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ODE TO CHOI Claudia Li and Ken Lau are working together as part of a new initiative called The Choi Project to help new residents to Chinatown integrate with the community, attract people to the historic neighbourhood and educate shoppers about Chinese produce grown in B.C. See related story on page 6. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
Ending street homelessness by 2015 ‘not magical thinking’: city manager Mike Howell
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City manager Penny Ballem outlined a series of projects and funding expectations this week that have to fall in place over the next year to achieve the mayor’s stated goal of getting all people living on the street into some form of shelter by 2015. Ballem told city councilTuesday a combi-
nation of new housing, keeping open existing temporary housing and shelters and providing rent supplements to homeless people and displaced tenants of single-room-occupancy hotels under renovation are keys to ending street homelessness by next year. “This is not magical thinking,” said Ballem, pointing to an end date as the March 2015 homeless count. “It will require some resources but it absolutely can be done.”
The last homeless count in March revealed Vancouver had the largest homeless population in its history, with 538 living on the street and 1,260 in some form of shelter for a total of 1,798 people. Factoring in a one per cent annual population growth, Ballem put the street homelessness number at 542 people for next year. The city’s plan to get all those people off the street requires:
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You heard it here first, people:You can’t legislate or regulate love, according to Vision Vancouver councillors Kerry Jang and Geoff Meggs. Apparently, you can’t hurry love, either, according to the Supremes. But that’s another story… Why all this talk about love? Blame NPA Coun. George Affleck. He brought a motion before city council Tuesday to request staff find a permanent home for “love locks” because city crews continue to remove them from railings and other spots around the city. What are “love locks?” According to Affleck, they are traditional padlocks that are attached to fences or railings by people to symbolize their commitment to each
other. Keys are thrown away once the locks are attached. The locks are popular in Paris — so popular that media reports say the weight of said locks led to a partial collapse of a bridge. Oh, mon dieu! Simplement incroyable! Anyway, in his research, Affleck learned the first love locks were attached to railings of the Burrard Bridge but removed in 2013. Locks were also removed recently from spots along the seawall in Northeast False Creek. And you know what such injustice does, don’t you people? Affleck says it reinforces Vancouver’s image of a no-fun city. And another thing, a city is not just a collection of buildings and infrastructure, he said. Amen to that, monsieur, amen to that. Despite Affleck’s efforts to have staff find a permanent home for the locks, his opposition councillors
on the Vision team weren’t feeling the love in council chambers Tuesday — not even Coun. Kerry Jang, who was dressed inexplicably in a cream-coloured suit, has a thing for convertibles and has been known to hog the dance floor at Vision parties. “I believe that love can happen anywhere and it just doesn’t mean love locks,” Jang told a few reporters after the council meeting. “It could mean a knowing glance, holding a hand, smiling at one another — and it should happen anywhere and spontaneously. So we don’t legislate love.” Meggs, who was wearing an unremarkable suit, was worried Affleck’s move would create a “love locks free zone” and lead to a regulatory regime. “Before long, I can see Coun. Affleck’s initiative leading to permits and approvals and so forth — and fines, bylaw officers and who knows what,” said Meggs, adding cheek-
ily that Affleck might want to regulate lip-locks next. So what Vision did was tell Affleck to go out by himself and find a permanent home for the locks instead of spending staff ’s time and money on such a venture. “Well Coun. Jang, thank you very much for the assignment,” responded Affleck. “To show that we have a bit of love in this council chamber is a good thing. But clearly my Vision colleagues have no love for the city of Vancouver.” Boo, hiss went the Visionistas. And that was that. Now back to Jang’s cream-coloured suit… He has two. But he said the suit maker forgot to line the pants in the other one so... “when I stood out in the sunlight, you could see it all.” I’ve got to stop asking questions. Sorry about that, folks. twitter.com/Howellings
NPA Coun. George Affleck’s motion to find a permanent home for “love locks,” a popular practice on some Paris bridges, didn’t get much love from Vision Vancouver. PHOTO WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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attacks on Gregor Robertson, nor am I. But certainly there are rumours about Gregor floating around and I have heard them from several sources, including from mutual friends of Gregor’s and mine.” Macdonald added he had “great respect” for Amy Robertson, who has been “exceedingly kind to my son, and I wish her all the best.” Macdonald runs familyowned Macdonald Development Corporation and donated almost $1 million to the NPA in the 2011 election campaign. Macdonald has also donated money toVision Coun. Geoff Meggs and considered the late Jim Green ofVisionVancouver a good friend. The NPA has yet to announce its candidates for this fall’s election, which takes place Nov. 15. Robertson andVisionVancouver are seeking a third majority.The Robertsons have three adult children and a foster son. twitter.com/Howellings
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Claudia Li remembers grocery shopping every weekend in Chinatown with her grandmother when she was little. Strolling through the markets and eyeing the produce, her grandmother instantly knew which choices were in season. “With our generation, we don’t necessarily have that knowledge,” said Li, 27, who was born in Richmond of parents who emigrated from Hong Kong. WithThe Choi Project, Li wants to promote food literacy like her grandmother’s across language barriers and with an eye for sustainability. Li is the co-founder and codirector of the Hua Foundation, a non-profit with the mission of honouring history and heritage while creating community-based solutions for social change. The foundation launched the project in June. Choi means “vegetables” in Chinese. The project is partnered with Chinatown Supermarket on Keefer Street. Signs with both English and simplified Chinese characters, less common than the traditional characters used by Chinatown’s mostly Cantonese population, have been added.
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Richmond and other parts of Lower Mainland. Today, Lau is happy to help with the cause. “It’s not just for me,” he said, “but for the whole of Chinatown and the whole economy.” The Choi Project has produced a guide that explains what Chinese produce is grown in B.C. and when they are in season, especially helpful for those who might not be familiar some Asian fruits and vegetables. Most of Chinatown’s produce comes from B.C. farmers who mainly sell to Chinatown. Lau said many farmers can’t sell to larger chain supermarkets as they only have a limited supply. This means fresher and cheaper produce for the customer. “B.C. is a lot closer than the U.S. or Mexico and the quality is better as vegetables maintain their water content,” said Lau. The Choi Project is preparing to launch a series of community cooking workshops in the fall. Elders will be invited to teach traditional dishes. “There’s a pattern of celebration and culture being around food and because it’s such a central part to how we identify as a culture and a community, it’s kind of a perfect gateway for us to talk about sustainability,” said Li. twitter.com/chrischeungtogo
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Homeless count up this year Continued from page 1 •The former Ramada hotel on East Hastings to continue operating as temporary housing and the former Biltmore hotel at 395 Kingsway to be fully occupied. •The opening of three B.C. Housing social housing sites totalling 385 units at 111 Princess St., 2465 Fraser St. and 220 Princess St. Those requirements, along with the B.C. government funding 160 winter shelter beds and 100 rent supplements, could mean the city for the first time in recent history would have a surplus of 231 units available for homeless people. Even without the former 100-unit Bosman Hotel or the 147-unit project at 220 Princess St. — which the Courier recently revealed was facing significant construction delays — fully occupied by March 2015, the city would still see a gain of 33 units, according to Ballem. “You can see it’s complicated — it’s a moving base of metrics but we absolutely have a handle on them, we know exactly where things
are and we are working hard to engage all of our partners in making sure we stay ahead of the shifts and changes,” she said. In her presentation, Ballem pointed out the provincial government is improving strategies to prevent the drivers of homelessness, including finding shelter for youth leaving foster care, criminals being discharged from prisons and homeless people leaving hospitals. “What we know and in the work we’ve done with Streetohome [Foundation], is that there really weren’t a lot of clear strategies in place,” she said in explaining why the homeless count in March revealed Vancouver’s homeless population reached an all-time high. After the meeting, NPA Coun. George Affleck predicted Mayor Gregor Robertson would fail to meet his goal of ending street homelessness by 2015. Affleck pointed out overall homelessness continues to increase and the mayor went from in 2008 to promising to end homelessness to
changing the terminology to “street homelessness.” “They continue to spin this stuff in order to stay in power,” said Affleck, who is seeking re-election in November and noted it was the previous NPA government that set aside the majority of the 14 city-owned sites that have been built or under construction for social housing. Robertson said he was disappointed to hear Affleck “trashing” the city’s strategy to end street homelessness, which decreased from 811 unsheltered people when Vision was elected in 2008 to 538 this year; the lowest street homeless population was recorded at 154 in 2011. “We’ve had great all-party support for homelessness and affordable housing initiatives for many years at council, and to hear Coun. Affleck in particular lash out and really undermine the work around homelessness and affordable housing is really disappointing,” Robertson told reporters. “That’s something that’s shifted and shows the direction of the NPA at an important time.”
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The area doesn’t have an established name like Main Street or Commercial Drive. Nonetheless, businesses are enjoying plenty of traffic on the stretch of Fraser Street between Kingsway and King Edward Avenue. This junction of Riley Park, Mount Pleasant and Kensington Cedar-Cottage offers affordable rent for the unique businesses that have chosen to open here. “Affordable, very affordable, and it continues to be,” said Andreas Seppelt, co-owner of Les Faux Bourgeois. Les Faux Bourgeois is situated at the intersection
of Fraser and Kingsway in front of the small, diamondshaped McAuley Park. Seppelt understands the urge for businesses to open in an established area but knew this was perfect for their bistro when they opened in 2008. He credits The Lion’s Den Cafe that has been on the block since 1999. “It’s really kind of sleepy, really kind of beautiful,” said Seppelt. “In other areas, people are whistling in the dark.There was a little bit of risk [moving here] but that’s where you gain those things. It didn’t feel that risky to us.” Jethro’s Fine Grub coowner Emily Stuart also set her eyes on the area.The second Jethro’s opened last summer.
“Main Street, Commercial Drive, Broadway, Fourth — all of the major corridors in the city are either really saturated or really expensive to get into,” said Stuart. “It was nice to have the option of going even further east.” Stuart thinks Fraser has a character of its own. “It’s such a great neighbourhood with a lot of families. Businesses are moving in that are interesting and not overdone. It’s East Van yet it doesn’t feel like Main Street. It’s refreshing.” Co-owners Erica Bernadi and Benjamin Ernst opened Earnest Ice Cream on Fraser last August after selling ice cream mobile and to local retailers.
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“At first we were a little bit scared,” said Bernadi. “Who knows if people would come? It’s a bit of a destination for most people.” It is an unconventional location for an ice cream shop, sharing a block with a pho restaurant and a store that sells karaoke equipment, but that did not stop its success. Lines often snake out the door, rain or shine. “We couldn’t afford Main or Commercial Drive or any other major commercial areas, but it kind of worked for us,” said Ernst. The draw of individuals to the area happened on its own. “We haven’t spent a dime on advertising,” said Bernadi. “It’s word of mouth for sure and social media is a massive tool.” Owner Chad Woodley of Sanitary Electric Tattoo Company remembers the area being much quieter when he opened in 2007. “Things have definitely picked up in the last two to three years,” saidWoodley. “There is a little bit more walk-by traffic.There are
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The latest chapter in the sad saga of the marital breakup of Mayor Gregor Robertson and his wife of 26 years turned up on the letters page of Wednesday’s Vancouver Sun. NPA vice-president Rob Macdonald claims: “The Vision propaganda department has maliciously misquoted” what he calls a “private email to the mayor’s office.” It detailed a series of allegations about the mayor’s personal behaviour. A couple of things about that “private email.” Macdonald was replying to a bulk email sent out June 16 by Vision Vancouver to thousands of people inviting them to a neighborhood forum to discuss Kinder Morgan’s pipeline proposal. Macdonald responded the same day stating he couldn’t make the Kinder Morgan meeting because he had “been asked to go to a different meeting to discuss some terrible gossip” about Robertson and his wife. He then lists a series of allegations many of which are verifiably untrue including one that has the mayor “phoning Jeff Lee at the Vancouver Sun to suppress the story.” Lee says it didn’t happen. In a comment that is too cute by half, Macdonald’s “private email” to the mayor’s office said: “Of course, this kind of rumour mongering is despicable and I will have no part in it.” Except that his email wasn’t private. It was copied to at least one city councillor, Geoff Meggs. Three minutes later, Macdonald sent it to Globe and Mail reporter Frances Bula. Goodness knows who else got it. And let’s remember Macdonald was going to a rumour mongering meeting “to discuss the terrible gossip.” But he also goes after Robertson’s chief of staff, Mike Magee. When, for a moment, Macdonald was thinking of running for mayor, he claims that Magee threatened to “destroy my reputation and one of the disgusting things they were going to leak to the press was a ridiculous accusation of philandering.” He observes there is “poetic” justice — more like revenge — “now Magee gets to deal with Gregor’s widely rumoured philandering.” (Just how “widely” outside Macdonald’s circle is debatable.) In his letter to the Sun this week, Macdonald actually suggests that Robertson is a victim of his own actions: “Those rumours were all over town and, if anything, were started in earnest by the
mayor himself when he was busy trying to get members of the press to stop investigating his behaviour.” That would be the Jeff Lee reference, which, as I’ve said, is not true.
The damage Macdonald has done is mostly to his own party. If the mayor and his office did have a role in all of this mess, it was this: Instead of waiting for all hell to break loose on social media and Rob Macdonald to fuel that uproar, the moment Robertson decided to leave the family home and rent an apartment downtown, he should have made that fact public. Failing to do so, well, you can see for yourself what has happened. I suspect that Robertson and his party will survive this. The damage Macdonald has done is mostly to his own party. Macdonald’s actions to bring down Robertson appear to be more the work of one powerful loose cannon than a strategic direction by the NPA. It puts him at odds with (at the time of writing) the putative NPA mayoral candidate and former journalist Kirk LaPointe on the matter of personal attacks. On Facebook, LaPointe noted: “Nothing positive comes from the discussion of personal issues,” adding “as a journalist, I have had many opportunities to report on the private lives of public figures. I long ago concluded that, unless there is an impact on duties, those matters are irrelevant.” But Macdonald persists in his attack. His most recent email, this one to councillor Meggs is about “Gregor’s girlfriend and baby.” Then he provides a link to an easily identifiable photo of a woman who is holding her child. The question for the NPA is what to do as Macdonald continues to soil his own nest and raises questions in the minds of members about the value of sticking around if this is all that the party has to offer. But who would dare stand up to the guy who in the 2011 campaign contributed free office space and a donation of $900,000 plus to the NPA cause, making it the largest personal political donation in Canadian history? twitter.com/allengarr
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The rough number of people living on Vancouver streets next year, according to city manager Penny Ballem. The city has an ambitious plan to end street homelessness by 2015.
The number of three-storey stacked townhouses coming soon to the old Avalon Dairy property after council approved a rezoning application Tuesday.
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A few weeks back, news outlets and tech blogs erupted with a story that a “supercomputer” had passed the socalled “Turing Test” for the first time. Named after the 20th century information scientist Alan Turing, this is a proposed test of a computer program’s capacity to pass as a conscious entity. The Turing Test requires that one of the participants in a keyboard and screen dialogue should be a computer undetectable by a human participant. A computer program developed in Russia convinced 30 per cent of participants that it was a 13 year-old boy — an age chosen by programmers to hide gaps in their creation’s information base. Some of the news stories gave the impression that scientists had cooked up an artificial intelligence worthy of Stanley Kubrick’s HAL. Not so. There is a world of difference between constructing a mainframe that refuses to open the doors on a spacecraft and writing a script that mimics human conversation. The Russian program was more hack than a HAL — a “chatbot,” actually. But even though chatbots have no innate intelligence, they behave otherwise. For example, every once and a while I’ll get a tweet or a message on my blog that appears to be from a reader, but it’s just a bot that combed through my archive for keywords. Just as algorithms operating at millionths of a second account for most of the trades on U.S. stock exchanges, “bots” engineered to mine data represent the bulk of Internet traffic. Some researchers estimate that only 35 per cent of the average Twitter member’s followers are actual human beings. I’m not concerned here with automated e-mail scams out of Nigeria or other varieties of spambots. I’m focusing on the chatbots that pollute social media sites. Like the Russian program, these are scripts engineered to convince the target at the other end that they are dealing with another person. Many chatbots follow sleep-wake cycles that keep them from being flagged as mindless programs. They travel across cyberspace “liking” posts and collecting friends while trawling news and marketing databases for keywords that might intrigue their marks.
Some chatbots have social network accounts of their own, for the sake of a plausible digital footprint. When the dating site OkCupid bought and redesigned another dating site, the programmers observed a sharp decline in bots in the refurbished site, “along with a sudden 15 percent drop in use of the new site by real people,” according to 2013 report in the NewYork Times. This decrease in traffic in the redesigned site occurred because bots had been posting flirtatious messages and automated “likes” to members’ pages, luring them toward pay-for-service pornography sites and other profitable portals. With the redesign, some of the bots apparently got lost. In mining responses from the lovelorn, the bots “had imbued the former site with a false sense of intimacy and activity,” notes the Times report. “Love was in the air. Robot love,” said Christian Rudder, a co-founder and general manager of OkCupid. The company programmers had a battle plan, he said: to create bots of their own to flirt with the invading drawing them to a special forum — “a purgatory of sorts” — to conduct endless cycles of lovey-dovey bot-chat. If that’s not crazy enough, even the dead can now get a piece of the bot action. In a tech development worthy of a Philip K. Dick novel, there are multiple firms offering posthumous social media services. With their help, you can keep your online profile active long after you’ve popped your clogs. The slogan of LivesOn is “When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting.” The Twitter service, developed by London-based advertising agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine, reportedly mines clients’ past tweets to analyze their syntax and favourite topics. It uses the data to predict what they would tweet about, and how. So there you go. In our brave new wired world, your friends and relatives won’t need an Ouija board or James Van Praagh to access your spirit. Cloud-based bots can keep yammering on indefinitely on your behalf, in 140character bursts. Computer programs may never achieve full consciousness, but given how far they’ve come already, will that even be necessary to convince most of us they are alive — or once were? geoffolson.com
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In percentage points, the increase since last year of the number of Vancouver homes that sold for more than $1 million.
The number of years Gregor and Amy Robertson have been married. The couple separated last month.
In percentage points, the number of the average Twitter user’s followers who are actual humans, not spambots, according to researchers.
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Mailbox Boulevard of broken dreams To the editor: Re: “Cambie Corridor faces its future,” July 4. Remember the Cambie Street Heritage Boulevard? It was so important to City of Vancouver planners that during the construction of the Canada Line prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics, they even erected a sign to commemorate the heritage designation.We spent millions extra on the Canada Line south of 49th Avenue to preserve the Cambie Street Heritage Boulevard, keeping the line underground until Marine Drive instead of daylighting at the 49th Avenue station.This preserved the wonderful trees along that stretch of the boulevard. All this has been apparently set aside in the city’s obsession for densification regardless of the community’s thoughts or the city’s livability. We will still have the wonderful central meridian but on either side will be an endless corridor of six- or eight-storey condominiums stretching from Marine to King Edward and beyond.The only remaining view will be of the six 30-storey plus towers to be built at Oakridge. There is one, fleeting, reference to the heritage boulevard in the Cambie Corridor Plan published by the city in 2011: “the Canada Line runs underneath Cambie Street — a central spine of the City and
Silver for Sydor atWorld Cup race
July 13, 2003: Vancouver’s Alison Sydor edged American Susan Haywood by seven seconds for to win silver in women’s cross-country at a World Cup mountain bike race held at Grouse Mountain. It was the beginning of a silver streak that continued with a second-place finish at the Tour de Gastown nine days later and another six weeks later at the cross-country world championship. She was also a silver medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Games, the first year the sport was featured in the Olympics, and won a total of 17 World Cup races in her career. For 13 consecutive years (1992-2004), Sydor never finished outside of the top five at the world championships. She was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.
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July 15, 1959: While on a royal visit to Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the 657-metre-long Deas Island Tunnel under the Fraser River, which had actually been in operation since May 23. The $21-million tunnel was built in a dry dock in six sections, which were floated downstream and then lowered by ballast to the riverbed. In 1967, the tunnel was renamed the George Massey Tunnel in honour of the Social Credit MLA who had fought to get it built. Last year the B.C. Liberal government announced plans for a 10-lane bridge to replace it. ADVERTISING
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To the editor: Re: “CP wants Arbutus Corridor cleared,” July 4. It’s about time Canadian Pacific is doing something with the Arbutus Corridor. Hopefully it will be used for a light-rail transit line for the west side of the city. This is more important for the future of the city than the local residents being able to grow their own carrots! Jeanette Edwards, Vancouver
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COURIER STORY: “Mayor’s private life goes public,” July 9. Daryl: Why the mayor and his wife separated in nobody’s business. None. End of story. Jason E King: Never would have gotten any press if Vision didn’t put out a ridiculous press release about it. vjgee: Rob Macdonald must feel silly being identified as a gossip.Voters are grown-ups, I figure don’t care for natterers. westcoastboi: What is wrong with the NPA? I really want a legitimate alternative to Vision for the upcoming election and the current leadership of the NPA just keeps pushing potential voters away. It seems as though it has become Rob Macdonald’s personal vehicle and the unfortunate thing about this is that Macdonald keeps saying stranger and stranger things. Keep It Real: Looks like a dogfight between him and Mike, Magee the mayor’s chief of staff.Vision has pulled out the stops to slag NPA’ers in the past. No reason to think these two won’t carry on until the (usual) bitter end in November.Will be interesting. COURIER STORY: “Habitat Island wildlife now includes party animals,” July 9. Uncle Durt @Curtis_Lowes: Saw lots of VPD on foot and water tonight handing out tix. First time in years. #partysover Brendan @BMC604: I don’t think they are partiers but rather dirtbags that don’t know how to pick up their trash. Lee Lax @leeinbc: It’s actually “Havabeer” or “Haveadoobie” Island. Aaron Chapman: I usually see bare-footed hipsters with their feet up by the trees on the shore on the island. I’m not sure if its impeding the wildlife that’s supposed to be there, but maybe the mayor of Abbotsford can arrange a dump of chicken manure on the island to prevent this from happening, and move the drinkers to sit and drink on the tracks of the unused Arbutus corridor. MatthewVan Deventer @MattVanDeventer: It’s better than Meth Island. COURIER STORY: “Cambie Corridor faces its future,” July 4. Carey Murphy: Just wanted to point out that the five rezonings you’ve listed in the “Cambie Corridor” in this article must just be the ones in the Marpole area.A city planner recently reported “26 rezoning applications submitted since 2010; 17 approved to date” for Cambie Corridor.
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The HMCS Annapolis, a decommissioned battleship, is currently moored in Port Graves on Gambier Island. Scan this page with the Layar app or visit vancourier.com to see more photos. PHOTO ANDREW FLEMING
Old destroyer could add new life to Howe Sound, although the ship’s fate is still up in the air
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The HMCS Annapolis didn’t see action during her three decades patrolling the seas as part of the Royal Canadian Navy. However, the 110-metre warship may soon see a very different kind of action as a new scuba diving destination in Howe Sound. The Courier visited the ship on June 28 as part of UNESCO’s inaugural Dive for Peace Day, a global initiative meant to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie 100 years ago that triggered the beginning of the First World War. Since Vancouver waters don’t offer much in the way of WWI memorabilia, a dive trip led by Sea Dragon Charters instead offered a tour of the Cold War-era battleship — currently afloat in Port Graves on Gambier Island — after first exploring some steep undersea cliffs beneath the remains of North Shore gun ramparts that once guarded the First Narrows from potential enemy invasion during the Second World War. The Annapolis was launched in 1963 and decommissioned in 1996. She then sat rusting at CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island before being purchased by the
Artificial Reef Society of B.C. (ARSBC) in 2009 for an undisclosed sum. The non-profit group has eight sunken military vessels under its belt, not to mention a Boeing 737 near Chemainus, but this would be the first ship scuttled a short distance from a major tourist destination. “It is designed as an asset that goes to the province and it’s all about divesite eco-tourism,” said ARSBC president Howie Robins. “This is one of the nice things about having the ship so close to Vancouver and about 20 minutes from Horseshoe Bay, it really provides us with a living library to see the kinds of biological changes that can occur without having to take the ferry somewhere.” The late, great aquatic explorer Jacques Cousteau once described British Columbia as offering “the best temperate water diving in the world and second only to the Red Sea,” and the ARSBC hopes to see the Annapolis, despite the chilly water, become a major draw for international divers more accustomed to tropical diving. Shipwreck diving also typically involves highly specialized training, and wrecks are often found at greater depths than many recreational divers are comfortable with. If all goes according to plan, the Annapolis will be sunk in relatively shal-
low water in Halkett Bay Marine Park and, because the ship was equipped to transport and service massive Sea King helicopters, it would offer a lot of open-space options for exploration that wouldn’t require swimming through dangerous narrow passages. “The maximum depth will be about 105 feet at high tide in an area that is reasonably consistent at depth because we are basically putting the ship in a strategic area on a ledge,” said Robins. “Most of the diving will be between 50 and 90 feet and you’ll be able to see at least 85 to 90 per cent of the ship.” The practice of creating artificial reefs has been around for centuries and they are built for reasons as diverse as blocking waves or boat traffic to creating better fishing spots. The process of how — or even if — a manmade leviathan like the Annapolis eventually becomes one is determined by variables such as depth, currents and the make-up of the sea floor. Robins says the Halkett Bay sea bottom would be an ideal setting for an artificial reef because it’s previously been damaged from the island’s log-booming days because bark and other fibrous materials smothered marine life on the ocean floor after sinking. Most artificial reefs
attract aquatic life in foreseeable steps. First, when currents encounter a vertical structure like a sunken vessel, it can create a plankton-rich upwelling that provides a good feeding spot for smaller fish, which in turns draws larger predators. Eventually, the metal exterior becomes encrusted with algae, anemones, corals and sponges, sprouting aquatic life like some sort of submersed, supersized Chia Pet and becoming home to crabs, wolf eels, octopus, ling cod, rock fish and more. “The nice thing about wrecks this size is that you can keep going back and never see the same thing twice,” said scuba instructor Trisha Stovel “I’ve been to the Cape Breton three times over the years and every time has been completely different.” (The ARSBC sank the 135-metre HMCS Cape Breton off the coast of Nanaimo in 2001.) The dream of sinking the battleship, originally scheduled for 2010, has been a hard-fought battle. Robins said that a lack of shipyard space due to the 2010 Olympics meant that hundreds of volunteers had to make their way to Gambier Island to strip the vessel of hazardous
materials. The beginning of the project also coincided with the 2008 stock market crash, and the value of scrap metal — the sinkand-swim project’s main source of funding — quickly bottomed out. There was also objection from a group called Save Halkett Bay, a group of island residents who oppose sinking the ship in their backyard due to environmental and increased traffic concerns. Last but not least, the ship is also still subject of a lawsuit from the owner of WR Marine Services, who claims he is still owed nearly $100,000 for stripping and mooring the vessel. Although Robins said he is hoping to send the Annapolis to a watery grave by the end of this summer, a date has yet to be finalized and his organization is still waiting for final approval from Environment Canada. “It is premature to set a date until we have all our ducks in a row with the regulatory authorities. We’re still working through our government permitting process but there are no issues there and this is just a matter of course.” twitter.com/flematic
Scuba divers explore the wreck of the HMCS Cape Breton, a Canadian military vessel sunk by the ARSBC in 2001. PHOTO RUSSELL CLARK/SEAPROOF.TV
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Meditation not just for hippies Roots of Christian meditation go back 1,600 years PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson
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Meditation is an Eastern thing, an Asian thing, that when practised by people in the West has more to do with hippies than holiness, right? That is a common misconception, according to Colleen Donald, national coordinator of the Canadian Christian Meditation Community, who says the roots of Christian meditation go back 1,600 years. Donald grew up in Kitsilano, yet her meditation style is not rooted in the 1960s counterculture that flourished there and introduced meditation to many aVancouverite, but in a Christian tradition from the fourth century. A lifelong Catholic, Donald discovered Christian meditation as an adult, although she acknowledges that praying on rosaries can be a sort of meditation. Come to think, medieval chanting is another form of meditation. So are labyrinths, such as the one in Chartres Cathedral. The particular form of Christian meditation Donald practises — twice a day for 20 to 30 minutes and once a week in a group setting — is founded on the teachings of John Main, a Catholic priest
and Benedictine monk, who died in 1982.The English-born Main, whose recorded teachings often start meditation meetings worldwide, spent his final years in Montreal, during which time the foundations were laid for what would become the World Community for Christian Meditation. Donald now heads the Canadian chapter, but it is a global phenomenon that goes largely under the radar. And while Donald is (and Main was) a Catholic, the community is ecumenically Christian — welcoming believers from across denominations. While the tradition is deep, knowledge of the practice is fairly shallow, Donald acknowledges, maybe deliberately so. “I think that in Western Christianity the mystic stream was repressed,” she says. “I’m not a scholar on that, but I think that there was a fear of loss of control, loss of orthodoxy, fear of heretical offshoots.” Today, there are more than 20 groups meeting regularly in B.C., including three in Vancouver. Some gather in churches, some in private homes. Learning the practice is simple, Donald says, mastering takes discipline. At the meditation group meetings, small groups — from four to 15 or 20 — sit quietly. “It’s very, very simple,”
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Colleen Donald, national coordinator of the Canadian Christian Meditation Community, calls meditation “a response to a lot of the idiocy of modern society, to the noise and the distraction and the lack of focus and the narcissism.” PHOTO ROB NEWELL
she says. “It’s just a matter of sitting very still and quiet and, as you begin to meditate, you breathe quietly and you repeat your mantra and every time you get a thought, or what we call a distraction, you become aware of it, you don’t glom on to the thought, you just return to [silently] saying your word.” “Many people work at getting a twice-daily practice for years,” says Donald. “Our philosophy is that we are not looking to be perfect, we are trying to be faithful. It’s a different thing.” Donald’s mantra, usually
simply called a prayer word in Christian meditation, is “maranatha,” an Aramaic word meaning “come, Lord.” “We repeat this word,” she says. “And through our attention and intention we join in the prayer of Christ.” In the words of John Main: “In Meditation, then, we declare our own poverty.We renounce words, thoughts, imagination and we do so by restricting the mind to the poverty of one word.” Donald came to Christian meditation when she realized she had lost the joy in life.
“I had lost my sense of wonder and awe about life,” she says. “I just felt like I was doing one duty after another… really missing that sort of joy and wonder that I had as a child.” Still, if it’s just sitting in silence, why the need to meet every week to sit silently together? “When God works in our life, when Christ works through God in our life and the spirit, we might be solitary but we are never in isolation,” she says. “When we really are cooperating with the spirit of love, we
automatically begin to connect with other people and the groups reinforce this. Because it’s a discipline and it isn’t easy, it reminds you that there are other people on the same journey and it reinforces and supports.” The movement expands when someone in a church — or increasingly, in hospitals or schools — decide to introduce the practice to their circles. A member of Donald’s group is happy to go out and provide an intro session. Groups can be led by clergy, but they need not be; anyone can do it. Donald says years of meditative practice have taught her lessons about being loving, and not only toward others. “It isn’t only that you learn them in relation to other people, it’s that you learn them in relation to yourself. I love meditation because it’s a radical action and a response to a lot of the idiocy of modern society, to the noise and the distraction and the lack of focus and the narcissism. “I’m able to realize that, although there may be problems or stresses, that it is not my core and that I can deal with them, though I may not like them. It brings integration and harmony. It just gives profound meaning. It makes a pattern, it brings balance,” she says.
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Barj Dahan There is much talk in the media these days about labour shortages and that thousands of jobs in British Columbia and the rest of Canada will have to be filled over the next 10 years by non-Canadians — meaning new immigrants and/or temporary foreign workers. Most of these jobs will require workers with trades skills, technical experience and knowledge.While this may be the case, the tone of the public discourse is perhaps unintentionally diminishing the value of the kind of work that many Canadians, new immigrants and temporary foreign workers do.When their jobs are called “menial,” “low skilled,” “unskilled” or “grunt jobs.” I believe we are unfairly degrading this kind of work. Our society cannot function without people working in these jobs.The people that do them deserve to be valued for their contributions to our communities. My father came to Canada in 1960 with no “marketable” skills. He worked as a labourer in a sawmill and a plywood mill. He painted railings on the weekends in a small metal fabricating shop. Eventually he started building single-
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SHUCK AND AWE: Fourteen oyster shuckers including two-time world champion Michael Moran and six bartenders from around the province, participated in Bearfoot Bistro’s fourth annual World Oyster Invitational and Bloody Caesar battle. More than a thousand guests converged at the Whistler Golf Club driving range for the oyster competition and charity garden party benefitting Playground Builders.The CBC’s Rick Cluff emceed the hotly contested affair that came down to Vancouver’s Issac Del Campo (Rodney’s Oyster Bar) besting Gibson’s Ian Peck (Smitty’s Oyster House) in the finals. Playground Builders is a registered Canadian charity dedicated to building playgrounds for children in war-torn areas. Since 2007, founder Keith Reynolds has created over 165 safe playing spaces for children. FIGHTING GANGS AND DRUGS: For the past 17 years,Vancouver Police Department’s Odd Squad productions have been producing videos on the perils of gang life, drug use, and violence and screening them to high school students throughout the province. Dependent solely on donations from individuals and businesses, the non-profit hosted its inaugural Jewels and Jeans Gala held at Birks flagship store in Vancouver. Odd Squad executive director Doug Charlton and chair Bob Golden, along with yours truly who emceed the fundraiser, welcomed several hundred supporters to the sparkling cocktail party. A simulated takedown by officers had guest’s heart pumping, while a generous live auction led by Howard Blank saw organizers jumping. SPICY SUMMER: Food, film, conversation, dance and literature, the Indian Summer Festival blends South Asia and Canada by celebrating the arts, ideas, and culture through exhibitions, presentations, and performance events. A culinary tour of South Asia curated by chef VikramVij at the Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden kicked off the fourth running of the popular festival, which continues until July 12. Festival founders artistic director Sirish Rao and his wife, managing director Laura Byspalko, greeted authors, academics and artists gathered for the gastronomic gala. Vij, who days earlier opened his newest resto My Shanti in Surrey, will close the celebrations hosting a starlight dinner with guests of honour:The Dabbawalas of Mumbai, the legendary lunch box deliverymen.
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Indian Summer Festival founders Sirish Rao and Laura Byspalko fronted the fourth annual 10-day festival of arts, ideas and culture.
Chef Vikram Vij kicked off the Indian Summer Festival welcoming musician Ashwin Sood to his South Asian culinary celebrations at the Dr. SunYat Sen Classical Chinese Garden.
Former gang member Jordan Buna, right, credits his girlfriend Emily Feng and Lindsey Houghton’s Odd Squad for turning his life around.
Building hope from the ground up, one playground at a time, Keith Reynolds and Kirby Brown have devoted their time to creating playgrounds for children in war-torn areas.
Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich and Odd Squad Productions Society chair Bob Golden attended Jewels and Jeans benefit supporting the VPD initiative of delivering reality-based education to keep kids in school.
Bearfoot Bistro’s Andre St. Jacques, centre, welcomed two-time world oyster shucking champion Michael Moran, left, and his brother Brian to the annual World Oyster Invitational and Playground Builders benefit.
U.S. Consul General Anne Callaghan held a Fourth of July party at her official residence on Matthew Street. The outgoing diplomat welcomed neighbor Margaret McNeil, who runs nearby Canuck Place Children’s Hospice.
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Council approved a rezoning application at a public hearing Tuesday night that will see the redevelopment of the old Avalon Dairy property at 5805 Wales St. The residential development will include six threestorey stacked townhomes with 54 strata units — eight of which will have lock-off units, along with the restoration and Heritage A designation of the Craftsman-style 1900s-era farmhouse, which Avalon founder Jeremiah Crowley built in 1908.
to comments from the public, the Urban Design Panel and the Heritage Commission. “Overall, public response to the proposal has been largely positive. Comments in support focused on support for the retention of the farmhouse and addition of townhouses,” she said. “Comments in opposition have focused mostly on concern about traffic and parking impacts associated with the proposed development.” McGuire noted that the application is consistent with the Victoria Fraserview Killarney community vision and the city’s heritage policies and guidelines dealing with land use, density, height and form
“[The site] has a huge depth of meaning to this neighbourhood and the city as a whole.” – Heather Deal The farmhouse will be converted into one residential unit with common amenity space on the ground floor. Avalonna Homes bought the Avalon Dairy property for $6 million in 2011. It was zoned single-family residential, which would have allowed the owner to subdivide it into 10 or 11 lots.The city considered extra density to preserve the heritage farmhouse. Robert Ciccozzi of Robert Ciccozzi Architects submitted the application. Michelle McGuire, a rezoning planner with the City of Vancouver, presented the report on the project. Staff recommended approval subject to conditions outlined in the report. McGuire told council that the application has evolved since it was first submitted in response
of development. “The application, if approved, would provide ground-oriented multi-family townhouse units and would result in the restoration, rehabilitation and protection of the historic Avalon farmhouse,” she said. Vision Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal questioned McGuire about concerns the Heritage Commission had raised earlier, dealing with open space and visibility of the farmhouse. “In subsequent revisions to the application, the open space for around the farmhouse building is much more organized in a coordinated way that allows views from the Avalon greenway, as well as a more sort of slot view from Wales Street that is available now with the siting of the townhouses along Wales Street,” she said. Continued on page 18
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Starting July 4th, the south runway will be closed nightly at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) for annual runway maintenance and repairs. The north runway will be used for departures and arrivals during these closures. Up-to-date information about the closures will be available at www.yvr.ca/noise.
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Continued from page 17 Only one resident spoke at the public hearing. He raised a concern about the entry into the parking area. Since the application was referred to public hearing, the city received four emails in support of the project on one email on other aspects. In closing comments, Deal said she fully supported the development
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July 11 to 13, 2014 1. The crowds!The bands!The smell of aging hippies mingling with young folk!The fourth annual Khatsahlano Street Party has something for everyone. Highlights of the city’s largest free music and arts festival, which runs alongWest Fourth from Burrard to Macdonald, July 12, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., includes art displays, activities and performances from Lightning Dust, the Evaporators, the Shilohs, Cool,Tough Age, Bend Sinister, the Grapes ofWrath and the Poppy Family Experience featuring Susan Jacks and members of the New Pornographers and Black Mountain, among dozens of others. Details at khatsahlano.com. 2. Minds will be blown, heads will be scratched and grips on reality challenged as the Cinematheque screens a four film program dedicated to the visionary work of Chilean cult moviemaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Films include 2013’s The Dance of Reality, legendary “peyote western” El Topo (1970), Frank Pavich’s doc Jodorowsky’s Dune and 1973’s truly crazy but beautifully shot The Holy Mountain, which gave us a contact high just trying watch it. It all goes down July 11 to 19. Go to thecinematheque.ca for details. 3. Kitty Nights Burlesque presents LaughYour Sexy Ass Off, two nights of fun and frivolity with Kids in the Hall’s ScottThompson July 11 and 12 at the Rio Theatre. Thompson will joined by such titillating talents as theWet Spots,Watermelon, Burgundy Brixx and April O’Peel among others. Details at kittynights.com. 4. Theatre Under the Stars returns to Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl with two family-friendly song and dance-filled productions, Shrek:The Musical and Legally Blonde:The Musical.The good times run on alternating evenings July 11 to Aug. 23. Details at tuts.ca. For video and web content, scan page using the Layar app.
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choose from this summer Step Up:All In is dancebattling excess, LasVegas style. “Does it always have to end in a big dance battle?” one character jokingly asks. Yup. Alternately, check out Begin Again. Keira Knightly stars as a struggling musician stranded in NewYork City after a bad breakup who meets up with a has-been record exec (Mark Ruffalo). Knightly sings and plays guitar, both of which reportedly terrified her. Added bonus: Maroon 5’s Adam Levine in his acting debut. … kiddie fare? Planes:Fire and Rescue. Dusty Crophopper (voiced by Dane Cook) has to reinvent himself after some wing damage, but might have found his purpose as an aerial firefighter. Ed Harris, Regina King and Julie Bowen lend their voices. Or you could see The Boxtrolls, a stop-motion marvel from the makers of Coraline and ParaNorman, about a boy raised by a race of trash-loving trolls. He must learn to be human if he wants to save his troll family from being annihilated by small-minded humans. … Susan Sarandon? In Tammy Melissa McCarthy doesn’t know where her life is headed, so she knocks over a fast-food joint and hits the road, accompanied by her drunk Grandma, played by Susan
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Sarandon (though even with a bad wig, no one is buying Sarandon as McCarthy’s granny). More promising is The Calling, starring Sarandon as a police officer in Port Dundas, Ont., who finds herself busy when a serial killer with “a higher calling” starts picking off the town’s inhabitants.Topher Grace and B.C. natives Gil Bellows and Christopher Heyerdahl also star. …horror? Last year’s The Purge was made on a scant $3-million budget and earned just shy of $90 million. Pretty sure this one has a bigger budget: Michael Bay is a producer. No Ethan Hawke this time, but The Purge:Anarchy features the same director (James DeMonaco), same concept: in a near-future U.S. all crimes — including murder — are legal for a 12-hour period. Or you could see director Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno, in which a group of students head to Peru hoping to save
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finds himself in a waking nightmare, complete with men in hazmat suits (Laurence Fishburne). He must piece together the puzzle of what happened in order to escape and get his life back. Calvary is an altogether different kind of mystery. In the confessional, an unseen confessor tells Father James (Brendan Gleeson) that he will kill the priest in one week, retribution for boyhood abuse at the hands of another priest. Father James has a week to solve the mystery — everyone’s a suspect — and save his life in this black comedy.
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Franck Point is fanatical about croissants. In fact you could call him a “croissant croisadeur” and he likely wouldn’t object. He’s the man behind Faubourg, those swish looking, chandelier-trimmed artisan bakerybistros popping up around town (there are three so far), where you might feel yourself whisked back to that last trip to Paris, somewhere on Blvd. St. Germain. Faubourg seduces with a wealth of temptations, ranging from flaky, Chantillytopped, vertical mille feuille to impeccably made macarons, as well as savouries. Not to mention the “dessert of the month” (July’s is an extraordinary Earl Grey, lemon and white chocolate tart), an array of superb breads (fougasse, baguette, brioche), equally excellent coffee and polished, prompt service. As I examined the array of handmade macarons (purely for purposes of research), Point winces and extracts three from the showcase. Rejects, he says, they should never have been there, pointing out that the circumference at which the filling meets the upper and lower half — the “ruffle,” as it’s known, is uneven. The summarily excommunicated macarons will
Franck Point is the “croissant croisadeur” behind Fauburg. PHOTO TIM PAWSEY
never meet a customer, let alone make it into one of Faubourg’s deluxe gift packs. Ultimately, it’s all about the croissants, explains Point, who oversees in meticulous detail production that continues fresh throughout the day of everything from a buttery and flaky classic to pistachio cream, almond paste-filled, and — naturellement — addictive pain au chocolat. State-of-the-art equipment, with precise moisture and temperature controls, prepare the forms over three hours for baking. It’s a critical process explains Point, along with the quality of butter he uses. Point says he doesn’t sell 10 per cent of his production, although many items are donated to charity. Interestingly, when Point
first opened he thought it would be all about baguettes. But it was not to be. On the very first day, the croissants were gone by mid-afternoon. I’m not surprised. (2156 West 41st, 769 Hornby St., Park Royal South, faubourg.com)
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Here’s a cookbook that will get you in the mood for summer, and then some. Provence Food andWine:The Art of Living by François Millo andViktoriaTodorovska is a glorious, unabashed romp through Provence and all it has to offer. Beautifully photographed by Millo, it’s packed with no end of well laid-out, easy-to-execute recipes, organized by four principal regions — along with smart wine matches. Think tastes like tapenade,
Speaking of things French, the wraps are off Left Bank, the more laidback and contemporary successor to bistro Le Parisienne, which owner John Blakeley closed last month. Most notably, the postfacelift space is home to the West End’s first laneway patio, a 10-metre stretch on the south side that brings a whole new dimension, along with expansive windows onto Denman. Left Bank executive chef SpencerWatts (also at Pastis) has designed a menu he calls “French with a colonial twist” — lamb tartar with mint pesto, seared sockeye with garlic and summer peas, sesame pommes frites and salad or organic greens with apple buttermilk emulsion, dates, fresh peas, smoked Gouda and walnut. Prices are reasonable, with plenty of bar bites and nothing over $22. (751 Denman St, 604687-1418.)
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1 1. Women fly through the 42-kilometre Gastown Grand Prix on one of 35 laps. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET. 2. UBC Grand Prix Men Cat 3 & 4 start. PHOTO ROB NEWELL. 3. The UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling team led the peloton in the Gastown Grand Prix on July 9. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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Luke Keough won backto-back B.C. Superweek races on Tuesday and Wednesday in the two criterium events held in Vancouver, the exciting UBC Grand Prix and historic Gastown Grand Prix. The Massachusetts sprinter stayed inches ahead of North Vancou-
ver’s Ryan Anderson of Optum/Kelly Benefit Strategies to edge 119 competitors in the 60-kilometre, 50-lap Gastown race. “It was awesome — to race in front of such a great crowd out here in B.C. was absolutely amazing.You could just hear the crowd. It was electric,” Keough said. At the Mahoney & Sons race at UBC some 24 hours earlier, Keough and his UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling teammates swept the podium even though
Kevin Hanson, who came third, added to the high crash tally when he took a spill on the 20th lap. Canada’s national women’s champion,Winnipegger Leah Kirchmann, won her second consecutive Gastown title and with it, the fattest women’s purse in North America. Kirchmann, who now lives in Squamish, rides with Optum/Kelly Benefit Strategies. She and Keough each took home $13,000 for
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their wins in Gastown, the race which is sponsored by Global Relay. “This is a monumental achievement for me in my career and my team — and for women’s cycling,” said Kirchmann. “Thank you Global Relay.” Kirchmann outpaced New Zealander Jo Kiesanowski of Team TIBCO To The Top, the sprinter who the day before had won the UBC Grand Prix. The Canadian dodged a crash on the first cor-
ner of the final lap over Gastown’s technical cobblestone course and her teammates kept a fast pace to the finish line. “It was a really hectic last lap,” she said. “I had faith in my team that they were going to set me up with a really fast lead out. I guess there was a crash or a near crash around the first corner — I actually felt someone run into my foot and my wheel — but I held it up and was able to stay ahead of the field.”
Team TIBCO To The Top placed two riders on the podium, and thirdplace finisher Samantha Schneider saw the crash that Kirchmann evaded. “There was unfortunately a crash from the inside,” said Schneider. “It went out and luckily my teammate, Jo, and I got saved. Leah made it through and [it was] single file all through the last lap.” — Compiled with information from news releases twitter.com/MHStewart
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fans went along for the ride, a hope-fuelled rollercoaster of passion and colour and eventual defeat for all but two teams. In Vancouver, spectators crowded cafes on Commercial Drive, an expansive banquet hall in Marpole, the second floor over a Robson Street convenience store, and cultural
centres all across the city. Most of these places, even if the team their patrons support has been eliminated, will open their doors for Sunday’s World Cup final. Find a seat for yourself and enjoy the spectacle on the screen and around you. The final kicks off at 1 p.m. — Megan Stewart
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5 1. Colombia fans Nohemy and Fred Horikoshi donned all the country’s colours to watch a World Cup match at Caffe Roma on July 4. Colombia lost 2-1 to Brazil. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT 2. A Brazil soccer fan at Caffe Roma reacted as el Canarinho scored its second and game-winning goal to eliminate Colombia 2-1 from the World Cup on July 4. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT 3. Fans at the Croatian Cultural Centre erupted as their team scored yet another goal in a 4-0 rout of Cameroon on June 18 in a Group Stage match of the World Cup.PHOTO DAN TOULGOET 4. Korea fans at the South Hall Palace watched wide-eyed as their side tied Russia 1-1 on June 17 in a Group Stage match of the World Cup. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET 5. It was all optimistic smiles at the Rio Brazilian Steakhouse when Brazil opened the World Cup with a 3-1 win over Croatia on June 12. Brazil was since eliminated in a humiliating 7-1 semifinal defeat to Germany on July 8. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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International demand is also expected to remain strong across Canada’s major metropolitan markets — Sotheby’s International ver detached homes that sold for between $2 million and $4 million rose 39 per cent to 485 while detached homes that were priced between $1 million and $2 million were up 35 per cent to 714. Condominium sales priced at more than $4 million rose 29 per cent to nine whereas those units priced at between $2 million and $4 million were up 2.5 per cent to 41 and condominiums priced at between $1 million and $2 million were up 47 per cent to 193. “Given strong economic fundamentals, increased consumer confidence and
in the latter part of 2014,” the report noted. “International demand is also expected to remain strong across Canada’s major metropolitan markets, with the removal of Canada’s Immigrant Investor Program having had no impact on the luxury real estate market year-to-date.” Earlier this year, B.C. Assessment listed Lululemon Athletica Inc. founder Chip Wilson’s home on Point Grey Road as the most expensive residential property in B.C. That home was assessed at $54.2 million. twitter.com/GlenKorstrom
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New model targets the less affluent BY DAVID CHAO
For many decades, Mercedes-Benz has long been a brand associated with luxury and exclusivity. In recent years however, Mercedes has been bringing more and more vehicles that are at entry level pricing, allowing Mercedes to entice buyers into its brand early in their buying process. These include everything from the Smart Fortwo, starting at just under $15,000, to their B-Class models, priced around $30,000. The CLA-Class joins the line-up in 2014, offering a sleek four-door coupe design for less than $35,000 — a true accomplishment considering that the CLA offers many features and design elements that make the car look and feel much more expensive.
Design
Mercedes-Benz considers the CLA-Class an entrylevel luxury product but that does not mean it is not a premium car. Mercedes’ aim is to bring new customers to the brand through innovative design and premium features. Mercedes pioneered the four-door coupe design concept with its CLS-Class.This idea — of creating a fourdoor car that looks like a coupe — has now been copied by most other luxury brands.The CLA borrows a lot of the styling cues from the stylistic CLS model and brings those exciting design features to a new segment. The description “four-door coupe” sounds odd, but it’s best to think of this car as a coupe which has a set of rear doors to make entry into the back seats easier. The four-door coupe body design does come with one big advantage, and that’s aerodynamic efficiency. The CLA boasts the lowest drag coefficient of any production sedan at 0.28. The CLA is based on Mercedes-Benz’s B-Class architecture; sharing platforms across a range is commonplace in today’s market as it is the only way for manufacturers to effectively expand their model range without adding significant expense. However, as a result of the CLA being based on a lower-scale B-Class, it is noisier and less refined than its larger siblings.
Another by-product of using the B-Class structure is that the base CLA is front-wheel drive. This makes it the first FWD car Mercedes-Benz has ever sold in North America. The advantage of it being front-driven is that it will perform reasonably well in winter conditions in comparison to a rear-wheel-driven vehicle.
to the car in front and even will apply the brakes.
Environment
The cabin of the CLA is a true Mercedes-Benz interior, meaning it’s modern, luxurious and even a bit trendy (yes in case you haven’t noticed, Mercedes’ interior has been hip and cool lately). It has many of the features found in its pricier siblings, though toned down to keep things simple. The front seats are very firm yet comfortable with a good side support and offers an electric driver’s seat with memory function as standard. In the rear seats, the swooping roofline leaves only childfriendly headroom, which is a shame as there is a good amount of legroom.The roofline also results in a very narrow rear window that restricts visibility considerably, but we did say that this car is a four-door coupe didn’t we? On the equipment front, the CLA hasn’t lost much in the process of being transformed to an affordable Mercedes.The dash is striking with the command screen floating over the centre stack. Standard models come with a 5.7-inch screen but a larger seven-inch display is available.Trunk space is also quite reasonable at 470 litres. The opening is a bit narrow, but it’s nicely finished inside and the rear seats fold down 60/40 for more room.
Performance
The base model, the CLA 250 Coupe, comes with a 2.0-litre turbocharged four cylinder which produces an admirable 208 hp and 258 ft-lbs of torque. As mentioned, the base model is FWD, however Mercedes’ 4MATIC AWD system is available as an option. Managing the power delivery to the wheels is a sevenspeed automatic transmission that is smooth and well matched to the engine. At full throttle, engine noise may be a bit more noticeable in the CLA than in one of its pricier stable mates, but it can still accelerate to 100 km/h in 6.7 seconds. The overall performance is excellent, with more than enough power and torque to make the car feel sporty and agile. The CLA also tackles corners remarkably well. It shows lots of grip and is well-balanced. Pushed too far though, and its FWD nature comes through with noticeable body roll and understeer. The electric power steering provides a sporty, reasonably weighted feel, but the “road feel” is noticeably absent as the particular design of electric steering system makes it difficult to transmit what is actually going-on underneath.The Electronic Stability Program can help stabilize the CLA by braking individual wheels and adjusting engine output. Those looking for more performance can opt for the CLA 45 AMG 4MATIC. Aside from being equipped with an AWD, it boosts the horsepower to 355. AMG’s SPEEDSHIFT DCT seven-speed sports transmission is also a part of the package, allowing the car to hit 100 km/h in just 4.6 seconds. Safety is also a priority for Mercedes-Benz, and the CLA is no different. It comes standard with multiple features like airbags, “Attention Assist” which will wake you should you fall asleep behind the wheel, and Collision Prevention Assist, which will warn you if you get too close
Features
The CLA 250 Coupe starts at $34,300, with AWD adding $2,200.The premium model, called the Edition 1, starts at $43,200.The CLA 45 AMG 4MATIC begins at $49,800, with Edition 1 models priced at $65,900. Standard equipment includes an ECO start/stop function, instrument panel with a 4.5-inch colour display, Bluetooth, automatic headlights, heated exterior mirrors, rain-sensing windshield wipers with heated washer fluid, and keyless entry. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include Bi-Xenon headlamps, LED daytime running lights, heated front seats, HDD navigation, auto dimming mirrors, rearview camera, panoramic sunroof and an integrated garage door opener. Fuel efficiency numbers (L/100km) for the CLA 250 are 7.8 city and 5.1 highway.The CLA 45 AMG returns 9.0 city and 6.5 highway.
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This car is harder edged, more aggressive, and ready to shred the street
At some point during your middle school education, your math teacher probably told you that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line.They were wrong. It’s a Subaru. Specifically, it’s this Subaru, the WRX. Since 2002, it’s been dispatching snow, gravel, rain, dirt, mud and twisty tarmac with aplomb. Kinda makes you wonder whether our mail wouldn’t get there a heck of a lot faster if Canada Post bought a fleet of them. However, since 2002, it’s also been just a bit flobbery.That’s not really an insult, just that Subaru traditionally set their street-ready rally-rocket up as if it was about to complete a gravel stage: a softness to the springs, a bit more body roll. Totally redesigned for 2015, this new car is harder-edged, more aggressive, and ready to shred the street.
major design difference of this new WRX isn’t the fancy new corporate grille or the reworked hood scoop; it’s the sedan-only designation.That’s right, no more wagon. The WRX wagon (later hatchback) was extremely popular in past variants, splitting sales volume with the sedan right down the middle. It provided a tough, weatherproof alternative to the VW GTI and was loved by young families and active folks alike. Sadly, it’s no more. To its credit, the newWRX looks pretty good, if a bit on the plain side. Like allWRXs, the little details grow on you, and despite the flashy, angular sheet metal, those are entirely reasonable 17” alloys tucked under the wheel-arches. LED headlights are now available on mid-level trims, and the body’s just flared out enough from a standard Impreza to be sporty — a good start.
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the new WRX is actually pretty good. Make no mistake, the Germanic competition is still probably slightly ahead in terms of premium feel, but there’s much less of that old econobox plasticity you used to see inside the soon-to-berattling interior of a WRX. Even better, the sedan is a little more practical than it used to be.Trunk space is up to 340L and real legroom is up too, meaning adult passengers can actually squeeze back there without issue. The seats still aren’t quite as heavily bolstered as they were in those first early cars, but the cloth covering looks like it’ll stand up to people who have multiple MEC memberships, and the dials are big enough to be used with your gloves on. Instrumentation is a mixed bag, with a handy display between the gauges that provides a useful digital speed readout, and gentle coaching on how much gas you’re using. Continued on page 37
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Continued from page 35 The centre-mounted display is a little less easy to navigate, and the small standard rearview camera is more a bonus than a reason to purchase.
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Now starting at just under the 30K mark, the ‘15 WRX is actually fairly well-equipped from standard. A six-speaker stereo, iPod connectivity, Bluetooth and that rearview camera are all standard. Moving up to the Sport trim nets you a power seat, sunroof, LED headlights and foglights — this will likely be the volume seller.The Sport-tech trim adds in satellite navigation and nine-speaker audio, while usable, the touchscreen controls for the navi and audio are a bit to small to navigate easily. If you can live without a leather interior, better to skip the top-trim. Fuel economy ratings score well at 9.8L/100kms city and 7.0L/100kms highway. As these numbers are provided under the new 2015 five-cycle testing method, they’re actually achievable — naturally, premium fuel is recommended.
A six-speaker stereo, iPod connectivity and Bluetooth are standard.
more bite, the new WRX turns in like the old car never did. There’s oodles of grip from those stick summer-only Dunlops, and the car grips like a gecko through the corners. Forget any dreams of Scandinavian flicks through the PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until July 31, 2014. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. 2014 RAV4 Base FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A MSRP is $25,689 and includes $1,819 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. **Lease example: 2.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $123 with $2850 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $17,610. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. ***Finance example: 0.9% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 RAV4 FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,544 and includes $1,549 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, and battery levy. †Lease example: 2014 Corolla CE 6M with a vehicle price of $16,844 (includes $700 Toyota Canada Lease Assist, which is deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes, and $1,549 freight/PDI) leased at 0.9% over 60 months with $0 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $85 with a total lease obligation of $10,900. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. ††Finance example: 0.9% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Sienna CE V6 Automatic ZK3DCT-A MSRP is $30,939 and includes $1,819 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. ‡Lease example: 1.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $160 with $2,620 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $21,760. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.15. ‡‡Finance example: 0.9% finance for 72 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Sienna CE V6 Automatic ZK3DCT-A. Applicable taxes are extra. ‡‡‡Up to $2500 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Sienna models. No cash back on 2014 Sienna CE V6 Automatic. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. Non-stackable Cash Back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be able to take advantage of Cash Customer Incentives. Vehicle must be purchased, registered and delivered by July 31, 2014. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. †††Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 24, 36, 48 and 60 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. First semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. Toyota Financial Services will waive the final payment. Semi-monthly lease offer can be combined with most other offers excluding the First Payment Free and Encore offers. First Payment Free offer is valid for eligible TFS Lease Renewal customers only. Toyota semi-monthly lease program based on 24 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 120 payments, with the final 120th payment waived by Toyota Financial Services. Competitive bi-weekly lease programs based on 26 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 130 payments. Not open to employees of Toyota Canada, Toyota Financial Services or TMMC/TMMC Vehicle Purchase Plan. Some conditions apply. See your Toyota dealer for complete details. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less. *Toyota - Winner of more 2014 Canadian Black Book Best Retained Value awards than any other brand. Based on value retained from original MSRP for 2010 model year vehicles as published by CBB, as of 1 January 2014. See CanadianBlackBook.com for complete details.
The WRX now gets a new direct-injected, 2.0L flat-four. Huffing plenty of boost through a low-mounted turbo, it outmuscles last year’s WRX by a staggering three horsepower, for a total of 268hp. Okay, hang on a minute: that’s not the whole story. The WRX’s new, smaller four is both considerably more efficient than the outgoing model and much punchier as well.The peak horsepower improvements are only a mild side benefit compared to the improved delivery, which now knocks out a stout 258-lb/ft from 2000-5200 rpm. Power falls off a little at the top end, but thisWRX has a spry responsiveness that even pro-tuned Subies can only dream about.With the six-speed manual, off the line holeshots are excellent.With the optional CVT, it’s still very quick reacting. Oh right, the CVT. New for 2015, the WRX is now available with an available transmission that seems selected for its likelihood of offending purists. However, it’s actually pretty good. It might not seem like it makes sense to put something as ordinarily economy-minded as a CVT in a car like the WRX, but Subaru has fettled it until it actually drives like a performance machine. Flick the adjustable settings into Sport Sharp and it even gives you eight pre-set speeds for the paddle-shifters. But if you don’t want an automatic WRX, nobody’s forcing you to get one — yet.The six-speed manual is a little bit vague, with its cable-operated linkage, but it’s an improvement over past WRX gearboxes. Regrettably, this is quite a rough-riding car, but the result is a huge leap forward in terms of cornering ability. Subaru seems to have spent their entire research budget on the new chassis, and it’s a corker. Equipped with a new torque-vec7toring front end that can brake an inside wheel to dial in
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