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Bike share program throws chain Planned multi-million dollar rental system unlikely to debut this year

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

The city’s plan to have a multi-million dollar bike rental system set up this year in Vancouver is more of an ambitious goal than a certainty as the company that agreed to provide 1,500 bikes and 125 stations more than two years ago is no closer to a launch date.

Although the city’s website promises bikes will be for rent in 2015, the city’s transportation director, Jerry Dobrovolny, acknowledged the statement was posted last year when there was more hope the system would be implemented.

“I wouldn’t say anything is impossible but that would be ambitious,” Dobrovolny told the Courier. “We’ll have to update [the website].”

Dobrovolny’s doubts are reflected in a well-documented trail of upheaval and change within and outside Alta Bike Share of Portland, the company the city originally signed an agreement with in April 2013 to deliver the system Over the past couple of years, Alta’s preferred supplier of bikes for Vancouver, PBSC Solutions, filed a notice of intention to seek protection under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act related to its Montreal bike share system and growing debt.

Alta was also recently acquired by

another company and is now called Motivate, which is based in New York City.

The original agreement with the city was to have Alta own, finance and operate the system and provide customer service.

Alta also has to secure corporate sponsorship and donation contracts.

“We wanted those requirements to feed into a business case that they would provide us so the operation would be sustainable,” Dobrovolny said. “Over time, they’ve made some slow progress but haven’t been able to complete those [requirements]. We have indicated to [Motivate] that we’re looking to see some progress fairly quickly.”

Dobrovolny said he was hopeful Motivate, with a new management team in place, will meet the city’s requirements over the next few months. Although the city hasn’t set a deadline for Motivate to finalize a deal, Dobrovolny said he is aware other bike share operators are available to the city.

The original agreement calls for the city to spend a one-time cost of $6 million for equipment and installation of the system, with another $1 million for start-up costs for staffing and signs. An additional $500,000 a year was estimated in annual costs.

What Motivate will spend is unclear, but company spokesperson Dani Simons said it still aims to set up a system in Vancouver, noting one of its latest bike share operations launched in Seattle last fall. The company also operates bike shares in Toronto, Boston, New York City, Chicago and in Australia.

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Grey shades of zoning Is there a limit to building heights?

Naoibh O’Connor

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From her north-facing fourth-level condo, Dawn McLaren enjoys an enviable view of the city’s downtown skyline and mountains beyond. But her downtown skyline view may disappear if a development application is approved.

And, after delving into the complicated world of zoning to figure out what’s allowed and what isn’t, McLaren’s not happy. Neither are her neighbours.

McLaren bought the unit in the Greenwich East building, located mid-block on West Fifth between Cypress and Burrard, 14 months ago. Before the purchase, she called the city to find out what development was possible in the neighbourhood. She said

she was told the property at the northwest corner of Fifth and Burrard could be redeveloped, but it was zoned for approximately three storeys, although more storeys might be allowed based on certain conditions. If a taller building was approved, McLaren said she was told it likely wouldn’t go any higher than four storeys due to the small size of the property and other considerations.

Orr Development has since filed an application to construct a five-storey mixeduse building with an elevator overrun on the roof. McLaren noted the initial application envisioned a six-storey building. (She also noted the Urban Design Panel suggested the applicant consider adding an indoor amenity space and common outdoor space on the roof.)

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Civic election review underway 12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Yep, the civic election was in November.

Yep, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision team continue to rule city hall.

Yep, that’s old news.

So here’s some semi-fresh news regarding the election: After lots of debate, city council agreed to have city staff review the 2014 civic vote and set up a committee to put pressure on Victoria to change a few things for the 2018 election.

Go on — clap, shout or whatever it is you do when you hear such news.

Council decided to move forward on this a couple of weeks back, sparked by a motion moved successfully

by NPA Coun. George Affleck and another by Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer.

I should have brought you this info back then but, hey, with this transportation plebiscite news beast requiring my attention and Police Chief Jim Chu announcing his retirement and city council getting a raise and possibly wanting a significant one in the future and this flu bug doing a number on me, well, I’ve been kind of distracted.

Anyway, council told staff to look at what it will take to set up an independent committee to do a whole bunch of work, including surveying candidates and parties about their experience in the election and determining whether there’s enough people and resources to properly run the election.

Once that committee is up and running, council wants it to provide an analysis on what factors were considered most significant to the increase in voter turnout from 35 per cent in 2011 to 44 per cent in 2014.

I would guess more advanced voting days and people being able to vote at any polling station would be reasons. The NPA’s Kirk LaPointe running a campaign that garnered him an impressive 73,443 votes could be a factor.

People wanting to ensure Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision team continued to rule city hall could be another.

The committee will also tackle one of Reimer’s favourite topics: campaign finance reform.

Although a previous council got members of Vision, COPE and the NPA to create its own committee and come up with a list of requests to call on Victoria to change the laws to get the big money out of civic politics, this new committee will give it another shot.

And, it will also specifically request the province: • For the ability to use proportional voting systems.

City council wants a committee set up to pressure Victoria to make some changes for the next civic election in 2018. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

• To make anonymous balloting data available in open data format after an election.

• To conduct an online voting pilot, or experiment.

• Consider some of the strategies outlined by the Engaged City Task Force of April 2014 to get more people to participate in elections and follow through on a recommendation from the city’s Healthy City Strategy to have at least a 60 per cent voter turnout by 2025.

“We’ve been advocating

for these things for almost 10 years now in some cases and perhaps it’s time to call in some reinforcements and see what we can do differently on them,” Reimer said.

••• In other voting news...

Spoke to former NDP MP/MLA/cabinet minister Ian Waddell the other day about a documentary he’s helping produce that examines why young people could care less about casting a ballot.

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Waddell said actor Dylan Playfair (son of former NHLer Jim Playfair) and a crew have travelled from Whistler to Ferguson, Missouri to Europe to speak to young folks about exercising their franchise.

The film is still being edited and Waddell said a Kickstarter campaign was launched to raise more cash to get it done. The trailer can be viewed on the Kickstarter web page. twitter.com/Howellings

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Continued from page 1 When asked about a launch date, Simons said “the best people to ask about that is the city just because it’s ultimately their call more than ours. So I would go to them and try to get that from them because they’re the ones who are really the lead on that.”

When told that Dobrovolny indicated the city is waiting for Motivate to meet the requirements of the agreement, Simons said “we’re working really diligently with the city to make sure we have all those pieces in place.”

Since the city announced its interest in a bike share system, there has been considerable public debate in Vancouver about how an operator would meet the province’s mandatory helmet laws.

Simons pointed out Seattle has a helmet law and Motivate set up bins at stations, where bike share users can pick up and drop off helmets. They are cleaned, inspected and recycled, she said.

“So far, it’s worked really well in Seattle,”

The city continues to work with an American company to implement a bike rental system in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Simons said of the system called “Pronto.” “For each of our systems, we’re trying to learn from our previous experience but also make sure that we’re meeting local needs and working with the clients to figure it out.”

Seattle’s system, which has 500 bikes and 50 stations, costs users $85 to $125 a year or $8 for a 24-

hour pass. A three-day pass is $16. Stations are located downtown, Capitol Hill, South Lake Union and the University District.

Alaska Airlines is the system’s major sponsor, contributing $2.5 million over five years. Group Health, Seattle Children’s Hospital and REI are other sponsors. twitter.com/Howellings

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Continued from page 1 Since the development application is conditional according to existing zoning, it may be permitted, but must go before the Development Permit Board Feb. 23 for approval.

If the building height is allowed, McLaren’s downtown skyline view and that of many other condo owners in Greenwich East and West will be obstructed.

That possibility frustrates them. They’re troubled by the complicated rules on zoning, the limitations and conditions for relaxations, and the lack of clear upper limits for building heights.

They’re also not happy with the overall architecture and design of the proposed building and McLaren questions why an application that goes beyond height restrictions is permitted to go through the approval process if it doesn’t appear to offer anything to the neighbourhood in return.

“The biggest frustration has really been trying to figure out what are the rules. Are there rules?

Because it seems that if

you want to develop something and if you want to go higher, bigger, deeper, whatever, that there are exceptions made on the basis that you’re providing some sort of amenity or some sort of tradeoff,” she said.

“In this case it’s like, well, I just want to go higher.”

To unravel the rules, the Courier spoke to Anita Molaro, the city’s assistant director of urban design.

Molaro said there are two “layers” to zoning, the first being outright provisions, which in this case is 1.0 FSR (floor space ratio) and a height of 9.2 metres (about three storeys), the second is the conditional or discretionary layer. “[It means] if you meet all these objectives, we can consider more density — so up to 3.0 FSR and we can further increase the height,” she said. “The zoning in C-3A doesn’t put a limit on what that height is. We have to go to the accompanying guideline.”

Guidelines advise staff on how to exercise the discretionary aspects of the zoning and how the building should

perform or respond in a particular area.

Guidelines for the Burrard site state that to preserve views buildings should generally be a maximum height of 13.7 metres, measured at the south property line, or five storeys, whichever is less.

But guidelines, Molaro noted, are simply guidelines — they’re not zoning bylaws.

“Because it’s a guideline, we have to look at the site conditions and the other influencing factors that can inform how the building is shaped on that site. I get that it’s not black and white. For most people that can be very challenging, but most of our zones in the City of Vancouver have a level of discretion. The only zone that is a pure outright zone is RS-1 — single-family. But even Dunbar, which is RS-5 has a conditional aspect to it.”

Molaro added there are six-storey buildings on Burrard built under the same zoning provisions. She called C-3A zoning a “very flexible zoning.”

But staff do consider the impact of a proposed building’s bulk and height

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on neighbours, according to Molaro, which is why a developer is required to submit a view analysis.

The analysis is part of the information that helps inform staff’s recommendation to the DVP. That report is being drafted and is expected to be on the city’s website around Feb. 19. “[The process] may be complicated, but at the end of the day, we’d like to think we’re ultimately getting better building design as a result. That’s the ultimate goal — better building design and better overall design,” Molaro said.

McLaren is not satisfied by answers she’s received from the city. And she thinks her and her neighbours’ concerns illustrate a larger issue in Vancouver.

“If you don’t have clearly defined limits and regulations and conditions, things get out of hand.

Why wouldn’t they?” she said, given the “mania” for density. “There seems to be so much attention for what we’re building and almost no concern for the people that are already there.”

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The B.C. government says it has launched a probe into its own police watchdog agency after receiving complaints that warranted an investigation of the “personnel practices” of the Independent Investigations Office.

The government wouldn’t provide specifics but said in a statement that Deputy Attorney General Richard Fyfe ordered the B.C. Public Service Agency “to conduct a fair and thorough investigation in order to ensure personnel practices in the [investigations’ office] are in accordance with the law.”

“The deputy attorney general received complaints and considered that he needed information about the situation in the office in order to decide what, if any, action should be taken,” the statement said. “The Public Service Agency is responsible for personnel management in the public service, including providing formal advice and direction to ministries.”

Ralph Krenz, a spokesperson for the investigations’ office, which is based in Surrey, said he couldn’t provide specifics on the probe because of the investigation. The Courier sent an email to the agency’s chief civilian director Richard Rosenthal for comment but Krenz said he wouldn’t be responding.

“We’re still waiting for terms of reference and all that and more specificity,” said Krenz when asked about the scope of the investigation.

A recent report in the Victoria Times Colonist, in which 11 former investigators and employees of the investigations’ office were interviewed, painted the office as a dysfunctional organization and alleged workers were bullied or talked down to by Rosenthal.

The investigations’ office has 25 investigators, with only 11 with experience as former officers. The office has seven vacancies for investigators and, overall, has 50 positions, including analysts, managers and a legal department.

Rosenthal was appointed head of the Independent Investigations Office in 2012 after leaving his post as Denver’s independent monitor of the police department and sheriff’s office. He had previously set up a police oversight agency in Portland and worked as a public corruption prosecutor in Los Angeles.

The investigations’ office was set up in B.C. to conduct criminal investigations into incidents involving police officers that result in death or serious harm. In announcing the new agency in 2012, Premier Christy Clark called it a historic step for policing in the province.

At the time of Rosenthal’s appointment, the Courier interviewed two people in Denver who dealt with Rosenthal, who has never worked as a police officer. Cathy Reynolds, a member of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board, said he did “a fantastic job,” adding that law enforcement can be “resistant to any change and the idea that they, for the first time, were going

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Nick Rogers, president of Denver’s police union, declined to speak on the record when contacted by the Courier. “The only thing I’ll say on the record is thanks Canada [for hiring Rosenthal],” said Rogers, whose union represents 1,400 Denver cops.

Neither the Vancouver Police Department nor Vancouver Police Union, which were present when the premier introduced Rosenthal at a news conference in 2012, have made any public complaints against the investigations’ office.

As of last month, the investigations’ office has investigated 32 files where a VPD officer was involved in an incident that resulted in death or serious harm.

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His nomination saw Brendzy win a Vancouver Elementary Physical Activity Association Career Achievement Award Jan. 30.

“He was a shoo-in,” said Coffin, who teaches Grades 3 and 4 at Sir John Franklin elementary school on Skeena Street near East Hastings.

Ron Brandolini from Sir Wilfred Grenfell elementary also received the award.

Brendzy has coached soccer, cross-country running, track and field, volleyball and basketball. If one of his teams is winning by a wide margin, he gets them to, for example, perform layups with their left hands and pass to students who haven’t scored.

How do students feel about that?

“They like it,” Coffin said. “Everybody seems to buy into his system.”

Brendzy is proud to have seen so many of his students participate in school sports.

“That’s been the fun for me to be able to say I

had everyone in my class participating, or 90 per cent of school in track and field,” Brendzy said. “It’s all about lifelong skills and showing the students that it’s important to participate, live a healthy life and be active.”

Coffin noted Brendzy, a Vancouver School Board teacher of nearly 35 years, nurtured leadership skills in Grade 7 students by having them organize the school’s sports day.

Brendzy is considered one of the top three square dance callers in Canada and one of the top 10 in the world. He served as square dancing consultant to the VEPAA for approximately 15 years, developed the VSB’s square dance curriculum and provided workshops to teachers.

Brendzy’s parents dragged him to square dancing when he was seven.

“It didn’t take long before I was hooked,” he said.

“Where else do you get to hold the hand of a girl that has to hold your hand when you’re unsure of yourself?”

Brendzy competed in the Pacific Northwest Teen Square Dance Festival, became a trainer, took a sabbatical when he married and then instructed again when his daughter and son

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were old enough to do-sido. Now some of his Franklin students compete.

Brendzy has taken his students kayaking, canoeing and rappelling at Strathcona Park Lodge on Vancouver Island for more than 30 years and led fundraisers to finance the trips.

He has led an annual afternoon of dance for every class, parents and sometimes the preschool, for more than 30 years, boosting school spirit.

“That’s how we survive, the importance of all your kids in the school getting together and being nice to each other and appreciating each other makes the school experience so much for successful for everybody,” he said.

“Thirty-five years have gone by incredibly fast,” Brendzy said. “I was thinking that I was receiving an award for something that I’m so passionate about I don’t even consider it work or extra effort; in fact, those are the things that make me want to be a teacher, just having the opportunity to do those things has made my life more fun, more fulfilling.”

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Metro Vancouver mayors hope that the removal of TransLink’s CEO will sway Metro Vancouver residents to vote yes in an upcoming transit tax plebiscite.

The move comes just one month before the start of the mail-in referendum.

“I’ve made very clear that I wanted to see new leadership at TransLink,” said Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who became chair of TransLink’s Mayors’ Council last month.

“We heard that from mayors around the region, so it’s good to see the board taking this action.”

“There have been real concerns around SkyTrain breakdown, there have been concerns about executive pay and historically the need for streamlining the staff and executive.”

Robertson declined to say whether he and Linda Hepner, the mayor of Surrey and vice-chair of the Mayors’ Council, had pushed for the ousting, but:

“this is a perspective we certainly supported at the board table.”

TransLink board chair Marcella Szel said the move was needed “to restore public confidence.” TransLink has been under fire after two lengthy SkyTrain delays this summer; delays to the Compass card and fare gates; and its high level of executive pay compared with transit authorities in other major Canadian cities.

Jarvis will continue to consult as an adviser to TransLink’s board until his contract ends in June 2016, meaning he will continue to collect his $400,000-plus annual salary. Bruce Allen, who was the CEO of InTransit BC, the company that operates the Canada Line, will serve as interim CEO until a new CEO can be recruited.

Jordan Bateman, who as B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is running the no side campaign, said TransLink and the mayors haven’t gone far enough.

“Now we’re paying for one CEO to stay and advise

the board, we’re going to pay a second CEO $35,000 a month to run the place, while we pay a firm to find a third CEO,” Bateman said.

TransLink should not be given any additional funds until it can prove, over a two to three year period, that “they … can spend money efficiently or effectively,” said Bateman.

The yes side has so far avoided talking about public dissatisfaction with TransLink, and has instead focused on the message that new money is urgently needed to fund transit improvements in the region.

The Mayors’ Council has proposed a regional 0.5% increase to the provincial sales tax in order to fund local government’s portion of a $7.5 billion transportation plan. That plan includes three light rail lines in Surrey, a subway along Vancouver’s Broadway corridor, a new Pattullo Bridge and improved bus service across the region.

TransLink has cut service in recent years after several funding mechanisms were

rejected by provincial and municipal governments.

Bateman maintains that municipal governments could find their share of the money by restraining future spending. He said that even if residents vote no to the tax hike, the Pattullo bridge and Surrey light rail would be funded by other means.

Greg Moore, mayor of Port Coquitlam, said that is not the case.

“Even if there is costsharing with the regional government, the region still needs to come forward with its own portion of the money as well as the operating [funds],” Moore said.

TransLink was governed by the Mayors’ Council until 2008, when then-transportation minister Kevin Falcon changed the governance to an appointed board. The mayors recently regained some measure of control when Todd Stone, currently minister of transportation, gave the Mayors’ Council more control over TransLink, including regional transportation strategies and setting executive pay levels.

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Opinion Firing TransLink chief Life, death and dreams a necessary move about a strange world Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com There is no question that if the Yes side in this transit plebiscite expected any hope of winning, they had to shake up TransLink.

Even at the biggest Yes campaign rally packed with more than 300 supporters and glitterati — from David Suzuki to Iain Black — at the Segal School of Business last week, I’m told, most of the media questions were not about the plebiscite. They were about TransLink and its dysfunctional governance.

Efforts to change the topic to “let’s talk about what is on the ballot” proved futile.

So this week’s move, knocking off CEO Ian Jarvis and replacing him with Doug Allen as “interim CEO” was necessary. (Until this week Allen was president and CEO of the company that built and runs the Canada Line.) The mostly appointed TransLink board of directors only made the final decision in camera to knock Jarvis out of the CEO spot Tuesday. Board chair Marcella Szel was the messenger.

But the move was driven by their two newest members and the only elected politicians on the board, Mayor Gregor Roberts and Surrey mayor Linda Hepner.

(Robertson and Hepner got on that board by bumping off North Vancouver District mayor Richard Walton as chair of the thus-far toothless TransLink Mayors Council a month ago.)

Just so you understand who is really in control of TransLink, for Robertson and Hepner, convincing the TransLink board and its appointed members to push Jarvis out of the way was not a problem.

The board would have dumped him some time ago but the province blocked them.

So that is what Robertson and Hepner and various and sundry staffers spent their time working on for the past month. They needed agreement from the premier’s office and Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone to get it done.

The reason for the province’s initial refusal, I’m told, was because of Premier Christy Clark’s reluctance to pay a fat severance package to a fired executive.

But part of the stalling can be attributed to the general stumbling approach

the province has taken during this whole affair.

Recall the premier said we would have a multi-part question.

Then we learned it would be a single Yes or No question.

We were then told the province was going to remain neutral. But then it said it would support the Yes side.

We were supposed to have a binding referendum. That was changed to a nonbinding plebiscite.

And then the question presented to Victoria by the mayors was watered down. What started as a question that included very specific points about a subway for Vancouver and light rail for Surrey became more vague. A commitment within the question to protect funds raised “by independent audits and public reporting” was pushed up into the preamble.

At first it wasn’t clear if the new tax would apply to the same items as the PST or be a separate tax on your bill.

That annoyed retailers. Then the province decided the tax would simply be added to the PST. And finally, there are still no regulations coming from the province as to how the vote will be run and we are about four weeks out from receiving those mail-in ballots.

But back to the hit on TransLink’s CEO Ian Jarvis: As it stands now Jarvis has been given what is called “working notice,” meaning he will continue to collect his $39,000 monthly salary for the next 15 months and be an adviser to the board: heard but not seen.

Doug Allen, the new interim face of TransLink, will receive $35,000 a month for his six month engagement.

It is considered a small price to pay.

Besides, people were screaming for change in governance, and as the old saying goes: “A fish rots from the head.”

So off with the head.

The search is now on for Jarvis’s permanent replacement. They will most certainly be from outside TransLink.

The board has no confidence than anyone currently on staff can do the job.

Meanwhile pollsters at Insights West are in the field testing public sentiment to see if the Yes side continues to slip.

That leaves one unanswered question: While firing Ian Jarvis may have been necessary, will it be sufficient to guarantee the Yes side a win? twitter.com/allengarr

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Geoff Olson Columnist mwiseguise@yahoo.com It was a warm summer night. Standing on the porch, I could see the house across the street dimly lit by sodium streetlights. In the garden, a warm breeze set the leaves in rippling motion.

I could feel it whispering across the hair on my arms.

The funny thing was, I couldn’t remember getting out of bed and opening the front door.

Feeling slightly ridiculous, I attempted a small exercise in reality-testing.

I lifted my arms and willed myself upward. My feet left the ground and I watched the porch and garden recede below me.

I woke up with a start. The lucid dream I had just astonished myself out from was indistinguishable in finegrained realism to the waking world.

This was a few years ago. The other day I stood looking out the living room window at another grey day. Raindrops pinged off the driveway. There was the house across the street, in broad daylight. But no waking up from this: my neighbour there recently died from a brain tumour.

He was a 34-year-old high school science teacher and father of two.

Beekeeping and maple tree tapping were part of his hands-on practice of sustainable living. Always prepared to help neighbours, he even built an extra garden bed in his backyard for my wife and I to grow vegetables.

I accompanied him on walks and visits to the gym in his final months, even as cancer began to rob him of mobility and vision.

Some are certain that death is oblivion: when the brain is finally switched off, the mind winks out like the screen on an old cathode ray television. Others are convinced that consciousness somehow survives death.

Then there’s people like me: allergic to fixed beliefs but open to new information and experiences.

My life has spanned the time of pocket calculators and the era of smartphones with more computing power than the Apollo moon missions. So I’m fascinated with how impossibilities become pedestrian, and dreams reality.

And I’m amused at the epic fails of past “experts” to predict the future.

In the early 19th century, a profes-

sor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College in London deemed rail travel at high speed impossible because air would be forced out of cabins and passengers would die of asphyxia.

“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere,” insisted the New York Times in 1936. “This is the biggest fool thing we have ever done.

The [atomic] bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives,” fulminated American Admiral William D. Leahy during the Second World War. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home,” concluded Ken Olson, president of a ’70s firm that made business mainframe computers.

So much for secular-based prophecy.

And ironically, in doing their best to exorcise magic from the world, scientists have only succeeded in chasing it out to the edges of space or down to subatomic scales, where an electron can be two places at the same time and violate laws that work for beads and baseballs.

The more we try pin down nature, the more “she recedes into the Land of Quarks, leaving nothing behind but the shadow of materialism itself,” wrote Patrick Harpur in his 2002 book The Philosopher’s Secret Fire. “It is not so much that the objects which rationalism reflects become irrational; it’s more that the mirror of rationalism itself distorts, sending back weird images of astral enormities and bizarre quantum events,” he writes.

My point is that we live in a technological world that, by the measures of previous generations, is utterly dreamlike — and occasionally nightmarish.

Furthermore, the entities that compose our cosmos behave more like the mercurial beings of folklore and mythology than billiard balls colliding on a pool table.

The fixed beliefs of my youth have loosened with age (my teeth will surely follow). As the saying goes, the one thing certain about life is that no one gets out alive.

That said, I’d like to think that after his anxiety and pain, my friend and neighbour Gord peacefully slipped from one dream to another.

That we live in a universe of doorways rather than dead ends: is that what’s hinted at by lucid dreaming? geoffolson.com

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In thousands of dollars, the monthly salary deposed TransLink CEO Ian Jarvis will continue to receive for the next 15 months.

In thousands of dollars, the amount of money raised to purchase a new CT scanner for Mount Saint Joseph Hospital at a fundraiser co-sponsored by the Courier.

The percentage the cost of an average detached home has gone up by since this time last year.

The number of hours Harlem Globetrotters mascot Big G spent in police custody after being seized in a stolen property investigation.

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Feb. 12, 2010: The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies at BC Place begin on a sombre note after being dedicated to 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died while practising the previous day. Ceremony mastermind David Atkins spent somewhere between $30 million and $40 million on the production that began with snowboarder Johnny Lyall jumping through the Olympic rings. An estimated 23 million Canadians — or two out of three — watched at least some of the broadcast performance, which ended on an awkward note after the Olympic cauldron malfunctioned and left speedskater Catriona Le May Doan, one of four torchbearers, stuck with nothing to do.

Skier wins Canada’s first medal

Feb. 13, 2010: Canada claimed its first medal of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games when freestyle skier Jennifer Heil picked up a silver in the women’s moguls final at Cypress Mountain. Heil had won gold in the same event at the 2006 Turin Games and hoped to make history by winning Canada’s first Olympic gold medal at home. In heavy rain, the Alberta woman charged down the soppy mogul field, nailed both her jumps and went over the finish line to take over first place, but American Hannah Kearney then won the battle of the clock with a time of 27.86 seconds. Heil finished four-hundredths of a second back at 27.90 seconds.

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The anti-transit zealots are scraping the bottom when they say TransLink’s financial management “seems on a level with Zimbabwe.” I ask readers whether they honestly believe Vote No crusaders who are prone to such statements. Meanwhile, here are some facts: 1) TransLink delivers very good service at reasonable public cost. Considering its complex operations, and (yes) impressive service, TransLink ranks high on both ridership and customer satisfaction. Its spending is reasonable, according to a 2012 audit by the B.C. government. That audit also called TransLink’s compensation structure “in the mid range and reasonable,” suggesting that the topic of executive compensation has been blown out of proportion. TransLink’s CEO has a wide range of responsibilities compared with transit heads in most cities, and earns less than CEOs at the Vancouver Airport Authority, B.C. Hydro, B.C. Ferries and Port Metro Vancouver. Auditors did suggest potential efficiencies, which are being pursued. Meanwhile, Vancouver’s SkyTrain is one of the lowest-operating-cost light-rail networks in the world, and the Canada Line project came in on budget and on time.

2) TransLink has been highly successful at getting people out of their cars and onto transit. Compared with other mediumsized cities in North America, Vancouver has — by far — the highest transit ridership per capita. On this important measure of “how good is the public transit,” the next best city is Portland — which has only one-third the number of people, per capita, riding transit that Vancouver does. Around the continent, only the much-larger New York and Toronto have higher per-capita ridership.

Voters may have reasonable criticisms of TransLink, but the upcoming referendum can’t address those. What it can do is get more and better transit to make our region ever-more workable and liveable.

Eleanor Boyle, Vancouver

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Re: “Feathers should fly over Jurassic World blunder,” Feb. 11.

1. Continuity. You add truly feathered dinosaurs in Jurassic World and it messes up whatever continuity audience expectations desire.

2. The dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park franchise are not representative of what dinosaurs ever actually looked like. Dr. Grant even said that they were genetic monstrosities. Dr. Sorkin in the game mentioned their lack of feathers as something likely resulting from the amphibian DNA used to fill in the gaps. They know about the feathers and they came up with an in-universe explanation as to why there aren’t any.

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I greatly enjoy the story and history of Joe Fortes. Recently I heard that developers have their eyes set on Alexandra Park, where Joe Fortes fountain is located.

Should the city and the park board attempt to sell this land, that will truly be the final nail in the coffin of what Vancouver was, and what it could become.

If it weren’t for the greed of developers, and unscrupulous civic politicians this city could be so much more that just a haven for condo construction.

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its environmental effects, i.e. birds, and avoids discussion of why we need to be involuntarily exposed to video screens outside anyway. Is it because Telus Gardens’ developer gets bored on a wet Wednesday night just “walking home in the middle of winter?” Is there something wrong with her phone? And does that mean the screen is not going to run in the spring, summer and fall?

So those sucked, then I couldn’t find Kudos & Kvetches, the centre spread was devoted to private school ads, you printed two comments about the Tragically Hip concert from people who didn’t even attend it. I was there and it was great.

These are not good trends. Please don’t go downhill. You’re the only Vancouver news organ I trust(ed).

(On the plus side, you still had Geoff Olson and Mike Howell.)

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A Valentine’s Day yarn bomb near the intersection of Main and Kingsway. The seeming randomness of sudden love in Western culture is not reflected in more traditional communities which see courtship as a family affair. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

A traditional Valentine for arranged marriages Many Muslim and Jewish families carefully vet children’s prospective mates PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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While school kids are handing out Valentine’s cards and adults are calculating the exertion required to avoid disappointing partners, it’s interesting to note that there is a whole swath of society for whom courting rituals still reflect a more traditional approach.

Sure, anyone can get in on the fun of roses and heart-shaped chocolate, cut-out Cupids and cinnamon candies. But marriage-minded young adults of various cultures in Vancouver more often than you might think fall back on what are loosely defined as “arranged marriages.”

The term is problematic because it covers a huge swath of practices. This was a topic of discussion

between Muslim and Jewish students at UBC last month, who together watched a screening of the film Arranged and then discussed the ideas it raises. The film is a sweet drama of an Orthodox Jewish woman and a traditional Muslim woman, both public school teachers in New York, who become friends and find the similarities in their lives outweigh the differences. The movie has the qualities of an ABC Afterschool Special, but it served its purpose in getting the audience talking.

An interesting aspect of the film is the two rookie teachers standing up to the older principal, an apparently secular Jewish woman who is a veteran of the feminist movement. The principal’s condescending attitude to the younger women’s adherence to tradition was believable, amusing and a

bit infuriating.

Both the women in the film are seeking a husband and suffer particular pressures from their families, including, in one case, the need to marry off the older daughter so as not to hold up the prospects of the younger sisters (and brides-to-be) coming up.

Jewish and Muslim panelists after the film stressed that the term “arranged” marriage is entirely different from “forced” marriage, noting that, as in the film, women in arranged marriages are not forced to marry without their consent.

In the film, the Jewish family consulted a shadchen, a matchmaker, who leafed through her catalogue of eligible young men. In the Muslim case, the family plumbed connections in a less formal way. One of the notable requirements by prospective brides and their

families — Muslim and Jewish — was education and a good job, a reality attested to humourously by some students during the discussion. (“What makes an eligible bachelor?”

Answer: “An engineering degree.”) While there are online matchmaking sites for just Muslims and just Jews and just about anyone else, the message from the film and some of the postscreening conversation suggests LinkedIn is a more legitimate matchmaking destination for many than MeetMuslimSingles.com or Jdate.

Dr. Abdel Azim Zumrawi, the Muslim chaplain at UBC, stresses that there is no single Muslim tradition around this topic and that customs vary greatly by religious stream, language, place and family.

In the contemporary world, it is acceptable and common for young Muslims to date, he says, but

it must be done with the full knowledge of the family. Mutual friends may arrange set-ups, he adds, but this is not a happy-golucky scene.

“Courtship only happens if it’s for the intention of marriage,” Zumrawi says.

Rabbi Chalom Loeub and his wife Esti spoke as a Jewish couple whose marriage was a result of a fairly traditional arrangement. They participated in what would have appeared to outsiders as conventional dates, but the intention from the first interaction was exclusively to determine whether this was a pairing suitable for marriage.

“She knows why you’re there. You know why you’re there,” says the rabbi. By the second or third date, you know if you’re a fit. In their case, they had six or seven dates before becoming engaged.

Long engagements are not

encouraged after a couple deems the match good.

Arranged marriages, in traditional Jewish and Muslim families, among others, are an indication that, despite all the integration into Canadian society, differences still remain strong around accommodating ideas of individual happiness with familial, community or collective well-being and continuity.

To some, though, the idea of arranged marriages must still sound odd. But consider the other extreme.

Valentine’s Day exemplifies the idea that a chubby angel with a bow and arrow might randomly shoot love into the heart of a soul mate.

Given the arbitrariness of that approach, the idea of having family and friends vet a potential life partner seems somehow less backward. twitter.com/Pat604Johnson

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News Fast fashion worries retailers

Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo’s looming arrival in Vancouver could cause a further hollowing out of local mid-market competitors and could even lead to a call for new environmental laws.

Last month Uniqlo, which is known for its “fast fashion,” announced it would be opening two stores in Toronto in 2016 and expected to move into Vancouver after that.

Fast fashion refers to clothes that imitate new runway designs quickly and inexpensively. Rather than having four fashion lines per year, clothing manufacturers increasingly have new items that incorporate micro-trends monthly if not weekly.

Demand for these lines has helped propel the US$3 trillion worldwide fashion industry’s production to about 80 billion new garments annually, according to Lucy Siegle, who wrote the book To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out The World?

Siegle calls the garments made by stores like Uniqlo, H&M and Zara “disposable clothing” because much of it ends up in landfills.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimated in 2012 that only 14.4 per cent of clothing and footwear was recycled or reused. The remainder wound up in landfills.

“Fast fashion is a race to the bottom,” said Ed DesRoches, co-owner of Plum Clothing Ltd. “We don’t like the trend. We think it’s destructive and environmentally harmful.”

Plum’s strategy is to sell higher-quality garments, half of which are made in Canada.

Raymond Shoolman, a retail analyst with DIG360 Consulting Ltd., said people still want quality clothing, and they will pay high prices for some things.

“They then increasingly are rounding out their wardrobe with much more affordable, fast-fashion items,” Shoolman said.

The result is a squeeze on mid-market clothing retailers, such as Mexx, which announced in January that it would liquidate its 95 Canadian stores.

Shoolman pointed to the 55-year-old Le Château as another casualty of this trend, given that its stock has been scraping near-all-time lows.

— Glen Korstrom

Big G reunited with Harlem Globetrotters

Harlem Globetrotters’ mascot Big G was literally pumped for last night’s game at Pacific Coliseum

against the Washington Generals following 24 hours in the Vancouver police’s lock-up.

VPD officers responded to an East Vancouver apartment Feb. 10 to

recover a stolen computer.

While inside the suite, police located a number of other suspected stolen items. Without being able to track down the rightful owners, the goods were

taken to the VPD’s property office pending further investigation. .

Following Wednesday’s media coverage of the stolen mascot, officers recognized that one of the

Public Hearing: February 24

Vancouver’s 2015 Budget

Tuesday, February 24, 2015, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Council Chamber

Review the draft budget and share your thoughts

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning amendments for these locations: 1. 445 Southwest Marine Drive (Marine Gardens) To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (71) By-law No. 4570 for 445 Southwest Marine Drive to permit the development of two residential towers at 27 and 21 storeys, containing 512 market strata units, and a seven-storey residential building containing a 37-space childcare facility at grade and 70 secured market rental housing units, for a total of 582 residential units. A height of 71.6 metres (235 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.21 are proposed.

2. 450 Gore Avenue To rezone 450 Gore Avenue from RT-3 (Two-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey mixed-use building containing retail at grade and a total of 61 for-profit affordable rental housing units. A height of 21.6 metres (70.9 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.5 are proposed.

3. 1070 and 1090 West Pender Street To rezone 1070 and 1090 West Pender Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 31-storey office building with retail uses at grade.

A height of 123.4 metres (405 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 18.22 are proposed.

4. 408-488 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 408-488 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (OneFamily Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential development comprised of 32 community care bedrooms and 103 seniors supportive or assisted housing units, in which 47 of the latter would be strata titled and 56 would be secured as market rental. A height of 20.3 metres (66.5 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.27 are proposed.

5. 2095 West 43rd Avenue To rezone 2095 West 43rd Avenue from RM-3A (Multiple Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a four-storey mixed-use building containing commercial space at grade and a total of 17 dwelling units. A height of 14.6 metres (48 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.30 are proposed.

items resembled Big G. The winner of the Globetrotters’ game against the Generals was decided after the Courier’s press deadline.

— Andrew Fleming

The City of Vancouver’s annual budget outlines how tax dollars and funding will be invested to help provide the services that our residents value, such as the operations and maintenance of streets, parks, community centres, libraries and police and fire services. Spending is aligned with the priorities of our community and City Council, with the goal of delivering a high level of services as efficiently as possible. Over the past few months, citizens have shared their views on services and priorities with us through a questionnaire to help inform the budget process.

The draft of the 2015 budget is available online at vancouver.ca/budget.

Learn more and provide your feedback in the following ways.

COME TO A PUBLIC DIALOGUE: Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 6 - 8 pm Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Avenue, Ground Floor Town Hall Meeting Room City finance staff will present an overview of the draft budget and be available for discussion.

SEND QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO STAFF OR COUNCIL: • Email finance staff at budget@vancouver.ca • Email Council at mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca SPEAK AT A COUNCIL MEETING: Presentation of draft budget to Council Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 9:30 am at Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Council Chamber To speak at the February 24 meeting, sign up by emailing: mayorandcouncil@vancouver.caor phoning 3-1-1 Come to the Council meeting on March 3, 2015 to hear Council’s decision on the budget (9:30 am at City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Council Chamber).

Questions? Phone 3-1-1

6. 5080, 5060, 5040 and 5030 Quebec Street To rezone 5080, 5060, 5040 and 5030 Quebec Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a five-storey residential building containing a total of 38 dwelling units. A height of 18.9 metres (62 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.3 are proposed.

7. 1600, 1600A and 1620 West 6th Avenue To rezone 1600, 1600A and 1620 West 6th Avenue from C-3A (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 12-storey residential building containing a total of 99 secured market rental housing units. A height of 31.44 metres (103.2 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 4.37 are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038

Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually by 5 pm on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604 829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City's website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws are available for viewing at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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As millions around the world celebrate Chinese New Year next Thursday, it also means letting go of the Year of the Horse and ringing in the Year of the Sheep based on the 12 signs of the zodiac cycle. Los explains each of the 12 animal signs represents certain energies, which are also present in a person’s home. In order to welcome good fortune into the New Year, the Chinese participate in a ritual of thorough house cleaning days before the end of the year as a way to sweep away the old, accumulated energies of the past and prepare for the new energies of the coming months.

Positive energies are also commonly referred to as luck or fortune, which are optimized in the days leading up to Chinese New Year through holiday rituals and customs. The holiday lasts for 15 days of the first month according to the Chinese calendar.

Other rituals like getting a new haircut and buying new clothes for Chinese New Year are also ways to maximize good fortune.

“It’s like you’re psychologically prepared and ready for what comes and so that if an opportunity comes your way, you’re actually ready to capture it rather than be behind the eight ball,” says Los. The words “feng shui” mean wind and water in Chinese. They are elements associated with good fortune. Feng shui is based on the Taoist understanding of nature, particularly the idea the land is alive and filled with energy. The practice

of feng shui includes creating harmonious exterior and interior spaces that induce good fortune.

Los recommends placing auspicious symbols around the house that represent growth such as fruits, flowers, bamboo and orchids for their longevity.

“Whether you know about feng shui or not, pay attention to your front entrance,” added Los. “It’s the most important thing in feng shui for how energy comes into your house.”

It’s not uncommon for Los to reorient seating arrangements in people’s homes or recommend clients to switch bedrooms to invite more energy in.

After 20 years of studying feng shui, which first started as a hobby, Los sees no end in sight in learning the scholarly art dating back several thousand years in China. The study involves reading complex formulas and concepts.

In her consultations with individuals and businesses, Los insists her conclusions are always backed up with formulas. But despite the complexity, she acknowledges it’s part science and part “common sense.” In fact, good interior and exterior environments in feng shui are also common features potential buyers and renters consider when choosing a home, such as safety, landscape, and noise level.

“An environment that can grow a plant is usually an environment that can support a person,” says Los. “It can’t be too windy… A good garden needs water, it needs sunlight, it needs protection. So front doors that have that environment already is considered lucky.

Whereas a front door that is windy and dark and noisy and drafty isn’t so lucky.”

Feng shui master Marlyna Los predicts Jenny Peng may be married before year’s end.

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ma consultations with feng shui masters Another element that affects personal destiny according to feng shui philosophy is the timing of one’s birth. Fortune teller and feng shui master Sherman Tai was quick to dispel the misconception among some Chinese couples that those born in the Year of the Sheep won’t attract good fortune.

This misconception arises from the belief that people end up with qualities associated with their zodiac sign. Some couples believe Sheep Year babies may lack leadership qualities, be less creative and are followers. Tai calls these interpretations “wrong.” He says all zodiac signs have their flaws, but added the sheep is associated with virtues such as courage, patience and artistic.

Based on statistics, Tai predicts the coming year will be filled with changes.

He suggests preparing so that when the right timing comes, “you need to have the courage like the sheep.”

Love in the sheep year using feng shui

By Rodika Tchi, feng shui expert

If you want more love in your life, start with your bedroom, make sure it’s well designed for two people and has a nourishing sensual energy. This applies to all decor elements — from your bedroom art to the texture and colours of your bed sheets. Next, move to your kitchen and bathroom — are they supportive of love energy? Are they clean, orderly and beautiful? Do you love your bedroom, your kitchen and your bathroom? In feng shui, they create the love trinity — an energy grid that, when treated right, supports the energy of love.

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East meets west on Chinese New Year dumpling menu

By Jenny Peng jennypeng08@gmail.com The subject of dumplings around this time of year hits particularly close to home for former Top Chef Canada contestant Curtis Luk and restaurant owner Ray Loy. The two men were born in Hong Kong, but grew up on opposite sides of Canada’s foodie scene. Luk was raised in Toronto while Loy is a Strathcona native who’s been living in the neighbourhood for four decades. After working in Kitsilano’s Fable, and the Parker vegetarian restaurant, Luk has stationed himself as head chef of Bambudda, Loy’s dream restaurant at 99 Powell Street.

“My family emigrated here from Hong Kong in 1972, and I still live on the same block to this day. I remember walking the streets of Gastown and Chinatown in the ‘70s and it was a lot different back then,” says Loy. “But one thing that never changed was for Chinese New Year, every Chinese New Year daytime we would always make dumplings as a family.”

In the days leading up to Chinese New Year, countries in Asia will experience

the biggest holiday migration during the year when city dwellers rush back to their hometowns for the generational family reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, which will be celebrated Feb. 18 this year. Dumplings are one of the most commonly eaten dishes during the celebrations. It symbolizes wealth for the New Year because its shape resembles silver and gold boat-shaped ingots. “[We] would always roll dumplings as a family with grandmother, mother, brother, aunts, uncles on the day of Chinese New Year and would fry, steam, boil them over the course of a couple of days, which was the inspiration behind this year’s theme.”

Chef Luk will recreate some of their shared family memories in this year’s Dumpling Festival menu at the restaurant featuring four traditional cooking techniques and a non-traditional dessert dish featuring:

• Prosperity: Boiled pork and truffle dumplings served on egg noodles • Peace: Fried lamb cumin curry dumplings • Love: Chocolate kumquat mochi dessert dumplings Luk says the pairing embodies the restaurant’s philosophy of creating a different, nontraditional menu using familiar techniques and recipes rooted in Chinese and Cantonese cooking, such as using lettuce to envelope the filling instead of the standard flour wrapping. The result is a blend of east meets west the restaurant terms “nouveau Chinese.”

Since joining Bambudda in October, Luk has been creating an entirely different menu based on both his and Loy’s experiences growing up.

• Happiness: Pan-seared oyster and chicken lettuce dumplings in ginger soy

“Curtis, he’s a talented chef,” says Loy. “He fits the concept more so than any of our previous chefs just because he has that knowledge of Chinese cuisine, he grew up eating it, his knowledge of that coupled with Western or European techniques is really what we wanted to do.”

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It may be unusually warm and too wet for February, but it remains perfect weather for planting hardy early vegetables.

People who didn’t put garlic in the soil in fall, have a great chance to plant it now and still get a decent crop by August.

Garlic is so pungent nothing molests it in the garden during winter.

But for shallots, spring planting is much safer in gardens where voles tunnel under the soil. The gardener wonders why the shallots aren’t growing and uncovers a row of shallot-shaped holes.

Soil pests are one situation where containers are a more manageable situation for growing vegetables than the open garden. In early spring, containers set against a house wall also tend to be a warmer situation and are especially useful for salad crops.

Arugula can be started any time now. It’s quite cold-hardy with leaves that taste spicy and nutty and really liven up salads.

Once arugula plants get close to flowering and also once the weather becomes warmer, the flavour becomes very hot. You can keep arugula going quite a while by frequent cutting.

The variety called ‘Wild Arugula’ is perennial.

Green onions are ideal for container planting outside now. Their vertical growth habit allows you to get masses of salad material out of very small space.

Corn salad can also be

started in containers, it’s a cold-hardy shapely little plant when young with dark green, glossy leaves and a mild, flavour. Once you plant one patch, you’ll have masses of seed for ever-more. There’s a variety called Granon, which holds its leaves up away from the soil It’s also time to plant radishes. The spring radishes are globe-shaped and very fast-growing. They do appreciate rich soil and lots of water. Lots of gardeners come to grief with the radish bulb fly — row covers really help here — and all the more if the radishes are grown in containers. Used on top of containers, row covers don’t get as muddy and can be reused for years.

Spinach is hardy enough to be seeded outside now and this season keeping the seedbed adequately moist doesn’t look like any problem. The big need of spinach is nitrogen and as the weather gets warmer and lawn-mowing starts spinach does well growing among grass-clippings to hold in moisture. If you always choose the outer leaves, you can keep harvesting spinach for a long time.

The vegetables that really need to be started inside in February are winter leeks because they take a very long time to grow to transplantable size. These are very frost-hardy, usually dark green or purplish and larger and sturdier than the summer leeks. Leeks are transplanted in late April or May by being dropped into holes poked into the soil.

This is also the time to plant broad beans. This is one crop (like peas) that

leaves the soil better than it finds it because it fixes nitrogen from the air into root nodules which nourish other plants. These are best picked very young because the skin of broad beans gets very tough as they mature.

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HORSE POWER: Mount Saint Joseph Hospital ushered in the Year of the Sheep in grand style. Once again their annual Scotiabank Feast of Fortune fundraiser, sponsored by the Vancouver Courier, was a sell-out drawing movers and shakers to the multi-course dinner and auction. This year’s affair saw a little more horsepower as party chairs Margaret Chiu, Chris Stepien and Heather Pei Huang, and honorary chairs Grant Lin and Sing Lim Yeo revved up the program inviting Luxury Supercar Weekend creator Craig Stowe to participate in the live auction. Stowe convinced dealers to offer successful bidders to get to the front of the line to purchase luxury vehicles such as a Range Rover, Maserati and McLaren, which has extensive waiting periods of up to three years. No surprise the final tally blew past the traditional $500,000 raised.

Proceeds of $728,000 will support the purchase of a new CT scanner for the east side hospital.

BRAIN HEALTH: Margaret Trudeau headlined the B.C. Brain Injury Association’s annual Cocktail Fundraising Gala.

Torrential rain did not deter guests who filed into the Winsor Gallery to hear from the celebrated Canadian and mental health advocate. The 67-year-old recounted her struggle with bipolar disorder, its challenges and her journey to get help. Joining Trudeau was fellow speaker Ellie Ennas, who shared her own story of recovering from a brain injury sustained in a car accident that almost killed her. The evening of inspiration, chaired by Liz Baron and Susanne Sherwood, brought together health professionals, advocates, educators and survivors focused on raising $40,000 to support the province’s brain injury community.

President Patti Flaherty, right, welcomed Margaret Trudeau to the B.C. Brain Injury Association of B.C.’s annual Cocktail Fundraising party.

Gala chairs Liz Baron, left, and Susanne Sherwood aimed to raise $40,000 to help BCBIA support those recovering from brain injuries.

Scotiabank Feast of Fortune chairs Chris Stepian, Margaret Chiu and Heather Pei Huang saw a record amount raised for Mount Saint Joseph Hospital. Since its inception, the fundraiser has generated more than $3 million for priority needs.

Luxury Supercar Weekend founder Craig Stowe added some horsepower to foundation CEO Ann Adams’ Mount Saint Joseph hospital fundraiser.

Stowe’s front of the line options to purchase indemand cars helped net $728,000 to purchase a new CT scanner.

From left, Suzanne Bidinost, executive chef Shelley Robinson and GM Kathryn MacDonald hosted Van Mag’s Big Night Bash at their Coast Harbour Hotel. The food and wine grazer supported Les Dames d’Escoffier, a philanthropic organization of professional women in the food and hospitality industry supporting the next generation of culinary leaders.

MAXIMUM EXPOSURE: Vancouver boasts some of the world’s top photographers. Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace and Stan Douglas are among a group of artists known internationally for their canon of photographic art. Given the city’s burgeoning photography scene, Kim Spencer-Nairn founded the Capture Photography Festival. The night marked the launch of the festival’s new “Mini” Artist Editions series. Fittingly held at Mini Yaletown, artists Danny Singer, Scott Massey and Birthe Piontek displayed and sold limited editions of their generally larger-than-life photographic works to support the April 2 to 29 festival of photography.

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From left, board director Todd Towers and Capture Photo Festival founder Kim Spencer-Nairn fronted the annual benefit at Mini Yaletown in support of the citywide festival promoting photography.

Scott Massey displayed and sold limited editions of his photographic works in support of the Capture Photo Festival running April 2 to 29.

Blue Water Café’s Frank Pabst was among gold-winning chefs from the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards serving up delicious bites at the publication’s annual Big Night bash benefitting Ann Kirsebom’s Les Dames d’Escoffier organization.

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It’s a little after 5 p.m. when our plane descends into Cabo San Lucas.

Joanne, my best friend of nearly four decades, and I are about to embark on a 10-day luxury getaway through the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.

As we pass through the clouds, the vast coastline appears, sun-kissed and drenched in the blue, blue waters of the Sea of Cortez at the point it joins the Pacific Ocean.

Joanne and I can’t believe that after dreaming about “someday traveling to an exotic locale together” that someday is actually here.

This adventure is all about relaxation, decadence and some serious best girlfriends bonding and, like A-listers, we’re lucky enough to have been invited to visit two of Cabo’s most magnificence resorts and dine in some of its finest restaurants.

Considered one of Mexico’s fastest growing tourist centres, breathtaking

The highlight of snorkelling at Lover’s Beach on the Baha Peninsula was a seahorse sighting.

kilometer after kilometer of oceanfront playground separates Baja’s two cape towns — one lively, the other more laidback.

We grab a cab and head to the Esperanza, our home for the next few days.

Imagine a resort where you have commanding views of both the Sea of Cortez and

Punta Ballena, and your room is a haven of luxury.

(We are in good company — President Obama stayed during the G20 summit in 2012 and actress Gwyneth Paltrow married rocker Chris Martin here.)

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to leave the resort.

When it came to lounging away entire afternoons, the poolside beckoned. After walks along the beach, we would laze on the side of the infinite pool, submerge our feet and order mango margaritas. Whoever said sunbathing was bad for you was obviously at the wrong

resort. But we did a lot more than lounge in the sun.

Snorkelling and kayaking at Arch and Lover’s Beach, Cabos San Lucas

“It’s a seahorse… I’m telling you it’s a seahorse!”

I swim towards Joanne, who is diving in and out

trying to catch another glimpse of an “honest to goodness seahorse.” I dive in and there it is moving away from me — a yellow seahorse!

Earlier, after a short instructional lesson by our Cabo Outfitters guides, we kayak out to what’s known as the Arch, past the sea lion colony and around Land’s End into the Pacific. The distinctive landmark of Cabo San Lucas is the rugged El Arco, the arch rock formation at the tip of the Baja Peninsula.

We land at Lover’s Beach and instantly dropped our towels. The clear azure water is one of the best and safest snorkeling spots in Cabo San Lucas. With its colourful coral-coated rocks, we bob past other snorkellers around the base of the rocks. Besides our excitement over our seahorse sighting, we are rewarded with a kaleidoscope of marine life including schools of green and blue parrot fish and striped sergeant major fish.

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The first evening, we dress up and head to the Hacienda Cocina y Cantina. The resort’s signature restaurant merges traditional Mexican architecture with casual beachfront dining for an elegant, relaxed experience. With a breeze gently cooling us, we sit on the terraza overlooking the infinity pools, cascading water features and ocean.

The only thing to rival the view was the cuisine.

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Besides shopping and dinning our way through Cabo, we completely submerged ourselves in sublime leisure. In spite of all the tourists, Cabo still manages to retain something of a small town feel.

As we flew home, we both agree — this isn’t the last time we visit this gem.

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HELEN YAGI Publicity Manager I have been working in Publicity and Marketing for several years in Vancouver’s independent film, arts and environmental communities with the VIFF, Reel 2 Real Film Festival, and Women in Film. The films and speakers at the VIMFF sound very inspiring. I love playing tennis, hiking and swimming, but not too daring in real life so it’s great to get a chance to experience adventures vicariously at the Festival.

Thanks to Milena Salazar for helping out with the publicity.

TOM WRIGHT Programming Manager This is my 5th year working with the films, guest speakers and jury at the VIMFF. I enjoy creating a diverse festival that brings together the international and local outdoor communities, and that is used as a platform for sharing stories, ideas and dreams. I moved to Vancouver from England almost 6 years ago and now live in Squamish, where I can enjoy all the wonders of the Coast Mountains.

SIENEKE TOERING Lobby and Volunteer Coordinator Mountain or Ocean girl, I have yet to figure out which one describes me best. Mountain biking, snowboarding and sailing are amongst my favourite ways to enjoy the beautiful nature in BC. At VIMFF, my outdoor thirst gets well replenished. For the fifth year now I’m helping Alan and the gang to bring together amazing people, films and presentations. My goal: You leave the show inspired and ready for great adventures!

MARC HEWITT Director of Operations & Tour Manager This is my 8th year with VIMFF, and I continue to be amazed by the extreme but undeniably real stories from the VIMFF films and speakers. I manage the operations, strategy, and marketing for all Festival events, and also manage the Tour; allowing this great programming to reach as many outdoor lovers as possible! When out of the office, I enjoy rock climbing, snowboarding, backcountry skiing, beach volleyball, trail running, and cycling.

JENNIFER SANGSTER Production Manager Four years ago I went to my first VIMFF film night, where a friend was volunteering. I was so inspired by the films and speakers, and so moved by the strong community feeling, that I immediately asked about getting involved. Like the other organizers I have a strong passion for the outdoors, spending my free time climbing, hiking, kayaking, and training with horses. I feel privileged to work with such warm, like-minded people.

EAN JACKSON Business Development Manager VIMFF events leave me stoked and inspired. They’re like parties where you get to watch crazy movies, hear interesting people share their adventures AND see your friends over a beer. When not bushwhacking, peak-bagging, jumping-off cliffs on snowshoes or searching for the perfect powder run, I help businesses grow and prosper as management consultant and business professional.

ANDERS MJOS Production Manager For VIMFF I do production and projection. When not working for VIMFF I produce rare isotopes at the local cyclotron. I enjoy working with the great team of VIMFF volunteers and I am getting inspired every year by the VIMFF films and presentations.

KELLY GREEN Production Manager Afflicted with ‘living in the moment syndrome’ I often act on my wanderlust, by calling or whim. A sea kayak guide in summer, outdoor educator year round, I work and play in the ocean, mountains and forests. As the Production Manager for VIMFF, this is my 9th season as a prism for stories and ideas of passion and purpose. VIMFF inspires me to be a bold spirit, stand up for wild places and cultures, and allows me to live simply, travel wide and share happiness, generosity and respect.

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FILM / RISK AND RESCUE (dir. Melanie Wood, Canada, 2015, 26 minutes): Go behind-the-scenes with North Shore Rescue, one of the pre-eminent search and rescue teams in North America. ! INTERMISSION FILM / THE HAND OF FRANKLIN (dir. Frank Wolf, Canada, 2015, 68 minutes): A four person team from North Vancouver attempts to become the first to row the Northwest Passage.

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VIMFF MOUNTAIN MIXER MATINEE

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 2:00PM FILMS / PATIENCE (dir. Jen Randall, UK, 2014, 6 minutes): Patience is about injury, illness, and coming back from them stronger than ever.

THE CAVE CONNECTION: INTO THE UNKNOWN (dir.

Niko Jager, Germany, 2013, 52 minutes): Deep underground in the wilderness of New Zealand there are gigantic and largely unexplored cave systems. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / SOUNDS OF PARAGLIDING (dir. Shams, France, 2014, 3 minutes): Listen to nature’s harmony while the young pilot rhythms the melody with aerobatic paragliding.

AN EDUCATION (dir. Fitz Cahall, USA, 2014, 9 minutes): Mike Libecki and his daughter venture across Antarctica. There are many lessons learned along the way.

FLYING DAGGER (dir. Nic Good, South Africa, 2014, 50 minutes): Jeb Corliss attempts a daring wing-suit flight through the ‘Flying Dagger’.

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BEAUTIFUL BC MATINEE

THE RIO THEATRE, 2:00PM FILMS / STIKINE (dir. Olaf Obsommer, Germany, 2014, 17 minutes): The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River is the Everest of whitewater.

WIDEBOYZ 2: SLENDER GENTLEMAN (dir. Paul Diffley, UK, 2013, 42 minutes): The Boyz face their biggest challenge yet against the sharp granite bite of the mighty Cobra Crack, in Squamish, BC. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / GOING STRONG (dir. Marina Dodis, Canada, 2012, 10 minutes): A short film about local elderly hikers and skiers.

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THE CINEMATHEQUE, 2:00PM FILM / TASHI & THE MONK (dir. Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke, India, 2014, 40 minutes): A unique community in the foothills of the Himalayas which rescues orphaned and neglected children. ! INTERMISSION FILM / TRAILS ACROSS THE STEPPE (dir. Anni Seitz, Germany, 2014, 83 minutes): This movie is about the dreams and opportunities of young Mongolian cross-country skiing athletes.

VIMFF SKI SHOW

RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / VASU SOJITRA: OUT ON A LIMB (dir. Tyler Wilkinson-Ray, USA, 2014, 7 minutes): Adaptive skier, Vasu Sojitra goes deeper into the backcountry completely unassisted.

AFTERGLOW (dir. Nick Waggoner, USA, 2014, 11 minutes): Skiers take to Alaskan spines and BC pillows, shredding the biggest and boldest lines ever ridden at night.

THE LITTLE THINGS (dir. Darcy Turenne, Canada, 2014, 47 minutes): A cast of snowboarders have adopted alternative lifestyles in order to promote sustainable living in their own unique ways. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / BEST IN SNOW (dir. Sam Giffen, USA, 2013, 4 minutes): As skiers we either have them or we have friends with them—powder hounds!

DOWNSIDE UP (dir. Seb Montaz, France, 2013, 32 minutes): Vivian Bruchez explores his backyard on several steep adventures in a winter of exceptional snow.

FJORD NORWAY (dir. Jeff Thomas, Canada, 2013, 8 minutes): For generations explorers have travelled deep into the fjords of the Sunnmøre Alps in Western Norway.

MICA TO GREENLAND (dir, Jay MacMillan, Canada, 2014, 23 minutes): Lucas Debari makes it his mission to plan the perfect expedition to this unidentified glacier in Greenland.

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MARGARET MURPHY: ANOTHER CURVE IN TIME: Cap Blanchet travelled our local waters by boat, always with her 5 children, through the 1920’s, through to the 1940’s.

MARY GAVAN: FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN! The choice was irrevocable: fight the fire themselves or follow the evacuation order. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATIONS / PATRICK LUCAS - THE CHIEF’S RIDE: A MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVENTURE TO THE HEART OF THE TAHLTAN NATION: A true story of personal exploration that follows Patrick’s participation in a 115 km mountain bike charity ride.

ADAM CAMPBELL: NOW THEY CALL ME FLASH: Adam was struck by lightning halfway into a ultra-marathon race in Colorado this past July.

WENDY CHARBONNEAU: SIWASH ROCK AND THE TWO SISTERS: The Two Sisters tells the true story of the twin peaks, and of the heartfelt wish of two young women.

VIMFF ALPINE ADVENTURES

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS - ICEFALL (dir. Joseph Areddy, Switzerland, 2013, 4 minutes): A rare adventure shot in the barren beauty of Norway’s Icefalls.

METANOIA (dir. Jim Aikman, USA, 2014, 83 minutes): From the top of the world to the end of the line, this film follows the life and climbs of Jeff Lowe . Special Appearance in-person: Jeff Lowe ! INTERMISSION FILM / BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (dir. Bertrand Delapierre, France, 2013, 11 minutes): A Mythical route in the Alps.

PRESENTATION / MICHAEL KENNEDY - FINDING THE BALANCE: FORTY YEARS OF LIFE, LOVE AND CLIMBING: In this lavishly illustrated presentation, Michael Kennedy traces a personal journey through the great ranges Alaska, Pakistan, Nepal, and India from 1977 to 1994.

INSPIRING STORIES

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / FORCE (dir. Fitz Cahall, USA, 2014, 18 minutes): A climber’s passion for the jagged skyline of the Fitz Roy Massif evolves into creative expression.

FINDING TRACTION (dir. Jaime Jacobsen, USA, 2014, 57 minutes): Ultra runner Nikki Kimball’s quest to become the fastest person in history to run America’s oldest hiking trail, the 273-mile Long Trail. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / ANDANTE (dir. Gavin Carver, UK, 2014, 10 minutes): A musician heads in to the Wallowa mountains of Oregon on a journey to share her passion.

ACROSS THE ICE (dir. Sebastian Copeland, USA, 2014, 52 minutes): In 2010, Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNairLandry crossed 2300 kilometers of the Greenland ice sheet using only skis and kites.

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THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / DREAM (dir. Skip Armstrong, USA, 2014, 6 minutes): When a newbie kayaker goes paddling, he discovers a posse of pros on the river.

DELTA DAWN (dir. Peter McBride, USA, 2014, 16 minutes): The Colorado River hasn’t kissed the sea in almost two decades.

NOBODY’S RIVER (dir. Skip Armstrong, USA, 2014, 30 minutes): Four women travel to one of the few remaining free-flowing rivers of the world and through the complexities of love and loss.

CALEB (dir. Blair Trotman, New Zealand, 2014, 5 minutes): Caleb Brousseauo has been dealt one of the toughest challenges life can throw at you. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / RIVER OF EDEN (dir. Peter McBride, USA, 2014, 5 minutes): Journey into the Fijian Highlands to discover one of the most beautiful rivers on Earth.

CHASING BUTTERFLIES (dir. Bernardo Rodriguez, Canada, 2012, 7 minutes): A passionate paddler describes the beauty and challenge that draws her into whitewater kayaking.

CHAGA THE STORY (dir. Peter Csonka, Slovakia, 2013, 36 minutes): Chaga’s difficult life story and his dream to become the first pro kayaker from Uganda.

STIKINE (dir. Olaf Obsommer, Germany, 2014, 17 minutes): The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River is the Everest of whitewater.

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VIMFF CLIMBING SHOW

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / THE ADAM ONDRA SHOW: Adam comes to the VIMFF to share his cutting edge adventures from the hardest climbs in the world. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / PROJECT MINA (dir. Jen Randall, UK, 2014, 32 minutes): Mina Leslie-Wujastyk takes us through her 2013 Bouldering World Cup Season as well as climbing on real rock in the Peak District, England and Rocklands, South Africa AFRICA FUSION (dir. Nic Good, South Africa, 2013, 52 minutes): A one-hour South African rock climbing adventure special. Starring Alex Honnold (USA) and Hazel Findlay (UK).

VIMFF MOUNTAIN BIKE NIGHT

THE RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / THE INTERVIEW (dir. Ian Vermeulen, UK, 2014, 3 minutes): What is more important, your sense of adventure or your job?

GONE TOMORROW (dir. Sebastian Doerk, Nepal, 2014, 8 minutes): Mustang is very raw and remote, there’s only the mountains and you. Complete deceleration.

DANNY MACASKILL: THE RIDGE (dir. Stu Thomson, UK, 2014, 7 minutes): Danny Macaskill takes on the infamous Cuillin Ridge line on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

PRESENTATION / JUSTA JESKOVA & STEVE STOREY - SEARCHING FOR SINGLETRACK: Stories highlighting the mis-adventures of traveling through 3 countries over loaded with bikes and camera gear., filming for Vaya Bien.

FILM / VAYA BIEN (dir. Michael Sousa, Canada, 2014, 14 minutes): Whistler-based mountain bike team “shegnarnigans” travel deep into the Central American jungle. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / MUDDBUNNIES: A MOCKUMENTARY (dir. Gina Hopper, Canada, 2014, 5 minutes): A BBC-style documentary on the elusive North Shore Muddbunny.

FORGOTTEN DIRT (dir. Anthill Productions, Canada, 2014, 10 minutes): Matt Hunter and a small team of riders travel to the remote Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan.

VAIN VAGRANT (dir. Ed Oxley, UK, 2014, 7 minutes): Not your usual mountain bike film. A story of rebirth and death that also includes bike riding.

ALL MY OWN STUNTS (dir. Alastair Lee, UK, 2014, 25 minutes): Rob Jarman is a downhill mountain bike specialist and professional stuntman.

HORACE AND THE ROUGH STUFF FELLOWSHIP (dir.

Sebastian Doerk, Austria, 2014, 15 minutes): The story of three men, one dream and 80 years of cycling in Iceland.

VIMFF SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILM / LIFELINES (dir. Ross Harrison, India/UK, 2014, 16 minutes): From a village in the high Himalayas, this is one man’s story of juggling responsibilities and fighting for dreams.

PRESENTATION / PAT & BAIBA MORROW: MOUNTAINS, THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE: Pat and Baiba Morrow have been attracted to the spiritual, physical and aesthetic draw of the snow capped mountains for the past three decades. ! INTERMISSION FILM / HAPPINESS (dir. Thomas Balmes, France, 2013, 76 minutes): Peyangki is a young monk in a remote village in Bhutan. Electricity arrives in 2013 and with it comes television.

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VIMFF SKI MOUNTAINEERING SHOW

RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / LINDA BILY: SKI MOUNTAINEERING TRAVERSE OF THE HOMATHKO ICEFIELD - COAST MOUNTAINS, BC: A 21-day ski mountaineering traverse of the Homathko Icefield will give you a taste of the untouched terrain you can find only 250 km from Vancouver’s city limits. ! INTERMISSION FILM / HIGHER (dir. Teton Gravity Research, USA, 2014, 90 minutes): The third and final instalment of the Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy from the award-winning producers at Teton Gravity Research.

STORIES OF BC’S SPECIES AT RISK

PRESENTED BY THE WILDERNESS COMMITTEE THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / BC SPECIES AT RISK PRODUCED BY THE WILDERNESS COMMITTEE (dir. George Faulkner, Canada, 2015, 45 minutes): 8 short films that tell the story of the barn owl, the Oregon spotted frog, the phantom orchid, the Western rattlesnake, the Propertius Duskywing butterfly, the barn swallow, the American badger, and birds at risk in the Okanagan. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATIONS / LESLIE ANTHONY: Leslie Anthony is a writer based in Whistler who combines interests in biodiversity, environment, ecology, outdoors, and adventure travel.

SOFI HINDMARCH: Sofi Hindmarch is a wildlife biologist who has studied the impacts of changes in land use on barn owls, a threatened species in BC. MONICA PEARSON: Monica Pearson is a conservation biologist and the owner of Balance Ecological. Monica specializes in at-risk amphibians and wetland habitat restoration in BC. GWEN BARLEE: Gwen Barlee is presently the Policy Director and a spokesperson for the 30,000 member Wilderness Committee.

MIKE MCKINLAY: Ex pro skateboarder Mike McKinlay is now inspired by documenting the natural world, including filming the BC Species at Risk film for The Wilderness Committee.

ISABELLE GROC: Isabelle Groc is the Species at Risk Project Coordinator for the Wilderness Committee since 2010, and she campaigns for better protection for endangered wildlife in BC.

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WEDNESDAY

VIMFF ENVIRONMENTAL SHOW

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / BONNY GLAMBECK AND DAN LEWIS: CLAYOQUOT SOUND OF FREEDOM: A multimedia journey from the visually stunning landscape, wildlife and culture of Clayoquot Sound to an eyewitness report of the Mount Polley mine disaster. ! INTERMISSION FILM / COLOURS OF EDZIZA (dir.Matt Miles, Chantal Schauch and Mike Schauch, Canada, 2015, 30 minutes). World Premiere. An extraordinary journey of two leaders from different worlds, united by one of the great and last untamed places on earth.

PRESENTATION / DESIREE WALLACE: SAVE THE SACRED HEADWATERS - WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM: Desiree Wallace, co-founder of Beyond Boarding, cycled 2000 km from Vancouver to the Sacred Headwaters to raise funds to support the Klabona Keepers’ resistance.

VIMFF RAW: ROCK/AIR/WATER

THE RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / JIMMY MARTINELLO - RAW:

ROCK/AIR/WATER: A team of Sea to Sky adventures paddleboard deep into the wild Northwest Territories with big plans and even bigger mountains. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / FOR A HANDFUL OF SECONDS (dir. Bertrand Delapierre, France, 2013, 28 minutes): Pushing the boundaries in the French Alps - blurring the disciplines of climbing and base jumping.

DRAWN (dir. Jeremy Collins, USA, 2014, 40 minutes): Collins goes to the ends of the earth in the four cardinal directions to find closure and ‘see’ his way up four un-climbed routes in the mountains.

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THURSDAY

VIMFF TRAIL RUNNING SHOW

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PROGRAM GUIDE

BACK PORCH: When Abegael moved into Phyllis Munday’s house five years ago, a fascination began. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATIONS / PHILOMENA JORDAN - THE CAILLEACH VER IN FAOILLEACH: The story of the Cailleach Ver of the Scottish highlands is one of the great ones.

RUPERT RICHARDSON - FALLING ROCKS:V A story that Rupert first heard from his Grandmother Natupsta called “Falling Rocks”.

THE CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / GARY ROBBINS: RUNNING FROM RHINOS: Gary talks about his recent exploits in South Africa where he finished 2nd at the notoriously difficult Salomon Skyrun.

FILM / HOME (dir. Dean Leslie, South Africa, 2014, 7 minutes): Anna Frost reconnects with her identity and roots as she questions what running means to her.

PRESENTATION / LIZ DECARIO - RUNNING THE KOKOPELLI: Liz gives us the tales from her 240km run from Loma, Colorado to Moab, Utah.

FILM / THE INGENUOUS CHOICE (dir. Maxime Tournier, France, 2014, 7 minutes): Discover how Anton Krupicka experiences mountain running and challenges himself running ultra distances on the trails.

PRESENTATION / NICOLA GILDERSLEEVE: HOW I EARNED A FKT: A decade after it was established, Nicola Gildersleeve broke the Sunshine Coast trail record by 10 hours. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / WAINWRIGHT RECORD ATTEMPT (dir.

Alastair Lee, UK, 2014, 31 minutes): The unassuming Steve Birkinshaw attempts to link all 214 Wainwright hills in England’s Lake District in under 7 days.

TRAVAILEN (dir. Dean Leslie, South Africa, 2014, 27 minutes): Ryan Sandes and Ryno Greisel’s attempt of the Drakensberg Grand Traverse in 2014. The only certainty is struggle.

CLIMBING CULTURE

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / ABOVE THE ALLEY, BENEATH THE STARS (dir.

Dominic Gill, USA, 2014, 24 minutes):Two boys from Rio’s largest favela learn to rock climb on the mountain in their backyard.

WILD NEW BRAVE (dir. Oakley Anderson-Moore, USA, 2014, 27 minutes): Teenage misfits revolutionize rock climbing in the 1970s. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / NOVATO (dir. Jon Herrantz, Spain, 2014, 18 minutes): “Novato” is a 61-year-old climber and the only known person in the world to climb a 5.14a at 60.

REDEMPTION (dir. Paul Diffley, UK, 2014, 53 minutes) Redemption tells the controversial story of one of the World’s best trad climbers, James Pearson.

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CANADIAN MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / THE SKATER (dir. Celin Serbo, USA, 2014, 3 minutes): Will Mayo establishes several of the most difficult mixed climbing routes in North America.

500 MILES TO NOWHERE (dir. Michael Paul Jones, USA, 2014, 7 minutes): An elite group of paragliding pilots attempt an unsupported vol-biv (fly-camp) from Hurricane Ridge to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

PRESENTATION / WILL GADD: UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS - TRUE ADVENTURE: Will Gadd, delves into adventures throughout Canada, including wild ice climbing at Helmcken Falls and paragliding across the Rocky Mountains. ! INTERMISSION UES2014, VEN FILMS / FROZEN TITANS (dir. Bryan Smith, Canada, 24 minutes): The unique spray ice formations at Helmcken RE Falls, IAL THEA TENN CEN British Columbia, are considered the hardest ice and mixed TRE RIO THEA climbing spot in the world.

ARCTIC AIR (dir. Niall & Finn McCann, UK, HEQ 2014, 32UE minutes): MAT CINE THE Brothers Finn and Niall McCann pack their pulks with gear and RCH CHU N LICA K'S ANG ST. head intoMAR the Caledonian Alps in Greenland.

POLISH MOUNTAINEERING SHOW

TICKETS THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILM / K6 WEST (dir. Wiktor Skupinski, Canada, 2014,E20 ANC IN ADV $19 minutes): The ascent of K6 West by Ian Welsted and Raphael DOOR THE AT Slawinski, on the heals of the$21 Nanga Parbat massacre.

PRESENTATION / RYSZARD SZAFIRSKI: GOLDEN YEARS OF POLISH HIMALAYAN EXPLORATION: ES W PASS I-SHO MULT One of the leading figures of the Polish alpine and high altitude climbing in the 1960s and $34 1970s. FOR 2-SHOWS ! INTERMISSION $45 FOR 3-SHOWS FILM / JUREK (dir. Pawel Wysoczanski, Poland, 2014, 73 OWS FOR 5-SH minutes): The film portrays $65 Jerzy Kukuczka, one of the greatest climbers in history and second person to ascend all 14 eightthousanders.

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SUFFERFEST 2: DESERT ALPINE (dir. Cedar Wright, USA, 2014, 26 minutes): Cedar Wright and Alex Honnold are back!

This time, a month riding their bikes and climbing desert towers in the American Southwest.

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Stikine

Directed by Jim Aikman USA, 83 minutes, 2014

Directed by Olaf Obsommer Germany, 17 minutes, 2014 Wild Rivers, Sun Feb 15th @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Beautiful BC Matineee, Sun Feb 15th @ 2:00 pm (doors 1:30pm) Rio Theatre North American Premiere Shrouded in darkness and legend, The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River is the Everest of whitewater. For over 30 years, its menacing difficulty has lured expedition kayakers looking for the ultimate challenge. The journey is a long soulful pilgrimage to an untamed river hidden deep in the wilderness.

VIMFF Alpine Adventures, Sat Feb 14th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre From the top of the world to the end of the line, this film follows the life and climbs of Jeff Lowe through his visionary ascents around the world up to his current dance with a chronic desease.

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Africa Fusion

Directed by Sebastian Copeland USA, 52 minutes, 2014

South Africa, 52 minutes, 2013 Directed by Nic Good, Produced by Robert Breyer

VIMFF Inspiring Stories, Sat Feb 14th @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque In 2010, Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNair-Landry crossed 2300 kilometers of the Greenland ice sheet, braved a blizzard lasting one week in a small tent and set a world record for the longest distance travelled in a twenty-four hour period on skis and kites, with 595 kilometers.

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Directed by Sebastien Montaz-Rosset France, 32 minutes, 2013

VIMFF Ski Show, Sun Feb 15th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) We join skier and mountain guide, Vivian Bruchez, as he explores his backyard on several steep adventures in a winter of exceptional snow, in the company of a few talented friends.

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VIMFF Climbing Show, Mon Feb 16 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre This documentary tells the story of a rock odyssey that Alex Honnold and Hazel Findlay embark upon across the incredible rock climbing areas of Namibia and South Africa, and the amazing cultures and natural wonders they discover along the way. Join them as they uncover some of the best climbing on the planet, in an unforgettable setting.

Directed by Alastair Lee UK, 25 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Mountain Bike Night, Mon Feb 16th @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) North American Premiere Yorkshireman Rob Jarman is a downhill mountain bike specialist and professional stuntman. This gripping and emotional film tells the story of a near fatal accident and his road to recovery where he sets his sight on a UK downhill speed record. Redoubtable, affable and hilarious, it’s a compelling ride with Rob Jarman, on, and more often than not, off his bike.

Tashi & The Monk

Happiness

Directed by Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke India, 40 minutes, 2014

Directed by Thomas Balmès, Produced by Quark Productions France, Finland, 76 minutes, 2013

VIMFF Mountain Life Matinee, Sun Feb 15th @ 2:00pm (doors: 1:30pm) The Cinematheque Former Buddhist monk Lobsang was trained under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama but 8 years ago left a life as a spiritual teacher in the United States to create a unique community in the foothills of the Himalayas which rescues orphaned and neglected children.

VIMFF Spiritual Journeys, Mon Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 7pm) The Cinematheque Peyangki is a young, dreamy and solitary eight year-old monk. He lives with his mother in a remote village in Bhutan, 4,000 meters above sea level. The village has neither running water, electricity, nor roads. Roads and electricity arrive in 2013, and with them come television.

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Higher

Redemption

Directed by Steve Jones, Todd Jones, Jeremy Jones USA, 90 minutes, 2014

Directed by Paul Diffley and Chris Prescott UK, 53 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Climbing Culture, Thu Feb 19th @ 7:30pm (doors: 7:00pm) The Cinematheque North American Premiere Redemption: The James Pearson Story tells the controversial story of one of the World’s best trad climbers, James Pearson. The film follows his return to the UK as he faces his demons and looks to redeem his place back within the UK climbing community.

VIMFF Ski Mountaineering, Tue Feb 17th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) The third and final installment of the Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy from the award-winning producers at Teton Gravity Research. Higher traces Jones’ snowboarding journey from hiking Cape Cod’s Jailhouse Hill as a child to accumulating several generations’ worth of wisdom and expertise about thriving and surviving in the winter wilderness.

Colours of Edziza

Frozen Titans

Directed by Matt Miles, Chantal Schauch and Mike Schauch Canada, 30 minutes, 2015

Directed by Bryan Smith, Produced by Dave Pearson Canada, 24 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Environmental Show, Wed Feb 18th @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre World Premiere Venturing deep into the remote and rugged mountains of the Tahltan territory in northern British Columbia, two leaders from different worlds discover a new shared connection, one that would allow them to put their differences aside and accomplish this incredible traverse together.

VIMFF Canadian Mountain Adventures Fri Feb 20th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre The unique spray ice formations at Helmcken Falls, British Columbia, are considered the hardest ice and mixed climbing spot in the world. The 140-meter cave is a terrifying complex of giant, overhung icicles and thus has become Will Gadd’s obsession and the leading edge of modern ice climbing.

Drawn

Jurek

Directed by Jeremy Collins USA, 40 minutes, 2014

Directed & Produced by Pawel Wysoczanski Poland, 73 minutes, 2014

VIMFF R.A.W. - Rock.Air.Water, Wed Feb 18th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) When his friend dies in an avalanche, artist, rock climber and new dad Jeremy Collins goes to the ends of the earth in the four cardinal directions to find closure and ‘see’ his way up four un-climbed routes in the mountains. Living in what he calls a ‘love paradox’, Collins tries to find a balance between art, adventure, and family.

VIMFF Polish Mountaineering Night, Fri Feb 20th @ 7:30pm (doors: 7:00pm) The Cinematheque North American Premiere The film portrays Jerzy Kukuczka, one of the greatest climbers in history and second person to ascend all 14 eight-thousanders. On October 24, 1989, ‘Jurek’ fell to his death while attempting to climb Lhotse. It was the first time he went to the Himalayas with money, proper equipment and fame.

Travailen

Stone Free

Directed by Dean Leslie, Produced

by The African Attachment South Africa, 27 minutes, 2014

Directed by Alastair Lee UK, 27 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Trail Running Show, Thu Feb 19th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Travailen follows the entire story of Ryan Sandes and Ryno Greisel’s attempt of the Drakensberg Grand Traverse in 2014. The route crosses repeatedly between South Africa and the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho summiting some of the highest peaks south of Mount Kilimanjaro and has to be completed entirely self-supported.

VIMFF Climbing Finale, Sat Feb 21st @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre North American Premiere Julian Lines is the best climber you’ve never heard of. He is undoubtedly Britain’s most accomplished free climbing soloist with world-class free ascents to his name. This deeply personal account of the archetypal anti-hero is a stunning portrait that will leave your jaw on the floor.

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FINDING THE BALANCE - FORTY YEARS OF LIFE, LOVE AND CLIMBING VIMFF Alpine Adventures / Sat Feb 14 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

Mountains are fantastic examples of the power and mystery of nature, and the routes we climb on them are expressions of all that is best in the human spirit. In this lavishly illustrated presentation, Michael Kennedy traces a personal journey through the great ranges Alaska, Pakistan, Nepal, and India from 1977 to 1994.

VIMFF MOUNTAIN STORYTELLING SERIES 1: STONE AND FIRE Sat Feb 14 @ 2:00pm (doors 1:30) St. Mark’s Anglican Church

Featuring the following presentations: Kira Van Deusen: Arash the Mountain Archer, Margaret Murphy: Another Curve in Time, Mary Gavan: Fire on the Mountain!, Patrick Lucas: The Chief’s Ride: a mountain bike adventure to the heart of the Tahltan Nation, Wendy Charboneau: Siwash Rock and The Two Sisters, Adam Campbell: Now They Call Me Flash.

VIMFF MOUNTAIN STORYTELLING SERIES 2: ICE AND WAVE Sat Feb 14 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00) St. Mark’s Anglican Church

Presentations: Kevin Vallely: On Thin Ice, Dunc Shields: Song of the Sockeye, Abagael Fischer-Lang: Phyllis Munday’s Back Porch, Philomena Jordan: The Cailleach Ver in Faoilleach, Rupert Richardson: Falling Rocks.

PAT AND BAIBA MORROW

MOUNTAINS: THE SACRED, AND THE PROFANE VIMFF Spiritual Journeys / Mon Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 7pm) The Cinematheque

Adventure photographer team Pat and Baiba Morrow of Invermere, BC have been attracted to the spiritual, physical and aesthetic draw of the snow capped Himalaya, fluted canyons of the American southwest, and the mountains and glaciers of western Canada for the past three decades, and their presentation reflects this.

ADAM ONDRA

ADAM ONDRA SHOW VIMFF Climbing Show / Mon Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

There are few mountain ranges in the world that are as wild – or beautiful! – as BC’s Coast Mountains. Canada’s westernmost mountains offer innumerable challenges and sublime delights.

Linda Bily’s presentation of a 21-day ski mountaineering traverse of the Homathko Icefield will give you a taste of the untouched terrain you can find only 250 km from Vancouver’s city limits.

BONNY GLAMBECK AND DAN LEWIS

CLAYOQUOT SOUND OF FREEDOM VIMFF Environmental Show Wed Feb 18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

Join master digital storytellers Dan Lewis and Bonny Glambeck of Clayoquot Action for a lively, informative and inspiring evening. A multimedia journey from the visually stunning landscape, wildlife and culture of Clayoquot Sound— Vancouver Island’s last great rainforest, to an eyewitness report of the Mount Polley mine disaster, and onward to the Burnaby Mountain frontlines.

DESIREE WALLACE

SAVE THE SACRED HEADWATERS - WE ALL LIVE VIMFF Environmental Show Wed Feb 18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

Desiree Wallace, co-founder of Beyond Boarding, cycled 2000 km from Vancouver to the Sacred Headwaters this summer to raise funds to support the Klabona Keepers’ resistance. She spent three months in the area lending a hand on several blockades. Desiree will join us to share her experiences with the Klabona Keepers this past summer and fall.

JIMMY MARTINELLO

VIMFF R.A.W.: Rock/Air/Water Wed Feb18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)

Each generation has a climber who takes the proverbial baton and runs with it, increasing the hardest grade in the sport and inspiring other climbers to see new possibility where they had seen only featureless rock.Adam comes to the VIMFF to share his cutting edge adventures from the hardest climbs in the world.

A team of Sea to Sky adventures paddleboard deep into the wild Northwest Territories with big plans and even bigger mountains. Amidst grizzly bears, white knuckle floatplane missions and hundreds of kilometres of wild river, Tim Emmett, Sean Leary, Jimmy Marginally and Trevor McDonald shuffle the deck and deal out a Rock,Air,Water adventure for the ages.

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GARY ROBBINS

SEARCHING FOR SINGLETRACK VIMFF Mountain Bike Show / Monday Feb 16, 7:30pm (doors 6:30) Rio Theatre (19+ adults only) MAP

The Search For Single-track is a behind the scenes look of the build up and production of Vaya Bien by SheGNARnigans.

Included in the presentation is the catalyst for the journey to Central America, images captured during our trip, and stories highlighting the mis-adventures of traveling through 3 countries over loaded with bikes and camera gear.

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SKI MOUNTAINEERING TRAVERSE OF THE HOMATHKO ICEFIELD - COAST MOUNTAINS, BC VIMFF Ski-Mountaineering Show Tue Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)

$19 IN ADVANCE $21 AT THE DOOR

RUNNING FROM RHINOS VIMFF Trail Running Show Thu Feb 19 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

In “Running From Rhinos” Gary will talk about his recent exploits in South Africa where he finished 2nd at the notoriously difficult Salomon Skyrun. The 17 year old event features no flagging and no aid stations, is 100km in length, and only three runners had ever broken 15 hours before.

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In Loving Memory

OCTOBER 6, 1979 - JANUARY 11, 2015

“I wanted to inspire others to live their dreams whatever they may be. I wanted to prove that anything is possible you just need to believe and have faith. I also wanted to represent all the back of the packers and how we go through the same struggles as the top runners”. Liz gives us the tales from her 240km run from Loma, Colorado to Moab, Utah.

NICOLA GILDERSLEEVE

HOW I EARNED A FKT (FASTEST KNOWN TIME) VIMFF Trail Running Show Thu Feb 19 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

10 years after it was established, Nicola Gildersleeve broke the Sunshine Coast trail record by 10 hours. In this talk, Nicola will discuss her inspiration for running the 180 km trail, the planning and preparation involved, and why this experience has stood out from anything she has ever done.

WILL GADD

UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS - TRUE ADVENTURE VIMFF Canadian Mountain Adventures Fri Feb 20 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

National Geographic Adventurer of the Year nominee, Will Gadd, delves into adventures throughout Canada including wild ice climbing at Helmcken Falls and paragliding across the Rocky Mountains.

RYSZARD SZAFIRSKI

GOLDEN YEARS OF POLISH HIMALAYAN EXPLORATION VIMFF Polish Mountaineering Show / Fri Feb 20 @7:30pm (doors 7pm) The Cinematheque

Ryszard Szafirski stands out as one of the leading figures of the Polish alpine and high altitude climbing in the 1960s and 1970s. He pioneered expeditions to previously unknown areas in the highest mountains, and has a lot of first ascents and first winter ascents to his name.

SONNIE TROTTER

FAMILY MAN VIMFF Climbing Finale / Sat Feb 21 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

After pushing his free climbing limits for nearly 20 years, Sonnie faces a new challenge; raising a child while continually striving to pursue his dreams. Sonnie Trotter is known Worldwide for his desperate trad climbs and striking first ascents, but after 19 years of living an adventurous life of travel and high end rock climbing, he and his wife Lydia have settled into the mountain town of Canmore, Alberta to raise their son Tatum.

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1 Feb. 13 to 17, 2015 1. From theatre, dance, drumming, and music to spoken word and multimedia performance, the 14th annual Talking Stick Festival explores and celebrates aboriginal culture through the arts Feb. 17 to March 1. Highlights include Red Sky’s coming-of-age theatre production Mistatim, Corey Payette’s musical Children of God and Polaris Prize-winning Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq. Details at fullcircle.ca.

2. Named by Variety Magazine as one of “10 Comics to Watch,” Los Angelesbased comedian Ali Wong brings her standup act to Yuk Yuk’s Feb. 13 to 14 as part of the Northwest Comedy Fest.

Details at northwestcomedyfest.com.

3. Billed as a three-day celebration of African, Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Haitian and Afro-Peruvian music and dance, Africa Fete runs Feb. 13 to 15 at Performance Works on Granville Island CBC Studio 700. Performers include Montreal’s acclaimed Afro-Haitian group Wesli Band, Seattle’s eight-piece West African music and dance ensemble Sohoyini and Vancouver afrobeat group KaraKata, among others. Tickets at Highlife, Banyen Books and caravanbc.com.

4. Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary Citizenfour is a remarkably intimate and immediate look at how the world first learned that the NSA was spying on U.S. citizens as revealed to Poitras by a then-unknown Edward Snowden. Described by the New York Times as a “tense and frightening… primal political fable for the digital age,” the film screens at Vancity Theatre Feb. 15, 4:45 p.m.

5. East Coast singer-songwriter Julie Doiron can do no wrong in our books.

The Eric’s Trip alumna travels out west to share her tender and raw indie-folk stylings with the librarian glasses-wearing masses Feb. 17 at the Biltmore. Jon Mckiel and Knife Pleats open. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.

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Somewhere, far below the hovering helicopter, someone was lost. Filmmaker Melanie Wood knew this, but all she could see from her bird’s-eye vantage point was an awe-inspiring expanse of mountain peaks, deep valleys and endless evergreens.

Members of North Shore Rescue see the backcountry differently than most. A fallen rock, a beaten path, a discarded piece of clothing — these are all clues that might lead to the discovery of a person in distress.

“They’re amazing, the way they train and the way they know their mountains,” Wood says. This was especially true of the team’s late leader, Tim Jones, who passed away suddenly a little more than a year ago. “He knew those mountains like every pore on the back of his hand.”

Wood and her film crew spent months training with North Shore Rescue, trudging through icy terrain and going on helicopter

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Melanie Wood’s documentary Risk and Rescue kicks of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.

ride-alongs to gather footage for To the Rescue. The documentary examined Canada’s search and rescue system and aired on CBC’s Doc Zone last February.

Wood has since reworked that film to create a 26-minute documentary following just the North Shore Rescue volunteers who risk their lives to save others. Risk and Rescue makes its world premiere Feb. 13 at North Van’s Centennial Theatre on the opening night of the

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Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, which runs Feb. 13 to 21 at venues across the city including the Cinematheque and Rio Theatre.

“It’s one of those films that is a really good human story about the guys on the team and I think that will draw people in as much as the excitement of the rescues themselves, which I have to say are pretty nail-biting sometimes,” Wood says.

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Continued from previous page The screening will be preceded by the awarding of the VIMFF Community Award to Tim Jones, in memoriam, and followed by an after-party celebrating the 50th anniversary of North Shore Rescue. Before Wood could start filming this project, she had to go through rigorous training with North Shore Rescue so she’d be able to keep up with the team in the field and stay safe. “The very first training session I realized, holy, these guys are serious.”

Part of her education included learning how to hop in and out of a helicopter hovering several feet above the ground. Wood and her crew were on pager 24 hours a day to capture the searches and rescues documented in the film.

Sometimes she would join alone, other times, if space allowed, she would bring camera and sound technicians. Those on-call operations certainly got the adrenalin pumping, but it was a pre-scheduled avalanche response drill

dubbed “Snowman 3” that really left a lasting impression on Wood.

“That was pretty exciting, to be out with them on that.

It was dark, all you had was your headlamps and flares and people were calling out,” she remembers. “To listen to those guys and to watch them, they deal with it as though there are real bodies and it was amazing to me to see how few people survive an avalanche and the kind of decisions the team members have to make in the field.”

Wood was also struck by the level of expertise the volunteer members bring to the North Shore Rescue team and the sacrifices they make in their personal and professional lives to help others — all for no pay.

This is something she hopes viewers will grasp after watching Risk and Rescue.

“I hope that they understand that this is a really important volunteer organization,” she says. “I’m not saying it shouldn’t be volunteer, I think it’s the only way search and rescue can work is to have really good

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volunteers, but it’s important that they train well and stay safe and I hope people understand that.”

North Shore Rescue relies heavily on private donations and, since Tim Jones’ death, the team has established the Tim Jones Legacy Fund, a long-term endowment. The goal is to raise $6 million and put any accumulated interest towards the team’s annual operating budget.

Directing To the Rescue and later Risk and Rescue really drove home for Wood the unforgiving nature of Vancouver’s backyard, no matter the season.

“I hope that people get a sense of how treacherous the North Shore mountains are,” she says. That doesn’t mean stay away, she adds, it just means that those venturing into the backcountry should know what they’re getting into, be prepared, and not assume that nothing bad will happen.

“That’s what everyone thinks,” Wood says. “No one goes out intending to be rescued.”

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Earlier this week our normally shy and demure inbox received an email from a dashing but mysterious marketing company boasting of Benjamin Moore’s “166 shades of gray.” Get it?

Initially turned off by the brash Toronto-based company’s insistence on using the American spelling of grey, we continued our erotic journey into piggyback marketing and social media campaigns… beads of sweat collecting on our furrowed brow like a newly corralled mare stamping its hooves but really desiring only to be saddled and tamed.

“If you think 50 sounds hot, have you heard about

the 166 shades of gray by Benjamin Moore?” teased the curious press release.

“Our spectacular collection of shades from the understated side of the colour palette possesses an elegant nuance and can bring to any décor [sic].” Despite the email’s obvious typo or clear lack of editing, we decided to read further.

Biting our lip, we scrolled down the message, ever so slowly, our finger trembling on the mouse as if it were the trigger of a loaded pistol. “Whether you prefer the bold, red undertones in Silhouette AF-655 or the stylish, cool blues in Metropolitan AF-690, Benjamin Moore has a gray for every shade of your desire.”

Could there be anything sexier sounding than the words Silhouette AF-655 or Metropolitan AF-690? Elephant Wart AF-94, MonthOld Meatloaf B-1972 and Elderly Undercarriage 69 come to mind, but we just made those up.

No, it was too late.

Benjamin Moore had us under its spell. We would do anything it commanded: Paint our bedroom walls Silver Fox 2108-50, add a Burnt Ember CSP-120 trim to our kitchen or even undertake an ill-advised Thundercloud 2124-40 accent wall in our living

room. Where would it all end? When would Benjamin be satisfied? What would become of our green chaise lounge, which obviously isn’t even in the same colour family of grey? Only time and our well-worn paint swatches will tell. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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START NOTHING: 12:17 p.m. to 4:13 p.m. Monday, 3:47 p.m. to 3:48 p.m. Wednesday, 3:01 p.m. Thursday to 3:13 p.m. Friday, and after 4:36 p.m. Saturday.

PREAMBLE: I keep neglecting Canada. If the federal election is held Oct. 19, as the politicos seem to indicate, then Justin Trudeau will win. Canada, by the way, is a Cancer nation, with Cancer sun and moon but has Libra rising. The national character is self-effacing but has powerful reserves. The Libra ascendant is responsible for this country’s reputation as a peace-keeper and peace negotiator. Canada’s sun is in the ninth degree of Cancer. Here’s part of what Carelli wrote about 9 Cancer a half century ago: “A hard working, patient, thrifty being… humble goodness making him put up with an obscure life in which he feels happy… will meet with real success… as with all shy people … he is apt to develop a great eloquence once he has conquered his inhibitions…[but] has not the minimum of charlatanism and intellectual exhibitionism needed [to be a world leader]…”

Your revels are almost ended, Aries. By Wednesday you have to pack up your party and retreat into quietude for some needed rest and recuperation. Before Wed., though, life is a shindig! (What an odd word.) Be ambitious and well-behaved Sunday to Monday afternoon. Your best time is Sunday mid-afternoon through Monday noon. Talk to the boss, show your talents, ask for more work, more opportunities.

You remain in a romantic, creative, pleasure mode until Wednesday. Sink into quietude and domestic matters Sunday to Monday afternoon. You might get a “signal” around noon Sunday that a romantic relationship is strained, might end, or, equally, you might react to a new amorous opportunity. Either way, it’s just a momentary thing.

Soon (Wed. onward, for a month) all your hard work, stress and ambition will turn to delight, optimism, and a feeling that life is fresh and new, and filled with possibilities. At the same time, though, this present week can be the last “festival” of a friendly romance, or of intertwining with one special member of a social group: from here on in, your social horizons expand, your popularity will rise, and you’ll deal with more (some new) people.

Sunday/Monday are restless, filled with errands, communications, paperwork, details and casual acquaintances. Take a long lunch Sunday, for midday can cause a fender-bender, or a sudden disruption in a family or employment relationship. (It’s minor.) Monday eve to Wednesday afternoon highlight the themes of the past four weeks: domesticity, family, security, gardening, retirement, nutrition, sleeping habits.

You’ve matured in the last month; you’ve solved mysteries and puzzles about yourself and others, simply by thinking about things. If you could do this every month, you’d be one wise person!

This whole trend, which includes far travel, international contacts, writing, learning, and gentle love, will have one last good surge Monday eve to Wednesday afternoon.

A rather unimportant month passes away midweek, when a very significant month begins. Chase money, shop, sell, seek new clients or a pay raise, etc., Sunday/Monday. (Don’t buy computers, anything electronic, before 2 p.m. Sunday.) Monday eve to Wednesday afternoon intensifies the themes of the past few weeks: errands, paperwork, rush, hurry, trips, visits, calls, emails, etc.

Wednesday afternoon begins a month of mellow feelings, gentle love, profound thought, international contacts/travel, higher education, and cultural rituals/ events (e.g., weddings, foreign films). This is likely to be a very significant month, as both the sun and moon enter Pisces at virtually the same moment (two minutes apart). This hints at huge growth in the areas just listed (e.g., of your consciousness) or strong significance.

The accent remains on monetary concerns and sensual attractions until Wednesday. Your energy and charisma surge upward Sunday/Monday. Get things done, ask favours — you’ll impress others with your style, skill and energy. Chase money or possessions (i.e., shop) Monday eve to Wednesday afternoon, but don’t start new money programs. Stick with essentials, routine items in shopping, and with present clients, job, etc. in earnings.

A month of relationships , opportunities, of “fresh sight” ends Wednesday, and a month of secretiveness, lust, power hunger, heavy finances, mutual finances, lifestyle changes, research and health diagnoses begins. This isn’t really a jump from one world to another, as the relationships and opportunities of the last four weeks veer into deeper waters with you.

Rest, contemplate, plan, enjoy sweet solitude Sunday/Monday. Contact civil servants, charities, institutions or spiritual “sources.” Don’t argue with anyone Sunday early afternoon — drive carefully.

Your energy, charisma and effectiveness soar to a yearly high Monday eve to Wed. afternoon — you’ll impress people, so choose who you want to impress (why waste a good thing?)

Spend Sunday to Wednesday on things already in the works. Do/finish chores, deal with dependents or employee matters, protect your health, make repairs – all natural things for you. Sunday/Monday bring a mellow mood (disrupted a bit Sun. midday – car, electric surprise possible). Travel tickets, learning, gentle love, intellectual pursuits draw you. Monday eve to Wed. afternoon bring chores to a climax – hopefully, a climax of conclusion, because new opportunities are coming – soon.

Hoo-boy, what a week this is. Though you remain a bit weary and into yourself, Sunday/Monday lift your popularity mildly and bring optimism, social delights. But retreat Monday eve to Wednesday afternoon — rest, contemplate and plan. Clear up neglected tasks, especially those involving committees, civil servants, institutions. Be charitable, spiritual. Above all, rest, for you will soon need all your energy.

Monday: Ice-T (57). Tuesday: Michael Jordan (52). Wednesday: Molly Ringwald (47). Thursday: Jeff Daniels (60). Friday: Sidney Poitier (88). Saturday: Ellen Page (28). Sunday: Drew Barrymore (40).

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By Megan Stewart

Female field hockey players want the choice to wear shorts.

Advocate granted vote over shorts

The Vancouver Women’s Field Hockey Association votes next week on players’ uniforms: skirts or shorts? The association will hold the vote because of pressure put on them through repeated and increasingly public requests from some players. Chief among the advocating players is Kaity Cooper, a field hockey player since the age of 13, who has made three formal requested to wear shorts instead of the mandated skirt. Each was denied, she outlined in a blog post on Reddit. In the men’s game, players wear shorts. Cooper wore shorts in a September game and was ejected. “… if you’d have told me when I was 12 that at 28 I would be forced to play a sport I love wearing a spandex miniskirt I would not wear to the bar, I probably would have had a similar reaction,” she wrote Dec. 4 on a social justice blog “F is for Feminist.”

“The last request was made by my team on Nov. 20, 2014. […] We did not have in mind anything radical. We knew that many players like the skirt and so we had no intention of taking that away from them.

We merely wanted to give individual players who, like me, might not feel comfortable playing in a skirt, a choice. And so we asked that ‘or shorts’ be added to the definition of uniform in the League constitution.”

Cooper went onto explain she believes all players should have the choice to wear a skirt or shorts.

UBC signs NCAA quarterback

The first order of business for new UBC Thunderbirds football coach Blake Nill has been a signing coup. Nill landed former Penn State quarterback Michael O’Connor, who will transfer to UBC and for the start of the 2015 season. O’Connor, an Ottawa native, was ranked the No. 6 quarterback by ESPN in the 2014 recruiting class but did not see much action last year as he played backup to a standout freshman. He will have five years eligibility at UBC. The six-foot-five, 230-pound pivot played his final two years of high school in the U.S. and in the CIS, he will return to a three-down, 12-man game of football. UBC confirmed Thursday morning what TSN reporter Farhan Lalji reported a day earlier.

“Michael is an outstanding, pro-style quarterback,” said Nill in a prepared statement. “He is very intelligent player whom is confident in his ability. He can make all the throws and will come into compete and raise the bar at the quarterback position here at UBC.” The T-Birds open the 2015 season with an exhibition game against the University of Laval in Quebec City Aug. 29.

Grade 12 John Oliver secondary wrestler Torrey Toribio, 18, is a national cadet champion but has never won a B.C. championship. He intends to change that this month. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Getting tough in quest for gold

Top ranked Juggler Torrey Toribio seeks prize that’s eluded him WRESTLING Megan Stewart

mstewart@vancourier.com

Is this the year Torrey Toribio redeems his years of hard training and the lessons from hard losses?

Mentally tougher and grounded by hard-won patience, the senior John Oliver wrestler and 2013 cadet national champion begins his fifth and final quest to win a provincial gold medal.

Toughness, said the Juggler, “Is telling yourself how hard you work and how you’re not letting this one guy in front of you stop you. You have to use these matches as paydays and cash in all your hard work.”

Toribio weighed in yesterday afternoon for the regional zone tournament and for the fifth year in a row, will likely earn the top B.C. ranking for the 57 or 60-kilogram weight class.

But for the first year, the

sculpted five-foot-seven, 18-year-old Toribio wants that No. 1 rank to end with a first place finish at the provincial championships, scheduled for Feb. 26 to 28 in Abbotsford.

“It is on my list to win a B.C. title,” he said. “If I don’t win, I will be upset, but it hasn’t bothered me from my previous years because I’ve always been able to grow. After losing […] I’ve always come back stronger. I try to learn from those losses.”

(The weigh-in was after the Courier’s print deadline.)

Since Grade 8, Toribio has won a medal every year at provincials. The three times he’s lost in a semi-final, he’s come back to win bronze. When he made the final last year, he lost to an older wrestler and still came away with silver.

“I was expected to win.

I lost because of nerves.”

Of the semi-final losses as a junior, he said, “I was rushing to get into the finals.”

When he’s gone on to nationals in Ontario, Toribio has inevitably met some of the same wrestlers who’ve gotten the better of him. “I’d beat them there,” he said.

Toribio has not yet chosen a university for next year and is open to offers.

The A-student wants to wrestle and compete at the post-secondary level.

His record this season includes wins at the Roberts Rumble, Abby Invitational, SFU’s elite War on the Floor and the Miri Piri championship. Most recently, he won the Western Canadian title in the 68-kg class. Toribio also won gold in his class at the B.C. Summer Games.

“He’s run away with everything,” said John Oliver coach Chris Fuoco.

“Pound for pound, he’s the best kid. He’s probably the best kid in the country.”

Toribio is 31-3 this season. Two losses were during a tour to Washington State where his freestyle

form was at odds with the hosts’ folkstyle wrestling, which is practised in the NCAA. His third loss came at the hands of the national high school champion from Japan.

“He’s organized. He’s a good communicator.

His teammates look up to him,” said Fuoco. “He makes me look good.”

On a tour with the national team to Iowa, where wrestling is what hockey is to many Canadians, Toribio soaked in the Americans’ grit and added a few intangibles to his growing skill set.

“I learned a lot about toughness,” he said.

“We’re more technical but they have something you can’t really teach — being tough and grinding it out.

It’s like a dog fight, you have to be hungry every time you go on the mat.

You have to believe in the work you’ve put in.”

It’s time for Toribio to take that hard work out of the bank and cash it in for gold.

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Trojans upend Demons

Senior boys city finals on tonight at Churchill DAVID THOMPSON KITSILANO

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Megan Stewart

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Powered by a 30-point output from Harry Brar and a 25-point night by Henry Xia, on Wednesday afternoon the David Thompson Trojans knocked off the top-10 B.C. ranked Kitsilano Blue Demons to reach the AAAA city final.

“We beat Kitsilano for the first time in a decade and it happened to be one of the biggest games of the city calendar,” said head coach Jimmy Choi. “My kids played well. We were up by 20 the majority of the game. [Brar] mixed it up. We fast break a lot and he was getting a lot of fast break points.”

The Trojans led by 23 at half time by playing a run-and-gun game that emphasised fast transition, a full-court press and ceaseless attack. Choi said the shooting percentage

was also high. Kitsilano got into foul trouble and played the final minutes with only four players.

“The win is good for the program. It’s great for the school,” said Choi.

“Nobody expects us to be anywhere. We’re not ranked, we’re not an honourable mention.

now is gravy. Trying to make the big dance is going to be tough but you never know. I don’t get kids to transfer here like some schools — these are all neighbourhood kids we have. It’s good for us.”

In the second semifinal on Wednesday at Churchill secondary, the

“Everything for us right now is gravy.”

— Jimmy Choi But we’ve surprised a few teams this year.”

David Thompson defeated perennial contender Pitt Meadows and in December held the defending AAAA provincial champion Churchill Bulldogs to 67 points despite losing.

On Friday in the senior boys city championship, the Trojans will play the Bulldogs again, this time in an even bigger game they didn’t expect to dress for.

“Everything for us right

Bulldogs eliminated Windermere 104-85. The final is 7:30 p.m., Feb. 13 at Churchill.

Senior boys AA/ AAA

Also on Wednesday at Churchill, Tupper beat Gladstone 88-49 to advance and Britannia defeated Lord Byng 68-55.

Tupper and Byng meet in the city final 5:45, Feb. 13 at Churchill secondary. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Overcome the ‘dark side’ of fitness The Courier debuts a new fitness columnist

Even from a young age, I was always into fitness. For the past 15 years, I’ve been a coach, personal trainer, group instructor and before that I was an elite cyclist competing for Canada.

I know it feels good to be physically fit. And I know almost every Canadian knows this.

So why is it so difficult to get started?

Of course there are complex personal reasons to avoid exercise, such as a lack of motivation, bad past experiences, injuries, illnesses, work and family obligations… the list is long.

All of these reasons can be addressed on an individual basis. Professionals in health, fitness and counselling can help, as can friends and family. But I believe we should start one layer back, one step removed from our individual stumbling blocks so we can look at the place of fitness in Canadian culture.

In an effort to share my expertise, enthusiasm, love of fitness and also to keep these passions local, I and another mom opened a fitness studio a few blocks from where we live near Fraser and 41st Avenue.

The process of opening Eastside Fitness gave me some insight into the darker side of the industry. I believe fitness is for everybody and all bodies, which is why our motto is “fitness for every body.” Active, healthy living is for regular, everyday people, but you wouldn’t know it based on these darker aspects I encountered when I opened the studio in 2011.

Coded language

The first year I filed corporate taxes, I spent more time than I could spare trying to identify the correct industry code for Eastside Fitness.

I searched for a business tax code in a category of Health and Fitness. There was nothing.

I searched for Sport and Fitness. No, again. Fitness and Health? Physical Fitness? Nope to both.

According to the government, a gym like ours, in fact all gyms and yoga studios,

Fearful “expert” claims

If I was new to exercise, I would be most afraid of two things because experts have made it clear as day that I should be.

The first is injury. It seems everywhere you turn you will hear one expert or another warn that “X” or “Y” or even “Z” exercise will cause injury. As a beginner, that is scary stuff.

How do you know which exercises you can safely do?

The second fear I might have is that I was wasting my time. Because the other thing many experts say is that one form of exercise or one piece of equipment is the best choice above all else.

Both of these claims discourage people from beginning an exercise program. Remember, there isn’t one way or one best way to achieve physical fitness. Rather, being consistent over a period of time is the key to success.

Trust and listen to your body and pursue simple, enjoyable movement, such as walking or dancing, to get started. Finally, it is possible to workout anywhere and at any time with no equipment.

can’t run because you’re not fast enough, that you can’t lift weights because you’re not strong enough, is like saying you can’t take a shower because you’re not clean enough.

You don’t have to be a high performance athlete to follow an exercise routine or program. You don’t have to be young, fit, fashionable or tech savvy to begin a fitness regime. You don’t have to dedicate hours from every day to become physically fit.

I love the fitness industry and I know we can overcome these darker sides. I love showing beginners how strong and fit they already are and empowering them to take control of their physical fitness in meaningful and realistic ways. This is my first column in the Courier and I look forward to sharing more.

Darnelle Moore is the coowner of Eastside Fitness. She believes every body can be fit.

Advice to think about: Saying you can’t run because you’re not fit enough is like saying you can’t take a shower because you’re not clean enough. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Prices for homes continue to hit all-time high

Detached home prices have risen 8.4 per cent year over year Glen Korstrom

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The benchmark Metro Vancouver home price inched up nearly 0.5 per cent to an all-time high of $641,600 during the month of January, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) reported earlier this month.

Compared with the previous January, the benchmark home price rose 5.5 per cent.

Detached homes led the surge with the benchmark price for those properties rising 8.4 per cent year over year to $1.01 million.

In contrast, the benchmark price for apartment units increased 2.5 per cent year over year to $382,800 while the price for attached homes increased 4.3 per cent year over year to $479,600.

“The Bank of Canada’s recent announcement to lower its benchmark interest rate is an important one for home buyers, sellers and owners to note,”

“The number of detached homes listed for sale today is the second lowest we’ve seen in four years,” said REBGV president Ray Harris.

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“A reduced rate could allow you to pay down your mortgage a little faster, save some money on your monthly payments or change the amount you qualify for.”

Harris noted that, while demand remains steady, there are comparatively few homes for sale. That’s heightening competition among buyers, particularly for detached homes.

“The number of detached homes listed for

sale today is the second lowest we’ve seen in four years,” he said.

New listings for detached, attached and apartment properties in Metro Vancouver totalled 4,737 in January — an 11.4 per cent decline

compared to the 5,345 new listings reported in January 2014.

The sales-to-active-listings ratio has dipped a bit from a few months ago.

The ratio, which indicates the strength of the market, now sits at 17.7 per cent,

indicating a balanced market. The ratio was 19.7 per cent in September.

A balanced market exists when the ratio is between 13 per cent and about 21 per cent, according to Harris.

Conventional real estate wisdom is that a market is considered to be a buyers’ market when the sales-to-active-listings ratio is below 13 per cent.

It is considered a sellers’ market when the ratio is above 21 per cent for at least a few months, he added Finally, sales remain strong. Last month’s sales were 14.9 per cent above the 10-year sales average for the month.

The 1,913 sales on the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in January 2015 represent an 8.7 per cent increase compared to the 1,760 sales recorded in January 2014 and a 9.6 per cent decline compared to the 2,116 sales in December 2014. twitter.com/GlenKorstrom

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Storage rentals becoming a new hot real estate sector Self-storage sites generating revenue as good as or better than rent from condominiums

Frank O’Brien

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In Metro Vancouver, typical rent for a 100-square-foot self-storage unit ranges between $1.84 and $2 per square foot.

protected from long-term vacancies that can occur in other commercial real estate categories.

Studies show that nearly 80 per cent of Canadian self-storage properties remain in the hands of small independent owners, but the sector has begun to hit the radar of large institutional investors.

Of the top 25 real estate investment trusts measured in five-year returns last year in the U.S., four were in the self-storage business, according to SNL Financial, a real estate research firm.

Los Angeles-based DealPoint Merrill recently launched a $25 million fund that will convert former retail properties, in particular standalone big boxes and strip centres, into self-storage properties.

“Self-storage is now legit; it’s not anymore like that odd business model that nobody really understood,” said R. Christian Sonne, executive managing director in Cushman & Wakefield Inc.’s self-storage industry group. “We’ve had entities from family money to equity firms and hedge funds jumping into the sector, which is now considered at least core, if not core-plus.”

Kobasew added some B.C. investors have been creating portfolios of selfstorage buildings, but they’re mostly looking for large facilities of 200 to 300 units or more, which are rare.

He said the typical investor profile and facility remains “mom-and-pop” operations that provide a relatively secure investment or retirement income with a minimum of management.

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Self-storage is becoming a hot commercial real estate sector, with many B.C. properties seeing 90 per cent occupancy levels and per-square-foot rents that can surpass that of a condominium.

In Metro Vancouver, typical rent for a 100-square-foot selfstorage unit ranges between $1.84 and $2 per square foot, which, according to an Urban Analytics study, is equal to a typical condo rent in Burnaby or Richmond.

“Storage lockers are a simple investment,” said real estate consultant Ozzie Jurock. “There’s often no heat, little maintenance, and if you want to make it a luxury unit, you put in a light bulb.”

Two primary factors influence storage, accord-

ing to Vadim Kobasew of Re/Max Commercial, who specializes in selfstorage sales: the large amount of stuff that people acquire and their reluctance to throw any of it away.

On average, one-third of self-storage clients store their stuff for three years, meaning a steady cash flow for the owners, Kobasew noted.

There are other quirks that make self-storage property different from most commercial real estate. The buildings can be in less-than-desirable locations: small towns, noisy roads on the outskirts of cities or tucked in behind industrial areas.

Tenants pay little or no deposit and can leave at a moment’s notice, but Kobasew pointed out that, because of the wide tenant base, owners are

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Dodge might be asking you to take a fairly literal interpretation of that saying with their family-sized crossover, a three-row replacement for the venerable Caravan minivan.

That’s right, the Caravan is no more. You’ll still be able to buy a Chrysler Town and Country, but as for the inexpensive van that got all kinds of Canadian families to hockey practice, soccer practice, dance recitals and piano lessons, sliding doors are on their way out.

Minivans as a segment are in a slow decline as more young parents try to avoid looking like their parents.

This has inspired the rise of crossovers like these, which aren’t as thirsty as the old body-on-frame SUVs which once dominated the road, but still have some of that rugged image. Problem is, they’re usually compromised in one way or another, trying to be both cargo-hauler and still retain a modicum of street cred.

So, how does the Journey fare? Let’s wrestle in a couple of car seats and find out.

Design

Swathed in bright red paint and fitted with 19” black alloys, the Journey certainly looks tough enough to handle a Canadian winter. That big Dodge crosshair grille has presence, and the curved bar that’s meant to imitate a lightbar/skidplate combo looks ready to ram its way through the nearest snowbank.

From other angles, the main impression is one of useful boxiness. That’s great — if the old Caravan didn’t have much to recommend it as a status symbol, it was at the very least extremely practical.

The Journey has much better ground clearance, but it’s still got the same squared-off lines, and doesn’t appear over styled at the rear, favouring function over form.

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Inside the cabin, it’s quite roomy. There are three rows of seats here but the rear is really only a jumpseat for temporary soccer team carpool duty. However, the first two rows have plenty of space for passengers, whether they ride in Gap khakis or in a rear-facing child seat.

What’s more, there are cubbies aplenty hidden all over the place, more nooks and crannies than you’d find in the Millennium Falcon. The glove box isn’t especially huge, but there’s a bin under the passenger’s seat, and two more under the floorboards on each side in the back.

Emergency snacks, backup Lego for long ferry waits, or maybe just a diaper emergency kit? That’s up to you, just be aware you can’t really access them when on the move.

Rear seat passengers also have access to a conventional household plug and 12V power outlet for charging electronic devices. My tester also came with the $1,200 rear video entertainment group, but given that most young kids these days have iPad minis and the like for much less than that, know that there are enough outlets to keep

everybody charged and quiet.

For the driver, the Journey’s dashboard is a very plain affair, almost completely without ornamentation except for the 8.4” Uconnect touchscreen. This controls everything in the car including the heated steering wheel — always a nice touch when the thermometer starts falling — and is very easy to navigate through. Uconnect’s voice command is better than some other options out there, and its display is large enough not to distract too much from the task at hand.

Performance

The Journey comes with two engine options: a 2.4L 4cyl making 173hp and Chrysler/ Dodge’s ubiquitous 3.6L V6, which puts out a distinctly healthier 283hp. All-wheel-drive is only available with V6 models, and the base four-cylinder comes mated to a four-speed automatic transmission — pretty outdated technology.

On the other hand, the V6 and AWD tester had more than enough shove for passing and highway onramps, even when loaded up with the entire family and all the cargo needed to spend a few days travelling.

The six-speed automatic is a bit rough in engagement, especially when cold, but the ride and handling are quite good, even on a winding country road.

You don’t really hustle a car with a small child strapped in the back, not if you don’t want to end up hosing vomit out of the back seats, so for slow and smooth driving with some kidfriendly tunes on the stereo, the Journey proves agreeable.

Grip from the all-wheel-drive system was perfectly acceptable on slippery roads, and at-speed on the highway, windnoise wasn’t really an issue.

“Nice” can be a bit of an epithet, but apart from a slight tendency to lurch when called upon to shift quickly, the Journey’s unremarkable ride, handling, and performance blended into the background, just what you want in a family vehicle. It didn’t thrill, but neither did anyone complain.

Features

Being a high-level trim in priced in the mid-thirties, my Crossroads tester came with every conceivable feature. Leather seats were heated up front, there was the aforementioned heated steering wheel, and everyone had a chance to fiddle with the temperature with three-zone automatic climate control.

I’d probably give the optional DVD system a miss, but the satellite navigation and backup camera package are probably a must-check at this level. Both were very easy to use, as was the streaming Bluetooth audio and hands-free phone operation.

Fuel economy for allwheel-drive and the V6 gets somewhat unimpressive scores of 14.5L/100kms city or 9.9L/100kms highway, and realworld figures were similarly in the low teens. Buying the fourcylinder for economy might not be the smartest move, however, as it’s only a few litres better on paper, and being so much down on power, you’d have to push it a little harder.

THE CRITICS HAVE SPOKEN. AND SO HAVE BC’s DRIVERS. It’s been another great year for Honda vehicles. The critics and BC drivers keep recognizing our value and quality with automotive awards.

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