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City aims to ‘limit future wage growth’ for workers Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Luckily for you, I’ve read through the City of Vancouver’s “2016-2020 Budget Outlook” so you don’t have to.

It’s quite the page-turner.

As part of my civic duty, I thought I’d share some interesting points so taxpayers can set their own budgets for those expected tax increases to come.

And they will come, in large part because collective agreements for the majority of city bargaining units will expire at the end of this year. Yep, that means pay increases.

For whom, exactly?

“Significant pressure on the 2016 budget and fiveyear budget outlook is anticipated as a result of this uncertainty in wage levels, particularly related to police and fire-rescue services, which represent 40 per cent of the tax budget and have historically exceeded both inflation and comparable increases for other public sector unions.”

You’ll find that quote on the first page of the budget document, which sets up the work city council will have to do to keep tax increases in line with inflation. Apparently, for each one per cent wage increase citywide, the cost is about $7 million, which equates to a 1.1 per cent tax hike.

The last page of the document signals that negotiations with unions will be tough going and actually points to “limiting future wage growth.” Wow. Here’s the full sentence for context: “Limiting future wage growth to levels affordable to taxpayers will be an important aspect of achieving a balanced budget while keeping property tax increases in with inflation.”

That’s interesting because, as regular readers will know, the ruling Vision Vancouver party is tight with unions, many of which have been regular and significant financial contributors to the party’s election campaigns.

That little voice I’m sud-

Vancouver firefighters and police officers are expected to get pay increases, which the City of Vancouver says will put “significant pressure” on the 2016 budget. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

denly hearing in my head sounds a lot like a Vision councillor — or maybe it’s

Mayor Gregor Robertson — saying: “There is no expectation for the city to

pass a budget suitable to its union brothers and sisters.

No connection, such a ridiculous suggestion Howell, no story here.”

Anyway, the story earlier this year was that council settled on a 2.46 per cent tax hike for 2015, one of the lowest in the region.

Surrey taxpayers got hit with almost a four per cent hike while Port Coquitlam residents saw an increase just under 1.5 per cent.

In recent years, tax increases in Vancouver have ranged from 1.4 per cent to 2.8 per cent, which have been considered “modest”

by Vision Vancouver politicians. Annual inflation has run between 0.1 per cent and 2.3 per cent.

As I finished that sentence, I could hear another little voice in my head sounding a lot like NPA Coun. George Affleck saying: “Yeah, but that’s not the whole story for taxpayers. You have to factor in utility fees.”

In fact, Affleck is kind of right.

When council approved the 2.4 per cent tax hike in March, it translated to an estimated increase of $44 per year for a home worth $1 million. Add increases to utility fees, including sewer, water and solid waste, the same owner of the $1-million home would see an increase of about $88 per year.

OK, that’s enough numbers for one column.

Meanwhile, here are some dates to remember: Nov. 25 (the date the 2016-2020 budget report is posted on the city’s website), Dec. 9 (city staff presents budget to council and speakers line up to wag fingers at council) and Dec. 16 (council makes final vote on budget, mayor lets doves loose, Affleck is shocked and appalled).

You’re up to date.

Now I must go and do something about those pesky political voices in my head.

Isn’t there an app for that? @Howellings

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Mike Howell

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A former Vancouver cop and a B.C. aboriginal leader handpicked to run

by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau in this year’s federal election are going to Ottawa.

Riding a Liberal wave that rolled across the country and washed into British Columbia, Harjit Sajjan (Vancouver-South) and Jody Wilson-Raybould (Vancouver-Granville) were both elected in the Oct. 19 vote.

They join re-elected incumbents Hedy Fry (Vancouver-Centre) and Joyce Murray (Vancouver-Quadra) to form a strong Liberal force in the six-riding city.

Both Sajjan and Wilson-Raybould easily won their ridings, with Sajjan finishing more than 6,600 votes ahead of incumbent Conservative candidate Wai Young and Raybould beating NDP challenger Mira Oreck by 9,177 votes.

The rookie MPs have diverse and interesting backgrounds that could potentially qualify them for cabinet positions, although Fry and Murray are expected to be rewarded for steering the Liberal ship as B.C.’s

only sitting MPs for the past four years.

Sajjan immigrated to Canada from India with his family when he was five years old. He grew up in South Vancouver, a point he made during his victory speech to supporters.

As a Vancouver police officer, he served part of his 11 years of service as a detective in the gang crime unit. He was on the job when the VPD was led by Jamie Graham, who endorsed Sajjan’s run for the Liberals.

Sajjan also served overseas, with one tour in Bosnia and three in Afghanistan. His service earned high praise from then Brigadier-General David Fraser, who wrote to Graham saying “he was the best single Canadian intelligence asset in theatre, and his hard work, personal bravery and dogged determination undoubtedly saved multitude of coalition lives.”

That quote was included in Sajjan’s biography posted on the Liberal Party of Canada’s website. Sajjan is married to Dr. Kuljit Kaur Sajjan, a University of B.C.-educated family doctor. The couple has two young children.

“I realized my experience could be really put

to use in this environment,” he told the Courier a few days after his victory. “I thought if I don’t use my experience now, then what good is all my work in the past.”

Sajjan said he first met with Trudeau in Ottawa through now-retired Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie of the Canadian Armed Forces, who subsequently ran with the Liberals and was elected in the riding of Orleans in Ontario.

“I knew we had the right leadership,” he said after meeting with Trudeau. “His heart was in the right place and he really wanted to make a difference. I liked the plan that he had, with focusing on families and kids. To me, that’s so important.”

Wilson-Raybould was still processing her election night victory when reached by the Courier Friday. She said she was inspired by the “great display of democracy right across the country.”

Wilson-Raybould is a former Crown prosecutor, treaty commissioner and B.C. Assembly of First Nations regional chief, serving 10 years as an elected official.

She served as director for Capilano College, the Minerva Foundation

for B.C. Women, the Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre and the National Centre for First Nations Finance Authority.

When asked how her background has prepared her for the job of an MP, Wilson-Raybould said, “I’ve had to work in complex environments and deal with issues and the approach I’ve taken and have been known for is being a bridge builder and working with many diverse interests and approaches and seeking to try to forge consensus.”

Wilson-Raybould, who is married to Dr. Tim Raybould, is a descendant of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk and LaichKwil-Tach peoples. She is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation.

Though the Liberals presence in Vancouver is strong, incumbent NDP Don Davies (VancouverKingsway) hung on to his seat by more than 8,000 votes by defeating Liberal challenger Steven Kou. In Vancouver-East, which has been an NDP stronghold for many years, Jenny Kwan handily defeated Liberal Ed Wong by more than 12,000 votes to keep the seat left vacant by the retiring Libby Davies. @Howellings

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“If it’s not a criminal issue any longer, it’s hard to see the feds acting alone in regulatory policy. There’s got to be a role to play for the province, there’s got to be a role to play for municipalities and I think Vancouver’s already started down that path,” he said, adding federal plans to legalize recreational marijuana should not follow the model used for medical marijuana.

MMPR requires medical marijuana be delivered to patients by mail.

Tousaw said storefront sales should be allowed in both the recreational and medical cannabis industries if those businesses are expected to succeed.

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“clusters” and the operator with the best score in the city’s point system would be able to continue on with the next phase of permitting with the other 11 applicants.

The next phase of evaluation is expected to begin in early November and will allow for public input.

The remaining 135 businesses that did not meet zoning requirements will have six months to find an alternate location before the city plans to shut them down.

The city said businesses that did not apply before the August deadline must close immediately or be subject to fines and legal action.

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The federal Liberals, however, campaigned on a promise to legalize recreational pot.

With the Grits’ majority victory last week, B.C. marijuana advocacy lawyer Kirk Tousaw told Business in Vancouver it will be easier for municipalities like Vancouver to regulate sales of storefront marijuana.

“Vancouver really foreshadowed a broader role for municipalities in the regulation of particularly the retail distribution of cannabis,” he said.

“Ultimately, I think it’s the municipalities that are going to have to regulate production of cannabis.”

The City of Vancouver requires all applicants must be at least 300 metres away from schools and community centres.

While city staff determined 41 applicants fulfilled that requirement, 30 of those businesses were not located a sufficient distance from one another.

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Aboriginal focus school saved until at least 2020

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ancouver’s first aboriginal focused school has been saved, at least for the time being.

Sir William Macdonald elementary, at the corner of Victoria Drive and Hastings Street was listed in a provincial government commissioned study by Ernst and Young earlier this year as one of a number of Vancouver schools that should be sold off in order to save the Vancouver School Board some money.

Their principal argument was: What about other schools on the Ernst and Young hit list?

Shouldn’t all parents and students be treated equally and have their schools protected?

The decision was made on the basis of the Eastside school’s extremely low enrolment, some 70 students with a capacity for hundreds more. There was also the fact that, like many Vancouver schools, it is in need of seismic upgrading to make it safe in the event of an earthquake.

Back in 2010 when Vision trustees controlled the majority on the school board, including the first aboriginal trustee Ken Clement, a plan was developed to create a public school with an aboriginal focus. It was part of a strategy to improve aboriginal graduation rates.

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While the school program, which was initiated in 2012, was open to all students, its mission according to the school’s website reads: “Consistent with Aboriginal worldviews, the Aboriginal Focus and Macdonald Elementary School fosters literate, numerate and confident learners with the skills, knowledge and attitudes to be effective stewards of the land and waters of British Columbia.”

The school began with classes for kindergarten and Grade 1 and has added another grade or so each year.

Initially, there was no organized parent group supporting the program at the school. That has now changed. There is an active group that last spring made its concerns known when it saw the report that the school was up for disposal.

One parent, Michelle Buckman, who attended a school board meeting Monday night, explained to me that the struggle to build enrolment at the school is in part due to a reluctance of parents to enroll their kids in a school that may be slated for sale. There is also reluctance in the aboriginal community, given the residential school experience, to engage with the education system at all.

Following meetings with a number of the trustees, the parents had three proposals: Guarantee the school won’t be closed for a significant period of time; pitch the province to speed up the seismic upgrading; and change the name of the school to honour the fact that it is on unceded Coast Salish Territory. (The school is currently named after Sir William Macdonald, a man who was in his lifetime a philanthropist who supported educational endeavors but who made his fortune selling tobacco.)

Those requests were the genesis of the series of motions Monday night brought forward by Vision school board trustee

Patti Bacchus. She was supported by her three Vision colleagues and the balance of power was tipped by Green party trustee Janet Fraser, leaving to NPA trustees to oppose it in vain.

It may also cause the NPA to question her loyalty. Since the last election when she was elected to the board, she has steadfastly supported the NPA in the appointment of the board chair while rebuffing two attempts by Vision to put Bacchus, the former chair, back in that position.

While the NPA did support setting up a committee to consider a name change Monday night, they did not support asking the province to make the seismic upgrade a priority, nor were they willing to approve a moratorium (to the year 2020) on closing the school.

Their principal argument was: What about other schools on the Ernst and

Young hit list? Shouldn’t all parents and students be treated equally and have their schools protected?

The response was that this population group should be treated “equitably,” which is different from equal. Bacchus cited the recently concluded Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And she noted the disparity of educational outcomes between aboriginal groups and the rest of the population in the school system.

This justified putting the aboriginal focused program and the need to preserve this particular school — in spite of its meagre enrolment — ahead of the rest of the schools in the system.

It was Fraser in supporting the motions put forward by Bacchus, who said, “If this school doesn’t succeed, we don’t want it to be because of something we didn’t do.” @allengarr

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Re: Geoff Olson Editorial Cartoons Well, now that Stephen Harper is about to exit as Prime Minister, the question I have is, what will Geoff Olson do now for drawing his cartoons? Surely, Justin Trudeau will do everything he is supposed to do, right? How boring.

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Defining affordability Re: “Developer promises ‘affordability’ on viaduct lands,” Oct. 23 online only Mark my words — if the viaducts come down there will be nothing “affordable” going up in that space. @Jason_E_King via Twitter ••• We know that @MayorGregor defines “affordable” as “something someone will pay for.”

Geoff Berner via Twitter The viaducts are a remnant of a near catastrophic mistake perpetrated by the NPA during the 1960’s. In those days anyone could dump on the east side and it was ok. Thankfully some clear and forward thinking East Enders fought hard and were successful in preventing the mistake from coming to fruition.

Now let’s celebrate the removal of the viaducts and embrace people not cars.

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Federal election reflection “Re: “Story and Photo Gallery: Vancouver turns red, follows national trend,” Oct. 19 Some really good candid pics here.

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David Gibson via Facebook ••• Good job everyone, Democracy at its finest.

Charlie Kiers Vancouver BC Real Estate via Facebook [Harjit Sajjan] is my candidate. I voted for him. He’s been a Lft. Colonel, served in Afghanistan then was a policeman. He is also Sikh and traditionally Sikh warriors were brave and honorable.

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1. Keith Lim was one of 80 dancers who participated in Saturday’s Thrill the World Vancouver at Olympic Village. Thrill the World is an international event where participants simultaneously emulate the zombie dance in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video. 2. Suzanne Reeves was another of the imaginatively costumed dancers who participated in the event at Olympic Village. 3. Jaden Jordan did his best Michael Jackson for the event. 4. Theresa “Tree” Walsh taught the Vancouver zombies the “Thriller” dance during five free rehearsals leading up to Saturday’s Thrill the World Vancouver at Olympic Village. 5. Thrill the World Vancouver raised $920 for the Vancouver Food Bank Saturday. Thrill the World is a global event that has been happening since 2007 after a Toronto dance instructor taught 62 people the “Thriller” dance in two hours and set the first Guinness World Records for Largest Thriller Dance in one location.

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Thrill the World Vancouver attracts the zombie crowd Rebecca Blissett

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Preparations for this past Saturday’s Thrill the World Vancouver started three months ago, in July — a time of the year Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” doesn’t necessarily come to mind as a song to add on a sunny day playlist.

Larry Piché, the man behind Thrill the World Vancouver via Vancouver Improv Anywhere, starts the organizational process for the group dance by “getting into Thriller mode,” which includes listening to the six-minutelong campy horror-themed song over and over. You’d think he’d have tired of it

by now after three years at the helm of Thrill the World Vancouver. On Saturday alone, he heard it at least five more times, including the rehearsals in the gym at Creekside Community Centre and the actual dance at Olympic Village square at exactly 3 p.m.

“Never,” said Piché whose own wedding reception the weekend previous featured an impromptu dance with family and friends to Thriller.

“I’m a huge fan of Michael Jackson. As a boy I remember listening to his music, watching his music videos and, I don’t know, I love bass, I love beats. The words I don’t remember so much, but

the music! I like it.”

The 14-minute long werewolf and zombiethemed music video for “Thriller” was the first music video to be designated a national treasure by the Library of Congress in 2010 and Jackson’s iconic red and black jacket worn in the 1983 video sold for $1.8 million four years ago. Proving its staying power even further is the popularity of Thrill the World, which had more than 6,000 zombies at 134 different Thriller groups in 22 countries and six continents recorded in 2013.

There is no data available for 2014, according to Piché. “It got lost in the shuffle — the shuffle/walk/

slide,” he said, laughing at his own dance joke.

Participating zombies are invited to attend five free rehearsals leading up to Thrill the World Vancouver and pay $20 to cause a scene at the exact same time as other events across North America.

(There are two different start times to accommodate different time zones).

While Thrill the World is global, each individual organizer donates funds raised to a local charity and, in Vancouver’s case, to the Vancouver Food Bank.

The event’s name gives a tip of the hat to another Jackson song “Heal the World.”

Eighty zombies danced in Vancouver and raised

$920. It’s a decline from 2011, four years after Thrill the World began, when 434 staggered through the moves at the Roundhouse. But since everybody knows it’s difficult to kill zombies, Piché holds out hope Thrill the World Vancouver numbers will keep climbing back up.

“People want to be part of our movement,” he said.

Meanwhile, back in the gym minutes before the Thrill the World record attempt, myTREEHOUSEvision dance choreographer Theresa Walsh, better known as “Tree,” lead the zombies through one last rehearsal.

“The thing I like to focus on is not worrying

about getting it wrong but having fun,” she said, as shuffling zombies from a wide range of ages impatiently moaned at her to start the music.

“You want to get it right, then you have to go home and practice. The moves are made simpler so everybody can do it.

You can be more Michael Jackson if you want, or muddle through it like a zombie,” she said. “Everyone has a different take on how they want to do it.”

Curious humans and zombies with brains can visit Thrill the World’s website at thrilltheworld. com for the latest stats on the 2015 dance. @rebeccablissett

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Vision insider involved in Trudeau stop at civic office Bob Mackin

cussed, we would like to proceed with that space for our brief media announcement.

Please advise what is required from us at this point. We are all hands on deck for this over the next 48 hours.”

A Sept. 9 contract with no financial terms named Linda Hooper as user of the Crossroads Building patio and part of a city parking lot for a 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. “media availability.” The contract doesn’t mention Trudeau or even contain the word Liberal. Hooper’s address is the same as the party’s B.C. headquarters.

At the event, Trudeau promised to spend $20 billion more on transit infrastructure over a decade and expressed support for the proposed Broadway subway. He was accompanied by candidates, including Jessie Adcock, the city chief digital officer who took leave-of-absence for an unsuccessful Liberal run in Port Moody-Coquitlam.

Trudeau also posed for photographs inside the engineering department and met with then-city manager Penny Ballem and city engineer Jerry Dobrovolny.

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A Vision Vancouver board member arranged Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s campaign stop at the city engineering department office, the Courier has learned.

Documents released Oct. 21 under Freedom of Information show Brittney Kerr, a professional lobbyist with Earnscliffe Strategy Group, was the B.C. tour director for the future Prime Minister and city bureaucrats worked overtime to make the Sept. 10 event happen.

Bill Aujla, the city’s real estate and facilities general manager, sent an urgent message at 6:53 p.m. Sept.

7 to his subordinates Jerry Evans and Patrick Murphy that he “just received a request” from the city manager’s office to hold an event.

An EasyPark lot on Terminal Avenue, across from the Main Street-Science World SkyTrain station, was the presumed venue until a day later, when Aujla met Kerr.

“The team is very pleased with the 3rd floor patio space that you showed us,” Kerr wrote to Aujla. “As dis-

The choice of venue — a government office normally free of partisan politics — prompted queries from several reporters. In one email, a city hall spokesman asked Ballem to approve a statement that said: “Requests for any political party to use a city facility during an election campaign go to the office of the city manager. Depending on the facility, the request is forwarded to the appropriate department to ensure the space is suitable for an event.”

Park Board policy, meanwhile, does allow political organizations to rent space at community centres and parks, though board approval may be required, depending on the size and nature of the event. The city’s code of conduct precludes employees from displaying slogans or symbols for a party or candidate while at work, where their duties require them to interact with the public. The policy also bans the city manager, general managers and their equivalents from public political activity, other than voting in an election.

Ballem’s calendar for the afternoon of Sept. 8 in-

cluded a one-hour meeting with Mike Magee, Mayor Gregor Robertson’s chief of staff, under the heading “2015 Election Strategy.”

Coincidentally, Ballem was fired Sept. 15 and left with a $556,000 golden parachute. The Elections Canada database shows two political donations under her name, before her December 2008 hiring: $1,100 to the Vancouver Quadra Federal Liberal Association on Feb. 18, 2008 and $500 to Liberal MP Stephen Owen on June 28, 2004.

Kerr’s clients, according to the B.C. Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, are Microsoft Canada and Shaw Communications. Asked for comment on Oct. 27, Kerr said she was not available. She did not respond to a follow-up email before deadline. Earnscliffe principal Bruce Young was the Liberal campaign co-chair for B.C. and is registered to lobby the provincial government for the Vancouver Art Gallery, which wants to move to a city-owned site on Larwill Park. Vancouver city hall has no bylaw regulating lobbying of elected or ap-

pointed city officials.

Steve Kukucha, a partner in Wazuku Advisory Group, also worked with Kerr and Young on the Trudeau

campaign. His B.C. lobbying clients include the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. @bobmackin

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Not everyone can wait all year for Halloween to don a costume. And not everyone who dresses up is looking for handouts. Some are demonstrating a fun, humorous way to make a contribution to their community.

So it is with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. An institution in gay communities around the world, these people who dress up in parodies of nuns’ habits can be a barrel of laughs, but they are also serious about raising awareness and funds for causes close to the hearts of GLBTQ people.

Vancouver’s own “house” of the sisters — the Abbey of the Long Cedar Canoe — is comparatively new, less than six years old. But it is also one of the fastestgrowing, with about 25 sisters, compared with only about twice that in far-larger Los Angeles, for example.

The offbeat movement began in San Francisco on Easter weekend 1979.

A migrant from Iowa brought with him some nuns’ habits left over from a performance of The Sound of Music and a few friends decided to put them on and have some fun. The AIDS epidemic was about to hit the gay community and the sisters soon found

Tim O’Brien, a.k.a. Sister Lois Price, and Amanda Kuiack, a.k.a. Novice Sister Bodice Rippa, belong to The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an institution in the gay community. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

a calling raising awareness, funds and spirits. Their unorthodox approach gained popularity and has spread worldwide.

Tim O’Brien, a.k.a. Sister Lois Price (he works in a grocery store), corrects me when I refer to what the sisters do as “drag.” While dressing up as nuns, the men do not attempt, as drag artists do, to depict themselves as women.

They do not shave their beards or chests.

“We’re sort of gender neutral,” says O’Brien.

They put on whiteface, not

for any reason but pure theatricality, he adds.

Some people take exception to what they see as ridiculing Catholic tradition.

A former nun told O’Brien he was making fun of her background, but O’Brien disagrees.

“I said, not at all and I explained everything that we did for the community and that we’re not making fun of them, we are emulating them, we are honouring them and the tradition of serving the community,” says O’Brien, who grew up

in the United Church and has taught Sunday school.

Each city’s house is identifiable by its unique wimple, the headgear traditionally worn by nuns.

The original house, in San Francisco, goes pretty basic, wearing a bra over the ears.

With time, wimples became more elaborate. The wimples on sisters in Orlando, Fla., resemble mouse ears.

The Los Angeles house references the Hollywood Bowl. Milwaukee incorporates the cheesehead usually seen at football games. The

conical antlers on Vancouver’s wimple speak to the mountains, as well as the sails on Canada Place and in the harbour.

The local sisters run fundraisers like singalong film screenings with revenue going to charities that focus on HIV/AIDS and homelessness. They also piggyback on other groups’ events, showing up to work the coat-checks or to sell draw tickets. Their presence is an instant ice-breaker, says O’Brien. One sister even offers a confessional, which can be just for fun or to let people really get something off their chest.

I admit I was surprised when the second sister arrived late for our meeting.

Out of costume, Amanda Irene Kuiack is … a woman.

I’ve known of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for a long time, but I thought they were all gay men. There are, I have learned, all range of diversity in the sisters.

Kuiack, a.k.a. Novice Sister Bodice Rippa (she’s an avid reader and a bisexual woman, for the record) says her new membership in the sisterhood pulled her out of chronic depression.

“The fact that they do accept women was a big surprise to me and that’s why I thought I have to do it,” says Kuiack. “Because my gender did not matter.”

“It’s also a healing experience, it really is,” she adds.

“That’s kind of the way it acts like religion.”

O’Brien doesn’t see the sisters as a replacement for religion.

“I don’t look at it that way,” he says. “It’s like a family. We are sisters and we’re really like a family, like siblings. It doesn’t really replace anything, it adds to your life more.”

Among themselves, the sisters almost exclusively refer to one another by their chosen names, so much so that some of the newer postulants and novices don’t even know the real names of their house-mates. And the names sisters select in the process of joining the house are as dazzling as some of their outfits. Sister Bella de Ball. Sister Dana Van Iquity.

Sister OyVey Maria. Sister Selma Soul. Locally, you could run into Sister Visa DeKline, Sister Mary Q. Contrary or Sister Koo-Koo Kachoo. Vancouver’s reverend mother has the inclusive moniker Sister Alma Bitches.

For all their irreverence, good works and potentially controversial appropriation of religious imagery, O’Brien says that, in the end, it’s just about having fun.

“We just want to go into the community and be witty and crazy.” @Pat604Johnson Part of

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The VPD’s missing persons unit predicts it will investigate 4,380 missing person files this year. That number is expected to increase to 4,600 next year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.

VPD ‘challenged’ by new missing person regulations Rules will require police to conduct face-to-face checks with more than 4,000 people per year

Mike Howell

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Every day in this city, at least a dozen people are reported to the police as missing.

It could be an Alzheimer’s patient who wandered away from their home, a teenager who didn’t come home last night or a drug-addicted resident of single-room-occupancy hotel who vanished a couple of days ago.

Chances are police will find them.

In the past six years, the Vancouver police’s missing persons unit has located “99.9 per cent” of people who were reported missing, according to Det. Const. Raymond Payette of the six-person team.

“It doesn’t mean we always find them alive,” Payette said in a recent presentation to the Vancouver Police Board. “Sometimes, it’s a sad ending.”

To avoid those tragedies, the missing persons unit created a top 10 list of people who have a history of going missing. As Payette explained, the more times a person disappears, the more likely he or she will experience harm.

The 10 people identified by police are all female, ranging from teenagers to women in their 20s. All have been or are in some form of government care, all have substance abuse issues and the majority are mentally ill. So far this year, the top 10 list has

generated 225 missing person reports.

“Doing the math, it looks like it will be 250 to 260 by the end of the year,” said Payette, who emphasized the importance of officers reaching out to community organizations, including mental health agencies and sex trade advocacy groups, to find those who go missing. Solidifying strong relationships with low-income hotels, group homes and other housing providers are also keys to their success, he added.

But what worries Payette is those relationships with their community partners could sour as a result of new regulations the provincial government will implement in September 2016. The “safe and well check” regulation will require police to check on every person gone missing who is found. That means no more confirmations over the phone.

With 4,380 missing person files projected this year and 4,600 next year, Payette told the police board that checking on every person they locate is “in some ways, the largest challenge we’re going to face in the next year.”

Although police routinely check on found people — particularly those considered high-risk like those on the top 10 list — officers will rely on a check over the phone to cancel a missing person’s report.

Even with high-risk missing persons, police don’t

always attend a residence.

That’s because a person could have a warrant for their arrest on a minor charge such as shoplifting.

That warrant would require police to take that person into custody when, really, officers are more concerned about a person’s safety.

“We, in the unit, have developed a system where if she’s wanted on a theft under warrant — which is not a big-time warrant — and she comes back, we will get called,” Payette said. “But we don’t go there because if we go there and meet her, we’re put in a position of we know there’s a warrant, we’re going to have to arrest her, which puts that supportive housing unit in a situation of ‘you got me arrested.’”

Payette warned that situation could lead to housing providers failing to contact police when a person is found, meaning police would continue to work the case as if the person were still missing.

“But this is my biggest fear — they won’t call her in at all [when she goes missing]. And in the Downtown Eastside, if we get back into a situation where supportive housing units aren’t calling them in as missing because they’re worried we’re going to arrest them when they come back, that’s something we don’t want to go back to.”

Janice Abbott, the CEO of Atira Women’s Resource Society, manages a variety

of low-income housing in the Downtown Eastside, including a women’s-only building near Oppenheimer Park that generates a halfdozen missing person’s reports per week.

Abbott said Atira’s policy dictates that staff search for the person 24 hours after reported missing.

That search includes calling emergency contacts, checking with hospitals, determining whether the person was arrested and talking to other agencies in the neighbourhood.

“We try very hard to find them before we file a missing person’s report, and when we do, it’s obviously because we’re afraid for their safety — and a warrant for a theft under [$1,000] isn’t going to prevent us from making a missing person’s report,” Abbott said.

She said the government’s new regulation to have police check on every missing person found, particularly at a supportive housing site, seems unnecessary unless police have reason to visit.

A supportive housing site is a building where tenants can access health care and other needs related to addiction and mental health.

“The staff has no interest in lying about a woman coming back,” Abbott said.

“Our paramount concern is a woman’s safety and that’s what will drive us — not worrying about anything else.”

The Courier requested an

interview with AttorneyGeneral Suzanne Anton to discuss the new regulation but was instead emailed statements attributed to the Ministry of Justice and the government’s director of police services, Clayton Pecknold.

Pecknold pointed out the regulation was developed in response to recommendations from the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. Face-to-face confirmation of identity is also recommended by the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains, he said.

“Ultimately, missing person investigations, particularly ones involving vulnerable people, are a high risk area of policing and it was determined that face-to-face confirmation of identity and well-being will be standard,” Pecknold wrote.

The statement from the Ministry of Justice said police, including the VPD, were thoroughly consulted in the creation of the standards.

The “safe and well check” can be performed by any member of a police force, the statement said.

When the Courier asked via email whose job it is to ensure police will check on every found missing person, the ministry said its staff will “monitor through an inspection process and make recommendations to address compliance as required. It is the expectation of the ministry that police and police boards will

adhere to binding policing standards.”

Although Payette understands the intent of the regulation, he offered this scenario: A 15-year-old boy is reported missing by his parents, only to show up much later at home. His parents give the kid a talking to, call police and they cancel the missing person’s report.

“We trusted them enough to make the missing person report,” he said. “We have no information that there’s any problems in the family.

He comes back, we cancel the missing person report.

With the legislative change, we’re going to have to attend there to make sure that he’s back home. I’ll be honest, a 15-year-old youth coming back like that, that is not going to be a priority one call for us.”

Meanwhile, as the city’s population continues to grow, Payette predicts an increase of missing persons next year and the year after that. People will go missing across the city for a variety of reasons. Vancouver’s aging population and the associated brain impairments that come with age will continue to be a factor.

“I’m not complaining and I’m not upset by the fact that we’re having more people reported as missing,” he said. “I think, in the end, that’s good. More people are aware and they should report. But I don’t think [the statistics] are going to drop.” @Howellings

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Opinion

Jet-setting mayor takes to international stage Mike Klassen Columnist

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culate that this was meant to advantage both of them as potential successors to Robertson.

When in opposition, Louie and his Vision colleagues would ridicule former mayor Sam Sullivan for his travels to the nation’s capital, labeling them as vanity trips. During his visits Sullivan not only discussed city matters with the prime minister and members of his cabinet, but he also visited with the leaders of the Liberal and New Democratic Opposition.

Like Sullivan, former mayors Larry Campbell and Philip Owen also had successes in gaining financial support from Ottawa and Victoria, regardless of who was in power.

One struggles to recall when in his seven years in office Robertson has ever formally met with the PM or his cabinet, or spent time in the Canadian or provincial capital lobbying senior levels of government. (The mayor’s office took pains to let media know he just spoke with the prime minister designate).

We do know that as mayor Robertson has visited Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, New York, London, Copenhagen, Rome, and made announcements in Germany, Paris and China for initiatives that we have heard little about since they were announced.

And so it will likely be with next week’s visit to Guangzhou.

These junkets may not have benefited our city greatly, but they have been fantastic for pumping up Gregor Robertson’s image.

Who knows? Maybe the mayor’s international star power will get the Broadway line built after all. @MikeKlassen

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If you have had trouble keeping up with Mayor Gregor Robertson’s travel itinerary of late, you are not alone. His most recent highprofile departure took him to the United States where he sat a table of other U.S. mayors at a chandeliered dinner hosted by secretary of state John Kerry.

Just a few weeks prior Robertson attended a ceremony at the Vatican hosted by Pope Francis.

These appearances, like so many where the mayor jets to far-flung places around the globe, are ostensibly to support the cause of climate change activism.

The irony is not lost on the public when civil aviation contributes as much as four per cent of global carbon emissions. By contrast, Canada’s oil sands — which the mayor is determined to prevent from getting to overseas markets — is the source of about 0.12 per cent of annual greenhouse gases.

We know that the city’s top priorities revolve around addressing housing affordability and improving transportation infrastructure. In the face of such big domestic issues why is the mayor investing so much of his time outside of Canada?

Barring the possibility of an act of Congress or a divine intervention, it is highly unlikely that either Obama or the Pontiff will provide the billions our city needs to meet these challenges.

Robertson’s globetrotting matches the well-worn pattern of politicians looking for a career change.

Both the former premiers of B.C. and Manitoba built up their reputations as senior statesmen at home

and abroad before landing appointments as the U.K. high commissioner and ambassador to Washington respectively.

As minister of foreign affairs, John Baird famously racked up thousands of air miles visiting global capitals before he let Parliament know he was stepping down. Baird is now a highly sought after former politician.

The mayor’s complacency about the city’s affairs has caught the attention of political insiders. Beyond his obligations in the council chamber, it is rare to see him at one of the many events that his council colleagues frequently attend around town.

Even key financial backers are reportedly mystified as to the mayor’s thirdterm priorities.

Robertson’s personal Twitter account records his travels to D.C., New York and Rome, but it rarely shows him engaging with local communities.

By comparison, Toronto mayor John Tory’s tweets show him pressing the flesh in every corner of Hogtown.

On social media you are more likely catch His Worship posing on a beach via girlfriend Wanting Qu’s Instagram feed than making an appearance at a Vancouver neighbourhood event.

With Robertson on the road, the role of mayor has been left to his full-time proxies. After the November election, Robertson made the unprecedented move of appointing Andrea Reimer as permanent deputy mayor (a symbolic position that formerly rotated through all members of council each month), and putting Raymond Louie in the newly created position of “acting” mayor.

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Health

Retreating to mindfulness Mindfulness meditation helps us focus on the present moment

Davidicus Wong, M.D.

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If you were on the University of B.C. campus last weekend, you may have seen more than 100 people streaming out of the Asian Centre walking extremely slowly. This was not the early arrival of zombies for Halloween.

I know because I was among them, and I’m very much alive and mindful of that.

We were all there for a weekend meditation retreat led by Diana Winston, director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. The book, Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, which she co-authored with Susan L. Smalley, outlines the scientific evidence and practical application of mindfulness meditation.

At our retreat, organized by the Westcoast Dharma Society, we practised meditation while standing, walking, eating and sitting (on a chair, meditation

bench or meditation cushion called a zafu).

Meditation is the practice of focused attention or concentration. Depending on your practice, you can meditate upon an idea, an image or a mantra, such as the sound, “Om.” In mindfulness meditation, we focus on what arises in the present moment. When we first learn to meditate while sitting, we focus our concentration on each breath in and each breath out, noting the sound and sensations in different parts of the body.

We can then shift our attention to other physical sensations: heat or cold, pressure, tension or pain.

With further practice, we become aware of thoughts and emotions as they arise.

We train our minds to remain in the present moment — rather than getting stuck in the past or projected into the future. We recognize when our minds are carried away in a train of associations or our thoughts snowball out of control, and

With the deepening of practice, mindfulness becomes the approach with which we can live every moment of our lives.

with practice we remain in the present.

A strong foundation of mindfulness can serve as a safe anchor from which we can experience and manage challenging emotions and physical pain. For example, we can move our awareness and focus back and forth

from the anchor of mindful breathing to an area of pain or a difficult emotion, such as sadness, anger or fear.

In walking meditation, we first learned to attend to the sensations in our feet and legs as we took deliberately slow, controlled steps. As we sped

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up, we noted the subtle changes in our sensations.

In standing meditation – a good alternate to sitting when you think you might fall asleep, we recognized we are in constant motion even as we try to stand still.

In a mindful eating exercise, I shared lunch with my friend and med school classmate John, but we couldn’t talk according to the rules of the retreat. By remaining conscious of each bite of my sandwich, apple and pear and every grape, I noted sensations and subtleties of taste I normally would have missed. It took me 40 minutes to eat a lunch I would usually wolf down in 10, but my appetite was satisfied with less food.

I’ll be recommending slow, mindful eating to all of my patients who are challenged by their hearty appetites.

Though many people think of meditation as something that is done only in solitude while seated on a zafu, mindfulness is meditation in motion. With the deepening of practice, mindfulness

becomes the approach with which we can live every moment of our lives as we learn and work, talk and relate to others, experience being alive and have thoughts and feel emotions.

An insight arises in the practice of mindfulness where the focus of our attention is whatever arises in the present — a moving target. Everything changes and everything is in motion — everything in our world, everything in our selves, including our thoughts, emotions and bodies.

My favourite place for walking meditation was the Nitobe Memorial Garden, a gem of a Japanese garden hidden behind the Asian Centre. It reminded me of the beauty that is all around us every day that we may miss if we are not mindful.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician and his Healthwise columns appear regularly in this paper. For more on achieving your positive potential in health, see his website at davidicuswong. wordpress.com.

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Garden

Ask Anne: Compost, berries and tulips Anne Marrison

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Q: Should I put smoke bush leaves in my compost? When I prune the branches there’s quite a smell of resin and I’ve read you shouldn’t compost leaves with a high oil content. I dry leaves on trays in my basement to give me a supply of carbon to compost through the winter.

Donna Crosby, Coquitlam

A: The leaves of many aromatic plants contain essential oils in tiny amounts, including herbs such as mint, thyme, etc.

But I have never come across any suggestion aromatic plants shouldn’t be used in compost. I’ve composted herb and aromatic prunings for years as part of a general mix for composting and had no discernable problems.

Since you can spread your leaves out on trays, it sounds as if you don’t

have a large quantity of leaves anyway. I’d say go ahead and compost them.

The only caution I might make is that a well-run compost should have as wide a variety of components as possible. These could be leaves, grassclippings, soil, weeds, manure and clipped prunings. The idea is that no ingredient should dominate.

It’s not impossible that compost with a huge quantity of aromatic

leaves and not much of anything else could cause problems for the worms, slugs and friendly bacteria that help decomposition. After all, in past centuries, aromatic leaves were used to deter ants, fleas, etc. from gaining access to a house.

There certainly are leaves that can slow down composting by being reluctant to disintegrate (beech and some oaks, for instance). Black walnut leaves contain

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Many gardeners won’t compost them — although others say black walnut leaves are fine if you compost them by themselves for a year before adding them to a general compost.

Q: How do I preserve hawthorn branches so the berries stay on them and remain attractive until Christmas? I have had two suggestions so far: cut them and store in a cool dry place in a burlap sack or spray them with varnish. Do you have any suggestions?

David Patching, Ladner

A: The traditional way of keeping berries on decorative boughs is to mix one part glycerin to two parts boiling water, then hammer the end of each stem until it is crushed and put the stems in a tall vase for a month to six weeks. My vote would be for six weeks.

It’s best if the room is dark

and cool. If the liquid level starts going down, add one part glycerin to three parts water.

An anti-desiccant spray is also supposed to keep the leaves and berries from drying out.

Q: I have five hostas in six-inch pots. Can I keep them in pots over the winter until I know where to put them?

I can stand my pots in some tall, empty containers to give them some protection from the elements. Will that help?”

Irene Brown, Ladner

A: Yes, you can keep your hostas in pots over the winter. Hosta plants are extremely hardy. The tall, empty containers would help protect them, especially if you surrounded the inner pots with an insulating layer of leaves inside the tall containers.

Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions.

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Travel

Children of the corn Galey Farms Festival of Fear includes maze, train ride Sandra Thomas

sthomas@vancourier.com

Carter Bryant Thomas and friend Logan Panter take a break in the corn maze at Galey Farms in Victoria during Festival of Fear. PHOTO SANDRA THOMAS

Meandering through the corn maze at Galey Farms in Saanich on Vancouver Island last Saturday afternoon, we quickly lost sight of my six-year-old grandson and his friend as they ran ahead to explore alone.

Moments later, as we turned a corner, the pair leaped out at us from behind some corn stalks and growling like zombies.

I can attest at least one of us adults screamed with genuine fright. I won’t embarrass anyone by mentioning names (Judy).

The maze is just one of many popular attractions Galey Farms incorporates into its annual PumpkinFest and Festival of Fear leading up to Halloween.

I say popular because we were joined by hundreds of other grandparents, parents and kids of all ages Saturday as we listened to live music, rode the train past witches, goblins and roaring dinosaurs,

screamed through the haunted house and chose just the right pumpkins to take home.

We had the option to take a trolley out to the farm’s large pumpkin patch to pick our own, but an unexpected rain shower brought with it visions of a muddy field and we managed to convince the boys they should pick their own from the market where large boxes overflowed with the round orange gourds.

It was a moot point, really, since both boys were already pretty much covered in mud from crawling through the corn maze, but the mess only added to their fun. Despite the large number of adults and kids at the farm, staff does a great job

of handling the crowds — our lineup for the train was less than 10 minutes.

I don’t know if it’s because Victoria is so steeped in history, but the city and surrounding burbs seem to embrace Halloween with lots of enthusiasm.

We were in the city to celebrate an early sixth birthday and Halloween with my grandson, but there were too many events taking place to fit them all in. Adults will want to check out a walking tour hosted by John Adams, one of the city’s foremost historians, who leads the Ghostly Walks in October with a focus on eccentric characters, hangings, murder and ghosts.

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Continued from page 19 Year-round tours include Chinatown Walks, Discovery Walks and Gold Rush Tales.

The city also closed down part of Government Street downtown for a daylong event called Wicked Victoria on Oct. 25, which included a bouncy pirate ship, balloon artists, live music, food, vendors and spooky displays.

For our family weekend, we stayed at Hotel Zed on Douglas Street, the now defunct Blue Ridge Inn, which has been converted into an eclectic, hipster hangout complete with vintage-style furniture throughout — my grandson was amazed at the rotary phone. But ironic moustaches and plaid shirts aside, Hotel Zed is a great option for families because there’s so much to do. In fact, a day at the hotel was going to be our Plan B should the weather fail us completely. Even as we were heading to Galey Farms, the boys were eyeing the outdoor “Zedinator” waterslide, which ends with a splash in the indoor pool. The lobby of this pet-friendly hotel also acts as an activity centre complete with a typewriter station, listening area with a record player, vinyl and headphones, board games, free bikes to borrow, and ping pong tables and Wii terminals downstairs. We enjoyed brunch at The Ruby, which takes up the front half of the lobby, and I can highly recommend the chicken and

waffle. The price is right, too, — rooms and apartments typically run between $100 and $150 a night.

The hotel uses a 1976 VW bus as a free shuttle, which we used to get downtown Friday night to check out a few hot spots along what’s become known as Victoria’s Cocktail Trail.

There’s been a lot of hype around craft beer tours of late, so we were happy to find Victoria’s enthusiasm for cocktails just as high.

We started at Clive’s Classic Lounge on Burdett Avenue, which came highly recommended by several Vancouver friends, before heading to North 48 on Langley Street for a tiki-inspired Zombie, it being Halloween and all. Other cocktail bars on the trail include Little Jumbo, OLO by Ulla, Cenote, Veneto and the Bengal Lounge in the Fairmont Empress.

But Halloween isn’t the only holiday Victoria celebrates with enthusiasm.

Some upcoming Christmas and holiday events include: • Island Farms 2015 Santa Light Parade: Join Santa, the

Grinch and all their friends to officially declare Christmas in Victoria open beginning at 5:45 p.m. Nov. 28 at the Parliament Buildings.

Downtownvictoria.ca.

• Eighth Annual Centennial Square Christmas Tree Light-Up: From 4 to 5 p.m. Nov. 28, at Centennial Square with free treats and a visit with Father and Mother Christmas. Downtownvictoria.ca.

• Festival of Trees: From Nov. 18 to Jan. 5 at the Bay Centre in support of B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation. Bcchf.ca/events.

• Gingerbread Showcase: From Nov. 23 to Jan. 5.

Visit the Inn at Laurel Point to check out sculptures and art constructed from gingerbread by professional and amateur chefs. Laurelpoint. com/christmas.

• IEOA Truck Light Convoy: Starting at 5:45 p.m.

Dec. 5, festively decorated trucks will parade from Ogden Point, through Oak Bay and Downtown Victoria before passing through View Royal and Langford.

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More time needed to escape serial killer Sandra Thomas

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“The first thing you must do is get out of these,” advised our leering host, gesturing towards the handcuffs wrapped around my wrists, which were padlocked to a second set strapped onto my friend. In total, the combination to three padlocks would have to be found to free us from our bonds.

The fact that advice came from a hungry lab assistant nicknamed Beetle, complete with maniacal laugh, raised our anxiety to near panic, especially since we were locked in the basement of the home of a serial killer with an appetite for blender drinks made from human flesh.

With the clock ticking, we began our desperate, and unsuccessful, attempt to solve a series of puzzles within 45 minutes in order to gain our freedom, more than aware punishment for failure would land us in the hands of a psychotic cannibal.

Despite the fact our group,

composed of me, my sister and my friend, weren’t actually at risk and instead were attempting to escape from one of the theme rooms at SmartyPantz, located in a four-storey, Edwardian-era building located at the corner of Abbott and West Cordova in Gastown, I was surprised at how much our adrenalin was pumping. It was palpable.

Prior to being handcuffed together — my sister opted out of the restraints — we had to hand over our mobile phones, which were placed in a locked box. We were also given a walkie-talkie and told we could ask just two questions during the course of our ordeal/challenge.

We were attempting to escape from the Thirst for Murder Room, while our male counterparts had chosen Doomed Submarine as their quest. The three other escape rooms at SmartyPantz include Spies & Lies, Dream’scape, and Morning Never Comes.

And while many of the puzzles we needed to solve to escape

were extremely challenging, the solutions to others were often right in front of us — when we weren’t overthinking things.

(For the sake of not spoiling the fun, that’s all I’ll say about the puzzles.)

SmartyPantz co-founder Chris Ricard says he became interested in creating an escape room attraction while working on a business development plan as part of his master’s in business administration studies. As escape rooms began popping up and trending in Asia and North America, Ricard and friend Dan Civiero visited several locations and took away one impression: “We had a good time, but knew we could do better.”

The rest, as they say, is history and this first SmartyPantz location opened in Gastown at the beginning of 2015. Knowing they’d need help creating the ultimate challenges, they turned to friends in the movie industry who recommended award-winning prop master Ben Krakowsky and

set decorator Heidi Wilkinson.

The team brainstormed ideas and came up with the concepts for the SmartyPantz rooms. The name SmartyPantz plays homage to the thought needed to solve the puzzles. SmartyPantz also employs a host of local actors who play characters, such as the demented Beetle from our room.

Since then, Ricard says he and Civiero have been literally living and breathing all things escape.

Their largest customer base comes from businesses and corporations with hopes that by locking employees into a submarine with only a 45-minute air supply, they’ll learn team building and how to work together.

“People have a preconceived notion of how things work in their minds,” says Ricard. “We wanted to shake that up a bit.”

SmartyPantz has just opened a second location in Edmonton with more escape rooms planned for Calgary in the near future. For more information visit smartypantz.ca. @sthomas10

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Are you ready for The Asylum? The Beast?

Darkness or Fear?

Courier staffer Janine Jurji and her Westender colleague Matty Lambert weren’t.

You may remember Lambert from the Courier’s “Five Scariest Rides at the PNE” video posted this summer.

Thursday night, Lambert, accompanied

by Jurji, braved Fright Nights at the PNE, considered by many to be Western Canada’s scariest haunt.

Fright Nights, which runs until Nov. 1, features seven haunted houses, 15 rides, as well as the Monsters of Schlock and Radiant Heat fire shows.

And, for those so inclined, Canada’s most extreme pendulum ride, The Beast, is free with admission. Its menacing pendulum arm swings riders 120-degrees in either direction, reaching heights of more than 125 feet while flying 90 kilometres an hour in a seat that spins 360 degrees.

Make sure to check out Fear, where your deepest, darkest, anxiety-inducing phobias come to life such as towering heights, wild animals ready to attack, being buried alive and even the dentist. (Hate the dentist.)

Other haunted houses include The Asylum, Darkness, Car-N-Evil, Haunted Mansion, Keepers Doll Factory and Hollywood Horrors.

For more information visit Frightnights.ca.

To see more photos and a video of Lambert and Jurji braving one of these haunted houses visit vancourier.ca. @sthomas10

Matty Lambert and Janine Jurji braved the PNE Fright Nights this week. The popular attraction runs until Nov. 1.

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No longer confined to museums, public art today is accessible and engaging Forget the museum, because today’s art is taking it to the street.

From articulated steel salmon “swimming” up a water wall to a tractor that transforms into a giant flower garden over the course of a year, art is everywhere – and increasingly in the grounds and plazas of new residential developments.

One such development is The Shore in North

Vancouver. A long-time leader in the quest to bring art into the public realm, Adera Development Corporation’s most recent achievement is the unveiling of the Shore Art Walk – four newly commissioned local art pieces located at the new development.

“Over 50 artists from around the world responded to our initial public art call, but the final selections were all local,

B.C. artists – Michael Vandermeer based on Granville Island, Coastal Salish carver John Marston, and Coast Salish artist Jody Broomfield,” says Adera president Norm Couttie. “The art walk sums up Adera’s ‘Live West Coast’ philosophy and allows us to share our appreciation of local artists while helping create a new and vibrant west coast community.”

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“Art adds a different dimension, a unique and distinct vibe, to community spaces because people tend to slow down and linger,” says Don Forsgren, president and CEO of development group Intracorp. Ultimately, that’s got to be good for sales, with even nonresidents engaging in the public spaces created by a new development. Forsgren is quick to stress the days of a traditional, bronze statue of a long-forgotten historical figure are gone. Today’s public art draws in passersby, encourages conversation or debate, and often sends an open invitation to touch or even sit and climb it.

“For example, at Metro Place in Burnaby, we commissioned two chrome art pieces – Shed One and Shed Two – that appear to be antlers ‘shed’ by a deer,” Forsgren says. “One faces up so people can sit on it – and they do – the other has the points down so it becomes a shelter.”

He’s also delighted by the progress being made on the Intracorp-commissioned Douglas Coupland sculpture – a gold-coloured replica of the famous Hollow Tree in Stanley Park – that will define the northeast corner of Marine Drive and Cambie Street in Vancouver.

“When we commissioned this piece, we wanted something that would become a landmark, a place where people might meet before going to the theatre or out for dinner.”

It will also preserve a beloved piece of the city’s history, which could otherwise eventually rot away, part of the reason he says the company chose to commission the art directly rather than through the city.

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PLANTS AND HALLOWEEN WORDS BY ANNE MARRISON AMARRISON@SHAW.CA

These days Halloween characters look more like a Hollywood zombie set — but the central theme is one any long-ago pagan would recognize: on this night the dead walk again (at least symbolically) and spirits roam freely.

visions for psychics. But it had another life for many thousands of years as a source of food from its seeds, as a sedative and pain-reliever, and as a fibre. In more recent times, its narcotic properties overshadowed its more practical uses.

Hemp (aka marijuana) is one of these. It was one of the ingredients in the “flying ointment” said to be used by witches to give the illusion of levitation. It was also reputed to assist

Another “flying” ingredient is aconitum. Today this is still used (in very minute doses) as a pain-killer in alternative medicine. It’s valued for its beauty and slug-resistance as

a garden plant but is also hugely poisonous. Used as wolf poison for many years, aconitum should be treated with gloved hands and the utmost care.

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itting in Jillian Harris’ living room, her dark hair pulled up in a ponytail and feet tucked into a soft pink, re-upholstered, circa 1900 chair, the effervescent designer is friendly and open.

“I love contemporary design, simple, clean lines with a mix of antique and eclectic pieces,” Harris tells REW.ca.

A celebrity interior designer, former Bachelorette star and co-host of W Network real estate show Love It or List It, Harris has more than a few good ideas about home style. Her Vancouver laneway home is airy and open with 14-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, wide plank hardwood floors upstairs and concrete floors on the main.

It’s decorated in soft tones, white walls and pastel pink touches throughout that truly befit the pretty, petite brunette.

DESIGN STYLE Harris has transformed this 1,100-square-foot pied-a-terre to suit her signature style with comfy oversized cushions, bouquets of flowers and various curios and accessories of different shapes and sizes peppering the space.

There are rows of high-heeled shoes displayed on bookshelves in the spare bedroom, which has been converted into her wardrobe — a robin-egg-blue deer head hangs by the window in her master bedroom, its antlers perfect for hanging hats or clothes, and well-worn books line select shelves and tables around her home.

Her favourite room is her bedroom. “I love the angled ceiling... it feels like I’m in a cocoon,” she quips.

“My bed is by the window and there’s always a soft breeze coming in.”

This room is also where, under the glow of her fabulous find — a Home Sense industrial lamp — she answers the hundreds of emails she doesn’t have time to get to during the day.

Her space throughout is a contrast of elegant, fresh, traditional, modern and simple with a liberal dose of classic white and dash of colour.

Between long days taping and her nightly yoga classes, Harris admits she doesn’t have much time or energy to cook. She often picks up a salad and smoothie for dinner on her way home. But when boyfriend Justin is in town, you can find the couple chopping alongside each other on their vintage butcher block island.

“I found this gorgeous antique butcher block at Folkart Interiors and had to have it,” she says, adding the top is new, handcrafted from maple. “We love to cook spaghetti bolognaise, beef stroganoff or a veggie chili.

I love comfort food.”

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What is the one item in your home you cannot do without?

My vintage [kitchen] island. It’s where I eat, work, throw my stuff down, drink my coffee... it adds so much character.

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Feminine eclectic, bright white and airy with splashes of gentle colour and vintage touches.

What inspires you?

The past, clothing, beautiful lighting and food.

What is your most recent decor indulgence?

I just bought the Stephanie headboard and an Aerin Chandelier from The Cross Décor & Design. I’ve had my eye on the headboard for three years and finally decided to take the plunge.

What is the biggest decorating mistake most people make?

Too matchy-matchy and “themed” spaces. A space should reflect you, not a specific theme or trend.

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The Chinatown Haunted House at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden.

Halloween haunts Now through Oct. 31

EventGuide OCTOBER 2015

The Chinatown Haunted House takes over Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden in Chinatown now through Saturday, Oct. 31. This adults-only attraction transforms the typically sedate Chinese Garden into a terrifying haunted house created

by Seven Tyrants Theatre and inspired by the gruesome stories of Judge Dee, considered by many to have been the Chinese Sherlock Holmes. See vancouverchinesegarden. com.

The Haunted Vancouver Trolley Tour: Vancouver Ghost Stories includes stops at Vancouver Police Museum and Mountain View Cemetery with tales of murder and ghosts now

through Oct. 31. These nighttime tours are guaranteed to produce goosebumps as some of the city’s most haunted properties come to life through stories.

See vancouvertrolley.com.

Oct. 31 Because it’s one of the most popular events of the Halloween season in Vancouver, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret keeps the location of the Parade of Lost Souls secret until midnight on the eve of Halloween.

The parade, which features jugglers, actors, singers, musicians, acrobats, spirits and more, is an inclusive celebration of the arts for thousands of spectators each year. An after party runs 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. See dustyflowerpotcabaret.com.

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B.C. ski hills expect better season than last year Jen St. Denis

Business in Vancouver

Meteorologists are calling for a warmer than usual winter in Western Canada, but the forecast for B.C. ski hills should be better than last year’s dismal conditions thanks to changing ocean temperature patterns.

Last winter, many ski hills saw more rain than snow. The ski hills nearest Vancouver, located near the coast and at relatively low elevation, were hit hard: Grouse, Seymour and Cypress all closed early in the skiing season.

“This year’s winter will probably be more like the winter of the Vancouver

Olympics in 2009/2010 and 1997/1998,” UBC professor Michael Pidwirny wrote to Business in Vancouver in an email. “2009/10 and 1997/98 are the last two times that we had a strong El Nino.”

A mild El Nino was in effect last winter, but the very warm conditions were largely due to an unusual “blob” of very warm water in the Pacific Ocean. But, Pidwirny explained, “the Blob is on its way out.”

“The high pressure ridge and calm winds over the northeastern Pacific Ocean that caused it form from fall 2013 to summer 2015 are now gone, replaced with the normally occurring low

pressure systems and much windier conditions,” he wrote.

There’s a 95 per cent chance the west coast of North America will experience a strong El Nino this winter.

That means it’s going to likely be a few degrees warmer than a normal winter, but not as bad as last year. There will likely be between 10-20 per cent less snowfall than normal in southern B.C., Pidwirny wrote.

The effect of the temperature variation will depend on where each resort is located, said David Lynn, president and CEO of the Canada West Ski Areas Association.

“As you move further eastward into Banff and Jasper,

they typically have very cold winters. If at a certain point in their winter it’s -20 degrees and it goes to -18 degrees, that’s not a big deal for them,” Lynn said.

“But if you go from -1 degree to one degree, it is a big deal.”

Ski hills, especially the larger resorts, are already seeing increased pre-bookings for this upcoming season and expect to benefit from the low Canadian dollar, Lynn said.

Pidwirny, an associate professor of environmental science at UBC, has been researching how changing weather patterns will affect ski hills. Like other scientists

who study changing mountain weather conditions, Pidwirny has found the trend line is for the amount of snow on B.C. mountains to decline as warmer temperatures mean precipitation is more likely to fall as rain rather than snow, especially on the coast and at lower elevations.

However, conditions will vary from year to year.

CWSAA has sponsored Pidwirny’s research, Lynn said, and ski hills now regularly invest in activities like summer grooming (removing rocks and brush from runs to make the most of the snow that does fall) and expensive snow making equipment.

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Roundhouse Radio hits the airwaves Michael Geller Columnist

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Have you ever wanted to own your own sports team? Pub? Restaurant?

How about your own radio station?

Recently I had the opportunity to participate at the launch of a new Vancouver station, Roundhouse Radio.

At a time when many media outlets are cutting back on production or folding, a group of brave British Columbians have decided to invest in community radio.

The idea was hatched three years ago when Don Shafer, a longstanding fixture in Canadian media and broadcasting, and a few friends were discussing what they would do if they owned a radio station, and wrote the ideas on the back of a napkin from the Alibi Room.

One thing lead to another and they decided to file for a CRTC license. Not an inexpensive proposition.

However, they were one of two applicants who were successful and their station,

known by the call letters CIRH, was licensed in August 2014.

Since then they have been setting up studios and offices at 714 Alexander Street in Railtown, developing programing ideas, lining up show hosts and potential guests.

I am particularly fond of radio. I enjoy it when working or driving my car, but also in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep.

That’s when I listen to fascinating programs from the BBC, DW-Deutsch Welle and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcast over CBC. If you’re not a regular night time listener, recent programs examined the evolution of the modern zoo and whether animals should be kept in captivity; and the plight of 11 “dames pipi,” some of whom have been cleaning Paris toilets for more than 30 years, who were dismissed after a Dutch “toilet concept” company won the contract to manage the city’s last “manned” public toilets.

Roundhouse Radio will

Roundhouse Radio won’t focus on international content. Its focus is on local stories and issues of interest to Vancouver residents. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

not focus on international content. Instead it is committed to being very local, and feature issues of interest to Vancouver residents.

There will be a mix of 80 per cent talk and 20 per cent music, targeted to adults aged 25 to 64. The format has been described as “niche spoken word” and the tagline is “Our City,

Your Voice.”

I learned about Roundhouse Radio a few months ago when I was approached to appear as a guest on some of the shows. Kirk LaPointe (yes that Kirk LaPointe) is hosting the morning show from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., and Joannah Connolly of Real Estate Weekly will be the Real Es-

tate Therapist at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings. Many Vancouverites need a real estate therapist.

Each weekday, Marty Strong will host an “indie audio” program from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

As part of the station’s dress rehearsal, I appeared on his show with Tyee journalist David P Ball. We talked about housing, real estate, the art gallery and viaducts.

Starting this week, Marty will be followed at 9 p.m. by Rhona Raskin. Her show is called Love + Lust.

The only way I’ll likely get on Rhona’s show will be to talk about a book from my library, Sex and Real Estate.

If I can’t sleep, I’ll listen to Samantha Parton whose Slipstream goes from 11 p.m. till 6 a.m.

You can find the full weekly schedule at roundhouse.com.

At an opening party I saw a number of local media personalities, including assistant news director Marcella Bernardo. Other familiar names involved with

the station include Tracey Friesen, Terry David Mulligan, Jim Byrnes, Cory Price and Kerry Marshall.

While Roundhouse Radio is in the process of developing relationships with 200 non-profit organizations, this is not a non-profit venture. It hopes to make money and will be dependent on advertising.

As someone who listens to both commercial and noncommercial radio, I think it will be very important for the station to have its own brand of clever and entertaining commercials. Even if they do work, crass and annoying commercials can be a real turn-off. And I do turn off. I know I am not alone.

Sadly, too many established radio stations in Vancouver have been cutting back on local programing.

I therefore welcome a new community radio station in Vancouver, which like this newspaper, should become a valued community asset.

Best wishes for success, Roundhouse Radio. Now set your dial to 98.3 FM. @michaelgeller

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Oct. 29 to Nov. 4, 2015 1. Those zany, limber peeps at Cirque du Soleil are back for another high-flying, death-defying, clown-friendly spectacle.

The travelling troupe’s latest production, Kooza, opens Oct. 29 under the big top at Concord Place. Details and tickets at cirquedusoleil.com/kooza.

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2. The Cinematheque dishes out a dollop of retro kitsch this Halloween with its circa-1968 double-bill of Jane Fonda’s campy sci-fi flick Barbarella and Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, starring Mia Farrow as a waifish woman who believes she’s been impregnated by Satan. Good stuff. The thrills and chills go down Oct. 30 and 31.

For the Oct. 30 screening, the Cinematheque invites patrons to break out their best costumes for a swinging, 1960s-inspired Halloween shindig, with refreshments and prizes. Details at thecinematheque.ca.

3. It seems like it was only yesterday that former-Vancouverite Mac DeMarco was in town with his gap-tooth and nicotine addiction to bring his sweet pop stylings to the hip masses. Well, he’s back for two sold-out shows at the Commodore Oct. 30 and 31 with guests Alex Calder, the Courtneys, Walter TV and Wand.

4. Mark Hellman plays folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger in the Other Guys Theatre Company adaptation of Seeger’s The Incompleat Folksinger.

History, heartfelt stories and Seeger’s inspirational music combine is this crowdpleasing show, which runs Nov. 4 to 14 at the Firehall Arts Centre. Details and tickets at firehallartscentre.ca or by calling 604698-0926.

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‘Room’ actress obsessed Brie Larson spent months preparing for role MOVIE Julie Crawford

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You may not know her name yet, but Brie Larson has been slowly amassing fans for years.

Teens and 20-somethings know her as Envy Adams from Scott Pilgrim, and from 21 Jump Street. Anyone over 30 remembers her as Mark Wahlberg’s college-student love interest in The Gambler. Indie film fans believe Larson should’ve got an Oscar nod for 2013’s Short Term 12.

But the actress is about to become a household name thanks to her starring role in Room, based on the gripping best-seller

by Emma Donoghue.

“It’s already been slowly taken away from me,” Larson says via telephone, of her relative anonymity.

“It would be really hard if it happened overnight… I never want to lose my ability to be out in the world.”

Being out in the world is what eludes Ma, who, when we meet her, is raising her five-year-old son Jack in a 12-by-12-foot insulated backyard shed. The tale is told from the perspective of Jack (Jacob Tremblay), so it takes the viewer a while to piece together that mother and son are captives, held by a man they refer to as Old Nick.

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Director Lenny Abrahamson remains faithful to Donoghue’s book by letting Jack lead the narrative. Initially all we see of Old Nick is what Jack sees: thin slices from between the slats of the wardrobe in which Ma puts him each night to sleep. Ma is sexually assaulted repeatedly; the only power she has is her refusal to let Old Nick anywhere near Jack.

But when the man (Sean Bridgers) lets slip that he has lost his job and may lose his house, Ma knows he will kill them rather than set them free. She concocts a near-impossible escape plan and tries to undo years of teaching, telling Jacob that there is a world outside Room after all. In that moment, says Larson, “Ma’s sort of asleep but then she remembers her strength.”

Larson refused all offers of other work and spent seven months prepping for the role. With the help of a nutritionist she put on 15 pounds of muscle in order to convey a mother in a state of perpetual readiness to protect her son. She worked with a trauma counselor — “I was obsessed with getting it right” — and made a diary for three different stages of her character’s life, to better connect with Ma. And, says Larson, “I grew out all my armpit hair, which I’m so bummed you never see!

That was hard!”

Rape. Confinement.

Parenting a child who’s never felt grass, while trying to keep her own sanity.

Playing a character like Ma could have been still more gruelling if not for the levity on set: Abrahamson (who directed the quirky Frank, featuring Michael Fassbender wearing a papier mache head) would occasionally show up “as a completely different person,” according to Larson. “For a full day he pretended to be the mayor of a small town in Ireland, only interested in getting pictures with the crew!”

Not being sucked “into a very dark place” also required some serious aforethought on Larson’s part.

“With a role like this, you have to have a plan to go in and a plan to get out. I love to scuba dive and I found it to be the perfect metaphor — you can’t just strap on a tank and get into water… you have to make a plan.”

She stayed in contact with people from her real life — her mom, friends — and her little co-star Jacob “just wouldn’t put up with a bad attitude, wouldn’t put up with me crying,” she laughs. “The big scene where we’re reunited and I’m crying, they yelled ‘cut’ and I’ve got snot all over me, and he pushed off of me and said, ‘I don’t get it, you just saw me 10 minutes ago!’”

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And she scheduled a vacation after filming wrapped. “I got on a plane to Hawaii and ate all the carbs you could ever want.”

Larson cites Diane Keaton, Anna Karina, and Gena Rowlands “in anything that Cassavetes did” as inspirations. Her mother, a frustrated dancer, supported any kind of artistic expression her daughter wanted to indulge in from dance lessons to ice skating. “My family didn’t have very much money growing

up but I had a mother with a big imagination, she was a real big dreamer,” she says. Larson’s artistic tastes are a result of that encouragement. She released an album when she was 16; on a recent shoot she spent her downtime designing new typefaces; she journals every day.

And she won accolades for her first directing effort, a short film called The Arm that went to Sundance.

“I’ll definitely continue to direct,” she says, “it’s such a

valuable part of the creative process… Acting and directing is like the difference between driving a car and being a passenger.”

So, being a bit of a multipotentialite, if she could receive a steady paycheque doing anything, what would it be? “Personally I wish we lived in world where we didn’t have currency at all, then I wonder who we would all be, really.”

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Arts & Entertainment THEATRE REVIEW

The Dining Room serves up memories of bygone days Jo Ledingham

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“If only the walls could talk.” On a tour of heritage homes at least one person is bound to say it. In A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room, which premiered in New York in 1982, the playwright focuses not on the walls but on a dining room — the room that, early on, was used in the U.S. by white, uppermiddleclass families for all the meals with Daddy at one end, Mommy at the other and the fidgety kids in between. Often, in these families, there was a maid of few words: “Yes, ma’am” and “Yes, sir” and maybe a “coloured” cook or nanny — much loved by the children.

The room, with its highly polished dining room table and chairs with a buffet or credenza nearby, gradually devolved into a special occasion room when the bone china, the silverware and the crystal were brought out, cherished, used, lovingly washed by hand and put away until Easter, Thanksgiving, New Years or Christmas.

The play is a eulogy of sorts, not only for the dining room but also for bygone days. While The Dining Room feels very American with accents

The Dining Room is a eulogy of sorts for bygone days.

from a variety of U.S. cities and references to American events, the Canadian dining room has seen a similar decline.

In a mosaic of overlapping vignettes, Chelsea Haberlin deftly directs six performers playing a multitude of roles.

The focal point of Glenn MacDonald’s set is an ornate oval dining room table, six chairs, chandelier and handsome sideboard.

Lighting designer John Webber leaves the periphery of this centrepiece more or less in shadow so the various vignettes appear as if in memory.

The play is generally billed as a comedy — and

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“What’s the other half?” the boy innocently asks, earning his father’s ire. A mother (Anna Hagan) tries to persuade her daughter (Kate Dion-Richard) to attend dancing school rather than see a play with her notorious Aunt Martha.

Aggie, the maid (Adele Noronha) tells Michael (Dominguez) she doesn’t want to be a maid any longer, and he offers to be, “More careful when I pee” if she’ll stay. A brash young architect tries to persuade the new buyer of the house (Keith Martin Gordey) to turn the dining room

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into a waiting room and office. This scene — and some others — reveals that all was not always happy around that table: arguments, betrayals, disappointments and frequent insensitivity to the “help.”

It’s a bittersweet snapshot but what provides the greatest pleasure is the transformative skill of the performers. Anna Hagan, for example, is a giddy little birthday girl in one scene, an unfaithful middle-aged woman; an elderly woman who, at a dinner party, forgets where she is and who these people — her family — are, and a waddling, pregnant Irish maid. All of the performers cross the age barrier easily — sometimes cavorting as little kids, sometimes as troubled or silly adolescents or, in one case, a grown daughter with two kids who wants to come back home to live.

The play, like Our Town, is a terrific vehicle for performance.

Presented by Western Gold Theatre, the dining room and its beautiful old furniture could be headed for the museum. The memories linger — mostly lovingly — on. Let’s raise a glass – Waterford crystal, of course — to the dining room.

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CHILD’S PLAY: Yours truly had the honour of conducting the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast B.C.’s annual Clubhouse Gala at Hotel Vancouver. Always an entertaining affair when you have the likes of comedian Steve Patterson and CTV sports anchor Perry Solkowski at the helm, this year’s charity dinner, sponsored

by Scotiabank, attracted 300 supporters. There were tears of laughter from Patterson’s shtick, and tears of hope from the inspired stories of the organization’s amazing kids shared by CEO Carolyn Tuckwell. By evening’s end, hearts were full and wallets were emptied. The net result was a record $170,000 compared to $150,000 last year. The donations will support a dozen neighbourhood clubs around Metro Vancouver.

BABY BOOM: More than 7,000 babies are born each year at B.C. Women’s Hospital, most of them coming into the world healthy and happy.

However, the health centre is the provincial referral hub for some 1,400 of the tiniest and sickest newborns yearly.

To support Canada’s foremost critical care facility for babies, the hospital foundation fronted its maiden gala, GLOW. And what a sparkling debut!

Chaired by Jill Schnarr and Michelle Rupp, the fundraising dinner staged at the Pan Pacific Hotel’s Crystal Ballroom generated a sparkling $1.2 million, outpacing the half million the hospital hoped to bring in. Proceeds will go towards the purchase of more life-saving equipment such as Infant Transport Incubators for B.C. Women’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit.

PADDLING FOR CHARITY: Internet entrepreneur Roger Hardy of Shoes.com and CHIMP brought the tech industry together once again for the sophomore edition of TechPong, which was held at the Imperial Lounge. Companies that raised a minimum $1,000 paddled it out for charity, generating $72,000 for the Syrian refugee crisis. Some of the city’s most recognized businesses in the tech sector such as Hootsuite, BuildDirect, Vision Critical, Unbounce and Mobify participated in the fun and games. But the ultimate winners were the charities that provide emergency relief overseas or those that help refugees resettle in Canada.

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Two hundred guests celebrated the harvest at the Vancouver Farmers Markets’ sixth-annual RIPE benefit fronted by society chair Carla Shore and executive director Tara McDonald. Proceeds support the year-round operations of the popular farmers markets that have been running for two decades.

Roger Hardy of Shoes.com brought the tech industry together for the sophomore edition of TechPong, which was held at the Imperial Lounge. Companies paddled it out for charity, generating $72,000 for the Syrian refugee crisis.

Philanthropist Rudy Kerklaan was feted at the United Way’s Pathfinders Gala. Campaign chair Kathryn Young and society chair Jerry Lampert hosted 250 guests at the celebration that honours major donors who collectively raise almost $5 million yearly.

Michelle Rupp, principal of Lighthouse Leadership, co-chaired maiden GLOW Gala for Laurie Clarke’s B.C. Women’s Hospital. Donations raised will support some 1,400 of the province’s smallest and sickest babies in need of advanced care.

Tamara Taggart emceed B.C. Women’s Hospital’s inaugural GLOW Gala. The charity dinner at the Pan Pacific Hotel raised an impressive $1.2 million for life-saving equipment such as Infant Transport Incubators for the tiniest and sickest newborn babies.

Brix, an icon of Yaletown’s dining scene, said goodbye to its downstairs cocktail lounge, George, and expanded its restaurant space. Brix & Mortar stars bar manager Chris Mosey, Chef Chris Bisaro and front of house director Simma Bakare.

Scotiabanks’s Larry Kean, vice president, Private Client Group, was the lead sponsor of CEO Carolyn Tuckwell’s Clubhouse Gala. The annual do netted a record $170,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of South Coast B.C.

Funnyman Steve Patterson entertained while CTV’s sports anchor Perry Solkowski emceed the annual Clubhouse Gala that supports a dozen neighbourhood clubs, which provide a safe and fun place for kids to go after school.

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Your subconscious floats to the surface, bringing heightened intuition. You are surrounded by secrets now (to late November) so investigate, research – some of these secrets are very valuable, can turn your life around, or lead to profit. For example, a medical diagnosis might reveal the cure for your recent tiredness, or the MD might find a tumor while it’s still harmless. Or, an investment might turn your life in a more luxurious and/or profitable direction.

November continues and expands your monetary involvements. Going forward, you should find a two-three year pall or cloud over your money has lifted. You are free to build a long-term project or to make long-term plans with money – seeking more, a pay raise, new clients, cultivating new marketable skills (this is an excellent time to take a trades or technical course) or simply buying and selling.

Relationships and new opportunities fill this month, Taurus. But look at the money “probabilities” of any business or similar opportunity. The dollar side might be more sluggish than you anticipate.

The “investment” might also grow slowly but deeply, solidly. Just go in with both eyes open.

The same applies to relocation, public dealings, fame, negotiations, litigation, and all contracts or agreements – and to love!

Your energy, clout, effectiveness and charisma remain high. Start important projects (but not in employment areas until November 13 onward). See and be seen. Tackle tasks that were too difficult previously. Approach VIPs and “prize” members of the opposite sex. (Same sex, if gay.) You have, in a sense, three wishes now: one, about money, is likely to come true within eleven months; one, about love, is already coming true, or might soon.

Work, work, work slated until late November. Might as well just plunge in. Tasks will go relatively well – and even better if you do them at home. Protect your daily health: eat and dress sensibly, stick to sleep schedules, etc. This week is smooth and quite easy, no big disasters loom. The home front is sweet and sour all week. Listen, people will tend to ignore you a bit for the two years ahead. Instead of regretting this, jump on the opportunity to act alone, independently.

Lie low, seek rest, quietude. Catch a second breath, now to Nov. 22. Sunday’s for secrets and discovery.

Investigate, look under surface appearances, analyse those around you. Wisdom, gentle love, compassion and understanding flow into you Mon. dawn to Wed. suppertime (PST). All’s well, just march forward, especially in education, intellectual spheres, publishing/media, cultural and travel zones.Something will be blocked: that’s a signal to switch horses, goals.

November is filled with joy and pleasure, beauty and charming kids, creative surges and risk-taking urges, sports, games, and romance. You’ll ride a winning streak! Your energy and charisma remain high Sunday – some of you, if single, could meet your true love – though this was more likely last night (Oct. 31). Monday dawn to Wed. suppertime (PST) brings money and bills. Chase the former, pay the latter.

Happiness slated. November holds social delights and group events, wishes, optimism, bright future plans, entertainment, flirtation and friendly romance. That romance, if you’re single, could lead to a wedding over the year ahead (hints of this Thurs./Fri.). However, until November 13 romance includes the seeds of a bit of domestic disharmony; so waiting until after that day to make any decision/commitment, is wise.

November brings your family to the fore. This is a good time to enhance security, repair, reno or decorate your home, buy furniture, set aside a little nest egg or education fund for your kids, seek family therapy, and upgrade your nutrition. In general, relax and replenish your physical and emotional reserves.

(This is nature’s “hibernation” period for you.) The week ahead is benevolent, easy. Stay out of the limelight, away from competitive situations Sunday.

November’s accent lies on career, business, reputation, worldly position, prestige relations and ambitions. You’ll be tested – and observed by higher-ups. You’ll pass these tests due to “background support.” Similarly, if facing authorities, judges, government agencies, etc., the “hidden” facts will support you, help you win. You might need a detective, unless you’re good at digging deep yourself. You can also invest brilliantly, enjoy intimacy, diagnose problems and change your lifestyle for the better.

This month will be filled with paperwork, errands, travel, siblings or friends, news, details, calls, emails and letters. Be curious, ask questions, read. You’ll be busy but relaxed. Your sexual and personal magnetism remains high – but stay out of compromising situations (clandestine affairs, etc.) – and big investments – until November 13.

By then, the urge will fade. Sunday brings social joys, optimism, popularity and happiness.

November highlights your intellectual, tolerant side. Love is very favoured. If single, you’re in a huge “meet my mate” year (to autumn 2016) and November could bring that meeting. But someone you meet before Nov. 13 is not quite as good as someone met after the 12th. (There could be money or possessiveness problems with anyone met between September 24 and Nov. 12.) Sunday remains romantic, passionate, creative and risky.

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Nov. 1: David Foster (66). Nov. 2: Stefanie Powers (73). Nov. 3: Lulu (67).

Nov. 4: Loretta Swit (78).

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Margaret Maxwell, 93, holds a copy of her autographed replica player’s card. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET At right, Margaret (Callaghan) Maxwell played third base for five different teams and was one of the fastest runners in the All-American Girls Baseball League with 80 stolen bases in 1946.

HISTORIC REPLAY: BASEBALL

Her ‘no-no’ bunt ended a pitcher’s no-no Margaret Callaghan Maxwell played professional baseball for seven years, starting in 1944

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As one of the savviest players in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, Margaret Maxwell could make a great play when least expected and most needed.

Now 93 and living in Delta, Maxwell remembers a 1948 game when her Fort Wayne Daisies played the South Bend Blue Socks against a pitcher looking at a no-hitter until the Canadian laid down the only two hits of the game, both of them bunts.

“Nobody was getting any hits,” said Maxwell.

The South Bend pitcher that day was likely Ruth Williams, a right-hander from Pennsylvania who struck out 55 batters in 23 games that summer season. She also hit eight batters that year and had a 2.25 ERA.

“I bunted on my third strike, which is a no-no,” said Maxwell, “but I beat it out. And the next time I got up, I did it again.”

And again she beat the throw to first base.

“You’d think the third baseman would be smart enough to move in, but those were the only two hits of the game. I bet that pitcher could have killed me,” she said, characteristically wry.

An athlete at King Edward high school in what’s now Fairview, Maxwell was recruited to play professionally when she blasted an 11th-inning home run to win a game in the 1943 Women’s World Series of Softball held in Detroit. Her kid sister Helen was also plucked from that battlefield.

The women’s league was launched in 1943 by Chicago Cubs owner and chewing gum king, P.K.

Wrigley who was worried the men’s leagues would lose money and sports stars to the war. But when U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt decided the country needed baseball for national morale, the women’s game was suddenly competition for the men’s major leagues. It endured well after the war, lasting for 11 seasons until 1954.

The 1992 movie, A League of their Own, tells the sensationalized tale of the players’ real experience. Maxwell called it “far-fetched” but also “hilarious.” Without some of that creative licence, she said, “it wouldn’t have been as good.”

Her younger sister Helen, 21 at the time, jumped at the invitation to join the Minneapolis Millerettes in 1944. Maxwell, then 23, had a war-time job as crew chief at the Boeing plant in Richmond and

stayed behind for half the baseball season.

“I never gave it much thought because I didn’t really think I wanted to go in the first place,” she said. “I only went because [Helen] went, and my father wanted me to go down to keep an eye on my sister.”

Helen (Callaghan) St. Aubin, nicknamed Cally, died in 1992.

Maxwell received government permission to leave her war job and joined her sister on the Millerettes where she was thrown into a game against the Millwaukee Chicks the day she arrived. “That was a shock,” quipped the bright-eyed nonagenarian.

Playing third base, Maxwell soon became a star, earning the best fielding average for the position in 1944 and 1945 and the best put-out average in 1946.

Helen, the Daisies’ lead-off hitter, shared the league’s batting crown in 1945 with a .299 average.

That season she had three home runs, four triples and 17 doubles.

In 1947, Maxwell hit a home run that left Playland Park in South Bend and was thought to be the longest homer ever hit in the league.

There were other perks to good performance, said Maxwell. “We often got things from the fans. They would buy you jewelry if you hit a triple, and one year the fans bought all the girls a wristwatch.”

Attendance first lagged, but grew to rival the men’s leagues. During spring training before the 1947 season, the women went to Cuba where one game brought in 20,000 fans and outdrew the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Strict codes of conduct — and superficial rules

such as constantly wearing lipstick and never having short hair — reflected women’s restricted roles as feminine entertainers.

Expectations changed as players proved their athleticism. Maxwell said she and Helen never attended the league’s charm school, which ran prior to the inaugural season.

With flashy pink, yellow or burgundy uniforms and short skirts flying, the teenage and 20-something women played their hearts out. Audiences were enthralled. The game also had experimental rules. The ball started out softball sized, but shrank in increments over 11 years to the same size as a regulation baseball. (The league was first called the All-American Girls Softball League and had several name changes while in existence.)

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Sports & Recreation

Sisters were basepath threat Continued from page 31 Pitchers threw underhand from a flat mound, but over time, the mound moved farther away from the batter’s box and pitchers threw overhand. Base lines were longer than in regulation softball but never as long as in men’s baseball, and players could lead off and steal.

Maxwell broke her ankle one year sliding, and many players had bruises and “strawberries,” basically wounds and scrapes. They could wear sliding pads or long socks, but that wasn’t always enough, she remembered. “Some of the girls

had half their skin [gone], like Faye Dancer. She was always wrapped up in bandages.”

Maxwell avoided most of those scrapes by popping up after a short slide. Shrewd, strong and versatile, her record-setting homer in 1947 drew this description from a sportswriter: “Marge Callaghan, 110 pounds soaking wet, hit the longest home run in this park so far… Betsy Jochum is still chasing it.”

Although a solid hitter with a .196 batting average over eight seasons, Maxwell loved to bunt. With the Millerettes, she batted

Price of admission In their first year playing professional softball — the baseball would come later — Vancouver sisters Margaret and Helen Callaghan earned $65 a week playing for the Fort Wayne Daisies in Indiana. It was 1944.

Margaret, surname now Maxwell, left a senior position in a war-time manufacturing plant and soon earned $85 a week as an athlete. “I made more

money playing ball than I did at Boeing,” she said.

Helen, married name St. Aubin, eventually earned the top salary of $125 as a leadoff batter.

In the league’s first season in 1943, weekly salaries ranged from $45 to $85 (or $613 to $1,158 in today’s U.S. dollars).

Spectators paid 74 cents to see one of four Midwest teams, the Kenosha Comets, Racine Belles, Rockford Peaches and

after her left-handed sister and often advanced Helen to second or third base.

Although the league didn’t count a sacrifice bunt as an at-bat, she never minded.

“But that helps your time at bat anyway,” she said. “I never worried about it.”

When Maxwell left the game and the limelight, she was as cool as when she first stepped into it. “I got married. My last season was 1951. I just shifted into married life.”

The league ended in 1954. Maxwell is enshrined at three different halls of fame in Cooperstown, Ontario and British Columbia.

the South Bend Blue Socks.

A Fort Wayne men’s baseball team charged 50 cents a ticket and drew an average 500 spectators while the Daisies averaged 1,300 fans, a low turnout compared to the 2,000 or 3,000 average in later seasons as the league grew.

To compare the costs, a dozen eggs cost 64 cents and a hot dog sold for about a nickel in the mid-1940s.

— Megan Stewart

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The number of players involved in a trade between the Vancouver Giants and Calgary Hitmen, announced by the clubs Tuesday. The G-Men picked up two 19-year-old NHL prospects for forward Jackson Houck, winger Jakob Stukel, goaltender Cody Porter and a conditional third round pick next year.

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The round in which Calgarian Ben Thomas was selected in the 2014 NHL Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Thomas, picked 119th overall, was traded Tuesday from the Hitmen to G-men along with 167-overall Minnesota Wild draft pick Chase Lang.

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SURE THING Whitecaps players, from left, Gershon Koffie, Kendall Watson, Tim Parker and Octavio Rivero celebrate after defeating the Houston Dynamo 3-0 at B.C. Place Oct. 25. The Caps clinched a playoff spot earlier in the month and on Sunday, Nov. 1 play their first of two playoff games. The second of the best-of-two, home-and-away series at home Sunday, Nov. 8. PHOTO BOB FRID / VANCOUVER WHITECAPS

The number of points — 25 goals and 31 assists — Chase Lang had in as many games for the Calgary Hitman last year. He added 10 playoff points.

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The round in which North Vancouver skater Jackson Houck was selected in the 2013 NHL Draft by the Edmonton Oilers — selected 94th overall, Houck was since released and is a free agent. So far this year, he has four goals and five assists in 12 games for the Giants. Last year he had 51 points, including nine power play goals, in 65 games.

268

The number of games Jackson Houck has played for the Giants over his WHL career since being drafted by the G-Men in 2010.

He will stay just outside the top five in the Giants record book.

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The number of points the Vancouver Whitecaps amassed this season with a 16-5-13 record to finish second in the MLS Western Conference and reach the post-season for the third time in five years. FC Dallas leads with 60 points. Five teams, including the Caps are within three points of each other and as of Tuesday, Vancouver did not know who their first-round opponent would be for Sunday’s playoff match.

“Building a home and financing our business, it’s everything we’ve worked for.”

“In the 91st minute, someone told me it was a possibility we could finish second.”

Karen and Wilfred, Chilliwack Members

— Caps head coach Carl Robinson after a 3-0 home win Sunday over the Houston Dynamo. Vancouver started the game ranked fifth in the Western Conference, scored three goals and finished second behind FC Dallas. The coach added, “We didn’t deserve to get to where we are at the moment if we didn’t win.”

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In many ways, Donald Trump is much like a used Lamborghini: loud, brash, colourful, shoddily assembled, almost certainly a bad idea. And at least one of them’s for sale! (Publicly.) Offered for sale out of New York at an asking price of $299,000, this bellowing bovine comes with a lusty V-12, all-wheel drive, and bragging rights.

Admittedly, close to three hundred grand for a car that’ll be old enough to drink next year on Granville Street is a lot.

However, this one’s got well-documented celebrity ownership. Talk about playing the trump card.

These days, Lamborghini is a highly polished operation, perfectly capable of building cars that hardly ever catch fire or fly off a cliff when the

steering wheel falls off.

This Diablo is a far more ornery beast, a relic of a time when Chrysler owned the company. It’s big, dumb, loud and lovable.

Should Trump clinch the Republican nomination, and perhaps even the U.S. presidency, his former Diablo could become quite valuable. As it sits, it’s still a special car by virtue of its rarity.

It’s the perfect tribute car for a Trump fan. Best of all, being a convertible, at least this sky-blue 1997 Diablo VT roadster isn’t shy about admitting that its lid comes off.

Mazda spins up rotary rumours

Early last week, Mazda released a silhouette that sent the Internet revving to redline, a sexy twodoor coupe concept that’s planned for reveal at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month. “New RX-7!” shouted the headlines — not so fast.

While many, and count

The Teatro EV is a deeply unexciting car and has nothing really to do with driving. It’s meant to be a moving space filled with digital screens for better social media.

me among them, would be happy to see a return of everyone’s favourite slightly-rude-sounding engine — the Wankel — there are a few hurdles.

Put it this way: if VW can’t or won’t get the wellunderstood turbodiesel engine to pass emissions requirements, how the heck is tiny Mazda going to get the oil-swilling rotary engine past the EPA’s

tailpipe sniffers?

The rotary is a very odd engine, one that excels at racing applications.

This doesn’t necessarily translate to the street, and most RX-7 or RX-8 owners will tell you their cars are delightful but a bit thirsty. Not only that but this new coupe concept could merely be a styling exercise and not actually powered by anything. If

forced to guess what way a rotary engine might actually make its way back into a street-driven RX-coupe, it’ll be as an ultra-compact range extender. Think BMW i8 for the rest of us.

Nissan Teatro for Dayz seeks to impress digital natives

Speaking of the Tokyo Motor Show, which can be counted upon to always

provide some seriously quirky machinery, Nissan has a full lineup on display.

Along with an updated Leaf (practical) and a twodoor sport coupe-crossover called the Gripz (less practical), there’s something called the Teatro for Dayz.

OK, first of all, putting “z” at the end of words has been clinically proven to be the least youth-oriented thing ever. It’s the kind of move Poochy the Dog might make.

Second, the boxy little Teatro EV is a deeply unexciting car and has nothing really to do with driving. It’s meant to be a moving space (“Teatro” means theatre in Italian), filled with digital screens for better social media whatever. Sure, an autonomous box to haul around people who’d rather look at their phones than drive might actually work — but who would want to own one? Sorry, TfD, but even digital natives will either buy a modern Z or take the bus.

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