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Why politicians shouldn’t 12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Bet you didn’t know this: Municipalities continue to work with all orders of government as equal partners to solve some of our country’s biggest challenges. That includes jobs, economic growth and better quality of life.

Also: With greater cooperation with the federal government, Canada will prosper from modern infrastructure, ensure our communities remain affordable and familyfriendly, attract talent and investment, improve public safety and ensure environmental sustainability for all Canadians.

It will also make all our dreams come true.

Oh, how I joke.

That snarky, one-liner aside, what you just read was courtesy of the keyboard belonging to Vision Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie. And in case you haven’t heard, Louie is now the president of the

Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

It’s the same organization that launched a campaign calling on four federal party leaders — that would be Stephen, Justin, Thomas and Elizabeth — to participate in a national debate on municipal issues before the fall election.

Could make for a good rumble, if it happens (and Stephen agrees to hang a target around his neck).

So what better way to show support for such a debate than for Louie to get his own council on side. He drafted a motion and ran it by councillors last week.

But politicians being politicians, they couldn’t simply agree to it without twisting this and that, amending that and this and taking more time to get to a vote than, well, a bunch of politicians.

Sheesh.

So, here’s a little taste of what you missed…

It began on a courteous note, with Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr talking about the importance of democracy and thanking Louie for bringing forward

the motion. But then NPA Coun. George Affleck proposed that Vancouver host the debate. It would be great for “publicity” and “tourism,” he said to laughs from the Vision crew.

That idea set off one of my all-time favourite council procedures (and language-killer of a phrase, to boot) — an amendment to the amendment. It also led Louie to ask this question: Who would pay for Vancouver to host the debate? Affleck said the FCM should pay for it or, in jest, that Louie plunk down the cash.

Hardy, har, har.

Then, in no particular order, NPA Coun. Melissa De Genova, who supported Affleck’s amendment, tried to add a “friendly amendment” to the amendment, Vision Coun. Tim Stevenson inexplicably abstained from one of the votes on an amendment and Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs spilled coffee all over his desk.

Vision Coun. Kerry Jang, who did a lot of laughing during the debate, rose to speak.

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George Affleck, Raymond Louie and Kerry Jang are among the members of city council who want federal leaders of four political parties to have a debate on municipal issues. At least one political party, the NPA, wants the event to be held in Vancouver. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“If we’re going to be serious about offering up Vancouver, then we should be putting forward a plan and a budget worked out with our staff in order to do that,” he said. “To simply create an amendment like this on the fly, I think, again is an example of why politicians shouldn’t speak.”

Then Jang, a politician, continued to speak. He offered up his “rumpus room” for the debate.

But then he took that back, saying, “it’s clearly

not appropriate. My wife wouldn’t allow any politician in the house, that’s why I sleep outside.”

Reimer, who seemed to be the voice of reason during the debate, chimed in saying, “This is not a tourism strategy, it is not a commentary on Western alienation. It is a request for a federal leaders’ debate on issues of critical importance to municipalities.”

Added Reimer: “We just need a debate, although I’m beginning to really under-

stand why the federal government can completely ignore us in the request for it.”

On and on it went until council finally agreed to unanimously support Louie’s motion that Stephen, Justin, Thomas and Elizabeth get together and fight about municipal issues… somewhere in Canada.

“Well, that was easy,” Louie said after the vote.

This is what I said after the vote: My brain is really sore right now. @Howellings

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planner to retire at end of year So it was a selfish decision, I know, but it’s something that I felt I had to do. And when you look at what we’ve done [in the planning department] and what’s coming up, this is now a great time to be leaving.

There’s got to be something more to you leaving. The chatter on social media is that not everybody agreed with the way you ran the department, or that you had conflicts with Mayor Gregor Robertson and city council. So what do you say to that?

Absolutely not — no conflicts with council. The comments I’ve been getting back from council have been just lovely, to be perfectly honest. I believe that planners should be very apolitical and I try and give good service to Vision, Green and the NPA, and respond accordingly in a very neutral way to all of them. I really have an incredible management team that is very, very strong and I enjoy working with all of them.

You’ve made a lot of changes at city hall.

You’ve reorganized the planning department and the development services side of things, increased the profile of the urban design division. So I’m sure not every member of staff thought this was a good idea.

There were people who didn’t like the pace of change, didn’t like some of the decisions. I’m not here to be popular. I’m here to do what I think is in the best interest for the citizens of the city, for council and for the staff. So decisions have been made but not everybody agrees.

As you’re aware, a large group of former planners have been critical of your decisions and your objectives related to development. Did any of that enter into your decision to retire?

This is not about former planners and what they have to say. But it is a distraction at a time when you’re trying to implement council’s ambitious agenda.

It’s a significant distraction.

This kind of scrutiny of a director of planning role has never fallen to this level

Brian Jackson goes on the record to explain why’s he’s retiring after only three years on the job. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

before. I’ve had lots of support from people who can’t understand why people would do that.

What about the accusation that you and your planning staff are cozy with developers?

People say we cozy up to developers. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve had to say no to Bruno Wall [of Wall Financial], no to Ian Gillespie [of Westbank Projects], no to Concord.

And those are things that the public does not see. I understand their perspective but I

will always do what’s in the best interest of the city.

You’ve worked in California, Toronto, Richmond and now Vancouver. How much influence has politicians in those cities had on your work, and what is that relationship like?

Politicians in this city actually play a much smaller role than in a city like Toronto, where the city is organized into wards and the ward

councillor plays a significant role in determining not only what type of development they’ll support but also the type and size and everything else. Plus in Ontario, it’s also determined, to a great extent, by the Ontario Municipal Board. But here, where you have councillors elected at large, they don’t have a personal stake, so much, in individual neighbourhoods. So whether it’s Raymond Louie or councillor [Heather] Deal or Andrea Reimer, or the mayor… I have to shoot down that balloon that’s out there, but they’re not here on my doorstep suggesting ways to move forward in terms of land use, density or heights.

They’re just not.

Am I right to assume the controversy surrounding the city’s initial plan to add towers as part of a new GrandviewWoodland plan was your biggest challenge?

Yes, I would say when we brought forward the emerging directions report in 2013, I had clearly misread the community’s understand-

ing of what high density at Commercial and Broadway meant. We had to apologize to the community, indicate that we knew that there were other ways to land high density without going to a tower format. The narrative, the message and the wave of concern and outrage was such that we couldn’t get ahead of the message. So we agreed to re-set and create the citizens assembly. We’re listening, we’re determining the validity of their recommendations and we’ll be coming forward with a plan sometime next year.

What advice do you have for the person who will replace you in 2016?

They have to be available and on their game 24-7. They have to live by their phone, their email, and their texts because the council is very ambitious, the administration is very ambitious and you have to be at your game 24-7.

This interview was edited and condensed. A longer version can be viewed at vancourier.com.

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I was pleased to see images of the nine and 10 year olds from Hastings Little League in the Courier this morning. My son was pictured in two of the three images and I was one of the coaches. The road to the 9/10 provincial finals is a long and tiring journey for the players, coaches and parents.

The discussion we as coaches had with the players after this long journey and coming up short in the finals was a positive one.

Finishing second in the entire province is a great accomplishment we told the kids.

I would love to show these images to my 10-year-old son and I likely will. He will however have to read your headline of how his team, of nine and 10-year-old children, were “pummelled” by their competition.

These are not professional athletes, they are children and they feel bad enough about losing after a long journey. I would appreciate a retraction of this headline. I would recommend something along the lines of “Highlands defeats Hastings in 10U B.C. Final.”

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

agarr@vancourier.com

Jackson’s departure no surprise

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rian Jackson became a pariah among his peers. No head of city planning in Vancouver has been more shunned or more criticized by the city’s fraternity of architects and planners in recent memory.

That criticism exploded onto the public scene most noticeably last spring. Witness the April 13, 2015 open letter to Mayor and Council from a group of current and former senior planners and architects decrying development “approvals which ignore long held planning values.”

If Jackson hit a low point in his brief period on the job, it came around the community plan for Grandview-Woodland.

The letter specifically targeted Jackson’s role in the approval of an “out of scale” 36-storey condo tower on the edge of Emery Barnes Park at 508 Helmcken.

Former manager of policy and planning for the GVRD Ken Cameron said many considered it a “freeway moment,” referring to the much protested city plan to put a freeway through downtown.

(My Courier colleague, architect and developer Michael Geller signed that letter and wrote about it and the issues raised on these pages.)

But that was just one of a number of projects they found fault with. And there was also concern when Jackson centralized power in his department by shutting down the Urban Design Studio.

One observer called the move “fatal.”

The studio was created by former head of planning Larry Beasley and acted as an incubator for innovative projects including Southeast False Creek, Woodward’s and East Fraser Lands.

Jackson announced through a press release last Sunday that he was stepping down — next December — after three years. It is the shortest tenure any city director of planning has ever had. He told a Globe and Mail reporter he was quitting because “there were a variety of factors, but having a group of former planners criticizing council, criticizing the planning department, criticizing myself, was not particularly helpful.”

He would later refer to this relentless criticism of his work as “a distraction.”

But clearly there was more, which I will get to in a moment.

If Jackson hit a low point in his brief period on the job, it came around the community plan for Grandview-Woodland. Recall the public rebellion when the plan was presented with a series of towers at Broadway and Commercial, which those involved in the so-called public consultation process knew nothing about.

At the time Jackson blamed his “staff” for betraying the public’s wishes, essentially throwing the local area planner for that neighborhood, Andrew Pask, under the proverbial bus.

It wasn’t until another planner, Scot Hein, former head of the Urban Design Studio, quit in disgust and posted the details of those towers and the community plan that we learned the truth. “We were told by senior management [which I would take to mean city manager Penny Ballem] to prepare a maximum tower scheme which we produced under protest.”

Jackson was hired while he was the relatively obscure number two guy in Richmond’s planning department and

backfilling for his boss who was on another assignment.

Clearly Vision did not want another independent-minded rock star typified by Spaxman and Beasley. As one longtime senior city staffer who has since moved on put it, “They want a yes man.” That would be Jackson.

Design criteria and long-held planning values that put this city on the global map would be sacrificed so the city could generate revenue and opportunities to create what they call “affordable housing.” Form followed finance. As Spaxman told me, “I don’t think they have any idea about what planning means.”

They weren’t looking for even the slightest bit of pushback, which had been typical of the creative process involved with planning and design at the city.

In the Jackson news release announcing his retirement, there’s the claim that he led “the most ambitious planning agenda the city has ever experienced.” That is at the very least hyperbolic, designed more to burnish Vision Vancouver’s image than reflect history.

In spite of the fact that Ballem is a strong public defender of Jackson and his work, his relationship with her has been described as “tenuous.” I understand he is cutting his career short and leaving because he just couldn’t take any more of Ballem and her Vision-approved, heavy-handed style of administration. He wouldn’t be the first.

And I would advise that, before the city hires another director of planning, Ballem should first agree to vacate the position. @allengarr

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1. Betting on the ponies was one of the many fun aspects of the seventh annual Deighton Cup, which also included a band, food, drink, a cocktail competition and an award for best dressed. 2. Oscar Award (No. 5) goes neck-to-neck with Carson City Brown in Saturday’s third race at the Deighton Cup. The race was won by So Legit. 3. This year’s winners of the Deighton Cup style stakes Belle du Jour and Gallant Sartorialist were Lucy Lopez and Michael Boulet, who each took home $500 for the win. 4. The devil is in the details. Deighton Cup’s best dressed man winner Michael Boulet shows off his equestrian lapel pin and his pocket square that was printed with corks. 5. Jenny Burns was one of the many who attended the seventh annual Deighton Cup at Hastings Racetrack on Saturday. Burns owns two show jumpers Nightwing and Upper Class, and knows a thing or two about horses and cars (her dad Tom Burns owned a dealership). “This event encompasses everything I love: cars and horses!” she said. “It’s horsepower to the max!” See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT.

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Deighton Cup overflows with fashion, fun and fillies Rebecca Blissett

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As orchestra band Electric Monks started playing in the VIP area of the Deighton Cup, Jenny Burns stood on the nearby grassy hill that overlooked exotic cars lined up for show and the Hastings Racetrack where horses were being familiarized with the course before Saturday’s first race.

Burns fit in with the fancy dress crowd in her lovely aqua hat made by David Dunkley, who studied under the former milliner to Queen Elizabeth, and a beautiful full-length dress in a warm cream colour. She held a jeweled clutch purse, and as a nod to her equestrian background and not

to a certain atrocious novel, a riding crop with a jeweled handle bought from an international lingerie chain.

The crop is a clue to the discovery that Burns isn’t one of the typical attendees of the seventh annual Deighton Cup in that she actually knows a thing or two about horses, and the sport.

“The betting is not a part of being here for me, I like to watch all the horses. I know it’s important for a lot of people and it is exciting, but I like to watch the condition of the horses, their muscles, how they’ve been trained,” said Burns.

“All the horses have their individual personalities and every jockey has a different way of riding as well. Some

horses like to be held back, some don’t so much but you won’t know that until you develop a relationship with the horse and that horse develops a relationship with you. It’s truly a team sport in a way that’s foreign to a lot of team sports — it’s a relationship with an animal.”

Burns, who flew out for the Deighton Cup from her home in Toronto, owns Chestnut Square stables in Nova Scotia with trainer Joshua Buchanan. While she has attended many races in her two decades of riding show jumpers, there are none in the country quite like the day at Hastings, which can add an extra element of surprise to the racing, she said.

“The interesting part is this can be quite spooky for the horses. You’ve got the cars here, got the tents here, got lots of people in crazy hats. You see these things at some races, but this is even more over the top so the jockeys will have to be a little more cognizant of the crowd,” she said.

“There are a lot of distractions, many which you typically wouldn’t get a lot of races so the jockeys are thinking about it for sure and their place on the track will matter. You want to be on the inside of the track anyways because it’s the shortest distance but it’s also the furthest away from distractions. The jockeys that aren’t so lucky and aren’t so close to the rail

will really have to be aware and focused because horses are very curious and they’re going to want to look. Especially the young ones, they really will!”

Race outcomes depend on a myriad of variables, which is why it was a huge deal when thoroughbred American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes last month to take the Triple Crown.

He was the first horse to win the title in 10 years, and only the 12th in history to prove the rarity of a consistent record in horse racing.

“I had one horse that would not jump on grass because it was too slippery, he just couldn’t handle it,” said Burns. “He would feel himself slide and that was it, he’d just stop before every

jump. But he’ll jump on sand, he’ll jump on clay. If they’re uncomfortable, good luck making them do something they don’t want to do and that’s the same for racing, jumping, everything.”

Which, as long as you’re not financially invested, makes the sport so much fun.

“The jockeys have a game plan when they come out…

But they often don’t get to stick to the game plan because something happens,” added Burns. “You have your favourites, of course, but there’s always an opportunity for an underdog or somebody else to come out and win. That’s why I love the sport so much, it’s never a sure thing.” @rebeccablissett

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Hannes van der Merwe (left) and Lonnie Delisle met in 2005 at a conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where they discovered they had an enormous amount in common. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Religious paths lead to unlikely love story First of a two-part series follows couple’s geographical, emotional, spiritual journey

Pat Johnson

PacificSpiritPJ@gmail.com

The omnipresent rainbow flag that will be flying everywhere as Vancouverites celebrate Pride this weekend is meant to symbolize the diversity represented in the GLBTQ community.

The journeys — geographical, emotional, spiritual — that are celebrated in the Pride parade are vast.

This week and next, I will tell two of those stories, which merge into one.

Lonnie Delisle’s religious background was typically Canadian. His parents were a Catholic-United Church mixed marriage and, while theology was a topic of discussion in the home, church attendance was rare. But young Lonnie had an inclination to big questions and when a neighbour in Prince George invited him to a United Pentecostal service, something clicked. He now refers to that branch of Christianity as “very conservative, offthe-charts, cultic actually,” but it appealed because “everything was black and

white for me, extremely so.”

He attended a Bible college in California affiliated with that denomination to immerse himself in gospel music and then returned to B.C. and entered Trinity Western. Some people consider TWU pretty hard-core Christian. Delisle, at that point, had a different view.

Fairly arcane areas of theology, imbued in him by the United Pentecostal church, gave him a sense of superiority over his fellow students.

“I’m this ‘oneness’ Pentecostal kid who is determined that he’s got the truth and all these Trinitarians are not right about the Godhead so none of them are really saved,” he says now. “I just didn’t believe they were real Christians.”

But he began speaking with profs and fellow students, eventually leaving the United Pentecostal denomination and joining a more mainstream Pentecostal church, a move he said placed him in the role of backsliding apostate among his former fellow believers.

His musical talent led to a

10-year stint as music pastor at Langley’s Christian Life Assembly, a mega-church that is among the largest Pentecostal congregations in the country. Other churches watch closely to see what CLA is doing that is innovative, and Delisle became a highly visible figure in the community.

In a denomination heavy on music, Delisle’s role as music pastor was an accomplishment for someone only in his mid-20s.

His religious journey to mainstream Pentecostalism was nothing compared to what was to come. Religiously, he continued to question, moving away from his unequivocal views on God and scripture.

“In the midst of all of that, I was dealing with my homosexuality,” he says. “And being a fairly high-profile leader in the Pentecostal church, I had to do this on the down-low.

I heard of this thing called Living Waters.”

Living Waters is a nondenominational ministry that began as part of the “ex-gay” phenomenon, in

which people are taught that homosexuality can be “overcome” through religious devotion. Unlike so-called reparative therapy, which is now being legally banned in some jurisdictions, this was a multi-week group therapy and worship program that intertwined conventional psychology concepts with religion.

“It was, in some ways, actually a healing place for me,” he says. “It was the first time I could talk really about how I felt about sexuality.”

As he explored his own feelings, he felt compelled to tell the church leadership about the rare forays in which he had acted on his desires.

“They didn’t know what to do, but they knew that they needed to do something,” he says.

It was determined that Delisle should take a year off his ministry. But only after admitting “moral failure” in front of two consecutive services on a single Sunday morning, each comprising about 1,800 congregants.

“And then the pastor

talked about ‘we don’t throw stones at one another when there is confession and we’re all gonna love Lonnie,’” he recalls. “But it was the most humiliating moment in my life.”

The “restorative process” required that he continue to attend the church where he had been a leader but had fallen.

“It was humiliating, but I thought, well this is the pathway to salvation, as it were,” he says. “Then I was restored, as they put it, restored back into ministry. And people were quite accepting and gracious. They did the best that they knew how to do, the church did. Both the leadership and the congregation.

We were all in this muddled theology together.”

But the experience took its toll. His theological opinions were changing — and his feelings on homosexuality, too.

“That’s when the wheels started coming off for me on Pentecostalism,” he explains. He moved from church to church, progressively away from the evangelical side.

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world, a remarkably similar transformation was happening to another young man.

At a Living Waters conference in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2005, Delisle had met Hannes van der Merwe. Delisle was at the conference as worship leader. Van der Merwe was there under the auspices of learning to counsel people with “sexual brokenness.”

In this most unlikely of venues — or was it, really?

— Delisle and Van der Merwe began to discover they had an enormous amount in common.

In the confines of a conference dedicated to fighting off “sinful” feelings and actions, the two men acknowledged, employing some of the convoluted jargon learned at the conference, that they were attracted to each other.

Van der Merwe asked if this acknowledgement meant they could not be friends.

“I said no,” Delisle recalls now with a slight grin, “I’m sure it’s quite fine.” … Continued next week.

Happy Pride Day, B.C. Day or whatever you are celebrating. @Pat604Johnson

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Art, advertising and precious public space Geoff Olson Columnist

mwiseguise@yahoo.com

On a recent night ambling with friends through Gastown I caught sight of a glowing message on the side of a building on Water Street. The large neon letters read, “TIME IS PRECIOUS.” John James Wilson, son of Lululemon founder Chip Wilson, explained the origin of the message to the Gastown Gazette back in January: “My family owns the building and we wanted to use the visual space as an area to gift the city a piece of art.

Shannon Wilson [Chip Wilson’s wife] and myself recently started Kit and Ace and our product is designed with time in mind.”

No denying that. “Time is precious” is all over the promotional material for Kit and Ace, a ritzy fashion store targeting consumers with “high-contact lifestyles.” The outlet on Water Street is a short distance from the neondecorated building owned by the Wilsons.

In November 2014, a Kit and Ace outlet opened on Whtye Avenue in Edmonton, with “Time is Precious” emblazoned above the store’s entrance. “This Mother’s Day, (quality) time is precious,” announces a post from last May on the Kit and Ace Facebook page. “We believe time is precious and the less time you spend taking care of the clothes, the more time you have to go do things that matter more to you,” JJ Wilson is quoted on stylecalling.com.

Given the pedigree of this expression in Kit and Ace promotional material, the 8x17-foot sign on Wa-

Columnist Geoff Olson questions Vancouver’s approval process of public art in regards to Kit and Ace’s “Time is Precious” neon sign in Gastown. PHOTO GEOFF OLSON

ter Street seems more like an inert gas advertisement for technical cashmere than a piece of art. But the Wilsons are free to pitch anything they want to the city, for the facade of any building they own. The problem lies in Vancouver’s approval process of public art.

According to City of Vancouver’s policy documents, “Public art in Vancouver should identify, explore and articulate the evolving nature of the public realm in the constantly changing city.” It should also “enrich the quality, character and experience of the public realm and public infrastructure that are built by the public and private sector.”

Perhaps most importantly, it should “be challenging, risk-taking, creative and innovative” and “reflect the image,

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character and meaning of the city as understood by its diverse communities.”

Go take a look yourself, and decide if the neon artwork on Water Street meets any of those criteria.

“The application to install a neon artwork application ‘Time is Precious’… does not meet the sign criteria, it cannot be processed as a sign application,” according to minutes by the Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee from Sept.

17, 2014. A motion that the committee “generally supports the proposed artwork installation at 21 Water St. as an art form,” with some structural modifications, was carried at the meeting unanimously.

Confused, I contacted the Public Art Committee for some clarification.

Didn’t this gift to the city,

determined to be art, go before them for approval?

“To confirm: this project did not come to Public Art for review, it is not a formal gift to the City or it would have gone through the Public Art Committee as a donation,” responded Jason Watson of the city’s communication department in an email.

So that makes “Time is Precious” an informal gift to the city that was approved in general as art by the Heritage Committee, but bypassed the Public Art Committee because it’s not a donation. It’s not even a sign. I think I’d have an easier time wrapping my head around the Higgs Boson particle.

In any case, the proposal received a development permit on Oct. 17, 2014.

This all might seem like a tempest in a sign shop, considering the association of art and branding dates back further than Andy Warhol’s ’60s-era, silkscreened Campbell’s Soup cans. And in a city with an out-of-control real estate market and the poorest postal code in Canada, the ambiguous nature of a neon message in Gastown is likely to remain way down the list of civic controversies.

Yet this matter connects to the increasing penetration of the commons by the commercial, the adulteration of the urban environment with marketing memes and the compromised integrity of city historic areas. Perhaps over time a number of letters will fizzle out on “TIME IS PRECIOUS,” highlighting an alternate view of this piece of art: SPECIOUS. @geoffolson

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A CBC GoPro video camera on the handlebars of Chris Bruntlett’s bicycle records a day in the life of his family for a CBC feature that will air later this year on The National.

Coralie Bruntlett, 8, sits on a soccer ball during a picnic at Sunset Beach. PHOTOS CHRIS BRUNTLETT

Two wheels are better than four Chris and Melissa Bruntlett chris@modacitylife.com melissa@modacitylife.com

In the summer of 2010, our family of four made a decision that would transform our lives for the better, though not for reasons we could have ever anticipated.

After moving within a few blocks of the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station the previous year and finding our car collecting dust in the garage, we ditched it. We made all our trips by foot, bicycle, transit and car-share for the rare instance that we needed to borrow one.

This was solely a practical — not an ideological — decision. Living in a compact, walkable neighbourhood afforded us the luxury of having everything within a 20-minute walk or 10-minute bus ride. We quickly discovered both could be replaced with a five-minute bike ride. Above all, this put an extra $800 in our pockets each and every month, an incentive enabled by the transportation choices available in our city. This includes car-share, which ultimately convinced us to give up car ownership for good.

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Within months, we began documenting this newfound freedom, mobility and simplicity through the written word, photography and film. And over the past five years, this work has taken us places we never could have imagined as we garnered a global audience on social media and ended up speaking about the (many) triumphs and (few) challenges of our “car-lite” lifestyle in cities as far away as Auckland, New Zealand. It also formed the basis of Modacity, our fledgling communications firm that now works with transportation agencies across North America, including an impending documentary film series for the Arlington County Department of Transportation in Virginia.

Of the incredible interest that fuelled this crazy adventure, we can only offer the following explanation: our followers are intrigued to view a liveable, life-sized city through the eyes of one (or four) of its us-

ers. This has turned our family’s unremarkable day-to-day existence into something truly remarkable, where the simple act of getting from A to B is a memorable, shareable and joyous experience.

Never was this more apparent than when we were recently approached by the CBC to appear in an upcoming documentary for The National, its flagship nightly news and current affairs program. The concept was a simple one: “What if a Canadian city such as Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal invested hundreds of millions of dollars into bicycle infrastructure?”

A film crew followed our family around for three days in July as we went about our daily routine and illustrated that very scenario to viewers: What would that investment look like “on the ground” for regular Canadian families?

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Despite recent gains in Vancouver, and a political mandate to continue replacing car trips with other transportation modes, our family remains an anomaly rather than the normality, even in the option-rich community of Grandview-Woodland and its commercial epicentre, the Drive.

With cycling in particular, city officials could do much, much more. They could be investing more than the measly $5 per citizen per year (in comparison, the Netherlands invests almost $50 per citizen per year). They also could be aiming higher than the current goal of a two per cent mode share increase — from five to seven per cent — by 2020 (benchmarking ourselves with Dallas, Mississauga and Atlanta). If you apply those two metrics to the wider Metro Vancouver region, you’ll see we’re falling further behind the rest of the world with each passing day.

From a user perspective, conditions are incrementally improving but are far from ideal. While Vancouver does have an existing network of bike boulevards stretching across the city, they resemble an afterthought, relegated to residential side streets with very few amenities. When planning our route to the dance studio, supermarket or

coffee shop, our family is constantly forced to choose between comfort and convenience or leave the bikes at home altogether, a worst-case scenario when our destination is located on Commercial Drive. Therein lies the problem: If families like ours don’t feel safe using the bicycle as a mode of transportation, they simply won’t.

The CBC documentary also interviews Kay Teschke, a professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health.

Teschke argues that we could and should make a significant investment in bike infrastructure, as was done in Seville, a midsized Spanish city with roughly the same population as Vancouver.

In 2009, city officials in Seville looked at an insignificant 0.2 per cent bicycle mode share and decided to do something about it.

Over the next three years, they installed 140 kilometres of protected bike lanes. Vancouver built just six in the same period. That 0.2 per cent share quickly went to seven, and then nine, and now it’s 15 per cent of all trips. That’s an eleven-fold increase in the number of bike trips, crowning Seville “The Cycling Capital of Southern Europe,” according to the The Guardian.

With similar bravado and vision in the next five years, Teschke believes Vancouver could easily grow its bicycle mode share to 20 per cent of all trips by 2020.

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Near the end of the filming process with the CBC, an interview with journalist Ian Hanomansing reinforced the perceived downside of moving a family around town without four seats and a steering wheel.

Those supposed impracticalities include, but certainly aren’t limited to, distance, weather, terrain, scheduling, safety and the ability to haul larger objects.

To address each of these barriers, we reiterate that living car-lite isn’t black and white. There are plenty of grey areas. We are lucky enough to live in a city that provides us with myriad options, and — given sufficient planning and foresight — can get where we want without a car when practical and borrow one when necessary.

One thing stood out from our interview.

When discussing the possibility of installing protected bike lanes on major thoroughfares such as Broadway, Hanomansing immediately and rhetorically asked, “But where will I park my car?”

Indeed, the expectation that every driver should be provided with cheap and convenient on-street parking has become the single biggest barrier to building a more liveable city. We feel entitled to a parking spot on the street directly outside our home, despite bylaws requiring each dwelling unit to supply an off-street space. We feel entitled to a parking spot directly outside a shop, despite ample spaces on side streets and nearby parkades.

This attitude was beautifully illustrated in a September Vancouver Sun article “Jury is still out on impact of downtown Vancouver bike lanes.” While designing the Hornby Street protected bike lane, city engineers completed a detailed parking assessment.

For every on-street space removed for the bike lane, one was added to a nearby side street or parkade, resulting in no net parking loss. However, this didn’t stop Mike Brascia of Brascia’s Tailors & Menswear from posing for a photo, angrily gesturing at the missing parking spots on Hornby Street, seemingly unaware of the eight-storey parking garage directly above his right shoulder.

If Mr. Hanomansing took one thing from the half hour we spent together on the morning of July 16, it was this: Our little family does not identify ourselves solely as “cyclists,” nor are we stubborn radicals trying to save the world. We choose the humble bicycle for the majority of our daily trips because it is by far the most practical, efficient and enjoyable way to get from A to B. More families like ours will choose the healthy act of cycling once our cities don’t just make it safe and convenient, but also make it delightful.

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Chris and Melissa Bruntlett are the cofounders of Modacity and are inspired to live a happy life of urban mobility. Reach them at chris@modacitylife.com and melissa@ modacitylife.com.

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The Beast, Drop Zone, AtmosFear, the Revelation and of course, the “old wooden roller coaster.”

Last week, the Eastender went in search of some of the scariest rides on offer at this year’s Pacific National Exhibition and enlisted the help of Westender staffer Matthew Lambert to test them. The following are the five most stomach-churning, fear of heights-inducing attractions the PNE will have to offer and some of Lambert’s observations — some other ride-goers also offered their opinions. These rides are also open now to check out at Playland. Visit vancourier. com for a complete list as well as a GoPro video of Lambert risking his life to help bring you this story. (Barf bag not included.)

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5) ATMOSFEAR

Sitting in first place as Playland’s tallest ride, AtmosFear is an extreme version of the Wave Swinger. The 218-foot tall ride clocks in at about 70 km/h as it swings its riders in a 360-degree circle at an altitude high enough to see the city — that’s if you have your eyes open. This ride is more dizzying than it looks, but entertaining nonetheless.

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4) THE BEAST

The name says it all. This carnival contraption is one of Playland’s newest acquirements and was one of Lambert’s most dreaded.

“Going up and down is one thing, but spinning, that’s a whole other scene,” said Lambert before the ride.

Riders are strapped in — feet dangling — and spun 360 degrees while connected to the end of a pendulum arm and swung back and forth, flying 90 km/h and reaching almost 12-storeys high.

But it didn’t seem to phase rider Ritu Ahuja, who rode it for the first time this year.

Test rider Matthew Lambert holds on while recording his experience on the wooden roller coaster at Playland for the Eastender with a GoPro taped to one hand. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“This ride was excellent, I loved it. It was amazing.”

Ahuja rode the Beast with her two children and noted the ride didn’t make her sick, only thrilled. “I enjoyed it. It took me to a place where I felt good.”

“I think the second time was scarier than the first,” said Tim Mackie, who was also worried about the spinning, but said he felt good afterwards. He was in line for his third time on the ride

with his son and daughter.

“The first time it was great, surprisingly. I wasn’t as scared as I thought I was gonna be. I mean, the kids are a lot braver than I am.”

The Beast was named their favourite ride this year. Lambert’s, not so much.

“I’ve never sweated so much on a ride in my life. I am like drenched now. That was so intense,” said Lambert.

3) WOODEN COASTER

An oldie but a goodie. The Wooden Coaster was built in 1958, making it one of Playland’s oldest rides and most terrifyingly rickety. Creaking wooden boards and the sharp clicking it makes as it ascends to its first peak makes it a PNE classic and Playland’s most famous attraction.

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Volunteer test rider Matthew Lambert’ s revelation while riding the Revelation was that he was not a fan. But he was all smiles prior to his turn on the wooden roller coaster. His Playland ride experiences are captured on video at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Revelation is the scariest ride this year

Continued from page E1 “It would be better if the seat belts were tighter,” one mother commented as she left one of the carts with her young daughter.

She referred to the lap bar that tends to sit further forward than may be comfortable for some riders, giving some the feeling of being lifted off the seat during its steep drops.

Expecting a nice, breezy ride compared to the others, Lambert was surprised — and out of breath afterwards.

“I thought I was going to fly out, I’ve never felt so like … literally my butt was out of the seat, my legs were banging against the sides. It was the first drop and the second drop.”

To minimize the sliding around, it may help to have a partner to ride beside. And to have someone pose with on the second drop, where a camera takes a picture of your face at maximum gut-wrenching glory. Combined with reaching a speed of 45 miles per hour on its steepest descent, this coaster never gets boring.

2) DROP ZONE

On the fear scale, this one should rank high with even the most extreme of thrill-seekers.

Lying horizontally, one to three people wear a harness attached to bungee-type rope and are cranked 100 feet into the air. A rip cord is pulled to send the rider

soaring into a full free-fall swing — the catch being you’re in charge of pulling the cord yourself.

“I love that feeling when you’re dropping,” said Lambert beforehand. “That immediate rush you get is what I live for.

Some people think they’re gonna throw up, and I’m just like, ‘This is amazing.’”

As the attendants strapped the harness on his body and leaned him forward across a bar before lifting him, anxiety kicked in and Lambert said he felt “horrified.”

But when it came time to lift off, Lambert didn’t hesitate. He ripped the cord and got sent flying towards the ground, head first, before swinging back up, then backward and forwards again. Each downward motion was followed with a wide-mouthed scream and wind rippling through his hair and cheeks.

As it began to slow, Lambert just held his chest and said, “Oh my God, I can’t even breathe.” After he got out of his straps, he said, “My heart is pounding like crazy. I’ve never had something take my breath away so quickly.”

Though there wasn’t any intense spinning, the motions have made vomit, or more specifically “protein-spills,” as called by PNE representative Laura Ballance, a thing to look out for sometimes.

“A little tip for people is when you see the rides where the operator is in an enclosed hut, you can largely guess that that might be a ride where you would have a higher percentage of a chance of getting sick,” said Ballance, who encourages people to get to know their limits.

Considering the Drop Zone was Lambert’s first ride of the day, and that he

went twice in a row, as he did with all of the rides except one that day, he took it like a champ.

1. REVELATION

Finally, the Revelation takes our top spot as the scariest ride this year. One caged seat sits on each ends of a 160-feettall arm, which seats up to four people at one time (two in each cage). The arm spins around at warp speed like the minute-hand of a clock on fast-forward, which in turn rocks the cages with the momentum.

“Halfway through when it paused at the top, I was like, ‘Get me off this. I want down,’” said lambert.

The arm first spins clockwise then pauses a while before spinning counterclockwise.

The ride reaches up to 100 km/h and according to the website, the G forces felt are up to par with the kind actual fighter pilots experience.

“That was honestly probably the scariest thing I’ve ever been on,” said Lambert. “That was beyond anything. You’re literally being thrown through the air. I don’t know, I can’t even think straight. I felt at one point that I was actually flying out of the seat and was uncontrollably flying through the air.”

Though Lambert can cross a few rides off his PNE bucket list now, the Revelation might have been a one-time go. At least until next summer.

“I think I died halfway through, I think I died. My soul left my body. Or I just wanted to be dead, I’m not sure which.” @bettylu_2

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This two-storey, 3,493-square-foot “true” penthouse is the crowning jewel in Cressey’s development at 1351 Continental St., located just off Drake at the point where downtown meets Yaletown.

Inside the suite is a double-height lobby with contemporary floating steel stairs and a trio of modern steel globe chandeliers.

Underfoot are 24-by-24-inch white marble tiles that stretch through to the open-plan living and dining room. This great room enjoys the best of the 360-degree views, facing south and west and enjoying vistas over English Bay all the way to Vancouver Island. It also boasts gorgeous wooden side storage units and matching wood inlay in the ceiling with integrated lighting.

Walking clockwise around the unit, the flooring changes from white marble to greybrown hardwood as you enter the kitchen area, the highlights of which are the 18-foot quartz entertainment bar and custom-built, 150-bottle, variable-temperature wine storage. The state-of-the art kitchen units and Sub-Zero appliances are in a recessed section that can be separated off from the bar area with sliding frosted-glass doors – a

feature sure to appeal to those who wish to keep cooking smells in their place.

Upstairs is the larger of two laundry rooms, another powder room and access to the upper, split-level deck where the smaller of the two outdoor kitchens can be found. Up some steps, at the very top of the building, is the piece-de-resistance -- a lap pool with jetted resistance for swimming -- and a large separate hot tub.

Further to the north-west corner of the unit is the The entire penthouse is kitted family room, which out with the latest technology, ...boasting leads out directly to the including an integrated 360-degree lower-level deck, the system that enables a larger of two that total a city views... mobile device to control staggering 2,400 square the entertainment, lighting, feet of outdoor living space window coverings and Nest boasting 360-degree city thermostat, among other elements. views. On this deck is one of And down in the parkade is a private two full-sized outdoor kitchens with a huge five-car garage for the penthouse owners’ gas range BBQ, dining terrace and various exclusive use as well as extra storage space. lounging spots that are sheltered from the wind in strategic places by high glass walls. With its stunning finishings and myriad fine details, the Maddox penthouse manages Also on the lower level of the unit are three to pull off being opulent without being bedrooms (two with ensuites), a media ostentatious, luxurious but also highly livable. room/den, glass-walled corner office that At $7.8 million (plus nearly $16,000 would be the envy of any CEO, a family annual property taxes and $1,415 bathroom, another powder room and monthly strata fees), there’s no doubt it’s small laundry. The master suite itself has an expensive piece of real estate. But it is a huge bedroom, dressing room with relatively sharply priced considering what an integrated safe and a black-marbleelse is on the market at that price point. clad ensuite with a tub in the window for For the full version of this story, spectacular city views and walk-in shower visit REW.ca/news with a giant rainshower head.

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Within design, the placement and curation of an item ranks just as important to its success as the selection of the item itself.

In one of the quickest move turnarounds I’ve seen, EQ3 closed its former doors just north of Broadway on Granville June 21 and reopened in their incredible new space at 2536 Granville just one week later. While they remained in their South Granville neighbourhood – literally a few blocks away from their old spot – the transformation is drastic.

The new storefront is stunning. Housed in a massive glass front space that used to be occupied by three separate shops, the new EQ3 boasts an expansive, bright open concept plan with skylights and a combination of chic polished concrete floors and signature EQ3 hardwood. The layout allows customers to view the full spectrum of the product

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By remaining in the same neighbourhood the move to the south side of Broadway put them within the design corridor, direct neighbours with other big

line, the Marimekko textile shop-within-a-shop and the inviting new design centre with one vast glance. The flow of the store has been dramatically improved since the previous location, inviting guests through the various room vignettes in the main space and into the tabletop goods and Marimekko room, which has a more intimate sense without feeling closed off.

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It spans 130 acres, an area three times the size of Granville Island.

When complete, the River District will be home to more than 15,000 residents, making its population larger than the City of White Rock. This community will eventually comprise 7.2 million square feet of residential space, 250,000 square feet of retail space and 260,000 square feet of office space, plus a brand new elementary school, four daycare centres and 25 acres of parkland – an area larger than Gastown.

A GRAND SCOPE More than a decade in the making, River District brings the visionary outlook of master developer Wesgroup to one of Vancouver’s last riverfront locations. When complete, River District will be comprised of five distinct yet interconnected neighbourhoods and provide a total of 7,000 homes ranging from townhouses to low-rise apartments to high-rise towers. The site’s western edge, where Romer’s Burgers is a popular dining spot, is where Polygon, Wesgroup’s residential partner, has already built approximately 600 homes in the first three phases of this community. They are currently marketing a fourth project, Rhythm, while their fifth and final contribution is in the permitting process. All future buildings will be built by Wesgroup.

Breaking ground in August, One Town Centre will introduce the neighbourhood’s first tower component, followed by the low-rise Two Town Centre. The town centre is designed to become a central, social hub that Ben Taylor, Wesgroup’s director of sales, says will be the heart and soul of the community. There will also be a 14,000-plus-square-foot, residents-only amenity building with features including an aquatic centre, state-of-the-art fitness facility, yoga/dance studio and

squash courts. Future phases of residential development further east will be completed gradually in the following five to 10 years, with the timeline for total completion of the master plan likely to be around 15 years.

MAKING THE COMMUNITY WORK Wesgroup president Peeter Wesik notes that with four previous master-planned communities already in its Lower Mainland portfolio, Wesgroup has adopted four cornerstones that aim to make up a vibrant,

happy place to live. Schools, he says, have over and over been ranked as buyers’ number one must-have element.

“Schools, especially elementaries, bring a natural, authentic social network because kids bring neighbours together,” he explains, adding two sites within River District have already been set aside for that purpose. Shopping ranked number two.

“There’s a social aspect to shopping within your own community that increases a neighbourhood’s desirability – to being walking distance to where you can meet friends for coffee, breakfast or a beer after work.”

Proximity to nature is Wesgroup’s third component, and Wesik stresses that from day one, River District has been meticulously planned to capitalize on its spectacular location. As soon as the company bought this site, they built a temporary trail connecting Burnaby to the east and to an existing pathway system to the west. There are also formal salmon preservation and songbird enhancement strategies in place.

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Imagine chicken strips cooked in red velvet cake batter or a cactus leaf burger with provolone cheese and sautéed mushrooms.

Luckily, if you have the stomach, these unusual culinary concoctions will soon become reality. The Fair at the Pacific National Exhibition has released its 2015 food lineup so visitors can look forward to various culinary twists on classic carnival foods.

“We try and change out and bring in new things every year,” says the PNE’s Laura Ballance. “This has been a focus in the last several years… generally people are doing a lot of culinary experimenting and so we’ve seen the rise of unusual food continue.”

The fair will follow this growing trend with 30 per cent more new food options than 2014.

The Fat Elvis — bananas, chocolate ice cream, jam and peanut sauce stuffed inside a brioche bun and grilled — will make its first appearance at the PNE among other unorthodox combinations like a bacon s’mores waffle sandwich and skewered red velvet mini doughnuts covered with a cream cheese glaze.

For the more health-conscious fair-goer, gluten-free and local food options will also be available.

“A big part of the process is making sure we have the right mix to service all of our guests and the food offerings that they would be interested in trying,” says Ballance. “And I think that this year we’ve got a great range and we’re going to have a lot of positive response to this year’s food roster.”

Doughnuts will dominate more than a few stands this year, with those circles of goodness making their way into several new dishes,

We try and change out and bring in new things every year, Laura Ballance, PNE including a mini doughnut and jalapeño poutine and maple-glazed doughnut burger.

In typical rivalry fashion, Vancouver can look to its neighbours to compare. The Calgary Stampede prides itself on its unique menu items – visitors can bust the bank or their waistlines by dining on a $100 hot dog — a specially made bratwurst sausage infused with cognac and covered with Kobe beef and a lobster tail — or an (actual) scorpion pizza.

“We always look for best practic-

es, whether it’s at a regional fair here in British Columbia or other major events,” says Ballance. “I know that events like the Calgary Stampede, we will watch what they do and they watch what we do. We certainly have a good relationship with other events and many of our operators will play both [fairs].”

Though Vancouver definitely won’t top Calgary for the most outrageous creations, the hundreds of thousands of foodies who visit the PNE each year won’t be short on choices.

“The thing to remember is that these aren’t things you’d eat every day of the year,” says Ballance. “But for one day of the year they’re certainly a lot of fun and food has really become more than just a snack, it really is part of the fair experience.”

On another note, fair patrons and Vancouverites alike will be sad to hear PNE veteran Jack Hunter, known as King of the Midway, passed away April 29. He was 84.

Hunter worked at the PNE for 73 years and ran two concessions offering fair specialties such as candy floss and his famous foot-long hot dogs. Always sporting his big white cowboy hat, Hunter was also known for the 14-feet-long, 150-pound hot dog he built himself using Styrofoam that rode atop his stand. @bettylu_2

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LUSH LAWN: Simon Pinsky, chair of Lawn Summer Nights, welcomed another 160 pretty young things who, in a variety of costumes, flocked to the Granville Park Lawn Bowling Club for the annual Cystic Fibrosis benefit. In the seven years since the summertime tradition first hit the greens in Vancouver, the fundraiser has grown from one city to seven, including Victoria, Toronto and Halifax, raising more than $1 million for Cystic Fibrosis Canada — the success largely due to the creative fundraising efforts of young adults who rally against this fatal disease. Inspired by their good friend Eva Markvoort, a CF advocate who succumbed to the disease in 2010, Pinsky, along with Duncan Gillespie and brothers Andrew and Graham Dalik, carried on with her work, raising awareness about the inherited lung disease. Conceiving a tourney now called Lawn Summer Nights, this year’s Vancouver edition generated another $100,000 for research with the ultimate goal of finding a cure.

SEEING STARS: Fairchild Television celebrated 22 years of serving Chinese Canadians in Metro Vancouver with a star-studded celebration. The broadcaster, led by CEO Thomas Fung, flew a dozen of Asia’s top superstars to Vancouver to perform at the All Star Charity Gala, hosted in partnership with Emperor Entertainment and TVB Hong Kong. Among the celebrities joining the 3,000 guests making the scene at the Vancouver Convention Centre: Raymond Lam, Hins Cheung, Gillian Chung, Vincy Chan, Ken Hung and Sherman Chung. They were joined by local favourites Gloria Tang (Miss Chinese International) and Canadian-born artist Fred Cheng. Benefiting the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, the gala dinner and concert raised a remarkable $1.6 million, three-quarters of it coming from philanthropists and health advocates Jason and Emily Ko, to go towards liver care and research at Vancouver General Hospital.

LUCKY SEVEN: Helping shake off Vancity’s no-fun moniker, Vancouver’s maestros of fun, the Social Concierge, held their seventh derby, The Deighton Cup, at Hastings Racecourse. Thousands of young fillies and mares once again made the parade to the East Side post for a fashionable day at the races and one of the most anticipated and stylish events of the summer season. Complete with cocktail competitions, and a styles stake for best-dressed man and woman, this year’s thoroughbred event was a funfilled affair, attracting some of Vancouver society’s finest. Donning their fascinators and most dapper attire, men and women enjoyed an afternoon of smart cocktails and horse racing while supporting Variety, the Children’s Charity.

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Michael Boulet and Lucy Lopez were the winners of The Deighton Cup’s style stakes, besting some 2,000 attendees who made the parade to the post in support of Variety, the Children’s Charity.

Great Canadian Gaming’s Chuck Keeling, left, and Hastings Racecourse’s Darren MacDonald welcomed le beau monde to the seventh running of The Deighton Cup, one of the racetrack’s biggest nights.

From left, Lawn Summer Nights founders Duncan Gillespie, Simon Pinsky and Andrew Dalik have seen their summertime fundraiser grow to seven cities across Canada. Since its inception, more than $1 million has been raised for cystic fibrosis research.

VGH UBC Hospital Foundation CEO Barbara Grantham thanked Viva Pharmaceutical president CEO Jason Ko for his $1.2 million gift to go towards a lung cancer screening pilot program at Vancouver General Hospital.

Fairchild Group CEO Thomas Fung, along with his wife, Amy, marked the company’s 22nd birthday with a star-studded charity gala and concert.

Leading the pack at the 30th annual Walk with the Dragon event was Premier Christy Clark. The fundraiser raised $400,000 for SUCCESS, Metro Vancouver’s largest social service agency providing services in settlement, language training, employment, housing and community development.

For six weeks in the summer, Granville Park Lawn Bowling Club’s Juanita Tucker welcomes several hundred young bowlers in their 20s and 30s, including KPMG’s Liam Brett, to the cystic fibrosis fundraiser.

Yik Fung Au Yeung, 89, has been participating in SUCCESS’ Walk with the Dragon event for the past 30 years. More than 10,000 people took part in this year’s fundraising walk around Stanley Park.

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AUGUST 1 Having attended the Terry Wallace Memorial Breakfast for a dozen years or more, I can attest to the fact this event is more about rubbing shoulders with Pride grand marshals and catching up with old and new friends than the pancakes. But those are good, too. The breakfast takes place from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Bute Plaza.

AUGUST 2 The Pride Festival at Sunset Beach starts at 11 a.m. and runs until 6 p.m. with a beer garden, music, food, drag performers, speakers and more than 100 exhibitors.

The Family Zone features free and by-donation entertainment, including a bouncy castle, the TD Kids Mural and, the best thing ever, the Puppy Play Area sponsored by the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society.

Vancouver Pride Week is in full swing with some highlights still to come, so don’t put away those rainbow flags just yet. The theme of this year’s parade is Gender Super Heroes.

JULY 31 The Davie Street Block Party runs Friday and Saturday nights in the Davie Village from 6 p.m. to midnight with a massive beer garden and carnival games, including giant Jenga and Twister, as well as new additions such as Human Foosball and the Gauntlet.

A community stage set up at Davie Street’s historic rainbow crosswalk at Bute Street will offer up some of the city’s hottest talent, as well as the annual wimple-in ceremony of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Don’t

Pride in the Village Barbecue: Slept through the pancake breakfast?

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Top B.C. Day events AUGUST 1 The finale of the Honda Celebration of Light fireworks competition takes place Aug. 1, with Team Canada showing off its talent at English Bay at 10 p.m.

tickets available to purchase.

Tickets are also available for a viewing party at Allstars Wings and Ribs located at the corner of Robson and Bute streets.

Clean, Sober and Proud presents Untoxicated, a party in the parking lot of Shoppers Drug Mart on Davie Street starting at 7 p.m. This celebration is dedicated to all who are clean, sober and proud.

The Pride Youth Dance runs from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Coal Harbour Community Centre for ages 14 to 25.

For more information and a complete schedule, visit vancouverpride.ca.

This is the 25th anniversary of the popular event, which saw Team China and Team Brazil light up the sky earlier in the week. The festival takes place rain or shine.

Music simulcast can be heard on LG 104.3 FM and through the festival’s mobile app. Representing Canada is Archangel Fireworks. The winning country will be announced Aug. 4. Visit hondacelebrationoflight. com for more information.

AUGUST 1 + 2 The Powell Street Festival is the largest Japanese Canadian Festival in the country and the longest running community celebration in Vancouver.

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contemporary Japanese performances and demonstrations, including taiko drumming, sumo wrestling, martial arts, bonsai and ikebana, folk and modern dance, alternative pop/rock/urban music and visual arts and film and video, as well as historical walking tours, tea ceremonies and a fantastic array of traditional food, crafts and displays from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. All daytime events are free. For a complete schedule of events, visit powellstreetfestival.com.

AUGUST 3 Considered one of the province’s most compelling, and ambitious, al fresco dining experiences, the 2015 Vancouver Longtable Dinner takes place Aug. 3 at 4 p.m. at the Bard on the Beach site at Vanier Park, 1695 Whyte Ave. Set in a striking outdoor setting, awardwinning executive chef James Walt will craft an exclusive four-course menu that showcases his internationally recognized farm-to-table dishes with wine pairings by Samantha Rahn, 2013 Sommelier of the Year, and service orchestrated by renowned restaurant director Neil Henderson.

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Romance, beauty, creative surges and risk-taking urges, these fill this week and the next two. The whole month ahead might bring back an ex-spouse or a serious old flame. This can be a good thing, or a bad thing. Look at two things to decide: the past, and why you broke up; and your own present motives, desires, and future prospects – and again, your motives.

(However, if he/she returns before this Thursday, reject any reconciliation – and any new attraction, also.)

This week and the next two emphasize your hopes, optimism, and the joys of living.

Flirtations, popularity, cultural involvements, light, friendly romance, entertainment and wish fulfilment are slated. You’ll be happy! Still, be cautious now through Aug. 11 – DO NOT start a new love affair, don’t demand “obedience” from a present love, and be very careful with money – buy nothing important.

The accent continues on home, family, real estate, security, Mother Nature, gardening, nutrition, retirement, etc. DO NOT initiate a purchase or sale of real estate now to August 11. (Despite what I might have said last week.)

You will get a “second chance” for luck in this zone, Aug. 11 to Oct. 7. You’re still rather busy, running around, communications, paperwork, etc. – but perhaps too busy.

The weeks ahead emphasize ambition, prestige relations, reputation, dealings with bosses, parents, VIPs and authorities. You’re the only sign that can profit from the 10 days ahead, so keep pushing your ambitious agenda. The only thing that holds you back is your own scepticism or caution. If this rings true, loosen up a bit and grab the gold!

Errands, casual friends, communications, travel, paperwork, details, news, curiosity fill this week and the next two. You love this sort of thing, and are a natural at it, but don’t let life run you ragged. Realize that some of the things you’re chasing might not be attainable. All week, your health (or work duties) might prevent smooth sailing. DON’T fall in love before Friday, and don’t expect a successful partnership, nor chase “opportunities” before Aug. 12.

The three weeks ahead emphasize higher learning, legal affairs, far travel, foreign cultures and, at home, social rituals (e.g., weddings, mitzvahs, confirmations) – as well as any associated themes, publishing, advertising, intellectual pursuits, and gentle, understanding love (the kind that lasts). That said, you would be wise to AVOID all these areas before Aug. 12 – or, at least, to avoid starting projects here or committing to future actions in these zones.

The accent remains, this week and the next two, on money, earnings, buy/sell, possessions, memory, ordinary (rote) learning, and sensual attractions.

These are all blessed with a mild, affectionate luck this week. Your sexual magnetism and determination, but also your testy temper, remain high this week, then subside. Next week to Sept. 24 will bring a rush of cash your way, and a potential flood of cash a-way.

The three weeks ahead emphasize life’s mysteries and depths, sexual yearnings, astute financial manoeuvres, research or detective work, health diagnoses, lifestyle choices, commitment and consequence. Your intuition will be high. However, the present week holds very mixed luck, and often in the same area. (E.g., sex/ finances can be terrible Sunday, blessed Tues. morning, very unlucky Wed. morning and Thursday, lucky again Thurs. midnight)

You’re at the top of your game, Leo. Your magnetism, energy, clout and effectiveness soar to an annual peak over the three weeks ahead. This week, you express yourself well. Your “good hair days” (your physical attractiveness) is high, and lasts that way until early October. However, your assertiveness (pride?) can be one of your Achilles heels, has been since late June.

Next week, through Sept. 25, you’ll grow even more assertive, sexy, and determined than usual.

This week and the next two, the accent lies on relationships – and on new horizons, fresh opportunities, new faces and places, relocation themes, negotiation and litigation, co-operation and opposition. Be diplomatic, and, at least to Aug. 12, non-committal. DO NOT start a new relationship in love or business before Aug. 12. It would crumple under the onslaught of social mores, financial authorities, government rules, whatever.

You can almost celebrate, Virgo – a long year of poor luck will end next week (bringing one of your luckiest years in over a decade) and a month of tiredness will end in three weeks. But be your usual cautious, observant self this week (and to Aug. 12) as luck is very mixed for everyone.

For you, the glitches and barriers exist mainly in government-related, institutional, management, communications, travel, car, internet, romantic, creative and pleasure zones.

The three weeks ahead emphasize work and health matters. But luck this week is very mixed in almost every area, so proceed cautiously, adhere to safety regulations, don’t overdose on vitamins and herbs, etc. Before Aug. 12, DO NOT buy machinery, quit a job, start new health regimens (especially preventive ones) nor bother the boss, and DON’T start a law suit, buy international travel tickets, nor plan a wedding.

Monday: Tony Bennett (89). Tuesday: Barack Obama (54). Wednesday: Maureen McCormick (59).

Thursday: Geri Halliwell (43). Friday: Sydney Crosby (28). Saturday: Donny Most (62).

Sunday: Gillian Anderson (47).

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July 30 to Aug. 5, 2015 1. One of the most buzzed-about films of the year, Sean Baker’s low-budget, screwball comedy Tangerine was shot entirely on iPhones and depicts the funny and achingly-emotional ties that bind two transgender L.A. prostitutes, played by first-time actors Kiki Kitana Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, on one hyper-charged and dramatic Christmas Eve. It screens July 31 to Aug. 6 at Vancity Theatre. Details and show time at viff.org.

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Tamashek guitar poets and soul rebels from the southern Sahara Desert region of northern Mali, Tinariwen perform at the Imperial, Aug. 4, with guests Insects vs Robots.

Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and Highlife.

3. Toronto three-piece and Sub Pop recording artists Metz gets set to pulverize the Rickshaw Theatre, Aug. 3, with its sweaty, tight, muscular punk rock action. Dilly Dally and Big Ups open. Tickets at Neptoon Records, Red Cat, Scrape, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.

4. When he’s not battling Monsanto, playing with his model trainset or rocking in the free world, Neil Young occasionally can be found in front of and behind the camera using the nom de cinema Bernard Shakey. The Cinematheque screens several of Young’s directing and acting gigs with its Bernard Shakey Film Retrospective: Neil Young on Screen, July 31 to Aug. 10. Films include Human Highway, Greendale, Rust Never Sleeps, Journey Through the Past, Neil Young Trunk Show, Muddy Track, Dead Man and Solo Trans.

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Arts & Entertainment KUDOS KVETCHES Lululemon lager Calgary, we’d say it’s someis the beer where between “Working for Vancouver deserves the Weekend” and “Almost Last week yoga wear company Lululemon announced it was teaming up with Stanley Park Brewing to release a new craft beer appropriately named Curiosity Lager, with partial proceeds benefiting the Stanley Park Ecology Society and the collective karma of all who drink it.

So, what could be more quintessentially Vancouver than a local yoga company stretching its brand into the craft beer market? Here’s what we’ve come up with: • Loverboy frontman Mike Reno releases new line of hemp headbands.

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Although the former Mike “Renoski” is originally from

Paradise” on a scale of its Vancouverness.

How likely is it? Not very. Everyone knows Reno’s preferred headband material is made from an amalgam of women’s underwear that gets thrown on stage and honeygarlic beef jerky. It’s a known fact. Look it up.

• Gregor Robertson gets his eye pecked out by a backyard chicken while DJ-ing a farm-to-table event called “Cluck Fest.”

How Vancouver is it?

Very. It’s more Vancouver than making love to Stanley Park’s Hollow Tree. Which, speaking from experience, we do not recommend.

How likely is it? Totally within the realm of possibil-

ity, although the mayor’s love of dubstep would put most chickens to sleep.

• After growing protests from wildlife advocates and No Swedes in Captivity, the Vancouver Canucks release the Sedins into the wild.

How Vancouver is it?

Not as Vancouver as saying goodbye to Ryan Kesler’s washboard abs last year because we can’t hold onto anything pure and good in this city of dashed dreams.

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by Christopher Gaze, is the best of the four offerings.

A complicated plot follows the adventures of fictitious John Lawley (Benedict Campbell) — actor, fight choreographer for his friend Will Shakespeare, superb swordsman, gutsy soldier and lover of whisky and women. He’s a lovable rogue and don’t we love them.

The year is 1599, Elizabeth I is on the throne, there’s rebellion in Ireland and Spain is on the brink of invading England. The queen (Colleen Wheeler) is — like a bear set upon by dogs — fighting off predators on all sides. And she has taken a lover: the swashbuckling Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (John Murphy). She sends him, against his wishes, to Ireland to quell the rebellion there. Lawley has fought alongside Devereux before but going off to Ireland means losing Tess (Jennifer Lines), the mother of their bastard son Ned (Chirag Naik). Fat, cowardly Sir Samuel D’Esparr (David Marr) will marry Tess if Lawley isn’t around to prevent it. Besides, the queen has an interesting deal to offer Lawley — a deal that involves Shakespeare.

Act 2 gets very complicated and a bit unclear: does Devereux make a treasonous deal with the Irish or does he simply appear to?

Woven through all this intrigue is Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which he is re-writing after its initial flop, plus a tremendous amount of clever humour and theatre history references — including the Globe and Richard Burbage (Michael Blake).

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“Shite,” howls Campbell (as Lawley) as he tries to satisfy everyone making demands on him: his actor son Ned, the queen, Devereux, Shakespeare, Burbage and Tess. Campbell is rigorous and rascally in the role. While we don’t doubt Lawley’s patriotism, we understand that he always operates out of self-interest.

Not so Devereux who is prepared to die for Elizabeth I as his queen, but who is also in love with her. Murphy shows all this turbulence and inner conflict and, in the end, great dignity.

Wheeler, in a fabulous gown designed by Christine Reimer, is a demanding monarch who strides through the play. When Wheeler orders the queen’s manipulative courtiers, “Off,” they leave like dogs thrown out of house for pooping on the carpet.

And when Elizabeth I is caught by surprise in her bedchamber, it’s a shock to see Wheeler sans makeup, sans jewels, sans majesty. In her late-in-Act 2 scene with Campbell, Wheeler has us close to tears.

Lines, as always, lights up the stage. Her entrances always feel like someone has uncorked a bottle of bubbly.

As Tess, she’s feisty, beautiful and lusty. It’s no wonder Lawley is so smitten. Andrea Rankin appears as Sarah, handmaid to the queen, and who briefly gets Lawley into her bed. It’s a smallish part but well polished.

Intrigue upon intrigue, Shakespeare’s Rebel is historically informative, witty, highly entertaining and highly recommended. As

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1. South Vancouver second baseman Vic Domingo whipped the ball to first base for the out during Saturday’s Little League game against Beacon Hill. 2. South Vancouver’s Rayhann Ali mans the home plate. 3. South Vancouver second baseman Vic Domingo lands a moment too late as his Beacon Hill opponent is safe on the base. 4. South Vancouver batter Noah Eves finds a hole in the middle during Saturday’s match-up against Beacon Hill. 5. South Vancouver catcher Joel Elsaesser looked on as his Beacon Hill opponent slid safely to home during Saturday’s Little League provincial championship action at Memorial Park South. Hosts South Vancouver took the 10-3 win but ended up with a third place in the tournament with White Rock winning Monday’s championship game with a 7-1 win over New Westminster. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

All good things must come to an end, even if it feels a little too early.

The South Vancouver Little League squad fell 9-3 to New Westminster during Sunday’s provincial semifinal play at Memorial Park South to mark the end of the baseball season for the locals. It was also the last time players Vic Domingo and Nico Cole played in South Vancouver uniforms as the boys, who were on last year’s Canadian championship team that went all the way to the Little League World Series, are now 12 years old.

But Domingo and Cole went out on a high note, each hitting a home run with Cole’s sailing over the fence against New West, a team that went on to lose 7-1

to favourites White Rock in Monday’s championship final. White Rock advances to the nationals with the hope of following in South Vancouver’s footsteps in a bid to earn a golden ticket to the World Series.

South Vancouver defeated Beacon Hill 10-3 in Saturday’s action at the Joan and Phil Lake diamond while Little Mountain sent Lynn Valley packing with a decisive 11-2 score. Little Mountain fizzled out 10-0 against White Rock during Sunday’s semifinal. Due to Friday’s rainouts, the provincial schedule was bumped back a day, which resulted in Saturday’s games being played Sunday and Sunday’s championship final going to Monday.

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Light speed too slow for new Tesla Just months after the Model S received a dual motor upgrade giving it an acceleration mode dubbed Insane (normal version Sport), Tesla’s decided to up the ante already.

Somewhere in California, Elon Musk is wandering around in a Dark Helmet costume, muttering, “Well what’s this thing got, a Cusinart?” Prepare for Ludicrous Speed. Not everything at Tesla is as rosy as you might think. The Model X SUV is delayed again, and don’t hold your breath for a mid-sized, mid-priced car to compete with the likes of the BMW 3 Series. Tesla promises it’s coming, but starting a car company from scratch isn’t easy, no matter how driven you are.

Still, it’s pretty hard to argue with these figures.

Now sitting above the P85D will be a new toptrim called the P90D: 745 horsepower, 0-100 kilometres per hour in 2.8 seconds, and a quartermile time of 10.9 seconds.

That is ridiculous. Matter of fact, it’s Ludicrous — and that’s what Tesla will be calling their new high-speed mode. They’ve also got a long-awaited update for their Tesla roadster in the works, this one dubbed Maximum Plaid. Clearly, somebody’s been watching Spaceballs and combing the desert for references. Along with a new base model with a lower price for those who see the Model S as a practical rather than a punchy choice, the new P90D will cost a further $10,000 over and above the current Tesla range-toppers. Better yet, if you’ve already shelled out for a P85D, thinking you’d have the hottest thing in town, an upgrade can be done to your current car for around $5,000.

Tesla certainly seems to be — pardon the pun — a polarizing company, with people evenly divided among e-evangelists for the brand, and those who would apparently gleefully see it fail. We’ll leave analysis to the stock market: right now, a stillwet-behind-the-ears car company is on the cusp of making the fastest sedan in the world. That’s some impressively sized Schwartz.

Uber vs. Canada

Ride sharing just seems like one of the more sensible things to come out of the technological revolution.

For significantly less than taking a cab, just dial up a ride using a smartphone app, and off you go. Generally speaking, the Uber rides are quick, quiet, and clean, and they also provide a way for ordinary people with cars to make a few bucks.

There are all sorts of concerns, of course. The company makes the lion’s share of the profits. The proper insurance required to be a commercial people carrier is not something that most Uber drivers seem to even worry about.

Worst, as far as the company is concerned, there does seem to be some difficulty in regulating its drivers, who aren’t really employees, but exist in some kind of odd limbo.

In California, where Uber has declined to provide documentation proving that their drivers aren’t cherry-picking rides (you aren’t allowed to discriminate against a neighbourhood you don’t like, for instance), that’s meant a whopping $7.3 million fine. Fail to pay, and Uber will lose their right to operate in California - although they can still appeal the decision.

In Toronto, cab companies are up in arms about Uber descending upon them, but the cabbie world has its own unique and murky issues. Chief among them is the way that licence owners operate in a reflection of medieval fiefdom, charging huge amounts to the actual cab drivers, and generally treating people like serfs.

Frankly, Uber and apps like it are both a welcome shake-up for the industry, as well as another way to deal with worsening transit and traffic congestion problems. Even if Uber itself doesn’t survive, Pandora’s box is open.

Volvo buys Polestar

You may be forgiven for thinking that Volvo didn’t already own Polestar, their tuning and racing arm.

You may also be forgiven for not realizing that Volvo actually had a racing arm.

Well, they do, and now that arm has been actually sewn onto the body.

If you’re a Volvo fan, this is very good news indeed.

Polestar versions of the V60 wagon and S60 sedan were pretty interesting alternates to the Audi S4 and BMW 335i; however, they were available only in extremely restrictive quantities, so by the time you’d actually heard about them it was probably too late. Just a handful were available in Canada.

Now that Volvo actually owns Polestar in full, the two companies can be combined and streamlined

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However, ridiculous nomenclature aside, the Q30 looks like a pretty decent little rig. Most of the concept’s features have been retained, apart from the colossal wheels, and Infiniti’s swooping, curving design language is maturing nicely. It’s certainly a better look than Lexus and their all-the-grille-allthe-time front ends.

in their production, leaving Polestar freed up to do more development work, and Volvo free to double or even triple production of fast wagons. This is good.

Fast wagons are great.

Infiniti vs. BMW

Just ahead of the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, Infiniti is taking the wraps off their Q30 Premium Active Compact. Ugh. Anything that has to tell

Expect the Q30 to debut with a couple of more modestly powered engines rather than the ubiquitous VQ-series V-6 you find everywhere in the Infiniti lineup. Expect it to favour style over utility, have huge swathes of technology, and given what the Q50 sedan is currently like, expect it to be very quick but lack steering feel.

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