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Mayor’s environmental crusade continues in unaffordable city Mike Howell

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And now a message from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry…

Say what?

I had the exact same reaction when I came across Kerry’s name in a press release issued last week by the City of Vancouver.

No, he’s not the new city manager.

No, he’s not the city’s new planning head.

He likes Vancouver, though.

Let me rephrase that… he likes what Mayor Gregor Robertson and his council is up to in its ongoing crusade to make Vancouver the “greenest city in the world” by 2020.

And, as far as I know, that green has nothing to do with all those pot shops, although critics of the city’s laissez-faire approach to shutting down illegal marijuana dispensaries might argue otherwise.

But I digress.

According to the City of Vancouver’s release, Kerry

Mayor Gregor Robertson recently visited the White House to meet with former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. They talked climate change.

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“praised” the city’s goal of shifting to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050.

(If you’re keeping track, that’s greenest city by 2020, 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050).

Here’s Kerry…

“Huge wealth can be created even as you make people healthier, reduce the sickness that comes from particulates in the air and the cancer that comes with it,” he said. “More and

more city leaders are coming to that conclusion… it’s why Vancouver set a goal of obtaining 100 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050.”

That tip of the hat came last month when Mayor Gregor Robertson racked up some more air miles to fly to Washington, D.C. for the Our Cities, Our Climate summit. If you haven’t noticed, Robertson and company are on a “green” tear

of late. As regular readers will recall, the mayor spent a few days at the Vatican this summer to join Pope Francis and other mayors from around the world to discuss climate change.

The same week Kerry showed up in a press release, the mayor spent Friday afternoon planting a tree on the grounds of city hall with some guy named David Suzuki.

Yes, that David Suzuki.

The planting of the western red cedar was part of a ceremony in which the mayor and councillors presented Mr. Nature of Things with the “Freedom of the City Award” in recognition of his work around the globe to preserve the planet.

And as I write this piece on Tuesday morning, council is preparing to hear presentations from city staff on the “Greenest City Action Plan” and the “Renewable City Strategy.”

Both reports indicate Vancouver has made progress on the environmental front, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, expanding walking and cycling networks, adopting a new building code for new homes to reduce energy, attracting “green” jobs, creating a food strategy and establishing a $2-million fund to hand out to people leading “green” projects.

The city also launched huge campaigns against Kinder Morgan’s plans to build a pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet and to get the B.C. government and the feds to buck up for a subway along

the Broadway corridor.

All of it is very progressive stuff.

Robertson will, no doubt, be touting the city’s achievements when he travels to France next month for the Paris Climate Conference.

More acclaim will probably come via some study or magazine or think tank that measures how livable or sustainable Vancouver is.

But while Kerry has praised Vancouver for its lofty goals, and the Pope has urged Robertson and other mayors to stay focused on climate change, the story making headlines in Vancouver this week — and last week, and the previous week — is not climate change.

It’s real estate, and how expensive it is.

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Asking for a friend. @Howellings

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Mike Howell

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Think like a bike thief.

That’s what J Allard wants Vancouver cyclists to do when locking their bikes.

His request comes as he embarks on a data collection survey to show how many cyclists improperly lock their bikes and, subsequently, create easy targets for thieves in a city that sees more than 2,000 bikes per year reported stolen.

“The cycling community is just making it too easy and there’s no great direction being given or good data to work from in the bike shops or for the lock manufacturers,” said Allard, a Portland resident who was in Vancouver last week to announce his bike registry company, Project 529, is working with the Vancouver Police Department to register bikes.

While the registry gives a cyclist a better chance of recovering a bike because of the serial numbers, photos and other identifiable markers logged in the system, Allard believes too

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many people don’t know how to properly lock a bike.

To capture the data, Allard is looking for 25 volunteers to record 100 bikes each that are left alone — locked or unlocked — at various spots around the city. The goal is to use the data to educate cyclists, bike store operators and bike lock manufacturers on how to keep bikes out of the hands of thieves. He also plans to share the data with the City of Vancouver and the VPD to identify areas that lack bike racks.

“There is no baseline data out there — there’s nothing,” he said, noting there is conflicting information on how best to lock a bike or what type of lock is most effective against theft. “If we can better improve education, then we can better defend ourselves and make it tougher for thieves.”

Allard said he’s already randomly recorded examples of 180 Vancouver bikes parked around the city. Some were properly locked, others weren’t. He cited one case where he

spotted an expensive bike outside a bar secured with a cheap chain lock to a sign post on a sidewalk.

He said he purposely “monkeyed with it” for a few minutes before the owner came out of the bar and asked him what he was doing. Allard explained himself and noted he could have used a pair of $15 bolt cutters to steal a $4,000 bike.

“He said he had eyes on it all the time,” Allard said.

“I asked him how long he thought it would take me to get through this chain. And he said, ‘I know, I know, I know.’”

Allard’s plan to document how Vancouver cyclists rate when it comes to locking their bikes follows a survey he led in Portland in which volunteers spent two months recording 2,500 bikes parked in that city’s metro area.

That survey found more than 15 per cent of bikes were easy targets, including 36 that had no locks.

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Although about 78 per cent were secured with U-locks — which Allard believes are much better than cable locks because they can’t be easily snipped with bolt cutters — 60 per cent of the U-locked bikes were only secured to the frame, or the wheel, not both.

About 20 per cent of bikes were left with helmets and 14 per cent were left with removable accessories such as lights. About 17 per cent either had their brand name painted over or were covered in stickers in an attempt to deter a thief from stealing a bike that wouldn’t be easy to sell on Craiglslist or eBay. In Allard’s four days in Vancouver, he said he noticed similarities between how cyclists in Vancouver and Portland lock — or don’t lock— their bikes, but observed more cyclists locking their bikes to structures other than bike racks.

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More trees, more problems, says resident leaf raker

Megan Stewart

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Were you one of the thousands of people this spring or fall who picked up — and hopefully planted — one of 5,000 trees the city hopes to add to Vancouver’s urban forest?

One homeowner, “leaf raker” and professed lover of plants says this laudable goal of planting thousand more trees does not comply with changes to the city’s leaf collection schedule.

“It’s like the right hand is not talking to the left,” said Eileen Mosca, a Vancouver commercial artist who has lived in her Woodlands-Grandview home for 35 years.

In previous years starting the first day of October, city crews collected bags of leaves on the same day as green bins. Leaves can still be placed in green bins, but that weekly pickup of extra leaves has been reduced to once a month because there is too much to collect through the fall.

“In the past, crews were unable to collect all the extra bags and bins set out for collection on green bin pick up day due to the large volume of leaves,” a city communications staffer wrote in an email to the Courier.

“Trucks were already running at capacity on green bin days before the additional collection of leaves. The change to weekend collection allows Sanitation Operations to mobilize the entire fleet of collection trucks and provide city-wide coverage, improving service to the public.”

As before, leaves must

be in bins or biodegradable, paper bags. Plastic bags will not be picked up.

Leaf collection is scheduled for: • Oct. 24 and 25 • Nov. 14 and 15 • Dec. 12 and 13 • Jan. 16 and 17, includes Christmas trees.

The reduced collection does not complement the attempt to grow more trees in the city, said Mosca. Instead, it off-loads the burden on residents.

“If they are adding trees to the urban forest, the volume is only going to grow,” she said. “They do acknowledge there is an increase in volume. They are telling the residents they have to deal with it.”

Since 2010, the park board has planted roughly 37,000 new trees in an effort to reach the city’s goal of 150,000 trees on public property such as parks and boulevards by 2020. According to the park board, Vancouver has more than 144,000 trees on boulevards and approximately 300,000 more trees growing in parks. There is no tally for the number of trees on private land.

Mosca has 11 trees on her small property, including two hazelnut, a gingko, an oak and multiple Christmas trees — a scotch pine and blue spruce among them — that have grown tall

since being planted after the holiday ended. Storing an increasing number of bags on her property is not ideal, especially since she and numerous neighbours take responsibility to rake the streets, too.

“Leaves can be slippery and need to be cleaned up,” she said, noting the change in schedule is “not the story of the century” but one that nonetheless affects many in Vancouver.

The city issued these leaf collection reminders: • Put extra leaves into store-bought bins or biodegradable paper yard waste bags.

• Leaves may be collected on either Saturday or Sunday (not both days).

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• Store extra leaves in a dry or covered area until the collection weekend.

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Developer promises ‘affordability’ on viaduct lands Concord Pacific doesn’t see neighbourhood as ‘highly exclusive’

Mike Howell

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The vice-president of a development company that stands to gain financially from the demolition of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts says the new neighbourhood planned for the area will not solely be for wealthy buyers.

In a recent presentation to city council, Peter Webb said affordable housing will be “addressed” by Concord Pacific once negotiations begin with the city on what will be built on the swath of land between B.C. Place Stadium and Chinatown.

Concord owns several parcels of land adjacent to the viaducts and supported city staff’s recommendation to knock down the elevated roadways, which have served as a link between downtown and Strathcona since the 1970s.

Council voted 5-4 last Tuesday to demolish the structures. The decision came after council heard from more than 50 speakers on the topic, including Webb, who told Mayor Gregor Robertson that “we don’t see this as a highly exclusive neighbourhood that we just sell for a fortune and wander off.”

Added Webb, “We understand the affordability of housing, the parks and

community uses in the area, daycares, schools, seawalls, parks — all of those things are important parts of the development. And we recognize that in the rezoning process, we’ll have to address all of those topics together with the city in a sort of partnership way.”

Webb’s response came after Robertson asked him about Concord’s commitment to affordable housing and park space in northeast False Creek. Webb said Concord agrees with the city’s plan for the neighbourhood, which includes affordable housing and construction of more than 13 acres of park space near Science World.

“At this stage that we’re talking about, this is not a Concord master plan development, this is the city deciding what’s best for this end of False Creek,” Webb told the mayor. “What we’ve done is read your report and we actually support it. We think it’s very good planning.”

But what affordable housing looks like and whether it will actually be built on the lands — or created elsewhere as part of land swaps between Concord and the city — is still an open question.

City staff’s report doesn’t provide a definition for affordable housing in this

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context, although it typically means rental housing or homes built for people on lower incomes. Subsidies are often involved.

In an interview following his presentation to council, Webb pointed out Concord owns five non-market housing sites outside the former Expo 86 lands that he said are waiting for senior levels of government to finance for construction.

“So to create new ones on this site might not make sense, but maybe it does,” he said. Since Concord purchased the lands in 1988, Webb said the company has committed 20 per cent of its developments to affordable housing. “It’s one of the things that will be debated. There may be a way to convert that 20 per cent to funding to build the other ones. I’m not sure.”

When asked by Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr whether the demolition of the viaducts would increase the value of Concord’s property, Webb said it was “a fair statement.”

The city staff report says the net cost of knocking down the viaducts is $90 million to $127 million.

Brian Jackson, the city’s chief planner, told council that at least $300 million could be recouped via community amenity contributions, development cost

levies and land sales.

When the Courier asked Webb how much of that $300 million will come from Concord, he said: “We haven’t had the money negotiations with the city, but I’m envisioning they’re imagining a lot of that is coming from us, and it may well.”

Another possible funding source to pay for the project is related to the original deal Concord signed with the provincial government when it purchased the lands in 1988. Called the “public participation mortgage agreement,” Concord is required to make payments to the government — in addition to the original sale price —when it surpasses the amount of density allowed for development on the lands.

According to Webb, Concord is already at the “tipping point” and “on the cusp of completely exhausting existing density negotiations” reached with the government in 1988. The staff report suggests any additional payments — which Webb described as “sort of found money” — be redirected to the city as part of the funding strategy.

Asked how much money that could be, Webb said it was “a fairly sizeable number.” @Howellings

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Following the paper trail on the viaducts decision

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ust before we get to Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s attempt to delete the City of Vancouver’s decision to remove the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts, there is this.

The week before council arrived at that unsurprising decision, they received a letter from PavCo President and CEO Ken Cretney.

In at least two PavCo reports there are references to their discussions with the city on the issue of the viaducts PavCo is an important player in all of this because it owns the stadium and the adjacent chunk of land known as 10C. The decision to remove the viaducts will affect comings and goings for any stadium events, as well as the potential value of that vacant piece of land.

Aside from complaining about the lack of meaningful consultation by the city with PavCo — which I will get to in a minute — Cretney makes another point which is quite startling.

The head of this multi-million dollar government-owned operation says “PavCo does not yet have available financial resources to prepare for and engage in any detailed negotiations in connection with any proposed Viaduct relocation project.”

Be mindful of the fact that according to

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PavCo’s own undeleted reports they had revenues last year of more than $111 million dollars. Yet here they are crying poor, unable to peel off a few bucks to deal with an issue that will easily make them —and the province — millions.

As for the windfall that the demolition of the viaducts will provide, we have no better source than Todd Stone himself, who is now kvetching that the province and PavCo have not been sufficiently in the loop about the impact of the decision to remove the viaducts.

I direct your attention to the as-yet-undeleted Hansard, the record of the debate in the legislature, dated last April 28.

Stone is being questioned by VancouverPoint Grey NDP MLA David Eby about the site 10C land and the PavCo budget, which anticipates $15 million in revenue from their sale. Eby wants to know whether removal of the viaducts would drive that number higher.

Stone says, “The discussions are underway, or have been underway for quite some time with the City of Vancouver. We’ll hope to see those discussions move along as quickly as possible. That being said, at this point we are quite confident that the projected estimates here of roughly just north of $50 million is a very reasonable expectation.”

Let me do the math on that one for PavCo. That would put an additional $35 million in their begging bowl.

Now that was six months ago. Last week, immediately after council’s vote to proceed with plans to remove the viaducts, once ensuring costs were covered by future development levies and land sales, Stone told us to “take a breath” that there had been “no meaningful technical discussions” about access to B.C. Place and “we have to make sure concerns we

have about the movement of goods are considered.”

But, here’s the thing. In at least two PavCo reports there are references to their discussions with the city on the issue of the viaducts.

Further, the city notes that “over the past two years the City has completed four comprehensive technical studies to develop street designs and construction methodologies which will ensure the ongoing viability of B.C. Place with replacement of the viaducts.”

Further, and this is in response to both the Stone and PavCo CEO Ken Cretney, in the past two years there have been meetings by either city staff or city consultants with PavCo staff, including Brian Griffin, director of Facility Operations and Ken Cretney himself, to discuss these studies “in granular detail,” according to a senior city hall source.

Stone, and those reporting to him, may be in the habit of deleting all incoming and outgoing correspondence, but, as Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson told CBC radio, “there is a good paper trail on this.”

Those meetings took place on the following dates: in 2014, on April 9, June 3, July 14, and Oct. 3. In 2015, the meetings were on Feb. 2, Aug. 18, Sept. 1 and Sept. 25.

Makes you wonder.

••• Note: It was not Green Party school trustee Janet Fraser last week who said, in support of the aboriginal school program at Macdonald school, “If this school doesn’t succeed, we don’t want it to be because of something we didn’t do.” That was the equally passionate project supporter Vision trustee Joy Alexander. Mea culpa. @allengarr

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Readers focus on school board’s handling of aboriginal school Re: “Aboriginal focus school saved until at least 2020,” Oct. 28.

The most relevant lines in Allen Garr’s column reflect the attitude of politicians and bureaucrats in B.C.: “If this school doesn’t succeed...” There is an expectation of failure. Little to no thought is put into programs intended to support the groups “at risk.” The prevailing pattern is to throw money at any problem associated with the DTES and when it fails, and most do because of poor planning and lack of oversight, ask the public what more can they do.

From the beginning that attitude, covertly, had a negative impact on the likelihood of success for any aboriginal education program in VSB. The choice of Macdonald school doomed it to failure.

Linda Chan, Vancouver ••• If, four years ago, Patti Bacchus and other Vision trustees had heeded the advice of those knowledgeable about First Nations students’ education needs, an Aboriginal Focus School would be in a new, seismically sound school.

It would be located at Norma Rose Point elementary.

The close proximity to UBC’s early childhood and aboriginal departments may have developed into mutually beneficial programs. Access to cultural, health, sport and agricultural departments could have provided diverse extra-curricular opportunities.

More parents would have been attracted to a new, West Side Aboriginal Focus School than to a school requiring seismic upgrading and located on traffic-congested Hastings Street.

For over a decade, VSB transported students from Endowment Land housing developments to various schools in the district. Such precedent-setting bussing could also facilitate transporting students from East Side neighborhoods to Rose Point elementary.

Gerri Patriquin-McKee, Vancouver

News versus opinion Re: “12th & Cambie.”

The Courier has been delivered to my house in Kitsilano for what seems like forever. I normally scan the first few pages and the Classifieds from time to time.

One thing that has always puzzled me is why Mike Howell’s 12th & Cambie column is located under the News banner.

News stories are, the last time I checked, supposed to be unbiased reporting about local or international issues/events that answer the five W’s (questions) — who, what, why, when, where (and h for how).

Howell’s “news” stories, on the other hand, are always peppered with strong opinion and often written by what appears to be an insider’s vantage point (see “Robertson buoyed by Trudeau’s victory,” Oct. 20).

The 12th & Cambie column should be moved to the opinion page, lest some poor unsuspecting reader think it be news.

Sylvia Jacob, Vancouver Editor’s note: While we agree that 12th & Cambie is not conventional news reporting, we feel it would be inaccurate to call it an opinion piece, which is why after some discussion we’ve decided to put it under the banner of “Analysis.”

ONLINE COMMENTS

Fraser responds to question of loyalty Re: “Aboriginal focus school saved until at least 2020,” Oct. 28.

Allen Garr wrote “It may also cause the NPA to question [my] loyalty”. My loyalty is to Vancouver’s students. @janetrfraser via Twitter

Trudeau’s vision clouded by Vision Re: “Vision insider involved in Trudeau stop at civic office,” Oct. 28.

Trudeau needs to know that Vision has polarised this City, the opposite of his let’s get together initiative.

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Hugh Russel was a 23-year-old fighter pilot from the Montreal area who was shot down over the English Channel on June 16, 1944. Like every soldier, sailor and airman who died in the First and Second World Wars, Russel’s name is inscribed in the Books of Remembrance that are housed in stately honour at the Peace Tower, which forms the centrepiece of Canada’s Parliament Buildings in Ottawa.

Most people who have taken the elevator to the top of the Peace Tower have seen these books. But most people do not know that there are actually two sets in existence. The other volumes are right here in Vancouver, preserved and protected by the congregation of Canadian Memorial United Church at Burrard and 15th.

Earlier this year, I wrote a column on the unusual history of this church. It was the brainchild of a Second World War chaplain, Rev. George Fallis, who was determined to construct a national church — in Vancouver, because that’s where he was from — to pay tribute to those who gave their lives in war. He travelled the country raising funds and commissioned stunning stained glass windows representing every province, as well as each branch of the services, as well as nurses, and an “AllCanada” window.

In later years, as attitudes changed, the congregation built the adjacent Centre for Peace — a sort of embodiment of the desire for peace and a counterpoint to the church’s homage to victims of past violence.

For the past 20 years or so, Russ Quinn — that is, Hugh Russel Quinn — has

been a congregant at Canadian Memorial United.

He is named after his uncle, the young pilot whose life ended in the Second World War. There are two other Hugh Russels in the books, both of whom were killed in 1942 and Quinn is pretty certain they were also related, given the unusual spelling of the surname with only one “L” and the prevalence of the name Hugh in his large, extended family.

This Sunday, the public will have an opportunity to peruse the books for names of ancestors. Aided by archival-gloved volunteers from the congregation, a Remembrance Day open house at the church — from 1 to 3:30 p.m. — will see the books made available and will include refreshments and music, as well as an opportunity to admire the series of stained glass windows. Earlier, at 10:30 a.m., a special service of re-

membrance will feature the Universal Gospel Choir and the words of the Very Reverend Dr. Stan McKay, a member of the Fisher River Reserve in Manitoba who, at age five, was taken nearly 500 kilometres from home to be placed in a residential school. He has been a leader in the church’s efforts to atone for its role in this history and to reconcile with First Nations peoples.

Linda Denham has attended Canadian Memorial for 40 years and helps organize the annual Remembrance Day commemorations.

“The Remembrance Day service every year at Canadian Memorial is very special,” she says. There is a laying of wreathes, including by veterans. The books, which are housed in a stone memorial tablet protected by the angels Michael and Gabriel, the angels of justice and peace, take centre stage,

though members of the public do not need to wait for the annual commemoration to view the books. Appointments can be made to review the books, in keeping with what Denham says is their public nature.

“They don’t belong to us,” she says. “We are stewards of them, basically.

They belong to the public.

They belong to Canada.”

The books from the First World War were presented to the church on November 1, 1946 by minister of national defence Douglas Abbott.

The Second World War volumes were presented in 1959 by George Pearkes, also the minister of national defence at the time and himself a decorated veteran and later lieutenant-governor of B.C. Since Newfoundland was not a province of Canada during the wars, there is no window for

Newfoundland and Labrador. There is, however, a separate Book of Remembrance for those who died.

Having family in the book gives added resonance for Quinn.

“I think as I get older I get more meaning from it than I did when I was young,” he says.

He takes a moment to reflect on the meaning of the books and the thousands of lost lives they represent.

“We have to consider ourselves to be fortunate that we have people who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to guard our freedom,” he says.

“It’s something that’s really so strange to us of this generation, because we haven’t had to worry about that and maybe that’s why — because people who went before us did make that sacrifice.” @Pat604Johnson

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Viaducts have value beyond a freeway A thriving ecosystem exists under the freeway that never was

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Columnist Jessica Barrett says the community would be better served by leaving the viaducts in place and revamping them into something akin to New York City’s Highline Park (pictured).

impersonal chain restaurants in the overly sanitized surrounding developments hold much draw.

When I ride my bike past it on the seawall, I’m still gripped by nostalgia for the abandoned industrial space it was when I first moved here over a decade ago. Back then, my art school friends and I would shoot experimental films against the backdrop of the Salt building, and squirm through holes in the chainlink fence to take photos of the industrial rubble. I’m not saying it should have remained that way. I admit I am a rare specimen who got more use out of the area before it was developed.

Not so with the viaducts.

There is already a thriving ecosystem under the freeway that never was — one that will undoubtedly be supplanted by the shiny and the new. There’s the skate park and the soccer fields, the ramshackle tribute to Jimi Hendrix and Hogan’s Alley, and the homeless people who shelter there at night. There’s the string of indie shops and restaurants that have sprung up along Union Street and what’s left of our authentic-feeling Chinatown. The area is a fast-disappearing reminder that this city still has some grit and a DIY spirit that strives to push against the relentlessly rising land values and the sweep of little boxes made of ticky tacky that all look just the same.

I worry all of that will be gone when the viaducts come down. I worry the new neighbourhood will be another specimen that looks great on a postcard but is utterly inhospitable to those who already use the area. And I worry that

without the barrier of the viaducts, there will be nothing left to discourage the sweep of gentrification

all the way through Strathcona and to the last, barely affordable rental-based havens of the east side.

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I thought I’d be all for this viaduct removal plan.

Honestly I did.

From an urban design perspective, unlocking the swath of land under the hulking cement structures makes a lot of sense. We could do something really creative and special with that parcel of land. It truly does, as Mayor Gregor Robertson said, present “a great opportunity for city building.” The problem is, we’re not great at taking advantage of those opportunities.

For all our talk of wanting a world-class city, which to me, means supporting diverse neighbourhoods full of character and depth, Vancouver tends to build just one thing, over and over again. We bulldoze everything in sight and erect forests of towers and monolithic condo blocks clad in monotonous blue glass. We sell the majority at market rates and sometimes include a small amount of subsidized housing in cursory nod to affordability. We make feeble attempts to retain our history with the odd reserved building façade, or a prominent plaque. This does little to maintain the diversity and character of our neighbourhoods, and even less to address affordability issues that affect not just those who fall below the poverty line, but also moderate earners who still can’t afford a place suitable for a growing family.

So when council voted last week to take the viaducts down, my heart sank.

I have no doubt it will eventually be a bustling community — but likely it’ll be one where I will never go.

It’ll probably be like the Olympic Village, which has undoubtedly defied expectations. Despite initial fears that it would be a ghost town, today it is a bona fide neighbourhood. But it is an exclusive one. Save for those in the aforementioned affordable units, the area is filled with well-off downsizers, childless high-earners and the occasional family with above-average means.

Sure, there’s a nice, new waterfront park that’s open to the public, but there’s a large number of people who have no reason to visit. If you can’t afford to live in Olympic Village, or shop in its upscale Urban Fare or Legacy Liquor store, why go? Nor do the

In the debate over the viaducts’ future, proponents of their removal have positioned the project as a way to honour the community that organized to stop the freeway in its tracks. I think that purpose would have been better served by leaving them in place and revamping them into something akin to New York’s Highline Park. Because the biggest threat to this city is no longer posed by freeways, but by the relentless development pressure and the scourge of homogeneous condos — exactly the forces that will be unleashed upon this neighbourhood once the viaducts come down. Left standing, the viaducts would be a much-needed reminder that people in this city can rise up and successfully protect the communities they love. @jm_barrett

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To bee or not to bee is simply not a question for Lori Weidenhammer.

Better known as “Madame Beespeaker” to her young Seeds for Bees! workshop students at ArtStarts Gallery this past weekend, Weidenhammer loves talking bees with kids.

“I am very passionate about sharing my love of gardening with children through hands-on eco-art activities. It’s my passion, my hope, when I see kids connecting with bees because that’s going to save our future — and their future,” she said before Saturday’s workshop. “I fall in love with them.”

Easy to see why, especially when students

such as six-year-old Flora Graham — who wore all yellow for the occasion — listened with so much concentration that her mouth hung open while absorbing instructions on how to make seed pods using rocky mountain bee plant seeds brought in from Weidenhammer’s own Vancouver backyard.

It was during those early years when Weidenhammer herself became interested in bees and the vital role they play in food production.

She grew up in tiny Cactus Lake, Sask. where dad owned a general store and mom tended a beautiful garden. Beyond the colour burst of Prairie wildflowers were the wheat fields that looked like they touched the edge of the horizon.

“My parents were really

great about teaching me about the natural Prairie because there’s not much left,” Weidenhammer said. “It’s an untold story.

People know about saving the rainforest, but they don’t know there’s very little natural Prairie left and those wildflowers are what support a lot of native bumblebees.”

Almost 95 per cent of the Prairies have been converted to cropland and, with that, wildflowers are not nearly as plentiful as they once were. Which is why, Weidenhammer said, it’s so important to teach people not only where their food comes from, but also to show how they can help repair some of the damage.

“We need to give back to the bees so we need to plant more flowers around

our fields,” she said. “We need to protect the flowers, the natural wildflowers that are there, and we need to dig up our lawns and plant flowers for the bees. Flowers need bees and bees need flowers.”

Weidenhammer, whose background includes singing, art and performance, apprenticed under local master beekeeper Brian Campbell. Intensive study led to so much information she could fill a book (which is exactly what she did with next spring’s release titled A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees, through Douglas and MacIntyre).

One of the many interesting facts she covers includes the need to shift focus to the native bee from the honeybee.

“Sorry to say but there’s

an inconvenient truth going around that we need to save the honeybee. It’s actually the native bees that need to be saved,” said Weidenhammer, who acknowledged that while she loves all bees, honeybees included, the native bee — which requires native plants to survive — is vanishing at a faster rate than honeybees. A frightening fact, especially given there are more than 970 species of native bees in Canada.

The gentle native bees are said to be two to three times better pollinators than honeybees, which are more interested in nectar while native bees collect pollen to take to their nests. Crops, such as tomatoes, blueberries, cranberries, squash and alfalfa, are

better pollinated by native bee species, which include the carpenter bee and Morrison’s bumblebees.

Between loss of habitat and use of dangerous neonicotinoids pesticides, bees are suffering, which will have disastrous effect on both agriculture and environment. That’s why Weidenhammer is keen to make a difference by way of education.

“Once I gave a little boy a plant and he said, ‘OK, but can you actually put it in the soil because I don’t want to touch it,’” she recalled. “That was the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. My mission is to get the kids planting the seeds and touching the soil. Once they’re in there, they often get hooked.” @rebeccablissett

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Irma Benedetti adjusts her husband Ramon Sr.’s sweater prior to his photo shoot with the Courier. The Bendettis’ long-running store, Benny’s Market, has been a fixture in Strathcona for nearly 100 years, selling everything from European dry goods to T-shirts. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

TALK OF THE BLOCK

Family-run Benny’s Market has seen century of change in Strathcona

New series looks at the people and places that make up our neighbourhoods We’re always welcoming new neighbours, whether from across oceans or across town.

The city welcomes new faces to old streets and old faces to new streets. Whether we’re the oldtimers or newcomers, change can be scary.

This city is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. If we all could peer into each other’s heads and hearts and have a look at how each of us thinks and feels, we’d be left with profoundly different views of Vancouver.

This is the first in a series of stories to introduce us to each other.

Christopher Cheung

bychrischeung@gmail.com

For the Benedettis, the family Strathcona corner store is where life happened.

Italian-born Alfonso Benedetti opened Benny’s Market in 1917. About two years later, he met his wife here, who lived across the street and would come over to buy candy. While her teachers didn’t approve due to the large age gap, her mother told her, “You marry Alfonso. He’s got a grocery store. You’ll never go hungry.”

Alfonso’s son Ramon Sr., 87 today, grew up sleeping in a bedroom where the deli is now.

Years later, Ramon Sr.

goes into cardiac arrest at Benny’s Market. The firefighters next door are over instantly and Ramon Sr. says he owes his life to them. They know the man well and gave extra care — they’ve eaten many a Benny burger, the classic with cheese and mortadella.

Benny’s sold Italian goods in the early days — pasta, flour and the like — along with treats such as ice cream, soda, chocolate and tobacco. Ramon Sr. started importing and distributing European dry goods in the ’50s, a tradition that continues today with the family’s wholesale business run by son Ramon Jr. and his wife.

I sit with Ramon Sr., who’s mostly Mr. Benedetti nowadays, in the office behind the store that was once his mother’s kitchen. This is also where Ramon Jr. helped out when he was 10, burning cardboard in an old stove while watching TV. Benny’s is still very much a family affair. A niece who works the deli pops in to bring Mr. Benedetti a coffee as we chat. His great-granddaughter runs around.

Benny’s didn’t used to be the only shop in the neighbourhood, but it’s the only one left from Mr.

Benedetti’s childhood.

He remembers exactly where they all were. Even from inside the office, he knows the neighbourhood well enough that he points to the direction of their old spots as he names them. An Italian grocer who made his own sausage. An uncle who canned whole chicken and big tins of ravioli in brine. A Japanese toy store that sold balsa wood model planes and kites. Maron’s Jewish store. Benedetti remembers the owner sitting on the porch every summer evening with his wife, always a beanie on his head.

“So many little guys,” said Mr. Benedetti, “all gone.”

Running the wholesale business from the store helps Benny’s stick around in the neighbourhood, but it’s been increasingly difficult for the “little guys” after the warehouse club industry came out of America in the ’70s and ’80s with Price Club and now Costco.

“Corner stores have a stigma of being small stores, high prices, minimal amounts of product,” said Ramon Jr., Mr. Benedetti’s son.

The Benedettis fight that image by keeping prices close to those of supermarkets. They’ve also supplied

specialty products to hotels such as the Ritz-Carlton and restaurants like CinCin and often save a little extra for the store. They’re still keeping it local, but the city is the new neighbourhood.

Ramon admits it can be a difficult lifestyle. Benny’s only closes Sundays and holidays today — as opposed to early days when it was only closed on Christmas — but Ramon often works around the clock to get product to a wholesale customer if they need it.

Since he’s the one who knows everything, he hasn’t gone on a long vacation in 15 years.

With Alfonso Benedetti, Ramon Sr. and Ramon Jr., that’s three generations who’ve looked after Benny’s. Will there be a fourth?

Ramon has two sons who help out: one with delivery, one with the fridges. To them he says “no pressure,” as he knows it’s not for everyone. At one point, he thought he was going to be a mechanic. Even Mr. Benedetti avoided it for a time, working six years as a cook on a commercial fishing boat.

But there is a desire to keep it in the family.

“It’s our name,” said Ramon. “I can’t relinquish

it and hand it off to somebody else.”

Though there is one thing about the future he is certain about.

“We’re gonna party,” he said. “We’re gonna turn 100 in two years.”

Most of that history and the people are still in Mr. Benedetti’s head.

He remembers how his father came to America through Ellis Island, wound up in B.C. and started Benny’s with a partner using card game winnings.

He remembers the many immigrants who called Strathcona home: Jews, Russians, Yugoslavs and the black community that lived around Main Street’s 200-block.

He remembers the Benny’s Market bowling team and their rivals from Chinatown restaurant Bamboo Terrace, who they treated to Italian supper at Puccini’s if they lost.

He remembers witnessing a Chinese neighbour’s extravagant funeral ceremony, held in front of her house with paid mourners and food and strong incense laid out on the street. One day more than 70 years later, he caught a man and two young women staring intently at the same house and asked

what they were doing.

“That was our grandmother’s house,” they told Mr. Benedetti.

Even today, he still comes across others who remember the lives lived here.

I ask him whether he feels a lot of nostalgia being here in Strathcona. After all, he lives in a house behind the store, just metres from his childhood bedroom at the shop.

“Oh, you do think about it,” he said.

Mr. Benedetti tells me to look outside. There’s an alley by the yard. This is where he played bocce Friday nights in the summer with his old gang of 15 guys.

“There’s only three of us left,” he said. “Kinda chokes you up, but life’s been good to us.

“I always thank God for bringing me into the Benedetti family and marrying into my wife’s family. That’s been a highlight of my life.”

Mr. Benedetti recalls something his grandmother used to tell him.

It’s along the lines of carpe diem but with more bite.

“Eat your steak while you still got teeth.”

He still visits the family store every day. @bychrischeung

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Hogan’s Alley in Strathcona, which was destroyed when the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts were built in the 1970s, was once home to a thriving black community.

PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES AND MAJOR MATTHEWS, BU P508.53

Black community calls for tribute to Hogan’s Alley

Council’s vote to demolish viaducts includes reparation for damage done to Strathcona neighbourhood Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

When city council voted last Tuesday to knock down the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts, it also voted to right a wrong of Vancouver’s past and commemorate the loss of the black community’s roots in Strathcona.

But what that commemoration looks like is a work in progress, although some of the people who spoke to council over two days of hearings made it clear that arts, culture, a memorial and housing should be in the mix to pay tribute to what was known as Hogan’s Alley.

“This is your chance to not only acknowledge past dislocation and exclusion, but to see to it that the black community that was displaced and the subsequent generations who have been impacted by that loss are thoughtfully consulted with the purpose of re-establishing a place for Vancouver’s black community,” said Stephanie Allen, an urban studies master’s student at Simon Fraser University who wrote about the history of Hogan’s Alley

for a research paper.

Hogan’s Alley, which was centred between Prior and Union and Main and Jackson, was home to much of Vancouver’s black community in the first half of the 1900s, but it was destroyed when the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts were built in the early 1970s.

In Allen’s presentation to city council, she quoted the “Vancouver development study” published in 1957, which was meant to guide urban renewal. The study mapped decaying areas in Vancouver and said options were to clear them out or restore and conserve them.

“In the study, the area occupied by the black community was identified as being a first priority for removal due to the severity of blight,” she said, quoting from a page in the document that acknowledged displacement “is bound to create special problems for these minority groups.”

Allen argued the reason Hogan’s Alley was considered a blight on Vancouver was because the city government of the day did nothing to fix up the streets,

buildings or parks.

Writer Wayde Compton, a member of the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, said proper commemoration of the black community’s roots is an opportunity to send a message to Vancouver’s 20,000-plus citizens of African descent “that their history in the city is remembered and valued and honoured.”

“A sacrifice was made for this mistake, and it was us,” Compton said of the addition of the viaducts.

“Whether it’s a memorial, or in the form of a cultural centre — or whatever it is — [there has to be] some acknowledgement that this was an area that was significant to the black community.”

Randy Clark, who spoke to council on behalf of the United Black Canadian Community Association, said he supported the removal of the viaducts, but he emphasized the city must “celebrate” the history of Hogan’s Alley as it proceeds with the redevelopment of the viaduct lands.

Clark was a resident of Hogan’s Alley in the

1960s and lived with his mother and five siblings at 230 Union St. His grandparents’ restaurant, Vie’s Chicken and Steak House, was across the street. (The location was once home to a shrine to musician Jimi Hendrix, whose grandparents lived on East Pender and East Georgia.) Clark, a retired Vancouver school principal, is a direct descendant of the first black settlers to Saltspring Island and Victoria, dating back to 1858.

“From all accounts shared with me, during the 1930s and 1940s, this was a great community to grow up in,” he said, naming off a list of black families, including the Collins, the Holmes, the Howards, the Kings and the Woods. He said families watched out for each other and he noted the Fountain Chapel church at Jackson and Prior streets was a popular meeting spot. “Stories were shared, experiences were common, friendships abounded and there was connectedness — community.”

Talk of building a freeway in the 1960s and the eventual construction of the

viaducts destroyed the community, said Clark, echoing Allen’s argument that the city government failed to invest in Hogan’s Alley.

“By 1965, when I arrived, the black community — for the most part — didn’t exist, it wasn’t the same,” he said. “I refer to the previous 10 years as a system of systemic profiling of our people and our neighbourhood. Structures were left to decay, homes were either sold or abandoned and only after long periods of time were they removed. Nothing new was built.”

Council is already on record via the Downtown Eastside community plan that it will address restorative justice issues and the need for social and cultural facilities – and commemoration – of the black community displaced by the viaducts.

But with the viaducts coming down, the opportunity to do something now is real. Mayor Gregor Robertson and some councillors quizzed Allen and others about suggestions to commemorate Hogan’s Alley.

“Whether it’s arts, culture or affordable housing — things for immigrant communities who are newly settling to this city, I think there’s a lot of opportunity for that dialogue to trace quite a few different paths,” Allen told Coun. Elizabeth Ball, who said she was assured by city staff that renewal plans for the viaducts lands “would be addressing the issues in the neighbourhood” related to the history of the black community in Strathcona.

When the viaducts are demolished, it will free up two city-owned blocks that straddle Main Street.

The city staff report that recommended knocking down the elevated roadways suggested up to 300 units of “affordable housing” could be built on the property.

Although he didn’t promise affordable housing would be a component of commemorating the black community, Robertson told Allen he was “hopeful there’s a really robust community effort that’s part of this in reshaping” what was lost in Strathcona. @Howellings

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Individuals sacrificed in ‘lone wolf’ false narrative

Geoff Olson geoffolson.com

When things go sideways within a big organization, a single individual often gets the blame. Supposedly acting outside the pack’s rules, the “lone wolf” suddenly becomes the “sacrificial goat.”

For example, in May of this year a former staffer at the Ministry of Transportation blew the whistle on the mass deletion of emails pertaining to the Highway of Tears — a stretch of road in northern B.C. where many young aboriginal women have been murdered or gone missing.

Tim Duncan told B.C.’s Privacy Commissioner that ministerial assistant George Gretes ordered the material to be deleted from Duncan’s computer.

Forensic analysis determined the emails were removed intentionally, and Gretes was found to have lied to the Privacy Commission while under oath.

Duncan himself was accused of being a disgruntled former employee, he told the CBC in May. “That’s been the line the B.C. Liberal government and their communications staff have been using against me for six months.”

The government preferred the public think

of this as an outlier, in which the two former civil servants played the role of Thing One and Thing Two in a moment of Seussian confusion over a freedom of information request. In this authorized version, the Cat in the Hat was outside the loop.

Then came Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s report, Access Denied. In vindicating Tim Duncan, she ripped the lid off a culture of institutional forgetting in the Legislature worthy of a gothic dementia ward, complete with triple-deleted emails and Post-it notes.

“It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of the problems that my office discovered in the course of this investigation and the resulting effects on the integrity of the access to information process in our province,” Denham’s report notes.

Contravening Freedom of Information laws isn’t a glitch in the provincial government’s doings, it’s a feature.

Then there’s the lone wolf narrative attached to claims of vote suppression in the 2011 federal election.

In the days prior to the Conservative minority government win, Liberal supporters said they had been receiving nuisance

calls from people who claimed to be Liberal Party workers. The callers contacted Jewish voters on the Sabbath, and woke up others in the middle of the night. Elections Canada then received complaints about ‘robocalls” — automated messages — that falsely informed voters of relocated polling stations.

A group of voters from six ridings challenged the 2011 election results in court. The verdict from the trial judge was damning: “I am satisfied that it has been established that misleading calls about the locations of polling stations were made to electors in ridings across the country and that the purpose of those calls was to suppress the votes of electors who had indicated their preference in response to earlier voteridentification calls.”

Voters from 261 of 308 ridings claimed nuisance calls, a feat pretty much an impossibility for one person to pull off alone.

In response to the claims, the Conservatives threw a young party worker under the bus. They alleged Michael Sona had acted on his own as a “rogue activist” — a fancy term for lone wolf. He was arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for nine months. The story pretty

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The lone gunman is a species of the genus lone wolf. Nov. 22 marks the 52nd anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The Warren Commission report identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole figure responsible for the killing, but here’s an interesting factoid that has since spiralled down the memory hole: the late-’70s House Select Committee on Assassination hearings in Washington rejected the lone gunman conclusion.

“You know, most Americans don’t know that that was the last official statement, the last official report, on the Kennedy assassination, not the Warren Report back in 1964. But that Congress reopened the investigation into John Kennedy’s assassination, and they did determine he was killed as the result of a conspiracy,” said author David Talbot in a recent interview with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.

“Conspire” means “to breathe together.” When it comes to respiration, that’s plenty different from the solitary wolf of childhood lore, who huffs and puffs and blows everything down. @geoffolson

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Vancouver Train Expo rolls into town Event hopes to attract 5,000 visitors

Naoibh O’Connor

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Tom Lundgren’s interest in model railroading surfaced decades ago thanks to his older brother Jim. Their grandfather would take Jim to watch trains leave Vancouver on Clark Drive, and Jim used his paper route money to buy model trains.

“Ultimately I ended up acquiring his older

“Things have evolved immensely. Back when I was doing it a long time ago it was very simple — it was like a battery to a small motor and things ran, but you had to know about electricity. Today everything is all computerized so it’s a whole new challenge trying to figure out how it works.”

Lundgren also learned how to build scenery, which requires one to pay attention to what the real

politics around it, including where the 49th parallel is,” he said. “There are lots of fascinating aspects to this.

It’s a broad field.”

He didn’t have much time for the hobby while working and raising a family, but now that he’s recently retired, he’s delving back into the pastime, in-

cluding helping to organize the 33rd annual Vancouver Train Expo at the Forum at the Pacific National Exhibition Nov. 7 and 8.

The event used to be staged at Cameron Recreation Centre in Burnaby, but organizers wanted to expand, so they needed a much larger space.

In previous years, the show attracted up to 2,700 people, but this year organizers hope to draw as many as 5,000 visitors to check out the more than 55 displays.

“We have been trying to include things that would be of interest to families,” Lundgren added.

The event features operating scale model train railways, exquisite scale dioramas and models, LEGO displays, children’s activities, West Coast Railway Association mini train rides and experienced modelers to answer questions.

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[Model railroading] is very interesting because of the skills required to actually do it. [trains] and it went on from there,” said the now 63-year-old. Lundgren built three or four railroad layouts during the latter part of elementary school and in high school.

The appeal of the hobby is multifaceted. “[Model railroading] is very interesting because of the skills required to actually do it,” he said.

world looks like in a more detailed way.

Later, as a professional forester, he discovered how railway engineers decided where the tracks would actually end up, long before there were airplanes and aerial surveys.

“Then there’s a whole historical aspect of it that has to do with the development of Canada and the

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as of interest to everyone from art lovers, who will appreciate three-dimensional art with moving parts, to technology enthusiasts to those simply looking for an interesting outing.

There are also those who are deeply involved in the hobby and who

are very particular. When asked how serious some get, Lundgren acknowledged, with a laugh: “Very serious to the point people complain if the right number of rivets aren’t at the right place on the locomotives or the paint job is not right. But you can get,

as with anything, carried away.”

The Vancouver Train Expo runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nov. 7 and 8 in the Forum building on the PNE grounds. For more information and ticket prices see vancouvertrainexpo.ca. @naoibh

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Remembrance Day events across the city Sandra Thomas

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Due to several acts of aggression towards military personnel in Canada last year, some members had been warned to limit wearing their uniforms to official duties.

That’s something Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Allan De Genova of 15th Field Regiment wants to change.

“I’m of the feeling we don’t need to hide, but we should stand with honour,” said De Genova. “I’m proud to represent all of the men and women who give of themselves every day.

It’s our duty to be able to recognize that.”

To that end, De Genova wants all honorary officers across Canada to wear their camouflage work uniform for the entirety of Veteran’s Week, Nov. 5 to 11. De Genova, a realtor by trade, plans to wear his uniform to all military events, on personal errands and to meetings.

“People will not only see the poppy, but also the uniform,” said De Genova.

“And when someone stops me to ask about it or thank

me, I’ll tell them, ‘I’m an honorary, but I’m very happy to convey that message to the men and women who serve every day.’”

Nov. 7

B.C. Lions/Royal Canadian Legion Tribute to Veterans: This commemorative ceremony takes place at 4 p.m., Nov. 7, with a special salute to veterans and military valour during the annual halftime show at B.C. Place. The ceremony includes bands, military vehicles and hundreds of veterans marching in Legion and military uniform.

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Jack Poole Plaza at the Vancouver Convention Centre: The Olympic cauldron comes to life at 8 a.m., when a senior veteran will hand a Canadian flag over to a member of the next generation — acknowledging the continuing service and loyalty of our nation’s serving members. RegimentaPl units taking part in this year’s ceremony include 50 members of the 39 Canadian Brigade and HMCS

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Cenotaph at Victory Square: The ceremony begins at the cenotaph on West Hastings Street between Cambie and Hamilton streets with a performance by the Vancouver Bach Youth Choir and Sarabande at 10 a.m.

Led by the Vancouver Flag Party, the annual parade of veterans, military marching units and bands will arrive at Victory Square before the ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m.

At 11 a.m., the Last Post will sound followed by two minutes of silence during which a 21-gun salute by the 15th Field Artillery Regiment will be heard from Portside Park. Rouse and Lament will follow.

The RCAF will conduct a fly-past moments later, weather permitting.

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Continued from page 21 The service at Victory Square is organized by the Vancouver Remembrance Day Committee, a volunteer group established by the city in the 1940s.

Remembrance Day at UBC War Memorial Gym: This year marks the 64th year the University of British Columbia has hosted a Remembrance Day ceremony. Everyone is welcome to attend — doors to the War Memorial Gym open at 10 a.m. and the ceremony begins at 10:45 a.m.

Light refreshments will be served after the ceremony and all are welcome to stay.

Due to construction surrounding the War Memorial Gym, parking is limited so participants and guests are asked to use the North Parkade or the metered spots on University Boulevard from Wesbrook Mall to East Mall.

Memorial South Park: Remembrance Day ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. at the park, located at the corner of Windsor Street and East 41st Avenue.

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The GVHBA’s Bob de Wit offers tips for condo kitchen improvements that make a statement without breaking the bank.

The Vancouver condo market is hot and kitchen design is sizzling too.

As condo square footage decreases, kitchen space is changing. Condo kitchens today are often more of a culinary wall in the great-room concept, with an island serving as the eating station and extra storage and work space. With this new trend, condo kitchen renovations will most likely require wall removal, upgrades in appliances, cabinetry, flooring and maybe the addition of an island. To lower costs, keep the following in mind when renovating: Roll up your sleeves and pitch in with the demolition And, for that matter, you can help with rubbish, recycling and general cleanup too. This can save you upwards

of three to five per cent of your overall renovation costs.

Existing appliances can be resold or recycled. Check with B.C. Hydro for appliance rebate programs in your area. If not available, list them for free and eliminate removal costs.

Culinary walls typically feature flush-mounted appliances, adding to the open living feel. Tap into your certified builder or renovator’s contacts. Chances are they’ll get better deals on appliances, saving you money to upgrade.

Re-use existing cabinetry If cabinets are in good shape, door panels can be replaced or recovered. Cabinet space-saving systems can exponentially increase your existing usable space per square foot, eliminating the need for excessive cabinetry. If you are removing walls, the space will naturally lighten up.

Look to under-cabinet lighting to warm up darker corners versus more expensive, recessed overhead lighting. If you don’t have to move the kitchen sink, don’t. It will save you plumbing costs – and potential issues with your strata bylaws. If however, you are working with a plumber and have access to include natural gas in your kitchen, this would be a cost-efficient time to upgrade. Check with

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Open-concept living generally features a single floor covering Buy in-stock flooring rather than making custom orders. This will save you on both time and money. And make sure wall removal is complete before installing. Have your plans in place. Countertops often become the statement piece in open plans, with a focal point around the island. You might like to splash out here, given all of the other dollar-saving ideas. Finally, but most importantly, work with a professional contractor/renovator with condominium knowledge. There will be strata rules to consider, city bylaws and limitations with common walls, supporting walls and windows, just to name a few. When buying older units, make sure to do your due diligence: know the bylaws, use a building inspector and most of all, be sure to use a certified builder or renovator – and get the agreement in writing. For all these resources and more, check out gvhba.org.

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Real Estate OPINION

Fees, property transfer taxes drive up real estate prices

Peter Ladner

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Creating the world’s greenest and most livable city but having soaring housing ownership costs skews this city to wealthy investors and retired homeowners and guts the city of its vibrancy. Livability becomes a hoax, notwithstanding stagnant condo prices in Langley.

Fighting back, the B.C. government is finally reviewing the outdated property transfer tax (PTT), suggesting slight changes that will favour first-time and low-end buyers, while still maintaining its windfall (a record $1.1 billion this year) for the provincial treasury.

The B.C. Real Estate Association (BCREA), to its credit, is leading the long campaign to adjust the tax, which is still based on 1987-level prices. In those days, 95 per cent of Vancouver-

community, rather than as a pure investment vehicle. The Premier fears that this would send a negative signal to foreign investors of all stripes in all industries, a stretch I don’t understand. If offshore buyers are choosing to park money by pushing locals out of the real estate market, why can’t we raise the price of parking?

The federal Liberals are vague to the point of vapour on this, saying they will merely “review escalating home prices … and consider all policy tools that could keep home ownership within reach for more Canadians.”

Maybe the Asia Pacific Foundation’s recently announced review of restrictions on foreign investment in residential property will uncover the long-sought data on the true extent of this investment.

But there’s one more driver of Metro Vancou-

to help you,” says the website, even though it’s widely quoted everywhere else as 7 per cent on the first $100,000 and 2.5 per cent on the rest.

Unlike municipalities, which lower their tax rates when assessments soar, assumed real estate commissions don’t budge.

For some reason, per-

haps because of the massive advertising budgets of the few realtors who do most of the deals, or the emotion, potential legal complications and uncertainties facing inexperienced sellers, or realtors’ dogged protection of their sweet rates, fewer than 10 per cent of buyers go for the one per cent commission realtors

and other competitors.

Yet they offer virtually the same services at a much lower cost.

Customers have only themselves to blame for paying an extra $10,000 in realtors fees on a $600,000 sale.

But it does seem a bit precious for the campaigners for a lower PTT to be clinging to a rate

structure that is equally out of date and contributing even more to the unaffordability of real estate than the PTT. Peter Ladner is a cofounder of Business in Vancouver. He is a former Vancouver city councillor and former fellow at the SFU Centre for Dialogue.

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That has pumped up today’s PTT take on an average ($700,500) Metro Vancouver home sale to $12,010, a whopping 770 per cent increase from 1987. On a median detached west-side house the PTT take today is around $56,000, more than 23 times what it was in 1987.

For some reason, the B.C. government can’t fathom creating a premium tax rate for foreign buyers, as is done in cities like Singapore, Hong Kong and London.

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Has the job become that much more difficult? No; thanks to the Internet, it’s become vastly easier.

Realtors can hardly be blamed for keeping quiet about this. The fee rate isn’t even listed in BCREA’s website.

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Historic reunion takes flight in theatres SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com The executive producer of a documentary film about the reunion of the last two airworthy Second World War Lancaster bombers says initially it was tough to get the TV networks to pay attention to the project.

“It’s difficult to sell a onehour documentary about something that happened 70 years ago that doesn’t include a Kardashian,” said Morgan Elliott, who produced the film along with a team from Toronto-based Suddenly SeeMore Productions.

“But the community rallied

with enough donations to get it shot and then Cineplex stepped in with funds to finish it for the theatrical release. Now the broadcasters want it.”

Cineplex is also hosting free viewings of Reunion of Giants at select theatres across Canada on Remembrance Day, Nov. 11. In Vancouver, the free screening takes place at International Village in Chinatown.

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crews who flew and maintained the Lancaster bomber,” Pat Marshall, vice-president of communications and investor relations for Cineplex Entertainment said in a news release.

“We look forward to offering Canadians a chance to experience VeRA’s incredible transatlantic journey this Remembrance Day.” The event made history last year, the 70th anniversary of Victory Day, when the last two remaining functional

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Lancasters shared the sky over England for the reunion tour. Elliott and team were not only there to capture every moment, but camera operator Matt Clayson went along on the trans-Atlantic flight accompanied by five GoPro cameras mounted on VeRA, as the Canadian bomber is affectionately called. On the ground, camera operator Jeff Denesyk captured the response from the veterans of Bombers Command waiting for the Lancaster to arrive. Meanwhile, Elliott interviewed the last remaining Canadian and British air force veterans who were crew and pilots

Hedy Fry

of a Lancaster plane during the Second World War. “The youngest was 94 and the oldest was 104,” Elliott told the Courier during a phone interview last week.

“When you have men telling you these stories first hand, it’s goose bump inducing. These guys were 18 years old and flying Lancasters. They weren’t even old enough to get a driver’s license.”

Elliott said due to the age and fragile condition of the planes, the reunion was the final time such a historic event would be possible. The last time two Lancasters shared the sky was 50 years ago.

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Warplane Heritage Museum, VeRA flew from Hamilton, Ont. to meet her British counterpart, Thumper, the only other airworthy Lancaster in the world, which is operated by the Royal Air Force in England. According to Elliot, VeRA’s mission was unlike any other this Lancaster and her flight crew had ever undertaken.

“Just getting VeRA there took five days,” said Elliott. “Her fastest speed is 200 miles per hour and the highest she can fly is 9,000 feet.”

The Lancaster only has eight seats of which her crew and gear took up two. During VeRA’s

journey, the plane and crew encountered a massive storm and almost had to divert, which would have been a huge disappointment to the veterans waiting in England. The flight had already been delayed by 24 hours due to a mechanical failure in the aircraft’s second engine. The reunion was also a farewell tour for veterans of Bomber Command, who are still so entwined with their proud history — the Lancaster bomber is credited with helping bring an end to the Second World War.

Elliott hopes every Canadian who sees Reunion of Giants on Remembrance Day has the same reaction she had.

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LEST WE FORGET

“Only those who have experienced war know the true meaning of peace.”

“I bet there won’t be a dry eye in the house.”

The Courier is giving away two sets of two tickets to the film, which is expected to sell out. The first two readers to email sthomas@ vancourier.com with the nickname of the Canadian Lancaster can pick their tickets up at the Courier office before Nov. 11. @sthomas10

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Private Schools Convention Astronaut Chris Hadfield headlines star-studded conference JENNY PENG Jennypeng08@gmail.com

Access to the newest technology, information and textbook resources doesn’t make a teacher good at their job if they don’t have “innate qualities” such as creativity and passion.

That’s why Michael Moore, head of the science department at Mulgrave School, is eager to join thousands of private school teachers and staff from all over B.C. in February for the first province-wide convention held in Vancouver dedicated to independent schools.

It’s a rare opportunity for teachers and staff in rural B.C. to hear presenters and learn from other educators in a setting they normally wouldn’t have access to, says Peter Froese, executive director of the Federation of Independent School Associations.

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With staff from roughly 290 schools across the province rubbing shoulders, from a diverse range of pedagogies, faiths and programming, organizers are quick to highlight their philosophy of focusing on commonalities rather than differences.

“If there was a specific issue

unique to just one association we would leave that up to the associations to solve,” says Froese. “But where there were common issues that we could all identify with as schools, and that would be policy issues that have to do with procedural fairness, for example, or child abuse, we all have to deal with that, it doesn’t matter what your values are.”

Not only will the convention be celebrating FISA’s 50th anniversary, but it’s also hard to miss the air of excitement surrounding the fact private education is steadily climbing in enrolment.

According to a recent Fraser Institute study, private school enrolment across Canada is up

by almost 17 per cent. When asked what contributed to the changing attitudes, Froese says part of the reason is that 65 per cent of private schools are faith-based in B.C. “Many families are choosing schools that are consistent with their values at home.

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To date, eight VPD dogs have died in the line of duty. Their names are etched on the granite base of a life-size bronze police dog that stands at the front of the VPD’s canine kennels. The memorial was donated by Darlene Poole in memory of her late husband Jack and his love of dogs. Poole was part of the group that brought the 2010 Winter Olympic Games to Vancouver.

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The calendar will soon be available at various locations across the city.

The calendars are sold in support of the Candy Anfield Memorial Foundation, which honours VPD officer Candy Anfield who lost her struggle with cancer in 2004. Proceeds from the calendar benefit the B.C. Cancer Foundation and the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation.

The VPD canine unit, which started in 1957, is the oldest municipal police dog unit in Canada.

The unit is comprised of

15 dog teams working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The dogs are trained in a variety of disciplines, including tracking, criminal apprehension, evidence recovery, narcotics, firearms and explosives detection. The unit routinely responds to more than 10,000 calls for service per year in Vancouver and in support of Lower Mainland police agencies that require the services of a police dog and officer.

VPD dog teams are trained to deploy with the emergency response team, public safety unit and marine unit. All dogs are provided with customfitted ballistic vests to help ensure their safety.

While on duty, canine unit officers drive specially designed SUVs equipped with an air-conditioned kennel and heat alarm that

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LEGACY CONTINUES: Hundreds of people living with HIV and significant health and social disparities benefitted from the sixth annual Life Commitment Dinner. Co-chaired by John deC. Evans and Craig and Kristen Langdon, the dinner was once again set atop a swimming pool at the home of Lorne and Melita Segal. One of the toniest tickets on the Vanhattan social calendar, the $1,000-apop entry fee netted $360,000 for the Dr. Peter Centre, the world class West End residence and care centre named after Dr. Peter Jepson Young, a physician who chronicled his own HIV/AIDS journey through a weekly diary televised on CBC until his death in 1992. Among those in attendance included Dr. Young’s mom Shirley, RBC’s Graham MacLachlan and Internet entrepreneur Roger Hardy.

PRESTIGIOUS INVITATION: At the forefront of American gastronomy, the mission of New York’s James Beard Foundation is to celebrate, nurture and preserve America’s culinary heritage and future. To that end, chefs from around the country and across the globe are invited to “perform” at the prestigious Beard House by presenting lunches, brunches, workshops and dinners to foundation members and the public. Chris Mills, executive chef of Joey’s Restaurant, will be heading to the Big Apple for the third time in his culinary career — only the second Vanhattan chef to be invited three times; the other being David Hawksworth. Prior to opening Joey’s first Los Angeles location, Mills and his team recently fronted a delicious preview of his seven-course, Californiainspired dinner at the firm’s flagship store.

Hari Varshney, accompanied by wife Madhu, was cited for his philanthropy. The venture capitalist and community leader was bestowed an Honourary Alumnus Award by UBC.

A nod to the Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s golden era, newly appointed managing director Philip Meyer feted Global TV’s Sophie Lui at his Roaring Twenties reception at the property’s Prohibition Bar.

Trio of Conni Smudge, Dawn Chubai and Carlotta Gurl fronted the Richmond AIDS Society’s 13th annual Heart & Soul Gala fundraiser held at the Radisson Vancouver Airport Hotel.

Jackie Ellis and Wen-chee Liu were among the well-attired crowd sporting fedoras and flapper dresses enjoying bespoke cocktail compliments of chief barkeep Brad Stanton.

Joey Restaurant’s Britt Innes, Chris Mills and Terry Threfall fronted a preview of the James Beard dinner featuring California-inspired fare. Mills and his team will be presenting his menu at the prestigious James Beard House in New York later this month.

BLUE AND GOLD: UBC interim president Dr. Martha Piper presided over the 2015 Alumni Achievement Awards, presented by Boyden. Seven inspiring members of the UBC community, who through their extraordinary activities have connected the university with communities both near and far to create positive change, were honoured at a lavish luau on the Point Grey campus staged at the Robert H Lee Alumni Centre. A capacity crowd was on hand to toast the accomplishments of climate scientist Dr. Gordon McBean, businessman Hari Varshney, AIDS fighter Dr. Julio Montaner, care provider Sheila Purves, audiologist Dr. John Gilbert, filmmaker Nimisha Mukerji and artist Dr. Michiko Maruyama.

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Nimisha Mukerji’s films 65_RedRoses and Blood Relative have inspired international fundraising and awareness campaigns for cystic fibrosis, thalassemia and organ donation. The filmmaker was recently honoured with an Alumni Achievement Award from UBC.

Melita and Lorne Segal once again opened their home for the annual Life Commitment Dinner in support of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation.

CBC’s Gloria Macarenko emceed the Life Commitment fundraising dinner benefitting executive director Maxine Davis’s Dr. Peter Centre. The $1,000-a-ticket affair netted $360,000 for the HIV/ AIDS health centre and residence in Vancouver’s West End.

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Now to May 10, 2017, Libra, you will be blessed and protected in spiritual, background, and management zones. Closed-door meetings, delegating tasks, setting policy, research and silent observation, all favour you. You’ll have pleasant and smooth interactions with civil servants, institutional workers and management types in big companies, with gurus and therapists and advisors/counsellors.

Now to May 10, 2017, Taurus, your sector of romance, creativity, of diving into the pleasure or beauty of the moment (and of love) will be protected, easy, smooth. Overlaying this, now to autumn 2016 brings expansion, luck and cheerfulness to the same areas. In addition, you’ll feel optimistic urges to take a risk, to gamble, to join in sports or games.

During the whole period from 2009 to 2024 you are favoured, if single, to find and wed a life-mate.

From Nov. 12 2015 to May 10 2017, you will find a smooth path, rewards, blessings and protection in social situations, Scorpio. For the majority of this time (now to Sept. 2016) you will experience an expansion of your social tendencies, a new popularity – and wishes about money, about earnings, will tend to come true. To succeed, stay social. Friendly flirtations, optimistic, cheerful plans for the future, camaraderie, gatherings large and small, all benefit you.

Until May 2017, Gemini, your domestic scene will be peaceful and blessed with smooth, easy progress.

Until September 2016, this influence will be joined by, heightened by, a river of great good luck and expansion. This double whammy of good luck and good karma (until autumn/16) will also favour: home, children, landscaping, renovations, buying and/ or selling properties/real estate, re-establishment of family affections, and the entire “humble” side of life.

Until May 2017, Sage, you are favoured, protected and blessed in career, prestige, status, and in dealings with higher-ups, VIPs and authorities (including judges and police – you might even hear the police call you Sir or Ma’am). You could be promoted. About all you need to succeed now is ambition! This is the best period in over a decade to change employers or careers or to launch a new career or practical project, to seek recognition, to display your talents.

Now to September, 2016, Cancer, “daily business” demands are likely to increase, perhaps hugely. Errands, calls/emails, and returning them, paperwork, details, short travel, meetings, casual acquaintances, siblings, all will grow until you wonder if the avalanche will ever stop. Good luck should emerge from these activities. For example, an acquaintance could alert you to a good job opening.

Now to May 2017, Cap, you will be protected and face a smooth green path if you focus on profound things: the law, far travel, international affairs, higher education, philosophy and religion, advertising, publishing, cultural venues, fame (if applicable) and all intellectual pursuits. You will tend to win any lawsuits. Import-export revenues can climb handsomely.

Until May 10, 2017, Leo, your income sources, your possessions and day-to-day money are blessed and protected. For the first portion of this period, that is, until September 2016, this protection is joined by very good luck, the best in 35 years. So do buy things and sell things, purchase items you’ve always yearned for, and earn more money. Ask the boss for a pay raise, or start cultivating a broader army of clients.

Until May 10, 2017, your karmic axis lies along your monetary and sexual lines. To succeed, focus on “deep” worth – on investments, debt, growth of assets, business. Dig deep for answers, do your research, reject glib talkers. Investigation can reveal valuable nuggets and opportunities. Occultism holds a door open for you: walk in! (As long as your birth chart allows it, this is a splendid time to engage in financial, business or investing partnerships.)

Until May 2017 you, your personal interests, your well-being, your personality and “presence” in groups are blessed, protected and calmed, Virgo.

This is the time to be proactive, to start projects and ventures, to listen to your own advice, to see and be seen. Your moral compass will be on straight (and not tempted, like it has been in Sept./Oct. and early Nov. of 2015 – by lust or power or money). In fact, people might come to you for advice now, as you will radiate a calm assurance.

This November 12 to May 2017, Pisces, you will be blessed and protected in relationships of all kinds, in agreements and negotiations, contracts, dealings with the public, fame, relocation, and all co-operative efforts. Be diplomatic, eager to join. Be interdependent, NOT independent. Seek advice. Seek legal counsel if you need it, or before launching a project. Look for love, if single. Approach people.

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Nov. 8: Parker Posey (47). Nov. 9: Lou Ferrigno (64). Nov. 10: Neil Gaiman (55).

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Nov. 5 to 11, 2015 1. Ballet BC kicks off its 30th anniversary season with Program 1, which features pieces by Belgian-born choreographer Stijn Celis, the Canadian premiere of Solo Echo by Vancouver-based choreographer Crystal Pite and the return of “Twenty Eight Thousand Waves” by resident choreographer Cayetano Soto. It all goes down Nov. 5 to 7 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca.

For details, go to balletbc.com.

2. Subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, mysterious Detroit-based folk singer Rodriguez comes out of hiding for two sold out shows at the Vogue Theatre, Nov. 10 and 11.

3. The 19th annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival takes over International Village Nov. 5 to 8 for four days of contemporary Asian cinema, including Seoul Searching, a coming-of-age, romantic teen comedy set in the perfect coming-of-age, romantic teen comedy year of 1986. For a full schedule of films and more info, go to vaff.org.

4. Presented by the Cultch and Diwali Fest, Sunya is billed as a celebratory and spiritual journey that merges contemporary dance, Persian-inspired music and interactive real time video. Minds will be blown Nov. 10 to 14 at the Cultch. Details and tickets at thecultch.com.

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Twitter gets a new heart

Big, important changes on the social media front: Twitter has finally decided to leave the emotional dark ages and add “hearts” to its repertoire of limited expression.

Prior to this, Twitter users were relegated to expressing their approval of other people’s jokes, pithy comments and pictures of impending meals by “favouriting” said tweet with a star symbol or typing “Wicked, Tuscan Chicken Wrap, bro! #nomnom #blessed #WhyMustYouForSakeMeLunchGods.”

But what is a star symbol but a primitive tool, a crude exclamation mark, an asterisk that thinks a little too highly of itself.

Which is why Twitter has decided to make amends to its millions of users who have suffered for too long under the shackles of its star system by permitting them to “like” something with the click of a button.

But why not provide a wide range of emojis from

happy faces to clapping hands to smiling poops, you might be asking. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

It’s about simplifying things and getting rid of the often-confusing emotional clutter, says Twitter’s reas-

like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite.” So true, so true.

Furthermore, the heart “is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones.

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But what is a star symbol but a primitive tool, a crude exclamation mark, an asterisk that thinks a little too highly of itself. suring blog, which for some reason is not limited to 140 characters like the rest of us heathens.

“We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we’ll be calling them likes… We know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might

sive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people.”

Still, one question remains. If Twitter can express its love after all these years, why can’t our father. Seriously, Dad, are you reading this?

Probably not. @KudosKvetches

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Cock teases with clever humour Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

If there’s anything more crazy-making than my own dithering indecision, it’s watching someone else’s dithering indecision.

In Cock, written by 2010 Olivier Award-winner Mike Bartlett, John (Nadeem Phillip) — the only character who has a name — has been living with M (Shawn Macdonald) for seven years, but they’ve been taking a break. Why? We’re not told but we have a pretty good idea: M is a condescending, patronizing prick — albeit charming, funny and, apparently, a great cook.

During their hiatus, John has sex one night with W (Donna Soares). And then he does it again. He thinks he might be in love with her. But he’s already in love — he thinks — with M. What’s a gay guy to do?

Bartlett’s script is very hip and witty and holds some wonderfully entertaining incongruences. M’s father F (Duncan Fraser), for example, having reconciled himself to his son’s homosexuality, fiercely defends M and John’s relationship against the threat W poses.

The possibility of John actually being a heterosexual is completely rejected by F. Another lovely twist is F’s arguments that John can’t “choose” to be heterosexual:

Left to right: Duncan Fraser, Shawn Macdonald and Donna Soares appear in Rumble Theatre’s production of Cock, written by 2010 Olivier Award-winner Mike Bartlett.

sexual preference is genetic, he argues. But, as it turns out, that’s exactly what John has done. He simply drifted into being gay and enjoyed being told how brave he was coming out of the closet.

John is one very needy guy, a will-o’-the-wisp who goes wherever the winds blow him. He has no idea who or what he is. And he can’t make up his mind.

When M sets up a dinner party for the three of them to sort things out and, hopefully, for him to win John back, M also — surprisingly — invites his father.

During the evening the old guy is downright rude to W and she, at first hoping for civility, eventually pulls out her claws.

It gets nasty. It’s a cockfight. Double entendre fully intended.

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atre, Cock is staged by Shizuka Kai in the round in a circle of light. No props.

Nothing but actors circling, circling.

It’s laugh out loud funny but eventually the question arises: what does anyone see in John? He’s a wimpy, nervous, needy character who can’t cook and can’t make up his mind. For that matter, what does anyone see in M or W? They’re both manipulative characters with, as far as we can see, no lovable qualities.

So what’s at stake? Great sex? And that leads to the funniest staging of foreplay I’ve ever seen. No clothes come off. There’s no touching. They’re not even close to each other. But, oh, there’s no doubt about what’s going on. Oh. Oh. Oh. Macdonald’s performance starts off being very arch, very brittle and man-

nered but when the going gets rough, Macdonald’s M becomes very real, his pain obvious. To the extent he’s capable, he loves John.

Phillip’s performance I found problematic. As the play progressed, his nervous gestures — biting his nails, scrunching his shirt and pants, thrusting out his neck — intensified. I understood that John was conflicted without all exaggerated physicality.

Soares’ character is interesting: we’re onside with W at the beginning but, just like M, she shows her controlling side. What does W want from John? A doormat with benefits?

As M’s father, Fraser is working class, gruff, straight-shooting. As an actor, Fraser is the master of the meaningful grunt; he speaks volumes with a dismissive look, an offhand gesture.

Cock is smart and funny.

It teases at the edges of “how do we know who we are.” Who defines us? And what is the fallout if we fail to figure it out? More importantly, to whom are we prey if we just drift along?

The likes of M and W? Run, John, run.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca Cock is at Performance Works until Nov. 8.

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Scott Fowler is warming up for his fourth season with Ballet BC. The 22-year-old is currently in rehearsals for the company’s 2015/16 opening performance, simply titled Program 1. Under the artistic leadership of Ballet BC artistic director Emily Molnar, the set features three individual works by three different choreographers. “To me, it feels like a very full program,” Fowler says.

Belgian-born Stijn Celis has choreographed an original work for Ballet BC that will be making its world premiere. Vancouver-based male vocal ensemble Chor Leoni will join the dancers on stage for this piece.

“That will be the first time I dance on stage with a choir of men behind me.

I’m sure it’s a first for many of us,” Fowler says. “It definitely adds a very intimate relationship with the musicality, and one that you’re always aware of because of the fact that it’s live.”

Performing to live voices, as opposed to a recording, means the dancers will have to be hyper aware of slight timing shifts, Fowler says.

“Energy-wise, I’m sure it’s just going to be amazing, having them project from behind us through to the audience,” he adds.

Fowler is also excited to be working for the first time with Vancouver-based choreographer Crystal Pite on her work “Solo Echo.”

Originally developed for Nederlands Dans Theater, the piece explores recurring themes of acceptance and loss and is inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano

Ballet BC dancers Rachel Meyer and Scott Fowler perform in Cayetano Soto’s “Twenty Eight Thousand Waves.”

by Johannes Brahms and the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark Strand. Finally, the company will be remounting a work by its resident choreographer Cayetano Soto.

“Twenty Eight Thousand Waves” premiered in 2014.

Featuring music by David Lang and Bryce Dessner, the piece is inspired by the fact that an oil tanker at sea is hit, on average, 28,000 times a day by waves.

Each of the three contemporary ballet works is unique, but all have powerful musical scores and convey a strong sense of emotion, Fowler says.

“I feel each piece gets to the root of that emotion in different ways.”

His challenge, as a dancer, is to project all those feelings to the audience through movement.

“It’s a very exciting piece from the inside, and so I’m hoping to give that excitement out,” he says.

This is Ballet BC’s 30th anniversary season and Fowler’s second season as a full company member after having spent two years as

an apprentice dancer. Prior to joining the company, he trained at Arts Umbrella under the direction of Artemis Gordon, and attended summer intensive programs at American Ballet Theatre, the National Ballet School and Jacob’s Pillow.

“I wouldn’t say it’s more work than I thought it would be,” Fowler says of going professional, “but it’s a lot of dedication.”

“I’ve needed to find new ways to bring the physicality that I’m demanded to do,” he adds.

Immediately following next week’s performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Fowler and the rest of the Ballet BC company hit the road for shows in Nanaimo, Victoria, Portland and Banff.

“This season is super exciting,” Fowler says. “We’re doing lots of touring, which I’m happy about.”

Ballet BC presents Program 1, Nov. 5 to 7 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. For more info, visit balletbc.com.

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Good grief! Peanuts hits the big screen jcrawfordfilm@gmail.com

Peanuts is one of those national treasures that could have gone horribly wrong as a feature film.

Especially in Blue Sky’s ambitious 3-D version, which takes characters from their trademark, pencil-drawn, black and white 2-D simplicity to a whole new dimension of colour and movement.

The temptation to up the action, tweak the gang’s wardrobe and throw in some current patter was great, I am sure. Send Charlie Brown to space, for example, or to New York City, and the merchandising opportunities might have been greater.

Instead, with the exception of Snoopy’s high-flying forays into the Red Baron’s enemy territory, the action stays firmly rooted in Charlie Brown’s neighbourhood: the school, the skating pond and the what-seems-like-forever distance between Charlie Brown’s front door and the one belonging to the Little Red-Haired Girl, who moves in across the street and immediately captures Charlie Brown’s heart.

It’s a neighbourhood no more diverse than when Charles Schulz introduced its first African-American character, Franklin, in 1968.

The adults still speak in muffled trombonese.

There are rotary phones and typewriters. Lucy’s counseling advice hasn’t risen with inflation (it’s still 5 cents). And Charlie

Charlie Brown and the gang for the most part stick to the script of Charles Schulz’s iconic comic strip in The Peanuts Movie.

Brown is still a loser.

That last point will rankle a whole generation of movie-goers raised on a “we’re all winners” diet.

But if you watched It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown over Halloween, you were reminded that the show ended with Charlie Brown lugging around a bag full of rocks and Linus never catching even a private glimpse of the Great Pumpkin, both boys the object of ridicule.

Likewise in the film, Charlie Brown is allowed a few triumphs but by-and-large remains the perpetual underdog. The story revolves around Charlie Brown’s desire to win the heart of the Little Red Haired Girl (never named) by various means, such as writing the world’s best book report or knocking ‘em dead at the school

talent show. But large and small triumphs — such as flying a kite or kicking a football — still elude him, and he suffers from a serious lack of self-confidence.

That’s about it, really. Those vignettes, like cobbled-together comic strips, are interspersed with Snoopy’s literary daydreams: we see the origin of his fight with the Red Baron, and his parallel pursuit of the girl of his dreams, a fellow flying ace named Fifi.

Schroeder performs 20th Century Fox’s intro with his usual piano flourish, and the film opens

with a snow day framed by Vince Guaraldi’s “Skating.” The snowy scenes and a line or two from Guaraldi’s “Christmastime Is Here” put The Peanuts Movie squarely in holiday-viewing contention. (A Meghan Trainor tune stands starkly out of place and time.)

Other than the animation, lush and lovely in some places and pareddown retro in others, the film’s smartest move was casting real kids to voice the Peanuts characters.

Noah Schnapp is the perfect Charlie Brown, ditto Hadley Belle Miller (Lucy), Alexander Garfin (Linus) and Mariel Sheets as Charlie Brown’s little sister, Sally. The late Bill Melendez’s voice has been resurrected as Snoopy and Woodstock.

Yes, there will be some explaining about the unfairness of life in the car ride home. And you might hear the term “blockhead” thrown around your house. But if The Peanuts Movie proves anything, it’s that there is still room for a G-rated film on the big screen. Stop thinking that kids need car chases, girl bands and laser battles to stay entertained. As Charlie Brown himself would say, “Good grief.”

The Peanuts Movie opens Friday.

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With no frontrunner, who will step foward?

West Point Grey Academy hosts B.C. high school championship at Jericho Beach Park Nov. 7

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How many of Vancouver’s fastest runners are among the top 10 in the province?

Two? Three? Five?

More?

“If we all have stellar races, five of us can all finish in the top 10 — definitely top 15, possibly top 10,” said Brodie Marshall, a Jules Verne secondary runner who finished fifth overall at the city championships on a hilly leaf-strewn trail around Fraserview Golf Course Oct. 28.

Marshall was 45 seconds behind the winner, Kieran Lumb who finished the 7.6 kilometres in 27 minutes, 38.25 seconds. Simeo Pont finished three seconds later, followed two seconds after that by Thomson Harris in third place.

Crossing 13 seconds later was Thomas Nobbs, who pulled up with a strain on the final 400 metres.

In a competitive year, the field has no frontrunner, said the road and cross-country technical manager for B.C. Athletics, Maurice Wilson.

“It will be a close race for the senior boys this year, with no clear fa-

vourite, and any of half a dozen potential winners,” he said.

Contenders from around the province include Sean Bergman, a Grade 11 racer from Kelowna who won gold in steeplechase at the high school track championships in June, Michael Milic, an accomplished triathlete from Delta, and Brendan Hoff a Campbell River-raised runner and national age group champion who moved to Victoria to train with a national team coach.

Athletics Canada selected Bergman (steeplechase) and Hoff (1,500 metres) to the national team for the world youth championships in Colombia this summer.

Lumb, Pont and Nobbs are also possible contenders said Wilson.

“I think all of us that finished in the top five [at the city championship] have a shot at it, at finishing in the top 10 in B.C. We’ve all got a chance at it,” said Harris, a Kitsilano Blue Demon who spent his Grade 11 year in England, but grew up competing against Lumb. The pair’s friendly rivalry dates to Grade 4.

“It’s been the most

Simeo Pont leads the senior boys up the hill on the first lap of the city championship around Fraserview Golf Course Oct. 28. Jules Verne teammate Brodie Marshall is immediately behind him.

Kitsilano’s Thomson Harris keeps pace. Behind, in red and grey, is the eventual winner, Kieran Lumb. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

competitive year I think I’ve ever raced in for the school district,” said

Lumb. “I really enjoy it because it’s nice to come first but I’d rather come

second with competition.

It really does make you better. Everyone pushes each other and everyone gets better.”

With the city title, Lumb defended his feat from last season. As a Grade 11 student, the Lord Byng runner won the 2014 championship at Fraserview 13 seconds faster than this year when competition was closer.

“It feels really good. It was definitely a goal of mine so it feels good to have accomplished that,” said Lumb. “I just really stayed relaxed on the first lap and I was able to conserve energy and then kick really hard for the last 500 metres. I took lead at the top of the hill. Everyone was right together: Thomson and Simeo and Thomas.”

In the senior girls race, Churchill’s Annika Richardson won the 3.8 km event in 14:50.83. Killarney’s Yvonne Huynh was second in 15:53.63 and Annelise Lapointe finished third for Van Tech in 15:59.81.

Richardson was undefeated this season except when under-age racer Kendra Lewis, in Grade 8 at Van Tech, raced in the senior category at Jericho Beach Park Oct. 8.

Lewis, who had not lost a school meet she entered this year at the senior or junior level, was beaten to the city crown by Annika Austin.

The Grade 10 Kitsilano runner took gold in 14:13.78, a pace that also would have nabbed her the senior title.

Lewis came second in 15:16.07 and Lord Byng’s Bridgett Baziw was third in 15:19.50.

Lewis and Austin have not gone head-to-head yet this season, and the older runner was determined to come out in front.

“I really wanted to beat the girl [Lewis] who was behind me,” said Austin. “At the start-line, I was extremely nervous.

I just decided to run my race and see how it felt.

I wanted to make sure I was a steady, consistent pace throughout and have a good kick at the end.”

The B.C. high school cross-country championship are hosted by West Point Grey Academy at Jericho Beach Park Nov. 7. Junior girls race at 10 a.m. Junior boys at 10:45 a.m. Senior girls race at 11:30 a.m. Senior boys race at 12:15 p.m. @MHStewart

A mile without their shoes: Kitsilano’s barefoot runners

Kitsilano runners Alexander Dungate, right, and Matthew Leighton run barefoot. PHOTO MEGAN STEWART

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The number of tackles made by Vancouver College’s Brendan Chandra in a 20-0 win over Mt. Doug Oct. 31 at O’Hagan Field. Takashi Kimura added seven and three more players had six tackles each. The Fighting Irish defense recorded 59 tackles.

The worst was the blackberry bushes, but the bark mulch and gravel pathways were tolerable.

This was the experience of Alexander Dungate and Matthew Leighton, two Kitsilano sailors and long-distance runners who raced barefoot during the public school cross-country season.

“A lot of people would find it scary just because of hurting yourself,” said

Dungate. “We thought it through.”

In what was likely a first for the city’s public schools, the barefoot teammates vowed to pull out of a race at Jericho last month if one of them couldn’t continue.

They wore gaffing tape but after it fell off their feet, they ran the remaining six kilometres in the buff.

“We stayed together the whole time and finished

together,” said Leighton.

The teens were inspired

by Born to Run, a book about the Tarahumara nation from Mexico’s Copper Canyons who run ultramarathons wearing only thin sandals on their feet.

The decision was a competitive disadvantage, but at least it was planned — unlike what happened to Leighton during a triathlon this summer. When

his legs cramped after the swim and bicycle portions and he couldn’t put on his shoes for the five-km run, he went without them.

Neither competitor raced the Oct. 28 city final barefoot but the runners said they will try minimal shoe styles. Leighton, who qualified for the provincials this weekend, said he plans to wear shoes.

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The number of sacks in the Fighting Irish shutout win over Mt. Doug.

Brendan Chandra, Chris Ellis and Jag Sandhu each had one.

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The number of senior boys volleyball teams that didn’t lose a game during the public school regular season.

Van Tech (5-0) and David Thompson (5-0) won their respective north and south divisions.

2

The number of Vancouver senior boys volleyball teams ranked in the provincial AAA top 10. Van Tech sits at No. 6 and David Thompson is 10th. If they meet in the city championships, it will be in the final 6 p.m. Nov. 5.

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The result for York House School at the annual Independent School Association senior girls volleyball tournament, which the Tigers have won four years in a row. Held Oct. 30 and 31 at Crofton House, the competition hosted 13 private schools from B.C.

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Volleyball fans must choose between finals Fighting Irish clinch division without a loss Megan Stewart

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Kitsilano’s Brittany Antipas (No. 8) and Joy Hocking (No. 2) go big at the net against the Killarney Cougars in the first-round of the senior girls city volleyball championship Nov. 2 at Van Tech secondary. Kitsilano won in straight sets. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The city’s top senior girls and senior boys volleyball teams compete tonight to crown their champions. Want to watch both finals?

Good luck with that.

The public school (VSSAA) girls play at Van Tech secondary while the senior boys compete across town at Magee. Both championship finals are at 6 p.m.

For the fifth year in a row, the girls and boys have competed for their respective city championship title at different gymnasiums but at the same time on the same day. Last year it was 6 p.m. on a Friday. The year before that, 5 p.m. on a Thursday. This year the finals are both at 6 p.m. Nov. 5.

The distance be-

tween Van Tech and Magee is 11 kilometres.

Driving time is about 25 minutes as long as the roads are clear.

Bussing takes about 50 minutes, optimistically, from stop to stop.

It’s not unlikely people would want to attend both games and watch both complete games through to the end. The amazing growth of club volleyball means friendship and allegiances exist outside of school catchment. If there are players from Apex Volleyball Club competing in the girls final and the boys final, their coaches and supporters have to make a choice.

Or at best, a compromise.

Sacrificial Rams

In a clash of the undefeated AAA Western Conference leaders last

week, Vancouver College didn’t just come ahead of Victoria’s Mt. Douglas Rams, but held them from scoring and clinched the division with a week remaining in the regular season.

The Fighting Irish put up 427 offensive yards to win 20-0 at O’Hagan Field Oct. 31.

Jacob Samuels threw for 196 yards and one touchdown, a 54-yard major to Aidan Fey to open scoring in the first quarter. Jasper Schiedel ran one in from the two-yard line and then Michael Le made good on an even shorter, one-yard run for VC’s third strike of the half.

Leading the conference 4-0, the Fighting Irish prepare to host Notre Dame (1-3) Nov. 6 at O’Hagan Field. Kick off is 2 p.m. @MHStewart

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