Vancouver Courier December 17 2015

CITY CONSIDERS COMMERCIAL DRIVE BIKE LANE 5 BIRD WATCHERS DOWN FOR CHRISTMAS COUNT 7 GIFT GUIDE FOR CYCLISTS 41 CITY LIVING WINTER WONDERLAND GETS FLAKY 12 December 17 2015

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More meals for kids but poverty persists Mike Howell

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Ah what the heck, let’s begin with a quote from Mayor Gregor Robertson.

No, it’s not about climate change or bike lanes.

It has to do with an issue more troubling for many residents.

“There is no reason that in a city as compassionate and prosperous as Vancouver that any child should be going to school hungry.”

The mayor provided that quote in a news release issued Dec. 3 by the city’s communications crew. His words sounded familiar.

That’s because he uttered almost the identical quote during his re-election campaign last fall.

“There is no reason why in a city as compassionate and prosperous as Vancouver that every kid shouldn’t have a good start to the day and a warm meal,” he said Sept. 18, 2014 on a sidewalk outside Strathcona community centre on Keefer Street.

Beginning this month, the city is contributing $320,000 annually towards the school board’s meal program and adding another $80,000 for Strathcona community centre association’s breakfast program. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The mayor was in Strathcona that day — which also happened to be his birthday — to announce that his Vision team promised to spend $400,000 to double the amount of money dedicated to the Vancouver School Board’s breakfast program.

At the time, the bud-

get for the program was $200,000, all of it raised through charitable donations. It was enough money to pay for breakfast every morning for 650 students at 12 elementary schools.

Beginning this month, the city is contributing $320,000 annually towards the school board’s meal

program and adding another $80,000 for Strathcona community centre association’s breakfast program.

So, yep, that’s $400,000, just like the mayor promised.

It means 258 more hungry kids in 11 elementary schools will get lunches.

The money also gives the

Strathcona program some stability and allows organizers to possibly open up some childcare spaces for low-income families.

But as the mayor knows, and as Premier Christy Clark knows — and as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows — $400,000 is really a drop in the bucket when it comes to addressing child poverty.

The stats don’t lie: An average of 22 per cent of children in Vancouver live in low-income families.

That percentage reaches 70 per cent in Strathcona.

In a world where news posted this morning is digital fish wrap by the afternoon, I thought it would be helpful to remind readers that the First Call child and youth advocacy coalition released its 2015 child poverty report card in November.

Some of their findings: • One in five children in B.C. are growing up in poverty.

• B.C.’s child poverty rate continues to exceed the Canadian average.

• A “shocking” 50 per cent of children living in single-parent families are poor.

Why is this happening in such a “compassionate and prosperous” city?

I began this piece with a quote from the mayor. So let me end it with this one from the author of First Call’s report, who has an answer to that question.

“Stubbornly high child and family poverty rates are a result of growing income inequality in B.C. and across Canada.

They reflect the failure of employers, both public and private, to create decent full-time jobs with wages and benefits that enable parents to lift their families out of poverty.

They reflect the choice by our federal and provincial governments to apply the squeeze of austerity to our public institutions and social safety net, while allowing and facilitating the massive accumulation of wealth in very few hands.” @Howellings

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Commercial Drive business society puts brakes on bike lane Mike Howell

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Imagine a protected bike lane running for about 14 blocks along the car-heavy Commercial Drive.

City council can.

Nick Pogor, the executive director of the Commercial Drive Business Society, can’t.

“There are already two established bicycle routes parallel to Commercial Drive, within four blocks of each other,” Pogor told council at a Dec. 10 meeting. Woodland Drive, which run through residential neighbourhoods, and Lakewood Drive are the two routes. “Why does [city] staff think the city needs a third parallel bike lane route between these two nearby routes? Why not optimize the existing routes with [protected] bike lanes on one or both routes, and have connections going across the Drive?”

Pogor never got an answer and hopes to get one in the new year as he and members of the business society,

The city’s five-year cycling route plan includes a protected bike lane on Commercial Drive. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

which represent close to 750 business owners, meet with city staff to challenge the need for a protected lane on the Drive.

Council agreed in principle to implement a protected lane — likely with planters, curbs or a combination of both — on the Drive as part of 12 new cycling routes planned for the city.

The Granville Bridge, several streets downtown and Gore Street in Chinatown are also slated for protected lanes. In addition, council approved 17 upgrades to existing cycling routes, including Southwest Marine Drive, 10th Avenue, Adanac Street

and the Cambie Bridge.

Although a protected lane on the Drive was identified in the city’s 2040 transportation plan approved in 2012, consultation and final design of that route and others has not been finalized.

A city map included in staff’s latest report to council on the bike routes shows the lane along the Drive beginning on East 14th and running about 14 blocks north to Graveley Street.

Pogor said many small businesses on the Drive are already having a tough go financially, and he and his members believe a protected lane would further affect

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their bottom line. The installation of a protected lane usually requires removal of parking spots and, depending on the size of the project, several months of construction.

Lon Laclaire, acting city transportation director, and Dale Bracewell, the city’s manager of active transportation, promised council that Pogor and the Drive’s business society will be consulted, with evidence presented and options provided before a final decision is made.

Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer pointed out to Pogor that many people want a protected bike lane on the Drive. With compelling cases on both sides of the debate, Reimer asked Pogor

how council should decide.

“It’s a hard question to answer but I think all of the factors point to the fact that a bike lane may have a more negative than positive effect on Commercial Drive,” he said, agreeing with Reimer that more data was needed.

Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs urged Pogor to examine how businesses were doing on Hornby and Union streets, where both have protected bike lanes.

“So far, based on a third party review that we had done with the [downtown] BIA and the Vancouver Economic Commission, it was very positive on Hornby, where it was a red-hot argument along that line and likewise on Union

Street,” Meggs said, pointing out that ridership in Grandview-Woodland was only second to Kitsilano.

Richard Campbell of the B.C. Cycling Coalition congratulated council for proceeding with its five-year cycling plan, including the Commercial Drive lane.

“It’s critical that we do this as fast as we can because we know that there’s people that want to use their bikes out there, and we know that they aren’t cycling because of the lack of facilities,” said Campbell, noting a survey conducted in B.C. by the coalition revealed that 56 per cent of respondents would cycle more if they were protected from traffic. @Howellings

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VPD launches crime mapping tool for public System’s data refreshed every 24 hours

Mike Howell

outside a convenience store around the corner.

As a resident of that neighbourhood, you may not be aware of the mini crime wave that has rolled into your community.

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A family up the street gets its bikes stolen.

Someone is assaulted

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Prox, who is the VPD’s analytics coordinator, showed reporters how simple the system was to use and projected a map on a television screen of crime trends in Grandview-Woodland.

“You can see at a very cursory level that there’s some rise in theft from autos around Lakewood [Street], around Third Street and around Parker,” he said, pointing to coloured icons on the screen. “As a citizen of that neighbourhood, that would be something I would want to pay particular attention to, maybe take extra precaution in locking up my items when my car’s parked.”

A more detailed system has been used by police officers for more than a year, with Palmer saying “it provides good situational awareness for proactive policing.” @Howellings

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“We realized that the information we were providing to the public was a little bit behind the times.”

The chief said the system is designed to protect the privacy of victims, noting no personal or identifiable information will be included in the data. Also, he said, any assaults against a person, including robberies or sexual assaults, will only be shown on the map at the nearest intersection. For burglaries and other property offences, specific addresses will not be revealed.

Palmer said he hoped the timely data will inspire residents to join or form Blockwatch groups and participate in other crime prevention programs.

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in their neighbourhoods and across the city.

Called Geodash — geographic data and analysis statistical hub — the system allows the public to use a smartphone, tablet or desktop computer to zoom in on a neighbourhood on a coloured city map and track crime trends.

For example, a user could search thefts from automobiles in the West End for the past two weeks and be able to see on a map where the crimes occurred.

Although the VPD provides crime maps and statistics on its website, the information is dated by a month or two.

The Geodash system is refreshed every 24 hours and provides graphs.

“It’s intended to enhance community awareness and provide an open and transparent look at criminal activity in Vancouver,” said po-

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Why Wait to Make a New Year’s Resolution, Begin Now!

University of Victoria

Adrian Grant Duff, who’s been birding for years, is self-taught and knows most of the songs and calls of local birds. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Bird watchers flock to Christmas Count Naoibh O’Connor

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Jude Grass looks forward to one event in particular during the holiday season and it’s not Dec. 25. It’s the annual Christmas Bird Count, which is marking its 116th year.

“This is what Christmas is about for me. The rest of it can go the way of the

dinosaur. I look forward to the Christmas Bird Count,” she said. “It’s less stressful.

It’s a day to relax and get out with your buddies and bird and see what’s around.

I’m a naturalist by training and background, so for me that’s important — to be out and doing that. The rest of Christmas stuff, I guess, is OK. You get to see family and what have you.

But for me it’s just the joy

of getting out and seeing the birds and being outdoors. That’s what I like.”

Grass will be among dozens of birders heading out for this year’s count, which started on Dec. 14 and runs through Jan. 5.

Vancouver’s count day is Dec. 20. It’s one of several in the Lower Mainland taking place over the roughly three-week period.

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Continued from page 7 Grass participates in the Vancouver count and is team leader for the Ladner count slated for Dec. 27.

She said the Christmas Bird Count is a social event, and the information provides a snapshot of the birds that are here in the winter although numbers can vary year-to-year depending on the weather on count day.

“If you have a wonderful sunny day, you’re probably going to see more birds than if it’s wet and windy,” she said. “Obviously you’re not counting every bird out there, but you are getting a random sample and that’s the objective — to see what you can find with the different bird counts in the Lower Mainland.”

Species that are spotted can vary throughout the region.

“It’s interesting because Ladner has a totally different habitat base than Vancouver, which is very residential. So [Ladner tends] to get more birds because they have Boundary Bay and all those open farm areas where they get different birds,” Grass said.

Count circles measure 24 kilometres in diameter and each one is divided into sub areas. Vancouver’s count centres at 12th and Ontario and encompasses some portions of Burnaby, North Vancouver, West Vancouver and Richmond.

Its team leader is Adrian Grant Duff, who’s been birding for decades. He’s self-taught and knows most of the songs and calls of local birds.

“That really helps because if you can hear them and hear their song then you know where to look to see them,” he said.

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“It’s exciting because everybody does it every year.

It’s kind of an event as well.

I just love to get out and identify birds. It’s a hobby and I find it very relaxing.

You forget everything else,” he said.

“It’s becoming one of the most popular hobbies in North America, particularly in the United States. And I think there’s a challenge in identifying the birds.

It’s certainly a challenge in counting large numbers — it gets people out with a challenge to it.”

Last year, Vancouver participants recorded 133 species. Highlights included sightings of the Harris’s sparrow, the Swainson’s thrush, a Bullock’s oriole at the Fraserview golf course, an orange-crowned warbler, a yellow-rumped warbler, and three pine grosbeaks on Burnaby Mountain.

Grass hopes to spot a Gyr falcon in Ladner. Sometimes they can be found near New Brighton Park by the wheat, she added, “because they sit there and pick off the pigeons.”

Ladner often records one of the highest number of species in Canada.

Participants have a friendly competition with Victoria, which is also always among the top counts.

Last year, Ladner reported 144 species, beating Victoria by one.

“We have this little battle with Victoria, which has some great habitat too, obviously. So it’s always one or the other of us that wins generally,” Grass said, crediting mild winters and good habitat.

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Joo Kim Tiah — take down that Trump sign

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he city’s lawyers are working their way through Vancouver’s bylaws to see if they can stop Holborn Group CEO Joo Kim Tiah, the owner of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, from putting Donald Trump’s name on the side of the building.

It is all part of a growing global movement of governments and institutions seeking to distance themselves from the repugnant racist comments by the billionaire real estate devel-

And, really folks, money is what this is all about. He’s tied himself to The Donald because he assumes it would promote the sales of his condos (starting price $6.5 million) and add a certain lustre to his project designed to attract the world’s uber-rich. oper and candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

Trump’s crack about Mexican immigrants to the U.S. being “rapists and drug runners” was enough to get that alphabet soup of golf organizations, LPGA, PGA of America, and USGA to denounce him. (Trump owns or operates 18 golf courses across the globe.)

A university in Scotland withdrew an honorary degree granted to Trump back

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in 2010. The British ambassador to the United Stated broke protocol about staying mum about U.S. politics and took a shot at Trump for his negative comments about Muslims in London. Israeli parliamentarians raised such a fuss about Trump’s pledge to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. that Trump cancelled his trip to that country and a meeting with its prime minister. And the president of France was not amused with Trump’s observation that the reason so many people were being killed in Paris by terrorists was because of that country’s stringent restrictions on gun ownership.

Meanwhile back in Vancouver, Joo Kim remains unmoved by calls from politicians and people in the development community alike to cut his ties with Trump. He has, according to folks in the business, invested millions in buying the Trump Brand for his luxury condo and hotel complex on Georgia, to say nothing of what he is paying to have the Trump organization manage the hotel.

The 30-something Joo Kim is a rookie on the development scene in Vancouver. Folks at the city say his relative inexperience helps explain why Holborn is taking so long to get the work done on their Little Mountain development near Queen Elizabeth Park.

By the way, Holborn’s $75,000 donation to Vision Vancouver for the 2014 election campaign isn’t causing councillors and staff to hold back on their disgust over Joo Kim’s alliance with Donald Trump.

The fact that he is the eldest son of Tony and Alicia Tiah, one of the wealthiest families in Malaysia and he is rolling on his parent’s bank account helps explains how he can take on the projects he does.

He says his parents “have ingrained in

me values, ethics and principles of good business.” This apparently doesn’t preclude doing business with a racist.

But then, Joo Kim is not without ego.

He is listed on the Trump Tower website along with Donald Trump and the three Trump kids as one of the “Titans.” There’s a photo of them all at Joo Kim’s palatial crib in the British Properties — a ’hood which until the mid-’60s had encumbrances on property titles prohibiting sales to Asians, Jews and blacks.

Yet, curiously, Joo Kim frequently says he is motivated in his life by his Christian faith: “I am here to carry out what God has called me to do in this life.” That seems to be mainly about making piles of dough.

And, really folks, money is what this is all about. He’s tied himself to The Donald because he assumes it would promote the sales of his condos (starting price $6.5 mil-

lion) and add a certain lustre to his project designed to attract the world’s uber-rich.

Last week, he released a statement about why he is refusing to eliminate the Trump brand from his property: “We do not comment on political issues or agendas, be they local or foreign.” (He does play in the political arena though.

See donation to Vision above.)

But he is clearly saying cutting himself off from Trump will cost him more than any good that will come out of it — in terms of his bottom line of course: “We have contractual obligations to the Trump Organization, banks, purchasers, consultants, trades and business partners. These legally-binding contracts cannot be altered.”

Well, more likely they can be altered, but it may mean Trump would sue him to Kingdom come, a journey that Joo Kim is not prepared to take at this time.

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Rampant real estate development and demolition hardly green Re: “Mayor talks climate in Paris,” Dec. 3.

I read Mike Howell’s article with frustration — again — over what seems to be obvious conflicts of interest in Vancouver city policy. How can we allow the frenzy of real estate development and the accompanying demolition of perfectly good homes in many residential neighbourhoods of our city AND claim to be on our way to being the greenest city by 2020?

Sure, the city implemented new bylaws requiring relatively older houses to be dismantled by hand and the wood recycled.

But this is not a big enough disincentive to the demolition nor is it balancing the scales of the senseless waste and carbon gas emissions that come with the teardown and build-up practices.

Determining whether a city is “green” factors in many variables, including, but not limited to carbon emission, energy consumption, waste volumes, and recycling rates. The rampant demolition and building of houses in Vancouver adds negative points to all the above categories. How, Mayor Robertson, do you reconcile this with your pledge for our city to be so green? And, yes, this means less property transfer dollars in the city’s bank accounts, but perhaps a richer, cleaner environment.

Lori Charvat,Vancouver

Full steam ahead Re: “Greenest city promise hit by regulator decision,” Dec. 9.

To the contrary. On Dec. 8 the B.C. Utilities Commission granted Creative Energy a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity enabling us to begin development of an innovative low carbon neighbourhood energy system for North East False Creek.

The BCUC ruling clearly stated the project is in the public interest. It fulfills some

CORRECTION

The Dec. 10 column “Greenest city promise hit by regulator decision” originally contained information that said the city did not conduct a competitive bidding process prior to making its decision. However, on Dec. 20, 2012,

of the city’s ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and shifting to renewable energy. This is consistent with nearly 200 nations that signed the Paris agreement on climate change this past weekend, including Canada.

Creative Energy — a regulated public utility — is pleased with the BCUC decision.

Lost in the media reporting on the ruling is the fact that in dense urban neighbourhoods such as NEFC, a neighbourhood energy system (district energy) is one of the most flexible and least cost ways to achieve deep and lasting reductions in GHGs, as evidenced around the world.

What the Commission did not approve, at this juncture, is a new Neighbourhood Energy Agreement between the city and Creative, specific to only three points. All are being addressed. The decision is not unusual, particularly when forging new territory.

It’s full steam ahead for Creative Energy.

Stacey Bernier, President and CEO Creative Energy

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Affordability crisis hits home Re: “Newsmaker of the Year: Vancouver’s affordability crisis,” Dec. 9.

It’s very true... we are looking at a move in February 2016 and are worried about finding a place we can afford ... it sucks!

Ricci Grafton via Facebook ••• If the prices are so unaffordable, why has the new town-house development across the street from me, sold out, before they’ve even finished taking down the old houses?

Donald Rennie via Facebook ••• “Unless, of course, the market crashes and you can buy a fixer-upper in Kerrisdale for half a million bucks. But then, hey, what would Vancouverites have to talk about, tweet about and read about?”

You are so cruel, Mr. Howell. And catty.

Peakie via Online Comments the city issued Request for Expressions of Interest PS20121461, Neighbourhood Energy Concepts for Downtown Vancouver. Six proposals were received by the city from local and international utility vendors. The story has since been amended online.

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1. Raymond Greenwood shows off some of his novelty items for sale at the Vancouver Winter Wonderland at the PNE Forum Dec. 12. 2. Visitors pose for photos in a giant snowglobe. 3. Baby Roop Nagra meets Santa for the first time, along with parents Inder and Amarit Nagra.

4. Giant beanbag chairs provide comfort for audience members attending shows or those who were just tuckered out. SEE PHOTO GALLERY AT VANCOURIER.COM. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT.

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Hocking and schlocking in a Vancouver Winter Wonderland PNE Christmas market full of magic, mayhem and merry knock-offs

Rebecca Blissett

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Mix the Richmond Night Market, its Lucky Ducks carnival games and stalls selling cheap ankle socks with the PNE Marketplace, its shoppers snoozing in massage chairs and guys in aprons pushing kitchen knives that make chopping vegetables look like fun until you get home, and the result is the Vancouver Winter Wonderland.

There are Christmas embellishments of course: carols piped through loudspeakers, the hum of generators that keep a giant bear and candy cane slide in perky spirits, a pool filled with inflatable human hamster balls and lineups of mothers keeping their children close by clutching their jacket hoods with one hand and cellphones set to record with the other.

A stage off to the side

of the PNE Forum is for magic shows, various choirs and the intriguing-sounding Prancing with the Stars, which run throughout the day and into the evening.

Wun2Free Entertainment, the company behind the first-ever Vancouver Winter Wonderland, arranged rows of giant beanbag chairs for audience comfort. A bit of Vancouver nostalgia is added to the arena’s decorations with the addition of the towering marching band bear that once belonged to the long-defunct downtown Woodward’s department store.

The website for the 10day long event boasts that all Christmas shopping needs will be met, which is true if Tupperware, collagen injections, enchanted stones, tank tops from Thailand and a Ferrari are on Santa’s list.

Some of the vendors themselves were a mix.

Raymond Greenwood gently hawked his wares, which consisted of things that light up, including but not limited to gloves, boas, glasses and scepters. Greenwood, who was wearing all of the aforementioned items, introduced himself as the King of Bling even though everybody knows his real name on the street is Mr. Fireworks. He did, after all, help bring the hugely popular Symphony of Fire summer fireworks show, now called the Celebration of Light, to Vancouver 25 years ago.

“Why am I here? I’m here to sell my flashy light products and to give people joy,” said Greenwood while wagging his flashing gloved fingers at a family walking by. “Some love it, some think it’s crazy.”

Also for sale was a Space Warriors-brand sabre, which, despite its resem-

blance to the more coveted Star Wars light sabre, is a cheaper version at 15 bucks.

“It’s not official, nothing here is official. Look over there,” Greenwood pointed to a stall across from him selling purses and accessories. “Look at that Burberry print on that scarf. That’s not official, otherwise you’d need 600 dollars for a scarf!”

Saturday marked only the second day of Vancouver Winter Wonderland and Greenwood said he would likely be back if the show returned next year. “It’s a great mix of people here and the young men involved have done an incredible job,” he said. “Haven’t been outside but I know it’s pouring rain so to see all these people here is a compliment to them.”

One of those men is David Wang, who is the operations manager for the Richmond-based Wun-

2Free. His were humble beginnings, working the Ring Toss carnival game while he was a university student five years ago. Wun2Free owner Wilson Lee, who runs all the carnival games at the Richmond Night Market, brought him on to his team for his growing company.

Wang said Wun2Free is pleased with the way the Vancouver Winter Wonderland has been received, and is doing his best to make visitors happy. Namely, some complained about having to pay an extra five dollars for photos with Santa and photos in the giant bear-shaped snowglobe after paying the five dollar admission. So, after a 3 a.m. meeting on opening day, Wun2Free decided to nix the additional fees and make the features bydonation with money raised still going to the Variety Club. (On the improvement note, Wun2Free might

also want to consider not allowing pets to be sold at the Vancouver Winter Wonderland; one visit to the Pocket Pet stall with the trembling sugar gliders amid screaming demands of children was enough to put a damper on the whole experience for this writer.)

For Wang, the opportunity to be involved in something to mark the time of year means a lot.

“I moved here when I was very young from Taiwan. It was a huge struggle for my family to move over here so once we settled down, my family really, really uses Christmas and the holidays to appreciate everything that we’ve been given,” he said. “It’s a really big deal for them. That’s what it means for me, personally. And I know Wilson, he’s very passionate about creating happiness.” @rebeccablissett

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The charming corner store and cafe, Le Marché, has been a fixture in its East Vancouver neighbourhood for the past five years. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Vibrant communities need more than cute cafés Jessica Barrett

Jessica.Barrett@gmail.com

On the face of it, the story of Le Marché St. George appears to be a victory for community involvement.

The charming corner grocer and café has been a popular fixture in its East Vancouver neighbourhood for the past five years. It’s a gem of a family-run haunt in a rickety old house that adds much-needed character to Vancouver’s increasingly homogenous neighbourhoods. More than that, it offers a rare gathering place where people who live in the area get to know each other.

We need all the places like that we can get. It’s no secret our city isn’t exactly known for its stellar social skills. A recent survey by Insights West shows only 17 per cent of us have invited a neighbour over for coffee in the past 12 months, lagging far below the already abysmal regional average of 25 per cent.

And only about a third of us bother to introduce ourselves to newcomers to the neighbourhood. No wonder many of us report a sense of social isolation.

So the outpouring of community support that saved Le Marché from imminent closure last week after bylaw officers found its café operations to be in contravention of city regulations seems like a sign of progress.

But the story isn’t as simple as that. Lost in the celebration over the news that Le Marché would live on — with a commitment from the city to apply some long overdue creativity to its

antiquated zoning structure — is the reason that bylaw enforcement got involved in the first place. And it’s in this aspect of the story that we see the impact of our lack of interpersonal relations. Sure, we have learned to love our neighbourhood cafés, but when it comes to our individual neighbours, not so much.

Take, for instance, the situation of the legally blind woman who lives next door to Le Marché. She finally called the city after several requests they keep the sidewalks clear of tripping hazards failed to yield results. I spoke with the woman last week, and although she has been identified in at least one media story, she asked that I not use her name for fear she’d be targeted by some of the nearly 16,000 people who rushed to defend the café in an online petition.

And after viewing some of the online comments vilifying the complainant, I don’t exactly blame her. That a blind woman living alone is now in fear for her safety after making a perfectly reasonable request that she be able to safely come and go from her home speaks volumes about our civic shortcomings.

This woman is adamant she does not want the café shut down. In fact, she was horrified her complaint may have inadvertently threatened the business. She merely wanted to be able to walk out of her house without the threat of bumping into bicycles and strollers, stumbling over a planter or, in the worst imagined scenario, whacking a small child with her cane.

She has sympathy for

the café’s owners, who, she realizes, can’t realistically be expected to monitor the goings on outside the establishment at busy times.

But as Le Marché gains popularity, the increasing activity — and a constantly shifting landscape of people and objects outside — have made it increasingly treacherous.

It seemed to me this is the type of problem that could have been solved with a few acts of neighbourly conscientiousness, rather than intervention from bylaw enforcement. I asked this woman whether she felt she could simply ask people to either clear the way or help her navigate the space. Her answer was disheartening.

“It’s hard to ask for help because people look at me like I’m intruding,” she said, noting there have been times people have seen her coming and don’t bother to get out of the way, or even pick up small children who are playing in her path. “It’s like people don’t recognize what a white cane means anymore.”

Nor, it would seem, do people recognize building vibrant communities requires more than hip cafés.

It also means developing a sense responsibility for one another and taking an active role in creating the kind of social connections we crave.

So sure, let’s celebrate the story of Le Marché and continue to support our favourite neighbourhood establishments. But we while we’re doing so, let’s remember to look up from our lattes every once in a while and take care of our actual neighbours as well. @jm_barrett

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Champagne indulgence I have a weakness and Champagne is its name.

I mean the real stuff, the fizz that hails from the cool northeast corner of France. I love bubbles in general, but for me there is simply nothing like Champagne. Blessed with a unique chalky soil and a marginal climate that coaxes just enough ripeness from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, the region makes sparkling its top priority. Champagne

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everyday proposition. But I don’t wait around just for the classic occasions to indulge in a bottle. I’ve become quite adept at finding excuses to crack a bottle.

The holiday season in particular gives me plenty of opportunity to indulge. I’ll deal with my bank account in the New Year. The thing about Champagne is that the big houses put a lot into marketing and their efforts have succeeded. Brand loyalty is strong. My duty is to remain unbiased, so I make an effort to try them all. I rounded up some of my favourite non-vintages for those moments when you need to give in. This is the result of serious study.

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Celina Starnes is the public education and outreach manager for the Stanley Park Ecology Society, which hosts its annual winter solstice walk on Sunday. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

PACIFIC SPIRIT

Winter solstice celebrates rebirth Stanley Park Ecology Society’s annual solstice walk this Sunday

Pat Johnson

PacificSpiritPJ@gmail.com

On Sunday, a few resolute Vancouverites will trudge into the woods of Stanley Park, rain or shine but probably rain, and reflect on the ecological roots of some cultural traditions we take for granted at this time of year.

A great many of the traditions we see this time of year — Christmas trees, wreathes, red and green decorations — have their roots not in Christian tradition, as we might assume, but in a predecessor, the European pagan rites that predate the religions we know best today. And those echoes are most evident at the winter solstice.

Even in our industrial world with electric lights, we can still feel the effects of the long, dark nights and short dreary days.

Imagine a time when the natural world completely dictated the rhythms of daily life. Imagine walking through the damp deciduous forests of ancient Europe, trees and flowers in hibernation, all signs of life in abeyance. And then a holly bush appears.

Not only one of the rare evergreens but one merrily sporting gleaming red berries even in darkest December.

“Even the bark is green,” says Celina Starnes, public education and outreach manager for the Stanley Park Ecology Society, which is offering its annual solstice walk.

“And it’s standing lush and alive amid all these dead-looking trees around it… when people saw that, it gave them hope. The greenery, the life, will return to the earth again.”

Could the holly tree be

the basis for the entire holiday-season colour palette?

“I don’t know for sure, but that whole Christmas red-green thing,” she says.

“It probably has something to do with it.”

On the walk, participants will also see mistletoe. Although the type we have in these parts doesn’t look like the kind our ancestors in Europe knew, it is of the same family.

“It’s such a bizarre little plant,” says Starnes. “It’s this parasitic plant growing on a tree that’s dormant for the winter and it will grow these leaves in this tight little bundle and if you see in the picture of mistletoe, a bundle of green and the little white fruit on it, it’s speaking of life and hope in the dead of winter.” But why kiss under it, I ask. Starnes laughs. It’s obvious: Like

a fresh growth of green on a dead or dormant tree, new human life often begins with a kiss. (Never mind, she adds, that forestry people hate mistletoe because eventually it can kill the tree. Not sure where to take the analogy from there.)

The overarching theme of solstice (and the walk) is celebrating rebirth.

“Part of the walk that I really, really like is we’ll walk past a tree —the tree was one of thousands of trees that fell during the windstorm — and you’ll see new shoots growing up from this fallen tree,” says Starnes.

“It’s just this reminder, in the dead of winter, of the promise of new life.”

Do I need to point out that this theme of monumental birth is probably why Christmas is celebrated at this time of year, even though historians, astrono-

mers and others have concluded that Jesus was likely not born in December?

Shepherds would not have been watching their flocks by night during winter, for one thing. Christmas almost certainly got tagged onto pagan solstice celebrations and many of the accoutrements were usurped.

Some of the people most vigilant about “keeping Christ in Christmas” are among those re-enacting what is perhaps the most pagan ritual imaginable: hauling a tree into the house and decorating it in colourful ornaments and lights. As I wrote last Christmas, there are some who say the triangular shape of the tree represents the holy trinity, which in turn represents for me one of the great things about our society: being allowed to believe whatever you want.

“The whole tradition of the candles and all the lights, begging the sun to come back in the days to get longer… the day will lengthen again and we’ll have light again. Back in the day in Europe, this is what people were faced with, it’s cold, it’s miserable and scary.”

If the Vancouver weather lives up to its name, participants in the walk Sunday should get a hint of what the ancients may have felt like in the formidable winter forest, including the spirit-lifting discovery of fresh greens and maybe reds. Preregistration ($5 members/ $10 non-members) is recommended at stanleyparkecology.ca. The walk, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., will be leisurely and not at all strenuous, Starnes assures me. @Pat604Johnson

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Feature

Dreck the halls with Canucks thongs, Courier digs deep with its annual gift guide of the weird and wrong

Michael Kissinger

mkissinger@vancourier.com

For the 11th year in a row, the Courier has scoured the streets of Vancouver and the lonely recesses of the Internet in search of Christmas gift ideas that are unusual, strange and just plain wrong. Not surprisingly, Star Wars items weigh heavily in this year’s guide, as do various forms of inappropriate undergarments and jewelry to hide your cat’s anus. Yes, it’s a wonderful life.

creepy at the same time.

Sadly, users don’t get any closer to understanding the inner workings of a wookie, their fur-lined hopes or dreams — just those plastic bead patterns that only amuse dumb five-year-olds and people who are super high.

Ninja Bib Polaroll

$30 at Front and Co.

Schauma Shampoo

$6.99 at European Specialty’s Importers Ltd.

220 Prior St., europeanspecialityfoods.com Say what you will about Germans, but they are a nice-smelling people. And Schauma shampoo can take some of the credit.

At least that’s what I’m assuming from the dude on the bottle whose eyes are penetrating my soul like an acetylcholine torch. Plus the ingredients list reads like an Einstürzende Neubauten album. In a word: sweet.

Chewbacca Kaleidoscope

$12 at Front and Co., 3772 Main St., frontandcompany.com

Not to be confused with the similarly shaped Chewbacca Thermos or the Chewbacca Flesh Light (I just made that up), the Chewbacca Kaleidoscope manages to look cute and

bear, whose paws make pretty crappy oven mitts. Or so I’ve been told.

Add some unnecessary retro panache to your bathroom duties beyond a decade’s worth of mildew and gunge with this replica Polaroid camera that dispenses toilet paper instead of photos. Why the makers of this technological marvel decided against the EasyBake Oven or cassette tape toilet paper dispenser will go down as one of humankind’s greatest mysteries.

$16 at Front and Co. Dress your little dreamkiller in one of these adorable bibs that will look like a ninja outfit for 30 whole seconds before getting covered in food, drool, vomit and other forms of baby grossness.

$14 at Front and Co. Putting ketchup on just about every food item you shove down your chubby pie hole is nothing short of heroic, so why not give this noble condiment the squeeze bottle it deserves.

There’s even one of these laser gun gizmos for mustard. But not for mayonnaise, obviously, because mayo is gross and so are the people who eat it.

$12 at Front and Co. For anyone who’s ever brought their baby to a craft brewery but felt they weren’t doing enough to assimilate them into the plaid-shirted landscape, this moustache pacifier does the trick. “Quality-molded” from nontoxic plastic and baby-grade silicone, it also distracts onlookers from the botched homemade anchor tattoo you attempted to carve into little Dalton or Ruby’s doughy forearm, which would have looked so cool it they hadn’t squirmed.

Bear Hands Oven Mitts

$24 at Front and Co. You’ve been described as a bear in the bedroom — an epileptic koala bear, mind you, but still a bear. Now you can add “kitchen” to your, ahem, “bearea” of expertise with these somewhat heat resistant casserole clutchers. Best of all, the light beige exterior is nearly the same colour as a spirit

Milk Chocolate VPD Police Badge

$1.50 at Vancouver Police Museum The marketing team behind the VPD’s swag output is really thinking outside the box with these babies. Made with sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, vanilla and a hint of justice, Chocolate Police Badge is also the name for a certain unsavoury act in my hometown of Nanaimo.

Let’s just leave it at that.

Vancouver Police Dog Squad Pink T-shirt

Chill, Baby Moustache Pacifier Captain Ketchup

Candle Co. are scented “to celebrate each neighbourhood’s individuality.” For instance, Fairview boasts grapefruit, peach and red currant fragrances while Gastown sports a more gritty, yet urine-free scent of leather, tobacco, amber and black pepper. Other hoods include Point Grey, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona and the North Shore. Disappointed there’s no Marpole scented candle?

Just crack a Molson Canadian and smoke a menthol cigarette and you’ll get the same effect. Oh snap.

Vancouver Neighbourhood Scented Candles

$35 at Walrus 3408 Cambie St., shop. walrushome.com Named after and inspired by various parts of Vancouver, these artisanal candles from Vancouver

$9.99 (half price!) at Vancouver Police Museum 240 East Cordova St., vancouverpolicemuseum.ca Finally, there is a gift that says “I love you, but my inability to express emotions prevents me from saying it with actual words, so please accept this half-priced pink T-shirt adorned with a VPD police dog. You like dogs, right?”

Vancouver City Morgue Forensic Sciences Coffee Mug

$17.99 at Vancouver Police Museum Autopsies and caffeine go hand-in-hand with the Vancouver City Morgue coffee mug. Going out on a limb here, but this might not make the greatest gift for anyone you’re planning on sleeping with on a semiregular basis.

est. How about “weedoku puzzles”? Or “toker poker”? Or “high-ku poetry”? Or stoner crossword puzzles? Or how about naming your next band Merlin’s Wizard, because, think about it — Merlin is a wizard, right, but who would be Merlin’s wizard?

Woah.

Han Solo in Carbonite Ice Cube Tray

$19.95 at Signed & Sealed Every nerd knows that Han Solo getting frozen in carbonite in Empire Strikes Back was one of the bleakest endings to any Star Wars movie, notwithstanding the continued survival of Jar Jar Binks and Mark Hamill’s post-Return of the Jedi acting career. Now you can share that bleakness in the form of a nifty ice cube tray fashioned after our rascally hero’s frozen body. And when that special someone says “I love you” after opening their ice cube tray gift, it’ll give you the opportunity to pull a Han Solo and reply, “I know.” And by special someone, I mean your mom. Who are we trying to kid here.

Second Careers for Street Cops by John Eldridge

$22.46 at Vancouver Police Museum A former member of the VPD for 26 years who went on to work for those crazy mofos at WorkSafe B.C., John Eldridge at least knows his audience and organizes his self-help book much like a crime investigation.

Chapters include “Assess the Situation,” “Gather Facts,” “Identify a Person of Interest.” Arresting stuff. Boom!

That said, I found it troubling that Eldridge didn’t put “It would be a crime not to read this book” on the cover.

Such a missed opportunity.

Pot Smokers Activity Book

$22.95 at Signed & Sealed 1988 West Fourth Ave., signedsealeddelivered.ca There’s more to the life of a stoner than playing endless hours of Candy Crush, holding a Hostess Twinkie to your ear as you squeeze it to determine what sound it makes and lying down in the shower, pretending you’re sleeping in an Amazonian rain for-

Men Ruin Stuff/Sock Whore Socks

$13.95 at Signed & Sealed It’s true. Men do ruin stuff. Particularly half the players in my underachieving hockey pool… I’m looking at you Jonathan Drouin. And what better way to say it and express your sock “whorish” ways than with 50 per cent combed cotton, 47 per cent nylon and three per cent spandex.

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Kama Sutra Dice

$7.95 at Signed & Sealed Tired of the old bedroom routine of three minutes of pleasure followed by a good half-hour cry and taking inventory of all your past choices in life? Try rolling these Kama Sutra Dice to spice things up and give you and your partner some new positional ideas.

You also might want to stop using the Barenaked Ladies as your sexual soundtrack. Just a suggestion.

Dreamy Trudeau Sweater

$59.99 at shelfies.com Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s star will inevitably fade, you can let Canada’s golden boy shine forever, or at least until it shrinks in the dryer, with this sweater of mind-altering awesomeness. Sure it’s a little disheartening that sexy Ed Broadbent has never been depicted on a sweater riding horseback or shirtless on a moose, but dare to dream.

or dates. Nothing weird about that, right. Topics include “Which of your past hairstyles gives you a chuckle?” “What are your two favourite movies?” and “Could you take your dad in a fight?” I may have made that last one up. In case you’re wondering, my answers to the aforementioned table topics would be: Brian Bosworth flattop in Grade 10, Weekend at Bernie’s and Gandhi, and probably.

Personalized Mixtape Pillow

$81.25 at uncommongoods.com If having a pillow fashioned after a cassette tape of old wasn’t precious enough, imagine having that cassette tape pillow personalized with your name, your sweetheart’s or the title of one of your old mixtapes. Mind you, who wants to sleep with their head resting on “Bootsauce Rocks!” or “Boyz II Men’s Slow and Easy Hump Jamz”?

Table Topics

$35.02 at uncommon goods.com Take the hassle out of thinking on your own or communicating naturally thanks to Table Topics’ stack of 135 “conversation starters” that you leave on your coffee table and pull out during awkward lulls around family, friends

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Cheeseburger Ball Gag

$68.66 at etsy.com The smell of pickles and mustard turns you on, you find the authoritative Burger King mascot rather fetching and your safe word is “hold the mayo.”

The next logical step is getting your submissive chompers on a handcrafted Cheeseburger Ball Gag. Plus it’s fashioned out of high-quality leather, food-grade silicone and nickel-plated hardware, so you can rest assured that you’re not dealing with one of those cheap knock-off Cheeseburger Ball Gags flooding the ball gag market.

Hummingbird Mask Feeder

$79.95 at heatstick. com.

Although the name sounds like a Guided

by Voices album, Hummingbird Mask Feeder is, in fact, a wearable bird feeder that allows users to witness the majesty of nature up close while enjoying the quiet self-reflection that comes with prolonged celibacy.

Golden Girl Granny Panties

$164.81 for a pack of three at etsy.com Whether you’re a

Made with plush and faux leather, the Ewok Coin Purse also means something altogether different in my hometown of Nanaimo.

Dorothy, Blanche, Sophia or Rose, nothing says “thank you for being a friend” quite like a pair of hand-sewn granny panties adorned with your favourite character from The Golden Girls. Just don’t hold your breath for any Cagney and Lacey themed gaunch. That would be ridiculous.

$8.99 shop.nhl.com I can’t tell if this high heel Christmas ornament is a sexist comment on the Canucks’ lack of grit or a sign that the NHL’s marketing department doesn’t understand its female fan base. Maybe it’s both.

these sandals, chances are you are at the Roxy and will be waking up in the morning with a Baja Rosa hangover and a lifetime of regret.

Star Wars R2-D2 Laundry Hamper

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Canucks Bikini Lace Thong

$19.99 at shop.nhl. com Say what you will about the Canucks’ porous defence and lack of second-line scoring, at least they’re sophisticated enough to have their own bikini lace thong made out of 65 per cent polyester and 35 per cent rayon.

In your face, Vancouver Canadians.

$34.99 at shop.nhl. com Using the pickup line, “How do you like your toast in the morning?” has gotten you laid exactly zero times. Having the ability to burn the NHL logo into said toast with a toaster shaped like a hockey puck isn’t likely to change that. But at least it will dampen the dull thud of reality that slaps you in the face on a daily basis.

$19.99 at thinkgeek. com This is the droid you’re looking for if you want a fun way to do laundry as you desperately await the new instalment of the Star Wars franchise. Too bad you rarely wash your clothes.

Flask Bracelet

$49.03 at uncommongoods.com Finally an item of jewelry that combines fashion with alcoholism.

The porcelain design lets boozers accessorize with a shot’s worth of their favorite spirits, and makes the prospect of swilling Fireball in a bathroom stall during your kid’s never-ending Christmas concert not quite as sad.

Catnip Fortune Cookies

Pizza Bikini

$32 at pyknic.com I have a blurry recollection of seeing Pizza Bikini play an all-ages show in the basement of an abandoned Chuck E. Cheese way back in 1997, opening for Hummingbird Mask Feeder and Cheeseburger Ball Gag. It was intense.

Mind you, not as intense as a bathing suit top or bottom that looks like it’s covered in piping hot pepperoni and melted cheese.

But still pretty intense.

Canucks Ponytail Holder

$8.99 at shop.nhl.com It’s hard to say what’s more surprising — that a Canucks Ponytail Holder exists in the first place or that the team doesn’t also sell banana clips and scrunchies.

$26.96 at uncommongoods.com Filled with organic catnip — is there any other kind? — these felt and fleece fortune cookies carry cat-themed fortunes such as “Your litter box will always be clean” and “Your future is fishy.” As an added bonus, they kind of look like teddy bear genitalia.

Canucks Wedge Sandals

$28.99 at shop.nhl. com I’m guessing if you are wearing these sandals or find yourself hanging out with someone who wears

Ewok Coin Purse

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Twinkle Tush

$6.99 at twinkletush. com Arguably the worst thing about owning a cat — besides cleaning up their kitty litter and their cruel ability to withhold love — is the frequent sight of their butt. Twinkle Tush aims to rectify, or should I say “rectum-fy,” this wrong by placing a jewel over the offending area and turning your cat’s behind into a beguiling piece of bling. The way nature intended. @MidlifeMan1

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Opinion

It’s the new invasive Barbie!

Geoff Olson

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She’s got a wasp-like waist, missile cone boobs, and a corona of blonde plastic hair.

And she’s packing a microchip full of trouble, say critics who’ve painted “Hello Barbie” as the most disturbing Christmas gift of the year.

The doll is toymaker Mattel’s effort to rebrand their plastic role model for girls as a robotic confidant. She can learn from and respond to young owners through voice recognition technology.

After buying the doll, parents go online and set up an account using an email address. Their child can then press Hello Barbie’s belt buckle and begin to converse with her through the doll’s internal microphone. The child’s words are digitized and sent via home Wi-Fi to a remote server, which decodes the words and fires back an appropriate response for Hello Barbie to speak.

Fun! But not so fun to critics who peg the doll as an hourglass-shaped snoop.

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

(CCFC) has launched a “Hell No Barbie” campaign to sound the alarm over family privacy and security.

But creepy as the doll may be, it’s hardly an outlier; the partnering of children with invasive gadgetry is becoming the new normal.

Consider a recent survey of parents of young children in a lower-class community in Philadelphia. The majority of the children younger than four own mobile devices, and the relationships start early.

Before their first birthday, more than 40 per cent of the children have used a mobile device on a daily basis to play games, watch videos or fiddle with apps. “The percentage increased to 77 per cent in two year olds and plateaued after that,” according to a summary of the report on the CBC. Twenty-eight per cent of the two year olds required no help to navigate a mobile media device, and an alarmingly high percentage of parents passed devices on to their kids to keep them calm in public places or to put them to sleep.

People who worry about

the rise of artificial intelligence “may say that they’ll never submit to the comfort and convenience of technologies that dehumanize them, but to be perfectly honest, I think that many of them have already acquiesced,” insists Joshau Krause from The Daily Sheeple.

Psychologist and author Sherry Turkle warns that prolonged exposure to mobile devices may compromise the ability of young people to socialize and learn empathy.

Hello Barbie’s cousins are so-called “smart appliances,” which are being engineered to digitally retrieve every last detail about our personal habits, up to and including what’s said behind closed doors. Some of this highly marketable info will be flowing out through home Wi-Fi and cable networks, and the rest through smart meters, those Trojan Horses for the “Internet of Things.”

Antony Walker of techUK warns that powers being proposed in the British government’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill may allow hacking into “smart toys.”

Devices that “may sit in a

child’s bedroom but are accessible” can be remotely turned into instruments of spycraft, he warns. “In theory, the manufacturer of those products could be the subject of a warrant to enable equipment interference with those devices.”

As for Hello Barbie, Mattel subdivision Toy Talk promises it won’t share your child’s voice-to-text info with third parties, with this proviso: “when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to (a) comply with any law or legal processes or respond to lawful requests or legal authorities, including responding to lawful subpoenas, warrants, or court orders.”

In other words, with potential surveillance through consumer electronics extending to everything from televisions to dolls, we’re talking about a slope that’s beyond slippery.

It’s a greased slide for hackers hailing from the state or the street. I just wonder many parents learning this will shrug and go, “oh well,” and how many will go, “Orwell.”

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Inspiring outdoor decorations WORDS BY MICHELLE HOPKINS REW.CA/NEWS

Ideas to make your home stand out these holidays The holidays are fast approaching. Perhaps you’re thinking this year you want your outdoor space to stand out. Christmas is the perfect time to throw caution to the wind and allow your personality to come out.

is more fun and gives a warm feeling to your exterior, while saying a little bit about your personality.”

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“First off, don’t be shy.

Then, start by looking at what you already have and experiment with how you can incorporate those items into a new design,” says Scott.

“Going the personal route, where you also incorporate some homemade decorations

blocked from patio spaces.

It gives us the opportunity to extend our living spaces even during the cooler months, whether for personal relaxation or holiday soirees.

Layering textured blankets and faux furs on seating and rolling out an outdoor rug instantly warms up the area and creates an inviting holiday appeal.

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Fairy light strands for holiday lighting If you’ve been putting your lights up the same way year after year, think about rearranging them or rethink where you place them.

“You can add lights and ribbon onto your planters,” she adds. “Wrap the lights around the base to create a nice holiday glow at the front entrance.”

A modern approach to traditional Christmas lights, delicate fairy light strings on copper wire are an easy decor trick that looks chic all season, not just for the duration of the holidays. Try winding them through the backs of your outdoor seating (they look especially fabulous wound through Adirondack chairs) or up the base of outdoor planters for a fuller effect.

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DIY kids’ art holiday garland A super-adorable approach to holiday decorating is to take a bundle of your favourite homemade artwork by the kids and have it laminated so it’s weatherproof, then string them together on twine to make a personalized garland for your fence or front porch, or even around a front yard tree with lights for a true Christmas feel.

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DIY door wreath Rather than the traditional arbour wreath that sheds needles all over your entranceway, I’m really into the interior trend of woolen or rope wall hangings. For my door this year, I’m making an easy DIY macramé hanging mounted on a copper pipe — again putting the small twinkle lights to use, winding them through the weaving adds that extra festive sparkle.

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Light filled jars to give glow to your entrance stairs Line the stairs up to the front door with mason jars (or any vintage glass vessels) and put single tea lights in them for your next merry gathering to invite your guests up to the door. A fire-free alternative would be to gather and bundle a string of batteryoperated lights and place them in the jars for the same effect. If you’re keen to make the look a little more festive, you can add a layer of faux snow on the outside of it and some twine or ribbon of your

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Native berry-producing trees and shrubs are among the most beautiful, useful and entertaining plants you can have in a garden. Once birds arrive to feed on them, they’ll often stay to do pest control.

The red elderberry has a spectacular spring presence with flat clusters of lacy white flowers followed by fiery clusters of red berries. By summer’s end, birds have stripped the lot. They’re reputed to be poisonous for people.

One native beauty is salal.

This can easily be grown in the Lower Mainland and has a year-round presence since it’s evergreen and has pretty clusters of white bell-shaped flowers. The blue-black berries that follow in late summer can be turned into jams or jellies if the birds don’t get there first.

At summer’s end, the white flowers of thimbleberries quickly develop into mid-red, rather dry berries which don’t last long in bear country.

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Do you remember the scene in Disney’s animated movie when Snow White runs screaming through the woods, terrorized by what appear to be evil trees? She awakens in the morning, surrounded by new, furry forest friends.

In real life, we all get lost in the wilderness of our emotions, and those emotions cloud what we are able to see. We may think we know the difference between happiness, sadness, anger and anxiety, but any of us can get caught up and lost in our moods and feelings. We

are surprised with where we have wandered.

The conventional approach to life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain. That we believe is the definition of success and the secret to happiness: maximal pleasure and minimal pain.

We preoccupy our thoughts and energy with the pursuit of physical comforts: nice meals, a comfortable home, attractive clothes and a variety of sensual pleasures. We work not only for the necessities of life but to buy the things we crave. We peruse catalogs, search the net and wander through shopping malls to find what we want.

At the same time, we avoid what we don’t like: pain and suffering. When we experience physical pain, especially when it becomes chronic, we struggle to fight it — with fear, anger and sadness.

This invariably amplifies our suffering.

Likewise, we seek positive emotional experiences: falling in love, happiness and peace, and we react with aversion to negative emotions, such as sadness, grief, anxiety and anger. We might try to suppress or ignore these difficult feelings or struggle to fight them with even greater fear, anger and loathing.

Our conventional approach to life is doomed to fail. That is reality.

There is good and bad in every life, and each of us will experience a daily mixture of pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

If our aspiration is to remain young, active and pain-free forever, we will surely be disappointed; our bodies age and breakdown, we will become ill at some time, and each of us will ultimately die. Accidents can disable us or shorten our lives.

Change — both predictable and unpredictable — is the nature of life and part of being human. It is futile to hold onto all that gives us pleasure. Pain is a part of life, but suffering — to some extent — is optional.

We don’t have to be caught up with the dramatic twists and turns of fortune or get sick on the roller coaster ride of our emotions. With a little wisdom and the application of mindfulness, we can still find peace.

Without mindfulness, we instinctively react to

circumstances and get carried away with our emotions. We stab ourselves twice by clinging to negative emotions.

First, we identify with them. We say, “I am depressed,” “I am panicky,” or “I am angry,” instead of “I am experiencing a feeling of depression, a panic attack or a wave of anger.”

By identifying with negative emotions, we add more power to their punch and stay within their reach.

Then we ruminate — repeating and recycling the negative thoughts associated with those emotions. For depression, “Everything is terrible and it’s never going to get better.” For anxiety, “I can’t handle it. I’m overwhelmed.” For anger, “I have a right to be mad, and here are the reasons...”

In this way, we linger in the lake of our sorrows or get caught in the quicksand of our own anger.

A mindful approach to difficult emotions is to recognize that it is normal and human to feel a variety of emotions and to notice them change as does every-

thing else in our lives. I use the acronym, ROAR. Recognize your emotions.

What am I feeling? Is it really anger or does something else lie beneath the surface? Fear? Sadness?

Open up and accept your feelings without judgment.

Feeling a wave of anger, sadness or fear does not make you a bad person.

Appreciate whatever is arising in your heart. What does it feel like? What does it physically feel like in your body? Think: “This is anger or anxiety or sadness,” rather than ,“I am angry, I am anxious, or I am sad.”

Release. Don’t identify, cling to or feed your emotional response. Let it pass through you like a weather system.

Catch and release.

Breathe in and breathe out.

That is a key to mindfully managing your emotions.

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

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“To help people less fortunate.”

“Everyone deserves a home and something to eat.”

“No one should be cold.”

“Everyone should have a safe place.”

These were just some of the reasons students from the Lord Tennyson elementary out of school program were inspired to collect donations for the Courier’s annual clothing drive for Directions Youth Services, a non-profit organization that helps street youth meet immediate needs through hot meals, showers and laundry facilities.

On Dec. 9, the students dropped by the Vancouver Courier office on West Fifth Avenue to drop off their many bags of donations. Since November, the students had been collecting everything from toiletries to clothes and blankets for teens living on the street or in shelters. This is the fourth year students from the program have taken part. Courier office manager June Stafford started the clothing drive 11 years ago.

Under the direction of program coordinator Cassandra Gordon, the students collected nine blankets, nine jackets, 60 tubes of toothpaste, 21 pairs of gloves, bars of soap and

160 pairs of socks. The students also raised money by holding a bake sale, a bottle drive and creating a wishing well for parents to drop their change into.

Directions encourages teens and young adults to seek support through education, recreation and artistic programs. In addition to lockers and pet kennels, the centre also offers a space for youth to shower and clean up before a job interview, a family meeting or for their own sake, which is why it’s so important to carry essential toiletries such as disposable razors, shampoo, tampons, soap and hair clippers. Other items on the centre’s wish list include

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Flowerless Christmas cactus should stay out of the sun

Anne Marrison

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Q. I have had this Christmas plant for many years and it used to flower in December.

For the past two years it has stopped flowering. I gave it plant food but still no flowers.

I had it in the basement all year round facing south. How can I get it to flower again?

Florence, Vancouver A. Your plant sounds like a Christmas cactus. It

probably stopped flowering because of heat and blistering sun from the two years of long summer droughts we’ve had. In hot summers, they need to stand in a shadier spot.

Christmas cactus like warm but not hot places.

They don’t object to occasional bright light but long spells of strong sunshine make them sick.

Though Christmas cactus is from South America,

it’s not a true cactus. It’s a rainforest plant (epiphyte) used to growing on trees and rocks in humid air and partial shade. Their food comes from debris falling from trees and liquid comes from rain and mist on the foliage.

Regular fertilizer is OK, but they don’t need much.

Every couple of months in the growing season is enough. Christmas cactus roots are mainly hold-fasts so foliar fertilizer diluted

and sprayed on the leaves also works well.

They mustn’t sit in liquid or their roots could rot. So it’s best to wait till they’ve dried out for a few days, then water.

Q. I need to move a hellebore. When is the best time to move it? Should I wait till spring?

Pat, Langley A. The best time to move hellebores is right

after the flowers die back.

That’s usually in the spring. But that’s only good if we have normal rainfall in the spring.

If next year’s summer drought starts early, will you be able to keep it watered often?

Hellebores hate being moved and take a very long time to recover. As I recall, Pat, you have sandy, gravelly soil that’s normally fast-draining

unless you load it up with manure or compost.

If your hellebore is a Hellebore orientalis, these are the most drought-tolerant of any of them. But it may still need to be watered two or three times a week for several months after being moved. Grey water is fine for hellebores.

Adding some manure or compost to the hole would help both for nutrition and water retention. Bonemeal would also be useful.

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SPIRITS SOAR: Air Transat, Canada’s leisure airline, hosted its 11th annual Search for Santa Flight benefitting the B.C./Yukon chapter of the Children’s Wish Foundation.

Foundation director Jennifer Petersen and Air Transat regional manager Rod Ramage joined forces to create a magical trip to the North Pole for 150 special kids living with life-threatening illnesses and their families. With simultaneous flights also taking off from Toronto and Montreal, guests enjoyed an activity-filled day that included a 90-minute flight aboard the fleet’s newest airbus, during which the big man himself, Santa Claus, made a surprise appearance, distributing presents as well as welcomed respite for the wide-eyed children who face daily struggles with the realities of their illness.

Air Transat also took the opportunity to hand over more than $143,000 to the charity as part of their Small Change, Big Hearts program, with monies collected from passengers at the conclusion of each flight. This year, the B.C. Yukon division granted a record breaking 100 wishes.

GOING EAST: A culinary fixture in B.C. and Alberta, Cactus Club recently ventured into Ontario to share its creative fine dining concept to Torontonians. Led by executive chef Rob Feenie and founder Richard Jaffray, the firm’s 28th location is an impressive multilevel 500-seat restaurant situated in the city’s financial district. The 15,000-square-foot establishment features three different dining options: a ground floor Kate’s Bar, Rob Feenie Dining Room and lounge and rooftop-retractable deck. The eastern menu boasts dishes unique to the city including the tasty lingcod cocotte, delicious duck confit and Feenie’s Beef Duo, as well as Cactus Club classics such as the Feenie Burger, butternut squash ravioli topped with a jumbo prawn and tuna tataki. Local foodies got a taste at a special chef’s table dinner held at the chain’s convention centre locale.

HUNGER PAINS: CBC staged its 29th annual food drive in support of food banks across the province. A steady line of local personalities, including Bard on the Beach’s Christopher Gaze, B.C. Lions’ Marco Iannuzzi and city councillor Andrea Reimer queued up throughout the day to present cash donations, incentive prizes and challenges to fellow colleagues and companies to support the effort. The single largest campaign of its kind for B.C.’s 97 food banks, the event raised more than $630,000 from the yearly radio-thon and studio open house. That tally is way up from last year’s haul. Sadly, so is the need, as the demand for items of fresh and healthy food is greater than ever, exceeding 100,000 people who depend on the services of the food bank each month — a third of them children.

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Selling Cactus Club in Ontario, founder Richard Jaffrey and marketing director Christy Murphy introduced B.C.’s venerable creative fine dining firm to Torontonians. Led by executive chef Rob Feenie, the chain’s 28th store is located in Toronto’s financial district.

Producer Theresa Duvall welcomed B.C. Lions wide receiver and Canada’s Smartest Person finalist Marco Iannuzzi to CBC Radio Canada’s yearly food drive. More than 100,000 British Columbians depend on a B.C. food bank ever month.

Christmas Wish Foundation’s Jennifer Petersen, Snow White’s Kelsey Hansell and Air Transat regional manager Rod Ramage fronted the carrier’s yearly Search for Santa event for kids at YVR Airport.

Party host Ingrid Abbott, right, helped fundraise for Janet Austin’s YWCA Crabtree Corner, a transition house for single mothers. Held at Hy’s Encore restaurant, the yearly power lunch generated $40,000.

Winnie Leong, Scotiabank’s senior vice-president, B.C. and Yukon Region, presented a cheque for $5,000 to Aart Schuuerman Hess, CEO at the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

Children’s Wish kid recipient Jaidyn McGinn, 7, right, checked in with her mom Jaime Braithwaite and best friend Olivia Veenendaal for Air Transat’s special flight to the North Pole.

Rick Cluff and CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition kicked off the food bank radio-thon dark and early. The event generated a record $630,000 for 97 food banks across B.C.

Nature’s Path’s Ratana Stephens attended her first YWCA Crabtree Corner Luncheon, while Lily Lee has participated in all 21 editions of the charity event for single moms and their kids living in the Downtown Eastside.

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In the attic room of a dour Victorian mansion, a man steps from the shadows. He wears a black scarf and half-finger gloves.

“Marley was dead,” he says.

So begins Jason Stevens’ recital of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, in which the ghost of Jacob Marley comes to Ebeneezer Scrooge, his longtime business partner, and teaches him to mend his bitter ways. The setting is appropriate: late-Victorian Craigdarroch Castle, an opulently appointed, 39room baronial home of oak and granite built by Robert Dunsmuir on the proceeds from the coal mines he owned. Dunsmuir was, says the Encyclopedia of British Columbia, “The richest man in B.C. and also one of its most detested, primarily because of the ruthless labour practices at his mines.” A man, then, after Scrooge’s own cold heart.

Jason Stevens, in orating the novel, takes a page from Dickens’ book. The author often gave readings, both at home in England and in America.

From late November 1867 to late April 1868, for example, Dickens spoke 76 times in Boston, New York and across the northeast United States, packing halls with a thousand or more eager listeners.

Stevens’ crowds are more modest, between 10 and 40 people. But, like Dickens, Stevens doesn’t just read aloud — he works from a script that

Jason Stevens’ one-man show of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol has become part of the December events at Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, B.C., where Christmas in late-Victorian times is celebrated. He stands next to the richly trimmed tree in the castle’s drawing room.

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highlights some parts of the story and ignores others — and he plays 16 characters. The whole book, he says, would take 3.5 hours to do. He tells the tale in an hour, but you’ll be hard-pressed to know what he’s left out.

An actor by trade, Stevens began his Yuletide show at Craigdarroch in 2012. “It’s developing a following,” he says. “We have people who come from Seattle and make it part of their Christmas.”

A Christmas Carol deepens the already thick Victorian Christmas atmosphere at the castle, which includes carol sing-alongs in the drawing room. That room, like the rest of the castle, is

decked out each December as it would have been in the Dunsmuirs’ day, giving visitors a sense of how the holiday was celebrated among the wealthiest of British Empire colonials.

Six weeks are needed to set up the decorations, says Craigdarroch’s Laura Torbet, and what’s displayed is lavish and “very accurate.

This family was known for going above and beyond.”

Mantelpieces and fireplaces throughout the castle are wreathed in ribbons, green holly and red berries. There are Christmas trees on all four floors, but the main attraction is the one in the drawing room, richly trimmed and surrounded

by dolls, train sets and other toys. The candles on the tree are now electrically lit, but in the 1890s the branches would have twinkled with dozens of open flames. The effect must have been beautiful. In case anything went wrong, a maid stood by with a bucket of water.

Joan Dunsmuir and her 10 children lived in Craigdarroch from its completion in 1890 until Joan’s death in 1908. Robert, however, never got to enjoy it, he died, aged 63, in 1889. Perhaps if he’d had a Jacob Marley...

For more information on Craigdarroch Castle, visit thecastle.ca. See more stories at culturelocker.com.

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Dec. 17 to 23, 2015 1. If this doesn’t roast your chestnuts and get you in the holiday spirit, there’s no hope for you. Nick Lowe brings his Quality Holiday Revue to the Vogue Theatre Dec. 19. He’ll perform solo and backed by Los Straitjackets an assortment of brand-new Christmas classics and selections from his catalog of hits and near-misses. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketfly.com.

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2. Cue the Sugar Plum Fairies as the Goh Ballet continues its annual tradition of performing The Nutcracker and bringing the Christmas cheer to the Centre in Vancouver Dec. 17 to 22. For tickets and details, go to gohnutcracker.com.

3. Marking Keith Richards’ remarkable 72nd birthday and the Christmas season, the sixth annual Keithmas staggers across the Rickshaw Theatre Dec. 18. Local musical acts including Rich Hope & His Evil Doers, the Jolts, the Vicious Cycles, MC Elliot C Way and the Wild North, the Rentalmen, the Ballantynes, La Chinga, Dahle Brothers and the Tranzmitors perform Rolling Stones covers and a few Richards solo tunes, with all proceeds going to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, Neptoon Records and ticketweb.ca.

4. Enjoy medieval instruments, period costumes and centuries-old melodies without rolling any 20-sided dice as Winter Harp performs its annual Christmas concert Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church. For tickets, call 604-6842787 or go to ticketstonight.ca.

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It’s always fun to go back over the year’s stories and remind myself where the year went. It’s even more fun to check back with story makers to hear about holiday plans — and what to look forward to in 2016.

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“I’ll continue to remember that it’s family first and business second. In the end, it makes my business more successful.”

This summer The Dirty Apron taught 200 kids how to cook, with another 500 on their waitlist. “We don’t mom and pop it,” says owner David Robertson.

“They clean whole salmon,

break down chickens.” The school also cut a cheque for $15,000 — one dollar for every copy of The Dirty Apron cookbook sold — to the Reign Foundation, which supports 151 children in Cambodia. The Dirty Apron will be closed from Dec. 24 through Jan. 5, and Robertson and his family are heading to Whistler. “My kids are going to learn how to ski this year,” he says.

Louise Schönberg (Karameller):

“I don’t make new year’s resolutions. I can never keep them anyway.”

Karameller had two slow weeks after Halloween but has had little reprieve since then. Corporate and specialty orders are keeping them busy, including one ironic cross-

promotion with a gym that gives away a jar of candy each day. The shop will be closed the first two weeks of January.

“We’re taking a road trip to California,” says co-owner Louise Schönberg, who has Disneyland in her sights. “I don’t think our toddler wants to go. It’s more for me and my husband than him.”

Dave Le (Icepik Shavery):

“We’re looking at expanding to additional locations in the coming year.”

Open since April, Icepik Shavery enjoyed the long, hot summer. They’ve added to their menu to include hot and cold Taiwanese milk tea, served with jelly or tapioca bubbles and are working on waffle bowls for their snow cream.

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Also in the works is a sea-cream coffee, popularized by an L.A. café called 85 degrees. “It’s like a Vietnamese-style, dark coffee with a sea salt-based whipped cream on top,” says Le. “We sweeten the dark coffee and the sea cream creates a mild balance of sweet and salt.”

Jason Pitschke (Boulevard):

“It’s tough to say as a pastry chef [because] we tend to get really involved in our work, but I’m going to try to spend more time with my family. My kids are getting older and I want to have a little more balance.”

At Boulevard in the Sutton Place Hotel, pastry chef Jason Pitschke is rolling out the holiday specials: bûches de noel, cranberry sorbet, pumpkin tarts. The winter dessert menu features a dark chocolate yuzu dome with black sesame and warm crème anglaise poured tableside. And take a look around the restaurant in December — Pitschke has tucked meticulously decorated chocolate Christ-

Sam Pero continues to bring cannoli to the masses at Italia Bakery and his Cannoli King food trucks. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

mas trees into the dining room’s nooks and crannies.

Sam Pero (Italia Bakery and The Cannoli King):

“I want to bring a little Sicily to everyone.”

It’s been a busy year for Sam Pero and his team, with Italia Bakery going strong and the Cannoli King truck booked solid through 2016. In the works for next year are a second food truck, and a facelift

for the bakery to make room for — wait for it — a cannoli bar. “Pick your shell, pick your filling. You can have a fresh cannoli any time of the day,” says Pero. In the meantime, you can stock up on seasonally flavoured cannoli, peppermint biscotti and housemade panettone.

Whatever you resolve — even if it’s just to eat another cookie — have a happy new year. @eagranieyuh

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Ghosts haunt macabre retelling of Christmas Carol Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

(Left to right) Thomas Jones (Ghost of Christmas Past), Mike Stack (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) and Melissa Morris (Ghost of Christmas Present) appear in Sevan Tyrants Theatre’s Ebenezer: A Christmas Ghost Story.

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Seven Tyrants Theatre is big on style (Mozart & Salieri, The Beggar’s Opera) and this show takes style to another level. Director Newham also designed the minimal set and the extremely dramatic lighting, including background colours that change faster than you can say Susan Currie, the hard working, definitely

up-to-the-challenge stage manager up in the booth.

Original score and seven songs, more Brechtian than Broadway, are by Deorksen. All the performers sing and pick up instruments including violin (Masae Day), piano (Day, Morris and Martha AnsfieldScrase), guitar (Andrew Wheeler and Jones) and clarinet (Stack). While

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Told from the point of view of the Ghost of Christmas Past (Thomas Jones), the Ghost of Christmas Present (Melissa Morris) and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Mike Stack), Ebenezer: A Christmas Ghost Story is a riff on Dickens’ classic. More like characters in a nightmare than in a dream, the spirits are, “Your unsettling storytellers,” they tell us.

The story has always been gloomy with all that Dickensian detail: overworked Bob Cratchit scratching out a meager living in the bone-chilling office of skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge; Cratchit’s young son Tiny Tim, tubercular from cold and malnutrition as well as crippled; full prisons; full workhouses. We imagine the mean streets of cold, grey, fog-bound London.

But adapted from Dickens by David Newham (director) and created

by Newham and Daniel Deorksen (musical director)

for Seven Tyrants Theatre, Ebenezer: A Christmas Ghost Story is downright macabre.

In whiteface with white hair piled high and ringletted or wild and sticking out in all directions, the spirits’ faces show Frankensteinlike stitch marks or painted tears. More like zombies than ghosts, they’re dressed in outrageous punk/Gothstyle costumes by Ines Ortner. Her detailed costumes and exquisitely crafted headdresses are works of art and would make a great lobby exhibit for the Jericho Arts Centre after the show closes.

The story begins to unfold after a lengthy monologue by the ghost of Jacob Marley (Simon Webb), dressed like an old ’60s hippie with outlandishly grey/white hair, headband, long beard and wearing black leather flared pants and waistcoat. It’s a terrific costume but it’s awkwardly out of time and place. As Scrooge’s former business partner, Marley would likely be dressed in the style of Ebenezer, but obviously

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some of the songs are nicely integrated, others feel arbitrary. “A Merry Fezziwig Christmas,” for example, although a terrific opportunity for musicians and choreographers Marlise McCormick and Anna Kuman to stage a frenzied celebration led by Fezziwig with the whole ensemble in half-masks, that particular part of the story is fairly insignificant and the scene does little to move the narrative along.

Arguably the most frequently cast actor in town (and deservedly so), Andrew Wheeler is Ebenezer, first appearing in black top hat, sunglasses and a striped, ivory-onwhite leisure suit. An extraordinarily versatile actor who has portrayed roles as various as Stephen Harper in PROUD, brutal CEO Carlyle in The Competition Is Fierce and would-be MP in The Best Laid Plans, Wheeler “flies” through the air in silk PJs and fur-trimmed robe to revisit the past where Ebenezer sees his

sister Fannie (Day) and his abandoned fiancée Belle (Ansfield-Scrase); to the present, the Fezziwigs and his nephew Freddie; and to glimpse the future, guided by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

Ebenezer’s glee at discovering it’s Christmas Day is joyful; Wheeler throws himself across Ebenezer’s bed like a giddy kid who got everything on his Christmas list and, as the story goes, Scrooge buys the biggest turkey in town for the Cratchit family.

Some of the dialogue comes straight from Dickens. Much is new but the story remains the same: redemption with a little prodding from some extraterrestrials just in time for Christmas. God bless us — every one.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

Ebenezer: A Christmas Ghost Story is at the Jericho Arts Centre until Jan. 2. For tickets, call 604-684-2787 or go to ticketstonight.ca.

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(PST) Sunday.

Monday night opens the door to a month of home and security concerns. Every year (to 2024) the December/January period will bring some change in the home, great or small. Most Librans will “nail down” where they are really supposed to be, or will finally complete those major renovations, or decide just how big this family’s going to be, from 2018 through 2020.

Monday starts a month of mellow feelings, gentle love, understanding and a world-wide view. Far travel, higher education, media/publishing/broadcasting, fame, insurance, statistics, foreign-born people – one or more of these will be on your mind (and acting on it/them will improve your destiny). You will meet a few attractive, gracious people this week and early next – if you’re single, you could meet a potential life mate. If married, respond to your spouse’s “new beauty.”

Your charm lasts another week, so take advantage of it. Your enemies (one enemy is simply a big workload) last two weeks, so keep your guard up. Socially, the year ahead shines with bright possibilities, so keep your chin up.

Monday begins a month of restlessness, short trips, paperwork, details, casual friends, errands and communications. Be curious, ask questions, peruse the news media.

You leave an environment of open relationships Monday night, as you and another (or just you) slide into deeper waters. Where there was excitement, now intimacy looms. You either grow closer or break apart. Where there were business or practical proposals or agreements, now funding, actual hands-on commitment arrives – or, as in love, a break-off occurs. Research, look beneath the surface.

A month of money begins Monday night. Buy/ sell, seek new clients or a pay raise, longer hours, etc. Your methods of earning and saving might change in the weeks ahead – a small, seminal change that might grow over the months to come. Sunday daytime is romantic, adventurous, pleasure-filled and creative. But things go well and not-well.

Love is sweet until December 29. Home is feisty until January 3. The phone rings until late next year. Be ambitious Sunday to 3 p.m. (PST) – you could write the perfect, eager email to a higherup or snag a VIP’s attention. This eve you might have to decide between home and a different opportunity, or, if single, between security (which keeps changing these years, is “unstable”) and someone new.

Continue to lie low, rest and recuperate (and hatch new plans) until Monday night – then a month of personal vigor, charisma, clout and effectiveness begins. Every (late) Dec/Jan until 2024, you will be working on making your own wishes come true – and they will, some winters less so, some more. This should be one of the “more” times, especially in legal, international, far travel, educational, publishing, cultural, intellectual and love/social zones.

Deal with far travel, higher learning, media, cultural events and love Sunday until 2 p.m.

(PST). Luck blesses your efforts. However, this eve a chore conflicts with love’s dalliance, and annoyance results. Two days of ambition, pressures from above, status and prestige relations starts Sunday night. A whole month of chores and employment issues starts Monday night.

Be happy, be social Sunday, for a month of quietude begins Monday night. You still enjoy the favour of higher-ups all December. But avoid law suits, political or religious arguments until January 4. Sunday daytime promotes errands, paperwork, communications and restless travel.

Thus eve, retreat from the fray – someone might be telling tales about you, or you might suddenly blurt out what you don’t want to.

A month of romance, creativity, risk-taking, beauty, pleasure and adventure begins Monday night. Before this, Sunday daytime tempts you with a financial, investment, intimate or “spying” opportunity. This night, you might have to choose between romance and sex, or between a gamble and an investment. Monday/Tuesday bring wisdom, a mellow mood, love’s gentle touch, travel, higher education, culture and media.

You have one last chance to combine money and career Sunday before 2 p.m. (PST). (Well, there will be other chances, of course, down the road – but now is a good time to come to agreement, or to strike that first spark of asking for a pay raise or whatever more subtle schemes you might have.) The difficulty is, this day, especially late, also holds a disruptive (money/communications) factor – don’t mix friends and money.

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Dec. 21: Jane Fonda (78). Dec. 22: Diane Sawyer (70). Dec. 23: Susan Lucci (69).

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Clockwise from left: A water-proof cape from Happy Rainy Days makes for happier winter cycling. Bicycle attachments from Chalktrail allow kids of all ages to make chalk patterns behind their bike. Paniers from Hill and Ellis are as beautiful as they are pricey.

Winter gifts for the cyclist in your life For the all-season rider, umbrellas, capes and beautiful paniers from near and far

Melissa Bruntlett

melissa@modacitylife.com

The holidays are upon us and with them comes the scramble to get perfect gifts for those special people in your life.

Gift-giving is a unique talent that begins with knowing a few secrets or, at minimum, preferences and interests of your intended gift-getter.

Then you have the fun of selecting an ideal item to matches those passions and hobbies, secret or otherwise.

For some, this time of year can be stressful. With so many people to shop for, each with their own private hopes, public wish-lists and all kind of expectations. All of that and still no certainty about what will have the staying power to be useful all year long.

With that in mind, I’ve put together a holiday gift guide for your bicycle-loving friends and family.

Most riders, especially those who bike year-round,

likely already have the essentials. This list is about the treats you can buy cyclists to make their travels in the wet winter months just a little more comfortable.

Rainy Days also makes the charmingly named rain trouser as well as capes in various styles and colours.

Capes begin at $105.

Cleverhood jackets at $300.

Rain Capes: Quick and easy

Umbrella Holders: A unique solution

Winters on the “wet coast” are notoriously rain, but have been a little more unpredictable in recent years.

Don’t let that stop your bike-loving friend from getting out for a lovely winter ride. Rain capes are a great way to remain dry and stylish, allowing you to wear whatever you like underneath, be it a lovely wool trench or suit jacket.

It’s light enough to stow in a pannier for those justin-case moments, and if the rain comes mid-ride, it’s easy to put on and go.

Founded by two selfstyled Dutch “rain experts,” Happy Rainy Days and the Rhode Island-based Cleverhood offer some great options and are a great surprise under the tree. Happy

While we’re no strangers to riding while holding an umbrella, it can prove a bit challenging, especially when the roads are slick.

Umbrella holders are unique gift idea most cyclists would never think of, but are an easy way to keep dry without the fuss of added clothing.

Attaching easily to the handlebars of a bike and adjustable to your riding position, they are simple solution to riding in the rain.

Also thanks to the clever cyclists in the Netherlands, the senz° umbrella and its accompanying holder are great for two-wheeled urbanites. The company’s tag line is “love the weather,” and the umbrella itself isn’t perfectly round, but shaped to cover your head

and body while cycling.

The original model promises to withstand winds of 100 km/h and also come in dozens of colours. They can be removed from the holder for use on foot.

Check them out at out the Le Velo Victoria.

Holders cost $80 and umbrellas $100.

Stow and Go: Stylish but practical panniers

Finding a way to store your laptop, purse and other important items is always a challenge for daily cycling.

For riders who need to arrive at the office looking professional, the standard black utilitarian pannier bags can certainly detract. But riding stylish is possible all year round, and I love the growing number of options.

The Garment Pannier 2.0 from Calgary’s Two Wheel Gear is a great solution for someone who prefers to change when they arrive at the office. Costs range from $199 to $279.

For those with a little less time, British designers Hill and Ellis have an elegant collection of briefcase-lookalike leather pannier bags in a variety of colours to match the rider’s tastes. Styled with names like Bradley, Jasper, Birtie and Birkdale, these make a preppy addition to any bike.

Prices from $347 to $469.

Both options come with waterproof covers for added protection in heavy rain.

Colour Your Ride: Not just for kids

Finally, don’t forget the young riders in your life.

While kids are pretty resilient and will ride in almost any weather, that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have a little fun when they can.

I was so excited to see the Chalktrail, a unique gift idea for your creative youngster and available as part of a gift pack through Vancouver’s Cycle City Shop.

Adaptable for all sized bikes (as well as scooters), these holders can be installed by children and

don’t require tools or special hardware. They come with five chalk colours and attach to the back wheel.

Cost is $25.

Named one of Parents magazine’s coolest toys, the creators boast, “The street or sidewalk becomes a giant canvas, the rider an artist.” A piece of their chalk can last about three kilometres, meaning “the kids often wear out before the chalk does.”

Kids will have hours of enjoyment colouring their route while also riding their bike. Be the cool aunt or uncle in your little friend’s lives this holiday season.

There are so many great gift ideas out there for your cycling friends and family.

This holiday season, surprise them with something they would likely never splurge for themselves, and give them the gift of riding through every season.

Melissa Bruntlett is a cofounder of Modacity and is inspired to live a happy life of urban mobility. Reach her at melissa@modacitylife.com.

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Hoping to shop local? Here are some great products made right here in B.C.

Saddle Bag by Relative Studios

This handy little bag made in East Vancouver by Jeff Werner is built to withstand the daily commute and keep all your smaller bike needs safely stowed.

Perfect for a spare tube, multi-tool or that snack to keep you going. Available at Cycle City Shop.

Yoga Mat Sling by Two Wheel Gear

What yogi hasn’t struggled with a convenient way to transport a yoga mat by bike? This great Vancouver company knows just what Vancouverites need: a simple to use sling. Just strap it over your shoulder you’re set. Namaste!

“Flying Frenchman” Bike Crate by Cumberland Crate Co.

Manufactured in its namesake, Cumberland, B.C., this bike crate really is an ideal accessory to any bicycle. From growlers to groceries, your bike-loving

friend will never have to worry about carrying cargo again. Also available at Cycle City Shop.

Leather Bike Growler Caddy by Union Wood and Supply Co.

What authentically Vancouver gift list wouldn’t be complete without a trusted Growler Caddy? What makes this caddy special is that it’s not just for beer — it also fits wine bottles. Cheers!

Bicycle Tour Gift Certificates with Cycle City Tours:

Finally, treat your local bike enthusiast to something special in 2016. Cycle City Tours offer a variety of tour options, including sightseeing or brewery tours. A unique way of seeing this beautiful city by bicycle, gift certificates for a specific tour or straightforward cash value will make a nice treat for anyone looking to know this city a little better.

— Melissa Bruntlett

These small saddle bags for small items are made by Jeff Werner in his East Vancouver studio. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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BY DAVID CHAO

The Ford Fiesta enters 2016 as one of the most acclaimed “supermini” cars for its blend of high-tech features, outstanding efficiency and fun-to-drive personality.

The subcompact segment is filled with many worthy competitors.

Some of the strongest rivals are the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris and Kia Rio, to name a few.

To combat them, the 2016 Fiesta receives a few small, but key, updates — the Fiesta is one of the first in Ford’s range that is available with SYNC 3.

Design

All models, save the performance-focused Fiesta ST, are available in two different body styles. The practical five-door hatchback is the popular choice, but a traditional four-door sedan is an option if you prefer something more conservative.

The hatchback models offer more cargo space and its proportions are pleasing to the eye; in particular, the Fiesta ST has a fantastic design that garners plenty of attention.

Regardless of the body style, the Fiesta is stylish and distinctive. Sharp lines are visible from all angles and its standout feature is the large grille.

Note: the thick C-pillars do create a sizable blindspot.

Bright colours reflect the Fiesta’s fun-loving personality. New for 2016 is the SE Black Package that comes with unique 16-inch wheels, black trim and black mirror housings.

While the Fiesta is Ford’s entry-level model, that fact is not immediately apparent inside the cabin. Use of hard plastic is limited and the softtouch dash is especially plush, making the car appear more upscale.

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Ford Fiesta Performance

The Ford Fiesta is available with three engines, each with a distinctly different character.

The majority of buyers will likely opt for the standard 1.6-litre fourcylinder. This motor is available with either a five-speed manual or a six-speed automatic and offers a nice blend of power and efficiency.

Those looking for greater fuel economy can choose the optional 1.0-litre three-cylinder.

Using a turbocharger, it achieves better efficiency and slightly more horsepower and torque: 123 hp and 125 lb-ft versus 120 hp and 112 lb-ft on the standard engine. This engine is only available with a five-speed manual.

The Fiesta ST boasts 60 per cent more hp than the base model, which is shocking in such a small vehicle with a reasonable price tag.

The turbocharged 1.6-litre inline-4 produces 197 hp and 202 lb-ft of torque. While those are not out-of-this-world numbers, the Fiesta’s light weight and the engine’s instant response feel bring a true fun driving experience. Its six-speed manual is quick and direct too.

Considering the price point, the standard Fiesta already has excellent handling. But, the ST takes it to a whole new level.

Major upgrades to the suspension, brakes and steering mean that the Fiesta ST handles like a gokart and Torque Vectoring Control nearly eliminates understeer. Overall, the Fiesta ST feels very balanced and neutral for a front-wheel drive car and has very little body roll.

Even in base trim, the Fiesta’s quick and direct steering means it’s willing to play, but the ride is comfortable and little engine and road noise enters the cabin so long trips are not tiresome.

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The interior design is as bold as the exterior.

The sweeping dash is dominated by the central display screen and mobile phone-inspired button layout.

The base model does feel a bit spartan, but as you move up the range you are treated to leather seats, contrasting seat piping, ambient lighting and push-button start.

Five passenger seating is adequate in both sedan and hatchback models.

However, it should come as no surprise that the rear seat is cramped in the subcompact Fiesta.

Entry into the back is easier with the hatchback because its openings are wider. Also, once inside, the sedan’s sloping roof slightly reduces headroom.

There are many useful storage spaces found throughout the cabin; front door pockets are a decent size, the glove box is large and there are various other handy cubbies for smaller items. The deep centre storage doubles as an armrest for the driver and front passenger.

The hatchback also has a much larger cargo capacity than the sedan version. To start, the wider opening eases access to the 423-litres in the hatch, over the 362.5-litres in the sedan.

To further extend its advantage, the rear seats can fold 60/40 to create 720-litres of maximum volume.

Regardless of the version of Fiesta you choose, it has an excellent driving position. The seat and steering wheel have plenty of adjustment, plus forward visibility is great.

One interesting advanced feature is the MyKey system. This

allows owners to set parameters on top speed and audio volume - an excellent idea if the Fiesta will be used by novice drivers.

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Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include an alarm system, SiriusXM satellite radio, leathertrimmed and heated front seats, voice-activated SYNC 3, and a Sony audio system.

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Pony cars run wild Down Under Brendan McAleer

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Australia falls in love with the Mustang

Once upon a time, Australia had its own domestic car industry, catering to the specific needs of the country.

You know, little corks all the way around convertible tops, paint codes to match the colour of Vegemite — that sort of thing. But no longer.

The spread of globalization means that Down Under now gets the same sort of cars we drive up over. If you’re an Aussie Ford fan, that means goodbye to the Falcon, and hello to a right-hand drive version of the same Mustang the rest of the world gets. The reaction from Australians? They can’t get enough of it.

That’s speaking literally, by the way; Australia can’t actually get enough Mustangs. Within just a short time of Ford’s pony car going on sale, it’s already sold out as far as the end of next year.

Australians seem mostly to be opting for the 5.0-litre V-8 and the coupe over the convertible; not a bad idea for the country that invented Mad Max. Forgive me for wishing global manufacture worked both ways, and that we could see the mighty Falcon giving family guys a chance to have a sort of four-doored Mustang.

Chinese university develops mindcontrolled SUV

For all its shiny appcentric touchscreens, the future isn’t really all that exciting. Self-driving cars? You’re basically turning everything into a glorified robo-taxi.

But a two-tone SUV that’s controlled by brain waves? Now that’s Jetsons-style futurism you can get behind.

Researchers at China’s Nankai University in Tianjin have done just that, creating a “crown” of 16 sensors that hook up to a laptop and let

the wearer drive a Great Wall SUV around with the electrical impulses of the brain. Brakes, acceleration, turning — it all works, even the door locks.

Practical applications? There aren’t any, not really. The speed with which the rest of the industry is moving towards an autonomous future means that the brain-controlled car’s usefulness for, say, paralyzed drivers will shortly become moot.

But on the other hand, brain-controlled car!

How neat is that?

Maranello clamps down on rental Ferraris

One of the problems of visiting Ferrari’s birthplace is that the screaming engines and history of speed gets under your skin. You want to go fast. You need to go fast. And hey, that guy over there will rent you a red car with a horsey badge. Uh oh.

For the citizens of Maranello, this situation is a recipe made for maximum annoyance.

Lead-footed tourists are scorching all over the place, making normal life impossible. Sure, having the odd speed machine scorching around a testtrack is OK, but not all these low-talent half-wits going 10/10ths on city streets. Even Ferrari’s had enough, and is banning all advertisements of rent-a-Ferrari services from near their museum.

The police are out in force cracking down on speeders, and the hours that rental companies can operate are strictly limited.

Ford tattles on hitand-run driver

Is there anyone worse than a hit-and-run driver? Maybe that horrible guy who jacked up the price of HIV medication. But for one Florida woman (and it’s always Florida, isn’t it?), karmic retribution wasn’t about to let her get away with her nefarious deeds.

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Crikey! Australians can’t get enough of the Ford Mustang, recently introduced Down Under.

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BEST NEW SUV/CUV ($35,000 - $60,000)

Optima SX AT Turbo shown‡

$1,950 DOWN AT

0%

INCLUDES $200 CREDIT ≠

APR FOR 36 MONTHS≠

0

FINANCING FOR 84 MONTHS

FREE $100 VOUCHER

*5-year/100,000 km worry-free comprehensive warranty.

See kia.ca for more

Sportage SX Luxury shown‡

NO CHARGE

-WHEEL DRIVE OR ALL ON OTHER 2016 SPORTAGE MODELS.

°

SOME CONDITIONS APPLY.

2016 SORENTO 2.4L LX FWD LEASE FROM

129

$

$2,650 DOWN AT

1.9%

BI-WEEKLY

APR FOR 60 MONTHS ≠

Sorento SX Turbo AWD shown‡

AVAILABLE NO CHARGE

OR

ALL-WHEEL DRIVE°

ON OTHER 2016 SORENTO MODELS. CASH PURCHASE ONLY.

INCLUDES $500 CREDIT ≠

TAKE A TEST DRIVE, GET A WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED

THE ALL-NEW

2016 SPORTAGE

%

2015 SORENTO “HIGHEST RANKED MIDSIZE SUV IN INITIAL QUALITY IN THE U.S.”

BY J.D. POWER

AND

ENTER TO WIN AN ALL- INCLUSIVE TRIP FOR 2 §

Learn more at kia.ca Contest ends January 4th

396 SW MARINE DR., VANCOUVER, BC (Corner of Cambie & Marine Dr.)

1.866.618.0616

WWW.KIAVANCOUVER.COM

Dan Roukema

dan@kiavancouver.com

Tony Levasseur Alex Razvodov Julius Panganiban tony@kiavancouver.com

alex@kiavancouver.com

julius@kiavancouver.com

Offer(s) available on select new 2015/2016 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery from December 1, 2015 to January 4, 2016. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change without notice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,715, $22 AMVIC, $100 A/C charge (where applicable). Excludes taxes, licensing, PPSA, registration, insurance, variable dealer administration fees, fuel-fill charges up to $100, and down payment (if applicable and unless otherwise specified). Other lease and financing options also available. 0% financing for up to 84 months or up to $7,000 discount available on other select 2015 models. Discount is deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price before taxes. Maximum $7,000 discount ($6,000 cash discount and $1,000 ECO-Credit) is offered on 2015 Optima Hybrid LX (OP74AF) only. Certain conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. Representative Financing Example: Financing offer available on approved credit (OAC), on a new 2016 Sportage LX MT FWD (SP551G) with a selling price of $21,532 is based on monthly payments of $244 for 84 months at 0% with a $0 down payment and first monthly payment due at finance inception. Offer also includes $1,000 cash discount. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Cash Purchase Price for the new 2015 Optima Hybrid LX (OP74AF) is $24,752 and includes a cash discount of $7,000 including $6,000 cash discount and $1,000 ECO-Credit. Dealer may sell for less. Other taxes, registration, insurance and licensing fees are excluded. Cash discounts vary by model and trim and are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes. †“Don’t Pay For 90 Days” on all models (90-day payment deferral) applies to purchase financing offers on all new 2015/2016 models on approved credit. No interest will accrue during the first 60 days of the finance contract. After this period, interest starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay the principal interest monthly over the term of the contract. Offer ends January 4, 2016. ≠Representative Leasing Example: Lease offer available on approved credit (OAC), on new 2016 Sorento 2.4L LX FWD (SR75AG)/2015 Optima LX AT (OP742F) with a selling price of $29,332/$26,452 is based on a total number of 130/78 bi-weekly payments of $129/$119 for 60/36 months at 1.9%/0%, $0 security deposit, $500/$2,000 lease credit, $2,650/$1,950 down payment and first monthly payment due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $16,813/$9,287 with the option to purchase at the end of the term for $11,138/$13,215. Lease has 16,000 km/yr allowance (other packages available and $0.12/km for excess kilometres). °No charge AWD applicable on cash purchase of 2016 Sportage LX AT AWD (SP753G)/2016 Sportage EX AT AWD (SP755G)/2016 Sorento LX 2.4L AWD (SR75BG)/2016 Sorento LX + Turbo AWD (SR75DG) with an approx. value of $2,300/$2,400/$3,000 ($2,000 AWD credit and $1,000 in discounts)/$2,000 respectively. Some conditions apply. See dealer for details. §Open to Canadian residents who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory of residence who take a test drive at a Canadian Kia dealership between November 3, 2015 and January 4, 2016. 10 weekly prizes of a $3,000 itravel2000 voucher available. Plus one $100 travel voucher per eligible test drive. Limit of one entry/test drive voucher per person. No purchase necessary. Skill testing question required. Some conditions apply. Go to kia.ca for complete details. ‡Model shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2016 Sportage SX Luxury (SP759F)/2015 Optima SX AT Turbo (OP748F)/2016 Sorento SX Turbo AWD (SR75IG) is $38,495/$34,895/$42,095. The 2015 Optima was awarded the 2015 Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for model year 2015. U.S. models tested. Visit www.iihs.org for full details. Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov).

The Kia Sorento received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among midsize SUVs in the proprietary J.D. Power 2015 U.S. Initial Quality StudySM. Study based on responses from 84,367 U.S. new-vehicle owners, measuring 244 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of U.S. owners surveyed from February to May 2015. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.DL #30460.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, DE C E M B E R 1 7 , 2 0 1 5

The Freshest Holiday Treat

Couscous-stuffed Apples with Honey Syrup

Couscous Salad with Grapes, Nuts and Feta

Caramelized Mandarins with Cranberry Syrup

Persimmon Cookies

A WIDE VARIETY OF MANDARINS IS NOW AVAILABLE AT KIN’S!

Come to our stores for complimentary Christmas recipe cards to make your holiday meals even more exciting!

From December 22-24 enjoy A COMPLIMENTARY HOT DRINK from 11 am to 5 pm at all Kin’s Farm Market stores.

Prices effective: December 16-24, 2015 *While Quantities Last Sweet & Juicy

Korean Mandarins

$0.99/lb

Fresh & Nutritious

Sweet Kale Salad Kit (12 oz)

$2.99

Grown in Korea

Fresh & Nutritious

Fresh & Nutritious

Russet Potatoes

Tomato on Vine

$0.39/lb

$1.29/lb

Grown in Washington

Grown in Ontario

per bag

Product from California

Fresh & Nutritious

Sweet & Crunchy

Green Kale

Vanilla Persimmons

for $4

Grown in Spain

3 bundles

Fresh & Nutritious

Bag Avocados (4 avocados per bag)

$1.69/lb

Grown in Mexico

$1.50/bag

Grown in California

Regular price $3.99 per bag

Valid with any purchase and with coupon at all participating Kin's Farm Market stores. Offer only applies to the first item, price applies to any additional items.

Please check our website for full Christmas week hours. Wishing you all happy holidays!

Denman Street

1057 Denman St. 604.681.5221

Davie Street

Between Bute St. & Thurlow St. 604.687.8081

Champlain Square West 10th

Kerr St. & 54th Ave. 604.451.1329

4516 West 10th Ave. 604.221.1330

Valid December 16-24, 2015

Limit One Per Family - While Quantities Last - 5522

Oakridge Centre

Beside Public Library 604.264.6800

City Square

Across from Starbucks 604.873.6491 *1 HR PARKING VALIDATION*

Kerrisdale

2215 West 41st Ave. 604.266.9321