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Carr predicts homeless count will increase by hundreds Mike Howell

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Sadly, next month will mark the seventh year the city will conduct an annual homeless count.

That’s six years of counting homeless people in a city where you can pick up a fixer-upper on the West Side for more than $2 million.

But that’s life, right?

Depends what your politics is, I guess.

But from what I’ve seen from my desk window — men with carts, tents pitched in the alley and sleeping nests of mouldy blankets — there will be reason for another count in 2017.

And another in 2018 and likely beyond.

That’s not cynicism, that’s reality.

As we learned in last year’s count, Mayor Gregor Robertson didn’t meet his goal of ending what he calls “street homelessness” by 2015. In fact, he wasn’t even close.

The city’s 2015 count recorded 488 people on the street and 1,258 living/surviving in some form of shelter,

The city’s seventh annual homeless count will be conducted over two days in March. Last year’s count revealed 1,746 people were without a home. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

for a total of 1,746 men and women without a permanent place to call home.

Apparently, it’s going to get worse.

I first heard housing advocate Jean Swanson give council that warning late last year. Now it’s Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr’s

turn. She’s drafted a motion that goes before council this week, predicting this year’s homeless count will eclipse 2015 numbers.

Carr knows this because: A) She topped the polls in the 2014 election.

B) She conducted her own count.

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$375 per month shelter rate and the loss of temporary housing, specifically the expiration of the city’s lease on the 157-unit former Quality Inn hotel.

She also points to the potential conversion of low-income hotels and other affordable housing in Chinatown, Strathcona and the rest of the Downtown Eastside. That hunch is based on the demand that will be created for shortterm stay accommodation associated with the eventual move of St. Paul’s Hospital from the West End to the False Creek Flats.

Despite the provincial government’s renovation of more than 20 low-income hotels, the construction of 13 social housing buildings, continued funding of shelters and monthly rent supplements given to low-income tenants, Carr doesn’t think Premier Christy Clark and friends are doing enough to end homelessness.

The feds could do a lot more, too, she said.

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Trudeau is responding favourably to the mayor’s pitch to have the feds contribute $500 million to build 3,500 units of housing on 20 city sites, that deal could take years.

Carr said the need is now.

So what’s her solution?

It involves the mayor writing another letter to Clark asking for help. Specifically, Carr said, more rent supplements are needed.

So is more data on children leaving care, people leaving prisons and hospitals with no fixed address. That information could help find housing for those people and keep them off the streets.

The big ask though, is nothing new really: Give the city enough cash to amplify the city’s efforts to “acquire, upgrade and build sufficient social and supportive housing to end the city’s growing homelessness crisis.”

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The city will spend $5 million over the next five years and could lose $400,000 per year in parking revenue to bring a much-promised public bike rental system to Vancouver this summer.

Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering services, used Tuesday’s city council meeting to announce the deal with CycleHop Corp. Canada Inc. to set up 150 stations with 1,500 bicycles.

“It’s been an eight-year journey,” said Dobrovolny, noting council first floated the idea for a bike rental system in 2008.

He said the agreement with CycleHop, which is based in Ottawa and operates the largest “smart bike” system in North America, was finalized Monday and will launch June 15.

The deal involves French company Smoove, which will supply the bicycles for rent in downtown and in an area bounded by Arbutus Street, 16th Avenue and Main Street.

“I’m doing a happy dance today,” said Vision Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal, who pushed for the system.

The locations of the bike stations haven’t been finalized but Dobrovolny said they will not be placed in front of stores that already rent bicycles to the public.

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parking meters, which will mean a loss in parking revenue. Staff’s initial research on implementing a bike rental system estimated the loss in revenue at $800,000 per year.

Dobrovolny told council that CycleHop has agreed to pay the city $400,000 per year to cover the loss of parking revenue. It will then be up to the city to absorb the rest of the loss, he said.

NPA Coun. George Affleck, who has long been concerned about the impact such a system would have on existing bike rental stores, asked Dobrovolny to reveal the extent of that loss.

“The actual amount of lost parking revenue is unknown at this point,” he said. “It could be zero to $400,000... but until we identify all the station locations, we won’t have a final count on how many meter spaces that are affected.”

The agreement with CycleHop comes three years after the city signed an agreement in April 2013 with Alta Bike Share of Portland to supply a bike rental system in Vancouver.

But that deal collapsed because Alta’s preferred supplier of bikes, PBSC Solutions, filed a notice of intention to seek protection under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act related to its Montreal bike share system and mounting debt.

Alta was then later acquired by another company in New York, which stalled the implementation of a system in Vancouver. The delays and business problems forced the city to scrap the deal last year.

The original agreement was to have Alta own, finance and operate the system and provide customer service.

Alta also had to secure

corporate sponsorship and donation contracts.

Affleck referred to the problems of that agreement in further questioning Dobrovolny about how the city would be protected against any loss, if a similar scenario were to unfold.

CycleHop is responsible for the “business risk” associated with the agreement, said Dobrovolny, noting the city has negotiated several “safeguards” to provide varying levels of security throughout the five years of the contract.

Affleck: “Does that include us taking over this company, if it goes bankrupt?”

Dobrovolny: “That’s an option that’s available, it’s not an obligation. There’s a number of what-ifs that we could do. It could be assigned to a different operator, the city could take it on, we could go back out to tender again.”

Added Dobrovolny: “I’d like finish by saying we have every expectation that it’s going to be very successful.

We plan for the worst and hope for the best.”

If successful, the bike system would expand west to Macdonald Street and east to Commercial Drive. The system will operate all year, 24 hours per day. Helmets will be provided with the bikes at no extra cost to the user.

The city was expected to hold a news conference Wednesday to reveal more information about how the system works and what it will cost to rent a bike. @Howellings

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The Vision Vancouver pipeline is complete.

What’s that, you say, they’re anti-pipeline?

That only counts for the one Kinder Morgan wants to twin. But the ruling civic party now has a figurative pipeline running from 12th and Cambie all the way to Parliament Hill, with a spur to the headquarters of the Liberal Party of Canada.

First went Brittney Kerr, the Earnscliffe lobbyist and Vision board member, in December to handle Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s B.C. desk. Then Vision digital strategist Diamond Isinger became a special assistant to International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland. Now Mayor Gregor Robertson’s press secretary Braeden Caley, the president of the federal Liberals’ B.C. wing, said he was going to work at HQ the week after he shot down the latest rumour that Robertson may be in line for a diplomatic post in Beijing.

Vision formed in 2004 as a splinter of the NDPallied COPE, but the mayor’s office acted as a Liberal satellite last fall.

The public saw the Sept.

10 images of Trudeau outside the civic engineering office, promising billions for transit building. But there was a lot more going on behind the scenes.

Two days before that photo op, chief of staff Mike Magee had one of several phone calls with Trudeau’s right-hand-man Gerald Butts after city hall’s Federal Election Strategy committee met. Yes, there was such a committee, but the Freedom of Information office was silent about

whether minutes or handwritten notes actually exist for Sept. 8 or Sept. 18. It said it had no records from Magee’s meetings throughout the fall with federal Liberal-allied spin doctors Don Guy and Don Millar, backroom veterans instrumental in Vision and B.C. Liberal election wins.

Robertson used visits to the United Nations in September and the White House in October to heighten his profile and take subtle jabs at the ruling Conservatives via foreign media. The day after Stephen Harper got the boot, Robertson’s agenda shows a phone call with newly elected Toronto Liberal MP Adam Vaughan. A formal call with Trudeau came Oct. 26.

Magee and Caley went to Ottawa for the Nov. 4 swearing-in ceremony and party. Two weeks later, Robertson was in the capital to meet cabinet ministers and prepare for his junket to the United Nations climate change summit in Paris. Robertson even hosted a reception at a joint called the Moscow Tea Room.

Magee’s post-Paris agenda shows he scored an invite to the Liberal Christmas party on Dec. 15 at the Belmont Bar, two days before the Dec. 17 “Selfie Summit.” Robertson welcomed Trudeau to city hall where they shook hands and posed for photos, but didn’t announce anything new.

They were mugging for the cameras again earlier this month. Robertson went to Ottawa with a not-yetapproved-by-city council offer of $250 million in civic land seeking $500 million in federal tax dollars to pay Vision-allied developers to build subsidized housing.

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That would be the manifestation of the corporate management team’s threehour Oct. 29 meeting to create a wish list for the next four years.

Documents that the FOI office did release show acting city manager

Sadhu Johnston gave senior bureaucrats a copy of the Liberal platform’s 101 promises. Highlighted in red were the 46 that fit with Vision, like subsidized housing, transit expansion and marijuana legalization.

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The second annual Dash for Dogs raised money for B.C. and Alberta Guide Dogs. The event was hosted by RunGo, an app created by Craig Slagel (left) who adopted yellow lab and retired guide dog Dynasty.

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Almost everybody at Saturday’s Dash for Dogs run at Stanley Park knew the story of Dynasty, a beautiful yellow Labrador retriever owned by a fellow by the name of Craig Slagel who started the fundraiser inspired by his dog, two years ago.

“Craig ended up with a guide dog that failed guide dog school, basically,” said race director Solana Klassen while organizing runners and sponsors prior to the run’s start.

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Dynasty’s owner uses a

completely different term: “She’s a career-changed dog,” said Slagel.

The press release for the fundraising run used the word “retired,” which might be a bit generous considering Dynasty didn’t graduate from guide dog school, an intensive two-year-long training process that starts at puppy age. There are 114 dogs teamed with those blind or visually impaired in B.C. and Alberta, and there are 70 dogs in training. All are bred and raised by the charity, and about 50 per cent of the dogs graduate as guide dogs. The majority of the others are placed with other programs, such as the Vancouver Island Compassion Dogs Society, which matches dogs with veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or with families who have

children with disabilities.

“We have jobs for many of our dogs,” said William Thornton, who started B.C. and Alberta Guide Dogs with his wife Linda 20 years ago. “We call them VSPs — Very Special Placements.”

There are also 34 dogs teamed up with moderate to profound autistic children between the ages of four to 10. The organization found these children bond to animals that provide calmness, stability and security.

“It opens up a whole different world to a child with autism,” said Cymet. “The dog anticipates the child’s insecurity and keeps them calm, keeps them relaxed.

You know there are a lot of children who have autism in the public school system who don’t have too many friends so it opens up a world of companionship.”

It costs the charity $35,000 for each dog to go through training, and dogs are provided to blind and visually impaired people at no cost. When Slagel had the rare opportunity to adopt a failed/non-qualified/career-changed/retired guide dog, he had the idea to create a phone app to assist runners and walkers with navigating routes — an electronic guide dog of sorts. Slagel’s friends, aware of his tendency to get lost when exploring new cities, jokingly wondered if Dynasty would help prevent that.

Slagel, a marathon runner, launched the turn-byturn voice navigation called RunGo that was used for routing Dash for Dogs instead of race markers.

The fun run is proving to be popular, judging by the

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Amongst the pugs, shepherds, greyhounds and crosses of this and that, the quintessential guide dog — the yellow lab — was also part of the run and received lots of attention from those who can’t resist the opportunity for a good pat and dog kiss. However, anywhere else, it is generally considered to be bad form to approach somebody’s guide dog.

“The idea is that when they’re working, we don’t

want them to be looking constantly for affection from third party unknown people. That’s the goal,” Thornton explained.

“When it’s in its harness, it’s sitting at its desk, working — that’s the best analogy…

They do have a lot of play time when they’re not at work. Today, we let people touch the dogs, kiss and cuddle, show and tell. It’s important dogs have physical interaction with people, it’s part of their psyche.”

Dynasty, the guide dog that wasn’t meant to be, also received much of this attention. On a side note: There’s also another, very natural, reason that Dynasty failed her guide dog training, according to race director Klassen. “She took a poop in the middle of a crosswalk!” @rebeccablissett

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Historic Wilmar Residence may be preserved Naoibh O’Connor

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It’s been vacant for a decade. A proposal to preserve it fell through more than two years ago.

But Vancouver’s historic Wilmar residence may yet be saved from the wrecking ball.

Developer James Evans has come up with a new heritage revitalization proposal that would see the estate’s house and coach house restored and five infill buildings added to the almost twoacre lot at 2050 Southwest Marine Dr. The 9,000-square-foot main house would be divided into two units, while the coach house, which is a three-car garage with space above it, would be rehabilitated with the space above turned into amenity space for the residents.

Such a redevelopment would be a first for one of the large estates along Marine Drive.

Evans, who was involved with the earlier proposal, is optimistic his revised plan will be approved.

The City of Vancouver’s communication department told the Courier in an email that the city is “pleased” the owner is pursuing retention and rehabilitation, although

the city can’t discuss details since the application hasn’t been officially submitted yet.

Built in 1925, the Tudor-style Wilmar residence has heritage B status, meaning it’s registered but not designated, so it could be knocked down.

It’s considered one of the great estate properties on Southwest Marine Drive and in Vancouver. The fivebedroom home landed on Heritage Vancouver’s 2012 endangered sites list. The organization considers it valuable because of its architecture, history and historical associations.

“Wilmar” combines the names of Willard and Mary Kitchen. The Kitchen family and its descendants occupied the house until 2006 when Judith Jardine, the last living family member died. The estate was eventually sold to Evans and his business partners for $7.5 million.

While the fundamentals of the house are in good shape, and the outside has been well looked after, the inside is largely the same as it was when it was built in 1925.

The rehabilitation effort will include ensuring Wilmar meets the requirements of the modern building code.

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Opinion JESSICA BARRETT COLUMNIST

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Lack of options compounds city’s housing crisis

The reality of our housing market means we are getting creative, making concessions and doing some shrewd calculations to determine our priorities and trade-offs. It would be nice if our governments and financial institutions would help us along the way.

Instead of envisioning my future self owning a single-family home, I fantasized about getting together with friends and converting an old house or a 1970s-era walk-up apartment building into wellthought-out units that would allow us to enjoy our private lives and allow access to what, for me, is the most important part of the equation — a yard.

I’m a gardener, so giving up a little patch of land in which to plant vegetables and enjoy a cup of coffee on a sunny summer morning is not a concession I’m willing to make long term. It’s something I’ve learned about myself over more than a decade of living in almost every manner of shared accommodation. I need a bit

of yard more than I need my name on a property deed. For that reason, I’d never take on the financial strain of a mortgage and strata fees for the kind of generic, skybound condos the powers that be seem to have decided are the only viable option for dense city living and, apparently, the only solution to our housing crisis worthy of consideration.

Condos don’t have to be this city’s only saving grace, of course, but looking around you wouldn’t know that. We are starved for options in this city. You have your single-family homes, increasingly available only to millionaires, and your glass towers of one and two-bedroom condos where we are told young people should be able to start families or otherwise put down roots. The obvious problem being that families grow while condos do not and Vancouver conspicuously lacks several rungs along the property ladder that would allow for more young people to stay here as they move through the natural and normal phases of life.

It’s the lack of options, as much as the actual cost of housing, which is compounding our crisis. Given this, it would have been opportune for the provincial government to offer some support for a breadth of housing options in last week’s provincial budget, including for those who are content to rent. Many people in Vancouver have let go of the idea of private home ownership as a life goal altogether. Our institutions, however, are slow to catch up.

For example, the increase in the property tax exemption promised by the province last week simply encourages more people to get into an oversaturated market while doing nothing to increase the supply of what is truly in demand. From where I’m standing, a bigger issue in the housing crisis than whether to rent or own, is what’s available to rent or own.

All around, I see my contemporaries willing to make serious concessions on ownership, on space, on commute times, in order to find someplace that feels like home.

Often the must-haves are much more modest than our roiling housing debate would make it seem: a patch of grass, a place that takes pets, or a spot to keep tools and tinker in a shed — even shared. For some, owning a 600-square-foot condo will be a great achievement and offer considerable stability and satisfaction. Good for them. But for many others, namely families or just people with a different set of priorities, the same goal could be achieved in finding a row house or townhouse to rent or buy, securing a suite in a collaboratively owned and subdivided house, finding a spot in a refurbished rental building with a communal outdoor space, entering into a co-housing development or a co-op. None of these options seem to get any consideration or clout at the level of senior govern-

ment or most financial institutions.

For people on the ground however, these options are getting more enticing every day.

I see people taking matters into their own hands, creating de-facto co-ops by renting houses with five or six adults and dealing with the hurdles inherent in our outdated bureaucracies — such as the fact that few financial institutions have mechanisms for co-operative or collective mortgages, and virtually none offer tenants insurance for dwellings with more three unrelated adults.

The reality of our housing market means we are getting creative, making concessions and doing some shrewd calculations to determine our priorities and trade-offs. It would be nice if our governments and financial institutions would help us along the way. Increasingly, we realize traditional home ownership is no longer the norm. It’s time our influential institutions followed suit. @jm_barrett

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have a little saying: I don’t need a house, just part of one. And I don’t necessarily need to own it — at least not all by myself.

I adopted this motto a long time ago, back when my student budget made buying in Vancouver — or anywhere for that matter — seem like an impossible dream.

(Little did I know it would remain so more than a decade later, but I digress.)

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Inbox letters@vancourier.com LETTERS

Cautious expectation for Jericho Lands Re: “First Nations announce intention to buy provincial Jericho Lands,” Feb. 12.

1. We are encouraged that the province has confirmed a unified planning process for the combined lands and look forward to collaborating with First Nations and other stakeholders in planning the future shape of Jericho as an integral part of the local community.

2. We are concerned that a final sales agreement based on land value appraisals could effectively “price in” expectations regarding scale and density of development before community consultation and planning has so much as begun.

3. The WPG Community Vision adopted by Vancouver city council in 2010, makes clear that “the outcome of a Jericho Lands planning process should be a plan for the site developed in consultation with the WPG community” and that “there should be early feedback to city council on the interests and concerns of the WPG community before any key decisions are made.”

4. Consequently, our expectation is that no key decisions are being made (or assurances given) in regard to potential rezoning, and presume that any land value appraisals presently under consideration are based roughly on existing zoning or appropriately cautious expectations.

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Uber more concerned with profit than public’s interest Re: “Uber CEO says Vancouver has ‘rules that need to bend.’” Feb. 18.

I have watched with concern as motor carrier regulators in other cities have fallen to their knees before Uber. I wonder what the next highly regulated industry will be to fall to a big, foreign, for-profit private corporation that shows up and decides it doesn’t have to follow the rules and regulations that local players always have.

Forestry? Health care? Education? Financial services?

A big foreign private corporation that believes itself to be above regulations rarely has the public interest on its radar.

Gavin Grandish, Vancouver

VSB Engagement THE FUTURE OF OUR FACILITIES

No sympathy for Maserati owner Re: “Impounded Maserati leads to VPD complaint,” Feb. 10.

I had to laugh at the opinion expressed by the owner of the Maserati which became impounded.

He was concerned for the safety of his children who had to walk in 13 degree weather along a busy road. I am wondering what thoughts of safety went through his head as he raced down Marine Drive at 100km an hour!

The action he is taking to Human Rights is also a joke as this has nothing to do with a violation of human rights and everything to do with a violation of public safety.

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ONLINE COMMENTS

Demolitions destroy history Re: “Almost 1,000 homes per year slated for demolition in Vancouver,” Feb. 12.

Lovely houses — so much value and history. Christmas. Birthdays. Lives lived. Knocked down in a day. For speculators @PaulDoroshenko via Twitter

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311’s success warranted Re: “311 usage signals strong community engagement,” Feb. 17.

Good article. The success of the 311 service demonstrates that citizens will speak to City Hall when it is easy to do so. Good analysis of the resulting data can point the City to weaknesses in its administration.

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Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe.” The frizzy-haired physicist never said this, actually. But

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In a recent clip doing the rounds on Facebook, a series of students at Texas Tech in Lubbock are stumped by simple historical questions,

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They do just as poorly when asked to identify their country’s vice president and which country they “won their indepen-

dence from.” In contrast, all the same students answer correctly to the skill-testing questions, “What show is Snooki on?” and “Who is Brad Pitt married to?”

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How else to explain the popularity of the fear-mongering, fact-free blowhard, Donald Trump? the rejection of a solar panel farm by the town of Woodland, Calif.

During the public comment period at a Woodland town meeting, retired science teacher Jane Mann expressed concern that the solar panels would interfere with the sunlight required for plant photosynthesis.

“She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer,” according to a story in the RoanokeChowan News Herald.

Ms. Mann’s husband insisted “that the solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not come to Woodland.” The council, perhaps tone-deaf to any voices of reason present at the meeting, voted for a moratorium on future solar farms.

What I fear is that Americans capable of critical thinking are now outliers on the bell curve, not the retired Woodland science teacher and her husband.

A persistent culture of anti-intellectualism, braced by a shoddy public education system and buttressed by bread-andcircuses media, is producing Americans functionally illiterate at democratic participation. How else to explain the popularity of the fear-mongering, factfree blowhard, Donald Trump?

In one of his final, incendiary performances, comic George Carlin observed that “the real owners” of America “don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.”

“You know what they want?” Carlin continued.

“They want obedient workers... people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly s****y jobs with the lower pay, the longer

hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it…”

This sounds like a cynical echo of one of the architects of the U.S. public education system, Frederick T. Gates.

“In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply,” Gates wrote in 1913.

Gates forgot to mention scientists. The recent discovery of gravitational waves, based on detection of a faint signal from the collision of black holes billions of light years away, is astounding confirmation of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The discovery was the result of a global scientific effort, with more than 1,000 signatories to the paper, including physicists from the United States (proof that brilliance persists south of the border).

“The important thing is not to stop questioning….

It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity... don’t stop to marvel,” Einstein told Life magazine in 1955.

Good advice, Al. Just about every day I marvel that a large swath of the U.S. electorate imagines their political salvation in a clownish tycoon with a candy floss hairdo.

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Developer James Evans has come up with a revised heritage revitalization proposal that could save Southwest Marine Drive’s historic Wilmar residence.

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City ‘pleased’ owner pursuing retention Continued from page 9 “But there’s a history attached to the house with prominent families back in the day. And, it happens to be an excellent example of a house that’s largely unchanged from when it was built.

It’s worthy of keeping.

So, some of it’s personal interest and, like I’ve said, I think now I’ve actually got a project form that the city’s prepared to support and that is viable.”

Evans is well versed in heritage restoration. He was behind the Jeffs Residence rehabilitation project at 1298 Salsbury Dr. in Grandview-Woodland.

That saw the restoration and retention of a Queen Anne Revival-style home with 13 infill townhomes added to the property.

“My objective with that was to try to save the home and try to add what I call stealth density into an area that would obviously support it,” he said. “Because there’s a couple of ways you can create density — one is you build high rises all over the place, which we seem to do in abundance in Vancouver. The other one is you try to intelligently densify within existing neighbourhoods without changing the fabric of what the neighbourhood is.”

Evans hopes to replicate that concept through another heritage revitalization proposal he’s involved in that aims to save the Brookhouse Residence, a landmark home

in Grandview-Woodland at 1872 Parker St. The home was built in the Queen Anne Revival style, with a corner turret, in 1909 and named for printer and editor Arthur A. Brookhouse, who owned it and lived in it with his family from 1927 until his death in 1947.

If the proposal is approved, the house will be rehabilitated and divided into six strata units, while four infill townhomes would be built along the rear lane.

A January open house attracted about 50 people. It was generally well received, according to city staff, but the application is still under review and a public hearing date has not been scheduled.

If Evans gets the green light on the Wilmar and the Brookhouse project, he hopes to start construction on both properties this summer. Asked if he’s worried the Wilmar project will be derailed once again, Evans said: “That’s the $64,000 question. Will it be derailed?

Well, I guess anything can happen. As I say, there are still some form-ofdevelopment and planning issues that I’m working through with [the] planning [department] right now that are fairly minor in nature, but ultimately, it’s council’s decision and they can bless it or they can say no. And if they say no, that’ll be the end of it.” @naoibh

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OPEN HOUSE: Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 4:30 - 7:30 pm Creekside Community Recreation Centre 1 Athletes Way, Multi-purpose Room 2 Note: This open house and planning program will focus on the new St. Paul’s site only. The current St. Paul’s site on Burrard Street will be discussed through a future planning process.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON POLICY PLANNING: vancouver.ca/newstpauls newstpauls@vancouver.ca or phone 3-1-1 FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HEALTH PROGRAMS AND SERVICES: Providence Health Care is concurrently developing a clinical plan to guide the programs and services that will be established at the new St. Paul’s health campus.

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Volunteers Needed for Civic Agencies and Committees The City of Vancouver is seeking volunteers from the general public for positions on the following civic agencies and committees: • Children, Youth and Families Advisory Committee • Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee • Election Task Force • First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel • Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee • Seniors’ Advisory Committee • Vancouver Heritage Foundation Board • Women’s Advisory Committee

The detailed descriptions of the terms of reference, eligibility requirements and time commitment, as well as the online application and instructions, are available at vancouver.ca/volunteer.

You must complete an online application form to apply.

The deadline to submit an application is 5 pm on Friday, March 18, 2016.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: civicagenciesinfo@vancouver.ca or phone 3-1-1

Public Hearing: March 8 Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning, subdivision, and heritage amendments for these locations:

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1. 2088 Charles Street (Carlsen Residence)

To add the existing building at 2088 Charles Street, known as the Carlsen Residence, to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘B’ evaluation category, designate its exterior as protected heritage property, and approve a Heritage Revitalization Agreement (HRA) for the site. The application proposes variances to the Zoning and Development By-law and the Subdivision By-law, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE419160, to subdivide the site to create a new parcel at the rear and construct a new One-Family Dwelling.

2. 22 East 5th Avenue

(Cemco Electrical Manufacturing Company Factory) To add the existing building at 22 East 5th Avenue, known as the Cemco Electrical Manufacturing Company Factory, to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, designate its exterior north and west facades as protected heritage property, and construct a new industrial, manufacturing, and office building on the site. A Heritage Revitalization Agreement is proposed which varies the Zoning and Development By-law, including density, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE419206.

3. Amendments to Zoning and Development By-law

Regarding Urban Farming To introduce definitions and regulations to the Zoning and Development By-law for Urban Farm-Class A and Urban Farm-Class B; add Urban Farm-Class A as a permitted use in all residential districts except RA-1; and add Urban Farm-Class B as a permitted use in various commercial and industrial districts citywide.

The changes will help legitimize urban farming and will contribute to achieving Greenest City, Healthy City, Vancouver Economic Action Plan and Food Strategy goals, including supporting the local green economy, creating green jobs, increasing food access, and shortening food supply chains.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on February 26 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting February 26 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting).

For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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How an iconic Kingsway motel became More than 1,100 Syrian refugees expected to arrive in Vancouver over next 10 days

The Arafas are among 27 Syrian families either living in the bungalows at the iconic 2400 Court Motel on Kingsway, or residing in seven apartments across the street. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

IN FOCUS Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Enrolling his children in school, finding a permanent place to live, learning English and getting a job — all of it will eventually come together for Mansour Arafa and his family.

He’s confident of that.

But last Monday, as he sat in the living room of a roadside motel on Kingsway, he was simply relieved to have found peace for his wife Ghada and six children, aged 20 months to 17 years old.

“My kids were terrified and used to hide in closets,” said Arafa of his family’s life in Homs, the western Syrian city largely reduced to rubble in the country’s ongoing civil war. “Now, they are able to sleep. I’m not worried about them. They have smiles all the time.”

Arafa and his family are refugees. They were in Vancouver for 10 days

when the 43-year-old chef spoke to the Courier, via an Arabic translator. The family first landed in Toronto, where they stayed briefly after arriving from Jordan in January.

On the morning of the Courier’s visit, most of the Arafa family had just finished breakfast. Three of the youngest children were watching cartoons.

Two others were still asleep, while one of the teenagers quietly lingered on the edge of the living room, curious about the visitors.

The peace that has come to the family is more pronounced than imagined when they peer outside the windows of their motel room: Everywhere they look, Syrian refugees are sharing in the good fortune of their new home, Canada.

“For now, it is good for the kids to be with other Syrian kids,” said Arafa, as he held one of his daughters on his lap. “But this is temporary. They will soon go to school and meet new

friends. This is important for our new life.”

The Arafa family is among 27 Syrian families either living in the bungalows at the iconic 2400 Court Motel on Kingsway, or residing in seven apartments across the street. Although both sites serve as temporary housing, the refugees’ presence has turned the strip of Kingsway into a small, Syrian community of more than 200 people.

In the courtyard of the motel, children run freely across the asphalt while men in winter coats huddle under a roof of one of the bungalows to avoid the rain. They smoke cigarettes, sip coffee and discuss their next moves.

Some families will find permanent housing this month, likely in Surrey, Coquitlam or Burnaby, the most popular destinations in Metro Vancouver for the refugees.

The larger the family, the more time it takes to find housing, with an 11-mem-

ber family staying 37 days at the motel before moving to a farm in Maple Ridge.

Remarkably — but not surprisingly, given Vancouver’s affordability crunch — only two Syrian families of the 1,071 government-assisted refugees who arrived in B.C. since December have settled in the city.

Arafa has no preference of where he wants to live, having only been in Canada for a total of 20 days. He has heard it might take up to three weeks before he learns his new address.

“We are happy to be in Canada, we are happy not to be in a place where everyday our life just stopped,” he said, noting his family is the first among his relatives to live in Canada.

Record number of Syrian refugees expected this week

Overseeing the challenge of matching the Arafa family and others with permanent housing is the Immigrant Services Society of

B.C., which is the refugees’ first point of contact.

That challenge is about to become even greater this week, with more than 1,100 Syrian government-assisted refugees expected to land at Vancouver International Airport over 10 days.

Chris Friesen, the society’s director of settlement services, said the influx will be the largest number of government-assisted refugees to arrive in B.C. in the shortest period of time in history.

“We’re madly working with other communities throughout British Columbia to destine at least 500 of the refugees outside of Metro Vancouver,” said Friesen, noting 240 will settle in Victoria, 166 in Abbotsford and 30 in Nanaimo. Prince George and Vernon will also be destinations for the refugees. “We’ve got 14 fulltime people and countless volunteers working on this.

It’s a massive operation.”

While newcomers such

as Arafa and his family wait for permanent housing, they are given a monthly allowance for shelter and food, escorted to health clinics for check-ups, assisted with opening a bank account and introduced to a variety of services, including English language training.

The 2400 Motel is one of nine temporary housing sites in Metro Vancouver for Syrian refugees. It also has the most tenants, with Vancouver’s Sandman, Marriott, Century Plaza and Landis hotels, the Pendrell apartments and the society’s “Welcome House” on Drake Street providing housing for another 300 people.

Word has gotten out in the community about the Syrians living on the strip of Kingsway. Two weeks ago, a group of students from Charles Tupper secondary school delivered school supplies, toiletries, clothing and grocery store gift cards to some of the Syrian children at the motel.

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a temporary Syrian community

Left photo: Interpreter Mohammed Alsaleh (right) spent 120 days in a Syrian prison, where he was tortured for speaking out against the government. He is now a resettlement counsellor with Immigrant Services Society of B.C. Right photo: The 2400 Court Motel is one of nine temporary housing sites in Metro Vancouver for Syrian refugees. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Teachers Jasmine Nann and Sally Ringdahl arranged the visit after students in Nann’s Grade 8 humanities class and Ringdahl’s literacy program wanted to do something for the Syrians.

“I think my students really expected the youth to be really sad because they’ve been through so much, which we all know,” Nann said. “But they were smiling and happy and really eager to get back to school. They just so desperately want to be where our kids are — in school, learning. Their questions were all about school, how do we get in, what does it look like.”

Last month, Collingwood Neighbourhood House turned its regular Monday night “all-nations” dinner into a Syrian dinner, which featured Syrian-style chicken, tabouli salad, rice and coconut cake for dessert.

More than 100 refugees from the motel attended, including dozens of children who were led in song (“...the wheels on the bus go round and round”) by library workers and given access to a computer room. Many received their first English books courtesy of non-profit society Books for Me. Jennifer Gray-Grant, the neighbourhood house’s executive director, told the Courier on the night of the dinner that she and her

staff wanted to do something to make the refugees feel welcome.

Gray-Grant pointed to a study the Vancouver Foundation conducted a few years ago where respondents’ number one concern about living in Metro Vancouver was being isolated and cut off from community.

“That’s why we exist — to blast out that sense of loneliness,” she said in an interview from her office.

“We want to give people a sense of belonging. And that includes friendships, that includes a place to go where people know your name and a place to go where you feel you have something to contribute.”

In the kitchen, that friendship was on display as the neighbourhood house’s chef, Najia Elacel, worked with one of the Syrian men to prepare dinner.

Other volunteers in the kitchen were originally from Somalia, Sudan and China, all working with two First Nations people, one of whom opened the dinner with a welcoming prayer.

“This is a second heaven for us,” Raid Abazeed told the Courier after dinner.

He, his wife and threemonth-old daughter were residing at the 2400 Motel but have since moved to a basement suite in Surrey.

Daily shelling of Homs

The appreciation shown

by Abazeed, by Arafa and other families at the 2400 Motel dominated all conversations the Courier had with Syrian refugees.

But what was also made clear is they didn’t come to Canada to become a burden on the country.

They left behind a life in Syria where they once worked and where their children went to school.

“Syrians are ambitious people,” Arafa said. “We have a lot of skills and we are hard workers. We want to get settled and education is a very key thing for us. I will get a job and integrate into the Canadian community and become Canadian. I now have opportunity.”

All opportunity was lost for him in Syria, where he recalled the daily shelling of his city, being detained and harassed by the military and women being raped.

Arafa fled in October 2011 to Jordan to secure housing for his family, who joined him a short time later. The family lived in Jordan until they received word from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that it had a spot for them in Canada.

“From when I was 16 or 17 years old, I heard that Canada was one of the most beautiful countries in the world,” he said. “I have now seen that with my own eyes.”

His home country,

though, is not one he wanted to leave. But as his wife said, “We had no other choice.” Mansour elaborated, saying, “We were forced to leave because of the brutal and barbaric regime of [Syrian president Bashar al] Assad who is a number one blood sucker — a vampire.”

120 days in prison

The young man translating the Arafa couple’s words was 26-year-old Mohammed Alsaleh, also a Syrian refugee.

He arrived in Vancouver 15 months ago and knows too well the anger Mansour feels when he uses such language to describe the Assad regime.

Alsaleh said he spent 120 days in prison, where he was tortured for speaking out against the government. He attended protests and was active on social media when he was arrested.

“I was punished,” he said. “They knew I didn’t do anything, that I committed no crime or broke any law. But that’s the way they deal with their own citizens.”

He was eventually released and fled to Lebanon, where he stayed with relatives before being accepted as a government-assisted refugee in Canada.

Alsaleh now lives in a $540-per-month room in a basement suite in New

Westminster. Since arriving in Vancouver, he has made the best of his opportunity, having recently been hired as a resettlement counsellor with Immigrant Services Society of B.C. He also obtained a diploma from the health care assistant program at Drake Medox College in Vancouver. Some day, he said, he hopes to work in a hospital.

The highlight, though, of Alsaleh’s short time in Vancouver was meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose government promised during the election campaign to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by early March.

Alsaleh learned the prime minister would be taping a television program in Vancouver in December. So he went and became a member of the audience. He posed Trudeau a question: How could he get the rest of his family to Canada, if they had not been referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees? That question didn’t get a direct answer but led to a conversation after the television taping.

“That was a dream come true to meet him,” said Alsaleh, noting Trudeau told him of Canada’s historical commitment to welcoming refugees, whether they be assisted by the government or sponsored by private groups.

Alsaleh is now working with friends, who launched a crowd funding drive to privately sponsor some of his family to settle in Vancouver. They could be here by the summer.

“When I left Syria, I felt like I lost my home country. But after being here for more than a year, I feel this country of Canada has given me something priceless — a place to call home.”

He added: “Canada has healed my wounds. This is how Canada is awesome.”

Hospital visit

The Arafa family, meanwhile, has another story to tell.

Actually, Ghada tells it.

During the last 10 days at the motel, her 20-month-old daughter, Celeen, fell ill. She didn’t go into detail about the illness, but it was worrisome enough to call 911.

Paramedics arrived and took both daughter and mother to the hospital.

It was an anxious time for the family — a new country and already an emergency.

In the end, the outcome only emphasized to Ghada and the family they made the right choice to come to Canada.

“The service was so good, the health care was so good and the medicine cured her,” she said, smiling and nodding her head in appreciation. @Howellings

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Oakridge Lutheran Church redevelopment proposal includes affordable housing Catalyst Community Developments Society helps churches and other groups leverage real estate for social change Pat Johnson

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Most of Vancouver’s churches were built decades ago. They sit on often large chunks of land now worth up to millions of dollars. Meanwhile, church attendance in most denominations has fallen in the intervening years and many churches are underutilized.

Even if congregations have remained large and vital, the buildings may not be accessible to the disabled and church buildings also tend to be poorly maintained.

As single-family homes are being demolished to accommodate multi-family or multiple-use buildings, so too are churches realizing that it is in their best interests to densify.

This is not entirely new, but it seems to be more common than ever. In fact, a nonprofit development company exists to guide them through the process and innovative financial institutions are sometimes encouraging churches to think of ways to maximize the impact of their holdings.

Catalyst Community Developments Society is a “nonprofit real estate developer,” says president Robert Brown, “which many may think is an oxymoron.”

A non-profit developer works with groups — not just churches, but other charitable and non-profit groups with land holdings — to leverage their real estate for social change.

The idea, Brown says, is to provide benefits for the non-profit and also for the

Catalyst Community Developments Society is working with Oakridge Lutheran Church on a redevelopment proposal. Society president Robert Brown says the non-profit real estate developer works with groups — not just churches but other charitable and non-profit groups with land holdings — to leverage their real estate for social change. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

community at large.

“Our focus is affordable rental housing and also affordable program space for community groups,” he says.

Many churches have services and other programs throughout the week and lend or rent space to other groups. Still, it has always struck me that churches are among the most underutilized spaces in the city.

Some churches are recognizing their space could be more effectively used.

Oakridge Lutheran Church is one of many examples of churches undertaking imaginative steps to give their congregation a new lease on life while doing good for the community.

The church, just west

of Cambie on West 41st, directly across from Oakridge Shopping Centre, is into its sixth decade. It’s a pleasantlooking building, with stone facia reflecting the Icelandic origins of those who built it. But while it is sitting on a sweet piece of real estate, it is inaccessible to the disabled and elderly and is in need of substantial upgrades.

About three years ago, the congregation started assessing its options, says Pastor Dorothy Chu. “It’s become a congregation that mainly are elderly people,” she says. “We are lacking the younger generation.” In addition to the structural and accessibility issues, the congregation concluded it could have

more impact on its community by leveraging its superb location with better facilities and by providing something the city desperately needs: affordable housing.

The church is by no means giving up its core mission, says Chu. With a new building, they hope to expand their outreach to potential new congregants. But they also hope to do God’s work in very tangible ways.

“If we can provide more services to the community, what can we do?” was the question congregants asked themselves. “We decided perhaps affordable housing is most appropriate on this location. I think gradually we decided to come to that point.”

It was through Vancity Credit Union that Oakridge Lutheran made contact with Catalyst.

Together, they developed a vision for the project, and Catalyst is now shepherding it through the city’s approval process.

The plan is to build six levels, with retail space at street level. The second level, with its own entrance off Ash Street, would be the church’s sanctuary and multipurpose community space. Atop this would be four more stories accommodating 46 units of housing intended to be offered at below market rates.

The ownership structure is what makes the whole undertaking financially ideal for everyone involved.

The church will fully own its fresh new space with no cash outlay. The church and Catalyst divvy up the rental units, generating income in perpetuity. The retail space would be owned mutually with the income divided between them.

The church gets a brand new space, constant and presumably not insignificant income, the community gets 46 units of below-market housing and a central space available for events and programs.

Oakridge Lutheran is not a heritage building, but neither is it hard on the eyes. Could the pleasant old stone façade be incorporated into the new plan, I ask.

“The big challenge is that a lot of the buildings are actually in quite poor condition and kind of arguably

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are at the end of their useful life,” says Brown. Probably more significantly, churches are often plunked right in the middle of a large piece of land, making it difficult to incorporate into a new plan so, like so many other nice looking but inconvenient structures in town, this one will likely see the bulldozer.

Although Vancouver is a notoriously perverse real estate market, this sort of partnership is becoming more common across Canada, Brown says.

“Everyone’s trying to solve the same problems,” he says, from churches needing to confront the renovation or replacement of their buildings to communities seeking more affordable housing, which means more efficient use of land.

Although Brown has been in the Vancouver real estate and development industry for years, Catalyst is only a couple of years old. At first, he wondered if the options open to his organization might be finite.

“I think, when we started Catalyst, we thought we might be limited by the opportunities but in fact that’s just not the case,” he says. “There’s just so much potential and as churches become more aware of what their options are, then and the idea of being able to get a new facility, retain ownership in something more than just a church and being able to generate a revenue stream, I think there’s going to be just more and more interest in it.” @Pat604Johnson

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Feb. 25 to March 2, 2016 1. Choreographer Crystal Pite (Kidd Pivot) teams up with and writer/performer Jonathon Young (Electric Company Theatre) for the highly anticipated Betroffenheit. Billed as “a complex, passionate performance that draws on theatre and dance to explore themes of trauma and dislocation,” the sold-out show runs Feb. 25 to 27 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Details at dancehouse.ca.

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2. Local rock, punk and roots musicians, including Pill Squad, China Syndrome, Nervous Talk, Shiloh Lindsey, Sexy Decoy, Space Junk and I, Braineater, pay tribute to David Bowie with a night of inspired covers Feb. 26 at the Rickshaw.

Tickets at Highlife, Neptoon, Zulu, Red Cat at ticketfly.com. Proceeds go to the Canadian Cancer Society and Keep a Child Alive.

3. Presented by Dancers of Damelahamid in partnership with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival is a weeklong celebration of the stories, songs and dances of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast March 1 to 6. Performers include smoke dancer Tesha Emarthle and James Jones, a celebrated Edmonton-based contemporary hoop dancer and hip hop performer who regularly tours with A Tribe Called Red. For more information, got to damelahamid.ca.

4. The Vancouver International Dance Festival leaps across local stages Feb. 28 to March 19 with performers from Sweden, Cuba, Japan, Quebec, Ontario and Vancouver, including street dance collective Project Soul. Details at vidf.ca.

5. Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha and Shaun Stewart, a.k.a. The Gentelmen Hecklers, apply their live comedic commentary to the 1989 ass-kicking, mullet-friendly, Patrick Swayze-asa-bouncer vehicle Roadhouse, Feb. 27, 9:30 p.m. at Vancity Theatre. It’s part of the Just For Laughs Northwest Comedy Festival. Details at jflnorthwest.com.

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How many parents tell their kids, “You can be anything you want”? Then comes the reality check for a lot of them after post-secondary education: McDonald’s, Yellow Cabs, waiting tables if you’re lucky, unemployment if you’re not. The “youcan-be-anything-you-want” speech should come with caveats: It will take time. You will have to start at the bottom. It’s a highly competitive world out there; it’s going to take hard work.

In Bright Blue Future, Sean Harris Oliver’s first play, young Josh (Curtis Tweedie) envisions his future in “Bright, bright neon lights.”

He wants to “be someone.”

Josh is studying economics with a minor in philosophy at the University of Victoria so there’s definitely potential there. But Josh is uncertain about his sexuality and when he bumps into Arianna (Genevieve Fleming), Alexandra (Rachel Cairns) and Carston (Dmitry Chepovetsky) at a club, everything goes sideways.

It has already taken a turn for the worse for Arianna who has spent the tuition money

her parents sent her on drugs; she’s dropped out of school and has been supporting the drug habit of her gay partner Alexandra, recently sprung from jail on drug and other charges. Alex has been clean for a short while until Carston, an old friend of Arianna’s, turns up and they all go out to a club where they meet Josh. They bring him home, get wasted and that bright blue future goes down the drain like so much bright blue toilet bowl cleanser.

Bright Blue Future is not for the faint of heart. The language is rough. The lifestyle is rougher. The opening scene some might find funny with Carston and Arianna, totally high, cavorting around her living room before Alex and Josh arrive loaded with goodies, including a bottle of scotch and a bottle of vodka. Party on!

Personally, I find scenes like this about as funny as some might find feeding a dog dope and watching it fall over. But it doesn’t take long for the penny to drop: Bright Blue Future is not funny.

The point of all this is that while all young people have a difficult time finding their way, those marginalized by their sexual preferences find it even tougher. Some lose the

parental support so critical to getting them through hard times. Some suffer crushing insecurity and lack of self-confidence just when they need it the most. And some are preyed upon by unscrupulous predators who sense their vulnerability and exploit it.

Director Shawn Macdonald gets fine ensemble work from this cast, but especially strong are Cairns, who always appears so “un-actorly,” and young Tweedie, who brings crushing innocence and naiveté to the role.

This is tough stuff, but it brings home to parents the need to find that delicate balance between encouragement and unreasonable expectation that drives young people to abuse drugs and alcohol. And it shows young people how easily their bright blue future can slip away. A Hardline Productions presentation, Bright Blue Future is a never preachy, cautionary tale and an excellent first play by Sean Harris Oliver.

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In one day, Kelly Riegler found a Louis Vuitton keychain for a dollar, a Fendi watch for a dollar and a luxury Coach bag for three dollars at several garage sales in Vancouver.

These bargains were all documented on the locally shot web series Garage Sale Diaries. The lifestyle show follows Riegler, a self-described “shopaholic soccer mom,” and her more practical best friend, Renee Camazzola, as they visit Metro Vancouver garage sales, finding bizarre items and amazing deals along the way. With the first two seasons, consisting of six episodes each, already on the web, the program’s third season will air on Telus Optik TV this spring.

Garage Sale Diaries creator and producer Scott Reynolds says that the idea came to them one night over a couple of bottles of wine.

“Kelly in particular pointed out that she felt there wasn’t any interesting stories within the garage sale culture, whether it’s the artifacts and items of the sale, the people holding the sale or the crazy people you can meet when you garage sale,” Reynolds says.

“There’s a very rich environment for grabbing some

G Garage Sale Diaries follows Kelly Riegler, a self-described “shopaholic soccer mom,” and her more practical best friend, Renee Camazzola, as they hunt for deals at Vancouver garage sales.

fantastic stories, so it’s basically based on that. It was the next weekend where we picked up a couple of cameras and just followed Kelly around.”

Although Garage Sale Diaries can be seen as a reality show, Reynolds is hesitant to compare the show with current reality programs on television.

“In terms of reality TV, we don’t call ourselves reality TV, we are unscripted. A lot of reality TV is not that real and scripted and contrived and we’re not — we are completely spontaneous and authentic. And I think that is what the audience picks up on and that’s part of the charm of the series,” Reynolds says.

That “charm” has not gone unnoticed, with the

show picked as an official selection in Toronto WebFest and nominated in the best reality show category at Vancouver WebFest.

This exposure caught the attention of Telus, which approached Reynolds about funding the third season.

Reynolds says Garage Sale Diaries is more than just storytelling and getting great deals; it also brings awareness to the reuse and recycling movement.

“There is much enhanced mindset today around the reduce, reuse, recycle and that’s pervasive across the entire population. With garage sales we are enhancing that — it’s our contribution to that mindset.”

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Arts & Entertainment KUDOS AND KVETCHES Share and share alike

A long-awaited, much delayed, considerably debated bike share program is finally coming to Vancouver this summer.

On Tuesday, it was announced the city had signed a five-year agreement with Ottawa’s CycleHop, which will provide 1,500 bikes and 150 rental stations across Vancouver.

We’re all for filling crowded Vancouver streets, trails, paths and walkways with thousands of tourists who ride a bike maybe once a year as much as the next person, but let’s not be limited by two wheels.

There are plenty of other share programs the city would be wise to consider: • Pants Share How often do you find yourself enjoying a warm summer night in a skirt, cut-off denim shorts or lederhosen when suddenly the temperature dips and you’re caught out in the cold. Wouldn’t putting on a warm and inviting pair of slightly worn slacks without having to go home be a godsend?

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Strangers, for one. Or maybe your arms tire easily. That’s where a licensed hug share program comes in handy. Whether you don’t have the time to comfort what’s-hisname during a moment of crisis or you just could use the tender touch of a human who isn’t your overly judgmental life coach, paying for someone to hug you only sounds creepy if you think about it too much.

• Councillor Tim Stevenson Share How cool would it be to hang with lovable, mumbly, hard-to-understand city councillor Tim Stevenson at a moment’s notice or when you throw a party and want to impress your guests with your connections to city hall? Tim Stevenson is your man. The dude is pretty chill, he always seems to have time on his hands and we’re guessing he plays a mean NHL 16 on Playstation. Just don’t let him invite fellow councillor Kerry Jang over. That guy will trash your house. He’s an animal.

Suit yourself

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

Some dude or dudette wears the same outfit for a long period of time and no one notices, until one day everyone does and it becomes an Internet phenomenon.

This type of story has enthralled many a dullard on our Facebook feed over the years, whether it’s a high school gym teacher wearing the same outfit in every yearbook photo for 40 years or an art director who wore

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the same outfit to work every day for three years.

Now Coquitlam mayor Richard Stewart has decided to get in on the action.

He recently revealed on Facebook that he has worn the same suit to every council meeting for more than a year.

Big whoop.

Wearing the same suit once a week is hardly an accomplishment, if you ask us. We’re more impressed with the stamina and endurance it takes for Stewart to wake up in Coquitlam every morning. Boom!

Of course, there was another reason behind the mayor’s suit stunt. According to a story by the Canadian Press, Stewart’s objective was to learn first-hand about the double standards around dressing for men and women.

“Of course, I can’t imagine anybody suggesting that a woman could get away with wearing the same outfit for more than a year,” Stewart wrote on Facebook.

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GALA SHINES: Building on the success of the inaugural event, this year’s De Beers Time to Shine Gala proved to be brighter and more sparkly as the extraordinary evening of philanthropy netted the VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation $1.7 million towards the creation of an Interventional Hybrid Operating Room at Vancouver General Hospital. Gala chair Alice Chung fronted the sophomore edition of the charity dinner, sponsored by De Beers Jewelry. Security was visibly tight at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel as the lobby dripped with magnificent diamonds on display. More than 350 well-heeled guests enjoyed a string of breathtaking performances and a royal repast before emptying their designer wallet and purses of much cash. Three diamond pieces from the De Beers Aria Collection fetched a jawdropping $145,000, but the highlight came when the crowd stepped up and matched the $400,000 put up by Chung and her husband, David, Ian Gillespie of Westbank and Jason and Emily Ko of Viva Pharmaceutical.

BOLLY GOOD SHOW: The inaugural Bollywood Ball raised well above its initial million-dollar goal. The Hellenic Centre was transformed into opulent Imperial India of the 1920s for Surrey Hospital Foundation’s debut-do in support of a dedicated retinal operating room at the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre. Sponsored by Bausch + Lomb and led by party chair Harv Phandal Dhanda and chief of surgery Dr. Hugh Parsons, the event saw more than 400 guests gather for the lavish production of song, dance and philanthropy. Guests were greeted with custom spice market cocktails created by renowned bartender Alex Black before settling in for a banquet dinner of Indian delicacies and regional ingredients. A live auction of luxurious proportions propelled the results beyond the $1 million mark.

FOOD BIZ: More than 550 outstanding business leaders and inspiring entrepreneurs gathered for Forum for Women Entrepreneurs biggest night. The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver hosted the memorable evening that tapped into the city’s growing food revolution. David Hawksworth, Frank Giustra and Christine Day headlined the Odlum Brown and Telus sponsored Epicurious affair. Hosted by Monika Deol and Robin Gill, festivities included a panel discussion with the night’s keynote speakers, followed by a sumptuous dinner and special tribute to businesswoman Bev Briscoe, a longtime Forum for Women Entrepreneurs supporter and mentor. Proceeds from the night of networking, noshing and fundraising supported the organization’s efforts to educate, energize and empower women to become wildly successful entrepreneurs.

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Alice Chung, president and CEO of Alive Health Centre, chaired the Time to Shine Gala that featured a musical performance from her daughter Shannon.

Asel Soltanbekova modeled three brilliant pieces from De Beers Aria Collection, which fetched $145,000 for a state-of-the-art operating room at VGH.

Style by Sarai CEO Jason Sarai was among the attendees at the inaugural $1-million Bollywood Ball produced by the Social Concierge’s Tyson Villeneuve and Jordan Kallman.

Community leader Barinder Rasode and Courier publisher Dee Dhaliwal attended the Bollywood Ball in support of a dedicated Retinal Operating Room at the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre.

Event chair Harv Phandal Dhanda and chief of surgery Dr. Hugh Parsons steered Surrey Hospital’s inaugural Bollywood Ball.

Philanthropist Frank Giustra was one of the inspiration speakers at Lara Dauphinee and Christina Anthony’s Forum for Women Entrepreneurs Epicurious food-focused gala.

Chef David Hawksworth and his wife, Annabel, shared with Forum for Women Entrepreneurs gala guests that Nightingale will be the name of his soon-to-open second restaurant.

Surrey Hospital Foundation CEO Jane Adams thanked supporters who raised $1,020,000 for a retinal operating room at the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre.

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It’s Saturday morning and the lineup at Batard Bakery almost snakes out the door. And yet, everyone is remarkably chipper, from the Australian girl who takes my order to the woman whose foot I accidentally step on. Is it the smell of freshly baked bread, the basket of glossy pains au chocolat just set on the counter, the murmur of people talking to each other instead of staring vacantly into screens?

It helps that there is no Wi-Fi and that mobile reception is spotty at best.

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The bakery’s 104-yearold building on Fraser Street had to be renovated and fire-proofed, and the fire barrier between the ground and upper floors renders most smartphones decorative. Instead, there is a book nook, newspapers strung through wooden dowelling and chatty people. “It’s like a time warp,” says Elsie Born, who manages the front of house at Batard Bakery.

The breads are the work of Chris Brown, formerly of Ecco il Pane and Rise Artisan Bakery, and are made the old-fashioned way. “We have a very prolific mother [culture] that we use in the major-

ity of our doughs, which provides natural leavening properties and more complexity of flavour,” says Born. “And we will only ever sell today’s bread.”

That includes a slightly sour levain loaf (dosed with apples and walnuts, or roasted potato and rosemary, on weekends), a white market loaf with remarkable chew (it makes fantastic sandwiches) and a white spelt loaf that toasts up beautifully.

Speaking of toast, you can have that, too. Each order gets you three slices of piping hot bread and your choice of housemade toppings, like seasonal jams, olive tapenade or smoked salmon pate.

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You can also opt for plain butter, though it’s no ordinary butter — it’s the higher-fat, unsalted butter from New Zealand that the bakery uses in its crois-

sants and pastries.

New Zealand butter is the rare exception to Batard’s local sourcing strategy — and to be fair, they’re not the only ones

in town who seek fattier butter than is available in Canada. “It makes a better croissant and pain au chocolat,” says Born.

Otherwise, their seafood comes from Finest At Sea (which is run by Born’s parents), meats from Oyama and eggs from one Mr. Ray. “He has about 500 chickens and no farm name,” says Born. Batard also sells the eggs, which are so big they hardly fit in the carton, with yolks the colour of carrots.

The pastries are decidedly French, including one of the city’s best croissants, a delightfully puckery lemon tart and scones with goat cheese, apple and green onion. Don’t overlook the deceptively grown-up salted chocolate cookie: they’re crisp on the outside, fudgey on the inside and have a nutty depth that comes from rye flour.

Rounding out the menu is a solid lunch program of soups and sandwiches, made with Batard’s own bread. “We make everything from scratch. We

roast our own beef, we make mayo, hummus… we do a lot of cooking here,” says Born.

And they sell what they like working with.

There’s a small selection of pastas, sauces and oils, but most of the groceries and supplies focus on bak-

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Each day, I see patients searching for a solution to their suffering that can come as feelings of emptiness, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem or depression.

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There are many unhappy in their own bodies, concerned about their weight or magnifying perceived imperfections. Some with wavy

hair like it straight, those with straight hair want the waves. Some with big body parts want them smaller. Some with smaller body parts want them bigger.

When you look at those you love unconditionally — children, parents and friends, do you wish them to look different or “better” or to be anything other than who they are?

What we all need is self-compassion, an essential aspect of emotional wellbeing.

It’s not what we usually think about when we say self-love that most might associate with narcissism — a self-centred obsession with a superficial self.

Self-compassion is an extension of the authentic love we more freely give to others.

Through the habits of negative self-talk, guilt, perfectionism or self-neglect, we can become our own worse critics and fail to give ourselves the care we need.

Through the magic of self-compassion, our world becomes a better place — even if nothing else has changed. We struggle less. We are happier, less judgmental and more accepting of ourselves and others. When we look in the mirror, we smile instead of furrowing our brows.

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Practice this lovingkindness meditation borrowed from Buddhism.

Picture someone you care about, someone who makes you smile when you think of them – a child, parent or friend, and say in your mind, “May you be happy, healthy, peaceful and safe.”

You can nurture compassion for others, by imagining their faces and saying, “May you be happy, healthy, peaceful and safe.” Foster self-compassion by saying, “May I be happy, healthy, peaceful and safe.”

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A good parent ensures the children are well fed, exercise, play safe and get enough sleep, yet so many good parents don’t extend that care to themselves. Be a good parent to yourself — eat well, don’t skip meals, avoid recreational drugs and limit alcohol. Engage in daily exercise and get enough rest.

Being human, we are by nature imperfect, yet we are still beautiful and worthy of love. Be kind to yourself, and may you be happy, healthy, peaceful and safe.

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

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amarrison@shaw.ca Q: I recently bought some primulas and I was wondering what I can use to deter pesky snails, slugs, insects, etc. from feasting on them without having to use insecticides.

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A: Deterrents are fairly specific to different pests.

If you have a very heavy infestation of slugs and snails, the easiest and most effective method is a slug bait containing ferrous iron.

Slugs eat it and later die.

Ferrous iron is found naturally in soils, but in relatively low concentrations.

Alternative methods include sticky copper tape fastened around bottomless plastic containers or other barriers. Slugs and snails don’t cross copper. Other forms include copper mesh.

If you have only a few slugs or snails a couple of Slug Saloons containing beer will attract the slugs or snails so intensely they fall into it and drown. Check them every day. Cleaning out the bodies gets nasty if you leave them a few days.

Very strong-smelling plants repel slugs and snails.

This includes the Artemisia family, the mint family and

sage. Also hand-picking works if you keep at it a little every day, especially if you go out with a flashlight at night on slug patrol.

But the worst time for a pest attack is usually just after something has been transplanted. The plant is under stress while it tries to put out roots and get used to its new situation. Later, plants develop more resistance and the leaves start to toughen up.

The worst pest for primulas isn’t slugs and snails, it’s vine weevils. They eat notches in leaf edges and the larvae destroy roots. They like to hide near their chosen plant in daytime. If you put folded newspaper nearby, the weevils are likely to hide inside. They don’t fly. They just walk very slowly so they’re easy to catch.

An alternative control is watering the area with nematodes. The initial nematode package is placed in a small quantity of water to make a concentrate. This is then further diluted with more water and sprinkled over the soil.

This has to be done about the third week of July, while the larvae is still close to the soil’s surface.

Nematodes are tiny living worms that have to be used quite soon after being

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The oldest tourist destination in North America has never technically been considered a hot spot, although its cool factor was initially a big part of the appeal.

The Charlevoix region of Quebec, located on the northern shores of the Saint-Lawrence River, first emerged as a holiday destination in the late 19th century, long before there was electricity or road service, let alone Wi-Fi or

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The first newcomer to arrive was actually three centuries earlier, although it was really more of a working holiday. When French explorer Samuel de Champlain first visited in 1608, he had trouble anchoring his ships at the shallow mouth of the Malbaie River and so named the area Malle Baye — archaic French for a “bad bay.” The area was renamed Murray Bay in 1762, by a couple of British Army officers who bought land in the

area and are credited for bringing the first tourists to town. To help lure sport fishermen to the area, the 250-room Manoir Richelieu Hotel was built in 1899, atop a cliff overlooking the waterway, and wealthy families from Boston, New York and other major cities looking to escape the heat soon established a summer presence in the town that remains today. William Taft, president of the United States from 1909 to 1913, had a summer home in La Malbaie and

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Le Massif too big to fail A few decades ago, it was mainly a secret powder stash for Quebecois skiers who would shuttle to the top of the mountain in an old school bus. (Today the “base” of operations is located near the summit and is accessed off of Route 138.) Located a one-hour drive northeast of Quebec City and a 30 minutes past the MontSainte-Anne resort, Le Massif is renowned for its annual snowfall (especially in March), epic out-ofbounds options and trails plunging down toward the water that give the optical illusion that wiping out could mean landing in the Saint Lawrence.

In 2002, Cirque du Soleil co-founder and avid skier Daniel Gauthier bought the mountain and invested $25 million in new lifts, runs and services to modernize the hill.

But it may not turn out to be an example of the saying, “If you build it, they will come,” although volunteer ski guide Dennis Allard says he hopes this will become the case.

“Everything is all about real estate now, and here it seems like it may be too late,” said Allard, 61, pointing to the fact that only a handful of 64 planned condo units at the bottom of the mountain have been sold. “The owners were also in talks with Club Med for a long time about building a new resort here, but that recently fell through, which was tough for people who live here who work in tourism and were putting a lot of hope in it.”

The mountain would’ve surely gained a higher profile as part of Quebec City’s planned bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, which was abandoned in part due to officials ruling that Le Massif ain’t no mountain high enough for the men’s downhill, falling short of the required 800-metre minimum vertical drop despite the construction of an 80-metre ramp atop the summit.

Then there is the question of snow. Le Massif’s famous off-piste area, which has the advantage of always leading down to sea level no matter how lost in the trees you might get, still didn’t have enough of it to be safe during this writer’s recent visit in late January.

“Normally we get around six metres of snow every year, but last year it was only around four,” said

Allard. “Many of the lifts weren’t always operating as a result and some regular visitors were not too happy about it, so this year everything stays open all the time unless it gets too windy.”

Which it often does being located on the windswept shores of the mighty Saint-Lawrence. Finally, owners of Le Massif have opted to discontinue winter operation of a recently launched train service between Montmorency Falls and La Malbaie due

to the expense.

But Le Massif literally seems too big to fail.

While it may never become a chic resort packed with fancy hotels and restaurants, this is arguably part of its allure. And, even in the worst case scenario, that old school bus route will still be there for skiers and snowboarders willing to provide their own transportation.

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Le Massif de Charlevoix is renowned for its annual snowfall. PHOTO MARC ARCHAMBAULT

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And in Coquitlam’s Maillardville neighbourhood, translating the street name, Blue Mountain Highway, into “Mont Bleu” not only created a standout memory point, but also gave a nod to the community’s French Canadian heritage.

Sometimes inspiration comes from considering lifestyle. In Chinatown, Porte Communities realized their primary demographic would be young, creative and take a playful attitude towards life — described by Jeanette Chaput, director of marketing and sales, as “active and definitely a bit outside the box.” So the name of its latest development, Ginger, being a spicy component of Asian cuisine, reflected this zesty outlook perfectly.

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First-round cuts usually involve eliminating names that are overused, overly obscure or trying too hard to be clever. Some will fail what Brown describes as the “snicker test” — words that if mispronounced become a joke, often one that’s in bad taste. Then there are names with a pre-existing negative connotation.

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Before late September, you’ll experience expansion and good fortune in your career, status and similar ambitious zones, which leaves you less time for love. In addition, you’ve grown and matured since early 2015.

(This process continues to late 2017.) You feel sober, and are looking at your life in a no-nonsense, “I’m getting older” – and do I have enough money? – way.

Small trends, until September, help you communicate and befriend someone you might want to love, or do love. But the biggest trends (2009 – 2025) indicate you will meet either your true love, or someone who frustrates you in the deepest way. But remember, 2016 is only one in a long stretch of 17 years. So you might have already met The One, or you will before 2025. To some degree, destiny hovers here, weaving the time and the person from life’s threads

Until late September, Cap, you will be under one of the two most romantic influences possible. This is not romance, period. This is romance that tends to lead to a wedding, or to a long-lived love. You’ll find that love, this time around, tends to capture your mind as well as your heart. You will tend to meet someone whose ideas and ideals, advice and urgings are good for you – although you might not realize this until months, even years later.

You love love, Leo. But the first 8 months of 2016 — if you’re single – offer you “nice” and “pleasant” sensual satisfaction. There is little romance and little love in it, so you might find yourself bored, eventually, by someone who’s quite willing to share your boudoir. Worse, this person might really fall for you – then where do you stand? Don’t use someone just to evade loneliness.

Study the difference between lust and love, Aquarius.

(Lust wants to make someone an object that you can exercise your desires upon; love has no object; it survives without nourishment; it makes someone a light and their light turns to illuminate you.) The first eight months of 2016 will immerse you in lust. (Unless of course you reject such notions and bury yourself in finances or research instead – which is the 2016 road to profit and wealth for every Aquarian,

From 2009 to 2024, Virgo, if single, you are likely to meet at least one friend who slowly transforms into a great love. Between 2011 and 2026 you are, if single, almost certain to meet your true life-mate.

Put these trends together, and the news is splendid.

However, now to mid-May 2017, you might be wise not to marry nor start co-habiting with anyone.

However, if you’re seeing someone first met before November 12, 2015, don’t worry about continuing the bond – for after May 2017 you might marry.

You are the unluckiest and luckiest of the twelve signs this year, Pisces – at least to and including September. You’ll be unlucky if you remain independent, alone, and self-sufficient. You could be the luckiest person in the world if you seek outside yourself, want a partner, and use your considerable charms to attract and bond with others. This applies to everything – friends, business associations, etc. – but it specially applies to love.

Feb. 25: John Doe (62). Feb. 26: Fats Domino (88). Feb. 27: Chelsea Clinton (36).

Feb. 28: Bernadette Peters (68). Feb. 29: Drew Barrymore (41). March 1: Tempest Storm (88).

March 2: Daniel Craig (48).

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Meet Canada’s highest-paid female hockey player Kaleigh Fratkin leads the NWHL in penalty minutes and is the league’s top-scoring defender

Harjeet Johal

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One of the best hockey players to come out of B.C., Kaleigh Fratkin, is a Canadian prospect who you’ve probably never heard of.

The 23-year-old, Burnaby-raised defender plays for the Connecticut Whale in the inaugural season of the four-team National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL), which also features the Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts and New York Riveters. Media coverage of the league and its highest-paid Canadian player is hard to find.

For Fratkin, reaching a higher level has meant piling up points for the Whale, who have 24 points behind the league-leading Pride with 27. Through 16 games, Fratkin has notched five goals and 12 assists to lead all NWHL defenders and sits tied for sixth in overall points. She also tops the league with 38 penalty minutes.

Her outstanding play earned her a trip to the NWHL All-Star game on Jan. 24 in Buffalo.

In the skills competition the night before, Fratkin endeared herself to fans in a completely hilarious, completely original way.

She wore her Whale sweater along with a giant, stuffed chicken head.

“I competed in the hardest shot competition,” Fratkin said. “Let’s just say it was really hard to look out of that chicken head. I lost sight of the puck when I went to shoot, so I’m glad I just hit it. I believe the shot recorded as 77 miles per hour.”

Fratkin said her development as a hockey player would not have been possible without access to rinks, teams and minor hockey

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The players who dressed for the Tupper Tigers in the AA/AAA city championship tournament consolation game playing for fifth place. Injury and academic probation forced a small roster that meant significant minutes for the 10th, 11th and 12th men off the bench.

Burnaby’s Kaleigh Fratkin and the Connecticut Whale are second overall in the inaugural season of the National Women’s Hockey League, a competitor to the Canadian Women’s Hockey League and the first one on the continent to pay all players. PHOTO MICHAEL MAJEWSKI / NWH

programs in Vancouver.

The Vancouver North West Giants is one of the many teams Fratkin remembers playing with at Britannia and Hastings Community Centre arenas.

“Vancouver hockey had a big influence on my playing career,” she said over the phone from Norwalk, Connecticut. “Vancouver is a hockey hotbed. There are hockey rinks located all over and the resources to grow and develop as a player are abundant. I think because I had access to so many rinks and different resources that I may not have had the access to if I didn’t live in Vancouver, I’m not sure I would have been able to develop as a player to propel me on to higher levels.”

It’s been an exciting time for Fratkin who also participated in the NHL’s Outdoor Women’s Classic at Gillette Stadium Dec.

31 after the Pride needed players to fill roster spots vacated by U.S. national team players who were not released from training camp.

Living in Massachusetts, the 2014 Boston University graduate has grown to love sports clubs in a city that many Vancouverites have come to hate. Playing in the Women’s Classic was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity she won’t soon forget.

“That was an unbelievable experience. It was very short-lived — I wish I could do that all the time,” said Fratkin, a confessed Patriots fan. “That was my first time at Gillette. Growing up as a hockey player, you play outside. Being able to do that at Gillette, at a pretty iconic venue, is special. I took the time to look around and soak it all in.”

Appearing in the Women’s Classic and playing in the NWHL All-Star game almost didn’t come to

fruition. This past offseason, Fratkin had a big decision to make: She could stay in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League with the Boston Blades or take a chance on a new league.

The risk was worth it.

“The biggest thing for me, as a player, when you get to another level and you’re done college… When you get to the age of the 23, you want to be playing hockey and playing at a top end level, and I’d have to get a job at the same time,” she said.

The off-season didn’t just present Fratkin with a choice. The talent pool was suddenly divided between the CWHL, which launched in the 2007-08 season, and the upstart NWHL, which announced itself as the first hockey league on the continent to pay women.

Each NWHL team has a $270,000 salary cap, and

the minimum annual salary is $10,000. (All currencies U.S. dollars.)

Fratkin will make $20,000 this season as the highest-paid Canadian among her 17 compatriots in the NWHL. The top salaries are $25,000, and individual players earn proceeds from their jersey sales.

While it’s not enough to make a living, it’s better than nothing. She also coaches hockey and offers private lessons in Connecticut.

“I want to train and [want] it to be my job.

I wasn’t getting paid in the CWHL. For me it just seemed more realistic to play hockey as your job. It was a no-brainer. When that was put in front of me, I thought it would be absolutely foolish to turn that down,” she said.

In her case, and for most professional players in the NWHL, Fratkin said stability is an important factor.

: On not knowing the meaning of quit…

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The rebounds hauled in

by Tupper forward George Fasoulakis in a 84-45 loss to Lord Byng at Churchill secondary Feb. 11.

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The number of three-point shots made by the Lord Byng Grey Ghosts in their win over Tupper. The Tigers trailed by as few as four points in the second quarter until Byng’s incredible outpouring.

“Man, they gave it their all and never got down on each other, which I loved. The boys battled so hard, in particular George Fasoulakis who was simply a beast for us inside.”

— Tupper Tiger head coach Jeff Gourley, who said this year is only the second time in seven years that the Tigers have not reached the city championship final.

All four teams are owned by the league, but as the playoffs are set to begin next month, the future of a second season is unknown.

One possible step is to the two leagues, but NWHL spokesman Jake Duhaime was non-committal.

“We saw the power of collaboration with the NHL’s Outdoor Women’s Classic,” he said. “Though with limited resources and being fully in-season, both leagues are focused on their own operational goals and objectives at the moment.”

Fratkin should continue to pile up points for Connecticut as the Whale hope to hoist the Isobel Cup next month. She hopes to see a partnership or merger that will eventually benefit future generations of athletes by paying them to play. In the meantime, players will have to choose one way or the other — as she did.

“You hope that there’s some sort of adjustment,” she said, noting the pioneers who for years pursued their passion without a paycheque. “It’s going to be hard for one league that doesn’t pay players and one that does.

I don’t know how players can play for so long without being paid.”

Events such as the NHL’s Outdoor Women’s Classic and NWHL All-Star game are important, but the light they shine may not be bright enough for women’s hockey to grow and succeed over the long term.

For now, players like Fratkin will wait and see if the NWHL and CWHL can come together, giving women and girls the opportunity to earn a salary and play the sport they first discovered in minor hockey rinks in their hometown. @HarJournalist

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The number of times Tupper six-foot-four forward Filip Stajic was called for a foul, forcing the big man out of the game in the first minute of the fourth period and leaving six players to compete against Lord Byng.

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