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Vision, NPA in war of numbers

Duelling platforms based on conﬂicting ﬁnancial calculations Mike Howell

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Anyone considering voting for Vision Vancouver or the NPA better be good at math, research and the city’s budget history to understand how much each party’s promises will cost and how they crunched the numbers. With Vision having already released its $1.4-million platform, the focus has shifted to the cost of the NPA’s promises, with both parties providing reporters with a variety of numbers from reports, estimates and mind-boggling calculations. Over the past two days, both parties have accused each other of not doing their math homework. And each side claims their calculations are correct. So which party should the public believe? “Absolutely, our numbers,” NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe told reporters Tuesday from the party’s campaign headquarters at the City Square building where the party released the costs of its platform.

LaPointe said the party’s platform is “realistic, it’s affordable, it’ll stand scrutiny and I think the public still has a lot of time in order to evaluate it, ask us questions about it and we’ll be quite open about it.” The NPA released its full “affordable platform” on the first day of advanced polls and said its 60 promises will cost $18 million per year. Those promises will be paid for from an anticipated cost savings of three per cent achieved in a review of all city departments, agencies and corporations. “That would save much more than we propose to spend,” LaPointe said. “Vision has increased spending by $250 million in its six years [in office], so we know we can find the funds to pay for our ideas.” The NPA says it will spend $45 million on capital expenditure projects, with the majority of that money going towards building three new outdoor pools and restoring funding to the Marpole-Oakridge community centre. Continued on page 5

Ready or not, here he comes to park board dispute Sandra Thomas

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WINDOW INTO HISTORY: A stained glass window at Christ Church Cathedral downtown memorializes Harold Heber Owen, son of the church’s third rector, killed in France during the First World War. See the full story page 18. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Superstar arbitrator Vince Ready, nicknamed “God” by some after successfully negotiating a settlement in the recent provincial teachers’ strike, has stepped into the fray of the very public and litigious battle between six community centre associations and the Vancouver Park Board. Hastings, Sunset, Riley Park/Hillcrest, Kensington, Kerrisdale and Killarney community centre associations approached Ready last week. According to a letter obtained by the Courier dated Oct. 31, the arbitrator agreed to set the dates of Nov. 5 and 6 aside for mediation. The associations broke off talks with the park board regarding an interim joint operating agreement more than a year ago

after what they say were breaches of that contract. Ready began meeting with the associations and park board Wednesday for two days of negotiations, which were expected to end after the Courier’s press deadline Thursday. The letter, sent to the city’s legal department from lawyer Dean Davison who’s representing the associations in Supreme Court, reads in part, “Our clients have discussed the ongoing matters of contention between themselves and the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation including, but not limited to the ongoing litigation before the Supreme Court arising from the Park Board’s breaches of the Joint Operating Agreements. The above named societies would like to resolve these matters in good faith and in a fair and efﬁcient matter. Continued on page 4

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So if longtime COPE member/former councillor/ one-time mayoral candidate David Cadman endorsed Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson to continue as the city’s mayor, would anybody care? Not the media, apparently. How else to explain that yours truly was the only member of the unwashed typists to attend Cadman’s political marriage to Robertson at Vision headquarters Wednesday morning? (OK, some unfamiliar face snuck in during my exclusive oneon-two but I’d never seen her before and was told later the reporter was from The Vancouver Observer, an online publication headed up by Vision-friendly folk.) Anyway, I know a media release was circulated before the press conference, and maybe some of my colleagues are reeling from the rhetoric of the campaign and needed a break, but this was Cadman, after all. The bearded wonder was literally the face of COPE for years. Anybody remember the “vote beard, vote Cadman, vote COPE” campaign in 2008? I do. I also remember that Cadman was a Vision booster in the 2005, 2008 and 2011 races when both parties ran coordinated campaigns. So Cadman’s political marriage to Robertson is not really news, or a surprise. More of a renewal of their vows. What’s interesting though is that COPE never ran a mayoral candidate in 2005, 2008 or 2011. The last time the party ran someone for the top job was in 2002. His name was Larry Campbell. I won’t go in to the ugly history of how Campbell and fellow COPErs Tim Stevenson, Raymond Louie and Jim Green eventually ﬂed the “wild-eyed revolutionaries” — Campbell’s words — to create Vision Vancouver.

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Former COPE councillor David Cadman endorsed Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision team Monday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

But this time around, COPE has a mayoral candidate in Meena Wong. So why not endorse Wong? “Look, I know Meena very well,” Cadman told me after praising Robertson as one of the best mayors in the country and noting he was recognized globally for his leadership. “But I don’t want to draw votes from Gregor for somebody who cannot win. It’s real to me and it should be real to all voters that Meena is, at best, a spoiler and might elect [NPA mayoral candidate] Kirk LaPointe, who doesn’t live in the city, can’t vote in the city. And that’s not the way I think we need to go.” So what’s Wong have to say about that? Her initial reaction: “Oh my God.” Then she went on to say Vision must be “running scared” about COPE’s resurgence and that people are fed up with Vision and the NPA because they are “developer parties.” Cadman said he is genuinely worried what he considers the COPE stronghold of Grandview-Woodland — where he lives and where residents rallied against Vision over plans for towers in the neighbourhood — will vote against the mayor’s party. “All that will succeed in doing is electing the NPA, and that’s not to anyone’s beneﬁt in this city,” he said. The NPA, of course, has something to say about that and got an interesting endorsement of its own Thursday, with independent mayoral candidate Bob

Kasting throwing his support behind NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe. “I think it’s unfortunate that he’s throwing his former political party under the bus for political gain for a party he was never a member of,” said NPA Coun. George Afﬂeck of Cadman’s endorsement. “It’s really unfortunate for COPE and I guess it’s a good reason why they got rid of him.” As city hall history buffs will recall, Cadman’s political life ended Sept. 18, 2011 when he lost a COPE nomination battle that would have seen him seek a fourth term on council. Cadman joined COPE in 1976 and is still owed more than $20,000 from the party for helping ﬁnance the 2002 campaign. Cadman said the outstanding tab is not connected to his endorsement of Vision Vancouver. “Money is an aside,” he said. “I assumed that I would get paid back, but I haven’t been. So that’s life.” Cadman, by the way, has also endorsed the slate picked by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, which includes all Vision candidates, COPE candidate Gayle Gavin, former COPE candidates RJ Aquino of OneCity and Jane Bouey and Gwen Giesbrecht of the Public Education Project, a new party. At the writing of this piece, former NPA president Michael Davis was set to endorse Vision Vancouver. The election is Nov. 15. twitter.com/Howellings

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Continued from page 1 Accordingly, they are interested in entering into mediation with the park board to resolve all issues.” The deal was contingent on the park board agreeing to the terms by 5 p.m. Monday (Nov. 3). The cost for proceeding was set at $5,000 per party. Monday afternoon the park board responded with a prepared statement, which read, “The Vancouver Park Board welcomes the opportunity to meet with mediator Vince Ready and update him on the negotiations which have taken place and are still underway with the majority of Community Centre Associations. Park Board Chair Aaron Jasper and General Manager Malcolm Bromley welcome the involvement of Mr. Ready given the extraordinary experience he would bring to any negotiation. Senior staff will be available to meet with Mr. Ready later this week.” While the associations were unable to comment on this latest move, Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper said Monday the park board was anxious to meet with Ready but had

not yet committed to joint negotiations. “Staff would like to bring Vince Ready up to speed,” said Jasper. “Our stand has always been to work through negotiation not litigation.” In January, the B.C. Supreme Court temporarily halted the attempted eviction of the six community centre associations by the park board. In a decision brought down Jan. 17, B.C. Supreme Court justice Gregory Bowden ruled Hastings, Kensington, Kerrisdale, Killarney, Riley Park/Hillcrest and Sunset community centre associations could stay put until a court case is heard later this year or in 2015. The Vision Vancouverdominated park board served the six associations with eviction notices in the fall of 2013 after the group launched several legal proceedings in Supreme Court regarding the interim joint operating agreement. The associations launched their ﬁrst lawsuit in September 2013, asking for an injunction against what was initially the forced use of the OneCard, a universal access pass that eliminates the need

for individual community centre memberships. The park board also wanted to centralize programs and services at community centres across the city, which the associations say isn’t practical. As well, the board wants to create a new financial model, which when first proposed would have seen all of the associations pooling their revenues and that money being diverted to “have not” community centres. A new financial model has yet to be decided and negotiations are ongoing in cementing a permanent joint operating agreement. Meanwhile another 11 associations continue to negotiate their joint operating agreements with the park board. Renfrew Community Centre Association announced this week it too had dropped out of talks. Gerry Massing, president of the Dunbar Community Centre Association, called the negotiations so far, which have included more than 50 meetings, “demanding.” “Obviously Renfrew thinks it’s taking too long,” said Massing. “But Dunbar still supports the process.” twitter.com/sthomas10

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Louie calls NPA costs ‘ridiculous’ Continued from page 1 The day before the NPA’s release of its platform, Vision Coun. Raymond Louie, the longtime chairperson of the city’s finance committee, did his own calculations on how much the NPA promises would cost. He came up with a $33.3 million increase to the operating budget and $112.8 million increase to the capital budget. After reviewing the NPA’s budget figures Tuesday, Louie again made himself available to reporters to poke holes in the NPA’s numbers. He pointed out the NPA’s $300,000 one-time cost to create counterflow lanes was “ridiculous,” saying a single intersection with a left-turn bay costs $6 million. “How on Earth can you implement a number of technologies and signs and lights and make this at all effective under a $300,000 one-time expense, with no operating [budget]?” he said. Louie also said LaPointe told reporters in July there would be a tax freeze, if the NPA formed government. The NPA announced Tuesday there would be a freeze on property taxes but that it would be “at no more than the rate of inflation for at least one year.” Mayor Gregor Robertson joined Louie Tuesday to say the NPA’s promises would

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“blow a $146 million hole” in the city’s budget. The mayor was disappointed the NPA hadn’t made ending homelessness a key plank. “They have zero commitments on affordable housing or childcare and instead we see a series of risky and costly proposals like counterﬂow lanes that are not costed and would require big cuts to pay for them,” Robertson said. Vision says it will cost $1.4 million per year to implement its promises. That includes annual costs of $500,000 to increase the number of police ofﬁcers to target dangerous drivers and $400,000 to double the size of the Vancouver School Board’s breakfast program. Vision says the majority

of its commitments require “political choices,” not new spending because programs such as its housing strategy are already funded under the operating and capital budgets the party set over its six years in ofﬁce. LaPointe did not question Vision’s $1.4 million in promises at Tuesday’s press conference, although he said Vision has “picked numbers out of the air” to discredit the NPA’s calculations. “I can only point to their track record in managing city ﬁnances — the increase in taxes, the increase in debt, the increases that have made this city far less affordable,” he said. “And all I can say is it’s time for a change.” Both parties have posted their platforms online. twitter.com/Howellings

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Vancouver 1st school board candidates Ken Denike and Sophia Woo want more involvement by Chinese-language parents in school affairs. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Denike, Woo launch platform

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Vancouver 1st school board trustee candidates Ken Denike and Sophia Woo say the Vancouver School Board should transfer ownership of the VSB-owned Kingsgate Mall property to the province to hasten coordinated, long-term planning for new elementary and high schools in Southeast False Creek.

The recommendation is part of their election platform announced Nov. 3. The school board previously transferred the Anne Hebert school property to the provincial government to speed up planning for and construction of University Hill secondary and Norma Rose Point elementary and middle school. Trustees were asked whether they favoured selling VSB property at the District

Parent Advisory Council’s trustee forum Oct. 23. Every candidate except the representative of the Workless Party, who “abstained” from answering the question, said they wouldn’t support selling school board property. Denike says he and Woo haven’t changed their tune. “The question wasn’t quite put that way,” Denike said. “It was something about selling schools.” Continued on page 8

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Gender policy still an issue Continued from page 7 The incumbent trustees say they want a Chinese parents group associated with the DPAC to improve communications with and involvement of Chinesespeaking parents who lack strong English language skills. Woo forwarded a related motion at the Sept. 15 board meeting. “Last time when I talked to the DPAC chair, basically she say there’s no need for a Chinese parents [group] and parents have to learn to speak English to go to a DPAC meeting,” said Woo, who moved to Vancouver from Hong Kong in 1978. DPAC chairperson Melanie Antweiler says she never said Chinese parents need to learn to speak English to participate in DPAC. She notes DPAC’s vice-chair is ﬂuent in Mandarin and English and could translate. She said DPAC members speak multiple languages and wonders about the need for a Chinese-speciﬁc group. Woo says SUCCESS settlement services agency assisted a Chinese parents group in Vancouver in the 1980s and 1990s, and that

similar groups in Richmond and Burnaby persist, but meetings in Vancouver ended because the city is geographically vast. She believes a group could ﬂourish with communications via social media and conference calls. But the motion Woo forwarded requests trustees to direct staff to organize a series of meetings to talk to parents about the sexual orientation and gender identities policy that was approved in June. Woo says her motion is to be discussed at an education and student services committee meeting. Denike and Woo want to continue to act as vocal opposition on the board that has been dominated by Vision Vancouver trustees. They want more transparency about the budget and policies, including the revised gender identities and sexual orientation guidelines. “It’s not translated into different languages,” Woo said. “[Parents] don’t have enough time to really digest the policy.” She and Denike want the board to reinvest in additional workers for the School Age Children

and Youth — Substance Use Prevention Initiative (SACY). They also want property taxes collected by the city for schools be connected directly to the VSB to boost accountability and give citizens more of a say. The pair wants to see closer connections between the Mandarin immersion program at Norquay elementary and the Mandarin bilingual program at Jamieson elementary and Asian Studies for grades 8 to 10 that would include a new course on Chinese history. First elected in 1984, Denike is Vancouver’s longest-serving elected official. He told parents at the trustees forum that he’s been chairperson of the VSB five times. Woo, a mental health clinician, was first elected in 2011. Both she and Denike were elected as NPA candidates but were expelled by the party in June over comments regarding the gender and sexual orientation policy. Denike said they have an active and “diverse” group of volunteers backing their campaign.

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Kasting calls it quits, gives nod to LaPointe Bob Mackin

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Independent mayoral candidate Bob Kasting, a 1972 bronze medal Olympic swimmer, conceded that he doesn’t have the support to make it to the podium on Nov. 15. So the lawyer quit the race Nov. 6 and endorsed the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe to go for gold and beat Vision Vancouver incumbent Gregor Robertson. “I got a sense of his ideas, I got a sense of his commitment to the city and I’ve got a sense of his managerial skills,” Kasting said at Robson Square. “He’d bring the right sort of thing to city hall and give us a mayor we can be proud of.” Kasting said he approached LaPointe, didn’t ask for anything nor was offered anything to leave the race. He said LaPointe is “the person who can beat Gregor,” but stopped short of endorsing the rest of the NPA slate. The withdrawal came on the third day of advance voting, so Kasting may have already received votes. The deadline for candidates to withdraw was Oct. 17. Nine

candidates remain in the race. “We want the same things for the city, I’m grateful, really grateful, ﬂattered, I’d say, that Bob has bowed out and thrown his support to me,” LaPointe said. “It’s a signal to the community that there is a lot of unity outside of Vision Vancouver, to defeat Vision Vancouver in this election, we need change at city hall.” Kasting gained a proﬁle by representing citizens who successfully opposed a Vision Vancouver plan to pave a bike lane through Kitsilano and Hadden parks. He is also the lawyer for False Creek residents in their ongoing legal battle for a long-promised park in Northeast False Creek. LaPointe, Kasting said, would be “non-divisive, collaborative” and the best person to lead a mixed slate council. Kasting declared his candidacy on Sept. 18. Two days later, Cedar Party leader Glen Chernen endorsed Kasting and switched his bid for the mayoralty to a seat on city council with brother Nicholas Chernen. “Glen and Nicholas have been very supportive to me in

my campaign and are saying the right things to the people out there and for that I have to thank them,” Kasting said. The Chernens also endorsed LaPointe. “Gregor Robertson is a dangerous man leading a dangerous party to a dangerous place for our city and Kirk is the only viable alternative at this point to pull together a mixed slate,” Glen Chernen said. “I would like to see Kirk as our mayor and hope for the best outcome for all of us.” Kasting left the race with some parting shots for Vision Vancouver, which holds a majority at city council, park board and school board. He said the party has shown disrespect for neighbourhoods and allowed out-of-control development. “There’s been a sanctimonious sense of receipt of union funds and developer funds in an environment that there’s a huge public relations machine that is trying to convince the people of Vancouver that Vision and their people are green,” Kasting said. “I don’t buy that and a lot of people don’t buy that.”

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Opinion Tight race leaves Vision Jian scandal a window in a final scramble into the shadows Allen Garr Columnist

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In an election campaign where Vision’s percentage lead has dropped to mid-single digits over the NPA, Mayor Gregor Robertson took a quiet half hour out Wednesday afternoon to talk about the “nastiest” campaign he has ever faced. This, by the way, is his fourth election battle; one as an MLA and three for mayor. This one began, although it seems an eternity ago now, with a series of unproven and provocative smears about Robertson’s split with his wife. They were launched by NPA vice-chair and the party’s biggest donor, Rob Macdonald, before briefly setting social media on fire. Having done his work, Macdonald has since been removed from the scene. Since then there have been what Robertson considers attacks on his character where his opponents have accused him of “corruption” and “lying.” In this town a third term run for mayor, which in the recent past has been a relative slam dunk for Mike Harcourt, Gordon Campbell and Philip Owen, is proving to be anything but for Robertson. A recent survey by Insights West asking folks in municipalities across to Lower Mainland to assess their mayor’s places Robertson at dead last with 52 per cent. Insight West’s pollster Mario Canseco told me the single biggest factor pulling Robertson down is the perception out there that he has failed on so many files to effectively consult with the public. That should come as no surprise. In fact, when I asked Robertson what he considered the single biggest mistake of this term, he pointed to the GrandviewWoodland community plan. That’s the one where the neighbourhood was totally taken by surprise when they discovered the plan included a series of towers at the corner of Broadway and Commercial. The push back was immediate and very noisy. And it was joined by other neighbourhoods unhappy with the plans for their communities. But none did more damage than Grandview-Woodland being in the heart of Vision’s most staunch supporters, many of whom are now leaning towards COPE and the Greens. The plan was withdrawn and put off until after the election. And while Robertson takes “complete responsibility” for the blunder, it was really a screw-up by the city’s new chief planner Brian Jackson

and aided and abetted by city manager Penny Ballem. But more to the point, it was just another example of an administration that choses to seek forgiveness rather than ask permission. Citizens have complained about that approach on spot zoning decisions, homeless shelter and transition housing locations, manhandling of volunteer boards at community centres and the installation of separated bike lanes. Vision will note that their policies and practices have led to improvements: there is more rental housing, more shelters and housing to move homeless people off the streets, an increase in safety and numbers of cyclists particularly in the downtown core, and better access to community centres. But there are also clearly more citizens who remain to be convinced that Vision isn’t increasingly arrogant in its governance style and only seeks to serve its friends. You may have been puzzled by the announcement this week that former three-term COPE councillor David Cadman has endorsed Vision and Gregor Robertson. After all, Cadman has been absent from the political landscape for the past three years, ever since his own party dumped him at its 2011 nomination meeting. But Vision, with its slim lead in the polls, is losing support on the left to COPE where that party’s mayoral candidate Meena Wong is gathering enough momentum to be a spoiler. And they are losing support to the Greens which, while only running a small slate of candidates, will reduce the chances of Vision being able to form a majority on council. Cadman, in his day, was considered the leading politician on the municipal scene when it came to issues of the environment and improved public transportation. His ouster by COPE was the beginning of the disintegration of that party leaving many on the left with nowhere to place their vote. Vision hopes Cadman’s support can help pull them back from the brink and slow down the NPA as it continues to close the gap. That will now prove more difﬁcult with Thursday’s announcement that independent mayoral candidate Bob Kasting is throwing what little support he has behind the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe. twitter.com/allengarr

The week in num6ers...

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In millions of dollars per year, the cost Vision estimates it would take to fulfill election promises, including $400,000 to double the size of the VSB’s breakfast program.

Mayor Gregor Robertson’s personal approval rating, according to a recent Insights West poll.

The number of independent mayoral candidates remaining after lawyer Bob Kasting withdrew Thursday and endorsed NPA candidate Kirk LaPointe.

Geoff Olson Columnist

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Now that three of Jian Ghomeshi’s accusers have come forward to Toronto police with allegations of physical assault, and the CBC has claimed it saw “graphic evidence” of “physical injury to a woman” in a video offered by their employee as evidence of consensual sex, the former host of Q has more to worry about than trial by social media. Navigator, a firm that handles the PR equivalent of toxic waste, dropped its client faster than a spent fuel rod from Fukushima. Rock-it Promotions, Ghomeshi’s publicist, quickly followed. The guy’s safest employment option now is probably inside a store mascot suit with extra padding. That said, you can’t completely rule out a media-mediated resurrection a few years down the road: a tell-all exchange with Peter Mansbridge on CBC before trekking the cable stations of the cross with an Oprah-blurbed memoir. In context with claims that he treated some dates like sports equipment, Ghomeshi’s sentiments about his “fluffy, dutiful travelling companion, BigEars” — a teddy bear — seems less quirky than creepy. Armchair psychologists have been quick to diagnose his condition: pathological narcissism, dissociative identity disorder, psychopathy, galloping douchebaggery, you name it. Ghomeshi himself owned up to being “neurotic” to an adoring audience in Stratford, adding that “successful, talented creative people, in my experience I’ve discovered, are all either neurotic or insecure or freaked out in some way or another.” For various reasons, the tales involving Ghomeshi didn’t surprise me as much as claims some years back that pegged the late Hungarian author Arthur Koestler as a violent sexaholic. The author of Darkness at Noon — one of the great novels of the 20th century — was a polymath and public intellectual who fought for human rights in both word and deed. I still find it difficult to reconcile Koestler’s luminous prose with tales uncovered by two separate biographers, David Cesarini and Michael Scammell. Both recite a sorry record of physical violence and forced abortions, but unlike Cesarini, Scammell stops short of the one charge of rape. Reports of the brilliant author’s lifelong bad behaviour have relocated his posthumous profile somewhere between a cad

and an unconvicted criminal. A physician would have dealt him differently than a magistrate, however. One of Koestler’s contemporaries, the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, argued that a therapist’s role is not to judge sick people, but to help heal them. “Unprejudiced objectivity” was the “moral achievement on the part of the doctor, who ought not to be repelled by sickness and corruption,” Jung wrote in Psychology and Religion: West and East. “We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses and I am the oppressor of the person I condemn...” Bear in mind Jung was communicating as a therapist, not as a jurist, journalist, or 21st century blogger. He would not have condoned nonconsensual, violent acts. However, he recognized the danger in dismissing another human being as a monster, however repellent their behaviour. It may shut the door on understanding the developmental conditions that bend and twist human beings, while blinding us to the “shadow” side of our own psyches. There’s a different kind of risk in casually attaching labels drawn from the DSM-V. Their scientiﬁc-sounding caché may lead us to mistake a culture-bound diagnostic manual for a microscope into someone’s soul. Koestler appeared to have at least one thing in common with Ghomeshi: an industrial-sized ego. For some New Age thinkers, extinguishing the ego is the highest and noblest goal of adult development, but Jung had a different take: “I must even help the patient to prevail in his egoism. If he succeeds in this he estranges himself from other people, he drives them away, and they come to themselves as they should, for they were seeking to rob him of his ‘sacred’ egoism... which sometimes drives him into complete isolation. However wretched this state may be, it also stands him in good stead, for in this way alone can he get to know himself and learn what an invaluable treasure is the love of his fellow beings. It is, moreover, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own natures.” I’m sure Ghomeshi must feel very alone right now. And in sharing their accusations publicly, his named accusers rather less so. geoffolson.com

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The birthday recently celebrated by the Hastings Community Association.

The number of senior girls league volleyball games won by the York House Tigers, making them undefeated. High school playoffs started this week.

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Mailbox No time for Daylight Saving To the editor:

Twice a year, every year, we move our clocks forward or back. And every year I ask why. ICBC states that there are more trafﬁc accidents at that time, and the medical fraternity reports an increase in illness and even suicide. So again I ask: “Why do we keep doing this?” So far, I have never heard a convincing reason. Some people yammer on about farmers in the war time — that just doesn’t make any sense at all. First, the farmers could work from dawn to dusk if they chose, no matter what the clock says. And second, those who have been paying attention will remember that that particular war has been over for 70 years. Another popular excuse is that it saves energy — another fallacy. On these gloomy days, the lights are on from about 4:30 p.m. And we still need lighting for our morning shaves or make-up. Many jurisdictions have abandoned the practice, including Saskatchewan, and as far as I know, the sky hasn’t fallen. I’m still hoping that someone will tell

me the reason for this very annoying “tradition.” Who beneﬁts and in what way? Sheelagh Weeks, Vancouver

Sidewalks are for everyone To the editor:

Re: “Criticism greets temporary housing project,” Oct. 31. I must express my dismay at the words of Yaletown resident Gary Lyseng, who says that, having paid a high price for his property, why should he have to share his sidewalks with the likes of people with mental health and addictions? The last time I looked, Vancouver sidewalks were open to anybody, not just Yaletown residents and their designer dogs. It is also very possible that some of Mr. Lyseng’s high-priced neighbours might have a mental illness or addiction so he is probably already sharing his sidewalk with them. If people don’t want to share their sidewalks with people with mental health conditions they may very well be eliminating 20 per cent of the population. Barbara Bawlf, Vancouver

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COURIER COLUMN: “Why you should vote,” Nov. 5. Rhonda Sherwood @Rhonda_Sherwood: @VanCourierNews has put out fabulous articles about this civic election and the candidates. Thanks for the fab reporting. Soren @stromkonsult: Excellent point. Could not have said it better myself. Mark @CoffeeGeek: Vancouverites: The @VanCourierNews has an article on why you should exercise your civic duty and vote. ILiveInEastVan @ILiveInEastVan: Great article. It’s about you, your community and your money. COURIER COLUMN: “Look beyond your ABCs at the ballot box,” Nov. 5. Jonathan Baker: There was a lot more to the story than that. Gim Huey was one of the first Chinese certified general accountants. He worked tirelessly for the NPA and had sponsored many fundraising events. His hard work included selling more NPA memberships than anyone else. He wanted to run for city council and would have been an excellent councillor. Although he had been told that he would be supported, it turned out that he was not on the list endorsed by the incumbents. Therefore he did what one is supposed to do under any party system. He brought out his supporters and since he had more supporters than anyone else he got the nomination. Those supporters knew Gim Huey very well. They were not voting blindly. They knew exactly who he was: a founder of the Chinese Benevolent Association. He was a dedicated, intelligent and honest man and a credit to the community. He didn’t win the election but such things happen. COURIER STORY: “Columnist Allen Garr wins Webster award,” Oct. 31. Frances Bula @fabula: Oh how great! Allen Garr at the @VanCourierNews has won the Webster City Mike award!! So fitting. (But now missed my chance to nom. him) Jeff Lee @SunCivicLee: Hey I love it! Allen Garr, fierce competitor and fellow beekeeper, wins #jackwebster City Mike award. mamabaceda: Congratulations Allen. I read your column every week even if I am out of town. I don’t agree with everything you say, but I respect your thinking and balance. COURIER STORY: “What screening tests to take and when?” Nov. 5. robmxa: There is one test to take for colon cancer, Cologuard, it includes a FIT test but also looks for colon cancer before it is cancer in the DNA of your stool. It is non invasive, rivals a colonoscopy in accuracy and finds polyps that a colonoscopy misses. You use it in the privacy of your home and there are NO complications like with a colonoscopy where even death is a possibility. If you have a positive result from Cologuard then and ONLY then do you have a colonoscopy which can then be not only exploratory but curative.

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COPE hopes for a comeback A decade after its stunning victory, the party no longer has a single elected ofﬁcial Andrew Fleming

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It was a hot September afternoon when the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) held its party meeting for members to choose candidates to run in this year’s municipal election. It was the only Vancouver civic party to do so. Seeking to energize the crowd packed inside the Japanese Language School’s stuffy auditorium while a round of ballots were counted, a young woman stepped up to the microphone and asked for the audience to follow her in stretching exercises. It was the last straw for one elderly man in attendance, who earlier in the day had been asked to stand and do the Chicken Dance. He slowly made his way to the stage with the aid of a cane to speak his mind. “I’m an anarchist,” he said angrily. “I’m not here to be told what to do. I’m here for serious business.” The incident was minor but seemed to hint at major divisions within the longstanding left wing party that has seen high-profile members depart in recent years and finds itself on the verge of irrelevance if it can’t elect any candidates next week. Getting candidates reelected, of course, isn’t an option after school board trustee Allan Wong, the only COPE candidate to get voted in last time around, defected in 2013 to the ruling Vision Vancouver. Wong, who was first elected in 1999, said he has no hard feelings towards his former party but the decision to change horses wasn’t difficult. “Mine was a very easy choice, it wasn’t by lightning, in that I’d worked with the Vision trustees even prior to the six years that we were on the board together,” said the 49-yearold father of four. “Vision and COPE worked very closely and many of the issues that I am associated with — the seismic upgrading of schools, public funding from the provincial government, the LGBTQ Pride — we’ve worked closely on a lot of those policies and directions and

COPE candidates Allan Wong (left) and RJ Aquino (right) watch the election results in November 2011. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

it was a natural move. After the last election, I felt like COPE itself had moved and changed. I think there was a lot more focus on [city] council as opposed to school board.” Wong, who is seeking his sixth term on the VSB, said he is simply more interested in helping students reach their potential than he is in partisan politics or the business of running the country’s third largest city. “There was a lot of infighting and more politics rather than having real support for public education and support for our students. Rather than spend my time on other things, I’d like to focus directly on issues of schools because this is what I am interested in and putting my energy into rather than go off and talk about things like ‘How many [candidates] are we running?’ ‘What is the organization?’ ‘We need to run someone for mayor’” COPE has five people running this year for school board — Diana Day, Ralph Fraatz, Heidi Nagtegaal, Kombii Nanjalah and Illana Shecter — but all of them are seeking the office for the first time. “A lot of what I’m hearing about their campaign is that it sounds good, but the people with the long

experience that are familiar with the issues and really are curious about the issues, and have shown this in the past, are the Vision trustees,” said Wong. He also isn’t the only former COPE trustee running under a different banner. Jane Bouey, who served two terms on the board, launched a new party called the Public Education Project (PEP) with fellow former COPE candidate Gwen Giesbrecht. Bouey and Giesbrecht came in 12th and 11th place, respectively, in a race for nine possible positions in the 2011 election. Giesbrecht told the Courier she decided to jump ship for similar reasons. “It was a little disheartening for me, a strong education advocate, how little opportunity there was to really talk about education,” said Giesbrecht, a former chair of the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council and current chair of the Britannia Secondary Parent Advisory Committee. “You spent a lot of time talking about… my opinion of this council candidate or that mayoralty candidate.”

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The three members’ abandonment of COPE,

which has been the party of the working class in the city for nearly half a century, is far from the only recent example. Other prominent members who have left the leftist party include former park board commissioner Donalda Greenwell-Baker, former Vancouver-Kensington NDP MLA and B.C. Teachers’ Federation president David Chudnovsky, sex trade workers’ rights advocate Jamie Lee Hamilton and former park board candidate Brent Granby, who is running for Vision after former candidate Trish Kelly bowed out of the race. Two-term councillor Ellen Woodsworth, who lost her seat in 2011 by 91 votes to the Green Party’s Adriane Carr, was conspicuous in her absence at both the nomination meeting and the July annual general meeting. Former executive member and B.C. Green Party leader Stuart Parker resigned in March, blaming internal party friction in a bitter letter to supporters explaining his decision. “COPE’s toxic, meetingintensive culture of interminable, acrimonious, incoherent nonsense that is politely called ‘debate’ would drive any sane person out of active participation within two years,” he wrote.

“This is not an accident. This is the plan.” Three-term city councillor David Cadman, the party’s mayoral candidate in 1999, also no longer has any involvement. “I’m not actively a member but they still owe me a lot of money so I don’t know if they still keep me on the membership roll,” said Cadman, referring to money still outstanding from a $50,000 loan he provided in 2002 to help pay off party debts. “Basically, when I lost the nomination, I really haven’t had anything to do with them since so I don’t know what’s going on with them anymore.” On Wednesday, Cadman distanced himself further from the party he once led by giving his endorsement for Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson to stay on as mayor for a third term. Rafael “RJ” Aquino is the person who ended up taking Cadman’s place on the ballot three years ago, and it came as a shock to many people when he beat out a proven vote-getter to ﬁll one of three spots on a council slate that was the maximum allowed as part of an agreement with Vision. Out of 614 ballots cast by party members, Woodsworth earned the

most nominations with 534, former city councillor Tim Louis got 345 while Aquino came in third with 316, only seven more than Cadman. The decision by members to push out an incumbent in favour of an inexperienced candidate was widely perceived as a coup orchestrated by Louis, who is also running again this year. It’s a move that arguably backﬁred considering none of them ended up getting elected. Aquino is again running for city council this year but opted to start his own party, OneCity Vancouver. He said COPE inﬁghting played a big part in his decision. “For me, the biggest frustration was I introduced a lot of people, especially from the Filipino community, not necessarily just to the party but to civic politics and to this layer of government that most directly affects their lives, for them to then be turned off from the process due to disrespectful behaviour or condescending remarks and that sort of thing,” said Aquino, a 33-year-old new father who works in the tech industry. “I was drawn to COPE at the time because of its values, and the people I am working with now at OneCity were also COPE members and I loved working with these people because not only did we share the same values but they were just as motivated to bring about the change we wanted to see in the city. All I can say is there is still an appetite for an incredibly progressive party in this city that can work with people in a respectful way where we can work together rather than be acrimonious. It’s important that you are not afraid to bring your friends to an annual general meeting and having them be exposed to shouting matches.”

SWEPT FROM POWER

It seems somehow ﬁtting that a party named “COPE” is facing a struggle to survive. The Canadian Oxford dictionary deﬁnes the word as “to struggle or deal, especially on fairly even terms or with some degree of success,” but the party’s fall from grace with the electorate has been a particularly dramatic one given that, only a dozen years ago, it was voted into power by a landslide. Mayoral candidate and political

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amid historical slide newcomer Larry Campbell, a colourful former chief coroner and inspiration for the lead character of the hit CBC drama DaVinci’s Inquest, won 59 per cent of the popular vote in 2002, nearly double Non-Partisan Association runner-up Jennifer Clarke’s 30 per cent. After running on a platform calling for a more open and accountable civic government, including the promise of a public referendum on hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, every single COPE candidate was elected with eight out of 10 city council seats, seven of nine school board trustee positions and ﬁve out of seven spots on park board. But the honeymoon period was short-lived. Campbell, seeking to distance himself from what he once described to the Courier as the party’s “wild-eyed revolutionaries,” formed an insiders’ subcaucus with councillors Jim Green, Raymond Louie and Tim Stevenson that media and city hall watchers amusingly dubbed “Diet COPE” while the faction made up of Cadman, Woodsworth, Louis, Anne Roberts and Fred Bass became known as “COPE Classic.” Campbell ultimately accepted a cushier and more lucrative job offer as a senator rather than run for mayor a second time but the splinter group moved on without him and gave themselves their own new name — Vision Vancouver — in time for the 2005 election. COPE opted to not run a mayoral candidate against them in the past three elections to avoid splitting the progressive vote. This time it’s different.

MAYOR WONG?

Mayoral candidate Meena Wong, who joined COPE in 2005 after arriving from Ontario, thinks splitting up the party was a mistake and that voters are fed up with being ruled by parties such as Vision and the NPA widely perceived to be more beholden to the interests of real estate developers than citizens. “Vision came out of COPE, right, and I see that as a betrayal, but of course not everybody believes that,” she told the Courier in a recent one-hour livestreamed interview. “We can see the result when they are in government and they [are] obviously pro-developer.

New COPE mayor Larry Campbell celebrates his victory with supporters after the 2002 municipal election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

We gave them three elections without running someone for mayor to see if they would change and obviously we are very disappointed so that is why we decided to have a [mayoral candidate] and that is why I decided to run for mayor. I have 90 per cent of membership support because of what I believe in, because I am for having people work together.” Wong earned 193 out of the 216 ballots cast to be the party’s candidate, a drop of nearly 400 from the number of members who voted in 2011. Wong, a 53-year-old mental health services worker and activist who hopes to become both the city’s ﬁrst female mayor and ﬁrst Chinese-Canadian at the

helm, believes the party’s platform — which includes creating a Vancouver housing authority, introducing a living wage policy of $15 per hour and legislation to stop “renovictions,” and holding a referendum on switching from a ﬁrst-past-the-post voting system to proportional representation — will resonate with voters. Her proposal to levy a surcharge on absentee owners from overseas who leave their properties vacant — a hotbutton and racially charged topic in Vancouver — also drew a lot of attention. Wong remains in a very distant third place in polls but she says this doesn’t faze her, pointing to the widespread predictions last year that NDP leader Adrian

Dix was a shoo-in to be the province’s next premier. “Do you trust polls even after the B.C. ﬁasco?” she asked. “So that’s one thing. And second, the polls show us going up. I’m very conﬁdent that the people of Vancouver will make the decision. Don’t let the polls tell you. Make the decision up for yourself.” But while she may have widespread support within the party, the party no longer has the support of one its biggest traditional backers. The Vancouver and District Labour Council (VDLC), which founded COPE back in 1968, instead endorsed Mayor Robertson and all eight Vision city council candidates. The only COPE candidates

out of 16 running to receive labour’s blessing are prominent trial lawyer Gayle Gavin for city council and former commissioner Anita Romaniuk for park board. Former COPEsters Aquino, Bouey and Giesbrecht all received endorsements from the inﬂuential labour council. COPE’s cupboards are also considerably barer this year due to a reduction in union funding. CUPE Local 1004, for example, only offered $5,000 to COPE’s campaign — the same amount given to the newly launched PEP — while OneCity was handed $8,000 and Vision $102,000. The total donated amount COPE announced so far this year is $60,114 — $18,440 from

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unions, $41,474 from individuals and $200 from an unspecified corporation. For comparison, the Green Party of Vancouver announced $46,387 in donations this year and OneCity slightly more with $47,286. Neither Vision Vancouver nor the NPA, who unlike COPE both accept unlimited donations from development firms, had announced the amount they’d received by the Courier’s print deadline, although Vision spent $2.2 million on its 2011 campaign and the NPA $2.5 million. Gavin, whose legal expertise has been put to use recently by the Residents Association Mount Pleasant in its fight against the controversial Rize Alliance development, said being the VDLC’s only COPE council candidate out of eight to be recommended didn’t come as a true surprise even though she hasn’t run for office in more than 30 years. “I have lived a long life and nothing much surprises me but I keep moving forward,” Gavin said over the phone Thursday morning. “I am running for COPE because I’ve been a longtime member and because I think politics is too important to be left to the politicians.” Gavin said she was heartened by the Occupy movement of three years ago and believes growing wealth disparity and social justice issues are still very much on voters’ minds as problems that need to be tackled. She acknowledged that COPE has seen many members leave the party in recent years but that it continues to attract talented new members to fill the void. “I see COPE not as something sacred but as a vehicle that the working people of this city have worked really hard to get up and running and to maintain. We can look at it maybe as a bus — there are different drivers at different times, different people get off and get on, but it is a vehicle for working people. Just by running for COPE, you’re going to get 10, maybe 20,000 votes, and we are working really hard because we want to get that 44, 45 [thousand] or whatever it is going to take this time for our council to be a COPE council as well as our school board and our park board. It will just be so good for the people. “ The election is Nov. 15. twitter.com/flematic

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No conflict between faith and science L Vancouver Lutheran church organist creates winning logo for European space mission PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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The main library building at UBC opened in 1925, within weeks of the notorious Scopes “monkey trial” in Tennessee. The two events would seem unrelated had someone not permanently correlated them in stone. Above the main entrance to the library, if you squint, you can see two figures where you might otherwise expect gargoyles or other elaboration. On one side, there is a monkey with the word “evol,” short for evolution, and, on the other, an old man holding a tablet with “funda,” short for fundamentalism. UBC students in 1925, and thereafter, have been cheekily confronted with what the library’s builder clearly viewed as a defining intellectual and spiritual conflict of our era: creationism versus Darwinism.

Poul Rasmussen, a church organist at Spirit of Life Lutheran Church, designed this logo for the first Danish astronaut to go into space.

That was the topic of the Tennessee trial, an international spectacle that was a turning point in how North Americans viewed and talked about the intersection of science and religion. Legally, the trial resulted in a nominal ﬁne

for John Scopes, the teacher who challenged the law by teaching evolution. But for all intents, the impact of the trial was, as the writer H.L. Mencken put it, to depict believers in creationism as “rustic ignoramuses ... deluded by a childish

theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all ﬁne and noble things.” In parts of the United States, that debate rages today with some Christians demanding that public school curricula present both evolution and so-called “intelligent design” as equally legitimate theories — and their opponents offering rebuttals not dissimilar to Mencken’s. This dichotomy between science and received theology is not nearly as intense here as it is in parts of the United States. And with recent statements by Pope Francis that evolution is not inconsistent with Christian belief (and that God is not a magician), the dichotomy between science and faith is increasingly depicted as a false one. That is certainly Poul Rasmussen’s view. And he has a unique vantage point. Rasmussen is a church organist at Spirit of Life Lutheran Church, near

city hall. Rasmussen, who moved to Canada from Denmark in 2001, is also a graphic designer who just won a competition to design a logo for the first Danish astronaut to join the International Space Station. Like Canada’s Marc Garneau, Andreas Mogensen will be the first from his country to launch into space. It is apparently a complete coincidence that his logo was designed by a Danish-Canadian. Rasmussen’s winning design, which Mogensen will wear as a uniform patch during his 10-day mission next year, is filled with ancient religious symbolism. That the logo also represents the pinnacle of modern science not does seem at all contradictory to Rasmussen. The name of the mission — selected in an earlier European competition — is Iriss, named after the Greek goddess Iris, messenger of the gods and personification of the rainbow. The extra “s” was added to create the

w acronym for the Interna- L tional Space Station (even s though the “i” and the “r” h are not part of an acronym t at all. Never mind.) In fashioning wings represent- k ing the goddess, Rasmus- d sen almost unintentionally o m found they resembled a Viking ship, that symbol of Old Norse exploration (and ﬂ e pillage). t “So it became even more Danish than I had i thought,” he said. Above the Danish ﬂag, which resembles the crest of a globe, he added six stars, or planets. While the number was arbitrary, he found out at the unveiling of the logo in Copenhagen recently that there are six astronauts on the mission and each is serving six years in the space program. The relative simplicity of the design, Rasmussen says, may be a sign of his Danish design sensibility. Despite the Greek and Norse symbolism, Rasmussen says his work is infused with theology only in oblique ways.

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Community Logo inspired by Greek goddess He recounts a story in which a baker asks Martin Luther how best he can serve God. Luther is said to have replied, “You can do that by baking good bread.” “And I thought, well, you know, if I can be a good designer, if I can be a good organist, then I have done my bit,” Rasmussen laughs. About a perceived conﬂict between faith and science, Rasmussen dismisses the idea. “For me, the conﬂict is not huge,” he says. All

“You can mix religion and science and [say] there were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark and all that, but a visit to any museum will tell you the exact opposite thing.” - Poul Rasmussen religions have a creational aspect to them, he says, but he has a hard time with fundamentalists who call themselves creationists.

“You can mix religion and science and [say] there were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark and all that,” he says. “But a visit to

any museum will tell you the exact opposite thing.” Rasmussen, and probably a vast majority of Christians, skirt the contradictions that outsiders might perceive between “belief” and knowledge in much the same way that 90 years of UBC students have done when entering the main library: by walking between the set-instone principles on each side and seeking out the wisdom between them. twitter.com/Pat604Johnson

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‘Staches come off for Movember start

CITY LIVING Rebecca Blissett

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Three barber chairs were set up in the corner of the Granville Island Brewery last weekend. One was occupied by Dave Babych, famous for both his mustache as well as being a former Vancouver Canucks defenceman, and sitting next to him was Kiley Hendriks, better known as Prevail, one of the principal MCs of hip hop group Swollen Members. They were in the capable hands of sharped-dressed barbers from Regal, most of whom dressed like they tended bar in a turn-of-thecentury speakeasy, with the exception of Ken Pappas of Richmond Barbers manning the third chair wearing a barber’s blue smock and cutting through Vancouver Whitecaps FC defender Jordan Harvey’s facial growth. The date was Nov. 1 which, playing by Movember rules, is when fundraiser

Former Vancouver Canucks’ Dave Babych had his cookie-duster of a mustache shorn as part of Saturday’s Movember kick-off at the Granville Island Brewery. The idea behind the movement is to raise awareness for men’s cancer prevention and mental health. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

participants must shave off their facial hair in the month-long quest to grow a mustache to raise awareness for men’s cancer prevention and mental health. The

movement raised $33.9 million in Canada last year, with most of those funds going towards men’s health programs, according to Movember Canada.

It’s the second time Babych had his ‘stache shaved off willingly, the ﬁrst time was for last year’s Movember and before that, when he required stitches

after getting a stick in the face during his National Hockey League days. “I’m a little nervous again, but it’s for a great cause,” he said before going to the barber’s chair. “When I ﬁrst grew one, I had no idea why I did it. It just stayed.” The cookie duster made its lasting impression, as it is still included in various top-10 lists for the best mustachioed NHLers. While Harvey said he is known for having the fullest mustache on the current Whitecaps’ roster, Prevail doesn’t make any sort of claim in the hair realm so it wasn’t any great loss when his three-month-old beard was shorn with a straight razor blade. “I usually have a little something going on, particularly in the fall and winter. It feels natural at that time of the year, letting it grow. Deﬁnitely in the spring and summer I’m clean-shaven,” he said. “I’ll have to see if the beard will catch-up with the mustache.” Prevail, part of a group

from his local watering hole the Regal Beagle Bar and Grill, immediately agreed to be a part of the campaign. “You know what, I advocate for the preventative approach. I can understand it can be embarrassing, you can put yourself in a position where you’re fearful of the outcome…” he said. “At the end of the day, would you rather be slightly embarrassed for half an afternoon or potentially be able to curtail something that could lead to saving your life?” Movember was started in the late 1990s by a group of men in Australia who wanted to grow facial hair for charity, one of which included the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the mid-2000s, another group of Australians organized an event to raise awareness for prostate cancer, and it was this group that became the Movember Foundation. The movement reached Canada in 2007 with several awareness and fund-raising events held during November. twitter/@rebeccablissett

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Mourning and memory enshrined in church windows

Stained glass windows in two Anglican churches remember three men from one family killed in two world wars

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Sunlight glints through it some days, the grieving love right there on the east wall of Christ Church Cathedral, embedded in a stained glass window. Given for a young man dead in the mud of Flanders in 1916, the window in the downtown Anglican church remembers day after day Lt. Harold Heber Owen, son of the church’s third rector, Cecil Caldbeck Owen, and his wife Alice. In another Anglican church, St. George’s, near Vancouver General Hospital where Cecil served as chaplain for 25 years, a second window holds grieving love tripled: St. George and Sir Galahad memorialize the Owens’ adopted son, Luder Keshishian Owen, and their

Charles Harold Owen Hamilton and his sister Betty circa 1942. The window at St. George’s Anglican church. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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grandson, Charles Harold Owen Hamilton, both dead in the Second World War. The story of those lost lives could start in 1864 — Cecil was born in England, and Alice in Ontario. Cecil arrived in Canada in 1883, studying for the ministry in Toronto. He and Alice married in 1891. Harold was born in 1893 and then four daughters joined the family. In 1903, Cecil came west, accepting the post at Christ Church. When Britain declared war on Aug. 4, 1914, Harold, home on holiday from medical school in Toronto, promptly signed up. His attestation papers describe a young man, ﬁve-feet, sevenand-a-half inches tall, with blue eyes, medium dark hair, and a small scar on his right crown.

A surplus of officers at the Valcartier, QC mustering grounds raised doubts about speedy deployment overseas. So Harold resigned his lieutenant’s commission, taking a sergeant’s post in the ambulance corps and serving through the first gas attack at Ypres in April 1915. Cecil took an overseas appointment as a military chaplain that same month. Harold regained his commission in June 1915. He was killed near midnight on Jan. 30, 1916 by a rifle shot to his head while covering the retreat of a small party of his men whom he had led through No Man’s Land to the German wire. He was 22 years old. Cecil’s telegram home read: “Harold is promoted to service with God.”

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After conducting four burial services for his battalion, Cecil rode for three hours to his son’s funeral. On Harold’s gravestone in Ploegsteert, Belgium are the words from 2 Timothy 2:3: “A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ.” A soldier in battle dress, and those markers of the Western Front, barbed wire, a blighted tree, and sandbags, illustrate Harold’s window. A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ, reads the inscription. Grandson Charles was born January 1922, a second child for Winnifred Hamilton, the oldest Owen daughter. The 1940 U.S. census found Charles in high school in Seattle. His occupation? Mowing lawns. Twelve-year-old Luder Keshishian, orphaned in the Turkish persecution of Armenians, arrived from Beirut at the Owens’ home in February 1929, speaking, apparently, no more than a smattering of English, in a city that contained no other Armenians.

Luder Keshishian Owen, circa late 1930s.

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He was a bright, athletic boy, winning the 1935 citizenship award at Vancouver Technical School, and the 1936 academic medal in his grade twelve year. The 1936 VanTech yearbook reads: “Tudor’s favourite saying is ‘By golly.’ Captain of senior rugby team, an all-round athlete, not interested in girls (says he), and always heard singing (?) during drafting periods. Top notcher in his class.” Charles enlisted in the U.S. Navy in November 1940, serving as radioman and rear gunner. He died, one day short of his 21st birthday, at 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 13, 1943 during a training exercise. His plane crashed into the harbour of Espiritu Santo Island, the largest island of Vanuatu, north-east of Australia. He left behind his widow, Josephine, also just 20.

Harold Heber Owen, 1915. PHOTO 1917 MEMORIAL BOOKLET HELD IN THE DIOCESAN ARCHIVES

Luder had joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in June 1938. His Stirling aircraft took off from Norfolk at 2325 hours on June 24, 1944, heading for northern France to take out a V1 ﬂying bomb launch site. The plane was shot down by a German night ﬁghter; the seven crew members were buried in a collective grave in the village of Fruges. Luder was 27. On his grave stone today are the words: “Good Soldier of Jesus Christ.” At St. George’s, where the Owens had been long-time parishioners, the RCAF insignia and its motto, Per Ardua Ad Astra (Through Adversity to the Stars), mark Luder’s section of the window, with the USN insignia at the bottom of Charles’s panel. Anchoring the centre panel, with the Good Samaritan story, are the words: “A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ.” The window was consecrated in May 1946. The music that day tied the three young men together. The solo, “Crossing the Bar,” and the recessional hymn, “Fight the Good Fight,” had been favourites of Harold, sung at services dedicated to his memory at Christ Church 30 years earlier. Alice died in September, 1953 and Cecil died Christmas Eve, 1954. The windows remain, honouring two generations, three lives.

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The heat and perhaps drought associated with heat has turned your chard red. Also it’s quite old at this point and chard doesn’t improve with age. Yes, it could be bitter, possibly too bitter to eat. Even if you have to leave your chard unpicked in summer because you have so many other vegetables, it can be good to keep the older leaves picked anyway. This keeps young, sweet, tender leaves coming. You could take a cautious nibble of your chard and see for yourself if it’s edible. Continued on page 25

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ground cover Continued from page 24 But it’s likely best to cut the tops right away. But leave the roots because there may be some good chard-growing weather between now and Christmas.

Q: “Last May, we put ground cover plants in our front yard instead of grass. They have done very well. We planted wooly thyme, white thyme, Veronica Whitley and Golden Birds Foot. We think it will turn out amazing, but it was quite costly. Now winter is here much earlier than expected and the green leaves on the trees in our yard haven’t fallen yet. We expect the snow to melt over the next while which will allow us to remove the leaves. What should we do with the leaves? Should we leave them on top of the ground cover

plants as protection or could you offer us any other alternative?” David and Paulette Smith, Calgary

Yes, you should leave them on top of your ground cover plants. I’m sure your plants will spend some of the winter buried under insulating snow. But Calgary also gets Chinooks which remove snow and winds that re-distribute it. If you get a major Chinook, you could get frost heaves which are very hard on plant roots when freezing returns. In case you get high winds you should hold in your leaves with prunings or wire. Next spring, you could rake the leaves off your ground covers and dig them into a vegetable garden or mulch around shrubs. Anne Marrison is happy to answer gardening questions. Send them to her via amarrison@shaw.ca.

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Nov. 7 to 11, 2014 1. The Cinematheque gets its Altman on Nov. 7 to 11. Focussing on what could be considered Robert Altman’s sweet spot — the 1971 revisionist Western McCabe and Mrs. Miller, which was filmed in West Vancouver, 1973’s hardboiled The Long Goodbye and 1975’s enjoyably sprawling, improvisational Nashville — the Cinematheque also screens the Vancouver premiere of Ron Mann’s documentary Altman and a handful of rarely seen early short films by the legendary filmmaker, who died in 2006. For details and show times, go to thecinematheque.ca.

2. Written and directed by Stuart Murdoch, God Help the Girl is pretty much what you’d expect from the lead singer of Scottish pop group Belle and Sebastien — a sugary, retro-styled musical about a group of hormonal Scottish teens navigating romantic entanglements and making sweetsounding pop music. It screens Nov. 10, 9:30 p.m. Details at riotheatre.ca. 3. For anyone who’s felt alone in world made of steel, made of stone, you’re silent tears full of pride have been answered. Flashdance the Musical brings the 1980s flick about a female welder-by-day, aspiring, shower-loving dancer-by-night to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The Broadway Across Canada production inexplicably opens Remembrance Day and runs until Nov. 16. Never forget. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. Details at vancouver.broadway.com. 4. With their Chuck Taylors firmly planted in the fuzzed-out 1990s of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr., local indie rockers the Courtneys celebrate the release of their sophomore album Mars Attacks, Nov. 7, 11 p.m. at the Fox Cabaret. Bobby Draino, Young Braised and Space Bros round out the bill. Details at foxcabaret.com. 5. Mixing country rock with a dollop of wistful back porch folk, former Court & Spark frontman MC Taylor and his Durham, North Carolina outfit Hiss Golden Messenger drop by the Biltmore in support of the group’s Merge Records debut, Lateness of Dancers. It all goes down Nov. 7. Megafaun’s Phil Cook, who also plays in Hiss Golden Messenger, opens. Tickets at Red Cat and all Ticketmaster outlets.

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With the municipal election a little over a week away and thousands of undecided voters ripe for the picking, candidates and political parties are digging deep into their wish banks, dream journals and aspirational mind maps to promise the electorate a host of warm and inviting goodies. Vision Vancouver recently announced its bold stance against pedestrian fatalities, vowing to help police crack down on bad cyclists and drivers. Unlike Vancouver’s other political parties, who we assume are in favour not only of pedestrian fatalities but actually increasing pedestrian fatalities, Vision has promised that it’s committed to zero pedestrian deaths in the upcoming year. As for 2016? They’re promising two people, ﬁve dogs and a cat will be killed by oncoming trafﬁc. Maybe a raccoon for good measure. Of course, promises are nothing new to Vision Vancouver. You may recall then-mayoral hopeful Gregor Robertson in 2008 promised to end homeless-

ness by 2015. Once elected, he amended that promise to end “street homelessness” and still maintains it’s achievable, although the numbers determining the success or failure of Robertson’s promise won’t be tallied until after this election. Not to be outdone, COPE mayoral candidate Meena Wong told the Courier she would end homelessness by 2018. She’s also promised to raise the minimum wage to $15, implement a $30 a month transit pass, and give every girl in the city a pony on her 12th birthday, provided the pony is fed an organic, fair trade diet and allowed to come and go as it pleases because ponies are intelligent, wondrous spirit animals that can teach us a lot about our heritage, humanity, hope and oats. NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe has promised to increase the number of outdoor pools, establish a city ombudsperson and restore free parking at meters outside the downtown core on Sundays and holidays. If elected, he’s also promised to stop mentioning at every press conference he attends how he grew up poor and understands what it’s like

to be hungry. Or maybe we just imagined that last one in a fever dream we had last night after eating too much macaroni and cheese. Speaking of food, both the NPA and Vision have promised to increase funding to school meal programs and feed more impoverished children, as opposed to actively supporting pro-hunger initiatives. Feeling inspired, we here at K&K have decided to make a few promises of our own this election. First, we promise to do our best to not be easily swayed by crass political pandering. Second, we promise to do more research on the parties and candidates who will potentially shape the city for the next four years. We also promise not to beat ourselves up for really, really enjoying Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off” whenever we hear it on the radio or accidentally watch the video two or three times a day on YouTube. And lastly, we promise to vote in the Nov. 15 election — either on election day or at one of the advance polling stations. It’s by far the easiest promise to keep and sadly one not enough people in Vancouver make.

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The buzz before the opening of the Arts Club production of Saint Joan went, “If anyone can breathe life into George Bernard Shaw’s 1924 script, it will be Kim Collier” (one of Canada’s most exciting and innovative directors) “and Meg Roe” (as Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans.) But that excited hubbub was a mere murmur compared to what audiences will be saying after they experience this stunning production. It’s a true spectacle with soldiers roaring up the aisles and scaling the walls of the balcony; lines of silent, hooded priests in white robes tolling bells; clerics in shimmering pearl-encrusted satin or sumptuous fur robes and soldiers in silver breastplates — all designed by Christine Reimer; a pair of singers (Christine Quintana and Shannon Chan-Kent) placed in the “Juliet” balconies stage left and right, chanting and singing sound designer/composer Alessandro Juliani’s evocative score. It’s all about Church and State in all their pomp and circumstance pitted against Joan, a simple country girl whose “voices” tell her she must drive the English out

Meg Roe stars in the Arts Club’s production of Saint Joan.

of France and put the Dauphin (later King Charles) on the French throne. Director Collier has accomplished what I believe Shaw had in mind: a balanced perspective. He argues in his 55-page preface to the play that Joan got a very fair trial, the Inquisitor did not go beyond the bounds of his authority and Joan was condemned for heresy and, according to the deﬁnition of the time, she was a heretic. While Joan was an accomplished military strategist — amazing in itself for a country girl who, like most women of the period, could not read — she did not grasp the fundamental argument of the Catholic Church: God did not speak directly to individuals like Joan but only through the Pope. The second charge — that she refused to wear women’s clothing — was her defence against rape while ﬁghting with and sleeping alongside

soldiers. But it was enough to condemn her because crossdressing was a crime, even though when cross-dressing was deemed necessary, it was not considered criminal. Saint Joan is a thoughtprovoking play and Collier gives it full, epic treatment. While the costuming and language is medieval, the text is delivered with a contemporary ﬂair in a way that makes the religious/political arguments comprehensible in spite of their wordiness. Meg Roe’s Joan could be a playground tomboy: dynamic, full of joie de vive and self-conﬁdence. Roe often runs onstage; in Act 1 she’s in a long, bright red dress and modest white cap when Joan excitedly rushes into her meeting with Robert. In Act 2, Roe is dressed in armour, exuding soldierly assurance. Of course in Act 3, during the trial, Roe is in chains and rags when Joan’s spirit is all but broken. It’s a wonderful

performance and director Collier brings Joan/Roe back in the heavily cut epilogue to lift our spirits after the inevitable and horrifying execution. There are too many wonderful performances to note all of them: Scott Bellis, first as the chamberlain and, later, as Bishop Cauchon; Haig Sutherland as the weak and disheartened Dauphin; Dean Paul Gibson, looking very Henry VIII, as the Earl of Warwick; Tom McBeath as the Inquisitor who tries desperately to make Joan understand what is really happening. All this history unrolls on Pam Johnson’s masculine, military set: three tiered platforms that rotate against a backdrop of black, riveted panels that move aside in various configurations. Lighting by John Webber matches the grand scale of this production. Is Saint Joan a feminist play? Much more than that, it’s a humanist play that comments on the perils of individuals who put their lives at risk to make the world a better place. Shaw’s final words ring provocatively, disturbingly and not merely from a religious perspective: “When will the world be ready for our saints?” Saint Joan runs until Nov. 23 at the Stanley. For tickets, call 604-687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

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In Interstellar’s scary realworld scenario, humankind has wreaked so much havoc on the Earth that crops have failed and the population has dwindled drastically. In the U.S., corn is ofﬁcially the only viable crop left to feed the masses, but it too is falling victim to blight that has turned the soil to dust. It’s like The Grapes of Wrath redux: dust covers everything, towering dust storms envelop towns and people are slowly suffocating. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) has done alright (or is that “alright, alright, alright”?) so far. He’s a corn farmer, a widower scratching out a survival with two

kids and his father-in-law (John Lithgow) at home. Cooper resents the fact that school ofﬁcials have decreed his son will also become a farmer, and is incensed that his 10-year-old daughter Murphy’s textbooks have been rewritten to declare the Apollo landings bogus. “We used to look and wonder about our place in the stars,” laments Coop, “Now we just look down in the dirt.” Cooper has reason to reminisce: he used to be a pilot for NASA. Imagine the coincidence, then, when Cooper and Murph stumble upon a top-secret NORAD facility run by his old mentor, Professor Brand (Michael Caine). Of course, there are no coincidences, the ﬁlm suggests. Brand and his team have found a wormhole leading to 12 pos-

sibly viable worlds: they’ve already sent manned craft to several of the planets — the Lazarus missions — and receive vague signals from a few. It’s up to the crew to try to reach the most promising planets and A, send data back to Earth so humankind can head for their new planetary home, or B, leave Earth’s population to die while the crew establishes a new colony with the few hundred frozen embryos they’ve brought onboard. Cooper has now joined the expedition and is strongly for option A, being a father with strong ties back home. Murph begs him not to go: it was some kind of ghostly, binary code in her bedroom that led them to the NORAD facility in the ﬁrst place and now, she insists, it’s telling Coop to stay. Continued next page

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Continued from previous page But go he does, with Brand’s scientist daughter Amelia (Anne Hathaway) and two other crew members (David Gyasi and Wes Bentley) onboard. It’s a race against time: for every hour the crew spends on one of these planets, seven years will have passed on Earth. Time is a tricky thing. Meanwhile Brand and

Jessica Chastain try to solve the gravity equation that will allow for a planetary exodus. Casey Afﬂeck has taken over Coop’s farm. McConaughey conveys a father’s anguish perfectly. Hathaway is less convincing; granted, her character is less fully formed and director Christopher Nolan’s script, written with brother Jonathan, takes a backseat

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Interstellar is an impressive, immersive experience, and as we hurtle from one near-disaster to the next we hardly notice the ﬁlm’s two-hour and 49 minute runtime. For two-thirds of the movie, that is. Because none of us knows what it’s like on the far side of a worm hole, the last third of the ﬁlm necessarily takes on a trippy, Kubrickian turn

and our attention begins to falter. The fourth and fifth dimension, the scientific purpose of love, bending time: pair these with the film’s last-act strangeness and many viewers will leave scratching their heads and wishing they had gone to an Adam Sandler movie instead. Interstellar screens at Dunbar, Scotiabank and the Park Theatre.

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PREAMBLE: No matter who is victor in the U.S. midterm elections, for some reason the result will be an attitude-turner for the nation, a step or boost upward in cheerfulness, optimism, and luck, ushering in a new co-operation in Washington. However, long-term, the sparkle might turn to rust, promises to dead-ends, concerning the general populace, mothers, women, lakes and water reservoirs, environment, agriculture. House prices might initially rise, in the midst of longer-term weakness. Two of the worst stances astrologers fall into are the urge to accent the negative and arrogance. A Libra reader recently reminded me of the ﬁrst of those two. Accenting the negative is so easy because the negative is dramatic, draws more “shock and awe.” (Or so the astrologer or fortune-teller thinks; in actuality, it isolates him/her and impairs prediction since it violates reality, in which good and bad are balanced.) Arrogance is probably worse. Looking back, I see that my worst predictive failures were usually sputtered from arrogant lips. The general accent remains on mystery, your subconscious, dreams, hunches, large ﬁnances and the urge to be intimate with someone, as well as health diagnoses. This arena is both mildly lucky (last week and this one) and alluring. Behave, don’t fall into the trap of “all’s fair in love” — that only applies if you don’t live in society. Bosses and higher-ups have been temperamental the last ten days — this continues to Dec. 4, so be diplomatic, grin and bear it.

Better to stay out of negotiations, real estate purchases/rentals, and family frictions until Dec. 4 — be a peacemaker. Your income remains favoured all this week, so seek money and make purchases while both are mildly lucky (except Sunday, Monday eve/night, Wednesday p.m. and Friday — best Monday morning, all Tuesday, Thursday morning and Saturday).

The main emphasis is on relationships. Last week and this one, others treat you graciously, even affectionately. At the same time, you feel an urge to merge. A beneﬁcial partnership, temporary or durable, might form. Take care with legal suits, far travel, publishing and higher learning, anything international, now to Dec. 4 — these activities can lead to closed doors, even loss.

Your charisma and energy remain at a yearly high. Start things, see people, ask favours, tackle tasks that might have intimidated you previously. You’re attractive, others want to be near you. Only one warning: you’re quite forward, even assertive, in speech, writing and driving (until Dec. 4) — think ﬁrst, for a headlong plunge into these could put you in an unwanted position.

The drudgery continues, the fountain of chores won’t dry up. Well, plod along, smile, and tackle them. You ﬁnd work quite pleasant, actually, last week and this one. Perhaps a sweet person is involved, someone you’d move a piano for. (However, don’t — yet — try to shift a working relationship to more amorous shores. Keep it friendly, light. From mid-October to Dec. 4, your libido burns with urges but this way lie traps and dead-ends.

Continue your restful pace. Seek sweet solitude, contemplate, plan your future. Interact with civil servants, institutional workers, therapists, health workers. Do your own research, or get a Cancer person (or one whose ﬁrst name begins with M or O) to help. More money than usual is coming to you than usual (to early Dec.) — bank it, don’t spend before Dec. 4. Sunday’s for meetings, relationships, negotiation. Be easy, relaxed; nothing much comes of anything.

This is your yearly shot of pleasure, Cancer, so indulge yourself and express yourself — be romantic, creative, chase risk. Teach children, pursue beauty. You’re riding a winning streak! You might face a choice between two attractions. One treats you sweetly and graciously; the other, though good at hiding his/her emotions, is assertive or impatient with you.

A wish can come true now or next week, Cap. Perhaps it involves romance, perhaps popularity, perhaps a background matter. Remember that you’re highly assertive, determined and magnetic through Dec. 4 — this needs brakes rather than indulgence. A pell-mell rush into anything now can lock you into a place, stance, from which only great humility will rescue you.

Your family continues to be affectionate, supportive. Take advantage of this to have important conversations, or to reach an agreement, to redecorate/landscape/garden, to increase RRSP or 401-K commitments, or to set up your children’s future (school entry, tuition savings plans, etc.). Though it is not a signiﬁcant theme this year (and is better after next summer) you would also gain by buying property or investing in food or shelter companies.

You’re at a yearly height in ambition and prestige circumstances. Pursue goals, strive to get ahead. Don’t talk too much, nor chase around, nor rely on others’ schedules. Just act. Bosses, parents favour you this week. Sunday’s romantic, ﬁlled with sweet notions, nature’s beauty. However, not much comes of it. Just enjoy. Exciting relationships arise midday Wednesday through Friday.

It’s an easy week, Virgo. Handle small things: errands, mail, calls, emails, visits, paperwork. You’ll come across some potentially affectionate contacts — these could lead to good new friends, perhaps a lover, if you have the courage and spontaneity to respond. Your libido stays high to early December, but if you let it guide you — well, do you remember the boys in Pinocchio who were transformed into donkeys? Act on “lighter” kinds of urges: friendship, light romance, etc.

You’re still in a sweet, easy, enlightened month, Pisces. Give serious thought to far travel, higher learning, religion, legal matters and cultural venues. For some, a wedding looms. Give short shrift to someone who befriends you, is aggressive and likes your money or possessions. Settle down, sink into home, garden, kids, and a nice long nap Sunday. Passion rises in your breast Monday to Wed. morning. Monday morning’s great, but consider carefully what/whom you’re chasing this night.

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1. York House Tiger Siobhan Finan (No. 6) fires the ball past Notre Dame blocker Mia Ricci (No. 1) in a playoff game at York House Nov. 6. 2. Tigers head coach Chris Ruse speaks with Kaleigh Matheson (No. 7). PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Top players started at the bottom York House Tigers channel ambition into process VOLLEYBALL Megan Stewart

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Thompson Trojan Brandon Lam (No. 10) rises above the net to hit against Van Tech Talisman Edwin Huang (No. 5) at Van Tech Nov. 4. The Talismen won 3-2. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Andrea Neil announced her resignation as the head coach of the UBC women’s soccer team on Nov. 5. Her tenure ends Nov. 10. Neil, a star midfielder with the Thunderbirds in the 1990s, amassed a 15-8-5 record in two seasons as head coach. According to a statement from UBC, Neil is leaving “to pursue other opportunities beyond coaching.” She said, “I am very proud of my time here at the university, both as a coach and as a player. I think the program has a very bright future.” UBC will host the 2015 CIS women’s soccer championship. Neil, a former national team and Whitecaps player, was hired in 2012 amid some controversy after the university announced the position was given to Marc Rizzardo before the application date had closed. Once the position was reopened, Neil was hired.

There are two players on the Tigers volleyball team, both of them stars on a roster that includes three athletes who have already signed on at top North American universities, who were once — if you believe them — the worst players the sport has ever known. Kaleigh Matheson, a six-foot outside hitter, had incredible physical intelligence as a gymnast but no idea how to use her strength, co-ordination or agility to bounce a ball. “I took a chance and tried out for the Grade 8 volleyball team. I was probably one of the worst players the coach had ever seen,” said Matheson. “There were multiple times I’d go up and swing at the ball but just have it land beside me and, in the end, I’d never touch it.” Then there’s Siobhan Finan, a lithe left-handed power hitter who shot up from ﬁve-foot-four to sixfoot by the start of Grade 8. A competitive skier who could visualize every part

of a downhill course, she was selected for the senior team in Grade 9. “I wasn’t particularly skilled but they saw height and, I hope, a bit of potential,” said Finan, whose teammates took to the court while she spent hours on a different drill. “At the beginning of the season, all I did was throw a tennis ball against the wall in a desperate hope to develop arm swing. Apparently it was that hard for me. I had so much arm I didn’t know where it was coming from,” she said. “And I would do spike approaches across the gym floor in a circle for about two hours.” Finan was never embarrassed about taking a different route. “I had accepted my role as the lanky goof and so I played it well, I guess.” When she finally saw court time in a game, the ball flew over the net at Finan — and she caught it. Then she threw it back over the net. The rookie move didn’t hold her back. “When I started to be able to hit hard, the competitive spirit in me sprang out. I loved that feeling and that still is my favourite part of volleyball when you get

that hard, crisp hit.” Then there’s Laura Worsely. According to coaches, including UBC head coach Doug Reimer, for whom she will play next season, it’s possible Worsley has never known a sport she didn’t excel at. A vertical game of power and speed, volleyball is rife with stories of players’ growth spurts and lanky lack of co-ordination. What’s remarkable is what the York House Tigers have done with their potential. Finan and Worsley will play for UBC next season. Matheson is also good enough to play post-secondary but hasn’t committed to a school. And six-foot-three middle Dayna Kern will play in the NCAA Div. 1 with Tulane. “I don’t know that I’ve had a team that has this many players who are going on to play post-secondary,” said head coach Chris Ruse. Undefeated in 10 league games, York House also won the Western Canada independent school tournament for the second time and is the No. 2 AA school in B.C. The players know they are good enough — if everything falls into place —

to win the school’s ﬁrst B.C. volleyball title. “We knew coming in we’d be a strong team and it was a question of making sure we can perform when it comes time to perform,” said Ruse. The coach, a UBC Thunderbirds alum who has also coached the Thunder volleyball club, can turn most moments into a coaching opportunity and he’s scaled back the team’s ambition to win into a season-long lesson about mindfulness and focus. “Sometimes, as a team, we can get lost in the idea of winning,” said Matheson. “In this half of the seasons, we’re trying to bring it back to the process and enjoy every moment of the game. We’ve broken it down to not determining our goals by a win or a loss or a trophy or a medal but whether we can come out of every game feeling like we’ve given it our all and if we’ve played as smart as we could and, essentially, whether we had fun.” The Tigers compete this week now for a berth at the Lower Mainland zone tournament. twitter.com/MHStewart

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West Point Grey runner Leiah Kirsh (No. 831) focuses on passing her opponents, including Killarney’s Enid Au (No. 295), during the senior girls cross-country provincials in Victoria on Nov. 1. Kirsh finished 23rd overall. Au was 41st out of 225 competitors.

Wolves capture two in a row CROSS-COUNTRY

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The Wolves honed in on their second straight senior girls cross-country provincial championship, their fourth B.C. title since 2010. Out of all team racers, the fastest five Wolves finished in the top 25. Leiah Kirsh finished 10th

in the team rankings and 23rd overall as the fastest from WPGA. She covered the 4.3-kilometre course in 16 minutes, 39.38 minutes. Dante Sali was close behind and ﬁnished 11th (24th overall) in 16:40.44. Sarah Diamond was 14th (31st) in 17:03.01, Kennedy Randall was 21st (40th) in 17:13.24 and Emily Kasa rounded out the fastest ﬁve in 23rd (43rd). The top Vancouver

racer was Lord Byng’s Calli Charlton, who raced to 13th place in 16:08. On the boys’ side, St. George’s team of Ben Kirsh, Colin Mitchell, Nick Good, Keith Chow and Curtis Weng won bronze in the team event. Kieran Lumb, a Lord Byng harrier, was the fastest Vancouver racer in the boys’ event. He covered the 6.4-km course in 21:03 and ﬁnished sixth overall.

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Softening ticket demand, increasingly sophisticated electronic viewing options and a Canadian dollar losing ground against its U.S. counterpart are proving to be tough competition for local professional sports teams. Among the ﬁrst victims of that 2014 economic reality: the Vancouver Canucks’ lengthy run of sold-out games, which, according to the team, ofﬁcially ended on Oct. 18 when the Tampa Bay Lightning visited Rogers Arena. Until then, the Canucks had claimed a 474-game run of sellouts that stretched back 12 years. Announced attendance at the Tampa Bay game was 18,647 – 223 shy of capacity. But the Canucks’ sellout streak might really have ended March 15, 2007, when 18,325 tickets were scanned and the arena capacity was 18,630, according to data contained in a City of Vancouver Olympic transportation planning study. The Canucks are now

scrambling to get back on the sellout trail. Among the team’s 2014 marketing strategies: three- and fivegame ticket packages. “They realize that there is a problem, we as consumers know there’s a problem when they’re offering five-game packs,” said Vancouver Ticket and Tour Service’s Kingsley Bailey. “It’s telling you they’ll take whatever they can. They had to go as long as they could [with the sellout streak] to have the fans believe there was a lot of interest.” The privately owned team keeps financial information close to the vest and chief operating officer Victor de Bonis was not available for an interview. Bailey estimates three in 10 season ticket holders didn’t renew after the club missed the playoffs last season, while others opted for smaller subscriptions in cheaper seating categories. “They saw that there was value still in having season tickets,” Bailey said, “but not value paying for those horrendous prices in the lower bowl.”

The Canucks announced their record sell-out streak ended last month but a report suggests it ended in 2007. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Team Marketing Report’s 2013 survey found Canucks tickets were the third most expensive in the National Hockey League at an $87.38 average price, substantially higher than the NHL’s $61.01 average. Four average tickets, a beer, soft drink, hot dog, program and cap are a steep $460.73 in Canada’s most expensive city. PwC’s October-released

“At the Gate and Beyond” pinpointed competition and “price pressure” as challenges in the sports market through 2018. According to the report, “shifts in market conditions and fan preferences are prompting the right-sizing and repositioning of seat inventory and more informed and dynamic pricing models to enhance yield and reduce excess capacity through new

seat concepts, price structures and amenity packages.” Langara College School of Management’s Aziz Rajwani said watching live sports on HD TV at home or in a pub is an attractive cost-saving measure. “You have cannibalization effects going on; people are saying, ‘Why am I paying such a high amount to go to a game?’” Rajwani said. He said teams need to improve the in-game experience for fans, freeze ticket prices, include food and beverage with premium tickets or sell family-priced packages. Late last season, the Canucks marketed packs of four tickets at a discount that included free admission to the FlyOver Canada exhibit at Canada Place and 10 per cent off merchandise at the Canucks Team Store. This year, the team is marketing a Cineplex Family Pack, with four tickets to a game and to a movie and tubs of popcorn, beginning at $40 a ticket. Specials like these were unheard of four years ago when the Canucks dominated the NHL.

Another cost challenge facing teams is the declining Canadian dollar, which has fallen by $0.10 against the U.S. dollar in the past year and was trading at US$0.89 at press time. A parliamentary subcommittee in 1998 was told that 80 per cent of a Canadian team’s revenue was in Canadian dollars, but 80 per cent of expenses, mainly player payroll and travel, were in U.S. dollars. The same committee heard that every $0.01 decline in the exchange rate hiked Toronto Blue Jays expenses by $600,000 a year. “[The dollar] was at its nadir in January 2002 at US$0.62,” Rajwani said. “Most businesses would tend to not want to take the foreign exchange risk and accordingly they would enter into a forward or futures contract. They may already have done that when they saw that dipping.” Teams also have more comfort with shares of Rogers’ $5.2 billion, 12-year media rights deal. At an average $433 million a year, it’s more than four times CBC’s estimated $100 million a year.

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