite a bit more fiddly to maintain, but provide a huge gain in performance that’s especially noticeable in wet conditions. Disk brakes come in cable or hydraulic versions; the latter use fluid to actuate the braking mechanism, increasing performance further. I’m a big fan of disk brakes, given how much time I spend riding in the rain, and consider the advantages well worth the weight and cost penalty. DRUM BRAKES Drum brakes are fully enclosed, with two pads pushing against the inside of the hub when the brakes are engaged. The biggest advantage of drum brakes is that because the entire braking mechanism is inside a cylinder, they aren’t subject to as much wear and

tear and they provide a strong performance in all conditions. For this reason, they’re popular on heavier cycles like cargo bikes and adult trikes. On the down side, they do come with a weight penalty and when repair is required, it’s more complicated. COASTER BRAKES Coaster brakes are a kind of drum brake that are engaged by back pedaling rather than squeezing a brake lever on the handlebars. They’re most common on single speed bikes, though they can also be found on bikes with internal-hub gears. Like other drum brakes, coaster brakes are durable and provide good performance in wet conditions, but they also come with signiﬁcant disadvantages. They’re slower to apply than lever brakes, and it’s easy to overapply them and lock up the rear wheel. There are a few other types of brakes but these are the ones you’re most likely to encounter in day-to-day riding. As to the right brakes for a particular rider? Give them a try and see which you prefer. As long as they enable you to stop quickly and conﬁdently when you need to, there’s really no wrong answer. ••• Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting. Read more at sidecut.ca, or send a comment to kay@sidecut.ca.

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Housing affordability sees slight improvement VANCOUVER REMAINS THE MOST EXPENSIVE CITY IN CANADA: RBC EMMA CRAWFORD-HAMPEL Contributing writer

he affordability of housing in the Vancouver area increased slightly in 2013’s fourth quarter but remains the worst of all of Canada’s major cities. The Royal Bank of Canada’s housing affordability measure for Vancouver was 81.6 in Q4. This means home-ownership costs for

a standard detached bungalow — including mortgage payments, utilities and property taxes — make up 81.6 per cent of a typical household’s monthly pre-tax income. The national average score was 43.1. Although Vancouver’s score is down 2.3 from 2013’s third quarter, it remains signiﬁcantly higher than any of Canada’s other major cities, which RBC lists as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton.

DOORKNOB DEADLINE DELAYED

Implementation of the City of Vancouver Building Bylaw — which will ban doorknobs and usher in some of the toughest energy requirements in Canada — has been extended until July 1 2014, according to Mark Hartman, Vancouver’s green building manager. “Only building permits submitted after June 30 will be required to comply with the new building bylaw, which includes updates to windows, insulation, heating systems, and accessibility,” Hartman wrote in an email to members

Toronto came in a distant second, at 55.6. “If it is possible to take some comfort from the earlier housing market slump, it would be in noting that it contributed to some improvement in Vancouver’s very poor affordability levels,” said Craig Wright, RBC senior vice-president and chief economist. “Still, housing affordability remains uncomfortably stretched and this is likely per-

of the building industry. The bylaw, which covers one and two-family dwellings, bans the use of doorknobs in new homes and substantial renovations in favour of levered handles and also requires that all doorways be wider to accommodate wheelchairs. Energy requirements include an upgrade to window performance, an increase in insulation levels, greater air tightness and the mandatory installation of a 240-volt electrical vehicle outlet in each carport or garage.

petuating market stress in the area.” British Columbia had the least affordable housing among the provinces, with a score of 67.7. The most affordable housing was found in the Atlantic provinces at 31.6. The most affordable major city in Canada was Edmonton, with a score of 33.3, followed by Calgary (33.8). ecrawford@biv.com twitter.com/ EmmaCrawfordBIV

Hartman said the new bylaw is part of the City of Vancouver’s strategy to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. He didn’t explain why the bylaw deadline has been extended. However, a building consultant on the city’s bylaw advisory committee, said the delay was due to “intense lobbying by building product manufacturers, particularly in the window and door industry.” — Frank O’Brien

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A hot hatchback from — wait for it — Michigan

he idea of a hot hatchback is a quintessentially European one, a recipe made for winding narrow roads in the Italian alps or Yorkshire moors. As such, it’s fitting that the premier hot hatchback manufacturer is based in Michigan. Wait, what? Yep, in North America at least, there’s only one company that will sell you not one but two legit hot hatchbacks, both scrappy little front-drive terrors with fourdoor practicality and turbocharged punch. Surprisingly, it’s not VW and it’s not Fiat — it’s Ford. For anyone who makes regular trips across the pond, the idea of a fast Ford that’s not a Mustang is nothing new. Particularly in the UK, there’s a whole culture of hot-rodded compacts from Ford’s subsidiaries in Essex. Even so, it may be a bit of a surprise to walk into your local dealership and find two beaky-looking hatchbacks parked between the rows of F-150s. We’d been clamouring for a European-style Focus ST for ages — they finally gave us one and it’s great. However, for a little less money than the Focus, you can get this little snarling micro-pod, the Fiesta ST.

Design:

Compared to its larger cousin, the Fiesta ST is compact, narrow and has a friendlier face. Where the Focus grimaces like a melancholy catfish, the Fiesta seems to have at least the ghost of a smile on its aggressive little grille. Other changes over the standard Fiesta include a lower ride height and aerodynamic treatments that extend to a rear spoiler, diffuser and chin splitter. It’s also available in something called Molten Orange, a three-stage colour that makes the little car look like a madscientist cross between a Doberman and a mandarin orange.

lateral grip and challenging if you haven’t shed the Christmas pastry-weight yet. The ST version or not, this is a cheap little car with a big engine, which normally means a nasty, plastic-fantastic interior with all your hard-earned cash packed under the hood. Happily, Ford has been quite clever with its Fiesta, and it’s really quite nice in here. Highlights include the soft-touch material on the upper part of the dash that isn’t faux-printed to look like fake leather, but has some sort of digitized pattern that’s attractive and slightly upscale.

Environment:

Performance:

As one slides behind the seats, the Fiesta ST immediately makes friends by pinching your butt. Whoa, hey, hang on there lil’ buddy — no need to get fresh! Like the heavily-bolstered Recaros in the Focus ST, Ford has plonked in a pair of the wildest race-buckets you’ll ever find in a front-wheel-drive car. They’re incredible in terms of

The power packed in the nose of this hyperactive jumping bean isn’t really important, but if you insist, it’s a 1.6L turbocharged four-cylinder that makes 197 hp and 214 lb/ft of torque.

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today’sdrive Continued from previous page That grunt is available from an impressively low 1600 rpm, and while it’s best to wind the engine up to get any real thrust, it’s also easy to just leave the six-speed transmission in top gear and motor up the cut without downshifting. The real story here, though, is how the Fiesta ST handles. I know what you’re thinking: oh, front-wheel-drive — yawn. Well get in, strap in, shut up and hang on. Build up the speed with the willing four-pot turbo and then dive into a corner as hard as you like. The Fiesta’s funny little beak bites into the turn with terrier-like eagerness; lift-throttle and it shakes tail as if you just walked in the door carrying a bag of sausage-flavoured Milk-Bones. Get back on the power again and the zippy little hatch claws its way back out of the corner and starts hunting for the next one. The steering, at a very quick 13.6:1 ratio, is frenetic, eager and really puts you in the mood for driving. Sure, there’s a whole quite of connectivity features on offer, but here’s a connection that automakers sometimes forget to put in: a bond between driver and road. Part of the ST’s excellent dynamics is down for Ford’s electronic trickery in putting the power down. The front wheels are equipped with a cheaty sort of torque-vectoring whereby the brakes can be applied to the inside wheel to get the little car to bite and pivot. Loosening up the rear suspension gets the back-end shaking, and there are three levels of traction control to dial in how much hooliganism you’d like to have. As a further safety aid, Ford has installed a system that’ll cut the boost after 20 seconds of full throttle. This isn’t the buzzkill it sounds like since coming off the throttle resets the function — it wouldn’t even be a factor if you were at your local dragstrip. The six-speed manual (no other option) is light feeling in engagement and easy-to-use. The clutch is a bit grabby on this particular model, but might just be breaking in. It is endless, endless fun, the best part of which is that it’s not all that socially irresponsible. The ST is fairly efficient when driven gently, semi-practical in terms of capability, and not a maximum-speed-crazed hypersonic missile. It’s as eager as a puppy and demands to be taken for walkies. In an era where overall horsepower and top-speed, 0-60 bragging rights seem paramount, it’s nice to find another choice for drivers who want to have fun without breaking the bank or shattering the speed limit.

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For a relatively accessible entry-level price of $24,999, the basic Fiesta ST comes with all the essentials you expect, along with heated front seats, automatic air-conditioning and Ford’s Sync system. The latter has been much maligned in past generations, but with updates it works well and, among other things, includes the ability to stream audio from your smartphone via Bluetooth. The optional navigation system will cost you $800 and is fairly simple to use. Unlike other systems found even in highend rides, the voice command functions actually listen to you.

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Casbah Side Dishes

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Spring into Detox

2.49-3.99

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assorted varieties

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assorted varieties

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414-875ml

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375ml

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