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THE VOICE of VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS since 1908
Exhibits bring Musqueam legacy alive Cheryl Rossi
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Howard E. Grant remembers visiting the Museum of Vancouver in the 1950s when it was called the Vancouver Museum and situated downtown. “It showed things called artifacts of my people and other people,” said Grant, a Musqueam band councillor. “It was dead, it was gone. It was as if they no longer existed.” The case was the same at the Museum of Anthropology and the Royal B.C. Museum. “One-third was personal regalia that shouldn’t be shown,” he said. He and Leona Sparrow championed changes at the Museum of Anthropology in the 1970s and now a new, unprecedented three-site exhibition called c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city, opens Jan. 25 and aims to further rectify the representation of aboriginal people in museums. “It’s one of the first times where Musqueam’s really been able to tell our own history in our own words,” said Jordan Wilson, a member of the Musqueam Nation, co-curator of the exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology
and part of the curatorial collective for MOV. The exhibits at the Museum of Vancouver, the Museum of Anthropology and the Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Centre and Gallery highlight historical and contemporary activities of Musqueam people, with their belongings and multiple voices presented in written, audio and video form. And they are belongings, not artifacts, notes Museum of Vancouver curator Viviane Gosselin, who served as a member of a curatorial collective. Artifacts sounds too lifeless, sterile and scientific, she said. Text layered over scenes of Vancouver in a video welcomes visitors to the c̓əsnaʔəm exhibit at MOV. Visitors are asked to hang their preconceptions about native people on a rusty nail outside. Inside, the exhibit is welcoming and warm, with brick-red accents, a large video animation and cedar walls reminiscent of a longhouse. This room precedes the museum’s history of Vancouver exhibit, which previously started with the 1900s. It will remain at MOV for at least five years. Continued on page 5
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Homeless head count numbers unknown Mike Howell
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A staff update to city council Tuesday on the state of homelessness came with many numbers but the one number missing from the presentation was how many people are living on the street. In a year that Mayor Gregor Robertson promised to end street homelessness, city staff say the street population is difficult to determine because of a variety of factors,
including tracking where the 536 people counted last March are today. “We do see properties closing and other issues coming forward which may increase the numbers but that’s quite difficult to quantify at the moment,” said the city’s chief housing officer, Mukhtar Latif, noting the city won’t know how many people remain on the street until another homeless count is conducted in March. Asked by reporters
whether the mayor’s goal of ending street homelessness will be achieved this spring, Latif said the city is “working towards that deadline and doing our best to achieve that. That’s all we can say at the moment.” Latif acknowledged the last accurate number for the homeless population was the one he disclosed in an affidavit filed last fall as part of the city’s application to get an injunction to remove campers in Oppenheimer Park.
In his affidavit, Latif wrote that about 200 of the 536 homeless people had been housed in temporary housing at the former Biltmore Hotel, the former Ramada on East Hastings and the Kingsway Continental. Some also moved into new social housing on Burrard Street. More people were expected to move off the street and into new social housing slated to open before the end of 2014 and into early 2015, including a 139-unit building
at 111 Princess Ave., which opened in December. Taylor Manor, a 56-unit building at Adanac and Boundary, is scheduled to open in mid-March and be home to people with mental illness. That opening will be followed a month later by the 146-unit social housing building at 220 Princess Ave., which will house women-led families with approximately 50 children. This winter, homeless people also moved into
shelters and found temporary housing at the former Quality Inn at 1335 Howe, where 140 tenants now live. City shelters and temporary winter response shelters have been at capacity, staff said in their presentation, although they couldn’t explain why extreme weather response shelters — which opened about 10 times this winter — only had 50 per cent of a combined 160 mats occupied when the weather turned bad. Continued on page 4
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Another year at council, another discussion about getting the big money out of city politics. And, yes, the politicians wanting to get the big money out of politics were all elected by their parties blowing through millions, although Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr would argue she wasn’t awash in cash with her party spending more than $46,000 in the 2014 campaign. For the record, Vision Vancouver and the NPA collected more than $2 million each for last fall’s run. At least that’s what the parties reported prior to the election. We’ll find out the final numbers in a couple of months. Anyway, Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer got the debate started Wednesday at city hall by introducing a motion to get her colleagues to send another message to Victoria that big money has no place in Vancouver politics. City hall watchers might be thinking: Hasn’t she and council already talked about this, like, a million times? Maybe not a million but, as Reimer noted in her motion, the councilof-the day in 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 sent formal requests to the provincial government requesting changes to the Vancouver Charter
to allow Vancouver to make its own rules around campaign finance. So why bother again? Because, as Reimer pointed out, the provincial government set up a special committee of MLAs in October 2014 to examine the issue of campaign finance reform. But the terms of reference for the committee do not allow members to consider limits to contributions or bans on donations from corporations or unions. So Reimer’s request was that council let Victoria know it wanted the terms amended to allow the committee to examine limits on contributions and bans on donations from corporations or unions. The committee, by the way, is only looking at expense limits. “This would be a significant leap forward in our advocacy on this effort, and I hope that we can have unanimous support,” said Reimer as she kicked off the debate. “The single largest issue affecting public confidence in the electoral process is the lack of rules around campaign finance. It’s like Jupiter eclipsing everything else.” NPA Coun. George Affleck had a problem with Reimer’s motion, saying council should wait until the committee completes a report later this year on the first phase of its work. Affleck described Reimer’s motion as “redundant and politically motivated.”
“The province has heard us loud and clear about what our desires are as a city,” he said. “Let them get their report done so we can hear back from them. They have all the information from us. We’ve made it clear what we want.” NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova echoed Affleck’s concerns, saying “we’re not giving this the time it needs.” Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr agreed with Reimer, saying there is an opportunity to now change the terms of reference of the committee of MLAs. “We need to move now on this,” Carr said. “It’s all about staying with the game until the very end of the game and taking advantage of every play and absolutely not missing any opportunity.” In the end, council unanimously agreed to support Reimer’s motion. Yes, even Affleck and De Genova voted yes, with Affleck telling me later the NPA has always supported campaign finance reform. Reimer got the final word, saying “I don’t know how I can make it anymore simple: There’s a special committee happening right now. My motivation is to change their terms of reference so we can get an issue on the agenda that happens to be within their wheelhouse, although not yet properly articulated in it.” Over to you, Victoria. Again. twitter.com/Howellings
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Continued from page 1 During staff’s presentation, city manager Penny Ballem noted another difficulty in determining an accurate number of people living on the street was where former tenants of single-room-occupancy hotels under renovation have ended up. Though B.C. Housing has an agreement with the city to relocate tenants during renovations, Ballem said the city hasn’t been able to account for 80 to 100 people who once lived in the hotels. She said they “appear to have disappeared.” “If you go to the history over the last five years of the puts and takes, there’s no question that every time we open [a building] and then the province closes [a hotel], we lose capacity,” she told council, noting the province has shifted to supplying rent subsidies to former hotel tenants to live in apartments throughout the city. But whether those 80 to 100 people found accommodations is not something the city knows.
Both the mayor and Vision Coun. Kerry Jang repeated their calls to put pressure on the provincial and federal governments to build more housing in Vancouver. While Jang acknowledged the partnership between the city and the province to build 14 sup-
people with a rent subsidy if there’s no place to rent?’ No answer.” In an interview with the Courier Wednesday, Coleman said no tenants have been displaced from the hotels under renovation. He also said people are finding accommodation in
Housing Minister Rich Coleman “doesn’t know what he’s talking about sometimes.” – Kerry Jang portive housing buildings worth about $300 million, he said the city needs more social housing and added that provincial Housing Minister Rich Coleman “doesn’t know what he’s talking about sometimes.” “All he looks at is that it’s cheaper to give somebody a rent supplement so they can go into some privately owned apartment somewhere around the city,” Jang said. “We are at record low vacancy rates. So we said to the province: ‘Where would you put
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round shelters and another 260 extreme weather spaces. The province also invested $143-million in partnership with the federal government to renovate 13 single room occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside, “protecting 1,400 units for those in greatest need,” the statement claimed. “There’s no jurisdiction that I can find in the country that has received more in funding for supportive housing than the city of Vancouver has,” said Coleman by telephone from Prince George. Asked whether he thought Vancouver would end street homelessness this year, Coleman said “in all the counts and in all the figures that I’ve seen, I think they’re there. With the numbers [of units] coming on stream, they should be very encouraged by the success we’ve had with them.” This year’s homeless count will be conducted March 23 and 24. twitter.com/Howellings
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Co-curator Jordan Wilson stands at the entrance to the c̓ əsnaʔəm, the city before the city exhibit, at the Museum of Anthropology. c̓ əsnaʔəm opens simultaneously at the MOA, the Museum of Vancouver and the Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Centre and Gallery Jan. 25. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
History dates back 5,000 years Continued from page 1 “It is a big statement,” said Gosselin. “For tourists and locals who don’t know much about local history, this is the history of Vancouver starting, not in 1886, but thousands of years ago.” Located at the edge of the Fraser River in the neighbourhood known as Marpole today, Musqueam people first occupied c̓əsnaʔəm 5,000 years ago, according to the exhibition’s press release. The population of the community swelled 2,000 years ago and was only one of Musqueam people’s villages in the region. Grant says Garry Point in Steveston is where the prominent Point family gets its name. Grant loves that the belongings of the exhibit highlight the sophisticated knowledge of Musqueam society thousands of years ago. “When I look at these things, I’m saying to my children, who will be saying to their friends, we weren’t savages, we weren’t primitive,” he said. Grant pointed to an image of a rake used to gather herring and intricately carved harpoons, and noted his brother, who’s a machinist, said even today it would be difficult to fashion implements that are so precise. Indigenous ways of knowing, colonialism and contemporary Musqueam
culture are some of the topics connected at MOV. The exhibit features family-friendly interactive exhibits and soundscapes that blend historical and modern sounds. Rich with multimedia, the Museum of Anthropology exhibit focuses on Musqueam identity and worldview, highlighting language, oral history and the community’s more than 200-day vigil in
“It’s one of the first times where Musqueam’s really been able to tell our own history in our own words,” – Jordan Wilson 2012 that halted a condominium development on c̓əsnaʔəm land where ancestral remains were unearthed in Marpole. The exhibition at the Musqueam Cultural Education Resource Centre and Gallery focuses on Musqueam knowledge and technology, past and present. The Courier’s visit to the Museum of Vancouver Tuesday afternoon followed a tour for members of the Musqueam com-
munity. A museum staffer said it was wonderful to hear Musqueam visitors exclaim, “That’s my grandmother,” or, “That’s me as a child.” Grant says the ancestral name he carries hails from his great, great, great, great grandfather who met British explorer Capt. Vancouver in 1791, as laid out on a historical timeline, along with a photo of his great grandfather and his house post in 1884. When Grant “came to his senses” as a young boy in the 1940s and ’50s, he asked his mother why five family fires continued to burn in Musqueam longhouses, when the only longhouse fires he saw elsewhere were communal ones on Vancouver Island. “Yes we were humble. Yes we were strong. And our old people, to have maintained something of who we are, who we were, right next to the largest city in Western Canada…” Grant trailed off. “It’s striking,” Gosselin pitched in. “We created a renaissance in the 1960s into the Squamish Nation, into the Fraser Valley — they now have longhouses,” Grant continued. “In the winter ceremony, we were down to 300, 400 people who participated. Now you have about three or four thousand.” twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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activities. The VPL board consulted with local First Nations and selected the same concept but in a local Coast Salish language. (See the online version of this story for the pronunciation of nə́c̓a?mat ct.) The VPL says the library’s name is meant to honour Coast Salish peoples and their traditional unceded territories, while also reflecting the neighbourhood’s historic city name, Strathcona. The ground breaking was preceded by a Coast Salish brushing-off
To actually see this today and see everybody in the community gathered here was really special. We’re very much looking forward to spring 2016 when we can open.” – Chantelle Krish library topped by four floors of social housing called Cause We Care House, designated for single mothers. The library, which will serve the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown and Strathcona community, is named nə́c̓a?mat ct Strathcona library branch and is the first major civic building in Vancouver to have an official aboriginal name. The word nə́c̓a?mat ct encompasses the idea of “we are one” in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Musqueam) language, according to the VPL. It was inspired by the community suggestion “Namwayut” — the theme of the City of Vancouver’s Year of Reconciliation
ceremony led by Chief Ian Campbell. Chantelle Krish, a spokesperson for YWCA Metro Vancouver, said the building is expected to open in the spring of 2016. The Cause We Care House will feature 21 units — 10 two-bedrooms, 10 three-bedrooms and one four-bedroom. A community family program space will offer medical services, employment services and a mom and tot program. Rent will be 30 per cent of tenants’ income. “The housing is longterm housing for low income single mothers in the community,” Krish said, explaining tenants will be interviewed and selected
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Court rules in favour of CP City says it won’t give up its fight
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Canadian Pacific says it will take a few weeks to review a Supreme Court of B.C. decision in its favour that dismissed a City of Vancouver application for an injunction to halt clearing gardens and other obstructions along Arbutus Corridor. The decision came down Tuesday morning. The city filed a civil suit in an effort to halt further construction, demolition and clearing of gardens along the corridor after talks broke down between the two parties about the sale of the land. The city maintains the land is worth $20 million, while CP claims it’s worth $100 million. CP agreed to stop working on the corridor in November until the court reached a decision on the civil suit. Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled in part that, “The city will suffer no irreparable harm if the trains do not run until the required statutory approval is forthcoming. In contrast,
CPR will suffer irreparable harm if it is unable to even begin preparations for the resumption of rail use in the Corridor because it is enjoined from any ‘works of construction, reconstruction, deviation, change and alteration to the Marpole Spur’ before statutory approval is obtained for the use of the Corridor for rail purposes.” “We’re very happy to hear that the court dismissed the injunction and it has always been our contention that it is our right-of-way,” CP spokesman Martin Cej told the Courier Tuesday. “So we are going to take a closer look at the decision from the court and over the next few weeks, we’re going to decide on the next course of action and at that time advise all the residents along the corridor of what our plans happen to be.” CP ripped out about 150 metres of gardens at the south end of the corridor before work was halted. The court decision states that “the gardeners, pedestrians, cyclists, and motor vehicle operators who have been using the corridor have
no right to such use.” “That’s definitive and it’s what we have said right from the beginning,” Cej said. Mayor Gregor Robertson told reporters in a postcouncil scrum Tuesday that he was disappointed by the court decision. “It’s disappointing to see that ruling but the city will continue to use all of our tools to ensure the federal government and the regulators address this issue. We do have ongoing safety concerns in the Corridor and we want to be sure the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Minister of Transportation, understand our opposition to reactivation of the Arbutus Corridor,” Robertson said. “That we have safety concerns and we want to keep pressing our case with the CTA, in particular, noting that the judge identified there is a real question whether this line has in fact been abandoned. So there’s still big questions that remain and we’ll, as a city, continue to use the tools we have to pursue this.” twitter.com/naoibh
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At this point, with little more than seven weeks before voting begins on the TransLink plebiscite to approve a 0.5 per cent regional sales tax, the Yes side is certain of one thing: Unless the channel changes, unless the debate moves off of TransLink and allegations of its incompetence and wasteful ways, unless focus is brought to bear on the crying need for transit improvements throughout the region, the plebiscite will fail. This week one event made that inevitability abundantly clear. Insights West’s latest poll was released that shows that between polling in early December when the TransLink mayors committee finally crafted the plebiscite question and midDecember when the provincial government revised and re-issued it, support for the Yes side had slipped. Within the margin of error the sides are close to dead even. Pollster Mario Canseco used the mayors’ question for his first poll and the province’s revision for the most recent one. And he says there was significant increased public concern and uncertainty about the initiative in part because the question was changed by Victoria. The wording of the mayors’ proposed question was anything but arbitrary. It was constructed based on what was found in successful referenda questions across the continent. Their question made it quite clear that the money to be collected would not simply be tossed into TransLink’s piggy bank. It would be accounted for separately protected “by independent audits and public reporting.” That assurance in the province’s version is pushed up into the preamble but is missing from the actual question. The mayors were given no explanation as to why the change. Nor was there any explanation as to why the province made a few other key revisions in the question’s pre-amble. The mayors wanted Vancouver’s Broadway line to be described as” tunneled.” That was changed to “rapid transit.” Surrey’s improvements were proposed as “light rail” that became “rapid transit” too. And the mayors wanted to assure the money would be spent to “improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.” Those assurances were removed in the
provincial version of the ballot. Finally, there was no explanation as to why what was once proposed as a binding referendum was changed by Victoria into a non-binding plebiscite. Meanwhile Transportation Minister Todd Stone had to be prodded into saying he would support the Yes side, after his ministry issued a release saying the government would remain neutral. And while he says he will implement the tax should the plebiscite pass, the government now has the wriggle room to significantly amend the transportation plan put forward by the mayors or to back out entirely and blame the economic uncertainties we all now face. There is one other point, one that is obviously concerning to businesses and was raised in a debate that took place in Langley earlier this week. We still do not know what items will be exempt for the tax. That decision is being worked on in the bowels of the provincial treasury offices. All we know for now is that in a letter sent more than a month ago to the Metro mayors council, Stone said the new tax would apply to “the majority of goods and services that are subject to the PST and are sold or delivered within the region.” That vagueness has been enough to give business groups a severe case of nerves, concerned customers will avoid the new tax and jump across their boundary and do their shopping in Abbotsford or south in Washington. That’s why they are planning to vote No. Admittedly some of these points may have little impact on the electorate. The latest poll notes “only 36 per cent of residents have enough information on exactly which projects will take place in their community if the vote is successful.” So here’s where we are today. The Yes side is still in the process of marshalling its extensive and therefore more cumbersome forces and developing its relatively complex strategy. The majority of the oxygen in the room is being taken up by a much smaller and far less diverse No campaign which continues to benefit from a simpler message. It ignores the need and benefits of the transportation plan and focuses almost exclusively on TransLink’s failings asking this: “Why throw good money after bad?” None of which should give the Yes side much comfort. twitter.com//allengarr
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The number of homeless people counted last March in the city’s annual tally. Two hundred of them have reportedly since found places in temporary housing facilities.
In metres, the length of community gardens along the Arbutus Corridor tore up by Canadian Pacific workers in 2014. A judge ruled Tuesday the demolition work can continue.
In millions of dollars, the total amount of fines handed to former notary public Rashida Samji for defrauding more than 200 investors in a Ponzi scheme.
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A friend recently expressed disappointment in his stock market portfolio. It hadn’t performed appreciably better than chance over a significant stretch of time, he told me. Welcome to the world of chance. If you take 300 students, ask them to correctly call 10 coin toss flips and graph the results, the result is a nice, fat bell curve, visually representing correct versus incorrect guesses. With the above result in mind, financial researchers tabulated the performance of 300 mutual fund managers for a 10 year period, from 1987 to 1996. “In this case, the horizontal axis represents not correct guesses of coin flips but the number of years (out of 10) that a manager performed above the group average,” observed physicist Leonard Mlodinow in his 2008 book The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. The result: a nice, fat bell curve that sits snugly over the graph from 300 students tossing coins 10 times. In other words, if you’re seeking the best among financial advisers, you might as well stick some names on a dart board. Worse yet, Mlodinow notes that in a study of 153 financial newsletters, a researcher at the Harvard Institute of Economic Research found “no significant evidence of stock-picking ability.” For centuries, human beings have sought predictable outcomes through divination, witchcraft, prayer, political ideologies, marketing systems, financial speculation, and scientific models. Our kludged nervous systems have taken our species from the savannah to the space station in a geological blink of the eye. But our gift of pattern detection can run gently amok at times. For example, if you dump a bunch of coloured jellybeans into a glass jar and shake them, you will see a pattern on the inside wall of the jar traced by contiguous jelly beans of the same colour. This perceptual glitch usually isn’t problematic, unless emotional processing from the brains limbic system kicks in. Hence the occasional reports from the American South of Christ’s face on toast, windowpanes and barn doors. Consider that bane of our best-laid plans, the weather. On its website, Environment Canada attaches a probability figure to its predictions. However, long-
range predictions come the proviso that some “results are not significantly better than chance.” “It’s like saying flip a coin, throw a dart,” explained senior climatologist David Phillips in the 2012 CBC documentary The Trouble With Experts. “We have to say something; we can’t just sort of put a blank map saying the weather this month has been cancelled, so the best way to communicate is to give something but then say ‘user beware.’” Weather is one thing; wine is something else entirely. Researchers have long known that the average oenophile is hopeless at judging wine quality. Now it turns out that wine experts are also largely without a clue. Vintner and oceanographer Robert Hodgson regularly selects the best wines from his small California winery to enter into local competitions. He began to wonder why the results were so inconsistent over time for different brands. Drawing on his experience in statistics, he organized an experiment at the California State Fair wine competition. He found through his label-concealed taste tests that accomplished palates are no better than untutored tongues. “The results are disturbing,” Hodgson told The Observer in 2013. “Only about 10 per year of judges are consistent and those judges who were consistent one year were ordinary the next year.” It’s not the wine that’s wonky. It’s the linkage between our ancient olfactory sense and a linguistic faculty that is evolutionarily recent. Pompous winetrade descriptors (“wet stone,” “spring hedgerows” and “nervy” for example) are verbal camouflage used by wine snobs to disguise an inability to communicate their own subjective states. (You might say they’re full of shiraz. In 2007, Princeton economics professor Richard E. Quandt created an algorithm to generate impressive-sounding reviews of imaginary wines, employing his “vocabulary of bullshit.”) Inaccurate or fictitious assessments of wine, weather and stock funds are hardly enough on their own to take our species over the cliff. But when it comes to other areas of high complexity — economics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, geopolitics, and climate science — experts would do the rest of us a favour by looking out for the jellybean factor in their own assessments. geoffolson.com
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In hundreds of thousands of dollars, the average cost of a home in British Columbia, according to a new report by Central 1 Credit Union.
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Jan. 22, 1918: Mary Ellen Smith became the first woman elected to the B.C. Legislature after a byelection was held in the Vancouver riding to replace her husband, Liberal Finance Minister Ralph Smith, who died the year before. Running with “Women and children first” as her campaign slogan, Smith defeated her opponent Walter Drinnan by a solid 3,500 votes. She later became, as a member of the Liberal party, the first female cabinet minister in the British Empire, although she resigned from the position after just eight months. Smith helped enact laws establishing minimum wages for women, juvenile court systems and social welfare support for families in need.
Robbers choose death over surrender
Jan. 23, 1936: After being cornered by police in a Downtown Eastside rooming house, two bank robbers died after choosing to simultaneously shoot each other in the head with their .38-calibre revolvers rather than give themselves up. Jack Hyslop, 21, and George Lawson, 35, were also wanted for murder after a bank teller was killed in a holdup of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Powell Street and Victoria Drive a week earlier. Another bank employee was also shot, and two other suspects in the crime had already been arrested.
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To the editor: Re: “Robertson in charge as mayors push plebiscite,” Jan. 16. “You can’t get there from here” will be a common cry from underserved commuters in Langley if the upcoming referendum fails. My family found having two cars a financial burden. I decided that, as I work in Cloverdale, that riding the bus would be an affordable alternative. The people I see on the bus need reliable transit to get to work. It would be difficult for most small businesses to rely on a workforce that could not afford to get to work. Underfunding public transit would be a devastating blow for the little guy. Elder and disabled people have been devastated by a HandyDART funding freeze. Without adequate funding, HandyDART riders will be robbed of their health and quality of life. My 91 and 92-year-old mother and father who rely on HandyDART would be devastated by further erosion of HandyDART. If people vote no, they may be expressing their anger at TransLink mismanagement. Anger should be expressed at those truly responsible for debacles past and present. The provincial government dumped the responsibility of building mega bridges on TransLink and created a sham of governance by removing mayors and appointing corporate shills to the TransLink board. The provincial government pours money into LNG development despite all advice to the contrary. The provincial government robs working people of the democratic right to resist power giveaways with Site C Dam. TransLink’s strings are controlled by a cruel puppet master. A vote in favor of transit funding is a vote to provide working people, a growing aging population and disabled people dignity. The real vote against ineptitude is a vote against the Liberal government in the next election. Mark Beeching, via email
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To the editor: Re: “Hopes for heritage schools shaky,’ Jan. 9. Thank you for the article about the demolition news regarding General Gordon elementary school. It was a shock to take a shortcut this week and drive by the initial demolition of such a large heritage building. What a shame it couldn’t have been repurposed, if not reinforced. My daughter and son, now in their 30s, went to this school for their immersion program and are fluent in French. We lose our brief and valuable heritage built structures daily. I have had many valuable heritage tours of Vancouver neighbourhoods with John Atkin, and enjoy membership with the Vancouver Historical Society. Time for Lisa Smedman to bring us up to date on the history of this school and namesake Robert Holden, via email
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info I have read about from the paper and website, I am certainly no expert on all of the facts. I am however, somewhat familiar with fixed fire suppression systems and have an understanding on the series of events which happen. I understand that a student dislodged a fusible plug from a sprinkler head with a padlock. Once this is done, the pressurized water in the system (via an buffer or accumulator tank) starts to flow from the affected head. This will normally trigger a flap or flow switch, which will set off an alarm, and in some cases start a pump to keep the water at the delivery pressure. These sprinklers are usually set in fire zones and can be isolated zone by zone via an isolation valve at each said zone. The main issues I am curious about are how long was the water flowing before it was stopped? Was it stopped by the fire department once they mustered? Was it stopped by an on-site person such as the custodian? Have school budgets been reduced to a point where custodians are not on the premise until after school hours? I feel that while this student did act inappropriate and should be punished for his or her action, this was an unfair and excessive punishment aimed more at the student’s parents than the student directly. The student would have no knowledge of the way this system operates. I would suspect for the courts to come down on this case so heavily it sends a fairly clear message that they also have no idea how these systems operate either. I am bothered by the way this situation was handled. Accidents happen. I would really be curious to know how long the sprinklers ran without being isolated. Rick, via Comments section
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Ninu Kang, director of communications and development for MOSAIC, says the federal government’s proposed act against “barbaric cultural practices” sends the message that “Canadians are humans and have good values and practices and those who come from other parts of the world are barbaric.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
‘Barbaric practices’ legislation called racist Critics say bill targets entire immigrant communities
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Forced marriages of children, so-called “honour” killings and female genital mutilation are about as barbaric as human actions can be. So it should hardly have raised eyebrows when the federal government introduced the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act in Parliament last year, right? Well, no. More than eyebrows have been raised. Voices and tempers have also been elevated in response to what some advocates for immigrants and women call “racist” legislation. “This particular legislation targets immigrant communities,” says Ninu Kang, director of commu-
nications and development for MOSAIC, a non-profit that addresses the settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees. “It targets individuals that come from other parts of the world into this country. It creates the phenomena of us and them — ‘us’ being Canadians — and somehow that we as Canadians are humans and have good values and practices, and those who come from other parts of the world are barbaric.” I think that Canada should bend over backward to welcome immigrants. But I also think that there are lines that must not be crossed and that newcomers should be aware of them. Certainly, if the legislation were arbitrarily defining fundamental characteristics of particular cultural groups “barbaric,” it could be faulted. Instead, it is identifying behaviours that we are assured are practised by small numbers and declaring them incompatible with our values.
But Kang makes the case that entire communities are being tarred with suspicion even though such practices are rare. “It targets communities, rather than addressing particular behaviours of a small group of individuals, which obviously is an issue,” she says. “Furthermore, there is legislation that already addresses issues in this legislation around polygamy and so on, so I guess the question is: What is the need for this legislation? What is the purpose of calling this zero-tolerance to barbaric practices and to what cultural group is this targeted?” Not being an immigrant myself, I am perhaps not adequately sensitive to the subtle unwelcoming messages our society can send to newcomers. But I’m not really onside with the sweeping criticism that the legislation implies that “all” immigrants of a particular type are being accused of barbarism. That seems like overreach
to me. I am more sympathetic to some of Kang’s other criticisms. “Historically, Canada has been plagued with having a history of racist policies that impact marginalized groups,” she says. The most barbaric figures in our recent history — Clifford Olson, Marc Lepine, Paul Bernardo — were natural-born Canadians, remember. Kang argues that education in relevant communities and support for victims is the way to go, rather than high-profile, “macro level” hysteria. But I can’t help making an inconvenient comparison. Some who oppose this legislation have supported hate-crimes legislation in decades past, when jurisdictions including B.C. and Canada were considering such laws. At the time, opposing voices piped up arguing that we already have laws against violence. Why do we need more laws against violence motivated by at-
titudes toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, gender or other immutable characteristic? The answer, simply, is that society expresses itself partly through legislation and we have sought to specifically identify hate-motivated violence as a particularly egregious affront to our values. On “barbaric practices,” though, Kang says that existing laws are adequate for the issues the bill seeks to address. But, addressing the comparison with hate crimes, she returns to what seems to be the biggest affront in the bill: its name. Hate crime laws were not given hyperbolic names or cloaked in laden terminology, she argues. “It’s not named as the ‘White Barbaric Culture Perpetrating Hate on Immigrant or Marginalized Groups,’ right?” she says. Frankly, I’m less concerned about sending a mildly unwelcoming message to some extremely well-informed immigrants
(because this is actually still a pretty obscure piece of legislation) than that a single girl suffer so-called “female circumcision” in this country because her parents didn’t get the memo when they immigrated. Still, perhaps because I work in words, the thing that most bothers me about the bill also centres on its title, but it is the qualitative, relative nature of the adjective “barbaric” that bothers me more than the message it might send. Define barbaric. The term is almost Victorian in its certainty that we all understand what constitutes barbarity. Yet in today’s world, hyperbolic terms like barbaric are thrown around to describe anything we don’t like. In the end, I can’t really object to the intent of the bill though maybe, like Kang suggests, education is more appropriate than provocatively titled and possibly redundant laws to address the problem. twitter.com/Pat604Johnson
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The Vancouver School Board has informed Lord Roberts Annex that its wooden play structure at the northwest corner of its school grounds will be demolished this summer as the structure will no longer meet safety codes. Neither the VSB nor the provincial Ministry of Education will provide money to replace it, so the school aims to raise $35,000 by the end of this school year to replace and install new playground equipment and groundcover. A press release issue by Lord Roberts Annex’s parent advisory council notes the playground is well used by students and also serves the broader West End community. Danny Laufer, PAC playground committee member, is quoted as saying many families in the school community can’t afford to enrol their children in extracurricular activities, so they depend on the playground for physical development and social interaction. You can help by sharing your
The old wooden playground at Lord Roberts Annex in the West End must be replaced.
fundraising ideas or volunteer time and by donating. For more information and to donate, see gofundme.com/ Annexplayground, or mail a cheque to Lord Roberts Annex school, 1150 Nelson St., V6E 1J2 and write “playground” in the memo. Tax receipts are to be issued for all donations more than $20.
Citywide DPAC
The Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council will host its citywide advocacy workshop Jan. 29. Adrienne Montani, provincial coordinator for First Call: B.C. Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, will be the keynote
speaker. DPAC vice-chairs and Marlene Rodgers from the citizen’s group Protect Public Education Now will hold breakout sessions. The workshop starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Vancouver School Board building on West Broadway between Granville and Fir streets. Childcare, free underground parking and healthy snacks will be provided.
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Registration is open for the 16th annual PMC Science Fair Fun Run, which will take place May 31 at the Athlete’s Village Plaza. The event is meant to attract participants from the technology com-
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Development Permit Board Meeting: January 26 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, January 26, 2015 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: 803 West 12th Avenue: To construct a new eightstorey acute care hospital building to consolidate existing mental health facilities at Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia hospitals. The building will consist of: out-patient facilities on levels one and two; administration and mechanical space at level three; 100 in-patient beds on levels four to eight; and a roof garden on the top level. Please contact City Hall Security (ground floor) if your vehicle may be parked at City Hall for more than two hours. TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM: 604-873-7469 or lorna.harvey@vancouver.ca Visit: vancouver.ca Phone: 3-1-1 TTY: 7-1-1
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An ex-notary public has been fined $33 million for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors of at least $100 million. The B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC) announced Jan. 21 that Rashida Samji has also been ordered to pay an additional $10.8 million on top of the $33 million fine, for a total of $45 million in penalties. The $10.8 million covers the difference between the amount deposited by the minimum 200 investors she defrauded and the amount paid out to them. The BCSC determined that, in July 2014, Samji had perpetrated fraud against at least 200 investors, who were told she would hold their money in trust and it would only be used to help secure financing for a winery. “What makes it even more egregious is that the fraud involved a Ponzi scheme in which the entire investment was premised on a lie,” BCSC panel wrote in its decision. “Samji created and controlled this scheme over
a period of more than nine years. This misconduct is at the highest end of the scale of seriousness.” The BCSC also handed Samji a lifetime ban from ever participating in the province’s capital markets. Samji is also currently facing multiple criminal charges of fraud and theft over $5,000. She’s next scheduled to appear in court in March.
Sports store to replace book store
Calgary-based FGL Sports will replace the Chapters outlet on Robson Street when the book store’s lease expires June 30. Indigo announced Jan. 19 that it will leave the prime location it has occupied for 17 years due to high rents. FGL Sports operates brands such as SportChek, Atmosphere and Sports Experts, although it isn’t yet known what brand will occupy the space. Indigo CEO Heather Reisman said Chapters intends to relocate to another location in the “Robson trade area” in 2015, although the size and location of that future store remain unclear.
The prime blocks of retail on Robson Between Burrard and Bute streets are considered to be the second highest priced strip of retail space in Canada, after Toronto’s Bloor Street.
Criminal caught inside couch
A 36-year-old Alberta man is now behind bars after he was found hiding inside a sofa in an East Vancouver home. The Vancouver Police Fugitive Unit visited the residence Jan. 20 after receiving a tip a felon, on the run after being ordered to serve a three-anda-half year sentence for drug offences, was living there. After scouring the home to no avail, police were about to depart the building when a police dog focussed his attention on a living room sofa. The suspect was subsequently found hiding inside it. “In my 24 years of police service, I have never in my career seen a suspect hide inside the body of the sofa,” said VPD Inspector Ian Upton in a press release. Adam Harlock is now being returned to Alberta to finish his sentence.
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“I have a very large witch hazel Pallida. Mine produces two different kinds of flowers. The showy large, yellow flowers are present on about half of the branches all on one side. On the other side there are much smaller, rust-coloured flowers that are virtually invisible. Does witch hazel have separate male and female flowers? If pruning is advised, when can it be done?” Ruth Foster, Belcarra Your witch hazel is suckering from the rootstock. Usually the rootstock chosen for flowering witch hazels is the medicinal Hamamelis virginiana, which is still used today by herbalists. It’s also popular with commercial growers because it’s far more vigorous than the flowering ornamental version. Used as a rootstock, H. virginiana makes flowering witch hazels grow faster so that commercial growers
can keep their prices down and produce good-sized trees available for sale sooner. Suckering problems arise later when people prune branches of the flowering witch hazel. This stimulates the rootstock to use its excess energy by thrusting up its own stems. You’ll need to prune away the rootstock branches. You can recognize them in fall or winter because they emerge below the graft and usually hang onto more of their leaves than the ornamental branches. Pruning is best done in the dormant season. Unfortunately pruned suckers usually recur. But it’s possible to avoid major pruning of suckering branches by checking the tree often and pulling (not cutting) any new below-graft buds away from the stem. This usually removes the growth node the suckers sprang from. These nodes are tough so it’s best to pull with pliers or some other grabbing tool. Many other grafted
shrubs and trees can sucker. This is more likely after heavy pruning or winter dieback of the top growth. Contorted hazel, tree peonies and roses are among susceptible species.
“Will you please tell me what vegetable seeds I can sow indoors for the coming few months?” Mary, Burnaby In January and February: leeks, storage onions, sweet onions, celery and parsley. In March lettuce, cauliflowers, broccoli, fennel, cabbage, peppers, asparagus and, at the end of March, tomatoes. In April: eggplant, squash, pumpkin. There are lots of vegetables you can plant outside from February on, but these are the ones usually started inside in spring. “How can I keep my orchid re-blooming? I have followed instructions carefully but nothing has happened.” Mi Vuong, Vancouver
I wonder how long it’s been since your orchid last bloomed. Few orchids bloom continuously. In the wild most bloom once a year and then rest while they build up strength for a second flowering. Grown in pots in the house, orchids tend to follow the same habits. The other issue is that orchids grown commercially for sale may be forced into bloom at a time that’s unnatural for them. Orchids that have gone through that process will need a longer than normal period to regain their strength. I’d recommend patiently waiting and giving your orchid lots of loving care according to the instructions you have. Try double-checking your instructions in case there’s some extra point (more humidity perhaps) that would make your orchid even happier. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her via amarrison@shaw.ca. It helps me if you mention the name of your city or region.
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A Hawaiian-inspired event taking place at the Vancouver Aquarium this weekend was organized to educate visitors about the importance of the ocean that connects B.C. to the tropical islands and how we can all better care for it. It’s also a good excuse to get out of the cold and enjoy Honu by the Sea, a fantasy musical about Kainoa, a teenage Hawaiian surfer who finds a magical sea star that makes his wish to spend a day underwater come true. The production is presented in partnership with the Oahu Visitors Bureau. (Honu is the Hawaiian word for “green sea turtle.) Writer-composer Johnson Enos created the family-friendly show with tunes depicting a happy under-the-sea community faced with a contemporary environmental reality — humans are making a mess of the ocean and threatening life beneath the waves. Performed by a seasoned island cast, the production focuses on the value of friendship, partnership and the virtue of protecting and saving the ocean landscape — every bit of litter removed makes the sea a safer and cleaner place. Visitors to the Vancou-
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Continued from page 17 SailFest features many speakers, including Eric Holden of the Clipper Around the World Race and the ground-breaking technologies of the UBC SailBot team. This award-winning team hopes to be the first to win the MicroTransat, an ambitious challenge that requires a fully autonomous, wind-powered vessel cross the Atlantic Ocean. Visit the team and see some of their impressive creations at Space 631 on the main floor of B.C. Place. And don’t forget to check out the largest number of new sailboats on display anywhere on the West Coast at the Floating Show on Granville Island. Meanwhile, students from Nakusp Secondary’s outdoor education class returns for the second time and will be showcasing their tri-flasher fishing lure, the Rollyblade. This one-of-a-kind fishing lure can be used with any bait at any boat speed to flash trailing fish.
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It’s been a gruelling week for Canadian tennis phenom Eugenie Bouchard. Sadly it has nothing to do with her impressive play on the court as she continued to advance in the Australian Open. On Wednesday, the Canadian Press news service reported that a male announcer conducting an oncourt interview with Bouchard asked the No. 7-ranked player, “Can you give us a twirl?” Apparently the interviewer had never seen a tennis player wearing a pink top with yellow straps before. An embarrassed Bouchard eventually relented. This comes after Global News ran an online photo gallery titled “Even Eugenie Bouchard’s ugly faces are cute at Australian Open,” featuring 16 shots of Bouchard grimacing in various stages of athleticism. For those of you who don’t know or have problems extrapolating, Bouchard is considered by many to be an attractive person. She’s also an elite athlete and has dedicated tens of thousands of hours in her brief lifespan
to be one of the best tennis players in the world, something that sadly and far too often takes a back seat to her physical appearance. We’re not against admiring a person’s physical beauty, but it’s problematic when it overshadows their more relevant and newsworthy accomplishments or if that standard isn’t the same one male athletes are held to. Sure, people have been known to ogle soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s physique, but it would be refreshing if someone asked him to perform a shirtless pushup on the field once in a while. Same goes for Sidney Crosby. The Pittsburgh Penguins captain is a looker. So why isn’t there a picture gallery celebrating the watery depths of Crosby’s dreamboat eyes while he leads Team Canada to Olympic gold. And why oh why aren’t Olympic men’s beach volleyball players required to wear buttock-revealing shortshorts? Come on, give us a serving of sand-dusted hind quarters with that spike.
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This week Microsoft revealed some of the bells, whistles and celibacy en-
hancers that will be part of its new Windows 10 operating system, which updates Windows 8 and completely bypasses Windows 9… because that’s the way these 9-hating thugs roll, mofo. While the nimble minds at K&K are the furthest thing from “technologically proficient” or even literate, here are three things we can tell you: • Cortana. Actually, we have no idea what that is. It sounds like something you’d order at a Mexican restaurant. If that’s the case, then two big thumbs up. • Holographic Headset. Sounds like a wicked band name, but it’s actually Microsoft’s latest attempt at “wearable tech.” Somehow it looks nerdier than Google Glass, if that’s possible. • Spartan. Once again, we couldn’t be bothered to decipher all the computer lingo to figure this one out. We think it means cleaner lines or zero carbon emissions or maybe a way to declutter your desktop but still make you look interesting and eclectic to coworkers. Oh wait, apparently it’s a new browser to replace Explorer. Maybe if we still weren’t using Netscape, we might know that. Sorry.
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Jason Pitschke’s chocolate soufflé has become Boulevard’s signature dessert SWEET SPOT Eagranie Yuh
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Sitting in Boulevard’s dramatic dining room, I watch as the server approaches me. He places a rectangular plate on the table — on it, a petite copper pot enclosing a gently quivering chocolate soufflé. The top of it is branded with the Boulevard logo, rendered in chocolate. Beside it sits a tiny pot of crème anglaise, lightly scented with vanilla and orange blossom water. He punctures the soufflé’s delicate top and pours in the custard. With a nod, he leaves. The chocolate soufflé has quickly established itself as the signature dessert at Boulevard Kitchen and Oyster Bar, located in the Sutton Place Hotel (845 Burrard St.). Maybe it’s the dramatic presentation, the old-school appeal or the apparent contradiction of a dish so deeply flavourful yet light in texture. Whatever it is, we can thank Jason Pitschke, Boulevard’s pastry chef. Pitschke got his start with Cioppino’s Pino Posteraro in the late 1990s. “As a young boy coming from Whistler, it was my first real restaurant. Pino’s not a pastry chef, but he knows a lot about pastry.” On his days off, Pitschke helped Thomas Haas — who was still the pastry
Pastry chef Jason Pitschke carefully prepares Boulevard’s desserts including the “Opera Bar” and their signature chocolate soufflé. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET
chef at Senses — with his burgeoning chocolate enterprise. It was Haas who made the phone call that led Pitschke to New York in 2004. He spent three years as pastry sous chef at Daniel Boulud’s eponymous restaurant in New York City before heading to Toronto. Pitschke’s next big move was to Beijing, to help open Maison Boulud one month before the 2008 Summer Olympics. He had a team of eight pastry cooks (only two spoke English) whom he had to train in French pastry and North American
kitchen practices. “You get very creative when you have a language barrier. It was very challenging, and I learned to be very patient.” Since moving back to Vancouver, Pitschke has worked with the Glowbal Group, the Fairmont Pacific Rim and Cioppino’s. Last spring, he was handpicked to join the opening team at Boulevard in the Sutton Place Hotel, which launched in July. While Pitschke’s menu is rooted in the classics, his desserts are lighter than most and decidedly less
sweet. “I try to have a more savoury approach to dessert. [In Beijing], things I thought were super savoury were considered sweet. I had to accent everything with seasoning. It kind of changed me forever.” He’s learned to consider each ingredient carefully, especially chocolate. “I’ll start with the chocolate and taste it,” he says, and involves executive chef Alex Chen and chef de cuisine Roger Ma. “We’ll start with the flavour profile of the chocolate. It’s about what notes we’re tasting. Would
pears work well, fruit, spices… It sort of builds from there.” And then there’s presentation. Pitschke’s plates are as beautiful as they are delicious — a logical extension of his background as a graffiti artist. “Daniel [Boulud] caught wind of this and he let me paint his wine cellar. There were a few Sundays in a row I’d be doing my artwork and Daniel would come down in flip flops and shorts, bring me a Red Stripe and hang out on a quiet Sunday with me. That was a neat thing for
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Claire sees hallucinations of Nina everywhere thanks to the truckloads of meds she pops on a daily basis. Some of these prescriptions are legal but most — like the bottles she stashes behind picture frames — are not. In desperation Claire even convinces her housekeeper Silvana (Adriana Barraza, excellent) to cross the border into Mexico to procure more painkillers. Silvana is as long-suffering as her employer: Claire’s ill temper has alienated her husband (Chris Messina), her physical therapist (Mamie Gummer), her friends and everyone else. She works long hours for little money, drives Claire — who has to lie prone because of the pain — on all sorts of semi-legal jaunts, and has to sit mum while Claire makes questionable life choices. (Like screwing her handyman, in a scene cringe-worthy both for the cliché and the amount of discomfort that it causes.)
Silvana is Claire’s saviour, her only friend in the world, and the film excels when it focuses on the relationship between the women. (Barraza’s name would’ve been on the Best Supporting list, if I had a golden wand.) It’s easy to see why Claire would contemplate suicide herself, as her past is slowly revealed. We guess at the sad history early on, but it takes so long to unspool that we nearly lose interest in the interim. When all is finally revealed in writer Patrick Tobin’s screenplay, it feels like too little, too late, too few risks taken. Aniston is convincing enough that when I got up out of my seat I did so gingerly, forgetting that she was the one in terrific pain, and not me. Her performance is the essential ingredient that makes the film worth watching even as other elements prove half-baked. Cake opens Friday at International Village.
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Wishes can come true in the weeks ahead, Aries – perhaps even Sunday, when a “romantic friend” might show. Mostly, these will be old wishes. Your energy and charisma are high so get out, be seen, ask favours, impress people, speak up! You’re not really shy, it’s not in your bones but recent events might have made you cautious. Don’t be so now, as your popularity rises beautifully right into late February.
Romance, creative and speculative urges, beauty, pleasure pursuits, children and self-expression fill the days to late February. You’ll ride a winning streak! A former love might return. If it was right then, it’s right now, so plunge in. But if it was once toxic, it will remain so. This “plunge in” does not mean get married; it means have fun – you should not marry before late November.
The general accent lies on your career situation, prestige relationships, community status and all-round reputation now to late February. A former career role or ambition might return. If it will improve your position, go ahead. But for most, it’s a chore, not a promotion. Beware of volunteering for new projects or roles, or promoting any, before Feb. 11.
Pay attention to the foundations of your life for the next few weeks: diet, nutrition, family, kids, real estate, retirement preparations/savings, security. Check the basement. At work, watch essentials: premises/lease, sales territory, supply chain, etc. Though you are greatly favoured in career this year (to August) the present time nudges you to build your launch pad rather than launch anything.
A sweet, mellow mood encases you now to late February. DON’T start new projects nor relationships before Feb. 11. Instead, protect ongoing ventures from delays, supply shortages, mistaken calculations, etc. or reprise a past project or relationship. A former lover, mate, legal matter, travel invitation, school contact, teacher or religious instructor might return.
This week and the next two are busy but not important – errands, details, paperwork, trips, communications and casual acquaintances. Still, these are the very things that can be screwed up until Feb. 11. Double-check addresses, calculations, supplies, store open hours, etc. Before Feb. 11, DON’T start new projects nor relationships. An ex or former flame might get in touch — perhaps from a distant area — and suggest a travel adventure.
Life’s mysteries confront you for the few weeks ahead, Cancer. You actually enjoy a mystery, so the unbidden urges you have to be intimate with someone, to build a castle of investments, to start a business, should keep you happily investigating, researching possibilities. However, DON’T begin a new project, investment, business, or relationship before Feb. 11.
Chase money, but without chasing anything new (new product, project, client, etc.). And spend, but don’t buy anything on impulse —only what you need, no more, until Feb. 11. Try selling unwanted items that have lain around. Your relations with others are friendly, active, humorous, challenging yet affectionate, until late February — that’s an improvement.
The weeks ahead confront you with crucial relationships — partners, enemies, spouse, close friends, etc. These are more likely to wage love than war with you, as you’re in one of the luckiest, most cheerful years of your life until August. Only about six or seven such years occur in one lifetime. So you’re going to attract others — friends and great partners if you’re married, very marriage-able life mates if you’re unattached.
Your energy, charm and clout stand at a yearly high, Aquarius. Remember, on a broader canvas, that your luck (until August) is painted with strokes of cooperation, compassion and jumping on others’ bandwagons. Maybe that’s why three weeks of this heightened energy and charisma are “blocked” with a Mercury retrograde, a period (until Feb. 11) of false starts, missed appointments, confusion and delay.
The few weeks ahead emphasize work and minor health issues. Eat and dress sensibly. You might return to a former job or job role. Protect ongoing tasks from mistakes, delays, supply shortages, etc. DON’T start any new project nor relationship before Feb. 11. A usually shy person might surprise you with a flirty come-on anytime mid-January to mid-February. Sunday’s sexy, mysterious; an investment might “call to you.” Go slow, though, keep an eye on the far distance and on your deeper motives.
Rest, lie low for three more weeks. Contemplate, reconnect with your spiritual half, etc. Fulfill neglected duties/chores – especially governmentrelated ones, such as your tax returns. You might receive a bonus or some benefit from governmental beneficence or a behind-scenes connection. Venus and Mars are lighting up your romantic, passionate side, attracting people to you despite Jan./Feb.’s “solitude” influence.
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By Megan Stewart The Terry Fox Ravens are holding tight to their No. 1 spot atop the senior boys AAAA basketball rankings. Oak Bay secondary climbs to No. 2 and the Vancouver College Fighting Irish also rise from fourth to third while the Burnaby South Rebels drop two spots to No. 4. The Churchill Bulldogs rise one spot from last week to reach No. 5 after debuting on the chart at No. 1 in December. Kitsilano Blue Demons climb from No. 8 to No. 7 and the Kelowna Owls dropped the farthest from fifth last week to ninth. In AAA, the Charles Tupper Tigers continue their climb up the rankings to reach No. 2 this week. The Abbotsford Panthers cling to No. 1 and the Fleetwood Park Dragons are at No. 3. In A senior boys, St. Patrick’s Celtics switched with Kelowna’s Immaculata Mustangs to reach No. 1 while the St. John’s Eagles sit tight another week at No. 3. West Point Grey Academy slipped out of the top 10 to be an honourable mention. Senior girls AA rankings are led by Prince George’s Duchess Park Condors and followed by Immaculata and the Holy Cross Crusaders. Notre Dame Jugglers hang on to No. 4 and so do the Little Flower Academy Angels at No. 5. The St. Thomas More Knights fell from second to fifth. Coming of a win at their host invitational, the Britannia Bruins remain an honourable mention.
Ryan Kondo, 14, drops the puck in a peewee rep hockey game Jan. 20 at Kitsilano community centre. The Thunderbirds beat the North Shore Hawks 4-1. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET World champion Japan will play two World Cup games at B.C. Place in June.
World Cup ticket prices
A ticket to B.C. Place to see a World Cup group match will cost between $20.15 and $50, FIFA announced this week. Tickets for a same-day double header in Vancouver will cost between $30 and $80, in addition to fees. Tickets prices, which vary at the six stadiums across the country, go on sale to the general public 9 a.m. Feb. 26. The tournament runs June 6 to July 5, when the World Cup final will be played in Vancouver. Vancouver hosts group matches for world reigning champion Japan as well as Switzerland, Cameroon, Ecuador, Nigeria and the U.S.A. Round of 16 matches and a quarterfinal will also be played at B.C. Place on June 21 and 23, respectively. Tickets for the Round of 16 cost $40 to $90 while the quarterfinal is $45 to $95. Tickets for the World Cup final at B.C. Place on July 5 are the most expensive and range from $50 to $165. CEO of the national host committee, Peter Montopoli, said the $20.15 fare is one of the most affordable for elite international sport. “In less than 20 weeks, Canada will host the most important event in women’s soccer,” he said in a prepared statement. Stadium Passports remain on sale until 9 p.m. Feb. 5. These group ticket passes include access to each match at B.C. Place and cost $185 to $395.
World Cup turf war ends
The elite international soccer players suing over artificial turf fields at the 2015 Canada Women’s World Cup announced this week they will stop their legal action. “On behalf of the players, I want to thank all who aided our fight for natural grass fields at the 2015 World Cup, including our volunteer lawyers from Canada and the United States,” said U.S. captain Abby Wambach in a prepared statement. “Our legal action has ended. But I am hopeful that the players’ willingness to contest the unequal playing fields — and the tremendous public support we received during the effort — marks the start of even greater activism to ensure fair treatment when it comes to women’s sports.” Lead lawyer Hampton Dellinger said FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association were “oblivious” to the women’s request for equality. The men’s tournament has always been played on grass. A statement read, “Since a coalition of the world’s best female soccer players initiated legal action, the tactics of FIFA and CSA have included: threatening protesting players with suspension, doing everything possible to delay a final court ruling despite the players’ need to know what surface the tournament will be held on so they can train accordingly, suggesting they would either defy an adverse court ruling or cancel the tournament and, most recently, rejecting the players’ undeniably fair settlement offer. The players are doing what FIFA and CSA have proven incapable of: putting the sport of soccer first.”
Thunderbird refs lend hand to young peers Mentoring program helps bolster confidence of novice officials Megan Stewart
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Teenage hockey officials in B.C. could soon be following the lead of referees and linesmen calling games for the Vancouver Thunderbirds Minor Hockey Association. Since 2011, the decadesold amateur sports organization has developed a system to mentor novice referees, the youngest who are 12 and who are stepping on the ice for the first time in the black and white stripes of the game’s authority. Developed largely by three teenage officials and players, one of whom is now the assistant referee in chief for the Thunderbirds, the program aims to bolster the confidence of maturing referees through supervision, assessment, feedback and reassurance in a sport that can detonate hot-headed passion from otherwise cool spectators. “Honestly, the younger the children that are playing, oftentimes the worse
the behaviour of the parent,” said Dan Hanoomansingh, who helped create the referee mentoring system for the association. “We want to build a program in Vancouver that gives the officials that support so they enjoy it as much as they enjoyed it playing as kids.”
Parent trap
Ejection. Bans. Police. Shutting the lights off at the ice rink. To calm overheated hockey parents and spectators, Vancouver referees have resorted to these strategies and more. Last week, the Vancouver Island Amateur Minor Hockey Association announced a “drastic” measure of its own that would affect hockey arenas from Sooke to Campbell River to Port Alberni. “The problem of spectators abusing on-ice officials and players during minor hockey games has become such a serious issue that VIAHA Executive Committee members are considering a
‘Spectator Free Weekend,’” wrote the association president on Jan. 16. “… the vast majority of parents and other fans are supportive and positive toward players and game officials however, a very small minority feel they have the right to verbally abuse and harass young men and women, frequently little older than the players in the games they are officiating. The vindictiveness is resulting in a loss of both promising young officials and senior officials alike, as well as making the game difficult for the players to have fun.” The proposed ban would limit spectators to the “dry” areas of an arena away from the ice. Paul Willing, the referee development coordinator and an assignor for the Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association — the equivalent to VIAHA but for southwest B.C. including Vancouver — said what all Canadians know. From peewee through bantam
and beyond, the behaviour of hockey spectators isn’t getting worse. It’s just not getting better. “I don’t really think it’s too different than it has been for many, many, many years,” said Wiling, who is also a longtime volunteer and past president of the Thunderbirds organization. “It hits a high point and we say we need to do something about it and we talk about it but we don’t do anything about it.” Willing’s wife Pat is also a referee and coach. Their three children grew up playing, coaching and refereeing the sport that 68-year-old Willing only learned once he was an adult. (“I never thought I’d skate backwards,” said the man whose family has been recognized in Canada’s Hockey Hall of Fame.) One of the worst flare-ups he remembers in this city happened “about the late ’80s or early ’90s” at Trout Lake — then the Grandview community centre, he said. Continued on next page
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PCAHA has more than 2,000 refs Continued from page 24 “I remember the referee said this game is too out of control. It won’t continue until everybody is out. All the parents filed out into the waiting area and the game went on.” The players were about 16 years old. The ref about 20. In a country that supplies roughly half of all active NHL players, many Canadians hold tight to the belief their son will be one of those professional athletes, maybe even a million-dollar star, maybe even a national team goldmedal game-winning goalscorer. The expectations are as unreasonable as the pressure. “They have no patience for their own kid so why would they have patience for somebody else’s kid who is calling a penalty,” said Willing. “In every hockey game, my contention has always been that there are games you do during the year that you enjoy. Those games you would do for free. Other games, I contend, you would not do it for $2,000.”
My shadow
The PCAHA counts about 2,050 referees. More than half — roughly 1,200 — are 15 years old and working as a Level 1 official, the lowest of six certification tiers. A Level 6 referee will do international games and the Olympics, but is not necessarily equipped for the NHL. There are approximately 70 active Level 6 referees working in Canada at any given time. In addition to strong skating skills and an exceptional ability to assess and apply rules on the fly, a good official is confident and thick-skinned. They are effective communicators because the right word at the right time can dampen the erupting explosion of a bench boss, maybe even a Tortorella. Maybe not. The Vancouver Thunderbirds are investing time and resources to develop young referees. Even if the majority won’t continue into adulthood, their experience may be better because their training is more thorough, their skills sharper and their confidence higher. Dan Hanoomansingh, the
T-Birds assistant referee in chief and one of the creators of the association’s threeyear-old officiating mentorship program, said what they do is rare in B.C. and hopes other hockey clubs will follow suit. Young referees are trained in two ways. For the newest officials ages 12 to 15 who are calling games for atom teams and players under 10, a “shadow” joins them on the ice. The shadow is a more experienced albeit still teenage referee who dresses in black and does not have a whistle because he or she is not an active part of the game. For more experienced teenage referees, a supervisor will watch from the stands to provide the necessary constructive criticism it takes to improve. “The idea is not to interfere or overrule what they do,” said Hanoomansingh. “The shadow will follow the new official around the ice and help with the little things, like where to stand, what signals they need to be making. It’s the sort of thing the official has learned in class but in a game situa-
tion, it’s tough to remember all that stuff as you’re being forced to recall it all at once. The shadow helps remind them and makes them feel more comfortable.” Ryan Kondo, 14, refs about three games a week for the Thunderbirds and on Wednesday night he was one of two linesmen on a peewee rep game at Kitsilano community centre. Kieran Evans, 17, was the second linesman, officiating players who were barely taller than the goal’s crossbar. They were paid $16, and the 28-year-old referee made $27 for the game. “When I first started, I wasn’t very good,” said Evans. “I blew a lot of calls. Parents would yell at me — I don’t blame them. But now I don’t yell at refs myself.” Working the bantam game afterwards, veteran referee Tim Dodds is one of a dozen supervisors in the T-Birds’ mentorship program. “If the officiating isn’t as good as it can be,” he said, “then the game isn’t as good as it can be.” twitter.com/MHStewart
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I’ve been helping some new commuter cyclists through the onset of winter riding, plying them with all the essential advice. Such as: find a thin toque to put under your helmet to protect your ears. And: wear good hiking boots, if you have a pair, with ski socks to keep your feet warm. Also: gloves, never leave home without them. Riding through the winter isn’t impossible, especially in Vancouver where there’s rarely snow or ice to contend with, but it does require a strategic approach to clothing. My biggest problem in the winter, and one I’ve heard echoed by many fellow cyclists, has always been cold hands. I have terrible circulation, and on the
Gloves make cold-weather riding more bearable. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
handlebars where there’s nothing to protect your skin from wind, fingers can chill to the bone once the temperature falls past a certain point. Once your hands are truly chilled, it’s hard to be comfortable on
a bike even if you’re warm everywhere else. I tried lobster gloves, which cushion two fingers together, but I found them awkward for gearing and braking and disliked being unable to move my fin-
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gers independently. I tried putting hot pockets in my regular gloves, but they only warmed my palms or the back of my hand and didn’t do anything for my poor frozen fingers. I tried really expensive cycling gloves,
but they just postponed the deep chill factor briefly. I figured it was time to try something I’d been considering for a while: heated gloves. This is not a cheap option. Depending how much you feel the cold and how much you mind being cold, it may not be a route you want to pursue. But for me, it was a game-changer. I wore them through the early December cold snap and for the first time ever, breezed through subzero rides quite happily. I tried the Chaval XRT Response gloves, which sell for $390 US. Unlike some models, they don’t have an adjustable temperature gauge but deliver heat based on the temperature of your hands and the air outside the gloves. I will confess to being a little sceptical to begin with, but the results were near perfect. They provided steady warmth through the fingers and kept my hands from getting cold without overheating once I was warmed up. I used
them skiing, and the gloves kept my hands and fingers at an ideal warmth as the temperatures went down to roughly minus 7 °C. I would caution that these gloves definitely aren’t a slim or trim package — the biggest downside is that they are bulky. I still had enough dexterity to work the gears and brakes since the Chaval XRTs were less awkward overall than a lobster glove. Charging is very easy. Slender interior cables hook together to plug into a wall charger. They’re also simple to turn on and off, thanks to large buttons on the exterior of the glove. The cost is definitely the biggest downside of this option. But if you weigh that against what you’d pay for gas and downtown parking this winter, pricey heated gloves that work for you are worth it if they make the difference between riding and not riding. Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting.
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Portland, Oreg. think tank City Observatory issued a report last month pointing to persistent poverty rather than gentrification as the key challenge cities face. City Observatory takes a particular interest in the proliferation of neighbourhoods where more than 30 per cent of the households are living in poverty and the more prosperous precincts where just 15 per cent of households or fewer are below the poverty line. Canada’s closest equivalent are households with low income after tax. “The glare of media attention falls on those places that are gentrifying – previously poor neighbourhoods that have experienced investment and which have gained wealthier new residents,” the report states. “While such
instances of change are striking, this study shows they are rare.” With some activists critiquing the effect new developments have on property values and affordability, and others lamenting the loss of vintage homes to new mansions, the report raises the question: Is a similar phenomenon at play in Metro Vancouver? Statistics Canada census data from 1999 to 2012 indicates that poverty in the Vancouver census metropolitan area is indeed both persistent and growing. While gentrification transformed some neighbourhoods between 1999 and 2012, the proportion of census tracts with 30 per cent or more of tax filers living in low-income households increased to seven per cent from five per cent. Moreover, the number of prosperous census tracts – those where 15
per cent of tax filers or fewer are low-income — dropped to 25.5 per cent from 32 per cent over the period. In addition, three key Metro Vancouver areas remain hubs for low-income tax filers: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as far east as Nanaimo Street; downtown New Westminster; and the tracts along Garden City Road in Richmond, from the Fraser River to Westminster Highway. Yet if poverty is quietly spreading across the region, creating more tracts with high concentrations of low-income households, many tracts that formerly had high rates of low-income households are now faring better. In fact, 20.8 per cent of families were deemed low-income in 2012, only slightly higher than the 20.2 per cent rate posted in 1999. twitter.com/bizinvancouver
The Downtown Eastside is one of three key Metro Vancouver areas for low-income tax filers. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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The announcement, in October 2010 that the Jim Pattison Group was joining forces with Reliance Properties Ltd. to redevelop an assembly of 27 parcels at Burrard and Davie streets in Vancouver came as proposals for office properties were surging. With the city entertaining or anticipating proposals for five sites in the downtown core, Brent Toderian, the city’s director of planning at the time, was pleased with what was considered a rebound in activity. “We’re quite pleased
with the very strong interest we’re seeing in stand-alone office projects as well as mixed-use projects that include office. Both of which are telling us that office construction is very viable right now,” he said. Today, tenants are preparing to occupy the first of 2.1 million square feet of downtown office construction that followed. But the Pattison-Reliance project – to be known as Burrard Place – only recently applied for a development permit, three years after beginning its journey through civic processes. The proposal calls for
three towers including 826 residential units, 224,200 square feet of office space, and 75,719 square feet of retail space (a three-level Toyota dealership, temporarily relocated to the former Mercedes-Benz dealership that Yuanheng Holdings Ltd. owns on Broadway at Hemlock, will anchor the office tower). Refinements to Burrard Place since it was initially announced include a maximum height of 55 storeys for one of the two residential towers, the third-tallest in Vancouver at a site that ensures the project will become a landmark.
A proposal calls for 826 new residential units to be built at the corner of Burrard and Davie streets. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
Average home prices to continue going up in 2015
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The B.C. housing market shows no sign of contracting after its strong 2014, with sales and prices expected to rise again in 2015, according to a Central 1 Credit Union forecast issued Jan. 20.
However, the credit union said that the increases would be “relatively modest, with sales up five per cent compared to 18 per cent last year, while the median provincial home price will climb 2.5 per cent to $414,000.” The B.C. Housing Outlook also doesn’t
anticipate any price drops any time soon in 2016 or beyond, saying that the growing economy would keep sales on a “positive trend through 2018 with average annual price increases above two per cent.” “Regional variations will persist over the next few
years, particularly given recent gyrations in oil prices,” said Central 1 senior economist Bryan Yu. The credit union trade association also predicted that the Bank of Canada would not increase interest rates until early 2016, that the high Vancouver prices will continue to rise due
to the lack of developable land, and that northern B.C. will see even bigger price increases. “I think sky-high prices in Greater Vancouver have more room to grow with little risk of a significant downturn,” said Yu. “A key characteristic of the market has been
the divergence between detached and multifamily prices. While condo markets have been soft, with median home values flat since 2010, detached values have surged. Single-family housing is increasingly a luxury good detached from income drivers.”
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of chrome, bolder trim design and larger available wheels reinforce that impression. Keeping the same basic architecture, the 2015 CR-V has a more aggressive front grille that is mirrored conceptually at the rear. Not wanting to change too much, Honda retained the high taillights
and the basic body shape of the vehicle. The interior doesn’t feature any surprises, but it does boast some nice new enhancements such as configurable centre console, sliding sun visors and rear console ventilation ducts. The highlight of the new package is Hon-
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Changes made to the 2015 CR-V were not just cosmetic in nature — Honda made some notable improvements in the engine compartment as well. Honda rebranded its engine technology as Earth Dreams Technology. The new engine is more efficient and has more torque for better driveability all around. The CR-V still comes equipped with a familiar 2.4-litre inline four-cylinder, but thanks to directinjection and a higher compression ratio, the torque has been increased by 11 per cent to 181 lb-ft (horsepower remains at 185 hp). To aid efficiency, the engine is mated to a new continuously variable transmission. Overall, this set up is said to be 16 per cent more efficient than last year’s motor with 7its five-speed automatic transmission setup. The updated suspension, along with the Motion Adaptive Electric Power Steering, contribute to excellent driving behaviour that is truly pleasant to drive around town and on highways. The CR-V’s dynamics are improved further as you move up the trim levels due to wider tires. Driving the new CR-V feels more peppy thanks to the additional torque and it is also quicker off the line. The horsepower is staying the same but that is perfectly acceptable as this CR-V will still comfortably cruise on the highway, pass other cars when needed and return good fuel economy.
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The new interior of the CR-V is modern and functional, while looking more upscale because of the better textured materials. The front seats are supportive and adequately adjustable, and the rear seats provide plenty of room for “fullsized” adults. Traditionally, the CR-V offers good outward visibility and the new model keeps that advantage. The large windows and smartly placed pillars allow for an unobstructed view, making it safer and easier to park. Along with upgrades to the trim and materials, there is a new central display. Standard on EX and above-trim models, the seven-inch touchscreen functions very much like a smartphone or tablet by allowing you to select functions simply by touching the screen. As mentioned previously, the most interesting feature is HondaLink. Connecting a smartphone opens up features like Aha radio and utilizes the phone’s navigation app. This means that for the cost of a cable, you can have many of the same features found on the highest trim CR-V on the lower models. All CR-V’s come with a multi-information display (situated forward and therefore not touch-oriented). The info provided can be customized using controls on the steering wheel. I did find this “dual” setup a bit overwhelming to use. As before, the CR-V has the versatility to accommodate a wide range of cargo. The low floor is aided by the available power tailgate to make loading and unloading easy. The easy fold-down 60/40 split rear seatbacks fold nearly flat and provide even more cargo space if needed. Continued on page 38
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Continued from page 36 Though this change isn’t visible, the rear suspension has been redesigned to maximize rear seat room and cargo capacity.
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Features
Ranging in price from $25,990 to $35,790, the CR-V is available in six different trim levels. Standard equipment includes Bluetooth, heated front seats, multi-angle rearview camera with guidelines and heated exterior mirrors. Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include keyless entry with pushbutton start, leather seating surfaces and steering wheel, dual-zone automatic climate control, front wiper de-icer, LED daytime running lights, blind spot monitoring, auto-dimming rearview mirror, rain-sensing wipers and a moonroof. Fuel efficiency numbers (L/100km) for the frontwheel drive LX are 8.6 city, 6.9 highway and 7.8 combined. All other models, which are all-wheel drive, return 9.1 city, 7.2 highway and 8.3 combined.
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Sale Price $12,783
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Auto Get excited about mid-engined Corvette again BRAKING NEWS Brendan McAleer
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We start our first Braking News of 2015 with a rumour that’s been around as long as the exclamation point. “Mid-engined Corvette! Read all about it inside! Page 64!” If you’ve ever seen something like this proudly emblazoned on the cover of Road & Track or Car and Driver, right in front of an improbable-looking sketch or digital rendering, then you’re probably bored of all the speculation. The buff books have been crying wolf for so long that the most recent round of claims was ridiculed, scoffed-at and basically ignored. Um. Looks like even a broken clock is right twice a day. Recent photographs from Car and Driver (they appear to be taken using a drone) show a pickup-trucklooking test vehicle, clad all
You get to pick your own colour combo from 8,000 different options for paint on the Viper GTC.
in black, with the cabin of a current Corvette, the front clip of an Australian Holden and an undoubtedly midship engine mounting. It’s got a huge wing and looks riveted together, so this thing’s a long way from production yet, but it looks like the rumours of a midengined next-generation Corvette are real this time. Those rumours indicate that the C8 (eighth-gen ‘Vette) will be shorter, smaller, lighter and have a smaller engine. It’s report-
edly going to be called the Zora, after Zora ArkusDuntov, widely considered to be the father of the original ‘Vette. Expect the new ‘Vette to upset the purists starting sometime around 2017. Until then, keep your eyes peeled for more leaks.
Dodge launches oneof-one custom paint option for Viper
With the supercharged Z06 currently kicking heads all over the track,
the mighty Dodge Viper is struggling to maintain relevance. It doesn’t help that the only Dodges anyone wants to talk about are the Hellcat twins. So what’s a company to do? Discount the heck out of their 8.0-litre sledgehammer? They’ve already done that, dropping the Viper’s price significantly. OK then, what about making the buying process a little more special. This is a really unique idea, and one we might
start seeing elsewhere. If you buy a Viper GTC, you get to pick your own colour combo from 8,000 different options for paint, 24,000 different stripes, 10 different wheels, 16 interiors, and a half-dozen aerodynamic kits. And when I say “your own,” I mean it. No two Viper GTCs will be allowed to be built the same. The order process is pretty great: you get a swatch showing your paint choice, then a 1:18-scale model, and then the car is painted just the way you like it, with no one else allowed to order the same car. You’ll be able to follow through the whole process online, with constant updates as the car approaches readiness. Now, obviously not everyone’s in the market for a Viper, but as mass production keeps finding ways to customize on a large scale, it might not be all that long before buying a new car allows you to have the same experience when ordering your MX-5 or Mustang. It’s a creative solution to make a car more special, and it’ll be
nice to see more of it in the future.
Lower speed limits cause fewer pedestrian deaths in NYC
New York, the Big Apple. “Hey, I’m walkin’ heah!” delivered in a strong Brooklyn accent. That sort of thing. In a well-of-course-it-did report, looks like NYC’s plan to reduce pedestrian fatalities by dropping the speed limit five miles per hour actually worked, with fatalities dropping from 180 in 2013 to 132 in 2014 That’s still a long way to the zero deaths claimed as a goal for 2024, but it’s certainly an improvement. There are other factors at play here, including increased police presence at crosswalks and more tickets for failing to yield to pedestrians, but it looks like the plan is working. You have to wonder if lessons learned in one of the densest cities in the world might be applied to our own area. twitter.com/ brendan_mcaleer
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