Vancouver Courier April 3 2015

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April 03 2015 Vol. 106 No. 26

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CROSS ROAD Rev. Sally McShane, community minister at First United Church, holds the wooden cross that will be carried through the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown on Good Friday as part of the church’s annual procession. The event, involving participants from across Vancouver, dates back to 1968. Pat Johnson talked to McShane for his weekly Pacific Spirit column on page 12.

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Social housing tower raises bar

Kettle avoids pitfalls of Marguerite Ford project Mike Howell

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A 140-unit social housing tower built for homeless people with mental health and addictions issues that opened downtown on Burrard Street last May has avoided becoming another example of a problem building for police and emergency personnel.

Unlike the 147-unit Marguerite Ford housing project on the edge of the former Olympic Village, which generated 729 police calls in its first 16 months of operation and included regular visits from paramedics and firefighters, the Kettle at 1134 Burrard St. required police to respond 150 times from June 2014 to present.

“We’re down to the average [police calls] for any building this size, so that is really good news,” said Nancy Keough, executive director of the Kettle Friendship Society, which manages the $32-million complex

built with money from the provincial government on $4.7 million worth of city land.

Keough said the society had the advantage of learning what worked and didn’t at other buildings opened under the partnership between the province and city, which has led to 12 of 14 city properties developed for social housing.

The Kettle set up an advisory committee that includes police and community members, installed an effective security system, ensured access to adequate health services and staff took its time in choos-

ing the right mix of tenants, including 53-year-old Ralph Guitard, who spoke to the Courier after a ceremony Tuesday to officially open the 16-storey highrise.

“There’s been issues but all in all it’s a pretty well maintained building — they don’t take any crap here,” said Guitard, who pays $420 per month for a 350-squarefoot self-contained apartment, which includes cable and Internet. “I messed up once since I’ve been here and got banned from using the [community space].

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News Vancouver, Burnaby mayors are pipeline frenemies 12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Wait a sec, here …

Mayor Gregor Robertson and Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan in the same press release?

Say it isn’t so.

A leftover April Fool’s joke, maybe?

Or, perhaps one of them lost a bet.

I’ll get to the release in a few paragraphs.

First, some background…

For those who don’t pay close attention to the relationships between mayors, let’s just say Robertson and Corrigan aren’t backslapping buddies when it comes to policy and politics.

Some evidence: • Robertson is a booster of the regional mayors’ $7.5 billion transit and transportation plan to cut congestion in Metro Vancouver.

Corrigan voted against the plan, saying Vancouver’s request for a subway was too costly. He’s also voting

No in the plebiscite while Robertson is leading the campaign for a Yes vote.

• Robertson is a supporter of drug injection sites. Corrigan told me in 2007 “that people need to get off drugs, not to be supported while they’re on drugs. I think that all of us need to consider other options rather than maintaining people on drugs.”

• Robertson supports a regional police force. Corrigan believes “all of our resources would be sucked into Vancouver,” if such a force were created. The RCMP serves Burnaby.

I could go on about Corrigan saying Vancouver thinks it’s “the centre of the universe,” that Vancouver “gets rid of their industrial land and turns it over to housing, which is more remunerative and leads to higher taxes” and that Vancouver “seems to create a lot of people that need to be in prison, but I don’t see any prisons in Vancouver.”

Instead, I’ll get to that release featuring Robertson and Corrigan, which

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan and Mayor Gregor Robertson have been at odds over several issues facing both cities but joined together to battle Kinder Morgan’s proposal to build another pipeline.

the centre of the universe’s communications office issued Tuesday with the headline, “Mayors stand together against Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal.”

So, yes, the two mayors actually agree on something.

But it’s not a real big surprise that Robertson and Corrigan are opposed to the proposal,

since the pipeline would run through Burnaby and more tankers would ply Vancouver waters. The mayors of New Westminster, North Vancouver, Victoria, Squamish and Bowen Island are on board with Robertson and Corrigan.

All of them are steamed and want the feds to put the pipeline proposal on hold until the National

Energy Board “addresses the significant deficiencies in its public hearing and review process.”

And I quote: “The current hearing process is deeply flawed and limits cities’ abilities to represent the voices of concerned citizens, businesses and communities in an effective way. The lack of oral cross-examination is proving to be a real weakness of the National Energy Board’s hearing process.”

Here’s what Robertson said: “We want to demonstrate to our residents and businesses that we are taking the potential risks seriously, and we want to work together with other municipalities in the region to protect our economy, our environment and our people.”

And Corrigan: “We know that our concerns are shared by communities throughout the province. This flawed hearing process disallows review of aspects of the proposal that could cause the most significant damage. It is critical for this project —

and for all projects that can harm communities and the environment — that we have federal review processes that are rigorous and transparent.”

As some guy in some classic movie once said, maybe this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Heck, Corrigan was even spotted in the Robertson-friendly Whole Foods in Vancouver this week, according to my observant colleague Frances Bula.

So there you have it: Nothing brings politicians together like a good battle over oil pipelines and an expensive kale salad.

Or, maybe Corrigan is a burger guy.

Doesn’t matter.

This Corrigan connection to Vancouver just got weirder: I kid you not that I just received a notification on my phone that Corrigan’s NDP MLA wife, Kathy, is now following me on Twitter.

Creepy.

Is Mercury in retrograde, or something? twitter.com/Howellings

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Chief defends window-breaking cop Officer caught on video smashing window of suspect’s car

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alarming is the police mindset it conveys: The sergeant’s words and actions all seem to betray a casual conviction that the person he has stopped should be expected to do exactly what the sergeant wants exactly when he wants it, legal rights and even basic considerations of civility be damned,” Soupcoff wrote. “Don’t listen to a police officer and give him absolute deference? Then expect your property to be destroyed.”

Soupcoff ended her article by writing that “perhaps the Vancouver police force has forgotten that to do its job effectively and well, it needs the trust and respect of the citizens it is policing. At this juncture, I’m starting to wonder if the only way it can be reminded of that truth is to be told so by a court of law.”

Chu said the officer “acted proactively” when he saw the car weaving that could “at any minute strike another car or pedestrian

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Police Chief Jim Chu has come to the defence of one of his officers who was captured on video last November breaking the window of a motorist’s vehicle during an arrest.

Chu issued a written statement Tuesday after the National Post published an opinion piece Monday

by Marni Soupcoff titled “Cops run amok” that criticized the officer’s actions.

Soupcoff is the executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation.

“This was not a traffic stop, it was a drug arrest,” Chu wrote. “Impaired driving alerted the officer to the danger the driver posed to public safety and marijuana smoke billowing from the car made the cause of that impairment obvious. In order to make the arrest, force became necessary when the person refused to exit the vehicle, which is understandable since he allegedly

Police Chief Jim Chu released a statement Tuesday in defence of one of his officers caught on video breaking the window of a vehicle during a drug arrest. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

knew what would be found in his car if he did.”

The article is posted on the Post’s website with a video of the incident that was taken by the driver, who was repeatedly told by the officer to open his door and that he smelled marijuana.

The driver refused, saying the police didn’t smell marijuana in his vehicle. The driver also told the officer he didn’t have his consent to break the window and that he wanted to call his lawyer.

The video captures the

window being smashed and officers telling the driver he is under arrest.

The driver says something undecipherable about being “exempted” and complains that officers are hurting his shoulder during the arrest.

“What makes the video

causing injury or worse.”

The chief said the video shows the driver was evasive and lying about not having drugs in the car. There was enough marijuana in the car for Crown counsel to approve a charge of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

“While it was necessary to use some force to extract the driver, it is also important to remember that no one was injured and no complaint was made,” Chu said. “Patrol officers know that every arrest they make and practically every move they make will be scrutinized, analyzed and occasionally criticized.

Through it all, they routinely prove that preserving life and public safety trumps whatever slings and arrows they may endure.”

Added Chu: “It would be ideal if force of any kind was never necessary to make an arrest. But for those who are trying desperately to avoid apprehension, it is not always the option they choose.”

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Continued from page 1 It made me sit and realize how important that space is to me while I’m living here.”

Guitard, who was homeless for several years and says he has kicked a cocaine habit, said having a place to live has given him some stability and access to a doctor for his hepatitis C treatment. Guitard noted having St. Paul’s Hospital across the street is also convenient for tenants.

“This building has turned my life around, it’s given me hope,” he said during the ceremony, which was attended by Vision Coun. Kerry Jang, who said he hasn’t received any complaints about the building that is also home to Directions Youth Services Centre, which serves homeless people between 13 and 24 years old.

When the Marguerite Ford Apartments at 219 West Second Ave. opened in May 2013, it didn’t have a proper security system in place and was designed where tenants could exit out a back door into an alley that bordered a condominium complex, where neighbours complained of people injecting drugs, loitering on their property and tossing furniture from windows.

Police calls to the building involved fights, drugs, weapons, threats, break-ins, stolen property, frauds, suicide attempts, domestic disputes, missing persons, abandoned 911 calls and assisting paramedics and firefighters.

The Courier published a story in September 2014 that detailed the problems with

Kettle tenant Ralph Guitard spoke at a ceremony Tuesday to officially open the 140-unit social housing building downtown on Burrard Street. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL

the Marguerite Ford building and heard from Housing Minister Rich Coleman that he wasn’t happy with the outcomes and effect on the community.

City manager Penny Ballem said in the article that too many people with mental health and addictions issues were moved into the building too fast and “the honest truth is, we got behind there.”

The 150 police calls to the Kettle since June 2014 included emergencies, medical calls and follow-ups to investigations, said Const. Brian Montague, a media liaison officer for the Vancouver Police Department.

“When you look at the number of units there and the individuals they are housing and compare it to buildings that have been

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deemed what some have called a problem premise ... the number [of calls] isn’t all that big,” Montague said.

Rob Turnbull, president and CEO of the Streetohome Foundation, which donated more than $2.8 million to the Kettle project, said he was glad to hear the building was meeting its mandate of providing housing and services for tenants who were previously homeless or at risk of being on the street — without causing problems for police and the neighbourhood.

Turnbull credited the use of what’s called “the vulnerability assessment tool,” which provides the city, nonprofits and B.C. Housing with a detailed method of selecting tenants for housing and determining whether a building is equipped to manage a person’s mental health and addictions issues. Seattle’s Downtown Emergency Service Center developed the tool.

The city applied this method retroactively to the Marguerite Ford building and discovered many tenants didn’t have the mental health support they needed.

“There are so many lessons we have learned with Marguerite Ford, and the Kettle has been able to capitalize on those,” said Turnbull, noting the tool calls for relationships with prospective tenants to be built with management before moving into a building.

Meanwhile, the Marguerite Ford building has generated 193 police calls since September 2014 to present, according to police. Management upgraded security, made some design changes to avoid tenants directly accessing the alley, added more staff, relocated some tenants, formed a committee with neighbours and arranged more visits from health care workers. twitter.com/Howellings

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CP crews began replacing railway ties on the Arbutus Corridor this week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

CP’s ties that bind

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Canadian Pacific has finished clearing gardens, brush and other obstructions on its property along Arbutus Corridor and now it’s replacing railway ties. That replacement work, which paves the way for CP to start using the track for its operations again, began this week.

“Tie replacement should be completed in the next two to three weeks. Following that, CP will turn its attention to any upgrades that might be required at crossings. We do not have a timeline in place for this phase but should have a better idea in the next week or so,” spokesman Martin Cej told the Courier in an email.

“Once all that work is completed and the corridor is brought up to operational standards, Transport Canada will be notified and inspect the line. Once TC signs off, CP will renew rail operations along the corridor.”

CP resumed work on Arbutus Corridor in February

after the Supreme Court of B.C. dismissed, in January, the City of Vancouver’s application to stop CP from clearing the corridor.

Cej wouldn’t reveal how much it’s costing CP to bring the track back to operational standards. “I don’t have that estimate,” he said, adding, “We wouldn’t disclose that.”

CP argued the land is worth $400 million if developed and offered to sell it to the city for $100 million, but the city said it would pay no more than $20 million for the property, which is designated for transportation or greenways.

There haven’t been any further talks about the land — formal or informal — between CP and the City of Vancouver, according to Cej. Gudrun Langolf, a Marpole resident 30 years, spotted crews replacing the railway ties near Southwest Marine and Barnard Street from the balcony of her coop apartment on Tuesday.

She maintains it’s a bad decision on CP’s part.

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public on their side on this one,” she said.

Langolf, who’s used the corridor for walking and biking, said she wouldn’t mind if the city bought the land — but not at any price.

“I just wish they [CP] weren’t so greedy. I’m pleased that our city government is looking out for our tax dollar interests because I think the amount that CPR was asking is outrageous.”

Langolf said she wouldn’t be bothered if trains return to the tracks.

“They were here when I first moved here. They were two or three times a day.

They were delivering stuff to Molson’s. It didn’t bother me for a second,” she said.

“It’s a mechanical sound.

It’s not like jet engines from the airport, which are a hell of a lot worse, especially at three o’clock in the morning.

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Neighbourhood kids would wave at the engineers and they would wave back. It was not an annoying part of the soundscape.” twitter.com/naoibh

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Betrayal, death, eliminations and unlikely alliances — no, it’s not just another day at the office.

Vancouver TheatreSports League is presenting its take on the wildly successful TV series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.

Throne and Games is an elimination comedy improv created by league veteran performer Graeme Duffy. During each show, three improv “families” (teams of VTSL performers putting their spin on Game of Thrones characters) will descend on the Iron Throne of Games and attempt to claim it for their own. Each team will do their best to oust their competitors in a series of classic improv games customized to each family. At the end of the show, only one character will remain

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Each night, the audience will play a supporting role by providing suggestions to advance the onstage action. For Throne and Games, the audience will be referred to as “The Old Gods” and “The New,” and will also decide which characters are eliminated.

Throne and Games runs April 9 to May 30 at the Improv Centre, 1502 Duranleau St., Granville Island. For more information, visit vtsl.com.

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A bonsai master will demonstrate his skills at a special event at VanDusen Botanical Garden presented by the Metro Vancouver Gardening Society April 7.

Tak Yamura, a graduate of the horticulture program at Kyoto University in Japan, studied under Toshio Kawamoto, founder of the school’s plant science study.

Today, Yamura is considered one of the top bonsai instructors in North

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ICM upgrade mess declared a success

The fate of Bill C-51 lies with Canadians

Of course a government is going to run into problems when it comes to computer upgrades. The systems are so complex and vital, that’s just a given.

So the audit released Tuesday by auditor general Carol Bellringer into the high-profile integrated case management system (ICM) found all the trouble you’d expect after all the sustained controversy.

The more intriguing aspects were about how creative the government got in clinging to the idea that the $182-million upgrade for the systems used by various social programs were going well.

It’s a new chapter in the same story every time governments walk into the minefield of information-technology projects. They often wait until there’s a crisis brought on by delaying upgrades until the existing system is a relic.

Then they rush the upgrade because the crisis is getting worse. Then they discover huge problems grafting the new bells and whistles onto the old model.

Then they pay big overtime bills and extra emergency costs to force the changes through various missed deadlines, because there’s no turning back. Then they try to finesse their way through the period of confusion when the conversion is underway.

The ICM version of this neverending story includes a twist. After the conversion created a number of problems — including a complete shutdown — that had the representative for children and youth wringing her hands and the minister on the hot seat in the legislature, they capped it off by nominating the project for a “Premier’s Award for Innovation and Achievement” a few weeks ago.

As reported by Vancouver Sun colleague Rob Shaw, it wasn’t actually for the project itself, which Bellringer confirmed ran well off the rails.

It was for how staff responded to all the problems listed above: “Dedicatedchange teams, responsiveness, communication and staff engagement made the significant transition from old to new a success.”

The audit delved into the government’s own assessments of how it was doing during the conversion and dis-

As of press time, the Tories’ “Anti-terrorism Act” is going through a clause-byclause review in Parliamentary committee.

The feds have been blindsided by criticism of Bill C-51 from media commentators, academics and the Canadian Bar Association. Four former prime ministers and five former Supreme Court justices have expressed deep concern about various implications of the bill.

These are some shafts of light in an otherwise dark situation, in which the September attack by a homeless, mentally ill gunman on Parliament Hill has been leveraged into a Death Star statute.

Polls have shown support for the legislation has dropped from 82 to 45 per cent of Canadians. After the “lone wolf” scare wore off, what lingers for many are years of domestic deceit, international sabrerattling, dishonour of veterans, robocall allegations, proroguing of Parliament, Senate scandals, environmental chicanery and gagged federal scientists. Harper and his inner circle have consistently proven tone-deaf to public outrage until an election looms.

On March 24, SFU’s VanCity Office of Community Engagement held a panel on Bill C-51 at the Wosk Centre. Political science professor Max Cameron, director for the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at UBC, said he believes “Bill C-51 threatens the very foundations of our legal system.”

“It weakens the rule of law and the separation of powers, which undergirds our democracy. It will make our political institutions not only less democratic and less robust in their capacity to guarantee our fundamental rights and freedoms, but it will also weaken our capacity to respond to the threats that we face,” Cameron said.

Whenever the rules are made by the same person or group of people that implements and enforces those rules, “we find ourselves in the very definition of tyranny,” he added.

The professor argued that “constitutional provisions cannot be overturned by statutory law,” that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms cannot be abrogated by the proposed bill. There may be judicial challenges forthcoming, he predicted.

Wosk Centre panelist Micheal Vonn, policy director at the B.C. Civil Liberties

Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com

covered a gap between the descriptions and the reality. The key communication strategy on the part of government was to just explain away all the problems, rewrite the history of the conversion and retroactively adjust the facts in order to label the job a “success.”

Which is how you get to the fact sheet that was issued Nov. 27, 2014, after the fourth and final phase was judged to have been completed.

“ICM had a capital budget of $182 million and the project was delivered on track, on time and on budget,” says the fact sheet.

“As expected, there have been some issues and challenges during implementation, but the team has been very diligent in addressing issues as they arise and making adjustments as needed.”

Those “adjustments” are one of the issues Bellringer looked into at length.

One of the main reasons the project was launched was the need to replace more than 50 “aging, inflexible, legacy systems.” The government hung the whole rationale on those “antiquated, fragmented, costly” systems. They were prone to failure and considered obsolete.

With all the emphasis on how the junky old systems had to be replaced, the key measure of success would be how well the replacement went.

But Bellringer found only a third of the old systems were replaced. The project was on time and on budget only because they dramatically curtailed the work. “The scope of ICM implementation was not fully completed as initially planned,” she said. “Some key functions still depend on legacy systems for full operation.”

In other words, they ran out of money, so they called the job complete when they were only midway through it. Social Development Minister Michelle Stilwell suggested the findings were old news, as progress was made after it was completed and most of the recommendations are already in force.

She also said some of the old systems might not need replacing after all.

The system now is better than it was.

You can’t spend $182 million without making some improvements.

But the real medal for innovation goes to the people who dreamed up a way to call this curtailed effort a success. twitter.com/leyneles

The week in num6ers...

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The number of April Fool’s Day pranks by high school students that resulted in police pulling their guns on them.

150

The number of visits Vancouver police paid to the Kettle social housing facility on Burrard Street since June 2014.

4

The number of charges faced by a 24-year-old Richmond man who posted video of his arrest showing a police officer smashing his car window that went viral online.

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Association, noted that even before the Anti-terror Act was being cobbled together, “the federal government operational centre has called on all federal departments to compile information on all protests in the country.”

Documents provided through Freedom of Information Act requests give some idea of the kind of security hazards monitored by federal agencies. Vonn quoted one relevant passage: “the healing dance in Kenora, Ontario, the prayer ceremony in Edmonton and an Idle No More taco fundraising raffle and jam session.”

Bear in mind, this sort of security/surveillance overshoot occurs even without legislation seemingly engineered to interpret free speech as Thoughtcrime.

But has the government blinked? Nonviolent protestors, even those who break the law, “won’t be targeted under the government’s powerful security bill, a parliamentary committee agreed Tuesday,” according to the Ottawa Citizen. Three other amendments were approved, “but opposition party attempts to introduce more than 26 amendments of their own were rebuffed by the committee’s Conservative majority.”

A proposed amendment by the NDP to the “Security of Canada Information Sharing Act,” one of the most contentious aspects of Bill C-51, went down in flames.

We need only look south of the border to witness the constitutional and budgetary black hole that results when alphabet agencies attain sweeping powers outside of public, judicial, and executive oversight.

The Anti-terror Act is our nation’s Patriot Act. With only four amendments approved so far, the Harper cabal might as well stick a giant, flaming Eye of Sauron onto the Parliament tower and prorogue the Commons chamber into perpetual darkness.

Last week, University of Ottawa law professor Craig Forcese noted the government was “absolutely gobsmacked” by the level of public engagement on Bill C-51.

“It’s very clear that the public is galvanized on a very complex matter in a way that the government did not expect. For those of you working on this problem, keep working. Those internal polls will determine if the government climbs down or not...the role of the public is to keep their voices loud and firm,” he said to applause from the Wosk Centre audience.

“They didn’t listen to witnesses,” said Green Party leader Elizabeth May of the committee hearings in a Wednesday CBC report. “They’re watching the polls.” geoffolson.com

30 182

The number of regular work days remaining until B.C.’s next statutory holiday.

In millions of dollars, the amount of money the B.C. government spent upgrading a third of their targeted aging computers before running out of money.

5

The number of citizens seeking to have a judge remove Mayor Gregor Robertson and Coun.

Geoff Meggs from office over alleged conflict of interest over union donations.

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Re: “Samaritans’ actions show Strathcona’s spirit,” April 1.

Wonderful piece about the simplicity and infectious power of caring. Thank you for writing it. We will be passing your words along.

Beth Hawkes, Bowen Island

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Rita Johnston named new premier

April 2, 1991: Rita Johnston becomes Canada’s first female premier after being chosen by the Social Credit party’s caucus to replace Bill Vander Zalm, who had resigned in disgrace over a conflict-of-interest scandal regarding the sale of his Fantasy Gardens attraction to a Taiwanese billionaire. Johnston, 55, defeated Attorney-General Russ Fraser in a secret 21-17 vote that came on the fourth ballot to become interim leader. She was formally elected leader at a party convention in July after narrowly defeating Grace McCarthy. However, she was unable to implement much in the way of new programs before a statutory October election in which the ruling party lost by a landslide to the NDP led by Mike Harcourt.

Grizzlies end record losing streak

April 3, 1996: The Vancouver Grizzlies snapped an NBA season record 23-game losing streak with a 105-103 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at GM Place.

The home team went ahead 103-101 on an Eric Murdock basket with 56 seconds left. Two Terry Porter free throws then tied it but, with 6.8 seconds remaining, Blue Edwards launched a game-winning 16-foot jumper for the win. However, the team’s winning streak was short-lived and they were beaten 104-94 two days later by the L.A. Lakers. The record has since been extended to 24 losses and is shared by both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers.

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Re: “The city’s homeless count and how it works,” April 1.

This year my partner and I only counted seven people. We could have counted more but we ended up having lots of long conversations with the folks we met on the streets. Everyone was friendly and willing to tell their stories..

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The battle of evermore

Thank you for a most well-written article in the Vancouver Courier.

It is heart-warming to see humanity in the form of donations in the face of such an evil.

Elly Bach, Delta

Re: Kudos & Kvetches, “Easy of burden,” March 25.

“East Village” is truly atrocious. Here’s a suggestion for next inevitable story on the same subject: “The Battle of Hastings.”

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Putting a stop to Stanley Park causeway improvements

Real estate speculation offers a cooperative solution

Re: “Stanley Park causeway to get $7M bike lanes,” March 25.

While spending millions for bike lanes through the park, how about consideration of a few hundred thousand to significantly improve access to the park for transit users?

One bus stop, just south of Lions Gate Bridge and near the road bridge over the causeway on the east side of the causeway, would make a huge difference and provide easy access to parts of the park now not easily reached by those without cars or bikes.

And that bus stop would also allow for easy pedestrian enjoyment and crossing of the Lions Gate Bridge.

With only the one bus stop, a transit return to Vancouver would require a round trip to the North Shore.

The west side of the causeway near Lions Gate Bridge is less suitable for a bus stop than the east side but a second bus stop on the west side of the causeway could be installed if demand warranted.

Jon Petrie, Vancouver

ONLINE COMMENTS Brewery tomfoolery

Re: “City hall to convert cafeteria into craft brewery,” April 1.

Damnit, totally fooled me. I got excited then realized it’s April Fool’s Day. madstar, via Reddit

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City Hall microbrewery? Mayor Gerry McGeer is rolling in his grave. #outrage #impeachment. @mikeklassen, via Twitter

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I wish this was real. We need the extra health care funding to fix the poor footwear choices of this demographic. They joke, but it is becoming a serious problem. thetimestheysmell, via Reddit

Re: “Co-ops face tough choice,” March 27.

This is exactly the approach that housing co-ops in urban centres across Canada should be looking at. Other community housing sectors both here and internationally are looking at how they might leverage their assets for the purposes Armstrong describes. Those co-ops that have the capacity for new development on their properties should be giving the idea close consideration Nicholas Gazzard, via Comments section

Stanley Cup final could repeat itself a century later

Re: Archives: “Millionaires win Stanley Cup,” March 25.

It was against Ottawa too. Ottawa and Vancouver are both in the playoff picture and it will be the 100-year anniversary. I’m not saying, I’m just saying.

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After reading this I came to one conclusion: HBO needs to make a miniseries on early 1900’s hockey. I don’t even care if it centers around a fictional team and group of players. Because I mean, if Hollywood is going to keep making period dramas, they might as well make something awesome like a hockey period drama.

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Spreadsheets are the solution

Re: “The faint of heart need not apply,” March 27.

What we need is the spreadsheet that marks up every dollar coming in and lists expenses going out in chronological order.

The expenses that are newest in type need to be cut until the numbers coming in match the numbers going out.

The latest expense types are most likely the least needed since some “leader” decided tax money needed to be spent on stuff it wasn’t spent on before. sidneyspit, via Comments section

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CROSS WALK “The message is: God is love, God is love, God is love … and unconditional love,” says Rev. Sally McShane, community minister at First United Church, about the church’s annual Good Friday procession of the cross. “So the message when we walk with the cross is it’s a sign of that unconditional love, even unto death.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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At noon this Good Friday, a cluster of people will gather on the steps of First United Church in the Downtown Eastside and begin a procession reminiscent of Jesus’s final footsteps.

In the Christian narrative of Easter, Jesus bore the cross on which he was to be crucified through the streets of Jerusalem. Pilgrims still follow what tradition says is that path through the “stations of the cross” or “the way of the cross.”

Here in Vancouver, congregants of First United, a hub of social justice and poverty-alleviation work, will be joined by others in what has become an annual pilgrimage in its own right.

Rev. Sally McShane, who has been community minister at First United for three years, says the tradition began in 1968.

Each year is different, with reflections and Bible readings intended to spark connections between today’s realities and the ancient story of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection. This year’s theme is “light in the darkness.” The group, which numbered about 100 last year, will carry with them a large cross, and the procession will begin with First Nations drummers and an acknowledgement of the native territory on which the service is taking place. McShane will say a few words about poverty and the personal relationship between Jesus and believers. As they move throughout the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown, they will

chant and at each stop different individuals will offer thoughts. Included in the “stations” is the “salad bowl,” a dumpster behind a market where past-prime fruits and vegetables are reclaimed by those who live in the area. The walk will take in the courthouse and end at Oppenheimer Park.

There is a personal, spiritual intent for the participants, McShane says, but there is also an outward message to the communities through which they walk that “God loves you no matter what your circumstances are.”

“It’s a sign of the presence of God seeking to let people know that God loves them this much, even to death on a cross,” she says. “The Christology around it is that Jesus died on the cross and his walk is

toward the cross, rather than to run away. The message is: God is love, God is love, God is love … and unconditional love. So the message when we walk with the cross is it’s a sign of that unconditional love, even unto death.”

First United has always been a centre of activism, of social gospel and community action.

“It’s a place where people can come and learn about poverty but also find a way to help other people,” says McShane. “So it’s a mission for many people … feeding the poor, lifting up the poor, empowering the poor, giving dignity to the poor.”

The annual Good Friday walk draws people from all over the Lower Mainland.

“Last year there were people there I didn’t know,” she says. “People

who know about it come to it.”

There is a dichotomy in the neighbourhood, she acknowledges, between those with powerful faith in God and those who feel forsaken.

“It’s such a hard thing to say,” McShane explains, acknowledging that there are those who do not feel God’s love in their lives. “What I normally do, I just sit and I listen, and I ask them why. And I hear why they feel that way.

I don’t preach. I don’t give advice. I don’t try to fix. I just listen. Give the dignity of listening. And I always find that people have their answers inside and if you’re a loving, listening presence, it is a huge healing moment for many people.”

On the other hand, faith is often very evident among residents of the neighbourhood, she says.

“A lot of people have very deep faith. The relationship with God is desperate in many ways.

God, you really love me that much. Can I believe in myself as much as you believe in me, that I can get through poverty, or get through addiction or get through this mental illness or live through a physical disability?”

In a place that is seen, at least by many on the outside, as one of desperate bleakness, the Good Friday procession is intended to bring hopefulness.

“I know the word hope is overdone a lot,” says McShane. “But it really is about hope. It’s about believing that you can hope in a God that is that powerful and that loving.

For many people, they hold onto that with both hands, grasping it. The message is so important.” twitter.com/Pat604Johnson

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A lawyer for five citizens wanting a judge to throw Mayor Gregor Robertson and Coun. Geoff Meggs out of office for conflict of interest said Vision Vancouver should have returned a $34,000 campaign donation to the city’s outside workers’ union.

David Wotherspoon told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers that Meggs

knew he was at the Oct. 14, 2014 CUPE Local 1004 meeting to raise funds when he promised, on behalf of Robertson, to not contract out work. CUPE national and B.C. headquarters matched the donation for a total $102,000. A leaked audio recording of the meeting was first reported by the Courier last October.

“Here’s the specific benefit we’re going to confer upon you in the future,” Wother-

spoon said April 1 in court.

“Vision should not have accepted the money.”

Later in the meeting, Kyla Epstein of Local 1004’s political action committee said “our support is not unconditional” and the donation was meant to “carry favour” at the bargaining table.

The petitioners, led by Randy Helten, want Myers to replace Robertson and Meggs with the 2014 election’s next-highest vote-

getters or to ban Robertson and Meggs from voting on Local 1004’s contract. Myers reserved judgment after the March 31-April 1 hearing.

Robertson did not attend court, but Meggs did. His affidavit said he was only repeating party policy and was not in the meeting when Local 1004 members voted on the donation. Vision lawyer Bryan Baynham told Myers the petition was ill-conceived and improper and there is

no evidence his clients did anything wrong.

“When you look at the two speakers that can be identified, the one speaker, the male speaker, to accept the committee’s recommendation, he makes no mention of Meggs, he makes no mention of there being a deal,” Baynham told Myers.

Baynham originally sought to have the recording deemed inadmissible as hearsay.

Development Permit Board Meeting: April 7

The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: 1099 Richards Street To develop a 13-storey building containing 162 units of social/low cost housing and two and a half levels of underground parking with vehicle access from the rear lane. This development application (1099 Richards Street) is associated with the rezoning application at 508 Helmcken Street. As part of the public benefits component to rezone the 508 Helmcken Street site, the applicant has proposed to provide social/low cost housing at 1099 Richard Street.

Please contact City Hall Security (ground floor) if your vehicle may be parked at City Hall for more than two hours.

Public Hearing: April 14

TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM: 604-873-7469 or lorna.harvey@vancouver.ca

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12 Avenue, Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider a zoning amendment for this location:

508 Helmcken Street To rezone 508 Helmcken Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to permit the development of a 36-storey mixed-use building with 448 residential units of which 110 are secured market rental housing. Retail and a private pre-school/kindergarten space are at grade. An increase in height from 21.3 metres (70 feet) to 97.5 metres (320 feet) and an increase in floor space ratio (FSR) from 3.0 to 17.19 are proposed.

As a public benefit associated with this rezoning application, the applicant proposes to provide social housing at 1099 Richards Street, including replacement housing for the residents of Jubilee House presently located at 508 Helmcken Street. The site at 1099 Richards Street is currently following a separate development permit application process.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS APPLICATION: vancouver.ca/508helmcken or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually by 5 pm on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by calling 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City's website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

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

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

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Water Main Cleaning in Vancouver

As part of ongoing maintenance, the City will clean water mains in several areas of Vancouver (see shaded areas on map) between Tuesday, April 7, 2015 and Friday, May 29, 2015.

Flushing water mains is necessary to remove sediment that gradually deposits in the pipes. Cleaning will take place from 7 am to 3:30 pm for most neighbourhoods.

During this period, there may be temporary discolouration and/or cloudiness of the water. Safety of drinking water will not be affected. Cloudy water can be cleared by running your cold water for 10-20 minutes after the crew has finished flushing.

In preparation for potentially cloudy drinking water, you may wish to refrigerate tap water ahead of time.

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In February 2015, we gathered feedback from the University community on how to complete the precinct vision. This feedback, in combination with further design analysis was used to develop draft planning and design concepts for the precinct.

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It sounds like a pollination problem from lack of bees. Insufficient crosspollination problems other apple trees is also a possibility. But with five apple varieties in your yard, I don’t think all are incompatible.

I wonder how many bees you have in your neighborhood. Honeybees are in short supply everywhere, but in densely populated areas (small lots/townhouses etc.) wild bees are also hard to find. Wild bees are vital for pollination and die from pesticides just like honeybees.

I recommend you start to keep mason bees. Their nesting tubes need very little space on house or shed walls, they never sting and are easy to keep. It’s too late this year to get kits of mason bee houses/egg-laying tubes/ cocoons, etc. but it’s something to keep in mind for next year.

Because the cocoons contain little living creatures, it would be best to order from a garden centre in very early spring. Usually when you buy a kit, you are given instructions with it. Mason bees make a big improvement in fruit

tree and berry crops and once you begin caring for them, you don’t have to buy a kit again.

There’s also a very good book called Pollination with Mason Bees by Dr. Margriet Dogterom. It’s a gardener’s guide to managing mason bees for fruit production.

I doubt that adding another apple tree to your yard would help. Some varieties of apples are self-fertile, others pollinate only certain varieties, and a few don’t cross-pollinate any other apples. Trying to match five apple varieties isn’t practical.

But did you know that crab apple trees are great pollinators for all apple trees? I’d suggest adding a crab apple tree to your yard. The fruit is small and acidic but makes delicious jelly and is quite decorative and so are the flowers.

A third possibility with your low fruit production is that the in-ground trees are just too young to bear much fruit. They may be concentrating on vegetative growth. Your espalier tree

may also be young, but it also could be the pot hasn’t been big enough. Planting this in the ground is a good idea.

“How can I plant peppers from seeds — in soil and in pots or in the ground?”

Florence, Vancouver Peppers need to be started in sterilized potting soil in pots. This can be done on a windowsill or under a plant light in your house or in a greenhouse or cold frame.

Now is the best time to do this because peppers are very slow-growing and can’t be put out until frost season is well over. The end of May is the very earliest it’s safe to plant peppers in the outside garden.

The Alpine Garden Club of B.C. Spring show and sale will happen 12 -4 p.m. Apr. 4 at VanDusen Garden. Alpines, shrubs, perennials — many treasures. Info is available at rose_marie_adams@hotmail. com.

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“I have an espalier apple tree with three different varieties of apples in a pot near two apple trees growing in the ground. Last year I had many apple blossoms but only a few apples.

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Travelling via the Ocean is a breeze North America’s oldest passenger train service runs from Montreal to Halifax

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I’d have called him the bartender, but J.F. Harrison’s official title is “learning coordinator.”

Well, okay, but he’ll still pour you a drink.

Harrison’s domain is the Park Car, the last unit on the Ocean and a marvel of early-1950s stainless-steel design and endurance.

It has a lounge and a step-up bar and “it’ll be here long after I’m gone,” says Harrison. As will, with luck, the Ocean, the oldest continuously running “named” passenger train in North America, in business since 1904.

In fact, it follows a route laid down in 1876 that was built to connect the Maritimes to the rest of Canada. Like the Canadian, the trans-continental train to Vancouver, it helped cement Canadian confederation. That achievement is subtly noted on the wall of the Park Car, where six clocks tell the hour in each of Canada’s time zones.

The travel time between Halifax and Montreal hasn’t changed much over the years — officially, 21 hours — but in 2012 service was reduced from six times a week to three, raising concerns the historic train may be on its last legs, despite the fact that, while admittedly popular with tourists, it’s also still used by locals.

Nine of the 17 places it stops en route are flag stops, meaning would-be passengers wave the train down.

On today’s run, Har-

In the bullet lounge of the Ocean’s Park Car, tea and coffee now, drinks any time, and a demonstration of how a lobster trap works later.

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rison estimates, about 150 of the 190 passengers are locals, including all 100 in the coach seats.

Harrison provides those of us who begin our trip in the Park Car — which is highly recommended— with a glass of champagne and, later, with a framed photo showing us relaxing in the car’s mid-century leather chairs. Later, he’ll host a tasting of two Nova Scotia wines, one red, one

white, paired with cheeses from the province, demonstrate how a lobster trap works and point out various scenic highlights along the 1,346-kilometre route — thus earning his title “learning coordinator.”

We in the sleeping-cars section (the only ones with access to the Park Car), besides having private compartments whose seats transform into bunk beds at night, get a

second, mid-train lounge car (today with entertainment by a Nova Scotia folk duo, Acres & Acres) and a dining carriage with linen-topped tables.

The Ocean’s countryside isn’t as awesome as is the Rocky Mountains’ portion of the Canadian route, but there are a variety of vistas — wellordered farms, untamed wildernesses, dramatic seascapes and distinctive-

ly Maritime and Quebec towns — to keep the eyes occupied.

There’s also a booklet Via Rail produces that goes into more depth about the passing places and terrain. Shortly before midnight, for instance, we stop at Matapédia (pop. 700). The booklet explains we’re near the site of the 1760 Battle of Restigouche.

I’d never heard of it, but

it is, I read, significant: the defeat of the French fleet here by the English “marked the end of France’s military interventions in Canada.”

With this knowledge I drift off, awakening to porridge, cereal, fruit and yogurt and our 9:50 a.m. arrival in downtown Montreal — just 45 minutes late.

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2. Ruby Slippers Theatre brings Linda Griffiths’ play The Duchess a.k.a. Wallis Simpson to the Cultch. The epic, scandalous, true tale of Wallis Simpson, the notorious, convention-smashing American divorcee for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne, runs April 7 to 18. Details at thecultch.com.

3. If you haven’t guessed from the press photo or name, Cobra Ramone and her band play music of the “hard rock” variety.

They rock hard, they riff hard, they live hard. They probably even do their laundry hard. Need more proof? In addition to singing, Cobra plays an “axe.” And there’s a dude in the band whose name is Trevor Snakedust. Now that’s hard. The gritty, bluesy local outfit rocks the ANZA Club, hard, April 3, 8 p.m. in support of Cobra Ramone’s new release Bang Bang. Hybrahma and Mother Upduff open. Tickets at cobraramone.brownpaperticket.com.

4. Get your dose of ’80s teen nostalgia when the Rio screens a double bill of classic, and arguably the best, John Hughes comedies, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, April 3, 7 p.m. Apparently The Breakfast Club is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, which means we are officially old and part of the problem. Details at riotheatre.ca.

5. A hit at last month’s SXSW, Australia’s Twerps bring their indie pop jangle to the Fox Cabaret in support of their debut Merge Records release, Range Anxiety. Check ’em out April 3, 8 p.m. Pink Lincolns, consisting of members of the Shilohs, open. Details at foxcabaret.com.

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Easter is the worst KUDOS & KVETCHES We’re going to come right out and say it. We don’t like Easter. Sure, we enjoy the extra day off (or two if you work for the government or some other socialist employer). But as far as holidays go, Easter is the worst. It’s even lamer than the totally made up, shameless voter pandering Family Day. Here’s why:

Too much religion to remember

Admittedly we are not remotely religious even though we gladly enjoy the spoils of Christmas and Easter. But Easter actually makes us feel guilty about our ignorance. Considering the holiday marks Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection and the downfall of Mel Gibson’s career, we should really do some research and learn the significance and difference between Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday besides one of those days being an awesome day off from work. But we don’t.

And that is another reason why we’re going to Hell if it exists. Even though it probably doesn’t.

Easter egg hunts

If there is another childhood tradition that requires so much effort with so little in return, let us know. For Christmas you basically have to make a list of things you want, go to sleep and

Ham... huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing... huh! Say it again.

wake up to a pile of gifts that are hopefully based on those things you demanded. For Easter you have to waste your precious time searching your house or yard for a handful of tiny, turd-shaped chocolate eggs that you would never buy. Even on Halloween the only hunting you’re required to do is walk door to door. Plus there’s a variety of candy, even if some of it’s crappy boxes of raisins and Wagon Wheels.

Bunnies

Sure they look cool on Tshirts and as taxidermy, but rabbits are crap pets. Ever have one as a kid? They do basically nothing cool besides eat, crap and shiver whenever you try to pick them up or wrestle with them. And they usually get killed by the neighbour’s dog or die from eating a crayon. So why are they associated with Easter?

We’re so unimpressed by them we can’t even be bothered to google it.

Ham

We dig ham for all of three bites. After that we’re done.

But for some reason, ham has become synonymous with Easter dinner, instead of cooler food like turkey, nachos or manwhiches. We don’t even know a single person, other than our parents or grandparents, who’s ever purchased a ham. It’s kind of like life insurance or orthopedic shoes. Ham is a symbol of our mortality. A meaty beacon in the distance signalling our inevitable demise.

General confusion

Every year when Easter arrives, we ask our exasperated boss the same question.

Exactly which day do we get off, Friday or Monday? And when we are told it is Friday, as always, we then inevitably inquire why we also don’t get Monday off like other people do. And we never remember the answer to that question, although we’re pretty sure it’s never satisfying.

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Sharon Crandall has made a career out of singing and dancing, but she didn’t actually know what a musical was until she was in Grade 7.

Her family moved to Canada from Jakarta, Indonesia when she was 10 years old, and she, her two sisters and one brother hardly spoke English when they arrived. So when a classmate suggested they both audition for the annual musical, she responded with curious enthusiasm.

“I’m like, ‘OK! What is that?’” Crandall recalls with a laugh.

After doing a bit of research, she tried out for the school production of Grease and ended up landing a part in the junior chorus. The experience ignited her lifelong passion for the stage.

“I kind of fell in love with it right away,” she says.

Fast forward to the present and Crandall has a long list of theatre credits to her name and has just launched a musical theatre company called Two Monkeys Productions, a reference to her own two monkeys, her sixand eight-year-old sons. The company’s inaugural show, Edges, a coming-of-age song cycle by writing team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, runs until April 11 at Studio 1398 on Granville Island.

The mandate of Crandall’s company is to give herself and others in the industry another avenue to demonstrate their talent and hone their craft.

“The whole reasoning behind it was I was tired of getting the bit parts and wanted to have a little bit more of a substantial part to show what I can do,” she admits.

Two Monkeys will focus

Left to right: Devon Busswood, Sharon Crandall, Brandyn Eddy and Adam Charles appear the musical Edges until April 11 at Studio 1398 on Granville Island.

on small productions with casts of no more than 10 so all of the actors get time in the spotlight. The company also plans to present lesserknown shows, giving musical theatre fans an alternative to the often-performed Broadway hits.

Crandall discovered Edges last year when she participated in a master class instructed by Pasek and Paul.

The songwriting duo visited Vancouver in December when Carousel Theatre for Young People presented their musical adaptation of James and the Giant Peach.

In preparation for the class, Crandall had to choose and prepare a song to workshop.

“I started researching their songs and totally fell in the love with the song, which is in Edges, it’s called ‘Ready to be Loved.’”

A departure from typical musical theatre fare, the song has a “more poppy” sound, Crandall explains, and yet it still follows a narrative arc.

“A lot of their writing is like that — every piece of music is a story in its own.”

Originally written when Pasek and Paul were sophomores at the University of

Michigan, Edges speaks to a generation standing on the precipice of adulthood.

“They’re trying to figure out what this whole life thing is about,” Crandall says of the characters.

The show features a cast of four, including Crandall, Adam Charles, Brandyn Eddy and Devon Busswood, whom Crandall first met on the set of Theatre Under the Stars’ Legally Blonde. In fact, the whole cast and much of crew are made up of theatre professionals Crandall has worked with previously.

“For this first [show] especially, I wanted to surround myself with people who I trust, people who I know are capable of doing the job and who want to do it,” she says. “I don’t want any of the politics of egos and things like that to come into it because I think that deters from having good product.”

At this stage, Crandall is not yet sure how many shows Two Monkeys will produce each year, though she is planning at least one more before the end of 2015. As for her other

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two monkeys, who have grown up in greenrooms and rehearsal halls, it seems Crandall’s passion for theatre might be rubbing off on at least one of them.

“My six year old, he’s got stage fright, as his brother says.” Her eight year old, however, is a budding performer and will appear in Oliver! this summer at Theatre Under the Stars.

“It’s his first foray into the musical theatre professional world, so I’m super proud of him,” Crandall says. “His wish is to do a show with me one day, so we’ll make that happen.”

Edges runs until April 11 at Studio 1398 on Granville Island. Tickets and details at twomonkeysproductions.com.

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SHOE BUSINESS: Despite an economic slump, William Wright Ingledew, with a penchant for shoes, founded Ingledew’s Shoe in 1915 next to the Hudson’s Bay Company. A century later, the family-owned and operated business continues to sell shoes for both men and women across the province. Now in its third generation, the retailer has grown from one store on Granville Street to six outlets across B.C. The largest location, its newly renovated flagship store on West Hastings Street in the former Chanel space, opened in time for the company’s centennial celebrations. CEO Bill Ingledew, grandson of the store founder, welcomed shoe enthusiasts, media personalities and longtime customers, including billionaire Jimmy Pattison, to the store’s anniversary party.

MIRROR, MIRROR: Looking Glass Foundation hosted its 11th annual heartwarming gala at Rocky Mountaineer Station.

The event, which brings together clinicians, doctors, families and friends to help make life brighter for individuals in British Columbia who suffer with eating disorders, attracted 500 guests to the foundation’s Light The Way dinner and auction. Emceed

by Pamela Martin, attendees filled the station for a lavish evening of fun and philanthropy.

Cofounded in 2002 by dedicated parents seeking improved care for their loved ones suffering from eating disorders of every kind, the event has become the charity’s single largest fundraiser supporting life-saving treatment at their 14-bed Looking Glass recovery centre at Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver. More than $430,000 was raised from the night.

Ingledew’s store manager Ilena Warczak welcomed billionaire Jimmy Pattison to the company’s centennial celebrations at its flagship store on West Hastings Street.

Checking out the many stylish offerings at Ingledew’s newly renovated flagship store was magazine publisher Kim Mah. Ingledew’s has endured as one of the longest standing shoe stores in Canada.

From left, Looking Glass Foundation director Joanne Gordon, founders Deborah Grimm and Delores Elliot, and gala emcee Pamela Martin welcomed guests to their fundraiser at Rocky Mountaineer Station. The annual affair raises funds to support those seeking care from eating disorders of every kind.

Ballet B.C. executive director Branislav Henselmann welcomed Judith Guichon, B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor, to the company’s opening night of Trace, three beautiful works performed by the company’s impressive roster of young dance talent.

Gala chairs, from left, Doug Chiu, Linda Wong and Jonathan Lai fronted the annual SUCCESS gala. A reported $482,000 was generated to support the agency’s many social services and settlement programs for new residents and those in need.

MORE SUCCESS: The Bridge to SUCCESS gala is always a leading date on the Chinese social calendar. This year’s running in the Grand Ballroom of the Westin Bayshore Hotel was no exception. Co-chairs Doug Chiu, Jonathan Lai, Grant Lin and Linda Wong welcomed back Bianca Wu, Hong Kong’s “Queen of Jazz,” for an encore performance as the headliner of this year’s signature soiree. More than 800 supporters — shelling out up to $800-a-ticket — attended the marathon event, which began with a champagne reception, followed by a host of speeches before a three-course dinner, auction and mini concert. The annual effort aimed to once again generate $500,000 to benefit SUCCESS’s many social services and settlement programs for new residents and those in need, particularly seniors and youth.

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Ballet B.C. continues to reach new artistic heights.

Emily Molnar announced a lineup that will include collaborations with visual artists and choirs. Molnar shared the news with fans, including Rosedale on Robson’s Gillian Francis, a corporate sponsor.

Following the success of their Kitsilano establishment, Steven and Meghan Clarke opened their second Tractor Foods, a cafeteria-style healthyfood-focused eatery in the iconic art deco Marine Building.

SUCCESS co-founder Maggie Ip and Colonel Howe Lee, a war veteran, were honoured at the gala dinner and fundraiser. Since its inception, close to $10 million has been raised for the social service agency.

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You continue energized, confident, charismatic and on top of your game. The month ahead (and a bit of May — 11 days) will bring more money. It will also nudge you into spending more than usual. If you aren’t conservative, if you don’t stem the outflow, you could end up poorer despite increased income. Love, candy, luxury items, jewelry — these tempt you to spend.

I’ve repeated my advice not to wed nor co-habit before midNovember so many times I’m getting sick of it. Additionally, you probably should not ever marry anyone you first meet between late February 2014 and mid-November 2015. Realize that any other kind of love is good — friends, fun, friends with benefits, lovers, deep, heavy romance, pure sex, etc. This week, social and romantic developments on hold since last December now leap forward,and will until August.

Continue to lie low, contemplate and plan. Your charisma and determination are strong. You’ll attract others. Be careful, though — don’t overload yourself. You’re a little more weary than is apparent. Pamper yourself,and don’t rise to every occasion. Avoid competitive situations,and absolutely avoid collusion with unsavory characters.

Taurus athletes tend to win for the next 11 days.

Relationships loom large Sunday noon to Tuesday night.

You might face two doors this week and next: one marked “work/health” can lead to defeat if you overdo it; the other marked “career/prestige” leads to success. Work smart, not hard. Delegate, manage, avoid hands-on. Your career, held back since last December, leaps forward now through August. Be alert for your chance, be opportunistic. You’re very likely to be promoted this year; if not, then next year.

In general, love is not high on your agenda now through August (unless you’re obsessed with someone, which a few Gems are, but this is not really love). Instead, you’re in a lovely friendship zone. You’ve probably noticed that the clerk in the store or the casual acquaintance you meet on the sidewalk are unusually friendly.

You’ll certainly be happy this week and next as a shower of pleasure, beauty, adventure, creativity, speculation and romance sprinkles over you. If you receive these, good. If you have to chase them, bad.

Enjoy this, but don’t take all promises as “true.”

For instance, you might feel/sense a rising tide of romance, but the actual thing might not occur, or does occur but comes out flat.

The accent continues on ambition, career, prestige relations, reputation, worldly status, and dealings with authorities. Although this zone has been undermined by difficult karma for the last 13 months (and will continue so until mid-November) this week and the first half of next treat you gently in this arena. Even Cancer criminals facing judges now get off a little lighter than they expect.

Until August, your sensual, intimate desires are blessed by luck. These have faced some delays since last December but they leap forward this week to late summer. If you simply want physical gratification, it’s available — in bigger ways than perhaps you anticipate. Though this is a sexual influence, it has a strong romantic component until May 11.

Don’t become enmeshed in legal affairs. All lawyers are your enemy now, even your own. (And remember, most judges are lawyers.) This bias against you lasts until November. On the other hand, legal matters, as well as intellectual, scholarship, far travel, cultural, wedding, religious and similar profundities, have passed their worst test so the two weeks ahead shouldn’t be too bad.

Perform errands, paperwork and communications tasks, chat, be friendly, read the news and travel, but without becoming immersed in these. Save time every day for something a little more profound, such as reading a novel, attending church (et al), contemplating love, envisioning world harmony (or even working toward it).

These profound-leaning things will somehow save you.

Your home is a tangle of affection and friction.

Instead of investments, focus on income, earnings, or selling items. Instead of research or spying, focus on contemplation. Instead of pursuing sex, pursue comfort. Instead of exploring dark places, seek a retreat (or spa). This not only keeps you out of future trouble, but is likely to steer you into success. This applies strongly this week and next, a little less now to August, and a wee bit less to November.

The main emphasis, this week and next, lies on money, earnings, payments, purchases, rote learning and sensual attractions. Handle this area, pay your bills and buy necessities but don’t go overboard. Skip luxury purchases, don’t hound clients or the boss for money, etc. Accept monetary delays with patience as pushing will increase any hold-ups. This is a good week to make affectionate phone calls or emails.

Monday: Merle Haggard (78). Tuesday: Francis Ford Coppola (76). Wednesday: Patricia Arquette (47). Thursday: Dennis Quaid (61). Friday: Omar Shariff (83). Saturday: Ethel Kennedy (87). Sunday: Beverly Cleary (99).

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Blake Nill runs one of his first practices as the head coach of the UBC Thunderbirds football program during spring camp on David Sidoo Field at Thunderbird Stadium March 28. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

UBC coach guns for Laval’s crown Blake Nill wants to build winning culture

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The University of B.C. didn’t recruit Blake Nill as the head coach of the Thunderbirds football program.

Dave Sidoo did. He didn’t let up.

“He was calling me, kept calling me,” said Nill on Tuesday at Thunderbird Stadium, overlooking the field named for his recruiter. “I kept saying, leave me alone. I wasn’t interested.

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Nill said yes to Sidoo, resigning from the University of Calgary on a Monday and on a Tuesday appearing at UBC, where on Dec. 9, he was introduced as the 18th head coach in T-Birds’ football history. “No,” isn’t a word in either man’s vocabulary.

“I’ll tell you clearly, it was Dave who brought me here.

He’s the one who reached out to me, he’s the one who sold me on the potential and helped me see his vision and now I can safely say that it’s our vision,” said Nill.

“He offered me a chance to build the Laval of the West Coast,” said Nill.

Sidoo helped create the 13th Man Foundation, an influential backers group supported by the university’s athletic department and

laden with T-Birds alumni from the 1982 Vanier Cup winning team such as Jerry Dobrovolny, Kevin Konar and Sidoo, as well as David Negrin and Richard Jackson.

The foundation is approaching alumni to tap into the city and province’s vast network of potential donors and fans with the goal of putting a competitive team on the field year after year and fill Thunderbird Stadium with blue and gold.

In Laval, Nill has an example and a nemesis.

The Rouge et Or of Quebec City’s Laval University quickly became one of the most successful university sport programs in the country after they joined the CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) in 1996. In less than two decades, Laval won eight

Vanier Cup championships and is the only team to have played for four consecutive national titles. Its championship record is 8-1.

By that standard, Nill won’t be satisfied with winning the Vanier Cup once. Laval is a dominating force in the CIS with a deep coaching staff, enormous talent pool, strong identity and winning culture.

On five occasions, the Rouge et Or have ended Nill’s season before he was ready to call it a day.

“I came close a number of times and had trouble with the Laval program,” he said.

“That’s the thing — my season at Calgary in ’08, ’10, ’11 and ’13 ended with Laval.”

Most recently in 2013, the loss was in the Vanier Cup. “I thought for sure

I’d win one in Calgary,” said Nill.

In Sidoo and the 13th Man Foundation, Nill says he has an ideal partner, one that will spend the money and drive the program forward with him at the helm.

The coach has a recognized ability to draw talent and has already made several major moves on staff and personnel, including bringing with him from Calgary former B.C. Lions coach and Grey Cup champion, Steve Buratto, as the T-Birds offensive coordinator. Nill also signed Michael O’Connor, a Canadian quarterback who has fiveyear eligibility at UBC since leaving Penn State last year.

“I’m going to make sure the kids know about UBC and every football athlete knows about UBC,” said

Nill. “The other thing that’s is so important — your ability to achieve success on the field is directly parallel to your ability to raise money.

“I’m passionate about three things. Put me in front of the kids, I can get them to play. Put me in front of a family and their son, and I can convince them to come.

Put me in front of an alum who has a potential to help out, and I can make him see the big picture.

“I need to have the opportunity to exploit my skill sets on all three of those.

Athletics now has people like me who have just raised the bar to a certain point — and I’m not saying that to blow my own horn — but everywhere in the country, there are coaches like me and they want to win.

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Continued from page 23 I want to win more than anything and I know what it takes. I will outwork anyone that I can and I will do what it takes to be successful and to do that, I need help.”

His definition of success is not strictly a Vanier Cup, but nearly.

“I measure success on two fronts, two that are measurable,” said Nill. “I want my young men to graduate and I do everything I can to support them academically, by giving them the tools necessary to graduate. And, at the end of the game, I want one more point than the opposition. That’s how I measure success in my world.”

He says he has a lot to work with at UBC, calling the T-Birds “the most talented program I’ve taken over.”

But, he adds, “That doesn’t mean it’s ready yet. They need a culture change. Like what happens to the coaches at times, the players can become complacent and used to a certain outcome and just everything becomes the norm and when your norm is not being successful, it’s easy to feel like you’re doing everything you can, but in just in the last five days on the field, the men have seen that things can be done differently and they’re starting to buy in.”

Nill, a father of two, is living in the West End near English Bay but will settle in Kitsilano where he’ll soon find plenty of hot yoga studios to practise what he started in Calgary.

The six-foot-six former

CFL defensive linesman has the bright eyes and an irrepressible boyishness of a 53-year-old man who gets up every day to do exactly what he wants.

And he’s good at it.

Raised in Hanna, Alta., Nill played professionally and was also a youth care worker in Montreal and Calgary before taking on the role of defensive coordinator at St. Francis Xavier in 1992. From 1998 to 2005, at St. Mary’s in Halifax, he set a new benchmark for reaching the Atlantic Championship six times and led the Huskies to two Vanier Cup wins in 2001 and ’02. In 1999 he was named the best university coach in the country and was a finalist six times.

Most recently with the University of Calgary, Nill repeated his record-setting conference championship feat by leading the Dinos to six straight Canada West finals, winning the Hardy Cup a record number of times. In nine seasons, he amassed a 4717 record and went 15-7 in the post-season.

UBC hasn’t had a winning season in a decade and has gone 26-51 since 2005, not including the 2011 season when the T-Birds’ 6-2 record was scratched from the books because of an ineligible player. Shawn Olson was fired in November after a 2-6 campaign.

In 17 seasons as a CIS head coach, Nill has a career record (regular season and playoffs) of 130-47.

He also attracts talent.

In February, Michael O’Connor announced he

was leaving NCAA powerhouse Penn State, where he wasn’t getting the minutes he wanted, to play a full five-year eligibility in the CIS with the Thunderbirds. Nill convinced him it was the right move, and O’Connor, who was ranked No. 6 in the 2013 recruiting class by ESPN, was accepted to the Sauder School of Business on his 3.9 GPA. Since training camp began last week, O’Connor sees the gaps on the field but also sees a lot of potential. He is also prepared to be patient.

“To rebuild a program, you know there’s a lot of work to be done but that’s part of the selling point — that you can come in here and make a change and see it over a four- or five-year span and be part of building something and being part of its roots,” said O’Connor, who is from Ottawa and will live on campus.

“We have some good players here but there is definitely a lot of work to do,” he said. “The summer will be really important for us and it’s always like that with a new coach in any program — there’s always going to be a lot of change in the first year, with a lot of things to overcome. The future is very bright for us.”

And when it comes to realizing the goal of becoming the dominant team in the west, the quarterback who never played Laval shares his coach’s ambitions.

“It’s going to happen,” he said. “My personal goal is to win multiple national championships.” twitter.com/MHStewart

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Today’shomes West Kits praying for options on its cultural spaces

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When the West Kitsilano Residents’ Association met at St. James Community Square for its annual general meeting last week, it did so conscious that the building itself — home to a number of non-profits and community groups — is at risk.

Trinity United Church owns the property at West 10th Avenue and Trutch.

Since 1994, Trinity has leased it to St. James Community Square Society as a kind of social enterprise (proceeds from the lease support the congregation, which operates Heartwood Community Café in Mount Pleasant, its place of worship on Sunday afternoons).

The church is mulling options for its Kitsilano property, according to Doug Goodwin, executive secretary with the United Church of Canada BC Conference.

A sale is one option, stoking fears of the building’s loss on the heels of the Hollywood Theatre’s closure and demolition of the century-old General Gordon Elementary

Larry Benge, co-chair of the West Kitsilano Residents’ Association, is concerned about the disappearance of affordable community gathering places in the neighbourhood. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

school in favour of a seismically sound replacement.

“We are concerned,” Larry Benge, co-chairman of the residents’ association said. “It has been a vibrant part of our neighbourhood for many, many years.”

The situation reflects the

deeper changes taking place in the area, where anticipation of a University of British Columbia rapid transit line has boosted property values, driving redevelopment along Broadway.

“There’s a lot of activity in that Broadway corridor

because of the excitement around a future transit line,” said Brady Fleguel, a principal of appraisal firm Burgess Cawley Sullivan & Associates Ltd. “The values are increasing extremely fast, and I expect another massive bump next year.”

For example, since 2013, the assessed value for the single-storey property at 2979 West Broadway that Shoppers Drug Mart will be vacating later this year for digs across the street has risen to $5.5 million from $4.1 million.

The latest Lower Mainland retail space numbers offer some curious insights.

Colliers International’s year-end survey of the region’s open food-anchored shopping centres points to the North Shore as the region’s tightest market.

Its 1.7 per cent vacancy rate is the lowest of any sub-market in the region.

Tenants also enjoy a $45 spread in lease rates on commercial retail units (CRUs) — a greater range than for any other market.

Out on the street, it’s a different story. While space along Lonsdale has held its own, Cushman & Wakefield Ltd. reports that retail space along Marine Drive posted the sharpest drop in rents in the region.

Main Street strip was the only other market to decline. Upper-end rents lost a mere $5 a square foot; bottom-end rents rose by an equal amount. By contrast, Marine Drive rents were cut by $20, to $45 a square foot, and lower-end rents were unchanged at $25 a square foot.

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