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How Canuck the crow stole my story

Mike Howell

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Last week, I watched a crow try to steal a knife from a crime scene at the McDonald’s restaurant parking lot at Hastings and Cassiar.

He almost got away with it, too.

But with a cop giving chase and the knife likely too heavy for the little fella to soar any higher, he dropped the blade back in the parking lot. Cops boxed it up and that was the end of that caper.

That, however, didn’t deter the crow from seeing what else he could boost.

In no particular order, he went after a pair of eyeglasses, gear from a television camera operator and police tape. A cop eventually rewarded him with a shiny pen.

His name is Canuck.

He’s famous. Facebook famous. YouTube famous.

That fame was earned before I made him considerably more famous when I briefly mentioned his antics in an otherwise serious story

about police shooting a man (armed with said knife) in the McDonald’s parking lot.

That mention was enough for my media brethren and sistren to seemingly drop all other pursuits for more details on what exactly I saw, where exactly I saw this happen and how exactly I knew his name was Canuck.

The story, as they say, went viral.

Canadian Press, CBC, The Toronto Star, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and ABC News all had some version of that 10 seconds of drama. Even a German website posted the story.

I’m still puzzled by the attention.

Such semi-understandable interest has me second guessing my decision not to put the crow in the lead.

I thought the fact the cops shot a guy in the same parking lot they shot and killed a guy in 2012 was the lead.

The crow could wait.

I’m also puzzled that I was the only reporter who

A crow known by locals and on social media as Canuck tried to steal a knife from a crime scene last week. Now he’s an online sensation. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

saw the crow fly off with the knife. Courier photographer Dan Toulgoet witnessed it from a different vantage point (no, he didn’t get a shot of the crow with the knife) and VPD media liaison officer Const. Brian Montague caught the “tail end” of the crime.

Our lucky day, I guess.

Anyway, as I write this, my Twitter notifications about Canuck continue to multiply; I took some photos with my phone last Tuesday, wrote the story that day and now we’re almost a week later and still there is this fascination.

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short-attention-span world.

But here’s the thing: People are obsessed with stories about animals.

So much so that sometimes we lose sight of the real story. Witnesses of last week’s shooting said the man torched his own car, then proceeded to stab himself before charging police.

Last I heard, he’s still alive.

I shouldn’t speculate on the man’s state but drugs, mental health issues or a combination of both were likely tied to this tragic event. These are sad realities of our city and, it appears, always will be.

But back to the crow…

I sort of get the obsession with the crow, especially when you package up videos of him riding the SkyTrain, link to his Facebook page and post and re-post that photo of him holding another knife in his beak.

It’s a social media editor’s jackpot.

All this bizarreness reminded me of a story I wrote back in my Richmond days. I’ll give you the short version.

Slateon Morry, a young businessman from Winnipeg, had come to Richmond to investigate whether an employee was embezzling money from the family’s bedding business.

Morry went missing a few days later.

Police found him dead in the trunk of a rental car submerged in the Fraser River. Police also found Morry’s Dalmatian puppy with him. The prime suspect died soon after in what was likely a suicidal car crash up country; he crossed the centre line and drove into a semi.

Police eventually produced a Crimestoppers episode on the crime and broadcast it. A picture of Morry cuddling his dog was part of the piece.

After the re-enactment aired, I contacted police to see whether it generated any tips. No, said the cop, but we did get a lot of phone calls from people pissed off that someone would do that to a puppy. @Howellings

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A dozen schools may face closure James Smith

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Vancouver School Board staff will present trustees with a list of schools to consider for closure June 20.

It’s part of the implementation of the district’s updated Long Range Facilities Plan (LRFP), adopted May 24, which sets out framework for the district’s facilities planning through 2030 to “ensure timely completion” of its seismic mitigation program and to help it achieve a provincially mandated overall capacity utilization of 95 per cent.

It includes criteria by which the board will make decisions on seismic upgrades, replacement schools, new schools and school closures across Vancouver. Vision Vancouver trustee Allan Wong, chair of the planning and facilities committee, said the looming threat of school closures, be it due to budget shortfalls, seismic upgrading or natural attrition, has distracted people from the main reason behind creating the facilities plan.

“Everyone’s talking about the closures and all that, but the whole reason for [the LRFP] is to have seismically

upgraded [and] safe schools,” he said. Wong noted there are certain pockets where new schools are needed, but the province won’t pay for any new builds until the district has reached the 95 per cent utilization mark.

Vancouver schools currently operate, on average, at about 85 per cent capacity. To meet the province’s requirement, the district will likely have to permanently close the equivalent of 12 elementary schools and one secondary school. Maquinna annex, Laurier annex, and Henderson annex, which have no students registered for the 2016-17 school year and are being considered for possible closure, may count towards that total.

If trustees accept the list of schools for potential closure, the VSB will conduct public consultation with each school’s community next fall. A timeline has yet to be made, but Wong said consultation would begin in September and likely finish in November or December.

Decisions on whether to close some or all of the schools on the list will need to made by December so

parents can be notified prior to registration for the next school year. Closures would take effect June 30, 2017.

Criteria in the LRFP regarding school closures were amended this spring to include what Wong called “the social aspect” of such decisions. “It’s not just figures and calculations and measuring distances,” he said. “You have to measure how it will really impact certain groups, if not all groups.”

Staff must now consider the effect of moving resources and programs further from the people who rely on them when determining which schools to close.

The LRFP also addresses the issue of heritage retention.

The district has 35 schools on the city’s heritage registry, 18 of which have yet to be seismically upgraded. The VSB is completing feasibility studies on 11 of those schools to determine the most costeffective approach. Decisions about retention are made on a case-by-case basis and depend greatly on the cost involved in keeping heritage elements intact. The cost also determines the level of conservation that can be done.

“If you look at Kitsilano [secondary], it’s strictly the façade. [Whereas] somewhere like Strathcona [elementary] it’s a complete heritage retention where basically everything is kept and saved,” Wong said.

“Other schools, it’s just so costly to do an upgrade and keep the school as is that basically you have to tear the whole school down and just rebuild. At the end of the day it just comes down to the cost.”

According to the facilities plan, if all 18 schools on the heritage registry are retained, the additional costs could be $40 to $50 million. Since the Ministry of Education doesn’t usually provide specific funding for heritage retention, the VSB would be on the hook for it, which it can’t afford.

Wong noted it’s cheaper to do other necessary upgrades to plumbing, heating and ventilation systems — which, he said, the province doesn’t fund, — while a school is already “opened up” for seismic upgrading. The more non-seismic upgrades and maintenance a site needs, the less budget there is for things like heritage retention.

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Outdoor swimming pools were put on the fast-track Monday night in a Vancouver Park Board decision powered by nos-

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Commissioners elected to “quick-start” the process of identifying money to take from other park board projects for the creation of an unspecified number of outdoor pools at unnamed locations. Happening fast and with few concrete details, the decision is strongly supported by NPA and Green Party commissioners who say they are trying to deliver what the community has asked for over the past decade.

Fifteen years since the Mount Pleasant pool was first slated for closure, the swimming hole that closed in 2009 could return.

The park board directed staff to see what is possible and how it could be paid for. Staff will return with their report within two months.

“The community of Vancouver has been waiting a long time,” said NPA commissioner John Coupar, who brought the motion forward in fulfillment of a campaign promise. To explore cheaper options, he

floated ideas such as “natural pools” and solar heating.

Coupar was challenged

by Vision commissioner Catherine Evans, who said a hot, humid city like Toronto does not have the same needs as Vancouver and does not offer a reasonable comparison.

(That city has 57 pools for a population of nearly two million.) Moreover, Evans distrusted the partisan motivation behind the motion and tried to slow the process and tie it to the upcoming broad-ranging, city-wide aquatic review.

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Staff to investigate funding sources Calling the enticement and expedition of standalone, outdoor pools a “very expensive political bauble,” Evans argued for a slower pace free from grassroots lobby groups and upheld the consistent Vision argument that indoor and outdoor pools be part of the same facilities.

“I appreciate there is a strong lobby and they do mean the very best for citizens of Vancouver,” she said, citing staff reports in 2001 and 2011 that recommended indoor and outdoor pools be built together at shared facilities.

“If we had unlimited amounts of money, it would be fantastic to have a pool in every neighbourhood.”

On Monday, former park board chairperson and Vision commissioner Aaron Jasper called the Courier to express the same views. He said the park board of his day grappled with the same decisions and ultimately closed the Mount Pleasant pool.

“We agonized over the same things,” said Jasper. “How do we provide those opportunities but do

it in a way that is fiscally responsible? The day of the standalone neighbourhood pool can’t be justified form a financial perspective.”

Chairwoman Sarah Kirby-Yung clarified that the board will vote again on the issue to approve the reallocation of funds once staff returns with options and recommendations.

Green Party commissioner Stuart Mackinnon said the elected members of the board have the mandate to redirect money.

“We all know plans often change, priorities change,” he said. “What we choose is up to the board. We do have a limited amount, but it is up to the elected officials to decide what that is about.”

He said the NPA and Green commissioners, which comprise the sevenperson board outside of Evans, were elected in part because of their commitment to explore the options and attempt to open more outdoor pools.

“This was something promised by many candidates in the election,” he said. “Six out of seven

here promised to build pools because this is what we heard citizens of Vancouver asking us what to do. This fulfills a little part of my promise.”

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At the corner of Smithe and Richards streets, the 0.8 acre park will be the first one in the urban centre since Emery Barnes Park opened in 2003.

Designed by Vancouver firm Dialog, the park will have a food kiosk, overhead walkway — possibly swings — and suspended lighting as well as a central, flat water feature that can also serve as a stage or more generally as a social space — and, as landscape architect Matthew Thomson also imagined, a place for table tennis tournaments.

The park is expected to open late 2018 and will cost $6 million. @MHStewart

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City transforming parkades into housing, daycare centres Fewer vehicles travelling downtown than in 1965 Mike Howell

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That song made famous

by Joni Mitchell about paving paradise to put up a parking lot is on Mary Clare Zak’s mind as she walks along a corridor leading to the Gastown Parkade.

Mitchell wrote “Big Yellow Taxi” in the late 1960s.

Almost 50 years later, Zak, who is the city’s managing director of social policy, is interested in the extension of the song’s memorable lyric in the form of a question: What now do you put on that parking lot, or parkade, when fewer people are driving cars into downtown?

There are currently two answers to that question.

One is take a large chunk of the top floor of the city-owned Gastown Parkade at 160 Water St. and build two permanent daycares on it. The other involves using the cityleased parkade behind the former Bosman Hotel at 1060 Howe St. and place temporary modular housing on it.

The city is going ahead with the projects at a time when finding land for housing and daycare centres is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive as Vancouver gets more dense.

“We know in the downtown, we’re short almost 800 spaces of childcare,” said Zak, overlooking the top of the parkade, where 20 vehicles were spread across a space marked with more than 200 empty parking stalls. “We’re short almost 18,000 [childcare spaces] across the city. It’s a really pressing need for us.

So opportunities like this are really great.”

Price tag at $6 million

The city wants to first build a 37-space daycare on the parkade before developing another similarsized facility almost adjacent to the first one.

The price tag is estimated at $6 million, with the city hoping to get contributions from the provincial and federal governments.

Questions of children’s safety, pollution and the load pressure of a new building on the parkade have been investigated and answered to the satisfaction of the city.

“As you can see from being up here, the air smells great, there’s a nice

Mary Clare Zak, the city’s managing director of social policy, is working on a plan to get two daycare centres built on top of the Gastown Parkade. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

breeze from the ocean,” said Zak, noting Vancouver Coastal Health has visited the proposed site.

“They feel it’s just fine.”

The city will incorporate a strategy to accommodate parents using vehicles to drop off their children, although Zak believes many parents in the neighbourhood will walk or take transit to the daycare.

A staff report that went before city council in May 2015 revealed that more people than ever before were taking transit, walking and riding bikes to get around Vancouver instead of relying on a vehicle for transportation.

In fact, city engineer Jerry Dobrovolny pointed out to council in 2012 there were fewer cars travelling into downtown than there were in 1965, a few years before Mitchell wrote her famous song.

So why didn’t the city look to use parkades sooner for something other than parking cars?

“Sometimes, you don’t look up,” Zak said.

The only time, in recent memory, the city allowed a city parkade to be transformed was in November 2012 when Alterrus Systems Inc. set up a mass-

producing greenhouse on a parkade at 535 Richards St. Less than two years later, Alterrus and its subsidiary Local Garden Vancouver Inc. declared bankruptcy in January 2014. Although disappointed about the company’s demise, Mayor Gregor Robertson said at the time that Alterrus generated more revenue for the city from the space than when it was used as a parking lot.

Modular housing

A short transit ride south of the Gastown Parkade is the former Bosman Hotel, which is now used to house people at risk of homelessness.

If it all works out, those tenants will soon have neighbours.

The city’s housing department is working on a plan to have a company build up to 40 “microsuites” (with bathrooms and shared kitchen facilities) and place them on the former hotel’s parkade. The estimated size of each suite is 250 square feet.

Eligible tenants will either be on income assistance or a fixed income and could live in the suites for two to five years, depending on

whether the city moves the housing to another spot in Vancouver.

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.

Modular housing can be built faster than permanent housing. It’s also cheaper and reduces disruption in an area that normally comes with construction of a permanent structure.

Five companies will bid for the contract to place modular housing on the parkade. The same companies will also bid for a similar housing project on what is now an urban orchard near Main and Terminal.

Stack Modular is working on bids with Dialog Design and Kindred Construction. Stack has its head office in Calgary with an office in Vancouver and operates a manufacturing plant in China, where its structures are built to Canadian building codes.

Andy Berube, vice-president of sales and marketing for Stack Modular, said the company has yet

to place modular housing on a parkade but welcomes the challenge.

“I’m not sure if that’s a common scenario, but it doesn’t pose any issues,” said Berube, noting a survey of the site would be done to determine the parkade’s maximum load and best way to place housing on the property.

Stack has built multistorey apartments and is currently working on an extension of a hotel at Pacific Sands Resort in Tofino. All its projects are built with steel frames.

If Stack and its partners win the bid, the housing would be built in China and then transported at sea for 18 days before arriving in Vancouver. The housing would be loaded onto a truck and transported to the parkade, where it would be unloaded with a crane.

“We think the review of any building site has merit,” Berube said of the city’s decision to seek alternative uses to parkades. “If there’s a site that’s not being used effectively and you can leverage that, I think it’s smart.”

No rezoning

Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer, said

one of the city’s reasons for choosing the downtown parkade was because it wouldn’t require a rezoning process to have modular housing placed on the property.

“We’re trying to find sites where we can start projects under the development permit route, so that we can get those through a bit faster and get them built,” said Latif, noting the non-profit Community Builders, which manages the former Bosman, will oversee management of the new tenants.

Latif, who used to work in housing in London, England, said he was involved in projects in the United Kingdom where housing was built on parking lots. He noted the city was considering another parking lot at 2221 Main St. to be redeveloped into housing.

“We want to be creative with the existing uses that are out there in the short term,” he said. “So if there are opportunities where land isn’t being fully used at the moment, we’re looking at alternatives to make best use of the assets, whether they’re private or public. And, obviously, daycares is one and modular housing is another.” @Howellings

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Vancouver’s homeless population highest in recent history City count reveals 1,847 people living in a shelter or on the street

Mike Howell

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Vancouver now has the largest homeless population since the city began counting the number of people living on the street and in shelters.

A city report released Tuesday revealed 1,847 people were recorded as homeless when city staff, politicians and volunteers conducted a count over two days in March.

The total surpasses the previous high of 1,803 people counted in 2014. The city has led or participated in homeless counts in Vancouver and the region since 2005.

“They are sobering numbers,” said Vision Coun.

Geoff Meggs after hearing city staff’s presentation at city hall on the 2016 homeless count.

Of the 1,847 counted, 539 were recorded as living on the street and 1,308 in some form of shelter. Last year, 488 people were on the street and 1,258 in shelters.

The increase in homelessness has come despite the provincial government opening 13 supportive housing buildings in recent years and the city securing four former hotels to house more than 400 people at risk of homelessness.

An increase in shelter spaces and additional rent supplements given to people to find housing were also added in the last year. Still, the homeless population

increased and city staff’s analysis shows no encouraging evidence to reverse the trend.

The unpredictable marker in each count is the number of new homeless, with 61 per cent (about 1,127 people) telling volunteers this year they had been homeless for less than one year.

While the Vision-led administration of Mayor Gregor Robertson has repeatedly lobbied senior governments for more housing, this year the Vision team has shifted the focus to the provincial government needing to do more to address the main drivers of homelessness.

Those drivers include poverty, lack of treatment for addiction and mental health, low welfare and disability rates, young people aging out of foster care at an early age and high rents.

“You can build a lot of housing but until you turn off that tap, homelessness will exist and it’s showing up all over the province,” Vision Coun. Kerry Jang told reporters.

He pointed to Maple Ridge, Abbotsford and Victoria as cities seeing an increase in homelessness and facing the same problems as Vancouver in getting people into permanent housing.

While the findings not only show the desperate situation of people, it also dispelled a common myth that homeless people are welfare bums who don’t want

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to work: 23 per cent, or 257, of the homeless in this year’s count said they had a job and 27 per cent had some form of disability.

Other findings of the report included: The majority of the homeless population were men, with 61 per cent 24 years old or younger.

Forty per cent of the population had a mental ill-

ness, 53 per cent had an addiction and 42 per cent said they had a medical condition or illness.

Thirty-eight per cent were aboriginal and 13 per cent identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning and two-spirited.

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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A tug of war over transit, tax and turf

P

eter Fassbender, the provincial Liberal minister responsible for TransLink, tried to pull a fast one last week. He failed miserably.

You may have seen the story he leaked in Thursday’s Vancouver Sun with the headline: “Province ponies up $246 million for transit.”

The announcement was timed to break on the morning the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation was meeting.

The Liberals and the region’s mayors have had what could politely be called a dysfunctional relationship ever since the Liberals under Gordon Campbell and his Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon stripped the mayors of any power over regional transportation.

Typical of these leaked stories, there was no comment from any of the region’s mayors.

There was the comment from Fassbender that “The mayors would be crazy to say no” to the province’s offer to invest in Phase 1 of their 10-year transit plan.

(Actually the mayors have since concluded they would be crazy to say yes.)

Also typical of Fassbender’s oily operating practices was his attempt to divide that group of mayors before their Thursday meeting.

While he was handing the story to The Sun on Wednesday, he was also on the phone to a number of the mayors giving them a heads-up. Among those he did not

inform were the mayors of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond and Vancouver.

In fact, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson told me that, in his role as the chair of the Mayors’ Council, he was talking to Fassbender the day before the announcement was made public and Fassbender didn’t bother to mention the $246 million to him.

The Liberals and the region’s mayors have had what could politely be called a dysfunctional relationship ever since the Liberals under Gordon Campbell and his Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon stripped the mayors of any power over regional transportation. This followed a lengthy back-and-forth debate over approval of the Canada Line.

The local elected officials were replaced by an unelected, provincially approved board of directors. And the mayors have been fighting to regain that power.

(Incidentally, when they tried to have former New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright added to the TransLink board, the province turned them down.)

The most recent fiasco was the referendum forced on the region by the province in order to get the province to increase the sales tax by a half of a per cent, which would have gone towards funding the regional transportation system. Millions were spent. The public debate quickly shifted to TransLink’s competence and lack of political oversight. The referendum failed.

Meanwhile, Premier Christy Clark announced her government would go ahead with a replacement for the Massey Tunnel with a 10-lane toll bridge, which most recently is estimated to cost somewhere north of $4 billion.

There was no referendum and the mayors of Richmond and Vancouver both opposed the project because, among other things, it would only make problems with traffic congestion in their communities even worse.

The mayors have yet to come up with a

mutually acceptable funding source for their 10-year transportation plan. Vehicle levies and a piece of the carbon tax have been rejected by the province in the past.

The province has instead pressed the mayors to increase property tax — they have resisted, particularly given that they have no control over how that money will be spent by TransLink.

Robertson notes that while the region’s mayors and the federal Liberals are committed to the 10-year plan, if the province is only committed to Phase 1 “the rest may never get built.”

He has also had a problem with Fassbender zeroing in on funds from developers who get increased density around transit stations. These funds are commonly called CACs, or Community Amenity Contributions; they are essential for building parks, libraries, community centres and affordable

housing, all increasingly important in municipalities that are becoming more dense.

While the article with Fassbender’s announcement cites up to $1 billion available from developers, Robertson says that figure is “ludicrous.” “There is no connection between that and reality.” At the current rate of regional growth, it would “add $50,000 to each unit.” But more to the point, CACs are closer to $10 to $20 million.

Robertson is unimpressed by pressure from Fassbender for the Mayors’ Council to move on funding before the federal commitment goes away. That money, he says, is solid.

And in spite of Fassbender’s best efforts, so is the determination of the region’s mayors to carry on their fight with the province over funding sources and control of TransLink. @allengarr

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Inbox letters@vancourier.com Passionate about pools Re: “Outdoor pools tough to justify in Vancouver,” May 30 Online only Firstly – I consider the current park board commissioners intelligent and quite capable of making their own decisions — without the help of a former park board bommissioner who quit.

Secondly, it is such a change to encounter a park board that actually listens to what residents of Vancouver want. I was tired of the Vision pat on the head and “we know best” attitude.

From past public consultation, it was clear that residents of Mount Pleasant wanted to retain their outdoor swim pool. However, when Mount Pleasant Community Centre was rebuilt, no pool — outdoor or indoor — was provided in either the park or the community centre. So when Aaron Jasper says that he supports outdoor pools but only if they are built attached to community centres — how come he didn’t build any during his term on park board? (He will have you believe that Hillcrest has an outdoor swimming pool — however, it is a toddlers’ wading pool — not a swimming pool).

Who is he trying to convince — the general public or himself? Since 2004, residents of Mount Pleasant have lobbied to get their outdoor pool replaced, but Vision is totally against — citing lack of funding. Property taxes and CACs could easily have paid for at least one outdoor pool during the Vision term. Sunset and Marpole would also like to get their pools replaced. Why can’t property taxes and CACs be allocated to this task?

Is it really that difficult, or is it that Vision may have to explain where all the taxes and CACs are going?

Aaron Jasper is right in one way though.

He did support replacing Mount Pleasant Pool once longgggggggggggg ago in the past. The difference between him and John Coupar is that Commissioner Coupar actually has a conscience and is trying to keep his promise to build more outdoor pools. Aaron Jasper broke his promise — as did Vision. If you are expecting Vision to replace indoor or outdoor pools — you will have to wait a long time. It’s not on their agenda.

Jean Campbell, Vancouver

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Foreign affairs Re: “Governments must clamp down on foreign buyers,” May 25 Seeing the broader impacts on quality of life in the region, I’m frustrated with the lack of action on all levels of government.

I can understand the motivation to invest in any asset that increases in value at 20 to 30 per cent (or higher!) in a single year, but when that asset is housing left unoccupied and it isn’t taxed at a rate to offset the negative cascading impacts, that seems like a failure to protect the community at large.

Larry Arndt via Facebook It will make no difference to the prices of houses. Building more rental properties might be a good thing though.

Alison Malis via Facebook ••• More than just Allen Garr’s opinion.

This article is spot on. We’re selling out the future of the GVRD. The resulting “strong economy” the BC Liberals keep bragging about is worthless when local people earning local incomes can’t participate in it.

Niel Stewart via Facebook ••• Good piece. All levels of gov’t must stop the ruination of this great city. Australia had the guts to act, why can’t Canadians do the same?

David Wishart via Facebook

Back to the future Re: “Feds launch plan to re-imagine Granville Island in 2040,” May 6 It’d be fun to see some nutty plan to see them go “old-skool” bring some wholly inappropriate industry back to False Creek, like some stinky smelter or bee-hive sawdust burning lumberyard. We’ll call it artisan and put a brew pub next to it and it’ll be all the rage with Main Street.

Aaron Chapman via Facebook

Toking care of business Re: “City issues first business licence to marijuana dispensary,” May 17 Wow — this is truly excellent news. I love their approach and their attitude.

I wish them all possible success. If this were the normal public face of cannabis advocacy, the movement would have had the support it needed for legalization 20 years ago. It’s also a welldeserved blow to those who think it is their right to flout the law because they don’t want to take the time and trouble to operate legally.

Sera Kirk via Facebook ••• Time for the City to step up enforcement and take court action to close those shops that are operating without a business license.

Otherwise, this whole licensing approach will be viewed as a joke by the law-breakers and a rip-off by those who play by the rules.

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Opinion

On housing: would B.C.’s political parties please stand up?

BC Liberals appear to be reinforcing the urban/rural divide in lead-up to next year’s election Jessica Barrett

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What a difference a year makes.

Roughly 12 months ago the #donthave1million Twitter campaign had finally pushed Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis to the forefront of public discussion where it’s remained ever since. But for all the talk, the intervening months have only seen the problem worsen. The average price of a detached house in Metro Vancouver increased by 27 per cent in the last year and 17 per cent for apartments and condos. Now here’s another timeline to consider: we are less than a year away from the next provincial election.

With no telling what will happen to housing prices in that amount of time, affordability will be the central issue for Metro Vancouverites. But that doesn’t mean our political parties will respond.

The BC Liberals, for instance, seem to have already settled on an election strategy that pits urban against rural in a nasty appeal to baseless stereotypes.

Consider Premier Christy Clark’s recent comments at a pro-LNG rally in Fort St. John: “There are those in downtown Vancouver and Victoria who would have us say no ... They say no to everything. They say no to workers. They say no to jobs. They say no to small business,” said the premier, testing out her newly affected folksy drawl.

“We need to stand up as the forces of Yes and make that voice heard in Victoria and downtown Vancouver.”

Right. If playing to the tired rural/urban divide is any indication, the Liberals intend to game our flawed

Premier Christy Clark has shown “disdain” for nearly two-thirds of B.C. residents who live in cities, according to columnist Jessica Barrett. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

first-past-the-post electoral system rather than campaign on actual issues impacting the province. This certainly doesn’t bode well for us ignorant, nay-saying urbanites trying to stay afloat in the midst of a crisis. The Liberals’ stunning inaction on the housing file combined with their disdain for the nearly two-thirds of British Columbians that reside in urban centres has me very much in doubt we’ll see more than token acknowledgement of affordability in their platform.

This leaves the door wide open for the Opposition New Democrats to come in with a bold proposition for meaningful, economically viable change. But first, the NDP has a lot of work to do. A lot. Not only has the party been unable to shed its tarnished reputation from the 1990s, which is out of living memory for many of the millennials most affected by affordabil-

ity, it seems to have sunk into obscurity since its humiliating underperformance in the last provincial election. Aside from Point Grey MLA David Eby’s dogged dedication to the housing file — which, it should be noted, provides the sole glimmer of hope for the region — the party has done little to boost its recognition and relatability.

Even party leader John Horgan (you did know his name, right?) received a lukewarm response at Eby’s emergency housing town hall back in March. And that was about the friendliest crowd you could garner for the NDP. Rather than portray himself as a champion for the people caught between a rising sense of panic and an astounding lack of political will, Horgan came across as wooden, couching his weak announcement of housing-related bills in a bland stump speech that was utterly

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Because it is.

The housing crisis has already crept far beyond Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. In Liberal strongholds like Delta, Abbotsford and Coquitlam, townhouses are now fetching in the neighbourhood of $800,000 and Maple Ridge is now home to the infamous “million dollar line” for single family houses.

Victoria, Saanich, Squamish and the Sunshine Coast are seeing the spillover effects of increasing housing prices as people flee Metro Vancouver. With nearly a year to go before the election that could bring yet another double digit increase in the average cost of housing, this issue is too important to be confined to toothless politicking.

The party that is able to propose meaningful change — and to appropriately frame the issue as one that affects all British Columbians — stands to win hearts, minds and, most importantly, votes from a populace aching for some place to channel its rising sense of outrage and frustration.

Let’s hope we have one that’s up to the task.

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Langara Gardens Open Houses and Town Hall Meeting Langara Gardens is changing and we want you to be part of the process. Planning for Langara Gardens has been underway since spring 2015 and three site concepts were presented at our last round of open houses in December 2015.

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Public Hearing: June 14 Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning and heritage amendments for these locations:

1. 3738 Cypress Street To amend the Heritage Conservation Area Official Development Plan to remove the existing building at 3738 Cypress Street from the list of First Shaughnessy protected heritage properties. Based on an assessment of the heritage character and heritage value, the original form of the house has been determined to have been altered to the point of no longer having sufficient heritage character or heritage value to justify conservation.

2. 4976-5010 Cambie Street

To rezone 4976-5010 Cambie Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a seven-storey residential building containing a total of 49 residential dwelling units and to retain and designate the heritage “Wong Residence” and the “Volcanic Rock Outcropping” landscape feature at 5010 Cambie Street.

A height of 23.5 metres (77 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.46 are proposed.

3. 5189-5289 Cambie Street

To rezone 5189-5289 Cambie Street from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of two six-storey residential buildings and five two-storey townhouse buildings at the lane, containing a total of 134 residential dwelling units. A height of 19.3 metres (64 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.55 are proposed.

Monday, June 27, 2016, 7 – 8:30 pm FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO RSVP: vancouver.ca/langaragardens or phone 3-1-1

Following these events, staff will draft the Policy Statement which will set principles and objectives for land use, site character, sustainability, transportation, density and building heights, rental replacement, tenant relocation and public benefits.

The Policy Statement will be presented to Council for consideration later this year.

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Public Hearing: June 21 Tuesday, June 21, 2016, at 6 pm Vancouver City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber

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Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning and heritage amendments for these locations:

1. 1872 Parker Street (Brookhouse Residence) (see A on map) To rezone 1872 Parker Street from RT-5 (Residential Two-Family) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the expansion and conversion of the existing heritage building on the site into a six-unit multiple dwelling, and to allow the addition of a four-unit infill building at the lane. As part of the rezoning, the historic Brookhouse Residence would be restored and designated as protected heritage property. A height of 13.2 metres (43.3 feet) and floor space ratio of 1.35 are proposed.

2. 2308 East 34th Avenue (B&K Grocery) (See B on map) To rezone 2308 East 34th Avenue from RM-7 (Residential Multi-Family) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to enable restoration of the existing heritage building on the site containing a retail store at grade and one dwelling unit above, and to permit the addition of three townhouse units, for a total of four dwelling units. As part of the rezoning, the historic, two-storey, brick, B&K Grocery building would be restored and designated as protected heritage property. A floor space ratio of 1.35 is proposed.

3. 1037 West King Edward Avenue (See C on map) To rezone 1037 West King Edward Avenue from FSD (First Shaughnessy) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a four-storey residential building, containing a total of 36 secured rental dwelling units.

A height of 12.2 metres (40 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.48 are proposed.

4. East Fraser Lands (EFL) Amendments (See D on map) To amend the East Fraser Lands (EFL) Official Development Plan (ODP) By-law and associated CD-1 By-laws to update the definition of Affordable Housing, provide more flexibility in locating a childcare facility, add full-service Gas Station use in Area 3, and make minor miscellaneous amendments to the EFL ODP and CD-1 By-laws.

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You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing starting June 3 for the June 14 hearing and June 10 for the June 21 hearing at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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Rev. Jessica Schaap of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in the West End explores the spiritual side of bread. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

PACIFIC SPIRIT

Breaking bread across the spiritual spectrum Reverend explains the significance and symbolism behind centuries of tradition

Pat Johnson

PacificSpiritpJ@gmail.com

With the mania among some people for glutenfree and low-carb diets, you’d think bread was some sort of sinister force in the world. Yet for millennia, it has been not only a staple of the human diet, but at the very heart of religious ritual as well.

A few weeks back (on April 21 if you care to review), I wrote a column about the symbolism and significance of wine in Christian ritual. I should have realized sooner that a natural followup is a look at bread in Christian tradition.

Bread and wine go together in the Christian Eucharist, the ritual in which the Last Supper of Jesus is symbolically re-enacted. In Catholicism, the bread and wine undergo transubstantiation, in which the bread becomes the body and the wine becomes the blood of Jesus. Theologians ac-

knowledge that the precise manner in which this occurs “surpasses understanding,” but Catholic teaching maintains that this is not a symbolic transformation but a real one.

Protestants approach the idea from different points on the spectrum. Some, especially liberal streams, emphatically see the bread and wine as mere symbols of the body and blood. In the middle, perhaps, are the Anglicans, who take a nuanced approach.

Transubstantiation is not a word Anglicans use all that much, says Rev. Jessica Schaap, rector of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in the West End. “What we say is that the bread becomes the real presence of Christ,” she explains. “Anglicans are hesitant to get real specific about that. We do consider it a mystery and also a reality in a way that we don’t quite understand. Jesus becomes a sign for us in the

bread in a really deep and whole way and so when we consume the bread we are taking within ourselves, into our bodies, a real sign and presence of God.” Beyond the metaphysical, Schaap adds, are ideas of bread as something very integral to what it means to be both Christian and human, “something that feeds and keeps people’s body and soul together.”

It’s also a sign of hospitality, communion and friendship. “Breaking bread” is a term we use for sharing a meal even when no bread is in sight.

“That’s central to the Christian faith, which is not only breaking bread with one’s friends, but also to give bread was a sign of hospitality to the stranger,” Schaap says. “He who gives the bread gives himself away, and we are, by eating the bread, becoming like bread, a sign of hospitality, meant to be nourishing to other people.”

What about the miracle of the loaves and fishes, I ask, that memorable story from Sunday school in which Jesus turned a few loaves and a couple of fish into enough to feed 5,000 men plus women and kids?

“I think what that means, fundamentally, is about generosity and abundance,” she says. “I think it means God’s final hope for us is that everyone has enough and even more to go around.”

In a world, and even a city, where poverty and lack of abundance exists, what does this story mean for Christians today?

“Christians, when we eat the bread, we always need to be mindful that this isn’t just a spiritual ritual, that we are taking on a responsibility to our neighbours to make sure that they are fed in lots of ways,” Schaap says. “It’s a pretty big responsibility and a sign, too, that God cares for the whole person.”

At St. Paul’s, the Eucharist takes place three times a week and I ask if she just picks up a loaf at Cobs. No, she says, sometimes on special feast days a home-baked loaf is used, but usually it is the same wafers, “the host,” used

by Catholic and Lutheran churches. These aren’t what most unchurched people would recognize as bread, but this too holds symbolic purpose. They are extremely thin disks made of nothing but fine wheat and a bit of water.

“They’re meant to be unleavened,” Schaap explains. “That is a reference to the Passover.

That’s connecting us to the story of the Israelites escaping from slavery in Egypt and the unleavened bread — they didn’t have time to wait for it to rise, they needed it to be ready and they needed to go when the order was given — so it’s a sign of being ready, being in haste and

taking the bread and going into freedom.”

For the modern world, where our quotidian schedule is seldom upset by waiting for bread to rise, what lesson should we take from the unleavened wafer?

“The unleavening can recall us to simplicity,” she says. “Instead of calling us to be more busy, I think it’s maybe a call to be more ready for what’s important in life, perhaps a search for a simplifying freedom in life or a detachment from the things that imprison us or enslave us.”

Sharing in the bread is also a symbol of our shared humanity, Schaap says, referencing Corinthians: “For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.”

“It’s also a sign of unity and communion and a reminder that we all belong to the human family,” she says. @Pat604Johnson

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Opinion

Of robots, GMOs and a New World Order Are we destined for the doom predicted by Orwell and Huxley?

Geoff Olson

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Life on planet Earth is looking more and more like a sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick.

The prolific author was less concerned with alien worlds than how alien our world could become, given time and technology. From the ‘50s to the early ‘80s, the San Francisco Bay native pumped out an astounding number of novels and short stories, many of which were adapted into Hollywood films decades later: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Adjustment Bureau, Scanner Darkly and on it goes.

PKD’s funhouse visions of systemic flimflammery through corporate hi-tech set the standard for many later sci-fi productions, including the Wachowski Brothers’ Matrix series.

The author, who spent most of his life living in poverty, extrapolated from what he saw happening around him for inspiration, without knowing later generations would be living out his fractured fairy tales in real time.

“We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms,’” PKD wrote in 1978.

Every now and then I flip through The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, a 976-page cinderblock of a book in which the author attempts to figure it all out. Many of the entries, culled from his decades-long diary jottings,

Philip K. Dick’s 1957 science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky.

first left me wondering about the man’s sanity.

Yet within a few pages he’s abandoned one eccentric theory of everything for another. Not the typical idée fixe pattern of someone who’s mentally disturbed.

It wasn’t so much Dick became crazy as the world became crazier after his death.

Here are five items indicating how Dickish things are already: 1) An orange-skinned reality television star with cotton candy hair is now the official Republican candidate for the US presidency.

Meanwhile, his war-friendly Democratic contender, Hillary Clinton, has promised to open up the books on UFOs - or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) as she refers to them - if she enters the White House.

2) Most of us now fatalistically accept that privacy is

dead. By freely giving away intimate personal information through social media, we are blithely doing unpaid work for marketers, law enforcement officials and government operatives. The Bush-era vision of covert “Total Information Awareness” has been outsourced to the people themselves.

3) In China, the Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has replaced 60,000 workers with robots, and this may just be the orchestra tuning up for the grand symphony of A.I. outsourcing in the west. Robotics threatens to eliminate entire job sectors, making millions of white-collar workers redundant, from legal aides to medical staffers to mid-level managers.

And surprise, surprise: according to a UBS Bank report, the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is set to benefit the richest among us.

Google robots are already working in warehouses and patrolling the grounds of Silicon Valley firms. The U.S. Defence Department recently mooted the invention of autonomous Terminator-style robots. That is, androids that can make decisions to kill without human involvement or intervention.

4) Face transplants are routine surgical procedures, and some adventurousminded surgeons are pitching head transplants as future options for the aged and infirm.

5) In North America, almost all hard cheeses like cheddar and Parmesan are made using genetically-engineered microbes containing genes from cows. Ironically, the organic, non-GMO cheeses are worse options in terms of animal welfare.

Any of the above items could have made into Onion News headlines only a few years back. They certainly could have served as plotlines or sub-plotlines for PKD novels decades ago.

Now that we are into the second decade of the new millennium, we’re already living the projected future of long-dead sci-fi authors.

George Orwell imagined a repressive global police state in 1984, and Aldous Huxley predicted a drugged, electronically-distracted caste system in Brave New World. Without collective resistance and/or some social transformation involving a universal guaranteed wage, things are looking mostly Orwellian for the underclass and mostly Huxleyean for the over class. In sum, that sounds very PKD. Sobering stuff. As Dick once observed, “reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” @geoffolson

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1. Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House executive director Donna Chang, second from left, has been a part of every carnival at Cedar Cottage. 2. Julie Lam, right, and Christine Yu were kept busy making cotton candy — another popular feature the neighbourhood house’s annual carnival. 3. The lunchroom, which served up a variety of food at affordable prices, was popular — especially for the adults. 4. Marcus Shute applied temporary tattoos to a seemingly endless lineup of children during the carnival. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

CITY LIVING

A house that unites across culture, class and income Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House marks 23 years of serving the community Rebecca Blissett

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When Donna Chang realized Saturday’s weather called for a relentless downpour, she knew Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House’s 23rd annual carnival would not be as big as years previous.

“Well, here we go! Where are the tents?” the House’s executive director said from her crowded office in the Victoria Drive building amid the carnival hubbub that had been jammed inside.

“You know, there’s amazing people who work here. Our volunteers, everyone — well, people are wet and they probably feel miserable but they’re still giving all they can give.”

Every corner of the building was used: a room for the lunch where barbecue pork buns were served up for two bucks each and butter chicken and rice rang in at $4.50 a plate; another space for bingo and the bakery and other rooms still for a clothing sale and children’s carnival games. The cakewalk was pushed outside, undercover, and the garage sale lined Alice Street out back until organizers shut it down by noon as everything turned into a sopping mess of used goods and disintegrating cardboard.

“People look forward to this day, they really do,” Chang said, adding that the carnival on sunny days attracts double the people

and raises an average of $20,000, which goes towards Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House’s food programs.

“We have people here that might have come here as a preschooler, or they might have brought their preschooler, or they might have brought their mother and they no longer do but they come back for the carnival,” she said. “We see a lot of people we haven’t seen in a long time. It’s a like a big family reunion.

That is the one thing that is heartening, we really feel supported.”

Support is the reason for the existence of neighbourhood houses. There are 12 in Vancouver that, like Cedar Cottage, are non-

profits and belong to the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia. While each offers individual programs to reflect its particular neighbourhood’s needs, they all share the same idea of building a healthy and engaged community.

“This is a place for everyone,” said Chang, who has worked for neighbourhood houses in Vancouver since 1979. “The thing about neighbourhood houses is we’re really guided by missions and values and, for us, it’s important to have a place that belongs to all people. So there’s a diversity of culture, of class, of income — all that is really important.”

It is also a reflection of

Kensington-Cedar Cottage, which is considered to be East Vancouver’s most ethnically diverse neighbourhood. The neighbourhood house began in 1950 as a way of providing youth with afterschool recreational programs. It has since grown to include programs that range from songs and stories for Vietnamese families and pocket markets where fruits and vegetables can be purchased for wholesale prices to after-school social clubs for teenagers, and a seniors’ supper club.

The first neighbourhood house was established in London, England in 1880 as a way of helping those who had moved to the city and left their families

behind to find work. Even though the houses have a long history, they are not widely known even despite the self-explanatory name.

“I think that if you were to go out and ask somebody on the street, they might not know what a neighbourhood house is,” said Chang. “People tend to come in for something they need like childcare or a family program, or they’re looking for volunteer hours, or they are seniors needing some support, or cooking workshops… So people come in for these reasons and then they get hooked.

They then begin to realize that the relationships in the organization are just as important as the programs.” @rebeccablissett

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1 June 2 to 8, 2016 1. Touchstone Theatre presents Jordan Hall’s romantic comedy about the end of days, How To Survive An Apocalypse, directed by Katrina Dunn. Part of the Flying Start program which gives a stage to new professional playwrights, the play runs June 3 to 11 at the Firehall Arts Centre. Details at firehallartscentre.ca.

2. The Cinematheque presents the Vancouver premiere of the adult-oriented Japanese animated film Belladonna of Sadness (1973).

Produced by Osamu Tezuka, considered the godfather of Japanese anime and manga, and directed by his long-time collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto, Belladonna screens June 3 to 8.

Details at the thecinematheque.ca.

3. From the candy cigarette ashes of Apollo Ghosts and Cool TV, Adrian Teacher and the Subs celebrate the release of their debut full length Terminal City with guests Supermoon, Morning Coup and Maskara. It all goes down June 3 at Toast Collective as part of Music Waste. Details at musicwaste.ca.

4. Speaking of Music Waste, the scrappy, local, independent music and arts festival marks its 22nd year, June 2 to 5. What began as a one-night protest concert has grown into a four-day event featuring performances by more than 70 different bands, including the all-toorelatable Jock Tears, at 14 venues across East Vancouver. Tickets are still a wallet-friendly $5 per show or $15 for a festival wristband.

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PAIN KILLER: Arthritis Research Canada was created in 2000 to transform the lives of people living with arthritis through research and engagement. With facilities in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec, the young organization has already earned international attention as a leading arthritis research institution helping to advance the understanding and knowledge of some 100 forms of arthritis.

More than four million Canadians live with arthritis — 600,000 in B.C. Dr. John Esdaile, an internationally respected rheumatologist and creator of ARC, along with Naz Panahi, fronted the fourth ARThritis Soirée. It’s the organization’s flagship fundraiser and held at the Vancouver Club. The cocktail party once again attracted the city’s most prominent business and community leaders, scientists, healthcare professionals, and donors to the evening of fundraising and fencing — this year’s chosen art form. The night of philanthropy and sport netted $285,000 for arthritis research.

BIG LIFT: Rumana Monzur survived one of the most terrible experiences imaginable: being blinded in a brutal domestic assault because she wanted to pursue a post-secondary education. Despite the traumatic experience, Monzur found incredible strength and overcame adversity by returning to UBC to not only complete her master’s degree, but to embark on one of the biggest challenges of her life, a law career. Now an articled summer student, and in her third year of law, Monzur was the keynote at Big Sister’s Spring Luncheon, staged at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel. Monzur’s story of triumph lifted spirits and paddles, with a reported $60,000 raised to support mentoring programs and help young girls reach their fullest potential.

INDIAN LOVE STORY: For 10 days every July, Indian Summer Festival presents provocative multi-disciplinary events in Vancouver featuring some of the finest artists and visionaries from Canada, South Asia and beyond.

The brainchild of Sirish Rao and his wife, Laura Byspalko, the little-festival-that-could is now celebrating its sixth year. Expecting their first child come festival time, the couple, along with festival director Mandeep Dhaliwal, hosted a program unveiling for major patrons at the offices of Lawson Lundell. Attendees learned of this year’s theme — Border Crossings — and the star-studded lineup. Notable names scheduled to participate include Sufi music sensation Rajasthan Josh, filmmaker Deepa Mehta and journalist Sandip Roy. Also on tap will be a major retrospective of Bharti Kher at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The festival will once again commence with Vikram Vij and top chefs pushing culinary borders at the opening gala July 7.

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Eric Watt, SportChek vice-president of new retail, launched the sporting goods retailer’s flagship store on Robson. The 53,000-squarefoot, multi-level location sits in the former Chapters space.

Laura Byspalko and Sirish Rao’s and Indian Summer Festival will celebrate its sixth year.

Expecting their first child this July, the couple hosted a festival unveiling for major patrons.

UBC Thunderbirds quarterback Michael O’Connor recently brought the Vanier Cup to the nation’s capital to share with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland executive director Brenda Gershkovitch welcomed keynote speaker Rumana Monzur to the organization’s spring luncheon. The event netted $60,000 to support Big Sisters’ mentoring program.

Corporate lawyer Mandeep Dhaliwal and Indian Summer Festival chief fundraiser Shahaa Kakar welcomed supporters to the unveiling party for the 10-day celebration, which runs July 7 to 16.

Laurier Institution’s Farid Rohani and Senator Ratna Omidvar launched DiverseCity on Board, an online governance-training platform that engages diverse communities to board positions.

Gala chair Naz Panahi welcomed Olympic and world champion fencer Hristo Etropolski to Arthritis Research Canada’s signature soirée.

The cocktail party raised $285,000 for arthritis research.

Tamara Komuniecki, escorted by her husband Konrad, shared her personal story of living with rheumatoid arthritis since the age of six. Arthritis affects more than 4.6 million Canadians, yet receives only three per cent of available research dollars in Canada.

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W;t , by playwright Margaret Edson, runs at the Pacific Theatre until June 11.

THEATRE REVIEW

Pacific Theatre production takes on life, death and God W;t described as “intelligent, witty and sometimes funny”

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Despite winning the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for drama for playwright Margaret Edson, W;t is, nevertheless, a difficult play on at least several levels.

Professor Vivian Bearing (‘bare-ing’), a renowned scholar of 17th century metaphysical poetry, tells us from her hospital bed, “It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.”

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Gaunt, wasted, and bald, she has been experimentally and unsuccessfully treated for Stage 4 metastatic ovarian cancer.

That’s how W;t begins.

We are going to watch Dr. Bearing die in the next hour and a half.

Over the course of the play — in flashbacks — Dr. Bearing lectures her students (and us) on the finer points of John Donne’s discourse on life, death and God as revealed in Donne’s Holy Sonnets,

particularly Sonnet X, “Death, be not proud.”

This is heavy slogging for those of us not as engaged as Dr. Bearing in the passionate, complicated points of Donne’s speculations on mortality/ immortality. Indeed, Dr. Jason Posner, the researcher for whom Vivian Bearing is a ‘lab rat,’ took her course years ago at university because he was looking for a challenge.

Amazingly, W;t doesn’t bog down under all this

weight; it’s intelligent, witty and sometimes funny. And while the eventual message — pride in scholarship at the expense of human connection leads to a lonely, frightening death — is not profound, it is satisfying.

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another covered in blank pages — evokes both the hospital and the university where Vivian teaches.

Lauchlin Johnston lights this set, singling out Venour in her direct addresses to the audience. Corina Akeson’s sound design, beginning with a cello, is beautifully unobtrusive.

Completing the cast are Ron Reed, Julia Siedlanowska, Jess Amy Shead, Brandon Bate and Baraka Rahmani.

Troublesome for some of us, of course, are the two, concluding Sonnet X lines: “One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally/ And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.” Whether or not Vivian Bearing comes to believe in the idea of a hereafter, she does accept, with grace, death’s inevitability.

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In lieu of family and friends — none of which Vivian has — we all hope someone like Susie (Julie Casselman) and E.M. Ashford (Erla Faye Forsyth) are there to see us through our end-game.

While Susie is, by Vivian’s standards, none too bright, Casselman shows us Susie’s abundance of care and tenderness. It’s a big moment of acceptance on Vivian’s part when she allows Susie to call her “sweetheart.”

Forsyth has us all close to tears when, as E.M., she climbs onto the bed and, rather than reciting something from Donne, she reads from The Runaway Bunny, a present for E.M.’s six-year-old grandson. This scene echoes seven-year-old Vivian reading Beatrix Potter’s The Flopsy Bunny and discovering the word “soporific” which, in turn, echoes Donne’s description of death in Sonnet X: “One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally.”

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Continued from page 19 This Pacific Theatre production succeeds in spite of the play’s difficult material thanks to stellar performances. Head shaved and wearing a bright red baseball cap, Katharine Venour (as Dr. Bearing) is on stage throughout the entire evening; it’s almost an extended monologue. Slowly, carefully, Venour takes Vivian through her journey to self-discovery. “Death be not proud” could also be “Dr. Bearing be not proud” as we watch Vivian struggling with pride juxtaposed with insensitivity to everyone around her.

Dan Amos, as Dr. Posner, begins well: he’s likeable, straightforward and charming. But director Angela Konrad might have pulled back on Posner’s increasingly transparent tactlessness. It’s in the script but it doesn’t seem likely that Posner would stand at Vivian’s bedside discussing so coldly what is likely to transpire — kidney failure, pain and cardiac arrest — as if she’s not there.

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Current affairs Vancouver woman in clinical trial hopes electrodes slow Alzheimer’s WENDY BANCROFT wendy@storycatcherworkshops.com Norma-Jean McLaren has electrodes in her brain.

It’s not pleasant knowing they’re there, but she says she’ll take the electrodes over Alzheimer’s any day.

McLaren is in the early stage of the disease, so her memory loss is mild — she may forget where something belongs when she’s putting it away or may repeat the same story a few times in an exchange.

“Most days I cannot remember what I did yesterday,” says the 69-year-old.

But, having witnessed how the disease played out in members of multiple generations of her family, McLaren knows that, without a powerful intervention, she’s looking down the road at a time when she will lose her ability to process information, when she will need help with eating and using the toilet, when she won’t recognize people she loves and when her brain, basically, will stop working.

It will be many years until McLaren advances to the later stages of the disease, but hopefully that won’t happen because she is one of 50 patients in Canada and the U.S. accepted for a groundbreaking clinical trial testing whether applying an electric current to electrodes surgically

The majority of those surveyed stated that when exposed to considerable background noise they are able to hear that something is being spoken, but can no longer discern precisely what is being said. The words seem blurred and indistinct. But why is that? The effect tends to manifest itself in group situations, especially in restaurants. It is the high-pitched tones perceived at the entrance to the cochlea that determine when you hear things accurately. In the majority of cases these parts of the inner ear are the first to be affected by noise or aging. As the high-pitched tones are no longer perceived well, the auditory centre of the brain begins to struggle to decode language. It’s a bit like an image that doesn’t have enough pixels.

And for pretty much every person with dementia, there is a caregiver providing critical support. Nathan Edelson is McLaren’s husband and caregiver. He plays a crucial role in her well-being and is taking this journey with his wife every step of the way.

Edelson says he first noticed something was wrong in late February of 2012, at the memorial for former Vancouver councillor and community activist, Jim Green.

According to Edelson, McLaren couldn’t remember people at the memorial, and these were people that should have been well known to her, as both she and Nathan have been part of this activist community for many years.

There is, as yet, no cure for Alzheimer’s.

Many people find that they are no longer able to understand everything being said, particularly when in the company of others. Engineered in Switzerland, the Audéo V hearing aid has been designed specifically to understand speech in group situations.

There is a push right now to find some way to slow, stop or cure Alzheimer’s. The prevalence of this disease is massive. As of 2011, the most recent statistics available, there are 747,000 Canadians living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. That number is expected to double to 1.4 million by 2031 — four out of five of us know someone with dementia.

There is, as yet, no cure for Alzheimer’s.

“I’ve watched three generations of my family go down.”

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implanted in her brain will improve, or at least forestall, this prognosis.

Both Edelson and McLaren are active and involved.

Edelson is an advocate for affordable housing, working for many years with the City of Vancouver’s planning department. Meanwhile, McLaren’s focus has been crosscultural relations, working with First Nations and others in CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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Norma-Jean McLaren goes into surgery to have electrodes implanted in her brain as part of a clinical trial to see if the procedure will halt or even reduce the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.

B.C. and Alberta. For many years she taught cross-cultural awareness to police recruits at the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Police Academy. More recently, McLaren took that message to students in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of B.C. McLaren is a remarkable woman — intelligent, creative, warm and nurturing. Many of her former students still come to her home to visit. She co-produced a film, The Spirit Has No Colour, intended to enhance mutual understanding between police recruits and First Nations people. She also sings.

Not surprisingly, given who they are and what they value, both Edelson and McLaren believe that what she is going through — the trial and her Alzheimer’s — is a story that should be shared. They have, from the beginning, done exactly that. In fact, McLaren first announced her condition at a public forum on Dying With Dignity at the Vancouver Public Library a

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year ago. Around the same time, feeling her memory lapses were affecting her ability to teach (“I was just losing it”), McLaren quit her teaching job at UBC. In her retirement speech, she spoke openly about her condition.

Because she’s forgetful, McLaren’s movements are restricted. Numerous friends voluntarily spend time doing everyday things with her such as going on walks, giving her a massage or just visiting with a glass of wine.

(I’m one of the friends who spends time with McLaren except, because I’m a former journalist and researcher, and now lead workshops to help people share their life stories, I don’t walk with her but rather talk with her about her past and record her stories. I feel privileged that she and Edelson have trusted me to bring

their story beyond their community.)

THE CLINICAL TRIAL It was Edelson who first heard about a new surgical intervention being tested.

McLaren says he was on the lookout for a clinical trial because “he could feel me failing, grasping at stuff.”

The trial would be testing a procedure known as deep brain stimulation to see if it could reduce, possibly even improve, memory and cognitive functioning for people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease.

Edelson set about researching this procedure and the surgeon leading this treatment trial, Dr. Andres Lozano.

Dr. Lozano is chairman of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and

head of neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital.

He is known for his work on surgical approaches to treat Parkinson’s disease, depression and Alzheimer’s.

In 2010, Dr. Lozano and his team began using deep brain stimulation to see if it could help people with early stage Alzheimer’s.

The trial is progressing in three phases. In the first two phases, it was determined that the treatment worked best for those whose Alzheimer’s was at an early stage and that there were significant differences between those in a treatment group and those in a control group.

A third trial, launched early in 2015, looks at how varying the electrical current affects outcomes.

Study researchers were looking for 12 patients with early stage Alzheimer’s.

For McLaren and Edelson, the timing was perfect.

The problem was, would she be accepted? McLaren was certain she had the disease. She knew the signs, knew what to watch out for, she recognized the symptoms. She’d started going to a neurologist as soon as she suspected symptoms several years before, but she still did not

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have a diagnosis.

Thing is, it’s difficult to diagnose Alzheimer’s, especially at an early stage. As McLaren explains, “And that’s what most people don’t get.

They’re mid-stage before they go, ‘Oh sh**. This is what’s happening to me.’”

It was very stressful.

McLaren’s neurologist was right to be careful.

Deep brain stimulation is a very expensive surgical procedure and, on top of that, Edelson and McLaren would need to cover all travel expenses — tens of thousands of dollars. The neurologist wanted to be absolutely certain before recommending McLaren for the clinical trial.

After undergoing a series of tests, which showed substantial memory loss, and an MRI confirming there were no other factors such as tumours or brain injuries that might explain the memory loss, McLaren got her diagnosis in the spring

of 2015.

And yes, she did have early stage Alzheimer’s.

It was not, however, until early November, they learned she had been accepted to the trial. The electrodes were to be implanted Nov. 30, 2015.

On Nov. 26, Edelson and McLaren flew to Toronto, staying with friends and biting their nails. On Nov. 30, two electrodes were implanted in McLaren’s brain and a battery inserted in her chest. Wires running from that battery, up through her neck, would carry an electric current into four areas on each of the two electrodes.

The electrodes were activated Dec. 15 and baseline memory levels were tested. On Jan. 6, the electrical current level was adjusted up to a level of “discomfort,” then down to a point where it was “livable.” This was, in fact, the hardest part of all for McLaren. While “discomfort” varies for

each person, for McLaren it meant experiencing intense heat. At the “livable” level she feels no side effects.

McLaren’s progress will be updated periodically in the Courier until the final assessment this December.

She will be checked at four points over the year to monitor how things are going — has she noticed any change? Are others noticing change? Is this, in fact, a path that others may follow?

Wendy Bancroft is a former journalist who now leads workshops helping others to recall, write about, and share important memories in their life histories.

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The higher the level, it’s suspected, the more likely it is her memories will return. Between these visits, they will be trying to live life as normal as possible while watching to see if the electrodes in her brain are making a difference in her ability to remember.

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Date: Wednesday,June15,2016 Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Place: Lobby, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, 6163 University Boulevard Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be on hand to discuss and answer questions about this project.

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Scraps of wood, used oil cans, bent forks, pop lids and buttons — these are just some of the materials that make up the instruments used by the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, which performed at the Museum of Anthropology Monday night.

Hundreds of Vancouverites joined the 10 musicians for aural experiences that could be understood regardless of what language you speak or where you call home. The orchestra’s members, who live beside one of the largest landfills in South America, play instruments made entirely from salvaged scraps found amongst the garbage that surrounds them and where they are overwhelmed by environmental devastation and overrun with poverty. But today, the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura has inspired similar movements in Venezuela, Brazil, Turkey and Spain.

“We are very proud of our culture in Paraguay,”

said Favio Chavez, the conductor and founder of the Recycled Orchestra. “There are children who have no homes, whose parents have no jobs, food security, or electricity, but they come to the school every day to learn music because for them, culture is a basic necessity.”

So far the Recycled Orchestra, with the help of the Vancouver-based volunteer group Instruments Beyond Borders, has raised $30,000 that will go straight to the band, the music school in Cateura and the Saint James Music Academy in Vancouver.

In addition to the cash donations, the orchestra and Saint James received used instruments valued at $50,000, “with way more coming after tonight,” Elena Orrego, the secretary of Instruments Beyond Borders, said at the Museum of Anthropology during the orchestra’s last Vancouver performance.

All of the money raised will provide scholarships for the students and will go towards research for

Natalia Dominguez, 17, and Maria Rios, 18, test out some violins at Tapestry Music with Favio Chavez, director and founder of the Recycled Orchestra. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

environmental resolutions in Cateura and finance the ongoing construction of the school in Paraguay.

As for the instruments, the new donations will be used to teach in the school, but the Recycled Orchestra commits to playing with their recycled instruments.

“They play these instruments way better than their formal ones and of course, the kids here cannot play these instruments,” Orrego said as a classically-trained

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cellist from the crowd had his go at the cello made from an oil drum and pallet.

He was respectfully showed up by cello’s original owner, sixteen-year-old Noelia Rios.

In a place where a violin is worth more than a house, Orrego said, this is more than we ever had in mind.

While Instruments Beyond Borders was unable to put a number to how much the Recycled Orchestra raised or how many instruments they collected during this

most recent trip, Alejandro Rojas, a founding member of the charity organization, did say there were “literally rooms filled with instruments,” for both groups.

Rojas describes the charity as “just a humble component of this global movement.”

“It’s the kids who are really the stars — it’s all them.”

The youth orchestra played at various schools during its visit to Vancouver, including Killarney, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Vancouver College and Vancouver Tech.

They also played to two sold out shows, for the second time in Vancouver, performing at the Playhouse and Museum of Anthropology. The group also visited Tapestry Music on West Broadway, the instrument depot where Instruments Beyond Borders stores the donated instruments.

“We want to show you that each piece of instrument has a different voice, each piece of garbage has its own sound and how,

together, they are able to create a melody out of garbage,” Chavez said, pointing to the violin made from an old pan, and then to the snare drum made from an old x-ray of the drummer’s own stomach.

The orchestra allows its members to travel the world and play music, even though none of the kids ever dreamed they would. The orchestra, Orrego said, teaches them more than just music.

“Brandon,” Orrego pointed to the 19 yearold bass player, “he is in university but he is also the administrator and did all the planning of the entire trip. Since they live on garbage, many of them don’t have future projections, it’s cool to see them learn how to plan.”

Following Vancouver, the Recycled Orchestra continued its tour with a stop in Seattle.

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Living Space, one of our city’s premier destinations for architecture and design, will once again host an exclusive shop-withina-shop, connecting Vancouver with the global design community.

Molteni&C Dada celebrated their Vancouver launch May 26 with an industry event attended by renowned Israeli designer Ron Gilad. The designer will be showcasing his Grado° Collection as part of the new boutique at 1706 West First Ave.

Israeli designer Ron Gilad will be showcasing his Grado° Collection as part of the new Molten & Dada boutique at 1706 West 1st.

With a career spent between Tel Aviv, New York and Milan, Gilad is revered for testing boundaries between form and function within his creations. The multi-award winning designer was named designer of the year both

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The 250-square-meter Molteni&C Dada shopping space will give clients an organic approach to experiencing the designs, with the collection offering inspiration for everything from kitchens to living rooms, bedrooms to home offices. Alongside Ron Gilad, featured works will include Vincent Van Duysen’s Ribbon and Gliss Master collections, the Chelsea chairs and sofa and the Filigree table designed by Rodolfo Dordoni and Molteni’s best-selling 505, Pass-Word and Fortepiano pieces. The shop-within-a-shop will also feature the Gio Ponti Collection, re-makes of iconic pieces designed between the 1930s and 1970s.

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The busyness continues, errands, communications, travel, paperwork, siblings and casual friends – you can start a workable new project in these areas Sunday before 9:45 am (PDT). (If started after this, the project would be like a balloon with no air.) Be curious, read, write, ask questions. This week is much easier than the last one. Sunday’s for errands, etc. This night through Tues. steers you homeward – embrace your family, redecorate, garden, enhance your security, rest.

This week is much easier than last. The general emphasis lies on international affairs, far travel, foreign-born people, teachers, gentle love, cultural venues and social rituals, intellectual pursuits, higher education, religion, media and fame – any/all of these await your action. You could start a project in these areas Sunday before 9:45 am (PDT). This night through Tues. brings your ambitions to the fore.

This is a better week than the last one. Chase money, buy/sell, cultivate clients, ask for a pay raise, protect your possessions. Your memory is functioning at a top level, making this a good time for rote learning.

You might be attracted to someone new, but chances are this is a sensual attraction only, and is not “soulful” enough for a long run (e.g., marriage). A money project started before 9:45 am (PDT) Sunday, should work, reward you ultimately.

This is an easier week, Scorpio. The general accent lies on secrets, mysteries, research and investigation, medical diagnoses, lifestyle changes, commitment and consequence. These are accompanied by a sexual yearning, power goals, and/or financial urges. Your subconscious, your intuition, burst to the surface. You can safely invest or chase someone attractive now and next week – BUT a certain planetary set-up says to avoid investing in a gamble, or spending on romance.

Your energy, clout, charisma, effectiveness and sense of timing are at a yearly high, Gemini – stride forth and conquer. Start significant projects, get out, approach VIPs, bosses and parents to ask for favours or an “opening” (a chance to succeed). Show that lover who rejected you how happy you are. Plan or start a far travel, intellectual, cultural or similar projects Sunday before 9:45 am (PDT).

Relationships fill the days ahead – in a better way than last week. Relocation possibilities, new, fresh horizons, opportunities, agreements and contracts form the plus side. Arguments, challenges, opposition and enmities are the downside. All you have to do to succeed? – be genial, co-operative, a cheerful friend; jump on someone else’s bandwagon. Sunday until 9:45 am (PDT) gives you a good opportunity to do this (display your support for another).

Continue to lie low, stay away from the bustling crowd, compete for nothing, contemplate, meditate, regain your strength physically, emotionally and spiritually. This week is much easier, more benevolent than the last one. Sink into deep rest Sunday: perform only routine actions, e.g., grocery shopping. Your energy and charisma jump up Mon./Tues. – though only knee-high because you’re in a rest period.

This week is a lot easier than the last one, even if you do have to keep slugging away at a pile of work. Eat, dress and sleep sensibly, as your daily health is a bit touchy. If you want to get a jump on Sunday’s chores (they are crucial ones) start them before 9:45 am (PDT). Relationships colour Mon./Tues. – a cheerful, happy colour Mon. and Tues. pm, but a grey sad one Tues. am.

This week is better than last, Leo. You are in a “happiness zone” – your popularity is rising, wishes are coming true, entertainment, flirtations and social delights amuse you, and you can make optimistic plans. (Make one Sunday before 9:45 am PDT, especially involving a lover, spouse, partnership, relocation or a public appearance. A trip or “formal ritual” might be involved.)

You’ll ride a winning streak this week and next, Aquarius. Romance, gambles, speculations, teaching kids, beauty, art, recreation, immediate pleasure, these lay in your path like summer flowers. BUT: you can lose, long-run, if you pursue the following before June 18: earnings, money, buy/sell, possessions, popularity, government relations, warehousing, assembly lines or institutions. Basically, chase love, adventure, pleasure – not practical results.

The main accent lies on ambition, career, prestige relations and worldly status. Charge after goals assertively this week and next.

(Both are luckier than last week.) But don’t count on co-operation, and be careful with any speculative investments or risky actions. (In general, until May 2017, you fare better alone, gently independent.) You can start a new career/ business project now, especially Sunday morning before 9:45 am (PDT).

This week is a lot easier than the last one, Pisces. The main accent lies on your domestic scene: home, kids/parents, garden, Mother Nature, food/shelter, stomach and soul. Yield to the urge to nap, rest, whenever it occurs.

June is your “hibernation” month – a necessary preparation for a fun-filled, adventurous, creative and romantic phase that begins in 16 days. Putter around the house, make repairs, redecorate, buy furniture, etc.

June 2: Charlie Watts (75). June 3: Dan Hill (62). June 4: Angelina Jolie (41).

June 5: Laurie Anderson (69). June 6: Steve Vai (56). June 7: Tom Jones (76).

June 8: Nancy Sinatra (76).

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The Courier presents Vancouver’s Elite Graduating Athletes of 2016

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orking her hardest, striving for that little bit extra, Annika Richardson wears a wide smile on her face. But don’t be fooled. This impressive young woman means business. She calls it her pain face: an unconscious, grin-and-bearit outward expression on the surface of Richardson’s inner strength and willpower.

An action photograph taken in Lillehammer, Norway, shows a row of teeth and what looks like glee under Richardson’s dark sunglasses. Taken

at the Youth Olympic Games in February, the cross-country skier was pushing herself to the limit and was not smiling. But she certainly was afterwards.

Richardson finished 16th for Canada in the five-kilometre event. After a disappointing performance in classic sprint, the Hollyburn club racer had a lot to prove and said everything came together, from her mental focus to the wax on her skis.

“My favourite skis tested the fastest and my jetlag was completely gone. I was high-strung and high-energy, totally in the zone of ‘this is

just another race,’” she said.

“I learned that you have to push for every second.”

Travelling such a distance to face a deeply talented international field, Richardson gained valuable insight into race preparation, time zone exhaustion, and how she and her compatriots stack up.

“The European skiers, technically, were insanely more aggressive than us Canadians,” she said. Another event fired her up even more. “I felt pressure to prove to the world that Canadian skiers are competitors to be reckoned with.”

Competing since she was eight and training with the Hollyburn Cross-Country Ski Club, Richardson’s chosen cross-training sport of trail running has also made her a city champion for the Churchill Bulldogs and a top-10 B.C. finalist.

“She’s a really talented athlete with lots of potential,” said Hollyburn head coach Jake Weaver. “She has potential to possibly make it to the highest level of skiing, including to the Olympics. She has also got great determination. Mentally, that would be one of her greatest attributes.”

Nominated for Canada’s junior team, the five-footnine athlete will move to the national nordic training centre in Thunder Bay beginning next season in time to start her undergraduate studies at Lakehead University.

The Youth Games won’t be her only Olympics if Richardson has her way. “The overall spirit of the Games was incredible and humbling. I now know that I want to keep working towards skiing at even higherlevel races in the future.”

Watch for her.

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at Rotary Stadium, the Saints opened the scoring off persistent rucking. They led 5-0 and clutched an 8-7 advantage off the foot of Will Sauder, whose convert and penalty kicking has been a weapon all season.

But with 10 minutes to play, Shawnigan Lake scored the winning try to lead 12-8.

Owen Pitblado made a gutsy play to wrestle

back the lead with only minutes on the clock, but he was thwarted by the team that has won seven championships in the past eight years.

Oak Bay finished third ahead of Earl Marriott in the first year the league tested an AAAA tier for the top four regional teams.

St. George’s defeated the Stags for the 2014 provincial title.

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APARTMENTS/ CONDOS FOR RENT FURNISHED 1 BR Cozy apartment for rent 1min walk to Sky train & Oakridge Mall.

3, 6, or 9 months contract Opposite BCLiquor Store!

Water, heat, high-speed Wifi included $1490/month Available July 1st 604.377.7067

GARDEN VILLA

1010 6th Ave. New West.

Suites Available. Beautiful atrium with fountain. By shops, college & transit.

Pets negotiable. Ref req.

CALL 604 715-7764 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

CREATIVE SERVICES

GORGEOUS HUGE 2 BR, 2 f/bath, quiet sunny grnd flr, 2 secure patios, renos full size appl, includes dw, wd, prkg, ht/hw Marpole $1650/month. ($500 move-in allowance) June 1st. 604-261-1917

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WE BUY ANTIQUES Generous prices paid for Fine Art, Silver, Jewellery, Military Medals, Militaria, Coin Collections, pre 1910 Furniture & Lighting, etc.

Est. in 1990.

We make house calls.

Call David 604-716-8032 www.britishfineart andantiques.ca

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FREE Info & DVD: www.NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT

WANTED Old Books Wanted also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. no text books or encyclopedias. I pay cash.

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FRANCHISES

CONNECTING COMMUNITIES

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1 BR & 2 BR Available.

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Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com

BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

GENTLEMEN! Attractive, discreet European lady is available for company.

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**SWEDISH MASSAGE** 604-739-3998 Broadway at Oak

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HOME SERVICES

REAL ESTATE

HOUSES FOR SALE

PROPERTY FOR SALE

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MESSY HOUSE OR OFFICE? The most thorough cleaning or its FREE! Single Parent & Senior’s disc. (604) 945-0004

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call. Lic#89402.

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CONCRETE

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A 1 Retaining Walls, Stairs, Driveway, Patio, Sidewalk. Any concrete work. Free Est. Since 1977. Basile 604-617-5813.

DRAINAGE

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DRYWALL Free Painting over Drywall Repairs.

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