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Consultations aim to find common ground on Arbutus Greenway City sought input on what hard surface to use for temporary pathway

Naoibh O’Connor

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Safia Boutaleb hopes the city opts for a separated asphalt surface, which accommodates both cyclists and pedestrians, when work on the temporary pathway along Arbutus Greenway resumes.

The city stopped work on the paving project this summer to give residents a chance to weigh in on the best hard surface to use.

Asphalt now runs from 16th to 33rd, while crushed stone was put down between 10th and 16th and 33rd and 41st.

The rest of the corridor, which stretches from False Creek to the Fraser River, hasn’t been dealt with yet.

Consultation sessions to gather public feedback were held on Sept. 17, 21, 22, and 24.

Boutaleb took part in last Thursday night’s event at Kerrisdale Community Centre, which attracted 60plus participants who sat at tables of 10 with facilitators guiding conversations.

Safety and accessibility are key considerations. The

city, whose goal is to encourage people to explore the entire length of the corridor, believes the best options for a temporary path are either a shared compacted gravel path, a shared asphalt path, a separated compacted gravel path or a separated asphalt path.

But Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering, said the city is open to other suggestions raised during the consultation period.

The temporary path could remain in place for up to three years until construction on the permanent greenway begins.

A shared path would be about three to four metres wide, while a separated path, divided by a strip of grass or planters, would be five metres wide — 2.5-metres wide per path.

Many participants at the Sept. 22 workshop favoured an asphalt surface.

The debate seemed to centre more on whether it should be a shared or separated path. One participant said a shared path is actually safer for families because it would be wider and there

The city expects to make a decision about the temporary pathway for Arbutus Greenway by mid-October. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

would be more room to manoeuvre if there’s a problem. Others thought it would be best for safety reasons to separate cyclists from pedestrians.

Still others felt a separated path might cost too much given its temporary nature.

A few said they’d like a separated path, but with different hard surfaces — asphalt for cyclists and

gravel for pedestrians.

Boutaleb maintains asphalt is best for people of all abilities, including the elderly, those with mobility issues, parents and cyclists. She was eager to test out the route in the summer after she learned that paving had started.

“I got really excited about it when I first heard,” she told the Courier after the workshop. “[But] I tried to

use it and then I skidded on my bike on whatever gravel or crushed concrete that they have now. And, of course, the part where there is asphalt worked really well… And, [I’d prefer] separated just to avoid collisions and give more space for both uses.

Julie Paul, who lives next to the corridor, agreed asphalt is best, but she’d settle for a shared path.

“For a temporary trail, my preferred choice would be a shared trail so we didn’t take any more of the environment for the trail until we make our final decisions,” she said. “We all have to recognize that this is a temporary pathway.

Let’s get on with the project and let’s make the planning for the final pathway a very effective process.”

Dobrovolny said turnout at all the sessions has been good, with safety and accessibility being the common themes so far.

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There’s a love for the corridor. There’s genuine excitement about the potential it creates and there’s some differences around technique or the details, but not around the core issues.”

The city’s final decision on the temporary path won’t be made until mid October when a report will be issued outlining the feedback it received, the preferred option and reasons for that conclusion. But Dobrovolny promised the pathway will be completed by the end of December.

It will run from Fir to Milton Street. The asphalt that’s already been laid down will remain, while the surface for rest of the route is what is being determined.

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me in an amazing, incredible and profound way for the better. I have a deeper understanding of truth and reconciliation.”

The library is now on the lookout for someone to follow in Morriseau’s footsteps, and an application deadline has been set for Oct. 14 to fill the role of next year’s storyteller in residence.

Some of the application parameters include experience in Aboriginal storytelling and performance, a zest for information sharing, availability to participate in public events and a full-time commitment for a period spanning from January to April 2017.

Established in 2008, the program has previously welcomed carvers, standup comics, playwrights, actors and writers into the fold. Those artists have come from First Nations backgrounds spanning the entire country.

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From pain to inspiration, and from inspiration to conversation — Renae Morriseau’s emotional and artistic journey travelled full circle this year.

Morriseau was the Vancouver Public Library’s (VPL) Aboriginal storyteller in residence from March to June, a role that saw the North Vancouver resident liaise with the public through her pursuits in the arts via film, TV, music and theatre.

As part of her tenure, Morriseau helped organize a First Nations theatre piece that focused on life and death in the Downtown Eastside. It was an exercise in addressing and purging demons for herself and the families of murdered and missing indigenous women.

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Morriseau had no shortage of experience to rely on while shaping the particulars of her residency. The 55-year-old is perhaps best known for her role on the CBC television show North of 60 and last year was awarded the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for community engaged arts. Morriseau’s musical and theatre pursuits have taken her across the world and she now plays an active role in truth and reconciliation efforts across Canada and internationally.

Her advice to prospective applicants is simple: know yourself and be yourself.

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Even though he was only four years old at the time, Gordon August can clearly remember the day he was taken from his family at Sechelt Nation.

It was 1961, and Indian Agents arrived at his grandparents’ home, grabbed him by his long hair and forced him into their car.

“I remember hitting the window and crying, and my grandmother was crying,” August recalls now.

“It was a day I’ll never forget because I never knew what anger was until that day.”

August was separated from his parents, seven brothers and seven sisters, in a forced adoption that was part of an assimilative government policy now known as the Sixties Scoop.

Between the 1960s and 1980s, an estimated 20,000 Indigenous children were forcibly

removed from their homes and adopted out, mostly to white families.

For August, it triggered many years of turbulence: he was forced to live with abusive adopted parents, spent time in a residential school, and eventually was transferred between 27 other foster families after running away at the age of 12.

He eventually found some stability with a family in North Vancouver, but he could never find all 14 of his siblings, even after two decades of trying.

He even travelled to Ottawa and Victoria in an effort to have government records on Sixties Scoop adoptions shown. “[Before she died] my grandmother said to me, ‘Let it go. When the time is right, your family will come together,’” August said.

So he let it go, and began healing from his anger by reconnecting with Coast Salish culture in the late 1990s.

The words of his grand-

mother began to come true about a decade later, when August was preparing to perform at one of several events hosted by Aboriginal Tourism BC for the Vancouver Olympics with a group of other First Nations dancers.

He was on his way to the dressing room to change into regalia when a woman working with Aboriginal Tourism B.C. approached him.

The woman told August that one of her coworkers, Linda Epp, had just received official documents revealing the identities of her birth parents. Their last names were August, too, and they were from the same nation as him — Sechelt. The woman then located Epp on the premises and introduced her to August.

Epp showed him the papers.

“I turned around and I said, ‘I guess... I’m your older brother,’” August remembers.

“Not even 10 seconds later tears were just rolling out of my eyes.”

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after ‘Sixties Scoop’

Gordon August, who was removed from his family at Sechelt Nation during the ‘Sixties Scoop,’ was reunited with his sister prior to a performance at the Vancouver Olympics. Since then he has embarked on a journey to reconnect with whom he believes to be all of his 14 siblings. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

He introduced the woman believed to be his sister to the group of about 50 other dancers, who later dedicated a special song at the Olympic event to the two siblings.

August recalls it as an incredibly emotional experience.

“The whole place got quiet,” he said.

“I looked down at my sister and said, ‘All these years I knew I had seven sisters, I only ever knew two of them.’”

Even though August didn’t know it at the time, it was the start of a fateful journey that has led him to reconnect with whom he believes to be all of his 14 siblings — not to mention countless cousins.

“Over the last 10 years, I’ve met more family then I ever

knew I had,” August said.

Another notable reunion happened in March of 2015, when he reconnected with a brother who lived on Keats Island but by coincidence had won a lottery in Sechelt.

“He had decided to buy a ticket for the draw because he was in Sechelt with his uncle who was buying bullets,” August said.

When he was back to collect his prize, a member of Sechelt Nation thought he looked familiar and connected him to August, who said he found out he was likely his brother after a phone conversation from Vancouver.

Within the past year, he’s also tracked down several others though the band, and, sadly, buried two sisters he never knew.

He found out about them

through phone calls from the Victoria hospital where they died.

August said they died without connecting with their nation, something that’s common for many other families. And it can be scary to go home, for fear of not being accepted.

“I didn’t know [my sisters], but I know they lived in pain not knowing about where they were from,” he said.

This Christmas, August hopes to host a gathering with all of his remaining siblings, including two who he’s only so far interacted with via text messages.

August smiles talking about the gathering, something he has been waiting for his entire life.

“A lot of things happened to our people with scoop of the ’60s and a lot of people still hurt today,” he said.

“Today I can talk about it, but sometimes I still have the emotions of the things I went through, with others.”

He has lost a lot, including never getting to know either of his parents before they died, but he said culture is what saved him.

August, who comes from a lineage of hereditary chiefs, is now intensely connected to his nation and birth family through ceremonies.

But if you tell him that his abilities or experiences are amazing, he will correct you.

“It’s the culture that’s amazing,” he said.

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There were many different levels of celebration for Rod Hoffmeister during Saturday’s return of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada to their

armoury, and they all had one common thread — pride.

The land on the corner of Burrard and First Avenue is now home to history as well as future.

Next to the upgraded 80-year-old Seaforth Armoury that belongs to Vancouver’s reserve

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during the Second World War, three Distinguished Service Order medals and commanding Canadian forces in the Pacific against Japan.

The name of the commanding officer of the Seaforth Highlanders was brought up in an officers’ mess during another pre-

sentation later in the day.

Again, it was a long list of achievements linked to the late Hoffmeister, one that included being director of the B.C. Lions football club. This last distinction, when announced, elicited an enthusiastic, “Yeah!” from his good-natured son, Hon. Lieutenant-Col-

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“It was very emotional,” said the younger Hoffmeister of the building dedication in his father’s name. “It’s a wonderful feeling to have him recognized, he was an outstanding Canadian in many regards.”

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new and improved armoury The day of celebration kicked off with the Seaforth Highlanders regiment and cadets marching to the armoury from Jericho Garrison followed by a regimental review, drumhead ceremony and highland homecoming tattoo (music, dancing, display of forces) that seemed to include most of the city’s piper, dance, and drummer population.

Hundreds attended the day’s ceremonies, which offered a rare glimpse into the armoury that’s normally locked down tight to the public. The only people making a regular appearance in the building for the last four years were the construction teams that seismically upgraded the armoury, as well as built the Major-General Bert Hoffmeister 39 Brigade facility. Improvements and construction

cost $55 million.

“It’s been majorly upgraded with wiring, communications, seismic, and hopefully a couple holes were fixed in the roof that were there when we left,” said Hoffmeister. “It’s great to be back. It was four years of living in what was effectively our parent’s basement at Jericho.

It wasn’t great but we all cooperated and got by.”

Moving back home will be gradual as the temporary offices still need to be packed, and the regiment is in training. Some decoration, by way of placing treasured photographs and artifacts on the walls, has begun, which is symbolic for Seaforths as they’re finally able to see a physical future beyond repair work.

Members also look forward to recreating their museum and vast archives to give it the proper treatment that

their previous cramped space couldn’t offer.

“It was a little room that could hold about five people and then it got claustrophobic,” said Hoffmeister.

The archives represent a long history that began Nov. 24, 1910, by a group of Vancouver residents of Scottish descent who started the infantry regi-

ment. Seaforths served in both world wars and have been deployed on missions in Korea, Egypt, Croatia, Cyprus and Afghanistan.

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The freshly-painted white walls of the spacious parade ground’s interior displayed panels of photographs and drawings of soldiers in action and other important historical moments, along with infor-

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o not be suckered into believing that the so-called “sharing economy” is some kind of salvation. For starters, corporations that pass themselves off as agents of this rapidly growing phenomenon have nothing to do with sharing.

On Wednesday, after the Courier’s print deadline, Vancouver city council was to receive the latest briefing from staff on just what to do about one of those corporations, Airbnb. That is the online platform that has, in just a few years, propelled itself into a multi-billion dollar global operation that facilitates short-term rentals of accommodations.

As you may know, in our town Airbnb has also signed up thousands of listings, including whole houses and condos, to the point where it is seriously diminishing an already miniscule vacancy rate.

At the same time, both Vancouver and the province are struggling to seek solutions for yet another member of the “sharing economy” fraternity, Uber. Uber’s online platform, like Airbnb, is both global and worth billions.

Uber puts together people who need a ride with people who own a car and

will, for a fee, take them where they want to go. So far they have been blocked from operating in B.C. Both Uber and Airbnb are more correctly part of a phenomenon of “disruptors” known as the “platform economy.” That would include Amazon, Alibaba and Facebook. What they disrupt in most cases are older generation bricks and mortar corporations. Their platforms exist thanks to the Internet and the global proliferation of portable devices that allow people to connect electronically.

They also have this in common: Airbnb, unlike the hotel industry it is nudging out of the way, owns no buildings. Uber owns no cars. Facebook, while facilitating data exchanges, provides none of its own data. And neither Amazon nor Alibaba create the goods they offer for sale.

When I think of the sharing economy, I have more of a cooperative model in mind; something like a group of people who want occasional access to carpentry tools and a space to use them in, so they get together to buy the tools and rent a workshop.

That is not what Uber or Airbnb are about. Basi-

cally, they are for-profit corporations that put buyers and sellers together and charge a significant commission. Uber apparently takes 30 per cent of the fare a driver charges.

In advance of Vancouver city staff presenting its briefing on Airbnb to council, two things happened. Airbnb dispatched its head of Global Policy and Public Affairs, Chis Lehane, to lobby key city political players (as well as visiting the local crew at the Globe and Mail). According to Airbnb’s website, Lehane’s main job is to “educate more people” about “the right to share your home.” There’s that word “share” again.

To coincide with this campaign of persuasion, Airbnb started running a series of radio, TV and Internet ads. We got to meet an Airbnb “host” Michelle, who turns out to be a woman named Michele (correct spelling) Hall.

She explains she is on a “small pension” so “I think the shared economy is a brilliant idea” she tells us.

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Condition of Victory Square is disrespectful Re: “Trashy state of Victory Square frustrates resident,” Sept. 22.

Yes, there is a lot of disrespect there.

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Re: “Friendship with celebrity crow no flight of fancy,” Sept. 22.

Love reading about Canuck. I have 2 crows, Charlie and Clara that have been my friends for over 5 years. They wait for me each morning and follow me around False Creek while I am walking my dogs. They take dog kibble treats from my hand. My dogs (Papillons) don’t bother them. It is amusing to see the crows trotting along behind us hoping for their treats! Love crows.

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Vancouver’s (natural) gas pains Mike Klassen

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When the public finally got wise to city council’s effective ban on natural gas last week, you saw the city’s spin machine go into overdrive.

“There is no ban!” insisted city manager Sadhu Johnston, repeating the points laid out in a mayor’s office communiqué.

But in truth, city council has used its power to enact bylaws that will not only end the use of afford-

able, efficient, and locallysourced natural gas to heat our homes and hot water, some see it as a path where only the “super rich” can afford to live in Vancouver.

At first blush, the city’s so-called Zero Emissions Building Plan seems like an example of where a government’s good intentions can go horribly awry. After all, who these days does not want to fight climate change?

In a December 2015 column, I raised the matter of how city council had

awarded a monopoly district energy franchise for downtown, Northeast False Creek and Chinatown to Creative Energy Vancouver Platforms Inc. (“Creative Energy”), a company owned by prominent developer Ian Gillespie.

Under the terms of the agreement with the city, newly permitted buildings in that dense part of the city will be required to source their heating and hot water supply from Gillespie’s company.

To choose who would operate this district energy

utility the city issued what is known as a “Request for Expressions of Interest” or EOI. As opposed to an open tendering process where the lowest bidder usually wins, an EOI is generally used to vet whether suppliers are able to provide the required goods and services.

If one drills down on these proposals to shift to district energy, however, it is interesting to note a 6.85 per cent annual return on investment is built into the pro forma. In other words,

ratepayers will bear the financial risk for establishing these new energy utilities.

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Swedish homeowners have to spend US$4,500 annually if they heat with electricity, in part because the state has packed a tax on electricity bills to finance a subsidy for district energy systems.

New city bylaws require that all new buildings not connected to district heat must install electric baseboards instead of comparatively efficient gas heating.

High utility bills are the cause of “energy poverty” (or “fuel” poverty) in several developed nations, including Canada. A recent episode of CBC Radio’s “The Current” reported on Ontario families forced to choose “between heating and eating” thanks to exorbitant prices for electricity.

In 2015, nearly 60,000 residential customers were disconnected from their hydro services in Ontario for non-payment.

In the U.K., a “Home Heat Helpline” exists to aid people who cannot pay their energy bills.

In a city where so many people are already struggling to cover their cost of living, why would city hall make it worse?

In a July interview with Vox.com, Sadhu Johnston explained how the city plans to use locally sourced wood waste to generate the district heat supply.

“It has to be from within the city,” said Johnston.

“We’ve banned all clean wood from entering the landfill and that’s creating a supply of wood waste that can be used.”

So, exactly how many demolished wood buildings are we talking about here?

Late Monday, the B.C. Utilities Commission issued a ruling denying Creative Energy’s appeal for a CPCN (monopoly) to provide thermal energy to buildings in Chinatown. BCUC has considered all arguments for nearly two years, and though it places a high value on greenhouse gas reductions, it ruled that a monopoly was not in the public interest.

BCUC did not entirely slam the door on Creative Energy, however. It noted that the city could pass a bylaw to create a monopoly that would supersede the regulator’s authority.

What citizens have to ask is when experts at our public regulator decide something is clearly not in the public interest, why is Vancouver city council voting for it? @MikeKlassen

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12-storey, mixed-use building and one four-storey, mixed-use building with 122 dwelling units and retail uses at grade. A height of 40.2 metres (132 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.8 are proposed.

5. 2894 East Broadway To rezone 2894 East Broadway from C-1 (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a fivestorey, mixed-use building with atgrade commercial uses and 37 secured for-profit affordable rental housing units. A building height of 14.8 metres (48.6 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.69 are proposed.

6. 2655 Maple Street To add the F. Haynes & Company Building at 2655 Maple Street to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category and designate the exterior of the building as a protected heritage property.

2. 1672 West 1st Avenue To rezone 1672 West 1st Avenue from IC-1 (Industrial) district to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District, to increase the floor space ratio (FSR) from 1.36 to 1.87 to permit the expansion of the second floor and mezzanine area, and convert the existing wholesale use on the ground floor to office use.

3. 3595 Kingsway (Odd Fellows Manor) To amend CD-1 (60) By-law No. 4491 for 3595 Kingsway to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building containing commercial retail units at grade, 44 social housing units and 117 secured for-profit affordable rental housing units. A height of 23.0 metres (75.2 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.69 are proposed.

4. 2395-2469 Kingsway To rezone 2395-2435 Kingsway from RT-2 (Two-Family Dwelling) District, and 2443-2469 Kingsway from C-2 (Commercial) District, all to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of one

Public Hearing: October 20

Thursday, October 20, 2016, at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 920 East Hastings Street (see A on map) To rezone the Ray-Cam Co-operative Community Centre site, comprising 920 East Hastings Street and the northern portion of 400 Campbell Avenue, to allow subdivision of the community centre site from the Stamps Place social housing site. After rezoning and subdivision, BC Housing will own the community centre site and the New Chelsea Housing Society will own the social housing site. No changes to the existing land uses or buildings on these sites are proposed as part of this application.

2. 305 West 41st Avenue (Oakridge United Church) (see B on map) To rezone 305 West 41st Avenue (Oakridge United Church) from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey, mixed-use building with church use at grade, containing 49 dwelling units. A height of 20.7 metres (68 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.91 are proposed.

3. 512 West King Edward Avenue (see C on map) To rezone 512 West King Edward Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building, containing 50 secured market rental housing units. A height of 20.7 metres (68 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.00 are proposed.

4. 725-747 Southeast Marine Drive (see D on map) To amend CD-1 (21) (Comprehensive Development) District for 725-747 Southeast Marine Drive to permit the development of a mixed-use development with 368 dwelling units, commercial uses, a child care facility and a neighbourhood house annex. A height of 63.1 metres (207 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 3.98 are proposed.

5. 1550 Alberni Street (see E on map) To rezone 1550 Alberni Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District.

The proposal is for a 43-storey, mixed-use building, comprised of market residential with commercial uses at grade, all over eight levels of underground parking. A height of 132.35 m (434 ft.) and an FSR of 14.15 are proposed.

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Relationship between VPD and Aboriginal Third instalment of Courier’s six-part series examines police department’s efforts to improve relations with Aboriginal community Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Frank Joseph Paul.

It’s a name known to many people in this city because of what happened to the 48-year-old man sometime between Dec. 5 and 6, 1998 in an East Side alley.

Paul died of hypothermia after a Vancouver police officer driving a prison wagon chose to leave the chronic alcoholic in an alley near East Second Avenue and Scotia Street rather than admit him to the neighbourhood’s detox centre.

Earlier that night, Paul was turned away from jail.

A man searching for a lost cat at 2 a.m. found Paul’s body in the alley and called 911. Paul’s death set off years of criticism against the Vancouver Police Department, triggered various investigations and led to an inquiry that concluded officers failed to provide a proper level of care for Paul that cold winter night.

The VPD apologized to Paul’s family and acknowledged in a report to the Vancouver Police Board that the man’s death raised “perceptions of racism, indifference and cultural insensitivity towards the Aboriginal community.”

Paul was a member of the Mi’kmaq First Nation in New Brunswick. His death only inflamed years of mistrust that Aboriginal people already had with police.

That mistrust was exacerbated when women began going missing from the Downtown Eastside.

Many of the women were Aboriginal and later found murdered. Police eventually captured Robert Pickton in 2002, ending a killing spree

In May 2015, Police Chief Adam Palmer was welcomed as the city’s new leader of the Vancouver Police Department in a ceremony at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre. Melanie Mark, centre, was one of the women who draped Palmer in a Coast Salish blanket. Mark is now the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

that made the Port Coquitlam pig farmer Canada’s worst serial killer.

Police Chief Adam Palmer is obviously familiar with the cases, having begun his career in 1987. His predecessors have had to answer for the tragedies and attempt to repair a damaged relationship with the Aboriginal community.

Palmer now has to answer for the department’s current relationship, which he described as “very good.” In fact, he said from his office at the

Cambie Street police precinct, it’s getting better all the time.

“It’s a lot better than when I came on the job back in 1987,” he said.

“Back then, I was a young patrol officer. My frame of reference was that I didn’t know what the [VPD] executive was doing, but my general sense of it was there wasn’t a lot of community outreach like there is now.”

Palmer went on to list a number of programs and initiatives the VPD has implemented in the past

decade to improve relations with Aboriginal residents.

The list includes cultural sensitivity training last year for hundreds of his officers, a committee comprised largely of Aboriginal women to combat violence in the Downtown Eastside, an Aboriginal policing centre and two cadet programs.

The VPD also has 24 Aboriginal officers, some of whom work directly with young Aboriginal people, the fastest growing demographic in Canada.

Palmer pointed to the benefits of the renewed relationship with the Aboriginal community, singling out the Sisterwatch program in the Downtown Eastside, where women and police work together to prevent predators from stalking vulnerable residents.

That partnership led to the arrest of Martin Tremblay, whom members of Sisterwatch believed was preying on young Aboriginal girls.

Police targeted Tremblay, a convicted sex offender, and he was sent to jail.

“In the past, I’m not convinced that we had those relationships in place where people would have come forward like that,” said Palmer, who continues his predecessor Jim Chu’s “lunch with the chief” meetings at the Carnegie Centre, where officers dine with residents of the Downtown Eastside. “It’s one of the most rewarding events I go to.”

Palmer has since participated in a sweat lodge with members of Sisterwatch.

And last year, Aboriginal leaders welcomed him as the department’s new chief in a ceremony at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre.

He keeps the red and black Coast Salish blanket he was given that day on a shelf in his office. He got shivers up his spine when it was draped on him, he said, the same shivers that come when the VPD’s pipe band strikes up.

As Palmer has laid it out, the direction of the VPD sounds progressive and promising, and a long way from the animosity that existed between police and the Aboriginal community following the death of Frank Paul.

Still, there are questions from Aboriginal residents and others. Is the VPD’s commitment authentic? Are all cops following Palmer’s lead? And will relationships improve where they matter most — on the street?

These are questions the Courier put to Aboriginal leaders, a legal society that represents Aboriginal clients and a former VPD cop who is now the province’s deputy police complaint commissioner.

Mayor Gregor Robertson also weighed in, as did Const. Steve Hanuse, an Aboriginal VPD officer who now tells his own story to recruits and serving officers to better educate them about an indigenous population that continues to grow.

‘Respect the history’

For years, Hanuse kept his story to himself.

In fact, when he joined the VPD 26 years ago, his superiors asked him about doing outreach in the Aboriginal community.

He told them he didn’t have a lot to offer.

But he knew he did, and only recently has he and other Aboriginal VPD officers opened up about what life was like for them before joining the department.

“I can’t tell you how proud I am to take part in that and make sure that members who are 25 years on the job, 10 years on or six months on, know about this and respect that, and respect the history.”

The “this” and “that” is colonialism and the residential school system. It’s also the uniform, a symbol of power, of government and intimidation.

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community a work in progress “The uniform is someone who came in and took the children away from communities,” said Hanuse, a member of the Namgis First Nation from Alert Bay. Hanuse, 50, grew up in Burnaby. That’s where his mother fled to escape the abuse she experienced in her community. Hanuse never knew his father and has three sisters and two brothers from four different men.

At an early age, he became like a parent to his family and would often have to track down his mother, who was battling alcoholism; she has since been sober for many years.

“I used to know the phone numbers of the Balmoral and Sunrise hotels off by heart,” he said of the notorious Downtown Eastside single-roomoccupancy hotels, where his mother would drink. He said he was 10 or 11 years old when he made the calls.

“I didn’t have to look them up. We didn’t have Google back then. But those were the numbers I phoned to see if my mom was coming home, and if I had to get my brothers and sisters ready for school in the morning.”

School was also a struggle and a place where he tried to keep his heritage a secret.

He dreaded his first days in a new classroom, where teachers would often ask students to introduce themselves and reveal their backgrounds.

“I remember being in the middle of the room and my heart would be beating so fast because now my secret would be out — that I would have to tell everyone that I’m Aboriginal, and all those negative connotations will rain down upon me because that’s just the way it was in those times.”

Hanuse is referring to the 1970s, where he faced racism in the schoolyard, on the bus, in the streets. By negative connotations, he means “the lazy Indian, the drunken Indian, the dirty Indian.”

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health authority continues to work on plans and a location for a centre.

King acknowledged the VPD has made some gains in the Aboriginal community with programs and initiatives, as outlined by the police chief, who is a regular at Aboriginal Day festivities and the Missing Women Memorial March.

“But at the end of the day, you can go to all the fairs, you can go to all the community meetings and you can talk about this and that, but it’s how people on the street interact with police is what matters most,” King said.

“All of those stereotypes were wrong and erroneous, but in my case, they weren’t because I lived in an alcoholic family, so it was tough for me.”

Shades of blue

The responsibility he accepted as a young boy and meeting positive role models in his teenage years inspired him to break free of that cycle of dysfunction and poverty. He put his energy into sports, where he excelled at soccer and then decided he wanted to be a cop.

A friend from Douglas College, who is now an inspector in the VPD, convinced him it was the right decision. Hanuse said his friend, Steve Eely, had only been on the job for about a year and told him how fulfilling the work was.

It was a big step for Hanuse, whose perception as a young boy of police was “by and large, us and them.”

He said he never grew up with a positive image of police, although he pointed out he never had any runins with officers.

“I saw a lot of violence in my own family and trouble with the law with an older brother. So that was the image that I saw. It’s hard to explain but it just wasn’t positive at all.”

When he joined the VPD, many family members were working through issues with drugs and alcohol and making better lives for themselves. They never questioned his decision and are proud of Hanuse, who said it is well known in Alert Bay what he does for a living.

So that’s why it was hard for him, he said, when the VPD was accused of racism in the death of Frank Paul.

He recalls attending a public forum after Paul’s death and having to speak out on behalf of officers.

“I remember distinctly standing up and saying what’s so hard for me is the stereotypes and the racism that I felt as a young Aborigi-

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Building a relationship

Mona Woodward stands in the alley behind the Regent Hotel, where her niece fell to her death Sept.

15, 2010. Woodward, who believes her niece was murdered, led a protest that resulted in the Vancouver police forming a committee to help combat violence against women in the Downtown Eastside.

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nal growing up in the ’70s is exactly what I was feeling at that moment,” he said. “I said I work with a number of very dedicated and hardworking officers that are not racist, that are not doing these things and that you’re painting us all with the same brush. I sat down and I was close to tears.”

He pointed out police knew Paul very well, having taken him into custody more than a dozen times in the months leading up to his death. The B.C. Ambulance Service responded to 121 calls for Paul over two years before he died.

For the past five years, Hanuse has been the VPD’s liaison officer to the Musqueam Indian Band, where Chief Wayne Sparrow said he’s fit in well and “we kind of consider him a Musqueam now.”

“He’s not from the community but he knows the issues and he knows the individuals,” said Sparrow, who noted his cousin Desiree Sparrow is a VPD officer. “It helps on reserve because [an

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Aboriginal officer] can relate a little bit more. The more that we can deal with some of the social issues that happen in our community and have First Nations people that can completely understand from that side, it can only help.”

More outreach to do

Lawyer Douglas King, who is Pivot Legal Society’s police accountability campaigner, wants to see more Aboriginal officers for the very reason Sparrow expressed: Having officers with a deep understanding of the issues facing indigenous people avoids immediate pushback from a community ingrained to dismiss police.

The fact, he said, the department has 24 Aboriginal officers in a force of 1,300 is evidence the VPD has more outreach to do. (The VPD also has two Aboriginal community safety officers).

But King acknowledges the general mistrust of police built up over decades across the country is a hurdle for recruiters.

“It’s a cultural animos-

ity that carries through to this day and that it’s just not socially acceptable for most Aboriginal people to take that as a career because of the level of that historic violence that has taken place between police forces and Aboriginal communities,” he said.

King is worried about the number of Aboriginal clients who complain to him about being injured by police when taken to jail. He has no statistics to quantify the extent of the allegations but plans to file Freedom of Information and Privacy Act requests to get a clearer picture of what he believes is a pattern.

King said his clients are going to jail for intoxication, breach of the peace or causing a disturbance. He pointed out the inquiry into the death of Frank Paul recommended a civilian-operated sobering centre, which still hasn’t been built but would provide a more acceptable alternative than jail.

Gavin Wilson, director of public affairs for Vancouver Coastal Health, told the Courier in an email the

Mona Woodward is cochairperson of the Sisterwatch committee and a support worker for RainCity Housing. In June, she participated in a sweat lodge on the Squamish homelands on the North Shore with Palmer and a few other police officers.

How did that go? “I had mixed emotions,” she replied. Why? “I don’t know, it was kind of weird. As an Aboriginal woman, you don’t really trust police and you fear them. But in a professional field, I have to put all fears and everything aside to look at the greater picture of working with people in the larger community and try to build those relationships.”

She nor Palmer offered detail of what was said in the lodge, which was constructed from branches and tarps. Inside was a pit in which seven hot rocks symbolizing grandfathers were placed. The men were shirtless and wore shorts.

The women were dressed in T-shirts and long dresses.

The only light came from the glow of the rocks.

“I wouldn’t consider myself a really religious guy but it’s a spiritual experience,” Palmer said.

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First Nations history, culture taught to police Continued from page 15 “It almost makes you feel closer to the earth, closer to the people that you’re around, and you start thinking about a lot of things in your own life and your relationships. It’s pretty powerful.”

Woodward said her mistrust of police comes from growing up in Regina, “the most racist place in Canada where police beat your ass.

You don’t call the cops there.

They do what they want.”

Her assessment of Palmer: “Street people can tell in three seconds whether to trust somebody or not and the overall consensus is that he really cares and that he’s genuine.”

That said, she knows Palmer’s leadership skills are best assessed on how his commitment to the Aboriginal community plays out on the streets with the department’s beat cops.

“There’s still misuse of power with residents in the Downtown Eastside,” said Woodward, citing a recent example where a friend was shoved by a cop during a demonstration. “There’s going to be those good cops

a room at the back of the Regent Hotel.

Jim Chu, who was police chief at the time, called a town hall meeting, which led to the creation of Sisterwatch. It’s an initiative Woodward takes comfort in, knowing her niece didn’t die in vain and “that from her death something beautiful happened.”

Investigators, meanwhile, continue to keep the file open and have drawn no conclusions on how Machiskinic died, although the B.C. Coroners service has said her death wasn’t suspicious.

Sensitivity training

Longtime Aboriginal leader Jerry Adams (left) is the executive director of the Circle of Eagles transition house for men. Here he shares a moment with resident Harry Mitsima. Adams has helped educate VPD officers about First Nations culture. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and there’s going to be those bad cops not working with the proper theory and practice of the department.”

Woodward is one of the reasons the VPD created a Sisterwatch committee

with Downtown Eastside women. It was Woodward and women from the community who occupied the then-police headquarters at 312 Main St. in 2010.

It was a stunt to pressure

the VPD to investigate what Woodward and other women believed to be the murder of her niece, 22-year-old Ashley Machiskinic, who fell to her death Sept. 15, 2010 from

Jerry Adams has been a long-time leader in Vancouver’s Aboriginal community.

He’s also a former member of the Vancouver Police Board and current executive director of Circle of Eagles transition house for Aboriginal men leaving prison.

The VPD has relied upon Adams to be one of the people to educate officers about First Nations history and provide a window into a past that can help police bet-

ter understand an Aboriginal person’s state of mind.

He is buoyed by initiatives such as Sisterwatch and the VPD executive’s commitment to train officers. For the most part, he said, officers he’s trained were sensitive to the colonial history and residential school legacy.

“They’re making an effort, but it’s going to take time and I don’t think it’s going to happen overnight,” he said. “There’s still a lot of hurt and pain in our people and with good reason.

They haven’t let that go and there are going to be people who are not happy, and we have to respect that.”

One officer who didn’t get the training ended up being the subject of a recent complaint from an Aboriginal man, whose medicine bag was rifled through and placed upon a police car in the rain.

A medicine bag is considered sacred and tradition states the objects in the bag should only be handled by its owner, or an Aboriginal elder. The man said in his written complaint that he felt police disrespected him and First Nations culture.

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Left: Const. Steve Hanuse is the Vancouver Police Department’s liaison officer at the Musqueam Indian Band’s reserve in southwest Vancouver. Hanuse is pictured speaking to Isla Grant at the band’s daycare facility. Right: Lawyer Douglas King of the Pivot Legal Society wants the Vancouver Police Department to recruit more indigenous police officers. The VPD currently has 24 Aboriginal officers and two Aboriginal community safety officers. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Incarceration rates high for Aboriginal people The incident dates back to September 2015, when police pulled over the man for driving a pickup truck with a licence plate from another vehicle.

The VPD acknowledged the man’s complaint highlighted a gap in how police handle religious and cultural items. Now an officer must request the owner to open the pouch and manipulate the objects for visual inspection, if it is safe to do so.

That safety provision extends to a prisoner being able to wear the bag while in custody. The policy stated all examinations of a medicine bag should be done by a male officer.

“Many Aboriginal cultures prescribe that women are far more spiritually powerful than men, and even simply viewing the contents of a bag will alter their efficacy,” the policy report said.

Cultural shift

Rollie Woods, B.C.’s deputy police complaint commissioner and a former VPD and RCMP

officer, said he was impressed by the department’s decision to create a policy for the handling of medicine bags.

The fact the department and the police board agreed to extend that policy to include religious and cultural items related to Jewish, Sikh and Muslim faiths was unexpected, Woods said.

“That’s the kind of response we like to see from a police board and a police department,” he said by telephone from his Victoria office.

Like Palmer, Woods has seen a shift in the VPD’s efforts to reach out to the Aboriginal community.

He’s noticed that trend across the country, where police recognize the importance of working with First Nations instead of against them.

“Whether it’s perfect or not, I’m sure people would say it’s not yet,” Woods said. “Vancouver is a doing a good job in many ways, and trying hard. I think they’re well intentioned. The problem

with policing, in general, is you’re trying to shift the whole culture and it’s hard to do because there are many people who have been there already 25 or 30 years and they’re resistant to change.”

Added Woods: “So you just have to have strong leaders in place who are going to do the right thing and force the culture to shift. We’re seeing that at the VPD. Since I joined there in 1986, it’s a completely different place than it was back then. It’s a much more progressive department.”

That progression has seen police go on canoe trips with young Aboriginals, set up sports camps and cadet programs. That wasn’t happening when Woods was a young officer.

“Police didn’t see it as their issue, and maybe it wasn’t. But they definitely see it as their issue now.

And I think that anywhere there is First Nations people — which is pretty much everywhere — the RCMP and municipal police are trying hard

to work with them. You do see an improvement in that relationship, not only with police but with government and society at large.”

Still, Aboriginal people are overrepresented in incarceration rates, as pointed out in a report in January by Correctional Investigator of Canada Howard Sapers, the country’s prison ombudsman. More than a quarter of inmates — 3,723 — in Canadian prisons are of Aboriginal ancestry.

Never, Woods said, does he recall Vancouver consciously targeting Aboriginal people or anyone for that matter solely because of their race. It was never mentioned or discussed when he was with the department.

“Certainly, there was lots of talk about trying to improve relationships after the Frank Paul case and other things like that,” he said, noting race-based complaints lodged against police are rare in B.C. “But nothing has come to our attention in the Ab-

original community that would suggest that there’s some systemic problem with the way the police are dealing with them.”

‘A different world’

In June of this year, Mayor Gregor Robertson and members of the police board chose to hold their monthly meeting at the Musqueam Cultural Centre on the band’s reserve in southwest Vancouver.

Robertson, who doubles as chairperson of the board, sat next to Palmer and listened as Aboriginal officers talked about the work they were doing at Musqueam and across the city.

He heard from Insp.

Marcie Flamand, who is Metis and talked about how a former member of VPD’s aboriginal cadet program, Desiree Craig, is now a VPD officer.

He heard from Const.

Rick Lavallee, who is Cree and talked about organizing cultural sensitivity training for 500 officers, civilians and community volunteers.

And he heard from Hanuse, who talked about “sharing some tears” with recruits as he told his story about his childhood and the intergenerational effects of the residential school system.

The mayor said during a break in the meeting that he liked what he heard and was seeing as the city continues to aim to be a better place for Aboriginal people.

“The sensitivity is much more real,” Robertson said. “We’re in a different world now from the days of Frank Paul and missing and murdered women.

At city hall, we’re focused on living up to our commitment to be a city of reconciliation and that includes all functions of the city, including policing. It doesn’t happen overnight and there are going to be curves in the road, but I’d say we’ve come a long way since the turbulent days of a decade ago.” @Howellings Next week: education.

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BRILLIANT NIGHT: After three years at the Commodore Ballroom, St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation severed ties with the venue and creator of the event for mental health, moving the party to the Rocky Mountaineer. Creative differences aside, the Brilliant Show of Love for Mental Health drew another sold out crowd of fashionistas and philanthropists. Guests enjoyed a fashion show featuring the talents of local designers, dancers, models and performers. Led by the show’s new creative director Vladimir Markovich and Dick Vollet, president and CEO of St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation, and chaired by Bill and Jana Maclagan, the event saw $1.5 million raised for mental health programs and services at St Paul’s Hospital.

One in five Canadians will experience mental illness at some point in their lives.

For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com.

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Mental health advocates Bill and Jana Maclagan, chairs of Brilliant!, welcomed 700 guests to the charity fundraiser held at Rocky Mountaineer. The charity event raised a record-setting $1.5 million.

Mazel Tov! Shannon Boudreau, Susan Mendelson and Kevin Mazzone launch their newest catering venture, Mendleson’s Kosher Gourmet with kitchens based out of the Vancouver Talmud Torah School.

La Pentola chef Travis McCord and general manager Daniel Burke previewed their new fall menu of classic Italian fare and artistic addition, “It’s Love Baby,” by graphic artist Oliver Fletcher.

Jean-Christophe Fleury, Consul General of France in Vancouver, and Adrienne Bailley, store director of Hermès Vancouver, were among the notables at the Hermès at Work opening reception. Vancouver was the tour’s 35th stop. The travelling exhibition began in 2011.

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Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, 2016 1. The 35th annual Vancouver International Film Festival takes over local screens for two weeks of cinematic pleasures to stroke your chin to, nod approvingly, shout out “Bravo, bravo” or shrug in confusion, Sept. 29 to Oct. 14. Highlights include Oscar bait The Birth of a Nation and Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea; Bruce McDonald’s Weirdos; Jim Jarmusch’s documentary on the Stooges, Gimme Danger; Park Chanwook’s The Handmaiden; and Yarn, a documentary about the fascinating and thought-provoking world of, you guessed it, yarn. Details at viff.org.

2. The Arts Club presents Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick about a run-down movie theatre and its three underpaid ushers who’ll do anything to keep the beloved and endangered local landmark running. The three hour-plus comic drama runs Sept. 29 to Oct. 29 at the Granville Island Stage. Details at artsclub.ca.

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3. Improvisers will be open to suggestions when the Vancouver International Improv Festival launches Oct. 4 to 8. Performers include local troupes Little Mountain Improv, Hip.Bang!, Chris and Travis, the Fictionals and the Sunday Service, as well as Toronto’s Grim Diesel and a host of international acts you may or may not have heard of. Details at vancouverimprovfest.com.

4. Local two-piece Japandroids kick out the jams for an epic four-night stand at the Cobalt Oct. 5 to 8. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat and ticketweb.ca.

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THE SeniorsAdvocate

As the Office of the Seniors Advocate continues to evolve, we saw continued activity on a number of fronts in the 2015/16 year.

The office’s work reporting on systemic issues affecting seniors continued and our mandated requirement to monitor seniors’ services began. In the midst of this work, we continued to

support seniors and their caregivers through our information and referral services and worked to raise awareness of seniors’ issues based on the important feedback we continue to hear from seniors across the province.

This report will serve to highlight the range of initiatives my office has undertaken this past year including:

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! The release of our first systemic housing report, Seniors Housing in B.C., Affordable, Appropriate, Available.

This report highlighted a number of systemic challenges and resulted in 18 recommendations to government.

for 292 publicly-funded residential care facilities.

! The release of the Office of the Seniors Advocate’s first Monitoring Seniors’ Services report, which included information and trends highlighting where seniors’ needs are being met and where improvements are needed.

! The release of our report, Caregivers in Distress: More Respite Needed, in which evidence confirmed that one-third of unpaid caregivers in B.C. are in distress, one of the highest rates in Canada.

! Ongoing survey activities with the completion of the OSA’s survey of 22,000 home support clients and planning for the office’s survey of 27,000 individuals in residential care, to be completed in the 2016/17 fiscal year.

! The completion of the B.C. Residential Care Quick Facts Directory, an online resource that is a compilation of information in a standardized format

! Ongoing public awareness campaigns aimed at key areas including increasing awareness of MSP Premium Assistance among low-income seniors.

Throughout our work, we have been encouraged by the progress of the province in responding to the issues we have raised. For example, this past year, significant changes that would allow seniors to live in Assisted Living longer, were introduced by the Ministry of Health, a key recommendation in our housing report. The province also made efforts to address the issues seniors face with regard to income pressures related to MSP premiums by increasing the number of seniors who will qualify for a subsidy and dedicating efforts to promoting awareness of MSP Premium Assistance.

I am optimistic that we will continue to address additional cost pressures low-income seniors face in the year ahead.

As always, this past year I was privileged to be guided in my work by my 30-member

Council of Advisers, a group of diverse and engaged seniors from across the province who are the office’s eyes and ears on the ground when it comes to hearing the unique challenges of seniors who live in varied communities in B.C. I would also like to thank B.C.’s health authorities, government ministries and service providers for all their assistance in providing my office with data and information about seniors’ services.

It has been a busy and productive year and I know the year ahead will bring many more opportunities to collaborate with all of you to ensure we are doing all that we can to serve the needs of seniors in this province.

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According to Volunteer Canada, giving of one’s time is a “fundamental act of good citizenship.”

To that end, our city is blessed with an abundance of volunteers dedicated to improving life not only within their own communities, but anywhere they’re needed.

So it was with great pleasure Lifetime Magazine, in partnership with the Vancouver Courier newspaper and Element Lifestyle Retirement, launched the Lifetime Senior Volunteer of the Year Award, which will

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TIPS FOR MANAGING OSTEOARTHRITIS Greg Noonan, Clinical Resource Therapist, Mary Pack Arthritis Program, Vancouver Coastal Health

MEET B.C.’S SENIORS ADVOCATE Isobel Mackenzie will be on hand to speak with attendees at this year’s event from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

The Seniors Advocate will also announce the winner of Lifetime’s Volunteer of the Year Award, as well as draw the winning ticket in Tapestry Foundation’s Mustang car raffle.

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Garden City SANDRA THOMAS STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

Year-round sun makes Victoria an ideal getaway Victoria, B.C. is famous for its beauty, but it’s in the fall when the landscape shifts from being simply spectacular to “wow.”

The view from the B.C. Ferries ride from the mainland alone is breathtaking. As the ship glides between the coast and the many tiny islands dotting the Strait of Georgia, the transition from summer to fall is obvious. It’s when the trees lining the route, typically so green, begin to take on jewel tones of red, gold and yellow.

It also doesn’t hurt that Victoria is one of the top 10 sunniest cities in Canada, with an average of almost 2,200 hours of sunshine yearly and an eight month frostfree season — my kind of weather.

During a recent sunny weekend in Victoria we explored the Inner Harbour, which accommodates recreational vessels, small cruise ships, float planes, whale watching and ecotourism businesses, a water taxi service and an international ferry terminal with connections to Port Angeles, Bellingham and Seattle. The Inner Harbour is also where you’ll find some of the most talented buskers in Canada, horse and carriage rides and an innovative food and cocktail scene as sophisticated as the world travellers who seek out Victoria for its beauty and history.

Anyone planning a fall trip to Victoria should consider the weeks leading up to and including Halloween, especially if you have grandchildren, because this city truly embraces everything that’s fun about this

“WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO...” holiday. My husband and I visited Victoria prior to Halloween last year and had a really fun time with my grandson, who turns seven in November.

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Here are a few ideas for fall fun in Victoria: ! Night at the Museum Mammoths On Oct. 1, spend the night at the Royal B.C. Museum and travel back in time. Enjoy a midnight behind-thescenes tour and wake up to morning yoga, games, tours and food. ! Victoria Ghostly Walks Your ghoulish guide will take you on a walk through Chinatown, Market Scare, the Inner Harbour and Bastion Square telling ghastly tales from Victoria’s notorious gold rush. Oct. 14 to 31. ! Annual Zombie Walk Oct. 15 at 5 p.m. in downtown Victoria. ! Pumpkin Pursuit Held daily in downtown Victoria from Oct. 24 to 31.

WHERE TO STAY During our most recent visit, we stayed at the Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour Hotel, which proved to be a convenient, centrally-located home base for all of the exploring we did. And because the sun was out, we enjoyed time on the patio of the Marriott’s Fire and Water Fish and Chop House, where we sipped B.C. wine and shared a thoughtful charcuterie plate and some fabulous Korean-inspired short ribs.

The Marriott’s executive chef David Roger and his culinary team are obviously inspired by the abundance of local, sustainable and fresh ingredients available to them from the Pacific West Coast.

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“It was Peter Rabbit that taught me to love good books.”

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BEHIND THE lens

SANDRA THOMAS | STHOMAS@VANCOURIER.COM

Cathy Browne is a talented lifestyle, travel and events photographer and vice-chair of the Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee for the City of Vancouver.

Browne has been working as a publicrelations professional for four decades and, not one to sit idly by, in recent years updated her skills to become something of a social media maven. Browne is also legally blind.

In a quest to find out more about the petite photographer, Lifetime Magazine did some digging into Browne’s life, past and present, by way of a Q&A.

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The feisty redhead was born in Montreal, graduated from McGill University with a degree in the classics (Greek and Latin) and lived in Toronto, Ottawa and Silicon Valley before moving to Vancouver in 2009.

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We’re a group of 14 very dedicated and passionate volunteers who have a variety of disabilities. We’re lawyers, teachers, advocates, coaches and more. We work with city staff, numerous organizations and persons with disabilities to identify barriers and advise the mayor and council on creating solutions to make Vancouver a truly accessible and inclusive community. I’m proud to have been involved for almost five years.

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So, you’re legally blind, but take beautifully composed photographs. How does that work?

It’s hard for me to explain how I take my photos, except for the fact that I’ve always been extremely visual and detail-oriented because I’ve had to be. I was two pounds at birth, and my eyes were permanently damaged by too much oxygen in the incubator, so I adapted and absorbed the world around me by picking up visual cues.

I don’t often get paid for what I do — and I’m hoping some exposure can help change that. I do what I do because I love it — but I’m also making a point — that I produce good work and I should be paid for it. And I’m good, take a look: flickr.com/photos/cathybrowne/albums

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For years, like most people, I took photos of vacations, family events, that sort of thing. That began to change 10 years ago when I was in Taiwan and Japan on business and realized that I didn’t just want to take random pictures anymore. I wanted to tell a story through what I saw. It’s a mindset that I carry through to this day. I care about every photo I take.

The other reason my photography has become such a passion was actually due to losing my husband Dave Kane after more than 20 years with a debilitating heart condition. We were married almost 30 years, and losing him was very, very hard. I needed to channel my energies and emotions, to find myself, to save myself — and I do believe I have done that.

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Do you have a favourite subject to shoot — besides your cats?

I probably take way too many pictures of my cats — but there’s much more to me than that. I love shooting food, I love cocktail competitions, of all things, I love travel and the interesting architecture I find along the way, I love capturing people in the moment and I love sharing the beauty of Vancouver.

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You are such a social butterfly.

How is it you are at so many events?

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From the moment I arrived in Vancouver, I developed connections through social media and I’ve become part of a very caring, supportive community that has always included me. And for the last several months I’ve been a contributing writer/ photographer for myvancity.ca, which has given me access to a variety of events.

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Have you always been a photographer?

Tell us about your blog.

My blog, Seeing Things, is in a state of flux right now. I’m working on making it more photo-centric to properly reflect who I am and what I’m doing. I actually use other platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Instagram to showcase my work at the moment.

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What’s next for you?

What’s on your bucket list?

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So many things! I want to help small businesses and non-profits tell their stories, I want to capture the lives of seniors in photos because I don’t think we celebrate them enough, I want to travel (hence the need for paid work!), I want to do more public speaking because I have a story to tell, and I want to inspire others to do what stirs their souls. But I do NOT want to be known as an “inspiration.” To me, it’s a label that diminishes the act of inspiring, and it’s not what I want to be.

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FEBRUARY 17 Norma-Jean and I sit down at their kitchen table with a glass of wine, my notepad and recorder and start talking.

The surgery and first followup assessment took place at Toronto Western Hospital.

There would be four more assessments to follow over 2016, ending in December.

Wendy Bancroft, a former journalist who now leads workshops in guided autobiography, is one of

Jean’s life stories, but as their conversation kept returning to the clinical trial, the sessions shifted to a focus on tracking Norma-Jean’s progress over this year. This story picks up where part one ended — with Norma-Jean and Nathan returning to Vancouver, feeling optimistic about the direction they were taking.

Micki McCune used to sing with Norma-Jean in an a cappella singing group. She re-connected and now they meet and sing weekly.

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many friends are happy to spend time with her.

On this day, Nathan wants to share what he sees as tangible evidence of improvement.

He tells me they had run out of a particular vitamin and Norma-Jean had been blaming herself. But then she realized the supply had diminished because Nathan had started using the pills as well. Nathan said this was significant on two levels — first that she was connecting the decreased supply to something she thought she had done and, second, she could see that not only was she actually not the cause of the problem, somebody else had screwed up — him. He smiles and adds, “And she said it with a certain kind of glee.”

FEBRUARY 24 Norma-Jean wants to walk and talk so we set out over the land bridge into False Creek, sitting to talk on a park bench.

She tells me she’s been doing a lot of walking with a lot of different people. I ask if she ever walks on her own and she says does, but only on a prescribed route. She says she

loves walking with friends, but walking on her own makes her feel she has some control over her life:

Nathan sent back word that the voltage had been increased, just not as high as they had hoped.

There was no memory flood.

“Being able to do that is such a gift to me. And I don’t feel like I have that many gifts right now.”

APRIL 13 Norma-Jean is depressed and fragile. Teary.

She tells me she’s worried about her upcoming assessment at Toronto Western Hospital. She’s really hoping the voltage can be increased to the level where, at the first assessment, she was flooded with memories. They’d had to turn the voltage down because she was also flooded with unbearable heat, but by now, she hoped, her body would have adjusted. Still, she’s scared of experiencing that again and scared as well that she’ll stop the voltage increase too soon, perhaps sabotaging her gains.

“I really feel um a bit lost...

And uh... in the face of that, I have just to keep on going. But I feel like I’m losing so much and that I can’t remember what I did yesterday. I can’t remember what I need to... what I’m concentrating on.

And I feel a lot of loss... I feel that so much goes out of my mind so quickly.”

To lessen her confusion, Nathan keeps a record of her scheduled activities on his computer calendar and Norma-Jean checks it

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frequently. He knows the level of activity adds to her confusion, but he also knows if she’s not occupied, she’ll get depressed and obsess about her memory loss, or zone out in computer card games.

It keeps Nathan busy attending to Norma-Jean’s schedule on top of his work as a consultant, but he’s convinced that having this stimulation is essential to her well-being — stimulating her intellectually and emotionally.

MAY 4 Norma-Jean and Nathan have been away on a holiday to Southern California. In the 10 days they were gone, they stayed in four different places.

Norma-Jean frequently became confused about where

they were, and sometimes, with whom they were staying.

Nathan was concerned.

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and she is hyper aware and self-critical about this. Never mind the bigger stuff, if she can’t find her keys or forgets what happened an hour or two before, she can quickly fall into despair.

“The hardest one was when we stayed with our niece and her husband and the first evening, Norma-Jean pulled me aside and said, ‘I can’t remember how I’m related to this person.’”

Norma-Jean says she knows Nathan feels it’s important to “keep the faith,” to believe that everything is going to be all right and that, “each time we go back to Toronto, it will be better and better, but,” she says, “getting ahold of the loss is really difficult.”

I ask her if she thinks her memory is worse now than before and she says, “No. I think I’m the same.”

She is better than before the surgery, but it’s definitely not a straight up trajectory

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Start saving your toilet rolls and elastic bands, used greeting cards and Popsicle sticks. You and your grandkids (or kids) will need them to make the crafts featured in the book Granny Get Your Glue Gun, by Maureen Goulet and Diana Budden.

The two West Vancouver women, both 65 years old, recently self-published the 64page book of crafty activities that they say “even the most craft-challenged” will enjoy.

All the activities and crafts, including baking and games, come with easy-to-follow instructions and comical quips to amuse grandparents while the youngsters (suitable for ages two to 12) work on their chosen project.

Although Goulet and Budden are “grandmas-inwaiting” they recognized a need whereby grandparents could connect with their grandchildren in more creative and meaningful ways. They also noticed more and more grandparents babysitting and helping out as an alternative to sending kids to daycare.

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“We believe that grandparents can play more of a role to inspire their grandchildren,” says Goulet, who notes you don’t have to be a grandmother to want to get started creating projects.

“It’s also a great tool for young babysitters — all the crafts are inexpensive and simple to make.”

They initially had an idea for a book aimed at the gift market — a present to bring to, say, a baby shower for grannyto-be. They wanted simple, easy-to-follow activities with lots of bright illustrations that every age would enjoy.

“It was a big investment and not one publisher wanted the book at first,” says Budden, laughing. “So we made the book simpler, decided to selfpublish and a book distributor in Kelowna liked it — now it’s selling across Canada. When we sold our first 1,000 books we were able to pay ourselves back our investment and make a profit.”

Granny Get Your Glue Gun is targeted at grandparents who didn’t have the opportunity to stay home with their own kids.

Both Goulet and Budden were stay-at-home moms. Budden remembers making miniature gardens with her kids. Goulet made greeting cards and wrapping paper out of bits and pieces. Both women spent a lot of time in the kitchen baking with their girls and boys.

“Making boats is a great excuse to drink wine,” says Budden with a chuckle. “But who needs an excuse? Collect wine corks, put them together with elastic, add a Popsicle stick mast and sail and voila, it floats.”

The challenge isn’t getting kids interested in the book — they love it. Rather, it’s getting them away from computers and television. Goulet suggests grandparents establish a routine when the kids come over that includes leaving computer or TV time for later.

“Build a tent fort in the living room and then bring your iPad. And have a tea party,” she advises. “Last night I had some friends come over along with two young kids and their parents sat the five-year-old down with his computer.

His puzzles and games were creative and amazing, but there was no interaction. We believe it’s important at times to be one-on-one — it creates a rapport and you get to know your kids.”

Goulet promises their book is a great way to do that.

Granny Get Your Glue Gun can be found at most bookstores across Canada, including Chapters and Kidsbooks. Visit grannygetyourgluegun.com.

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Research demonstrates there are ways to reduce risk of dementias

By Jennie Deneka

Alzheimer’s disease by up to 50 per cent.

Experts recommend at least two-and-

if you find yourself awake with stress or anxiety, get out of bed, read and relax for

Each year in Canada, more people are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or other

a-half hours of exercise per week that includes cardio and strength training.

20 minutes and try going back to sleep.

forms of dementia. In fact, the number of Canadians living with such diseases is expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2031, nearly double the number since 2011 when Statistics Canada reported 747,000 Canadians suffering from dementias.

There has long been a belief that Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia cannot be prevented, however, promising research has shown there are effective ways people can reduce the risk. Alzheimer’s prevention centres around living a healthy lifestyle and, most importantly, a brain-healthy lifestyle.

There are six strategies that have become widely accepted as promising preventative measures – regular exercise, mental stimulation, healthy eating, solid sleeping habits, limiting stress and a vibrant social life.

The Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation reports that regular exercise can reduce your risk of developing

It’s equally important to exercise your

Chronic stress takes a heavy toll on the brain, leading to decreased memory.

brain and keep it active. Learning new

Talk to your doctor about ways to reduce

things by reading the news, a book or studying a foreign language is helpful.

stress, such as deep breathing and regular relaxing activities.

Practicing memorization, such as naming as many cities as you can in British Columbia or the capital of each province, games, puzzles and riddles are good tactics.

Doctors recommend a Mediterranean

Finally, one of the best preventative measures is an active social life. People are highly social creatures who regress in isolation. The more we connect, the healthier we are. Volunteering, joining a social club,

diet of vegetables, beans, whole grains and fish, while limiting dairy and meat.

participating in activities offered in your care community, and weekly dates with

Studies have found getting plenty of omega-3 fats, most often found in cold-

friends are all helpful.

water fish, may help prevent Alzheimer’s, and regular cups of green tea may enhance memory and mental alertness.

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Finding form and function with dental implants They say a smile is worth a thousand words.

Well, if you’re not happy with your smile or are self-conscious about how your teeth look, that message is also often conveyed when smiling.

As people approach their retirement years, the natural aging process, lifestyle and genetics may cause their teeth to have tough yellow stains, chips or even fall out. Dentist Dr. Wilson Kwong sees a lot of patients who are 55-plus at his Oakridge practice.

“They want to be heathy, look good and feel good,” says Kwong. “They want to have form and function, and

don’t want to take a chance on more temporary dental solutions that won’t allow them full function.”

Kwong educates his patients on restorative dental options, including implants, which utilize a metal post that fastens to the jaw bone and after a custom-made fake tooth is attached to the post, it looks, feels and behaves like your own tooth. You brush and floss and it can last 20 to 30 years.

“An implant is a complete tooth solution,” says Kwong.

“Because it is a root that fuses to the bone, the success rate is 98 to 99 per cent.”

Brumm says. “No one is born with dentures, it is a learning process to use them to speak and chew. I encourage people to keep their teeth as long as possible, as it’s a one-way street. Once you have them taken out, they’re gone.”

when putting a partial denture over implants.

Brumm says that while dentures provide 22 per cent of the function of natural teeth, a denture over implants provides 75 per cent.

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“Dentures are prosthetics, a substitute for real teeth — and a poor one at best.

They should be a last resort,”

While implants are more expensive than dentures or simple bridges, Kwong says many of his Vancouver clients are sitting on a great deal of equity in their homes and are willing to invest in themselves at this stage in life.

trend in dentures is placing them on top of implants, which anchor the denture in place. In this case, one still needs to take out the denture at night for cleaning, but they are far superior to dentures without implants.

According to Fred Brumm, a denturist at Victoria Drive Denture Clinic, a growing

Denturists often work with dentists to provide patient consultations, particularly

The main reasons someone might opt for dentures may be due to an underlying medical

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condition, such as diabetes, which would not allow them to have implants done, they may not have enough bone density to have the metal implants rooted to their jaw, or simply because dentures cost considerably less.

When someone requires a full set of dentures, it’s recommended they visit the denturist annually to have them checked — and replaced every five years.

Brumm notes most people needing dentures, apart from

athletes, are 70 and older — an age when the body and mouth change considerably.

“Dentures won’t fit as well and the function will decline if you wear them for too long,” Brumm says.

COSMETIC PROCEDURES Kwong also see many patients aged 55 and older opting for procedures to improve the appearance of their teeth, including whitening and veneers.

changes would likely require traditional braces. It’s best to consult with your dentist.

In general, Kwong recommends anyone considering cosmetic procedures or implants should call around to find out who performs Additionally, some are now in a financial them and make an appointment for a position where they can straighten their consultation. He points out teeth, which may be misaligned or crowded.

Straightening your teeth has the dual benefit of many dentists focus on general dentistry looking good and often fixing a person’s bite. and not specialized For small changes, Invisalign clear braces work. may be an option. However, more significant

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UBC student radio station archives available online A historic collection of reel-to-reel recordings dating back to the 1940s is now available to stream and download through the University of B.C. Library’s Open Collection website.

This digital archive of CiTR 101.9 FM’s reel-to-reel library includes music programs, documentaries, public service announcements, news, and on-location event broadcasts recorded between 1949 and 2005. With more than 500 recordings, the collection offers a unique account of Vancouver’s storied past from the perspective of a campus and community radio station.

CiTR’s Spoken Word coordinator Madeline Taylor said for UBC specifically, the collection is a time capsule of everything from vintage advertisements, promotion of community and student events, live coverage of protests, and grassroots voices discussing controversial topics.

“As far as Vancouver-specific history goes, there are unique and fascinating audio clips to do with queer activist history, Trans rights and marriage equality movements, as well as the anti-nuclear movement,” Taylor said in a news release.

Preserving archival audio, and making it publicly accessible, has been a priority for CiTR since the station’s 2010 Fundrive, a yearly fundraising event with proceeds going directly towards special projects and operations at the station. Through the funds raised in 2010, CiTR was able to begin its digitalization initiative. In 2013, the UBC Library Digitization Centre and UBC University Archives partnered with CiTR to begin recording and uploading the station’s reel-to-reel collection. The project was made possible by support from the B.C. History Digitization Program, the UBC Library Digitization Centre, UBC University Archives and CiTR donors.

The audio collection can be found at open.library.ubc.ca/ collections/citraudio.

That means construction of OPAL by Element is expected to begin this fall, once demolition and excavation permits are in place. Once completed, OPAL will offer a spectrum of services and lifestyles, including independent and assisted living, memory care and licensed complex care.

The $97.4 million project will eventually allow seniors an opportunity to rent or own their units and, by offering higher levels of care under one roof, residents can then age in place as their needs change. OPAL will feature 44 condominiums for sale and 56 rental units and span an entire city block bounded by King Edward Avenue to the south between Yukon and Cambie streets.

Candy Ho, vice-president of marketing and corporate relations for Element, says the OPAL team is excited for the project to begin.

“With each residence we design and build, we provide a diverse range of services and amenities, to cultivate and foster true feeling of family connection and community,” says Ho. “This spiritually enriching environment is the foundation for holistic wellness. We also provide peace of mind in our delivery of 24-hour professional nursing care in a setting that is equipped with advanced technology, but aesthetically warm and residential.”

Ho notes family and community connections are key to the philosophy behind OPAL while intergenerational programming will ensure family and friends feel welcome anytime. To this end OPAL will feature dedicated spaces and offer organized programs that will allow seniors to have meaningful interaction with family, including grandchildren.

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Jared Abrahamson didn’t know what to expect when the director of his latest film, Hello Destroyer, suggested he apply for the Toronto International Film Festival’s Rising Star program.

“I thought it might just be Hollywood kind of fluff… but a good way to promote the film.”

After he was selected (along with fellow honourees Grace Glowicki, Mylene Mackay and Sophie Nelisse) and made the prepresser rounds, however, the Vancouver resident said he realized that “it’s an artist program, made by artists. It’s got soul to it.”

So far the experience has been amazing, says Abrahamson. “It just solidified this path that I’m on.”

That path began in Flin Flon, Man., a mining town of 5,500. Abrahamson was working in the mine and had spent two years in the ground. A friend headed to Vancouver first to pursue acting and told Abrahamson he should try it. “I love working in the mine, I got nothing against it,” says Abrahamson, “but I just had to do something.”

Flin Flon is the home of Hockey Hall of Famer and former Philadelphia Flyer Bobby Clarke. That history weaves nicely into Abrahamson’s role in Hello Destroyer, written and directed by Kevan Funk.

Former MMA fighter Jared Abrahamson plays a junior hockey player whose life is shattered after an incident of on-ice violence in Hello Destroyer, which screens at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Abrahamson stars as Tyson Burr, a junior hockey player whose life is shattered after an incident of on-ice violence. The coaches who hollered for results, his teammates and his host family all kick him to the curb amid the media scrutiny, leaving Tyson alone and with dwindling options.

The film, which premiere at TIFF, will screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 29 to Oct. 14.

Abrahamson’s own hockey career was brief.

“All’s I wanted to do was fight.” So his dad took him out of hockey and put him in taekwondo. Abrahamson did a little bit of wrestling in school, he says, and some boxing in the backyard with his buddies. But it was all leading to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).

Abrahamson had three amateur fights and two professional bouts under the name Wolfblood; it’s a

career he stuck with even while attending Vancouver Film School and after he started booking regular acting gigs. (The actor says he never had injuries to the face, luckily.) “The plan was to keep fighting, do a movie, a show, fight… cycle it,” he says.

As his acting career took off, he found he had to choose. Friend and mentor Sal Ram, who runs an MMA program out of Port Coquitlam pointed out that Abrahamson could do more for himself and for his family by pursuing acting.

“He just said, ‘Look, you got this opportunity. You could be a fighter, it’s an honourable life, but it’s not a glamourous life’… there’s no longevity.”

Sports are hard on the body but great for the character, he says, pointing out that it prepared him well for the cutthroat world of acting. “How could I be nervous going into an

audition if I could go into a cage in my 20s and fight men in their 30s?”

Roles in TV movies and shorts, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Fear the Walking Dead followed. In addition to Hello Destroyer, Abrahamson has the Netflix series Travelers, plus feature films Gun, Hollow in the Land, Detour and Never Steady, Never Still coming out.

His dream opportunity? Working with Martin Scorsese.

“Eventually I gotta get in with Marty,” Abrahamson says, “even if it’s a longshot, I’ll keep calling… maybe eventually he’ll hear me.”

But the actor is grounded. He still has one foot back home and talks to his friends back in Flin Flon every day.

“All the guys working in the mine, they love this,” says Abrahamson. “It’s rare, it doesn’t happen to us… they’re just laughing all the way.”

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A Good Way Out gets dark Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Pacific Theatre kicks off its 2016-2017 season with the world premiere of dark and dirty A Good Way Out. Written by Cara Norrish, it’s a family story but a family with a real difference. Think Hell’s Angels or Red Scorpions. That kind of family.

Gritty with foul language, sex and violence — not the usual fare at Christian-based Pacific Theatre — it’s a play with a very strong message: if you get involved with the bad guys, chances are pretty good you’ll end up dead. Even if you’re a small player just dealing a little weed, you’ll soon be in over your head and so will all those you love.

Andrew Wheeler, in leather jacket, chains and bandana, is gang leader Larry, who decides who gets paid, how much and when. The front for his drug dealing is a motorcycle repair shop where, in a seemingly benevolent act, he employs Joey (Carl Kennedy). Joey and his girlfriend Carla (Evelyn Chew) rent their scuzzy

digs from Larry’s mother-inlaw, and when she raises the rent — almost certainly upon a directive from Larry — Joey and Carla are in trouble.

They risk losing their two kids to Family Services (although since they both refer to spending time with the kids as being “stuck with the kids,” you have to wonder what kind of parents they are). Larry’s tentacles are everywhere and that includes sex-in-exchange-for-rent with Carla, an ex-stripper and former prostitute.

Also involved in this sordid mess is not-too-sharp Sean (Chad Ellis) and Joey’s sister Lynette (Corina Akeson), a Christian who has survived their dysfunctional family and is desperate to get Joey out of gang life. But Larry knows where everyone lives, he knows the names of their children, he knows which kid takes dance lessons and when, he knows everyone he will hurt in order to keep Joey, Carla and Sean in line. It’s absolutely chilling.

We all know or strongly suspect the kind of control

guys like Larry have over their “family” and the vulnerability of those whose real families have left them rudderless. But under Anthony F. Ingram’s direction, playwright Norrish’s play is so in your face and the performances so authentic, you feel like going home and scrubbing yourself to get the grime off.

Terrific performances every one and a haunting production of an unsettling new play.

Developed by Pacific Theatre, A Good Way Out doesn’t show us or Joey a good way out but it definitely illustrates how one dysfunctional family leads the desperate and vulnerable to seek refuge in another, even more destructive one.

Note: A longer version of this review appears at vancourier.com.

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Bishop Remi De Roo was in Rome and managed to catch the attention of Pope Francis as the pontiff’s entourage passed by. De Roo, the retired Roman Catholic bishop for Victoria, told the pontiff that he was a “Council father,” one of the few surviving bishops who attended the landmark Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s.

Pope Francis stopped his procession, moved toward De Roo and, in a gesture seemingly the reverse of the natural order, the Pope kissed the ring De Roo was wearing. The ring, which De Roo passed around a group of people who came to see him speak at UBC this month, was a gift from one of the Pope’s predecessors to De Roo and the other bishops who participated in Vatican II, as the council is commonly called.

The Second Vatican Council was the defining event in De Roo’s life.

He was a young priest in Manitoba when, in 1962, he was appointed bishop of Victoria. Immediately, De Roo was called to Rome. The Vatican Council had already begun and all the bishops, as well as other church leaders and, notably, religious figures from non-Roman Catholic rites, as well as other faith groups, were also invited guests. Nobody was entirely certain what the council would accomplish, but there was a sense of enormous import as it got underway.

Originally intended as a lengthy but one-off convention of Catholic hierarchy, it expanded over four years, with bishops from around the globe reconvening every autumn until 1965. While such conferences had taken place at times in history, they were usually devoted to a single doctrinal or theological question. This Second Vatican Council was convened for the vague but vast purpose of addressing the relation of the church itself to the modern world.

“In the time of astronauts,” De Roo told me, “we were very conscious

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Among the most significant changes that emerged from Vatican II was the use of vernacular lan-

cultures, so that the faith would be better understood and more faithfully followed.”

The council resulted in a vast range of changes that are generally per-

I’ll accept that term radical if it means going to the roots of our faith, which is what radical means. I like to get down to the heart of issues and not just be at the superficial level.

Remi De Roo

guages in the mass. Until then, services had taken place in Latin, a language fewer and fewer Catholics understood.

“Faith comes from hearing, as the scriptures say,” says De Roo. “If you don’t understand what is being said, you cannot make the appropriate response in faith. Because this council was a pastoral council, it was profoundly concerned with the spiritual needs of the people... As a result, we had to allow an opportunity for people to speak in their own languages, in their own tongues, in language that would be meaningful to their own

ceived as liberalizations.

In addition to the replacement of Latin with local languages, priests began to face the congregation during mass, rather than having their backs to parishioners.

It was also a time of opening up relations with other faith groups, including Protestants and, notably, redefining official Catholic teaching on the Jewish people and Judaism. After the council, strict dress codes for nuns relaxed and, more substantively, priests and nuns became more involved in social issues.

For his part, De Roo

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He was also a voice for the disadvantaged closer to home and Dave Barrett, the province’s first New Democrat premier, named De Roo head of the new B.C. Human Rights Commission.

De Roo was called to the carpet (well, to the Vatican office of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, enforcer of church doctrine and later Pope Benedict XVI) and dressed De Roo down for remarks he had made sympathetic to the

idea of ordaining women to the priesthood. (De Roo did not court controversy, but his reputation was tarnished by ill-advised investments of diocesan funds during his time as bishop, leading to a financial crisis for which he delivered a profound apology.)

Often referred to as a radical bishop, De Roo responds to the moniker with a bit of etymology.

“I’ll accept that term radical if it means going to the roots of our faith, which is what radical means,” he says. “I like to get down to the heart of issues and not just be at the superficial level.”

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The Thunderbird Neighbourhood Association will be holding their Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday November 21, 2016 at 6:00 pm.

Pre-registration begins at 5:30 pm. Individuals interested in joining the Board of Directors may contact Lily Dong at 604-713-1821. If you are interested in voting for directors, please bring your 2015-2016 membership card. If you do not have a current membership, you can register for the AGM meeting at the community centre office prior to November 19, 2016. There will be no 2015-2016 memberships or AGM registration available after November 19, 2016 Please note to be eligible to vote for the election at the AGM you must have a current 2015-2016 membership and be at least 19+ to vote.

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De Roo retired in 1999 Continued from page 25 De Roo left his post as bishop in 1999 at the mandatory retirement age of 75, at which point he was Canada’s longestserving Catholic bishop, but continues, at 92, to evangelize about the values and changes ushered in by the council. He calls himself a “pilgrim of the Second Vatican Council.”

Reflecting on the day the current Pope kissed his ring, De Roo believes Francis’

demonstrativeness was a sign of the current Pope’s attitude toward the significance and relevance of Vatican II. While De Roo does not say so, there is a widely held perception that the liberalizations of the Second Vatican Council were not as admired by some of Francis’ predecessors, conservative pontiffs like Benedict XVI or John Paul II. As for his own association with causes that have created ripples among the

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A new school, a new support system and an entirely new way of life — Sarah Humchitt’s life has been in a constant state of flux for the last year.

Just 17 years old, the former Bella Bella resident moved to Vancouver in 2015 to advance her educational opportunities: she left her parents behind, along with her siblings and friends, moved in with her aunt and had to start anew.

Basketball has been the glue that’s helped build up her steely resolve, enabling her to balance studies while playing with two highlycompetitive basketball clubs: her school team at Britannia secondary and an all-Aboriginal club run out of the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre.

“When you move from a small town to Vancouver, it’s a huge cultural shock,” she said. “In a small town like Bella Bella, you just learn the basketball basics, but you don’t get to apply them into game scenarios very often.”

Having played basketball since early childhood, giving up on hoops when she moved to the big city was a non-starter for Humchitt. Shortly after arriving in Vancouver, she learned of the all-Aboriginal team — known as Van City Nation — from family members who also played for the club.

The pressures of having to fit into a new team and new dynamic quickly melted upon attending her first practice last fall.

“It was a really welcoming environment,” said Humchitt, who belongs to the Heiltsuk First Nation.

“As soon as I walked in the doors, the girls introduced themselves to me right away, and I’ve made a lot of friends from the team. The cultural diversity on the team certainly was an important factor in deciding to play for the team. I’ve played basketball since I was four years old, so it’s not something I can stop doing.”

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About 30 players from across Metro Vancouver make up the team and many First Nations are represented within its ranks: Haida, Nisga’a, Heiltsuk and Metis, among others.

“We have pretty much every nation represented from up and down the West Coast,” Savino said.

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Savino, who also coaches hoops at Surrey’s Earl Marriot secondary, maintains a tough-love approach — if the grades aren’t there, neither is the playing or practice time.

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Her 16-year-old daughter, Zuleyma, is a Killarney student who knows that school comes before posting up.

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WEEKLY FORECAST: OCTOBER 2 - 7, 2016 You remain in a relationship phase, Aries. Many opportunities face you this month, but this Wednesday to Friday will see you tackling problems connected to your career or worldly status. Sunday noon (PDT) to Tuesday midnight brings secrets, mysteries, sexual urges, and financial openings. Trust your luck, it’s good and productive. If a partner is involved, or even a casual associate, the long-term results will be even better.

Your personal charisma remains high; your energy and effectiveness reach a peak this week and the next two. Things you never thought you were capable of or could achieve, now seem to be under your complex command. For example, you might find yourself receiving admiration or romantic attention from someone you have long thought was out of your league. The question becomes: to take advantage, or not?

Continue to tackle chores and to protect your daily health. This is a good, productive week, but beware of any legal or relationship difficulties connected to your work or an employment, especially Wednesday to Friday. Relationships will be a source of joy Sunday noon (PDT) to Tuesday midnight. Love might to be slated Monday.

However, remember that your major luck in the months ahead will come from work.

Continue to pamper your physical health, Scorpio.

Now, rest, contemplate. Examine your past moves and circumstances for clues as to how you got to this place. With this in mind, plan your future.

Connect with counsellors, therapists, researchers, civil servants, institutional workers, and the head offices of large corporations. Be charitable, spiritual.

Your energy and charisma will rise Sunday noon (PDT) to Tuesday midnight.

The accent continues on romantic love Gemini. You might be entering an affair; if so, this might be one of the biggest affairs of your life. Be realistic, calm, and most importantly, look down the road 20 years – Will he or she still love you – and that becomes the question: will you still love him or her? The real secret to love is that those who give it get it, and those who can maintain it in our heart, keep it.

Easier said than done.

Remain hopeful, Sage. Your wishes – at least some of them– will come true, some this month but some in the 12 months ahead. You’ll remain buoyed by a flow of popularity, optimism, light romance and flirtation, adventurousness, entertainment and social delights. You might have just finished an intense romantic interval. Now that intensity transfers to your private life, inner feelings and sexual desires.

Continue to focus on your domestic scene, Cancer.

This area will reward you for 12 months to come, but is especially important and productive this week and the next two. A threat to your peaceful home might come rolling in from the outside late this week – this could be anyone or anything, but is likely to be intense attention from an overly eager suitor or a two-fold demand from your boss. Earlier Sunday noon to Tuesday midnight brings sudden sweet romantic feelings.

Your ambitions, your career, your neighbourhoods status, prestige relations in dealings with the authorities fill October, but also stand out luckily for the next 12 months. In some regards, October is a pivotal month, or more correctly a time in which to launch projects which you would like to see succeed over the months ahead. Midday Sunday (PDT) to midnight Tuesday will find you happy, optimistic, popular and generous towards friends.

The accent remains on errands, details, Paperwork, short trips, communications, casual friends and curiosity. These will, in general, go well this month and for the year ahead. You will make many contacts and visit many places for the next 12 months: this can aid you in many ways in the decade ahead. You will be especially busy during the five weeks ahead. In addition, you might be operating or purchasing machinery.

The accent remains – very luckily so – on far travel, international affairs, legal affairs, higher learning, intellectual pursuits, media and publishing, cultural venues and love. These might encounter a problem or two Wednesday to Friday, but a little effort and understanding can overcome obstacles. Be ambitious Sunday noon to Tuesday midnight – good luck accompanies you, so go all out in pursuit of a career, status or prestige goal.

Money flows to you this weekend and the next two, Virgo. However, this Wednesday to Friday erect obstacles to your money efforts – there are two obstacles or they occur twice and both of them involve romance, children’s talents, pleasure, or a gamble you want to take. My advice: favour the practical, the monetary, over romance and such things – not only now but for the 12 months ahead.

You are in the midst of many mysteries, Pisces. This sense of the unknown, of the deeper depths and unexplored spiritual, sexual, psychological, and financial realms, will lure you and benefit you for 12 more months. October represents a potential launching pad for these matters – So dig deep, glory in your investigations, and walk through golden doorways when you see them.

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Exquisitries Antiques & Fine Art We have just expanded and are stocking up for the Holiday Season.

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TRADES HELP Drywall Installer Avos Construction Ltd, a construction company, located at 1346 E 62nd Ave, Vancouver, BC require a permanent, F/T Drywall Installer to work at various locations within Lower Mainland BC. Duties include: Measure, cut and install drywall sheets, position and secure drywall sheets to metal or wooden studs or joists, filling joints, holes and cracks with joint compound, apply successive coats of compound, sand seams and joints. 1 year of experience and some High School. Salary $25.10/hr.

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Selecting the right service provider stories courtesy: becarcareaware.ca Regular maintenance is an important factor in ensuring your safety on the road.

By taking your car in to a certified automotive service technician for an inspection, they can detect any small problems before they become major ones and help avoid break downs.

But, bringing your vehicle in for servicing can provoke anxiety if you are not familiar with your car’s various systems and components, especially when you are visiting a new shop. BCCA offers the following advice for finding the right shop for you: FAMILY AND FRIENDS A great way to find a good service provider is to ask loved ones, friends or colleagues who they use — and who they trust.

Mention you are looking for a new shop and ask if they recommend anyone. The feedback on where to go, or not to go, will be invaluable.

ONLINE REVIEWS Use a search engine to look up a potential shop and see if there are any online reviews posted by customers.

Reading reviews can help you determine the strengths and weaknesses of a service provider and whether the shop may be right for you.

CALL THE SHOP You can learn a lot about a shop’s level of customer service by speaking to someone on the phone. Call to ask about the services they offer and what their rates are to get an impression of how they treat customers.

PRICE COMPARISON Take the time to look up rates online or call the shops to inquire about prices. You should avoid shops that seem to offer significant discounts — offering high quality service, using high quality parts and training staff all have a cost — and you tend to get what you pay for.

YOUR WARRANTY If you need warranty work done, check for designated repair locations to ensure the work will be covered, but remember you’re not obligated to have maintenance work done by your dealership.

Maintenance can be done by any qualified service facility or skilled technician.

Keep all receipts as proof of completion of work and have the service provider fill out a maintenance record.

CUSTOMER INFORMATION AND EDUCATION Quality service in the automotive service industry means a commitment to

educating customers. Your service technician or counterperson should clearly explain what needs to be done on your vehicle and why — even showing you in the bay, if necessary, or showing you old parts versus new. They should be willing and able to answer your questions clearly and help prioritize what needs to be done now for safety reasons, what is mediumterm work and what can wait (and for how long before it also becomes a safety issue).

WRITTEN ESTIMATES Ask whether the shop provides written estimates and requires a customer signature before completing recommended work. It’s important to know what work will be done and how much it will cost before anyone works on your vehicle. If you’re unsure about recommendations, get a second opinion.

SHOP WARRANTIES Ask before you commit what the shop policy is on its work. A good shop will offer warranty on the work it completes as a customer satisfaction guarantee.

BE CAR CARE AWARE Visit becarcareaware.ca for more tips on finding a service provider.

FREE Hyundai Desk Lamp

Get a FREE Hyundai Desk Lamp When you book an appointment for our fall maintenance service for only $119.95.

Plus taxes. $15 additional for V6 and V8 engines. Environmental handling charges may apply. Synthetic oil extra. Additional charges may be applied based on vehicle configuration and options. Other restrictions may apply see us for details.

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Common automotive myths debunked stories courtesy: becarcareaware.ca Be Car Care Aware, a Canadian program promoting the benefits of regular vehicle maintenance and repairs, sets the record straight. According to Be Car Care Aware, these debunked myths will help you become a smarter driver and keep you safe on the roads this fall season and heading into the winter months.

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MYTH The windshield is for comfort — not safety.

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Receive 50% off on tire storage when a set of four snow tires are purchased!

Plus taxes. Environmental handling charge may apply. Additional charges may be applied based on vehicle configuration and options. Other restrictions may apply see us for details.

FACT Windshields weren’t just made to keep you dry from the rain, they’re also part of your vehicle’s safety restraint system, meaning a crack or damage can decrease the overall effectiveness of airbags, seatbelts, roof stability, and your personal safety in the event of an accident. If your windshield has a crack, it’s important to have it repaired or replaced immediately.

MYTH Your engine should be warmed up by idling before driving.

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FACT It’s important for your engine to be warmed up, but not by idling. Even in cold weather, the best way to warm up a vehicle’s engine is to drive away. With today’s modern engines, you should only need 30 seconds of idling, assuming that your windows are clear.

FACT Together, the steering and suspension systems are key to your car’s handling and overall safety. It’s recommended you check your vehicle’s steering and suspension systems at least once a year, typically during a wheel alignment. It may be time to have your steering and suspension inspected if your vehicle experiences one of these symptoms: pulling, uneven tire wear, noise and vibration while cornering, or a loss of control.

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A thorough inspection of your vehicle during the fall months will go a long way toward ensuring safety and dependability when temperatures drop. A routine maintenance program also makes financial sense, extending useful vehicle life and helping avoid costly repairs down the road.

CHECK ALL FLUIDS, including engine oil, power steering, brake and transmission, as well as windshield washer solvent and antifreeze/coolant.

CHECK THE HOSES AND BELTS to ensure they’re not cracked, brittle, frayed, loose or showing signs of excessive wear.

Exhaust leaks can be dangerous and must be corrected without delay.

SCHEDULE A TUNE-UP to help the engine deliver the best balance of power and fuel economy and produce the lowest level of emissions.

CHECK THE HEATING, VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM as proper heating and cooling performance is critical for interior comfort and for safety reasons such as defrosting.

INSPECT THE STEERING AND SUSPENSION SYSTEM annually including shock absorbers, struts and chassis parts such as ball joints, tie rod ends and other related components.

CHECK THE BATTERY and replace if necessary. Make sure the connection is clean, tight and corrosion-free.

CHECK THE BRAKE SYSTEM annually and have the linings, rotors and drums inspected at each oil change.

INSPECT THE EXHAUST SYSTEM for leaks, damage and broken supports or hangers if there is an unusual noise.

CHECK TIRES, including tire pressure and tread. Uneven wear indicates a need for wheel alignment.

CHECK THE WIPERS AND LIGHTING Check all interior and exterior lighting and replace worn wiper blades so you can see clearly when driving in wet weather.

NO CHARGE ALIGNMENT CHECK

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MYTH Cars are so computerized that I should leave all checkups to the professionals.

FACT While you should follow your manufacturer’s suggested maintenance schedule, there are some things you can do yourself. Once a month, you should perform some basic checks on your vehicle, including all fluid levels (engine oil, power steering, antifreeze/coolant, etc.), hoses and belts, tires for inflation and tread wear, lighting and wiper blades to ensure they’re all working properly.

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MYTH Shutting off and restarting your engine uses more gas than if you let it idle.

FACT Contrary to popular belief, restarting your engine does not burn more fuel than idling. In fact, 10 seconds of idling uses more fuel than restarting your engine. If you’re parked and going to be idling for more than 10 seconds, save fuel by turning off your vehicle.

For more vehicle maintenance and safety tips or additional information on the Be Car Care Aware program, visit becarcareaware.ca.

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Plus taxes. Environmental handling charge may apply. Additional charges may be applied based on vehicle configuration and options, and fluid disposal. Other restrictions may apply, see Kingsway Honda Vancouver for details.

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AAA says billions wasted on premium fuel Brendan McAleer According to the American Automobile Association, something like US$2.1 billion was wasted on premium fuel last year.

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Consumers, unclear what higher-grade fuel actually does, are filling up their regular cars with 91-octane fuel. That means if your Civic or Camry is intended to run on 87 octane gasoline, you’re wasting your money.

HERE’S THE QUICK THUMBNAIL LESSON. The octane rating on the fuel pump isn’t a measure of the quality of the gasoline, it’s a rating of how resistant the fuel

is to pre-ignition (also known as spontaneous combustion or knock). If you have a highcompression performance car, or a turbocharged or supercharged car, your car’s engine control unit may be able to extract more power with higher octane fuel. It may even be a requirement — check your gas cap or fuel filler door. If, however, you have a standard engine, the higher octane does nothing.

It adds no power and doesn’t

increase range. You get nothing except, perhaps, a placebo effect. The one caveat is that lower octane fuels are often blended with ethanol, which burns slightly hotter than gasoline, and can be a little harder on an engine in the long term. But that’s splitting hairs — you’re much more likely to have an electrical problem with a 20-year-old car than you are a mechanical one caused by running regular-grade fuel.

Oil Change & Car Wash

For All Makes & Models. No Appointment necessary.

NO-CHARGE VEHICLE

Subject to availability, limited time offer. Includes up to 6 liters of 0W20, 5W20 or 5W30 oil. Additional cost for specialty oils and filters. Not valid for diesel engines.

Environmental disposal fee ($2.50 for oil & filter) and tax are not included.

WINTERIZATION INSPECTION! WHEN YOU BRING IN YOUR VEHICLE FOR YOUR SCHEDULED “THE WORKS” SERVICE.

FREE

With any oil change service booked this month, we will offer you an additional no-charge wiper refills & wheel alignment check.

WIPER BLADES INSPECTION

ANTIFREEZE FLUID INSPECTION

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There’s more to it than oil* and a filter.

Plus taxes. This offer has no cash value. No Take-A-Ways. Wipers will be exchanged with refills when available. Applies to vehicles which accept Genuine Toyota Wiper Blades or Refills. Other restrictions may apply see us for details.

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TIRE ROTATION

WE SERVICE ALL MAKES & MODELS! OPEN ON SATURDAY’S FROM 8:30AM - 4:30PM All offers expire December 31, 2016. Offers may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. See Service Advisor for complete details. Applicable taxes and provincial levies not included. Dealer may sell for less. Only available at participating locations. * Applies to single rear wheel vehicles only. Diesel models not eligible. Up to 5 litres of oil. Disposal fees may be extra.

Does not apply to diesel engines. ©2016 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

DEALER #5489

4451 Still Creek Drive, Burnaby

TIRE TREAD INSPECTION

Bring your Ford in for The Works: an oil change, tire rotation, up to 83-point inspection with Vehicle Report Card and a one-on-one consultation with a Ford Service Advisor to take you through the details of what maintenance might be required immediately and what can wait.

Wiper Refills Replacement & Wheel Alignment Check

(604) 571-4399

BATTERY INSPECTION

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604-301-2808 OR visit www.brownbrosford.com

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¥$1,500 Honda bonus consumer incentive dollars are available on all 2016 CR-V models. Honda bonus consumer incentive dollars are for eligible vehicles in addition to any other programs and will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Ω$500 Honda bonus lease and finance dollars are available on all 2016 HR-V models. Honda bonus lease and finance dollars are for eligible vehicles in addition to any other programs and will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. £$3,000 Clearout Bonus on the 2016 CR-V LX AWD is comprised of $1,500 consumer incentive dollars and $1,500 customer cash rebate. Consumer incentive dollars are for eligible vehicles in addition to any other programs and will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes. Customer cash rebate will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes and can be used in conjunction with any HFS Standard Rate Programs. $1,500 clearout bonus on 2016 CR-V models (LX 2WD, SE AWD, EX AWD, EX-L AWD, and Touring AWD) is comprised of $1,500 consumer incentive dollars referenced above. †$2,000 Honda cash purchase incentive is available on select 2016 Accord models (4D LX CVT, 4D L4 LX HS CVT, 4D Sport, 4D EX-L, 4D Touring). Honda cash purchase incentive will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes and cannot be combined with sub-vented lease or finance offers. *Limited time weekly lease offer and all other offers are from Honda Canada Finance Inc., on approved credit. #The weekly lease offer applies to a new 2016 CR-V LX 2WD RM3H3GE1/HR-V LX 2WD 6MT RU5G3GEX for a 60-month period, for a total of 260 payments of $71.95/$67.93 leased at 1.99%/4.99% APR based on applying $576.40/$686.40 “lease dollars” (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes). ‡Down payment of $0.00, first weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $18,707.00/$17,661.80. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres. **MSRP is $28,015/$22,515/$27,345 based on a new 2016 CR-V LX 2WD RM3H3GE1/2016 HR-V LX 2WD 6MT RU5G3GEX/2016 Accord 4D L4 LX CVT CR2F3GE including freight and PDI of $1,725/$1,725/$1,695. Prices and/or payments shown do not include tire/battery tax of $25, or air conditioning charge (where applicable) of $100, all of which are due at time of delivery. Additional charges for waste disposal fees, environmental fees and handling charges (all of which may vary by dealer and/or vehicle) may apply. Offers valid from September 1 through 30th, 2016, at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.

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