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Mike Howell

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Lots of excitement last week about Mayor Gregor Robertson’s announcement that the City of Vancouver purchased the Arbutus Corridor lands for $55 million from Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. It’s a beautiful and sizeable chunk of land, with 42 meandering acres of open space running about nine kilometres from First Avenue to Milton Street, near Southwest Marine Drive and West 75th Avenue.

So what’s the city going to do with it?

Well, you probably heard — develop a transportation greenway for pedestrians and cyclists. The mayor mentioned New York City’s High Line public park and the Galloping Goose trail on Vancouver Island as inspirations for the project.

All sounds very cool.

But here’s a question: How do you fit a streetcar along such a route?

I ask because buried deep in the city’s news release

was a brief mention of reserving space along the corridor “for future light rail/streetcar.” Maybe you had the same reaction: Mixing streetcars with bikes and pedestrians sounds like more work for paramedics and firefighters.

Yes, I know streetcars run all over the world, including Toronto where I once lived.

Without much trouble at all, they run along major thoroughfares next to cars, bikes and daring joggers, who choose to use the road instead of the sidewalk.

But the section of the Arbutus Corridor I’m familiar with — having worked at Sixth and Fir for more than a decade — is the stretch that runs from Granville Island into Kitsilano.

It’s fairly narrow and I can’t picture a streetcar running through the same swath of land proposed for pedestrians, joggers and cyclists. I guess that’s why I’m a reporter and Jerry Dobrovolny is the city’s general manager of engineering.

I spoke to Dobrovolny Monday near the section of

The last time Vancouverites got to ride a streetcar in the city was during the 2010 Winter Games when Bombardier ran a train from Science World to Granville Island as part of a demonstration project. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

existing rail track at Sixth and Burrard.

“You’re actually pointing to the two sections that are the biggest challenge,” he said of the stretch. “From Sixth Avenue here and then going north from here are the narrowest sections.

There might be some places there where we do things off-street.”

Off-street?

“We’ll look at all of our city holdings, not just the rail right-of-way that we

purchased,” he continued.

“So it may be that the streetcar runs in the street on Sixth Avenue in that section. That’s the thing about streetcars — in downtown Toronto or San Francisco — is you can run in and out of traffic. If you’re able to keep it separate from traffic, obviously you can move more quickly with less interruptions. But there’s no reason you can’t operate in traffic when you need to.”

All this talk of a streetcar

has plenty of folks excited, including former COPE city councillor Tim Louis, who has proposed using the unused space above a streetcar line to build housing; the Vancity building above the Skytrain tracks at Main and Terminal is an example.

Interesting idea and so is the streetcar itself.

But let’s get back to planet earth for a sec. For starters, the cost to run a streetcar from First Avenue to the Fraser River would cost a bundle; back in 2006, I wrote a story based on a city staff report that estimated a streetcar network from Granville Island to the downtown waterfront would cost up to $200 million.

The other fact is this: The city’s number one transportation infrastructure priority is getting a $1.9-billion subway built along the Broadway corridor. Dobrovolny made that clear in our conversation Monday.

“Broadway has been our priority for over 15 years,” he said. “The ridership numbers would make it the

transportation project that moves the most people out of any project that’s ever been built in the province — on opening day.”

Dobrovolny hopes to have a better sense of how soon or long it will take to get a subway built when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government delivers its first budget next week. Trudeau promised during the election campaign to work with the city and provincial government to extend rapid transit along the Broadway corridor.

So, for now, it appears the closest Vancouverites ever got to riding a streetcar in Vancouver was during the 2010 Winter Games when Bombardier operated a train from Science World to Granville Island as part of a demonstration project.

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Christine Fretwell waited a year and a half to get her twin boys into a YMCA after-school care program at Lord Roberts elementary in Vancouver’s West End. She knows she’s not the only parent who struggled to fill the gap between when school lets out and the workday ends.

“I was there at the orientation for the Kindergarten parents this year and some of them were still looking for child care the first week of September, not realizing that it pretty much doesn’t exist,” Fretwell said. “They make arrangements with other parents and hope those work out.”

Fretwell, a marketing analyst, is currently off work as she undergoes treatment for cancer. But the single mom doesn’t dare give up her afterschool care spots.

“Luckily the [YMCA] lets you pay on your credit card, so I will be paying this off for a while,” Fretwell said.

The child care conundrum parents of preschool aged children face is well known: long waitlists and high fees are the norm. But in Vancouver there is actually a greater need for after-school care: 10,000 spots are needed compared to the 7,500 shortfall for infant and toddler child care spaces, according to the city’s calculations.

In Quebec, where before and after-school care is part of the province’s subsidized child care system, 86 per cent of parents use school-aged care compared to only 43 per cent of B.C. parents, according to Statistics Canada.

Vancouver is undergoing a demographic shift that further adds to the challenge, as young families who have been

priced out of single-family neighbourhoods flock to downtown neighbourhoods like Yaletown and the West End. “The child population in downtown Vancouver has increased significantly in the last 10 years. It’s quite amazing,” said Mary Clare Zak, social planner for the City of Vancouver.

Only 17 per cent of need for after-school care is being filled in the West End and Yaletown and just seven per cent of need is being met in the East Vancouver neighbourhood of Sunset, said Zak. Other pinch points include Kerrisdale and South Vancouver.

Several factors make operating after-school care a challenge. It’s harder to cover costs than other types of child care and it’s difficult to find staff willing to work split shifts with less than fulltime hours.

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The four-storey East Wing building on city hall grounds is expected to be demolished this summer. Plans to tear it down have been in the works for several years due to its high risk of collapsing in an earthquake. Staff moved out of the building to offices at other locations more than a year ago.

Danica Djurkovic, director of facilities planning and development for the city, says work to seismically upgrade the West Annex (the city’s building at the corner of Cambie and West 10th) is also expected to begin this summer.

The work is part of a long-term, three-phase plan that will culminate in the redevelopment of the entire city hall grounds, which stretches from 12th to Broadway between Cambie and Yukon Streets.

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The demolition of the East Wing building is part of a threephase plan for redeveloping the entire city hall campus.

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to improve access to and delivery of city public services, to improve safety for staff and the public and to optimize city-owned assets, according to Djurkovic.

Phase one involved relocating staff from the East Wing to the West Annex, as well as to sites at 815 Richards St. and the Crossroads building at Broadway and Cambie, and

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Djurkovic said phase three is in its early stages.

An RFP for the programming stage was recently closed and the contract is expected to be awarded later this month. “[It’s] really just focusing on functional programming needs before we start looking at any feasibility studies for the site itself,” she said.

Djurkovic anticipates public consultation about the redevelopment will start later this year.

Meanwhile, even though the East Wing, which was built in 1970, has been decommissioned, it’s been of use to organizations such as Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services.

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Finding space equally challenging Continued from page 5 Finding space is another challenge. The most convenient location is within the school itself, but schools need to have a multipurpose room available, like an unused classroom, which often needs some retrofits in order to meet provincial licensing regulations. And many of the annexes — smaller schools for Kindergarten to Grade 3 — don’t have any extra unused space for a child care program, said Tara Hamer-Hayley, rentals and leases supervisor with the Vancouver

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Angus Lemure, 54, has lived in a Vancouver shelter since January.

He used to live outside on the banks of a river in Port Coquitlam.

Coun. Andrea Reimer (left) and Rena Kendall-Craden, the city’s director of communications, talk to a homeless man sleeping at a park near Terminal Avenue.

Ava was living on the streets until she recently found a room at a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Downtown Eastside.

This year’s homeless count included searching the railyards near Clark and Terminal for people sleeping outside.

See related story and photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

About 500 volunteers participated in this year’s homeless count.

Last year’s count revealed a homeless population of 1,746 people, with 488 on the street and 1,258 in some form of shelter.

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Vancouver count puts a face to city’s homeless population Courier joins city councillor in search for people living on streets, in vehicles

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The city conducted its annual homeless count over two days last week.

The Courier joined Coun.

Andrea Reimer and Rena Kendall-Craden, the city’s director of communications, on the count for almost three hours on the morning of March 10.

Their geographic area of focus ran from behind the Ivanhoe Hotel on Main Street, through Trillium Park and up and down the

Terminal Avenue corridor.

They searched fields, community gardens, walked along railroad tracks, side streets and scoured loading bays of commercial grocery warehouses and other industry.

At the end of their shift, they had counted and collected information from nine homeless people, including those sleeping in vehicles and a park. Reimer’s sense is this year’s count won’t see much of a change in the size of the homeless population, despite the

opening of two buildings in the Downtown Eastside for low-income and formerly homeless people.

“Without any serious policy changes from last year from the province or federal government, I would expect to see a similar outcome,” she said of last year’s count, which recorded 488 people on the street and 1,258 in some form of shelter.

Observing the count March 10 was Abi Bond, the city’s director of housing policy and projects, who

accompanied the Courier throughout the morning.

She emphasized the count is not just about the numbers but collecting as much information possible about a homeless person’s situation. The information helps find people homes, develop housing policy, determine health needs, connect people with income assistance — all of it evidence to strengthen the city’s case when lobbying senior levels of government for housing money.

“The numbers make

the headlines but if we’re really trying to solve the issue, then we’re interested in the reasons why people are becoming homeless and what’s keeping them homeless,” Bond said as she followed Reimer and Kendall-Craden through a community garden adjacent to Strathcona Park.

Last year’s count identified a variety of reasons for people becoming homeless, including a loss in single-room-occupancy hotel rooms, untreated mental health and addic-

tions issues, low welfare rates, prisons and hospitals discharging people to the street and shelters, youth aging out of foster care, rising rents and a low rental vacancy rate.

• • • A complete story of the Courier’s morning with Reimer and Kendall-Craden, along with interviews with B.C. Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay and people living in shelters and struggling with drug addiction, can be viewed at vancourier.com. @Howellings

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Decommissioned wing a ‘fantastic resource’ for first responders Continued from page 6 Jonathan Gormick, the department’s spokesman, told the Courier that members started training exercises in the vacant building as soon as it was decommissioned, although they do so less frequently now.

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“Just about every business group within the City of Vancouver was offered access to the building for whatever need they had,” he said.

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Airbnb puts squeeze on renters, affordable housing, environment

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o continue on where I left off last week: While the city of Vancouver continues, as it has for years now, to do nothing more than ponder the problems of short-term rentals, the likes of Airbnb continue to encourage illegal activities that significantly reduce the availability of affordable rental properties and drive up the cost of real estate.

The possibility of revenue for a short-term rental is significantly higher than a long-term rental… It may be great for investors. Not so much for someone who just wants a place to live close to where they work.

The activities are illegal because they violate a city zoning restriction that prohibits rentals of less than 30 days without a license for a hotel or a bed and breakfast operation. According to the city’s chief housing officer Mukhtar Latif, this is the case in virtually all Airbnb listing in Vancouver, which, as I noted last week, number 4,728 — of which 67 per cent, or 3,179, are either complete homes or apartments.

Simon Fraser University graduate student Karen Sawatzky has been drilling

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away at this issue for almost three years now as she puts together her Urban Studies master’s thesis on the impact Airbnb has been having on affordable rental housing in our city.

She notes several city policies that are in conflict with the growing impact of Airbnb aside from the zoning bylaw on short-term rentals. There is also the great amount of noise the city makes about being a green city with affordable housing. Yet because of Airbnb, more people are forced out of the core of the city where they could either walk to work or cycle and instead are required to commute.

Aside from impact on the environment, a city study pointed out that by adding the cost of commuting to the cost of rent for those forced out of the city’s core, the cost of living is less affordable than simply renting in Kits or the West End. When Airbnb first came on the scene, the folks most concerned were those running licensed bed and breakfast operations. But as Sue Willis, president of the B.C. Bed and Breakfast Innkeepers Guild told me, they have managed to dodge that bullet.

Even though Airbnb started out as a couple of guys who offered their clients both bed and breakfast, that is no longer the case for the vast majority of the listings. Willis also pointed out that the folks who should be concerned are the hotel owners. Those are the folks who are most undercut by the short-term rental market occupied by Airbnb. But tourism is booming and hotels are doing just fine with the lower Canadian dollar, so the B.C. Hotel Association has nothing to say.

Besides, saying anything, according to Sawatzky, doesn’t get you very far with

the city. Complaints move, as the cliché would have it, slower than molasses in January. Nor is the city particularly proactive in encouraging people to blow the whistle on the undoubtedly thousands of people who are breaking the zoning bylaw. That could explain why, in the past two-and-a-half months, according to Latif, there have only been two complaints about Airbnb listings.

One group that has been inspired to take action are the folks who make up strata councils. Sean Ingraham runs a strata management company called First Service, and he has been holding workshops for condo dwellers who want to amend their bylaws to block short-term rentals.

The issue that drives most strata councils to make that move involves security.

Knowing your neighbour becomes problematic. When the joint is taken over by short-term rentals you don’t really know

who should be in the building.

According to Sawatzky, now that we are heading into the tourist season, she is hearing from people who are being squeezed out of long-term rentals so their landlords can convert them to more profitable Airbnb listings. And with that in mind, you can understand how this is a factor driving up real estate prices. They use to call basement suites “mortgage helpers.”

Now homeowners and real estate investors are looking at Airbnb the same way.

The possibility of revenue for a shortterm rental is significantly higher than a long-term rental. That means, you can bid up that condo or house price that much higher and still cover the cost.

It may be great for investors. Not so much for someone who just wants a place to live close to where they work. @allengarr

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A tree grows in Vancouver Re: “Thousands of trees coming down on private properties,” March 10.

I have planted one new tree every year for the past three years on my property.

I did not remove any trees. In fact, six years ago I even planted a tree on scruffy, unused city property.

Now that you have sensationalized how many trees are being felled in the city, how about reporting the other side of the coin? How many trees have been planted per year in the city?

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Airbnb issue not so cut and dry Re: “Airbnb wreaks havoc on Vancouver rental scene,” March 10.

Look, I rented in downtown Vancouver for over 15 years, and it’s always been a difficult rental market here. Long before Airbnb arrived. So, I don’t just accept out-of-hand that Airbnb is responsible for the lack of rental units in Vancouver. For one example, how many former rental buildings were converted to condos and sold off at sky-high valuations? I think it is possible that Airbnb has had an effect on the illegal basement suite-type rentals available in Vancouver, but they’re illegal anyway. You can’t base policy on the availability of rental units that you’ve already deemed illegal.

It seems like everyone here that has a problem with Airbnb are condo dwellers that seem to have a lot of anecdotal evidence for their perceived “wrongs.” Maybe those things are true. But maybe they are not. We simply don’t have the data to back it up. And just as we’ve just found out with the “Vacant homes are making Vancouver homes unaffordable” boondoggle, just because lots of people THINK something is true, doesn’t make it so.

I would agree that condos are a different situation than most Airbnb in-house rentals. But there is already a structure in place for a strata to enforce their wishes regarding Airbnb. Lots of buildings allow for a limited number of

rentals in a building. Why not expand that to include Airbnb? If people violate or don’t report that they are renting on Airbnb, there is already a mechanism for applying penalties (by the strata). Some buildings downtown have claimed to have completely eradicated Airbnb rentals from their property with very little effort.

Maybe some buildings would even choose to embrace Airbnb rentals and the suites in those buildings would probably enjoy higher valuations as a result.

There is a lot of good that comes to our city as a result of Airbnb. I’m reasonably confident that it results in significant tourism gains here and I think it also supports a lot of families with enough extra income so that they don’t have to leave (which would hurt us all). I’d be careful about tar-andfeathering the whole thing.

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Courier nominated for seven community newspaper awards

Ma Murray winners announced May 7 at River Rock Casino Resort gala The B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Association announced its finalists for the 2016 Ma Murray community newspaper competition last week, and the Vancouver Courier received seven nominations.

• Photographer Dan Toulgoet is a finalist in the Feature Photo Award category for his fiery shot of silhouetted children leaping over open flames during Persian New Year celebrations.

• Rebecca Blissett received a nod in the

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• Jessica Barrett is nominated in the Columnist Award category

for her well-read columns “Is it time to leave Vancouver?” and “Pot dispensaries need to grow up.”

• Geoff Olson is nominated in the Cartoonist Award category for his satirical take on Bill C-51.

• Former Courier editor turned podcast network creator Barry Link got the tap for “Holiday Podcast: A Christmas story” in the Online Innovation category.

• Manon Paradis, Tara Lalanne, Marina Rockey and Tori Clark are final-

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• The Courier is also nominated in the Newspaper Excellence Award category.

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Vancouver priest debunks myths associated with St. Patrick Everything you know about Irish icon is wrong Pat Johnson

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If you know one thing about St. Patrick, it’s probably that he was Irish, right?

Wrong. After that, you’re probably left struggling to explain how shamrocks and green beer relate to the guy.

Father James Hughes, priest at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church at Main Street and 12th Avenue, is ambivalent about the way his parish’s patron saint has been absorbed into the popular culture. He likes beer, the priest assures me, just not green beer.

“I’ve got a bit of a split feeling, I’ve got to say, about that. One half of me might say, it’s a bit of a mockery to the real essence of the celebration,” he says of the wearing of the green and associated popular rituals we see on St. Patrick’s Day. At the same time, he admits, if these traditions die out, so might the very name of St. Patrick.

Let’s get the facts: Patrick was not born in Ireland. He was born in Roman-controlled Britain, probably in the year 387. When he was a young teenager, he was captured by Irish pirates and taken to the Emerald Isle as a slave to tend sheep.

Ireland, being at the edge of the known European universe, had been untouched

by Christianity, which a few years earlier under the Emperor Constantine had become the dominant (and later official) religion in the Roman Empire. Druids and other pagans remained dominant in Ireland.

During his slavery, Patrick later wrote, he gained strength from his belief in the Christian God and it is

this belief that he credited with his escape. As a young adult, some records say he was 20, Patrick had a dream in which God told him he could find freedom by going to the coast. There, he met sailors who carried him back home to England.

Once home, he had another vision. It was an image he equated with Ireland calling him back to bring the gospel of Jesus. He became a priest, travelled back to the land of his former captivity and began spreading the word. He used the three-leafed shamrock to describe the holy trinity to potential converts and is “remembered” for ridding Ireland of snakes. Of course, reporting on events 1,600 years ago is a challenge and scientists contend that Ireland never had any snakes. The story may be an interpretation of the staff of Moses turning into a serpent, or some other allegory. In fact, there is even a “two Patricks” theory that suggests the characteristics attributed to Patrick are actually a mashup of two different evangelists. So much of what we think we know is speculative.

Even so, St. Patrick is emblematic of the Irish turning to Christianity. And Christianity, Catholicism specifically, has been so inherent to Ireland that the two concepts — the country and its patron saint — have become synonymous with shamrock green and that other Irish specialty, beer.

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couple. So why did Ireland’s patron saint evolve into such a cultural phenom in North America — even as most people lost sight of who he really was?

When the potato famine of the 1840s nearly destroyed Irish civilization, refugees thronged to the Americas. They brought with them many things, including their religiosity, their fervent connections to the old country and St. Patrick. While other immigrant communities brought their patron saints, too, the sheer number of Irish migrants gave Patrick a leg up over the rest. In addition, immigrants from other heavily Catholic places like Italy were more likely to venerate their village patron than a national saint. Plus, a saint’s day that evolved to include beer was destined to catch on with outsiders, allowing everyone to enjoy being Irish for a day in a way that, say, self-flagellation could never match.

Hughes’ church is meeting the masses in the middle, handing out shamrock cookies on Main Street to mark St. Patrick’s Day. “Attached is a little prayer or write-up on St. Patrick himself because my contention was that people would know about the celebration of St. Patrick but they wouldn’t know who St. Patrick is,” he says. And since Patrick was someone who spread the word of Jesus, that image resonates in one of Canada’s most multicultural neighbourhoods.

“We still have work to do in terms of bringing the gospel of Jesus to others,” he says. “It’s important for a faith community to be in conversation with the world,

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1. A group of about 60 people braved the rain to participate in the first official walk of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Saturday. 2. Iris Tung and her parents Naomi and Dorian take in the sights and smells of the city’s cherry blossoms. 3. Wendy Cutler, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival scout coordinator, was easy to spot by her cherry blossom-printed trainers. 4. Vancouver residents are welcome to add a blooming cherry tree when they spot one to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival map at vcbf.ca/neighbourhood-maps. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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Curiosity in bloom during cherry blossom walk Rebecca Blissett

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The pink and white cherry blossoms are a welcome contrast to the grey dampness that seems to hang over the city for months on end. Their recent arrival is celebrated as one of the first signs of spring — dozens of people walked back and forth underneath the canopy of akebono cherry trees at the Burrard SkyTrain Station Saturday afternoon and stood with arms outstretched and hands cupped like they would during a snowfall, to catch the blossoms as they swirled to the ground when wind rustled through branches.

In front of the station, Wendy Cutler organized more than 60 people who

showed up for the first ornamental cherry blossom walk of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. Cutler, in pink and black with trainers in a cherry blossom print, is the festival’s cherry scout coordinator, meaning she has documented the trees and their fleeting blooming patterns for the last 10 years after answering an advertisement for cherry scouts in the wanted section of the Vancouver Sun. “No knowledge or experience necessary,” Cutler recalled as she led half the group up Thurlow Street — the other half went with Cutler’s friend and fellow cherry scout Laura Blumenthal who led a quicker version of the walk. “I never even really looked at the cherry trees before.”

Cutler is enough of an expert now to know when to schedule the walks.

While the festival is planned months in advance with many of its events starting next week, the first walk of the season was only decided two weeks ago because it’s difficult to predict the blossom bloom. One of the factors is temperature — once thermometers hit 10 C, and there’s some sun, the trees start blooming.

There are 55 different kinds of cherry trees in Metro Vancouver and Cutler’s walk, which meandered through downtown and the West End, stopped at a handful of them. Those on the walk marveled at the akebonos, pendulas, shirotaes, ranchos, uminekos, sendai-shidares and a

magnolia for good measure.

Cutler’s version was entertaining with her straightshooting style, which didn’t mince words when it came to unfortunate cherry trees on private property that suffered unkind cuts from gardener’s shears.

“By and large, people particularly in the walking group are interested to the extent that cherries come in pink and white and that’s about it,” she said, though the opportunity to learn beyond the two-hour-long walk is available through a book one of the organizers brought along called Ornamental Cherries in Vancouver. Written by associate director of UBC’s botanical garden Douglas Justice with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, it details

the different varieties and characteristics along with, helpfully, where to find such trees in the city.

Winter reminded the group that it isn’t done yet as the rains lashed down an hour into the walk and pelted the sidewalks so hard that pant legs were soaked from the splash-back alone.

Still, most of the group hung on to take full opportunity of the guided walk.

The free walks are just one part of the festival that began 10 years ago

by Linda Poole who lived abroad for 13 years with her husband who was in the Canadian Foreign Service.

She had learned about the Sakura festivals in Japan and since many of Vancouver’s 40,000 trees were gifts from that country during

the 1930s to 1950s, decided to create a Vancouver festival to both express the city’s gratitude and to celebrate the beauty of the trees.

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival starts March 24 with a variety of events listed on the festival’s site (vcbf.ca). To celebrate its 10th year, a “blossom barge” will be part of this year’s festival where 40 trees in bloom will be on a barge pulled by a tug around Canada Place and False Creek.

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Canadians — and offers access to recreational facilities created for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

While Canadians games are a favourite Vancouver summer activity, those who would rather work up a sweat than watch others do so can head to Hillcrest Centre. As the site of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic curling events, the centre now houses an NHL-sized hockey rink and the Vancouver Curling Club, among many other facilities.

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Addressing homelessness starts with hearing their stories Pop-up city halls, vacant housing study and ‘Greyhound therapy’ capture columnist’s attention

Michael Geller

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One of the enjoyable challenges of this column is choosing the topic to write about. Last week, three stories caught my attention.

The first was the release of the City of Vancouver study on vacant housing.

When CBC called to ask for my initial observations, I had to confess I was surprised by the results.

I was not sure if this was because the methodology and conclusions were wrong, or whether I, like so many other Vancouverites, had been duped into believing there were far more vacant units than there actually are.

I suspect the number of vacant units is higher than reported. Nonetheless, what is clear from this report is that regardless of the precise number, this is not the main cause of Vancouver’s housing affordability problems.

The second story was the announcement that the City of Vancouver and CP Rail had reached an agreement on the purchase and sale of

the Arbutus Corridor. While I would have preferred a deal that did not require so much up-front money, I was generally pleased with how the city resolved this longstanding issue.

I was also delighted to see “pop up” city halls on Saturday inviting community discussion on the future of the corridor.

While each of these stories warrant further commentary, this week I want to address the third story. It tells the tale of two Saskatchewan homeless men put on a Greyhound bus by the Saskatchewan government, and sent to Vancouver.

This incident introduced many of us to the term “Greyhound therapy,” known in the mental health field as the practice by some authorities of buying a ticket on a Greyhound Lines bus to get rid of someone they would rather not have to look after.

I agree with Coun. Kerry Jang, who said that what the Saskatchewan government had done was “inhumane” and “callous.”

“Pop up” city halls were erected in parts of the city over the weekend to gauge resident opinions around the future of the Arbutus Corridor. PHOTO MICHAEL GELLER

While I understood Rich Coleman’s comments to the effect that this is a free country and we cannot really stop people from going from one province to another, I did not appreciate Christy Clark’s welcoming comments.

Would she have said the same if her colleague Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall was not in the middle of an election campaign?

The sad reality is that Vancouver and many B.C. cities are struggling to address homelessness with inadequate help from Premier Clark. Vancouver’s shelter facilities are operating at capacity. The night the Union Gospel Mission took in these two men, it had to turn 12 other homeless people away.

There was another aspect to this story that disturbed me.

A local businessman, moved by the TV account of the boys’ arrival, offered one of them a job. While this was admirable, I could not help but think about other, more faceless people in Vancouver who are homeless, on disability or welfare, who would also like a job.

I learned about their plight first hand during the 2008 election campaign when I was introduced to an organization called the Eastside Movement for Business and Economic Renewal Society (EMBERS).

It is a community economic development non-profit organization located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. It helps people facing barriers to lead more productive, fulfilling lives by offering economic and employment opportunities. This includes job placements, training and support. EMBERS is constantly seeking job opportunities for its clients.

Vancouver’s homeless and welfare recipients face complex challenges.

Many suffer from mental

illnesses or addictions, or both, that prevent them from holding down fulltime employment. Many have difficulty finding jobs because of their appearance; their teeth need fixing, they need grooming and suitable clothing.

While we can continue to build more shelters and housing for the homeless, a better way to address Vancouver’s homelessness problem is to help people find full or part-time employment.

EMBERS and other caring organizations are trying to do this. However, most of us prefer to avoid dealing with homeless people unless we happen to talk to them, and get to hear their stories.

While I was disturbed by the arrival of these two young men from Saskatchewan, if their story leads to greater assistance for those already here, it may not be such a bad thing.

Perhaps we need to regularly profile Vancouver’s homeless on the nightly TV news. @michaelgeller

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At Faubourg’s Hornby Street location, Franck Point holds a salted caramel macaron up to the light of one of his café’s slick chandeliers. Point, who owns Faubourg’s three locations, is explaining his criteria for the perfect macaron.

First, the shell. Point looks for a perfectly round shell, and that the two halves of the macaron match exactly. Second, colour. “This caramel macaron, if you leave it in the oven another 20 seconds, it goes from light beige to dark beige,” he says. (Clearly, dark beige is not acceptable.)

Next, Point explains that macarons should have a sheen on top, which indicates the correct proportion of sugar and technique. Fourth, he looks for a slight dome on each cookie; they shouldn’t be too flat. Finally, the foot — the bubbly-looking base of each macaron — should be uniformly even.

Juliette Piat, Faubourg’s online marketing manager, adds, “And it should have the perfect chewiness inside, with a perfectly crisp shell.”

If that sounds awfully persnickety for a French sandwich cookie, consider that Faubourg tosses anything that doesn’t meet those criteria. When they first started, that was as much as half of each batch — these days, it’s closer to 10 per cent.

Catherine and David Introligator’s French Made Baking has grown from a farmer’s market stall to a cozy Mount Pleasant café, which now includes a small tearoom, serving up an assortment of macarons.

“For people to pay $2 [each], it must be a perfect macaron,” says Point. “It isn’t a big deal if you eat one that’s not perfect, but I can’t sell it in my store.”

Faubourg’s macarons are undeniably beautiful, and they taste as good as they look. Standouts include the jasmine, which nails the floral flavour without tasting soapy, and the Faubourg signature, with its punchy passionfruit filling. March also brings the macaron of the month: baguetteflavoured, made with the bakery’s own bread.

On March 20, you can taste that attention to detail for yourself. It marks the fifth annual Macaron Day in Vancouver, a tradition started by the macaron king himself, Paris’s Pierre Herme. On that day only,

Faubourg’s macarons will be available for $1 each.

The business will match each donation until they’re sold out, and all proceeds will go to the BC Cancer Foundation.

A word of warning: last year, Faubourg was out of macarons by early afternoon. If that happens again, don’t worry. There’s plenty of consolation in a puckery lemon tart, flaky millefeuille or buttery croissant.

Faubourg: Kerrisdale (2156 West 41st Ave), downtown (769 Hornby St), West Vancouver (792 Main St, Park Royal South), faubourg.com.

‘Little bit of sacrilege’

Also participating in Macaron Day is Mount Pleasant’s French Made Baking. Catherine and David Introligator have grown

the business from a farmer’s market stall to their cozy café, which now includes a small tearoom.

French Made Baking was one of the first in town to participate in Macaron Day, in 2011. On March 20, French Made Baking will donate 15 per cent of their macaron sales to the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. They’ll also have a donation jar in the café, and each customer that day will receive a miniature macaron.

French Made Baking has a dozen flavours in regular rotation, including the lovely and traditional pistachio, and a vanilla macaron flecked with black seeds without being cloyingly sweet. And there’s a new macaron in town: a vegan macaron.

The vegan macaron shells are made with a plant-based egg white substitute, while the filling uses date-almond milk from local company Nuez.

“It’s a little bit of sacrilege,” Catherine admits, her French accent adding a certain gravitas. “But it’s pretty similar to the original recipe. I think it’s a nice evolution for the macaron, not treason.”

And how does it taste?

Not bad. It’s not quite the same as a traditional macaron —slightly softer and just a touch grainy — but as far as sacrilege goes, I’ll take it.

French Made Baking, 81 Kingsway, frenchmadebaking.com.

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March 17 to 23, 2016 1. “Joyous pop band from Portland” Radiation City brings their feel-good vibes to the Biltmore Cabaret March 17 in support of their latest album, Synesthetica. Seattle’s Deep Sea Diver co-headlines and the Response rounds out the bill. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketfly.com.

2. Ballet BC continues its 30th anniversary season March 17 to 19 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Program 2 features the world premiere of French choreographer Medhi Walerski’s appropriately titled New Work. Details at balletbc.com.

3. Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, the Rio Theatre screens the 1993 horror schlock-fest Leprechaun starring a pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston. Not only do viewers get to enjoy the tale of a murderous leprechaun — is there any other kind?

— but thanks to some nifty “hecklevision” technology, they can text zingy one-liners, heckles and commentary that will appear onscreen instantly. Let the bon mots fly March 17, 9:30 p.m.

Details at riotheatre.ca.

4. Authors Aislinn Hunter, Carmen Aguirre and Nancy Lee are paired with local choreographers Anusha Fernando, Olivia C. Davies and Paras Terezakis to create new works as part of Words in Motion, March 18 and 19 at Telus Studio Theatre. Tickets and details at chancentre.com.

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CARS TO GO: BMW dealer Brian Jessel cleared his East Side lot of luxury vehicles to host his 11th Cabriolet Charity Gala. Some 400 business leaders and influential Vancouverites came together for a fun and meaningful night of food, fashion and musical entertainment while supporting leading cancer research. Juno- nominated recording artist Shawn Hook was the latest to entertain at the posh party, joining the likes of Colin James, Jay Leno, the Barenaked Ladies and CeeLo Green who have headlined the signature soiree staged at Jessel’s Boundary Road dealership. Always a sparkling affair, the see-andbe-scene night included a Holt Renfrew fashion show, delicious food and drinks courtesy of Vancouver’s top chefs and restaurants, and fundraising games of chance. The night of glamour, which marked two special milestones, 30 years of Brian Jessel BMW and 100 years of BMW, reportedly raised $100,000 for the National Pancreatic Cancer Canada Foundation.

GETTING THEIR DINE ON: Making a difference one delicious bite at a time, thousands dined out in support of A Loving Spoonful (ALS) and the Friends for Life Society (FFL).

Dining Out for Life, B.C.’s largest restaurant fundraiser, celebrated 22 years last Thursday.

More than 100 restaurants from Whistler to White Rock came together to donate 25 per cent of their food sales to support people living with HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses. While rates of infection have declined considerably, and new therapies are extending lives, there are still some 15,000 people in B.C. living with the HIV/AIDs. ALS delivers free, nutritious meals to people affected by HIV/AIDS in the Greater Vancouver area, while the West End’s FFL society provides holistic, as well as counselling, nutrition programs and in-home support. Since 1994, Dining Out for Life has raised more than $3 million for both charities.

THE ARTFUL ROGER: Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar’s Roger Ma was crowned champion at the third annual Curry Cup competition presented by the Chef’s Table Society of B.C. The restaurant’s chef de cuisine’s Balinese Chicken Curry bested seven other top chefs to earn the coveted title, another win in a succession of culinary competition victories for the Boulevard kitchen team. Ma claimed the Vancouver Aquarium Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown back in November only days before executive chef Alex Chen grabbed the regional gold at the Gold Medal Plates regional competition in Victoria. Chen would go on to a bronze finish in the national championships.

Ma will follow in the footsteps of Chen on April 27 when he competes in the Canadian Culinary Foundation Bocuse d’Or Canada Competition in Toronto to represent Canada on the world stage in Lyon, France. Proceeds from the Curry Cup competition, staged at Heritage Hall, benefitted the Growing Chefs Society.

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Tret Jordan’s celebrated Homer Street Café was one of more than a 100 restaurants that participated in the 22nd Dining Out for Life fundraiser in support of Lisa Martella’s A Loving Spoonful and Friends for Life Society.

Chef’s Table Society president Scott Jaeger of the Pear Tree welcomed a capacity crowd to the firm’s Curry Cup. Proceeds from the contest benefitted Growing Chefs, which sees chefs and food growers go into schools to teach kids about healthy eating.

Lazy Gourmet’s Kevin Mazzone, Vidalin Family Foundation’s Pam Vidalin and Vancity’s Ryan McKinley were among the thousands who dined out last Thursday in support of the Dining Out for Life campaign.

Stylists Tracey Pincott and Ryan Haxton staged the exclusive Holt Renfrew fashion show, an annual fixture at Brian Jessel’s BMW Cabriolet Gala.

Curry Cup judge Mijune Pak congratulated 2016 Curry Cup Champion Roger Ma from Boulevard Kitchen. His Balinese curry bested seven others to win the coveted title. Ma’s chowder also claimed the Vancouver Aquarium Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown back in November.

Diana Zoppa chaired Brian Jessel’s 11th Cabriolet Charity Gala. The dealership-do generated another $100,000 for pancreatic cancer research.

Consul General of France Jean-Christophe Fleury presented artist Ian Wallace with the Chevalier de L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) for his significant contributions to the arts.

True North and fabulous! Chef Chris Whittaker opens Timber, a casual Canadian-focused eatery — think game-day chicken wings, Poutine, Bison burgers, tourtiere — next to his acclaimed Forage eatery on Robson Street.

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Seeing this production of The Gay Heritage Project back-to-back with The Hooker Monologues brought up similarities between gays and sex workers: they share long histories of persecution and lifestyles that are heavily stigmatized. Of course, it’s accepted that homosexuality is not a lifestyle choice but bio-

logically determined —that’s not the case with sex workers.

What is clear is that both communities are on the march for tolerance and recognition.

One good way to establish legitimacy is to uncover historical roots, and that is what The Gay Heritage Project sets out to do. Potential audiences have been bewildered by the title. Is it a documentary? A history

lesson? An interactive theatre experience? What is it?

Directed by Ashlie Corcoran, three young gay writers/ actors (Paul Dunn, Andrew Kushnir and Damien Atkins), using song, dance, sketches and projections, go back in time and place to reveal the history of homosexuality: acceptance in some cultures (i.e. the Greeks), discrimination in others.

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Not closing time just yet for the Irish Rovers Iconic band brings five decades of Emerald Isle flavour to CelticFest Vancouver Jeremy Shepherd

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It was Saturday night in Scotland and songs were set to be sung.

With the sky as black as the Earl of Hell’s waistcoat and the reek puffing from the lum — or maybe when it was a bit dark and smoke rose from the chimney — Geoffrey Kelly’s parents came back from the raised euphoria and reduced judgment one enjoys during an evening at the pub.

It was before the singer and flutist would record the brilliantly-titled solo album Gringo Star, before he added a Celtic texture to the indefinable sound of the Paperboys, before he trekked across the world with Spirit of the West and long before he ever became an Irish Rover.

“I didn’t realize at the time that it was important,” Kelly said of those Saturday nights in the family home. But as Kelly went about learning the flute, the bodhran (a handheld Irish percussion instrument), the tin whistle and the uillean pipes, those formative evenings of song came back to him.

His mother the singer and his father the accordionist would pack the house with a gang of folks, and there would always be a big sing song, he re-

In 2008, Spirit of the West’s Geoffrey Kelly (third from left) became a full-fledged Irish Rover, a group he had listened to as a child. The Irish Rovers perform a St. Patrick’s Day concert, March 17, at the Vogue Theatre as part of CelticFest Vancouver.

members. “It seemed like everybody in the village either sang or played.”

They were Kelly’s introduction to Celtic music, but to hear him tell it, those Saturday nights in that little village in southwest Scotland were less of an introduction and more of an immersion.

With whiskey on their breath and music in their heart, his parents would run through their repertoire while warmed by a coalburning fire.

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fledged Irish Rover in 2008. Joining a band that keeps the melodies of the Emerald Isle alive is a job he’d been preparing for more than 40 years.

He was nine when his family left Scotland for North Vancouver. Heading to New Zealand was a close second choice, but his parents were swayed by the nearness of friends and relatives from the old village.

“Scottish people just have a way of finding each other,” he explains.

The North Vancouver home became a “shrine to their past life,” Kelly remembers. That included an appreciation for the Irish Rovers.

The Irish/Canadian band formed when two Irish/Canadians met in Toronto and quickly found notoriety as the guys who sang “Whiskey, You’re the Devil” to a bunch of five-year-old children in Calgary. The band’s second album ended up in the Kelly household, and the tune “The Unicorn” was in heavy rotation.

The band’s television specials were also “mustwatch viewing, certainly for my folks,” Kelly says.

As a young man Kelly found himself awash in the nine-minute chord progressions of bands like Yes and Pink Floyd, but after a trip to Europe he found himself leaving the Dark Side of the Moon and coming back to the music of his youth.

“Once I rediscovered it, it was all-consuming for me. It totally changed my life,” he says.

Kelly first played with the band when the group was looking to beef up their sound for their 1989 release Hardstuff.

“Maybe the fact that I was in North Van helped,” Kelly said.

George Millar, who started the group with Jim Ferguson when he was just 16 and continues as the principle songsmith, also lived in North Vancouver and formed a connection with Kelly.

The two stayed in touch following the session, but it wasn’t until 2002 that Kelly got the call to join the Irish Rovers for a tour of New Zealand.

By the time the international ambassadors of the Celtic sound celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2012, Kelly was a fullfledged member.

Reached in a Regina, Sask., hotel room 10 days into the group’s latest world tour, Kelly is cognizant of the band’s dilemma: there are the songs they want to play, and the songs they absolutely, positively have to play.

Millar has penned a couple of new songs for the grey-bearded lads, including “An Irishman in Paris” as well as a ballad titled “She Never Had an Eye for Me.” The new songs are fun and challenging, but Kelly says the group makes sure to play “Drunken Sailor,” “Black Velvet Ban,” and one or two other fan favourites.

“I think we’d be lynched if we didn’t play ‘The Unicorn,’” Kelly adds.

After half a century, the band’s winding down a mite.

The tours are shorter and there are more rest days between gigs, but that doesn’t mean it’s closing time just yet.

“I think they enjoy it too much to pack it in completely,” Kelly says. “I don’t see the end quite in sight yet, that’s for sure.”

The legacy continues March 17 at the Vogue Theatre.

The Irish Rovers perform at CelticFest Vancouver, Vogue Theatre, St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.

For more information, visit celticfestvancouver.com.

Personal woven in with historical Continued from page 21 Woven into this historical journey are their personal stories beginning with lanky Damien Atkins (as a youngster) recreating Brian Orser’s 1988 World Figure Skating long programme sans skates in the family living room. “I’ve told you not to skate in the living room,” complains his mother while his sister simply rolls her eyes.

Andrew Kushnir, of Ukrainian ancestry, googles “Ukraine” and “gay” and gets nothing.

“Ukraine” and “homosexuality” — still nothing. Does that mean there are no gays in Ukraine? Later he meets a couple of Ukrainian actors who are amazed to find not only are there gays in Canada but there are also gay theatre companies. “Do [the

straights] know it’s a gay theatre company?” That, of course, gets a huge laugh since everyone in the audience has parted with cash to see this show, a production of Buddies In Bad Times, Canada’s most celebrated gay theatre company.

Dunn, whose background is Irish/Scottish, does a great turn delivering a song while pretending to play the bodhran, the fiddle and step-dance simultaneously. He also makes a terrific Margaret Atwood with his curled fingers as her trademark fuzzy hair. Some of the harmonies developed in the trio singing a cappella throughout the show are simply gorgeous.

There are more than 100 characters in The Gay Heritage Project all played by this highly energetically, hugely talented trio.

That’s a lot to absorb.

And highlights of more than 2,000 years of history are also a lot. The multitude of references — familiar to the LGBTQ community — don’t always resonate with the straights in the audiences.

In a flurry of projected names of celebrities who are or were gay, I got about a third of them.

And the show has a “theatre school exercise” to it which is fine and entertaining and certainly well done, but an hour and 45 minutes of this presentation style begins to wear thin.

Highlights for me, obviously, were the references I did get. I loved Dunn, Atkins and Kushnir sharing which character from The Golden Girls each of them would choose to be. Although I’m sick to death

of Dorothy and Toto, the Wizard of Oz sketch is clever and what’s not to love about God creating Adam and Eve and then discovering there were gays, too. He hadn’t, he said, had this much fun in “millennia.”

It’s never fair to criticize a show for what it isn’t. But I wanted it to go deeper, which it did only on occasion. That was not Atkins, Kushnir and Dunn’s intention.

The Hooker Monologues, on the other hand, changed my perspective; that’s what’s exciting about theatre and it’s thrilling when it happens.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

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Surprises abound in Belfast.

Such as the black taxicab driven by Billy Scott. Or, more correctly, Billy himself.

In many cities around the world, the taxi driver knows all, but doesn’t come close to telling passengers the half of it. He or she just wants to get you from point A to point B. In Northern Ireland’s capital, it’s a different story after Billy picks you up at the Stena Line ferry terminal. He’s onepart transporter, one-part historian.

He explains that Belfast is originally Beal Feirste — mouth of the sandbanks, where the River Lagan met the Farset. Look over there, Billy says, that’s Cave Hill.

It may have inspired Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver. “A sleeping giant, see?”

Billy drives into the most notorious neighbourhoods in West Belfast, the Loyalist Shankill Road and the Republican Falls Road.

They were the epicentre

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Q PHOTO JASMINE WANG t s of the violent, sectarian #DryYourEyes. A closer eight-storey building’s inter- t Troubles for 40 years, until look reveals well-wishing active exhibit, you can take K o the American-brokered messages in black marker. a solemn walk along the Good Friday peace acBilly pulls one from his massive, empty yard where t t cord in 1998 turned things pocket and offers it to visiTitanic was built. Billy around. The murals that tors to leave their own. wryly proclaims about the a dominate the sides of housBack in the cab, Billy Titanic’s 1912 sailing: “She a ing estates and apartment guides the cab across the was fine when she left.” blocks are expressions of Lagan, to the Titanic Next door is the film studio t n allegiance and pride, some Quarter, past the massive for Game of Thrones.

A even memorials to militants. yellow arch of H&W, the There’s the Odyssey They remain colourful and Harland and Wolff shipArena hockey rink, home m poignant reminders of the yards. Titanic Belfast on of the professional Belfast a y sorrow and loss on both Queen’s Island is a work Giants. Back across the H sides. Belfast can’t escape of art itself, inside and out, Lagan to central Belfast, its past and it doesn’t hide it telling the story of the rise with a moment beside the b either. Later, Billy stops at and fall of the industrial city Beacon of Hope sculpture, R N the Peace Wall, the division and the grand ship that was a 2006 work of the form between Shankill and Falls. said to be unsinkable, from of a woman in steel hoops. c Hip hop graffiti is splashed the district in which it was “There she be, the thing across, a hashtag implores made. After enjoying the with the ring,” says Billy.

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Living Next stop, the 1869-built, French/Gothic Albert Memorial Clock in Queen’s Square. You needn’t visit Pisa to see a structure askew, Billy remarks.

Winding our way through the narrow streets of the Cathedral Quarter, we stop and walk through a gallery of murals that tell the story of Belfast and its famous faces, including George Best and Van Morrison.

Hopping back in the cab, Billy spots Terri Hooley, the godfather of Belfast punk, walking the streets. Billy says hello, and mentions a Canadian journalist is in for a ride. “Come by for a pint at 5 [p.m.], to the John Hewitt,” says Hooley, who locals consider the “Unofficial Mayor of the Cathedral Quarter.” The proprietor of the Good Vibrations record shop managed the Undertones — whose “Teenage Kicks” became a hit in 1978 on Hooley’s Good Vibrations record label. That was the basis for the 2012 biopic about him.

Sure enough, Hooley was at the pub at 5, celebrating the opening of a friend’s nature portraits art show.

Another testament to the maxim that in Ireland there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met. The pub, Hooley explained, is owned by the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre, part of a Northern Ireland peace accord economic development

project. Cathedral Quarter is the incubator for Belfast’s new music scene, specifically the Oh Yeah music centre, inside a former whiskey warehouse, where bands jam, record and plan their gigs. The Harp, where Hooley promoted many a show, is no more. A plaque marks the spot. Hooley recommends taking a peek inside the Duke of York pub.

That’s where contemporary favourite Snow Patrol got its first gig in 1998.

Hooley enjoys an impromptu interview with a local magazine photographer, and I explore the Commercial Court area of the Cathedral Quarter. Hadskis, named for the operator of a late 18th century iron foundry, offers a menu of locally sourced delicacies and non-traditional meat, lamb and seafood dishes.

Then, before retiring to the Malmaison, a boutique hotel in an old seed warehouse, I end the day at the Duke of York, which offers a dilemma. The narrow street is framed by blooming hanging baskets and red benches alongside the walls. A relaxing place to sip a Guinness on a summer’s eve. There is no band on this night, but the interior boasts a shrine to all things Guinness through the ages: old advertising with the toucan mascot, vintage mugs, even Gaelic football programs from the 1960s and 1970s.

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Register to walk with us as we combine our total steps from now until April 15th to simulate a trek from Vancouver to Okinawa, Japan – land of the healthiest and longest-living people on earth! It’s free to participate, but donations welcomed in support of the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Limited free pedometers available.

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What do you know about heart failure?

If you’re like most people, not enough.

In fact, it is believed that most people who have heart failure are not even aware of it. It’s estimated 30 per cent of those who have heart failure, but are not aware of it, will go on to develop full blown symptoms requiring urgent medical care within the next three years.

The overall one-year mortality rate (risk of dying) for patients diagnosed with heart failure is 30 per cent. The risk is higher with those with three or more other chronic health conditions (up to 50 per cent) and higher still in the elderly (up to 61 per cent).

The most common causes of heart failure are high blood pressure and atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries).

Because the effects of these chronic conditions accumulate over time, the onset of symptoms is often gradual, unrecognized or mistaken for normal aging or deconditioning.

Other causes for heart failure include irregular heart rhythms, smoking, obesity, thyroid disease and excessive alcohol. Less common causes include disease of the heart muscle following viral infections, as side effects of medications (including some types of chemotherapy) or due to metabolic conditions such as hemochromatosis (iron overload).

In addition to the symptoms of fatigue, fluid retention and shortness of breath with physical activity, another classical

Individuals with heart failure can maintain their health with diligent self-care and lifestyle management, monitoring their weight to pick up on fluid retention that may indicate a sudden worsening of their condition, limiting salt, alcohol and fluid intake and maintaining regular appropriate exercise.

But patients who are informed and engaged in self-management in partnership with their family physicians have much better outcomes — slower disease progression and fewer hospitalizations.

Your heart is a muscular organ that acts as a pump. The right side of the heart receives blood returning from the body through veins and pumps this oxygen-depleted blood to the lungs.

Oxygen-rich blood then returns to the left side of the heart, which delivers it to the rest of the body (including the brain) through the arteries.

Congestive heart failure is due to the decline in the pumping ability of the heart. This results in shortness of breath when blood backs up into the lungs, edema (or fluid retention), particularly in the legs and feet when blood backs up into the extremities, and fatigue because less blood is getting to the brain, muscles and organs.

symptom is shortness of breath when lying flat. In patients with worsening heart failure, blood fills the lungs unless they are sitting upright.

Several classes of medications have been shown to improve both the survival and quality of life in heart failure. These include beta blockers and ACE inhibitors. The condition requires close medical follow-up and regular monitoring.

Individuals with heart failure can maintain their health with diligent selfcare and lifestyle management, monitoring their weight to pick up on fluid retention that may indicate a sudden worsening of their condition, limiting salt, alcohol and fluid intake and maintaining regular appropriate exercise.

To learn more attend my next free public lecture, “What you Should Know About Heart Disease,” on behalf of the Burnaby Division of Family Practice’s Empowering Patients series.

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Informed, engaged patients have much better health outcomes and fewer hospital visits when it comes to their heart health.

You’ll learn if you’re at increased risk, practical tips to reduce your risks and how to maintain your best health in spite of heart disease.

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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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Healthy eating guide encourages newcomers to consume

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To help spread awareness about heart and stroke health, the Multilingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities (MOSAIC) teamed up with the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association to produce and publish a healthy eating guide for newcomers to Canada. The guide’s aim is to encourage immigrants to consume more local seafood.

According to the Heart and Stoke Foundation, heart disease and stroke represents two of the three leading causes of death for Canadians, with nine out of 10 having at least one risk factor.

One risk factor is being of South Asian ethnic origin.

“We aren’t medical professionals, but we do hear that some cultural-ethnic groups do have a higher rate of heart disease,” said Ninu Kang, director of communications and development at

MOSAIC. “It was important for us, with the population that we are working with, to start to create some awareness around heart and stroke disease and healthy eating associated with it.”

For the past 25 years, MOSAIC has offered instruction on Canada’s Food Guide as well as guidance on healthy eating within its Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) classes. The free “Mosaic of Flavours” brochure is avail-

able online at MOSAIC’s website (mosaicbc.com). It expands on the organization’s goal of providing information on healthy eating by teaming up with six Vancouver chefs to create recipes that fuse together ethnic and Canadian cuisines.

“We did a small survey at MOSAIC to ask newcomers their diets in Canada to see how many people are eating fish,” Kang said. “What we learned is that newcomers do have seafood in their diet,

but not necessarily the local fish that we have here like salmon [or] scallops. The purpose of our cookbook is to have recipes that are heart healthy and have newcomers use local healthy foods to create easy recipes for them.”

While the Heart and Stroke Foundation are not official partners in the cookbook, they were crucial in pulling in the chefs. One of the participating chefs is Seungmin Han, the owner of Korean-Japanese restau-

rant Kosoo in the West End. He used MOSAIC’s services when he came to Canada from Korea nine years ago.

“MOSAIC is like my family,” Han said. “When we got here, we needed information and we needed help. MOSAIC helped us.

For me it was time to help them, too.”

Han’s contribution to the cookbook, “Bibimbom” with salmon and sesame cream sauce, is a heart-healthy

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4397 West 12th Ave. (Corner of 12th Ave. and Trimble St.)

Tel 604-733-8040

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Joint Good Friday service April 3rd @ 11a.m.

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UCBC Mandarin @ 9:15am Blessings to you all at Easter time!!

WPG Presbyterian Church @ 11:00am

Holy Week and Easter Services All services at 10:30 a.m.

March 20 - Palm Sunday A Walk Through Holy Week

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St. James’ Anglican Church Holy Week Mass, With Meditation 12:10 pm – Wednesday March 23

Sung Office of Tenebrae

7:30 pm – Wednesday, March 23

Maundy Thursday, March 24

7:00 pm - Solemn Mass of the Institution of the Lord’s Supper

Good Friday, March 25

10:00 am - Stations of the Cross for Children 2:00 pm - Stations of the Cross 3:00 pm - Solemn Liturgy of Good Friday

Holy Saturday, March 26

9:00 pm - The Great Vigil and First Mass of Easter

Easter Day, March 27

8:30 am - Low Mass of the Resurrection 10:30 am - High Mass of the Resurrection with Procession 5:00 pm - Evening Prayer and Benediction Cordova at Gore • 604-685-2532 • www.stjames.bc.ca

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March 25 - Good Friday Stations of the Cross March 27 - Easter Sunday with trumpet, organ and piano

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A blessed Easter from the Anglican churches on the Westside of Vancouver For details of services and activities over Easter at a church near you: Holy Trinity

St Faith’s

St Mary’s Kerrisdale

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stfaiths.ca 604 266 8011

stmaryskerrisdale.ca 604 261 4228

St Anselm’s

St Mary Magdalene

St Matthias & St Luke

saintanselms.ca 604 224 1410

stgeorgevancouver.ca 604 877 1788

stmstl.org 604 321 7101

St Augustine’s

St Helen’s

St Philip’s Dunbar

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pointgreyanglican.com 604 224 0212

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St Chad’s

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Living Wednesday, March 23, 7:00-8:30pm

local seafood

fusion take on the classic Korean dish of chili and soy seasoned rice and vegetables.

“Whatever we make [at the restaurant] is from our country. At the same time we are inspired by the ingredients of Vancouver. Whenever they make that recipe, they can feel that it is their home style yet at the same time they can get all the ingredients from here,” Han said.

In addition to Han’s recipe, Serbian-born chef Boban Kovachevich of Ex-

at Choices Burnaby location, 8683 10th Ave.

ecutive Hotels and Resorts provided a MediterraneanFrench fusion recipe for prawn avocado potato mille-feuille. Chef Chindi Varadarajulu, formerly of Chutney Villa, provided two South Asian dishes to the cookboo: Malaysian fish curry and Masala prawns and green beans with potatoes, while the Cottage Bistro’s Eugene Dong contributed the dish “Salmon Chinese Way.” @katrinatrask

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Kosoo’s chef/owner Seungmin Han contributed a recipe for “Bibimbom” with salmon and sesame cream sauce to MOSAIC’s online healthy eating guide.

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER AT DUNBAR HEIGHTS UNITED CHURCH Maundy Thursday, March 24th at 6pm A meal of remembrance and hope

Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday April 2 - 6:00 pm March 24 pm Jesus and the- 6:00 Passover: Communion ServiceDrama & Meal Meal & Tenebrae

Good Friday, March 25th at 10am

Good Friday

Remembering Jesus’ life and death

MARTIN LUTHER EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH

505 East 46th Avenue, Vancouver (one block West of Fraser St) Phone 604-325-0550 March 24,Thursday,

Maundy Thursday Service 6:00 pm light supper, 7:00 pm Service

March 25,

Good Friday Services: German Service at 9:00 and English Service at 10:30 am.

March 27,

Easter Sunday Combined Service at 10:30 am followed by our Easter Breakfast.

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Good Friday April 3 - 10:00 am March 25 of - 10:00 am The Passion the Christ Thank God It’s Friday

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ST. MATTHIAS & ST. LUKE ANGLICAN CHURCH An open-hearted community journeying with Christ…come join us!

Maundy Thursday

—The New Covenant

Supper 6 PM • Worship 7 PM

March 25

Good Friday

—The Passion According to St. John

Worship 10 AM

March 27

Easter Sunday

—Festive Service of Holy Communion

Pancake Breakfast 830 AM Worship 10 AM

Spirit of Life Lutheran Church is a welcoming and allinclusive Lutheran congregation (ELCIC).

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375 West 10th Avenue • Vancouver, BC • V5Y 3V1 604-874-2212 • spiritoflifelutheran.ca

He is risen! He is risen, indeed!

March 24

Were You There?

Holy Week at St. Helen’s Come and journey with the Saviour Sunday March 20 10:00am - Palm Sunday The Triduum:

HOLY WEEK & EASTER WORSHIP SERVICES Curious about Christianity?

Want to get connected (again) with faith and religion?

Everyone is welcome at these family-friendly worship services.

Palm Sunday:

Thursday March 24 6:00pm Maundy Thursday Friday March 25 12:00noon Good Friday Service Saturday March 26 7:00pm Family Easter Vigil Sunday March 27 10:00am - Easter Sunday Service

Maundy Thursday: March 24th, 7:30pm Foot-washing & Eucharist Good Friday:

March 25th, 12 noon Church available at 11am for private prayers Meditation on the Cross & Distribution of Communion

Easter Sunday:

March 27th, 10:30am Service of Light & Eucharist + Children’s Easter Egg Hunt

Were you there? Join in every step of the journey with Jesus in Holy Week. Come on the Sundays for the Psalms and The Resurrection, of course. But also be there with Him on each day of The Triduum (The Great Three Days), at the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, as He carries His cross on Good Friday, at the ancient Easter Vigil and blessing of the New Fire on Holy Sunday, and at the Festival Eucharist of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday morning.

Then when you’re asked, you can truly say, “I Was There!” Be a witness.

St. Helen’s Anglican Church (West Point Grey)

4405West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6R 2A3 Tel: 604-224-0212 Fax: 604-224-0802 Email: sthelenswpg@gmail.com Website: www.pointgreyanglican.com

March 20th, 10:30am Outdoor procession with palms and Eucharist

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Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness soar upward now to late April, Aries. You’re the leader, so lead, propose, start significant ventures/projects. Get out, mingle, make important contacts. You might travel afar, sidle into a cultural position, teach, write, publish or broadcast. Your intellectual side is strong and evident to all. People will want to know what you think. Tell them something shocking yet friendly.

Relationships fill the horizon now to late April. (“Relationships” includes dealings with the public, potential fame, negotiation, contracts and agreements, litigation, relocation ideas, business and other opportunities, the choice between cooperation and fighting. Some Librans will meet their future life mate now, but most of you will fare far better late September into autumn 2017, so don’t jump into something just to “not be left out.”

Quietly retreat, Taurus. The weeks ahead will find you a bit weary. So rest, protect your health, contemplate your past, those around you, and your future – make deep, careful plans. You’ll interface with government, large corporations, institutions and charities. (If you’re seeking employment, try these areas, as well as warehousing and assembly lines or massproduction companies.)

The weeks ahead feature work, dependants/ pets, service personnel, machinery/tools and daily health. Money flows to you most of March to late May – now, and in April, you’ll earn it! If you’re unemployed, the weeks ahead are a good time to job-search, especially March 26 to 28, 31, and April 8, 12, and 14 to 16. The present week, to Friday morning, I urge you to think “safety” rather than expansion, new projects, risk, etc.

Whew. After a month of career, reputation and business pressures, you finally receive a pass to easier, happier times (at least for a few weeks).

Your optimism and popularity grow. Entertainment, light (friendly) romance, social delights and wish fulfillment buoy the weeks ahead. “Friendly romance” might seem a bit of a misnomer, especially if you’re single, as others react to you with fierce intensity – let me reframe that.

Ah, sweet love – the weeks ahead bring romantic opportunities, pleasure, beauty, charming kids, creative urges and a risk-taking mood. Most of those risks will pay rewards – after this Friday noon. Before this, the entire week, DON’T start an emotional relationship. In truth, it is you who will tend to squelch love this week, through a number of small signals from your subconscious, small gestures or hesitations you might not even notice.

The weeks ahead emphasize ambition, your reputation, status, prestige relations, and dealings with authorities. As in the last few years, your career is unpredictable and under change – and you will benefit, especially if younger (20-45?) from a) investing in your own career or starting an independent business, and b) from humanitarian, group, electrical or computer involvements.

The four weeks ahead will emphasize your domestic situation, family, security, retirement plans, education programs for the kids, nutrition, gardening, and Mother Nature generally. This is a good time to prune – plants as well as projects and associations. Cut what is stale, unworkable, to leave room for more fruitful things to grow. Until Friday noon, strictly avoid new investments and new love attractions – both would lead to loss.

The weeks ahead emphasize higher learning and all intellectual pursuits, far travel, international views/affairs, publishing and media, statistics, science, insurance, fame, cultural venues, and love. Look at reasons, not facts. If single, you might fall in love anytime now to late May, or August/September. If a love affair starts in the few weeks ahead, it could lead to a wedding march.

(However, DO NOT start a love affair – ever – with anyone you meet this week, before noon Friday, PDT.

Errands, trips, visits, siblings and casual acquaintances, letters, e-mails, calls, contacts, details, paperwork – the weeks ahead are filled with these. Plunge in. You’ll be busy but the stakes are not high, so you can “relax at your core.” You’re able, 2012 to 2018, to communicate your essence, your personality, very well in writing, speech.

The weeks ahead hold secrets and mysteries – dipping into them can lead you to valuable insights, health cures, financial actions and unexpected intimacies.

You might be drawn toward a real estate purchase, or, on a smaller scale, new furniture, renovations or decorating, landscaping, etc. – even to a revision of your children’s future through, say, starting a scholarship fund. You’re both impulsive and creative in this domestic arena – you’ll probably experience the creative as pleasure in what you’re doing.

Money matters, possessions (and their protection) memory, and sensual attractions fill the weeks ahead. This is a relatively calm, easy period.

However, this week, until Friday noon, DON’T begin a major practical project, invest heavily, nor fall in love (nor even start an emotional relationship). Sunday mid-morn to late Tues. night brings relationships, cooperative and confrontational ones. And fresh new horizons, relocation ideas, public dealings, negotiations and possible litigation.

March 17: Kurt Russell (65). March 18: Queen Latifah (46). March 19: Ursula Andress (80).

March 20: Bobby Orr (68). March 21: Gary Oldman (58). March 22: Andrew Lloyd Webber (68).

March 23: Chaka Khan (63).

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Sports & Recreation THUNDERBIRDS: CIS FINAL 8

Musqueam player finds honour in T-Bird heritage Campbell-Axson ditched soccer pitch for basketball court

Megan Stewart

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When his dad put a basketball in his hands as a child, Elijah CampbellAxson dropped it to the floor and kicked it with his foot. He played soccer. His friends all played soccer.

What was a basketball if not disguised as something else to boot about?

As a toddler, he had also ignored the miniature hoop attached to his crib, but by the time he stood five-footnine in elementary school, a teacher sent him home with explicit instructions to join the basketball team.

The tall pre-teen didn’t want his parents to sign the permission slip.

“He was all sobs,” said Campbell-Axson’s father, LaShawn.

“He doesn’t like the story, but we laugh about it all the time,” said his mom, Jocelyn. “Everyone was focused on him. Here comes the tall kid. But he is not one for attention. I think he developed a skill to be able to take the pressure off and that’s lasted and helped him on a bigger stage.”

A starter with the Fighting Irish and graduate of Vancouver College, CampbellAxson is now a second-year guard with the UBC Thunderbirds as the university prepares to host the Canadian Interuniversity Sport collegiate championship Final 8 starting Thursday on the Point Grey campus.

The tournament hasn’t been to B.C. since 1972, and the last time the T-Birds won a national title was ’78.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing to be playing in the national championship as the host team,” said CampbellAxson. “We’re ready.”

UBC plays the No. 1 ranked Ryerson Rams at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Doug Mitchell Sports Centre. All quarterfinals will be played that night.

The T-Birds may be the underdog against the Rams, but UBC’s players are optimistic in their preparation.

“We worked for this all year round and anything can happen. All we need is three wins for the national championship and we’ve trained hard, we’ve worked hard, we have an amazing coaching staff and if everything goes well, we can beat Ryerson,” said Campbell-Axson.

Averaging less than seven minutes a game through

the regular season, the six-foot role player scored two points a game and has a knack for elevating the team in other ways.

“The contribution that I try to make all year is to be a positive teammate to be around. I’m here for any of the guys who want to come up and talk if they’re going through a rough time in school or something is not going right on the court.

They can always come and talk to me,” he said. “And during the game I will be as loud as I can be on the bench, supporting the guys.

If my name does get called to come into the game, I’m going to try and down a three-pointer.”

Fellow Vancouverite and one-time Kitsilano Blue Demon rival, Luka Zaharijevic remembers the Fighting Irish stand-out with a massive afro.

“It was massive, swinging in everyone’s face and we all tease him about that one,” said the player called The Bazooka. “Now we all call him the glue of our team. Being a 12th or 13th man is always tough — we talk about it — and you have to find other ways to contribute. He is open to everyone and he has an outgoing personality.”

Zaharijevic said his teammate ribs the senior T-Birds and keeps them humble. “He loves chatting and getting into it.”

More than that, CampbellAxson brings together the sport his father loves under a mythological emblem of his mother’s people.

Meaningful representation

UBC has a sports emblem that does more than give the host school a nickname.

The Thunderbird holds a unique place in sport as a mascot embraced by the First Nation cultures it represents and one that pays tribute to the history of the place and its people. Two of those people are CampbellAxson and his mother, who are Musqueam.

“I believe the Thunderbird is more so a symbol of strength and a good representation of a mythological creature in the native community,” said the basketball player. “It has a lot of history behind it.”

In 1948 during half time of the homecoming football game, William Scow and his son Alf Scow endorsed

Schedule: CIS Final 8 All games are at the UBC Doug Mitchell Sports Centre.

Quarterfinals Thursday, March 17 1 p.m.

Thompson Rivers v Carleton 3 p.m.

Dalhousie v Ottawa 6 p.m.

McGill v Calgary 8 p.m.

UBC v Ryerson The four losing teams play Friday at either 5 or 7 p.m.

The four winning teams advance to the semi-finals on Saturday, March 19 with games at 3 and 5:30 p.m.

The bronze medal game is 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20.

In the Canada West playoffs, Thunderbirds guard Elijah Campbell-Axson came off the bench for 13 points and six rebounds. PHOTO RICHARD LAM/UBC ATHLETICS

the school’s use of the name Thunderbird on behalf of the Kwicksutaineuk people.

In front of more than 5,000 fans, this gift was further sealed with the dedication of the 22-foot totem pole named “Victory Through Honour” that stands on campus and marks the ongoing relationship as well as the traditional, unceded territory of the Musqueam.

In 1993, in a report by the Ubyssey newspaper, the younger Scow returned to UBC and then in 2004 the totem pole was re-dedicated by the Musqueam Indian Band.

It’s an example worth noting and, ideally, emulating.

Increasing criticism points to professional sports teams that have disgraced their leagues, players and fans by sticking to insulting mascots, which are racist but defended because they are also historical — if 81 years can be considered a long time on a continent where other societies speak of time immemorial.

In the NFL, there’s Washington’s regressive leadership and inexcusable epithet. In baseball there is the cartoon

face of Cleveland and the chants of the Braves. In high school and college sports, some teams are named for Nations that were forcibly removed from the same land.

“Those professional teams,” said Campbell-Axson, “I believe those are very derogatory terms for First Nations people like me.”

In the UBC Thunderbirds, the relationship upholds respect, shared land and education. And for this weekend, basketball.

Basketball in his roots Truth be told, LaShawn was thrilled his son not only had the physical attributes to hold his own on the hardwood but quickly showed a natural talent, too.

A promising basketball player growing up in Tacoma, Wash., LaShawn said he was held back by a bad attitude and indifference for the people trying to help him. He wasn’t going to let that mistake repeat itself.

“I tried to walk on to college teams but at that time I didn’t have what he has.

I did have a father saying, ‘Yo, your attitude stinks.’ I did have that. That is why

I’m so able to teach him the rights and wrongs of how to go about things. I spoiled my opportunity.”

He was determined to be a positive influence in his son’s life and started coaching at Immaculate Conception elementary school and still volunteers as an assistant coach with Lloyd Scrubb at Vancouver College.

“I really wanted to be a hands-on father. It didn’t matter if it was soccer or basketball or baseball. As soon as I found out I was having a son, I vowed I would be the opposite of what I had when I was brought up so I was able to change my schedule to workout out at the gym, show him how to shoot hoops and pass the ball and give him the tools he needed to be a success,” said LaShawn, who met Jocelyn on a trip to Vancouver and a few months later moved from Washington State after their friendship turned more meaningful.

“I would have loved for my mom and step-dad to come to my games. They always had to work and I didn’t have the support system Elijah has.

Back where I’m from, there

The CIS men’s basketball championship game is 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 20. The final is live on Sportsnet 360.

was not a lot of opportunity for young African-American men there. It’s pretty bad. I took the opportunity to make a different way of life than what I was living.”

LaShawn said his son is “surrounded by love” and the support of his family. “Everybody loves this dude. I’d love to take all the credit, but it isn’t just me. I believe that if you are surrounded by love and respect, you grow up better.”

The basketball player is setting an example in the community dominated at all ages by the beautiful game.

Soccer is entrenched in the Musqueam community, but occasionally children rebound for Campbell-Axson at the community centre where he practises with his dad. From time to time, he’ll even kick around a soccer ball.

“If you want to talk about soccer, there are some damn good soccer players here,” said LaShawn, who noted more children and teens are shooting hoops for their elementary and secondary schools. “I believe we reintroduced basketball to this community.” @MHStewart

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, M A R C H 1 7 , 2 0 1 6

Sports & Recreation HOCKEY: CITY CHAMPIONSHIP

Hat trick nets Bulldogs win Megan Stewart

mstewart@vancourier.com Churchill Bulldogs put pressure on the Point Grey Grey Hounds before winning the girls hockey city championship at Hillcrest Arena March 7.

Public Hearing: April 5

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To amend the Zoning and Development By-law to allow for projection of covered porches and increase the maximum number of storeys on sloping sites in the RM-7 and RM-7N Districts; add a definition for “Theatre” use; amend the definition of “Neighbourhood Grocery Store”; allow a relaxation of floor area distribution in a floodplain within the RS-6 District; and correct or clarify various sections of other district schedules. To amend the Downtown Official Development Plan and Downtown-Eastside/Oppenheimer Official Development Plan to clarify that a relaxation of the maximum floor space ratio of a building may be considered in exchange for the provision of a cultural facility.

2. 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.

3. 5021-5079 Quebec Street To rezone 5021-5079 Quebec Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building, containing a total of 42 dwelling units. A height of 19.8 metres (65 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.30 are proposed.

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4. 526-548 West King Edward Avenue To rezone 526-548 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building containing 42 dwelling units. A height of 20 metres (66 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.35 are proposed.

5. 6505, 6507 and 6541 Main Street To rezone 6505, 6507 and 6541 Main Street from C-2 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building containing 75 for profit affordable rental housing units and commercial uses at grade. A height of 21.3 metres (70 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.60 are proposed.

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Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing on March 24 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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claimed the girls hockey city championship on the force of a two-goal shift and eventual hat trick from centre Hazel Barthel in a 5-3 win over Point Grey at Hillcrest Arena on March 7.

Barthel’s three goals came in the third period, the first one an end-toend rally that tied the game 2-2.

“I got the puck from in my end and then I skated it all the way and shot it bottom left corner,” said the Grade 10 student who plays with the city’s allgirls hockey association, the Vancouver Angels.

Coming back from a goal down shifted momentum, said Barthel.

“After that, people were like — OK, we can still win this. We still have a good chance.”

Still on the ice with the two Emmas — Ng and Hay — and taking the puck drop at centre ice, Barthel wasn’t done yet.

“I don’t think I’ve scored two goals in the same shift before,” said the 15-year-old, who five years ago showed up for an Angels learn-to-skate program with the only equipment she had at the time: figure skates.

Barthel fired in her second goal from the top of the circle after skating into the zone. And the third goal came under pressure from the Grey Hound defence protecting an empty net in a 4-3 game. Barthel deked and skated behind the net for a wrap-around goal with only seconds on the clock.

Churchill coach Matthew Jefferson said the memorable win was all the more sweet because the roster will be significantly different next season.

“This was a very special city final to win because we have six girls graduating this year,” he said.

“For most of the game we rolled the lines and everyone on the team played a significant role in the victory.”

Churchill Bulldogs Emily Froese and Grace Zhang added a goal apiece. Leah Bishop netted two for the Grey Hounds, and Stephanie Wallace added one more in the losing effort. @MHStewart

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Sports & Recreation BASKETBALL: BC CHAMPIONSHIPS

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TOP OF THE CHARTS 1. St. George’s Jamie Catliff (No. 20) windmills past Churchill defender Pai Han Chen (No. 2) in the senior boys AAAA ninth-place game at the Langley Events Centre March 12. The Bulldogs, seeded second after winning the Vancouver and Lower Mainland tournaments, defeated the Saints 104-81 and went 3-1 after being upset in the first round to the 15th seed. 2. Under tight coverage, Kitsilano Blue Demon Howard Wang (No. 25) hangs for the soft finish in a 78-70 quarterfinal loss to the silver-place Tamanawis Wildcats on March 10. Wang was sidelined with an ankle injury and did not return to the game or the tournament. Kitsilano finished sixth overall in the AAAA tournament. 3. West Point Grey Academy’s Spencer Kwok (No. 6) steals the ball and drives up court in a 68-56 loss to eventual class-A champions from Dawson Creek, Ron Pettigrew Christian. The Grey Wolves finished fifth in B.C. 4. Bulldog Leslie Ochieng (No. 10) guards the ball from Saints defender Adrian Bacic (No. 11). More coverage and photos online at vancourier.com/sports. PHOTOS CHUNG CHOW

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It’s the ultimate Boxster.

As accolades go, that’s a doozie — for a long time both the Boxster and Cayman have been thought of as Porsche’s real sportscars, with the 911 lengthened and stretched into something of a grand tourer.

Not that the 911 wasn’t faster on the racetrack.

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Everything likeable about the Boxster remains, just with a bigger heart to motivate things.

ful not to let their entrylevel mid-engined model step on the toes of the icon.

If you were a fan of the brand, it was more than a little frustrating: were we getting the best car Porsche could engineer, or just the most profitable line-up they could sell?

Well, now they’ve done it. They’ve finally dropped the 911’s 3.8L flat-six into a mid-engined configuration and said to

heck with the lap times.

The Cayman GT4 and the Boxster Spyder are both as hardcore as you can get, manual-only machines designed to stir the senses.

With the Spyder, the emotional stirring bit gets even better as the top comes off.

On a rare sunny week in November, we opened the roof and throttle to see whether a new king Porsche can be crowned.

Design:

Reworked several years ago, both the Cayman and Boxster have really evolved into their lines.

Rather than being entrylevel in any meaningful way, they’re like baby supercars, shrunken versions of the V10-powered Carrera GT. The Spyder sharpens up the venom further with functional aerodynamic tweaks to the front and rear fascias, standard

20” Carrera-style wheels, a lowered suspension, and a sleek back deck that’s even more Carrera GT when the top is down.

It looks great, although with the minimalist fabric top deployed and twin rear buttresses attached, this is definitely a machine intended to be driven topless frequently.

On the West Coast, that’s tricky, and for more than one reason.

Environment:

Inside, the Spyder is remarkable more for what it doesn’t come with than what it does. There’s no dualclutch PDK option. There’s no dual-zone climate control.

There’s no satellite navigation. You have to pay extra for leather seats.

What few options this $100,000 convertible has are limited to contrasting stitching for the seats, and Bi-Xenon headlights on the outside.

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Overly complicated top; very thin standard features; high price tag.

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And the question most of you are asking: “Who cares? What about the drive?”

Well first, let’s get that top down. In an MX-5, it’s a two-second manual turn and squash; with a normal Boxster, it’s a power-folding one-touch that’s quick and easy. The Spyder is a blend of the worst bits of both: first, open the electronic latch; next, get out of the car and release the two buttress latches (this can take a bit of a struggle); then, manually fold the top into the space, taking care to tuck everything properly into the confined space; last, move the tabletopsized clamshell into place, taking care not to get anything misaligned.

It can take five minutes, it can take 15. It’s not the sort of thing you want to be wrestling with during a sudden squall. Happily, the alternative to fiddling with the roof is just to go faster, and at this, the Spyder is an absolute beast.

The six-speed manual shifter is better than the 911’s seven-speed stick, and bolting it to the 3.8L engine just makes things even better. This is as easy a manual car to drive through traffic as any, with plenty of low-end power for you to lazily upshift early and downshift late.

just buy gloves and a hat and don’t let anyone else borrow it.

Running on premium fuel, and preferably the 94 octane you only get at Chevron stations, the Spider gets a best economy of 13.3L/100kms city and 9.9L/100kms highway. Like most Porsches, it’ll actually do it, and it’ll hit the highway rating with ease.

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Performance:

The flat six, a directinjection all-aluminum affair, makes 375hp and 310lb-ft of torque; it’s the defining characteristic of the Spyder.

While the car is lighter, this car is all about the bigger, lustier engine, and it pulls, pulls, pulls hard to redline. The gears are racetrack long, so your chance to dance to redline in third and fourth shouldn’t happen in the public sphere, but if you’re going to track your Boxster from time to time, it’ll absolutely fly.

Everything likeable about the Boxster remains, just with a bigger heart to motivate things.

Turn-in is sharp and direct, a livelier, more reactive experience than your average 911 drive. Grip is incredible, well above 1.0g. The flaps open on the sports exhaust to snap and growl and backfire on lift-throttle.

With the top up, visibility isn’t great, but most of the sound and fury is still there.

With the top down, following the curves of a coastal road, it’s sheer bliss, the kind of elemental experience every Porsche should deliver. Leave Sport+ alone and handle your own heel-toe downshifting, and the Spider starts to make perfect sense.

Porsche isn’t going to make very many of these and yes, it’s more difficult to live with than the standard Boxster.

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That’s it — this is as Spartan as a single apple for lunch.

Happily, the Boxster’s got some pretty reasonable cabin space, and if the cupholders are next to useless, the glovebox is pretty good. The spacious front trunk is as good as any 911s, and there is extra hidden storage underneath the large rear clamshell, though you have to partially open the roof to get at it.

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