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Cop beat coverage invites critics (again)

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

You’re a cop hater.

You’re a cop lover.

Actually, your cop coverage is fairly balanced.

Blah, blah, blah…

I’ve heard it all in this job, folks.

So I wasn’t surprised the swinging pendulum of criticism/praise struck again this month; that’s what happens when you answer your phone.

In a double-barrelled blast, I caught a bit more buckshot after a recent story I wrote about the number of people who required medical treatment at a hospital because of incidents involving police.

Did you know that people in the care or custody of the Vancouver Police Department who required some form of treatment has steadily increased since 2011 and could reach 200 people by year’s end?

Of course you did.

That’s because you’re a loyal reader and would

also know the majority of injuries since 2011 were caused by police dog bites followed by “empty hand” takedowns, according to my review of VPD reports on injuries and statistics obtained from the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner.

Interesting information, right?

Interesting but requiring some balance, said one semi-irate caller. Besides, he continued, all those injured people probably deserved it. Another caller prattled on about the good work cops do, that they have a tough job and don’t get any respect from media.

Alright, alright, already.

So after I hung up, I called Const. Brian Montague, a VPD media liaison officer, to provide me with some statistics and stories on how tough the job really is.

First, the stats: In 2013, 290 cops were injured on the job. Another 279 got hurt last year and more than 200 to date this year.

More than 200 Vancouver cops have been injured on the job this year. Const. Brian Montague, a VPD media liaison officer, has suffered all types of injuries in his 22-year career. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

We’re talking everything from scrapes, bumps, bruises, cuts and broken bones — any injury that required treatment — to being mowed down by a car while sitting in a restaurant.

Now the stories: Montague has been a cop for 22 years. He’s been spit

on, bitten in the leg, hit in the head with a metal pipe, attacked with scissors, slashed with a razor blade and had a food container dropped on him from the third floor of a Downtown Eastside hotel.

Someone tried to shoot him, too.

Tried to shoot him?

“The gun jammed on him,” he said.

Montague, who has lost count of the number of times he’s been punched and kicked, said other veteran officers have suffered similar or more severe injuries over their careers.

What I’ve heard from some officers — and that includes the Mounties — is the public’s respect for police has waned. Teachers tell me the same thing about their profession. So do journalists, but they’re a notoriously grumpy bunch, anyway.

“Am I hearing a change in respect or attitude towards officers? We’re definitely seeing that. We’re seeing people that are definitely more confrontational with police,” said Montague, noting those same people are often high on drugs or booze.

There are also those people who fall into the “suicide by cop” category, which — as the term explains — involves a des-

perate person wanting the cops to shoot him.

Kind of a dangerous game.

Coincidentally, in the writing of this piece, the Ministry of Justice issued a press release announcing 66 cops in B.C. received awards for valour and meritorious service.

At least 12 were from the VPD. Two of them rescued a man trapped in a submerged vehicle. Another two extinguished a fire and evacuated hotel residents. And another two entered a burning building to locate and evacuate trapped residents.

Well done, right?

Maybe you disagree.

Maybe you think cops don’t deserve recognition for doing a well-paid job they signed up for.

Maybe you do.

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It’s information, people.

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City grapples with West End parking woes Public feedback sought on various options

Naoibh O’Connor

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West End residents take an extra five minutes and travel an additional kilometre to find parking in their neighbourhood. Visitors spend 10 minutes and drive an additional three kilometres, according to the City of Vancouver.

Finding parking in the densely populated West End is a well-known challenge, but now the city is considering ways of managing it and staff are seeking public feedback on various options through a survey.

The city’s stated aim is to make parking easier while “discouraging more driving, considering the impacts to overall affordability and reducing inconvenience, congestion, pollution and safety risks.”

Vision Coun. Tim Stevenson, who’s lived in the West End for 20 years, acknowledges it’s a problem.

“It’s frustrating for many people unless you have a spot like mine that you pay for in a building,” he said.

“But the thing is there are hundreds of [unused] spots in buildings already, so how do we make that accessible and how do we let people know that’s possible? Is there a way to work with any of these landlords to put some of these [spots] aside?”

City statistics underscore that point — there are 16,000 cars registered in the area, about 22,000 off-street residential spaces and about 2,700

on-street residential spaces. If every car parked in off-street spaces, parking would only be three quarters full.

There are more than 6,000 active West End parking permits at any given time, according to the city, for the 2,700 onstreet spaces. The permits are priced at $6 a month, which is lower than some other cities such as Toronto which charges $15 to $52 a month depending on whether the permit holder has access to offstreet spaces.

Stevenson suspects many survey respondents may not want to see a parking permit price increase or they’d want a graduation of fees based on factors such as income or age considering the West End is becoming increasingly expensive to live in.

“Rent wise, the West End is becoming less affordable so we don’t want to add to that burden. So again, how do we measure that and how do we find a way that isn’t even more of a burden for those people who are already struggling,” he said.

Long-time West End resident Brent Granby, a former member of the now defunct West End Residents’ Association, also calls parking a hassle.

“This is the first time that engineering has really attempted to do a comprehensive study, so I’m impressed that they did that work. It’s something we were always advocating for them to do,” he said.

Granby agrees it’s important to look at under-

ground parking capacity.

“I think one of the things they’re looking at is, in effect, the city is underwriting the price of the parking on streets while there’s so much underground capacity that’s not utilized,” he said.

The city didn’t have anyone available for an interview but emailed a statement attributed to Eric Mital, the city’s manager of neighbourhood parking and transportation.

It indicated that the survey is in response to directions in both Transportation 2040 and the more recently approved West End Community Plan.

Transportation 2040 calls for staff to develop better on-street parking management in neighbourhoods, and the West End Plan cites parking as a significant issue to be reviewed.

“At this point staff are not proposing solutions — instead, we are asking for feedback on a number of tools and approaches that we’ve learned about through our research and that we think may be helpful in the West End. We’re also asking for new ideas and collecting more data to help inform the development of solutions/ recommendations. We’re planning to come back to the neighbourhood with the results of this survey and a more developed set of recommendations in the New Year,” the email stated.

The survey is available online with responses accepted until Nov. 30. @naoibh

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Holidays: A Budget-free Zone?

By Jim Doyle CFP, CLU, CDFA, TEP, CIWM

what you have, what you need it to do, and what’s important to you.

The holiday season can be a time of excesses: eating too much, drinking too much, and spending too much – and having a great time while doing it! With the average family spending over $1,000 for Christmas, balancing needs and wants can go a long ways to making 2016 a better year, financially.

If you haven’t saved up enough Christmas funds by this point, consider making your Christmas budget part of each and every month’s expenses.

By this time next year, you’ll have enough saved and won’t need to use credit.

Tired of starting the year in the red? It’s no secret Canadian’s debt levels continue to increase, so it can be prudent to have an awareness of your spending habits and choices. With a number of Canadians living paycheque-to-paycheque, we know we need to get out of debt and save more money.

If setting a budget is too much like hard work, consider paying for your Christmas gifts with cash alone. No debit – no credit cards. When you run out of cash – stop shopping.

Make an oldfashioned shopping list and stick to it.

Creating a specific list of who to shop for, and what you might like to buy them, ensures random purchases don’t end up in your basket.

Keep in mind, young children don’t value your gift based on price, so don’t shell out big bucks unnecessarily.

For a few financial recommendations as you approach the holidays, consider creating a budget and setting limits. The objective: create a sense of finite resources. A Christmas budget isn’t just about shopping for great deals; it’s about understanding

Jim Doyle

Many of us are faced with an ever-widening list of friends, extended family or colleagues and classmates, causing us to re-examine our budgets.

Remember the tradition of Secret Santa? The group sets a budget and secretly draws names for who needs to buy for whom. This way, you’ll only wind up buying one present, rather than scores!

A few final suggestions: for someone who has everything, consider making a donation to a charity of their choosing, and remember: another thing that can throw your budget off-track, is buying gifts for yourself while you’re shopping for others!

For a few more holiday budgeting tips, we invite you to tune into Boomer Life on Tuesday, December 1st on CISL AM 650 from 6-7pm.

Taking charge of your holiday budget can set a wonderful foundation for 2016. Happy shopping!

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Vancouver mayor’s office expense disclosure lags behind Big Apple and Boulder Bob Mackin

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Mayor Gregor Robertson boasted that he was the only Canadian mayor at a Vatican City conference on human trafficking and climate change last summer.

His office, however, was last to disclose expense reports after the Courier made Freedom of Information applications to city halls bigger and smaller.

Records show it cost Vancouver taxpayers more than $5,500 to send Robertson and aide Braeden Caley to the Vatican City for the Pontifical Academy’s “Modern Slavery and Climate Change: The Commitment of Cities” workshop on July 21. The event was highlighted by an appearance by Pope Francis.

Robertson’s airfare was reimbursed by the Vatican.

He billed $1,728.48, mainly for hotel and per diems for July 20-23. His expense report showed he also spent

July 17-19 in Rome on personal time, coinciding with a trip to the Italian capital by his girlfriend, singer Wanting Qu. Caley traveled July 19-23 and his bill was $3,822.65 for airfare and hotel. A copy of Robertson’s expense records was sought Aug. 18 and finally released 32 business days later on Oct. 1. Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, public bodies must respond no later than 30 business days with the records or a decision to delay or deny disclosure.

By comparison, staff in the office of Boulder, Colorado Mayor Matt Appelbaum responded just two days after an Aug. 18 request with documents showing Appelbaum’s July 18-24 trip cost $3,139.67.

His expenses show he paid the cost of his flight upgrade and the fifth night at a Rome hotel. Colorado public bodies must decide three days after a public

Mayor Gregor Robertson was the only Canadian mayor to attend a Vatican City conference on human trafficking and climate change last July.

records request is made whether to release, delay or deny the records. New York and Washington laws set five-day deadlines, while California’s is 10.

San Francisco Mayor

Edwin Lee’s office responded Aug. 27 with records showing Lee’s trip cost $6,055.62, his wife Anita’s $2,750.52 and senior advisor on the environment Roger Kim’s $2,142. Kris-

tin Macaulay in the Mayor’s Office of Communications said Anita Lee’s travel expenses were paid by the Friends of the Commission on the Status of Women.

City of Seattle public records analyst Ana Rocha responded Aug. 24, saying “no taxpayer dollars were used” to fund Mayor Ed Murray’s trip. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office responded Sept.

11 with credit card statements showing $13,513.10 was spent on airfare for de Blasio, international affairs aide Penny Abeywardena and deputy press secretary Monica Klein.

On Nov. 9, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner revealed that City of Vancouver would be probed under a 2014-launched audit and compliance program. In a news release the next day, OIPC further explained that the province’s biggest municipality “ranked among public bodies with the high-

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est number of complaints and access to information appeals received by this Office” in four of the last five years.

Vancouver city hall’s data website shows that Robertson billed taxpayers $7,914.33 for travel expenses between January and September of this year, including trips to Paris, Toronto and New York.

Robertson’s fall travels included Washington, D.C., Guangzhou, China and Hong Kong. He is scheduled to appear Dec. 6 at the World Climate Summit in Paris, during the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties 21 convention.

A year ago, the Courier reported that Robertson spent more than $63,000 on travel and 181 days away from Vancouver between 2009 and mid-2014. During 2012 alone, he was out-of-town on city business for 53 days.

Most of his trips were to promote Vision Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 plan. @bobmackin

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Inquest examines why woman died after VPD arrest

Mike Howell

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When Cheryl Ann Cowan was arrested in the early morning of Dec. 15, 2014, she was loaded into a Vancouver police prisoner wagon and transported to jail.

The trip from the scene of her arrest at a house near 33rd Avenue to the jail on East Cordova took almost 24 minutes. At some point during that trip, Cowan became unconscious.

Eight days later, the 58-year-old woman died in St. Paul’s Hospital.

The B.C. Coroners Service announced in a news release last week that an inquest will be held in January to “determine the facts surrounding this death.” The jury will have the opportunity to make recommendations aimed at preventing deaths under similar circumstances.

The inquest is being called despite a separate investigation into Cowan’s death by the Independent Investigations Office, which investigates policerelated incidents that result in serious harm or death to a person. The investigations’ office cleared the Vancouver police of any wrongdoing in Cowan’s death.

In an emailed statement to the Courier, the Coroners Service said the Coroners Act makes it mandatory for all deaths in police custody “to be reviewed at inquest.”

“By long practice, the Coroners Service takes all police-involved deaths to inquest to ensure a thorough public review of the circumstances,” the statement said.

Richard Rosenthal, the chief civilian director of the investigations’ office, noted in his report that medical re-

Cheryl Ann Cowan, 58, became unconscious in a police wagon after she was arrested Dec. 15, 2014. She died in hospital eight days later. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

cords determined Cowan’s cause of death was “severe anoxic brain injury due to a cardiac arrest.” The injury occurs when the heart stops, causing a lack of oxygen to the brain.

Police arrested Cowan after responding to a 911 call at 6:08 a.m. on Dec. 15, 2014 of a woman “causing a disturbance” at a family member’s house. Evidence from medical records and witnesses who interacted with Cowan concluded she was intoxicated.

“The statements of both witness officers are clear that neither officer perceived any medical distress being experienced by the affected person,” Rosenthal said.

The officer who drove the prisoner wagon declined to make a statement in the investigation, which is his right under the Charter. Even so, Rosenthal said he was satisfied the officer performed his duties according to policies set out by the VPD related to the transportation of prisoners.

Rosenthal concluded there was no evidence any force was used in the arrest

and that Cowan was able to get into the prisoner wagon unassisted.

VPD policy states that officers are required to check on the well-being of a person in custody, particularly when there is a considerable delay in transportation or the prisoner was injured or suffered from a medical condition.

“In this case, the delay was not of a length that could in any way be classified as considerable,” said Rosenthal, noting the trip took 23 minutes and 18 seconds, including a brief stop at the VPD’s Cambie Street precinct.

Police didn’t know Cowan was unconscious until an officer opened a door of the prisoner wagon at the jail at 7:43 a.m. Nurses, jail staff, a doctor and firefighters all responded to Cowan, who regained a pulse after treatment from paramedics.

She was transported to St. Paul’s Hospital in an ambulance, where she remained on life support until her death Dec. 23, 2014. The inquest begins Jan. 11, 2016. @Howellings

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They say every minute counts and every vote counts, but did one of the polling stations that suffered a ballot-shortage during last year’s civic election stay open a tad too long?

City of Vancouver adopted a “vote anywhere” policy for the Nov. 15, 2014 municipal election to encourage higher turnout after years of assigning voters to their nearest school, church or community centre to prevent multiple voting.

Voting at four of the 117 stations was extended beyond the 8 p.m. deadline after running out of ballots. City hall’s communications department announced the extensions in a 7:41 p.m. news release for Killarney Community Centre (to 8:15 p.m.), Britannia Community Centre and Oakridge Centre (to 8:30 p.m.) and Hastings elementary (to 8:45 p.m.).

Voters who lined up inside or outside voting stations by those times were allowed to vote.

The news release had been drafted since at least 7 p.m., according to documents released under Freedom of Information. Several of the messages between then-city manager Penny Ballem, communications staffer Marnie McGregor and city solicitor Francie Connell under the subject “Current Draft Messages on Poll Closing Times/Potential Extensions” were censored under an exception for policy advice.

When the draft was sent to Janice MacKen-

zie, the city clerk who doubled as chief electionsd M officer, she responded at 7:31 p.m.: “I’m good i with the language but Killarney is now admit- t ting that they were with- i out ballots for less than p i 10 minutes.”

Killarney’s 15-minute o r voting extension was made official in the 7:41 d t p.m. news release.

“Well done all,” Bal- t lem wrote at 7:46 p.m. o b By 9:05 p.m., the polls had been officially l d declared closed and chief digital officer Jessie y Adcock was free to begin v a publishing results.

A city hall observer p said it is a conflict of interest for civic elections c l to be run by an office inside city hall. Indepen- t c dent agencies oversee federal and provincial p elections in Canada.

V “Having a city employee as a chief election fi officer is quite a failure in s terms of independence of t the election,” said Randy p Helten of the CityHall- n y Watch.ca blog. “One l example of the lack of checks and balances in the City of Vancouver.”

Earlier in the day, officials of the two main parties emailed MacKenzie with concerns about lineups and delays.

At 12:31 p.m., Vision Vancouver executive director Stepan Vdovine wrote that scrutineers were reporting wait times of up to 40 minutes at Strathcona and West End while other locations, like Wosk Centre, were “underutilized.” “I am concerned that voters will be discouraged to vote if arrangements are not made to reassign staff and reduce wait times,” Vdovine wrote.

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shed light on civic election day confusion

NPA election day director Gavin Dew sent MacKenzie an urgent 6:23 p.m. message, asking about extended voting times. “Our understanding is that numerous polling places have been intermittently running out of ballots and, as a result, voting has been delayed. We understand that in some instances there have been periods of up to an hour with no ballots on hand at voting locations. In light of the delay for voting, could you please confirm that voting will be open at affected locations past 8:00pm, provided that people are in line? Please confirm ASAP, as my legal team is standing by to initiate more formal correspondence.”

Dew had earlier complained about Vision Vancouver sending out five get-out-the-vote messages by email. “Please tell me by 3 p.m. if you plan to enforce the law. If not, we will assume that you are not enforcing this law, and we will begin

During the 2014 civic election, voting at four of the 117 polling stations was extended beyond the 8 p.m. deadline after running out of ballots. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

doing the same,” Dew wrote to MacKenzie.

MacKenzie responded at 2:31 p.m.: “Elections BC oversees the local

expense campaign financing act. This matter falls within their jurisdiction.”

Elections BC did not act on complaints about

the Vision Vancouver email because it deemed it a communication to party members — even though it was received

by citizens who said they were neither party members nor donors.

Vdovine reported in separate complaints that “doz-

ens of signs” for COPE, Green Party and One City along the perimeter of voting stations at Strathcona Community Centre, St. Augustine’s school at the wrong address and wrong place on the voting map, and that the mobile version of the city’s website showed voting day was “on tomorrow.”

Mayor Gregor Robertson won a third term and his Vision Vancouver retained its majority on city council, but lost its majorities on park board and school board. Turnout rose from 34.57 per cent in 2011 to 43.4 per cent in 2014, as voters cast 181,707 ballots from an inventory of 279,200. Voter registration fell from 418,878 in 2011 to 415,978 in 2014. Another 6,009 were eligible to vote for school board only on the University Endowment Lands, down from 6,478 in 2011.

The 2014 election was the first to expand terms from three years to four.

The next scheduled civic election is Oct. 20, 2018. @bobmackin

Festive Cheer

A holiday market hosted by Tapestry at Wesbrook Village

Wednesday December 2, 2015, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm It’s that time of year again. Get into the holiday spirit with Festive Cheer, our third annual holiday market, hosted by Tapestry at Wesbrook Village.

This low-stress, local alternative to holiday shopping is a delightful experience with entertainment, food and refreshments! Whether you’re stopping by to just have a look or shopping for something unique for everyone on your list, we’re sure the artisan and craft vendors at the market will have something for you.

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Our welcoming response to the Syrian refugee crisis helps define us as Canadians

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am delighted, as I’m sure most of you are, that we have stepped up the numbers of Syrian refugees we will be welcoming to our country, our province and our city; and the sooner the better.

I am also pleased, by the way, that along with increasing our commitment on refugees, Justin Trudeau is (so far) sticking to his plan to terminate our relatively miniscule involvement in aerial bombing raids on ISIL.

Our response to this enormous humanitarian crisis helps define us as Canadians. We are for the most part a country of immigrants and refugees. We find it energizing to help. It is a point of pride.

While some of the pundit class would consider this difference of tactics with the United States and grumblings from a few up here particularly after Paris, the end of Trudeau’s political “honeymoon,” I wouldn’t bet on it.

The most sane and sober analysis I’ve seen all supports the notion that if there must be a battle, the best way to limit the reach of that murderous gang of terrorists is to beat them on the ground. That is where Canada will focus its efforts by training ground troops. It would certainly reduce the type of collateral damage we have seen so far including the U.S.

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bombing of a friendly field hospital.

But back to the refugees: Our city is alive with people coming forward with the desire to help. There is developer Ian Gillespie with his promise of a dozen fully equipped apartments for the short term. And there are church groups and synagogues and mosques gathering funds and organizing information sessions that tend to overflow with enthusiastic folks wanting to know how they can help.

It is all, it seems, a tonic to the parsimonious misery we were subject to during our trying times with Stephen Harper’s Tories as they continued to embarrass us on the world stage.

Our response to this enormous humanitarian crisis helps define us as Canadians. We are for the most part a country of immigrants and refugees. We find it energizing to help. It is a point of pride.

There is of course Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall who, just after the attacks on Paris, sent a letter to the Prime Minister asking him to delay the plan for refugees: “I understand that the overwhelming majority of refugees are fleeing violence and bloodshed and pose no threat to anyone,” wrote Wall. “However, if even a small number of individuals who wish to do harm to our country are able to enter Canada as a result of a rushed refugee resettlement process, the results could be devastating.”

I’d rather rely less on Wall’s speculative fear mongering than assurances from the likes of Canadian Security Intelligence Services head Michel Coulombe who notes that security screenings of refugees is and will continue to be “robust.”

Thankfully, we are unlike the Ameri-

cans. The plaque on their Statue of Liberty reads: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.”

But the signs on 31 U.S. state legislatures say “Go back to where you came from.”

And federal legislators, including many Democrats want senior bureaucrats to sign on each and every refugee guaranteeing they won’t cause trouble.

Meanwhile, the leading Republican presidential candidate, “The Donald” Trump, wants every Muslim whether born in the United States or an immigrant to be registered and tracked by security forces.

Bringing 25,000 refugees on board here will cost much more than originally budgeted and likely take more time. I am reminded that we, as a matter of unevent-

ful regularity, bring 250,000 newcomers to Canada each year and about 10 percent of those happen to be refugees.

There is one question I would like answered, and I note this is before I have seen the Liberals’ logistics for their refugee plan that was due on Tuesday but after my deadline. That question is: Just who among the refugees will not be included?

As you may know, last week it was rumoured that for security reasons the Liberals would give preference to families and exclude “unaccompanied” men.

This would be a mistake and not only because those men would be just as much victims of the terror as every one of the millions of refugees trying to escape.

But if would feed the ISIL propaganda machine and create for them a possible pool of recruits, convinced that the West considers them the enemy. @allengarr

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The Courier’s recent column on Caroline Adderson’s efforts to document Vancouver’s vanishing heritage homes via her Facebook page and a new book called Vancouver Vanishes received much feedback from readers decrying the current real estate market. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Re: “Vancouver is vanishing at an incredible clip,” Nov. 18.

Interesting how nobody ever discusses the people who sold these houses, left the neighbourhoods, and pocketed huge sums of tax-free windfalls (because I’m guessing a substantial proportion of them purchased their homes decades ago). People are free to sell their homes to whomever they wish.

If people wanted, they could screen all of the potential purchasers, and sell to young families who are planning to renovate, not demolish. But instead, people blame

Cleared for take off?

Re: “City clears block of vendors, homeless people,” online, Nov. 19.

Sounds like a great improvement for the neighbourhood. Congratulations to those that are working to make things better.

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Re: “Vancouver is vanishing at an incredible clip,” Nov. 18.

About time someone addressed these issues. I remember in the early ’70s I moved from West Seventh Avenue to Kelowna for a year or so. I knew most of the people on that block. On returning I went to visit my friend Thom. Thom wasn’t there — not only that, his house wasn’t there nor were Donna’s house or any on that side of the street. I was knackered as the English say. I don’t even know what’s there now but I suspect nobody knows their neighbours. The guardians of these matters — the zoning czars —should think long and hard before they allow the soul to be ripped out of the city neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

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“foreign investors” and “greedy developers.” In this market, it is the vendor who holds the cards.

Richmondite01 via Online Comments • • • The sellers will never sell to someone because they want the new owners to follow the same vision that the current owners desire. It is the city that needs to regulate the type of properties they vision for the neighborhoods. People do not want to be told what to do through either restrictions or by the current seller. It is up to city hall and council to dictate those permits or restrict them until compliance is adhered to. People are just moving on in life, but cities evolve with various city councillors. If you’re having a problem, look to what council is stating is “okay” or city staff. Those properties need to retain the historical value and character that was the fabric of the neighbourhood.

People with money want to do as they please not as they are advised. This goes back 20+ yrs when the same issue was at hand.

Momma mia via Online Comments • • • The end began when the first monster house was approved at Granville & 61st in the 80s.

My family house at 25th & Cypress leveled in ‘88. Nothing left near [Prince of Wales] or McKechnie or Byng. @PoliahuCDA via Twitter

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The 100-year-old Parker Street Studios building was converted to artist studios in the 1980s and is used by artists such as abstract painter Laurel Swenson and sculptor David Robinson. The building opened its doors to the public this past weekend as part of the East Side Culture Crawl. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

CITY LIVING

Artists bring body and soul to unlikely Parker Street Studios Rebecca Blissett

rvblissett@gmail.com

Like a time lapse of ice splintering its way across a window pane, development continues to crawl to all corners of this city, replacing the past with modern structures of frosty steel and cold glass.

It is why it is nothing short of a marvel that the creaky 100-year-old giant at 1000 Parker St. — a building that was once home to Restmore Manufacturing Co., which made feather mattresses and iron beds and later, the Vancouver Revolver and Rifle Club — still stands.

It’s in an old industrial part of East Vancouver where roads are worn jagged at the edges and cracked up the middle, sometimes revealing old rail lines, a reminder of days when much manu-

facturing used to occur within city limits.

The part of the building’s wooden exterior that faces rail tracks is a long stretch of canvas for graffiti artists, and from its odd little alley look upwards as a human sculpture dangles from a beam.

The heart of 1000 Parker St. is the 227 artists that work out of its 110 studios, linked economically by reasonable rent and physically by an artery of corridors and stairways that give the place a feel of a tree fort. Many artists, such as abstract painter Laurel Swenson, share a literal corner of a studio, whereas others, such as sculptor and long-time tenant David Robinson, have taken advantage of the 152,000-square-foot building to match their artistic needs (in Robinson’s case, a beautiful whitewalled and naturally-lit

gallery on the top floor, as well as a generous workspace on another floor).

Robinson remembers when artists took over the third and fourth floors during the 1980s in a building that was nothing more than dusty wideopen spaces and an empty haven for pigeons.

“Back then we just sort of erected walls here, there, willy nilly. It was marking your territory with cardboard and chicken wire. My first doors were practically just that,” he said. “There’s a special spirit to this place and any chance I get, I tell that to the building owner.

It’s very special.”

Robinson is well-regarded internationally for his figurative sculptures so it might be expected he would be in his own, free-standing space, but being a part of Parker Street

Studios is representative of how he chooses to mark his own path, especially with his chosen art form. (In art school, he was told sculpture “was a dead language not to be involved with.”)

For Robinson, it’s being a part of a community of artists and contributing to a living space that’s vital.

That hanging figure in the back alley, incidentally, is Robinson’s handiwork.

This past week and weekend’s East Side Culture Crawl provided a perfect opportunity to roam through the hallways of Parker Street Studios where you might have had the chance to listen to Robinson speak poetically and thoughtfully of his sculptures. Yes, the materials out of which they are made include bronze, iron, steel, cement, hydrostone and polymer-gypsum, but the artistry comes from

being guided by the materials, letting them speak and inform.

His words would have lingered in your head as you made your way through the corridors and you might have found yourself facing Swenson’s corner two floors down with her canvasses and panels of beautiful swirls of green and turquoise.

Swenson, too, spoke of her process. Hers is one of layers, brushstrokes, marks and a real physical connection with the canvas, which is especially interesting considering she often works on her paintings right after early morning workouts or rock climbing.

“These two paintings, they’re great big pieces of canvas so I put them straight on the wall,” she explained, pointing to her larger pieces, one of which

is titled “Do No Harm But Take No Sh**.”

“Mounted canvas is a soft surface so when it’s just on the wall you can be a lot more physical with it which is what I like about it.”

Unlike her sculptor neighbour, Swenson is a relative newcomer to the Parker Street Studios, having arrived three years ago after deciding she needed separation from her home office and its distractions.

“It’s such a fantastic studio space, and the building, it’s like a maze and it’s a crazy relic that has so much character. It’s amazing that it even still exists and is used for artist studios,” she said. “It’s a special place.”

An old building like Parker Street Studios may not be the geographical heart of a city, but it does give it some soul. @rebeccablissett

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Opinion Open House: Little Mountain Rezoning

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The City has received a rezoning application for the Little Mountain site at 155 East 37th Avenue. The proposal is to rezone and develop the 15-acre site into a mixed-use development, based on the Councilapproved Little Mountain Policy Statement, which includes: East 33rd Avenue

LITTLE MOUNTAIN SITE East 37th Avenue

• a variety of buildings between three and 12 storeys

• mainly residential uses with some commercial and civic uses (approximately 1,400 market residential units)

• 234 units of replacement social housing (53 of which have already been built under current zoning) • a City-owned building containing a new Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, a 69-space childcare centre, and 48 units of affordable housing • a new community plaza and public park • a new city street and an extension of 35th Avenue.

A year has passed since Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision council were re-elected to city hall. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Looking into city council’s crystal ball

Mike Klassen

mike@mikeklassen.net

A year ago it was the time of an auspicious occasion for our city’s political class — the swearing in of the new city council at the Southeast False Creek Community Centre. In spite of the costly and downright testy election campaign that had just concluded, everybody in the room was all-smiles.

Even the incumbent Vision Vancouver council members seemed pleased for they had held power at city hall, the most important prize of all.

Nearly $6 million had been spent collectively by the Vision and NPA campaigns, but the outcome was almost exactly the same. Robertson was still mayor, and the only new face on council belonged to the NPA’s plucky former park commissioner, Melissa De Genova.

After losing control of the park and school boards, Vision seems determined to regain its mojo. Its political machine has been whirring like it’s on high-octane fuel, and supported apparently by loads of financial contributions.

As a political organization Vision Vancouver operates on a level never

seen before in Canadian local government. They are properly staffed, constantly communicating, continuously organizing, plotting and finding new ways to woo supporters.

By contrast the NPA and Greens seem positively docile a year after the Vancouver election. The sound of a pin dropping would be deafening by comparison to the amount of actual political organizing either has attempted since the election.

It’s as if they are overconfident.

Indeed, after 10 years in power any political dynasty runs the risk of losing.

Brian Mulroney, Gordon Campbell, Jean Chretien and, recently, Stephen Harper, were all shown the door by the electorate after a decade in power.

And so it will probably be after 10 years with Gregor Robertson as mayor.

Vision Vancouver is not preparing to loosen its grip on running the city any time soon, however.

First of all, the party seems to have been given new life with the election of an ally in the Prime Minister’s office. But Justin Trudeau represents a mixed blessing for Gregor Robertson, and the mayor probably knows it. For the past seven years in office

he could always blame Stephen Harper when something did not go his way.

If relations with Ottawa are as rosy as Robertson likes to boast, then he can never complain again about being shortchanged by the federal government.

If he cannot deliver now on his big promises on homelessness and housing, the environment and economic growth, he likely never will.

This leaves open the matter of who will ultimately succeed Robertson as Vision’s leader. As indicated in this column and by others, there are only two people seen to be as credible candidates to grab the baton: councillors Raymond Louie and Andrea Reimer.

Louie’s ascendance from the floor of a unionized print shop to city council, then on to Metro Vancouver as vice-chair, and making his way through the pecking order to become president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities has been impressive.

It’s the reason he earned the endorsement of former mayor Larry Campbell early on as his choice for a “future mayor.”

His colleague Reimer seems to have a leg up on Louie when it comes to

her unquestioned loyalty to the environmental movement at the heart of Vision’s ideology.

She even identifies as a former Green Party school trustee on her Twitter profile, despite the fact relations between Vision and the current Vancouver Green caucus are decidedly frosty.

Some have commented Reimer comports herself in a more statesmanlike manner in council. Long gone are the snarky remarks — in public at least — about the weight of provincial cabinet ministers.

Her closeness to Robertson is well known, which leads many to think she is the favoured candidate of the Vision establishment to succeed him.

After more than 130 years since its incorporation, could Andrea Reimer be the first woman to become Vancouver mayor?

Given the power behind the mayor’s chair, no one should put long odds on it happening.

But keep in mind that three years is an eternity in politics. There is still some time — though not much — for the NPA to rev up its engine and for the eco-friendly Greens to get some wind in their sails. @MikeKlassen

Join us at an open house to learn more and share your thoughts: Saturday, November 28, 2015, 11 am –3 pm General Brock Elementary School Gymnasium 4860 Main Street Thursday, December 3, 2015, 5 – 8 pm Holy Name of Jesus Parish Church 4925 Cambie Street FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/littlemountain or phone 3-1-1

Development Permit Board Meeting: November 30 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, November 30, 2015, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor, Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit application: 1668 Davie Street: To develop a 23-storey, mixeduse building with one level of commercial (first floor) and 22 levels of residential (second to 23rd floors) containing 158 dwelling units (all secured market rental) all over six levels of underground parking with vehicle access from the lane.

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Rev. Judith Hardcastle holds a photograph of American theologian Thomas Merton. Hardcastle, a minister at St. Andrew’s United Church in North Vancouver, was inspired by Merton. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Thomas Merton remains an influential Christian figure Film about the last year of Merton’s life screens Dec. 10 at SFU Harbour Centre

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Judith Hardcastle was working in the safety and training department at SkyTrain when she discovered Thomas Merton. Her career quickly veered onto another track.

Merton was a Catholic monk and an American religious thinker who remains one of the most influential Christian figures of our time. He died in a freak accident at age 53 in 1968, but his writings and reflections still inspire Christians such as Hardcastle. After she encountered Merton’s ideas, she made an abrupt career change and entered the ministry. She is a United Church minister as well as the founder and now program director of the Thomas Merton Society of Canada.

“I was smitten with Merton,” she says. “Reading Merton just opened up a whole new world for me

in terms of what it meant to have faith and to go deeper spiritually and to realize that Christianity or spirituality or whatever religion is all about becoming your authentic self. I began to embrace some spiritual practices that Merton talked about, meditation and retreats, contemplative time.

I finally decided maybe I could be a minister.”

But why did a Catholic Trappist monk turn Hardcastle into a United Church minister? Part of the explanation is that labels and boxes weren’t really Merton’s thing. He spent his early years in the south of France, where his American mother and New Zealander father were artists. They both died young, leaving Thomas to move from place to place with family members. His upbringing was not particularly religious, but he began exploring theological ideas intently. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, in Kentucky, he found a spiritual home and

converted to Catholicism.

“Well what happens when somebody converts?”

Hardcastle laughs. “He wanted to be a Catholic but it wasn’t enough to become Catholic, then he had to become a Catholic priest.

No that wouldn’t do it, he’d have to become a monk.”

But over time Merton — now known as Father Louis — would reject the strictures of Roman Catholicism. So much so that while his memory is maintained by groups like the Merton Society and even by the Anglican Church, Catholic catechism has largely been scrubbed of his name.

“He became Catholic in the small-c sense,” says Hardcastle, “embracing the world.”

Even early in his years at the monastery, he was exploring Hinduism, Buddhism and interfaith dialogue.

“He was deeply rooted in the Christian tradition but he realized that it’s the

universal embrace, that you don’t have to be Roman Catholic to encounter the divine,” she says.

Some of the things Merton did, wrote and believed may seem commonplace today. But that is partly because he broke the ground.

“He was one of the first to explore Islam, and Sufism in particular, and Judaism and east-west dialogue and yoga,” says Hardcastle. “He met the Dalai Lama and the Dalai Lama said that Thomas Merton knew more about Buddhism than any Christian he’d ever met.”

Merton delved into Native American spirituality before it was commonplace for mainstream theologians to do so. He was also involved in some very worldly issues, such as opposing the Vietnam War and nuclear proliferation, and advancing ecology as a political imperative. This did not sit well with many of his superiors and other

Catholics, who believed that a monk’s responsibility was to be more contemplative and less engaged with the issues of the day.

This might not have appealed to some Catholics, but it explains why Merton’s ideas drove Hardcastle to enter the ministry via the United Church, which is very much involved in issues of social and economic justice.

Merton died tragically. He had travelled to Thailand to participate in a conference of monks from Catholic and eastern traditions. It was hot and humid, so Merton took a shower to cool down.

Getting out of the tub, he somehow connected with a malfunctioning fan and was electrocuted, 27 years to the day after he joined the monastery. The monk who had vocally opposed the war in Vietnam was flown home to the United States on a flight alongside the bodies of American soldiers killed

in that conflict.

There is a bit of a Mertonmania going on right now, partly because it is the centenary of his birth.

A new film about the last year of Merton’s life will screen Dec. 10 at SFU Harbour Centre, followed by a panel discussion.

There is also a just-released book of essays on Merton

by Canadian writers and a pilgrimage to France to walk in Merton’s footsteps in June. Details at merton. ca. There is a Thomas Merton reading room at the Vancouver School of Theology on the UBC campus, which contains almost all his published works and many studies of his thoughts.

Merton left behind more than 50 books, his most noted being The Seven Storey Mountain, as well as 2,000 poems and many essays.

“Imagine what he would have produced had he lived,” says Hardcastle. @Pat604Johnson

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We are often told that the creation of affordable housing is dependent upon partnerships between the public, private and nonprofit sectors. When we think of the public sector, we usually think of the municipal, provincial and federal governments.

However, we overlook another level of government: regional government.

This month, Metro Vancouver is organizing affordable housing workshops to bring together regional housing and planning officials, along with healthcare, non-profit and private sector representatives.

Unfortunately, politicians are not invited, although Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs and Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart attended the first session.

The purpose of these workshops is to review proposals to update the Regional Affordable Housing Strategy that was first adopted by Metro Directors in 2007.

While the primary responsibility for affordable housing rests with municipalities, Metro Vancouver plays a number of roles.

These include delivering mixed-income housing in Vancouver and other municipalities through its Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation (MVHC), setting policy direction through its Regional Growth Strategy, undertaking housing research and organizing workshops, advocating to senior governments for new policies and resources and using fiscal measures such as waiver of its development cost charges for affordable rental housing.

While few of us are aware of Metro Vancouver’s past accomplishments when it

Metro Vancouver should be promoting laneway housing around the region for both rent and for sale, according to Michael Geller.

comes to affordable housing, the Regional Growth Strategy is an important blueprint for the future planning and development of the region. Metro has also prepared useful housing demand estimates

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and undertaken research on parking requirements in rental housing, amongst other things.

Metro housing officials have established a number of goals for the coming decade. They include expanding the supply and diversity of housing, especially near transit, preserving existing rental housing stock, meeting housing demand estimates for low and moderate income earners and ending homelessness throughout the region.

These are all lovely goals. Unfortunately, given Metro’s mandate, it does not have the authority to do as much as it should when it comes to affordable housing. It must rely on persuasion, rather than regulation. However, there are things it can do.

Using the results of its parking study, it should encourage municipalities to reduce excessive parking standards. As we increasingly use transit, car-share programs and our feet, today’s minimum parking requirements could become tomorrow’s maximum requirements, provided special consideration is given to visitor parking.

Metro should also help municipalities rationalize their myriad of zoning and building bylaws.

Why should there be so many different rules and regulations when it comes to determining building heights, density calculations, and unit sizes? They all add to costs.

For example, why does the City of North Vancouver insist that studio suites be a minimum of 440 square feet when other municipalities allow smaller, more affordable apartments?

Conversely, why are basement suites legal in North Vancouver duplexes, but not in Vancouver’s duplexes?

Recently, laneway housing has become a popular form of housing in some, but not all municipalities.

Metro could play a valuable role in persuading other municipalities to permit laneway homes by preparing a model zoning bylaw and best practices guide.

The same could hold true for other forms of housing such as freehold townhous-

es and stacked townhouses.

I know that many municipalities would welcome such resources.

Metro should also promote other forms of housing tenure. These could include life-lease ownership, which was used to create affordable housing for retired actors and performers at the Performing Arts Lodge at Bayshore.

Metro could educate us about shared-equity ownership, an excellent way to help young households buy their first home, which is common in the U.K. and other countries.

Metro could also promote co-housing, a cross between cooperative and condominium living. It has proven itself to be an attractive and affordable housing option for young families and seniors looking for community-focused housing choices, especially in Europe and the U.S. I will have more to write about co-housing in a future column. However, if you would like to learn more now, Kathy Sayers and James Chamberlain of oururbanvillage.ca are planning an information session for people interested in co-housing at the Creekside Community Centre in Olympic Village on Sunday, Nov. 29 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Further details are available on their website.

I will be there. Hopefully Metro officials and politicians will be there, too. @michaelgeller

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Eat less meat to curb climate change Peter Ladner

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As the world struggles to shift its focus on Paris from the tragedies of terrorism to the tragedies of climate change, there’s a climate change trigger lurking in most of our daily lives that will most likely stay in stealth mode at the COP21 talks in early December.

I’m thinking of meat — red meat in particular.

Meat’s well-documented connection to bowel cancer and heart disease got an injection of publicity last month with the release of the World Health Organization’s claim that processed meats “cause” cancer. The new study was assessed by a Cambridge risk professor in the Guardian as meaning that seven out of 100 people in the U.K. — up

disputed — and complicated.

A recent Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) report pegged it at 14.5 per cent. Others say 20 per cent. The infamous Cowspiracy documentary erroneously said it was 51 per cent. Whatever the correct number is, the National Geographic concluded that “if meat were dropped from diets globally, the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions would almost equal total U.S. annual emissions.”

“The bottom line is it’s a lot,” said Eleanor Boyle, the Vancouver-based author of High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat. “You simply can’t talk about food production and climate change without talking about meat production and consumption.”

Even just looking at energy,

the world’s population that couldn’t afford meat gets rich enough to eat it.

Climate change isn’t the only reason meat should be coming off the menu — at least as a daily main course.

Raising animals for food is a driving force behind deforestation, soil erosion, water pollution, biodiversity loss, marine dead zones, the spread of disease

and fresh water scarcity.

Author John Robbins estimates that you could save more water by not eating a pound of beef than by not showering for six months.

And feeding 70 per cent of our grains to livestock that deliver only about 10 per cent of the calories that would be available if we were to eat those grains directly is a hugely inefficient way to

feed people. It’s like heating your home and leaving all the doors and windows open.

While we wait for our leaders to work through climate change challenges in Paris, the biggest single act we could take as individuals would not be abandoning our cars, but eating less meat.

It’s been said that a vegetarian driving a Hummer has a lower ecological footprint

than a cyclist who eats meat.

Heavy meat eating is as dangerous for our species’ future as heavy oil consumption. But it’s vastly more politically charged.

Peter Ladner is a co-founder of Business in Vancouver. He is a former Vancouver city councillor and former fellow at the SFU Centre for Dialogue. He is the author of The Urban Food Revolution.

Heavy meat eating is as dangerous for our species’ future as heavy oil consumption. But it’s vastly more politically charged. from six out of 100 today — would get bowel cancer if they ate an extra 50 grams of bacon a day.

An online commenter probably summed up the popular response: “Rather a shorter, happier life with bacon than a longer, more miserable one without!”

OK, shrug that one off, but when it comes to climate change, there’s a lot less wiggle room. Meat production, especially red meat production, is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

The exact percentage of human-caused GHGs coming from meat is widely

it takes the equivalent of a gallon of gasoline to produce a pound of grain-fed beef in the U.S. And livestock production emits not just carbon dioxide but about five times more nitrous oxide and methane, the latter being some 23 times more potent for global warming than CO2. Cows are far worse than pigs and poultry. Those gases come from deforestation, fossil fuel inputs for feed, soil tilling, transportation and, yes, belching and farting.

While those numbers hang ominously in the air, the world’s per capita meat consumption keeps going up, as the three-quarters of

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Future site for Granville Island Brewing production unclear Glen Korstrom

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Two recent events make it unclear where Granville Island Brewing’s future beer production and bottling will take place.

Not only is the company’s main production facility going to move, its bottling

facility has also changed ownership, stirring up more potential instability.

The 31-year-old beer brand is largely perceived to be a small craft brewer because of its origins as a small-batch brewery based on Granville Island.

Steady growth, however, attracted Andrew Peller

Wines to buy the venture in 2005. Peller then flipped the company to one of the world’s largest brewers, Molson Coors in 2009.

Molson Coors had bought Ontario’s Creemore Springs Brewery several years earlier and chose that division to be Granville Island Brewing’s official parent.

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Molson announced last year that it planned to phase out making beer on the site and then, earlier this month, announced that it had sold the three-hectare site.

Molson plans to open a new brewery somewhere in B.C. in the next three to five years.

Molson does not bottle Granville Island Brewing’s beer at its Burrard Street brewery.

Granville Island Brewing, instead, bottles its beer on Annacis Island at the Turning Point Brewery, which the Mark Anthony Group sold Nov. 10 in a US$350 million mega-deal that also included it selling its Palm Bay pre-mixed drink brand and the Mike’s Hard Lemonade brand in Canada to Anheuser-Busch InBevowned Labatt Breweries of Canada.

With Turning Point Brewery now the property of the world’s largest brewer, it is an open question how long the company will bottle beer for smaller competitors.

No one from Granville Island was available to comment on this story.

Instead, a company

representative emailed a statement to say “there are no changes planned at this point.”

Turning Point Brewing spokeswoman Briar Wells said in an email that it will be “business as usual.”

Granville Island Brewing generated $22,831,746 in revenue in 2014, according to the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch (BCLDB).

The company ranked, by revenue, as the fifth largest seller of beer within B.C. that year.

Bigger beer sellers in B.C. include the top-ranked Molson Coors Canada Vancouver Brewery, Labatt Breweries of Canada (No. 2), Okanagan Spring Brewery (No. 3) and Pacific Western Brewing Co. (No. 4).

Each of those top five beer sellers saw revenue from B.C. sales fall in 2014.

Granville Island Brewing’s 3.25 per cent sales decline in 2014 was the smallest percentage decline among the top five brewers.

Independently owned Phillips Brewing, which ranked as the No. 6 seller of beer in B.C., oversaw an 18.47 per cent revenue increase to $17,209,987 in 2014. @GlenKorstrom

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Almost two-thirds of families in this province — 65 per cent — say the cost of home ownership has had an impact on their ability to start or expand their families, according to the results of a RateSupermarket.ca poll.

The majority of families across Canada feel the same way, but the national average is nine percentage points lower at 56 per cent.

“While it’s no surprise

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“Rising home prices, especially in Canada’s urban centres, are making it tougher for millennials to follow their family dreams.”

Perhaps rightfully, almost three quarters of all B.C. families feel family life is harder here than in other parts of Canada, and 59 per cent say they could not start or expand their families in their current homes.

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The Urban Development Institute (UDI) planned to send out information to its members last week about how they might be able to help house some of the 2,500 Syrian refugees expected to arrive in British Columbia over the next few months.

“After we did our press conference on Nov. 10 that was covered extensively by the media, [Gillespie] phoned me on Friday Nov. 13,” said Chris Friesen, director of settlement services at the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. “He put on the table the offer of providing us, on his dime, 12 apartments up until the end of March and perhaps even later as a temporary reception facility for Syrians as they come into Vancouver.”

It’s Friesen’s understanding that Westbank plans to redevelop the building in the near future and it is currently mostly empty as the company waits for permits from the city to come through. Its location in Vancouver’s West End is ideal because of the proximity to

refugees, they come into this country with no family connection, no social or professional network.”

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For many of these refugees, they come into this country with no family connection, no social or professional network.

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ISS’s existing settlement location at Drake and Seymour, Friesen said.

Westbank has not yet responded to an interview request from Business in Vancouver.

Gillespie told Friesen he is also keen to work on offering employment opportunities for refugees.

“He understands that refugees new to this country want to contribute,” Friesen said.

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She said UDI has had some informal conversations with developers who might have that type of property available.

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City clears block of vendors, homeless people

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Up until a week ago Monday, the north sidewalk of East Hastings Street that runs between Columbia and Carrall was a bustling centre for street vendors, drug dealers and a resting spot for homeless people.

By Wednesday, that scene was gone.

Citing increased health and safety concerns along a strip that has been tolerated by city officials and police for years, the City of Vancouver moved in Nov. 16 to direct vendors to sanctioned selling sites and help the homeless find shelter.

By all accounts, including that of the Pivot Legal Society, the move was done without any force, ticketing or arrests, although not everybody was happy to leave the street.

“They’re not going about it the right way,” said Colton Devison, a formerly homeless man who has sold miscellaneous merchandise on the strip for three years.

“They’ll keep gentrifying and they’ll keep pushing us and they’ll think they’ll solve the problem by cleaning up the area.”

Devison and friend Chris Janelle, another vendor, spoke to the Courier at a city-sanctioned vending site at 62 East Hastings, an open lot across the street from the strip.

It’s one of three the city set

up in an effort to bring some control to vending in the Downtown Eastside. The two other sites are at Pigeon Park and 501 Powell St., although they are only open on weekends and the Pigeon Park site will cease operation at the end of the year.

Devison and Janelle, who reluctantly took refuge at what’s known as Area 62, were attempting to sell VHS videos, DVDs, leather bags and other stuff they either bought from others or found in alleys and dumpsters.

Business was “horrible,” they said, noting their vending spots were in the back of a tent, away from the sidewalk. The sanctioned site is also cramped, with a maximum of about 40 spots compared to the strip where up to 100 vendors could sell their wares.

“We legitimately rely on this block to support ourselves,” said Devison, who collects welfare and has a drug habit. On the strip, on a good day, he said, he could make up to $300.

Added Janelle: “I have no choice but to stay here.

This is the only thing I can be down here, unless I want to go be a criminal and sell dope and sh**.”

Street displacement

Lawyer Douglas King of Pivot Legal Society was on East Hastings Wednesday (Nov. 18) and said the city’s move displaced at least a dozen homeless people who

lived on the strip. Some of the homeless told him they found the strip safer than alleys and other spots around the city because they had friends on the street.

“You’re taking a mass of people who organized there, had an economic centre with a client base and you’re dispersing them,” said King, standing outside the Area 62 site. “It was a place where people met socially and a place where people would sleep. We don’t really know where they are now.”

The increased police presence on the street, he said, has not only displaced homeless people but intimidated other residents who used to meet on the strip.

“There should be a clear message sent that people who are homeless can still sleep on the block and people can still congregate on the block, even if they’re not allowed to vend on the block,” King said.

According to plan

Vision Vancouver Coun.

Andrea Reimer said the decision to clear the block is part of a plan that goes back more than four years ago when the city set up the Pigeon Park vending market on weekends.

Reimer said council has long recognized that vending, for many people, fills a financial gap caused by inadequate social assistance rates.

That said, according to Reimer, the goal has always

been to provide a safe environment for vendors.

Spikes in crime along the strip, including two recent stabbings along with human waste littering the sidewalk, led to this week’s action.

“It was not intended to be a sweep and I don’t feel it had the characteristics of a sweep, which would imply the police come in and actively move people out,” she said, noting the city’s outreach staff felt more comfortable with police nearby. “It’s a tough issue because you certainly don’t want anyone to feel like they’re being coerced into moving to a new location through having police presence. But at the same time, I can’t really reasonably ask staff to go to work knowing there had been a recent stabbing and quite a spike in violent assaults.”

Reimer denied accusations from poverty advocates that the city’s action was done at the request of developers building social and market housing in the area.

“The two are not connected in the city’s mind,” she said.

In the Balance

Pivot Legal Society obtained emails via the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act between the city and developer Living Balance, which recently completed renovations of the former

B.C. Collateral and Loans buildings on the strip at 71-77 East Hastings. It includes 19 rental apartments.

In an email sent Feb. 2, 2015 from Geoffrey Howes of Living Balance to then-general manager of community services Brenda Prosken, Howes said police were called 12 times in two weeks so the owners could gain entry to the buildings.

“The street activity and the lack of enforcement have started to make the situation untenable in front of 71 East Hastings Street,” Howes wrote on behalf of owner Steven Lippman, who also owns single-room occupancy hotels in the Downtown Eastside. “Add to the fact we were broken into on Saturday night by some thieves that did $4,000 worth of damage for the sake of $10 worth of copper.”

Council gave Lippman the green light in April 2013 to go ahead with the renovation of the buildings, saying the project was consistent with city policy to maintain and upgrade housing in the neighbourhood.

In an interview, Lippman said he was glad the city cleaned up the strip outside the building, which he sold recently after completing a $4-million renovation.

“Finally, city hall said this has got to stop, which is a good thing,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like that anywhere. It was basically a free-for-all. It was like a

casbah of stolen goods and drug dealing.”

He dismissed accusations from housing advocates that he was gentrifying the neighbourhood. Lippman noted nobody lived in the building’s upper floors for more than 40 years. Now, he said, all 19 units have been rented, including five subsidized for seniors. A design studio has rented the commercial space.

Filling the gap

Pivot’s concerns about homeless people being displaced from the strip were responded to by the city in a news release issued as the Courier wrapped up its interview with Reimer. The city said six people from the strip were housed since Nov. 15. An additional 70 shelter spaces opened last week and 100 more beds will be available in December as part of the city’s winter shelter strategy, the release said.

“The overarching issue here is that we have inadequate and stagnant — I mean they haven’t moved in quite a while — social assistance rates,” Reimer said. “And we have a lack of housing and the housing that is available is much more than the [$375 per month] shelter rate.

So there is a giant gap in people’s ability to secure basic needs and that’s what drives the street vending.” @Howellings

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Heavy lifting sports take off Megan Stewart

straighten up completely. His father prompted, “Come on!” But he halted, eyes looking dead ahead as he strained. Before toppling, two spotters reached for either ends of the bar.

The younger Cartwright rolled his eyes as he talked about the predominant aversion to lifting very heavy weights at mainstream gyms, both private and public.

The restriction he hears all the time is, “Don’t drop the weights.”

Chalk keeps sweaty palms dry but is often prohibited because of the dusty, inadvertently territorial prints it leaves behind.

“I go as little as possible, just when everything else is closed,” he said. One of the worst he’s seen in this region had free weights on a pool deck, making the bars rusty and damp.

“I’ve seen people hurt themselves because of the bar slipping,” he said. “It’s a dangerous sport if you don’t do it properly. It’s funny because it’s one of the safest if you do it properly.”

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Halfway through the last century, a Vancouver weightlifter with a severe squint, uneven legs and a clubfoot was the strongest man in the world.

Doug Hepburn was the only known man on earth who could bench press 400 pounds. By 1953 when he was named Canada’s male athlete of the year, he could bench press 500 pounds, a mark that wasn’t broken for six years until an Italian-born WWE wrestler tipped the scales by another 15 pounds.

Hepburn was known for his eponymous training strategy of adding incremental weights to daily workouts. Progress from the Hepburn Method was painstakingly slow but undeniably effective. In the heavyweight class (he weighed in at 275 pounds), Hepburn won gold at the 1953 world championships and 1954 Empire Games, the pre-curser to today’s Commonwealth Games.

In front of a home crowd at the PNE’s Exhibition Gardens, the 30-year-old strongman gracefully raised 370 pounds overhead in a clean-and-jerk seen in present-day Olympic weightlifting.

The grandfather of modern-day powerlifting isn’t widely remembered today, but the sport he championed continues to push the limits of human capacity while fighting for mainstream recognition, equipment and space.

CrossFit cross over

Hepburn’s sport is experiencing a revival. In B.C., provincial Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting organizations are growing, and women make up a quarter of the 300-member B.C. Powerlifting Association.

Next week at the Commonwealth Championships in Richmond, about 460 athletes will gather for the largest powerlifting competition ever held in Canada.

“We had about 700 members four years ago and now we’re almost at 2,300,” said Mike Armstrong, the acting president of the Canadian Powerlifting Union, which will host the Commonwealth Championships Dec. 1 to 6.

(Powerlifting is built around three lifts: the bench press, squat and deadlift. Unlike the more dynamic and technical lifts of Olympic weightlifting, powerlifters can move more weight.)

One reason for the popularity surge in both sports is CrossFit, which has its own world competitions and builds workouts around classic lifts such as the snatch and the clean-and-jerk. But not everyone can master the technicalities.

“I see the videos online and I see the terrible form they use in many examples, but personally I have nothing against the concept.

It promotes good general fitness and competition, and there is nothing wrong with that,” said

Woman and the bar

Weightlifting coach Mike Cartwright trains with Jenna Lee at Tactix Gym. Five weeks ago, she started with light plastic plates and now lifts 23 kilograms in a snatch lift. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

Armstrong. “They find out there is a sport dedicated to that kind of lifting, and they try it out. We’ve picked up a lot of members because of that.”

Mike Cartwright, a 17-time British national gold medallist and two-time world masters champion who has held five world masters records, sees what Armstrong does.

“CrossFit is the culture of the day at the moment. When they want to get good or better, they come to me,” said Cartwright, who created the Capilano Weightlifting Club when he moved to the North Shore in 2008. “The numbers have increased three- and four-fold over the past five years.”

Armstrong said powerlifting is simple: “It should be the man and the bar.”

Don’t drop the weights

At Tactix Gym recently, Cartwright rumbled off instructions as novice lifters settled into techniques and others strove to reach new personal bests. “Sit down, sit down,” he purred. “Legs, legs, legs, legs, legs!”

Tactix is one of the few places in Vancouver that allows — and welcomes — the racket associated with weightlifting. Rubberized flooring means bars and plates can safely hit the ground, which they

do with a mighty clang.

In contrast, the park board has removed from public fitness centres all specialized Olympic weightlifting flooring, as well as bench presses because they are suited for only one exercise. In their place are resistance bands, balance boards and, at the Mount Pleasant community centre, new cardio machines and the Synergy 360, which emphasizes bodyweight training. After the more niche weightlifting equipment was removed from Creekside community centre, attendance increased.

This is the kind of feedback Jim Bovart would expect. The sport physician, Whitecaps team doctor and board member with SportMed B.C. said fitness trends are inevitable but it’s the evolution of sport science that can’t be overlooked.

“If you’re not a professional or Olympian or doing a real power sport, you don’t need to be lifting heavy weights,” said Bovart, adding he was sympathetic to the powerlifters who were chased out of their public gyms when the bench presses were removed.

“You are forcing them to change and how are you going to support them? I would say the key point is they should work with those people who feel they

are being disenfranchised.”

For their needs and goals, the powerlifters using public gyms had a good thing going, said Bovart.

“How do you argue with success?

Just because trends go in a different direction does not mean what they are doing is wrong. But from a collective, public point of view, something may have to give as you’re replacing equipment. Maybe the good news is [the park board] will give them all the equipment so they can keep using it.”

Back at Tactix, a former Canadian junior weightlifter and aspiring senior team member sets up a metal rack and loaded a bar with 350 pounds. Cartwright’s son, Jacob, 20, is five kilograms shy of lifting the national team benchmark, which he must do in competition. Wanting to isolate one precise moment of the cleanand-jerk, he is focused on building strength in his front squat, just one posture that makes up the explosive lift.

“When you catch the bar in a clean, you have to be strong in the position to catch a moving weight,” he said. “I was trying to get a squat at 350 pounds. I made 345.”

Trying for the heavier weight, he inched the loaded bar off the rack and dropped into a squat. He slowly drove upwards but couldn’t

Strength is increasingly being studied as an indication of physical health, mental acuity and life expectancy. Last month, Gerontology medical journal published a study that linked sturdy legs to brain power in old age. Numerous studies show how physical activity aids memory and, as the journal Bone reported in October, strong bones are built from weight-bearing exercise and such strength can help prevent osteoporosis in men and women.

Along with weight training, walking, jumping and running are other forms of weight-bearing exercise. (Cycling is not.) Few of them combine the technical precision, coordination, full-body explosive power and personal ambition that drew kinesiologist Silvia Hua to Olympic weightlifting. The 27-year-old lifts weights to stay strong at work, and in April she expanded her routine at Kensington community centre and joined an Olympic weightlifting class at Tactix Gym, taught by Mike Cartwright. Since then, she has competed twice.

“I was kind of getting bored because it was the same things, and the reason why weightlifting is interesting is there is so much technique,” she said.

At one meet, Hua was the only woman in the 48-kilogram category. At a recent training session, she was one of four women, equal to the number of men.

It’s inspiring to watch others progress because the greatest fight is always against yourself and your own progress, said Hua. “People are very supportive. You’re mostly competing with yourself to hit your personal records but you want the others to succeed as well.” @MHStewart

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North Shore ski hills dreaming of a white winter Cypress, Grouse open early for skiers, Seymour waits

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After a few runs on the fresh snow on Cypress Mountain Friday morning, snowboarder Mark Halliday declared: “Opening run [today was] better than any day last year.”

Halliday, who’s had a pass at Cypress for the past two decades, and other local skiers and snowboarders were all smiles on Friday as Cypress and Grouse mountains opened up under sunny skies and memories of last year’s paltry snow conditions quickly melted away.

“I never stopped believing,” said Halliday, about snow conditions at local ski hill operations.

The veteran snowboarder described conditions on Friday’s ski runs as, “Well-manicured, great grooming. It’s epic.”

Matthew Taylor of North Vancouver was also enjoying the fresh snow at Cypress on Friday. “First day of the season,” he said, grinning. “[The local snow conditions were] dreadful last year,” said Taylor, a pass holder who only got in about a dozen days last winter. He’s planning for many more ski days this season including a trip up Grouse Mountain. “So my wife and I can go for a few turns.”

Cypress reported Friday the ski hill had already accumulated more snow at

its base area — around 45 centimetres — than at any point last season.

While skiing opened around the same date last year, the snow on the hill then was mostly manmade. “[Last year] it was a challenging season for sure. We relied heavily on snow-making to get some days… the natural snow never came,” said Joffrey Koeman, spokesman for Cypress Mountain. This year snow has come mostly courtesy of Mother Nature so far. “It’s definitely a different feeling for opening day,” said Koeman.

Just in case the weather doesn’t co-operate all season, both Cypress and Grouse have invested $500,000 each in additional snow-making equipment this year.

That’s dramatically increased Grouse’s ability to make snow, said Julia Grant, spokeswoman for Grouse Mountain. As temperatures have dipped over the past week, those snow guns have been firing.

Skiers and snowboarders also got their first taste of winter on Grouse Mountain Friday afternoon, as the ski hill opened its Paradise Bowl and Paradise Jib runs off the Greenway Chair. “[Since Nov. 1], we’ve had a couple of good snowfalls,” said Grant. Snow depth on Grouse was about 35 centimetres at the midmountain plateau and 43 cm at the peak on opening

day. “We’ve got some nice fresh corduroy. We’re pretty optimistic for this winter.”

Seymour Mountain, which doesn’t have snow-making equipment, opening its tobogganing area last weekend, but hasn’t opened any ski or snowboarding areas yet.

“We’re getting close. We’re not quite there yet,” said Simon Whitehead, spokesman for the ski hill.

Whitehead said there has been about 57 cm of snowfall so far and there’s more snow forecast this week – welcome news for all three local mountains. Seymour prefers to have about a onemetre base on the ski runs off the main chair lift before opening, said Whitehead.

“Last season we opened on a lot less.”

Understandably, the last ski season is one that local mountains aren’t keen to dwell on. A washout year with little snowfall left ski hills struggling, with Cypress and Seymour conceding to Mother Nature and closing before the end of March.

This year, a strong El Nino weather pattern shaping up in the Pacific could still present challenges. But that may not happen right away, said Doug Lundquist, an Environment Canada meteorologist.

“We think it will be a warmer winter but El Nino often comes with an early outbreak of cold air,” said Lundquist. “Warmer

weather comes in the last two-thirds of winter. It can be cold at the beginning.”

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The ‘ditch’ that helped open the American West Mitchell Smyth

Meridian Writers’ Group

ROME, New York— This is where the conquest of the American West began, where the seeds of its “Manifest Destiny,” to forge a country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, were sown.

And all that’s here to record this pivotal moment in history is a wooden marker alongside the dry bed of a ditch, overgrown with small bushes.

The ditch is no more than six metres wide today and about a metre deep.

If it wasn’t for the marker, you’d walk right past without noticing it. But once upon a time — July 4, 1817 to be exact — a shovel went into the ground in this meadow, marking the start of the greatest engineering feat of the day.

Eight years later, the

visitors that it wasn’t all westbound traffic. With the opening of the canal, grain and other commodities from the Midwest could be shipped through the Great Lakes to Buffalo and on to New York, and then to Europe. New York became a major port, thanks in large part to the Erie Canal.

The wooden marker, “Clinton’s Ditch,” beside the old canal here recalls that the driving force behind the enterprise was DeWitt Clinton, who made the canal his platform in his run for state governor in 1816. When he won he set aside $7 million in state funds for the project.

Cynics called it “Clinton’s Folly,” but the canal paid for itself, through tolls, within 10 years.

A stroll through the “village,” past a blacksmith’s shop, a livery stable, a

By the turn of the 20th century, railways had overtaken canal traffic, but the Erie Canal lives on today as a pleasure boating retreat.

Erie Canal, a 580-kilometre waterway — then the longest canal in the world — was completed.

It would change the face of America.

That meadow is at the centre of Erie Canal Village, a restored pioneer community composed of buildings moved from other places on the canal and set up like a canal town of the 1840s.

A video in the visitor centre tells how, when the canal opened for business in 1825, people could sail up the Hudson River from New York to just north of Albany, then transfer to mule-towed packet boats or barges and go all the way to Buffalo, on Lake Erie.

The journey from New York to Buffalo, which had taken a month on horseback, could now be done in a week.

By the 1830s, 1,000 immigrants a day were passing through Buffalo, transferring to sailboats to take them through the Great Lakes and into the wilds beyond.

Wallboards and maps in the museum remind

tavern, school and church, gives an idea of the towns that sprang up along the canal in the 1800s. A huge shed houses sleighs, buggies and carriages. Docents in period dress tell their parts of the story.

The original ditch where the marker stands was in use until the 1830s, when a wider and deeper bypass was constructed — by mostly Irish-immigrant labour, working for 37 cents a day — with muscle power and very little mechanical help.

By the turn of the 20th century, railways had overtaken canal traffic, but the Erie Canal lives on today as a pleasure boating retreat.

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For more information, visit the Erie Canal Village website at eriecanalvillage.net.

For information on travel in New York state, go to the New York State Division of Tourism website at iloveny.com.

The 580-kilometre Erie Canal helped open the American West in the early 1800s. The Erie Canal Village, in Rome, New York, recreates one of the towns that sprang up along it. Costumed guides tell the canal’s story. PHOTO MITCHELL SMYTH/MERIDIAN WRITERS’ GROUP

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In the new year, both Pridy and Jasinski hope to see Beastie as a party favourite, exploring the possibility of private shopping nights onlocation.

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SERVING IT RIGHT: The Canadian Liver Foundation’s Live Right Gala at the Pan Pacific Hotel aimed to raise funds to help children with liver disease live a longer life. It’s held nationally, with similar benefits in Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa. Yours truly, along with City Television’s Jody Vance, welcomed a capacity crowd of 300 guests into the Pan Pacific Hotel’s iconic Crystal Ballroom for Vancouver’s 12th instalment, presented by Scotiabank. Fronted by Monica Chui and Dr. Francis Ho, the charity dinner also honoured the contributions of health advocate and liver patient Natalie Williams, surgical liver transplant expert Dr. Charles Scudamore and community leaders Sunny and Florence Leong.

The couple got the fundraising effort started, presenting a $150,000 cheque to organizers.

Others followed suit and before evening’s end, the charity dinner served up a record-breaking $345,000 for life-saving research.

DAY OF GIVING: National Philanthropy Day is a special day set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy, and those people active in the philanthropic community, have made to our lives, our communities and our world.

The Vancouver chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals hosted its 18th edition at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

Nearly 1,000 people attended the afternoon luncheon and awards ceremony, hosted by Dawn Chubai and AFP president Jennifer Johnstone. Seven individuals and businesses, noted for significant contributions to the community through philanthropy, were acknowledged with the prestigious Giving Hearts Award. Among the winners: Zeke Blumenkrans (youth philanthropist), Ming Gin and Devi Sangara (volunteer fundraiser), Patsy and Hilary Hui and Ryan and Cindy Beedie (outstanding philanthropists).

HOLIDAY SPARKLER: Since 1998, Vancouverites have improved the lives of patients at St. Paul’s by giving to the Lights of Hope campaign. The iconic Burrard Street display hosts hundreds of sponsored stars and more than 10 kilometres of twinkling lights — some 100,000 bulbs — built entirely by volunteers using donated materials. More than 3,000 supporters made the scene for the 18th instalment and $3-million fundraising effort. St. Paul’s staff and volunteers collectively pledged $400,000 and challenged the community to raise the same. Proceeds from the Lights of Hope campaign will raise much-needed funds for enhanced patient care, urgently needed equipment and world-leading research and teaching initiatives. Among this year’s major donors: Scotiabank, BCIT, Stantec, Global TV, Canada Scaffold and Stuart Olson.

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Live Right gala organizers Dr. Francis Ho and Monica Chui were all smiles following a record breaking $345,000 generated to help children with liver disease live a longer life.

Philanthropists Sunny and Florence Leong got the Live Right Gala party started by donating $150,000 to the Canadian Liver Foundation.

Alex Chen set the gold standard at the 10th Gold Medal Plates. The executive chef at Boulevard Kitchen will represent B.C. at the Canadian Championships. Forage’s Chris Whittaker won silver, while YEW’s Ned Bell took bronze. The cook-off is a benefit for the Canadian Olympic Foundation.

Spence Diamonds’ Johanna Cocking modeled the firm’s limited edition promise ring at a seasonal soiree. The Vancouver-founded business reports engagements spike by some 38 per cent during the holiday period.

Donating hours of time, talent and treasure to Canuck Place Children’s Hospice and other charities, Zeke Blumenkrans received the Youth Philanthropist Giving Hearts Award from Telus’s Katie Griffiths.

CEO Dick Vollet and board member Stuart Louie officially kicked off the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation’s $3-million Lights of Hope campaign.

More than 3,000 supporters made the scene for the annual holiday tradition and fundraiser.

Tania Vrionis, MS Society of Canada BC Yukon division president, right, feted lawyer Cynthia Millar, a legal advocate of people living with MS, at the Women Against Multiple Sclerosis luncheon.

MS Society fundraiser Rowena Veylan and Multiple Sclerosis researcher Dr. Jacqueline Quandt welcomed a powerful network of women to the inaugural Women Against Multiple Sclerosis fundraiser held at the Terminal City Club.

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Health

What you need to know about diabetes Davidicus Wong

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November is Diabetes Awareness Month. So raise your awareness of this common condition by correcting these five common myths.

People with Type I diabetes have to monitor their blood sugars regularly throughout the day to keep their glucose levels in a safe range.

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There’s a good chance that you — or someone that you care about — will develop diabetes. That’s why we all need to know more about it.

Myth #2:

Diabetes is all about sugar.

Diabetes is a problem with metabolism — how your body converts food into energy. Because glucose is a source of energy for every cell in the body, diabetes has potential effects on multiple organ systems, including the nervous and circulatory systems.

Poorly controlled diabetes is a major cause of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, amputations and blindness. A person who has had diabetes for several years is considered by physicians to have the same risk of a heart attack as someone who has established vascular disease.

Poorly controlled diabetes is a common cause of erectile dysfunction. More bad news: Viagra doesn’t work as well for people with diabetes.

Myth #3:

Diabetes is caused by being overweight or eating too much sugar.

There are two types of diabetes. Type I is insulindependent. For some reason, usually related to the immune system, the pancreas no longer produces sufficient insulin.

Therefore, Type I diabetes requires insulin injections or infusions.

Ninety per cent of diabetes is Type II or insulin-resistant. This is commonly a hereditary condition. You might inherit a tendency for diabetes from your mother or father. As you grow older or gain weight, your cells may become more resistant to the effects of your body’s own insulin. You become glucose intolerant, and carbohydrates, such as rice, pasta and potatoes, cause a greater rise in your blood sugars than they normally should.

Not everyone who is overweight or drinks a lot of pop will develop diabetes, but if you have the genes for Type II diabetes, gaining weight, getting older and consuming excessive sugar will allow diabetes to manifest.

Myth #4:

All diabetics have to take insulin and check their blood sugars many times each day.

People with Type I diabetes — because they do not produce enough natural insulin — are dependent on insulin injections or infusions. They have to monitor their blood sugars regularly throughout the day to keep their glucose levels in a safe range.

Most people with Type II diabetes do not require insulin with the onset of their condition so they usually do not have the same need for multiple daily glucose testing.

There are a variety of oral medications to control Type II diabetes. Two essentials are regular exercise and smaller, more frequent meals with low glycemic index foods (carbohydrates that do not cause a sharp rise in blood sugars).

If blood sugars continue to rise, insulin may be needed.

Myth #5:

Everyone with diabetes will get complications.

With the careful management of diabetes, most of the complications of diabetes can be avoided.

This requires optimal self-management in which individuals are given the support and education they need to be effective managers of their own health.

In addition to blood sugars, we monitor and manage blood pressure, cholesterol levels, changes in the eyes and kidney function.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician and his Healthwise columns appear regularly in this paper. For more on achieving your positive potential in health, see his website at davidicuswong.wordpress.com. For more information about diabetes, talk to your family doctor or check the Canadian Diabetes Association’s website diabetes.ca.

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Nov. 26 to Dec. 2, 2015 1. Good grief! Coastal Jazz presents Tales of a Charlie Brown Christmas with the Jerry Granelli Trio and the Coastal Sound Children’s Choir Nov. 29 with two performances at the Vogue Theatre. Granelli is the only surviving member of the Vince Guaraldi Trio, which recorded the jazzy soundtrack to the famed holiday TV special featuring the Peanuts gang way back in 1965. For tickets and details, go to coastaljazz.ticketfly.com or call 1-888-732-1682.

2. Those whacky, hyper-creative kids at Theatre Replacement are back with their third annual East Van Panto at the York Theatre, Dec. 2 to Jan. 3. This time out, they wander off the beaten path of East Vancouver with Hansel and Gretel, complete with a gingerbread house, a butt-kicking brother and sister team, a cute little cannibal witch, plus Veda Hille, Allan Zinyk, Dawn Petten and Charlie Demers.

Tickets and details at thecultch.com.

3. Take a trip to Europe without the jet lag as the Cinematheque hosts the 18th annual European Union Film Festival, Nov. 27 to Dec. 9. Showcasing acclaimed new and recent films from across greater Europe, including Liza and the Fox Fairy from Hungary, this year’s festival features entries from all 28 of the EU member states including, wait for it, Malta. Details at thecinematheque.ca.

4. Puppet master Ronnie Burkett brings his acclaimed string-pulling production The Daisy Theatre back to the Cultch Dec. 1 to 20. Burkett manipulates more than 40 marionettes with no two performances alike. For tickets and details, go the thecultch.com.

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Six ways to get Adele out of your head

By all accounts, British singer Adele has had a fantastic week.

Her new album, 25, sold a reported 2.43 million copies in its first week, breaking a record previously held by *NSync way back in 2000.

A cloying viral video of her disguised as an Adele impersonator has been making the rounds on Facebook.

And recent appearances on The Tonight Show and SNL, which even had a skit about the uniting powers of her music, only confirms Adele’s ubiquity.

There is a dark side to Adele’s pervasiveness, however. And that is her new song “Hello,” which has been stuck in millions of people’s heads, including ours, for six to eight hours every single day since it first came out. Even just typing this has put the song back in our head, despite the fact we’ve been drinking fairly solidly for the past few days to numb our senses. But there is a way out, albeit a controversial one.

As far as we can tell, the

The theme from the A-Team

We weren’t even fans of this show as a kid, but we know its theme song better than our grandmother’s life story. We’ve even attended funerals and weddings when this song has infiltrated our brain waves — it’s that dangerous and undiscerning.

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only way to get Adele’s “Hello” out of your head is to replace it with another equally invasive tune. But these alternative songs are not to be taken lightly. While it might appear that we are advocating merely switching one debilitating ear worm for another, the key is to have an arsenal of songs at your disposal so you can exchange them at will when one gets

too annoying. Here are our suggestions. But, please, use them wisely.

Starship “We Built This City”

Honestly, it’s a terrible song. It’s the most un-rock ’n’ roll song about building a city on rock ’n’ roll out there, with equally terrible lyrics to boot. But we defy you to not get this stuck in your head:

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“Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don’t you remember, we built this city, we built this city on rock and roll.” Pure evil.

Reel 2 Real “I Like To Move It”

The fact that we can only remember the lyrics “I like to move it, move it, I like to move it, move it” only proves this song’s lethal purity.

Much like an STD given to you by Adam Levine, his band’s hit song “Moves Like Jagger” feels pleasurable at first but quickly proves irritating and in some cases can remain with you for life. And that whistle…

Gary Glitter “Rock and Roll Part 2”

What is worse, Gary Glitter’s multitude of sex offence convictions or having his song “Rock and Roll Part 2” stuck in your head?

His multitude of sex offence convictions, of course.

Don’t be insensitive. But the song is a close second.

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Daniel Radcliffe plays Igor to James McAvoy’s Dr. Frankenstein in the less-than-thrilling Victor Frankenstein.

It’s alive! But barely Julie Crawford

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Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster.

That much will be a revelation to some folks, and maybe for them this ill-conceived origin story, Victor Frankenstein, will satisfy.

Not so for anyone bred on classic horror, those who read Mary Shelley’s classic novel in school or just about anyone looking for a credible story with some sort of an emotional core.

There’s certainly a lot of story going on in Max Landis’ adaptation, to the screenplay’s detriment.

(Landis should know the genre, being the son of John Landis, director of Twilight Zone: the Movie and American Werewolf In London.)

When we first meet the as-yet-unnamed Igor (Daniel Radcliffe), he is a performing circus clown with a terrible hunch. Of course, we couldn’t let

Radcliffe run around with a hunched back AND that horrible hair, so Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy), who happens to be trolling the circus for spare body parts, fixes the clown’s deformity and saves a lovely acrobat (Jessica Brown Findlay, Downton Abbey) in the process, thereby securing Igor’s fidelity.

Reluctant fidelity, that is, as Radcliffe spends a great deal of his screen time playing the moral compass against Victor’s vision of cooking up a human being from his own special recipe. Also fretting over the morality of their endeavours is a Scotland Yard detective (Andrew Scott), who lectures the boys on the consequences of playing God while chasing them around a grey and dreary London in order to inject a false sense of energy and dramatic urgency into the plot.

“Chased by mon-

sters and hunted by the police!” complains Igor.

“Well, if you’re going to concentrate on the dark side…” whines Victor in response.

Ah yes, Victor. Speaking of that bloated story, we are also treated to a kind of psychoanalysis of Victor’s childhood trauma; we meet his disapproving dad (Charles Dance) and unearth his motivation to disprove God’s existence by creating life out of dead debris.

McAvoy is a fine actor, but his Victor is a spoiled, egocentric mess.

He and Radcliffe take turns vying for ‘Best Overacting in a Dramatic Role,’ particularly during the “It’s alive” moments when creature(s) jerk and writhe and the boys yell and duck-and-weave in and out of machinery.

There is plenty of superfluous goo in director Paul McGuigan’s film — and one or two

sudden scares. When the computer-generated “monster” does appear, he’s none too happy to be there. None of the poignancy that made Shelley’s monster, Boris Karloff or even Robert De Niro a sympathetic character.

And so this is no one’s film: not the monster’s, nor a cocky and unlikable Victor, and especially not Igor, who starts off being the potential narrator of the film and ends up being an ineffectual bystander. With no one at the heart of the story it’s difficult to stay interested for long.

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.” The timing is fitting, I suppose, for a new origin story of Shelley’s classic novel to come to the big-screen: but there all logic ends.

Victor Frankenstein plays at International Village.

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Arts & Entertainment THEATRE REVIEW

North Plan proves hilarious and disturbing Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

I can’t remember laughing so hard and being so unsettled at the same time — in equal measure.

In writing The North Plan, American actor/playwright Jason Wells was responding to his discovery of the Main Core, described in his words as, “a database system containing information on millions of American citizens marked for surveillance or detention. Evidence suggests that Main Core has been used often for unwarranted surveillance in the last decade or longer, suggesting that a ‘national emergency’ is even more nebulous than most of us would have supposed.”

Bill C-51, anyone?

In the North Plan, enemies of the state — indistinguishable from the politicians and bureaucrats they’re ousting — are simply taking over. There are no masks, no camouflage; they’re dressed in suits and ties and they speak as if they have authority. Also, they carry guns.

Confusion reigns. Nobody knows who’s in charge.

Anticipating the coup, Carlton Berg (Daniel Martin), a self-described “mid-level member of the State Department,” put the Main Core on a zip drive and has a reliable journalist friend in Houston who could blow the whistle on the whole takeover. Carlton, however, has been locked up and is about to be “disappeared.”

In the adjoining cell is Tanya Shepke (Genevieve Fleming) who has turned herself in to the local lockup for drunk driving.

Genevieve Fleming, Daniel Martin and Catherine Lough Haggquist star in Upintheair Theatre’s production of The North Plan.

She’s a foul-mouthed, motor-mouth gal who thinks by turning herself in, she deserves a reward for taking a drunk (herself) off the road.

Chelsea Haberlin (who also directed the awardwinning Killer Joe a few years ago) deftly directs for Upintheair Theatre in the basement of a newly renovated building in Chinatown. With clean concrete walls and floors and bright, bright lights, it feels like an interrogation room, which, in the play, it becomes. Haberlin is definitely an up-and-comer on the directorial scene.

These are terrific, energetic, fully committed performances: Allen Morrison (as Dale Pittman) and David Mott (Bob Lee) are a couple of “Two Stooges” types who phone someone higher up to ask, “Are we killing people now?” In other words, is it OK to shoot Carlton?

They’re so stupid, they’re dangerous.

Paul Herbert is steady, solid Sheriff Swenson — so real you think he or his clone may have caught you speeding on Interstate 5. Daniel Martin plays Carlton who just wants that zip drive to get into the right hands before millions of “artists, lawyers, gun owners” are rounded up and killed.

Catherine Lough Haggquist is Shonda, the long-suffering cop whose job it is to watch prisoners Carlton and Tanya. And it isn’t easy because Tanya never shuts up.

If there’s a limited arsenal of f-bombs on the planet, Tanya uses them all up in the space of a couple of hours. Beautiful Genevieve Fleming is Tanya in tight jeans and red boots. At the end of the play, Fleming/Tanya has everyone cheering and laughing and woo-hooing.

(Don’t tell Fleming what everyone knows: she’s too good for this town.)

Act 1 sets it all up. The

audience moves to another room for Act 2. The pace, already brisk, cranks up and turns into farce: Tanya evading Pittman while he’s on the phone; Shonda racing back and forth to the ladies room.

All this while Carlton is being tortured although thick-as-a-brick Pittman explains he’s not torturing Carlton, he’s just “getting information.”

Words of warning: obscene language and lots of it; violence and gunshots. And don’t park in the adjoining parkade; it closes at 10 p.m. and costs 40 bucks to get a very nice man to open the gate.

The North Plan is smart, hilarious and disturbing.

Mostly hilarious. Until you think about it.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

The North Plan runs until Nov. 29 at 211 East Georgia St. (at Main). For tickets, go to theatrewire.com.

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Your mellow, wise mood continues. So do opportunities to travel afar, gain admittance to higher learning, seek fame or media involvements, or to embrace a life philosophy or religion. Love hovers around you — someone is more attracted to you than you to them – but that can change. Relationships remain very vibrant, especially early and late in the week.

The general focus continues on daily business, calls and answers, paperwork, short trips, and casual friends/siblings. Your personal and sensual magnetism continues high, so you should gain lots of willing co-operation on your travels/errands, and could even meet a potential amour. Sunday’s for ambition, but not much will succeed, so you might as well sit back and relax. This eve through Tuesday brings social delights, entertainment, popularity, optimism and flirtation.

The general accent lies on sex, finances, mysteries, lifestyle changes, commitment and consequence, for a few weeks. Look under the rug; reject surface appearances. You might find something valuable in international or intellectual areas – e.g., a foreign stock to buy, a clever, lucrative import or export, or a book on how to excel in sales…etc. Your work place is “spicy” with romantic/lustful “vibes.”

Money and possessions continue to be the main theme. You might also be attracted sensually to someone, but romance is your Achilles heel, until December 4, so be patient, act wisely. (Anyone new you met now – Nov. 8 to Dec. 4 – and loved and later married, would eventually restrict and “suffocate” you.)

Sunday’s mellow and wise, but your thoughts/feelings about a creative, speculative or romantic situation are misguided. Just wait, enjoy a mellow, poetic day.

Relationships remain front and center. In November, your contacts will “offer” or accept deeper physical intimacy or larger financial commitments. But both these will move slowly, like molasses over ice. In December, your relations will be much bouncier, faster, more cheerful, and more exciting. In both months, be co-operative, diplomatic, or you could make an enemy rather than a friend.

Your energy and charisma remain elevated – and your popularity remains high, too. You might, in December, meet a good romantic prospect in a crowd or social circle, or a friend might offer to set you up. Sunday inclines you toward mysteries, investigation, sexual intimacy and/or financial commitments. However, none of these will come to anything, so enjoy a good murder mystery book or whatever.

The accent remains on chores and minor health issues. Eat and dress sensibly. In November, the important chores will probably be connected to your spouse, a business partner/associate, or an opportunity (not an exciting one, but a deep, stable one). Your home continues to be a mixture of sweet affection and burning tempers – with the right “stir,” you could cook up a spicy interlude or two.

Continue to lie low, Cap. Your energy and charisma remain at a low ebb. Be charitable. Re-connect to your spiritual side. Contemplate and plan. Deal with government, institutional and “large company” red tape. Realize bosses and authorities are a bit critical and temperamental through December: show your bright, pleasant side. Sunday is for relationships – stick with the tried and true, as new contacts made now will fade soon.

The emphasis remains on romance, creative and speculative urges, charming children, drama, selfexpression, beauty, games/sports and pleasure.

Your winning streak continues. In the past week, and this Sunday, the romantic accent might involve a co-worker. But your energy and presence are dimmed Sunday (which might tell you something about the coworker notion). From Monday onward, romance (et al) will be more open, free, and offer better prospects.

You might be pursued by someone with romance (even marriage) on their mind. Your ethical, legal, intellectual and idealistic side wafts down a lovely river of daydreams and profound thought.

A wish might come true before December ends.

Tackle chores Sunday – but only routine ones.

If your health’s a bit off, rest this day. Sunday night through Tuesday brings relationships – successful ones.

The accent remains on home, family, property, security, rest, retirement, nutrition, stomach and soul. This area was “sluggish” last week, and will remain so Sunday. (This period also establishes a connection between affection and home – e.g., romance with a neighbour, or a love affair steers slowly toward a live-in arrangement.) In December, your home will be more lively and cheerful. Sunday holds errands, short trips, calls and conversations – but don’t do anything important.

The general accent lies on your career, ambitions and status, and prestige relations. If you’ve been cutting a few corners legally, you might hear from the authorities now. But if you’ve been hard-working, the few weeks ahead could reward you with a promotion, business success, and/or praise from higher-ups.

This is a good time to seek employment, start a new job, or succeed in your present position, especially Sunday eve through Tuesday, when almost everything you touch (in work) turns to achievement!

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Nov. 29: Andrew McCarthy (53). Nov. 30: Ben Stiller (50). Dec. 1: Bette Midler (70).

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Left: Notre Dame receiver Steven Moretto (No. 6) tries to high-step past Vancouver College linebacker Athanasios Melliostackle (No. 31). Right: A Juggler linebacker wraps up the Fighting Irish ball-carrier.

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Scoring on a rush, a pass and a pick-six, the Vancouver College Fighting Irish are one win away from competing for their second AAA varsity championship since 2010.

The Irish shut out their crosstown rivals from Notre Dame to win their high school football quarter-final 27-0 at B.C. Place Nov. 21. Two weeks earlier, the teams met at

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The number of wins the UBC Thunderbirds football team had in 2014. This season, they lost two games and won nine, including the Hardy Cup as Western champs and the CIS semi final, the Uteck Bowl.

O’Hagan Field to play for the annual Archbishops’ Trophy, and the Jugglers put up 14 points in a threepoint loss to the Irish.

Last weekend, Vancouver College were solid at both ends of the field and came on strong by scoring three majors in the first quarter. Great defence, including five interceptions, and offensive smarts from quarterback Jacob Samuels gave B.C.’s No. 2 ranked team the edge.

Adding to his 52-rushing yards on the afternoon, running back Michael Le put VC on the board in the first quarter

with a three-yard run. The convert clanged wide, but the missed extra point didn’t factor down the stretch. To take a 13-point lead, Samuels found Rysen John from 15 yards out and before the end of the half, defensive lineman Jag Sandhu tipped a Notre Dame pass and not only hauled down the ball but also ran it in for an eightyard touchdown. The returned interception gave VC a 20-0 lead.

In the third quarter, the Irish scored twice but both plays were called back for holding penalties.

The Jugglers struggled

to get out of their end and the game was sealed on two back-to-back drives when Bobby Singh stopped the Jugglers in their tracks with two interceptions. He had three in the game.

Singh caught one errant pass right in his numbers when the intended receiver tripped on his route. On what looked like the same play call, this time from the 12 yard line, Singh again picked off Crescenzo Anthony’s pass right down the centre of the field and returned it for 30 yards to within three of the end zone. Javier Sanchez-Mejorada ran it in to add to

the Irish lead, and Kieran Mitha added one more for the 27-0 final.

The quarter-final was the 71st meeting between the two schools. The Irish lead the overall series 39-31-1.

Vancouver College last played for the Frank Gnup provincial championship title in 2012 when they lost to Mt. Douglas on their first of consecutive championships. The Irish won in 2010 after being on the losing end of five championship appearances in six years from 2001 to 2006. They were champs in 1994 after losing in 1993 to Notre Dame Jugglers.

: Vanier Cup runneth over

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In a Canadian first, the number of programs T-Birds’ bench boss Blake Nill has led to the national championship Vanier Cup: Saint Mary’s, Calgary and UBC. He holds a 2-5 CIS championship record as head coach.

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The number of years since the T-Birds competed for the Vanier Cup. They won in 1997 with quarterback Sean Olson, the player who became coach and who recruited much of the 2015 roster.

“I would never have expected this in a hundred years with this group…”

— Blake Nill, speaking after a 36-9 win in the Uteck Bowl in Antigonish, N.S. Nov. 21. He continued, “… a group that was 2-6 last year […] and it is not like we have had an easy road either. We had to win in Calgary, we had to win in Manitoba, win in Saskatchewan. We beat some good teams to get here.”

Since 1976, Vancouver College has played for 16 B.C. championships and won three.

Notre Dame won seven titles from 1977 and 1989, defeating the Irish in three of those years and again in 1993, the last time the Jugglers reached the final.

Vancouver College plays the New West Hyacks in the AAA varsity semi-final at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28 at B.C. Place. Undefeated this season, the Irish beat the Hyacks 49-21 on Oct. 17.

In the other semi final, Mt. Douglas plays Terry Fox at 2:30 p.m. @MHStewart

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At six-foot-two and 205 pounds, one of the toughest linebackers in Vancouver football history answered to the improbable nickname of “Mouse.”

“When I was a kid in Regina I was just a little guy, and they called me Mouse,” said Norm Fieldgate, who was 22 when he became the first player signed to the B.C. Lions.

“When I came to Vancouver to play football, nobody knew that. But soon a few of my buddies came out and they called me that again.”

Hunting his half-back prey off the line of scrimmage got Fieldgate named to the 1959, 1960 and 1963 Western All-Star teams and

to the CFL All-Star team in 1963. The next year, he won the Grey Cup with B.C., dropping Hamilton 34-24 in Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium by holding off a comeback from the TigerCats who had defeated the Lions a year earlier.

From the 1954 expansion season through two Grey Cup games until his final season of 1967, Fieldgate played 223 games in 14 years with B.C. The Lions retired his sweater, No. 75, soon after the player hung up his cleats.

Now 83 and living in North Vancouver with his wife, Doreen, Fieldgate said the Lions’ 1-15 record was so dismal their debut season, the team’s lone win called for champagne.

“We weren’t really a great team but we did manage to

win one game that year so we had quite a celebration,” he told the Courier, explaining that the whole team — minus head coach Annis Stukis — partied late into the night at a Vancouver hotel, even though most had regular jobs in the morning.

That first win, on Sept. 18, 1954 was a great milestone.

Two years earlier Fred Hume, Vancouver’s mayor from 1951 to 1958, had pushed for a permanent stadium for the upcoming British Empire Games, and a city plebiscite had approved spending $750,000 although it eventually cost twice that much. A city bandwagon of support even approved the bulldozing of Hastings Golf Course to make way for the new Empire Stadium at Hastings Park.

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As a rookie, Fieldgate signed a $2,000 contract Continued from page 52 After funding compromises left the stadium with fewer seats and only onethird of its stands covered, it was nonetheless finished in time for the Empire Games. It held 25,000 seats and room for 7,000 more standing spectators, giving the West a leading venue for Grey Cup games.

(Dominion championships were almost exclusively held in eastern venues such as Toronto’s Varsity Stadium, holding 27,500 fans.)

When Roger Bannister out-stepped John Landy in the last lap of the famous Miracle Mile at the Empire Games on Aug. 7, the Lions stood anxiously by waiting to practise for their first prer season game four days later.

Waiting with them was Stukis, who’d been pried from the Edmonton Eskimos. Stukis had shrewdly enticed NFL players who lived in Washington State to sign with B.C. and he offered them equal or better pay to that of the NFL. This triggered outrage and even legal threats from teams in Washington, New York and Philadelphia, especially when the Giants’ captain, Arnie Weinmeister, turned his back on the NFL to reportedly earn $25,000 to play tackle for B.C. Another renegade from

the NFL was fullback Byron Bailey, formerly of the Green Bay Packers, who became a B.C. hero.

Bailey scored the Lions’ first touchdown and 28 more in his 11-year career.

He led the Lions in rushing three times and made the Western Division’s all-star team in 1957.

But Fieldgate was the first player Stukis signed. A native of Regina who shuttled between Saskatchewan and Vancouver, Fieldgate had made every amateur team he had tried for — the Regina Rams (of the Canadian Junior Football League), UBC Varsity (in the U.S.-based Evergreen Conference), and the Vancouver Cubs (of the British Columbia Intermediate football League, set up as a farm league by the B.C. Lions).

As a rookie that year, he made $2,000 for the season, and the Lions helped him find a job at Burrard Dry Dock in North Vancouver.

He worked almost simultaneously, toughing it out on the port and the gridiron.

When his shift finished, he drove his new ’54 Pontiac across the original Second Narrows Bridge to Empire Stadium for football practice.

“It was a long day,” said Fieldgate.

Practices typically lasted an hour, and football tech-

nique differed a lot from today. Players filled many roles and they all practised offense and defense.

“You always had a backup for every position,” said the linebacker. “A lot of times I went in as the offensive end and caught a few passes.”

The running game ruled the CFL in those days.

When players converged at the line, the snap came instantly to prevent the defense from gleaning any of the offensive strategy.

The two teams would close together like Viking shield walls, and Fieldgate acted largely on instinct.

“Most of the plays, you had to chase the guy down,” he said. “If there was a pass behind you, you had to chase him and bring him down. But it was a team game, so there was never any individual that did anything all on his own.”

The Lions’ nine-year rise to back-to-back Grey Cup finals in 1963 and 1964

hinged on players sticking around, said Fieldgate.

“Finally the Lions were able to get enough players that were with the team long enough for cohesion.

By Bailey stayed. Joe Kapp stayed. Willie Fleming stayed. Because individuals weren’t much good to you unless you had them working together.”

As for the long decline after the Lions’ victory in 1964, Fieldgate said, “It’s a fine line between winning and losing in most cases.

Sometimes we’d get the hell beat out of us. But other times the games were fairly close. A touchdown here, a knocked-down pass there. It was very competitive.”

Today’s Lions can relate to that.

Fieldgate finished his career with 62 turnovers, 37 interceptions, two of them returned for touchdowns and 25 fumble recoveries. (No stats were kept for tackles or sacks.) He hung up his cleats after the 1967 season at the age of 36.

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today’sdrive 20 Ford 15 Explorer Your journey starts here.

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In the three-row SUV market, the Ford Explorer has long been a major player and has proven itself to be a reliable partner.

While the Explorer is no longer the rugged off-roader it once was, it competes effectively with other popular SUVs with a tough design and great features. Its rivals include the Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and Dodge Durango.

For 2015, changes to the Explorer are minor.

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Like most vehicles in this category, the Ford Explorer puts an emphasis on on-road refinement versus off-road toughness.

It now uses a car-like chassis and offers premium features such as voice-activated navigation and upscale options like a rear-seat entertainment package. This is all to meet the ever increasing demand for a “crossover” type vehicle as more and more people look for carstyle comfort in a SUV package.

Its unibody construction helps to hide the Explorer’s overall bulk.

The long horizontal creases along the sides create a sense of motion.

However, if you want your Explorer to look even more aggressive, the XLT Appearance Package adds a dark grille, black side and rear cladding and 20-inch wheels.

Ultimately, if intimidation is what you seek, you can’t beat the Explorer Sport. With a black grille, dark chrome wheels and an overall get-out-of-myway demeanour, the Explorer Sport is easily the

most aggressive model.

The Explorer makes the most of its space. The cabin offers three rows of seating, with the second row available in either a three-person bench of two bucket seats. The design is not all that trendy but it has that traditional Ford truck/SUV feel all around which is a plus for those who are loyal to the Ford truck products.

Performance

The Explorer drives much more like a car than a truck. The ride is smooth and the cabin is quiet. The level of refinement is impressive in a SUV; the Explorer feels more expensive than what the price tag indicates.

The standard engine is a 3.5-litre V6. While the 290 hp is not that exciting, it is adequate for most people’s needs. It is available in both frontwheel and 4-wheel drive configurations.

Those wanting better fuel economy can opt for the turbocharged 2.0-litre EcoBoost 4-cylinder. The 8.5L/100km highway rating is admirable, but this engine is only available in FWD and acceleration feels sluggish.

Sport models are all 4WD and are powered by a 3.5-litre EcoBoost V6. The 365 hp makes the Explorer much more spirited and the drop in fuel efficiency is not much from the base V6.

No matter which engine you choose, all Explorer models are equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission; the V6 models get Ford’s SelectShift that allows drivers to manually change gears — Sport models can do so with paddle shifters mounted to the steering wheel.

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today’sdrive Continued from page 60 Another important aspect of SUVs is towing ability. All V6 Explorers, including the Sport model, are rated at 5,000 lbs. The four-cylinder, however, can only haul 2,000 lbs.

Since the Explorer is designed to feel more at home on the motorway, front and side visibility is good. To compensate for the poor rearward sightlines, the side mirrors are large and the optional blind spot warning system and rearview camera are recommended. Otherwise tight, busy streets and parking lots can be a bit of a challenge.

That’s not to say the Explorer can’t go off-road.

4WD models come with Terrain Management System, which allows drivers to optimize settings for snow, mud or sand.

Also helping it to off-road effecrtively is its 7.5-inch ground clearance which is more than sufficient for casual off-roaders.

If you need a vehicle that can comfortably carry your whole family while retaining the Ford truck toughness, the Ford Explorer is worth a test drive.

Environment

Sitting inside the Explorer, the cabin feels cavernous. The width is especially noticeable as

passengers feel that there is a lot of shoulder and move-around space.

That spaciousness extends to the rear as well, where average-size adults should feel quite comfortable in the second row.

Legroom isn’t great with the bench seat, but it can recline and the captain’s chairs have travel to slide back some. Headroom is never an issue throughout the cabin.

Accessing the third row is made easy, thanks to the second row’s ability to fold completely forward.

Once seated in either of the two rear seats, the legroom is tight making them best suited for children.

The Explorer has a massive amount of cargo space... And it gives you several different configurations to work with.

Behind the third row is 21 cubic feet of volume. The third row can fold forward, or flip back creating a flat loading surface and increase capacity to 43.8 cubic feet.

If that is not enough, the second row also folds flat to offer up a total of 80.7 cubic feet.

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today’sdrive Continued from page 61 The optional power liftgate and power folding third row make the whole process a breeze.

Entertainment can be enhanced from one of three available audio systems. Ford’s SYNC infotainment system is standard on all but the base model where it is an option.

The Ford Explorer is comfortable and its fuel efficiency is good for an SUV.

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Starting prices range from $31,149 to $48,449.

Standard equipment includes an integrated key fob, illuminated entry, single-zone climate control with rear auxiliary controls, power windows and locks, manual tilt and telescoping steering column, cruise control, and LED taillights.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include push-button start, remote start, dual-zone climate control, power steering column, a heated steering wheel, power-adjustable pedals, heated and cooled bucket seats, auto-dimming rearview mirror, adaptive cruise control, voice activated navigation, and a dual-panel moonroof.

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Honda Pilot If you are looking for a midsize SUV, but need seating for eight, the Honda Pilot checks all the boxes. The Pilot’s strength lies in its versatility. The second row not only reclines, but slides forward and back to accommodate passengers in the third row. However, if you need to tow more than 4500 lbs, you should consider a rival.

The Pilot is available in five trim levels with starting prices ranging from $35,400 to $49,150.

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The Toyota Highlander’s starting prices range from $32,775 to $46,195.

Dodge Durango The Durango is a 7-passenger SUV that looks and feels sportier and more dynamic than most in this segment. The available Hemi V8 gives it brute muscle, but understandably it is not the most fuel efficient.

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NON-ORGANIC

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Shredded Coconut

Milk & Semi-Sweet Blocks

3

$ 99 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

Certified Organic

$ 99

Fine, Medium & Long

1595 Kingsway • 604-872-3019 • www.famousfoods.ca

/lb 4.39/kg

400g

4

$ 49

Sale Dates: Thursday, November 26th - Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015.

455g