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Parents want kids in school

DPAC calls for binding arbitration if deadline missed

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If a negotiated or a mediated settlement can’t be reached to put public school children back in classrooms Sept. 2, the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council wants binding arbitration. Just as Education Minister Peter Fassbender is quoted as saying in a statement emailed Wednesday afternoon, DPAC wants the lockout of teachers lifted, the full-scale teachers’ strike suspended and classes to start on time. “Parents want students in school while a settlement is negotiated,” DPAC’s new board chair Melanie Antweiler said in a press release issued by the district council Wednesday morning. “It is time for the

government to come to the bargaining table with long-term, sustainable funding for public education.” Both Fassbender and Antweiler say they don’t want teachers legislated back to work. “My oldest son is going into Grade 3... Kindergarten, there was a strike. Grade 2 ended with a strike. Grade 3 is starting with it,” Antweiler told the Courier. “I don’t want parents to have to ﬁght this. I don’t want our kids [to suffer.] And when it’s been legislated back, it never seems to address the issues. It’s a Band-Aid and I’d like to see it resolved.” Once kids are in classes, DPAC wants to ensure all Vancouver public schools can equitably meet the needs of all students related to programming, safety,

graduation, racism and bullying. “Last year when the strings and band program was under threat… everybody spoke passionately about saving it at their school,” Antweiler said. “But there are a lot of schools that don’t have it… When it comes to the basics, and I consider music to be a basic, that should be available to all children.” Of Vancouver’s 92 elementary schools and annexes, 52 had a band or strings program last year. Parents brainstormed about how they could push for long-term, sustainable funding for schools at the annual DPAC retreat, Aug. 25. “Going through the budget cycle last year was depressing and eye-opening,” Antweiler said.

She says the province’s requirement for school boards to deliver a balanced budget means boards must plan for worst case scenarios. If nothing unexpected and costly happens, boards have money left over. “Which is an incentive for the ministry to say you don’t need that money, let’s take a little bit more,” Antweiler said. “There’s not much left to cut if [the VSB] haven’t already cut into the bone. We’d like to point out that education is not a cost, it’s an investment.” District parent representatives are just as concerned about municipal issues as they are provincial. DPAC plans to host a school board trustee candidates’ forum, potentially on Oct. 23. Continued on page 6

BACK TO THE GARDEN Arbutus Corridor gardener Kate Wilczak felt hopeless before a temporary reprieve from Canadian Pacific halted clearing work along the West Side rail route. Gardeners along the corridor are organizing while CP and the city hold closed door negotiations on the future of the land. See related story on page 3. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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George Pinch picks dahlias at his community garden along East Boulevard at Maple Street. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

be destroyed by the end of the week. Wilczak said gardeners aren’t denying the land belongs to CP but questions if their evictions are necessary given the last train on the route ran in 2001. Since Marpole gardens and structures on the corridor were ﬁrst ripped out Aug. 14 by CP, gardeners along the route have penned a letter asking the city to intervene “by any legal means

available, such as a stay or a legal suit, to halt the progress of CP’s bulldozers.” Wilczak added Thursday’s meeting was to include brainstorming more political and legal actions, plus building an argument against CP’s plan to spray herbicides once it cleared the land. “CP has conﬁrmed several times that they’re going to be spray herbicides as soon as they clear the land,”

she said. “We’re going to lose the 10 metres from the track, and once they spray their herbicides on those 10 metres, the drift will destroy the rest of our gardens and our soil health is ruined for maybe 10 years.” CP spokeswoman Breanne Feigel cited an August letter last week to residents along Arbutus Corridor that the herbicides are “to prevent the re-growth of more stubborn weeds on our right

Boulevard where large plots and other structures like a tool shed could be ripped out. “They have a large vehicle that’s gone up and down the track two or three times to clear some rocks. They’re using their across and other equipment to remove the bushes and when they removed the bushes and the vegetation, there’s nothing left.” Interview requests with both the city and CP on the details of their negotiations were denied with both saying the discussions are “conﬁdential.” However, city staff have been in contact with Wilczak and the gardeners this week revealing they are negotiating the price of the land along the corridor. Based on city evaluations, the land is worth $20 million, which is $80 million short of CP’s $100 million asking price. In late July, CP told residents they had to remove “encroachments” such as sheds, structures, storage containers and gardens on CP property by July 31.

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Despite a temporary reprieve in the clearing of gardens along the Arbutus Corridor, gardeners along the route are hoping they can stop further activity by Canadian Paciﬁc bulldozers. CP announced Wednesday it will stop clearing gardens and structures off its West Side rail route for the next two to three weeks while negotiations with the city on “the future of the Arbutus Corridor” are underway. Garden activists planned a meeting Thursday night at the Kitsilano Community Centre and invited all gardeners with plots in Kitsilano, Marpole, Kerrisdale and Arbutus along the corridor to attend. The meeting was held after the Courier’s print deadline. Victory Gardens organizer Kate Wilczak was “hopeless” before the temporary reprieve fearing her garden along East Boulevard in Kerrisdale could

of way… In Canada, CP uses herbicides approved by the Pest Management Regulatory Agency. The list of herbicides which may be used in B.C. is outlined in our approved Integrated Vegetation Management Plan.” Before the announcement of the reprieve, gardeners further north of the Arbutus Corridor have noticed tractors inching closer to Arbutus Victory Gardens sandwiched between West 50th and 57th Avenues on the line. “The last few days, CP has been working their way up the line,” said Victory Gardens’ patch owner Paul Kendal who has already moved some of his herbs, raspberries and arugula off CP land. “They’ve not been damaging gardens but they’ve been working their way up towards the gardens through the blackberries and other vegetation up on the side of the tracks.” Kendal added CP has skipped a large section of the Kerrisdale community garden on 68th and East

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CLASS NOTES Cheryl Rossi

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Whether public schools will be in session Tuesday, Sept. 2, remains to be seen. Veteran mediator Vince Ready agreed to meet with B.C. Teachers’ Federation President Jim Iker and Peter Cameron, chief negotiator for the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association, Thursday afternoon, after the Courier’s press deadline. Education Minister Peter Fassbender met with Iker and Cameron Wednesday afternoon and asked them to set aside class size and composition issues that will be considered by the Court of Appeal and focus on wages and other points of contention that could be mediated and settled immediately. He asked both parties to suspend all lockout and strike activities for two weeks “when Mr. Ready starts mediation,” according to a statement released by

the Ministry of Education. In the meantime, community centres and other organizations that serve children and families are scrambling to organize day camps. The Courier listed options in its Aug. 27 issue. Additional possibilities include:

Neighbourhood houses and family centres

The B.C. Association of Family Resource Programs lists options on its website. For more information, see frpbc.ca, click on “directory,” “Vancouver Coastal” and then “Vancouver” to learn about drop-ins at neighbourhood houses and family centres.

Community centres

Twelve community centres plan to offer day camps while schools are closed because of labour disruption. They include Britannia, Champlain, Coal Harbour, Kensington, Kerrisdale, Killarney, Marpole-Oakridge, Ray-Cam, Roundhouse,

Strathcona, Trout Lake and West Point Grey. Prices vary. Some camps may already be full. To register visit vancouver.ca and click on “search.” For additional information, contact your local community centre or phone 311. Coal Harbour and West End community centres will register ﬁve- to 12-year-olds for Kids Camps starting Friday at 9 a.m. Parents can phone Coal Harbour at 604-718-8222 or the West End Community Centre at 604-257-8333 with their credit card in hand or register in person. Camps are planned for Sept. 2 to 18. Children are to be registered one day at a time, with 30 spots at each of the community centres available, $30 a space. The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre has planned two weeks of camps that are already full. Phercy Nacario, building supervisor, said more spaces could be made available if school closures continue and the centre can secure additional camp supervisors, who are

typically university students that have returned to school. To join a waitlist, phone 604-713-1800 and dial extension 2. The camps serve children aged six to 13 and run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. They cost $125 for a ﬁve-day week. After-camp care runs from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and costs $43 for a ﬁve-day week.

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The Vancouver Maritime Museum is booking day camps organized by other groups. See vancouvermaritimemuseum.com. The Museum of Vancouver is operating as usual from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It provides an activity sheet to kids for its historical galleries. Admission for youth aged ﬁve to 18 is $8. See museumofvancouver.ca. The Vancouver Art Gallery hasn’t planned additional programming for the coming week but group tours can be booked. See vanartgallery.bc.ca. Visit vancourier.com for a longer list of options. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Shortly after Georgia Hunter’s mother passed away, she spent $200 on a Christmas gift for her father to have Teresa Waclawik paint her parents’ faces on a Cambie Village mural. The mural was torn down by new owners this year. The Hunter family’s faces was two parts of the 261 participants along with 15 dogs and six cats who were in Waclawik’s 2005 fundraising project for Covenant House titled The Face of Vancouver. It took her more than three years to complete the large mural on the corner of Cambie Street and West 18th Avenue. Each face cost patrons $100, and donations raised for Covenant House totalled $13,000. Since JJ Bean moved into the corner location and started renovations last week, the colourful mural was dismantled in sections and discarded. Company owner John Neate says the coffee house received permission from the city to put

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Exodus wrote an email to JJ Bean expressing concern over the dismantling after she learned JJ Bean was moving in. “This is very special, as it represents so many ‘personal faces’ of our district residents! … please seriously consider the impact it will have on your business, and the lives of our cherished sacred space long before

“We had planned on keeping the mural as much as we could, and when we opened up the wall, we discovered the whole bottom half of the wall was rotted.” – John Neate … I feel sorry for the artist…” Neate added he was upset with recent media coverage painting JJ Bean as the “bad guy.” The mural has been a ﬁxture in the Cambie Village beloved by many including Sahara Exodus who watched Waclawik work on it over the years and befriended the artist.

entering it.” Exodus told the Courier she sympathizes with JJ Bean but wished the owners would have researched the mural’s history before removing it. Since news of the removal spread, Waclawik has received an outpouring of messages from community members saddened to see

the mural go. “People took ownership of the wall, because it was their wall. They paid to be on it,” said Waclawik. Hunter was especially upset over the lack of notice about the dismantling. She said the owners didn’t put enough effort in to preserve the mural. “We all know that if people want to save something, it can be saved even if it means investment of time and money and ... as far as I know, no one who had their face on the wall was informed of this.” Iris Ivanoff, president of Cambie Village BIA, says the issue is strictly between the owner and the City of Vancouver, and that JJ Bean has a right to run its business as it sees ﬁt. Ivanoff has heard some community members supporting keeping the mural intact while others thought the wall was dilapidated. Based on JJ Bean’s “core values” of community building, Neate says JJ Bean plans to keep the mural’s memory alive by displaying a photograph of it inside the shop. twitter.com/jennypengnow

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New chair seeks wider influence Continued from page 1 Parent representatives are also interested in the search for a new Vancouver School Board superintendent with Steve Cardwell departing at the end of December to become professor of teaching and director of executive educational leadership at the University of B.C. Antweiler welcomes parents to attend DPAC meetings. She hopes parents will share their views on school issues on the Vancouver DPAC Facebook page and on Twitter @VanDPAC. DPAC’s website, vancouverdpac. org, is being updated and parents can sign up for a newsletter. Antweiler wants parents to see DPAC as a resource with writing PAC constitutions or coordinating to co-host and share the cost of featuring a speaker at more than one school. DPAC is also considering holding information sessions for families with children entering kindergarten. “My youngest child’s supposed to start kindergarten this year. We’ve got 13 years ahead of us as a fam-

DPAC's new board chair Melanie Antweiler says education is an investment. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

ily and I can’t believe this [labour unrest] has already been going on for 12 years, or more,” she said. “And I want to make a difference where I can.” Antweiler questioned the Vancouver School Board’s consultations for naming the new Norma Rose Point school in 2013. She says that concern was speciﬁc to

the VSB’s naming process. She believes the board did a “really good job” consulting the community about its revised sexual orientation and gender identities policy. “If they’re opening the new school for the International Village catchment, I hope they’ve learned from the experience,” she said. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Aquarium taking park board to court Andrew Fleming

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The Vancouver Aquarium is taking the city’s park board to court over new four bylaw resolutions that could put an end to whale and dolphin displays at the Stanley Park tourist attraction. The Vision Vancouver-dominated board voted unanimously last month to ban the aquarium from breeding captive whales and dolphins unless an endangered species is involved. Neither NPA commissioners were present for the vote. Aquarium president and CEO John Nightingale said a judicial review is necessary because the resolutions are outside the jurisdiction of the park board, who control the facility. “The ﬁling asks that the validity of the resolutions be reviewed in light of the park board’s legal authority as a municipal organization,” said Nightingale.

“The resolutions raise signiﬁcant concerns given the risks and impractical nature of proposed changes to the park bylaw under which cetaceans can be acquired and kept in Vancouver’s parks.” Nightingale went on to say that with overﬁshing and marine pollution becoming increasingly problematic, human intervention is required. “Now is not the time to be doing less to protect and preserve our ocean environments,” he said. Vision park board commissioner Aaron Jasper told the Courier Thursday morning the park board “vigorously” stands by its decision. “We feel we were very fair and transparent in dealing with this complex issue,” said Jasper, who is not seeking re-election in the Nov. 15 municipal election. “We feel that the decision to prevent or to ban the breeding of cetaceans in

the aquarium struck the right balance between supporting the good work the aquarium does in terms of research and education, but also reﬂecting the changing attitudes amongst the public in that many people feel that keeping cetaceans in captivity is just wrong.” While both COPE and Green Party park board candidates are calling for a public referendum on continuing to keep cetaceans at the aquarium, Jasper said Vision Vancouver does not support the idea. “That would be making this issue just a political football. Really the goal here is to do what’s best in terms of animal welfare.” Currently, the aquarium cares for rescued animals that can’t care for themselves in the ocean or were born in captivity, and is currently home to two dolphins, two porpoises and two beluga whales. — With ﬁles from Jen St. Denis

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On Sept. 11, the Peace Arch border crossing in White Rock will transform itself from a dividing line between two nations into a symbol of what unites them. “We’re celebrating those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and the fact we’re truly children of the common mother; though we are separate countries, that’s just an imaginary line going through the 49th parallel,” said Howard Blank, the Canadian chair of the 9-11 Memorial Ride and Service. Hundreds of emergency services and military personnel from both sides of the border will converge at the Peace Arch in a motorcade of motorcycles, fire trucks, police cars and ambulances. Among them will be five first responders who worked at Ground Zero after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. They’ve been invited to attend the event to bring home the message that their brethren on the other side

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Opinion Living on the margins, Nothing ‘great’ about the performing at the Fringe First World War Trish Kelly Guest columnist trishkellyc@gmail.com In the weeks since I withdrew my candidacy for park board, many people have contacted me. I’ve received words of encouragement, a vintage self-help book about the Age of Aquarius and a note of condolence from the Vancouver Fringe Festival, which celebrates its 30th year this September. The Fringe staff wanted to say how sorry they were that a taped monologue from my own Fringe play I staged in 1999 had somehow called in to question my fitness for office. They were shocked and wanted to know what they could do to help. My play The Make Out Club, ran at the Fringe 15 years ago when the festival lived mostly in makeshift theatre spaces on Commercial Drive. I was a theatre student with a quirky script idea. The cost to apply was nominal, under $100, something I could afford. Entries were placed in a hat and selected without a jury or censor. I felt lucky to win. The premise of my show was very postmodern. The lead character, Trish Kelly, 50 years old and the owner of a sexy cabaret, was looking back on the pivotal events in her life. I played myself at 22 and my mother performed the opening prologue as me at 50. The play did well. We were sold out or almost sold out for the entire run, and the Province newspaper gave us a good review. Looking back at the program guide, I’m not sure why anyone chose my play from the more than 100 productions listed. The description was very Fringe, but also cryptic: “This isn’t my real life, this is my future. This is what happens when you try so hard to be not like them.” Well, that was what being 20 years old felt like. I can guess the title and the words “Sexy Drama” under the genre heading appealed to some. Audience members did hear about things like masturbation and desire, but they also heard the fears of a young person who didn’t want to make the mistakes of her parents or find herself alone in the world. Mentioning sex wasn’t a trick to pull in audience members. Even at that young age, I already believed that talking about sexual agency and desire were normal parts of everyday life, just like owning up to loneliness. I convinced my mother to play me — that was a coup. My mother had experienced profound hearing loss in her 40s,

Life has not developed for me as the play imagined it might, and that’s probably a good thing. which meant she could not hear the audience’s response to her jokes or my directions. Also, given the play’s setting of a sex positive cabaret, my mother was costumed in a bustier, tutu and Doc Martens. She was, may she rest in peace, a good sport, and a pretty funny actor, too. Life has not developed for me as the play imagined it might, and that’s probably a good thing. In 1999, I couldn’t have guessed how development pressures would make Vancouver so difficult for artists. Venues of the size I performed in are long gone, and many artists have left or will soon leave for more affordable jurisdictions. The Fringe Festival has definitely become more sophisticated. It still offers the un-juried lottery model that provides a level playing field to established and young artists, but the festival now resides on Granville Island and includes its own bar with musical acts and a new dramatic works series that features productions of published plays instead of the “scratch” works that have been the festival’s mainstay. Scanning the program guide, I don’t think we need to worry about the Fringe Festival getting too highbrow. Much of the content describes itself as weird, poetic and naughty and there are adequate warnings of profanity and nudity. You will still find theatre happening in surprising places that can’t be called proper theatres. The Fringe Festival has asked me to perform at their cabaret called the Fringe Social. I’m writing something new for that night, which I’ll endeavour to make funny and poignant and all the other good things about Fringe material. I have to thank the Fringe for once again including my voice and my hope. I hope we will all still be around in 2026 when I actually turn 50, not just because I look forward to a long life, but because we will always need festivals like the Fringe that make space for the brave young voices on the margins. twitter.com/trishkellyc

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The number of people who had their faces included on mural outside a Cambie Village building that has been removed due to renovations after JJ Bean moved in.

In weeks, the length of time CP says it is willing to halt the removal of community garden plots along the Arbutus Corridor due to new negotiations with the city.

In years, the anniversary celebrated this year by the annual Vancouver Fringe Festival, which begins again Sept. 4.

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Periodical publishers have a hankering for anniversaries. From Darwin’s 200th birthday to the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the celebratory stuff makes for cheap content filler. But the continuing media commemorations of the First World War seem like a rebranding of humanity’s first shot at mass suicide. A Google News search for articles containing “World War 1” and “commemorate” yields 20,500 results. According to my dictionary, the verb commemorate means to “celebrate, pay tribute to, pay homage to, honour, salute, toast; remember, recognize, acknowledge, observe, mark.” “Commemorate” conjures up late-night informercials and magazine advertisements pitching commemorative plates, coins, or stamps; small things intended to honour iconic events or people and solidify historical memory into household keepsakes. From 1914 to 1918, a trench-based, pan-European meatgrinder turned millions of young men into fertilizer while enriching bankers, speculators and industrialists on both sides of the Atlantic. In marking the centenary of the 1914-1918 conflict, big media outlets are not honouring its end. They are honouring its beginning. And there are some other interesting word choices involved. “The Great War” was the favoured term for the First World War up until the outbreak of the second one. That’s when we began, optimistically enough, to number global conflagrations. The term is of Canadian vintage, with the first reference in an October 1914 edition of Maclean’s magazine. “This is the Great War. It names itself,” a small note on page 53 proclaimed. Katherine Martin, head of Oxford’s U.S. dictionaries program, told Maclean’s magazine the unsigned reference is “the earliest found that is clearly intended to be a name for the war, rather than a description of it. The author had posterity in mind.” Were he still around, the anonymous author would surely be pleased with my search index spelunking. A Google News search of “the Great War” gave 58,300 entries. In contrast, a Google News search of articles containing “World War I” gave a mere 35,300 results. A search through the Canadian Newstand database of 300 Canadian newspapers indicates “the Great War” has appeared in

The number of days remaining before B.C. public schools are scheduled to reopen Sept. 2 for the fall semester.

print three times more than “World War 1” since April of this year. This former term was once common to English language broadsheets and broadcasts of the Downton Abbey era — and it’s back, big time. Perhaps the term’s resurrection represents a “random walk” in our lingo, a stylistic meme hopping across newsrooms that’s of no greater significance than “Snoop Dogg” rebranding himself as “Snoop Lion.” Or perhaps it represents a shift in the collective consciousness, with multiple generations of Canadians blissfully ignorant of the firsthand horror of war (Remember the Harper government’s centenary campaign glorifying the War of 1812 in print and broadcast advertisements?) Consider the connotations of the adjective “great” — from exceptional and extraordinary, to large and extensive, to first-rate and matchless, to magnificent and awe-inspiring. Then consider the massive, decade-long policy push from Washington to foment regime change in multiple nations around the world, aided and abetted by spin from embedded media outlets. The retrograde shift from “World War I” to “Great War” seems a natural fit with the times. Canadian military historian Gwynne Dyer rejects the euphemisms so persistently embroidered around mass killing. “We have to believe that Flanders Field and so on was a worthwhile sacrifice, because if it wasn’t, what did we do to those young men?” he noted in a recent CBC Radio interview. “All of that poetic vocabulary — ‘warriors fall in combat’ — no, I’m sorry, young men die.” (Not incidentally, the Second World War is also known as “The Good War.”) War is hell, whether it’s conducted by bayonet or ballistic missile, and massive public relations campaigns are always required to sell foreign entanglements to the citizenry. In large part because of the Bush/ Cheney wars that Obama inherited (and in some places enhanced), the number of global refugees and displaced persons — 50 million — is at the highest since the Second World War. It’s unlikely anyone on the receiving end of this “freedom-spreading” would refer to any of it as “great.” This uncomfortable fact, along with the recent resurrection of the Cold War, makes the continuing commemorative pieces on the “Great War” feel like a nauseating ride on the Cognitive Dissonance Tilt-o-Whirl. If you’re having a hard time keeping your lunch down, welcome to the club. geoffolson.com

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Team Canada defeats Russia at home

Aug. 29, 1996: Team Canada beat Russia 5-3 at General Motors Place in the first game of the inaugural World Cup of Hockey tournament. The win was controversial due to Canadian referees disallowing two Russian goals and handing out several questionable penalties. Former Vancouver Canucks captain Trevor Linden notched an assist on a goal by Vincent Damphousse. Team Russia included Canucks star forward Alexander Mogilny but had to make do without the services of teammate Pavel Bure after he was injured in an exhibition game. Canada advanced to the final round but lost the best-of-three series to Team U.S.A., largely due to stellar goaltending from tournament MVP Mike Richter.

First black woman elected to legislature

Aug. 30, 1972: NDP politician Rosemary Brown is elected in the Vancouver-Burrard riding and makes history as the first black woman to hold office at the provincial level in Canada. Two years later,, she challenged Ed Broadbent for the leadership of the federal New Democrats and came in a close second. The Jamaican-born mother of three returned to Victoria after being re-elected in Burnaby-Edmonds, a seat she held until she left politics in 1986 to teach womens' studies at Simon Fraser University. An officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of British Columbia, Brown died in 2003 at the age of 72. ADVERTISING

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To the editor: Re: “BCTF calls out B.C. education minister for talking to media,” online only. I have tried, without any success, to speak with my MLA for VancouverFraserview regarding the current dispute between the government and teachers. Admittedly, I am a teacher and no expert on Suzanne Anton, my MLA since moving into the riding in June 2014. I know she is the current Justice Minister and ﬁled the appeal for government against the BCTF. Is that why she won’t respond to me or meet with me? I have left three voice mails with her constituency ofﬁce, sent a post card and emailed numerous times. Granted, I was invited to Ms. Anton’s picnic with a few hundred of her closest Liberal friends — not really conducive to solving the current strike! Maybe I am spoiled, having left Spencer Chandra Herbert’s West End riding and always getting a response when I needed one. Or is this a failure of our democracy — aren’t cabinet ministers our representatives too? Should they not be accountable to their constituents? Where is the government leadership while public education collapses on itself? Surely we deserve more, as voters and taxpayers. Hey Suzanne, I can’t meet you, you have my number, so call me. Maybe? James Sanyshyn, Vancouver

Rudeness the bigger problem

To the editor: Re: “Survivalist cycling vs. transit harassment,” Aug. 22. I am responding to a recent article by Trish Kelly about getting around in the city. She describes experiencing harassment from men and also has witnessed harassment towards other women on public transit. I am a frequent rider of the Canada Line and the No. 49 bus, occasionally am on the SkyTrain but I have never experienced this. What I have experienced is extreme rudeness on the part of both sexes. Last week a woman physically pushed several other women on the escalator at the City Centre station. She was in such a hurry to get to whatever destination that she felt compelled to race past the other passengers. A frequent situation that I also ﬁnd annoying is when people sit on the outside seats on transit, meaning that you have to risk life and limb by climbing over them to get to the window seats. The rationale for this escapes me and I can only speculate that they are either a) claustrophobic, b) afraid of missing their stop or c) unwiling to share with others because of fear of contamination. Probably because I am older than Trish, I have not been harassed but will keep my eyes and ears open. Barbara Bawlf, Vancouver

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COURIER STORY: “Johl defeats ousters in court,” Aug. 27. Allthat: Oh, this is getting GOOD! Maybe the city manager will be called to next court meeting? As for Charko, what goes around, comes around. Lucky Vision to now have him in their corner. COURIER STORY: “Options for parents as schools shut,” Aug. 27. Martha Perkins: Remember when the only worry about going back to school was what to wear? KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Summer of sue,” Aug. 22. Elizabeth Fischer: Two resident associations suing the city for, essentially, having been played for fools is serious. The people who live in those neighbourhoods are really angry. But whoever wrote this article in the Courier is an idiot. COURIER STORY: “BCTF calls out B.C. education minister for talking to media,” online only. Guest: I’d like to suggest that to resolve the current teachers strike that all parents/ guardians/caregivers stand united and all of us refuse to go back to work starting on Sept. 5 until the teachers issue is resolved. I would rather use up sick days or not get paid and stay home with my children, than try to find them daycare space that isn’t available and that I can’t afford anyway. I know the current government is hoping the parents will be put in a position to call the government to legislate the teachers back to work. But I will be working to send out the message that all unions, and working parents all go on strike and bring the B.C. economy to a screeching halt. We could make this go viral and claim Sept. 5 as “Parents Protest” day. Settle this already! TheJourneyGenie: It doesn’t matter if Fass talked about the details of negotiations or not. The minute he appeared in the media, whether it was TV, radio or endorsing the creation of that obscenely expensive website, he violated the SPIRIT of the media blackout agreement. That alone shows his disdain for the agreement and for the process as a whole. He has no self-control and likes to hear himself talk. HE’S the one who should shut his yap.

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Pastor Rich Carruthers has been on the UBC campus for 12 years as a chaplain. "The beginning of the school year is the most intensive time," he says. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

UBC chaplains add spirit to academia New school year means thousands of students seeking connections PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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Tens of thousands of university students will arrive at UBC over the weekend, preparing for the start of the academic year on Tuesday. Many will be away from home for the first time and struggling to find their place among throngs of other students and boundless opportunities for extracurricular involvement. When students peruse their choices at the firstday-back orientation festival, Imagine UBC, one of the tables will invite them to explore their spiritual side. The UBC chaplains, (officially, the University Multi-Faith Chaplains’ Association at UBC) will feature the variety of options for students to meet other people of similar theological orientation — or to explore something completely new.

Pastor Rich Carruthers has been on the UBC campus for 12 years as a chaplain afﬁliated with the Canadian National Baptist Convention. With his colleagues across the religious spectrum, he will be on hand Tuesday to let students know that there are study sessions, worship groups, social activities and fellowship opportunities for everyone who is interested. And that the chaplains are always available to discuss religion and, well, anything. “The beginning of the school year is the most intensive time,” says Carruthers. “Getting to know new people, make new connections, reconnecting with people from past years. It’s exciting… There are usually several thousand students who are coming looking for a place to ﬁt in on campus and UBC is a behemoth of a campus.” Chaplains play multiple roles, he says. Sometimes students approach them

for academic work, like pointing them in the right direction for an essay on a religious topic. They also coordinate activities for students in their own faith. And they are often called upon to listen and help when a student is in crisis. In addition to Imagine UBC, chaplains spread the word at a variety of events, including those specifically for international students, for first years and for transfer students. As UBC and other postsecondary institutions have been recruiting madly worldwide, the number of international students has spiked and these students, depending on their place of origin, may be more likely to come from a religious background than the average North American student. They may be looking for find halal, kosher or vegetarian food, familiar rituals, a place to fit in. Among Canadian students, statistics suggest this is the least religious

generation ever — especially those from British Columbia, which is the least religiously afﬁliated place in the country. But Carruthers does not let stats dissuade him. “When a student, especially from North America, comes to university, often they are leaving home for the ﬁrst time and so that gives them greater freedom to investigate what they believe,” he says. Over almost three decades on various campuses, he has also noticed a difference in students’ readiness for the big adventure of heading off to university and being on their own. “One big factor that I’ve experienced is that, as more and more students have come from broken backgrounds, that they seem to not be as far along in an emotional way when they reach university and so there’s a lot of just basic kind of life learning that needs to take place,” he

says. “Part of it is that more people have had no kind of spiritual background. But often when they get on to campus they begin to explore and look around and face different challenges in life and realize ‘maybe I should check this out.’ We’re here to help them in that exploration.” Carruthers, who is originally from Illinois and who was raised in a Baptist family, decided to become a university chaplain after his own positive experience as a student, though he is careful to give credit ﬁrst to the driving force. “The short answer is God,” he says. Then: “I had such a good experience in university. I went to Eastern Illinois University, a small university in central Illinois, in farm ﬁelds. I studied psychology there but I connected with a couple of Christian clubs on campus and those kinds of relationships really helped my university life. I really en-

joyed that setting. I really enjoyed meeting young men and women coming to campus who were open to study and explore.” Carruthers and his fellow chaplains represent a swath of theological spectrum, including multiple types of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, as well as Judaism and the Baha’i faith. “All of the chaplains, I think, would agree that we think the spiritual dimension of life is very important.” Carruthers cites the university’s slogan and talks about how students should round out their college experience. “The university has the theme of being ‘a place of mind’ and we want to fill that out and say a significant part of that is also the spiritual dimension of life… This is a particularly significant part of their health, their academic health, their emotional health and other parts of their life.”

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I got the Sanskrit tattoo that means fearlessness on my warrior arm during a chapter in my life when I needed to be brave, to dive in and not be so attached... I got the lotus on my feminine side for beauty. It grows up in two directions. It grows in really mucky water. It grows down to create roots and still reaches up for beauty. It's about creating balance.

Being human... There’s something great about stopping to talk about life with a stranger. And I've learned it’s easier than you might think.

That's why we started Humans of Vancouver this summer. We’re presenting here what we’ve done so far. The idea came to me after a friend introduced me to the Humans of New York blog some time ago. I was hooked. I love the sometimes surprisingly intimate glimpses into other people’s lives. When I’m feeling out of sorts I scroll through the photos and quotations Humans of New York’s creator Brandon Stanton has amassed and feel a little more connected, appreciative of others’ situations and mine. That same feeling of connectedness is the goal of our Vancouver version. Sometimes it feels good to be reminded that you’re not alone, that your individual story resonates with neighbours and strangers alike. I’ve chosen subjects randomly, on a whim. Only one person of those I’ve stopped and talked to this summer has refused to be photographed. People don’t appear to mind a little attention and sharing where they’re at or where they’ve been. Humans of Vancouver runs in the Courier every Friday in the print version and online. I’ll see you on the street. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

My family is still in the Philippines and I’m thinking of them. I've got three kids. They're still in process for permanent residency. It's hard to be apart from them. It's very frustrating. I started processing their papers in 2012... We don't have any news about the medical papers... I'm just hoping maybe this year they're going to come over to join me here... My eldest son is turning 22, the second one is 10 and my youngest is seven. They are all boys.

I took half a day off to go to Playland with my daughter and my son needs a football medical form. My wife usually does (a large share) of the load but I try to give my part as much as I can. I earn more but it's not about the money... I try to go to movies with my son and his friends once a week to connect with my son. It's very important to hang out in the teens. Q: Did your dad do this kind of stuff with you when you were young? Hardly. I moved here from the Philippines when I was 13. In years, total, I probably spent close to 18 years with my dad. Both my parents are in the Philippines.

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I'm in my 93rd year. I'm 92. I just gave up my car six months ago. I didn't have to, but I thought it was about time... I'm not afraid of anything. What's the point? If (something's) happening to you, you have to deal with it. I (was) a nurse since World War 2. Most problems can be resolved. If it happens then you have to deal with it... I didn't know five years ago I was going to have to walk with a walker because I have arthritis, but I'm lucky. Both of my parents died of cancer in their 60s and my brother died of cancer when he was 77... Just look out for your health and try to make every day count. It's a pretty big thing to do in your life and I definitely feel blessed to have kids in my life, so being a mom and having kids, it's a full-on experience but it's a really beautiful experience, too. I have two boys. I had them when I was very young. I was 22.

The day that I found out that my dad had cancer was the saddest day of my life. He's degrading every day. He used to have a positive attitude but now the cancer has affected his brain. It's just sad. Everything I know I owe to him.

We moved from Israel. It's starting all over, a fresh start. It's hard. New jobs, new houses, new friends. For the kids it's a new language, pretty much everything. I try not to think about it too much so I don't freak out... Everything moves so slowly in Canada. The last thing I need to do is get a job. I arrived here with a wife and two kids and I don't want them to miss out. I knew it would be hard but knowing it and living it are different things, right.

One of my life's mottos is if you expect anything, you expect too much. It's like don't do things because you expect to get things in return. More so do them because you want to. It's pretty easy once you get in the hang of it because then your mind is taken away from worrying about things... That happened to me once. Someone wasn't telling me this thing that if they told me they knew it would hurt me and so they didn't tell me and I had to find out months down the road... It was a girl. I had just met her before she went on a trip and then she went on her trip and I was like OK, cool, and then she came back and I was like, "What's our situation now?" and she acted like it was still the same from before but she actually met somebody else. That was so long ago and I have a fiancee now; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve obviously gotten over that, right. It doesn't keep me up at night, but in the moment of it, it definitely kept me up. And that was also an example of me expecting something. I was expecting her to come home and still be the same as before.

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As parents wait for a resolution to the teachers’ labour dispute, it’s time to start thinking about school supplies. For those of you with kids in private schools, that time is deﬁnitely now. For environmentally conscious parents and kids, there are plenty of eco-friendly options in Vancouver. Just be prepared to pay a little extra for green products.

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Many schools encourage kids to bring their lunches in reusable containers to reduce garbage. Stainless steel is a long-lasting option readily found at grocery and drug stores, but plastic containers made with fewer harmful chemicals are a cheaper choice. Sistema has a colourful selection of BPA-free lunch carriers including a snack container with separate compartments, so foods don’t touch. Water bottles that are BPA-free and can be put in the dishwasher are available at retailers such as Mountain Equipment

Fabric book covers are a great way preserve textbooks. Creative kids could make book covers from old clothes, but if that isn’t going to happen, Box Sox offers several colours and

Every year on August 21st Kia dealers across the nation takes part in ‘Kia Drive Change Day’. The goal and purpose of the event is to give back to our local communities and help to ‘drive change’.

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This year at Kia Vancouver we invited a local children’s soccer team to come in and help us kick off our sports equipment drive to help provide kids and families who may not be able to afford to play sports the opportunity to do so by providing them with new and gently used equipment. We BBQ’d up some hot dogs and burgers for the kids and their families and invited a couple of the Vancouver Whitecaps players to join in the celebration! Pedro Morales and David Ousted stopped by to sign autographs and take pictures with the kids to celebrate the special day and we handed out Whitecaps FC soccer balls as souvenirs and as a thank you to them for joining us.

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These days there are many brands of eco-pencils including Wopex eco-friendly pencils that are processed with less tree waste, available at Wal-Mart. For pens, there is the reﬁllable Pilot BeGreen Tecpoint Rollerball Pen, found at Staples, which has a barrel made of 89 per cent recycled plastic. Glue sticks are a staple of every grade. Elmers has an Earth Friendly school glue, found at Wal-Mart, with a container made from 25 per cent recycled plastic. Its labels are printed on FSC certiﬁed paper and the packaging is made from 100 per cent recycled paperboard. For kids who aren’t perfect, Bic has a new Wite Out “ecolutions” correction tape, found at Future Shop, that has a container made from plant-based materials, instead of petroleum. To carry the supplies, My Little Green Shop has some cool options. They carry pencil cases made from organic cotton and backpacks made from recycled water bottles. twitter.com/thuncher

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nausea of anxiety. When she approached her parents about her fears, Wong said they either dismissed her fears or they blamed her for the taunting. “I didn’t have anyone to tell,” she said. The only way she got through her high school years was by focusing on her assignments and doing volunteer work outside of school that she enjoyed. Miller said some extremely anxious teens, (girls more than boys) will opt out of going back to school altogether and will do home learning or distance education. “The problem with that is you can learn math online, you can even learn a foreign language online, you can learn language arts online, but you can’t learn how to interact socially online. And those are important skills for meeting a partner, making more friends and going out in the work place,” she said. Miller said parents play a key role in helping teens deal with anxiety. Most importantly, parents must recognize that teens, and children, do in fact have legitimate issues to worry about. “[Youth] are encountering lots of social problems and they have zero experience, or very little experience, and they need to ﬁgure out how to solve these with parental guidance,” she said. Miller advises that instead of asking yes or no questions, parents instead ask

open-ended questions such as, “What exactly is it that you are worried about?” and “How can we ﬁgure this out together?” In the moment that anxiety strikes, parents can teach deep breathing. “It actually counteracts all those physical problems that [anxious] kids will report — feeling light-headed, feeling nauseous and feeling sweaty,” she said. Miller said sleep also plays an important role in how well teens handle anxiety. “Teens are woefully deprived of sleep. Adults can sort of compensate and cope for awhile, but teens are not so good at that,” Miller said. Electronic devices interfere with sleep patterns and so parents should take their child’s cellphone or tablet away from them at bedtime. “Kids will complain about it, but you really have to continue to provide that structure in the house with clear rules,” she said. Miller said there are situations when anxiety becomes more than a parent and teen can deal with. If a teen is consistently trying to avoid typical situations, such as going out with friends, or has a lot of physical complaints (headaches, stomach aches) or is having unusual outbursts, Miller said then it may be time to reach out and get professional help. For more information on anxiety go to anxietybc.com. twitter.com/Thuncher

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Date: Tuesday,September02, 2014 Time: 11 AM - 5 PM Place: Martha Piper Plaza, University Boulevard at Main Mall Plans will be displayed for renovations to the UBC Life Building(former Student Union Building). The Open House will be held during the Imagine Day event. Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about this project. For further information: Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager Development Services karen.russell@ubc.ca 604-822-1586 For more information on this project, please visit: www.planning.ubc.ca This event is wheelchair accessible.

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each other. For centuries, this was an important ﬁshing site and transportation hub. This is a replica of the ancient village the Gitxsan people lived in. You can take a guided tour and learn all about their sacred ceremonies and everyday lives. In the afternoon, we arrived at the Bear Claw Lodge just in time to unpack before we meet our hosts in the dining room. For three nights, over wine and locally inspired cuisine, I listened to Joy and Gene Allen recount colourful tales about the brave men and women of the north. It’s clear that they delight in telling their guests about this land they love so much. If you’re lucky enough to ever join them, ask to hear about the story of Lillian Alling, a 25-year-old mysterious Russian immigrant. In 1926, she set out to New York but got homesick. A year later, with no money, she set out on foot to hike across the continent, ending up in the wilderness of B.C. This ﬁrst morning, I met up with Danielle Bradford, a 21-year-old who doubles as guide and waitress, for a hike. There are endless trails to choose from. Danielle and I followed the Kispiox River as it weaves by forest, mountains and ranchland. We passed an old trappers’ cabin, dubbed Beartail, and Danielle told me it’s where I will stop for lunch during my horseback ride later in the day. When I was a teenager, I was fearless astride a horse. But after a nasty fall in my 20s, you couldn’t get me back on a horse if my life depended on it. Over the years, I’ve cured myself of my fear of horses. However, I didn’t count on Moose. Moose is big

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When I heard that I could snorkel with the salmon — well, that takes snorkeling to a whole different level! From July to October, these rivers are teaming with salmon, some weighing as much as 60 pounds. Jim Allen, our guide and owner of Kispiox Fishing Company, assured me I’ll acclimatize pretty quickly. I went in very gingerly as the water is freezing. However, the speed in which the salmon move and the rainbow-like colour of their scales as they hit the sunlight, make it reason enough to jump into the frigid waters. P.S. I suggest you wear a wetsuit.

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WHITE OUT: The Social Concierge’s Tyson Villeneuve and Jordan Kallman hosted their third Diner en Blanc dinner at David Lam Park, the hottest ticket of the season. Some 3,500 participants, the largest to date, dressed head to toe in elegant whites, converged at the Yaletown venue — a closely guarded secret until an hour before the event — for the epicurean extravaganza. Armed with dinnerware, tables and chairs, the flash mob transformed the public space into an alfresco pop-up restaurant for the evening. The culinary phenomenon that began 26 years ago in Paris saw more than 30,000 people in Metro Vancouver on a wait list looking for a seat in the annual picnic. (Guest list is comprised of previous year’s attendees, their referrals and a lottery system.) The social conveners will take their partying ways to Calgary where Albertans will don their best white attire Sept. 4. The all-white affair has been exported to 40 cities worldwide. LULU LUAU: Founder Chip Wilson was on hand for the opening of Lululemon’s flagship store at Robson and Burrard. The billionaire, who recently became $845 million richer with the sale of shares in the firm he founded, joined current CEO Laurent Potdevin for the big reveal of the largest Lululemon Athletica store to date. Potdevin, hired to polish the brand’s image following a year of drama, welcomed guests — VIPs, dignitaries and media personalities — to the 4,500-square-foot retail outlet that will be a testing ground for the company’s retail innovations. In addition to the store’s staple of yogawear and accessories, the former president of TOMS shoes introduced a special men’s section called The Joinery, where men can have shorts custom made. DISCOVERING THAILAND: Just five months into her post, Thailand ConsulGeneral Surrhiluck Sa-ngarmangkang has been busy promoting her country’s assets to neighbouring cities in B.C. Fresh from a tour on the Island, Sa-ngarmangkang fronted the inaugural Discover Thailand Festival this past weekend at the Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza and Playhouse Theatre. The first of its kind in Western Canada, the celebration aimed to showcase the nation’s rich and vibrant cultural heritage through its performing and culinary arts. Looking to further strengthen trade and cultural ties between Canada and Thailand, Sa-ngarmangkang invited VIPs and media into her Matthew Street home for a garden party and presentation of the country’s riches. According to staffers, there are some 5,000 people of Thai descent currently living in B.C.

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Lululemon CEO Laurent Potdevin welcomed guests, including media personality Fiona Forbes, to the opening of the firm's flagship store at Robson and Burrard.

Grant Sceney, head barkeep at Fairmont Pacific Rim, was crowned 2014 Canadian Bartender of the Year at Canada's biggest bartending contest.

Felix Del Toro, head of Lululemon's menswear division (centre), welcomed hockey players Jason Garrison, right, and Vancouver Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom to the opening celebrations.

Kaitlin Liu, 13, bested Kevin Tan and other aspiring young chefs to win the inaugural Chef Corner Jr. culinary competition hosted by Fairchild Television. Liu will travel to Hong Kong to participate in the popular cooking contest for kids.

Kate and Kim Kerdsumran performed traditional Thai dances at the inaugural Discover Thailand Festival held last week at the Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza and Playhouse Theatre.

Consul-General Sutthiluck Sa-ngarmangkang, flanked by award-winning Thai chefs Phonganan Siriseangphaiwan (left) and Naruemon Nantaragsa, showcased the country's cultural riches at a garden party she hosted.

Tyson Villeneuve and Jordan Kallman hosted their Diner en Blanc dinner at David Lam Park. The invitation-only, all-white secret supper club has grown from 1,200 to 3,500 participants in three years.

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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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1 Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, 2014 1. It’s a buffet of indie rock goodness as The Both, comprised of Aimee Mann and Ted Leo, brings the pop hooks to the Imperial, Aug. 31, 8 p.m., along with Seattle’s Telekinesis, led by drummer/ singer/three-name dude Michael Benjamin Lerner. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca. 2. It’s our favourite way to say goodbye to the summer besides lying on our couch in the fetal position listening to the Smiths’ “I Know It’s Over” repeatedly: The Victory Square Block Party takes over the lush, fragrant lawn of Victory Square Park at Cambie and Hastings, Aug. 31, 2 to 9 p.m., for seven hours of free music from the Shilohs, Dead Soft, Supermoon, Nervous Talk, Purple Hearts Social Club, Fountain, Cool TV and Tough Age, DJs, food trucks and more. Come one, come all, rain or shine. 3. Actor Gael García Bernal retraces a mysterious man’s steps along the migrant trail from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border after his decomposed body is found under a cicada tree in the Sonora Desert in Marc Silver’s riveting documentary Who is Dayani Cristal? It screens at Aug. 31, 6:30 p.m. at the Cinematheque as part of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival. Details at vlaff.org. 4. One of the more unlikely reunions to take place this past decade, Louisville, Ky. post-rock outﬁt Slint are back together and touring in support of the deluxe box set reissue of the band’s 1991 landmark album Spiderland and DVD release of the documentary Breadcrumb Trail. They’ll be at the Rickshaw with minimal stage banter Aug. 29 with guests Tropical Trash. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca.

5. You may ask yourself, why is the Rio Theatre screening Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert ﬁlm Stop Making Sense, capturing the Talking Heads at the height of their musical powers? That’s because it’s the 30th anniversary of the ﬁlm, which Leonard Maltin called “one of the greatest rock movies ever made,” shot over the course of three nights at the Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983. See and hear for yourself Sept. 2, 9:30 p.m. Details at riotheatre.ca.

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Passersby on the seawall have been waiting all summer for the second Bella Gelateria to open. The new location started serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, including Napolitano pizzas and “gelatinis,” on Thursday. So why didn’t the contemporary Italian restaurant open sooner? “At my level of being a world champion, everything has to be perfect,” said gelato master and owner James Coleridge. “This is called James’s world and in James’s world, it has to be perfect.” This second venture marks another step towards the artisanal gelato maker’s quest for world domination. Coleridge hopes to see 10 Bella Gelateria locations on three continents within the next ﬁve years. He’s signed a lease in West

James Coleridge and Salvatore Boccarossa taste test a batch of gelato at Bella Gelateria. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Vancouver, hopes to open Bella Gelateria shops near Main Street and in Kitsilano, has his eye on Los Angeles and is negotiating with business people in Singapore. The 80-seat Bella Gelateria Yaletown on Marinaside Crescent, near the foot of Davie Street, will serve gelatinis, or gelato martinis. Variations include a “Wild Evita” (salted caramel

gelato with scotch), the “EGT Negroni” (earl grey tea gelato with gin, Campari, Italian vermouth and orange peel oils) and the “Black Sesame Chai” with bourbon, chai spices and black sesame gelato. Bella Gelateria has also partnered with Soirette Macarons and Tea on East Pender Street to make macaron-gelato sandwiches. Continued next page

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Continued from page 26 The Yaletown location also includes a gelato lab that’s two-and-a-half times larger than the teensy kitchen at the corner of the Fairmont Paciﬁc Rim hotel in Coal Harbour so interns from the Carpigiani Gelato University in Italy can make gelato, gelato popsicles and gelato sandwiches. Coleridge, a former highaltitude climber for National Geographic and a former longtime White Rock city councillor, trained at the Italian Culinary Institute and the gelato university in 2009. “It seemed like a natural transition to go from glaciers to frozen desserts,” Coleridge quipped. He went to Italy because he wanted to study with the best. Coleridge and his protegé, Salvatore Boccarossa, won ﬁrst place in the Gelato World Tour North America this year; Coleridge won International Gelato Master of

the Year at the International Fair of Artisan Gelato and the People’s Choice Award and Technical Jury Award at the Florence Italy Gelato Festival in 2012. “I became the ﬁrst nonItalian to be designated as a gelato pioneer [by the Carpigiani company]. But they also gave me the title of ‘the father,’ for all gelato pioneers worldwide,” Coleridge said, his eyes growing red. “Then it became it wasn’t about me; it was about the industry,” he continued, wiping his eyes. “So then I had a greater responsibility to the world. I had a greater responsibility then to myself.” Now Coleridge and the university choose the cream of the class to intern at Bella Gelateria, the only offshoot of the Italian university in North America. He’s overseen students from Italy, Chile and Colombia and hopes to groom gelato masters for his future locations. Even in Italy, his profes-

sors taught him to make gelato with pre-packaged powders, but Coleridge challenged them to make gelato the less industrialized way with local ingredients. That artisanal approach has made his gelato even more popular than he anticipated in Vancouver, “the most highly competitive gelato market in North America.” “Why so popular? We use real vanilla beans,” he said. “People are tasting what a real vanilla tastes like when they taste ours.” Now Coleridge is rappelling away from the idea of gelato as something that’s served in cones and cups. He’s trademarked the “Juicetto” that combines coldpressed juice, say of spinach, kale and ginger, with creamy gelato and is experimenting with recipes at the Coal Harbour location. “I don’t ﬁt in,” Coleridge said. “I stand out.” twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

James Coleridge serves up gelato, pizza and gelato cocktails at the new Yaletown location of Bella Gelateria. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Last week saw the third annual Diner en Blanc in Vancouver. Part public art project, part elitist picnic, this year’s event saw 3,200 people assemble at David Lam Park (the secret location wasn’t revealed until the last minute) to dine al fresco and upload thousands of photos of themselves to Instagram and Facebook. On top of the $35 admission fee, participants were required to dress from head to toe in white, hump their own white foldable chairs, white foldable tables measuring between 28 and 32 inches and basket of food if they didn’t want to purchase a meal ticket. Tickets to the event were ﬁrst awarded to friends of organizers and previous years’ participants, and ﬁnally to the lumpen masses unlucky enough to be relegated to the waiting list. The event has proven so popular that 35,000 people were left on this year’s waiting list. Granted, the sight of so many people in one place dressed in white is visually impressive — kind of like

This year's Diner en Blanc saw 3,200 people dressed in all white to dine at David Lam Park.

a Klan rally meets a giant feminine hygiene commercial. But the cost of providing your own tables, chairs and food, not to mention ﬁnding clean white clothes that don’t have sweat or fudgsicle stains on them surely must be prohibitive to most Vancouverites. Which is why K&K is in the early planning stages of organizing two satellite dinners to compete with next year’s Diner en Blanc. • Diner en Beige would cater only to middle age dads who’ve given up on life. All that’s required is participants bring a brown paper bag lunch consisting of a cheese sandwich, a piece of bruised fruit and container of tapioca or

butterscotch pudding on the cusp of its expiry date. Dress code is comfortable, loose ﬁtting, not too ﬂashy and joylessly purchased at Costco by the participant’s wife. The location will probably be at a cafeteria somewhere in Marpole, or maybe in a Superstore parking lot that can accommodate everyone’s used vehicle that nearly didn’t pass Air Care. • For a more youthful experience, Mount Pleasant’s Diner en Plaid would either take place at Dude Chilling Park or the backroom of a new artisanal mead and taxidermy shop where a DJ will spin mashups of Broadway show tunes, speed metal and Christian hip hop. Event goers should bring their own mason jars in which all food and beverages will be served. The communal meal, eaten on hundred-foot-long picnic tables made of repurposed barn doors and skateboards, will be followed by a bicycle rally and rave with the route travelling directly through the middle of Diner en Blanc. Scowling will be encouraged.

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things that signify the end of summer: crappy weather, back-to-school ads, pants and, worst of all, pumpkin spice lattes. The caffeinated abomination is so popular that is has even been trademarked by Starbucks (PSL) and has its own Twitter account (@TheRealPSL), which recently informed its nearly 86,000 followers that Starbucks would be getting its pumpkin on as early as this week. Besides the obvious question of what kind of person would follow a Twitter account for Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Lattes — the answer being the same type of person who would debase themselves by ordering and consuming what is essentially the equivalent of liquid potpourri — we wonder why Starbucks feels the need to kill summer for the rest of us. Just a few more weeks is all we’re asking. Enough to get a few more swims in, maybe a camping trip or barbecue. Then Starbucks can get down to the ugly business of imposing its nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and allspice-scented reign of terror on everyone. God help us all. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Never mind the Grind, Upper Grouse offers great backcountry hiking HIKING

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In the course of writing 16 hiking articles over the last three years, I have not included the Grouse Grind, which really isn’t a “hike” — more of an extreme cardio/stairmaster session in the trees. But Grouse Mountain’s upper chalet is the starting point for some great backcountry hiking. How you get to the chalet is your choice. You can do the Grind or the BCMC trail (my preference if you’re hooﬁng it). It will eventually cost you $10 to take the Skyride gondola down. But if you want to avoid starting the hike drenched in sweat and exhausted, you can pay for the Skyride up ($42), or purchase an annual pass for $119. The latter is a great deal if you’re going to be a repeat visitor. It gives you unlimited access to the alpine area -- including snowshoeing in winter. There are multiple wellmarked routes and options in the Upper Grouse backcountry. Dam Mountain, Little Goat Mountain, Goat Mountain and Thunderbird Ridge are described here. Crown Mountain is also an option but only for experienced and properly equipped back-country hikers. Hiking in the backcountry always involves a certain amount of risk. But you can

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- Plan your trip and tell someone where you are going. - Stay with your group. - Wear appropriate clothing/footwear. Running shoes do not cut it on alpine hikes. reduce the risk dramatically by being prepared and using common sense. A gravel access road hugging the west side of the Grouse Mountain peak takes you to the actual trailhead entering the alpine section of Lynn Headwaters Regional Park. Don’t forget to register at the information signboard. It takes three minutes but gives parks staff a way to keep tabs on who is in the backcountry and if they’ve returned safely. The Alpine Trail towards

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Dam Mountain is steep and rocky, with multiple crossings under a water pipe originating at Kennedy Lake. At a signpost junction with the Ridge Trail, stay left for the route to the top of Dam Mountain. Or turn right for the Goats. If you decide to try Dam ﬁrst, turn left at a small side trail which loops around a plateau and gives you occasional views south to the city, and west to Crown Mountain. Many of the views are disappearing due to growing trees. The side trail rejoins

nalling device, fire starter, extra clothes, pocket knife, orange garbage bag for emergency shelter, extra water and food, first-aid kit, map-compass-GPS, fully charged cellphone.) the main Ridge Trail for the final steep ascent to the rocky peak of Dam Mountain. Savour the experience. No matter if it’s your first or 40th time, it’s always a thrill to stand on the pointy top of a mountain. Eventually you have to move on — either down the extremely steep north face or retracing your steps down the Ridge Trail and back to the first junction. If you decide to bypass Dam Mountain, stay on the Alpine Trail towards Goat Mountain. The .7 kilometre

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side trail to Thunderbird Ridge is worth a look on a clear day, with views east to Lynn Valley, Coliseum Mountain, The Needles and Lynn Peak. Back on the Alpine Trail, stay right at junctions for the north face of Dam Mountain and the extremely steep south face of Little Goat Mountain. If you want to visit Little Goat, access it from the north side with a much more civilized climb. Stay right at the fairly new signposts indicating the trail to Goat Mountain. Once again, this is not a route for beginners. It starts out ﬂat through an area full of blue-

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berry bushes, but quickly rises into a tricky climb — including ropes and chains to help you through more precarious sections. To reach the top of Goat, go around the right side of the peak, then scramble up the back side (more ropes). It’s the safer of the two options. The top of Goat Mountain is another wonderful spot to soak in the views and take pride in your accomplishment. Use just as much caution on your return trip. And make sure you deposit your registration slip back in the box. twitter.com/MikeHanaﬁn

My bike: Two wheels brings freedom and smiles Alexis Greenwood

Alexis Greenwood is a librarian at the Central Library in Vancouver. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Age: 50 Bike: Diamond Back Ambition Time on this bike: 22 years Favourite ride overall: I've been to Charleston, S.C. three times and every time we stayed at a B&B that had bicycles. Riding around Charleston in the warmth of the late evening looking at the architecture, hearing nightingales sing, with the scent of jasmine and lilac filling the air is the best ride I've experienced. Favourite Vancouver bike route: Union Street through Strathcona Quote: Riding a bike every day gives me a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm for life.

WHEEL WORLD Kay Cahill

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I’d like to introduce Courier readers to Alexis Greenwood, public librarian, carnival band performer and one of the most positive cycling forces that I know. If you’ve ever seen a rider with a brightly coloured wig streaming out from under her helmet, wearing a costume that glitters in the sun and a smile a mile wide, it’s likely that you’ve seen Alexis.

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Alexis began commuting to work around ﬁve years ago, and three years ago she took the step of selling her car

and making her bike her only method of transportation. As a performer in two local bands, this meant working out how to transport her two horns to practices and performances. Her answer was to purchase an old set of panniers, remove the hardware and drill it into the cornet case, which now hooks smoothly onto her bike rack — a perfect solution that only took 10 minutes to put in place. “I can’t imagine not riding my bike every day. I’m usually wearing an outrageous costume, which guarantees that car drivers see me. Riding a bike is so much easier and less stressful than taking a bus or driving a car in Vancouver. Continued on next page

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I asked Alexis to share a couple of stories of the most fun and rewarding things that she’s done on a bike. She told me about a time when she was riding to a performance in Austin, Texas, and realized that the 70-year-old band leader wasn’t going to make it up the hill. “I rode up right next to him and pushed him up the hill while wearing a wig, corset and tutu, and carrying a trumpet in 40 degree weather. It helped that he had lived in Amsterdam and was used to having someone ride really close.”

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You are invited to attend an Open House on Wednesday, September 03 to view and comment on the proposed new Baseball Training Facility located within the Thunderbird Park Precinct.

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Alexis Greenwood has been cycling for 22 years. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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She’s also keen to keep trying new things on the bike. “For about a year I’ve been practising getting up to a good speed and then standing on my bike seat while holding onto my handlebars. It’s best on a slight decline. On the New Westminster bike path there’s a perfect spot that runs for quite a while — long enough that my arms and legs started

to get tired. I realized it was actually a bit steep when I had to keep the brakes on the entire time, which turned out to be more difﬁcult than I had imagined.”

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One of the things about Alexis that stands out the most is that she’s always smiling on her bike, even on the wettest, coldest winter days. She explains:

“The sense of freedom I feel when I ride a bike makes me smile, even in the rain or snow. Also, I really want the bus riders and car drivers to think about what in the world I have to smile about and possibly consider their own transportation choices.” Alexis is one of my inspirations on a bike a reminder that being on two wheels is a constant source of joy.

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PREAMBLE: Hi, I’m back! I want to thank Diana Warwick for writing the last six weeks’ forecasts. She’s a real sweetheart. As you probably know, I underwent surgery in early July. The neurosurgeons did something to seven of my neck and back vertebrae. They put me in the hospital so quickly I didn’t have time to arrange things well, so I am only now beginning to answer emails and phone messages. I’ll start with early July, and work up to the present. As I’m still only at quarter speed, this might take a couple of weeks, so please be patient. I’ll try to answer everyone.

The weeks ahead bring chores and health concerns. Sunday finishes a “mysterious weekend” — continue to ferret out secrets, research, handle crucial health matters, be intimate with your mate, and make financial choices. (Beware impulsive actions: think once, then do it.) Oddly, by pursing someone else’s inner heart, you discover your own. Monday mid-morning to Wednesday mid-afternoon, a wise, mellow mood flows over you.

Pamper your health this week and the next two. Your energy levels are low; ditto your charisma. Be content with quietude. Be charitable, spiritual, and deal with government agencies or “head ofﬁce.” Friday begins three weeks in which you’ll love solitude, and during which government agencies, etc. will favour you.

Ah, sweet romance! You could be feeling the tug of affection now (especially Sunday or Wednesday to Friday) or attraction might ignite later in September. If you’re married, marriage turns down a sweeter lane, children surprise you with new talents or charms. Pleasure, creative surges and speculative or gambling urges visit all Taureans. You’re on a bit of a winning streak!

The general accent lies on happiness, fun, ﬂirting, entertainment, social joys, optimism and plans for the future. Your charisma shines Sunday – this evening shows the extra sexual magnetism you radiated all August and will until mid-September. If you’re single and unattached, a love affair is likely now or soon. Monday to Wednesday afternoon brings money matters to the fore.

The general focus lies on food and shelter, home, kids, Mother Nature, garden, security, retirement plans, stomach and soul, now to late September. Take frequent naps, recuperate, dream, heal. Examine relationships and projects. Dcide who/what belongs in your life, who/ what is stale or unworkable, who/what you should leave behind. Tackle chores Sunday but follow safety rules, especially around ﬁre and caustic chemicals.

The general emphasis lies on career, ambitions, relations with higher-ups, and your status/reputation. All’s well here for the next three weeks. But remember, the main beneﬁt of the next twelve months lies in far travel, higher learning, law, culture, love, philosophy, etc. Your year of good career progress will be late summer 2015 to autumn 2016. What you learn now is more important than what you do.

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The general accent lies on details, paperwork, communications, travel and errands, siblings and casual acquaintances. Sunday’s romantic, beautyand-pleasure ﬁlled. You might seal a deal or press someone’s hand with extra promise. But don’t be too hasty. Your romantic courage is obvious. Tackle chores and health concerns Monday to Wednesday afternoon.

The general accent lies on your higher mind — ideas, understanding, relations between two or more incidents or people, etc. These naturally evolve from far travel, cultural events, education, law, and love. You can chase these successfully to Sept. 12. After this, a note of friction — or of “ending” — interferes. Sunday continues the weekend’s happiness.

The general emphasis lies on possessions, earnings, spending and casual sensual encounters. March ahead with these until Sept. 12, Leo, then be careful with them as a contradictory, fractious note enters from the 13th on. (Oddly enough, your romantic prospects will increase just as your earnings and spending hit potholes.) Stick close to home Sunday, embrace kids, putter in the garden, etc.

It’s a serious time, Aquarius. The three weeks ahead emphasize life-affecting decisions, lifestyle changes, ﬁnancial actions, investment/debt, sexual yearnings/intimacy, research, and critical health concerns. A health crisis, if existing, should ease somewhat after Sept. 12, and even more after Sept. 21. Since change is almost demanded, you must lose something to gain something else.

Your energy, charisma, clout, effectiveness and sense of timing sit at a yearly peak through late September, Virgo. Start important projects (including tasks that have intimidated you in the past) call in favours, see and be seen. Others are impressed! But unless your project involves demolition, crude construction (e.g., house framing) geology/mineral searching, land clearing or real estate investment, or stomach-area surgery, start it well before Sept. 13.

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Construction is ongoing and new businesses are popping up, but Wesbrook Village at the edge of UBC is already seeing a community grow and for more than just students. “There’s a tapestry here,” said Sarah Wolton, owner of the Hot Box Yoga in the village. “There’s all ages. Different ethnicities. Really dynamic.” “I have one client who is three years old and one who is 93,” said Brennan Cuff, owner of the University Barbershop that opened February 2013. Cuff has met individuals from other parts of Canada to families from other parts of the world, with students only making up a small portion. He believes Wesbrook has a small-town feel and the forest that gives a sense of isolation. Wesbrook Village, a collection of residences, shops and services, opened in 2009 and its main entrance

Brennan Cuff opened the University Barbershop in Wesbrook Village in February 2013. He used to live near the university and saw the community's potential for growth. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

is at Wesbrook Mall and West 16th. It is home to a Save-on-Foods, a seafood market, a Royal Bank, B.C. liquor store, a variety of restaurants and health services. Biercraft and Doughgirls Comfort Kitchen and Bakery are set to open this fall.

The village’s population is 3,750 with 12,500 expected by UBC Properties Trust upon the completion of the community in the next 10 to 12 years. About a third of the community is built or committed for development.

University Hill secondary school is in the village and Norma Rose elementary school opens this September. A new community centre is set for 2015. There are also ﬁve parks in the village. An abundance of diverse

events run throughout the summer: story times for families, outdoor concerts, film showings and conversational English workshops. Cuff used to live near the university and saw the potential of the location. “You’re in a perfectly supported little getaway that has the best of everything,” he said. “It’s got the ocean, it’s got beaches, it has urban living, there are amenities… By design, there’s one of everything.” Wolton opened the Hot Box Yoga on July 1 to fill the spot of the community yoga studio, noticing that many were leaving campus for Kitsilano to find one. She loves being next to the forest and called the studio a “treehouse”. But the village is starting to get too busy for some. Linda Yap moved into a quieter village three years ago with her husband and daughter. “It’s convenient for grocery shopping but the village itself is getting too densely populated and there’s too much traffic,” said Yap. Buses did not run

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through the village until April 2012 when the number 41 was permanently rerouted by TransLink to turn from Southwest Marine Drive into Wesbrook Mall rather than West 16th. “We’re seeing the awareness and trafﬁc pick up,” said Ashley Willard Bauman, director of strategies and marketing at UBC Properties Trust. “It’s not Yaletown, it’s not crowded to that extent, but any given time of the day there is just a nice feeling of vibrancy.” “If it used to be a secret, the secret’s getting out, and that has only made it better,” said Cuff. “It’s not like everyone knows about it then it’s not as good.” With activities year round including an annual festival in September and holiday celebrations during Halloween, Christmas and even the Lunar New Year, Wesbrook Village is drawing residents to join in community. “Vancouver gets a reputation for being an unfriendly place,” said Cuff. “Wesbrook Village does not ﬁt that image.”

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Do you like music? If so you will no doubt enjoy the delicate stringed musings of Vivladi’s Four Seasons, followed immediately by a bracing heavy-metal blast from Killdozer. And who could forget the time that noted Vancouver tenor Ben Heppner brought us all to tears with an impassioned rendition of “Nessun Dorma” before galvanizing the audience further with a profanity-laced performance of 2Pac’s “Shorty Wanna be a Thug.” Wait, that never happened. As it turns out, musical tastes vary widely — as do the sorts of things people look for in their cars. With the Versa Note, Nissan would like to play you a tune that’s heavy on the legato while having only a pianissimo effect on your wallet. The question is: in the cutthroat small car market, is the Note’s performance emphatic enough to be heard?

Design

There’s not much a designer can do with a footprint this small, unless some element of retro-kitsch is what’s being aimed for. Rather than making their hatchback resemble the Datsun B210, Nissan’s gone for a fresh modern take that’s reserved. Given how well the old Versa hatchback has aged (it hit the roads more than seven years ago now), that’s a good thing long-term. Standard cars come with 15” alloy wheels, but there’s a choice of top trims with 16” alloys. This week’s tester was the SR model and had nicely machine-ﬁnished dark-painted rims shod with lowrolling-resistance tires. The SR package is approximately the same as the old Sport package Nissan used to sell on its Versa and includes unique front and rear fascias, side skirts, dark-look headlights and fog-lights, and a rear spoiler. Judging by the album cover, this is potentially a sporty little number.

Environment

However, pulling the vinyl out of the sleeve, so to speak, reveals the Note’s true nature. As soon as you open the door, you can tell that this car is designed for easy listenin’ with a roomy, comfortable cabin. Any Nissan salesman worth his salt will insist that you sit in the back seat of the Note, even before you plonk yourself up front. There’s enough legroom here that Wilt Chamberlain’s chauffeur should have owned one. Rear-facing child seats are an easy ﬁt, leaving plenty of room for adults up front, and four adults

could easily pop across town in complete comfort. The SR model comes with sporty-looking suede seat covers trimmed in orange. Sporty they may look, but they’re actually a bit more comfort-oriented, with less bolstering than I’d like to see. The trade-off on this is easier ingress and egress, and with a very upright driving position, you won’t have to limbo your way into the Note in a tight parking lot. Some demerits must be detracted for the way Nissan has used quite a lot of hard plastic in this interior, especially compared to how well the old Versa stacked up against its rivals. There are some nice touches, like twin glove compartments, a leather-wrapped three-spoke steering-wheel and smart-looking chrome door handles, but the lack of soft door armrests is a bit disappointing. Yes, this is an entry-level car, but the old car hid its economy roots better than the new one does. Trunk space is very good, and of particular note is the adjustable sub-floor. This can be raised to allow a small gap that’ll fit a laptop or small bag, or lowered right down for maximum space. It flips up too, meaning you can use it to keep the groceries from sliding around too much.

Performance

How much you’ll enjoy driving the Note will very much depend upon how you intend to drive it. To come back to our musical metaphors, you’d have a heck of time trying to mosh to Vivaldi. Powered by a 1.6L four-cylinder making a very modest 109hp and 107lb/ft of torque, the Note is available with either a ﬁve-speed manual transmission, or a continuously variable transmission. The CVT is the only offering on SR models. Even though the SR model looks like the sportiest version in the range, it doesn’t have any chassis enhancements and comes with those aforementioned low rolling-resistance tires. Trying to carve up a corner with this car is akin to playing Guns n’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” on the oboe. It’s not that you can’t do so, it’s just that it’s very silly to try. Body roll is moderate but the high seating position

and numb steering feel aren’t exactly designed to put you in attack mode. Work the accelerator too hard and that little 1.6L is going to let you know it’s doing a tough job. It’s entirely the wrong way to handle the car, so slow your roll. Where a CVT works is in smooth, efficient driving with moderate inputs. Call it the classical music approach. Here, the Note excels, with the smooth, well-damped ride of a larger car and only modest wind noise from the large side mirrors. It easily hits its fuel-economy measurements of 7.5L/100kms city and 6.0L/100kms highway, and a careful driver might even be able to beat Transport Canada’s figures without too much difficulty. Note that these are the new, more-stringent five-cycle test figures and should not be directly compared to 2014 numbers, as those are often off by 10-15 per cent.

Features

The Note comes very-well equipped at even low levels with a backup camera, Bluetooth handsfree and streaming audio, and a nice-looking colour display screen on mid-range models. There’s also the Nissan Connect system, that allows you to access apps through your smart phone. Fiddle as I might, I couldn’t get this to work with my iPhone. The SL model is the queen of the range, with a 360-degree camera, push-button ignition, and heated seats. SV models can be equipped with everything you need for prices in the mid-teens.

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