Vancouver Courier March 20 2015 by Vancouver Courier

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March 20 2015

Vol. 106 No. 22

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HOT PURSUIT Members of Vancouver’s Iranian community take part in the annual Fire Festival at Ambleside Beach Tuesday. The tradition of jumping over open fires is a purification ritual preceding the Persian new year, or Nowruz, which begins March 20. See story page 12. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ICBC’s privacy protection doubted

Sharing drivers’ private information with police open to abuse says critic Bob Mackin

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Does ICBC guard your privacy? A North Vancouver man says no and he hopes a judge eventually agrees that a loophole should be closed. Daryl Cook learned while disputing a speeding ticket in 2006 that the publicowned automobile insurer and driving licensor had disclosed his unlisted phone number to a Burnaby RCMP officer. Cook cross-examined the officer, who confirmed existence of ICBC’s police hotline. Police can call an ICBC phone number (which is changed every six months) and provide their badge number to gain information about drivers and policy holders.

“They can get a court order, they can get a search warrant, they can go through the appropriate channels,” said Cook. “To create a police line that just shares information about where you work, where your bank accounts are, what your phone numbers are — it needs to be stopped and stopped now.” ICBC operates the police line under a Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act section that says public bodies can disclose personal information to other public bodies or law enforcement agencies in Canada “to assist a speciﬁc investigation that is undertaken with a view to a law enforcement proceeding, or from which a law enforcement proceeding is likely to result.”

Cook, however, said it is open to abuse. He ﬁled a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit in January 2012 alleging breach of privacy and breach of contract against ICBC, the special investigations unit’s Gene Krecsy and the Vancouver Police Department. Cook said ICBC also gathered three ﬁles from VPD in June 2009 about a kidnapping he witnessed, vandalism against his former Strathcona house and a dismissed assault charge — all unrelated to his insurance claims. The lawsuit was in court last summer on a procedural issue, but Cook hopes for a trial next year. VPD did not respond for comment and RCMP Sgt. Rob Vermeulen referred the Courier to ICBC. Transit Police media

advisor Anne Drennan conﬁrmed ofﬁcers contact ICBC, but “no statistics are kept with respect to the accessing of the databases.” ICBC denied a request to interview an executive about the police line. Instead, spokesman Adam Grossman sent an email stating the police line is handled around the clock by a trained unit of the Claims Contact Centre in Surrey. “If the caller cannot identify themselves properly, no information is provided,” Grossman said. “The most common types of information given include the registered owner’s name, address, telephone number, vehicle description and insurance policy information.” Continued on page 6

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News Literary Landmarks project spreads the word Writers and their work commemorated at signiﬁcant locations across the city

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Evelyn Lau composes poems as she strolls along the False Creek seawall. A line from a 2011 digital exhibit near the Kitsilano end of the Burrard Bridge crept into Daphne Marlatt’s poem “after noon’s” and poet Bud Osborn was instrumental in establishing North America’s ﬁrst supervised injection site on East Hastings. These are literary layers to the city that the Vancouver Public Library, B.C. BookWorld newspaper, the VPL Foundation and supporter Yosef Wosk hope to expose to passersby as they roam Vancouver streets. Colourful plaques that feature a photo of a writer, the signiﬁcance of that place in relation to them and an excerpt of their work have been attached to more than two dozen lampposts around the city as part of the Literary Landmarks project that was unveiled March 11. A plaque at East 49th Avenue and Fraser Street marks

the postal route of Sadhu Binning whose 2014 ﬁction collection, Fauji Banta Singh and Other Stories, examines the private lives of Sikhs in B.C. in the late 20th century during racially and economically unstable times. Another adorns a post in front of the former headquarters of the Jin Wah Sing Musical Association at 1 East Pender Street and features Wayson Choy, author of the 1995 novel The Jade Peony, an intergenerational saga about an immigrant family during the Depression. Most of the plaques are posted near the city’s downtown core, but one near a house on the 3800-block of West 11th Avenue marks a former residence of Margaret Atwood. The worldrenowned writer ﬁnished The Circle Game collection of poems and wrote her novel The Edible Woman when she lived there in the mid-1960s and lectured at UBC. Highlighted writers include poets, novelists, playwrights and a humourist both dead and alive.

Evelyn Lau is one of more than two dozen writers whose work can be found on plaques across the city as part of the Literary Landmarks project. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

B.C. BookWorld publisher and former VPL board member Alan Twigg curated the landmarks project and the VPL’s chief librarian Sandra Singh says they debated whether to include 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature winner and author of the poem “Gunga Din” Rudyard Kipling, who

owned investment property in Vancouver. “He never actually lived here and wrote here so we decided not [to include him],” Singh said. But they did include the site of poet Osborn’s activist work. “Writers contribute to the community in a variety of

different ways, and so folks that might know someone for one contribution, to suddenly realize, ‘Oh they also did this,’ is a really nice way to layer on a deeper understanding of that person and what they were interested in and what they were contributing to the community,” Singh said.

She hopes passersby will encounter writers they haven’t previously considered and be inspired to read their works. A companion interactive online map at vpl.ca/literarylandmarks highlights the locations around the city, provides additional details about the authors and links to their works in the VPL catalogue. “Reading literature is a critical experience for people. It’s one of the most important activities that you can engage in to build empathy, for example, to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and to experience the world from a different view,” Singh said. “It’s really important to living in a diverse and empathic society.” Five to 10 writers are to be added to the project each year. “We’re really proud of the literary community here in Vancouver,” Singh said. “We are really fortunate to have such a rich literary heritage in Vancouver. It’s just extraordinary.”

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Vancouver-based photographer Jordan Matthew Yerman discusses his photos of feral cats in cities around the world as part of the second annual BIL event March 21 and 22.

purposely booked to coincide with the far pricier TED conference taking place at the Vancouver Convention Centre this week. Michael Cummings cofounded BIL with a group of 10 scientists, inventors and web developers from California and Texas in 2007. They wanted to attend the 2008 TED (technology, entertainment and design) in Monterey, Calif. but knew they weren’t getting into the pricey event, so they organized their own accessible affair across the street, dubbing it BIL as a riff on the title of the 1989 movie Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. “You don’t have to pay $8,500 to attend the conference to network with people with really cool ideas and capabilities of actually spreading these ideas around,” Cummings said. Like TED, BIL features passionate people presenting in less than 20 minutes on a range of topics. Unlike TED, entrance to BIL is by dona-

tion and anyone can sign up to speak. Organizers choose who will present on the main stage, and speakers can sign up for slots in other simultaneously running spaces. “I like the way that you don’t even know who’s going to be speaking in some of the slots, you can show up and be surprised,” Yerman said. BIL speakers include technologists, scientists, artists and hackers. There’s live music and BIL Bodies, which focuses on yoga, plyometrics (also known as “jump training”) and meditation. Yerman is particularly interested to hear digital media pioneer Alfred Hermida speak about social media, SFU scientist, activist and professor Lynne Quarmby, who was recently arrested during protests on Burnaby Mountain against Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain Pipeline Expansion, speak about activism and politics, and John Biehler present on 3D printing. TED speakers, fellows

and attendees sometimes sidle over to BIL. Last year, musician Amanda Palmer and author Neil Gaiman spoke and performed at BIL in Vancouver. “TED, they don’t do this intentionally, but it embodies a lot of what’s happening in Vancouver right now. Vast amounts of money move into the city and colonize it and now we’re left going, ‘OK, are we visitors in someone else’s holiday resort?’” Yerman said. “We’re not invited to the party. With BIL, we are the party… Vancouver needs to have both.” Cummings says anyone can organize a BIL event. In addition to North American cities, BIL has taken place in Afghanistan, India, England and France, with 25 BIL events scheduled in Tunisia this year. Pre-registration to attend BIL, at the Imperial at 319 Main St., is recommended. For more information, see 2015.bilconference.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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News At risk youth health centre opens

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A multi-million-dollar centre for street youth who are homeless or at risk of homelessness opened Wednesday in a joint announcement between the Ministry of Health and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation. The Granville Youth Health Centre will house the Inner City Youth team run by St. Paul’s Hospital since 2006 to service vulnerable youth under 24 years old experiencing mental illness and addiction. The team will provide integrated services such as primary care, counselling, therapy, psychiatric assessment, group recreational activities and independent living skills. The new centre, located at 1260 Granville St., expects to service up to 1,200 clients by 2016 and facilitate 6,000 to 8,000 visits annually. Alex Mann-Kueﬂer was one of the city’s estimated 700 street youth three years ago when he dropped out of college after suffering addiction and schizophrenia. He plunged into the “squalor”

Alex Mann-Kuefler spoke at the opening of the Granville Youth Health Centre, alongside Health Minister Terry Lake (left) and Dr. Steve Mathias. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

of the Downtown Eastside, the only place he could find housing. He recalls living there for six months on basic welfare. He was so preoccupied with meeting basic needs that he didn’t realize he was ill until an outreach team from St. Paul’s found him. “Your basic daily activity is involved in how you’re going to find food, how you’re going to find the next meal, how you’re going to cope with the situation you’re in and also struggling with addiction,” explained the 26-year-old who volunteers in a peer support group and is pursuing work in international development. “It wasn’t until the doctors

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ICBC’s police hotline discloses personal information to other public bodies or law enforcement agencies in Canada to assist in certain investigations. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Lack of controls a concern Continued from page 1 As of March 18, he said there had been approximately 400 information requests via the police line in 2015, “the vast majority coming from RCMP and city police.” The line is primarily for emergencies, such as threat of a homicide or abduction, Amber Alert, hostage taking or vehicle pulled over at roadside. But, Grossman added: “The line can also be used for non-emergency situations, for example if the Canadian Police Information Centre is down or does not have current information.” The B.C. Freedom of

Information and Privacy Association’s executive director, Vincent Gogolek, said there are legitimate reasons for such an exception to the Act, but lawmakers need to examine this issue during the scheduled 2016 review of information and privacy laws. “There’s got to be suitable controls over this,” said Gogolek. “The problem may not be with the wording, it may be with the practices. Hopefully the committee would look at both of those.” Cook was similarly disappointed that the Ofﬁce of the Information and Pri-

vacy Commissioner sided with ICBC in 2012 when it concluded police had not accessed his file. The finding contradicted a 2006 ICBC letter which included the officer’s badge number. “No one’s held accountable to any of these things,” Cook said. “The whole organization is worthless.” OIPC spokeswoman Cara McGregor said Commissioner Elizabeth Denham was unable to discuss Cook’s case or comment generally on the law because of “ongoing deliberations related to these matters.” twitter.com/bobmackin

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VSB staying the course CLASS NOTES

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The Vancouver School Board decided Wednesday evening to continue its contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers to review the district’s expenses and revenues. Education Minister Peter Fassbender recommended the VSB cancel its contract after he surprised the district March 12 by appointing EY, formerly Ernst and Young, to serve as special adviser on the board’s budget. Fassbender denied knowing the VSB had hired PwC earlier in the month to undertake similar work and offered to reimburse the board for costs related to cancelling the PwC contract. But NPA VSB chairperson Christopher Richardson said the board felt it would beneﬁt from the continuity of rehiring PwC to update its 2012 Resource Allocation Report, comment on the district’s proposed balanced budget for 2015-2016 and identify opportunities for ad-

ditional savings, even though there could be duplication between the two reports. The board has asked the Ministry of Education to delay EY’s review until after the VSB’s budget process is complete to reduce demands on district staff during the busy budgeting period. The provincial School Act requires school boards to submit balanced budgets to the ministry by June 30, but the VSB makes budget decisions by April 30 to advise unions and administrators about staffing changes for September before the summer break. PwC is to provide an interim report to the VSB by April 27, in advance of final deliberation on the budget, a final report by May 15. Richardson said the board has asked PwC to provide any recommendations that unions and other stakeholders would want to discuss as early as possible. The ministry has asked EY to provide a report by May 31. Richardson said both consultations require staff to do more than merely hand

over a ﬁnancial information package. Richardson said Fassbender didn’t react to the VSB’s request for a delay when he spoke to him shortly before he spoke to the Courier Thursday morning, other than to say he would discuss the matter with ministry staff. During his campaign for his seat on the school board in the Nov. 15 election, Richardson and other candidates with the NPA emphasized they would work more collaboratively and less combatively with the ministry than they felt Vision Vancouver trustees had in recent years. Richardson said recent events haven’t changed his outlook on how the VSB and ministry interact “dramatically.” “Certainly I was surprised,” he said of the special adviser announcement. “I’m conﬁdent as we move forward that, both in the [delayed] seismic area and the operating area, we will be using an evidence-based approach to address various issues that we have.” twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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City wants brewers to make Commercial water use spikes 10 per cent in wake of tourism uptick and craft beer boom

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A good year for tourism coupled with Vancouver’s craft brewery boom added up to a 10 per cent increase in the amount of water Vancouver businesses glugged in 2014. Meanwhile, residential water use stayed ﬂat between 2013 and 2014. The City of Vancouver now wants businesses to slow the ﬂow. “A lot of the water conservation focus over the years has been on residents, and now we’re broadening our reach,” said Brian Crowe, the city’s director of water, sewers and district energy. As part of its Greenest City plan, the city wants to reduce overall water consumption by 33 per cent of 2006 levels. That will save taxpayer money in the long run, Crowe said. In 20 to 30 years, population growth is expected to put pressure on the region’s reservoirs. Expanding them will be costly. “That could be raising the

Parallel 49’s brewmaster Graham With estimates most breweries use roughly seven litres of water to produce one litre of beer. PHOTO ROB KRUYT

dam and ﬂooding the watershed or developing another lake and damming another river,” said city waterworks engineer Danny Wong. “That’s at a huge cost to the taxpayer. It’s well into the hundreds of millions if not a billion dollars, depending on what option you look at.”

Brewers say they’re on board to work with the city, but they also hope city staff are aligned with Metro Vancouver as the regional district introduces new rules for brewery waste water. Metro Vancouver is expected to introduce a brewery and distiller-speciﬁc bylaw in 2016 to require

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But Ken Beattie, executive director of the B.C. Craft Brewers Guild, said the two policies could be at cross-purposes if the city and regional district aren’t working together. “One of the ways you make sure things don’t get ﬂushed down into the sewer system is to use more water, but the city is saying, ‘Wait, don’t use more water,’” Beattie said. “So we’ve said, ‘You guys have to get together and tell us what you want.’” The City of Vancouver and Metro Vancouver will be working together on the issue, Crowe said. Brewers use water in just about every step of the beer-making process, including cleaning equipment and bottles.

The amount of water used can be as much as 20 litres to one litre of beer, but Crowe said some brewers have been able to reduce that ratio to 6:1. Graham With, brewmaster at Parallel 49 in East Vancouver, estimated that most Vancouver breweries use about seven litres to produce one litre of beer. Craft brewers are often focused more on starting and growing their business than on saving water, so the city’s engineering department hopes to work with brewers to develop a set of best practices to help new brewers as they get set up. Crowe pointed to current initiatives with hotels and restaurants, such as a program to provide restau-

rants with a free dish-rinsing nozzle that uses less water. Tourism Vancouver is gathering data on water use for 2013 and 2014, but Gwendal Castellan, an energy specialist with the tourism association, said it knows that occupancy, and therefore water use, was up in 2014. Crowe stressed that the city doesn’t want to impede economic development. “It’s good that [businesses are] thriving, but the water’s costing them money and costing the whole city money because of the cost of growing the water system to support that demand,” he said. “We want to help them grow economically and use water more efﬁciently.” twitter.com@jenstden

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Clark government Digesting the nutty gets goofier by the day world of branding Allen Garr Columnist

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The goofiness — and here I am trying to restrain myself — of Christy Clark’s Liberal government is making itself increasingly apparent. Let me refer you to the latest examples. First: As you well know, all of Metro Vancouver is currently tearing itself apart over a transportation plebiscite, the result of an election campaign whim by our premier. Clark has refused to pay for the planned multi-billion dollar infrastructure improvements out of the provincial treasury. The plan would rebuild a bridge, add bike lanes and improve public transit and the movement of goods. The region’s mayors have refused to raise property tax to cover the cost. The compromise, allowing for a 0.5 per cent increase in the provincial sales tax which would apply just in Metro, is only possible under Clark’s view of how the world should work, if the majority of voters vote in favour. This week, the same week that ballots for that plebiscite are being mailed out, Clark’s transportation minister, Todd Stone, announced yet another multi-billion-dollar transportation plan. This plan will build a bridge, add bike lanes and improve public transit and the movement of goods. One difference is the inordinate focus of widening major highways for the benefit of motor vehicles in the Fraser Valley airshed. There will, however, be no plebiscite. The province will simply foot the bill. And if that makes sense to you, what Clark’s minister of education is going on about with the Vancouver School Board may be more problematic. So second: As you well know, the balance of power at the Vancouver School Board (VSB) shifted to the right as a result of the last municipal election. The board chair is NPA trustee Christopher Richardson. He promised a more conciliatory approach when dealing with Victoria than we saw when Vision Vancouver held the majority and Patti Bacchus was chair. Even so, two issues have put the VSB at odds with Clark and her education minister Peter Fassbender. The first is the board’s long-standing commitment to seismically upgrade a number of schools. Vancouver has more schools and children at risk of damage caused by earthquakes than other

districts. In spite of that, Fassbender announced the seismic upgrading would be deferred for more than a decade and then tried to pin the blame on the VSB. In an op-ed piece in last Monday’s Vancouver Sun, Richardson disputed the claim and rather pointed to actions by the ministry, including withdrawing funding for portables to allow upgrading of main buildings to go ahead. Then there is the issue of the VSB operating budget. While the minister was being battered by critics for delaying upgrades, another story surfaced tied to the budget made headlines and reflected poorly on a parsimonious provincial government: “2,000 children go hungry in Vancouver schools every day.” Richardson called the situation “a crisis we have to face.” In spite of all that, Richardson told Fassbender’s ministry that he fully intended to balance the budget although it would mean making some difficult choices. The matter was made even more problematic with a demand from Fassbender that boards across the province cut $29 million in administration costs this year and $25 million next year. In their first take on the budget in February VSB staff ended up with a deficit but had proposals that would eliminate it. Richardson, who happens to be a chartered accountant, also informed the ministry at the beginning of March that the board had contracted with independent accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to assist VSB staff to seek out efficiencies. But last week Fassbender went on the offensive. After giving Richardson a 15-minute warning, he called a press conference to announce he had appointed a second accounting firm, Ernst & Young, to act as an independent adviser to the VSB. He also accused the board of having an unrestricted surplus of $28 million. “Unfortunately,” Richardson noted, “the minister has incorrectly mentioned this surplus a number of times.” The money was already committed. And noting the ministry already knew the VSB had an external firm of accountants under contract, Richardson said he was “surprised” by the minister’s announcement and said “we’re not sure what this second third party adviser will be able to add.” Patti Bacchus couldn’t have said it better herself. twitter.com/allengarr

Geoff Olson Columnist

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A French court has barred a couple from naming their daughter Nutella, according to a report in The Guardian Weekly. The court ruled that a girl named after the popular hazelnut chocolate spread would suffer from “mockery or disobliging remarks” by others. In response the parents lopped off the sufﬁx, leaving her as Ella. The word “brand” is of Old Norse derivation. In this medieval Viking language, “brandr” meant “to burn.” Over time, the word was used to describe the searing of cattle, convicts and slaves with red-hot irons. So it’s not wrong to say that the French legal system stepped in — or overstepped, depending on your point of view — to keep the kid from being burned. What were the parents thinking? Who knows. The late psychologist B. F. Skinner, major domo the now-discredited school of psychology known as behaviourism, conceived of animal minds as black boxes: all you could do was record were the inputs and outputs. His assessment of human beings wasn’t much higher. Stimulus: a sweet new baby girl. Response: naming her after an insulinspiking spread. Let’s not rule out the possible role of drugs. Perhaps weed played a part in the naming of Wisconsin teacher Marijuana Sawyer, and alcohol in the naming of ESPN Montana after a sports broadcasting network and football star. In comparison, 26-year old Linda Dagless seem a model of sobriety. The UK woman named her fourth daughter after the Swedish furniture maker Ikea. Too bad Ms. Dagless didn’t look to the company’s signature scented candle (Flärdfull) or duvet cover (Grönkulla) for baby-naming inspiration. Oh well, perhaps little Ikea will grow up to marry someone named Allen Key. Unfortunately, such brand-crazed parents may be harbingers as much as outliers. In Mike Judge’s 2008 black comedy Idiocracy, American citizens of the future are named after company products, among them “Frito,” “Velveeta,” and “Beef Supreme.” It doesn’t seem a stretch, considering there’s already a real-world American rap star who took the stage name Ludacris, an alteration of the synonym for ridiculous.

What’s in a name? Plenty. Big firms are very protective of their brands and logos — and south of the border, corporations have the legal status of personhood. A 2010 legal decision (The U.S. Supreme Court vs. Reason Itself) ruled that because corporations have the right to free speech under the First Amendment, there can be no restrictions on financing U.S. political campaigns. Corporations can now carpet bomb candidates of their of choice with obscene amounts of filthy lucre. Contrast this with a U.S. federal decision in 2014, when lawyers for the Obama administration declared that people detained at Guantánamo Bay prison are not “persons” protected by the U.S. Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). So in the Bizarro World of America, corporations are persons while some people are not. Needless to say, prisoners subject to “indefinite detention” — many deemed innocent of terror activities — don’t have the opportunity to rebrand themselves into retroactive personhood for public relations purposes. (I can imagine a social media campaign to free “Ahmed Mountain Dew” and his fellow brandees, and I’m not being entirely facetious.) Personhood in everyday life is being eroded by changing concepts of privacy. Also, there’s significant pressures on people to professionally “brand themselves” through social media sites. They are coached to think of themselves as mini-corporations complete with “mission statements” and other marketing-related bumpf. The thesis of Joel Bakan’s 2004 film The Corporation is that if the average big corporation is a person, then its behaviour suggests a psychopathic personality. In other words, we’re not talking about ideal models for personhood, let alone baby names. Consider the final words of the notorious mass killer Gary Gilmore — “Let’s do it ”—just before his death by a Utah firing squad in 1977. Dan Wieden, the founder of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy, “realized that a slight tweaking of Mr. Gilmore’s last words might make a good slogan for athletic gear,” according to a 2009 report in the New York Times. Hence Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign. That’s right: Nike’s “Just Do It” tag line was inspired by the last words of a mass murderer. Branding-wise, naming a child after a chocolate hazelnut spread seems like chump change in comparison. geoffolson.com

The week in num6ers...

2.5 10 280 15.8 2

In thousands, the approximate number of photos BIL speaker Jordan Yerman has taken of feral cats in cities around the world.

The percentage the city’s commercial water usage has gone up since the craft brewery industry began booming in 2014.

The number of Canucks games coached by Pat Quinn, who passed away in November and had a street near Rogers Arena renamed in his honour earlier this week.

In millions of dollars, the amount paid by developer CM Bay for a 0.36 vacant lot at the corner of Cambie Street and West 41st Avenue.

The number of murders committed by Gary Gilmore, whose last words at his 1977 execution inspired Nike’s “Just Do It” slogan.

In millions of dollars, the amount education minister Peter Fassbender wants B.C. school boards to cut from their administration costs for 2015.

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Inbox LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Yes side needs more highprofile senior support

Re: “The Yes side’s epic marathon of hope,” March 13. Mayor Gregor Robertson desire to have Jimmy Pattison head up an overview committee to assure taxpayers that their dollars are being spent efﬁciently by TransLink needs a little additional support. I suggest we include Dal Richards and Grace McCarthy to the list as all three are highly respected British Columbians, each plays a musical instrument, are of the same vintage and could busk quite nicely at various SkyTrain stations while they oversee the TransLink spending. The entertainment value will help the voters overcome their objection to the wasted million spent on this plebiscite and could increase ridership. A win-win. Ken B. Chamberlin, Vancouver

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As a regular user of transit, I feel it is necessary for myself and others who use the system to support the Yes side. Since the creation of the Canada Line, I have seen a huge increase in ridership. Occasionally I take the 100 Marpole bus to the Marine Drive station and it is always packed to the doors at morning rush hour. The 49 Metrotown bus, which serves many students and riders who depart from the Langara Canada Line station, has added many buses to its service but the 100 is seriously lacking in capacity. I do not understand why anyone would gripe at having to pay an additional 35 cents a day in taxes to support our transit system. As for complaints about [executives] of TransLink making huge salaries, I do not hear people complaining about the salaries of CEOs of other organizations make. That complaint is missing the point of why the referendum is being called in the ﬁrst place. Barbara Bawlf, Vancouver

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Bateman only wants to stick it to government

CO U R I E R A R C H I V E S T H I S W E E K I N H I S T O R Y March 20, 1925: Hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan arrive at the Point Grey home of pharmaceutical magnate Frederick Baker and kidnap 25-year-old houseboy Wong Foon Sing, who seven months earlier had discovered the body of fellow servant Janet Smith. The 22-year-old nursemaid had been killed by a gunshot to the head. Sing is taken to the group’s Shaughnessy mansion headquarters and tortured for six weeks by captors who demanded he tell them who killed her. The men eventually let him go free on Marine Drive, where he was “found” by police and charged with Smith’s murder but later released due to lack of evidence. Kidnapping charges were eventually laid against several police officers and members of the police commission, including John Alexander Paton, who was also the publisher of the Point Grey Gazette, which later became the Vancouver Courier. The charges against Paton were later dropped. March 21, 1985: Rick Hansen launches his Man in Motion world tour from Oakridge Mall. Inspired by his late friend Terry Fox, the 28-year-old Hansen, whose spine was broken in a pickup truck accident when he was 15, went on to travel in a wheelchair more than 40,000 kilometres — equal to the circumference of the globe —through 34 countries on four continents, during which he wore out a total of 117 tires and 11 pairs of gloves while raising approximately $20 million for spinal cord research. Hansen returned in triumph to Vancouver on May 22, 1987. ADVERTISING

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ONLINE COMMENTS Coaching kids shouldn’t be about the money

Re: “Poor incentives offered to volunteer coaches,” March 11. Thank you for an insightful article. It brings attention to an important matter: leadership for our youth. I don’t think you can put a price on it and it has to be from the heart and you want to do it for more than the money. I believe many teachers don’t coach because they are angry at the government and it is their way of taking a stand. If teachers chose their profession for the money then they were severely mislead. There are some incredible educators who do it for passion and coach because they love it but there are just as many, if not more, who are in it for the wrong reasons and are a discredit to their profession. I have volunteered thousands of hours to coaching and administrating sports and have loved every minute. And I am not a teacher. I don’t have a solution for the problem but it is getting worse ever year at our school. I don’t think paying a coach $5K is going to solve the problem. They will still complain it is not enough. I will continue to volunteer coach, not because I have to, because I want to. Tim, via Comments section

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Yeah, sure I’ll get back at it, doing all the extra curricular I used to do after over a decade of having my rights violated by the government and lousy contracts and such leaving me 12K behind most other teachers in Canada. I now work a second job and have ever since 2000 when I saw the writing on the wall when the Liberals declared teaching an essential service and gave us three years of nothing, then in 2002 they continued to violate my rights again via contract stripping. The B.C. government counted on teachers’ altruism and benevolence to sustain extra curricular stuff and they counted wrong. Michael Dodd, via Comments section

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needed only one car instead of two or could even do without one. It’s ironic, but voting No is actually a vote for more wasteful spending. So why is Bateman pushing the No vote? He’s interested in denigrating government, not saving us money. This is, after all, the guy who criticized TransLink in 2012 for resisting the province’s call for fare gates and who is now criticizing them for putting them in. He’ll say anything to cut government — no matter the cost. I don’t trust him to have my best interests at heart. I’ll be voting Yes next week. Peter Whitelaw, Vancouver

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Nowruz traditions burn bright Food, family and ﬁre part of Persian new year celebrations PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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Eleven seconds after 3:45 p.m. this Friday (March 20), Nowruz begins. Not coincidentally, the Persian new year celebration begins at the instant of the vernal equinox — the moment spring arrives. While most of the people celebrating around here are of Iranian descent, the celebration is a highlight of the year for many central Asian peoples, including Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Iraqis and plenty of others. During Soviet times, the holiday was suppressed in parts of central Asia under Moscow’s domination, but it is again celebrated across the ‘Stans. In ancient times, it seems, the celebration carried down into India and some there still mark the day. As a result of this diversity of observance, there are almost as many names for the holiday as there are transliterated spellings into English. But here is one of those weird multicultural and interfaith twists: Nowruz is a Zoroastrian holy day whose characteristics have flourished for thousands of years, deracinated from their holiness and turned into a secular cultural festival. For the few hundred thousand people around the world who today identify as Zoroastrians, the day retains the holy essence it had 3,000 years ago, when Zoroastrianism was a dominant theology of the region. Yet the vast majority of those now celebrating Nowruz are Muslims, and the day is no more religious than New Year’s Day is to Christians. This is one of those anomalies I love — like the pagan rabbits and eggs that have survived 2,000 years of Christianity to resurrect themselves every Easter. Islam (and other religions, depending on the place) have supplanted Zoroastrianism, but the tenacity of the old rituals survive. That Zoroastrian heritage was in full fiery flight on Tuesday. While others were drinking green beer, many Vancouver-area Iranians were at Ambleside Beach, leaping over open fires. The Festival of Fire is a prelude to Nowruz and a ritual of purification before the new

Six-year-old Daniel Niknami took part in the annual Festival of Fire at Ambleside Beach on Tuesday. The tradition of leaping over open fires is a ritual of purification before the Persian new year begins March 20. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

year begins. “It is not Islamic,” says my friend Minoo Allagha, who came here from Iran. “It’s a cultural thing. Jumping over the ﬁre goes way back to the past. Fire

is something that brings warmth and love in your life, you cook with it, it’s something that brings happiness into your life.” When jumping over the ﬁre, participants will say

“I give my yellow colour to you and I take my red colour from you,” yellow representing illness and troubles, red meaning warmth and health. Then there’s food and

dancing and anticipation of the main event a few days later. Nowruz is something many families prepare for weeks and sometimes months in advance. “It means a lot to me,”

says Allagha. “Everything is supposed to be new. We start with spring cleaning, doing as much as we can to change the decorations in the house. Some people wait until this time of the year to change their furniture. The kids get new clothing. We take them shopping. Whatever brings a bit of freshness to the house, that’s the preparation.” Baking fills the home with warm, welcoming aromas and, in anticipation of the countdown to the moment the holiday officially begins, a table is spread with seven symbolic dishes, each beginning with the same letter (in Farsi, at any rate). These include sprouts representing rebirth, apples representing health and beauty, lotus fruit representing love, garlic representing medicine, vinegar for age and patience, a pudding reflecting Persian cuisine, and sumac berries, the colour of the sun, representing the triumph of light over darkness and good over evil, which is a core Zoroastrian tenet. Kids paint eggs, which is apparently a cross-cultural celebration of springtime. When the countdown officially ushers in Nowruz — which means simply “new day” — there’s more food, especially sweets, gifts exchanged, including cash for the kids, and more dancing with family. Where Nowruz is a statutory holiday, the celebrations can go on for days, with successive visits to family. “You go see your uncles and aunts and grandparents,” Allagha says. Family is a huge part of Nowruz, but so are friends, says Reza Hassanalikhani, one of the organizers of an annual Nowruz gala in Vancouver. The gala tends to take place the day before or after Nowruz because the holiday itself is spent with family. But several hundred people, mostly young, mostly Persian, will be partying it up Saturday night at Rain Ultraclub in Gastown. Everyone’s welcome, Hassanalikhani stresses, but it’ll probably be about 90 per cent Iranian-Canadians. For millennia, the beginning of spring has been celebrated in similar fashion across huge areas of the world. Like so many other traditions, Nowruz is now part of Canada’s culture. Nowruz Mubarak! twitter.com/Pat604Johnson

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Vote Yes in the Transportation and Transit Referendum Voting packages have been hitting mailboxes all across the region and the voting period has started. Be sure to send in your ballot by May 29, 2015. It’s your chance to vote yes for better transit to protect our environment, strengthen our economy, and improve our health and quality of life. Learn more about how the Mayors’ Council Plan will beneﬁt Vancouver at vancouver.ca/transitreferendum

Open House: New Fire Hall No. 5 with Social Housing Drop by an open house to learn more about an application to rezone the site and build a new Fire Hall No. 5 with social housing at its current location (3090 East 54th Avenue).

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Diaries reveal harrowing experiences

Nursing Sister Emily Eliza Edwardes poses atop the wreck of a German zeppelin that was shot down near Salonika, Greece in May 1916. Notes accompanying the photo indicate that the zeppelin was brought down at the River Vardar by guns aboard the HMS Agamemnon. PHOTO CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES PHOTO PORT N16.

Nurses’ photos, journals, scrapbooks preserved at Vancouver Archives Lisa Smedman

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March 1917, Le Treport, France. With snow blowing outside No. 5 Canadian General Hospital and heating coal in short supply, Nursing Sister Beatrice Kilbourne bundled up in her coat and “coarse brown blanket” and wrote in her diary about the night shift she’d just worked. “Night duty on a surgical wing with 46 patients, all very sick and sore. Any one of them liable to hemorrhage any minute, treatments, etc. is no soft snap. The strain and anxiety is worse than any amount of work. We who thought we were hard worked at home knew not what work really was.” Kilbourne, however, had no regrets. She went on: “But here there is always the feeling that ﬁrst — it is only our duty we are doing — 2nd, it is a pleasure to be able to do it. The boys are so grateful and so good and patient.”

On March 23, she wrote: “Awfully tired. Watching 5 patients who are liable to ‘blow’ at any moment.” On March 25: “Two deaths and a convoy [of wounded arrived]. Busy night.” On March 27: “Poor old Grant had amputation. Awfully sick during night.” By March 29, she was looking forward to the “24 hours sleep” that would come in ﬁve days’ time, and bemoaning the fact that her “husky” appearance meant she’d been assigned the night shift four weeks in a row. But sleep wasn’t always easy. On March 31, she wrote, “Raining in torrents. Came through cracks in hut on my bed.” Even so, she added, “Poor boys up the line! How comfortable we are even here. How thankful we should be.”

Nurses on the frontline

Kilbourne was just one of the 3,141 Canadian women

who served as nurses during the First World War. Some worked at hospitals in England, while others served in France, close enough to the trenches to hear the guns at night and see the flashes as artillery bombardments lit up the sky. Others wound up at Canadian military hospitals in such far-flung locations as Egypt or Greece. Kilbourne’s diary entries begin with her departure, together with nine other nursing sisters, from England. The train station was filled with “hundreds of officers and thousands of troops, Nursing Sisters, V.A.D.’s [Voluntary Aid Detachment members] and a few anxious looking civilians no doubt on their way to see some son or brother or loved one who had been placed on the ‘Dangerously ill list’ — wondering if they would still be alive to greet them when they arrived.” The nurses boarded a troop ship filled with soldiers returning from leave to the front lines. “A great number of them looked old, and weather beaten,

and none too happy about their returning to ‘Hell’ as they expressed it.” Those aboard were issued life belts and ordered to remain quiet. Submarines had been spotted in the English Channel, and British patrol boats were sweeping for mines. After a two-hour crossing, the troop ship docked at Boulogne. “Here I was in France, on my way to do the work I had dreamed of doing for so long,” Kilbourne wrote on Feb. 20. She was assigned to No. 2 Canadian General Hospital in Le Treport, where she was greeted by other nursing sisters who were “rushed to death.” There, she shared a room in a “dugout” with four other nurses. Her ﬁrst shift was on Feb. 23, nursing 46 patients. “I was posted to Wing 2, a big surgical wing for very bad cases having mostly Carrol [Carrel] tubes in wounds. Work very interesting.” She was referring to the Carrel-Dakin treatment, invented during the war to solve the problem of deep wounds contaminated

with mud. French surgeon Alexis Carrel created the mechanism to irrigate the wounds (it looked much like a modern intravenous drip), and English chemist Henry Dakin invented the sterilizing solution. The treatment dramatically reduced infection and thus the need for amputations. Many of the casualties coming to the hospital had been hit by machine gun fire or shrapnel. “Very few have one hole,” Kilbourne wrote. “More often we find 6 [to] 40 in one boy.” On the day Kilbourne arrived, the hospital had 1,138 patients, according to the official War Diary kept by its commanding officer. More arrived every couple of days by “convoy” from the front lines. March 21 was a typical convoy. The War Diary for that day (available online at collectionscanada. gc.ca from Library and Archives Canada) notes that the ship arrived at 1 a.m., carrying 78 wounded and 130 sick. The vast majority were “Imperials” (British), but there were also two

Canadians and one New Zealander. That March, a total of 1,630 patients were admitted; 178 were Canadian soldiers. Kilbourne’s diary, preserved at the City of Vancouver Archives, ends in April 1917. Another diary, that of Elinor Newton Wade, was written two years earlier and describes the excitement of enlisting as a nursing sister. Wade joined up in 1915. After three weeks of drilling and lectures in Victoria, she began her journey to the front on Aug. 20. Bands played and “crowds of people” came out to send off the nursing sisters as they marched in their military uniforms from the drill hall to the boat. In Vancouver, similar crowds wished them well. The train across Canada carried 70 nurses, two assistant matrons, one matron, 32 doctors, two quartermasters and 203 men of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, all with No. 5 Canadian General Hospital.

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of First World War nursing sisters Also aboard were three sections of Field Ambulance. “The O.C. [Commanding Officer], Col. Hart., is very strict,” Wade wrote. “We are not allowed to converse to doctors and officers, only answer if spoken to and of course, have no dealings what ever with the men.” The train reached Montreal Aug. 26. There, they settled into a routine. “At dinner at night we wear full dress and do not sit down until O.C. does, or get up till he proposed King’s health and we all stand up. Roll call at 9 am. and parade inspection at 9:30 am.” Wade’s account ends there, but a glimpse into life with No. 5 Canadian General Hospital can also be found in a scrapbook, also at the City of Vancouver Archives. It holds dozens of photos taken by Nursing Sister Emily Eliza Edwardes, who later married Major James Skitt Matthews, Vancouver’s first archivist. Edwardes joined up in Victoria in July 1915. Her photos include snapshots of the nurses marching through the streets of Victoria that August; by December they’d reached Cairo, Egypt. Their final destination was Salonika (modern Thessaloniki) Greece; from December 1915 to August 1917 the hospital treated sick and wounded soldiers from the Salonika Forces who were fighting the “Bulgars” (Bulgarians) that had attacked Serbia. The scrapbook includes pictures of military tents, soldiers picnicking with nurses, hospital ships — and Edwardes perched atop the remains of a German zeppelin that had tried to bomb Salonika’s harbour on May 6, 1916, only to be shot down by HMS Agamemnon.

Close call

According to Veterans Affairs Canada, of the 2,504 nursing sisters who served overseas, approximately 45 died. Some died of disease; others were killed when hospitals were bombed or hospital ships sunk. Edwardes had a close call on Nov. 23, 1916. She was aboard the hospital ship Braemar Castle as it steamed from Salonika to Malta, evacuating British wounded. Edwardes, on leave, was sitting on deck reading a book “on a dull day with a gentle breeze

Nursing Sisters with their patients in a ward of No. 5 Canadian General Hospital in Kalamaria, Greece during the First World War. PHOTO CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES PHOTO CVA 371-248.07.

and low waves.” Suddenly, around 11 a.m., an explosion tore through the ship. She at ﬁrst thought a submarine had torpedoed the ship — later, it turned out the ship had struck a mine. The explosion amidships — a “frightful bang” — sent those aboard scurrying for lifeboats and life rafts. With the wireless radio destroyed by the blast, the ship sounded her whistle, “a terrible prolonged noise” that eventually brought two minesweepers to the rescue. “Five lives, all wounded soldiers, were lost; killed in their hospital cots on the ship; one more died in the small boats, and was subsequently buried with military honours on the island of Syra where we were landed,” Edwardes reminisced two decades later. “The coal bunkers had cushioned the explosion which did great damage... but did no hurt to the engines, and the ship did not sink, but the hospital patients looked like darkies they were so coated with coal dust. “The Braemar Castle

was still afloat when we last saw her in the distance, but the previous day a big British hospital ship, the Britannic was not so lucky; the same German submarine sank her.” A month after the incident, on Dec. 10, 1916, Edwardes received a thank-you letter from James E.E. Walton, whose son, Tom Walton, a gunner with the Royal Field Artillery, had been aboard the Braemar Castle. Walton’s father wrote: “We have not met you and may never do so but let us assure you will always occupy a foremost place in our minds and hearts, and if by any chance you may, after your labours of love and mercy are completed, you find yourself in good old England and you can find time to call at the above address you will be made welcome.”

Soldiers’ appreciation

The nurses’ diaries preserved at the City of Vancouver Archives include several pages written by grateful soldiers who were treated at Salonika. One of these was H.P. Sarjant, a signalman

with the 6th Leinster Regiment Royal Canadians. “I was sent up to the No. 5 Canadian Hospital with illness, and put in M.D. 2 ward, and thanks to splendid treatment by the Canadians I soon was myself again,” Sarjant wrote. “It was Captain Gibson who cured me, and I leave the hospital a grateful patient.” William T. Darke of the Royal Fusiliers, 28th Division, wrote a poem in the diary on April 10, 1916, and concluded by adding, “With best wishes for the staff of the 5th Canadian Gen Hospital Salonika, whose careful treatment I’ll always remember.” But the soldier who perhaps summed it up best was G.P. Davies, a sapper with the Royal Engineers S Service. On Feb. 20, 1916, he wrote, “This hospital is the ﬁnest thing that ever happened. The doctors I think could cure wooden legs. The sisters are ‘angels.’ The orderlies are ‘lads.’ They have sent poor old ‘Hobby’ away but Sargent and myself are after him. ‘There’s no rest for the wicked.’”

Nursing Sister Elinor Newton Wade served with No. 5 Canadian General Hospital during the First World War. PHOTO MEDRINGTONS LTD. PHOTOGRAPHERS, CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES PHOTO CVA 371-1869.

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GOOD WISHES: Fronted by gala chair Lana Bradshaw and foundation director Jennifer Petersen, and hosted by seven-yearold wish kid Avery Carpenter, along with Global TV’s Sonia Beeksma, the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada’s second annual WISH Gala went “Old Hollywood Glam.” Presented by Pacific Blue Cross and held at Vancouver’s historic Vogue Theatre, the party welcomed 180 guests who enjoyed an incredible dinner on the Vogue stage prepared by Edible Canada with canapés from Fable and a sweet finish by Farm 2 Fork. Following the royal repast, Vancouverites helped raised $165,000 to support the work of the foundation providing more than $20,000 grants to inspire and instill hope for wish kids and their families dealing with lifethreatening illnesses. ALL IN: Nearly 200 delegates attended the third B.C. Workplace Inclusion Conference, hosted by the Open Door Group and staged at the Coal Harbour Marriott Hotel. Yours truly served as the master of ceremonies for the awards program, recognizing businesses from across the province who have demonstrated a commitment to fostering diverse working environments including persons with disabilities, aboriginal jobseekers, youth, women, older workers and recent immigrants. Recipients honoured were Vancity’s Kristin Bower (Diversity and Inclusion Champion, Individual), the City of Vancouver’s Darcy Wilson, (Diversity and Inclusion Champion, Manager), Shell Gas Station’s Sweetpal Singh (Small B.C. Business Champion), Atira Women’s Resource Society (Non-Profit) and BMO (Large Business). GLOWBAL DOMINATION: Emad Yacoub’s empire continues to grow. With Coast, Black + Blue, Italian Kitchen, Society, the Fish Shack and two Trattoria’s already flying the Glowbal Restaurant Group’s flag, the restaurateur recently opened his tenth property, a third Trattoria in Metrotown. The casual Italian eatery, which first launched in Kitsilano, will anchor the new Westin Hotel and Sovereign Tower residences in Burnaby. Part of the luxury 45-storey development by Bosa Properties, Trattoria is a 200-seat eatery across 6,000 square feet of dining space on two levels. Not to rest on his laurels, the always-energetic Yacoub, and his business partner, Jack Lamont, are busily working on their next project, a series of dining facilities at Telus Gardens to open later this year. The downtown residential and business complex will be home to a flagship restaurant, bookended by a 150seat patio and cocktail lounge.

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Wish kid Avery Carpenter, who has undergone several open heart surgeries at B.C. Children’s Hospital, co-emceed Children’s Wish Foundation’s marquee dinner and auction at the Vogue Theatre.

Atira Women’s Resource Society’s Janice Abbott and BMO’s Pat Dejong picked up inclusion and diversity champion awards for, respectively, best non-profit and large business.

Pacific Blue Cross CEO Jan Grude, event co-host Sonia Beeksma and Children’s Wish B.C. and Yukon Chapter director Jennifer Petersen saw $165,000 generated to grant wishes to kids diagnosed with life threatening illnesses.

Corporate chef Ryan Gauthier served up tasty bites to the hundreds that attended the grand opening of Trattoria in Burnaby. Trattoria offers 200 seats across 6,000 square feet of dining space on two levels.

Emad Yacoub and Jack Lamont opened their 10th restaurant in Metrotown. Their third Trattoia restaurant will anchor the Westin Hotel and Sovereign Residences tower in Burnaby.

Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation for Accessibility Linda Larson (centre) and Open Door Group’s CEO Tom Burnell and executive director Alona Puehse fronted the third B.C. Workplace Inclusion Awards.

CBC’s Scott Russell feted Kimberley Joines at the 49th Athlete of the Year gala. The paraalpine skier was recipient of the Harry Jerome Comeback Award.

Rob Newman, president and CEO of Sport B.C., presented the female senior athlete award to multiple World Cup ski-cross champion Marielle Thompson. Thompson was among 16 athletes, coaches and officials honoured at the sports banquet.

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Q. My daughter is getting married beginning of July 2015 and we would like as many fresh flowers as possible. Are there ones I could plant now that would work in a July wedding? Raydeen Fuge, Langley A. Sweet peas are one of the best flowers to plant now for a July wedding. This is the right time to plant them and their flowering time is more predictable than most other flowers. Their range of colours is immense. Seeds are easy to get everywhere. All the ones I mention are available from West Coast Seeds, which are sold in most garden centres as well as online. The Mammoth series, for instance, flowers when days are 10 hours long and similar types are the earliest of all. These sweet peas come in a range of colours — crimson, pale and deep pink, navy-blue, lavender and salmon. The Mammoth series

If you plant sweet peas now, they’ll be ready for weddings in July.

blooms have long stems and the vines climb to about 3 metres. Then there is the wonderful fragrance. All the sweet peas I’m recommending need support because tall vines grow long stems to work in a bouquet. It’s best to sow some heattolerant sweet peas as well. The Royal Family Blend tolerates heat (so it blooms for longer even in a hot summer). This type has big ﬂowers and long stems as well.

It grows 1.2 to 1.5m tall. It comes in many colours and in white. The best heat resistance is in the Old Spice Blend. These are enormously fragrant though the ﬂowers are a little smaller. The Spencer varieties include names like the allwhite Royal Wedding, and the Spencer Ripple Formula, which has pink and white bi-coloured ﬂowers with curved edges. The Ripple

type climb 2-2.3m tall. By focusing on sweet peas, the remaining issue becomes simpler since all you need is some kind of a background for the bouquet. You may be able to lay your hands on some shrub already in your garden: huckleberry or salal plus ivy as a trailer. Or perhaps a friend may have suitable greenery. In any case, ﬂorists always have green branches on hand, some of which, like salal, are native here. You might invest in some Asiatic lilies as a fail-safe. Most bloom through June, but this spring has been very warm. If you planted the lilies in March you might have some earlier ﬂowers. The same could happen if you planted gladiolas a tad early, too. What we’re gambling with here is the weather, which can be unpredictable. Meanwhile seed germination and bulb-sprouting can be very weather-dependent, which adds to the element of gambling. Send garden questions to amarrison@shaw.ca. It helps if you mention your region or city.

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The odds are in favour you’ll one day find yourself in a hospital, and the older you get, the greater the odds that you will. You might as well pack your bags today because being a patient is a lot like taking a trip to a foreign country. If I were to write a guidebook for hospital patients, I’d call it “The Lonely Patient’s Guide to Hospitaland.” The inhabitants dress differently — usually in greens and white coats, and it’s hard to tell who’s who. Doctors wear nametags with their first and last names. Almost all the rest of the staff show only first names. You, however, have to wear a wrist band with your full name, birth date, PHN and the name of some doctor you may not recall meeting.

If you have allergies, you earn an extra brightly coloured wristband, but don’t mistake this for an all-inclusive resort. The closest thing you’ll get to a massage might be a sponge bath. In the summer time, if your semiprivate room is too hot, you might hallucinate that you’re in a sauna since you and the other guests are all nearly naked beneath your very thin hospital gowns. And like the pool deck, you’ll see more than you wish to of the scantily clad guest strolling by showing places gowns don’t quite cover up. While you’ve heard that in some countries a ﬁve star resort is really four stars in quality, when you start complaining that the food is only two stars, doctors take this as a sign that you’re getting better or at least nearly normal and ready for discharge. The inhabitants of Hospitaland speak a dif-

ferent language. Instead of “aloha,” we have other multipurpose, ill-defined words like “rounds.” When a doctor visits patients at the bedside, we call this doing rounds. When a bunch of doctors gather to talk about one patient, we call that department rounds. When doctors gather for group education, it’s called grand rounds. When doctors and nurses meet to talk about the patients on the ward, we call it team rounds. When I can’t find anyone to help me read a CT scan, all the radiologists are on brown rounds (that is a coffee break). They also speak in code. Code Blue is a cardiac or respiratory arrest. Code Pink is a maternity emergency. Code White is a psychiatric emergency. Code Yellow is pee on the floor and a potential WorkSafe hazard. Every hospital has its own code. Continued on page 22

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Continued from page 21 The inhabitants have odd customs. Everyone who talks to you will write in a big binder with your name on it, but don’t dare try to look into that binder yourself. A stern and scary nurse will tell you that you are not allowed to do this without medical supervision — unless you care to ﬁll out a bit of paperwork and wait (until you are discharged from the hospital). If you hadn’t been diagnosed with paranoia on admission, you might be before discharge. But don’t take my word for it, just try to look in that binder. On Friday, March 27 at 7 p.m., I’ll be speaking on “How to Survive Your Hospital Stay” at the Confederation Community Centre at 4585 Albert St. in North Burnaby (near the McGill Public Library and Eileen Daily Pool). This free public talk is part of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice’s Empowering Patients education series. I’ll tell you everything you need to know to have the healthiest, least eventful hospital stay pos-

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March 20 to 24, 2015 1. Japan’s legendary Butoh dance ensemble Dairakudakan brings Mushi no Hoshi – Space Insect to the Vancouver Playhouse March 20 to 21 as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Twentytwo dancers will shape-shift from humans to insects while asking, “Who is the better caretaker of the world?” Good question. Details at vidf.ca.

2. Do yourself a favour and catch The Last Waltz, March 20, 9:15 p.m. at the Rio Theatre. Not only does Martin Scorsese’s 1976 drug-fuelled concert film of The Band’s final show capture a group of road-ravaged dudes at their peak, but the performances are for the ages: the Staple Singers, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison in a ridiculous purple jumpsuit! Not to mention Band classics such as “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Life is a Carnival” and “The Weight.” Details at riotheatre.ca. 3. Shlock around the clock as the Northwest Horror Show splatters eight grindhouse and cult classic films across Vancity Theatre March 20 to 22. Movies include Massacre Mafia Style (1974), the thoroughly messed up Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and 1981 Italian zombie flick The Beyond. Info and show times at viff.org. 4. Alynda Lee Segarra and her rickety front porch-friendly outfit Hurray for the Riff Raff brings its contemporary take on southern music to Electric Owl March 21. Adia Victoria opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca. 5. Not only is it a cramped diner where locals enjoy brunch and healthy servings of abuse from the staff, the Elbow Room Café is now a musical. Dave Deveau and Anton Lipovetsky have teamed up for Elbow Room Café: The Musical to close Studio 58’s 49th season. It’s still a work in progress, but you can see the results until March 29 at Langara College. Details at studio58.ca.

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It’s barely 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, but at Thomas Haas Chocolates and Patisserie (2539 West Broadway), things are in full swing. Over the whirr of the espresso machine, I overhear bits of conversation, with croissant, chocolate and ohmigodsogood cracking through the din. While some people are content with just caffeine, most have a plate in front of them — pastries for most and cakes for the eager few. At ﬁrst glance, the shop is a jewel box of impeccable chocolates, butter-laced pastries and Instagramworthy desserts. But behind the scenes is a love story between partners, in every sense of the word. It all started in the fall of 1995. Thomas had just relocated from his native Austria to be the executive pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel. As department head, he stayed at the hotel

Lisa and Thomas Haas met while both were working at the Four Seasons Hotel. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

until he found more permanent accommodation. In the front ofﬁce of the hotel was Lisa, who was born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto. “I was always calling him to ask when he was leaving,” Lisa says, “so I could sell his room.” Despite machinations within the hotel to match the two, Lisa was seeing someone else. The following spring, newly single, she and Thomas were hanging out as

friends. “Something hit me and I realized that, you know, I might kind of like this guy.” The rest, she says, is history. After a stint in New York City, where Thomas worked for Daniel Boulud, the couple — who were now a family — returned to Vancouver. While consulting for the Metropolitan Hotel, Thomas noticed a dearth of ﬁne chocolate in the city. Continued next page

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“[Like] someone would ring a little bell and we’d run out and say, ‘What can we help you with?’” Naturally, when they opened their West Broadway location in 2009, they made space for a larger café. Similarly, their menu has evolved over the years. “I think Vancouver’s palate is becoming more reﬁned,” says Lisa. And on the fact that so many chocolate and pastry shops have opened in recent years: “It keeps you on your toes. It means we’re constantly improving.”

Together, Thomas and Lisa Haas have built a marriage, a family and a business. “In the business, he’s trying to delegate, to take a step back and let people grow. But to his core, he still remains the same. He has the same integrity and ﬁerceness — or you could say stubbornness,” she laughs. And outside of the business? “I think in terms of family, he has mellowed a little bit,” she says, “but I have to say, he’s still just Thomas.” twitter.com/eagranieyuh

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Continued from previous page So, he started a makeshift chocolate workshop in the basement of the family’s North Vancouver townhouse. “He would work 12 hours at the Met, come home, have dinner, then go into the basement and make chocolates,” Lisa recalls. She looked after their two children and handled the paperwork. “And I had to clean everything,” she says. “There I [was] in the kitchen with the big pans, the enrobing line, trying to get the chocolate out of the microwave.” After a few months, they moved the chocolate operation to a friend’s warehouse. They stayed there for the next four years, supplying luxury hotels with top-notch chocolate. In Christmas 2004, they moved into their ﬁrst retail location in an unassuming cul-de-sac behind the North Shore Auto Mall. Most times, it’s bursting with people. “[The café] is so small because Thomas and I thought we’d be able to manage it,” Lisa recalls.

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Your energy, charisma, clout, effectiveness and sense of timing rise now,and stay high for weeks. So rule wisely. One of the chief elements of ruling is sympathy — the more you reject independence and embrace a “partnership of interests,” the better you’ll do. Your assertiveness, determination and courage are at a two-year high, so do charge ahead. Just make sure your goal is worthwhile and ethical.

Relationships are the dominant theme now to late April. This is your “natural environment” and usually I’d say, charge ahead. But this year, until Nov. 12, you should avoid the commitments/consequences of relationships: don’t co-habit, don’t relocate, don’t marry, don’t form a business partnership and, if you can, avoid negotiations, litigation, contract agreements and dealings with the public. Look skeptically on “opportunities” and “new horizons.”

The general focus lies on rest, solitude, the time and privacy to relax with your thoughts. This can lead to insights or new plans. It’s a great time for reﬂection, a terrible time for clamorous deeds. Remain wary of dark alleys, biker clubs and belligerent individuals. Though this is a low-energy time (nature’s way of encouraging solitude) your vitality and charisma rise Sunday/Monday to give you two smooth, easy days.

Oh great. You’ve just entered four weeks of drudgery, chores and health issues. The good “news” (actually, advice) is that you will fare best if you give work, employment, duties toward dependents (pets, ﬁsh, kids) a light touch. Do what you must here without becoming a slave. Even at work, lighten up — manage and delegate instead of plunging in with that wrench yourself.

Wishes can come true and the few weeks ahead are deﬁnitely the time to wish. Rest up Sunday/Monday — retreat from the crowd, clear away old chores, eat sensibly and get lots of sleep. Envision what/where you want your life to be. This rest interval is important because the rest of March and most of April will bring a whirlwind of possibilities, fresh faces, social joys, ﬂirtations and bright plans. Be rested for that.

The general accent for the weeks ahead lies on romance, adventure, creativity, speculation, pleasure, beauty and kids. You’ll ride a winning streak. But take care and look deeply. The whole gist of the month ahead is to live in the moment, not the past, not the future. Yet subtle traps can lie here. If things do look dicey or if you have underlying doubts about a situation or a potential lover, default to friendly.

Be ambitious, but not too much so, for the few weeks ahead. If something good (or demanded, e.g., by a boss) drops in your lap, seize it and smile. You could be promoted. BUT if you have to chase something (“I left the boss three emails”), if you experience unreasonable delays, or if you feel pleasantly tempted (“If I mislead Dave I could get that Orinoco project.”) then turn, slowly and thoughtfully, and walk away.

The month ahead emphasizes home, family, real estate, Mother Nature, nutrition, security and plans for retirement. You’ll feel a bit sluggish at times, as this is your “hibernation” month. Take power naps. Despite the accent on real estate, I would not advise you to buy/sell a home or other real estate now (through mid-November) despite the fact that you’re in a superb investment cycle (to mid-August).

Hmm. You’ve had the romantic “upper hand” since July 2014. Are you wasting it? Someone seems to want you, will accept you gladly as you are, yet you might be evading it. Something is steering you away from a ﬁnal commitment. Perhaps you are just evading the idea, inevitability of a wedding (which is a good idea until late November, BTW – wedding vows tied before Nov. 12 will likely end in legal oaths – e.g., “damn it!”

Busyness — errands, trips, visits, siblings, casual friends, emails, paperwork and a hundred details — this is your lot for the few weeks ahead. It’s a hectic but not important time. This is usually not a good time to invest. Be cautious in this whole area — do what you should, but don’t expand. For instance, avoid starting a new mail program or redesigning a whole new phone system for the ofﬁce.

The door has opened to one of the most tempting months in many years. It opens to a dimly lit room of sexual yearnings, power plays, big ﬁnancial actions, perhaps lifestyle changes, health diagnoses (perhaps leading to surgery). Since you can’t see well in this place, rely on your intuition. It has night goggles and in addition can see a long way in time. So at every “opportunity” — for binding sex, for signing a contract, for investing your life’s savings — let that quiet little nudge inside guide you.

The general accent for the month ahead lies on earnings, buying/selling, new clients, your bank account, possessions, sensual attractions and rote learning. Be careful with all these; they might contain traps. E.g., you could buy a lemon, or agree to a rate of pay, then ﬁnd it’s below market. If something seems too good to be true (a Rolex watch for $ 15?) or if your experience repeated and inexplicable delays, turn around and walk away.

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Senior Bowl set for Saturday

One Notre Dame Juggler and two Grifﬁns from Eric Hamber will compete in the 2015 Senior Bowl this weekend at Langley’s McLeod Stadium. Notre Dame offensive linesman Nicolas Sorace will join Grifﬁns defensive back and linesman, respectively, Shahryar Khan and Erol Reyes in the annual invitational camp for graduating athletes. The training camp runs until today at the B.C. Lions training facility in Surrey. The bowl game begins 11 a.m. Saturday

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Nominations are open for the Jack Farley Youth Sports Achievement Awards, the honour and scholarship bestowed by the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame to an outstanding male and female amateur athlete graduating from high school this year. The winners earn $2,000 for a post-secondary education in B.C. The award goes to high-achieving well-rounded student-athletes. The criteria: “These students will excel in a particular sport and exemplify the values, commitment and contribution to the community.” Jack Farley served as president of the B.C. Lions, the Canadian Football League and the Western Football Conference, and has been involved with the successful planning of three Grey Cup festivals. His fundraising put $5 million in the coffers for a new B.C. Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, now located at B.C. Place. Deadline for nominations is June 5. For more information and the application form, contact barbara. chu@bcsportshalloffame.com.

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This advice from SportMed B.C. is designed to keep every athlete — recreational or elite — meeting their drive to gain speed, power, agility, technique, endurance and ﬁtness. How? Through proper nutrition. “The most controllable factor in developing your athletic potential and performance is the fuel your body is provided,” according to the provincial health research organization. “Too many athletes learn about ‘hitting the wall’ by running head-on into it, and subsequently how proper nutrition can eliminate these episodes.” SportMed B.C. lays out the following guidelines on eating for optimum training:

Daily Nutrition. Eat three meals a day with at least three or four food groups. This will help ensure you get enough protein and carbohydrate to fuel your muscles and brain. Eat two or three healthy snacks each day, and aim for two to four food groups in these snacks. Stay well hydrated by drinking water with all meals and snacks. Aim to go pee every one to two hours; your urine should be clear or pale in colour. Aim to drink at least two cups of water before exercise. If training in the morning and not a big breakfast eater, have a high-carbohydrate evening snack such as fruit, bagel with jam, popcorn or cinnamon toast.

Pre-Exercise. Eat a high-carbohydrate snack with some protein and a minimum of 500 millilitres of water within one to two hours before training. For example, have three quarters of a cup of low-fat yogurt, one banana, ﬁve crackers and two cups of water.

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After an early season loss at the start of their second year, the sophomores on the Langara Falcons men’s basketball team made a decision. It was a commitment, a promise to each other. Call it a pact. Three years later, the six are still Falcons, now in their final season of postsecondary eligibility and this weekend at the Canadian college championships in Hamilton, their pledge is close to being realized — for a second time. “We didn’t have the success we wanted at first, but as time went by we started coming together like a family,” said starting forward Garrett Ling-Lee. “We started to figure out that we wanted to play again with each other. After that we all committed to each other that we were going to come back for another year and win.” Win they did. In 2013, Langara finished third in the country. Last year they were the best men’s college team in Canada, winning gold at the CCAA championships at Quest University in Squamish. “I was really glad we decided to take another crack at it,” said LingLee, a six-five graduate of Vancouver College. Right now Langara is defending its national title at the Mohawk David Braley Athletic and Recreation Centre. The Falcons are seeded fifth after coming second to arch-rival Vancouver Island University in the PacWest final. After this weekend, Langara will retire those six sophomores as some of the very few — if only — five-year Falcons in the program’s history. Having one player fulfill his eligibility at a single college is rare, said athletic director Jake McCallum. Having a full starting roster is unprecedented. “This is a very special group,” McCallum said Wednesday from Hamilton. “I don’t think this will be a new trend at the college level. I doubt we will have this many [five-year] players in one year again. “Looking back, you just don’t know when you get a young team whether they’re

Langara Falcon Jitinder Lohcham (No. 11) protects the ball as Garrett Ling-Lee (No. 7) gets open under the hoop in a 76-69 win over Vancouver Island University at home Jan. 16. PHOTO LAURA MAY

going to stick around. But I do know one of the other reasons they’ve stuck around is that they genuinely like each other. The team cohesion is there, and that is something that will trump talent if you have a really cohesive unit that wants to work together. They will do anything for each other. When your teammate works that hard, you’ll do the same.” Particularly for Langara, the college is a “transfer institution,” as McCallum explained, and students enrol for a diploma or to upgrade their credits and transfer to university. The college offers two degree programs, one in business administration and another in recreation management, which is the academic focus of a number of the ﬁve-year players. “In my 10 years at Capilano, I only had two ﬁve-year players and three four-year players when there was only four years of eligibility,” said Falcons head coach Paul Eberhardt. “It is very rare at Langara.” Often when a player leaves for another school, it’s to study and not play basketball, although scouts certainly look out for up-

and-comers. The Langara six have turned down university offers, however, to play as a Falcon. “That’s one of things that you ﬁght,” said McCallam. “You really want to win as a coach but you also want to push these kids on if they’re good enough to play at the next level. You want to help them but you’re not sad if you see them come back for their third year.” “A couple of us got offers from universities and we were just so close off the court as we are on it, we decided to stay. We wanted to reach our goal of winning a national championship,” said Jitinder Lohcham, a six-eight big man and graduate of David Thompson secondary. “A couple schools contacted me — UNBC, UBC [Okanagan], [University of the Fraser Valley], Calgary. But I just could leave what I had here with these guys.” The recruiting class included Lohcham, Cloverdale’s Glenn Ruby, Daniel Hobden from Cowichan secondary, Elliot Mason from Burnett secondary in Richmond and, also from Richmond, Palmer

graduate Matt Madewan. Ling-Lee played is rookie year at Capilano, meaning he’s not a strict five-year Falcon. The class also included Devin McMurty who transferred to UNBC and this February was recognized with the Canada West student-athlete community service award. “It was a really good recruiting class,” said McCallum. “Paul has done great work with them. As you can see over the last few years, the current success of the program here, it speaks to the benefit of having third-, fourth- and fifth-year players. Along with that comes experience and with experience comes confidence, and that confidence becomes contagious.” Also powerful is the deep bond between players. “I couldn’t ask for more,” said Ling-Lee. “It’s been one hell of a ride.” The No. 5 Falcons played their first CCAA championship game Thursday afternoon (after the Courier’s print deadline) against the No. 4 Humber Hawks. The championship final is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. PST on March 21. twitter.com/MHStewart

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Today’shomes This is what $15.8 million gets you on Cambie Street Dreams of higher-density housing spurs land prices to record levels

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When Richmond-based CM Bay Properties paid the equivalent of nearly $45 million per acre for an old gas station site on the Cambie corridor, it underscored how land has become the dominant real estate sector in Metro Vancouver — and how land prices could dictate future property values and lease rates. The November sale “set a new record for price-perbuildable-square-foot” at $402, according to Colliers International. CM Bay paid $15.8 million for the 0.36 acre (15,714 square foot) site. The development and construction company plans a 12-storey, mixed-use condo and retail complex on the land near the Oakridge Canada Line station. As the deal suggests, land is now the biggest and boldest speculative play in the Lower Mainland, with developers, spurred by higher density potential, bidding values to spectacular levels.

Richmond-based CM Bay Properties paid the equivalent of nearly $45 million per acre for this former gas station site at Cambie and West 41st Avenue. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

With a dollar volume in excess of $3 billion in 2014, land accounted for more money spent on commercial real estate in the Lower Mainland than all the ofﬁce buildings, shopping malls, industrial buildings and multi-family rental property sales combined.

The dollar value of land sales posted a 35.9 per cent increase from 2013, according to the Commercial Edge report from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. The 628 land deals represented an average price per site of $4.7 million — but many sold for much more.

“[Land] has been trading at much higher values as some owners are being incented to sell,” noted James Lang, market intelligence manager for Colliers in its latest LandShare report. The developers are drawn by potential density increases, as witnessed in down-

town Vancouver where the city’s West End Community Plan now encourages higher ﬂoor space ratios. Last fall, Bosa Properties paid $120.5 million for a one-acre development site at 1500 West Georgia. The deal’s skinny capitalization rate of 3.49 per cent can only be justiﬁed by a potential increase in density, analysts say. Simon Lim of Colliers quarterbacked the $83.5 million sale of an entire block — nearly an acre — on Alberni Street to Wall Financial last year. The major incentive to buy land is for residential projects, the Colliers survey showed. These deals now represent half of all Lower Mainland land sales, up from a third in 2013. Most of the developers are acquiring dirt for low-rise wood frame condominiums and townhouses, according to Colliers. One of Vancouver’s emerging areas for land speculation is along Kingsway Avenue south of King Edward Avenue. Spurred

by a city plan that encourages a shift towards multifamily development, land prices have increased an average of $46 per square foot over the past year. Third Properties Ltd., for instance, recently paid $8.3 million for less than half an acre in the 2400-2600 blocks of Kingsway; and Intracorp Developments Ltd. paid $314 per square foot for small lot in the same area. Avison Young principal Bal Atwal, who closed the sale of a well-tenanted shopping mall at Richmond’s No. 3 Road last August for $78.4 million, said the price was all about the 5.4 acres of land. The buyers are a Chinese investment group looking at a long-term development potential, perhaps 10 years down the road, he said. “Underlying land values have outpaced income values on properties along or near virtually every major commercial corridor in Metro Vancouver where land is designated for higher density uses,” Atwal explained.

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The F-Type, the F-Type, the FType. Ever wonder how Emma Watson’s sisters feel? Well, the Jaguar XF does. However, while the pretty two-door sportscar gets all the paparazzi’s attention, the four-door sedan continues to best it in

The XF feels like something unique and special

sales. There’s a practicality here, one that’s doubled by traction provided by all-wheel-drive. The XF, then, is the Jaguar bought by those who want a little everyday liveability with their style. However, without the glittering halo cast by the spotlight, how does this

more-sensible Jaguar hold up in the ordinary world?

Design

First off, no, it’s not quite as gorgeous as the F-Type, but the XF is no shrinking violet. It’s not a fussy shape, a silhouette made with classic English understatement, but

there’s just enough standing out here to be unique. The side vents are better-executed than some of the German competition, the grille isn’t so large as to be overbearing but adds a nice bright spot of chrome, and the snarling, red-ringed Jaguar’s head in front takes the place of

beat-you-over-the-headwith-it aggression you ﬁnd in other marquees. It’s an older design, but one that’s aged well. This being the Luxury model, the wheel choice is a 19” multi-spoke alloy that’s also not all that fussy. If you’d like your cat’s paws to have a little

more claw, the Sport versions have really greatlooking 20” grey wheels.

Environment

Powering up the XF is done by pressing a “beating” red starter button for a second or so, causing the engine to ﬁre and the airvents to slowly rotate open.

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today’sdrive It’s a neat bit of theatre, similar to that found inside the F-Type. However, the XF is a bit more like the now-defunct XK coupe on the inside. There’s nothing about the interior that jumps out at you as a wow factor, and the navigation and infotainment screen is a little on the small side. There’s Old World, and then there’s getting a little bit old. The XF was launched in 2008 as a 2009 model, and on the inside at least, it’s now outstyled by the competition. However, taste is a subjective thing, and there’s something to be said about the simplicity of the Jaguar’s controls, dial-shifter and generally uncluttered layout. Were it not for the way infotainment functionality is impacted by being squeezed a bit by that small touchscreen, the ergonomics would be just ﬁne.

Performance

Jaguar offers the XF in Canada with a 2.0L turbo engine making 240hp, a 3.0L supercharged V6 making 340hp, and a 5.0L supercharged V8 making 510hp. This week’s tester had the middle option, and while I brieﬂy wished for the bonkers V8, the feeling went away every time I drove past a gas station. The supercharged six is a lovely little motor, mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission that’s also well up to the task. This being the Luxury model, both the ride and feel of the drive are a little on the soft side, a little of that grace that forms the old Jaguar byline of Grace, Pace and Space. Punt the car into sport mode and start asking for a little more from the engine and transmission, and the XF responds with surprising alacrity. While not as fresh as the aluminum-intensive construction that’s coming our way with the new XE sedan and F-Pace crossover, the XF’s chassis is actually very ﬁnely tuned. The all-wheel-drive system has no issues putting the power down from a launch, where the XF feels considerably faster than its quoted 0-100km time of 6.4 seconds. Once on the move, the system reverts to a rear-drive bias that hustles quite nicely, even if this is the softer, luxury model. The steering isn’t supercommunicative, feeling like it’s tuned primarily for

comfort, but there’s plenty of grippy confidence here to be had. And while we’re on the subject of confidence, let’s talk about the Anglo-Indian Elephant in the room: reliability. Traditionally, Jags have been just the thing to buy if you wanted a car that self-changed both oil and coolant by leaking both all over your driveway. Like all modern complicated luxury sedans, I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a service bill in fifteen years time. However, under parent-company Tata’s control, both Jaguar and Land Rover have improved by — pardon the pun — leaps and bounds, to the point where they’re not far off the German competition. And if you’re going to lease one during the warranty coverage period anyway, it’s up to your service adviser to keep a stiff upper lip. Compared to the fleets of 5-series and E-class Mercedes-Benzes I passed, the XF did indeed feel like something unique and special. Just the job a Jaguar’s supposed to do.

The Jaguar XF is the car bought by those who want a little everyday liveability with their style

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‡Based on total Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) Category wins (various) up to the 2014 model year. *To learn more about the Mazda Unlimited Warranty, go to mazdaunlimited.ca. ÐSigning Bonuses are available on retail cash purchase/finance/lease of select new, in-stock 2014/2015/2016 Mazda models from March 3 – 31, 2015. Bonus amounts vary by model. $500 Signing Bonus applies to all 2014 Mazda2, all 2014/2015 Mazda3, 2014/2015 Mazda5, and 2015/2016 Mazda6 models. $750 Signing Bonus applies to all 2015/2016 CX-5 models. Maximum $1,000 Signing Bonus only available on all 2015 CX-9 and 2014/2015 MX-5 models. Signing Bonus will be deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. See dealer for complete details. †0% APR purchase financing is available on all new 2015 Mazda vehicles. Other terms available and vary by model. Based on a representative agreement using offered pricing of $24,990 for the 2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00) with a financed amount of $25,000, the cost of borrowing for a 48-month term is $0, monthly payment is $521, total finance obligation is $25,000. **Lease offers available on approved credit for new 2015 Mazda3 GX (D4XK65AA00)/2015 CX-5 GX (NVXK65AA00) with a lease APR of 2.49%/1.99% and bi-weekly payments of $89/$134 for 60 months, the total lease obligation is $11,528/$17,365 including down payment of $0. Lease offers include $500/$750 Signing Bonuses. PPSA and first monthly payment due at lease inception. 20,000 km lease allowance per year, if exceeded, additional 8¢/km applies. 24,000 km leases available. Offered leasing available to retail customers only. Taxes extra. As shown, price for 2015 Mazda3 GT (D4TL65AA00)/2015 CX-5 GT (NXTL85AA00) is $27,790/$35,490. All prices include freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3/CX-5. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. Offers valid March 3 – 31, 2015, while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details.

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Organic California Grown Rainbow and Red Chard

Organic Long English Cucumbers from Origin O in Delta, BC

3.49lb/ 7.69kg

2/4.00 Organic California Grown Blood Oranges

chicken

8 pack

product of USA

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

BC’s Best Frozen Raw Pet Food

Whole Specialty Frying Chickens

9.99 Choices’ Own Gourmet Pork Sausages

Organic Extra Lean Ground Beef

product of USA

product of Canada

assorted varieties

value pack

3.98lb/ 8.77kg

3.98 each

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Edelweiss Granola 454g or 3 lb product of Canada

Dairyland Milk

assorted varieties

4L • product of Canada

2/7.00

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22%

Meadowvale Butter

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20%

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33% 5.99-16.99

3.99 Lets Do Organic Coconut or Tapioca Products

assorted varieties and sizes

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27%

SAVE FROM

27%

15 bags

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33%

assorted varieties

400g - 473ml product of USA

SAVE 6.49

35%

1L • product of USA

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37%

assorted sizes and varieties ( Some Exclusions May Apply )

assorted sizes and varieties ( Face Care Excluded )

25% off

regular retail price

Nature’s Way Primadophilus Probiotics

30 capsules

20% off

regular retail price

31.99 Optima Women's 90 29.99 Optima 60 35.99 Optima 90 35.99 Optima 100

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2/5.00

assorted sizes

2.99

Taste of Nature Bars

BAKERY xxx

assorted varieties

xxx • product of xxx

40g or 16 pack • product of Canada

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37% 4/5.0019.99

2/7.00

Weleda Bodycare Products

Crazy For Coconut or Nuts and Honey Breakfast Bites or Granola Bars

375-500ml • product of Bulgaria

36%

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GLUTEN FREE

assorted varieties

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1.99/ 100g

5.99

Dalla Terra Antipasto or Roasted Red Pepper

2.995.49

Imagine Organic Broth

Sambazon Fruit Smoothie or Organic Acai Sorbet

Choices’ Own Turkey Meatloaf

assorted varieties

product of SriLanka, Brazil, France

4.495.49

6.99

4.99-5.49

assorted varieties • 170-454g

product of USA

assorted varieties

skim, 1, 2 or 3.25%

Two Leaves Organic Tea

454g • product of Canada

Annie’s Fruit Snacks or Crackers

Choices’ Own Ready to Eat Wraps

Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Fresh Beverages 1.89L • product of USA

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5.99lb/ 13.21kg

8.99lb/ 19.82kg

Muffins regular or mini, assorted varieties package of 4

2.49-3.99

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