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Guide to Vancouver federal candidates ed election campaign. Ridings that have traditionally voted along certain party lines are also more of a crapshoot now that they have new boundaries and new demographics.

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NDP numbers back east, who the next prime minister of Canada is mathematically going to be before the final votes in this province have even been counted. This time could be

different. Thirty new electoral districts have been created since the 2011 federal election, and British Columbia is home to six of them, including Vancouver Granville. Vancouver

residents only voted in one MP belonging to the current ruling party last time, and the city’s total of six ridings could help tip the balance of power Oct. 19 in this tightly contest-

The downtown core’s riding has shrunk since the last election after losing its southern tail to the newly minted Vancouver-Granville riding. A Liberal stronghold for the past 22 years ever since a first-time candidate put an end to the brief reign of Prime Minister Kim Campbell, the riding’s new southern border stretches along Arbutus Street to Main Street along West Sixth Avenue below Fairview Slopes, West Fourth Avenue in Kitsilano, and East Second Avenue below Mount Pleasant.

Liberal

Incumbent Hedy Fry first won the riding in 1993 and is now the longest-serving Liberal MP in B.C. history. Born into poverty in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Fry became a family physician who worked at the West End’s St. Paul’s Hospital for 20 years after immigrating

to Canada. She is currently the party’s health critic. Fry served as Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women from 1996 to 2002, when she was shuffled out of Cabinet not long after making infamous claims in Parliament about crosses burning on lawns in Prince George, B.C. She ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 2006 and has also served as president of the Vancouver and British Columbia Medical Associations.

Conservative

Elaine Allan has an extensive background in the non-profit sector and has served as executive director of Shelter Net B.C. and director of the John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland. Due to her role as a former manager of the Downtown Eastside’s W.I.S.H. Drop-in Centre, she became a key witness at the murder trial of Robert “Willie” Pickton and testified that police lied to her when she attempted to file a Missing Person’s Report regarding one of his victims.

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Barrett holds a law degree from Cambridge University and also serves on the fundraising board for Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada.

Green

A former mayor of Bowen Island, Air Canada flight attendant, Yaletown art gallery owner and COPE’s top vote earner running for city council in the 2014 municipal election, Lisa Barrett now practises mediation and is a member of the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute. She also serves as a director with Pacific Policies and works with Rising Tide, a grassroots organization dedicated to fighting climate change, as well as the Canadian

NDP

A former two-term Vision Vancouver park board commissioner and current senior executive at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Constance Barnes is the daughter of the late MLA Emery Barnes and was instrumental in the creation of a new Yaletown park named in his honour. Barnes is an outspoken opponent of keeping cetaceans inside the Vancouver Aquarium. She is a member of the Coalition

of Child Care Advocates of B.C. and is a former trustee of the Vancouver Public Library Board. A recovering alcoholic who was charged with DUI after crashing her car into a house in 2009, she currently sits on the board of directors of the Avalon Recovery Society.

Libertarian

John Clarke ran as the party’s candidate in the 2013 provincial election for the Vancouver-West End riding and in the 2006 federal election for VancouverCentre.

Marxist-Leninist

Michael Hill ran unsuccessfully in Vancouver Centre in 2011 and came in last with 62 votes.

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The riding, which includes the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Strathcona and Grandview-Woodland neighbourhoods, is known for its working class roots.

Voters have, apart from two brief flirtations with the Liberal party, elected NDP candidates every election since the party was founded back in 1961. Deputy NDP leader Libby Davies, who has held the seat since 1997,

has chosen to retire at age 60 rather than run for a seventh term.

NDP

After nearly 20 years as the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Jenny Kwan is hoping to make the jump to federal politics. Kwan moved to Canada from Hong Kong as a child and, at age 26, became the youngest person in Vancouver history to be elected to city council. In 1996, she became one of the first Chinese-Canadians to sit in the provincial legislature and went on to serve as Minister of Municipal Affairs, Minister of Women’s Equality and Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers. Kwan has also drawn controversy for playing a key role in the ousting of Carole James as NDP party leader in 2010 and for an expense scandal last year over her ex-husband Dan Small having billed the non-profit Portland Hotel Society for a family trip to Disneyland.

Conservative

James Low has a low profile. The ruling party’s website doesn’t offer any

biographical information about the bald, bespectacled man of Asian heritage seen in campaign posters, and Low has no discernible online presence. He also chose not to appear at a recent all-candidates meeting.

Green

A long-time East Side resident, the Inuvik-born Wes Regan is an urban geographer and former executive director of the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association.

He also teaches at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development and is a co-founder of Groundswell, a grassroots “alternatives to business” school.

Liberal

Edward Wong is a lawyer who has served as a director of Junior Achievement of British Columbia and on the executive committee of Junior Achievement of Canada.

Communist

Peter Marcus is a retired hospital worker and former trade unionist who is calling for increased public housing, expanded healthcare and free public transit.

Pirate

Shawn Vulliez is a selfdescribed “interdisciplinary anti-misanthropy crusader” running on a platform advocating for intellectual property reform, privacy protection and greater government openness.

Marxist-Leninist

Anne Jamieson, a retired nurse with a PhD is sociology, has been with the party since its inception in 1971 and earned 318 votes as a candidate in the 2011 election.

Independent

D. Alex Millar, a writer and former school teacher who now works in customer relations for a software company, is running in order to help bring greater awareness to Bitcoin as an alternative to the flawed global monetary system.

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The city’s newest riding was created by taking chunks of Vancouver-Centre (38 per cent), Vancouver-Quadra (18 per cent), Vancouver-South (26 per cent) and Vancouver-Kingsway (19 per cent); ridings that, respectively, voted in two Liberals, one Conservative and one NDPer last time around.

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Election 2015 The district includes all or major portions of the Marpole, Oakridge, Shaughnessy, South Cambie, Fairview and Riley Park-Little Mountain neighbourhoods.

Conservative

Erinn Broshko is a corporate lawyer and former CEO of a biotechnology company who now works as managing director of an international investment firm. He serves as a director of the non-profit Down Syndrome Research Foundation.

Liberal

Jody Wilson-Raybould is a lawyer, member of the We Wai Kai Nation and Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations.

She began her legal career as a crown prosecutor in Vancouver and later served as an advisor at the B.C. Treaty Commission.

Wilson-Raybould carries the Kwak’wala name Puglaas, which means “woman born to noble people.”

NDP

Mira Oreck is the director of public engagement for the Broadbent

Institute, a left wing think tank, and a veteran Vision Vancouver campaign strategist. Oreck has also worked as a developer of media campaigns and helped produce two popular ads featuring Sarah Silverman and Samuel L. Jackson endorsing U.S. President Barack Obama as part of his 2012 reelection bid. (Silverman endorsed Oreck via Twitter) Oreck serves on the City of Vancouver Renters Advisory Committee and as a member of the PuSh International Performing Arts festival fundraising committee.

Green

A certified general accountant, Michael Barkusky is the president of the Pacific Institute for Ecological Economics and one of the founders of the Adam Va-Adamah Jewish Environmental Society. He has served on the boards of the B.C. Mountaineering Club, the False Creek Watershed Society, the B.C. Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.

Vancouver-Kingsway

Vancouver-Kingsway, much like the provincial riding Vancouver-Kingsway, has a long history of electing NDP candidates.

The NDP has won 12 of the 18 elections held since the riding was formed in 1953, although voters once re-elected a Liberal, David Emerson, who promptly crossed the floor to become a Tory cabinet minister.

More than half the population are immigrants, and Vancouver-Kingsway has the distinction of being home to the most Buddhists per capita of any riding in Canada.

NDP

Incumbent Don Davies won easily in the last election, earning roughly 10,000 more votes than Tory runner-up Trang Nguyen. A former director of legal services for the Teamsters union (Local 31) until first being elected in 2008, Davies is currently the Official Opposition Critic for International Trade, Deputy Critic for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and Vice-Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade.

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Conservative

Jojo Quimpo, a paralegal and musician who immigrated in 1996, is well-known in the city’s Filipino-Canadian community through helping organize the annual Pinoy Fiesta, billed as the largest street parade and festival of its kind in Canada.

Quimpo’s candidacy drew controversy last year after other members of the Filipino community pointed out discrepancies in his resume on LinkedIn, which has since been deleted.

Liberal

Steven Kou is a certified general accountant and a former executive director at the Bank of Montreal.

Kou is the founder of Ekon Wealth Management, which specializes in providing services for Chinese immigrants to Canada. He is also the executive vice-president of the Canada Chinese Investors and Entrepreneurs Association.

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Operations and General Managers” and has volunteer experience at with the Navy League of Canada, the YMCA and local community centres.

Communist Party

Kimball Cariou is the editor of the People’s Voice newspaper and was a frequent sight at the Occupy Vancouver encampment in 2011. He is an anti-war activist and vocal supporter of equal rights.

Marxist-Leninist

Donna Petersen is an education worker and activist who can be heard frequently on Vancouver Co-op Radio. Peterson also ran to be an MP in the last two elections. Petersen, a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, made headlines in 2005 during the teachers’ strike after preventing buses from leaving the Burnaby Transit Centre while she picketed with a sign.

Libertarian

Matt Kadioglu is a realtor and the party’s candidate in this riding in 2008.

Vancouver-Quadra

This West Side riding is

the sixth wealthiest riding in Canada and its most highly educated, with more than half of voters holding some sort of university degree or certificate. Vancouver-Quadra, which has lost some of its former territory east of Arbutus Street, has consistently voted Liberal since electing former Prime Minister John Turner in 1984.

Liberal

A former provincial environment and government services minister, incumbent Joyce Murray was elected an MP in 2008 after first running in 2006. Murray came in second place behind Justin Trudeau to be the new party leader in 2013 and is currently the party’s critic for both national defence and Western diversification and chair of its Northern and Western Caucus.

Conservative

Blair Lockhart is a lawyer specializing in securities, corporate and mining law. She was the founding faculty lead of BCIT’s Centre for Mine Economics and Business and has

taught environmental law at Capilano University and UBC.

Green

Kris Constable is an IT security specialist and advisor for a consulting firm specializing in the areas of privacy law who has worked with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic as well as to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia. He also blogs for the Huffington Post, helped organize three IdeaWave conferences on Vancouver Island and is a former president of the Canadian Pacific Lawn Bowling Club and director of the Together Against Poverty Society.

NDP

Scott Andrews is a regional manager for Pivot Point Family Growth Centre, which helps support adults with disabilities, and is a co-founder of Youth in Development, a Vancouver-based organization that offers Canadian university students hands-on experience with international development work in Uganda.

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Marc Boyer has multiple convictions for selling marijuana dating back to 1980. His most recent was in 2009, when he argued unsuccessfully that the court lacked jurisdiction to sentence him because he was not technically a person due to his birth in Ontario having been improperly registered. His thoughts on a wide range of issues can be found through the YouTube account Increationwetrust1.

Independent

Jean-Francois Caron, a PhD student in experimental particle physics at UBC, is a member of the University Endowment Lands’ community advisory council and is active in Vancouver’s cycling community as part of the AMS Bike Co-op.

Pirate

Trevor Clinton is a BCIT student and former Occupy Vancouver medic.

Vancouver-South

Generally considered a swing seat, the riding has one of the largest immigrant populations in the province, with new Canadians and their offspring

accounting for around three quarters of all residents.

The redefined borders has the riding losing former territory west of Cambie Street and gaining a small area in the northeast from Vancouver-Kingsway. It now stretches from Granville Street to Burnaby and south from West. 41st Avenue to the Fraser River.

Conservative

After losing the Vancouver-South race to Liberal incumbent Ujjal Dosanjh by 20 votes in 2008, Wai Young got her revenge after beating him by roughly 4,000 in 2011 to become the first Conservative MP elected in the city since 1988. Originally from Hong Kong, Young is the chair of the Canada-China Legislative Association and helped procure $2.5 million in federal funding towards building the longpromised Killarney Seniors Centre. She drew controversy last year after mailing her constituents flyers that inaccurately claimed Justin Trudeau was pushing marijuana on children, and again two months ago after giving a speech comparing Stephen Harper to Jesus and falsely accusing CSIS of

knowing in advance about plans for the bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985.

Liberal

Considered a star candidate in the party’s hope of reclaiming the riding, Harjit Sajjan is a former Vancouver police officer who worked with the Gang Crime Unit and a decorated combat veteran with the Canadian Armed Forces who has served three separate deployments to Afghanistan. Sajjan is also the first Sikh to command a Canadian army regiment — a reserve regiment known as the Duke of Connaught’s Own. His candidacy was nonetheless controversial within the Sikh community as he is the son of Kundan Sajjan, who led fundamentalists in a losing battle with moderates over control of the Ross Street Temple back in the ’80s. Hundreds of Sikhs reportedly quit the party in protest of his being named the candidate over prominent businessman Barj Dhahan, who is considered an ally of former MP Ujjal Dosanjh.

NDP

Amandeep Nijjar is a finance officer work-

ing for COPE 378 and a worker’s rights activist who campaigned to force the B.C. Liberal government to raise the minimum wage to $10.25 per hour in 2010. One of her top priorities is ensuring affordable childcare is available to Vancouver South families.

Green

Elain Ng is an independent mortgage broker and has more than two decades of experience working in various capacities in the financial sector.

She is an active member of the Vancouver Board of Trade and has been a mentor to a number of their university and college students.

Marxist-Leninist

Charles Boylan is an ESL teacher and public affairs broadcaster on CoOp Radio who has been a member of the party since 1973.

Progressive Canadian

Raj Gupta ran unsuccessfully as both a mayoral candidate in Burnaby and city council candidate in New Westminster during the last civic election.

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et me ask you this: Are you more proud of your country than when Stephen Harper first became prime minister 10 years ago?

Before you answer here are a few things to consider.

If you are environmentalist, you will likely know that early on Harper cancelled Canada’s commitment to the Kyoto protocol. At the same time he muzzled all government scientists who might have a more enlightened view on climate change.

And while he was at it, in his plan to

If the country has changed at all under Harper it is that we have become more prone to conflict than peace.

In Winston Churchill’s words we engage more in “war, war, war” and less in “jaw, jaw, jaw.” dumb down the rest of us, as well as a whole array of institutions that try to figure out what’s going on in the country so they can set policy, he eliminated the Statistics Canada long-form census.

That’s not all.

If you are a feminist, you will appreciate his attack on women wearing the niqab all in the name of liberating women from an ancient and “barbaric cultural practice” is nothing more than thinly veiled vote-getting strategy. It caters to the racist tendencies of Quebecers to say nothing of those lurking across Canada.

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If you really want to know about Harper and feminism, consider the foreign policy he boasts about, supporting impoverished women and families. Not a nickel can aid any programs that support family planning and a woman’s right to choose.

But I digress. Many progressive Muslims like Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi clearly state they don’t like the niqab and what it represents; but what Nenshi also says is that Harper is playing a “dangerous” game using this as a wedge issue and whipping up anti-immigrant sentiments.

If we are to be wary of immigrants, it is not enough to be able to call 911 to report crimes. Harper will set up a 1-800 number specifically so you can report suspicious foreigners.

And consider his pathetic response to the Syrian refugee crisis. In his view, those people, mostly women and children, are as much to be feared as comforted. They are coming from a part of the world, he explains, where there are terrorist regimes whose members could easily slip into a refugee lineup and be a threat to Canada.

Nenshi, by the way, is also among those opposed to Harper passing Bill C-24 that creates a “two-tiered” Canadian citizenship. While Nenshi was born in Toronto, because his parents were born abroad, he is considered a dual citizen.

He says if he is found guilty of a serious crime, the bill allows Harper to strip him of his Canadian citizenship and send him off to his parents’ homeland.

In fact, the Tories are doing just that to a Canadian born man who was found guilty of planning an act of terrorism.

Now, nobody is saying this fellow doesn’t belong in the slammer. But he belongs in a Canadian slammer. As one American Jurist famously said, citizenship does not have an expiry date.

If the country has changed at all under Harper it is that we have become more prone to conflict than peace. In Winston Churchill’s words we engage more in “war, war, war” and less in “jaw, jaw, jaw.”

We have also become less positive and far more fearful.

I was struck by a comment by Canada’s former head of the Parliamentary Budget officer Kevin Page in his book Unaccountable: Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill. Harper slashed his budget after Page found evidence he didn’t like about the economy and spending on foreign wars.

Page said, “I believe that as a nation all of us have increasingly become prisoners of a kind of politics of fear.”

That certainly is the overwhelmingly obvious message Harper has been delivering not just during the election

campaign, but with recently passed legislation; Bill C51 is designed as anti-terrorism legislation that increases the powers of police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Among other things it allows for arrests without warrant.

None of this is lost on Harper’s opponents in the current election campaign — or you I suspect.

This week Liberal leader Justin Trudeau addressed a large rally of folks in Brampton, Ont., one of Canada’s most culturally diverse cities.

He referred to American president Franklin Roosevelt’s comment during the Depression that, “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

Trudeau added: “Stephen Harper has nothing to offer but fear itself.”

Still feeling proud? @allengarr

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Munro’s oil connection no surprise

Re: “Marcella Munro’s support for Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal news to Gregor Robertson,” Sept. 18.

Mike Howell’s column illustrates why many of us resolutely voted “NO” despite being harangued by bureaucrats, politicians and many media folk. Neither Translink nor Vision have demonstrated longterm environmentally sound planning.

I have long realized that Vision is no “greener” than any of the other pseudo environmental groups that lost their credibility when they partnered with polluters (Nature Conservancy, International Marine stewardship Council, Environmental Defense Fund).

Why should anyone be surprised that a political party, which promotes demolition over preservation, the continual construction of concrete towers and maintains that more and more concrete bike paths are going to stop climate change was co-chaired by an oil/gas lobbyist?

G.P. McKee, Vancouver

Shame on Ladner Re: “Why reward Vancouver seniors for staying in big empty houses?”

Sept. 18.

I am appalled at Peter Ladner’s yet another attack on seniors as the loss of the “home owner grant” ended since qualifying threshold did not keep pace with the city’s tax assessments. The price of living in their own home consumes most of their pension and you want to move them in to some cubicle out of the city. Besides, how is this new young family going to afford $3-million-plus house on a 1980 salary?

So what is next, limit the seniors heath care or euthanasia for those unproductive old “rattling seniors” occupying needed space and collecting pensions?

George Vytasek, Vancouver

Shame on Garr Re: “Penny Ballem’s exit a surprise despite ongoing rumours,” Sept. 14.

I would like to comment on Allen Garr’s column on Dr. Penny Ballem.

I thought I would read a thoughtful and considered piece, which perhaps would shed some light on the motive of the mayor

in terminating the employment of a strong, dedicated and committed city manager.

Instead I read a mean spirited, vindictive and very personal attack on Ballem. It was more in keeping with one of the worst tabloid hacks than an apparent award winning journalist. One can only wonder what perceived slight Garr is holding against Ballem.

Penny has worked tirelessly and with integrity and commitment to implement the policies of the mayor and Vision council. Ballem is not a bully and she does not scream.

Shame on Allen Garr for such a vindictive piece and shame on Mayor Gregor Robertson and members of Vision council who supported him.

Stella Chapman,Vancouver

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Viaducts removal machine Re: “Removal of viaducts long time in the making,” Opinion, Oct. 1.

What a bunch of crap! The city has their hands in the pocket of developers!!!

Speed limit is down on the viaduct and it is a good access along with Skytrain to downtown and the venues surrounding it.

There are now bike lanes too!

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For art’s sake Re: “Vancouver Art Gallery design concept unveiled,” Sept. 29.

I continue to feel that investment in art, not buildings is more vital to Vancouver. I love the present location, providing a cultural heart to the city and accessibility. To have accessible culture in the commercial avenue of Vancouver is of powerful and sustaining value.

Traveling exhibits of real quality are the ones that are highly attended in Vancouver and stand to be more frequent and of even higher quality. To know and appreciate world art in Vancouver would be so wonderful for present and future generations. The ramifications of great art is not to be underestimated for the young and for the populace. The deadlines have not been met and 250 million is still needed even with the huge amount of funding to promote this project.

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Joyce-Collingwood Station Precinct Review Future Options Open House Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 5 – 8 pm Collingwood Neighbourhood House, 5288 Joyce Street, Ground Floor, Multi-purpose Room

The City has been reviewing the existing planning policies within two blocks of the Joyce-Collingwood SkyTrain Station.

An open house is being held to share the following: • three options for future development • proposed changes to the road network, pedestrian and bike connections • community needs and priorities City staff will be on hand to answer questions and collect your comments at the open house. Cantonese and Mandarin speaking staff will be available to translate.

We hope to see you there!

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 604-873-7727, vancouver.ca/joycestation, JoyceStationReview@vancouver.ca

Development Permit Board Meeting: October 19

The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet:

Monday, October 19, 2015, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit applications: 89 Nelson Street To develop this site with a 29-storey, mixed-use building consisting of one level of commercial space (CRU) and 28 storeys of residential (588 dwelling units) over four levels of underground parking with vehicle access from Expo Boulevard.

717 Davie Street To develop this site with a seven-storey, mixed-use building with retail on the ground floor and 94 multiple-family dwelling units over one and a half levels of underground parking with vehicle access from the lane. An increase in floor space ratio using a heritage density transfer from a donor site at 12 Water Street, providing 585 square metres is requested.

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

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Even in Canada, women have Niqab debate reflects racism on top of plain old sexism

Jessica Barrett Columnist

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Forget the environment, the economy, health care, transit, or jobs. It seems our entire federal election now turns on the issue of how and when a woman should reveal her face.

Putting aside for a minute the distressing fact that the Conservatives’ pandering to prejudice appears to be working in their favour, I’ve been heartened to see many pundits defend Zunera Ishaq’s right to wear her niqab at her citizenship ceremony.

But something is missing in the discussion of the federal court ruling. There seems to be an underlying sentiment that although Muslim women have the right to keep their faces covered, the fact they would choose to do so should be cause for alarm. Indeed it should, but not in the way it has been positioned in this debate. Even some of Ishaq’s supporters seem to find the niqab “creepy” and

In 2015, an article of women’s clothing can incite something akin to a modern day witch hunt.

un-Canadian. They would rather ponder whether “barbaric culture practices” may be at play behind her choice — even unconsciously — than why a woman living in mainstream Canadian society might want to conceal herself from public view.

Few seem to give credibility to Ishaq’s consistent claims that she chooses the niqab so that she might be taken at something other than face value. No one seems interested in exploring

how a garment many see as symbolic of women’s oppression might, to her, be symbolic of freedom.

You see, when you are a woman, particularly a younger one, to go about the world minding your own business means being the subject of constant scrutiny. People aren’t shy about sharing their opinions of whether your preferred mode of sartorial self-expression aligns with their subjective notions of femininity.

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reasons to hide Too revealing and you are a slave to a culture that commodifies women’s bodies. Too modest and you lack independence. The fact that any two people might place the same outfit on either side of the spectrum never seems to enter into the debate. Tight pants or turtlenecks, high heels or hijab, you just can’t win. Might as well do what is right for you and call it a day.

Except that’s easier said than done. It is exhausting to navigate the world on the defensive. I can completely understand why for some women, self-respect means opting out by hiding their bodies from public view.

Indeed, there have been many times when I have wanted to do the same. Each time I feel the hot stare of strange man boring into my back, or other body parts, on public transit, I wish I could hide. Every time a man grabs at me at a bar, or trails me on my walk home, or aggressively shouts at me what he thinks of my body, my clothing, or the way that I walk, I do my best to disappear. We may like to think that in our modern society women are free to be in the world wearing whatever they want without repercussions.

The reality is no matter what we wear, our bodies are seen as symbols of one sort or another. Often our mere presence in public is viewed as an invitation to judge, to comment, to touch. The most steel-hearted among us still find ourselves zipping up coats, pulling down

hemlines and crossing the street to avoid situations that are mildly annoying at best, dangerous at worst.

That is while we’re young.

Once we cross a certain threshold, many women are no longer seen at all. To merit notice in our culture, we must appear youthful.

To merit respect, we must strike an impossible balance between the Madonna and the whore. When we inevitably fail to hit this shifting and subjective target, the response is often vicious.

Ishaq and other women who wear the niqab know this far better than me. They are dealing with racism on top of plain old sexism. The fact they stick to their guns despite the threat of physical harassment and constant discrimination is admirable.

To me, it shows they have more than your average helping of independence, confidence and resolve. To question their agency, even in their defence, is insulting to women, both old stock and new. To think Canada is a society so advanced that women should never feel they have a reason to hide is utterly naïve.

The outcry over the niqab is proof enough of that. The fact that, in 2015, an article of women’s clothing can still incite something akin to a modern day witch-hunt — and one that’s poised to determine the outcome of a federal election, no less — just goes to show which barbaric cultural practices are really at play. @jm_barrett

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Public Hearing: October 20 Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider heritage and zoning amendments for these locations: 1. Report Back on the Arts Event Licence Pilot Program: To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to change the definition of “Arts and Culture Indoor Event” to increase frequency of events from two to three days per month. If approved, Council will consider related amendments to the Licence By-law and Vancouver Building By-law.

2. Amendments to the Zoning and Development By-law to Remove Barriers to Building to the Certified Passive House Standards in the RS-1 District: To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to remove barriers to the construction of homes that meet the Certified Passive House Standards by relaxing the requirements for height, rear yards and building depths in the RS-1 District.

3. 616 Princess Avenue (McNair House): To add the existing building to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category and designate its exterior as protected heritage property. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE418896, to convert the heritage building to contain two suites with a small addition on the south side along the lane.

4. 523 Union Street (Paddon Residence): To add the existing building to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category and designate its exterior as protected heritage property. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE418735, to convert the heritage building to a onefamily dwelling with a secondary suite and construct a new infill building at the rear of the site.

5. 2836 West 14th Avenue(Beer Residence): To add the existing building to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category and designate its exterior as protected heritage property. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE419101, to convert the heritage building to a one-family dwelling with a secondary suite and construct an addition at the rear of the building.

6. 458 East 10th Avenue (Mason House): To designate the exterior of the existing building as protected heritage property and approve a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) for the site. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE419109, to convert the heritage building to two dwelling units and construct a new infill one-family dwelling at the rear of the site.

7. 4162 and 4188 Cambie Street: To rezone 4162-4188 Cambie Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building fronting Cambie Street and a building comprising six two-storey townhouses fronting the rear lane, with a total of 56 dwelling units. A height of 19.5 metres (64 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.56 are proposed.

8. 1768 Cook Street (201 West 2nd Avenue): To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (582) By-law No. 11069 for 1768 Cook Street (201 West 2nd Avenue) to increase the exclusion of floor area for open balconies from eight per cent to 12 per cent of the residential floor area being provided. The proposed amendment would not result in an increase in the floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.5 in the by-law.

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9. 1601 Main Street: To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (504) By-law No. 10264 for 1601 Main Street to permit an increase of 65 square metres (700 square feet) in commercial floor space to allow for expansion of a restaurant mezzanine and to add “Neighbourhood Public House” as a permitted use.

The proposed amendment would have no impact on the originally proposed form of development.

10. 3837 Point Grey Road (Jericho Tennis Club): To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (421) By-law No. 8893 for 3837 Point Grey Road to allow a reduced parking requirement for the Jericho Tennis Club, from 160 spaces to 125 spaces, in exchange for provision of additional bicycle parking spaces and end-of-trip facilities.

11. 26 East 1st Avenue: To amend CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District (464) By-law No. 9600 for 26 East 1st Avenue to increase the maximum permitted floor area for sub-area 3 to 11,601 square metres (124,872 square feet) and to increase the permitted height of sub-area 3 to 53.25 metres (175 feet), allowing for construction of an 18-storey market residential building containing 137 dwelling units.

12. 2312-2328 Galt Street: To rezone 2312-2328 Galt Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a four-storey residential building with 28 secured for-profit affordable rental housing units. A height of 13.6 metres (44.54 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.2 are proposed.

13. 3063-3091 West Broadway: To rezone 3063-3091 West Broadway from C-2C (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a five-storey mixed-use building with at-grade commercial uses and 70 secured for-profit affordable rental housing units. A height of 18.2 metres (59.7 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.39 are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 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 October 9 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 will be available for viewing starting October 9 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/ councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/ speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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Affordable housing, transit dominate Those were issues the civic Greens highlighted in their 2014 election campaign and the party won an unprecedented four seats — one on school board, two on park board and one on council, where Coun. Adriane Carr topped the polls.

That victory, Regan believes, will help him in his campaign, noting the wave of support the Greens received in 2014 from residents in Grandview-Woodland and the surrounding area.

“When you look at where the Green vote in the municipal election was really strong, it’s this crescent that goes right through Vancouver-East,” he said. “That’s given us some momentum.”

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Build a subway along the Broadway corridor.

Build more housing that is affordable.

Build, build, build.

Whenever Mayor Gregor Robertson talks about the major challenges Vancouver faces as a city, he goes into broken record mode: transit and housing, transit and housing, transit and housing.

He sang that tune over and over during his re-election bid in the 2014 civic campaign and he’s doing it again as voters prepare to cast ballots in the Oct. 19 federal election.

The mayor’s motive is obvious: The feds are loaded with the kind of cash that can improve how people live, work and play in Vancouver. So it wasn’t terribly surprising to see Robertson sit on a panel with three federal candidates last Thursday at the Annex on Seymour Street to present his case on Vancouver’s needs.

His participation, however, was unprecedented.

Since Robertson was elected in 2008, he has been careful not to wade into provincial and federal campaigns, saying he will work with whichever party wins power. But there he was asking questions of Vancouver-Centre Liberal candidate Hedy Fry, Vancouver-East Green candidate Wes Regan and Burnaby-South NDP candidate Kennedy Stewart; the Conservatives failed to send a representative.

In his opening remarks, Robertson noted all four of Canada’s mainstream parties pledged money for housing, transit and infrastructure. But he wanted more detail, more specifics on what Vancouver can expect from a new government in Ottawa.

So, did he get it?

“It was helpful to get more detail from the NDP, Liberals and Greens today but disappointing not to have the Conservatives represented to hear their next level of commitments,” he told reporters after the

New deal for cities

Candidates from the Liberals, Greens and NDP attended a public forum in which Mayor Gregor Robertson (right) posed questions regarding city issues. The Conservative Party did not send a representative to the event. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

forum. “We’ve heard clear commitments on housing, transit and infrastructure from the three parties today, and they keep elevating their commitments, which is heartening.”

Much of what Robertson heard from the candidates in the way of policy and promises is posted on party websites. The NDP, Liberals and Greens are committed to a national housing strategy, investing in transit and upgrading infrastructure such as bridges and roads.

The three parties have pledged billions of dollars to cities, which they say have been paid little, if any, attention by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. They accuse the Harper government of favouring the oil and gas sector and funding Conservative-friendly ridings such as Surrey, where Conservative candidate Dianne Watts recently promised $700 million towards a rapid transit line in that city.

The three parties say they want to build partnerships with cities. The Greens and NDP are committed to having an urban affairs minister in Ottawa while the Liberals look to renew a working group in Vancouver comprised of politicians from city hall, the B.C. Legislature and the House of Commons.

All of it sounds promising for Vancouver.

But to see those promises through, there is the obvious challenge: Knocking off a Conservative government that despite its critics in Vancouver has managed to avoid a major tumble in the past decade and received enough support across the country to keep a secure footing in Ottawa.

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Wes Regan was in his late 20s when Harper was sworn in as the country’s 22nd prime minister in 2006.

Now 36 with an undergrad degree in urban geography from Simon Fraser University and taking his first run at politics, Regan said the number one issue in Vancouver-East is throwing out Harper’s Conservatives.

“That’s sort of the root of all problems right now,” he said in an interview at his Commercial Drive campaign office, a few days prior to the forum.

“People, universally, just want that guy gone.”

That’s not a surprising sentiment in VancouverEast, where the riding has been an NDP stronghold for decades, with the retiring Libby Davies holding the seat since 1997. In fact, as the city’s political history shows, Vancouver as a whole has never been Conservative country. Aside from Wai Young’s victory in Vancouver-South in the last

election, and David Emerson crossing the floor from the Liberals to the Conservatives in 2006, the city has remained solidly Liberal and NDP for decades.

So Regan knows, if elected, his fellow Vancouver MPs will likely not be Conservatives. He knows, too, that before he even thinks about forging political friendships with MPs, he has to first pull off an upset and topple veteran Jenny Kwan of the NDP. “Our numbers show us comfortably in second place right now,” said Regan, who is the former executive director of the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association. “We’ve got a shot. We’re feeling super positive.”

What he’s hearing at doorsteps is that residents want a representative in Ottawa who can do something about the city’s lack of affordable housing, whether it be for low-income or middle-income people.

The Greens promise a national housing strategy that will be developed by what the party is calling a “council of Canadian governments.” Modelled after an Australian organization, the council would be headed by the prime minister and include premiers and leaders from municipalities, territories and First Nations.

“We need to stop doing things in silos,” said Regan, noting the Greens’ housing plan also calls for a “guar-

anteed livable income” for Canadians and an outreach initiative to get homeless people off the street.

The party will commit $6.4 billion per year to municipal infrastructure and create a bank “to provide more robust and innovative financing and investment partnerships in order to build safer bridges, better roads, world-class water treatment facilities, affordable housing, efficient public transportation and expanded broadband access,” according to the Greens’ platform.

To pay for its promises, the Greens included revenue from the sale of marijuana in its budget.

The party, which says it will legalize and tax marijuana, estimates the first year will bring in $2 billion in revenue and climb to $4.6 billion in 2016.

Though Vancouver-East includes the busy Commercial and Broadway transit hub, the mayor’s push for a subway is not top of mind for voters, according to Regan, who said in his five months on the campaign trail, “I haven’t heard anyone mention the UBC subway, oddly enough.”

Affordability tops the list of issues, followed by concerns about Kinder Morgan’s plan to build another pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet, a project that would see an increase in oil tanker traffic in Vancouver’s waters.

In Vancouver-Centre where Hedy Fry has been the Liberal MP since 1993, the cost of housing for renters and buyers has increased dramatically.

That rise could be attributed to a combination of factors, including a speculative real estate market, a low vacancy rate and the fact the federal government no longer provides incentives to developers to build rental housing.

While the NDP points to the Liberals abandoning an affordable housing program in the 1990s when Paul Martin was finance minister, Fry likes to talk about when Martin became prime minister in 2003 as a better gauge of the Liberals’ commitment to housing. Besides, she said in an interview prior to the forum, it was Conservative Brian Mulroney “who walked away from it” when he was prime minister from 1984 to 1993.

Under Martin’s administration, Fry said, the Liberals announced a “new deal for cities.” The multi-billion dollar plan included money for housing, childcare and early learning. But in 2005, she said, the NDP colluded with the Conservatives to bring down the Liberals and the new deal vanished once the Harper era began.

“We would have been into the 10th year of a national housing strategy, we would have been into the 10th year of a national early learning and child care development program,” she said, noting the plan also called for education, health and housing initiatives for First Nations.

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Affordable housing continues to dominate discussion in Vancouver this federal election. In order for a Broadway subway to be built, a significant amount of money would have to come from the federal government. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

This time around, under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, Fry supports another new deal of sorts, with the Liberals promising almost $125 billion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. Some of that money will go towards transit, affordable housing, seniors’ facilities and child care centres.

In September, Trudeau announced from a City of Vancouver-leased building at Cambie and Broadway that his party will work with city hall and the provincial government to extend rapid transit along Broadway to Arbutus Street as part of a $20-billion investment in transit infrastructure across the country.

“The lack of federal funding will no longer be a roadblock to action,” he said, fronting a stage that included Fry and several Liberal candidates from Metro Vancouver.

Fry said she wants to renew a partnership where city politicians and their counterparts in the provincial and federal governments meet regularly to make progress on major issues facing Vancouver such as transit and housing.

She recalled how the now-defunct Vancouver Agreement for the Downtown Eastside came about after leaders and bureaucrats from City Hall, the B.C. Legislature and Parliament hashed out a plan to improve conditions in one of the poorest communities in the country.

“If government ignores British Columbia, then you have to know that any chain is as strong as its links. If

one link is weak, the whole chain will fall apart. Why would we want British Columbia to be the weak link in the chain?”

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When asked to name the top issue in the city’s new Vancouver-Granville riding, NDP candidate Mira Oreck gives the same answer as Regan: Tossing out Harper.

“Overwhelmingly, the issue is about a change in government,” said Oreck in an interview last week from her campaign office on Broadway. “You hear about people wanting a change.

And the flipside of that coin is around who’s going to be the next prime minister and what kind of leader that person will be.”

Coincidentally, Oreck and Regan are members of Vision Vancouver, a link that has given them front row seats to what Robertson and his team have identified as the city’s top issues.

Oreck goes way back with Robertson, having worked on his provincial campaign in 2004 when he won a seat with the NDP in VancouverFairview. She became his constituency assistant and then joined Robertson as a lead communications staffer in his 2008 run for mayor.

“Working with him gave me a huge insight into what was happening behind the doors,” she said, acknowledging that staff from the mayor’s office have volunteered for her campaign during off-work hours.

Oreck, 37, grew up in the riding, which is one of the wealthiest in Vancouver, if not the country. It runs from Kitsilano to the north

arm of the Fraser River and includes south Granville, Shaughnessy, Queen Elizabeth Park and Oakridge.

But what Oreck has seen going door-to-door are families of four living in basement suites (“I’ve stopped counting”), dilapidated homes (“Many houses, I’m scared to walk up the steps because they’ve fallen apart”) and co-ops whose operating agreements are scheduled to end under the Conservatives; the NDP promises to renew the agreements.

“It worries me, having grown up here, to see the direction of this city because if we don’t start to address affordability and be a partner to the city on creating and seeking every solution to create affordable housing, then we’re going to be living in a very different city in a number of years,” she said, noting she lived in New York City for a few years, where there are one million affordable housing units in a city of eight million people.

“Affordable housing is what keeps artists and new Canadians and teachers and firefighters and all the rest able to live in a city, and it’s what keeps it rich.”

In a speech NDP leader Tom Mulcair gave in June at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ conference in Edmonton, he promised to work with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to provide incentives for the construction of 10,000 affordable and market rental housing units over the next decade.

But a question on the minds of many Vancouverites is this: Is intervention

by government into a free market, which has created an unaffordable reality for many would-be city dwellers, really going to make a shred of difference?

“There is no magic solution to creating affordable housing, but not being at the table is absolutely not going to create a solution,” Oreck said of those who doubt anything can be done to make Vancouver an affordable place to live. “I don’t accept the premise that there’s nothing we can do.

Can I fix the fact that homes are a fortune here? Maybe not overnight. But why have elections then, if we can’t do anything about it?”

Oreck’s office is located along what the city’s director of transportation has called the busiest bus corridor in North America.

Overloaded bus after overloaded bus rumbled by on the street as she spoke to the Courier.

“Not enough of them and they’re all packed,” she said.

The NDP has promised $1.3 billion annually over the next 20 years for transit. But the party has not come out and directly said it will fund a Broadway subway. So does a promise of billions of dollars equal a Broadway subway, or doesn’t it?

“What it equals is stable, predictable funding so that cities can plan for what their needs are,” said Oreck, before changing topics to promote the party’s $15-aday childcare plan, a platform piece she believes is as significant as the party’s housing plan.

She went on to explain that when a family pays $2,500

a month for rent, coupled with $1,500 a month to cover childcare costs for one child, “that’s when things don’t really add up.”

“So you address housing by addressing affordability in general and directly with childcare costs. It’s not just about lowering the cost of it, but it also gives women the ability to return to the workforce.”

Wai Young unavailable

Back at the forum, the federal candidates shared their disappointment that the Conservatives failed to send a candidate to discuss municipal issues.

Kennedy Stewart, an SFU politics professor on leave who once ran against Fry in Vancouver-Centre before moving to Burnaby, made a pointed crack at the Harper government: “It’s too bad the Conservatives aren’t here. Maybe that’s why they don’t elect anybody in cities.”

That’s been a common theme across Canada, with analysts suggesting cities’ progressive politics don’t match up with Conservative policies and values.

Drug policy in Vancouver, which has led to the opening of North America’s only supervised injection site and the city’s move to regulate marijuana dispensaries, are examples.

To discuss these issues and others, the Courier made repeated requests to speak to Vancouver’s lone Conservative MP, Wai Young. In an email response, Young’s campaign manager Deanie Wong said, “unfortunately, due to

our full schedule, we are not able to accommodate.”

The Courier never sent questions, saying only that a reporter wanted to interview Young about city issues.

What the Courier received with Wong’s email were two pages of what effectively was a cut-and-paste job taken from Conservative party announcements and policy statements posted on the party’s website.

On housing: Collect data on foreign buyer activity in Canada’s housing market and take “concrete action to address foreign non-resident real estate speculation in coordination with provinces.”

Establish a new home renovation tax credit, expand the home buyers’ plan and maintain the 2015 enhancement to tax-free savings accounts that allow contributions up to $10,000.

On transit: The Conservatives will invest $250 million in 2017-2018, $500 million in 20182019 before reaching $1 billion by 2019-2020.

“The new fund will be merit-based, meaning that all regions shouldn’t expect transfers based on their share of the population,” the email said. “The federal government will impose a restriction on access to the new funds, saying only cities open to public-private partnerships, known as P3s, can apply.”

And in a parting political shot: “Unlike the federal Liberals and NDP, a Conservative government would finance transit without raising taxes or running deficits.”

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Community CITY LIVING

Vancouver shows its love for extinct Grizzlies

Rebecca Blissett

rvblissett@gmail.com

Rogers Arena played host to the team that could when the Toronto Raptors rolled into town for a preseason stop in the fourth annual NBA Canada Series Oct. 4.

Many fans were thrilled to have the opportunity to watch the Raptors post the 93-73 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in person, but the game was also a reminder of the team that inevitably couldn’t — the Vancouver Grizzlies.

There was nary a quiet moment at the merch table outside the arena where many showed no hesitation in forking out 140 bucks for Kyle Lowry’s No. 7 Raptors jersey or 85 beans for the black hoodie with the popular “We the North” slogan in white block letters.

Hanging beside them were Grizzlies jerseys in teal, a colour reminiscent of the walls of a 1990s suburban aerobics studio, which is a good indication in itself of how many years have passed since this city had a NBA team.

The Grizzlies lasted six years in Vancouver. The franchise started in 1995 along with the Raptors, as part of the NBA’s expansion north of the border.

Both teams gasped for air during their early years, partially due to the league’s restrictive rules (i.e. not

Siblings Teri and Mike Parker picked up their NBA excitement where they left off by attending Sunday’s preseason Raptors vs. Clippers game at Rogers Arena Oct. 4. Both attended Vancouver Grizzlies games years ago.

See photo gallery online at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

being allowed to draft first overall even if they’d won the lottery), but it was Toronto that started to show potential by the fourth season. The Grizzlies, on the other hand, never moved out of the league basement thanks to a horrendous record of 101 games won and 359 lost. [Turn to page 37 to read what Mike Bibby said about those losses] Orca Bay Sports and Entertainment sold the

team and it moved out of GM Place (later renamed Rogers Arena) to Memphis, Tenn. for the 2001-02 season, leaving the Raptors the bragging rights of being the only Canadian NBA team.

But, despite the record, questionable draft picks and stories of head-shaking management decisions, fans in Vancouver still love their Grizzlies.

Bill Sarai drove to Van-

couver from Kamloops with his family for Sunday’s game, which marked the Clippers’ first visit to Vancouver since April 4, 2001, partially for the experience and partially to do his part in showing the powers-thatbe that Vancouver deserves a second shot at having its own NBA team, no matter how miniscule the odds of that actually happening.

“I remember being here for the [L.A.] Lakers and

Grizzlies game and it was awesome, it was a packed house,” said Sarai. “But they were 10 years too early, I think. I was big-time disappointed when we lost them. Because once you lose a team, it will never come back.”

Sarai, who bought his son Nick a Grizzlies jersey with Mike Bibby’s No. 10 an hour before waiting in line to get into the arena, said the city is in a better posi-

tion to support a team now than it was 20 years ago.

“Basketball is really youth-driven and youth are more into basketball now,” he said. “It’s everywhere. There’s some real interest here.”

That sentiment was echoed by Vishal Lekhi and his raucous group of 20 friends who marched onto the arena’s concourse all in white T-shirts printed with their catchphrase #VancouverWantsNBA. “We want to show Vancouver can support another team,” said Lekhi. “We are ready. Vancouver is ready.”

It was no surprise when Teri Parker and her brother Mike said the exact same thing. Teri wore a vintage Champion-brand Grizzlies jersey bought for her when she was 12 years old while Mike wore a recent birthday gift, a newer teal jersey with Bryant “Big Country” Reeves No. 50 on the back. (Mike was eight when he went to Grizzlies games and remembered being enthralled by Reeves’ nickname. “What kid didn’t like the name ‘Big Country’?” His older sister, though, remembers being more impressed with scoring leader Shareef Abdur-Rahim.)

“If basketball came back here, I would buy a season pack,” said Teri. “I don’t care how much it would cost.” @rebeccablissett

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Community PACIFIC SPIRIT

Church reflects Scandinavian laid-back attitude Part of ongoing series on Vancouver’s ‘ethnic’ churches

Pat Johnson

PacificSpiritPJ@gmail.com

It’s no surprise that Pastor Birgitte Saltorp has felt right at home since she arrived in Vancouver from Denmark three years ago.

The Danes are the Canadians of Europe. At least, that’s what one person told her anyway.

“I never heard that comparison before but it works for me,” she says.

It seems applicable when Saltorp talks about her congregation’s approach to religion. Saltorp ministers at the Danish Lutheran Church of Vancouver. It’s in Burnaby, actually, but it started out in 1937 at Fraser and 19th in East Van. One parallel that struck me was when Saltorp said Danes are quite private about their religion, something I find true of Canadians. A few years ago I was at the wedding of my neighbours and I asked a tablemate how she knew the couple. “We go to the same church,” she said, and it surprised me that my twodoors-down friends went to church at all. We never discussed it.

“A lot of Danes are very private about their faith, so as a newcomer comes into the church, they will not be in your face asking you, Do you love Jesus?” Saltorp says. “You get a level of

privacy as you come in as a newcomer. People will say hello and some will talk more than that to you. But we’re not going to examine you on your faith.”

The church has two services a month in Danish, but the minister tends to use the language much more in spiritual care of her congregation, many of whom arrived here in a big influx after the Second World War. Those immigrants strengthened a small community that had arrived in the late 19th century.

In 1984, the congregation moved to its current location, adjacent to the Dania Home, a care facility begun decades ago by the Danish community.

As far as theology goes, Saltorp says her brand of Lutheranism reflects the Scandinavian laid-back attitude. It’s one of the reasons the church attracts quite a few non-Danes as well, she says.

“People come in and they say, ‘I can breathe here,’” she says. The English services, she adds, attract about 70 people on average, the Danish services about 50.

The first thing she says when asked about the church’s beliefs is “We definitely believe in God.” This may seem odd from a Christian minister, but a decade or so ago a Danish

The Danish Lutheran Church of Vancouver, where Pastor Birgitte Saltorp ministers, is actually located in Burnaby. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

pastor who didn’t believe in God made global headlines. (The United Church of Canada is dealing with the same issue right now with a Toronto minister.)

In fact, Saltorp says, the overseas church might be a tad more conservative than the one in the home country because it is necessary from a cultural preservation standpoint to

hold to some values that connect to the homeland.

The 46,000 British Columbians who identify as Danish have managed to sustain not just this church but another smaller one in Surrey. By contrast, all Swedish and Norwegian churches in the area have folded or become exclusively English-language congregations. That means some

non-Danish Scandinavians join with Saltorp’s church a few times a year, especially at Christmas. The Danish church, she says, has in recent decades adopted the Swedish tradition of Lucia, the candlelit procession of singing children marking St. Lucy’s Day. Scandinavians also show up for the Christmas workshop when they make traditional

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braided hearts and other tree decorations as well as cookies and seasonal treats that most northern Europeans know.

It won’t be long now before the rather lengthy Danish Christmas season begins and friends will gather for countless traditional luncheons, starting as early as November and going until January.

“There might easily be 15 to 20 different courses where courses would be like one slice of bread with one kind of herring and one slice of bread with another kind of herring and then you would eat your liver pate with bacon on the third slice of bread and many other things that are very important to the Danes,” she says.

Old traditions also animate Lent, the six-week period leading up to Easter.

In particular, Mardi Gras — the last big shindig before the solemnity and fasting of the Lenten period — is a fun time especially for kids. A wooden barrel is filled with candy and beaten with baseball bats or the like, piñata-style, until the contents spill out and are snatched up by the young.

Do they have to gobble it all down immediately before Lent begins, I ask.

Saltorp laughs.

“No,” she replies. “Like I said, we’re quite laid-back.” @Pat604Johnson

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Opinion

New art gallery concept needs redesign

Michael Geller Columnist

michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com

While I didn’t know what to expect, it was definitely not what I was expecting!

This was my initial thought when I first saw a drawing of the wood clad pagoda-type structure proposed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron for the new Vancouver Art Gallery.

As a former VAG trustee and a member of its Expansion Committee, I had been eagerly awaiting the plans.

While I previously went on record as preferring an expansion on the existing site, I accepted that this was no longer the game plan.

Having left the Board of Trustees a decade ago, I had not been involved in the subsequent planning, nor the architect selection process. However, I was not a fan of the firm chosen, having recently visited their very unusual and overbudget philharmonic hall in Hamburg, and austere Tate Modern gallery in London.

Nonetheless, many of my friends are great supporters of the VAG and as a city resident, I want to see the new gallery project succeed. As Board Chair Bruce Munro Wright said at the unveiling, we must all be positive.

There are a number of aspects of the plans that please me. I am happy the architects have not designed a contrived geometric shape that would be expensive to build and difficult to use.

I am also pleased to see a large, public outdoor space, although I do not like how the building design cuts off this plaza from all the surrounding streets.

More importantly, I do not like the massing and appearance of the building as viewed along Georgia

Street, nor the unrelenting exterior wood cladding.

I love wood, especially when it is new, or like my outdoor deck, allowed to gracefully turn silver (before turning dirty and black).

Travelling around Europe I have seen wood used on a number of large, new buildings. However, when it is not properly maintained, it fades and looks quite unpleasant.

Architects are increasingly using wood, and wood-like products on new buildings

If this building is built, and I worry the design will not help raise the necessary funds as many hope, the building will need considerable redesign. around Vancouver quite successfully. However, the new art gallery has 12 storeys of wood cladding, with a lot more wood inside. I worry how it will wear over time.

I attended the architect’s presentation at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre last Tuesday evening and left feeling disappointed. The senior partner, Christine Binswanger (sadly neither of the firms founding principals thought it important enough to attend) seemed rather vague as to how the wood cladding would be detailed, noting that in the past it had been burned or painted.

Surely neither would be contemplated here.

Following the unveiling, as the design was debated on social media, one of my former colleagues now living in London UK, offered some interesting observations.

He noted it is difficult to design an art gallery that fits well with its surroundings since it is by its very nature an internally-focused structure. However, in evaluating this proposal one might ask some questions: Does the building honour its urban context? Does it do an outstanding job of integrating ground floor uses and connecting them to the life of our streets? What will it feel like to be there at all hours of the day and night?

How will the building age?

Does it reflect our West Coast design culture? And does it approach the excellence of some of our other gallery-like buildings such as Arthur Erickson’s Museum of Anthropology?

Having viewed the detailed plans, I believe aspects of the gallery layout could be very successful both day and night, including the many covered outdoor spaces.

However, while the architects said the building design was inspired by its context and the city, I do not think it honours Vancouver.

Nor do I think it will age well.

More importantly, I do not think this is a beautiful public building, like the one that was universally admired when first unveiled in the early 1980s — the first Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre with its ship-like design and sails. It belongs here.

If this building is built, and I worry the design will not help raise the necessary funds as many hope, the building will need considerable redesign.

Otherwise, it will never meet my expectations. @michaelgeller

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Election 2015 ANALYSIS

Vision influence felt on federal election trail Bob Mackin

bob@bobmackin.ca

Mayor Gregor Robertson is showing signs of campaign fever.

Fresh from the first defeat of his political career, the Vision Vancouver-led Yes campaign for TransLink expansion, Robertson is among the “Stop Harper” forces two years after Liberal leader Justin Trudeau unsuccessfully courted Robertson to run federally.

He emerged from summer vacation to host a Sept. 8 forum at city hall on a federal issue, the Syrian refugee crisis. Vancouver Quadra Liberal MP Joyce Murray, wearing bright Liberal red, was introduced from her front row seat. Robertson aide Braeden Caley just so happens to be president of the Liberal Party of Canada in B.C., but it was then-city manager Penny Ballem who took one for the team. She claimed to be the one that OK’d Trudeau’s Sept. 10 news conference on the roof of civic engineering offices, not normally a partisan political venue.

Trudeau channeled Robertson in a speech promising to spend $20 billion from taxpayers on public transit as on-leave city hall bureaucrat Jessie Adcock stood behind him. The $170,280-ayear chief digital officer is running for the $167,400 job of Member of Parliament in Port MoodyCoquitlam. Adcock told her @VancouverCDO Twitter followers on Aug. 5 to follow @JessieAdcock until Oct. 20, but she retweeted Aug. 26 from her city hall account

a photo of her behind exPrime Minister Paul Martin at a Liberal photo op.

When it was noticed, she quietly pulled the plug on @VancouverCDO. Robertson’s name was on the list of 300 supporters in a Sept. 8 letter demanding Prime Minister Stephen Harper lobby the Egyptian government to free Al-Jazeera’s Mohamed Fahmy. A rare show of support for a journalist by a mayor who vowed, at his 2008 swearing-in, “I will not let you down on making city hall more open and accountable.” Vancouver city hall is one of Canada’s most-secretive, according to a 2014 Newspapers Canada report.

He was front-andcentre at an Oct. 1 Simon Fraser University Downtown election forum on transit and housing.

Robertson often blames the feds for not helping him fulfill Vision’s 2008 promise to end street homelessness by 2015. He missed TransLink’s Sept.

25 board meeting in New Westminster to be in New York to launch Vancouver Economic Commission’s climate change campaign.

VEC’s 2013-hired president is ex-Liberal Party of Canada CEO Ian McKay, who also attended Trudeau’s news conference in Vancouver.

Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs has appeared at NDP campaign events with leader Tom Mulcair and Vancouver-Granville candidate Mira Oreck, an East Vancouverite getting help from another Robertson aide, Kevin Quinlan. Oreck was Robertson’s aide during

his abbreviated term as an NDP MLA, produced salty viral videos promoting Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election and is the public engagement director for the left-wing Broadbent Institute think tank. Her nominators include Vision-allied public relations agent Lesli Boldt, whose company moved in with Vision’s polling and robocalling partner Strategic Communications in 2013. When the Province newspaper caught the company paying the NDP’s Punjabi-speaking phone canvassers $13-anhour, Stratcom blamed a

subcontractor and vowed to give them the same $17-an-hour rate as English speakers.

In Vancouver-Centre, the fourth name on the list of nominators for longtime Liberal incumbent Hedy Fry is Trevor Loke. The ex-Vision parks board chair snubbed the NDP’s Constance Barnes, his ex-caucus mate, with this carefully worded endorsement: “I worked closely with the NDP’s candidate.

I also worked with Hedy Fry. This election is about judgment and experience — and that’s why I’m supporting Hedy Fry.” Veteran Fry campaign-

er Paul Nixey is Vision’s co-chair. Fry’s nomination signatories also include Steve Kukucha and Diamond Isinger.

They have addresses on separate floors of the same West End condo tower where Robertson was believed to be living during last year’s civic election.

Kukucha was working behind the scenes at Trudeau’s Sept. 10 West Vancouver campaign stop with Vision board member Brittney Kerr. The “ku” in Wazuku Advisory Group (which donated $3,100 to Vision in 2014) is a registered B.C. lobbyist

for Enbridge and was the so-called “wagon master” for Premier Christy Clark in the 2013 B.C. election. Isinger is the veteran Vision and Liberal social media strategist.

Even Leadnow, the group encouraging antiHarper strategic voting, has a Robertson link. Executive director Lyndsay Poaps was on the Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force that recommended a citizen polling website in its May 2013 report. But plans for Angus Reid’s $152,080 no-bid Talk Vancouver website were already well-advanced. @bobmackin

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Property Tax Exemptions for 2016 The City of Vancouver hereby gives notice of the intention of City Council to exempt certain eligible not-for-profit properties used for senior citizens housing from taxation for one year (2016 taxation year).

The properties to be considered for exemption in 2016, including an estimate of the amount of City taxes that would be imposed without the exemption for 2016 and the following two years, are shown in the table below.

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Baptist Foundation of BC

2 6 6 -7 7 2-2 6 - 0 0 0 0

15,300

15,700

16,200

Baptist Foundation of BC

765 -266 - 0 6 - 0000

36,200

37,300

38,400

Baptist Housing Society of BC

6 3 1 -2 3 2- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

73,700

75,900

78,100

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -92- 0000

21,100

21,700

22,300

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300 -52- 0000

37,100

38,300

39,400

Beulah Garden Homes Society

634-300-04-0000

31,300

32,200

33,200

BG Aspen Green Society

6 3 4 -30 0 -1 5 - 0 0 0 0

8,500

8,800

9,000

Broadway Pentecostal Benevolent Association of BC

6 5 0 -274 -27- 0 0 0 0

25,700

26,500

27,200

Calling Ministries

7 1 0 - 072- 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

44,200

45,600

46,900

Chau Luen Kon Sol Society of Vancouver

1 9 2- 5 9 2- 9 2- 0 0 0 0

20,300

20,900

21,500

Christ Church of China

1 9 2-5 9 2- 0 4 - 0 0 0 0

12,300

12,700

13,100

Columbus Charities Association

30 6-720 -45 - 0000

22,300

23,000

23,700

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

8 2 8 -2 5 1 - 9 4 - 0 0 0 0

12,400

12,800

13,200

Finnish Canadian Rest Home Association

828 -258 - 0 6 - 0 0 0 0

6,100

6,300

6,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

63 8 - 07 7- 07- 0 0 0 0

11,800

12,200

12,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

648-078-05-0000

6,500

6,700

6,900

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 4 5 -1 9 4 - 47- 0 0 0 0

8,600

8,900

9,200

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 41 -2 3 4 -2 0 - 0 0 0 0

8,700

9,000

9,200

HFBC Housing Foundation

665 -230 - 68- 0000

6,100

6,300

6,500

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -83- 0000

5,000

5,200

5,300

HFBC Housing Foundation

670 -230 -89 - 0000

6,700

6,900

7,100

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 8 3 -230 - 82- 0 0 0 0

5,100

5,300

5,400

HFBC Housing Foundation

72 2-28 3 - 4 8 - 0 0 0 0

27,000

27,800

28,700

HFBC Housing Foundation

6 0 5 -1 1 3 - 6 6 - 0 0 0 0

13,500

13,900

14,300

King Edward Court Society

7 1 0 - 07 2-9 5 - 0 0 0 0

22,600

23,300

24,000

M Kopernik Nicolaus Copernicus Foundation

8 1 7-3 0 0 -2 2- 0 0 0 0

6,400

6,600

6,800

Mennonite Senior Citizens Society of BC

7 5 5 -2 3 7- 5 1 - 0 0 0 0

35,200

36,300

37,400

New Chelsea Society

270 - 670 -95 - 0000

10,800

11,100

11,400

New Chelsea Society

693-253- 6 4- 0 0 0 0

36,200

37,300

38,400

Odd Fellows Low Rental Housing Society

3 1 8 -7 2 5 - 9 5 - 0 0 0 0

11,100

11,500

11,800

Parish of St. Paul Vancouver

6 0 9 -1 1 7- 4 4 - 0 0 0 0

30,400

31,300

32,200

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver

59 6 -1 9 6 - 49 - 0 0 0 0

9,500

9,800

10,100

Society for Christian Care of the Elderly

6 13 -1 1 9 -5 4 - 0 0 0 0

68,900

70,900

73,100

Soroptimist Club of Vancouver BC

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9,900

10,200

10,500

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5,000

5,100

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8,800

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14,100

14,500

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Election 2015 OPINION

Drawing the line on the Nixon of the north

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I drew my first political cartoon at the age of 12, of U.S. president Richard Nixon as a dove clenching an olive branch while squatting on a black egg with tailfins.

It was for an assignment in social studies class, meant to sum up the ambivalent public image of the president at the time: the broker of détente with Red China versus the warmonger who conducted covert bombing raids on Cambodia.

Looking back at years of blackening blank paper with political caricatures, I can now see an uncanny resemblance between the late, disgraced prez and Canada’s current PM — in word and deed, rather than appearance.

Foul mouth, explosive temper, social isolation?

Check. (See reporter John Ibbutson’s recent article in the Globe and Mail.)

Embracing a culture of surveillance? Check.

Nixon directed the FBI to investigate clear and present dangers like the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, while his aide Henry Kissinger ordered wiretaps on other White House staff and newspaper reporters. In contrast, Harper has issued gag orders to his own federal scientists and researchers. He introduced Bill C-51, which may allow future governments to interpret democratic dissent as a national security threat.

Turning elected office into a private fiefdom? Check.

Nixon ended his White House days with a garrison mentality. Harper has made the PMO into the arbiter of parliamentary will in Ottawa, while demanding his MPs

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behave like parrots with talking points. (Before the plan was rescinded, civil servants were directed to head documents with “The Harper Government of Canada.”)

A July 2014 Globe and Mail study determined that “Ottawa has funnelled 83 per cent of the projects under its signature infrastructure fund to Conservative-held ridings.” If that’s not using federal power for political ends, I don’t know what is.

Enthusiasm for militarism?

Check. Nixon campaigned on withdrawing troops from Vietnam and once elected, escalated the invasion of Southeast Asia. Harper, though obviously not of this calibre or caliber, endorses Canadian airstrikes in the Mideast while presiding over our nation’s rise as a global arms contractor.

Official contempt? Check.

Nixon was found in contempt of Congress in 1974, leading to his impeachment. Harper’s government was found in contempt of Parliament in 2011, a first in Canadian history, leading to… an election call.

Assault on the environment? No check here. Nixon signed the Clean Air Act Extension, the Safe Water Drinking Act, the Endangered Species Act, and other significant pieces of environmental legislation. In contrast, Harper has trashed the Kyoto Protocol, scrapped the Navigable Water Protection Act and closed down Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries across the country, leading to a loss of invaluable books and documents.

In key areas, old Helmet Hair is actually worse than Tricky Dicky. Nixon’s administration created the Public Broadcasting System, while the Harper

government is out to gut the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. No president ever turned the lights out on Congress, but the PM has shuttered Parliament twice through proroguing.

From using the Canada Revenue Agency as a bludgeon against non-profits and charities that dare question government policies, to eliminating the long-form census and cutting funds to Statistics Canada, the lengthy list of parliamentary offences committed by the Harper regime would take up an entire edition of this paper, including the ad space.

Tory apologists will tell you the economy has performed well under the party’s reign — and it has, for a select demographic.

In 2012, the 86 wealthiest Canadians resident individuals (and families) possessed the same amount of wealth as the poorest 11.4 million Canadians combined.

Back when I drew that cartoon of a bomb-hatching Nixon, our nation was held in high regard internationally as a broker of peace. On the domestic front, the feds exercised fairly progressive ideas about creating greater good for the greatest number. My father was just able to support a wife and four kids on a lower-middle class income. That Canada is gone and the Harperites appear to be, in military parlance, out to “make the rubble bounce twice.”

Many believe this to be the most important election in Canadian history. Hence online initiatives like the Vote Together campaign, which promotes strategic voting to deny another win to the Nixon of the North. Me, I drew the line on this character a long time ago. @geoffolson

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Homes

Vancouver house prices still climbing Sellers’ market persists Joannah Connolly

REW.ca

Sellers’ market conditions are showing no sign of abating in Metro Vancouver real estate as demand continues to far outstrip supply, according to Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) figures released Oct. 5.

Home sales were up 14.5 per cent annually in September and prices up 13.7 per cent compared with September 2014. However, both these annual growth rates have slowed compared with recent months.

September also saw the third consecutive monthly drop in home sales, following June’s huge transaction volumes, with sales down another 0.5 per cent compared with August.

Despite this, last month’s sales were 32.9 per cent above the 10-year average for the month.

REBGV president Darcy McLeod said, “Residential home sales have been trending at 25 to 30 per cent above the 10-year sales average for most of the year.”

Sales and Listings

Greater Vancouver home sales rose 14.5 per cent to 3,345 units in September, compared with the 2,922 sales of September 2015.

This is a 0.5 per cent decrease compared to the 3,362 sales in August 2015.

Broken down by housing type, detached home sales saw the most surprising results, with the limited available listings dampening transaction volumes. There were 1,272 single-family home sales in September,

an increase of just 0.2 per cent — or two homes — compared with the 1,270 sales in September 2014.

It was a different story in condo-apartment sales, which once again saw the biggest annual rise, the 1,529 units sold a 28.7 per cent rise over the 1,188 in September 2014. This is a testament to the much greater increase in supply of these properties, compared with detached homes, and a shift in urban living trends.

Sales of townhouses and other attached properties totalled 544, an increase of 17.2 per cent compared with the 464 sales in September 2014.

New listings in Metro Vancouver continued to fall year over year, totalling 4,846 in September, a 7.9 per cent drop compared with the 5,259 new listings reported in September 2014. However, this was a 13.2 per cent rise over August’s new listings, as sellers waiting for fall put their properties on the market.

The total number of properties listed for sale on the board’s MLS at the end of September was 10,805, a 27 per cent decline compared with September 2014 and a 0.8 per cent drop from August 2015.

“At no point this year has the number of homes listed for sale exceeded 14,000, which is the first time this has occurred in the region since 2007,” said McLeod.

The sales-to-active-listings ratio in September was 31 per cent. This is the seventh consecutive month that this ratio has been above 30 per cent in Metro Vancouver, meaning that the sellers’

market conditions are as strong as ever, putting upwards pressure on prices.

McLeod added, “The number of homes listed for sale hasn’t been keeping up with the demand. It’s this dynamic that’s placing upward pressure on home prices, particularly in the detached home market.”

Benchmark Prices

(MLS Home Price Index) The benchmark price for combined MLS residential property types in Metro Vancouver continued to set its monthly new record, now standing at $722,300.

This represents a 13.7 per cent increase compared with September 2014.

The benchmark price for a detached property in Metro Vancouver increased 18.9 per cent from September 2014 to $1,179,700, again the highest annual price growth rate of all the property types, reflecting the short supply and everpresent demand for these homes.

Condo-apartment benchmark prices increased nine per cent from September 2014 to $415,100, which is an accelerating rate of price growth as demand for condos increases.

The benchmark price of a townhome or other attached unit increased 8.1 per cent between September 2014 and 2015 to $518,600.

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The Good Life WORDS BY JOANNAH CONNOLLY REW.CA

Community and service are key at Private Residences at Hotel Georgia A sense of community and belonging.

2011 after a tough few recession years.

This might not seem synonymous with luxury high-rise living in downtown Vancouver, where you might imagine wealthy international types using a unit as a crash pad in their jet-setting lifestyle, leaving it empty half the year and never getting to know their neighbours. But not so at Private Residences at Hotel Georgia, according to developer Bruce Langereis, president of Delta Land Group, the company that completed the tower in

“Value is driven by a lot of dynamics, but what’s important is having a building where there is a culture of ownership – it’s more than just about kitchens and finishings,” says Langereis. “[The building] has fulfilled our goals and dreams about creating that really good culture. [Our buyers] are going to rise

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to the next level and say ‘What’s the culture like at this building?’ – and not just check strata minutes and documentation.”

Langereis should know, having been a resident at the building since completion.

“I’ve lived and breathed this building for seven or eight years now,” he tells REW.ca.

SERVICE & AMENITIES Part of what makes the building so eminently livable is the level of service residents enjoy – for an additional fee, they can indulge in all the Hotel Georgia provides, such as

maid and room service.

And included in their strata fees are access to all the hotel’s luxurious amenities – swimming pool, spa and so on – as well as door-to-door garbage and recycling collection. This “good life” vibe is bringing the neighbours together, says Langereis.

“When I was growing up in Vancouver, neighbourhood was everything, but it’s not as strong as it used to be.

That’s what we’re creating here.”

He tells of how, when showing some sports celebrities around recently, they met some residents in the elevator and the guests asked the residents what it was like to live there.

“They said it was ‘the best’ and ‘awesome,’” says Langereis with pride.

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This wriggle room for the “right buyer” has garnered Langereis some considerable media attention over recent

months. Unlike many other developers, Delta has not marketed the property overseas, in the hopes of attracting buyers who will live in the building and contribute to the community, rather than leave their penthouse vacant much of the year.

“We’re going to be choosy in who buys here,” says Langereis. “If for example we see a buyer who we know is involved in organized crime, we simply won’t engage as it will be detrimental to the building.” However, Langereis is quick to set the record straight regarding the potential nationality of the buyer.

“The media coverage we received almost made it seem like we were trying to exclude Asian buyers, which we weren’t. In fact our most recent subpenthouse buyer is a local Asian family, and we’re thrilled with the purchase.”

He is simply hoping someone will come into the building and be a part of the culture – not that he would exclude a suitable buyer just because they might not always be at home. “This isn’t just about business. At the same time, we’re going to be smart about our business.”

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石俊 • Former Vancouver Police Officer UBC plans to build what might be the world’s tallest wood building. PHOTO UBC

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UBC plans 18-storey wood building Nelson Bennett nbennett@biv.com

The University of British Columbia plans to build what might be the world’s tallest wood building in B.C. — an 18-storey residence for students.

It would be the tallest building made of wood in B.C. and very likely the tallest in the world, although there are plans for an even taller one in Austria.

The 53-metre tall building has been approved for construction, with completion slated for September 2017.

It will domicile up to 404 students in 272 studio apartments and 33 fourbedroom apartments. It is expected to be a showcase for B.C. engineered wood products.

“By taking advantage of new building technologies, we’re also expanding our markets for B.C. wood products — and supporting jobs in the forest sector,” said B.C. Forestry Minister Steve Thomson.

At a capital cost of $51.5 million, the building will cost about $4.5 million more than if it were built from traditional concrete and steel materials.

“There are some additional costs associated with constructing in wood, at this height, for the first time that we’ve allowed,” said John Metras, UBC’s managing director of infrastructure development.

He said those extra

costs are being covered by funding from Natural Resources Canada, Forestry Innovation Investment, the Binational Softwood Lumber Council and B.C. Ministry of Forests.

The biggest concern with a building made of wood is the fire hazard.

The building will have a sprinkler system and backup water reservoir.

All the engineered wood used in the building will be encased in triple layers of drywall.

“It basically prevents fire spread in the building,” Metras said.

The building will have a concrete base, as well as a concrete and steel core for the elevator and stairwell.

Since wood sequesters carbon, using lumber reduces the building’s carbon footprint. It’s that lower footprint that UBC hopes will help the building attain a LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design) gold rating.

Vancouver’s Acton Ostry Architects was commissioned to design the building in collaboration with Austria’s Architekten Hermann Kaufmann. Fast + Epp has been contracted as the structural engineer on the project.

When finished, the building may be the tallest wood residential building in the world, although at 24 storeys, a wood tower planned in Austria would soon beat B.C.’s record for height. nbennett@biv.com

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Community

SHOW OF HEART: The Lookout Emergency Aid Society is a non-profit organization that has been working hard to meet the needs of the homeless since 1971. Through 25 locations in Metro Vancouver, the charity has been providing warm beds, meals and services to 2,500 men and women daily.

The organization recently hosted its seventh annual H’Arts for the Homeless Gala at the Imperial in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Through circus acts, music and art, the gala highlighted the relief and hope a safe home provides. A group of local artists created works of art throughout the evening, with the finished paintings auctioned off by comedian David C. Jones. Proceeds — reported to be upwards of $30,000 — will support low cost medical and dental services in Surrey.

HOME SWEET HOME: A record crowd converged for Chor Leoni’s major gala At Home, chaired by society mavens Carol Henriquez and Lesley Stowe. Usually held at a stately home on Vancouver’s waterfront or at a heritage estate in Shaughnessy, this year’s staging was equally jaw dropping. The historic mansion Casa Mia on Southwest Marine Drive, one of the most storied homes in the city, provided the backdrop for Vancouver’s singing lions. Members of the 60-voice choir played charming hosts, entertainers and servers at the $200-a-ticket affair, which yours truly hosted. Attendees enjoyed a gourmet stand-up meal complete with select wines and sweet music. Between courses, gala-goers emptied their wallets at the silent auction table and sale of local works of art. Before the last note was sung, nearly $70,000 was raised to support the musical talents of B.C’s top vocal ensemble, led by artistic director Erick Lichte.

COMFORT FOOD: Hakka cuisine is the cooking style of the Hakka people, a group of Chinese gypsies and nomads in China that eventually settled in Guangdong (Canton).

There is an estimated 75 million Hakka living in Asia — approximately 50,000 people of Hakka descent in the Lower Mainland.

For fans of Hakka cuisine, generally more rustic cooking — Chinese foodies would say peasant — Hakkasan is the place to get your fill of delicious Hakka food. Bernice Lau and Chef Yang front this culinary gem that has been serving award-wining comfort dishes since 2007. It’s unassumingly nestled in an industrial area of Richmond, far from the bright neon lights of other eateries. Popular specialties such as salt baked chicken, sauteed pork cheeks and pickled cabbage, and braised pork hock have kept fans coming back for more.

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Lookout Society executive director Shayne Williams and Lani Brunn were all smiles. Their annual H’Arts for the Homeless Gala generated upwards of $30,000 to go towards providing health and dental services to the most needy.

Landscape architect and art educator Karen Myskiw was among a group of artists that created works of art during the H’Arts for the Homeless Gala, which were then sold off through the live auction to support the Lookout Society’s effort to provide shelter for those in need.

Yvonne Wong, Hakkasan managing director, partnered with Canada Berries’ Tommy Yuan and Terrence Pan to present a delicious dinner highlighting Hakka cuisine and B.C. fruit and VQA ice wines.

From left, Chor Leoni members Ben Scoten, Rod Locke and Shaun Jackman played charming hosts, entertainers and servers at their annual At Home fundraiser. The house party raised nearly $70,000 for B.C.’s preeminent choral group.

Opera singer Laura Widgett performed at Chor Leoni’s At Home Gala at Casa Mia, co-chaired by society darling Carol Henriquez.

From left, Tyson Villeneuve, Burgermeister John Brock and Scott Emslie once again transformed Queen Elizabeth Plaza into a mini Munich for the annual Harvest Haus celebrations. Prost!

CEO Larry Rosen and regional director Wes Purdie welcomed the city’s sartorial best to the newly expanded and renovated flagship Harry Rosen store — 28,000 square feet of luxury retail space featuring a brand new dedicated Tom Ford shop.

Follow Me Foodie’s Mijune Pak, left, and Olympian Alexa Loo were among 20 individuals who offered themselves up for dates at an inaugural Charity Dating Auction. More than $8,500 was raised for the Richmond Food Bank.

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Health

Your positive potential Davidicus Wong, M.D.

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When we are young, our potentials may seem vast.

Choosing a career can be a daunting task for the young.

When I’m counseling my children, my young patients and others at a crossroads in their studies or careers, I draw them the four intersecting circles Steven Covey conceived in his book The Eighth Habit — your passions, your talents, your values and the needs of the world. Where these four circles intersect is your calling.

Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss,” heed the call and do what you were meant to do. When you listen to life and rise up to meet the challenge, you will find meaning and purpose.

Mahatma Gandhi said, “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.”

But the call can change throughout our lives. We may receive the calling to a profession or mission in early adulthood or even in mid-life. Your calling at age

26 may be to be the best parent you can be to your child. When your career is established, your calling may be of generativity – what can you give forward to others and to the future?

Joseph Campbell also said, “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”

Each day, there are opportunities to follow-through on the impulse to perform an act of kindness or to give a word of encouragement, a thank you or a helping hand to someone in need. There is a positive potential to be realized in each day. We must see, feel and act.

How do you define health? Many think of health as the absence of disease; indeed, healthcare is then seen as the treatment of illness or injury. I see that as a negative and reactive approach to wellbeing.

I see health as the dynamic balance of the important areas of your life (your body, your emotions, your environment, your family, your social relationships, your vocation, your mind and your

spirit) and the achievement of your positive potential in each of these areas.

What that positive potential is begins with an understanding of your strengths and challenges in each area and guided by your own values, moves towards your own personal goals.

Considering your family relationships, you could ask, “What are my greatest goals and what is my ideal vision for my family?” We have to move beyond what is wrong to what can be great.

When I chaired the Ethical Resources Committee at Burnaby Hospital, I would ask the question, “Given the medical facts and this individual’s values, what is the right course of action?

What is the positive potential of this patient’s situation?” What is the best we can do for this individual?

In the presence of chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, we can empower individuals with education and professional support so that they remain in control and experience the best quality of life on their own terms.

Mary, fitness fanatic PARC resident

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“My life is so full.”

She stretches like a 20 year old. Lifts weights several times weekly. Mary also plays duplicate bridge and attends symphonies. With life going full-speed, she couldn’t be happier at Westerleigh PARC. That’s how it is here: residents stay active and pursue passions.

They eat healthier and laugh more. And with PARC’s focus on Independent Living+, it’s easy to see how life’s just better here.

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Cost to demolish viaducts jumps to $200M Vancouver city council to decide Oct. 21

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The cost of demolishing the Dunsmuir and Georgia Street viaducts has jumped to $200 million from $130 million, but after two years of studying the plan, Vancouver city planners are more confident than ever that removal is the best option.

“We’ve never studied anything so much,” said Lon LaClaire, manager of strategic transportation planning at the City of Vancouver. “This is the biggest thing we’ve ever done, so the level of due diligence is really high.”

He said one of the most compelling reasons to remove the viaducts is that the structures are more vulnerable to an earthquake than first thought.

Engineering studies found that if even a moderate earthquake hit today, the viaducts could topple, potentially falling on the SkyTrain line and the roadway that runs under them (Pacific and Expo boulevards). It would cost between $60 million and $65 million just to ensure the viaducts don’t collapse during an earthquake.

LaClaire said the project’s cost has increased from $130 million two years ago to $200 million today in part because of inflation. But the city expects development fees to easily cover that cost.

TransLink might fund a portion of the cost of rerouting and redesigning Pacific Boulevard because it’s part of a regional system of important arterial roads TransLink has responsibility for.

At a cost of $10 million,

city planners have added a cycling and pedestrian bridge that would connect Dunsmuir Street to a new park. Work is also continuing on diverting heavy traffic from Prior Street to either Malkin or National in response to Strathcona residents’ concerns about safety and noise.

Iain Black, president and CEO of the Vancouver Board of Trade, said the project has a lot of potential. But he remains skeptical that it won’t increase congestion on other roads, especially after the failure earlier this year of the plebiscite on a proposed 0.5 per cent regional sales tax to fund increased transit services.

Traffic volumes into Vancouver’s downtown have been falling over the past 20 years, and, even with the transit funding gridlock, LaClaire said the city still expects the Evergreen Line and a new B-Line on Hastings Street to continue the trend of fewer cars on downtown streets.

The viaducts currently handle fewer vehicles than they were designed for: 750 vehicles per lane, per hour, at their busiest, compared with the 1,800 per hour the viaducts can handle.

The decision to move St. Paul’s Hospital to False Creek is one factor the planners have not studied yet, LaClaire said, although they have taken into account the transition of False Creek Flats to more office use as the area is redeveloped.

Retired transportation director Ian Adam recently told the Vancouver Courier that, based on his

calculations, the viaducts’ removal would result in “rush-hour conditions for six to eight hours a day” along the redesigned Pacific Boulevard.

But LaClaire said that all of the work the city has done so far shows the downtown road network can handle the removal of the viaducts. Travel time will increase by one to three minutes, however, because the viaducts will be replaced with a road that has three intersections with traffic lights.

Traffic is an important issue for downtown businesses because surveys have shown customers will avoid travelling downtown if there is too much congestion, said Charles

Gauthier, president and CEO of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA). But he said DVBIA members would likely support the plan because of the assurances they heard from city staff this summer.

“The viaducts only carry about 15 per cent of the traffic coming in and out of the downtown,” Gauthier said. “[City staff] showed how traffic volumes are using the other streets… It kind of puts it into perspective. The viaducts are part of the major road network, but they’re not the only ones into and out of downtown.” @jenstden

The City of Vancouver is pushing to remove the viaducts, part of a never-completed downtown freeway, to make way for housing development and a park. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Local audiences might know Elizabeth Bowen for her involvement with Vancouver TheatreSports where she’s performed on the main stage for the past 16 years, or for her leading role in the Christmas musical Mrs. Claus’ Kitchen, or her various acting gigs on television and film. But before that, I knew her as the long-time girlfriend of a dude I play ball hockey with. She’s also from my hometown of Nanaimo, though I didn’t know her then, and her mother taught in the UBC Creative Writing department when I attended but I never had her as a professor. However, I have “brunched” with the versatile actress who plays

state trooper Sue Lutz in the second season of Fargo, which premieres Oct. 12 on FX Canada, and shared a plate of nachos with her. So I’ve got that going for me.

Because the heat of two former Nanaimoites discussing craft would have been far too combustible in person, I reached Bowen via email where she shed some light on accents, the hell of high school and hanging with Ted Danson.

1. In Fargo, what kind of accent did you have to speak in?

I had to speak in a South Dakota accent and was thankful the show had an excellent dialect coach by the name of David Lerigny.

Because I grew up in a household of accent-lovers, I have a decent ear and

was able to pick it up fairly quickly. After three weeks on set I was starting to hear the accent creep in to everyday life. Weirdo.

2. What are some tips you could give readers who might want to adopt that accent at home?

If you remember that words like “job” have a vowel sound like “jahb,” that “r’s” sound a bit pirate-like, “t’s” sound like “d’s” and there is a kind of hoser-esque bent to your “o” sounds, you’re halfway there.

3. What was it like hanging out with Fargo co-star Ted Danson?

It was so much fun hanging out with Ted on set. He is a very kind man with a great sense of humour, very

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self-deprecating, who genuinely seems to love it when people jokingly give him a hard time. In my head, I’d hear Cliff Clavin saying “Sammy!” on the regular.

And getting to hear some of his Cheers stories? The best.

4. Where was Fargo shot?

It was shot in Calgary and the surrounding areas. The constantly changing weather that Calgary is famous for meant more work for the crew sometimes but they were so excellent that they could handle anything. We also did quite a few night shoots which literally turns your world upside down.

I quickly discovered the importance of some sort of sleep aid. FYI, prescription cider is cheap and effective.

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Role as giant Nanaimo Bar proved humbling Continued from page 28 5. What does one do for fun during downtime when on location for Fargo?

A bunch of cast and crew got together to watch the Pacquiao/ Mayweather fight.

There was also a karaoke night and a pretty epic end of season wrap party. Two of my closest friends live in Calgary with their four little girls so their home was my source for weekly dinners and laundry. And even though I usually loathe shopping, I

did take full advantage of the lack of provincial sales tax.

for the actor speak) in your scripted work as well.

6. Did your improv background help you in your Fargo role?

Although we all stuck very closely to the script on Fargo, as the writing is so good that there’s no need to mess with it, having the ability to think on your feet really does add to your confidence. Listening is so important in improv and it also helps you to be more present and open (sorry

7. What has been the most humbling acting gig of your career thus far?

Having to dress up as Tourism Nanaimo mascot “Nanaimo Barney” (literally a huge, fuzzy Nanaimo Bar that smelled of despair and broken dreams) and endure occasional gut punches by some jerky little kid.

8. Like me, you grew up on the mean streets

of Nanaimo and barely got out alive. How did Nanaimo make you the person you are today?

Well, Grade 8 for me was like Carrie without the pig’s blood. That can only build character... or some sort of psychosis. Even though I grew up obsessing about the day I’d be able to move to a bigger city and have a big city life, as an adult I can see the benefits of having been raised somewhere a little more quiet. And guys? There are plenty of beautiful parts

to Nanaimo. It is way more than just the mall-laden highway you drive on your way to somewhere else. You’re welcome, Mom and Dad. 9. Who would you like to play you in the movie of your life?

Idris Elba.

10. Did you take/steal anything from the set of Fargo?

No, I’m too much of a wimp. I did walk away from set with an impressive list of phone numbers. Text you soon, Ted Danson. @MidlifeMan1

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Oct. 8 to 14, 2015 1. Daily Show contributor and “PC guy” John Hodgman brings his moustache, intellect and one-man show Vacationland to the Rio Theatre Oct. 13. What can audiences expect? Apparently, humorous discussions about Massachusetts, laws regarding the dumping of household garbage, how to decide which small animals you should love as members of your family and which you should kill and the evolutionary purpose of the weird dad mustache. Tickets at all Ticketmaster outlets.

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2. Billed as “a story about two generations of CBC broadcasters and the radio silence between them,” former host of The Roundup Tetsuro Shigematsu performs his multi-media show Empire of the Son at the Cultch until Oct. 24. For tickets and details, go to thecultch.com.

3. Singer songwriter Angel Olsen brings her haunting folk stylings to town for a sold out show at the Biltmore Oct. 8 in support of her latest album Burn Your Fire For No Witness. Lionlimb opens.

4. At 58 years of age and still going strong, pop music icon Madonna proves what many have long suspected: she’s an alien lifeform who can stop time and people’s constant reference to her age is probably a little sexist. Madonna brings her Rebel Heart tour to Rogers Arena Oct. 14 for an evening of hits, dance numbers, costume changes and grown men crying to “Like a Prayer.” Perhaps we’ve said too much.

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Love bombing is especially effective with young, insecure girls and women who mistake love bombs for love and who subsequently end up addicted, on the street or dead.

So where is Nicola, Lillian’s daughter with whom she has a stormy relationship and whom she hasn’t seen for seven months?

Meghan Gardiner, who wrote the Love Bomb book and lyrics, has come up with an extremely clever framework for this Shameless Hussy Productions’ world premiere. It’s a whole new kind of musical in which the songs provide sequential clues to an unravelling mystery. Rock star Justine (Sara Vickruck) sings her upcoming set — under some duress — during a sound check to distraught Lillian (Deb Pickman) who inveigles her way into the all-but-empty club, listens and takes notes. While the music is Justine’s, the lyrics come from Nicole’s diary — a series of poems that tell of her leaving home and eventually hooking up with a badass called Brian. Lillian, hearing Justine’s songs on the radio, has picked up on place names in Justine’s songs, realized that the lyrics are not Justine’s but

Nicola’s and is prepared to do anything to get to the truth about her daughter.

Justine and Nicola are somehow connected.

So Love Bomb is a musical but not like anything you’ve heard before.

And you’ve never seen or heard anything like Vickruck, either. Built like a little soccer player with a crazy haircut, work boots and black jeans, she’s simply dynamite. I don’t know where director Renée Iaci found her, but Love Bomb is loud and proud with her. In fact, she’s what Shameless Hussy Productions is all about: strong, rebellious women “telling provocative stories J about women to inspire the hand that rocks the cradle to rock the world.” Vickruck can belt a song, croon a song and massage a song into existence — and she can act, too. It’s a fantastic combination.

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ignite Love Bomb And for all of Justine’s bravado, Vickruck lets us peek into her character’s psyche to see a young woman not fully confident but letting ‘er rip, anyway.

While Gardiner wrote the book and lyrics, Steve Charles wrote the music and some additional lyrics.

It’s important to listen hard to the lyrics — not always easy — for therein are the clues to Nicola’s whereabouts. Vickruck performs 11 songs on three different guitars; the Firehall has seldom rocked quite like this.

Drew Facey’s set is an exposed brick club — empty except for Lillian and Justine; Itai Erdal’s lighting really takes off in the final moments. It’s a pretty spectacular curtain ringer.

On top of it all, it’s an important play — especially for parents. As hard as it often is to keep our teenaged children close, it’s a nasty world out there waiting for young adults — frequently young women — who feel abandoned or unloved.

How many Nicks or Nicolas are there out there? And how few, like Justine, man-

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age to escape?

Love Bomb is a very strong opener for the Firehall Arts Centre and, without suggesting it’s exclusively for young adults, it would make a great touring show throughout the school system.

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We’d like to share our opinion about opinions Last week the Vancouver Art Gallery released its much-jawed-about concept for a new building. It was bold, it was tall, it was wooden. And, not surprisingly, it triggered a torrential downpour of comments on social media. Everyone from pimply teenagers to bored house husbands to people whose jobs allow them to surf Facebook at all hours of the workday felt the need to voice their opinion on the concept’s design, whether they knew anything about architecture or not.

Personally, we think the proposed new art gallery looks kind of cool. But we also thought that about

the band Bootsauce from 1990 to 1992. That said, in the spirit of the freeflowing public opinion that has been unleashed on the art gallery, we’d like to offer up our own ill-informed opinions on a range of topics that we have no business having an opinion about.

Thomas Mulcair’s beard

It’s obviously being used to obscure a chubby neck, but we’ll tolerate it.

Ultimate Frisbee

It’s technically a sport, but the awarding of spirit points to your competitors is lame.

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Unfortunate, but not entirely surprising.

Totally sexist.

Ridiculous.

Likely the greatest song we’ve ever heard with Billy Joel’s epic “Scenes from an Italian Restaraunt” coming in a close second.

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Our belly

Disappointing.

The word “belly”

It sounds a lot cuter and less harsh than “gut,” which is why we use it.

Cyndi Lauper’s hit song “She Bop”

It’s about masturbation.

Seriously. Read the lyrics.

We haven’t googled it yet. But until we hear one of our parents or Christy Clark use it, we’ll give it the thumbs up.

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All signals are go – you can leap ahead now with relationships, opportunities, relocation, litigation, negotiations and contracts, and dealings with the public. That “bad love” aspect of last week is over, too. I probably did not say this enough in the past 17 months (and this advice lasts another month, to November 12) so I’ll say it again: you will fare far better by aligning yourself with another, than by being independent.

Recent delays and indecision have ended. It’s time to charge ahead on a significant project or relationship.

Your energy, charisma, clout, timing and effectiveness are high all month, especially this Sunday/Monday.

Start something! However, a project might be better than a new relationship, long-term, as one you attract, bond with or marry, now to November 12, will prove to be restrictive, perhaps critical, too sober and sombre – or too unlucky – for you.

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Recent delays and indecision end now. You can charge forth with whatever projects or relationships you want. The general accent lies on work, daily health, service personnel and dependents, especially Sunday/Monday. Tackle chores these two days – stay alert, as unexpected events, conditions can demand a swift response. Drive and use tools, electricity carefully. You might meet a person who will play a marked, beneficial role in your life.

Weeks of delay and hindrance, mistakes and indecision, end now. However, except in civil service, administrative, warehousing, assembly line, therapy, spiritual, institutional or charity areas, wait a little while (Oct. 23 at the earliest) before you launch big new projects or ventures. Spend the next two weeks planning your future actions. All these, from civil service to planning sessions, are doubly emphasized Sunday to Tues. noon.

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Recent delays, indecision and mistakes fade now. You’re free to march forward, especially in romance, beauty, creative and risky ventures, pleasure, and teaching children. These are emphasized for two more weeks – and reach a “touchstone” or double-emphasis Sun./ Mon. You might have to choose between deep, romantic love, and friendly affection/light romance. Choose deep.

All the indecision and delay of the past few weeks (especially regarding future hopes, career, marriage or a social event) end now. You can confidently march forward. This week and next accent your social life, hopes for the future, entertainment, optimism, popularity, and friendly romance. Sunday/Monday (and Tues., but without result) “double down” on these things.

You could be struck by the lightning of love!

Delays and indecision fade now, especially in domestic, property, security, retirement and “Mother Nature” areas. These zones are emphasized Sunday/Monday, and face the same volatility that has existed since 2011. (There seems to be a divide between your home/private life and your career/outside status, and it shows up in the quirkiest ways – the influence lasts to early 2019.)

Delays, indecision have ended, Cap. Push forward now and next week; pursue your ambitions, career, prestige relations, especially this Sunday to Tues. noon.

Remember, there is opportunity in crisis. You might run into surprising conditions, or an unexpected rebellion from spouse, kids, who think you work too hard, neglect them. Soon (mid-November onward) you’ll see a way to combine home and career – or at least, home and money earning, which is almost as good.

You can charge forth now, Leo – recent delays, indecision and mistakes fade. The very area where these delays tended to accumulate now becomes an area of strength for two weeks – but especially this Sunday/Monday, when errands, communications, travel, media, casual friends, siblings, paperwork and details are accented.

These are volatile days – take care in traffic and around electricity and avoid inflammatory words.

Delays and indecision end. Go forth now with confidence and imagination. The main accent, now and next week— and especially Sunday to midday Tues. – lies on legal, far travel, international, cultural, religious, philosophical, educational, and similar affairs – and on love. (Love is a complex thing right now – intellectually and philosophically, you lean toward clean, good-hearted, socially acceptable love, but your body keeps leaning the other way, toward temptation, lust, clandestine adventures.

The main emphasis, this week and next, lies on money, earnings, purchases, memory, rote learning and sensual attractions. These are doubly emphasized this Sunday/Monday, when a surprise might occur. You can blame it on your increased sexual and personal magnetism, and your own heightened interest in intimacy (this month and early November). You might be rather suddenly attracted to a clandestine love: be careful.

Delays and indecision end now, especially in relationships, and in “sealing the deal” (financially, sexually or otherwise). You can act with confidence, you can make a commitment and enjoy the results. This week and next – particularly this Sunday to Tues. afternoon – emphasize hidden matters, the occult, symbolism, investigation and diagnoses, large finances, sexual intimacy (and pregnancy) lifestyle choices and subconscious promptings.

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Kendra Lewis won the first public school cross-country meet of the season at Quilchena Park Sept. 29. She knew she had the lead, she just didn’t know when the race ended. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

No end in sight for Van Tech runner Unforgettable high school debut for Kendra Lewis

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Thirteen-year-old Vancouver Technical crosscountry runner Kendra Lewis took off on her third lap around Quilchena Park when her coach came chasing after her.

The first meet of the public school season Sept. 29 was also the first for Lewis as a high school athlete, and she held a 35-second lead after racing the 3.5-kilomtres course — a course that was only two laps of the park.

Lewis blew through the finish line in first place.

She just didn’t know the race was over.

“I kept thinking someone was going to say, ‘You won.’ I ran down a little hill and kept running,” she said.

“I felt pretty good because I had a lot of energy left.”

The Van Tech Talisman finished in 16 minutes

and 8.4 seconds. Bridgett Baziw, also in Grade 8, came second for Lord Byng in 16:43.81, and Grade 10 Kitsilano runner Manon Plovier finished third. The top six finishers were junior racers in Grades 8, 9 and 10.

“Kendra’s run was impressive and hopefully she is proud of her accomplishment,” said Talisman coach Thomas Pickett in an email. “It’s early in the season, so there is room for improvements with her and also all the other competing students. This will make it important for her to continue to train well and safely so that she can continue to contend.”

Not all student-athletes attend the four meets during the season, and top competitors such as Killarney’s Enid Au graduated after last season while Lord Byng contender Callie Charlton watched from the sideline

because of an injury.

Although the race didn’t have a textbook ending, Lewis put on a clinic and could continue to be at the front of the pack this season and through the next four years.

Racing for the Vancouver Olympic Club, the young harrier is a three-time B.C. club champion, winning gold at 10 and 11 years of age in the girls 2,000-metre run and gold again in 2014 at 12 years of age in the 3,000m run. Second in the latter two years was Freya Savage, a Vancouver Thunderbirds runner who also races for the Tupper Tigers. She finished eighth on the Quilchena course last month.

“It feels really good after you run a race and you know you’ve done well,” said Lewis, whose twin brother is a high-level soccer player. “When I first did

it, I didn’t think I would actually be good at it. It’s really fun to do. You meet all these people at meets.”

The racer who flew through the finish line on her way to an extra lap is the same one who, in her first elementary school race in Grade 2, stopped short of the end.

Following the pacesetter, known as a rabbit — essentially a teacher in a bunny suit who charted the course at the annual Trout Lake meet — Lewis was too polite to pass the slower adult. When the pace-setter stopped several meters before the end of the course, so did Lewis. She relinquished a substantial lead and took silver.

“The rabbit, she was running ahead but then she just stopped. I wanted to go past her but I didn’t pass her because I wasn’t sure where to go,” said Lewis, who was

attending Queen Victoria Annex. “The finish line was there and she just stopped.”

Lewis’s mom remembers how her daughter appeared before any young runners were anticipated at the end of the short, lakeside course.

“No one was behind her.

I was chatting with other moms and then there was Kendra,” said Kathleen Lewis. “We didn’t know she could run, she’s a total bookworm.”

At the recent Quilchena meet, she again showed up before expected.

“I don’t think they’d really set up the finish line when I was finished,” she said.

To track the order of race finishers, volunteers hand out numbered markers, which are reusable wood tongue dispensers. If Lewis had got hers, it would have been the sign she was No. 1. @MHStewart

: Terrible record, a few terrific memories

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The Grizzlies’ second-overall draft pick in 1998 returned to see the Toronto Raptors play the L.A. Clippers in the NBA Canada Series at Rogers Arena Oct. 4.

The number of points Mike Bibby averaged over three seasons with the Vancouver Grizzlies. He was named to the league’s All-Rookie First Team for the 1998-99 season.

The dismal win percentage over the Grizzlies six seasons in Vancouver. They went 101-359 overall, set league loss records and finished last every year but one. They won their very first and last games in 1995 and 2001, respectively.

“Fans got the short end of the stick. We weren’t winning any games. I probably wouldn’t have come to watch us either.”

– Mike Bibby, who sat courtside with Muggsy Bogues for the NBA Canada Series at Rogers Arena Oct. 4. Bibby addressed the struggles of being an expansion team. “We were out there fighting as a young team.

Our veterans were 22, 23 years old and that’s tough for any team.”

Lumb out front Kieran Lumb ran 50 seconds faster than he did at this time last year to win the boys event at the opening cross-country meet of the Vancouver public school season at Quilchena Park Sept. 29.

The Grade 12 Lord Byng student ran the 4.5-kilometre course in 14 minutes and 23.11 seconds, a considerable improvement from the 15:13.33 he recorded last season on the same course when he finished second.

Lumb and Kitsilano’s Thomson Harris kept pace and pushed each other over the terrain until the Lord Byng Grey Ghost took a slim lead to win by five seconds.

Van Tech’s Brandon Kaine finished third. Simeo Pont won the meet last year but was not in the field this time.

This was the first of four weekly league races. The zone final will be Oct. 28 at Fraserview Golf Course. The B.C. Championships are Nov. 7 at Jericho Beach Park.

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NBA Canada and Bell paid an undisclosed sum to refurbish the court and host a basketball clinic with the Toronto Raptors Oct. 2.

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Symonds ‘gets ugly’ for epic suffering More than economic benefits if Vancouver hosts Ironman

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More than money for city coffers or marketing for the region’s virtue as a triathlon training ground, there is an even better reason to bring the Ironman 5i50 series to Vancouver, according to one of the world’s top endurance racers.

“When you hold a worldclass triathlon, you are bringing in thousands of positive role models to the community,” said Jeff Symonds, the 2015 Asia-Pacific Ironman champion who is in Hawaii this week preparing for the exclusive Kailua-Kona Ironman World Championship Oct. 10.

“It is impossible to be at one of these events and not be inspired to get out there and do one. It really encourages kids and adults alike to do things they thought were impossible and get hooked on the active lifestyle,” he told the Courier, adding this message for park board commissioners weighing

the decision to approve the short-distance Ironman for next summer: “Take time to look at the benefits of the race beyond just the economic impact.”

Raised in Penticton where Ironman held a national championship for 30 years until 2013, Symonds grew up surrounded by the focused, determined athletes who inspired his entry into the sport. In 2011, he became only the second man in his 20s to medal at the Ironman World Championship. He has twice won the Penticton Challenge, which replaced Ironman in that town.

Shorter than the extreme, 70.3-kilometre marquee race, the Ironman 5i50 series is an Olympic-distance event with a 1.5km swim, a 40km bicycle ride and 10km run. Ironman took over the rights to the Subaru Vancouver Triathlon with the intent of changing the distance and route for July 2016. Symonds, a former UBC Thunderbirds

Jeff Symonds finished second at the 2014 Ironman national championship in Whistler. PHOTO ADRIENNE STEDFORD

steeplechase racer, set the course record in 2010.

Symonds, who turned 30 on Oct. 1, wouldn’t miss the chance to race in

his adoptive city. He races shorter distances to prepare for the two or three Ironman events he will run in a year but otherwise carefully

focuses his training on the longer race.

“I love the epic-ness of Ironman racing too much to focus on the Olympic-distance racing. At the highest level you have to specialize one way or the other,” he said.

For the uninitiated competitor or spectator, a full-distance Ironman is extremely difficult. The fastest racers finish in eight hours.

Symonds tops the four-km open-water swim and 180km Gran Fondo bike ride by running a marathon in under three hours.

“I consume around 3,500 calories during the race and even then you cannot replenish anywhere near the amount of energy you burn,” he said. “The last half of the marathon is pure suffering. It takes all your mental strength to put one foot in front of the other.”

Such pain is worth it, even for so-called mere mortal racers who finish in 12, 14 or 16 hours. All racers who meet the 17-hour

cut-off can call themselves an Ironman.

At once comical and honest, Symonds’ race strategy is ugliness. Really, his motto is “Get Ugly!”

“I have a terrible poker face and my running style is showing how I am willing to do whatever it takes to get me to the finish line as fast as possible. My greatest strength is my ability to suffer for a really long time.

If you see me running in the last half of a race, you know this is true,” said the athlete whose elbows bounce in wild circles as he forces himself forward.

“The feeling of satisfaction you get from having the fortitude to overcome your body and mind telling you to quit is unbelievable,” said Symonds.

“It leaves you with a feeling of empowerment that you can do anything. It doesn’t matter if you win the race or are the last finisher — everyone is guaranteed to have that feeling if they have the strength to keep pushing.” @MHStewart

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