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Free swims for kids? Ruling party’s ‘affordability agenda’ includes 4,000 new rental units Mike Howell

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POINTED QUESTIONS Resident Nelson Didulo pressed home questions about the construction of a southeast Vancouver seniors centre during an all-candidates meeting at Killarney Community Centre Wednesday night. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Seniors centre dominates all-candidates meeting VANCOUVER VOTES

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Affordability, the centralization of community centre associations and the ﬁnal design of an approved seniors facility for southeast Vancouver were the key issues of an all candidates meeting held Wednesday night at the Killarney Community Centre. The seniors centre in particular dominated discussion, with residents and rival candidates grilling Vision Vancouver city council incumbent Raymond Louie about funding and an expected completion date

for the long-promised centre to be built adjacent to Killarney Community Centre. “I hope it gets built before I croak,” resident Nelson Didulo told the candidates at the standing room-only meeting, one of the ﬁrst major public candidate events in the election campaign. In addition to Louie, council candidates facing questioners included park board commissioner Niki Sharma of Vision Vancouver, Non-Partisan Association’s park board commissioner Melissa De Genova, incumbent Coun. Elizabeth Ball and Greg Baker, RJ Aquino from One City, the Green Party’s incumbent Coun. Adriane Carr and Cleta Brown, the Cedar Party’s Nicholas Chernen, Charlene Gunn and Jeremy Gustafson, and the Co-

alition of Progressive Electors’ Lisa Barrett, Gayle Gavin and Jennifer O’Keeffe. The ﬁrst question to the candidates was about money from the city for the completion of the centre. The city recently announced it will no longer commit $1.2 million of $3.7 million initially promised towards the long-awaited centre due to the fact the provincial government ﬁnally agreed to a long-awaited contribution. But seniors want that money to create a new entrance, which would allow easy access to the interior elevator, and a driveway to enable HandyDart to safely drop off clients. The Green Party’s Carr told the crowd if elected she would “push hard” for the reinstatement of that funding. Continued on page 6

If their party is re-elected next month, Mayor Gregor Robertson and some of his Vision Vancouver candidates promised Wednesday that all children 14 and under will get one round of free beginner swim lessons at city pools. Though it will mean a loss of roughly $120,000 per year over the next council’s four-year term, Vision Coun. Raymond Louie explained those costs will eventually be recovered from children continuing to seek more lessons. “We believe that we’re going to recover those monies easily over the subsequent lessons that will occur,” said Louie, noting the popularity of people renewing their OneCard pass to use at community centres, pools and rinks. With learn-to-swim packages averaging eight lessons that cost about $50 per child, Louie said children normally want to continue with lessons to become proﬁcient in the water. “With the ﬁrst lessons, you introduce the child and, more importantly, the family into our community centre pools,” said Louie, noting about 200 kids per month participate in the city’s swimming lessons. “In the end, what happens is we’ve now encouraged kids to learn how to swim — it’s a safety issue, it’s a quality of life issue — and the parents and the child’s siblings will come to the community centres and use the facilities more often. It creates a more cohesive and better community, overall.” Louie said he recognized parents have complained about swim lessons already being heavily booked. But, he said, Vision will “put effort into clearing those lines and putting in the resources necessary to make that happen.” Free lessons was a plank Vision introduced Wednesday as part of its “affordability agenda.” Using the playground at Grandview Park on Commercial Drive as a backdrop, Vision promised to build more than 4,000 new rental housing units, increase the number of two and three bedroom apartments for families, ensure the city’s new “affordable housing agency” will use city land for housing and create 1,000 new childcare spaces. Continued on page 8

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under LaPointe’s scheme. Louie said the majority of parking meter revenue goes into the city’s overall budget while some goes towards replacement and maintenance of meters. Cutting $7 million from the city’s budget could mean cuts to areas such as policing, ﬁre services and the inability for the city to create child care spaces. “This is exactly why the NPA shouldn’t be trusted, and this move puts the quality of life at risk for our citizens,” said Louie, noting Vision has rolled out policies on increasing child care spaces, pushing for a subway and committing to build more rental housing. “How does [LaPointe] balance the books? Is he raising taxes by one or two per cent? Or, is he chopping services? He needs to come clean.” Vision introduced the 10 p.m. time limits at parking meters in 2010. Revenues soared from $31.3 million in 2008 to more than $44 million in 2013, according to the city’s ﬁnancial reports. twitter.com/Howellings

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The NPA’s mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe says meter time limits that run from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in Vancouver punish those whose only option is to use a car for work or health reasons. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

LaPointe said meter time limits that run from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. punish many people, including those whose only option is to use a car for work or health reasons. Also affected by “Gregor Robertson’s money grab” are small businesses whose customers include motorists and

parents with young children who require strollers when on an outing. “Sometimes a car is the only option,” LaPointe said, noting the NPA will also promote mobile technology and smart meters to share information on parking availability and explore the use

of variable pricing to better match demand with supply. Vision Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie, who is seeking re-election and is chairperson of council’s ﬁnance committee, said his conservative estimate is the city would lose $7 million per year in parking meter revenue

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The NPA wants to give a break to motorists who use parking meters. If elected, the party announced Wednesday it will drop the 10 p.m. meter time limit to 8 p.m. across the city and make all parking meters outside downtown free on Sundays and statutory holidays. “There’s no reason Vancouverites should pay for parking that late into the evening,” said NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe from a sidewalk lined with meters at 41st and Yew in Kerrisdale. “These actions are going to remove some of the irritants that drivers experience and we need to do a lot on this.” LaPointe said his information is the city annually collects $42 million in revenue from parking meters and has a $3 million contingency fund related to parking. LaPointe didn’t provide an estimate on how much revenue would be lost

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The City of Vancouver’s plan to increase voter turnout in the Nov. 15 civic election will not include adding advance polling stations in less afﬂuent neighbourhoods such as the Downtown Eastside, Strathcona or Grandview-Woodland. Nobody could explain why when contacted by the Courier. Earlier this year, Janice MacKenzie, the city’s chief election ofﬁcer, announced the city’s goal of raising voter turnout by at least four per cent from last year’s 34.6 per cent. The long-term target is 60 per cent by 2025. “We want to ensure we do everything possible to make voting in the municipal election as easy and convenient as possible,” said MacKenzie in a June 24

press release. “Statistics show voters increasingly like the convenience and ﬂexibility of advance voting. By adding additional locations, days, extended hours, and extra support we hope voters will take advantage of the opportunity to cast their ballot to shape Vancouver’s future.” In the 2011 election, only four community centres — Dunbar, Sunset, West End and Renfrew — offered eligible voters a place to cast their ballots early. This time the ﬁrst three centres will be joined by the Roundhouse, Thunderbird, Killarney, Kitsilano and Kerrisdale community centres, as well as city hall, in offering the service Nov. 4 to 12 daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Courier was not able to speak with MacKenzie before our press deadline and was instead referred by the city’s corporate communications department to an emailed statement about the increase in the overall numbers of advance polling stations. Green Party city council candidate and 25-year

Strathcona resident Pete Fry calls the lack of an answer a “cop-out.” “I am honestly curious to understand the rationale behind it,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday. “When I ﬁrst heard the news, I circulated it through Twitter and asked both Vision and the NPA to come forward on it. Of course, COPE is as equally concerned about this as the Greens in no small part because [the neighbourhoods] represent our own political stronghold.” Fry pointed out it can be difﬁcult for residents in lowincome neighbourhoods to take the time to vote given work or childcare demands and not having cars to easily get to polling stations. “At best it is just a gross insensitivity to the actual needs of the population, or at worst it is some kind of intentional voter suppression,” he said. Former GrandviewWoodland Area Council [GWAC] president Jak King doesn’t think city employees should be running city elections.

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Continued from page 1 OneCity’s Aquino offered, “a promise made should be a promise kept,” in regards to that extra funding, and added he’d support spending the money on the seniors centre. But Louie, who’s been working on getting the centre built since 2002, said it’s estimated the project will be completed on time and within the $7.5 million budget. Margaret Hommonay, a board member of the Southeast Vancouver Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Centre Society, asked Louie when his estimate was completed. Upon hearing it was 2002, Hommonay said she’s sceptical the 10,000-square foot centre can be completed within the $7.5 million budget. Louie promised the $1.2 million will be held in reserve should there be a cost overrun. COPE’s O’Keeffe, a “politically active community artist,” launched an aggressive attack against Vision Vancouver over everything from its record in dealing with affordability and homelessness, its “disrespect” towards seniors, and its policy on Freedom of Information requests. She

accused Vision Vancouver of being morally bankrupt. Didulo questioned the length of time taken to get the seniors centre built. The building might not be completed until 2018, a timeline Didulo said he couldn’t fathom. Louie said the city was waiting for the ﬁnal letter of agreement from the federal government before it could break ground on the project. “Maybe they’ll give you the funds if you give them a date,” Didulo responded. De Genova asked Louie why consultation with the community’s seniors and the Killarney Community Centre’s association hasn’t started, despite $375,000 committed by the federal government for consultations. The Cedar Party’s Chernen gave the crowd his theory on why the centre’s completion is going to take so long. “It’s taking ﬁve years because seniors are not a priority,” said Chernen. COPE’s Gayle Gavin said it was time to address the “elephant in the room.” “That’s the attempt to throw those [community centre] associations out,”

said Gavin. “We would not be sitting here today if not for them.” Six associations have been given eviction notices following a lawsuit launched against the park board citing accusations of breaches of the joint operating agreement. Resident Rick Evans said the city is becoming more unaffordable partly due to some of this city’s policies. He noted campers at the homeless settlement at Oppenheimer Park came from as far away as Quebec and Cuba. “We have these people crossing Canada for a free place to live, while the working people are going,” said Evans. “They’re feeding the homeless and giving free swimming lessons to kids paid for by our taxes. My pocket is empty.” Carr said a definitive measure needs to be created to better define the term “affordable,” when it comes to the city’s housing stock. “There’s a bylaw that defines social housing, but it doesn’t include any shelter rates,” said Carr. “We need to do more for those in the deepest need.” twitter.com/sthomas10

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Homeless campers have lost their makeshift new home at Oppenheimer Park after a B.C. Supreme Court judge signed off Oct. 8 on the City of Vancouver’s injunction application to evict them. Judge Jennifer Duncan rejected Pivot Legal Society’s argument they had a constitutional right to remain there because it’s safer than living in shelters and gave people residing there until next Wednesday (Oct. 15) to clear out by 10 p.m. She said park

bylaws had repeatedly been violated, including a ban on open ﬂames, and there were no exceptional circumstances to allow the encampment to continue. The tent city sprang up in July when a few dozen people moved in to draw attention to the city’s lack of affordable housing, and had more than 200 tents at its peak. Police responded to 364 calls to the park in the three months after the encampment began. Pivot wanted more time to ﬁnd housing for all residents, many of whom suffer from mental health and/or addictions problems and are

not willing to ﬁle the necessary paperwork to begin the process. They also argued forcing people out before they have somewhere else to go will cause “irreparable harm” to their clients. In a statement released the same day as the ruling, the city said outreach staff working with B.C. Housing have so far placed 56 homeless campers from the park into existing housing options. The Carnegie Outreach Team is also currently working with 23 more people and has begun the the paperwork to assist another 34.

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NPA boost could come from left field

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Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com

Geoff Olson Columnist

This is not your father’s NPA. Sitting in the party’s election headquarters with their campaign manager Doug Leung last Friday, I noted the space, across the street from city hall was, well, modest. “This is proof,” Leung said. “We do not have lots of money.” This comes from a party that spent $2.5 million in both the 2008 and 2011 campaigns. And outspent their Vision opponents by the way. One difference now is that they may not have their generous sugar daddy Rob Macdonald who last time out provided the NPA with free campaign space and a cheque for $960,000. He has since been (quietly) pushed off the NPA executive and into the shadows following a scurrilous attack on Gregor Robertson around the mayor’s split with his wife. The other thing the NPA doesn’t have is a mayoral candidate in Kirk LaPointe with any political experience or a significant public profile. Although he’s trying to fix the profile part. At the time of my visit to NPA’s headquarters, LaPointe was off preaching to the converted at the Arbutus Rotary Club. Leung directed my attention to a young woman who seemed constantly on the phone. She was booking LaPointe’s time for everything from debate dates to neighbourhood walkabouts, to his “Ask me anything” session at the Terminal City Club Yet in spite of his relative anonymity and his lack of experience, he is doing remarkably well. In a poll by Justason Market Intelligence released this summer, among decided voters LaPointe was sitting at 41 per cent with Robertson at 59 per cent. And that is not much different than the results of the last election when Robertson (54 per cent) beat out Suzanne Anton (41 per cent.) So at the very least, LaPointe is holding on to the NPA base vote coming out of the gate. The question now is really a two-parter. What will cause LaPointe to grow and what will cause Robertson to shrink. LaPointe does not seem to be getting much traction on his few policy pronouncements which at times seem

either poorly thought out or downright confusing. His announcement to be greener than green by opposing a new garbage-burning incinerator or gasification plant to dispose of Vancouver’s garbage in opposition to what Robertson and Vision are up to was simply uninformed. Vision has opposed incinerators and is, at this point arguably no fan of gasification without considerable further study. As for the Arbutus Corridor, if I’ve got this right, first LaPointe said it wasn’t worth the money CPR was asking, next he said the city should offer more, now he is offended because Robertson is seeking an injunction to stop any further clearing of the tracks pending a deal. He says the move is “desperate.” It could, of course just be a negotiating tactic. And it would certainly please the well-heeled locals who would otherwise vote for the NPA. LaPointe’s announcement this week about reducing times when parking meters have to be fed was a gift to car owners and hardly green. The problem, as my colleague Mike Howell points out, is that LaPointe was unable to find out just what this would mean in lost revenues and therefore which city services would have to be cut as a result of this move. As for LaPointe’s commitment to more transparency, consultation and access to information, well, even Vision says it is committed to that. But bring it on, I say, although I don’t know that it will be such a great votegetter. What could help LaPointe close the gap and cause Robertson grief literally comes out of left field. That would be COPE’s mayoral candidate Meena Wong, who announced since the last poll. She is getting oodles of positive ink for her assault on owners of empty homes and the related issue of affordability. She is also on about the growing income disparity and raising wages in the city. “She is definitely a factor,” according to pollster Barb Justason. Her presence on the scene could draw votes from the grumpy folks who voted for Vision in the past and are now seeking a new home. Meanwhile, Justason has people in the field, and for what it is worth we should have new numbers next week. twitter.com/allengarr

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In hundreds of thousands of dollars, the money that would be lost from municipal coffers over four years by offering kids under age 14 free swimming classes.

The hour at night next Wednesday that campers at Oppenheimer Park have been given as the deadline to leave by a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

The number of community centres offering advance voting in the municipal election from Nov. 2 to 12.

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Last week I wrote about the futuristic fear that our inventions will overtake us one day. But forget sci-fi scenarios of Terminators tumbling out of time portals; 30 years after James Cameron’s fictional cyborg went staggering after young John Connor, the merger of people and machines is well underway — albeit in a coffee-shop hotspot kinda way. Most of us spend a significant part of our waking lives in silent communion with smart phones, tablets and laptops — me included. This cross-generational transformation has occurred incredibly quickly, with both the young and notso young falling under the spell of what documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis calls “our machines of loving grace.” And who’s going to deny there are great things about the immediate access to the global information network? For sheer entertainment value, the stranger next to you in Starbucks can hardly compete with Facebook, Twitter and other clock-suckers. Bearing this in mind, the new Apple Watch might seem faintly ridiculous now, but that won’t stop wristband computing from catching on with the early adopters. Even if the watch and its competitors fizzles out after that, the association between microchips and flesh is bound to become more intimate and complex. (A cyborg is “a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body,” according to my — ahem — Apple dictionary.) But who needs cyborgs when you can eliminate human workers entirely? The other day I stood at the entrance of a Vancouver megastore, surprised by the empty space. The store had replaced a line of cash registers with a couple of digital checkout stations. At least half a dozen shifts were no more, with some unquantified spill-off effect on local retail activity. (And if you believe that lost service industry jobs will soon be offset by an equal number of better-paying information economy jobs, I have a starship warp core to sell you.) Not that any of this is new. For decades, North American blue collar workers have been losing ground through automation and work outsourced to free trade zones in the Third World. Even back in 19th century, economic historian Karl Marx could see how factory owners of the industrial

The percentage of new condos that would include rental units under a new “affordability agenda” promised by Vision Vancouver.

revolution were using new technology to leverage capital against labour. What’s new is that we’re starting to hear alarm bells from the managerial class now that digital technology is threatening their jobs, too. A whole range of services once thought impervious to outsourcing (including the “discovery” process in the legal field, and medical diagnosis), can be performed by computers that scan and identify information networks in microseconds. Last March, a Los Angeles Times story on a shallow earthquake in Westwood, California, appeared online only three minutes after the quake. L.A. Times staffer and computer programmer Ken Schwencke invented a script that combed data from U.S. Geological Survey servers, and automatically funnelled it through a program that churned out a grammatically correct, standard AP-style report. One automated writing program, Quill, can hunt through immense volumes of data and correctly organize the relevant information in a readable form. Bear in mind this is what brain-dead algorithms can do right now, without a whiff of “machine consciousness.” Computer scientist Kris Hammond, who runs a Chicago firm called Narrative Science, projects that by 2025, 90 per cent of the news consumed by readers will be generated by computers. The remaining 10 per cent will constitute boutique journalism, in the form of opinion pieces and long-form essays. Imagine a future when natural language programs access marketing databases that contain more information about you than even you know: your every search term, text message, and quantifiable quirk — right down to your smart home-monitored eating and sleeping patterns. “One day, there will only be a single reader for each article,” Hammond told Le Monde reporter Yves Eudes. Microcustomized service excellence or networked narcissism? Either way, Hammond doesn’t believe robots will finish off flesh-based journalists, just that the volume of published material will “massively increase.” “Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts,” observed William Burroughs, who died in 1997. By the end of his life, the cranky Kansas author could see the 20th century receding quickly in the rear-view mirror. For those of us on the other side of the millennium, it’s going to be a weird ride. geoffolson.com

The number of hours the NPA says it will lower from the cutoff time for free metered parking downtown from the current 10 p.m.

The number of hours in hockey games this Saturday played by girls across the country in 98 participating cities.

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To the editor: Re: “Homeless plan smells ﬁshy,” Oct. 1. I will keep this short: When I see the words “these people” attached to any group, I stop reading. These people, in this case the homeless, are ourselves after missing two paycheques, our children, unable to survive on a minimum wage, a single senior on a basic pension. We are these people. Nicky Hockley, Vancouver

Dog doesn’t have its day To the editor:

Re: “Dogs seek safe landing in Vancouver,” Oct. 3. Although the Thanks Dog I Am Out/ Wings of Rescue programme are a commendable service, it’s unfortunate this article appeared in the Friday, Oct. 3,Courier, delivered to me less than 24 hours before Saturday, Oct. 4, the pickup time for anyone interested in rescu-

ing a small dog. It left no chance at all for anyone reading it to complete the application process in order to become an approved new owner, a step required to be completed by every new owner before attending on the 4th. D.G. Peterson, Vancouver

Greens should pipe down

To the editor: Re: “Vision Vancouver says NPA spewing hot air,” Oct. 1. Those negative nabobs against the shipment of oil through the Port of Vancouver should be taught a reality course in 21st century survival. Perhaps Kinder Morgan could divert their current flow to the east and the U.S.A. and see how long it takes for their green opponents to scream for regulations to ensure the oil flow to Vancouver is restored. A winter with inflated gas prices and massive line-ups due to supply shortages might just do the trick to get their brains functioning in the real world. Rick Angus, Vancouver

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Arrests made in Stanley Park murder Oct. 9, 2003: Nearly two years after 41-year-old Aaron Webster’s battered, naked body was discovered by his best friend in the Second Beach parking lot near a popular gay cruising area, police announce the arrests of four men for the crime. Burnaby residents Ryan Cran, 21, Danny Rao, 21, and two unidentified youths were charged with manslaughter, sparking a public outcry from people who felt the premeditated attack constituted a hate crime. Cran was later found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison, Rao was acquitted due to conflicting testimony, and both youths served two years in detention.

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Oct. 11, 1962: The biggest storm ever recorded in the Pacific Northwest blows into town, knocking down an estimated 3,000 trees in Stanley Park and leaving much of the Lower Mainland without power for up to a week. Hurricane Freda, which blasted the city with winds up to 125 km/h, caused the deaths of seven people in B.C. and caused an estimated $750 million dollars in damages. South of the border, where the extratropical wind storm was known as both the Big Blow and the Columbus Day Storm, 46 people died.

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COURIER STORY: “Pushy Vancouver cop awaits fate,” Oct. 8. mediabuzzard: Dang, this is too funny in a pathetic way. So what does the “training” involve? Open your eyes ? Don’t push people? Treat others with respect? Canes and wheelchairs might hint at a disability. tomservua: And if a civilian had pushed a cop to the ground, what would have happened? A two-day suspension? An unsigned letter of apology? FOUR YEARS to come to court? The double standard here is appalling. So often, the police are their own worst enemies. COURIER STORY: “Homeless plan smells ﬁshy,” Oct. 1. Hunter Eaglefeather: Meggs, Gregor and their cronies at Vision seem to be privatizing prisons. As Meggs says in this article, “It’s far better to have people housed and with supervision.” Sounds like a prison to me. Warehousing known criminals and having your buddies rake in the $$$ = poverty pimping at its most elite form. Vision party has poured tens of millions of dollars into solving homelessness, only to make homelessness far worse in this city. Meanwhile their buddies in the poverty industry are living the high life — a limo-riding, five-star hotels high life. And when anybody calls them out on this hypocrisy, they scream NIMBY and wrap themselves up in this issue of poverty, masking the true problem which is that almost all of their so-called homeless are drug-addicted criminals who destroy everything they touch and desperately need help with their addiction, not more enabling. jack2211: I live in the Maddox, a brand new condo directly across the street from the Quality Inn. The letter was posted last week — there’s now a petition at the concierge desk with about 75 signatures saying that there was not proper consultation. On it somebody wrote “as an owner and resident I’m ashamed by this petition” and someone else crossed that out. I’ve always decried NIMBY thinking, but I’m a little frustrated that this is the first I’d heard of this. My initial thoughts were, I’m ashamed to say, “I look right into the hotel, I moved in five months ago, and you’re telling us this now?” Bill: I agree that consultation is important. I also think ensuring safety of people, ALL people, is incredibly important. What you have here are people who are already housed and have access to services. People who are staying in shelters or on the street do not have this luxury. Let’s have some compassion, patience and provide some benefit of the doubt that this will not only benefit the people staying there but that it will also help ensure that those living in the shelter have access to safety and will be connected to stable housing. COURIER COLUMN: “City of Vancouver takes CP to court,” Oct. 3. ACMEsalesrep: And how much is this charade going to cost the city? It’s CP’s property to use as they see fit. Filing suit over that is little more than an expensive publicity stunt.

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Planning and development in Vancouver should be among the top issues deciding this fall’s civic election. That’s according to Larry Benge, co-chair of the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods. The coalition, which has representation from 24 resident associations, formed in October 2013 over discontent and frustration about the City of Vancouver’s

planning process, including community plans and developments around False Creek, Norquay, on the Pearson-Dogwood lands and Mount Pleasant’s Rize project, as well as what organizers called the “downtowniﬁcation” of Oakridge through the redevelopment of the mall. The coalition is hosting a two-hour, pre-election townhall meeting Oct. 15 called, ‘Planning, Development, and Community Engagement: Putting the Community Back in Community Planning.’ All municipal parties have been invited. “I would put [planning

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Property Tax Exemptions for 2015 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-proﬁt properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2015 taxation year).

The properties to be considered for exemption in 2015, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2015 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

A bylaw will be brought forward to Council on October 14, 2014 in accordance with Section 396(1)(g) of the Vancouver Charter.

ESTIMATED TAXES 2015 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2016 ($)

ESTIMATED TAXES 2017 ($)

NAME

FOLIO

Baptist Foundation of BC

2 6 6 -7 7 2-2 6 - 0 0 0 0

12,500

12,900

13,300

Baptist Foundation of BC

765 -266 - 0 6 - 0000

29,700

30,600

31,500

Baptist Housing Society of BC

6 3 1 -2 3 2- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

62,700

64,600

66,500

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

27,200

28,000

28,800

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -39 - 0000

7,800

8,000

8,200

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -52- 0000

31,800

32,800

33,800

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -92- 0000

20,600

21,300

21,900

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association of BC

6 5 0 -274 -27- 0 0 0 0

21,200

21,800

22,500

Calling Ministries

7 1 0 - 072- 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

43,800

45,100

46,400

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

1 9 2- 5 9 2- 9 2- 0 0 0 0

13,400

13,800

14,200

Christ Church of China

1 9 2-5 9 2- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

10,600

10,900

11,200

Columbus Charities Association

30 6-720 -45 - 0000

18,500

19,100

19,600

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

8 2 8 -2 5 1 - 9 4 - 0 0 0 0

12,800

13,100

13,500

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828 -258 - 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

6,300

6,500

6,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 0 5 -1 1 3 - 6 6 - 0 0 0 0

13,500

13,900

14,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

63 8 - 07 7- 07- 0 0 0 0

11,800

12,100

12,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 41 -2 3 4 -2 0 - 0 0 0 0

7,800

8,000

8,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 4 5 -1 9 4 - 47- 0 0 0 0

7,100

7,400

7,600

HFBC Housing Foundation

648-078-05-0000

5,900

6,100

6,300 6,200

HFBC Housing Foundation

665 -230 - 68- 0000

5,800

6,000

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -83- 0000

4,400

4,600

4,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -89 - 0000

5,900

6,100

6,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 8 3 -230 - 82- 0 0 0 0

5,200

5,300

5,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

72 2-28 3 - 4 8 - 0 0 0 0

25,200

26,000

26,700

King Edward Court Society

7 1 0 - 07 2-9 5 - 0 0 0 0

22,900

23,600

24,300

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation

8 1 7-3 0 0 -2 2- 0 0 0 0

6,500

6,700

6,900

Mennonite Senior Citizens Society of BC

7 5 5 -2 3 7- 5 1 - 0 0 0 0

32,600

33,600

34,600

New Chelsea Society

270 - 670 -95 - 0000

7,900

8,100

8,400

New Chelsea Society

693-253- 6 4- 0 0 0 0

31,000

32,000

32,900

Odd Fellows Low Rental Housing Society

3 1 8 -7 2 5 - 9 5 - 0 0 0 0

9,800

10,100

10,400

Parish of St. Paul Vancouver

6 0 9 -1 1 7- 4 4 - 0 0 0 0

30,100

31,000

31,900

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

59 6 -1 9 6 - 49 - 0 0 0 0

9,300

9,600

9,800

Society for Christian Care of the Elderly

6 13 -11 9 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

68,500

70,600

72,700

Soroptimist Club of Vancouver BC

6 8 3 -1 6 5 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

9,000

9,200

9,500

South Amherst Housing Society

244-805-96- 0000

4,500

4,700

4,800

The VEL Housing Society

57 7-2 59 - 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

7,700

7,900

8,100

The VEL Housing Society

596-250 - 04- 0000

4,800

5,000

5,100

Ukrainian Senior Citizens Housing Society

30 0 - 810 -95 - 0 0 0 0

9,500

9,800

10,100

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

300-811-05-0000

8,500

8,800

9,000

Vancouver Kiwanis Senior Citizens Housing Society

1 2 5 - 8 3 2- 8 4 - 0 0 0 0

11,200

11,600

11,900

$685,300

$706,300

$726,900

TOTAL

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Property Tax Ofﬁce 604-873-7632

and development] either at the top of the list or very, very close to the top of the list [of importance in the election] because planning and development affects all sorts of things in the city — planning and development affects the greenness of our city, planning and development affects the sustainability of our city, planning and development affects transportation issues in the city in a major way,” Benge told the Courier. “It affects neighbourhoods and their character because these are being changed. I’m not saying that’s a good or a bad thing, I’m just saying planning and development is such an over-arching issue that affects so many different aspects of city life — how it’s run, how it operates, how people operate within the structure of the city, so I think it’s an incredibly critical element in this election and one that isn’t being paid enough attention to and talked about enough.” Benge said the objective of the townhall is to bring the discussion about the relationship between neighbourhoods and the city more into the public eye and more into the election. “Another one obviously is to have the different candidates exposed to the public more so that the people can come out and not just listen to policy statements through press releases, but to listen to a discussion, as much as you can do in the limited amount of time these meetings have, of these issues.” The meeting will centre on the coalition’s principles and goals document released in April, which talks about a more collaborative relationship between the city and neighbourhoods in terms of planning and development, according to Benge. “We have made every effort to make this a meaningful document, which lays the groundwork for better relations with the neighbourhoods and the city. This is regardless of who is in power. This is not targeted to Vision. This is a document which intends to lay the basis for future relations between neighbourhoods and the city,” he said. Benge said the coalition

doesn’t plan to endorse particular candidates or political parties because it’s non-partisan and it’s still in the discussion phase of what “we can, should, would or want to say about the different candidates.” “We are discussing different ways of, I suppose, voicing our opinion. But we have maintained from the beginning that we are a non-partisan group because we are a group of individual resident associations who may have quite different opinions amongst themselves. So as a coalition, we don’t feel that we’re in a position to take that kind of stance,” Benge said. Coalition organizers have announced that the NPA, COPE, the Green Party, the Cedar Party and independent mayoral candidate Bob Kasting have endorsed the group’s principles and goals document. The townhall is at 7 p.m. Oct. 15, at St. James Hall, 3214 West 10th Ave.

Market places

Dunbar’s Stong’s Market will remain in its location at 4560 Dunbar St. until Feb. 28, 2016. Stong’s landlord posted a notice of its development permit application on the building, which raised employee and community concerns about the grocery store’s future. Henriquez Partners Architects has ﬁled a revised development proposal at city hall for the site. City staff rejected an earlier proposal in October 2013. Stong’s plans to move back on to the site if and when the property is redeveloped. Cori Bonina, Stong’s Market’s president and owner, also intends to open at a new location on March 1, 2016 in the 4200 block of Dunbar. That site is being redeveloped. Plans are still under development, but the intention is for the two locations to offer different services — one as a grocery store, the other may include a restaurant, expanded health and wellness and other services, according to Lesli Boldt, a spokesperson for the company. Stong’s Market, which opened in 1931, currently has 130 employees. twitter.com/naoibh

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Vote from November 4–15, 2014 1 Mayor / 10 Councillors / 7 Park Commissioners / 9 School Trustees* / Capital Plan Questions†

Volunteer Scrutineers for Capital Plan Borrowing Questions The City of Vancouver has (unpaid) opportunities for volunteer scrutineers for the Capital Plan borrowing questions in the upcoming election, with voting between November 4 – 15, 2014. The Capital Plan is the City’s ﬁnancial plan to invest in our city—in water pipes and sidewalks, libraries and community centres, ﬁre halls and affordable housing, parks and street trees, vehicles and technology. A portion of the funding for the 2015–2018 Capital Plan is proposed to come from borrowing that requires voter approval. If you are eligible to be a Vancouver

The Capital Plan Borrowing Questions A portion of the funding for the 2015–2018 Capital Plan is proposed to come from borrowing that requires voter approval. During the general local election on November 15, voters will be asked to give Council the authority to borrow these funds. Eligible voters may vote “yes” or “no” to the following three questions:

elector (voter), you can apply to volunteer as a scrutineer for either the “yes” or “no” side of the questions on the ballot for the City’s 2015–2018 Capital Plan. You can apply to be a scrutineer from October 15 to October 24, 2014. Applications are available at the Vancouver Election Ofﬁce, 450 West Broadway, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm. Applications must be returned to the Election Ofﬁce by 5 pm on October 24, 2014. Applicants will then be advised of the voting place(s) assigned to them.

2. PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC WORKS

3. COMMUNITY AND CIVIC FACILITIES

This question seeks authority to borrow funds to be used in carrying out the basic capital works program with respect to Public Safety and Public Works.

This question seeks authority to borrow funds to be used in carrying out the basic capital works program with respect to Community and Civic Facilities.

Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass bylaws between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018 to borrow an aggregate $95,700,000 for the following purposes?

1. PARKS AND RECREATION

A. Public Safety Facilities

This question seeks authority to borrow funds to be used in carrying out the basic capital works program with respect to Parks and Recreation.

To provide for major maintenance, upgrading or replacement of existing public safety facilities, such as ﬁre halls and police buildings, that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements.

Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018 to borrow an aggregate $58,200,000 for the following purposes? A. Parks

To provide for major maintenance, upgrading or replacement of existing parks and features within parks, such as pathways, playgrounds and playﬁelds that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements. $17,950,000 B. Recreational and Exhibition Facilities

To provide for major maintenance, upgrading or replacement of existing recreational, entertainment and exhibition facilities that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements, and provision of new recreational facilities to serve Vancouver’s growing population. $40,250,000 TOTAL

$58,200,000

If this question receives the assent of the electors, Council has the power, without further assent of the electors, to pass by-laws, as and when Council considers appropriate, to borrow money for the projects described up to $58,200,000.

$22,250,000

Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass bylaws between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2018 to borrow an aggregate $81,100,000 for the following purposes? A. Community Facilities

To provide for major maintenance, upgrading or replacement of existing community facilities, such as libraries, cultural facilities, affordable housing, social facilities and childcare centres, that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements, and provision of new community facilities to serve Vancouver’s growing population. $59,750,000

B. Street and Bridge Infrastructure

To provide for major maintenance, reconstruction and enhancement of the arterial and neighbourhood transportation networks, greenways and cycle routes and to undertake major maintenance of bridges and other structures. $56,450,000 C. Street Lighting, Trafﬁc Signals and Communications Systems

To provide for major maintenance, replacement and expansion of street lighting, trafﬁc signal and communications systems that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements. $17,000,000 Total

B. Civic Facilities and Infrastructure

To provide for major maintenance, upgrading or replacement of existing civic facilities and infrastructure, such as information technology systems, civic ofﬁces and maintenance yards, that are beyond economical repair or no longer meet operational requirements. $21,350,000 Total

$81,100,000

$95,700,000

For more information: visit vancouver.ca/vote or phone 3-1-1 or email info@vancouver.ca * University Endowment Lands voters are eligible to vote for School Trustees only. † Voters will have a say on whether the City should borrow money for future infrastructure projects and programs.

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In April the City of Vancouver sold its remaining interest in the Olympic Village development to the Aquilini Group for $91 million. PHOTO DOMINIC SCHAEFER

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It was trumpeted as a great deal: the City of Vancouver was ridding itself of its interest in the controversial Olympic Village development and making $70 million to boot. But the city has been reticent about supplying details of the deal, under which the remaining assets of Millennium Southeast False Creek Properties Ltd. were sold to the Aquilini Group for $91 million. An access to information request made in June remains outstanding, and the Aquilini Group declined to comment for this story. Part of the purchase price of the deal, which was announced in April, would be for the 67 condominiums that remained unsold. Their total value is likely more than $70

million. But $20 million of that price may have been to acquire the tax losses that accompanied the troubled project, which ultimately has left more losers than winners in its wake. Years after they dug, built and painted the Olympic Village, 125 contractors and suppliers are still sitting on the project’s unsecured creditor list. They are owed as little as $29 (Vancouver Police Department) and as much as $122,722 (Vancouver Sun). In total they are owed almost $1 million, according to documents prepared by receiver EY (formerly Ernst & Young LLP). Dan Brady of Burnabybased Paciﬁc Waterproofing Ltd. said his company has been told it will receive around $670 out of the $20,160 it is owed (3.3 per cent). According to other

creditors, settlements have been in the 4.5 per cent range or less. For an early bill of nearly $400,000, before the project was put into receivership, Brady said Paciﬁc Waterprooﬁng received $0.60 on the dollar from Olympic Village project proponent Millennium Development Corp. “There are companies that are so close to the edge, but we’re bigger, we’re a little bit more well heeled,” Brady said. “But a couple of big ones [payment losses] and even we could be in trouble.” Shana Hochfelder of the Umbrella Shop in Vancouver said her business has been paid back around $400 of the original $8,120 owed. Asked whether that was a big hit for her small business to take, Hochfelder said, “You bet.” Most of the creditors contacted refused to comment.

Feeling relief

While Vision Vancouver’s political opponents lined up to take aim at the way the city handled the project after trouble struck, some of the most steadfast critics are sounding more conciliatory now that the city’s obligations have been wrapped up. In April, developer and civic commentator Michael Geller said that while he remains critical of the way the city handled the project, he’s glad that proceeds from property sales in the development were higher than expected. When announcing the Aquilini Group deal in April, Mayor Gregor Robertson said the city had been left with a $70 million surplus. According to Robertson, the sale retired the $690-million debt the city had taken on after Millennium Development expe-

rienced serious ﬁnancing problems following the 2008 ﬁnancial crisis. The city recouped $770 million, including Olympic Village presales, commercial and residential sales, sales of other Millennium Development buildings located throughout the city and the Aquilini purchase, city manager Penny Ballem explained in April. Subtracting the fees the city was obliged to pay to the receiver and other parties leaves it with a $70 million surplus, according to Ballem. But Rob Macdonald, president of Vancouverbased Macdonald Development Corp., noted that the city will never recoup $170 million out of the $200 million Millennium originally agreed to pay for the 17 acres of land in 2006. “City taxpayers lost about $100 million,” Macdonald said.

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Vancouver’s Olympic Village

Construction crews work on the Olympic Village during the lead-up to the 2010 Games. PHOTO JOHN BOLLWIT

Winning with tax losses

Tax losses are usually a factor in transactions like the one between the city and the Aquilini Group, said David Bowra of financial advisory company the Bowra Group. “These guys are sophisticated buyers, and I would expect that tax losses may have been one of the factors influencing this transaction,” said Bowra, who did not know the specifics of the deal. Tax losses, he said, generally sell for $0.04 or $0.05 on the dollar, “and it’s likely there may have been large tax pools available that they could have utilized.” Those “tax pools” would be available to the Aquilini Group to offset future business income. In a written statement released following the April announcement, the Aquilini Group stated,

“We have a long-term investment horizon. Some condominium units will be sold, while others will be retained for rent until sold. We see long-term appreciation in these units.” The City of Vancouver declined an interview request, but communications manager Tobin Postma emailed a statement: “The assets and liabilities related to the transaction are considerations of any proponent considering an offer in any real estate deal. These considerations are personal to such proponents and affect the value they are prepared to offer.” A solvent company that buys a business that is in debt can apply the losses of the distressed company to future tax years, said Kin Lo, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business. Lo added, however, that to use the tax loss the businesses must

THE BIGGEST LOSERS The following are the 10 unsecured creditors who lost the most after the Olympic Village sank into receivership. In all, 125 unsecured creditors presented claims worth $991,706.74.

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$122,722

The Vancouver Sun

$85,408

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$76,967

BC Hydro

$68,822

Pinnacle International (West First) Plaza Inc.

$41,552

Western Substrate Ltd.

$32,600

Knight Signs

$28,529

Roynat Inc.

$28,070

Letterbox

$27,225

Imperial Parking Canada Corp.

$23,701

Morgan Stewart Surveyors SOURCE: ERNST &YOUNG

be “the same or similar.” The principle behind the practice is to provide a balance between taxable proﬁts

and the losses that all businesses risk incurring. How much of the $91-million purchase was

for the properties and how much might have been a tax loss purchase remains uncertain, but the tax losses are estimated at $400 million, an amount Millennium principal Peter Malek did not dispute. At $.05 on the dollar, $20 million of the purchase price would have been for the losses.

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In 2006, Millennium Development raised eyebrows with its $190-million offer for the parcel of land set to house the athletes for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The second-highest bid was $150 million. At $225 per square foot, it was then the highest price paid for land in Vancouver. Millenium later added a small parcel for $10 million, bringing the total purchase price to $200 million. Starting in November 2010, SEFC Properties Ltd., Millennium’s subsid-

iary that had been known as Millennium Southeast False Creek Properties Ltd., was forced into receivership after months of negotiations with the city over plans to revise the development’s marketing and to repay the $740 million in loans Millennium owed the city at the time. Millennium, headed by brothers Peter and Shahram Malek, has apparently shrugged off its Olympic Village losses and has since reeled off a string of successful multi-family residential projects in the city of Vancouver and across the Lower Mainland. The company developed the $100 million, 21-storey Alexandra residential tower in Vancouver’s West End, where all 88 units pre-sold at between $298,000 and $999,000. The project is scheduled to be completed this year. Millennium also developed the $45-million Boheme, a 102-unit condominium development on East Hastings in Vancouver, which has sold out and is now under construction. In addition, Millennium is developing the $250-million One Madison Avenue mixed-use complex in Burnaby and is planning a multi-tower development in North Surrey. According to Millennium’s website, the company has developed and sold out 21 condominium projects across Metro Vancouver. Amir Malek, the father of Peter and Shahram, is a noted international real estate developer with large projects in Europe and Iran, the family’s homeland. As to lessons he and his company learned from the Olympic Village project, Peter Malek said, “We are very proud of the fact that we designed and built the entire Olympic Village, comprised of eight city blocks, in about 30 months, and ahead of schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Since then the community has turned out exactly as we planned and envisaged and continues to win numerous awards and accolades that all Vancouverites can be proud of.” — with ﬁles from Peter Mitham and Glen Korstrom This story ﬁrst appeared in Business in Vancouver.

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Pat Johnson

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If you look over your back fence this week and your neighbours are building a fort in the rain and decorating it with tree boughs, fruits and vegetables, don’t worry. They’re not crazy. They’re probably Jews. Autumn is a time when Jewish holy days, both joyous and deeply solemn, are packed together. This one — well, ofﬁcially, it’s three holidays covering nine days that blend together — is festive, unlike the repentant and deeply reﬂective Yom Kippur, which closed the High Holy Days a mere six days ago. The harvest festival of Sukkot began Wednesday at sundown and ends next Wednesday. The name “Sukkot” is simply the plural version of the temporary shelter — a “sukkah,” or “booth” — that observant Jews build in their back yards, and which have multiple symbolic meanings. “For most of our history, Jews were an agricultural people, closely tied to the land,” says Rabbi Dan Moskovitz. “So even though most Jews outside of Israel are more urbanized, we still celebrate holidays that are related to the harvest and its bounties, because the harvest and nature are evidence of God’s miraculous presence and God’s blessing.” Historically, the “booths” were where the ancient Israelites lived while reaping the harvest and, like probably all agricultural societies, a harvest festival ensued, explaining the party atmosphere in

Temple Sholom’s Rabbi Dan Moskovitz stands in the synagogue’s “sukkah,” or booth, that observant Jews build in their back yards for the harvest festival of Sukkot. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

today’s makeshift shelters. The sukkah is also said to symbolize the essential experience in the Jewish historical narrative: the escape from slavery in Egypt and the 40year adventure of the Exodus while the Israelites made their way to freedom, became a nation and received the word of God at Sinai. Above all, Moskovitz says, the sukkah is a reminder of the temporariness and fragility of everything, including life. This is only Moskovitz’s second holiday cycle here, having moved to Vancouver after 13 years as a rab-

bi at a large Los Angles synagogue. He took the helm at Temple Sholom, a Reform synagogue on Oak Street, north of 70th Avenue, in 2013. Last year, when the rabbi told his young kids they would sleep that night in the sukkah, as per tradition, resistance due to rain was deﬂected with some not-soancient Jewish wisdom. “Home Depot sells tarps,” he says. Like many, if not most, holy celebrations, Sukkot has a universal message — especially so this year as Sukkot overlaps with

Thanksgiving. “So often we take for granted the blessings in our life and Sukkot, the harvest holiday, reminds us of our connection to the earth and that all that we enjoy and appreciate doesn’t come only from us. It comes to us in partnership with nature and in partnership with God,” says Moskovitz. “Every religion, any person of faith, can celebrate and see that partnership,” he says. Because this densely packed period of holy days are nearing an end, and months remain before the next holiday, Chanukah, the

end of Sukkot ushers in the one-day holiday of Shemini Atzeret, the Hebrew name of which evokes a desire to linger, to extend a little the holy time. This is essentially just the eighth day of what would otherwise be a seven-day holiday, but it is, Moskovitz says, “a little less festive and little more ﬁlled with awe and reverence.” On Shemini Atzeret, Jews start praying for rain, a supplication that, according to Moskovitz, seems more effective in Vancouver than in SoCal. But wait. There’s more. The holidays are still not

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WORLD LEADER: In the developing world, cancer is usually a death sentence. By contrast, in the developed world, many people survive cancer or live longer with a better quality of life. The inequities are extreme, but Canadians are working to help narrow the divide. Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration — a Canadian, non-proﬁt charitable foundation run by dedicated, professional volunteers — is dedicated to providing services and treatments to those dealing with cancer in underdeveloped regions. More than 300 guests attended the charity’s inaugural fundraising dinner. Chaired by Carmela Laurino, the gala generated an impressive $568,000 to support the agency’s various initiatives in India, Brazil and Nepal. PAIN RELIEF: Kris Harrison was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis when he was three years old. Arthritis has ravaged every joint in his body and he has no cartilage left. He has had knee and hip replacements and spent a year recovering in GF Strong after his surgeries at the age of 24. Because of the damage to his joints, he never grew to his full height potential. A volunteer with the Arthritis Society for a dozen years, the 39-year-old was the keynote speaker at the society’s ninth Bluebird Gala staged at The Boathouse. Proceeds will support programs assisting some 554,000 B.C. residents living with arthritis.

Dr. Simon Sutcliffe and party chair Carmela Laurino saw more than $500,000 raised at the inaugural Two Worlds cancer benefit. Proceeds will help the non-profit’s efforts of providing cancer patients (primarily children) in resource-challenged regions around the world the best possible care.

Paralympians Kimberly Joines, left, and Michelle Salt fronted B.C. Adaptive Snowsports’ inaugural benefit at the Hotel Vancouver. More than $70,000 was raised to provide persons with a disability to enjoy the freedom and therapeutic benefits of skiing and snowboarding.

Vancouver Ballet Society gala chair Jean Orr helped raise funds for aspiring dancers, from left, Sara Carver, Chihiro Abe and Julia Ueda, pursue their dreams. The arts organization delivers roughly $20,000 annually in scholarships to support and nurture aspiring dancers.

Gord Martin, right, joined by his father, at the B.C. Restaurant Hall of Fame awards ceremony. The Bin 941 942 and Go Fish founder was feted along with Daniel Frankel, Jeff Van Geest and nine others in the food and hospitality industry.

Cocktail & Canapes Brett Turner and Dax Droski flanked Scott Emslie at the inaugural Harvest Haus. Under the Halle top at QE Plaza, hundreds gathered for the city’s newest autumn festival presented by The Social Concierge, the producers of Diner en Blanc.

EN POINTE: The life of a dancer is beautiful and challenging path. Like many disciplines costs — for instructors, studio time and equipment — can be prohibitive. The Vancouver Ballet Society, founded in 1946, has been nurturing and supporting dancers through education and assistance for more than six decades. The non-proﬁt held its annual showcase and fundraiser, which yours truly emceed. Chaired by Jean Orr, the dance-do drew hundreds to the Scotiabank Dance Centre in support of scholarships for budding dance talents.

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Any chance those unopened boxes stacked in your parents’ garage, basement or attic hold an old home movie? With Vancouver once again taking part in the 12th annual International Home Movie Day, it’s time to search out those hidden treasures for a bring-your-ownfilm event, during which trained staff will assess their condition. If the film (8-mm, Super 8 and 16-mm) or tape (VHS, DV and mini-DV) is in good enough condition, staff will project it on a big screen during the event. This free session also includes a clinic where film and videotape experts will assess a film’s physical condition, offer advice on proper storage and care for film and tapes, and discuss important considerations for film-to-digital transfers and video digitization. A selection of home movies from a collection of local archives will also be screened. Members of the public are encouraged to come out for the festivities even if they don’t have any films to bring. Last years’ finds ranged from a family wedding in Uganda in the

Home Movie Day Vancouver is an opportunity to have old family films checked out and even screened.

early 1960s to the aftermath of the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge, a 1959 family vacation in France, and 1964-65 University of B.C. engineering antics. As well, one happy couple was able to watch a ﬁlm from their 1950s wedding reception for the ﬁrst time. The event is hosted by the Centre for Digital Media and organized by the AudioVisual Heritage Association of British Columbia with participation and support from the CBC Vancouver Media Archives, City of Vancouver Archives and Western Front. Home Movie Day Vancouver, noon to 4 p.m., will once again take place at the Centre for Digital Media, 577 Great Northern Way. In recognition of the importance of the day, the City of Vancouver has declared Oct. 18 as Home Movie Day.

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With Movember just weeks away, it’s time to start penciling in all of those fabulous events celebrating the moustache — ironic or not. Movember is a growing initiative that asks men to sport a moustache for the month of November as a hairy take on a symbolic ribbon. Iconic ribbons of note are pink, symbolizing breast cancer awareness, and red, marking AIDS awareness. The initiative hopes the growth of a new moustache will spark conversations about men’s health issues, including prostate and testicular cancer and mental health. One particular event, which promises to be the “best Movember gala ever,” includes wine, whiskey, beer, three ﬂoors of fashion and some of this city’s ﬁnest men working the runway at

Holt Renfrew, 737 Dunsmuir St. The Nov. 4 gala also includes Fiona Forbes as emcee and guests including former Whitecap Jay DeMerit, TV host Tommy Europe and Ryan and Rob from Amazing Race Canada. Proceeds from the event, as well as 10 per cent of all retails sale from Holt Renfrew, will be donated to the Movember Foundation. For more information visit movember.com. Shopping and cocktails begin at 7 p.m.

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Any woman with questions about the Nov. 15 municipal election will want to take note of this event. Women Transforming Cities is presenting Dialogue Café: Everything you need to know about the 2014 municipal election but were afraid to ask. The event includes a lineup of speakers and roundtable discussions on city functions and key issues, featuring the Hot Pink Paper Campaign, a municipal election guide highlighting the priorities of women and girls. This free event takes place, in both English and Cantonese, Oct. 16 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, 2131 Renfrew St. For more information visit womentransformingcities.org/events. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Oct. 10-14, 2014 1. Prepare to sweat and be sweated on as Montreal’s King Khan & BBQ Show strips down and unleashes its garage, soul, punk and doo-wop fury on audiences Oct. 12 at Electric Owl. Nervous Talk opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca.

2. Everyone’s favourite Stephen King story about prom night, bullying, telekinesis and pig’s blood is now a musical thanks to Fighting Chance Productions. Carrie the Musical wields its powers at the Jericho Arts Centre until Oct. 25. Details and tickets at ﬁghtingchanceproductions.ca. 3. The ﬁrst rule of Write Club is that there is a Write Club. And it’s billed as an interactive evening of lit and wit, where audience members dress up as their favourite authors and comedians perform scenes in their styles in a head-to-head battle to determine the greatest writer of all time. Our money’s on puberty brawler Judy Blume. Hosted by Ian Boothby and featuring Taz VanRassel, Nicole Passmore, Barbara Kozicki, Brent Hirose and Ryan Beil, it all goes down Oct. 11, 7 p.m. at Little Mountain Gallery. Admission is $5 or free if you dress up as your favourite writer. 4. Following up on their successful, punhappy Star Wars: A Nude Hope and The Empire Strips Back, burlesque troupe the Geekenders complete their totally not-approved-by-George-Lucas-trilogy Reveal of the Jedi Oct. 11 and 12 at the Rio Theatre. You’ll never look at Ewoks the same way. Details at riotheatre.ca.

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ADAMS’ EVE Roots rocker Ryan Adams dropped by the Orpheum Oct. 7 to perform songs from his new self-titled album. Adams, who’s been known to walk off stage and cut concerts short when audience members jokingly requested Bryan Adams’ songs, even saw fit to cover Bryan Adams’ 1984 hit “Run to You.” To see more photos from the concert, go to vancourier.com/entertainment. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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The Hired Belly is always impressed when a new restaurant hits the ground running. Case in point: Kerrisdale’s Neapolitan styled Pizza Bufala, which has been bustling from the moment co-owners James Iranzad and Josh Pape threw open the doors three and a half months ago. So why Kerrisdale? Iranzad admits a few “informed” people cautioned him about going there, thinking the leafy ‘hood might be reluctant to embrace something new.

Bufala does Margherita pizza right. PHOTO TIM PAWSEY

But Iranzad (who grew up in Kerrisdale and went to Prince of Wales) says he found those cautionary tales always vague. “I’m convinced if you do something well, people will

support you. Look at Ajisai — some of the best sushi in Vancouver. It’s always packed,” he notes. “We don’t like to compromise on quality,” says Iranzad (who also co-owns

Gastown’s Wildebeest with Pape). “And the rents aren’t cheap. But I just ﬁgured it was worth the risk. We asked ourselves, ‘What does the neighbourhood need?’ And the answer was clear — some sort of casual dining. “We also asked ourselves, ‘What kind of food do we love?’ so that it would be genuine on our part, delicious — and suit the neighbourhood.” Bufala is all those things. Walk in (go early to make sure you get a seat) and that passion is palpable. The place hums. There’s non-stop action, from the open kitchen to the ﬂoor. And the well-executed fare is delicious. It’s not only about the perfectly crusted pizza,

which includes an excellent Margherita with ample ﬁor di latte. Iranzad says they wanted their chefs to have fun, and it shows, often with a refreshing streak of tongue in cheek humour. Kale — everyone’s new superfood cure-all — shows up in a mildly addictive Kale Caesar Salad, anchovy and parmigiano packed, complete with a couple of rashers of crispy bacon. Mortadella also gets the royal treatment —roasted and served with pickled cipolini onions — while meatballs in tomato sauce come with crusty house-baked bread and lashings of basil.

The food is no-nonsense, down-to-earth rustic and at the same time well thought out and smartly executed, without being contrived. It’s a ﬁne balance — one that carries over into the wine list and cocktails (best enjoyed with smoky Castelvetrano olives), which Iranzad proudly describes as a tad risky. “We stayed away from the clichés,” he says. Bufala doesn’t pour the standard Italian Peroni beer found at just about every other Italian joint, instead opting for local draughts Red Truck, Four Winds and Dageraad Belgian. Continued next page

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Italian joint more than pizza Continued from page 23 Cocktails, too, are smart and well priced, such as refreshing Americano (Campari and sweet vermouth with soda), perfect as an aperitif. Wines, however, are faithfully Italian (and “pretty obscure,” admits Iranzad), ranging from Arneis and Inzolia to juicy Frappato-Nerello Mascalese and full bodied Nero Davalo Primitivo. “They’re not what you see on a standard wine list — but if you were in Tuscany, Naples or Amalﬁ on holiday, that’s what you’d be drinking with this kind of food.”

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With the Vancouver International Film Festival coming to a close Oct.10, VIFF announced its Canadian award winners earlier this week. The documentary Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story took home the VIFF Impact Award. Geneviève Dulude-Decelles won Most Promising Director of a Canadian Short Film for The Cut. Violent was named Best Canadian Film as well as Best B.C. Film. The B.C. Emerging Filmmaker Award went to Ana Valine’s Sitting on the Edge of Marlene. Everything Will Be received Honourable Mention for B.C. Spotlight. Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story also won the Audience Must See Award. For those who missed out on the festival or want to watch their favourite ﬁlm again, VIFF will remount a selection of the festival’s most popular ﬁlms for one-off encore screenings Oct. 11 to Oct. 13 at various venues. Films include Advanced Style, Everything Will Be, Art and Craft, Black Fly, Come to My Voice, Difret, Faith Connection, Fish & Cat, God Help the Girl, Handmade with Love in France, House Bound, In Search of Chopin, Jalanan, Just Eat it: A Food Waste Story, Listen Up Philip, Miss and the Doctors, Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Still Life, The Wonders, To Kill a Man, Violent, Walking Under Water and Wild Tales. For details and show times, go to viff.org.

Spend Thanksgiving Weekend at the Races

t’s a big weekend for horse racing in the Lower Mainland, with over $500,000 in stakes purses up for grabs! The long weekend kicks off Friday night at Fraser Downs Racetrack & Casino with “Friday Night Live”. First race goes at 7pm. In the Atrium at 6pm the drivers will be dressed in their colours and will hand out the popular Drivers Collectible Trading Cards. For those new to wagering, Learn to Wager Ambassadors will be on hand to help you understand the program, the tote board, what the odds mean and how to make different types of wagers. With contests, drink features and a great buffet in the Homestretch, there’s something for everyone. The action continues Sunday and holiday Monday at Hastings Racecourse. Sunday is Customer Appreciation Day with a $500 one-day handicapping contest, $1 programs, $1 pop, as well as food specials like a hot turkey sandwich. Monday, take in live entertainment and indulge in a special Thanksgiving lunch at Silks restaurant. First race goes each day at 1:50pm. As always, admission is free and all ages are welcome. If you can’t make it to either track this weekend, you can always catch horse races from tracks around the world at your local Racebook. There are Racebooks at Fraser Downs, Hastings Racecourse, River Rock Casino, Hard Rock Casino, Chances Maple Ridge, Starlight Casino, Derby Bar and Grill, and the Best Western Rainbow Country Inn (Chilliwack). There you can watch and wager on tracks from all over the world, all from the comfort of your own seat. You must be 19 or older to enter a Racebook or make any wager.

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Do you have a short film idea and like working feverishly under strict deadlines? Now in its 16th year, Crazy8s invites wannabe filmmakers to submit their short film idea in a five-minute video pitch. Six winners will receive $1,000 and a production package worth thousands of dollars to make their film in just eight “crazy” days. Finished films will be screened at a gala event on Feb. 28 at the Centre followed by a schmoozefilled after party at Science World. Aspiring Scorseses are invited to attend an info session and pitch registration, Oct.18, 1 to 5 p.m. at Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St. Details at crazy8s.cc.

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Notre Dame (1-1, 1-2) hosts the undefeated No. 4 South Delta Sun Kings at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10 at Burnaby Lake Park. South Delta sits at the top of the Western Conference standings beside 2014 B.C. champion Mount Douglas with six points apiece. Vancouver College (1-1, 0-3) fell out of the top fiveranked teams in B.C. for the first time this season. The Fighting Irish dropped from No. 3 to an honourable mention. They will look for their first win of the regular season against winless West Vancouver when the teams meet at O’Hagan Field at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 11.

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Fresh off a shutout win last week, the Hamber Grifﬁns (0-1, 1-0) travel to Burnaby Central to play the Wildcats, who lead the league with two consecutive wins and no losses. The game begins 7:30 p.m. Oct. 10.

SOFT TOUCH Shalom Suniula (in black) teaches children a passing move as Sebastian Patino, 9, throws the ball to a teammate at the Fraserview Boys and Girls Club on Oct. 2. Fijian rugby legend Waisale Serevi was in town to promote the Rugby Sevens World Cup and shared his experience and skills at a free clinic. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Five Vancouver senior girls volleyball teams are vying for space in the B.C. AA and AAA top 10 rankings and all of them are from the small, regional private school sports league. The LMISSA (Lower Mainland Independent Secondary School Athletic Association) counts six Vancouver teams and two more outside the city. Four are ranked in the top 10 teams in the province. In AA, which is based on the number of senior girls enrolled at a school, York House is ranked second. Notre Dame, unranked in the first week, has since moved to fifth and is now fourth, and St. Patrick’s is steady at ninth. In AAA, Little Flower Academy, now ninth, was ranked as high as fifth and Crofton House slipped out of the top 10 this week after starting the season at No. 6. “All of our schools have one head person that has reached some really high level of volleyball,” said Ross Ballard, a teacher and coach at Little Flower Academy who played varsity at UBC and competed at two World Cups for Canada’s national men’s team while playing professionally in Europe and South America. The Angels won the B.C. title in 2012, ousting the defending champions from Seaquam. At try-outs this season, 60 Grade 8 girls came to play. At LFA, 96 students registered in Grade 8, said Ballard. “We will keep 12 on the [junior] team but because we had so much interest from grades 9 to 10, we created a training team. By the time you get to the senior level, most likely you’re going to have a good squad,” he said. “The programs are a reflection of the commitment and buy-in within the schools.” “Yes, LMISSAA is very strong this year for senior girls volleyball,” wrote Maurizio Di Donato, the new head coach at Notre Dame, in an email. “An excellent example of the high quality being played was apparent at this year’s

Notre Dame Juggler Jolene Robinson (No. 2) and West Point Grey Academy Wolf Lucy Chambers (no. 10) meet at the net Oct. 7. The Jugglers won 3-1. PHOTO DANTOULGOET

VIU tournament. Six of eight quarterfinalists, and three of four semi-finalists were all from LMISSA this year.” York House lost in the final of the Vancouver Island University to Timberline, the No. 1 AAA team from Campbell River. At Notre Dame where the Jugglers have risen every week since Sept. 23, the Di Donato said Dawn Oswald is one reasons for their success. “She makes my life much easier,” he wrote in an email about Oswald, the program co-ordinator who played varsity volleyball at SFU and led the Jugglers to a 2005 B.C. championship. “I get to focus on the senior team and implement strategies that are collaborated over for the entire program. We start at the Grade 8 level with Dawn as head coach and try to establish systems that are maintained right up to, and including, the senior team,” he said. “The seven grade 11s

and 10s on this year’s team have played together since Grade 8,” added Di Donato. “They are a great mix of girls who love the game and enjoy being around each other at all times. This makes for some great cohesion, which will hopefully lead to success this year and next.” York House has stormed the league and is undefeated with seven wins. Chris Ruse, the head coach of the Tigers, played on the same Thunderbirds team as Ballard, who coaches the rivals next door at LFA. At Crofton House, program coordinator Gerald Lambert is an internationally sanctioned volleyball referee. Vancouver’s private schools no longer play in the public school league since the Vancouver Secondary Sports Athletic Association changed its policy in 2010. Since then, the LMISSAA started organizing its own leagues. Independent schools have the ability to hire

teachers based their extracurricular interests and the added beneﬁts they can offer students outside of class. At St. Patrick’s, which is the only Vancouver team in the league with a female coach, Adele Renzullo said success breeds success. She’s been at the helm for 29 years after a varsity career as a power hitter at Simon Fraser University. “Our league has always been very competitive. When you play good teams all the time, you can’t help but improve throughout the season,” she said. In the past 15 years we send at least three of our league teams, which is a great record. Our league teams also place top eight, almost always.” The Celtics won the provincial title in 2001, ’02, ’04 and ’08. “Our team alone has been the most consistently represented AA team in B.C. at the BC’s, making it 25 years out of 28,” said Renzullo. twitter.com/mhstewart

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In arenas across the country this Saturday, Hockey Canada will run a day-long game that spans more than 12 hours and includes at least 2,000 female players on 98 teams at 49 different cities and towns at the atom, peewee, bantam, midget and senior levels. The Richmond Ravens hockey association is one of five teams playing in B.C. for and next year, the Vancouver Angels girls hockey association wants the puck to drop at their home arena in a game that unites players in Canada. The Angels have already put in a request for specific evening ice time, which is the reason they couldn’t participate this year. For this year, however, the Angels have set up a scrimmage against the Abbotsford Ice — not officially part of “the long game,” as Hockey Canada calls it, but still something to celebrate the World Girls’ Hockey Weekend, which is a four-year-old creation of the international

Vancouver Angels celebrate after scoring a goal. The girls hockey association grew this season and invites new players to try the game. PHOTO DAVID STREET

hockey federation. The Angles also invite girls aged four to 17 to try hockey again or for the ﬁrst time. The clinic is at Killarney ice rink on Oct. 11 from 9 to 9:45 a.m. and again from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. The scrimmage will run between the two clinics. The Angels added a second session because of high demand, said Jim Yue. “Hockey is different than other sports. You need to know how to skate,” he said. “It’s not like soccer,

for example, where you can put on a pair of shoes and go kick a ball around.” All equipment, including helmets and skates, is provided for free. “We supply full protective equipment and skates, with the session run by our coaches and assisted by a range of Vancouver Angels from initiation level to our most experienced midgetaged girls,” said Yue. To register, contact info@ vancouvergirlshockey.com. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Saints runner Nicholas Varabioff won the private school junior boys meet at St. George’s on Oct. 8. He and four St. George’s teammates were the fastest junior racers. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Enid Au’s winning streak improved to two this week after the Grade 12 Killarney student was the fastest girl at the public school cross-country meet, held at Quilchena Park on Oct. 8. She ﬁnished the 3.5-kilometre course in 13 minutes and 44.72 seconds, improving on her Sept. 30 win on the same trails by more than six seconds. She was 24 seconds ahead of Annika Austin, a Grade 9 Kitsilano runner who ﬁnished second overall but took gold in the junior division. Manon

Plouvier, also in Grade 9 at Kits, finished third overall in 15:15.34. Calli Charlton didn’t race. Kieran Lumb ran a slower pace compared to the first meet of the season but won the senior boys division with time to spare. He finished the 4.5km Quilchena course in 15:31.79, more than 12 seconds ahead of Thomas Nobbs of Point Grey and Michael Harris of Churchill. The previous week, Lumb ran 15.13.33 and came second to Simeo Pont from Jules Verne secondary. Pont did not race this week. — Megan Stewart

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At one stage in most people’s lives there comes a time when you become tired of paying rent. Maybe there are pet restrictions that you no longer want to deal with, noisy neighbours or a landlord that never fixes things. Whatever the small reasons are, the primary reason always comes down to this — you want your own space. Millennials (otherwise known as Generation Y) are definitely the Internet generation and always seem to be in a hurry. How many times have you been at a dinner party in recent years where a topic is raised that no one is sure of the answer to, so the solution is “let’s Google it”? The Internet is the most common way first-time buyers do their research, and this trend is only increasing. Which is all fine, but being so used to instant gratification can provide some challenges, especially when you are dealing with

The challenge for millennials is usually saving up enough for a down payment on a condo.

something as important and complicated as the real estate process. It’s quite common for a single person to pay $1,500 a month for rent in Vancouver, and with that budget they can see that owning isn’t too far off. If you are in

the ﬁnancial position to do so, it can be rather tempting to jump head ﬁrst into the local condo market. But it’s always important to take your time and analyze the situation. Rushing into any investment is never smart and the real estate market is

certainly no exception. The key challenge for millennials is always saving for a down payment. After all, how many young people know the deﬁnition of the word “save” these days? With credit so readily available and encouraged,

savings is pretty much the last thing on Generation Y’s mind. Not that I want to generalize and paint everyone with the same brush, but this is a reality in this day and age. If the bank of mommy and daddy isn’t available to come to the rescue, condo ownership can be out of the question. Saving is difficult in our society of consumption, and most younger people who are buying for the first time aren’t in their prime earning years, which also presents a challenge. When it comes to the “I want my own space” part of the equation, many firsttime buyers have a specific list of wants. When I take a new client condo shopping I always suggest they make two lists, one being a “must have” list, the other being a “nice to have” list. A musthave list could be comprised of number of bedrooms, neighbourhood, price range, and type of building. A nice to have list could feature a gas stove, a balcony, hardwood flooring as well as any other attractive features.

In my experience, most first-timers want everything on their list, don’t want to save for a down payment and want to extend their credit as far as possible by choosing as many upscale features as a home can have. While the desire for nice things is human nature and is only natural, overextending yourself financially is never a good option, and can lead to difficulties down the road. Being excited about the possibility of owning a property is a great thing, and something to enjoy – but being realistic through the process is always advisable. The goal is to ensure freedom, both in your everyday life as well as the eventual financial freedom owning real estate brings. Live it, enjoy it, get excited, but try to be patient as well. You will thank yourself for it. Barry Magee is a Vancouver-based realtor with Sutton West Coast Realty. His website livinginvancity.com is filled with information, including sections devoted solely to tips for sellers and buyers.

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START NOTHING: 10:58 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, 4:27 p.m. Wednesday to 3:29 a.m. Thursday, and 6:10 a.m. to 4:08 p.m. Saturday. PREAMBLE: Eccentricity is one of the most stubborn traits of humanity. It survives centuries, wars, famine. As long as mankind lives, a slender portion of our population emerges as eccentric. It’s no surprise then, that eccentrics themselves tend to be stubborn or, perhaps more correctly, cling to or maintain their eccentricity in an unyielding fashion. One of the qualities by which we recognize eccentricity is its refusal to adapt to the environment. A lady who wears five-foot wide hats with fruit hanging on them, will wear those hats no matter what government is in power, no matter how fashions change, no matter how many people scoff. I think eccentrics are very resistant to, or perhaps oblivious of, influences, arguments, approval or disapproval of the people around them. This helps not the eccentric, but eccentricity itself, survive. (I suspect the fixed signs — Scorpio, Aquarius, Taurus and Leo — contain more eccentrics than most.) Everything in life has a purpose, a role to play.

Help Lester with his passion to become a commercial pilot Lester Wong’s story is one of strength, determination and the importance of having a goal. In 2009, he suffered devastating burns to 33% of his body as the result of a car accident. After months in the hospital, he finished his BCIT studies as an aircraft engineer, got his private pilot’s licence and was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award. His sister has started a crowdfunding campaign to fund his next goal: becoming a commercial pilot. Help his dream take flight at FundAid.ca. Firefighters are also raising money for the Burn Fund, which helped Lester and his family after his accident. You can donate to their campaigns on FundAid.ca

Start nothing major or important for two more weeks. Instead, reprise situations from the past (especially partnership situations) or protect ongoing ventures from mistakes. An ex-spouse or ex-business associate, or a former relocation opportunity, might return. If it was good before, and broke or didn’t complete due to circumstances, go ahead, grab it. If it ended due to incompatibility, poor luck, argument, etc. — then leave it alone.

Remember, start nothing important before Oct. 25 -— that includes relationships. Your energy, charisma and clout sail toward a yearly high. The peak is likely Oct. 21-23.)You could attract an old ﬂame, perhaps a Gemini. There is someone you chat with often, just in passing, casually. This person has a lot of the qualities which signal a viable mate (for you). However, be patient; it might be 2016 before this person can “join you.”

Tackle neglected chores. Don’t start any big new ones, though and be careful with machinery. You might have to replace or repair a tool, but DON’T buy big new machines/tools. Despite a few snafus, co-workers remain pleasant, and you feel good in the work-place. Your loins might be ﬁred up all month, but the scent of sex is a cosmic lure until the 26th, so be patient.

Start nothing important before Oct. 25, Scorpio. Protect ongoing projects from delays and mistakes. Reprise a past project if it “nudges” you (and has no fatal flaw). Mostly, remain quiet, contemplative; rest, avoid competitive situations. Interface with government, institutions and head office. Study a “group” at work and mull over how could they be more efficient.

This is generally an easy, ﬂowing week, Gemini. Remember, don’t start anything before Oct. 25. That said, romance, love of children, joy at children’s abilities and progress, creative and speculative surges, pleasure, sports/games and nature’s powerful beauty. These ﬁll your hours and days. You’re riding a winning streak, especially with things returning from the past.

Remember, start nothing new and important before Oct. 25, especially in career, relationships, dealings with the public, and relocation. Something or someone from the past in these areas might return and have a worthwhile suggestion. So, focus on past and ongoing situations. You’re assertive and friendly now, romantic also.

Remember, start nothing new and important before Oct. 25, Cancer. Protect ongoing ventures from delays and mistakes (double-check) and reprise one or two former opportunities that might reappear. The main accent lies on kids, home, parents, real estate, gardening, nutrition, stomach and soul. A former real estate bargain might materialize or a prodigal relative might return.

Remember, start nothing important before Oct. 25. The general accent lies on ambition, community reputation, prestige relations, career . Bosses like you now, it’s easy to get approval but more in a general sense than for a speciﬁc project. Remain cautious of dark alleys, tight places, belligerent people. A former career role or opportunity could return this week or next. If appropriate, grab it.

Remember, don’t start anything important before Oct. 25. Buying groceries is not “important,” but buying a bicycle, clothes, backhoes, etc., are. This is an easy, easily lucky week, Leo. Popularity, light, flirtatious romance, social delights, optimism, wish-fulfillment and entertainment fill Sunday/ Monday. Not a good time to start a new romance if you want it to be “big.”

Friends are talkative all October, and you enjoy their company. Many ideas, idealistic views swirl around you. So will notions of travel, higher learning, publishing and philosophy, law, and cultural endeavors and social rituals (e.g., weddings). These zones are blessed for you until Nov. 2015. Relationships and relocation are double-lucky until August 2015.

Remember, start nothing new/important, projects nor relationships, before Oct. 25. The general accent lies on earnings, shopping, possessions, memory, and sensual attractions, “easy sex.” However, buy nothing important. Despite my cautions, money is mildly lucky now. Pay on, and collect from, old bills. A former money source, a lost possession or a comfortable but not exciting “intimate partner” might reappear.

The general accent lies on life’s depths and mysteries: sexual yearning, intimacy and consequence, pregnancy, investment, debt, lifestyle changes, health diagnoses. While these are favoured, and the recent rejections in these areas are over, stick with what you’ve already started (September or earlier) or reprise anything here that returns from the past. An ex-lover, ex-investment, etc., is sure to appear and hang around, even if only in your thoughts.

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The spiritual heir of a cult classic A vehicle that can go anywhere, anytime has captured peoples’ imagination BY DAVID CHAO since the creation of the original Willys Jeep. After WWII, Toyota set about making their own, and it’s efforts resulted in the Land Cruiser. The Land Cruiser series is Toyota’s longest running in the company’s history. Early Land Cruisers were basically just bigger clones of the Jeep with a six-cylinder engine. But, after a few quick improvements, Toyota had the

FJ40 model. The FJ40’s reliability and longevity has led to it gaining massive popularity across the globe, especially in places with rugged terrain or extreme temperatures. When production of the FJ40 ended in 1984, Toyota shifted the image of the Land Cruiser line to a larger, more luxurious SUV. However, by the mid-nineties, Toyota felt they were losing touch with the young, adventurous demographic and sought to create a spiritual successor to the FJ40. The rugged, retro-styled FJ Cruiser was the fruit of that labour. Vehicles inspired by the Willys Jeep have changed

and evolved in a number of different directions. Therefore, the FJ Cruiser competes with an interesting collection of rivals, including the Land Rover LR2, the Nissan Xterra, and the modern incarnation of the original, the Jeep Wrangler. The real news for 2014 is that this year is FJ’s last year — Toyota announced that it will stop producing FJ worldwide likely due to declining interest over the years. This is unfortunate because the FJ is

such a unique vehicle with a character that can’t be matched by today’s modern and smooth SUVs.

Design

Since its introduction in 2006, the FJ Cruiser has changed very little visually. It is deﬁned by its short and stocky stance. The grille/headlight arrangement and vertical windshield with three wipers are a couple design cues from the original FJ40. The FJ Cruiser is also the only current vehicle to have the

name “Toyota” spelled out across the grille instead of the emblem. The FJ Cruiser notably has reverse-opening rear doors which do not have handles on the outside. High strength steel was used so the FJ Cruiser has adequate side impact protection without the need for a door pillar. With a length of 4,670 mm (183.9 in), the FJ Cruiser is the longest compact SUV sold by Toyota in North America. Therefore, it sits between

the smaller RAV4 and the midsize Highlander in the lineup in terms of size. As its base, the FJ Cruiser uses a body-onframe truck-style structure. Many of its mechanical components have been sourced from other Toyota products. For example, its engine and transmission are shared with the Tundra, Tacoma and 4Runner and suspension parts can be found in the Hilux, Tacoma, 4Runner and the Lexus GX. Continued on page 39

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Hidden beneath the long ﬂat hood is a 4.0-litre V6 that produces 260 hp and 271 ft-lbs of torque. There is no other available engine but you do have the choice between either a ﬁve-speed automatic transmission or a six-speed manual. Models with the manual have a full-time 4WD system with a rear differential lock and a two-speed transfer case. Automatic models employ a part-time 4WD system with a automatic disconnecting differential and two-speed transfer case. Also, FJ Cruiser’s with the automatic have the option of 4-wheel Crawl Control, which allows the driver to focus solely on steering while the system operates the acceleration, brakes and the traction control to maintain a slow speed while ascending or descending steep terrain. While the FJ Cruiser is mechanically capable and has an impressive 245 mm (9.6 in) of ground clearance, its front and rear overhangs only allow for a 34 degree approach angle and a 31 degree departure angle. This unfortunately means that it’s not as useful as some of its rivals when it comes to hill-climbing. The Toyota FJ Cruiser is most at home running over wide open trails. Regardless of the surface, be it hard packed dirt or loose sand or snow, the FJ Cruiser will just power through making you feel invincible. Potholes, logs and rocks don’t pose much of a threat and you can leave civilization quite far behind. Also, the air intake is set high in the engine bay, allowing you to ford substantial water hazards as well. The car is surprisingly fun to drive, mainly because its character is unique and has that rugged feel you don’t feel any more in today’s modern SUVs.

Environment

The cabin inside the FJ Cruiser is spacious and functional and all of the controls are large and easy to operate in a hurry or with gloves on. To help with off-road navigation, there is an interesting and handy instrument pod on the dash with a compass, outside temperature gauge and an inclinometer. The steering wheel also feels comfortable and

sturdy in your hand. The shift lever is within easy reach and features a large ergonomic knob. The bucket front seats have wide, flat cushions with backs featuring small bolsters. They provide an elevated seating position, giving good visibility out front. But, the narrow windshield can limit how high taller drivers can look, making traffic lights a tad difficult to see when up close. Looking behind or over your shoulder is not any easier. The full-size spare tire mounted to the rear door restricts visibility out back and the massive ‘C’ pillars create a sizable blind spot. Thankfully, Toyota has fitted the FJ Cruiser with a standard backup camera integrated into the rearview mirror to aid one of those issues. Like all vehicles of this size, there is plenty of room. However, accessing the rear seat is not easy thanks to the narrow rear “suicide” doors. But, they are split 60/40 and fold nearly flat if you need additional cargo space.

Features

Ranging in price from $33,540 to $41,925, the FJ Cruiser is available in four models, including the limited edition Trail Teams Special Edition version. Standard equipment includes illuminated entry, cargo and map lamps, power windows and locks, and air conditioning. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include keyless entry, cruise control, 120 V power outlet and rear privacy glass. Fuel efﬁciency numbers (L/100km) for the manual transmission are 13.8 city, 10.3 highway and 12.2 combined. The automatic transmission returns 12.7 city, 9.5 highway and 11.3 combined.

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The cabin inside the FJ Cruiser is spacious and functional and all of the controls are large and easy to operate

PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until October 31, 2014. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,540 and includes $1,545 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, and battery levy. *Lease example: 2014 Corolla CE 6M with a vehicle price of $16,540, includes $1,549 freight/PDI $1000 (Toyota Canada Lease Assist, which is deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes) leased at 0.9% over 60 months with $0 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $84 with a total lease obligation of $10,080. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. **Finance example: 0.9% finance for 72 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-C MSRP is $25,495 and includes $1,745 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning levy. †Lease example: 2014 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-C MSRP is $24,995, includes $1,745 freight/PDI ($500 Toyota Canada Lease Assist, which is deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes) leased at 0.9% over 60 months with $2,325 down payment equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $114 with a total lease obligation of $16,005. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. ††Finance example: 0.9% finance for 84 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-C. Applicable taxes are extra. †††Up to $3200 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Camry models. $2500 non-stackable cash back available on the 2014 Camry Sedan LE Automatic BF1FLT-C. 2014 Tundra Double Cab SR5 4.6L SR5 Plus 4x4 Automatic UM5F1T-C MSRP is $40,640 and includes $1,815 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning charge. ‡Finance example: 0.9% finance for 72 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Tundra Double Cab SR5 4.6L SR5 Plus 4x4 Automatic UM5F1T-C. Applicable taxes are extra. ‡‡Up to $7500 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Tundra models. Non-stackable cash back on 2014 Tundra Double Cab SR5 4.6L SR5 Plus 4x4 Automatic UM5F1T-C is $5500. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. Non-stackable Cash Back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be October 31, 2014. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. ‡‡‡Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 24, 36, 48 and 60 month leases of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. First semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. Toyota Financial Services will waive the final payment. Semi-monthly lease offer can be combined with most other offers excluding the First Payment Free and Encore offers. First Payment Free offer is valid for eligible TFS Lease Renewal customers only. Toyota semi-monthly lease program based on 24 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 120 payments, with the final 120th payment waived by Toyota Financial Services. Competitive bi-weekly lease programs based on 26 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 130 payments. Not open to employees of Toyota Canada, Toyota Financial Services or TMMC/TMMC Vehicle Purchase Plan. Some conditions apply. See your Toyota dealer for complete details. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

Continued from page 37 The cabin features many elements focused on improving off-road practicality. All surfaces are washable and durable, making clean-up after heavy outdoor use a breeze.

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