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Troubled children make for troubled lives

Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

I know it’s been several months since it hit the news, but do you remember Paige’s story?

This was the sad tale about a 19-year-old woman who died of a drug overdose in a washroom adjacent to Oppenheimer Park in 2013 after years of abuse, neglect and “persistent inaction from front-line professionals and an indifferent social care system that led to this young woman’s demise.”

The quoted part of that sentence comes from a report released in May 2015

by B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. The findings stunned the public.

Well, here’s another story about a person who appears to have not received the support he needed when he was a child. But when I tell you his name and why he’s in the news, I don’t expect the same sympathetic reaction.

Kind of hard to shed a tear for a person described

by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. as “a long-time gang associate with previous drug and violencerelated convictions.”

But when I read Provincial Court Judge Reg Harris’s written reasons last week for sentencing Dustin Robert Alexander Wadsworth to two years in jail for his involvement in a drug-dealing operation, I came across an illuminating bit of information that gave some perspective for the 33-year-old’s behaviour.

“When he was young, his parents were addicted to drugs,” Harris wrote. “He had little support or supervision and he frequently associated with older kids who were criminally active.

Mr. Wadsworth was first incarcerated at 12 years old. Thereafter, he was in and out of custody with the result that he spent the majority of his youth in custody.”

Once he became an adult, Wadsworth continued to get in trouble with the law.

His first conviction as a

purpose of trafficking.

The charges relate to police arresting him in October 2014 after opening his backpack to find 10 ounces of cocaine, two kilograms of a cutting agent, baking soda and Pyrex glassware.

The Crown’s position was that the items were used to make crack cocaine. A search warrant executed at a place he was sharing with another man on Vancouver Island uncovered $57,000 in cash, 1,300 grams of a cutting agent, drug paraphernalia and 291 ecstasy pills.

Wadsworth’s associate, Isaac Drennan, was charged with various drug possession and firearm charges. He was sentenced to seven years in jail.

So what did Wadsworth receive?

Two years in jail.

But the way the justice system works, he got credit for the time he served in custody since his arrest in October 2014. He now has a balance of 245 days to serve before his release.

Harris, who described

Children who lack care and family support can often turn to drugs and crime as adults, as evidenced in reports analyzed by the Courier. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

grown-up was for robbery, use of an imitation firearm and break and enter with intent. A judge sentenced Wadsworth to four years and five months in prison.

In 2009, he got into similar trouble and was sentenced to another

three years in prison for possession of a firearm, wearing a disguise and break and enter.

The reason Wadsworth was before the courts this month is because he was convicted of two counts of possessing cocaine for the

Wadsworth as a “mid-level dealer,” said the sentence “addresses the requisite denunciation and deterrence and yet preserves Mr. Wadsworth’s rehabilitative prospects.”

The judge noted the man’s mother was back in the picture and attended every one of her son’s court appearances. She has been drug free for 10 years.

Wadsworth has also shown remorse, the judge added.

So what happens after Wadsworth serves his time?

“Mr. Wadsworth plans to finish his sentence and then move forward with his life,” said Harris, noting Wadsworth has taken the preliminary steps to apply to receive training as a machinist.

Paige, meanwhile, never got to move forward with a life that Turpel-Lafond described as beginning with “real signs of promise.” And unlike Wadsworth’s mother, Paige’s mother never kicked drugs. She died of a drug overdose 19 months after her daughter’s death. @Howellings

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Prosecuting Stanley Cup

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It cost $4.9 million to prosecute 300 people charged in the riot that erupted downtown in June 2011 after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final played at Rogers Arena.

That cost, along with details of an unprecedented investigation and results of court proceedings, are contained in a report released Monday by B.C.’s Prosecution Service, which required more than 500 court days to complete trials and sentencing hearings. “[In summary], the police and the prosecution service expended considerable resources to ensure that those who participated in the Vancouver 2011 riot were held to account,” the report concluded. “Hopefully, this prosecution will deter — even prevent — the reoccurrence of events like the 2011 riot, as those who would riot and commit other crimes under cover of a crowd now know they do so at their peril.”

The majority of the

$4.9 million was spent on staff ($4.8 million) and the remainder ($170,699) covered costs related to witnesses, travel, transcripts, cellular phones, office expenses, building charges and Law Society fees.

The Crown’s work resulted in 912 charges approved against 300 alleged rioters, 246 of whom were adults and 54 youth. In the end, 284 pleaded guilty, 10 chose to go to trial (nine were convicted) and the Crown entered a stay of proceedings against six people. Only 17 per cent of persons charged in the riot had a criminal record.

The report said 94 per cent of the adults were sentenced for their crimes, with 47 per cent of those serving time in an institution. Another 47 per cent were given conditional sentences. Of the youth, two per cent went to jail and 17 per cent received a sentence to be served in the community under what’s called a deferred custody and supervision order, which comes with conditions.

“The conditions restrict

the liberty of the offender,” the report said. “If an offender disobeys any of the conditions, the judge can order the offender to serve a portion of the remaining sentence or the whole of the remaining sentence in an institution.

The remaining adults and youth offenders were sentenced to community supervision.”

Much of the Crown’s work, which the report described as labour intensive, involved reviewing video and photographic evidence.

Police collected 402 video and photo exhibits from 304 sources. That translated to 5,500 hours of video and almost 30,000 photographs, totaling more than 30 terabytes of data.

That’s the equivalent of 7,500 DVDs, or 45,000 CDs. In comparison, the 1994 Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver produced 100 hours of evidence.

“The vast majority of the riot-related accused pleaded guilty due to the organized and compelling Crown case, in particular the photographic evidence,” the report said.

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“The countless hours spent by the [prosecution team] organizing this evidence [and by the police in carefully gathering and cataloguing this evidence] resulted in great savings in court time.”

The riot broke out on the evening of June 11, 2011, turning the downtown into an atmosphere of lawlessness, destruction and violence, which 928 police officers eventually brought under control. Fires were set, 122 vehicles were

damaged or destroyed and 52 assaults were reported against citizens, police and other emergency personnel.

The rampage caused $2.7 million in damages to businesses, $540,000 to citizens and $525,000 to the City of Vancouver, B.C. Ambulance Services and St. Paul’s Hospital. London Drugs and its neighbour, Hudson’s Bay, were at the epicentre of the riot and sustained extensive damage and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise.

What the prosecution team’s report couldn’t capture as a cost was the psychological impact on people caught in the riot.

“Some people were terrified of losing their lives, having barricaded themselves inside businesses for safety, while others defended property or other persons at risk to themselves,” the report said.

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Academics from UBC and SFU have proposed a 1.5 per cent property tax surcharge, designed so that homeowners who live in the property and pay income taxes in B.C. would be exempt.

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Continued from page 5 Based on vacancy data, the report authors think around $90 million per year could be raised in Vancouver.

“There’s a lot of good things you could do with the revenue and we don’t have a particularly strong stand on that as long as it’s used to somehow benefit people who are struggling with prices,”

said Tom Davidoff, a professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and one of the authors of the report.

The surcharge could be applied to specific geographical areas to address, for instance, the much higher property prices in Vancouver compared with rural areas of the province. It would also provide a currently unavail-

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If property owners were allowed to offset their surcharge with rental revenue reported to the Canada Revenue Agency, the policy would be an incentive to rent out housing instead of leaving it vacant.

The policy would be enforceable, Davidoff said: the same penalties for not paying the current property tax would apply.

In a Jan. 12 Vancouver Sun op-ed, Rhys Kesselman, a professor of economics at SFU, proposed a progressive property surtax on homes worth over a certain amount, such as $1 million.

Kesselman’s proposal would have the taxation revenues funneled back into municipal governments for affordable housing initiatives.

Like Davidoff’s proposal, Kesselman believes the surtax could be modified for different real estate markets across the province. He also suggests homeowners could

credit their B.C. income tax against the property tax surcharge.

Davidoff said it would be “terrific” if both policies were applied. However, there is little interest from the current B.C. government in intervening in the real estate market.

“I think they’ve been pretty clear that the thing that they value is making sure there’s more home equity for people who own houses,” he said.

Davidoff is critical of the B.C. government’s first-time home buyer’s grant, which allows qualifying buyers to pay less or no property transfer tax. The measure provides no relief to renters, he said, and pushes home prices higher by increasing the demand for housing.

Demand to immigrate to B.C. is high and Davidoff doesn’t believe the BCHAF would deter new immigrants with capital to invest.

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First marijuana shop licence expected in the spring Mike Howell

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The City of Vancouver is still a few months away from issuing a business licence to an illegal marijuana dispensary, according to the city’s chief licence inspector.

That’s because city staff continues to sort through applications, collect feedback from neighbours of pot shops and wait for results of appeals by applicants initially rejected under the new regulations.

Many dispensary operators are also looking for or have found new locations for their businesses, said Andreea Toma, who is overseeing the regulations brought in by city council in June 2015.

“We could be looking at issuing the first business licence probably in the spring of this year,” she said.

That first licence will likely go to one of 12 applicants who cleared the city’s first hurdle of being at least 300 metres away from schools, community centres and neighbourhood houses.

The 12 applicants will be notified possibly within two weeks whether they can proceed to the next step.

That step involves the city examining an applicant’s past business practices and whether he or she has been in trouble with the law.

Signing a “good neighbour” agreement and meeting building codes related to health, fire and signs are also required to get a licence.

The 12 locations under review are spread across the city, with three on Kingsway, two on Main Street and others on East 41st Avenue, East 57th Avenue, West 10th Avenue, West 4th Avenue, East Broadway, Commercial Drive and Renfrew Street.

The Herb Co. Society is one of the applicants and operates a dispensary at 1189 Main St., across the street from Thornton Park.

One of the co-owners, who identified himself as Sunny and declined to provide his surname, said feedback from neighbours about the dispensary has been mixed.

“There’s been some positive and some negative,” he said, noting he and his partners recently purchased the dispensary from a previous owner. “We received letters from some businesses that said they haven’t had any interruptions with their business and they’re not against our application.”

Sunny applied to the

city for a $30,000 annual licence to operate a retail medical marijuana outlet.

The dispensary is only accessible by members who require a doctor’s certificate to obtain Herb Co.’s marijuana products, he said.

“We don’t sell to anybody.

I want a business licence, I want to operate in a proper manner,” said Sunny, when asked why he applied for a licence. “I only took over the dispensary after the city said they were going to do the business licences.”

The Main Street dispensary is among an estimated 100 illegal pot shops in the city. In June 2015, city council voted 8-3 to proceed with a staff proposal that calls for $30,000 annual licence fees ($1,000 for non-profit “compassion clubs”), criminal record checks and zoning regulations that prohibit pot shops from operating within 300 metres of schools, community centres, neighbourhood houses and each other.

Though council’s purpose is to regulate the business — not the marijuana — the new regulations also allow for the sale of marijuana oils, tinctures and capsules.

Toma said the city continues to sort out which pot shops located in so-called clusters of dispensaries will be granted the right to proceed with an application for a development permit, which is one of the steps to getting a business licence.

“There has to be one winner within all of these clusters, and I believe we have about six or seven clusters,” Toma said.

The “winners” will be determined by the city’s demerit point system. For example, if a pot shop has a history of poor business practices or has had police execute search warrants at the business, then the city would penalize them for four points. If demerit points are equal in a cluster of pot shops, a lottery would take place.

When the city announced in October 2015 that at least 11 applicants had passed the first hurdle to getting a business licence, it noted more than 130 had not met zoning requirements. But Toma said those applicants are still in the system and some indicated they have found new locations, which allows them to begin the process to seek a business licence.

There are also many — Toma didn’t have a count at the time of the interview

— that have chosen to go before the Board of Variance to argue their case to remain in their present location. The first hearings are expected to begin in mid-February and could run until November if the board keeps to five applicants per meeting.

Meanwhile, Toma said the

public should know the city has taken enforcement against at least two pot shops that did not apply for a business licence. She said more enforcement will come, saying, “It’s not that we’re not enforcing, it’s just that a lot of these folks are in stream in our process.” @Howellings

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Doctor-assisted death a welcome development in Canada

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suspect that, following the most recent Supreme Court of Canada decision, a law legalizing physician-assisted death is a done deal in this country. The court granted the new Liberal federal government a four-month extension to come up with legislation effectively making that practice no longer a crime.

And, as such, it will bring about one of the biggest cultural changes we have seen in our country since Dr. Henry Morgentaler finally won his decades-long battle and abortion became a legal right back in 1988.

Both of these historic shifts in our

The technical legislative task before the Liberals ‘is very simple.’ As for the politics, well, they did promise, and the most recent poll I could find shows that 77 per cent of Canadians, including all ages and political persuasions, would welcome this most profound change. country’s ethical perspective came about with the aid of the federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Ironically, while it was Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals that brought in that piece of legislation, his government actively upheld the law that made Morgentaler’s work illegal. That was until the courts, considering the Charter, finally weighed in.

But like the issue of doctor-assisted death, the general public was way ahead

of the government and the courts of that day. In Quebec in particular, where Morgentaler was repeatedly charged and tried for providing abortions, in spite of the very clear prohibition under federal criminal law, successive juries chose to acquit him rather than find him guilty.

It led to the extraordinary situation of higher courts overturning jury decisions.

But in the end, the Quebec government simply threw up its hands and declared that, in spite of the law, abortions could take place in free-standing clinics.

Quebec, having thrown off the yolk of Premier Maurice Duplessis and the Catholic church back in the ’60s in its “Quiet Revolution,” has become among the most socially progressive jurisdictions in the country. While cases were making their way up to the Supreme Court of Canada, Quebec legislators spent years considering the issue of physician-assisted death.

And while we awaited a response from Stephen Harper’s Tories to follow the Supreme Court’s demand to rewrite the law and legalize that practice, Quebec passed its own legislation in December.

(There has been at least one sanctioned death in that province since.)

This issue, which ultimately can touch us all either personally or through a family member, had its most recent history more than a quarter of a century ago in the case of Sue Rodriguez.

She was a Victoria resident suffering with the fatal neurodegenerative disease ALS. Her case ended up in the Supreme Court of Canada but led to a split decision of 5-4 against her in 1993.

She would die a few months later, it was suspected, with the assistance of an anonymous physician.

It would be another 20 years before we

finally saw a victory on the issue. It was where the case of another woman, Gloria Taylor also suffering with ALS, along with four other plaintiffs, all represented by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and its lead litigator Grace Pastine, was brought before the Supreme Court of Canada. And this time they won.

That was almost a year ago, and the court ordered the Tories to come up with a new law within 12 months.

Among the Tories’ first acts under Justice Minister Peter MacKay was to set up a panel of three doctors to consider the matter. As evidence that the Tories were simply dragging their feet, the BCCLA pointed out two of the three doctors had previously testified in court cases against doctor-assisted deaths. It seemed unlikely Harper’s crew would do anything before the October election, which proved accurate.

As for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, they are on the record supporting legalization and one can assume they will meet the extended deadline.

Meanwhile, the court granted an exemption to the government of Quebec, allowing them to carry on under their legislation. They also, in an extraordinary move, granted an exemption to individuals who, in the meantime, could meet the criteria set out in the court’s original ruling to seek a superior court judge’s permission for a doctor-assisted death.

As Pastine notes, the technical legislative task before the Liberals “is very simple.” As for the politics, well, they did promise, and the most recent poll I could find shows that 77 per cent of Canadians, including all ages and political persuasions, would welcome this most profound change. @allengarr

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Assessment angst Re: “Vancouver single-family property assessments jump dramatically,” Jan. 4.

My East Side neighbourhood was wiped out of its Home Owners Grant in one swoop by the latest assessments. It went from having a lot of room to being well above the threshold — about 30 per cent is the average increase. The provincial government only raised the limit by a measly 100k which works out to 9 per cent.

So you can do the math and deduce that is a stealth tax grab of about $600 from each and every homeowner. The grant limit should have been raised about another 500k just so we could catch up with all the years they didn’t raise it. There are apparently only two houses on the East Side that are under a million and the average Vancouver house price is $2.25 million.

Too little too late! A lot of people haven’t come to the conclusion that they lost the grant. Wait till the next tax bill.

They are going to be mad as hornets looking for someone to blame. The water and garbage services were increased this year 4.6 per cent and 10 per cent, taxes 2.89 per cent.... who can afford this?

B. Bailas, Vancouver

Property tax increase ‘no fun’ for businesses Re: “Soaring property assessments destroying Vancouver,” Jan. 14.

Mr. Garr is correct, soaring property values are destroying the heart and soul of our city.

As a restaurant and artist space owner, I have seen our business property taxes at most of our locations go up a constant 20 to 30 per cent per year to the point where it’s almost double what it was just three years ago. This obviously has a crazy major impact on our bottom line of thousands of dollars a year. It’s destroying our ability to operate. We can’t just double all our food prices or raise our artists’ rents because no one would pay it. When I look four or five years down the road I worry that we will not be able to afford to be open.

The reality is that without affordable retail and restaurants spaces there will be no one innovating in our industries.

There will be no one taking changes and no new young risk takers trying new funky cool things. We will be right back to the NO FUN city of a few years ago and that would be a drag.

David Duprey, Vancouver

Well-intentioned column off the mark Re: “Developer dollars enable Western Front to buy building,” Jan. 11.

Jessica Barrett’s proposal that the city of Vancouver direct some CAC funds into supporting co-operative or cohousing is a great example of the proverb “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Does she really believe that CAC funds represent developer dollars? I suppose technically they do, in that the developer pays them to the city. Businesses also collect GST and PST from consumers, but do we say that those businesses contribute those taxes to various levels of government?

As anyone with a basic understanding of finance knows, if businesses in a given sector of the economy have an additional cost levied on them, they will simply pass that cost onto the purchaser. I don’t agree with much that Christy Clark says, but she is correct when she says all the fees (including CAC fees) the city adds on property developments end up greatly increasing the cost of new housing.

If we really want to help solve the affordable housing issue in Vancouver, we will have to look at changing the demand side of the market. Vancouver’s former chief city planner was correct when he stated that upward pressure on housing prices won’t change unless Ottawa shifts immigration policy or applies land purchase restrictions on foreign buyers or interest rates increase.

Malcolm Mackay, Vancouver

Fourth Avenue changing Re: “Doors close on old Kitsilano stores,” Jan. 13.

Shame, there goes more style for money.

Vancouver is like a kid trashing its room — too young to know what it’s doing and will regret it later. Some of us regret it now.

PI via Online Comments ••• Care should be taken with redevelopment — but look at what is coming down.

It would fit well in any backwater lane in a shanty town in a third world country. I’m sure the original builders didn’t expect it to still be around 90 years later. Most likely an energy pig too. We can do better. We should expect better.

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World Religion Day reflects Baha’i faith’s broad principles Adherents aim to create conditions of light to dispel darkness Pat Johnson

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You may have missed the fact that last Sunday was World Religion Day. It hasn’t quite crept up the hierarchy of holidays.

It’s not accompanied by fireworks or a countdown of shopping days. In fact, there is no proscribed way of marking it at all.

World Religion Day was launched in 1950 by American Baha’is and, in many ways, reflects the broad principles of the Baha’i faith.

“It is to celebrate that spiritual principles are universal and that all world religions are fundamentally one,” says Susan Ardekany, a member of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Vancouver. “They’re all intended to unify and to bring people together.”

The Baha’i faith emerged in 19th century Persia, but persecution there (which continues under the Islamic Republic of Iran today) resulted in the global headquarters of the religion being in Haifa, Israel.

Baha’is, she says, believe in “progressive revelation,” the idea that, as mankind matures, God renews his covenant. This is consistent with the Christian view that Jesus represents the mani®

festation of God and supersedes, if you want to look at it that way, the covenant with Moses that is the foundation of Judaism and the Muslim view that Muhammad was the last prophet sent by God. Baha’is view Bahá’u’lláh (1817-1892) as God’s prophet.

Unlike some other religions, though, Baha’is are not evangelical.

“We don’t have that concept where everyone who is not a Baha’i is damned,” says Ardekany. “We don’t have that concept because we believe that everyone, all souls, are loved by God.” There is no denying the differences between religions, especially it seems at this moment in history, yet Baha’is cleave to the view that “the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”

Regardless of theological division, Baha’is believe that all religions are unified by connection to a single deity and that, Ardekany says, “God will never leave humanity and humanity will follow God’s spiritual principles.”

“There are fundamental verities that are spiritual in nature and that all faiths follow,” she adds.

Still, it must be hard to look at the state of interreligious warfare in the

Susan Ardekany says the goal of the Baha’i faith is for people to recognize the fundamental humanity in one another and that we are all spiritual beings. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

world and try to see the manifestation of these good ideas, I suggest.

“When Baha’is look at the condition of the world, we see that there are two processes going on, one is integrative and one is disintegrative,” she says. “While there is this tremendous

societal disintegration, there is also kind of an efflorescence of light and good that you can also see. We tend to focus on the dark side of what’s going on and we look at it as human nature has both those aspects to it.

It has a higher nature and a lower nature.

“We think all men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization and so I think that the message that the Baha’is have is really one of hope and love,” she says.

“But having said that, in order to achieve that, what we have to look at what needs to be done.”

To bring to fruition their ideals, Ardekany says, Baha’is teach the equality of men and women, the harmony of science and religion, that human rights need to be recognized.

The goal is for people to recognize the fundamental humanity in one another and that we are all spiritual beings, find that human connectedness and then stop focusing on the things that divide us, our different cultures, the different places that we come from, she says.

“We’re definitely not there yet,” she admits, but Baha’is take a hopeful outlook.

“Many people think there’s a lot of evil in the world, there’s a lot of darkness.

Well what is it that dispels the darkness? We need the light. The absence of light is darkness. If we can create the conditions of light in the world, then it dispels the darkness. The more fear and hate and all these very dark emotions, the antidote to them is love.”

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She quotes Abdu’l-Bahá, the son of Baha’i’s founder Bahá’u’lláh and his anointed successor as head of the faith: “When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a stronger thought of peace.”

World Religion Day may have been last weekend, but Ardekany says the ideas it perpetuates can be practised any day, in any way.

“There is no right way to commemorate World Religion Day,” she says.

“It would be great for more people to know about World Religion Day and feel free to observe it in their own way. Initiate an open invitation to one another as neighbours to come together and celebrate our diversity and look at that concept of unity in diversity.”

It is, she says, exactly what the world needs now.

The world headlines may be bad, but look at the positive work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she says, or the welcoming way Canadians have responded to refugees from Syria and Iraq.

“It’s one thing that distinguishes Canada as a nation too, that sense of pluralism,” Ardekany says. “We have it faith-wise and we have it culture-wise to really just embrace one another in our humanity.” @Pat604Johnson

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did a procurement process, selected vendors that eventually went bankrupt and then the other one changed ownership. So it certainly hasn’t been an easy process. Many other cities that we’ve talked to have gone through multiple rounds of procurement.

The fact that we didn’t get it, in a way, is a bit of an opportunity because this new “smart bike” technology is coming out, which is pretty unique and perhaps provides an opportunity to leapfrog some of the other large systems in North America.

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Four months after city council decided to part ways with city manager Penny Ballem, the person acting in the role as the city’s top bureaucrat is not giving any hints whether he’s interested in the job.

In fact, Sadhu Johnston, who was deputy manager to Ballem, won’t even say if he applied for the position.

“That is something I’m going to defer, in terms of the conversation here,” Johnston said in an interview this week on a wide range of topics, including the Oakridge development, the Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal and whether Vancouver will ever get a bike share program.

An international search continues for a city manager, and Johnston said he expects a person will be chosen in the first quarter of the year. Until then, he’s in charge and sat down with the Courier in his office to provide an update on some of the major issues facing the city.

The developer of the proposed Oakridge development announced this week that the project will be scaled back by up to 25 per cent. So does that mean all the city’s work on this file, including a public hearing, will have to be redone?

We still have to determine that. It definitely means, to some degree, going back to the drawing board and re-engaging the public. We heard a

So do you have a company in mind?

Acting city manager Sadhu Johnston has been in charge at city hall since city council decided in September 2015 to not renew Penny Ballem’s contract as city manager. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

lot from the public in the first round of public hearings. As we get a sense of the scope of the changes, we’ll craft our thoughts on it and see what a public engagement process might look like. I don’t think it’s a full re-start but I definitely think there will be a lot of new stuff that we’re going to need to go back to the drawing board on.

Including a public hearing?

I imagine we’ll have to redo that process, yes.

Let’s talk about the Kinder Morgan pipeline proposal. In a release issued from the City of Vancouver this week, the point was made that the City is the only intervenor that will present its oral summary

argument in person in Calgary next month at the National Energy Board hearings.

Why does the City need to go, knowing the process doesn’t allow for cross-examination?

Everything has been in writing and you don’t know how much actually gets read.

There’s thousands of pages being handed back and forth, and with only a few members on the National Energy Board, you don’t know if they’re actually reading these reports. Maybe the staff are.

This is a chance for us to really make our case and to bring forward the observations that we’ve made, the research and the feedback from the public. We feel like it is an important opportunity to do it in person and we

wanted to do it in Calgary. I would imagine you’re going to hear more of the opposition to the project here in the Lower Mainland and there, in Calgary, you’re going to hear more of a support perspective. So we wanted to make sure that the audience there, the media there and the NEB are hearing Lower Mainland concerns about the project.

We’ve heard for several years now that Vancouver is getting a bike share system.

In fact, one was supposed to be in place last year. Is Vancouver ever going to get a bike share program?

It’s definitely going to happen, we’re very committed to doing it. It’s been a council objective for a long time. We

We’re evaluating proposals right now and are in discussions with the top two vendors. We are hoping for a 2016 rollout.

Let’s talk about affordability. With property assessments seeing increases of up to 25 per cent in Vancouver, people are more than fed up with how much it costs to live in this city. People are pointing fingers at the city, saying the city could do more to make Vancouver more affordable. What do you tell them?

It’s broadly understood that this is a threat to the very fabric of this community, and we really need to solve it. It’s a major, major issue. We hear from businesses that it’s hard to recruit here, we hear from people that it’s hard to stay here. Our mayor and council are really attuned to that. As staff, we’re getting very clear

direction from council that we have to focus on this. There are things that we can do and that we have been doing, using our policies, for instance, to get more rental housing.

And we’ve seen the largest increase in rental housing in the last 20 or 30 years. But this is not all in our control. A lot of this is global dynamics. We need the federal government and the provincial government and municipalities in the Lower Mainland to be working together.

There was a lot of controversy late last year when U.S. president hopeful Donald Trump called to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. That led to a call here in Vancouver, which was supported by the mayor, to remove the Trump name from the tower under construction downtown. Can the city really do anything about that?

No, not really. In terms of freedom of expression, it’s not really the city’s jurisdiction to indicate that they can’t put that name on the building. There may be enough political and public pressure to change that but at this point there’s not really a regulatory path that we would be pursuing that would enable us to do that.

As a dual citizen, could you please explain to Canadians the popularity of Donald Trump?

I cannot. Not because I don’t want to, but I just can’t.

For a longer version of this interview, go to vancourier.com.

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SPACE home design + style

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Are you always scrambling to find additional storage space in your tight floor plan? A professional organizer shares some tips.

A decade ago, Elinor Warkentin said goodbye to a spacious apartment and hello to a 380-square-foot character charmer in the West End. “I definitely speak from experience when it comes to finding new ways to store my stuff,” says the owner of Goodbye Clutter, a company that helps people de-clutter, organize and find solutions to their lack of space issues — big or small.

It’s safe to say Warkentin has become an expert in helping her clients look for distinctive and functional ways to store their things.

“The very first thing we do is sort, purge and organize,” adds the professional organizer.

“Then, we find ways to utilize the space they have more effectively... it’s really about taking the time to critically look at your condo and

to find more storage space and ways to use what you do have more effectively.”

She spoke at length about what she refers to as “looking for those empty pockets” in your home.

“One of my favourite space-saving pockets is your luggage,” she says. “Keep a large garbage bag in your suitcase so when you need your suitcase for a trip, all you do is empty all of the stored items into the bag and place it where you store your suitcase until you return home.”

If your décor is vintage, head to your favourite antique shop and look for those traditional mail-room cabinets or the old storage lockers — you know the metal ones from your high school gym? Stack them and display some of your favourite keepsakes and treasures.

Another idea is a vintage ladder — perfect to organize blankets.

storage and as her bedside table. This idea is great to stow those off-season items.

“Antique breadboxes look fabulous and provide storage for your table linen or candles,” adds Warkentin. “Another is a second-hand library card catalogue. It can double as a recipe card holder or for bills and statements.”

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Community CITY LIVING

Police Museum exhibit aims to capture youth interest Rebecca Blissett

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There’s so much information packed into a short hallway at the Vancouver Police Museum. The space is about three-and-a-half feet wide and 20 feet long and is home to the museum’s newest permanent exhibition, Bridging the Gap: Vancouver’s Youth and the Law, which opened Saturday.

The physical size of the exhibition is in contrast to the mountain of facts; its creators layered stories so well that it could possibly be the most informative hallway in the city.

Underneath four electrostatic screens on the wall, a timeline winds its way from 1905 when the most common youth crime was incorrigibility (often blamed on “drunkenness and loose living on the part of the father”) to 2015 when youth crime is mostly shoplifting, assault and drug possession. The timeline reflects changes in youth crime trends, adapting legislation and policing in Vancouver.

As a bonus feature, the timeline is bookended with

two tablet computers where people can play Caught in the Act, a video game produced by local company A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Digital, where players can commit crimes in 1950, 1970, 1990, or 2010. Crimes are set locally and can, for instance, involve stirring up trouble at the Rolling Stones concert at the Coliseum, or assaulting a senior in Stanley Park.

Players are always busted at the game’s end, and the consequences are the actual judicial sentences of each era.

There’s more. The hallway has a graffiti mural by local artist Larissa Healey, otherwise known as Gurl Twenty Three, who is a facilitator with RestART, a Vancouver graffiti management program that works with inner city youth. There are also a bunch of “Hello my name is” stickers people can sign, in a nod to New York street artists who, during in the 1980s, avoided trouble by slapping a wall with their art on a sticker.

Finding space for new exhibitions (there’s another opening later this year on

Eric Fu, 8, checks out the Vancouver Police Museum’s newest exhibition, Bridging the Gap: Vancouver’s Youth and the Law. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT. See photo gallery at vancourier.com.

policing in a diverse city) is a challenge for the self-funded museum. While the oldest police museum in North America has roots that go back to 1921, it attracted attention in 1986 when it moved into the Downtown Eastside heritage building that once held the courtroom, coroner’s office and city morgue, which means it isn’t exactly open plan.

James Highet is the pro-

grammer with the Vancouver Police Museum and one of his favourite things about his job, he said, is shifting perceptions.

“My hope for this exhibit is that it will break down some of the barriers between police and youth,” he said. “The rest of us look at teenagers as a totally different species — they’re them and we’re us.

And so you can imagine how they feel about us, and how

they feel in the presence of a uniform. It’s very rare for a teenager to look at somebody in a uniform and say, ‘That’s somebody I can go talk to, that’s somebody I can ask for help, or ask questions if I need.’”

Like any great historian, Highet has a knack for finding threads of commonality throughout time. One of his favourite stops in the museum is not its famous naturally-lit morgue and autopsy rooms, but in front of an old backlit photograph of Vancouver’s first police chief John Stewart standing in front of a tent, which was City Hall. This was in 1886 and the city had issues with drug addiction (the drug of choice, then, was whiskey).

“When we talk about poverty or drugs in the city, we sometimes think it started in the ’60s or the ’70s,” Highet said. “But no, this is something the very first police department and the very first city council recognized.”

The VPD is the first police force in the country to hire female officers. Constables Lurancy Harris and

Minnie Miller were hired June 19, 1912 to deal with female prisoners and youth.

“They were the first police in Vancouver to reach out to youth on the street,” said Highet. “The first outreach in schools, talking to kids about organized crime — a lot of these programs you see today, started with these two female constables.”

It was, again, another female VPD officer who brought the idea for the museum’s new exhibition to director Rosslyn Shipp and Kristin Hardie.

Const. Mariya Zhalovaga, who once volunteered and worked for the museum as a summer student, and now connects with youth through various VPD programs, visited the exhibition on opening day.

“It feels amazing,” she said as she looked over it from a nearby doorway. “I’m so excited the public will finally be able to see this. Rosslyn and Kristin put so much work into the exhibition and I’m so pleased, and so thankful, they were able to fulfill my dream.” @rebeccablissett

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This was certainly true following my last Courier column on property assessments and the need to reform our property tax system.

As anticipated, the increase in property assessments for many Vancouver single-family properties was considerably higher than the average 16.8 per cent city-wide increase.

It must be emphasized that one’s property tax increase is not equal to their percentage increase in assessment. That is not how the system works.

Rather, an individual’s property tax increase takes into account numerous factors, including Vancouver’s overall property tax increase. This year it is 2.3 per cent.

It is also based on the “mill rate,” which the city calculates by dividing the total amount to be raised from property taxes by the total assessed value of all property, multiplied by 1,000.

Put another way, if

your property assessment increase was less than 16.8 per cent, your increase in the city’s portion of property tax will be less than 2.3 per cent. However, if your assessment is greater than 16.8 per cent, the increase in taxes paid to the city will be more than 2.3 per cent.

This will be reflected in your Advanced Tax Bill, which must be paid by Feb. 2.

Knowing that many people would be concerned about property taxes, following the release of the B.C. Assessment data, I tweeted out that those 55 and over and worried about their property taxes, should let Christy Clark pay them on their behalf.

While I admit this was a bit cheeky, my intention was to let people know about the province’s Property Tax Deferral program, which has been in place for decades but generally not well known.

The program provides low interest loans (currently prime less 2 per cent or 0.85 per cent) to assist eligible homeowners such as seniors 55+ and others to pay their annual property tax.

Households can qualify for the program provided they are the registered owner of a principal

residence, and a Canadian citizen or permanent resident living in BC for at least one year.

Details of the program can be found at http:// www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/property-taxes/ annual-property-tax/pay/ defer-taxes.

I subsequently received a call from a CBC reporter who was not familiar with the program. During our conversation she asked if I deferred my taxes and I responded that indeed I had deferred $60,000 in recent years.

I acknowledged that I did not really need to do this since I could afford to pay my taxes. However, given the very low interest rate and the fact that the program is available to anyone 55 and over regardless of income or assets, I thought it foolish not to.

I told her I invest the money, and have generally received a better return than the interest rate charged by the province.

The next morning I awoke to hear myself on the CBC Early Edition news, and was subsequently approached by other media outlets throughout the day.

While I certainly raised awareness about the program, what I did not

expect was the outrage that people like me were somehow exploiting a loophole in the program to make money, while the city was having to do without essential tax dollars to pay for services.

What many did not understand is that municipalities are not losing out; the province pays the property taxes on behalf of those registered in the program. It in turn gets the money back, with interest, usually on the sale of the property.

While many thanked me for letting them know about this program, others were disgusted. It was as if I was taking food from a food bank. They chastised me for threatening the future of a much-needed program, even though I made it clear I was not advocating an end to the program. I just questioned why it was available to anyone 55 or over, without any income or means testing.

Within a few days, the media storm was over.

However, I still believe the province should reconsider the terms of the Property Tax Deferral Program. In the meanwhile, if you are worried about paying your taxes, you might want to investigate it before the Feb. 2 deadline. @michaelgeller

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A new year brings fresh deals I’m not sure if our slumping Canadian dollar is the cause, or maybe it’s the time of year, but there are some real travel deals to be had.

On Jan. 4, we booked two seats from YVR to for April through WestJet for $850 return, including taxes and fees for luggage and seat selection. Heck of a deal. We used to book our Hawaii trips out of Bellingham because Allegiant Air and Alaska Airlines were so competitive, but since Allegiant cancelled those flights there aren’t a lot of bargains to be had south of the border to the Hawaiian Islands. (We once flew to Honolulu for $104 each way on Allegiant — now that was a deal, even paying extra for our luggage and bottled water.)

On that note, Alaska Airlines does have flights from Bellingham to Maui on sale this week for US$149 each way for select dates. Just don’t forget to include the exchange rate and parking fees when calculating costs. Visit alaskaair.com.

As well, Allegiant has select seats from Bellingham to Vegas as low as $49 and $57 each way now through April. Visit allegiantair.com.

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There are still tickets left to TravelMart 2016 this Saturday, Jan. 16, from noon until 5 p.m. at the Sandman Signature Airport Resort in Richmond. The event promises lots of deals, destination presentations, door prizes and a grand prize of a weekend for two in New York City.

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Continued from page 19 Michael Duchesne, publisher for Travelzoo Canada, says the two factors driving this year’s picks are the depreciating loonie and additional flight options.

Deal examples include vacation packages to China, including flights, hotels, meals, tours and taxes for less than $1,000 per person. Why? Fares from Canada to China

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OPEN BAR: Science World’s newest fundraiser is for adults only. With the help of science educators, 25 talented bartenders will take over the Vancouver attraction for one night. The inaugural Science of Cocktails on Feb. 4 will see some 1,500 guests enjoy drinks created by collaborators using vacuums and other scientific machinery and techniques in an unforgettable exploration of the physics, chemistry and biology of cocktails under the geodesic dome. Bryan Tisdall, CEO and president of Science World, hosted a media preview of the cocktails to come at the Donnelly Group’s Granville Room.

Tisdall and party chairmen Warren Tsoi and Tristan Sawtell aim to raise $200,000 to fund Science World visits for 6,000 students from underserved schools in the Lower Mainland.

FETED FELINE: Premier Christy Clark ventured into a Lion’s Den — one of the more friendly ones, as the B.C. leader was honoured at a fundraising dinner hosted by the Vancouver Evergreen and UBC Campus Lions Club. Linda Wong along with Bob and Lily Lee fronted the affair, which recognized Clark with the Lions Clubs International Medal of Merit, the highest award given by the order to a non-Lion who has made a significant contribution to the community. Lions Clubs International is the largest service club organization in the world, with more than 1.4 million members performing community service in 210 countries around the globe. The Clark celebrations benefitted the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation, dedicated to revitalize the city’s historic Chinatown and preserve its cultural heritage.

SALUTI: The 38th annual Vancouver International Wine Festival will take place Feb. 20 to 28 at the Vancouver Convention Centre and various venues throughout the city. The festival will showcase 155 wineries from 14 countries, including 60 wineries from Italy, this year’s theme country, pouring 1,450plus wines at 54 events to a projected 25,000 oenophiles. Harry Hertscheg, executive director of the Wine Fest Society, recently hosted Festival Taste at CinCin. Wine aficionados, scribes and marketers were on hand for the preview party and first sips of exclusive Italian wines from the country’s diverse growing regions.

The Bacchanalia Gala, the festival’s premiere fundraiser, takes place Feb. 20 to benefit Christopher Gaze’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival.

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Executive director Harry Hertscheg and Italy’s Sommelier of the Year Marta Chiavacci hosted Festival Taste, a preview of this year’s Vancouver International Wine Festival and first taste of coveted wines from Italy, this year’s theme country.

Claire Sakaki and Christopher Gaze’s Bard on the Beach arts organization will benefit from the Feb. 20 Bacchanalia Gala, the Vancouver International Wine Festival’s premiere fundraiser.

Members of Saint James Musical Academy, Moya Joya, Amina Elkatib and Desiree Vincent, performed at the grand finale of the Sing It Forward concert series. Proceeds of $75,000 from the two-night benefit will conclude a $200,000 campaign to provide music education to underserved kids.

The Diamond’s Giancarlo Jesus will be among 25 talented bartenders who will be creating unique libations with science educators for an expected 1,500 drink enthusiasts at the inaugural Science of Cocktails Feb. 4 event.

Warren Tsoi and Tristan Sawtell will chair the first ever Science of Cocktails fundraiser benefiting Telus World of Science and its community outreach efforts to provide underserved students access to the Vancouver attraction.

Evergreen Lions Club’s Linda Wong feted Christy Clark at the organization’s benefit dinner. The B.C. Premier was recognized with the Lions Clubs International Medal of Merit.

Wally Chung and Carol Lee attended Lions dinner at Floata, which benefitted the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation and its efforts to revitalize the city’s historic Chinatown and preserve its cultural heritage.

Ambrosia and Dave Vertesi, founders of Sing It Forward, hosted its finale concerts at the Vogue Theatre. The couple capped off five years of staging the musical benefit in support of Saint James Musical Academy.

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Gavin Dew BC Liberal Party

Heather Duross PO Box 21014,RPO Waterfront Ctr, Vancouver, BC, V6C 3K3

Carling Dick 300-576 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 3K1

Pete Fry BC Green Party

Peter Fry PO Box 8088 Stn Central, Victoria, BC, V8W 3R7

Jeremy Gustafson YPP

James Filippelli 313-2040 York Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1E7

Bonnie Boya Hu Libertarian

Bonnie Hu 10580 Dennis Cres, Richmond, BC, V7A 3R5

Melanie Mark BC NDP

Mia Edbrooke 204-1556 5th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5N 1L7

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Tyee Elem School 3525 Dumfries St, Vancouver, BC

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Lord Selkirk Elem School 1750 E 22nd Ave, Vancouver, BC

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Mt. Pleasant Elem School 2300 Guelph St, Vancouver, BC

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Jan. 21 to 27, 2016 1. Local funny dude and proud socialist Charlie Demers asks what the heck happened to the political left since he first wrapped himself in its loving arms during the 1980s. Created with Marcus Youssef of Neworld Theatre, Leftovers is billed as a storytelling tour de force about personal loss, ideology and unfulfilled dreams. It’s at the York Theatre Jan. 26 to 30 as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Details at pushfestival.ca.

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3. California’s garage-rock wunderkind Ty Segall rips into town in support of his new album Emotional Mugger Jan. 22 at the Vogue Theatre. Tickets at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu and ticketfly.com.

4. Seattle-by-way-of-Virginia’s Car Seat Headrest is the moniker of young buck Will Toledo who’s amassed a loyal following by releasing a staggering 11 albums on the Internet, with vocals recorded in the family car. Toledo now has a band behind him and recently released his excellent Matador Records debut, Teens of Style, marrying the lo-fi anthems of Guided by Voice with the loud-quiet dynamics of the Pixies. Check ’em out Jan. 24 at the Cobalt along with local act Milk. Tickets at Red Cat and ticketmaster.ca.

4. Break out the tissues as the Rio Theatre screens a double bill of David Bowie goodness Jan. 23. At 7 p.m. it’s Labyrinth in which Bowie plays Jareth the Goblin King.

Then at 9:30 it’s Tony Scott’s stylish, 1983 New York-set vampire flick The Hunger starring Bowie, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. Details at riotheatre.ca.

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Picture a wide white bowl.

Spoon in lemon-verbena syrup, and accent it with gin-drunk blueberries. Top it with a scoop of ice cream.

On top, place a perfectly round cream puff the size of a softball, topped with a crackly cookie layer. Using the knife your server so helpfully placed beside you moments earlier, cut into the puff to discover an airy, rich mixture of Neufchatel cheese — a lighter version of cream cheese. Construct a perfect bite that includes every component. Taste. Lemonblueberry cheesecake.

The man behind the dish is Welbert Choi, the chef de cuisine at Forage in the Listel Hotel. Choi has worked his way up from line cook (at Forage’s previous incarnation, O’Doul’s), to pastry chef, to chef de cuisine. As line cook, he noticed that pastry was just another kitchen to-do, and took the initiative to make

Welbert Choi, the chef de cuisine at Forage in the Listel Hotel, has created an ever-changing menu of decadent desserts, including apple pie with whisky caramel and lemon blueberry cheesecake.

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That initiative has helped him move up the ranks to his current role.

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“Elderflower’s one of my favourite ingredients,” he says. “Every year we have a two-week window and during that time, I’ll ask the forager to pick whatever they can give me.” He makes a syrup and hopes it’ll last until the next harvest. The restaurant used the 2015 batch more quickly than anticipated, hence the lemonverbena that I got.

Forage’s mandate for local and seasonal can be challenging for the pastry department. “You have to find a way to preserve your flavour,” says Choi. Citrus and chocolate are particularly challenging. “Lemonverbena has the flavour, but not the tang [of lemon].” As for chocolate… well, some things have no substitute, so Choi has sourced his from a company whose values align with those of Forage’s.

Since stepping into his new role, Choi works more on the restaurant’s operations side and sets the menu with executive chef Chris Whittaker. While Choi still has a hand in pastry, he’s handed off the day-to-day pastry duties to two of his staff. “My job is mostly to show them how it should be done. I really want every cook who works here to grow — not just follow instructions.”

Choi credits his family with his love of food. “On my mother’s side, the whole family, they’re really good cooks. Especially my uncle and my mom.”

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But he didn’t immediately become a cook — he was an auto mechanic and a cellphone technician before enrolling in Dubrulle (now the Arts Institute) culinary and pastry programs in 2003.

Choi’s family also sparked another love: photography.

A high-school photography class turned into a hobby, then a side business. Eventually, Choi started bringing his camera to work to document the dishes they were making at Forage. “The photos remind me of people’s reactions, and of the flavours.

They help me build the next dish,” he says.

The photography has taken a back seat as he focuses on his role as chef de cuisine. But even during peak times, Choi makes sure to get one day a week off to spend time with his wife and six-year-old daughter.

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So Long, it’s Been Good to Know You! John & Wendy Morton An old proverb says that it is a long road that has no turning.

Wendy and I are not yet ‘round the bend, but it is time to change direction. We have sold the Broadway Wild Birds Unlimited store to Mark and Laura Eburne, who purchased the North Vancouver store from us in February, 2014. The sale will take place February lst, the store will not be closed, the staff will not change and the Wild Birds Unlimited Franchise will continue to operate as it has for the last 26 years, so drop in and say hello to them in February.

Wendy and I opened the first Wild Birds Unlimited store in Canada on Oak St. in October, 1989. We opened the North Vancouver store two years later, and have seen the Franchise grow to 300 plus stores, including 18 in Canada (7 of them in B.C.).

It has been a rewarding experience making so many friends and sharing in their joy of nature - feeding birds in their own backyards.

We have been well rewarded and will cherish the memories.

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Obituary Courier photographer remembered

Former Vancouver Courier photographer James (Jim) Harrison passed away suddenly on Jan. 7 in Vancouver.

Born Aug. 24, 1945, Harrison worked at the Courier from the mid-1980s to the mid-’90s and kept photography as a hobby after his retirement. He became active as a freemason and was a member of Heritage Lodge #63, Acacia Lodge #22 and Keystone Lionsgate #115.

Harrison spent the past 20 years as a member of the Shriners of B.C. and Yukon, the last 18 as a member of the board where he devoted his life to helping children through the Shriners Hospital for Children. Most recently, Harrison sat as a board member for Shriners Canadian Hospital in Montreal.

Former Courier editor Mick Maloney described Harrison as “the consummate newspaper shooter who never came back from an assignment empty.” Although he was quiet and reserved in his personal life, he never let his shyness stand in the way of a good picture, recalled Maloney. “He would wade into a scrum of aggressive reporters, newspaper photographers and TV camera-

After retiring from the Vancouver Courier, photographer Jim Harrison became active as a freemason. Most recently Harrison sat as a board member for Shriners Canadian Hospital in Montreal.

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men, his camera held at arms length above his head, and somehow come away with a shot.”

Unlike many photographers Maloney encountered, he said Harrison was low maintenance. “He never thought of himself as an ‘artiste,’ though he certainly was an accomplished photographer in those cost-conscious days of film photography.

The walls of his studio were lined with 11-by-14 black and white portraits of every celebrity, politician or musician who stopped over in Vancouver, from Bob Hope to Pierre Trudeau to Steve Tyler to Sophia Loren.”

Maloney said Harrison left home at a young age to make his way in the world and never forgot those early hardscrabble years. “He was all about giving back and was always involved in a charitable enterprise with the Masons, though he kept that part of his life quiet.”

A celebration of Harrison’s life will be held at the Gizeh Shrine Centre in Burnaby on Friday, Jan. 23, 1 p.m.

Memorial remembrances can be made in Harrison’s memory to Shriners Hospital for Children Canada, c/o Gizeh Shrine Centre, 3550 Wayburne Dr., Burnaby, B.C., V5G 3K9.

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A whole new influence began last week, and will carry you into late February – almost on your friends’ shoulders! You’ll be popular, optimistic and lucky; a friendly romance might occur; entertainments will fill many hours. Recent delays continue, but only to Monday afternoon. The best things to start (Mon. night onward) lie in the area of work, employment, daily health, machinery and repairs/service personnel. Sunday/Monday are romantic, creative, and pleasure-filled.

Recent delays end Monday, especially in home, property, security and similar zones. That makes Sun./Mon. a perfect time to dream of new plans, new people and horizons. You’ll feel upbeat, and friends, others, gravitate toward you. Welcome happiness! The entire period, now to late February, emphasizes romance, creative and speculative urges, charming children, beauty, self-expression and the pursuit of “immediate” pleasure.

Expect good results in travel, love, intellectual pursuits, higher learning, legal affairs and cultural venues now to mid-February. (To do so, you might have to abandon anything started in the last 3 weeks.) You’re at your intellectual peak, but it’s a smooth, calm peak. The weeks ahead also emphasize ambition, prestige relations, and your community standing. Show the boss your skills, accomplishments. Relationships remain volatile.

Delays end Monday, especially in mail, communications, paperwork and travel. But the general accent now tends to keep you a little homebound. Be happy, accept the need (and luxury!) of rest, gardening, repairs, landscaping, meal planning, etc. Hug your kids. Despite this atmosphere of rest and recuperation, your work is intense and demanding until March 5. Friends show affection now to February 16. Be ambitious Sun./Mon.

Recent delays and mistakes end Monday afternoon, so you can charge ahead then onward. (Though I would wait until this Wed., even until Feb. 1 onward, if you want to skirt potential glitches.) The general accent lies on international affairs, cultural venues, legal matters, higher education, far travel, publishing – and love. Until early March, work is hard, intense, and you’ll receive some criticism.

Recent delays and false starts are over (by Monday noon) especially in monetary, earnings and shopping zones. (All of these hold some nice luck for you until February16.) Now to late Feb., the general accent lies on busyness – errands, paperwork, details, trips, casual acquaintances, curiosity. (DO be curious – you can learn valuable things.) Be cautious with romance until March 5, and again May 27 to August 2.

Recent delays end Monday, Cancer, so you can charge ahead, especially in relationship, financial and health zones. The general accent lies on secrets, research/investigation, large finances, lifestyle changes, health diagnoses/surgery, and physical intimacy. You might take a major step that can change your life. (For best results you might want to wait until February 1 onward to grab/seriously pursue any of these.)

Recent delays and indecision dissolve after Monday. (However, as Mercury, the central cause of those delays, has been in your own sign, it might take you a week or two to feel solidly decisive again. The delays, though, end immediately, except in governmental, management, legal and far travel zones. Until April, maintain the status quo in these areas.)

Recent delays end in work and health spheres

by Monday pm, Leo. (And as they end, you let the whole work thing subside, as exciting new horizons loom. Despite this, work grows easier, your workplace more affectionate until mid-February.)

The general accent, into late Feb., is on marriage, business partnerships, opportunities, relocation themes, agreements, contracts, negotiation, litigation, dealings with the public, even renown.

Recent delays end Monday, so you can charge ahead in many areas. Luckily, this “clear road” comes just as your energy, charisma and clout swoop into a month-long rise. You’re on your way, you’re in charge, others wait for you to lead – so do so! Begin significant projects, impress that attractive person, see and be seen. (Despite this energy, your inner or private life will remain sweet, rejuvenating, until mid-February.

An atmosphere of delays and false starts ends Monday afternoon, so you can charge ahead after this, especially in love, romance, creative and speculative projects, and in “children’s interests.”

The general emphasis, now to late February, lies on work, daily health, dependants, service personnel, repairs, machinery and tools. You’re comfortable in this zone, so charge ahead. (Be careful Fri. daytime with tools, driving, etc.) First, retreat, rest and relax Sun./Mon. (Pick up neglected chores Sunday.)

Delays and indecision end (technically, Monday afternoon). Now you can pursue social goals, or resume the kind of wishful dream-hunchintuition-informed action that is natural to you.

Those wishes, that social scene, can come true now to February 15. However, your main influence now is one of rest, contemplation, sweet solitude, low energy and charisma.

You’ll come out somewhere between these two extremes, social fluff and deep solitude.

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Left: Mike Evans takes in the scene at the Britannia secondary gymnasium that was named in his honour on Jan. 14. Above: The coach gets a hug from former player and 2008 graduate Jennifer Ju. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Honour for Evans: never a critic, always a coach Britannia secondary names gym after senior girls basketball coach

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The hallways at Britannia secondary were buzzing last week before tipoff in the 42nd annual invitational basketball tournament, one of the first in B.C. to host senior boys and girls at the same time, same place.

The excitement was about that place, specifically the Bruins basketball court and its flanking bleachers, and about one person, a coach who since 1980 has made that gym a second home not only for himself but also a welcoming and safe space for hundreds of teenage athletes.

On Jan. 14 before the senior girls won their own tournament for a ninth time in 11 years, the school paid special tribute to Bruins coach Mike Evans. They named the place after him.

More than 120 former student-athletes and numerous retired teachers dressed in red and walked out on the floor. The stands were already packed. As Evans led the Bruins in a pre-game pep talk under blue banners for city and regional cham-

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pionships and their cherished 2012 B.C. AA title, the players made sure to hold his attention and keep his back to the larger crowd.

Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” blared on the PA. The reveal was a surprise.

Evans, whose first day as a Britannia counsellor was in 1980, turned around to see a few words newly printed on the wall: Mike Evans Gymnasium.

“I wonder if it’s legal, but anyway…” Evans said a few days later, characteristically humble and funny. “It was overwhelming and as it turns out, it was a well-kept secret.”

Mitra Tshan, the bantam and junior girls coach as well as a community educator at Britannia, organized the ceremony with Trevor Stokes, who coaches with Evans and teaches in the Streetfront alternative school, and Bob Fitzpatrick, an I.B. teacher and student council sponsor. The reveal was public knowledge and widely shared on social media, but Evans said he was none the wiser.

“It was a complete surprise and a shock at

first,” he said. “You could probably list quite a few people, some of whom have retired long ago who have put in a lot of time and who are legendary in the history of this school. The gym was built in the ’50s even though the school itself is 100 or so years old. I feel very humbled that there are some pretty famous people who did not have a gym named after them. There are other worthy people, too,” said Evans.

“I’m aware of other schools where gyms have been named after people, who I knew as well. Maybe it’s a little unusual that I’m not a PE teacher. Others tended to be PE teachers who lived in the gym, though I lived there, too.”

Evans, a NCAA middledistance sprinter, came to Britannia in 1980 as a counsellor and began to build a broad network for students, including the many immigrants and refugees who arrived in Canada in the ’70s and ’80s from Southeast Asia and China. According to a biography prepared by Stokes, 30 years ago Evans “set the standard for how a

school was going to best address the specific needs and desires for these vulnerable students. His work with the ESL Project is still commented on and used as an example.”

He coached the senior boys basketball team — as well as many others since he identified sports as an effective and meaningful way to engage students — and in 1987, he was approached by a few young women.

“That one nervous request started his legacy,” wrote Stokes.

“I have been teaching here for 42 years and we will never see the likes of Mike Evans again at Britannia secondary,” said Fitzpatrick in an interview Tuesday.

He added that Evans has high expectations for his players. “He treats them as equal. He’s a no-nonsense basketball coach. He does not allow them to play any cards, if you know what I mean. And it’s no surprise that many of these basketball players are also excellent students.”

Fitzpatrick described a coach who works 24 hours

a day, seven days a week to help kids succeed.

“This has carried over to the men’s team because success breeds success and it’s also carried over to keeping kids in school.

It helps keep marginalized kids in school because they are experiencing success,” he said. “Mike is a coach, not a critic.”

Evans was a counsellor until 2002 and then became a community education coordinator for the high school and its associated elementary schools. He retired in August and for nearly 40 years has lived in Ladner with his wife, Pat. Their daughter is an elementary school teacher in Vancouver.

Now in his 70s, Evans will continue coaching the Bruins and is taking the year to work out an adjusted schedule. “If there’s a practice at 3:30 p.m., I leave for the school at 2 p.m. If there’s a practice at 5 p.m., I leave at 2 p.m.,” he said.

“Because of the traffic.”

He is part of the Britannia Support Society, which raises money to enrich the lives of students. And he is also

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“If I did it again, I would just have taken skates and sticks because that’s all they need to get playing.

They didn’t even wear mitts, definitely not hockey gloves.”

— Nate Leslie, Vancouver hockey coach on running clinics in minus-30 degree weather in Mongolia in February. Last year’s journey and an ongoing fundraiser are the focus of a documentary film, Rinks of Hope: Project Mongolia.

on the board of CLICK (Contributing to the Lives of Inner City Kids).

“Plus I’m coaching,” he said. “I don’t really see an end in sight.” @MHStewart

In honour of…

At Vancouver secondary schools, the Mike Evans Gymnasium is on a short list of gyms named for influential coaches. Evans was a counsellor and in these five other cases, the coaches were also respected teachers.

Eric Hamber secondary: Norma McDermott and Bruce Ashdown John Oliver secondary: Hugh Marshall and Mary Macdonald Killarney secondary: Dave Renwick and the main basketball court is named after Tom Tagami Kitsilano secondary: Stan Lawson and Loma McKenzie Prince of Wales secondary: Bill Seggie and Darlene Currie

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With great sadness we announce the passing of our father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle and wonderful friend on January 11, at the age of 91.

He will be greatly missed by daughters: Julie (Sean), Diane (Rick); grandchildren: Roddy (Ailsa), Michelle, Penny and Chris (Jen); great-grandchildren: Robyn, Dylan, Sean, Cassidy, Rowen, Macy and Kailynn; nieces Anne and Joanne; great-nephews Robert, Graeme and Scott; and a lifetime of friends.

Predeceased by brother Gordon and nephew Gill.

There will be a Family Celebration of Life in Prince George in the Fall. Rod will be joining his parents and his brother Gordon at the Masonic Cemetery in Burnaby.

The family would like to thank Dr James, the dedicated, caring staff at Westshore Laylum and the staff at Burnaby Hospital for their tender loving care of Rod in his final years.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of BC at www.alzheimer.ca , or the CNIB at www.cnib.ca Delta Funeral Home (604) 946-6040

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Volvo XC90

Europeans like to sell bricks. Example A: Lego.

Example B: Volvo. But wait — what’s this?

Yes, the stalwart Volvo 240/740/940 has been dead for ages, and in its place a curvier sort of Swede has sprung up. No longer are Volvos merely a rectangular resting place for a labradoodle and a “Coexist” bumper sticker, they’re now supposed to be svelte luxury cars with a premium feel.

To anyone who stomped through the snow in a 544, raced a 122S at Westwood, or hauled a load of firewood home in the trunk of a 240 wagon, the shift upmarket may come as a bit of a surprise.

However, old Volvo’s rough-and-tumble image has largely been co-opted

by Subaru, so the Swedes now tout safety and comfort above all else.

It’s a tough go against the likes of BMW and Mercedes; the German brands would seem to have the market sewn up tight. However, Volvo’s renaissance is arriving with a distinctly different flavour, something to differentiate itself from the aggressive styling and big engines of the Teutonic titans.

So no, they don’t sell bricks any more, but in the new XC90, Volvo’s got something that’s far beyond the ordinary.

Design:

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Probably the prettiest Volvo of all time was the Italian-designed P1800 coupe, the car popularized

by Roger Moore’s The Saint. While Volvo has relied from outside help from time-to-time to give their cars a little pizzazz, this new handsome crossover is distinctly Scandinavian in form.

And that means the old Norse gods are going to show up. Check out the XC90’s headlights and you’ll see a T-shaped LED bar that’s meant as a nod to Thor’s hammer.

The diagonally-slashed w grille and that iconic badge (the symbol means “rolling strength”) let you know it’s a Volvo right away. The shape makes the most of the footprint, and the greenhouse is large enough that young rear-seat passengers will actually be able to see out — remember that, kids?

Really though, the main takeaway from the XC90’s outwards appearance is an air of reserve. The roof-tomid-tailgate rear taillights have the same basic shape that’s been there since Volvo’s of the 1990s, but the overall silhouette of the car borders on anonymous. b It’s well-cut clothing without the obvious labelling: no fender gills, no crazy side-surface styling.

Taken as a whole, the XC90’s appearance is businesslike and unfussy. w You can tell it’s not a German car, but only because it’s not shouting about it.

Environment:

If the exterior whispers, b then the interior murmurs. Volvos have always had some of the best and most comfortable seats in the business, and this car takes that comfort to a higher level with an infu- w sion of subtly simple style.

The digital dashboard (and expect to see one of these in every new luxury car by next year) is bright and clear, and the central touchscreen is both quick and powerful. Actually, the latter — Volvo calls their infotainment system Sensus — is one of the best things about the car.

Essentially an iPad in touch-and-swipe operation, it both has an endless amount of adjustability for vehicle systems, and an ease-of-use that’s simpler than a dial controller.

The use of unpolished wood trim throughout the cabin and a multi-faceted starter and drive-select knob add a certain laidback flair to the ambiance. Carbon-fibre trim would feel gauche in here:

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Performance:

While the XC90 is a large and heavy machine, the only engine offering is a 2.0L four-cylinder. On paper, that doesn’t seem like enough at all but if there’s one thing Volvo knows about getting their cars to display a little maximum bork, its adding forced induction, and plenty of it. The XC90’s diminutive powerplant is actually twincharged: supercharged and turbocharged. The former adds low-end torque, while the latter spools up as you charge down an onramp. Once at cruising speed, it’s back to fourcylinder fuel economy.

That’s the theory anyway, but it is surprising to experience how lively the big ‘90 feels when on the move.

In regular driving modes, it reacts smoothly and leisurely, and if you have the radio off, you can hear the whistling and whirring of all those fans pumping air into the engine. It’s not an unpleasing sound, though lacking the character of the old straight-five and straight-six engines Volvo used to sell.

But when you pop things into dynamic, the XC90 wakes up a bit.

The old car was never a driver’s delight, even when V8 power was on the option list. This new one feels considerably lighter on its feet, thanks in part to the new architecture underpinning everything, and thanks in part to the solid reserved of low-end torque. Power ratings for the twincharged 2.0L are a useful 316hp, and 295lb-ft of torque from 2200rpm.

Features:

As mentioned, the XC90’s central piece is its 9.3” touchscreen.

Icons are large and clear, and side-swiping through the various sub-menus is just as easy as using the tablet or smartphone you’re already used to.

Other optional niceties include a 360-degree camera for making parking that much easier, and a suite of heated features (everything from steering wheel to windshield washers) that you’d expect to come out of a Scandinavian country.

Despite the XC90’s large size, the twincharging trickery results in more reasonable fuel mileage. Official figures rate 9.4L/100kms on the highway, and 11.8L/100kms in the city. Real-world economy hovered between 10-11L/100kms, excellent for such a large car.

Green Light:

Conservative, yet handsome; beautiful interior; solid infotainment.

Stop Sign:

Like all luxury offerings, options get expensive; premium fuel required.

The Checkered Flag:

Volvo thinks outside the box — and it works.

The digital dashboard is bright and clear, and the central touchscreen is both quick and powerful.

Volvo thinks outside the box — and it works.

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