Vancouver Courier June 26 2015

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June 26 2015 Vol. 106 No. 50

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THE VOICE of VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS since 1908

B.C.’s own language Efforts made to save Chinook Wawa

Cheryl Rossi

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SKOOKUM WORDS Jay Powell sits near Siwash Rock, which is named with a word from the Chinook Wawa trade language once used along the Pacific Northwest Coast. At one time an estimated 250,000 spoke the language formed from Coast Salish, French and English. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

City approves pot shop rules Federal health minister ‘deeply disappointed’ in decision Mike Howell

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Vancouver has become the first municipality in Canada to adopt regulations for illegal marijuana dispensaries and will begin to issue business licences to a maximum of 94 pot shops in the coming months.

City council voted 8-3 Wednesday to proceed with a staff proposal that calls for $30,000 annual licence fees ($1,000 for non-profit “compassion clubs”), criminal record checks and zoning regulations that prohibit pot shops from operating $

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within 300 metres of schools, community centres and each other.

Council’s decision also allows for dispensaries — of which there were more than 90 in the city’s last count — to sell marijuana oils, tinctures and capsules. Staff’s original draft recommended only marijuana oil be sold. All marijuana-infused goods such as cookies and brownies are banned from the shops.

“It’s just, simply, a common sense approach to dealing with the explosion of medical marijuana shops in our city,” said Vision Coun. Kerry Jang who, along with his Vision colleagues and Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, voted in favour of the regulations. “We’re not regulating the product, we’re regulating the business.”

Council’s passing of the regulations

means existing pot shop operators have 60 days to apply for a business licence. The city has drawn up a stringent set of criteria that each operator must meet to be granted a licence, including an examination of past business practices and whether police have deemed the operation a problem premise.

City staff estimates the regulations will allow for a maximum of 94 shops.

Operators of non-profit “compassion clubs” will have to prove they meet the city’s definition of such a club, including being registered under the province’s Society act and offering at least two health services such as psychological counselling and traditional Chinese medicine for 60 per cent of operating hours or more per month.

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The word Cultus, as in Cultus Lake, is a Chinook Wawa word.

“Yeah, it means a crummy lake,” said MLA Sam Sullivan whose organization the Global Civic Policy Society is hosting an event called Chinook Wawa Day, June 27.

Former UBC professor Jay Powell will speak about the trade language that was composed of roughly 30 per cent English, 30 per cent French and “bits and pieces” of Coast Salish First Nations languages at Chinook Wawa Day. “When I came to the Northwest Coast in 1970, there were still a few people left, native elders, loggers, just interested people, that still could communicate in jargon,” the 77-year-old anthropological linguist said. “Frankly, I may be the last person that learned it from speakers of the language.

Most people now that know some Chinook jargon learned it from dictionaries.”

Chinook Wawa arose as a trade language with the Chinook people who lived along the southern stretch of the Columbia River. It began after John Jacob Astor set up a trading post in Astoria in the early 1800s, and it became a full-blown language around 1850.

“Missionaries, traders, settlers, government officials that were coming to the Pacific Northwest… before they came, the first thing would be to get a hold of a Chinook dictionary and within a week, they would know how to communicate,” Powell said.

The pidgin language consists of about 500 words and little, if any, grammar.

“I often have seen estimates of a quarter of a million people, 250,000 speakers of Chinook jargon, on the Northwest Coast in 1900,” Powell said.

Chinook Wawa was the working language of the Hastings Sawmill that operated on Burrard Inlet from the 1860s through the 1920s, the largest employer in the city. Chinese and Japanese new immigrants who worked at the mill apparently learned Chinook Wawa before they learned English.

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Pot shop regulations and what they mean 12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Now that city council decided to regulate illegal marijuana dispensaries in Vancouver, you probably have some questions.

So I thought I’d select a few and do my best to answer them. You can also read my story on the front page for more details.

Anyway, here we go...

Question: Do the new regulations mean all current dispensary operators will automatically receive a business licence if they pay the $30,000 annual fee?

Answer: No. Every operator must apply to the city and go through a stringent three-phase process which involves staff reviewing the dispensary’s location, past business practices, conducting criminal record checks and determining whether the pot shop meets various guidelines and building codes related to

health, fire and signs. You should also know that if a dispensary meets the requirements of a nonprofit “compassion club,” then the fee is $1,000.

Question: So what happens if a pot shop operator refuses to pay the $30,000 or the $1,000 fees and continues to operate? At what point do they get shut down?

Answer: As city lawyer Iain Dixon explained Monday night at the last night of public hearings, “we can take enforcement action immediately, but whether we can guarantee that they’ll stop operating immediately, we can’t.

It takes time to make someone stop operating.”

Dixon said the most efficient way to shut down a business without a licence is to seek an injunction in court. “If someone doesn’t contest it, it’s very quick. But if they do contest it, it can be quite long.” Fines of $250 to $10,000 could also be imposed.

Question: Is there any

Over the next 60 days, city hall will accept applications from people who want to get a business licence to operate a marijuana dispensary. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

evidence the $30,000 fee will cause pot shops to shut down and drive sales of marijuana into the black market?

Answer: Apparently, the city says it has no evidence to indicate this would happen, although sales of marijuana — no matter where they oc-

cur — have always been illegal. Unless, of course, you have a licence to grow it or use it.

Question: I heard the city talking about a point system to sort out which pot shops get to stay and which have to close, or relocate. Please explain.

Answer: Each application

will be reviewed under a demerit point system. For example, if a pot shop has a history of poor business practices, has had police execute search warrants at the business, then the city would penalize them for four points. If the same shop completed work without a building permit, that’s another penalty of three points. If an applicant does not want to set up a “compassion club,” that’s 10 demerit points. The fewer points, the better the chances of a pot shop receiving a business licence and remaining in a neighbourhood. If the city finds that two or more shops are competing for the same location, and their demerit points are equal, a lottery would take place.

Question: How much is this going to cost for the city to implement?

Answer: City documents say it will cost $1.4 million in the first year.

That goes to pay for new staff and start-up costs. In the second year, the cost will drop to $700,000 and

to $500,000 in subsequent years.

Question: I’ve heard a lot about this 300-metre restriction. What’s that all about?

Answer: The regulations state a pot shop cannot operate within 300 metres of a school, community centre, neighbourhood house, or another pot shop.

Colorado and Washington State have the same rules.

Under these restrictions, initial projections from the city were that 26 pot shops would have to close, 54 relocate and open up space for 12 new dispensaries.

Question: Is it true federal Health Minister isn’t happy with Vancouver city’s council decision to regulate dispensaries?

Answer: Uh, “deeply disappointed” is what she said. And she also said the cops should enforce the law. But as the Courier learned in an investigation, police raided a pot shop three times at 151 East Hastings and it continues to operate today. @Howellings

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Jargon springs from trade language roots Continued from page 1 “Stephen Hume, the journalist, he said when his father went to work for the Province in the 1930s, he was given a Chinook dictionary,” Sullivan said.

Contracts, songbooks and even an opera were written in Chinook, ac-

cording to Powell.

“If I could give some sense of the enjoyment of encountering old-timers back in the 1960s that told stories in jargon, and jokes, and sang songs and used phrases in order to label themselves linguistically as old-timers, it’s a

wonderful thing,” Powell said. “As British Columbians we’d be poorer if we weren’t aware of what we were doing when we use jargon words.”

The Chinook Wawa word for strong is skookum and chuck means water, thus the name for Skoo-

kumchuck Narrows on the Sunshine Coast, which sees reversing tides, rapids and sometimes up to nine foot high drops from one side of the rapids to the other.

Potlatch means to give.

Muckamuck means food and high muckamuck means a rich person, or a person who has more food.

Siwash, as in Siwash Rock off the Stanley Park seawall, stems from the French word sauvage, which was applied to First Nations people.

Few know the origins of these words today because Chinook Wawa fell out of use once it was no longer needed.

“Starting in the 1890s, all over British Columbia, schoolhouses started to appear, including the awfulness that was the residential schools, and the native people learned English, so they no longer needed Chinook jargon as a common language,” Powell said.

He taught a course on Chinook Wawa to First Nations students in 1973 at Langara College.

“UBC wasn’t even slightly interested in having a course in a language that wouldn’t fulfill a language requirement for them, so First Nations students at Langara thought that it was a really interesting way to get credit for something that actually meant something to them,” Powell said.

Sullivan contacted him

Jay Powell once taught a course on Chinook Wawa to First Nations students. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

two years ago, keen to spread the word about Chinook Wawa.

“One of the problems is that no one owns Chinook Wawa. It’s not a first language of anybody. It’s a second language of everybody,” Sullivan said.

“We’re hoping to put together a group, mostly of young people, who will know enough about jargon as a result of the Chinook Wawa Day camp, that

they will become ones that remember and know something about jargon for the next generation,” Powell said.

Chinook Wawa Day runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will also learn about aboriginal arts and crafts, architecture and canoeing. As of Thursday afternoon, 15 spots remained. To register, see globalcivic.org. @Cheryl_Rossi

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New chair pledges constructive approach CLASS NOTES Cheryl Rossi

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The second NPA trustee in a row to serve as chair of the Vancouver School Board says a new tone has been set on the board.

NPA trustee Fraser Ballantyne was elected chair June 24 with five votes to four for Vision Vancouver’s Patti Bacchus.

Ballantyne didn’t name NPA trustee Christopher Richardson, who served as chairperson from December until he resigned June 15 in his acceptance speech, but argued a new constructive tone had been set over the past six months.

He said trustees are working hard to ensure seismic projects move ahead.

“As we move forward it’s going to be challenging times, a lightening rod of a job and I actually like Patti’s position of shooting from the sidelines and she does a really great job,” he said.

“We look forward to work-

Fraser Ballantyne is the new VSB chair. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ing closely and hard and trying to constructively put together what’s necessary for kids in Vancouver.”

Nine trustees compose the school board, four from the NPA, four from Vision Vancouver and one from the Green Party of Vancouver.

Ballantyne was nominated in a second round of voting.

In the first round of the secret ballot, he and Vision Vancouver’s Bacchus each received four votes. The Green’s Janet Fraser, a first-time trustee, received one. Trustees voted for Bal-

lantyne or Bacchus in the second round.

“It’s been quite clear to us, really from just right after the election, that the Green trustee is far more aligned with the values of the NPA than with the Vision party,” Bacchus said after the meeting.

Before Richardson, Bacchus served as chairperson for six years.

Fraser wrote in a blog post on the Green’s website that her vote wasn’t based on aligning with a particular party, but on who she

believed would best serve the board at this time.

“We have to work collaboratively and respectfully within our board, with our district stakeholders and with the provincial government and the tone that was set while Christopher was the chair, that should be continued and we should try and maintain a less adversarial interaction with the provincial government,” she told the Courier Thursday morning.

Ballantyne argued at the final school board budget meeting last year that with low enrolment, the district could have closed two elementary and three secondary schools to address its 2014-2015 budget shortfall.

Earlier this month, a report commissioned by Education Minister Peter Fassbender

by EY, estimated the VSB could close up to 19 schools due to low enrolment.

So reporters wanted to know Wednesday evening whether Ballantyne still supported closing schools.

“It’s not on the table, closing schools, yet,” he

said. “We’re going forward and we want to consult with community and we want to see what our staff have to say… and we want to weigh in on that as a board.”

Bacchus said she entered the contest for chairperson with mixed feelings.

“It’s going to be tough with a split board and the kinds of pressures we have coming from the province,”

she said. “There’s not going to be a lot of great, exciting news to announce. There’s going to be a series of difficult decisions.”

Ballantyne was elected for the term of June 24 to Dec. 7. He was first elected trustee in 2011, and reelected in November 2014.

Fraser will continue to serve as vice-chair. @Cheryl_Rossi

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NPA predicts ‘nightmare’ of litigation

City council voted 8-3 in favour to adopt regulations for illegal marijuana dispensaries. At last count, there were almost 100 operating in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

structive and they’ve driven us to take the steps that are necessary here today.”

In a statement emailed to the Courier Wednesday, Ambrose said she was “deeply disappointed” in council’s decision and expected police to enforce the law. She said marijuana is neither an approved drug nor medicine in Canada and Health Canada doesn’t endorse its use.

“While Canadian courts have required the government to allow access to marijuana when authorized

by a physician, the law is clear that this must be done in a controlled fashion to protect public health and safety,” Ambrose said.

All three NPA councillors — George Affleck, Elizabeth Ball and Melissa De Genova — voted against the regulations, although they said they support the legalization of marijuana and how it can help people in need of medicine to treat illnesses.

“This has been, in effect, policy by neglect that we’re putting together today,” Af-

fleck said. “We have the laws in place that could have dealt with the proliferation of these retail stores. The police, for whatever reason, did not follow those policies, those rules that we currently have.”

The Vancouver Police Department is on record saying violent drug dealers, who trade in hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine, are top priorities for its drug unit, although it has executed nine search warrants over a recent 18-month period on pot shops.

While the police say the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act allows for police to make arrests and recommend charges to Crown, it does not allow officers to close a pot shop’s doors.

Under the new regulations, the city and police can now take action, mainly through the courts, to shut down a dispensary.

Affleck said he believes the regulations will lead to “a myriad of nightmare litigious situations from every level of every kind of

group,” including operators who aren’t granted licences and advocates upset about the city’s ban on marijuanainfused goods.

“I think we’re going to have a fight from the federal government itself, potentially,” he said, noting the cost of implementing the regulations, which are estimated at $1.4 million in the first year.

“Do we want to spend potentially millions of taxpayer dollars fighting in the courts on many, many different fronts? I don’t think that’s responsible governance.”

Jamie Shaw, communications coordinator for the B.C. Compassion Club, told reporters after the council meeting that she was worried the new regulations will mean the oldest pot shop in Vancouver will have to close or relocate.

The dispensary on Commercial Drive is located across the street from Stratford Hall, a private school that moved to the neighbourhood after the pot shop opened its doors in 1997.

The school and the Compassion Club are well within the 300 metres that restricts pot shops from operating.

“Without a specific grandfathering clause, there are still actually options and hopefully we can work with city hall to reach some sort of solution,” Shaw said. “Overall, I think staff and council have worked really hard to try and balance everybody’s concerns and came up with a great first step.” @Howellings

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Continued from page 1 Mayor Gregor Robertson and the majority of councillors said the regulations were necessary because the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper failed in its policies to give people proper access to medical marijuana, despite precedent-setting Supreme Court of Canada decisions.

Tied to a court ruling in 2001 that made possession possible for medical marijuana patients is the federal government’s move in 2013 to have all marijuana cultivated for medicinal purposes come from a government dispensary and delivered by mail. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled all forms of marijuana can be consumed by Canadians.

Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose said she was outraged by the decision.

In his remarks, Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs pointed to letters he and other councillors received from Ambrose and Public Safety Minister Stephen Blaney, who criticized council for considering regulations for pot shops. The ministers said marijuana sales at pot shops was illegal and will remain illegal under the Conservative government.

“I just want to say in response to that, to minister Ambrose: ‘Wake up, you are completely out of touch with the realities on the ground,’” Meggs said. “The policies that you’re advocating are backward and de-

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News Buying ‘frenzy’ could be slowing

Vancouver’s unprecedented housing boom has become a frenzy that will slow only when “sanity” returns to local buyers, according to a front-line realtor. But a leading economist expects detached house prices will continue to rise.

“There are crazy things happening out there,” said Colette Gerber, a veteran real estate agent with Re/ Max Select Properties and west side director of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.

On Vancouver’s West Side, the benchmark price of a detached house is now rising by an average of $60,000 per month and in the white-hot Dunbar neighbourhood, where a city-leading average of four houses are selling every day, the average price increased by $68,000 in May alone.

Multiple housing bids can drive house prices up by tens of thousands of dollars within hours, Gerber said. And the action is being seen right across the city, she said.

Last Saturday, an older house on East 13th near Fraser Street attracted three

bidders and sold for $1.81 million, $220,000 above the asking price, she said.

A week earlier, Gerber sold a house in the Renfrew Heights of East Vancouver where eight buyers began bidding, driving the value more than $140,000 above the listing price. “It sold in two days for $1.56 million,” she said.

“The frenzy will end when some sanity returns to local buyers,” said Gerber.

“At some point buyers will realize how crazy it all is.”

The realtor said she has seen early and subtle signs that the market in some parts of the city could be cooling down, with less multiple bids being seen and houses staying on the market for longer than a week or two.

However, she says top West Side neighbourhoods, such as Dunbar, where the typical detached house now sells for north of $2.4 million, will likely see price increases continue. “There, it is all about a lack of supply,” she said.

Bryan Yu, senior economist with Central 1 Credit Union, noted that the sales-to-listing ratio of detached houses in Van-

couver is now above 30 per cent, considered well into a seller’s market. He sees no price declines anywhere in Vancouver due to the tight inventory of property.

“We will continue to see upward price pressure on detached houses in Vancouver,” said Yu. “Houses have become a land play in the city.”

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Flag Shop drops Stars and Bars

A Vancouver specialty flag shop has announced that after intense public pressure, it will no longer make or sell the Confederate flag.

The move follows a similar decision by Wal-Mart.

Display of the flag, especially on South Carolina’s capitol buildings grounds, has come under scrutiny following a racially-motivated shooting at a historic black church in Charleston on June 17.

The Flag Shop owner Susan Braverman said her company has always sold and manufactured the Confederate flag in small quantities, which became especially popular after the release of the 2005 movie

The Dukes of Hazard.

Braverman said her social media manager, who is from Mississippi, initially urged her to drop the flag in the days following the shooting.

Amidst one of the busiest times in the year for the shop, Braverman put off making the decision. But after Wal-Mart announced it would no longer sell the flag, Braverman said she began receiving emails and Facebook messages asking why her store was still selling the flag.

“I had always seen it as a historical flag,” Braverman said. “I knew some people liked it and some people didn’t.”

Once she started reading more about the calls to stop displaying the flag, which many see as “a symbol of hate and racism,” Braverman said, she made the decision to stop selling it.

Wal-Mart announced it would no longer sell the Confederate flag June 22.

Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina, has called for the removal of the flag from the statehouse grounds.

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Grandview report a ‘good starting point’ Commercial Drive Business Society president wants ‘responsible development’ DEVELOPING STORY Naoibh O’Connor

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Carmen D’Onofrio, president of the Commercial Drive Business Society, calls the recently released Grandview-Woodland Citizens’ Assembly recommendations a “good framework” for further discussion about the community plan.

The business society represents more than 400 members — businesses and property owners from Venables to East 13th Avenue.

The citizens’ assembly, which describes Commercial Drive as the “heartbeat” of the neighbourhood, issued more than 270 recommendations early this month, including ones specific to Commercial Drive such as introducing bike lanes on the Drive from East 14th to Graveley Street; pedestrian improvements such as wider sidewalks and parklets; and, unless otherwise noted in the report, to retain current zoning of four-storeys throughout Commercial Drive from the Grandview cut to Pender Street with the goal of maintaining affordability and character.

The assembly’s report also lists specific recommendations for Broadway and Commercial, calling for mainly mid- and lowrise buildings — not towers — to accommodate growth around the SkyTrain Station, with a site for a 12-storey building.

“It’s a great starting point. It was a thoughtful process. I covered a lot of

Carmen D’Onofrio Jr., president of the Commercial Drive Business Society, chats with Joe Mandarino, co-owner of New Triple A Market.

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areas,” said D’Onofrio.

“It’s hopefully something that provides a framework where the stakeholders now within the community sit down and look at each recommendation, look at the feasibility, look at the opportunities to see what can be implemented, where to find common ground and then move forward.”

D’Onofrio’s family owns long-time Commercial Drive business Kalena’s Shoes and he works at Stile Brands, a wine, beer and spirits importing business.

He said it’s important to get the community plan right because “the street is such a unique area, so if we get it wrong, it’s going to be tough to fix.”

D’Onofrio said the busi-

ness society is in favour of “responsible development and responsible density” and he added that it understands the importance of the transportation hub at Commercial and Broadway.

“What we would like to see is responsible development. What is very important for us is the character and heritage of the neighbourhood. We want to make sure that the Drive remains an authentic neighbourhood and it remains one of the best places in Vancouver.”

He didn’t pinpoint what building heights he thinks should be allowed around the SkyTrain station, but he said it’s important future buildings integrate into the neighbourhood in terms

of matters such as colour schemes, facades and materials used.

“I think it’s really important that rather than debate whether it’s a 10 storeys or 15 storeys or 20 storeys — obviously I’m making up numbers, but instead of debating how high something is, does it fit into the neighbourhood? Is it keeping the same look as what the street is trying to achieve or what it’s known for,” he said. “That’s something we need to look at and analyze and be more specific about.”

When asked about the bike lanes proposal, D’Onofrio called Commercial Drive a destination neighbourhood that attracts not only people who

live in Grandview-Woodland and in Vancouver, but visitors from around the Lower Mainland.

“What we don’t want to see is Commercial Drive being seen as a commuter route. It’s really important [that] whether it’s bikes, cars, transit or people, that we don’t want people to just travel through Commercial Drive,” he said, adding that there are existing bike networks close to the Drive that could be improved.

“The Commercial Drive Business Society believes it’s important to study and discuss the idea of a bike lane on Commercial Drive — look at the positives and the negatives and determine what is already

existing and how the existing cycling network can be improved and then go from there.”

As for building heights along the Drive, he cited a vision document the business society created in 2012, which calls for heights from four to six storeys.

“The reason being is that a lot of the mom-andpop operators who make up the fabric of the Drive, the biggest challenge that they’re going to be experiencing is the taxes,” he said. “Where it’s a single-storey building, but they’re paying taxes for the second, third or fourth storey that [doesn’t] already exist. So that’s putting a lot of downward pressure on their businesses and it’s also jeopardizing their operations. That’s something we want to hopefully address. So does that mean we need to go to four or five or six storeys? I think we need to look at it.”

On Wednesday, Vancouver city council referred the citizens’ assembly report to staff to review and analyze with the goal of integrating its work into a draft community plan, according to a post from Coun. Andrea Reimer. She noted the revised community plan is expected to be completed in spring 2016 and presented to council for consideration and approval.

Meanwhile, a group called Streets for Everyone released a statement Wednesday endorsing the citizens’ assembly report, citing the recommendations calling for pedestrian improvements, better bus access and separated bike lanes. @naoibh

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Outgoing chair lost board’s confidence

Affordability requires mature conversation

Allen Garr Columnist agarr@vancourier.com

Geoff Olson Columnist mwiseguise@yahoo.com

Moments after Green Party school trustee Janet Fraser cast her deciding tiebreaking vote making the NPA’s Fraser Ballantyne the new chair of the Vancouver School Board, the two of them were in a huddle on the edge of the room where she was being assured she would hold on to her position as the board’s vice-chair: Quid pro quo.

Outgoing chair Christopher Richardson was practically invisible during the 15-minute board meeting to replace him.

If he was thanked for his service, I missed it.

The records of the past chairs of this body over the last century, inscribed in a series of brass plaques bearing their names and tenures on the wall outside the boardroom where this meeting took place, will attest to the fact that Richardson — with just over six months at the helm — served the shortest time in history.

Richardson is considered by most, me included, to be a fine fellow with tons of hours spent serving his community. But while he was allowed to go quietly as the school board chair, ultimately he left under a cloud; at the very least he proved to be well over his head when it came to the job. He has said that his “personal reasons” for pulling the plug had nothing to do with family matters or family health.

But he had reason enough to go. You all may have noted my colleague Mike Howell’s recounting of the drubbing Richardson took at council two weeks ago when he appeared before a public hearing at city council regarding regulations on pot dispensaries.

The main point to come out of it was the fact that while Richardson was professing to represent the school board in the position he as presenting, he admitted to council that the school board as a whole never actually discussed or approved what he had to say.

That was public. What happened that same week at the school board in camera was, of course, not.

While Richardson has refused to confirm or deny what took place there, this is what has seeped out from a couple of sources. It has to do with the external Ernst and Young’s (EY) audit and report commissioned by the provincial minister of education into the state of finances of the Vancouver School Board. As you

know by now, the report recommended that the 19 schools could be looked at for closure or sale, among other things, to deal with chronic shortfalls the board faces each year.

Now here’s the point. According a news release on the Vancouver School Board website dated June 9, 2015, “The Board had asked to receive a full briefing by the EY special adviser. However, only Richardson was verbally briefed by the Minister, senior Ministry staff and EY representatives on the highlights of the report last night. The Board was not given a copy of the report and expects to receive it this morning at the same time as its public release.”

Richardson said no, he did not have a copy of the report.

But, in fact, he did.

But here is what actually happened.

During an in camera meeting of the board a day earlier and after Richardson’s briefing by the minister and the rest, members of the board asked Richardson if he had a copy of the EY report so they could look at the details before it was made public.

As you can image, when the government with whom you have a brittle relationship, sets its own audit team on you, the least you can expect is to get a heads up on what is coming out in public the following day.

Nonetheless, Richardson said no, he did not have a copy of the report.

But, in fact, he did.

And the following day, when he was apparently called on this point by a senior manager who knew that Richardson had the document, he went about apologizing to a number of board members whom he had misled. And, just to be clear, Richardson told me repeatedly, he would neither confirm nor deny anything that took place during any in camera meeting.

But you can imagine a number of board members were quite annoyed It was that incident, they believe, that caused Richardson to finally lose the confidence of the full board and led him to give up the job as board chair six days later. @allengarr

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Out of a possible 11, the number of votes at city hall in favour of regulating marijuana dispensaries. All three NPA councillors voted against the motion.

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Out of a possible nine, the number of votes NPA school board trustee Fraser Ballantyne received at a meeting Wednesday night to replace Christopher Richardson as chair.

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— anonymously written item on Vancouver Craigslist For some time, the media debate over Vancouver’s overheated real estate scene has resembled a ’70s-era Sam Gross cartoon of three blind men examining an elephant. “An elephant is like a rope,” says one holding the creature’s trunk. “An elephant is flat like a rug,” says another, feeling an ear. The third blind man squats behind the animal with his hands in a heap of droppings.

“An elephant is soft and mushy,” he insists.

Only recently have local pundits felt the outlines of something truly elephantine in the local real estate market: foreign investment.

First there was the revelation that no official Canadian bodies track foreign investment in residential property, unlike other jurisdictions around the world.

The cry is now for data. We must have more information to determine who’s buying what where! A worthy and necessary sentiment, if a little late in the game.

Yet a journalist who contributes to a newspaper on the opposite side of the world has supplied some figures pertinent to this issue. “Immigration data demonstrates that the influx of rich immigrants to Vancouver (80 per cent of them Chinese) is unmatched by any other city in the world, at least in terms of wealth-migration schemes that clearly define asset benchmarks,” notes Ian Young of The South China Morning Post.

Between 2005 and 2012, two federal programs, the now-defunct Immigrant

Investor Program and the still-operative Quebec Immigrant Investor Program, allowed 45,000 millionaire migrants to arrive in Vancouver, Young observes.

“Let’s put that in perspective. The entire United States only accepted 9,450 wealth migration applications in the same period under its famous EB-5 scheme, likely representing fewer than 30,000 individuals,” he writes.

Beijing is set to ease financial restrictions on the amount of money that can leave the country each year, which may amplify current trends in foreign wealth transfer to Vancouver.

Ninety-one per cent of Chinese Communist Central Committee members have relatives abroad, according to figures from the Chinese government itself.

Canadian journalist Jonathan Manthorpe believes the elite and their families are pulling up stakes from mainland China because of domestic environmental collapse and political instability. And why wouldn’t those with the means, motive, and moolah — from Beijing and beyond — target an ecological Oz where press and government alike have conducted public discussions about power and property in Braille?

Manthorpe notes the inhibiting influence of what he calls “the Komagata Maru syndrome,” the fear of being labelled a racist for singling out an ethnically identifiable group. For his part, Young argues the idea of foreign investors affecting Vancouver’s real estate market may technically be a myth, since “foreign” buyers often have “residency rights or dual citizenship in Canada, or are able to make their purchase via a suitably endowed proxy (ie: a spouse or child with residency).”

Yes, we certainly could use more data. We also need to have an adult conversation about affordability without bigotry, Young observes. Because ultimately this isn’t about race, it’s about capital — massive amounts of it pouring in from outside Canada, which is distorting the local real estate market, compromising governance, and turning Vancouver’s much-vaunted “liveability” into a stand-up comic’s punchline.

And given the scale of the affordability problem, talk of taxing property flippers doesn’t even offer a band-aid solution. It’s more like a tongue depressor for a Millennial hemorrhage. @geoffolson

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The approximate percentage of West End residents who are renters.

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June 26, 1999: The Vancouver Canucks make three trades on the morning of the NHL Entry Draft in Boston to lock down the second and third overall selections, which general manager Brian Burke uses to pick 18-year-old twin brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin.

Burke had to do some tricky stickhandling to score the two blue-chip forwards, who played for Modo in the Swedish Elite League and wanted to remain together as players. Having ended the season with the worst record in the Western Conference for the second year in a row, the Canucks were in rebuilding mode and already had the number three pick. Burke then traded away Bryan McCabe and a future first rounder to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for the number four pick. This left two top five choices, and he needed to ensure that neither the Tampa Bay Lightning or Atlanta Thrashers would scoop one of them up. Burke consequently swapped two later round selections and the number four pick to the ‘Bolts in order to move into their number one slot, and then sent a pick to Atlanta to allow them to move to number one after a guarantee not to pick either of the brothers.

The Thrashers instead went with Czech centre Patrik Stefan for the first pick, a move now widely regarded as one of the worst first-round draft decisions in NHL history.

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A recent column by Les Leyne took aim at the Green Party climate plan, but his main point appeared to be that as leader, I will not be in a position to implement it. The same might have been said of another small party a half century ago. In 1966, the NDP was in no position to hold enough seats to form government. But working with the minority Liberal government of Lester B. Pearson in a collaborative parliament, our national universal single-payer health care system was put in place.

In fact, in Lester B. Pearson’s service as prime minister, he never had a majority, yet his government updated or created most of what we now consider our social safety net — universal health care, the Canada Pension Plan, Canada Student Loans, a 40-hour work week, two weeks’ vacation, and improved unemployment insurance. All that and a new flag! The NDP held a balance of power under leader David Lewis in that parliament. It has been far too long since Canadians saw an era of parliamentary cooperation in the interest of the common good.

Green Party goals are clear: we need to elect Green MPs to ensure a more cooperative approach to politics. We need Green MPs to ensure that the increasingly partisan NDP and Liberal parties do not allow the Harper Conservatives to form government in a minority parliament, as those parties did in 2006 and 2008. And we need Green MPs to have a detailed and realistic climate plan ready to implement immediately following the election.

There are many reasons for expeditious action on climate, but here is a pressing reality. On Oct. 19, Canadians will go to the polls; on Nov. 30 we must be prepared for the deadline negotiations for a new climate treaty at the international climate talks in Paris. With fewer than 40 days to replace the nonaction plan of the Harper Conservatives and to recruit a strong, science-based, experienced negotiating team to hit the ground running, whether it is a minority NDP or Liberal Parliament, those parties will need Green MPs. That is why we unveiled our climate plank early. Far from proposing unrealistic goals and plans, we want to be ready for other parties who will need those details. Contrary to Mr. Leyne’s assumptions, the carbon fee and dividend approach to carbon pricing was not based on the B.C. carbon tax. The only similarity is that both are revenue neutral.

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ONLINE COMMENTS Red tape getting a bad rap

Re: “City hall’s red tape inflating housing prices,” June 19.

Cut the red tape is usually a right wing nostrum. Part of the cacophony to reduce the size of government and the dead hand of regulation. Which results in — amongst other things — the collapse of a mine tailings pond and an exploding oil train in a populated area.

Yes I know there are plenty of other suspects, but deregulation and reduction of official oversight played a strong role in both.

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The title of this piece is “City hall’s red tape inflating housing prices.”

Missing is any sort of analysis of what percentage of a home’s price is due to costs incurred by complying with the City’s bylaws. Ten per cent? Twenty per cent? Or 0.2 per cent? Or why a developer would pass along the savings to the purchaser should such “red tape” was eliminated. It’s all just ancedata.

As always with these things, the devil is in the details. Which “red tape” should be eliminated? spartikus, via Comments section

Change needed to address vacant homes problem

Re: “Double property taxes for vacant homes,” June 10.

For people buying these houses, property taxes = small change. @VanStreetDog, via Twitter

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Strip away all the people selling real estate to each other and there isn’t much of anything going on in Vancouver.

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It is straightforward and easily implemented. A fee is collected at the source of carbon pollution, the funds are aggregated and redistributed as a dividend to every Canadian. Border adjustments on imports will also be implemented. It is economywide, predictable and all funds are returned to Canadians. As such, it is not a tax.

Climate action has enormous potential in creating green jobs and enhancing economic health — from coast to coast to coast. Climate action requires that we set partisanship aside and be prepared to work together. Greens offer our climate work and experience in the vital negotiating process to ensure we are ready for Canada to, once again, play a leadership role in global climate action.

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On a bench at Kits Beach, on one of those stunning sunny days we’ve probably already started taking for granted, I met with psychotherapist and author Dave Waugh. We were supposed to talk about his book Evolving Soulfully, but our conversation glided like the wind-born gulls on whose droppings we were seated.

The report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) had just been released. It was shortly before National Aboriginal Day, which was last Sunday, and now we are in the countdown to Canada Day. We’ll get to Waugh’s new book, I promise, when it is officially launched in the fall.

But I got waylaid by the story of Waugh’s own history and how it seems a microcosm of our country and its people.

Though he didn’t have any personal investment — or so he thought at the time — Waugh was one

of the many Canadians who attended some of the hearings of the TRC. He didn’t know what to expect, and the experience overwhelmed him.

“I witnessed the elders there sharing their grief at some of the horrific abuse they endured and I found myself sobbing,” he told me. “I really had to hold back on my grief because I didn’t want to overshadow their experience. I was right behind a man who was really hurt. I could really hear his vulnerability and the truth in what he was sharing. But I walked out stunned asking, ‘What does this have to do with me? I’m a pretty emotional person but why did that impact me as strongly as it did?”

Human empathy demands that we feel a response to narratives like those shared by First Nations survivors of residential schools. But Waugh is in touch enough with his feelings to suspect something else was at play.

He recalled an earlier pivotal moment in his life.

“When I was first train-

ing in counselling, one of the classes I was in was called Family Systems and Substance Abuse. Probably 90 per cent of the class was First Nations people.

My project was to create a family tree, a genogram, but then in this course we had symbols for addiction, divorce, illnesses, stuff like that, so by the time you’re done, you could see trauma going down certain branches of the family tree.”

Waugh is descended from a francophone mother and an anglophone father and his heritage — that of the country’s so-called “two founding peoples” — placed him in a painful cultural situation.

“I stood in front of the class with my knees shaking, thinking, it’s my ancestors that really traumatized your ancestors with the residential schools and this kind of stuff,” he recalled. “Then it was fast forward to 2013 when I went to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and I dug deeper [into genealogy] and found, sure enough, there’s First Nations on my father’s side of the family.”

More than 300 years ago, a male ancestor married an Iroquois woman named Medicine Fishwoman. She converted to Catholicism and was baptized Marie.

The day Waugh and I sat on Kits Beach, news was fresh about Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane, Wash. woman and erstwhile NAACP leader who identifies as black but who was born white.

We discussed the dangers of cultural appropriation and Waugh was careful to insist he is making no claims on the history of others. But he is deeply immersed in the spiritual practices of many cultures and he subscribes to an idea of the one spirit, or what Buddhists call Big Mind and Sufis call the “indwelling divine.” The new knowledge of his roots, he says, made it seem like “the whole story of Canada started to emerge.”

“I realized that I have these three rivers in my blood, the English, the French and the First Nations,” he said. (In fact, Medicine Fishwoman/ Marie came from TroisRivieres, Quebec, he notes.)

“I’m still trying to grapple with that. It’s too long ago to claim any status or anything. But in my blood is the whole history of Canada in some ways.”

Looking across Burrard Inlet where, if plans are approved, exponentially more oil tankers will soon carry resources abroad, Waugh expressed admiration for the First Nations people whose culture demands that they act as stewards of the land. It is an attitude he says all humans must adopt or risk extinction.

A propos of no particular faith or cultural tradition, Waugh has adopted a number of Earth-related rituals.

He points to a weeping willow, a talisman in his life, the place where several decades ago he says, “I kind of put my stake in the ground and said, This is it. This is the place I’m going to build a life.”

The ashes of his father he spread in the ocean here.

His mother’s ashes are by a nearby cedar.

“I often do little rituals over here imagining the shore, my father, is caressing the beach of my moth-

er,” he said. “So there’s this beautiful relationship to the land. The more that I see it as sacred space, the more meaningful this place becomes for me.”

Rumi, the Sufi mystic, said the core wound of humanity is separation from nature, Waugh says.

“We are nature. We are made up of those elements,” he says.

Returning to the stewardship of the First Nations in environmental protection — he especially credits the Tsleil-Waututh Nation for leading the fight against increased pipelines and tanker traffic — Waugh sees First Nations modelling for the rest of the world a healthy attitude to integrating ourselves and the natural world.

His journey to discovering the different nations in his own family line is a process that, if extrapolated, could have positive implications for the world, he believes.

“I think there’s some hope for the environment with them leading us all to discovering our indigenous soul,” he said. @Pat604Johnson

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Shoppers can buy locally made wares and contribute to good causes at the Summer Street Soiree June 27.

The Soiree will see a market with 20 vendors, who will give partial proceeds of their sales to the B.C. Professional Firefighters’ Burn Fund and Young Burn Survivors Camp. The market runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Beaumont Studios, 316 West Fifth Ave.

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The Vancouver International Jazz Festival continues with free outdoor shows including stages at David Lam Park and Granville Island. David Lam Park hosts acts that start at noon to 8:45 p.m.

Granville Island’s Public Market stage hosts acts at noon with free shows at 1 p.m. at Performance Works. For more information, see coastaljazz.ca.

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Vancouver’s fourth annual Food Cart Fest restarts Sunday and runs until Sept.

6 between the Cambie Street Bridge and the former Olympic Village, at 215 West First St. New this year

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Top athletes from across Canada and around the world are lacing up for the Scotiabank Vancouver Half-Marathon and 5K on Sunday. Runners can sign up to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for one of 82 Vancouver charities, including the Alzheimer Society of B.C., B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation and Battered Women’s Support Services. The halfmarathon starts at 7:30 a.m. at UBC Thunderbird Arena and ends at Stanley Park.

The 5K fun run/walk starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Stanley Park Fish House and ends in Stanley Park. Participants can register for the halfmarathon until 5 p.m. on Saturday. The 5K is full.

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Feedback will be used to further shape the design and prioritize desired features.

The Park Board will display the preferred design in the community centre and online in the fall.

Take the online questionnaire from July 1 – 31 Available at vancouver.ca/sunset-park FOR MORE INFORMATION: Phone 3-1-1 or email david.yurkovich@vancouver.ca

Public Hearing: July 21

Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

City Council will consider the proposed by-laws, including amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law and the creation of a Heritage Conservation Area Official Development Plan, at a Public Hearing.

First Shaughnessy Heritage Conservation Area If approved, the changes to First Shaughnessy will include establishment of a Heritage Conservation Area Official Development Plan, a new Zoning District Schedule, a new Heritage Property Standards of Maintenance By-law and Heritage Procedure By-law. All buildings built prior to 1940 are proposed to become protected heritage property.

The Council report and supporting materials, including the list of properties proposed to be protected heritage property, can be found at: vancouver.ca/heritage-action-plan Owners and occupiers of properties proposed to be listed as protected heritage property will receive notice in the coming weeks.

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Anyone who’s ever dreamt of participating in the Amazing Race can compete in a facsimile that will raise money for the GoodLife Kids Foundation, Saturday. The foundation supports charities that provide ongoing physical activity opportunities for children ages four to 14, and funds raised will support local ongoing programs for children on the autism spectrum.

The GoodLife Fitness City Chase will be part obstacle race, part scavenger hunt.

Competitors will decipher clues to find “ChasePoints” hidden throughout the city.

They must run, walk or use public transit as they race to the ChasePoints where they

June 27 to July 1

will be a licensed live-music patio featuring local acoustic talents and B.C. craft beer and wine. There will be a giant ping pong area and an expanded kids recreation zone, open-air markets and DJs in addition to more than 20 food trucks each week.

Food Cart Fest runs from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $2 or free for Vancity members or a non-perishable food donation to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. For more information, see foodcartfest.com.

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The three top teams will proceed to national championships where they will compete against winning teams from other Canadian cities for prizes and glory.

The GoodLife Fitness City Chase starts at 10 a.m. at Georgia Plaza, 750 Hornby St. (outside the Vancouver Art Gallery) and runs until 4 p.m. You can register at goodlifefitnesscitychase.ca or at the event.

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The Vancouver Park Board is developing a master plan for Sunset Park.

Community feedback from a previous open house has been used to help refine a single concept. The concept design and additional materials will be on display at Sunset Park during Canada Day celebrations.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS APPLICATION: Phone 3-1-1 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on July 10 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing.

You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC,V5Y 1V4.

All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws are available for viewing at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm starting July 10. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting).

For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or@VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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The 16th annual Canada Day Parade on Granville Island celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag with art, dance and music. The parade begins at 1:30 p.m. at Ocean Construction and ends at Ron Basford Park at 2 p.m. – be prepared to cheer!

CruiseyT Party Cruises is hosting a Canada Day Fireworks bash on the water with host Raye Sunshine.

Whether it’s a game at Nat Bailey, fireworks in Coal Harbour or a parade on Granville Island, there’s lots to do this Canada Day.

The parade is followed by an official opening ceremony with Shannon Scott Band singing the national anthem, greetings from the Government of Canada and cake compliments of Dockside Restaurant. Other highlights of the day include a picnic at the Family Pavilion, a samba dance demonstration and Latin rhythms, Chinese lion dancers, hoop dancers from Lil’wat Nation, the MELA! Festival and more dance, music, bike decorating, roving performers, road hockey and food. A free bike valet service is available at Ocean Construction from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visit granvilleisland.com.

DOWNTOWN

Visit the Women’s World Cup Fan Zone in celebration of FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 and enjoy live music, bubble soccer, music, entertainment, food, beer and opportunities to meet athletes and get their autographs. The Canada Day party starts at noon and runs until 8 p.m. at Larwill Park, bordered

by Georgia, Cambie, Dunsmuir and Beatty streets. All ages are welcome to this free event. For more information about the ongoing Fan Zone, visit vancouver.ca.

CANADA PLACE

An estimated 250,000 people will celebrate this nation’s 148th anniversary at the 28th Annual Canada Day at Canada Place festival, presented by Port Metro Vancouver.

This year’s event once again features a full day of free family fun, including live music and performances on three stages, food carts and street hockey.

Daytime activities run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Canada Place, Jack Poole Plaza and on the surrounding streets. Live music includes performances from headliner Hannah Georgas, Don Amero, Rumba Calzada and Tim Chaisson on the main stage at Canada Place. The north point of Canada Place will feature a family-friendly licensed area with musical performances by the Hairfarmers, Watasun, Bellwoods and more. The Celebration Stage in Hall A of the Vancouver Convention Centre East is the location for the annual Canada Day citizenship ceremony welcoming 60 new Canadians, followed by multicultural performances.

Participants can also enjoy a wide selection of food options, Salty’s Fun Zone featuring games and activities for the entire family, and the Vancouver Circus School show full of daredevil displays and fearless skills. Once again the popular Canadian Forces Zone will provide an up close experience with members from the Department of National Defence.

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CANADA DAY PARADE

The Canada Day Parade, presented by Port Metro Vancouver, begins at 7 p.m. at the corner of Georgia and Broughton streets. This year’s parade, a celebration of diversity and national pride, includes more than 50 entries. Wear your red and white to show your national pride.

FIREWORKS

Canada Day festivities at Canada Place are topped off by a fireworks display presented by Coast Capital Savings. Premium viewing is available to purchase in the Hudson’s Bay Fireworks Viewing Zone, along the west promenade of Canada Place.

Doors open at 8:30 p.m., entertainment runs from 9 to 10 p.m. and the fireworks start at 10:30 p.m. Visit ticketstonight.ca.

FLYOVER CANADA

FlyOver Canada is hosting its annual party at Canada Place with a private viewing zone for the fireworks on the “flight deck.” (FlyOver Canada is a simulated aerial adventure offering views of this country’s most stunning landscapes.) FlyOver will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. with rides every 15 minutes. The private party, complete with a DJ and hamburgers from Vera’s Burger Shack, starts at 8 p.m. Visit flyovercanada.com.

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CruiseyT Party Cruises is hosting a Canada Day Fireworks cruise on the water with hosts Raye Sunshine, Jayne Smoker, Dan Bevan and Mateo McIntyre. Board the MV Britannia for an evening of music, dance and drag with CruiseyT, the ultimate gay club alternative party venue. DJs Zach Shore and Mattilda Ho will keep the party shaking until 11 p.m. The Britannia hoists the rainbow flag and leaves the dock at the north end of Denman Street at 7 p.m. sharp. Visit cruiseyt.com.

CITYWIDE

Many of the city’s community centres are holding Canada Day celebrations. Check with your local centre for details.

PLAZA OF NATIONS

The Twisted Canada Day Yacht Party leaves from Plaza of Nations at 2 p.m. with DJs Pure Addiction, Ketafere and Ryker on the upper deck and Joachim Speidel and Yroc on the lower level. A complimentary light lunch is included.

Note: Partiers must board by 1:30 p.m. For more information, visit twisted.ca/CanadaDay.

CRAB PARK

The annual Crab Park Canada Day Festival is back, this year with the Stingin’ Hornets, Pernell Reichert Band and Rootabeggars, featuring members of Roots Roundup.

This all-ages festival runs from 1 to 4 p.m. at Crab Park at Portside at the very north end of Main Street. The goal of the annual celebration is to raise awareness of the need for greenspace for the people of the Downtown Eastside and the importance of keeping Crab Park open for all. The festival is presented by Radio Bandcouver, Crab Water for Life Society, Port Authority Vancouver, Canada Heritage, Van City Savings and Northern Electric.

THE TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL The TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival is ongoing now through July 1 at various locations. For Canada Day events, visit coastaljazz.ca.

RILEY PARK

It doesn’t get any more Canadian, or Vancouver-like, than watching a game of baseball at Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium. On July 1, the Vancouver Canadians play the Spokane Indians followed by a fireworks extravaganza presented by Scotiabank. The game starts at 7:05 p.m.

KERRISDALE

Music Under the Clock begins in Kerrisdale with a variety of free concerts from noon to 4 p.m. The clock is located at West 41st Avenue at Yew. Visit kerrisdalevillage.com. @sthomas10

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Canada Day Recipes

CLAM AND LENTIL SALAD

Bell says this clam and lentils salad recipe is healthy, quick to whip up and family-sized friendly.

Bell notes this is a very simple recipe.

GARLIC CONFIT 12-24 cloves of garlic 1 shallot 4 cups olive oil Bring the oil to a low simmer with the garlic and shallots.

Bubble away for 20 minutes until the garlic is tender and golden brown. Remove from heat and let cool in the oil.

The Courier asked some of the city’s most popular chefs to share their favourite Canadian-themed recipes.

CLAMS Rinse the clams under cold water, making sure to remove excess sand from the shells and de-beard.

Chef Ned Bell, executive chef at YEW Restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel.

To build this dish, first start with a big pot, big enough to fit all the shellfish in the pot times two. Sauté 2 whole diced shallots in some of the reserved garlic oil. Add the clams, stir around for 20 seconds and then add the mussels. (Clams can take an extra bit of time to cook

“Canada Day is all about family, friends and our Canadian heritage,” says Bell. “There’s nothing more Canadian than to gathering together and celebrating with some of the fresh catches from our ocean right off of B.C.”

Chef Ned Bell considers sustainable seafood Canadian.

WISHING YOU & YOUR FAMILY A HAPPY CANADA DAY. Joyce Murray, MP for Vancouver Quadra & Hon. Hedy Fry, MP for Vancouver Centre

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and open up.) Add the garlic confit, as much as you want, I like it flavourful! Add some of your fave local beer (or wine)!

Cover and cook for a few short minutes, just until the clams and mussels open up.

Toss in tons of fresh chopped herbs and a knob of butter.

Serve immediately in the pot in the middle of the table.

Make sure to have lots of grilled bread to dip the tasty garlicky buttery broth.

CURRY LIME AIOLI You can make your own mayo, which is super easy, and simply substitute half the canola or vegetable oil with camelina oil. (Basic whole egg mayo recipe: 1 cup oil, 1 whole egg, 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard, 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar.) Or buy pre-made mayo and mix with 3 tbsp.

Canadian canola oil and 1 tbsp. curry paste per cup of mayo.

SALAD 2 cups yellow lentils

TO ASSEMBLE Mix the salad with 1 tbsp. of the mayo per cup of mixed lentil and corn salad. Finish the salad with a squeeze and zest of fresh lime juice and you are good to go.

1 cup fresh corn, raw or cooked 1/2 cup small diced yellow peppers 1/2 cup diced yellow tomatoes or halved yellow baby tomatoes 1/2 cup yellow summer squash, small diced, it can be raw or quickly cooked (baked or even grilled)

To see more Canadian-themed recipes, visit vancourier.com.

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1/4 lb. pastured, heritage pork bacon 1.5 lb. 100 per cent grassfed beef 1.25 lb. pastured, heritage ground pork 1/3 cup maple syrup 1 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper 1 tsp. chili flakes 2 1/2 tsp. sage 1/2 tsp. grated ginger 1/2 tsp. nutmeg Grill to your liking.

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For one West Side family, an East Side public school became their schooling of choice over both West Side public and private options.

Teenager Sisti Bhullar visited India, returned home to Vancouver and told her parents she didn’t want to return to her private school. She wanted to attend public school and donate her tuition.

“So we have a big fight at home,” said her father, Hakam Bhullar. “We were arguing as parents, we are working hard to give you a good education.”

Sisti promised she’d get better grades.

Point Grey secondary was closer to their home, but Sisti chose to attend John Oliver secondary, near her father’s veterinarian practice, where she had friends that she’d made through Bollywood dance.

She wanted to attend a school with a more multicultural environment.

The Bhullar parents gave Sisti the up to $25,000 they would have spent on her Grade 11 year at Crofton House school for girls.

Sisti gave $5,000 to JO and donated the rest to charities in South Africa and India.

She not only earned grades above 90 per cent but served as her class

valedictorian in 2012.

“Our friends started asking us which school is she going to? And for the first two to three months, honestly, I was feeling shy to say she’s going to JO,” Hakam said.

While her parents worried about others’ perceptions, Sisti was busy convincing her brother, Sid, who attended St. George’s boys school, to enrol at JO. “She told me about the great supporting staff and the whole friendly community that’s in John Oliver, almost like a family rather than a school,” Sid said.

Sid, who entered JO after spring break in Grade 9, was already an accomplished practitioner of taekwondo and was ranked third in the world in his weight division.

He’d long achieved high grades. But at JO, the once quiet teen became student council president.

“I used to be a really shy kid in St. George’s, like I wouldn’t even raise my hand,” he said. “With this supporting teachers and staff and this whole community around me, it really opened me up and forced me to get myself out there and forced me to make friends and encouraged me to join clubs and do stuff. I would have never imagined myself running for president, but everyone’s so supportive.”

Sid worked part-time while at JO to raise money

to create a rap video called “Won’t Stop” about bullying, which attracted more than 76,000 views on YouTube, and he’s spoken at forums in Surrey about gangs and drugs.

The Bhullars, who immigrated to Canada in the early 1990s, initially chose private school because they could afford it and believed it offered the best education.

“When you go to Surrey and you talk about JO, some names [of gang members] are attached to the school,” Hakam said.

“They say, ‘Oh my God, such and such people graduated from that school.’”

He tells them otherwise.

“This is one of the best schools in B.C.,” Hakam said.

JO’s principal, Tim McGeer, agrees.

“There’s a lot of things there that money just can’t buy,” McGeer said.

“We’re talking about character, we’re talking about resilience, we’re talking about diversity, we’re talking about the development of compassion. Of course, many schools do this in great ways, both public and private, but we’re particularly proud of what we do here in our community.”

Sisti is studying to be a veterinarian in the U.K. Sid has been accepted into medical school in Ireland for September. @Cheryl_Rossi

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SWISH SPLASH: The wet weather didn’t dampen spirits of gala-goers who made the red carpet for the Vancouver Aquarium’s signature soiree, Night at the Aquarium. Chaired by the newly engaged pair of Bert Hick and Tina Rowntree, the ninth instalment drew more than 400 of our city’s business, community and philanthropic leaders to the marine science centre for an evening of fine wine, delicious Ocean Wise food, live music and fundraising. Yours truly presided over the robust live auction, which saw an expedition to the Arctic sell for an impressive $17,500. The luxury trip contributed to the $362,000 raised in support of the aquarium’s research, rescue, conservation and education programs.

SPARKLING LUNCH: De Beers Diamond Jewellers celebrated the launch of its newest collection, Aria, by hosting an exclusive luncheon with special guest Hollie Bonneville Barden, chief designer of the luxury London-based jewelry brand established in 2001. A graduate of Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, Bonneville Barden, 27, is the youngest head designer in the company’s prestigious history. Aficionados of fine diamonds and gems were introduced to the upstart and her collection of 36 exquisite pieces designed to express “the dance of light” created, while enjoying an equally brilliant lunch curated by Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar’s executive chef Alex Chen.

SCREEN SIRENS: Women in Film and Television was established in 2010 to raise awareness of the underrepresentation of women in the industry and to further the artistic and professional development of women in the Canadian screen-based media community.

The non-profit recently feted some of the province’s most influential women working in the industry with their annual Spotlight Awards, held at Performance Works. Amongst this year’s award recipients were Patricia Gruben, Elizabeth Yake, Ingrid Torrance, Don Thompson, Maureen Webb, Madeleine Grant, Pauline Heaton, Michelle Brezinski, Barbara Janes and Rina Fraticelli. Recent stats show women constitute only four per cent of feature film directors, 11 per cent of writers and 13 per cent of editors.

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Writer, filmmaker and educator Patricia Gruben and casting director Maureen Webb were among the luminaries feted at the Vancouver Women in Film and Television Spotlight Awards.

Telus director of content producer Prem Gill, left, congratulated filmmaker Michelle Brezinski for her Spotlight award for her courageous film Madness, which chronicled her own healing from post traumatic stress disorder.

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Kathryn Ting, left, and U.S. Consul General Lynne Platt toasted the healthy trade of American and Canadian consumer oriented products that flow both ways at a Taste U.S. food and wine mixer.

General manager and viticulturist for Singletree Wines, Andrew Etsell showcased his Abbotsford winery’s latest vintages. The family-operated boutique vineyard is located in Mount Lehman in the Fraser Valley.

Dripping in a million dollars worth of exquisite diamonds from the Aria collection was model Celeste Ziegler, left, and Hollie Bonneville Barden, head designer of De Beers Jewellers.

Night at the Aquarium gala chairs Bert Hick and Tina Rowntree were all smiles following the $362,000 raised for the marine science centre’s conservation, research, rescue and school outreach programs.

Vancouver Aquarium CEO Dr. John Nightingale and his wife, Jacqueline Gjissen, welcomed guests to the organization’s marquee fundraiser, presented by PCL Construction Group.

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The previous night on our eight-day cruise through the Galapagos had been like sleeping in a paint mixer. Around midnight, we received an eye-popping lesson in centrifugal forces when the Flamingo I, a 25-metre yacht owned by tour company Ecoventura, belly flopped over the equator.

For that reason, we were tired and pukey as we began what became a perfect day. Our group, three families and one young married couple, stepped aboard two pangas (Zodiacs) bound for Fernandina, just south of the earth’s latitudinal waistline.

Moments into the ride, our guides pointed into the distance.

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Continued from page 21 Our drivers set us on an intercept course. We began cruising alongside them.

One head surfaced and we saw its Oreo-filling eyehole.

For a moment, the trail grew cold and one panga headed toward Fernandina.

The guide on my boat noticed a cloud of frigate birds further into the sea.

Someone in the drink was snacking and the airborne scavengers were waiting for table scraps.

Our Zodiac scooted toward the halo of birds.

The whales emerged from the water and began to slap their tails. Try as I might with my point-andshoot camera, I kept missing the money shot. That would be the cloudy lining of an otherwise sterling moment.

With this spontaneous detour behind us, we made a stop at Fernandina. Like the other 12 islands in the archipelago, the youngest and most westerly Galapagos island was formed by underwater volcanoes five million years ago. The isolated location, untouched by humans until the 16th century, still nurtures a bounty of wildlife.

Charles Darwin famously visited here in 1835, and used his specimens to help formulate his thoughts on evolution.

Darwin is venerated on these islands for making them a tourist destination as much as for his scientific thought. One woman in our group, a biology major in college, took her kids to the Galapagos as a response to the many Biblical literalists who inhabit her adopted Florida hometown.

With the vast majority of the island protected since 1959 as a National Park, the Galapagos are tightly regulated: the various tour companies are strictly scheduled so that there is never more than a dozen or so visitors in each viewing location.

Lavascape welcomed us on Fernandina. Iguanas, packed like subway commuters on black rock, sunbathed and gave off a salty, fishy smell. When they became overheated, they slipped into the water and darted through the clear shallows with their forearmsized tails streaking behind them. Sea lions, the resident couch potatoes on these islands, rested their pudgy

forms along the rocks.

Soon after we returned to the Flamingo I, my wife and stepson left on a deepwater snorkelling expedition, where they came within mere metres of giant sea turtles. Meanwhile I contentedly gunned through a book that I had been slogging through back at home (where I was distracted by work email and Clash of Clans).

When they returned to the boat, we were served a lunch with Ecuadorian favourites like paella, llapnigachos (a potato and cheese pancake) and stewed beef. After a two-hour interlude filled with reading, sunbathing on the roof deck and snoozing, the Flamingo I made its afternoon stop at Urbina Bay. Located on Isabela, the largest island of the archipelago, the bay is best known as a spot to look for sea turtles, finches and flightless cormorants. After a short walk, I briefly tried my hand at snorkelling. A poor swimmer, I splashed around, face down, near the beach before I stepped back ashore and struggled out.

I’ve written about the fourth day of our cruise, but almost every other could have been a candidate for perfection. At other points that week, we voyaged to see penguins, pilot whales, blue and red-footed boobies and flamingos. My wife, who was 13 weeks pregnant as we started our journey, had some uncomfortable moments and my stepson, by turns, played well and bickered with the other kids on the boat. I became stir crazy near the end of the trip and longed for a Wi-Fi connection. But those moments of shared wonder among our family overwhelmed the inconveniences.

Returning to the Flamingo I from Urbina that day, I looked forward to a snack, a shower, and then my book. Married less than six months, I realized that my definition of perfection had changed. In the past, a perfect day started after the sun fell. It involved cities, interesting adults and nights bled dry of any more potential excitement. That evening, I looked forward to being in bed by nine. In the Galapagos, I was witnessing my own evolution.

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June 26 to 30, 2015 1. He may have won the Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club, but everyone knows Matthew McConaughey’s greatest, most-quotable performance was in Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed & Confused. The nostalgic, coming-of-age period piece, which takes place over the course of one night after school’s let out for the summer, is perfectly paired with another nostalgic, coming-ofage period piece, George Lucas’s 1973 flick American Graffiti, as the Rio Theatre hosts a double bill June 26, 7 p.m. You should go. It’ll be a lot cooler if you did. Alright, alright, alright. Details: riotheatre.ca.

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Tickets are $15 at Zulu, Red Cat, High Life and rickshawtheatre.com.

4. Billed as a French jazz opera with English subtitles, Jazztown is set in a mythical, rainsoaked Vancouver piano bar and includes three love stories and live jazz musicians. It takes place June 30, 8 p.m. at Performance Works on Granville Island as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

For details and tickets, go to coastaljazz.ca.

5. Lanalou’s hosts an evening of David Lynch-themed art, burlesque and live music called Wrapped in Plastic, after Twin Peaks’ murder victim Laura Palmer, June 27. There better be a Log Lady on the premises. Details at bonerattletalent.com.

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Well good for us. But there are still plenty of other activities desperately in need of regulating, in our humble opinion. Here are four things the city should regulate next: 1. Artisanal ice cream shops. Simple fact is they’re everywhere, from Kitsilano to Mount Pleasant, and they show no sign of stopping the dissemination of high-priced, lactose-intolerant treats with previously unheard of ice cream strains including salty caramel, bourbon, green tea and single-speed bike chain grease. Acknowledging the fact that ice cream does have an array of medicinal benefits, we would like to modestly propose a limit on the number of bearded employees allowed to scoop ice cream in a facility at one time in order to lessen the paranoia of finding a stray hair in our cone mid-lick.

New regulations should stipulate that shops do not exceed the “one beard, two moustaches” rule at any

Enough feline trickery! You know Mr. Whiskers is going to scratch your hand when you try to rub his inviting belly.

given time. One Beard, Two Moustaches is also a great name for an ice cream parlour. So it’s a win-win.

2. Hacky Sack. Although we’d like to ban the tiny sack-kicking practice altogether, we realize that would be an infringement of dirty hippies’ basic human rights.

So let’s enact what we like to call “the Folk Fest rule.” If hacky sacking is taking place outside of a folk festival or like-minded freedom-loving event (which is totally permissible), participants must ensure said annoying activity is done within 20 metres of a porta potty or busker who’s performing “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” or some other Gordon Lightfoot song. It just makes sense.

3. The word “craft.”

Yes, Vancouver is in the midst of a craft brewery renaissance and we couldn’t be happier or chubbier about it. But the word craft has become so overused by bars, restaurants and condo

developments, that it’s lost all meaning. So no more.

Instead of the word craft, businesses can only use the words “bespoke,” “discerning,” “organically fetishized,” “projected notions of authenticity” or “evoking the musky image of a saloon, barbershop, leather tannery or dry goods store during the Gold Rush or Prohibition.”

4. Petulant cats who expose their inviting bellies on the sidewalk when we walk down leafy neighbourhoods only to attack our gentle hand and recoil as if they didn’t want us to rub their furry stomachs in the first place, and in turn make us feel embarrassed and duped by a cruel, whiskery gatekeeper who sold us a ticket on the good ship Cuddle Kitty knowing full well that we were only taking a one way trip to Scratch Town.

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It will be a triple homecoming when the Bria Skonberg Quintet, riding the summer jazz festival circuit, stops in Vancouver.

Skonberg, a trumpet player, vocalist and composer, along with bassist Sean Cronin and saxophone and clarinet player Evan Arntzen all hail from the West Coast of B.C. but have since relocated to New York City to pursue their musical careers.

“We already bring an interesting, high-energy, good-feeling kind of concert,” Skonberg says. Playing in front of a hometown crowd, she adds, will make things that much more lively. “It’s going to be a big party I think.”

Rounding out the fivesome is pianist Dalton Ridenhour, from Missouri, and drummer Darrian Douglas, from Mississippi, both of whom add to the eclectic nature of the group.

“We all bring our different musical sensibilities together,” Skonberg says.

The graduate of Capilano University’s jazz program grew up in Chilliwack where her budding musical talent was nurtured at home, at school and in the community. “My parents

weren’t musicians, but we were kind of musical hobbyists. We always had a lot of instruments around the house,” she says.

She first picked up a trumpet in Grade 7 band, drawn to the brass instrument, in part, because her father played it in high school and the family had an old trumpet lying around the house. “I just took to it,” she says, lauding the instrument’s big, bright sound. Today, she plays a Bach Stradivarius 43.

In Grade 7, still in the concert band, Skonberg would listen longingly to the Grade 8/9 jazz band play Duke Ellington, Count Basie and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

“I just remember seeing them all dancing a little bit while they were playing and it was something I wanted to get in on.”

In high school, as her interest in jazz grew, so too did her musical library, expanding beyond the big band ensembles to include contemporary artists such as the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and trumpeter Nicholas Payton, and traditional jazz legends like Louis Armstrong.

“Lots and lots of Louis,” Skonberg recalls.

Meanwhile, the annual Chilliwack Jazz Festival gave her and other Fraser Valley youth the oppor-

Now based in New York City, Capilano University grad Bria Skonberg will play in front of a hometown crowd at Granville Island’s Performance Works on June 26 as part of this year’s Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

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Skonberg moved to New York in 2010 and currently resides on the Lower Eastside after living in Brooklyn for a few years.

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released three albums: Fresh (2009), So is the Day (2012) and Into Your Own (2014).

A fourth is currently in the works with an anticipated release date next spring.

Since moving to New York, Skonberg has headlined major events, toured internationally and collaborated with a number of well-established jazz artists.

Perhaps her most memorable gig to date is playing

in the backyard of Louis Armstrong’s house-turnedmuseum in Queens as part of a concert series.

She is also co-founder of the New York Hot Jazz Festival, a day-long marathon of live jazz music from its early beginnings in New Orleans through the Prohibition years and into the Swing era.

“There’s been a bit of a renaissance revival happening in the last couple of years and this is a way to pull all that together,” she says, attributing the resurgence of hot jazz to the popularity of 1920s vintage pop culture (think HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jay Gatsby).

While her sound is certainly influenced by this style, Skonberg says her music represents a unique mix of subgenres that is rooted in New Orleans jazz and blues with some world music and danceable swing mixed in.

“It’s kind of a fusion at this point and I think a melting pot of all the things I’m interested in,” she says.

The Bria Skonberg Quintet perform June 26, 6:30 p.m. at Performance Works on Granville Island as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Tickets and information at coastaljazz.ca.

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Imaginary Invalid bold and bewildering THEATRE REVIEW

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Director Michael Fera frames the Molière classic The Imaginary Invalid in a fresh way: it is Paris, February 17, 1673 and we, along with King Louis XIV, are in the Palais Royale for a performance of Le Malade imaginaire (in English, sometimes called The Hypochondriac but more often The Imaginary Invalid).

Back in 1673, playwright/ director/actor Molière played Argan, the hypochondriac, a slave to Mr. Purgon, his doctor (play here by Bronwyn Henderson) who perpetually prescribes medicines, injections, bleeding and purging. Molière himself suffered from tuberculosis and during this particular performance, he collapsed on stage and died a few hours later. We view, therefore, The Imaginary Invalid within the framework of that particular 17th century production.

While the Palais Royale audience was presumably bravo-ing, Molière, shielded by the other actors, coughed blood into his white lace handkerchief and was carried offstage.

Not knowing this backstory, however, can be bewildering to those who don’t already know it. Why is actor John Prowse, for example, sometimes Molière, sometimes Argan? And why does the imaginary invalid, who is obviously perfectly healthy, hemorrhage and collapse at curtain?

Molière’s plays included music, dance and some elements of commedia dell’arte; director Fera re-introduces these, too.

Music, under the direction of Pat Unruh, is performed live by Victoria Bass on baroque cello, Cody Kearsley on bass recorder and Olesia Shewchuk on alto recorder and harpsichord. Lyrics, however, in English, Latin, possibly Italian and maybe French, are very difficult to understand so the value of having lyrics is all but lost.

As for commedia dell’arte, Fera introduces Punchinello (Brad Bergeron) and, much as in Shakespeare’s plays, the character is there for comic relief. While the fellow two seats away from me thought Punchinello was “hilarious,” I found the shtick simply tedious.

If Fera can add to the play, he can also cut swathes of it away beginning with Punchinello and ending with the “entertainment” near the conclusion.

But there’s some very good work from this mainly non-professional cast; professionals include Prowse and Maria J. Cruz (as Toinette), both Equity members.

Prowse captures the slyness of Argan, as if the character knows all along that there is nothing wrong with him except some excess gas, which is, no doubt, caused by all the so-called medicines he’s being prescribed. With the white nightcap, however, he could be confused with Ebenezer Scrooge. I imagined Prowse at some point rushing to the window and hollering, “You, boy, what

day is it today?”

While Argan is ostensibly the main character, it’s as much the maid Toinette who’s pulling the strings.

Maria J. Cruz, black curls bobbing and just about popping out of her royal blue low-cut gown (by Jackie Talmey-Lennon), sparkles in the role. As the fake doctor, however, Cruz could be pulled back a notch or three.

As the young would-be lovers, Olesia Shewchuk (Angélique) and Cody Kearsley (Cléante) are well paired; and Victoria Bass (in another gorgeous gown by Talmey-Lennon) is nicely nasty as Argan’s eager-to-be widow. In a smaller role but a very well executed one is JD Dueckman as Thomas Diafoirus, Angélique’s intended.

It’s especially fun watching Diafoirus, in an outrageously blond curly wig, watching the other characters. Emotions and thoughts seem to race across Dueckman’s face: a simple, open book.

Presented by United Players, this is an ambitious undertaking. Set design by Todd R. Parker is handsome with its glittering chandelier.

The production comes in at just over two hours, shorter than some productions I’ve seen — although it feels longer. But there are successes here, too, especially in Fera’s fresh framing of the play within the context of 17th century France and the life and death of Molière.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

The Imaginary Invalid is at Jericho Arts Centre until June 28. For tickets, call 604-2248007 or go to unitedplayers.com.

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The main accent lies on your domestic situation, Aries. It’s a more important influence than usual.

You might have some grainy problem to overcome, or friction might arise in the home zone. There is also an indication that you need a major rest, deepest in two years — so nap, be sluggish, don’t over-exert. Until August 8, DO NOT begin cohabiting with anyone.

The accent remains on your reputation, ambition, relations with bosses and authorities. These are fairly well supported, but there is one “wild factor” — Mars in this same zone until August 8. This can make higher-ups impatient, temperamental, but it can also nudge them into seeing you as a partner of some kind. Whether you should accept such a partnership, if it’s offered, is another question.

The general emphasis remains on errands, casual friends, siblings, paperwork, details and daily business. These proceed rather smoothly this week.

Monday (confusion, memory lapse) and Thursday (unexpected change of agenda) — both mid-days are a little dicey, but just a little. Big luck remains in your zone of real estate, home, children, garden, security and retirement programs until early October.

July is a mind-expanding month. The mellow mood that came over you last week continues. You understand what was dark and you feel wise. This is a great month to enter university or college, to travel afar, to start an advertising or media campaign, to plunge into any cultural event. Love hovers also. But there’s one danger: that you can become too assertive or harsh and unbending in these very same things.

The general trend nudges you toward money, possessions and sensual contacts. All these can grow quite intense into early August. A lot of money could flow toward you, but you’ll be surrounded by baying dogs demanding payment — doctor’s bills, lawyers, mechanics, the bakery and grocery store — everyone wants a piece of your “new” fortune. Fight ‘em off – put that money in the bank, and be stingy.

Life’s depths continue. Your intuition is heightened and your desires are close to the surface. The general accent lies on mysteries, finances, sex, pregnancy, lifestyle, health diagnoses, commitment and consequence. This is usually a profitable and/or meaningful period, but an extra ingredient is thrown in this time: you’ll feel not only lustful, but romantic; will not only want to invest, but want to invest quickly.

Your energy, charisma, timing and effectiveness ride a high streak. In addition, Mars in Cancer now fills you with ambition, determination and sex appeal. (The last is best if you’re male.) You’re a bit unstoppable — take care that you don’t push others too hard. Your money/ income luck remains high to October. Sunday’s romantic — singles could meet a viable mate. Tackle chores and protect your health, this night through Tuesday.

The general focus lies on relationships, opportunities, relocation possibilities, dealings with the public and, of course, marriage. Be diplomatic, cooperative; turn away from competition. In a sense, you and another (all others) communicate over a distance now, perhaps a distance of the heart, perhaps of understanding.

Continue to lie low — your energy and clout are low. The lion’s roar (or purring!) won’t help you much now. Be serious, sober and handle problems with a businesslike dispatch. Not, perhaps, that you have many big problems. (Money might be one, but it will start “kachinging” again late August onward for an entire year.)

In most ways, this is your lucky year (to August) so rest, recuperate, lie low and plan for the future.

The main accent remains on work, daily health, machinery and dependents. For your health, dive into nutritious meals, plan a new healthier lifestyle, dress sensibly. This would usually be a good time to buy machinery, and if you’re in the field (e.g., excavator operator) the urge to buy equipment will surge strongly at times. However, look far down the road: is there some reason you shouldn’t buy?

The emphasis remains on popularity, social involvements, fun, optimism, bright plans for the future, wish fulfillment and light romance. That last could get hot and heavy quickly, as your sex planet is now (to early August) in your friendly romance sector. Avoid STDs, pregnancy, etc.

(Couples yearning for kids should try harder for the five weeks ahead — the “conception wish” might just come true.)

The emphasis remains on creativity, charming kids, beauty, pleasure and romance. These will flower during this easy, enjoyable week. However, a note of intensity joins in — this can cause you to be a little overbearing (who me, Pisces?) or a little too assertive.

If this happens, realize two things: 1) you’re probably not in love, not yet; and 2) you might be in, or entering, a sensual affair with little prospect for true, light, love — and your intensity might be a species of denial.

Monday: Gary Busey (71). Tuesday: Mike Tyson (49). Wednesday: Dan Aykroyd (63). Thursday: Jerry Hall (59).

Friday: Yeardley Smith (51). Saturday: Eva Marie Saint (91). Sunday: Edie Falco (52).

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Canadian coach John Herdman laid out a warning — or more like a call to arms — to the country and its soccer leadership this week.

After eliminating Switzerland 1-0 at B.C. Place June 21, Herdman responded to public suggestions the team’s captain was past her best-before date.

“That woman doesn’t deserve to take that stick,” he said. “International football ain’t easy, and Sinclair is giving everything, every single game.”

Canada holds the honour of being the first team to finish at the top of their group with only one win in the first group stage of the World Cup. In three games, they scored two goals, one of them a penalty by Sinclair.

The game’s leading scorers have been kept quiet, said Herdman, pointing to Abby Wambach’s lone goal for the U.S. and Marta’s single strike not being enough to keep Brazil in the running.

But the Canadian striker who turned 32 the day after Canada tied New Zealand and whom the coach called “the pride of this country” doesn’t have an obvious successor. This concerns Herdman.

“Look — you put her in a different team and she’ll score 20 goals,” he said in a press conference after Saturday’s win. “We said the French are the favourites. The Germans are the favourite. They have a talent system that just produces players on a conveyor belt.

That is the beauty of their country.

“We’re still waiting for the next Sinclair to come along and we’re going to keep waiting for hopefully that same forward to appear.”

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Numerous Canadians play in the NWSL, while others have pursued opportunities in Europe.

In January, Desiree Scott signed with Notts County Ladies FC, the English side in the Women’s Super League that will play Chelsea for the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium in August.

A defensive midfielder, known for her take-no-prisoners power that’s earned her the name of “Destroyer,” Scott will face four Notts teammates — keeper Carly Telford, forward Ellen White and defenders Laura Bassett and Alex Greenwood — when Canada meets England in Saturday’s quarter-final.

“I know their tendencies,” she said. “A lot of the focus is going to be on us and how we can hurt England with our attack, with our set up.

Last time we played them, they [set up a defensive] block so we’re going to be working on how to beat that and also really on our pos-

session and how to keep it.”

Ranked sixth in the world

by FIFA, England and No.8 Canada have been separated by only one goal in four of their last five meetings.

When they played at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton June 5 before the start of the World Cup, Canada won 1-0.

The best premier leagues in the world are in Germany, Sweden, France, England and the U.S, which gives women in those countries home-grown opportunities to play year-round and closes the gap between the best national teams, those in the middle and others that make up the rest.

Such an example in Canada, said Scott, “would provide motivation and fuel that passion of training and working hard at the grassroots level and wanting to be the best you can at a young age, knowing the potential of a professional league right in your back yard is available to you. With the Whitecaps for example, that was what I was pushing for, training day in and day out and [playing] on provincial teams to get noticed and play on a semipro team. Opportunities just rise from there.”

She said it was sad to

see the Whitecaps fold, but FIFA has promised investments to encourage international parity on the pitch and as well as leadership roles off it.

“You need that quality growing up,” said the 27-year-old from Winnipeg.

“I was lucky enough in Manitoba to have some of the top coaches and trainers helping me get to where I am. With a better program and better structure and coaches who are following our system of play — John [Herdman] has developed a great program for the grassroots to stimulate what we’re doing here — without that, I think it would be a struggle to provide those good players. It’s key to get those things at the grassroots.”

Scott runs clinics and volunteers with KidSport, a leadership roll she will pursue her entire career.

“It’s important to have young girls who are some of our biggest fans know that dreams are possible and that they can look up to us as role models and see that through hard work and dedication and commitment to the sport that you love that you can go places.” @MHStewart

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The Courier presents Vancouver’s Elite Graduating Athletes of 2015 “The kids call them the ‘volleycult,’” said Chris Ruse, the head coach of the senior York House Tigers who will graduate the best volleyball players the school has ever seen, including the first ones recruited to the NCAA and the CIS-championship program at the University of B.C. “It’s clearly our most talented squad ever,” said Ruse, of the players who are also good friends and finished fourth in the province. “My biggest hope is that I’ll lose them for a few years and then have them come back to coach and continue leading.” — Megan Stewart

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n entertaining storyteller with a far-reaching sense of community, Finan is “blessed with height and heart,” in the words of Matheson. Her coach and teammates agreed she is the funniest on the team and tells hilarious, “completely ridiculous” stories. Plus, said Worsley, “There are so many things that Siobhan can do that no one else could.”

The six-foot-one right-side hitter who coaches skiing at Whistler and volleyball in the summer, Finan has “empathy and creativity to spare,” said Ruse. Her tenure with the Tigers is not likely over and, as she put it like only she could, she’s already left impressions at the school. “I hope I helped to inspire a love for the sport within the York House community because that’s the biggest part of the game for me, I just absolutely love playing,” said Finan, “and managing to spill yogurt on every jersey I’ve used — so figuratively and literally — I like to think I’ve made my mark.”

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n the hallways at York House, “it isn’t hard to spot the volleyball players,” said the five-foot-11 left-side hitter. “We are always standing together, about a foot higher than everyone else.” The “volleycult” nickname stuck because each is “completely entranced by the sport,” she said. “Cult isn’t such a far stretch when it describes the kinship among our teammates. We had an unbelievable season, and that was a result of the trust earned by our closeness.” (She and Finan have the same singular middle name, Honor.)

Matheson was new to the sport when she tried out and — also now etched in school legend — caught the first pass that came her way. Her development is also legendary. “I remember one game Kaleigh was playing incredibly so I set her pretty much every ball because the other team could not stop her,” said Worsley. “You could tell that she had the potential to be amazing.”

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rriving at York House from Heritage Woods secondary for her senior year, Kern was already recognized as one of the best U18 players in the country. “I had the pleasure of playing and getting completely stuffed by Dayna during club season,” said Matheson. “That girl puts up a big and wellplaced block, and no outside hitter wants to face that.”

The six-foot-three middle hitter was named the best blocker at the Western Canadian independent school championship, which the Tigers won, and her stacked BCO team also won the national club championship this winter in Calgary.

One title that didn’t land was the B.C. AA high school championship.

“After we had lost our semi-final and then our bronze [game], the team was pretty depressed,” said Finan. “Dayna just broke the silence and thanked the team for welcoming her and for making such wonderful memories over the course of the term. It was so touching and really helped to put things in perspective.”

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t five-foot-eight, the Tigers’ libero and setter is a remarkably gifted athlete who could star in her own Nike commercial, given the way her teammates and coaches praise her talents. Of the foursome, Worsley says she is also the most competitive. Anyone who has seen her play will agree, said Matheson. “Her consistent dedication shows everyone on the court how much she is willing to sacrifice for her team, willing the rest of us to work just as hard. Laura consistently gives her heart and soul to the sport every game, every set, and every point.”

Not all serious, however, Finan, her T-birds teammate for the next five years, reveals, “She has an unending list of quirks — she collects hotel keys and unicorns and loves Bon Jovi. She’s also going to hate me for revealing anything personal about her.”

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Today’shomes Renovictions, construction wreaking rental havoc Patrick Blennerhassett

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The City of Vancouver’s building boom is raising the ire of its large population of renters.

In 2014, the city issued building permits for $2.83 billion worth of projects, a new record and an increase of 29 per cent from 2013’s $2.2 billion and 77 per cent from 2008’s $1.6 billion.

Approximately 80 per cent of residents in the city’s West End are renters, and there are renovation or construction projects in almost every West End neighbourhood.

Tom Durning, a senior staffer at the non-profit Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre (TRAC), said tenants’ “right to quiet enjoyment,” as defined by the B.C. Residential Tenancy Act, is being widely violated.

“I’ve never seen it this bad in all the years I’ve been around. People are just flocking to Vancouver and it’s what’s driving all of this.

There’s hardly a day that goes by that I don’t hear from someone who’s moved here from somewhere else.”

According to Jag Sandhu, the city’s communications co-ordinator of media and issues management, the city fielded 830 construction noise complaints in 2014 and 303 as of the first week of June this year.

Under the city’s noise control bylaw, construction on private property is allowed Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturdays. It’s prohibited on Sundays and statutory holidays. Construction on public property such as city streets, lanes and boulevards is allowed from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays and statutory holidays.

As part of a growing phenomenon in tandem with Vancouver’s construction boom, developers are cashing in on a low vacancy rate — as low as 0.3 per cent in the West End, where the average monthly rent for a twobedroom apartment is around $2,000 — by renovating, at times illegally, many older buildings such

as the ones found throughout the West End. The city has fought back through its building bylaws.

In 2014, approximately 410 orders were issued — a number of them stop-work orders to halt illegal construction or renovation sites — under the Vancouver Building Bylaw; 251 have been ordered so far this year.

But the enforcement takes time.

“If someone works through a stop-work order, the enforcement branch sends the file to the law department recommending they lay a charge,” Sandhu said. “It would then be up to the law department to determine if a charge will be laid.

The court may levy a fine if the person issued the order is found guilty or if they enter a guilty plea. If that work is carried out after an order is issued, that work requires a permit. It does not mean all work has to cease.”

If a stop-work order is issued, the offender may be forced to pay double the cost of the permit that he or she failed to obtain in the first place.

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Geoff Meggs said renovations are a natural part of a growing city and, as with any industry, there are lawabiders and lawbreakers.

“Renovation in and of itself is not a bad thing if it improves the living standards and the safety of the building,” Meggs said. “So we want landlords to maintain their building.”

The city’s website states that any renovation or construction work done without a permit is also subject to removal on top of fines.

But Durning said that for some developers renovating without permits to capitalize on a booming rental market, a fine could simply be part of the construction cost.

Durning added that he regularly gets calls from tenants who are being evicted because of renovations. But he said TRAC’s limited budget means it can investigate only a small number of claims.

Last September, residents of 1168 Pendrell St. in the West End banded together against the building’s owner, who was trying

to evict them to facilitate renovations.

Vancouver-West End NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert accused Plan A property manager Karen Ho and owner Anoop Majithia of wanting to kick residents out “to get more money.”

In a statement posted to Plan A’s website, Majithia apologized to residents and denied Chandra Herbert’s allegations.

The company claimed it just wanted tenants to adhere to their lease agreements and expressed “regret that the tenants have had a negative experience with our management of the building.”

When it comes to reforming the system, Chandra Herbert said change ultimately has to come at a provincial level.

Meggs said the city has asked its Renters Advisory Committee to look into ways the provincial Residential Tenancy Act could be reformed to provide “better protection against renoviction” and “improved protection against dislocation when renovations do occur.”

Gordon Price, director of the city program at Simon Fraser University and a former city councillor, blamed the province for shirking its responsibilities under the Residential Tenancy Act. “I notice this again and again, and it’s the same thing that’s happened with transit,” Price said.

“Senior governments have just gotten away with this. ... How can you have the constitutional responsibility and walk away from it, and ensure that the political blame goes down to the people who have the least control?”

In the last Insights West poll prior to last fall’s municipal election, Vancouver residents ranked housing as the No. 1 issue at 40 per cent and transportation second at 17 per cent. Price said construction noise, illegal renovations and Vancouver’s home prices all fall under the umbrella of housing.

“Housing is an ecology,” he said. “It’s incorrect to say that one piece acts independently from the others.”

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The best vehicle accessories for summer Keep the kids happy on long road trips with DVD players LAURENCE MALLEY lmalley@hotmail.com Summer is here, which is of course the best season to take the vehicle out for a cruise or long vacation road trip. To that end, there are a variety of automotive accessories that can make your summer adventures even better.

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WINDOW TINT While the primary reason drivers install tint is to enhance the appearance of their ride, it also has so many practical uses in the summer months besides a cool custom look. Tinting blocks the majority of UV rays to prevent sunburn and reduces up to 60 per cent of direct sunlight to keep you from sticking to your seat.

to install to guide you to your ideal vacation spot. If you want to forget suction cups and charger cords and just enjoy the ride, have an integrated dash unit installed.

VIDEO ACCESSORIES For parents, the road trip is the quintessential summer experience. Driving the kids long distances can be a test of sanity, so consider purchasing either a portable player or custominstalled DVD unit with drop-down TVs and Smooth out headrest screens. The dreaded question “Are we there yet?” can be answered with the push your next of a button. Hopefully when their favorite summer characters appear on the screen silence will settle over the back seat. road trip.

AUDIO ACCESSORIES What’s summer without your favorite tunes? For those who don’t have an auxiliary input jack on your radio, there are a number of manufacturers that deliver tunes from your iPod over an FM frequency to your car stereo. As long as your car stereo can receive FM frequencies, you’re in good shape (Google FM digital transmitters.) For the adventurers who travel where Deep Woods Off is mandatory and radio reception is nil, there are relatively inexpensive satellite radio receivers, which will deliver reception no matter where you roam over your vehicle’s FM station.

GPS UPGRADES Summer is the perfect time for a road trip, but it’s not much fun getting lost. There are arrays of inexpensive portable units ready

REMOTE STARTERS When I was living on the Prairies, the remote starter was a valuable winter accessory to get the engine running in the morning enough so the vinyl seat wouldn’t crack when you sat on it. Well, the inverse is true in the summertime. You might start sweating just thinking about sitting in sun-baked leather seats that feel like the surface of the sun. With the push of a button, you can start your vehicle to get the preset AC blowing ice cold for your arrival.

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Porsche snaps Audi’s streak at Le Mans Brendan McAleer

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Last year, Porsche returned to Le Mans prototype racing with much fanfare and expectation.

The company has a long pedigree of winning at the most gruelling and famous endurance race in the world and, after a 16-year absence, they were ready to re-energize the world.

Sadly, Le Mans is a place built to break machinery and spirits, and Porsche only just managed to claim completion at last year’s race. The Audi juggernaut steamed onward, crushing the opposition yet again.

This year, however, Porsche absolutely blazed back onto the track, taking pole position in qualifying and setting record laps while doing so. They then proceeded to keep that pace for most of the race, finishing with a dominating first and second win.

There were other stories at Le Mans too, with Patrick Dempsey coming second in class in his 911 RSR racer and a Corvette taking first-in-class in the GTE pro class. But as far as the 2015 Le Mans was concerned, this year belonged to Porsche.

Having broken Audi’s streak, next year’s race promises to be even better.

Rumour: Honda planning Cayman competitor

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Ford GT returns to Le Mans

And here’s one car that ensures next year is going to be even nuttier — Ford’s going back to Le Mans and they’re bringing the big guns.

When the Ford GT was first unveiled, a racing version was broadly hinted at. However, we’d all seen that movie before: while the previousgen GT looked a bit like the original, legendary GT40, it was just a retro-inspired supercar. A marvellous machine, yes, but not one built for the circuit.

However, the new, Canadian-built Ford GT was obviously meant to take to the racetrack, and Ford has just announced that they intend to take on their rivals in the GTE class. A red, white and blue liveried car was just revealed with special aerodynamic tweaks including a huge rear air-diffuser.

The GTE class is one of the more interesting to watch in Le Mans racing because the cars actually look like cars (the LMP1 class is basically a spaceshipdogfight). Get ready to see the pride of Dearborn take on Ferrari all over again, as well as Porsche, Aston-Mar-

Rumourmills always throw up all kinds of nonsense, especially where sportscars are concerned. I mean, how many times have you been told there’s a new mid-engined Corvette coming? I’ll believe it when I see it.

But here’s something that might have a thread of truth to it. Sources placed close to Honda indicate the company is planning a small sportscar to compete with the Cayman. Details are slim and prone to conjecture, but the idea would be something like the Toyota MR2, reborn as a Honda flagship. Here’s why this might actually happen. The NSX is going to be hugely expensive and, with a 500+ horsepower twin-turbo V-6, far more of an aggressive machine than the last one.

In their arsenal, Honda has a new turbocharged fourcylinder engine that can be found in the ferocious Civic Type R, and they also have a tiny little mid-engined sports machine in the Japan-only S660. They’ve got a compact nine-speed dual-clutch gearbox to work with, experience developing mid-engined handling, years of research and development on torque-vectoring clutches and stability control systems, and a desire to give Honda the halo car it might need.

The Civic Type R is going to be an amazing machine, but quite expensive for a front-driver. A true Honda sportscar, something that carries the banner of the brand like the S2000 once did — if in a totally different way — might just be more than a rumour.

Lamborghini and Land Rover launch heritage restoration divisions

One of the major problems faced by any car company is how to preserve heritage while still embracing future technologies.

Lamborghini, for instance, will struggle to meet emissions requirements without turning to turbocharging and hybridization, both things they’re resistant to embracing. Land Rover’s in the same boat, having killed off the iconic Defender lately and with no replacement in sight.

It makes sense, then, that both companies have decided to cater to those clients who prefer their

greatest hits albums to the new electronica. Lamborghini now has Polo Storico, a dedicated facility focussed on preserving not just significant models but capturing the techniques used in their construction. Land Rover likewise has their Heritage division, located in Warwickshire, U.K. While the Lamborghini facility is more of a museum and archive, providing extremely skilled technicians with the information they need to accurately put

together a period-correct Jalpa (or what-have-you), the Land Rover version’s a bit more hands-on. If you’d like, you can sign out a historic Landie and take it for a romp across a 200-acre test facility. Mud, after all, is part of the heritage.

Subaru lifts JDM-only Exiga wagon

Why should you care about strange Japan-only Subaru wagons? Short answer: you shouldn’t.

Long answer: unless they

happen to show up here sometime soon.

Say hello to the Exiga wagon, a seven-seater Subie that looks a lot like a larger Outback. Aha, that got your attention, active and outdoorsy families! What are you supposed to do if you need a third row occasionally, but are a fan of Subaru’s all-wheel-drive ruggedness?

With the death of the Tribeca, Subaru has three crossovers but none with three rows. While the Exiga isn’t bound for our shores

any time soon, you can look at it and extrapolate what a new Tribeca might be like.

Subaru reports that the North American spec threerower will be significantly larger than this current car, but where the Tribeca went wrong was trying to aim for a polished finish like every other crossover/SUV. If the new Tribeca is to succeed, it’ll be like the Exiga, a blend of offroad looks and practicality over all else. @brendan_mcaleer

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Bonus amounts vary by model. Maximum $1,000 Conquest Bonus only available on 2015 CX-9. Conquest Bonus does not apply to 2014 Mazda3/MX-5, 2015 MX-5 Anniversary Edition, 2016 CX-3. Maximum bonus will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Bonus is available to customers who trade-in or currently own a competitive vehicle. Offer only applies to the owner/lessor of the competitive model and is not transferable. Offer cannot be combined with Loyalty offer. See dealer for complete details. †0% APR purchase financing is available on all new 2015 Mazda vehicles. Other terms available and vary by model. Based on a representative agreement using offered pricing of $17,715 for the 2015 Mazda3 GX (D4XK65AA00) with a financed amount of $18,000, the cost of borrowing for a 36-month term is $0, monthly payment is $500, total finance obligation is $18,000. **Lease offers available on approved credit for new 2015 Mazda3 GX (D4XK65AA00)/2016 CX-5 GX (NVXK66AA00)/2015 CX-9 GS (QVSB85AA00)/2016 CX-3 GX (HVXK86AA00) with a lease APR of 2.49%/2.99%/0%/4.49% and bi-weekly payments of $91/$139/$204/$134 for 60/60/48/60 months, the total lease obligation is $11,876/$18,035/$21,252/$17,475 including down payment of $0. $76.77/$76.77/$64.10/$76.77 PPSA and first monthly payment due at lease inception. 20,000 km lease allowance per year, if exceeded, additional 8¢/km applies (12¢/km for CX-9). 24,000 km leases available. Offered leasing available to retail customers only. Taxes extra. As shown, price for 2015 Mazda3 GT (D4TL65AA00)/2016 CX-5 GT (NXTL86AA00)/2015 CX-9 GT (QXTB85AA00)/2016 CX-3 GT (HXTK86AA00) is $27,815/$37,215/$48,015/$31,015. All prices include $25 new tire charge, $100 a/c tax where applicable, freight & PDI of $1,695/$1,895 for Mazda3/CX-3, CX-5, CX-9. PPSA, licence, insurance, taxes, down payment (or equivalent trade-in) are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer order/trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Lease and Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only. Offers valid June 2 – June 30, 2015, while supplies last. Prices and rates subject to change without notice. Visit mazda.ca or see your dealer for complete details.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER F R I DAY, J U N E 2 6 , 2 0 1 5

YALETOWN’S ANNIVERSARY Prices Effective June 25 to July 1, 2015.

100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT Organic Yellow Onions

BC Organic On the Vine Red Tomatoes from Origin Organics, Delta

Whole Organic Chickens

1846 BC 100% Pure Lean Ground Beef

1.36kg bag

3.99lb/ 8.80kg

value pack

2.98

2.98lb/ 6.57kg

BC Organic Blueberries

8.99lb/ 19.82kg

454g package

previously frozen

value pack

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

4.98

Organic Pork Back Ribs

Organic Bone-In Chicken Breast or Thighs

BC Organic White Nugget Potatoes from Fraserland

5.99lb/ 13.21kg

8.99lb/ 19.82kg

GROCERY

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Kind Fruit and Nut Bars

Dairyland Organic Milk

Danone Oikos or Activia Greek Yogurt

assorted varieties

skim, 1, 2 or 3.25% and Chocolate Milk

assorted varieties

40g • product of USA

Choices’ Own Hummus

500g and 4 pack • product of Canada

assorted varieties

2L • product of Canada

4.79-5.49

1.29/100g

SAVE

35%

2/3.50

4.49-3.99

Silver Hills Bread

Meadowvale Butter

Earth's Choice Organic Coconut Products

assorted varieties 430-615g • product of Canada

454g • product of Canada

assorted varieties and sizes

Tre Stelle or Dofino Cheese Slices

4.99 each

product of Canada

GLUTEN FREE

SAVE

20%

Island Farms Ice Cream

SAVE While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

29%

regular retail price

from 2/5.50

Botanica Omegalicious Fish Oils Coconut Pineapple, Peach and Mango

!

New

32.99

450ml

Hi Potency Key Lime 450ml

Weleda Evening Primrose Body Care Products

36.99

Prairie Naturals Supplements and Body Care Products

Assorted Varieties and Sizes

25% off

regular retail price

product of E.U.

product of Canada

WELLNESS 25% off

100g

255-384g

4.995.99

!

New

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

FROM

Assorted Varieties and Sizes

Green & Black’s Organic Chocolate Bars

Old Dutch Restaurante Tortilla Chips or Old Dutch Potato Chips

assorted varieties 1.65L • product of Canada

Zorah Face Care and Cometics

1.1911.99

2/7.98

2/7.98

Assorted Varieties and Sizes

20% off

regular retail price

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32%

Bite Size Brownies, Canada Day Cupcakes, Lemon Tarts or Maple Syrup Shortbread

2.49-3.99

BAKERY xxx

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Canada Day Cupcakes or Cookies and Maple Leaf Cookies

2/6.00

4 or 6 pack

2.993.99

Happy 15th Anniversary Yaletown Wednesday, July 1st., 11:00am - 3:00pm Our Yaletown location 1202 Richards St. Vancouver is turning 15 years old on Wednesday, July 1st! Come join in the festivities, including cake, coffee, free prize giveaways and live music.

Best of all, we will have a draw to win a $250 Choices gift card and an exclusive entry into our 25th Anniversary grand prize draw for $25,000 cash. Make sure you stop and enter!

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