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June 13 2014 Vol. 105 No. 48

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Promised park nowhere in sight Residents waiting two decades for nine-acre park on False Creek

Mike Howell

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Vancouver’s head planner was unable to provide city council this week with a clear timeline as to when a developer will build a long-promised nine-acre park on the False Creek waterfront. But Brian Jackson told council Concord Paciﬁc cannot be accused of delaying construction of the park planned more than 20 years ago for a strip of asphalt located near the Telus World of Science. “I don’t think that there has been any foot-dragging with respect to the delivery of that park,” said Jackson during two nights of public hearings that concluded Wednesday night with council approving

a condominium project proposed by Concord for 998 Expo Blvd. Council’s approval guarantees the city will get a site at 58 West Hastings for future social housing and a paddling centre in False Creek. The park was not part of the community amenity package offered by Concord in the Expo Boulevard development, although False Creek residents argued it should be. John Murray of the False Creek Residents’ Association urged councilTuesday night to give the public a ﬁrm commitment on when the park will be built. In an exchange with Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, Murray said the residents’ association would support

Concord’s two-tower project on Expo Boulevard, if a timeline for the park were provided. “The goal posts keep changing,” said Murray, who is part of campaign that sees hundreds of False Creek residents turn on green lights at night to symbolize the need for the park. “We do realize that there are complications here but we need to have some sort of commitment.” Carr made an unsuccessful attempt to get council to set a timeline for the park to be built by 2018, a date Jackson suggested if a complex set of factors falls into place including the demolition of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts. The nine-acre park site is a small piece of the 204 acres of land Concord Paciﬁc

bought from the provincial government in 1988. Concord paid $320 million for the former Expo 86 lands that run from the Granville Bridge to the Telus World of Science. Concord has developed most of the lands, constructing condominiums and parks, as well as marinas on the water lots. Jackson said the nine-acre park site has remained idle since the purchase because Concord planned to ﬁrst build out the other lands before constructing the park. Since then, the construction of the park has been further complicated by an ongoing study to determine whether the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts will be demolished, which could free up more land possibly for park space. Continued on page 7

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Whale protesters crash Aquarium’s party Grand opening

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Holding signs emblazoned with messages such as “Enslaved not Rescued,” “Life in aTank is No Life at All,” and “Empty theTanks,” more than 100 protesters gathered outside theVancouver AquariumTuesday night. The occasion was a private party organized by the aquarium to celebrate the completion of phase one of a $60 million renovation and expansion project. As aquarium staff and directors, including president John Nightingale, donors and special guests entered the facility for the party, the protesters outside, including NoWhales In Captivity’s Annelise Sorg on a bullhorn, attempted to embarrass the VIPs by yelling, “Shame.” The protestors want the aquarium to phase out whale and dolphin exhibits and stop the importation of more belugas once the

More than 100 protesters attended a private party to celebrate the first phase of the Vancouver Aquarium’s $60 million expansion. PHOTO CHRIS CHEUNG

expansion is complete and the whale pools have been enlarged. Anti-captivity protestors are growing more vocal in anticipation of the November civic election and are pressuring the park board to hold a plebiscite on the issue. As well, the city’s bylaw surrounding

the keeping of cetaceans in captivity is up for review next year. Sorg is concerned a newly elected park board won’t have the experience needed to negotiate with the aquarium over the issue. “We do not agree with the mayor that newly elected park board commissioners

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should be left to negotiate behind closed doors next year with the powerful Vancouver top-notch lawyers representing theVancouver Aquarium,” Sorg told the Courier in April. “We will continue to pursue our twodecades long goal to have the park board approve holding

a public referendum on the issue of whale captivity.” Nightingale recently told the Courier that once a newly expanded whale tank is completed, the facility would bring back three belugas on loan to other facilities to join the two already there.

The aquarium’s expansion project is being completed in eight projects ranging in cost from $1.5 million to $18 million. A public grand opening of phase one takes place this Friday, June 13, where new features, exhibits and interactive areas will be revealed. Upon entry, visitors will be greeted by a giant globe of the world, from which wrap-around screens will take them on a journey of our oceans and the aquatic life within them. Children can “learn by play,” at Clownfish Cove or check out the new Animal Rescue Centre, a seaside dock with “underwater” tunnels to explore, a touch table and reading nook. In the tropical gallery, visitors will find a new pignosed turtle, rainbow fish, a surface-floating, foureyed fish and mudskippers. A new bat cave exhibit has been created in the Graham Amazon Gallery. For more information visit vanaqua.org. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Friday, June 13, could be the last day of school for Vancouver students. B.C.Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker outlined escalating job action Thursday morning. The BCTF’s rotating strike of the last three weeks will be extended to include “study sessions” Monday. Teachers won’t picket but Vancouver School Board chairperson Patti Bacchus expects that unless a settlement is reached over the weekend, students shouldn’t attend school Monday. Parents can ﬁnd updates at vsb.bc.ca. A full-scale strike is to start Tuesday. Iker told reportersThursday morning that the BCTF has revised all of its contract proposals including wages. He hoped bargaining will proceed over the weekend, but times hadn’t been set when he gave a press conference earlyThursday morning.

“This can be averted by Monday, or by Tuesday at the latest,” Iker said. Teachers have worked under a partial lockout since they started rotating strikes May 26.They’re not to be at work 45 minutes before or after school or work during lunch or recess.Teachers are being docked 10 per cent of their pay and won’t receive strike pay. The Labour Relations Board ruled Thursday that teachers must supervise Grades 10 and 12 provincial exams, submit ﬁnal marks for Grade 12 students by June 20 and that the union must make sure students won’t have to cross picket lines to write exams. Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association president Debbie Pawluk told the Courier Wednesday she might be buying grocery vouchers for teachers who face ﬁnancial hardship during a full strike. When teachers were on strike for 10 days in 2005, VSTA gave out $18,000 in cash and grocery vouchers. Teachers and parents don’t want to head into the sum-

mer break with uncertainty. “Let’s not forget that a lot of our teachers are parents, so not only does it affect their professional wellbeing, but also their personal lives,” Pawluk said.

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Bacchus is concerned about summer school. “We have many students who are relying on summer school to complete graduation requirements and, additionally, we have several students who are coming from other countries who have booked home stays, have tickets booked… and are expecting to start summer programs in the ﬁrst week of July,” she said. The Ministry of Education says it would lift the lockout so summer school could proceed but theVSB hasn’t heard the BCTF’s plans. Bacchus says Premier Christy Clark must take action. “We know it happened with the port dispute and the truckers, the Premier stepped in,” she said. “It’s time.” twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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A 61-year-old man suspected of shooting a bike store owner inYaletown Tuesday and exchanging several rounds of gunﬁre with police is a former employee of the victim, Deputy Chief Doug LePard announced Wednesday. LePard said police haven’t established a motive in the shooting of Reckless bike shop owner Paul Dragan but investigators are examining the suspect’s mental health. “It’s certainly part of the investigation but it’s too early for me to conﬁrm that now,” LePard told reporters at the Cambie Street headquarters of theVancouver Police Department. “Just on the face of what happened, you have to wonder about that.”

As ofWednesday afternoon, the victim and the suspect were in serious condition in hospital while one female officer is recovering from wounds to her face from flying glass. Gerald Mark Battersby has been charged with six counts of attempted murder after he allegedly shot Dragan outside a Starbucks on Davie Street at Marinaside Crescent. Battersby is then alleged to have engaged in two separate gun battles with police — the first outside the Starbucks and the second outside Science World. Five of the counts are for attempting to kill officers, two of whom were about to go for coffee at the Starbucks around 11 a.m. when Dragan was shot on the sidewalk outside their unmarked car. Dragan’s bike shop is lo-

cated across the street from the Starbucks on a trendy strip of Yaletown, near the waterfront. The officers, whom LePard said were detectives from the major crime unit, immediately challenged the suspect with their guns. In doing so, a bullet shattered the window of the unmarked car, with flying glass hitting a female officer inside. A large lobby window to an adjacent condominium building was also shot out in the exchange of gunfire before the suspect fled on a bicycle along the seawall. Officers gave chase, including one who commandeered a bicycle, before other officers intercepted the suspect outside Science World. More shots were fired, with another police car getting its back window shot out before

police bullets dropped the suspect and he was arrested. “I’m in awe of the professionalism and courage that our officers displayed — who literally were running into danger as people were fleeing and diving for cover,” said LePard, who has reviewed video of the shootout outside Science World. LePard said the suspect is also facing firearms charges and that he did not “legally possess” the gun recovered from him.The suspect has some criminal history but LePard wouldn’t elaborate, except to say it wasn’t extensive. LePard used the words miraculous and extraordinary to describe what he said was a rare event in Vancouver, one he has never experienced in his 33 years on the job. twitter.com/Howellings

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News Residents’ association filed petition in B.C. Supreme Court Continued from page 1 That decision isn’t expected until next summer. Furthermore, the residents’ association filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court in May in an effort to stop the city from continuing to issue Concord a temporary permit to operate a sales centre on the park site. The residents’ association says Concord is operating on land designated for green space.The developer, they say, has also reaped significant profits from renting the property to various organizations over the years. The Quebec government, for example, paid Concord $1.3 million to set up the Maison du Quebec on the property during the 2010 Winter Games. Cirque du Soleil is currently using the property for its Totem production, which runs until July 6. Jackson acknowledged the residents’ legal

challenge in an exchange with Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs, who asked when the park could be expected to be built. “To be honest councillor, we’re now constrained by the fact that we have a lawsuit against us,” Jackson replied. “That will affect our ability to negotiate on the park. It will constrain our ability.We will be spending a lot of time in preparing for a court case.” The park was part of the discussion at the hearings after Concord applied to get a rezoning application approved to build 28-storey and 30-storey residential towers at 998 Expo Blvd. The staff report for the development pointed out the park cannot be developed until Concord decides to develop another parcel of land adjacent to Rogers Arena. That land, known as Area 6 in planning documents, is ﬁlled with contaminated soil left over from False Creek’s

industrial past. The plan calls for the developer to dump the soil on the park site, where it will be remediated. It’s a requirement of the provincial government, which will pay for the costs of soil remediation. Concord said in a statement on its website that rezoning of the land could happen within three years. The statement cited the city’s ongoing study on the viaducts and planning delays during the 2010 Winter Olympics as reasons for not proceeding with a rezoning application. “Although we have been delayed and impacted, we understand the 2010 Games and the viaduct studies were and are important civic initiatives,” the statement said. “We are as anxious as our neighbours to see our waterfront developments and the park completed as soon as possible.” twitter.com/Howellings

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here in Canada under the current conditions of neoliberalism and privatization of social housing lands and the disappearance of coops, all that kind of stuff.” Vaisbord has raised more than $10,000 toward his goal of $50,000 to fund the making of the Little Mountain documentary through an Indiegogo campaign that ends June 23. While he recognizes community activism and fundraising successes,Vaisbord remains concerned about the redevelopment. Holborn development manager Phil Scott says Holborn submitted a rezoning application to the city in February. Vaisbord said the application didn’t include amenities and improvements sought by area residents. Scott disagrees. The Courier asked to speak to the city’s Little Mountain project planner Ben Johnson, but instead received an email from the city’s communications department that states: “Further work is needed on the strategy for the delivery

of the public amenities required, including the neighbourhood house, childcare and park improvements.The city is working with Holborn to develop this strategy.” The city’s Little Mountain project web pages don’t include the rezoning application and Scott doesn’t believe the application has been posted with other rezoning proposals on the city’s website. Little Mountain residents learned in 2007 the site would be redeveloped.The B.C. government, City of Vancouver and Holborn Properties have worked together since 2008 to redevelop the 6.15-hectare site that borders Queen Elizabeth Park. Most families relocated from Little Mountain by September 2009. The original 224 social housing units are to eventually be replaced with 234 social housing apartments. Former residents will be given the ﬁrst opportunity to occupy the new units. A city representative said in an email Wednesday that “getting the former tenants

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Documentary ﬁlmmaker David Vaisbord focuses on community’s success of seeing a seniors’ building constructed ﬁrst at Little Mountain. PHOTO: DAN TOULGOET

back into affordable housing will happen at the earliest phases of the project.” Policy for the development allows four- to eightstorey buildings along Main Street, two 12-storey structures and buildings of four to 10 storeys elsewhere.The city said the rezoning application adheres to those guidelines. The B.C. housing ministry announced last

July the province would receive approximately $300 million in sales money and non-market housing over the development period.The province is to invest net proceeds from the sale of the site into social housing throughout the province, with half of those proceeds targeted for Vancouver. Proceeds are being invested in 2,100 new supporting housing

units around the province, 1,500 of which are in Vancouver, including at 14 city-owned sites. Nine of the 14 new supportive housing developments have opened. Four more sites will open this year.The last building is anticipated to be complete in 2016. Redeveloping Little Mountain is expected to take a decade. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Opinion Heritage protection Summer reading means overdue and underdone digital disconnection Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com The City of Vancouver’s move this week to save heritage and character homes from destruction may be feeble and it is certainly too long in coming. But, to be charitable, it is at least a step in the right direction. This is mostly a West Side issue. It is mostly the East Side which concerns itself with issues of gentrification and the loss of subsidized housing for the poor and the homeless through “renovictions.” It is the West Side and the West End where there has been growing concern about the destruction of heritage and pre1940 character homes.That’s where you will find the biggest concentration of these homes (50 per cent of the housing stock) — in Arbutus, Dunbar and Kerrisdale. And no area has more at stake in the rush to demolish than the one known as First Shaughnessy. The city’s planning director Brian Jackson noted in his report to council on Tuesday the extreme pressure on that area. For first 30 years following the 1982 Official Development Plan, there were 47 development permits approved to demolish pre-1940 houses. In the past 18 month, he says, the number of inquiries “has risen dramatically” with 16 proposals for demolition. Clearly, whatever protection the city thought it had in place for this housing stock was not working. Hence the one year moratorium imposed by the city. And you simply have to walk the streets of the West Side to see no block has been spared. In fact, Jackson admits that applications for destruction and reconstruction have overwhelmed city staff.They simply cannot keep up. Heritage advocate Michael Kluckner has been lamenting the changes to Vancouver for decades. But it is that growing concern being led by social media campaigner, writer and Kerrisdale resident Caroline Adderson, which has caught the attention of council and the public most recently. The latest flash point that has people pushing back is Legg House, a heritage mansion in the West End slated for destruction. For more, check out her Facebook page “Vancouver Vanishes.”Through posted photos and text we learn of the demolition of houses with unique architectural features built with irreplaceable old growth lumber.They are being busted up in a matter of hours producing on average 100 tons

of waste which is then hauled off to the landﬁll. A regional report on landﬁll waste in 2011 pointed out that 74 per cent of Vancouver’s demolition and construction waste came from residential sources.That compared with 12 per cent from Richmond.Those demolished houses are being replaced by much larger buildings that take up more of the “footprint.”They have practically no back yards because of double and triple garages. In the course of their construction, large trees falling within that footprint are taken down.

For more, check out Adderson’s Facebook page “Vancouver Vanishes.” While the park board kvetches about a loss of tree canopy in the city, they need look no further than the city’s zoning policy to realize all of this is all legal, the result of zoning regulations that allow for the increased mass and height of homes, all of which existed before Gregor Robertson and Vision took ofﬁce almost six years ago. And, until now, they chose to do nothing about it. The new regulations will make destruction of pre-1940 character homes more expensive because 90 per cent of the materials will have to be salvaged. But that additional cost is peanuts compared with the overall cost of the new building. There will also be density incentives for people who want to keep these homes and renovate or expand them. But up until now the demands to bring the buildings up to modern days building codes have been prohibitive in terms of cost. Those demands, we are told, will be relaxed under the new building code which comes in 2015. Finally, there is nothing new in what the city is doing.They are complying with regional demands to reduce waste going to the landﬁll and they are following the lead of a half a dozen jurisdictions in North America when it comes to promoting deconstruction and salvage of building materials. Of course, deconstruction is not preservation. And it will take a least a year to see if this effort around heritage and character homes actually does much. twitter.com/allengarr

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The number of attempted murder charges faced by Gerald Mark Battersby, 61, after the shooting of a Yaletown business owner and subsequent shootout with police on Tuesday.

The number of beluga whales owned by the Vancouver Aquarium that are currently on loan and scheduled to return to the facility once a $60-million expansion is complete.

Geoff Olson Columnist mwiseguise@yahoo.com It’s that time of the season again.Time to head down to the beach with that dogeared, sunblock-stained blockbuster you failed to finish last summer. With our shrinking attention spans and busy lives, books seem harder than ever to finish — or even start. Slim volumes swell to focus-demanding cinderblocks, even without getting damp from the beach. I KnowWhy The Caged Bird Sings becomes I Don’t Know Why I Can’t Read The Damn Thing. At least that’s how it is with me. After about six weeks of digital dithering, I tried getting back into old-school analog reading. I’d pull something from my bookshelf and crack the spine in a spirit of optimism. Within the first few pages my mind would start pacing around like a Jack Russell locked in a bathroom. I kept feeling the gravitational pull of my tablet and laptop. I just wanted to sit quietly with a few of my favourite authors, but they rejected my attempts at print-based intimacy. Or rather, my brain rebelled. In just little more than a month, it had turned into a junkie jonesing for another quick shot of dopamine from the online world.

“The implicit feel of where you are in a physical book turns out to be more important than we realized.” — Abigail Sellen I doubt a Kindle or other e-reader would help with the problem — certainly not if it had access to email and websites. A study in Norway recently determined that students learn better from texts on paper than pdf ﬁles on computers with 15-inch LCD monitors. Ebooks also come second to the printed page in terms of comprehension, according to Abigail Sellen of Microsoft Research Cambridge in England. “The implicit feel of where you are in a physical book turns out to be more important than we realized,” Sellen told Scientiﬁc American. “Only when you get an ebook

do you start to miss it. I don’t think e-book manufacturers have thought enough about how you might visualize where you are in a book.”’ It used to be when I focused on a challenging passage in a book, I would look up from the page and marinate in the words. It was something of a meditative practice. But my brain had traded deep and narrow for wide and shallow. I totally get comic Patton Oswalt’s recent decision to swear off social media for the summer. “I’ve aggressively rewired my own brain to live and die in a 140 character jungle,” he wrote on Facebook. “I want to de-atrophy the muscles I once had.The ones I used to charge through books, sprint through films, amble pleasantly through a new music album or a human conversation. I’ve lost them — willingly, mind you. My fault. Got addicted to the empty endorphins of being online.” Oswalt became addicted to “a portal to a shadow planet” the “size of a deck of cards.” He couldn’t keep himself “from peeling off one card after another, looking for a rare ace of sensation.” Unlike the comic, I have no smartphone — just a dumb, lozenge-shaped one with an alphanumeric keypad and no Internet access.That’s quite deliberate on my part. As an info-junkie and info-hoarder by nature, I need extra distractions the way basketball honcho Donald Sterling needs an open mic. Yet even with my pocket partner from the digital Paleolithic, I was still struggling with that modern affliction, “continuous partial attention.” CPA results from incessant multitasking, which is the practice of simultaneously doing a number of things poorly rather than doing one thing well. I work at home and spend a huge chunk of my life online. For all the fantastic websites, news portals and links to pussycat videos, when I get out the door I prefer to be free of the attention-fracturing Borg. In the words of writer and artist Douglas Coupland: “I miss my pre-Internet brain.” Coupland’s intellectual ancestor, Marshall McLuhan, was right. How you watch, listen or read is as important as what you watch, listen or read.The medium is the message. “I need to dry out, and remind myself of the deeper tides I used to be able to swim in — in pages, and celluloid, and sounds, and people,” wrote Patton Oswalt before signing off. For my part, I’m determined to start and finish a whack of books this summer. It’s a modest and numerically undefined goal. geoffolson.com

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The number of potential NPA mayoral candidates remaining — Kirk LaPointe and Ian Robertson — after Leonard Brody announced Thursday he was bailing out.

The number of social housing units available once the new Little Mountain housing complex is completed, 10 more than the number that were torn down in 2009.

This year’s anniversary for Bard on the Beach, which began its latest season this week with productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Cymbeline and Bill Cain’s Equivocation.

In millions of dollars, the estimated average cost of a detached Vancouver house in 20 years, according to a new study by Altus Group.

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To the editor: Re: “Sidewalk cyclists deserve zero tolerance,” June 6. If anything Allen Garr understates the problem.When I go for my daily walk in Kits, provided it isn’t raining, I am constantly avoiding cyclists riding on the sidewalk. As a senior I am seriously at risk if I get knocked down by a cyclist. I have never seen or heard of a cyclist being ticketed for riding on the sidewalk or any other infraction. Unfortunately in Vision Vancouver we have a civic government that cares about two groups, cyclists and developers. No one else. Paul Ambeau, Vancouver

Libs risk B.C.’s future with ALR restructuring

To the editor: Re: “Land reserve changes made surprisingly easily,” June 4. What do you expect? People hate regulation, even if the regulation is for the good of the future of B.C. Of course, people complain when they get land cheap and ﬁnd they can’t do what they want on it because of the Agricultural Land Reserve. This bill is all about corporate need (greed might be better word) and nothing about putting families ﬁrst. Shame on the B.C. Liberals for damaging the future viability of food security in B.C. It is extremely short-sighted and self-serving. David Marlor, Victoria

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COURIER STORY: “Instagram star shares tales of Vancouver,” June 6. Mark Brand @eastvanbrand: Instagram star @donovanpee shares “We’re all in this together.” Hell yes! #DTES #healthycity4all Donovan Pee Mahoney @donovanpee: Thanks for taking time to talk with me & share what I’m doing through your writing in @VanCourierNews. COURIER STORY: “Councillor’s Sochi trip cost $42K,” June 6. Deg: And don’t forget that the owner of Boldt communications is Lesli Boldt, sister of Vision park board member Trevor Loke.The incestuous connections never end with this Vision administration, who are all more than happy to pay each other with tax payer’s money. 21Reality_Bites: Grotesque, as always! I thought the City said that they were not going to accept “donations” by their developer friends in order to offset this trip? The fact that the trip only yielded face time for Stevenson back home tells you the true nature of this field trip. Soren @stromkonsult: “I’m dyslexic!” Now can I get a FREE TRIP from @CityofVancouver to my favorite #Moscow Dyslexic Bar? COURIER COLUMN: “Seniors housing needs a range of choices,” June 10. Sheryl Spencer: Unfortunately, the re-zoning proposal does not include converting the Casa Mia mansion — allowing residents “to party late into the night on a sprung dance floor.” It applies to cut down all the trees and build an additional 20,000 sq ft warehouse on the front lawn of the estate for rooms that are 10’x10’ — some of which are underground. If the developer applied to convert Casa Mia into a Canuck Place-style seniors care home, the neighbourhood would have supported the rezoning as would have the Seniors Advisory Committee and construction would be nearing completion. Choice is good, but I don’t think anyone would chose a 10’x10’ isolated room in a location far from amenities. COURIER COLUMN: “Sidewalk cyclists deserve zero tolerance,” June 6. Elke Porter: It is scary when the cyclists comes up behind you unexpectedly on the sidewalk, but I also have to say that there are plenty of people who walk on the bikepath, meander all over the bike path, use their headphones while walking on the bikepath, let their kids/dogs run diagonally all over the bike path or otherwise impede cyclists. Cyclists don’t have a lot of space to call their own. Betty Le:When I see a cyclist riding on the sidewalk, I get a strong urge to kick them over as they pass. I’ll have to test it out one of these days. Melissa: I think we need to practice a little more tolerance towards each other.We are all just trying to get to where we are going as conveniently and safely as possible.We as people are not trying to harm anyone else in the process lets try and remember that. I am you and you are me, less entitlement more tolerance makes for a happy, functional society. Linda Rothney: Never mind cyclists, I am more annoyed at skateboarders roaring up behind me. I ride my bike on the sidewalk if there are no people on the sidewalk.Why pick on cyclists when skateboarders don’t wear helmets, have no lights at night and make way too much noise?

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‘You shouldn’t believe in a claim until it’s proven’ PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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When Pat O’Brien was eight or nine years old, his father told him that a watched pot never boils. “So I got a pot, put it on the stove, never took my eyes off it and it boiled,” says O’Brien. “From that moment on I was a skeptic. I wouldn’t believe anything until I actually saw it for myself.” Pretty soon, he was applying the same criteria to religion. “My entire life was Catholicism,” he says. He attended Catholic elementary school and was a devoted young parishioner at the church up Cambie from the Starbucks we were sitting in — the place with the “dead guy hanging out front,” as he puts it now — where he really honed his skepticism. “I started asking questions about religion and there were no answers,” he says. “So I started thinking, well, if they don’t actually have answers for things that they’re saying, maybe what they’re saying isn’t true. So that started me on a road to critical thinking.” He would go on to be the head of Humanist Canada and is now a board member of the Centre for Inquiry Canada, whose mission is to advance “skeptical, secular, rational and humanistic inquiry.” CFI is comparatively new on the scene — it began in Toronto in 2005 and went national in 2007. There are several atheist groups in Canada. Some

Pat O’Brien, a board member of the Centre for Inquiry Canada, doesn’t believe churches should be exempt from paying taxes. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

focus on fellowship of likeminded people, including creating rites for God-free life cycle events like weddings and funerals. CFI sees itself more as a think tank and political advocacy agency. CFI was the ﬁrst in the door when the federal government opened its Ofﬁce of Religious Freedom. One of the topics the group is taking up is tax exemptions for churches. “As a tax-exempt organization, we have enormous hoops that we have to jump through to prove that what we’re doing is actually charitable,” O’Brien says. “Churches don’t.They can do pretty much whatever they want. And that’s a

problem, because that’s a lot of money that could be possibly coming into government coffers that isn’t.” For O’Brien, and for Richard French, another CFI member who joined us, evidence-based reasoning is the driver of a passionate dedication. “Skepticism, ﬁrst of all, is the idea that you shouldn’t believe in a claim until it’s proven,” O’Brien says. “If somebody makes a claim about something, you want evidence.The more extraordinary the claim, the more extraordinary the evidence.” Though O’Brien works in ﬁlm and TV and French is an actor and author, CFI members have an overrep-

resentation of “sciencey” people. French chimes in: “My own personal concern is fuzzy thinking. I believe religion is fuzzy thinking. Pseudo-science is fuzzy thinking. Belief in aliens is fuzzy thinking.” French was raised in the United Kingdom by atheist parents who wanted the best education for their son, despite their poverty. They got him into a Catholic school on scholarship. (He’s not active in the alumni association.) French’s four children are all atheists, in the family tradition, but for them it is no big deal, he says. They fall into the category the two call “apatheists”

— they’re not religious and they’re not actively nonreligious. It’s not an issue. They’re just … apatheists. “It would be like asking you, ‘Well, what do you think about witches?’” French says. “But 300 years ago that was a serious question. Nowadays we don’t think about it.” French admits not thinking about religion is easier in Canada than in most places in the world, including the United States. Religion has not permeated politics and civil society as much here as it has elsewhere, which may be one of the reasons their organization is one of only a few in Canada, where the United

States has multiple and major atheist organizations. O’Brien clariﬁes the terminology: “Atheism is not the position that there is no God. Atheism is the position that God has never been proved,” he says. “Atheism is simply the idea that religious people have not met their burden of proof.That’s all.” Believers might say that the proof will come in time. O’Brien has a tart response to the idea that the world is governed by a benevolent God. “If there was a God, every person in the world would be more moral than that God,” he says. “If you knew that somebody was going to rape a child, you would do everything you could to stop it. What does God do? Lets it happen and then says, ‘I’ll punish you after.’” Despite their own experiences with Catholicism, both O’Brien and French challenge the idea that atheists are acting out of a knee-jerk rejection of religion. On the contrary, they contend, most atheists know more about religion than adherents do. In fact, a 2010 Pew study indicated that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons were the most informed about the contents of Judeo-Christian holy works, exceeding the awareness levels of evangelical Christians and mainline Christians. “I’d say for most Christians the Bible is like a software agreement,” O’Brien says. “You don’t read it, you just scroll to the bottom and click ‘agree.’”

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Science and music key passions for Killarney teen Cheryl Rossi

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When teen Austin Wang considers his amazing success in both music and science, he credits the patience of his parents. “I have to thank them for letting me bring all this steer manure into the home,” said Wang, 16. “We leave it in our hallway at home and it smells absolutely terrible.” The manure comes with his passion for the potential of microbial biofuel cells. The musical success flows from playing the piano since he was six and composing his own tunes. And he isn’t the only one who appreciates his passions.The Killarney resident has won seven science honours in the last two months and a music composition contest that will take him to Vienna in August. Wang’s microbial fuel cells won him: • the award for the project with the most commercial potential in April at the regional Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada, and fifth at Sanofi overall • a gold medal and two other awards at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair in April and took him to Windsor, Ont., for the Canada-Wide Science Fair, where he won silver

Austin Wang balances his passions for microbial fuel cells and composing for piano to great acclaim. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

• top honours in the DuPont Challenge Science Essay Competition. Wang attends the David Thompson Odyssey mini school in Victoria-Fraserview, which provides accelerated learning with an academic focus for gifted students.Wang’s physics teacher told the class they could write a mid-year exam or write the DuPont competition essay. “I really didn’t expect to win anything,”Wang said. “I just wanted to not do the exam.” Entering a science fair was mandatory at Odyssey in Grade 8.Wang enjoyed the experience so continued entering competitions. He worked with hydrogen fuel cells at the Grade 8 sci-

ence fair, started researching microbial fuel cells on his own in Grade 9 and worked at a lab at the University of B.C. this year. “This technology is really interesting because it’s kind of like a three-in-one device,” said Wang. With microbial fuel cells, Wang can produce electricity, treat wastewater and produce clean water. He packs steer and mushroom manure, river sediment and garden soil into plastic boxes with wires and electrodes to harness a natural process that sees exoelectrogenic bacteria break down organic matter, extract electrons and with electrodes create energy. He can power an LED light but

research has shown such fuel cells could be used in roofs to power all of the electricity in a home. His friends encouraged him to seek out musical composition competitions during a school trip in Japan last year. Friends would giveWang four notes and he’d use them to improvise a new song. “I decided it might be a good idea, just to motivate myself, to set a deadline to actually write something down,”Wang said. “Friends and family have been a huge part in what I’ve been able to accomplish,” said the lone child of a father who’s a locksmith and a mother who works in the home. Wang plans to research another aspect of microbial fuel cells next year and to continue teaching piano to kids, playing and composing. “I have a feeling [my love of music is] going to keep going through my entire life,” he said. Sacriﬁcing sleep and playing school basketball this year are outweighed by the fun of pursuing his passions. Wang couldn’t say which accomplishment has brought him the most enjoyment. “I work hard for everything,” he said, “but, ultimately, I think everything is just a huge blessing from God.” twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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News New rules target home demolitions DEVELOPING STORY

Naoibh O’Connor

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Council approved new regulations Wednesday aimed at reducing the number of older homes being knocked down and that will require building materials be reused and recycled for pre-1940 homes if they are knocked down. “[The recommendations] passed unanimously with amendments to provide staff with resources to clear [the] backlog of development permits and to put priority on work to identify further incentives to retain character houses,”VisionVancouver Coun. Heather Deal told the Courier in an email. Specific measures include: • a one-year prohibition on demolishing pre-1940 homes in the First Shaughnessy District so the city can complete a review of the area’s official development plan and determine what steps can be taken to conserve heritage property in the district • a requirement that to demolish a pre-1940 home, the owner must implement a plan to reuse and recycle 75 per cent of the waste, and for a pre-1940 character home, 90 per cent of the waste. • Eliminating the need for a development proforma for retention proposals with up to an additional 10 per cent floor-space ratio, simplifying the process for homeowners. The vote came after several people spoke on the topic. Many were in favour, while a few raised some concerns. Linda Collins, a member of the First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel, told council she supported the recommendations, particularly the one-year moratorium. Collins is worried about both heritage buildings and heritage landscapes. Dallas Brodie, another member of the design panel and a member of the Shaughnessy Heights Property Owners’ Association, said she hoped council

would adopt the measures. Brodie called the pace of demolition in Shaughnessy “distressing” and said many new houses going up look like “bloated hotels” not stately family homes. Jane Ingman Baker, chair of the Dunbar Vision Implementation Committee, said different neighbourhoods face different issues. She said Dunbar wants the city to provide more incentives for retention of older homes and that she’s concerned penalties would increase the pace of demolition. “Our most pressing concern is that some of the provisions could be seen as penalizing owners of character pre-1940 properties. That view, in our opinion, could lead to increased demolition of homes not yet caught in the regime and may act as disincentives to current owners to retain and maintain the character of existing homes.” Ingman Baker also argued deconstruction should apply to all demolitions. Caroline Adderson, who’s behind theVancouverVanishes Facebook page, expressed support for the measures, but asked that the city also consider incentives such as a relaxed building code. Adderson said protection should also be given to homes built during the 1940s. In a press release issued after the vote, Mayor Gregor Robertson said the city wants to make it easier to preserve a home than to tear it down and that the new policies will also create green jobs in the deconstruction sector. “These new policies are practical steps to preserve neighbourhood character, and respond to the concerns we’ve heard from local residents about the demolition of older homes,” Robertson said in the statement. “We’ve put in place new incentives to encourage homeowners to choose preservation over demolition, which will help us maintain heritage and move us closer to our greenest city goals.” twitter.com/naoibh

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Cyclists get bare and aware Christopher Cheung

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Anthony Stal is a cyclist. Sometimes he bikes naked. “It’s quite relieving to feel a breeze between your legs,” said Stal. In 2004,World Naked Bike Ride was started in Vancouver by artist and social activist Conrad Schmidt.This year 70 cities in 20 countries are hosting events. Vancouver will be hosting the ride on June 14. Free body painting and performances will begin noon at Sunset Beach.The ride starts at 2 p.m. and loops around downtown before returning to the beach for a free picnic. The reason behind the exposure is the idea that people are increasingly exposed to a declining environment due to pollution and car culture. Some may be intimidated at the thought of getting naked, but Saw-Mon Gharid says not to worry. “People can take off as many layers as they want,” said Gharid, who is joining the ride for the third time. “No one is forced to go all the way.We have a saying that goes ‘Bare as you

dare.’ If you want, you can come wearing scuba gear.” Gharid mentions a friend who was intimidated by the crowd at the beach but later stripped down to nothing as the ride went on. “Everyone is really friendly and you make friends really easily.” Gharid is a big fan of the ride. He visits bike routes to scrawl event details in chalk to promote the event. Stal is joining for the ﬁrst time this year but he isn’t new to biking nude, which is something he enjoys on summer evenings. He’s used to the reactions. “People usually laugh when they see me,” said Stal. “They point but not in a rude way, they’re more awkwarded out.” People who happen to be downtown during the ride have divided responses to the nudity. Many turn away, but many also like to watch. “Some people become really happy when they see us because it’s unexpected,” said Gharib. “They go, ‘Wow.What is happening? What is this?’ A lot of people like to take pictures.” Stal thinks Vancouverites are still shy about nudity,

something he hopes will change. “It doesn’t have to be crude in a sexual way,” said Stal. “Even when people come down to places like Wreck Beach, they become closed and unaccepting.” “Being nude in public should be celebrated,” said Gharib. “People shouldn’t feel ashamed.” Common concerns on theWorld Naked Bike Ride website are regarding accidental injury and legality. Participants are assured that biking nude is safe, though helmets are encouraged.The website says no charges have ever been pressed against nude cyclists. Nudists on tricycles, skateboards and longboards have also joined in the events. Last year, a naked ukulele player entertained participants from the back of a truck that followed the riders. Participants are advised to keep their clothes with them, just in case they need them after the ride. “It’s not about forcing people to be naked,” said Stal. “The main thing is to get people together and increase awareness about the [environmental] issues.” twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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The University of British Columbia and CORIX Utilities are looking for your feedback as we review the ﬁrst phase of the implementation of the Neighbourhood District Energy System (NDES) at the University of British Columbia. UBC has partnered with CORIX Utilities to implement and operate the NDES, which will provide heat and domestic hot water to new residential developments on UBC lands.

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Time: 4:00 – 7:00pm Place: MBA House, 3385 Wesbrook Mall The objective of the NDES is to support UBC’s goal of a sustainable live-work-learn community through providing low carbon energy for the UBC residential neighbourhoods. Can’t attend in person? More information is available at planning.ubc.ca, where you can also complete the online questionnaire from June 16 to 29. For additional information on the NDES Project, contact: Media Relations, Phone: 604-232-2128 Email: mediarelations@corix.com

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We had such a great response to our call for stories about fathers that we’re running more in this issue as a follow-up to our ﬁrst feature Wednesday. A reminder: Father’s Day is June 15. Chicago transplant, and now happy Vancouverite, Kristi Lundgren is missing her dad this Father’s Day but took the time to share this story

with Courier readers. I spent days thinking of the perfect story about my dad, but the truth is virtually every story about my dad is perfect in its own little way. Not only is he the funniest person I’ve ever met, he is also the most loving, caring and hardest-working man in the world. In.The. World.Whether he is sacriﬁcing his own reputation to make someone laugh or going miles out of his way to lend a helping hand, I think everyone who knows him would agree with me saying

he’s the guy who can make your day a little brighter or your load a little lighter. While scrolling through my memory banks, I landed on a story that always makes me laugh regardless of what my current mood may be. Par three golf course, circa 1999 — my dad tees off and slices the ball directly into a nearby backyard, striking a barbecue at full force. Being the gentleman my dad is, he apologized to the owner who was standing less than ﬁve feet away from the grill. He then proceeded to put another ball on the tee, perfect his stance, ignore what had just happened, swing his club — and hit the ball into her barbecue. Again.To which the woman replied: “I’ve lived here for 25 years and nobody has ever done that once, let alone twice in a row.” To me, that’s not poor golﬁng ability, that’s accuracy and consistency. Look out,Tiger Woods. And, even though we’re 2,156

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miles apart, stories like this (and a multitude of others) remind me that absolutely no distance will ever come between our connection, our history and all he has taught me. ••• Victoria resident and vancourier.com online reader Judith Fenner remembers her dad’s sometimes cryptic words of wisdom that still make her smile when she thinks about them today. Two things my dad always said that I think were

funny were, if we asked him what something was he usually said: “It’s a phoophoo valve for a teddy bear’s arsehole.” (Not sure if you can print that).Then, if we asked him were something of ours was, he’d say: “Up in Nellie’s room behind the radiator.” No one knew who Nellie was and no one had a radiator. ••• Janis Dalgleish, multimedia sales representative for the Vancouver Courier and Glacier Media Group, had this to say about her dad: When I was growing up my dad was always supportive of me playing golf. He would always include me when he was going, whether with my mom and my brother (my sisters were NOT sporty), extended family with aunts and uncles, or even the neighbours he played with every week. Not one to be a know-itall, he only gave small pointers, but was very proud of

my swing. He would yell to other golfers at the local course, “Hey watch her tee off.”That would embarrass me to death, and usually the pressure would mean I would ﬂub the shot. One thing he would always say is, “You will ﬁnd a husband when you’re at the golf course.” He was always right. I was at the driving range practising my swing one day, when I met a guy. Ended up with that guy for 12 years now. Not only that but my dad and my guy share a birthday.

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stories of Dad Courier readerTracy Pullman Selock remembers the day her dad turned the tables on her and her twin sister Sherry one hot summer’s day. It was a summer afternoon in Chilliwack and all of us kids decided we needed to start a water ﬁght. My sister and I grabbed buckets and jugs we ﬁlled with water and as we were outside throwing it at each other, having a lot of fun, my dad arrived home.We decided it would be funny to throw the water at my dad, but he grabbed the hose, spraying us all. Everyone was laughing and having a great time, but when dad started spraying us twins, we decided to hide in the house just for a break.We thought wrong. As we ran in the house, dad followed hose and all. Needless to say, the house inside and out was soaking wet.That was the best day ever with my dad. ••• Kerry Lancaster says one story about her dad Bruce Fleury, which has since become a family legend, has to do with a trip to Florida. Lancaster explains her mom and dad spend their winters in Florida and during this particular visit had been at the condo for a

month or so when they ran out of matches. They needed to light the barbecue. So my dad, in great form, rolled some paper and stuck it into the toaster, which was still in the kitchen. Once the roll was on ﬁre he ran through the living room to the barbecue outside and lit it. Lancaster says coincidentally at the same time her brother Keith was chatting to her mom, Lynne, via Skype. And all he could see was this ﬂame racing through the condo.To this day the only thing my dad thinks he may have done wrong was not moving the toaster closer to the barbecue.

••• Drielle Tousignant wanted to share a story about her partner Jeff Panter’s introduction to fatherhood after the couple became parents to Logan six years ago. Jeff would get up in the morning to change and feed Logan while I slept, but one morning I woke up to him yelling, “DRIELLE HURRY UP GET IN HERE” (in a sheer panic). I bolted out of bed thinking something horrible had happened. I

went around the corner and there was Jeff holding both of Logan’s legs up in the air. It was then I also noticed that Logan had pooped from the change table to down the bedroom door.Welcome to fatherhood, Jeff. Courier staffer Jeanie Puro says her workaholic dad had the same theme song for each vacation. When we were kids the very ﬁrst thing my dad would do anytime we went on a family road trip was play Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” in the car.We would literally back out of our drive way listening to that song.Work is one of my father’s greatest passions in life. He was so hard-working he would not allow himself to indulge in ketchup unless he was on vacation. Now he is retired after practising as an ophthalmologist for more than 30 years.Today he is enjoying ketchup and Willie Nelson.

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cover for everyone. And while skulls continue to be a popular theme, hitch covers can feature sports teams, animal heads, beer bottle openers, super hero, Star Wars and smiley face designs, messages such as “Old Fart” or “Bite Me,” and the unfortunate “Truck Nutz.” (You’ll know them when you see them.) Canadian Tire sells a “Don’t Shoot Me” version, which includes an animated deer with a target on its belly. • Accessories:Why not pick up a pair of antlers that promises to transform dad’s “truck into a buck.” Then there’s Carstache, which describes itself as the “undisputed global leader in automotive facial hair.” Dad is sure to be surprised to ﬁnd a giant coloured moustache mounted on his car or truck as he heads to work in the morning. And just in time for Pride, a rainbow-coloured version is also available. Carstache.com. • Licence plate covers: Again, it’s dad’s preference, but licence plate covers can pay tribute to everything from his favourite football team to vacation locations to pride of place. • Magnetic bumper stickers: Dad can still brag about his honour student, but without the mess of an adhesive bumper sticker. Again, there are hundreds of designs to choose from. (Search for “magnetic bumper stickers” online.) • Air fresheners: Dad no longer has to settle for the traditional scent of fresh pine, but can instead ﬁll his vehicle with the essence of coconut, vanilla or “new car” smell. Automotive air fresheners today include everything from battery operated, dash-mounted models to the classic pine tree on a string. twitter.com/sthomas10

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A line-up of Appleton Estate rums at a tasting at the distillery. They range from the entry level V/X, designed for blending in cocktails to the cognac-like 21 Year Old. PHOTO JOANNE SASVARI

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something else, too, something deliciously unique to Appleton’s Jamaican origins. Call it terroir, if you like. Although the concept of terroir — ﬂavour characteristics that result from a speciﬁc climate and geography — is a familiar one in the world of wine, it is rarely experienced in spirits. Appleton Estate rum is among the few spirits that can truly be made in just one place. For that we can thank the distillery’s lush island setting, its long history (rum’s been produced on the estate since 1749) and its master blender, Joy Spence. Now, you might be thinking that if you’ve done one distillery tour, you’ve done ’em all.Think again. For one thing, just getting here is half the adventure.The distillery is on a 4,000-hectare estate in the NassauValley in the centre of Jamaica, two hours of narrow, twisty and potholed road away from the island’s beach resorts. The drive meanders through tropical forest, past ramshackle villages and countless rum shacks, fruit stands and jerk barbecue pits. You climb up and up and suddenly emerge at the distillery gates. Check in, and a guide will take you through the plant, starting with a sip of the estate’s own secretrecipe rum punch. Later on you’ll be able to taste fresh sugar cane juice: Appleton is one of the world’s few rum distilleries to grow and process its own sugar cane on site. The sugar cane here has an unusually high sucrose content, the result of heat trapped by the misty hills surrounding the estate as well as frequent rains that remove the need for irriga-

tion. Add to that a nutrient-rich alluvial clay soil, water filtered through a rare limestone karst formation and site-specific natural yeast used in fermentation, and you have a pretty sweet recipe for rum. But there’s more. For the technically inclined, there are explanations of the distillery’s quirky combination of stainless-steel continuous stills, which ensure consistency, and copper pot stills, which add depth of flavour and distinctive orange-peel aromas. And then there’s the barrel-aging room, stuffed to the rafters with 240,000 American oak casks. Appleton only sells aged rums, and is one of very few rum producers to follow the scotch industry’s age-statement system, which means the age on the bottle refers to the youngest liquid in the blend, not an average. Your tour ends with the opportunity to sample and buy the estate’s products, including the entry level V/X, Reserve, 12Year Old and perhaps the 21Year Old. Sadly, you’re not likely to try the limited edition 50Year Old, the world’s oldest—and most expensive—barrel-aged rum. But if you’re lucky, Spence might stop by to talk about her beloved rum, its terroir, its history and the sheer enjoyment of a storied spirit. “It’s a beautiful afternoon at Appleton, so let’s take a sip,” she might say. And when you do, there’s Jamaica, on the tip of your tongue. For more information on Appleton Estate rum, history, recipes and more, visit appletonestate.com. For information on travel to Jamaica, go to jamaica.com. More stories at culturelocker.com.

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1 June 13 to 17, 2014 1. Bard on the Beach returns to the balmy, tent-friendly shores of Vanier Park for another summer of Shakespeare al fresco.This year’s festival, which runs until Sept. 20, includes the Dean Paul Gibsondirected A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Meg Roe’s re-imagined The Tempest, Cymbeline and Bill Cain’s Equivocation. Details at bardonthebeach.org. 2. Commemorating the centenary of the First World War,Vancity Theatre screens ApocalypseWWI June 13 to 15. Culled from more than 500 hours of archival material, this epic French-Canadian co-production led by French documentarians Isabelle Clark and Daniel Costello unfolds in five 52-minute installments and includes two panel discussions. For show times and more information, go to viff.org. 3. The Cinematheque hosts its annual open house June 14. Beginning at noon, the family-friendly afternoon includes guided tours of the projection booth, film reference library, film archive and West Coast film collection, a film poster auction and a free screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1963 classic Dr. Strangelove with complimentary popcorn. And if there’s one thing we know about kids, it’s that they love Kubrick and Cold War satires. Details at thecinematheque.ca. 4. CBC might not know how hold on to its beloved cash cow Hockey Night in Canada, but it knows how to throw a party. Hosted by Jian Ghomeshi with Grant Lawrence, Stephen Quinn,Tom Power, Gloria Macarenko, Renee Filippone and Rich Terfry, the CBC Music Festival takes over Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park June 14. Musical guests include Tegan and Sara, Spoon, Dan Mangan, Arkells, Hannah Georgas, Chad Vangaalen,Wake Owl, the Belle Game, Crystal Shawanda, the Irrelevant Show and Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk.Tickets at livenation.com.

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Soul man

As reported in the Courier, potential NPA mayoral candidate Leonard Brody announcedThursday morning he was dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind rival Kirk LaPointe, making LaPointe the favoured choice.That is unless the NPA takes our advice for once and wisely decides to nominate that cute cat in Burnaby who’s stolen more than 50 gloves for some mysterious reason. Seriously, last month the lowly Black-Capped Chickadee received 278,000 votes to becomeVancouver’s ofﬁcial bird.That’s almost twice as many ballots cast in the last

civic election. A glove-stealing cat running for mayor would be off the charts. However Brody’s reasons for dropping out had nothing to with feline phobia. “Primarily, my decision was based on the fact that my business obligations prevent me from giving the job the time and care it deserves,” he said in a press release. But there’s another signiﬁcant reason, K&K has uncovered: Brody’s unfortunate soul patch. For those of you who don’t know, a soul patch is a piece of facial hair under one’s lower lip and above their chin. It’s a good look for bebop musicians and Frank Zappa, but it’s a scientiﬁc fact that soul patches diminish a candidate’s chances of getting elected. Personally, we always assume anyone with a soul patch is humming a Smash Mouth song rather than paying attention to anything important. It’s the same reason we have a hard time taking BCTF president Jim Iker seriously when he looks like a member of the Oakridge Boys. Hair, or lack thereof, unfortunately matters in politics. Sure, it’s a sad reality. But then again, so are modern day soul patches.

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In a city where restaurants can come and go in the blink of an eye, you’d think the recent demise of Le Gavroche would have garnered a little more attention. However, the 1978 room established by the late Jean-Luc Bertrand in one of downtown’s few remaining 19th century homes (successfully nurtured until a couple of years ago by his business partner Manuel Ferreira) quietly closed its doors early this year. The good news? In its place we have the Fat Badger (1616 Alberni St.) Even though we’ll never know what Jean-Luc would have made of a “gastro-pub” supplanting his long running “Le Gav,” I suspect he might have appreciated the subtle irony. And if he’d been with me when I dropped by the other night, maybe he would have been tickled pink at the bustling, pubby feel. And even more impressed by the food on offer. The shift from formal French to informal British is emblematic of what’s been happening in the U.K. There was a time not that long ago when the classic British “local” was the last place you’d go in search of a decent bite. All that changed

The Fat Badger brings British gastro-pub-inspired fare to the former Le Gavroche space. PHOTO TIM PAWSEY

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trio ofYorkshire puddings with roast beef, gravy and horseradish. I’ll be back for another taste of the superbly textured and ﬂavoured rabbit, duck and squab terrine, and a pint of Fuller’s IPA. Speaking of beer, it has opted to be faithfully British, with a respectable lineup on tap that encompasses the best of Fuller’s, Guinness, Kilkenny, Smithwick’s and more, along with a decent range of bottles and cans such as McEwan’s, Newcastle Brown and Old Speckled Hen, with fair pre-tax pricing by the pint or half-pint. “Ultimately, it’s about people getting together for good food and drink,” says co-owner Ed Perrow. “We’re aiming for a British style pub, with no TVs, no neon signs, a good draft beer selection, some nice wines

Is mezcal the new single malt? Judging by the response to last week’s Vancouver International Tequila Festival, it could well be. Some 800 people showed up at the grand tasting of premium tequila, with a spotlight on mezcal. The hotly contested cocktail competition attracted a dozen of the city’s top bartenders, who duked it out in serious style for an all-in trip to Oaxaca. Smooth and smoky, cocktail friendly El Peloton de la Muerte Mezcal Joven, made from 100 per cent agave espadin for Mezcales de Leyenda. ($49.95) proved the perfect base for a clutch of creative sips. At the end of the day, Kevin Brownlee, fromWest Restaurant, squeaked ahead of a tight pack with his La Malinche, which combined strawberry black pepper liqueur, lime, jalapeño and cacao infused reposado tequila for an intriguing interplay of ripe berry fruit, sweet and heat. Close runners up wereVancouver Rowing Club’s Jason Laidlow’s Paloma Picasso and Amber Bruce of Cuchillo with La Sombremesa. My hunch is there’s not a bar worth walking into that doesn’t have some good mezcal on offer, neat or inventively mixed.

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Sound designing woman Christine Lyon

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When Mishelle Cuttler does her job right, no one really notices — and she’s OK with that. As a sound designer, her goal is to blend audio elements into theatre productions so seamlessly that the audience is barely aware she’s there. “If it’s done well, hopefully you don’t even know it’s happening,” says Cuttler. Most recently, Cuttler has

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taken on the sound design and original music for The Concessions, presented by TouchstoneTheatre in association with PlaywrightsTheatre Centre and the Firehall Arts Centre. Part mystery, part psychological drama, the “Canadian gothic” play, as it’s billed, centres around a horriﬁc act of violence in a small town. Directed by Katrina Dunn, the cast includes Jillian Fargey, Sebastian Kroon, Marilyn Norry, Emma Slipp and AlecWillows. This is the fourth instalment in Touchstone Theatre’s Flying Start program, which gives a stage to new playwrights who have yet to be professionally produced — in this case, rural-Ontario-born Briana Brown. “It’s really important to support young women in the ﬁeld because there are very few of them,” Cuttler notes. In addition to creating sound effects for The Concessions, such as falling rain and radio static, Cuttler has also composed the original music for the show, some of which she recorded herself and some she produced digitally. When designing the sound and music, Cuttler says she tried to balance both the mystical elements of the story with the small-town drama. The tiny community in which the play is set becomes gripped by fear after the tarot card-reading main character, Faye, discovers a murdered body in the forest. “It’s mostly just about people and how they deal with each other and how

Mishelle Cuttler provides sound design and original music for Touchstone Theatre’s The Concessions.

they deal with a crisis.” Cuttler received her bachelor of ﬁne arts in acting from UBC in 2011 and continues to work as an actor.While she never formally studied sound design, her background in classical piano and musical theatre earned her the opportunity to write the score for one of her university theatre productions. Similar work offers followed and, after graduating, Cuttler began to master the more technical side of sound design. It’s been enlightening to work as part of both casts and crews, she says. “When you’re an actor you don’t go to design meetings and production meetings and you kind of are unaware of all the other stuff that’s happening around you while you’re in rehearsal,” she says, “so it’s really great to get to be on that side and see all the people that are

working to make the show happen while you’re in the rehearsal hall acting.” Cuttler adds that she feels fortunate to have the skills and training to land jobs in more than one area of theatre. “It keeps me doing theatre all the time, instead of having to be a waitress,” she says. The Concessions marks Cuttler’s ﬁrst time working on one ofTouchstone Theatre’s main stage shows and, knowing the company’s all-Canadian mandate, she’s not surprised this particular play was selected as the 2014 Flying Start production. “I think at the core it’s really about a Canadian experience and about a human experience and I think that that’s important to tell,” she says. The Concessions runs until June 14 at the Firehall Arts Centre. Details at ﬁrehallartscentre.ca.

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DISTINGUISHED GUESTS: YWCA hosted its annualWomen of Distinction Awards June 3. Recognized nationally as one of Canada’s most prestigious awards for women, it honours people whose achievements contribute to the wellbeing of our community. Fifty-five women were nominated for the 31st edition. More than 1,000 guests packed theWestin Bayshore Hotel for the Scotiabank-sponsored dinner and benefit. Recipients this year were: SD Holman (arts), Shashi Assanand (community builder), Janis Sarra (education), Shannon Rogers (entrepreneurship), Lyda Salatian (sustainability), Victoria Bernstein (health) and Darlene Marzari (public service), Jennifer Gardy (technology), Isabel Chan (youth) and Kristi Blakeway (community connector). Additionally, more than $60,000 was raised to support YWCA programs that help improve the lives of more than 55,000 people each year across MetroVancouver. GLOWING HEARTS: Heart disease and stroke still take one Canadian life every seven minutes, and today more than 1.6 million individuals live with the effects of these diseases. Over the past nine years, guests and supporters of the Heart of Gold Gala have contributed $4 million to advance the Heart and Stroke foundation’s efforts to fund better cardiac emergency response, stroke research and rehabilitation, survivors and caregiver support, and vital education programs for children and families.That’s why 500 guests packed the Hotel Vancouver ballroom for the 10th annual event, sponsored by the Vancouver Courier. Olympian Charmaine Crooks chaired the NewYork-themed affair. Thanks to a lively auction and Hearts Helping Hearts’ matching campaign, the event raised a record $920,000 in support of heart disease and stroke research, health promotion and advocacy. BIG LIFT: Founded by John Volken, Lift the Children is a humanitarian organization focused on helping abandoned African children by providing a safe, nurturing and loving environment.The orphans are given shelter, food, education and proper healthcare.The foundation’s focus is to provide food, shelter and education to the most vulnerable and lift them out of poverty. Currently, it supports more than 10,000 children in 80-plus orphanages thanks to its fundraising efforts.The charity held its second annual fundraising dinner at the Fairmont Pacific Rim. Emceed by Saving Hope’s Erica Durance, a well-heeled crowd gathered for an evening of fun and philanthropy.The impressive evening raised a reported $775,000 to help children and communities become self-sufficient through sustainable agricultural production and education.

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Actress Erica Durance emceed and Abdul Ladha chaired the second Lift the Children fundraising dinner at the Fairmont Paciﬁc Rim Hotel.

John Volken and his wife Chawna saw $775,000 raised to provide orphaned children in Africa a brighter future. In addition to the basics, the foundation is working to provide the resources they need to be self-sufﬁcient.

Dal Richards surprised artist Gordon Smith at his annual Smith Foundation fundraiser. The bandleader sang Happy Birthday to the 95-year-old accomplished artist and war veteran.

Awards chair Cynthia Roney presented the Award of Distinction for community building to Shashi Assanand, founder and executive director of Vancouver and Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services Society.

SD Holman, left, and Susan Van der Flier were among 55 nominees feted at the 31st YWCA awards dinner. Holman, co-founder of the trans-disciplinary Vancouver Queer Arts Festival, won the arts award of distinction.

Aderita Guerreiro, Heart and Stroke Foundation, B.C. and Yukon Region vice president, welcomed donors Karen and Allen Wong to the glittery affair that raised much-needed funds for research, rehabilitation and prevention programs.

Smith Foundation chair Mauro Vescera and Astrid Heyerdahl, executive director at Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists, saw their power lunch generate more than $100,000 for its Artists for Kids art education programs in the schools.

All smiles were Doug Clement, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada chair, and event chair Charmaine Crooks as a record $920,000 was generated at the Courier-sponsored Heart of Gold Gala, held at the Hotel Vancouver.

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Start nothing; complete errands and communications tasks. Your money luck continues — it’s a great time to send gracious collection notices to people who owe you or to work out an amiable agreement with your creditors. Approach the latter as: “I want to work out a past mistake…” or whatever. Relationships are still on ﬁre: talking or emailing helps show you at your best.

Sunday morning to Tuesday brings love, perhaps an old ﬂame, beauty, creativity, good luck and a winning streak, speculation, sports, games and charming children. Except Monday afternoon, when your luck might falter. Tackle chores Tuesday noon to Thursday noon; it’s a great, productive interval. Remember though, start nothing new before July – that includes new and unfamiliar chores.

Start nothing big or important before July. Your work provides plenty of activity all June and July, maybe too much for your liking. Don’t let the intensity nudge you into making mistakes. It’s very likely you’ve neglected a duty (to a person, government, whatever) — try to rectify this. A former money source or debt might arise now to late June.

Remember, start nothing new in any arena before July. A former investment opportunity might return this week or next, so might a former sexual partner. Judge each on its own merits; you could get a rare, lucky second chance. (Someone wise said we can never tell what is actually good luck; I agree.)

Your energy and charisma remain at a yearly high, but use these to clear up past matters or to keep your ongoing ventures chugging along. Start nothing before July 1. Someone from the past will contact you, probably about an affair or project that was almost complete. Your relations with civil servants, institutional and charity workers, and spiritual types continue to be sweet and affectionate.

Avoid new ventures and/or relationships before July, Sage. A former link might return in the two weeks ahead — perhaps a former spouse or old ﬂame this week, or a former intimate link or ﬁnancial partner next week. Your chores/work continue to be pleasant. Your romantic hopes continue high (to late July) but doing is better, usually, than hoping.

Continue to rest, lie low, avoid competition and contemplate or meditate. Be spiritual, charitable. This week and next, tackle government/institutional/head ofﬁce affairs, especially ones you’ve neglected in the recent past. (You might hear of these Thursday.) Start nothing new before July, including relationships. The good news is Saturday will end these weeks of weariness and your energy and pizzazz will return.

Remember, Cap, start nothing new before July. This week, at least, you’ll be too busy to even contemplate a big new project. Someone remains “responsive” to your romantic overtures (if you make them). Bosses and other higher-ups remain testy, impatient but don’t let them rush you into mistakes. A former chore or employment role (or a health concern) might return this week or next.

Remember, start nothing major before July 1. For you, most relationships are major. Tackle routine chores Sunday morning. From mid-morn to Tuesday noon, relationships take center stage — partnerships in love and business, contacts, competitors, even enemies — all come out now, so be diplomatic, loving and humorous.

It’s your last week of romantic yearning and it might bring an old ﬂame back. You’re kind and friendly, but rather unemotional and rational — except when you fall in love. When you are in love, you should act on it, as most Aquarians are successful suitors. Sleep in Sunday morning — by midmorning your energy bounces up and stays buoyant until Tuesday noon.

Start nothing new before July. Instead, continue with projects already begun but try to avoid launching “new stages” in those established ventures. A former career role (or a former boss) might return this week or next. You itch to buy something new, but it will almost certainly disappoint. Instead, put all your present nice ﬂow of money in the bank. Heightened income will continue through July – even then, you’d be wiser to save.

The accent continues on home, parents/children, security, gardening, nutrition, stomach and soul. Start no new projects nor relationships — and delay ending either — before July. A former home, or your childhood, or a property you wanted to buy in the past, might return to your thoughts. (Don’t buy that property.) A long-gone family member might contact/return.

Monday: Rick Nash (30). Tuesday: Barry Manilow (71). Wednesday: Paul McCartney (72). Thursday: Kathleen Turner (60), Friday: Nicole Kidman (47). Saturday: Ray Davies (70). Sunday: Meryl Streep (65).

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The Courier presentsVancouver’s Elite Graduating Athletes of 2014

Mindy Minhas PAST

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is season started with a checklist. By the end, he’d smothered the list in checkmarks. Mindy Minhas, this year’s most exciting basketball player and the AAAA B.C. championship MVP, started the campaign by drawing up a list of the things he cared about most. Each day he looked at the list he’d pinned to the ceiling of his bedroom. He wanted to win the city and zone finals. He wanted the provincial title. Was MVP on his list? “Yes, it was,” said Minhas. “It’s been there since Grade 8.” The Bulldog got them all. And with Churchill and head coach Rick Lopez, the six-foot-five athlete played an outstanding second half to clinch the provincial championship. He scored seven points in the first quarter, sat on the bench in the second and

returned after the half to play the determined and passionate game he’s known for. He ﬁnished with 30 points, more than the 24.6 he averaged during the season. “That second half was some of the best basketball I’ve ever seen a kid play in that tournament,” said Pasha Bains, the co-founder of Drive Basketball where Minhas has trained since elementary school. “Mindy is one of the most memorable players that the tournament has had.” “He was having fun,” added Churchill coach Lopez. In the second half, Minhas, who committed to play for the UBCThunderbirds before the start of his Grade 12 year, shot a three-pointer right in front of the bench, turning before the ball dropped to mouth the word, “Bank.” “Yes, he banked it in,” said Lopez. “After it went in, he looked at me and pointed and we both had a

good laugh as he ran down the court to play D.” Lopez inspired Minhas’s checklist. “I wanted to see my goals every day,” said the 18-year-old player who rose early for nearly ﬁve years to shoot hoops at the LangaraYMCA, occasionally with his dad. Minhas, a role model for the young Bulldogs still at Churchill and to Sikh athletes across B.C., will never stop working to get better, said Bains. The Drive coach knew about the checklist and the desire to win the B.C. championship. “He’d send me a picture of each time when he’d cross one off,” said Bains. “He has a very secure place in B.C. tournament history. One of the greatest things is that his name will forever be in the record books with Steve Nash and all the other great MVPs that have come along.” Check.

— MEGAN STEWART

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Footie fans rally English spirit Supporters club sells tickets at three bars for games WORLD CUP Megan Stewart

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The Courier introduces the Vancouverites who follow their national team from afar in coffee shops on Commercial Drive,pubs in Strathcona and convenience stores on Robson. ••• The Official England House isn’t officially affiliated with the country’s national side, but the name is patented by what may be the largest supporters group anywhere in the world outside the U.K and the country it celebrates. “You get to go to England without the travel,” said Dan Tanner, chairman of the supporters association. Watching a sport in a pub beside supporters who react as you do — cheering or jeering — all at the same moments for the same reasons is something Canadians understand, he said. It’s just typically for a different sport. “We can’t replicate your hockey atmosphere in London, and you can’t replicate our European soccer here — but we do. It’s a soccer

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Dan Tanner runs the Ofﬁcial England House, a supporters club dedicated to the Three Lions that packs the London Pub on game day. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

atmosphere when we’re there,” said Tanner who’s from Essex. England games have become so popular, OEH organizes ticket sales so fans know they won’t get turned away at the door minutes before kick-off. ByTuesday afternoon, four days before England’s ﬁrstWorld Cup match against Italy on June 14, the Ofﬁcial England House had sold nearly 2,000

tickets to watch the game at 15 bars across Canada. Taking a cue from the ofﬁcial national houses that appear during Olympic Games, OEH dedicated its “house” to a single sport and team and tried to make inroads at bars that stubbornly show mid-season hockey over anything else, including championship ﬁnals in other sports. Continued on next page

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Sports&Recreation Tanner: Anybody can win Continued from previous page OEH hosted its ﬁrst viewing at the Blarney Stone in 2010 and turned away more than 200 fans. “We just wanted to watch the game together as ex-pats without any trouble,” said Tanner, who said the ticketing system has become essential and comes with a pint for $10. He travelled to Miami last weekend for a friendly against Honduras. ••• Tanner tells the Courier about the typical English football fan: What does the typical English fan drink? DT: Pints of beer, really. I drink Carlsberg or Guinness. What do they eat? DT: Usually a full English breakfast in this country because kick-off is usually in the morning. What was your all-time favourite goal? DT: Paul Gascoigne against Scotland in Euro ’96. [He chipped the ball over a defender and with

a one-touch volley scored on Andy Goram.] After he scored, he went to the side of the goal and lay on the grass and his teammates poured water from bottles into his mouth. They did this because before the tournament, they did a team bonding thing and he was photographed in a night club taking shots. Headlines the next day [stated] how irresponsible they were. With the goal, he made fun of [the press] by making the same movement. What is your favourite World Cup memory? DT: When England came back from Italy ’90. Paul Gascoigne was the player of the tournament and although they got knocked out in penalties in the semiﬁnal, back at Heathrow, they were lorded over like heroes. Everybody loved them and was behind the team. That was such a high point. I was 10, it was the stating point of my love affair with England football.

Who is the most important player on the team at Brazil 2014? DT: Ross Barkley right now because he signifies the new kids coming through. For a long time we had an old guard and some played at three or four World Cups and we didn’t have any young players going through. They’re a source of new excitement, pace and flare and they’ve been given the freedom to play football by the coach. Can England win? DT:This year, I think anybody can win.There are so many key injuries for players on Germany, France, now Brazil, so there are many factors plus the heat. The favourite have got to be Brazil because they’re at home, but it’s not guaranteed for them.Their defense is terrible. The London Pub is located at 700 Main St. For Official England House tickets, visit facebook.com/englandhousecanada. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Today’shomes Marquee reruns movie theatre material Emma Crawford Hampel

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Image Development claim their new low-rise development on Commercial Drive has reused more than 75 per cent of building materials from the former Van East theatre complex. PHOTO ANDREW FLEMING

Vancouver’s Image Development Inc. has completed what it says is one of the most recycled buildings in the city. The low-rise condo development, Marquee on the Drive, is built from more than 75 per cent of the structure of the building that was in the site previously, the old Van East Cinema.This old theatre was originally designed by Bruno Freschi, whose past work includes Expo ’86 and Science World. “It’s all too common for character buildings to be bulldozed down in place of brand new high rise devel-

opments that can strip away the soul of a neighbourhood,” said James Askew, president of rareEarth Project Marketing. “At Marquee we saw the potential the Van East Cinema held, with its original brick and steel and prime location. “No other development in the city has taken a building this young and refurbished it back into its community as something new that still holds meaning.” The condo architects, Ankenman/Marchand, have kept the Van East Cinema’s brick, steel and concrete. The building, located at 2250 Commercial Drive, houses 58 mixed-residential condo units. twitter.com/EmmaHampelBIV

Metro Vancouver housing House prices expected starts rise in May Emma Crawford Hampel

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Total housing starts were trending at 19,001 units in May in the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data released June 9. This ﬁgure, which represents a six-month moving average of seasonally adjusted annual rates, is an increase of 1.8 per cent compared with 18,670 units in April. “Increased apartment construction in May contributed to a higher

housing starts trend this month compared with April’s starts,” said Robyn Adamache, CMHC senior market analyst for Vancouver. “The majority of May apartment starts were concentrated in the cities of Burnaby, Coquitlam and Richmond.” Across British Columbia, housing starts were up 0.6 per cent to 26,179 in May over the same period. “The stable trend in new home construction is in line with economic fundamentals which include: balanced resale market conditions, modest employment growth

and low mortgage interest rates,” said CMHC’s B.C. regional economist Carol Frketich. “May trend levels for multiple-family and singledetached home starts were relatively unchanged compared with April data.” The CMHC said it uses a moving-average rate instead of a monthly rate as this gives a more complete picture of the market. Looking at monthly data on its own, said the CMHC, can be misleading as markets can vary considerably monthto-month. twitter.com/EmmaHampelBIV

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The average detached house price on theWest Side ofVancouver will reach more than $7 million within ten years, suggests Altus Group, one of Canada’s premier appraisal and valuation ﬁrms. “If [the current] trend continues, in the year 2024 the average price for older [detached housing] stock could be greater than $2 million on the East Side and $7 million

on theWest Side ofVancouver.We are not saying this will happen, we are simply applying the math from the past decade and extrapolating forward to the next decade,” said PedroTavares, Altus Group’s director of research, valuation and advisory. An Altus study released this week looking at Vancouver house prices notes that 10 years ago the average older detached house on the East Side sold for $416,674. Today the av-

erage price is $942,555. In 2004, the average West Side older detached house sold for $835,101. This March the average price was $2.48 million. New house prices have seen a similar price increases, rising from $576,900 on the East Side to $1.28 million 10 years later; and, on the West Side, rising from $1.14 million in 2004 to $3.41 million today, Altus reports.

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There’s plenty of space in 2014 Odyssey

Hard to think it, but this vehicle is actually a member of an endangered breed. Just like the colossal station wagons of yore, the humble minivan is now somewhat under threat, outcompeted by legions of crossovers. Part of the deal is the whole “mom” vibe that a van projects. It’s a device for hauling around the soccer team and it doesn’t get a lot of respect. Well that’s a darn shame. Minivans are some of the nicest-riding, most feature-packed machines on the road and they’re absolutely the ideal road trip companion. Load it up with pretty much anything your can think of — the kitchen sink? Why not? —and hit the open highway. A perennial favourite, the Honda Odyssey has always been a nice safe choice for a growing family that doesn’t subscribe to the idea that their family hauler need pretend to be a rugged SUV. Refreshed for 2014,

it now includes a world-ﬁrst feature: a built-in onboard vacuum cleaner. I guess you could say that particular part of this van really sucks. So how’s the rest of it?

chined-look ﬁnish that seem at balance with the immense amount of sheet metal here.The overall appeal of the car is a sort of utilitarian anonymity, even with the extra chrome of the Touring edition.This isn’t a show-off car.

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Environment

There’s not much you can do, style-wise, with what’s essentially a box on wheels, but to their credit, Honda’s at least made an attempt. Up front, there’s a new grille, hood and fenders. Thankfully, in an industry strangely obsessed with making their next generation of cars more aggressive, the Odyssey is still a friendly-faced machine and quite reserved. From the side, the dominant feature is the chrome-surrounded greenhouse that looks like a fat lightning bolt, if we’re being charitable, or like the designer had hiccups, if we’re not. Touring-class Odysseys get 18” alloy wheels in a ma-

Inside, of course, is where the action is. With a simply tremendous amount of seating and tonnes of cargo room, the Odyssey has space to spare. Anyone also looking at a three-row crossover should just try sitting in the third row of this van to see how much more room a minivan can have. Stacking it up against the major competitors, the Odyssey doesn’t have the second-row ﬂexibility of the Dodge Caravan, with its stow and go seating, and the Sienna’s larger rear seats are better suited to longerlegged passengers. Continued on page 39

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Performance

With a six-speed automatic transmission and a 248hp 3.5L V6 standard on all Odysseys, Honda’s minivan is about as fast as it needs to be. Interestingly, they’ve programmed the throttle to be very progressive, which makes it easy to get off the line without spilling sippy cups and snapping little necks. If you ﬂoor it, the sixspeed auto downshifts and the V6 provides enough thrust to get out of the way or make a tricky merge, but the overall driving experience is far more relaxed. Coming off the line almost feels like setting sail, with the Odyssey gliding up to speed. It’s a different sort of driving. On a winding country road, the concern is not so much about gripping the curves with maximum GS, as it is not making anyone carsick. To that end, body roll is relatively controlled in the Odyssey, and it’s easy to set up a smooth rhythm, not slow-poking, not hustling, but a just-right

cruising speed. It’s a bit like being the captain of a comfortable cruise-liner. On the highway, the lack of radar-guided cruisecontrol is missed and an overactive lane-departurewarning system is a bit annoying (you can turn it off). Other than that, this is what the Odyssey seems born to do: middle-lane cruising, eating up the miles. It might be good at the short-run school/soccer/music-class excursions, but it’s also an ideal vehicle for long-distance touring. You might not get your thrills behind the wheel, but everybody can share in the great view out the windows.

Features

At the Touring-level, the Odyssey is crammed with everything from Satellite Navigation to 12-speaker audio, a push-button smart key and to the aforementioned touchscreen interface system. Honda calls this last HondaLink, and it’s straightforward to use. There’s also a gargantuan 16.2”-wide screen out back to pacify rear passengers. Safety ratings for the Odyssey are excellent — the IIHS has awarded it the highest possible rating. There’s a blind-spot monitoring system and a multiple-angle rearview camera to make parking easier. Fuel economy is quite good, considering the sheer weight of the van, thanks in part to cylinderdeactivation when cruising. Ofﬁcial ratings are 10.9L/100kms in the city and 7.1L/100kms on the highway. Especially when loaded up with kids, expect 10-20 per cent worse than that in city conditions, but it is possible to dip into the sevens on the highway.

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Just like it says on the tailgate, it’s a great vehicle for a family odyssey.

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Continued from page 37 The Odyssey provides plenty of comfort, especially for little kids, but removing the second row of seats for the annual garage clear out is a bit of a pain. Maybe we’ll clean the place out next year. However, with threezone climate control and full leather seating, the Odyssey is easy-to-clean comfort for up to eight. The rear seats flip away to form an entirely flat loading area, or leave them up and load up the deep trunk. Up front, the driver and passenger now have a cleaner interface system to deal with, including a new touchscreen handling most of audio functions. Fit and finish are very good, although the use of plastics is not quite up to the near-luxury feel you’re starting to get with some modern crossovers. It would also be nice to see a practical innovation here like the Highlander’s mid-level dashboard shelf. I’d also like to see far more USB power outlets, not just the one used for connecting to an iPod, but several more out back to charge mobile devices for the kids.

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