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BRANCHING OUT: Tour guide Angus Straight leads a tour on the Greenheart Canopy Walkway in the UBC Botanical Garden. The canopy, open since 2008, hopes to become better known among Vancouverites. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET See story page 14. See photo gallery at vancourier.com or scan this page with the Layar app.
Council rejects campaign limits Mike Howell
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Vancouver election campaigns will continue to be multi-million dollar events despite an attempt by Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr to have council voluntarily adopt a set of guidelines to get the big money out of civic politics. Council voted 9-1 Wednesday against Carr’s motion that aimed to put an end to the expensive campaigns by setting limits on
contributions, spending and imposing a ban on corporate and union donations. “I’m saddened that this council is not prepared to do that,” Carr told councillors after three hours of debate and discussion at city hall. (Mayor Gregor Robertson was at a TransLink meeting and absent for the vote.) Carr said she was disappointed her colleagues couldn’t trust each other enough to adopt a voluntary system, despite her belief that “sworn enemies” could reach an accord. In shooting down Carr’s motion, several
councillors noted how a voluntary system could lead to corruption and were worried there was no mechanism to enforce rules. “Frankly, I see this motion as very naïve at best — but not only naïve, but potentially very dangerous,” said Vision Vancouver Coun.Tim Stevenson. He was referring to challenges outlined by city clerk Janice Mackenzie who wrote in a memo to council “the implementation of such rules could result in some distortions in the candidate funding activity resulting in reduced
transparency, accountability and compliance.” Stevenson reminded Carr that council has for years lobbied the Union of B.C. Municipalities and the provincial government for electoral reforms. The provincial government has refused to amend the Vancouver Charter to create a new set of guidelines for campaigns, including spending limits and banning corporate and union donations. Continued on page 9
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Property Ownership 101 courtesy of the city 12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell
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Still recovering from the math lesson that city manager Penny Ballem gave us media types Monday over the Olympic Village numbers. Had a flashback to elementary school with most of us sitting there in the front row and Ballem at the white board with the dry erase marker. OK, we didn’t have white boards back then and Madame Heineke used chalk and never uttered the word “debenture” but you get the picture. Anyway, one question we didn’t ask after hearing the city paid off its $630 million debt, is who actually owns all that land at Southeast False Creek. Simple question, right? Maybe, but it brings a complex answer, as I discovered in a response from the good folks in the city’s communications department.
As I understand it, the Southeast False Creek Official Development Plan area is divided into three main pieces. So, since I’ve got elementary school on my mind, let’s get out a pen and a piece of paper. Draw a rectangle, then draw two vertical lines that divide up the rectangle into three parts. On the left side, write 1A, then 2A in the middle piece and 3A and 3B on the right side. With me? Good. The city owns Area 1A, which is undeveloped, and Area 3A (not sure what’s going on there) while Concert Development owns 3B and is building condos there right now. Area 2A is the Olympic Village property. So who owns it? The city owns the streets on the land, the waterfront, community plaza, parks, habitat island, Salt building and the community centre. The commercial spaces that are home to London Drugs,Terra Breads and others, plus the market rental buildings and the affordable
The City of Vancouver announced Monday it paid off its $630 million debt for the Olympic Village project. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
housing are subdivided into something called “airspace parcels” and owned by different entities. That is correct — “airspace parcels,” which I believe has no French translation and would certainly
blow Mme. Heineke’s mind in trying to explain what it means. I won’t even try. Anyway, the city owns the affordable housing in parcels two, five and nine. Real estate investment group
Bentall Kennedy owns the market rental housing in parcels three, six and nine. First Capital Realty owns commercial spaces in parcels five, six, nine and 10. And, finally, the market condos — 67 of which were
bought by the Aquilinis for $91 million — are subdivided by stratas and each lot is owned by the buyer. The strata council owns the common property and represents each of the owners. Got all that? To add to the complexity of ownership at Southeast False Creek, there are other properties referred to in the city plan as Area 1B and Area 2B, which run along Second Avenue and includes the 147-unit social housing building known as the Marguerite Ford Apartments. The building is one of the so-called 14 social housing properties around Vancouver that saw the city provide the land and the provincial government pay for the construction and operation. So, yes, you have people who were once without a home living next to people who can afford to plunk down more than a million bucks on a condo the size of a small classroom. And that experiment, from what I hear, isn’t exactly getting top marks. twitter.com/Howellings
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Vancouver police put cold cases online VPD hopes public profile will yield results in unsolved homicides Mike Howell
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Her name was Willene Chong. She was 76. She had five children. On Sept. 11, 2008, someone set fire to her home at 2781 East 55th Ave. and she died in what police have so far determined was a random act. Now the Vancouver Police Department hopes adding Chong’s name to a new website devoted to so-called cold cases will lead to an arrest. “From what I’ve heard, [the police] are at wit’s end trying to find anything, so hopefully this will get them some leads,” said Jerry Chong, who joined his siblings in 2009 to make a public plea for the person responsible for his mother’s death to contact police. The Chong homicide is one of eight cases police profiled on the new website, which was launched Tuesday.The site has information about the case, Chong’s photograph and details about a reward. “It brings backs all the memories,” Chong told the Courier by telephone from his office in Richmond after viewing the website. “It’s been a long healing process and I guess you’ll never be completely healed until they do apprehend the person. Obviously you want it solved but it’s not like TV.” Dating back to 1974, the VPD investigated 952 murders. A total of 549 were considered solved after charges were laid and
another 78 were solved without charges. That leaves 313 unsolved cases. “After reviewing the website, we’re hoping that people may recognize a cold case, then contact us to tell us what they know, whether it’s from first-hand experience or something they’ve heard through the grapevine over the years,” said Deputy Chief Adam Palmer at a press conference Tuesday at the VPD’s Cambie Street headquarters. “I can tell you that often a small lead is all that is required, something that may seem insignificant. However, that tip may open a lot of doors.” Police chose to begin with Chong’s case and seven others because of cooperation from victim’s families and the nature of the homicides, said Sgt. Dale Weidman of the homicide unit, who joined Palmer at the press conference. “I’ve personally investigated or reviewed a number of them and they’re interesting,”Weidman said. “But that’s not to say that by any stretch of the imagination that we’re not going to profile so-called gangster cases.” The eight homicides occurred in 1981 through to Chong’s murder in 2008. In many cases, the victims were going about their regular business, said Palmer, who is in charge of the VPD’s investigations division. In the case of Evan Garber, who died during a robbery in 2006, and Richard Chacon, who attempted to break up a bar fight in 1999,
The Vancouver Police Department launched a new website Tuesday devoted to solving 313 so-called cold cases that occurred since 1974. Police started with eight cases, including the Sept. 11, 2008 homicide of 76-year-old Willene Chong (far right). PHOTO SUPPLIED
they were trying to help others when they were shot to death, Palmer said. The deputy chief said he also wanted to remind people of 61-year-old Cathy Berard, who was brutally assaulted and left for dead on the grounds of DavidThompson high school in 1996. “Other cases are a true mystery, such as the case of Danielle Larue, when in 2002, the VPD received an anonymous letter from her killer,” Palmer said. “To this date, Danielle’s body has never been found.” Chong’s homicide occurred after a series of fires was set in the area of Kerr Street and East 54th . She was inside her house, where she lived for more than 36 years, with one of her sons and his wife, who survived the blaze. Chong immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1949. She married in 1959 and went on to have
five children and seven grandchildren. The Vancouver Police Board approved a $10,000 reward in 2010 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of person or persons responsible for Chong’s death. Though the case remains unsolved, Jerry Chong was heartened by the arrest police made two weeks ago in a five-year-old cold case. Police arrested Aaron Dale Power and he was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the homicide of Michael Ciro Nestoruk, whose body was found April 9, 2009 on the grounds of Sir Guy Carleton elementary. “There’s some hope, I guess,” added Chong. The website’s address is vpdcoldcases.ca and cost less than $10,000 to build, according to the VPD. twitter.com/Howellings
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News Board depletes emergency funds to save programs Cheryl Rossi
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The Vancouver School Board dug deeply into its rainy day fund Thursday to save a raft of programs threatened by budget cuts. Saved at the board’s final budget meeting for the 20142015 year were the elementary band and strings program, the athletics coordinator, area counsellor, educational psychologist, speech language pathologist and teacher and support staff peer mentoring positions. The board took $2.5 million from its emergency reserves to maintain the program and positions, leaving $530,000 to cover the unexpected, which in previous years has included lower enrolment, reduced revenue from international students and the installation of hand washing stations during the H1N1 outbreak. VSB secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk said the district’s senior management team has recommended the board maintain one per cent of its overall budget, or $5 million, in the emergency reserve.
Vision Vancouver trustee Rob Wynen recommended using the reserve to avoid cuts to the 2014-2015 budget, acknowledging it was a risky move. “This is a rainy day,” he said. Wynen said his son, who’s in Grade 7, has benefited from the threatened band and strings program and from athletics coordination, and Wynen couldn’t vote to deny future students similar benefits. Other moves included: · Four maintenance worker positions instead of five were axed. · The gifted education consultant position was reduced to a 0.8 position instead of to 0.6. · The board will cease funding one substance abuse prevention worker position instead of two. · One multicultural liaison coordinator position will vanish rather than two. The VSB granted the elementary band and strings program a year’s reprieve with the hope the community will help the VSB find solutions to sustain the
Trustees Rob Wynen (L), Cherie Payne and Vancouver School Board chairperson Patti Bacchus consider the district’s 2014-2015 budget with VSB secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
program without $630,651 from the board in the future. All six Vision Vancouver trustees voted in favour of Wynen’s recommendations. The three NPA trustees opposed them. Vision trustee Mike Lombardi said the ministry of education’s comments that suggest using district money for capital projects “exacerbated” the decision to use the reserve. NPA trustee Ken Denike
said using the reserve boosted Education Minister Peter Fassbender’s claims the VSB cries wolf about budget shortfalls when in reality is has a surplus. The board trimmed more than $9 million to balance its budget, as required by the province.The VSB chopped the continuing education program and one of the two teachers at the City School mini school. NPA trustees Fraser Ballantyne, Ken Denike and
SophiaWoo and student trustee Nick Milum suggested the board should sacrifice one or two peer mentors for teachers to retain both multicultural liaison worker positions and both substance abuse prevention workers to help vulnerable students, but theVision-dominated board voted against these recommendations. Denike recommended the board maintain its membership with the B.C. School Trustees Association for a
cost of $80,000 per year, but Vision trustees voted against him. Trustees agreed, however, the district shouldn’t endeavour to save $375,000 by closing schools for three additional days in November. The board passed a restoration budget that estimates the district would need $54.3 million in additional funding to provide the same level of service that was delivered prior to the 20022003 budget cuts. NPA trustees voted against passing the restoration budget. Ballantyne argued at the start of the meeting that with lower enrolment, the district could have closed two elementary and three secondary schools to address its budget shortfall. VSB senior management initially predicted a $28.7 million shortfall for its 2014-2015 budget, which was revised to $11.65 after savings were found and the district received additional money from the province. Senior management forecast a $25 million shortfall for 2015-2016. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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incident at school where my daughter believed that she was accused by wrongdoing and she felt so hurt that she told her mother that she’d rather be dead than hear [this] about herself. At the end of the school she was so upset and crying non-
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education April 30 when it saved the elementary band and strings program in its 2014-2015 budget.The importance of youth playing music will be celebrated to stratospheric proportions May 5 with the 10th anniversary of Music Monday. The Coalition for Music Education has organized a live webcast linking events across the country.The event culminates with a synchronized nationwide performances of I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) with former Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield, led by Maestro BramwellTovey of theVancouver Symphony Orchestra at ScienceWorld.The webcast will air between 9 and 10 a.m. at musicmonday.ca. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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The cash-strapped Vancouver School Board rejected an offer from Chevron Canada in March that would have provided $475,000 to schools through a district-wide program. The offer was not a cash donation. Instead, the money would reach students and teachers by way of new equipment and school projects. “We don’t have a district department to handle something like that,” explained Patti Bacchus,Vision Vancouver chair of the VSB. Chevron’s considerable offer comes at a time when school boards across the province are struggling to make up for budget shortfalls. When asked about the possibility of creating a department to coordinate district-wide corporate funding, Bacchus’s response was a firm no. “And in fact, when I came into office there was a department that had been set up for
that purpose. And at that time the management at VSB recommended that we wind it up because the cost it took to run it exceeded the money it brought in,” she said. Bacchus pointed out that schools and teachers would not be prevented from receiving corporate donations if they made their own arrangements. Chevron wanted the project to be district-wide, making it impossible for teachers to access the $475,000 on their own. Chevron says that it has a policy of using a partnership model when making, what it calls, a social investment in education. Chevron’s FuelYour School program would channel funding to classrooms through a charity called My Class Needs. Teachers would then apply to the charity for grants for specific projects, especially those involving science, technology, engineering and math. Chevron was aware of the possible concerns that come with corporate funding, ac-
Chevron’s $475,000 offer in March to the Vancouver School Board came at a time when B.C. schools were struggling to make up for budget shortfalls. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
cording to Vancouver-based spokesperson Adrien Byrne. “I know [the VSB] has policies against corporate advertisement in schools, which this program doesn’t do,” he said. The VSB’s policy on corporate partnerships includes mandating that the
district and schools maintain control over curriculum, and prevents students from being forced to view advertisements. After the school board rejected Chevron’s proposal, Chevron approached the Vancouver District Parents Advisory Council.The
parents had concerns about schools being associated with a potentially divisive company like Chevron. But corporate donations can look appealing when schools consider cutting programs such as athletics and music due to budget restraints.
“I would like the policy reviewed so that there’s access to additional money for classrooms, and so that corporate funding was offered to all teachers,” said Monica Moberg, chair of the District Parent Advisory Council. Bacchus and Byrne agree a key part of the debate about accepting donations is between an education system that is completely publicly funded and one that accepts some corporate donations. Chevron is still open to donating money to theVancouver School Board, according to Byrne. But the school board would need to wait until next year because the $475,000 originally slotted for Vancouver has been re-allocated to six other school districts in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Surrey classrooms received $200,000 through Chevron’s FuelYour School program last fall, according to Doug Strachan, spokesperson for the Surrey school district. twitter.com/wanyeelii
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the lone Green Party councillor accused of being out of order, bargaining in bad faith and being out of the loop.That last accusation came from Vision Vancouver Coun.Tim Stevenson who wrongly assumed Carr had not participated in private meetings he and other councillors had held with Vancouver Aquarium president John Nightingale. The clock is ticking on getting a captivity question added to the ballot because deadlines must be met. Exactly how many weeks prior to the election such a plebiscite question must be approved by was unclear at the time of Wednesday’s meeting. In her motion, Carr noted the plebiscite would only take place if between now and then the park board and aquarium don’t reach an agreement to phase out cetaceans in captivity. Carr said keeping ceta-
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A referendum regarding keeping whales and dolphins in captivity is unlikely to be on the ballot in the November civic election despite repeated requests from some residents, activists and politicians. Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr brought a motion to council Wednesday afternoon asking that a plebiscite on keeping cetaceans in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium be added to the ballot of the fall election. But the negative response to Carr’s motion from her fellow Vision Vancouver and NPA councillors made it clear they will be leaving the responsibility of such a decision squarely with the park board. Carr’s motion was akin to throwing a ticking verbal time bomb into council chambers Wednesday with
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ceans in captivity contradicts the city’s goal to be the greenest in the world by 2020 and noted under theVancouver Charter, city council, not the park board, has the authority to submit a plebiscite question to voters. Carr added despite the factVisionVancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has said publicly he wants cetaceans phased out at the aquarium and hopes the park board will work with the facility to see that accomplished, a review of the bylaw allowing the aquarium to keep whales and dolphins is scheduled for 2015 so the work must begin now. But her fellow councillors, in particularVision’s Kerry Jang, said a decision by the park board approved Monday to have staff create a report and review of the aquarium’s operations and relationship with the board was reason enough to reject the idea of a plebiscite. Jang accused
Carr of overriding the park board’s authority and added he was bothered he had to participate in debate in which Carr was treading on the park board’s turf. “That’s not democracy as I see it,” Jang told council. Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper said the park board wants to see a report from staff before any bylaw changes will be made. “But there will be change,” Jasper told the Courier Thursday morning. “It is not our intent to pass this onto another park board. I predict the issue of keeping cetaceans in captivity will be dealt with before our offleash dog problems are.” Nightingale spoke at Wednesday’s meeting and said the aquarium is backing the park board’s approach not to hold a plebiscite and instead complete a report and review. twitter.com/sthomas10
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News Vision, NPA spent more than $5 million last election
Continued from page 1 For almost a decade, minister after minister responsible for local government have told council and the Courier that any changes to civic government rules would need to be province-wide, despite Vancouver’s outlier status. VisionVancouver, the NPA and COPE spent more than $5 million combined in the 2011 campaign, with the NPA receiving a $960,000 donation from the party’s chief fundraiser, developer Robert Macdonald. “We need a level playing field, we need the province to help us get there, we’re going to continue to work on that together, we all believe it needs to happen,” saidVision Coun. Heather Deal. “This voluntary system would produce quite the opposite. It’ll produce a very uneven and, quite frankly, frightening scenario.” NPA Coun. George Affleck said he couldn’t support Carr’s motion because he was worried that aVisiondominated council would create a voluntary system
that would favour their party. “I don’t think, in my experience, we would have an effective solution at the end of the day,” said Affleck, who also noted parties raised significant funds between elections that, under current rules, don’t have to be disclosed if collected before Dec. 31, 2013. Historically, the majority of money given toVision and the NPA has come from big business, including developers who regularly go before city council with development proposals. Although unions are COPE’s biggest contributors, they also contribute big dollars toVision. Fern Jeffries, chairperson of the Crosstown Residents Association and co-chair of the False Creek Residents Association, said the perception by many citizens is that council decisions are “tainted” because of the financial relationships councillors have with contributors. “As a former member of Parliament from theYukon said very wisely, in politics perception is reality,” Jeffries
told council. “And it is that perception of a conflict, whether or not it’s real, that I think taints decisions and leads to the kind of loss of faith in our parliamentary system and our democracy.” In an exchange with Jeffries, Stevenson said, “I don’t even know what people donate.” NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball made the same claim, saying “most of us don’t have a clue who donated money to either our party or to ourselves because that is not interesting.What’s interesting is the work we do.” All financial disclosure documents from parties and candidates are available for viewing at city hall or on the city’s website. Meanwhile, Coralee Oakes, the provincial minister responsible for implementing reforms to civic government, has told the Courier legislation regarding campaign financing should be in place by the civic election in 2018. This year’s election is Nov. 15. twitter.com/Howellings
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Opinion Children and youth rep Birthday mines Boomer gets the gentle brush off and Gen X memories Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com British Columbia’s representative for children and youth was granted authority to advocate for certain young adults last year. But giving her the right to advocate apparently doesn’t involve accepting the ideas she’s advancing. Representative Mary Ellen TurpelLafond released a report Monday that recommends the government extend its responsibility for children in care past the age of 19. Minister of Children and Family Development Stephanie Cadieux turned thumbs down on her ideas inside of an hour. It was the latest joust about an issue Turpel-Lafond has been discussing for the last several years. It’s about what happens to children in care after they turn 19 and effectively age out of the childwelfare system. About 700 clients a year turn 19 and leave the system. There’s a pervasive feeling that it doesn’t generally go well for them, and that the ministry could do more to help them launch their adult lives. But as the representative acknowledges, there’s a remarkably scant amount of hard evidence about exactly what happens to children in care once they hit 19. She said there’s no easy way to collect baseline data, because there’s no datacollection system. There’s not much evaluation of the interventions and programs now in place. Research is spotty and based on very small samples. “This lack of in-depth information is a significant barrier when discussing transitional processes and needs,” she said in her report. There is a program available for young adults in certain specific instances that helps with tuition to a limited degree. Turpel-Lafond recommended a youth secretariat to co-ordinate work in that area across all ministries and see that they get the same level of support as young adults raised in regular family settings. It would evaluate programs, begin the research that is so badly needed and work on increasing youths’ financial literacy, as well as getting them access to health and dental care. She also urged the education ministry to define clear education plans for all youth in care. As well, the representative suggested extending foster care up to age 25 for youths going to college or
apprenticing. Cadieux rebuffed the concepts in short order, as gently as possible. She thanked Turpel-Lafond, said staff are going to follow up on the ideas and acknowledged “we know there is always more to do.” She said the report raises legitimate points and they will be considered. But she said the ministry’s service plan and B.C.’s three-year budgeting system “don’t contemplate a mandate expansion or the establishment of new offices at this time.” “We don’t have a legislative mandate to serve kids over 18, nor do we have the budget,” said Cadieux. Then she backed away from that definitive rejection, denying it was a budgetary decision when obviously the costs are a big reason for turning it down. “We’re not ignoring the recommendations, we’re just not going to say today we can do all this,” she said. There’s no price tag on what the representative’s new concepts would cost. But they wouldn’t come cheap. A new secretariat would have a caseload of several hundred cases as soon as it opened its doors. And the idea of putting clients on the same financial footing as young people raised by their families would cost a considerable sum per head. Her report quotes a study that found the average cost of attending University of Victoria for eight months a year is $16,244. It’s conventionally accepted in social policy that young people have family support to make up shortfalls. But for the population the representative is concerned about, the government is the family. And the minister made clear that the family has other priorities. It took a couple of years of pushing just to get the representative’s mandate changed so she has limited powers to advocate for vulnerable young adults. She argued for the expansion and was backed by various interest groups. The standing committee of the legislature on children and youth recommended two years ago that her scope be widened, and the change was finally made last year. It looks like it will take a similar concerted push to get the government to follow up on the ideas she is now advocating. twitter.com/LeyneLes (Allen Garr’s column will return soon.)
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Number of city councillors who voted against Adriane Carr’s motion to set limits on campaign contributions, spending and imposing a ban on corporate and union donations. It defeated 9-1.
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Height, in metres, of the Greenheart Canopy Walkway at UBC’s Botanical Gardens, where visitors can take a walk in the trees high above the forest floor.
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A friend of mine had one request for guests at her April birthday party. Instead of gifts, “please think of something to share with others at the party that was different when you were growing up from the way kids grow up now.” The guests — a mix of Boomers and Gen-X’ers — were part of the demographic that had bridged the analog and digital worlds. None were strangers to boom boxes, dial-up modems, cursive writing, white-out correction fluid, and mix tapes. The first topic to come up was toys. One of the guests argued that kids now have access to cheap, precision-made diversions that outclass the clunky plastic products of yesteryear. He enthusiastically demonstrated an example he bought just for the occasion: a nerf-disc shooting toy gun. This rise in quality and drop in price in plastic toys isn’t an unambiguously positive development, of course. I’ve been to homes where there are more playthings than furnishings. The bulk of this kid stuff is assembled in offshore sweatshops by labourers working under outrageous conditions for indefensible wages. The merchandise is then exported halfway around the world, with its ultimate destination in landfills. We were all in agreement that media diversity has greatly expanded, with fewer touchstones of shared experience. Back in the ’70s, every other home was defined by the yellow spines of National Geographic magazines, and a cabinet television tuned to the cathode-ray gruel of three bonehead U.S. networks. CBC television was notable mostly for hockey games and the human sleeping pill, anchorman Knowlton Nash. Like me, everyone at the party recalled playing outdoors until it was dark, and walking to school unattended by parents. We were always with friends after school and on weekends, which made for both spontaneous play and strength in numbers. “Helicopter parenting” was unknown, and undoubtedly would have been considered pathological by society at large. For me, one major change involves the transformation in reproduction, from mimeographs to Xeroxes to home printers. Today’s kids have access to the infinite copyability of digital media; they
cut and paste images and text from the web like their parents handled crayons, and mash up copyrighted video images into their own creations. Contrast this with a ’60s-era product called Silly Putty. This grey, stretchy substance came in a plastic egg and had a paucity of interesting properties.You could squish it down onto the panel of a comic book and peel it back, revealing a colour mirror image on the flattened grey surface. For a seven-year old kid like me, that was way cool. Today I can’t imagine it would now be anything but boring or dorky to anyone over the age of four. Related to reproduction is the portability of music. As someone observed at the party, it used to be that if you were going on a long trip you had to be selective about which cassettes you were bringing, since that was all the music you’d have for your Walkman. With an iPod or iPhone? Fughettaboutit. Today’s infoglut includes pornography, which used to be difficult for kids to access. Social psychologists currently researching the effect of digital porn on the young have come up with a series of non-conclusions, in part because it’s nearly impossible to find teens who have never seen X-rated images and videos. There are no control groups. And then there’s Batman. A guest at the party recalled Adam West’s campy version of Batman in the ’60s ABC television series — a zeitgeist away from the today’s film franchise starring Christopher Bale as a raspy neurotic in a rubber suit. On a lighter perspective on this topic, there’s Anne Jane Grossman’s 2009 book, Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once Common Things Passing Us By. Among the author’s entries are airport goodbyes, appendicitis scars, tonsillectomies, body hair, comb-overs, hitchhikers, pocket calculators, social emailing, wrinkles and writing letters. The book also has an entry for nuns. Whatever happened to them? I remember seeing nuns fairly often in the streets of my childhood town, but they seem pretty thin on the ground these days. Perhaps women no longer find the clergy habitforming. Sorry, had to end this with a bad pun. Luckily, there appears to be less of those around these days, too. Some things change for the better. geoffolson.com
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Number of years Vancouver has marked Asian Heritage Month. This year’s celebration features more than 30 arts and culture events across the Lower Mainland.
Equivalent donation in thousands of dollars Chevron Canada offered the cash-strapped Vancouver School Board in March. The VSB rejected the offer.
Number of thousand Black Dog Video memberships, though only a small portion regularly rent from the longserving video store, which is one of the few remaining in the city.
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Expo 86 opens May 2, 1986: Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, better known as Expo 86, at the north end of False Creek. Eight years in the making and with a total of 54 participating countries, the second World’s Fair held in Canada runs until Oct. 13. A total of 22 million people visited the event, which was declared a success despite a deficit of $311 million. Expo 86 is generally considered the turning point for Vancouver changing from a sleepy backwater to an aspiring world-class city.
To the editor: Re: “City passes tougher tree bylaw,” 12th & Cambie, April 30. The city recently passed a bylaw aimed at restricting the cutting down of trees on private property inVancouver. I applaud the city for this move as trees are not only beautiful to look at but are incredibly important in keeping our environment healthy. What I don’t understand is how the city can on the one hand create this new bylaw yet on the other hand allow developers to cut down swaths of mature trees throughout the city. I’m thinking specifically of the Cambie Corridor, where dozens and dozens of 1950s bungalows are facing the wrecking ball to make way for new developments. A quick glance at the front yards and back gardens of these houses and one is amazed at how many types of mature fruit and flowering trees are on these properties.These trees and bushes not only clean our air but provide shelter for birds and animals. Developers can cut down all these trees because they fall “within the building envelope” according to the bylaw. What will they replace them with? The ubiquitous cedar hedges or small boxwood shrubs? The variety of trees will never be duplicated. Any new trees planted will probably be male trees, which do not produce flowers or fruit, much like all the trees the city currently plants along boulevards. The city is in partnership with Treekeepers.ca to encourage homeowners to plant trees. Citizens can buy different types of trees and plant in their backyards. Does anyone else see the hypocrisy of this? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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To the editor: Re: “Dogs of war unleashed at Trout Lake,” April 30. We don’t live nearTrout Lake, we live next to Edward Crawley Park.We both like dogs, often more than their owners.We used to walk daily through this large, fine, now quite natural park, which used to be the city ofVancouver dump. It is now almost impossible to walk there, since some kind of interaction with dogs is nearly unavoidable. There are on- and off-leash areas marked, but they are routinely ignored by the dog owners or multiple dog-walking companies, trucking up to eight dogs in at the time. Dogs like each other.They like getting let off their leashes and running loose among each other. Dogs would like to play in “gated communities.”The on/off-leach areas in most parks are mostly totally ignored by the dog owners. Let’s face it, if there is no enforcement of a rule, it will be ignored. That seems to be human nature. So, you Trout-Lakers: I suggest you truck your canine to Edward Crawley Park, where your pet can roam around at will and you can toss your doggy-poop into the brambles. Woof! Woof! Peter Reusch, Vancouver
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May 5, 1974: The Vancouver Whitecaps play their first home game in the North American Soccer League in front of an estimated crowd of 18,000 at Empire Stadium. Defender Neil Ellett scored the ‘Caps first-ever goal in a 2-1 shoot-out loss to the San Jose Earthquakes.
I would ask Mayor Robertson how he can reconcile the Greenest City that he’s pushing with the systematic removal of mature trees on properties to make way for condos. Einat Stojicevic, Vancouver
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COURIER STORY: “School sports:What’s at stake,” April 30 Weezul: Cutting the district athletics coordinator position is a short sighted, knee jerk reaction from people who don’t know any better.The system will suffer. It may not completely collapse as there are many wonderful teachers and volunteers who wouldn’t let it happen. But as a long time coach in NorthVancouver, I can tell you it would have been nearly impossible to coordinate the multitude of tasks without this position. Placing the extra burden on volunteers is simply cruel. One comment about the 8 hours of volunteer time cited in the article. It is definitely low.That’s just for practices...I was putting in 16-20 hours/week when you include weekend tournaments and league matches. COURIER COLUMN: “Who?Where?Watts?” Kudos and Kvetches, April 30 @theprovince: @KudosKvetchesWe tried our best to come up with a 41-year-old pop culture reference instead, but failed. COURIER STORY: “Hospice helped deal with tidal wave of grief,” April 25 Christine Killen: well written article! Grief can be such an overwhelming experience...I’m glad thatVHS is there to offer support. COURIER STORY: “Pacific Spirit:Tiny Baha’i community fosters big ideas,” April 25 Egads9: Although Baha’is are not explicitly barred from looking at or displaying the image of Baha’u’llah, generally no Baha’i would do so.The image of Baha’u’llah is only viewed while on pilgrimage to the holy sites in Israel, and never displayed openly, even in private homes.There is some question as to whether the image above, which has been circulating on the Internet for some time, is even authentic. For these reasons, I respectfully request that you remove the image from the page and perhaps replace it with an image of the Shrine of the Bab or another similar image.Thank you again for the article.
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Opinion
Vancouver Aquarium holds high environmental standards
Staff at aquarium internationally recognized READER SOAPBOX Eric Biskupski
Eric Biskupski argues the Vancouver Aquarium adheres to the highest standards when it comes to rescue, rehabilitation and conservation. FILE PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT
I usually don’t chime in on this kind of thing, but recent events have made it abundantly clear that, when a topic as heated as cetaceans in “captivity” is what’s hot in the press, both sides need to speak up. Of my living and work life, I pride myself on two things; that I live in a city like Vancouver where the general population makes it their job to be aware and up to date on incredibly relevant social issues that others may find it troublesome to tackle, and work towards new ways of thinking that we may better ourselves. And most importantly, two, that I work in a place called the Vancouver Aquarium with like-minded individuals who want to keep us moving forward. I find it astounding that people could be so convinced that the Vancouver Aquarium encourages incredibly backward ideas like the Taiji dolphin hunt. In fact, the Pacific white sided dolphins in the Vancouver Aquarium’s care are rescues from a fishing net incident in Japan, deemed non-releasable by AZA because of their extensive injuries that would hinder their ability to survive in the wild. I find it astounding that people do not believe that the Vancouver Aquarium
staff, who are so invested and so conscious of global issues such as climate change, wild-life conservation, and the changes ongoing in the ocean as we speak, would not hold the institution they work at to the highest standards of environmental policies. That the internationally renowned and respected staff would not constantly ensure that the non-profit, conservation and education based organization they work for, was not meeting the high level of expectations they have advertised to the public.That they would allow the Aquarium to violate the agreement established in 1996, promising to never again collect wild cetaceans or marine mammals except in the event of providing a home for those in need of rescue, rehabilitation, and/or deemed non-releasable. I find it astounding that, despite the Vancouver Aquarium’s extreme efforts to ensure that any animals in their care are only kept at the utmost need, since the most scientifically validated care provided for these animals can be very expensive and as a non-profit based science centre and research-based organization the Aquarium isn’t really in it for the money.Take the most recent rescue by the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue staff that now takes residence at the Aquarium itself,Walter the male sea otter, who, after being rescued and
rehabilitated from gunshot wounds cost $90/day to ensure he received the highest quality of care to come back to health. All that care was sustained by generous donations from the public. I am astounded that the public would demand that the Pacific white sided dolphins and Arctic belugas be released back to the ocean, ignoring the great amount we have and could still learn about their species from caring for them, ignoring the importance of facilitating human contact with these animals so we can develop a knowledge and care for these animals so conservation efforts will only grow with the next generation, and ignoring the fact that we may very well be sentencing them to a wild life without the tools they require to survive out there (hence their rescuing) or even worse to an environment that is completely foreign to them (as with Qila, the beluga in our care who was born at the Vancouver Aquarium, and never subjected to the ocean). The fact is, we both want a world in which animal care is based in rescue, rehabilitation and conservation. Perhaps if someone deemed to ask one of the Vancouver Aquarium staff, they would learn that we don’t object to those listed standards of animal care the public is demanding. We already live by them. Eric Biskupski is the guest services lead at theVancouver Aquarium.
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Learn more and share your thoughts on the proposed sites by completing an online questionnaire at vancouver.ca/publicart by May 21, 2014.
West End Residents: Parking Permit Renewal
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Public Hearing: May 13
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber
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1. Marpole Community Plan Zoning Amendments The Marpole Community Plan was approved by Vancouver City Council on April 2, 2014. The plan will be the future road map on areas ranging from housing and land use to transportation and public spaces. As part of the implementation of the plan, amendments have been proposed to the Zoning and Development By-law to allow for more housing options in Marpole. The proposed amendments would rezone several areas to enable the potential development of townhouses/rowhouses and four-storey apartments.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS APPLICATION: vancouver.ca/marpoleplan or contact Lil Ronalds at 604-871-6964 or lil.ronalds@vancouver.ca 2. 100 West 49th Avenue (Langara College) t v u xl y` w b t tp on n~ zc um f u p xtww to permit rooftop mechanical appurtenances to exceed one-third of the width of the proposed Science and Student Services Building. The need for this amendment has arisen through the detailed architectural design stage for the building. If approved, it would not result in a substantive change to the form of development that was approved by Council on February 18, 2014. 3. 1351 Continental Street (725 Neon Street) t v u xl y` w b t tp xtun}u un w np n nt }u p o n~ r pv}nn [ttp or p n}t j ptv nt nt wwtb tp u }n}tu w oqm p v np o oqm p n tp tc p utr} o tc p wp ` permitted rooftop patios on the penthouse levels. The building is currently under construction and is nearing completion. The amendment would not result in a substantive change to the form of development approved by Council on May 3, 2011. zu`tu b~t tuo} po n~ vo wc o n ` n~ rptrto ` w b v u v uno v ` or | n n~ m w} h p}u Please register individually beginning 8:30 am on Friday, May 2, 2014 and before 5 pm on May 13, 2014 by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between { u rv tu n~ ` t n~ m w} h p}u tm v ` om v}n `tmp tvv uno ` v }w nt mayorandcouncil@ vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Department, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City's website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.
4. 2806 and 2850 Cambie Street, 454 West 12th Avenue, and 465 West 13th Avenue, and Heritage Designation of the Wilcox House t p ^tu x v } np n u x v } np n ptv x x xtvv p } w l}onp} n u on n~ zc um u on n~ zc um ptv bt j v}w` lb ww}u l}onp} n ww nt xl xtvrp ~ uo}c l c wtrv un l}onp} n u }u wm }u n~ n rtpn}tu t w u otmn~ t x v } np n } wto u tuc ` nt n~ p }on p tbu p t n~ tc w u o ~ rrw} n}tu }o tp v}a mo development in two buildings, including a new eight-storey building with groundlevel retail and restaurant uses, 148 residential strata units and eight rental housing units, and a four-storey heritage building, with three residential strata units. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604.873.7038 Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting May 2, 2014 at the City Clerk’s Department in x}n` h ww on n~ zc um ~}p jwttp dtu ` nt jp} ` ptv { v nt { rv zww v n}u o t xtmu }w p b on w}c n c u tmc p tmu }wc} t u v}umn o t m w} h p}u o p c }w w n vancouver.ca/ councilmeetings d}umn o p rton rrpta}v n w` nbt mo}u oo `o n p v n}u
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Canopy walk seeks Vancouver’s green heart
Little known UBC Botanical Garden attraction pitches serenity Jenny Peng
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A little-known canopy walkway tucked away in UBC Botanical Garden is shedding its discreet identity in hopes of becoming a popular Vancouver attraction. From now to October, visitors to Greenheart Canopy Walkway can trek along 10 suspension bridges connected by eight light-weight platforms harnessed to towering Douglas firs and western red cedars. With free guided tours every hour, visitors are introduced to plant species and walkway technology from roughly 20 metres above the forest floor. Tour guide Angus Straight said having the walkway suspended is part of Greenheart’s conservation philosophy. “If we brought 60 school groups here, they’re going to trample on the ferns ... We want to make it so we can take people up these areas, not hurt the trees, not hurt the area below.” Although conservation doesn’t appear to be a challenge for the company, publicity is. “I don’t think it’s been well publicized. A lot of local people don’t know about
The Greenheart Canopy Walkway is accessible for people of all ages. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
it,” said repeat customer Eileen Kosarek. Greenheart co-founder Ian Green, says support from Vancouver residents has been slow since its opening in 2008. For the
first time, Greenheart has hired sales and marketing staff and they’re planning haunted Halloween walks, high teas on the tower, bird watching, and possible dance performances among
the canopy. “We’re hoping to see people out here.We’re just not known, and some of it is our own fault.We’re not aggressive in advertising.This is a very different experience
than what you’ll get at Capilano Suspension Bridge where you have 800,000 to a million visitors. Here you’ve got some calm and serenity.” Tickets to access the
walkway start at $20 for an adult and $10 for a child with discount rates for youths, seniors, families, and members. UBC student Emily Smith would consider buying a ticket if there was more information about the walkway. “I’m on a student budget, so I might do it [if] I was able to find out more about it. Seeing as we get into the garden just for free, paying 15 to 20 would not be so bad for that experience.” For a city that aims to be the greenest in the world by 2020, Green hopes turnout at the walkway will reflect that goal. “People don’t seem to want to invest in nature. They’ll put their money in Twitter, Facebook, and just the most bizarre things from my perspective,” he said. “But when it comes down to ‘Hey we’re trying to protect this area, we want to teach people about this,’ people don’t seem to get the value and to me it’s a major concern for our education system and our own value system.” Being popular isn’t synonymous with being big for Greenheart.The company hopes to strike a balance of keeping its serenity while drawing a bigger crowd. twitter.com/jennypengnow
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Asian Heritage Month seeks Canadian identity Wanyee Li
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For Beverly Nann, multiculturalism is a two-way street. Nann, the vice president of the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society, has spent her whole career working on multiculturalism as a former social worker who in 1989 helped found the Laurier Institution, a non-profit organization that supports research and education on diversity in Canada. As Asian Heritage Month begins its 17th year in Vancouver with more than 30 arts and culture events in the Lower Mainland in May, Nann hopes it will demonstrate the richness and
diversity of Asian culture in a city with the world’s largest Asian minority population. But she also wants the month to encourage those communities to collaborate with each other as well as with non-Asian groups, and that multiculturalism has a long way to go in Vancouver. “The issue now with the huge ethnic silos that are developing is that they are institutionally complete,” Nann told the Courier. “They don’t have to go outside of the community for anything.When are they going to integrate?” The society aims to help ethnic communities to collaborate more with other communities.This month’s festivities provide the opportunity for these com-
munities to showcase their cultures both to each other, and to mainstream Canadian society. “We want to promote that collaboration between different cultures and with the mainstream cultures,” said Nann. In the past, focus has been on Canadian society accepting newcomers, but we are missing the other piece of the puzzle, according to Nann. She hopes that Asian communities learn, through Asian Heritage Month, that they need to open themselves up to people outside of their communities. “It’s a two-way street,” she said. The official opening of Vancouver Asian Heritage Month features an art exhi-
bition of works created by first generation immigrants. In each piece of artwork, they answer the question of what being Canadian means to them. “The Asian immigrants who live in ethnic silos have a very strong ethnic identity. But what about your Canadian identity?” said Nann. Vancouver is no stranger to Asian immigration, with Chinese migrants first coming to the area during the Gold Rush of the mid 1800s. According to Statistics Canada reports, 43 per cent of people living in Metro Vancouver have an Asian heritage.This includes people who identify as ethnicities ranging from Persian to Korean.
More than 30 arts and culture events take place across the Lower Mainland for Asian Heritage Month. PHOTO SUBMITTED
Vancouver Asian Heritage Month events this year include: Official opening and Generation One Art Exhibit International Village Mall May 3, 2 p.m. | Admission: Free This art exhibit on the second flood of Tinseltown showcases more than 60 works of art created by first generation Asian immigrants. The exhibit “So This is Canada” features artists showing what Canada means to them. This exhibit will be up until May 16. A second exhibit called “Vancouver” will begin May 17 and feature watercolour paintings by Water Poon. First Families, First stories: Research workshops May 7 and 14 6:30-8 p.m. Vancouver Public Library Central Branch May 10 1-4 p.m. UBC Learning Exchange, 610 Main St. Admission: Free For those who want to learn more about their family and community’s history. Partici-
pants will learn how to use search engines, Ancestry Library Edition, special collections, and the VPL catalogue. Jim Wog-Chu is a pioneer in Asian-Canadian writing and a well-known historian. He will be presenting his latest research at 2 p.m. Admission is $20.
musical genres. There will also be a musical instrument petting zoo. There are a number of outreach events open to the public for free, in the week leading up to the festival. For event details visit soundofdragon.com/ outreach.
Sound of Dragon Music Festival Yaletown Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre May 9-11, various show times Admission: starts at $20, $70 for a weekend pass This is Vancouver’s first music festival devoted to Chinese music. Performances will showcase diverse musical styles, including ancient folk, jazz, chamber, orchestral, and more. Audiences will hear an unusual combination of instruments from a variety of cultures. The festival features musicians and composers from different ethnicities and
Kate Bowie, World Premiere Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Studio Theatre May 28-31, 8 p.m. | Admission: $20 In 1981, Kate Bush and David Bowie rented a secluded mansion in a remote part of England to work on an album together. Neither of them has ever spoken publicly about what happened during this time. Thirty years later, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long spent a month together in a remote cabin in northern British Columbia with a keyboard, an electric guitar and a lot of gin, recreating that mythic collaboration to examine the complexities of an 18-year old partnership.
BUILDING THE CITY OF TODAY AND TOMORROW CAPITAL PLANNING PRIORITIES How would you rate city facilities and infrastructure in Vancouver? What do you think are the most important areas to invest in over the next 10 years? Share your opinions and ideas to help shape the City of Vancouver’s 2015 - 2018 Capital Plan priorities. We’re updating the City’s longterm financial plan for infrastructure areas such as affordable housing, child care, transportation, community facilities, parks, streets, sewers and more. Here’s how you can contribute: •Drop by one of our open houses at Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to learn more and tell us what you think about Vancouver’s civic assets and investment priorities for the future.
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Kate Bowie examines the nature of collaboration, the difficulties of artistic creation and ultimately, what it means to become someone else. For event details visit theatrereplacement.org #BhangraLove, City of Bhangra Festival May 29 – June 7 Various locations throughout Vancouver, Burnaby, and Surrey Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration presents a 10-day festival showcasing the music and dance of the Punjab regions of India and Pakistan. This year’s theme is #BhangraLove, representing the idea of love crossing all boundaries: social, cultural, sexual, religious, and geographic. The festival ends with a bang in downtown Vancouver June 6 and 7. You can watch performances from local and international bhangra groups from 5-10 p.m. For event details visit vibc.org.
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Kits Chamber no more, joins Board of Trade Wanyee Li
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The Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce voted to merge with the Vancouver Board of Trade Tuesday night. The 78-year-old business organization will dissolve and transfer its assets and members to the betterknown Vancouver Board of Trade. There were 33 votes and 5 proxy votes cast with an overwhelming majority in
favour of the merger. The decision was what most people expected, according to Cheryl Ziole, executive director of the soon to be dissolved Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce. She cited several benefits to joining the Board of Trade. “Strength in numbers, if you’re lobbying for a change in government policy to benefit your members,” she said. Iain Black, president and CEO of the Vancouver Board of Trade, described
the merger as an “exciting opportunity” for both sides. “I believe this is a winwin for the members of the Vancouver Board ofTrade and
portant conditions of the merger for the Kitsilano Chamber was a seat at the Vancouver Board of Trade’s Small Business Council.
“Getting the voice of and perspective of West Side business is very important to us.”– Iain Black Kitsilano Chamber,” he said. “Getting the voice of and perspective ofWest Side business is very important to us.” One of the most im-
The Kits group of almost 600 business owners was promised one seat on the council to represent their interests in the organization.
Christian Johannson, past chair of the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce, is satisfied with the agreement. “I feel strongly that it’s a great benefit to our members,” he said. “We’ve taken due diligence to make sure that the important benefits that members are looking for are taken into account.” Members transferring from the Kitsilano organization to the Board of Trade will benefit from the same group insurance rate the Board of Trade offers
its members. In addition, Kitsilano members moving to the Board of Trade will pay grandfathered fee rates for five years. Johannson said he will miss the community aspect of a smaller business organization. “The community spirit that the Kitsilano Chamber of Commerce was able to bring across may not be as excellent as when it comes from Vancouver Board of Trade,” he said. twitter.com/wanyeelii
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It’s been well over a month since the City ofVancouver announced the Casa Mia public hearing would be delayed because “staff and the applicant were unable to finalize the legal agreement securing heritage in time for the public hearing.” But it remains unclear what exactly is happening behind closed doors at city hall or when the hearing might be rescheduled. The Southlands Community Association, which had filed an application for an injunction to stop the originally scheduled March 13 hearing, continues to campaign against the proposal, urging its supporters to send protest letters to the city. “To date, no new time has been set for the public hearing.To the best of our knowledge the developer and the city have not been able to finalize the issues that delayed the initial hearing.We still find it quite amazing that they fought so vigorously against our injunction and then had to delay the hearing the very next day. Our injunction was being filed to prevent the hearing and since no new hearing has been scheduled by definition we cannot re-file the injunction. Given that the city remains uncooperative this does however remain a viable course of action for the SCA,” association spokesman Joe McDermid wrote in an email to the Courier. The group had filed an FOI request for all material and communication between the city and developer that relates to Casa Mia, but McDermid says “that material has not been received as the city continues to request more time to gather it.” City communications staff pointed the Courier to their
March 13 notice about the delay and added that nothing has been scheduled yet.
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Council approved Metro Vancouver’s rezoning application for Heather Place earlier this week in a 9-1 vote. Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr voted against the application. Public opposition came from individuals and organizations such as COPE, which released its own 100-page report on creating aVancouver Housing Authority this week, Save Heather Place spokesman Nathan Crompton who argues all of the affordable housing units won’t be replaced, and Heather Place tenant Karen Gilchrist. Concerns included the size of the development, building height, increased density, parking and traffic impacts, and housing affordability. But some Heather Place tenants spoke in support of the project, includingTamara Szymanska, who talked to the Courier earlier this month before council’s decision. Szymanska chairs a group called Independent Residents of Heather Place. She’s also a director on board of the Tenants Association of Heather Place. Szymanska said tenants had concerns about the project when Metro Vancouver first proposed it, but most of those concerns have since been addressed. “I think the majority of residents support [the application].There are a few that don’t, but the majority support it,” she said. Szymanska said granted requests include that the land be kept in the public hands and not be sold to the developer, that the new complex be 100 per cent smoke free and that there be phased construction. — Naoibh O’Connor
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Pine Free clinic soon won’t be free Wanyee Li
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Messages such as “Did you hear that your favourite clinic Pine Free is closing?” and “Fight the power!” fill the chalkboard in the Pine Free Clinic waiting room. It turns out the situation is more complicated than whether the clinic is closing or not. Vancouver Coastal Health told the Courier that starting in May, non-physician services will be transitioned out of Pine Free.This means that nursing, counselling, or front desk services will no longer be available at Pine Free. However, physicians could remain at Pine Free, but they would be required to follow a fee-for-service model. “We will know within the next month whether physicians at the clinic want to transition to fee-for-service,” said Dr. David Hall, medical director at Vancouver Coastal Health. Transitioning to a fee-for-
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ment more,” said Margaret McGregor, a family doctor at Mid Main clinic. But Dr. Hall says that the Vancouver Coastal Health’s decision to remove funding from Pine Free is part of the health authority’s plan to improve healthcare for Vancouver youth. The health authority plans to concentrate funding at several bigger clinics so that youth can go to one place to access a wide range of resources.Three Vancouver clinics will continue to offer healthcare services to youth: Robert and Lily Lee, Three Bridges, and Raven Song. NDP MLAs David Eby and George Heyman are hosting an emergency meeting open to the public to discuss strategies to save Pine Free Clinic.The meeting will take place Friday, May 2 at 12 p.m. at David Eby’s Point Grey constituency office. Liberal MLA Sam Sullivan has been invited to the meeting. twitter.com/wanyeelii
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News The Annual General Meeting and the Election of the Britannia Community Services Centre Society Board of Management will be held on: Wednesday, May 28th, 2014, at 6:00 pm at Britannia Centre - Gym D 7 positions open for election to serve 2-year terms. 1 position open for election to serve 1-year term and 1 position for a staff representative for a 2-year term.
Streetfront teacher Trevor Stokes (left) and students Alannah Wong and Brandon Kaine hope to raise a mountain of money so they can climb Kilimanjaro in Tanzania next spring. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
Students raise money for Kilimanjaro Cheryl Rossi
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There was a point when Alannah Wong couldn’t get out of bed in the morning. It wasn’t just because she yearned to sleep late, but because she suffered from crushing anxiety and depression. Now a new goal is helping Wong roll out of bed to attend the Streetfront alternative program at Britannia secondary: she’s going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Wong hopes to scale Kilimanjaro on the Street2Peak trip next spring partly to serve as an inspiration to others. “It’s not just a group of kids climbing a mountain in Africa,” 16-year-old Wong said. “It’s more showing people that they can rise above the things that they’ve gone through. It might not be climbing some massive mountain but it’s just getting out of bed in the morning, like you can do it.” Fifteen-year-old Brandon Kaine and Streetfront
teacher Trevor Stokes both thought it was a joke when the trip was suggested.They weren’t worried about students’ climbing abilities. “It seemed like a perfect vehicle for them,” said Stokes, who teaches 21 grades 8 to 10 students in the alternative program that’s heavy on physical and outdoor activities. “They’ve got the physical tools to do it and the mental toughness and the stamina.” But both Stokes and Kaine were concerned they couldn’t raise the required money. Britannia secondary’s vice principal Andrew Schofield instigated the trip after his brother in South Africa had suggested Schofield visit Kilimanjaro for his 50th birthday. Schofield decided it would be more rewarding to send students. “There are kids in the school here, we could put up some posters, their parents would write out a cheque for $6,000 and they’d be on the trip,” Schofield said. “But we wanted to attract the kids who have had the least life
opportunities to break out of the social worlds that they’re trapped in.” Streetfront students cope with learning disabilities, family struggles and difficulties with the law. Eighty per cent of Streetfront students are aboriginal and deal with “intergenerational trauma,” or what Schofield called the “effects of colonization.” Street2Peak’s fundraising campaign will ramp up with a Street2Peak Family Charity Run at Jericho Beach, May 10. Schofield hopes to see 18 students and six support workers travel to Tanzania. He estimates the shortest version of the trip would cost nearly $4,000 per student. In the future, Schofield wants to send students to the Serengeti plains during the annual antelope migration, to visit the slavery markets in Zanzibar and to volunteer at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS. For more information, see street2peak.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
¿QUISIERA USTED QUE SU VOZ SEA ESCUCHADA EN SU COMUNIDAD? SEA CANDIDATO EN LAS ELECCIONES PARA LA JUNTA DIRECTIVA DEL CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE BRITANNIA. Please Note: Wednesday, May 14th, is the last day to join the society in order to vote or run in the election. You may purchase your membership at Britannia Information Centre (1661 Napier Street) during our regular operating hours. Anyone 16 or over wishing to stand for election to the Board or to nominate a candidate may do so by phoning Cynthia Low or Gwen Giesbrecht at 604-718-5800. The guidelines for candidates standing for election are as follows: • a commitment of approximately 6 to 10 hours per month • a commitment to a term of two years • a genuine interest in the community • a special interest in the management of Britannia Community Centre • a current Britannia membership purchased 14 days prior to the meeting Britannia Centre depends on strong community management to enable it to meet the needs and interests of the local people it serves. We invite you to join now. Information at www.britanniacentre.org
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Wiccan worship down to Earth Current practices a modern take on ancient rituals Beltane, marking the advent of summer and the time when livestock were traditionally turned out to graze. There’s still a lot of confusion about Wicca, albeit not as much as in the past, says Wendy Avis, a Vancouver woman who has been practising the tradition for two decades. For reasons inexplicable, but probably due to prejudices of the
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dominant religion,Wicca, and the broader umbrella of paganism, were conflated in the public imagination with devil worship. (Paganism is an umbrella term for believers in Earth-based deities; Wicca is more specifically aligned with European gods.) Wicca, says Avis, is simply an Earth-based religion that centres around the “turning
of the wheel” — the progress of the calendar and the comings and goings of the seasons. In practical terms, Wiccans have a deeply spiritual affiliation with the Earth. For Avis, who discovered Wicca about the time she was doing graduate work in environmental studies at UBC, sacred and ordinary are inherently entwined.
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“It is a connection for me to the land and to the sacred Earth, a reminder that I am interdependent on the planet,” she says. “The things that I do day-to-day affect the planet and the planet affects me, so it affects my lifestyle. Concrete things are like buying organic and being aware of my transportation choices to address climate change and daily lifestyle choices that I make are reminders that I’m a part of this planet. If I think of the planet as Mother Earth, we need to take care of her and we are part of her.” Confusion exists also around the roots of Wicca. Avis considers it a “new” religion.While the most famous pagans may have been the druids of Stonehenge fame, the fact is we know little about the religious practices of pre-Christian Europeans.Today’s Wiccans don’t trace their direct lineage much before the 1970s, at least Avis doesn’t. “I see myself as a neopagan,” Avis says. “It’s new, with ideas of what we know of how people practised pre-Christian. A lot of it is English or European folk ideas about how people practice but it’s very much our interpretation of it in terms of what we know and understand but also adapted for modern life. We have to change and be dynamic with the realities of our lives.” Wicca is a polytheistic amalgam of various European traditions, including Celtic, Roman and Greek, reviving gods of the past. But at root it is about the Earth, not the heavens, about what is beneath our feet more than what is above our heads. It became comparatively big in the U.K. in the mid-20th century and spread, understandably, to California before coming north. Canada’s
census records Wiccans and in 2011, there were about 25,000 pagans, of which about 10,000 identified as Wiccans. Avis suggests there may be more who didn’t tick the box. Since there is no Wiccan pope and no hard and fast rules for practising the tradition, each circle of practitioners is pretty much free to find what works for them. For Avis and her circle of a dozen or so fellow Wiccans, that means heading to a farm on the eight major celebrations in the year for outdoor rituals like jumping over a bonfire as a symbol of purification, for example, and the invocation of the four elements and the four directions. One of the things that has been reliably passed down through the millennia is the maypole, a symbol of fertility for flora and fauna, including humans. Wiccans meet in homes for more intimate get-togethers that feature spiritual exploration and personal work.The big festivities attract a few dozen extras — family and friends who come for the celebration, dancing, singing, drumming and feasting. Overseeing the whole thing is usually a high priest and high priestess, reflecting Wicca’s holistic attitude to gender, which extends to the celebration of the feminine and masculine in each person. And while Wicca is polytheistic, it is counterintuitively monotheistic. Avis explains: “The general belief within the community is that all gods are one god and are part of the sacred creator or the sacred divine.” Yesterday’s Beltane celebration, Avis says, was about “the reawakening of the Earth and the celebration of the coming return of summer.” That seems like reason enough for celebrating.
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TOP TABLES: DanaYoung and David Gunawan’s Farmers Apprentice was the big winner at the 25th annual Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, the country’s largest awards ceremony celebrating the best in food. More than 700 industry professionals converged at the Sheraton Wall Centre for the Oscars for foodies.The 28-seat West Sixth eatery, across from the Courier offices, took home best new restaurant and the top prize of the night, Restaurant of theYear, besting venerable favourite Hawksworth, who picked up best upscale dining. Other winners included Jay Jones (Barkeep), Zest (Upscale Japanese) and Campagnolo Roma (Casual Italian). Cioppino’s Pino Posteraro earned chef of the year, while Cactus Club’s Richard Jaffray was cited with the Lifetime Achievement Award. More than 45 trophies were handed out. BEST CHINESE DISHES: More food accolades as the Four Seasons Hotel hosted the Chinese Restaurant Awards. More than 250 guests were on hand for the sixth edition honouring 20 signature dishes byVancouver andToronto establishments. Among the local winners: HoiTong Chinese Seafood Restaurant (Alaska King Crab,ThreeWays), ChefTony Seafood Restaurant (Sea Cucumber) and Dynasty Restaurant (Geoduck,TwoWays).The awards culminated with the first-ever Chinese Master Chefs Gold Medal Dinner that saw four of the city’s finest chefs, and five powerhouses from Asia, come together for a memorable 10-course fundraising dinner, which cooked up $15,000 for a Vancouver Community College scholarship in the Asian Culinary Program. ORAL ACTIVITY: Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard headlined the third annual Evening to Conquer Oral Cancer Gala, held at the Terminal City Club.The Juno-award winner performed in front of a packed ballroom following a stellar evening of dining and philanthropy, fronted by event founder Brenda Currie, along with Stephen Wall. Nearly $100,000 was netted for B.C. Cancer Agency’s Oral Cancer Prevention Program. A growing health problem, oral cancer will affect 300,000 individuals worldwide, and 500 in B.C., with an increasing amount of younger people developing oral cancer. Often diagnosed late, survival rate is poor.
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Dana Young and David Gunawan’s Farmers Apprentice hotspot, just nine-months old, earned the top prize — Restaurant of the Year — at Vancouver Magazine’s 25th annual Restaurant Awards.
Artistic director Bill Millerd, event chair Lisa Seed and the Wine Institute of California’s Rick Slomka raised a glass to the Canadian celebration of California wine. Sponsored by the Courier, the 35th California Wine Fair benefited the Arts Club Theatre Company.
Christopher Gaze raised a glass to William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. The Bard on the Beach artistic director fronted Bill’s birthday bash at a season preview and benefit at SFU Woodward’s.
Mariko Tajiri, left, offered congratulations to Lori Kataoko for her restaurant’s dramatic upset toppling Tojo’s as best Upscale Japanese Restaurant in the city.
Four Seasons Hotel executive chef Ned Bell and pastry chef Bruno Feldeisen welcomed Wu Wenbin, one of five star chefs from Asia who participated in the first-ever Chinese Master Chefs Gold Medal Dinner.
Craig Stowe, creator of the Chinese Restaurant Awards, and Mok Kit Keung, a Michelin starred chef at the Kowloon Shangri-la, helped raise $15,000 towards scholarships for Vancouver Community College’s Asian Culinary Program.
Jacob Hoggard, frontman of rock group Hedley, headlined Brenda Currie’s Evening to Conquer Oral Cancer Benefit at the Terminal City Club. Nearly $100,000 was raised for groundbreaking research to detect oral cancer in its early stages.
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1 May 2 - 6, 2014 1. Want to learn about the roots of the National Film Board? How about StarTrek actor-turned-gay-activist GeorgeTakei? Or the subculture of male My Little Pony fans called bronies? Or 1980s metal heads? Then there’s The Reunion, which follows a Swedish performance artist who, upon learning she wasn’t invited to her highschool reunion, hires actors to stage her own reunion, and confronts her former classmates with the results.The DOXA Documentary Festival, May 2 to 11, has something for just about everyone. For a full schedule and list of films and venues, go to doxa.ca. 2. UBC’s Museum of Anthropology examines the lives and struggles of Cubans of African descent in its new exhibition Without Masks: Contemporary AfroCuban Art, May 2 to Nov. 2, 2014. Details at moa.ubc.ca. 3.Vancouver Opera closes out its 20132014 season with its biggest production to date. Set during the Spanish Inquisition, Verdi’s Don Carlo is billed as “a magnificent drama of a powerful king and rebellious son” featuring 80 singers and an orchestra of 61.We said it was a doozy. See and hear for yourself May 3, 8, 10 and 11 at Queen ElizabethTheatre. For tickets and info, call 604-683-0222 or go to vancouveropera.ca. 4. Apparently when you’re the maestro of a 35-year-old orchestra, they will follow you wherever you go with instruments in hand, whether it’s along cobblestone streets or the balmy shores of British Columbia. That’s where you’ll find Moscow Virtuosi and Maestro Vladimir Spivakov May 6, 8 p.m. when the group brings its 35th anniversary tour to the Chan Centre for Performing Arts for an evening of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Piazzolla.Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. Details at showoneproductions.ca. For video and web content, scan page using the Layar app.
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The owner of one of the city’s last remaining video stores has taken the unusual step of taking to the Internet and asking his customers to help revitalize the dying practice of renting DVDs. When Darren Gay was a child he would hide in his shady basement to watch The Brain That Wouldn’t Die instead of leaping in his backyard pool with friends. So it’s no surprise he jumped into the video store business, opening the first Black Dog Video on Cambie Street nearly 20 years ago and a second location on Commercial Drive in 2005. That was before online
streaming sites such as Netflix and downloading cut into his rental business by nearly 40 per cent. Since January 2013, Gay says his business has been on an “alarming, noticeable decline,” and Black Dog remains one of only a handful of video stores left in the city. In mid-April, Gay published an open letter on the company’s website declaring that without customer support it “won’t be around too much longer.” “Black Dog Video is a labour of love,” Gay wrote. “Everyone who works for us, or has worked for us, does it because we all love movies. We feel passionate about sharing our experience and knowledge of film with everyone we can.
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Continued from page 28 “The purpose of the open letter wasn’t to get people to stop downloading and watching Netflix but to sort of supplement that choice of getting their films with us, too.” Store manager Josie Boyce also doesn’t expect people to start getting all of their entertainment from Black DogVideo, but if customers rented from them once a month, the business would be “swimming in money.” Black DogVideo carries approximately 10,000 DVDs, ranging from new releases and independent films to art house flicks and cult classics. And while the store boasts 30,000 card-carrying members, only a small portion of them are active renters. After customers read the open letter, some suggested the company set up donation options on their website, include an annual membership, and improve the cataloging system to attract and maintain customers. Others showed their support saying, “We’ve been customers of the Cambie store for 18 years.We love you Black Dog.” Since AlexWesthelle started working with the UBC Film Society three years ago, the projectionist says he has seen a “rapid” shift towards digital content. Although he opposes going digital at the theatre, convenience and cost won him over to Netflix. “It’s super convenient, the quality is not much different from a DVD... you’re able to get certain versions of the film with a quality even better than what you can get on DVD. Or you can see things that were never issued on a DVD, especially like on [U.S. online streaming site] Hulu.” “Video stores are more expensive. I have friends who still go to Limelight Video and I will accompany them to go look at the movies they have there, but it’s the cost and late fees. I do value the video store, and love being in a video store, but out of personal convenience I totally just go the streaming route.” Westhelle thinks video stores will eventually become extinct. Most customers, he says, are from older generations who haven’t adapted to digital technology. Though not all of Black Dog’s beloved customers from “older generations.” John Krneta has been renting from Black Dog for five years and says he would be sad if the store closed. “I don’t know where else I’d go. I don’t want to sign up to Netflix, I just don’t want the commitment,” he
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Watching Glory Die serves as cautionary tale Play delivers howling indictment of Canadian Correctional System THEATRE Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net
Watching Glory Die is like watching what faith you had in the Canadian Correctional System die, too. What began as the story of a rebellious, 14-year-old girl throwing a couple of crab apples at the back of a New Brunswick mailman in 2003 ended up with the 19 year old dying of self-strangulation in October 2007 in the GrandValley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ont. Award-winning Canadian playwright/actor Judith Thompson takes to the stage — after a 35-year hiatus from performing — in this world premiere directed by Ken Gass for Toronto’s Canadian Rep Theatre.The mother of five,Thompson was, as we all were, outraged at the story of Ashley Smith whose one month sentence for the crab apple
incident expanded to four years, almost all of it in solitary confinement because of her unruly and disruptive behaviour. Coralee Smith, Ashley’s adoptive mother trusted “the system,” knowing that Ashley was difficult and out of control. But eventually, cut off from Ashley who had pen, paper and visitors denied, Coralee knew being “a lady” — the way she had been raised by her own mother — was not working: “To hell with being a lady. I have to howl to get my daughter home.” Too late. Ashley is re-named Glory in Watching Glory Die — a nice bit of wordplay since not only does a young woman die while under constant video surveillance, but as viewers of this play we watch “glorious and free” Canada fail the most vulnerable, a child. Astrid Janson’s set is both grim and beautiful: a cellsized “box” with two sides,
Award-winning Canadian playwright/actor Judith Thompson takes to the stage, after a 35-year hiatus from performing, in the harrowing play Watching Glory Die..
a ceiling and a mirror floor. Lighting designer Andre du Toit makes this tiny room seem to float and glow in the darkened theatre: a sort
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of large blue fish tank with barefoot, prison-garbed Glory moving round and round and round. Projections shimmer on the walls and Debashis Sinha’s sound design, frequently punctuated with the sounds of boots clanging on metal walkways and cell doors slamming, is haunting. When Thompson is not being Glory, she’s being Gail (Glory’s prison guard) and Rosellen, (Glory’s distraught but trusting mother). It would have been easy
to demonize Gail completely, but the Gail we get is not very bright, has been college-trained as a corrections officer, is convinced these prisoners are “criminals,” that they would kill her given a chance and, like Glory’s mother, she follows rules that end up not working. Of course, everything in us screams that Gail could have, should have done something. (In the Ashley Smith case, several guards watched Ashley strangle herself and waited 45 minutes before
entering the “TQ” (therapeutic quiet) room — solitary confinement. All of this is on videotape including a harrowing incident in which four uniformed, gloved, helmeted and face-shielded prison guards force barefoot, prison-gowned Glory into a restraining chair). When Thompson is Glory’s mother, she’s frightened and worried but hopeful that Glory will be released. That hope ends in despair. Watching Glory Die is an “if only” play: if only Glory had behaved well in juvenile detention, it would only have been 30 days. She couldn’t. If only Gail had broken rules, rushed in and saved Glory. She didn’t. And if only Glory’s mother had howled, banged on doors, raged, raged, raged. She trusted the system. This is not pleasant viewing. It’s a cautionary tale — particularly to parents. While you might be frustrated with your teenaged children, once they’re in the hands of the Canadian Correctional Service be prepared to howl. Forget being nice. Don’t say a Canadian “sorry.” Howl as if your child’s life depended on it. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca Watching Glory Die runs until May 3 at the Cultch. For tickets and info, call 604-2511363 or go to thecultch.com.
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WEEKEND WARRIOR: JASPER EDITION by Janis Galloway
START NOTHING: 1:46 a.m. to 10:56 a.m. Mon., 3:51 am to 11:24 p.m. Wed., and 3:08 p.m. Fri. to 10:19 a.m. Sat. PREAMBLE: God hinted (Jeremiah 31:37 and 33:19) that mankind would no longer pray to God or formally recognize Him after he achieved space flight. When that happens, He said, “The Lord will create a new thing on earth – a woman will surround a man.” (Jeremiah 31:22) AND there will be no more teachers of religion or of God – nor any need for them – because “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts…no longer will a man teach his neighbour…saying ‘Know the Lord’” because “they all will know Me, from the least of them to the greatest” (Jeremiah 31:33/34). “I will remember their sins no more.”
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STYLE IT SIMPLE by Alexandra Suhner Isenberg
Continue to chase money and possessions, Aries. But, just as last week subtly aided you in these pursuits, this week contains a subtle headwind: basically, you must overcome the reluctance and scepticism of others, or the barriers that life has erected – right up to May 10, Saturday. It might also appear this way: you don’t have enough funds or investments (or don’t want to access them) to yield greater spending.
The main accent lies on the private or “secret” areas of your life, Libra: intimacy, sexual desires, skeletons in the closet, investments, accounts and net worth, occultism, your subconscious, mysterious health complaints, lifestyle changes, commitments and consequences. This is an easy, smooth week, helping you advance toward any goals in the zones I just listed. unreasonable one.
Your energy and charisma remain high. Your private life, your solitude, is sweet now (all May) but your heightened charisma and effectiveness beg you to get outside, to mingle with people while you’re making such good impressions. (You can combine these two, by meeting people in confidential or private ways; or by spending 2 hours planning, and 2 hours acting.) Tackle important projects, make happy/hopeful new starts.
Relationships fill this week and next. Be diplomatic, loving, eager-to-join. After a drought (Sept. 2012 to Feb. 2014) in which almost no relationship worked, you’re now free to join – and will receive double benefits (especially in money) if you merge with another before mid-July. Some Scorpios will fall in love, some wed; many will form “brief partnerships” in business or other practical areas – benefits pack all these.
Continue to lie low, rest, contemplate and sink into your spiritual side. Be charitable. Plan, but don’t reveal your plans yet. Deal with government agencies, institutions and large corporations (e.g., IBM). Just as last week subtly aided you in work, healing, financial and sexual zones, so this week subtly opposes you in virtually the same areas. The “problem” might be a skeptical person.
Into every life drudgery must come, and it’s come. Might as well plod through it now and next week. Dependants, employment, service people, machinery, health – these are accented. That said, no huge problems face you. You can progress step-by-step, except perhaps Thursday, and next Sunday, May 11, when indecision or deception might interfere.
Wishes can come true, Cancer – and right now, your wish quotient is high. You might have to overcome someone’s (perhaps your own) scepticism, but wishes around partnership, the public, relocation or negotiations have a splendid chance to become real this month. Your popularity and happiness rise. Make and accept invitations. Your energy and charisma surge Sunday: impress someone, or launch an important project.
You’re on a winning streak, Cap. Expand in any direction. You progress will be limited only by your level of optimism, your scepticism about your own future or about your “lovability.” (The truth is, you’re very lovable, and the person who marries you will be lucky.) Romance, pleasure, self-expression, new beginnings, beauty, charming kids, creative and speculative urges, all arise now, and all have success potential.
Focus on your career, reputation, business ambitions, and status relations all week, Leo. You might have to deal with reluctance or scepticism from family members – or in some cases with a crumbling infrastructure. But these can be an asset, if you can convince family members to be onside, or can seize an opportunity in “the ruins” of an old business.
The general emphasis, this week and next, lies on home, family, property, security, retirement, Mother Nature, nutrition, stomach and soul. (Ever wonder why Buddha is so fat?) You might find it easy to embrace your home life this week, as your career scene is so restrictive, stultifying and unrewarding. (But don’t quit before Christmas Day, or you’ll face 3 decades of reduced employment.) Real success will come if you can combine the two.
This is a nice, mellow week, Virgo. If single, you could meet someone who is hard-headed and conservative, yet velvety soothing. You could fall in love before you realize you’re there. Also favoured: far travel, legal situations, higher education, publishing/media, religion, and all intellectual pursuits. (Religion is essentially intellectual.) Whatever you do, avoid extra-marital temptations (whether you’re married or single).
This week and next are a busy time, but not an important time. So relax, and work quickly – tackle pesky paperwork, visit Aunt Harry, re-organize files, build office systems, buy new phones and computers (best Tuesday before 4 p.m. PDT). It’s better to buy new than used. Relationships: in the short term, you’re upbeat, superficial; in the long term you’re serious but hopeful – and you’re right.
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Teens pay to play high school sports Athletics receive no government funding Megan Stewart
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This year at Vancouver Technical secondary on East Broadway, the public school relied on teenage athletes to fund roughly half the $20,000 budget of its athletic department. At Britannia this season, the school could spare no money for sports. Instead, teams relied on charity and grants in addition to a seasonal $30 fee, which many student-athletes couldn’t afford. At Windermere, some boys on the senior basketball team paid their coach in installments to meet the $80 team and $55 tournament fee. Kitsilano asks for $600 from each senior boys basketball player to fund a long and ambitious competitive season. Each of Vancouver’s 18 public secondary schools funds its athletic department differently through a combination of fundraising, revenue, parent advisory committees, charity and student fees because provincial government funding is not used for school sports and each school has less money to spend on it.When asked by the Courier, the Vancouver School Board could not readily report the money individual schools spent on
athletics. Increasingly, students are charged more to play within a user-pay system. “The kids know they’re paying.The parents know they paying,” said Paul Jones, the athletic director at Killarney secondary. “I get the feeling some people and even some teachers, when they ask me for things and I say, who is going to pay for that…? They think we’re funded by the school board and we’re not. “Just the fact that they’re talking about cutting [the district athletic coordinator] position, shows where they stand on athletics.” The Vancouver School Board nearly sacrificed the position to balance the 2014-15 budget, but instead came close to depleting the contingency fund to protect the position along with others. The leagues will run smoothly next year, but students are still on the hook if they want to play high school sport. “If a student wants to be part of a team and they’ve made the team and they can’t pay the athletic fee, somehow, we find a way to let the kid play,” said Beverly Seed, the principal at Van Tech. “No kid will be left behind. More and more kids aren’t paying fees and
it’s harder and harder to stretch the dollar.” Van Tech contributes a fixed amount to the athletic department from revenue drawn partly from auditorium and classroom rentals, including those paid by filmmakers who shoot movies on campus.The school decreased the money it put into sports from $12,000 three years ago to $10,000, in part because of declining vending machine sales. According to the school’s athletic director, Mike Allina, student-athletes pay $40 for each junior team and $50 for each senior team, a cost that has doubled from the $25 fee in 2010-11. Roughly $20,000 funds 30 teams. Today’s student-athletes pay more fees than any previous generations because two main sources of funding have been eliminated in the past decade.Vending machines no longer carry sugary carbonated drinks, which sold better than healthier options like fruit juice, and schools can’t fund athletics through fees charged to the broader student body. When more money flowed through vending machines at Van Tech (before the snacks were mandated to be healthier and before administration directed
Student-athletes pay $600 to play for the Kitsilano Blue Demons, a public school basketball team with a long, ambitious competitive season that often leads to provincials. PHOTO Dan Toulgoet
much of the remaining money elsewhere), Allina said an athletics department could look forward to as much as $8,000 a year. Killarney, like Britannia, receives no money from the school but can rely on roughly $3,000 a year from a portion of vending machine sales. “That used to be quite lucrative, but it’s less so now,” said Jones, a teacher at Killarney since 1991. He said money from pop companies, which would cut a cheque in appreciation of the easy access to thirsty students, was once as much as $20,000. Now that’s gone. “Everything we get now comes from the students,” said Jones, noting Killarney faces another challenge shared by Vancouver schools.
“We’re dropping teams that we’ve traditionally always had. Part of it is the lack of coaches,” he said. “A lot of it has to do with teachers who aren’t coaching anymore. It’s after school community sport, run in high schools.” Killarney charges all student-athletes at every level a flat rate of $50 per season. Grade 8 players subsidize senior teams, which cost more to run, but those students will eventually be seniors themselves. Seniors pay an additional $100 tournament fee, a cost structure that other schools share. “Our biggest expenses are officials and tournament entry fees,” said Jones. At Van Tech, Allina estimates that volleyball and basketball tournaments
alone cost $2,000. Parent advisory committees (PACs) once chipped in thousands for marquee equipment such as a wrestling mat or high jump landing system, but are now called on to replace basic essentials like team uniforms or fund a trip to Abbotsford. The kids on the margins, those least able to pay, are those who need sport the most, said Ksena Tatomir, the athletic director at Britannia who also runs the Bruins hockey academy. “Sport makes us stronger, it develops character, it’s so much more than handeye coordination,” she said. “Sports gives people direction. It provides opportunity.” An opportunity that, for now,Vancouver student-athletes must pay for. twitter.com.MHStewart
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Van Tech Talisman Lauren Fuerderer (in black) carries the ball past Churchill’s Annette Seto in a senior girls soccer quarterfinal April 29 at Van Tech. Kitsilano “Gold” and Van Tech meet in one semifinal while Prince Wales and Point Grey clash in the other. The city championship is May 6. PHOTO Dan Toulgoet
Trustees on the Vancouver School Board voted Wednesday to protect the position of the district-wide athletic coordinator, who is responsible for organizing every public school league from bantam girls soccer to senior boys basketball as well as the annual elementary school cross-country meet and more. Vision Vancouver board chair Patti Bacchus described it as a ‘Hail Mary budget” since it will
leave $530,000 in the district’s contingency fund. In response to my tweet at the meeting Wednesday night that coaches can sigh a deep breathe of relief, Hamber athletic director Indy Sehmbi replied: “Not just coaches. Students, parents, supporters and those who value the importance of healthy and active youth in our community.” — Megan Stewart
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Bulldogs hungry for second hockey title
Churchill won girls city banner, now eyes provincial co-ed championship Liz Montroy
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The coach of the senior boys hockey team at Churchill secondary never expected what happened at a 6 a.m. tryout over the Christmas break in December, 2013. More than two dozen players, including three girls, wanted to compete for the Bulldogs in the B.C. High School Hockey League, a province-wide league that counts the Magee Lions as the only other Vancouver team. “I was stunned to see I had over 25 show up,” said Matt Jefferson, the Churchill coach who started the school’s boys hockey team because a girl asked if she could play. AlishaWong claimed the city championship with the Bulldogs girls hockey team in a 1-0 overtime win against the Kitsilano Blue Demons in March. She wasn’t ready to hang up her skates.
“I do enjoy playing with boys more because it is a higher competitive level,” said Wong, who captained the school’s girls team and is used to competing with boys. She plays on a midget house team with the Vancouver Thunderbirds Minor Hockey Association. Like minor hockey across the country, the B.C. high school league isn’t strictly for boys. Churchill is one of about five teams that include girls. “From a girl’s point of view, I do of course believe that we should have more co-ed teams,” said Wong. Emily Froese also plays for Churchill’s two hockey teams as well as a midget rep team for the Vancouver Angels in the city’s girls hockey association.There is no gender divide on the Bulldogs, she said. “It doesn’t really make a difference because we’re still teammates and friends,” said Froese. “It works out good.”
In fact, the season has been more than good. Churchill played Surrey’s Elgin Park Orcas for gold in the Tier 3 championship Thursday evening in Coquitlam. (Go to vancourier.com/sports to see yesterday’s results.) Churchill is the first Vancouver team to compete in a the league’s championship.They finished the short regular season with three wins and a loss, then went on to beat Whistler 5-1 in the quarterfinals and then West Vancouver 6-1 in the semifinal to compete for the provincial Tier 3 title. The league is designed to help grow the game of hockey for both boys and girls in British Columbia and is currently in its fifth year with 22 teams in three tiers. “Over the years we’ve probably signed up 100 kids that haven’t played minor hockey, including girls” said league coordinator Aaron Crawford. “It’s definitely good for people to go out
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and see girls compete in the championship game.” Bulldog Anthony Ho said his female teammates hold their own among the boys and believes it’s important
to form co-ed teams so girls and their hockey skills get the recognition they deserve. “People generally think of girls hockey as a bad sport but it’s not that
different from guys hockey.” The girls championship hockey banner — and possibly a co-ed title, too — proves the girls at Churchill can play hockey.
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Cycling is the gift that keeps giving The crashes were worth it once I pedalled alongside my parents on a family ride WHEEL WORLD Kay Cahill
kay@sidecut.ca A playful helmet and training wheels are two tools that can motivate children to learn how to ride a bike.
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Do you remember learning to ride a bike? For me, even though it’s well over 30 years ago, I still remember the little blue-and-yellow Elf two-wheeler that was my very first bike. I also remember the endless patience of my parents as we worked from the trike through the training wheels to the first wobbly solo excursions. All the crashes were worth it once I was able to pedal alongside them on a family ride. Instilling a love of bikes in kids is a gift that will keep on giving throughout their entire lives. Sustainable transport, health, fitness, competition, riding with friends, pure joy on a sunny day — these are benefits that never grow old. I don’t have kids of my own but I love seeing my nephews and my friends’ children learning to ride and discovering the joy and freedom that bikes can bring. So, with many thanks to all the friends who provided tips, suggestions and examples, here are some thoughts on how to help kids learn to love the bike.
Fun comes first
Make it fun. Learning
to ride a bike shouldn’t be a chore or an uphill battle. Don’t let the spills turn into a big deal; they’re bound to happen, and they’re just a part of the learning curve. (Hey, if you fall down, at least you’ve learned that you can get up again.)
Respect road rules
Teach respect for the rules of the road from the very beginning.This will serve them well into the future.
Training wheels not just a metaphor
Use whatever tools you need to make the learning process easier — and more fun. Training wheels for confidence and a cute helmet for extra enthusiasm are two things that can empower a child. I speak from experience when I say kitty ears on a girl’s helmet can work wonders. As skills progress, consider trying a family jersey or matching colours or even purchasing a new bike following a particularly big accomplishment.
Know their limit
Know when the kids will have had enough. For longer rides, one family brings a chariot so when their fiveyear-old’s little legs reach their cycling limit, he and his bike can be loaded up for the remaining distance. This keeps the ride a fun
experience for him even if it’s a little past his current capacity and means he can participate in events where he can’t cover the full distance by himself.
Make it a habit
Work cycling into the family routine. A friend of mine does “commuter Fridays” with his kids, and the whole family rides to school together. Rain isn’t a reason for this family to avoid cycling. In fact, riding in defiance of the weather has become a motivating factor for the girls.
Easy does it
Find easy rides that the whole family can enjoy as the kids gain confidence. Some really good local routes featuring easy trails away from heavy traffic include Pacific Spirit Park, New Brighton Park, the jetties at Richmond’s Iona Beach Park, the Coquitlam River trail, and Richmond’s West Dyke. When I think of all the wonderful places my bikes have taken me, I’m grateful my parents saw me through that wobbly transition to my very first bike. Feel free to share your own childhood cycling memories and useful tips or recommendations for cycling with your kids. Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just commuting.
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Some renovations may be worth considering While there are many renovations that may add value to a home, there are some things that may hurt a home’s value. Jasmine Botto has been a real estate agent on the North Shore for 25 years (she sells as a team with her husband Grant), and says the number one change that makes selling a house challenging is work done without a permit. “That’s the biggest one,” says Botto. She explains that it’s a risk for the buyer because the municipality can decide that the work has to be removed, and particularly if it’s a structural change that could result in a huge cost for the buyer. Keeping up with maintenance is a simple way to add value to a home, she notes. Making sure items such as the roof, gutters and drainage are in good condition is important. Staying neutral is also key to selling a home. Any part of the home that is highly personalized may
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make it difficult to sell, says Botto. That could include highly personalized colour, fixtures or finish. Changes that differ from the traditional style or use of part of a home may also be
a challenge for homebuyers to overlook. For example, converting a garage to a bedroom may turn off some buyers. Converting back from a bedroom to a garage would
be an added expense for a home buyer. “A garage is a very valuable and marketable thing to a home. It really adds value,” says Botto. If a property doesn’t have
a garage, it might be worth considering adding one, she notes. Another change that might not work would be significantly changing the home to be different from those around it. “Something that really stands out as markedly different from the surrounding neighbourhood would be a challenge,” says Botto. A significantly different shape or roofline, for example, might make a house stand out. Sometimes a house that is significantly different in style will also stand out, such as a very modern-style re-build in a neighbourhood of original character homes. If a home doesn’t fit the neighbourhood it may be more challenging to sell, says Botto. “If it really stands out as looking out of place then it will be a challenge pricewise,” she notes. It has also sometimes been said that pools detract from the value of a home, but Botto says that definitely depends on the geo-
graphical area. Certainly a home with a pool might be more marketable in warmer climates, such as California. But if it’s a good-quality pool that is in good condition, maintenance might not be as bad as some people think, says Botto. That said, maintenance is something potential homeowners tend to consider when they see a pool, as well as loss of space in the backyard. Botto says she currently has a client who is filling in her pool in preparation for selling her home, but it’s not necessarily a choice every homeowner needs to make. So what can homeowners do that might increase their home’s value? “Kitchens definitely sell a home,” says Botto, adding kitchens and bathrooms are the areas to put your money into if you’re looking to add some value. Adding a home office or converting a space into a home office is another option, and often only requires cosmetic changes to make the conversion.
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