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Looking back at a young life discarded

Mike Howell

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It’s been a year now since the public heard the tragic story of Paige, a 19-year-old woman who died in 2013 of a drug overdose in a washroom adjacent to Oppenheimer Park.

That story was told in detail in a report released in May 2015 by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the Representative for Children and Youth.

As regular readers will know, the provincial government has implemented some measures in an attempt to ensure such a story isn’t told again.

They include the creation of a so-called “rapid response team” to support and monitor troubled young people in the Downtown Eastside and promises of setting up an adolescent services unit and shelter. The government also committed to provide money for organizations to hire more staff and extend their hours.

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Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the Representative for Children and Youth, continues to pressure the provincial government to do more for vulnerable young people in the Downtown Eastside.

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more interested in is whether anyone will be held accountable for what happened to Paige, who died after years of abuse, neglect and what Turpel-Lafond said in her report was “persistent inaction from front-line professionals

and an indifferent social care system that led to this young woman’s demise.”

Some of you may not be aware the RCMP launched an investigation into the allegations in the report to determine why — in multiple

instances — police, health officials, social services workers and others failed to report that Paige [whose surname was not released] needed protection under the Child, Family and Community Service Act.

As Turpel-Lafond told me in September 2015, in the last three years of Paige’s life, there were literally hundreds of incidents where people should have reported there was a child in need of protection and didn’t.

Turpel-Lafond told me last week that her understanding is the RCMP completed its investigation and forwarded a report to Crown counsel.

I checked with the RCMP and the Crown to get more detail. Their answers came via email. This from Cpl. Janelle Shoihet, an RCMP media relations officer: “There is no update at this time.” And this from Dan McLaughlin, spokesperson for the Criminal Justice Branch: “We generally do not comment on, or confirm whether we have received a report until we have completed the charge assessment process. We have nothing to report at this time.”

If a person or persons is charged and convicted under the Act, it could result in a fine of up to $10,000 and six

months in prison. If there is no prosecution, then what?

Keep in mind while all this is going on that, by the government’s own estimates, there are about 50 vulnerable children and young people living in “high-risk situations” in the Downtown Eastside; Turpel-Lafond believes it’s closer to 200.

While the public waits for some news on the investigation, Turpel-Lafond said the Crown’s decision on whether to approve charges will ultimately answer what value is placed on the care of troubled children in this province.

“This decision about whether or not child welfare is meaningful or not is one of the most important decisions British Columbia will face,” she said, noting the system will be “turned on its ear” if the investigation leads to a prosecution. “What we have right now is a system based on, ‘Let’s just pretend we’re not seeing what we’re seeing and let’s just pretend it’s OK to do nothing about it.’” @Howellings

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Province commits $1.2 million to Downtown Eastside youth

Mike Howell

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The provincial government says it will spend $1.2 million on programs and services in an effort to improve the lives of troubled young people in the Downtown Eastside.

Stephanie Cadieux, Minister of Children and Family Development, said $800,000 will be spent to create an adolescent services unit at one of the ministry’s offices on Cambie Street and $400,000 will go to youth services organizations to expand outreach, extend hours and hire more staff.

“I won’t tell you it’s enough, I will tell you it’s what we’re doing today to address some of the gaps that we believe exist that need to be filled urgently,” Cadieux told reporters May 10 in a conference call. “There will always be more that we can and would like to do. And when we determine what those are, or how we can address those additional gaps, we

will look to do so.”

The minister said two more positions will be added to a so-called “rapid response team” created in October 2015 to monitor and support young people in the Downtown Eastside facing significant challenges such as being homeless, abusing drugs and alcohol or victims of sexual exploitation. The government estimates up to 50 young people fall into one or more of the categories.

Separate from the $1.2 million in spending will be the creation of a shelter specifically for young people.

Unlike other facilities geared to youth, tenants will not be expected to abstain from drugs or alcohol, or participate in a detox program.

“While there exists a range of safe houses and supportive housing units where young people can stay short term, the vast majority of those resources have rules,” said Cadieux, noting the aim is to get youth off the street before assessing their issues.

“These requirements can push away many of the high-risk youth who might benefit from a more ‘noquestions-asked approach’ to first gain that stability and trust.”

The cost, location and number of beds have not been finalized but Cadieux suggested up to five spaces could be made available.

The government is working with the City of Vancouver, the Provincial Rental Housing Corporation, Vancouver Coastal Health and B.C. Housing to set up the shelter, which is expected to open in 2017.

The announcement comes one year after the Representative for Children and Youth, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, released a report that documented the tragic story of Paige, a 19-year-old woman who died of a drug overdose in the Downtown Eastside after years of abuse, neglect and “persistent inaction from front-line professionals and an indifferent social care system.”

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Critic calls initiatives ‘inadequate’ Continued from page 5 Turpel-Lafond told the Courier by telephone the government’s initiatives were “woefully inadequate” and that much of what the minister announced will be delayed in its implementation, with the adolescent unit not open until sometime in the fall and the shelter not until sometime in 2017.

She disagreed with the ministry’s estimates on the population of trouble young people in the Downtown Eastside. She put it closer to 200.

Although the minister described the $1.2 million as “new money,” TurpelLafond said money for child safety was indicated in the government’s most recent budget.

She noted the minister’s announcement came the week after she tabled a report in the B.C. legislature and reminded the government it had been one year since she released her report on Paige.

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Paige as a baby, as a child and before she died of a drug overdose at 19 in the Downtown Eastside in 2013. Her story, which was released a year ago, had a “profound effect” on the Ministry of Children and Family Development, according to Minister Stephanie Cadieux. Photos courtesy of the office of B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth.

something new. It’s good, we need it. It’s just when I look at what it is, and I look at the faces and the needs of the kids on the street and the crisis that they’re in — and they’re careening literally out of control every day — and I say, ‘Oh well, hang on guys, in 2017 there’s going to be five beds built for you somewhere in the Lower Mainland.’ This is the best we can do?”

Cadieux said that Paige’s story had a “profound effect” on the ministry and caused staff to review cases of 124

youth in care or receiving services. From that, up to 50 were identified as “high-risk.”

Cadieux said she had yet to speak to TurpelLafond in detail about the government’s $1.2 million package.

“I’m sure that she will welcome the changes and I’m sure that she will criticize that they are yet not enough,” the minister said.

“That’s her role as the advocate to continue to push for more and better, and I respect that.” @Howellings

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City issues first business licence to pot shop Mike Howell

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The City of Vancouver issued Monday the firstever business licence for a pot shop in the city’s history to operators of a marijuana dispensary that will soon open on West 10th Avenue in Point Grey.

Wealth Shop Society at suite 104-4545 West 10th Ave., which shares a parking lot with Safeway and is in a complex that includes a law office, dentist and veterinarian, is a new retail dispensary and did not have an existing location in Vancouver.

As of Tuesday, it had not opened for business but had set up a website that gave some insight into how it would operate.

“We are out to reinvent how things are done,” said the website, noting Wealth Shop is now accepting applications to become a member. “Dispensaries have a bad name in Vancouver. We want to create an approachable, accessible and safe environment for all our members.”

The website claimed Wealth Shop only works with trusted suppliers that meet “our rigorous product safety, sustainable and health standards.” The Courier was unable to contact the owner before the paper’s print deadline.

Andreea Toma, the city’s chief licensing inspector, said Tuesday the society has met all of the city’s new rules to regulate a dispensary, including its staff undergoing criminal record checks and signing a “good neighbour agreement.”

“It signals that the city is committed to this — it’s not that we were never willing to issue a business licence,” Toma told the Courier.

“If anything that they do doesn’t meet our current regulations, we will bring them back in and have a chat with them. The good neighbour agreement signed yesterday clearly indicated that, and they were all willing to sign it.”

Toma said the society wants to open two other dispensaries, which are currently under review. The society is registered under the B.C. Societies Act, but Toma said the operators haven’t indicated whether they will seek to open a compassion club or retail business in the other locations.

Toma said Wealth Shop paid $20,000 for its business licence, which covers the remainder of the year.

The city has set the annual fee for a retail dispensary at $30,000, which the owners will have to pay once its first year of operation expires.

The fee for a compassion club is $1,000.

Toma said operators of two other dispensaries are close to having the city issue business licences. To acquire a business licence, applicants must first be approved for a development permit. Wealth Shop was one of 10 applicants approved for a development permit.

In June 2015, city council voted 8-3 with a staff proposal that calls for annual licence fees, criminal record checks and zoning regulations that prohibit pot shop from operating within 300 metres of schools, community centres, neighbourhood houses and each other.

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

Meanwhile, the city continues to issue $250 tickets to those pot shops that refused to close their doors last month. The shops were given six months to close or find another location and participate in the city’s business licence application process. As of Tuesday, 30 stores had complied, 61 remain open, 139 tickets were issued and seven paid.

The federal government has promised to introduce legislation next spring to legalize marijuana. @Howellings

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Historic Vancouver ‘electric home’ may be saved City orders heritage inspection to assess its value

Naoibh O’Connor

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Heritage Vancouver is welcoming news that the city has issued its first ever heritage inspection order to determine if one of Vancouver’s historic houses merits conservation.

The owner of the home in question — located at 1550 West 29th Ave. — wants to redevelop the property and is seeking a demolition permit to knock it down.

When news of that possibility emerged more than a month ago, it ignited public concern.

Townley and Matheson designed the Tudor-style home, which was built in 1922. They also designed city hall.

Electrical Services League of B.C. used the house as a show home to demonstrate how a house could be wired for electricity.

The heritage inspection order affords it temporary heritage protection while the city assesses its heritage and character. The order re-

mains in effect for 30 days.

Results of the inspection are expected to be presented to council May 31.

“What we’re really encouraged by is the city taking action on something,” Patrick Gunn, a spokesperson for heritage Vancouver, told the Courier.

Jane Pickering, the city’s director of planning, said its value is worth investigating.

“We just got authority to use the [heritage inspection order] tool in September, when the bylaw was passed, and this is one of the first homes that we feel bears further investigation,” she said.

Pickering explained that the inspector will be looking at the home’s historical value, including physical components that reflect the time in which it was built, as well as the architects who built it and the people who lived in it.

“Because often times who lived in the house or whoever built the house can be very important, so we’ll be detailing all of that out,” she said,

The City of Vancouver has ordered a heritage inspection of this home at 1550 West 29th to determine its heritage value.

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adding, “Sometimes the heritage value lies in the physical landscape of the area or landscaping, so they’ll be detailing all of that out so we have a clear picture.”

Once the report is com-

pleted, staff will assess next steps, which could include giving the house heritage designation or asking council for another 120 days to assess options.

“The way the legislation works is the city can des-

ignate, but the owner can request compensation for that designation,” Pickering said. Staff have been in contact with the owner. “Their reaction has been, thank you for your concerns but we would still like to bring the house down.”

Gunn said the house is valuable both because it was a model electric home and the fact Townley and Matheson — who were among the top architects in the city in the 1920s and ’30s — designed it. A Heritage Vancouver survey found only between 40 and 50 per cent of the houses they built are still standing.

“So far, we’ve confirmed about 69 homes remain,” he said.

Townley and Matheson homes landed in eighth spot on the organization’s recently released Top 10 most endangered sites list.

Gunn said a typical house in the era the home was built had about 20 or 25 electrical outlets, while it featured more than 120 sockets.

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tours for a month.

“It was a sales tool to get people to buy more electrical appliances,” he said. “So it’s an incredible house just in that fact.”

Gunn also said the woodwork was locally milled.

“It’s the most made-inB.C. house you could probably come across.”

A person whose family owned it for 51 years provided Heritage Vancouver with details about its history.

The person’s mother bought it in 1954 for $24,000. It was sold in 2005 for $1.6 million. The lot value now far exceeds that.

A plaster frieze above the fireplace in the living room matches that of one in Government House in Ottawa.

The first owner was the Anderson family, followed by the Browns who were grandparents of Peter Brown of Canaccord.

“Even Mackenzie King would come to visit and have meetings at that house,” Gunn said. “So it has a really interesting social history as well.” @naoibh

Modular housing planned for orchard, parkade City says up to 120 ‘micro suites’ will be built on city properties Mike Howell

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A section of an orchard and a downtown parkade will soon be transformed into temporary housing for up to 120 people on income assistance and fixed incomes as part of an innovative approach by the city to create more affordable housing.

The orchard at 1500 Main St. and the parkade behind the Bosman Hotel at 1060 Howe St. are expected to have modular “micro suites” of about 250 sq. feet placed on the city properties by late fall.

The 40 to 80 suites on the orchard site will be equipped with bathrooms and kitchens while the 40 suites on the parkade will come with bathrooms and shared kitchens.

“The opportunity to put modular housing in place on sites that will someday be redeveloped really enables high efficiency, good living conditions and the opportunity to build a community, in the short term, at a very affordable rate,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson at a news conference held

May 12 in the orchard near the Main Street Skytrain station, which is operated

by Sole Food Street Farms.

Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer and head of the Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency, said the housing could be in place for two to five years before having to be relocated. Latif said the tenants’ rents will be subsidized and the city will look to senior governments and the private sector for funding.

Typically, modular housing is pre-fabricated in a factory and will sometimes involve recycled shipping containers. Once built, the pieces are loaded onto a truck and transported to a site, where they are assembled and hooked up to city services and utilities.

The city has chosen five companies to compete and produce the best proposal for one or both of the projects. They are: Horizon North, Britco, Atco, Dialog/ Kindred/Stack Modular and Ladacor, a Calgary company working with Atira Women’s Resource Society.

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Ladacor, a Calgary company, has joined with Atira Women’s Resource Society to submit a bid to build modular housing on city property. Pictured is a drawing of a modular seniors’ building the company built in Alberta. Four other companies are competing to build projects. PHOTO COURTESY LADACOR

Project costs unknown Continued from previous page Rhys Kane, director of business development for Ladacor, was at the orchard Thursday to survey the site and said he also has an interest in submitting a proposal for the parkade.

Kane said the company uses repurposed steel shipping containers in the construction of its modular developments, which include a hotel north of Edmonton, a rental apartment building in Edmonton and a seniors’ housing complex in northern Alberta.

“It’s a very cost-effective way of being able to supply a steel structure,” he said of the containers, also pointing out the studs used in construction are steel, making the dwelling safe from a spreading fire, durable to live in and to transport.

Though a modular housing project experiment is new for the city, Atira already has experience with container housing, having worked with JTW Consulting a few years ago to build 12 self-contained apartments on Alexander Street.

Atira has another proposal for a seven-storey building constructed from shipping containers on Hawks Avenue. That proposal went to public hearing May 17, after the Courier’s press deadline.

Janice Abbott, CEO of Atira, joined Kane at Thursday’s news conference and said the society is attracted to the environmental aspect of recycling containers that might otherwise be destroyed or left in a junkyard.

Kane and Abbott said they won’t know how much it will cost to build a project on either site until the city releases details in the requestfor-proposal documents.

“We don’t want to say too much either because we’re competing against other companies,” Abbott said.

When modular housing is moved on to the orchard site, it will cover between 8,000 and 10,000 sq. feet of the

28,000 sq. foot property. Sole Food set up the orchard so it could move its trees without having to re-plant them; the trees grow in large plastic containers designed to allow a forklift to pick them up.

“We’re well aware of the high value of land, here in the city and that we are temporary tenants,” said Michael Ableman, “chief executive agrarian” of Sole Food.

“But if the city came to us with an eviction notice and they were going to put an extension to the [adjacent] Fiat dealership, you’d be hearing a very different conversation right now. I would have been quite vocal.”

Ableman, who employs workers from the Downtown Eastside, said he’s glad the city wants the orchard to stay alongside whatever new housing is built, saying he doesn’t believe you can have one without the other.

“A community is not just a few modular houses dropped into place,” he said, standing in the orchard. “A community involves all kinds of things, not the least of which is some semblance of a natural environment, food, employment — all those things.”

The orchard has 500 trees, including apple, pear, figs and persimmons that were planted three years ago.

Herbs and vegetables also grow in the orchard, which is one of five sites Sole Food operates in the city. About 50,000 pounds of food is produced every year and it goes primarily to local restaurants, community kitchens and farmers’ markets.

Ableman said he is hopeful Sole Food will be included in the design of how the modular housing is incorporated into the orchard.

He also believes the tenants should have a connection to the orchard, including working for Sole Food.

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How to make a million dollars ‘doing nothing’

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’ve got a small bet going with my neighbour. Another house just sold across our back alley. She’s betting it will be torn down. She gave me five to one odds. I bet a nickel it wouldn’t be.

In our neighbourhood, where teardowns and reconstruction never seems to stop, this is what passes for entertainment.

Betting the city or the province will do anything about it? Well, you have got to be kidding.

Housing sales and prices hit new highs in Vancouver and Toronto The subject of our wager is a bungalow in great shape and with a basement suite.

It sold for $2.67 million ($800,000 above the list price). The last house sold on the block previous to this one, sold a year ago for $1.8 million. That’s roughly a 50 per cent increase in house prices — or rather lot prices, on that one block in 12 months.

That jump in value inspired another owner who bought a house on the same block just over a year ago for $1.7 million; he intended to tear it down and build a new house but stopped in his tracks. He’s now put it up for re-sale. If things go as they seem to be going, he will make a million bucks just for, as one neighbour says, “doing nothing.”

This week’s report from the Canadian Real Estate Association should not come

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as a shock to any of us. Housing sales and prices hit new highs in Vancouver and Toronto. They also say there are indications that the market is peaking.

Where have we heard that before?

Meanwhile, Mayor Gregor Robertson is once again declaring that the city is facing a housing affordability “crisis.” To fully appreciate just how much of a crisis we continue to face, a staff report to city council on Tuesday noted that Vancouver has the highest housing prices and rents and the lowest medium incomes of any major Canadian city.

But what has been happening to Vancouver house prices is now spreading up the valley. Places people used to go when they couldn’t afford to live here are no longer affordable havens. This week, we heard that year-over-year house prices in Surrey and Abbotsford increased more than 38 per cent.

Even one of the most seasoned veteran observers of the real estate industry has been shaken by this phenomenon. Economist Tsur Somerville, who holds UBC’s Real Estate Foundation professorship, admits he is in a quandary: “The world up to a year ago had a structure I understood,” he told me as he went on about a fixed supply and an excessive amount of demand. But not all prices should be escalating everywhere. It is “reflective of some kind of hysteria,” people panicking and rushing to get into the market — anywhere.

It does not help the affordability issue that the city’s zoning bylaws allow folks to tear down an 1,800-square-foot home and replace with it with a much more expensive 3,200-square-foot single-family dwelling.

As for the province intervening, Somerville observed that the premier “had to be dragged kicking and screaming” before she

would even consider gathering data on foreign ownership and the impact it is having.

After all, the real estate boom and the massive amount of construction it is fostering, along with all the secondary industries that are benefiting, is what has British Columbia’s economy along with its low unemployment rate leading the country.

Finally, while it doesn’t significantly affect the overall price of real estate, there is the matter of the shenanigans of a relatively small group of unscrupulous and greedy real estate agents ripping off sellers by shadow flipping or failing to accurately report the source of funds from overseas clients. That behaviour, too, can be laid at the feet of the Liberals in Victoria.

While we await a report from B.C.’s Superintendent of Real Estate Carolyn Rogers, expected at the end of next month, there is something to consider.

Until 2005, the B.C. Real Estate Council was subject to a series of checks and balances and directly supervised by the superintendent. That year, Gordon Campbell’s Liberals stripped away most of those controls and made the council self-regulating.

As a result, the superintendent’s interventions regarding suspected wrongdoing became more difficult and rarely successful.

It will be interesting to see what Rogers recommends and how the Liberals respond. @allengarr

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Opinion

Issues of wealth and race at play in affordability crisis Jessica Barrett

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There is a Mexican restaurant around the corner from my house in what, I’ve recently discovered, is now called the “Fraserhood.” It’s always packed. Without fail, the line snakes out the door from late afternoon to close, the too-close tables crammed with young hipster couples, families with small kids and singles waiting for takeout. It’s quintessential East Van, right down to the astute observation a recent houseguest made while we were waiting for burritos: “Vancouver’s so white.”

I hear this a lot from visitors, mostly people who, like my guest, have lived here before and moved away. I bristle every time this is noted.

It threatens the narrative we, liberal West Coasters, with a strong sense of social justice, tell ourselves about our thriving multicultural metropolis.

Census data shows almost half of Metro Vancouverites identify as visible minorities and projections hold that by 2031 those “minorities” will be the majority. And if that weren’t enough, we have largely embraced the language and rituals inherent in living in a diverse, contemporary culture: we open every public event with the acknowledgement that we are on unceded Coast Salish Territory, we wish each other Gung Hay Fat Choi while diving into dim sum, we know to say Happy Norooz, and celebrate Diwali.

We may not be a white city, but we are a segregated one.

It’s this that my visitors pick up on. Compared to Toronto, Montreal, even Calgary or Edmonton, walking down the street or dining out in Vancouver yields a snapshot of a population that tends to selfsort along lines of race, culture, language and immigration status. But we are not very

good at talking about why this is, about the role our history of overt and rather brutal racism plays in a city that has unusually hard and fast lines between the tiles on its cultural mosaic.

Nor are we very good at discussing the more insidious and subtle ways racism plays out still. And we need to if we’re going to get to the heart of another very pressing social issue: our current housing affordability crisis.

With a mounting body of evidence suggesting uncontrolled foreign capital is responsible for our distorted housing market, we need to deal with the baggage triggered by the fact that this capital, in this instance, happens to be coming from China.

As researcher Andy Yan and journalist Ian Young — both ethnically Chinese — have repeatedly asserted, this is an issue of wealth, not race. But we have a long way to go in pulling those two topics apart.

Our collective discomfort with even the mere mention of race has been used by political leaders to silence or redirect lines of inquiry that could prove very awkward, and potentially damaging, to those whose political fortunes rely on comfortable relationships with the development and real estate industries. Just look at how quickly Mayor Gregor Robertson’s concerns about “racist undertones” in Yan’s recent study looking into ethnic Chinese ownership of West Point Grey properties effectively shut down any further discussion about the further analysis of the situation that is desperately needed.

At the same time, concerns over racist backlash aren’t unfounded. We are not living in a post-racial society. One example of this is in the salacious media fascination with Vancouver’s Chinese nouveau riche that has garnered an international audience

through the New Yorker and the New York Times. The problem with chronicling the antics of “Ultra Rich Asian Girls” or Chinese immigrants shopping for luxury cars is it “creates this wrong correlation between their race and their wealth,” says Jackie Wong, a writer and friend who recently wrote an excellent piece about the impact of this kind of coverage for The Tyee.

In contrast to the kind of “neutral” gawking at opulence we’ve seen before, through everything from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous to MTV’s Cribs, the overt focus on the Chineseness of this wealth feeds into the kind of dangerous generalizations that stoke anti-Asian sentiment. Wong’s email inbox fills with racist tirades whenever she writes or speaks about the topic.

What’s needed to get to the heart of the issue — that we need better data and concrete government intervention in the housing market — is for us to first establish an anti-racist framework in which to discuss the housing issue, says Wong.

“A big part of it needs to start with talking about racism and talking about how we’ve been quite universally complicit in promulgating very problematic racisms in Vancouver,” she says. “I think only after we’ve talked about racism can we talk about foreign capital.”

It’s a tall order, for sure, but I think she’s right. At the moment, our housing conversation is being dominated and derailed by the fear, guilt, shame and anger that’s rolled up in issues of race and racism. Only after we unpack all that can we address the government inaction and short-sighted policies that have created a city that is unliveable for too many people — no matter their language, heritage, or skin colour. @jm_barrett

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Disasters bring out the best, not worst in people Geoff Olson geoffolson.com

“Goodness goes viral as Canadians respond to Fort McMurray wildfire,” reads a May 4 Toronto Star headline.

“In times of crisis, Canada truly comes together — like one big small town,” reads a May 6 headline in the Globe and Mail.

“When disaster hit, the people of Fort McMurray showed their better natures, not the instincts of ‘survivalists,’ Macleans magazine offered.

Two CTV anchors remarked on their news team’s terrifying exodus out of Fort McMurray.

“It astonishes us how all of you stopped and shared your stories with grace and courage,” one anchor pronounced, before thanking the residents for helping them get the story out.

In The Tyee, Crawford Kilian opined that the people of Fort McMurray “dropped their individualism and went communist.” (“Not Bolshevik communism — more like the Christian communism of Alberta’s Hutterites,” Kilian helpfully added.)

The subtext of these reports is that people caught in a natural or man-made disaster shouldn’t be expected to behave in an orderly and altruistic manner. You might even get the impression that workers from Fort McMurray upended the History Channel’s Disaster Week expectations of the Canuck commentariat.

In fact, when faced with natural or man-made disasters, human beings are more likely to behave, not with mutually destructive behaviour, but with socially creative — even joyous — engagement. This is the thesis of Rebecca Solnit’s 2010 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.

The author examines a number of historical disasters, including the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the 1917 harbour explosion in Halifax, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11 in Manhattan and 2004’s Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

The testimony she uncovers from survivors runs counter to Hollywood narratives of screaming citizenry running madly off in all directions.

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losopher William James reported witnessing widespread cooperation and goodwill in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. It was his brother on the opposite coast, Henry James the novelist, who imagined the worst by mail — “mangled forms, hollow eyes, starving bodies, minds insane with fear.”

Nearly a century later, writer Stephan DohenyFarina remarked on the counterintuitive responses to the 1998 ice storm that paralyzed much of Quebec. “As the power grid fails, in its place arose a vibrant grid of social ties — formal and informal, organized and serendipitous, public and private, official and ad hoc.”

This flow of social capital into destroyed spaces is not unusual, Solnit argues.

Ironically, it’s the lockdown mindset of officialdom (predicated on the notion of impending social chaos) that often makes things worse.

The author resurrects an obscure sociologist, Charles E. Fritz, to explain the phenomenon.

“Disasters provide a temporary liberation from the worries, inhibitions and anxieties associated with the past and future because they force people to concentrate their full attention on immediate moment-to-moment, dayto-day needs within the context of present realities.” Fritz observed.

“Disaster provides a form of societal shock which disrupts habitual, institutionalized patterns of behaviour and renders people amenable to social and personal change,” he added.

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In fact, the feelings of liberation reported by people in disaster situations highlights an unfortunate truth: modern market economies are engineered to shape people into isolated consumers rather than engaged citizens.

When the atomizing lid is removed, people become tremendously excited by their own sense of agency and capacity to bond with their fellows.

So it’s a bit galling when

our national press applauds Fort McMurrayites and the rest of us for uberCanadian “goodness,” as if what happened earlier this month was a national outlier. In what must be

the biggest snoozepaper non-sequitur so far this year, the Globe and Mail’s Marsha Lederman used the story as a pro-Canadian bludgeon against Americans who support

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Indigenous people see land as inseparable from spirituality

Land is embodiment of creator’s work Pat Johnson

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has opened a lot of Canadians’ eyes to the realities of historical and contemporary life for indigenous Canadians.

Yet even before that seminal — and hopefully nation-altering — process and report Canadians were deeply impacted by a primary value of this land’s original inhabitants.

As you read this, Rev. Ray Aldred is probably unpacking boxes, making the move from Calgary to Vancouver, where he’ll be the director of the indigenous studies program at the Vancouver School of Theology (VST).

Aldred, a status Cree from northern Alberta and a United Church minister, thinks something uniquely Canadian — which most of us probably intuitively know but do not properly attribute — comes from our indigenous fellow Canadians.

“I think in Canada people intuitively want to believe that the land is special,” Aldred told me by phone while preparing to put his Calgary house on the market. “In the U.S., they’re patriotic about their nation-state, about being Americans. But in Canada, we are patriotic about the land. I think that’s a First Nations value.”

If non-aboriginal Canadians have a special, perhaps mystical, connection with the land, Aldred says, that may be an instinctual response not only to the natural majesty our folk songs extoll, but something we inherited from

Rev. Ray Aldred will head the indigenous studies program at the Vancouver School of Theology. Aldred says separating religion or spirituality from the rest of life is a European invention. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the earlier residents.

The land, to indigenous people, says Aldred, is inseparable from spirituality.

Land represents creation — it is the embodiment of the creator’s work and is therefore sacred in its own right.

Separating religion or spirituality from the rest of life is a European invention. For indigenous North Americans and many others worldwide, spirituality and our relationship with creation is inseparable from every other aspect of being.

“It permeates all of life,” he says.

The treaties between Europeans and indigenous peoples have become a chapter in the longer creation story of First Nations, Aldred says, but they are also part of the creation story of Canadians who came later.

“At the heart of indigenous spirituality, particularly I think among many of the Plains people, is the idea that you know your creation story. It tells you how you are related to the earth.”

For Canadians whose ancestors came from elsewhere, these treaties should also have resonance, he argues.

“If the newcomers embrace those, that’s their creation story, that’s what tells them how they’re related to this land,” he says. “It’s controversial what I say, but in one sense, newcomers ought to embrace their indigenous identity. Through the treaties, they have the right to be here. They’re treaty people too. That’s their creation story.”

Aldred wishes Europeandescended Canadians would stop trying to re-create Europe here and

“just embrace their religious indigenous identity,” which he says means simply that “they’re related to this land and it’s a good land and they should learn to live on it in a good way.”

Born and raised near Grande Prairie, Alta., Aldred was baptized as an infant in the United Church but rejected it as an adolescent. He loved the outdoors and didn’t understand the value of going inside a building to fulfill a ritual.

“In the same way, I didn’t like school because it took you away from your family, it took you away from your home, the land,” he says.

“It took you away from everything that you loved.

I just couldn’t make the connection why this was important.”

Later in his teen years, he became an addict and an

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alcoholic.

“When I was 19, I said, ‘God, if you help me quit using, I’ll do anything you want me to.’ And I never used again so I guess God kept his part and I’m trying to keep my part,” he says.

He went to Bible college for an undergrad and then graduate studies. He assumed leadership roles in churches in Saskatchewan and began teaching, most recently at Ambrose Seminary and University in Calgary. He’s preparing to teach a course at VST in indigenous theology of land.

During Aldred’s formative years as a theologian and clergyperson, Canadian churches, especially his United Church, evolved significantly in attitudes toward contemporary and past treatment of indigenous Canadians. Aldred

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was part of a movement to integrate indigenous traditions into Christian practice.

In the past, many thought the two were irreconcilable — indeed, it was precisely this idea that led to most of the atrocities detailed in the TRC report.

The changes Aldred and others promoted were not doctrinal, but more about simple practical approaches to religiosity.

“Just sitting in a circle instead of in rows,” says Aldred. Using drums in the service, smudging (“praying with smoke,” he calls it) and, ultimately, confronting and seeking reconciliation for what some Christians had done to indigenous people and allowing a place for the victims to express themselves.

With such fraught history, it is hardly surprising that some have suspicions about Christian churches.

Perhaps more surprising is the number who have found a comfortable synthesis between indigenous identity and Christianity.

“At first, at least in early modernity, the Christian story was that it had to replace everything,” he says.

“But indigenous spirituality is more that Christianity had a place in there that somehow fit in to help on the journey.”

At 56, Aldred says he has seen progress not only among non-indigenous Canadians but in his own family.

“As a kid, I didn’t want to be First Nations,” he says.

“I just wanted to fit in, like everybody else. You denigrated your own identity.

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Vancouver, Toronto outliers in national housing market Record number of Canadian homes changed hands in April

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A record number of Canadian homes changed hands in April, the Canadian Real Estate Association reported May 16.

The number of sales was up 3.1 per cent between March and April,

and up 10.3 per cent compared to April 2015.

The country’s hottest real estate markets, Toronto and Vancouver, bucked that trend with listings either remaining flat or declining.

“While significant home price gains may entice some homeowners in

these markets to list their home for sale, the issue for many is that the decision to move means they would also be looking to buy while competition for scarce listings is fierce,” said Gregory Klump, chief economist for CREA, in a release.

“As a result, many

homeowners are deciding to stay put and continue accumulating capital gains. That’s keeping listings off the markets at a time when they are already in short supply.”

Vancouver home price gains continue to outstrip any other market by a wide margin. The benchmark

home sale price in Vancouver increased 25.3 per cent between April 2015 and April 2016; in Toronto, the prices rose 12.6 per cent over the same period. Aside from Vancouver and Toronto, most other Canadian markets saw either flat or declining average prices.

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1. The Burnaby Velodrome opened in 1997 on the Barnet Highway to replace the outdoor China Creek Cycle Track that was located at the corner of Glen Drive and East Broadway until it was torn down in 1980 to make way for Vancouver Community College’s Broadway campus. 2. Most cyclists in Vancouver seem unaware that they have the option to ride the velodrome, said Burnaby Velodrome Club program director Mike Rothengatter. “It’s more of a hidden gem,” he said. “Instead of being on the trainer all winter you can come in here and ride your bike, ride in a pace line, and you’re getting to sprint.”

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Unassuming velodrome attracts wide range of riders Burnaby cycling venue one of only three indoor tracks in Canada

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It’s not an easy thing to believe at first sight — that an average human with average cycling skills can ride a velodrome track. The corner banks of the wooden oval at the Burnaby Velodrome Club sit at 47 degrees, which means it’s so steep one could lean against it and still be mostly standing upright.

Yet, most of the cyclists that showed up to the Burnaby Velodrome’s annual open house this past weekend managed to get past their nerves and find their way to the blue pace line halfway up the 200-metre long track.

“We want to get people excited about riding the track and take away their fears,” said Burnaby Velodrome Club coach Julian Base in between Saturday morning’s sessions. “People, they see the wall and get nervous so we take them through it with a step by step approach.”

The level of expertise of those who showed up for the open house ranged from kitted-out road riders with sinewy calves and mountain bikers used to Evel Knieveling their way around park berms to beginners who were so new to bikes it was only a year ago they were flopped over the hood of a parked car on Adanac Street after an woeful attempt at unclipping from their peddles. (Full disclosure: that was me. I’m also a member of the BVC.) Track bikes are single fixed gear bikes with no flywheel. This means as long as the bike is moving, so are the pedals. There’s no coasting and no brakes. The latter leads to the second biggest worry of how to get off the track once you’re on and riding the necessary 30 kilometres an hour so there’s no sliding off. Base understands this fear — his first track experience happened when his teenaged self visited the short and

steep Fonthill, Ont. track and he couldn’t figure out how to come down so he stayed up for more than an hour. “But I was a BMX racer so when I came off, I went right across the centre of the track, went up the end, did a 180 and came down,” he remembered.

“The coach was going, ‘I’ve never seen that before.’”

Once fears are squashed (getting off the track is no big deal, just deaden your weight and circle down) and basic skills are learned through the club’s affordable five-session Learn to Ride program, the track opens a whole new world of cycling.

There are the coached group workouts (one of the best fitness sessions this writer has experienced) open track (show up and ride at your own pace), racing programs, a junior development program and aboriginal youth cycling (started by former program director Kelyn Akuna).

Given the choices, the

fact that the Burnaby Velodrome, located in the Harry Jerome Sports Centre bubble, is just one of three indoor tracks in the country, and the grim and grey weather Vancouver is accustomed to, it’s astonishing the club doesn’t see more riders than its 160 members.

“What I find more shocking,” added Base who moved to Vancouver from Ontario in 1996 to pursue skiing before discovering the local track, “is the amount of cyclists we have, high-level cyclists, and we don’t have a world class facility to train at. This track is fun to ride, but it’s not anywhere near a world class facility. And the amount of track riders we have and people just looking to get healthy, we should have a new velodrome.”

In comparison to top tracks in the U.S. and overseas, the Burnaby Velodrome is almost as rickety as the wooden rollercoaster at the PNE down

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Base and BVC program director Mike Rothengatter threw around names of note associated with the Burnaby Velodrome: Jasmin Glaesser and Gillian Carleton (bronze in women’s team pursuit at the 2012 London Olympics), Steph Roorda (bronze at the track cycling world championships in London last March), Zach Bell (gold in the 2013 National Road race Championships) and Svien Tuft (a two-time national road race champion and nine-time national time trial champion).

That’s not even scratching the surface of accomplishments of people who’ve ridden the boards at the BVC. Vancouver has a long history with track cycling. The 250-metre outdoor China Creek Cycle Track was

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While it may not be a polished and duct tapefree world class track (the Burnaby Velodrome also shares the space with Volleyball B.C. which has multiple courts in the middle of the oval), it’s the hub of a strong cycling community, said Rothengatter.

“It’s what makes it so different, it’s a very grassroots facility,” he said. “Everyone’s really friendly, super welcoming, and you’re going to have people who are Olympians training here along with people who just came through the Learn to Ride program. It’s a fun atmosphere so check your ego at the door.” @rebeccablissett

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Builders scramble for East Side lots as densification heats up Jen St. Denis

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Single-family lots in East Vancouver are gradually densifying through city bylaws that allow legal suites and laneway houses, but builders say the everincreasing cost of Vancouver property is making it harder to find properties and turn a profit.

“It looks like every minute house prices are going up, $5, $20, $100,” said Jas Jawanda, owner of JDL Homes, a building company based in Surrey.

“You’re seeing that on a continuous basis... It’s honestly very scary.”

Properties increase in value by around $900,000 when a builder tears down an older bungalow and replaces it with a larger house with a legal basement suite and a laneway house.

The trend pushes the price of the built-out property into the $2.4 million range, the kind of hefty price tag once reserved for Vancouver’s West Side.

While not every neighbour may appreciate the construction and more crowded lots, single-family lot densification increases rental options in neighbourhoods such as Killarney and Renfrew and can fund about half of the $4,000-$5,000 monthly mortgage required to buy such a property.

“We’re in a huge trend,” said Harjit Atwal, a realtor with Sutton Centre Realty.

A torn-down house in East Vancouver’s Killarney neighbourhood. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

“This started at the end of last year when prices really started to rise.”

Properties are in such high demand right now that builders often trade properties among themselves in private deals that often involve using assignment contracts. That practice has come under intense scrutiny after media reports earlier this year detailed how some realtors have been using assignments — dubbed “shadow flipping” — to flip properties before the sale closes and avoid paying B.C.’s property transfer tax, all while inflating the value of the property.

Jawanda said the prac-

tice is common among builders, but he doesn’t buy properties that way because the risk is higher.

“There’s a lot of that going on and it’s getting scarier and scarier,” he said. “There can be a lot of issues that can happen and I don’t want to get stuck. What if it doesn’t go through? What if the seller decides not to proceed with the sale?”

Using assignments can help smaller builders reduce the risk of holding property, Atwal said. He doesn’t believe assignments are causing a problem in East Vancouver, but said it’s gotten out of

hand in West Side neighbourhoods like Dunbar and Arbutus.

“I had someone try to sell me an assignment for $1 million more than what they purchased it for in Shaughnessy,” he said.

“People are just taking advantage of it and using it to make a quick buck because there’s such a huge demand and people can’t find anything on MLS [Multiple Listing Service].”

The rapid price acceleration, combined with the City of Vancouver’s lengthy permitting process,

has led to another layer of deal-making: it’s common for builders to buy a house, tear it down and begin the permitting process. They then sell the lot with the permits in place, but not yet paid for, to another builder. Selling the lot with the new house not yet started allows the second builder to avoid paying GST on a new home.

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Meanwhile, the builder who actually builds out the property makes between $150,000 and $200,000. That contrasts with the windfall received by builders who bought in 2014 and were ready to sell in late 2015. Over the course of that year, singlefamily homes in Greater Vancouver increased by 25 per cent. Prices have continued to accelerate: between April 2015 and April 2016, single-family home prices rose by 30 per cent.

Atwal said he knows builders who made $600,000 on a property they bought for $800,000 in 2014 and were able to sell for more than $2 million in late 2015.

“What’s happened is that profit is not from the house being built, it’s from the appreciation of the land,” Jawanda said.

All of the people buying the redeveloped properties Atwal has sold in East Vancouver have planned to live in them; many have young families and are buying with a family member such as a sibling who plans to live in one of the other units.

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May 19 to 25, 2016 1. Billed as an innovative dance piece that combines West Coast graphic design “with a unique sceno-graphic hybrid of projected environments and live-action shadow dance” representing the spirit world, Flicker is the latest work by aboriginal dance company Dancers of Damelahamid. Performances run May 25 to 29 at the Cultch. Details and tickets at thecultch.com.

2. The Cinematheque presents a mid-career retrospective of American indie auteur Kelly Reichardt May 19 to 23. Films include a brand-new restoration of Reichardt’s largelyunseen debut feature River of Grass (1994), 2008’s Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Night Moves (2013) and 2006’s Old Joy, which screens opening night followed by a Skype Q&A with Reichardt and writer Jon Raymond.

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4. Vancouver’s sorcerers of psychedelic riffage Black Mountain cast its spell on the Commodore Ballroom May 21 in support of the band’s latest Zeppelin-esque titled album, IV. Ashley Shadow opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, ticketmaster.ca and bplive.ca.

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SWISH SPLASH: Model Mari Agory was 10 years old when she fled South Sudan as a refugee. She made her way to the U.S. and eventually found herself on the runway working for some of the world’s top designers. With her fame as a top model, Agory never forgot the civil war ravaged country she left behind — one that struggles to provide the most basic of needs such as clean water for its citizens.

Believing a reliable source of water is the foundation for growth, Treana Peake, a Vancouver fashion designer and Obakki Foundation founder, invited Agory to participate in the charity’s first ever Walk for Water benefit staged at Holt Renfrew.

Agory was joined by fellow supermodels Heather Marks and Grace Bol for the fashion fete. Monies raised from the runway romp and post-event shopping spree at Holt Renfrew will support the construction of more water wells in Africa.

DRESS IMPRESSED: Yours truly, along with CBC’s Erica Johnson, fronted Dress for Success Vancouver’s 17th IMPACT 360 Gala, held at Regency Lexus.

The auto showroom was transformed into a party palace for the charity’s flagship event. Gala chair Florence Leung and DFS executive director Jennifer Halinda welcomed 300 of Vancouver’s most influential business leaders, sponsors and community supporters to the night of fashion and fundraising. Attendees enjoyed designer cocktails and culinary delights before taking in the party’s signature fashion show, which featured recent graduates of Dress for Success’ professional development and skills training program. The evening of glamour raised a record $102,000 to support the organization’s goal of helping 100 more women transition back to the workforce.

BIG LOVE: Two hundred business professionals once again gathered at the Aston-Martin Vancouver and Bentley Vancouver dealership for this year’s sold out Grape Juice event benefiting Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland. It was chaired by event founders Sarah McNeill and Cheryl Nakamoto. Attendees enjoyed a night of tastings and bidding on unique and exclusive wines, all in support of much-needed funds for Big Sister’s mentoring programs, which assist young girls to reach their fullest potential. While the white and red wine flowed, the dominant colour was green as a reported $94,000 was raised from the yearly tipple fest, catapulting the event’s nine-year tally beyond the $600,000 mark.

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Mari Malek and Mari Agory both fled their hometowns when civil war broke out. They both immigrated to the U.S. and eventually launched their modeling careers working for some of the world’s top designers.

International supermodel Heather Marks participated in Treana Peake’s Walk for Water benefit to raise funds and awareness for their clean water projects in South Sudan.

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Staying put or leaving Vancouver has become a popular topic for local columnists and bloggers.

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Why I choose to believe anyone cares whether I remain in Vancouver I live in Vancouver. It is the place where I work and pay rent and once got unhealthily drunk at a Bootsauce concert in 1993 when the band was touring to promote their Sleeping Bootie album, even though I wasn’t living in Vancouver at the time, and it’s not a particularly great record.

But that is beside the point.

Leaving or staying in Vancouver has become an increasingly popular subject of many a letter to the editor, hashtag campaign and hyperbolic blog post in recent months, and I choose to join the conversation.

I choose to let my thoughts be known because I expect to be listened to. I am entitled to an audience.

Just like Bootsauce in 1993 when I tried to get backstage to meet the band and the guitar tech for Pere Fume — Bootsauce’s axeman with the way cool dreads — said, “No way, Jose,” and then sprayed my grey track pants with beer so it appeared to everyone in the bar that I had wet myself. Not cool.

Sure, it is becoming more and more expensive to live here, and I can’t afford to boost all of my Facebook posts like I used to, and I have to wait for my Rogers

contract to end before I can upgrade to the iPhone 6 Plus. But that isn’t the point.

What matters is right now.

And right now you are reading this. Each and everyone one of you. And that’s why I’m choosing to believe that you care about what city I envision myself living in.

(I’m not going to mention the part of my vision that involves owning a sweet loft with red brick walls and all the furniture is just different shapes and sizes of leather beanbag chairs and I’m chilling in my crib with Bootsauce 24/7 and maybe some afternoons the members of I Mother Earth — even Edwin! — drop by.

None of that’s important.)

What’s important is that you know I’m thinking about living somewhere. Maybe it’s Vancouver, maybe it’s somewhere else where your neighbours don’t care if you crank “Love Monkey #9” on repeat every night between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m.

I remember a time not that long ago, before 1996’s greatest hits collection Bootism, probably before Bootsauce even wrote the first notes of “Touching Cloth” or “Let’s Eat Out,” when nobody seemed to care where I lived. Nobody

shared my Facebook posts.

Nobody retweeted my hashtags. Nobody had a platform for me to share every last one of my thoughts.

It was lonely as hell.

But now it’s not.

And this is why I choose to live here — not in Vancouver, necessarily, but in this echo chamber of my thoughts and opinions and Instagram selfies and the belief that it all matters to you. Because it has to. If it doesn’t, then am I really here?

If I fall in a forest, do I make a sound?

Of course I do. But it would be way more dope if someone heard me fall, recorded the sound of me falling and then made a sick remix of that sound using the bassline and drum beat from “Sex Marine.”

I choose to believe I really am here. And that you are listening to me.

And that Bootsauce will reunite and play my next birthday party, because I have been secretly selling my mother’s jewelry and saving up for the big day.

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BF stands for Brad Fraser, Canadian badboy playwright, and it also stands for Best Friends.

That’s the combination in 5@50: five best friends — all women and all on the cusp of turning 50 — as imagined

by Fraser (Poor Superman, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love).

Curious that a guy would think he knows something about women entering their fifth decade.

He gets some of it right. But not all of it. In a Huffington Post interview referring to 5@50, he said, “When a woman turns 50, it’s such a milestone, and it’s a similarity within the gay community. Finding a specific focus was easy. What is the major concern going on in my peer group? Addiction. A lot of people I know my age are either drunk or in AA. Addictions define us in middle age — we have to address them.”

Having seen both sides of 50 and being female, I don’t believe that addictions define women in middle age. At 50, most of us are thinking about retirement and whether we can afford it. A lot of us are on our own again. We worry about our children and our mortgage (if we’re lucky enough to have a home). Careers. Aging parents. Global warming. Donald Trump.

5@50 follows five best friends — all women and all on the cusp of turning 50.

Who has time, money or energy for addiction?

What Fraser does get right is the support women get from their friends. The older we women get, the more we rely on friends and especially the women friends we’ve had for years.

In 5@50, Olivia (outrageously portrayed by the incomparable Deborah Williams) has become an alcoholic, and it’s her friends — homemaker Fern (Donna Yamamoto), journalist Tricia (Veena Sood) and many-times married Lorene (Diane Brown) — who decide something has to be done about her. Olivia’s lesbian partner and medical doctor Norma (Beatrice Zeilinger) is, unbelievably, OK with the status quo; she fears a reformed Olivia will stop loving her.

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Supportive as they are, these women get really nasty with each other — our old friends are far too dear to us to alienate them. So their dissing — name-calling that can never be taken back — doesn’t feel likely.

Fraser writes very sharp, very funny dialogue and the best of the lines are given to Sood, as Tricia. She’s also the character we like the most because she’s honest, smart and grounded. We don’t get much of a handle on Lorene (Brown’s character); after the failure of a handful of marriages, she’s now married to a guy who’s gay and she has adult children with whom she has lost touch. Lorene is self-obsessed and not very nice. Yamamoto’s character Fern has taken the conservative route and married a guy that’s safe but boring. She

does yoga a lot. Williams does a superb job of being the loud-mouthed drunk.

But there’s one character in the mix that doesn’t really work. Norma starts off grumpy, gets grumpier and ends sad. Without giving much away, Norma betrays Olivia and I didn’t believe it for a minute. Zeilinger does her best, but Norma remains the least credible of this quintet.

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by Marina Szijarto; lighting design is Kyla Gardiner’s.

All Fraser’s misperceptions aside, directed by Cameron MacKenzie for Zee Zee Theatre and Ruby Slippers, 5@50 is sharp and funny. I laughed in spite of myself, and it was only after the fact that I saw, once again, images of women as projected by a guy. I almost fell for it.

If you want the real deal, stay tuned for the next incarnation of Mom’s The Word — Mom’s The Word 3: Nest ½ Empty — coming up in 2017. These women/writers/performers are living it and know what it’s really like to be female and 50. Their addiction may be for creating theatre — let’s hope there’s no cure for that.

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After 85 years of calling Dunbar and 28th home, Stong’s Market is temporarily packing up shop. But the family-run grocery store will be getting a face lift and returning home to Dunbar in the winter, settling down the road in an upcoming, newly built complex.

The Ivy on Dunbar, set to be completed by Dec. 1, will be built in the heart of Dunbar Village at Dunbar and West 27th Ave. The new mixed-use building will house 50 condominium units and the new Stong’s location.

“It can’t come soon enough,” said Colleen McGuinness, president of the Dunbar Residents Association. “It’s a very lovely, community place and we think of them as family. I like the idea of them coming home for Christmas.”

The new Ivy location will be an upgrade from its former spot, expanding approximately 8,000 square feet. The additional space will be used for improving the produce section, boosting the “hot and ready” to-go food, and introducing a new café, said Cori Bonina, president of Stong’s Market.

Bonina, who is also the great grand-daughter of founder Carson Stong, said the decision to move was out of her hands.

“The landlords were re-

As of May 10, Stong’s Market in Dunbar closed its doors.

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developing and we didn’t have a choice,” she said over the phone.

Luckily, Bonina said, the Ivy approached her and suggested Stong’s move in. “It was huge to stay in the area. That’s what’s important to us.”

The constant supply of good produce, the unparalleled customer service, and the sense of community that will be missed most, according to regulars.

“The visit to Stong’s was a key part in a lot of seniors’ socializing,” McGuinness said. “They got me eating rapini, but I can’t find it anywhere else. One time, the fellow at the produce section even gave me a few rapini recipes.”

The independent grocer has a history of support-

ing the local communities where it operates, with the Dunbar location always having been its home base.

It supplies all food and drink in the annual Cops For Cancer cycling tour and sponsors several youth soccer and hockey sports teams each year. Stong’s first little league baseball team dates back to 1958 and has grown to two little league baseball teams.

“Their contribution to youth in Dunbar goes back 58 years — that’s a long time,” McGuinness said.

Stong’s will be offering a store-to-door delivery service seven days a week out of its new North Vancouver store opening May 28. Customers can order online or by phone through Stong’s Express, which was the first online grocery delivery service in Vancouver. Dunbar shoppers can expect a waived $8 dollardelivery fee.

Stong’s on Dunbar invites the community to attend its Customer Appreciation Event on Thursday evening to mark the temporary closing of its historic home.

“We just wanted to [say] thank you for supporting us for so long,” Bonina said.

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I confess that whenever I came across a green bag labeled for donation after my children had cleaned their rooms, I would rummage through it.

There I might find books and collectible items I thought they would treasure forever.

After all, I had spent many hours finding just the right birthday or Christmas gifts at each stage of their lives.

Over time, I realized that such material things (though inspired by love) are not made to last forever nor should any of us cling to them. Kids grow up and outgrow them all.

The best gifts we can give our children are those they will keep forever.

A priceless gift my parents gave me continues to enrich my life – and I’ve done my best to pass it on to my children. Their gift was to always see (and expect) the best in me.

Though my parents were very thoughtful and deliberate in the decisions they made, I suspect that the ability to see the best in brother, sister and myself was a natural byproduct of their love for us.

We were each unique and as flawed as any other kids.

They would give us feedback and correction when we could do better, but they always gave encouragement and praise when we did our best. Much more than looking for what’s wrong in us, they were always looking for what was good.

That simple but profound view — to the see the best in others — is a game changer in everyday life.

More often, we live on the

Today, take a good deep look into the mirror and in every face you meet. See the best in everyone.

surface of society and when looking at others, stop only on the outer surface. We judge — and then behave — based on appearances, gender, dress or disability, race and roles. We make sweeping judgments, and we forget that we see only glimpses of whole people.

We forget that every person that we pass on the street, sit beside on the bus and interact with in the course of our daily lives is a complete and complex individual.

Every one of us has hopes and dreams, pain and disappointment. Everyone is someone’s friend or cousin, sibling or parent. When we remember this, we are more open to compassion and it becomes more natural to treat others with kindness and understanding.

Consider this when you disregard or ignore another human being or when you immediately dislike someone you don’t even know.

We all have good and bad days, but we can always make someone else’s day better.

With those we live and work with, we can get caught up in our quirky

habits and differences. We can take one another for granted and keep a running tally of what we don’t like about each other. One of the secrets of a happy marriage is to deliberately make more positive than negative comments about your partner. It reminds us to look for and express the best in the other, who in turn feels more appreciated.

The teachers who see the best in their students can inspire them to work harder and achieve their best. The manager who sees the qualities of each team member will lead a productive and positive team.

The doctors who can help their patients see themselves as agents of positive change in their own lives will guide them towards their potential for wellbeing.

Today, take a good deep look into the mirror and in every face you meet. See the best in everyone.

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Recent delays and confusions end now. You can charge ahead with projects. BUT practical, business, career, legal and similar launches should be delayed until midday May 26 onward. If started earlier, they will continually face headwinds, or be mired in sluggish developments. The weeks ahead will keep you busy with errands, communications, paperwork and/or travel.

Recent delays, indecision and mistakes end now.

However, avoid taking irrevocable action, committing or launching new projects before mid-morn Thurs.

(PDT) especially if a government agency, institution, sibling, assembly line, warehouse, spiritual contact, advisor or agent is involved. The general accent, now to late June, lies on far travel, wisdom, cultural venues, higher education, legal affairs, intellectual pursuits, and gentle love.

Delays and the danger of false starts ends now (6:20 a.m. Sun., PDT) so you can march ahead with new projects and welcome new relationships.

However, avoid starting practical, financial or career projects until after dawn (PDT) Thurs. Sunday holds mysteries and obstacles until mid-afternoon, especially in money, medical matters and sex.

But things turn toward success this eve and night, particularly in career, status and business.

You can charge ahead now, as recent delays, indecision and false opportunities end. But you’d be wise to wait a little longer, to midday Thurs., to launch any new ventures or start anything practical, business-oriented, or anything involving money, earnings, possessions. In general, the weeks ahead feature secrets, investigations, medical diagnoses, large finances, lifestyle changes, commitments and consequence – and lust.

Recent delays, indecision and confusion end now.

You can charge ahead with projects. BUT delay practical, business, career, legal and similar launches until midday May 26 onward. If you start earlier, you might face headwinds, or sluggish developments, even failure. Sun./Mon. bring relationships, opportunities, fresh horizons, relocation themes and public dealings – these meet obstacles until about 3 pm Sunday (PDT) – then success.

Those “retro” delays, mistakes and indecisions (especially the ones affecting your career and status ambitions) end now (Sunday morning).

So you can now march forward, particularly in Tues. career and ambitions, but also in zones highlighted during the four weeks ahead – relationships, marriage, dealings with the public, negotiations, contracts, litigation, fresh horizons and new opportunities.

Be quiet within. Contemplate the situation(s) around you, and examine various options or approaches to them. Meditate, connect with your soul. Get plenty of rest, nap often. Deal with governmental, administrative, committee, management and similar duties. Be charitable. All this, until late June. Recent delays and indecisions end now, but don’t make any practical commitments or launches before late morning Thurs.

A period of delays, indecision and false starts ends Sunday morning. However, practical, business, career, legal and similar launches should be delayed until midday May 26 onward. If started earlier, they will continually face headwinds or be mired in sluggish developments. This particularly applies to legal, far travel, media, intellectual, governmental, institutional, spiritual or administrative concerns (although all these can be fortunately handled Sun).

Recent delays, indecisions and snafus end now; you can charge forward with your favourite projects. However, wait until well after dawn (PDT) Thursday, May 26 to start or commit to anything significant. If you start before this, the venture is likely to fail. Overall, you’re just beginning a month of celebration, light, friendly love, optimism, entertainment, popularity and social joys.

Happiness lurks around a lot of corners!

You can charge ahead now, as recent delays, indecision and false opportunities end by dawn Sunday. However, you’d be wise to wait until midday Thurs. to launch any new ventures or start anything practical, business-oriented, or anything involving money, earnings and possessions. (Especially avoid sexual, medical and financial moves before Thurs.) The weeks ahead boost your luck tremendously.

A recent trend of false starts, delays and indecision ends now, freeing you to charge after your favourite projects. Still, DON’T start any practical, business, financial, real estate or love venture before 8 a.m. PDT Thurs., May 26. (Those started would live perhaps years, and drain you of energy and/or money every year.) The general accent lies on ambition, career, worldly status and prestige relations until late June.

Sunday/Monday steer you homeward – embrace the kids, putter around the house, garden.

Delays, indecision and misunderstandings fade now, freeing you to charge ahead, especially in relationships, relocation and opportunities.

However, if you really want to succeed, wait until after 7 am (PDT) Thursday to begin. Projects, queries and relationships started before Thurs. will tend to meet obstacles larger than they (or you) can overcome. The general accent through late June lies on home, family, real estate, security, retirement and gardening.

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Right: Nina Watson won the junior girls 300-metre hurdles for Lord Byng. Above: Hannah Johnston takes off in the senior girls 400-metre hurdles at the Point Grey Secondary Track May 11. The Van Tech sprinter won gold in the 400m and 100m hurdles. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Fleet feet and photo finishes at city track champs Athletics city championships held over two days at Point Grey and UBC

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POINT GREY SECONDARY — The longest race of the track and field city championships last week was also the closest. Less than a quarter of a second separated Bridgett Baziw and Kendra Lewis in the bantam girls 3,000-metre race, capping the threekilometre foot race with a near photo finish.

For seven laps, Van Tech’s Lewis held the lead as her Lord Byng competitor stayed right on her heels, stride for stride. As hurdle events took place simultaneously in the outside lanes, the pair of Grade 8 girls held everyone’s attention as they circled the blue track and slowly counted down to the last lap. On the

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The number of years Global Relay will continue to sponsor the historic criterium bicycle race, the Gastown Grand Prix. Announced Tuesday, the contract renewal extends to 2017.

second turn of the final lap, 300 metres from the finish line, Baziw broke ahead and overtook Lewis.

Lewis attempted to regain the lead once, twice and then a third time as the runners chased down the final seconds of the endurance test.

On the straight stretch 20 metres from the end, Baziw broke for the line as her momentum angled her toward the outside of the track, which made it difficult for Lewis to pass.

Baziw collapsed from the effort and adrenaline.

Lewis, showing slightly pink cheeks, walked towards the sideline.

Baziw won in 11 minutes, 1.61 seconds. Lewis was right behind, coming second in 11:01.84.

“We just pushed and

pushed each other,” the winner said afterwards. “It felt so good to win. I made my move on the turn and usually someone will try to overtake just once, maybe twice. Kendra kept at it.”

The runners are developing a healthy rivalry, only one year into their high school track careers. Baziw won gold in the bantam girls 800m (Lewis didn’t compete in the shorter distance) and came second behind Lewis in the 1,500m.

Lewis won in 5:05.97 after surprising Baziw by taking off on a powerful kick before the final turn.

Baziw finished fourth at the junior girls B.C. crosscountry championships at Jericho Park in November.

Lewis was fifth overall, just two seconds behind on a five-kilometre course.

Fast, faster, fastest, Fisher

Paul Fisher, a junior racer for the Tupper Tigers, won the aggregate prize and established himself as one of the fastest sprinters in the city.

He took gold in the 200m, 400m and 800m races. His winning times of 23.19 and 50.50 seconds were also good enough to win the senior boys 200m and 400m races, respectively. His 400m performance is the fastest recorded time in the past 10 years at any age group.

Fisher anchored the senior boys 4x400 relay for the Tigers and laid down an “epic” — in the words of Tupper coach Stan Jang — performance to come from behind and

defeat Kitsilano in the final race of the championship at UBC May 12.

Tupper trailed by roughly 10 metres when Fisher took the baton. They won by 0.04 seconds.

Aggregate winners

Killarney sprinter and hurdler Jesse Taylor won the bantam girls aggregate, two points ahead of Baziw. Dylan Uhrich, of Tupper, won the bantam boys aggregate title on the power of his wins in the 800m, 1,500m and 3,000m races. He just edged out Kitsilano’s Christian Petersen, also a friend and training partner.

In the juvenile divisions, Halle Petek of Tupper won the girls title, and Kitsilano’s Benjamin

: On pumping the tires…

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The number of years, from 2009 to 2011, the Gastown Grand Prix fell off the racing schedule because there was not enough funding and no title sponsor. First held in 1973, the 33rd running is set for July 13 during B.C. Superweek, an eight-race cycling series held at five locations around the Lower Mainland.

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The number of young, up-and-coming cyclists benefiting from the Bridge the Gap Fund, a training program funded by $400,000 from Global Relay.

“Our goal is for Canada to become one of the world’s top cycling nations by 2020.”

— John Tolkamp, president of Cycling Canada Cyclisme. He called Global Relay “the lifeblood of amateur sport,” and added, “It would be hard to overstate the positive impact Global Relay has had on our sport and on nurturing Canadian cycling talent over the past few years.”

Ross took the boys.

Julie Kawai Herdman won the junior girls aggregate and also ran 12.61 in the 100m sprint, the only performance below 13 seconds. She also won the high jump and long jump.

Kitsilano’s Hayley Madden and Van Tech’s Annelise Lapointe tied for the senior girls aggregate with Point Grey’s Diana Voloshin coming in a close third.

The senior boys aggregate also ended in a tie with Thomas Nobbs of Point Grey locking down with Killarney’s Nikola Milutinovic.

The B.C. high school track and field championships are scheduled for June 2 to 4 in Nanaimo.

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The number of men who raced high-wheel pennyfarthing bicycles in one of the city’s earliest road races, held in Gastown in 1898.

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Diagnosed with breathsapping, infection-prone cystic fibrosis at 14, Margaret Benson was not much of an athlete before her double lung transplant in 1999 at Vancouver General Hospital.

She was expected to live a year without a transplant.

Now 57, the retired elementary school teacher and consummate volunteer holds the record in the race walk for the World Transplant Games, a bi-annual multisport event “powered by the gift of life” that brings together organ recipients and families of donors.

She has dozens of medals, has competed on five continents and is preparing for the national championships in Toronto this summer. An ambassador for the B.C Transplant Association, Benson says, “Our whole mandate is that there is life after transplant and to live a healthy, active life.”

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Standing in front

of a group of students and teaching them anything, especially dance, and letting them realize their potential.

Margaret Benson

What is your most treasured possession? I have

this stuffed puppy dog, and that’s what his name is, Puppy Dog. He was with me through every IV, plug-in, hospital…

I know that’s crazy, but if somebody took him, I don’t know what I’d do.

Also, my new lungs, that would be my most prized possession.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? I

don’t go there. My blood type is B-positive, and that is how I live my life.

What TV show do you binge watch? So You Think You

Can Dance. I’ve seen three of the live shows.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Mother Teresa and Terry Fox. Volunteering is one of the greatest things you can do. I wish I could have met Terry Fox. What was the first sport you played as a child? When you

can’t breathe, it’s hard to play sport. I loved dodgeball. I was a crasher.

Country Roads of Portugal

Describe the first run you went on after your transplant. I had this amazing

physiotherapist. She stuck a Sun Run bib on my IV pole. I walked 10 steps and thought, that’s what I’m going to do. First race was the Vancouver Sun Run in 2001.

When do you feel like quitting? Never.

for her so she didn’t cross the line last, alone. She ran like stink, she ran like no tomorrow. It was beautiful to watch.

Who would play you in a movie of your life? Bette

Midler. She’s crazy and quirky, and I love her. I met her in person. She is gorgeous.

What is your favourite live sports memory?? The 4x100

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tina, last relay in Argentina, summer at the World Transplant Games. We put in a women’s team for Canada and had a girl, a four-year-old nt heart transplant r. run the anchor.

She was three n weeks old when she had her transplant and est was the youngest mes. ever at the Games.

I was able to watch nish her cross the finish line. The Swisss team, nd waited they stopped and

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HAIR FORCE Kitsilano Blue Demon Morgan Guthridge dodges a tackle in a 33-12 zone tournament loss to West Vancouver secondary at St. George’s School May 10. Kitsilano played Argyle secondary Tuesday, after the Courier’s print deadline, for the fifth and final berth to the B.C. Championships. Lord Byng and Prince of Wales were eliminated. Because of a new playoff structure in senior boys rugby, a AAAA tier was created for provincials to draw the top four teams from four respective regional in an effort to bring more parity to the tournament. St. George’s plays Carson Graham for the Lower Mainland’s top spot at the Brockton Oval at 4:30 p.m. May 19.

To read more, visit vancourier.com/sports. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Passed away peacefully on May 12, 2016 at the age of 94 after a long illness. Born in Carluke, Scotland on March 10, 1922 and raised in Edmonton, Enid moved to Vancouver in the late 30s. It was here she married her husband of 47 years, Joseph R. Palmer (1915-1995) and raised two daughters. Enid devoted her life to volunteerism and was a true community champion; serving for decades with the Girl Guides of Canada, VON Meals on Wheels, CNIB, Collingwood Neighbourhood House and the United Church. Predeceased by daughter Penny in 2007, Enid will be dearly missed by her daughter Lesley (Gerry); granddaughters Kristine, Kari, and Katy; great-grandchildren Timmy, Jacob & Ellie; many nieces and nephews, extended family and close friends. The family would like to express our thanks to the staff at Mt.St.Joseph’s, and all of Enid’s personal caregivers.

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hat’s sweeter than la dolce vita? Why, a double gelato scoop of retro-nostalgia of course.

Say hello to the latest flavour of cutesy fun from Italy, the 1957 edition Fiat 500.

The original 500, the cinquecento, was first released in 1957, bringing transportation to the masses. Well, at least if the masses weren’t too massive – the original tiny little people’s car wasn’t just as cute as a bug, but about as big as one too.

The new 500 is a bit like that car, except photocopied at about 150 per cent. It’s been around for nearly a decade now and has developed a following all its own. Underneath, it’s got the practical underpinnings of the somewhat prosaic Fiat Panda, yet with lashings of style inside and out.

Consider it a smaller, less-expensive version of the Mini. However, coming up to ten years old, does the 500 still feel fresh enough?

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One of the nice things about retro-design done right is that it tends to age well. There are numerous exceptions, of course (see: Chrysler PT Cruiser), but like the original New Beetle, the Fiat 500 still looks good. It has a happy little face, the docked tail of a lapdog and the short, scooty little wheelbase of a city car plucked from the streets of Rome — except without the dents.

This one being a 1957 edition, there are some exterior extras to go with your stylish little Italian clutch. The badges, for instance, are like those found on the original car, and there are a number of paint options that you might get on your

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The set of 16-inch alloy wheels complete the look, colour-matched and ringed with chrome.

Driving the 500 around, you still get glances from passers-by, and isn’t that the whole point of a style-first car? It helps, too, that chief rival Mini Cooper has ballooned more than a little, while the 500 is still petite as it ever was.

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Inside, this 500 is equipped in what Fiat calls Lounge trim, and that’s the sort of feeling you’re supposed to take away. The blend of brown leather and white interior accents are as elegant as Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday — at least until you peer closer.

This is an inexpensive little runabout, not an AlfaRomeo, with cheekbones like a snowplow. Thus the buttons for the airconditioning controls look very dated and the seating position is a bit wonky and the cabin is very tight. If you’re more Luciano Pavarotti than Michelangelo’s David, you’re going to end up wearing this little car like a pair of Lululemon yoga pants.

And as for your rear seat passengers, they’d better be miniature marble figurines as space is very tight. However, the hatchback trunk is actually acceptable for such a little car.

When the 500 first debuted, it had a set of retro-looking analogue gauges and a very aftermarket approach to navigation. Now you get a sharp display up front that changes when you hit the sport button and a small version of Fiat/ Chrysler’s Uconnect system.

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There are three engine options available for the Fiat 500 in the North American market: the ferociously turbocharged Abarth 1.4L, the lessmanic-but-still-zippy turbo 1.4, and the basic naturally-aspirated 1.4L four-cylinder engine.

Here, it makes 101hp at 6500rpm and 98lb-ft at 4000rpm.

That is not what you’d call a lot of power. Why, that’s only just enough Dalmatians to make a coat.

Filtered through a fivespeed manual transmission, the driver must work relatively vigorously to keep the Fiat on the boil.

If you’ve a drop of Italian blood in your veins, this is probably how you’d drive the car anyway, flogging that little four-banger as the car scampered around city traffic like a hyperactive pinball.

However, the 500’s very upright seating position and high centre of gravity aren’t conducive to highspeed antics, and while the handling is acceptable, it’s certainly no hot hatch.

It’s actually a shame you can’t get this 1957 trim package with the zippier 1.4L turbo engine, considering how close the ticket price on this little car is getting to $30K. That extra dose of torque would make an automatic version of this car just the ticket for urban drivers

who want style and substance.

In the meantime, the 500 rides slightly choppily on its big 16-inch alloys, but remains composed as a cruiser. Slow down to a Mediterranean pace, pop open a sunroof, and save the con brio motoring until after you’ve had your eighth espresso.

Driving the 500 around, you still get glances from passers-by, and isn’t that the whole point of a stylefirst car? It helps, too, that chief rival Mini Cooper has ballooned more than a little, while the 500 is still petite as it ever was.

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The retro-design package for the Fiat 500 costs $2,000 and is comprised of a full leather interior, those 16-inch alloys, and white exterior and retro accents. If you don’t need the retro look, the Lounge has pretty much everything you need from USB charging ports to automatic climate control and a central touchscreen.

GPS is a reasonable $450 add-on, and well worth it. A spare tire is an extra cost.

Fuel economy is acceptable for a small car, with official ratings of 7.6L/100kms city and 5.9L/100kms on the highway. You can do better elsewhere, but given current fuel prices, the Fiat 500 qualifies as a penniesper-kilometre proposition.

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Using a phone while driving has been proven to be at least as dangerous as driving while intoxicated, but what’s the best way to enforce the law? Cops in New York are testing a “textalyzer” device that can detect if a phone was in use during a crash.

Using a cellphone while driving is impaired driving.

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while intoxicated, and should carry both the same social stigma and penalties — the former is there, the fines have yet to catch up.

But how best to enforce the law? Currently, police in British Columbia mostly use visual checks to catch those checking their phones — but they can’t be everywhere. When the guy next to you veers into your lane, you know what the reason likely is.

And what if he causes an accident?

Ideally, you’d like to close the barn door before the horse has bolted, but in a case where a collision has occurred, police in New York state now have a new tool.

Called a “textalyzer,” it’s a device made by an Israeli company that can check for recent phone activity on the spot.

While it would be simple enough to check the phone itself, the textalyzer’s advantage is in its ability to dodge privacy concerns by simply indicating whether the phone was in use or not.

Like the breathalyzer, police who are suspicious of driver impairment have the option to employ a field test.

And, of course, there are a few issues. First and foremost, voice-totext via Bluetooth is still perfectly legal, and it appears that the textalyzer can’t yet tell the difference. Visual confirmation is required, and you know some text-addled drivers are still going to get away with it. Still, it’s another tool in the box.

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The recent earthquakes in Japan’s Kumamoto captured the world’s attention, not least because of the terrible tsunami that caused so much damage not long ago.

This time the quakes were still deadly, but more confined in scope, and are now somewhat overshadowed by the more major destruction in Ecuador.

But for Japan’s automotive industry, the effects of this most recent earthquake are all too familiar.

Toyota, for instance, has stopped production on most of its factories throughout Japan, and won’t be reopening them until April 23 or later.

Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi are all also af-

fected, though to a minor degree. The problem for Toyota isn’t the integrity of their plants, but rather a sudden shortage in parts supplies. Whether this temporary shortage will last long enough to affect Canadian imports or Canadian production is unclear, but it’s worth remembering that the previous earthquake did cause a shortfall in production that consumers noticed.

Ford keeps Focus EV a low ranger

With the Model 3 making headlines (despite not quite existing just yet) and the Chevy Bolt offering a clearer picture of a 320-kilometre-range EV future, you might expect Ford to be fighting back with a major upgrade for their Focus EV. Not so: the Focus will remain with its current 160 km range.

Why not try to go the distance? It’s all about Ford’s strategy and sales demographics. Most Focus EV owners are urban dwellers, and using only a small fraction of that range daily.

By keeping the range in the same bracket, Ford is able to keep the price of their EV fairly low.

Additionally, while Ford may have something to worry about if the Model 3 comes with its promised 350 km range for US$35,000 (which, based on the Model S pricing structure, it probably won’t), the competition is still a ways off in delivering their vehicles. And sales of EVs are low right now, in an age of inexpensive gasoline.

So, Ford stays pat, and maybe has a thing or two up its sleeve. It’s not people lining up outside your dealerships, but it’s the smart play.

Subaru takes aim at the Isle of Man Record

The Isle of Man TT is a famous, dangerous, insane, and historic motorcycle time-attack event. Motorcycles, as you know, generally have two wheels. Somebody forgot to tell Subaru.

They’ve just announced a new Prodrive-built STI, ready to tackle the course and set a new record. Driver David Higgins has tackled the TT twice now, and the official record sits at 19 minutes and 15.9 seconds.

So why is a company that makes their money selling Foresters trying to set a record on a motorcycle track?

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Given the huge publicity around the TT, Subaru gets to waltz in and be the only show in town. Seeing Higgins hurtle around the course is as good for Subaru’s publicity as Ken Block’s stunts are for Ford.

So yes, this new, hand-built and aerodynamically-tweaked STI has too many wheels to count as an official TT entrant. However, if Higgins stays airborne long enough with all four off the ground, maybe it averages out.

Tesla racks up the reservations

The Tesla Model S is a great drive, but far too expensive for most people. As an alternative to a BMW 5 Series or a Mercedes-Benz E-Class, it makes a compelling argument. But what about the rest of us?

Well, the rest of us could put down a fully refundable reservation on a Model 3, the new Tesla hatchback for the regular Joes. At time of writing, reservations for the Model 3 are about to crest the 300,000 mark, making the car an instant success.

There’s just one teensyweensy problem.

Like the Model X, with its “nobody says no to Elon” rear gullwing doors (Tesla officially calls them falcon

doors), the Model 3 is an example of promising the moon, and then delivering some of the moon at a much later date. Tesla itself is claiming that “hubris” is to blame for the Model X’s slow rollout: that too much technology was built into the car and slow parts suppliers are hampering deliveries.

So when Elon Musk says that the Model 3 will start at a cost of $35,000, will go 215 miles (approximately 350 kilometres) on a single charge, and run to 100 km/h in less than six seconds, a rather large grain of salt should be consumed.

Mr. Musk is an ambitious dude, and he’s perhaps telling you what he’d like his company to be able to do.

The truth will probably be a lot more down to Earth.

Best guess is that the Model 3 won’t actually start showing up in reasonable numbers until 2018 or beyond, and that it’ll cost quite a bit more than anticipated. Think of it as an alternative to a BMW 335i xDrive, and you’re about on the money. As the reservations are totally refundable and require almost no commitment, you can view them as making a case for demand, but not necessarily being the same thing as a confirmed pre-order.

There’s a lot of hype swirling around Tesla, and that’s a shame as the cars they have out are pretty impressive. The Model 3,

Manuals are going the way of the dinosaur, but with the speed of a slow extinction rather than a meteor strike. They’ll be around for a few years yet, especially for boutique brands and enthusiast customers.

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when it finally arrives, will probably be pretty good too. But it’s still just going to be a car, not the revolution the Teslarati keep shouting about.

Aston Martin plans to use AMG manual If Tesla is the wave of the future, then let’s talk about the only way to get a blast from the past: the manual transmission.

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want a hand-built twinturbocharged V-8 mated to a six-speed gearbox, Aston Martin is going to be the only game in town.

The AMG and Aston partnership has been coming for a while now, and hasn’t pleased every purist.

Aston’s V-12s might not be as efficient or powerful as the biturbo versions available from Mercedes-Benz, but they’ve got plenty of

character. We’ll be sad to see them go.

However, the 500 horsepower, 4.0-litre twin-turbo V-8 from Mercedes-AMG is just such a firecracker of an engine, how could you not get excited about it stuffed into a lithe little Vantage? It’s still the Battle of Britain, just now the Spitfire and the Messerschmitt have crashed into each other.

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