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THE VOICE of VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS since 1908

Kirk LaPointe

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“He has a great sense of humour…. He wasn’t a yes man. He wasn’t afraid to speak up. He was always diplomatic.”

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City schools and the election

The school board elected Saturday faces tight budgets, changing enrolment and kids in poverty Cheryl Rossi

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Go vote and join us on election night See Vancourier.com for election updates, news and analysis Barry Link

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As of this writing, we’ve published well over 100 stories and opinion pieces focused on Saturday’s civic election. We covered breaking news and attended all-candidates meetings. We parsed out statements at press conferences and asked questions we believed voters cared about. We published 11 features, digging into the issues of housing, open government and campaign financing. We produced three online live streaming Q&A’s with mayoral candidates. We created a 16-page Voter’s Guide

containing profiles of every candidate in the race and we invited candidates to post their own statements to our website.

Throughout the campaign, we probed, explained, criticized and cajoled. Everything was blasted out to social media.

And now we’re putting the election once again on the front page.

You probably get the idea by now that we think civic elections are important.

City council, park board and school board have more impact on your life than any other level of government in this country. It’s where you live.

All of our election-related work can be found at vancourier.com. Go there, look around, find out what you need. Also check out the fine election coverage of our colleagues at other Vancouver publications and news sites to get as much information as you need.

Then go vote. You have one mayor and up to 10 city councillors, nine school trustees and seven park board commissioners to elect. All will serve four-year terms.

If you have any questions about the procedures for voting or where you can vote, check out the city’s voting election site via Vancouver.ca. The city has nearly 120 different locations where you can vote, and you can cast your ballot at any one of them.

Once you’ve voted, join us online Saturday night, whether you’re at home or on your mobile device.

Saturday will be a big effort for us with our largest election team yet assembled to cover the night’s results. Look for frontline reports from acclaimed city hall reporter Mike Howell. Award-winning veterans Sandra Thomas and Cheryl Rossi will cover park board and school board races.

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Education isn’t the hottest subject in the Nov. 15 civic election. The sight of people sleeping on our streets, the cost of buying or renting a home and snarled traffic are immediate realities faced by almost all Vancouverites, so it’s not surprising politicians tackled affordable housing, homelessness and transportation first.

But you don’t have to have kids to care about the challenges faced by the Vancouver School District. Who wants to see students unable to attend their neighbourhood school because it’s full or to hear that kids fail to learn because they’re hungry and feeling stressed?

These are the concerns that occupy the thoughts of outgoing VSB superintendent Steve Cardwell, who leaves his job at the end of December to serve as professor of teaching and director of executive educational leadership at the University of B.C. He emphasizes that making decisions about budgets and policy at the board level is complex given the diversity across the city’s school district.

Voters need to select nine trustees from 29 contenders Saturday. Those elected will help guide the board for four years. Fewer than 35 per cent of eligible voters in Vancouver cast a ballot in the last civic election in 2011. Some perceive trustees lack any real power because the board is so dependent on money from the provincial government.

But Cardwell says trustees play an important role.

“The greatest voice is in the parents and in some ways the trustees represent the will of the larger community and especially parents,” Cardwell said during a recent interview. “Our board attends provincial meetings, speaks, probably more so than many, with respect to the needs of the public education system.”

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So Saturday is election day.

Or is that, rejection day?

Hopefully some of you got out to the advance polls.

Which is great.

But what I really want to know is how you’ve been able to separate the claptrap from the clarity of the campaign.

Or is that even possible?

I’ve tried and I believe I’ve made some sense of what the candidates are saying, although that, apparently, is my job.

As I sit here in front of my screen, the little email and Twitter bombs keep exploding to the right of this page. The campaign teams have been relentless, as have the #vanpoli types on Twitter.

It’s an overwhelming amount of policy promises/information/ rhetoric/gossip/crap to sort through. It’s made me think of an analogy someone told me about how we no longer receive our information in a trickle from a garden hose but instead through a never-ending blast from a fire hose.

So, how to decide then who to vote for?

Start by finding the smartest candidates.

Many will be on the streets over the next few days to get in that last wave, that last handshake.

You can always send them an email or give them a call at their campaign

those candidates familiar with how city council, school board or park board works. Ask them the total cost of the operating budgets. Ask them what the budgets fund.

Ask them if they’ve ever appeared before council, school board or park board.

They better be articulate when giving you an answer. Challenge them when they use the following words in a sentence: sustainable, engagement, stakeholders, transparency, accountable and affordable.

Find out why they’re running for a seat. Is it an extension of their involvement in a neighbourhood issue? Why are they running with a party? Why are they running as an independent? Where are they getting their cash to run a campaign?

Check out their policies on their websites, or read their literature dropped at your doorstep. Alarm bells should go off if their information is short on specifics and heavy in political Pablum.

It’s too late to attend an all-candidates’ meeting but some careful Internet sleuthing should uncover videos, including three one-hour online chats the Courier conducted with Mayor Gregor Robertson, the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe and COPE’s Meena Wong.

Heck, while I’m pumping the Courier’s tires, why not go to vancourier.com

where you’ll find numerous stories on the campaign. You can find it on the lower right side of the home page (see cityscape photograph of Vancouver).

After getting your Courier fix, go take a bike, a car or a bus around the city. Walk if you can and don’t bring your phone.

Too distracting. Just take it all in and think what it is you like or hate or needs improving in this city.

Are you stepping around homeless people? Are you laughing out loud at the prices of homes and rents? Is all this traffic driving you nuts? Would you like another tower in your neighbourhood? That pothole doing a number on your car? Those rats getting bigger than cats?

Then return home, match your concerns with what the candidates have said and decide whether they’re going to do anything to address what irks you. Or maybe you’re fine with how things are.

Either way, for the love of democracy, please vote.

Here’s another reason to cast a ballot: Toronto had a 60 per cent voter turnout in its October civic election. Yes, I know some guys named Ford probably had something to do with that. But wouldn’t it be great to knock that city back a few steps and show the rest of Canada that people here actually care about local politics?

Up to you, Vancouver. twitter.com/Howellings

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Robertson pleads with COPE voters Mike Howell

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With only four days to go before the civic election, Mayor Gregor Robertson made a plea Wednesday to COPE supporters to cast a ballot for him to fend off what polls are suggesting is a serious challenge from NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe.

Robertson, who is seeking a third term at city hall, also apologized to voters and promised to do better when answering the opening question at a CBC debate to rate the shape of the city on a scale of one to 10.

“I want to start with a message to voters directly and that’s that I have heard you,” Robertson said. “While we have done a lot of good things very well in the past six years, there’s also some things we haven’t done particularly well. And for those, in particular, when I haven’t met your expectations, I am sorry and I know that if I’m re-elected again … that I can do better.”

Robertson didn’t specify which issue or issues he was referring to in the apology. But the pushback he’s largely received from residents and competing parties is that his ruling Vision Vancouver party has moved

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too fast on development, new community plans and projects such as the Point Grey bike lane without genuine public input.

The mayor addressed this issue at Vision’s annual general meeting in May, where he said the city’s plans to build towers at Commercial and Broadway was a mistake. A so-called citizens’ assembly is now in place in the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood to work on a revised plan.

His plea to COPE supporters came as he stood at a lectern next to COPE mayoral candidate Meena Wong, who attempted to interrupt Robertson as he argued for COPE voters to vote Vision.

“We share all the same values and ideals and it’s really important when it’s between Vision and the NPA that progressive voters ensure they vote for the progressive team that can win,” he said. “And in this case, that is Vision.”

In Wong’s closing statement, she turned Robertson’s plea around and requested that Vision voters vote COPE, the very party that was home to some of the current Vision councillors before they fled to form Vision in 2005. Vision has been in power since 2008.

“It’s time to come home — come home and support COPE,” Wong said. “Vote [with] your conscience.”

LaPointe argued that if Robertson were re-elected, he would be back after his next term and have to apologize again to voters. LaPointe told the Courier after the debate that Robertson’s plea to COPE was “an act of desperation” and not genuine.

“COPE voters really believe in their principles and they’ve watched Vision betray them over six years,” he said. “So they have quite correctly congregated around Meena Wong and her team and they offer a distinct choice from him.”

He likened Robertson’s apology to a “Hail Mary pass.” He added that he wasn’t clear what specifically the mayor apologized for, saying “I guess he’s leaving it to our own imaginations on what it is that we want to have him feel sorry for.”

Last week, Vision Vancouver’s campaign team released an internal poll to Global News that claimed the mayoral race had tightened, with Robertson only four points ahead of LaPointe.

An Insights West survey published in the Vancouver Sun Monday confirmed the

four-point spread. The polls coincide with Vision getting an endorsement from former COPE councillor David Cadman, who helped coordinate campaigns between COPE and Vision in the 2005, 2008 and 2011 elections.

This campaign, however, COPE did not seek an alliance with Vision. Also, for the first time since 2002, COPE decided to run a mayoral candidate in Wong, whose support was recorded at nine per cent, according to the Insights West survey.

“I don’t want to draw votes from Gregor for somebody who cannot win,” Cadman told the Courier Nov. 5 at Vision’s campaign headquarters. “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.”

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Continued from page 1 Megan Stewart, Andrew Fleming and a team of experienced contributors will cover the various parties and candidates. Online and social media editor Naoibh O’Connor will be handling our website and together with Michael Kissinger will head our social media efforts.

Chief photographer Dan Toulgoet will be joined by contributors Rebecca Blissett and Jennifer Gauthier to chronicle the night in an ongoing photo gallery. This year, we’re welcoming a squad of smart students from the University of B.C.’s Graduate School of Journalism to help out both at our election headquarters and in the field. It’s going to be fun.

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to our website. You can also follow us on Twitter at @VanCourierNews, on Facebook at The Vancouver Courier Newspaper and on Instagram at @VanCourierNews. If you have any news tips during the night, send them to me at blink@ vancourier.com.

At approximately 10 p.m., Webster-winning Courier columnist Allen Garr and new columnist Michael Geller will join me for a live streaming discussion of the night’s results.

I have no idea how the election will turn out, but thanks to the past couple of weeks I’m sure we’ll have much to discuss.

We look forward to you joining us. twitter.com/trueblinkit

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Sidewalk successes spurred Janet Fraser’s political aspirations.

The Green Party of Vancouver candidate wants to be elected Vancouver School Board trustee in the Nov. 15 civic election.

One of Fraser’s successes materialized when she served as PAC chair at Laurier Annex on West 65th Avenue near Cambie Street.

“Our school didn’t have sidewalks that went all the way to the schools, so through the PAC we talked to the city and we did get two rounds of sidewalk construction,” she said.

“You’re walking to school, you’re on something you’ve improved, you see other students coming to school, parents pushing strollers, you can see that you’ve made a difference and I wanted to be able to do that for more students across the city.”

Fraser says she values Green principles she says include ecological justice, respect for diversity and non-violence. If elected, she’d work to make the board feel less distant to parents, citing a

lack of straightforward access to meeting information and reports on the VSB website.

As for whether the VSB should have accepted $475,000 in Fuel Your Schools money from Chevron Canada, Fraser says she wouldn’t want to see commercial advertising in schools.

She notes the board’s policy on corporate partnerships was created in 2005, before the VSB’s sustainability framework was adopted in 2010.

“I want to see the [corporate partnerships] policy reviewed with more input from parents, from staff, from students because time has moved on from 2005,” she said.

Fraser has served as chair or co-chair on PACs for 10 years, co-founded the Marpole Matters community group, worked as a scientist in the pharmaceutical biotech industry for 10 years and has been an at-home parent for 10 years.

Mischa Oak, the other Green trustee candidate, says he has taught in all 18 Vancouver high schools and all but 10 elementary schools in the more than six years he’s been a teacher on call.

Oak says he was the only

adult who intervened at a south side school when a student faced homophobic bullying and when Oak spoke to the principal about the problem she was unsupportive. Oak wants all students to feel safe in every school.

“Right now, a lot of the programming in schools is about you can’t say this or you can’t do that; it’s this negative language,” Oak said. “[We need] to facilitate a culture where all kids feel like their differences make our schools stronger.”

Oak believes schools should be held accountable and have to report to the board on diversity programming support. He also believes the diversity coordinator position at the board should be full-time.

Oak wants more action on sustainability at Vancouver schools. He sees energy and paper being wasted and wants to see more composting, community gardens and safe cycling and walking routes to schools.

Both Green candidates say the board needs to better communicate funding shortfalls to the community to help lobby the government

for more money.

In addition to advocating for funding, Oak notes the VSB pays $450,000 per year in carbon offsets to the provincial government and receives roughly one third of that back from the province.

Oak says the district should see the full amount returned.

Oak says the VSB must better use its resources, such as space rentals, to boost its revenues and chase additional sources of funding. Oak believes Vancouver and B.C. trustees should pressure the federal government for more money to support ESL and First Nations students.

Oak, who recently served as president of the Vancouver Centre NDP, chose to run for the Greens because he’s uncomfortable with Vision Vancouver’s relationship with developers and feels the Green Party is a better match for him than COPE. In 2002, Vision Vancouver council candidate and incumbent Andrea Reimer was the first Green school board representative elected in Canada and the only Green trustee elected in Vancouver. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Diana Day wants an aboriginal mini school for high school students in Vancouver.

She participated in a parent advisory council, the Vancouver School Board’s Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement committee, the District PAC and tried to get on the committee that influenced the establishment of an aboriginal focus school for elementary students in Vancouver.

Now the indigenous woman who works on aboriginal health for Vancouver Coastal Health is running to be a VSB trustee with COPE in the Nov. 15 election to ensure a strong voice for aboriginal parents.

Day contends aboriginal students are too often “pushed” into alternative programs, “but not all our kids are alternative kids.”

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local aboriginal history.

Day says the most recent Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement report states aboriginal students are six times more likely to be bullied than other students.

“Anti-racism is a big thing,” she said. “We need to educate not only the students, but also the staff and the teachers on that from all the way from the superintendent down to the janitors.”

Day, a staff liaison member of the Urban Aboriginal Peoples Advisory Committee to the City of Vancouver, touts broad support for focusing on the needs of aboriginal learners. She notes the B.C. Confederation of PACs made resolutions last

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Ilana Shecter, one of COPE’s four other trustee candidates for nine trustee seats, highlights advocating for anti-poverty and antidiscrimination policies in schools in her platform.

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Shecter believes the VSB could refuse to submit a balanced budget to the province, as required by the School Act, and resist being penalized if citizens mobilized in support of adequate funding for education.

Shecter says COPE trustees would work to get board meetings into community centres to engage parents in sincere and transparent consultation. She believes students could find creative ways to advocate for additional funding.

Shecter doesn’t have children but the 23-year-old student politician at the University of B.C. and environmental activist believes a young voice is needed at the board.

“There’s a student trustee but the dynamics of power are different in that sense,” she said.

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Instead, Johl has relied on all-candidates meeting appearances, doorknock-

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Chernen gained attention last February for filing a court petition alleging Robertson was in conflict of interest over the 2012 lease of a civic building to HootSuite, which hosted a Vision Vancouver event two days before the 2011 election. It failed, but the judge noted city hall’s relationship with the social media company had been “shrouded in secrecy.”

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The financial analyst said he “never expected that it would be so hard to be heard.” He said Cedar’s biggest external donation was $1,000 from the Vancouver Firefighters Union Local 18 and that the campaign is expected to cost “well under $50,000.”

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Opinion

Choosing who’s a six and who’s a five

Playing politics on the planet of the apes

Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com

Geoff Olson Columnist mwiseguise@yahoo.com

By now you know that Vision Vancouver mayoral incumbent Gregor Robertson turned away a softball question to open the mayoral debate at the CBC studios Wednesday morning and instead offered an apology.

I must assume it was a move that was planned and undoubtedly practised given Robertson’s inability to respond spontaneously under any kind of pressure. And, as his main competitor the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe observed, it was a clear act of desperation.

“I’m sorry” he said. Sorry, for not listening enough to voters as he and his council majority plowed ahead with a whole range of projects from homeless shelters to bike lanes to spot zoning for affordable rental housing and top-down community plans.

You may find some merit in a number of those projects. I do.

His efforts to reduce street homelessness mostly with the help of the province have been particularly commendable.

But, as you have read here repeatedly over the past six years and heard with growing frustration and anger from citizens across Vancouver, when it comes to dealing with the public, Robertson and his crew — and in that I include the Vision puppets at the park board — at times have displayed the engagement skills of Attila the Hun. It began, you may recall, with Robertson’s unguarded moment in front of an open city council mike where he scornfully referred to a group of unhappy West End residents — who as a matter of fact supported him in his first election bid — as “NPA hacks” with the adjective “fucking” thrown in at some point.

It went downhill from there.

So now, as voters flee in every direction from the big political tent that Vision has created over the past two terms and, with that, Robertson’s chances of serving a third, he says he is sorry. “I hear you,” he says.

And knowing his lead has been slipping away most notably in the past two weeks, he made another planned move. As the debate drew to a close, he pleaded with the public to vote strategically.

Ignoring those who moved back to the right and now support the NPA, he focused on his deteriorating left flank. He wanted those supporting COPE to come his way to support his “progressive team.”

He said a vote from COPE and their mayoral candidate Meena Wong was only a vote that more likely assured a win for LaPointe and the NPA. Pollsters observe that is the party and the candidate with the momentum in this “too close to call” race.

But this is not just about Robertson. At this point he has a better chance of winning than does that “progressive team.”

As those dissatisfied voters among us chose to support a mixed salad of candidates from Vision to COPE to Green and some independents, they reduce the chances of Robertson holding a majority on council. That’s particularly true as the right of centre seems to be coming together behind LaPointe.

Geoff Meggs is among the most vulnerable of the Vision councillors. For some reason he tends to come near the bottom of the list of those elected. Yet he is among the brightest, hardworking people on the team and the guy most often sent out to do the heavy lifting while Robertson avoids the fray.

Will you be swayed

by Robertson’s pleas?

Are you in a forgiving mood?

But the question remains: Will you be swayed by Robertson’s pleas? Are you in a forgiving mood? Or will you by default or by deliberate action choose to change the administration and the direction the city has been going in these past two terms?

Will you select LaPointe, a capable debater who tends to wipe the floor with Robertson most times out but is a person with no political experience except as an observer?

Will you support Robertson’s record, warts and all, or will you prefer LaPointe who has offered what every politician does these days, a more transparent government. But he also offers the slimmest of policy portfolios, save most notably for three new swimming pools and free parking outside the city core on Sundays?

My colleague Rafe Mair famously has said, in politics you don’t have to be a 10 to win.

You can be a six if the other guy is a five.

That is what we are now facing. twitter.com/allengarr

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The percentage of eligible Toronto voters who turned out to cast their ballots in last month’s civic election.

Rounded up from 34.57, the percentage of eligible Vancouver residents who voted in the 2011 civic election.

Last Tuesday at 3 a.m., my partner and I awoke to a sound she described as “boulders” rolling down the creek behind our house. We ventured outside the next morning to inspect the damage from the overnight rainstorm.

The rumble wasn’t from boulders, but rather immense logs swept down the creek to the culvert at the end of our street, along with a splintered footbridge.

Within a few days a municipal road crew arrived with a backhoe to clear away the mess. We escaped flooding, but homes on other blocks weren’t so lucky.

Cut to a few nights later. My wife awoke to what sounded to her like “an animal dying outside.” It was me in the downstairs bathroom, driving the porcelain bus and feeling this is the way things end, from a barf to a whimper.

One thing I can say in defence of vomiting is that it feels so good when it stops. But on the whole, I can’t recommend food poisoning. I haven’t spent that much time in the fetal position since the Sputnik era.

A West Coast rainstorm and undercooked eggs Benedict: not much in the way of existential threats, as far as the news cycle goes. But a reminder — for me at least — how the optimal living conditions for human beings fall within a very narrow spectrum.

Swollen creeks and spoiled food are nothing: approximately 99.9999999 percent of the universe will kill you dead if you are exposed to it for an instant (outer space is only five minutes straight up in your car, said astronomer Fred Hoyle).

On a planet with a biosphere that’s the relative thickness of the skin of an apple, only “extromophile” organisms can survive the atmosphere’s upper reaches and the deep ocean’s thermal vents.

As a species, humans are weirdly defenceless generalists, born hairless, helpless and able to exploit niches only through wits alone. Ultimately, we can only take shelter in our mental constructions, whether they take the form of bungalows, ballots, bylaws, or antibiotics.

On a planet of extremes, we have our code of mutual aid to hold things together. When a creek breaches or a diner retches, the code kicks in. These laws and regulations are not built on the belief that my material success is conditional on your failure, but something quite differ-

We have it pretty good on the West Coast — sure, it rains a lot but at least it’s not bullets. ent: my highest potential hinges on you thriving as well. At minimum, a problem for enough hairless generalist apes becomes a problem for them all.

The eight-hour work day, child labour laws, food safety regulations: these were once only ideas in our hominid heads, that generations had to fight for — and sometimes die for — before they were enshrined into law.

Yet in the past three decades some clever apes been clawing back rules and regulations that benefit the many while advancing tricky new ones that enrich the few. And in some cases, ignoring law altogether, as in the militarized mania for “regime change” — with endless sequels — in the Middle East.

According to UN estimates, there are over 50 million refugees in the world today, the highest number since the end of the Second World War. Most have resulted from the fatuous global wars on drugs, terror and trade barriers. And here we sit snugly in a continental fortress bracketed by two oceans, relatively free from austerity and uncertainty, with our leaders smugly lecturing us about dire threats spawned by religious fanaticism, full stop.

We still have it pretty good on the West Coast — sure, it rains a lot, but at least it’s not bullets. Others have taken note of the security and scenery, making the Lower Mainland a major berth for offshore investment. All the money sloshing around doesn’t mix well with the supposedly progressive green agenda of Vancouver’s reigning civic party — at least when it comes to infrastructure development.

And while Vision versus NPA isn’t quite Coke versus Pepsi, the corporate backing of both campaigns has already left a taste of snake-oil. The local press is eager to remind us Vancouver is one of the best places on Earth to live, which is as much truthful as truthy. Unlike other spots on the globe, the political environment isn’t poison enough to do you in permanently.

But it’s gone off enough to make you gag. geoffolson.com

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The number of Vancouver athletes selected to the 76-player roster for Canada’s U23 national ultimate team.

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The percentage of Vancouver public school students who rely on school meal programs.

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Mailbox Old Macdonald big NPAdonation is old news To the editor: Re: “Tight race leaves Vision in a final scramble,” Nov. 7.

Why is it that in relation to the NPA, Rob Macdonald is mostly mentioned negatively but all the deals, mostly hidden, that Vision has done with developers is OK? We should be far more concerned about Vision’s biggest donors.

Being the greenest, ending homelessness and housing affordability can only happen when we are prosperous. To be prosperous, we have to have a council willing to think outside the box, look at ideas as “how can we make this work” and encourage all industry. The green agenda is so shallow they have to constantly talk about it while housing affordability plans are unlikely to make a difference but will forever change our city.

On the fiscal responsible front, how wasteful and unnecessary are the various lawsuits against corporations and individuals and defending against community groups and the aquarium? I choose a city hall that is inclusive to make Vancouver vibrant and prosperous rather than the dour and sanctimonious, negative place it is now.

Gayle Nesbit, Vancouver

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Lions Gate Bridge opens to traffic

Nov. 14, 1938: The Lions Gate Bridge, officially known as the First Narrows Bridge, opens for vehicle traffic with a toll fee of 25 cents to cross Burrard Inlet. Initially conceived as an investment scheme to help develop the real estate market of West Vancouver, the 1,500-metre suspension bridge soon became one of the city’s main arteries. The name refers to “The Lions,” a pair of North Shore mountain peaks that northbound traffic heads towards. A pair of concrete lions, designed by sculptor Charles Marega, were installed at the Stanley Park entrance in 1939.

Fans raise the roof at BC Place

Nov. 14, 1982: The world’s largest Teflon-coated, woven fibreglass roof is inflated for the first time. A pet project of former Socred premier Bill Bennett that initially earned the project the nickname “Bennett’s Bubble,” the $163.5 million stadium was built to replace Empire Stadium and be a marquee part of Expo 86. Covering 10 acres in total, with a circumference of 760 metres (2,500 feet), the roof was held aloft by air pumped by 16 giant fans. It officially opened to the public June 19, 1983, and more than 60,000 spectators came out the following day to watch the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the Seattle Sounders 2-1 in a North American Soccer League game.

The stadium received a new retractable roof completed in 2011 at a cost of more than half a billion dollars.

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Coping with limited advance polling stations

To the editor: Re: “COPE hopes for a comeback amid historical slide,” Nov. 7.

COPE has no hope! It’s interesting that East Vancouver has almost no

advance polling stations and only the wealthier areas of Vancouver do.

One can’t help but wonder why the area of Vancouver that COPE gets most of it’s support from has no advance polling stations and residents have to travel well out of their community to participate in advance polling.

Is this just a coincidence or a desperate attempt by Vision Vancouver to mitigate vote splitting and losing the election in a narrow race?

Mic Aiello, Vancouver

Denike, Woo respond to op-ed

To the editor: Re: “Puzzling out ballot box decisions,” Nov. 12.

We take issue with your suggestion that in demanding further consultation with parents (in connection the district’s revised gender policy) we became “a conduit for fear and ignorance.” That characterization is insulting and demeaning to the hundreds of Chinese Canadian parents we have spoken with about the policy — and the many thousands more who signed a petition demanding further consultation before implementation of the policy.

Our sense was and remains that these parents were genuinely concerned about the impact of the policy on their children’s privacy interests (e.g. gender neutral washrooms and change rooms) and on their right to be informed about their child’s gender identity, amongst other effects. Our calls for further consultation were to assist in resolving these parents’ concerns. The Vision-controlled board refused. This has nothing to do with homophobia and everything to do with the lack of transparency that typifies the Vision regime.

Ken Denike, Sophia Woo, Vancouver

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COURIER COLUMN: “Puzzling out ballot box decisions,” Nov. 12.

The 99: Vancouver has 118 heroes, people who have given up their privacy, jumped through the bureaucratic hoops and hope to serve their city and fellow citizens. It is not enough to stand on the sidelines and complain; some must act. Not all have a recognizable name, signs out on the street and all you need in a democracy to gain a chance at being elected. ABetterCity.ca tried to create a balanced ballot of an equal mix of men and women, evenly spread across the political spectrum. The best governments on earth are minority governments. We need that back in Vancouver after so many decades of one-party rule, a form of serial tyranny.

COURIER STORY: “Greens seek balance of power on next council,” Nov. 12.

Lewis_N_Villegas: “People planning” sounds good, but there is an important distinction to be made — are we going to let the passengers fly the airliner? We should be careful to avoid going from one extreme to the other. The choices confronting neighbourhood plans directly impact safety, the walkability of the neighbourhood and support higher levels of social functioning. Here, locals have the knowledge of place but they don’t want to become planners. My experience working in successful neighbourhood plans in other cities was that as the process unfolded the line blurred as the learning happens on both sides. Locals learned about options for their place they may never have considered before and the town planners learned about the local place they had been hired to work on. By the end of the process, the rooms resembled community celebrations more than planning workshops.

Amazed100: “Passengers flying the airliner” is actually how democracy works. I understand that the concept of democracy is breaking news to Vision Vancouver. But I am hopeful you will receive a crash course on Saturday.

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Community Kristallnacht anniversary a reminder of horror Outlook on life changed by frank stories of Holocaust survivors

PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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A Delta minor hockey coach was fired last week for posting to Facebook Nazi images and proHitler commentary. He told media afterward that pictures of concentration camp inmates actually showed typhus patients the Germans were trying to save. The former coach said he isn’t a Nazi, just a “history buff.”

Sometimes, in situations like this, I am inclined to lay blame on public education’s history curriculum as much as the individual. Whoever is to blame for such ignorance, Vancouverites do not have to look far to find the truth. Eyewitnesses to, and victims of, Nazi atrocities still live among us.

Indeed, on Sunday night, about two dozen elderly survivors of the Holocaust lit candles in memory of the millions of Jews killed in what is known in Hebrew as the Shoah. The occasion was the annual Kristallnacht Memorial Lecture at a Vancouver synagogue.

On the night of Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, across Germany and Austria, mobs attacked Jewish people and institutions.

The event was intended to resemble a spontaneous grassroots uprising, the sort of pogrom familiar to European Jews for hundreds of years, but in fact it was an orchestrated plot from the highest reaches of the Nazi regime.

Ninety-one Jews were murdered, 30,000 were rounded up and placed in concentration camps, 1,000 synagogues were set aflame, thousands of Jewish owned businesses damaged or destroyed.

Kristallnacht was the moment when the incremental threats and humiliations against the Jewish people in Germany and annexed Austria turned into the violent cataclysm that the Nazis called the Final Solution.

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PHOTOS GERMAN FEDERAL ARCHIVE (TOP); UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM (BOTTOM).

Kristallnacht — and indeed the Holocaust — was a direct consequence of global indifference in the face of Hitler’s unconcealed genocidal threats against the Jews of Europe. Four months before Kristallnacht, the United Kingdom and the United States assembled representatives of 32 countries in Evian-les-Bains, France, with the intent of finding

refuge for the imperilled Jews of Europe. The conference had the opposite result. The convening powers — and every other country except the Dominican Republic — outright refused to accept any more Jewish refugees than what paltry few they may have already admitted. Canada’s response, history has recorded, was summed up in the phrase

“none is too many.”

The Evian Conference told Hitler all he needed to know about how far the democracies would go to challenge his explicit promise to eradicate the Jewish people.

The next year, the Nazis invaded Poland, where the largest Jewish population in Europe resided. Over the course of the Second World War, Germany

would occupy the territories where almost all of Europe’s Jews lived.

In 1939, there were 9.5 million Jews in Europe.

In 1945, just 3.5 million remained alive. Entire families and villages were wiped out. The lingua franca of East European Jewry, Yiddish, the vehicle of an extraordinarily vibrant culture, was for all intents a dead language

by 1945. Today, there are just 15 million Jews in the world, a number that underscores the astonishing impact of the catastrophe on Jewish civilization.

In Vancouver, survivors include some hidden as children and others who were among the tiny fraction to survive the constellation of death camps. Many of the survivors kept silent for decades after their liberation before telling some friends or family and then, in acts of extraordinary courage I have witnessed several times, shared their often horrific experiences with local school and university students.

The lecturer at Sunday’s commemoration was York University professor Sara Horowitz, who spoke about mothers and daughters in the Holocaust. The narratives she shared were harrowing. Because the Nazi plan was the complete annihilation of the Jewish people, children and pregnant women arriving at camps like Auschwitz were selected for immediate death. When a woman did manage to conceal her pregnancy and come to term in the camps, the women who helped her deliver sometimes killed the infant and disposed of the body in order to save the mother’s life. In another case Horowitz related, a family was about to be betrayed by a crying baby while Nazis searched the house in which they were hiding. An uncle suffocated the infant while the mother pulled out her hair in silence. Libraries and taped testimonies are filled with millions of such horrors, including narratives of local survivors at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, in the Jewish Community Centre.

After the war, Canada changed its immigration policy toward Jews such that, after Israel and the United States, Canada is home to the third-largest population of Holocaust survivors in the world.

The number dwindles by the year, but thousands of Vancouver young people are among the last generation who will hear survivors’ testimonies firsthand. And while there may be an occasional individual who denies history, there are many more whose outlook on the world has been changed by hearing the frank stories of survivors.

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1. Last year, the VSB cut more than $9 million to balance its budget. 2. SBS school superintendent Steve Cardwell, who leaves his job in December, says schools are a vital part of Saturday’s civic election: “We have 55,000 students. We’ve got over 100,000 parents that have a real stake in our education system and fewer than 40 per cent voted.” PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Continued from page one He hopes more Vancouverites vote this time around compared to 2011.

The stakes are just too high.

“We have 55,000 students. We’ve got over 100,000 parents that have a real stake in our education system and fewer than 40 per cent voted,” he said. “They need to exercise their democratic right to vote and have influence on our education system by voting for school trustees and voting for the city, for the mayor and council, as well, as part of this, and when provincial elections come around, of course, for them, too.”

The district

The Vancouver School Board oversees 92 elementary schools, 18 high schools, seven adult education centres and the largest distance education school in the province.

Vancouver schools serve some of the most affluent neighbourhoods in Canada and some of the poorest. Fourteen per cent of students participate in a school meal program.

The VSB hires about 8,000 full- and part-time employees and serves approximately 55,000 students, 49,832 of whom are in kindergarten to Grade 12. Of those elementary and high school students, 60 per cent speak a language other than English at home and 25 per cent

are designated as speaking English as a second language. More than 125 languages have been identified in Vancouver schools.

The budget

Every year, as they have for at least 12 years except 2005, senior school board staff and trustees agonize over the cuts they’ll have to make to balance the board’s budget, as required by the School Act of its key funder, the provincial government.

The amount of money provided per student by the province hasn’t dwindled, but funding hasn’t kept pace with rising operational costs. These include pay and pension increases negotiated with student support workers, office staff and outside workers on behalf of the government for 2012 to 2014, but not funded by the government.

Last year, the VSB cut more than $9 million to balance its budget.

The six Vision Vancouver trustees opted to preserve the district’s elementary band and strings program, the athletics coordinator, area counsellor, educational psychologist, speech language pathologist and teacher and support staff peer mentoring positions by using $2.5 million from the board’s emergency reserves. The move left $530,000 to cover the

unexpected, which in previous years has included lower enrolment, reduced revenue from international students and the installation of hand-washing stations during the H1N1 outbreak. The then-three Non-Partisan Association trustees voted against using the reserve money.

As soon as the 20142015 budget was completed, senior management started working on the 2015-2016 budget.

With money from the reserve fund nearly gone, Cardwell says trustees will have to figure out another way to handle the looming shortfall and continue to support teaching and learning.

“That’s a huge challenge,” he said, nodding his head for emphasis.

Cardwell says staff predict a $25 to $27 million shortfall for 2015-2016.

That figure won’t be so high by spring because the board typically finds surpluses and the province releases additional money.

The initial predicted shortfall last year was $28.7 million.

The board’s preliminary operating budget for 2014-2015 is nearly $500 million. Here’s how it breaks down: • 91 per cent of that amount comes from the provincial government.

• Six per cent hails from revenues, mainly international students followed

by fees and rentals. 2.5 per cent comes from the prior year’s operating surplus.

• 0.6 per cent originates from the local capital fund, including the $2.5 million taken from reserves.

Cardwell is hopeful the government is starting to listen to school districts’ concerns.

The government’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services last year recommended the provincial government: • “provide sufficient funding for the K-12 system to enable B.C. students to become top performers nationally; and address cost increases for school districts (e.g. rising BC Hydro rates).”

• “develop a comprehensive capital plan for educational facilities that takes into account increased maintenance and aging school facility upgrades; and continue the seismic upgrading program.”

• “review the increasing demands on school district budgets and ensure that funding is appropriately directed to meet the growing support required for students with special needs.”

The VSB will receive roughly $1 million to fund additional support staff in classrooms this year as a result of the collective agreement reached in Sep-

tember. It will receive a smaller amount of money to hire additional teachers.

The VSB contends it would need $54.3 million in additional funding to match service levels offered in 2002-2003.

Boards want adequate, stable and predictable funding.

“If we had multi-year funding, let’s say a threeyear budget, we could then have more certainty in the system,” Cardwell said, adding the provincial government will undertake a funding formula review this year.

Voters should consider how trustees and their parties have said they’d deal with budget shortfalls.

Vision and Green candidates say they will continue to lobby for more money from the government. Green candidate Mischa Oak has identified areas for greater savings and revenue.

Green, Public Education Project and COPE candidates say trustees need to galvanize the broader community into lobbying the provincial government for adequate funding. NPA candidates say trustees need to work more collaboratively with government and to seek grants and donations from other agencies, which could include corporations such as Chevron, which has become a point of contention between Vi-

sion and the NPA. Green candidates say the VSB should review its policy on corporate donations with teachers and parents.

Vancouver 1st candidates say if the trustees set clear priorities based on current, and not previous budgets, there wouldn’t be a funding shortfall. COPE candidates say they won’t be complicit in further cuts to the education system and suggest they wouldn’t submit a balanced budget. COPE says it will push for the government to make funding for public education a priority and eliminate funding for private education.

The NPA says it would provide at least five more instruction days by reducing district closure days, which the Vision-dominated board has continued to save $500,000 per year.

All of the candidates who responded to the question of whether they’d support selling VSB property to bring in more money said they wouldn’t at the District Parent Advisory Council’s trustee forum Oct. 23. But Vancouver 1st candidates Ken Denike and Sophia Woo subsequently said the board should hand the Kingsgate Mall property it owns over to the province to hasten long-term plans for new elementary and high schools in the Southeast False Creek and International Village area.

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Building education

When they’re not worrying about the budget, trustees need to worry about buildings and bums in seats.

Twenty Vancouver schools are at, over or approaching capacity. Most of these schools operate downtown and near South False Creek.

Another 23 elementary and four secondary schools see enrolment under 68 per cent capacity. Most of these schools are on the East Side.

The NPA says it won’t close neighbourhood schools, and incumbent chairperson Patti Bacchus says the Vision-dominated board made that same commitment in 2011.

NPA incumbent trustee Fraser Ballantyne said last April, however, the board could have closed five schools instead of digging so deeply into its reserve fund to balance its budget.

Oak also specified he wouldn’t close schools.

The school board manages enrolment with policy on out-of-catchment enrolment and choices about where it situates districtwide programs such as French and Mandarin immersion and Montessori. It maintains pressure on the provincial government to fund seismic upgrades and replacement schools and for money to construct new schools.

Ballantyne suggested last spring that if space was needed for area students, school administrators should advise parents of cross-boundary students their son or daughter may need to enrol in their home school for September. Currently, the board aims to inform parents as soon as possible that their children may not be able to attend their neighbourhood school.

District-wide enrolment in kindergarten to Grade 12 has been declining for years, with the district losing close to 1,000 students per year for several years.

Enrolment has shrunk by 7,743 students from 57,575 in 1997. But associate superintendent Scott Robinson reports registration has started growing at the primary level across the district over the past three years. The decline is now closer to 400 to 500 students per year and the VSB expects the decline to end

Carissa Ned eats breakfast at Sir William MacDonald Elementary school. A Re-visioning Inner City and CommunityLINK Resources in Vancouver Schools consultation and report the board completed last year sees three tiers of support for Vancouver schools.

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within the next four years, at which point the district expects to see an overall increase in enrolment.

Registration is expected to grow over the next decade as housing density increases in the downtown core and more families choose to live there. Cardwell says he’s met with a joint city, park and school board committee on development and planning every six weeks for the last two-and-a-half years.

A new elementary school will be constructed downtown at International Village. The school board has air rights for an elementary school in Coal Harbour and another in Southeast False Creek, but the province has yet to commit money to their construction. Another high school will eventually be needed downtown to accommodate the influx of elementary school students. New schools will also likely be needed in the Marine Drive/Cambie area if families flock to new, denser housing.

King George secondary in the West End will need to be replaced, and Cardwell says the board will consider high-rise schools there and elsewhere.

“Do we just build a single-purpose school or do we build a school that has multiple uses, brings in some of the community assets and community amenities that are functional besides the school place,” he said. “And are those school sites, if they’re in a high-rise, are

they flexible spaces so that you can adjust based on enrolment in 20 years, 30 years and convert them back and forth from community use to school use?”

Cardwell says the board is developing a strategy where undercapacity schools would be used as swing spaces for schools undergoing seismic construction when students cannot be accommodated on the building site. The provincial government is no longer funding portables.

“We might have to split primary/intermediate,” he said. “You can imagine, 18 high schools and many of them still needing upgrades. It’s a challenge to empty out a school of 1,200 students. Where do we put them?”

The district and the provincial government recently signed an agreement for a seismic management office that Cardwell hopes will speed up the completion of such projects.

The board estimates it has eight schools under some form of development or construction each year for the next 10 years.

“That’s equivalent to the VANOC Olympics,” Cardwell said.

The VSB saved the district’s oldest schoolhouse from demolition by leasing it to Green Thumb Theatre in 2012. The board hopes to rent out the old Sir James Douglas elementary school that stands near a seismic replacement and the board is proceeding towards demolition of the old Sexsmith elemen-

tary school near East 58th Avenue and Main Street, where a seismic replacement school was constructed. The property remains embroiled in a court case with a Francophone school board that wants the education minister to order the VSB to lease it the building.

To save $600,000 in rental costs a year, the VSB moved the Main Street Education Centre for adults into Gladstone secondary this September.

Now the board is consulting the John Oliver secondary and Carleton elementary communities on the seismic renewal of these schools.

“My view of a school is no longer the single-purpose brick schoolhouse on a large piece of property,” Cardwell said.

He sees co-located childcare as the top priority, followed by other social services.

“But there are other aspects that could be there from community centres to post-secondary opportunities,” Cardwell said.

Some school properties are multi-zoned and could include affordable housing.

Poverty

Child poverty is such a concern to the two main mayoral candidates that investing more money in school breakfast programs became one of the first bones of contention in this election.

Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson promised his party would double the amount of

money dedicated to the VSB’s breakfast program to reach 1,300 kids a day if Vision retains a majority on council and school board. The NPA’s Kirk LaPointe contends Vision pinched the idea from his consultations with the community.

Whatever the case, the Re-visioning Inner City and CommunityLINK Resources in Vancouver Schools consultation and report the board completed last year sees three tiers of support for schools. The two neediest tiers, based on provincial statistics about income assistance and the numbers of children in foster care, will be served universal breakfast and lunch programs.

The highest concentrations of poverty are at Macdonald, Strathcona, Grandview, Seymour, Britannia and Thunderbird elementary schools.

Queen Alexandra elementary at Broadway and Clark and Tillicum annex combined with Hastings elementary fall in the middle tier.

Nightingale, Selkirk, Cook, Fleming, Henderson and Roberts are in the third tier.

The six neediest schools will receive a pre-kindergarten program, a special education assistant in each kindergarten class, a full-time literacy specialist, counselling services, other support workers and outof-school programming.

Fourteen schools were previously designated Inner City. The revised

model includes Fleming elementary at Knight and East 49th and Lord Roberts elementary in the West End as needing extra support, whereas Mount Pleasant elementary and General Brock elementary, near the partially rebuilt Little Mountain social housing site, have dropped off the list.

The board is identifying how to track progress on helping kids in poverty to guide future staffing decisions. Most of the changes related to the tiered system won’t happen until September 2015.

The board traditionally reviewed and adjusted its inner city school program every five years but VSB associate superintendent Maureen Ciarniello says trustees decided to take a broader look at the program because they were hearing about pockets of poverty growing in unexpected places and increasingly complex needs.

First Call: B.C. Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition reported last November that B.C. has the worst rate of child poverty of any province in Canada, at 18.6 per cent The inner city program draws $2.9 million from the board’s operating budget. That doesn’t include money for food, aboriginal and special education supports, coordinators who link schools and students with support services and youth and family workers, so trustees wanted to make sure that money was being well spent.

Ciarniello says the board is trying to build flexibility into its tiered system to respond a little more swiftly to needs and to follow students beyond schools.

The board is also working to provide food programs for students who need them at schools that aren’t designated inner city.

Super time

Ads were placed nationally Halloween week for a new superintendent.

Trustees will be elected Nov. 15, sworn in in December and then one of their first tasks will be to choose the person who will act as the board’s CEO, ideally for at least five years.

“It’s the only hire that the board is responsible for,” Cardwell said. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Yaletown

The Yaletown Business Improvement Association presents Candytown — the only free winter festival in the city — Nov. 22 from noon to 7 p.m.

Free events include an outdoor skating rink, reindeer petting zoo and horse-drawn carriage rides.

The All I Want for Christmas Gift Market runs all day, as do visits with Santa and the Ice Queen at the North Pole. As well, adults and children can check out the candy-making hut, enjoy roaming musicians and buskers, watch live ice sculpting and visit the Christmas tree lot hosted by the Yaletown Rotary Club. Adventurous adults

can also join in the Candytown Cocktail Tour and sample candy-themed drinks from participating restaurants. Kids-only events include face-painting, crafts and balloon art demonstrations.

Candytown takes place along Mainland Street in Yaletown. Visit yaletowninfo.com for a complete schedule.

Dunbar

The 32nd annual Dunbar Holiday Craft Fair takes place Nov. 22, with more than 140 local vendors featuring thousands of handmade items for all budgets.

This juried event also includes refreshments, entertainment, prizes, childminding and an ATM in the lobby. New for sale at this year’s fair is prepared food.

The craft fair, presented by the Dunbar Commu-

nity Centre Association, takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the centre, 4747 Dunbar St. For more information call 604-222-6060 or visit dunbarcentre.ca. Admission is $2 in advance, $3 at the door and free for children under 12.

As well, the Dunbar Heights United Church, 3525 West 24th Ave., is hosting a fun fall fair Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with crafts, baking, silent auction, kid’s corner and mini concerts.

Coal Harbour

The 41st Annual Circle Craft Christmas Market, featuring the work of more than 300 artists and artisans from coast to coast, is on now through Nov. 16 at Vancouver Convention Centre West, 1055 Canada Place.

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And while there have been some changes over the market’s 41 years, including different venues and its annual growth, its mid-winter warmth and traditions remain. For a complete schedule and ticket information, visit circlecraft.net. Tickets are also available in advance at Circle Craft Shop and Gallery, 1666 Johnston St. on Granville Island.

Downtown

The Greater Van Gogos, a network of grandmother groups in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and Sunshine Coast, invites the public to their regional fundraising event at UBC Robson Square Nov. 22.

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The Hand in Hand — justice for African Grandmothers event includes the premiere of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s new film African Grandmothers Tribunal: Seeking justice at the frontlines of the AIDS crisis.

The film shows at 1 and 3 p.m. followed by a Q&A with executive director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation Ilana Landsberg-Lewis and Justine Ojambo, national director of the Ugandanbased Phoebe Education Fund for Orphans. The fundraiser also includes an artisan marketplace offering quality crafts, storyteller Tiffany Stone and children’s choirs. Admission to the marketplace is by donation.

Admission to the film is $10 at the door with all proceeds dedicated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, which works with grassroots projects serving African grandmothers and children orphaned by AIDS in their care.

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Got Craft? Holiday Edition takes place Dec. 13 and 14 and includes the works

These felt bags created by Vinitha Sara John are just an example of the many handcrafted items for sale at the 41st Annual Circle Craft Christmas Market on now through Nov. 16.

of more than 75 designers, craft workshops, tasty treats, music, free swag bags and an average attendance of more than 6,000 annually.

Founded in 2007, Got Craft? is dedicated to bringing together a community that fosters handmade and do-it-yourself cultures. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph St.

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The Hastings Park Farmers Market continues Sundays now through Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hastings skatepark on the PNE fairgrounds.

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Yet some hope that its programs could be restored again if more funds and a new home are found.

“It is with great sadness that we must close the doors at Marpole Place,” announced the Marpole Oakridge Area Council Society (MOACS) board of directors Oct. 30. “This is a difficult and emotional time for members, volunteers and staff alike, and we know many will have questions.”

This week the non-profit society will host its final Thursday night dinner and Friday breakfast, a popular tradition. Other lost services include the Forever Learning and Connected 55+ program, a free bread pick up, a mobile food market, computer training, exercises for seniors, board games, knitting and crafts, day trips, a law clinic, a walking club and fusion dances. Many called these social contacts valuable for isolated seniors, disabled, homeless and others.

“I will come to last dinner, bring my big hankie, and will be all choked,” said former MOACS president Gudrun Langolf. “I had no idea they were going to drop that bomb that day. I knew it was likely coming but not quite so fast.”

Marpole Place’s weekly Thursday night dinner moved to St. Augustine’s Church last year after a flood made its longtime home at a former firehall unusable. The longtime community organization ceased operations Friday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

MOACS said it has not been sustainable for many years, and has only stayed open this long thanks to the dedication of staff and volunteers. The programs had been running at the former Marpole Firehall on West 70th Avenue since the mid1980s, but after a major flood there last December, they moved to a temporary residence in the St. Augustine’s Church on Hudson Street, with a much higher monthly rent.

“Marpole Place ceasing operations — a terribly sad day,” tweeted the Marpole Business Improvement Association. “Huge gap in services for seniors, families.”

Several community groups are meeting this month to discuss how to respond to the loss, BIA director Claudia Laroye said.

“Some potential things could be seeking emergency city funds, approaching the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House to take over some of the programs, and identifying other potential community partners.”

“We’re grateful for the outpouring of support from the community since the announcement,” said MOACS board member Farida Barber. She said the society had three streams of income — a savings account, grants, and renting space to other groups in

the former firehall. None of these was enough to carry the programs, even after MAOCS’ recent fundraising and cost cutting, and two staffers and a cook will be dismissed next month.

Some of the regular visitors to last week’s Friday morning breakfast were much saddened by the impending closure. “We are losing an important part of our neighbourhood,” said Lou Grahn, 78, who has been coming here for 30 years for the card games and computer training. Sue Service, who uses a wheelchair, said she will donate $1,000 from her inheritance to try to keep it going, because her mother enjoyed playing bridge and the day trips, while her 19-year-old son comes to the meals and plays trumpet there.

“The trend now is for governments to download these programs onto non-profits and make them compete and run after money,” said Langolf. “It’s outrageous. Service agencies cannot do it alone. All the people who have worked for Marpole Place over the past 30 years have really been kicked in the face. But my Pollyanna view is that out of some miserable situations, something good comes out, and I hope that’s the situation here.”

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POSTER ANIMAL HAS A HEAD FOR THEATRE

By Jenny Peng The first time Emily Cooper took photos on the set of a play, she never thought she'd see them published in a local paper.

She was 16 at the time and would accompany her father David Cooper, also a photographer, to plays that were often choreographed by her mother. During her adolescence spent

shuttling between dress rehearsals, she watched from the sidelines as actors and set designers brought stories to life.

Although she still takes photos of theatre productions, Cooper spends much of her time on a computer. After spending two years at an intensive technical photography program in

FOR THE PAST FOUR SEASONS, EMILY COOPER HAS CREATED PACIFIC THEATRE'S WHIMSICAL AND EYECATCHING PROMOTIONAL POSTERS. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Ontario, Cooper walked away with a passion for Photoshop and creating collages by cutting, pasting and layering images she's taken or collected.

She began showcasing her work at galleries and art shows where it caught the attention of theatre companies that wanted use the artwork to publicize their productions. For the past four seasons, Cooper has created the eye-catching and whimsical promotional posters for Pacific Theatre.

Although the posters are intended to convey the tone of the play, Cooper insists her fantastical illustrations, which often include animal heads on human bodies, should never be taken too seriously. In her depictions, it's not unusual to see bulging eyes and antlers poking out from Sigmund Freud or C.S. Lewis, as seen in her poster for the production of Freud's Last Session.

"I prefer an image to be poetic instead of being too obvious," says Cooper. "I

like to engage the viewer's imagination and in a way give you half of the story and then allow your imagination to fill the other half."

What the viewer doesn't see is the often painstaking process of piecing together an original illustration. "The inspiration always comes from the brief... and the words are what spark my imagination."

Once Cooper reads the description of the production, she scouts books, archives and the Internet for images from the time period of the

play. "The more that I can understand the time and the setting, and the people and the character, the more I can get under the skin of what I'm illustrating, the more authentic the illustration ends up."

Cooper chuckles at her past quirky obsessions, such as using eggs to address different subjects and crumpled-up pieces of paper to symbolize a creative block in her career. That creative block was nowhere in sight as she described working in Portland, Ore. last year for a photo historian with a large collection of "ginormous" eight by 10 glass plate negatives.

She offered to archive his collection in return for full access to the images.

At her spacious shared studio in the Downtown Eastside, Cooper reminisces about her days as a student and having little patience for peers drifting through class while she climbed the latter to become the top student.

In her crisp, clean office, a few vibrant illustrations are plastered on the walls tickling the imagination of viewers.

Pointing to a colourful poster with her signature style of incorporating animal heads on human bodies, she explained that it was made for St. John Hankin's 1906 play The Charity That Began at Home about a crusading philanthropist who fills her house with a clan of social rejects. Instead of a literal portrayal of obnoxious, loud qualities in these guests, Cooper represented their personalities through their animal personas such as an elephant, a lion and a mountain goat.

"We can all relate to human characteristics in animals and my obsession with them is that I see myself in different types of animals," says Cooper.

"They all have such stereotypes that you can play with in humans as well."

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LIVE THEATRE ARTS CLUB 604-687-1644, artsclub.com Saint Joan Now until Nov. 23 at the Stanley Mary Poppins Dec. 5-Jan. 4 at the Stanley Avenue Q Nov. 20-Jan. 3, 2015 at Granville Island Stage A Twisted Christmas Carol Nov. 27-Dec. 27 at the Revue Stage THE ARTS CLUB THEATRE'S AVENUE Q PHOTO: DAVID COOPER

LITTLE MOUNTAIN GALLERY 195 East 26th Ave., brownpapertickets.com Wide Awake Hearts Dec. 3-20 METRO THEATRE 1370 Southwest Marine Dr., 604-266-7191, metrotheatre.com Parfumerie Now until Nov. 29 Fawlty Towers Jan. 10-31 PACIFIC THEATRE 1440 West 12th Ave., 604-731-5518, pacifictheatre.org Subway Stations of the Cross Nov. 19-22 ItÕs a Wonderful Life Radio Show Dec. 5-30 Christmas PresenceÑVancouver Dec. 14-23

RUBY SLIPPERS THEATRE Studio 16, 1555 W. 7th Ave., rubyslippers.ca Apres Moi/The List Jan. 27-Feb. 1, 2015 SOLO COLLECTIVE THEATRE Performance Works, Granville Island solocollective.ca, 1-800-838-3006 Small Parts Now until Nov. 23 STUDIO 58 Langara College, 604-684-2787, studio58.ca, ticketstonight.ca One Flew Over the CuckooÕs Nest Now until Nov. 30 THEATRE LA SEIZIEME Vancouver Playhouse 604-736-2616, seizieme.ca Sequence 8 Jan. 22-24, 2015

YORK THEATRE 639 Commercial Dr., 604-251-1363, thecultch.com Broken Sex Doll Now until Nov. 22 Cinderella: An East Van Panto Dec. 3-28

FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE 280 East Cordova St., 604-689-0926, firehallartscentre.ca Urinetown Now until Nov. 29 Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen Dec. 13-Jan. 3, 2015 GATEWAY THEATRE 6500 Gilbert Road, Richmond, 604-270-1812, gatewaytheatre.com How to Disappear Completely Now until Nov. 22 Crazy For You: The New Gershwin Musical Dec. 4-31

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UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St., 604-224-8007, unitedplayers.com Private Lives Jan. 23-Feb. 15

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WINTER 2014/15 GOH BALLET The Centre in Vancouver, gohballet.com Nutcracker Dec. 18-23 A traditional rendition of a classical masterpiece. This heart-warming production is sure to delight audiences of all ages with more than 200 glittering costumes, dramatic sets and valuable lessons, all danced to TchaikovskyÕs memorable score performed live by members of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.

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Free Horse Carriage Rides • Ice Carving Demos • Live Music “All I Want for Christmas” Gif� Market • Performers Life-Size CandyTown Game • Visits with Santa & the Ice Queen Christmas Tree Lot • Candy Making with Frankie’s Candies

DANCE HOUSE dancehouse.ca Sharon Eyal/L-E-V Nov. 14, 15 at the Vancouver Playhouse Louise Lecavilier/ Fou Glorieux Jan. 20, 21 at the Fei and Milton Wing Experimental Theatre

VANCOUVER CHOPIN SOCIETY Vancouver Playhouse chopinsociety.org, 604-684-2787 Concert I: Arnaldo Cohen Nov. 30 Concert II: Alexandre Tharaud Jan. 30

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO Q.E. Theatre, ticketstonight.ca Le Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Jan. 24

VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY Vancouver Playhouse vanrecital.com 604-602-0363 Pavel Kolesnikov, piano Nov. 16 The Doric String Quartet Nov. 23

WEST SIDE STORY Vancouver Playhouse, karenflamenco.com, 604-721-4869 Karen Flamenco presents West Side Story Nov. 28, 29

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VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 604-876-3434, vancouversymphony.ca Masterworks Gold: Glinka, Brahms, Tchaikovsky; Ryu Goto, violin Dec. 6, 8 Masterworks Diamond: Barber, Mozart, Shostakovich; Phillippe Quint, violin Nov. 29, Dec. 1 Musically Speaking: Bernstein, Korngold, Copland, Gershwin; Tasmin Little, violin Nov. 15

VSO Pops: The Best of Lerner and Loewe Nov. 21, 22 (all at the Orpheum Theatre) A Traditional Christmas Dec. 11-14 (various venues) VivaldiÕs Four Seasons with Dale Barltrop, leader/violin Dec. 19, 20 at Chan Centre VETTA CHAMBER MUSIC West Point Grey United Church, 4595 West Eighth Ave., vettamusic.com Concert Two: Corelli, Frescobaldi, Vivaldi...

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CHORAL CHOR LEONI MENÕS CHOIR Vancouver Playhouse chorleoni.org, 604-684-2787, ticketstonight.ca All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Dec. 19-21 ELEKTRA WOMENÕS CHOIR Ryerson United Church, 2205 West 45th Ave., 604-329-1034, elektra.ca Chez Nous: Christmas With Elektra Nov. 29 GOOD NOISE VANCOUVER GOSPEL CHOIR Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard St., goodnoisevgc.com, 1-800-838-3006 Making Spirits Bright Dec. 12, 13

EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER earlymusic.bc.ca, 604-822-2697 Baroque Masterworks at The Chan Centre: Christmas Oratorio (Cantatas 1, 3, 6) Dec. 21 HaydnÕs Seven Last Words Jan. 24 at the Orpheum Annex MUSIC IN THE MORNING Vancouver Academy of Music, 1270 Chestnut St., musicinthemorning.org Steven Schick, percussion Nov. 19-21 John OÕConor, piano Dec. 10-12 PACIFIC BAROQUE ORCHESTRA Christ Church Cathedral 604-215-0406, pacificbaroque.com Nachtmusik Nov. 28 VSO PRESENTS RYU GOTO

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MUSICA INTIMA VOCAL ENSEMBLE 604-731-6618, musicaintima.org A Christmas Story Dec. 16 at Ryerson United Church, Dec. 19 at St. PaulÕs Anglican Church

A Dylan Thomas Christmas Dec. 19 at Ryerson United Church A Charlie Brown Christmas Dec. 21 at Ryerson United Church VANCOUVER WELSH MENÕS CHOIR 604-878-1190, vwmc.ca Christmas Concert Dec. 4 at Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard St. Concert with Magee Choir Dec. 13 at Shaughnessy United Church, 1550 West 33rd Ave.

PHOENIX CHAMBER CHOIR Shaughnessy Heights United Church, 1550 West 33rd Ave., 604-757-0389, phoenixchoir.ca Shine: A Phoenix Christmas Dec. 20 VANCOUVER BACH CHOIR Orpheum Theatre, 604-696-4290, vancouverbachchoir.com Christmas With the Bach Choir Dec. 7

THE VANCOUVER CANTATA SINGERS Annual Christmas Concert A Christmas Reprise XII Holy Rosary Cathedral, 646 Richards St., vancouvercantatasingers.com, 604-730-8856 Dec. 20, 2 p.m.

VANCOUVER CHAMBER CHOIR 604-738-6822, vancouverchamberchoir.com Homeward New Lyricism Nov. 14 at Ryerson United Church HandelÕs Messiah Dec. 12 at The Orpheum

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SPECIAL/ OTHER AN EVENING WITH GEORGE TAKEI Q.E. Theatre, unionevents.com George Takei Nov. 18 BARNEY BENTALL AND THE GRAND CARIBOO OPRY The Vogue Theatre, 918 Granville St., 604-569-1144 northerntickets.ca Barney Bentall and Friends Nov. 22 CBCÕS STUDIO 40 cbc.ca CBC VancouverÕs Toque Sessions presents John Mann Here and Now Nov. 19 CHAN CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS 604-822-6297, chancentre.com The Gloaming Nov. 15 Christmas at The Chan Nov. 30 VivaldiÕs Four Seasons Dec. 19

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ROGERS ARENA 800 Griffiths Way, ticketmaster.ca Fleetwood Mac Nov. 18 Motley Crue Nov. 21 Usher Nov. 27 Bryan Adams Jan. 14, 2015 ROGUE FOLK CLUB St. James Hall 3214 West 10th Ave., roguefolk.bc.ca An Evening with Roy Forbes Jan. 24 STANDING WAVE Pyatt Hall, 843 Seymour St., (VSO School of Music) 604-683-8240 standingwave.ca Time, Distance, Memory Nov. 23 THE TENORS Q.E. Theatre, 1-855-985-5000, ticketmaster.ca Christmas With the Tenors Dec. 2 THE VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville St., unionevents.com Bill Nye The Science Guy Dec. 21

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CHILDREN/FAMILY CAROUSEL THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 604-685-6217, carouseltheatre.ca The Very Hungry Caterpillar Nov. 23, 29 at The Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre James and the Giant Peach Dec. 6-Jan. 4 at the Waterfront Theatre on Granville Island PNE Pacific Coliseum, pne.ca, 604-252-3700 Disney on Ice: LetÕs Party Nov. 26-30 SCIENCE WORLD 1455 Quebec St., 604-443-7440, scienceworld.ca KidsÕ Designing Light Workshop Nov. 22 VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 604-876-3434, vancouversymphony.ca KIDSÕ KONCERTS: Nathanial Stookey: The Composer is Dead!

by Lemony Snicket Nov. 30 at the Orpheum Theatre Tiny Tots Throughout February at various locations

LOCAL/FINE ARTS EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL culturecrawl.ca 18th Annual Celebration of Art, Creativity and Community Nov. 20-23 MOVÑMUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut St., museumofvancouver.ca Artware: Northwest Coast Designs & Everyday Objects Now until Jan. 11 Design Sundays Nov. 16, 23, 30 Fashion Show: From Rationing to Ravishing with Ivan Sayers Nov. 22 UBC MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY 6393 Northwest Marine Dr., 604-822-5087, moa.ubc.ca Members Week Nov. 17-23 PigaPicha! A Century of Portrait Photography in Nairobi Nov. 25-Apr. 4 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby St., 604-662-4700, vanartgallery.bc.ca The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of ChinaÕs Emperors Now until Jan. 11

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PAL STUDIO THEATRE 581 Cardero St., 604-255-4313, palvancouver.org The Particulars Now until Nov. 16 The Santaland Diaries Dec. 9-13 Holly Jolly Christmas with Sweet Scarlet Holiday Concert Dec. 14

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CANDYTOWN IN YALETOWN 604-683-7473, yaletowninfo.com Third Annual CandyTown Festival Nov. 22, noon-7 p.m. on Mainland St. Highlights include: • Little ones can visit Santa and the Ice Queen at the North Pole at Bill Curtis Square • Take a horse-drawn carriage ride from Salsa and Agave on Pacific Blvd. (a 15-min. ride) • Crafts, face-painting and balloontwisting at the Starlight tent • Enjoy roaming musicians, street buskers and music tents • The Grey Cup Festival will hand out candy and mini-footballs!

• Pick out a festive tree from the Yaletown Rotary Club Lot • Get some tempting treats and gorgeous gifts at the All I Want For Christmas Market • Admission is free

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Highlights include: • Offers a wide variety of cultural activities and entertainment events • Enjoy European choirs and folk dance groups and the Christmas singing competition, gospel singers and festive carolers • Experience traditional food and beverage • Shop for a selection of authentic wood carvings and toys, knitted goods, nutcrackers, pottery and other unique gifts with eco-friendly options • Visit the special childrenÕs areaÑthe Kids MarketÑto make gifts and ride the Christmas Carousel • Adults over 19 (with ID) can purchase hot apple cider and other beverages to warm the spirits, or pop into the German Brewhouse

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1 Nov. 14 to 18, 2014 1. Wonderheads, the Portland peeps behind such big-headed productions as Grim & Fischer, bring their enhanced noggins back to town for their new play Loon. Billed as a “peculiar love story” involving a man and a trip to the moon, Loon runs Nov. 18 to 23 at the Cultch.

For tickets and details, call 604-2511363 or go to thecultch.com.

2. Jean Smith and David Lester, Vancouver’s long-serving postpunk duo known as Mecca Normal, keep the fires burning with their last album Empathy for the Evil. You can catch them Nov. 15 at the Media Club opening for Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Mirah.

Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat Records and northerntickets.com.

3. The Cinematheque kicks off the second installment of its Jean-Luc Godard retrospective Nov. 14 with a new restoration of 1968’s Sympathy for the Devil, a much troubled production the French New Wave filmmaker made with the income tax evading Rolling Stones.

Other films in the program include Tout va bien, Every Man for Himself, Histoire(s) du cinema, Passion, Nouvelle Vague and Film Socialisme, among others. Details and show times at thecinemathque.ca.

4. New Orleans indie pop band Generationals bring their guitar and electronic fuelled delights to the Biltmore Nov. 17 in support of the group’s latest album, Alix. Springtime Carnivore opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.

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Hard-hitting Facts THEATRE REVIEW

Jo Ledingham

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You’re not alone if you’re confused about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in the West Bank.

Canadian playwright Arthur Milner, born in Germany to Polish/Jewish Second World War refugees, frames Facts in such a way you will see all too clearly that under the blazing desert sun, it’s all grey. What does emerge from this tense, often brutal 90-minute play is that nationalism — Israeli or Palestinian — is dangerous and nothing good will come of refusing to compromise.

Zionists, Jews — orthodox, moderate and secular — Islamic Palestinians and Christians are living in a pressure cooker. Zionists believe the land was God-given to Jews; moderate Jews are willing to give up land in order to have peace; Palestinians were already there when the United Nations Assembly partitioned Palestine in 1947 and the State of Israel was declared. As the professor says in Masada, a companion piece to Facts, “We took an Arab country and made it a Jewish one.”

Facts at first appears to be a political thriller: Gordon Philips, an American archaeologist has been murdered in the West Bank. Why? Possibly because he’s claiming there was no King David or Abraham and the Jews

were never in Egypt. Pulling the rug out, in other words, from Jewish orthodoxy. Or because, serving on a Birzeit University hiring committee, Philips failed to get a young Palestinian women — a PhD student of his — hired. Or maybe just because of his frequent trips into one of the settlements. Wrong place at the wrong time.

Khalid Yassin, police inspector for the Palestinian Authority (Mehdi Darvish) and Yossi HaCohen, detective with with Israeli Police (Jerry Wasserman), come together in an interrogation room find out who murdered Philips.

Facts is taut with political sparring between two wellmatched antagonists who have been charged with solving the crime. But the situation really cranks up when a suspect, a Zionist, is brought in for questioning.

Adam Henderson, directing for United Players, sets the play in the round, creating an intimacy that make Facts rivetting. You won’t doze off; you can’t doze off. You are in that room with Yassin, HaCohen and Danny Rakoff (James Gill) and when HaCohen starts getting physical with Rakoff, it’s scary.

Like a hawk, Wasserman moves around in that small space. His character is explosive, brutal, unpredictable and dangerous. Rakoff, like a rodent about to be torn apart by a predator, doesn’t take his eyes off HaCohen. Gill is unfortu-

nately rather petulant as the accused — more like a schoolboy caught stealing cigarettes from the corner store. But Wasserman, most frequently seen on TV and screen, hasn’t lost his appetite or talent for the stage and the level of threat continues right to the end.

Of the two interrogators, Palestinian Yassin is the most contained, the most methodical and unbiased.

Darvish maintains an attitude of impartiality, of “good cop” to Wasserman’s “bad cop.” Together, Wasserman and Darvish argue and debate as their characters exchange insults and attempt to solve the crime.

It turns out, however, this whodunit isn’t a whodunit after all. What the playwright does is illustrate just how complicated the situation is. Arabs are killing Jews and Arabs; Jews are killing Arabs and Jews. The West Bank and especially Jerusalem is Ground Zero for Christians, Jews and Muslims and as long as compromise is a no-go, the killing will go on.

Hard-hitting, gritty, instructive and provocative, Facts ends abruptly. I was surprised and disappointed. It’s only after the curtain comes down that you understand what Milner is doing spectacularly well. On Fridays, director Henderson reads Masada, the companion play, which sheds a lot of light on Facts.

Facts runs until Nov. 30 at Jericho Arts Centre. For tickets, go to unitedplayers.com.

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Arts&Entertainment KUDOS & KVETCHES All apologies

Much has been made of Mayor Gregor Robertson apologizing to voters during

a CBC debate on Wednesday. We’re not entirely sure what he was apologizing for or if it was sincere or merely an act of desperation in an increasingly tight mayoral race. Regardless, we’d like it

if more mayoral candidates apologized to us. Here’s what we’d like to hear: • NPA candidate Kirk LaPointe: “I’m sorry for constantly mentioning that I grew up poor and know

A cavalcade of performers will tantalize, delight, and amuse at the closing production of Starry Night.After 29 sensational years we are bringing down the final curtain and promise to offer a heartfelt and fond farewell!

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what it’s like to be hungry… in speeches, in videos, during debates and at Starbuck’s when I leave a measly 25-cent tip and feel guilty. I realize that I’m well off and live comfortably at UBC in a home that most of you will never be able to afford.

But I thought it would make me seem more like an underdog, like one of the lumpen masses struggling to get by. Even though my party and my colleague’s party have spent more than $2 million apiece this election. I am truly sorry. But I really did grow up poor.

Damn, I’m doing it again, aren’t I. Sorry about that.”

• COPE candidate Meena Wong: “I’m sorry for never answering questions directly or with cold hard facts to back up my idealistic promises. While I know many of you like the idea of a $15 minimum wage and a $30 transit pass for every Vancouverite, there are so many other levels of government that would have to be involved to make these things a reality, it was

irresponsible of me to promise them if elected. But in reality I won’t be elected, so no harm done, right? Once again, I’m sorry.”

• Former mayor Sam Sullivan: “Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m not running for mayor anymore. In fact, I’m rather enjoying my MLA job in Victoria. You know how many boring meetings about off leash-dog bylaws, zoning restrictions and bike lanes I have to attend now? Zero. In fact, my boss doesn’t even like it when parliament is in session, so I’m free as a bird.

Anyway, I feel I owe all of you an apology. When you guys head to the polls Saturday you will be faced with a ridiculously long ballot...

119 candidates to choose from. That’s crazy, I know! It means only candidates from well-funded parties tend to win. And if you happen to have a last name beginning with A, B or C, putting you at the top of that ridiculously long ballot, it’s even better.

That’s because, unlike most large cities in North America, we have what’s called an “at

large system.” The alternative is a “ward system,” where voters choose from a smaller list of candidates who represent the neighbourhood or area where the voters live.

It means there’s more of a chance voters know who their candidates are, and a variety of voices get voted in. But when we put it to voters what system to adopt, I campaigned heavily for the status quo, the “at large system.” Because it’s better.

Correction, it was better for me and my colleagues. It’s also why parties like the NPA and Vision have spent more than $2 million a piece this election. I know, crazy, right?

How can anyone compete against that? Sure, both parties agree that they’d like to set spending limits on campaigns, but that’s a matter for the provincial government, in other words “my employer,” to decide. I know, crazy.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is sorry. For the whole thing. Also don’t forget to vote on Nov. 15. Take your time. You’ll need it.” twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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With the holiday season around the corner, there’s no better time to head out for a celebratory lunch.

Here’s three that fit the bill: • L’Abattoir (217 Carrall St., 604-568-1701) sports an impressive $22 ( two-course) or $29 (threecourse) prix fixe. Go for the pine mushroom risotto or beef Bourguignon or splurge on the à la carte beef dip.

• Chambar (568 Beatty St., 604-879-7119). The new digs impress, as do the lunch offerings. Standouts range from duck confit to poulet à l’orange and miso tuna — all à la carte.

• Steel Toad (97 East Second Ave., 604-709-8623).

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Seafood Day) offers some intriguing and delicious pan Canadian tastes and ingredients, from fried pickerel with wild rice and pork belly, to Diefenbaker lake trout with Haskap Berries to “Surf n’ Turf” of Osoyoos Ranch Wagyu beside B.C. spot prawns.

Last supper

Speaking of lasting legacies, last week saw the closing of Raincity Grill, only a couple of months after

C’s demise, both owned by Harry Kambolis. It’s important to put into perspective the impact that these restaurants had on Vancouver’s (and Canada’s) food scene, from the founding of Ocean Wise with Vancouver Aquarium to supporting local sourcing, promoting the 100 Mile Diet, unswervingly belief in B.C. wine well before everyone jumped on the bandwagon and driving the continent’s most ambitious wines by the

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Ask people about their “go-to” special occasion restaurants and invariably one of the names that pops up is Le Crocodile. Last week, chef-owner Michel Jacob staged a series of dinners to mark his remarkable restaurant’s 30th anniversary. True to form, this unassuming star of Vancouver’s culinary scene shifted the spotlight away from himself by inviting chefs David Hawksworth (Hawksworth), Ned Bell (Vancouver Four Seasons, Yew) and Rob Feenie (Cactus Club) to cook with him, each for one night.

It’s fair to say all three have had a profound impact on the city, a dynamic trio of chefs that drive our tastes and also our dining philosophies — particularly sustainability — on several levels.

All three were protégés at one time, which speaks volumes of Jacob’s contribution. As it happened, Feenie was just about ready to throw in the towel and head for a career as a firefighter when Jacob suggested he come by for lunch. Feenie signed on and Jacob became his mentor.

“Every accolade I’ve ever had is because of you,” said Feenie after preparing a superb menu that included his Lumière classic butternut squash and mascarpone ravioli with black truffle butter — a showstopper, along with roasted sea bass and lobster tempura, and a duo of prime rub and tenderloin with celery root purée and black truffle port wine jus.

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MOVIE REVIEW

Julie Crawford

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In the same week researchers at Johns Hopkins announced there is a virus that makes people stupider,

Dumb and Dumber To (no, not a typo) lands in theatres.

In it, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their roles as Lloyd and Harry, two of the dullest minds Rhode Island has to offer.

The Farrelly brothers are back too, essentially churning out the same film but

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with different locales. And why not? The 1995 film netted over $247 million and attained cult status. And let’s face it, the Farrelly Brothers haven’t felt love from critics since There’s Something About Mary a few years later.

But a lot has changed since Clinton’s first term in office. Reality TV, for one.

The poop scene with Bob Saget in the first D&D is tame compared to Honey Boo Boo bobbing for hot dogs in eggnog, anchorman Harry Smith’s televised colonoscopy, or contestants eating rats that were mixed in a blender. The frequent butthole references in this film seem almost quaint.

Lloyd (Carrey) has spent the past 20 years catatonic, sporting a catheter and colostomy bag, all as a prank to buddy Harry (Daniels).

Harry, still the straight man badly in need of conditioner, finds out he’s the father to a 20-something girl. Handy, because Harry needs a kidney, and she might just be a match. (Lloyd is horny, and she might just be the one.)

Fire up the Mutt Cutts van and cue the cross-

country road trip. But first the boys have to get through Fraida Felcher (Kathleen Turner), the key to finding Penny (Rachel Melvin), who may or may not be Harry’s daughter. Complicating things are the evil twins played by Rob Riggle, who want the boys dead.

But as with the first film, plot is irrelevant; it’s all about seeing how many gags and one-liners hit the mark.

Here’s the trouble: Daniels is a year shy of 60 and Carrey is a grandfather in real life. Who wants to watch old guys pour slushies down their pants?

Certainly not teenagers, raised on The Hangover and Jump Street films. This is a

film crafted for the nostalgia factor that will appeal solely to fans of the original, who can still be heard quoting Dumb and Dumber at office parties from time to time.

If fans don’t mind a carbon copy, the first two-thirds of the film is adequate.

The chemistry between Daniels and Carrey still works, even when the gags don’t, and both actors prove that they’re not too old for the slapstick physicality the film demands. But the Farrelly brothers just can’t capture the earnest, low-brow novelty of the first film, no matter how hard Carrey mugs for the camera.

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OPEN HOUSE: Vancouver Hospice Society held its eighth Butterfly Gala, presented by Scotiabank and sponsored by the Vancouver Courier. It was an evening of celebration as the non-profit celebrated the recent opening of their $4.5 million six-bed, purpose-built home on Granville Street that provides compassionate end-of-life care for those facing death and bereavement.

Hundreds filed into the Hellenic Centre for the festivities that featured fine wine and food, entertainment by the Yellow Pointers and a spirited auction yours truly hosted. A $15,000 cheque presentation from Scotiabank quickly lifted party spirits. Generosity further erupted with a $25,000 donation courtesy of the Vidalin Family Foundation and more than $16,000 for three firemen’s dinner. Proceeds of $180,000 will benefit the society’s programs and services.

UNITED FRONT: The United Way of the Lower Mainland recently staged its Pathfinders Dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel. Several hundred attendees gathered for the tribute dinner presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers and hosted by Global TV’s Randene Neill. The annual dinner, which recognizes donors who contribute $10,000 or more to the United Way, paid tribute to longtime supporter Yuri Fulmer, chairman and CEO of FDC Capital. From United Way loan representative to champion of their recent $30 million campaign —F ulmer was recognized for his leadership and commitment to the betterment of the community with the 2014 Joseph and Rosalie Segal United Way Community Vision Award.

FAMILY MATTER: In 2009, Dan and Tina Priest received news their son, Stephen, had a genetic condition called mucopolysaccharidosis or Morquio B. This illness is rare has no known cure. It leads to problems in bone and joint formation and function, causing reduced physical mobility and pain, often requiring multiple orthopaedic surgeries. Among other symptoms, it can lead to heart, lung and hearing complications. With little investment by governments and pharmaceutical companies to search for a treatment, the Priests took it upon themselves to raise money and awareness to help Stephen and those like him. The family fronted their fifth Journey of Hope Gala benefiting The Priest Family Fund for Morquio B. More than 250 guests attended the Black & White Masquerade-themed gala, raising $40,000 towards research at UBC for a treatment for the disease.

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Palliative care champions and party chairs Stephen Roberts and Pam Vidalin saw $180,000 generated at their 8th annual Butterfly Gala, presented by Scotiabank and sponsored by the Vancouver Courier.

CEO Michael McKnight, right, recognized Yuri Fulmer for his dedication, commitment and leadership to the United Way of the Lower Mainland at the Pathfinders Dinner held at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Firefighters, from left, Dan Radke, Kane Morishita, Alex Robertson and Nick Lo’s hotly contested firemen’s dinner fetched more than $16,000 for the newly opened six-bed Vancouver hospice, which provides compassionate end-of-life care for those facing death and bereavement.

65 Roses Gala co-chair Caroline Chilvers and her husband, Dr. Mark Chilvers, B.C. Children’s Hospital Cystic Fibrosis clinic director, kicked up their heels at the 14th annual CF fundraiser staged at the Pan Pacific Hotel.

Philanthropists and community leaders Joe and Rosalie Segal were on hand to present the United Way Community Vision Award to 2014 honouree Yuri Fulmer.

Gala emcee Angus Reid escorted his wife, Jennifer, to the 65 Roses dinner that generated $400,000 for cystic fibrosis (CF) research. Presented by B2Gold Corp., the event has raised more than $2.5 million for research and clinical care since 2001.

Tina and Dan Priest with their son, Stephen, held their fifth Journey of Hope Gala. The family has raised more than $250,000 for research into Morquio B, a rare illness with no known cure, since 2010.

CinCin Ristorante executive chef Andrew Richardson looks to elevate cooking at the Robson Street eatery with his newest addition, the Grillworks Infierno, a behemoth multi-purpose, wood-fired grill, the first of its kind in Canada.

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START NOTHING: 3:11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Monday, 6:25 a.m. to 9:31 p.m., and 9:53 p.m. Friday to 4:19 a.m. Saturday.

PREAMBLE: ISIS (and the Arab revolt in general) will run into major difficulty in January 2015. We’ve seen the Arab Spring take an “evil turn” (i.e., ISIS) since last February. The lunar south node (bad karma, temptations, bad acts) moved into Aries, the sign of war, that month (to last until November 2015). In addition, the planet of revolt (Uranus) is in Aries also, so we have bad or cruel revolt (e.g., ISIS cutting heads off on video and massacring hundreds in ethnic cleansing actions). ISIS might last until November 2015, even beyond, but the beginning of its end might be the January that looms before us.

All of us should avoid making a major life decision/action next January and the first 10 days of February.

Internet and computer companies might face bad luck, but it’s somehow tied to their past actions. Avoid buying computers or electronics during this time.

The accent continues on secrets, research, health diagnosis, intimacy, financial action, hunches and yearnings that arise straight from your subconscious, especially late Wednesday night through Friday. (Usually, our subconscious is more aware, and smarter, than we are.) If you have a prized goal in any of these areas, better act soon, for Saturday (Nov. 22) starts a whole new cycle.

This is your last week of money focus, Libra. It “climaxes” this Wed. night through Friday. (Anticlimax might be more appropriate, as this is the soft ending of a longer trend.) Saturday begins a month of travel, errands, paperwork, calls and messages. Until then, keep your focus on money, earnings, possessions and purchases. Lie low, rest and contemplate Sunday to Monday noon.

The focus remains on relationships, relocation, new surroundings, fresh horizons and opportunities, dealings with the public, and exciting meetings, especially Wednesday night through Friday. To succeed, co-operate, jump on another’s band wagon, fulfill others’ desires. Sidestep competition or opposition. Before, in all these areas, there was affection, grace; now there’s a lot of talk.

Your energy and charisma remain high. Launch a significant project, if you haven’t already done so in the past few weeks. But maintain your own counsel, or seek advice from an agent, ally, therapist or government service (especially if the “name” of your advisor begins with “P” or “L”). Closed-door meetings favour you Monday, but not Tuesday.

Avoid speaking, writing or driving too much.

This is your last week of work, drudgery and lowered health. You might be tempted to start a new work project late this week — don’t. It will wilt on the vine. Already, you’re beginning to think sweetly about someone, or about travelling in foreign climes to find somebody exotic, or about some new adventure. Wait as next week will satisfy these urges. Meanwhile, finish outstanding chores so your desk and life will be clear for new things.

This is your last week of weariness, of being mildly isolated and facing piles of chores. Saturday (Nov. 22) will begin one of the best months of your year, your energy, clout and success-ratio will soar. But you need to get through the week ahead first. Continue to rest and plan; be spiritual, charitable. Money still flows to you (to Dec. 4) – bank it or pay down debt, don’t spend. Somebody might be gossiping about your partner or spouse or associates.

One last week of romance, beauty, creative and speculative urges, joys from children — enjoy it while you can, Cancer, especially Wed. night through Friday, when these are highlighted. You might fall in love, but for most it is a little too late to establish a new, durable romance. (Next shot at love: January.) However, this period might fuse two who have been attracted but separated for a long time (a Virgo might play a role here).

Our revels now are ended, as Shakespeare put it. You have one last week of partying, schmoozing, of optimism, wish fulfillment, light romance, social joys and popularity, — especially Thursday/Friday. The following Saturday (Nov. 22) will start a month of quietude, so have fun while you can. Earlier, Sunday and Monday pre-noon are mellow, wise, gentle, perfect for loving conversations, for law, learning and travel (or making plans for the same).

Stick close to home all week, at least in your thoughts and heart. This is the last week of domestic, security, Mother Nature and property concerns, Leo. Finish things up, especially house repairs, kids’ programs, etc. Don’t start big new projects involving these “down home” arenas.

Everyone’s talking about family plans. If you’re single, rest often. Chase money or shop Sunday. Same Monday morning, but buy only routine items.

This is the last week in which you’ll be tested — the test is of your fortitude, skills, ambition and ability to interact with higher-ups. Be ambitious and honest, and you’ll pass. This trend reaches a peak Thursday/ Friday, two days that hold no dangers or disruptions, so look forward to giving career and status matters an extra push late week. But DO NOT start any new, ambitious projects then, as the phase is ending.

This is your last week of busy, busy, busy, Virgo. By Saturday (Nov. 22) onward, you’ll settle into relative hibernation: sleepiness, home, food, garden, Mother Nature, children, cleaning, etc. If you work outside the home, don’t ignore this opportunity for rest. You’ll feel sluggish — this is nature’s way of nudging you to recharge, recuperate. But that’s all in the month that starts Saturday. Before then, your energy and charisma shine Sunday through Monday morning.

This is your last week of broad understanding, world vision, gentle love. Of course these will return, but Saturday (Nov. 22) begins a month of serious ambition and career demands which will quickly disperse the soft winds of pondering. You might even receive hints of upcoming ambition, as higher-ups show favour toward you this week. Sunday and Monday morn bring important relationships, all beneficially.

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Vancouver Canadians owners Jake Kerr and Jeff Mooney purchased a second minor league baseball franchise, the club announced this week. They bought the Lancaster JetHawks of the California League, a team that is affiliated with the Houston Astros and plays outside of Los Angeles.

The JetHawks have won two of the past three California League championships and picked up several promising players, including the 2012 and 2013 No. 1 overall draft picks, shortstop Carlos Correa and pitcher Mark Appel.

In a release from the Canadians, Jake Kerr said he intends to build a second successful franchise in California. “Our achievements aren’t limited to the baseball diamond. We’re just as committed to making a real difference in the community.”

C’s president Andy Dunn will take on the same role with Lancaster while maintaining his position in Vancouver.

Ultimate roster counts locals

Twenty Vancouver athletes have been selected to Canada’s national U23 ultimate program, including women’s coaches Tasia Balding and Jenn Kwok.

Ultimate Canada announced the 76-player roster in advance of the 2015 World Championships, held next July in London, England. Canada will send a mixed team, an open team and a women’s team. (Men and women must play on the mixed team, while athletes on the open team can be any gender.)

The Vancouver women selected are: Brianne Wager, Emma Madden-Krasnick, Erin Bussin, Judith Yeo, Laurel Jay, Leah Mulholland, Lisa Wong, Mira Donaldson, Tammy Chou, Terynn Chan, Victoria McCann and Victoria Lam. The men are : Brayden Gee, Darren Wu, Frederick Lam, Nick Wright, Peter Yu, Samson Hoy, Taylor Kotwa and William Vu.

Weekend Calendar AAA varsity football, Playoffs

The post-season hinges on this weekend for Vancouver College and Notre Dame. Finishing the season third in the Western Conference, Vancouver College hosts M.J. Mouat at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 15. Notre Dame, squeaking into the playoffs in fifth place travels to Kelowna for a Nov. 15 meeting at Capital News Centre.

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Rookie point guard Montell Lindgren brings the ball up the floor under full-court press during a 77-70 loss to Vancouver Island University Nov. 8. PHOTO LAURA MAY / LANGARA

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Winning gets you rings, trophies and titles, as the Langara Falcons know. But as the players and coaches learned last weekend when they lost only their second league game in two years, a defeat now could give them the best chance to repeat as provincial and national college basketball champions.

That’s what the Falcons got Nov. 8 in Nanaimo. The top college team in Canada, Langara lost 77-70 to rival Vancouver Island University in their first league loss this season and only their second league loss in two years since an overall 29-1 record last season culminated in the 2013-14 Canadian College Athletic Association national championship.

“Since the loss, guys are definitely more focused, more locked in. I think before the loss, we thought we were going to cake-walk through the whole league,” said Elliot Mason, a fifthyear forward. “VIU, their whole goal of the season is to beat us. They haven’t beaten us in two years. We took two provincial championships

away from them. We’re the number-one ranked team in the country. This time, they got the job done.

“We can now better prepare ourselves for that team. It made our focus tighter. That loss definitely put things into perspective,” said Mason.

“The loss was upsetting, but I think it was very much needed,” said starting point guard Martin Appiah. “A lot of the guys have grown content with winning the national championship last year and, in general, have been satisfied with that. We’ve been really laid back. The loss brought us back to what we actually need to do to accomplish what we want.”

What they want is to repeat, said Appiah, a fivefoot-nine third-year Falcon and graduate of Churchill secondary.

“We’re talking more, we’re getting on each other for mistakes, we’re really pushing each other do to better,” he said.

Assistant coach Jordan Mottl said practices and games should always be approached with the same intensity. “That way, when an emotional game or week happens — and they always do because every single season there are really high

highs and really low lows, no matter what team you’re on — but if you approach practice and games the same every single time, it allows you to have consistent performance and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

Appiah and rookie guard Montell Lindgren have the monumental task of stepping into the role vacated

by Brody Grieg, one of the Falcons’ best-ever players, a CCAA all-star who was named Canada’s best college athlete, an honour drawn from athletes in all sports.

“It’s a big hole to fill,” said head coach Paul Eberhardt.

“The biggest change this year is would be the fact we don’t have Brody,” said Mason. “He was our floor manager. Pretty much all on-court responsibilities, they would all go to him.”

In addition to playing close to 40 minutes every game, Grieg was the force behind the Falcons’ run-and-gun offence and the whip-flick hand that threaded the needle on pin-sharp passes.

Since his graduation, the team’s leadership has shifted from one set of shoulders to many. Veterans like Mason, Garrett Ling-Lee, Jitinder Lohcham and Daniel Hobden as well as Appiah, who red-shirted for a year before

backing up Grieg, are taking on the load.

“We’ll have to take on that leadership role,” said Mason. “We have the experience that it takes to win.”

In addition to the key roster change, Langara has also adjusted its shape and with that, its systems. The team has grown in size and now counts all players, with the exception of Appiah, over six foot. In January, grinder Glen Ruby will return and the Falcons will also add a new recruit from the Okanagan, a six-footeight post who will further reshape the offence.

“We’re a deep team right now and we’ll be even bigger after Christmas,” said Eberhardt, who conceded the loss will drop them out of the top national ranking.

But it could teach them more about their game and how to beat their opponents.

“Sometimes winning can mask deficiencies,” he said.

“If you approach a loss the right way, it can be beneficial. Obviously it was disappointing, but it’s still pretty early in the season and maybe we can get another streak going.”

Langara hosts Kwantlen Polytechnic University at 8 p.m. Nov. 14. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Lions starting right tackle Jovan Olafioye has not missed a game since he joined the team in 2010. For the fifth year, he made the CFL west division all-star team. PHOTO JEFF VINNICK / BC LIONS

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The CFL playoff picture sharpened its focus last week.

And on the eve of the semifinals, five B.C. Lions were selected to the CFL’s West Division all-star team: Solomon Elimimian, Adam Bighill, Emmanuel Arceneaux, Jovan Olafioye and Paul McCallum.

Elimimian, the Lions’ record-setting linebacker, on Thursday was the first defensive player in CFL history to be selected the division’s most outstanding player. He set a new league standard with 143 tackles.

“I am both honoured and humbled by today’s announcement and it goes without saying that individual award nominations are not possible without the support of great coaches and teammates,” said Elimimian in a Lions release. The one accolade he most cares about, he added, is the Grey Cup. The B.C. Lions travel to Montreal to play the Alouettes in the eastern semi-final on Nov. 16 while Saskatchewan and Edmonton clash in the western semi-final on the same day.

B.C.’s offence was crippled by injuries to starting quarterback Travis Lulay and running back Andrew Harris, but the Lions, led by veteran pivot Kevin Glenn, slipped into the

post-season with a 9-9 record.

With nine, including quarterback Mike Reilly, Edmonton supplied the most players to the western all-star roster.

In the east, 11 players were drawn from Montreal.

Out of B.C. Elimimian was also nominated as the league’s Outstanding Player and Outstanding Defensive Player.

Jovan Olafioye, the Lions’ starting right tackle, has made the cut five years in a row and has not missed a game since joining B.C. in 2010.

Emmanuel Arceneaux picked up his first divisional nod after hauling in a teamhigh 62 passes for 905 yards and a league-leading eight receiving touchdowns on the season.

After a three-year absence, kicker Paul McCallum brought home his sixth divisional all-star honour.

Counting 22 seasons season as a pro and 11 with the Lions, McCallum amassed the CFL’s best field goal percentage at 90.5. He made making 38 of 42 attempts this season, making him the second kicker in professional football history to eclipse 3,000 points — a benchmark set by Lions legend Lui Passaglia.

The eastern semi-final begins at 10 a.m. PST. The 102nd Grey Cup is Nov. 30 at B.C. Place. Kickoff is 3 p.m.

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Sports Gaps in cycling map must be closed Despite gains, some neighbourhoods still badly underserved WHEEL WORLD Kay Cahill

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Opened in 2009, the Canada Line bikeway was built with cyclists in mind. The approach bike routes that lead to the bridge are still problematic, according to the Courier’s columnist. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Cycling is a polarizing topic in Vancouver politics. Business owners expressed concerns over the Hornby Street separated bike lane, but saw it proceed anyway; Kitsilano residents protested a shared bike and pedestrian route through Hadden Park and were successful.

Love it or hate it, there’s no question that our political representatives’ stand on bikes and cycling infrastructure will influence many people as they go to the polls on Saturday.

Against the backdrop of the civic election, I’d like to draw attention to what I personally consider an extremely worthwhile campaign: #ungapthemap.

The campaign (hashtag included) is run by HUB, and the concept is pretty simple. On the map of Metro Vancouver’s cycling network, there are grey lines and pink lines.

The grey lines are bike routes, either fully separated or designated side streets. The pink lines are the missing connections, places where either no bike route exists or the designated route does not allow for safe cycling.

A few things jump out when I look at this map.

Firstly, those of us who live in certain areas have it pretty good. The dense network of grey lines through the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, for example, speak to all of the cycling advocacy work and infrastructure improvement that have happened in these areas in recent years.

Secondly, some of these gaps are quite significant.

Take, for example, the little pink line on Kent Road, a busy street parallel to Marine Drive that skirts the north bank of the Fraser River from Granville to Boundary. This is a beautiful,

relatively new piece of cycling infrastructure that connects Vancouver and Richmond — over the Canada Line bikeway and bridge — and yet there remains this hole in the network that makes approaching it a very daunting thing for a cyclist who isn’t comfortable sharing the road with transport trucks though the industrial neighbourhood.

Thirdly, some of these gaps wouldn’t be all that hard to fix. They don’t require a fully separated bike lane or the closure of a road to all but local vehicle traffic, like the controversial extension of the Seaside bike route on Point Grey Road. They just require designating a street as a bike primary route, much like the heavily used Adanac and East Eighth Avenue bike routes in Vancouver.

HUB has three designated priority areas for closing the gaps: connecting the Port Mann Bridge and Coquitlam Centre in New West, creating north-south connections in central Burnaby, and connecting south Vancouver to the Tsawwassen ferry terminal and the U.S. border crossing.

I support all of these, with a particular personal bias toward the ferry connection. This highly congested vehicle route would greatly benefit from getting people out of cars and onto their bikes.

I would also like to see those smaller, localized gaps on streets like Kent Road addressed.

These short stretches of unfriendly, vehicle-heavy road, with no designated space for bikes, are exactly the kind of thing that dissuades new and unfamiliar cyclists from commuting.

Vancouver has seen a tremendous increase in trips taken by bicycle in the past few years — imagine how much that could increase if those pink lines turned grey.

Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting.

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CRAFT FAIRS / BAzAARS

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Saturday & Sunday, November 15 & 16 10:00am -1:00pm .

Offering a beautiful variety of handmade crafts, fashion scarves and toques, quilts and quillows, children’s knitwear, gift baskets & much more.

Come and Enjoy our Coffee/Tea Garden on Saturday and K. C. Pancake Breakfast on Sunday

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Deck the Hall Craft Fair Saturday, Dec. 1 7 6 Sunday, Dec. 8 7 2 11:00am - 5:00pm Heritage Hall

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today’sdrive 20 Kia Forte 15 Koup Kia offers a turbocharged Kou

BY BRENDAN McALEER brendanmcaleer@gmail.com Tweet: @brendan_mcaleer

If you remember the automotive scene in the eighties, then you’ll remember that there was a time where automakers went completely cuckoo about the turbocharger. They turbo’d everything, from minivans, to econoboxes to the coffeemaker in the communal break-room. Then they added multicoloured vinyl

Your journey starts here.

side graphics with the word “Turbo” luridly displayed and called it a day.

There was just one teensy problem: many of this turbocharged breed of cars were merely a boosted form of terrible. Some were properly engineered but many more were just a low-pressure hack-job and were merely thirstier and more cantankerous than their normallyaspirated cousins. Not to

mention how horrible those graphics packages looked.

We are now entering a new era of the turbocharger, as the snail migrates through the luxury car market, into crossovers and compacts, and even into full-size pickup trucks. It’s a brave new world, or at least one crammed with forcedinduction hot air.

So here’s Kia joining the fray with something very

interesting: a turbocharged version of their sporty little Koup. Yes, yes, Koup-witha-K — very klever, Kia, but the kuestion is: Is this a legitimate turbocharged pocket-rocket, or merely a boost-addled kwagmire?

Design

If there’s one consistent area in which Kia continues to shine, it’s exterior design.

Heck, in the new Sedona,

they’ve even managed to make a minivan look good.

So while the parrot-beak corporate grille won’t thrill all onlookers, the rest of the Koup is pretty konvincing (okay, I’ll stop doing that now). It’s full of sharp angles and creases, with a large front air-intake that’s finished off with a bit of carbon-fibre-look on the blacked-out centre-section of the bumper.

From the side, there’s a certain element of Scion’s tC, but round the back the Koup is nicely cohesive with a pseudo-diffuser and dual exhausts. There’s also LED lighting front and rear, standard on the mid-level trims, and HID headlights on the top-spec SX Luxury. You get 17” alloys on the base EX model, but everything else gets a 18” rims to go with that turbocharged punch.

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today’sdrive The front seats are bolstered, but less so than a Civic Si, making them slightly more comfortable for longer trips. The rear seats, something of an afterthought in most coupes, are actually entirely workable, even for longer trips.

Getting in and out of them requires a little contortion but there’s space enough for folks above six feet tall.

The trunk’s a usable size too although there’s no spare tire.

Also usefully impressive is Kia’s onboard infotainment, which is just as good as that found in the Sonata. The touchscreen is clear and easy to read, with a high resolution and snappy reactivity.

Then there are all the goodies you get. At the higher levels, the Koup starts showing up with features you’d not expect to find in a compact car, sport-compact or not. The steering wheel is heated and comes with multiple effort modes, and you can get a ventilated driver’s seat to help keep your cool.

Performance

Now, on to the turbocharging. Under the base Kia’s hood is a perfectly competent 173hp 2.0L direct-injection four-cylinder. It’s no high-revving hooligan but actually provides good mid-range thrust and enough scoot for most folks.

However, check the box for the SX model and suddenly you have access to a 201hp 1.6L turbocharged four-cylinder, which makes a healthy 195lb/ft of torque from just 1750rpm and up.

Those are the kind of numbers to make you sit up and pay attention and put the Koup squarely in the same hot-pocket segment as the Mini Cooper S, the VW GTI, the Honda Civic SI, and the Focus or Fiesta ST. However, before we start getting all hot and bothered, let me just say that it feels like Kia’s mission statement on their Koup wasn’t to go head-to-head with their high-spirited rivals, but to intercool the hot-heated nature of a turbocharging to create something more chill. Basically, Kia has built a two-seater turbo kruiser. I know I said I’d stop doing that, but come on - had to be done.

The three-mode adjustable electric power steering is the defining element of the Koup but regardless of the effort level, it doesn’t provide enough feedback to be confident.

This is very evident on wet roads, though the Koupe certainly handles well when it’s dry out.

Moreover, you don’t get a booming exhaust note, nor the wind-noise of a lightly-built compact that’s been stripped of niceties to save weight and boost performance. Instead, roll into the throttle and that 1.6L engine immediately produces a cheery whistling like that of a kettle and doles out the power.

As a point-and-squirt operation on onramps and for passing, it’s very quick indeed.

However, it’s also very quiet, relatively smooth despite those 18” alloys, and completely well-behaved with nary a hint of torque-steer. The stereo is very good, road-manners aren’t too darty, and the seats are, as mentioned, comfortable.

The manual transmission version has a shifter that’s not very precise to use, so the car suits its sixspeed automatic transmission better. Here you have paddle-shifters, but there’s so much available torque, you don’t need to exercise them much.

Features

As mentioned, the Koup comes with everything from available HID headlights to a standard backup camera (this last is handy, as the rear visibility is quite poor). The SX adds dual-zone climate control, push-button start, and LED foglights, and at the top of the range, the SX luxury includes a cooled driver’s seat, a sunroof, navigation, and that heated steering wheel.

One unique feature of Kia’s direct-injection mill? It doesn’t require premium fuel. That means it’s easy to hit your 9.3L/100kms city and 6.6L/100kms highway five-cycle ratings and not have to include paying more at the pump. If your Koup is also your commuter, that adds up over the year.

Green Light

High feature load; comfortable ride and handling; punchy turbocharged engine

Stop Sign

Numb steering; vague manual shifter; fullyoptioned model can be pricey

The Checkered Flag

More a compact cruiser than a sport-compact, but makes a turbocharged name for itself.

The Koup starts showing up with features you’d not expect to find in a compact car, sport-compact or not. The steering wheel is heated and comes with multiple effort modes, and you can get a ventilated driver’s seat to help keep your cool.

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NOVEMBER IS

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Clapping Chimp Organic Red Delicious Apples From Cawston, BC

Potatoes from Fraserland Farm BC, Canada

3.98

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2.27kg/5 lb bag

1.37kg/3lb bag

Organic Red and Yellow Onions from Seacrest Farms Oliver, BC

Ocean Wise Sockeye Salmon Fillet

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value pack, previously frozen

29.99lb/ 66.12kg

9.99lb/ 22.02kg

Organic

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California Grown Navel Oranges

9.98

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regular or light

2/7.00

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Naturtint

assorted varieties

32%

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2/5.00

29%

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Vitalia Muesli

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David’s Fine Belgian Boxed Chocolates

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32%

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2.79 100g

9.99

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11.99 each

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assorted varieties

2.99/ 100g

or Family Size Salads

7.99

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Choices’ Own Artisan Breads

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1.89-2.99

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assorted varieties

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assorted sizes

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25% off regular

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Country Golden Yolk Free Range Large Eggs

4.99

Farmcrest Roasted Specialty Chickens “Ready to Eat”

Natren Healthy Trinity

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250ml product of BC, Canada

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assorted varieties

13.99

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Alive & Radiant Organic Kale Snacks

assorted varieties

33%

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Gather Foods Pepper Jelly

Wai Lana Gluten Free Cassava Chips

24.99 30 capsules 44.99 60 capsules

400g

28%

product of BC, Canada

43%

5.99 170g

5.99

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Host Defense MyCommunity Capsules

Tre Stelle Feta Cheese

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33%

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