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Homeless plan smells fishy to neighbours Residents worried about lack of consultation by city on temporary housing

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Parents at a downtown housing co-op are questioning the city’s decision to move up to 40 homeless people from the Oppenheimer Park tent city into a former restaurant and dozens more into a neighbourhood hotel set to close at the end of the month. Five parents from Paciﬁc Heights Housing Co-operative sent a letter Wednesday to Mayor Gregor Robertson and council outlining concerns about the clientele moving into the shelter at the former Kettle of Fish restaurant at 900 Paciﬁc St. and the

157-unit Quality Inn at 1335 Howe St. that will serve as temporary housing. “While we are both sympathetic and empathetic to the issues at stake here, the idea of displacing so many people with so many issues into a largely residential and family neighbourhood without any consultation with the residents impacted seems absolutely ludicrous,” the parents wrote in their letter, which they shared with the Courier. “We are not NIMBY [not in my backyard], we realize these people deserve a home somewhere, but we worry about just how well planned this idea is.” Court documents ﬁled as part of the Vancouver Park Board’s application to get an injunction to dismantle the tent city at Oppenheimer reveal a camp population of people suffering from drug and mental health issues, or both. Police have answered calls for ﬁghts, drug

activity, concerns about known sex offenders, sex trade workers, a man threatening to cut his head off or kill people, gang members and what appears to be a stolen bike ring. It’s those incidents that worry co-op parent Kirsten Holkestad, a part-time teacher who lives with her husband Ted and two young children in the complex across the intersection from the shelter. The hotel is a few blocks east of the shelter. “The safety of our children is absolutely paramount and there is no way to guarantee that safety with an inﬂux of people with a history of crime, drugs and violence from the Oppenheimer camp within a block of us,” Holkestad and the other parents said in their letter. Holkestad said by telephone that neither she nor any of the tenants in the 300-person co-op she spoke to received notiﬁcation from the city about the opening of the shelter or plans for the hotel.

“You have to put the homeless somewhere — they need to be housed,” she said. “But you need to do it with consultation with the neighbourhood and you need to have supports in place for [the homeless].” An example, she said, of support services for homeless people not being in place was recently reported in a Courier story that revealed the Marguerite Ford Apartments social housing project adjacent to the former Olympic Village saw police answer 729 calls in the building’s ﬁrst 16 months. Wim Vander Zalm, owner of the Art Knapp store on Hornby Street adjacent to the shelter, is equally concerned about his new neighbours. His concerns are related to loitering and the impact the shelter will have on customers wanting to frequent his business, which has been there for more than 30 years. Continued on page 5

The battle for Hillcrest

Community centre prepares for contentious AGM Sandra Thomas

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COOL RUNNING Brodie Marshall, Fergus Horrubin and Kieran Lumb get off to a fast start in the first public school cross-country meet of the season at Quilchena Park on Sept. 30. See story page 26. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

A group of neighbours, friends and members of the Hillcrest Community Centre Association is urging users of the facility to purchase a membership so they can vote at the next annual general meeting. The Riley Park/Hillcrest Grassroots Group is concerned a small number of directors who sit on the centre’s board, including president Jesse Johl, are recruiting members from outside the community to retain their seats at the AGM which, as ordered by the B.C. Supreme Court, must take place on or around Oct. 31. To vote at an AGM, users must purchase their membership more than 30 days in advance. Former Hillcrest board member Jennifer West told the Courier the group is so concerned the centre’s users are unaware of the conﬂict and drama taking place with Johl and several other directors that members of the group are standing in the facility’s parking lot handing out pamphlets detailing the problems. Continued on page 12

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NPA park board candidate Jay Jagpal and his South Vancouver mother attended a Kirk LaPointe press conference Thursday opposing the building of an incinerator. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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LaPointe accuses Vision of backing incinerator in South Vancouver Mike Howell

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Vancouver’s garbage and where to dump or burn it has become an issue for the NPA in the civic election. And it’s left Vision Vancouver wondering whether NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe has done his homework on a topic Mayor Gregor Robertson addressed three years ago when his ruling party announced it was against the mass burning of trash in the city and region. At a press conference outside the B.C. Lung Association Thursday, LaPointe said Robertson and Vision are doing nothing to stop the building of a proposed incinerator in Metro Vancouver. He also said Vision Vancouver is proposing a “gasiﬁcation plant” at Main and Kent streets that goes against the party’s environmental agenda. He said the technology is not proven. “All of this effort by Gregor Robertson is more evidence of a great city badly run,” said LaPointe, who was ﬂanked by candidates and a handful of South Vancouver residents, including park board candidate Jay Jagpal’s mother, holding placards advocating to keep the city’s air clean. “We need to stop [Robert-

son] in his tracks on this one. He would contaminate a neighbourhood with noxious fumes.” LaPointe called for other options to handling Vancouver’s garbage, including dumping it in landfills, recycling it and “other ways to sort through it that are going to be far, far less harmful and are going to take care of our garbage.” He didn’t provide specifics or say whether he was lobbied by Belkorp Industries Inc., which co-manages the Cache Creek landfill where much of Vancouver’s garbage is dumped. “I’ve spoken to a wide range of industry people on both sides of the issue,” LaPointe told reporters. Vision Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie, who also serves as vice-chairperson of the Metro Vancouver board, said Metro Vancouver has yet to decide on a location in or outside the region, or sign off on whether one or more facilities would be incinerators or employ different technology. But Louie said Vancouver has been clear it doesn’t want an incinerator in the city, despite two locations being identified last year by Metro Vancouver. As for a gasification plant, Louie pointed to the city’s website that spells out the city’s position on the pro-

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City’s Oppenheimer concerns detailed

12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Ever heard of a guy named Jim De Hoop? I confess neither had I until I read his affidavit filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week regarding the Oppenheimer Park tent city. He is the managing director of social development for the city. Apparently, he got the gig in September 2011. I bring up De Hoop and his affidavit because I thought you might be interested in some facts and comments he provided regarding the city’s homelessness crisis. His affidavit, by the way, was included in the Vancouver park board’s application to get an injunction to dismantle the tent city. That injunction hearing goes to court Oct. 6. Until then, check out what De Hoop has to say: Based on the availability of shelter spaces in the Downtown Eastside at this

Approximately 50 of the 100 homeless people camping at Oppenheimer Park are working with city staff and awaiting placement by B.C. Housing. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

time (Sept. 24), it is De Hoop’s view that all people camping at Oppenheimer Park who don’t have a home could — yes, could — be accommodated in shelters, temporary housing or singleroom occupancy hotels “if they wished to be.” Approximately 50 of the 100 homeless people camping at the park are working with city staff and awaiting

placement by B.C. Housing. The other approximately 50 campers are “apparently homeless” and have not consented to provide the necessary information to allow city staff to ﬁnd them shelter. All festivals, various programs run by Carnegie community centre have been cancelled because of the encampment. “These negative impacts include the

loss of opportunity for regular park patrons to socialize and engage in recreational activities, volunteering at the park, the loss of the food services that were available to them as part of park programming, a loss of social connection between regular park patrons and our staff, and the loss of ﬁrst aid services and referrals,” De Hoop wrote.

All very interesting but the campers have made it quite clear they don’t want to live in a shelter because, as they’ve said, it’s not a home. The hotels, they say, are dangerous and rife with rats, bedbugs and cockroaches. So they want some permanent housing. Madam Justice Jennifer Duncan heard the campers’ concerns in this week’s court proceedings and encouraged them to sign up with the Carnegie housing outreach centre on Dunlevy and B.C. Housing’s Orange Hall on East Hastings to register their housing needs. In another affidavit filed by the city’s chief housing officer, Mukhtar Latif, he revealed hopeful news on reducing the number of people living on the street. A homeless count conducted in March recorded 536 so-called street homeless. Since then, Latif said, about 200 of the 536 have been housed in temporary housing at the former Biltmore hotel, the former Ramada on East Hastings and the Kingsway Conti-

nental. Some also moved into new social housing on Burrard Street. That population is expected to decrease further when three other new social housing projects open before the end of the year, totalling more than 240 units. And here’s a comment from Latif that many city hall watchers will want to revisit next year: “I verily believe that in March 2015 an additional supportive housing site will be opened at 220 Princess St. with a further 117 units available to accommodate the homeless. This will provide a total of 793 incremental shelter, interim or permanent housing units made available since the homeless count in March 2014 which showed a total street homeless count of 536 individuals. As the interim and permanent housing becomes available, it will be possible to close shelter spaces.” Wow. For now, hundreds continue to camp in the park. twitter.com/Howellings

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Continued from page 1 Still reeling from the city’s decision several years ago to turn Hornby Street into a one-way to accommodate a separated bike lane, Vander Zalm said the shelter “may be the nail in the coffin” for the downtown Vancouver location of his chain of stores. “I’m really not even prepared to fight anymore because I see what fighting did last time which was absolutely nothing,” said Vander Zalm, whose business also had to contend with public disorder issues when the former Kettle of Fish restaurant was used as a youth drop-in centre. He said his sales are down at the store while his other stores in the Lower Mainland have had financial growth. Vander Zalm said the city should use industrial land to set up shelters and temporary housing. Putting people suffering from mental illness and addictions in residential neighbourhoods puts strain on residents, he said. According to the city’s

communications branch, close to 1,400 letters explaining the opening of the shelter were sent to area residents and at least 10 businesses were visited by city staff. Security guards at the shelter continue

“It’s far better to have people housed and with supervision and support than it is to have them on the street.” – Geoff Meggs to hand out information sheets on the shelter to pedestrians. Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs said he will check why co-op residents weren’t notiﬁed. The city, he added, will provide information or meetings for

people who want more details about the two facilities. Meggs noted the majority of business owners and staff he spoke to during his visit to the neighbourhood did not complain about the facilities or identify any problems related to the previous youth drop-in centre set up in the former Kettle of Fish restaurant. “But we know from experience that winter shelters and transition housing are crucial to reducing street crime and disorder,” he said. “It’s far better to have people housed and with supervision and support than it is to have them on the street.” Though the shelter opened Sept. 22 with 40 spaces, only 23 people registered and 16 stayed Tuesday night. The Quality Inn is scheduled to open as temporary housing in mid-November. The Vancouver Park Board goes to court Oct. 6 to seek its injunction to dismantle the three-month old tent city. twitter.com/Howellings

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Three Lower Mainland First Nations have partnered with a federal Crown corporation to acquire three former federal government properties worth $307.2 million, including the 52acre Jericho Lands in West Point Grey. The properties will be developed. The Jericho Lands, formerly owned by the Department of National Defence, sit between West Fourth Avenue and Highbury Street to the east and Eighth Avenue to the south. The federal government sold the property for $237 million. The Department of Defence will remain on site until December 2015. Property immediately to the west is owned by the provincial government. The Heather Street lands, the site of the former RCMP E-Division headquarters, are also part of the deal. The federal government sold the 21-acre parcel, located on Heather Street between West 33rd and 37th avenues, for $59.2 million. The RCMP will remain in one building until 2019. The third parcel, formerly Department of Fisheries and Oceans vacant land, is ﬁve acres in West Vancou-

ver at 4160 Marine Dr. The federal government sold it for $11 million. The historic deal was announced at a press conference in Vancouver just before noon Wednesday. The Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations and Canada Lands Company also announced a joint venture partnership that establishes an equal interest in the lands with 50 per cent collectively held by the aboriginal groups and the other half held by Canada Lands. Canada Lands will act as project manager and oversee the redevelopment of the sites, as well as the property management. Major decisions will require approval of both partners. Robert Howald is the executive vice president of real estate at Canada Lands. “The negotiated value of the property is $307.2 million and as part of this settlement between Canada and the three First Nations, they were provided a 28 per cent interest, which equates to approximately $86 million,” Howald told the Courier. “When we entered the picture and negotiated the joint venture agreement with the three First Nations, we sold them an additional 22 per cent, which was approximately

$68 million. That then provided them a 50 per cent interest in the overall.” Public consultation on the future of lands is expected to start in the new year. Howald said he “can’t emphasize enough” that there are no preconceived plans for the properties and that city zoning bylaws apply. “Each step of the way towards putting an application into the city and receiving city approval on it, there’s extensive community engagement by way of smaller meetings with interested parties up to full open houses and public meetings. So there will be many opportunities for the public to express their viewpoint,” he said. Chief Wayne Sparrow of the Musqueam Indian Band was not available for an interview Wednesday afternoon, but Sparrow was quoted in a Canada Lands press release as saying, in part, “This latest development partnership again demonstrates the growing strength of our First Nations in the Lower Mainland taking back our rightful place in advancing the economy of British Columbia. We look forward to working with all our partners and the communities and neigh-

bours to ensure the best possible developments occur on these properties.” Vancouver-Point Grey NDP MLA David Eby called news about the Jericho Lands part of the deal “a remarkable opportunity.” “There is a remarkable opportunity for aboriginal and non-aboriginal members of our community to come together and work on a project that we can all be proud of from a perspective of environmental and social sustainability and ensuring that all voices are heard in the consultation process leading up to the development,” he said. “It’s a remarkable opportunity when you think about this amount of land in the middle of a highly developed city and [that it’s] incredibly valuable land. The priorities are many that the people have for this land, everything from no development at all -- so total greenspace — to highrises and maximizing the ﬁnancial proﬁts of the site. So, somewhere in between is where we’re going to land. The priorities will be dictated, hopefully, by a cooperative effort between the First Nations and the non-First Nations community. That’s what I’ll be pushing for — that consultation and that discussion to be taking place.”

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As protests for democracy continue in Hong Kong, UBC students from the Chinese special administrative region said they’d be on the streets with their friends if they were at home. “They’re the next generation,” said economics student Marcella Chow. “They’re going to be affected by it the most. They need to learn what to do if it ever happens again. They need to know what Hong Kong wants as a whole.” Chow is the public relations director of UBC’s Hong Kong Students’ Association. On Wednesday, the club handed out yellow ribbons for protest supporters to wear and provided a banner for written messages, which will be displayed at their booth by the Student Union Building over the next few days. The club chose Oct. 1 for their event because it was China’s National Day holiday. The number of protesters on Hong Kong streets grew to express

Student Marcella Chow’s friends in Hong Kong have been protesting on the streets for over a week. Chow said if she wasn’t in Vancouver, she’d be there with them. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

their dissatisfaction during ofﬁcial celebrations. Hong Kong residents are protesting for suffrage in response to China’s announcement that all political candidates have to be preapproved. The protesters believe the promise of autonomy for Hong Kong following the 1997 handover of the former British colony to China

is proving illusory. Patricia Poon, the club’s president, hopes to provide students a chance to learn more about the events overseas and let protesters know they aren’t standing alone. “It’s for the people of Hong Kong to decide what happens,” said Poon, “but we just want to raise awareness and emphasize our

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and police. “They’re on the same side,” she said. “Police are just doing what they’re told, to scatter them off the streets.” Nick Ng, another student born and raised in Hong Kong, agreed. His friends are also on the streets and said there aren’t daily confrontations between protesters and police. “It’s not as biased as what people think in the media,” said Ng. Ng wrote “Hong Kong, add fuel” on the banner in Chinese, a popular phrase to encourage hard work. Science student Jason Zhou stopped by the club’s booth to note that Hong Kong students he spoke to were upset with the increasing number of mainland Chinese over the years who were disrespectful to locals. “These are social and cultural values,” said Zhou. “If people voted for democracy, would these issues vanish overnight?” Matt Kwan, an English student who arrived in Vancouver from Hong Kong two years ago, is conﬂicted because he doesn’t think the movement is enough to win

democracy. “It’s going to be interesting seeing what the next step is,” he said. “I don’t think the Chinese government is going to change their minds... but it definitely sends a message to the world.” The club used social media to encourage supporters to wear yellow. Another student group called Global Solidarity decorated lampposts around campus with yellow tape. UBC’s Goddess of Democracy statue, created during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, bore a yellow umbrella, a symbol for the movement as Hong Kong protesters use umbrellas to deflect tear gas and pepper spray. This and other decorations like pots of sunflowers and large signs taped to bus stops were not done by any club. Poon believes other students simply wanted to show support. Chow said handing out ribbons was the least she could to do for Hong Kong. “It is my home,” said Chow. “Whatever does become of it, it’s my home.” twitter.com/chrischeungtogo

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Vision goes forward into election battle

Machines making people look like ants

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Tuesday morning the first indications of an impending civic election began to appear: lawn signs dominated by Gregor Robertson’s smiling face and his name writ large, highlighting the party’s principle asset, along with this year’s slogan “Go forward with Vision.” Tuesday was also the first day candidates could register their intent run, although it was hardly a stampede. By 10:45 a.m. clerks on the main floor of city hall informed me that just two men had done so. The rest have another week to get their papers in. Of course, for months the major parties have been campaigning, making promises, announcing candidates, staking out their turf, firing off barbs at the enemy. But most of it has been buried by news of the teachers’ strike. Compared with what is heading our way in this campaign, it’s all been relatively quiet. The common belief is that voters don’t tend to pay any attention to the election until after the Thanksgiving long weekend. But with 30 days left until the advance polls open, the pace is picking up, most notably with the party that controls the majority at city hall and the one most likely to succeed in winning a third term. So I’ll focus on them for this column and get to some of the other guys next week. My email inbox has been flooded with statements from Vision Vancouver — far fewer from the NPA and COPE — councillors asking for support, requesting small donations and seeking volunteers for any number of tasks from door knocking to working the phones. Vision is holding a “volunteer orientation” Saturday. As the Vision campaign team assembles, there is a noticeable hollowing out of the mayor’s office. A few weeks ago, anyone calling Robertson’s chief of staff Mike Magee on his city hall cellphone was informed: “I am on extended leave of absence.” About a week later the mayor’s policy analyst Kevin Quinlan had a similar phone message; he will be away until Nov. 16, the day after the final vote. They will also soon be joined by Braeden Caley, the mayor’s press secretary. All will work out of Vision headquar-

ters a few blocks from city hall where this week a table saw on the main floor of their building was screaming in the “sign department” slicing up lumber to support even more smiling faces. The second floor — a “media free zone” — is where the brains trust is assembled to discuss strategy. What Magee, Quinlan and Caley all have in common is that they sharpened their election chops working on Democratic Party campaigns south of the border in either 2008 (Magee) or 2012 (Quinlan and Caley) helping elect and then re-elect Barak Obama. That’s where they saw a revolution take place in voter outreach with the first-time-ever heavy reliance on social media — Twitter, Facebook and a variety of other platforms in their arsenal. That revolution was imported here and is fundamental to what makes Vision tick at election time and through the year as Robertson and Vision stay in touch with supporters. They are a mostly younger crowd who are increasingly “uncorded,” using mobile devices to communicate. (Incidentally Vision’s “go forward” slogan is a straight lift from Obama too. In 2012, his campaign switched from the 2008 phrase “change we can believe in” to the single word “forward.”) We are also seeing less reliance by Vision on major media that publish in English in a city where many citizens speak English as a second language. Vision’s campaign will be conducted in at least four languages: English, Punjabi, Mandarin and Cantonese and, probably, Tagalog. This week a phone bank with several dozen cubicles was being set up on the building’s main floor, although the “high volume” phone contacts will be run offsite by Vision pollster Bob Penner and his company Stratcom. They will campaign on what they have pretty well laid out already: transit, affordability, childcare, tanker traffic and their green agenda. If they have a weakness it is simply their long time in office where they have said “no” to more and more people, causing an increasingly grumbling opposition. But they say that group, though noisy, is marginal relatively speaking. Vision still holds the majority. We’ll see. twitter.com/allengarr

The week in num6ers...

The number of new temporary housing spaces available at the former Kettle of Fish building near the north end of the Burrard Bridge.

The number of “bike shops,” where bikes are taken apart, repainted with aerosol paint cans and reassembled , operating Oppenheimer Park’s tent city.

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Over the years, the paving stones on my home’s walkway have sunk into the ground at off-level angles, so the other day I picked up some bags of sand to even out the dirt below them. I hefted up the first paving stone, which turned out to be the rooftop of an ant colony. “Damn,” I muttered, as I watched the six-legged commuters scuttle along their now-exposed highways. These weren’t carpenter ants or pests of concern to me, just a bunch of little beings going about their business, incapable of comprehending the sudden light and the vast being disrupting their world. I slowly lifted up the other paving stones. Some of the workers were transporting larvae along the winding road system. “Sorry guys,” I said, as I emptied the first bag of sand onto the ground. Later that day I came across a tweet from Elon Musk, chief product architect of Tesla Motors. “Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable,” he wrote. Musk had been reading Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by the respected Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. In the author’s view, within a few generations we humans may find ourselves in the position to artificial intelligence that insects are to us. Once robots are capable of building even smarter robots, all bets are off — especially if machine consciousness results. If the creations have obscure plans in which the creators do not fit, or decide we are a threat, the United Nations or White House might have as much ability to bargain as a kid’s ant farm on the way to the dump. Unwarranted cyber-pessimism? Here are four items demonstrating how fast things are progressing on the AI front: 1. Automated software programs — robots, in a sense — now account for the majority of website traffic, according to the Internet firm Incapsula. Some of it is composed of bots programmed for malicious activity. Some of it is composed of hacking tools looking for a vulnerabilities on websites. Others are scrapers, and chatbots masquerading as human beings. Only 49 per cent of website traffic is from actual people browsing the Internet. 2. Last year, the UN and Human

Rights Watch advocated a treaty banning “autonomous killing machines” such as drones capable of launching airstrikes against targets without human decisionmaking. Such technology is on the nearterm horizon. 3. Google has been on a spending spree, buying robotics startups and hiring AI experts to construct what some are calling the Manhattan Project of AI: basically, an all-knowing electronic Golem that makes today’s search engines look like stone tools. 4. A neural network of 1,000 computers at Google’s X lab has “taught itself” to recognize humans and cats on the Internet, according to a report on Slate. The computers learned a “slew of concepts that have little meaning to humans.” For instance, “they became intrigued by tool-like objects oriented at 30 degrees, including spatulas and needlenose pliers.” Bostrom is concerned an intelligence greater than our own will start displaying behaviours that make sense only to it, but not to us. If and when machine consciousness arises, we may not even recognize it as such, even after things go sideways (or 30 degrees) for its inventors. To say such a development would leave humanity behind the eight ball is to underestimate how badly we’d be snookered, by several orders of magnitude. We’d be the playthings of Job’s mysterious, arbitrary God, but without the anthropomorphism. In May, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking penned a paper with three colleagues, noting that “it’s tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines as mere science ﬁction. But this would be a mistake, and potentially our worst mistake in history.” “One can imagine such technology outsmarting ﬁnancial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all,” wrote Hawking and his coauthors. Perhaps these academic worries are exaggerated and misplaced. But ponder for a moment how we humans treat creatures less intelligent than ourselves. Even me: I felt benign toward the ants under my paving stones, but I buried their citycomplex anyway. geoffolson.com

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The number of candidates for city council who had filed their paperwork by the Courier’s print deadline. Candidates have until Oct. 10.

In millions of dollars, the value of three parcels of Vancouver land purchased by three First Nation bands in partnership with a federal Crown corporation.

The number of dogs available for adoption at the Bellingham airport this Saturday.

The number of retail outlets, primarily in Gastown and Chinatown, carrying Club-Mate, an energy drink made from yerba mate.

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Oct. 4, 1999: Right fielder Larry Walker of the Colorado Rockies wins his second National League batting champion title with a .379 average. The Maple Ridge resident, the first Canadian player to win the league’s MVP award, first won it the year before with .366 and did it again in 2001 with .350. He remains the only player to have at least 25 stolen bases and a slugging percentage of more than .700 in a season. Walker announced his retirement after Game 6 of the 2005 National League Championship Series and is currently ranked 63rd on the alltime home run list with 383.

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Oct. 6, 2002: After being escorted down a red carpet by Wayne Gretzky, Queen Elizabeth II dropped the ceremonial first puck before an exhibition NHL game between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks at GM Place. The British monarch, who last attended a hockey game in 1951, then sat down to watch the first period of the game from a special royal suite. The Queen was in Vancouver with her husband, Prince Philip, as part of a 12-day Golden Jubilee tour of Canada to mark the 50th anniversary of her rule. The home team won the game 3-2 with two goals from Fedor Fedorov and another from Ed Jovanovski.

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Re: “Mayors’ Council may expect Vancouver to fund Broadway line,” Sept. 24. The punchline in Michael Geller’s oped piece on the Broadway subway has everything to do with political bias and little to do with transit planning. He builds his case on a report on regional transportation and population growth that incongruously narrows its focus only when addressing Vancouver, and chisels off the city’s central role and connectivity to the region. Taken to its logical conclusion, if Vancouver is forced to pay an extra $500 million for a subway arbitrarily determined by others to be cosmetic, then the city could justiﬁably place a surcharge on Broadway Corridor transit fares to pay for it, the majority of which originate outside its boundaries. Like that will go down well. Geller issued the canard that, south of the Fraser, cities will receive “a large percentage” of the projected population growth and should, by extension, be ﬁrst in line for new transit assets if they vote correctly. This is not analysis. Bedroom communities experience weaker economic performance until they change their zoning policies to lessen their reliance on the stronger gravitational pull of denser, more economically diverse neighbouring cities, like Vancouver. The Broadway-UBC Corridor has outperformed every town centre outside of downtown (most of them SkyTrainlinked) by orders of magnitude in every measure for decades (notably employment density), but has never received an

adequate transportation investment. South of Fraser communities have already received $7 billion in freeways and bridges — and another $3 billion megabridge is on the books — paid for by the region (including Vancouver taxpayers) and the province only to keep their car dependency wheels rotating. Why shouldn’t the vital Broadway Corridor have a subway at less than one third the cost and arguably better economic return, energy efficiency and environmental, urban and social utility? Transit should be apportioned fairly throughout the region in accordance with need and site conditions, not by the dictates of a political agenda, a onestep evaluation or myopic preconceptions about mode. While capital cost is important, other metrics like frequency and speed, cost per trip, risk assessment, urban design response and value return over the product life provide far better quality information, refinement and nuance for decision-making on projects that will exist in excess of 100 years. In most advanced cities subways are often justified in the dense urban core where land is at a premium, and surface rail is well-adapted to less dense suburbs, with buses feeding both and pedestrians taking precedence over everything. The urban transit toolkit needs to be well-stocked and judiciously used. Broadway is a corridor with exceedingly high regional importance, but Geller set it up as a red herring to score a quick, low-value political point for his party. He needn’t be concerned that the next mayor must be “Harper friendly.” Today’s politicos will be long forgotten by the subway users of the 22nd Century in a metropolis of seven million people. Meredith Botta, Vancouver

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An ad hoc group is recruiting users of the Riley Park/Hillcrest Centre to vote in hopes of ousting the president and several other members of that centre’s association. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Continued from page 1 “We want to have a fair and democratic AGM,” said West. “I don’t know if it’s true or not, but we’ve heard Jesse will be busing people in to vote.” West said they are also concerned about the association’s money Johl has spent defending himself and the association’s board in court. Johl recently defended himself in a B.C. Supreme Court case launched in April by four members of Hillcrest’s board of directors — Ken Charko, Jennifer Palma, Jaimini Thakore and Eli Zbar. The suit, which was also aimed at the Riley Park/Hillcrest Community Association, included accusations of everything from ﬁnancial mismanagement to wrongful dismissal from the board to sexual harassment. As well, Johl, on behalf of the association, is embroiled in a B.C. Supreme Court case alongside ﬁve other asso-

ciations, launched against the park board in August 2013. The Hillcrest association is paying for its portion of those legal fees. And this past May, the park board launched a lawsuit against Johl and the Riley Park/Hillcrest Association claiming it had been unable to obtain a copy of the group’s ﬁnancial records. The association is paying for those court cases. According to Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper, Johl has spent close to an estimated $200,000 of the association’s money in court costs. West is named as one of the respondents in the court case between the Riley Park/Hillcrest Centre and 11 others. The pamphlet details the group’s concerns and points out issues it feels the community needs to know. Under the heading, “What’s Gone Wrong?” is a list of “facts” including, “One of the directors

has been banned from the building due to abusive behaviour towards staff.” As the result of claims of harassment of staff, Hillcrest secretary/treasurer Todd Constant was given a three-month ban from the centre by park board general manager Malcolm Bromley. In an audio recording heard by the Courier, a voice, said to belong to Constant can be heard screaming and swearing at West and others who attempted to attend a meeting of the Hillcrest board. But, West said, the park board, staff and members of the group have agreed Constant will be allowed to attend Hillcrest for the AGM. West said Johl is insisting the meeting be held at Kensington Community Centre and conﬂict over the location is one of the reasons a date for the meeting has not been set. Johl says no date has been set because the

Supreme Court ruling left four Hillcrest directors who ﬁled the case against him still on the board. “We can’t get a consensus on anything,” said Johl. “The judge said all resolutions must have two-thirds consensus to pass, but every time a motion comes up it fails.” Johl laughed when asked by the Courier about several rumours involving him including the claim he lives in South Surrey and that he has been conducting mass membership drives at the Ross Street Temple with plans to bus in dozens of members to vote for him at the AGM. “I actually ﬁnd that racist,” said Johl. “One of them actually said to me, ‘Why don’t you go back to Surrey.’ If I was Asian, would they have said go back to Richmond? I grew up here and have spent my whole life using that centre. That’s why it’s so important to me.” Johl says he was forced to

spend almost $50,000 of the association’s money defending himself and the organization in the April lawsuit. “Supreme Court isn’t cheap,” said Johl. “The case was ridiculous and it never had to go to court. I had already sent out the ﬁnancials to several of them.” Johl suspects one of the respondents in the court case is behind a spate of cyber bulling, during which ads for sexual favours were placed online that included home phone numbers and addresses for several of the Hillcrest board members. “These ads invited people to come over and have sex with our spouses,” said Johl. “One of the guys has a young baby, do you know how dangerous that was?” As for ﬁnancials, Johl says audits for 2012 and 2013 prove “the books are clean.” But, Jasper says, regardless of what the books

show the community is “fed up” with the drama under Johl and some members of the board. “This used to be a highfunctioning board that used to plow its proﬁts back into the community,” said Jasper. “But what can we do? As the park board we are not allowed to get involved with these associations so we can only sit back and watch.” Jasper said the park board had no choice but to launch a lawsuit against Johl and Hillcrest as the result of the lawsuit initiated by the six associations. “When your partner sues you for 50 per cent of your assets, you have to respond,” said Jasper. “We have a system in place for our associations that has worked great for years. You could make a deal on a handshake. Unfortunately that system can also go the other way.” twitter.com/sthomas10

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2014

By now the associations from Riley Park/Hillcrest, Kensington, Kerrisdale, Sunset, and eventually Kensington, community centres have dropped out of negotiations with the park board.

A Supreme Court judge decides an injunction isn’t necessary as the park board had already backed off on insisting the OneCard be used at the six centres. Both sides call a victory.

JUNE

JANUARY

MARCH

OCTOBER

The park board announces the July launch of the universal OneCard to replace individual community centre memberships, with hopes the six associations will be on board for September.

The B.C. Supreme Court temporarily halts the attempted eviction of the six community centre associations by the park board.

APRIL

Four directors of the Riley Park/Hillcrest Association launch a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court against that same association and Johl. Affidavits filed in court included accusations of everything from financial mismanagement to wrongful dismissal from the board to sexual harassment. The group joined by members of the community attempt to oust Johl and several other directors of the Hillcrest board and form their own association.

AUGUST

The six dissident associations file a lawsuit against the park board in B.C. Supreme Court, with Hillcrest association president Jesse Johl claiming the introduction of the OneCard was the straw that “broke the camel’s back.”

2001 The park board and 22 community centre associations begin negotiating a new joint operating agreement (JOA). For more than four decades, the service model used allowed associations to work and raise money independent of the park board.

2009

The Vision Vancouver-dominated park board adopts four new principles to be used in relation to community centre associations, including equity among centres, access for residents to a network of centres, protection of vulnerable populations and financial sustainability. That fourth principle resulted in the park board taking $600,000 from the city’s richer community centre associations to save several staff positions.

2010

A budget shortfall in the city’s 2011 operating budget puts those eight park board programming positions at risk again. The board tells the associations they will once again have to come up with the money if those positions are to be saved.

2011

NOVEMBER

Discussion regarding the proposed JOA/four principles stall. Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper says there are several points the board won’t budge on. The board wants all community centres to accept its Flexipass, purchased by users, as well as its Leisure Access cards for users with financial need. But the park board also wants to take control of the associations’ revenues, which some say will negate their ability to raise funds as a non-profit. In response, Sunset and Kerrisdale community centre associations seek legal advice on how to proceed and refuse to help pay for the eight programming positions at risk.

2012

OCTOBER

The Riley Park/Hillcrest Community Centre Association joins Sunset and Kerrisdale in the growing power struggle against the park board and threatens to end its longstanding partnership. Hillcrest threatens to remove equipment purchased by the association, including exercise machines, weights, skates, bats, balls, yoga mats, tables, chairs, kitchen appliances and programming supplies.

With the September deadline for acceptance looming, the park board sends a letter to Johl saying the OneCard will be accepted at all community centres in September, whether the JOA is ratified. The case included a request for an injunction against the OneCard and also involved what the six associations call breaches of the current and interim JOA.

MAY

The park board launches a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court against the Riley Park/ Hillcrest Community Association saying it’s been unable to obtain a copy of its financial records.

The park board then launches its own lawsuit against the six associations alleging breaches of both the standing and proposed JOA. The park board followed up with letters telling the associations that in three months their JOAs would be terminated and they would be evicted.

AUGUST

A B.C. Supreme Court judge nullifies the June 26 annual general meeting of the new Riley Park/ Hillcrest Community Association and orders a meeting be held on or before Oct. 30. Justice Lisa Warren’s written Aug. 22 verdict overturns the election of the 14 new directors and restores Johl as president and Todd Constant as secretary/treasurer. Until a new board is elected at an annual general meeting, the judge ruled Johl, Constant, Steve Mah, Nick Despotakis, Peter Thanis, Eli Zbar, Jaimini Thakore, Jennifer Palma and Ken Charko would make up the board. It was Charko, Palma, Thakore and Zbar’s who filed the court action in April.

SEPTEMBER

Park rangers are placed temporarily at Hillcrest, Killarney, Hastings, Kerrisdale, Kensington and Sunset recreation centres over the Labour Day long weekend as security following what Jasper calls “harassing” behaviour by a board member of one of the six community centre associations.

Top left: RP/H Assoc. director Todd Constant received a threemonth ban from Hillcrest. Top: Board member Ken Charko helped launch a lawsuit against the association and its president Jesse Johl. Middle: Johl denies any wrong doing. Bottom: Park board chair Aaron Jasper says community fed up with drama under Johl. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

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A Vancouver-based dog rescue group has partnered with an American organization to ﬁnd homes for dozens of small dogs and puppies. This Saturday, Oct. 4, the Flight for Dogs adoption event takes place at the Bellingham Airport and, according to Thanks Dog I am Out dog rescue, all of the paperwork is ready to bring these cute canines across the border to a new home in the city. To pull off the event, Thanks Dog I am Out partnered with Wings of Rescue, an animal rescue group run by pilots who understand the details needed to plan a safe, successful ﬂight. The pilots partner with ground volunteers to make loading

and delivery of dogs as easy as possible. In California, too often dogs and cats of all ages, including pregnant mothers and their newborn, spend their last days in a shelter before being euthanized due to lack of space. The pilots from Wings of Rescue work to change that by providing desperately needed air transport for their rescue partners and the thousands of animals they save each year from high kill shelters. The pilots use their private planes to deliver this precious cargo to rescue organizations along the west coast of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Canada. Most of the ﬂights are completed in three to four hours. The pre-adoption application process is easy, but it has to be done now in order to ﬁnd homes for all these dogs. Once the application process is complete, approved owners can drive to Bellingham this Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. to meet

Dog I Am Out will give new owners a new leash, collar and harness. Applications and all other details, including photos of these dogs, are available at thankdogiamout.com.

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From the producers of Diner en Blanc and the Deighton Cup comes Harvest Haus, the city’s largest Oktoberfest celebration, this weekend, Oct. 2 to 5, at Queen Elizabeth Plaza located at the corner of West Georgia and Hamilton streets. This inaugural festival is inspired by the European tradition of celebrating the completion of harvest with good friends, food and drink. Harvest Haus guests will enjoy German delicacies such as spaetzle, brezen, bratwurst, schnitzel and sauerkraut, each prepared using local ingredients. Imported German and Belgian beer will also be served exclusively in a Harvest Haus bierkug

(ceramic stein). For more information, visit harvest-haus.com. ••• The Community Café event from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. this Saturday, Oct 4, 2014, at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library on West Georgia Street, will include a panel discussion about the identity of Canadian Indonesians. The discussion features moderator Margaret Gallagher, the host of CBC’s Hot Air, whose mother is a Chinese-Indonesian who came to Canada in the late 1960s. The panel will discuss whether Indonesians in Canada have a distinct history and identity and their respective contributions to the society and culture of this country. The event marks the ofﬁcial launch of a project dedicated to documenting and celebrating the experiences of Canadian Indonesians. twitter.com/sthomas10

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A pilgrimage of patience Vancouver woman joined multilingual group in annual Hajj PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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Today, as many as two million Muslims from around the world will converge on Mount Arafat, near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and, in one of the largest gatherings of people in the world, “stand before God” in supplication. The day at Arafat is the culmination of the annual Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of five pillars of Islam and an obligation for every Muslim with the physical and financial capability of performing it. Tasnim Anwar, an East Vancouver woman who recently graduated from UBC with a degree in biochemistry, performed the Hajj last year. “Most people accumulate their savings and opt to perform the Hajj later in life,” she says. “But I was actually very lucky because my parents were performing Hajj and they asked if I wanted to do it with them.” The family of three arranged the pilgrimage through a Richmond travel agent. Their contingent was joined by others from Ottawa and Alberta, including Somali-Canadians and a Pakistani-Canadian family who, along with Anwar’s Bengali-speaking family — her parents immigrated to Canada from Bangladesh — resulted in a very multilingual busload. Anwar’s group first visited Medina which, while not officially part of the Hajj, is the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and the place

Tasnim Anwar’s pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia last year involved sleeping in the open under the desert sky. “There’s no hotel, there is no tent, you just sleep in the middle of the plain essentially. It’s very humbling.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

from which the ﬁrst Hajj originated, in the year 630. While the Hajj is closely associated with Muhammad, the rituals associated with it are often traced to the biblical ﬁgure known to Muslims as Ibrahim (and as Abraham to Jews and Christians). Between Medina and the holy city of Mecca, their bus stopped to allow pilgrims to don the appropriate attire for the Hajj. Women may wear whatever is usually appropriate for Muslim women, though they must not cover their faces or hands, while men are required to wear an ihram, a word that refers both to the sacred spiritual state a Muslim must enter before beginning the Hajj and

to the garment he wears, which is two unstitched pieces of white cloth. Pilgrims follow a proscribed five-day procession that includes circling seven times the Ka’aba, the holiest structure in Islam’s holiest mosque, the place to which all Muslims face during prayer. They also cast stones at pillars representing the devil and repeat numerous symbolic acts now nearly 1,400 years old, all while performing the five-times-a-day prayers and with miles of walking between holy sites. One of the rites of the Hajj — walking seven times between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah — reflects the teaching that Ibrahim’s

wife Hagar raced seven times between these places looking for food and water for her infant son Ishmael. The narrative says that when Hagar finally appealed to Allah, Ishmael’s heel touched the ground and the spring of water called the Zamzam Well miraculously sprang forth. Now incorporated into the Hajj, this procession of seven journeys includes drinking from the Zamzam Well. The festival of Eid al Adha, which takes place during Hajj, commemorates Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son as a sign of his submission to Allah, who is said to have provided a lamb as a substitute. The festival is marked with the sacrifice of animals and

while, in years past, pilgrims themselves performed or oversaw the sacriﬁces, most now purchase a voucher that authorizes another to perform the sacriﬁce in their stead. The resulting meat is distributed to the poor in some 30 countries and, according to Saudi government sources, more than 600,000 animals are slaughtered in modern facilities constructed in recent decades for the purpose. For Anwar, one of the most challenging parts of the Hajj was the night spent sleeping under the open sky in the Arabian desert. “That was really tough, if I’m perfectly honest,” she says. “There’s no hotel, there is no tent, you

just sleep in the middle of the plain essentially. It’s very humbling. It doesn’t matter whether you come from a rich background or a poor background, all Muslims have to sleep on the ground there.” The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in recent decades has invested a reported $100 billion in infrastructure for pilgrims. There are now air conditioned tents, sprinklers blasting a ﬁne mist over acres of ground, and easily available refrigerated water and other necessities. Still, the experience is not easy, and neither, Anwar says, should it be. “Hajj is not meant to be something easy, like a vacation,” she says. “It’s meant to be a real struggle. It’s a real practical test of your patience, of your selfendurance.” Indeed, until recent decades, those leaving for the Hajj would ensure their earthly affairs were in order because some would not return from the gruelling pilgrimage. Scores still die of old age and natural causes each year — and stampedes some years result in more deaths. Health ofﬁcials are particularly concerned about the potential spread of Ebola during this year’s Hajj. For Anwar, the experience reinforced her core spiritual outlook. “One of the goals of Hajj is to develop a universalistic character, where you view everyone as part and parcel of God’s creation,” she says. “A lot of time when we’re listening to the news we see clashes between Muslims. But Hajj is a time to realize that everyone is God’s creation.”

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HOUSE OF LOVE: Rain didn’t dampen the spirits of golfers who participated in the 25th Women’s Media Golf Classic chaired by founder Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia. More than 144 players hit the links at the Musqueam Golf Course in support of the soon-to-open $28 million Paciﬁc Autism Family Centre. The long-time dream of Lisogar-Cochchia and her husband Sergio, the centre of excellence in Richmond will be a central hub for autism services in B.C. The golf gala featuring Olympian Silken Laumann, parent of a child with autism, raised a record $1.25 million.

Power To Be’s Kevin Chapman and Tim Cormode saw $218,000 raised from their Power to Play corporate challenge. Thirty-five teams participated in the outdoor obstacle race at Stanley Park. Proceeds support adventure-based programs for at-risk youth in the Lower Mainland.

Amazing Race Canada contestant Ryan Steele tested his serving skills at Celebrity Dim Sum. The seventh running saw a dozen local personalities push dim sum carts at Floata in support of AIDS Vancouver’s community outreach programs.

Banquet of Champions gala chair Marvin Storrow welcomed former NHLer Scott Niedermayer, the newest inductee into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. The hockey legend was one of ten individuals feted at the sports museum fundraiser.

PARTY DRESSES: Designer Jacqueline Firkins found inspiration in the unlikeliest of places — cancer. The UBC costume design professor created a collection of 10 exquisite gowns inspired by colourful microscopic images of cancer cells. The gorgeous gowns were auctioned off at a fashion fete staged at the Porsche showroom. Sponsored by Scotiabank, Great Canadian Gaming Corp, AllWest Insurance Peroni and Fortune Cellars, the gala netted $40,000 for Canadian Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Program at UBC. POWER PLAY: Power To Be provides adventure-based programs designed for youth and families in need of support. Founded in 1998 by Tim Cormode, the non-proﬁt welcomed 35 teams of four to its annual corporate challenge held at Stanley Park. Presented by Goldcorp, the charitable adventure race generated $218,000 to support nature-based programs for vulnerable youth and families in Greater Vancouver.

The founder of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Leonard Schein, with his wife Barbara and Eco Fashion Week founder Myriam Laroche, was inducted into the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame. Schein was feted at the opening of the festival’s 33rd edition.

Bill and Jana Maclagan picked up a pair of cancer-inspired dresses created by dressmaker Jacqueline Firkins. Ten gowns were auctioned off at Fashioning Cancer benefit staged at a Porsche dealership. The event raised $40,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Program.

GOOD RELATIONS: The Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) hosted its 12th Vancouver Gala celebrating businesses, including Scotiabank, TD and Suncor, who have achieved excellence in Aboriginal Relations. More than 300 attendees filed into the Pan Pacific Hotel for the annual awards ceremony, presented by Sodexo Canada. For her efforts building bridges between Aboriginal people and Canada’s business community, Canadian diplomat Mary Simon was cited with the association’s highest honour. SWEET DUMPLINGS: Yours truly, along with Sophie Lui, hosted AIDS Vancouver’s seventh Celebrity Dim Sum. More than a dozen local personalities, including Mayor Gregor Robertson and Amazing Race Canada finalist Ryan Steele, dished out dim sum in support of education and support programs to people living with HIV/AIDS. Guests were treated to sweet dumplings and the hugely popular Chicken Feet Eating Contest, won by Green Party candidate Pete Fry.

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CBC’s Duncan McCue emceed the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business Awards that bestowed former diplomat Mary Simons with the 2014 Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Relations.

Townhall Brand’s Leeann Froese debuts “The Girls” at Fashioning Cancer. The purpose-built VQA Okanagan wines introduced by Bill Lui will support cancer-related charities. For the month of October, more than 40 stores will feature the charitable wines.

Sergio and Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia’s 25th Women’s Media Golf Classic tourney and dinner saw a record $1.25 million realized for the soonto-open Pacific Autism Family Centre, a central hub for autism services in B.C.

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Mannequins of two Beothuk stand beside a birch-bark canoe loaded with furs in the Beothuk Interpretation Centre in Boyd’s Cove, Newfoundland. PHOTO MITCHELL SMYTH

Last of the Beothuk

Mitchell Smyth

Meridian Writers’ Group

In an overgrown cemetery on the near-deserted Exploits Island, in Notre Dame Bay, is a horizontal gravestone. Much of the engraving is illegible, worn away by the elements, but I could pick out the words “John Peyton” and “John Peyton Jr.” “That was the Peytons, father and son,” said our guide. Then he added, matter-of-factly, “They were Indian killers.” This grave is a page in one of the most tragic stories in Newfoundland, indeed in North American, history: the ritual annihilation of the colony’s native people, the Beothuk, who were hunted to nearextinction by the European colonists. What murder couldn’t complete, exposure to European diseases and starvation, as Western encroachment pushed them further from their traditional food sources, did. Some of the story can be found in the Beothuk Interpretation Centre at Boyd’s Cove and the Mary March Provincial Museum in Grand Falls-Windsor, respectively north and west of Gander in

central Newfoundland. Mary March was the name John Peyton Jr. gave to Demasduwit, 23, the wife of Chief Nonosbawsut, when he captured her after killing her husband in March 1819 (hence her new name). She was one of the last of the Beothuks; by the time she was taken there were only 30 or so still alive. One of them was Shawnadithit (also called Nancy April), who became a servant, unpaid of course, of the Peytons. By 1825 it was clear that she was the sole survivor of her race. She died in St. John’s in 1829 and the Beothuk were extinct. The interpretive centre at Boyd’s Cove is built near a Beothuk encampment that was excavated in the 1980s, yielding hundreds of artifacts and providing clues on how the native people lived. But the tale it and the Mary March museum tell is incomplete, for by the time anyone began to care about the Boethuks it was too late. We do know, however, that they were the original “Red Indians” of North America, so-called because they painted their bodies with red ochre. “The pejorative ‘redskin’

derives from the ﬁrst white encounters with the Beothuks at the end of the 15th century,” writes historian Pierre Berton in My Country: the Remarkable Past. The Peytons’ hatred of the Beothuk stemmed at least in part from their repeated pilfering of Peyton ﬁshing gear, but killing natives was also a sport to the early colonists. “Men set out on shooting parties as they would for deer or wolves,” Berton writes, and quotes a British Army lieutenant as saying in 1768: “He that has shot one Indian values himself more upon the fact than had he overcome a bear or a wolf.” The sport continued even after it became illegal in 1789. “No one was ever punished for killing a Red Indian,” says Berton. One of the bloodiest of the hunters was John Peyton, matched, almost, by his son. Much of their hunting was done on Exploits Island where, before her capture, Shawnadithit had spent her days, little dreaming she would soon be the last of the Beothuks. For more information, visitheritage.nf.ca. More stories at culturelocker.com.

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learned of the drink’s energizing charms after a friend brought him a few bottles from Germany. He was immediately hooked and started researching where he could ﬁnd the soft drink in Canada. While there was a Club-Mate Montreal and a distributor for Toronto, there was nothing out west, so Sommer used the expertise he acquired working in music management to get into the beverage distribution business and secure the Club-Mate retail rights for British Columbia. Since launching in June, ClubMate is now distributed to 13 local retailers, including restaurants, nightclubs and speciality shops, with a concentration in Chinatown and Gastown. And individual customers can buy cases of the liquid gold directly from Sommer. Club-Mate is an acquired taste, he admits, primarily

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In June, mysterious posters popped up around Vancouver featuring an illustration of a man bearing a close resemblance to a Guy Fawkes mask, with a wide-brimmed hat, ﬁzzy beverage in hand, and the words “Club-Mate Vancouver” below. Despite the cryptic name and guerilla-style marketing campaign, Club-Mate Vancouver isn’t a new hipper-than-thou nightclub or online dating site for lovelorn golfers. It’s the local retailer for the cult favourite energy drink ClubMate (pronounced “club mah-tay”). Imported from Germany, and made from yerba mate (a popular tea-like beverage from South America valued for its high caffeine and anti-oxidant properties), Club-Mate has been a favourite of Germany’s nocturnal hacker community and rave scene since the mid ’90s. The drink’s mascot, in fact, is supposed to represent a South American gaucho, or cowboy. Mark Sommer ﬁrst

and 20 cal/100 ml, respectively), and those under its spell claim the drink delivers a mellower, longer-lasting caffeine high than Red Bull. Adding to its allure, Club-Mate’s family-run manufacturer, the Loscher Brewery, spends no money on promotion, relying solely on word of mouth, the fever dreams of German expats and, now, social media. “The way information spreads nowadays, I don’t think Club-Mate could have spread in North America in the 1990s without social media… It’s really been the modern social media movement of the past ﬁve years that’s helped it get out of Germany,” says Sommer, who not only relies on ambiguous posters to spread the word, but Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and a stylish website. Still it’s never going to be for everyone, he says. For starters, the smaller production and distance travelled will always make Club-Mate more expensive than your Red Bulls, Rockstars and Monster energy drinks — a 330ml bottle of Club-Mate retails for $4.25 or often more. Then of course, there’s the unique taste, something cheekily acknowledged in Club-Mate’s motto “Man gewöhnt sich daran,” which roughly translates as “One gets used to it.” twitter.com/MidlifeMan1

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K&K atones, part 3 KUDOS & KVETCHES K&K regretfully concludes its annual atonement series in honour of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which this year begins the evening of Oct. 3 and ends the evening of Oct. 4, and indeed in honour of atonement rituals in all religions, where we beg forgiveness for past mistakes, misdeeds, egregious errors in judgment and moments of all around douchiness. Once again, we’re sorry. Over the years, several family members and friends have begun to bear fruit from their loins and have children. And as these children get older, they inevitably challenge us to races or games of skill, such as foosball, Crazy 8s or slaps. It’s what kids do as they grow into themselves, become more conﬁdent and evolve into a functioning and engaged human being rather than remaining a helpless poo and vomit factory. And because of this, we will readily accept their challenge to a race or game

K&K prefers to savour the sweet taste of victory even if it shatters a child’s confidence.

of skill. We are fun, after all, and like to maintain some remnant of childlike wonder in our increasingly cynical, tired and achy soul. However, unlike most of our friends and family members who take part in similar races and games of skill with young children, we feel no inclination to let kids win. Even though our competitor might be ﬁve or six or seven years old, and allowing them to win a race or game of skill could conceivable build up their conﬁdence or bring them joy, we will never let them beat us. We will run at top speed, use our decades of experience and highly developed motor skills to

defeat our young opponent, as deﬁnitively as possible, usually gloating afterwards. Sorry, nephews, nieces and young children of our siblings and closest friends. Although we claim that not allowing you to beat us in a race or game of skill is character building and teaches you the importance of being a good loser and that not everything will go your way in life and to try harder, the simple fact is we are competitive and we don’t like to lose. Losing a race or game of skill is bad enough, but losing to a sixyear-old who still believes in the Tooth Fairy and thinks that wearing a Transformers backpack is cool is not something we can accept or allow in our diminishing life. Because there will be a day when you will tower over us and be faster than us and become more adept in the ﬁne art of slaps. But until then, we will defeat and crush you as long and mercilessly as we can. It’s all we’ve got and we won’t let you take the sweet taste of victory, no matter how small or faint, away from us. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Puppet master strings audience along in improvised existential angst THEATRE REVIEW Jo Ledingham

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It’s time to trot out all the superlatives; critics and audiences alike are falling all over themselves trying to come up with bigger and better words to describe Ronnie Burkett’s bigger and better Daisy Theatre. Fantastic. Brilliant. Hilarious. Amazing. Transfixing. Everyone loves naughty (and getting naughtier by the year) Ronnie Burkett. And what’s not to love? Burkett brings back some of our favourites. There’s tiny elfin Schnitzel shaking his cute little butt in his frilly little tutu; aging diva Esmé Massengill who demands we almost tear the Cultch down in our enthusiasm when she makes her entrance — and we do, whistling, shouting, stamping our feet and taking flash photos with our cellphones; the General who makes a second entrance on stage in full drag to sing “There Are Fairies in the Bottom of My Garden” accompanied on a teeny, tiny piano by the General’s mother (whose strings are pulled by an unwitting audience volunteer); and Edna Turnip, the Prairie widow who, since indifferent husband Stanley died, finds she has way too much dill growing in her garden so she begins making pastry with dill in it (dill dough). Say it fast. Oh, yeah.

There are some new marionettes, too — the best one being ventriloquist dummy Little Woody Linden, whose eyes no longer move because his ancient, damn-near-dead master, Meyer Lemon, can’t move all his ﬁngers anymore. So what’s poor little Woody to do if Meyer dies? Is there life for Woody after Meyer? It raises the question that, no doubt, Burkett himself has pondered: what happens to all of his gorgeous, lovingly built puppets if he decides to stop pulling their strings? Avenue Q, coming back this season to the Arts Club, does puppet sex but The Daisy Theatre does puppet existential angst. Some of the delights: seeing all the puppets hanging in the shadows before the show — a cabaret of sorts — for starts. Waiting their turn, are they nervous, anxious, excited? And will they even be called upon because Burkett mixes it up every night. Not all of them will make an entrance. As Burkett tells us, “I’m gonna make s*** up tonight” and to some extent, The Daisy Theatre is improvised. What Burkett can’t control are those he “volunteers” to help out. And these make for some of the funniest moments. Good sport Clayton, prone on the little stage, endured scrawny Esmé dabbling her little wooden hand in the area of his groin while saying, “Clayton, I don’t think you’re a eunuch.” Burkett has a way of choosing

just the right guys — always guys, so don’t worry, ladies. Mouth to mouth with a puppet? That, too. In spite of all the puppets, what we really go to see is Burkett himself. He’s always visible, open, engaging, funny, smart and vulnerable. He even surprises himself, obviously, with some of his ad-libs. The night I saw the show, when one of the volunteers looked up at Burkett, the puppet cracked us all up with, “What’re you looking up there for? My tits are down here.” Even Burkett seemed surprised at what had just come out of his mouth. Burkett, a national treasure, is naughty but he’s also nice. Who but Burkett can get away with the dearest little puppet (Schnitzel) telling an audience, “I love you”? We love Schnitzel, who some day might actually get the wings he so desperately wants; and Vancouver loves Burkett, too. The Daisy Theatre is not for children; it’s a 19+ audience and drinks are allowed in the theatre — not that you’ll need one to make this a memorable night at the Cultch. The Daisy Theatre sold out all its shows last year so don’t waste a minute. If you don’t hurry, you may have to pull some strings to get a ticket. The Daisy Theatre runs until Oct. 12 at the Cultch. For tickets and details, call 604-251-1363 or go to thecultch.com. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

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START NOTHING: Before 2:24 a.m. Sunday, 12:38 p.m. Monday to 3:07 a.m. Tuesday, 7:20 a.m. Wednesday to 4:44 a.m. Thursday, and 5:49 p.m. Friday to 8:51 a.m. Saturday. PREAMBLE: When Uranus enters Gemini, the U.S. often goes to war. So America might be at war (real war, not ISIS stuff) between 2025 and 2032 — most likely 2027/28. In 2026 people will remember me. My macro view, as I’ve stated it since the 1980’s, is that we’re in an era, 1984 to about 2230, of relative peace, stagnation of government [politicians and mandarins asleep, unresponsive] blurring of sexual roles, huge technological advancement, widespread semipoverty, mass deaths (but not from war – e.g., Chernobyl, Rwanda [not a war but a massacre] AIDS, Ebola) and police rule. This last includes both police states such as Canada and America are evolving into, and international “police actions” such as Iraq, Afghanistan and ISIS. Any war in the 2020’s will likely be much smaller than WW I or II. It won’t be part of the “Arab Spring,” as that ends in 2018. If war occurs in 2027 it will tend to be ground-based, tanks and stuff, versus, say, the air campaigns of Bosnia or ISIS — and big chunks of territory, land, will change hands.

Promise nothing and accept no promises. Start nothing new and major before Oct. 25. Relationships, contracts, negotiations, fresh and far horizons, opportunities — these face you, and bless you, this week and the next two. The negative side of relating — litigation, enmity, challenge, opposition, war, etc. –— will hardly occur now, as lucky Jupiter glows romantically, sweet Venus sits in your partnership house, and your own Mars marches through one of your love signs.

Your energy, charisma and clout remain at a yearly high. Remember, start nothing major, nothing important, before Oct. 25. This week, especially around Tuesday/Wednesday and Saturday, someone might oppose you and/or your goal. If so, realize that you, essentially, are in the right, so hold your ground in the most diplomatic way. Time (and karma) will support you.

The weeks ahead are ﬁlled with work and perhaps a health issue. Focus on the past and on projects/tasks already started. Start nothing new and important before Oct. 25. This is generally a smooth, productive and easy week. If you’re a student, writer, lawyer or anyone who works with words, take care — you can have a hard time organizing and staying “on topic.” The shorter the “work,” the better.

Continue to lie low, Scorpio. Seek rest, a sweet quiet spot, contemplate, reconnect with the spiritual side, be charitable, interface with agents, civil servants, head office and institutions. Start nothing important. Instead, use this week and the next two to clear up unfinished business and neglected chores. Pay attention to those you’ve “slid by” in life’s hectic current: the infirm, shut-ins and/or lonely seniors.

Start nothing important before Oct. 25, Gemini. The general accent is on romance, adventure, pleasure, reminiscent beauties (“gee, she looks exactly like my grade 10 sweetheart”), creativity, speculation, charming children and games/sports. A former or neglected job might interfere with all this pleasure. If so, just plunge in and complete it. An old ﬂame might also appear (more likely next week and the following).

Start nothing new, projects nor relationships, before Oct. 25. This might not be easy, as your head is full of plans/possibilities and optimism about the future, and your heart is full of the urge to go out and have fun with everyone. Embrace friends you already know and be optimistic but don’t act on the future. A former social, political or other group might reappear and pull you into its benevolent circle.

Start nothing new and major before Oct. 25, Cancer. The general accent lies on home, kids, garden, Mother Nature, foundations, nutrition, business sales territory, all premises. You might seize a past opportunity in one of these zones (e.g., the North American distribution territory they wouldn’t give you last year now becomes available, you ﬁnd that favorite, lost recipe in the dictionary, a long lost daughter returns, etc.).

It’s a tough one, Cap; you’re at a yearly peak in ambition and prestige relationships, yet I’m advising you not to start anything before Oct. 25. Still, there is a lot you can do: protect ongoing career/work projects from shortages, delays, mistakes and misinformation. For example, say you need a crew of 20 to show up tomorrow morning. Then arrange for 23 or 25 to arrive, for this is the kind of time when a few might not show.

A lot of this month is “lightweight,” Leo — not overly important and mistakes tend to fall unnoticed by the wayside. But it’s a very busy few weeks — mail, short trips, errands, visits, communications, paperwork, details. Unfortunately, these are the very things that are most mistake-prone, delayed and waylaid now, for everybody. Be alert, check addresses and ﬁgures twice, thrice.

Remember, start nothing new before Oct. 25. Ideas you had long ago (ideas of understanding, not of practical projects) might return this week and the next two. Don’t let these spur you to write a new essay, article, etc. as it would turn into a mess. Instead, jot the idea down as a note, and pin it to your November calendar.

Start nothing important before Oct. 25, Virgo. This week might put you in contact with an old acquaintance, but not a lot will come of it. All week, especially Tuesday/Wednesday and Saturday, you might have to choose between “quick money” (e.g., weekly paycheck, or sale of an item) and longrange money (investments, large debt). Pick the quick, short-term. The long-term, investments, are impaired by “bad karma” to November 2015.

Remember, start nothing important before Oct. 25, especially in relationships, agreements, contracts, investments, debt, and sexual intimacy. Make no commitments, sign nothing. EXCEPT if something has returned from the past (a former investment opportunity, an intimate partner, etc.) that might be worth taking up again. Take a look ﬁrst: why did it fall apart or not come together in the ﬁrst place? If the answer is “harmless” or merely circumstantial then it might be worthwhile to proceed.

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The Notre Dame Jugglers (1-1, 0-2) travel to Victoria to play Belmont Secondary at Goudy Turf at 3 p.m. Oct. 3. The game is the ﬁrst for Belmont following the public school teachers’ labour dispute. The No. 3 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (1-1, 0-2) host undefeated South Delta secondary at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 4.

Varsity football Tier II, Week Five

The Eric Hamber Griffins (0-1) travel to Campbell River to play the Timberline Wolves at 1 p.m. Oct. 4. Head coach Bobby Gibson will look to build on the first game of the season last week, which the Griffins lost by just one point to Moscrop. He said the “classy coaches” at Moscrop secondary forwent many special teams plays like kick-offs and controlled punts, “knowing we’d only had five practice days to get ready for the game.” The offence moved the ball well and the close game gave the Griffins a significant defensive lift in the 19-18 loss, said the coach. Against Timberline, the young program will again try to capitalize on its growing experience. “The biggest difference for us is we, for the first time ever, have a group of experienced senior players. We have about 16 Grade 11 and 12 players all with experience playing football. Last year, we were lucky to have 16 players […] dressed for a game.”

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Register with HUB for the fall session of Bike to Work Week by Oct. 15 for a chance to win bicycleloving prizes like paniers. The seven-day ride-a-thon is Oct. 27 to Nov. 2 and after a record number of participants this spring, HUB is trying to keep its momentum going with social media incentives and $15,000 in prizes. Visit bikehub.ca.

1 1. Lucy Guan (left), Billy Grayer, Adam Jalal and Julian Duong have grown up playing basketball at the Strathcona community centre. The 42-year-old floor may not be new but looks it. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET 2. Gym renovations started Aug. 18 and finished Oct. 1. PHOTO MITRA TSHAN

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there’s hope . . . I am cautiously optimistic that I can return to action before the end of the regular season. — B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay, who said Tuesday that his rehabilitation is progressing well after he dislocated his shoulder Sept. 5 in Ottawa. The pivot suffered a similar injury a year earlier and returned in time to compete in the playoffs. The Grey Cup will be held at B.C. Place on Nov. 30.

For two months, one of the busiest basketball courts in the city closed down. Summer camps and clinics were moved outdoors, and players tried to turn their mind away from what was happening in the gym at Strathcona community centre. Games were played elsewhere, leagues adjusted and P.E. class made do outside as elementary school kids tried to peek through the locked doubled doors of their gym. It was “painful” to have it closed, said one coach. Their gym opens today. The wait was worth it. On Wednesday after new padding was added under each basketball hoop, the renovation was complete. “It’s a thousand times better,” said Julian Duong, 16, who’s used the gym since elementary school and at Britannia secondary last season, was the leading point scorer for the Bruins. The gym is almost unrecognizable following the estimated $65,000 refur-

bishment funded by the NBA Canada on the eve of a Toronto Raptors exhibition game at Rogers Arena this weekend. Over 42 years, the hardwood ﬂoor had built up so many layers of wax that its dark pallor sucked light from the room. The NBA paid the Vancouver park board to sand down to the original hardwood, paint new lines and varnish the court. The walls were painted inside and outside the gym, two additional hoops were installed and all six backboard are now glass. Plus, all the rims can adjust to the height of the players, who begin as young as four years old in the Strathcona community basketball league, and older kids can safely dunk. The NBA provided 40 new basketballs. “It’s not a new ﬂoor but it looks like one,” said Ron Suzuki, a recreation coordinator at the community centre and a longtime, dedicated basketball league organizer. “They gym was very dull. When they sanded it down, it

looked like new wood but it was the original ﬂoor that was opened in the centre back in 1972.” When the NBA came looking to make a community investment, Basketball B.C. suggested a handful of deserving locations. Suzuki believes the NBA selected the gym used by both the Strathcona community centre and elementary school because of its storied history and its commitment to accessibility. It costs a player $40 to join a team but families are told they can pay what they can afford. Some pay nothing. Teams travel for games and tournaments. Children are also fed. “This is possibly one of the busiest gyms in the city,” said Mitra Tshan, an inﬂuential basketball organizer and Britannia secondary coach and teacher. The only women’s basketball league in the city (possibly the region) plays at the Strathcona gym, meaning it’s also a place where hundreds of girls have picked up a team sport

they could continue to play as active adults. Night Hoops, a late-night weekend league that seeks to keep kids off the streets, and in some cases from returning to jail, uses the gym. Suzuki pointed out that numerous stakeholders — from the Vancouver School Board, Britannia community centre, park board, and others — showed the gym is valued by the wider community. “When the NBA came to meet us, there were already about 12 people at the table,” said Suzuki. “I’d like to say they picked us because of our partners.” The gym ofﬁcially reopens at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 3. The NBA Canada and the Toronto Raptors — along with Kyle Lowry and other starters — will host an NBA FIT clinic for 40 lucky elementary school kids drawn from the Strathcona basketball league. The Toronto Raptors play the Sacramento Kings at Rogers Arena Oct. 5. Tip off is 4 p.m. twitter.com/MHStewart

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WPGA Wolves already in the hunt

1. Britannia’s Recan SayedNouri led the boys race early on.

2. Killarney runner Enid Au gained a step on Lord Byng’s Calli Charlton in the first girls cross-country meet of the public school season at Quilchena Park on Sept. 30. Au and Charlton finished first and second. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Au challenges Charlton in public school meet

2 CROSS-COUNTRY Megan Stewart

mstewart@vancourier.com

West Point Grey Academy swept the girls competition in the ﬁrst two private school meets of the fall cross-country season, putting them on solid footing to contend for their fourth B.C.

championship in five years. Impressively, the same runners finished in the top five but none came in the same place both races. Dante Sali, Leiah Kirsh and Sarah Diamond were on the podium in the first meet, held Sept. 22 at Jericho Park. Kirsh, Diamond and Sali, in that order, finished the second meet, this time at St. George’s secondary Oct.

1. Emily Kasa and Kennedy Randall finished fourth and fifth and then fifth and fourth at the two meets. Head coach Sean Dawson said the team is looking very strong. The next meet is Oct. 8 at the WPGA campus. In the city’s public school competition, Killarney’s Enid Au followed a strong spring track and field season by win-

ning the ﬁrst cross-country meet of the fall, held at Quilchena Park on Sept. 30. The Grade 12 student ﬁnished the 3.5-kilometre course in 13 minutes, 51.59 seconds. She was 16 seconds ahead of Grade 11 Lord Byng harrier Calli Charlton. The pair exchanged wins through the 2013 season, with Charlton winning the

zone title more than 30 seconds ahead of Au. Simeo Donat, a Grade 11 student at Jules Verne secondary, won the boys’ 4.5 km race in 15:12.78. He was closely followed by Lord Byng’s Kieran Lumb (15:13.78) and Brodie Marshall, also of Jules Verne (16:00.17). The second meet returns to Quilchena Park on Oct. 7.

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How to stay safe when it’s cold, wet and dark

In fall and winter weather, cycle with your head up WHEEL WORLD Kay Cahill

kay@sidecut.ca

It’s that time of year again. With greyer days, early darkness and roads left slick from fallen leaves and heavy rain, it’s easy for accidents to happen. The coming of fall is always a good time to stop and reﬂect on ways a cyclist can stay safer on the roads.

Think visibility

Wear bright colours, whether they suit you or not. Fire-engine red, neon yellow and vivid orange are all excellent choices. It’s worth investing in a reﬂective vest or reﬂective strips for your bike, if not both. Go for anything that’s more likely to make you stand out to drivers.

Go bright

Lights serve a dual purpose of helping illuminate your own path and making you more visible

Err on the side of caution

to other cyclists, motorists and pedestrians. There’s a limit to this — some lights are so dazzling they blind drivers, which is counterproductive — but good front and rear lights, accompanied by helmet lights, are very important. Setting the rear light to blink makes you more noticeable, and a front light that’s angled down will help you spot changing road conditions and potholes. Look for the lumen rating when you buy the light to get a sense of just how bright it will be.

Particularly when conditions on the road aren’t that great, it’s always safer to assume the worst. Leaving yourself more time and more room decreases the chance something will go wrong. If something does go wrong, hopefully you have the time and room to react accordingly. This is especially important in the wet, when your brakes might take a little longer to engage.

Don’t park it

Respect road rules

This should go without saying, but we all know plenty of cyclists don’t come close to respecting the rules of the road and there are very few of us — myself included — who haven’t cut corners on occasion. Car drivers are just as guilty, whether through inattention or choice. But if cyclists want to be treated as trafﬁc, as we should be, we have to be

Wet leaves are a hazard for cyclists in the fall. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

prepared to follow the rules that govern trafﬁc and do the best we can to ride safely and predictably. Running red lights, even if the intersection looks clear, is putting yourself at risk of an accident — and doing no favours to cycling in the long run. The more cars and bikes that follow

the rules, the safer roads become for all of us.

Take a closer look

One of the most valuable things I learned when I was taking a motorcycle training course was this: when I wasn’t sure what a car was going to do, I learned to look at the driver.

Someone is turning out of a side street and you’re not sure if he’s seen you? Look at the driver and see if he’s looking your way — if his attention is focused in the other direction, it’s possible you haven’t been seen and it’s worth slowing down or stopping until you’re sure it’s safe to proceed.

It’s great to be able to commute through the winter, but even better to do so safely. The wet weather doesn’t mean parking your bike until March. But good equipment, a sense of responsibility and a little extra caution does a lot to make up for poor road conditions, less daylight and winter weather. Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting. Read more at sidecut.ca.

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