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Entire Vancouver School Board senior management 12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Someone much more prescient than yours truly once said it’s helpful to examine the past in order to understand the present.

So let’s do that.

Let’s look back to the year 2010 to get a sense of what the heck is going on at the Vancouver school board in 2016.

First some background: You may have heard that relations between school trustees and senior staff aren’t so great. That’s according to allegations that surfaced last Friday courtesy of the B.C. School Superintendents Association.

In a letter to the Ministry of Education, the association made serious allegations of “a toxic work environment” between trustees and school board staff. The ministry confirmed the association’s concerns and said it forwarded the letter to WorkSafeBC “because of their jurisdiction regarding bullying and harassment in the workplace.”

Superintendent Scott Robinson and secretary-treasurer Russell Horswill both took medical leave last week from the district. Three associate superintendents and another senior staff member have since joined them on sick leave. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

The letter was sent within days of Vancouver school superintendent Scott Robinson and secretary-treasurer Russell Horswill both taking medical leave. I also know associate superintendents Nancy

Brennan, Julie Pearce and Murray Doucette took medical leave. So did David Nelson, the project lead for long-range facilities planning.

That’s the district’s entire senior management

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All of them went on leave within the last week.

Why? That question doesn’t have an easy answer, or at least one anyone will give me.

Could it have something to do with possible school closures? Or how about the annual political jousting with the provincial government? Was the staff fed up with the politically charged board?

The association’s letter nor the statements from the ministry and WorkSafeBC named Robinson or Horswill, or any other employee from the school board. So the public is left to speculate or assume the timing of the association’s letter was purely coincidental to Robinson, Horswill and others taking leave.

Draw your own conclusions here.

I tried to talk to the association’s president, Sherry Elwood, about what prompted the letter but she declined my invitation. WorkSafeBC would only tell me they’re on the case but would not further discuss the investigation.

Trustees, however, are talking.

But they aren’t saying much, unless you count the NPA pointing fingers

at Vision Vancouver for delaying a decision on potential school closures in Vancouver — or Vision pointing fingers at the provincial government for forcing the board to cut millions from the district.

The NPA’s Fraser Ballantyne: “It’s pretty ugly, actually. I don’t know where to start. It’s a big circus. I went for a walk through the school board on Friday and talked to a lot of people. And on a scale of one to 10 for morale, I would say it’s probably a negative five.”

Vision Vancouver’s Mike Lombardi: “Our system has been under significant stress for a dozen years now. We’ve got a world-class education system in Vancouver but it’s at risk because of its chronic underfunding.”

The Green Party’s Janet Fraser: “I have a professional and respectful relationship with staff and trustees. It’s not been brought to my attention that staff are unhappy with my behaviour as a trustee.”

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There’s more from trustees, but their insight pales in comparison to an informative Ministry of Finance report authored by Cheryl Wenezenki-Yolland, the comptroller general, in 2010. Some of you may recall the Ministry of Education requested a deep dive into the board’s budget development process. Here’s what Wenezenki-Yolland concluded: “The Vancouver school board had many policies and procedures to promote good conduct and high ethical standards. Notwithstanding these policies and procedures, consistent concerns about the ethical and organizational culture at the Vancouver school board were strongly evident from our review. These concerns focused on the lack of impartiality of a number of trustees and a lack of trust, confidence and respect between the Vancouver school board trustees and the district management team. Whether real or perceived, the board needs to take immediate steps to fully address these concerns regarding the trustees and

ensure a respectful and effective working relationship is established between the trustees and the district management team.”

Apparently, that hasn’t happened.

She also wrote that “the board of trustees does not take a balanced approach to its accountabilities, focusing on advocacy at the expense of stewardship. The majority of the Vancouver school board trustees see their role relative to the Ministry of Education as one primarily related to advocacy, rather than as ‘co-governors’ of the education system. The effect of this extensive advocacy activity deflects the accountability of the trustees from the overall financial stewardship of the Vancouver school board.”

Wenezenki-Yolland wrote her report in 2010 when the mix of the ninemember board comprised four Vision Vancouver trustees, three from COPE and two from the NPA. Those remaining on the current board are Vision’s Lombardi, Patti Bacchus and Allan Wong, who left

COPE for Vision before the 2011 election. Vision added Joy Alexander to its team after the 2011 vote.

The NPA’s four trustees — Fraser Ballantyne, Stacy Robertson, Penny Noble and Christopher Richardson — were not on the board in 2010. Neither was Fraser, the board’s lone Green Party trustee.

Did any of them have a role in management’s exodus last week?

Again, draw your own conclusions because it may be a while before the public truly learns what transpired in what was a remarkable and unprecedented week in the district.

I’m sure politics had nothing to do with it.

And I’m sure parents, teachers and students are not at all fed up.

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Thom died in Hong Kong of an aneurysm at age 75. Born in Hong Kong, he immigrated to Canada as a child. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from UBC and a master’s of architecture at the University

Bing Thom died Oct. 4 in Hong Kong. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

of California at Berkeley.

He worked in the offices of Fumihiko Maki in Tokyo and Arthur Erickson in Vancouver before starting his own firm, Bing Thom Architects, in 1982.

The firm posted the news of Thom’s death on its website early Tuesday, including a message from Thom’s wife of more than 50 years, Bonnie: “Bing believed architecture transcends the building, to shine its light onto its whole surroundings. He was so happy his architects also pursue this adventure of ‘building beyond buildings.’”

As word spread, condolences poured in on social media — from other architects and architectural firms, as well as commu-

nity leaders and politicians, including Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and B.C. Premier Christy Clark. Robertson called Thom one of the city’s most accomplished and treasured architects.

“I will remember Bing for his passion to create beautiful spaces and places that better communities,” Robertson said in a statement.

“His belief in architecture as a transformative tool not only for physical spaces, but also social and economic ones can be felt throughout our city, from community gathering spaces, residences and commercial spaces, to stunning masterworks like the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.”

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“Those who were lucky enough to know Bing recognized his inherent graciousness and how he treated everyone he met with respect. It was also that appreciation for bringing people together that can be seen in his work — building spaces that reflect the communities they enrich — from the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, to the Surrey City Library and Guildford Aquatic Centre.”

Thom’s vast array of projects included the Expo ’92 Pavilion in Seville, Spain, the Xiqu Centre Opera House at the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, Central City Surrey and the Sunset Community Centre. Heeney said Thom would never pinpoint his favourite project.

“People used to ask him what his favourite buildings were and he always used to say it’s like asking someone who their favourite child is.

Each one is different, each one you love unconditionally and each one has some interesting attributes,” he said.

“Some of his better known ones in the Vancouver area are the Chan Centre for Performing Arts, which has been a tremendous success and has helped cultural life of UBC blossom and act as a bridge between the city, the larger community and the university campus, which was really one of the goals he wanted to get out of that project.”

More recently, Thom’s work has been in suburban locations such as Surrey.

“The firm was responsible for Central City, which is a big mixed-use project, which is where Simon Fraser University is. That project really kick started the whole Surrey city centre, which has now blossomed in a way no one could have imagined 10, 15 years ago,” he said.

Heeney described Thom as incredibly charismatic in “the nicest possible way” and “totally down-to-earth.”

“People referred to him as a bright light that people were drawn to, like bees to a flame or bees to honey.

He charmed everybody from his colleagues to his clients to the leaders in the community — everyone in the community, regardless of their background or social position. He really had time for everybody. We frankly all learned [from him] and owe such a debt to him because he saw the value of everyone and what they could bring to help us design a project,” he said.

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City’s new chief planner intends to ‘provoke possibilities’ Naoibh O’Connor

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Vancouver’s new chief planner, Gil Kelley, has been on the job for three weeks. The Courier caught up with him to talk about his approach to his new role. Most recently, Kelley was director of citywide planning for the City of San Francisco. He also spent 10 years as the director of planning for the City of Portland, while his first director of planning position was with the City of Berkeley in California.

Why did you want the job?

Honestly, I think Vancouver is at a particular moment of inflection, as it were. It’s poised to make some big moves, much as it did in the late ’80s, early ’90s, when it really took hold of the downtown core and reversed the paradigm of the flight to the suburbs and said, ‘No, downtown and urban vitality is a very desirable attribute.’

That was the aspiration then and there are probably a new set of aspirations and challenges now, which I’ll reserve going too deeply into until I get more familiar. But what I’m trying to say is, there were some big moves done and some big planning and there’s an opportunity to recapture some of that spirit right now.

I think it’s facing many of the challenges that San Francisco is now facing, maybe just a little bit further back from the tidal wave, but I think its readiness to address those may actually be greater than San Francisco right now. So that combination of things was very, very attractive to me.

What’s been your focus in these early days of your job?

It’s been a diving into the deep end of the pool in terms of attending a lot of different meetings, with different city people primarily, not so much with external folks, with community people or even developers, which is to come. I’ve been trying to understand the city structure here and what the projects are — getting to know my key staff managers, my fellow general managers in the other departments, the city manager, the mayor and council. So, just trying to get the lay of the land.

How much influence did politicians in Portland and San Francisco have on their respective planning departments?

Have you sought advice from anyone? Previous planners? Former head planner Brian Jackson?

I haven’t talked to Brian nor to Brent [Toderian].

I did have a conversation with Larry Beasley, which I found interesting. I actually know him from back in the days when he was a planning director here and I was in Portland. We exchanged some visits back and forth at that point, so it was good to touch base with him.

But I will want to connect with a lot of the former planners, as well as the current folks on staff — get to know people more closely in their projects and their work. To get to know those other perspectives you were alluding to.

Best advice either from Larry Beasley or anyone else?

I would generalize it by saying what I think I’ve heard from the council, the city manager Sadhu [Johnston] and from Larry [Beasley] — and frankly from other department heads, the other GMs. That’s own the role. Just own it. Let’s go big and really do it. And that’s so refreshing and challenging to me. That’s why I came frankly.

City manager Sadhu Johnston said the person who got your position would need to be a community builder, a visionary communicator, someone with experience dealing in conflict and who works well with the mayor and council. How have you shown those traits?

I actually think the city planner’s role or the chief planner’s role — whatever jurisdiction you’re in they call it slightly different things — it’s kind of a twin role. [It’s] to provoke possibilities, but at the same time really be a convener where you’re not only welcoming but excavating other opinions and mining those for what’s behind them, what’s underneath them and what the real possibilities are.

I’ve actually played that convening role, both with the community and with agency folks, repeatedly through my career to the extent that past city managers or mayors have tapped me to convene department heads on an ongoing or standing basis to coordinate or resolve issues. I’ve certainly done that with a variety of different perspectives and interest groups within the public on any given number of challenges.

I needed to be acquainted with and have a good rapport with all decision makers. Yeah, they were involved, but in none of those situations were they highly micro-managers.

That didn’t stop them necessarily from passing bylaws at will, but there was a consultation around that in general terms. I’m hoping to continue that here so Sadhu and myself are actually having early conversations with decision makers about their ideas about issues, so that we can form those new initiatives together.

That’s the main thing. I have to say, I’ve been fortunate not to be constantly second guessed. Part of that is just building trust in my position on the part of decision makers.

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Gil Kelley, the city’s new chief planner, started work Sept. 15. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

That’s an essential part of the role. The staff here are really good. And I don’t need to be the technical expert that I was early on in my career. At this point I’m the convener, the facilitator or the provocateur in a way.

The questioner.

You’ll be the subject of criticism if the past proves true — from resident groups and potentially from former planners. What will your approach to consultation be?

My impulse is to reach out and listen first, so I’m not coming at them with something I expect them to accept or to do, but to really make the first round of conversations.

To just hear from them and hear their perspectives, whether that’s within a public setting or with people who have longstanding civic interest in outcomes here.

That’s my approach and it’s not just passive listening, but to really ask why and understand where they’re coming from.

Affordability is a key issue whether you want to rent or buy. Some people criticize the city for protecting single-family neighbourhoods too much to the detriment of people who want to move into the city, while other long-time residents feel their neighbourhoods are being destroyed and don’t look like they used to. How do you bridge that gap or deal with that issue?

I would say it’s not an either-or choice and I would resist that framing of it.

There is room for gentle infill and change within lower density neighbourhoods, but it doesn’t mean radical change.

We’ve got a lot of capacity yet to be tapped in the corridors and station areas

and even in the core city, so I want to resist that kind of framing. That said, there’s probably a generational shift coming where some of those single-family homes will be re-occupied by families, instead of older adults, where there might be a desire to add a laneway, cottage or accessory unit to help with the mortgage.

That kind of gentle infill,

those numbers actually add up over a broad landscape, so I’m not certain yet that we need to go in and wholly upzone single-family neighbourhoods. Maybe widening the corridors a little bit is one thing, but I need to look more closely and get a little bit smarter about the lay of the land here before I can answer your question definitively.

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It’s easy to make virtuous statements when you’re not even the official opposition.

“The Great Bear Rainforest is no place for a pipeline,” Justin Trudeau tweeted in 2013. Now that the Liberal leader is prime minister, apparently the GBR is just the place to slap down an LNG pipeline.

In 2012, Jody WilsonRaybould attended a protest against development of the Site C dam (which is integrally connected to LNG development). As regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, she admonished the Tories for a plan that threatened to run “roughshod over Aboriginal title.”

Now justice minister in Trudeau’s cabinet, Wilson-Raybould is keeping mum on the topic.

Last week, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna parachuted into Richmond with two other cabinet members to announce the fed’s approval of the Pacific Northwest LNG project, with 190 conditions attached.

If it goes ahead — a big if — the projected LNG project will ratchet up hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in northeast B.C., which the journal Seismological Research Letters has identified as

cause for 90 per cent of 3.0-plus Richter scale earthquakes in the area.

A Harvard study linked U.S. shale gas operations with a huge 10-year spike in global concentration of methane — a greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2.

You don’t even have to buy into the authorized narrative of climate change (I’m looking at you, physics professor Freeman Dyson) to question the Rube Goldberg economics in play.

A few years back, Petronas CEO Shamsul Azhar Abbas demanded tax concessions as a precondition to proceeding with LNG operations in B.C. Suddenly, Premier Christy Clark’s much-ballyhooed $100-billion “prosperity fund” shrank to a numerically nondescript “chance… not a windfall” in the 2014 throne speech, read by Lt.-Gov. Judy Guichon. “The core services this government provides need to be protected,” she added.

At that time, the B.C. government’s boardroom romance with Petronas started to resemble Stockholm Syndrome.

In demanding tax concessions from B.C., Petronas was simply practising the kind of “free trade” brinksmanship that pits one nation’s treasury against others. But to

be fair to the company, they were dealing with a tough fiscal reality: the Asian spot market price had plunged from $18.50/mmBtu in 2012 to below $11/mmBtu in 2014. (LNG prices have dropped more than 70 per cent in the past two years.)

Additionally, a 2013 internal audit by Petronas of their Malaysian operations reported “catastrophic” safety issues involving “severe” corrosion of pressure containers and lack of staff training. So there’s that troubling aspect of this low-margin industry, too.

When asked last week

by CBC’s Carol Off for evidence that the Pacific Northeast LNG project will prove to be viable for B.C. taxpayers, deputy premier Rich Coleman responded, “There are studies done on worldwide markets on a regular basis by differing groups... we know each decade what level of capacity will be required.”

That takes balls to say.

As in crystal balls. It suggests there are dependable extraction/depletion projections for the entire planet, many years into the future — and/or the global oil and gas market is manipulated from the very top into perpetuity.

But with a noncompliant Sinosoviet player in the energy chess game, let’s give this commodity sooth-saying a probability

of around 15 per cent, with a margin of error of who the frack knows.

So this is the plan.

We’re prepared to lock the province into a 25-year tax and regulatory regime, which future governments will have to observe or pay compensation to Petronas.

The claimed effects of fracking were noted above.

And in part because natural gas liquefaction requires enormous amounts of energy, the province will ratchet up hydroelectricity capacity by developing the Site C Dam, with a $9-billion hit to the B.C. taxpayer.

Petronas will ship liquefied Canadian gas from its planned Prince Rupert terminal to Asian markets that already have natural gas suppliers in closer proximity. Yet currently the traditional energy sector is globally under pressure from glutted markets, cost-competitive alternative energy technologies, divestment campaigns and indigenous resistance to environmentally-compromising resource extraction.

It’s all a smoky plume in the form of a question mark. Petronas has yet to make a final decision, and other private players have either bowed out or are playing the waiting game on provincial investment.

The B.C. LNG economy remains as vapourous as the Cheshire Cat’s grin. geoffolson.com

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Opinion

Fentanyl crisis highlights uncomfortable truth about drug culture Jessica Barrett

jessica.barrett@gmail.com

Drugs were high on the agenda last week as B.C.’s community leaders met in Victoria for the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities conference.

Dominating much of the conference was the heartbreaking discussion of the fentanyl crisis gripping communities across B.C. and Canada, with public health officials imploring B.C.’s mayors to become more involved in harmreduction programs and Premier Christy Clark promising $10 million to fund addiction treatment and research.

More money is always needed to bolster addiction services, but the prevailing rhetoric around the crisis highlights the halting progress we’ve made on acknowledging an uncomfortable reality around drug use: not everyone who uses illegal drugs is an addict. In fact most are not.

With fentanyl responsible for the majority of B.C.’s 488 fatal overdoses recorded to August of this year — a figure that has us on pace to beat last year’s grim toll of 505 — media and government attention has been locked on the gut-wrenching stories of teenage addicts unable to access treatment beds, or once-promising young adults reduced to shells of their former selves thanks to the intractable grip of the highly addictive synthetic opioid. But, according to the province’s chief coroner, these stories are not always representative of the fentanyl crisis. Rather, occasional drug users who think they’re getting something else, mostly party drugs such as cocaine, are also at risk for fatal overdose.

This population is particularly vulnerable because they don’t have a built-up tolerance for powerful opioids like fentanyl, or the equally terrifying W-18, now showing up in virtually every street drug besides marijuana.

Similarly, this population is particularly vulnerable to another deadly weapon in the war on drugs: stigma. Occasional users don’t often fit the profile of the at-risk youth, the severely mentally ill, or the downtrodden petty criminals most of us think of, wrongly, when we hear the term “drug-user.” Rather, they are weekend warriors, university students,

professionals, yes, even parents, who don’t see themselves in those stories and don’t necessarily equate their habit of blowing off steam with the odd night of partying with the public health crisis unfolding all across the country.

As such, they may be less likely to realize they are at risk, and even if they do, they are unlikely to avail themselves of harmreduction solutions that require people to admit to using illegal drugs, even occasionally.

So strong is the chilling effect of stigma that while UBC began offering Naloxone kits — used to reverse the effects of overdose — to students for free starting last spring, precisely zero had been claimed as of last week, according to a recent article in the Vancouver Sun. The fatal flaw in the strategy has been attributed to the fact that it requires students to identify themselves as illegal drug-users, information that would then go on their health records. Meanwhile, outside of the student world, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control distributes Naloxone for free only to marginalized populations while the rest of society can purchase kits at pharmacies without a prescription. It’s an admirable move in principle. But in a world where buying condoms is still an exercise in humiliation for many, asking people to request an overdose kit in front of their neighbours at the local Shopper’s Drug Mart is, in practice, a high bar to clear. Don’t get me wrong, harm-reduction strategies are making a difference, and they are far preferable to the law-andorder reductionism that gave birth to the disastrous war on drugs. But all the safe consumption sites and overdose kits in the world won’t make a difference to the people who are too ashamed or too afraid to access them.

We are making some progress in combatting the lingering stereotypes of the prohibitionist era. With legal marijuana just around the corner, we’re no longer buying into the moral panic of Reefer Madness. Yet the narrative that anyone who has ever indulged in something harder than pot or stronger than alcohol is, at best, a broken soul seeking to dull the pain of past trauma, or, at worst, a morally bankrupt criminal intent

on self-destruction endures.

The awkward truth is that all kinds of people use all kinds of drugs for all kinds of different reasons.

Some do get mired in addiction — a tragic and ugly beast I’ve seen up close in all its gory details.

And not all drugs are created equal, as the high human cost of fentanyl shows. However, the fact remains that many people can and do dabble in

drugs and come through largely unscathed. The trick is ensuring people can know just what it is they are dabbling in and how to do it safely. That starts with frank and nonjudgmental conversation about a human behaviour that is far more common than many of us would like to admit. One that’s not going anywhere anytime soon. @jm_barrett

UBC started offering Naloxone kits for free last spring, but none had been claimed as of last week. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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Opinion ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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Vancouver School Board staff the casualties of war

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he mass exodus of senior Vancouver School Board staff on “medical leave” this past week could have been avoided. All it would have taken was for Premier Christy Clark’s education minister Mike Bernier to simply follow the law and fire the school board last summer when it refused to deliver a balanced budget.

One can only speculate, in the absence of that whole raft of senior managers, what business the board would be capable of carrying out in the near future while WorkSafe B.C. investigates to see what merit there is the charges made in the superintendent association’s letter.

Of course, that would have meant the province and not the board would have had to carry the political burden of cutting school programs while closing (mostly East Side) schools. And, in an election year, our most political premier was not willing to do that.

So things were allowed to fester, although Bernier did appoint a “special advisor.” Meanwhile, the Vision school trustees held the board majority on the issue of school closures, thanks to the support of Green Party trustee Janet Fra-

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ser, while they continued to draw out the consultation process. (There are four Vision, four NPA and one Green trustee.)

But Vision, along with Fraser, were no more keen to take the heat on the matter than the province.

And they undoubtedly frustrated senior school board staff by sending them back to the drawing board to reconsider their latest recommendations on closures. That to-andfro finally collapsed, first with Superintendent Scott Robinson, and then secretarytreasurer Russell Horswill, calling in sick.

They were followed by three associate superintendents, Julie Pearce, Nancy Brennan and Murray Doucette taking medical leave.

And finally David Nelson, the project lead on long-range facilities planning — which is to say school closures — also caught what was going around and took to his bed.

All, by the way, but Nelson, were new to the staff; all were hired by Robinson after he, too, recently was hired to replace Steve Cardwell who was off to work at UBC. But that many external hires, virtually the entire senior management team, speaks volumes about the VSB’s failure to do any effective succession planning.

And alarm bells should have been going off about the board’s reputation as an employer more than a year ago when they tried to hire Greg Frank out of the Burnaby School Board to take over as their money man in the position of secretary-treasurer.

Frank actually accepted the job and even signed a contract before backing out. He would end up in Surrey.

Then, shortly after the rash of medical leaves, there was another extraordinary event: The B.C. Superintendent’s Association fired a letter off to the Minister of Education, which described a VSB working environment of harassment and bullying.

They wanted Bernier to intervene. The letter noted in part, “The Vancouver School

Board work environment continually and cumulatively creates a toxicity which fosters fear and a lack of a sense of safety for those lead educators as the expectations requested of them are unmanageable.”

And once again, sensitive to the political nature of the season we are in, Bernier passed the request to WorkSafe B.C., which deals with these types of complaints in the workplace.

(Ironically, the VSB professes a zero tolerance for harassment and bullying, the very activities they are being accused of fostering.)

Meanwhile, Cardwell has agreed to sit in as “acting” superintendent and former secretary-treasurer, Rick Krowchuk, has come out of retirement to take up his old spot, also “acting.”

On Monday, Cardwell presented a proposal to the board that all work on determining school closures be put on hold.

Given the number of senior staff fleeing the

building, there was no longer the staff capacity to proceed with this project. It passed with the NPA abstaining.

One can only speculate, in the absence of that whole raft of senior managers, what business the board would be capable of carrying out in the near future while WorkSafe B.C. investigates to see what merit there is in the charges made in the superintendent association’s letter.

Then, there is the matter of the provincial government’s response. How long, I can only wonder, will it take for WorkSafe B.C. to report after investigating the school board’s working environment which, for all intents and purposes, is now paralyzed?

And, with an election still eight months away, how long will Clark and Bernier be able to continue to dodge the bullet of any possible negative political fallout and fire the Vancouver School Board — if and when these charges are proven? @allengarr

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Sharing economy similar to previous industrial revolutions

ONLINE COMMENTS

Good work

Re: “Sharing economy has nothing to do with sharing,” Sept. 28.

Allen Garr’s assertion that technology is changing the way we do business is an understatement. According to the World Economic Forum, five million jobs in the world’s leading economies could disappear over the next five years because of advances in technology. Developments in artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology will disrupt the business world in a similar way to previous industrial revolutions.

Administrative and white collar office jobs will be most at risk.

Clearly, change is inevitable. We either adapt or become obsolete. So why criticize Amazon, Uber and Airbnb, who have created new, efficient ways of doing business that are beneficial to society?

Uber has already tested its prototype driverless car, which will eliminate the need for taxi drivers. Vancouver’s taxi cartel has had its inefficient monopoly for far too long. Since our city has no intention of providing a 24-hour-a-day transportation system, people cannot get home at night, forcing them to use taxis that are in short supply during peak periods. Uber could do a good job of filling that void.

Amazon has revolutionized publishing, so that we can now download books to our devices for $2.99 or less. These corporations employ a great number of people in third-world countries who would otherwise not have a job.

Airbnb pumps big dollars into our economy via guests who rent cars, dine in our restaurants, sightsee and shop. It is a cyclical business, when many hotels are fully booked in the summer. Airbnb is often the only alternative. At summer’s end, the hosts move back into their homes to resume their lives. The money they earned pays the mortgage or goes toward the kids’ education. I think that’s a good thing!

Are we sharing? Definitely. We are sharing our cultures and friendship in the communities of our beautiful city.

Marlise Reuter, Vancouver

Re: “Relationship between VPD and Aboriginal community a work in progress,” Sept. 28.

I have something to say in regarding this matter. I have both faith and trust in our justice system. I serve in the community though my work and all of the police officers that I’ve ever met are hard-working kind of people that are there to serve and protect. The most important thing is that Vancouver is a really big city and aboriginal indigenous people make up for our large population and it’s in my opinion that respect for our people and respect for law enforcement officials has to go both ways.

Sheldon Jordan Agecouty via Facebook ••• I hope other police DEPARTMENT around the world learn and take lessons from VPD. Michel Shadian via Facebook ••• New found respect for the VPD....

GOOD JOB GUY’S KEEP IT UP! John Harrison via Facebook ••• Who’s doing the “work”? It’s gotta be a two-way street which tends to get lost in the translation of these types of “narratives.”

Petar Ticinovic via Facebook

Sixties Scoop story resonates Re: “Reconnecting with family after ‘Sixties Scoop,’ Sept. 28.

So happy you are finding your family and thereby yourself, especially at this time!

Neil Laffra via Facebook ••• Brought tears to my eyes but happy to hear you’re connecting with your family.

Germaine Langan via Facebook ••• Sometime in the late 50’s in the halls of parliament in Victoria and Ottawa these horrific plans were planned and executed.

Surely, records can show who were responsible for putting thought to words, words to actions. The ink of such prejudiced, white supremacy still drains the blood of indigenous people.

Wayne Y via online comments

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Truth & Transformation

Indigenous student not bound by stereotypes or statistics Fourth instalment of Courier’s six part series examines education and the Aboriginal community Mike Howell

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At 18, Isaiah Lehtinen has got a lot going on.

He’s an actor.

He’s a solo rap artist.

He’s a Langara College business student.

Five months ago, he added valedictorian to his resume.

But the ceremony he attended at the Italian Cultural Centre in June was not as the student spokesperson for the entire population of his high school, Britannia secondary.

Instead, he spoke on behalf of indigenous graduates from across the Vancouver school district in what was billed as an Aboriginal graduation celebration.

Lehtinen is Metis.

And he’s among a steady number of indigenous students who continue to graduate from high school in Vancouver. That rate, according to school board officials, has hovered around 85 per cent in recent years.

It’s an impressive rate, although it only applies to students in Grade 12 at the time of graduation. It does not consider the number of students who entered a Vancouver school in Grade 8 but failed to graduate.

That rate is not so good, with only 47 per cent of those indigenous students in the 2014-2015 school year completing high school in Vancouver. Data on the 2015-2016 school year won’t be available until January, according to the school board, which has various theories for the 47 per cent graduation rate, including students moving to other districts, enrolling in private schools or on-reserve schools and dropping out.

“Admittedly, there are a number of those students who do drop out while they are still in the [Vancouver] system, and so that is an issue we have to work hard on — getting our Aboriginal students to remain in school from Grade 8 through Grade 12, but we don’t believe that 53 per cent of them drop out and remain in Vancouver,” wrote associate superintendent Nancy Brennan in an email to the Courier.

Statistics were on Lehtinen’s mind that night in June when he walked on stage in a traditional Coast Salish robe and delivered a speech to students, parents, teachers, school board superintendents and politicians.

“Statistics and num-

Isaiah Lehtinen, who is Metis, was the valedictorian at the Aboriginal graduation ceremony held in June for Vancouver high school students. He is now studying business at Langara College. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

bers will say that this is an anomaly, that native people aren’t meant to be successful or don’t have the capacity to achieve like our friends of other races do,” he said. “But the numbers and statistics aren’t standing up here, looking over a crowd of successful indigenous youth surrounded by their friends, family and community members who have nothing but love and undying support for them.”

He continued. “The numbers and statistics aren’t ready for what’s coming next. They aren’t ready to ride with us on the journey to more success.

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Many friends of Aboriginal descent have joined him at Langara, all of whom are driven to combat the stereotypes and clichés connected to young indigenous people.

“Some of us are the first in our families to go to college — period — or to graduate high school — period,” said Lehtinen, as he sat in a courtyard at Langara prior to a marketing class. “There seems to be this status quo that, ‘You’re native, you’re going to drop out in the 10th grade and sell weed, or just bum welfare or something like that.’ Not true.”

Lehtinen said the Internet has connected his Aboriginal friends in a way unlike previous generations, where articles and documents are available on Canada’s dark history of colonialism and residential schools. That information is shared on Facebook and other social media platforms, educating and inspiring young people like him to post their views, to stand up and pursue higher learning; more than 350 students enrolled at Langara in the past school year selfidentified as indigenous.

“I feel like we’re really able to get the whole picture as the new generation.

We’re able to fully realize what impact things like colonialism have had on our lineages, and we’re able to rise above it and see into the clear future.”

Coincidentally, Lehtinen is attending a school that offers a variety of Aboriginal studies programs, has an elder-in-residence and a strong connection to the Musqueam Indian Band, which bestowed the name Snow-i-ith-lalum — which translates to “house of teachings” — on Langara earlier this year.

For such an articulate young man, an assumption might be made that Lehtinen’s passion for his heritage and battling stereotypes would transfer well to his career as a rap artist.

That’s not the case. The self-described absurdist, who raps under the name Hermit, is more inspired by video games and Japanese anime.

He often makes references to his interests, having recently performed at the Rifflandia

festival in Victoria, where promoters described him as being loved by his fans “for his weirdo, social-reject personality and the insane hype at his shows.”

He makes music to have fun, he said, not to get political.

“I try to stray from politics and things like that.”

Why? “I feel like I’m not a person who can articulately express the way I feel about things through music. I feel like I could sit down and talk with someone about things like that and express myself in a fine way. But I feel music is just not the medium I want to express my feelings in.”

Support workers

Lehtinen is able to study at Langara this semester because of a $3,000 grant he received from the Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society. He credits his Aboriginal support workers at his high school for helping him secure the grant. Without it, he said, he would not be able to attend Langara.

“I’m one of three kids, we live in the Downtown Eastside, both my parents work but I just couldn’t afford to go without [the grant],” he said, noting his income used to come from selling shoes and washing dishes. He continues to look for work and, for now, relies primarily on money he makes from music shows or acting gigs. He recently had a significant role in the Vancouver-shot television series The Flash, and a small part in an upcoming movie with actor Kevin Bacon.

If acting or rapping doesn’t

end up paying the bills in the future, Lehtinen hopes a business degree will give him the skills to work in one of the industries as a talent agent or record producer.

As he reflected on where he is now and where he wants to go, he acknowledged his parents, Shauntele and Darcy, helped him get to this point. Lehtinen told a story of how his dad, who is a project manager for a construction company, put him to work laying pipe one summer.

“He really instilled in me the value of hard work,” he said. “He made me understand I have to work super, super hard and that being a minority in a prominently white city and country, I have to work extra, extra hard to get what I want and what I feel I deserve.”

His parents were in the back of the hall at the Italian Cultural Centre in June when Lehtinen made his speech. His mother is Cree-Irish and his father is Mexican-Finnish. Both are high school graduates.

“Awesome, really good, really proud right now,” was how Lehtinen’s father responded after the ceremony. His mother was equally pleased. “One down, two more to go,” she said of her three sons.

The point about parent support was one Don Fiddler, the district principal of Aboriginal education in Vancouver, made on the night of Lehtinen’s speech — and the previous day at a signing ceremony to renew the district’s Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement, which was created in 2009 to improve

academic success for indigenous students. At last count, there were 2,100 self-identified indigenous students from 600 bands in the district.

“The fact is,” said Fiddler, who is of Metis-Cree heritage, “our parents now are better educated 10 years later than they were 10 years before. And we know there’s a direct relationship to parents who have graduated from high school and when their kids graduate from high school.”

But what about the 53 per cent statistic that associate superintendent Brennan highlighted, and how only 47 per cent of indigenous students enrolled in Grade 8 in Vancouver graduated from Grade 12?

Fiddler’s initial response to the Courier’s question is the media is obsessed with statistics. And statistics don’t tell the whole story, he added.

“Over the last number of years, the media in particular as well as others, go for the sound bites,” he said.

“They love to report how downtrodden we are as people. They love to report all the terrible things that are happening. But the truth of the matter is terrible things are not happening to all of our people. The truth is most of our people are very successful.”

High enrolment

He went on to say indigenous people have the highest rate of college enrolment in the country.

It’s been that way for the past 20 years, he said.

Lehtinen, who finished high school with A’s and B’s, is now included in that statistic. He wants to ensure his brothers make that step to higher learning, too.

“I want my little brothers to know that college is not something out of reach for any of us,” he said.

Which is a point he made to his fellow graduates in June as he closed his speech.

Find, he said, something in life you’re passionate about and pursue it.

“Are you passionate about visual art? Awesome, pursue it. Are you passionate about high concept math? Awesome, figure it out, pursue it. Are you passionate about game design? That’s cool, too, man. Pursue it. Are you passionate about your community and opening up opportunities for all people?

Awesome, pursue it.” @Howellings

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Musqueam ‘knowledge keeper’ shares Coast Salish culture in schools Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

Shane Pointe is full of stories.

In little more than an hour, he told several in his even-paced, captivating way before he got to talking about his job as the Vancouver School Board’s “knowledge keeper.”

Pointe, 61, was seated in the shop class at Magee secondary, where he was carving a three-foot long model canoe from a piece of cedar.

It would later be dedicated to the school as part of the school’s centennial.

What would he name it?

Without hesitation: “Endeavour.”

And so began his story about the 62-foot race canoe his grandfather Leonard Point of the Musqueam Indian Band built in the 1960s, also called “Endeavour.”

“Wow, that’s thought, that’s deep thought,” he said of the name choice, noting the time period and struggle for First Nations people. “When people think about us, we’re always less than. But endeavour — wow. Endeavour to achieve, endeavour to achieve success through knowledge.”

The canoe for Coast Salish people has been a practical transportation vehicle for thousands of years, using it to travel up and down the coast for trade.

The canoe is also deep in symbolism for what it represents to First Nations.

“It’s a container not only for travel, but it’s a container to put one’s life experiences and education into so the individual can succeed from moving from A to B, regardless of the conditions of the sea,” Pointe said.

The story about the canoe led to one about the late Willy Seymour of Kulleet Bay near Ladysmith, who taught Pointe the importance of bringing passion to his teaching and emotion to his voice when speaking to a crowd.

It’s served him well, as the Courier observed in the shop class, at a school board event at the Musqueam Cultural Centre and at a high school graduation for Aboriginal students in June, where he praised the teenagers for their perseverance.

“You’re the luminaries, not only of your own families but you’re luminaries for all First Nations people,” he said from a stage, projecting his voice to the graduates seated in front of him at the Italian Cultural Centre. “I want to welcome you here to this

moment. It’s a great moment, it’s a special moment because you have achieved, you’ve made it.”

As Pointe begins another year as the school board’s “knowledge keeper” — a position he describes as one where he discloses knowledge of the Coast Salish peoples language, culture and ceremony to students — he knows there’s value in what he does.

Student letters

But don’t take his word for it. Or the word of the superintendent, or teachers or school trustees. It’s the students who know best, he said, noting he received more than 400 letters from them in the past school year.

One student wrote: “Shane Pointe’s visit was very eye-opening. In class, we learned that children had to go through all kinds of torture in residential schools. But it felt like something I was just supposed to know. To hear the same words come from someone who knew people that had to experience it, made it feel more real.”

Another student, who also learned about the residential school system and the ancestral villages of the Musqueam, wrote: “I learned all of this and much, much more. Shane Pointe was great when he visited Eric Hamber. He was incredibly friendly, funny and informative. He did an amazing job and I look forward to any future visits from him.”

One more: “What I learned was First Nations people are cool and their ways are very Zen-like. I aim to strive to find ways like that, too. I also learned that First Nations had much success in the real world, and the media always aims to try and put the culture down by telling everyone about their flaws as a community, instead of saying their achievements.”

Those successes Pointe has talked about in classrooms include his relative, Steven Point, a provincial court judge and former lieutenant-governor of B.C. There’s also Steven Point’s wife, Gwendolyn, who is the chancellor of the University of the Fraser Valley, and the late Musqueam educator Norma Rose Point, who had an elementary school named after her on Ortona Road. Dr. Evan Adams of the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River is another successful indigenous person Pointe mentions.

“That’s now, that’s today,”

Shane Pointe of the Musqueam Indian Band, seen here carving a model-sized canoe at Magee secondary, spoke to 46 Vancouver elementary and high school students in the past school year about Coast Salish culture, language and ceremony. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

said Pointe, whose surname has an “e” at the end of it because his father wanted to distinguish himself from the rest of the Point family.

Dalai Lama

Pointe can also be considered a success story: How many people do you know who were invited – twice -- to ceremonies to welcome the Dalai Lama to Vancouver?

The most recent welcoming was in 2014. A year later, the school board hired Pointe, who visited 46 elementary and secondary schools during the 2015-2016 year, speaking to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students.

He is quick to point out he is not alone in his pursuit to educate non-Aboriginal students about a history kept from the curriculum for decades. He credits classroom teachers and the teachers and support workers connected to the district’s Aboriginal education enhancement program for priming students before his visits. Support for indigenous students, who totalled 2,100 from 600 different bands in the past school year, has been available in the district for several decades.

“The level of knowledge the students have about First Nations people is exceptional,” Pointe said, describing the school board’s commitment to support Aboriginal students and teach First Nations history as “cutting edge.”

He used that description before he opened a ceremony in June at the Musqueam Cultural Centre, where school officials, teachers, support staff and politicians gathered to renew the agreement of the Aboriginal enhancement program.

The agreement was first introduced in 2009 and its purpose was to integrate Aboriginal culture in schools and create an environment where Aboriginal students can achieve success.

Don Fiddler, the principal of the district’s Aboriginal education program, was in the audience when Pointe welcomed guests to Musqueam to renew the agreement.

Fiddler, who is of MetisCree heritage, hired Pointe and has kept him on this school year for three days a week. Fiddler noted Pointe’s deep understanding of the protocol and pro-

cedures of the Musqueam and Coast Salish peoples and his ability to articulate that history to students. He described Pointe as a bridge between the school board and local Aboriginal culture.

“He projects a kindness and a gentleness, and enjoys speaking to very young children and that’s been very helpful,” he said, noting he isn’t aware of any other school district in the province that has a person dedicated to this work. “I can say that generally the kids in Vancouver are getting a good understanding of Aboriginal culture and the teachers are certainly very supportive.

And Shane adds to that.”

Residential school

Pointe, who grew up in Nanaimo where he finished school with “a solid Grade 9 education,” came to the job after working for several years as a support worker in schools, in prisons, with residential school survivors, single mothers and as a drug and alcohol counsellor for the Musqueam Indian Band.

He’s seen a lot of life and believes there’s been a shift in society, where Aboriginal

people are genuinely part of a conversation that didn’t exist when he was a young man.

That shift, he said, is evident at the school board, which opened an Aboriginal focus school in 2012, and at city hall, where city council declared Vancouver to be the first city in the country to become a city of reconciliation. Council also formally recognized that Vancouver is on the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

The city has a manager of Aboriginal relations and four years ago created the Urban Aboriginal Peoples advisory committee. City staff and politicians also meet regularly with the Musqueam and other nations.

“We’re right up there with bike lanes for Gregor Robertson,” joked Pointe, before praising the mayor’s commitment to reconciliation with indigenous people.

“The mayor has done excellent work in engaging Musqueam and engaging all First Nations people who live within his boundaries.

And he’s sincere in what he’s doing. Of course, he has many other responsibilities but he’s paying attention and he’s going, ‘No, we need to do this.’ He had not one day of reconciliation, he had a year of reconciliation.”

But is it authentic? Is it genuine?

“It’s not a tidal wave, but it’s a big wave,” he said.

“The tide’s coming in. Let’s use a First Nations’ metaphor, the tide’s coming in.

Awesome. Yes.” One more story from Pointe: Back in June, he spoke at Lord Byng secondary’s graduation ceremony. Three days later, he was at a bus stop. A man he estimated to be in his mid-40s pulled up in his car and got out.

“He says, ‘You’re Shane Pointe.’ And I said, ‘Yes.’ He says, ‘You spoke at my kid’s graduation and what you said moved me.’”

Pointe paused, then repeated some of what he just said. “The guy said, ‘I was moved by what you said, what you did.’”

How did that make Pointe feel?

“Awesome, of course.

A middle-aged white guy.

Wow. How often do you go up to somebody and say, ‘You know, that was emotional. You moved me.’”

Pointe pounded his fist on his chest.

“Awesome.” @Howellings Next week: politics.

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Oil giant to donate land for $30-million native youth centre Mike Howell

mhowell@vancourier.com

A representative from one of the world’s biggest oil producers was expected to be at city hall Wednesday to announce the company will contribute a former gas station site to the construction of a long-awaited $30-million native youth centre planned for Commercial Drive and East Hastings.

Details of Calgary-based Suncor Energy’s involvement in the project were to be released during a morning presentation to city council, after the Courier’s print deadline.

Mukhtar Latif, the city’s chief housing officer, and Dena Klashinsky, the executive director of the Urban Native Youth Association, were to participate in the presentation.

Nicole Fisher, a spokesperson for Suncor, said in an email to the Courier Monday the land in question was originally committed to the project in 2005 by Petro-Canada, which owned the former gas station site at Commercial Drive and East Hastings. Suncor and PetroCanada merged in 2009.

“Suncor is partnering with

the City of Vancouver and UNYA on this donation,” Fisher wrote. “We are looking forward to continuing to collaborate with UNYA to ensure that the full vision for the native youth centre is realized.

In terms of the dollar amount, that information will be available following the formal presentation on Wednesday.”

Latif and Klashinsky declined to provide further details on the extent of the donation from Suncor, until after the presentation to council. The native youth centre has been planned for more than a decade and was estimated to cost $30 million when the price was calculated in 2005.

All three levels of government were initially involved in the project. But it’s unclear how much money was committed to construction and why the project never got built by the anticipated 2008 completion date.

The initial design of the new centre called for enough space to build three storeys and take up two-thirds of the block along East Hastings at Commercial Drive.

The Urban Native Youth Association owns its build-

Suncor Energy was expected to announce Wednesday it will donate a former gas station site at Commercial Drive and East Hastings to the construction of a native youth centre. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ing along the block and the city owns the neighbouring building currently occupied

by Spud.ca, an organic grocery delivery service. The former gas station site is on the corner of the block.

In January, council heard city staff was still working on getting a “state of the art” native youth centre built on the block. The project is expected to include housing, possibly up to 200 units for a mix of households, including young Aboriginal people and their families.

Suncor’s involvement in the project comes only two weeks

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The leaders committed to stop all five current tar sands pipeline and tanker project proposals in Canada, including the Kinder Morgan project that calls for a new pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet.

The optics of an oil giant getting involved in a project to benefit young indigenous people was not lost on Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, who said such a donation is difficult to reconcile when the city council committed to be-

coming “the greenest city in the world” by 2020 and having 100 per cent of its energy generated through renewable sources before 2050.

Mayor Gregor Robertson and the three local nations — the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh — have also been vehement in their opposition to Kinder Morgan’s proposal to build a pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet. An oil spill, they have said, would be disastrous for the environment.

“Certainly, having a native youth centre and housing project is good for the city,” Carr said Tuesday. “I’ll be very interested to hear what the rationale is behind the funding.”

Suncor has four oil and gas terminals in B.C., including a terminal adjacent to Burrard Inlet. It receives fuel from two Edmonton refineries and international suppliers, processes it and distributes to customers in Metro Vancouver and internationally.

Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer said council remains opposed to the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure but sees Suncor’s donation of land as a positive move in

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“The story about a former gas station being turned into 200-plus units of housing for Aboriginal people is an excellent chapter in that story about that transition to 100 per cent [renewable energy],” she said. “I do not personally have an issue with it. It’s not a case of we went out across Canada and solicited a partnership and this is the one that showed up.”

Reimer said it made sense for the city to negotiate with Suncor to acquire the property because it is adjacent to the city-owned land and the piece owned by the Urban Native Youth Association. She said the best possible option was to have Suncor donate the land for a project that will benefit young Aboriginal peoples, the fastest growing demographic in B.C. “There’s only two ways to get [Suncor’s property], and both of them involve money and Suncor,” she said. “So with this model, I feel like the taxpayers are getting the best deal.” @Howellings

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Indigenous lit course struggles with high school popularity Sophie Woodrooffe

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Teacher Shirley Burdon asks her class to stand on a handful of blankets spread across the floor in a classroom at Gladstone secondary in East Vancouver. Then, she chooses one student, “the European,” to wreak havoc. The European distributes treaties to the blanket-bound teens.

Later, the European recites the Indian Act and scrunches up the blankets’ edges. A few students get kicked off. Those who remain huddle closer together. By the time the European arrives at the residential school system, the number of students, like the blankets, have shrunk considerably.

At the end of class, 16-year-old Lisa Badua admits her discomfort at playing the role of the European.

“I felt kind of bad, I was bullying everyone,” she says.

For the past five years Burdon has been using what she calls “the blanket exercise” to introduce students to themes like colonialism.

She teaches English 12 First Peoples. It is no ordinary high school English class, even though it could be.

English 12 First Peoples is equivalent to English 12. It has been on the books since 2008 and is taught across the province at 42 public secondary schools, according to the Ministry of Education. But up until this year, of the 18 public high schools in Vancouver, English 12 First Peoples has only been offered at a handful of schools, including Gladstone.“The question is why isn’t it getting more play at schools?” asks Michael Choi, English department head at Prince of Wales secondary on the West Side. This is the first year he is teaching it, bringing the number of public schools in Vancouver to offer the course to three (the other is Lord Byng).

Misconceptions

English 12 First Peoples was developed in 2007, by the First Nations Education Steering Committee in partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Education and designed to provide university-stream students with access to Indigenous literature.

But so far in Vancouver, teachers struggle to dispel the notion that the course is on par with English 12.

Shirley Burdon teaches English 12 First Peoples at Gladstone secondary. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“There’s a misconception that it’s a communications course. That it’s an easier course,” says Choi.

It’s a misconception familiar to Choi. The reason Prince of Wales offered the course this year, he says, is because a communications course fell through. Of the 25 students in his class, nine are what he calls “mainstream” students. The rest are students with learning barriers.

When Burdon first tried to introduce the course at Gladstone five years ago, she says the administration was equally misinformed about the course’s rigour.

Deanne Reder, coordinator of the Master of Arts for

Teachers of English Program at SFU, introduced Burdon to the course and also notes the misconception. “This confusion betrays a sense of bias against Indigenous literature that still goes on, which is that it’s not very good, it’s not very well crafted, that Indigenous literature is substandard,” says Reder.

Despite the confusion, Burdon gained the support of Gladstone administration and in the first year 18 students enrolled. In the second year she had enough students for two classes, and since then the courses continually fill up.

Popularity contested Despite its popularity at

Gladstone, Burdon and Choi say a major reason more schools don’t offer English 12 First Peoples is that not enough teachers are familiar with Indigenous literature, and because of the course’s edgy material. Some of the books, like Drew Hayden Taylor’s novel Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, are light-hearted celebrations of culture. But as Burdon explains, “The issues that come up in the First People’s course are pretty serious.

So there are also people who are wanting to be sensitive and respectful when talking about this sort of stuff.”

Don Fiddler, district principal of Aboriginal Education, says it’s largely up to the teachers and individual schools to offer the course.

“Certainly we could ask the schools to consider and put on the workshops, but the BCTF [BC Teachers’ Federation] has been doing that for the past number of years.

I’m not certain you can do much more,” he says.

He also cites a lack of equity in the school system with respect to Indigenous teachers, as well as declining enrolment, which means there are fewer opportunities

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Reder says the Vancouver School Board should be doing more to promote the course. “It’s hard for me to give credit to the VSB if after all these years, only one teacher who was uniquely prepared is able to have taught this class… It’s not the teachers lack, it’s got to lie at the VSB and the ministry.”

The Ministry of Education is rolling out a new curriculum that integrates Indigenous culture and history, including the legacy of the residential school system. According to teachers, these changes don’t affect English 12 First Peoples.

Choi isn’t sure if the course will be offered next year.

And with Gladstone remaining on the school closure list, the future of English 12 First Peoples in Vancouver remains uncertain.

Badua — the European — has high expectations. “I hope that I’ll learn enough to tell other people and let them know,” she says.

“Some people don’t know anything about First Nations and I hope they can finally get acknowledged in Canada the way that they should be.”

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Wynnbrook

Right next to the Albion Sports Complex, surrounded by greenspace, water park and playground, you will discover Morningstar s Wynnbrook. Enjoy the fresh country air while being a stone s throw from the urban amenities essential for today s active families.

This is truly parkside living at its best, says Deborah Calahan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Morningstar Homes. It s the perfect neighbourhood for active young families and will be Morningstar s third project in Maple Ridge where we are quickly becoming a household name.

Wynnbrook s three-storey homes will feature full daylight basements, two-car garages and have distinctive exterior accents of stone, shingles, and shutters.

These three and four-bedroom single family homes, range in size from 3125 to 3150 square feet (including unnished basement). The contemporary, extraspacious interiors are distinguished by quality nishes and craftsmanship that Morningstar is renowned for, including linear gas replaces, spa inspired master ensuites with two person shower with built in bench, and chef inspired kitchens featuring stainless steel appliances and luxurious quartz counters.

perfect balance between urban and rural

With nearly two decades of excellence in the industry, Morningstar has earned a reputation for creating single family homes that are truly unique and sophisticated, while providing maximum livability.

In addition, Wynnbrook is close to public transit as well as the West Coast Express, tness facilities, good schools, shopping, culture, and entertainment. For urbanites moving from Vancouver, Wynnbrook is in the centre of a family-friendly neighborhood with popular hot spots such as Bruce s Market, Kanaka Creek Coffee, Kingshers Waterfront Bar & Grill, to name a few.

Development Wynnbrook Location 23952 104th Ave., Maple Ridge Open Daily noon to 6 p.m (except Fridays) Price From $789,900 inc. GST Contact 604-380-4708 or www.mstarhomes.com

Find Out Why Wynnbrook Is The Best Value WYNNBROOK’S HOMES ARE LESS EXPENSIVE THAN COMPARABLE HOMES IN MAPLE RIDGE AND NEIGHBOURING COMMUNITIES - EVEN WHEN YOU INCLUDE GST!

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Falcon House

Close to nature yet minutes to urban amenities

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Many of Falcon House buyers are empty nesters, who are attracted by the quieter, more laid back lifestyle Maple Ridge offers

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If quiet is what you re after you ve come to the right place. Backing onto the meandering Morse Creek, Falcon House is a collection of 40 executive style condominiums, ranging in size from 946 to 2,014 square feet, in the heart of one of the most desirable new communities in the Lower Mainland.

In addition, there is a garden courtyard surrounded by green space and large patios to really maximize outdoor living enjoyment, says Nicole Buckle, sales manager for Falcon House.

Falcon House is also only a few minutes away from transit, shopping and entertainment, so it really is the best of both worlds.

Development Falcon House Location 224th St. and Brown Ave. in Maple Ridge Type Condominium Open Daily noon to 5 p.m Price From $348,900 Contact 604-477-1500 or www.falconhouse.ca

Getting around Metro Vancouver is easier than ever Falcon House is literally minutes away from the Golden Ears Bridge, Abernethy Connector and the West Coast Express.

Many of Falcon House buyers are empty nesters, who are attracted by the quieter, more laid back lifestyle Maple Ridge offers.

They are also telling us they want to travel and this allows them to lock and go, adds Buckle.

For those outdoor enthusiasts, you are close to great hiking at popular Golden Ears Provincial Park, camping at Alouette Lake, or the trails in UBC s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest. Or grab a picnic basket and head to Kanaka Creek Park.

Falcon House comprises of one, two, two and den and three-bedroom homes, many of which feature

mountain views to the north and are close to a number of parks and walking/cycling trails.

Clad in classic red brick, black trimmed Juliette windows and fully landscaped gardens, these contemporary West coast homes are distinguished by open interiors. Welcoming and bright, each home offers over-height ceilings (between nine and as high as 12 on the top eoors), oversized windows, designer wide-plank laminate eooring throughout the living space and spacious laundry rooms.

Falcon House is showcased by kitchens that feature a stainless steel appliance package with an extra-large 36 fridge and built-in microwave, dedicated dining room spaces, closet organizers, private secure lockers ranging from 30 to 96 square feet, and outdoor balconies and patios ranging from 77 to 810 square feet.

For more than three decades, the multi-award winning builder has built a reputation for constructing superior homes. Known for their building quality and craftsmanship, inspired eoor plans and an artist s sense of colour and texture, Falcon Homes is proud to present Falcon House.

Prices start from $348,900 for one-bedrooms; two-bedrooms from $378,900 and two-bedroom + den starts at $496,900. Tentative occupancy is slated for September 2017. The presentation centre has an interactive monitor so prospective buyers can see perspective exteriors and dollhouse versions of units, adds Buckle.

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WestRidge Within a few minutes of speaking to Angela Jorgenson, Sales Manager and Creative Design Director for WestRidge, it becomes clear just how much passion she has brought to this newest single family development in NorthWest Maple Ridge.

Having grown up just across the street from where WestRidge is now making its home, Jorgenson is deeply committed to this exclusive detached collection of 21 residences with a decidedly upscale and modern approach.

“We created our boutique community around an amazing piece of property that offers all homes a spectacular backyard of greenbelt,” she says, adding 50 per cent of the homes are already sold. “We took a modern West Coast Contemporary concept in our design and were able to sustain an interior floor plan that was wide open and very free flowing with as many oversized windows as possible to not only let in natural light but also to capitalize on the spectacular greenery surrounding every home.”

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offers West Coast Contemporary homes to Maple Ridge

In addition to having a handle on all of the finer details of the homes, WestRidge is taking a bold departure from the more traditional suburban residence design. A lot of thought went into creating homes that aren’t only beautiful inside and outside, but perform incredibly well for what families want and need today. With this new development boasting wide plank laminate flooring, a high end stainless steel appliance package, quartz counter tops throughout, generous size windows, trendy gas fireplaces and spa inspired ensuites, Jorgenson explains that WestRidge has so much more than that. The attention spent on all of the details was extensive.

“Comfort, enjoyment and effortless functionality for home owners” is what Jorgenson reveals was the key to these home designs. Additional garage storage, double walk-in master closets and side-by-side washers and dryers conveniently located upstairs, highlight just a few of the standard benefits. An upgrade package that includes heated bathroom floors, finished basements with optional legalized income producing suites, great room built-ins and an inviting outdoor gas fireplace for year-round entertainment are some of the items well worth the extra investment.

Another huge draw for purchasers is the stress-free lifestyle that Maple Ridge offers. People often think of Maple Ridge as somewhere out in the “Burbs” but are pleasantly surprised when they actually visit and realize just how closely connected this community is to all the major cities.

“Our location provides easy access for those who work in a variety of larger cities but are looking for a more relaxed and quieter family friendly atmosphere with many amenities within walking distance from your home,” she explains. “This is truly an incredible location, considered one of Maple Ridge’s most desirable neighbourhoods, and it is located just minutes from the Golden Ears Bridge and major highways leading to Coquitlam, Burnaby and Vancouver.”

Angela Jorgenson, Sales Manager and Creative Design Director for WestRidge

Dynamic Westridge Inc. is proud to be bringing a beautiful neighbourhood of West Coast Contemporary homes to Northwest Maple Ridge, with three unique plans to choose from - Arbutus, Beech and Cypress. Prices for these sprawling residences start from $984,800 and range from 3,400 to 4,000 square feet. Tentative occupancy is January 2017.

For more information, call 604-710-1452, email info@westridgeliving.ca or visit www.WestRidgeLiving.ca.

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WATCH YOUR IDEAS TAKE OFF As a result of our ongoing dialogue with British Columbians, and our business and industry partners – plans for the future of YVR are taking shape.

The YVR 2037 Master Plan will provide a blueprint for an advanced hub that connects us to Asia, the Americas and beyond, and continues to reflect the best of B.C. – sustainable, welcoming and diverse.

YVR will be a symbol of expert planning and traveller convenience.

It will be a feast for the senses, a hive of activity and interaction, a business hub for entrepreneurs, and a unique retail experience that will be second-to-none.

Help us shape the future of our world-class, sustainable airport by attending public meetings and sharing your input online.

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Community

DUMPLINGS DELIVER: Now in its ninth year, Celebrity Dim Sum is a signature fundraising event for AIDS Vancouver. A capacity crowd gathered at the Four Seasons Hotel for the annual nosh hosted by yours truly and Carmen Ruiz y Laza of JoyTV, the event’s presenting sponsor.

Artists, politicos, business and community leaders packed the Park Ballroom for the yearly treat. As always, local personalities were on hand to serve guests. This year’s gaggle of stars included city councillor Andrea Reimer, reality TV star Mary Zilba and Vancouver Canucks alumni Kyle Wellwood. The fun-filled Asian foodie fete generated a reported $40,000 to care for the 7,000 people annually accessing vital services and programs at AIDS Vancouver.

A longer version of this column appears at vancourier.com.

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The Unstoppable Conni Smudge was among a cast of colourful personalities on hand to serve guests at the ninth annual Celebrity Dim Sum AIDS Vancouver benefit. A reported $40,000 was raised.

AIDS Vancouver executive director Brian Chittock and JoyTV’s Carmen Ruiz y Laza helped front the annual brunch in support of HIV/AIDS care, education and research.

Fans of giving back, businessman Brian Hill, CEO of Aritzia, and Andrea Thomas Hill, founder and chair of Cause We Care Foundation, matched every dollar raised at the Cause We Care Cocktail Party, pushing the final tally beyond $250,000.

Peter Webster of the Webster Family Foundation and Peter Jackman, general manager of the Terminal City Club, were among supporters who contributed to the record night. Clubhouse Gala proceeds help provide a safe space for more than 12,000 kids in Metro Vancouver to feel loved and be amazing.

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1. It’s a road movie, it’s a love story, it’s Shia LeBeouf in a mangy rattail, it’s a special presentation at the Vancouver International Film Festival. American Honey, Andrea Arnold’s hypnotic, music-and-millennial-fuelled slice of Americana and Jury Prize winner at Cannes screens Oct. 6 and 12 as part of the jam-packed festivities. For reviews of other films, see page 21. VIFF runs until Oct. 14. Details at viff.org.

2. Adhering to the adage that sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying, The Concierge of Vancouver is billed as a play satirizing the Vancouver housing crisis. Hilarity ensues Oct. 7 to 16 at Granville Island’s Studio 1398. Details and tickets at matchmakerproductions.com.

3. Fringe Fest favourites James & Jamesy return for their enlightening new show Jamesy & Jamesy in the Dark, performed, as the title suggests, entirely in the dark with the only light coming from the duo’s custom-built costumes. See for yourself until Oct. 16 at Granville Island’s Waterfront Theatre. Details and tickets at jamesandjamesy.com.

4. Punk icon Kathleen Hannah and her band the Julie Ruin perform Oct. 7 at the Rickshaw Theatre. Mecca Normal and Allison Crutchfield and the Fizz open. Tickets at Highlife, Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.

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Music docs focus on jazz trumpeter, search for Delta bluesmen J A N E C L AY T O N & JUDY GINN WALCHUK BY

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I Called Him Morgan

Oct. 6 at the Rio Theatre, Oct. 10 at International Village Though he might not be as well-known as his contemporary Miles Davis, trumpeter Lee Morgan commands a sizable amount of respect in jazz circles for his astonishing output in the 1950s and ’60s — first as a teenage member of the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, then as a solo artist for Blue Note, where he recorded close to a dozen albums, including the 1963 classic The Sidewinder. Morgan’s narrative would take a familiar turn into drug addiction, destitution and perhaps obscurity if it weren’t for the support of Helen More.

Morgan’s eventual commonlaw wife offered refuge and many a home-cooked meal to members of the New

I Called Him Morgan documents the life and tragic demise of jazz great Lee Morgan.

York jazz scene. And she was instrumental in rehabilitating the trumpeter and his ailing career, which, on a sad and strange footnote, ended on a winter’s night in 1972 when More shot Morgan in an East Village club where he was performing. Naturally, the tragic event haunts Kasper Collin’s moving documentary I Called Him Morgan and those who remember the trumpeter fondly, including cohorts Wayne Shorter, Paul West and Jymie Merritt. Working with a dusty tape recording of an unearthed interview More gave months prior to

her death in 1996, Collin is able to shed light on the night in question as well as provide a more nuanced portrait of two fascinating and conflicted figures that goes beyond your typical musician biopic.

Two Trains Runnin’

Oct. 8 at the Rio, Oct. 12 at International Village.

It could be argued that there are actually three trains running through Sam Pollard’s documentary, set primarily in Mississippi during the tumultuous summer of 1964. There’s the Volkswagen full of East

Coast music nerds in search of the long-forgotten Delta bluesman Son House; simultaneously another carload of dudes from the West Coast, including guitarist John Fahey, looking for Son House contemporary Skip James; and a station wagon carrying three young men involved in the Civil Rights movement who had gone missing and were later found murdered.

Although the tracks don’t actually converge until a performance at the Newport Folk Festival, they do intersect.

With so many directions, each journey could have been its own film, and thus focus is a bit of an issue. And the inclusion of contemporary musicians covering old Delta blues songs, sometimes in amped-up, electrified fashion, occasionally feels out of place and overly slick, as does the film’s animated sequences and dramatic narration by Common. Nonetheless, such stylistic choices, although questionable, don’t detract from the compelling subject matter. @Midlifeman1

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Helen & Edgar paints an unusual but loving family portrait Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

The miracle of Helen & Edgar is that novelist, poet and playwright Edgar Oliver not only survived his very peculiar childhood but also went on to turn life with his mad mother, Louise Gibson Oliver, and his one-and-a-half-year older sister, Helen, into theatre.

“Beware of Savannah” and “Beware of other people,” his mother — referred to throughout as “Mother” — warned her two children growing up in their old Savannah, Georgia

house. The house was full of “crates and boxes and armoires” and was surrounded by a sea of ivy in which green lizards lurked. The kitchen was unused because Helen, Edgar and Mother always ate in restaurants.

“Father” had, Edgar and Helen were told, died of a heart attack a year after Edgar was born. Deeply suspicious of everyone, especially of relatives who spread, Mother said, “vicious gossip” about her, the three of them remained more or less cloistered in that old house.

It’s a very strange and true

Public Hearing: October 18

Tuesday, October 18, 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. 1610 Stephens Street (Mary McGregor Cottage) To add the Mary McGregor Cottage at 1610 Stephens Street to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, and designate the exterior of the heritage building as protected heritage property. In exchange for designation, rehabilitation, and conservation of the heritage building, an increase in floor area to 0.83 FSR and other zoning variances are proposed, as set forth in Development Permit Application Number DE418671.

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, mixeduse 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

story, but it’s the performance that’s absolutely mesmerizing. Oliver seems physically small and very vulnerable on stage. He walks with his head slightly forward, a little gnome-like figure dressed in black. His voice is captivating: apologetic, soft, rising and falling, slightly southernaccented and musical. Alone on the York Theatre stage, he periodically moves aside and quietly takes a seat while images of his mother’s paintings are projected on a large screen: charming images of Helen and Edgar, of children in a park, children at the sea-

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 five-storey, mixed-use building with at-grade 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.

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.

side, their Savannah house.

Mother, however, wasn’t just strange — she was certifiably mad. Regularly she performed what Edgar and Helen called “her foolishness.” On the floor in front of a locked yellow suitcase, she performed a ritual: “1-2-3, 1-2-3, my little yellow suitcase is now all locked.” This was repeated for over an hour and was a regular occurrence. Sometimes she performed this ritual in public to the great embarrassment of the children. She made Helen and Edgar repeat together, “You are the best, funnest, most beautiful mother in the

whole world and you cook the best food” — although she never cooked. She implored them to reassure her that she wasn’t “a grownup.”

Strangely, in spite of his mother’s bizarre behaviour and his peculiar childhood, Helen & Edgar is a love story.

There isn’t the slightest hint of complaint against Mother. But Oliver makes strange and beautiful theatre of his childhood. Long-form scripted storytelling is not for everyone. It takes patience to let the story unfold and a willingness to let go, to follow Edgar, Helen and

Mother down the rabbit hole to wherever they’re going.

Lovingly told, Helen & Edgar celebrates Louise Gibson Oliver, who seems to emerge from the pages of a Tennessee Williams play. Edgar Oliver counts on us — the audience — to treat Mother with the kindness of strangers. And we do.

A longer review appears at vancourier.com.

Helen & Edgar is at the York Theatre until Oct. 8. For tickets, call 604-251-1363 or go to thecultch.com.

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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.

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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 feet) and an FSR of 14.15 are proposed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038 Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearings. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am on October 7 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@ vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-8294238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.

All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/ publichearings for important details.

Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing beginning on October 7 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcast live at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings are available at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately two business days after a meeting). For real time information on the progress of City Councilmeetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or @VanCityClerk on Twitter.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, INCLUDING REGISTERING TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/publichearings

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Information Session: Arbutus Greenway Temporary Path The Arbutus Greenway is a future north-south transportation corridor that will connect False Creek to the Fraser River.

In the short term, the City of Vancouver is building a temporary path, which will be completed later this year.

In September, we held five workshops on temporary path design options.

Come to a public information session to learn how your feedback shaped the final design for the temporary path.

Saturday, October 15, 2016 10 am – 2 pm Kitsilano Neighbourhood House 2305 West 7th Avenue This is an informal drop-in event.

City staff will be available to answer questions. You can also view the display boards and consultation summary report at: vancouver.ca/arbutus-greenway FOR MORE INFORMATION: phone: 3-1-1 vancouver.ca/arbutus-greenway arbutusgreenway@vancouver.ca

Water Main Cleaning in Vancouver

As part of ongoing maintenance, the City will clean water mains in several areas of Vancouver (see shaded areas on map) between Monday, October 17, 2016 and Friday, November 18, 2016.

Flushing water mains is necessary to remove sediment that gradually deposits in the pipes. Cleaning will take place from 7 am to 3:30 pm for most neighbourhoods.

During this period, there may be temporary discoloration and/or cloudiness of the water. Safety of drinking water will not be affected. Cloudy water can be cleared by running your cold water for 10 – 20 minutes after the crew has finished flushing.

In preparation for potentially clouding drinking water, you may wish to refrigerate tap water ahead of time.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Phone 3-1-1

The Heather Street Lands are Changing: Be Part of the Process The MST Partners, which include the Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Canada Lands Company, the owners of the Heather Street Lands (formerly the RCMP lands), have asked the City to start a planning program to create a Policy Statement to guide future redevelopment of the site. The Policy Statement will set principles and objectives for land use; sustainability; transportation; density; building types and heights; and public benefits.

To launch the planning program, a variety of events are planned so we can start hearing your ideas for the future of this site.

WALKING TOUR Thursday October 13, 2016 5 – 6:30 pm Meet at the Fairmont Building (corner of Heather Street and 33rd Avenue) Tour the lands with the planning team and staff from Canada Lands to experience the unique characteristics of the site and to begin to shape your ideas.

OPEN HOUSE AND ARTIST SESSION Saturday October 15, 2016 11 am – 4 pm VanDusen Garden Floral Hall 5251 Oak Street Drop by an open house from 11 am – 1 pm, to learn more about the process, project background, the proponent team and City objectives.

Speak to City staff and the proponent team, and have your say.

Sign up for a visioning workshop to be held from 1 - 4 pm to have an artist sketch your ideas. RSVP to heatherlands@vancouver.ca as workshop space is limited.

OPEN HOUSE AND ILLUSTRATION VIEWING Monday October 17, 2016 5:30 – 8:30 pm VanDusen Garden Floral Hall 5251 Oak Street Drop by this open house to learn more and rate the illustrations from the artist visioning workshop. City staff and the proponent team will be there to take questions and feedback.

How are we doing, Vancouver We are developing the City’s 2017 budget.

Are we delivering value? What’s important to you?

SHARE YOUR VIEWS! Join us at an upcoming event to speak with City staff.

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Open House: New Parks in East Fraser Lands

East Fraser Lands (EFL) is being developed to house up to 12,000 new residents in the coming decades.

The Vancouver Park Board is committed to constructing 25.2 acres (10.2 ha) of parks in this community – approximately 20 per cent of the land area. In the near term, the Park Board will design eight acres of parks including Foreshore Park, Kinross Park and Neighbourhood Park South.

Please join us at an upcoming open house and help shape our future parks.

Saturday, October 15, 2016 Drop-in anytime between 10 am – 1 pm River District Farmer’s Market, 8683 Kerr Street Information about the project and a questionnaire will be available at the open house and online after the event.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/EFL-Parks or phone 3-1-1

Volunteers Needed for Vancouver’s Civic Agencies

The City of Vancouver is seeking volunteers from the general public for positions on the following Civic Agencies and Committees: • Active Transportation Policy Council • Arts and Culture Policy Council • Children, Youth and Families Advisory Committee • Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee • Civic Asset Naming Committee • Cultural Communities Advisory Committee • Development Permit Board Advisory Panel • First Shaughnessy Advisory Design Panel • Gastown Historic Area Planning Committee • LGBTQ2+ Advisory Committee • Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee • Public Art Committee • Renters Advisory Committee • Seniors’ Advisory Committee • Urban Aboriginal Peoples Advisory Committee • Vancouver City Planning Commission • Vancouver Civic Theatres Board • Vancouver Food Policy Council • Vancouver Heritage Commission • Vancouver Public Library Board of Directors • Women’s Advisory Committee

Detailed descriptions of the terms of reference, eligibility requirements and time commitment, as well as the online application and instructions are available at: vancouver.ca/volunteer You must complete an online application form to apply. The deadline to submit an application is 5 pm on Friday, October 28, 2016.

We encourage applicants of all ages, genders, racial origins, sexual orientation, gender identity, persons with disabilities, and income levels to volunteer to help shape City policy and services to better serve everyone in our community.

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

What Do You Think About the Proposed Empty Homes Tax? To help relieve pressure on the rental housing market, the City of Vancouver is taking next steps towards a proposed new Empty Homes Tax.

We’ve developed an approach for this tax, how it would be applied and who it could affect. Now, we want your feedback.

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Share your thoughts, opinions and comments about the proposed tax. Help us explore possible exemptions and evaluate what tax rate would encourage empty homes to be rented out.

Come meet with City staff to talk about the tax and share your opinions.

GO ONLINE Visit vancouver.ca/emptyhomes for more information and to provide feedback through an online survey until October 18, 2016.

Saturday, October 15, 2016, 10 am – 2 pm Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch Main Promenade, 350 West Georgia Street Monday, October 17, 2016, 4 – 8 pm Oakridge Auditorium (at Oakridge Centre Mall) 650 West 41st Avenue FOR MORE INFORMATION: eht@vancouver.ca vancouver.ca/emptyhomes

Vancouver’s Innovation Economy: Mount Pleasant Industrial Area (East of Quebec Street) The City of Vancouver is proposing changes to the eastern edge of the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area to increase job space and support the innovation economy.

Join us at an open house to learn more about: • The City’s efforts to support and grow new types of businesses with a focus on digital and creative industries near Main Street.

• Proposed zoning changes for limited blocks east of Quebec Street (see map).

• Proposed changes to the street network in Mount Pleasant; and • Proposed expansion of the Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility to serve new development in Mount Pleasant.

OPEN HOUSES Saturday, October 15, 2016, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Mount Pleasant Community Centre, 1 Kingsway Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 4 – 7 pm Anza Club, 3 West 8th Avenue This building is not fully accessible.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: vancouver.ca/mt-pleasant-quebec Phone 3-1-1

Development Permit Board Meeting: October 17 The Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel will meet: Monday, October 17, 2016, 3 pm Vancouver City Hall 453 West 12th Avenue Ground Floor Town Hall Meeting Room to consider the following development permit applications: 1255 West Pender Street To develop the site with a new mixed-use residential tower comprising 20 residential units and 3,600 square feet of commercial use at grade; all over three levels of underground

parking accessed off of Hastings Street, and also requesting an increase in the floor space ratio using a Heritage Density Transfer from a donor site at 12 Water Street (providing 4,955 square feet).

3182 Pierview Crescent (Parcel 3) To develop a multiple dwelling containing 89 affordable rental dwelling units over one level of underground parking with vehicle access from Pierview Crescent (Parcel 3).

3245 Pierview Crescent (5A) To develop a multiple dwelling containing 51 affordable

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rental units with one level of underground parking with vehicle access from Pierview Crescent (Parcel 5A).

3185 Riverwalk Avenue (Parcel 8A) To develop a multiple dwelling containing 107 affordable rental units with one level of underground parking with vehicle access from Riverwalk Avenue (Parcel 8A).

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Patrick Couling started an Introduction to Buddhism course because of a phenomenon he saw among Vancouverites.

“We realized that there was this large, large group of people out there who are spiritual but not religious, which seems like most Vancouver people,” he says.

“Then, if you ask them, what religion are you, they say, well, I’m Buddhist.

But they have no idea what it means and they have no idea where to go.”

Although he is a member of the Vancouver Buddhist Temple in Japantown, the course he set out to develop is emphatically panBuddhist. He has enlisted representatives of diverse streams of Buddhist practice to present on different nights of the series.

“It is not meant to get participants in the program into a Dharma centre run by any of those individuals,” says Couling. “It is to get the interested people beyond interested and get them out and participating at some Dharma centre.

Any one. We don’t care.”

Couling quotes the Dalai Lama, who was asked if one has to be a Buddhist to become enlightened. The Tibetan spiritual leader replied, no, but it is neces-

sary to choose a path and practise.

“And that path can be almost anything,” Couling says. “But it has to resonate with you. It has to be right.

So it could be a Christian path. It could be an Islamic path. It could be anything.

We also hold that out to them and say, guys, it may not be that Buddhism is for you. But we do want you to get interested and to get out there and to search for what resonates with you.”

Couling and his group of teachers are just finishing up the third round of the intro course. It is offered twice a year and, while it takes place at Couling’s home temple, the program itself is unaffiliated. Couling adds that the effort to include every stream of Buddhism comes up against simple linguistic barriers.

“People ask me, why do you choose these particular ones?” He explains, “I say, listen, these people present in English, for one thing.” Many Buddhist facilities operate mostly or exclusively in Mandarin, Cantonese, Sinhalese, Thai or Khmer. Unilingual Anglos may be welcomed there, but they may be a bit disoriented. Still, Couling provides participants with resources on every Buddhist group in the city.

Orienting the disoriented is the key to the series,

Professor Jessica Main is the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chair in Buddhism and Contemporary Society at UBC. Part of her mission is to reach beyond academics. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

says professor Jessica Main. Main is the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chair in Buddhism and Contemporary Society at UBC and part of her mission is to reach beyond academics.

“The program’s mandate is to do a lot of outreach of the sort connected with public education and historical knowledge about Buddhism,” says Main.

“But, in addition, [the founders of her chair] are quite interested in peaceful cooperation and interaction of local Buddhist groups

and people who are interested in Buddhism in the Lower Mainland.”

She also happens to be a member of Vancouver Buddhist Temple. However, her presentation is the first in the series because she provides an academic’s overview for lay people. She acknowledges the novelty of the series, in that it is rare to find an offering that incorporates the many historically diverse traditions within Buddhism.

Appropriately for an intro course, the series is explicitly welcoming of people with

little to no knowledge of the subject, including simple things that can be the most intimidating barriers for first-time explorers.

“It explains things that are often taken for granted,” says Main. “How do you act when you enter a temple? What’s the connection between these ideas and Buddhist practice? In a lot of ways, it’s an introduction to things that are difficult to find introductions to and given in the framework that is really not asking for affiliation of any kind.”

Her own focus on Bud-

dhism is a result of an ongoing narrowing of her interests. Growing up in Calgary, she had a broad curiosity about big ideas.

“I was fascinated by the history of religions and ideas in art and architecture and philosophy,” she says. “As I was starting to specialize in my undergraduate at the University of Calgary, I had an opportunity to live in Japan for a year as an exchange student. At the end of that year, my interest in religion in general had become an interest in Japanese religions, and Buddhism in particular.”

For the introductory course, Main shares with Couling a modest hope that a few people will get something positive out of it.

“What I hope — and again this is in my role as an educator — is that they know a little bit more about what’s going on in their local community,” says Main.

“And groups of people that they might not necessarily have connections with otherwise, whether they’re already Buddhist, not Buddhist, just attending out of interest in the philosophy, or because it’s a cool thing to do, or whatever their motivations are, this is something that can connect people to their neighbours.

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All creatures great and small, along with their human kind, were invited to St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church for Sunday’s annual Blessing of the Animals.

The occasional bark from the pews didn’t disrupt the service, and by the time John Stephens read from the Book of Genesis, Cody, the Doberman coonhound mix whose face seemed to be in a state of perpetual seriousness, dozed in the aisle of the nave.

Volunteers from Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA) sat on the right side of the church with kittens so tiny they fit into the crook of their holders’ arms. Charley the dog and Oscar the cat were also at their Sunday best, not a surprise as their owner is archdeacon Stephens.

“People really love their animals whether they’re churchgoers or not, and to be giving thanks — people understand that in their own way and there’s something really beautiful about that,” he said. “It’s something that’s been in the church for a long, long time and it’s a fun way to connect animals with people.”

Some early arrivers to the ceremony were disappointed at the news the VPD mounted police was a last-minute cancelation. Last year, two police horses stood at the church’s front doors and

peered in throughout the 45-minute long service.

This was before Stephens’ time at St. John’s, though.

He’s only been at the church for six months, having spent most of his 20 years at St. Philip’s in Dunbar. He started his career at St. John’s the Divine in Squamish, and it was there he led a memorable animal-filled service where a lone horse looked in one of the windows for the duration.

While Stephens said nobody has brought in a snake or a tarantula to one of his animal blessings yet, he’s open to the idea as long as the creature is contained in an aquarium. This fearlessness is explained upon discovering Stephens also holds a degree in zoology from UBC. The tradition of blessing animals began almost 800 years ago with St. Francis of Assisi’s belief humans were but just one of God’s creations. The rite is often held on Saint Francis’ feast day, the day of his death, Oct. 4, or the Sunday closest. The Catholic saint was known for his sensitivity and care towards all living things, an approach similar to Buddhist teachings (ancient Judaism, as well, had its own animal blessing ceremonies that are still held at some synagogues).

Saint Francis was even known for sweeping a surface clear before sitting, according to St. John’s reverend Liz Hamel, who assisted Stephens for the blessing.

“There are stories how he would go out and preach to the birds and

how he was very careful before sitting down so there were no bugs or creepy things on the bench. He had reverence for all life,” she said. It’s a teaching that is especially good to remember when children attend the blessing of the animals.

“I’ve been at pet blessings where there have been worms,” Hamel said.

“Little kids dug up some worms to be blessed so they got blessed.”

Part of the ceremony included remembrance for departed pets. People were invited to write down the name of a deceased pet on a board and light a candle. Snowflake, Patches and Casey were remembered, along with unnamed cats and Pinchy the lobster. Hemel added a name to the list: Buddy the cat. The appearance of VOKRA at the animal blessing, however, got her thinking about adopting another feline after two catless years.

“I think we’ve finished mourning him and it’s time for another one,” she said. S It’s welcome news for S VOKRA, the recipient of Sunday’s animal blessing donations at St. Johns.

VOKRA currently has 160 cats up for adoption along with 600 in their care.

“Every year VOKRA rescues 1,800 cats from the streets,” said volunteer Barb Mount Poulsen.

“These are homeless animals that really struggle and many would perish if not caught. So I don’t think there’s anything that needs a blessing much more than that.” @rebeccablissett

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How do four days of sun, spent sipping wines from around the globe and sampling dishes with a tropical twist sound? Oh, and on Maui no less.

The oldest and most prestigious educational culinary event in Hawaii, the Kapalua Wine and Food Festival, is held in high regard by both food and beverage aficionados who attend (approximately 3,500 annually), and the celebrity chefs, master sommeliers and experts who share their knowledge during a star-studded schedule of events. Picture interactive wine seminars, cooking classes and lovely evening gala tasting events, all held in the most luxurious resorts of Kapalua, located on Maui’s northwest tip.

Standouts from the lineup of wine seminars and tastings were plenty, including the Champagne and Scooby Snacks event held at the Ritz-Carlton.

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the very knowledgeable and entertaining master sommelier Rob Bigelow, senior director of wine education at Ste. Michelle Wine Estates. Chef Mark Tarbell’s “Scooby snacks” were ultimately small portions of foods, which paired perfectly with seven featured Champagnes, and included mimolette cheese, tapenade, caviar and eggplant caponata. The Jean Vesselle Brut Prestige 2005, paired perfectly with crumbly, salty, aged Parmesan — a close-your-eyes and savour moment for sure.

Another wine workshop that impressed was Women of the Vines, featuring notable women winemakers, including Merry Edwards, from Merry Edwards Winery, Elizabeth Grant-Douglas, from La Crema Winery, and Heidi Peterson Barrett, from La Sirena. Consumers should note these women know their stuff in an often male-dominated industry.

The cooking demonstrations were made only more exceptional by the fact the “classrooms” were fully set dining rooms at the Ritz-Carlton with wine pairings for each course, served while participants watched and learned from celebrity chef Hugh Acheson, who clearly owned the stage while preparing four recipes from his southern-influenced cookbook, The Broad Fork.

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expat, is an award-winning chef, restaurateur, TV personality and author.

The man is as funny, selfeffacing and off-kilter as you’d hope, serving up a grilled corn salad, kampachi with field pea ragout and peppered strawberries with vanilla bean ice cream — in his casual, “ain’t-no-thang” way.

Celebrity Chef Michele Mazza also hosted a cooking demo. Owner and executive chef of Il Mulino and Trattoria IL Mulino in New York City, Mazza paired his Italian roots with Hawaii’s best local offerings to create Kona crab timballo, deconstructed seafood lasagnas and sautéed Kona lobster with wild mushroom brodetto.

Evenings during the festival featured the grand tasting — Kapalua style, held at the Montage Kapalua Bay resort oceanfront, where huge white tents protected guests from tropical rains while they strolled and chose from what seemed like hundreds of premium wines from around the globe on offer, poured by reps who know them well.

Food stations from Maui’s best restaurants included the Plantation House, Pineapple Grill, Merriman’s Kapalua, Sansei Restaurant & Sushi Bar and more.

On another starry night, the Seafood Festival allowed hungry guests to sample from 14 of Maui’s

restaurants competing for Maui No Ka Oi Magazine’s Best of the Fest award. A huge selection of wines on offer again, and dancing, made for a fun Alohainspired evening.

The festival also offers the Resort Winemaker Dinners series, including the five-course dinner Montage Kapalua Bay hosted, featuring Marcus Notaro, winemaker from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, who paired up with Acheson and Bigelow for an intimate one-night-only event.

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Giveback? Each year Kapalua donates a portion of the proceeds to worthwhile charities, including the University of Hawaii’s Maui College Culinary Academy.

Intrigued? Dates for next year’s Kapalua Wine and Food Festival are June 8 to 11, 2017. Mark your calendars and look into purchasing tickets soon at kapaluawineandfoodfestival.com.

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In an ideal world, you could see your trusted family doctor whenever you need to, but in the real world, emergencies arise and you have to go to the hospital, or an urgent problem prompts you to walk in and wait at a handy clinic.

But, how can you ensure the unfamiliar doctor in front of you is making the right diagnosis? How can you be sure that you’re getting the best treatment?

To start, it’s helpful to understand the basic structure of a typical medical visit.

It begins when you present your problem(s). This usually takes the form of symptoms (such as pain, fatigue or shortness of breath) and then the healthcare provider will ask questions to get more details.

Where do you feel the pain? When did it start?

What makes it better? What makes it worse? While doctors are asking these questions, we are formulating in our minds the potential diagnosis (or best explanation of your symptoms).

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is long, but it’s pruned by your responses to our questions and what the doctor finds during the physical examination.

I teach my medical students and new doctors I have mentored that we should start with a broad differential diagnosis (list of possible diagnoses) and like a funnel, gradually and logically narrow it down to the most likely diagnosis.

I encourage my colleagues not to rush and narrow too quickly. We might miss out on important physical signs and symptoms and miss the correct diagnosis.

What if you’re not sure the doctor has made the correct diagnosis or is recommending the best treatment?

Ask three questions.

They are designed to make doctors pause, reflect and broaden the differential.

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When we’re in a rush, we might jump to conclusions and assume your problems are due to the most common conditions.

What would you recommend to your mother or child? People in healthcare shouldn’t need reminding to be compassionate and realize that you are as important as their own best friends and family members, but this question brings out what I call my golden rule of medicine: treat every patient with the same care that I would want for my own friends and family.

For more information, including practical videos to get the most of your medical visits, check out the Burnaby Division of Family Practice’s Empowering Patients public health education program divisionsbc.ca/burnaby/empoweringpatients.

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Jonathan Fader and Borhan Jiang demonstrate the ruthless, go-for-the-jugular techniques of self-defence system, Krav Maga. The pair trains students in the efficient and brutal concepts of the hybrid fighting system at two locations in the Lower Mainland. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Israeli self-defence technique all about survival When ‘turning lambs into lions,’ there is no time for niceties in Krav Maga

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Forget the niceties of a pre-fight bow, the artistry of kung fu or any aspirations of being the next UFC champion.

Jonathan Fader and Borhan Jiang have seen violence first-hand and have honed a fighting system to counter those situations in 30 seconds or less.

The pair co-owns Urban Tactics Krav Maga, a company founded in 2013 with the central goal of teaching an individual to neutralize any and all personal threats in the most ruthlessly efficient ways possible.

“Krav Maga is a selfdefence system,” Fader said. “When you use the term martial art, it’s kind of a loaded term for some people. They think of a sensei. Respect and all

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that kind of stuff. Not that there isn’t respect in Krav Maga, but we try to keep it simple and not teach things that aren’t necessary to your survival.”

Krav Maga was developed in the 1940s by a Hungarian-Israeli solider named Imre Lichtenfeld.

He combined his training in wrestling and boxing with street-oriented fight concepts and became chief instructor for physical fitness when the state of Israel was founded in 1948.

“Turning lambs into lions” is the motto Fader and Jiang adopted for their company and it’s a credo that links their lives with Lichtenfeld’s: all three served in the Israeli Defense Forces, but before that they were bullied from a young age and wanted to do something about it.

Born in Taiwan, Jiang remembers his years in grades 7 through 9 as a constant sore spot.

“I was consistently bullied very badly for three years of my life — it was terrible,” he said. “Trying to talk myself out of situations didn’t work. If diplomacy worked all the time, we wouldn’t need armies or war.”

At its core, Krav Maga is about simplicity and situational awareness. Its methods of attack and counterattack are borrowed from other systems of martial arts, coupled with military and policing tactics.

There are no competitions, hierarchical belts or high-profile fight cards.

Standard rules of engagement are non-existent, and sportsmanship is far from encouraged. Strikes to the body’s most vulnerable ar-

eas — knees, throat, eyes, groin and fingers — are not only encouraged, they are commonplace.

Fader and Jiang have trained everyone from beginners with no previous experience to RCMP officers, border agents and bodyguards. Their school covers specific, situational-based scenarios that can play out on the street or battlefield, such as defending against a knife, gun, blunt object or multiple attackers.

“This is real life — real people drink, real people do drugs and real people make bad decisions,” Fader said. “If you are going to engage an opponent, you engage as hard as you can, as fast as you can, and you destroy that person. If you’re a 100-pound girl facing a 300-pound guy, that’s the

only option you have if you can’t run away.”

Fader and Jiang stress avoidance above all else, and that is the first of four phases in assessing what level of self-defence is required: avoidance, evasion, diffusion, and reactive self-defence. Any threat should be neutralized in 30 seconds or less, save for situations involving multiple assailants.

“I find Canadians get stuck on the diffusion point, where people try to talk their way out things,” Fader said. “There are a lot of cultures and countries across the world, and I have seen this first hand, wherein you can talk all you want, but they’re going to kill you. You have to strike first because action is faster than reaction.”

The pair say their clientele range in age between

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The Spartan Race podium finish for Allison Tai in the women’s Ultra Beast World Championship at Lake Tahoe Oct. 2. The obstacle course racer and coach also won the Sun Peaks Ultra Beast in Kamloops last month and is a consistent contender at the World’s Toughest Mudder.

“I’m very good at jogging.

I’m a badass jogger.”

— Allison Tai following her win at the half-marathon-distance Spartan Race world championship last weekend. Typically smiling, even at 2,700 metres of elevation on the course through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tai joked afterwards how she over-heated despite the cool weather and said, “I took off my one jacket and I took off my other jacket and I changed my gloves. These pants, I just want to tear them off. I should have been a male stripper.”

eight and 60, and Jiang estimates about a third of their 120 students are women. Their students attend classes for both reactive and proactive reasons.

Vancouver’s Yvonne Lu has been training with the duo for two years and felt reasonably proficient within nine months. The 35-year-old fitness coach has progressed to the point that she’s now training to become an assistant instructor.

“It’s tied to real life,” she said. “There are moves that I can use if I get myself into emergency situations, but I’m lucky that I haven’t encountered anything like that in my life so far. It teaches you to not be afraid, to go ahead and live your life and if you’re in a bad situation, you learn how to save your life.” @JohnKurucz

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On his way to a B.C. championship title, Jacob Vanderpas tees off at Westwood Plateau Golf and Country Club in Coquitlam.

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Third-year Langara Falcons golfer Jacob Vanderpas won the PacWest provincial championship with the best aggregate score after eight rounds played at four tournaments held throughout B.C. Vanderpas, a former Kitsilano Blue Demon, becomes the first golfer to bring home hardware for

the Falcons since the college’s golf program joined the Pacific Western Athletic Association last year.

“It’s neat to start the trend and hopefully inspire some local golfers, some of the juniors playing around the city,” said Vanderpas, a member at Marine Drive Golf Club who also works at the Point Grey Golf and Country Club. “I see a handful of junior golfers

working on their game, just as I was doing 10 years ago.”

He shot a cumulative score of 571, five strokes better than James Casorso of the UBC Okanagan Heat.

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a three-way tie for sixth place.

He clawed his way back to the top of the leaderboard with a string of second-place finishes, the first coming at Okanagan Golf Club in Kelowna and then at Coquitlam’s Westwood Plateau Golf Club.

Last weekend, on Oct. 1 and 2 at Morningstar Golf Course in Parksville, Vanderpas secured the PacWest title with rounds of 71 and 72, finishing one shot under par. Again he tied for second, this time with Casorso — who shot a second-round six-under 66 — and Jeff Riches of Camosun College, but Vanderpas maintained a cumulative five-stroke advantage to win the provincial championship outright.

The full-time business management student, and PacWest player of the year, said the toughest challenge of the fall season was balancing his academic and athletic demands while also keeping his competitive edge on the golf course. He trains with Drew Scollon, the assistant pro at Point Grey.

In the final round of the final tournament at Morningstar, Vanderpas said he hit the shot of his season on the 215-yard 14th.

“It’s a very hard parthree, hazards left and a steep drop right, the pin in the back of the green up a narrow passage,” he said.

“I hit my five iron right at it and had a 10-footer for birdie.”

Because he hadn’t realized such success during a practice round, the clutch shot may have been the one that secured the championship, he said.

“I flared in practice, so I had to conquer those demons. I did. I just striped it down the middle,” said the 22-year-old. “If I had missed that tee shot, had I gone into the hazards, for the next few holes I would have felt a lot more unbalanced and who knows what could have happened. I could have imploded. That’s how important that shot was.”

Vanderpas competes at the Canadian collegiate national tournament in Prince Edward Island later this month. Hosted

by Holland College at the Fox Meadow Golf Club near Charlottetown, the three-round championship begins Oct. 19.

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If single, you could made a good mate, especially Monday. It’s a great time to envision your future.

Hey wish might come true. Retreat Wednesday / Thursday – rest and recuperate.

Libra, your magnetism, charm, energy and effectiveness remain at an annual high – charge forth, start ventures, Chase someone attractive, Be a leader. Many things go your way, And love is one of them. However, friction in your home could undermine a relationship; this friction can also bring you to a place where you must do something: change residences, fix up your own place, or solve some domestic hindrance.

The general accent remains on work, service personnel, General daily health, machinery and dependents. This area will be quite busy several new instructions or coworkers arrive this week and next. You will get lots of relief from drudgery, as a romantic streak breezes through. Others treat you very affectionately, and an assertive person, probably a Capricorn, is ready to pursue you. On the negative side, strictly avoid lawsuits and import and export projects now to Nov. 8.

Continue to lie low, Scorpio. Rest, research, contemplate and plan – soon, you will be putting some of those plans in force. But many of you’re bigger, better plans are for 2018, when your life, money, and cheerfulness will surge into happier places. You are very talkative and restless now, filled with wanderlust. You are also, despite your present low-energy, attractive to the opposite sex. A small, minor love affair might occur, to last a week or two.

You’re remain awash in romantic sentiment Gemini– If single, You have probably already started dating someone compatible. You might even have two prospects. The best of these two Is probably the one most separated from you in age. (Of course, be realistic.) If you are married, this weekend or next are splendid times to channel your children in the right direction by entering them in art or dance classes, Or in a prestigious school.

A wish can come true now, Sage! For the two weeks ahead, and to a very significant degree the 12 months ahead, popularity, optimism, flirtations, and all around happiness visit you. Your romantic courage has ebbed a little, yet paradoxically your ability to attract physical intimacy has increased, And will stay high until Nov. 8. if you are single, an important conversation Will occur with someone you find attractive.

The focus continues on your domestic situation, cancer. This week is easy in the beginning but gets tough Thursday onward. Sunday brings relationships, but those that appear after 10 a.m.

PDT will offer you little in days to come. Best approach to this day: relax and be flexible. Life’s mysteries and secrets nudge their way into your consciousness Monday/Tuesday. Your intuition rises strongly.

The general accent remains on ambition, Cap. Prestige relations, dealings with authority, with your parents, the course of your career, and your worldly and neighborhood status – all these fill your thoughts. And all are lucky not only this month but through October 2017. Mars in your sign until Nov. 8 makes you more magnetic and determined than usual. The magnetism fits very well with a streak of flirtation and light romance that blesses you this week.

Errands, casual friends, paperwork and details, media and publishing, short trips and visits dominate this month – push on through with a swing and a smile. All is pretty good in your universe. Tackle routine shores Sunday – be careful with electricity. Relationships, new horizons, fresh air, relocation themes, dealings with the public, and opportunities arrive Monday/ Tuesday. You might fall in love.

The wise, gentle mood that has recently stolen over you continues for two more weeks – and to some degree for 12 more months. Think About international travel, cultural involvements, higher education and all intellectual pursuits, legal matters, profound truths, and love. You will probably be diving into at least one of these areas in and months to come, and with splendid results!

The general accent lies on money and possessions, Virgo. Buy and sell items, cultivate clients, seek a pay raise, or in some other way strive to improve your bank account. You might also be involved in a sensual affair – don’t lead someone on if you know their feelings are much stronger or more vulnerable than your own. You probably will not do this anyway, as honesty is very important you in emotional and loving situations.

The accent remains on the mysterious, on secrets and investigation, lifestyle choices, medical diagnoses, depth psychology, heightened intuition, sexual urges and financial actions. This entire area is a gold mine for you from now to October 2017– so dig in, don’t be timid – you could strike it rich or discover an insight that can change your life for the better.

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No: M156273 Vancouver Registry IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BETWEEN: MANDEEP DEVIN BAINS - PLAINTIFF AND: ROLIVER DE CASTRO, PARAMJIT BAINS and GURPAL BAINS - DEFENDANTS ADVERTISEMENT: TO: Roliver De Castro TAKE NOTICE THAT on August 23, 2016 and on September 21, 2016 Orders were made for service on you of a Notice of Civil Claim issued from the Vancouver Registry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in proceeding number M156273 by way of this advertisement. In the proceeding, the Plaintiff claims the following relief against you: An award for damages, interest and costs.

You must file a responding pleading (Response to Civil Claim) within the period required under the Supreme Court Civil Rules failing which further proceedings, including judgment, may be taken against you without notice to you.

You may obtain, from the Vancouver Registry, at 800 Smithe Street, Vancouver, B.C., a copy of the Notice of Civil Claim and the Order providing for service by this Advertisement.

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Skills requirements: Experience minimum 3 years; Good English. Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science; electrical or physics or electronics engineering.

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• Military Collectibles, especially Medals, Badges, Swords, Antique Weapons, log books, Telescopes & Nautical Instruments.

• Fine Antique Furniture, Georgian to Edwardian.

• Misc. Collectibles such as Worcester, Meissen, Sevres, Moorcroft.

• Pre 1930 Chinese Items, Lalique, Murano, Lighting.

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