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July 25 2014

Trish Kelly on her future

Vol. 105 No. 60

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Buddhist helpers FEATURE 14

City life on the eve of war There’s more online at

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BATTLE-TESTED Gary Kingman (right) survived cancer, giving the Wildcats softball team he coaches a lesson that sport is a lot like life. Players, from left: Amanda Percival, Misha Mattu, Julia Jachimowicz, Lainey Ebel and Maya Sohen. See related story on page 21. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Mayor pushed on homelessness

Protesters lash out at Gregor Robertson over mounting numbers of people sleeping on street Mike Howell

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Mayor Gregor Robertson spent part of two days this week explaining how his promise to end “street homelessness” by 2015 has always included the need for senior levels of government to help fulﬁll that promise. The need for an explanation came after speakers at city hall Tuesday and Wednesday, including homeless people from a protest camp at Oppenheimer Park, lashed out at Robertson for not ﬁnding people homes.

“You promised that you would end homelessness and you haven’t,” said Brody Williams, one of the spokespersons for the Oppenheimer campers. “In fact, it’s gotten worse. Shame on you.” In response, Robertson told the roughly 20 members of the group that providing homes for homeless people is ultimately the responsibility of the provincial and federal governments. “As a city, we’ve been trying hard to make a difference on the ground but it’s been very challenging,” said the mayor, whose promise involves ﬁnding homes for

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more than 500 people that were counted living on the street in March. The MetroVancouver Homeless Count conducted across the region March 12 revealed a total of 1,798 people identiﬁed as homeless in Vancouver, with 538 living on the street, 1,136 in shelters and 124 of no ﬁxed address residing in hospitals, detox facilities or jail. The overall homeless population in Vancouver is the highest it has ever been since the city and region have counted the number of people without homes. Robertson, whose inspiration to run for

mayor in 2008 came after a homeless man died near city hall, has become a lightning rod for housing activists and homeless people frustrated by governments unable to move people from the street into homes. While provincial Housing Minister Rich Coleman has said ending street homelessness by 2015 is achievable, Robertson is the politician who set the goal. Federal politicians have been silent on whether Robertson can achieve his goal, which he set shortly after he was elected in November 2008. Continued on page 8

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Gardeners can be unruly at times. Take what they did along the Arbutus Corridor with all those illegal gardens they planted on Canadian Paciﬁc-owned land. Guerrillas! West Side scofﬂaws! As regular readers of the Courier will know, the corridor has been in the news lately and was amped up this week with Mayor Gregor Robertson again saying the city is willing to purchase the CP lands for “fair market value.” That’s because CP is talking about running trains on the tracks along the corridor, something it hasn’t done since 2001. In order to do that, it has to get rid of the gardens built by “trespassers” along the corridor. I put trespassers in quotes because I’m quoting from a July 21 letter written by Mike LoVecchio, CP’s director of government affairs. LoVecchio was responding to a letter authored by David Eby, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey. Eby shared both letters with me. Here’s part of what Eby wrote: “Until a few months ago, most in our community believed that there was some

level of appreciation by CP Rail for the efforts made by volunteers to turn nuisance properties overgrown with weeds and strewn with junk into beautiful community assets available to everyone. Unfortunately, the belief that CP understood the free service from which they beneﬁted, and the community’s understanding of CP as a responsible community member interested in its neighbours’ opinions, has been severely challenged.” And here’s part of what LoVecchio wrote: “We are a reasonable landowner who — for some time now — has allowed the presence of trespassers on our land without retribution. I know this is a harsh description of those who have put such care into beautifying our land with their unauthorized gardens, but what would you call those who park their vehicles or build storage structures or leave abandoned items on our land without permission?” CP has set a July 31 deadline to have the trespassing gardeners remove their gardens. More from LoVecchio: “Our intention on Aug. 1 is not to begin immediate demolition of community gardens; we have a plan on how to continue track improvement in this area and will handle the removal of encroachments as our

work progresses. Should encroachments still exist on the land as we begin our work, we must remove them.The safety of our employees is our number one priority and non-negotiable.” In Eby’s letter, he wrote that he hoped CP’s actions “have been the simple consequence of a large company with many moving parts inadvertently acting in a way that is threatening its community relationships.” Added Eby: “Our hope is that, now that you have some understanding of the dynamics at play, the company would take the time necessary to meet with affected neighbours in order to minimize the impacts of this recent policy change. Many involved with the gardens seem convinced that simple discussions about mitigation, undertaken in good faith, could be incredibly positive and result in a win-win for all involved.” LoVecchio again: “CP remains open to dialogue with residents in the area; however, we are unable to waver on our commitment to our shareholders in optimizing this valuable asset.” The mayor, meanwhile, says the city continues to negotiate with CP to buy the lands. Until then, gardens will grow, trains will remain idle and the sun will come up in the morning. twitter.com/Howellings

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of his neighbours have had enough. “We are going to be consulting a lawyer very soon to deal with the fact that the PNE doesn’t want to respect us or any of the city or the federal statutes when it comes to noise,” said Goldkind. Based on their use of a decibel meter, he said the noise levels of events at the PNE reach 100 to 150 decibels. He said the noise is worse in the summer, but excessive noise is something he said he deals with year round. The city bylaw during the daytime (up until 10 p.m.) is 70 dBc, or the typical sound of a lawn mower or dishwasher.

A city communications spokeserpson told the Courier providing information about the number of complaints filed about noise from the area around the PNE was not possible before the Courier’sThursday print deadline. Laura Ballance, spokeswoman for the PNE, said on average the PNE received between six to nine comments or concerns from the neighbourhood per month over the year. About 70 per cent of those came from the same homes. She couldn’t say how many were specifically noise complaints. She said sound levels are monitored consistently throughout every event to ensure they don’t go over city limits. If an event starts to get too loud performers are notified “in real time” and asked to adjust accordingly.

“The PNE has been at Hastings Park for 104 years and we have been an eventbased venue for 104 years and we feel that we have good relationships with our neighbours,” Ballance said. Goldkind said if the excessive PNE noise can’t be stopped he wants ﬁnancial compensation from the city. “I have to pay the same property tax as someone 10 or 15 blocks away,” he said. “If they said we are going to give you all no property tax, I would say ﬁne, at least when I leave my house you are paying me to leave my house,” said Goldkind, who added he pays approximately $4,000 a year in property tax. He said for the foreseeable future he will continue to head to his girlfriend’s home when the walls of his house begin to shake. twitter.com/thuncher

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For many years, Union Gospel Mission’s barbecue and the Powell Street Festival have used Oppenheimer Park thanks to its central location and cultural history. But with campers occupying the park to protest the right to sleep at the park and the condition of Downtown Eastside housing, event organizers at both organizations are going elsewhere. UGM’s barbecue is July 26 and the Powell Street Festival runs Aug. 1 to 3. UGM chose Oppenheimer Park because it is convenient for Downtown Eastside residents but the decision was made Monday to relocate to CRAB Park at Portside, commonly known as Crab Park. This is the 16th annual barbecue and the nonproﬁt’s biggest event of the year. They are preparing enough for 5,000 meals. “We had to make [the decision] quickly,” said Keela

Keeping, senior PR specialist at UGM. “Looking into the future and guessing what would happen, we wanted to be respectful of the debate that was going on… We didn’t want to get stuck in the middle, and make sure that the barbecue would happen.” UGM relocated the barbecue to Crab Park in 2009 due to renovations at Oppenheimer. The Powell Street Festival has also chosen not to use Oppenheimer this year and is working with the city to ﬁnd a viable location nearby. “[We] do not support the removal order or the threat of removal of residents in the park in any way,” read an unattributed statement by the festival society and sent to media.The statement said it respects the area as unceded Coast Salish territory. “The alternatives [in location] will impact our program and it will be disappointing… However, we will move forward with the celebration…” The festival is in its 38th

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year and celebrates Japanese history and culture in the area, which dates back to the late 19th century. Oppenheimer Park is also where the successful Asahi Japanese-Canadian baseball team was based in the years prior to the Second World War.The festival is the Lower Mainland’s longest running community celebration. Protesters who attended a city council meeting Tuesday said the group would be allowed to sleep at the park as long as tents and structures are taken down. The city has not mentioned if a future eviction notice will be issued. Pete Bunting, a Downtown Eastside resident camping at Oppenheimer, said the group is aware of both events. During a visit by the Courier on Monday, Bunting pointed to a makeshift longhouse at the park made of cedar branches he hoped would turn away attempts at eviction. “Longhouses are very

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Pete Bunting is among the campers occupying Oppenheimer Park for the right to sleep in the park and to protest Downtown Eastside housing conditions. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

spiritual places,” explained Bunting, who believes the structure would be treated with greater respect than tents and would be less likely to be torn down by the city.

UGM representatives stopped by Oppenheimer Park during their weekly walks around the community and brought donations for tenters, who have also been invited to the barbecue.

“It’s a complicated issue,” said Keeping. “There are good points by all people involved and we hope that will be resolved to the satisfaction of all.” twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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Trish Kelly At this time last week, I was getting in a taxi atYVR, coming back from a business trip to Kelowna. Carryon bag in hand, instead of heading home I got dropped off at theVisionVancouver office to continue a hard conversation we’d started days before by phone. Last month, I won the top spot in Vision Vancouver’s nomination race for park board. After many years as a community advocate fighting for social justice issues, it looked like I might move from the role of impassioned community member pitching a great idea, to claiming a seat at the decision-making table. A couple weeks ago, some blogs started posting a video monologue from my 2000 Fringe Festival play.The monologue is a humourous take on the sex life of a single person and the ways that single people can feel isolated and invisibilized in our culture. It also talks about masturbation. As an artist, the monologue is certainly not the most frank or explicit piece of sex-positive work I have published or performed, but some bloggers had a heyday, claiming my monologue disqualified me for a run at public office. I feel strongly that the work I’ve done in my art and activism to open space for others to think about sex as something normal and healthy and is nothing to be ashamed of, has been helpful and well received. The play was seen by hundreds of people, and the monologue later included in a queer performance art series for wayoutwest.tv. During my nomina-

Trish Kelly is no longer a Vision candidate. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

tion race, this part of my CV didn’t seem terribly relevant. I know that being a park board commissioner is much more about dealing with off-leash dog parks and cigarette butts on the beach than it is a venue for challenging the way our society reacts to women who claim their sexuality. My more recent advocacy seemed more important; writing the ﬁrst draft of the bylaw to permit backyard chickens, getting the mayor to proclaim Meatless Monday, and helping the park board come up with an action plan to support local food. Now, just a week after reaching a mutual decision that the sensationalization of my work was not something I could combat within an election campaign, I see that there is an indirect connection between that monologue and my run for park board. The indirect connection is a question of belonging. In a city where our degree of social isolation has been quantiﬁed, and we know the small percentage of us who know our neighbour’s name, I ran a nomination campaign that ultimately was about fostering belonging. I see our neighbourhood assets like community centres and parks as the perfect venue for addressing our isolation and making us more resilient.

I know that some of my supporters are disappointed, and were excited to vote for me this November. Some of them are angry not just for me, but for themselves. I think many of my supporters saw something in me they identified with, as an artist who tackles difficult issues, as a queer woman willing to celebrate sexuality, and even more universally, as a person in Vancouver admitting loneliness. It’s been a tough week, I’ll be honest about that, too. I’ve been given some lemons, and now I need to make some lemonade. If we can have a public conversation to address the stigma that’s attached to people who are honest about their histories, and their desires, I will take this as a win. If I can begin a conversation about how we can make seeking public office a safe space for women with sexual agency, I will happily accept this detour in my public life. I’m currently working out the details of a public forum to begin the conversation about the bigger questions that have been raised. Details will be posted to my website votetrishkelly.ca ••• Trish Kelly is a community activist and formerVisionVancouver park board candidate.

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Willy Gunther wondered what city workers were up to as they sprayed trees near his home last week. When they told him they were spraying for aphids, Gunther was immediately concerned about his bees. A worker phoned his supervisor and then told Gunther the insecticidal soap spray they use would neither hurt his bees, which unlike aphids have a hard-body shell, nor the purity of the honey the bees make with nectar from the linden trees. But his worries persisted, so Gunther phoned his beekeeping buddy and Vancouver Courier columnist Allen Garr, who contacted Simon Fraser University biological sciences professor and bee expert Mark Winston. “When they’re spraying there I’m supposed to keep my bees locked up,” Gunther said. “But how can I lock the bees up? They’re not a dog where I can lock it up for a day or so.The bees are free. Especially with that heat there, they’re outside. They’re hanging out in the

Beekeeper Willy Gunther worries the city’s spraying of linden trees could affect his backyard bees. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

front of the boxes because it’s too hot.” Gunther wondered whether improper spraying could be contributing to the global disappearance of bees. “Bees, not just honey bees, but bumblebees, mason bees, other tiny little insects, butterﬂies, hummingbirds, they pollinate close to two-thirds of our food,” beekeeper Sarah Common told the Courier earlier this month. “And urban landscapes have traditionally erased the foraging and the habitat of those pollinating insects.” Winston said insecticidal soap spray is “not particularly toxic,” so it wouldn’t spoil honey.

“It’s quite safe for mammals,” he said. “And once it dries, it’s not harmful to bees,”Winston said. “But when it’s wet, if the bees encounter it, it could cause them some trouble because any soap on an insect will make it difﬁcult for them to breathe.” Winston said wet soap could pose a risk for “at least a couple of hours” in hot weather. “I wouldn’t recommend spraying that during the day,” he added. The city sprays between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. “It’s usually never a good idea to spray anything in bloom when the bees are around,”Winston said.

Gunther said the linden trees near his block were in full bloom. Sara Couper, a communications coordinator for the city, said workers spray between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. in an attempt to hit an area when fewer residents are home. Letters are hand-delivered informing residents of the date and time of the spray and include contact information, should residents have concerns. “We have in the past, at the request of residents, avoided spraying certain trees,” Couper said. “We’ll make every effort to avoid that area and to minimize any of the spray drift off the actual street trees.” Gunther didn’t receive a letter because he lives around the corner from the street trees that were sprayed. The City of Vancouver has managed aphids on street trees since 1995 using ladybug releases and soap sprays.The city estimates more than 15,000 street trees are infested with aphids, to a mild or severe extent, on a yearly basis. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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eviction notices to the tenters, Ballem, the mayor and Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang wouldn’t say if action would be taken to remove people. “That’s an evolving question,” Jang said. “But certainly we made a commitment to stand with them to address their immediate housing needs and into the future.” Downtown Eastside resident CeeJai Julian, who attended a meeting with Jang and city staff over the Oppenheimer group’s demands for housing, said her understanding is the city will keep the park’s bathrooms open around the clock and install portable toilets. Julian said she also understood from city staff that protesters could stay in the park — without the tents. But Julian said the tents will remain. “I don’t agree with that because there’s no harm being done,” she told reporters. twitter.com/Howellings

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It is a damned shame what has happened to Trish Kelly. It should give us all pause to wonder what this says about the future of electoral politics and how it is affected by social media. Until last week, Kelly was a much celebratedVision park board candidate; she’s a sex-positive queer community activist, a veteran member of the city’s Food Policy committee, and worked on the Greenest City Action Plan.The group she brought with her, the members she signed up forVision as part of her campaign, asVision Coun. Andrea Reimer observed “was a constituency that would not otherwise be reached.” And she wasn’t just a rising star in the queer community; she was seen as a bright spark by a wide variety of folks. In her run to top the polls in the Vision membership vote, she had endorsements from — get this — three Vision Vancouver city councillors, four NDP MLAs, two current park commissioners and a senior union leader with CUPE B.C. But in spite of all that, she was convinced to call it quits. That constituency she attracted may decide to do the same thing when it comes to voting for Vision. Kelly’s victory came in no small part with the help of all the tools available on social media from Nation Builder to Facebook and Twitter.Yet if it was social media that set her up, it was that same uncontrolled, easily accessible, rapidly changing combination of blogs and tweets and Facebook and YouTube that brought her down. It began with a posting on a relatively obscure blog of Kelly’s eight-year-oldYouTube video. It was a humourous monologue on the joys of masturbation in the face of loneliness. It was drawn from a successful play she wrote forThe Fringe Festival while still in theatre school eight years ago. While social media is not uncommonly used as a bullying tool, it is also seen increasingly by a younger generation as a place to record intimate aspects of their lives; an older generation would have found this unthinkable and even appalling. It is this generational shift in terms of what is considered private and what can be public that caused Kelly’s monologue to gain such notoriety. But if you think that Kelly failed to disclose the full range of her work to the Vision folks who vetted her, you would be wrong. Vision co-chair Maria Dobrinskaya con-

ﬁrmed that she and the other two people who interviewed Kelly were well aware of her whole body of work including an anthology of erotica she put together with former sex-trade worker turned awardwinning poet Amber Dawn.

If you think Kelly failed to disclose the full range of her work to theVision folks who vetted her, you would be wrong. And if you think it was a horriﬁed Kelly who, on seeing her monologue’s intention being distorted by the blogosphere, asked Vision to allow her to step down and slip back into a more private world, you would be wrong there, too. Kelly was clear on that point: “I did not initiate this.” The very same Vision people, Dobrinskaya et al., who a few months earlier approved Kelly’s run to become a candidate and revelled in her victory, were the same ones who spent two days convincing her it would be in everyone’s best interest for her to quit the race. What caused the Vision leadership’s neck-snapping reversal? Well, for one thing, between the time they vetted Kelly and their little two-day arm-twisting session, they saw social media at work tearing away at Vision Mayor Gregor Robertson and his separation from his wife. Led by the NPA’s chief rumour monger Rob Macdonald, social media channels were overﬂowing with smears and innuendo.Vision’s backroom types could see a second round coming with Kelly.While they say they didn’t want her to endure that — she said bring it on. But they were also concerned that their election platform built on affordable housing, ending street homelessness and tankers in the harbour would be buried by a tsunami of social media digging through Kelly’s work. A younger generation may have remained indifferent, but guess who votes. You know what choice Vision made. Call it cowardice or self-interest or just plain “politics.” But it has meant a great loss; one that will be felt most profoundly in the queer community. twitter.com/allengarr

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Home renovation. Everybody’s talking about doing it. Or doing it and then talking about it with everybody. How do I put this delicately? It’s bad enough when so many people go on about heritage this drizzled with artisanal that, or refer to green beans as haricot verts. But when foodies and hipsters put a five per cent down payment on a million-dollar Vancouver crack shack, suddenly they’re seeing the world through Mike Holmes’ cementdusted safety goggles. From first-time buyers to empty nesters who’ve morphed into bling-addled bowerbirds, everyone wants a piece of a gravitydefying real estate market. And they just can’t shut up about sheet rock.Too many times to count, I’ve found myself trapped in conversations with people oversharing their epic schemes for heated floor tiles or the like.

When did those of us with extra bucks turn into such bourgeois bores? I know there are plenty of worse things to spend money on than granite-top kitchen islands with shiny gas ranges, but people usually keep mum about their drug addictions or big losses on bodog.com — tales which are generally more interesting than home improvement overshoots. When did those of us with extra bucks turn into such bourgeois bores? Or maybe it’s just me, a guy who has trouble with any tool more complicated than a pencil and who is no more capable of wiring a laneway home than back-engineering the Large Hadron Collider out of Lego blocks. A spatially challenged sort who failed to board the home improvement bandwagon but who remembers a time when people talked about other things — like books, ﬁlms, music, politics and ideas. On second thought, it’s not me. It’s everyone else. And their televisions. Yes, the boob tube.There’s strong evidence that HGTV and other purveyors of reno-porn are responsible for the outbreak of spacklespeak. A report from Altus Group says home improvement shows have set

The number of years ago that former Vision Vancouver park board candidate Trish Kelly made a controversial Fringe Fest video that has caused her to resign from the election race.

off an explosion of home reno spending in Canada.The spending has doubled in the past 15 years, with a spike in 2013. (Speaking of explosions, the much-anticipated Mayan Apocalypse of 2012 failed to put a dent in the home reno market. But for a short time afterward at Rona, you could pick up a deeply discounted MesoAmerican calendar wheel made from resin. Perfect for the solarium.) Seventy-five per cent of home renovation spending in the past 15 years “went towards improvements, with the rest going towards repairs and conversions,” notes a recent CBC report. Not surprisingly, Canadians have a significantly higher household debtto-income ratio than their neighbours to the south, a people not known for delayed gratification. That’s just fine with me. By all means, go stimulate the Canadian economy like Miley Cyrus with a giant foam rubber finger. Flip your house like a damn pancake. Just don’t share your fables of the reconstruction with me. Not that you’re likely to get a chance; I have constructed a conversational igloo out of friends’ bodies, so to speak. Most of them are renters, so the talk rarely strays into reno territory. But I admit to one minor problem with this satisfying arrangement. As a homeowner among renters, I have more to fear from entropy than they do. My friends have their strata councils and cooperative members to keep track of problems. All I have is myself, a wife, two pets and a house that is falling apart. Don’t get me wrong.The roof is fine and ... well, the roof is fine.The back deck needs repairs, the copper pipes are well past their best-before date, and the kitchen floor has a slight pitch to it.You get the picture. (See how boring other people’s domestic infrastructure issues are?) Because of my aversion to home reno, my least favourite topic for conversation has become one my partner’s favourites, by default. And her focus isn’t misplaced. We either have to talk about some serious domestic projects or move into something more solid. But every time I think about the scale of the work required, I am paralyzed into tongue-tied inaction. And then I worry about what I could become: the stranger sitting across from you in a coffee shop, saying in a hushed voice, “You think you’ve got problems? Let me tell you what contractors found when they ripped out our bathroom tiles. It was like a scene out of True Detective.” geoffolson.com

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To the editor: Re: “‘Fair value’ for Arbutus Corridor at stake,” July 23. I have a couple of questions for CP Rail regarding the Arbutus Corridor.They have been working very hard at putting this 11 km length of track back to work. However, they do not seem to have accomplished very much, apart from disturbing the residents who live near the line and the gardeners who have been tending their allotments for years. We all know by now that the tracks have not been used for 13 years and that the tracks have been largely ignored by CP.This leads me to my first question. How embarrassed is CP by their lack of maintenance of their property? Some stretches of the track had trees growing up between the rails and the section between 37th and 41st avenues became so overgrown as to be impassable by all but rats.This was all in direct contravention of the City of Vancouver Untidy Premises bylaw, which states that private property is to be maintained within a reasonable standard of the neighbourhood. To be sure, some of the Arbutus Corridor has been very nicely maintained with grass trimmed and some really attractive gardens and public spaces created — but not by CP. No, this was (and, for now, still is) done by community gardeners.Take a stroll through the Pine Street or Kerrisdale Community Gardens and see the standard that CP has no interest in. And they haven’t shown much appreciation of this work, despite the fact that they have benefitted (at least some of their property has looked presentable). They are simply saying; please vacate our premises by July 31.This brings me to my second question. What will CP do if it turns out that there is no financially viable use for the Arbutus Corridor? What will they do if they determine

that no use of their property will repay the amount of capital expenditure that will be required to bring the rails up to standard? I am no transportation expert, but I find it hard to imagine that any use will repay the millions that would be needed to repair the sleepers and rails as well as update the crossings.That will mean that the paths and gardens will all have been disturbed and destroyed for no purpose.Then what? Will CP erect fences to prevent such horticultural hooliganism from recurring? Or will the gardeners get their hoes and seeds out and start all over again? Perhaps a better approach would be to complete the cost analysis of the possible uses of the Arbutus Corridor and then take the appropriate action.There’s no rush. Dr. John Aveline, Vancouver ••• The Arbutus Greenway Improvements Society (AGIS) is in full support of Mayor Robertson’s objectives to establish a greenway for gardens, walking and recreational cycling. AGIS envisions this greenway as an important part of the proposed regional trail system connecting the Great Blue Heron Way (Tsawwassen), Millennium Trail (Delta), Richmond’s Sea Dykes with Vancouver’s Fraser River trails and beyond to the North Shore’s Spirit Trail with tieins to the TransCanada Trail system. We believe that the ecological and social benefits of gardens and walking paths should be quantified along with the positive health and safety benefits for off-road cycling. Economic benefits from out-of town-visitors will also accrue to the commercial communities along the corridor to substantiate the business case for a regional greenway. A potential partnership for financing should include the provincial government who ceded the land to CPR in the first place. Let’s get this done by 2017 — the 150th anniversary of Confederation — to reboot efforts to complete the TransCanada Trail. David Grigg, Vancouver

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COURIER STORY: “Oppenheimer Park protest digs in,” July 23. tomservua: Vancouver is a destination city for the homeless. Our weather makes it so, together with the vast array of free services we provide. More than 70 per cent of our homeless come from somewhere else. But Vancouver alone could never build enough free housing to satisfy these people. “Build it and they will come” is the impossible problem.Why should the city have to carry the entire burden of providing free housing? What are Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, Delta, and the Valley doing? We could build 1,000 units a year of free public housing, and it would only INCREASE the demand. Who would spend a winter in Montreal or Halifax if they knew there was an endless supply of free public housing in Vancouver? Those who want free public housing for everybody desperately avoid the question: “When will enough be enough for you?” COURIER STORY: “‘Fair value’ for Arbutus Corridor at stake,” July 23. Bean Brothers Cafe: Let’s all hope an agreement can be reached and the city allows the gardens to continue to exist. Our customers and neighbours enjoy the gardens. KUDOS & KVETCHES: “What’s in a same name?” July 23. Brent Richter @BrentRichter: As a Leafs fan, I lolled pretty hard, although that last dig stung a bit.

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Driven by their Buddhist beliefs, 30 women in Taiwan in 1966 began putting aside an equivalent of about two cents of their grocery money each day. The money was used to aid the local poor.That small act of combined charity has grown into a multimillion dollar global relief agency and the nun who began it is sometimes called the Mother Teresa of Asia. From a nondescript ofﬁce in Marpole, the Vancouver chapter of Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation has, since 1992, run diverse programs that see teams of uniformed volunteers cooking food at the Salvation Army in the Downtown Eastside, visiting seniors’ homes, and distributing blankets, towels, soap, socks and gloves to the homeless. Chapters throughout the Lower Mainland send volunteers to sort trash from recycling after major community festivals such as the Festival of Lights. A Tzu Chi TV station in Asia is 50 per cent funded by recycling newspapers and bottles. Tzu Chi, which translates simply as “compassionate relief,” also runs weekend schools in Vancouver and three suburbs that inculcate

Rene Li volunteers with the Tzu Chi Buddhist Relief organization. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the millennia-old Buddhist values — respect for teachers and their knowledge, ﬁlial piety, right from wrong from Buddhism’s perspective — to successive generations. For Rene Li, an accountant who has been a Tzu Chi volunteer going on two decades, the organization is an opportunity to put his Buddhist values into practice. “Many Buddhist organizations tend to focus on liberating and saving oneself, doing the chanting and cultivation and things like that,” says Li. “This organization adopts a dif-

ferent approach.They say it is important to do your chanting or your personal cultivation, but it is equally important to reach out to the community, to put your words into action.There are people lying on the street suffering from hunger, suffering from cold.” Li’s particular area of volunteerism is disaster preparedness and relief. He is Tzu Chi’s rep on the province’s Integrated Disaster Council and he helps coordinate responses to crises locally and internationally. Often working alongside groups such as the Red Cross and the

Salvation Army,Tzu Chi teams have been dispatched to respond to flooding in Squamish and southern Alberta, the Kelowna forest fires and apartment building fires throughout the Lower Mainland. “In one case, the fire department allowed residents 15 minutes to return to their apartments after a fire to retrieve personal belongings,” says Li.The elevators were out of service and there was water flowing down the stairwells. “For elderly and disabled residents, this was a challenge.” Tzu Chi volunteers spoke to residents to see what

they wanted retrieved and then ran up the stairs to collect it. While Tzu Chi, with chapters in 50 countries, operates on the idea that a local chapter should focus on local concerns, the global organization can be mobilized for massive catastrophes. Li himself has travelled to China and Haiti for earthquake relief and to NewYork after Hurricane Sandy.The volunteers distribute food and other necessities, and build temporary schools.They also provide emotional comfort, a shoulder and open ears. All expenses on relief trips like these — airfare, accommodation, meals — are paid out of pocket by the volunteer. The manner in which Tzu Chi volunteers present their relief aid is distinctive. Using both hands to present an item, they bow gently before the recipient. “We want to get the message across that we know you are having a difﬁcult time, not because of what you have done but because you are less fortunate than we are,” says Li. “We thank them for giving us the opportunity to humble ourselves. I treasure this opportunity, so I say, ‘yes I’m giving you material, but thank you for humbling me so I can do it with better passion next time.’” It is a statement of Tzu Chi’s reputation that it has been welcomed into China. It is signiﬁcant that the

Chinese communist regime allowed a religious-oriented organization based in Taiwan to work on the ground in mainland China. Li emphasizes that volunteers do not need to be Buddhist. Many are atheists or adhere to another religion. Still, signing on isn’t a sure thing. There is a two-year, invitation-only training program during which the volunteer and the organization determine whether it’s a good fit. After successful completion, new recruits travel to Taiwan, where they assemble at Tzu Chi’s international headquarters in their blue and white uniforms and are inducted by the founding master (a gender-neutral term for the nun who began and still leads the organization), ChengYen. The uniform is a practical thing, Li says. In disaster situations, for example, it is a quick way for first responders and others on the scene to identify volunteers. It also signifies the team spirit and represents Tzu Chi to the world. “Buddhism promotes that we are all humans,” Li says. “We all come from the same source.To some extent, we are almost like brothers and sisters. Even though we are not blood related, if we encounter someone who is suffering, we feel the suffering just as though it is happening to ourselves.That is what motivates us to reach out.”

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SUPER BOWL: Lawn Summer Nights, a lawn bowling tournament that raises money for cystic fibrosis research, started six years ago in honour of the late Eva Markvoort, the star of the documentary 65 Red Roses, which chronicled her battle with cystic fibrosis. Since then, the four-week fundraiser, sponsored by KPMG, has seen supporters throwing bowls across the country, with Calgary and Halifax the latest to join longtime participating cities Vancouver,Victoria, London, Ottawa and Toronto in the wildly popular summertime event. Led by event chair Simon Pinsky — who has a younger sister living with CF — more than 160 costumed pretty young things converged on the greens of the Granville Park Lawn Bowling Club. Organizers look to roll past the $1 million mark this year, a milestone that Pinsky hopes will spread awareness of the disease and help change the CF acronym to “cure found.” AFTERNOONTEE:The B.C. Hospitality Foundation’s annual charity golf tourney at theWestwood Plateau Golf and Country Club attracted some of the industry’s biggest names. With a reputation of serving wine and cocktails at each hole, it’s no wonder the golf gala was yet another sellout. In partnership with the B.C. Hotel Association, B.C. Restaurant & Foodservice Association, Alliance of Beverage Licensees of British Colmbia, B.C. Lodging and Restaurants Canada, more than 200 golfers hit the links for an afternoon of fun and games (and drinking) before enjoying a royal repast back at the 19th hole.The event generated nearly $80,000 toward assisting those in the hospitality industry in times of financial need. Among those who came out swinging: foundation chair Richard Carras and B.C. Lions players Marc Iannuzzi and Adam Bighill. UP MARKET: The University Golf Club hosted the third annual Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange Charity Golf Tournament July 15. Industry participants including listed issuers, investment bankers, brokers, and lawyers took part in the Texas Scramble style tournament and fundraising dinner chaired by Robert Kang and Sonia Harding. Several hundred golf enthusiasts hit the links swinging for local, national and international charities. Beneficiaries this year were Learning Disabilities Association of B.C., the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and Room to Read. Yours truly emceed the award festivities back at the clubhouse. Green was definitely the prominent hue as the bullish group, buoyed by an impressive silent auction and spirited reverse auction, generated nearly $100,000 for the various organizations.

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Turnabout owner Joy Mauro recently opened her fourth outlet of gently used ﬁne designer clothing and accessories on Main Street.

Sharon Davis, chair of Room to Read’s Vancouver chapter, beneﬁtted from Tom Kloet’s Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange Golf Tournament.

Dapper dudes Alistair Arnold, Kalen Stewart, Pete McFetridge and Dean Johnson (from left to right) were among 40 costumed teams participating in the cystic ﬁbrosis beneﬁt on the greens of the Granville Park Lawn Bowling Club.

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From left to right, Andrew Page, Simon Pinsky and Sean Jarvis fronted the sixth Lawn Summer Nights, a lawn bowling tournament that raises money for cystic ﬁbrosis research.

BC Lions players Mark Iannuzzi (left) and Adam Bighill participated in the BC Hospitality Foundation Golf Tournament coordinated by Nessa Van Bergen.

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Our beautiful summer before the war

— — “Bathers” enjoy the beach at English Bay in August 1914. The Sylvia Hotel is the large building at centre. Englesea Lodge was located just outside of this picture, to the left. PHOTO RICHARD BROADBRIDGE, CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES AM54-S4-: BE P144.2.

Vancouverites enjoyed car races, baby contests, economic upturn leading up to ‘the GreatWar’

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July 1914. The eve of a war that would consume Europe for four years, leaving millions dead and maimed. Although the local newspapers were ﬁlled with increasingly alarming headlines that July, for Vancouver it was an idyllic summer. “Beautiful haying weather,” Fitzgerald McCleery wrote in his diary on more than one day that July. On his farm on the Fraser River, just west of modern Marpole, McCleery wrote of splitting wood, wagon rides, milking cows, cutting green oats for hay, trips to “the city” to see the doctor, Sunday sermons at the nearby Presbyterian church, gathering apples and blackberries, blasting stumps with dynamite to clear new ﬁelds, and laying galvanized pipe for water. No mention of war, until the entry of Sunday, Aug. 2, when he wrote, “Rumors of war between Germany, France, Servia, Austrian Hungary and

probably England.” McCleery made infrequent trips to Vancouver City, which in those days only went as far south as 16th Avenue, and so he may not have seen many newspapers. Early in July 1914, the Vancouver Daily Province focused on the question of Irish home rule, Pancho Villa’s revolution in Mexico, the antics of a Scottish suffragette who threw a rubber ball at King George and Queen Mary, and whether 376 “Hindus” aboard the Komagata Maru, anchored in Burrard Inlet for nearly two months, would be allowed to enter Canada. But as July progressed, events in Europe ﬁlled the headlines. “Possibility of Armed Conﬂict Between Austria and Servia,” the Province reported on July 22. And, prophetically, “Possibility that Russia May Intervene, Embroiling All Europe.” Austria declared war on Serbia (as it was later spelled) July 28. “War Has Begun on Servian Frontier,” the Province reported that day.

“Doubt as to Whether Britain Can Keep out of the Fray.” British Foreign Minister Sir Edward Grey gave dire predictions that war could be “the greatest catastrophe that has ever befallen [Europe].” “France Sees Little Hope Now For Peace,” the paper reported the next day, predicting that Russia would support Serbia. “That a ‘big war’ seems almost certain is the best French opinion last night.” Germany declared war on Russia Aug. 1, and on France Aug. 3, and began marching through Belgium. By Aug. 4, all hopes of peace were dashed. An “Extra” edition of the Province, published at 4:30 p.m., solemnly declared: “Britain and Germany Now at War.”

The buildup to war

In the month leading up to what McCleery would refer to as the “Great War” in his diary that August, Vancouverites were concerned with more mundane summer activities. A crowd of 4,000 at-

tended the ninth annual Police Mutual Benefit and Athletic Association’s track and field day at Hastings Park on July 22. One of the highlights was a tug of war by mounted police officers. “Ten police officers participated in this event, much amusement being afforded the spectators by the antics of the horses and their riders as they gyrated around,” the Province reported the next day. “Pulling a rope on a wild plunging steed is no easy task... The horses dug their feet into the ground, their riders clung to their reins and in some cases embraced their steeds around their necks, all the time endeavoring to exert a pull on the rope held in the other hand. Several of the contestants were dismounted but that did not dismay them...” At Minoru Racetrack in Richmond that July, “Terrible Teddy”Tetzlaff and other “speed kings” wowed spectators with automobile races featuring the steelhelmeted Tetzlaff behind the wheel of his 300-horse-

power “Blitzen” Benz, “the fastest and most powerful car in the world and the holder of the famous mile in 25 2/5 seconds.” On July 11, the Vancouver Exhibition (now called the PNE) announced it would host the Better Babies Contest, in which doctors judged a baby’s “physical and mental development” out of a possible 100 points, with diplomas for the winners. Parents bringing an infant to the September fair could learn “how it can be made a perfectly well baby — a baby who does not cry except when actually hurt.” Contest organizers added: “With proper care and feeding of children the entire health of the nation can be built up.”

Summer in the city

The hot summer saw wildfires — caused by brush clearing in rural areas — threaten campers near White Rock. Around 3 a.m. on July 24, forest rangers rousted people from their tents and told J them to flee the winddriven flames.

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Feature No one was injured, and the campers were soon able to resume their holidaying. Vancouverites enjoyed the local beaches, but it wasn’t all balmy weather. On July 20, the Province reported that a gale the evening before drove seven or eight boats up onto the beach at English Bay, where they were “smashed to matchwood.” The boats included two Japanese ﬁsh boats, a sailboat, and private motor launches owned by wealthy Vancouverites. C.R. Gordon had been hosting “a party of ladies and gentlemen” aboard his yacht, anchored near Englesea Lodge, when the gale struck. Two staff from Simpson Brothers, a company offering “boating and bathing” at English Bay, used a dinghy to bring the guests to land, but on its second trip in through the violent surf, the dinghy ﬂipped, tossing everyone into the sea. Fortunately, those aboard made it safely to shore. The pair returned in their dinghy to the yacht to secure it, but didn’t have enough rope. Lifeguard Joe Fortes — today, aVancouver legend — went to their aid. “Their signals were seen by Fortes and he took a coil of rope on his shoulders and swam out with it as the surf was such at the time that the small boat could not make the shore again,” the Province reported.

Hope in the air

After the economic downturn of 1912, things were looking up. On July 9, the Sun quoted Reeve (Mayor) Kerr of the Municipality of South Vancouver as saying that “the worst of the depression was past and the district was on the upgrade.” He announced that more than 500 men would be hired, in the year ahead, for municipal work that included road paving, new sewers, and waterworks. The society pages described a “merry party” that attracted a “fashionable” group of philanthropists to the Hotel Vancouver. Proceeds went to the building fund of a “residential club and social centre for working [employed] girls.” Grocery store owners, however, weren’t happy with the Early Closing Bylaw recently enacted in the City of Vancouver. On July 31, the Sun reported their protests against being

forced to close at 6 p.m. Grocerymen, it said, were “up in arms” since the most proﬁtable hour of their day was between 6 and 7 p.m.

Preparing for war

Even before Britain officially declared war,Vancouverites prepared for the inevitable. On Aug. 3, the 72nd Regiment Seaforth Highlanders of Canada paraded through downtown Vancouver, led by a pipe band and their commanding officer, LieutenantColonel R.G.E. Leckie. “All the way along the route the people who thronged the streets in such numbers as to seriously interfere with street car traffic went wild with enthusiasm and cheered themselves hoarse,” the Province reported the next day. “Many recruits were taken on after the parade, so many applying that recruiting and attestation will be carried on again tonight.” On the morning of Aug. 4, around 200 women attended a meeting of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Their goal: “organization of voluntary nursing, medical and first aid corps in preparation for the anticipated outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany.”

The end of summer

On Aug. 8, McCleery wrote in his diary “European war still raging.” Like many, he probably expected the war to be over quickly. On Aug. 16, he wrote, “Miss Park and MissWhite went to the city to the service of the 2,000 volunteers to go to war whenever called.” And on Aug. 19, he noted that the papers reported a “great battle being fought between Germany and Belgium and her ally France.” McCleery was 75 when the war broke out — far too old for military service. The closest he’d come to a violent explosion was when his neighbour, Mr. Lyle, used too much stumping powder on Aug. 27, sending stones ﬂying onto the roof of his house. For McCleery—and for many Vancouverites — August 1914, like the month that had preceded it, was an idyllic month of “beautiful weather,” work and play. A storm had broken in Europe, and volunteers for the war were mobilizing locally, but the ﬂotsam of the Great War had yet to wash up on Vancouver’s shores.

3 1. Cycling was a popular summer activity. This photo shows the Vancouver Cycle Club on Georgia Street in 1914. CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES PHOTO AM1376-: CVA 1376-254. 2. A crowd gathers at the CPR Station in Vancouver to see off the 72nd Regiment Seaforth Highlanders of Canada on August 22, 1914. PHOTO STUART THOMSON, CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES AM54-S4-: MIL P224. 3. Foot race contestants cross the ﬁnish line in the annual Vancouver Police track and ﬁeld day. This photo is from 1915. PHOTO STUART THOMSON, CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES CVA 99-1078.

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Using Social Media in your Job Search

With more and more companies and recruiters using social media to find and screen potential employees, it’s fast becoming a vital part of the jobsearch process. Integrate social media into your job search to ensure that you don’t miss key job openings.

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The key reason more people are using social media to help with their job search is because it’s a great way to connect with people. Whether you use Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, it’s important to spread the word that you’re looking for work. If you don’t let anyone know that you’re searching for jobs, then the potential to network and advertise your skills is wasted. The next time you’re on your favourite social media site, make sure you let your friends and followers know that you’re looking for a job. Your friends may not know of any immediate job openings, but if any come up, they’ll definitely think of you if they know you’re looking. Social media is all about spreading the word, so be sure to spread your message as far as possible.

Create a Professional Profile

Nowadays, many employers are using social media to help screen potential hires, so if you applied for a job recently, there’s a good chance that your profile has been looked at by someone in the company you applied to. For this reason, it’s very important that you clean up your online profiles by removing any questionable photos or messages before

you start looking for work. It’s also a good idea to replace your profile picture with one that shows your professionalism and good taste. If you’d prefer to keep your profile private, make sure that you update the privacy settings on any of the sites you use to ensure that only your friends can view your content.

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One of the great things about social media is how quickly you can access the latest job-search advice and trends. Sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn are teeming with recruiters, bloggers, career counsellors and HR personnel who are eager to share their expertise with job seekers. Whether it’s an infographic, blog post, article or study, you’ll find plenty of useful information and tips on social media that can help you land your dream job. So the next time you go online, make sure you devote some time to follow the experts or companies in your field of interest.

Make Connections

Due in part to the marketing potential of social media and its growing user base, many employers are now using social media as a way to spread company news, job postings, and promotions. And because it’s so fast and easy to spread the word through social media, many employers are now announcing job opportunities on their social media feeds long before they post them on job boards or newspapers. For this reason, it’s important to connect with employers online to make sure you don’t miss out on any opportunities. Following employers of interest will also keep you up-to-date on their current events, which may assist you in future interviews. For more articles like this one, visit WorkBC.ca.

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July 25 to 29, 2014 1. The notoriously hard-rocking ladies of The Pack A.D. hit the SBC Restaurant as part of a fundraiser for both the Downtown Eastside Skateboard Society and the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre.The night will also mark the debut of special The Pack A.D. skateboard decks designed by Skull Skates, a sure sign that the Vancouver duo have officially hit the big time. Fu Kon Riots will also be on the bill. 8 p.m. July 25 at 109 East Hastings St.Tickets are just $10. Call 778-846-6775 for more. 2. Canada’s top turntablists battle Saturday night at the Red Bull Thre3style National Finals for the honour of representing their country at the world championships held next month in (of all places) Baku, Azerbaijan. DJs each have 15 minute slots and must include music from three different genres to impress the homegrown talent show judges, which include 2011 world champ and local boy Hedspin (known to his mom as Hedley Tuscano), Skratch Bastid, Grandtheft,Thugli and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Yes, that DJ Jazzy Jeff.The needle drops at 8 p.m. July 26 at the Commodore Ballroom. Tickets are $20. More info at redbullthre3style.com. 3. The U.S.A. will be shocking and awing the crowds as the country launching this year’s Honda Celebration of Light fireworks display and, as an added bonus for those willing to venture into the jam-packed West End to see all the pretty colours, indie rock road warriors 54-40 will be putting on a free show on the Bathhouse Roof in English Bay starting at 8:30 p.m. July 26. Dear Rouge will also perform beforehand. A second stage set up at Sunset Beach will host performances by Current Swell and Scarlett Jane. Check out hondacelebrationoflight. com for more. 4. If you’ve ever wanted to watch a Courier freelance photographer rock out inside a restaurant owned by a guy running for mayor, this Saturday is your lucky night. The Savoys, featuring Jason Lang on bass, play Colin Shandler’s Tipper Restaurant and Review Room.The fun starts 8 p.m. at 2066 Kingsway Ave. July 26.Tickets are $5.

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If dystopian science fiction such as The Terminator, Battlestar Galactica and Matrix franchises have taught us anything, it’s that it is only a matter of time before machines become sentient and rise up against us. The weary commuters of Team K&K assumed the day had finally come when we discovered the robotic SkyTrain system had gone haywire for the second time in less than a week. We initially hoped the trains were merely protesting not being allowed to stay running until the bars close downtown on weekends so that people can get home safely rather than it being the official opening day of Armageddon. Instead, we’ve been reassured by TransLink brass that it was mere human error that caused Monday’s five-hour meltdown and a sincesuspended electrician was to blame for thousands of people being stranded during rush hour. Presumably, humans are also to blame for the absence of anyone wearing TransLink uniforms at stations explaining what was going on to frustrated customers

because the broadcasting system was also on the fritz. It has to be said that complaining about train delays is a perfect example of the First World Problems meme. Trains running on time is not something that’s taken for granted in plenty of other countries, but TransLink’s unelected board of directors doesn’t do itself a lot of favours when it comes to public relations. This is a group that decided Vancouver residents can’t be trusted with the honour system any more and decided to add fare gates that cost way more than the money lost to people who don’t pay fares. The glitch-prone Compass Card is more than a year behind schedule and is no longer being referred to as a “smart card” by anyone. The decision to give transit cops guns wasn’t exactly a big hit with the general public, and the board’s habit of giving executives fat annual bonuses doesn’t go over terribly well with most people either. Doug Kelsey, TransLink’s chief operating ofﬁcer, didn’t exude much sympathy for those affected by the delays at a recent press conference. Kelsey, who earns

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nearly $300,000 a year before the usual bonuses, instead pointed an accusing ﬁnger at the people who chose to pry open SkyTrain doors and walk to the closest station for adding to the delays. Instead they should wait patiently to be rescued and simply hope they don’t get a ticket for overstaying their 90 minutes. We’re guessing that prying open the doors and walking away probably is not an option for the people who, at the Courier’s print deadline Thursday morning, were stranded on the underground Canada Line, making for the third breakdown in less than a week. Even the Canucks defence under John Tortorella didn’t break down this often in a typical week. To make up for the second major snafu, TransLink announced people would be allowed to ride for free on B.C. Day, Aug. 4. We’re not sure what, if anything, will be offered for this latest breakdown, but we humbly suggest a free day or two on a day that isn’t a statutory day off from work might be good idea. And maybe turning down this year’s bonus. twitter.com/kudoskvetches

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In Elizabethan productions of the Bard’s plays, men minced and despaired in female roles. Now women are tackling men’s parts. Audience members can see women embody Shakespeare’s men in a production of TheWinter’s Tale that opens July 26 at the PAL Studio Theatre. The inaugural production for Classic Chic Productions, a newly formed Vancouver women’s theatre collective, sees female actors play the tyrannical King Leontes, the seductive King Polixenes, the tortured Antigonus and conman Autolycus, as

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directed by Lisa Wolpe, founder of the 20-yearold Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. Wolpe recently performed the one-woman Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender in Vancouver. “There are so many women actors and so few parts for us that two things happen,” said Christina Wells Campbell, artistic director of Classic Chic. “We don’t get enough opportunities to practice our craft and, especially in the classics, we don’t get the opportunities to have the really big roles, the really big meaty roles… It’s not just about being a man or a woman, it’s about being a human being and those roles ask those important questions.” TheWinter’s Tale was the resounding choice for Classic Chic’s ﬁrst foray. “It kind of shifts genres,” Wells Campbell said. “It starts off feeling very much like Othello but it ends feeling very much like A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest. It moves from tragedy into comedy and ends as a romance. It feels like what spoke to us was rebirth at the end. There was hope at the end, not just a body count.” The production will be replete with music, dancing and swordplay. Classic Chic is dedicated to inserting female actors into classical male roles and to creating a fo-

rum for women and audiences to explore different possibilities. “There were certain roles that I wanted to play that came from the classical canon and it just felt like I was never going to have the opportunity to play those roles unless there was a company dedicated to doing that,” Wells Campbell said. “I would love to play Iago in Othello. There’s just something so intense and evil. It’s kind of a wonderful thing to play a really bad character.” Members of the collective have also discussed mounting Amadeus,The Importance of Being Earnest and Glengarry Glen Ross. The accomplished theatre artists behind Classic Chic Productions, Wells Campbell, Corina Akeson, production manager, Joanna Redfern, communications, and Michelle Martin, fundraising, continually discuss the dearth of robust roles for women in new plays. “It’s going to take a real active will on the part of people who program stages to have their stages represent the world around them,” Wells Campbell said. “If women are 50 per cent of the population, they should be half the playwrights, they should be half the people on the stage… and the same with multiculturalism. Vancouver is made up of mostly

Asian people but you very rarely see them represented on our stages.” She’s aware of at least half a dozen theatre companies mainly in North America, but she’s heard there’s one in Japan, that solely cast women in William Shakespeare’s roles. Roughly 90 female actors auditioned for about 20 parts in Classic Chic’s production in May, said Wells Campbell. “They’re really butching it up” as rehearsals continue. She is watching gender transformations from the sidelines as she plays Paulina. Wolpe, who has played more of Shakespeare’s male roles than any other woman in history and received multiple accolades for her work, led a crossgender acting workshop this winter in Vancouver. Wolpe highlighted how men typically take up more physical space than women and communicate more directly. A lawyer who heard Wolpe speak at a related fundraiser said the actor and director’s teachings could beneﬁt her female clients who have to face their abusers in court, according to Wells Campbell TheWinter’s Tale runs from July 26 to Aug. 9 at 581 Cardero St. For more information, see classicchic.ca. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Coach’s fight with cancer inspires team

Wildcats learn more than softball from coach Megan Stewart

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Sports concepts — especially winning and losing or coming from behind and powering through or giving 110 per cent for the team — are excellent metaphors for life. This became especially apparent toWildcats softball manager Gary Kingman when he told the 14-year-old athletes he’d coached for four years that he had cancer. “We were going to battle this.We were going to beat it,’’ he said. When he informed parents and players at a team meeting more than two years ago, he couldn’t imagine they even understood the words non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “I didn’t know what it meant so I don’t know they did,’’ he said Tuesday.The cancer now in remission. “You say the word, and everybody goes sideways.’’ He felt no pain, but chemo left him exhausted, with too little energy to attend many games and, when he did one sunny day in March, his body was left with too few defences to keep from catching a fever and then pneumonia. “I just couldn’t stay away,’’ Kingman said. He recovered. “It was a pretty sad mo-

ment for all of us,’’ said pitcher Julia Jachimowicz, 17, who started on the team when she was 10. “It’s hard to remember because it was a life-altering thing for us. He supported us through so much and we’re more like a family than a team. He’s put so much of his time into the team. He didn’t have to but he did because he cares so much.’’ Robyn Newell, the team’s assistant manager and at the time a PhD candidate in biomechanical engineering, coached the team in Kingman’s absence. Before that winter, theWildcats played in the B division and in 2009 and ’11, they won bronze at the B.C. championship. In 2012, the year Kingman was diagnosed, theWildcats were moving up to the highly competitive A division. “They didn’t realize how tough it was going to be,’’ said Kingman, noting many A teams aspire to win national championships. The Wildcats had a tough season with the absence and frightening potential loss of their coach, but also because of the many losses on the diamond. Still, they created a tribute to try and keep spirits high.The Wildcats hung a photo of Kingman in their dugout for all the home and away games they played until their coach

Wildcats coach Gary Kingman and team members, from left, Lainey Ebel, Maya Sohen, Misha Mattu, Amanda Percival and Julia Jachimowicz. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

returned. “We hung it up even in the rain, so it started to get a little crinkled, but we kept using the same one,’’ said Amanda Percival, 16, who plays shortstop. “That probably made him feel pretty good and pretty loved. It gave us another reason to push hard and do our best for him.’’ Kingman, now 71 — “But I try not to act 71,’’ — saw the portrait when he at-

tended a few innings of a game. The players and their parents also organized to prepare meals, ones like lasagne and soup that Kingman could freeze and then heat up and eat for several days. “That was amazing,’’ he said. At the Canadian Open Fastpitch Championship earlier this month, the U18 Wildcats played well but won only one game in the consolation round.

Kingman said they get the challenge they wanted in the A division and the record isn’t their only measure of success.They had already supported their coach in a much bigger game. “I think it helped them,’’ Kingman said about his surviving cancer. “’It really did because adversity is what this whole thing is about.’’ On life and sport, the coach added this: “Baseball and softball, it’s probably the

toughest game to play. It’s a team game but it’s an individual game ... It is a brutal game and it’s unforgiving if you make a mistake because it will come right back at you. The baseball gods are seriously mean, is all I can say, and that’s what I tell the kids. “It’s such a life game, too. Softball and baseball, or any competitive sport, is about learning how to live.You’ve got to battle out there.’’ twitter.com/MHStewart

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After he birdied the final hole for a tie of the lead at the 112th B.C. Amateur Championship, Jordan Lu won an exciting, can’t-take-youreyes-off-the-ball five-hole play-off to win the Bostock Trophy at the Seymour Golf and Country Club July 18. After four rounds, Lu, a 17-year-old Prince ofWales graduate who moved from Taiwan to live with relatives, finished even-par at 284 to force the sudden-death playoff but he needed five more holes to clinch the win over Burnaby’s Michael Belle, 22. Lu, who started the final day four strokes behind Belle, finally won the tournament on No. 10 with a putt for par and the title. “Before [Belle] putt, I was thinking just [to] make my putt because I know he’s not going to miss, but

The nine- and 10-yearold all-stars from Hastings Little League didn’t drop one of their seven games on their way to the 2014 provincial championship. In the ﬁnal on July 19, Hastings won 17-6, defeating Highlands Little League from North Vancouver at Andy Bilesky Park in Trail. Pitcher Loreto Siniscalchi earned the win by striking out four batters and allowing only two runs in 3.2 innings. In the top of the six, Hastings came alive at the plate with seven runs, including back-to-back doubles by Siniscalchi and Nicola Barba. The B.C. championship is the highest achievement at this stage of Little League. Hastings hosts the Little League Canadian Championship in 2016.

Jordan Lu, 17, hoisted the Bostock Trophy as the 2014 B.C. amateur champion on July 18. PHOTO MORGAN GIBBENS/BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLF

after he missed it I thought, ‘OK, now I really have to get this,’” Lu told the B.C. Golf Association. “In the fourth play-off I pulled my putt really hard, which was not good, so I was just trying to focus and make sure I made a good stroke. And I did.” Lu, a member of the Ma-

rine Drive Golf Club, will compete for the University of Washington next year. He will represent B.C. along with Belle and Vancouver’s Jacob Vanderpas, 19, who ﬁnished third, at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship in Winnipeg Aug. 4 to 7. —Megan Stewart

Hastings Little League won the nine- and 10-year-old B.C. Championship in Trail on July 19.

South Vancouver’s winning ways

At the Little League B.C. Championship for all-stars aged 11 and 12, South Vancouver extended its winning streak to four games Tuesday with a 2-1 win over Victoria’s Beacon Hill. Little Mountain lost 11-4 to White Rock. Games were postponed Wednesday because of rain.

The only undefeated team at the tournament, South Vancouver holds on to ﬁrst place but must still advance through Saturday’s semi-ﬁnal to reach the championship game Sunday. A win means representing B.C. at nationals for a chance to wear the Maple Leaf at the Little League World Series in August. —Megan Stewart

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If one rider wears a helmet because of this story, Joanne Turner will feel a sense of accomplishment. The Kits Energy and Gastown Cycling team rider was two kilometres from the finish line of the Granfondo Axel Merckx in Penticton,a 160-kilometre ride over 1,000 metres elevation gain in the desert of the South Okanagan,when she crashed and broke her collarbone on July 13. ‘‘All I remember is flying over the handle bars,hearing my helmet hit the pavement hard and thinking, thank God for that helmet,’’she said. Turner,adrenaline coursing through her,finished the race. Now sidelined for eight weeks following surgery and not likely cycling until the 2015 season,she thanked her Kits Energy teammates for doing all they could to

Joanne Turner with her Cannondale Synapse. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

get her along with her road bike and car back toVancouver. Q: How did the accident happen? I was drafting off a couple of people coming into the ﬁnish at the Granfondo in Penticton. Unfortunately, the guy in front slowed down very quickly and unexpectedly so my front wheel just nudged the girl’s back wheel in front of me. My helmet hit the pavement hard. My left shoulder was next along with knees and left elbow.Thankfully I did not slide too much so the scrapes were not nearly as bad as they could have been.The other good news was that no one was right behind me so no one else went down or rode over me. This is a great opportunity to reinforce the importance of helmets. If one more person reading this article, puts one on, that would make me happy.

Q:What was the pain like? At first, I was in shock and thankfully a few people further behind me stopped to help me up. I was pretty shaken up. For me, it is also all about what I call ‘‘the real theory of relativity.’’ After surviving leukemia and its treatment almost 18 years ago, I feel blessed to have a slightly different outlook on any challenge, including pain, than I certainly had before. Q: How were you able to finish the race? I had seen Mark Cavendish do the same thing in the Tour de France a week earlier and I was amazed when he rode to the finish. So in my crazy state, I figured I could do the same given that it was only about two kilometres. I literally took two big yoga breaths, clipped back in, balanced everything on my right arm and focused.

To be honest, I really did not think about it and in hindsight, it was likely not the smartest move of my life. However, it was my best race ever, despite the 40 degree heat, and I was pretty happy to cross that finish line. Coming into the finish line, I was looking at the spectators and trying to look half normal. Not sure I achieved that! I was 100 per cent focused on getting off my bike without falling and then finding the medical tent. Q:What is your recovery plan and when will you be on your bike again? I pretty much have eight weeks off doing anything that involves my left arm, including driving. Mentally, that is not that easy especially because it is summer. However, it is all relative and have two good legs so I will put them to good use. twitter.com/MHStewart

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SUMMER RUNWAY OPERATIONS AT YVR SOUTH RUNWAY MAINTENANCE Tim Stephens is recovering from neck surgery and doing okay. Katherine Stephens will be running this column until further notice. Please contact her at KStephens56@gmail.com for immediate inquiries. PREAMBLE: With the sun’s’ ingress into Leo on July 22nd, 2014 we have a whole new set of galactic players on stage! With Jupiter, the planet of boundless optimism, abundance, good times and wisdom, we will witness the Leos in our lives perk up, big time. But for the rest of us mere mortals, the good times will roar in the area in our horoscope where we ﬁnd Leo. A small plug here, if you would like a thorough astrological delineation to ﬁnd out where this streak of wellbeing falls in your horoscope so as to take full advantage of this transit, book a reading with me, as the saying goes ‘timing is everything”.

Children are a delightful over the next year and over the next 24 hours, so enjoy yourself! Throw a party, mingle with friends. Romance is appears in the most exuberant, thrilling episode for you and this kind of ﬁreworks only happen every twelve years. Dive in and seize the moment. Problems, arguments and disagreements with your partner have dissipated, it’s time to let things go and move on.

The new moon in your Solar house of friends, associates from work promise new beginnings, a fresh start. And with Jupiter in the Solar house of dreams, wishes and hope for the future promises good things in connection with your social network, work pals and group activities right through to August 2015. This is the time to expand your horizons and network like crazy.

Taurus, you are composed, peaceful and wonderfully grounded. I swear if the world took a page out of your playbook, it would be a kinder, gentler place. Over the next two days your home is front and centre. And with Jupiter sitting in your solar house of home, family, ancestors, real estate expect good things in all these areas of life over the upcoming 12 months.

It has been a long haul Scorpio but now and for the next 49 days you are hot, ready for anything and your engines are firing on all pistons. The opposition better step aside as your confidence and accuracy is flawless. Mind being reckless though and placing yourself in dangerous situations, like overdoing it in extreme sports.

Money luck accompanies you over the next week and beyond! Over the next 12 months communications, short trips, siblings continue to exude love, generosity and help. Highlighted with the New Moon in Leo, begin a dialogue with a sibling that perhaps you have been distant with over the past decade. You will be surprised at the response and, yes, it is positive and possibly lucrative and certainly wisdom will prevail.

Study, higher learning, foreigners, people involved in the publishing business hold your attention and for the next two days. Your exuberance is best expressed if you launch a new project in this sector of your life. Success in these areas are a sure thing for you over the next 12 months. Your planetary ruler, Jupiter is ﬂying high in Leo, this promises big projects, foreign trips over the coming days.

Romance, love and your sweet demeanor is enhanced, magniﬁed with Venus sitting in your Solar house of your innate skill, wit and talent. You look marvelous, darling! And you communicate your desire with passion and depth, this is part of your charm. The next week will be particularly productive for your spiritual practice, foreign travel, or foreigners.

Marital partners and business contracts all hold an attractive silver lining. Follow the prompts from business, close friends or domestic partnerships. They hold the keys to your ﬁnancial security. Social circles have been stalled over the past few months but this is about to change radically. Your zeal for large groups, friends are fueled with a new sense of power, energy, action and personal exchanges.

It’s the dog days of summer and “the livin’ is easy,” Leo. You are having your cake and eating it too. Happy Solar Return! But the big news for you is this happy state of conﬁdence and good luck will continue right through to August 2015. And with the new moon in your house of physical health, skill, wit and talent, it is a great time to ﬂex your creative muscles.

The good news Aquarius is partnership, business liaisons, contracts are blessed with Jupiter’s ingress into Leo (right now and up to August 2015) and bolstered over the next 2 ½ days by the New Moon in Leo. If starting a project, dot the “I’s” and cross the “T’s” as the timing is perfect, but your humanitarian nature is not perturbed by this, nonetheless, make sure your have read the small print.

Friends, associates from work are full of chatter regarding your profession, your public persona, bosses and those in positions of authority. While the word on the vine is favourable, use your abundant analytical skill to assess what is superﬂuous and what is fact. But the outlook is rosy for sure. And your reputation is gaining a great deal of respect and adulation from the right people. Your energy levels may be taxed with all the socializing and cavorting you have been indulging in.

Your dreamy nature has been enhanced with Neptunes’ passage through Pisces. Your mystical, philosophical side is teaming with images. People ﬁnd you fascinating and are not afraid to tell you. It is said Neptune is the ‘higher ‘ octave of Venus. Charisma, charm, attraction are its side effects, but that means you have a responsibility to treat your adoring fans with respect, and love. Children, hobbies, entertainments, the summer blockbuster movies are great activities to do to engage your vivid imagination.

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ing spaces by 10 per cent, add more bike storage and look at car sharing programs as part of the conditions. “We need rezoning enactment and form of development approval still before we can go [to construction],” Matt Pesklewis, the project’s director of marketing and sales, told the Courier. “We need development permit issuance, which will come in the fall. We don’t actually have a development permit as of yet.” The development has been the subject of debate within the community for years. Critics particularly object to the density and the tower’s height, which they argue is out of place in Mount Pleasant. Once completed, The Independent tower would be the tallest building in the neighbourhood. The Residents Association of Mount Pleasant (RAMP) has been among

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“The enactment has not happened and this Development Permit Board meeting said a whole slew of conditions that still have to be met as well,” he said. “So let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. We do intend to keep ﬁghting this development. It’s wrong for our community. It’s out of scale and it would set a very bad precedent to have a 21-storey tower in the heart of Mount Pleasant.” But if all the ﬁnal approvals are granted, construction is expected to start in the spring of 2015 and take two years. “We’re currently pursuing a signature tenant there, which we’re hoping to be a grocery chain — a grocery store,” Pesklewis said. “I can’t say which one. We’re in negotiations right now.” Pesklewis believes the project will be well received. “Obviously, there was

some frustration [in the process], but what was fantastic was the amount of passion that was shown by community groups. I think that allowed us to continue to work with the city and the community groups to drive a better product,” he said. “But ultimately, what we’re seeing is very high demand in that neighbourhood for homes. Without even marketing, we have, not registrants, but over 500 emails for additional information. We’ve had lots of people contact us. I would say overwhelmingly the support is more positive than it has been negative… there is a lack of housing in that area. We’re seeing a massive increase in single-family home prices in that area — probably the highest in the city. So I think there are a lot of people looking for options that aren’t single-family home prices.” twitter.com/naoibh

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the most vociferous of critics. Spokesman Stephen Bohus, who attended the July 14 Development Permit Board meeting, said speakers raised issues such as the tower being 21 storeys versus 19 storeys as initially proposed. Pesklewis counters that by saying the number of storeys has changed, but not the height of the building. “The RAMP people continue to go on [about] the height issue, but per the comprehensive development plan for Mount Pleasant, the height was always approved at 215 feet.We did not go beyond that and we never did change that.We did go from 19 storeys to 21 storeys, but that was due to some changes in the building itself,” he said. “Levels three and four commercial spaces were reduced in height, allowing us to get one more ﬂoor in and then there was a

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The XTS replaced the larger DTS and smaller STS at the same time, and it now bridges the gap between midsize and full-size luxury sedans as a result.The XTS is still a fairly large sedan, however, as it is a little longer than a BMW 7 Series though not quite as wide. The cabin of the XTS is the most spacious of any Cadillac sedan. It was designed to provide maximum roominess in a more efficient package without compromising the basic layout and functionality. Continuing Cadillac’s angular, wedge-like design, the XTS looks similar to its smaller siblings, though it has an “enhanced” edges and creases that give it a more flowing look and feel. Platinum models come with 20-inch wheels for an even more dramatic look. All but the base XTS model comes with dual exhaust outlets giving it a little sporty flair. Models with the new turbo engine have a unique twin-turbo grille and deck lid identification. Overall, the XTS is a great looking sedan that has elements of both American and Japanese luxury car design cues.

Performance

Heated and ventilated seats highlight an extensive list of premium standard features. The rear seats offer good leg-room overall and reasonably comfortable seating for three.The available Rear Seat Entertainment package featuring a dual-screen DVD system is an impressive unit that should keep rear passengers occupied during long trips. The classy-looking standard eight-inch touchscreen uses Cadillac’s CUE infotainment system. CUE boasts capacitive-touch control with proximity sensing, Haptic feedback, gesture recognition, and enhanced voice recognition. However, it does require some practice to use its fullest capabilities, and the feeling is a bit awkward – I think the haptic feel is unnecessary. The Premium and Platinum models use a 12.3-inch reconﬁgurable instrument cluster that has four driverselectable themes ranging from minimal to extensive information. The XTS has an advantage over both midsize and fullsize rivals when it comes to trunk space. Cadillac reckons that its 18 cubic feet capacity will easily accommodate ﬁve full suitcases.

The XTS comes standard with a 3.6-litre V6 that is rated at 304 hp and 264 ft-lbs of torque. Cadillac used lightweight materials to reduce overall weight for better fuel efficiency and a more favourable front-to-rear weight balance. The exciting, new twin-turbo 3.6-litre V6 produces 410 hp and 369 ft-lbs of torque, which outperforms many competitors. Cadillac claims this rating makes it one of the most power-dense six-cylinder engines in this segment. The two small turbos team up with an efficient charge air cooler to help create more immediate power delivery, while sustaining peak torque over a broader range.This results in more confidence while accelerating or overtaking traffic on the highway. Regardless of which engine you choose, it will be mated to a six-speed transmission with tap-shift control. A stiffer body structure - combined with Cadillac’s Magnetic Ride Control – makes it possible to deliver precise body motion control.This makes the XTS especially comfortable cruising over long commutes and it remains composed when the road gets bumpy. To pamper occupants further, the cabin is well insulated, making road and engine noise nearly undetectable. Electric, variable-assist power steering is used in all front-wheel drive models to enhance efficiency by only drawing energy when the wheels are being turned. Meanwhile, all-wheel drive models feature a precise and responsive hydraulically-assisted steering system. The feel of the car is agile and planted – in a manner that may surprise Mercedes and BMW owners. It is remarkable how far Cadillac has come in terms of creating a world-class vehicle with the “right” kind of driving characteristics. Don’t get me wrong, the car still feels soft in comparison to, say an Audi A6, but the silky ride feel is appreciated in highway driving.

Features

The 2014 Cadillac XTS has a starting price of $49,440, which is reasonable considering its standard features. Standard equipment includes keyless entry, remote start, dual-zone climate control, heated exterior mirrors, auto-dimming rearview mirror, LED taillights, Bluetooth and OnStar. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include navigation, 14-speaker surround sound, three-zone climate control, heated steering wheel, 60/40 folding rear seats, adaptive cruise control, head-up display, front and rear automatic braking, forward collision alert, lane departure warning, rear cross trafﬁc alert, blind spot detection, rearview camera, and a sunroof. Fuel efﬁciency numbers (L/100km) for FWD models are 12.1 city, 7.2 highway for 9.9 combined. AWD bumps those to 12.5 city, 7.7 highway and 10.3 combined.The twin-turbo engine raises them again to 13.2 city, 8.3 highway and 11 combined.

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†$2,500 cash purchase incentive is available on select other 2014 CR-V models (LX AWD, EX, EX-L and Touring). Honda cash purchase Incentive will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance offers. ‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. *Limited time weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. #0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 260 weekly payments O.A.C. Weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $38.91 based on applying $1,075.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,116.60. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. ΩLimited time weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 260 weekly payments O.A.C. Weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $66.84 based on applying $1,625.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $17,378.40. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. £Limited time weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Accord model CR2E3EE. €1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 260 weekly payments O.A.C. Weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $62.00 based on applying $1,350.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $16,120.00 Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. **MSRP is $17,185 / $27,685 / $25,685 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,695 / $1,695 based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES / 2014 Accord LX model CR2E3EE. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent’s fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. ‡/#/*/Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from July 1st through July 31st, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.

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Oh Canada, the true North strong and available at a very reasonable entry level price. Not free, not exactly, but certainly inexpensive. While Canadians seem determined to spend simply ridiculous amounts on smartphones and bucket-sized fancy coffees, we like our cars cheap and we don’t care if they’re cheerful. Minimalism on wheels, that’s the Canadian way, and it’s why the best-selling car in the U.S. is the Toyota Camry, while the best-selling car in Canada is always something like the Honda Civic. It’s a different market North of the border, and very occasionally, the manufacturers actually seem to clue in and give us something unique. Nissan’s done this before, with the excellent and much-missed little X-Trail crossover, and now they’re back with another nameplate from the past. Say goodbye to theVersa sedan, and hello to the Micra hatchback. It costs just $9,998 to start, and its here to put a smile on your face like an unopened box ofTimbits in the company breakroom.

Design:

Equipped with 15” steel wheels as standard or 16” alloys on the top-end SR models, the Micra isn’t just cheaper than the outgoing Versa sedan, its better looking.There’s something about a pugnacious little hatch that just looks right on the city street, and the little Nissan’s happy face and cartoonishly high greenhouse give it a carefree demeanour. Looking for LEDs, active aerodynamics, or sticky low-proﬁle tires? No thanks — the Micra eschews bling in favour of a few subtle details like horseshoeshaped creases in its roof, and sculpted styling lines down the sides.

There’s something really engaging about driving a plucky little car like this It just looks right, and then there are a few things you can do to make the Micra truly yours. The ﬁrst is to give it a name and imagine it speaking in a stereotypical Bob and Doug Mackenzie accent — Good Day, eh? — or maybe that’s just me. The second is stuff like coloured mirror caps, door stripes, and door handles, a bit like the dress-up items you can stick on a Mini Cooper. No, they don’t add any horsepower, except in your imagination.

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Performance:

Powered by a 109hp, 1.6L four-cylinder engine, the Micra is all about making do with what you have on hand. A ﬁve-speed manual wakes things up a little, but the $1,000 optional automatic transmission is going to be the volume choice. Continued on page 33

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Step up to the mid-range SV and you get Bluetooth hands-free for your phone, air-conditioning and the ability to option a colour display screen and a USB jack for an iPhone. The top-spec SR model gets you those larger alloy wheels, and a backup camera as standard. Fuel economy for the Micra is solid at 8.6L/100kms in the city and 6.6L/100kms on the highway. If those ﬁgures don’t impress, remember that this is under Transport Canada’s new testing methods, which achieve ﬁgures 10-15 per cent worse than previous. They’re much more realistic — on the Coquihalla, at speeds of around 120km/h and the air-conditioning on

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Continued from page 31 A four-speed gearbox, it’s one of the few Nissan cars you can get without their fancy-pants fuel-saving CVT technology, and sounds a bit old-fashioned. Only four speeds? These days you can get a Jeep with nine cogs in the box! As with other aspects of the Micra, the automatic is just what you need, and no more. Stick it in Drive, and off you go, keeping up with traffic and not getting in anyone’s way. Start hitting the corners and the Micra’s short wheelbase and featherlight curbweight impart a nimble sort of feel that’s actually quite fun. It’s worth noting that Nissan plans to campaign a race-prepped Micra at the gruelling Targa Newfoundland, and you can tell from the way the road-going version leapfrogs through the corners, they’ve started off from a good platform. It’s actually good enough to have you wishing for a sporttuned version from Nissan’s NISMO motorsports division. Hitting the highway reveals a car that has to downshift to get up some of the steeper hills, but is perfectly capable of cruising across the country at the drop of a hat. The tall profile and light weight makes the Micra somewhat susceptible to strong crosswinds, but for the most part it’s planted and comfortable. Moreover, there’s something really engaging about driving a plucky little car like this.You pat the steering wheel in encouragement as the 1.6L engine spins towards redline, passing a semi-trailer.You bomb through traffic and zip into a parking space with ease.You crank up the tunes and boot it across town, burning not-much in terms of fuel.

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41% 2/4.00 946ml +deposit +eco fee product of USA

+deposit +eco fee

product of USA

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28%

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Best tasting omega-3 oil with algae astaxanthin. Supports healthy heart, reduces pain and inflammation.

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17.99 250ml

3/7.98

235g – 430ml

Medi-C Plus

product of USA/Canada

Reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. Increases blood flow to coronary arteries.

Lindsay Black Olives

40%

2/5.98

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184-227g product of USA

33%

Uncle Luke’s Organic Maple Syrup

19%

398ml product of USA

BULK Organic Bamboo Rice and Quinoa Mix

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19.99 300g

1.99

Hint Flavoured Water

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34%

500ml product of Canada

2/3.00

474ml +deposit +eco fee product of USA

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DELI Choices’ Own Salads: Greek Style Cannellini & Cucumber or Arugula Tomato & Bocconcini

1.59-1.69/100g assorted flavours

2.99/ 100g

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Seedsational Brown Rice or Sourdough Rice Bread

4.49

5.49

575g

525-625g

Carrot or Raspberry Chiffon Cake Slices

Squares

3.99/ 100g

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Wholesome Country Sourdough Bread

Parmigiano Reggiano Scelto Wheel

20% off

GLUTEN FREE

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All Natural Roast Beef

Sea-licious Fish Oils

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29%

Old Dutch Potato Chips, Restaurante Tortilla Chips, or Salsa

plain or with pineapple

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2.99 15ml 12.99 125ml 32.99 500ml

.99 311ml SAVE 3.69 4 pack

650g

30%

Natures Aid Multi Purpose Healing Gel

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2/7.00

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284-454g or 946ml TEA roasted in Canada

30%

R.W. Knudsen Spritzers

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4.99lb/ 11.00kg

3.99lb/ 8.80kg

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Whole Organic Chickens

value pack

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

product of Canada

26.99lb/ 59.50kg

Bone In Pork Shoulder Blade Steaks

Green Seedless Grapes

5lb bag

Ocean Wise Ardsmar Ahi Tuna

value pack

product of Canada

8.98

BC Grown Peaches and Cream Corn on the Cob

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4.99 /ChoicesMarkets

2.99-4.99

120-275g

package of 3

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Cambie

Kerrisdale

Yaletown

Gluten Free Bakery

South Surrey

Burnaby Crest

Kelowna

Floral Shop

2627 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver

3493 Cambie St. Vancouver

1888 W. 57th Ave. Vancouver

1202 Richards St. Vancouver

2595 W. 16th Ave. Vancouver

3248 King George Blvd. South Surrey

8683 10th Ave. Burnaby

1937 Harvey Ave. Kelowna

2615 W. 16th Vancouver

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