Vancouver Courier November 28 2014 by Vancouver Courier

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November 28 2014 Vol. 105 No. 96

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Potential redevelopment could affect bar, student residence DEVELOPING STORY Naoibh O’Connor

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LIFE LESSONS Queen Mary elementary Grade 5 students Robert Shen (left) and Dylan Danielson interview Norma Kavanagh as part of the Project CHEF program, which connects seniors with children and teaches them about wholesome food. See story on page 6. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

NPA faces second defamation lawsuit Bob Mackin

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The public sector union that donated $226,000 to Vision Vancouver is suing the NPA and its defeated mayoral candidate. CUPE’s Nov. 25-ﬁled B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit claims Kirk LaPointe, who lost by 10,000 votes to Mayor Gregor Robertson on Nov. 15, falsely and maliciously accused the city’s outside workers’ union of corruption. CUPE’s lawyer said the defamation would harm its ability to bargain for its 24,000 municipal workers in B.C. The lawsuit mentions LaPointe’s Oct. 20 Province newspaper commentary headlined “Vision Vancouver’s cash-for-jobs deal with the city union is corrupt.” The Province was not named in the lawsuit. “It wants the debate to stop about the allegation of corruption, because [Local 1004] is not corrupt, but it has no desire to stop or chill the debate about

campaign ﬁnance,” CUPE lawyer Leo McGrady said Wednesday at a news conference during the B.C. Federation of Labour convention. The inspiration for LaPointe’s commentary was the Courier’s Oct. 16 story about a leaked recording of the Oct. 14 CUPE Local 1004 membership meeting, where Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs appealed for union support and pledged, on Robertson’s behalf, that there would be no contracting-out if Vision was re-elected. Local 1004 members at the meeting voted unanimously to donate $34,000 to Vision. The B.C. and national wings matched the donations for a $102,000 total. LaPointe wrote that was evidence Vision members acted in self-interest to prejudice the city’s bargaining position in next year’s negotiations. “This one appears to be rather similar [to the Nov. 6 Vision defamation lawsuit],” LaPointe told the Courier. “I need to have

our lawyers look at it and give us some advice about how it is we’re going to defend.” Vision sued LaPointe on behalf of Robertson and Meggs the same day that it leaked an internal poll by Stratcom that showed LaPointe only 4 per cent behind Robertson. The Nov. 14 NPA defence statement called Vision’s lawsuit a campaign ploy to “restrain the right of Mr. LaPointe and the NPA... to exercise their right of free speech, in particular their right to political speech.” None of the allegations has been proven in court. Vancouver Police Const. Brian Montague would not conﬁrm police are investigating Vision or CUPE for alleged municipal corruption under the Criminal Code. Said CUPE B.C. president Mark Hancock: “We have not been contacted by police; if we are contacted by police, we will fully participate in an investigation.” Continued on page 4

An online petition to save the Brickhouse building at 730 Main St. in Chinatown has emerged even though a rezoning application referencing the site has yet to be ﬁled with the City of Vancouver. The petition raises concerns about the building’s future because the property is part of a possible application to redevelop properties from 728 to 796 Main Street. The petition, which links to a recent Vancouver Sun article by John Mackie (“The heritage battle for Chinatown”), states: “Don’t let new condos ﬂatten the Brickhouse.” It had been signed by more than 540 people as of Nov. 27. “Vancouver is drowning in an ocean of copy-and-paste corporate chain bars. The Brickhouse is a great independent bar, but now it could be demolished to make way for a new condo development in Chinatown. The Creekside Student Residence and Jimi Hendrix shrine could be taken out with it,” the petition reads. “Please sign now to call for Vancouver’s mayor and council to stop the demolition of the Brickhouse and start a real consultation with the Chinatown community to ensure that new developments don’t threaten to strip the character of the community and drive more people out of the market.” Bonnis Development owns the Brickhouse property, as well as vacant land beside it. The building at 796 Main St. — Creekside Student Residence — is designated under the City of Vancouver’s single-room-accommodation bylaw and contains 22 designated SRA units. Continued on page 5

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through different teachers in the community that the resources aren’t the same and it’s further from our house,” Pettman said. The family includes a two-year-old with another child on the way and Pettman wonders whether the siblings will be attend the same school as their brother. Nelson explained incatchment kids with a sibling already at a school are placed ﬁrst. The remainder are drawn randomly and assigned a number on a waitlist and contacted as spaces become available. Nelson said Simon Fraser didn’t accept any out-of-catchment kids last year, even siblings of those already enrolled, and won’t again this year. The school board approved two portables at Simon Fraser elementary last spring, but most families stuck to the choices they’d already made by then. Nelson says full schools and the board are monitoring the number of applications they receive by Jan. 30. The board is working on an enrolment management strategy. Challenges and options are being and will be further communi-

cated to parents. The board is working with a company on longterm enrolment projections until 2028. Nelson said projections point to an excess of 600 students in the catchment that includes Simon Fraser by 2028. The construction of an elementary school near the former Olympic Village would be a long-term solution to the problem. Pettman suggested the school board reconsider catchment boundaries as new developments increase area population. “It’s certainly an option that the district will have to look at going forward as we see these areas of growth and our pockets where we’re seeing increased density,” Nelson said. “The problem is [the pockets of density] are all together.” The last major catchment review occurred in 2000, with adjustments to the Grandview-Woodland effective next September. Simon Fraser is one of 16 schools and annexes that are full or nearly full. Most of the schools are in South False Creek, downtown, Yaletown and border the Cambie corridor. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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CUPE contributed $226,000 Continued from page 1 A similar court battle is unfolding in Calgary. In 2013, Global TV aired a leaked video of homebuilder Cal Wenzel plotting to oppose candidates aligned with Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who was seen as anti-development. Six months later, Nenshi won re-election. Wenzel claimed Nenshi defamed him and sued for $6 million. In Vision’s $2.25-million pre-election donations list, CUPE contributions totaled $226,000 of the $321,000 from unions. In 2013, Local 1004 gained a 6.75 per cent raise for the 1,600 outside workers in a contract that expires at the end of 2015. It also represents 3,400 fulland part-time and temporary Pacific National Exhibition workers, who received a 4.5 per cent raise through 2016 in a September-ratified deal. Dec. 5 is the deadline for written submissions to a B.C. legislative committee studying whether to limit local election campaign financing. In January, Vision lobbied the province to ban corporate and union donations, but gave up last spring when

CUPE B.C. President Mark Hancock, Leo McGrady of McGrady Law and CUPE B.C. secretary-treasurer Paul Faoro spoke at press conference Wednesday during the B.C. Federation of Labour convention. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the B.C. Liberals extended municipal terms to four years without limiting donations. This is not the ﬁrst time a B.C. union has sued an opposition party for defamation. In 1997, a B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed the Ironworkers Local 97 claim against then-opposition leader Gordon Campbell over a news release headlined: “B.C. Liberals Reveal Another NDP Kick Back Scheme.” The party referred to donations from unionized workers hired for the Island

Highway project. Wrote Justice B.D. Macdonald: “The ofﬁcial opposition (indeed, any member of an opposition party) and its leader have both a duty and an interest to investigate and expose any impropriety or irregularity in the management of government monies by the government of the day, and to communicate their ﬁndings to the electorate. The electorate has a corresponding interest in receiving such information.” twitter.com/bobmackin

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Continued from page 1 That site includes another small building at 207 Union Street — the Jimi Hendrix Shrine building. “We have an agreement with the current owner, but we do not own [the property] as of today,” Kerry Bonnis, principle of Bonnis Development, told the Courier. The city says the buildings in question date from the early 1900s but are not on the Vancouver Heritage Register. Since the Creekside Student Residence units are designated under the SRA bylaw, the city’s objective is for one-to-one replacement, which is subject to a council decision. Under the rezoning policy for Chinatown South, a height of up to 150 feet could be considered for a redevelopment. A preliminary rendering of the potential project is posted on the Studio One Architecture website with

a write-up that states it could feature a commercial component at grade, single-resident accommodation units on the second level and 148 market units on the 14 floors above. Bonnis said that rendering is not an exact rendition of what might happen. Bonnis Development is in talks with the city about what might be possible. “We’ve been in discussions with the city about the potential to redevelop the properties. We’ve been making multiple proposals to the city, so the incarnation that’s on the [Studio One Architecture] website doesn’t reflect entirely what we’re shooting for,” Bonnis explained. “It’s been refined. I guess, in spirit, that’s what we’re shooting for, if possible. If we can reach an agreement with the city, then it may look something like that, but [these are] preliminary drawings and renderings, more to do with the massing and the

envelope. It’s not entirely fully refined. Should we be successful with negotiations with the city, we definitely want to refine the building greater in terms of what the community would like to see there. And the city, and us as developers and architects collectively, we want elements of historic Chinatown to be incorporated into that.” Bonnis said he’d like to try and maintain components of the Brickhouse. “We would try to see if we could re-utilize any parts of the façade, but at this point it boils down to, truly, numbers — is the project as envisioned viable, feasible. Until we get more concrete analysis and answers in our negotiations, until then, it’s all sort of in flux,” he said, adding the public will be consulted although he’s not yet sure how the city would go about it. “We’re all about working with the community

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Bent over clipboards, pencils clutched in their hands, four Grade 4 and 5 students asked their whitehaired subject about her family, favourite foods and dining customs at the swish Tapestry retirement residence at the University of B.C. Wednesday morning. Grade 5 student Robert Shen perked up when senior Norma Kavanagh told the group, “We didn’t have these fancy dishwashers.” Shen told Kavanagh they didn’t have fancy dishwashers in China, either. He said

Eleanor Lee mixes biscuit batter with students Loren Eisses (in blue) and Jessica Lee. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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those wonderful game-day goosebump things” and believes no other league in the world allows its fans to carry the trophy into the stadium on championship day. It reinforces the CFL’s accessible, fan-friendly ethos and promotes the railway’s support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation with a healthy walk to the stadium for thousands of fans. “It is Canada’s cup, it belongs to the fans,” Moore said. “It is the perfect gameday activation in our league.” Those are the planes and the trains. Now for the automobiles. Edmonton’s Eastglen High and Hamilton’s Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary were prominently featured in Nissan’s Back in the Game advertising campaign. They were among the 21 high school football teams in 18 cities chosen by the carmaker and its dealers to receive funding, equipment, training materials and player appearances. Vancouver’s Eric Hamber, Burnaby Central and South Surrey’s Earl Marriott were the B.C. schools that beneﬁted from the campaign aimed

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The B.C. Lions’ dull 2014 campaign ended in Montreal Nov. 16 like a plate of cold, stale poutine. It was a lost season for quarterback Travis Lulay and others in the sick bay. In 2011, when B.C. Place was renovated, the Grey Cup was sold out in July. This year, the lacklustre Leos also faced competition from the Seattle Seahawks, whose Super Bowl win made their tickets and jerseys attractive buys for B.C.’s cross-border football shoppers. Tickets are a steep $150 to $350 a pop for the big game. By comparison, it cost $35 for the 1983 Grey Cup, when the Lions hosted Toronto in the CFL’s ﬁrst indoor championship. With inﬂation, those tickets would cost only $75.01 today. B.C. Pavilion Corp. hoped for a repeat of 2011, when the Lions beat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at home, and spent $2.7 million to buy the 2014 rights. twitter.com/bobmackin

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Paying a ‘living wage’ Ink and outrage spill not so simple for city over pipeline protest Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com This week Mayor Gregor Robertson was much applauded in his address to the B.C. Federation of Labour convention when he committed to support the Fed’s drive to increase the minimum wage in this province by almost 50 per cent to $15 dollars an hour. He would, he told the conference delegates, raise the issue with Premier Christy Clark the next time the two of them meet. But all he can do is ask. So don’t hold your breath. Clark raised the minimum wage when she first took office and that was the first increase in a decade. But on the wage front there is one area the city has complete control. During the municipal election campaign Robertson committed the city of Vancouver to becoming a “living wage employer.” He made that promise before an audience of 800 or so folks at the Italian Cultural Centre made up of community leaders, unions and faith-based groups calling itself the Metro Vancouver Alliance. The notion of a living wage is also a component in Vancouver’s Healthy City strategy passed unanimously by council earlier this year. (Before we get too far down the road here, I should disclose that Vancity Credit Union, where I am a member of the board of directors, is the biggest private sector living wage employer in the country and has provided resources to the city in its pursuit of this policy.) The living wage did not come up as a contentious issue during the campaign because when Robertson made that commitment, the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe, COPE’s Meena Wong and the Green Party’s Adriane Carr were also on the stage that day agreeing to support a living wage policy at the city. In the 1990s, the first living wage campaigns were launched by community initiatives in the U.S. addressing increasing poverty faced by workers and their families. Unlike the minimum wage, a living wage is calculated to lift people out of a state of poverty. People working at minimum wage jobs often still have to rely on government and charitable subsidies to make ends meet.

The calculation of a living wage depends on costs of goods and services in the jurisdiction where you live. A living wage is the hourly amount a two-parent family with two kids and both parents working full time needs to cover basic expenses such as food, clothing, shelter and transportation. In some jurisdictions they include the cost for childcare, education and extended healthcare, as well as basic benefits. The current living wage rate for Metro Vancouver is $20.10 an hour. If the city does carry through on this. it will be the biggest such employer in the country. Currently the only municipality which has committed to this policy is New Westminster and they began their program in 2011. Now, you may well wonder, what will this cost. Well on the city’s main payroll it will probably be very little. The lowest “pay band” for city and park board workers is $18.33 not including benefits. So very few, if any, workers would fall below the $20.10 per hour. But here is where the impact really takes place. A living wage employer commits to only dealing with contracted-out service and goods providers whose workers are paid a living wage. So it gets a bit tricky. When suppliers bid on contracts with the city they would have to provide some evidence they too are living wage employers. It could also mean that if they have to raise wages to meet that criterion, their bid will be higher so the city’s costs would possibly increase. At this point nobody knows what that will mean in dollar terms. It is however increasingly common for organizations in both the public and private sector to use procurement policies to achieve social goals. They can demand suppliers have a certain percentage of women, First Nations or persons with disabilities on their payroll. They can also demand that the supplier not be involved in the production or distribution of certain goods such as firearms or tobacco. Or in the case of a living wage policy for the City of Vancouver, they can help ensure that folks working for their many suppliers earn enough to afford to live well above the poverty line. twitter.com/allengarr

Geoff Olson Columnist mwiseguise@yahoo.com Tuesday, Nov. 18 was a day of unintentional humour, courtesy of several media outlets incensed by a local environmental protest. To recap, Houston-based energy giant Kinder Morgan has designs on Burnaby Mountain and supposedly wants nothing more than to consummate its relationship with the igneous formation in a discreet, respectful way. Mainly by giving the conservation area a Brazilian and drilling two narrow, 250-metre-deep holes, without disturbances from placard-wielding voyeurs. There will be no kinky pipeline stuff — at least not until the B.C. Court of Appeal decides on the constitutionality and applicability of Burnaby’s bylaws when it comes to dirty energy dalliances. By the 18th, protesters were still blocking Kinder Morgan’s access to its geological love interest in deﬁance of a courtordered deadline that came into effect the previous Friday. Over at Sun News — “Canada’s Home for Hard News and Straight Talk” — commentator Ezra Levant was shocked and appalled by events out west. He commiserated with “Straight Talk contributor” Ada Slivinski about the RCMP’s four-day long failure to launch, lynch or whatever. “Ada, when you or I or any other severely normal people break the law, the cops ticket us, arrest us, whatever... Why is there this special political exemption for a favoured group of radical activists?” Slivinski noted the “shocking double standard” and how her car would be ticketed in mere minutes if a parking meter expired in Toronto. When she asked RCMP on Burnaby Mountain about the best vantage point for ﬁlming mass arrests and why they weren’t enforcing the injunction, one cop purportedly told her: “Big oil companies don’t tell us what to do.” “So they’re purposefully defying the court order out of their own political motivations,” Slivinski exclaimed of the anarchical, oil-hating fuzz, who had failed to immediately rid the mountain of Gortexwearing grannies and their tree-hugging enablers (arrests began Thursday morning). The most telling part of this online Sun News exchange was the ad next to the video, reading “$1 TRILLION DOLLAR BOOMTOWN? A remote region you’ve never heard of may be about to become home to three natural resource booms.” An arrow points to the B.C. coast, near

Moresby Island. “Industry giants like Shell, Chevron, and Exxon are already lining up to invest billions. But there’s still time to get in on the ground floor.” The laugh-out-loud juxtaposition of hydrocarbon clickbait with Levant’s demagoguery about the “little fascist thugs” occupying Burnaby Mountain demolishes Sun News’s pretence to objectivity on this controversy or any other where the advertising tail wags the editorial dog. Not to be outdone by hyperbole out of Hogtown, the Province newspaper ran an unsigned editorial Nov. 18 bearing the headline “Mountain mob don’t speak for rest of us.” Apparently the Burnaby Mountain protesters have an “almost unlimited capacity for hubris and hypocrisy,” the latter vice expressed in their consumption of fossil fuels: “pitching tents made from oil-based synthetic fabrics, arriving in vehicles powered by oil and using tools made from steel almost certainly forged with coal.” Come now, faceless tabloid editor. You know as well as anyone else that the protesters’ main tool is collective action, forged in the fiery hell of Marxist-Leninist terror-tweeting. In the palsied spirit of T. Herman Zweibel, the 146-year old Publisher Emeritus of The Onion, the anonymous scribe closes with “Police! Do your jobs!” This just after lecturing university teachers and students “that their high salaries and education can only be supplied by taxation on industry.” Fine, let’s talk about that. The day after Sun News and the Province lost their s***, the Common Sense Canadian published an open letter to Premier Christy Clark from Robyn Allan, NEB intervener and former senior economist for B.C. Central Credit Union. The letter cites the results of Allan’s research “into Trans Mountain’s tax obligation and how that fundamentally impedes the province’s ability to receive revenue.” In promoting its Trans Mountain pipeline to U.S. investors, Kinder Morgan “boasts of cash tax refunds — two in the past five years,” writes Allan. “From 2009-2013 Trans Mountain’s combined federal and provincial Canadian corporate tax contribution averaged just $1.5 million per year.” A puny $1.5 million per year. This suggests the joke is on you and me: the taxpaying rubes who fail to see our bottom line is a punchline to the traditional energy sector. geoffolson.com

The week in num6ers...

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In thousands of dollars, the amount CUPE donated to Vision’s election campaign. The union is suing the NPA over allegations the money was intended to buy them favours.

As of Sunday, the number of times B.C. Place has hosted the Grey Cup game since the first indoor CFL championship final was held there in 1983.

As of Sunday, the number of Grey Cup finals that have been held since it was first won after the University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6 in 1909.

In millions of dollars, the average annual amount oil giant Kinder Morgan paid in Canadian taxes over the past four years.

In millions of dollars, the average annual amount of revenue oil giant Kinder Morgan earned from the Trans Mountain pipeline in the past four years.

In dollars per hour, the amount Mayor Gregor Robertson says he will try to convince Premier Christy Clark to raise the provincial minimum wage to the next time they meet.

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Lions beat Ti-Cats to win the Grey Cup

Nov. 28, 1964: The B.C. Lions meet the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for the second Grey Cup final in a row. Unlike the last time where the home team scored its only touchdown late in the game, the Leos took a 34-8 lead after an unexpected boost from unsung fullback Bill Munsey, who scored his only two touchdowns of the entire season in the final, and Jim Carphin, who scored his only major of the year on a broken field goal in the second quarter. The Ti-Cats scored 16 points in the final quarter but the deficit was too much to overcome and the Lions won their first of six championships 34-24 at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium.

Argos beat Lions to win the Grey Cup

Nov. 27, 1983: The newly opened B.C. Place stadium hosts the first indoor Grey Cup final in CFL history as the Toronto Argonauts take on the B.C. Lions. Trailing 17-7 after touchdowns by Mervyn Fernandez and John Henry White and a Lui Passaglia field goal, Toronto coach Bob O’Billovich put in Joe Barnes as pivot in the second half. Kicker Hank Ilesic missed on three field goals, although two were good for singles and cut the deficit to eight. After a field goal by Ilesic and a touchdown by Cedric Minter to take the lead, the Boatmen forced the Leos to punt on their next possession and then ran out the clock for an 18-17 win.

To the editor: Re: “Ten predictions for the next four years,” Nov. 19. Mr. Geller’s predictions are fascinating and I hope that in four years he will do a follow-up piece to see how things have actually played out. Regarding the issue of wards, I neither favour the “at-large” system we now have in Vancouver nor a ward system as some propose. What I do suggest is that the city seriously look at mixed at-large/ward system that has been used successfully in some other North American cities. Boston, for example, uses this mixed system and it works as such: • One elected (non-voting) mayor • Four elected at-large councillors • Nine elected ward councillors • Total: 13 councillors. This system would seem to offer a balance between city-wide interests and the interests of individual ward neighbourhoods. In voting on issues, should three ward councillors agree with the four at-large councillors, a motion would pass or be defeated. Where the ward councillors vote as a block, a proposal will or will not ﬂy despite the at large councillors’ votes. More importantly, the mixed system also allows people new to politics to run for their own neighbourhood’s ward council seat where they may be better known rather than running in a citywide at-large system. Typically, the at-large councillors are previous ward councillors and often the mayor will have been an at-large councillor prior to his/her election. As Vancouver grows, and especially as Metro Vancouver grows over coming years, I suggest it is time to take a look at a municipal electoral system that may better balance the interests of the city (and region) in total with those of our individual neighbourhoods. Robert McGilvray, Vancouver LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Revved up over Chevron cash To the editor:

Re: “Vancouver school and park boards face change,” Nov. 21. I am writing to express my dismay and concern over the short-sightedness of Superintendent Cardwell and the Board of Education over their refusal to allow Chevron, through non-proﬁt organization My Class Needs, to provide desperately needed “STEM” [science, technology, engineering,and mathematics] speciﬁc learning resources in our public schools. Three years ago my daughter, who was in Grade 5, was frustrated trying to learn how to use a microscope. When I offered assistance, she showed me a photo and written description in the textbook she was learning from. When I asked if she recalled what happened when she moved this part or that part in class, I was both shocked and dismayed when she told me that they had no microscopes at the school. I was astounded and found this totally unacceptable in today’s day and age, and I rushed right out to purchase a classroom microscope, and got them one that connected to the PAC-purchased smart board so that the whole class could see what happened when you put a slide under it. I hope that, for some, the lightbulb went on, and that they became both intrigued and interested in their science lesson. It is very wrong to deprive our children, the future generation, of these learning supplies and resources. While everyone is hopeful that someday we will not have to rely on carbon-based fuel for energy, what is necessary for this to happen is for young minds to become passionate and excited about science today — so that perhaps they will be the ones that discover a greener option for energy tomorrow. But if the tools don’t exist in the classroom to get them excited, then we only have ourselves to blame. Chevron should be applauded for being willing to “fuel our schools” as should the districts that have allowed this opportunity to happen. Terry Dawydiak, Vancouver

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Religion is the cause of most of the world’s wars. This is a common refrain and one that sets off the deep-thinking British author Karen Armstrong. Sets her off so much, in fact, that she recently published a concentrated 400-plus pages on why this idea of blaming religion for violence is facile and inadequate. Armstrong was in Vancouver last week for a lecture and book launch for Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. The tome is the latest in a shelf of decidedly thinky books on religion and history by the former nun. These include A History of God, A Short History of Myth, and The Case for God. She is a much-awarded scholar and the force behind the Charter of Compassion, a project she began when she won the TED Prize in 2008, and which united people of all faiths to commit to demonstrating compassion. Compassion may be her shtick, but she is remarkably bloodless in slaying what she sees as the intellectually bereft idea that religion can be blamed for most of the world’s ills. “This is clearly nonsense,” she said in her lecture at the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse Nov. 17. In the longer scheme, she does not contend that religion is never an accelerant in the ceaseless violence the world has known but, she says, “It’s never the only, or even the major, cause.” Most obviously, she points out, the two great

Author of the book Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, Karen Armstrong contends that by citing religion as a standalone cause of war and armed conflict, we fail in a basic understanding of other cultures.

conﬂagrations of the 20th century, the First and Second World Wars, were not wars of religion, but of secular nationalism and ideology. Almost every conﬂict, she adds, is the product of a “cocktail” of factors, including economic, territorial, nationalistic and, yes, religious motives. More importantly, she adds, by citing religion as a standalone cause, we fail in a basic understanding of other cultures. Only in Western societies since the Enlightenment and the French and American revolutions do we distinguish between the realms of the secular and the religious. Before that time in the West there was — and

to this day in most of the world there still is — simply nothing remotely similar to our contemporary idea of religion as a personal, private spiritual quest that should not interfere with other functions in society. Pretty much everywhere other than the here and now, every aspect of ordinary life has been part of “the ambit of the sacred,” she says. But while the everyday is entangled with the holy in most cultures, this is not reason to blame religion for all bad human actions. The Christian Crusades and Muslim jihads have as much to do with the political as they do with the religious, and to untangle these mo-

tives would be like removing the gin from the cocktail. The so-called wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries have been depicted as battles between Catholics and Protestants. But, Armstrong notes, this ignores the many instances when Catholics and Protestants fought in common cause. The motivations were often rivalries between princes and kings rather than theologies. Even today, those who wrap themselves in Muslim rhetoric while perpetrating terror are frequently thugs or malcontents seeking some legitimacy in religion. Two of the jihadists who

left Birmingham, England to ﬁght for ISIS in Syria were found to have ordered two books from Amazon before they left: “Islam for Dummies” and “Quran for Dummies.” Palestinian nationalism has been imbued with religious pieties, but it began as a secular movement and its goal remains a primarily nationalist one. Again, as inappropriate as Armstrong’s metaphor is in the context of Muslim movements, it’s a cocktail. If one wants to ﬁnd

examples that explicitly rebuff the idea that religion is violence-inducing (and its corollary that secularism would be an antidote), Armstrong cites the French revolution — the apogee of secular ascendancy — which saw 17,000 public beheadings in a single year, and the Young Turks in the First World War, avowed secularists who murdered well more than a million Armenians. While modernity and reform of regimes founded on fundamentalist religion might be ideal, Armstrong argues that the failure of secularism and modernity in parts of the world (and the violent, fundamentalist reaction to its attempted introduction) has usually been a result of forcing modernity on a population too quickly. The modernizing regime of Iran in the 1930s wanted to introduce Western clothing as an outward symbol of progress and sent the military out to rip off Muslim veils with bayonettes. Efforts at secularization in Egypt under Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and ’60s saw adherents of the Muslim Brotherhood imprisoned, where they festered and radicalized. In these scenarios, modernism is not seen as the positive force that we in the West like to view it, but as something introduced by force in violation of existing natural patterns. Asked in the question and answer session whether she acknowledges a dark side to religion, Armstrong fell back on older ideas of the interrelatedness of all human endeavours. “Yes,” she said. “There’s a dark side to us. We are violent creatures.” twitter.com/Pat604Johnson

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The Vancouver Giants are proud to support minor hockey! Through a dense thicket of plants past a pond laden with lily pads sits Jacques Majorelle’s angular 1930s Cubist artist’s studio, painted in the rich cobalt blue that came to be known as “bleu Majorelle.”

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MARRAKECH—Marrakech taxis are greenhouses on wheels and stepping out of one at the gate of the Jardin Majorelle into blinding sunshine brings little relief. But beyond the gate of one of the city’s most celebrated gardens, the light becomes dappled, the air cool and moist and the temperature seems to drop ten degrees. It’s an inner-city oasis. The garden was founded by the French painter Jacques Majorelle (18861962) who acquired a parcel of land in 1924 and expanded it with further purchases until the cost of its maintenance forced him to open it to the public in 1947. The artist planted hundreds of rare varieties of cacti, palms, willows and much more, carefully arranged along snaking paths and beside a long, straight water channel whose edges he painted a rich cobalt blue, a colour that came to be known as “bleu Majorelle.” The channel leads the eye through dense thickets of feathery bamboo to fountains, a pond laden with lily pads, and to an even bigger surprise — an angular 1930s Cubist mansion in the same brilliant blue, startlingly out of place in a largely blankwalled ochre city. This

was the artist’s studio. Getting there involves taking a choice of winding, red-painted pathways past blue and yellow pots, rampant jasmine and great cascades of gaudy bougainvillea. It’s like walking through a Matisse landscape.

After Majorelle’s death the garden became neglected and was doomed to redevelopment as a hotel complex, but was saved at the last minute by fashion superstar Yves Saint Laurent and his partner. Continued on page 14

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Creekside Park Playground Open House Are you ready for snow and ice? • Prepare your shovels and de-icer in advance of winter weather. • When it snows, move your car to a side street or garage so City crews can plow main streets more effectively. • Avoid unnecessary driving in snow and ice. Check transit schedules at translink.ca for commuting alternatives. • Prepare your irrigation system for cold weather. Frozen lines can break, causing water run-offs that can freeze on sidewalks and pose a hazard for pedestrians. Remember, all property owners and occupants must clear snow and ice from sidewalks around their property by 10 am, seven days a week.*

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Travel Continued from page 13 They renovated the studio, replanted the gardens and encouraged the return of gardeners. In the artist’s studio they arranged a further surprise, creating from their own private collection now known as the Musée berbère — a small but beautifully presented exhibition of the crafts of some of Africa’s oldest tribes. Their distinctive hanbel — woven rugs in the deep blues and burnt oranges Majorelle himself admired — are still produced in the High Atlas Mountains and widely available in Marrakech’s labyrinthine souks. But here are also the smaller-scale, everyday objects made precious by craftsmanship: ornately carved boxes for keeping kohl, curved daggers covered in geometric designs and fabulously intricate woven baskets. Itinerant silversmiths created jewelry abuzz with detail from multiple techniques: chiselling, ﬁligree work, enamelling, engraving and setting with constellations of contrasting semi-precious stones. Complex, multi-layered chest pieces and head

The late designer Yves Saint Laurent had his ashes scattered at the garden.

decorations also serve to demonstrate tribal origins, are believed to have medicinal properties, and provide a means to preserve savings — ﬂashing rather than stashing. Displays of gaudy costumes show the variety of tribes from the mountains to the Sahara. Saint Laurent so loved this place, which he claimed to be a source of much inspiration, that after his death in 2008 his ashes were scattered here.

A ﬁnal unexpected attraction is a snapped-off pillar to one side of the garden, a memorial to the late designer, whose surviving partner has donated the garden and villa to a foundation that will ensure it offers relief to sun-baked visitors for the foreseeable future. For more information on the Jardin Majorelle and the Musée berbère, visit jardinmajorelle.com. More stories at culturelocker.com.

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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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Courier readers: Mark Cohen and Danielle Steiner Destination: Morocco Favourite memories of trip: Mark and Danielle recently travelled through the West African

country’s Atlas Mountains via camels and all-terrain vehicles. After taking a break at a small village, they met a group of Berber women who agreed to pose with a copy of the Courier. Send your Exotic Courier submissions with your name, travel destination, a high-res scenic photo featuring the Courier and a short description of the highlights of your trip to letters@vancourier.com.

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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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30 Days of Giving ‘Tis the season to think of others, which is exactly what blogger Marc Smith is doing through his 30 Days of Kindness initiative. Sandra Thomas sthomas@vancourier.com

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Vancouver blogger Marc Smith is well known for his 30 Day Adventures, during which he picks a theme and writes about it for, well, 30 days.

On Wednesday, Smith surprised marketing specialist Leeann Froese, her husband/business partner Andrew von Rosen and the staff at Town Hall Brands with a chocolate tasting at their ofﬁce courtesy of Courier contributor and chocolate expert Eagranie Yuh.

Smith says as much fun as his travel/food/wine and tourist-in-your-hometown adventures are, his favourite series stems from an idea he conceived three years ago: 30 Days of Kindness. “At this time of year people are really open to the idea of giving,” said Smith. “But they’re also busy. I just help get things going.” To that end, Smith explained he doesn’t personally complete all the acts of kindness performed during the 30 days, but instead uses his blog to bring attention to what others are doing as well. Smith said the acts can be as small as paying for the coffee of the person behind you in line or the efforts of a large group dedicated to raising money for non-proﬁt organizations, such as this

“Leeann does so much for so many people, I thought it would be nice to pay some of that back,” Smith told the Courier prior to the surprise.

Von Rosen, who recently assumed the role of president of the South Vancouver Little League, has raised more than $5,000 for the Movember movement and frequently

Leeann Froese (l), Courier contributor and chocolate expert Eagranie Yuh and Marc Smith celebrate acts of kindness. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

contributes his graphic design talents to their son Nate’s elementary school. Meanwhile, Froese is a Cub Scout leader, an active member of Les Dames d’Escofﬁer and co-chairs the parent advisory council at Nate’s elementary school. As a company, Town Hall gives to the Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation by donating $5 per run the team makes each season, with proceeds dedicated to helping children from low-income

families play baseball. Most recently, the couple and Nate participated in A Good Book Drive, an annual initiative that asks people to buy books special to them and donate them to less fortunate children. Meanwhile, 30 Days contributor Cathy Browne recently held a drive to collect items, including gloves, mitts, socks, scarves, toques and personal hygiene products, for Directions Youth Services, an organization that works with street youth.

Smith is hoping other individuals, co-workers or groups of friends will get involved in 30 Days of Kindness by going to his website, locking in a date and organizing an activity. Smith is happy to help brainstorm ideas with anyone in need of inspiration. To check out the acts of kindness Smith and others are involved with, visit 30dayadventures.ca. Share your acts of kindness at sthomas@vancourier.com. twitter.com/sthomas10

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VARIOUS LOCATIONS Some of the city’s greenest spaces are taking on colour for the holidays. And in the case of VanDusen Botanical Garden, to the tune of more than one million Christmas lights. The garden’s Festival of Lights returns for its 30th year transforming the popular attraction into a winter wonderland full of lights, animation and activities. Don’t miss the Dancing Lights on Livingstone Lake, photos with Santa, performances by the Scandinavian Christmas gnomes, the Candy Cane Express model train, festive food and community choirs.

Georgia Street causeway, is strung with 6,000 multi-coloured SLED lights (seasonal light emitting diodes) while Elm Grove at English Bay features more than 12,000 SLED lights. The lights will be left on for 24 hours Dec. 1 to mark World AIDS Day. Finally, the giant sequoia tree in George Wainborn Park, on False Creek at the foot of Richards St., will be lit with 5,000 white lights.

Bright Nights Christmas Train at Stanley Park on through Jan. 4.

The Bright Nights Christmas Train at Stanley Park returns for its 17th year with more than three million lights, animated displays and holiday sounds. Entrance to the Bright Nights Train Plaza is by donation — you don’t need to purchase train tickets to see the holiday lights.

This popular wheelchairaccessible event is presented in partnership with the British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn Fund. Bright Nights runs daily until Jan. 4 and is closed Dec. 25. For more information, visit vancouver.ca. WEST POINT GREY Move over “White Christmas.” With all due respect to Irving Berlin’s classic song, a lot of folks in Vancouver this year will be dreaming of a green Christmas. Kelly green, that is. An Irish Christmas, which takes place Dec. 13 at St James Hall, is a musical

Festival of Lights at VanDusen Botanical Garden returns for its 30th year.

Festival of Lights, most of which is wheelchair accessible, runs daily from Dec. 10 to Jan. 4, but is closed Dec. 25. For more information, visit vandusengarden.org. As well, holiday lights have been installed in three city parks, all of which will be turned on daily from Dec. 1 to Jan. 7 from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., and from 3:30 p.m. to midnight. The Lost Lagoon Fountain in Stanley Park, easily visible from the

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ARBUTUS The St. George’s Philoptochos Society is hosting its Christmas bake sale and bazaar Sunday, Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hellenic Community Centre, 4500 Arbutus St. Of the many

As well, Nov. 30 is the last day Reverend Demetrios Partsafas will perform the service at the adjacent St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church. Partsafas is retiring after 40 years of service to the community. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Directions also encourages teens and young adults to seek support through education, recreation and artistic programs. As well, the centre offers locker space and pet kennels. Directions operates under a harm-reduction model so staff wait until youth ask for help before working to get their housing and health needs met. The centre also has space for youth to shower and clean up before a job interview, a

family meeting or for their own sake, which is why it’s so important the centre carries essential toiletries such as disposable razors, shampoo, tampons, soap and hair clippers. Stafford launched the Christmas Drive on behalf of Directions 10 years ago by placing an ad in the paper asking for donations. The project has grown substantially since then. As a result of Stafford’s efforts in 2012, the Courier was honoured with gold at the 2013 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards for outstanding community service. Other items on the centre’s wish list include gift cards, particularly for fast-food restaurants and coffee shops, transit passes and new items such as underwear, sneakers and boots, warm jackets,

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gloves, hats, socks, rain pants and jackets, and any teen-appropriate clothing. Homeless youth are always in need of sleeping bags, backpacks, tarps, sheets, blankets and ﬁrst aid items. For more information about

Directions, visit fsgv.ca. Donations of new goods can be dropped off at the Courier ofﬁce, 1574 West Sixth Ave., between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday before Dec. 10. twitter.com/sthomas10

Courier office manager June Stafford with donations from 2013. Stafford hopes to raise the same amount this year for Directions Youth Services. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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2 Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, 2014 1. You’re probably wondering, as we have on many a lonely night, where does the Elektra Women’s Choir find so many of the exact same blouses? Ask them yourself when the group kicks off the holiday season with its annual Christmas celebration, Chez Nous, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m. at Ryerson United Church. Details at elektra.ca. 2. The gift that keeps on giving, Mint Records’ annual Ridiculously Early Xmas Party brings the mirth and merriment to the Electric Owl, Nov. 29. This year’s band-forall features eight, count ’em eight, performances, including Supermoon, Fake Tears, Jay Arner, Tough Age, Energy Slime, Duotang, Renny Wilson and Hag Face. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketfly.com. In addition to gifts for the first 50 people through the door, Mint will match the door cash and donate it to S.A.I.N.T.S. Animal Rescue. Awww. Details at mintrecs.com. 3. The second annual East Van Opry roots and toots its way across the Rio Theatre stage for an ol’ fashioned country music show Nov. 30. Performers include Rich Hope and his Blue Rich Rangers, the Sojourners, Colleen Rennison, John Reischman, host Charlie Demers and the lovely and talented Carolyn Mark among others. Tickets at Neptoon, Zulu, Red Cat and Highlife Records. Details at riotheatre.ca. 4. Vancity Theatre screens Orson Welles’ 1958 film noir classic Touch of Evil as part of its monthly Cinema Salon, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m. Historian Gregory K. Dreicer will stick around after the screening to discuss the film — perhaps its famous opening tracking shot or whether Charlton Heston playing a Mexican is problematic, for starters — with audience members over drinks and snacks in the lounge. Details at viff.org.

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If you’ve noticed a preponderance of middleage couples wearing fleece jackets, stonewash Kirkland jeans from Costco and white Velcro runners with good arch support milling about downtown with thirst for Labatts Blue and Palm Bay in their bloodshot eyes, don’t be alarmed — a bridge to Nanaimo hasn’t been built. It’s just the 102nd Grey Cup. Despite not having a team in this year’s final, Vancouver hosts the five-day powwow, culminating in the Calgary Stampeders taking on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Sunday in a historic rivalry of the two places in Canada the majority of Vancouverites would least like to move to. Of course, the Grey Cup isn’t just about football. It’s a weeklong party where tribes of poorly dressed football fans from across the country congregate once a year, and a reason for the band Trooper to exist. As one of our colleagues astutely pointed out, it’s ironic that a band which declares in song “We’re here for a good

time, not a long time,” has continued to slog along for nearly 40 years. The durable rock band will be, ahem, “raising a little hell” Saturday night along with fellow CanCon fogies 54-40, Sass Jordan and young local whippersnappers Pigeon Park, who ﬁttingly chose to name themselves after an increasingly gentriﬁed area of the Downtown Eastside.

Call us old-fashioned, but where’s Bootsauce, Alannah Myles, Glass Tiger, Frozen Ghost, Parachute Club, Honeymoon Suite, Haywire, Platinum Blonde… Mitsou? You can’t tell us the Calgary Stampeders don’t listen to “Bye Bye Mon Cowboy” before every game to pump themselves up. Or maybe that’s just how we’re able to get through the day.

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A wayward bat once got into our house and ﬂew wildly around the living room for what seemed like an eternity. I’ll confess: I immediately abandoned my two toddlers and dove behind the sofa. I’ve often worried that the event was an indicator of my ability to protect my children in a real — nonbat-related — crisis. We all like to think that we would throw ourselves on top of the ones we love but who’s to say we wouldn’t run in the other direction? Swedish director Ruben Ostlund mulls over this question in Force Majeure. The ﬁlm, which took the Grand Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, is a thoughtful psychodrama about family and gender roles, the role of the modern patriarch in particular. Workaholic Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) arrives with wife Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and two young children for a much-needed holiday in the French Alps. The Swedish

family is picture-perfect, quite literally: the family poses for several magazineworthy glossy portraits in an opening scene. The surroundings are breathtaking but ominously so. Almost completely devoid of score or soundtrack, much of the ﬁlm occurs in near-silence, with only the squeak of the rope-tow or the far-off booms of charges detonating to signal trouble to come. On day two of the vacation, the family is sitting at lunch on a patio with a million-dollar mountain view. The food has just been served when a controlled avalanche comes perilously close to the building. When the snow clears Tomas is nowhere to be found, having run for his life to save himself while Ebba protected Vera and Harry. Ebba is shaken. She can’t reconcile the fact that while she grabbed the kids, Tomas grabbed his cellphone and ran. Tomas’s response of “you seem irritated” does nothing to ease the tension. “You ran away from me and the kids,” she says later, at dinner with new acquaintances. Tomas’s abandonment pales against the fact that he refuses to acknowledge

Ebba’s version of events. Suddenly even mundane acts like tooth-brushing seem angrier, the mountain’s grooming equipment more menacing. There are nighttime conversations in the hotel hallway out of earshot of the children, who are acting out, knowing something is amiss. The debating continues when an old friend arrives at the resort (Kristofer Hivju) accompanied by his muchyounger girlfriend (Fanni Metelius). Now Tomas isn’t the only one whose manhood is called into question. What follows is a painfully realistic examination of conscience by Tomas, emasculated by the realization that he ran, and a reckoning by Ebba, who ponders the need for a husband who can’t be counted on when it matters. The acting is uniformly great, the players conveying as much of their struggles using body language as with words, while Ostlund’s white-out scenery is both majestic and alienating. You can’t help but leave Force Majeure questioning your own familial usefulness, and chilled by the possible outcomes. Force Majeure opens Friday at Vancity Theatre.

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A WARM WELCOME: For the past 38 years MOSAIC, a multilingual organization, has been helping newcomers settle and integrate into Canadian society. Since its inception, MOSAIC has helped more than one million new immigrants and refugees through its numerous services. The non-profit fronted its fifth annual Festival MOSAIC benefit. The exhibition hall at the Roundhouse was transformed into an interactive and immersive experience of art, music and food celebrating diverse cultures. Chaired by Ninu Kang and emceed by Cal Koat and yours truly, the gala netted $35,000 to support programs provided to more than 7,000 clients at 31 locations monthly. UBC PRIDE: Alumni UBC executive director Jeff Todd and board chair Michael Lee fronted the 20th annual UBC Alumni Achievements Awards Gala held at the Four Seasons Hotel. Seven members of the UBC community were feted for their extraordinary contributions both near and far to create positive change. Among those feted was John Demco, affectionately known as the godfather of the Canadian Internet. Demco established the .ca domain name two years before the Internet emerged. Working with a team of fellow volunteers, he maintained the .CA registry until 2000, before handing over responsibility to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. Today, more than 2.5 million web addresses bear the .ca domain. Others honoured included Leona Sparow, Dr. Kimit Rai and Veedesh Kapoor. HOUSING START: Often when we hear of Habitat for Humanity, we think of the not-for-profit’s work of providing housing to families in developing countries. But the need for affordable housing in our community is just as great. Since its inception in 1995, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Vancouver has been moving working families from substandard accommodations into homes that they can own and afford. The organization recently launched its Women Build campaign at the Hotel Vancouver. Looking to bring 400 women difference makers onsite to help build half dozen homes in Richmond, the agency generated $50,000 to kick-start the housing project.

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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Vancouver CEO Tim Clark, right, and CMHC BC GM Janice Rice kicked off the Women Build project at the Hotel Vancouver. The not-for-profit is seeking 40 difference makers to participate in the creation of six affordable homes in Richmond.

Alumni UBC Achievement Award recipient John Demco, originator of the .ca domain, received congratulations from webnames.ca’s Cybele Negri. Today, more than 2.5 million addresses bear the .ca moniker, the most recognizable symbol of Canadian identity on the Internet.

Women Build ambassadors Jillian Harris, left, and Norma Reid, signed up to help build Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver’s next project designed by architect Aaron Urion of Abbarch Architecture.

From left: Devi Sangara, and Elayna and Bruce Diemert fronted VGH and UBC Foundation’s Night of a Thousand Stars at the Hotel Vancouver.

Alumni UBC executive director Jeff Todd, left, and board chair Michael Lee welcomed a capacity crowd to the association’s Alumni Achievement Awards, presented by Boyden.

Board chair Dr. Mehran Kiai and executive director Eyob Naizghi, right, along with Circus West’s Quinn Beasley welcomed 300 attendees to MOSAIC’s annual celebration of culture and diversity, staged at the Roundhouse.

Dr. David Wood escorted his wife Jennifer, to VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation’s black-tie dinner. Currently in trials, Wood’s innovative, non-invasive valve replacement procedure could reduce the number of open-heart surgeries performed.

MOSAIC Festival music director Cal Koat and chief fundraiser Ninu Kang saw $35,000 raised to support services and programs ranging from employment, language and housing initiatives for newcomers to Canada.

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Biopic not so black and white MOVIE REVIEW John Goodman

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The Last Sentence, an old school master class from Swedish director Jan Troell, is one of the entries gracing this year’s European Union Film Festival, which runs until Dec. 4 at the Cinémathèque. The art house theatre annually screens new and recent ﬁlms from across greater Europe in partnership with the embassies and consulates of the European Union’s member states. The 2014 festival includes entries from 27 of the 28 EU countries (with the exception of Malta). At the age of 82, Troell was edging toward retirement before he came across the true story of anti-fascist Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who was editor-in-chief of the liberal daily Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning from 1917 to 1945. After Hitler’s rise to

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power in 1933, Segerstedt regularly wrote editorials critical of the German leader, which became increasingly dangerous as time wore on and Sweden tried to maintain “neutrality” while its friends and neighbours were attacked by the Nazis. In The Last Sentence (taken from a line in the Old Norse poem “Hávamál”), Troell tells the historic tale of a complex man in sumptuous black and white with cinema-

tographer Mischa Gavrjusjov using all aspects of shading to the ﬁlm’s advantage. There’s nothing black and white about Segerstedt the man. Although ostensibly dealing with public events, Troell, like Jean Renoir and Ingmar Bergman before him, focuses on the intimate details of family life and its relationship with the larger world. Segerstedt’s Jewish mistress (and wife of a colleague) complicated his life in so many ways in

what was already a very precarious time. The cast is uniformly excellent. Danish actor Jesper Christensen plays Segerstedt, Bergman collaborator Pernilla August is his mistress Maja Forssman, Bjorn Granath is cuckolded colleague Axel Forssman and Swedish comic Ulla Skoog is Segerstedt’s longsuffering wife. The Last Sentence screens Nov. 28, 6:30 p.m. at the Cinematheque. Details at thecinematheque.ca.

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Life’s busy, ﬁlled with errands, paperwork, applications, details, short trips, calls, emails, curiosity and variety. You hardly have to think; just do. You’re starting to send cards, notes; casual conversations ﬂow with grace and amiability. The friction or unease you’ve felt since late October at home, with family/spouse, will dissolve Thursday onward.

This Is an easy, fairly fortunate week, Taurus. Keep your focus on major lifestyle changes, health cures, ﬁnancial actions (e.g., debts, investments) and “doors to intimacy.” It’s a splendid time to buy real estate, especially as an investment. Research, dig beneath surface appearances, listen to your hunches. By Thursday onward, legal “dangers” dissipate, intellectual choices/work become easier.

Chase money, Scorpio. You’re one-third into a year of fortunate career inﬂuences. Use the present few weeks to raise your income through your career — ask a boss for a promotion and raise, raise your proﬁle at professional venues, conventions, etc., seek new clients in more elevated territories. (E.g.: Quit selling insurance to the poor and start selling it to the rich.)

Relationships are paramount. You remain in the assertive sexual mode (or is it just your magnetism?) of November, but only until Thursday. If you have not entered a primarily physical bond in the last six weeks, good — it seems to carry a high price tag at present. From Thursday onward, for six weeks, relations will leave a dark, mysterious, sensual zone and enter a light, more witty, open, fresh and intellectual mode.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness ride a yearly peak now. Start important projects, approach someone you’ve always wanted to impress or embrace. Be outgoing, adventurous, risk-oriented. Express yourself. This year (July 2014 to August 2015) your legal, educational, far-travel, media, publishing, cultural and intellectual pursuits are splendidly supported. Use this week and the next two to pursue these bright arenas.

Work, work and more work — that’s December for you. Holiday buying, planning meals, decorations or you might merely be busy at your employment. Take care of your health; eat, dress sensibly. Coworkers are pleasant, even affectionate: you might invite one for dinner. Since late October, you have experienced assertiveness and impatience from your spouse, partners, even strangers.

Rest, seek sweet solitude. It’s an easy, lovely week. This is your recuperative cycle of the year (to late December). This is a good time to ﬁnish up old chores, contemplate and plan future action, deal with government red tape, and to work with others in a management or advisory capacity. You might shoulder a burden for a charitable or spiritual society.

Ah, sweet romance! December seems almost to wake someone up to your charms. Your talents are showing, your personality shines, you’re feeling frisky and adventurous, lucky and conﬁdent — if single, chase someone: you’re very likely to succeed. If you’re married, children and their progress thrill you. A creative or “risky” action could well succeed as you’re on a month-long winning streak.

Wishes can come true during this easy, lucky week. You’re enjoying a renewed popularity, you feel optimistic. Social delights — including ﬂirtations — entertainment, parties and group affairs all keep your mood buoyant and happy. This is a splendid time to issue invitations, or to seek entry to a new group, club or circle. A few times in the past 40 days I’ve warned you to avoid dark alleys and belligerent people.

The accent lies on home, family, real estate, security, retirement, Mother Nature, nutrition, basements, footings and all the basics. This is a good time to build a launching pad for a project you’ll debut later, or simply to rest up for the year ahead. Nap often, eat sensibly. Thursday onward to mid-January will increase the pace of work, so get all the rest you can — even after Thursday.

The main accent, this week and the next two, lies on ambitions, prestige relations, your worldly standing and community reputation. You might have to deal with authorities — if so, be clear, concise, well-behaved but not overly humble. In fact, if the authority is one who could hire or beneﬁt you, then blow your own horn as loud as you can! Show your skills, propose smart projects or moneysaving/time-saving methods, etc.

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What’s the Grey Cup without a party? The thousands of Canadians who cross the country for the November CFL championship and festival know there’s none better. And the pancakes always taste great. Here’s what you shouldn’t miss: Telus street festival: Friday and Saturday at Canada Place Way. The entire block is closed off for live music, starting daily rain or shine at 11 a.m. Save-on-Foods festival parade: Saturday, downtown. See the Grey Cup as this sporty procession winds downtown, starting at Smithe and Hornby streets at 10 a.m. and ﬁnishing at Dunsmuir and Granville streets two hours later. Lions Den: Friday 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Convention Centre West. Cost $15. Visit bclions.com or call 604-5897627 for tickets. Stamps House: Friday and Saturday, 12 to 8 p.m. at the Bourbon. $20 at the door.

Riderville: Friday 2 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday 12 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Convention Centre West. $20. Touchdown Manitoba: Friday and Saturday 12 to 6 p.m. at the Convention Centre. $20 at the door or at bluebombers.com. Atlantic Schooners DownEast Kitchen Party: Friday 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Convention Centre West, second ﬂoor. Live music, cod-kissing and lobster rolls. $20 at ticketweb.ca and a limited amount at the door. Spirit of Edmonton: Friday and Saturday 2 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Sheraton Wall Centre’s grand ballroom. Free. TigerTown: Friday 4 to 10 p.m. and Saturday 2 to 10 p.m. at Malone’s. Free. MontreALS Huddle: Saturday 7 p.m. at Venue Nightclub. $20. Tickets at 1-800-514-787-2525 or at the door. Double Blue Bash: Saturday 6 to 10 p.m. at Mahony and Sons. Free.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats offensive linesman Peter Dyakowski waves a towel to rouse the crowd in the Eastern final Nov. 23. The Vancouverite and Vancouver College alum will play for the 102nd Grey Cup at B.C. Place on Sunday. PHOTO DAVE CHIDLEY/CFL

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The CFL season would have ended without Peter Dyakowski having seen a single minute of action if the Hamilton Tiger-Cats hadn’t rebounded from a 2-7 start to the season to reach the East ﬁnal. But the year could have turned out much, much worse for Dyakowski, a 30-year-old offensive linesman who grew up in Point Grey and graduated from Vancouver College. Playing for the 2013 Grey Cup in Regina against the host Roughriders and their rabid, watermelonned nation of fans (“hospitable in their own way,” he said), Dyakowski exited the game on a stretcher and watched the ﬁnal quarter in medical care for a torn patella tendon in his right knee. “I made the mistake of looking at it and that was particularly awful,” he said. Hamilton lost, and it would be one day short of a year before the linesman, 20 pounds lighter at

305, returned after knee surgery, plus a blood clot, pulmonary embolism and collapsed lung. “Given what I had to recover from, it was going to be a roll of the dice if I was going to get here or not,” Dyakowski said Wednesday after a Ti-Cats practice at B.C. Place. “But after a certain point, it seemed like my recovery really accelerated. I could push myself more and more, I could lift more in the weight room and then follow that up with higher and higher intensity on the field. I wouldn’t be on the field if it hadn’t been for the team getting us to the East final and then to the Grey Cup. I’m really excited to have the opportunity.” And he should be. Dyakowski disregarded unusual but intensifying pain in his back until it reached an excruciating high. “A football player deals with pain maybe differently,” he said. “I figured, I just played a full season. I tried to ignore it as hard as I could.” And after surgery, his knee was painful enough. But then he couldn’t breathe.

At Hamilton General Hospital in the middle of the night with his wife and the Ti-Cats trainer, his leg still in a cast, Dyakowski was treated with blood thinners to address a clot in his lung, a potentially fatal condition. “The trick when you go to the hospital,” he said, a grin spreading on his boyish face, “tell them you’re having trouble breathing and they’ll take care of you right away.” In the East final, Dyakowski was called in for converts and field goals and said he’s grateful for the playing time he gets. “It was great to be back out in a pressure situation. You had to get ready to take someone’s best and give them a good shot. I’m hopeful that I’ll get as many chances as they’ll give and I’ll make the most of them.” He wasn’t anxious but, in practice, was lifting his feet like the ground was on fire. “I was really firing my feet early on because I didn’t want to leave my feet on the ground for any period of time. Now, it is just like normal again.”

Dyakowski, who rebuilt a ’79 Pontiac Firebird his senior year of high school, wasn’t a football player until he crossed paths with Todd Bernett, the head coach at Vancouver College who worked with the Grade 10 student in the weight room and on the ﬁeld until he became the ﬁrst Canadian to play football at Louisiana State University. In 2006, he was drafted in the second round by Hamilton. His last playoff game at B.C. Place was in 2001. He was a Grade 11 student playing for the AAA B.C. Championship and lost, “by a wide margin,” he conceded, to Carson Graham secondary in a 41-8 drumming. “Now is the chance for redemption,” said Dyakowski, who won the inaugural CBC game show Canada’s Smartest Person in 2012. “I had to pass the diamond tiara along,” he said, grinning again, since the contest awarded a new winner earlier this month. “It’s really satisfying to come back home and have this chance. [In 2001], we let everyone down and lost.

After that game, I came back out here and all the lights were off and I said to myself, I was going to come back and play on this ﬁeld again,” he said. His ﬁrst start for Hamilton in 2007 was at B.C. Place. “It’s kind of a special place

for me,” he said and won’t be surprised to see a cheering section dressed in gold and purple at Sunday’s Grey Cup between Hamilton and the Calgary Stampeders. Otherwise, it will be a home crowd for Dyakowski. twitter.com/MHStewart

Cheeseburgers and Mensa An articulate speaker and tweeter, six-foot-five, 300-plus pound Hamilton Tiger-Cats offensive lineman Peter Dyakowski has a Mensa-certified IQ and a hobby for rebuilding classic cars. A White Spot bacon cheeseburger is his ideal pre-game fuel. • At Louisiana State University as a freshman, Dyakowski was nicknamed “The Mullet” because of his Canadian roots and… roots. • In his senior year at Vancouver College in 2002, he did not allow a single quarterback sack. • At tackle on both sides of the ball for the Fighting Irish, he was singled out as a big factor in the team’s 2,801 yards rushing and 1,100 yards passing in 12 games in 2002. • Out of a possible 1,600, he scored 1,420 on his SAT exam. His family members are recognized by Mensa. • In his first mention in a newspaper, in 2001, he was identified by the Province as the “best offensive lineman in B.C. this year.” • Cheeseburgers deliver “ideal pre-game nutrition,” he said. “It’s an ideal blend of carbohydrates, protein, fats that are going to let you have energy to get you through a fourth quarter.” When away from B.C., he misses the double-double with bacon from White Spot. “It’s seized a position in my imagination as one of my top burgers. I miss it and I can’t get it anywhere else.”

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Motorists must take more responsibility for road safety To stay safe, ICBC and VPD put onus on cyclists and pedestrians

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SPOKE AND WORDS Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett twitter.com/modacitylife

Winter has reared its ugly head in Vancouver. Days are shorter and wetter, and the evening rush hour takes place in near pitch-black conditions. As in seasons past, the usual safety campaigns from ICBC and the VPD have emerged. Frustratingly for us, most literature we read on the topic focuses on how pedestrians and cyclists need to take responsibility for their own safety. Conversely, very little time is spent reminding drivers that — as operators of fast-moving, two-tonne machines — a single moment of carelessness, impatience or distraction could be the difference between

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life and death for more vulnerable road users. We will readily admit there are some measures pedestrians and cyclists simply must take to ensure their safety. For example, it just makes sense — and it’s the law — to ride a bike equipped with front and rear lights, and — as cyclists ourselves — we are just as frustrated with those who overlook this simple and inexpensive equipment when riding after dark. There are other basic laws and, of course, it only makes sense to check both ways before crossing the street, as parents teach their children. We begin to disagree with the hyper-focus on staying visible. For example, from ICBC: “Dress to be seen. Wear reflective clothing or gear and flashlights to make it easier for drivers to see you.” Sure, it’s difficult to see someone dressed all

in black. However, if a motorist is approaching a crosswalk or intersection, shouldn’t the onus be on the driver to travel at an appropriate speed and look out for anyone waiting to cross? How many of us are actually walking with a ﬂashlight in our pockets for evening strolls? Is it not dangerous to ﬂash a beam of light into a driver’s eyes? Admittedly, if everyone getting around by foot or bike dressed like a Christmas tree, they would certainly be more visible. The question is: would that stop a careless driver from hitting them? ICBC’s own data suggests it wouldn’t. About three-quarters of all pedestrian-car collisions take place in a designated intersection or marked crosswalk, with the pedestrian having the right of way. The fact is that unless we start put-

ting more pressure on drivers to slow down, pay attention and drive responsibly, we don’t believe any amount of reﬂective or safety gear will protect more susceptible road users from being struck. We recently spent some time in New Zealand, a place where pedestrians and cyclists have even fewer rights than here. Crosswalks rarely exist outside of major intersections; meaning pedestrians must always yield to motor vehicles, unless they have a signaled crossing. There is one message we kept hearing from those working to improve conditions there, and it’s something we need to recognize here: No matter what, at some point in our journey, each of us is a pedestrian. When we reach our destination by bike, car, train or bus, we all walk the remaining distance. Continued on next page

Drop by the open house to learn about the upcoming station upgrades and provide input into the long-term vision for Joyce–Collingwood Station and Exchange. Date

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West 10th Avenue at Cambie Street is one of the busiest intersections in Vancouver for pedestrians and cyclists. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Before reaching destination, we are all pedestrians Continued from previous page No one asks drivers to wrap their cars in reﬂective tape, or dress in bright clothing (even though at some point they will travel by foot). By that logic, we all know what it’s like to be a pedestrian. Some countries are getting it right, and perhaps we should look to places like Holland and Sweden for inspiration. In Holland, while North America was developing wider, faster roads, engineers recognized that by simply slowing down trafﬁc and designing narrower streets, motorists were forced to

pay more attention. Perhaps it’s time ICBC and the VPD take a serious look at our city’s transportation hierarchy — which places the humble pedestrian at the top and private automobile at the bottom — and realize the best way to reduce collisions is not by placing the bulk of responsibility on the victim. Instead, we believe this must be done by implementing comprehensive road planning, reducing speed limits on arterials to 30 km/hour — as they’ve recently done in London — and shifting their focus onto harsher punishments

for speeding, crosswalk running, and impaired and distracted driving. We are all human and can all make mistakes from time-to-time, but when walking or cycling, those mistakes are only going to harm you. No number of reﬂective armbands, ﬂashlights, or high-viz clothing is going to prevent a driver’s (inevitable, we feel) mistake and its potentially fatal outcome. Melissa and Chris Bruntlett are the founders of Modacity and are inspired to live happy lives of urban mobility.

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Tax rulings could blow hole in city budgets Developer can’t be taxed on future density under two landmark assessment rulings

Frank O’Brien

wieditor@biv.com

Vancouver, Richmond and other British Columbia municipalities are facing a double-barrelled tax blast that could blow a multimillion-dollar hole through city hall budgets. The ﬁrst salvo came in September when the B.C. Assessment Authority lost a Property Assessment Appeal Board (PAAB) ruling on a Vancouver development site. If it survives a court challenge — which appears likely — the ruling will lower taxes for retail tenants and real estate developers across the province. The Sept. 16 PAAB decision went in favor of Amacon, which had launched the assessment appeal regarding nine lots the developer owns in the 1000-block of Seymour Street. The lots, valued at $3 million to $4 million each, house small retail outlets and parking lots. Amacon plans to develop them into high-density residential and retail. In the ruling, PAAB agreed with an argument put forward by Paul Sullivan, a principal with the appraisal ﬁrm of Burgess

Cawley Sullivan & Associates Ltd., that the land should be taxed based on the existing commercial property on the site, not on future development potential, and that a residential property tax rate, which is 4.5 times less than the commercial rate, be applied on future development. The lower assessment would save Amacon more than $200,000 a year. Despite the ruling, B.C. Assessment said it will continue to value the Amacon property at current rates for 2015 assessments. It has appealed the decision to B.C. Supreme Court. If the PAAB ruling stands, it would affect at least 100 similar development properties across Vancouver and hundreds more across the Lower Mainland. Estimates say total tax revenue in play is in the tens of millions of dollars. Sullivan, who chairs the Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition, doubts B.C. Assessment will win in court. “The test on appeal to the Supreme Court is one of reasonableness and not correctness. More often than not the Supreme Court gives deference on these matters to

Housing market at ‘low risk’ of overvaluation: CMHC

TylerOrton

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Despite having the most expensive average home prices in the nation, the Metro Vancouver housing market is at “low risk” of being overvalued, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). In its House Price Analysis and Assessment (HPAA) released Nov. 24, the CMHC observed a “modest” amount of overvaluation in the national housing market. Using data culled from the Canada Real Estate Association, the CMHC calculated Metro Vancouver had price growth of 6.3 per cent from January to September 2014, while average prices were at $812,000. “The level of home prices in Vancouver is supported by local growth in personal disposable income and longterm population growth,” the HPAA said. But the HPAA determined Toronto, which experienced 8.1 per cent growth during

that same period while average prices there were at $564,000, was at a moderate risk of overvaluation “due to steady price growth that has not quite been matched by growth in personal disposable income.” The HPAA also examined the census metropolitan areas (CMA) of other major Canadian cities. It found Montreal and Quebec City — where average home prices are at $324,000 and $264,000, respectively — were the only other regions at moderate risk of overvaluation due to the slower growth in the pool of ﬁrsttime buyers. “Across the CMAs examined, there is no overheating or acceleration,” CHMS chief economist Bob Dugan said in a statement. “There is however a cautionary note with respect to overbuilding in Toronto and Montreal. The number of units under construction is elevated in these centres. This could develop into overbuilding if these units are completed but not sold.”

the lower boards who have speciﬁc expertise in these matters. Given this test, it is very difﬁcult to overturn a decision of the [PAAB].”

Second threat

The second tax threat for municipalities is a challenge by Nav Canada, a non-profit organization that runs civil air traffic control in Canada, to reduce assessments on 121 properties in the province, including the air traffic

control tower at Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Nav Canada won a major tax assessment appeal in October. B.C. Assessment had set a $1.43 million value on Nav Canada’s control tower and other properties at the Victoria International Airport in North Saanich. PAAB subsequently slashed that to $20, and B.C. Supreme Court upheld the ruling. The decision included airports in Penticton, Pitt Meadows and Castlegar.

Nav Canada has also appealed to the PAAB to reduce the value of land at YVR from $9.9 million to $20. North Saanich appealed to the court to have the $20 assessment revoked, but the court agreed with the appeal panel that the low assessment made sense because the property couldn’t be used for anything else. Assessments form the basis for local taxation levels. The court decision means

North Saanich will lose $26,000 in annual taxes. Richmond would lose an estimated $80,000 in annual taxes if Nav Canada’s appeal at YVR is successful. Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie called the situation ridiculous. “Just because you have a unique use for a building or some property and it’s zoned accordingly, to say it has no value is just ﬁction,” Brodie said.

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today’sdrive Nissan’s Micra race car

I love you Nissan. No, not because of the GTR. Not because of the 370Z or the Juke R or even because of the wacky Pike Factory cars like the Figaro (although those are pretty good). I love you

because you decided to turn the cheapest car in Canada into a race car. Meet the Micra racer, a Nismo-tuned pocket rocket with exactly no more horsepower than the standard street car, but with a beefed-up suspen-

sion and tons of attitude. It’s got a roll cage. It’s got a ﬁve-point racing harness. It’s a full-ﬂedged racing machine for about the same price as a Sentra with air conditioning. Now, some of you may be saying, “No more

power? Doesn’t that thing have like 109 h.p.?” Well yes, it’s no ballistic missile. However, just imagine 25 of these things entering a corner at full speed, banging wheels and trading paint, and struggling

for position like an explosion at the Ikea ball pit. It’d be the most fun ever. The inaugural Micra Cup kicks off in Quebec in May of next year. Where’s my old French high school textbook? Je vais courses!

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Huge billboards displaying a set of barely covered breasts were recently responsible for 517 accidents in the capital city of Moscow in a single day. Now there’s a sentence you’d like to trot out in front of Lenin’s ghost. The mobile billboards were meant to advertise an advertising company called AdvTruck which — oh, you can ﬁgure out what they do. The text on the strategically positioned bar read (in Russian, of course), “They attract.” Apparently “they” attracted all sorts of attention, turning downtown Moscow into a session of bumpercars. AdvTruck says they will cover all costs for accidents they caused, beyond what’s already covered by insurance.

An end to the naturally aspirated 911?

With more and more pressure coming to bear on European automakers to meet emission standards, the turbocharger is going through a second renaissance. There’s no better way to make good power, yet still have low greenhouse gas production than with a small displacement engine fitted with forced induction. Porsche has been all about turbo technology for decades, from the completely insane RSR LeMans racers to the ultra capable 959. Now, there are rumours that turbocharging is going to spread across the 911 range in an effort to combine power with the demand for greater efficiency. So what might that look like? Well, if you scan both the Panamera and Macan lineups, you’ll find turbochargers at nearly every level. The Panamera GTS still gets a thundering V-8, but the standard S gets a twinturbo six with much better economy, and very responsive torque. All Macans are turbocharged (leading to some confusion about why there’s only one Macan Turbo, but I digress), just with varying power levels. The current rumour is that the base 911 would see a bump in power to accompany a downsized displacement, to quell any complaints about reduced performance. With a midcycle refresh coming soon, might we soon see an end to the naturally aspirated cars? The enthusiasts might miss them, but remember, this is the same Porsche that eliminated the stick-shift from the GT3. —Brendan McAleer

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Mustang arrives in Shelby GT350 form

It’s even crazier than we thought. The Shelby version of the Mustang GT is finally here and it’s an absolute monster. Building on the new car’s already tauter platform, the GT350 gets functional aerodynamics, magnetic-ride dampers, a beefed-up rear differential and a six-speed manual gear box. Oh yeah, and an engine. What an engine! Never mind the GT’s 5.0-litre barn-burner, this thing’s got a 5.2-litre flat plane crank V-8 that sounds like two Cosworth fourbangers scrapping it out in an MMA octagon. What’s a flat plane crank? Well, ordinarily, a crank is made up of 90-degree steps for smoothness of power delivery. If you look at it head-on, it appears to be a plus sign. A flat-plane crank is just 180-degree opposed, like bicycle pedals made for eight feet. The cylinder banks just hammer it out like boxers and that means, in the GT350’s case, horsepower levels somewhere above 500 h.p. and an 8,200 r.p.m. redline. Yowza. It also sounds flippin’ amazing, and I can’t wait to see it going toe-to-toe with the Camaro Z/28 on the racetrack. The Hellcat is preserving the era of musclecars, but Ford just made life interesting for those who remember the glory days of American road racing.

New ATS-V ready to take on Germany

You know any Cadillac V-Series is going to be a big deal and that goes double for GM’s smallest Cadillac, the ATS. This is the breadand-butter car of the range, and the General will sell a lot of base models if they can get the halo car right. Well, here it is: 455 h.p. with a choice of six-speedmanual or eight-speed-automatic, a claimed 0-60 time of less than four seconds, magnetic ride height control, and Recaro sport seats. Essentially, GM has pulled out all the stops. Power comes from a twinturbocharged 3.6-litre V-6, as expected (you already get a similar engine in the CTS V-Series). With a curb weight of around 1,600 kilograms, it should be relatively agile as well, and those looking for a tiny smidgen of practicality can order it as a sedan. The new ATS coupe will also come with the V badge. On paper at least, this car

goes directly head-to-gear with the BMW M3 and the AMG versions of the C-Class Mercedes. The old CTS-V took the ﬁght to BMW and Mercedes-Benz with major power, where the ATS-V doesn’t have a huge power advantage, so we’ll have to wait to see what the coming track sessions show.

Mazda adds CX-3 crossover to lineup

Here’s one for regular folks who appreciate driving pleasure but also have one eye on their fuel gauge. Just launched in Los Angeles is Mazda’s new CX-3 crossover, a raised-up version of the Mazda3 that has its own unique styling elements and comes with a 2.0-litre engine and available all-wheel drive. Mazda’s been really knocking it out of the park, stylingwise, and this new car is no exception. It’s a sharp-looking little thing, with the long nose required by the long exhaust headers leading the way and a short trunk out back. Pop open that trunk and take a peek inside and it’s not quite as big as you might have hoped for. People looking for a family hauler are probably going to want to stick to the bigger CX-5, which is also getting a refreshing. However, for buyers looking to graduate to something a little bigger than their Mazda3 or Mazda2, the CX-3 looks sporty and fun, has all-wheel drive and a bit more ground clearance to tackle the snow, and should drive with most of the same zip as the rest of the Mazda range. Best of all, that little 2.0-litre Skyactiv engine has proven to be quite miserly at the pump, and the addition of a new unlimited-mileage warranty from Mazda should keep ownership costs down.

Nissan fully restores 1996 Maxima

One of the few semi-OK things about social media is how savvy the automakers have become at engaging with their audience. Ew. “Engaging with their audience.” I need a shower. However, sometimes a carmaker can get in on a joke and actually make it better. It’s all in the name of eyeballs and upvotes, of course, but sometimes the story is so good, you don’t care. A gent named Luke Acker decided to sell his ratbag ’96 Maxima on Craigslist and, as has become almost a routine now, he created a hilariously over-the-top advertisement praising the Maxima’s

luxury features. Acker went a little further than most, and even produced a short video lampooning most luxury car commercials: the leering closeup, the brightly lit garage, the stuffy fauxBritish voiceover. Taken as a whole, you couldn’t help but laugh, and the video went viral. Shudder. “Viral.” I need another shower. Nissan laughed and then they asked, “Hey can we buy that thing?” The company proceeded to spend six months fully restoring

this Maxima to something of its previous glory — actually scratch that, the car was never this good when it left the factory. Then they made their own stuffy-Brit ad and have been watching the upvotes trickle in all day long. The upshot of all this showmanship is that the Nissan now has a pristine green mid-90s Maxima sitting in their Nashville headquarters. It’s not quite a classic, but that’s a happy ending nonetheless.

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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.

are many to choose from, but some online research showed particularly popular is Car Minder Plus, an app that will run on any iPod, iPad or iPhone. The app, $2.99 at the iTunes Store, was created to remind vehicle owners of their maintenance schedule and fuel consumption. Meanwhile Google Play has several apps available for Android, including Torque ($4.95), Car Home Ultra (free) and Car Locator ($3.99), which

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Again, it’s online marketplace Zazzle that has a large assortment of auto-inspired Christmas ornaments, including ones that read, “Auto Mechanic by Day, Zombie Slayer by Night.” Zazzle.ca. twitter.com/sthomas10

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.

• Engine Oil & Filter Change • Tire Inspection With A Tire Rotation And Adjust Pressure • Comprehensive Multi-Point Vehicle Inspection • Battery Performance Test • Brake Inspection • A/C Performance Test • Cooling System Check • Complete Suspension Inspection

$8888

- Oil & Filter Change and Multi-Point Inspection! (5W20 regular Motor oil) - Regular price $109.88! $108.88 with 0W20 Synthetic Motor Oil. $47.88 without Oil & Filter change.

Specials are plus tax and recycling charge. Expires Dec. 15, 2014

FREE SERVICE SHUTTLE (DOWNTOWN CORE) COURTESY CAR WASH FOR ALL SERVICE CUSTOMERS * All offers are effective until Dec.15,2014. Not applicable to tire sales. Taxes not included. Environmental levies extra. °Not to be combined with other offers. Please consult Kingsway Honda for more details. Valid at Kingsway Honda only. Limit one per person. Coupon does not apply to prior purchases.

12th and Kingsway, Vancouver CALL 604-873-3676

A43

www.kingswayhonda.ca

Dealer # D8508

A44

THE VANCOUVER COURIER F R I DAY, N OV E M B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 4

WEST 16TH ANNIVERSARY

Prices Effective November 27 to December 3, 2014.

While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT

Organic

Whole Organic Chickens

Organic

California Grown Navel Oranges

California Grown Bunch Green Kale

1.48lb/ 3.26kg

Rodear Grass Fed Forage Finished Lean Ground Beef

3.99lb/ 8.80kg

2/4.00

value pack

6.99lb/ 15.41kg

product of USA

Organic

Fair Trade Long English Cucumbers

Extra Lean Ground Turkey

Organic Table Carrots from Fountainview Farm, BC

2.98

each product of Mexico

2.98

Old Country Edibles Ready to Cook Pasta

6.49lb/ 14.31kg

4.99 450g

907g/2lb

GROCERY

HEALTHCARE

Hardbite Potato Chips

Efruiti Fruit Berries

assorted varieties

3/6.00

SAVE

150g • product of BC

33%

43%

Nature’s Bakery Fig Bars

FROM

42%

2/.98 57g 3/9.99 6 pack

36%

assorted varieties

SAVE

assorted varieties

SAVE

30%

500-600g product of Canada

FROM

product of USA

Danone Oikos Greek Yogurt

SAVE

3.99

40%

Wolfgang Puck Organic Soup

assorted varieties

2/7.00-3.99

35%

4 pack or 500g product of Canada

Mineral Fusion Hair Care

assorted varieties

4.49

product of USA

BULK Holiday Baking Necessities

select varieties

SAVE

3/6.99

45%

398ml product of USA

6.99-7.99

15 sachets

product of USA

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DELI Choices’ Own Classic Potato or Scallion Tofu Salad

Happy Planet Soups

2/10.00

Organic

Multigrain Bread

3.99

.99-1.79/ 100g Cucina Fresca Fresh Pastas and Sauces

20% off regular retail price

GLUTEN FREE

xxx • product of xxx

assorted varieties

7.99 250ml

500ml

Mighty Leaf Tea

assorted varieties

SAVE

600g product of Canada

So Delicious Frozen Coconut Dessert

796ml product of USA

49.99 15L 149.99 each

2/7.00

assorted varieties

27%

250-285g

Santevia Water System

Pearl’s Frozen Perogies

Eden Organic Canned Beans

SAVE 3/4.98

25.99 240g 44.99 480g

330ml +deposit +eco fee product of Thailand

36%

SAVE 7.99

product of USA

Amazing Grass Green Superfood

3/3.99

SAVE

assorted varieties

Tasty Bite Asian and Indian Entrées

44%

4/5.00

100g product of Germany

Life Choices Frozen Breaded Chicken or Fish Appetizers

assorted varieties

SAVE

Blue Monkey Coconut Water

530g

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Choices’ Own Gluten Free Bread

6" Cheesecakes

assorted varieties

4.99-6.99

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assorted varieties

new and improved recipe

9.99-14.99

2/7.00

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Best Organic Produce

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