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May 23 2014

Vol. 105 No. 42

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FAIR PLAY Darrin Jackson, his daughter Elsie and Brittanny Downey-MacDonald look forward to a more accessible playground at Carnarvon elementary. See story page 15. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Needles, theft no problem for garden Wanyee Li

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Like many local food projects, Vancouver’s oldest and biggest community garden deals with theft. Its members also encounter addicts and homeless people. But after growing produce for 25 years, Strathcona Community Gardens has a rule: no fences. “We have a really open attitude toward the community and neighbourhood at large,” said Jody Baker, executive member at large at Strathcona Community Gardens. Its gardeners are proud of their green

oasis in the city despite what Baker calls “minor problems.” “We clean up needles every month, but that’s par for the course,” he said. The gardens take up more than three acres of land east of Strathcona Park in the Downtown Eastside.There are fruit trees, a bee shed, garden plots, a nursery, two artiﬁcial ponds and a herb garden. The gardens even include a wetland area for raising ducks. One acre is kept as wild space for wildlife. Baker often ﬁnds campers in the wild space. He shrugs it off. “We get a lot of people passing

through, they sleep there for a couple of nights then they move on,” he said. “That’s just part of the neighbourhood.” Theft occurs, admits Baker. “One time we had someone come through and cut every ﬂower in the garden, load it up on a shopping cart and sell them on the street. Another time, someone came through and cut all the pea tips.” But the gardeners remain optimistic. The plots are separated by one another in rows by a narrow woodchip path. There are few garden boxes, unlike most community gardens. The city owns the land but Strathcona

Community Gardens manages the area. “We manage it as if it were a public park, so we encourage the public to visit,” Baker explained. Baker believes the location in the Downtown Eastside has little to do with the thefts. “Theft is just a ubiquitous problem that happens,” he said. Theft from community gardens was highlighted last week by a CBC story about community gardens in Richmond, where a non-proﬁt that runs the city’s gardens started a research project to understand different cultural perspectives.

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False Creek group takes park fight to court Bob Mackin

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False Creek Residents Association members display green lights at night as a protest for the longpromised Creekside Park. Now they want a judge to show Vancouver city hall the red light over Concord Pacific’s sales centre and parking lot. FCRA lawyer Bob Kasting filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court May 21, five days after the developer’s latest temporary permit expired. “We’ve asked the court to intervene to ask the city to play by its own rules and not be allowed to extend a permit for an activity that’s not allowed on park land,” Kasting said. “This was zoned park in 1984 and the zoning hasn’t changed. It has nothing to do with parks, it has everything to do with selling condos.” Concord Pacific bought the former Expo 86 site for $320 million in 1988 and later agreed to extend Creekside Park from

Quebec to Carrall streets as a condition for building 7,650 residential units in False Creek north. It has operated a waterfront sales centre and 60 parking spots under temporary permits since 2005 and rented blacktop to event producers, ranging from Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics pavilions to Cirque du Soleil touring shows. “There is no public beneﬁt from this land which was designated as public land, as public park for public recreation purposes,” said FCRA co-chair Fern Jeffries. Jeffries said residents have unsuccessfully lobbied three successive mayors, three councils and three planning directors to no avail. She wondered whether Concord Paciﬁc has too much clout because of its donations to the ruling Vision Vancouver. In 2008, it gave $35,000 and in 2011, $36,250. (Donations in non-election years are not published). “Perhaps it’s time for developers not to be making political contributions and perhaps it’s time for

Bob Kasting, a lawyer representing the False Creek Residents Association, announced the lawsuit at a press conference on the grounds of the promised park Wednesday morning. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vancouver to join practically every other city and limit political contributions,” Jeffries said. In an emailed statement, Concord Paciﬁc senior vicepresident of planning Matt Meehan said he couldn’t comment on the petition before seeing it. “The current plan

and study to remove the viaducts needs be completed before our site planning can proceed,” Meehan said. “Although we have been impacted, we understand these are important civic initiatives. We are as anxious as our neighbours to see our waterfront developments

and the park completed as soon as possible.” FCRA hopes to succeed in B.C. Supreme Court after failing at the Property Assessment Appeal Board last year. FCRA claimed the $400,000 tax assessment for Concord’s nine-acre lot was too low. Although the developer netted more than

$600,000 annual income from the site, an adjudicator lowered its value to $1 in August 2013 because the estimated $17 million park and seawall would cost more than the property’s $12.05 million value. The FRCA lawsuit is the latest in a series of court actions by citizens who claim Mayor Gregor Robertson andVisionVancouver are ignoring both city bylaws and residents who oppose development. On May 6, the recently formed Community Association of NewYaletown ﬁled a court petition to quash the rezoning of 508 Helmcken St., where Brenhill Developments wants to build a 36-storey tower beside Emery Barnes Park.The 320-foot structure would be more than four times higher than the 70-foot limit. Kasting represented Kitsilano residents who succeeded in forcing the Vision Vancouver majority park board to scrap plans to pave a bike lane through parkland. twitter.com/bobmackin

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City slow to tell its Sochi story Bob Mackin

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A former VANOC employee hired to accompany Vision Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson to Sochi on the so-called Host City Pride House Mission was paid more than $17,000 by the time they arrived in the Winter Olympics host city. Maureen “Mo” Douglas’s company Mobilize Strategies received $10,500 on Jan. 17 and $7,350 on Jan. 31, according to documents obtained under Freedom of Information. Stevenson and Douglas were in Sochi Feb. 1 to 9 to lobby the International Olympic Committee to add sexual orientation to the Olympic Charter’s equality clause and to require future Games hosts to include an ofﬁcial gay and lesbian party venue, like the ones inVancouver andWhistler in 2010. Although the trip ended more than three months ago, Stevenson and city staff refused to provide certain information about costs to the Courier.

Douglas, who is based in Pemberton, worked eight years for the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee as community relations director. Since 2011, city hall paid her $122,043.52 to consult on several projects, including the public bike share program and Point Grey bike lane. City hall director of corporate communications Rena Kendall-Craden said Mobilize was pre-qualiﬁed as a corporate communications supplier last year. Douglas said she worked as project manager on the Sochi mission contract from the middle of last November until the end of February, but referred questions to city hall. Kendall-Craden wouldn’t disclose how much Douglas was paid after January. “As far as subsequent payments, you may wish to go through FOI,” Kendall-Craden told the Courier. Real estate marketer Bob Rennie and developer Peter Wall originally pledged $25,000 each when the

Mayor Gregor Robertson announced his support for Coun. Tim Stevenson’s plan to represent Vancouver at the Sochi Olympics in February. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

project was announced last December.The Vision Vancouver majority city council agreed to use taxpayer funds for Stevenson’s trip after NPA and Green councillors alleged Stevenson was at risk of conﬂict of interest. Stevenson’s Sochi-related expenses were $6,569.51, according to the civic website, but Douglas’s have not been released. Stevenson

claimed Douglas’s expenses were to be paid by donors. City hall missed the May 7 statutory deadline to respond to an FOI request for the ofﬁcial list of donations. Stevenson declined to provide details. “There’s no way I can get or release a report ahead of time,” he said. FOI director Barbara van Fraassen said a report is

scheduled for presentation at council’s ﬁrst June meeting, which is June 10. The version of Stevenson’s calendar released via FOI after the trip showed only travel and accommodation information. Stevenson provided the Courier a separate version that showed seven interviews with various CBC programs, two with CTV

and the Vancouver Sun, and one each with the Toronto Star, Global, Mountain FM, Co-op Radio and freelancer Jordan Wade. Stevenson and Douglas had a two-night layover in Istanbul,Turkey before arriving early Feb. 1 in Sochi, where they stayed at the Radisson Blu Paradise Resort, the official IOC hotel. They visited Club Mayak, Sochi’s gay bar, on Feb. 2 and met for 90 minutes on Feb. 3 with Jochen Farber, chief of staff to IOC presidentThomas Bach, and IOC spokesman Mark Adams. Stevenson said the mayor’s office sent 75 introductory letters to IOC officials, but received only two responses: one from Bach’s office and another from a Spanish IOC member who Stevenson said would be arriving after he had left. “No one else responded to our requests to meet with me. So that’s why my itinerary is blank,” Stevenson said. “I had no meetings planned at all before I left.” twitter.com/bobmackin

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A Vancouver police constable will face a public hearing over an allegation made in August 2012 that he kicked a robbery suspect in the chest while the man was in handcuffs. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner ordered the hearing into Const. Jesse Tiwana’s actions after the CBC informed the Vancouver Police Department of a video clip it had of the alleged offence against Ryan Felton. Police Complaint Commissioner Stan Lowe said in a report released May 14 that it was determined Tiwana was the officer captured on the video near 15th and Granville. Lowe’s report said a VPD investigator’s assessment of the evidence and analysis of the facts led her to believe that Tiwana’s use of force “was not justified and not necessary.” “She was of the opinion that the available evidence appeared to support the al-

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legation of abuse of authority,” Lowe wrote. However, Supt. Dean Robinson conducted a subsequent internal disciplinary hearing and concluded the allegation against Tiwana “had not been proven.” Lowe’s report didn’t specify how Robinson reached his conclusion, except to say he applied a “different test” in determining whether

Tiwana was guilty of misconduct. Lowe noted the only person to testify in the hearing was Tiwana and excluded Felton and other witnesses to the incident. “In my view, the accountability of the process and the ability for the truth in this proceeding have been hampered,” Lowe wrote. The case dates back to

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The next day, the CBC provided the VPD with a seven-second video clip of the incident. Lowe ordered an investigation Aug. 17, 2012 but a final report wasn’t completed until Aug. 27, 2013. Robinson didn’t release his findings until March 18 of this year. No date has been set for a hearing but retired provincial court judge Carol Baird Ellan is expected to preside over the proceedings.Tiwana remains on active duty. The announcement of a hearing comes two months after another Vancouver police officer was granted a hearing over allegations of misconduct related to a car chase in 2011 that ended in a collision. Const. Christopher Charters requested the hearing Feb. 13 after a VPD internal disciplinary proceeding recommended he be fired from the force. The recommendation related to a finding of one count of deceit under the Police Act which alleged Charters made false or mis-

leading written statements not consistent with previous oral statements or physical evidence related to the pursuit and collision. The incident dates back to Dec. 26, 2011 when police observed a 1997 Jeep Cherokee at 2:12 a.m. travelling at a high rate of speed near Commercial Drive and East Eighth Avenue. The Jeep’s speed and direction of travel was broadcast over the police radio.Two minutes after the broadcast, acting-sergeant Leslie Weeks said there would be no pursuit of the vehicle. Five minutes later, Charters broadcast over the police radio that his vehicle had been rammed by the suspect’s Jeep at Rupert Street and Kingsway. A subsequent VPD investigation revealed the collision could not have occurred as reported by Charters.The evidence showed Charters’ vehicle hit the Jeep on the rear driver’s side, Lowe said in his report on the incident. twitter.com/Howellings

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News Judge ponders Cedar suit Bob Mackin

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B.C. Supreme Court’s top judge reserved his decision May 20 on an application by a lawyer for Mayor Gregor Robertson to quash a political rival’s petition aimed at forcing the Vision Vancouver leader from office. Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson heard the bid by Joseph Arvay, who wanted to prevent the Februaryfiled petition by Cedar Party leader Glen Chernen and nine others from going to trial. Arvay called Chernen’s conflict of interest allegations “scandalous” and politically motivated. He told the court that Robertson’s Twitter “town hall” during the 2011 election at HootSuite’s then-Railtown headquarters was typical of a politician doing his duty to support a local company. “The city wants to promote local businesses and this was a success story,” Arvay said. Chernen’s lawyer Marco Francesco Lilliu described the event, two days before

the election, as a strategy to reach voters that became key to the “tit for tat relationship” between Robertson and HootSuite.

The city wants to promote local businesses and this was a success story. – Joseph Arvay Seven months after Vision Vancouver was reelected, city council met behind closed doors to approve in principle HootSuite’s lease of a former Vancouver Police building at 5 East Eighth Ave.The lease was not put to tender after a public attempt to sell the building failed to attract a suitable offer. City hall withheld the ﬁnancial terms of the contract until January of this year. Lilliu told the court that the city gave HootSuite a $1

option to buy the building for $9.3 million. It is now worth $10.2 million. He said Robertson should be removed from ofﬁce because he didn’t declare his friendship with HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes and failed to declare the campaign event in ﬁnance disclosures. Arvay told the court that Robertson did not pay for the use of HootSuite premises. Vision Vancouver executive director Stepan Vdovine watched part of the hearing in the public gallery. Robertson was not present, nor was he required to be. “It’s a good sign to reserve judgment,” Lilliu said outside court. “If it was very clear, then we would’ve been sent out the door or they would’ve been sent out the door.” Hinkson’s predecessor as Chief Justice, Robert Bauman, was the presiding judge in the unsuccessful 2010 attempt by representatives of six business groups to thwart the anti-HST petition led by ex-Premier Bill Vander Zalm. twitter.com/bobmackin

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Opinion Vision’s big tent shelters Lifestyle at Marine Gardens is irreplaceable notable names Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com Spring is here, the grass has riz and if you are wondering where many of those Vision party supporters “is,” well 500 of them were at the Coast Hotel on Comox Street in the West End Wednesday night. It was Vision’s Spring Fling thing. Comox, as you might have guessed, is a street with a separated bike lane, of course. Each donor was chipping in $150 for what is certain to be another multi-million dollar campaign in November. Once at the venue they could tap their toes to the upbeat PAL (Performing Arts Lodge) choir, shake hands with the receiving line of Vision politicians and shake their booties to live music. And while on the subject of chipping in, before the festivities rolled out and the mostly vegetarian nibblies were being nibbled by the rank and ﬁle, there was a gathering “upstairs” so the politicians could schmooze with major donors.That — sources say — included Lululemon founder and grateful Point Grey Road resident Chip Wilson. There are most certainly more people unhappy with Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision boys and girls as they go for their third term.Witness the plethora of political parties both left and right. But it is a fractured opposition which is all to Vision’s advantage. And it is remarkable to witness the size of the Vision tent as it occupies the centre of the political spectrum.There are folks like Reputations managing director Michael Davis. He was once the president of the NPA and now runs the company that helped Sam Sullivan kick Christy Clark’s butt in the battle that was essentially between federal Tories and federal Liberals for the NPA mayoral candidacy. (Have I mentioned that this time around the NPA has yet to announce anyone as a mayoral candidate? But never mind.) Davis is joined by Greg Wilson who ﬂed the NPA years ago to work in Vision’s back rooms. Provincial Liberal apparatchik Brad Zubyk was there as were many Liberals who drifted to Vision and have stayed there as Vision has carefully cultivated good relations with Victoria. Zubyk says a Vision win in the next election is “inevitable.” But that’s what was said about the NDP winning the provincial battle not many months ago. Former COPE mayoral candidate Carmela Allevato turned up with her main

Robertson managed to mention the word “diverse” three times in as many minutes. squeeze to marvel at just how many people she didn’t recognize. But she would have known Allan Wong, a former COPE school trustee who now makes his home with Vision, and Brent Granby, who last time out ran with COPE and is now seeking a Vision nomination. Former NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh was there looking relaxed, sporting shoulder length grey hair and saying he is working on his memoirs. There were of course the lobbyists from the local liquor establishments and the taxi guys. John Nightingale, the president and CEO of the Vancouver Aquarium, was there, admitting he goes to everyone’s fundraiser. But in particular, you’d have to think he turned up because of the threat posed by Vision park board commissioners who want to set free whales and other cetacean critters regularly drawing crowds at Nightingale’s operation which is on the verge of expanding and not eliminating that attraction. Vision senior staffer Stepan Vdovine informed me that “Gregor is going to say a few words and he will be tightly on script this time,” which is not as much fun for us ink-stained wretches than when he is allowed off leash. But you got the impression Vision was different than all the competition. Robertson managed to mention the word “diverse” three times in as many minutes: the crowd was diverse; the party was diverse and the West End where the gathering was taking place was a “fabulous diverse neighbourhood.” He also used the opportunity to showcase Vision’s newest council candidate, park board commissioner Niki Sharma who got schlepped up to the podium but remained mute for the remainder of Robertson’s tightly scripted comments. Robertson concluded with the observation that Vision meant “lots of fun, lots of parties together and working hard.” Presumably making them different from those grumpy geezers over at the NPA, about which not a word was whispered, at least not this time. twitter.com/allengarr

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The corner of Marine Drive and Cambie Street offers a high-resolution picture of worlds in collision.The skeletal structures of two highrise developments, 30 and 34 stories high, are rising from yawning foundation holes. Two more highrises, 27 and 21 storeys in height, are on the drafting board to replace a ’70s-era low-rise on the northeast corner. Seventy rental townhomes at the beautifully designed Marine Gardens are at ground zero for the Marpole development blitz. Jillian Skeet, head of the Marine Gardens Residents Association, moved into the one-hectare development in 2003. By the time her son was three, “it was like an open door policy,” allowing him to ramble freely in the large inner courtyard in the company of other residents’ children, she says. “Everything is tiny” in her three-bedroom townhouse. “My kitchen is like a postage stamp but I don’t care because I’ve got happy kids and a wonderful community that I love.” The mother of two sees a massive contradiction between the Lower Mainland’s highrise mania and the “healthy communities” template championed by Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. She insists a city skyline increasingly dominated by skyscrapers is not a welcoming environment for families with active children. On Dec. 20 2013, Brian Jackson, the City of Vancouver’s general manager of planning and development services informed the Marine Gardens Residents Association that “Council has not made any decisions regarding the rezoning for Marine Gardens,” but “saving the townhouses as requested in your letter would not be considered an option....” Skeet was blindsided by what read like an undemocratic “done-deal” for the wrecking ball. The city has directed Concord Paciﬁc to replace the Marine Gardens units one for one, incorporating them with pre-school and toddler daycare into the planned two towers development. “There’s going to be 70 units, and if you go on to the city website it’s listed as affordable housing. It’s not, it’s market,” the community activist says. A document from GBL Architects does indeed refer to the “Marine Gardens replacement market rental units.”

A three-bedroom, 905-square-foot apartment in the new development, comparable to Skeet’s current residence, will command a $2,100 a month rent, she says. That would require a $72,000 annual income, if you went by the 30 per cent traditional portion of income earmarked for housing. Ironically, Skeet says the residents have received “so much pressure” from the developer Concord Pacific “because they want us to be happy.They’re offering free rent and moving out bonuses... and being very flexible with our moving out dates.” “I keep saying you’re being very generous, but you have to understand is that what we’re losing is community and a lifestyle that cannot be replaced.” The community activist concedes that Marine Gardens is aging and requires renovation, but insists it is a “wonderful concept and a unique part of Vancouver.” Ironically, the complex served as a demonstration project of innovative, sustainable and affordable living for the UN Habitat for Humanity conference in Vancouver in 1976. It changed hands over time, eventually selling to Concord Pacific. But Marine Garden’s architectural DNA is traceable back to the then-revolutionary but now-normative ideas of urbanists like Jane Jacobs. There’s another interesting angle to this story. Skeet says she was told the land was donated to the City of Vancouver as a park. Clay Realty was not allowed to cut down the trees and the ground-level development was built around the foliage. Through the Vancouver archives, Skeet discovered the area was once Delta View park.With that part of the story confirmed, she visited the British Columbia Land Title Offices after gathering money from neighbours to conduct a historical title search. “As far as we know there was a covenant — the trees could not be cut.The day I was supposed to go and pick up the historical title, I got a phone call saying don’t come, we can’t find the title you’re looking for — it’s not where it should be.” In Skeet’s telling of it, the city’s nooption for Marine Gardens residents is accompanied by a giant question mark of heritage. “We’re going to continue to try to save our community because we believe it’s not just the right thing for us, but for society overall,” the community activist says with a smile.

The week in num6ers...

In thousands of dollars, the minimum amount paid to former VANOC employee Maureen Douglas to accompany Coun. Tim Stevenson to the Sochi Olympics.

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The number of candidates so far who have announced their intention to run for mayor on Nov. 15.

In hundreds of thousands of dollars, the average annual amount Concord Pacific earns from a False Creek property that is zoned as a public park.

The number of nominations for set and costume designer Drew Facey at this year’s Jessie Awards, which recognize excellence in Vancouver’s professional theatre scene.

The approximate number of Vision Vancouver supporters who ponied up at least $150 each to attend a party fundraiser in the West End.

The number of different languages used on signs at Strathcona Community Gardens.

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Mailbox Progress is too slow on SRO’s To the editor: Re: “‘Disgusting’ SRO mired in red tape,” May 16. It’s small wonder little traction is made on the SRO improvement front if convoluted proposals for rectifying the situation such as that proffered by Councillor Kerry Jang set the standard. He believes the $375 per month welfare shelter component should be raised rather than the support portion that people receive monthly to survive on.This has been done in past years and only results in the former ceiling becoming the new floor. Landlords automatically grab the new money with no commitment on what if any of it will go into new improvements to living standards of the poor residents housed within.That amount counts as a welfare increase according to government analysis yet the recipient never sees a dime of it. Seniors on pension get one cheque a month with which they attain some flexibility in searching out accomodations. Their choice may then be subsidized through a Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) grant which is attached to the premises they find, thereby making landlords compete amongst themselves in some manner to make those premises attractive to a prospective tenant.

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May 23, 1914: The S.S. Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship carrying 376 passengers, mostly Sikhs who were British subjects hoping to settle in Canada, drops anchor in Burrard Inlet. Due to laws meant to keep Asian immigrants out of Canada, 352 passengers were denied entry and forced to return to India two months later. Indian police killed 19 passengers during a riot that ensued upon the ship’s return. The B.C. legislature unanimously passed a motion formally apologizing for the incident on May 23, 2008.

Sprinter sets new Canadian record

May 27, 1959: Eighteen-year-old Harry Jerome set a new Canadian record at Empire Stadium in the 220-yard dash with a time of 21.9 seconds, shaving 0.1 of a second off a record set 31 years earlier by double Olympic gold medallist and fellow Vancouverite Percy Williams. During his injury-plagued career, Jerome nonetheless set a total of seven world records, and won gold medals at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and the 1967 Pan American Games, as well as an Olympic bronze in 1964.

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To the editor: Re: “Affordable housing tops list of voter worries,” May 14. I found the last words of Michael Geller’s opinion piece on affordable housing to be facile and irksome. Unquestionably, if we compare Vancouver to Syria, Ukraine and Nigeria — places where the very fabric of civilized society is being rent asunder — our problems are minor! The more instructive comparison is with the very best urban spaces in the most successful democracies in the world. Otherwise, what can we aspire to and where can we grow as a culture? DavidVaisbord, Vancouver

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COURIER STORY: “UBC pool hits deep end of woe,” May 21. Laurence Keane: I was a long time user of the UBC aquatic centre (for about a dozen years). When the pool was handed over to UBC Athletics the effect was immediate — maintenance issues, long repair time closures, clawback of times, restrictions on public access (which is especially irksome since as an alumnus my student fees, as well those of other alumni, helped pay for the pool construction), increase of fees, increase use of chemicals levels in the pool’s water and a general abandonment of the high principles that had made this facility a jewel. And now they’ve let the glorious outdoor Empire pool deteriorate into such a state that it has been closed.All very ironic. UBC keeps bulldozing land to build high-end condos and townhouses and promises the would-be buyers all the amenities the university has to offer — meanwhile running recreations facilities into the ground and limiting public access.A new pool facility has been promised for years and has yet to materialize and if it ever does will the same clowns running the current one be in charge? And if so will they still insist on limiting public access and times? COURIER COLUMN: “Appalling head tax reflected the times,” May 21. Luna Landing: A lot of things from 100 years ago, if you judge them by contemporary standards, were appalling.This is more of the politically correct grievance mongering that is so popular these days. Meag Lee: Actually if any of you knew anything, the majority of the Chinese aren’t asking for your oh so hard earned tax money.We want recognition that what happened was wrong.We don’t want it to happen to anyone ever again.You let the Chinese build the railroad for you and once it’s finished you implement a head tax so it’s difficult for them to come here or for families to be together.There is so much more than your stupid money. KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Wings of democracy,” May 16. BlackCappedChickadee @vancityblackcap: Reluctant congrats on your #vancitybird article, @VanCourierNews: but huge kudos on that stunning photo of yours truly! Lori Kittelberg @Lori_writes: Looking regal in the @VanCourierNews, @vancityblackcap. COURIER COLUMN: “Censoring Dr. Seuss and other kids’ stuff,” May 16. Stephanie Hahn @rxstephanie: If we now have to censor Dr. Seuss than life has gone to hell in a hand basket! Seriously!

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Muslim holy day focuses on forgiveness Langara student seeks puriﬁcation for Lailat al Mi’raj PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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Next week,Vancouver Muslims will join fellow believers worldwide to mark a crucial event in the development of their faith and its practices. Among the holiest days in the Muslim calendar, Lailat al Mi’raj occurs on the 27th day of Rajab, the seventh month in the Islamic calendar.This year, that corresponds with this Tuesday, May 27. The holy day commemorates the Muslim belief that the archangel Gabriel came to the Prophet Muhammad in his sleep and together they travelled on a winged steed from Mecca to “the farthest mosque.” Muslim commentators later identified the destination as Jerusalem, where Muhammad was said to have visited the Temple of Solomon.Then, from a rock at the Temple, Gabriel carried Muhammad to heaven, where he communed with biblical figures including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and other Prophets who had come before. In heaven, Muhammad received the instruction that Muslims should pray five times daily, a core tenet of Islamic practice. For Ameeruddin Mohammad, a Vancouver Muslim, the day represents an opportunity for “purifying myself from the inside.” “I pray,” he says. “And I am grateful to God that I was born a Muslim. Last

Ameer Mohammad at Langara College. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

year on this day, I read a chapter on Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him’s life.” He takes the lessons of the Prophet’s life and tries to infuse some of those qualities into his own character. Mohammad, who graduated this year from business management at Langara

and is now pursuing a second degree there in accounting, came to Canada from Bangladesh a decade ago. Migrating from a place with a large Muslim majority to a place where Muslims are a small minority has not been a great challenge, he says. Practising his religion in the city is not difﬁcult

and he has not experienced overt discrimination, though he acknowledges he sometimes feels an “undercurrent” of anti-Muslim sentiment, which he blames on media depictions, not on the individuals who exhibit subtle prejudices. In addition to his studies, Mohammad has been a

councillor on the Langara Student Union and is active in the Muslim Students Association on campus. It is a symptom of Canada’s multicultural ferment — and his place in it — that Mohammad earns money working in an Irish pub, even though he adheres strictly to Islam’s no-alcohol stricture.

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Mohammad acknowledges that he may not always pray five times a day and says he is a deeply spiritual Muslim, but not always religious in the strictest sense. He may not adhere to the exacting demands of Muslim practice, but says he is “in constant reverence of God,” which prevents him from lying, stealing or saying something hurtful. “The physical manifestation of Islam is obviously praying five times a day,” he says. “But what Islam is, in essence — and this is one of the days that I use to remind myself of it — is that Islam is a faith and it is forgiving. Learning how to forgive; Islam is present in that. Not holding grudges; Islam is present in that. I use these days, especially Lailat al Mi’raj, to remind myself of that.” So, on Tuesday, he will spend the day in prayer and reflection. “It’s a day for Muslims to reflect on some of the mistakes, some of the bad habits that we develop,” he says. “It’s a constant journey. Every year on Lailat al Mi’raj I will remind myself what are some of the things I need to rectify in me. Am I getting too angry? I should not get too angry. But after Lailat al Mi’raj, the next day and for the rest of the year, I will make those same mistakes and next year on Lailat al Mi’raj I will remind myself again.The objective is never to reach perfection, but to strive for perfection. And you land somewhere closer to good than bad.”

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Supporters of Kitsilano’s Pine Free clinic continue their ﬁght to save the youth clinic from closure. More than 75 people attended a community forum May 20 at Point Grey Community Church, hosted by Vancouver NDP MLAs David Eby and George Heyman. Vancouver Coastal Health was invited to the forum but did not send a representative.VancouverFalse Creek Liberal MLA Sam Sullivan, whose riding includes Pine Free Clinic, was invited as well but did not attend. Pine Free staff were invited to speak but were told by the health authority

not to speak to media. Vancouver Coastal Health has conﬁrmed that layoff notices were issued to Pine Free staff and doctors on April 30 and May 1. The absence of representatives from the health authority or the provincial ruling party was disappointing to those who attended the forum. “Having everyone sit down and talk with people would be the most fruitful way to solve problems,” said Dr. Farah Shroff, who teaches public health in UBC’s faculty of medicine. In an emailed statement to the Courier,Vancouver Coastal Health rejected Eby’s offer to speak at Tuesday’s forum “on the grounds that we are in the

We hope that people’s voices are heard in a direct way. – Sarah Richardson

process of organizing our own public engagement sessions in June where we will be fully able to explain in detail that rationale behind this redesign.We will make these details public as soon as our dates are conﬁrmed.” Vancouver-Kingsway NDP MLA Adrian Dix told the Courier Wednesday afternoon that Vancouver Coastal Health indicated to him it will hold a community meeting to explain changes to the Evergreen clinic on June 2. Former patients and proponents of community healthcare responded

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quickly last month when they discovered that the health authority planned to cut funding to the youthoriented clinic. Sarah Richardson is organizing a letter writing campaign in hopes that the government will recognize the importance of Pine Free. “We hope that people’s voices are heard in a direct way,” said Sarah Richardson. Eby, who represents Vancouver-Point Grey, and Heyman from Vancouver-Fairview will bring a petition to the legislature next week asking MLAs to support the continued op-

eration of Pine Free Clinic. As of Wednesday night, the petition has 340 signatures. Bryan LaRochelle kickstarted efforts to save Pine Free when he started a petition on Change.org in April.That petition has 1,076 signatures as of the Courier’s print deadline. LaRochelle is optimistic about the progress made so far, but is also aware that the campaign may not be successful. “I’m getting more responses than I ever expected,” he said. “It’s heart-warming.” Pine Free supporters are holding a rally outside of the clinic Saturday, May 24. Vancouver Coastal Health has stated that patients under 24 years old who use healthcare services at Pine Free Clinic can go to Raven

Song Clinic on Ontario and Eighth Avenue.They will not be required to have health insurance to receive service. However, experts on public healthcare policy are critical of the move to transfer primary care services from community clinics to a central location. “Clinics that provide interdisciplinary collaborative care are very much in line with what the literature on healthcare tells us.We need more team-based clinical care,” said Shroff. Three other clinics directly funded by the health authority — South Vancouver, Paciﬁc Spirit and Evergreen — will also experience cutbacks in primary care. twitter.com/wanyeelii

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider heritage and zoning amendments for these locations: 1. Miscellaneous Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law

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To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to: 1) provide for local eggs to be sold at farmers’ markets; 2) allow for Director of Planning authority to relax provisions of minimum lot width in the RS-1, RS-5 and RS-6 districts so that owners do not have to go to the Board of Variance for approvals; 3) insert park and playground uses in the IC-1 and IC-2 district schedule to allow for a future park use; 4) delete a clause in the M-2 district in regard to maximum floor area for office use for lots existing prior to 1989; 5) permit floor area exclusions for roof areas in industrial buildings; and 6) amend the C-3A district schedule to expand the area on the Broadway corridor eligible to receive heritage density. These proposed amendments will provide greater clarity and consistency in the development review process and more certainty for property owners.

2. 8125-8277 Ontario Street (and 26 Southwest Marine Drive)

4. 4949-5109 Cambie Street

To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (475) By-law No. 9763 for 26 Southwest Marine Drive to add insurance ofﬁce, health care ofﬁce, barber shop or beauty salon, beauty and wellness centre, and laundromat or dry cleaning establishment as permitted uses in an existing building. The amendment would not result in any changes to the existing form of development.

To rezone 4949-5109 Cambie Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of three six-storey residential buildings containing a total of 202 dwelling units. A building height of 24.23 metres (79.5 feet) and a ﬂoor space ratio (FSR) of 2.39 are proposed.

3. a) 587 West King Edward Avenue and b) 591–599 West King Edward Avenue and Heritage Designation of the James Residence

5. 1551 Quebec Street, 1600 Ontario Street and 95/99 East 1st Avenue (Southeast False Creek Areas 3A and 3B)

To rezone (a) 587 West King Edward Avenue and (b) 591-599 West King Edward Avenue from RS-5 (One-Family Dwelling) District to two new CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) districts. For site (a), a floor space ratio (FSR) of 0.94 and height of 11.6 metres (37 feet) are proposed, to retain, restore and rehabilitate the heritage “B” listed James Residence and to allow development of two three-storey infill townhouses at the rear. For site (b), an FSR of 1.53 and height of 11.6 metres (37 feet) are proposed, to permit development of 18 three-storey townhouses, five of which have lane-fronting lock-off units.

To rezone 1551 Quebec Street, 1600 Ontario Street and 95/99 East 1st Avenue from M-2 (Industrial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the phased development of ﬁve residential buildings with a total ﬂoor area of 58,020 square metres (624,525 square feet), including a 9,748 square metre (104,925 square feet) social housing building. The proposed buildings range in height from 12 to 18 storeys, with a maximum height of 53.35 metres (175 feet).

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning 8:30 am on Friday, May 23, 2014 and before 5 pm on June 3, 2014 by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca , or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Department, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

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 23, 2014 at the City Clerk’s Department in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings. (Minutes are posted approximately two business days after a meeting.)

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Two schools celebrate a century of learning CLASS NOTES Cheryl Rossi

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Teachers’ salaries will be docked 10 per cent if they start rotating strikes Monday. The B.C. Public School Employer’s Association announced the reduction May 21. Even if teachers don’t strike inVancouver and other districts May 26, their salaries are to be docked ﬁve per cent beginning Monday as a response to reduced work and what BCPSEA characterizes as the B.C.Teachers’ Federation’s “continued effort to seek increases in total compensation that are far above the pattern of other settlements.” The BCTF says it seeks an estimated 13.5 per cent increase, which includes cost of living, over four years.The BCTF says the province is offering a 7.5 per cent increase over six years. BCTF president Jim Iker says compared to teacher salaries across the country, B.C. teachers place in sixth to ninth place. Iker said the BCTF has already referred the salary reduction to the Labour Relations Board. Teachers started administrative-based job action April

BCTF president Jim Iker says lockouts of teachers would hurt exam marking and report card preparation. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

23.Teachers were not to be at school more than an hour before or after class times, except for arranged voluntary activities.They continued communicating with parents. BCPSEA is suspending teachers’ duties and hours of work. BCSPEA directs teachers not to: • work during recess or lunch hours, except to perform essential services • be at school 45 minutes before or after classes start, unless there’s an urgent student safety issue or to perform essential services • evaluate educational programs • attend department, grade level, staff committee, class and school organization, collaborative and/or professional learning community meetings • attend professional development activities un-

less they’re scheduled on non-instructional days. The BCTF announced rotating strikes May 20 that would see one school closure day per district, May 26 to 29.Vancouver schools would be closed Monday. Iker said, “[Premier] Christy Clark’s lockout” would mean the cancellation of extracurricular activities. Secondary school teachers will be locked out June 25 and 26 and all teachers will be locked out June 27 unless a collective agreement is ratiﬁed beforehand. Iker said the lockouts would hurt teachers’ ability to mark exams, prepare report cards, attend graduations and plan for summer school. A settlement bonus of $1,200 per full-time equivalent teacher would be granted if an agreement is ratiﬁed before the end of June.

Iker said teachers want improvements in class size and composition. The BCPSEA says improvements the BCTF wants could cost $2 billion annually by year four. The BCTF says the province spends $1,000 less per student on education than the Canadian average and has the second lowest per-student funding. Bargaining is scheduled to continue today (May 22) and May 23.

Magee’s 100th, May 24

Magee secondary’s centennial celebration happens this Saturday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. with music, performances, food trucks and historical tours. Alumni, including big band leader Dal Richards, will attend. For more information, see mageecentennial.ca.

Bayview’s 100th, May 28

Bayview elementary is celebrating its centennial May 28. Alumni, neighbours and former staff are invited to tour decade rooms from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and see students’ projects celebrating 100 years of learning at the Kitsilano school. A picnic dinner open to community members runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, email bayviewcentennial@gmail.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Six-year-old Elise Jackson couldn’t join friends on her school’s playground. The Carnarvon kindergarten student has cerebral palsy and trouble navigating her walker on wood chips and soft ground.That changed when she received a power chair last week. “And it was great because she drove it on there and she had a whole bunch of kids following her around,” said Elise’s father, Darrin Jackson. “They were all playing together and that’s the ﬁrst time she’s really ever been able to do that herself.” Elsie’s experience will get even better with the Carnarvon Play for EveryBody fundraising campaign, an effort by the school’s parent advisory council to replace the Dunbar school’s 30year-old playground equipment with new designs, including rubber surfacing, that accommodate people of varying mobility.

“Our school is one of the most accessible schools on the West Side,” said Brittanny Downey-MacDonald, co-chair of the campaign. “The grounds are ﬂat, the school is ﬂat, it has no stairs… It’s a school that’s actually chosen by a lot of parents who have children with mobility issues and also by parents who themselves have mobility issues.” The 3,400-square-foot playground will be installed onVancouver School Board property adjacent to Carnarvon Park. Eighty per cent of the space and equipment is to be accessible. DowneyMacDonald says the closest comparably accessible playground is in Port Coquitlam. “If you have a parent with mobility issues, they will be able to actively engage and play and climb and swing with their kids who are able-bodied,” she said. “Or if you have a grandparent that struggles with going up stairs, they’re going to be able to engage in that way.” The playground will include

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Darrin Jackson, father of Elsie, and Brittanny Downey-MacDonald, co-chair, Carnarvon Play for EveryBody Campaign, at Carnarvon elementary’s 30-year-old playground. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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VICTORIA, B.C.—Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends, at the Royal British Columbia Museum, is an exhibition that would like to clear up a few things. First of all, “viking” is something you do, not something you are.

If you are raiding and pillaging, you are on a viking. To use it in a sentence, imagine a longboat of sinewy blonde Norsemen (the proper term) crossing the ocean, singing “Here we go a-viking-ing to Irish monast’ries” as they row. The raiding and pillaging is another thing Vikings would like to

discuss. Despite the fact that Norsemen did a lot of it, over four centuries and from the west coast of Ireland to the Caspian Sea, there was more than that to Scandinavian society circa A.D. 700-1100. This exhibition hopes, by showing those other sides, to depict the culture in “a more subtle and fascinating light than ever before.”

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example, a reconstruction) or, seemingly more humdrum, like a comb. The comb, however, was a signiﬁcant item. “We know that the Vikings were very vain,” says Kent Andersson of the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, which supplied the artifacts for the exhibition. “Hair was very important in showing who you were,” he says. Good grooming mattered. “In every grave we ﬁnd a comb.” The Vikings show, which came from Sydney and goes on to Chicago, also has a gift shop selling a wide range of products. Among them are full-size, accurate reproductions of wooden shields, metal swords and helmets. The subtler bits of Norse life — farming and trading, making nice things — are all well and good, but if you’re dressing up, it’s way more fun to pretend you’re on a viking. For more information on Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends visit the Royal British Columbia Museum website at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca. More stories at culturelocker.com.

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Even people who don’t normally grow vegetables ﬁnd the notion of picking their own fresh ripe tomatoes quite irresistible. Nurseries offer lots of transplants and some will be marked as being ideal for containers. “Tumbler” tomatoes are ideal for hanging baskets because its branches droop over the sides for fast ripening and easy picking.The long vines of grape tomatoes also droop and fruit thickly with small, but very sweet tomatoes. People with only a sunny windowsill might be interested in Tiny Tim, which usually grows just 30cm tall. Generally cherry tomatoes are more disease resistant than most other types. After a few warm days, it’s tempting to put young tomato plants outside but they still need to be kept warm because our coastal weather is unreliable in spring and nights are still cold. Plastic milk cartons or polycarbonate juice bottles (with tops removed so hot air can escape) make good (free) cloches that protect young plants. Several kinds of reusable and reasonably priced commercial cloches are also available in clear plastic. Row covers in spun fabric or plastic are available for tomatoes grown outside. Greenhouses are the very best growing area for tomatoes, but containers against a wall under a south or west roof overhang yield enough to make people many delicious summer salads.

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An alternative for people with gardens is to try blightresistant tomatoes (these are the result of conventional breeding). None are 100 per cent resistant, but when I tried them in my garden, blight started exceptionally late and moved very slowly. The blight-resistant beefsteak tomato “Legend” has been available as transplants and seed is available online. “Deﬁant” is another large blight-resistant tomato available from seed — both are bush types. Large blightresistant cherry tomatoes include “Mountain Magic” and “Mountain Merit.” In choosing tomato transplants or seeds, it’s important to clue in to the difference between determinate (bush) tomato plants and indeterminate ones. Bush tomatoes produce all their fruit at the same time and then stop ﬂowering.These are the best for containers because they’re easy to manage. Indeterminate (vine) tomatoes don’t stop growing until the frost. Suckers need to be pinched off frequently. If you don’t do this, a vining tomato plant will become a

huge bush where tomatoes are deeply shaded and slow to ripen. At summer’s end, you’ll have a few handfuls of ripe tomatoes while zillions of green ones remain. The practical way to prune vine tomatoes is to leave the ﬁrst three or four suckers. That’s because these should have time to ﬂower and produce ripe tomatoes. But the later ones should be removed. Tomatoes are very greedy feeders.They’ll have lots to eat if you mix bonemeal and compost or rotted manure into their planting holes.They like frequent watering too. Later, a mulch of aged manure and/or grass clippings helps to hold moisture around the plants. It’s useful to know that contact with soil triggers tomato stems to put out roots. That’s why many gardeners plant tomatoes sideways with the top inch or two out in the sun.This produces a stronger plant and makes it easier to protect on cold nights. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions.Send them to her via amarrison@ shaw.ca.It helps if you can add the name of your city or region.

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Lisa Ahier’s Sobo in Toﬁno started out as a purple food truck in a parking lot. Now a beloved restaurant in Toﬁno, the chef/owner released her new Sobo Cookbook at Barbara Jo’s Books to Cooks

Kristine Stanbra broke her back in a devastating car crash. Thirty-ﬁve years later, the mother of two — a Courage to Come Back award recipient — ﬁghts for accessible communities.

Brenda Plant’s Turning Point Recovery Society “Making Recovery a Reality” Gala, emceed by Randene Neill, featured actor Matthew Perry, who shared his story of addiction and recovery. The party raised $100,000 to support addiction recovery programs and residents at Turning Point.

West Van Gogo grandmothers Heather Fraser, left, and Landra Robinson’s Chair Auction generated $10,000 to help support African grandmothers raise a generation of children orphaned by AIDS.

Richard and Heidi Coglon, along with their daughter Gabrielle, hosted the ﬁfth annual CampOUT fundraiser, which netted $50,000 for the four-day leadership camp for LGBT youth.

Founders Alba Jenson, left, and Catherine Atyeo celebrated CLICK (Contributing to the Lives of Inner City Kids) Foundation’s 10th anniversary at their This is Deﬁnitely Not a Gala beneﬁt at Creekside Community Centre.

Lorne and Melita Segal were kept busy this week, honouring individuals who have triumphed from adversity and pain, and helping kids build self-esteem, conﬁdence and leadership skills.

Fjällräven, an iconic Swedish outﬁtter, opened its ﬂagship Canadian store on West Broadway. On hand for the store launch were John Walbrecht and Nathan Dopp of Fenix North America.

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1 May 23-27, 2014 1. With the Leo Awards recognizing the achievements of the B.C. film and television industry next weekend, now’s your chance to catch some of nominees in the film category.Vancity screens two of the more dark and twisted entries: Merlin Dervisevic’s thriller Cruel & Unusual (May 24 to June 7) and AJ Bond’s Stress Position (May 23 to June 6) about a bizarre and darkly humorous reality TV scenario that “gradually spirals out of control, testing the limits of friendship and exposing an unsettling connection between filmmaking and torture.” For details and show times, go to viff.org. 2. Delivering a heady mix of Pavementmeets-SonicYouth chaos with a hint of New Zealand indie rock and pot smoke, much buzzed about band Parquet Courts — from Brooklyn, of course — drop by the Biltmore Cabaret May 24 to get droney and loose.This should be a good one. Naomi Punk and Tough Age open. Doors at 7 p.m., curfew 11 p.m.Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca. 3. Nova Bhattacharya is a dancer and choreographer in Toronto known for her transformation of classical bharatanatyam into contemporary dance. Noam Gagnon is a choreographer and dancer in Vancouver known for his physically punishing and emotionally baring creations. In DVOTE, the unlikely duo share an apparent love of balaclavas and team up to create a “unique hybrid world” of dance, May 27 to 31 at the Cultch.Tickets and details at thecultch. com. 4. Oldtimey country swinger Petunia and his band the Vipers celebrate the release of their new album, InsideYou, May 24 at the Imperial (319 Main St.). Headwater opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and NorthernTickets.com.

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Over the past year we’ve noticed a disturbing trend on Facebook, and it has nothing to with the unsolicited updates of how often our mother plays Candy Crush. The ﬂy in our Vaseline — that’s a 1994 Stone Temple Pilots reference, by the way — is the deluge of click-baiting, cliffhanger headlines we encounter whenever our friends like or repost some sort of shocking, amazing, has-to-beseen-to-be-believed article or video. Just today we’ve already been subjected several variations of “WATCH:This Kid’s Reaction to Meeting A Gay Couple ForThe First Time Is Priceless.” Another headline for the same video informed us that our mind would be “blown” by the video, which we thought was an interesting word choice. So who’s to blame for this annoying headline trend that makes us think ill of our Facebook friends and society as a whole?The answer

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will make you soil your jogging pants in astonishment. Most webwatchers point to the viral content website Upworthy and the Buzzfeeds of the world. According to an article in the Atlantic last year, the huge success of the so-called “Upworthy style headline” is based on creating a “curiosity gap” to entice readers to scratch that itch and see what happens next. “The idea is both to share just enough that readers know what they’re clicking and to withhold just enough to compel the click.” And to be honest, the thought of millions of web sheep clicking on your teasingly promoted story is an alluring proposition for a newspaper like the Courier as it tries to navigate the vast information superhighway — that’s another 1994 reference, by the way. Which is why, despite our abhorrence to the practice, K&K has decided to “upworthy” the stories in today’s paper… for the sake of our future. Here’s a sampling.You won’t believe how it turned out. • What you never knew or thought you could know or cared to know about the

parent advisory council that’s raising money for playground equipment. •You won’t believe why this restaurant owner is running for mayor because we ﬁnd it hard to believe ourselves and it has nothing to two with the two litres of Rockaberry cooler we pounded back last night. • If you’ve ever thought about planting tomatoes, this might make you rethink your entire relationship with gardening and the existence of God or some sort of higher power that gently guides us but can also be sort of a jerk sometimes. • What happened at a softball tournament? The answer is more shocking and nuanced than you’ve come to expect from a story on a softball tournament. Seriously, it’s going to make your lower back tattoo jump right off your lower back in amazement, which will in turn totally freak out your friends and make them want read a story that has the supernatural powers to make ink escape from one’s skin. Seriously. For the sake of putting food in the mouths of our children. Please read the story. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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There are few certainties in life — death, taxes and Drew Facey receiving a Jessie Award. Facey was tapped for seven nominations this week, the most by a single individual, for the 32nd annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, which recognizes achievement in professional theatre in Vancouver. But the 33-year-old wunderkind, who’s previously racked up Meryl Streeplike numbers with 13 Jessie nominations and six wins over his eight-year professional career, doesn’t recite eloquent monologues or direct unruly casts wrestling with complex scripts. This week Facey received four Jessie nominations for Outstanding Set Design in the Large Theatre category (Art, The Seafarer, Des fraises en janvier, The Romeo Initiative), a nomination for Outstanding Set Design in the Small Theatre category (Penelope) and two nods for Outstanding Costume Design, also in the Small Theatre category (Penelope, Cool Beans). “My role is creating the visual world for the show,” says Facey the morning after nominations were announced. “I always think it’s exciting for set design that it’s almost always the ﬁrst hit that audiences get when they come into a theatre to see a show.” As for the other nominees, Bard on the Beach

led the way in the Large Theatre category, earning 15 nominations from its four productions, with Hamlet receiving five nominations, including Jonathon Young for Outstanding Lead Actor. Young was also nominated in the Supporting Actor category for his work in Twelfth Night. Pacific Theatre received 14 nominations, with The Seafarer hauling in eight nods, including Ron Reed and John Emmet Tracy, both for Outstanding Lead Actor. The Arts Club received 13 nominations with Armstrong’sWar garnering five, including Outstanding Script by Colleen Murphy. ITSAZOO Production’s site-specific trashy trailer park play Killer Joe kicked butt in the Small Theatre category with seven nominations, including Outstanding Direction, Production, Set Design and Supporting Actor. In the Theatre for Young Audiences category, Carousel Theatre for Young People received 10 nominations, including six for Busytown and three for Wondrous Tales of Old Japan. Although Facey says he’s proud of all the productions he’s nominated for, he’s particularly excited about the recognition his work for Rumble Theatre’s Penelope received. “It was a hugely challenging, really unconventional script that the

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director, Stephen Drover, brought to me last summer and said, ‘We’ve got to put a [swimming] pool in the Cultch,’” Facey says. “So it became this really exciting opportunity to think about that space in a really different way. So it was fun to create that, but then there was also a massive amount of ﬁre… Fire and water and a lot of blood and four guys in Speedos.” The Jessie awards will be doled out June 23, 6:30 p.m. at the Commodore Ballroom. For a full list of nominees, go to jessies.ca. twitter.com/MidlifeMan1

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With the multiplex crammed full of monsters and action heroes at present, it comes as a bit of a relief to see a touching little sex comedy tiptoe into theatres. A touching sex comedy? Well, yes. John Turturro wrote and directed Fading Gigolo, in which he just happens to star as a man with remarkable gifts in the bedroom.The affecting aspect of the tale comes not from his three-way with Soﬁa Vergara and Sharon Stone, but in his romantic friendship with a Hasidic Jewish character played by Vanessa Paradis. Paradis, little known on

this side of the water for being anything other than the mother of Johnny Depp’s children, plays Avigal, a lonely widow with six children, trapped in the conﬁnes of her all-seeing Jewish community.There’s even a community police in charge of neighbourhood patrol. “Sometimes we go beyond,” is the vague and somewhat threatening description by patrol member Dovi (Liev Schreiber). Fioravante’s decision to become a gigolo late in life is ﬁnancially motivated, as always, and suggested by his friend Murray (Woody Allen), a rare-bookstore owner about to lose his shop. It’s Murray who sings Fioravante’s praises to a frisky dermatologist (a sensational-looking Stone), thus starting a new venture into the world’s oldest profession. He adopts “Bongo”

John Turturro writes, directs and shares his “remarkable gifts in the bedroom” with women such as Sofia Vergara in Fading Gigolo.

as his pimp name — and christens his pal “Virgil” — and they’re off. “Virgil” wins rave reviews

from the dermatologist (“You’re top shelf,” she says post-coitus, “you’re hard to reach”) who soon shares

the love with her girlfriend (Vergara). Pictures of the pair in come-hither lingerie are already all over the Internet though the actual sex scenes are absent, which only adds to the mystery of what makes Fiorvante so potent. He’s a bit of an enigma in general, this florist who agrees to sell himself for cash. He only starts to come alive when Murray introduces him to Avigal. The relationship begins with one touch of a massage, too much for a woman who hasn’t been touched in years. A kosher dinner follows, where the filleting of a fish was never so sexy. Avigal doesn’t know his true profession, of course. “This is what you do: you bring magic to the lonely.” Avigal’s sudden trips out of the neighbourhood raise the curiosity of the

neighbourhood watch and of Dovi, who has a crush. Murray is implicated and thrown into a car for questioning by a bearded Hasidic tribunal. “I think you’ve got the wrong guy, I’ve already been circumcised,” he protests. The ﬁlm is outrageous, of course, and is happy to meander through the streets of NewYork City than go nowhere fast. Full of pithy advice (“If the blinds are drawn, you’ve got to pull the shades up”) and themes of loneliness and redemption, Fading Gigolo also succeeds because of the comedy of Allen (who reportedly had heavy input into the ﬁnished product), the fragility of Avigal, courtesy of Paradis, and Turturro’s performance, spare, but affecting nonetheless. Fading Gigolo opens Friday at Fifth Avenue.

Cast of rock ‘n’ rollers come to McBean’s Mountaintop MUSIC REVIEW John Goodman

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Pink Mountaintops Get Back (Jagjaguwar) Rock ’n’ roll history ﬁltered through the mind of Black Mountain frontman

Stephen McBean. He may be L.A.’s most unusual artist-in-residence sinceWerner Herzog set up shop in the Hollywood Hills, but who needs a driver’s license when everybody will come to you. Recorded in sunny Burbank, Calif. with some excellent noisemakers — J. Mascis (Dinosaur

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“collective.” Of course the album title is a nod to the Beatles’ song with the same name but as McBean has explained in interviews the words are also all tangled up with his concept of how music history has played out. Sonically, Get Back is loaded with Bowie and Iggy Pop references, right down

to the sax.That’s a good thing. One track, “North Hollywood Microwaves,” messes with the mood but that’s just the kind of thing Iggy would have done back in the day, too. Pink Mountaintops play a sold out gig at Fox Cabaret on Friday, May 23. Details at foxcabaret.com.

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Lie low Sunday morning, Taurus. This afternoon through Tuesday, your energy surges and your magnetism lights up. You could make a great contact or form a good partnership. The only “if” here is that you might run into skepticism — yours or another’s. It’s a great time to accomplish things but don’t start a brand new project unless you can ﬁnish it in a week or unless it’s re-instituting a former project or circumstance.

The weeks ahead feature sexual yearnings, intimacy, commitment — and consequences. They can be good consequences, even splendid! Major ﬁnancial actions, investments, debt, lifestyle changes, health diagnoses, research/ detective work; these also ﬁgure prominently. Your subconscious moves close to the surface, so your intuition will be high. Trust your hunches.

Start nothing big and new, Gemini unless it’s something you can complete in the next two weeks. To be safe: one week. Your romantic, creative and sexual drives, dampened since early March, recently revived and will remain strong to late July. This is a signiﬁcant trend, which might cause a long-held wish to come true or might propel you into a new social group. This “wish” might return you to a former circumstance/position.

The weeks ahead feature relationships, opportunities and fresh horizons (perhaps literally — you’ll be in a curious, travel mood — if so, buy tickets for August onward). In a sense, life is offering you a new environment or new circumstances but it is up to you to recognize these and to act on them. Fighting or competition will only obscure the new, so make love not war, even in the smallest sense.

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Lie low, rest, enjoy sweet solitude now to late June. Deal with government, head ofﬁce, institutions, shut-ins, and neglected chores/duties. Contemplate and plan future actions. Meditate, seek your spiritual side. (Plans are the least of all these, as they will change.) Protect your reputation Sunday (i.e., do nothing outrageous). Your hopes, popularity and love of life rises mildly Sunday eve to Tuesday.

The weeks ahead bring work and health issues — might as well plunge in and get it done. Eat, dress and rest sensibly. A thread of romance, creativity or beauty/pleasure will relieve the drudgery through late June. Rest, eat, putter around the yard/’hood Sunday morning. The afternoon through Tuesday brings nature’s beauty, the poetry of life, romantic notions, creative and speculative nudges.

The weeks ahead (and especially this Tuesday night to Thursday) boost your confidence, optimism, happiness, popularity and social delights. Make and accept invitations, especially to parties and entertainment events. If you’re a public figure, your profile rises. Though these are bright and shining, they’re less than what 2015 holds — your luck boat is on the horizon, about to come to your port.

The weeks ahead feature nature’s beauty, romance, love of children (they seem brieﬂy more talented) pleasure, sports/games, speculation/gambling and creativity. Charge ahead and believe in your hunches for you’re riding a winning streak. This week, Sunday morning is restless and active. The afternoon (through Tuesday) brings a “down home” inﬂuence — sleep, rest, garden, embrace family, eat nutritiously.

Be ambitious during the weeks ahead (especially this Wednesday/Thursday). However, don’t start an ambitious project now because a slow-down (and missteps) loom. You might assume a former career role or pick up a half-abandoned project in June. Sunday holds some secrets and secret attractions. (Little comes of these.) This afternoon to Tuesday, a mellow, wise mood ﬂows over you. Far travel, ideas, learning, intellectual and cultural pursuits are touched with luck.

The weeks ahead emphasize your home, family, real estate, security, foundations, gardening, nutrition, soul, stomach, and retirement plans. Decide this week (midweek best) what and who to keep in your life and who/what has grown stale and should be let go. (Do this soon, as by June you won’t be able to decide.) Midweek (Tuesday night through Thursday) is also a good time to start new projects in these areas (home, garden, etc.) but keep it small, short, as June will bring a slowdown that can leave your projects stranded.

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Emerging teams strengthen provincial competition ULTIMATE Megan Stewart

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Giovanni Marinelli (right) bats away a pass intended for Devon Bringeland-Powell in a Stratford Hall inter-school scrimmage at Clark Park on May 21. The senior Sabres are ranked 11th at the B.C. ultimate championships this weekend. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The perennial contenders for the highest provincial prize in high school ultimate are being tested by new arrivals to the ﬁeld. A handful of Vancouver teams have ﬁnished one, two, three at the B.C. championships for nearly a decade, but the sport’s rapid expansion means fewer dynasties, more parity and better competition. “The sport is growing like a weed right now,” said Graham Dunne, the coach at Eric Hamber and the league’s convenor since 2002. “All leagues are expanding and getting stronger. The number of club programs in Vancouver is growing every year and the sport is really starting to catch on in North Vancouver, Richmond and Surrey schools.” Tight, the co-ed team drawn from St. George’s andYork House, won three consecutive titles from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, the schools relinquished their streak to Point Grey. In 2013, Prince of Wales unseated the defending champion Greyhounds. This year, in advance of the B.C. championships this weekend at UBC, Prince of Wales is ranked fourth behind No. 3 St. George’s/ York House. Eric Hamber is

seeded sixth, Kitsilano ninth and Killarney 12th. “These are unusually low seeds for Vancouver,” said Dunne, calling Vancouver the “perennial powerhouse district.” The top contenders from Vancouver will compete for gold against Burnaby’s St. Thomas More and Sutherland from North Vancouver. “The edge should go to Sutherland who have a very strong program this year,” said Dunne. In the mix with Vancouver’s returnees is Stratford Hall, a small International Baccalaureate school founded in 1999 and located on Commercial Drive.Two teachers helped create the Sabres’ program in 2007. “The real growth has been in quality of the schools participating,” said Kyle Nystad, the athletic director at Stratford Hall. Six years ago, the school had a single team of 18 students in Grade 6. “This season we will have 100plus students from grades 6 to 12 playing ultimate at our school coached by six teachers,” said Nystad. The sport, which is an exciting non-contact, highcardio combination of soccer, basketball and football, is one of the most popular sports at Statford Hall and looks to stay that way. “Ultimate has really served as a force to unite our school,” said Nystad “The older students help

coach the younger teams, giving back to the program and serving as great role models.” They also host Sabrefest, an elementary school tournament that started ﬁve years ago with four teams from ﬁve schools.This year Stratford Hall will host 16 teams from a mix of 10 public and private schools. With the growth of the sport, success is an inevitable outcome. In 2013, 12 players competed for a club at the Canadian championships, and Katherine McGuire made the U18 provincial team that won gold at nationals.This year she’s joined by Kiera LeePii on the girls team and three boys, Ari Nitikman, Josh Gaudette and Gavin Mahil, play for the boys provincial team. Stratford Hall isn’t alone in its development of star ulti athletes.The same U18 girls provincial team includes six players from the defending B.C. championWalesmen: Angel Lee, Julia Zhang, Paige Muir, Sam Mew, Sophia Chan and ZoeTodd. For the B.C. high school championships, scheduled for UBC on May 24 and 25, the Sabres junior team is ranked second behind Point Grey and ahead of the contenders from St. George’s andYork House, which means places one, two and three could again be claimed byVancouver teams. twitter.com/MHStewart

Trojans output defies scouting report SOFTBALL THOMPSON CHURCHILL

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Megan Stewart

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The Thompson Trojans repeated a mantra at the beginning of the softball season that went something like this: if you can’t throw, can’t catch, can’t hit, and don’t know the rules, you’ll ﬁt in perfectly. This all-beginnerswelcome attitude means Thompson’s coaches were happy the Trojans scored three runs against the Churchill Bulldogs (7-1 at the time) in a 11-3 loss last week. So on May 21 when the

Trojans knocked off the Bulldogs 9-8 and earned a seat at the city championship, the win called for a new definition of success. “I was shocked when we scored five runs in the second inning,” said coach Dean Sheardown. “I figured if we kept it close, we would just keep the game from being the usual blowout — a la 16-4. But our infield made the simple plays on defence.” Cass Lee fielded grounders at second base, shortstop Vanessa Lu made plays look easy and Letitia Kwong was solid at third. Finally, at first base, Bonny Mao covered errant throws and closed down on close plays.The Trojans made few errors, which was a key reason they won. Another reason: they scored runs.

Trojan batters were walked and runners scored on infield errors and wild pitches. On defence, they didn’t err. “We caught a few infield pop ups, didn’t give them any extra outs — we are famous for giving good teams three or four extra outs by our mistakes — and slowly we kept being in the lead,” said Sheardown. The Trojans, a team with only one Grade 9 player on a softball club team, led by two runs in the fourth and final inning. In the bottom of the inning with one out, Churchill hit a home run deep to left field. But Churchill had no base runners, and the next two batters hit grounders and were thrown out at first. “I still can’t believe we

won,” said Sheardown, who coaches with Chris Ascher, “but our confidence grew stronger and the girls started to believe they could win, something they didn’t think was possible at the beginning.” If the game had gone the full five innings (it was stopped after four because of a time limit), Sheardown wondered if the Bulldogs would have found their bats. “You don’t play the game on paper, you still have to play the game on the field,” he said. The Trojans met Prince of Wales in the city final Thursday afternoon.The Walesmen defeated Van Tech 14-5 to advance. Go to vancourier.com/sports for updated scores. twitter.com/MHStewart

Bulldogs pitcher Sam Smyrnis (No. 16) throws a strike in a senior girls semi-ﬁnal at Churchill secondary on May 21. David Thompson won 9-8 in four innings. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Joining forces for co-ed tourneys Crofton House and St. George’s have teamed up since 1975

TENNIS Megan Stewart

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Stephanie Day might be used to playing tennis with her brothers, but a partnership dating back four decades between Crofton House and St. George’s means the family will also compete for the same school team at the B.C. championship this week at Queen Elizabeth Park. She plays with brothers Jamie and Andrew.Their older brother, Alex, competed with them last year and now represents Princeton in the NCAA. The single-sex private schools enter the tourna-

ment together to play a full slate of singles, doubles and mixed-doubles matches at tournaments. Crofton House and St. George’s paired up in 1975, and Vancouver College and Little Flower Academy formed a similar partnership around the same time. “There’s a connection between brother and sister and the players also have lots of friends at the oppositesex school,” said Sherman Kwok, a teacher and tennis coach at Crofton House. “It becomes a big social sport, too.They get that much stronger, grow together and stick together for three or four seasons as they build that friendship. I think the boys beneﬁt more than the girls.”

The schools also combine their forces for sports like badminton and ultimate. Henry Budai, who coaches the boys at Vancouver College where he is also an alum, said the co-ed competition is very important social aspect for teenage boys. “It’s a breath of fresh air. They deﬁnitely like it,” he said. Crofton House/St. George’s compete in a pool against Penticton and Semiahmoo. LFA/Vancouver College are in a pool with Delta and Moscrop. The AAA championship ﬁnals are scheduled for 11 a.m. May 24 at Queen Elizabeth Park (as long as the weather is dry). twitter.com/MHStewart

St. George’s tennis players like Max Gupta (left) and Andrew Day compete for a co-ed team with players from Crofton House, including Stephanie Day and Maxine Genovese. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

HEATHER STREET CONSTRUCTION Time: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. When: May 26, 2014 to July 25, 2014 To meet the demand for electricity and improved reliability, BC Hydro will be constructing a new, underground duct bank along Heather Street – between 54th Avenue and 64th Avenue. Construction is scheduled for May 26, 2014 to July 25, 2014 between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday. Weather conditions and other unpredictable variables may cause unexpected delays. Construction will begin at 64th Avenue and continue north along Heather Street to 54th Avenue. As crews work in each block, construction will require: •

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Get help for bike baggage

Turn your commuter into an impressive cargo machine WHEEL WORLD Kay Cahill

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As a cyclist who’s also a car owner, I only drive my vehicle when it really isn’t possible to ride my bike. This is a commitment I’ve made and it isn’t to say I don’t like driving, but it’s important to me that I use my bike whenever I can and keep the carbon footprint to a dull roar. It’s a work in progress and I know there’s always more I can do in this regard, but I do make a conscious and determined effort to use my bike for absolutely anything when it’s feasible to do so. To this end, the carrying capacity of my bike is something I think about a lot. Beyond the obvious options of a rear rack and panniers or a handlebar-mounted basket, there are tons of ways to turn a regular commuter bike into an impressive cargo machine. For small stuff, you can add an under-the-seat pack or a triangular frame carry bag that will velcro onto the top tube.While these don’t offer lots of additional room,

Ron Richings rides an incumbent bicycle while towing a trailer. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

they’re extremely unobtrusive and unlike panniers or a front basket, they don’t alter the bike’s handling. A bicycle chariot is a phenomenal option for transporting small children (and pets) and can also double as a large-capacity cargo hauler. I used one of these for the ﬁrst time last summer and was amazed how little it interfered with the bike’s handling compared to other options, especially once it was fully loaded with a

small child and all of her gear. I just had to remember not to cut corners while I towed it. There are also dedicated cargo trailers that will have even less effect on the bike’s handling unless you excessively load them up with heavy or unwieldy contents. I’ve even seen a stand-up paddleboard be towed behind a bike on one of these —I was impressed. If you want to use a bike to transport your pet without towing anything extra behind you, there

are also a range of products to choose from, including pet carriers that strap to a rear rack or ones with straps that you wear like a backpack. Keep in mind, though, that having a moving animal (especially a larger one) on either a rack or your back is quite different than carrying a static load. If you don’t mind wearing a backpack (which is my preference), there are lots of options for carrying extra gear. Because I ski in the winter, my pack has a ski carry, which not only enables me to bike my skis back and forth to the shop when they need work but also lets me carry lots of other long and unwieldy objects comfortably: bamboo stakes for plants, a giant poster in a tube, a new broom.The ski carry positions long objects at a slight diagonal across the back, so unlike strapping them to a pannier there are no issues with increased width or possible obstructions to the pedal stroke. What are your preferences for hauling cargo on your bike? Any suggestions for things I haven’t included here? Let me know! Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting.

Bike to work next week Register now for HUB’s eighth annual Bike to Work Week, which runs Monday, May 26 to Saturday, June 1. All week long, new cyclists and experienced commuters alike can enjoy free coffee, snacks, maps and repairs at HUB stations at more than 50 locations on the region’s busiest bike routes. Any hardcore cyclists and fair-weather riders are encouraged to sign up along with first-time commuters who have never ridden their bike to work before. Participants who register for free online can track their trip distance and time with the motivation of daily prizes. Groups and workplaces can also organize teams and track their results together. Register at btww.ca. (The Courier newsroom signed up on Wednesday.) To get you going for a single trip next week or to keep your wheels spinning if you already ride most days, HUB’s executive director Erin O’Melinn had this to say: “Biking to work provides regular doses of exercise that can give you more energy, productivity and concentration at work. It also gives you extra spending money you saved from not paying for gas and parking.” HUB’s tracking system logs kilometers travelled, calories burned and greenhouse gases saved, so you can measure what you accomplish with each ride. — Megan Stewart

The drive to serve you better. At ICBC, we want you to feel conﬁdent that you’ve brought your vehicle to an auto body shop you can trust. That’s why every year we independently survey approximately 60,000 customers who use ICBC-accredited c.a.r. shop VALET facilities for repairs to ﬁnd out which shops are delivering top-quality work and service. This year, 15 top-performing shops in BC earned the AutocheX Award for achieving the highest customer satisfaction scores among thousands of auto body shops in North America. These shops provided on-time deliveries, high standards for repairs, and kept customers informed throughout the repair process. Congratulations to the winners in your area: Korva World Class Collision Ltd. Lee’s Autopride Collision Ltd. McDermott’s Body Shop Ltd.

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New projects aim to revitalize distressed Denman Street Seasonal strip suffers as downtown core shifts east and landlords stay ﬁrm on lease rates

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Three new projects are set to rejuvenate Denman Street and give hope to long-struggling retailers who are tired of seeing businesses close or get bulldozed to make way for vacant lots. New buildings are slated for two longtime vacant lots, and Denman Place Mall is readying for a makeover. “It’s a sad situation down here on Denman,” said TopDrawers owner David King. “I’ve been here for 23 years and I’ve never seen it like this.There have always been one or two vacancies, like with any main street, but the last few years Denman really has been suffering.” King’s underwear store

is leaving its longtime location at the front of Denman Place Mall at the end of June because his lease is up and mall owners want to make renovations. He will relocate in a larger 675square-foot location at the northwest corner of Davie and Howe streets. “Everything has moved east over the years,” King said. “Denman used to be more central for downtown living. Now it seems to be more at the far edge of the city.”He added that the housing stock near Denman Street is older and is attracting more seniors and others who have limited disposable income. On top of that, the street is extremely seasonal, with few visitors from across the city during the winter. Despite those negatives, landlords charge up to $70

“It’s a sad situation down here on Denman.” — David King per square foot for groundﬂoor space, according to brokers.That’s less than the $100-per-square-foot asking prices on south Granville and the $200-plus-persquare-foot asking prices in the 1,000-block of Robson Street, but it is evidently too much for many businesses to be viable on Denman Street, brokers say. CBRE Canada senior vice-president Mario Negris, who is leasing space in the Denman Place Mall, said the complex’s revamp will include an expanded space for an anchor tenant. Negris is also leasing space directly across the

street from the mall.There, George Loh Ltd. has launched construction on its long-vacant space, which has sat empty since the building that once housed restaurants such as Mr. Pickwick’s Fish and Chips was demolished. Zoning and remediation work were responsible for the delay, Negris said. He expects the 12-unit, two-level retail complex, located between Nelson Street and south to a lane, to be ready for occupancy by February 2015. Wesgroup is another developer active on the strip. Its director of leasing,

Bob Nicholson, said that Wesgroup will launch construction of a three-storey retail project at the corner of Pendrell and Denman streets as soon as it leases the upper two ﬂoors. Its previous plan was to build the project to suit a single, large tenant such as a drugstore. City restrictions tied to the West End community plan adopted in November are keeping both construction projects from adding residential units above the retail stores. The community plan’s policy section reveals that its rationale to deter housing on Denman Street is “to ensure vibrancy at all times of the day.” “It’s crazy,” said Retail Insider retail analyst Craig Patterson, who believes that the result of the community

plan is that the upper-level retail units will fail. “Haven’t they learned anything from the Robson Public Market?” he asked. “Any time you do something like [having upperﬂoor retail,] it fails.” Indeed, north on Denman Street toward Robson Street, past empty storefronts where the Grove Inn, Flying Wedge and South Van Produce were once tenants, is a development where, long ago, the Starlight Cinema entertained moviegoers. Blenz Coffee anchors the site, which has two streetfront vacancies.There are also four vacant spaces upstairs, which were once part of a restaurant but have been repurposed for retail, said Coldwell Banker broker Jack Stephanian twitter.com/glemkorstrom

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bchonda.com †The Fit, Civic and CR-V were the #1 selling retail subcompact car, car, and compact SUV respectively in BC in 2013 based on Polk 2013 Dec YTD report. ‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. £Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX. €0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $66.59 based on applying $1,250.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes) and $1,000 consumer incentive dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $8,656.70. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. *Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. #0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $78.54 based on applying $800.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,210.20. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. ΩLimited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $134.80 based on applying $1,250.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $17,524.03. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. **MSRP is $16,130 / $17,185 / $27,685 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,495 / $1,695 based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX / new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent's fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. ‡/#/*/Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from May 1st through June 2nd, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.

* All offers are effective until June 15, 2014. Not applicable to tire sales. Taxes not included. Environmental levies extra. °Not to be combined with other offers. January 11,2014. Please consult Kingsway Honda for more details. Please present coupon during write-up. Valid at Kingsway Honda only. Limit one per person. Coupon does not apply to prior purchases.

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The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. †Finance offer available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2014 Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Elantra GT L 6-Speed Manual/ Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD with an annual finance rate of 0%/0.9%/0.9% for 96 months. Bi-weekly payments are $79/$96/$136. $0 down payment required. Cost of Borrowing is $0/$711/$1,009. Finance offer includes Delivery and Destination of $1,595/$1,595/$1,795, fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Finance offer excludes registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees. Delivery and Destination charge includes freight, P.D.E. and a full tank of gas. ‡Dealer Invoice Price of 2014 Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Elantra GT L 6-Speed Manual/ Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD are $16,397/$19,182/$27,278. Prices include price adjustments of $1,197/$862/$1,316 and includes Delivery and Destination of $1,595/$1,595/$1,795, fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Finance offer excludes registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees. The customer prices are those reflected on the dealer invoice from Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. The dealer invoice price includes a holdback amount for which the dealer is subsequently reimbursed by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. ΩPrice adjustments are calculated against the vehicle’s starting price. Price adjustments of up to $1,197/$862/$1,316 available on in stock 2014 Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Elantra GT L 6-Speed Manual/Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD. Price adjustments applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. "Price of models shown (with Price Adjustments): 2014 Elantra Limited/Elantra GT SE Tech 6-Speed Automatic/Santa Fe 2.0T Limited AWD are $23,799/$26,727/$38,448. Prices include Price Adjustments of $1,445/$1,667/$2,446, Delivery and Destination charges of $1,595/$1,595/$1,795 fees, levies, and all applicable charges (excluding HST). Prices exclude registration, insurance, PPSA and license fees. !Fuel consumption for new 2014 Elantra L Manual (HWY 5.3L/100KM; City 7.6.L/100KM); 2014 Elantra GT L Manual (HWY 5.8L/100KM; City 8.5L/100KM); 2014 Santa Fe Sport 2.4L FWD (HWY 7.3L/100KM; City10.2.L/100KM) are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. †‡Ω"Offers available for a limited time. Dealer may sell for less. Dealer order may be required. Visit www.hyundaicanada.com or see dealer for complete details. The SiriusXMTM name is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners. ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions. TM

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until June 2, 2014. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. 2014 RAV4 Base FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A MSRP is $25,689 and includes $1,819 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. †Lease example: 3.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $139 with $1700 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $18,380. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. ††Finance example: 1.9% finance for 48 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 RAV4. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,544 and includes $1,549 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, and battery levy. *Lease example: 2014 Corolla CE 6M with a vehicle price of $17,269 (includes $275 Toyota Canada Lease Assist, which is deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes, and $1,549 freight/PDI) leased at 0.9% over 60 months with $0 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $87 with a total lease obligation of $10,715. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. **Finance example: 1.9% finance for 84 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Corolla CE 6M. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Tacoma Double Cab V6 4x4 Automatic MU4FNA-A MSRP is $33,289 and includes $1,819 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. ‡Lease example: 3.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $165 with $3,150 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $22,890. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. ‡‡Finance example: 0.9% finance for 48 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Tacoma. Applicable taxes are extra. ‡‡‡Up to $1000 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Tacoma models. Non-stackable cash back on 2014 Tacoma Double Cab V6 4x4 Automatic is $1,000. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. Non-stackable Cash Back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be able to take advantage of Cash Customer Incentives. Vehicle must be purchased, registered and delivered by June 2, 2014. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. ‡‡‡‡Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 24, 36, 48 and 60 month leases (including Stretch leases) of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. First semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. Toyota Financial Services will waive the final payment. Semi-monthly lease offer can be combined with most other offers excluding the First Payment Free and Encore offers. First Payment Free offer is valid for eligible TFS Lease Renewal customers only. Toyota semi-monthly lease program based on 24 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 120 payments, with the final 120th payment waived by Toyota Financial Services. Competitive bi-weekly lease programs based on 26 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 130 payments. Not open to employees of Toyota Canada, Toyota Financial Services or TMMC/TMMC Vehicle Purchase Plan. Some conditions apply. See your Toyota dealer for complete details. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

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Then there is the top of the range 3.6-litre V6 producing 305 hp and 264 ft-lbs of torque, which is the highest rated naturally aspirated V6 in the segment. Upgrading to the V6 may be a wise choice not only because it is a smoother powertrain, but it’s just a better matched engine for such a large car. No matter which engine you choose, it will be mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. When merging with highway traffic, it shifts quickly and smoothly; transmission is definitely a strong suit of GM products. On the road, the lighter and stronger structure along with reworked suspension delivers a more comfortable and quiet ride than in the previous generation. Not only is the new Impala more composed, but it also shows a surprising amount of agility for a car of this size. The Impala has a good stability control system and strong anti-lock brakes. They combine to inspire confidence in any driving condition, especially the brakes which offer authoritative stops with firm pedal feel. If there is one complaint, it would be the steering feedback. While the electric stability control system does a good job keeping you safe, the overall feel of the steering is somewhat numb.

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The interior dimensions in the new Impala have grown; this means there is plenty of room for ﬁve passengers, plus 18.8 cubic feet of luggage space in the trunk. From the driver seat, all pertinent information is displayed through two modern-looking analog dials and a four-inch changeable screen in the centre. Heated and ventilated seats are available upfront, as well as a heated steering wheel. Opting for the MyLink infotainment system with navigation and rearview camera brings in one of the easiest-to-use system on the market. Also, the eight-inch colour touchscreen display can slide up, revealing two additional USB ports and extra hidden storage. While the touch panel makes commanding all of the infotainment features easy, the climate control has be left separate for quick access. Light blue ambient lighting also helps to provide a calm atmosphere. Rear seat passengers are provided with a substantial amount of leg and headroom. Despite the central tunnel, the Impala can realistically accommodate three adult passengers in the back. Continued on next page

4x4 Double Cab V6 $33,289 MSRP includes F+PDI

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Features

Starting prices range from $28,445 up to $39,645. Standard equipment includes heated exterior mirrors, keyless entry, air conditioning, power widows and locks, an eight-way power adjustable driver seat, tilt and telescopic steering column, and steering wheel mounted controls for Bluetooth, cruise control and radio. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include push-button start, remote car starter, dual-zone climate control, blind spot monitoring, rear cross trafﬁc alert, leather seats and steering wheel, chrome exterior details and a sunroof. Fuel efﬁciency numbers (L/100km) for the 2.5-litre are 9.9 city, 6.3 highway, for 8.3 combined. The light hybrid sees 8.7 city, 5.8 highway, for 7.4 combined. The V6 returns 11.1 city, 6.9 highway, for 9.2 combined.

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The Bottom Line

The 2014 Chevrolet Impala is a sharp-looking, high quality car worthy of the iconic name if people would give it a chance over the popular Japanese rivals.

Competitors

Toyota Avalon The newToyota Avalon is not the geriatric snoozer it once was. Currently it is styled progressively, very comfortable to ride in, and offers high tech features. However, while trying to lower the average age of its buyers,Toyota may have tuned the suspension too aggressively for the loyal customer. The Avalon is available in two models with the XLE starting at $36,955 and the Limited starting at $39,050. Ford Taurus The Taurus delivers good ride comfort, a quiet cabin and adept handling. It also boasts considerable performance from its available engines and high tech handling systems. The Taurus’ starting prices range from $28,999 for the SE up to $45,299 for the SHO. Chrysler 300 The Chrysler 300 is the epitome of an American Car; big, rear-wheel drive with lots of power, comfort and style. The 300 boasts copious amounts of rear-seat room, but trunk space is relatively small. The 300 is available in a variety of ﬂavours with the base model starting at $34,595 and the top of the range reaching $49,695.

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†0% APR purchase financing is available on all new 2014/2015 Mazda vehicles. Other terms available and vary by model. **Lease offers available on approved credit for new 2014 Mazda3 GX (D4XK64AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GX (G4XL65AA00)/2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00)/2014 Mazda5 GS (E6SD64AA00) with a lease APR of 1.99%/0.99%/2.49%/0.99% and bi-weekly payments of $79/$129/$129/$139 for 48 months, the total lease obligation is $9,938/$14,970/$14,978/$15,537, including down payment of $1,150/$1,550/$1,550/$1,050. PPSA and first monthly payment due at lease inception. 20,000 km lease allowance per year, if exceeded, additional 8¢/km applies. 24,000 km leases available. Offered leasing available to retail customers only. Taxes extra. *The advertised price of $17,690/$24,990/$26,290/$20,490 for 2014 Mazda3 GX (D4XK64AA00)/2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GX (G4XL65AA00)/2014 Mazda5 GS (E6SD64AA00) includes a cash discount of $0/$0/$0/$3,500. The selling price adjustment applies to the purchase and is deducted from the negotiated pre-tax price and cannot be combined with subsidized purchase financing or leasing rates. All prices include freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3, Mazda6/CX-5, Mazda5. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. Offers valid May 1 – June 2, 2014, while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details. ♦The Mazda3 2.0 Litre won the Canadian Green Car Category Award for the most efficient internal combustion engine.

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Model shown: FB2E2EEX †The Civic, CR-V and Accord were the #1 selling retail compact car, compact SUV, and intermediate car respectively in BC in 2013 based on Polk 2013 Dec YTD report. ‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. *Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. #0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $78.54 based on applying $800.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,210.20. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. ΩLimited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $134.80 based on applying $1,250.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $17,524.03. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. £Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Accord model CR2E3EE. €1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $124.79 based on applying $1,250.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $16,222.30. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. **MSRP is $17,185 / $27,685 / $25,685 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,695 / $1,695 based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES / 2014 Accord LX model CR2E3EE. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent’s fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. ‡/#/*/Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from May 1st through June 2nd, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.

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4.98 2 lb

Orange and Green Cauliflower from California

2/3.00

454g product of USA

2/4.00

Pork Tenderloin Roasts

3.99lb/ 8.80kg

7.99lb/ 17.61kg

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Salt Spring Organic Fair Trade Coffee

11.99

4.59 SAVE 8 pack

400g product of Canada

15%

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35%

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340-800g product of USA

Bremner’s 100% Juice

Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bars select varieties

assorted varieties

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5.99-9.99

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946ml

25%

+deposit +eco fee product of Canada

SAVE 2.99

33%

29%

product of USA

6.49

235g • product of Canada

product of Canada

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33%

product of USA

assorted varieties

Coco Hydro is the most sustainable coconut water and most effective synthetic-free sports hydration drink on the planet!

70-105g

assorted varieties

2/4.98

170g product of USA

5.99

BULK 20% off regular retail price

1.89L • +deposit +eco fee

product of Canada

GLUTEN FREE

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Carrot or Ganache Cake Slices

Apetina Crumbled Feta Cheese

Rice Banana or Wholesome Honey Carrot Muffins

2.69

4.99 150g

5.99

120-170g

Choices’ Own Southwest Pasta Salad or Green Garbanzo Bean and Bulgur Salad

Grimm’s Old Fashioned Ham

1.79/ 100g

1.29-1.49/100g ( found in the deli dept.)

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480g

Organic Brown Basmati Rice

Earth’s Choice Organic Apple Juice

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16.99

Amy’s Kitchen Frozen Burritos

170g

30 tablets

Coco Hydro Electrolyte Drink Mix

2.49

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product of E.U.

Earth’s Choice Organic Cheese

22.99

assorted varieties

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4.49 SAVE 115g

Menopause is a natural time in a woman's life, but can give rise to symptoms such as night sweats and hot flashes.

480ml

+deposit +eco fee product of USA

Cheecha Potato Puffs

100g

818-829g

A. Vogel Menopause

assorted varieties

SAVE 1.99-2.99

assorted varieties

49.99

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha Drink

assorted varieties

33%

Vega Sport is the first complete, natural, plant-based sport performance system specifically developed to help athletes perform at their best – before, during and after training and competition.

35g product of UK

40%

2.99

Annie’s Homegrown Classic Pasta

Annie’s Homegrown Bunny Organic Fruit Snacks

35%

200-220g product of USA

Vega Sport Performance Protein

.89

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assorted varieties

3.29SAVE 7.49 %

25%

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product of Canada

Kettle Foods Potato Chips

Food For Life Ezekiel Organic Bread, Buns, Muffins or Cereal

Eat Nak’d Gluten-Free Raw Bars

Danone Activia Yogurt and Danino Drinkables

assorted varieties

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17.99lb/ 39.66kg

Whole Specialty Frying Chickens

product of USA

25%

value pack

product of USA

Organic California Grown Mini Carrots

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Aspen Ridge Rib Eye Steaks

value pack

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Hearty Scandinavian or Wholesome Country Sourdough Bread

Seedsational Brown Rice or Sourdough Rice Bread

3.99 530-575g

5.49 525-625g

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