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Rejected pot shops appeal to Board of Variance Mike Howell

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Yep, this is about to happen…

I’m going to knock out 650 words on the city’s Board of Variance.

No, my editor isn’t punishing me.

And, no, I didn’t lose a bet.

I just thought you might want to know what the heck this board does because it will likely be in the news from now until at least November.

Why? One word: Marijuana.

Now until Nov. 16, the Board of Variance will hold separate hearings for 62 owners of illegal marijuana dispensaries whose development permit applications were rejected by the city.

Why were they rejected?

Because their pot shops didn’t meet new zoning requirements approved by city council in June 2015.

In other words, their pot shops were too close to a school, or community

centre, or neighbourhood house.

The good news for the 62 owners is an appeal gives them a chance to keep the doors open. The bad news: If an owner loses an appeal, the doors have to shut within six months.

Deciding their future will be the five-member Board of Variance. They are chairperson Gilbert Tan and members Jag Dhillon, Namtez (Babbu) Sohal, Martha Welsh and George Chow, the retired Vision Vancouver city councillor.

The board, which is appointed by city council, has some definite power.

Although city committees or council can present information to the board on appeals, it cannot influence board decisions. All the board’s decisions are binding.

Meetings are generally held the second Wednesday of each month at city hall and begin at 1:15 p.m. The public is welcome and allowed to speak to the board.

The day before the

The city’s Board of Variance will be busy most of this year hearing appeals from pot shop operators, including owners of the B.C. Pain Society on Commercial Drive, which don’t meet new zoning requirements. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

meeting, the board jumps in a van and visits or drives by the sites under appeal. So that means the board could visit more dispensaries this year than a drug squad.

The tour will include stops at the B.C. Pain Society, Point Grey Cannabis

Ltd., Divine Ventures, The Green Rhino, The Healing Tree, Canada Bliss Herbal Society, Lime Life, Karuna Health Foundation, the B.C. Compassion Club Society and many others.

(The city has a complete list of the 62 shops on its website.)

I called up Tan to get his thoughts on presiding over the hearings. He didn’t want to say much.

But he was good enough to stay on the phone with me for a few minutes.

“It’s sort of hard for me to talk about it as subject,” he said. “It’s so sensitive and quite controversial.”

Tan said he couldn’t give a general statement on the board’s approach to hearing the appeals but said “hardship” — and whether the operator is facing such a thing — will factor into decisions. What “hardship” looks like is open to interpretation, he said, adding that each appeal will be heard on its own merits.

The city’s website sheds a bit more light on the “hardship” clause, saying the board must be satisfied “the strict application of the bylaw would impose an unreasonable restraint or unnecessary hardship on the use or development of the property.” Or, the board must be satisfied “the special circumstances giving rise to hardship upon which an

appeal is based are unique to the property in question.”

“But we don’t base it on financial grounds,” Tan said after I told him some pot shops, particularly so-called compassion clubs, say they can’t afford to move because rent is expensive.

All this effort by the Board of Variance — and the city’s work to set up a business licence scheme — could potentially be turned upside down when the Trudeau government makes good on its promise to legalize and regulate marijuana.

Trudeau has not said when that will happen, or what legalization looks like in relation to pot shops.

Could it be that pot shops will be irrelevant? Maybe legalized pot will be sold in liquor stores. Food trucks, anybody?

All open questions.

For now, the city and the Board of Variance are on their own to provide what answers they can on an issue that continues to burn across the country, all the way to Ottawa. @Howellings

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Impounded Maserati leads to VPD complaint

Mike Howell

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The Vancouver Police Board has dismissed a complaint from a man caught speeding who said an officer abandoned him and his twin four-year-old daughters on Southeast Marine Drive after his Maserati was impounded.

The driver, whose name was not released by the police board, said in his written complaint that the officer did not offer any assistance for him and his daughters to get home to North Vancouver.

“My children should never be put in a scary situation like that — never in this country,” he wrote of the Oct. 18, 2015 incident in the 2200-block of Southeast Marine Drive.

“The police are here to serve and protect. Yes, he was doing his job of catching speeding vehicles, but he completely abandoned any decision to aid in the safety of my family.”

Police clocked the driver’s Maserati travelling at 100 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.

They stopped him just before 4 p.m. Police issued him a ticket for excessive speed, and his car was impounded pursuant to legislation in the Motor Vehicle Act. The driver removed his daughters, their car seats and luggage from his car. He said in his complaint that he walked roughly one kilometre with his daughters to a strip mall on Southeast Marine Drive. He made no mention in his complaint whether he had a cellular phone.

Along the way, his girls were crying and scared, he said, adding that it was cold and raining. He said he had no one to call for assistance, noting his wife lives in Calgary, his

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Police impounded a Maserati (not the one pictured) on Southeast Marine Drive in October 2015 after the driver was clocked going double the speed limit.

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“I am a very resourceful person but even I was getting worried and was concerned for the safety of my daughters as we kept walking,” he said. “I could not carry them as I had all of our luggage and car seats.

I am not familiar with the area and felt uncomfortable with our safety, especially with the two very young children and the belongings we had.”

When he reached the strip mall, the driver said, he was able to contact his wife’s brother’s girlfriend in Yaletown, who picked up the trio about two hours after police stopped him for speeding.

“When I got home and talked to the children’s mother, she was absolutely furious that the VPD would put her children in a situation like this,” he said.

At the time of the incident, the temperature was 13.2 degrees Celsius, there was a light drizzle and the road was wet, said a Vancouver Police Department report that went before the board Jan. 28.

The report said the officer offered to call a taxi for the driver.

“The driver refused the offer, gathered his belongings and moved his daughters onto the sidewalk, where he berated the police officer with profanities before walking away westbound while talking on his cellular phone before the tow truck arrived,” the report said. “In this instance, the officer fulfilled his duty of care by offering to call the complainant a taxi, and recognizing that the complaint had adequate means to facilitate his travel from the location his vehicle was impounded.”

The report added the conditions may have been unpleasant for the driver and his daughters but they couldn’t be considered dangerous.

“In fact, the actions of the driver, travelling 100 km/h on a wet city road, provided the greatest risk to his daughters’ safety,” the report concluded.

The police board was unanimous in dismissing the driver’s complaint. The driver, meanwhile, said he will file a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. @Howellings

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Uber CEO says Vancouver has ‘rules that need to bend’ Tyler Orton

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The CEO of Uber says his ride-sharing service isn’t looking to break any rules when it returns to Vancouver one day.

But that doesn’t mean some rules can’t be bent.

Travis Kalanick laid out a hypothetical pitch to the B.C. government while speaking at a fireside chat Monday (Feb. 15) at the Launch Academy incubator in downtown Vancouver.

“If you want to create jobs, if you don’t like traffic, if you don’t like drunk driving, if you don’t like pollution, then I think Uber’s a good solution for Vancouver,” the CEO told the crowd of about 150 tech workers attending a panel moderated by Launch Academy CEO Ray Walia and She Talks co-founder Barinder Rasode.

He said the taxi industry across different jurisdictions represents a “monopolistic, regulated

cartel” that takes advantage of both consumers and drivers.

“Systems that prevent competition and prevent progress have to be changed,” he said. “There are new rules that need to bend towards progress for the people and I believe that eventually Vancouver will make that move.”

But the San Franciscobased tech startup’s efforts to launch a ride-sharing service in Vancouver have been stymied by the city and the province.

Uber operated in Vancouver briefly in 2012, allowing consumers to use its mobile app to order rides from private drivers.

It soon pulled out of the city once the B.C. government’s Passenger Transportation Branch determined the company was operating as a limo service and was required to fall in line with regulations covering that industry, such as charging a minimum of $75 per ride.

In 2014, Vancouver’s cab companies launched a

lawsuit seeking an injunction against Uber to prevent it from returning to and operating within city limits.

Uber has also been plagued by controversies abroad, including allegations a male driver raped a female passenger in India last year. And in 2013, an Uber driver ran over a sixyear-old girl, killing her on New Year’s Eve. Kalanick, who declined to take questions from the media, told the crowd that whatever bad

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press the company has faced doesn’t reflect what people in society think about the service.

“It’s surprising to us.

We thought there’d be a lot of issues. There just hasn’t been,” he said.

Kalanick’s statements about the potential for his company to re-enter the market in B.C. echoed those made by Uber’s chief adviser, David Plouffe, when he spoke to the Vancouver Board of Trade last September.

“We’re eager to engage with local government, provincial government to find a way forward so that we can bring rideshare here,” said Plouffe, who was previously a senior adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama.

Last month, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone told reporters it’s only a matter of time before ride-sharing services like Uber settle into B.C. and operate side-byside with taxi companies.

No timelines are in place for Uber to return to Vancouver but Stone met with representatives from the taxi industry last week to discuss the entry of ride-sharing services into B.C. Kalanick said during the fireside chat that he doesn’t believe taxi drivers are bad people, but that they are treated badly by the industry they work in due to the high prices of taxi licences.

“It not only screws over choice for the consumer but it also screws over choice for the driver,” he said, adding the introduction of Uber would create “tens of thousands of jobs in the city inside of 18 months.”

Following Plouffe’s speech at the Board of Trade, Vancouver city Coun. Geoff Meggs said he was skeptical of some of Uber’s claims.

“I’m not certain we’re seeing quality jobs generated here. We’re talking about work-sharing as well as ridesharing,” said Meggs, who did not immediately respond to Business In Vancouver following Kalanick’s fireside chat.

“By the same token, I don’t think people are saying I hope my kid becomes a very successful taxi driver. We hear talk about a taxi monopoly, but I don’t think taxi-driving’s an easy or simple way to make a living.” @reporton

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First Nations plan to buy provincial Jericho Lands Naoibh O’Connor

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David Eby, MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, said he’d like to see community consultation take place before a sales agreement is signed between three Lower Mainland First Nations and the provincial government for the provincial portion of the Jericho Lands on Vancouver’s West Side. Eby said it’s not clear to him that that will happen.

The Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations have announced their intention to buy the 38.4-acre parcel of land, according to a press release issued by the Ministry of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services, Feb. 12.

The government of B.C. accepted a Letter of Intent.

The Letter of Intent means the First Nations can begin consultations with their communities to

develop a sales agreement. If a sales agreement is reached, consultation between the First Nations and the City of Vancouver about developing the land could begin.

The news comes less than two years after the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations partnered with a federal Crown corporation, in October 2014, to acquire the 52-acre federal portion of the Jericho Lands, which sits between West Fourth Avenue and Highbury Street to the east and Eighth Avenue to the south.

The provincial portion is located immediately to the west and stretches to Discovery Street. It currently houses Vancouver Park Board facilities — the Jericho Hill Centre and the Jericho Hill Gym and Pool, as well as West Point Grey Academy.

These leases run until 2020.

Planning for any future development on the two parcels would be done at

the same time to allow for a cohesive plan, according to the provincial government, and any rezoning and development plans would follow City of Vancouver consultation processes.

The final sales agreement would be based on fair market value for the land as determined by independent appraisals, the government stated.

Andrew Wilkinson, MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena, is quoted as saying he’s “confident” that if a final sales agreement is signed, the First Nations will embark on “meaningful consultation” and that the community will be able to provide their input on the development of the entire parcel of land.

Eby called the Letter of Intent “a necessary step for the First Nations, to get the consent of their communities to make this kind of investment, with the province.”

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Another house was demolished in Dunbar Feb. 12. Last year, the city issued 974 demolition permits. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Almost 1,000 homes per year slated for demolition in Vancouver Highest number of demolition permits issued in Dunbar, Southlands

Mike Howell

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The City of Vancouver has issued an average of 940 demolition permits per year for single-family homes and duplexes since 2012, with the largest number given to property owners in Dunbar and Southlands, according to city statistics provided to the Courier.

The adjacent West Side neighbourhoods of Dunbar and Southlands, which are home to some of the most expensive real estate in Canada, saw an average of 117 demolition permits issued from 2012 to 2015. The highest number of permits granted in that period — 132 — occurred in 2012.

The statistics do not indicate if all property owners followed through with demolition, but realtors and heritage activists say they have seen bulldozers knocking down home after home in Dunbar and Southlands, a stretch of land that runs from West 16th Avenue to the Fraser River.

Realtor Ryan Taylor, who has specialized in selling homes in Dunbar for 22 years, said he believes one of the main reasons for the

scale of demolition is related to the age of the homes, many of which were built in the 1930s and 1940s.

“So they’re all at that age where they’re ready to come down,” he said, acknowledging other neighbourhoods have older homes but not to the extent of the West Side. “They have homes built in the ’50s and ’60s that are not ready to come down and they’re being renovated.”

The value of the land in Dunbar and Southlands, which hovers around an average of $2 million for a standard-sized lot, is also what’s driving demolition, he said, noting most buyers choose not to sink money into renovating an old house.

“It’s just a given,” he said. “I mean there’s just no value in the homes in relation to the land value.

So it doesn’t make sense to dump 100 or 200 grand into an 80-year-old home that’s 1,800 square feet.”

The number of demolition permits issued in Dunbar and Southlands is in contrast to similarlysized adjacent areas such as West Point Grey and Kitsilano, where 75 demolition permits were issued

in 2015. On the East Side, 86 permits were issued in Sunset and 80 in RenfrewCollingwood.

The statistics tell a story of how fast — or slow — Vancouver’s neighbourhoods are changing, with only three demolition permits issued in Fairview since 2012 and five in Strathcona. The biggest decline in permits issued occurred in Kitsilano, dropping from 50 permits in 2012 to 23 in 2015.

Caroline Adderson, a Dunbar writer who created the popular Facebook page, Vancouver Vanishes, and co-wrote a book with a similar title, believes the decrease in Kitsilano is related to a zoning change the city made that prohibits homeowners from building a new house larger than the existing footprint of the old home.

“If you retain the home, then maybe you can have a laneway home and maybe even two suites if you want and suddenly things are looking more affordable for people who work in this city and live in this city and contribute to the tax base of this city,” she said.

Adderson said she

wants the zoning change in Kitsilano implemented across the city to prevent quality character and heritage homes from becoming “bulldozer bait” and replaced with mansions.

In recent years, she said, she can only think of one house in her neighbourhood that wasn’t demolished after it was sold.

“As soon as the ‘for sale’ sign goes up, my heart just sinks,” said Adderson, who lives in a 1925 craftsman-style bungalow that was originally owned by a barber.

When told that 974 demolition permits were issued in Vancouver last year, Adderson said the statistic is “horribly alarming.” That was more permits issued than in 2014 (917) and 2013 (859). Adderson noted the increase in permits last year occurred as the city began discussions about a plan to stop the demolition of old homes.

In September 2015, city council approved the city’s first heritage conservation area in the First Shaughnessy District, which prohibits the demolition of the neighbourhood’s 315 pre-1940 homes. The new

regulation was approved after the city noticed a steady increase in the number of demolition permits for pre-1940 homes in Shaughnessy. It was a move that upset many property owners, who complained to council and some are reportedly taking legal action.

Sadhu Johnston, actingcity manager, noted the city’s work on the heritage plan when asked what more the city could do to prevent an average of 940 demolition permits being issued per year.

“We’ve done a lot in the last few years,” Johnston said. “Vancouver is a changing city and it’s hard to hit pause on everything.

You buy a house and you want to change it, or you want to demo it and build a new, bigger, different house — it’s kind of a fine line for us as a city telling you what you can and can’t do. It’s a challenging situation for us.”

Johnston also noted the city’s push to allow more laneway homes and secondary suites is, in certain cases, allowing more opportunities for families to live on a property where once stood an old home.

“While we hate to see a heritage home taken down, you may have one unit disappear and come back with the same kind of general footprint with three or more units that can accommodate people,” he said.

Earlier this week, Adderson and other residents participated in a protest outside a $7.4 million newer home on Adera Street that the owner wants to demolish and replace with another home.

Johnston said it’s “particularly offensive” when newer homes are being demolished to build another new home on a property.

But when asked what the city could do to prevent such moves from an owner, he replied: “Honestly, I don’t know,” he said, noting city regulations to protect heritage homes are “cleaner cut” than preserving newer homes. “When someone buys a property, it’s their decision how they want to use the house, if it doesn’t suit their needs. It certainly feels wasteful and it doesn’t make sense to me. But how much do we as a city get into controlling what everyone does?” @Howellings

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NDP MLA wants affordable housing component on lands Continued from page 7 “I’m nervous that this means the province is walking away from the previous commitments that were made by Andrew Wilkinson to consult the community before the final decisions were made,” he told the Courier in a phone interview last Friday.

Eby is encouraging the province to follow the model set out by the federal government, which he said features

community consultation before going to the City of Vancouver and includes collecting feedback about what the community wants, what amenities should be on the land and what priorities should be considered before a rezoning application is filed.

“I think that the federal government model is much better, where there is a joint effort between government and First Nations to ensure that all community concerns

are addressed before the property is sold,” he said.

“The reason for that is quite simple — if the provincial government has obligations either constitutionally to the French school board to build a school on the West Side of the city, or if the community will only tolerate certain levels of density on site, and the city won’t approve anything beyond that, then the property’s value changes.”

Eby said you don’t do the

consultation afterwards — you find out what the social license on the site is and what the priorities of the community are, to determine the property’s worth for a fair settlement with First Nations.

“Otherwise, you’re really expecting the First Nations to take on this huge responsibility of appeasing a lot of different community concerns,” he said.

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the future development of the Jericho Lands has been significant. Public meetings have attracted large audiences, including a recent West Point Grey Community Association meeting that Eby attended and spoke at in early February.

“There hasn’t been a meeting about the Jericho Lands that hasn’t filled up an entire room of concerned citizens and I expect that to continue to be the case,” said

Eby, who added he’d like to see a significant affordable housing component on the land, while many residents would like to see the community centre replaced.

“So there are a number of different competing interests that need to be reconciled here and that all can be, I think, accommodated in a particularly spectacular and interesting way, but only if everybody is working together.” @naoibh

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Uber’s implications go beyond simply catching a ride

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t seems as if Uber will soon be upon us.

Despite Vancouver city council upholding a moratorium on new taxi licenses — including those that could potentially cover Uber — the province’s ruling party appears to be readying the welcome mat for the startup and the rest of the so-called sharing economy.

Because the business model Uber employs isn’t based on sharing at all but on the back of the gig economy — the march toward precarious temporary, part-time or contract jobs that have destabilized the incomes and the lives of nearly a third of all workers in Canada.

For weeks now, poll-style ads for the Liberal Party of B.C. have been populating my social media feeds, asking me — and presumably every other Internet-savvy person — whether it’s time to welcome services like Uber, Airbnb and Lyft. That respondents have the option of clicking only “yes” or “not sure” should tell you plenty about the predetermined outcome.

(Those seeking more proof need only look to Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s recent 180-degree reversal on his opposition to the startup.)

The Liberal Party’s peppy ads tout the benefits of the sharing economy: “Flexible hours to supplement your income; renting a room to help pay a mortgage; saving money for you and your family.” But really, it’s an ifyou-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em scenario. Uber’s entrance into our marketplace is inevitable.

We are hurtling towards a less formalized status quo in our globalized economy where a free marketplace is mediated only by the touch of a button and services must meet real-time demand or quickly become passé.

Young people are embracing the instant gratification and Wild West appeal of this economic model. I can’t remember a weekend in recent memory where someone hasn’t lamented the lack of options such as Uber or Lyft. And as I’ve written before, Airbnb has become a lifestyle-saving grace for a certain subset of renter, despite the havoc it may or may not be wreaking on rental stock.

On the face of it, it makes perfect sense, morally, financially and environmentally, for my community-minded generation to shell out a few bucks to catch a ride with a neighbour rather than wait for a taxi or to stay in a real person’s home rather than book a hotel.

But we may be setting ourselves up for a bigger economic fall by doing so.

Because the business model Uber employs isn’t based on sharing at all but on the back of the gig economy — the march toward precarious temporary, part-time or contract jobs that have destabilized the incomes and the lives of nearly a third of all workers in Canada, mostly younger people, immigrants or otherwise marginalized groups.

Over the past several decades we’ve seen a marked shift away from permanent jobs with predictable incomes, benefits and pensions, and toward a freelance economy that is increasingly predicated on independent contractors bearing all the risks and costs associated with their work. This is happening across nearly every industry, but nowhere is it so blatant as with Uber.

The company all but abdicates responsibility for the safety or security of its drivers, who must provide their own vehicles, insurance, gas and iPhones to connect to the app, while its aggressive lobbying efforts and undeniable market appeal force jurisdictions

to draft bespoke policy to support it.

And while the flexibility and freedom the company provides is undoubtedly appealing, the potential financial gains for drivers have been vastly overstated. In many cities where the service has launched, seasonal fare cuts and flooded markets result in rather paltry pay, so much so that Uber has conspicuously stopped making claims that average drivers in certain markets earn as much as $74,000 to $90,000 a year. Objective data is hard to come by, but a recent story from a Philadelphia-based reporter found that, after expenses and Uber’s cut, her earnings were less than $10 an hour.

The company is also heavily invested in driverless car technology, hardly making it a reliable long-term provider of the kind of good jobs Christy Clark’s government likes to promise it is working to provide.

In the sudden push to roll out the welcome wagon for Uber and its ilk, there is much more to consider than the impact on the taxi industry, our own regulatory frame-

work or the potential to beef up personal earnings. There are profound questions at play about the devaluation of labour and the implications of an economy increasingly founded on piece work. Additionally, the provincial government, in its newfound enthusiasm for this job-creation model, would do well to consider just why it is more and more British Columbians are seeking ways to supplement their incomes, find quick mortgage helpers and save money for their families in the first place.

It’s a problem that isn’t unique to B.C. It didn’t start with Uber and it won’t end there. Figuring out a way to balance shifting market expectations with our long-term economic interest is a challenge that is only going to become more pressing and complex. Because while the Ubers of the world can change course at a moment’s notice, the implications of their disruptive economic influence — positive or negative — will be shared by all of us for years to come. @jm_barrett

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In real estate, you get what someone will pay for Re: “Real estate rant (part deux): The politics of city’s housing market,” Jan. 14.

In 1977, I bought a one-bedroom teardown but still livable shack with an unobstructed view of Semiahmoo Bay in White Rock for $33,000. In February of 1981, I listed it for $125,000. Unfortunately, that timing coincided with the international inflationary explosion that saw interest rates in Canada climb to 21 per cent or more.

When the dust finally settled some eight months later, I got $66,000 for the dirt value of the property. It could be argued that was a 50 per cent “loss” from the original listing price. But in point-of-fact it was a 50 per cent increase in real value over four years from its original purchase price. A 25 per cent hike per year!

Thus writer Mike Howell needs to be careful slinging per cents around about housing price ups-and-downs. The age-old observation made on house values still stands: “Your house is worth precisely what someone else is prepared to pay for it.” All other measures will miss some of the story.

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ONLINE COMMENTS

Eggs thrown at ‘scrambling’ government Re: “B.C. government scrambles to cope with real estate scandals,” Feb. 9.

“Scrambles” — really? More like passive, reactive damage control. Christy Clark has already made it very clear she has no intention of taxing speculators or penalizing owners of vacant, unrented houses and condos.

Bob Rennie is her chief fundraiser and booster (as he is Gregor Robertson’s). Her loyalty is bought and paid for, and it is owed to developers.

Forbes Angus via Facebook ••• Greed and ZERO integrity. What the hell has happened to people? My best friends just moved to Calgary because of this. Born and raised in Vancouver. Many more are thinking of doing the same.

Disgraceful.

Lisa Di Fonzo via Facebook

Since the Liberals of been in power, they have allowed the real estate industry to operate with impunity. I’m glad these flim-flam artists have been exposed. I hope the full weight of the law will be rendered upon them.

George Clarke via Facebook ••• For people born, raised and simply trying to exist here, it’s severely impacted our overall health and happiness and someone has to be held accountable. It’s ridiculous to allow this to happen when it’s driving people to the brink.

Debbie Wilde via Facebook ••• Does government ever ‘scramble’? More like ‘Let’s see how we can manipulate this to our advantage.”

Betty Thun via Facebook

RIP Vancouver Re: “Geoff Olson Editorial Cartoon,” Feb. 3.

Sad but true...........and it is only gonna get worse. People keep talking about the bubble bursting. I don’t see that happening. We can only build up not out, and there are off-shore consortiums that are pooling together hundreds of millions of $$$$$$ and weighing in on the real estate market here with that financial clout. With the expected million-plus people coming into Vancouver and the LMLD, the price of real estate is going to go as high as the new skylines dotting the view now. :(((((((( Marrie Globetrotter De Vries via Facebook ••• People think this is funny ... The fallout is going to be the end of Vancouver that we know & used to love.

JC Clarke via Facebook

House calls Re: “History shows that home prices will eventually fall,” Feb. 3.

My family and I moved to a rural B.C. property and absolutely love it. Our house is a fraction of what we would have paid in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland and my drive to work is only 10 minutes! We have a real winter here, but love the snow and outdoor sports that go with it. We consider ourselves nuts for having been in the Lower Mainland for so long.

The VanMan via online comments ••• Hong Kong, China, Germany, Australia and many more countries have limitations and strict rules on foreign ownership.

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1. Esca shows off an nontraditional yoga pose. 2. Cats on Your Mats participant Kristen Pidgeon shared her yoga mat with Butch, one of the cats available for adoption at Vancouver’s Catfé. The fourth edition of Cats on Your Mats was held Sunday as a fundraiser for Catfé’s rescue charity of the month, C.A.R.E.S. in Langley. The previous three editions of the yoga class with cats were held at Stretch yoga studio with cats provided by VOKRA. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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No downward dog at cat-friendly yoga class Rebecca Blissett

rvblissett@gmail.com

The only time Powder appeared remotely interested in the humans occupying his space was when they all bowed towards him in yoga’s child’s pose, much like a deity worshiped by his unwavering followers.

Those who don’t have any fun at all would label that description as being a tad anthropomorphic, but those familiar with the feline species would agree it’s likely not far from the truth.

Powder is the name given to the three-yearold all-white cat; he is friendly yet independent according, to the adoptions information board on the wall of Catfé, and he was one of six present for the Valentine’s Day edition of the Cats on Your Mats session hosted in conjunction with Catfé

and Stretch yoga.

Tables and chairs were pushed to the side to make way for the yoga mats in the city’s first cat and coffee shop where patrons, during regular business hours, can buy a drink and something to eat and hang out with cats supplied by the BC SPCA. It’s a cat showroom of sorts — people are welcome to apply to adopt any of the cats in the Catfé. It’s a dream concept for cat lovers; non-cat people are easily sniffed as soon as they hear about it and ask if visitors are, har har, allowed to bring their own cats along to the coffee shop.

While Sunday morning’s session of Cats on Your Mats marked the fourth one, it was the first time it was held at Catfé, and the first time yoga instructor and Stretch owner Emmanuelle Rousseau taught the class.

“People definitely come for the cats over the yoga,” she said. “All of our teachers were kinda thrown off by that because, well, you just can’t ask people to close their eyes in class — that’s just not fair.”

The previous three sessions were held at the nearby Stretch studio with cats on loan from foster families with the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association. The first session in September was chaos, not only because it was the first time yoga with cats had occurred outside somebody’s private living room, but because most of the felines in attendance were kittens. Rousseau was too pregnant to lead the second session in October, and had just given birth when the third happened at the end of January.

Since the idea of combining cats and yoga in

Vancouver was hers in the first place, Rousseau, an animal lover who once pursued veterinary care in school, said she was thrilled to finally teach a session. It was evident given her attire — leggings with cat-faces — and the fact she started the class by asking everybody’s names, as well as their cat’s names.

A cat owner herself, Rousseau let the class keep a phone camera nearby to capture any cat-on-mat yoga moments, as well as decreeing the downward dog position would be replaced with downward cat during Cats on Your Mats.

Rousseau is also fully aware it’s fashionable to be into cats. Case in point: one of Sunday’s participants wore a T-shirt with a print of Lil Bub, considered by many as one of the Top-10 power cats of the Internet.

“Cats, all of a sudden, have become cool,” said

Rousseau. “Before it was not cool, now it’s OK to be a cat lady. It’s not just about ladies with purple hair, purple clothing, and purple everything.”

Catfé owner and operator Michelle Furbacher said she never tires of seeing evidence the cat café idea is working in Vancouver. Furbacher initially heard about a cat café in Japan, and then aired the idea in her local circles, wondering if such a concept might work.

“It’s really cool to see how many people just want to come and hang out with cats. I love seeing photos on social media people have taken of little moments they’ve shared with the cats,” she said. “The thing about this business is that it’s so unpredictable and it’s totally different every day, every week. All the cats are so different, in the way they interact with

each other as well, so you never really know what you’re going to get.”

Adopting a cat from such an environment is appealing, too, as Catfé is a cheerful place with cubby holes, cat tunnels and cat toys.

And the idea is working.

Catfé, which only receives cats that are socialized, ran out of four-legged stock within a month of opening, and even on Sunday, four of the seven cats available — including Powder — had adoptions pending.

Funds raised from this month’s Cats on Your Mats went towards Catfé’s rescue organization of the month — C.A.R.E.S. cat shelter in Langley. Check Stretch’s list of classes at stretchvancouver.com to find out about the next edition of Cats on Your Mats. @rebeccablissett

Lessons to be learned from Londoners’ long commute Michael Geller Columnist

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Could this happen in Vancouver?

This is the question that went through my mind last Thursday night while

stopping off in London on a flight from Moscow.

Since I was too late to see a play, I decided to take a nighttime bus tour of the city, something I highly recommend.

While waiting for the tour to start, I popped into

a nearby pub crammed with noisy 30-somethings enjoying what for me were very expensive drinks.

I stepped outside with my pint of beer, because you can in London, and a young lady started to chat.

“Where are you from,” she

asked. I said I had just flown in from Moscow and was on my way home to Vancouver.

“Where are you from,” I asked. Poland, she said, but she lived in London.

She went on to say she had just spent three years living in Toronto.

“So how does living in Toronto compare with London,” I asked.

She said she enjoyed a much higher standard of living there — she earned more, the housing was a lot less expensive and she got much more holiday

time. But she decided to return to London to be with friends and enjoy better work opportunities.

I asked whether this pub was always so busy. “Generally yes,” she said. “But especially on Thursdays.”

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Vancouver needs solutions to avoid same fate Continued from page 12 I was curious why Thursdays were busier than Fridays.

“That’s because many people go home on Fridays,” she said.

The woman then went on to explain that quite a few of her colleagues cannot afford to live in London so they have bought homes in lessexpensive communities further away.

Rather than commute daily, they commute weekly.

Their spouses and children live in a house away from London while they share a bedsitter or small flat during the week with co-workers or others who find themselves in a similar situation.

I found this quite astounding and was curious to know how common a practice it was. Before boarding my Vancouver flight, I asked others who confirmed they too had friends and colleagues commuting weekly.

While it will be little comfort to those in Vancouver struggling to rent or buy a home, relatively speaking, London’s housing is even more expensive than Vancouver’s.

The primary reason, as in Vancouver, is an imbalance between supply and demand.

In 2015, London’s population exceeded 8.6 million.

The city is adding nearly 70,000 people and 34,000 jobs every year.

However, the current supply of new homes is about 20,000 to 25,000 starts per year, a number that has not changed significantly over the last 15 years.

By comparison, Metro Vancouver’s population is expected to increase by around 30,000 per year, and some years, Metro Vancouver builds more housing units than London.

The reasons why London produces so relatively few homes sound familiar.

There is a shortage of skilled labour and a shortage of some materials.

Moreover, in the U.K., it is not to the housebuilders benefit to radically shift the imbalance between supply and demand.

Furthermore, builders are often required to build affordable housing units within their projects, “subsidized” by

the market units. This increases the cost of the market housing. Sound familiar?

In an effort to come up with alternative affordable housing ideas, the New London Architecture Centre invited architects, builders, econo-

mists and housebuilders to suggest different ways to address the current imbalance between supply and demand.

Many interesting ideas came forward, from infilling relocatable modular housing — an idea I have been proposing for years,

to “blind tenure” developments that mix market and non-market housing in different ways.

Over the coming months, I will share some of the ideas that could have direct application to Vancouver, with Vancouver Courier readers

In the meantime, let’s hope we can come up with new solutions so that we don’t have pubs filled with 30-somethings on Thursday nights, because they too must commute back home on Fridays, only to return to Vancouver Monday morning.

(If you want to know what I was doing in Russia, I’m giving a lecture at SFU Harbour Centre this Thursday Feb. 18.

To register, google the SFU Continuing Studies website and click on “lectures and events.”) @michaelgeller

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There are some statistics that the City of Vancouver loves to brag about, and others not as much.

Take bike lane usage figures, for example.

How many cyclists have used the Burrard Bridge bike lane — is it one million, or one-and-a-half? I’ve lost count of the city’s counts, but there is a page on the city’s website for those who must know.

Statistics that the city are less inclined to talk about are the numbers of homeless people, which have remained stubbornly high for several years now.

Some recent statistics that you would have expected the City of Vancouver to crow about were reported in an oddly negative light.

The 311 call centre service has been experiencing record growth as Vancouverites become more aware of it.

Thanks to better efforts at promoting it, more and more of us are dialing, clicking and tweeting the city with questions and service requests.

Almost 120,000 queries were handled in 2015.

The 311 service is relatively young. It is said that former city manager Judy Rogers was the driving force behind getting Vancouver to adopt 311 10 years ago.

She had seen the service in use at the City of Calgary and was convinced it was the right choice for back home.

The report and motion to implement the 311 service was brought to the NPAmajority city council in November 2006. The service was then dubbed “311 Access Vancouver,” and framed by staff as a vital evolution in city services.

The staff report states, “Adoption of 311 Access Vancouver represents an opportunity and an investment in our commitment to citizen service. It will demonstrate Vancouver’s commitment to

quality, accessibility, inclusivity, and accountability, and our commitment to be an employer of choice. The ‘excellence in citizen service’ model will affirm Vancouver’s position as a leader in local government improvement initiatives.”

Instead of a cumbersome list of 500-plus telephone numbers, you were promised 24-7 access to city services, in a range of languages commonly spoken here, including Mandarin and Cantonese, the first tongue of more than 27 per cent of

If anything, high 311 usage signals strong community engagement. More of us should pick up a phone or tweet the city to make our surroundings more livable.

Vancouverites.

A translation service exists today for callers who request it.

Back then the Vision Vancouver-COPE members of council were considerably less enthusiastic about the initiative, and fought against its adoption. Coun. Raymond Louie even floated the idea of having 311 go to a public vote.

Judy Rogers’ dream of having 311 revolutionize the connection between city services and the citizens who want them only passed thanks to the NPA’s onevote majority on council.

All of Vision and the one COPE councillor voted against 311.

When Vision took power in December 2008 it was as if they did not know what to do with this service. It was more than two years into their term as government before you even saw any mention of 311 on the city’s website, for example.

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administration came around to embracing 311 — perhaps tantalized by the access to data the call centres provide.

By carefully tracking the subject of the inquiries and where they came from, the city could adjust service levels that would make the public service more efficient.

However, this kind of positive influence 311 has on city services was framed as being “a victim of its own success” and “popular, but costly” in a round of media reports earlier this month.

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highest number of 311 calls came from Kitsilano and Kensington-Cedar Cottage (full disclosure: that is my neighbourhood), as if that were a bad thing.

If anything, high 311 usage signals strong community engagement. More of us should pick up a phone or tweet the city to make our surroundings more livable.

Vancouver has been lately doing backflips on how to make its citizenry more “engaged” with mixed results.

Thanks to the sheer simplicity of dialing three digits (or sending a tweet to @CityOfVancouver) 311 has made it a lot easier for us to connect with city hall.

Maybe it’s time for Vancouver to look again at Calgary for new ideas.

Just look at the simple and elegant design of the City of Calgary website if you really want to see a local government that is making great strides in engaging its citizens. @MikeKlassen

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Feb. 18 to 24, 2016 1. The 16th annual Chutzpah! Jewish performing arts festival gets underway Feb. 18 and runs until March 13 at the Norman Rothstein Theatre and various offsite venues.

Highlights include comedians Jon Steinberg and Jessica Kirson, singing sisters from Israel A-WA and a new dance performance from Vancouver’s Shay Kuebler Radical System Art. Details at chutzpahfestival.com.

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2. Funny people descend upon Vancouver for the Just for Laughs Northwest Comedy Festival Feb. 18 to 27. Performers include Wanda Sykes, Janeane Garofalo, Margaret Cho, Todd Barry and Daily Show host Trevor Noah, plus movies, sketch comedy and a wack of events we’re just too lazy to type out. Details at jflnorthwest.com.

3. NYC’s Parquet Courts bring their angular, you could say “Pavement-esque” stylings to the Rickshaw, Feb. 20. Tickets at Neptoon, Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.

4. Those crazy cats at Fighting Chance Productions are at it again — this time with a crazy new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash Broadway musical Cats.

Yes, Cats. The fur flies Feb. 19 to March 12 at the Jericho Arts Centre. Details at fightingchanceproductions.ca.

5. MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture messes with the Vancouver Art Gallery, Feb. 20 to June 12. The exhibit features 371 works by 156 artists, filmmakers, architects, musicians and designers, such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Frank Gehry, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, Jeff Koons, DJ Spooky and Tobias Wong, among others.

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FOSTERING A BETTER FUTURE: First Call, B.C.’s advocacy coalition of 95 provincial and regional partners working on behalf of youth and children, hosted its annual fundraiser. A record 550 guests converged at Fraserview Hall for the charity dinner that featured Canucks president Trevor Linden. While the former hockey player was mum on any NHL trades, Linden did lend his voice to the Vancouver Foundation’s Fostering Change initiative to improve policy, practice and community connections for young people transitioning from foster care to adulthood. Fronted by Adrienne Montani, provincial coordinator of First Call, the event included an Indian buffet dinner, silent auction and Westjet raffle. Attendees then heard from “Captain Canuck” and a panel of youth leaders. The event generated a record setting $40,000 to support First Call’s ongoing efforts to ensure healthy outcomes for the province’s children and youth.

SEX TALK: Sexual and Reproductive Health Day, held yearly Feb. 12, is a national event designed to raise awareness and encourage dialogue about sexual and reproductive health issues. This year marked the 13th annual event, established by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Options for Sexual Health (OPT), Canada’s largest non-profit provider of sexual health services, information and education programs, presented its third SRH Day Breakfast at the Vancouver Marriot Pinnacle Hotel. Yours truly emceed the morning affair led by OPT executive director Jennifer Brakespear. Katrina Pacey, executive director of Pivot Legal Society, was honoured with the organization’s Sexual Health Champion Award. Leading Pivot’s rights campaigns for sex workers, Pacey successfully argued the unconstitutionality of Canada’s prostitution laws at the Supreme Court of Canada.

EMBRACING DIVERSITY: In 2009, Rod Knight and Jeannie Shoveller from UBC’s School of Population and Public Health got permission to run a summer camp to collect research on sexual minority youth in B.C. Their findings endorsed the need for an outdoor camp experience that catered to the needs of queer, trans and allied youth, and drew on the strengths of existing community members and organizations.

CampOUT was born. Six years later, more than 500 participants from B.C. and the Yukon have participated in the four-day camp program free of charge to develop leadership skills, build self-esteem, embrace diversity, while being themselves. Fully funded thanks to the support of individuals, corporations, foundations and the university, the organization, led by founding camp director Anna White, hosted its annual donor recognition event at Scotiabank’s corporate headquarters. Applications are currently being accepted for the seventh running July 7-10.

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Vancouver Canucks president Trevor Linden and youth leader Cheyenne Andy participated in a First Call panel conversation on how to improve policy and practices for young people transitioning out of foster care.

Kathryn Gretsinger and Adrienne Montani, provincial coordinator of First Call, fronted the child and youth advocacy coalition’s yearly fundraiser at Fraserview Hall. Upwards of $40,000 was drummed up to support efforts to ensure healthy outcomes for kids.

From left, author Amber Dawn and Pivot Legal Society’s Katrina Pacey were this year’s special guests at Jennifer Brakespear’s Options for Sexual Health’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Day Breakfast.

Andrew Wilkins and Wilfred Chan’s Scotiabank firm renewed its commitment to UBC’s CampOUT with a $5,000 donation to the summer leadership program for youth.

Options for Sexual Health’s Helena Palmqvist and her husband, David Kohler celebrated Sexual and Reproductive Health Day, a national event intended to raise awareness of sexual and reproductive health issues.

Jeannie Shoveller and Rod Knight’s research initiative seven years ago gave birth to UBC’s CampOUT, a summer leadership camp for queer, trans and allied youth. Led by founding camp director Anna White, centre, more than 500 participants throughout B.C. and the Yukon have participated in the life-changing program.

Philippe Joannès, executive chef at the famed Fairmont Monte Carlo, in collaboration with Pacific Rim’s Nathan Brown, created Taste of Amour, an à la carte dinner showcasing Joannès’ signature Mediterranean flavours.

Howard Blank, president of Variety, the Children’s Charity, presided over the organization’s 50th Show of Hearts Telethon with Fiona Forbes and others, raising $6.8 million for B.C.’s special kids.

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Lepage dazzles with memorable 887 Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Dust off all the superlatives: Robert Lepage is back in town. Jointly presented by SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs and Théâtre La Seizième, this production marks the Western Canada premiere of 887, an evocative exploration of memory: what we remember, what we forget and who we are when memory fails.

For an actor, memory is even more critical than it is for the rest of us. Lepage: “Theatre is all about memory. It’s the grand sport of remembering.”

Charged with reciting Michèle Lalonde’s poem “Speak White” for a poetry festival, Lepage sought help when he found he couldn’t commit Lalonde’s long poem to memory.

The advice he received was to go back to a time when remembering things was easy and to work from there. This mnemonic took him back to 887 Avenue Murray in Quebec City, his boyhood home located between Parc des Braves and Plaines d’Abraham — historic icons both.

What Lepage discovered was that revisiting his childhood was to revisit the separatist movement of Quebec as it was experienced within his own family — his father, a Federalist, his mother, more inclined to support the Separatists. The big question on a Saturday night in the Lepage household? To watch Hockey Night in Canada in French or English.

While 887 possibly relates more to those who can remember their very first phone number but can’t remember what they had for breakfast, the presentation will dazzle everyone

Robert Lepage’s latest, 887, is an evocative exploration of memory, particularly the actor-playwright’s time growing up in Quebec City.

with its sheer inventiveness.

Centre stage is dominated by a huge “block” that revolves to show us a miniature apartment building complete with little windows through which we see the tiny occupants. Lepage looms large as he recalls the various residents including Prince, a huge (in Lepage’s boyhood memory) Great Dane. Lepage turns the block — like a giant wooden puzzle into which the various parts fit — again and again to reveal his present, life-sized, book-lined apartment and gleaming kitchen, a ’60s diner and various other locations. Other set pieces slip smoothly into position downstage: Parc des Braves on Parade Day, a tiny taxi crossing from stage left to right and Charles de Gaulle passing by in his black Lincoln before inflaming a cheering crowd with his “Vivre Quebec Libre” speech.

Lepage, addressing us directly, invites us into his life through these doll house-size and real-size im-

ages with generosity, quiet thoughtfulness and humility. Two hours — without intermission — fly by.

As with all of Lepage’s work, 887 is a work of art, a jewelbox of images and cutting edge technology — all in the service of narrative. It is whimsical: Lepage’s huge, projected, out-of-focus face, peering into his miniature boyhood bedroom. It’s provocative: de Gaulle shouting out his rabble-rousing message. It’s magical: a bed morphs into a stage.

In spite of all the technology, there are a few glitches that may (or may not) be able to be rectified. Much of Lepage’s text is in French and the surtitles, appearing as grey-on-black, are difficult to read. Also, French is spoken very quickly and it’s often impossible to keep up. As well, an effect that is really stunning — the almost blinding reflection off the stainless steel fridge in Lepage’s kitchen — makes

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887 ultimately is a very personal homage to his father, a taxi-driver with a Grade 8 education, a man who worked tirelessly night and day to make ends meet and to care for his family. Indeed, he was home very little but he had a profound effect on Lepage, his work ethic, integrity and politics.

It all comes home in the final scene in which Lepage plays both himself and his father in a touching, enduring image.

A national treasure — in French and English — Robert Lepage is not to be missed.

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Bach Choir brings music to silent Phantom

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Those who saw the Vancouver Bach Choir’s performance of Andrew Downing’s score of the 1925 silent film Phantom of the Opera at the Orpheum in 2013 praised it highly.

“I’ve never had a performance where I had so many people ask me when we are doing it again,” says VBC’s music director, Leslie Dala.

Rave reviews, along with showcasing the choir’s diverse music, were two major reasons Dala wanted to revisit Downing’s piece.

“This is our big 85th anniversary year... and I wanted to balance out a season, which already has two of the great classical masterpieces [Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion]... [and] do something much more contemporary and also a bit more lightweight in terms of subject matter.”

Dala’s musical partnership with Downing goes back to when the two were performing on tour together and discussing silent movies. “[I] realized that we had this shared passion and then he told me that he scored some films so I got it into my head that I wanted him to write a piece for the Bach Choir.”

In order to bring the film and music together, Dala rehearsed with the choir weekly. It wasn’t until a couple of weeks before the premiere

The Vancouver Bach Choir performs Andrew Downing’s score live for a screening of the 1925 silent film Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney.

that the choir rehearsed alongside the film. Downing also sent a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) file to guide Dala in lining up the score with the film, which proved challenging.

“I have to accompany a film that is not flexible, that is not going to move… Our performance has to line up with what is completely determined. The singer needs to breathe and you need to work with that. So the challenge becomes one of performing the score to the best of our abilities and to just hit all the landmarks in the piece to make sure it lines up perfectly.”

Another challenge for Dala was setting the right mood and expression of the film.

The 1925 silent horror film, which starred Lon Chaney, is an adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel.

“[The score] is at times very moody and dark like the film and it is a love story, and there is music which is very romantic and full of yearning and passion and, of course, the piece is incredibly dramatic so there are elements of that as well.”

But Dala is confident that he will overcome these challenges. He is also confident that success will strike twice with Phantom of the Opera.

“Downing writes with the assurance of somebody who has done this many times before. He is a very skilled composer who knows exactly what he is doing.”

Vancouver Bach Choir’s Phantom of the Opera takes place Saturday Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. at the Orpheum Theatre.

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Vancouver-shot Deadpool obliterates box office records Tyler Orton

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Much like the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts featured prominently in the Vancouver-shot superhero film Deadpool, box office records were smashed to pieces over the weekend thanks to the made-in-B.C. flick.

The violent and raunchy action movie grossed US$135 million at the North American box office across three days following its Feb. 12 debut, according to Box Office Mojo.

That’s the largest opening ever for a film released by 20th Century Fox. It also broke records for the largest opening for an R-rated film, as well as for a movie released in February and a film from a first-time director (Tim Miller).

The enormous haul came as audiences in the U.S. enjoyed the Presidents’ Day long weekend.

But Canadians had reason to be patriotic, too.

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Tom Esakin and Anneke Rees are co-facilitating several Death Cafés in the next two months. According to Esakin, “Life is better lived when we connect it with food and drink and so if we are going to discuss death, what better way to do it than over food and drink?” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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How about a spot of tea, a bit of cake and a chat about death?

Sounds normal enough until that last bit. Death is something we talk about either as an abstract far-off concept or, conversely, during a time of crisis.

We rarely take the time to unpack the issues around death in a casual, thoughtful, deliberate way… with tea and cake.

This is the idea behind Death Café, a global phenomenon now alive in Vancouver. Anneke Rees and Tom Esakin, who met at a 50th birthday party and ended up engrossed in a conversation about death, are co-facilitating several Death Cafés in the next two months. While they insist they are there to encourage others to speak about the topic, both have extensive experience in the nontheoretical aspects of death.

Among many other roles, Rees was a volunteer in

palliative care at St. Paul’s Hospital at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Esakin is an interfaith spiritual director, which seems something like a chaplain-at-large, and has been involved in what is variously called palliative journeying, death midwifery or being a death vigilant.

Esakin says accepting our mortality adds value to life.

“I’ve walked a number of family members and friends through death,” he says.

“To understand that you are going to die, not just theoretically but to actually integrate it into your being, one relates to life very differently. You start to realize that life is a gift and is not something to be taken for granted. Life begins to be cherished in much deeper ways than when we just have this abstract concept that we’re going to die at some future date.”

Originating in Europe and spreading rapidly in North America, there have been nearly 3,000 Death Cafés in the last five years.

Because the direction of each event is set by attendees, no two are the same.

“It could be anything,” Rees says of the topic range. “It could be… I’m really curious about what happens when somebody dies, I’ve never seen it. It could be existential questions around what happens after you die. Is there an afterlife?” Perhaps a discussion on assisted suicide, which is au courant, or anything else people want to discuss.

This is not a support group or a bereavement group, though.

“We are not clinical,” she says. “We make that very clear.”

The next café is March 15 at Banyen Books and Sound (all cafés worldwide are listed at DeathCafe.com) and there are two more in April. However, it is not a series — in fact, Rees and Esakin are not encouraging people to attend more than one as the international guidelines set out by the “social

franchise” insist that the groups not exceed 20 people and they hope to include as many individuals as possible. The rules also insist on cake.

It is a principle of Death Café, Esakin says, that “life is better lived when we connect it with food and drink and so if we are going to discuss death, what better way to do it than over food and drink?”

Rees acknowledges she confronts skepticism about the whole idea.

“A lot of people go, ‘oh, I don’t like the sound of that,’” she says.

“Some people seem to have a guttural response to it,” Esakin admits. “I sent an email out to a group of my friends and one friend came back and said, ‘You’re decades away from death.’ I emailed back and said you’d be surprised the paradox of life is when you explore your death, you live more deeply.

It’s not about you’re going to die tomorrow.”

Rees agrees death is something people need

to incorporate more into daily life.

“Our society is not really good about dealing with death,” she says.

“We shuffle people off and have someone else to look after that piece. As people suddenly face these issues, they often have no clue what to do, what to say.

Somebody dies and a lot of people don’t even know what to say to somebody, which is why the sympathy card business is such a flourishing business.”

She adds that Death Cafés are about “just making people aware that it’s a subject that you can’t avoid.”

Death and afterlife are all wrapped up in religious beliefs and customs, and this is an area Esakin and Rees are not afraid of negotiating. Esakin in particular has training in diverse religious practices and notes that national and regional cultures also impact the discussion.

“Religion plays a great role in how one perceives

it but culture does as well,” he says. “Catholicism is large around the world, obviously, but how you relate to death in Catholicism depends on what part of the world you’re in.”

Given the ubiquity of death, it does seem odd how little we actually talk about it in a frank, open, inquisitive way. If chatting about it over tea and cake seems odd, perhaps that’s symptomatic of a larger problem. After all, is there any topic we don’t talk about over tea and cake?

Esakin sums up the approach he and Rees take to the topic.

“We are two souls who are comfortable having a conversation about death because of our lives’ experiences,” he says. “We, in a sense, want to provide a safe, welcome, comfortable, confidential environment where people can also feel welcome to talk about that thing that will affect all humans.” @Pat604Johnson

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The first thing that struck me about Savio Volpe (literally, “Tavern of the Smart Fox”) is that it’s already buzzing. In fact, if you don’t arrive by 6 — 6:30 p.m. at the latest — well, good luck.

The neighbourhood knows about it, as do a whole lot of other people, apparently.

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Savio Volpe’s diced black kale salad is keeper.

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Sometimes it’s the simplest items that make the best impression. Even if you’re not a kale lover, once you’ve tasted the diced black kale, lemon pepper and Pecorino salad ($13), you’ll be rushing home to dust off that mandolin your sister gave you to try to copy it.

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There’s a wood-fired heritage pork chop, along with a wealth of spit-roasted offerings that change by the day. The all-Italian wine list is smartly chosen (along with local craft beers and savvy cocktails). Service is well informed and genuinely friendly, and the room feels modern but comfortable

One room that has been around forever (well, for nearly 40 years) is La Piazza Dario Ristorante Italiano at the Italian Cultural Centre.

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That’s perfectly fine when your gift is a shared experience: a nice meal, a concert or a movie. You’re celebrating your relationship and saying, “I love you so much that I want to enjoy some special time together.”

Some gifts are thinly veiled gifts to yourself. Examples among spouses abound.

Consider the husband who buys a big screen TV for his wife a week before Valentine’s so that they can enjoy watching the Super Bowl together. Have you ever received a gift that someone else uses more than you?

When I was 14, I gave my brother a record album that I liked. He immediately noted that I would be enjoying the music as much as he, so I exchanged it for something he really liked (and that I couldn’t use).

There are three virtues that I call “double blessing”: forgiveness, gratitude and generosity. They are twoway gifts — gifts that give back. They benefit the giver as well as the receiver. They strengthen our relationships, and they nourish our souls.

Forgiving

Shakespeare said it best in The Merchant of Venice: “The quality of mercy is not strained/It droppeth as the

gentle rain from heaven/Upon the place beneath; it is twice blest;/It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

Sometimes we are loath to forgive someone who has hurt us. It is especially difficult if that person’s actions have caused great suffering, were done with ill intent and with no remorse.

To forgive may feel like you’re letting the other off the hook, giving something up or diminishing yourself, but what you give up and lighten may be a load that has been weighing you down and holding you back.

If you’ve travelled by plane recently, you’ve noticed that most passengers are maximizing their carry-on luggage, stuffing them under seats and overhead. This makes for an even more uncomfortable flight for themselves and their neighbours.

We weigh ourselves down by carrying into each new day the baggage of our past: resentments, prejudices, insults and slights. They hold us back from stepping lightly, moving forward and welcoming new experiences.

Forgiveness isn’t so much letting someone else off the hook as it is unhooking yourself from the load you’ve been towing.

Appreciation

I taught my children that two of the most important prayers are those of gratitude at the dawn of each day and at dusk. When we frame the

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But we can do much more than just count our blessings and acknowledge the gifts of the day. We can strengthen our relationships and spread happiness by thanking those who have helped us.

We all need to feel appreciated and to know that we make a difference to the people around us. If someone has touched you and made your life better, thank them.

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We are each beneficiaries of kindness and love from many people throughout our lives: teachers, coaches, health care providers, family, friends and benevolent strangers. We cannot give back all that we’ve received, but we can give that love forward.

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If you’re familiar with the names “Grave Digger,” “Captain’s Curse” and “El Toro Loco,” you might be a redneck Monster Jam fan.

On Feb. 27, 14 massive Monster Trucks will roar into B.C. Place Stadium, including eight making their debut in

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Even though Chinese New Year was Feb. 8, Vancouverites can still experience the celebrations with Fly Over Canada’s Flight of the Dragon ride at Canada Place.

The attraction gives riders a bird’s eye view of China’s landscapes, cities and vistas, soaring 10 to 25 feet above the snowy peaks of the Himalayas to the bustling city of Shanghai.

The special effects of mist, wind and scents of grass, trees and smoke also give riders the full experience of China.

Riders sit in a specialized chair suspended in the air as they move in sync with the film on a four storey, 20-metre-wide screen.

“We wanted to show this ride because the Chinese New Year is an important part of the

West Coast culture here and we wanted to bring in that celebration of the Chinese New Year,” says Candace Schroeter, marketing and sales coordinator of Soaring Attractions LP, a themed entertainment company that creates attractions for Vancouver, including Fly Over Canada.

Originally, Flight of the Dragon was an attraction at a Shanghai theme park, and with the help of Los Angeles studio Super 78 Productions, the ride came to Vancouver.

“We are the only attraction in North America like this. It’s a very unique setting and we are the only ones capable of showing a film ride anywhere in the world outside of Shanghai,” added Schroeter.

Not only will attendees have a chance to celebrate Chinese New Year through Flight of

the Dragon, but they will also be able to experience a traditional Chinese dance by lion dancers and a visit by the fortune god. The Year of the Monkey will be honored through scenery and décor outside and inside the attraction and in the pre-show room.

Schroeter says the attraction has gotten positive feedback so far and she hopes this enthusiasm means a return of the Flight of the Dragon next year.

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It isn’t for everyone, but it makes perfect sense for me. I’m smack in the middle of the boomer demographic, so downsizing would provide extra income for my future retirement.

I love gardening, my dog loves the garden and I’m emotionally attached to my East Van neighbourhood, specifically Wall

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I thought about my lifestyle and wrote a wish list. For instance, cooking is my passion and entertaining invariably revolves around the kitchen so I don’t need a living room. On the “must have” list was a mud room for dogs, bathroom with shower downstairs (for humans and canines) and a soaker bathtub and walk-in closet upstairs.

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New Westminster-based and globally soughtafter FAT Paint has been redesigning the chalk paint industry with its line, which is easy to work with in both application and end-appearance customization. (Their paints are renowned with DIYers for the ability to distress with ease, giving each project its own unique look.)

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Lie low Aries. The weeks ahead feature weariness, rest and quietude, contemplation and planning. (Indulge these, but don’t overdo, as deep rest, withdrawal, can be a trap.) Catch up with neglected chores and duties.

Interface with charities, spiritual groups, institutions and government agencies. You’ll be tempted – almost driven – until March 5, to dig further into mysterious areas, including sexual and financial ones – take care, impulsive investing (and sexuality) can be dangerous.

Work, daily health, dependents and service personnel fill the four weeks ahead, Libra. Don’t get bogged down in these. Don’t become a slave to your children, don’t let hands-on tasks drain your energy, don’t swallow bottles of vitamins. Instead, default to delegating chores, let your kids fend a bit for themselves, and eat sensibly, not fanatically. Avoid alcohol and recreational drugs.

Wishes can come true over the four weeks ahead, Taurus. But these (two should come true) will be fulfilled by the cosmos, not by you – in other words, if you isolate a wish and pursue it, it likely will not come true. Let yourself be surprised! (There’s actually method here: if you “half-perceive” a wish, or it hovers around the edge of your attention, it likely will come true; if you focus on it, grit your teeth, it will not come true.)

The weeks ahead bring romantic notions, love, creative surges, speculative ventures, beauty, pleasure, and charming kids. These can form a subtle trap, a trap even of your own making, woven from temptation and the kind of blindness con artists rely on. This advice holds until May 2017. But there’s another option, just as alive, and more rewarding: it’s really the other side of the coin: light, friendly romance, social joys rather than private pleasures, optimism instead of beauty.

The four weeks ahead emphasize your position in the world, Gemini. You’ll find out where you stand in the pecking order, and could climb a rung or two. Still, lighten up on the gas here, in career, prestige and ambition zones. Until May 2017, in career and in dealing with authorities, keep your head down and just do your job – changing careers, jobs or employers, or challenging authority, can lead you into a subtle trap.

Friends are fine, affectionate, but romance just ain’t working until March 5, so be patient. The emphasis over the weeks ahead lies on home, domesticity, kids, garden, nutrition, Mother Nature, hibernation (power naps) security, real estate and retirement plans. Give this area its due, without fully embracing it. Remember, until September your luck lies in the opposite direction: career, prestige, the outside world of ambition – and until May 2017 your good karma lies here also.

You have just entered 4 weeks of day-dreaming, profound thoughts, far travel or international awareness, higher education, intellectual, media and cultural pursuits, and love. The last, love, is almost “urgent” – your romantic fires are lit intensely until March 5 (and will be again all June/July). (For marrieds, these periods bring creative career/business ideas.)

The weeks ahead bring much busy work, but reduced consequences, so you can “relax in your busyness.” Errands, calls, emails, paperwork, details, casual acquaintances and siblings, short trips – these will fill the days. Normally this would be a good time to install new office, filing or computer systems, to start a major mail campaign, even to buy a new phone.

The weeks ahead feature secrets, research, large finances, physical intimacy, and the lifestyle changes that result from these. (E.g., medical research/ diagnosis reveals you have to stop eating burgers every day.) These changes, in most cases, will not be to your liking, if made now to May 2017 – yet the same period tempts you to dive into these zones, to have an extra-marital affair (you’ll call it love, but that’s no excuse – in fact it’s not even the truth.)

The four weeks ahead accent money, earnings, buying and selling, rote learning and memory, and sensual (but not romantic) attraction. Stay “light” in all these areas – maintain the status quo without increasing your efforts/commitment.

Any spare time or energy you have should be channeled toward investments, debt reduction, or research. Don’t seek light, non-committal sex; instead, go deep, profound.

Relationships, opportunities, relocation themes, fresh, new horizons, dealings with the public, possible fame (Bernie Sanders is a Virgo) – these fill the few weeks ahead. Listen, Virgo, now to mid-May 2017 relationships might seem disappointing, elusive, a dead-end, etc.

However, they won’t seem that way at first, and at first you’ll be powerfully tempted to dive in.

Be cautious. Overall, be independent, reject unsolicited advice.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness reach a yearly high this week and the next three, Pisces.

However, use this energy and magnetism to attract others or gain their acceptance – in order to join their cause or project. Now until mid-May 2017, the best thing you can do is to be interdependent, to relocate or chase opportunities, to seek marriage (or even a date) to approach others, to join. The worst thing you can do is be independent, to refuse advice and go your own way…right into a swamp.

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Kitsilano’s six-foot-five forward Howard Wang (No. 25) slashes through the key in the closing minutes of a 73-70 loss to the Churchill Bulldogs in the senior boys AAAA city championship Feb. 12.

PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

Windermere Warrior Mohit Owan (No. 13) looks for passing lanes past King George Dragon Yoel Teclehaimanot (No. 9) in the senior boys AA/AAA city championship Feb. 12.

PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

…As King George Churchill elbows back for third title… crowned for first time Lambert Pajayon named MVP KITSILANO BLUE DEMONS 70 CHURCHILL BULLDOGS 73 CHURCHILL SECONDARY — Don’t tell their fans they weren’t at home. The Blue Demons may as well have been playing for the AAAA senior boys basketball city championship at Kitsilano secondary given the numbers and intensity of their supporters, not to mention the fact their chants, drums and horns drowned out the host crowd.

The atmosphere was electric, but not charged enough to push Kitsilano to victory. The Churchill Bulldogs won their third consecutive city championship, their fourth straight appearance since 2013 when Kitsilano last hoisted the championship hardware and coveted blue banner.

“It was intense,” said Bulldog guard and tournament MVP Lambert Pajayon. “They played their best in the first quarter of

the game. They made a run but we just fought through.

It was a really tough game and it was so close the whole entire way. We just pulled through. We got a few lucky breaks in the end and we got the W.” To the pulse of “Kitsilano! Kitsilano!” the Blue Demons mounted a double-digit lead over the Bulldogs who were missing star forward Izaiah Ugoalah to a knee injury.

He may be back in time for provincials.

Churchill whittled down the difference during the rest of the game, counting on outside shooting from Harry Lui, inside pressure from Karn Virk and defensive plays from Leslie Ochieng. They took the lead for the first time in the third quarter as Matija Gabrillo hit a turn-around jumper to bring the Bulldogs within one, and then, after the Dogs’ defence forced a Kitsilano turnover, Pajayon scored on a fastbreak to lead 48-47.

MVP Yoel Teclehaimanot drops 39 points

The game was deadlocked at 60, 62 and again at 67, the last tie coming as Virk crashed into a crowded key and sent Alec Bayne sprawling to the ground with blood pouring from two cuts near his left eye. The basket counted, and Bayne was called for the block.

“He was driving to the hoop, and I think he got an elbow up,” said Bayne.

“The game was wild. Really good spirits with all the fans cheering. It felt like a home game, for sure, all the Kits fans came out and it was good to see.”

B.C.’s No. 2 ranked AAAA senior boys team wants to win a second provincial championship under coach Rick Lopez who is in his last year on the Bulldogs bench. The latest win, said Pajayon, is on track with that goal. “It gives us confidence going into Lower Mainlands. It’s going to be tough competition,” he said.

— Megan Stewart

AAAA regional tourney The senior boys AAAA Lower Mainland tournament began Tuesday at locations around the region.

Churchill holds the No. 1 Vancouver seed, followed by St. George’s and Kitsilano, then Killarney at No. 4, Van-

couver College at No. 5, and David Thompson at No. 7.

The quarterfinals run at 6:15 and 8 p.m. Feb. 24 and the third-place game is set for 4:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Richmond Oval. The AAAA Lower Mainland champi-

onship will be contested at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Richmond Oval.

The top three teams advance to the AAAA provincial championships in March at the Langley Events Centre.

KING GEORGE DRAGONS 77 WINDERMERE WARRIORS 69 CHURCHILL SECONDARY — King George forward Yoel Teclehaimanot put up 39 points to lead the Dragons to their first city championship title in a break-out performance that also nabbed the Grade 11 forward tournament MVP honours.

Playing the undefeated Windermere Warriors for the AA/AAA city banner, Teclehaimanot got hot in the second half and followed a 14-point output in the third quarter with a dozen more points in the fourth to lead the Dragons to a 77-69 victory for the first city title in King George’s 102-year history.

“I’m very, very proud, not just for this group,

AAA regional tourney

The senior boys AAA Lower Mainland tournament began Tuesday at locations around the region.

Windermere is the top Vancouver seed, at No. 4 behind Steveston-London, Byrne Creek and St. Thomas More. Lord Byng is seeded fifth and Gladstone eighth.

The quarterfinals run at 2:45 and 4:30 p.m. Feb. 24 and the third-place game is

but for our alumni, our teachers, my old coaches, school staff and everybody,” said coach Darko Kulic. “It is the first time we have ever won it at our school, so it means a lot.”

The AA Dragons led the AAA Warriors 35-33 at the half in a low-scoring contest for a Windermere side that averaged 82 points a game through the regular season.

“Definitely not our best shooting performance of the year,” said Warriors coach Cole Birnie. “They played good defence.

They hustled, they got after the ball and they hit their free-throws down the stretch and that really sealed it for them.”

In the third quarter, the Dragons’ six-foot-three Teclehaimanot kept sinking shots, and his teammates kept feeding him the ball. set for 2:45 p.m. Feb. 26. at the Richmond Oval. The AAA Lower Mainland championship is set for 6:15 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Richmond Oval.

The top four teams advance to the AAA B.C. Championships in March at the Langley Events Centre.

AA regional tourney

The senior boys AA Lower Mainland tournament begins next Monday

“I’ll be honest,” said Kulic, “I’ve coached a lot of great, great scores and I will say, every day, he still amazes me. I’m very pleased I have him on my side.”

“He’s an amazing player,” added Dragons guard Shayne Sweder, who contributed 19 points of his own. “We try to get him the ball as much as possible and once you hit him in his spots, he doesn’t miss.”

In the AA province-wide standings, King George bopped around the top 10, peaking at No. 5 in late January.

“We put everything on the line every game.

Every day I play with my brothers here. I love these guys, I will do anything on the court for them,” said Sweder.”

— Megan Stewart at the Richmond Oval. King George holds the No. 1 seed, followed by the St. Patrick’s Celtics. Notre Dame is No. 5, Britannia No. 6 and Templeton No. 7.

The semifinals are 6:15 and 8 p.m. Feb. 23 with the championship 8 p.m. Feb. 25.

The top two teams advance to the AA championships in March at the Langley Events Centre. If necessary, a playoff for the second berth is set for Feb. 26.

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Megan Stewart

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If you want to lose to a good team, tell them they’re beatable because they’re no longer the team they were last season.

This is how it’s been for the Windermere Warriors, an AAA team in Renfrew-Collingwood that burst onto the scene last year with point guard Ravi Basra, who has more talent per pound than almost anyone. After Basra graduated (and now starts for the Langara Falcons), the Warriors were written off. They answered their doubters convincingly: in the city league this year, they went 11-0 and were the No. 1 seed at the city championship last week.

“You give some kids from East Van some extra motivation by telling them that because their older cousin is gone, they can’t succeed,” said three-year coach Cole Birnie, a volunteer from the community.

“It’s a team effort. We share the ball. When we were winning our games through that stretch, we had five guys in double digits, spreading the floor and making shots and getting after it.”

Ranked outside the province’s AAA top-10 but recognized as an Honourable Mention all season, Windermere de-

The Windermere Warriors focus their attention on coach Cole Birnie during a timeout in the senior boys AA/AAA city championship at Churchill secondary Feb. 12. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

feated King George 82-64 in early February, handing the Dragons their only league loss of the season.

In a rematch in the city title match, King George prevailed.

Birnie joined the Warriors as a junior team coach three years ago when the core athletes were in Grade 10. He remembers his own formative years in Abbotsford with the W.J. Mouat Hawks.

“That age group is the first competitive year, whereas in Grades 9 and 8, it’s about having fun and getting engaged and keeping kids participating,” said Birnie. “At the senior level, it’s competition in the purest form because the majority of them won’t be going on to play anymore. It’s as

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competitive as it gets.

“The junior year [Grade 10] is the prep year for the next two at the senior level. It’s also the year when their bodies are hitting that maturity point so they can physically adapt and grow and get more athletic if you put them through the right training program.”

Windermere’s junior program was hanging by a thread and may have folded three years back if no one stepped forward.

Birnie heard about the need through friends in the Vancouver Police Department who played exhibition games with high schools.

“It is a very influential year for basketball,” he said. “I felt compelled to get out and do my thing.” @MHStewart

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NEVER BACK DOWN Hamber Griffin Donna Mae Malinay (No. 5) lobs a shot at the net in traffic against the McMath Wildcats at Carson Graham secondary school Feb. 15. The Griffins lost to B.C.’s No. 2 AAA senior girls basketball team in a Lower Mainland quarterfinal for the annual Crehan Cup. Against a team that dropped points from all angles and didn’t miss a free throw, Hamber head coach Jill Polukoshko said the Griffins dug deep to play through four quarters as the McMath Wildcats approached and surpassed 100 points.

“I am so proud of them. They did not give up the entire game,” she said. “I played everybody. This is a chance many will never see again to play the second-best ranked team in the province. They want to work hard and they never give up. This group of players is amazing. I feel lucky every time I go to practice or to a game.”

The Wildcats play the Churchill Bulldogs in a semi-final Thursday. The top three teams advance to the provincial championships, and the fourth-place finisher plays a wildcard game following the regional tournament. — Megan Stewart PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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That. That right there is not a headline I expected to write in my lifetime.

However, there you have it folks. There’s a record for the fastest motorized log in the world and that record is now held by a Canadian. True North strong and free! Never been more proud. *sniff* The vehicle in question, dubbed the Cedar Rocket, is a 240-year-old cedar tree, felled and mounted on the chassis of a Mazda RX-8.

Power comes from an electric engine attached directly to the rear differential, with a couple of electric turbofans added because they look kinda neat.

It’s pretty slow — the record stands at just 90 kilometres per hour top speed. Still, it’s a speed that is fast enough to be written into the history books, and it’s unlikely that anybody else is going to make the attempt.

The Cedar Rocket was conceived of by Brian Reid Sr., of Pioneer Log Homes of B.C. (“Aha,” you cry, “Now it makes sense!”). After doing some publicity work over the next year or so, it’ll be auctioned off with the proceeds going to benefit

Well, there’s another headline I didn’t expect.

Kia’s move upmarket continues apace, with a new small rear-drive sedan targeting buyers of the likes of the BMW 3 Series.

Rumoured to be called the CK, the coupe-styled sedan features the sharply angular look of current Kias, and will likely feature turbocharged power. With Hyundai moving the Genesis brand into the luxury sphere, Kia going sportier makes a great deal of sense (even if becoming a BMW battler is unexpected).

Having said that, current sporty Kias are more GT than corner carver — the Koreans have lots of work to do on getting electric power steering to work, for instance. It’ll always be good to see a new rear-drive option out there for driving enthusiasts, but history shows that even BMW’s German competition has struggled to wrest the sales title away from the 3.

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