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CONCRETE CANVAS Brazilian twin artists Os Gemeos began detailed painting Aug.13 on six concrete silos towering over Granville Island. The official unveiling is on Sept. 7. See story page 8 and vancourier.com for a photo gallery. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Strike camps prepped as parents worry Cheryl Rossi

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The YMCA of Greater Vancouver had 937 children on its “just in case” waiting list for Strike Camps as of Tuesday afternoon. The YMCA announced Aug. 14 it would provide approximately 1,200 spots at 34 locations across the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast if a settlement between the

government and teachers isn’t reached before the scheduled start of school Sept. 2. Fourteen of the 34 locations are in Vancouver. “Parents are certainly stressed right now with things being uncertain,” said Kelly Walker, manager of marketing and communications for the YMCA. The camps would be for children aged ﬁve to 12. Five-year-olds must be entering kindergarten this year. The camps would

run 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each week day and include physical activity and outdoor play. Camps would cost $15 a day for YMCA members and $30 a day for non-members at YMCA centres, with different prices at the Y’s other licensed childcare locations. The YMCA will provide ﬁnancial assistance to families unable to cover costs. Walker said vacant childcare spots exist at YMCA centres.

A spokesperson for the park board told the Courier in an email that parents should contact their closest community centre to check whether it is planning day camps for kids in September. “If they felt they had the staff and resources, they would try to organize day camps for the kids this fall,” wrote Daria Wojnarski. Continued on page 6

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Residents RAMP up suit against city

Mount Pleasant group seeks to defeat Rize development in court DEVELOPING STORY

Naoibh O’Connor

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The Mount Pleasant Residents’ Association has filed a court petition against the City of Vancouver in a bid to quash the development and building permit granted to Rize Alliance properties July 14 for its Rize tower project, which it’s christened The Independent. The development project comprises five building blocks including a 21-storey tower and features 257 residential units, commercial space, outdoor space, parking and bicycle stalls. RAMP’s petition was filed at B.C. Supreme Court Aug. 13. The city has 21 days to respond. RAMP argues plans for the project significantly differ from what was approved by council more than two years ago following a lengthy public hearing.

Stephen Bohus, a spokesman for the Residents' Association of Mount Pleasant, stands in front of a structure at Kingsway and Broadway that used to feature an advertising sign for The Independent development project. The advertisement violated the city's sign bylaw, so it had to be removed. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

RAMP points out the tower is 21 storeys, as opposed to 19 storeys, the number of condominiums and parking spaces have increased, and a food co-op is no longer part of the project. Matt Pesklewis, the project’s director of marketing and sales, told the Courier in a recent story that while

the number of storeys has changed, the height of the building has not and he noted the proposed food coop couldn’t get financing. RAMP spokesman Stephen Bohus said members of the organization feel “confident” the suit will be successful. “We’re pretty confident.

There was a decision made with direction from council and a different proposal scheme was presented to the development permit board and we believe that the development permit board overstepped their authority,” he said. Bohus said RAMP would be more inclined to accept a

project that respected existing zoning “that respects the height and character of the neighbourhood.” “We’re not against development. We just want a development done at a human scale. At current zoning, you could build housing for 180 or 170 people,” he said. Earlier this month, members of RAMP also raised concerns about advertising signs for the development project, which violated the city’s sign bylaw and have since been removed. In an email, the city’s communication department said the city can’t comment on the legal proceedings, but did address a question about the signs. “The City received a complaint about signs located at 246 E Broadway and 221 E 10th Ave. advertising the development ‘The Independent.’ Property Use Inspectors inspected the site and found that noncompliant signs had been installed or constructed without permits,” the email

stated. “An order was sent to the owner on June 26/14 to remove the free standing sign and the huge wrap around sign on the building by July 28/14. They asked for an extension, which the city denied. The applicant was informed that if the signage is was not removed by Monday, July 28th it would be referred for charges. An inspector was sent out on July 29th and the signs had not been removed so it has been referred for charges. The penalty is determined by the court, but the range is found under [the sign] bylaw.” Chris Vollan, Rize Alliance Properties vice president of development, told the Courier: “Unfortunately all the signs were removed just after the city deadline.” As for the petition against the city, Vollan wrote in an email, “The petition is a claim against the city of Vancouver and as such Rize cannot comment. However, we trust the city will resolve this in due course.” twitter.com/naoibh

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To most people, munching on cheese and crackers while chatting about death sounds like a morbid way to soak up the summer, but that’s exactly the response Ross Waddell wants to eliminate. The taboo subject of death will be served up in Stanley Park for the first time by organizers Waddell and Marylene Kyriazis who created The Centre for Death Education earlier this year. Participants are encouraged to bring their own food to the Prospect Point picnic site in Stanley Park Aug. 25 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Similar to the tradition of storytelling around the campfire, the free event will have guests sharing stories about different aspects of death. Waddell is co-hosting Death Picnic because he believes the first step to advanced care planning is education. “Before you can start planning for care, you have to have the opening conversation about death and dying,” he said. “From that, you’ll move in to the conversation planning for the kind of care you want when you’re in that phase of life.” Geri McGrath executive director of non-profit organization Vancouver Hospice

Society that provides end of life care, supports the event as a step towards discussing a delicate topic. Through her work, McGrath says the most important piece of information the public needs to hear is to plan their end of life care in advance and be speciﬁc with their wishes, which would lighten the load of their caregivers. The lineup of guests won’t

esting and absorbing and challenging,” wrote Bennett, who also stressed the need for end of life planning. “Everybody by the age of 50 who is mentally competent should make a Living Will that states how she wants to die, the circumstances under which she does not want to be resuscitated, etc.” With a conﬂuence of cultures in Vancouver, Mc-

Everybody by the age of 50 who is mentally competent should make a Living Will that states how she wants to die. – Gillian Bennett just include those working with the dying. It will also feature a man who grew up in the family funeral business, veterinarians talking about pets passing, scholars and authors discussing the death of empires and ideas, and astrophysicists talking about death of stars. Gillian Bennett, the B.C. woman who was diagnosed with dementia three years ago and recently killed herself at 84, documents her end of life decision on the website deadatnoon.com. “We do NOT talk much about how we die. Yet facing death is thoroughly inter-

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Grath says there are many different understandings of death. She says while North American culture has institutionalized birth and death for 20 years, she’s seeing a cultural shift towards seeing it as a natural event. “In a lot of places in the world, people wake up in the morning being grateful that they’re alive. Often here, we, in North America wake up expecting to have a good day. So it is shocking for us to have to deal with a blow like an end of life diagnosis because it is so far out of the realm of our normal life.” twitter.com/jennypengnow

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A citizens’ group battling to stop a tower from rising above Emery Barnes Park goes to B.C. Supreme Court on Aug. 25. Community Association of New Yaletown wants a judge to overturn a rezoning and land swap deal that it says were cloaked in secrecy and in violation of the Vancouver Charter. Brenhill Developments agreed to give 1099 Richards St. to the City of Vancouver after it builds a 13-storey social housing project on the site, so it could then build a 36-storey tower on 508 Helmcken, site of the city’s Jubilee House social housing project built in 1985. The Vancouver park board’s 2011 budget included a plan to eventually expand Emery Barnes Park, which occupies most of the city block bounded by Seymour, Davie, Richards and Helmcken streets. CANY claims the July 16, 2013 public hear-

ing was unfair and illegal because the city and Brenhill kept secret their Jan. 28, 2013 contract for the non-tendered land sale and the outcome was predetermined. CANY claims the tower would be 4.5 times higher than what

ing $24 million on the $30.6 million New Jubilee House, with the city contributing $6.6 million from the Helmcken land sale. Staff valued the community amenity package at $25 million: $1 million cash from Brenhill to the city af-

Council accepted public submissions contrary to city bylaws – CANY the Downtown Ofﬁcial Development Plan allows. City hall’s July 31 response to CANY’s amended ﬁling said it followed proper procedure from the start. It claimed the land swap was discussed by the parties in 2011 and approved by city council in October 2012. City hall said the basic terms of the deal were published in the June 4, 2013 staff report. Brenhill proposed spend-

fordable housing fund and $24 million in-kind for the social housing. In its July 17 response, developer Brenhill cast doubt on CANY, because it did not exist during the rezoning “and appears to have been created for the purposes of this litigation.” “The transaction was thoroughly described in the city staff report, and the submissions by members of the public related to view impacts

and shadowing, not having anything to do with the details of legal agreements,” according to Brenhill owner Brent Kerr’s affidavit. CANY court filings maintain the public did not have all the facts before city council voted and that the disposal of public property should have instead gone through a public tender process. Said CANY’s petition: “In addition, after the close of the public hearing, council continued to accept submissions from the public contrary to the city’s procedure bylaw No. 9756, which provides that ‘public comments received by the city clerk later than 15 minutes after the close of the speakers list will not be circulated to council’.” CANY’s original petition was filed May 6 and amended July 3. The judicial review hearing is scheduled for four days at the Law Courts and it is expected the judge will reserve decision. twitter.com/bobmackin

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A concerted effort to create six colossal murals towering over Granville Island is missing the last piece of the puzzle from Vancouverites: money. Approximately $100,000 is needed for the project which Brazilian twin artists Os Gemeos started painting on the island’s concrete

silos Aug. 13. The silos are part of the Ocean Concrete plant. The artwork is Os Gemeos’ Canadian debut after having realized their “Giants” project — a series of large murals on unconventional canvases — in Europe, the U.S. and their most recent project on a Boeing 737 for the World Cup. Barrie Mowatt, founder of the non-proﬁt

Vancouver Biennale, initially thought the pair would choose a horizontal mural but instead they decided on the vertical concrete silos in the glass city as their next challenge after visiting in December. Funding for the murals has been the project’s biggest challenge, said Mowatt. With the artists donating their time and Vancouver Biennale cover-

ing all administrative costs, the campaign has raised $24,000 out of its $125,000 goal on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. “We went out on a limb, we trusted that the citizens of Vancouver and the world actually will respond … we had a budget established, but the cost of paint far exceeded any of our expectations,” said Mowatt who says it’s a surprise that “90

per cent of the Indiegogo responders at this point are international people, not local. So locals have yet to get on board.” With the “slow” outpouring of support from Vancouverites, Mowatt questions whether Vancouverites realize the signiﬁcance of having internationally acclaimed artists like Ai Weiwei here who give “cultural recognition and stability” to world-class cities. “Vancouver has historically relied greatly upon nature, the mountains and water to be sort of its public engagement and have seen those as the art forms. As we create towers of cement around us, it becomes more important than ever to interject signiﬁcant and public art in those spaces,” he said. As the project advanced from the colour-blocking stage completed Aug. 11, the site is giving passersby like John Redmond reasons to admire and take photos. “Anything is better than a bare silo because they’ve been there what 60, 70 years and they’re just dusty, grey concrete, and now at least, there’s some colour. They’re very kind of trendy looking, kind of contemporary colours, it’s quite nice,”

said Redmond. “Rather than just walking by, I mean I actually stopped and took a photo, and I don’t think of taking a photo of the silos since 1981,” added Redmond. “They might even complain that there’s still industry on the island.” With trucks shuttling in and out of the site operated by Ocean Concrete, project manager Scott Symons of Wolfgang Commercial Painters said that was one of their biggest challenges when they were tasked with washing and colour-blocking the canvas in late July. “There’s concrete trucks coming in and out. . . It’s constantly creating dust. So we got to a position where you know, we’re in the second stage of the project starting to do the back of the silos and we had to rewash because of the amount of concrete dust that was already on there.” Symons noted the challenges of the project were buffered by Dulux Paint and Graco Paint Sprayers The ﬁxture is expected to last until February 2017 with no guarantees about the impact of weathering over time. twitter.com/JennyPengNow

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Opinion Survivalist cycling vs. Citizens being shaken transit harassment down by the state Trish Kelly Guest columnist trishkellyc@gmail.com

Last year I became an all-weather cyclist. I’d started a new job in Burnaby, and Google Maps told me the commute would be 32 minutes whether I take transit or cycle. I love the ride and get an hour of cardio every day. Further sweetening the deal, my employer offers a $120 enviro bonus to cyclists. Fitness and finance aside, I also prefer my two-wheeled commute because taking transit as a woman in Vancouver can be an even rougher ride. When I began commuting by bike, my brother who started riding as a kid, before there were bike lanes or cyclistcontrolled traffic lights, gave me tips. He practises a type of survivalist cycling which includes a willingness to ride on sidewalks and assuming that cars cannot see or care about a biker. His lecture could have been told around a campfire. His eyes wide and gestures grand with conviction, he described the perils I’d be exposed to and how I needed to be “street smart” on my ride. When I smiled at his concern, his eyes widened further and his forehead reddened. “Promise me you won’t be stupid. Don’t make left turns at busy intersections,” he demanded. So I designed a route that includes only one left turn. Every day, I scan the intersection carefully and look for trouble. Peril averted, I enter the Central Valley Greenway, relax into my ride and hope for a sighting of the lone pair of ravens that live just beyond Victoria Drive. There are perils on transit too, ones I’m glad to avoid by cycling. In summer when I step onto the bus at Broadway and Commercial, my bare arms are a liability. “Ooh Mommie, why don’t you come sit beside me?” a man recently sneered before he smirked at his friends across the aisle. It’s a small instance I can shake off, but it’s one of many since the hot weather hit. Years ago, I worked for a woman who promised me that when a woman gets to 40, she becomes invisible to harassers. My boss had entered her fifth decade and her relief made quite an impression on me. Now almost 40 myself, I expected aging to mitigate the amount of harassment I face, but I’m surprised to find I experience more harassment now than at any time in my 25 years in this city.

I also witness other women on transit getting unwanted, malicious attention. Each time, I weigh the potential risks of intervening. Most often I step in, which is exhausting and potentially dangerous, but so is the frozen prey vigilance if I choose to be silent and hope to be passed over.

We all have a part to play in confronting disrespectful behaviour...

Early this year, Vancouver Transit Police conﬁrmed sexual harassment rates are on the rise and offered new tools to help make reporting easier. Transit riders can now text 877-777 to report an incident, or download an app called On Duty, which allows for quick reporting as well as a map of recent crime activity. Transit Police also launched an unfortunate campaign this past July. Banners placed on trains and buses told riders “not reporting sexual assault is the real shame.” It certainly isn’t the target’s fault if an aggressor gets away with assault or harassment. We all have a part to play in confronting disrespectful behaviour, and Transit Police should focus their education campaign on giving riders strategies for dealing with harassment in progress as well as ways to report it. HollaBack Vancouver is part of an international movement that aims to end street harassment and offers concrete ideas about what to do when it happens on transit. With a menu of tactics that includes directly addressing the aggressor and telling him to stop, to ﬁnding a delegate with authority or simply interrupting for directions, anyone can feel prepared to help diffuse harassment in progress and make transit safer for everyone. I’ve downloaded the transit police’s app, added the text number to my phone, and I’ve read Hollaback’s tips on challenging harassment. When the heavy rains hit and I get back on the bus, I will continue to stand up and intervene when others are targeted, and ask my fellow riders to do the same. Until then, I’ll accept the risks of making that one left turn a day. twitter.com/trishkellyc

Geoff Olson Columnist

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You may be familiar with the horror stories of British Columbians tied up in a legal twilight zone after the seizure of assets for crimes they did not commit. Property and cash can be grabbed even in the absence of criminal charges or convictions connected to the alleged crimes, often involving marijuana. B.C. bud is not the main problem here. The real threat is an invasive species known as the draconian “Civil Forfeiture Act” — the judicial equivalent of fire ants, zebra mussels and giant hogweed. The legal concept originated in the United States. In 1984 — an appropriate date — the late U.S. president Reagan signed the “Comprehensive Crime Control Act” that allowed law enforcement officials to keep a portion of the assets confiscated during drug raids and other interdictions. As reported in the Business Insider in 2013, “Through civil forfeiture, cops can take property they believe was obtained illicitly before you’re convicted of any wrongdoing in a court of law. The people whose assets have been seized then have to go to court to try to get it back, which may cost more money than the property itself.” In some areas, police are keeping 80 to 100 per cent of the assets seized. In effect, the White House incentivized asset grabs by nimble-fingered cops. A 2013 New Yorker article examined the case of an elderly West Philadelphia couple whose home was seized after their son allegedly sold $20 worth of marijuana from their porch. They were not charged with a crime, but they lost their home nonetheless.

The so-called war on drugs has merged with the so-called war on terror... The article also proﬁled Pentecostal church secretary Victor Ramos Guzman, whose vehicle became a police-targeted piñata en route through Virginia. While on his way to buy a parcel of land for his church, state troopers stopped him for speeding and seized all $28,500 worth of parishioners’ donations in his possession. Civil forfeiture puts the burden of proof on the accused to show their money and/or

assets aren’t the proceeds of criminal activity. If it wasn’t for Guzman’s lawyer, who convinced the court of his client’s innocence, the church would have taken a big kick to the cash register — and the troopers would have had substantially more dough for doughnut runs. Since this is a story tailor-made for absurdists, the Daily Show recently interviewed Texan mother Jennifer Boatright, who said she was driving with her husband and their two children to a family event in Linden, Texas, when state troopers pulled them over, searched the car and seized their money. As reported previously in The New Yorker, “Boatright was told she could face felony charges for ‘money laundering’ and ‘child endangerment,’ in which case they would go to jail and their children would be handed over to foster care. Or they could sign over their cash to the city of Tenaha, and get back on the road.” These are not anomalous cases. They’re the result of a judicially approved, $5 billion scheme for U.S. police departments to line their coffers. At this point, the “Comprehensive Crime Control Act” is better described as “The Law of the Jungle.” It’s not unusual for police and paramilitary units in underdeveloped countries to shake down citizens for cash. It’s win-win for both the enforcers and the local elite; the citizens become more fearful of authority, while their state-sanctioned abusers draw from a revenue stream outside a broken public sector. MIT media critic Noam Chomsky coined the phrase “bringing the Third World home.” With that in mind, the term “police state” doesn’t sound hyperbolic in the wake of the Gaza-like operations by the militarized detachment of Ferguson, Missouri, after local citizens protested the fatal shooting of an unarmed18 year-old. The so-called war on drugs has merged with the so-called war on terror, sending a clear message to the huddled masses: bow before the Praetorian guard of the ruling class, empty your pockets and shut the hell up. We do things more discreetly in Canada, where eight provinces host civil forfeiture ofﬁces. In B.C., $41 million in property and cash has been seized since introduction of the Civil Forfeiture Act in 2005. Even if our tactics are less blitzkrieg than those of our neighbours, we’re talking about an invasive species of law with proven potential for abuse. It deserves to be weeded out from the courts. geoffolson.com

The week in num6ers...

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The number of days remaining for the teachers' strike to be settled before public schools are scheduled to re-open in September.

In thousands of dollars, the amount of money still needed to be raised in order to have murals painted on six concrete silos on Granville Island.

The number of lawsuits launched against the City of Vancouver this week by two different residents' associations.

In dollars per litre, the average price of gas in Vancouver for the month of July, the highest in Canada.

In millions of dollars, the amount B.C. residents have been forced to hand over to the government since the Civil Forfeiture Act was introduced in 2005.

Vancouver's world ranking in overall livability, according to a new report by The Economist magazine.

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COURIER ARCHIVES THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

The Beatles play Empire Stadium

Aug. 22, 1964: The Beatles give their first Canadian concert in Empire Stadium before more than 20,000 fans. The concert, what little of it could be heard over all the screaming by fans, was also broadcast live on local radio station CKNW. The band performed an 11-song set: Twist And Shout, You Can't Do That, All My Loving, She Loves You, Things We Said Today, Roll Over Beethoven, Can't Buy Me Love, If I Fell, Boys, A Hard Day's Night and Long Tall Sally before the show was cut short by police who feared a riot. The Fab Four then departed for Los Angeles for a concert at the Hollywood Bowl that was later released as a live double album.

To the editor: Re: “Resorting to new ways of sharing living space,” Aug. 15. The recent inclusion of a column by Michael is a positive addition to the Courier and takes a higher road approach to informing and improving our community than that currently taken by a few of the more seasoned cynics and embittered scribes. Michael’s recent column should prompt a community rethink about how we can foster greater community interaction with a goal of reducing the sense of isolation experienced by many living in highrises and large mass condominiums. In the same column, Michael writes of an Antwerp highrise with individual apartments sharing communal facilities such as balconies and winter gardens on the different ﬂoors. This model may only be best suited to rental and public housing but we certainly need to improve on the current model for owner occupied apartments where the usual interaction is limited to a few mumbled words of greeting in the one minute elevator ride. We need to design buildings with spaces that encourage community interaction. In the few years that I have sat on the City of Vancouver’s Urban Design Panel, I have been surprised at the number of building designs that have completely failed to either provide an amenity or common space or suitable outdoor garden space to encourage good neighbourliness. We have the means to do so much more in improving community interaction and I hope Michael’s words of wisdom are remembered by prospective buyers of highrise apartments because developers

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Citizens’ Assembly group is pointless

To the editor: Re: “Everyone is an expert minus the expertise,” Aug. 20. The more interesting part of the story resides between the lines in that only 504 applications were received from a direct mail campaign soliciting to 20,000 potential applicants. To me this is a strong indication that by and large the community rejects the Citizens’ Assembly in its current form. Consider that the group, Our Community Our Plan, and community blogger Jak King have lead community groups insisting that wide community participation be used in devising a community plan. This concept was rejected by the city in favour of an onerous process in which a limited group of individuals, comprising the “right” demographic attributes, are required to contribute ten eight-hour, Saturdays of personal time as members of the Citizens’ Assembly. While their contributions are laudable it will likely be for not as the culmination of their efforts is to be a report which is nonbinding on the decisions of council. Therefore, I conclude that the Citizens’ Assembly is nothing more than an engagement exercise designed to play out active members of the Grandview-Woodland community while providing the illusion of public consultation. Philip Hill, Vancouver

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Bertuzzi pleads not guilty to assault

Aug. 26, 2004: Vancouver Canucks power forward Todd Bertuzzi pleads not guilty to an assault charge over an on-ice incident March 8 that broke three vertebrae in the neck of Colorado Avalanche player Steve Moore. The sucker punch from behind, which ended Moore's playing career, was a retaliation for an unpenalized hit in a previous game by Moore on former Canucks captain Markus Naslund, at the time the NHL's leading scorer. Bertuzzi later changed his plea to guilty was given a conditional discharge requiring 80 hours of community service and one year's probation. On Tuesday, a civil suit ended with an out-of-court settlement.

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A welcoming home for young Jews

Moishe House hopes to engage young people with Jewish life PACIFIC SPIRIT

Pat Johnson

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Thanks mostly to migration from across Canada and elsewhere, Vancouver’s Jewish community is one of the fastest growing in North America. But studies indicate the overall number of people engaged with Jewish institutions in North America is declining. Community leaders have especially struggled to keep young Jews involved in the community after university and before the lifecycle events of marriage and family tend to bring some back into the fold. Numerous groups have sprung up in recent years, with varying degrees of success, to encourage Jewish 20-somethings to continue seamlessly in their cultural and religious identity. One of the more innovative is Moishe House. The Moishe House Foundation, based in California, encourages small groups of young Jews around the world to create cooperative housing with a few permanent residents who organize regular events for their peers — a sort of micro-community centre for Jewish young adults. In exchange, they receive funding that offsets some of the rent and helps fund the programs. Behind the pleasant but otherwise nondescript façade of a house in West Point Grey is Vancouver’s Moishe House. This is the only one of its kind in Canada, but it joins a network of 63 houses in 14 countries. Rael Katz, born in South

Ben Groberman is a resident of Moishe House Vancouver. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Africa and raised in Richmond, lived in the Moishe House for two of its three years and helped ﬁnd the current house when the group decided to move from East Vancouver last year. (He recently moved to Calgary to continue his studies. In fact, two of the four residents I met during a garage sale and clothing exchange just a few weeks ago have already moved on, replaced with new members.) Every Moishe House is different, says Katz, depending on the interests of its founders and residents. Vancouver’s tends to draw young professionals.

House rules — like whether to keep a kosher kitchen — are up to residents. This house falls somewhere in the middle on that issue, prohibiting non-kosher meat, but not enforcing strict separation of meat from dairy. The house hosts ﬁve or six events a month, including at least one Shabbat (Sabbath) meal, holiday celebrations, learning sessions, social events, and volunteering, including at a community garden and a Downtown Eastside soup kitchen. Their funding comes from the local Jewish Federation, an umbrella

community agency, but that’s different for every house. And, while the four residents get half their rent covered, that proportion could increase if they upped the number of monthly events. “Basically we put on events for our community,” says Katz. “It’s a community of 20s, 30s Jewish and Jewish-friendly young adults. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a Jewish event, it’s more like an event for Jews.” Asked if this is a gloriﬁed Jewish frat house, one resident laughed. “It’s the most boring frat house in the country,”

says Yszi Hawkings. “I think most of us are asleep by 10.” The Moishe House movement is Jewishly nondenominational and the sprawling spectrum of Jewish observance could hardly be better represented than at the Vancouver house. Katz’s South African Jewish heritage is a sort of liberal Orthodoxy. Hawkings, who has also just moved out, relocating to Toronto, grew up in Britain’s Liberal Judaism stream, which recognizes patrilineal descent, ordains female rabbis and is big on LGBT rights. Then there are the two

remaining residents — Ben Groberman and Yoni Dayan. Groberman grew up in a Jewish household in Vancouver, attended Jewish schools and has always been involved in Jewish life. But recently he has begun a more religious lifestyle, moving toward greater observance of kosher laws and studying intensively with rabbis. How far along is he in his studies? “Third-degree black belt,” he laughs. “Even the wisest rabbi would say that they have a lot to learn still. We all have a lot to learn. I really believe that there is a lot for me to learn, a lot for me to take on in terms of practice, so I think I’m early on.” Dayan is on a different journey. Raised in Vancouver by an Israeli mother and an Egyptian father, Dayan recently returned from Israel, where he served in the Israel Defence Forces and then worked as an editor with the Jerusalem Post newspaper. Now he is in the MBA program at UBC. He refers to himself as a cultural Jew who is an atheist. “I feel a very strong connection to the Jewish people,” he says. “We are a nation and I feel solidarity with that nation. But in terms of the religious practice of the Jewish people, I feel completely disconnected. I don’t believe in any of it.” Dayan says the house is an ideal place for Jewish or Jewishly interested people to connect with the community in a non-threatening way. “Everyone’s welcome,” he says. “If I’m welcome, then everyone’s welcome.”

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News The Economist has released its annual ranking of the world’s most livable cities and although Vancouver hasn’t topped the list since 2011, the city is still considered one of the best places in the world in which to live. Vancouver takes the top spot in North America and came in third overall in the world. The city received an overall rating of 97.3 out of 100, getting full marks for healthcare, which looks at quality and availability of both private and public healthcare. The city also got top marks for education and culture and environment. The city’s lowest score, 92.9, was for infrastructure, which looks at the quality of road networks, public transport, energy provision, telecommunications and water provision, among other factors. Melbourne, Australia was found to be the world’s most livable city, which received full marks for infrastructure. Vienna in Austria came in second place. Two other Canadian cities, Toronto and Calgary, made the top 10, coming in fourth and sixth, respectively. The Economist’s rankings don’t take affordability into account directly. When considering this factor, calling Vancouver the most livable city in North America may leave some scratching their heads. For example, in Mercer’s annual cost of living survey released in July, Vancouver was ranked as the most expensive city in Canada in terms of the overall cost of getting by. As well, the sale price

of homes in Vancouver in July was over $824,000 — more than double the overall Canadian average.

Vancouver (still) has country’s highest gas prices

The average cost per litre for gasoline at gas pumps in Vancouver dipped in July, according to data released Aug. 19 by MJ Ervin & Associates, a division of the Kent Group. The average price per litre was $1.49 in July. This is a drop of almost four per cent from $1.52 in June. Vancouverites nonetheless still paid the most per litre in Canada, with the second-highest prices seen in Montreal at $1.42. More than a third of the price paid in Vancouver — $0.49 per litre — went to taxes.

City seeks input for investments

The City of Vancouver has launched the second phase of a public consultation process for proposed capital investments over the next four years. Input will be incorporated into the ﬁnal plan presented to council and the park board for consideration in September on what to spend on civic facilities and infrastructure. A draft of the 2015-2018 capital plan was presented to council in July, which included results from a ﬁrst phase of public consultation in May, and proposes the city spend a total of $1.085 billion. Residents can offer their own two cents online at vancouver.ca or at open houses held Aug. 28 between 3 and 7 p.m. at Hillcrest Community Centre and Sept. 4 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Central Library.

BUILDING THE CITY OF TODAY AND TOMORROW VANCOUVER’S CAPITAL PLAN All City services, from parks and community facilities to streets and sidewalks, need buildings and other infrastructure to support them. To keep everything running well and be responsive to future needs, we develop the Capital Plan. It’s our long-term ﬁnancial budget and strategy for areas such as affordable housing, childcare, transportation, community facilities, parks, streets, sewers and more. Come to an open house to learn about the draft Capital Plan for 2015 - 2018 and provide your feedback. It reﬂects what we’ve heard from the public over the past few months about the investment priorities that matter most to people.

Thursday, August 28, 2014 from 3 - 7 pm Hillcrest Community Centre 4575 Clancy Loranger Way, Lobby Thursday, September 4, 2014 from 11 am - 4 pm Vancouver Public Library 350 West Georgia, Concourse You can also share your views online at vancouver.ca/capitalplan until September 7, 2014.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/capitalplan or phone 3-1-1

Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency Call for Board of Directors Take on a leadership role in improving housing affordability by volunteering for the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA) Board of Directors. VAHA has been created by Vancouver City Council to enable 2,500 new affordable housing units to be built in the next seven years. The City is looking for volunteers from the general public to serve on the independent Board of Directors who will help ﬁnd ways to deliver more affordable housing options and address housing gaps in the city. We’re looking for board directors who would bring a strong understanding of affordable housing needs across Vancouver and have senior level executive experience in: real estate development, ﬁnance, legal, design and planning, rental housing and property management or affordable housing. All appointments will be made by City Council. The Board of Directors will be operationally independent of Council but aligned with Council priorities.

Learn more about the role of the VAHA Board of Directors and eligibility requirements, and apply for a position online at: vancouver.ca/vaha You must use the online form to apply. The application deadline is Monday, September 22, 2014 at 12 noon. FOR MORE INFORMATION: civicagenciesinfo@vancouver.ca or phone 3-1-1, TTY 7-1-1

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The iron safe, Sun Yat-sen and a

The Ing Suey Sun Tong Association purchased its headquarters on Hastings and Dunlevy thanks to donations from members in 1920. PHOTO CHRISTOPHER CHEUNG

Recovered documents shed light on the Ing Suey Sun family association, which marks a century helping immigrants in Vancouver

Christopher Cheung

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Almost every day at noon, Wu Xia Ru arrives by bus to open the headquarters and clubhouse of the Ing Suey Sun Tong Association at the corner of Hastings and Dunlevy. He is the association’s secretary, but he shakes off the title, performing all odd jobs that come up during the day. Members trickle in to chat, read the newspaper, play mahjong or ﬁx a cup of coffee. A Chinese ﬂorist occupies the street level with barred windows. An outer wall seals off the clubhouse yard and main entrance. Barbed wire sits on top of a shorter wall. Just in case of the Downtown Eastside’s unpredictability. Wu, 83, left Guangzhou, China 20 years ago and connected with the association because, very simply,

everybody with the last name shared by the club knew about it. Association branches existed in many major cities. The Ing surname has been anglicized with variants like Ang, Eng, Ng, Ong and Wu. For a hundred years through discrimination and immigration, the association helped members of the Ing clan adjust to their new lives in Canada. It wasn’t long before Wu noticed the safe. It was made of iron, 18 by 18 by 23 inches, with the fading name of the association printed in English. It sat conspicuously in the corner of the main ﬂoor’s hallway. “Every single person said there was nothing inside,” Wu told the Courier in Cantonese. Wu asked if there was money in the safe but members scoffed at him. They told him old Chinese immigrants always kept

their money in banks. Wu kept asking and was given a new answer. “They told me garbage was inside,” said Wu. “Useless stuff from old times. People they named who would know about it were all dead and presidents change very fast. I knew there had to be a key somewhere.” The safe’s contents were a mystery lost in the turnover of members and positions. And it taunted Wu from its corner over the years. He did not think the contents were garbage simply because they were old. Wu is passionate about immigrant history and collects artifacts as a hobby. Some he ﬁnds in Chinatown. Other sources he keeps to himself. “If I see it and can afford it, I always buy it,” said Wu. He is upset when old furniture from the clubhouse is thrown away. In 2007, he told a Chi-

natown locksmith about the safe. The locksmith quoted a price of $240 and required the safe to be brought down to his shop. Wu declined. Five years later, in June 2012, Wu unlocked the clubhouse at noon as usual. Members slowly appeared and Wu ranted about the safe. Then a member spoke up: Wu Yue Zhong, 82, a retired farmer from Taishan, China. He came to Vancouver in 1989 and visits the clubhouse to indulge in mahjong. Yue Zhong offered to open the safe. “Paying the locksmith over a hundred dollars?” he told the Courier in Cantonese. “Forget it.” Wu telephoned the association’s president immediately. The president left the decision to Wu because many trusted him. His faithful volunteer service did not go unnoticed; Wu was often mistaken for

the president himself. With the approval, Yue Zhong went to work on the safe. But he didn’t have a professional tool, just a crowbar. Others watched earnestly. A few wondered aloud if there really was money inside. Yue Zhong hacked at the lock violently. In 20 minutes, the safe opened. Inside were three wooden drawers ﬁlled with old papers. Someone told Wu that it was all trash and to throw it away. They brought out a long table into the centre of the clubhouse’s main meeting room to lay out J the contents. An ocean of documents, both English and Chinese. Words that had not been read for an unknown number of years. Yue Zhong did not think much of the episode. “Breaking [the safe] open was easy. Just don’t ask me to build one.”

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It took Wu over a week to go through the near hundred-year-old papers. Inside were copies of the immigrant newspaper, the Chinese Times, with one from 1914 that highlighted the founding of the association. There were also membership records with their hometowns in China. A receipt caught Wu’s eye, dated 1919 with Chinese characters in both traditional Han characters and older seal script. It was for a $5 donation, which Wu explained was worth half a year’s wages back then. The receipt was linked to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China who led the revolution against the imperial Qing dynasty. Canada’s Chee Kung Tong, an early name for the Chinese Freemasons, mortgaged their headquarters in Victoria for $12,000 to fund weapons for the revolution. Half the revolution’s ﬁnancing came from Canada. Eight years later, the Chee Kung Tong called for donations from the Chinese community. The $5 receipt Wu had discovered was a generous sum from a member of the Ing clan. To his knowledge, no other receipts have been found. “This is physical proof that Vancouver’s Chinese immigrants were big supporters of the revolutionary cause,” said Wu. Wu had opened the safe, but he wanted to open up the artifacts for the public to enjoy, along with others the association has kept over the years. The hundredth anniversary of the association in 2014 drew close, the perfect opportunity for an exhibition. Reception to the idea was lukewarm due to the work required, but member Henry Ng was quick to offer a thousand dollar donation to help. Ng, 85, connected with the association when he ﬁrst came to Canada. In January 1951, he arrived from Hong Kong after many months at sea with $20 and a suitcase. He was accompanied by his cousin, whose father had ties to the association and job opportunities. Ng slept in a bed in the clubhouse attic packed with over 20 men at a time.

Rent was $3 a month. Ng worked at everything from washing dishes to helping a tailor. He stayed there for over two years. He opened his shoe repair shop on Main Street in the ‘60s and the business still goes strong today. “The association is important to me because it’s where I came from,” he said in Cantonese. After Ng, others members joined in to support the exhibition. But Wu struggled to gather other immigration documents owned by members for the exhibit. Many were difﬁcult to convince and others refused. Wu “pleaded until [his] mouth was dry” and remembered staying awake all night waiting for an indecisive member’s approval to contribute family documents. In the end, 120 items were framed, with descriptions written in Chinese by Wu and with English translation. Some items came from Wu’s personal collection. The monthlong exhibition was held at the Chinese Cultural Centre mid-June to mid-July. “Many prominent Chinatown ﬁgures fought to join our ribbon cutting,” laughed Wu. Other Ing artifacts included rare maps, a large medicinal vial in which home remedies were brewed, letters from families in China detailing hardships and a receipt from Taishan when an Ing family sold their son in 1944. It read in Chinese, “We have had a hard time making a life for ourselves and not enough to raise our children. We decided to sell our second eldest son to survive.” Visitors included an embassy representative from Beijing, members of New York’s Ing association and tourists from as far as Mexico, India and the U.K. MPs, MLAs, provincial lieutenant governors, Mayor Gregor Robertson and Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued notes of congratulations. “People hadn’t seen an immigrant exhibition like this,” said Wu. “Everyone wanted to take us out for dinner!”

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The exhibit included pages from a 1926 booklet featuring the hundred last

names of Chinese families. It was used to teach Chinese children born in Vancouver about their culture. “The book tells you where you’re from, who are your prominent ancestors,” said Wu. “You learn your name, you learn your family’s stories.” One of Wu’s hopes for the anniversary was to do the same: stir interest among young ChineseCanadians about their heritage. Member Ng Shee Fung, 82, has seen the association age since he arrived in Vancouver in 1951. He did labour for the CPR, sending money home to his mother in Taishan. There was a bigger crowd back then. He remembered when members returned from work in the evenings and they would eat together. “Now, almost everyone here is in their 80s,” he said in Taishanese. Members are getting old. Wu was pleased to see many young bi- and trilingual volunteers at the exhibition. Wu brought his own grandchildren to see it. “My grandchildren didn’t even really know what the association is,” said Wu. “It’s good for the young people to have a glimpse of what their history is like.” For 17-year-old grandson Colin Wu, it was the ﬁrst time connecting with the association and the work of his grandfather. “It was very fascinating,” said Colin. “Pretty much everyone has to understand they have another culture.” It’s been a century of change for the association. Presidents come and go, immigration patterns shift and Chinatown is redeveloping. Wu is now in charge of a new safe, hidden away. But some things haven’t changed. Yue Zhong shufﬂes into the clubhouse to play mahjong, Chinese opera broadcasts nosily and Wu faithfully stays with the association. He knows members’ names, he knows their hometowns, he knows their stories. “You simply won’t have time to hear them all,” said Wu. “There are far too many to tell.” twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

2 1. Information regarding the safe and its key were likely lost due to the turnover of the association's presidents and the passing away of senior members. 2. The association's hardworking secretary, Wu Xu Ria, oversaw the creation of an exhibition of artifacts for the centennial anniversary.

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You’re going to Cuba? Great! Take food. That was the advice from friends when I told them about our upcoming trip. There was universal agreement that if we were going to survive for a whole week, my suitcase had to be half full of cereal, dried fruit and granola bars. Of course, this was a challenge in the making. Forget the groceries — I ramped up on research instead. We built a Cuban sandwich of our own – a spicy weekend in Havana stuffed between four days at a luxurious all inclusive in Varadero. Add a helping of

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the Sabado de la Rumba. Pulsating rhythms echo off the plaster walls as dancers dressed in brilliant yellow, red and blue dip and sway, pounding their bare feet on the cool limestone patio. Hips shaking, eyes flashing, skirts swirling in the hot afternoon air, the women’s ensemble dancers give way to solos by the men. In turn mystical, menacing and playful, they breathe life into the spirits of African dance. The first hour or so of the three hour non-stop performance is given over to traditional dances, the next hour features more contemporary but just as thrilling sets with some of the young members of the troupe showing incredible talent. For the last hour, the audience, who have been twitching in their seats in anticipation, are invited up. Dancers from five to eightyfive fill the dance floor, waving handkerchiefs or skirts, and surrender to the sounds of rumba. Right around the corner from El Gran Palenque, on the second floor of a former mansion, is Atelier, a paladar, or home based restaurant. The whitewashed walls are hung with contemporary art, the tables are set with individual sets of vintage china and glassware. The menu, which arrives in English, offers a wide selection of appetizers like piquillo peppers stuffed with tuna and asparagus spears with gouda. Main dishes cover the gamut from lamb, lobster, rabbit and chicken

to Cuban specialities such as Ropa Vieja, slow cooked shredded beef, at prices around $15 CAD. On Sunday, we set off on a tour of Old Havana with our guide Abel from the San Cristobal Travel Agency part of the Office of the Historian of the City, an institution that is working to restore the oldest part of Havana. During the walking tour we visited the four main squares; the Plaza Vieja, a gallery of architectural styles; the Plaza de Armas, the site of the first Castle of the Royal Guard and the Palace of the CaptainsGeneral, now a museum; the Square of St. Francis of Assisi with a tower view of the old town; and Cathedral Square, with its unique Cuban baroque style cathedral. Photographers will be lost for hours in the mix of old and new, crumbling and restored architecture, the colorful play of sunlight and shadows on the narrow streets and the fanciful ironwork. Museums, art galleries and souvenir shops line the streets as well as grand institutions like the Hotel Floridita, the home of the daiquiri, with its famous bronze statue of Ernest Hemingway at the bar. The ride back to Varadero seemed to drag us forward in time, away from the history and culture of La Habana Vieja and back into the present. In our quest for good food we found that Cuba is a country that also nourishes the soul and we were more than satisfied.

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As mentioned in the Courier earlier this week, TransLink and Telus have launched a pilot project offering riders free Wi-Fi on three Metro Vancouver buses. According to a Telus spokesperson, the project was inspired by a 2014 study by Chicago’s DePaul University that found at least 60 per cent of transit riders use their mobile devices en route. The rest eat obnoxiously stinky fast food, clip their toe nails or press up against you and smell like sour milk. Maybe that’s just been our experience. Besides, why would anyone want to make eye contact with a person, strike up a conversation, interact with an actual human being or look where they’re going when they can surf the web, check emails and evaluate Tinder prospects. Not that a lack of free Wi-Fi has ever hindered any of this antisocial behaviour. Free Wi-Fi just means more people who are hyper vigilante about their data plans will be logging onto the Internet friendly skies. And as we all know, those people are a blast to hang with. As for K&K, we’re going to take another route, so to speak, while taking public transit. Instead of free Wi-Fi, we’re going to offer fellow passengers free hugs, high-ﬁves on the house and plenty of talk, which we’ve heard is cheap. We’re going to announce upcoming transit stops in a loud, conﬁdent voice to alert those who are too preoccu-

pied with technology to pay attention. Sometimes we’ll even peer over people’s shoulders as they stare hypnotized at their handheld devices and inquire, “What are you looking at?” And if they don’t like it, or feel uncomfortable with strangers interacting with them and invading their psychological bubble, they can always text or email TransLink security. It won’t cost them a thing.

Summer of sue

You may have noticed in this issue of the Courier that we have not one, but two stories about residents’ associations suing the city. First off, there’s the Mount Pleasant Residents’ Association, or RAMP, which has ﬁled a court petition against the City of Vancouver “in a bid to quash the development and building permit granted to Rize Alliance properties for its Rize tower project, which it’s christened The Independent.” Surprisingly, the lawsuit has nothing to do with the criminally high levels of audacity it takes to name a 21-storey condo tower with 257 residential units The Independent. The reason for the lawsuit, according to RAMP, is that “plans for the project signiﬁcantly differ from what was approved by council more than two years ago following a lengthy public hearing.” The other lawsuit against the city involves the Community Association of New Yaletown, or CANY, suing the city over a development next to Emery Barnes Park. Needless to say it’s been the Summer of Lawsuits in Vancouver, which doesn’t

sound nearly as sexy as the Summer of Love or the Summer of Sam, if you ask us. Residential groups, upstart political parties and community centre associations have been a litigious bunch this year. Whether it accomplishes anything remains to be seen, but we’re certain the city can expect more lawsuits to come. Here’s what we’re anticipating: • A group of aggrieved Marpole residents — is there any other kind? — sue the city for granting a business licence to a soon-tobe-gyrating strip club, but mostly they’re just annoyed that the club won’t be called The Mar-Pole. • Mayor Gregor Robertson is taken to court for his questionable DJ skills, with rumours persisting that he in fact “hand synced” all of his DJ sets — and worse, played a Maroon 5 track. • The Association of Real Simple Eaters, or ARSE, takes the city to task for its restrictive rules regarding food trucks, namely preventing ARSE president Dusty Slats from operating his Hungry Hungry Honda, in which he sells blocks of discounted cheese from the back of his fragrant 1987 Honda Accord. • Canucks mascot Fin sues the park board for formally banning whales, dolphins and porpoises kept at the Vancouver Aquarium from having sex with each other. “Where am I supposed to go now to hook up?” Fin writes in his lawsuit. “The Roxy? Come on. I’m a lonely, single man in an orca costume for Pete’s sake.”

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After several years in a sugar-induced coma, we’re reviving our Exotic Junk Food column, which explores the more unusual treats, candy and snacks from around the world that can be found in Vancouver.

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Cost: $3.77 for a box of six cakes at No Frills. Place of origin: Montreal, Quebec. What is it: Basically the Canadian equivalent of a Hostess Ding Dong, Jos Louis are a beloved Quebecois junk food staple that goes back to 1932 when bakers Joseph-Arcade Vachon and his wife RoseAnna Giroux created the little chocolate-covered, cream-ﬁlled red velvet

Straight outta Quebec, Jos Louis mini cakes are usually enjoyed in La Belle Province with a Pepsi, a cigarette and a misguided sense of immortality. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

cakes and named them after their sons Joseph and Louis. Similar to how the McRib got its name. The Vachon Company (whose logo looks a lot like the Johnny Canuck logo) has gone through a number of

corporate masters since its inception, and Jos Louis’ packaging has modernized considerably, employing intentionally retro fonts and inexplicably a streetwise mascot who wears a sideways trucker hat,

sunglasses and a gold chain with a Tamagotchi for a medallion. Traditionally accompanied by a Pepsi, a cigarette and presumably a misguided sense of immortality, Jos Louis cakes have succumbed to at least one societal pressure. In 2006, Vachon reduced or eliminated trans fats in all its products. Zut alors! Verdict: Eerily spongy and overly sweet but without a discernible ﬂavour, these babies make Wagon Wheels seem artisanal in comparison. And like Jacques Parizeau, the sitcom La Petite Vie and the Montreal Canadiens’ 1998-99 season, Jos Louis’ appeal is difﬁcult to understand outside of Quebec. ••• If you have any exotic junk food suggestions, send them to mkissinger@vancourier.com. twitter.com/MidlifeMan1

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Frankly, I’m rooting for Daniel Radcliffe to someday shed his Harry Potter cloak and plant his foot firmly in adult roles. But his character in The F Word is so cloying, so gratingly ingratiating, that I wanted to blast him back to Hogwarts. The most likable character in Michael Dowse’s film is the city of Toronto, playing itself, as a bustling, 24/7, multicultural city of — surprisingly — romance. In this metropole are Chantry (Zoe Kazan), an animator, and English ex-pat Wallace (Radcliffe), who isn’t much of anything. He enjoys staring at the CN Tower from the rooftop of his sister’s house, where he sleeps in the attic bedroom. They meet cute at a party given by Wallace’s college roommate Allan (Adam Driver) and do some pseudo-insightful fridge-magnet poetry. Wallace has spent more than a year mourning his ex; Chantry is really clear about the fact that she has a serious boyfriend. Like, live together, five years serious. The two shake hands and decide to be friends, “like a business transaction,” notes Wallace, who spends the

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next few months trying to ﬁgure out how to shake the F-word and get Chantry into his attic bedroom. They eat at diners, they go dress shopping, and when Chantry’s boyfriend Ben (Rafe Spall) gets a promotion accompanied by a six-month stint in Dublin, they drink away their shared loneliness. And they talk. They talk a lot. For some reason a lot of the talk is poop-centric. But they only occasionally talk about stuff that matters, because “you never see Bruce Willis sharing his feelings,” according to Wallace. One thing is certain: Bruce Willis never cried this much. It’s clear that they totally get each other, though Chantry refuses to admit it. “Love is dirty, baby. Sometimes it’s downright ﬁlthy,” says Allan’s girlfriend Nicole (Vancouver’s Mackenzie Davis), who advocates laying all those pent-up feelings on the line. She and Allan are the wacky (and horny) extroverts to Chantry and Wallace’s more tentative

brand of courtship. Untimely love is not a new conceit and nothing particularly original is brought to the table here. Maybe it’s a generational romantic-comedy thing: Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan certainly did a lot of talking in When Harry Met Sally, but somehow that was less irritating. Sure, it took them over a decade to get together but at least decisions were made in the interim; poor Wallace has no such gumption. It’s not the supporting performances that are the problem: Spall as Ben is game enough to be pushed out of a window and take jalapeno juice in the eye; Driver owns the weird things said by his character. And though Kazan’s kewpie doll mug gets her through some saccharine scenes, Radcliffe is completely out of his element as a romantic lead. It’s difﬁcult to stay interested when our lead characters seem tired of their own game. The F-Word opens Friday at Fifth Avenue and Scotiabank.

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Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 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: The dialectic is an interesting concept and I believe a germane one when in discussion with another person who holds an opposing point of view. Initially and obviously the thesis, the point of view that you present is uniquely yours, your point of view. And the antithetical point of view, the opinion of the other, is by its very nature in opposition, reminding me of the aspect, the opposition, in astrology. You and the other person are in two polar realities, neither full understanding the other. As the arguments get expressed and slowly each individual becomes aware of the other person’s point of view, each becomes aware of either things in common with their arguments or the apparent differences.

Did I mention the sun’s ingress into Virgo and is transiting your solar house of employees and daily routine? The sun is the planetary ruler of Aries. It may come as a surprise, but Aries are destined to rise above the social strata they were born into, more so than any other zodiac sign, so keeping an eye on your planetary ruler is rule number one. Small pets and services you give and receive are highlighted to Sept. 23.

Secrets and mysteries are catching your attention, Libra. With the ingress of the sun into Virgo over the next month and Mercury in Virgo already there for another ten days, you discover an interesting detail about a foreigner in your environment, so keep this tidbit for the moment. This secret may involve publishing or spiritual practices.

Your home, family and speciﬁcally your father needs your attention, Sunday. With the moon the exalted ruler of Taurus, lunar cycles are extremely signiﬁcant for you. You have great instincts regarding people, especially the public. And with the sun's ingress into Virgo, traveling through your solar house of children, they certainly require your instinctual, emotional and physical attention through to Sept. 23.

The big news is your career luck, Scorpio. And for the next two weeks you could charm the most chilly, stiff person into just about anything. It may be true you have the goods on a person in a position of authority but your own love of privacy wouldn’t see you spilling the beans. But you do have chemistry with a certain boss, so it is a good thing you have a code regarding those you work with.

Your home, family and real estate issues continue to consume your attention for the next 10 days. With the ingress of the sun in Virgo for the next 30 days, men ﬁle into your home with saws and ladders in hand. The presence of all this testosterone in your home will prove helpful Monday as the new moon in Virgo puts muscle to the work you have been planning. Tradesmen, laborers are dependable and good at what they do, so stop fretting.

With the ingress of the sun into Virgo, the next month will be busy on the career front. An authority ﬁgure from a foreign land or with and an enormous amount of creative energy appears as if out from nowhere. Monday through Wednesday, the new moon renews your energy,verve and passion for your career, public persona, your position in society. And these combine with your philosophy, spiritual leanings.

Again with the predictions surrounding your ﬁnances, but seriously Cancer, with the following list of areas you could be raking in the dough: small pets, service to others, a daily routine planner, exercise instructor, chef, foreign travel adviser, astrologer,writer, poet. Need I say more? Monday through Wednesday your communications skills hit a new high.

There is so much action in the public section of your solar chart, where do I begin? Social networking, is ablaze. The thing about Capricorn is you simply cannot abide emotional outburst in public. It simply goes against your sensibilities. It is not that you cannot handle it, but it seems impolite, rude and not correct public behavior. But over the upcoming three weeks, a friend, an associate from work does exactly what has been described.

Your ruler the sun has made an ingress into the sign of Virgo. And this has landed in your solar house of personal assets, money, liquidity. Over the upcoming 30 days, look at your bank accounts and analyze your income. Borrowed money is a possibility if you are stuck with a renovation running over budget. But read the ﬁne print you may ﬁnd there is some confusing language.

Your love of knowledge is renowned. In fact there is some truth to saying you actually love to hoard knowledge. The thing is, when you present yourself as an authority in a given subject, people will gravitate to you. And the responsibility is to share what you know, Aquarius. Reread the blurb on the Dialect. Knowledge is ﬂuid and through the give and take of sharing you will always gain, more than you really give.

Your charisma, your energy are high and fully charged over the upcoming 30 days. And this applies to Virgo with ascendants and moon in Virgo as well. The power of the sun’s transit is remarkable. It is the most important luminary in the horoscope. And brings with it a litany of positive inﬂuences. Mercury in Virgo in your solar house of wit talent and skills sets off a chain reaction, of analysis, research and discovery for you.

Small animals, your adorable little furries are giving you so much pleasure of late. We know they are on a higher plane emotional than humans. They love unconditionally. They do not hold grudges. And their love for us is truly limitless. And dogs teach us how to play. They are not concerned with worry and they make our blood pressure drop. And who do you know can get you on the ground with a chewed up stuffed warthog in your mouth growling like a puppy?

Monday: Sean Connery (84). Tuesday: Branford Marsalis (54). Wednesday: Paul Reubens (62). Thursday: Shania Twain (49) Friday: Chris Hadﬁeld (55). Saturday: Warren Buffett (84). Sunday: Richard Gere (65)

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Skimboarder Dylan Maranda, 20, admired veterans like Vancouver's Tim Ladner, who pioneered many tricks at Spanish Banks. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

A lifestyle that skims off the top

Skimboarding embraces new generations and a friendly, DIY ethos Christopher Cheung

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Come fall, they’ll bring skimboards to the rainy pools of South Vancouver parking lots. In winter, they brave beaches with numb toes, their faces so cold they can barely talk. Like flooded baseball diamonds and downtown fountains, these are temporary fixes for skimboarders. But when summer comes around, warmer shores satisfy their patient craving and the sport comes fully alive. “It’s the best time of year,” said Tim Ladner. Ladner, 29, has seen skimboarding grow in Vancouver since he picked it up at 16. His family had moved closer to the beaches in Dunbar, and the boredom of watching others tan on the sand stirred him to find something better to do. Ladner, who grew up skateboarding, found skimboarding a natural fit. He invented tricks as he went, innovating not only on the water but also in the workshop where he made his own boards. Now a competitive pro rider, one of the humbler names on the circuit, Ladner is recognized the world over for his pioneer-

ing style. “I like it ’cause it’s a very simple, organic, minimalist kind of sport,” he said. “It’s creative and you can explore. All you need is a board.” In the late ’90s, the sport wasn’t popular. Ladner had no one to look up to, no YouTube videos to watch and no idea kids like him would one day be sponsored by skimboarding companies. Today he runs the summer skim camps at West Point Grey Academy and is a veteran of the Spanish Flyers Skim Club. He has placed in many competitions in Victoria, Parksville, Witty’s Lagoon and won the 2005 Dash Point Pro/ Am in Washington State. He hosts city events at the downtown skateboard plaza and in 2013, Ladner partnered with Skull Skates and released a line of three, handmade signature boards, Hatchet, Hammer and Shuvel. And he gets out on the water at least three times a week. “I always know the tide,” he said. Unlike Ladner’s exploratory introduction to the sport, 20-year-old Dylan Maranda did have a generation of skimmers to look up to and they had a

wealth of enviable tricks. “I remember landing a 540 [spin] was a pretty big thing, and when I was seeing Tim [Ladner] and these other guys try it, I thought it was absolutely insane,” said Maranda. Despite generational differences, the skimboarding community isn’t divided between elite pioneers and the curious testing their boards. “It’s not like territorial or anything,” said Ladner. “It’s pretty embracing. If you’re down there skimming on a nice day, there’s no reason why somebody would not want to skim with you.” Maranda grew up surfing with his family in Tofino and wanted to find a water board sport in Vancouver. When he was 10, his father suggested skimboarding, and they decided to make a board together. “It definitely wasn’t the way you should’ve made it,” said Maranda. “We got a piece of plywood and did the shape like a teardrop and sanded it down and tried to bend it, like putting power tools on it overnight.” Maranda had discovered the DIY culture of the sport. As a Grade 9

student, he remembered struggling to set up rails so he could work his tricks. Ladner and a friend walked over and helped with the construction, which is commonplace in a sport that invents obstacles using old pipes, boxes and benches. “None of it is storebought,” said Ladner “It’s whatever you bring down.” “Everybody kind of knows of each other and everybody kind of helps each other out,” said Maranda, who has taught skimboarding at Windsure Adventure Watersports. “People come from all kind of different backgrounds — doctors, lawyers — who skim all summer and everyone’s nice.”

It’s not just for the boys, either, said Ladner. “It’s not as male-dominated as skateboarding is. Deﬁnitely more female-inclusive.” Both travel to scout the world’s beaches but also visit excellent options close to home, including shorelines in White Rock, Squamish, Kelowna, Hornby Island and the Gulf Islands. The internet keeps riders connected, sharing news and video, and also notifying the community if someone needs a place to stay. “If I go to the States,” said Ladner, “I got a place to stay from here to California.” Ladner realized the niche sport he practised on Spanish Banks had a global reach when he was

Endless summer

The type of skimboarding popular in Vancouver is known as flatland, which is done on water that doesn't have breaking waves, and allows for tricks similar to skateboarding or snowboarding. Low tides with narrow, shallow pools make Spanish Banks perfect for flatland skimboarding. Vancouver beaches have contributed to the growth of the sport since they're accessible and are where many tricks were developed. Second, Third and Wreck beaches are also favourite spots. To flatland skim, you throw your board forward over the water where it thinly coats

in Thailand. He was 20 and hadn’t packed his skimboard, a decision he lamented once he saw the quality of the beaches but not one that stopped him from ﬁnding a way to the water. Ladner met some woodworkers, told them how to make a board out of what he believed was mahogany, and then hit the beach. “I took it everywhere I went,” he said. “I had fun everywhere. Every kid wanted to try. Every person I met along the way wanted to try. “It’s like the progression of any extreme sport,” Ladner added. “The ﬁrst generation pioneers away. Next one comes in and pushes it even further. Continued on next page

the sand, run after it, jump on and balance. Wave skimming is more popular in California, where boards meet breaking waves. Flatland skimboarding is popular in Washington, Utah, Sacramento and Ireland but especially Poland, where competitions are sponsored by Red Bull, Dakine and Oakley. "It's way bigger [in Poland] than it is here," said Maranda. "I think it's just because the country's so landlocked and they don't have a big water sport and the lakes aren't really big enough for boating and so skimming has just blown up there." — Christopher Cheung

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Tim Ladner and Dylan Maranda welcome bystanders to approach and ask to use their skimboards. "We almost always bring an extra," said Maranda. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Continued from previous page What I really want to see is kids pushing further than me, but it hasn’t happened yet. I guess I’m not that old yet.” Maranda, a decade younger than Ladner, is also passing on his skills in a sport he believes is “still very grassroots.” “It’s become its own pastime,” he said. “It gets to a certain point where

it all just blends into one big summer ’cause we’re doing it so much.” Summer may be drawing to an end but there are always fountains, parking lots (though the hard surfaces are not ideal for the board), or hitting the beaches regardless of dropping temperatures. “In the winter, I’ll throw a wetsuit on and try to get down to a beach and get some time

in,” said Maranda. The next time you see skimboarders and are curious to skim the water yourself, don’t be shy to approach them. “We don’t pretend we own the beach or anything like that,” said Maranda. “If anyone wants to say hi and ask questions, we almost always bring an extra board down.” twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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July home sales down but average selling price up in Greater Vancouver Emma Crawford Hampel

This made up more than 38 per cent of all sales across the province, which were 6,950 units for the month. This is a dip of 2.6 per cent compared with June. Nationally, the total number of units sold was 41,476 — an increase of 0.8 per cent.

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Home sales fell 7.8 per cent in July across Greater Vancouver, according to Canadian Real Estate Association statistics released Aug. 15, bringing the total sales to 2,672 for the month.

“On the surface, national sales activity in July was similar to what we saw in May and June,” said CREA president Beth Crosbie. “That said, July sales picked up in markets that struggled to gain traction in the spring, while activity eased slightly in some

of Canada’s largest urban markets.” The average sale price of homes in Vancouver was $824,352. This is a monthover-month increase of 2.6 per cent from $803,287 in June. The average price in British Columbia was $562,505, which is up 0.7 per cent compared with a

month ago. The average selling price for homes across Canada in June was $404,490. This means Vancouver homes sold for 99 per cent higher than the national average. Vancouver homes sold for 43 per cent higher than homes in Toronto, the city with the second-

highest sales price in July ($560,882). All ﬁgures are seasonally adjusted and are compiled from MLS systems from real estate boards and associations across Canada, including the British Columbia Real Estate Association. twitter.com/EmmaHampelBIV

Commercial construction outpaces home building

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$3.39 billion in the first six months of 2014 compared to $3.49 billion in the first six months of 2013, according to Statistics Canada. Non-residential permits were 21 per cent higher at $1 billion from $874 million last year. Residential permit values fell 11 per cent to $2.3 billion, down from $2.6 billion in the first half of last year. Commercial permits,

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of experience building the 911, Boxster, Cayenne and Panamera. In fact, from my own perspective, the Macan — and especially the Macan Turbo version — have more of the Porsche DNA than any other non-sports coupes Porsche has ever produced. Macan means “tiger” in Indonesian, and Porsche feels it embodies the spirit of a tiger through its speed, power, elegance and agility. Porsche hopes the Macan will appeal to a larger number of people and welcome a whole new set of customers to the brand. To start, the Macan will be available in two models,

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Porsche chief designer, Michael Mauer admits to feeling a lot of pressure while designing the Macan. “Since we are doing so many cars that don’t have any predecessor,” he said, “it is a little bit more challenging because you are always basically inventing the car.” The philosophy for the Macan was to make sure it was the sportiest in the compact SUV segment. Porsche ﬁrst focused on the proportions of the

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just 5.4 seconds, or 5.2 seconds with the optional Sport Chrono package. The Macan Turbo is the most powerful compact SUV on the market. It is also the ﬁrst Porsche vehicle to use a 3.6-litre twin turbo V6. This produces 400 hp and rockets to 100 km/h in just 4.8 seconds, or 4.6 seconds in Sport Chrono trim. The standard seven-speed PDK transmission is excellent. Whether it’s in auto mode or you’re changing gears using the steering wheel mounted paddles, shifts are quick and smooth. Continued on next page

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today’sdrive Continued from previous page It probably goes without saying but the Porsche Macan is not the best compact SUV in terms of off-road capabilities. To be fair, it is more than capable for most buyers. Regardless of the road condition, the steering is sharp, precise and has just the right amount of road feel — something other automakers have not been able to replicate when the foundation utilizes electric-powered steering feel. This means the Macan is genuinely fun to drive and toss around. In fact, the Macan delivers a level of performance well beyond what I’ve experienced with say, the Audi SQ5 or BMW X3. (We will see how it fares against the X4). The Macan is terrific on highway as well, with smooth, highly refined ride that masks its true potential. It is definitely designed to be driven on long journeys along the autobahns; I should know since I was driving the Macan in Germany during my evaluation periods. The Macan is easily manoeuvrable around the city, thanks to its tight turning radius allowing you to traverse around busy traffic and small parking spaces. The optional air suspension system allows the Macan to be comfortable and adaptable at the same time. In Comfort mode, the Macan handles bumps nicely, but at the push of a button, the suspension stiffens and it becomes sporty again. This also gives you the ability to raise and lower the ride height.

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There’s no denying the cabin of the Macan is a pure Porsche. It carries on the interior concept started on the Panamera. The cabin is beautiful, materials are robust, ﬁt and ﬁnish is exemplary. Even though modern Porsches use a bewildering number of buttons on the consol,

everything is within easy reach while driving. And while the Macan feels like a sports car on the move, you get many useful features not found in a typical sports car. Unlike some other compact SUVs, the Macan’s rear wheel arches are not too intrusive, allowing for easier entry and exit. Once inside, rear passengers have plenty of legroom, and headroom is adequate. However, models with the panoramic sunroof will have a little less rear headroom, making it tight for people over six-feet tall. Even though it shares a platform with the Audi Q5, its sloping roof means the Macan has slightly less total rear cargo space. But the rear seats are split 40/20/40 and lay ﬂat when folded to help with larger items.

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Conservative nearly to a fault, the Cruze has a design that’s aged well, unlike some of its flashier stablemates. While the front fascia is dominated by a large, bowtie-branded grille, it’s not shouty at all. Diesel-equipped Cruzes come in a single trim, very well-equipped, which means you get standard 17” alloys and a bit of brightwork around the windows. In a darker colour, as with this week’s tester, the most striking thing is just how big the small car has got. The Cruze is now essentially the same dimensions as the old Impala. There’s a slight flavour of Impala to the rear taillights as well, but if you find some of the other small car options in the market a bit on the outlandish side, the Cruze should fit nicely in your driveway. It’s the equivalent of a nice dark grey pair of trousers that go with everything.

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†0% APR purchase financing is available on all new 2014/2015 Mazda vehicles. Other terms available and vary by model. Based on a representative agreement using offered pricing of $24,490 (includes $500 Dealer Signing Bonus) for the 2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00) with a financed amount of $25,000, the cost of borrowing for a 48-month term is $0, monthly payment is $521, total finance obligation is $25,000. **Lease offers available on approved credit for new 2014 Mazda3 GX (D4XK64AA00)/2014 Mazda3 Sport GX (D5XK64AA00)/2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GX (G4XL65AA00) with a lease APR of 1.49%/1.49%/1.49%/0.49% and bi-weekly payments of $87/$92/$143/$143 for 48 months, the total lease obligation is $9,077/$9,602/$14,845/$14,893, including down payment of $0. CX-5 lease offer includes $500 dealer signing bonus. PPSA and first monthly payment due at lease inception. 20,000 km lease allowance per year, if exceeded, additional 8¢/km applies. 24,000 km leases available. Offered leasing available to retail customers only. Taxes extra. *The starting from price of $16,190/$17,190/$23,490/$26,290 for 2014 Mazda3 GX (D4XK64AA00)/2014 Mazda3 Sport GX (D5XK64AA00)/2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00)/2015 Mazda6 GX (G4XL65AA00) includes a cash discount of $1,500/$1,500/$2,000/$0. The selling price adjustment applies to the purchase and is deducted from the negotiated pre-tax price and cannot be combined with subsidized purchase financing or leasing rates. All prices include freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3, Mazda3 Sport, Mazda6/CX-5. ÐWith the lease or finance of a new 2015 CX-5, $500 Dealer Signing Bonus will be deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. ÐWith the cash purchase, lease or finance of a new 2015 CX-5, a $500 Conquest Bonus is available to customers who trade in or own a competitive vehicle. Offer only applies to the owner/lessor of the competitive model and is not transferable. Proof of ownership/lease required. $500 Conquest Bonus will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Offers valid August 1 – September 2, 2014. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. ‡Applies only to optional front crash prevention models. Applies only to vehicles built after October 2013. Offers valid August 1 – September 2, 2014, while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details.

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Organic Peaches from Covert Farms Oliver, BC

Organic Skinless Boneless Chicken Breasts

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2.98lb/ 6.57kg

2.48lb/ 5.47kg

Harvest Bacon

value pack, previously frozen

10.99

11.99lb/ 26.43kg

product of Canada

Organic Green Beans from Fraserland Farms Delta, BC

BC Grown Hot House Peppers Yellow, Orange or Red

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

Choices’ Own Gourmet Pork Sausages

Aspen Ridge Top Sirloin Steaks value pack

assorted varieties

9.99lb/ 22.02kg

7.99lb/ 17.61kg

product of Canada

500g

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Liberté Méditerranée Yogurt

Worrenberg Organic Apple Juice

assorted varieties

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38%

2.99

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500g

38%

product of Canada

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1.9L

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17%

29%

product of USA

assorted varieties

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33%

2.99

22%

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20%

3/7.98

235g - 430ml • product of Canada/USA

28%

Botanic Omegalicious Flavoured Fish Oils

assorted varieties

3/4.98

29.99 450ml

SAVE 2.49-

750ml

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26%

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4.29

275 - 450g product of Canada

Simply Pure Smooth Almond Butter

1.99

SAVE

26%

product of Canada

8.49

500g product of Canada

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21.99 360g

946ml product of Canada

Yves Veggie Wieners or Dogs

2 varieties

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Prairie Natural Organic Rice Protein Powder

assorted varieties

Dairyland Chocolate Milk

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31.99

90 capsules

product of Canada

SAVE 6.99

4 pack product of Canada

Gerolsteiner Sparkling Mineral Water

Old Dutch Potato Chips, Restaurante Tortilla Chips or Salsa

6.49-8.99

650-907g

Organic Meadow Ice Cream

assorted varieties

FROM

4 pack

+deposit +eco fee

New Roots Candida Stop

assorted varieties

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+deposit +eco fee product of Canada

Liberté Greek or Méditerranée Yogurt Multipack

1.79 single/275ml

SAVE 6.99 %

5.49

Nature’s Path Organic Cereal Eco Pacs

Pound Cakes assorted varieties

assorted varieties

5.49-5.99

12.99

Raw Shelled Redskin Peanuts

20% off regular retail price

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Family Size Quiche

BULK

300-454g

Brownies assorted varieties

2.49-3.99

100-200g

Organic Country French Bread

Brown Rice Bread

assorted varieties

Choices’ Own Salads: Organic Tofu & Sesame Ginger or Broccoli Cranberry

white or 60% whole wheat

regular or sandwich size

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