Vancouver Courier November 21 2014

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November 21 2014

Vol. 105 No. 94

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Vancouver School Board welcomes five newcomers Dec. 8 Cheryl Rossi

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The spotlight has recently shone on newly elected Green Party of Vancouver school board trustee Janet Fraser as she’ll hold the deciding vote on issues that split the four Vision Vancouver and four NPA trustees. As the Courier detailed earlier in the month, Fraser wants to make the board feel less distant to parents. She wants the board’s

revised sexual orientation and gender identities policy fully implemented, more action on making the district environmentally sustainable and additional support for poor and aboriginal students. But what are the personal priorities of the other four newbies? One is from Vision Vancouver, which lost its majority on school board Nov. 15, and the other three are from the NPA, which increased its share of seats at the school board to match Vision. The four newcomers and fellow first-timer Fraser will be sitting at a table with four veteran incumbents, including current chair Patti Bacchus, and, as we reveal in our story on page 6, they’ll have a

lot to learn in the coming months and years. It’s time to learn a little bit about each of them in turn:

Joy Alexander, VisionVancouver

A parent, retired teacher and school psychologist, Alexander, who holds a doctorate in educational psychology, wants the VSB to engage doctoral students in measuring and setting baselines for new programs and to carry out research that could be used to improve them. “We put in a program for aboriginal children at Macdonald [elementary]” she said, as an example. “Get baseline figures in there to see how you can track it

to see how you can tweak it, how you can make it even better.” Alexander is concerned about funding for the school district and wants to ensure students with special needs and aboriginal children receive adequate attention and support.

Penny Noble, NPA

Noble, executive director of Bike to Work Week B.C., a former teacher and public relations and marketing veteran, is most concerned about funding. She wants to make sure the board maintains a positive relationship with the provincial government and wants to look at additional sources of funding that include grants and donations.

“It’s done quite successfully in a couple of other school boards and I’d just like to look at that model and see whether we can apply that to Vancouver,” she said. Noble believes the board’s public solicitations and advertising in schools policy needs to be reconsidered with input from parents, students and teachers because “it’s fairly vague.” “There certainly are some really great opportunities out there that do not impact at all on curriculum or require any branding, or anything like that, that can be looked at, and that includes not-for profit organizations, charity organizations, foundations and individual donors,” she said. Continued on page 7

From the Lutz to chasing pucks

Figure skating makes teen stronger at hockey Figure skater Hannah Janda had nailed almost all the advanced double jumps, both the Lutz and flip, leaving just the difficult double Axel as the last target on her list. But the 13-year-old athlete will never pull off the jump. Three months ago, Janda hung up her toe picks for a pair of hockey blades and joined the forward line of the bantam Vancouver Angels, the city’s only all-girls hockey association. “I love having a team,” said the Churchill secondary Grade 8 student. “You win together and you lose together. If you don’t do as

well in figure skating, you’re just on your own.” Her first skate at the Killarney rink on the Angels home ice came in September when the hockey association hosted a free clinic for inexperienced skaters. Janda was no novice since she’d been figure skating for 10 years, but otherwise she was a rookie in a new sport. Her centre of gravity was thrown off and keeping perfect posture didn’t help her balance. The serrated edge of a figure skate blade was wiped smooth, a round toe in the place of a poisepreserving pick. “I kept falling forward,” she said. “That was really weird. It was like learning to skate all over again.” Continued on page 29

GO FIGURE Hannah Janda, 13, started figure skating when she was three. Ten years later, she cast off the toe pick for hockey blades. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Mayor, Meggs pursuing lawsuit against NPA

Mike Howell

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Although the civic election is over, Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs say they will continue their defamation lawsuit against NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe and his party. In separate interviews after their victories, Robertson and Meggs said the NPA’s allegations of corruption over CUPE donating $102,000 to Vision’s campaign and that city hall is for sale are untrue and must be acknowledged in court. “Yes, I’m continuing it because my behaviour has been conducted with complete integrity,” said Meggs Saturday night after learning he was re-elected to a third term on council. “I went to a meeting at the request of the union, I told them our position and they made a later decision without my presence that wound up supporting us. There’s absolutely nothing wrong

there. But I would like to see that acknowledged [in court].” The allegations are related to comments made by LaPointe at a press conference, comments published in a newspaper and on the party’s website, and the content of radio and television ads paid for by the NPA, according to a statement of claim Vision filed in B.C. Supreme Court. The NPA’s statement of defence denies the allegations. Robertson told reporters Monday he wanted to pursue the lawsuit “just on principle, basically.” The mayor beat LaPointe by more than 10,000 votes in a race in which both candidates accused each other of personal attacks. “They really lowered the bar for Vancouver politics,” Robertson said. “At this point, I don’t have any intention of holding back on [the lawsuit]. I want to see that there is no attacks like that and spurious allegations going forward.” The lawsuit is connected to a Courier story

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Smiles between re-elected Vision Mayor Gregor Robertson and NPA challenger Kirk LaPointe grew thin during the recent election campaign after Robertson and Coun. Geoff Meggs sued LaPointe over ads they said defamed them. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

posted online Oct. 16 authored by contributor Bob Mackin, who obtained a leaked recording of Meggs telling members of CUPE Local 1004 that Robertson “has again recommitted to not expand contracting out, to make sure that wherever we can bring in

new processes, that members of 1004 will be delivering those services.” The meeting occurred at the Maritime Labour Centre Auditorium and resulted in a $34,000 donation from the Local and matching funds from CUPE’s B.C. and national offices

for a total of $102,000. Robertson told the Courier in a previous interview there is a longstanding commitment from Vision to fair collective bargaining and to not contract out services at the city. He added that the city has a balance of services, including some that are contracted out. During a mayoral debate at Christ Church Cathedral, LaPointe said the deal was “a breach of fiduciary responsibility” and “intended to buy votes.” He said the lawsuit was an attempt to silence him in the final days of the campaign because Robertson’s lead had decreased. “Let me be very, very clear, I did not defame the mayor, the mayor’s deal defamed Vancouver,” LaPointe said at Nov. 7 press conference at Seasons in the Park restaurant. “It smacked of two-bit city brokering of a different political era.” LaPointe told reporters on election day that some of Vision’s advertising was “designed to person-

ally ridicule me and make me look like somehow I lacked certainty when I was thinking aloud — that I didn’t have a thought process.” Added LaPointe: “In a lot of ways, I thought it was very disappointing. I would have loved to have debate after debate on ideas.” NPA Coun. George Affleck, who was re-elected Saturday, said he was disappointed Robertson and Meggs were continuing with the lawsuit, saying “we should put the election behind us and move forward in a positive way, as Vision likes to say, and that’s certainly not a great way to start a new session.” Prior to Saturday’s election, Vision revealed it collected $2.2 million in campaign donations, with more than $300,000 from unions. The NPA received $2.1 million, with the bulk of the money coming from corporations and $470,000 from party president Peter Armstrong. twitter.com/Howellings

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Best/worst of the 2014 election 12TH&CAMBIE

thumbs-up frenzy. He resembled an aged Arthur Fonzarelli as he repeatedly pressed his thumb in the air as Courier shutterbug Dan Toulgoet attempted to get a photo of mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe, who was not raising his thumb. Wait a second… was Ballantyne photobombing LaPointe?

Mike Howell

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Did you hear… Gregor’s in again. That’s three consecutive wins for the 50-year-old mayor and his band of Visionistas. Yep, the 2014 election campaign is done. Sadly, that means no more enlightening mayoral debates, no more informative he-said-he-said stories or rambling voice messages from candidates using the type of colourful language clearly ripped off from a mob movie script. Or, possibly a pornographic movie. Yeah, it was that bad. Anyway, for all those folks still nursing an election hangover, I’ve got just the fix to get you through the rest of the week. As I’ve done after elections, I’ve compiled a list of the best/ worst/bizarre/inexplicable events of the campaign. Here goes: Worst location for a

Best use of accoutrements by a mayoral candidate: Meena Wong. COPE’s leader wore Batman cufflinks while on the hustings and brought a plush toy tiger to the Courier’s Q&A livestream at Creekside Community Centre. Adam West would be proud. So would Tarzan.

NPA school trustee Fraser Ballantyne was re-elected Saturday. No doubt, he was smiling. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

press conference: No question, that goes to the NPA. The party called us media types to a pier at Crab Park, which happens

to be located close enough to a helicopter pad that when mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe spoke, we heard “whoosh…chop,

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porter to cover a mayoral debate: At the back of a cafeteria at Langara College. A certain Vision candidate and volunteer yakked the whole debate, even during their guy’s time at the mic and after a steely glare from yours truly. Seriously, I was seated at a table, laptop open and busily scribbling notes right next to the chatty duo. Did they think I was doing my taxes? Karma update: The candidate didn’t get elected. Best use of chopsticks by a member of the media: OK, it came two days after the election. But here we were on Monday, waiting on the False Creek Flats for Mayor Gregor Robertson to arrive when a television camera dude prevented a potentially stinky and slippery situation. Right there, in the grassy patch set aside for the mayor to stand was a pile of dog crap. So the camera dude just happened to have some chopsticks and neatly used them to pick up and drop the frozen nuggets into a plastic bag. Yes, with chopsticks! Are you reading this, Mr. Mayor? A man who certainly knows he’s on camera award: Hands down, Fraser Ballantyne. Other than Christy Clark, I’ve never seen a politician smile like that for so long during a press conference. And at a newser in Kerrisdale, Ballantyne went on a crazy

Most unexpected guest at Vision Vancouver’s victory party: Vancouver-South Conservative MP Wai Young. Not only did Young show up at the Wall Centre, she crashed a media scrum as reporters fired questions at Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs. “Looking forward to working with you on Broadway line,” she told Meggs after introducing herself to the media. Meggs: “That message brought to you by Wai Young.” Hang on a sec, did she just say the feds want to work with Vancouver on a Broadway subway? Are you reading this, Mr. Mayor? Best example of voters with amnesia: Independent mayoral candidate Bob Kasting, who delivered good quips at some of the mayoral debates, made it quite clear Nov. 6 that he was pulling out of the race to endorse the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe. Still, he received 1,682 votes Saturday. First thought: Either he’s got a lot of kids, or people are not informed. Second thought: People are not informed. Best/worst negative attack ads: Google “What’s Howell Having for Lunch? Election edition.” Can’t say much more because pursuing a lawsuit. Best election coverage by a newspaper: C’mon. Best time for a city hall scribe to take some time off: Right now. See you at the inauguration. twitter.com/Howellings


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Marpole’s last waltz Stanley Tromp

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Marpole may soon be losing another landmark. Since 1999 Crystal Ballroom on 768 Southwest Marine Dr. has trained thousands of students of all ages from beginner to gold competitor level and hosted regular social dances. With its chic décor and 5,000 square feet of sprung maplewood floor, it described itself as the most elegant ballroom and best dance school studio in Vancouver. Yet soon the music may fall silent. The facility posted a farewell notice on its website: “Crystal Ballroom announces with deep regret to our many loyal customers and faithful students, many of whom have also become lifelong friends, that after being in business for 15 years, 31st December 2014 will be the final day of dancing service to you all.” The building is being sold, Zillion Wong, the ballroom school principal, told the Courier, although he would

not name the new owners, nor the former ones, a group of shareholders who started the venture in 1999. “I don’t believe the building will be torn down, but probably renovated into some sort of camera warehouse. It definitely won’t be used for new housing, so far as I know,” he said. “We have a lease agreement with the new owners that we could stay here, but we are looking for a new venue in a couple of locations in Richmond. We will be definitely starting a new school with our same instructors. If we don’t find a new place by January, our students can stay here for another few months until we do.” The closure will leave a serious gap in Vancouver’s ballroom dance community, said Glen Brennan, who was the ballroom’s managing director for 13 years before moving back to his Australian homeland a year ago. “It now leaves, to my knowledge, no other comparable alternative. A great loss to the Vancouver dance community that will likely never

be replaced. It is a very sad end to a wonderful era!” Crystal Ballroom was popular in the Lower Mainland due to its central location and free parking. It offered dance programs for private and group lessons in International Ballroom and American Social Dances at all levels, besides hosting social dancing each night and tea dances on Sunday and Wednesday afternoons, and special parties with prizes. Its innovative Star of the Nite event was for students partnered by their teachers to display their prepared show dances with the support friends and families. It was open to the public and the students’ performances were videotaped for them to keep. The ballroom’s sprung floors, which are supported by foam backing and rubber feet, absorb shocks, give them a softer feel and enhancing performances. Crystal Ballroom will host three final events: a Santa Claus Dinner Dance on Dec. 6, a Christmas Dinner Dance on Dec. 20, and a New Year’s Eve Gala Dance on Dec. 31.

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Five of nine trustees elected Saturday night are new to the Vancouver School Board. “It’s quite a change,” said VSB secretarytreasurer Rick Krowchuk Wednesday afternoon. “The last time we had two or three.” Within the next five months, trustees will decide how to deal with a multi-million dollar budget shortfall, which is estimated to be $23 million. The board’s preliminary operating budget for 2014-2015 is nearly half a billion dollars. The newly elected trustees have been advised of the B.C. School Trustees Association’s Trustee Academy in Vancouver Dec. 4 to 6, where they can learn about board budgets and provincial funding and conflict of interest. Trustees will take office at a board meeting Dec. 8 when they’ll select their chair. The board chairperson is to ensure proper operating procedures and decorum and acts as spokesperson for the board. They also recommend who should serve as vice-chair, chair the board’s committees, liaise with which schools and represent the board with the B.C. Public School Employers’ Association, the library board and other agencies. “So therefore they have some influence on who the other key people [are],” Krowchuk said. The chair is to make recommendations after consulting other trustees. Who assumes which roles will be decided Dec. 15.

Vancouver School Board secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk says the board will orient school new trustees so they can swiftly get up to speed. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Board watchers are wondering whether the chair will continue to be Vision Vancouver’s Patti Bacchus or new Green Party of Vancouver trustee Janet Fraser, who holds the balance of power between the four recently elected Vision and four NPA trustees. Newbies to the board can expect a deluge of information on the board’s finances (“or lack of,” according to Krowchuk), bylaws, committee structures and facilities. The VSB oversees 92 elementary schools, 18 high schools, seven adult education centres and the largest distance education school in the province. Workshops for trustees will run into January. Krowchuk noted a couple of the new trustees are former teachers and he’s spotted at least one at a board meeting “The good thing is they’ve got four years this

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Continued from page 1 “We need more of a proactive system of reaching out to them, but within the framework of a policy and guidelines as to how that all happens.”

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Robertson, a lawyer and enforcement counsel at the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, wants to focus on using vacant school spaces to offer childcare and raising money to serve breakfast and lunch to hungry kids. “The key there is there’s areas of common ground where I think that we can accomplish something,” he said. Robertson also wants to shorten assessment times for

students with special needs. Robertson has been involved in the Hastings Park Conservancy, a community group that promotes the greening and public use of land at Hastings Park and the PNE. He is a coach for Hastings Little League.

Christopher Richardson, NPA

A former Vancouver park board commissioner, current president of the Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association and a chartered accountant, Richardson wants to make sure the learning needs of different students are assessed and attended to as early as possible, without taking money away from other support for students. His youngest of

two sons is severely dyslexic and Richardson says it took the public school system two years to even start to address his difficulties. Richardson wants to help relieve the anxiety of students and their families. “And to identify the issues, identify the resources and apply them as soon as possible, which might make sense from a budgetary point of view, as well,” he said. Richardson subsequently sent his youngest son to private school Fraser Academy. The son is now in third year history studies at the University of B.C. The new trustees take office at a board meeting Dec. 8. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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You are invited to attend an Open House on Wednesday, December 3 to view and comment on the proposed new National Soccer Development Centre located within Thunderbird Park in the Athletics Precinct.

Date: Wednesday,December3, 2014 Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM Place: Commons Room, MBA House, 3385 Wesbrook Mall Plans will be displayed for the proposed new 3,400m2 National Soccer Development Centre, a joint project between UBC Athletics and the Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club. Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about this project. An update will also be provided on the Thunderbird Park Precinct Plan.

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Wednesday December 3, 2014, 11am – 3pm That time of year sneaks up faster and faster. We swap fall foliage for mistletoe and pumpkins for stockings. Get into the holiday spirit with Festive Cheer, our second annual holiday market, hosted by Tapestry at Wesbrook Village. This low-stress, local alternative to holiday shopping is a delightful experience with entertainment, food and refreshments! Whether you’re stopping by to just have a look or shopping for something unique for everyone on your list, we’re sure the artisan and craft vendors at the market will have something for you. Donations to ‘Be Santa to a Senior’ will be accepted! This is a free event for seniors, families and friends! RSVP to 604.225.5000 by November 26th.

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A downtown condo dweller wonders how many Vancouverites may have been deterred from voting Nov. 15 by information cards that purported to list nearby polling places. Marc-David Seidel provided photos to the Courier of cards for “Vancouver Resident” sent to three different addresses. The card for a third floor resident of 1500 Howe St., for example, recommended voting at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Public Library or Morris Wosk Centre — distances ranging from 1.3 to two kilometres. The nearest location was actually Vancouver Aquatic Centre, within 400 metres. Seidel said city hall appeared to have calculated distance based on apartment number, not building number. “Perceived distance to a polling station can be the deciding convenience factor in choosing to vote for many people,” said Seidel, a University of British Columbia profes-

sor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources. “Distance can disproportionately impact voting behaviours based upon age and physical mobility — suppressing voter turnout disproportionately for certain demographic groups.” The information cards were sent to 265,651 residential addresses and, according to a statement attributed to city clerk and election chief Janice MacKenzie, the three listed voting locations were determined by using residential building addresses and Canada Post postal codes. Said MacKenzie: “The word ‘near’ was used on purpose recognizing that in some instances, there may be some locations closer to the address.” Meanwhile, two voters are critical of city hall overlooking citizens with subtle disabilities. Garth Mullins told staff at Britannia Community Centre that he is legally blind and was supplied a low-power magnifying glass that he compared

to a toy. He fortunately recognized the shapes of candidates’ names. Mullins later called the city election office and learned that devices with audio instructions and Braille markings were available, but only at the eight advance voting locations that ran Nov. 4 to 12. He was told that the polling station official on voting day could have read him the ballot or sworn a voter’s companion to secrecy to read the ballot aloud. “These options were never communicated to me at the polling station,” Mullins said. George Brissette said he missed out on voting for the first time in 40 years because there was a lack of adjacent on-street or on-site parking at three of the four Mount Pleasant voting stations near his home. Brissette relies on his pickup truck and disabled parking permit because of a neuromuscular disease that limits his ability to walk or stand in line. “I have good days and bad

and voting day would have been about the middle,” Brissette said. He drove to the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, St. Patrick’s Regional Secondary and Kivan Club, but finally found a pay parking space at Mount Pleasant Community Centre. He said the lineup was too long and there were no chairs. He returned to the other three but the parking scarcity was unchanged. After three hours, he gave up. Brissette said voting information mentioned elections staff were able to assist with curbside voting, but that assumed there was ample parking or he had a companion available to notify the staff inside. “The [city] could, at minimum, have easily installed temporary handicapped parking signs/ zones,” Brissette said. The 44 per cent voter turnout was 10 per cent better than 2011, but below the 50 per cent rate of 2002. A total 181,707 ballots were cast from a 279,200 inventory. twitter.com/bobmackin

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School and park boards face change

Marvel stories less marvelous as movies

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While Vision Vancouver and a possibly chastened Mayor Gregor Robertson may continue with their plans at city hall, for the park board and school board it will not be business as usual. In last weekend’s election Vision all but got wiped out at the park board while the NPA won the majority of the seats. So for the first time in living memory, the party controlling the park board’s agenda is different from the folks who run city hall. At school board, Vision lost the majority there too. The power is split with four seats each for them and the NPA. That leaves Janet Fraser, the sole Green Party school trustee, holding the balance of power and the most popular person at that particular dance. Let’s start with the park board: the issues that drove away voters from Vision included their rough handling of volunteer boards at Vancouver’s two dozen community centres. The strategy was orchestrated by the unrelenting micro-managing hand of city manager Penny Ballem with the approval of the mayor’s office. Elected park commissioners simply did as they were told, like it or not. It was a remarkable assault on the political autonomy of elected officials, which had been aggressively defended for more than a century. And here’s the latest move in the war with the most reluctant and litigious “gang of six” community centres being forced into a Joint Operating Agreement. A few days before Vancouverites headed to the polls, under cover of a media blackout while a mediator did his work, lawyers representing the park board were granted a postponement of a court case that was to begin yesterday (Thursday, Nov. 20.) If successful it would have seen the boards of directors of those six community centres driven out to the street. The balance of the community centre boards have been involved in an endless process to arrive an operating agreement also overseen by Ballem. Don’t be surprised if they hold back now and wait to see what the impact will be of a more sympathetic board — one that presumably is prepared to recapture their authority and stand up to the city manager.

You can also expect a change in direction regarding the controversial whales in captivity issue. The Vision park commissioners who sponsored a motion to stop the aquarium from allowing hanky panky in the whale pools left before they could be defeated. It would take a two-thirds majority of the new board to reverse that decision, a majority that the NPA does not quite have. But staff was dispatched to write a bylaw to enforce that Vision decision. The NPA can kill the proposal by simply refusing to enact that bylaw. You will also likely see no more support for paving over the last bit of wild beach in the city to extend the sea wall along Point Grey Road out to Jericho even though the mayor waves an anonymously donated $10 million under the board’s nose. Now for the school board: Vision’s loss of a majority had less to do with any particular issue like the transgendered policy than it had to do with the vagaries of at-large voting. By most accounts Vision’s Patti Bacchus has done a superb job as board chair these past six years. But, so concerned about losing in the big game at city hall, the Vision brains trust seems to have taken its eye off the school board ball. While NPA voters were focused almost exclusively on NPA candidates, Vision supporters watered down the impact of their votes by choosing to support some COPE candidates and candidates running under the Public Education Project banner. Vision didn’t just lose the majority, they lost First Nations trustee Ken Clement. During Clement’s two terms on the board he was at the heart of improving graduation results among First Nation’s students by 14 per cent. For the first time many family members were invited to engage in their kids’ educational experience. The first matter that will cause Janet Fraser to break a tie will be the selection of board chair. That will happen on Dec. 8. The second will be a reconsideration of the half million dollars being offered by Chevron through an “armslength” charity to purchase school supplies, an offer Vision had already rejected. Stay tuned. twitter.com/allengarr

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Software makers used to drop “Easter eggs” into Macintosh programs — frivolous extra features for users to find. In a similar fashion, for over a decade filmmakers have been tucking surprises into a string of CGI-heavy superhero flicks. You may have recognized Stan Lee in his brief cameos, including a hot dog vendor in the first X-Men, a security guard in The Hulk, and a redneck truck driver in Thor. In The Avengers he appears as a chess-playing man in a park who tells a TV interviewer he doesn’t believe superheroes are real. Stan Lee is no actor — at least not in the professional sense. For decades he was Marvel Comics’ Manhattan-based chief editor and writer. Beginning in the early ’60s, he and his bullpen of artists turned out a string of superheroes with problems more mundane than mythic. Spiderman struggled with high school neurosis, billionaire Iron Man inventor Tony Stark had a heart condition, and the Fantastic Four’s Ben Grimm was a seething pile of self-hatred known as “The Thing.” Hitting the zeitgeist like a bullseye, Lee found a young audience in the millions. Kids glommed onto his company’s mix of purple prose, imaginative artwork and adolescent power fantasies. For an introverted, underweight youngster living in an airbase town in Ontario, it was like something went off in my head — and my parents had the good sense not to discourage my choice of reading material. I learned about “antimatter” in the pages of the Fantastic Four, and first encountered Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Ozymandias in the Avengers. Lee had me constantly running to a dictionary. Unlike DC comics, Marvel chose to challenge its audience rather than condescend to it, expanding its readership into teen and adult territory. “The comics page was a more personal and intimate interface than the cinema screen. It lacked the intimidating lustre of the movies, and the images could be slowed down, rewound, fast-forwarded and studied in detail,” noted author and comic writer Grant Morrison in his 2011 book Supergods. But the archetypal sweep of Lee’s story lines, with their dynamic rendering by Kirby and company, had to wait for the digital age to do them

cinematic justice. That’s where my adult ambivalence comes in. The simplistic struggle of good versus evil seemed right for 12-cent stories stamped onto 20 pages of cheap newsprint — “fiction suits” for boomer kids to safely explore the moral dimensions of life. But today? Perhaps it’s because Stan Lee’s output had such a huge impact on me as a kid, I unrealistically expected more from Hollywood than men in DayGlo unitards clobbering evil-doers with foreign accents. Needless to say, these wide-screen superhero sagas aren’t meant for the likes of me. They are engineered primarily for a 16-to-25-year-old male demographic, with stripped-down dialogue that translates smoothly for the increasingly influential Chinese market. The scripted action has more in common with first-person shooter games than a subversive art form. While Stan Lee’s Silver Age stories challenged young readers to think outside the box, most big-budget superhero films entice consumers to vegetate inside the cineplex, with product as disposable as plastic 3D glasses. Unlike the highly inventive Pixar films, with their “plums for moms” (jokes and references meant for adults), Marvel Studios seems content to hammer the audience into slack-jawed submission with special effects and regurgitate its intellectual property in paint-by-numbers sequels. There are the imaginative exceptions from the Disney subsidiary, such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier. But by and large, militarism fits in easily with the messianic themes. Hollywood filmmakers with Pentagon-approved scripts find access to billions of dollars worth of military equipment and personnel at little or no cost. The arc of the Marvel universe from a psychedelic era cottage industry to a flagwaving entertainment Borg can’t all be laid at the doorstep of Stan Lee, however. That would be like blaming Saint Paul for megachurches or Christian rock. The retired Lee is now an icon rather than prime mover. So considering that I owe the man my early inspiration to write and draw, my favourite Marvel Studio moments are still the “Easter eggs” — the brief scenes where I recognize the affable, self-promoting New Yorker, still sharp as a tack at 91. geoffolson.com

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In percentage points, the increase in graduation rates for aboriginal high school students during the two terms of defeated trustee and Ktunaxa First Nations Ken Clement.


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COURIER STORY: “Grandview-Woodland sticks with Vision,” Nov. 19. CoffeeGeeker: I can’t believe, after that Grandview Woodland fiasco of a community plan was released, that my neighbourhood still went crazy Vision. I certainly didn’t vote any Vision this time around, spreading my vote to Green, COPE and independents. There’s an axiom “we get the government we deserve” and I feel we get another Vision majority on council because, well, we just aren’t worthy of a better, neighbourhoodsfocused government. COURIER STORY: “Ten predictions for Vision’s four-year term,” Nov. 19. Christopher Porter: Some astute political predictions. I wouldn’t be surprised if Geller goes 10/10 on this list. Jbw87: Vancouver may be beautiful, but it has very ugly truths. Laneway housing will be successful in selling, no doubt about that, but people will now be living in alleyways, above someone’s garage or perhaps in a superdense Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency condo. You might as well set up metal cages and rent those out like they do in China. If we curb foreign investment then we can regain control of this situation. Unfortunately Mayor Moonbeam doesn’t have the courage to do make such a move. COURIER STORY: “Priority is community centres not whales, says NPA park board incumbent,” Nov. 19. Daniel Tanner: What a load of hoooey. “Despite what some media are reporting.” Within half an hour of the election, their aquarium VP-cum-NPA park board commissioner [Sarah Kirby-Yung] was already gleefully stating they’d repeal the aquarium bylaw. Coupar himself backed that up. What else is anyone supposed to think if that’s the first things out of their mouths? Can you say BACKTRACK? There’s a lot of that going on today. COURIER STORY: “LaPointe says NPA is ‘back in the conversation,’” online only. CM: Unfortunately for him, as a mayoral candidate, he only gained one per cent more of the vote than Suzanne Anton. Statistics seem to indicate that the NPA is as irrelevant as ever. COPE had an impact though, they took away almost 10 per cent of Gregor’s vote, otherwise this election would have been almost identical to the last. ACMEsalesrep: To be fair, CM, COPE hasn’t fielded a mayoral candidate in years. You’re kind of making an apples-to-something-even-less-apple-like-than-oranges comparison. COURIER STORY: “COPE sees victory in defeat,” online only. Keith Baldrey @keithbaldrey: A delusional party. VSB Counsellor @vsbcounsellor: For a “reporter” @keithbaldrey your smugness is distasteful and smacks of elitism. COURIER VIDEO: “Election night analysis,” online only. Wayne Fougere @WayneFougere: I doubt we’ll see a drive for wards. It seems the system worked quite well. Citizens made their choice clear. Karen Sawatzky @karensawa: Capital Y-E-S to another wards referendum. Also to ballot redesign, though it would be less crucial with a ward system. COURIER STORY: “Denike, Woo won’t return to school board,” online only. Roger Chin @RogerChinBCED: Yay! Less distractions now. Skutt @WFLBC: It was probably those terrible radio ads.


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After you voted last Saturday, I’m sure you didn’t spend Sunday poring over the election results. Only a nerd would do that. You probably ran errands, did some shopping, maybe went for drinks with friends. Since you live in Vancouver, statistics say you probably didn’t spend the morning in church. Yet it was only a few elections ago — on Nov. 20, 1982, to be precise — that Vancouverites voted in favour of Sunday shopping. Until then, you couldn’t get anything more than the bare essentials on what was legally and unironically called “the Lord’s Day.” The provincial government amended the ban on Sunday shopping in 1980, effectively throwing the matter to local communities to decide. Vancouverites made the decision to allow Sunday openings, but fewer than three in five voters supported the change — 58.2 per cent. It was no landslide. It’s hard to believe now, but Sunday shopping was a political lightning rod in the 1970s and ’80s, in Vancouver and across Canada. It was a cleavage between liberals and conservatives, though it also made some strange bedfellows. Some union members made common cause with religious conservatives. Assurances were needed that unionized workers who turned down Sunday shifts would not lose seniority as a result. The controversy around Sunday shopping was part of a larger social conservatism that seems a world away from the Vancouver of 2014. Our approach to alcohol may be the rare remnant of that old moralism. We can’t buy wine at the grocery store, for instance, and only this week the government announced that liquor stores would finally be opening on Sundays, but this is a far cry from the B.C. of old, which had some of North America’s strictest (and most bizarre) liquor laws.

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1. Never on Sunday: Shopping was banned on Sundays in Vancouver until voters backed the idea in a plebiscite 32 years ago this week. PHOTO CVA 1184-1369 JACK LINDSAY 2. Even essentials were unavailable to Vancouverites on “the Lord’s Day.” CVA 586-1929

But even Social Credit knew American and overseas visitors would not tolerate that nonsense and so, when we decided to “welcome the world” to Expo 86, the B.C. government permitted

a “temporary” reprieve from abstemiousness. Of course, like the temporary income taxes imposed during the First World War, this genie would not return to its bottle. British Columbia hasn’t seen a

sober Sunday since. What we have gained in the convenience of Sundays that are no different from any other day, we have lost in something less measurable. There used to be one day a week

when very few people worked. What they did with that day, given the limited options, may or may not have involved religious services or spiritual introspection. But it was unequivocally a time of

slowing down. Even TV and radio carried lethargic programming. Just because we can work, shop, party or play Candy Crush seven days a week doesn’t mean we have to. Taking a respite from the weekly grind is not something that can be legislated, nor should it be. Yet the small number of people who, for religious or other reasons, still make time for disconnecting, for reflection, for sanctifying time, claim it is a rejuvenating and uplifting experience. In a world where our absence from social media can be instantly noticed and failure to answer a phone or email within minutes can spark alarm, many of us never really “turn off.” But some people do, and not only in the traditional sense of taking a Sabbath break. Some go hiking or sailing or someplace where they are beyond the reach of the incessant pinging. Yet a “Sabbath” is, in some interpretations, not about going to a place, but about sanctifying the day. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), whose slim but powerful treatise The Sabbath is a modern consideration on the importance of a day of reflection, argued that a Sabbath is like a “cathedral in time.” In the Judeo-Christian creation narrative, God made the world and then took a rest. God did not build a sanctuary, Heschel wrote, but rather created one out of time. “The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space,” he wrote. “Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation, from the world of creation to the creation of the world.” In the speeded-up contemporary world, time gets short shrift. We can have all the stuff we want, but if we do not take time to enjoy it, it is worthless. More urgently, despite whatever else we have, when we are out of time, nothing else matters. What is more valuable than time? And yet how cheaply we often spend it. twitter.com/Pat604Johnson


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Gift ideas for gardeners Fake wasp nests, floral shovels and plant misters

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When gardeners seek out gifts for other gardeners in-store or online, it’s not hard to discover things that would be so useful in your own garden — sometimes replacing sentimental handme-downs that never did work well anyway. For instance rural gardeners with trees shedding acorns or black walnuts usually get into a sequence of rake-bend-rake which can last for hours each fall and is hard on backs. But it is possible to acquire a fruit and nut gatherer. This is a hollow ball of flexible wires on a long stick which is said to pick up quantities fast. These and city lot gardeners find a wheelbarrow essential. But storing wheelbarrows takes space best used for other things. Landscapers canvas bags have very large wide-open mouths and are easy to drag from one spot to another. Later, they can be scrunched up into next to no space. Spades and forks can start to feel heavy as one gets older. That’s where smallish floral shovels and forks start becoming useful for vegetable gardens as well as flower beds. For people gardening in large containers, mini shovels are hugely valuable. For windowsill gardeners there are mini spades just a few inches long. Both ends can be used. The spade end has a point while at the other end, the handle is fluted. More of these gardeners are now starting plants on windowsills. It’s still possible to find full-size flats with transparent tops. More useful are narrow flats topped with durable domes. In most gardens plants need staking sometimes. But the days of cutting pantyhose or string finished a long time ago. Velcro plant ties can be cut to size and fit snugly through rain, gales and blistering heat. Better yet, they can be used over and over. By themselves, Velcro ties are definitely nonChristmassy. But in a decorative basket together with scrubbing type soap,

Grandview-Woodland Community Plan Events

We want to hear from you. Help us to get the plan right! Citizens’ Assembly Public Roundtable Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 7- 9 pm

Come and meet members of the Grandview-Woodland Citizens’ Assembly and share your ideas for the future of the area. The Assembly is a group of dedicated community members who will make recommendations to Vancouver City Council to help shape the next GrandviewWoodland Community Plan.

Does a gardener on your gift list have wasps? Give them a decorative fake wasps nest.

hand cream, copper slug tape and perhaps an LED flashlight for night slug walks, they could get a big welcome. A gel-filled cooling scarf for gardening on sweltering days would be another useful addition. One spring task for most home owners is the wasp nest tour knocking down the beginnings of nests. Personally I find the paper wasps (with the long legs) mild and friendly. But the yellow-jackets get more aggressive the bigger the nest gets. These nests must be removed from above doors and unscreened windows. One way of dealing with this task is the fake wasp nest, which is said to deter wasps from establishing nests within 20 feet of where the fabricated nest is hung. These nests are quite beautiful and waspplagued gardeners might like to try them out. In winter, many gardeners like bird feeders in the garden and some make their own seed mixes. But seed-covered bells or balls can also be bought. Seedcovered decorative little houses are also available. But these are not recommended for bear country. Bears find bird feeders a great source of food. Around Christmas some of the most popular flowering plants (orchids, Christmas cactus and tender azaleas) need high humidity. Giving a plant mister along with the plant is a helpful reminder of the care they need. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her via amarrison@ shaw.ca. It helps me if you add the name of your city or region.

The roundtable is a chance for you to work with members of the Assembly on a set of values to guide change in Grandview-Woodland over the next 30 years. The event is free but please register to participate at grandview-woodland.ca or phone 1-800-858-0435.

Sunset Park Master Plan Open House Come to an open house on the future of Sunset Park. It’s your chance to look more closely at existing features and tell us what you’d like to see in the future. Feedback will help shape the concept designs. Thursday, November 27, 2014, 4 – 7 pm (drop in anytime) Sunset Community Centre 6810 Main Street Open house materials and a feedback form will be available online beginning November 28. FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/parks Phone David Yurkovich at 604-257-6932 or 3-1-1

2015 City of Vancouver Heritage Awards: Call for Nominations

Nominations are now being accepted for the 32nd City of Vancouver Heritage Awards.

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of Hastings, between Clark and Kamloops): Saturday, November 29, 10 am - 4pm 2 Britannia-Woodland (south of Hastings,

west of Commercial Drive): Saturday, December 6, 10 am - 4pm

Both workshops are free, but you will need to register to attend. A few days before each workshop, there will also be an optional walking tour of the sub-area.

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The awards recognize the accomplishments of individuals and organizations who have furthered the goal of heritage conservation in the city. The awards will be presented in spring 2015, coinciding with the 29th anniversary of the City’s Heritage Program. Nominations may be submitted for: • restoration, rehabilitation, adaptive re-use or continued maintenance of a heritage building or structure, a significant interior of a heritage building, or characteristic features of a heritage building or structure • use of innovative engineering techniques or restoration/conservation methods in upgrading a heritage building or structure (including seismic upgrading) • preservation of a heritage landscape • advocacy by a group or individual in preserving a heritage site or increasing public awareness of heritage issues • a publication, education program, exhibit or activity that promotes heritage conservation • efforts in community or neighbourhood revitalization.

To sign up for one or more of the sessions and for details on the walking tour, visit vancouver.ca/gw.

Projects must have been completed within the past six years and not have previously received a City of Vancouver Heritage Award. Deadline for nominations is Monday, February 2, 2015 at 4 pm.

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Submission requirements and nomination forms are available at: vancouver.ca/heritageawards or by phoning 604-873-7056. (A list of members selected to serve on the awards jury will be made available on the website by late December.)

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up counters and reduced to takeout platters, wrapped, rolled and packaged. Lunch at the Shop is about adopting a lifestyle that allows food to be savoured every day. • Heart & Soil: The Revolutionary Good of Gardens by Des Kennedy. Kennedy, a writer, environmentalist and gardener, has gathered together his best, most outrageous and contemplative articles and essays of the past decade. According to Kennedy, it’s a “delicious paradox really: that gardening, which may seem from a distance as the mildest and most innocuous of activities, can be at the heart a revolutionary act.”

with short summers. • Mussels: Preparing Cooking and Enjoying a Sensational Seafood by the Kilted Chef Alain Bosse and “Mussel Mama” Linda Duncan. If you love mussels, you’ll love this book, which offers not only recipes, but also information on everything from how mussels grow to how they’re farmed. This delightfully Canadian book also includes a forward from celebrity chef Michael Smith. The book offers a vast

selection of recipes from classical approaches with a twist — curried mussels — to a mussel cocktail or even strudel.

Enter to win The Courier is giving away all of these books to one lucky reader — who must be able to pick them up from our office before Dec. 5. To enter to win, simply “like” The Vancouver Courier Newspaper on Facebook and leave a comment under the post naming your favourite holiday go-to dish. The deadline for comments is midnight Nov. 26.

• Growing Food in a Short Season: Sustainable, Organic Coldclimate Gardening by Melanie J. Watts. A gardening guide from the ground to the plate, Growing Food in a Short Season emphasizes success through working with nature and using sustainable, organic practices for growing in areas with short summers and long winters. The book includes step-bystep instructions and tips on everything from choosing the right crops to how to plant and to how to build a simple cold frame. Tips for preserving your bounty for year-round eating are also included. • Down to Earth: Cold Climate Gardens and Their Keepers by Jennifer Heath and Helen McAllister. These two friends from B.C.’s Elk Valley began peaking over fences to see how people living in cold climates grow their own food and the end result is Down to Earth. The book celebrates the viability of cold-climate gardening and the beauty and diversity possible in vegetable gardens grown in regions

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The Vancouver Friends for Life Society hosts its 21st annual Art for Life Gala and Art Auction Nov. 22 at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. Proceeds from the event help support Friends for Life in its quest to offer complementary services for individuals with serious illnesses, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, Hepatitis C and ALS. This year’s event, dubbed Art You Can Feel — An Experience for the Senses, was inspired not

only by the evolution of this city’s art scene over the past two decades, but also the future of its artistic communities. To that end, for the first time the gala goes beyond the canvas to incorporate culinary and live arts experiences as a way to incorporate sight, sound, taste and touch. Presented by Murrick Insurance Services and Murrick Insurance Services West End, the event features artwork donated by artists, galleries and numerous private collectors with 100 per cent of proceeds dedicated to Friends for Life. A live and silent auction includes works from artists including Attila Richard Lukacs, Cybele Ironside, John Capitano and Ken Wallace. Last year’s

gala garnered more than $225,000 adding to a total of $3 million gathered since its inception. The gala begins at 8 p.m. and the auction at 9 p.m. For ticket information, visit artforlife.net.

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The Vancouver Christmas Market is celebrating its fifth anniversary at the Queen Elizabeth Plaza from Nov. 22 to 24 with more than 50 vendors, delicious food, shopping for handcrafted items and thousands of twinkling lights. Once again traditional wooden huts will fill the plaza — this year decorated with handmade Herrnhuter stars. Look for more than 17 different food options, including Dutch mini pancakes, Ukrainian crepes, vegan options and more.

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Community Parents are encouraged to bring their kids so they can decorate their own gingerbread, take pictures with market mascots Holly and Jolly, try their hand at making their very own Herrnhuter star and ride the city’s only Christmas carousel. Entertainment includes the X-mas Factor singing competition, a holidaythemed contest for singers to showcase their talent through interpretations of classic holiday songs, which begins Nov. 28

and ends with a grand finale Dec. 20. As well, the always popular Dal Richards and his Big Band will perform Nov. 30 and Dec. 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. New this year is a photo hut — not new this year is an opportunity to sip authentic Glühwein while strolling. After purchasing one ticket, it can be registered and then act as a seasons pass for the rest of the market’s run. For hours and ticket information, visit vancouverchristmasmarket.com.

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take place Nov. 20 and 21 from 3 to 5 p.m. and Nov. 22 and 23 from 1 to 4 p.m. Christmas at Hycroft is open from 11 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For ticket information, visit uwcvancouver.ca or call 604-731-4661.

Take the family to Christmas at Hycroft for visits with Santa, live entertainment, hand-crafted gifts and goods, the Terrace Bistro and courtyard fun. Enter for a chance to win a private French dinner for eight at Hycroft worth $1,200. Due to the nature of the heritage property, disability access is limited to the main level of the house. As well, strollers will not be permitted inside the house. Visits with Santa

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West Hastings, Nov. 28. Hundreds of guests are expected to attend the Chimo Second Stage Housing Fundraiser at Birks with catering by Sala Thai and a fashion show sponsored by Gianni Maanaki. Breakfast Television host Dawn Chubai and OMNI TV anchor Bowen Zhang will serve as MCs for a program featuring the best of local musical talent. The VIP reception begins at 6 p.m. and the main gala runs from 7 to 10 p.m.

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MIRACLE WHIP: Gala founder Robin Dhir had much to celebrate at the sixth running of his A Night of Miracles fundraiser, held at the Vancouver Marriot Hotel. The dinner, which drew leading members of B.C.’s South Asian community, netted $800,000, completing Dhir’s pledge of $3 million to support the construction of the Special Procedures Suites in the new B.C. Children’s Hospital. Donors Arran and Ratana Stephens helped the community reach the goal by pledging to match gifts up to $1 million, an incentive that inspired many others to give. Luminaries in attendance included B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake, Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk, and Minister of Justice and Attorney General Suzanne Anton. SPECIAL K: Kids were the big winners at the Sports Celebrities Festival presented by Silver Wheaton. More than 600 athletic supporters filed into the Hotel Vancouver for an inspiring evening in support of the Canucks for Kids Fund and Special Olympics B.C. Now in its 16th year, this year’s benefit — led by Blair Shier and Doug Holtby — saw guests meet and mingle with some of B.C.’s top sports personalities and take on the Canucks in various table and electronic games before sitting down to a royal repast. Hosted by John Shorthouse and Tamara Taggart, the evening of fun and philanthropy was on course to raise a half a million dollars to support life-changing athletics programs for both charities. TAKING NOTE: With more than two million monthly Canadian visitors, Notable.ca is the largest website for young professional adults in the country. Launched in 2008, the online publication highlights young Canadians who are doing notable things, while also featuring people, places and things of interest. The organization recently presented its inaugural Notable Awards, held in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. The West Coast edition — a marathon affair, where trophies were handed out in 27 categories — was staged at the Imperial Lounge. Among the night’s big winners: event planners Tyson Villeneuve and Jordan Kallman (Diner en blanc), Medina’s Robbie Kane (Medina) and social entrepreneur Alex Chuang.

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Italian Kitchen’s Randy Chafe whips it up B.C. Hospitality Foundation’s Skills and Spills contest. Teams took part in fun and games, supports hospitality industry workers at a time of financial crisis due to a medical condition.

The Ampri Group CEO Amit Sandhu and his wife, Dr. Reena Sandhu, were among leading members of B.C.’s South Asian community that helped raise $800,000 for the new B.C. Children’s Hospital.

Vancouver Canucks Chris Higgins and Alex Burrows flanked Special Olympics B.C. athlete and Sports Celebrities Gala keynote Kristina Ettema at the interactive fundraiser held at the Hotel Vancouver.

B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay congratulated basketball star Shane Carr, L.A. bound for the Special Olympics World Games, to be held next summer in Los Angeles.

A Night of Miracles gala founder Robin Dhir welcomed B.C. Attorney General Suzanne Anton to the momentous fundraising dinner that topped $3 million since its inception six years ago.

From left, Budding chefs Anthony Ngo, A.J. Ravenhill, Kevin Lally and Robin Pastrashuk from Hotel Vancouver took People’s Choice honours after besting six teams at Fairmont’s annual Apprenticeship Dinner.

Restaurateur Robbie Kane (Medina), left, and event planners Tyson Villeneuve and Jordan Kallman of the Social Concierge (Diner en blanc) were among the inaugural winners of the Notable.ca Awards.

Social entrepreneur Alex Chuang celebrated his Notable award with his fiancé, Susie Su. Chuang was among the city’s young leading lights celebrated for their leadership, innovation and creativity at the inaugural awards.


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News TransLink has announced it will adopt all 20 recommendations made by an independent transportation expert after two failures in SkyTrain service left thousands of commuters stranded on the elevated platforms this past summer. The changes, which will include the installation of emergency power “redundancies,” are expected to cost the regional transportation company $71 million. However, $30 million

of that will be spent on improving communication with riders when the system is experiencing any problems and suggest alternate routes. The report, prepared by Toronto’s GO Transit former president Gary McNeil, was prepared in order to reduce the frequency and duration of service disruptions, ensure timely evacuation of passengers in the event of a prolonged disruption, strengthen the system to prevent breakdowns, and communicate with riders on trains, in terminals and on buses.

TransLink CEO Ian Jarvis said in a release the “unprecedented” service disruptions — which took place on July 17 and July 21 — were “unacceptable to customers, and unacceptable to us. Customers had every right to be angry and frustrated, especially those who were stuck on trains for a prolonged period in the heat. We must make sure that never happens again,” he said. McNeil’s report states the incidents showed “vulnerability” in the system and highlighted customer service issues and frustra-

tion from riders. Aside from working to prevent system failure, there will be a plan implemented to get staff to every stranded train within 20 minutes of a disruption. The report notes that SkyTrain is a safe system with very few accidents, and none related to the train control system. McNeil’s review included interviews with TransLink employees, reading through 250 customer comments/complaints, thousands of social media postings, and analysis of “peer agencies” such as

Toronto, San Francisco, and London, England. Power outages causing a system-wide shutdown of SkyTrain service in July was largely criticized on social media due to a lack of information from TransLink and passengers that were left stranded for upwards of six hours. Some began unescorted evacuations of the trains, with photos appearing on Twitter showing mothers walking along the elevated tracks pushing baby strollers and people stepping over high-voltage rails. The incident occurred

just days after a computer glitch caused a similar system failure. The report notes the two incidents were not related; one was due to the failure of a circuit board, while the other is blamed on an electrician shorting out the entire control centre. The cost estimates in the report are preliminary, and TransLink will now develop detailed plans and budgets for implementation. The entire scope of work is expected to take up to five years to complete, although many of the recommendations will be adopted much sooner than that.

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This is no joke: starting April 1, 2015, you will finally be able to buy booze at Vancouver grocery stores. The stores will be allowed to sell alcohol in special sectioned-off areas, which the provincial government is calling a “store-withina-store” model, to prevent minors from having access. The rules around the relocation of liquor licences (the “five kilometre rule”) will also be lifted the same

day to expedite the storewithin-a-store option, but ultimately, it will be up to the market to determine how quickly this model is adopted. There will also be some changes at B.C. Liquor stores. They will be putting in refrigerated sections and staying open longer, including Sundays. Another change will be that all liquor sellers will be able to buy their product from the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch at common wholesale prices.

Currently, there is a complicated model in place that gives varying levels of discounts to different businesses depending on the type of sellers they are. An independent wine seller, for example, can currently buy product at a 30 per cent discount, while rural agency stores get a 12 per cent markdown. “Underpinning many of our liquor changes — including our models for liquor in grocery stores and wholesale pricing — is the

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Residents of Metro Vancouver are not enthralled with the notion of becoming a megacity like Toronto or Montreal, a new Insights West post-election survey of municipal voters has found. In the online survey of Lower Mainland residents who took part in this month’s election, 60 per cent disagree with the notion of all Metro Vancouver municipalities amalgamating into one. Rejection of the idea is equally high across both genders and all age demographics. However, while residents of Vancouver and Surrey are equally against the prospect of amalgamation (56 per cent each), the proportion climbs to 64 per cent among residents of other municipalities. Implementing a ward system for city council elections is a more complex issue for residents. While 37 per cent would agree to have wards in their municipality, 27 per cent disagree and 35 per cent are undecided. In the two most populous cities of the Lower Mainland, supporters of a ward system outnumber opponents (52 per cent to 19 per cent in Vancouver, and 43 per cent to 23 per cent in Surrey).

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that their farmers market customers experienced. Splayed out behind glass, Purebread’s display of wares is, shall we say, stuffed. Stuffed with brownies shot through with lemon and chevre, with raspberry, with caramelized banana. Stuffed with tiered trays of croissants that hide hearts of almond or chocolate. Continued next page

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Purebread not afraid to think outside the crust Continued from page 24 Stuffed with scones, their nubbly edges protecting tender insides with plump dried fruit. And just when you think the counter will snap with the weight of it all, someone comes from the kitchen with more. The sheer volume of choice is due to curiosity. Owners Paula and Mark Lamming are constantly playing. “We get bored, so we always have new stuff. People get bored of having the same thing all the time,” she says. “We always have someone coming in saying, ‘What’s new today?’” Inspiration for new items can come from mysterious places. For example, when their kids were younger, Lamming had a soapmaking business. “One was lavender rosemary,” she says. “I thought, hey, you can eat both those things. I could try that in a scone.” Today, it’s one of their most fpopular flavours. Even though they have physical locations in both Whistler and Vancouver, they continue to sell at farmers markets. “A lot of our baking is trial and error,” she says. “You try different things and see how it goes. You can sample with people — they’re pretty brutally honest, so it works well.” Neither of the Lammings has formal training in baking, so they’re unencumbered by the idea of what they should do. There’s a cheekiness in the menu, such as the simply named “crack” bars: similar to a butter tart (sans raisins) with an oatmeal crust. And perhaps given Whistler’s high Aussie population — and Mark’s New Zealand roots — Purebread also offers treats more often seen Down Under. On a recent visit, a pile of Anzac cookies (oversized oat cookies with coconut) beckoned in a pile. Also in the rotation are Lamingtons (square cakes glazed in chocolate and rolled in coconut) and pavlova (gentle meringues with squooshy centres). Of course, there’s also the bread. The bread list is long and runs the gamut from anything-but-ordinary baguettes to the extravagant cranberry ginger raisin loaf. The Lammings aren’t afraid to play with other flours, either — there’s a healthy dose of buckwheat, rye and spelt in the lineup. For two home bakers, the response has been tremen-

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a flood from an upstairs neighbour caused the shop to shut down. “We’ve learned a lot through the whole experience,” says Lamming. And she, Mark and the Purebread team keep going. The Vancouver location is back up and busier than ever — they’ll be at the winter farmers market at Nat Bailey and she expects their Whistler shop to be back in business the first week of December. twitter.com/eagranieyuh

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Crack open the Baja Rosa and Goldschläger: Earlier this week Attorney General Suzanne Anton announced that B.C.’s notoriously outdated and anal liquor laws will get a little less outdated, though still remain fairly anal, as of April 1, 2015. That’s when government-run liquor stores will be permitted to open on Sundays, with longer hours, and can offer chilled products that are actually refrigerated as opposed to room temperature cans of Kokanee that merely look like they were carved out of a wicked glacier. Grocery stores will also be allowed to sell delicious booze but only if they are at least 10,000 square feet in size, can prove that 75 per cent of their sales are from food products and are located more than one kilometre away from a current liquor store. Oh yeah, and they’ll be required to sell their alcohol separately in a store within the grocery store rather than letting customers purchase their groceries and drinky-drinks at the same time like most civilized

societies. Because apparently that would make too much sense and British Columbian adults are still babies.

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For nearly 40 years, the Gastown Steam Clock has told time, exhaled steam, made noise and confirmed that tourists, much like newborns and crows, are easily enthralled by shiny things. However, the popular attraction was recently removed from the corner of Water and Cambie to undergo $50,000 worth of renovations over the next two months. What will tourists do now that their beloved clock is gone? Sadly, some people are still posing for photos in front of the temporary box covering the clock’s pedestal. But according to a recent article in the Vancouver Sun, two local architects have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $19,500 to create an art installation in its place. “Make It Rain — A Reflective Cloud Chamber for Gastown” is described as “a 27-foot tall, tapering, and reflective soft cylinder mounted onto the existing base of the steam clock.” Coincidentally, Reflective Cloud Chamber was also the

name of a band we played pan flute for back in the ’90s. However, we can think of plenty of things that could replace the Gastown Steam Clock and for far less than 20 grand. For instance: • Expo Ernie. Rumour has it the lovable but useless Expo 86 robot resides in billionaire Jimmy Pattison’s mansion. Time to haul him down the mountain and remind Vancouverites of those crazy days of feathered hair, spandex pants, legwarmers and oversized shaker-knit sweaters. Wait, that’s what Gastown is like now, isn’t it? • A bronze sculpture of former CBC newscaster Gloria “the Gossamer of Loveliness” Macarenko in high heels stepping on the neck of her diminutive replacement Andrew “Judas” Chang. • A cascading waterfall of blood to decry the cultural hegemony and gentrification that oppresses the citizens of Vancouver every day and in itself is an act of violence. Just kidding. • A 10-foot-tall metallic rooster that crows every hour with steam emanating from its beak. It would be called, wait for it, the Gastown Steam Cock. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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START NOTHING: 7:16 p.m. Sunday to 8:31 a.m. Monday, 7:30 a.m. to 11:23 a.m. Wednesday, and 9:14 a.m. to 2:03 p.m. Friday. PREAMBLE: David Cameron, Britain’s Prime Minister, said Nov. 17 at the G-20 summit that “warning lights are flashing in the world economy.” Europe’s scraping along a recessionary floor and fighting deflation. Japan just sank into recession again. Emerging markets are more like drowning markets. Brazil is in recession. China’s growth is the slowest in years. Canada’s Venture Exchange (junior mining, oil and gas, etc.) is down almost 30 per cent since I warned about stocks in early July. The TSX is still down from July. Yet the S&P, Dow and Nasdaq are hitting new highs, and the American economy is growing at three per cent a year. So the picture’s mixed, as I said back in September or October. I still advise caution. The U.S.’s healthy growth rate is in large part a recovery from everything lost during the last decade.

A month of mellow joys, gentle love, broad vision and understanding begins. You are in a splendid year for major romance, so this “gentle love” month can move passion to commitment, romance to wedding bells. If you’re seeking romance, try international travel, libraries, places of learning, travel hubs, law offices, foreign film showings, cultural venues and book stores.

The weeks ahead will be very busy, but not too important. So relax in your busyness, do errands, calls, visits, trips, paperwork, emails, etc. without worrying. Give yourself a month off from stress. The month ahead will bring you many friendly contacts, and some of these either occur in a group or will lead you to a group of like-minded people.

The weeks ahead accent mysteries and secrets, research and detective work. Your subconscious bursts to the surface, heightening your intuition and your sexual yearnings. In some ways, this is a powerful desire for security, for carving out a place for yourself. Intimacy, which leads to pregnancy, in turn leads to parenthood — so a strong “place” for you, as father or mother.

Chase money now to late December, Scorpio. You’ll be lucky in this until Dec. 10 and productive to Dec. 21. You can start this whole phase with a great leap forward Sunday. Act before 7 p.m. PST (before 3 a.m. Monday in Europe, before 11 a.m. Monday in Beijing). “Chasing money” includes asking for a raise, attracting/cultivating new clients, selling unwanted articles, clipping coupons, even shopping.

Relationships, new horizons and opportunities, contract negotiations, love, marriage — and the negative side of these, litigation, separation, opposition and challenge — face you over the few weeks ahead. Whether the good or the bad occur, is largely up to you. Smile, offer help, work to fulfill another’s desires, goals. All November heightens your sexual desires and your urge to invest, so take care with both.

Boom — your energy and charisma, clout and effectiveness shoot to an annual high until late December. And you begin with all rockets firing Sunday. Start important projects, see and be seen, call in favours, ask for more, lead others, accent YOUR goals. (Read Scorpio’s message above for timing details.) Chase money Monday to Wednesday noon, but avoid gambles, creative risk, speculation. This applies for 12 more months.

The weeks ahead hold work and health issues. This is not a good year (to mid-November 2015) to push your career goals, so just do your job. Eat and dress sensibly. Take care of the needs of your children and pets. Work might actually be a relief, a pleasant sanctuary from hostilities — e.g., a long argument with your mate or others or war with a competitor until Dec. 10.

Lie low. Retreat and rest, contemplate and plan, for the few weeks ahead. Deal with government agencies, institutions, head offices, shut-ins and invalids, warehouses and assembly lines, factories. Be charitable, spiritual. Meditate, do yoga, seek your centre again. All these themes will proceed smoothly and productively and might lead you naturally to detective or research work, and to fortunate commitments.

You’ll love the weeks ahead, Leo. Everything you love will be spread before you, almost like a banquet: romance, creative and gambling ventures, beauty, pleasure, sports, adventure, charming kids. Be sure to express yourself and your feelings. This is not the time for discretion, retreat or humility. Blow your own horn, especially with the opposite sex. (Yes, same sex if you’re gay.)

Wishes can come true over the next four weeks, Aquarius. In fact, a small or large one might be fulfilled this Sunday (Nov. 23). These weeks are specially fortunate, as they can introduce you to one or more groups of compatible people. Within these groups (hiking club, political party, meditation group, etc.) could stand your future mate, or a great business, friendship, relocation or similar opportunity.

The weeks ahead emphasize your domestic situation in a lucky way this Sunday. Food, nutrition, shelter, real estate, family cohesion, gardening, Mother Nature, basics, foundations, sales territory in business — these will occupy your thoughts and hopefully spur action, as good luck and easy accomplishment ride with you in these “down home” areas. As noted, Sunday’s great: charge ahead in the areas listed above.

The weeks ahead accent ambition, prestige, status relationships, community reputation and hard work. You’ll be tested by higher-ups, and you’ll pass with “honours.” This is a benevolent month, so your progress should be smooth. It’s a great time to climb the ladder of success; take your first step Sunday. Make it a big step, for this day holds unusual luck. Even if you don’t notice any progress, a door you step through this day will lead to green fields sooner or later.

Monday: Billy Connolly (72). Tuesday: Christina Applegate (43). Wednesday: Rich Little (76). Thursday: Bill Nye (59). Friday: Jon Stewart (52). Saturday: Diane Ladd(82). Sunday: Billy Idol (59).

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1. Power skating coach and former competitive figure skater Barb Aidelbaum worked with Canucks, including defenceman Dan Hamhuis at UBC Thunderbird Arena in 2012. PHOTO ARLEN REDEKOP / PNG 2. Hannah Janda is a forward with the Vancouver Angels. She started playing hockey in September after a decade as a competitive figure skater. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Hockey players sign up for power skating Continued from page 1 But years of technical precision, on- and office drills, fine motor skill development and major muscle group strength training meant, on skates of any kind, Janda had a high level of physical intelligence. Between hockey players and figure skaters, the latter are considered stronger — and better — on the ice because of their technical training. In a column written during the Sochi Olympic Games suitably called “Figure skating offers more physical challenges than ice hockey,” Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins asked which is the stronger skater before she easily reached a conclusion. “Some guys get all pursy around the mouth when you suggest this, but figure skating is infinitely harder than ice hockey,” wrote Jenkins in the Feb. 13 column. To illustrate her point, she imagined the impossible: “In a contest between Alex Ovechkin and gold medal pairs skater Maxim Trankov, I’ll take Trankov every time, even though he wears more hair tonic than a silent film star. It’s a hypothetical argument, of course, but just for fun, let’s make a comparison: Who would look sillier if they changed disciplines, Trankov with a hockey stick

in his hand or Ovechkin if he had to lift a woman over his head and carry her around like a spinning dinner plate while sliding across the ice on a pair of kitchen knives?” Hoisting a sequinnedspangled partner aside, hockey players have a lot to learn and a rising number of amateur and elite athletes are signing up to learn from figure skaters. Power skating programs — once the realm of figure skaters who, in a few strides, must have enough velocity to leap, spin and land safely — are filling up with hockey players. Susy Bando, the arena programmer at the Britannia Rink, estimated 50 to 60 per cent of students who take Vancouver Park Board power skating are hockey players. The trend is new and the numbers are increasing, said Bando. “It’s called figure skating lessons but they are more engaged with power skating, which is an offshoot of the figure skating program that is developed through Skate Canada. It is really working on the fundamental of skating. It has been for at least 10 years that there has been a push through figure skating clubs to have these power skating programs,” she said, noting students taking these lessons through the park board are mostly recreational players.

“As hockey players, you go and you practise team drills but really don’t focus on skating, which does not have to be as technical as in figure skating. [The course] breaks down the skating skills and looks at turning, edging, stopping properly, all of the things that you take for granted when you’re going through a drill with your stick and a puck,” she said. Bando would know. She grew up in Port Coquitlam as a competitive figure skater but joined a co-ed hockey team in her early 20s. “I have a bunch of colleagues in the same situation,” said the left-winger. “You become an adult and there is really no recreational adult figure skating. If you want to continue skating, you play hockey.” Does learning strength and speed from a figure skating coach bring the sequined sport more respect from the helmeted body-checkers who are more likely to throw a punch than pirouette? “Appreciation? I don’t think so,” said Bando. “It’s very different. When I started teaching a power skating course with the city, we made sure we put on our hockey skates as instructors. We focus on the skating, and we didn’t make mention of the figure skating part of it. We were cognizant that we weren’t going to change the

minds of people. There’s no spinning.” Skate Canada, the national sport organization, trains and certifies coaches to teach skating and its CanSkate program goes back to basics for beginner lessons by drawing from Sport Canada’s long-term athlete development principles. This means all beginners, whether they want to speed skate, ice dance, goaltend or triple Salchow, learn the same fundamentals. But figure skaters develop their technique like no one else. Numerous NHL teams hire specialists, many of them former competitive figure skaters, to work with pros. Laura Stamm pioneered the practice, at first somewhat secretly in the 1970s and today, Cathy Andrade, is in demand around the league. The Canucks are on board, too. Barb Aidelbaum, a three-time national figure skating gold medallist, has also coached elite professional players, including Canuck Dan Hamhuis and Canuck-now-Canadien Manny Malhotra. Respected around the NHL, Aidelbaum laces up hockey skates and uses many techniques drawn from figure skating to improve a hockey player’s stride, power and balance. “After two full years of training with Barb, my only

regret is that I didn’t start working with her earlier,” Malhotra wrote in a testimonial about Aidelbaum, who grew up skating at the Arbutus Club. “She has as an incredible ability to tweak certain aspects of my skating game, which I have found to make me a more powerful, balanced and efficient skater. Barb is flat-out the most knowledgeable and technically sound skating coach I’ve ever worked with.” NHL rookie of the year, Jeff Skinner, started as a figure skater. He was a juvenile national champion before his 63 points in 2011 netted him the Calder Memorial Trophy. His former figure skating instructor called him artistic. “I think you see little bits of figure skating in the way I skate in hockey,” he told NHL.com in 2011. “I think it helped me a lot. Just being on the ice that much as a kid helps you be comfortable on your skates. It’s obviously given me a unique skating style that is sort of different from other guys. From my experience, it definitely helps.” Janda was the same age as Skinner when she picked up a hockey stick for the first time. On the wing, she can’t quite get her timing down to avoid an offside call but she’s finally adjusted to the meat-packer feel of hockey

skates. “I’m way more comfortable in figure skates because they’re moulded to my feet. They feel like slippers,” said Janda, a comfortable hybrid of girly-girl and tomboy, whose feet cramped like she’d “been walking for miles” during her early stints in hockey skates. Her father drives the Zamboni at the Agrodome, and the Janda family spends an incredible amount of time at ice rinks. Janda and her younger brother Josh both play hockey and in summer, they return to many of the same ice-less rinks to play box lacrosse. Although not the fastest on her bantam team, Janda is still one of the speediest and strongest skaters. She misses the make-up and hair styling of figure skating’s glitz — “You can’t do your hair and then put on a helmet,” she said — and she would opt for figure skates if she ever competed on CBC’s former smash hit, Battle of the Blades, but Janda is now more hockey player than anything else. “My teammates are really welcoming. If I did something differently, they say, ‘OK Hannah, you’ve got to do it like this, not like that.’ Skating is one less thing off my shoulders, now I just have to work on my puck handling.” twitter.com/MHStewart


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Vancouver College prepares for quarterfinal Friday against rival STM FOOTBALL Megan Stewart

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Chris Ellis is the backbone of the Vancouver College defense this season and plays “with his hair on fire,” as the Fighting Irish head coach Todd Bernett put it. With 89 regular-season tackles this year as a Grade 11 student, the linebacker is on his way to becoming one of the all-time best at the Catholic boys school. In the first round of the playoffs last weekend, Ellis contributed 15 tackles, added a sack and recovered one fumble in a 43-30 win over W.J. Mouat. This season, he also has two touchdowns, which he popped in as a wide receiver. He is unabashed about his goals.“I’m aware I’m putting up some big numbers. I’m trying to set records,” Ellis said Tuesday before the Fighting Irish sat down to review film

ahead of their quarterfinal match-up against rival St. Thomas More. “He’s one of the best, if not the best, junior in the class of 2016,” said running back Ovie Odjegba, who is putting up impressive numbers of his own with 1,095 regular season rushing yards and eight touchdowns. “He’s really the centerpiece of our defense and he’s come up big this year. I’m really proud of him.” What does Ellis want to achieve? First, beating the Knights on Friday. Second, he said, “Be the best and be known to everyone. I just want to get faster and make every tackle I can.” If his success continues, Ellis could reach his goals. “[He] is our defensive leader and has instincts for the ball,” said Bernett, adding Ellis’s intense play “creates an energy level the rest of the players feed off of.” The Fighting Irish will rely on strong defence to quell quarterback Terrell Jana of the No. 3 Knights who’ve amassed 283 points

this season, second only to three-time B.C. champion Mt. Douglas. Vancouver College beat 7-1 St. Thomas More 5032 in a September exhibition game and has finished the season with a five-game winning streak. Giordy Belfiore will start at quarterback and the Irish will rely on Ellis as well as a deep roster of scoring options that includes Odjegba, Matt Legge, J.D. Andrews, Joelson delRosario and Javier Sanchez-Mejora. Odjegba, who carried the ball for 221 yards and three touchdowns in the playoff win over Mouat, said one of the reasons for their lateseason surge is preparation. “I feel like we have some of the best coaches in the nation and they really prepare us each week and really help us focus each week on what we have to do to win,” he said. Vancouver College plays St. Thomas More at Burnaby Lake Park at 6 p.m., Nov. 21. twitter.com/MHStewart

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BCREA forecasts 16.6% jump in home sales Emma Crawford Hampel ecrawford@biv.com

The total number of home sales in Greater Vancouver is expected to hit 33,800 units by the end of 2014, the British Columbia Real Estate Association announced Nov. 18 in its housing forecast. This is 16.6 per cent

higher than the number of units sold in 2013 (28,985). The association anticipates that unit sales will see a modest increase of 0.6 per cent in 2015, bringing total sales to 34,000 in that year. The average home price in Greater Vancouver is forecast to be $814,000 in 2014 — up 5.2 per cent compared with $767,765

in 2013. The BCREA anticipates a slight increase of 0.1 per cent in 2015 to $815,000. Across B.C., home sales will reach 83,940 units by the end of this year. This is more than 15 per cent higher than the number of units sold in 2013. It is also almost five per cent higher than the number of

2014 sales forecast by the association in July, which, at 80,100 units, would be the first time since 2009 that sales were expected to exceed 80,000 units. In 2015, strengthening economic conditions will push sales upward, but this will be offset in part by increasing interest rates, forecasts the BCREA.

“Consumer demand has ratcheted up this year and is expected to remain at a more elevated level through 2015,” said Cameron Muir, BCREA chief economist. “While historically low mortgage rates support demand, the housing market is also being underpinned by a more robust economy and associated job growth,

strong net migration and consumer confidence.” The average home sale price across the province will be 568,800 in 2014, forecasts the association. This is six per cent higher than the average of $537,414 in 2013. Prices in 2015 are expected to grow a further 0.8 per cent to an average of $574,300.

Housing bubble formula shows Vancouver is resistant Frank O’Brien

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Housing bubbles have been a leading indicator in 11 of the 14 economic recessions since 1929, but, based on a formula presented by a Nobel laureate and economist, British Columbia appears bubble resistant. Vernon Smith, awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002 for his work in empirical economic analysis, is a professor at Chapman University in

California and president and chair in finance at the International Foundations of Research in Experimental Economics. He spoke to a packed crowd last week in Vancouver in an event presented by Simon Fraser University and the Bank of Montreal. Smith, 87, who recalls his family’s farm being foreclosed in 1934, said a downturn in the housing market was precursor to the Great Depression, the 2006 “great recession” and virtually every other recession

in-between. The key indicator, Smith said, is housing starts. Homebuilders, he said, are much more aware and reactive to changes in the market than typical homeowners or buyers. Early in 2006, starts of U.S. housing suddenly began falling from record highs while all other economic indicators were still increasing, Smith noted. A year later, home construction had virtually stopped, U.S. home equity had shed $500 billion in value

and the world was in the grip of the worst economic crisis in 100 years. However, Smith noted, “all housing markets are regional.” Housing sales and prices in Purdue, Alaska and North Dakota, for example, continued strong right through the 2006-2010 downturn, he said, because of strong job generation and high inmigration. Using Smith’s formula for housing bubble-burst scenarios, B.C. and Vancouver do not appear threatened,

despite record-high prices in the latter. B.C. housing starts this year are up 3.1 per cent from 2013 and forecast to rise a further 1.4 per cent in 2015, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. In Vancouver, housing starts are up five per cent from a year ago and are projected to dip slightly next year, but increase about three per cent into 2016. As well, B.C. unemployment rate remains low, the province is attracting about 39,000 immigrants

annually and, for first time in four years, is seeing a net increase in interprovincial migration. Smith cautioned that a huge inflow of mortgage credit started the last housing bubble and he sees parallels today in low-cost mortgage money. The award-winning economist concedes experts were “blindsided” by the last recession and don’t know when the next one will appear. “Prediction is impossible,” Smith said.


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Volkswagen has finally unveiled its much anticipated seventh-generation Golf. The 2015 Golf has been redesigned from the ground up and, thanks to its earlier release in Europe, has already received many accolades including the “World Car of the Year” award. The VW Golf is the world’s second bestselling model in history with about 30 million of them sold over 40 years. The original was made in 1974 and was designed as a front-wheel drive, front-engine replacement to VW’s air-cooled, rearengine, rear-wheel drive Beetle. Building on the Beetle’s core philosophy, the Golf Mk I was simple, good looking,and had an affordable price — and was a hatchback. It seemed like a good idea at the time and it continues to prove the concept still holds value, as each new generation sticks with the same recipe. James May, host of BBC’s Top Gear, recently said, “Golfs are like potatoes. You wouldn’t want to do without them, even though they’re not really that exciting.” That is until you consider the sporty GTI version.

Design

The all-new Golf is based on Volkswagen’s corporate MQB Platform and shares it with the Audi A3. Through engineering advances, this Golf is the safest, besthandling and roomiest of all time. Despite all of the sheet metal being new, the 2015 Golf is still instantly recognizable. The two-box profile remains, but the hood is steeper and the nar-

row grille is flanked by sharper headlights. The new architecture makes the new Golf close to two inches longer, about the same width, and roughly an inch lower than the outgoing model. Wheelbase is increased 2.3 inches and allows for a more spacious cabin and better space utilization. Using high-strength steel, VW has increased the rigidity of the Golf without adding weight. This results in improved fuel efficiency and performance. The 2015 Golf is available in both three-door and five-door hatchback models; there are three trim lines to choose from as well.

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Initially, the Golf will be available with three different four-cylinder engines. The base, and likely most common, will be the 1.8-litre gasoline engine in TSI models. This motor is rated at 170 hp and 185 lb-ft of torque. The optional engine is the TDI’s 2.0-litre turbodiesel. The Golf TDI produces 150 hp and 236 lb-ft of torque. Both powertrains are more efficient but still feel peppy and refined. The base transmission for TSI Golfs is a five-speed manual, which is good yet unexciting in some ways. The six-speed automatic provides smooth and linear power delivery. TDI models have the choice of either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic DSG with Tiptronic – this latter selection is truly world-class. Continued on page 41

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a lowly 2.0-litre engine, yet retains on-paper drivability. Expect to see a detuned version perhaps showing up in the XC90 crossover, but here’s hoping they shove the thing in that shooting brake concept and release it as the Bork.

Porsche releases 911 GTS

The GTS moniker on the back of a Porsche has always indicated something special. In the Cayenne, for instance, you could even get that full-sized crossover with a V-8 and a stick shift. Now that you can’t get either the 911 Turbo or the GT3 with a manual transmission, the 911 GTS will be your highest performance 911 available with an oldfashioned clutch-pedal and gearshift. As the GTS versions of Porsches are usually intended as a more sporting variant for the street, that’s a very good thing. The cars come with 430 hp and all the suspension and aerodynamic goodies you probably want on your 911, and are available in coupe and cabriolet, in allwheel drive or rear-drive only. Purist-spec would be stick shift and rear-drive, and with a slightly lower stance and rawer dynamics, we might just have found the sweet spot in the 911 range.

Bentley SUV inches closer to production

Spotted at the Nürburgring, Bentley’s upcoming SUV looks closer than ever to production spec, and some of the camouflage is coming off. I think I speak for us all when I say please, put it back on again. While a seven-seater, plug-in Bentley is surely in the company’s best interests financially speaking, why does it have to look like that? We’ll leave the photos out as you may be reading this paper while eating breakfast, but just imagine a Continental that’s been jacked up in the air and hooked up to an air-compressor. It looks odd and ungainly and whatever the opposite of genteel is. A Bentley is certainly allowed to have something of the bounder about it, stretching all the way back to Woolf Barnato,

the diamond mine heir and gentleman prizefighter. Really, that’s what a Bentley should be: a gentleman’s prizefighter. So far, this thing looks like cauliflower ear on wheels. Keep training, Bentley — it ain’t done yet.

Kawasaki releases 300 hp Ninja

Are you on an organ transplant list? Good news! Kawasaki just released a 300 hp supercharged motorcycle. I expect we’ll be up to our eyeballs in spleens by Tuesday. With a 1.0-litre engine huffing out as much horsepower as a Subaru STI in a motorcycle that weighs next to nothing, the H2R is completely insane. Kawasaki says they’ll put out a street version with something around “just” 200 hp, but the full-strength track version seems to be capable of in excess of 340 kilometres per hour. Wait, hang on. I see a flaw in the plan here. You can’t transplant puree. All joking aside, superbikes for bragging rights are cool, but something like the new Ducati Scrambler is a bit more sensible: a lightweight, fun-to-ride bike at a reasonable price without feeling like you’re Wile E. Coyote strapped to an Acme rocket.

Top Gear thrown out of Argentina

Will the lads never learn? I hope not — it makes for such good television. Moreover, it looks like this may not have been entirely the Top Gear trio’s fault. While filming a special in Argentina, the crew and hosts were chased out of the country by a rock-throwing mob who claimed that the licence plate on Jeremy Clarkson’s Porsche 928 held a hidden reference to the Falklands war. Clarkson claims that the whole thing was politically motivated so that local politicians could claim to have ejected the Brits and gain brownie points with the locals. Either way, it’s yet another rumbustious scandal for the show, which is bound to boost viewership through the roof. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they sure know how to create a spectacle. twitter.com/brendan_mcaleer


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Model shown: FB2E2FEX Features available on select models:

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‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2015 CR-V LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. ΩLimited time weekly lease offer based on a new 2015 CR-V LX model RM3H3FES. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 260 weekly payments O.A.C. Weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $69.89 based on applying $400.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $18,171.40. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. †Limited time weekly lease offer based on a new 2015 Civic DX model FB2E2FEX. ÿ2.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 260 weekly payments O.A.C. Weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $44.90 based on applying $600.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $11,674.00. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. *Limited time weekly lease offer based on a new 2015 Fit DX model GK5G3FE. #2.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 260 weekly payments O.A.C. Weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $39.97 based on applying $875.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,392.20. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. ‡‡$500 Consumer Incentive Dollars “Holiday Bonus” (“Holiday Bonus”) available on any new 2015 Civic and new 2015 CR-V models, purchased or leased and delivered by January 2, 2015 and can be combined with advertised lease and finance rates. “Holiday Bonus” includes GST and PST, as applicable. Visit a participating Honda dealer for eligible products & services applicable to “Holiday Bonus” redemption. Offer ends January 2, 2015 and is subject to change or cancellation without notice. £For more information about the 2015 Motor Trend Sport/Utility of the Year® award, visit http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/suv/2015_honda_cr_v_is_the_motor_trend_suv_of_the_year/ **MSRP is $27,685 / $17,245 / $15,990 including freight and PDI of $1,695 / $1,495 / $1,495 based on a new 2015 CR-V LX model RM3H3FES / Civic DX model FB2E2FEX / Fit DX model GK5G3FE. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ‡/Ω/¥/†/ÿ/*/#/**/‡‡ Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent's fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2015 CR-V LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. Offers valid from November 1st through December 1st, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.

F R I DAY, N OV E M B E R 2 1 , 2 0 1 4 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

Attn: Honda Owners

Winter

Special Includes a Multi-Point Inspection with a genuine Honda Oil & Filter change! Our Factory-trained technicians will inspect your Honda from top to bottom and give you a full report on it's condition! This is a great way to get your Honda ready for the winter.

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The Mercedes-Benz Year End Event is on now. Actual model may not be as shown.

Class

Demonstrator Model

Year

Stock #

Total Price

Demo Sale Price

B-Class

B250

2014

1414101

$38,890.00

$32,960.00

B-Class

B250

2014

R1464280

$33,810.00

$27,960.00

B-Class

B250

2014

N1406000

$38,880.00

$32,960.00

Class

Certified Pre-Owned Model

Year

Stock #

Kilometres

Special Price

B-Class

B250

2014

N157019

9,341KM

$25,000.00

B-Class

B250

2014

N157022

8,779KM

$27,000.00

B-Class

B250

2014

N157023

7,500KM

$28,000.00

Enjoy incredible savings on select Demonstrator and Certified Pre-Owned models. Get special discounts, attractive rates, waived payments and in some cases, all three. With offers like these, they won’t be around for long. Valid until November 30th.

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Stock #

Total Price

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C-Class

C350 4MATIC Sedan

2014

R1411023

$56,750.00

$49,960.00

C-Class

C350 4MATIC Sedan

2014

B1459288

$61,800.00

$54,960.00

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C350 4MATIC Sedan

2014

R1411046

$57,810.00

$50,960.00

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Certified Pre-Owned Model

Year

Stock #

Kilometres

Special Price

C-Class

C350 4MATIC Sedan

2014

B709295

770KM

$46,000.00

C-Class

C350 4MATIC Sedan

2014

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4,820KM

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C350 4MATIC Sedan

2014

N157014

9,351KM

$47,000.00

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©2014 Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. Lease and finance offers available only through Mercedes-Benz Financial Services on approved credit, for a limited time. Total price of the listed 2014 Demo vehicles include Freight/PDI of $2,295 (B/C), Dealer Admin Fee of $595, A/C Levy of $100, PPSA up to $45.48 and a $25 fee covering EHF tires, filters and batteries. Additional options, fees, and taxes are extra. Vehicle license, insurance, and registration are extra. Dealer may sell for less. For Certified Pre-Owned vehicles, financing is available through Mercedes-Benz Financial Services. Down payment may be required. Documentation fee, vehicle license, insurance, and registration are extra. Dealer may sell for less. Offer may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers. See your Mercedes-Benz Vancouver Retail Dealer or book a test-drive at Mercedes-Benz customer care centre at 1-855-554-9088. Offer valid until November 30th, 2014.


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