Vancouver Courier October 20 2016

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Truth & Transformation

Squamish language now spoken by city councillor

Mike Howell

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It has not been uncommon at city hall to have a politician use a language other than English to open a council meeting, greet visitors or speak at a news conference.

Mayor Gregor Robertson can say a few words in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi.

Former Mayor Sam Sullivan was proficient in Cantonese.

Former Coun. David Cadman was a go-to councillor for French media.

But Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer has raised the bar and become possibly the first non-native B.C. politician to learn how to pronounce enough words in the Squamish language to speak in complete sentences.

Reimer first spoke the language publicly in the summer to help open the Powell Street Festival and used it most recently at city hall for the unveiling of three works of First Nations art. She regularly speaks the language when she opens

Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer took lessons from Squamish First Nation member Khelsilem to learn how to speak the Squamish language. She regularly uses it to open council meetings and events around the city. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET AND CHUNG CHOW

a committee meeting in council chambers.

“One of the things that I’ve heard most strongly from the local nations is that they feel invisible on their own territory and they would like to feel visible — and language seems to me like the highest level of visibility you can have,” she

said. “If you’re an Aboriginal person, this is home, this has been home for thousands of years. So to find yourself invisible in that context is a pretty profound thing. And if there’s a way that I feel that I can actively participate in removing that invisibility, I feel like I should take it.”

Essentially, what Reimer has learned is a form of welcoming and how to acknowledge that a meeting or event is happening on the unceded homelands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations. In 2014, city council put that acknowledgement into formal policy, but

there was no requirement it be done in any language other than English.

Earlier this year, Reimer contacted Squamish First Nation member Khelsilem, who agreed to give the councillor one-on-one instruction on the basics of the language. Khelsilem is a lecturer in a Squamish language immersion program that began at Simon Fraser University this fall.

“I feel that Andrea has done a lot of work for the indigenous community in her role on the city council, and she’s been a huge ally and supporter of reconciliation,” he said. “So I felt it was a reciprocal exchange for me to take the time to teach her what she was asking for.”

The 10 lessons ran about 90-minutes each and were spread over a few months.

Khelsilem said his goal was not to have Reimer simply memorize phrases, but to understand exactly what she was saying and adjust her phrasing for the situation in which she was speaking.

“Her understanding of what she is saying is a bit beyond just memorized

phrases,” he said. “She actually knows what each word is and she knows how to adjust the grammar of the sentences to fit her needs. So, she’s very limited but still very proficient at what she knows.”

Khelsilem noted the Squamish First Nation, which has an estimated population of 4,000 people, only has seven fluent speakers. But he said he is encouraged by the interest from young band members to learn the language. The immersion program at SFU has 15 students, all of whom have Squamish ancestry and are an average of 21 years old.

“Our language is coming back, regardless of what I do,” he said. “What I’m trying to do is increase the rate at which it comes back.”

Reimer, meanwhile, said she is interested in continuing with more lessons in the new year. For now, she’s enrolled in a Cantonese class. The cost of the lessons are being covered by taxpayers, a cost Reimer said is directly associated with her role as a councillor. @Howellings

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Truth & Transformation Aquilini president to steer development of First Nations’ lands Mike Howell

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The president of Aquilini Development and Construction Inc. has been appointed chief executive officer of a recently formed corporation that will oversee three local First Nations’ development plans for more than 160 acres of land in Metro Vancouver.

The combined worth of the properties is more than $1 billion.

David Negrin will begin his new job Dec. 1 as head of the MST Development Corporation, which represents the interests of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

Negrin’s appointment was announced Oct. 13 in a press release but Negrin was not made available to the Courier for an interview.

Negrin’s business links to the three nations are strong: The Aquilini Investment Group co-owns a 10-acre Liquor Distribution Branch property on East Broadway with the three nations, as well as the Willingdon Lands in Burnaby with the Mus-

queam and Tsleil-Waututh.

Aquilini has previously worked with the Musqueam on its cultural centre and, earlier this year, canvassed the Musqueam for a full-time development coordinator to oversee the development of lands owned in partnership with the three nations.

The Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Watuth are full or co-owners of six prime properties in Metro Vancouver, including the 90-acre Jericho Lands and the 21acre former RCMP lands on Heather Street near Queen Elizabeth Park. The federal government’s commercial property arm, Canada Lands Company, holds an equal interest in the Heather Street property and 52 acres of the Jericho Lands; the remaining 38 acres of Jericho is owned by the bands.

“Additional information regarding each of these properties will be provided as planning and development processes begin,” according to information posted on the MST Development Corporation’s website. “It is anticipated that each of these

properties would be subject to a multi-year, multi-phase planning process which will include opportunities for public input. We look forward to working with our neighbours to plan and develop these lands into inspiring, progressive and sustainable new neighbourhoods that benefit the community, region and members of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.”

In September, the Courier published a feature that examined the three nations’ business relationship and their plans to develop property in Vancouver. The story, which was part of the Courier’s Truth and Transformation six-part series, also revealed the provincial government intends to give the Musqueam band the green light to develop its own 21.4-acre site near the University of B.C. A developer has yet to be chosen for the project, which will include four 18-storey highrises and a community centre. It will be the first major development in Vancouver headed by a First Nation.

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‘Pole of reconciliation’

Mike Howell

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The story that Haida artist James Hart is telling is done with wood carving tools.

It’s a difficult story to tell for a man who has grown up in a community that has lost so much.

But what Hart has carved and shaped on the massive 800-year-old red cedar log lying before him is nothing short of a masterful work of storytelling: it is emotional, courageous and hopeful.

From tip to tip, Hart has captured a history, a present and a future that is easily and painfully understood when he walks the length of the 67foot log to explain his design.

“It was tough — the subject was tough,” said the 64-year-old Hart, as he stood in the rain Monday on the grounds near the Museum of Anthropology at the University of B.C., where he is getting close to finishing what will be named the “reconciliation pole.”

The commissioning of the totem is the result of a partnership between arts philanthropist Michael Audain and the university. The

Haida artist James Hart is carving a totem pole on the grounds of the University of B.C. Once Hart completes the pole, it will be raised sometime next spring near the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

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pole, which weighs 26,000 pounds and arrived on a barge from Haida Gwaii earlier this month, is expected to be raised sometime in the spring near the Beaty Biodiversity Museum on campus.

Hart begins his story near the centre of the pole, where he has carved a haunting looking residential school into darkened wood. It’s modelled after the Coqualeetza residen-

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“I grew up with all these stories from that time of when they went to these schools,” he said, noting some of the stories he heard were from former students responsible for burying the bodies of classmates who died at school.

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada estimated more than 6,000 children died at residential schools between the 1840s and 1996, although other estimates in indigenous communities have suggested thousands more perished.

Some 150,000 children from across Canada attended the church-run, governmentfunded schools, which were designed to have indigenous children assimilate into mainstream Canadian society.

The school is the focal point of Hart’s pole and specifically carved in a place on the log to “look like it was plunked on our heads.” Below the school, Hart carved what life represented for the Haida before children were taken from villages: a mother bear and her cubs, a shaman performing a ritual to ensure the return of the salmon and a raven, which the Haida believe is responsible for the sun, moon and stars, and giving humans fresh water, salmon and fire.

Above the school are carvings of 10 children, all of whom are given an identity number — as was the practice by government at the time — that will be

carved into their torsos.

Most of the faces have not been carved because Hart is working with indigenous artists from across the country to have them best represent the children of their villages.

An 11th child, which Hart has carved lying down, is tucked in behind the pole and represents the children who died in the schools.

Hart also plans to incorporate more than 50,000 copper nails into the design and will likely rely on children — indigenous and non-native — to participate in hammering the nails into the totem. The nails also represent the children.

Above the carvings of the children are shapes of a large killer whale, thunderbird, bear and eagle, which represent land, air, water and the supernatural. The figures are also regarded as guardians of the children.

As Hart gets further up the pole, he has carved a mother and father, with faces of children between them.

“It’s the family unit today getting strong again,” he said.

That hopefulness grows above the depiction of family, with plans to bolt a long

boat and canoe near the top of the totem. The boats, which represent the coming and working together of indigenous and non-indigenous people, were carved by Hart’s late son, Carl, who died last year at the age of 26. The subject matter of the pole coupled with the loss of his son has meant for an emotional time for Hart.

“I thought about my son all the way through this, every day I thought of him,” said Hart, whose other son, Gwalaga, continues to help with the totem. “It was wonderful to have those years with [Carl]. He was a wonderful young guy. We carried on, and it wasn’t easy.”

The very top of the totem will also have some of his late son’s touches. An eagle, which Hart carved with Carl, will be bolted to the top. The eagle is carved in such a way to capture the moment before it takes off.

“And that’s our future,” said Hart, before summing up the story behind the pole. “So if you point your finger anywhere along here, you could write a thesis on it. There’s a lot there to talk about.” @Howellings

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A cycling advocate says the City of Vancouver has struck a good balance with its plans for the temporary path along Arbutus Greenway, while anti-asphalt activists argue their opinions have been ignored.

The city revealed late Friday that it will divide the route into five sections, with slightly different treatments for each.

Overall, a separated asphalt path to accommodate both cyclists and pedestrians was selected as the best option.

Path widths will vary along the route, while two sections of the corridor will also feature an additional bark mulch path for walkers or runners.

On some portions of the route, there will be a .5- to 1.5-metre separation between paths, while on other portions there will be a painted line to separate cyclists and pedestrians.

Several open houses were held in September to gauge residents’ opinions — 350 people attended the meetings, while the city received 567 emails, letters and 3-1-1 calls. Four advisory committees were consulted.

More than three times as many people (248) wrote or called in to express their support for asphalt or a smooth, accessible surface compared to the number (73) that were against asphalt, according to the city.

The city started to lay asphalt this summer, but critics demanded the work stop until residents were consulted on what material should be used.

Jeff Leigh, a spokesman for HUB Cycling, said he’s happy with the outcome. “I think it strikes a good balance. I’m glad they’ve accommodated all different types of users, so I think it’s a good balance of addressing the different interests,” he said.

Leigh doesn’t think it was only cyclists who favoured an asphalt path. “It’s also people walking who wanted the stability of a hard surface and there were many people who were mobility challenged who asked for that,” he said.

Elvira Lount, who was among those campaigning against asphalt in favour of crushed stone, fired off a letter Sunday to Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s general manager of engineering, outlining her concerns.

“Their figures are all designed to support their own position, which was obvious from the start of wanting to asphalt the whole thing. In order to really be able to say you’ve balanced all the views, you’ve got to take into account the non-asphalt group and try the crushed stone in a couple of the sections,” she told the Courier. Lount argues accessibility doesn’t have to equal asphalt — it’s all in the way the stone is laid out.

Lount criticized the way the city used data in its decision. She pointed to the fact 248 of the people who wrote or called in indicated they preferred an asphalt or a smooth accessible surface — and Lount maintains crushed stone can be made smooth and accessible.

Construction of the temporary path is expected to begin soon and be completed before the end of the year.

Benches will be installed in the spring and lighting is being considered for certain locations, while washrooms and public art will be included in the future greenway.

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From Meter Maids to Parking Enforcement:

We Celebrate 40 Years It was a different time when Branca Verde donned her strappy heels and skirt uniform to issue parking tickets in Vancouver’s downtown. Smoking was commonplace at City Hall, and Cambie’s #19 bus was the only way to get downtown. In 1982, Branca was 22, and one of about a dozen full-time meter checkers at the City of Vancouver.

Vancouver’s Parking Enforcement Program was six years old.

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These women - they were all women were hired, given field training, and issued two yards of scratchy fabric to make their uniforms. Then, they hit the streets, rotating through different routes each day.

Back then, the team was so small that they soon became best friends. They spent their lunches on the beach at English Bay. Almost all of them made it to Branca’s bridal shower.

And they were innovative. When downtown workers started rubbing out chalk lines on their tires to extend their parking, this team came up with a plan to put a Smartie on top of the wheel, too. If the Smartie was there when they came back, they issued a ticket.

Now, things are much more official. Meter Checkers (and before that, Meter Maids!) have become Parking Enforcement Officers (PEOs).

Long gone are the days when people would sing The Beatles’ “Lovely Rita Meter Maid” as Branca walked by.

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They ensure streets are cleared for the removal of leaves in winter, and they report stolen vehicles. Most importantly for David, they enforce all safety laws like keeping corners clear at intersections, access to fire hydrants, and clearance of bike lanes.

No longer do they have to go to court for ticket disputes. Instead, they take notes and pictures, and send it to adjudication if necessary. It’s almost all electronic. Today, PEOs are now 64% per cent male – and they all wear the same gender-neutral uniform.

David explains that parking enforcement is about supporting safety and providing service. It’s annoying to have a car partially block your driveway, and unsafe when school kids can’t get dropped off easily. Officers always keep an eye out for dogs and even children locked alone in cars. At rush hour, an ever-increasing amount of drivers need to get to their destination on time. Parked cars along thoroughfares are more than an annoyance they create bottlenecks that back up public transportation and single vehicles alike. In retail districts, David knows that making sure parking spaces are available for the next shopper supports local businesses.

David is proud of how far the profession has come. “We’re here to make Vancouver a better place. We want to treat everyone fairly.

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Political infighting, allegations of bullying and harassment, chronic funding woes and now a mass firing.

The prolonged tumult at the Vancouver School Board reached a fevered pitch Monday when Education Minister Mike Bernier fired all nine elected trustees and replaced them with former Delta superintendent Dianne Turner. She will be in place for a minimum of one year.

In the wake of the fallout, former trustees who spoke to the Courier Tuesday reflected on their time in public office with disappointed bewilderment.

Having to balance financial realities with student needs in a highly politicized environment was the biggest eye opener for rookie NPA trustee Penny Noble.

“I’ll take responsibility for being a part of it, but it’s not right, it’s not helpful, it slows things down and gets things in the way,” she said. “There have been so many political agendas and people complaining about the provincial government and using that as an excuse for everything… well, it’s not an excuse for everything. I found that so disheartening. With the system we have now, I felt as though I could have no impact and make no difference.

The system needs fixing.”

Green Party trustee Janet Fraser was the deciding vote in initially rejecting the budget in April that ultimately led to the mass firing Monday.

The School Act stipulates that school boards must pass a balanced budget by June 30. In Vancouver’s case, that budget was beset by a $21.8-million shortfall.

Fraser stood by her conviction in an interview Tuesday, suggesting she didn’t regret how she voted in April.

“It’s been quite stressful.

The biggest challenge I have is that I got into this because I care about education,” she said. “It seems as though every issue we look at and every decision we made is looked at through a political lens. I have to sort of adjust my thinking to always bear in mind the politics of everything I do even though I make the decisions based on education.”

Vision Vancouver trustee and school board chair Mike Lombardi laid the blame over Monday’s dismissal solely on the provincial government.

“The minister always has tools at his or her disposal,” he said. “It’s a matter of using judgment. I think the citizens of Vancouver and the citizens of B.C. will judge it as a very poor decision and all about provincial politics.”

Questions around severance pay or remuneration remain unclear. Trustees are paid a stipend of $28,000 annually. None of the trustees who spoke to the Courier indicated they have sought legal counsel or intend to fight their dismissals in the courts.

“I don’t have any expectation of any kind of severance because, in essence, we were fired, with cause, for not abiding by the law,” Noble said.

Monday’s bloodletting didn’t come without precedent. In 1985, the Socred government of the day did the same in Vancouver and a byelection was held months later.

That’s the route Lombardi is hoping the province will take. If a byelection is called, Lombardi will run again, while both Noble and Fraser are undecided.

At a news conference Monday, Bernier acknowledged how politics at the board level played into his decision.

“What we have witnessed from the Vancouver School Board is a misplaced focus on political tactics rather than responsible stewardship,” he said.

Special advisor Peter Milburn has been looking into how trustees have been governing the district.

Bernier received a draft version of that report Saturday, which he said prompted him to dismiss the board.

The report was delayed after the VSB’s entire senior management team went on sick leave amid allegations of bullying. WorkPlace B.C. is investigating.

Bernier, who said he has no confidence in any decision the board has made up to this point, noted the release of Milburn’s report has been further delayed because the Privacy Commissioner is looking into a privacy complaint filed by Vision trustee Patti Bacchus.

On Tuesday, the group known as The Parent Advocacy Network for Public Education issued a statement suggesting the province has implemented an “austerity paradigm that is dismantling our public education system.”

“The government is

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Bringing hammer down on Vancouver School Board was clearly orchestrated

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iring the Vancouver school trustees earlier this week was clearly an orchestrated move by the province’s Education Minister Mike Bernier.

He argued the board is in violation of the law for failing to pass a balanced budget. But that has been the case since the end of June.

So, why now? Bernier was informed on Friday by board chair and Vision Vancouver trustee Mike Lombardi that the board had agreed to reconsider that decision and planned to pass the budget Monday night.

That, according to NPA trustee Penny Noble, is what “forced [Bernier’s] hand.”

By the way, failure to pass the budget was simply a symbolic act to protest provincial underfunding of education. In fact, the staff is operating as if the budget will be balanced. Layoff notices were sent out and programs to be cut have been decided.

And the ongoing conflict with the province should come as no surprise. That advocacy position has put most Vision school trustees at the top of the polls in the last three elections.

But to set the scene: At 6 a.m. Monday morning, the NPA school trustees put out a press release calling “on the minister of education to end the dysfunction at the VSB.” Fire us all.

Later that morning, and eight hours before the decision to pass the budget would have been made, Bernier dropped the hammer. Lombardi got the call just before 11 a.m.

The minister’s press release soon followed.

Bernier alluded to a number of “concerns” he had “about stability in Vancouver schools for students.” He cited the Sept. 28 letter from the chair of the B.C.

School Superintendents Association, Sherry Elwood, alleging bullying and harassment of senior staff causing a number of them to take medical leave. None of these allegations have been proven; no one has come forward as a complainant; no trustee has offered any evidence of such behaviour by any of their colleagues.

And, as of last report, WorkSafe B.C., which is entrusted with the investigation, has yet to interview anyone.

But seemingly moments after the letter was received by the ministry, it was leaked to the media. What was clear from the letter was this: None of the contents was news to the government, Elwood and others had been bending the ear of Deputy Education Minister David Byng for some time about how “some of our members have been physically ill.” As Elwood wrote, “Thanks for taking the time to hear the concerns.”

The letter and its leak could be viewed as part of a battle plan to destabilize the board.

Over that time, as my colleague Mike Howell reported, six senior staff (the whole top executive including superintendent Scott Robinson) went on “medical leave.”

Nobody from the ministry said anything to the school trustees let alone the chair of the board. And the chair clearly failed to have the trust of Robinson on the matter.

Shortly after the harassment and bullying letter was leaked, Bernier decided to hand the investigation off to WorkSafe B.C. Meanwhile, within a couple of days following the curiously coincidental bailouts by senior managers, former superintendent Steve Cardwell (who took leave from his current post at UBC) and former secretary-treasurer Rick Krowchuk (who was retired) agreed to

come back to keep operations going. That is hardly what you would expect if the workplace was as “toxic” as was being alleged.

One of Cardwell’s first acts was to deal with another Bernier bumble. The minster removed the requirement that all schools operate at 95 per cent capacity in order to get funding for seismic upgrading. So the board stopped plans to shut down a number of schools.

And just in case you forgot, Bernier already had a special advisor in the person of Peter Milburn poking around looking at the board’s “financial and governance prac-

tices.” Bernier got that report Saturday and while he said it “deepens my concerns,” he is sitting on it until a complaint to the privacy commissioner about confidential VSB communications being turned over to Milburn is dealt with.

And, oh yes, after years of confusion over funding and stalling, Bernier promises to “put Vancouver back on a firm financial footing” and he will be “accelerating seismic upgrades.”

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As city transforms, elders see improvement Final instalment of the Courier’s six-part series profiles three prominent elders who reflect on the past, discuss the present and consider the future for indigenous people in Vancouver

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Bill Lightbown has seen a lot of life.

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That ebb and flow is inevitable when a person is born in 1927 and survives long enough to know what it’s like to be 89 years old and live in an apartment near Commercial Drive.

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That happened to Lightbown in the 1940s when he was 18. He was sent to jail for “being an Indian” after a police officer arrested him, his brother and a friend for picking cherries out of a tree at East 14th and Nanaimo.

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“He wrote that it was the greatest miscarriage of justice that had come to his attention,” said Lightbown from a chair in his living room.

“I didn’t know anything about the law, except that I know we didn’t do anything wrong. Even if we were stealing cherries, I don’t know how that’s a crime.”

It was an incident, or defining moment, that propelled Lightbown’s life-long pursuit of justice for Aboriginal peoples.

The Kootenai First Nation member wanted to know more about his history, his people and what colonial-

Bill Lightbown, 89, is a self-described “freedom fighter” who has been battling for the rights of indigenous people since he was first arrested as a teenager in the 1940s. The member of the Kootenai First Nation left Revelstoke for Vancouver when he was 15. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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He became a self-described freedom fighter and went on to co-found the United Native Nations Society (originally called the B.C. Association of Non Status Indians) and Vancouver Native Housing Society.

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His story brings a unique perspective to what it means to be an Aboriginal person in 2016. So do the stories of elders Lillian Howard, 65,

and Joe Fossella, 68, who shared how events in their lives set them on a course to help themselves and others around them.

All three have heard, read, seen or experienced how Vancouver has slowly transformed from a city that excluded Aboriginal peoples to one that wants to include them.

They know the City of Vancouver now has a manager of Aboriginal relations.

They know the Vancouver

t u p h government that set up Police Department has 24 reserves, seized land, for- c Aboriginal police officers bade Aboriginal ceremony, e and two Aboriginal comexcluded indigenous people o munity safety officers. from voting and rounded They know local First up children and took them t Nations plan to develop m to residential schools. land in the city with the It has only been through p goal of improving their successful court battles, he t members’ lives. They know said, that progress has been fi more indigenous students made on these fronts. It has s are graduating from high not, he added, been simply e school. And they know d a sudden act of goodwill Jody Wilson-Raybould and from lawmakers that led to W Melanie Mark made bold B statements in getting elected some relief in Aboriginal communities. to the highest political ares “The government and nas in the land. entities are scared stiff that C But what do these moves we’re going to use their own w mean for the average laws against them,” he said. a Aboriginal person living in “That’s the reason they’re o Vancouver in 2016? Is life p starting to cooperate with better? Is it worse? Is it the a us. For years and years, same as it’s always been? they didn’t recognize us as h The questions get back people. We are the original w to the Courier’s reason for launching this six-part series people from this land and we s deserve the recognition and in September, which was to respect that goes with that.” V look at the transformation Lightbown’s family roots b of Vancouver through an are in the Kootenays. He m Aboriginal lens. w was born in Golden and The elders don’t have left Revelstoke when he was I all the answers but recog15. He rode his bike from L nize their histories provide Revelstoke to Vancouver, a o context to what life was like journey that took him sever-w before, what it is like now al days, although he doesn’t c and what it could be as Vanw remember how many. couver closes in on 2017. g He moved in with his Struggle and progress sister, enrolled at Britannia For Lightbown, whose high school and landed a r 70-plus years in Vancouver job on the docks. Over his t make him an expert on the lifetime, he would have a t plight of Aboriginal peoples m variety of jobs, including in the city, his assessment of shipyard worker, fisherman, fi the decades is that life has house painter, car salesman, m improved for many in the a logger and a cook. He also indigenous community. ran a sawmill with partners “Life is better for Aborigi- in Langley. h nal people,” he said. “And As the family history goes,m the reason it’s better is he lost all but a grandmoth- t because of the long struggle er and uncle to the smallpoxC that went on with our epidemic in 1862; the only i people and governments.” m reason his two relatives That struggle, as Lighto survived is because they bown sees it, is rooted were in residential schools F in the oppressive laws of in Cranbrook and Calgary. t i “ t i Did you know?

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but also much work ahead Lightbown never went to residential school and, unlike many Aboriginal people from his generation, has led a life without the challenges of chronic poverty or social ills brought on by historical trauma.

His parents had a lot to do with that, with his mother defying a Catholic priest’s repeated attempts to get Lightbown and his five siblings into residential school; two of his brothers became bomber pilots during the Second World War and a sister worked for Boeing on Sea Island.

His father worked as a signal maintainer for the Canadian Pacific Railway and was considered a community leader. He organized to buy coal for people struggling to stay alive during the Depression, he built a skating rink and was the caller for the local square dance.

“When I came here [to Vancouver] at 15, I had been living in white communities for some time and was disassociated with the Indian side of the family,” Lightbown said. “We kind of worked our way into the white community and accepted things the way they were. That changed after I got arrested.”

In Vancouver, he faced racism at school and on the streets. He had to learn to defend himself with his mouth and his fists. That fighting spirit is still very much alive today.

On the morning of the Courier’s visit, Lightbown had read an article in the morning newspaper about the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision in 2014 to grant title to more than 1,700 kilometres of land to the Tsilhqot’in First Nation.

The story had to do with the Tsilhqot’in filing a claim in B.C. Supreme Court to “private land” on the same territory the band claimed in their historic Supreme Court of Canada victory.

Lightbown had underlined “private land” in red pen.

“That’s bullshit because the reality is, they own the land,” he said. “It’s as if we’re still interlopers and not really sovereign people.”

Lightbown set the clipping on a stack of other news stories piled on his coffee table. Each article has fired him up in some way that he’s put them aside with plans to write letters to the editor about his concerns.

“I just can’t help myself because that’s the way I am,” he said. “There’s enough

Lillian Howard, 65, is the co-chairperson of the city’s Urban Aboriginal Peoples advisory committee, which carries a lot of weight in influencing city council’s decisions related to indigenous people. She is a member of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation and is of Nuuchah-nulth, Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit ancestry. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

[clippings] here to keep me busy for three years.”

Lightbown spent a portion of the interview praising the work of firebrand former lawyer Bruce Clark, who was a central figure in the Gustafsen Lake standoff in 1995.

The standoff began when about 20 First Nations people occupied a piece of ranch land near 100 Mile House that they said was sacred and part of a larger tract of unceded territory.

In response, the RCMP brought in hundreds of officers, helicopters and armoured personnel carriers and fired thousands of rounds of ammunition. No one died in the standoff.

Lightbown said Clark’s work in the 1970s related to the long-running Ontario land claims case known as Bear Island, where legal arguments made back then were at the root of arguments made in the Tsilhqot’in ruling, was groundbreaking.

“Boy oh boy, if there was one person who deserves that recognition in Canada for advancing rightful ownership of Aboriginal title, it’s Bruce Clark,” he said. “The Tsilhquot’in decision isn’t an accident. It took a lot of work by Bruce Clark and a lot of people to get to that

decision. People who came over here and stole the land were pretty damn smart, but what they did was illegal and it still illegal.”

To remind him of the work that needs to be done to help his community in 2016 and into the future, Lightbown frequently hops a bus to the Downtown Eastside.

“I see our people and I see the conditions they’re surviving in,” he said of disproportionate number of Aboriginal people who are homeless, addicted and suffering from mental health issues. “It’s really ugly looking stuff, and it really hurts me. But I have never given up on the people.”

‘A life-long process’

Lillian Howard has been trying to write her life story but is having trouble with some parts of it.

The abuse, the rapes, the domestic violence.

Those parts.

Only recently has she been able to talk about being a victim. Counselling, therapy and treatment have helped. So did opening up in a cultural sensitivity training session that she and other Aboriginal people led for Vancouver police officers.

But the hurt is still there.

“It just takes work every day, every day it takes work,” she said from a rooftop patio of the Downtown Eastside apartment building in which she lives.

“It’s a life-long process. I told myself I really don’t want to be a bitter old woman. I want to be able to have my children and grandchildren remember me as a loving, kind mother and grandmother.”

Howard is a survivor of the Christie residential school on Meares Island near Tofino, where she was sexually abused while attending Grades 1 and 2.

(A Catholic brother was eventually charged.)

When she turned 12, one of her dad’s cousins was beaten to death by her spouse. Howard and her mother witnessed the aftermath. Howard promised herself then that she would not let that happen to her.

But later in life, she too became a victim of domestic violence.

“I was in shock, and it happened again a few weeks later,” she said of the abuse in her marriage, noting she eventually separated from her husband.

Life today in Vancouver, she said, is better for her, and much better than it was when she arrived in the city

in the 1970s. She attributes much of that turnaround to her commitment to improve her life, go to university and get involved in community.

Her conclusion about her life, though, is tempered by the reality outside her apartment, where many indigenous people continue to struggle with homelessness, addiction and hopelessness.

She believes government has to do more and has lined up behind the political parties that have shown and signaled that reconciling with Aboriginal peoples is a priority.

Her interest in making change through politics is not new. At 17, she volunteered in Port Alberni to campaign for Pierre Elliott Trudeau. More recently, Howard supported the campaign of Trudeau’s son, Justin, who has promised as prime minster to a renewed “nation to nation” relationship with indigenous people.

Locally, Howard is a volunteer with Vision Vancouver, a party she praised for its commitment to better relations with Aboriginal peoples and create policy that recognizes the importance of building more housing and protecting the environment.

“Before Vision, the Aboriginal community leaders were knocking at municipal doors for years, looking for support and there was just really no interest,” she said.

Howard knows Mayor Gregor Robertson person-

ally and has been called upon to participate in cityled ceremonies, including accepting a proclamation in council chambers in June for Aboriginal Day. “I’ve lived in Vancouver since 1976 and I’ve never really felt part of the community until I started doing volunteer work with Vision Vancouver in their first election [in 2008],” she said.

The connections she’s made in the community have opened doors for Howard, who is the co-chairperson of the city’s four-year-old Urban Aboriginal Peoples advisory committee, which carries a lot of weight in influencing city council’s decisions related to indigenous people.

Her resume includes work as executive director of the Aboriginal Policing Centre on Fraser Street, as an Aboriginal support worker in Vancouver schools and staff member at the WISH drop-in centre for women. She has also been a volunteer at the Aboriginal Front Door Society in the Downtown Eastside.

Earlier this year, she began a job at B.C. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, where she works out of the indigenous women’s health program as a support worker for patients and families.

When she moved to Vancouver in the 1970s, she said, racism was rampant.

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Continued from page 13 She got followed by staff in stores, received “looks of disdain” and experienced a general unease about her surroundings.

“We weren’t welcome in our own homelands,” she said. “It’s like we were scum of the earth.”

She made friends with some members of the Jewish community and learned that not all non-native people were unfriendly to indigenous people. Her Jewish friends, she noted, faced similar racism. They taught her to be assertive, to stand tall, to not walk in shame.

Howard got a job working for the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs that involved her traveling around the province to identify issues of concern in Aboriginal communities.

She worked there for eight years before enrolling at the University of B.C., where she completed four years of political science and Canadian history. She later got her master’s in environmental education and communication at Royal Roads University.

The interest in the topics are at the root of the work and activism that Howard has taken on in her life. In the early 1980s, she and a group of Aboriginal women occupied the downtown Indian Affairs office for 28 days to protest inadequate housing, poor living conditions and poverty in B.C. More recently, in 2011, she went on a 31-day hunger strike in support of Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike in Ottawa, whose protest was aimed at getting a meeting with then-prime minister Stephen Harper.

Howard believes she gets her fighting spirit

Joe Fossella, 68, has spent more than 20 years counselling and teaching men how to manage anger and violence and embrace peace, culture and spirituality. Fossella is a member of the Sechelt First Nation and longtime Vancouverite. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

from her mother, who was active in their community of Friendly Cove in Nootka Sound, and her father, who was a member of the village council.

From an early age, she remembers being defiant. At 11 years old, in the days leading up to her confirmation ceremony, she protested her mother’s wish to have her wear a white dress. She wanted to wear a dress with a rose pattern. In the end, she got her way.

“I remember my grandfather telling my mother you have to let this [child]

go, not to shut her down,” said Howard, who is a member of the Mowachaht/ Muchalaht First Nation and is of Nuuchah-nulth, Kwakwaka’wakw and Tlingit ancestry. Howard was co-chairperson of her tribal council from 1993 to 1998.

As she considered a question about what reconciliation means to her, Howard told a story about a program that she helped operate with William Wasden Jr. out of community centres in 2014 that involved participants making traditional button blankets and learning

indigenous songs.

She coordinated the blanket making and recalls how two of the male participants, who didn’t particularly like each other from the start, formed a strong bond by the end of the sessions. One was white, the other Aboriginal.

“Eventually, they began working on a blanket together and got to know each other and are good friends now,” she said.

“That was reconciliation in action.”

She stressed the importance of indigenous culture in playing a part

in reconciliation, both for Aboriginal peoples and non-native Canadians.

Many indigenous people in the city and across Metro Vancouver are disconnected from their culture, she said. Connecting them with ceremony, with traditional teachings and community can turn a person “living in fear, isolation and darkness” into one beaming with pride, she added.

Howard’s own healing journey continues, and she’s found participating in an annual canoe event with hundreds of other indigenous people from Alaska to Oregon has helped her get through the dark days.

“It’s really a cultural revival, connecting with water,” she said of the weeklong paddling excursion that includes singing and dancing at stops along the route.

“It’s really powerful. It’s healing through culture.”

As she looks ahead to 2017 and beyond, Howard said there is a real need to keep fighting for a better Vancouver, a better Canada that includes Aboriginal peoples and celebrates their history.

She urged more indigenous people to get involved with the broader community, to stand tall and be proud of who they are and what they can offer in a relationship with non-native groups, diverse communities and political bodies.

“You can make a difference,” she said. “Sometimes, it can take years.

But I’m not doing this for me. It’s for my children and for my grandchildren.”

Providing guidance

At 68, longtime Vancouver resident Joe Fossella has reached a point in his life where he can proudly take stock of who he is and

what’s important to him: He’s been married 49 years, has two sons in their 40s, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

He’s happy to talk family as he sits in a downtown coffee shop, noting one of his grandsons is working at McDonald’s, saving for a car and interested in a career as a paramedic.

That’s the present for Fossella.

The past was not so great, not only for him but for his wife, his sons and the people around him. He was the reason for that dark period. It involved booze, drugs and violence.

“I was spiraling out of control real fast,” Fossella, a member of the Sechelt First Nation, said of his life more than two decades ago. “I tried to kill my wife one time. This is like 24 years into our marriage.

The behaviour I had was: ‘I’m the king of the castle and you have no right doing anything without asking the king.’ This is what we’ve all learned [as men], pretty much. Yeah, I tried to kill her. I was attempting to probably kill my boys at one time, too. And another time, I went after these three or four guys with my rifle. Fortunately, they were not home that night.”

His wife, Joyce, told him he had to change or she would leave him. “It wasn’t in anger but she was firm what she was telling me. So I said you find me a doctor that’s going to fix me. And she tried, but it didn’t work.”

What worked was Fossella finding a relationship counselling and anger management program in North Vancouver called Change of Seasons; one of his sons, unbeknownst to him, was already a participant.

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1. Bill Lightbown (right) with his brother Alec in a photograph taken in the 1940s. 2. Lillian Howard (third from left, top row) with her brothers and sisters. She was 17 when the photograph was taken in the late 1960s.

3. Joe Fossella and his wife, Joyce, captured in a photograph taken in the 1980s. The couple has been married 49 years. They have two sons, six grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

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Fossella completed the program twice. Coordinators were impressed with his turnaround and saw in him a commitment to help others in the same situation.

He enrolled at Native Education College and completed a family and community counselling course.

“I took it and here I am.”

Where Fossella is now is 22 years into being that person who provides guidance to men seeking to manage anger and violence and embrace peace, culture and spirituality.

He worked a few years for Change of Seasons before he and the late Daniel Parker founded Warriors Against Violence, a program they launched 19 years ago out of the Kiwassa Neighbourhood House, where an average of 400 clients per year seek help. Fossella’s wife, Joyce, is the executive director.

“I’m very grateful for her supporting me through my troubled times,” he said of his wife. “I was an alcoholic and tried to blame alcohol and drugs for my problem.

But it wasn’t that, it was me. All that bottled-up anger, hurts and pains that I was carrying was starting to bubble out and I became more violent and abusive.

And being drunk sometimes intensified that anger.”

That pain relates to being sexually abused by a stranger and having his father beat him and his mother. These are details he shared at his first therapy sessions. Such details are not uncommon in the stories he’s heard from participants in his program.

The goal of the sessions, which are free to participants, is to break the cycle of anger and violence, which Fossella acknowl-

edges is a difficult task considering the generations of learned behaviour.

“My purpose is to help them unlearn those unwanted behaviours and help themselves live a better life, forgive themselves, love themselves and ask for forgiveness from the ones who hurt them and the ones they may have harmed.”

Men from various backgrounds attend the sessions, although participants are predominantly Aboriginal, some of whom with courtimposed conditions related to an assault charge. Wives and girlfriends also attend — some on separate nights from the men — to learn about what’s being taught and the tools needed to manage a spouse’s anger.

Fossella’s passion for the work, though, is somewhat diminished by his concern the program won’t be around much longer, if more funding is not available. He believes too much money is being spent on organizations that are failing Aboriginal peoples in need.

“Other agencies get funding to do what we’re doing, but they don’t know what they’re doing, they can’t handle the people so they send them to us,” he said, noting he and his wife recently trained 13 people in Saskatchewan from various reserves on how to counsel its members.

Warriors Against Violence, which has a staff of seven people, operates on an annual budget of $100,000. Every year, Fossella and his wife have to lobby for funding. He supplements his income by working part-time at transition houses for Aboriginal men. Last year, a GoFundMe campaign was launched but has only raised $1,930.

As governments continue

to make commitments to reconcile with Canada’s indigenous people, Fossella believes programs such as his should be properly funded and expanded. After all, he said, teaching a man to manage his anger and keep him out of jail saves taxpayers a ton of money normally spent on policing, health care and the courts.

“You can imagine the amount of dollars we can save someone who might go to a psychiatrist or psychologist,” he said, recognizing that many residential school survivors received financial compensation tied to the truth and reconciliation hearings. “That benefited some peoples’ pockets. But I didn’t really see enough people out there trying to help pull all that garbage out of a person, so they could safely love themselves, and go from there to help out their grandchildren and great grandchildren.”

Anger and violence, he said, is at the root of many tragic circumstances Aboriginal peoples find themselves in — whether it be alcoholism, drug addiction, homelessness or mental health problems.

From what he’s seen and experienced himself, victims become perpetrators and the cycle of violence continues.

He is encouraged by the elections of Jody WilsonRaybould and Melanie Mark and their commitments to be voices in government for Aboriginal peoples.

“It’s quite remarkable for our peoples. It’s been a short while since they were elected but I hope to see some results coming from their titles. They’re representing a lot of people.”

He is also happy to see that B.C. judge Marion

Buller, a member of Saskatchewan’s Mistawasis First Nation, was announced as the chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls.

He learned of Buller’s appointment when his wife called during his conversation with the Courier.

Fossella and his wife are familiar with Buller’s work in founding B.C.’s first First Nations court in New Westminster.

“She’s a real, real advocate for Aboriginal people.

I really know she’ll put forward 100 per cent into her work, and I’m really grateful she got the position.”

As Fossella gets closer to his 70th birthday, and reflects on his past and what the future might hold for the Aboriginal community, his thoughts return to the importance of his work.

“You know, there are times when I’m getting tired and I say I’m going to quit and find a sweepthe-floor job somewhere.

But then I see one of the participants smiling like crazy and I know he gets it, that he knows what I’m talking about and he feels the weight of the world has been lifted off his shoulders.

That’s what gives me the motivation to keep doing what I’m doing.”

‘A long ways from that’

Back at Lightbown’s apartment, the interview has come to a close.

Lightbown knows he’s getting on in age and won’t be around to see what life will be like for Canada’s young Aboriginal peoples as they become adults and raise families.

Yes, he said, progress

has been made since his first days in Vancouver.

And he believes Trudeau is committed to have the Canadian government improve its relations with indigenous people across the land.

But the old freedom fighter is suspicious.

“And I’ll continue to be suspicious until such time as reconciliation really

takes place. We’re a long ways from that.”

In the meantime, he has this wish.

“Regardless of the fact that this is my land, I want this to be a happy community and I want the people who are living here to be happy with each other.

There’s no reason why it should be any other way.” @Howellings

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A new oddity store on Main Street is not only quirky and bizarre, wacky and whimsical, but also educational and fascinating — and maybe just a little gross.

Kerrisdale Equipment For Kerrisdale Equipment, it’s summed up in three words: WE CAN HELP. Ron Russell has owned his equipment and tool rental stores since 1979. Russell took a job at Kerrisdale Equipment during a summer break from school. He never returned to school, and has never once looked back.

In 2012 he took the company further, opening a 20,000 square foot Southwest Marine Drive location near Heather Street. Russell reports that homeowners are not as familiar with this location but it is well worth exploring.

A supporter of the community, Ron is a keen supporter of the local Little League and Canuck Place Children’s Hospice.

He is proud that the business has thrived for so long by consistently staying ahead of the game for their customers.

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But, without a doubt, This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven is the place to find a gift for someone who has everything — especially those interested in taxidermy, edible insects and bones of every description. On social media sites the store uses the hash tag #itwasdeadwhenwemet.

The store is not without controversy. In September, This Monkey was raided by wildlife conservation officers who spent a day inspecting the store’s inventory, eventually seizing 96 pieces to ensure they weren’t from endangered or prohibited species. Co-owner Rachel Zott told the Courier 95 of those pieces were returned the next day. Zott doesn’t know if the raid was complaint driven.

“They couldn’t tell us,” said Zott.

Shaolin Noodle House Has been located on West Broadway in Vancouver since opening in 1996 and has been continuously been one of Vancouver’s favourite traditional noodle houses.

With it’s bright white awning adorned with festive red laterns, it’s hard to miss the famous Shaolin Noodle House along West Broadway.

Named after the Shaolin Temple in Northern China where manager, Kevin Zheng hails from; Kevin wanted bring his culture to the people of Vancouver and has been doing so for over 20 years. Visit Shaolin Noodle House today to try their delicious dishes, all free of added MSG and made fresh every day.

Famous for their traditional pulled noodles, you can see their chefs, skillfully craft them in the kitchen window entrance while you wait as they are made fresh every day.

A pillar in the culinary community in Vancouver, Kevin has served as the vice-chairman of the Chinese Restaurant Foundation for a number of years; promoting the development and collaboration of the local Chinese culinary community.

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Raid aside, in an effort to find out what this Monkey is all about, the Courier had some questions for Zott.

Tell us about the name.

I cannot tell a lie. A mutual friend has a knack for naming everything, so over a bottle of wine she imparted her genius.

Actually it’s the name of song about environmentalism by the Pixies, circa 1989.

How did the store get started?

Our collection of antiques and taxidermy outgrew the house.

Almost every artist we’ve met has (or did have) a piece on our walls, either at home or the store. My partner and I had an idea of a store in the back of our minds and this attractive space presented itself.

Besides a conversation piece, why would someone want these items — such as animal skulls?

Probably the same reason as me — I see beauty in the natural world and love the curious. A story is attached to every item and I believe that’s important. Nowadays most of our lives are bombarded with disposable stuff so having something with a history makes it more special and something you’ll keep.

Where do these items come from? And from whom?

Our taxidermists are wellrespected world-wide and have worked in this profession for many years. A professor in California supplies us with some of the wet specimens, which is taxidermy suspended in liquid such as alcohol.

We have intricately carved animal skulls from an artist in Indonesia. Some items are made by local artists. Skulls primarily come from trappers, but nothing is killed to sell directly for retail. Everything has been dead for a long time, everything is vintage.Wherever they are, by supporting these crafts people, we can help the creative community expand and flourish.

Fun stuff?

Voodoo dolls — they make thoughtful and considerate gifts for someone having a tough week. Or maybe someone just got fired. And we have hilarious stuffed animals, diseases and infections. For instance, a rubbery blob represents stomach or Lyme disease. Chicken pox is cute.

You’d probably have to see blobs and chicken pox to determine the cuteness factor. Most popular?

Bugs. Kids go full throttle — they have no fear. They can choose from nine flavours of cricket chips. If you aren’t fond of crunchy, we have mealworms and chocolatecovered ants.

What are your faves?

I want to take everything home but I’ve reigned myself in. Every time I open a new shipment I get excited, every box is a new discovery. Every item is educational.

Have animal rights activists called?

Actually most animal activists and vegans are fascinated by the preservation and care of the animals. Nothing is wasteful. Sure, death can be morbid, but look at the Egyptians. By collecting these items we are preserving and caring for them rather than disposing of them. Animals can live on with our care and appreciation.

Describe the average customer.

Our customers are cool. Last week an Australian man saw the stink bug we imported from his country and couldn’t believe the things some people buy! (In case you don’t know, a stink bug looks like a stick man hung on the wall). He told me a story about growing up with stink bugs. And kids love the store — it’s like walking into a zoology museum or the occult. Hey, I’m weird, we know we’re weird and we are weirdo magnets.

Is Vancouver ready for This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven?

Based on sales since we opened [in June], I think Vancouver is ready and Main Street is the location for cool and new — and weird.

This Monkey’s gone to Heaven is located at 3957 Main St. near East 24th Avenue.

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Wartime-set Flare Path sheds light on bygone era Jo Ledingham joled@telus.net

Flare Path is an odd choice for the Slamming Door Artist Collective, which mounted Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in the fall of 2015 in the same venue with many of the same actors. Back in 1879 when Ibsen’s play premiered in Copenhagen, critics and scholars predicted that the slamming of the door behind Nora as she walked out on her husband Torvald was a sound that would be heard around the world. Nora’s determination to steer her own course became a rallying cry for the emerging feminist movement.

On the other hand, Flare Path, written by Terence Rattigan, gives us Patricia (Yoshié Bancroft), an actress who makes the conservative, “ethical” decision: she stays with the husband who treats her like a trophy, much the way Torvald treated Nora.

But it’s not quite that

simple. Teddy, her husband (played by Curtis Tweedie), is a goof who can’t stop kidding around. He’s also an Royal Air Force (RAF) flight lieutenant flying dangerous bombing missions over Germany. He’s a hero. But Patricia is still in love with Peter (Jesse Martyn), an American actor with whom she had an affair before marrying Teddy.

Peter arrives unannounced at the Falcon Hotel where Teddy, Patricia and several other RAF men and their wives are spending some brief time before the bombing raids resume. Peter has come to take Patricia back to America with him; he “needs” her, he says.

If this play were written today, Patricia would dump both men and strike out on her own. It doesn’t help that in this production Teddy is like a kid (until very late in the play) and Peter’s a cad.

Having chosen this play for whatever reason, director Genevieve Fleming does a fine job of it. She

Yoshié Bancroft and Jesse Martyn star in Slamming Door Artist Collective’s production of Flare Path.

establishes a palpable sense of wartime. The Falcon Hotel is located near an RAF base where planes are taking off and returning with frequency. The flare path, a line of lights set out along the runway to guide the nighttime bombers, also makes the base a target for German raiders.

We hear the planes leaving

and returning; the women who live in the hotel — the proprietor Mrs. Oakes (Laura Jaye), the maid (Julie Leung) and the Countess (Tamara McCarthy) — all recognize the different types of aircraft and who’s likely to be at the controls. When the squadron leader Swanson (Paul Herbert) orders an impromptu mission, the

play quickly gets airborne.

Although the central romance is the Peter-PatriciaTeddy triangle, there is also Dusty (Ashley O’Connell) and Maudie (Melissa Oei), a working class couple with an argumentative yet tender relationship. But it’s McCarthy as the Countess Skriczevinsky, who is the beating heart of Flare Path.

Formerly a barmaid, the Countess met and married the Polish Count (Sebastian Kroon) after his wife and children were killed in Poland by the Germans.

Determined to avenge their deaths, the Count came to England and joined forces with the RAF in its efforts to defeat the Luftwaffe.

Kroon is careful not to turn the Count into the stereotypical foreigner attempting to master English. He makes it funny but we laugh with the Count not at him.

Marcus Stusek creates a warm and elegant hotel lounge with a huge, opaque rear wall/window out of which the characters can

see the air base. Costume designer Chantal Short provides lovely ’40s frocks — especially the red brickcoloured, velvet-trimmed ensemble on McCarthy.

And the hair-dos are perfect: rolled, permed and, no doubt, bobby-pinned.

Lighting and special effects

by Andrew Pye make it impossible not to reflect on what Londoners (and the people of Dresden) experienced during the war.

Large and largely successful, Flare Path is ambitious in its illustration of a bygone period. However, Slamming Door Artist Collective’s earlier production — A Doll’s House — will stay with me far longer than Flare Path.

That slamming door just continues to reverberate across the years.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

Flare Path is at Jericho Arts Centre until Oct. 22. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

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Dusty Hagerüd is one of the four founders of the Vancouver International Puppet Festival held this past Friday to Sunday at the Granville Island Revue Stage. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

The enthusiasm that greeted the first annual Vancouver International Puppet Festival proved that interest in the art form wasn’t dead — it was simply dormant.

Festivals typically take time to build before they can boast of near sell-out crowds and not carry over bank receipts showing the minus sign. However, this wasn’t the case for the VIPF. Its arrival this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Granville Island Revue Stage was heavily supported both by financial backers and volunteers.

It’s an impressive start as the local puppet scene, while strong, is small in numbers. Yet the answer was obvious to local puppeteers when the Granville Island Cultural Society floated the idea of a festival with the promise of donating the space a year ago.

“We said, ‘Yes!’” en-

Chris McGregor, left, and Thomas Jones performed “The Little Old Man” as part of the festival. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

thused Dusty Hagerüd, one of the four VIPF founders. “We are always together scheming and planning so we’re all so used to getting things done lickety-split and, behold, this has probably been the easiest festival I’ve ever worked in my entire life.

It’s been fantastic.”

In addition to Hagerüd, making up the fantastic four are Morris Chapdelaine, Tara Travis and Jeny Cassady. The passion and competence is evidenced by their puppetry accomplishments, which range from feature films and shorts to theatre productions

and television shows. m Hagerüd not only s brings the puppets to life, but is also a puppet M maker with his company d Color Sound Lab where c he designs and builds puppets of all kinds for c all sorts of productions. g It’s been a full-time gig v for the last three years, t which has included build-o ing the “most weirdest T puppets” he’s ever made for local electronic-pop h duo Humans and their s music videos for the songs “Bike Home” and a s “Ennio.”

Describing the puppets i used in “Ennio” brought 2 H out the puppeteer and V performer in Hagerüd t who jumped from his seat in the lobby of the a Revue Stage, where he p was being interviewed by V the Courier.

“Four humongous pup- p pets,” he said, raising a A long arm as far as he couldp reach and then bringing t it down with the other to w create a chomping motion.m “They were kind of a com-m bination of Pac-Man and aw ghost, but all in black. f s W t g i G t w s p f P T l e w o c w c t a m t p p f o g H p c s p t s k f t i a l n

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is alive and well And then we had to make some elongated skeletons. A Herman Munster-sized skeleton dressed as a Ramone.”

While Hagerüd has come a long way in the craft since borrowing gear from his high school video production class in the mid-1990s to do his own puppet take on the TV show “Beverly Hills 90210,” the excitement has evidently not worn off.

The festival included shows, workshops and a walking tour featuring some well-known puppets, including the jester from 2009 horror movie “The Hole.” While it’s touted as Vancouver’s first international puppet festival, the art form isn’t new to this part of the world.

The now-defunct Vancouver Guild of Puppetry formed in 1961 after Alfred Wallace, the pastpresident of the Puppeteers of America and who was known for his work making political statements through puppetry, was the guest instructor for a local puppetry workshop. As the story goes, Wallace encouraged participants to start their own guild, and four years later in 1965, the Vancouver Guild of Puppetry opened the Puppet Centre. It was short-lived, but still sparked an interest in puppetry that saw shows and festivals at the Vancouver Planetarium and UBC. The guild disbanded from lack of interest during the early 2000s, said Hagerüd who added he came across one of its newsletters called “Puppet Potpourri” when he moved to Vancouver around the same time after living in Calgary and Montreal.

The two recent Muppet movies are only part of the reason for the craft’s popularity.

“I think the reprise in puppetry is also due to the fact that people are tired of looking at computergenerated images,” said Hagerüd. “The fact that a puppet is tactile and you can actually hug it makes so much more of an impact on a person.”

As for being a puppeteer, well, that takes many skills.

“We need the ability to keep our arm up in the air for a very long time. And the ability to be crammed into the most uncomfortable, horrible spaces for long periods of time and not complain about it,”

said Hagerüd. “There’s flexibility… and the ability to be able to coordinate your hand with your mouth and bring life into an inanimate object no matter what it could be.” Hagerüd grabbed an empty Lee’s Donuts box sitting on the table and opened the lid.

“Like this box could be made to be alive.”

He added, “And never growing up. Because, really, we’re just wiggling dollies.” @rebeccablissett

Working the box office for the Vancouver International Puppet Festival at the Granville Island Revue Stage was Steven Snider (with Lab Rat) and Teri-Ann Ross (with Bunny). See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

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When I wrote about Death Cafes last February, the organizers weren’t sure anyone would show up.

These informal gatherings — tea and cake are consumed while participants talk about death in whatever way group dynamics dictate — are a global phenom brought to Vancouver by Anneke Rees, a long-time palliative care worker, and Tom Esakin, an interfaith spiritual director.

“When we started the Death Cafes, literally we thought maybe three or so people would come,” says Esakin. The pair ended up turning people away because the groups got too big and

they had to schedule extra sessions. Turns out many Vancouverites have a hunger for more than cake; they are starving for opportunities to discuss the one inescapable thing besides taxes we all face.

“There is no shortage of customers,” says Esakin, laughing.

Some people needed convincing, though. The board of one community centre was anxious about the idea of a Death Cafe, based partly on some cultural norms around bringing bad vibes into the space, but also on the belief that no one would come. When the centre did give its approval, the booking official predicted zero turnout.

They got 20 people and the centre has now booked more sessions for the new year.

Rees and Esakin also have an

invitation from SFU for a program next year and they are rejigging their approach based on feedback from participants.

Post-café evaluations told them participants wanted more focused, in-depth discussions. So they organized a day-long forum last month, which proved too emotionally draining, so they are streamlining the next one into a three-hour session Nov. 19.

A few interesting findings emerged when scores of Vancouverites gathered to talk about death. Esakin and Rees estimate that 95 per cent of participants are women. They speculate that women are more open to talking about their feelings around the most profound subject of all. Some other gender expectations might also play in.

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for discussions about death “Men — and this is a generalization — men are big on fixing things and this is one area you cannot fix,” says Rees.

Esakin suspects women and men both know they cannot control the timing of their own death, but women who accept this fact are intent on managing the process, while men “possibly don’t want to accept it because they can’t fix it.”

Participants also tend to be older, although some younger people who are confronting the passing of parents or grandparents also attend.

There have also been a number of clinicians who have joined in, many of whom recognize that the medical system may do a fine job on the medical side of caring for the dying, but are lacking on the psycho-spiritual side.

Another observation the organizers had was that discussion about death was overwhelmingly theoretical.

Everyone there, presumably, was considering their mortality, yet mostly from a remove of some distant time in the future. This comforting remove was stripped away at the daylong forum, when par-

ticipants were guided through the process of being told they had a terminal illness and three months to live.

“I’m not afraid of death,” Woody Allen said. “I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” This seems to be a common attitude.

Participants, say Esakin and Rees, are not generally afraid of being dead, other than perhaps a generalized fear of the unknown, but they do have concerns about their last days and moments.

“People are afraid of physical pain,” says Rees. “But I think, too, that that emotional and psychological and spiritual pain is actually at that point in time something that a lot of people had not really thought that much about but, which is actually as big, if not bigger, than physical pain for some people.”

As I have written about repeatedly in this space, Vancouverites may be among the least religious people in the world, though we are often highly spiritual.

This played out in spades at the Death Cafes.

“Religion was barely mentioned by anybody,” says Rees.

Now, it may be that people for whom the church does play a role are not drawn to public events that address death from a primarily secular perspective. Still, considering that a generation or three ago, our entire conception of death was integrated with our expectations about God, heaven and that whole motif, the near-complete absence of religiosity among multiple selfselecting groups of Vancouverites gathering to talk about death is certainly remarkable.

Despite the dearth of religion, there is plenty of spirituality, both say. Esakin puts a finer point on it.

“I’ve been going to Anglican churches for decades and I’ve encountered more holiness at some of these death gatherings than I actually have at churches,” he says.

“You’ve got absolute strangers coming together and they are just baring their soul.

They’re talking about very deeply intimate life experiences… they just seemed to be embracing the opportunity to share what’s on their hearts because they haven’t had the chance. It’s actually very sacred to hear people being willing to share their stories

with absolute strangers.”

Despite the overwhelming success of the first series of Death Cafes in the city, some people still think it’s weird that people would get together to discuss a topic many consider macabre or gloomy. Esakin, obviously, disagrees.

“It’s very irrational not to have the discussion because it is going to affect all of us,” he says. One person who apparently understood this was a participant at one of their first cafés. He seemed dissatisfied at the end. He had more questions, wanted more discussion, wished the session would go on longer.

“He wanted more time,” says Esakin. As it turns out, he may have known his time was running short.

A follow-up email to the group elicited a reply from the man’s wife, telling them he had passed away.

“Isn’t that something that someone would really have to come to a community event to discuss what’s happening in their life?” Esakin says. “That they didn’t feel they have the resources in the medical system.” @Pat604Johnson

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Managing your stress is key to good health

Davidicus Wong, M.D.

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Stress is part of every human life, but it’s not necessarily bad.

Positive stress motivates us to change, get things done, learn and grow.

Without the gentle wakeup calls from mom and dad, my kids may not have made it to school on time. With-

out their homework and exams, they wouldn’t be motivated to study. Without ambition, we wouldn’t push our limits and achieve our personal potentials. Without discomfort with the status quo, we wouldn’t be motivated to change the world.

But, stress unrecognized or not managed is negative and it can take its toll on our bodies and our minds.

Consider how you experience stress. It can take the form of physical symptoms, such as a racing heart, palpitations, heartburn, diarrhea, constipation or insomnia. It can affect your thinking, making you more irritable, negative, distracted or forgetful. It can impact the quality of your work and your relationships.

The amount of stress in

your life can tip the balance from positive to negative.

For example, if a course or a job is too easy for you, you’ll be bored. If the demands of your job match your ability to meet them, you’ll be in a happy state of flow. But when the demands exceed your time or ability, you’ll feel stressed. I see this often in my patients whose workloads increase

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How we think about stress can influence how we experience it. The key is the locus of control. If we feel that we have no control over our situation, we begin to feel helpless, and helplessness begets anxiety.

If we feel our situation will never improve, we may feel hopeless, and hopelessness begets depression.

Both anxiety and depression shade thinking and narrow perspective. When anxious, we overestimate our challenges and underestimate our ability to manage them. When depressed, we see the worst in our selves, the situation and the future.

So how does this apply to you and the stress in your life today? How can you get out of the negative spiral from stress to anxiety and depression?

Start with your perspective. Take a step back and assess your situation.

Consider the locus of control. What aspects of your situation are within your control? Accept what you cannot change, but

accept your responsibility to change what you can.

In every situation, we have three potential choices: leave it, change it or reframe it. It may not always be possible or easy to leave a job or a relationship. Even if we cannot change a situation, we can change our perspective on it.

Part of our emotional reaction to a situation is due to the facts surrounding it, but a large part of our reaction is due to what we bring into it. That baggage includes our memories of the past and our preconceptions.

In almost every situation, we can be agents of positive change. In big or small ways, we effect positive change in our world and in our selves.

In an upcoming column, I’ll provide practical tips in the daily management of stress.

Davidicus Wong is a family physician and his Healthwise columns appear regularly in this paper. For more on achieving your positive potential in health, see his website at davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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WEEKLY FORECAST: OCTOBER 23 - 29, 2016 Your life shifts gears now, Aries. You move from open relationships, agreements, contacts and new opportunities, to the more private or hidden side of these. However, you will never lose (at least for 12 months ahead) the goodwill of your more open relationships. The four weeks ahead emphasized depths, secrets and mysteries; research, detective work and medical diagnoses; heightened intuition as your subconscious bursts to the surface.

You shift now from highly personal interests to a month of calm, mellow pursuit of money and possessions. Your domestic situation remains intense until Nov. 8. Use this energy to make repairs etc., but realize, also, that this can indicate “a break-up mood” between you and a partner. (If a break-up occurs, it is probably only clearing the way for a new and shinier model–especially as this is your lucky year.)

Although you won’t entirely escape work for the year ahead, each four week period will bring its own flavor and interests. The four weeks ahead will emphasize relationships, associations, new horizons, contracts and agreements, dealings with the public, relocation themes–as well as competition, even enemies. To gain the most, co-operate the most. Be diplomatic and eager to please. Strictly avoid entanglements with lawyers, courts and lawsuits before Nov. 9.

Your energy, charisma, clout and effectiveness rise now and for the weeks ahead. You’re the leader — get up, get out and make new contacts, start new projects. But remember two things: 1) you’ll succeed most if you focus your efforts/projects on government, charity, institutions, on research or investigation, etc. Quietly avoid situations/scenes of competitiveness or hustle-bustle. Your money picture is great for the next three weeks.

Your romantic time, such as it was, ends now. That’s not entirely correct, as your romantic luck stands high for another 11 months. But the four weeks in front of you bring chores, minor health complaints, some boredom, and opportunities to purchase or sell tools or machinery. Take care of your children’s future now, perhaps by enrolling them in the right schools, perhaps by building an education fund for them, or simply have a heart-to-heart talk to point them in the right direction.

A wish might have come true over the past four weeks, Sag. Even if not, this past month has been filled with popularity, social delights, optimism, entertainment and some progress with the opposite sex. These happy themes will repeat throughout the 11 months to come. However, the month ahead shunts you into retreat, rest, some solitude, studying and research, contemplation and planning sessions.

Although they year ahead emphasizes domestic bliss and good real estate luck, the four weeks ahead bring a nice breeze of romance, joy, pleasure and beauty, creativity and risktaking. At least once or twice a week, indulge yourself in some immediate pleasure: spontaneously tell someone you love them, or buy that chocolate cake, or pick up that paint can and make a splash. Relationships remain intense– love or war –until Nov. 8.

The past few weeks might have boosted your career or worldly standing, or shone the first light on an opportunity. Even if they didn’t, the year ahead will bring many more chances to climb ambition’s ladder. The focus shifts (now to late November) from ambition to the joy of living. You’re going to feel your popularity rising, a wish might come true, and your weeks will be filled with flirtations, entertainment, laughter, and optimism.

The four weeks ahead focus on your domestic sphere, Leo. You will remain fairly busy with the easy and unimportant chores of October, but the main emphasis for the month ahead will be on your family, Pets, landscaping, decorations or renovations, security, retirement plans, ensuring your children’s future education, etcetera. Your workplace is fraught with intensity and ethical questions–also, keep your fingers from saws and don’t step on nails.

Recent weeks have boosted your world consciousness, Aquarius. This trend, which includes legal matters, higher education, intellectual pursuits, publishing and media, far travel, cultural rituals and love, will continue to be a lucky one for 11 more months. However, the month ahead brings more practical concerns: your career, your ambitions, prestige relations, and worldly or neighbourhood status demand your attention and efforts.

The whole year ahead promises money luck and some sensual sex. But the immediate four weeks ahead focus on errands, trips, visits, communications, paperwork and casual acquaintances. A sexy romantic streak might continue to Nov. 8. Your home life continues to be affectionate and supportive. Lay low, rest, contemplate and plan Sunday/Monday. This is a great interval for dealing with charitable, spiritual or governmental organizations.

You will emerge now from the depths of October into a month of knowing, wisdom and learning. The weeks ahead feature a mellow mood, gentle love, far travel, publishing and media, statistics, science, intellectual pursuits and cultural involvements. Your hopes continue to revolve around money until Nov. 8. Until Nov. 11, bosses and authorities (and parents) will favour you, so be sure to show them your proposals and projects.

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Sports & Recreation ELEMENTARY CROSS-COUNTRY

Ken Elmer keeps them all running on time Competitor, race director and volunteer is a fixture at annual Trout Lake meet

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Ken Elmer has stood at a lot of start lines. He’s been on both sides of the twitchy instruction, “Runners take your mark,” and on Thursday, the 68-yearold will yield a megaphone at a cross-country meet he helped create and herd thousands of children in oversized pinnies to the starting line of the annual elementary school race at Trout Lake.

For the last decade, Elmer has volunteered at the often-raucous meet that draws more than 3,000 runners, “K through Grade 7,” from dozens of Vancouver public schools. He’s a calm in the centre of the most adorable, pint-sized, neverrun-a-lap storm of children.

But before organizing that chaos, the elite international competitor was on the other side of the starting gun.

Raised in Vancouver, as a UBC Thunderbird middle-

distance track athlete, Elmer was one of the few runners on the planet to crack a four-minute mile.

In 1973, he ran 90 seconds under the benchmark. In 1972, the Olympian raced in the 1,500m at the Munich Games. Three years later, he finished fifth in the 800m at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City. Incredibly, before he dedicated himself to running, Elmer also had two caps with the national junior soccer team, competing for Canada against Italy and the Soviet Union.

“By that time either one, soccer or track and field, was full time. I loved soccer, but I picked running because I could count on myself. If I did well, I got the credit. If I did lousy, I got the credit,” he said.

Soon after, he began organizing meets. One was the Sun Run, the event that became Canada’s largest 10km run, which he helped create along with Doug

“In 10 years, we’ve never had bad weather,” said Ken Elmer. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Clement, Diane Clement, Jack Taunton and others.

He was under the Granville Bridge for the start of the inaugural race in 1985 and was the Sun Run’s volunteer race director for 15 years.

“What we were trying to do was feature our own elite athletes and put them on a pedestal here in B.C. and Canada,” he said.

As a P.E. teacher, Elmer had a lot of practice corralling elementary school children, from the Velcrodependent kindergartners to their more serious older teammates. He started a 100-mile run club at McKechnie elementary and also had students running hills on a quiet road next to the Point Grey golf course.

The district held the city championship at Little Mountain in the mid-’80s and the event soon outgrew the course at Queen Elizabeth Park.

In 1990, the meet moved to Trout Lake where it’s still held. Elmer credited co-directors and teachers Shane Bilodeau and Gillian Wilson-Haffenden

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as well as district athletic co-ordinator Harp Sohi.

In contrast to the time he was teaching, he said children and teenagers “absolutely do not” get enough exercise today. “Almost every school in the ’80s and ’90s had a specialist physical education teacher. I had all the kids three times a week, so we could do some pretty hard running each period.

“One thing that makes it a little more difficult now is every teacher has to do it on their own. Since they’re not all specialists, it is harder to get a high quality physical education program in school,” he said. “It’s the same with music.”

The 26th annual Trout Lake elementary school track meet begins at 1 p.m.

Oct. 20, beginning with Grade 7 students and continuing through to kindergarten classes from across Vancouver.

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Sports & Recreation VOLLEYBALL | SENIOR BOYS

Van Tech Talismen seek repeat

Darwin Mallare (no. 1) spikes the ball for the John Oliver Jokers over Britannia blockers at Gladstone secondary Oct. 17.

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Ranked no. 2 in B.C. with the best all-round player in the province, the Van Tech Talismen have a lock on first place in the final week of the senior boys volleyball league and look to repeat as city champions.

They lead Killarney and David Thompson in the East Division while Prince

of Wales and Eric Hamber shore up the West Division.

Six-foot-three Talisman Coltyn Liu was named Volleyball B.C.’s player of the year as a Grade 11 student and his explosive power and precision has already caught the eye of universities around the continent. He leads a team of mostly Grade 12 students who

log extra time together with the Apex Volleyball Club.

Aaron Lock took over coaching for stalwart Ken Li. Both coach together at Apex.

“The end goal is not to rank as high as possible, but to finish high. It’s all in the finish,” said Lock.

The Talismen are undefeated in seven league

games and host the city championships Nov. 1 to 4. (The senior girls tournament runs simultaneously.)

The top five teams from each division compete for the city title. The playoffs begin Oct. 26 with cross-over games between the no. 4 and no. 5 teams from each division.

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

Generous Prices paid for: • Sterling Silver items incl.

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• Oil Paintings from 1760 - 1960 & Fine Art inc British, European, Canadian Oil & Bronze Sculpture.

• Fine Jewellery & Vintage Wrist Watches

by Rolex, Omega, Patek, & Cartier.

• 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.

We purchase outright.

Complimentary house calls.

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21X23 $4,998 25X25 $5,996 27x27 $6,992 32X35 $9,985 42X45 $14,868. One End wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-855-212-7036 www.pioneersteel.ca

WANTED Buying top quality

teak, rosewood and walnut furniture. Scandinavian, American, Canadian, English.

1950s&1960s. Estates & single items. 604.727.9423 or 778.858.7842 Old Books Wanted also: Photos Postcards, Letters, Paintings. no text books or encyclopedias. I pay cash.

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References required.

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“Crafting a new RX is one of the most challenging responsibilities we undertook at Lexus, for the very reason that it has been so well received by our guests over the past 20 years,” said Cyril Dimitris, director of Lexus Canada.

“The all-new, 2016 Lexus RX reinvents itself as a more seductive and dynamic version of itself as it simultaneously retains all that our loyal RX guests love about the model.”

The Lexus RX competes with the likes of the BMW X5, Audi Q7 and Volvo XC90. To better these rivals, it is available in two unique models — the RX 350 and RX 450H — and the sporty F SPORT package can be added to both for the first time.

Design

Lexus did not want to mess too much with its highly successful formula.

Therefore, the fourth generation RX is still based on the Toyota Camry’s K platform and provides a smooth, highly refined feel.

The wheelbase has grown by 1.9 inches and overall length is up 4.7 inches, though generally speaking the vehicle doesn’t look bigger than before.

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Inside, the RX receives a significant redesign that is truly impressive. Overall, the cabin is classy, comfortable and quiet.

Continued from page 33 The RX’s new look has been described as “bold” and “aggressive.” Some may find that the exterior draws too much attention for them, but others will appreciate Lexus’ new styling, which borrows design trends from Nissan.

Keeping in line with the rest of the Lexus range, the gaping ‘spindle’ grille dominates the front end.

The sharp headlights share a similar look as the Lexus sedans, but are less busy and look more integrated towards the shoulders.

Down the sides, a high beltline gives the RX a strong presence and creases along the bottom of the doors add some character.

The C-pillars behind the rear door windows are blacked out to give it the ‘floating roof’ design that is so popular right now.

The interior of the RX lives up to expectations.

Materials are high quality, amenities are plenty, and comfort is excellent.

Performance

Under the hood, the RX 350 uses Lexus’ reliable 3.5-litre V6. However, that doesn’t mean it didn’t improve it to make it better than ever. Lexus enhanced the cylinder heads, intake ports and combustion chambers, resulting in 15 more horsepower to 295hp rating.

Fuel economy has also been improved. The 2016 RX 350 boasts a 10.7L/100km combined efficiency rating.

Another added bonus

is the fact that this engine is happy to run on regular 87-octane unleaded. This is something other luxury SUV’s should follow.

Although the new RX looks more aggressive, its driving manners are still comfortable and confident. Those who favour a softer ride and serenity will like the RX — agility and throttle can be sharpened by engaging Sport mode through the standard drive-mode system.

Keep in mind that the new RX is still very soft riding and its handling is light and uninspiring in comparison to its German competitors, such as the Audi Q5 — easily one of the best handling SUVs. The F SPORT upgrade adds sportier styling features, but doesn’t change anything in the engine compartment. What it does add is a Sport+ drive setting that stiffens steering feel and livens throttle response much more than the standard model.

This makes the RX more engaging to drive.

An eight-speed automatic transmission is now standard fitment on the RX 350. Also, all RX models will be allwheel drive in Canada.

If fuel efficiency is the utmost importance to you, the RX 450H is the one to consider.

The standard 3.5-litre is mated to an electric motor in the rear.

This boosts total system horsepower up to 308, but combined fuel consumption is down to 8.0L/100km.

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today’sdrive Like the standard Prius, the RX 450H does not require to be plugged in since it’s not a pure electric car. However, Lexus does recommend using premium unleaded gasoline for this model.

Environment

Inside, the RX receives a significant redesign that is truly impressive. Overall, the cabin is classy, comfortable and quiet.

The most notable change is that the gear selector is located in the centre console now, instead of on the dash. This results in more space on the dash to make climate and audio controls easier to operate.

Base models get an 8.0-inch dash-top TFT infotainment screen while the higher trim levels get a 12.3-inch hi-res display.

The RX performs as a first-class family luxury vehicle. The seats are plush, and the second row offers plenty of leg and headroom. The larger outside dimensions mean even adults should have no complaints about riding in the rear — especially since heated rear seats are standard.

Cargo space in the RX is impressive. There is 18.4 cubic feet behind the rear seats, and if you need more, they fold to create 56.3 cubic feet.

The standard power rear hatch makes loading and unloading a breeze, but the optional Touchfree Power Back Door is truly remarkable. Instead of kicking a foot under the bumper, the RX will open by waving a hand near the Lexus badge.

The only issue to be aware of is that the new roof design does create a rear blind spot. The standard backup camera and optional blind spot monitoring system helps in this regard.

Features

Prices for the RX 350 start at $54,350, while the RX 450H starts at $68,950.

Standard equipment includes keyless entry, push-button start, leather seats, heated and ventilated front seats, heated rear seats, heated steering wheel, memory driver’s seat, dual-zone automatic climate control, heated windshield, backup camera, automatic headlights, auto dimming mirrors, rain sensing wipers, Bluetooth, and a moonroof.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include a voice activated navigation system, wireless charging, head up display, pre-collision system, lane departure alert, automatic high beam, dynamic cruise control, 20-inch alloy wheels, and a panoramic glass roof.

Fuel efficiency numbers (L/100km) for the RX 350 are 12.2 city and 8.9 highway, while the RX 450H returns 7.7 city and 8.2 highway.

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