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Results of the 2014 Metro Vancouver Homeless Count show 538 people are living on the street in this city. That’s an increase of 265 people over last year’s count by the City of Vancouver.
Homeless population largest in city’s history More housing expected before end of year Mike Howell
mhowell@vancourier.com
Mayor Gregor Robertson’s promise to end “street homelessness” by 2015 appears to be in jeopardy with data released Wednesday showing Vancouver now has the largest homeless population in the city’s history. A total of 1,798 people identified as homeless, with 538 living on the street, 1,136 in shelters and 124 of no fixed address, residing in hospitals, detox facilities or jail, according to preliminary results of the Metro Vancouver Homeless Count conducted across the region March 12. The total surpassed 1,715 homeless people recorded in 2010. Such a spike re-
verses a trend over the past three years that saw the homeless population decrease and hover around the 1,600 mark. Troubling for Robertson is the 538 people found on the street this year, which is almost double the 273 counted by the City of Vancouver in 2013. The number of people living on the street — or street homeless, as defined by the mayor — was at an all-time high at 811 when Robertson was elected in 2008.That population showed a steady decrease after the mayor took office and was attributed to the opening of winter shelters, temporary housing and some subsidized housing buildings. Robertson suggested last week the city was headed towards a “worst case scenario” because of delays in opening more temporary
housing and B.C.-government funded housing, along with tenants forced out of single-roomoccupancy hotels for renovations.The cancellation of the Mental Health Commission’s Chez Soi program for people with mental health issues, the closure of the Dunsmuir hotel (which served as temporary housing) and overflowing shelters were other reasons. Robertson’s fear was Vancouver could see more than 1,000 people recorded this March as living on the street.That was the number city manager Penny Ballem presented to city council last week. “The worst case scenario mapped out by Vancouver staff was actually worse than this [538 on the street],” Robertson said at a press conference Wednesday in Burnaby. “So we’re kind of halfway between status
quo and that outcome.This is very frustrating news to see the street count that high.” Asked whether he would meet his goal of ending street homelessness by 2015, Robertson said it was still possible “if there was a concerted effort and we see some additional investment from the B.C. government, the federal government — that’s where we need more help.”The mayor, however, acknowledged up to 600 units of housing — about 400 funded by the B.C. government — are planned to be open before the end of the year. The spike in homelessness comes eight months before voters go to the polls and decide whether Robertson and his Vision Vancouver team should earn a third term in see Mayor on page 12
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Here are five ways to optimize your volunteering experience
1. Be upfront about your goals.
Stating at your initial volunteer interview or meeting that you are open to the idea of employment opportunities with the organization will help the hiring manager keep you in mind when a position does become available.
2. Treat it like a job.
The mentality of “I’m just a volunteer” will not get you very far or make a worthwhile impression. Employers are not giving you this volunteer position to do you a favour; they do it because they need help. Many organizations like to hire from within, which includes volunteers, so treat this like a very long interview. Showcase your work ethic, your skills and willingness to take on responsibility.
3. Take initiative.
The first tasks any employer will give to a volunteer are the simple, monotonous tasks that people often do not enjoy. As a volunteer we feel safe to stick to these tasks and before long we are stuck. Do your best to involve yourself in projects that require collaboration with employees to help build your network.
4. Mine your accomplishments.
Since this opportunity will be a point of reference for future applications and interviews it is beneficial to keep track
of everything you are doing. Nothing gets an employer more excited than when you can tell them what you have accomplished or how you have added value to an organization. We often limit our experience by saying, “but I was only a volunteer.” Whether or not you were paid does not take away from the responsibilities you had or the skills you developed in this position.
5. Network, network, network.
Your foot is in the door, now take full advantage. Everyone in the organization is a wealth of information about the industry and will have insider information on upcoming opportunities. If you have properly showcased your abilities, these employees, supervisors and managers can even be your referrals. For more career advice and job search information and support, visit your local WorkBC Employment Services Centre. Find the nearest location at WorkBCcentres.ca.
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Board chair gives hope to band on the run Cheryl Rossi
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A plan forwarded by the chairperson of the Vancouver School Board April 22 was music to parents’ ears. Vision Vancouver chairperson Patti Bacchus proposed the VSB use $585,000 in additional money from the provincial government to preserve the threatened itinerant elementary band and strings program for one year only so a task force could work on a plan to see band and strings sustained permanently. She said eliminated positions could be replaced in the future but rebuilding band and strings would be difficult once it’s cut. Bacchus noted Vancouver’s oldest schoolhouse at Carleton elementary once faced demolition but “pushing the pause button” allowed time to find a creative solution. Green Thumb Theatre operates there now with money the company raised and funds from the federal, provincial and city governments.
VSB secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk explained the board received $585,000 in holdback funds for 2013-2014 after the board’s preliminary proposed budget for 20142015 was released. The board has since completed preliminary enrolment projections for next year and estimates it can save another $110,000. Vision Vancouver trustees Cherie Payne, Mike Lombardi, Allan Wong and Rob Wynen supported Bacchus’s idea. Student trustee Nick Milum said he wouldn’t want the board to put all of the $585,000 into music because important positions face elimination. “Namely [the] athletic coordinator, area counsellors, multicultural liaisons workers,” he said. Debbie Pawluck, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association, agreed the board should create a band and strings task force, but she also agreed with Milum that some of the $585,000
should go to preventing other proposed cuts. “Everything from the unpalatable three additional school closure days, which will affect 50,000 children and everyone who works here,” she said. “The implications and repercussions of those three days are actually far-reaching beyond even the strings and band program.” NPA trustee Ken Denike wondered how the board could decide to close schools for an additional three days next November for an estimated savings of $375,000 in salaries and benefits without first dealing with employee agreements. Superintendent Steve Cardwell said a decision could be made April 30 but consultations with employee groups would run into June. If the closures can’t proceed, the budget would have to be adjusted, “which is difficult to do.” On the chopping block: · A district athletic coordinator for a cost savings of $71,216. · Two substance abuse prevention workers in
Seven-year-old cello player Keith Topnik and string students from several elementary schools got together to play a few songs before the meeting at the VSB Education Centre Tuesday afternoon. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
schools for a savings of $127,000. · A reduction from two teachers to one at the alternative City School for a savings of $95,500 in salary and benefits. · A Vietnamese and a South Asian multicultural liaison worker for a savings
of $140,000. · The continuing education program, for a savings of $514,410. · Three of 27.4 elementary school area counsellor positions for a savings of $315,300. TheVSB faces a projected shortfall of $11.56 million
for 2014-2015 and must deliver a balanced budget to the province. Staff expect to spend approximately 92 per cent of theVSB’s $497.19 million budget on salaries and benefits.The board has cut $47 million over the past 12 years. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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Few changes in ‘revised’ VSB budget Cheryl Rossi
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Vancouver school board staff turned in barely revised homework for the district’s finance committee meeting April 22. The updated budget, released at the meeting, was barely changed from the preliminary budget, which was released April 8. Janek Kuchmistrz, third vice president of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers Association, called the move “absolutely astonishing.” Instead of being able to comment on revisions, “we’re going to have a dramatic unfolding of new things [on April 30],” he said. That’s when the school board will make final budget decisions. The senior management team proposed to the finance committee that “owing to the numerous comments received during the consultation process to date, and given that additional consultation is scheduled for April 28” the trustees should adjust the preliminary budget at the final budget meeting April 30. Last year, the senior management team expanded the rationale for spending $120,000 on a controversial community engagement coordinator, spared buildings from closure and various positions in the revised budget.
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“Some years there’s something definite that comes up that’s either not going to work or a better idea has come up,” said Patti Bacchus,VisionVancouver chairperson of theVSB, when asked why no specific line item revisions were made. “This year, especially, what I’m hearing is such a diversity of response.” Advocates for elementary band and strings have spoken loudly against the program’s elimination, and Bacchus proposed a plan April 22 that she’d hatched over the Easter long weekend for dealing with that cut. Only 30 Vancouverites attended the public consultation on the preliminary budget last spring, whereas hundreds of citizens attended public consultations April 15 to 17. Marlene Rodgers, the mother of a student in the threatened band and strings program and co-founder of the newly formed citizens’ group Protect Public Education Now, which calls on the provincial government to better fund schools, didn’t attend budget consultations last year. “It takes a crisis to make you realize you need to speak up,” she said Tuesday as two-dozen elementary school band and strings students performed on the lawn outside the school board office before meeting. PPEN is non-partisan,
Rodgers said, but she supports Vision Vancouver and its trustees dominate school board. Senior management revealed Tuesday evening the VSB has received an additional $585,000 in holdback funds from the province so the VSB’s projected shortfall is now $11.65 million for 2014-2015. “I think the reason we got the holdback this time is because of the advocacy that we’ve been seeing out there by parents, students and partner groups,” said Vision Vancouver trustee Mike Lombardi. Bacchus said she’s seen parents she doesn’t even know in the limelight lobbying for more money for public schools. Vancouver District Parent Advisory chairperson Monica Moberg noted April 22 that DPAC’s online budget survey had received more than 1,400 responses in less than a week. Bacchus noted Education Minister Peter Fassbender will speak at the B.C. Student Trustees Association’s annual general meeting this weekend. She hopes he’ll announce additional money for schools. The board will hear public responses to the budget April 28 at 7 p.m. at the school board office at 1580 West Broadway. Details at vsb.bc.ca.
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J OYC E M U R R AY, MP FOR VA NCOU VER Q UA D R A , P R ES E N T S :
Mental health task force a big tent Mayor won’t share details of deliberations 12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell
mhowell@vancourier.com
Time to test your memory, people. Remember last September when Mayor Gregor Robertson and Police Chief Jim Chu told us how this city was in a mental health crisis? Remember when one month later Robertson announced at city council that he was creating a task force to tackle the problem of mental health — and addictions? I remember all this because I wrote about it. But, you ask, what ever happened to that task force? I was thinking the same thing. We’re in April now and I haven’t heard a peep. So I contacted the mayor’s office and discovered
that not only had Robertson put together a task force but it had met five times. And get this:There are 67 people on the task force! And, it seems, everybody in this town connected to the issue of mental health and addictions is a member. Here’s some names you may be familiar with: Dr. Patricia Daly of Vancouver Coastal Health, B.C. Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay, Marjorie White of the Aboriginal Mothers’ Centre, Rob Turnbull of the Streetohome Foundation, Darrell Burnham of Coast Mental Health, Dave Hamm of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, Karen O’Shannacery of Lookout Emergency Aid Society and, well, the list goes on. Of course, Chu is on the task force. There’s also people from the ministry of health, Corrections, the Vancouver
Police Board, the psychiatry department at the University of B.C., the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society, Providence Health (which oversees St. Paul’s Hospital) and a dozen folks from the City of Vancouver, including chief housing officer Mukhtar Latif. After I went through the list, I wondered how such a diverse group could reach a consensus on moving forward with recommendations. So I caught up with the man himself — Mr. Mayor — last week and asked him. “There’s a lot of consensus around the table for next steps,” Robertson said. “With mental health, there’s so many major changes needed and great ideas emerging from the task force that are getting widespread support in the room.”
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Dave Hamm of VANDU (center, in red) is one of 67 members on the mayor’s task force on mental health and addictions. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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News Worker takes city to human rights tribunal Bob Mackin
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A City ofVancouver sanitation department worker fired for stealing a jacket that was to be given to him by a superintendent is appealing to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to get his job back. Joe Francescutti’s lawyer Dean Davison had scheduled a settlement conference Thursday with the City of Vancouver, more than two-months since city manager Penny Ballem refused to reinstate Francescutti. Francescutti’s work record was described in a Feb. 11 letter by Ballem to CUPE Local 1004 business agent Steve Varty as “undistinguished.” An attached timeline of infractions from 1999 to 2011 showed six suspensions totaling 27 days, ranging from one day for not wearing proper footwear (March 13, 2001) to 10 days for inappropriate conduct with the public (Nov. 7, 2002). “During a verbal exchange with a female resident, (Francescutti) pulled his pants down and reached into his buttocks and stood and scratched them,” claimed the appendix to Ballem’s letter, which
was leaked to the Courier. “Grievor denied making the gesture; resident may have mistaken this for another type of action/gesture.” Francescutti declined comment and referred a reporter to Davison, who called Ballem’s letter “just one side of the story.” The letter said the union acknowledged discipline was warranted, but it wanted Francescutti’s reinstatement without back pay, based on his diagnosis of depression. The union claimed the city was aware of his condition since the end of 2011 and he was not adequately represented at an April 19, 2013 meeting. Francescutti, said the letter, “admitted his conduct, was remorseful and the behaviour in this incident was out of character.” Ballem wrote that the city was not aware of the severity or timing of the onset of depression Francescutti suffered in 2013. An unnamed occupational health doctor found “no evidence of a causal link between the grievor’s condition and his ability to know right from wrong and understand the consequences of his actions,” Ballem wrote. She dismissed the grievance and upheld Frances-
cutti’s firing, but arranged for him to have access for six months from the date of the letter to the city’s comprehensive employee and family assistance program. “Even in isolation, but particularly given the employment record, it is behaviour that we cannot tolerate,” Ballem wrote. Said Davison: “It’s going to come down to the medical evidence and the timing of the medical evidence.Was Joe in a position where he was making clear decisions at the time of the incident? “It’s our position that the city knew he had some issues and they didn’t do anything to accommodate him.They should have not only not terminated him, but accommodated him for the medical issues he was going through.” Francescutti’s action is the latest chapter in more than a year of strife between workers and management. The Feb. 19, 2013 “Employee Engagement Notes: Day Shift and Afternoon Shift” report called the sanitation department a “toxic work environment.” Patrick Dickie, lawyer for CUPE Local 1004, did not respond to an interview request. twitter.com/bobmackin
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Attorney general Suzanne Anton was at the Killarney Community Centre Wednesday morning to announce $1.2 million in additional funding towards a long-awaited seniors centre for southeast Vancouver. In 2012 the province committed $1.3 million, less than the $2.5 million hoped for by the city and members of the SoutheastVancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society, including seniors activist Lorna Gibbs. The additional provincial funding tops up the $1.2 million promised by the city in February, which followed their initial $2.5million commitment made in 2011.The park board got the ball rolling in 2009 when it dedicated the land adjacent to Killarney Com-
munity Centre. In January, the federal government got on board with a promise of $2.5 million so long as work got underway in 2014. While there are seven seniors centres located west of Cambie Street, there are none in southeast Vancouver, home to one-third, or 27,000, of the city’s seniors. Gibbs has lobbied tirelessly for more than a decade to encourage all three levels of government to work together to make the community’s dream of a seniors centre a reality. She’s been helped by longtime volunteers such as former Killarney Community Centre Association president Keith Jacobson. Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper told me that while none of the Vision commissioners were invited to the announcement, they’re all delighted the project will finally move ahead.
Suspicious death
I didn’t have much information on this prior to the Courier’s press deadline, but police responded to a call to Stanley Park at 6 a.m.Thursday morning about a woman in medical distress. The woman has since died, and the VPD say the death is suspicious. Investigators from the Vancouver Police Major Crime Section responded to the scene and Stanley Park Drive was closed for several hours while police conducted their investigation.
Cetacean cessation?
Aaron Jasper is bringing a motion to the board April 28 asking staff to prepare a report by July on the Vancouver Aquarium’s operations with whales and dolphins as well as a review of similar attractions, which may or may not include captive cetaceans. Continued on next page
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Cetacean bylaw up for review Continued from previous page The park board’s bylaw about keeping cetaceans in captivity is up for review next year. The motion also asks staff to provide a public memo with an overview of the agreement and relationship between the park board and aquarium and post it on the board’s website. As well, Jasper wants the aquarium to make a presentation to the board about its pro-
gramming, education and rehabilitation work as it relates to cetaceans and its work with other aquariums. The motion reads in part, “The issue of keeping cetaceans in captivity is increasingly becoming an issue of heightened public interest; the Vancouver Park Board, through its bylaws, has it within its authority to enable or prevent the use of cetaceans in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium.”
Jasper wanted to make it clear the public is not invited to speak on the motion at this stage, but will have an opportunity to give input once the report is completed. “The board can approve this Monday night if it feels there’s enough information and if not, it will get shot back to staff,” said Jasper. “But we’re mindful the clock is ticking on this.” twitter.com/sthomas10
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Opinion Legislation processed out of the spotlight
Granville Isle makeover must be human scale
Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com
Geoff Olson Columnist
With all the focus on the daily question period jousts, much of the B.C. Liberal legislative package is being processed through the house out of the spotlight. Here’s a rundown of what they’re actually doing, as opposed to what they’re saying. There are a few higher-profile bills that have captured the attention of some and prompted definite arguments between the government and the Opposition. The Agricultural Land Reserve revamp, which is still to undergo line-by-line scrutiny, is the headliner this session.When Bill Bennett was named core review minister, he saw his chance to fulfil his ambition to change the ALR and he ran with it. But he’s running right into the NDP’s fervent belief that the ALR is a sacred trust, and others’ skepticism about his intentions. So there will be more fireworks to come. The liquor-law changes that relax a number of restrictions will make for even more profound changes in day-to-day life. But they were all signalled well ahead of time, and the NDP is more curious about them than opposed. Here’s a refresher on other items in the 19-bill agenda that was introduced over the last three months. • The Electoral Boundaries Commission Act forbids any future boundary commissions from eliminating 17 ridings in rural B.C. Updating ridings always turns into a frustrating exercise in trying to balance populations evenly. It’s impossible because of the disparity between rural and urban B.C., so drafters are always faced with the prospect of collapsing some of the low-population ridings. The bill outlaws that in the named ridings, 11 of which happen to be Liberal at the moment. There are some constitutional issues, but the Opposition has been more concerned about why some other remote ridings — held by the NDP — aren’t on the protected list. Best line of the debate, from NDP MLA Leonard Krog: “The kicker is that we’re also going to limit [the house] to 85 seats. The Opposition supports that. This place is a little crowded as it is.” • Provincial Capital Commission Dissolution Act. It winds up the 50-year-old entity that managed a portfolio of public properties in Greater Victoria. It’s another concept from Bill Bennett’s core review laboratory.The entire capital is in the hands of the NDP, so it was roundly denounced.
Best line, from NDP MLA Rob Fleming: “We’ve just heard the minister congratulate the PCC for doing an outstanding job. It’s not often in government that you get the privilege of being shot at dawn for doing an outstanding job.” • Off Road Vehicle Act.The Wild West approach to wilderness recreation died when this bill was passed last month, as it requires registration and licences for snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles.Various groups have been begging for the law for years, but it never developed until now. The government will make off-roaders register for $48 and issue licences, through the Insurance Corp. of B.C., no less.
It’s a fairly mundane package, considering how long the government waited to recall the legislature. Best line on off-roading, from Liberal MLA Laurie Throness: “It’s a bit risky, but it’s favoured by the strong. Those who are strong like that kind of a culture because they can do anything they want. But the weak, in that kind of a culture, don’t have such a good time. I’m a firm believer in not allowing a few people to wreck it for everyone else.” • Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act. It was a long time coming and took at least two tries to get to the legislature, but it could have big consequences years down the road.The large number of private-sector employees who don’t have pension plans might get a better chance at enrolling, as it makes it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to start such plans. • Missing Persons Act. It arose from the missing-women inquiry and gives police more authority to compel information when investigating missing-persons cases where no criminality is suspected.The Opposition supports the concept, but was leery during debate about encroaching on people’s privacy. It’s a fairly mundane package, considering how long the government waited to recall the legislature. twitter.com/LeyneLes (Allen Garr’s column will return soon.)
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It’s been a while since I visited Granville Island. So on a recent Friday afternoon I parked myself outside the food market with an overpriced burrito and enjoyed the view. Granville Island, a federal government initiative involving mixed-use of space by retail, commercial, industrial, and public interests, debuted in 1979. There were many skeptics of this experiment in “new urbanism,” but the spot turned out to be one of the second biggest tourist draws to the city next to Stanley Park. Surprise, surprise: it turns out that a food market, cement plant, boatyard, art school, community centre and water park could fit together comfortably with restaurants and theatres. Watching the bulbous Aquabus bob over to the north side of False Creek, I thought back to a favourite Granville Island moment from years back, during the now defunct Comedyfest. At the count of three, a comic had his outdoor audience point their fingers at the Granville Bridge and yell out in unison, “Hey you!” A pedestrian on the bridge popped his head over the edge of the railing to look down, as hundreds of people burst into laughter. On this Friday afternoon, the market was busy but manageable to navigate. Wandering over to the False Creek community centre and over to Ron Basford park, I was struck how Granville Island feels more like an urban oasis than ever before. “This is beautiful,” I thought, at the pinnacle of Basford’s open air amphitheatre. Increasing numbers of areas in Metro Vancouver are defined by skyscrapers and their darkened canyons, and Granville Island is one remaining urban development where sunlight isn’t trumped by shadow. But given Vision Vancouver’s enthusiasm for vertically directed ecodensity, it was probably only a matter of time before we’d start hearing about how old and stodgy Granville Island is. A February editorial in the Vancouver Sun bore the headline, “It’s time to re-imagine and renew Granville Island.” The peg in the story is the planned relocation of Emily Carr School of Art to Great Northern Way, which will open up 200,000 square feet of space and two buildings.
Obviously something new and inventive is needed in Emily Carr’s absence, and the Sun isn’t off-base in claiming that Granville Island is dead at night. What concerns me is the insistence that the place is “looking a bit dated” at 35 years of age, and the departure of the art school is “an opportunity for a modernization of the entire site.” It could use sprucing up in places, but from another perspective, 35 years of age makes much of it a retro gem. Modernize “the entire site”? Let’s not forget Vancouver’s sublime Orpheum Theatre, which first opened in 1929, was narrowly spared the wrecking ball in 1979. The editorial advocates wresting control of Granville Island away form the Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation, while looking to the Vancouver International Airport Authority’s transformation of YVR as a good template. But last time I checked, airports are still considered departure and arrival points, not spots travellers care to linger at. The ’70s government initiative that made Granville Island drew on input from Vancouverites. I would hope a rehaul of Granville Island would draw on local feedback from non-developers, without it turning into public hearings Kabuki theatre, for a done deal that benefits offshore investors who leave their properties empty. I don’t share Sun editorial writer Daphne Bramham’s conviction that stakeholders “will ensure that Granville Island 2.0 isn’t cluttered with tourist shops, global chains or condos and that its next incarnation is even better than the first one.” I’m not convinced it’s unavoidable, either. Yet given the boxy monoculture of commercial and residential development in this city, and the intense pressure to maximize profit per square metre, I fear it will be a Bride of Frankenstein makeover. Will this sunlit patch of city be left in the dark, like the glass canyons downtown? In the classic 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Canadian urbanist Jane Jacobs wrote, “There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.” Her advice is still worth heeding. geoffolson.com
The week in num6ers...
67 1,798 196 49
The number of people who comprise the mayor’s task force created late last year to tackle the problem of mental health and addictions.
Total number of homeless in Vancouver according to the Metro Vancouver Homeless Count in March 2014 — 538 of whom are living on the street.
The increase in number of homeless since the 2013 homeless count of 1,602, making this year’s tally the largest number of homeless in Vancouver’s history.
Cost, in dollars, for afternoon tea service at The Roof, the recently re-opened 15th floor restaurant and lounge at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.
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Number of free throws Langara’s Brody Greig sunk in 30 seconds to help win the Canadian College Athletic Association national championship in March. The basketball player was named the CCAA athlete of the year Wednesday.
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Nat Bailey Stadium saved April 25, 2005: The Vancouver park board formally approves a plan to keep Nat Bailey Stadium instead of knocking it down to make way for a curling rink to be used in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Curlers instead competed in a new facility built nearby. The minor-league baseball stadium opened in 1951 and was originally called Capilano Stadium before being renamed in 1978 in honour of the founder of the White Spot restaurant chain.
To the editor: Re: “School board hears public pleas,” April 18. I attended two of the public consultation meetings held by the Vancouver School Board last week, listening pleas from the public. Pleas to keep the Band and Strings program accessable. Pleas to keep an athletic coordinator. Pleas not to cut services in schools: for immigrants, children with special learning needs, cafeteria services (particularly where there are large numbers of hungry children depending upon those cafeteria’s to have a meal). Cuts, cuts and more cuts. Every year less and less funding available to maintain public education that is excellent, inclusive, meets the learning environment necessary for all students to have a successful outcome and supports the communities striving to insure that success. Less and less funding to build and maintain facilities that are safe and welcoming. Premier Clark and Minister Fassbender assure us that education funding has hit the wall. For the next three years (at least) public institutions that could provide the bright lights that will see us out of the the current crisises we have with the evironment, senior care, affordable housing, public transportation, widening income disparities, poverty and health care will receive no increase in funding. Clark and Fassbender assure us that they cannot unwisely use any more taxpayer dollars to support public education.That school districts only need to prioritize spending and
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To the editor: Re: “Prominent graffiti downplayed as trend,” March 26. Tags are certainly not prolific.They may be abundant or ubiquitous or a pain in the ass, but they do not merit the authorship of abundant creativity. Callum Keith-King, Vancouver
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find those economies needed to balance the budget that is allotted to them. Perhaps priority spending and the finding of economy might be undertaken by government.There is a cost of not supporting the public institution best placed to produce a citizenry that is well educated, socially adept and healthy both physically and emotionally. This cost is greater by far than the savings achieved by steadily undermining it. With the release this week of the Revised Preliminary Budget for the VSB came the news that there is an extra $690,000, which will be used to offset some of the cuts proposed originally to balance a budget projected to be $11.65 million short. A small drop in a large bucket.These funds may have been released by the province because of the advocacy by thousands of parents, students and community members. How is it proposed to spend the “extra” funds? There is no proposal at this time.The board has decided to make that decision after the full consultation on the budget is completed with more public input April 28. So keep pleading. Premier Clark: AREYOU LISTENING?? Gwen Giesbrecht, Vancouver
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COURIER STORY: “Tougher tree bylaw spurs application onslaught,” April 16.
bregalad: So apparently it’s going to be illegal to replace the overgrown shrubs a previous owner let grow too big with replacement trees. How about the tree that produced a new seedling nearby? I’d like to remove the original one because it’s killing my rhododendrons and crowding the sidewalk. I’m perfectly happy to let the little one grow up.Take down one tree, replace it with one in a better location. Seems fair to me, but not to our city council.
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Mayor maintains goal to get people off street
Mayor Gregor Robertson answers reporters’ questions Wednesday regarding the release of new homeless statistics. The mayor’s goal is to end street homelessness by 2015. PHOTO JASON :LANG
Continued from page 1 Opposition NPA Coun. George Affleck reiterated a position he held from last week, saying the mayor’s promise to end street homelessness was “irresponsible” when considering the challenge. “We wouldn’t promise to get to zero [street homeless],” said Affleck, when asked how the NPA would reduce homelessness in Vancouver. “And blaming the federal and provincial governments is not going to help the problem — it’s going to make it worse.” He said the NPA would work with senior levels of government to get people off the street and favour housing be built around the region. “Vancouver is a hot spot for this issue, no doubt. But does that mean we should build all the homes in Vancouver? I don’t think so.” Affleck noted former NPA mayor Sam Sullivan’s goal during his 2005 to 2008 term was to reduce homelessness by 50 per cent — a goal that was ridiculed by Vision Vancouver, he said. It was during Sullivan’s reign that the city also struck a deal with the provincial government to begin building subsidized housing sites on city property, he added. The mayor issued a statement after the press conference through his Vision Vancouver party, saying
“what we can’t have happen is let an NPA government roll back the progress. They’ve already been out in the media, calling our shelters and housing a waste of money.That we should let the market decide what housing to build, and turn our back on people when they need us most.The NPA’s approach would be a big step backwards for Vancouver.” While the politics of the issue plays out, the facts are homelessness in Vancouver and the region continues to increase. The results of the Metro Vancouver Homeless Count showed a total of 2,770 homeless people in Vancouver and the surrounding suburbs. Surrey was second to Vancouver with 403 homeless people followed by the North Shore (119) and New Westminster (104). Langley (92), RidgeMeadows (84), Burnaby (58), the Tri-Cities (55) and Richmond (38) rounded out the top 10. That’s an increase of 120 people region-wide from Metro Vancouver’s 2011 count.The number of people living on the street in the region was 957 this year, up from 758 in 2011. Deb Bryant, chairperson of the Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness, suggested the homeless population could be larger considering the count is only done over 24 hours.
“What we know is the count numbers are a minimum number of people who are homeless on any given day in the Metro Vancouver region,” Bryant said. “It’s just simply not possible, of course, to count every person or to find every person.The number of people who are homeless on any one day is only a proportion of the people who experience homelessness over the course of a year.” New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright, who doubles as chairperson of Metro Vancouver’s housing committee, did not make a similar promise to Robertson to end street homelessness in his municipality. And when asked whether such a goal was achievable in New Westminster,Wright said “we almost can’t do much more.” “If there’s anyone that’s out there, we’re kind of on it right away,” he said, noting his municipality has “second-stage” housing for homeless people, three large food service centres and a dedicated police officer to
liaise with the homeless. Aboriginal people continue to represent one-third of the homeless population in the region, with 72 per cent found in Vancouver and 12 per cent in Surrey. Patrick Stewart, chairperson of the aboriginal homelessness steering committee for Metro Vancouver, said the news for his community is again disconcerting. “The results point to the definite need for more culturally appropriate affordable housing in Metro Vancouver, which is pretty frustrating because we’ve been saying that since 1993 when the federal government cut new construction for social housing,” said Stewart, who is an architect. “It’s pretty evident that housing isn’t a right in this country, despite the BandAid programs that continue to not address the real needs within the aboriginal community.” Stewart noted there is only one temporary shelter for First Nations in Vancouver, which is run by the Aboriginal Friendship Centre
Society, and it continues to be full every night. “People are being turned away,” he said, despite the City of Vancouver’s purchase of the former Ramada hotel on Hastings to provide interim housing for tenants moving out of the shelter. A total of 410 homeless people under the age of 25 were counted in March, along with 371 seniors and 88 children under the age of 19 who were accompanied by their homeless parents. Ashley Crossan of the Vancouver Foundation’s youth advisory group for homelessness said the statistics don’t properly reflect the number of young homeless people. Crossan said many people from her generation don’t want to admit they are homeless and noted several didn’t show up to agencies to be counted this year. “Homeless youth are not the same as homeless adults,” she said. “They are much less visible. Homelessness for youth can take many forms — living in unsafe situations, couch surfing, staying temporarily with friends as well as being on the streets.” After the press conference, the Courier spoke to Giles Clawson, a homeless man camped in a parking lot on Kathleen Avenue, near Kingsway — across from the building where the homeless numbers were released. Clawson, who believes he is 38, said he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident when he was 19 and suffered a brain injury. Born and raised in Burnaby, Clawson said he’s been on the streets for 15 years and usually sleeps in Burnaby’s Central Park and uses the park’s washrooms. He said he panhandles for money and people are usually generous. “What do I need? I need a home — I need it badly,” he said, adding that he believes he’s on a waiting list for housing. “Until then, I’m here.” twitter.com/Howellings
VANCOUVER’S HOMELESS POPULATION YEAR
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
1,294 1,427 1,296 1,327 1,136
421 154 306 273 538
1,715 1,581 1,602 1,600 1,798*
STATISTICS: CITY OF VANCOUVER AND METRO VANCOUVER HOMELESS COUNT
*INCLUDES 124 OF NO FIXED ADDRESS
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Hospice helped deal with tidal wave of grief Vancouver Hospice Society offers support for the bereaved READER SOAPBOX Karen Segal Even though I’d known my mother was dying for two years, when she actually passed away, I felt like I was in crisis. Returning to Vancouver from her Christmas Eve funeral in Winnipeg, I was finding it extremely difficult to cope with my grief. A friend who’d lost her father three years earlier had warned me that it would hit like a tidal wave and, alas, it did. I was stunned by the depth of it. It was surreal being at the airport on Christmas Day, having a shop clerk and flight staff wishing me the best of the season. I very luckily had friends who sat with me while I sobbed, offering tissues and Ativan but not platitudes. And yet I still felt alone, overwhelmed by my reaction. I wasn’t eating properly or sleeping very much. Nothing felt real and I couldn’t stop thinking about my mother, now dead, now ashes in a niche on the outside wall of a funeral home. I read voraciously others’ stories of grief on blogs and Internet forums, googling “I just lost my mom and I feel like I’m going crazy,” more than a few times.
There was no obvious place to turn.Then, a friend in Winnipeg told me that if I lived there, Hospice & Palliative Care Manitoba could offer me a lot of support.Thinking linearly in between crying jags, I found the contact information for Vancouver Hospice Society. I had long thought that hospice only helped people who were imminently dying but it turns out that it also helps those in bereavement.VHS has in-house groups for children, teens, families and adults who have suffered loss as well as one-on-one sessions with an in-house grief counsellor. The hospice also offers palliative support and 24-hour bedside vigil during the last 72 hours of life. Services are free, (except for a per diem of $31.90/day per bed) paid for mainly by donations and sales at its two Vancouver thrift stores and its two major annual fundraisers.VHS has a new home at West 32nd and Granville and as of April 1 has been accepting patients. Incorporated as a non-charitable organization in 2003, VHS has a six-bed capacity. I originally met with the hospice’s clinical counsellor to discuss the Bereavement Walking Program, a unique support group where trained volunteers and the bereaved walk and talk in
Kitsilano once a week for eight weeks. (The next round begins at the end of April.) I tried the program but found it too soon for me to be around others who had also suffered loss. (As grief is unique for each person, so is their experience with the walking group. Many find it extremely helpful and return several times.) Instead, I had six sessions (the maximum)
with the clinical counsellor and often times it was a relief to just cry without feeling nervous about overwhelming someone with my grief. Meeting with her, particularly at first when my grief was at its rawest, I felt a bit of the weight lifting knowing that someone understood and could offer support. Grieving can feel like an incredibly isolating experience but the counsel-
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ling helped to take some of that isolation away. Her understanding of the process of grief as well as her calm presence was incredibly soothing. I have found VHS to be such a valuable resource and yet it was one that I had never thought of and in speaking to others about it, have discovered that many in Vancouver hadn’t even heard of it at all. It is defi-
nitely a good starting point for anyone who is grieving and wanting support. To access any of these services or for more information, call The Vancouver Hospice Society at 604737-7305 or go to vancouverhospice.org. Information on the May fundraiser, Hike for Hospice, can be found there as well. Karen Segal is aVancouver freelance writer.
Special Traffic Advisory Road Closures: May 3 & 4
On Sunday, May 4, 17,000 participants running the 43rd BMO Vancouver Marathon, Half Marathon and 8-km race will experience three courses showcasing some of the unique neighbourhoods of the city of Vancouver. Routes will impact traffic in Vancouver’s Riley Park and Coal Harbour on Saturday, May 3, 2014 and in Riley Park, South Cambie, Oakridge, Fairview, Kerrisdale, Dunbar, UBC, Point Grey, Kitsilano, West End, Coal Harbour, Chinatown, Yaletown, Cambie, False Creek and Downtown neighbourhoods on Sunday, May 4, 2014. The marathon and half marathon start on Midlothian Avenue between Queen Elizabeth Park and Hillcrest Community Centre and finish on West Pender Street (between Bute and Thurlow Street). Most half marathon participants will finish the course by 10 am (strict 11 am course closure) and most marathon parti-cipants will finish the course by 2 pm (strict 4 pm course closure). NOTE: Midlothian Avenue is closed from 5 pm on Saturday, May 3 to 1 pm on Sunday, May 4. West Hastings Street between Burrard and Thurlow Street will have local access May 4 until 12 noon and is fully closed from 12 noon to 6 pm on May 4. AIRPORT ACCESS: from 7:30 - 9 am on May 4, use Main Street to Marine Drive to travel to and from the airport. (Avoid Oak, Granville and Cambie Street.) Vancouver Police, City staff, Ministry of Transportation, Metro Vancouver, Park Board, Translink and the Marathon Society are working to ensure a safe route. Residents and commuters should expect delays and be prepared to use alternative routes. Times for road closures are approximate. Roads will be re-opened on a rolling schedule as the marathon and half marathon progress through the city.
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After more than two decades providing Kerrisdale with homemade Italian food, Piera Esposito is closing her deli. “She’s just fed everyone for 22 years,” said Cathy Thompson, a regular at Esposito’s Boccocino Deli. Thompson spoke with admiration about Esposito’s dedication. As small businesses close throughout Kerrisdsale, the shuttering of Boccocino Deli is another sign of changing times in the neighbourhood. Thompson met Esposito 20 years ago and marvelled at the hearty dishes offered on “the hot table.” Every morning at 6:30 a.m., Esposito makes the pasta and meat pies that she has become known for. “I’m not English, but my English cousins say that I make shepherd’s pie better than their own parents. That’s the only item on the
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“More than anything this is a generational shift.” Thomas Hobbs Florists and Puddifoot are a couple of other iconic shops that have gone out of business in recent years. Despite these losses, Clark remains optimistic. “New businesses are coming in every day. New businesses that reflect a changing community,” she said. Some residents think the new stores don’t have the same neighbourhood feel to them.Thompson, a 30-year Kerrisdale resident, notices the difference. She is hopeful the new business owners will see the value of a close-knit community. “Piera is the epitome of what the Kerrisdale strip is about. It’s about community, it’s about service. It’s about really caring about people and connecting with them.” Kerrisdale community members are having a sendoff for Piera at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Boccocino Deli. twitter.com/wanyeelii
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Property next to Choklit Park was once home to Purdy’s factory
The Fairview Slopes property at 1107 West Seventh Ave. near Spruce was home to the old Purdy’s factory from 1949 to 1982. It then became a private residence — a live-work studio for both artist Mary Filer, a glass sculptor, and her husband Harold Spence-Sales, an urban planner. Now it might become condos. A residential development is proposed for the land, which boasts an incredible view of the city and the mountains to the north. Its value has climbed significantly over the years — it sold for $500,000 in 1982 and for $2.4 million in 2013.The new owner is listed as CM Bay West 7th Developments Ltd. Charles Flavelle, chairman of the board for Purdy’s Chocolatier, recalls the 50by-110-foot property being assessed at $40,000 when he bought the chocolate business in the early 1960s. The property sits next to the aptly-named Choklit Park, which earned a Places That Matter Plaque from the Vancouver Heritage Foundation last summer. The plaque’s wording explains its association with Purdy’s: “Charles Flavelle of Purdy’s Chocolates created Choklit Park in 1970 on the unused Spruce Street rightof-way at 7th Avenue, using a crew of six hired on Opportunities forYouth grant. The chocolate factory at 1107 West Seventh needed an improved truckloading facility and the children in the neighbourhood needed an adventure playground. The crew used the rightof-way and all the available space around the factory for the children’s park. Purdy’s made chocolates here from 1949 until 1982.” Flavelle said it was a very popular adventure park, with climbing ropes and a firepole, for a decade until the area started to gentrify and residents pushed for it to become a passive park. It now features concrete steps, terraces and plantings. The old Purdy’s factory building also changed over the years. In 1969, Purdy’s expanded the number of its retail shops, and theWest Seventh factory kitchen was struggling to keep up — there
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wasn’t enough room for the equipment and people. Rather than move away from Fairview Slopes, Flavelle expanded the roughly 3,000 square-foot building. A 2,600 square-foot expansion began directly below the original factory kitchen, which allowed the factory to remain onWest Seventh for another 13 years. Purdy’s then moved to a much larger 57,000 square-foot factory. The development application, submitted by Gateway Architecture Inc., envisions a five-storey, six-unit residential building that follows the slope of the site by terracing down five storeys to a parkade level with access off a new lane. Each level would have a roof deck facing north. Only two of the five storeys would be visible from West Seventh. Landscaping for the site aims to fit with the slope and integrate with Choklit Park. “The main goal is to develop a tough, low-maintenance strategy, which helps to support and maximize the views, as well as re-plant a portion of the park to revitalize the west side,” according to the design rationale Gateway submitted. Flavelle told the Courier he loved working in the Fairview neighbourhood, pointing out he also had an office on property to the east of the park, which has since been turned into condos. “[The factory] was a really ugly building from the outside [but] it was absolutely marvelous for us as a factory and absolutely marvelous for the Spence-Sales for what they needed to do for the next 30 years,” he said. The City of Vancouver is accepting comments about the development application by letter or email until April 25 in order to be considered as part of the application’s review.Written comments will be accepted up to the date of decision. The city states that under the FM-1 zoning, the application is conditional, so it may be permitted, but it requires a decision by the director of planning. A notification letter the city sent to neighbours indicates the review of the application will consider comments on the impact the development will have on their properties, along with city bylaws and council-adopted policies and guidelines. Gateway Architecture Inc. couldn’t be reached by the Courier’s print deadline.
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From the same folks that brought you sermons based on Academy Award winning movies comes Star Wars Sunday: May the Force be WithYou — and Also With You. St. Andrews-Wesley is at it again, but this time is offering a sermon inspired by what’s come to be known as Star Wars Day, May 4 (May the Fourth be with you.) Besides a StarWars-based sermon that embraces the movie’s theme of morality, the grand organ will belt out some of the majestic music from the movie while a singing ensemble will perform a commissioned Star Wars choral work. Rev. Kathryn Ransdell said because May 4 only comes around once a year she thought, why not? “We’re always looking for ways to engage people in church and what better way to tell our faith story than through the lens of this iconic story of forces of good working to save the galaxy,” Ransdell said in a press release. The once-in–a-decade service begins at 10:30 a.m. and costumes are encouraged.The church is located on Nelson Street at Burrard and offers free
The Jericho Sailing Centre is hosting its annual open house with a tonguein-cheek invitation to “view Vancouver sea mammals in their natural environment.” The centre jokes it’s released a countless number of sea mammals from landlubber captivity into English Bay, including ocean kayakers, rowers, stand-up paddlers, outrigger enthusiasts, dinghy sailors, Cat sailors, windsurfers and sailing canoe. The May 10 event is an opportunity for newcomers and weathered veterans to mix from noon to 4 p.m. at the centre located at 1300 Discovery St. near Jericho Beach.Visit jsca.bc.ca for more information.
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The Marpole Museum and Historical Society is holding a giant community garage May 24 at historic Colbourne House and registration is on now to reserve a table. The garage sale runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and refreshments will be available for purchase. Call 604-261-0131 to reserve a table. Colbourne House is located at 8743 Southwest Marine Drive.
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Crohn’s and Colitis Canada have once again partnered to raise funds for the charitable organization. The 26th annual Charity BBQ Day, which raises awareness about the disease and money to help find a cure for Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, takes place May 10 at participating M&M stores.To date, the annual event has raised more than $24 million for Crohn’s and Colitis research.
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On April 27, South Africans in cities around the world, including Vancouver, will celebrate Freedom Day marking the 20th anniversary of free elections in their home country. In Vancouver, on Friday, April 25, at 4 p.m. the South African flag will be raised at city hall (at West 12th Avenue and Cambie Street) during a public celebration.The event will also include a reading of a proclamation marking South Africa Freedom Day Weekend in the city. On April 26, from 6:30
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friends on Facebook, all these metrics that are about comparison with other girls,” she said. Shaw wants girls from all different backgrounds to value themselves and each other. “We can look in one another’s eyes and know that regardless of where we’re from in the city, what school we go to, anything, we’re going to have something in common because of what we’re going through right now,” she said. Ish Jhaj will highlight how her love of soccer inspired her to start a non-profit organization that aims to help girls in rural India try the sport. Local 19-year-old Zoya Jiwa will tell the girls how at age 15 she was diagnosed with Lupus, which affected her appearance, and how she grew to understand the importance of inner beauty, gratitude and courage. “I chose those two speakers… partly because they’re very young,” Shaw said. “It’s not a great leap if you’re 12 to see someone who’s 19 and to really attach yourself to them as a role model.” Shaw, co-founder of Lunapads and Pads4Girls, which provides pads to girls in developing countries, says G Day is presenting “reallife heroes” as alternatives to famous singers and models. G Day includes sessions on overcoming self-doubt, yoga and mindfulness and songs and stories from indigenous ensemble M’Girl Music.The day will end
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Lorenzo De Francesco’s maroon cement block studio sits next to his EastVancouver home on the corner of North Renfrew andYale streets. In his yard, several of his tall white marble sculptures dominate his manicured lawn overlooking Burrard Inlet to the north and Hastings Park to the south. Francesco, 66, has displayed his striking sculptures, which mix the human form with geometric shapes, several times over the years including at a one-man show at theVancouver Contemporary Art Gallery and his pieces have been sold at the Bau-Xi Gallery Contemporary Fine Art. De Francesco sat down this month for a Q&A with the Courier about being an artist in EastVancouver. How did you end up living in East Van? In 1987, my then wife and I purchased the little house, at 655 North Renfrew, which sat on an 8000 sq. ft lot, and had amazing water and mountain views — for $115,000. Just then real estate was moving up and breaking through the $130,000 mark, but the houses in this neighbourhood were affordable and it was a good place to raise a family.
When and why did you add the studio to the property? The building that held my former studio at 172 Alexander St., where the Trench gallery is now, was sold, so in 1989 I applied to the Vancouver Board of Variance for 600 square feet of studio space on the property of my home. Fortunately, I was granted permission. It is a perfect enchanted spot for studio space. How has the neighbourhood changed over the years? The location has become “Point Grey of the East Side.” It was just like everywhere else in Vancouver when we moved in, nothing special. My little house was leaking with no insolation, no wiring, and many houses around were like that. It was very low key, no pretense. Now it is more middle class. In 1991 even I rebuilt my old house to create my current flat roofed, 3,500sq.-ft. house. Many professionals live here mixed in with the creative types.There are condos now across the street that go for almost $1 million for 1000 sq. feet. Now there is more awareness that this place is a very special spot and yet there still isn’t a sense you have to be sophisticated to live here like there is in other popular spots in the city.
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Do you find the neighbourhood supportive of artists? The neighborhood is so accepting and respectful. Some people are curious about my stone blocks outside and they stop and ask, they visit, they chat and leave pleasantly surprised to have had an easy experience in the presence of sculptures. There is a real sense of live and let live here. People don’t bother each other
about their yards or the way they have their house.There is no morality police making sure the fence is perfect or the house and yard conform. How does living in East Vancouver impact your work? I could not imagine leaving this place ever.There is so much of me here that I feel like I am living as silently as I could being in
any ashram in India. I am in a permanent state of creativity. This part of East Vancouver is an island for creativity — a lot of interesting people live here, artists or professional writers — but there is no judgment in terms of visual conformity one could encounter in any other areas of the city.You are free to live your life and be yourself here. twitter.com/Thuncher
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There is no missing the Phil Bouvier Family Childcare Centre in Strathcona. The sounds of children laughing and playing in the centre’s playground can be heard over the din of traffic from blocks away. Inside the centre, beyond the neat row of cubbies, a unique children’s oasis awaits. The not-for-profit licensed daycare is one of only two aboriginal-focused childcare programs in the city. Respect is paid to aboriginal culture and traditions throughout — dream catchers hang in windows and First Nations art lines the walls. The daily menu is peppered with traditional staples such as fresh baked bannock and every Friday a native elder comes to drum, sing and tell stories in the Coast Salish language. The aboriginal focus is all part of giving the next generation — just over half of
the centre’s children are of aboriginal descent — what their parents may have lost. “When you start to teach a child from young to be proud of who they are, as they are growing they are going to be stronger knowing where they are coming from,” said the centre’s program manager, Horacio Valle Torres. The centre cares for 24 children aged three-months to 36-months and for 25 three to five year-olds in day long programs that operate five days a week, year round. Many of the children’s parents live within a two-kilometre radius of the centre and struggle socially and financially. Out of the 49 children in the daycare, 45 of the parents receive a subsidy from the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development to enable them to attend.Twenty-two children are from singleparent families. “There are always concerns when you work with children and families,”ValleTorres said.
Aboriginal Enhancement Worker Amy Cuellar drums with the children at the Phil Bouvier Family Centre. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
Back rooms are stocked full of extra clothes and supplies for children who arrive without the necessities. Caregiver Amy Cuellar started at the centre three years ago, after working for years in private daycares
and said she recognizes the centre and the children face constant challenges. “Before I started working here I had never had a conversation with a social worker because I never needed to,” she said. “Now,
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In spite of the challenges, the staff see plenty of successes to keep them motivated. “This is a job where you don’t see the [results] right there.You see it with time,” said Valle Torres, who has worked for 16 years with the Vancouver Native Health Society, which operates the centre. He said the most rewarding thing is to see youth he worked with years ago now bring their children to the centre and to see how well they parent. For Cuellar, the day-today rewards of working with the kids, far outweigh the inner city challenges. “Each and every one of these little people has their own unique, little, sparky personality,” said Cuellar, as she watched over a little girl in a pink raincoat who was squealing with delight as she cut a path with a blue rake through the sand to the playhouse in the centre’s outdoor sandbox. “You just never know what is going to happen with them,” Cuellar added. twitter.com/thuncher
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Collingwood Days May 24-31 various times How often do you get to celebrate an entire week of festivities? On Collingwood Days from May 24 to 31, free community events are happening around Joyce Street and Kingsway. From an art crawl on Sunday to Spice Road tea house on Tuesday at Collingwood Neighbourhood House, visit collingwooddays.com for more.
Trout Lake farmers market May 10, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Trout Lake farmers market is back for the 19th time this year. The market is open rain or shine on Saturdays. People can buy local products from 60 vendors, ranging from produce, jams and cheeses and frozen meats. For the month of May, vendors will be selling fruit plants that you can grow yourself like blueberry bushes and raspberry canes.The ever-popular food trucks will also be at the market.
The Main Street Record Fair May 17-18, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The vinyl record fair is back for the Victoria Day long weekend with over 40 vendors. Head over to the Cambrian Hall off the corner of Main and 17th to sift through thousands of records. There will be different vendors on each day. Admission is $3 and comes with a meal voucher, redeemable at participating restaurants on Main.
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May 10 3 to 5 p.m. The historic Chinatown is cast as the protagonist in three recent films produced by young filmmakers from UBC and BCIT. Centre A at 229 East Georgia St. will play host to a free screening of these films.The films range from five to 12 minutes long and include such titles as After Sunset: Nightlife in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Behind the Walls of 439 and Saving History: Activists Behind the Ho Sun Hing Printing Company Project.
If that’s not enough, get ready for festival day on May 31. A barrage of entertainment starts at 11 a.m. at Sir Guy Carleton Elementary. It will feature dog shows, face painting, BMX cyclists, and treats from local eateries. Plus, there’s a pancake breakfast served byVancouver firefighters starting at 9 a.m.
May 10, 12 to 5 p.m. The Stone Soup Festival is dubbed the “food institution” of GrandviewWoodland, and it’s not just about soup! If you stop by Britannia Community Centre, there’s a talk by the EastVan Kitchen cookbook author, a workshop on living well with less, tree planting and care demo, music performances every hour and of course, free soup. Not to mention, it’s kid-friendly with activities like making special-occasion cards.
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Tiny Baha’i community fosters big ideas Vancouver Baha’is trace roots to 1920s PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson
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Vancouver’s small Baha’i community is in the midst of the holiest time of their year, a 12-day festival marking the foundation of the faith. Ridvan (pronounced rez-VON) began at sundown Sunday and recalls the time the faith’s founder, Bahá’u’lláh, spent in a paradise-like garden in Baghdad in 1863. The roots of the Baha’i faith trace back to Iran and the religion flourished first in the Middle East.The Universal House of Justice, the administrative seat of the faith, is in Haifa, Israel, sitting splendidly atop a cascading garden of 19 terraces on Mount Carmel. And, while a great many Baha’is in the Vancouver area — especially in North Vancouver — speak Farsi or Arabic, inherent to Baha’i belief is the unity of humankind and all religions, and
the universality of the Baha’i faith.The celebrations that took place Monday in the Baha’i Centre on Main Street proceeded mostly in English.
these parts. Her own story is a sort of microcosm of trends in Baha’i demographics. Her surname comes from her husband, who is from the Middle East, but
“It’s really a joyous time.And it’s also spring, it is a time when Baha’is rededicate themselves to the central idea that “we are all flowers of one garden, leaves of one tree.” – Susan Ardekany Baha’i activities take place customarily in the local tongue, affirming the faith’s concept of “unity in diversity,” but the universal language of music is an important expression of the faith as well, bringing adherents closer to the spiritual. Susan Ardekany is a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Vancouver, the administrative body of the faith in
Ardekany is the daughter of a woman who converted to Baha’i in, of all places, remote Moosonee, Ont. In fact, while the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran helped swell the ranks of Baha’is in B.C., Ardekany says the faith came to the West Coast originally not from Middle Easterners, but from a small group of Canadians who moved west in the 1920s, making this
one of the oldest Baha’i communities in Canada. The faith has spread worldwide, now counting about six million adherents. InVancouver, there are about 670 Baha’is, says Ardekany, with maybe 1,500 or 2,000 in the metro area. Numbers are difficult to estimate because there are many people who have not officially joined the faith but who participate nonetheless in the many Baha’i projects that better the community and the world. Social action is central to Baha’is, part of a core belief in service to humankind. Canadian Baha’is were involved with the Truth and Reconciliation process looking at the history of First Nations in residential schools. Empowerment for young people is also a top concern, as is equality between women and men, the elimination of extreme poverty and wealth, emphasis on education, and the elimination of all prejudice, among other values. Baha’is view Bahá’u’lláh
as the latest in a succession of messengers of God. Baha’is recognize figures that are central to other faiths — Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad — and view Bahá’u’lláh (as he himself did) as the latest incarnation of divine word made flesh. Baha’is have often had a difficult relationship with officialdom in the faith’s place of origin. Almost immediately after Bahá’u’lláh began his prophetic mission, Muslim clerics and the Persian government took note. (Baha’is remain among the most persecuted groups in contemporary Iran.) He was exiled to Baghdad, then, in 1863, summoned by the Ottoman rulers to move on to Constantinople. He would die in an Ottoman prison in 1892. It was the preparation for his exile from Baghdad that is the basis for Ridvan, the King of Festivals.The 12-day holy period recalls Bahá’u’lláh’s 11 days in the Najibiyyih garden, near Baghdad,
where he received visitors before leaving on the 12th day. It was here that he began to acknowledge to those closest to him his messianic mission as “He whom God shall make manifest.” The time in the garden represents the pivotal moment in the Baha’i tradition. The community to which Bahá’u’lláh belonged was a breakaway of Shia Islam known as the Babis, after “the Bab,” Siyyid Alí-Muhammad of Shiraz, who two decades earlier had foretold the advent of a messiah. During the sojourn in the garden, with Bahá’u’lláh’s profession as a messenger from God, the new faith was born and the Babis became Baha’is. For Ardekany, Ridvan is a time to reflect and celebrate humankind’s oneness. “It’s really a joyous time. And it’s also spring,” she says. It is a time when Baha’is rededicate themselves to the central idea that “we are all flowers of one garden, leaves of one tree.”
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1 April 25 - 29, 2014 1. Although every day at the Courier is International Dance Day, April 29 is recognized “officially” as International Dance Day. And in Vancouver that means a slew of free dance events and performances across town, including aerial dance company Aeriosa at SFU Woodward’s, hip hop crew SOULdiers at the Vancouver Public Library, contemporary dance artists Vanessa Goodman, Ziyian Kwan and Deanna Peters at Scotiabank Dance Centre, and more. For a full schedule of events, which run 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., go to thedancentre. ca or call 604-606-6400. 2. Billed as Vancouver’s best art party, FUSE takes over the Vancouver Art Gallery for its monthly shindig.The latest edition, A Terrible Beauty, April 25 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., “explores the beautiful and the terrible,” with experimental art, cutting edge new music and innovative live performances, including the awesomely named three-piece stoner doom metal trio J.R.R. Tokin which will play loud music with a heavy Tolkien influence in front of artist Myfanwy MacLeod’s piece “Stack,” a large-scale wall-mounted work that resembles a wall of Marshall speaker cabinets. Sweet. More details at vanartgallery.bc.ca. 3. We’ve been looking forward to this one ever since it played last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. Shot in stark black and white, British writer-director Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England has been described as a psychedelic and unconventional “trip” through the English Civil War. It screens April 25 to 28 at the Cinematheque. For show times and details, go to thecinematheque.ca.
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infusion directly into their bloodstream gives them a higher dose and better results. Doctors refer to it as parenteral nutrition and some studies suggest it can help fight some diseases. The new salon offers options to help treat everything from low libidos to hot flashes. But I’d put money on the most requested one being for their 45-minute hangover cure. Rihanna recently tweeted a photo of getting what she called the “party-girl drip” to her 35 million followers and the service has become so popular in LasVegas there is now a fleet of buses roaming the city to help the hungover in their time of need. It may feel like cheating,
but then again if you’re allowed to cheat at anything in life and not feel bad about it, it’s hangovers. And it’s probably safer than injecting coffee into your veins. Another option is to safeguard yourself against getting a hangover in the first place.The owners of IV Wellness hooked me up with a sample of “The Classic” energy booster before a Courier staff pub crawl to celebrate the end of our yearlong neighbourhood feature series. I have to admit I felt fine the morning after, which is likely more than a few of my editorial department colleagues could say. twitter.com/flematic
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Spring time means afternoon tea time
Kick it up a notch with scones, tarts and teapots SWEET SPOT Eagranie Yuh
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I’ve got tea on the brain: black tea, green tea, white tea, tea that isn’t actually tea (read: rooibos, anything herbal). And most definitely, tea poured from cozyclad teapots and served with miniature sandwiches, teeny tarts and scones.
Raise the Roof
If we’re talking tea, we have to talk about the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. While the lobby restaurant gets a facelift, the hotel has opened up The Roof. Zip up the elevator to the 15th floor and you’ll be rewarded with stellar views from the restaurant, which looks onto the city’s panoply of glass towers and the suits that buzz inside. (More fun is to be had on the other side of the room, with its sunken bar, retro-chic cocktail list and views of English Bay.) The Fairmont offers an iconic afternoon tea, complete with individual teapots, and sweets and savouries on a three-tiered tray.There are, of course, finger sandwiches, and scones with clotted cream and jam.The des-
serts, consisting of macarons and miniature tarts, look like they’ve been plucked straight fromVersailles. At $49 a pop, it’s not cheap, but on my visit, it didn’t stop the mostly female clientele from indulging.The one disappointment was in the gluten-free and vegan options, which are offered on the website; the kitchen seemed unprepared for the requests (despite a week’s notice) and the resulting treats a bit haphazard. Stick to the regular afternoon tea and you’ll be suitably charmed.
Urban comforts
Just down the street, the UrbanTea Merchant offers a similarly upscale, but more modern experience.Their signature tea ($48, which includes an $8 credit toward tea) follows the same idea, but includes luxe touches like smoked salmon with ponzu jelly, butter-poached lobster with saffron pearls and chai crème brulee. Looking at the multi-page tea menu, you’ll quickly learn that the UrbanTea Merchant takes tea oh-so-seriously. It can be daunting to choose from the multi-page tea menu, but the tea ambassadors (yes, that’s a thing) are good with recommendations. You might even see them
carrying oversized, pastelcoloured tins of tea from the front room to the tea salon in the back, to show off the latest first-flush Darjeeling or custom blend. Notably, the shop uses filtered water, and steeps and removes the tea leaves before bringing your tea to the table — so you’re guaranteed a perfect pot.
Crumb’s the word
Of course, you can enjoy afternoon tea without going downtown. On weekends, The Last Crumb uses its second-floor space as a tea room. Seats near the balcony make for perfect people watching — on a recent visit, there was a steady stream of young families, spectacled hipsters (hey, this is Main Street) and one stalwart table of knitters. Afternoon tea is $24.95 with a serious selection of sweets and savouries. The bakery’s known for its “sconewiches,” so it’s little surprise that the scones are delightful, as is the mascarpone-laced sweet cream. And, in a pleasant twist, a gluten-free tea ($28.95) looks every bit as cute as the regular option, and tastes great.
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Shivantha Devaz, senior “tea ambassador” at The Urban Tea Merchant, pours it on for afternoon tea. PHOTO JASON LANG
made-to-order hot chocolate and a mixed plate of confections, petits fours and sweets. At $15.95, this one’s a steal. The spicy hot cocoa is spicy enough to be interesting, but subtle enough to let the chocolate sing. Given the choice between housemade marshmallow and whipped cream, you’d be smart to pick marshmallows — raspberry, please. And, marshmallows aside, vegans can do this haute chocolate thing, substituting almond or soy milk in the hot chocolate, and choosing one of the vegan truffles for the sweets plate. Afternoon tea is, of course, quite popular this time of year.Word to the wise: reservations. twitter.com/eagranieyuh
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With the exception of the bright yellow Fiat parked outside, and the constant line of hungry customers snaking around the corner, it might be easy to miss Via Tevere Pizzeria Napoletana in its unexpected location on Victoria Drive. The tiny Neapolitan-style pizzeria has been drawing crowds since it opened two years ago, but it’s likely pizza lovers will have to wait even longer now that the neighbourhood’s best kept secret has been very publically outed. Via Tevere, owned by brothers Domenic and Frank Morra, was named Best East Side Restaurant at the 25th annual Vancouver Magazine Restaurant awards Tuesday afternoon at the Sheraton Wall Centre on Burrard Street. The morning after, Dom Morra told the Courier the award is a “huge honour.” “We looked at the other restaurants we were up against and they were really good,” said Morra. “But we typify a neighbourhood restaurant feel so we knew that would give us a good shot.” The theme of this year’s competition was Best of the
Neighbourhoods, which helped level the playing field and opened the awards up to some of the city’s smaller, less high-profile restaurants. But as small as Via Tevere is, it’s not exactly flying under the radar and has caught the attention of not only locals, but Food Network executives. Last year the restaurant was featured on the Food Network series You’ve Gotta Eat Here. Via Tevere is known for serving what’s considered true Neapolitan pizza, which, according to the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana in conjunction with the Italian government, must meet a specific set of criteria. Key ingredients include double zero flour, San Marzano tomatoes, fior di latte mozzarella and extra virgin olive oil, and the pizza must be baked in a woodfired domed oven at 485 C for no longer than 60 to 90 seconds. “Our dad is from Naples and I’ve travelled there many times,” said Morra. “This is something my brother and I have always wanted to do.” Judging was up to a panel of 18 food and wine experts who chose winners in 49 categories including Lifetime Achievement Award,
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which went to Cactus Club founder Richard Jaffray. Some of the other big winners of the 25th annual Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards include: • BestYaletown: Blue Water Café. • Best West Side: La Quercia. • Best Food Cart:Vij’s Railway Express. • Best Indian:Vij’s. • Chef of theYear: Pino Posteraro — Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill. • Pastry Chef of theYear: Thomas Haas. • Best Dim Sum and Best Upscale Chinese: Dynasty Seafood. • Best Casual Chain: Cactus Club. • Best West End: Nook. The best ingredient of the year was gooseneck barnacles, harvested along the West Coast and described as tasting like a cross between a lobster and a clam. The Farmer’s Apprentice, located on West Sixth Avenue, was named both Best Restaurant of theYear and Best Casual Restaurant. Chef/owner David Gunawan did not respond to interview requests from the Courier. For a complete list of winners, visit vanmag.com. twitter.com/sthomas10
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BRIGHT LIGHTS: Shining a spotlight on heroes in the B.C. HIV/AIDS movement, Positive Living B.C. Society held its biannual AccolAIDS Gala at the Conventon Centre.Yours truly, along with GlobalTV’s Sophie Lui, emceed the awards dinner honouring individuals, organizations and businesses responding to the epidemic in B.C. Among this year’s award winners:Youth Co’s Jesse Brown (Youth), BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Dr. Kate Shannon (Political), and Dr. Brian Conway (Research). Dotty Kanke, an advocate of the downtown eastside, received the Philanthropy award. More than $115,000 was raised from the Courier-sponsored affair to support 5,500 HIV-positive members of the society. CHINATOWN DRAWL: Since opening last fall, MamieTaylor’s has built a reputation among locals of providing comfort food in a thriving lounge. Part of Chinatown’s renaissance, the modern American restaurant on East Georgia — adorned with stuffed and antlered animals on its walls — introduced its new weekend brunch menu. Chef Tobias Grignon fronted a preview of regional specialties from the America’s southern states – creative interpretations of chicken fried steak, eggs and grits, and biscuit benny – before its official April 26th launch.
Global TV anchor Sophie Lui congratulated Dotty Kanke, a champion of the Vancouver Native Health Society’s Positive Outlook Program, recipient of Positive Living BC’s AccolAIDS award for philanthropy.
Auction proceeds from John Ferrie’s Paved Paradise painting contributed to the $116,000 raised to support programs serving 5,500 HIV-positive members of Positive Living Society of B.C.
Aveda’s Erin Currie, Paola Lopez, and Andrea Hill fronted the Gastown training institute’s annual Celebration for Water Gala. Proceeds from the fashion fete will build clean water wells in Ethiopia.
Fred Herzog was the 12th recipient of the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts. The acclaimed photographer was feted at a celebration at the BC Law Courts Great Hall.
From left, Mamie Taylor’s Simon Kaulback, Tobias Grignon and Ron Oliver introduced their new Southern brunch menu — creative interpretations of chicken fried steak, eggs and grits, and biscuit benny — beginning April 26.
PRIZED ART: Fred Herzog was honoured with the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, one of B.C.’s most prestigious arts honours. The acclaimed photographer, along with Skeena Reece and Mina Totino, recipients of the VIVA Award granted by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation, were feted at an arts celebration in the B.C Law Courts Great Hall presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Herzog received $30,000, of which the artist reportedly donated a third to North Vancouver’s presentation gallery.
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Business and community leader Lindsay Gordon, pictured with his wife, Liz, succeeds Sarah MorganSilvester as UBC’s 18th chancellor. The past HSBC Bank of Canada CEO begins his three-year term July 1.
House Wines founders Michelle Bouffard and Michaela Morris launched a B.C. chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers at Hawksworth Restaurant.
West’s acclaimed alchemist David Wolowidnyk showcased his new cocktails, which celebrate the flavours of the season. Homemade elderflower and raspberry liquor and lavender bitters featured prominently on the impressive menu.
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THIS CHICK’S PICKS FOR SPRING We asked design expert Jennifer Scott of A Good Chick to Know to share her best spring style secrets. Needless to say, her picks have put us in the mood for a major home makeover! Find her top five favourite pastel pieces in decor right now on www.VitaminDaily.com
START NOTHING: 4:02 am Sun. to 7:23 am Mon., 8:53 am to 1:56 pm Wed., and 4:32 pm Thurs. to 11:13 pm Fri. PREAMBLE: UKRAINE: Last week I wrote that if anyone began fighting April 16-18, they would eventually lose. In the Ukraine situation, these days actually brought a “peace accord” (sort of) between Russia and Ukraine, NATO, the EU and America – the exact opposite to fighting. But the occupiers of the government buildings in Eastern Ukraine stated they were not at the negotiating table, and would ignore the peace accord. By default they, then, might be the losers.
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CITY SLICKERS by Sara Samson & Anya Georgijevic Unfortunately, May’s flowers can’t arrive until we’ve endured April’s showers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t wait out the rain in style. One of five standout trends this season: a fun and carefree cape to throw over just about anything. See more spring fashion including boots and brolleys on www. VitaminDaily.com FASHION & SHOPPING
VIDEO: TWO SUGARS It was the sweetest thing. TLC reality TV star Buddy Valastro, a.k.a., the Cake Boss, took a break from promoting his new line of bakeware at the Canadian Tire Home, Auto and Outdoor Show to meet Vancouver’s very own cupcake prodigy, 12-yearold Tate of Tate’s Cupcakes. ARTS & CULTURE
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This is a good, strong week for money and career. You’re the center of attention Sunday, but the day looks calm (despite, perhaps, last night’s shenanigans). Chase money Monday to Wednesday morning. All signals green except Tuesday pm, when others are reluctant to help or agree. Chase new clients, sell unwanted items, shop, protect your possessions.
Things change. The open relationships of the past few weeks have veered into more private, closed-door or mysterious zones – not the best development if you’ve been dealing with an enemy, but a potentially fruitful new atmosphere in love and friendly links, for intimacy, sex, investment and financial matters thrive in this “closeness.”
Your charisma, energy, clout and effectiveness reach a yearly high until late May. Start important projects, seek favours, tackle chores that used to intimidate you, see and be seen, approach that dauntingly handsome/beautiful person. Lie low, recoup your energy Sunday – action would yield nothing, anyway. Your energy and charisma surge Monday to Wednesday – chase what/who you want!
The main accent lies on relationships – be open, honest, but diplomatic. Co-operate, so you’ll gain co-operation in future. Many doorways face you now, doors to opportunities, to relocation, to love, even marriage, to business partnership. Step through, everything supports a bold entry – especially Monday to Wednesday morning, but in general for the whole month ahead.
Retreat, rest, lie low now through May 19 (especially this Monday to Wednesday noon). Take frequent naps, protect your health; eat and dress sensibly. This is a nice, comfortable time of solitude – catch up on your favorite books, your dreams and schemes. Contemplate, plan. Be charitable. Deal with government, institutions and corporate headquarters. Find your spiritual center again.
The main emphasis lies on work and dependants, Sage. Protect your health. Eat, dress sensibly. Improve your diet. This whole week aids your income (perhaps for a long time) so work hard, look for labour saving devices and innovative methods. Sunday’s romantic, pleasure-prone, but not much happens.
Life renews. The dawning hopes you’ll feel during the weeks ahead are “true.” For a few weeks at least, problems and crises fade; friendship, popularity, healing, hope and the simple joy of living fill your days. (Regarding the “truth” or accuracy of your hopes: for the entire decade ahead, your intuition will be unusually accurate – depend on it.
The weeks ahead accent romance, pleasure, beauty, the talents of children (and teaching them) games, sports, creative surges and speculative risks – in general, you will be a winner! This week is easy, smooth, might even seem unimportant. But all week, the cosmos is slowly working to help one of your major wishes come true.
Be ambitious for the month ahead, Leo, especially this Monday to Wednesday. You will hear a lot of news “from above,” or hold discussions with bosses, parents, VIPs or authorities. Welcome these – they lead to work improvements, opportunities (esp. Tuesday morning). On the negative side, you – or your bosses – could face opposition from your family or the “grassroots” (Tuesday night, Friday).
The weeks ahead feature security, home, family, food, garden, Mother Nature, and rest – especially this Monday to midday Wednesday – a splendid period to landscape, garden, or prepare the kids’ future (except Tuesday pm). Yield to that hibernation feeling, take power naps, etc. Better to go slow now and form solid plans, than to chase something elusive.
The weeks ahead immerse you in a compassionate, mellow, wise and gently loving mood – just the sort of mood that great love affairs come from. (I’m not saying one is coming – but every May will bring this possibility, and from now to 2025, the possibility is heightened.) Sunday’s mysterious, but there’s no prize at the end of the unravelling. Reject lust. Monday to Wednesday bring that mellow, wise mood, and could bring a subtle attraction – a Capricorn or Scorpio might be involved.
Last week’s problems are ebbing. The general emphasis lies on errands, visits, trips, paperwork, casual meetings and details. It’s a busy time, not an important time. All week, the cosmos does you a favour, perhaps almost secretly: it helps one of your wishes come true. The wish is about travel, education, fame, publishing/media, an intellectual pursuit or a cultural venue, or love.
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West Coast Wolves run in the same pack
City’s only high school girls rugby team draws players from seven schools Megan Stewart
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The West Coast Wolves are still Vancouver’s only high school girls rugby team but their home turf moved this season from Lord Byng to Kitsilano secondary. Players from four public and three private schools now congregate at Connaught Park for weekly practices, and the Wolves head coach believes there is enough interest for a second team. “I’d like to try to expand rugby in Vancouver,” said Ceara Mullins, a teacher at University Hill who started the team four years ago when she worked at Lord Byng. “There are a lot of people who say the demographics are wrong, but I find that when I advertise and let students know, there’s a lot of interest. Senior rugby in the Lower Mainland is not really doing well at the senior level and I think the high schools are where it starts.” The Wolves play in the B.C. High School Girls Rugby Association and have qualified for provincials in
their past two seasons. But because they’re an amalgamation of students from seven different schools, the team can’t legitimately win the B.C. title, explained Mullins. A team can include a maximum of three players from other schools as long as those schools don’t have teams of their own. The Wolves form a unique pack. In a city where private and public school sports leagues are not integrated, the Wolves play together under the same colours. The team runs out of Kitsilano because of teacher-sponsor Jesse Caswell and because an influential player, who’s since graduated, drummed up interest amongst her friends. Elizabeth Theemes-Golding, a Kitsilano graduate, returned to coach the Wolves. Several former players now compete for the UBC Thunderbirds. On a roster of 23 players, 12 come from Kitsilano and team captain Erica Dickson is among them. “Every year there is a big turnover of players.This year there are a lot of Grade 12s and this is their fist year
Erica Dickson (left) trains with Emma Lin and Rosy Wilson. PHOTO JASON LANG
playing rugby. Next year there will be new players,” said Dickson, 17. “We are trying to get more Grade 8s and 9s so they can be on the team for three or four years and play together.” When she signed up in Grade 10, Dickson was the
only Hamber player on the team before she transferred to Kitsilano. She fell in love with the sport and has since started playing club rugby for the Meralomas. She remembers their second season when the team named itself the Wolves.
“We didn’t want to call it by one school’s name. It was between the Wolves and the Whales or something like that,” she said. The Wolves start their exhibition season now, but their first game was one Dickson remembers best.
Three teams hunt for two berths
Saints seek second 7s title
The top four senior boys rugby teams will compete in the city championship, but with one game to play, only two teams have secured their entry. Lord Byng and Kitsilano — both 5-0 — are through. They played Thursday afternoon to break the deadlock. (Go to vancourier.com/sports for all results.) Prince of Wales (3-2) Point Grey (3-3) and Magee (3-3) are in a very tight race for the final two spots. All three played Thursday. (After the Courier’s print deadline.) Each team controls its fate with a win.
The defending provincial champion St. George’s Saints are ranked No. 1 rank heading into the B.C. boys high school rugby sevens championship at U.B.C. April 26 and 27. The Saints all play for the school’s 15s team and some have trained with the B.C. Rugby Union with Shane Thompson’s youth 7s program. The team fit in only two practices before the Lower Mainland playoffs and coach Mike Stiles said their experienced players are key. “Their prior knowledge really helps,” he
Prince of Wales hosted Point Grey Thursday and a win would have put the Walesmen into the tournament. If they lost, they would have qualified for city’s only if Magee also lost to Britannia. The Magee Lions would have qualified with a win, regardless of the outcome in the other match. The 2013 city title was shared between Kitsilano and Lord Byng after the two tied 19-19 despite extra time. Because Kitsilano scored first, they had the higher seed at the Lower Mainland tournament.
Playing a North Shore team at Brockton Oval, the Wolves trailed by 10 points and rallied to win the game. “We came back to score three tries,” said Dickson. “It was a lot of teamwork.” twitter.com/MHStewart
said. “The competition is getting better. I think if we played in the fall or winter, then there would be even more teams competing.” St. George’s is in a group with No. 8 Mountain Secondary, No. 9 Carson Graham and No. 16 Handsworth. The Lord Byng Grey Ghosts lost the Lower Mainland final to St. George’s but also qualified for provincials. The seventh seed is grouped with No. 2 Oak Bay, No. 10 Argyle and No. 15 Lord Tweedsmuir. A final schedule had not been posted by Thursday morning.
Langara’s Greig named Canada’s best college athlete BASKETBALL
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Langara Falcons point guard Brody Greig
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Langara Falcons point guard Brody Greig was named the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association athlete of the year. On Wednesday Greig started by thanking his teammates and coaches. “And of course I’d like to thank the CCAA, not only for recognizing my personal
achievements, but for recognizing the hard work and success of my team.” The CCAA considers athletes in all sports at 100 Canadian colleges and technical institutes. Greig, a six-foot-three senior from McMath secondary in Richmond, led the Falcons to back-to-back CCAA championship and in March this year, won Langara’s first national title in 15 years in an incredible 88-86 final against the Red Deer College Kings. Greig
kept the Falcons alive in the final moments of the match by sinking seven consecutive free throws in the last 30 seconds. He averaged a triple-double at the national tournament with 22 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists per game. Greig was named the tournament MVP. “Brody is truly a special player and he might just be the greatest player I have ever coached in my career,” said Falcons coach Paul Eberhardt, who was recognized as the CCAA basketball
coach of the year in 2013. “The best compliment any player can get is when other players say how much they want to play with him and everybody wants to play on his team because he simply makes everybody better.” In addition to the top CCAA accolade, in his career Greig has also been named the Pacwest player of the year and provincial championship MVP. He is a CCAA All-Canadian.
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For Watson, running is elementary Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on May 25. Watson logs up to 200 km and 13 runs each week in addition to strength training. “I’m working on being a good Vancouverite and getting to the yoga studio, too,” he said. Although he’s not a born-and-raised Vancouverite,Watson is one by choice. He lives in Kitsilano after he moved west two years ago from Ontario. He works at Forerunners on West Fourth Avenue in Kitsilano and praises the running community in this city. “I run a lot and I travel a lot for running so when people ask where is the best place I’ve ever run, I say Vancouver. I love to run in Stanly Park,” said Watson, who prefers the trails and trees over the seawall. “I really love running,” he said. “It’s my favourite thing in the world.” twitter.com/MHStewart
Watson, in 5 questions Besides Vancouver, favourite run in B.C.: Pemberton and
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Best race experience Boston Marathon, 2013: “The race
itself was an incredible experience. It lived up to the hype. It’s a first-class organization. The stuff afterwards, it was terrible and really sad.”
His shoe New Balance 890 for training: New Balance 1400
for racing. “I use about 20 pairs of shoes a year.” His sponsor New Balance:
“Also Forerunners. They are my running family.”
Pre-race morning meal: A banana and a peanut butter Clif bar. Coffee, black. Preferred race fuel: Powerbar gel in strawberry banana. “Proper fuelling is the most overlooked aspect of a marathon.”
Rob Watson moved to Vancouver in 2012 because this city has the best running community in the country. PHOTO JASON LANG
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Long-distance runner Rob Watson will chase history in two weeks when he tries to become the firstVancouver man in 10 years to win the BMO Vancouver half-marathon on May 4. Watson, 30, is ranked as the second-fastest Canadian marathoner with a personal best in the shorter, 21.1 kilometre distance of one hour, three minutes and 22 seconds.The 2013 halfmarathon winner, Paul Kimaiyo Kimugul, won in 1:04:18. “My goal is to get up there and try to put myself in position to go for the win,” said Watson on Wednesday. “There is some solid competition, but I will stick my nose in it and see what happens on the day.” Kimugul, a Kenyan, “is definitely someone to keep an eye on,” said Watson.
He beat Kimugul at the Scotiabank halfmarathon in 2013 but was out-stepped by another runner of Kenyan heritage, Kip Kangogo. At the 2013 Vancouver half-marathon, Kangogo, who lives in Lethbridge, Alta., finished second to Kimugul. Scott McClennan was the last Vancouver man to win the half-marathon in 2004 in 1:08:11. Watson was the fastest Canadian at the 2013 Boston Marathon and had already crossed the finish line when two homemade bombs erupted and killed three people. “I tend to try to think of the positives of that day because that was the worst part of my running career,” he told the Courier a year later. He may not be in his best form of the season after several weeks with the flu, but Watson’s thrice-daily training is primarily geared for a race four weeks away, the
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Adding second spice kitchen to home adds value Michelle Hopkins Rew.ca
In author/chef/teacher Tahera Rawji’s home, the sizzling sounds and smells of fabulous South Asian dishes are accompanied by the drone of an industrial-strength fan… but not in the kitchen. All the magic happens in a smaller space she calls her “fry kitchen.” Whether you call them wok, fry or spice kitchens, the reason so many Asian cooks love them is the same: these mini-versions of the main kitchen keep the heady cooking smells from escaping — and lingering — all through the house. For more than two decades, Rawji has been creating spicy dishes from Pakistan, India and the Middle East. Before any dish makes it into her cookbooks (she has two: Simply Indian and Simply More Indian,Whitecap Books), she develops and tests them
Whether you call them wok, fry or spice kitchens, secondary kitchens are increasingly sought after by prospective home owners. PHOTO SUPPLIED
in her fry kitchen. Just off the main kitchen, it has a door, a very large window and a heavy-duty exhaust hood over an industrial size stainless steel stove, a large stainless steel sink, lots of counter space and half of the cabinetry of her main kitchen. “When I shut the door, no one in my family disturbs me,” she grins.
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“Because the fan is strong I don’t even hear the phone.” She tells her students who are serious about pursuing a cooking career to invest in a really good fry kitchen. “If they can afford to build one in their homes, they will really appreciate how much it cuts down on the smell of garlic or cumin
in their home,” says Rawji. West Vancouver builder Gary Tiwana agrees. In fact, he built a pantry-sized spice kitchen adjacent to his big open-concept kitchen in his own West Vancouver home. “When my mother visits, that’s where she does all the cooking,” he adds. “I admit there’s more cooking going on in the spice kitchen than
in my regular kitchen.” Tiwana often gets requests from his South Asian clients for a spice kitchen. Of the eight homes he custom built last year, three of them were constructed with two kitchens. “They are very popular in the Asian culture because Asian cooking can be oily and no one wants those smells to permeate through their home,” says the owner of Paramax Homes. “They aren’t large — typically a standard spice kitchen is six feet by 10. “Although having said that, recently some clients have asked for larger spice kitchens.” By and large, clients want their secondary kitchen equipped with a stove, small dishwasher, backsplashes with very little grout (smells can penetrate the grout and linger for days), stone countertops that wipe off easily, cabinets with little adornment and commercial-grade fans with grates that are easy to clean.
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“They also definitely want windows to let the natural light in and to provide extra ventilation,” says Tiwana. Vancouver Re/Max realtor Tony Ling says many of his Asian customers would not consider buying a home without a spice kitchen. “Most new homes built already have them in because it’s become expected in some parts of the Lower Mainland,” says Ling. “Builders in Richmond and in the west side of Vancouver, where there are many Asian residents, have realized that these smaller kitchens are important to their prospective buyers.” His clients don’t expect a fancy wok kitchen, but they do expect them to be big enough to accommodate two people and have everything they need to be able to cook. “Obviously it’s not something that most Canadians need, but it’s not a new thing either.”
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SQ5
BY BRENDAN McALEER brendanmcaleer@gmail.com Tweet: @brendan_mcaleer
There’s oodles of passing power for getting past a spray-flinging semi-trailer on the highway
If travelling through Europe, keep your eyes peeled and you just might see two of the most desirable station wagons on the planet: the gorgeous Audi RS4 Avant and the ballistic RS6 Avant. Both are flared-out, incredibly powerful, shod with steamroller-sized rubber and, most importantly, not available here. No sir, there hasn’t been a fast wagon in Audi’s North American fleet since the departure of the muchmissed S4 Avant in 2008 — shame. The small Euro-wagon has been mostly supplanted by the compact crossover, with many buyers preferring the higher seating position and accepting the compromised handling that comes with it. The public has voted with their wallets, and Audi’s Q5 has just passed even perennial favourites like the 3-series and C-Class in total sales this year. But what if you want both the friendly aspects of Audi’s crossover with some of that hot-wagon driving fun? Here’s the latest car to join the S-stable, and the quad-tailpipes out back suggest this is more than just your average luxo-pod.
Design
One of the nicer things about Ingolstadt’s hotter versions is that they’re rarely overwrought. As mentioned, the SQ5 gets the same quad-tailpipe treatment out back as does the strong-selling S4 sedan, and it also gets those tell-tale angled red-rectangles. Standard wheel size is a biggish 20”, with optional 21” as an upgrade, but note that a 19” alloy will clear brakes for winter use. There’s a space-saver spare tire out back so no need to run expensive run-flats. Other than a few minor clues such as big, S-rated brake calipers peeking out from behind the upgraded alloys, the SQ5 would be hard to pick out from a crowd of front-driver 2.0L models. Like all Q5s, it has that signature Audi grille up front, large enough to make you wonder if the car runs on plankton, but the side profile is actually quite reserved.
In fact, the only real critique here is the badges that give the game away somewhat. The fender-mounted V6T in chrome is particularly egregious, although it’d be quick work to get rid of it.
Environment
As it’s an S4 on stilts, you won’t be surprised to hear that the SQ5’s insides are practically copy-and-pasted from the sport sedan. Optional carbon-fibre trim sets off a cabin furnished with embossed leather sport seats up front, a flat-bottomed steering wheel, plenty of brushedchrome accents, and at least half-a-dozen S-badges. It looks great, and the seats are quite comfortable without being so heavily bolstered that it’s hard to climb in. The trunk is a useful size for a vehicle that doesn’t seem all that large parked curbside, and the rear seats appear to have enough leg room for adults. Any drawbacks are down to the crossover upon which the SQ5 is based. Thus, the rear seats might look adult-friendly, but the seat bottoms are too low for long-legged comfort, and they aren’t as cushy as the accommodations up front. There’s also a huge transmission tunnel bisecting the back row, which makes this five-seater really more of a four-seater.
Performance
Tucked in behind that gargantuan grille is an engine worthy of the S-badging: a 354hp supercharged 3.0L V6. It makes peak power at 6000rpm, but peak torque comes in a little later — 347lb/ft at 4000rpm. Found elsewhere in the Audi range, this is a great engine, one of their best. It’s powerful enough to make a behemoth like the seven-seater Q7 feel spry, so when shoe-horned into something lighter, it’s just plain great. Er, that’s only a tad lighter. The SQ5 is actually a bit heavy, what with all the luxury goodies, strong chassis, and all-wheel-drive differentials. It’s not a big vehicle, but it does tip the scales at more than 2,000kg. Even so, the eight-speed transmission and su-
percharged-V6 do a great job of getting this sporty crossover up and off the line. Audi’s Quattro all-wheeldrive means every last horsepower gets to the ground with suction-cup grip, and the supercharged engine is extremely responsive. Start hammering the SQ5 through the curves, and it’s not quite as sharp as you could hope for. Like other Audi S-cars, the SQ5 has their Drive Select system, which allows the driver to change the dynamics of chassis, transmission, and engine note between three settings. Even in the most-aggressive Dynamic mode, the feel and feedback coming through that flatbottomed steering wheel isn’t quite enough. There’s also a bit more body-roll than expected. Overall, the SQ5 isn’t a hard-core performance machine, but merely a sportier version of the Q5 — and that’s pretty much what you’d expect. It’s not a track car, it’s a road car, but it’s very good at its job. Fighting traffic, the higher seating position makes it really easy to see flow patterns up ahead and dodge left lanes clogged by someone turning. The transmission quickly kicks down and the all-wheel drive grips when you’re making a quick turn onto a busy road, and there’s oodles of passing power for getting past a spray-flinging semi-trailer on the highway. It’s an all-rounder, and as that’s what a crossover is supposed to be, the SQ5 gets top marks. Gearheads might fondly dream of that unobtainable uber-fast Audi Avant instead, but in the real world, the SQ5 gets pretty much everything right.
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Despite a price tag starting off at $57K and moving rapidly North from there, many options have to be selected to get the SQ5 you actually want. That greatlooking carbon-fibre trim mentioned early on? That’ll be $500, thanks. Continued on next page
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BY DAVID CHAO
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The BMW 3 Series is a brilliant car—it has always been a great vehicle and as a result, the 3 Series is BMW’s best selling car accounting for about a third of the brand’s total sales. The 3 Series is now in its sixth generation and is available in four different body styles for 2014. One previously popular body style, a coupe, is notably missing, however, in this current generation because BMW has decided to designate those models as the 4 Series. Yes 3 Series is for sedan, the 4 Series for the coupe — in a similar manner to how Audi names its models as A4/A5 and S4/S5. While the new 4 Series may lack the brand equity of a 3 Series badge, it does gain the exclusivity of being a new model with a fresh name and styling.
Ignoring the side mirrors, the widest part of the car is the rear wheel arches.They’re more prominent than on a 3 Series to give the 4 Series a more muscular stance. The trunk lid is also sculpted to act as a spoiler, making a larger, gaudy one unnecessary. As mentioned, the differences are less noticeable inside as they’re limited to just unique trim choices. But that’s not a bad thing as the 3 Series cabin is already sufficiently luxurious and sporty.
The new 4 Series is not all-new as it is still based on the 3 Series platform. It has the same engine and transmission options and has a similar looking interior but with an added “passion” inside and out. In particular, BMW has changed the exterior quite a bit to provide it that special design feel.The 4 Series is wider, lower and longer than both the old 3 Series coupe and the new 3 Series sedan.The only exterior paneling the 4 Series shares with its smaller sibling is the hood. The nose is more aggressive and the signature BMW double-kidney grille is smaller.The lower grille has also been redesigned to improve airflow around the front wheels. Aiding that are the side vents behind the front wheels, which help to reduce drag.
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The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. †Finance offer available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2014 Accent 4-Door L Manual/Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/ Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Tucson 2.0 GL FWD Manual with an annual finance rate of 0%/0%/0.9%/1.9% for 96 months. Bi-weekly payments are $69/$79/$135/$118. $0 down payment required. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Finance offer includes Delivery and Destination of $1,550/$1,550/$1,760/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. ‡Dealer Invoice Price of 2014 Accent 4-Door L Manual/Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD/Tucson 2.0 GL FWD Manual are $14,220/$16,352/$27,053/$22,797. Prices include price adjustments of $779/$1,197/$1,306/$462 and includes Delivery and Destination of $1,550/$1,550/$1,760/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. The customer prices are those reflected on the dealer invoice from Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. The dealer invoice price includes a holdback fee for which the dealer is subsequently reimbursed by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. ΩPrice adjustments are calculated against the vehicle’s starting price. Price adjustments of up to $779/$1,197/$1,306/$462 available on in stock 2014 Accent 4 Door L 6-Speed Manual/Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto/Tucson 2.0 GL FWD Manual on cash purchases. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. ♦Price of models shown (with Price Adjustments): 2014 Accent 4 Door GLS/Elantra Limited/Santa Fe 2.0T Limited AWD/Tucson 2.4 GLS FWD are $19,140/$23,754/$38,225/$27,000. Prices include Price Adjustments of $1,109/$1,445/$2,434/$1,659, Delivery and Destination charges of $1,550/$1,550/$1,760/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. ▼Fuel consumption for new 2014 Accent 4-Door L (HWY 5.3L/100KM; City 7.5L/100KM); 2014 Elantra L Manual (HWY 5.3L/100KM; City 7.6.L/100KM); 2014 Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD (HWY 7.3L/100KM; City10.2.L/100KM); 2014 Tucson 2.0 GL FWD Manual (HWY 7.2L/100KM; City10.0L/100KM) are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. †‡Ω♦Offers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. Visit www. hyundaicanada.com or see dealer for complete details. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions. Dealers are licensed under the Fair Trading Act. TM
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The 4 Series also has an optional hands-free trunk opening system.With the Comfort Access system, a quick foot movement under the rear bumper triggers the sensor and opens the lid. The trunk itself is almost the same size as a 3 Series.The rear seats also fold down if you need more space.
The electronic steering is accurate and sharp, but light enough to not be a burden when you are just cruising around town. It does lack a bit of road feel but we understand how difficult it is to provide that tactile feel in an electric steering mechanism. Driving the two cars back-to-back, the 4 Series feels slightly more agile than a 3 Series sedan.This is because the 4 Series’ lower and wider stance and it has a sportier suspension setting. It’s not a huge leap, but that’s understandable as the 3 Series is already a great handling car to begin with. The standard 4 Series is rear-wheel drive, but is available with BMW’s xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive system. Power won’t be an issue as the 435i comes with a turbocharged 3.0-litre straight-six producing 300 hp and 300 ft-lbs of torque. It will propel the car to 100km/h in 5.3 seconds. If that’s not fast enough for you, soon there will be an M version.This will bump the horsepower to 425 and should go from zero to 100km/h in just over four seconds. The economical choice though is the 428i with its turbocharged 2.0-litre inline-four making 241 hp and 258 ft-lbs of torque. It is still quick, 0-100km/h in 6.0 seconds, but it should also return 5.4L/100km of highway driving. A six-speed manual transmission is standard.The optional eight-speed Sports automatic allows the driver to shift gears manually using steering wheel mounted paddles. The optional adaptive dampers make the 4 Series feel more adaptable to your taste and needs. In Sport mode, the suspension is suitably firm, and while in Comfort, the ride is supple.
Features
The 4 Series Coupe has a starting price of $44,900. A 4 Series Gran Coupe will be available later in the year. Standard equipment includes automatic climate control, heated front seats, dynamic cruise control, start/stop system, brake energy regeneration system, Bi-Xenon headlights, and a glass sunroof. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include blind spot detection, lane departure and collision warning, navigation, real-time traffic information, rearview camera, park assist, internet, and a heated steering wheel. Fuel efficiency numbers (L/100km) for the base 428i with the automatic transmission are 8.7 city, 5.4 highway for 7.2 combined.
BMW’s in-car storage is good for a car of its class. that you won’t find in a 3 Series is the automatic seatbelt extender.This hands the seatbelts to the front passengers as soon as the key has been inserted and the doors are closed. I find it a bit cumbersome but it may be necessary in a car with long doors. In the back seat, the 4 Series isn’t too bad compared to some of its rivals. Legroom is acceptable, however headroom is limited due to its sloping roofline. In-car storage is good for a car in this class.With compartments in the doors with space for a 1-litre bottle, and another compartment with a lid in the centre consol, means you can securely carry all of your necessities.
Environment
In terms of build quality, the new 4 Series is on par with the 3 Series, which is to say, excellent, as the 3 Series has long been recognized as an industry leader. Climbing into a 4 Series, the first feature you will notice
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The 4 Series is silky smooth, sporty and provides a true BMW feel.
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Saying 4 Series sounds odd and probably will for some time.Was it necessary for BMW to rebrand the coupe model? The steering lacks some feedback from the road.
The Bottom Line
The 4 Series manages to build upon the strengths of the 3 Series, offering speed and refinement that satisfy, while allowing BMW to make the coupe seem more special to its buyers.
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bchonda.com †The Fit, Civic and CR-V were the #1 selling retail subcompact car, compact car, and compact SUV respectively in BC in 2013 based on Polk 2013 Dec YTD report. ‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. £Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX. €0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $67.49 based on applying $1,100.00 lease dollars and $4 dealer contribution (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes); and $1,000.00 consumer incentive dollars (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes) Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $8,773.70. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers.*Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. #1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $84.63 based on applying $600.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $11,001.90. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. Ω Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $133.83 based on applying $1,000.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $17,397.90. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. **MSRP is $16,130 / $17,185 / $27,685 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,495 / $1,695 based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX / new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent's fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. ‡/#/*/Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from April 1st through 30th, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.
* All offers are effective until May 15, 2014. Not applicable to tire sales. Taxes not included. Environmental levies extra. °Not to be combined with other offers. January 11,2014. Please consult Kingsway Honda for more details. Please present coupon during write-up. Valid at Kingsway Honda only. Limit one per person. Coupon does not apply to prior purchases.
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