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Real estate rant (part deux): The politics of city’s housing market Mike Howell

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I realize by writing again about Vancouver’s wacky real estate market that it is not helpful in quelling the hysteria around the topic.

Some of you may have read my previous post in which I prattled on about how tiresome the conversation has become regarding Vancouverites’ obsession with housing prices.

I learned two things from posting my rant: Critics on social media can be nasty and never actually read the full article; and everybody needs to take a deep breath and understand that politicians have argued about this for a long time to no reasonable result.

So why pile on with more words?

Because Mayor Gregor Robertson made me do it.

He stepped into the fray again Jan. 5 by issuing a statement on the insanity that is Vancouver’s housing market.

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He said nothing that you haven’t already heard — we need a speculation tax to help cool the flipping of houses and we need a luxury tax to penalize buyers purchasing wildly expensive properties.

Oh, and if you could better track data on international ownership

and absentee ownership of property, that would be helpful, too, the mayor added.

Robertson said all this back in May 2015 when he conveyed his concerns in a letter to Premier Christy Clark, who in turn threw cold water on the mayor’s demands.

The premier did, however, promise to examine “various options available to the city and the province to make housing more affordable in Vancouver, especially for first-time buyers.”

Unless I missed it, nothing has changed since then, except for Robert-

son trying to gain some political leverage with his latest finger-pointer of a statement directed at the province and the feds.

The timing of this comes as homeowners are receiving assessments that show property values of the majority of singlefamily homes across the city climbed between 15 and 25 per cent.

Yep, it’s a mad, mad world.

And despite it all, the mayor, who reminded us in his statement that the average price of a detached home sold in Vancouver has surpassed $2.5 million, says his administration is doing all it possibly can to create socalled affordable housing.

That’s apparently not good enough for prospective home buyers, renters paying way too much rent and people so stretched financially that it’s time to pack up and find a more affordable and livable city.

Maybe the mayor’s relationship with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,

who has promised movement on the housing front, will see some changes.

But as long as people are willing to pay big dollars for a dilapidated bungalow, and politicians continue to pretend something can actually be done to turn back the clock to a less expensive, less hysterical time in Vancouver, the rich are getting richer and the rest of us are left to complain about the cruel reality of how much it costs to live under a roof.

In my previous post, I suggested people deal with that reality, move out or at least change the topic. I get that not everybody can simply pack up and leave — finding a job, moving kids from their schools and leaving family behind are all factors — but something has got to give.

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They were among the last sales at her business’s long-time location on West Fourth between Balsam and Vine streets, across from Safeway.

Ethel’s closes its doors on Jan. 15, although it will move to another site at West Broadway and Macdonald where it will reopen, after a brief break, March 1.

Ethel’s is relocating because she says the 1920sera building in which the store is currently situated is being knocked down to make way for new development.

Five businesses, aside from Ethel’s, are affected — William Parton Agencies, Babes on Fourth, Kate French, Buen Café and Pirate Joe’s. Only Buen Café has closed permanently. The rest have either moved or are moving to new locations. William Parton Agencies spent 53 years on the block.

It’s already relocated to 2695 West Broadway, but a note on its old storefront highlights its history on West Fourth, thanks customers and directs them to its new location.

“For three generations of our family William Parton Agencies have served our neighbourhood. We wish we could have stayed here even longer, but we didn’t have the opportunity,” it reads.

Ethel’s boutique also has a long history on West Fourth.

Sheppard’s mother, Ethel Pollock, opened it in 1970.

The family moved to Canada from Dublin, Ire-

land in 1958. Sheppard, who took the shop over about 20 years ago, said her mother loved fashion and sewing.

“She used to sew everything. She was a seamstress and she made everything that she sold in the store. And I don’t do that,” laughed Sheppard.

“It was her passion. She was great. There are six kids in our family and she sewed all our stuff.”

Ethel’s was originally located one block east but after that building burned down in the 1980s, the shop moved to its 2346 West Fourth location where it’s been a fixture ever since.

Over the years, Sheppard has witnessed many changes in the neighbourhood and recalls when the Plimley Chrysler Dodge car dealership was located on Fourth at Vine Street.

While the yellow-fronted building in which Ethel’s is located appears modest at first glance, around the back the brick exterior facing the alley gives it an old row housing appearance, Sheppard said.

“It’s really quite cool.”

The building was sold in recent years so she assumed it would either be torn down or lease rates would double. Sheppard said she’s looking forward to her new location, but will miss the old neighbourhood.

“It was great for a long time so I appreciate that,” she said.

Shannon Bradley Dexter, who stopped in the boutique for a look around on Friday, thinks it’s a shame to see Vancouver’s quaint retail buildings torn down.

She’ll miss the sense of community, knowing all the retailers and the style of the building.

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Spending limits set for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant byelection Mike Howell

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Regardless of the rhetoric that may fly in the coming weeks, the fight among three candidates to become Vancouver- Mount Pleasant’s new MLA will be a fair one — at least when it comes to finances.

Pete Fry of the Green Party, the NDP’s Melanie Mark and Gavin Dew of the Liberals can each spend a maximum of $75,941 between Jan. 5 and Feb. 2, the date of the byelection.

The candidates’ parties can also spend the same amount — $75,941 — for a total of $155,883 for each campaign, according to rules set by Elections B.C. that include a calculation involving the Consumer Price Index.

The rules limit a federal political party, electoral district association or charitable organization from making a donation. But the rules do not prevent one person or company from simply writing a cheque for $155,883, said Nola Western, deputy chief electoral officer for funding and

Pete Fry of the Green Party, the NDP’s Melanie Mark and Gavin Dew of the Liberals are vying to be the next MLA in the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant. The byelection is Feb. 2.

disclosure at Elections B.C. “Anybody, anywhere in the world can make a political contribution of any amount,” said Western, noting the candidates and their respective parties have to disclose their finances by May 2.

For now, none of the candidates are saying exactly who will donate to their campaigns. Historically, big business has been the main contributor to the Liberals and unions have funded the NDP.

The Greens don’t have a rich history of running candidates at the provincial level. But if donations collected by the Green Party of Vancouver in the 2014 civic election is an indication of where Fry and his party will get its money from, expect many small donations from individuals and some larger amounts from organizations.

Some of the Greens’ biggest contributors to its $88,000 civic campaign were the Vancouver Firefighters’ Union ($10,000)

and the Vancouver Taxi Association ($5,000).

Fry, who ran unsuccessfully for council as a Green candidate in the 2014 civic election, said he didn’t expect to spend the full $155,883 in the byelection campaign.

“Frankly, I’m running on a far more grassroots level,” he told the Courier. “I’m not getting donations from organized labour or the resource extraction industry. I’m picking up smaller donations. We’re certainly

running a well-financed campaign but we won’t be maxing out.”

Added Fry, “To be honest, the finance thing is not really an issue that we’re too focused on. It’s more about getting boots on the ground.

More money would be nice but it’s not detracting from our campaign, at all.”

The NDP’s Mark said it was too early to determine whether she and her party will spend the full $155,883, noting the campaign is relying on widespread volunteer support to get the vote out.

At her campaign launch, guests included representatives from labour and community organizations, as well as family and friends.

“There’s a wide variety of people who have expressed an interest to support [the campaign],” said Mark, who worked recently as the associate deputy to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s representative for children and youth. “Campaigns cost money. I didn’t grow up in money. It’s going to take a lot of work to get the word out there and get people to come by with the

cheques, which they have been doing.”

Liberal candidate Dew, who runs a communications and public policy consulting firm, is no stranger to how campaigns are funded and where the money comes from. A former board of director of the civic NPA, Dew also ran Liberal Ralph Sultan’s successful campaign in West Vancouver-Capilano in the last provincial election.

“To be honest, my job is to knock on doors and talk to voters — and the big challenge for me as a former campaign manager is to not try to run my own campaign,” Dew said. “But my understanding is our intent is to run the biggest and the best campaign that we can.

Hopefully, we’re going to raise and spend as much as we can, within the cap.

It’s going to be a serious campaign.”

The NDP has held the riding for 82 years. The riding’s seat became vacant when NDP MLA Jenny Kwan resigned in July 2015.

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Face of West Fourth changing Continued from page 5 “It’s part of the little boutique history that is West Fourth Avenue.

They’ve already built a lot of condo developments with retail on the bottom further down Fourth and I don’t think it has this same sort of feeling. It’s anywhere North America rather than this nice feeling of unique little shops,” Bradley Dexter said.

She cited the “one-storey human scale” of the building, its unique black and

red tiles that frame all the storefronts, each store’s recessed entrance, which creates shelter from the rain, as well as the large show windows for retail displays and window shopping.

Bradley Dexter also noted the wooden front doors with large single-pane windows and “proper door knobs,” which she feels add to the architectural appeal.

“I am not sure what is happening with the building, and if the plans are to

tear it down, I only hope that some of the original charm can be maintained or incorporated into the new design to continue to make this block on Fourth Avenue an architecturally unique place with local businesses,” she wrote in a follow-up email.

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A former Liberal MP for the riding of VancouverSouth is welcoming the news that a former constituent now living in Russia will get a chance to return to the Lower Mainland to be with his family.

Ujjal Dosanjh, who served as MP for the riding from 2004 to 2011,

advocated that former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov be allowed to remain in Canada, despite a deportation order issued from the federal government in 2009.

“I believe he should have never been forced to leave because he lived here for so long as a peaceful, productive citizen,” said Dosanjh, who was among more than 30 Liberal and

NDP MPs in 2011 calling for a halt to Lennikov’s deportation.

A recent decision by the Federal Court of Canada allows Lennikov to have his application for permanent residence reviewed again by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

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Lennikov, 55, voluntarily returned to Russia last summer after living for six years in the First Lutheran Church at East 41st and Wales, a place he sought sanctuary in June 2009 to avoid deportation.

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ruling on one-time KGB agent Since he left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government won the federal election and now hold the majority of seats in Ottawa. The new government’s position on applications related to humanitarian and compassionate grounds appears to be in contrast to the Conservatives — at least in the case of Jose Figueroa, who sought sanctuary in a Langley church for more than two years after he faced deportation for his political activism in a revolutionary movement in his homeland of El Salvador.

Canada’s new immigration minister, John McCallum, granted Figueroa an exemption in December to remain here based on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

“I hope that this government, regardless of what the decision might be of the reviewing officer, allows Mr. Lennikov to come into the country on a minister’s permit,” said Dosanjh, noting McCallum has the power to grant Lennikov an exemption. “And I would urge him to do so.”

Asked why he thought Lennikov left in the summer, knowing there was a chance a new government would be in Ottawa by the fall, Dosanjh said Lennikov could have received some advice that his case would be looked upon more favorably if he voluntarily returned to Russia.

“Sometimes, that’s the advice people give you,” Dosanjh

Mikhail Lennikov, pictured here in 2007 with his wife and son, now resides in Russia. A recent court decision has opened the door for him to possibly return to the Lower Mainland as a permanent resident. PHOTO JASON LANG

said. “I thought he may have just gotten fed up with living inside a building 24/7 and said to himself that he would just take his chances.”

In May 2006, the Immigration and Refugee Board found Lennikov inadmissible to Canada because he was a member of an organization — the KGB — that engaged in espionage against a democratic government. Lennikov and his lawyers launched several court challenges but failed to overturn the ruling.

Lennikov first came to Canada in 1997 to complete a master’s degree at the University of B.C. He has always denied he was a spy or a threat to Canada because his five years in the KGB amounted to little more than work as a clerk and interpreter. He lived in Burnaby and once worked in the electronics depart-

ment in the former Sears store downtown before seeking sanctuary.

Lawyer Hadayt Nazami, acting on behalf of Lennikov, said his client was happy with the court’s decision.

Nazami wouldn’t say which city Lennikov is residing in Russia but said he found a job teaching English.

Lennikov told the Courier in previous interviews that he feared he would be persecuted upon his return to Russia. Asked whether that had happened, Nazami said it’s not a conversation he’s had with Lennikov.

Nazami said he didn’t know when a final decision would be made on Lennikov’s case. Lennikov’s wife and son were granted permanent residency in 2011, but the Courier was unable to reach them before deadline. @Howellings

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Soaring house assessments destroying city

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must say, in spite of voluminous commentary to the contrary elsewhere, I find no great pleasure in seeing the assessed value of my property escalating beyond belief this past year.

The unintended social consequences of what is taking place in Vancouver sees people being priced out of a market in a town where they grew up and where their parents and their grandparents could afford housing on a modest salary.

No joy there. It is just evidence of a

All levels of government are wringing their hands over what this kind of phenomenon means to the very nature of our city. None, however, has managed to do anything about it except to shrug and point fingers. system that is unregulated to the point of being socially destructive.

I am not alone, of course. The little knot of neighbours that gathered on my corner a few days ago were hardly boasting of being Vancouver’s newest multi-millionaires. Our neighbourhood, Kitsilano, was once working class. The most recent house to sell on our block, a house on a 33-foot lot my neighbours

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note, sold for more than $3 million.

Beyond the “holy cows” and the “you’ve got to be kidding,” there was real concern expressed about what this is doing to the sociology of our neighbourhood, and for that matter, to the whole city.

“Affordability” is just another 13-letter word with no particular meaning when it comes to Vancouver.

I suppose that sale price made the developer happy. He bought what is referred to as a “tear-down” just over a year ago for $1.2 million. According to the real estate agent who just sold that house, he spent about $700,000 building the new house. So he walked away with just over a million bucks for his trouble and less than a year’s work.

I won’t even speculate as to how the young single woman who bought that house came up with either the cash or the line of credit to make the purchase. The real estate agent told me: “I never ask.”

My assessment, in case you were curious, went up 25 per cent. I will undoubtedly get a tax increase because it went up well beyond the city average of about 15 percent.

To add a little more perspective, my house and land are now assessed at 40 times (that’s four zero) than what I originally paid for it. My intention way back then was not to buy something that would be an investment. It was not some visionary act of genius. I just didn’t want to move.

I actually was a tenant in the house and the owner felt forced to sell when I had him charged under the city’s minimum standards of maintenance bylaw.

The joint was falling apart. After I talked several prospective buyers out of making

an offer, the owner dropped the asking price and I bought it.

Just to further make a point. My income has not increased by anywhere near 40 times since. The little political gesture, the homeowners grant, created by WAC Bennett back in the day to ease the burden of property tax, is virtually unavailable for any owner of a single-family home in this town. The additional break given to seniors, presumably to compensate them for the fact they have had a decline in income, is also just a distant memory.

I suppose you could say that all of this provides an incentive for people who find themselves land rich but cash poor, to sell and, um, “downsize.” The trick would be to stay in the city.

And as the followers of Vancouver Vanishes author Caroline Adderson or Globe and Mail reporter Kerry Gold will

know, the people who buy those houses are not simply a younger version of those who are selling and moving on.

Nor is it likely the houses being sold will be left standing. Gold had a story, perhaps an extreme example, this past week of a 14-year-old 8,700-square-foot mansion on Southwest Marine Drive that sold in 2011 for $6.35 million. It was flipped two years later for $8.88 million and has since been flattened to make way for a 14,000-square-foot pile.

All levels of government are wringing their hands over what this kind of phenomenon means to the very nature of our city. None, however, has managed to do anything about it except to shrug and point fingers.

So, am I happy about assessment values going through the roof? Why would I be? @allengarr

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Pensioners getting taxed out of inflated No sympathy for the housing market slumlord millionaire Re: “Vancouver single-family property assessments skyrocket,” Jan. 7.

My home value jumped 30 per cent, which means that I’ll likely not be able to afford to stay in my home when I retire.

The pensioners on my block are the real losers in this inflated housing market.

They are being taxed out of the homes they paid off decades ago. It was not the city or province who made my East Van neighbourhood so desirable. My neighbourhood is great thanks to the seniors who planted the trees 40 years ago, petitioned the parks board to create a park 25 years ago, forced the school board to build the playground and expand the school 20 years ago, and fought for the building of the community centres.

The seniors in my ’hood deserve to live peacefully to the end of their lives with their big gardens and fruit trees. The $1.2-million cut off for the seniors tax break is useless to them. The politicians have no motivation to fix the outrageous housing or tax structure prices. Just think how much money the city and province would lose out on if the bubble ever burst!

Ilena Lee Cramer, Vancouver

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Real estate rant strikes a chord Re: “Incessant din of real estate talk has become tiresome,” Jan. 6.

It’s not as simple as deal with it or move out. Even the suburbs are becoming unaffordable. Part of the problem is there’s no political will to find a solution. Do politicians really give a s***? The truth is they don’t.

This city is a sellout to the highest bidder.

Catherine Bussey via Facebook ••• Things really are getting worse here in Vancouver because so many of us know OUR days are numbered... being able to afford living in this city with runaway housing costs is not rocket science. I know without a doubt when retirement comes I will not be living in Vancouver because it’s way too expensive now for those on fixed incomes!

David Parent via Facebook

Re: “Time running out for slumlord millionaire,” Jan. 7.

Seems to me he’s had far too much time with no results or consequences for him. @LinagoGal via Twitter ••• This guy knows how to use the system.

The city can’t touch him if he doesn’t do anything, and no one wants to throw the residents on the street.

Vera Cameron via Facebook ••• This guy’s ugly history notwithstanding, it is impossible to maintain a building while charging welfare rates. The alternative is to upgrade, but then you have to raise rents to pay for the renos.

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God debate is in the details Re: “Theists and atheists have much to learn from one another,” Jan. 6.

Atheists have to deal with Christianity but how much is there to learn? That a bunch of people deluded themselves about eternal life so they wouldn’t have to confront their own mortality? That they worshiped a marginally mentally ill person that thought he was god. Maybe we could learn not to trim the corners of our beard or that women should remain silent and not hold authority over men. We could learn how to keep slaves. We could learn to apologize away the parts of the Bible we don’t like.

Christians however have a lot to learn from the real world, most of which contradicts the Bible. Christians can find out that when they learn about the real world they are not being persecuted. They can learn about atheistic science that cures diseases, invents MRIs, engineers bridges, makes computers and cellphones, makes new crops that Christians rely on every day. They might learn that most of what they thank god for comes from atheistic science.

Also — The New Atheists are not Dawkins and Hitchens, they are Billy and Suzy and Johnny and Betty Anne who are leaving the churches in droves. They are the kids next door or maybe your kids.

They are the ones making up the post Christian era in America.

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“The primary work of the Bible Society isn’t being a bookstore. If that is the case then we’re in trouble,” says Christine Wong, the B.C. representative on the board of the Canadian Bible Society. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Canadian Bible Society closes Vancouver bookstore Mission to make bible accessible doesn’t require storefront

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It may not be as recognizable as the Woodward’s building, laughs Christine Wong, but the Canadian Bible Society building at Fraser and Kingsway is a local landmark nonetheless.

That’s one of the reasons it was hard for the organization to make the decision to finally close its doors last New Year’s Eve. “People in the neighbourhood know it is ‘that Bible place,’” says Wong, the elected B.C. representative on the board of the Canadian Bible Society.

It’s hard to miss, for anyone who has driven up Kingsway in the past few decades: a geometrical aquamarine building dominating a major intersection, with a sign that is at once self-explanatory yet begging of questions. Canadian Bible Society… a group

dedicated to the Bible, clearly, but what does it do?

Wong is quick to insist that, despite the loss of the landmark location, the society’s work in B.C. will continue. The building is for sale and they are seeking other space. The bookstore, which was the most visible aspect of the society’s building, was never intended as the core of the society’s work, she says.

“The purpose of the Canadian Bible Society is to make the Bible understandable and accessible to communities, whether it’s a local community, nationally or overseas,” she says. “Mainly this is done through translation of the Bible to various languages or publication, distribution of various materials.”

For more than a century, CBS has been part of the global United Bibles Societies, which get the Christian holy book into the hands

of people in at least 145 countries. An ecumenical non-profit — it is not affiliated with any Catholic or Protestant denomination — the society not only provides Bibles in the diverse languages of Vancouver’s polyglot Christian communities, it also distributes theological resources, religious artefacts and the kinds of things Sunday school teachers need.

Still, says Wong, its mission does not require a storefront bookstore and the old building was just too big — and required too many reparations — to justify staying, despite the nostalgic pull.

“There was a lot of thought and planning put into the decision because the storefront has been in the neighbourhood for so long that people recognize it,” she says.

Wong isn’t sure how long the society has been on the

site, but I can’t remember it not being there and I’m getting long in the tooth.

“I think that slowed down the decision process too, because there was so much emotional attachment to it.”

A sale has not yet gone through and Wong doesn’t speculate, but the state of the real estate market suggests the prime piece of property will let the society find a nice, newer, smaller place for its work.

Based in Toronto, the Canadian Bible Society is supported by individuals and foundations that support its simple mandate of making the Christian Bible as accessible as possible.

They hold events, where people learn about the group’s work, and a lot of their support comes through word of mouth. That’s how Wong got involved just four years ago.

“It was mainly through a friend who works at the

Bible Society,” Wong says.

“She asked me to help out on a couple of events and I enjoyed it. The usual story, I guess. I enjoyed the work and I found purpose and value in the work being done.”

The ecumenical approach of the society fits Wong’s own type of Christian faith, which she defines as nondenominational.

“I grew up in Vancouver and my family has more of a traditional Chinese background,” she says. She took it upon herself to start attending church while in high school, drifted away a bit in university and came back more devotedly in the last few years.

“During high school, I think the message of hope was very beautiful to me,” Wong says. “I think that growing up in a home that was open to spirituality but not religion caused me to think more about, well,

what is it about Christianity that is so different from everything else? It was really the question of hope and the story of Jesus, who came to be the saviour of the world. That’s the nutshell of the Christian message. Hope, love. It was a very good time for me to hear that message.”

I ask if she is concerned that people will notice the disappearance of this landmark and see it as a sign of the West Coast’s continued decline into secularism and away from Christianity.

“The primary work of the Bible Society isn’t being a bookstore,” she says.

“If that is the case then we’re in trouble.”

True, I suppose, that if one were to bet on the survival of Christianity around here versus the survival of bookstores, I know where I’d put my money. @Pat604Johnson

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Developer dollars can be good for community

Jessica Barrett

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In the ongoing saga of Vancouver’s affordability woes and relentless development pressure, I’ve become conditioned to expect sad endings for many of the city’s beloved institutions. But the announcement last week that the Western Front Society, a stalwart in the city’s arts and culture scene since the 1970s, has been given $1.5 million in developer dollars to buy their building in Mount Pleasant is a plot twist I was not expecting.

This is undoubtedly great news — even if the odd exchange of cash does elicit a crisis in conscience for those who are critical of developers’ influence on our city. We simply can’t afford to lose any more of the heart and soul of our communities to the creeping march of the condo empire, and if keeping those cultural hubs in place means leveraging developer dollars, then so be it.

The deal, brokered by the city’s Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) program, will also see C-Space/ VIVO, Arts Factory and

Grunt Gallery receive cash in hand from RIZE Alliance, the developer behind the Independent tower going up at Broadway and Kingsway.

Straight-up handing out cash is a bold move for the city, which has traditionally meted out CAC funds for public infrastructure such as libraries, parks and community centres. But I like it. It denotes a belief that the existing cultural framework of the neighbourhood, which is gentrifying faster than almost any other area of the city, must be retained rather than replaced by “live/work studios” or other market-oriented products developers often try to sell to the creative classes who, as a rule, cannot afford them.

It also serves as a balm for a community bitterly divided over the RIZE tower in the first place. It’s an acknowledgement that good neighbourhoods are a mixture of the old and the new.

It also opens the door for other applications for CAC’s the city might do well to contemplate. If we’re now in the business of handing out cash to organizations recognized as integral to a community’s lifeblood, why

stop there? Surely if the city can recognize the value of giving long-standing arts groups a permanent home, why not do the same for long-standing community members and open the door for organized residents to purchase shared property in their longtime homes?

The Western Front happens to sit on the corner of Scotia Street and Eighth Avenue — home to a rare concentration of 1960s-era rental buildings that, due to their age, still boast reasonable (by Vancouver standards) rents.

They are also ripe for the kind of sale and remodelling that has many residents living in fear of renoviction.

Already, that street has seen some of the buildings torn down for a marketoriented update, and the feeling is that once the RIZE building goes up and (please God) a rapid transit line appears along Broadway, that bastion of affordability, like many others in the city, will be gone. So too will be the artists, families and area residents that also make Mount Pleasant what it is.

What if the city used CAC funds to help organized

residents pool resources, or match funds, to buy a few of those older rental buildings and shared houses, and turn them into a city-supported co-operative or cohousing? Certainly the logistics would take some figuring, but if we’re going to dole out developer cash to safeguard entities that contribute to neighbourhood character, that should include maintaining housing options for existing community members.

The city has long held out against getting into the real estate business — save for its interventions in low-income and supportive housing. But with property assessments jumping exorbitantly year after year, condo prices poised to follow suit and no end in sight to the pressure on rental stock, it’s time to reassess.

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interests, it would likely alleviate some of now knee-jerk opposition to development we see in so many communities throughout the city.

The nimble retooling of the CAC program to accommodate the Western Front

and the other arts groups shows that development and displacement needn’t always be synonymous. It’s proof that in the tired tale of Vancouver’s affordability crisis, there just might be room for some happy endings.

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1. Ice-O-Topes captain Shannon Saunders leads the team with a pre-game cheer Friday at Apex Mountain Resort’s outdoor hockey rink during the Apex Shoot-Out tournament. The Topes dropped a 7-2 game to the Warriors, another women’s recreational hockey team from Vancouver. The Warriors also beat the Topes 7-3 in Sunday’s final. 2. Ice-O-Topes call-up Catlyn Marshall deked around the 355 team’s defence during Saturday’s 8-7 win. 3. The Vancouver-based Ice-O-Topes women’s recreational hockey team relied on extra players such as Angelina LeBlanc, left, and Cecilia Chan, who flew from Fort St. John. Chan is a member of the Hong Kong women’s national team and used the tournament as a warm-up for an upcoming national tournament. 4. Jenna Lee Walker filled in as Ice-O-Topes tournament goalie with a little help from her friends. . See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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Outdoor adult hockey tourney attracts eclectic field Beginners, wily veterans, outsiders enjoy open ice at annual Apex event

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The roster of an adult tournament hockey team is usually a patchwork of regular players and anybody else who can stand socializing for all hours, sometimes sharing a bed with another player and then waking early by any night owl’s standards to play a game of hockey. Then repeat that schedule for three days.

The Ice-O-Topes is a women’s recreational hockey team made up of mostly Vancouver players, including myself, who play in the most competitive women’s division of the Adult Safe Hockey League out of Burnaby 8-Rinks.

The roster is a good indication of the camaraderie; rarely do players stick

around for only a season, and former players who move to other parts of the province are welcomed back to fill spots for outof-town tournaments such as the 17th annual Apex Shoot-Out held this past week, Jan. 7 to 10.

The special thing about this tournament is that it’s held on an outdoor rink built near the bottom of a ski run in Penticton.

Outdoor ice seems to take off the competitive edge existent in regular league play, likely due to the combination of no surface lines so both the men’s and women’s games are more like shinny but with referees.

The outsider lineup for the Topes included a goalie who hadn’t played in a year and required at least

two defencemen to help her strap on the pads, two beginners including one who hadn’t skated for four years and a forward for the Hong Kong national women’s hockey team.

Cecilia Chan told the story late one night of how she was selected for the Chinese team in August while the Topes were sitting around the farmer’s family-sized dining table in the rented house on the mountain. Chan, who everybody calls C.C., met a couple players on the national team at a rec tournament in her hometown of Toronto a couple months earlier who found out she was eligible by way of her birth certificate.

So, just for fun, because she was already going to Hong Kong for business,

she brought her hockey gear to join in on a practice.

“I went on a breakaway during a scrimmage and I was going against this goalie who’s one of the coaches who is supposedly hard to beat,” she remembered.

“I went forehand, tried to go backhand, and lost the puck! And it just went through the five-hole.”

The coaches came to the dressing room afterwards and informed her she was on the team. It was unexpected. Chan, 34, hadn’t played hockey for 15 years, having abandoned it for a full-ride NCAA Div. II basketball scholarship at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2000. Four summers ago, she played semi-pro basketball in Hong Kong only returning to hockey in March

as a way of rehabilitating a torn ACL. Apex is a warmup for playing in a national hockey tournament in China, which she left for this past Monday, with enough room in her hockey bag to fit her lucky, careworn basketball.

Former Topes defenceman Angelina LeBlanc, who now plays for the North Peace Eagles, flew to Vancouver for the tournament along with Chan who is her teammate from the Fort St. John senior A women’s team. “The first time I saw her, she showed up for practice with a broken finger,” LeBlanc said.

“She had one glove on and just an open hand. And she was pretty good!”

Most of the Topes are multi-sport people who somehow fit either la-

crosse, mountain-biking, road-biking, rec basketball, or jiu jitsu into the hockey schedule. Tournament call-up player Catlyn Marshall added another pastime to the list with logskidding, which is an old forestry practice of dragging logs by controlling a team of, in Marshall’s case, Belgian horses in a ring. She took first place in Armstrong’s Interior Provincial Exhibition in September with 97 points, which is so impressive the hit count of the online video of the feat is in the tens of thousands of views.

The Topes placed second in the tournament after dropping a 7-3 score to another Vancouver team, Kat Zambo’s Warriors in Sunday morning’s final. @rebeccablissett

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Opinion

Who’s for planet Ziggy Stardust?

Geoff Olson geoffolson.com

Last December, scientists announced the discovery of an Earth-like world out beyond our solar system. A Harvard university astronomer who helped find the planet is seeking a better name than GJ 1214b, its clunky scientific designation. For a short time, Wired magazine solicited readers for suggestions, but I think we’ve had the right name since Monday.

“Ziggy” or “Stardust” or “Ziggy Stardust.”

I say the ocean-covered planet, 1.5 times larger than ours, should be graced with one of the trippy nom de plumes of the late artist David Bowie, who first rocketed to fame with his 1969 hit “Space Oddity.”

In the early ’70s, young Bowie convinced a few working class British musicians to don platform boots and put on eyeliner for live performances (they were sold when they found out how women went crazy for the look). Led by a scrawny extraterrestrial named Ziggy Stardust, the

Spiders From Mars thunderously annotated Bowie’s themes of oddness, otherness, and alienation.

Bowie didn’t invent glam rock — that credit goes to Mark Bolan from T. Rex — but his introduction of high fashion and performance art gave some gravitas to glitz. He dropped Ziggy for a succession of androgynous fleshsuits: Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke and the blonde dandy of his “Let’s Dance” phase. Trained in mime, Bowie was the first artist of the 20th century to actively play with the persona — Greek for “mask” — in a rock ‘n’ roll setting.

Even before his Ziggy period, the guy was doing some pretty outlandish things, like posing in a dress for the cover of his 1970 album The Man Who Sold the World. Skating across gender boundaries in public was about the most alien thing you could do at the time, short of boarding an actual flying saucer. The transgressive singer-songwriter became something of a patron saint to successive generations of kids who felt different, misunderstood,

or left out — LGBTQ or otherwise. He forged a new kind of cool from a kiln of high strangeness. The razorthin performer was cast as an alien in Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 science fiction film The Man Who Fell To Earth. He wrote a sequel of sorts to “Space Oddity” with the 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes,” and continued to touch on spacey themes through the remainder of his career.

Of course, none of this showmanship would have worked — or been all that interesting — without great music to back it up. Bowie was as much a musical as theatrical chameleon, shifting gears from acoustic folk to hard rock to Philly soul to electrofunk.

The only time I saw him perform, at the Plaza of Nations site in 1997, he looked like he was having the time of his life: a man playing (and playing with) the role of art rock’s elder statesman, relaxed in between reinventions.

The man certainly had his share of musical missteps (and his mannered singing was easily lampooned, as in the affectionate sendup

“Bowie’s in Space” by the comedy troupe Flight of the Conchords). But consider this: few of us will read any given book more than once.

We might look at a painting or sculpture with appreciation a few times before it becomes familiar territory.

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Manjit Pabla manages Himalaya Restaurant, which his father Kewal started in the early 1970s, when there was little hint anything like Punjabi Market would exist in the area. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

TALK OF THE BLOCK

From sweet beginnings, Punjabi Market remains home for the Pabla family After 40 years, Himalaya Restaurant remains a fixture in Little India

Christopher Cheung

bychrischeung@gmail.com

At Himalaya Restaurant in Vancouver’s Punjabi Market, the smell of hot curry and spices rises from the long buffet table.

Rivalling it in length is the impressive sweet case, covered with colourful treats such as gulab jamun (deep fried orbs of dried milk dipped in honey), jalebi (chewy, pretzelshaped, bright orange from saffron) and berfe (snowy bars of dense milk topped with nuts).

If you’re planning an Indian wedding today, there are a number of places across Greater Vancouver you could find the traditional sweets for your guests. After all, the strip of Main Street called Punjabi Market or Little India isn’t the only Little India around. A neighbourhood in Surrey has also earned that name among locals.

But the treats were hard to come by 40 years ago, and for restaurateur Kewal Pabla, his sweets had a special role to play for his business, his family and the local South Asian community.

Corner shop

Pabla opened Himalaya on the corner of Main and 50th in the early 1970s.

There was little hint anything like Punjabi Market would exist in the area.

“There were hardly any Indo-Canadian shops here,” said Pabla. At the time, the Sunset neighbourhood had a large German population, which grew after the Second World War. Wes Jang, a nearby resident of 48 years recalls German linen stores, a Chinese grocer and two paper shacks where youth would collect news for delivery.

However, there has been a South Asian presence in Vancouver since the turn of the century. It experienced a spike in the 1960s as Canadian immigration became based on merit rather than criteria such as race or national origin.

The busiest hubs of community for South Asian immigrants were the various temples in the city, and that was where some locals discovered that Pabla knew how to make sweets.

At that time, there was no one around who knew how to prepare the traditional treats for weddings.

Many were willing to pay Pabla for catering, who had experience at his parents’ restaurant in Punjab cooking and making sweets.

And so, on the other side of the world, more than

10,000 kilometres from the hands that taught him, Kewal Pabla was feeding Vancouver from his restaurant on Main Street, and business was good.

Hustle and bustle

Pabla’s brother, wife, children and parents joined him in Vancouver before the end of the decade.

Other South Asian businesses such as fabric shops and jewellers clustered in the area. Public celebrations for holidays such as Vaisakhi and Diwali began in the 1980s.

“People still tell me to this day there was a lot of hustle and bustle,” said Kewal’s son, Manjit.

“People always bumping into you... I never really got to see that.”

There was always work at Himalaya, and many members of the Pabla family have helped out at the restaurant. Manjit, the second of four siblings, remembers that being his life after school.

“You start picking up dishes and slowly, you start bussing tables and waiting tables and maybe somebody tells you to peel onions.

That’s how you keep on fitting wherever you’re needed, because you’re family.”

It was especially challenging in his 20s and

telling friends that he couldn’t hang out.

“Weekends were a lot busier, long weekends were extremely busy and holidays were just crazy,” said Manjit.

Surrey calling

Some remember the 1990s as Punjabi Market’s heyday. But Kewal remembers chatter about leaving Vancouver for Surrey even before that, in the mid-1980s.

“The land was so cheap, the houses were so cheap,” said Kewal. “If you could sell your house here, you could buy a brand new house in Surrey and have quite a bit of money in your pocket too!”

While it wasn’t just the South Asian community that turned to Surrey as a cheaper alternative from Vancouver to live, Kewal added that the affordability made transitions for families expecting relatives to move to Canada from overseas.

Since 1986, Surrey’s population has tripled to more than 460,000, according to Statistics Canada — 2011 data revealed that about 31 per cent are South Asian, compared to Vancouver’s six per cent.

Family circus

But as members of the

South Asian community started to buy houses in Surrey, that’s when Kewal Pabla built a house for his family in 1986 in Vancouver.

It was a big house about a block from Himalaya, and neighbours wondered during construction if it was a church. Twenty-two family members lived in the house — uncles and aunts and cousins were everywhere—and sometimes even more if relatives needed a room. Manjit said it was “like a circus.”

“Everybody’s always in front of you,” he said.

“We never locked the door because there was always somebody in and out.”

Manjit is 47 today. He manages the Main Street Himalaya with one brother and also helps out at a Richmond Himalaya location with another. While there were challenges being tied to the family restaurant growing up, he loves it today. Manjit cooks, but his joy is being with the customers.

“I love meeting all the people,” said Manjit.

“Back in the kitchen, you only see your pots and pans. Here you see fresh faces, new faces, and you get to know everybody.

It’s like being on stage.

Everyone recognizes the person on stage.”

Neighbourhood in transition

There are some recent changes in Punjabi Market.

Two marijuana dispensaries have moved in, along with an engineering consulting firm and a Chinese wellness centre. Some storefronts are empty. And if a development application at the intersection of Main and 49th goes through, a sixstorey mixed-use building will come into the area, adding 75 homes.

“Change is universal,” said Kewal Pabla. After all, there was never a Punjabi Market here to begin with.

He wonders if the area will become a more “mixed” market. Regardless, business at the restaurant has always been good, with customers of all ethnicities.

So Pabla’s sweet case might not be the only sweet case in Greater Vancouver. Punjabi Market might not be the only centre of community for local South Asians.

But despite these changes, Main Street is still home for the Pabla family.

Work is just a stroll away for Manjit. He works 16 hours, seven days a week.

“If there was an eighth,” he said, “I’d be there too.”

After all, he has a show to run. @bychrischeung

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Kitsilano producer recalls David Bowie film shoot Legendary artist played 395-year-old man who befriends young boy struggling with cancer Bob Mackin

bob@bobmackin.ca

Most Vancouverites knew David Bowie through his music and numerous, dazzling concert appearances at the Pacific Coliseum and B.C. Place Stadium. But Kitsilano’s Colleen Hardwick got to see another side of the legendary musician and actor, who died Sunday at age 69 of

cancer.

Bowie starred in the 1998-shot, 2000-released Mr. Rice’s Secret, as a relatively youthful-looking 395-year-old man who befriended his neighbour, Owen, a boy struggling with cancer (played by Bill Switzer). Bowie’s character gave Owen a decoder ring and clues that led to a magic potion for one, full life.

Producer Hardwick

said in an interview that she originally had Peter O’Toole in mind for the role in the family film, which had a $3.2-million budget at the time.

“Then the financiers called me up and said, ‘We’ve got an idea for some stunt casting here — David Bowie has read the script and he wants to do it,’” Hardwick said. “I’d been in love with David Bowie since

I was in high school, so I jumped at the chance.

I’ll never forget the day when my cellphone went off and the voice on the other side of the phone said, ‘Colleen, this is David Bowie.’ I’d just about died.”

Bowie, then 51, was on-set for a week, shooting primarily at a house in New Westminster.

Hardwick later travelled to New York, where

Bowie did voiceovers.

Hardwick said Bowie did the film “because he loved the script and loved the subject matter.”

“The whole story was his journey in addressing the fact that [Owen] had cancer and the old man who died at the beginning of the movie, played by David Bowie, it’s his inspiration that helps the boy come to terms with his own mortality,” Hardwick said.

Hardwick said she watched the trailer again after hearing Sunday night that Bowie had died, two days after releasing his 25th album on his birthday. “I was reminded how close the words that he expressed [in the film] tied to what we’ve just experienced with his passing,” Hardwick said. “His wisdom.”

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Continued from page 17 In one scene, Bowie and Switzer paused from raking in a garden, to discuss life and death.

Bowie: “Let me tell you one thing. All people, no matter who they are, they all wish they’d appreciated life more. It’s what you do in life that’s important, not how much

time you have or what you wish you’d done.”

Switzer: “You know what I wish? I wish I could live forever.”

Replied Bowie, with a wry smile: “No, you don’t.”

Hardwick said Bowie was just an ordinary guy on-set, eating catering truck meals along with the rest of the cast and crew.

“He was truly approachable, he wasn’t some highfalutin, unapproachable character,” Hardwick said. “That would be the one thing I’d try to communicate, how down-to-earth he was despite the fact he was a genius artist and reinvented himself in all these different ways.”

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Jen St. Denis

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While owners of singlefamily homes in Vancouver had the most immediate sticker shock from this year’s property value assessments, apartment building values have also increased sharply, and that will likely put even more upward pressure on rents.

Vancouver’s vacancy rate is currently 0.6 per cent, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.’s fall 2015 rental market report. The average monthly rent for a onebedroom apartment in the city’s downtown, including the West End, was $1,313 compared with $1,239 in 2014. In the same area, rates for one-bedrooms in new rental buildings or condos can easily top $2,000 a month.

The heated activity in multifamily rental was evident throughout 2015, but Mark Goodman, a principal at HQ Real Estate Services, described 2015’s last quarter as “insane,” when normal methods of appraisal and property pricing didn’t seem to apply.

“In that market we were consistently getting prices over the asking price even when we were aggressive,” Goodman said.

According to information Goodman provided to Business in Vancouver, total dollar volume for apartment building sales in Greater Vancouver increased 93 per cent in 2015 to $1.51 billion compared with $778 million in 2014. The average price per suite increased 17 per cent to $243,000.

In Vancouver’s upscale

Kerrisdale neighbourhood, price-per-suite rose 38 per cent to $611,000, mostly because of redevelopment potential, while in the West End buildings appreciated 25 per cent with prices rising to $380,000 per suite. Other notable increases were seen in Marpole (14 per cent) and South Granville (29 per cent).

Buyers are both local players, who Goodman described as savvy investor groups with large holdings, and a small but disruptive number of buyers from mainland China who are focused on properties whose zoning allows them to be redeveloped.

“The money is pouring in so quickly from China and they’re buying these sites that they actually can’t afford to develop the properties right away,” Goodman said. “If you pay too much for the land, you can’t build condos and sell them off.”

Local buyers are more focused on existing buildings, where they plan to upgrade the building and increase rents, especially for new tenants (for existing tenants, rental increases in B.C. are currently capped at an annual 2.9 per cent increase).

The supply of rental housing is extremely tight in Vancouver, and Goodman doesn’t see the situation improving until more apartments are built.

Tom Durning, a tenant advocate with the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre, said Vancouver’s runaway home prices have put pressure on vulnerable renters because they now have to compete with younger people

who have chosen to rent instead of buy.

In Vancouver, it’s difficult for building owners to get permission from the city to tear down existing rental buildings to build larger apartment buildings, which is what many owners would like to do, Goodman said. Goodman and his father, David Goodman, are proponents of relaxing the city’s current moratorium on demolishing older rental buildings in certain areas.

Goodman argued that displaced renters be given compensation or the right to return to the redeveloped building. But Durning said allowing for mass redevelopment would have dire consequences for tenants.

“Where are people going to go? There would be mass homelessness,” Durning said.

Durning’s organization supports the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations (CFAA) in its call to restore federal tax incentives to build new rental housing.

“It’s the cost of land.

You can’t build any sort of affordable housing unless there’s a subsidy, and the federal government got out of that 20 years ago,” he said.

The federal Liberals have promised to remove GST on new capital investments in rental housing. The CFAA has proposed eliminating the GST or HST on rental housing operations, increasing the rate of capital cost allowances and instituting a tax deferral if building owners are reinvesting in rental housing. @jenstden

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Recently crowned best neighbourhood in Canada by Great Places in Canada contest

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An inclusive community With its relatively affordable housing, considering its central location, and substantial percentage of rental units, the West End has long been a natural landing place for those new to Canada.

It’s also known worldwide as the centre of Vancouver’s LGBTQ community, the largest in Western Canada. The neighbourhood is the site of one of the largest LGBT events in the world, the annual Vancouver Pride Parade and Festival, which attracts up to 650,000 attendees.

“The West End’s density is evenly matched by its diversity of residents and by a strong commitment to creating an inclusive community that prioritizes affordable housing,” contest juror Jaspal Marwah said in the statement announcing the neighbourhood’s win.

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Stunning parks and public spaces From the sprawling Stanley Park to the seawall to the beaches, the West End has plenty of spectacular public spaces, providing a natural backyard for all of the neighbourhood’s apartment dwellers (more than 99 percent of West Enders live in apartments or condo buildings).

The Great Places jurors named the West End’s “traffic calming, street furniture, treed promenades, pocket parks and public spaces” as important elements of the neighbourhood’s appeal.

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Prime shopping and dining The West End has three unique commercial areas: Robson, Davie and

Denman streets. Robson is home to some of the city’s top high-end shopping on one end and Vancouver’s developing “Ramen District” on the other. Davie features plenty of restaurants and bars and is the epicentre of the city’s LGBTQ nightlife scene. Denman blends tourist-friendly takeout joints and bike rental shops with local eateries and businesses to create a true community feel with plenty of activity at any time of day.

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Car free living Sure, navigating the one-way streets and finding a parking spot can be a challenge. All the more reason to leave the car at home (or eschew owning one at all), as many West End residents do. “The West End makes it easy, safe and inviting for residents to walk and bike to work, to

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neighbourhoods in the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Watching the sun set over the A-Maze-ing Laughter sculptures and English Bay beyond, one feels worlds apart from the hustle and bustle of the downtown core — and a long stroll through Stanley Park is good for anyone’s soul.

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COLUMN:

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Our voices and actions bring hope for the year ahead

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ike any year, 2015 had its share of good and bad, tragedy and beauty, hope and despair.

It’s difficult not to get discouraged by events like the Syrian war and refugee crisis, violent outbreaks in Beirut, Paris, Burundi, the U.S. and so many other places, and the ongoing climate catastrophe. But responses to these tragedies and disasters offer hope. It became clear during 2015, that when those who believe in protecting people and the planet, treating each other with fairness, respect and kindness and seeking solutions stand up, speak

out and act for what is right and just, we will be heard.

And in 2015, voters here and elsewhere rejected fearbased election campaigns that promoted continued reliance on climate-altering coal, oil and gas. The fossil fuel industry and its supporters continued to sow doubt and confusion about the overwhelming evidence for human-caused climate change and to rail against solutions, but many more people marched, signed petitions, sent letters, talked

to friends and family, demanded action from political, religious and business leaders, and got on with innovating and implementing solutions.

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global warming led Canada to shift course in 2015, taking global warming seriously enough to make positive contributions at the Paris climate conference in December.

The resulting agreement won’t lower emissions enough to prevent catastrophic warming, but

it’s a significant leap from previous attempts, and it includes commitments to improve targets We can and must speak louder than those who would keep us on a destructive path despite the overwhelming evidence that it’s past time to shift course.

Events in 2015 taught us that when those of us who care about humanity and the planet’s future stand up and speak out, we can make this small, blue world and its miraculous life and natural systems a better place for all.

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No disco or crowing roosters at new Puerto Vallarta resort “Do you hear that?” I asked my partner the morning after we arrived at our resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in December.

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And when it comes to resort discos, one of the reasons we chose the adults-only Grand Fiesta Americana Puerto Vallarta was its lack of an all-night party space.

In the past we’ve spent way too many nights awake listening to partiers coming and going to and from (insert name of resort here) discothèque to be concerned about a lack of late-night entertainment.

too quiet at night. But as travelling baby boomers we were looking for some serious rest and relaxation, two things promised by the Grand Fiesta Americana.

That’s not to say there weren’t options — we enjoyed award-winning cocktails in the martini bar, avoided the tequila in the tequila bar (been there, done that) and (carefully) hung out on the swings in the mojito bar.

Another draw of the resort for us was the killer deal we found through Transat Holidays. I actually stopped telling fellow travellers at the resort what we paid for our trip because I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s vacation. Let’s just say we easily paid a quarter of what many others had, including travellers from the U.S. Granted when we arrived the resort had only been open three months so there were deals to be had, but whether that will remain the case is yet to be seen.

...we were looking for some serious rest and relaxation.

That’s just us, and there were some guests at the resort who thought it was

The resort is backed by the green of the Sierra Madre Mountains, and all of the rooms overlook Banderous Bay, so we were

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golden for travelling baby boomers greeted each morning with absolutely breathtaking views. As for the beach, due to high tides it was nonexistent during our first week, and a strong surf kept us out during the second, but there were plenty of adventurous swimmers who body surfed while we were there, some holding cocktails high above their heads in an attempt to keep out the salt water. Also while we were, a sandy edge at the one corner of the resort and surrounded by loungers served as a spot

for playing and watching beach volleyball. A brand new beach bar was also completed at that end to help accommodate the growing crowd.

The pools were chilly, partly due to the fact the sun doesn’t hit that side of the hotel until after noon, but sun worshippers could also make their way up to the rooftop Sky Bar deck where two hot tubs awaited. This area also has a bar and is supposed to cost about $70 US per couple, but while we

were there over Christmas there was no charge.

With 24-hour room service, we sometimes avoided the morning buffet and sat on our balcony sipping coffee and enjoying fresh fruit and whatever else we felt like ordering off the menu that day. As for the Mexican, Italian and Asian restaurants, the food exceeded our expectations, which were high due to glowing reviews we had read previously on TripAdvisor.ca. A small coffee bar serves muffins

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OLDER & WISER: Screening tests unfair to older drivers TOM CARNEY tomcarney@telus.net

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f I want to know what is on my readers’ minds I just have to look in my inbox.

On the subject of older seniors renewing their driver’s licence, I regularly hear from two groups: Those who feel they have been treated unfairly because of their age and those who breathe a huge sigh of relief when their partner or elderly parent has had their licence revoked.

In B.C. all driver’s licence holders over the age of 80 must have a Driver’s Medical Examination Report completed every two years. Senior drivers may also be required to undergo further assessments such as a road test, a DriveABLE assessment or a SIMARD-MD test.

DriveABLE is a functional tool using a touchscreen and SIMARD-MD (an acronym for Screen for the Identification of Cognitively Impaired Medically At-Risk Drivers, a Modification of the DemTect) is a screening tool used to identify cognitively impaired drivers.

Most of the seniors I hear from are fine with having a medical exam and they’re not opposed to screening tests if those tests are accurate and fair.

The evidence suggests they’re not.

test that can solely determine with absolute certainty whether an older person is fit to drive.” In a web page designed for medical professionals, the B.C. Ministry of Justice poses the question: “Why does RoadSafetyBC require a DMER when a driver turns 80.” Their answer: drivers aged 80 and older are involved in more crashes per kilometre driven than almost any age group and are more likely to die in those crashes. That’s true.

But seniors don’t have the highest crash rates, teenage drivers do. We don’t say they can’t drive. I’m in favour of screening older drivers and clearly we need to adequately assess when there are potential problems that might place people at risk when they are driving. I think we are making two errors here.

First we are using screening tests that are unproven, at best, to determine driver competency. And somehow, inexplicably, we’ve made the road test the last step to determine the competency of older drivers. Most older senior drivers are competent and many have never been in an accident. Let’s get them out of the doctor’s office, away from the computer screens and tests with alphabet soup names, and back on the road where they belong.

...seniors don’t have the highest crash rates...

It’s not just those tests.

Researchers at McMaster University have concluded, “there is no single cognitive screening

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Tom Carney is the former executive director of the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society.

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Current MSP system unfair and costly

next provincial election in 2017. The petition is now at over 7,000 signatures.

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If B.C. Liberals really want to cut red tape, they should chop MSP: MLA

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eforming B.C.’s health care premium system could save residents, the provincial government and businesses money, according to MLA Andrew Weaver.

Currently B.C. is the only province to levy a standalone medical services plan (MSP) premium.

Following a four per cent increase that took effect in January, a single person will pay $75 a month, a couple — $136 and a family of three or more will pay $150.

A subsidy is only available for residents who make less than $30,000 a year.

“Yet again, we have people getting another MSP increase,” Weaver said, adding that the premium

weighs most heavily on low-income people or those with fixed incomes.

In response to a request for comment, the Ministry of Finance sent a statement to Business in Vancouver saying the province has put in place measures to make sure that those already receiving the subsidy are not affected by the premium increase.

Most other provinces fund health care through general

taxation revenues. Ontario has a health care premium that is embedded within the income tax system.

Weaver, who is B.C.’s sole Green Party MLA, has been lobbying to change the system since last February, when the party started an online petition. It gained 2,000 signatures after the party revived it yesterday with a new promise to make reforming MSP the first thing a Green government would do if elected in the

The Green Party favours adopting Ontario’s system, where residents pay a premium through the income tax system. People pay nothing if they make below $20,000 a year — the premium increases based on income with a cap of $900.

For example, residents who make $260,000 a year pay a maximum of $900 a year or $75 per month.

There are many problems with B.C.’s MSP premium, said Lindsay Tedds, a professor of economics at the University of Victoria.

It’s not means-tested, meaning that a person making $31,000 a year pays the same as someone with

an income of $250,000.

The province contracts with a third-party company to administer the system and pursue unpaid bills, but Tedds said it would be cheaper for the provincial government to sign a tax collection agreement with Canada Revenue Agency.

Weaver said his party is advocating designing the system to bring in the same amount of revenue, but without the added bureaucracy of the current system.

As for the subsidy available to people who make less than $30,000, 26 per cent of those who are eligible don’t apply, according to research

by Rebecca Warburton, an associate professor of public administration at the University of Victoria. That’s a higher rate than for other subsidies offered by the government, Tedds said.

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Tedds added businesses that offer to cover MSP as an employee benefit might also save money as it’s an extra cost that employers outside of the province don’t have to pay.

However, employers with unionized staff would likely have to bargain to reallocate the benefit.

Weaver said rolling the MSP into the income tax system would also streamline bureaucracy for employers who want to keep offering the benefit, because they would be submitting information about the health care premium, Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance to the same place.

Weaver plans to keep pressing the issue as the provincial budget approaches in February. @jenstden

ARTHRITIS EDUCATION EVENTS: VANCOUVER 1. UNDERSTANDING ARTHRITIS

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2. MANAGING CHRONIC PAIN

Improve your understanding of the principles of pain management and its treatments, explore different methods to cope with chronic pain and learn how to take an active role in your own pain management. Remember:“No Pain, No Gain” doesn’t apply when you have arthritis!

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3. EXERCISING CONTROL OVER ARTHRITIS

Staying physically active is key to managing arthritis to maintain joint mobility, muscle strength, and cardiovascular health.

This presentation talks about the benefits of exercise and some of the options to keep moving.

DATE: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | 6:30 – 8:30pm

4. TIPS, TRICKS AND TOOLS TO MANAGE YOUR JOINTS

Arthritis can make daily activities difficult and painful. This interactive workshop shares information about the many tools, gadgets and techniques to help make daily tasks easier to do. Learn tips to help you reduce pain and the impact of arthritis on your activities.

DATE: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 | TIME: 6:30 – 8:30pm

ALL FOUR PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND TAKE PLACE AT: Marpole –Oakridge Community Centre, 990 West 59th Ave, Vancouver (at Oak Street) TO REGISTER FOR ONE OR ALL FOUR POGRAMS PLEASE CALL 604-257-8180, register online at http://www.marpoleoakridge.org/ or in person at any Vancouver Park Board Community Centre We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia

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CAPTAIN COURAGE: Lorne Segal, the philanthropist, community builder and president of Kingswood Capital, will steer his 11th Courage to Come Back Awards.

The annual awards program dedicated to celebrate British Columbians who have overcome adversity or illness and who inspire and give to others has raised millions for Coast Mental Health since its first staging in 1999.

Wendy St. Marie and Jim Mandelin, two of 102 Courage recipients feted, were on hand for the launch of this year’s campaign, held at the corporate offices of Scotiabank, the awards presenting sponsor. Nominations for six categories — addiction, medical, mental illness, physical rehabilitation, social adversity and youth — will be accepted at couragetocomeback.ca until Feb. 12. The recipients will be feted at a gala dinner on May 5 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

BRIGHT LIGHTS: With support from the community, sponsors, staff and volunteers, the 18th annual Lights of Hope fundraising campaign for St. Paul’s Hospital generated a record-setting $3.15 million, surpassing its $3-million goal to support the hospital’s greatest needs. Featuring over 10 km of lights, 100,000 bulbs, hundreds of sponsored stars, and built entirely by volunteers using donated materials, the Burrard Street spectacle has been a seasonal tradition raising more than $28.7 million, funding life saving equipment and priority programs. This year’s display shined a little brighter for one local couple. After contacting the foundation, Ontario-native Austen Renaud arranged to bring his girlfriend of 10 years Jocelyne Bonneau to the display where one special star posed a very important question under the twinkly lights. She said yes.

DINNER IS ON: Canada’s largest food and drink festival continues to push the menu on ways to enjoy the flavours of our city. Dine Out Vancouver returns for its 14th running, 17-days of culinary events, food-themed experiences, Dine and Stay packages and special hotel rate. A reported 288 restaurants will tempt foodies with their $20, $30 and $40 three-course prix fix menus. In 2003, the festival launched with just 57 restaurants. As well, this year will see 102 special culinary events to satisfy our palettes; from Master Classes with celebrated barkeep Lauren Mote, to Wines of B.C.’s Grape Debate and the festival’s first Winter Beer Hall. Tourism Vancouver CEO Ty Speer and festival organizer Lucas Pavan hosted the festival launch and Dine Around preview at the Four Seasons’s YEW Restaurant + Bar. More than 100,000 diners are expected to participate this year.

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CEO Dick Vollet and foundation board member Stuart Louie announced a record $3.15 million raised from this year’s Lights of Hope Campaign, which concluded earlier this month.

Proceeds will support St. Paul’s Hospital’s greatest needs.

Dine Out Vancouver organizer Lucas Pavan prepares to dish out some 17-days of culinary events, food themed experiences, Dine and Stay packages and special hotel rates at the 14th Dine Out Vancouver Festival, the country’s biggest food fete!

Austen Renaud popped the question to his girlfriend of 10 years Jocelyne Bonneau under St. Paul’s Lights of Hope.

Italian consul general Massimiliano Iacchini and Italian Cultural Centre executive director Mauro Vescara fronted the Italian Film Festival opening night reception at the Vancity Theatre.

The third running features 14 classic and contemporary films.

Sai Woo executive chef Keev Mah and general manager Katherine Barnes will serve up a special $40 menu at their Chinatown hot spot during the annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival.

Lorne Segal will steer his 11th Courage to Come Back Awards. The annual program, which raises funds for Coast Mental Health, celebrates individuals who have overcome adversity or illness and who inspire others. Winners will be feted May 5 at a gala benefit.

Bella Gelateria’s James Coleridge served up his award-winning gelato at the Italian Film Festival opening. Among the luminaries spotted was Vancouver International Film Festival’s Melanie Friesen, producer of long running film series Cinema Salon.

Fight director Gabriel Carter and director David C Jones at the opening night reception of Andy Fickman’s Heathers, The Musical, a homicidal dark comedy which made its Vanhattan debut at the York Theatre.

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More than survived, it’s thrived.

Generations of customers keep coming back for the “Yukon-style” bacon and eggs (Yukon-style means “big”), the fresh turkey sandwiches (turkeys cooked onsite nightly), the Skookum Chief Burger (that’s organic beef from a ranch in Salmon Arm, B.C.) and a selection of freshly baked pies made from 100-year-old family recipes.

But an institution like the Tomahawk doesn’t rest on its laurels. For a home-style restaurant to work for nearly 100 years, it has to constantly adapt and evolve with tastes and the times.

So these days you’ll also find on the Tomahawk menu a Granola Yogurt Medley, a

selection of green salads and a veggie burger comprising mushrooms, brown rice and low-fat cheeses – along with fresh tomato and lettuce.

“We really are a dinosaur,” says a grinning Charles Chamberlain, whose dad Chick opened the Capilanoarea diner in 1926.

It was the region’s first drive-in – before burgers, it offered “sandwiches in the car,” a novelty in 1920s-era Vancouver.

But Chick Chamberlain’s timing couldn’t have been much worse. The stock market crashed and the Depression kicked in just three years later. Still, the family persevered.

Those principles of perseverance, adaptability and patience to do things right have stayed with the business through thick and thin. “ We’re definitely not complacent about it,” says Charles – Chuck to his family, friends and customers. “As with anything, you’ve got to stay on top of things.”

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museum, and features an impressive collection of West Coast native artifacts donated or traded by local Squamish and other First Nations with whom Chick Chamberlain, the son of British immigrants, had close relationships.

Chick fell in love with the coastal peoples and culture.

In tough times, he’d provide meals on barter, or less, collecting the odd piece along the way.

“During the Depression, everybody had to help one another – it didn’t matter colour, race, creed, anything,” says his son.

Eventually, Chick started serving on the local band council — the first white man to do so — and the only one for years. Now descendants of those First Nations friends bring their grandchildren into the restaurant to see the work of their forebears.

Charles (Chuck) Chamberlain started his apprenticeship at the Tomahawk when he was just seven years old, clearing carhop trays on

How working together can help keep kids safe from digital dangers Carol Todd remembers when teenagers’ insults were written on the bathroom wall or on paper and could be washed away or torn up.

Then, bullying was a schoolyard event. The trials of adolescence stopped at the bedroom door, and that room was a refuge from the outside world.

Now, bullying is a wider, more enduring problem through the use of technology and social media, says Todd.

“Something physical or face-to-face could happen at school and they come home, turn on their devices and, boom, it’s right there — pictures, videos, words, the story.

And it isn’t just one-to-one anymore. It’s one-to-100,000.”

Todd knows how difficult growing up in the digital age can be. Her daughter Amanda took her life on Oct. 10, 2012 — just before her 16th birthday — after relentless online

Carol Todd

bullying by a suspected perpetrator in the Netherlands.

Todd, a teacher, has channelled her grief and skills into educating the public about online safety and security through her foundation, the Amanda Todd Legacy Society, and through her involvement in a free education program offered through Telus called Wise Internet and Smart-

phone Education, or Telus WISE. Cyberbullying, says Todd, can affect anyone. Nearly 75 per cent of American adults have witnessed online harassment and 40 per cent have experienced it, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.

Cyberbullying among kids is intensifying. Recently, Telus, with partners MediaSmarts and PREVNet, surveyed 800 Canadian youth.

Forty-two per cent said they had been cyberbullied in the previous four weeks; 60 per cent had witnessed cyberbullying in that period.

What’s more, 33 per cent of youth said they do not report cyberbullying because they don’t believe adults give advice that helps – suggesting adults must educate themselves on the issue and how to equip youth with methods to intervene.

weekends.

He’s 7 1 now and still works 17-hour days, seven days a week except Christmas and Boxing Day, when the place closes and he and his 24 staff – some of whom have been there more than 20 years – take a much-deserved break.

By 1960, dry rot was getting the best of the original log building, so the family moved the business to a new building across the street.

Business took a nosedive in the 1980s with the rise of various diet crazes.

“That was just horrendous,” says Chamberlain.

“Not just for me, but other restaurants, too. Nobody was eating any bacon or toast, the mainstays of the business. But we carried on. We didn’t change too much.”

These days, the Tomahawk goes through a tonneand-a-half of bacon a month.

The Mixed Grill, a menu item spawned by a customer who’d bring in a baking sheet after his Sunday soccer game and ask Chick Chamberlain to “load ’er up”

with whatever was available, serves up nine slices of bacon along with two free-range eggs, two slices of Klondike toast, an organic hamburger patty, aged cheddar cheese, a wiener, onions and fresh sautéed mushrooms.

In an era of cheap fast food, never-ending deadlines and a relentless demand for instant gratification, the alcohol-free Tomahawk just keeps chugging along like it’s in some sort of time warp.

On weekends, customers

queue for more than 30 minutes to enjoy servings that cost from $8 to $15 a plate.

Robert Mackay is 83 years old and he’s been coming to the Tomahawk since 1950.

He’s down to once a month now, but the Yukon-style breakfast remains his favourite.

“We love the novelty of the place,” he says. “We enjoy the atmosphere. It hasn’t changed much. They’ve modernized the restaurant . . . but the food is still just great. It’s always been great.”

Early on, Carol Todd recognized where the change would have to begin. Speaking in 2013 at a Winnipeg roundtable sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Todd said it couldn’t be left to police and governments to prevent cyberbullying; social media and organizations like telecoms needed to take a leading role.

Telus WISE hadn’t been created, but as a long-time customer, Todd knew the company and its reputation well, and admired its presence and practices. When it launched Telus WISE, she says, “It was really good to hear that a telecom was taking control and doing something positive.”

Todd signed on as a program partner and ambassador.

Telus WISE is the brainchild of Darren Entwistle, company president/CEO, who believes social responsibility is both a duty and a sound business practice. Entwistle recognized that creating an educational, actionable and

free resource to help all Canadians, not just Telus customers, would be critical to helping people adopt the most current Internet and smartphone safety practices.

Program director Shelly Smith, who has been with Telus WISE since its inception nearly three years ago, says the multilingual effort has reached hundreds of thousands of Canadians through workshops, seminars and online resources.

“We’re all aware of the benefits that connected technologies bring to our work and personal lives, but we also have to be aware of and prepared for the risks,” says Smith.

Telus WISE addresses issues such as cyberbullying, identity theft and smartphone safety in classroom visits, adult education programs, information guides and online at telus.com/wise.

“We need to make sure there are safety nets in place, and those include education,” says Todd. “It needs to be ongoing, and we need to educate adults just as much as we

need to educate the kids.”

Solving issues confronting smartphone users is a threepronged effort requiring prevention, intervention and reaction, says Todd. She believes Telus is doing an outstanding job on prevention, particularly through its WISE workshops.

Most youths have an Internet-connected device and multiple social media accounts. Kids today may be tech savvy, says Todd, but they are as naive and vulnerable as ever.

“When your child turns 16, you don’t give the car keys to them and tell them to go drive to their heart’s content. You give them lessons. You make sure they’re safe. We should be doing the same thing with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.”

Don’t lecture, she urges parents. And don’t be quick to punish mistakes.

“The keys are communication and trust,” she says.

“Parents and their kids need to have open conversations – conversations without judgment.”

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Sunday/Monday brings secrets, rewards investigation.

Finances, crucial health matters, lifestyle, sexual intimacy, all are highlighted. Remember, don’t start a new project nor relationship before January 25. (E.g., don’t invest in unfamiliar products/stocks, nor bed a stranger.) These two days, especially Monday, pour luck on these and similar zones. Midweek (Tues./ Wed.) brings intellectual pursuits, travel, legal, cultural or international affairs, wisdom, and mellow, gentle love.

Your energy and charisma soar Sun./Mon., and your luck is superb. Remember, don’t start any new projects nor relationships – so use your great effectiveness these two days to further ongoing projects or to reprise the past – for example, to attract an old flame (who, by the way, is interested).

Chase money, collect on old debts, and pay neglected bills Tues./Wed. Both days need care – a bad time to ask the boss for a raise.

Start nothing new, ventures nor relationships, before January 25. This week you shift gears downward, from hectic activity to relative rest.

Sunday/Monday bless relationships with luck and affection. Almost everything succeeds if it touches on relationships, negotiation, relocation, or dealing with the public. Life’s hidden side emerges Tues./Wed. – and now luck deserts you.

Lie low, recuperate, contemplate and deal with confidential matters Sun./Mon. – both days (but mostly Monday) are filled with luck in dealing with government, institutions, charities and spiritual matters/organizations. Home AND career are fine! Your energy and charisma soar Tues./Wed. – but remember, don’t start new projects nor relationships before January 25. Use these two days to conquer long-standing problems.

The emphasis continues on money, earnings, shopping, clients, your possessions, and sensual attractions – but only until Wed., when a new trend (travel and friends) arrives. Remember, start no new projects not relationships (and especially not money ventures) before January 25. Tackle chores and protect your daily health Sunday/Monday. Monday is superb – you can impress the boss, get a huge job organized and/or done, even learn a valuable secret.

Remember, Cancer, start no brand new projects nor relationships before January 25. Wishes can come true Sun./Mon. Your popularity soars, friendly romance winks at you (an old flame might be ready to re-visit the past) you feel optimistic, and life’s grand! Splendid luck accompanies you, especially in relationships – light and serious. But retreat, rest and contemplate Tues./Wed. – hour energy’s low, and luck walks out the door.

Your energy and charisma remain high, but still, avoid starting new projects or relationships before January 25. Sunday/Monday bring romance, creative and speculative urges, beauty and pleasure. Your luck is high, especially Monday. You could fall in love, or make someone love you. Remember, stick to old, past or ongoing flames. Tackle chores Tues./Wed., but carefully: hidden factors, confusion, accidents and stress or upset digestion take all the fun out.

Be a homebody Sun./Mon., Leo. Money, repairs, children, security, affection, retirement dreams – all meet splendid luck. An odd Tues./ Wed. – events are terrible, but nothing dents your optimism and good mood. Expect friends, flirtations, entertainment, and happiness. But don’t do anything practical. Remember, too, that you should not start any new projects nor relationships before January 25.

You’re still held back by low energy and a quiescent charisma. But your month of setbacks and quietude ends Wed., when a month of “Aquarius First!” starts. Remember, though, start no new relationships nor projects before the 25th. Head for home Sunday/Monday. Your luck is high, especially in career-money, investment/ debt, research and detective work, and, despite your lowered charisma, intimacy.

Remember, start nothing new before January 25.

An old flame might re-appear. A mellow, wise mood flows through you Sun./Mon., Virgo. Your luck soars, especially in love, intellectual pursuits, education, far travel, international affairs, publishing and cultural venues – and in communicating with a spouse or associate. But don’t argue Sunday pm – avoid politics, religion. Your career, social standing and prestige relations are highlighted Tues./Wed. – and in a problematic way.

Have fun Sunday/Monday, Pisces, talk, visit, re-establish friendly contacts and any semiromantic ties. (Remember, though, don’t start new relationships nor projects before January 25.) Your luck’s high, and any travel, errands or friendly meetings will go splendidly. (However, check figures, and don’t put anything in writing.) Your home seems all topsy-turvy Tues./ Wed. – advance cautiously, avoid arguments, and don’t stick any forks in the electric outlet.

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1 Jan. 14 to 20, 2016 1. The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival returns for three weeks of ground-breaking, boundary-pushing theatre, music and live performance art from around the world and close to home, including Jack Charles V. the Crown featuring Australian tribal elder Jack Charles as he recounts his colourful life as residential school survivor, addict, petty thief and actor, while backed by a three piece band.

The festival runs Jan. 19 to Feb. 7 at various venues. Details at pushfestival.ca.

2. Vancouver singer-songwriter Jeff Pace, a.k.a. Old Man Canyon, brings his folkrock stylings to the Fox Cabaret in support of his debut full-length release Delirium, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. Tickets at Red Cat Records and ticketweb.ca.

3. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s funny, poignant and already controversial play about love, addiction and honour, The Motherf**ker with the Hat opens Jan. 16 at the Firehall Arts Centre and runs until Jan. 30. Tickets and details at firehallartscentre.ca.

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It felt like everyone had just gotten up and left.

Having jumped at an opportunity to photograph the McKenzie shipyard, located just west of North Van’s Cates Park, a day prior to its demolition to make way for a new condo development, mixed-media artist Tracy McMenemy was completely taken by what she saw.

Things were sitting still.

There was clothing hanging on hooks, open notebooks on tables, blueprints lying around and a chair sitting out on the dock as if someone had just had lunch on it.

“It felt almost apocalyptic,” says the North Vancouver artist who maintains a studio in East Vancouver.

“I got goosebumps a couple of times when I walked through some of the spaces.

You could certainly feel the energy of the people that worked there. That’s what you’re looking for as an artist is that connection and it was there in spades,” she says.

McKenzie Barge and Marine Ways was launched in 1932. Bustling in its heyday building ships and tug boats, operations were downsized in the late 1970s and the company was primarily focused on repairs and painting. The shipyard remained operational until the day in August 2014 when McMenemy went in to conduct her self-described “material investigation,” photographing, documenting, archiving and collecting various objects. Today, waterfront townhomes and apartment residences are being built on the site.

McMenemy spent a year on a series of mixedmedia works inspired by the shipyard with the resulting pieces showcased in a new exhibition at the Vancouver Maritime Museum called Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard.

“It’s exciting to talk about the shipyard — as another place that’s disappearing,” McMenemy says. “If we don’t notice these places, the energy, they will be gone the next time we drive by.

It’s a reminder to stop and take note, look closer and take time to see what is in our backyard and community. My artist’s resurrection brings the colour back.”

There were a “couple of strange, serendipitous situations” that led to McMenemy’s McKenzie shipyard project coming to fruition.

Her initial introduction

Tracy McMenemy documented, archived and collected objects from the McKenzie shipyard in North Vancouver before the site was demolished in August 2014. Her resulting mixed-media artworks are on display at the Vancouver Maritime Museum until April 3. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

was the result of driving past the site for the last decade, along Dollarton Highway.

“It was striking because it was this very beautiful setting with this building on the water. I always wondered what was happening there.

Once I started painting, I would imagine myself having a gallery in the front of the building and a studio in the back looking out at the water. I saw there was lots of parking and thought about it very rationally as well as in my imagination. It had always been in my mind as a beautiful spot,” she says.

McMenemy was pleased when, out of nowhere, she received a phone call from a family friend whose wife, unbeknownst to her, was a member of the McKenzie family. The wife’s father and uncle had been the shipyard’s two owners.

The family friend had long been a supporter of McMenemy’s art, having attended her shows over the years, and had a proposition for her.

“He said, ‘They’re demolishing it tomorrow, can you come in today and do your thing and make a piece for my wife as sort of a memory of her father who had recently passed away?’” she recalls.

The next day, McMenemy grabbed her gear and headed over, spending five intensive hours photographing intricate details of the site.

“I thought I was going to do a piece, but I was just so blown away by everything that I found there and the feelings that I had there. It was really serene with the setting on the water but the actual shipyard was quite ghostly,” she says.

In fact, she had heard rumours of actual hauntings, having been told about a number of employees who’d over the years seen “an old man down at the

dock,” yet the man never actually materialized.

“I had a lot of feelings about it so it blew up into a year of my life, working away at it,” she says.

McMenemy will exhibit 38 pieces for the exhibition, blurring the lines between photography and painting.

“I basically start with a photograph and then I either use that as inspiration or I actually transfer part of the photograph onto my panel and then I paint after that,” she says.

She’ll also have some three-dimensional works on display, including a 17-foottall water line marker and a tool box with art on the inside of it.

The show’s title, Ghost Passages, is a reference to a common theme in McMenemy’s art.

“A lot of the work that I’ve done with abandoned places have something to do with the passage of time, and so I knew that I wanted to have passages in the title and it had that ghostly feel,” she says.

An added significance to the title is that passages can also refer to waterways.

“I grew up as a sailor, so I’ve always been connected to the water... and I think that’s probably why the shipyard caught my attention when we first moved out to Deep Cove and I’d always wondered what had happened there behind those doors. It’s funny you know, you get a phone call and it changes your life. I had no idea I’d spend the last year of my life working on this.”

Ghost Passages of the McKenzie Shipyard: An Exhibition by Tracy McMenemy runs until April 3 at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, with an opening reception Thursday, Jan. 14, 6 to 9 p.m.

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Are you mourning David Bowie’s death to the best of your ability?

News of David Bowie’s death Sunday night took most people by surprise. But that didn’t stop millions of fans with an Internet connection and a tinkle in their heart from quickly bashing out a status update to express their loss, surprise, a video link, listicle, insightful article or animated GIF of Bowie’s many looks over the decades to share in the Internet’s collective grieving process.

Besides voicing said grief or surprise, it’s important to post something that also reflects your own inner coolness, in hopes that some of that precious Bowie stardust will rub off on you. Here’s a list of ways to publicly mourn David Bowie’s death and how you can improve upon it.

• Express your loss in a way that makes people know Bowie’s death is way more earth-shattering and important to you than the loss of a cast member from Celebrity Rehab, a family member or pet. Hint: Instead of RIP, use vague phrases or words like

“speechless,” “no words” or even better “gutted,” since it sounds more British.

• Post a video of a Bowie song or interview where he chastises an MTV host for not playing enough black artists. The deeper the cut, the better. Sure, “Let’s Dance” and “Modern Love” might be when Bowie first hit your LG73 listening radar, but the more obscure the song, the more of a true fan you are.

Basically anything off Lodger and you’re gold. You can gain cred points for posting Bowie’s cameo in Ricky Gervais’s Extras TV show, the Christmas duet with Bing Crosby or ironically posting that redubbed “Dancing in the Streets” video with Mick Jagger, because it tells people you don’t take holding Bowie in high regard too seriously, which really means you totally hold Bowie in high regard.

• Post a quote from Bowie or another person’s quote about Bowie to show people you have a deep understanding of Bowie’s cultural

significance. If you have the time, really go down the Internet rabbit hole and find some long lost quote where Bowie praises the complexity of nachos, the musical contributions of Degrassi High’s in-house band the Zit Remedy, or how he once subsisted on gourds and a thimble of Lou Reed’s blood for five months. We’ve never seen such quotes, but we’re sure they’re out there.

• Change your Facebook photo to a picture of David Bowie from a distinct era in his career. Ziggy Stardust, for example, or the Thin White Duke, or even his role as Jareth the Goblin King from the movie Labyrinth. Bonus points for going to work in face paint a la his Aladdin Sane album cover. It will creep everyone out and you won’t get that promotion, but it will be awesome.

• Make sure to mention to coworkers, friends (Facebook or otherwise), your barista, and strangers on public transit that you’ve

been listening to your Bowie albums all week. Stress albums over MP3s or Spotify playlists. Once again, big ups if you mention Lodger, even if the only reason you heard about it in the first place was when Built to Spill referenced it in a song.

• Listen to your Bowie albums all week. Most of them really are fantastic.

Even Lodger. But do so privately, while smugly judging everyone else for doing so publicly. How crass. You might even want to write a blog post or short article about it because in some, small, petty way it feels good. Or at least better. And it helps you ignore the fact that you are not good with expressing your feelings and woefully out of touch with your emotions.

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UBC running back Brandon Deschamps wore a concussion sensor behind his ear to track the number of hits he took and the magnitude of those hits over the course of the football season.

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In the second half of this year’s Vanier Cup between the UBC Thunderbirds and the Université de Montréal Carabins football teams, UBC running back Brandon Deschamps took the football. He immediately found space, juked right and then ran around Montreal’s defence. It went into the books as a 44-yard touchdown run, a highlight in a 26-23 win for the underdog Thunderbirds. Less than a month later, right around Christmas, Deschamps signed a contract with the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders.

The season didn’t start so promisingly, however, as Deschamps suffered a concussion in the first game of the year against rival Calgary. He was pulled from the contest and had to miss the next start.

“I knew right away it wasn’t good,” Deschamps recalls. “I didn’t feel right.”

Deschamps had been

wearing a concussion sensor behind his ear since the start of the 2014 season; a decision that he says was tough at first.

“At first, I was apprehensive,” he says, in a soft voice not expected from someone nicknamed “Banger.”

“You don’t really want to know what’s happening.

The more I thought about it, I decided that the best we can do, anything we can to help younger players and educate them, it should be done.”

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Of course, Deschamps wouldn’t have the option of wearing a sensor if it weren’t for Harrison Brown. Currently a PhD candidate, Brown was doing his Masters of Science at UBC when he and his lab partners developed the sensors. “Basically we know the number of hits each of the players take, and the magnitude of the hits,” Brown says in a Kitsilano coffee shop. “If somebody gets concussed

during the game, we test them on 10 different tests.

But we’re also looking for things where people maybe aren’t diagnosed as concussed, but they take really big hits or a lot of hits and we can see something through data that maybe gives us some more information.”

While he was working on the sensors, Brown was also taking a graduate business class. The class demanded that the students break into groups and start their own business. Brown doubled down on the concussion issue, and he and group member Kerry Costello started HeadCheck Health in 2013 with the help of the Entrepreneurship@ UBC program. But it was only recently, to coincide with the release of the Hollywood film Concussion starring Will Smith, that HeadCheck announced a cellphone app designed to help doctors and trainers better diagnose concussions on the sidelines.

The traditional method

of testing concussions has, according to Brown, some faults. “One of the things we figured out was there’s this balance test that they currently use to assess concussions, which is very poorly graded — it’s currently graded by humans,” says Brown. “For example, if you were concussed, I, as a trainer or doctor, would say, ‘Can you stand on one foot?’”

With Brown’s research, combined with the HeadCheck Health app, sensors test the athletes and provide baseline and postinjury results, which can then be easily uploaded to the app on the go, eliminating the previous system of human testing and carrying around two pieces of paper — one of the baseline test and one to test for a concussion — constantly. “What happens with that, is that the athletic trainer doesn’t have an easy experience,” says Costello, sitting across from Brown. “They’re jumping from a piece of paper to a computer, to a

mobile app back to a piece of paper, they’re trying to track it all and keep it all in one place. That came through loud and clear in our initial interviews with customers — they didn’t want that, they wanted one tool that made their lives easier.”

No-brainer

For Thunderbirds football head coach Blake Nill, the decision to allow the research to be a factor in the lives of his players was a no-brainer.

“I agree to allow it to continue because we have to know as much as possible,” Nill says. “This is something I think is very important. UBC is a very progressive school, and it’s good that these things are happening, it helps all sports, not just football.

As coaches we have to step up and be leaders.”

As much as the issue has presented Brown and Costello with a business opportunity, it’s also a personal story for the two.

Brown, while born in

Canada, moved to Hong Kong at the age of nine and ended up playing for Hong Kong’s national rugby team and suffering three concussions, including a particularly bad one.

Costello balances the business with coaching girls’ basketball at Magee secondary school, a task that Brown also helps with.

With 31 sports teams across the country using the HeadCheck app, including two Western Hockey League teams — the Victoria Royals and the Edmonton Oil Kings — the two seem destined for the big leagues. And they’ll go there, but it’s not their main priority.

“The end goal is to take it to the kids,” says Costello. “That is a huge opportunity for us because we have the ability to step in there that could actually prevent a lot of the deaths and serious injuries that could happen as a result of athletes going back in the sport too soon, so that’s the dream.” @ncaddell

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Weird Oregon well worth a road trip Truffle Shuffle and continue south.

It might seem odd to call an entire state an undiscovered secret, but Oregon still feels like one every time I visit.

Sandwiched between well-visited Seattle and holiday-destination California, the middle of the Cascadian states is one of the best places to hit up for a road trip. Oh, and it has the capacity for being weird.

Likely, you knew that already, especially if you’ve ever visited Portland, or had a gander at the current militia standoff going on right now (to be fair, those guys are mostly imports from far afield). However, Oregon’s oddness extends beyond the kilt-wearing, fiery-bagpipe Darth Vader unicyclist of Portland — that’s a real thing, feel free to look it up — and deep into the many winding roads that snake throughout the state.

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The dunes

An unexpected sight as you wend your way towards the California border are huge sand dunes, some of them engulfing entire pine trees. These are the shifting sands of Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, and you can stop to get in a little off-roading.

McMenamins

Scattered throughout the state are McMenamins breweries, little pubs and restaurants often built inside heritage buildings. The company has a tendency to hire folk artists to decorate the inside with lots of hidden artworks, and the crown jewel is found East of Portland at McMenamins Edgefield.

Booking a place here takes some advance planning, but with lots of little snugs, croquet, Frisbee golf, and even a weird tribute statue

If you’ve got a road trip, any road trip, planned for 2016, you ought to make Oregon one of your mustdrive destinations this year. places to explore, to get lost, to get off the beaten track. Sure, the weak Canadian dollar means accommodations and road snacks will be a bit on the expensive side, but cheap U.S. gasoline will make up for it the farther you dive.

If you’ve got a road trip, any road trip, planned for 2016, you ought to make Oregon one of your mustdrive destinations this year. Here are a few of my favourite nooks and crannies in the place: check the O.R., you like it so far?

The Goonies and Cannon Beach

Travel down the Oregon coast, a scenic drive to put California’s occasionally R.V.-clogged Pacific Highway to shame, and you’ll soon arrive at Cannon Beach. The whole coast is a mass of shipwrecks and ghost stories, and Haystack Rock features prominently in several Hollywood films.

Probably the best of these is The Goonies, everybody’s favourite buried treasure flick. Stop quick to do the

to Jerry Garcia, it’s a must visit. It also sets you up for one of the best drives next morning.

The Gorge

Heading east from Troutdale, you’ll soon find yourself with the option to jump off the highway at Exit 22 towards Corbett.

Take the leap and you’ll find yourself in a green and woody wonderland, the road leading past waterfall after waterfall. Some, like Multnomah Falls, are worth stopping off for a quick hike.

Maryhill Stonehenge

Further east, you’ll come across a full-size model of Stonehenge, cast in concrete on the banks of the Hood River. Technically, this monument is in the state of Washington, but as it’s just a stone’s throw from the Oregon side, it should be claimed as part of any road trip.

The lost city of Rajneeshpuram

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97, you’ll have the option of making your way towards the tiny town of Antelope. Site of one of the oddest tales in Oregon’s past, it was near here that a huge commune of more than 5,000 people gathered to create a utopian paradise. It lasted just a few years, thanks to paranoia, conflict with the locals, and the eventual poisoning of hundreds of people with salmonella sprayed in restaurant foods. The

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Even further east, centralized around Mount Vernon, is the world’s largest organism, an underground fungus that covers some 2,200 acres and dates back to 200 BC. On the surface, the only evidence of the fungus are clumps of golden mushrooms. You can see them best at Malheur National Forest, and they even glow in the dark!

The Painted Hills

Head south then east, and you’ll find yourself in Mitchell. Chock full of fossils, this spot in the high desert of Oregon’s interior features hills banded with mineral deposits, the remnants of an ancient floodplain.

The reverse gravity hill

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