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Civic beat 2015: Of Ballem, bromances and BMWs

Mike Howell

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Sadly, another year of typing has come to a close.

That means it’s time again to raid the brain’s storage locker and come up with a list that aims to entertain and inform on what went down on the civic scene in 2015.

It’s also a great way to fill a page with random stuff and drop a few search engine-friendly names to bring some eyeballs to the website.

Oh, how I kid.

But what the heck, let’s try it: Donald Trump! Justin Trudeau! Barack Obama!

Grumpy Cat! Kerry… Jang?

With that nonsense out of the way, let’s get to a milder form of nonsense. Here’s my list:

Best bromance between a mayor and a prime minister

Are you kidding me?

That goes to Mayor Gregor Robertson and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Did you see those two at

city hall in December? Just a couple of back-slapping bros doing the good work of the people.

nonplussed or discombobulated.

Most surprising departure of a city hall staffer

Best way to get deep vein thrombosis and wonder why you didn’t follow your father’s advice to become a welder

Sit at the media table in the council chambers at city hall for hours and hours while councillors move amendments to the amendments and then vote on the amended amendment. That’s unless, of course, a friendly amendment is accepted by the mover of the amendment.

City councillor most likely to wear a creamcoloured suit Vision Coun. Kerry Jang, who continues to rock the Ricardo Montalbanlike threads and bring joy to bored reporters at the council media table looking for something to post on Twitter while suffering from leg pain.

That goes to longtime city manager Penny Ballem, who was dumped by the same Vision Vancouver administration that hired her way back in 2008. The “force of nature,” as the mayor described her, left with a $556,000 severance package.

Mayor Gregor Robertson and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “bromance” kicked into high gear at city hall earlier this month.

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City councillor most likely to perform a “fakie” or “anchor grind” with a skateboard Vision Vancouver Coun.

Raymond Louie, who revealed in council chambers during a debate about allowing skateboards in protected bike lanes that he once was the owner of a vintage Cal240 skateboard.

City councillor most likely to be shocked, appalled and surprised

NPA Coun. George Affleck, who is routinely shocked, appalled, surprised, disappointed, skeptical and challenged by the moves of his Vision Vancouver counterparts.

Never, though, has he been bamboozled, flummoxed,

Best speech by a city hall senior staffer heading into retirement

Hands down, Brian Jackson, who retired in November as the city’s head planner. Taking on his critics, he gave a remarkable and refreshing speech to an Urban Development Institute audience. He even used four-letter words.

Best booster of BMW and Kinder Morgan’s pipeline proposal

Former co-chairperson of Vision Vancouver Marcella

Munro, who declared her love for her BMW and pipelines in a conversation with Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid. Vision, in case you missed it, has spent a whack of time and cash fighting Kinder Morgan’s proposal, all with the help of Munro before she jumped into her BMW and rocketed up the highway to Alberta, where she now works for Premier Rachel Notley.

Best news conference

When then-Liberal leader Justin Trudeau assembled us media types in September at Cambie and Broadway to talk transit money.

Nardwuar the Human Serviette showed up with some Trudeau memorabilia and got Trudeau to do the “hip flip.” Google Nardwuar vs.

Justin Trudeau for a good snort laugh, or two.

Best reason to finish typing this sentence

It’s late afternoon, I’m tired and I could use a drink of something other than the glass of water on my desk. @Howellings

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The REACH Community Health Centre expects to move back into its renovated building on Commercial Drive at the end of January 2017.

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A $6.7-million renovation means the REACH Community Health Centre — a fixture in East Vancouver for almost 50 years — has to move off site while the work is being completed.

Executive director Madeline Boscoe said the building at 1145 Commercial Dr.

requires a significant upgrade and was close to being a total tear-down. Leaks from the roof and old pipes were among the concerns.

“We are now undertaking a huge renewal of the building because it’s so old.

Luckily some of the founding board members had the foresight to buy the property, so we can afford to stay in East Vancouver. We’re very

lucky, but the renovations we need to do are so extensive, we have to move away for a year,” she said.

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Mike Buda’s short 10:06 a.m. message expressed the agony of defeat to Bob Paddon, right after Elections B.C. announced Metro Vancouver voters had rejected a sales tax hike to fund a third of the cost of TransLink’s expansion wish list. The mail-in plebiscite was the dominant Lower Mainland story in the first half of 2015. Proponents of the $7.7 billion, 10-year transit and transportationbuilding plan failed to overcome public outrage about TransLink governance and management and SkyTrain service outages. Buda’s email message was among many released under Freedom of Information, offering a glimpse behind the scenes of the $6-million, publicfunded Yes campaign.

On May 21, more than a week before the May 29 voting deadline, Buda was trying to clarify his contract (capped at $150,000 through June 30) while TransLink planners were gearing up to canvass voters at major transit hubs during the next day’s

afternoon rush. But, late that night, SkyTrain’s Expo Line suffered another outage. A track-grinding machine’s spark lit an undiscovered bird’s nest and the fire spread to cables.

Bob Ransford, who was paid $90,322 to manage the campaign, dreaded the ensuing negative publicity.

“Just the thing we need for those last few undecided voters ready to mail their ballots today,” he wrote at 5:27 a.m. to Buda and Marnie McGregor, a Vancouver city hall bureaucrat seconded to the campaign.

On May 28 and 29, with time running out, Buda was juggling a variety of tasks, from email account deactivation and archiving to ordering catered snacks for an upcoming meeting at Metro Vancouver.

“You were THE key member of the team,” Buda wrote at 7:21 p.m. May 29 to McGregor. “More on that later… I can’t feel closure and say good byes on this till we get those damn results and know where things are going next. Only 4 short weeks! Ugh.” Fast forward to the July 2 decision day. Space had been booked for Yes campaigners to celebrate at Simon Fraser University’s downtown campus.

But, more than an hour before the release of results, SFU Centre for Dialogue director

Shauna Sylvester told Buda and others not to bother.

“I don’t think we are going to need it! I understand that it is a no!” Sylvester wrote.

Buda: “Where did you hear that?”

Sylvester: “Peter Robinson [Better Transit and Transportation Coalition co-chair] on Tuesday night. It would be great if it was wrong. I’m being contacted by media through SFU. I’d love any key messages.”

Buda: “Well, we are certainly expecting a no based on polls, but no one has yet heard actual results. We have been told they will give us a heads up shortly before 10.

We will see.”

Sylvester: “Any chance Peter is wrong?”

Buda: “I have no idea!

I would be surprised if the BC Govt or the independent elections commissioner would share highly confidential results with the [CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation], though. But anything is possible on B.C.” The B.C. cabinet ordered the plebiscite without fundraising limits or disclosure requirements. The Mayors’ Council claimed it spent $5.8 million of its $6-million budget. BTTC told donors it budgeted $835,000, but later admitted it raised only $261,743. The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation led the

No campaign and boasted spending just under $40,000.

Buda claimed the Mayors’ Council had no time to conduct open, public tendering, so it picked from a list of pre-approved suppliers.

The biggest contracts went to advertising placement agency Mediacom ($1.7 million) and Stratcom ($1.5 million), the pollster, robocaller and telephone town hall host behind Gregor Robertson’s three Vision Vancouver mayoralty wins. Stratcom employed a variety of sophisticated techniques. Its May 26 invoice for $42,242, for example, revealed that it billed for services such as “appending gender, ethnicity and dwelling type” to phone lists.

But many voters were not amused by the robocalls.

Richard Walton, Robertson’s predecessor in the Mayors’ Council chair, said he gladly participated in a telephone town hall, but he got more than 30 angry emails in five days.

“Mike, please stop the robocalls being made using my recording,” wrote Walton, the North Vancouver District mayor, on March 22. “I do not believe in this practice and had no idea when I recorded the TownHall message, this would have been the outcome.

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“What I’ve heard from other more established YouTube users is that if you’re doing gaming content, it’s easy — if you’re doing other content, it’s more difficult,” says Elise about her group’s struggle to gain committed viewers. “Like ‘Night of the Living Goose’ has over a thousand views, how many subscribers did we gain from that? I think one.”

Of course it only makes sense that How to Canadian has a West Coast feel to it, with all the members hailing from B.C. and many, if not all, of the scenes taking place outdoors.

“I think the humour is very West Coast as well, because we try to keep it very eco-friendly,” Elise says. “I say try, because filmmaking is one of those things where unless you have a humongous budget, it’s really difficult to do things that way. But because we’re in the woods filming and parks and different places like that, it’s like clean up after yourself, it’s all the basic courtesies you show the environment.”

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Cheetos are used as an alternative to fossil fuels, Canadian geese are the equivalent of the living dead and a maple syrup pipeline props up the economy. No, this isn’t Justin Trudeau’s visionary long-term outlook for the country — it’s the world of online sketch comedy series How to Canadian.

A couple of years ago, producer/director Care Elise and a group of her closest friends and colleagues from the local theatre community were wandering around the wilderness. “We’ve always been rooted in comedy, I did improv comedy in high school and stuff,” says Elise in a coffee shop on Vancouver’s West Side. “We said ‘why not do something that’s kind of like a survival comedy?’ From there, the idea morphed into what Elise calls a “love letter to Canada.”

How to Canadian airs a new episode every week, with each entry running anywhere from one to four minutes.

The series is shown on YouTube where Elise and her band of 12 west coasters — everyone was born and raised in either Vancouver or Richmond,

with one exception from Surrey — post their admittedly bizarre humour.

“When we were up in Prince George filming, there was a whole bunch of people up there and we had a cat hooked up to a little yellow Tonka truck because he didn’t care or notice,” recounts Elise. “He started pulling it and didn’t even notice, and someone from the back yelled ‘takes a cat to pull a Tonka!’ and we were just like killing ourselves laughing.”

As with many people pursuing their dreams in the creative arts, Elise wears several hats. She’s a copy editor for the film trade magazine Reel West and runs a program that teaches creative writing to young girls at the Richmond Women’s Resource Centre. She also recently added “magician” to her list of skills.

But that doesn’t stop her from constantly trying to move How to Canadian onto the radar. The most popular sketch from the series comes in at just over 2,500 views. It’s the aptly named “Bear Attacks an Outhouse,” where, well, a bear attacks an outhouse.

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REACH digs undergo year-long reno Continued from page 5 The dental clinic and pharmacy are open to the public, while other programs have some admissions criteria or have a program focus. REACH is a registered charity and is governed by an elected board that consults with the community.

During the renovation, crews will dig three-anda-half feet down to create a full medical clinic in the basement, an extra

floor will be built off one of the additions and an elevator and new stairwells will be added.

“We’re extending out underneath and creating a big courtyard in the back area, which used to be a parking lot,” Boscoe added.

REACH operates through grants from Vancouver Coastal Health, the provincial and federal governments, numerous foundations, its social enterprises — the dental

clinic and pharmacy — and community donations.

“We’ve spent the last few months and years getting ourselves in order for this new cost and believe we’ll be able to do this successfully and when we come back to the Drive we hope to contribute to the vibrancy of the Drive again,” Boscoe said.

She said in some ways it’s a relief to be out of the failing building. The

group couldn’t find a large enough space in East Vancouver to fit all of REACH’s services, so it had to move to two different sites and its services are now located on several floors of those buildings. The moves occurred in mid-December.

“Given the work that we do, we felt it important that we didn’t go too far away and that we stay on a bus route because most of our clients either

walk or bus to us,” Boscoe explained. “It’s not exactly like being dandelion seeds, but we’re definitely in different parts of East Vancouver right now for the year we’re going to be out.”

The medical clinic, pharmacy, counselling department and administration have moved to Hastings and Slocan, while the dental clinic and multi-cultural family program are on East 10th

between Commercial and Victoria.

Boscoe anticipates REACH will be back in the renovated building at the end of January 2017.

Further information can be found on its website at reachcentre.bc.ca and two open houses for the temporary locations are being planned for January to let the community see what the services look like in the new locations. @naoibh

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Trudeau, Translink, shakeups at city hall made for busy year

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olitical goings on this past year in Vancouver were not totally eclipsed by the historic federal election of the Liberals and Justin Trudeau.

But that event was intimately connected with Mayor Gregor Robertson and his aspirations for the city.

The mayor left little doubt as to whom he was backing and not just because Trudeau wanted to legalize pot. Early on in the

And, wouldn’t you know it, a couple of weeks ago, Trudeau the Younger became the first sitting prime minister to visit Vancouver city hall since his father made the trip back in 1973 when soon-to-be federal Liberal MP Art Phillips was mayor. federal campaign, Robertson was unusually effusive in his applause for a Trudeau announcement regarding a “significant and meaningful commitment to meet the urgent need for major infrastructure investment in cities and communities across Canada.”

This came in spite of the fact that the other party leaders were making similar promises.

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of staff Mike Magee was on his horse and heading to the nation’s capital to grease the ways for a trip by his boss.

And, wouldn’t you know it, a couple of weeks ago, Trudeau the Younger became the first sitting prime minister to visit Vancouver city hall since his father made the trip back in 1973 when soon-to-be federal Liberal MP Art Phillips was mayor. It was the Justin and Gregor show with promises of money for infrastructure and housing and, well, it was all very “green” and hugs and smiles. Municipalities and their issues were back on the federal agenda.

That presumably will include the awkward problem of dealing with regulation by the city of all those dozens of illegal dispensers of marijuana, if Trudeau carries out his promise to have the weed legalized.

Federal infrastructure money will not solve the problem of local funding created by the province that we saw with the disastrous transit referendum this year. Premier Christy Clark, of course, can commit billions for a new bridge to span the Fraser and replace the George Massey Tunnel. But the premier continues to insist that no new taxes can be collected in this region for the purpose of transit unless it is approved by the electorate.

That costly action earlier this year failed miserably largely because of an equally problematic insistence by the Liberals in Victoria, which is to keep the much criticized undemocratic governance structure of TransLink.

And TransLink this past year was just one spot where we saw a dramatic shift in leadership following complaints by the “stakeholders.” CEO Ian Jarvis got a golden parachute send-off that resulted in him reduced to an advisory role on full pay while another CEO took his place.

There were a number of senior depar-

tures at Vancouver city hall as well, although it could be debated as to whether they jumped or were pushed. Most prominent was controversial city manager Penny Ballem, thought to be an impediment to Robertson keeping his election promise to listen more to the people.

Ahead of her leaving, Brenda Prosken, manager of community services got nudged out, viewed as over her head in the job.

Engineering head Peter Judd’s departure was announced in the same memo, although there was no question of his competence.

The head of planning, Brian Jackson, however, had become a pariah among his peers during his short three years on the job. With his departure announcement, there wasn’t a wet eye in the house.

There was much grumbling, which continues, about housing affordability in general and, in particular, the continued destruction with city hall approval of perfectly livable pre-1940s houses, which are being

crunched and carried off to the landfill at a steady clip. (The exceptions are the mansions in First Shaughnessy, which are now protected.)

The city’s insistence, by the way, that the much larger replacement houses have garages, has also led to our “greenest city” seeing the steady mowing down of mature trees to make way for these structures.

Structures council has approved removal for that will be less lamented, although not without some controversy, will be those viaducts, remnants of a 1970s aborted plan for a cross town freeway.

And controversy combined with some doubt still surrounds the new art gallery planned for Larwill Park just east of the old post office on Georgia. Like those viaducts, we will have a better idea of what will happen there in the coming year.

And then there is the seemingly unresolvable problem of street homelessness. @allengarr

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Cross at crossword creator Re: “Crossword,” Dec. 3.

The Courier’s crossword puzzle creator should have enough candour to sign his name to his work. Many of the clues in this week’s crossword gave me the feeling I was being messed with, in an annoying, not an amusing, way. Apart from being the kid in the class with the biggest thesaurus, I wonder if his other career is prank caller?

His anonymity seems to confirm it.

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I’ve heard of the song being “code” for different points of the Christian faith.

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Standing up for Harper Re: “Federal election provided Canadians with early Christmas gift,” Dec. 21.

OMG I am so sick of the degredation of the effort Harper and his cabinet made to serve his and their country. Allen Garr, you will be spewing the same sh** when Trudeau is drummed out of office.

Jane Beausoleil via Facebook ••• It’s a tad early to be making such prophetic statements, especially when 1) Mr. “evidence-based” decisions has already made a series of non-evidence-based decisions, and 2) transparency apparently has a different meaning for Liberals. I will reserve thinking anything positive until something positive actually happens.

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I think maybe the media should be using the word ‘yet’ a lot more at this point in time... or just leave out the ‘but’ for now...

I’ll be happy to know this govt’s decisions have been thoroughly researched when they announce them. “Evidence-based...”

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I have been to the Le Marché a couple of times and find the place just a wee bit twee for my liking. They also seem to cater to a niche market so I don’t think this establishment nor its various clones in other hoods would qualify as a community builder.

You are absolutely right about a real neighbourhood being a place where everyone belongs and feels included.

I do have to take mild and friendly exception to the suggestion that we should all invite each other over for coffee. Some of us do because we have time and energy to spare and already feel somewhat compatible with the folks next door.

Where I live it isn’t that easy. I live in a social housing building downtown that has 40 per cent mental health consumers for tenants. I work in the mental health field as a support worker. Some of my clients are also my neighbours. When I come home I am tired. I need time to rest, take care of myself and keep myself fit for another day’s work with clients who sometimes can be very needy and challenging. The other day when a former client of mine, who is also a tenant in my building, started telling me in the elevator all about her toe fungus, I was reminded of just why I don’t like to invite my neighbours for coffee.

This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t look out for one another, and I always try to be on hand if one of my neighbours is in need and I am able to help out.

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We talked with a lot of people in 2015 — politicians, healthcare workers, athletes, musicians, body builders, even a piñata maker. Here’s a small sampling of the most compelling things people told us in the pages of the Courier this past year.

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Seeking refuge

It’s like drinking from a fire hydrant of humanity.

Chris Friesen of the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. on the outpouring of donations and offers from people wanting to help refugees.

It’s just so horrible to be in a safe place but thinking about your family and your parents every single day and knowing that someday you might wake up one day knowing you might not be able to talk to them. I feel homesick every day.

Majd Agha, a 22-year-old government-sponsored refugee from Syria.

Civic affairs

I don’t look at it as some kind of crown, or whatever. For me, it’s just something that if I can be of help, then I will do something to help the NPA. That’s all.

Former NPA city councillor B.C. Lee on becoming the NPA’s president.

They’ve been very receptive and want to hear that independent health viewpoint on a lot of their decisions, but not all governments do that. But they’re still making the decisions.

Dr. Patricia Daly of Vancouver Coastal Health on the agency’s influence on city council in forming public policy.

I don’t believe she had intentions to retire. Refreshing leadership is necessary and I think — without pointing specifically to changes that need to happen — I think there’s an opportunity with new leadership to address some of those concerns around a more collaborative approach as a city.

Mayor Gregor Robertson on dumping city manager Penny Ballem, who was hired by Vision Vancouver in 2008.

She obviously played an important role in the Vision communications team, but I had no knowledge of her personal beliefs on fossil fuels. She was a great resource on our campaign but she has her own personal views and is working in Alberta now and felt compelled to express those.

Mayor Gregor Robertson on

I thought this was going to be one of those places where I was going to get uncomfortable. I don’t like people in authority. Whether they shake my hand or not, or smile, I have a hard time with it. I’ve been that way since I was a kid.

But my emotions today are more different than they used to be. I can shake a [police officer’s] hand now and feel comfortable around them and not feel like they’re going to arrest me.

Jasper Joseph, a guest at the Vancouver police’s “Lunch with the chief” luncheon at the Carnegie Centre.

former Vision co-chairperson Marcella Munro declaring her support for the Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal.

I just wish they [CP] weren’t so greedy. I’m pleased that our city government is looking out for our tax dollar interests because I think the amount that CPR was asking is outrageous.

Gudrun Langolf, a long-time Marpole resident, saying she wouldn’t mind if the city bought the Arbutus Corridor land — but not at any price.

The park board did not give us any assurance about programming. But I thought it was important to get the project going. It’s a leap of faith and our way of saying to the park board we’re willing to work with you.

Ainslie Kwan, president of the Killarney Community Centre Association, on signing an agreement with the park board determining the group has no claim to ownership of the centre or the land it sits on.

I’m not at liberty as a trustee to confirm or deny anything that may have occurred or didn’t occur in camera. I just thought it in the best interest of the board, for the good governance of the board, that my stepping aside would be the right thing to do.

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Christopher Richardson about his surprise decision to resign.

This is your chance to not only acknowledge past dislocation and exclusion but to see to it that the black community that was displaced and the subsequent generations who have been impacted by that loss are thoughtfully consulted with the purpose of re-establishing a place for Vancouver’s black community.

Stephanie Allen, an urban studies master’s student at Simon Fraser University in a presentation to city council about the removal of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts.

Vinyl windows. I continue to call them the spawn of the devil.

They are a horrible thing to do to a building. Just awful for many, many, many reasons. Just don’t do it. Please.

Donald Luxton on one of his pet peeves about what people do to heritage buildings.

I guess my feeling is that if this was happening in Shaughnessy or Point Grey on a regular basis — the two or three times a year that these people seem to surface — I think there’d be a plan to say, ‘No, this is not appropriate.’

Tom MacDonald, a Grandview-Woodland resident, on an unsanctioned street party going ahead in his neighbourhood.

You tell me where the hell is affordability. Things have gone insane. So when they’re talking row houses etc., I don’t know where they’re going to get affordable homes when the new development at 25th and Ash where the Hobbit House is — [those] townhouses are going to go for a million plus.

Allan Biuim, of the Riley Park South Cambie Community Vision Group, on references to affordability in the staff report on phase three of the Cambie Corridor plan.

What’s missing is [people’s] realization that if you don’t have Internet at home or at work or you don’t work, then you are almost helpless in today’s society. It’s like you’re set back 50 years in terms of your capabilities compared to the average person.

Roland Clarke, one of the coordinators for the Downtown Eastside Street Market, on how difficult life is for people who don’t have access to Wi-Fi. So, so far I’ve been very politically correct. I kept my mouth shut. I kept my head down. But I kind of think there’s a very interesting book here, one that I call, ‘Don’t be so f***ing hypocritical.’

Brian Jackson, the city’s head planner before he retired in Novem-

ber, on planners and academics who’ve been critical.

I guess we think homes should be lived in by people and if people do want to speculate, which happens globally now, it’s up to the government to get a public benefit out of that.

James Macdonald, a contributor to the popular Beautiful Empty Homes Tumblr site, urging penalties on vacant homes.

I’m a third generation Canadian, born and raised in Vancouver, and somebody sent me an email saying, ‘I think this house is empty and I see an Asian guy in a suit in there and he must be the real estate agent or a foreign investor.’

And it was my house.

Coun. Kerry Jang on not jumping to a conclusion that a home is vacant.

Co-housing is the opposite of [a lonely existence]. It allows people to enter into a community of like-minded people where they can share all kinds of activities and they can be involved in events and [they] are able to create a family of their own.

Jack Brondwin, 68, on the appeal of co-housing.

We’re not against heritage, but in this particular case [we] have the sense that heritage is being used as a way to densify and get a more profitable outcome for the builder.

Dale Leibel, a Douglas Park resident, on a proposal for a multifamily development that would save a 1920s-era church.

You know, there’s reference here to climate change and so in aiming to be the greenest city, how are they embracing how we’re going to be the bluest city?

Shahira Sakiyama at a City of Vancouver open house about the planning process for False Creek Flats, commenting on how the city should incorporate or honour the historic site of the creek.

Right now, the drug dealers, the pimps and the exploiters have more command of the social system than does the social care system.

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth on the need for better services for aboriginal children.

House calls

We’re just seeing our city disappear, so it’s my small attempt to capture some of this before it’s all gone.

Caroline Adderson before the release of the book Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Removal.

The pigs are the hard part. They run around and knock you over, especially the mom.

16-year-old Noah MacMurchy about his summer job as a farmhand at the Pacific National Exhibition. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

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I really like the idea of working with this dark humour, working with a different way of viewing the Holocaust and using laughter and confidence as a weapon… so you can see my women are smiling, they’re enjoying themselves, they’re confident, they’re absurd. It’s a crazy revenge fantasy.

Artist Hinda Avery discussing her large scale paintings of fun-loving, foul-mouthed women freedom fighters taking on the Nazis.

Have you ever thought, ‘Why can’t I go to my local bar not to only to drink beer and eat saucy Mexican food, but also to sketch or shyly glance at modern nudes in various poses while listening to dramatic classical music by the greats?

Nikki Hebert who organizes a regular art event at the Astoria Hotel pub called Get Nude.

Sporting life

a lot about ourselves.

Writer and photographer Jordan Matthew Yerman who’s taken 2,500 photos of feral felines in cities around the world.

resident of Cavell Gardens retirement community who was recently awarded the 2015 Let’s Embrace Aging Passionately (LEAP) Award from the B.C. Seniors Living Association.

[I had] to dress up as Tourism Nanaimo mascot ‘Nanaimo Barney’ — literally a huge, fuzzy Nanaimo Bar that smelled of despair and broken dreams — and endure occasional gut punches by some jerky little kid.

Local actress Elizabeth Bowen on her most humbling acting gig of her career thus far.

I feel very lucky to be at my stage in life and to be able to do very good, sophisticated dancing with good choreography. Sometimes I pinch myself and just think I’m going to be performing in the Rothstein Theatre — that’s pretty cool — with 28 of my good friends and family there to watch.

Retired B.C. Supreme Court Justice Donna Martinson, who joined the Razzmatap dance troupe in 2002 when she was 52 and her 17-year-old son told her to get a life.

There’s only one champion.

We take the silver, and I am incredibly proud of these boys.

We’re back at it Wednesday to start the next season.

Jeff Gourley, head coach of the Tupper Tigers, speaking after a crushing loss at the AAA B.C. senior boys basketball championship final.

We will race the last stage of the Tour de France alongside the men on the Champs Elysees, in Paris.

The women finally have one race alongside the men. That’s the next big goal for me.

Shelley Olds, U.S. national team racer who finished on the podium in every B.C. Superweek event, discussing her future plans after finishing third in the Gastown Grand Prix.

That woman doesn’t deserve to take that stick. International football ain’t easy, and Sinclair is giving everything, every single game.

John Herdman, Canada’s national soccer coach speaking about team captain Christine Sinclair and the criticism she received in the Group Stage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in June. In the first three games, she scored one goal on a penalty shot.

where.

Jonathan Dieleman, a paraswimmer who grew up on a farm in Quick, B.C. and now lives in Vancouver, competed at the Toronto Para-PanAm Games in July. He calls himself the “prototypical cowboy.”

Best money I ever spent. It wasn’t that hard, and he sold it pretty good so I’m laughing on the bench afterwards so I don’t think he’s too hurt. I wasn’t trying to injure him […] When I swing by, I got my stick active.

Brandon Prust, Vancouver Canucks winger fined $5,000 for spearing Boston Bruin Brad Marchand between the legs at Rogers Arena in early December.

Humans of Vancouver

It’s difficult to sell a one-hour documentary about something that happened 70 years ago that doesn’t include a Kardashian.

Morgan Elliott, executive producer of a documentary about the last two airworthy Lancaster bombers that served in the Second World War.

I feel like I blacked out in the first 30 minutes of the game. I was on a mission today.

Carli Lloyd, FIFA World Cup MVP and U.S. captain scored the fastest hat trick in the tournament’s history to lift her side 5-2 over Japan at B.C. Place July 5. The U.S. led 4-0 by the 16th minute.

After all of my work with Honour House, I am proud to wear this uniform. I want those men and women to know I am here to serve them.

Allan De Genova, Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel to 15th Field Regiment, who founded Honour House, a home away from home for Canadian Forces personnel, veterans, first-responders and their families while receiving medical care and treatment in the Metro Vancouver area.

Turn ’em loose, boys!

Mike Reno, lead rocker from Loverboy, had this advice after he sang the Canadian anthem with Catherine St Germain before the opening of the Little League B.C. Championship at Memorial Park South.

He’s all I’ve got.

Tellier Tower resident Rob Dumas speaking to the Courier about his multi-coloured Shih Tzu named Chico for a story about the importance of the relationships between residents from the Downtown Eastside and their pets.

I wore Wranglers and cowboy boots and a cowboy hat every-

I like how he tells the story of the war. And the part when Hitler dies.

Grade 4 student Roshin Sandhu following a presentation as part of the Memory Project at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre on Hastings Street during which Ernest “Peter” Bone spoke of his time serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. It’s going to be like Boxing Day at Wal-Mart. I’ll probably be pushing down old people who get in my way.

Negroni cocktail enthusiast Colin Bradley discussing the eventual end of Vancouver’s months-long Campari shortage.

The language is filthy. It’s amazing, many of the actors have young children and they’re like, ‘It’s so hard to turn it off when you leave the rehearsal hall.’

Rachel Peake on directing David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer-Prize Glengarry Glen Ross with an allfemale cast.

Their influence is really everywhere and even if you don’t like them, what they did is bring attention to Canada and Canada’s music machine. They don’t even get that credit, which is crazy to me. If four dudes had done that, they’d be on our f***ing dollar bills — if we had dollar bills.

Author Andrea Warner on Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain and Sarah McLachlan, the subjects of her book We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the ’90s and Changed Canadian Music.

People have an unadmitted sadistic feeling towards puppets, they want to see them suffer.

Old Trout Puppet Workshop cofounder Judd Palmer on the popularity of his troupe’s show, Famous Puppet Death Scenes.

I see them as neighbours that just don’t happen to be humans.

How we treat these cats can tell us

If I do continue to compete, it will be a consideration, which is something I never thought I’d say out loud. When I was fatter, I had great boobs. I miss my boobs. I still have the bags they came in…

Writer-turned-bodybuilder Jenn Farrell discussing the possibility of getting plastic surgery.

It’s made my experience better because I know now that it has nothing to do with me… and that other people are experiencing it too, and also that it’s going to make good material for my blog, too, if I respond in a funny way.

Hannah Maté who started the blog Hey Sup Girl?: Celebrating the Real S*** Dudes Say on Online Dating.

What pays my rent is businessmen. I make a lot of the CEO of a company, like white, bald dudes in suits… If your boss already owns his Rolex, he owns his yacht, what do you buy a guy that has everything? A custom piñata of them.

Custom piñata maker Meaghan Kennedy Not wanting to miss out on a big celebration, I decided to make my 99th the ‘Big One.’ You never know at this stage whether you will reach 100.

Centenarian Janet Shier, a

My brother-in-law worked near there at a gas station, and he heard it was closing. So he went by and they were pulling up the wooden dance floor in long slats and going to throw it all out. He bought it all off it. He took some of it for his cabin in Point Roberts and we got the rest of it for $35. We did our whole basement floor with it.

Mildred Henderson, 92, who outfitted her basement with floorboards of the Danceland Ballroom before it was demolished in 1965.

You get up and say, ‘This is it, this is the last day.’ And to have all this, with family and friends and the luncheon, it’s quite a way to go out. I didn’t think this many people liked me.

Rick Caulfield on retiring after 47 years as a barber in Kitsilano.

I still sing and I’m still blowing my horn, playing the saxophone and clarinet, which is good for the diaphragm. And I lead a pretty healthy lifestyle. I walk a mile every day and I still take singing lessons.

The soon-to-be 98-year-old bandleader Dal Richards speaking on his longevity.

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Buddhists ring in reflective New Year with bells Pat Johnson

and we hit a bell more than 108 times,” Aoki says. The significance of the number, he says, is the teaching that there are 108 worldly passions that Buddhists strive to master or overcome.

The fading sounds of the bell’s peal is also intended to recall the transitory nature of life. The late Dr. Shotaro Iida, a UBC professor of religious studies, explained the significance of ringing the bell at the New Year.

“In Buddhist philosophy, there are 108 mental defilements,” Iida said. “It is believed that by ringing the bell 108 times on New Year’s Eve — 54 times before midnight, 54 times after — one can erase the past mental impurities and start the year new.”

Across town, at the Kadampa Meditation Centre on the East Side, resident teacher Gen Kelsang Thekchen will lead a candle-lighting and meditation service.

“Lighting a candle flame generally symbolizes wisdom, wisdom fire, so we’re kind of moving toward the next year with the

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New Year’s Eve will see some of us engaged in a hedonistic bacchanal. The more laid-back among us might spend hour after hour watching Anderson Cooper giggle his way into the new year. For quite a number of Buddhists in Vancouver, the evening will be far more quiet and reflective.

New Year’s Eve doesn’t have a particular religious significance in Buddhism.

But because Japanese customs follow the Western calendar, it is the end of the year and a good time to reflect, according to Rev. Tatsuya Aoki, resident minister at Vancouver Buddhist Temple in what was traditionally Japantown. He and roughly 100 others will gather at UBC’s Asian Centre and strike a four-sided bell that was a gift from the government of Japan.

Buddhism teaches impermanence, that everything changes, he says.

“So Dec. 31, we take our busy schedule aside

Rev. Tatsuya Aoki of Vancouver Buddhist Temple says Buddhists set aside time on Dec. 31 to hit a bell more than 108 times to represent the 108 worldly passions that Buddhists strive to master or overcome. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

determination to increase our wisdom and be more understanding in the year to come,” he says. “After we’ve lit all the candles, then I’m going to give a short talk on compassion…

Compassion is feeling the suffering of others and finding it unbearable… a wish to protect others from the suffering, to liberate others

from their suffering and realizing the only way to do that is to free ourselves from our suffering, otherwise it’s one drowning person helping another.”

This will be followed by visualization.

“We spend some time visualizing our family, our friends, the people of Canada, the people of the

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If he times it just right, Thekchen laughs, the group will chant in the new year with a beautiful, common Buddhist mantra.

For Thekchen, whose tradition is a fairly modern Western Buddhist tradition based in Tibetan roots, New Year’s is a time of reflection.

“In our practice of moral discipline, at the beginning of the day, in the morning, we take certain vows and we make certain determinations, certain promises, to be more compassionate, more patient, to abandon certain negative actions, and then we try to be mindful of that throughout the day,” he says. The beginning of a new year is similar. “New Year’s seems to have, for many, a stronger power because you’re spending a little more time reflecting on your year and making some determinations. A lot of people make New Year’s resolutions, that sort of thing. Generally, I try to emphasize a determination to be more compassionate

over the next year.”

At another local centre, Triratna Vancouver, order members and anyone who cares to join them will make a conscious decision to avoid the alcohol-fuelled highjinks of the night.

Dharmacharini Vimalasara, also called Valerie Mason-John, is the chairperson of the local order and also the author of several books, including Eight Step Recovery Using the Buddha’s teachings to Overcome Addiction.

“There are many people who struggle at this time,” she says. “We’re creating a safe space for people to come and the opportunity to reflect on their lives without being under the influence of an intoxicant.” Lots of people choose to medicate on New Year’s Eve, she says, while she and those around her prefer to meditate.

“We will also do a ritual looking at what people would like to leave behind and what they would like to cultivate in 2016,” she says. Even so, she downplays the relevance of Dec. 31 or Jan. 1.

“New Year’s Eve isn’t significant in our tradition, because every day is a new year,” she says. “But we are living in the West, we’re living in a Christian country where many people are affected by the new year.”

She and other Buddhists in town want people to have the opportunity to experience it in a different way. @Pat604Johnson

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Ziplines, snowball fights highlight year of weekends Rebecca Blissett

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You people sure get up to interesting things on weekends. And that is great for the Courier, otherwise this City Living feature, which ventures out to explore your worlds almost every Saturday and Sunday throughout the year, would not exist.

As another year closes, we opened the archives to look at some of the highlights of the weekends of 2015.

Having a ball

March 21 marked the second time an official snowball fight happened in Vancouver. A game of yukigassen is described as being a mix of capture the flag, dodgeball, hide and seek and touch football where two teams huck synthetic snowballs at one another on a court, or in this case, the bare concrete of the Robson Square skating rink. Yukigassen started in Japan 20 years ago and has its own international federation.

“It’s a game that feels very Canadian,” said Nathania Lo, a member of the 2014 championship team Snowball Patrol. “It brings back the kid in a person, too.”

Zip it

The most-read City Living feature covered the temporary Queen Elizabeth zipline, which officially opened July 4. The zipline was controversial; some loved the idea of flying over

the gardens while others did not want to see the privatization of public space. Others, such as Rob Hicks, an employee with Greenheart International Development Corp. — the company responsible for building and running the zipline — were more concerned about ensuring brides did not flash those down below. “Lots of experience with the wedding dresses, maybe 100 of them,” said Hicks. “You know, you just got married and you have a beautiful woman and you don’t want to be giving everybody else a peep show.” The zipline raised $47,175 for the park board, which helped fund maintenance of parks across the city.

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The city did a beautiful job of the park, with its two synthetic turf-playing fields, a running track, basketball and beach volleyball courts, a parkour park, ping pong tables, gym and children’s play area. Nice to see especially given the grounds’ storied history; when Empire Stadium opened for the British Empire and Commonwealth Games July 30, 1954, it was the largest sports facility in the country. The stadium’s glory years included Roger Bannister and John Landy

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Left: First-time visitors to Queen Elizabeth Park Karen and Nate Whistler with daughters Hazel and Fiona, wanted a family photograph taken in front of the park’s temporary zipline. Right: Siblings Teri and Mike Parker picked up their NBA excitement where they left off by attending a preseason Raptors vs. Clippers game at Rogers Arena Oct. 4, 2015. Both attended Vancouver Grizzlies games years ago.

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breaking the four-minute mile at the ’54 Games in the first televised sports event broadcast live to all of North America, as well as a tour stop for Elvis in ’57 and the Beatles in ’64.

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History was very much present when the Toronto Raptors rolled into Rogers Arena to take on the Los Angeles Clippers in a preseason NBA stop, Oct.

4. Hordes of Vancouver fans wore the teal green jerseys of the Vancouver Grizzlies, a team that lasted six years here before moving to Memphis, Tenn. for the 2001-02 season.

“We want to show Vancouver can support another team,” said fan Vishal Lekhi who rounded up 20 friends to attend the game. “We are ready! Vancouver is ready!” @rebeccablissett

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Dec. 31 to Jan . 6 1. From the creative team behind the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony comes Opera Warriors. Billed as “an epic tale of power, passion and the Peking Opera told through a mix of contemporary dance, acrobatics and martial arts,” Opera Warriors leaps across the Queen Elizabeth stage Jan. 5 and 6. Tickets at ticketmaster. ca. Details at operawarriors.com.

2. Wake up to the cold, sober reality of 2016 as members of the VSO, the Strauss Symphony of Canada, vocal soloists and ballroom dancers take a trip down the Danube for A Salute to Vienna Jan. 1 at the Orpheum Theatre. The afternoon of waltzes and operetta kicks off at the ungodly hour of 2:30 p.m. Details vancouversymphony.ca.

3. Oh yeah, New Year’s Eve. It’s happening. And if you are inclined to wade through the sea of humanity just so you can cram into a crowded bar and sip champagne from a dinky plastic cup at midnight, we assume you’ve already purchased your tickets. If not, well good luck. Personally, we’ll be surfing the TV looking for a Roseanne marathon. That D.J. is so funny.

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Start nothing new before January 25, Aries – projects, ventures, relationships, major purchases. A new friend or contact, just met, might not remain. Ah, well – there are reasons.

This person might return in February, but even then the relationship might not “cement.” A former job, boss, or career role might return – but there’s more talk than action.

Start no brand new projects, ventures, investments, relationships – nor make major purchases – before January 25. Until then, mistakes, indecision and false starts rule. There are two good ways to go: 1) reprise projects, etc. from the past; 2) protect ongoing projects from mistakes, delays, supply shortages, etc.

Double check figures, addresses, schedules. In your case, most of the snafus will occur in home, property, security and related zones.

The general accent lies on intellect, learning, far travel, legal affairs, culture and gentle love.

But deep physical intimacy, secrets, finances and health matters pull you, also – in a sweet, mildly lucky way, until late month. Relationships simmer with intensity Sunday noon (PST) to Tuesday night – and all January and February.

Make friends, not enemies – but don’t let overassertive types try to cow you, either.

Start no new projects, ventures nor relationships before January 25, Scorpio. Don’t make major purchases (car, computer, software, clothes – or bigger). In your case, errands, mail, phones, paperwork and filing – these need special attention. Double check addresses, figures, times, instructions, stock on hand, etc. A friend from long ago might re-appear. This is probably meant to make you re-examine your personal ties, rather than meant to add a friend.

Start nothing new – relationships, projects, major purchases – before January 25, Gemini. Instead, protect ongoing ventures, jobs and meetings from delays, missed appointments, supply shortages, confused thinking, false starts and indecision. You also can profitably reprise the past. An old flame might appear this month, but chances are he/she is married or otherwise unavailable for a “whole love” – you can reap physical intimacy, but little else.

Start nothing new before January 25, Sage – especially in money matters, purchases, and relationships. (You could be tempted to start an easy, polite sensual affair, but will later wish you were free.)

Instead, protect ongoing projects from loss, mistakes, delays, shortages, wrong instructions, etc. You can also reprise the past – e.g., collect on an old debt, or return to a former source of income. (These are highlighted Friday/Sat. – see below.)

Relationships outweigh everything else this month. Sunday noon (PST) to Tues. night brings romance, passion, creative and risk-taking urges – and the pleasure of winning, or the poetry of love. Be a little careful with sex, investments and legal matters – it almost looks like a conversation tempts you into, or to argue about, these things. Otherwise, all is idyllic – plunge in where the heart leads.

Your energy, charisma and clout stand at a yearly high, Cap. Usually I’d urge you to get out and start big new projects. But you should avoid starting anything brand new before January 25. Projects, ventures, relationships, even purchases entered into before then will chase their tails, and eventually die on the vine. Purchases will be lemons, so stick to groceries, reject new cars, etc. Happiness wafts in Sunday noon (PST) to Tues. night.

January’s main accent lies on work and health, Leo. Eat, dress sensibly. Don’t start anything new before January 25. That includes relationships, projects, ventures, investments and major purchases. (All these, however, could be viable, even nicely successful, if they return from the past – e.g., a former job.) Strive to protect ongoing projects (especially at the work place) from delays, supply shortages, missed appointments, mistakes, false starts and indecision.

Steer away, until January 25, from brand new projects, relationships and major purchases, Aquarius. (Minor purchase: bread. Major: clothes, and on up.) You were just about to start something recently: if it (or your enthusiasm) fades, let it.

Sunday noon (PST) to Tues. night features career, worldly standing, prestige relations and your ambition – mostly beneficially. (Avoid a small argument, especially with a boss or VIP.)

Start nothing important, no new relationship, no major purchase, no significant project, before January 25, Virgo. In general, this is a beautiful, affectionate, romantic and winning month. An old flame might appear – and might belong in your life once again, perhaps forever. (As long as it wasn’t toxic before!) Sunday noon (PST) to Tues. night brings errands, talk, travel, casual acquaintances, details, paperwork and communications.

The general accent lies on wishes coming true, Pisces – and an old or former wish very well might be fulfilled this month, especially if it involves a legal, cultural, travel, publishing or intellectual matter. A former friend, social circle, or “happy lover” could appear in the weeks ahead. This might be a significant person, and good luck could flow if/when you become involved again. This can also apply to a practical or business relationship.

Dec. 31: Paul Westerberg (56). Jan. 1: Grandmaster Flash (58). Jan. 2: Christy Turlington (47).

Jan. 3: John Paul Jones (70). Jan. 4: Michael Stipe (56). Jan. 5: January Jones (38).

Jan. 6: Nigella Lawson (56).

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MUD RUN After Kieran Lumb slogged three very fast laps of a muddy course at Jericho Beach Park on Nov. 7, the Vancouver cross-country city champion crossed the finish line to win the senior boys provincial crown. The exertion needed to win against the toughest B.C. competitors and conditions is written on Lumb’s face. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT SLIP N SLIDE A downpour at Jericho Beach Park on Nov. 7 during the B.C. high school cross-country championships soaked the terrain, and the sodden, slippery course lead to a few spills out of the gate, like this one during the senior girls race. A downed runner in a sea of legs shows how the event became an obstacle course as racers fought to keep their footing. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT GET IN LINE Named the MVP for the senior boys city basketball championship, David Thompson forward Harry Brar (No. 14) scored 43 points in one game and 58 in another as the Trojans finished second at the February tournament on their way to reaching provincials for the first time in four decades. In addition to the focus on the players’ faces, this photo is striking because all the out-stretched arms align.

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Eamon Lucas with iRT Racing clutched his ribs and avoided the peloton after he crashed on a turn during the Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix on July 15.

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TALE OF TWO RACES As they approached the finish line in an early-season race, senior boys Lord Byng’s Kieran Lumb and Kitsilano’s Thomson Harris lap competitors in the senior girls race at Quilchena Park on Sept. 29. This photo says so much: the two walkers enjoy a stroll, seemingly indifferent to being passed, while the two runners push their limits in one of the most competitive fields ever seen in Vancouver’s public school league. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

GETAFTERIT Celebrating a big point in the first set, Churchill

Bulldogs Eloise Faehndrich (No. 10) cheered as she checked the score during the senior girls city volleyball championship at Van Tech secondary Nov. 5. Churchill defeated the hosts in straight sets and finished seventh overall at provincials. I’m moved every time I see young women express ambition and pride in sports. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

HIT THE MAT Fifteen-year-old J.O. Jokers wrestler Chantel Wacchan (in red) fought for position during the regional championship at John Oliver secondary Feb. 12. She won bronze in the girls 54-kilogram class, and I chose this photo because of the claustrophobic composition and the willpower showing on her face. Her determined expression inspires me and makes me grit my teeth. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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AGAPE White Rock Little League base-runner Nathan “Natty Boy” Kirkpatrick (No. 2) timed his steal with the pitcher’s wind-up — and showed us all what he thought of his chances during the Little League B.C. Championship at Memorial Park South on July 22. Little Mountain’s second baseman Keegan Lott (No. 33) casually watched the drama unfold. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

HAIR TO THERE Lord Byng Grey Ghosts Daniel Hurt (in red and white) hauled down a Lord Tweedsmuir Panther in the opening round of the B.C. AAA senior boys rugby championships at St. George’s secondary on May 23. The dynamic action, lack of padding or helmets and sheer physicality of rugby makes for outstanding sports action photographs. In this one, the hair wins the day. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

AWWWSOME Toronto Raptors forward Bruno Caboclo showed nine-year-old Valeria the expansive size of his palm and fingers during a basketball charity clinic at the Kimount Boys and Girls Club Oct. 2. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

RAISE THE ROOF Crowded in the key, these three defenders with the Eric Hamber Griffins (in blue) all keep their arms perfectly straight to avoid fouling the J.O. Jokers shooter in an afternoon game at Britannia Secondary on Feb. 3. This photo speaks to patient players who execute the fundamental instruction of good coaching. And it cracks me up. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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OH, WHAT A YEAR! As 2015 draws to a close, here’s a final look back at the year that was — from the most notable to the most buzzworthy and epic events. Once again, Vancouverites demonstrated their incredible capacity to give by opening their hearts, their wallets and even their homes to support individuals and organizations in times of need.

Here’s to them and a stellar new year!

Chris Wanlass and Karen McKibbin’s muchanticipated Nordstrom arrival was one of the biggest occasions of the year. The Robson Square runway romp and after party at the store were showstoppers.

Arya Eshghl converted the Four Seasons ballroom into a Persian party palace. Her third effort steering the Crystal Ball further generated another impressive $1.4 million for the Children’s Healing Experience Project at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

Vancouver Aquarium CEO Dr. John Nightingale and his wife, Jacqueline Gjissen, welcomed guests to the organization’s marquee fundraiser. The pool party netted $362,000 to support the conservation of our oceans.

BEST LARGE GALA: Society darling Arya Eshghi steered her third Crystal Ball, B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation’s premier gala. Always one of the most ritzy must-attend affairs on the social calendar, Eshghi’s Midas touch helped generate another $1.4 million for pediatric healthcare.

More than $6.1 million has been raised under her leadership.

BEST SMALL GALA: Growing Chefs brings together some of the city’s most prominent chefs and mixologists and the region’s best growers and producers for one of the city’s best kitchen parties. Fronted by founder Merri Schwartz, the Farms to Forks Harvest Party held through the classroom kitchens at the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts celebrate the best of the season.

BEST NEW GALA: At the behest of event chair Cecilia Tse, A-listers from B.C.’s Chinese community arrived en masse for her first ever VGH Hospital Foundation benefit. The social influencer’s Time to Shine Gala, a Fairmont Pacific Rim and DeBeers Diamond collaboration, was a dazzling affair that fetched an equally brilliant $1.65 million, making it one of the year’s top earners.

For her first outing, Cecilia Tse’s Asia Pacific-themed Time to Shine Gala benefitting Barbara Grantham and Vivian Eliopoulos VGH Hospital Foundation raised a whopping $1.65 million.

Jacqui Cohen greeted her former Point Grey Road neighbour, Mayor Gregor Robertson, to her $1.5 million Face the World House Party. It was the ninth consecutive time the fundraiser has generated more than $1 million.

TOP RETAIL GALA: The arrival of Seattle-based department high-end store Nordstrom marked a retail renaissance in the city. Store brass Chris Wanlass and Karen McKibbin welcomed the city’s who’s who to the Nordstrom fashion show and gala, one of the year’s hottest tickets and most lavish. Four charities — B.C. Women’s Hospital, B.C. Children’s Hospital, Covenant House and the Vancouver Art Gallery — also benefitted, each receiving $100,000 from the opening festivities.

BEST SUMMER PARTY: Also the dressiest affair where everyone arrives looking their sartorial best. Tyson Villeneuve, Jordan Kallman and Crystal Carson continue to elevate their Deighton Cup-do at Hastings Racecourse. We appreciated the new trackside concourse, expanded grandstand area and viewing platform for the yearly style stakes.

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Growing Chefs founder Merri Schwartz and CBC’s Margaret Gallagher toasted the charity’s 10 years of teaching kids about growing and cooking healthy foods. The kitchen party is an annual sellout.

Style stakes are high at the Deighton Cup. Stylist Crystal Carson and her boyfriend Chris Violette were among the stylish set enjoying a day at Hastings Racecourse.

Former police chief Jim Chu and his wife Vicki were feted for their combined 65 years of service at the Night Patrol Gala. More than 1,400 gala-goers piled into the convention centre for the $1.4-million black tie benefit.

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$ 19

/lb $2.40/kg

/lb 4.83/kg

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1

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ORGANIC

Back Attached Chicken Legs

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Lean Ground Beef

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3

ORGANIC

FROZEN

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Avocados

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1

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