Vancouver Courier May 22 2015

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Vol. 106 No. 40

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WHEEL GOOD Cops for Cancer mustered at the Vancouver Police Station on Graveley Street Wednesday morning to promote the annual fall fundraiser. The captains for the Tour de Coast and Tour de Valley received their jerseys and the teams did a short training ride. The event, which includes more than a hundred police and emergency personnel cycling on tours across the province, has raised more than $32 million since its start in B.C. in 1997.

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Putting the band back together How Tupper secondary rediscovered music Cheryl Rossi

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Twelve years ago Sire Charles Tupper secondary didn’t even have a music program. Now one Grade 12 student has won scholarships to study jazz at the University of Toronto and another has been accepted into the opera program at UBC. Noah Franche-Nolan started studying music at age five, but the jazz pianist who’s won $6,000 from the U of T’s school of music, another $2,000 from the U of T and $4,000 to buy Yamaha instruments says Tupper has allowed him to pursue his dreams.

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if you show initiative and hard work,” Franche-Nolan said.

He studies jazz and classical piano privately but says Tupper’s guitar teacher, Tanya Baron, has taught him music composition since Grade 10, whetting his appetite to learn more.

Grade 12 student Chloe Mackay, who started solo singing lessons when she was a child, joined Tupper’s concert choir in Grade 9 and the chamber choir in Grade 10.

“I loved the fact that I was in a group of people that just wanted to sing and just come together and I made so many great friends,” Mackay said. “Music is a really great thing because it really does bring people together.”

Rewind a dozen years and Mackay wouldn’t have had that opportunity.

Baron, who came to Tupper in 2004, isn’t sure why the music died that year.

She believes it had something to do with

provincial Liberal government cuts to education and staff turnover.

Music teacher Mike Cavaletto says former principal Jennifer Palmer thought a high school without a music program was “ridiculous.” She hired Baron, who built a guitar program and established a concert band.

When Cavaletto covered Baron’s first maternity leave in 2008, he started a choir club. It was so popular it became choir class the following year. Now Tupper resounds with three concert bands, a jazz band, two choirs and three blocks of guitar classes.

“It really was nothing to something,” Cavaletto said.

Tupper music students weren’t going to be able to play at their school’s graduation ceremony at the Chan Centre in 2012, due to job action by teachers. So parents banded together to make sure the show went on.

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SELLING your Vancouver area home?

If you have noticed a persistent ringing in your ears lately, take heart as we all are hearing it. It is the sound of government cash registers as they rake in revenue from Vancouver’s recordbreaking real estate market.

What you will certainly not hear above the din is any politician saying they will make any changes that could risk driving down housing prices. That is because they are too dependent on the dollars it brings into government coffers.

In you still think that an elected official will come to the rescue of those trying to buy into Vancouver’s hyperinflated single-family housing market, please note the following.

There are 757 million reasons why the B.C. government will not intervene. That figure represents the total the amount in dollars the government raised in property transfer taxes in the last fiscal year. Buying and selling homes is big business in B.C., and that figure could go as high as $1 billion if 2015 sales projections hold.

There are nearly 1.9 billion reasons why Mayor Gregor Robertson will keep his mouth zipped over double-digit property assessment increases across our city. The City of Vancouver issued $1.88-billion worth of residential permits in 2014.

Overall this represents a 77 per cent increase over 2008.

The mayor is consistent in his view that he thinks the city is cash-starved — so why would he dare to turn off the flow of revenue home-building provides? One might surmise then that Robertson’s talk about housing affordability is as empty as the homes he wants citizens to report on a snitch website.

Then there are the thorny politics of home prices. If you are in the market already as a homeowner, chances are you are praying that your real estate investment will continue to appreciate.

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12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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As someone who has covered Vancouver Police Board meetings longer than Jim Chu’s seven-and-a-half year run as police chief, I’ve noticed a few things about the board’s relationship with the public.

In a word: Inconsistency.

But, as I’ve pointed out in previous dispatches about the police board, it’s difficult to get any respect as a board when you’re essentially the Rodney Dangerfield of governing bodies.

Quick — name a member of the board.

What is the board’s mandate?

When is the last time you attended a meeting?

Probably never, right.

See what I mean.

Anyway, to my point about inconsistency, I discovered at the board’s May 6 meeting that apparently it no longer takes questions from the public at the end of the meeting. At least that’s what

I heard from police board member Mary Collins when she closed the meeting.

“I would just like to mention that members of the public who have questions about anything or those who may be watching today on the live stream can certainly get in touch with the board office,” Collins said.

“The contact information is on our website.”

Then a man who sat through the meeting asked about the normal procedure where members of the public could speak to the board.

That’s when Patti Marfleet, the board’s executive director, told him the board wasn’t doing that anymore.

My CKNW radio colleague Marcella Bernardo and I both found that odd but didn’t bother to get more details because the story that day was Adam Palmer officially taking over the chief’s duties from the retiring Chu. It’s odd because there was a time when the board held very open meetings at community centres and other venues such as the Aboriginal Friendship Centre and Ross Street Temple. It also

Police board member Mary Collins, seen here with new Chief Adam Palmer, and her colleagues have implemented a new policy at board meetings where the public can no longer pose questions at the conclusion of a public meeting. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

held meetings at least once a month and allowed latecomers — such as Courier photographers — to come and go as they please.

That’s all changed Apparently, security, cost and poor attendance were issues.

So now it’s rare for the board to hold a public meeting outside the VPD’s Cambie Street precinct, where a person has to rely on an officer to escort them up an elevator to the seventh floor. The board has also cut back the number of meetings per year.

As leaders of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and the Pivot Legal Society have told me over the years, many people with legitimate concerns about policing are intimidated by the setting of a police department and simply don’t attend the meeting.

But, as I’ve witnessed, some still do.

By the way, the only opportunity for people to speak to the board comes at the beginning of the meeting — and that only occurs if a person puts a request in writing to

the board, which has the discretion to veto it if it doesn’t meet certain criteria outlined on the VPD’s website.

I attempted to find out what’s behind the move to cut out question period but Marfleet was away until Friday. Collins was also unavailable. That left me with Mayor Gregor Robertson, who I happened to catch up with Tuesday at an unrelated event at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre.

He was absent from the May 6 meeting and wasn’t clear whether the board had cut the public question period — and if it had, what the rationale was. He said he would check it out and get back to me. Well, one of his staffers did.

He sent me a link to a report the board wrote in late November 2014. I must have missed that in my post-civic election hangover.

And I quote: “It is hoped that by introducing a greater degree of stringency in both the board’s policy and practice, the board will encourage a more effective, meaningful use of the delegation process.

Requiring that requests be in

writing may help ensure that speakers focus on their stated topics and that the chair can more easily curtail delegations who wander off topic.

It will also assist the board office to consider requests for delegation and help ensure that topics are relevant.”

Which is encouraging news, sort of.

Aside from a handful of regulars who go on about the same stuff that is not always relevant to the police or Vancouver, it’s rare for people who have done their homework to show up and make intelligent arguments to the board.

Pivot and VANDU are the exception.

So while many might think the latest move to cut question period is the beginning of the end of open, frank discussions with the board, it is more a call to people to do their homework, find out what the board does and maybe find out some of the members’ names.

That sentence was courtesy of a group called Reporters For Intelligent Public Conversation. @Howellings

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Failed refugee claimant gets reprieve Mike Howell

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A Sri Lankan man who arrived in B.C. aboard the cargo ship MV Sun Sea in the summer of 2010 and claimed refugee protection for fear of political prosecution has been granted a judicial review of his case in his fight to remain in Canada.

Federal Court of Canada Justice James O’Reilly granted the review to Packiyakumar Pathmanathan after a panel of the Immigration and Refugee Board previously dismissed the man’s claim, saying his life would not be at risk upon return to Sri Lanka.

The board accepted that Pathmanathan might be questioned for potential links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) but said he had not shown any association to the now defunct guerilla organization. Pathmnathan’s claim was based on the concern he would be perceived

by Sri Lankan authorities that he was associated with the group and become a victim of cruel and unusual punishment in Sri Lanka.

In his May 15 ruling delivered in Vancouver, O’Reilly wrote that the board did not cite any documentary evidence dealing with the treatment of passengers on the MV Sun Sea or the MV Ocean

“...the board’s decision does not fall within the range of defensible outcomes.”

—Justice James O’Reilly Lady, another vessel that brought refugee claimants to Canada from Sri Lanka.

“That evidence showed that both Sri Lankan and Canadian authorities have accused passengers of having an association with the LTTE,” he wrote. “It is clear, even on the evidence cited by the board that persons suspected of having ties to the LTTE, including failed refugee claimants, face a risk of torture or mistreatment on return.”

The evidence suggests, contrary to the board’s finding, that Pathmanathan would likely be questioned upon his return about a possible link to the LTTE, said O’Reilly, adding that “had the board considered the relevant evidence and still found a basis for dismissing Mr. Pathmanathan’s claim, its conclusion would merit considerable deference.”

Added O’Reilly: “However, in the absence of that analysis, I find that the board’s decision does

not fall within the range of defensible outcomes, based on the evidence and the law. Since the separate issue of Mr. Pathmanathan’s credibility regarding his past in Sri Lanka will have to be re-determined at a new hearing, it is unnecessary for me to comment on the board’s findings here.”

In hearing Pathmanathan’s refugee claim, the board concluded that it didn’t believe the man’s account of events that led to him being intercepted by authorities off the coast of B.C. It pointed to a number of areas of his evidence “that were implausible, as well as inconsistencies in his testimony.”

O’Reilly’s decision means the judicial review will also include another panel of the board to reconsider Pathmanathan’s claim. Pathmanathan was one of almost 500 Sri Lankan Tamils who were aboard the MV Sun Sea, which eventually was docked in Esquimalt. @Howellings

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Continued from page 1 Cavaletto says it was one of the “kicks in the butt” that galvanized parents to back the music program.

“Lots of music programs have a parents auxiliary, specifically band programs, because there are a lot of extra costs associated, and there’s not always a lot of funding kicking around the district to get new things,” he said.

Parents formed and registered the Tupper Music Parents Association as a nonprofit and fundraised to replace 30-year-old instruments and sponsor field trips.

“We still have a slew of aged instruments, much like other schools in the district, that just aren’t really that good a quality and so that continues, and every year we can tick a little bit more off and do more fundraising,” Cavaletto said.

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need at least couple of years to get established at a school before they can turn to parents for support. She had been corralling parents before she went on maternity leave but fundraising wasn’t easy with so many single and immigrant parents who earned less than she did.

A swift shift in the school’s demographics means more parents have the means to help out.

“That’s what we keep saying at Tupper, the west is moving east,” Baron said.

Sixty-seven Tupper music students returned from a five-day trip to San Francisco and San Jose Tuesday, where they performed and participated in music clinics.

Baron knows such forays can change lives. A mother of a trumpeter told Baron she noticed a change in her son after music students’ first big trip, to Portland,

two years ago.

“He’d come back more confident, more settled, and she was just so delighted,” Baron said.

“I really hate that music is called an elective, [that] all electives are called electives, like they’re somehow optional,” Cavaletto said.

“These are the things that keep kids in school, that give them a sense of belonging, a sense of feeling that someone cares about them, they have a place to be, which with lots of students, that’s not happening at home.”

He believes the school’s code of conduct, Respect, Ownership, Attitude, Responsibility and Safety, or ROARS, established

by Palmer in response to the bad rap the school got when one of its students was killed by another teen in 2003, has fortified school

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“We’re by no means one of the largest [music] programs in the district.

There are huge programs,” Cavaletto said. “But we have really strong sense of community within the program that flows out of the school’s code of conduct, which is one of the things that sets this school apart from any other that I’ve worked at.”

The jazz band rehearsed for the school’s May 25 concert, after school Wednesday. They busted out an energetic “Chattanooga Choo” and a resounding “Happy.”

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Chinese, aboriginal leaders honour Chu Mike Howell

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Chinese and aboriginal leaders joined together Tuesday to honour Jim Chu for his service as police chief, saying his seven-and-a-half years of leading the Vancouver Police Department helped improve relations with their communities and make the city a safer place.

About 250 people attended a luncheon held at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre on East Hastings, where Chu was feted with words, gifts, songs and dance in a ceremony that also welcomed new chief, Adam Palmer, who officially took over the top job May 6.

“I’m very fond of what Chief Chu did for our aboriginal community,” said Jerry Adams, a longtime Vancouver aboriginal leader who was a member of the police board that promoted Chu to chief in 2007.

He noted Chu’s help to develop an after-hours program for aboriginal youth, create the Sisterwatch program in the Downtown Eastside to reduce violence

Squamish Nation elder Bob Baker applauds Jim Chu Tuesday at an event in which the retiring chief was honoured for his service to the city’s aboriginal and Chinese communities. The communities also welcomed new chief, Adam Palmer, in a traditional “blanketing” ceremony. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

against women, his continued support of the aboriginal cadet program, his public luncheons at the Carnegie Centre and being the first chief in the VPD’s history to participate in the annual Women’s Memorial March.

Adams said he knew the police board made the right decision to hire Chu when

one of his first overtures to the aboriginal community was to participate in a sweat lodge ceremony. It showed his commitment to improve relations between police and the aboriginal community, a relationship that has had its historical challenges, he said.

“So that was a real good

beginning for us,” said Adams, who emceed the event along with former city councillor George Chow, who along with Chinese leaders presented Chu with a framed piece of calligraphy that translates to “serving the community.”

The Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and the

Chinese Community Policing Centre were joint hosts of the event, which began with the VPD’s lion dance team leading Chu, Palmer and Deputy Chief Doug LePard into the centre’s gymnasium.

Aboriginal dancers and singers also entertained the crowd, which included

Attorney General Suzanne Anton (who once worked with Chu when she was a prosecutor), former mayor Sam Sullivan (who was mayor when Chu was hired) and Mayor Gregor Robertson, who has called Chu the best chief Vancouver has ever had.

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Continued from page 7 The policing centre’s chairperson, Harry Lee, said Chu’s support of the centre, its lion dance team and its crime prevention programs have made Chinatown a safer place. Lee attributed Chu’s ability to bring communities together and earn the trust of the police to his “down-toearth, easygoing approach.”

James Chu, president of the Chinese Benevolent Association, thanked the chief — who is not related to James — for his dedicated service to the people of Vancouver. Chu served 36 years with the VPD, with almost eight of those as chief. He was the first Chinese-Canadian to become leader of the department.

“The Chinese community is very proud of you,” Chu told the chief, who was seated at a long table draped in red and festooned with cedar boughs.

In his speech, the chief retold a story published previously in the Courier of how a police chief in Arkansas thought Chu was “Eskimo” — a story,

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he said, was appropriate to tell on a day that he was honoured by his own ethnic Chinese community and the aboriginal community.

“It means a lot because I grew up about 10 blocks from here,” he said, recalling his childhood days of playing at Grandview Park with kids from all cultures and taking a shine to school liaison officers at his elementary school.

A lesson, he said, that stayed with him all these years is the importance of strong, positive relationships between police and the community, especially with young people. In developing those relationships, he said, it also brings respect to the police department.

“We just don’t have to communicate with people in crisis situations,” he said. “Having those positive interactions really helps us police with the community, not policing the community.”

Chu closed by saying he knew there were some nice things said about

him at the luncheon but pointed out his officers, frontline staff, civilian members, volunteers and the VPD’s community partners should all share in the accolades.

“I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, it’s been a great career, a great job, it’s a great city to police and thanks to all the VPD staff who helped me achieve the vision of making Vancouver Canada’s safest major city,” he said to a standing ovation.

The event closed with Palmer being wrapped in a red First Nations blanket by aboriginal leaders, a ceremony that Squamish Nation elder Bob Baker told the new chief signified acceptance and welcoming to the family.

“I can’t tell you what an honour this is for me,” Palmer told the crowd.

“And as the blanket was being placed upon me, I just want to say that you get a shiver that goes down your spine and it really is quite something.” @Howellings

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Market intervention unlikely

Continued from page 1 Many of us lament the loss of affordability, but none of us are likely to respond by selling to the lowest bidder.

Furthermore, homeowners are more likely to vote, and if their home price drops because of political intervention, you can kiss their support goodbye at election time.

Some assert that as long as home prices continue to rise, politicians at city hall have job security.

They point to the last time Vancouver experienced any prolonged property price depreciation in 1999 to 2002. It was during that time that the incumbent NPA council was routed

by Larry Campbell and COPE. Rest assured that our mayor and council understand there are political consequences for putting the squeeze on home price values.

This does not mean elected officials are impervious to pressure from citizens. Tens of thousands have already signed

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a petition at Change.org demanding our politicians restrict foreign investment in our real estate market.

They cite similar policies tried in Australia and England to cool — albeit unsuccessfully — spiking real estate prices overseas.

Opposition politicians have naturally seized the issue, although one has to wonder if they would do the same in government.

An NDP Member of Parliament is demanding that government provide

resources to study the impact of foreign investment in housing.

The terms of reference for this kind of plan alone would be daunting. There are approximately 4,000 municipalities in Canada, and most of them would love to have Vancouver’s revenue growth statistics.

The question is even more basic for the federal government. Why would you use limited tax dollars on a project whose end-goal is to deflate tax revenue

from the real estate market?

It is debatable if any plan to curb foreign investment would even work. An Australian study determined that domestic buyers — taking advantage of low interest rates — have overwhelmingly driven up real estate prices in that country.

Do not despair, however, because our politicians can do something about housing affordability: allow more of it to be built.

The laws of supply and demand are no different here in B.C. than anywhere else. We have seen since the increase of development of attached housing that prices of condominiums have levelled off. This is happening in spite of some welldocumented involvement of foreign buyers.

Barring a significant increase in interest rates, however, Vancouver’s limited supply of detached homes will continue to appreciate in value. That means we will continue to hear another sound.

The ringing of alarm bells over declining affordability. @mikeklassen

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Young men ‘forever’ plagued by violence

Change undermined by complacency

Allen Garr Columnist

Geoff Olson Columnist

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Young men and their inclination to engage in violent acts are much in the news these past few weeks. If they aren’t shooting each other in Surrey, they are carving each other up in Whistler.

A fair amount has changed since I was that age. Many one-time exclusive preserves of males have been invaded by women, including the fields of medicine, law and architecture.

Where young men and boys still hold the unchallenged field however is in the area of violent crime. Women don’t even come close.

In spite, however, of the recent increased frequency of the incidents of bloody combat hereabouts, I am assured “the sky is not falling.” This comes from Robert Gordon, an SFU criminologist who specializes in the life and crimes of young offenders and youth justice.

Exactly what a “youth” is may be debatable. You don’t enter the criminal justice system until you are 12 years of age. In this province, you can vote at age 18. One year later, at 19, you are considered an adult. That’s why, if you have been in foster care, at 19 the government turns its back on you. But then you have the legal right to drink, too.

All that said, Gordon notes that the period during which males are most likely to engage in violent criminal acts is between 14 and 26.

Driven more by what is between their legs than what is between their ears, it has been that way, Gordon would say, “forever.”

In times of war, it is roughly this age group that is recruited and sent off by much older men as cannon fodder. In time of peace, for too many, all that energy is directed towards predatory street crime and outright violence.

Although, Gordon points out, violent crime is most recently on the decline.

That is not primarily because we are adding more cops; adding another 100 Mounties out in Surrey may make the folks there feel safer. But the fact is that particular age group is also declining in relationship to the overall population.

While the perpetrators involved in the Whistler stabbings and the Sur-

rey shootings all fit the profile, both Gordon and Surrey School Board gang expert Rob Rai point to some significant differences.

The Whistler killing and a subsequent non-fatal stabbing were the least planned of the incidents, although they were both likely fuelled by booze or drugs or both.

The killing was described by the police for reporters this way: “This was a situation where a group of young people who knew each other had a dispute that turned deadly.” Three 17-year-olds were charged with the death of a 19-year-old who had just graduated high school a year earlier and was on his way to studying to become a plumber.

While Gordon describes Whistler as “a party out of control,” he sees the Surrey gunplay as far more deliberate and planned. The participants are “not school kids generally speaking.”

And the motivation for the confrontation is economic, not unlike, say, one retailer trying to drive another out of the market place. Think Pepsi at war with Coke.

Only here the market takeover isn’t about soda pop, it is about illegal drugs. The weapons aren’t advertising campaigns, they are guns.

The young men who control the drug trade in that region are Indo-Canadian, part of the community Rai says he grew up in. They are, as he describes them, from “affluent homes” showered with money and expensive cars and attracted to the gangster lifestyle because it is “cool.” And it is easy. They “don’t need any strong discernable skills” schooling could provide.

Their competition, newly arrived young men from Somalia, are, he says, driven by poverty and the lack of legal economic opportunity to acquire the material goods they see all around them.

Both rich and poor are part of a culture that demands instant gratification.

For the Somalis, taking over the drug trade becomes the default option.

Now that the cops are on the case, the open war has subsided for the time being. But short of an as-yet elusive, effective diversion program, the inclination of boys and young men to engage in violent criminal acts will still be there “forever.” @allengarr

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I used to get regular bulk emails from a B.C. activist about the perils of GMO foods, nuclear radiation, toxic trade agreements, climate change, and the like. The stories were accompanied by his commentary, which ran something like this: How can people be such sheep?

Why are they so blind? Act now or we are doomed! Silence is complicity!

The hyperbole wasn’t without some truth. But when you start blaming your audience for inaction on the very events you are flagging, the response is more likely to be pessimism than slacktivism — at least from the likes of me.

Similarly, the online journal Nation of Change alerts readers by email to its newest stories, with funding pleas attached.

Typical subject headings have included: “Why we give a damn, and why you should too,” “We’re actually running out of time,” and “We’re confident that you’ll come through.”

Sometimes I don’t read the unsolicited emails from Nation of Change because of the panicky, personalized subject headings — and I’m someone who resonates with their advocacy journalism. If they dialed down their rhetoric, there’s a better chance I’d send some bucks their way.

I appreciate the problem that news blogs, charities and NGOs have, particularly on the web. You try to open people’s hearts, minds and wallets by leveraging the world’s bad craziness into worst-case scenarios, and then discover an audience overwhelmed with a sense of hopelessness. Tough gig.

Cracked.com senior editor David Wong knows the ropes. “The news blogs many of you read? The people running them know the same thing. Every site is in a dogfight for traffic ... and so they carefully pick through the wires for the most inflammatory story possible. The other blogs start echoing the same story from the same point of view. If you want, you can surf all day and never swim out of the warm, stagnant waters of the ‘aren’t those bastards evil’ pool,” observes Wong.

As an info-junkie and journalist, I find tough-minded commentary as addictive as sugar. But the flip side is the cognitive equivalent of insulin shock. After mainlining dirty deeds and dire trends for several days in succession, I’m about ready for a compassion crash and cat

video binge.

There’s always been a social tension between the canaries and the coalminers; between the whistleblowers and the wageslaves. Sibel Edmonds knows this well. Called “the most-classified woman in U.S. history,” the former FBI language analyst posted a dispirited message last year on boilingfrogspost.com.

“They say we need more revelations.

I say we have had more than enough revelations on synthetic wars, atrocities, surveillance and torture. They wonder when the majority of Americans are going to speak up. And I say: The American Majority has already spoken — loud and clear. The United States government has been engaged in the worst kind of human rights abuses, detention and torture around the globe. That’s a fact. And the American Majority knows this.... They have spoken: with their silence,” wrote Edmonds.

When HBO’s John Oliver went into the streets of New York with questions about Edward Snowden, he found most pedestrians couldn’t recall the name. Perhaps it’s because the NSA whistleblower wasn’t a fixture for long in the broadsheets and broadcasts.

Or perhaps it’s because details from his classified cache of documents left a smaller footprint on social media sites than Miley Cyrus’s misadventures with a giant foam finger.

Whatever the reason for the knowledge/concern gap, it’s disturbing that so little has come of Snowden’s efforts to warn Americans, Canadians and Britons of the open-air electronic prison that’s being assembled around them.

According to one survey, four in 10 Canadians say they hadn’t had a single political conversation in the past 12 months. People understandably tune out when they feel electoral democracy is being twisted into a game for the prosperous few rather than a forum for the restless many — but doesn’t apathy make for a self-fulfilling prophecy?

There’s a whole generation of websurfers who get the bulk of their news through clickbait listicles, trending tweets, and social media flame wars, rather than the long-form journalism of outlets like Nation of Change or Truthdig.

Amusing ourselves to death has never been so effortless. And I fully realize that last line reads like something the B.C. activist would have written in a bulk email. @geoffolson

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The number of new B.C. Ferries vessels in need of names.

The company has launched an online contest seeking suggestions from the public.

106 23.6 20 40 197 The age of the Brookhouse Residence, an unoccupied mansion on Parker Street that may be saved through a redevelopment proposal involving strata units.

In thousands, the number of signatures on a petition at Change.org demanding politicians bring in laws to curb foreign investment in residential real estate by the end of 2015.

In millions of dollars, the rough amount B.C. residents spend on tequila each year. Vancouver Agave Week runs May 25 to 30.

The estimated percentage of food produced in Canada that will never be eaten. A nonprofit group is handing out free lunches midday May 27 in front of the VAG.

The number of rental units available in the new Aquilini Centre tower opening in June next to Rogers Arena.

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May 22, 1987: Rick Hansen, who turned his teenage dream of circumnavigating the globe into a personal crusade for the disabled, brought his Man-in-Motion tour home to Vancouver to a huge crowd. Tens of thousands of cheering well-wishers lined the streets and as the wheelchair Paralympian wrapped up the final 40-km stretch of his around-the-world odyssey where it began, at the Oakridge shopping centre, 26 months earlier.

Hansen, 29, had travelled more than 40,000 kilometres while taking his example of ability over disability to 34 countries and raising more than$26 million for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.

The day before, he travelled through Port Coquitlam, the home town of Terry Fox, who died of cancer halfway through his Marathon of Hope run across Canada.

Hansen told the crowd that Fox, a former wheelchair basketball teammate, was the inspiration for his own trip.

“He stands as a man who was not afraid to reach for his dreams, a man who knew that failing was not reaching, not trying to be the best you can be with what you have,” he said in a ceremony broadcasted nationally by the CBC. The tour took him through rainstorms, snowstorms and desert heatwaves. Along the way, he also met his future wife, Amanda Reid, a 27-year-old physiotherapist who joined the tour two weeks after it began. They married five months after the tour ended .

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Re: “Cycling getting trippy in Vancouver,” May 15.

I am familiar with the cliche, “lies, damn lies and statistics” but Jerry Dobrovolny surpassed even that idea with his bizarre definition of a “cycle trip” in Vancouver. What normal citizens would consider one cycle trip to give Mr. Howell his mythical cheque and go on home would be a total of four trips, according to the number crunching at city hall.

Might Mr. Howell follow up this story with a photo of the 10-to-12 thousand cyclists crossing Burrard Bridge every day? (300,000 cyclist per month = average of 10,000 trips per day.) I have yet to see crowds of this magnitude crossing the bridge.

I was at a city council meeting two summers ago when a professor (retired) of statistics demonstrated that Mr. Dobrovolny’s published figures of the number of cyclists riding on Cornwall Avenue was an impossibility in the time frame given. Needless to say, the professor’s data fell on deaf ears when presented to council and staff. I did not believe Jerry Dobrovolny’s stats then and I doubt the validity of his “data... grounded in numbers” now.

I have lived on the rental side of Kits, between Burrard and Macdonald, for 22 years and I am sure I would have noticed this dramatic increase in cyclists traversing the neighborhood. I haven’t, but the number of cars and trucks has risen exponentially. Our northsouth streets have become secondary thoroughfares between Cornwall and Broadway.

Likewise the east-west avenues are popular routes to avoid the congestion on Broadway and on Fourth Avenue; especially the latter with the stop-and-go traffic caused by the many traffic lights.

Gerri Patriquin, Vancouver

Licensing pot dispensaries not the solution

Re: “Health officer backs legalized drugs,” May 13.

It is the fiduciary, ethical and moral duty of elected officials to protect their constituents. Perhaps a brief education of a few benefits of the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) will reverse their support of illegal sales of a regulated drug.

MMPR requires a pharmaceutical level of quality control from its licensed producers who must pass their products through rigorous laboratory testing for bacteria, moulds, insecticides, and foreign (potentially toxic) chemicals. Is the city suggest-

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Re: “Cops nab 733 sidewalk cyclists,” May 20.

About frickin’ time. Now when will they make cyclists buy insurance to help pay for those bike lanes?

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Policy wrecks our heritage

Re: “City’s anti-demolition policy is a failure,” May 15.

This is beyond a disgrace. How can our mayor claim we are “the greenest city” when this clear-cutting of homes is going on?!

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A city-licensed restaurant implies health inspections and a level of safe public consumption. Are the city and Chief Medical Officer implying, through their support, these licensed dispensaries have safe marijuana?

The dispensaries operating in the city do not have legal or visible marijuana suppliers. Does anyone at city hall and the Vancouver Police Department ask or care where all of this illegal marihuana is cultivated? Is it grown in basements, garages, barns and/or clubhouses? Are these “dispensary licenses” giving a city endorsed source of sales to organized crime? Is the city accepting funds originating from illegal criminal activities, and are these funds not subject to seizure under B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture Act? The mayor, council, administrators, chief medical officer and VPD feels that this is a “grey area.” Their licensing plan of ignorance is turning off city hall’s lights to act in the dark for a rapacious $2,000,000 licensing cash grab, and while dreaming of their new revenue windfall, there will be serious fallout for citizens of Vancouver and Lower Mainland. Do a little research and illuminate the complete picture.

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Somatic Experiencing teacher Seth Lyon calls himself a “psychobiological trauma specialist and modern medicine man.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Getting the nerve up to heal Fourth in a series about Vancouverites who are SBNR — spiritual but not religious PACIFIC SPIRIT Pat Johnson

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Religion has always been understood as a source of emotional well-being.

Research in recent years has also demonstrated that it has health benefits.

People who have abandoned conventional religion are finding both these things through diverse alternatives.

Faithful adherents of traditional faiths may see it as reductive to look at religion mostly from the perspective of the advantages it gives us.

Their practice, they might say, is based on higher, less self-interested reasons, such as the acknowledgement and worship of the creator of all. But spirituality without religion largely omits this conclusion and so this series has been looking at ways people find similar results through different means.

One of the things that draws people to religion

and spirituality is “healing.” In some cases, that can be physical healing — and this is not always the palm to the forehead — “Heal!” — stereotype of faith-healing so commonly ridiculed. At almost any church service down your street on a Sunday morning, prayers will be said seeking divine intercession for members of the congregation who are unwell.

People also turn to both religion and spirituality to heal emotional wounds. No doubt plenty of emotional wounds have been inflicted by religions and religious leaders themselves, but we’re focusing on healing.

Seth Lyon calls himself a “psychobiological trauma specialist and modern medicine man.” He is also a survivor of trauma — not catastrophic trauma, he acknowledges, but a family life that left him traumatized nonetheless.

“My reaction to that was to take off into the woods for 15 years,” he said.

There, in the mountains of Montana, the rainforests of Oregon and on the big island of Hawaii, he pursued many of the familiar paths people choose as alternatives or adjuncts to religion: meditation, energy work, breath work. Eventually he discovered Somatic Experiencing and ended up in Vancouver a couple of years ago, bringing this form of healing to locals.

SE, as it is shorthanded, is based in Dr. Peter Levine’s 1997 book Waking the Tiger and works with nervous system physiology to unlock and overcome the long-term effects of trauma on the body and, if you like, soul.

SE is intended to release the physical tension that remains in the body as a result of emotional disturbance.

“It basically works at restoring regulation to the nervous system, meaning that when someone becomes traumatized what happens is they get various survival energies — the fight, flight, freeze energies — stuck

in their system for various reasons but mostly because those processes are not being allowed to complete,” Lyon explained. “Somatic Experiencing is working with someone in a very individualistic, nuanced way to help bring their physiology and their personality all to a place where these processes can complete naturally. It’s quite hard to explain precisely how we do that because there’s many, many, many different ways, but essentially it’s about helping someone reach a place where their body can do what it knows how to do to allow these various survival energies to complete and pass through.”

This is both a physiological and an emotional process, he said.

“It’s physiological in that various aspects of your nervous system are involved,” he says. “It also is always going to be tied with emotion because when we feel under threat there’s always some sort of

intense emotion involved.”

One way Lyon approaches SE is through sound, in part because he studied music composition and percussion before turning to this calling.

The neocortex is the advanced part of the brain that allows us to think abstractly, develop language and motor commands, and it’s the part that “lights up” when we are engaged in religious or spiritual pursuits like prayer or meditation.

Enjoyable music and pleasing sounds engage this place too, and these can be used to stimulate the neocortex, alleviating bad stuff and, in the SE parlance, allowing the incomplete processing of traumatic energies to pass through.

Animals face life-threatening experiences more often than most of us do, but they do not accumulate trauma the way humans do because once they are safe, animals “discharge” excess negative energy by trembling or deep breathing. This process restores

equilibrium, according to SE literature. The website of Levine, who founded SE, says humans — and here the neocortex comes in again — tend to override our animalistic responses to trauma through “rationalizations, judgments, shame, enculturation, and fear of our bodily sensations.” We then “recycle” the terror and helplessness we absorbed through trauma and relive it to our physical and emotional detriment.

“Basically my goal is to fundamentally help someone achieve nervous system regulation,” said Lyon, “which simply means the parts of their nervous system that are supposed to be on are on when they’re supposed to be on and the other parts are off when they’re supposed to be off and everything is moving and grooving in the organic way it’s supposed to.”

“For me, that’s my religion I guess you could say,” said Lyon. “The church of nervous system regulation.”

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If all goes according to plan, teachers will pay to park on school lots starting Oct. 1.

They’ll pay $15 a month for random and $35 a month for reserved spots, plus tax.

The Vancouver School Board approved a parking implementation plan last September to offset the costs of maintaining district parking lots.

Staff had hoped to

institute pay parking last December.

The parking plan was discussed at a VSB committee meeting Wednesday night and former VSB chairperson Patti Bacchus said staff are to respond to questions, mainly from teachers, at a future planning and facilities meeting.

The school board trimmed more than $9 million to balance its 2014-2015 budget and faced a budget shortfall of $8.52 for 2015-2016.

The VSB spends approximately $400,000 each year to maintain its parking lots, according to a September 2014 staff report.

As part of the 20142015 budget, the board approved pay parking with the hopes of seeing a net revenue of between $225,000 and $340,000.

The lower amount was included in the board’s 2015-2016 base operating budget.

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The Brookhouse Residence, a prominent Grandview-Woodland heritage home, may be saved through a redevelopment proposal, according to the City of Vancouver.

A new owner has approached the city about the possibility of a rezoning application for the property, located at 1872 Parker St. at Victoria Drive, which involves rehabilitating the home, dividing it into strata units and adding family townhomes along the rear lane.

Built in the Queen Anne style with a corner turret in 1909, the house is known as the Brookhouse Residence because it was named for printer and editor Arthur A. Brookhouse, who owned it and lived in it with his family from 1927 until his death in 1947, according to the Grandview Heritage Group.

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assistant director of planning, said a previous owner had considered a heritage revitalization project, but it fell through because he felt it wouldn’t work out economically.

Munro said the house has been vacant for a couple of years and city staff are encouraging the new owner, who’s done similar projects in the neighbourhood, to get an application in.

“It’s a very good news story. We’ve been working at the GrandviewWoodland community plan for a couple of years now and one of the themes we’ve heard loud and clear is how important heritage is in this community, and particularly in that old neighbourhood between Victoria Drive and Commercial, which is the heart of Grandview really,” Munro said. “We’ve all been very worried about [the house]. In private ownership, of course, there’s not much we can do…. So when [the owner] came in, given

all of our work on the Heritage Action Plan and trying to do what we can on our side to save these resources, we jumped all over it.”

Some Vancouverites, including Caroline Adderson who’s behind the Facebook page Vancouver Vanishes, have been critical of the city’s efforts to protect character homes.

Courier columnist Allen Garr also recently penned a piece that pointed out the speed of demolitions has accelerated — in the first four months of this year the city issued 342 demolition permits, an increase of 20 per cent over 2014.

The Brookhouse site needs to be rezoned for a heritage revitalization project to be permitted since it’s currently zoned for duplex housing. The rezoning would include public consultation, and an open house for comments, before a proposal went before council, which would decide whether to send it to public hearing.

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The City of Vancouver is hopeful the new owner of the Brookhouse Residence will soon file a rezoning application for the property, which would preserve the prominent Grandview-Woodland heritage home. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“One of the things we’re up against now is a race against time because it’s almost like it’s becoming a rescue project as opposed to a rehabilitation project,” Munro said.

“The house has been sitting there neglected for two years and it’s been vandalized a little bit, so if and when this application comes in, we want to get it through as quickly as possible.”

Michael Kluckner, a member of the Grandview Heritage Group, said he’s generally supportive of the prospect of the home being preserved through a heritage redevelopment, although he said “the devil is in the details.”

He called the home a neighbourhood landmark in a prominent location and said the vast majority of Grandview-Woodland residents really care

about conserving heritage buildings. “[A redevelopment proposal also] ticks the boxes of broader city programs beyond heritage, about infill and sustainability and so on,” he said. “Again, it will depend on the design and the bulk. But these [kinds of proposals] are becoming common and the alternative is demolition and probably generic duplexes.” @naoibh

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Wednesday, June 3 at 7:00pm While school boards across the province are faced with budget cuts, expectations for a world class education are as high as ever.

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Manuel Otero, a founding partner of the Vancouver International Tequila Expo, appreciates a good tequila and wants you to appreciate the nectar of his homeland, too. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vancouver’s growing tequila sunrise Cheryl Rossi

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Darryl Lamb sipped a reposado tequila Tuesday afternoon and said, “Wet sidewalks, man. It’s like bam!”

Lamb, brand manager for Legacy Liquor Store in the former Olympic Village, mused about damp sidewalks about eight tequila tasters in.

Bartender Kevin Brownlee called one “buttery.”

They were two of 10 judges, including two Courier staffers, picking the top 10 People’s Choice Award Tequila finalists for the fourth annual Vancouver International Tequila Expo May 30.

We sipped 13 tequilas altogether, seven añejos, which have been aged one to three years, five reposados, aged two to 12 months, and one blanco, or the clear stuff people are most familiar with shooting, which is bottled shortly after distillation.

One of the añejos smelled like the kind of tequila that makes you go “gah” after it’s gone down, but it transformed into a creamy caramel-like substance on the tongue.

A rose-hued reposado laced with hibiscus conjured images of summer

barbecues and another sweet selection set the stage for dessert.

Manuel Otero, a founding partner of the tequila expo, told the Courier in 2012 that organizers wanted to create more demand to see more brands of tequila in local liquor stores.

The annual event, combined with growing community of 5,000 Mexicans in B.C., more taquerias popping up in Vancouver and 1.8 million Canadians visiting Mexico each year developing a taste for the local libation, appears to have worked.

Otero says the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch featured only five brands of tequila when he started importing it in 1994.

Lamb says the LDB now features up to 20. (If you search for tequila in the LDB online catalogue, 48 products pop up.)

“It’s over $20 million of tequila [sales in B.C. per year] and growing,” Otero said.

Legacy maybe carried 20 brands of tequila in 2012. Now it slings 90 brands of tequila and mezcal, the same quantity that expo-goers will be able to sample on the May 30 event.

The tequila expo has

expanded from a one-day event to Vancouver Agave Week, May 25 to 30 while the expo’s attendance numbers have more than doubled.

The East Van Taco Safari, which visits five taco joints for tortilla-based treats, tequila and mezcal, swiftly sold out.

Otero said tickets to the Downtown Food and Agave Safari, May 28, which transports tequila tasters on a trolley to restaurants that include Joe Fortes, Coast and Left Bank, “a French restaurant, believe it or not,” Otero said, are going fast.

For the first year, the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts will host an evening of cooking and pairing with agave, May 27, and Legacy Liquor Store will host and onsite shop featuring products available at the show.

The Peloton de La Meurte Cocktail Competition will return to the grand tasting for the second year to show tequila and mezcal-wielding newbies this type of liquor can be mixed into more than margaritas.

Last year, Brownlee won the mixing competition. He concocted a strawberry and black pepper liqueur, infused

the Peloton de La Meurte mezcal with Serrano chilies and raw cacao, and mixed these ingredients with fresh lime juice, simple sugar and Peychaud’s bitters. Garnishing the creation was a hollowedout green chili filled with white chocolate and red chili flakes, to symbolize the Mexican flag.

To ensure bartenders are intimately acquainted with mezcal and tequila, Otero said the expo has donated more than $20,000 to the B.C. Hospitality Foundation to make sure bartenders are up to speed on all things agave.

Otero advises drinkers to check that tequila is made from 100 per cent blue agave, not agave mixed with other sugars.

He says a good blanco costs as little as $26, a reposado $100-plus and añejos $150 to $300.

“I’ve got a friend who’s got a $1,000 bottle of añejos in his house. I tried it. It was fantastic,” he said.

At that price, you don’t want to knock it back.

“It’s still OK to shoot it for celebrations,” Otero reassured.

For more information, see vantequilaexpo.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Living

Secrets to long-lasting summer bulbs GARDEN Anne Marrison

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When container spring bulbs are over and stored away or planted out in the garden, the vacated pots provide a chance for a heart-gladdening display of colourful summer bulbs and tubers.

Some, such as begonias and dahlias, flower repeatedly once they start while others such as acidanthera and Pineapple Lily keep blooming for many weeks.

Agapanthus is not outstandingly longflowered at first, but its usually blue blooms are spectacular and their tall seedheads are pretty in winter vases.

When it’s kept happy with rich feeding, water and bonemeal, its tubers increase into large masses which in time produce masses of blooms. Agapanthus is well-suited to containers because it easily tolerates being potbound. But all the evergreen kinds are tender and should be taken inside for winter.

There are hardier deciduous amaryllis but the variety I grew was much smaller than evergreen amaryllis but hardy overwinter in zone 7. My experience was with Cally Hardy mix seed available from chilternseeds.co.uk.

Containers are very suitable for slug-prone plants because it’s easy to wrap some copper slug tape around the pot and they’re safe for a couple of seasons. That’s why, aside from their huge range of colours and shapes, the smaller type containerized dahlias are carefree once they start blooming.

But big dahlias, such as the dinner-plate varieties, tend to drape their leaves down the sides unless you imprison them with tomato cages.

Like agapanthus, dahlias enjoy a sunny spot and love soil amended with compost or low-nitrogen fertilizer.

They need a lot of water too, especially since containers tend to dry out

quickly. Given this, the tubers enlarge into very impressive clumps quite fast.

The colours and shapes of dahlias are incredibly varied from solid reds, yellows, whites and pinks to very busy mixes and matches like yellowtipped reds or apricot and pink blushes and ones that shout across a garden such as the bloodred wine and white of the dinner-plate dahlia Tartan.

Gardeners challenged by containers in shady places will find begonias the ideal plant for their situation. Begonias need shade. You’ll need to start your begonia several weeks before frost. That’s good advice — when you’re dealing with a begonia that’s already a long-time friend.

But when you’re going to acquire a new begonia, it’s useful to choose one already in flower so that you avoid colour surprises. That’s because when treated well, begonias are a very long-lived plant which can be stored year after year, encouraged to sprout early and after frost put back in its summer home.

Begonias always spring late into flower, but after that they don’t stop until frost.

Callas are more popular each year now they’re appearing in a variety of colours. People have also discovered this plant’s love for shade.

They also love moisture and protection in winter. The coloured callas are especially tender.

There is a larger, sturdier white-flowered calla which can be hardy on the coast in a warm, sheltered place.

One easy and inexpensive summer bulb is acidanthera. It looks like a white narcissus with a splashy wine-red throat, is hugely fragrant and flowers for ages.

During winter, its corms can be stored in mesh bags like narcissus.

Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions.

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When acquiring a new begonia, it’s useful to choose one already in flower so that you avoid colour surprises.

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ROYAL PALS: PALS Autism School Society is an independent school for children ages five to 18 and adults with autism.

Co-founded by Katy Harandi, a parent of a child with autism, the East Side school offers a learning environment that supports the needs of individuals with the disorder.

The organization recently hosted its eighth annual Imagine Gala… All You Need Is Love, also created by Harandi, in support of the school’s programs and hosted by radio personalities Nat Hunter and Drew Savage. It was a very British affair with William Shakespeare, the Beatles and Her Majesty the Queen in attendance…well, reasonable facsimiles. A capacity crowd enjoyed a royal repast before emptying their purses and wallets of some $230,000. It is estimated one in 68 kids will be diagnosed with autism, one of the fastest growing developmental disorders in the country.

MUCH DAZZLE: The B.C. Hospitality Foundation and Wines of Argentina presented another memorable night of food, wine and cocktails, in support of those in need.

Featuring north of 80 premium Argentinean wines, a bakers dozen of the city’s best restaurants and chefs, as well as six bartenders creating Argentine-themed cocktails, the event drew a thirsty crowd. With BCHF founders Bing Smith and Leeann Froese along with executive director Alan Sacks and Wines of Argentina’s Dana Harris fronting the sixth installment, the affair was another dazzling show of support by an industry dedicated to supporting its own in times of hardship.

Founded in 2006 when friends rallied to help one of its own, the foundation has since supported nearly 100 individuals as well provided scholarships for those interested in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry. Nearly $60,000 was raised from the signature event.

PRESERVING OUR HISTORY: Outstanding efforts to preserve Vancouver’s heritage were recognized at the 2015 Vancouver Heritage Awards Ceremony.

Yours truly along with city councillor Andrea Reimer emceed the affair, fittingly staged at the refurbished York Theatre. Recognizing architects, contractors and individuals keen on preserving our city’s history, the biannual awards acknowledge projects and special accomplishments that range from restoration and rehabilitation of buildings, features or sites to work that promotes or advocates for heritage conservation. Citations were handed out in four categories: honour, merit, recognition and people’s choice. Among the restored buildings celebrated: Kits Neighbourhood House and Hay House, Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall and the Yale Hotel. Heritage advocate Janet Bingham was posthumously bestowed a lifetime achievement award.

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Bill Sanford appropriately uncorked a bottle of Argentinian wine, Decero, at Alan Sack’s B.C. Hospitality Foundation and Wines of Argentina’s Dish and Dazzle. The food and wine fundraiser raised nearly $60,000.

Beau Dick’s signature masks were on display at the Bill Reid Gallery in time for the exhibit hall’s signature fundraiser Raven’s Feast, in support of future exhibitions and programs.

Wines of Argentina’s Raquel Correa, left, and Dana Harris welcomed Argentina Consul General Jose Maria Vener to the sixth Dish and Dazzle benefitting the B.C. Hospitality Foundation.

Vancouver city councillor Andrea Reimer presented a heritage award to Green Thumb Theatre artistic director Patrick Macdonald. The company collaborated with the school board to restore century-old Carleton Hall school house into a cultural space.

Sanford Williams’ masks were among a collection of Northwest Coast art gala chair Jane Hungerford curated for her Raven’s Feast fundraiser and auction. Hungerford’s efforts raised $70,000 for the Bill Reid Gallery.

From left, Parksville’s Colleen Jordan, Prince George’s Nicole Hamel, Kamloops’ Andree Crawford and Kelowna’s Elizabeth Baerg enjoyed the season’s first spot prawns at the annual False Creek boil presented by the Chef’s Table Society of B.C.

The PALS Royal Gala at the Convention Centre attracted the attention of Her Majesty the Queen (Carolyn Sadowska) and a London bobby, Aerhyn Lau.

Clara Aquilini and Katy Harandi, both parents of children with autism, helped raised some $230,000 for PALS Autism School in East Vancouver.

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News No water shortage expected for city

While this year’s smallerthan-normal snowpack is not expected to impact the North Shore’s water supply this summer, Metro Vancouver has put some water reserves in its back pocket in case of a drought.

Snowpack measurements conducted in the Seymour and Capilano watersheds by Metro staff in early April suggest the

spring run-off is expected to be well below normal, but there is no cause for alarm, according to Darrell Mussatto, Metro’s utilities committee chair.

“The reality is, the snowpack is not as big an issue as people think it is,” said Mussatto.

In fact, rainfall is what the reservoirs rely on to stay stocked with fresh drinking water throughout the summer. Metro also

has water reserves in three alpine lakes that it can tap into, and the ability to secure extra H2O from the Coquitlam reservoir, which is managed by BC Hydro.

In April, the water level reading at the Capilano reservoir was 99 per cent of summer storage capacity, while Seymour Lake was at 87 per cent capacity. As of last week, both lakes are in good shape at 99 per cent capacity, thanks to some

late April snowfall.

— Maria Spitale-Leisk

Lego Movie studio building a presence in Vancouver

Animal Logic, the Australian studio that produced the animation for last year’s The Lego Movie, is expanding its presence to Vancouver as part of a three-picture with Warner Bros. Pictures.

The Lego Movie sequel

is scheduled to start at the new Vancouver studio this coming January.

The expansion to B.C. won’t affect operations at the studio’s head office in Sydney, Australia, where it employs 500 people.

Animal Logic said in a press release the Australian studio would continue production on a Lego Batman feature and a Ninjago film.

Other than The Lego Sequel, the company did not

reveal which films are included in the three-picture deal with Warner Bros.

In an email, Animal Logic spokeswoman Lisa Santo-Buechler said the studio expects to hire 300 people in B.C. who will work in a 45,000-squarefoot facility in Yaletown.

She added part of the reasons for opening an office in Vancouver was for its proximity to L.A. —Tyler Orton

“By accessing world markets for Canadian oil, we’ll enjoy increased tax dollars and years of employment.”

- Deborah Cahill, President, Electrical Contractors Association of B.C.

Coastal access for Canadian oil means an increase of at least $5 per barrel. By getting full value for our oil, everyone will benefit. Workers will gain from the $5.4 billion project. Oil producers will earn more revenue for their product. And Government will collect more tax revenue from oil producers to spend on programs such as health care, education and other services that benefit all British Columbians.

Plus, we can invest in new training programs and create new jobs for our youth.

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May 29

You might think craft beer is just for hipsters with beards and plaid, but you might want to think again.

Small batch local beer is taking over, and there’s no better place to explore the trend than Vancouver Craft Beer Week. Kicking off on May 29, the week is full of events to help you explore the finer side of beer. Tickets are a little pricey, but all come with beer and most include food. See vancouvercraftbeerweek.com for information and tickets.

May 30

What do the Second World War, Freud and C.S. Lewis all have in common?

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Find the answer to that and more in Freud’s Last Session, a production of Pacific Theatre written by Mark St. Germain. The show is giving its finale performance on May 30, so this is your last shot to see this melding of the minds as two of the 20th century’s thinkers face off on love, sex, war and God. See pacifictheatre.org for tickets and show times.

May 31

Nothing says summer like fresh food. If you need a brush-up after a winter spent longing for farmers markets and farm-fresh veggies, Vancouver’s VegExpo is back in town May 31. A day of “vegetarian and vegan inspired” events, bring the family for cooking classes, kids zone and information on how to eat well and local.

Information and tickets are available at vegexpo.com.

May 31

Speaking of summer — come out and join your neighbours and fellow Vancouverites alike at the Eastside Block Party. The party kicks off for the summer-long season May 31. Come at 2 p.m. and stay until late for food, music and dancing.

The party can be found in front of the Waldorf Hotel — follow the music. For directions, see eastsidebp.com.

June 14

Nostalgia is a powerful thing. There’s nothing like the yearning for toys we grew up with: action figures, comic books and building blocks. Come indulge your passion for times gone by at the Retro and Relevant Toy Show June 14, featuring vintage toys and new collectibles alike. Adult tickets range from $3 to $5, and kids under 13 get in for free.

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Now in it’s fourth year, the Granville Art walk will showcase the best of Vancouver’s art scene on what has become known as gallery row. With more than 16 different showcases, artist talks and wine and cheese tastings (who doesn’t love that) talk a walk in the sun and get your requisite dose of local art culture. See southgranville.org/artwalk for more information. @KathleenSaylors

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Start nothing new, major before June 11. The main accent lies on errands, communications, casual friends, news media, short trips, paperwork and details. Make a list before you shop, etc. Double-check figures and addresses. Long-lost mail might finally arrive. You’re friendly, talkative and likable now, but you can also be too impulsive about life’s small daily business. Try to slow down or you’ll waste time in wild goose chases.

Start no new relationships nor projects before June 11, especially in legal, intellectual, import-export, educational, publishing, advertising, far travel, love or religion. You’re in the mood to charge ahead in these areas, but your initial impulse can meet irritating, defeating headwinds if you jump on a new venture. For example, if you fell in love with someone new now, you’d spend years in an indecisive, inconclusive relationship.

Start no new projects nor relationships before June 11. The main emphasis this week and the next three lies on money, earnings, buying/selling, possessions, sensual attractions and memory. If you have something going in these areas, protect it from delays, missed appointments, indecision and second thoughts, etc.

Your money flow is very swift now — more money than usual will flow your way until June 24.

Avoid starting any new projects or relationships before June 11. Instead, protect ongoing interests and/or reprise something from the past. An old flame might return: a magnetic, volatile person.

Look back to judge whether to re-enter this relationship or not. Was it always just lust or is there a way to turn this into a more ethical, socially acceptable union?

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Start no new projects nor relationships before June 11. Instead, protect ongoing ventures from indecision, second thoughts, delays, missing personnel, etc. A former partner in business or mate in love might reappear. If so, as stated last week, this could be a quite significant relationship. Intimacy could be reached rather quickly, and the sex is good.

Start no new projects nor relationships before June 11, Cancer. Until then, protect ongoing projects from delays, shortages, misunderstandings and second thoughts. You have just entered a “rest period” until June 21. Don’t overexert and withdraw from competitive situations. Although it’s still too early to plan (before June 11), do contemplate how you got here and where you’d like to go.

Don’t start new projects nor relationships before June 11, especially in work, employment, machinery and (daily) health zones. Instead, work to protect ongoing ventures from delays, misunderstandings, supply and people shortages, etc. Or reprise ventures/links from the past.

Though you might yearn to, do not buy machinery or tools.

Start nothing before June 11, in any area. Until then, old hopes and optimism will return, as will former associates or a special group. Welcome all from the past, friends and lovers. (If you’re married, make that friends.) Someone from long ago might contact you from another continent. Be a wee bit sceptical of this person — let them prove their worth, love, whatever.

Start nothing new in either projects or relationships, before June 11. Usually, this is a good time to reprise the past, but you’d be wise to leave old creative works alone. A former flame might appear. This could be a significant relationship. But if you have to travel to it, or there’s a lot more talk than action, or you dither within yourself about it, then take a second look before leaping/committing.

Start nothing new in any area before June 11. You’re starting to feel indecisive, especially about career, community standing, finances, investments and debt, intimacy, a possible physical attraction. You might be thrust into a past role in any of these. For instance, a former career role might return briefly, an old lover call or an investment opportunity return.

In all these, but especially in financial and sexual arenas, proceed with some scepticism.

Start no new projects nor relationships before June 11. In fact, don’t even end a relationship now. (You’ll feel differently later.) Protect ongoing projects in partnership, relocation, public interfacing, negotiations, and in domestic, property, gardening and similar areas. These are the zones most likely hit by the present slow down.

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May 22 to 26, 2015 1. Shadow puppetry duo Chloé Ziner and Jessica Gabriel give the much maligned crow its due with their Fringe festival favourite Caws & Effect. The combination modern fable, tongue-in-cheek nature documentary and animated dream flaps its way over to the Cultch as part of the rEvolver Festival, which runs until May 31. Details at upintheairtheatre.com and thecultch.com.

2. No offence, but based on their press photo, we would not want to cross paths with Swank in a dark alley. Good thing the long-running East Vancouver institution has returned from a hiatus and will be restricting their badass powers to the stage of the Emerald, May 22. The cow punky garage rockers will be playing in support of their aptly titled album Keep it Together. Scott Macleod’s Big Top opens. And best of all, it’s free. Details at emeraldsupperclub.com.

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3. It’s not often you read “stylish mystery thriller” and Saskatchewan in the same sentence. But Jefferson Moneo’s Big Muddy is a brooding slice of Canadian noir in the vein of the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple and No Country For Old Men with a classic femme fatale and a whole heap of trouble. It screens at Vancity May 22 and 30. Details at viff.org.

4. Riding high on the fumes of their latest fine album, They Want My Soul, stalwart Austin, Texas indie rockers Spoon play a sold-out show at Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park, May 24, with Dave Letterman faves Future Islands.

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A lot has been made over B.C. Ferries’ recent publicity gaffe where the muchmaligned public-private corporation thought it wise to invite the lumpen masses to name three new vessels currently being tricked out in Poland with those rad coinoperated massage chairs.

Not surprisingly, B.C. Ferries promoted the contest with a level of faux earnestness, PR speak and obliviousness that makes our teeth hurt. “Naming the new ferries provides an exciting opportunity for B.C. residents and B.C. Ferries’ employees to celebrate the beauty of coastal British Columbia by submitting their best vessel names,” read the press release. “For inspiration, consider names that reflect local values and culture, as well as B.C. Ferries’ role in operating a safe and reliable world-class fleet of vessels.”

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Because of this and the fact that everyone is a comedian and online outrage is an insatiable nectar, the negative response to the misguided contest spread across social media like a ladle of lukewarm gravy over a plate of soggy fries. We’re really trying to extend the ferry travel metaphor here.

Online jokesters came up with a slew of mocking, often hacky names slagging both B.C. Ferries and the provincial government, including Spirit of Walletsucker, The Queen of Poor Management, Spirit of Government Ineptitude and The Christy Clark Ark. And the media followed, either by listing the most “clever” submissions or coming up with equally clever ferry metaphors for headlines: “Contest to name BC Ferries’ new ships runs aground on barrage of mockery” and “That sinking feeling: Contest to name BC Ferries vessels backfires,” to name a few.

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Of course not. Which is why we’d like to humbly suggest a real name to call one of the three ferries. A once common, easy to spell name that instills confidence or at least resigned acceptance. A name like Gary.

When you need to borrow gas for your mower, who do you turn to? That sometimes annoying, but generally tolerable neighbour Gary. Who was the life of the party, drove a cool car, had a wicked mullet in the ’80s but has hit a rough patch, lives in motel and owes your dad money? Uncle Gary. What name embodies good times, bad times, erratic behaviour, misguided personal choices, dashed dreams, regret, hope and “local values and culture”? Gary. Say it loud and say it proud: Gary. What are we doing this weekend?

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On a balmy Saturday night, 30 students — almost all women — gathered at the Dirty Apron (540 Beatty St.) with a glass of bubbly in one hand, school-issued black apron in the other, united in one singular pursuit. Croquembouche.

Croquembouche is fancy French terminology for “towering pyramid of creampuffs held together by skin-searing caramel.” As part of the EAT! Vancouver festivities, instructors Anna Olson (TV host and author of several cookbooks) and Jackie Kai Ellis (owner of Beaucoup Bakery) blitzed through a 10-minute demo for pâte à choux and three flavours of pastry cream.

And then they split everyone into teams.

Team white chocolaterhubarb divided and conquered: a mother-daughter pair made a pot of caramel, four healthcare professionals from Surrey made creampuffs, two twentysomething friends filled pre-made puffs with pre-made custard and my partner, Iris, and I made pastry cream.

Next, Olson and Kai Ellis showed everyone how to attach the puffs to an inverted cone using molten caramel glue, then instructed us to do the same. They made it look easy, but it’s remarkable how spun sugar and edible flowers can mask all manner of sins. Though slightly lopsided, our croquembouche stood as a monument to what can be achieved in three short hours.

The croquembouche was a team effort, similar in style to the Dirty Apron’s corporate teambuilding classes, which include the Vancouver Canucks as clients. But the majority of the school’s classes are hands-on, where students cook every element of a multi-course meal.

And so, a week later, I joined 19 other students for a brunch class with owner David Robertson.

He demonstrated how to turn a knobby potato into matchsticks, poach eggs and make sundried tomato hollandaise, passing along tips he’d collected over a career in kitchens. At the end of

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our hard work, everyone decamped to the dining room to enjoy their first course.

“How is everything tasting?” asked our server.

I wondered if I could send it back if I didn’t like it. But the truth is, it was one of the better brunches I’ve had in a long time. I looked to my friend Jen, who handily overcame her performance anxiety to make golden and crispy potato rosti, perfectly poached eggs and buttery hollandaise speckled with sundried tomatoes.

“This is really good,” she said between mouthfuls of rosti and sips of Moroccan mimosa. All down the long table, I could hear other students murmuring the same thing.

That was just the first course. We filed back in the kitchen to learn how to make brioche French toast with pink grapefruit sabayon, a citrusy sauce of airy custard. Between whisking eggs and soaking bread, Robertson told us that his six-year-old daughter makes sabayon on the weekends.

No pressure.

Later, on the phone, Robertson explains his approach. “Our classes are a full, hands-on experience.

I have a sign on the door: toast burners welcome. As teachers we really focus on breaking down any intimidations and barriers from the get-go. We really want to find the people that might be struggling and help them out. But when people are put to it, watching other people around them, they catch on really quickly.”

At the Dirty Apron, each class culminates with students eating their own homework. And to his credit, Robertson reports, “I’ve never had anyone not eat.”

The experience is far more upscale than my culinary school days, but it’s far from spectator foodie-ism.

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Entertainer led melodic life Denny Clark wrote music column for the Courier for 11 years

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Like many of the songs he was known for belting out, Denny Clark’s life was rich, memorable and beloved.

The former Courier music columnist, drummer and singer died last month of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Campbell River, where he lived on Vancouver Island.

“Dad was a well-rounded comic, storyteller, singer drummer and emcee, the consummate entertainer or a musician’s musician as they say,” Clark’s daughter Karen wrote the Courier in an email. “If he did nothing else he made you laugh and he did it all with a glass of Bell’s scotch whisky in his hand. If you read the old resume you will see his sense of humour.”

Indeed, Clark’s enjoyably rambling resume is a colourful one. Born in 1931 in Invergordon, Scotland, he preferred being referred to as “Pictish” rather than Scottish, since Picts were highlanders and Scots lowlanders. His father owned and operated the town’s live theatre, exposing the impressionable lad to the arts at a young age.

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For nearly 30 years, during and after his stint at the Courier, Denny Clark performed regularly at venues around town, including Rossini’s Jazz Bar.

After graduating from high school, Clark played drums and sang in local pubs, completed two years of compulsory service in the British army and performed alongside the likes of Benny Hill, Dickie Dawson and David Niven. After joining the Canadian Air Force, he transferred to Canada in 1956, where he worked in public relations and embarked upon a career in newspapers and radio. Stints in Grand Forks, North Dakota while

stationed at NORAD, a stay in Lahr, Germany, and tours of Europe and Russia with the Rothmans Showtime and Armed Forces tour followed.

Over the years, Clark would play drums on The Tommy Hunter Show and share stages with a host of musical icons including Roy Orbison, the Righteous Brothers, Johnny Mathis, the Everly Brothers, Tex Ritter, Joe Williams and Connie Francis, among others.

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out for the west in 1982, settling in Vancouver, where he wrote the “Mainly Music” column for the Courier for 11 years, covering events and interviewing entertainers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Rich, Dizzy Gillespie and Red Robinson.

Former Courier editor Mick Maloney has two memories of Clark.

“He would always sing at the Courier Christmas party,” recalls Maloney.

“And he’d call the Courier 10 times a day.”

The reason?

That’s where his wife and love of his life, Liz Grant, worked as a typesetter for 14 years before the newspaper went digital.

During and after his time at the Courier, Clark continued his music career, performing around town five to six nights a week for nearly 30 years. Always one for cracking jokes, Clark often had the rousing folk song “A Scottish Soldier” played as he hit the stage.

His rendition of “Danny Boy” was also a favourite, though his daughter Karen had a fondness for his improvised version of “Fly Me to the Moon.”

“It’s the one song he sang to me my whole life,” she said.

The family plans to hold a celebration of life for Denny Clark at the Fairview Pub in July. @MidlifeMan1

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The North Shore Girls Soccer Club hosted Cameroon in the first of two test-matches at Windsor Turf Field May 17. The Cameroonians arrived in Vancouver May 15 for the FIFA World Cup and play their first game June 8 at B.C. Place. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

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Cameroon was the first of 24 teams to arrive in Canada for the World Cup, landing at YVR May 15 before taking to the pitch against the North Shore Renegades.

Ranked 53rd in the world, the third-best African side prepared for their first World Cup with a tune-up game against the best players drawn from the North Shore Girls Soccer Club on May 17.

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crowded the bleachers at Windsor Turf and the Cameroonians stayed after the match to greet fans.

The sides meet again at 4 p.m. May 24 at Windsor Turf. Cameroon plays its first World Cup match — and the first in Vancouver at B.C. Place Stadium — against Ecuador on June 8. The World Cup begins June 6 when Canada takes on China at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium.

On the ball, the team known as Les Lionnes, showed incredible speed said North Shore technical director Jesse Symons.

“They will definitely cause most teams some issues out on the wide

spaces because they were very, very pacey and they wanted to dribble and run at you,” said Symons. “If I had to characterize their style, I would say they have a very individualist flare and they definitely understand the spaces round them to keep the ball. Their individual understanding on the ball was very impressive to watch.”

On a Renegades team that included striker Sessen Stevens, a member of Canada’s U20 national team now playing for the University of Memphis, midfielder Chelsea Harkins of Washington State University, and UBC Thunderbirds defender Meagan Pasternak, the

Cameroonians’ talent was deeply appreciated.

“The athleticism and the savvy on the ball that the Cameroon team showed hit the girls quite hard but they reacted well,” said Symons.

“The Cameroon team had much more possession but we controlled the amount of scoring changes quite well.

“The girls, they said they’ve never played against players who were that quick before,” said Symons. “That shows something for sure with what Cameroon has brought to Vancouver for this World Cup.” Veteran forward Madeleine Ngono Mani, who plays professionally in France, scored Cameroon’s first goal by plac-

ing a well-timed volley in the back of the net.

Cameroon scored two more and the Renegades went on the score sheet thanks to Courtney Hemmerling.

The North Shore Girls Soccer Club hosts a second tune-up game be-

tween the Renegades and Cameroon at 4 p.m. May 24 at Windsor Turf.

Entrance is by donation, with the majority of proceeds helping cover Cameroon’s costs of staying in Canada during the World Cup. @MHStewart

Teams arrive at YVR Les Lionnes arrived in Canada from Cameroon nearly two weeks before any other World Cup competitor. Five teams land at YVR in the next two weeks.

Australia arrives 7:35 a.m. May 23 on flight AC034.

New Zealand arrives 7:25 p.m. May 26 on flight CI032.

Ecuador arrives 12 p.m. May 29 on flight UA2003.

Switzerland arrives 2:20 p.m. May 30 on flight LH492.

Japan arrives 11:35 a.m. June 1 on flight JL018.

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When Tim Kukko realized his mistake, he was downtown, nowhere near Pacific Spirit Park where the second relay runner waited for him.

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real chord with me as I have similar reasons why I am a part of Ride2Survive.”

Kukko and his team were commemorating the third year since teammate Amanda Stevens recovered from cancer.

Ride2Survive is a one-day 400-km bike ride from the Okanagan to the Lower Mainland in support of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Kunzli said her goal as a volunteer is to do whatever she can to ensure all runners have a great race.

“Whether it be sharing some encouraging cheers as they run past me, help in a medical emergency, or in this case, race my bike across Vancouver as fast as I could to help a relay team. I am so happy I could help.”

Tupper, Byng, St. George’s begin B.C. rugby bout

The Tupper Tigers will try to scratch out a larger opponent Saturday in the first round of the B.C. high school rugby championships.

Sitting twelfth in the AA senior boys ranks, the Tigers will play No. 5 Southridge 1 p.m. May 23 at St. George’s secondary. Tupper hasn’t met the higher-ranked Surrey team this season and coach Joseph Lee says the Tigers will have to play a smart, clean game to pull off the upset against the Fraser Valley champs.

“We can take too many penalties and other teams capitalize,” said Lee. “We know we need to have a really error-free game if want to

succeed. They will be a solid, well-coached team and we can’t have any mistakes.”

The Tigers will look for key contributions from captain Kishan Karunathasan, who plays flanker with the forward and centre with the backs as well as other positions when called on. “We have been able to move him around and that is why he’s so vital to us,” said Lee, who coaches along with Auton Lumb.

The team’s core has been together since Grade 8, bringing their five years of rugby to a close with a playoff push.

Knocking off a higher seed is a proposition that suits the Tigers, the coach added.

“We’re better suited to go in as an underdog. It’s easier to motivate them because there is really nothing to lose. The pressure is on Southridge.

Our guys are pretty loose.

We’ll look for an upset.”

Lord Byng and St. George’s — ranked sixth and second, respectively, at the AAA level — also begin their playoff campaign Saturday.

Although half a dozen first-round games will be played at Nigel Toy Field on St. George’s campus, the Saints themselves will be 500 kilometres to the west, playing their opening game in Kelowna against the No. 15 Owls.

The Grey Ghosts play No. 11 Lord Tweedsmuir 11:30 a.m. May 23 at St. George’s. @MHStewart

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Young tenants fed up with the half-century old, amenity-challenged apartments that make up 85 per cent of Vancouver’s rental universe are expected to help Aquilini Development and Construction fill the first new rental apartment towers built in Vancouver in decades.

When the gleaming new Aquilini Centre tower opens beside Rogers Arena in June, it will offer condo-quality rental apartments, said senior vice-president Kevin Hoffman.

The tower, the city’s largest rental housing project in 40 years, offers suites and amenities that are light years from the old wood frame apartments that dominate Vancouver’s 106,000 rentals.

Each Aquilini Centre suite features granite countertops, 9.5-foot

high ceilings and a full appliance package including Bosch large-capacity washer and dryer, GE refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave. The tower also boasts a modern fitness facility, secure bike storage, underground parking, a games lounge and even a rooftop terrace with barbecue.

So far, rentals have been slow for the 197unit tower, the first of three rental towers Aquilini plans to build around the arena, but Hoffman is confident the towers will fill with millennials as marketing ramps up.

Rents start at $1,550 for one-bedroom suites of around 450 square feet, $1,625 for one-bedroom and den, and $2,450 for two-bedrooms and den units. These are higher rents than the Vancouver average for apartment buildings, but in line with condominium rentals.

Incentives from the City of Vancouver made

the rental towers possible, Hoffman said. “We couldn’t have made it work without the incentives.”

Hoffman did not provide specifics on the city’s help. Under the city’s rental incentive programs, negotiations can involve concessions on community amenity contributions, development cost levies, parking and density.

Vancouver’s rules against the demolition of older apartment buildings is also a factor, since there is little pressure on landlords to spend money on upgrading old rentals in a city with a near-zero vacancy rate.

“Notwithstanding the state of the building or the state of repair, we still get top market rent,” Hanni Lammam, executive vice-president of landlord Cressey Development Corp., told a rental panel at the recent Vancouver Real Estate Forum.

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We’re all up to our eyeballs in horsepower these days.

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Well here it is then: the Scion FR-S.

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A joint venture between Subaru and Toyota, the Scion FR-S is basically identical to the Subaru BRZ; this latter is a bit more expensive and has slightly

less aggressive suspension tuning. I’ve always felt the Scion version to be slightly better looking than the Subaru, wearing its distinctly Japanese styling well.

The factory-sized 17” alloys look the right size for the car, although there’s a large aftermarket these days to swap them out for something lighter, perhaps shod with grippier rubber.

However, as it stands, it’s a balanced shape.

Foglights are a dealerinstalled accessory, and you can also order your FR-S with a TRD exhaust for a bit more rasp out the back.

However, in factory-spec form, it’s already pretty much got everything it needs.

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The most direct competitor for the FR-S is perhaps the Mazda Miata, but the Scion has a few advantages for practicality-minded

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However, it should also be mentioned that the rear seats fold down, making the trunk just large enough to carry four extra tires (to a track day or similar). That gives the FR-S just a little extra usability, which is handy if it’s your only car.

Performance

Under the hood is an odd hybrid of an engine: a Subaru 2.0L flat-four combined with Toyota’s direct-injection system.

It makes 200 hp at 7,000 rpm and 151 lb/ft of torque between 6,400 and 6,600 rpm.

That’s not a lot and, when it comes to the torque output, that’s really not a lot. Two hundred hp seems respectable on the surface next to hot hatches like the Ford Fiesta ST, but you really have to wind out the FR-S’s fourbanger to its absolute limit to access that power.

However, there is sufficient power here to have a good time as it’s not about the straight-line speed at all, but about what happens when you start pushing the FR-S through a few corners. For 2015, Scion has tamed the FR-S’s pervious tendency to be a bit tail-happy, but it’s all for the better.

Rather famously, the FR-S comes wearing a set of low-rolling resistance tires found as the upgrade on the Japanese-market Prius. A Prius? That’s right: it’s not important to offer brain-bending levels of grip. Instead, you want predictive handling and perhaps a tendency to slide out a little.

Here the FR-S is a relative delight. Early versions of the cars are a hooligan’s

dream, but you can’t go around all day hanging the tail out in front of Johnny Law. The FR-S now turns in with aplomb and then zings through the corner with a light and nimble feel. The wetter the roads, the better, and up in the mountains of the North Shore, the little Scion was much more fun than some hugely capable and powerful all-wheel-drive twinturbo Audi might be.

There are a few drawbacks to consider if this is your only car. It’s quite loud as a highway cruiser, and while the suspension isn’t overly stiff by sportscar standards, a lengthy road-trip isn’t something to be embarked upon lightly.

Still, slicing through the fog and rain at the top of Mount Seymour was never so much fun and it didn’t even involve being a total miscreant. Mission accomplished, little car.

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Premium is required and official fuel economy is rated at 10.9L/100kms city and 7.9L/100kms on the highway. Observed fuel economy for mixed driving was right at 10L/100kms, very good for spirited driving.

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Lumberman’s Arch, Stanley Park Sunday, May 31,2015 For more than a decade, Choices has been supporting the World Partnership Walk. 100% of donations raised through the Walk is invested in sustainable, long-term, community-led projects in the areas of health, education, civil society and rural develop. It is a way to offer hope, a hand-up know-how and support to transform the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

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