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It’s been a while since I made the trek to city hall to do some serious investigative journalism into what types of freebies the mayor and city councillors receive while on the job. Regular readers will recall I’ve been diligently reaching into council’s gift bag since 2008. That’s when I learned Concord Pacific was wining and dining politicians on fireworks cruises, handing over pairs of $440 tickets to Cirque du Soleil and opening up its private box at Rogers Arena for Canucks games and a Bruce Springsteen concert. Telus and the B.C. Lottery Corporation also bucked up for some events. I should make it clear that such questionable behaviour by your elected officials was done pre-Gregor Robertson, who told me after he and his Vision Vancouver crew won a majority in November 2008 that he wanted to put a stop to city politicians accepting gifts. In fact, it wasn’t long
after my story was published that city council agreed to bring in more stringent rules related to accepting gifts. You can find details by reading the city’s corporate policy, which gives a definition of a gift or personal benefit and instructs councillors and staff to disclose any gift or personal benefit valued at $50 or more. Definition: “Gifts and personal benefits include, but are not limited to, cash, gift cards, tickets to events, items of clothing, jewelry, pens, food or beverages, discounts/ rebates on personal purchases, free or subsidized drinks or meals, entertainment, and invitations to social functions organized by groups or community organizations.” Before I go any further, you should know Robertson and his ruling Vision council still accept thousands of dollars from Concord and a whole bunch of companies, unions and individuals for their election campaigns, despite efforts to convince the provincial government to ban corporate and union donations and put a cap on how much a politi-
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cian can raise and spend. And, yes, many of those financial backers do regular business with the city. Anyway, to the gifts… Nothing was filed for 2016, which means council and staff didn’t receive anything, or they haven’t filed yet. The corporate policy says a gift must be reported “as soon as practicable.” Past experience suggests some councillors decide to disclose, others don’t. So, for 2015, this is what I found…
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Apparently, Yellow Cab owners and developer Joo Kim Tiah of the Holborn Group, which is constructing the Trump tower downtown and the Little Mountain housing complex, appreciated the good work of councillors. Documents filed at city hall indicate that Kulwant Sahota and Carolyn Bauer of Yellow Cab sent “Grey Goose Gift Sets” to councillors Tim Stevenson, George Affleck, Geoff Meggs and Kerry Jang in December 2015. They also sent a “Baileys Gift Set”
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kept his chocolates. The mayor, by the way, didn’t file anything. In fact, I don’t ever recall him filling out a gift disclosure form. His staff tells me the typical procedure is to return gifts to sender. Anything given to him like a commemorative paddle or art piece becomes property of the city. He pays for his breakfast/ lunch/dinner meetings, too, according to his staff. But as far as I can tell, there is no record of gifts that have come into the mayor’s office, what was sent back and what was kept. Kind of be nice to know. And, for the record, Robertson paid for the courtside seats that he and his lady friend enjoyed at the recent exhibition NBA game between Toronto and Golden State at Rogers Arena. No assumptions, then, should be made about the mayor being seen at the intermission talking and walking with Canucks owner and developer Francesco Aquilini, who has donated to Vision’s campaign, does regular business with the city and was seated a few seats to Robertson’s right.
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to councillors Heather Deal and Melissa De Genova. The vodka was valued at $52.99, the Baileys at $32.49. Each councillor said they returned the gifts. “Unfortunately, the gift is far too generous for me to accept, and I must kindly decline and return the gift sent back to you,” Jang wrote in a letter filed with the documents. “Please know that I really appreciate the thoughtful gesture, and I hope you both have a wonderful Christmas holiday and a Happy New Year.” Mr. Tiah and Holborn gave chocolates, valued at $50, to councillors Andrea Reimer, Adriane Carr, Raymond Louie, Meggs, Stevenson, Jang, Affleck and De Genova, who also received a “Saul Good Gift co. box” worth $55. Carr and Meggs donated their chocolates to the Atira Women’s Resource Society. Stevenson gave his to the West End Seniors Network. Jang sent his back. Louie donated his to “a local seniors group.” De Genova kept the chocolates, but donated the gift box to city staff. Affleck
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Bloated over-staffing levels, a failure to capitalize on business opportunities and an overtly politicized atmosphere were among some of the damning findings in a pair of highly-anticipated reports issued Friday that dissected the internal workings of the Vancouver School Board. Two reports were released to the media Friday afternoon, a forensic audit by special advisor Peter Milburn and financial review courtesy of Ernst and Young. The reports suggest two critical documents — the district budget and longrange facilities plan — were both clouded by political jockeying. “There is a real concern that political alignments and considerations are detracting from the independence of decision making at the VSB,” the review says. The reports were also critical of the board’s inaction to divest itself of commercial properties like Kingsgate Mall, suggesting that move
could have provided the district with $5.6 million of what was an anticipated $21-million shortfall for the 2016/2017 budget. The reports compared staffing levels in Vancouver to other districts of similar size and scope. Though which districts were used as comparables was not mentioned, the reports suggest “in comparison to its peers, Vancouver School District is significantly overstaffed in many employment categories.” Education Minister Mike Bernier spoke to reporters via teleconference 10 minutes after the 35-page report was issued. “What I find most troubling in the special advisor’s report is how the Vancouver School Board allowed money to be tied up in inefficiencies, rather than spent in classrooms, in services to students, and on teachers,” Bernier said. “Stability has been put at risk by overstaffing compared to other school districts, labour agreements driving additional call outs, duplication, and idle time, and a failure
to use surplus real estate, such as the Kingsgate Mall to set a new path for fiscal sustainability.” Bernier said acting on, or implementing any of the 28 recommendations is at the discretion of newly appointed trustee Dianne Turner. He suggested Milburn’s review was conducted after speaking with all nine former trustees and former senior staff. On the issue of the six staffers who left simultaneously earlier this month, Bernier said most will be back on the job within two weeks. According to Bernier and Turner, regaining a semblance of stability at the school board is priority No. 1, and both reports “deepened [Bernier’s] lack of confidence that those challenges would be dealt with and solved by the former board.” The Milburn report cost $50,000. The final costs of the Ernst and Young report were not available on Friday. A longer version of this story is at vancourier.com. @JohnKurucz
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The Canadian Forces veteran had served in Bosnia. He was living in Stanley Park when the police picked him up more than a year ago and put him in touch with Veterans Affairs Canada. Then Jim Howard, the administrator of the Vancouver Poppy Fund, got involved. “I got him a hotel room for three days while Veterans Affairs was setting up some accommodation for him, and they got him a roof over on the North Shore,” said Howard, a veteran of the Royal Canadian Air Force. “And a week later, he was back in the park again because he couldn’t handle living in the confines of a building.” Howard doesn’t know where the man is today. The veteran, whom Howard estimated to be in his 40s or 50s, may have been one of the 100 people volunteers interviewed during the city’s annual homeless count in March who said they had served in the Canadian
Forces. Another 27 homeless people said they had served in another armed force elsewhere in the world. That’s a grand total of 127 homeless military veterans. That population could be larger since about 700 of the 1,847 people counted as homeless in Vancouver in March declined or were unable to be interviewed by volunteers. The city also acknowledges they don’t find all of the city’s homeless during the annual 24-hour counts. Volunteers conduct a survey during the count that includes questions about health, income, heritage and how long the person has been homeless. In the 2015 count, the city began asking whether a homeless person had served in the Canadian Forces because data from communities across Canada suggested that a small but consistent number of veterans were homeless. Ninetyfive people in the 2015 count said they had served in the Canadian Forces. The purpose of asking such a question, which was requested by Veterans Af-
fairs Canada, was so volunteers could understand the scope of services homeless veterans require. Volunteers did not record whether a veteran had served in a combat zone, peacekeeping mission or in Canada. At this time of the year, as Canadians make donations to the Poppy Fund, Howard wants Vancouverites to know that a good portion of the money collected at legions and army, navy and air force branches goes towards helping homeless veterans. Paying for a hotel room for three days for the Bosnia veteran is an example, he said, noting close to $400,000 in donations was received last year as a result of a mail appeal and donations given for poppies and wreaths. Although the number of homeless veterans is significant in Vancouver, Howard said it pales in comparison to the United States, where some estimates say one in four people living on the street are veterans. “And they don’t have something like the Poppy Fund to assist them,” he said.
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More than 50 illegal marijuana dispensaries continue to operate in Vancouver despite the city issuing 854 tickets to owners who refuse to close their doors, according to new statistics provided to the Courier this week. The city has also filed 27 injunctions in court in an effort to shut down some of the 54 premises, which are operating without a business licence. The tickets are worth $250 each and, in some cases, were issued multiple times to a dispensary. So far, operators have paid 205 tickets. “We’re not going to go backwards and go back to the Wild West,” said Andreea Toma, the city’s chief licensing inspector, in acknowledging the defiance of pot shop owners who continue to operate without a business licence and refuse to pay tickets. The city’s new business licence regulations for dispensaries came into effect last year. But the city gave existing pot shop operators until April of this year to close their doors. That dead-
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city’s licence scheme “Once that comes out, we’ll need to understand the implications, the timing and what kind of requirements in terms of moving forward, and have us try to get some alignment with the provincial and federal bodies,” she said, emphasizing the city’s goal has always been to regulate the business, not the marijuana. For now, Toma said, the city continues with its program to have only dispensaries with business licences allowed to stay open. To obtain a licence, an operator must abide by a stringent set of rules, including criminal record checks and a security plan for the store, and pay an annual licence fee of $30,000 for a retail outlet and $1,000 for a so-called compassion club. David Malmo-Levine, president of the Stressed and Depressed Association that operates a dispensary at 41st and Knight, is one of the operators who received a development permit. MalmoLevine said he applied to become a compassion club, which must have a variety of services related to health care. The longtime marijuana activist, who has gone to jail for marijuana possession and once unsuccessfully argued a case at the Supreme Court of Canada, has learned that even abiding by the city’s new regulations gives no guarantee that his illegal product will be safe. Since Malmo-Levine opened in March 2015, he has been robbed three times, the last heist occurring Oct. 16 when three men and a woman made off with cash and marijuana. Police announced Oct. 25 that two men from Alberta and one from Surrey had been arrested and charged in connection with the robbery. The female suspect is still at large. Malmo-Levine said he was ecstatic that police made arrests but wants his five pounds of marijuana and
other marijuana products returned. He said the product is worth about $15,000 and will help pay for a $3,000 security consultation he needs to do as part of the process to get a business licence. “[The VPD] are putting us at risk of not being able to get our licence and not being able to afford the security measures we’re obviously going to need to put in place in order to make this place safe,” Malmo-Levine said. “We’re going to do everything within our power to minimize the chances of us getting robbed again and we’d appreciate it if the police would give us our stolen property back to us. There’s no good reason why they can’t do that.” Malmo-Levine claims police returned stolen marijuana to him after it was taken in a May 2015 smashand-grab involving a minivan that crashed through the front doors of his dispensary. Police continue to investigate the August 2015 robbery. When asked whether Malmo-Levine’s marijuana was returned in the smashand-grab robbery, Sgt. Brian Montague, a VPD media liaison officer, said in an email: “I don’t believe that is the case. Regarding this latest robbery, stolen and recovered personal property will be processed and returned to the owners, but Mr. MalmoLevine will not be receiving any recovered marijuana products from police.” Malmo-Levine has been fighting for legalization of marijuana for decades but believes when and if it becomes a reality in Canada, that marijuana will still be a product that is sought after in the black market, much like the re-selling of cigarettes. “Cannabis is still going to be valuable, it’s still going to be easy to re-sell,” he said. A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com.
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enior Vancouver School Board staffers who booked out a month ago on medical leave are beginning to trickle back now that the board has been fired. It reminded me that while comparisons have been drawn between this move by the provincial government to bump off an elected board with the firing that happened in Vancouver 20 years ago, there is one major difference. Back then, as a couple of those fired trustees now recall, there was no apparent staff dissatisfaction with the way they
It is a basic truism of governance that what you don’t measure you can’t manage. were being treated. What we saw this time was a revolt of sorts by a half dozen of the most senior in their ranks going on medical leave. Nor was there any concerted effort then by the organization representing school superintendents, school secretary-treasurers and other school boards across the province weighing in on the provincial government’s side. While the provincial governmentappointed trustee back then produced a report once he was on the job, there was no special advisor appointed by the province while the board was still in place — in this case former deputy minister of finance Pe-
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ter Milburn — nor was there an extensive audit, as in this case by Ernst and Young. You can blame all that provincial care and attention this time around on the proximity of an election if you choose. Call it “political” if you must, saying the government was just looking for reasons to justify knocking off the board. But for starters, do note the evidence that the most recently dumped board had some major gaps in its governance process. As Milburn pointed out, regarding the evaluation of their most senior employee, “after a careful study of the past seven years, this review has only been able to obtain one performance review of a Superintendent (2011), which appears to have been a self-evaluation. “The current Superintendent has not received any performance expectations or reviews in the 18 months he has been on the job, despite the fact that his contract requires a performance review to be completed after one year. It appears the Board does plan to conduct a performance evaluation on the Superintendent in the early part of 2017, which would be almost two years after starting in the role.” It is a basic truism of governance that what you don’t measure you can’t manage. That goes for the board’s failure to measure its own performance, including its strengths and weaknesses, when it came to the skills required to be effective stewards of the Vancouver school district. You could say the most recent board had difficulty reaching agreement, split these past two years with four Vision trustees and four NPA trustees and the Green Party trustee, a frequent switch hitter. They were more into beating each other up than helping each other out. But for the previous six years, Vision held a firm majority with the politically
popular Patti Bacchus in the chair. So there would have been no impediment to implementing those evaluation processes as some other boards, boards that had trustees running on party slates, were able to do. The majority were, however, more interested in pursuing their role as “advocates,” playing to their supporters and demanding more funding from the province, than they were acting as stewards of the system. Don’t we have among the lowest per-student funding for education of any province in the country, they argued. The Vancouver School Board over that period of time, however, also failed except once to come up with a strategic plan. And even then, that plan was apparently never held up for assessment against what the organization actually accomplished.
As far as balancing the budget goes, they failed there, too, rejecting suggestions that were ideologically unpalatable to improve revenues and cut expenses. For three years, expenses outstripped revenues and the board only managed to balance its books by drawing down on previously accumulated surpluses. It was just a matter of time before they ran out of that extra dough. While all the other provincial boards managed to govern themselves and their resources in ways that would satisfy their legislated requirement to pass a balanced budget, the majority of Vancouver trustees chose to stall. They chose to make their point as “advocates” while governing in a way that alienated their most senior staff in the process and got themselves fired for good reasons. @allengarr
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Joseph and Sherly Heck got married 18 years ago in front of an employer’s fireplace. Last month’s mass wedding ceremony at St. Mary’s Parish gave them the opportunity, along with 14 other couples, to tie the knot at a church in accordance with their faith. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT
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It’s Oct. 15, 2016 and there’s a storm warning. The remnants of Typhoon Songda have made their way to southern B.C. But friends and family dressed in their finest braved the weather and made their way to East Vancouver to attend a mass wedding of 15 couples. In the sanctuary of St. Mary’s Parish, Father Pierre LeBlond stands in front of 28 more brides and grooms than he’s used to. “I’ve never done this before,” he said. Apparently, neither has the city. Fifteen couples is a record, according to Vancouver’s archdiocese. Though in the Philippines, where many of the couples are originally from, mass weddings are common. Two thousand couples got married there on Valentine’s Day in 2012. The 15 couples at St. Mary’s have been married before in civil ceremonies and some even have children.
However, they haven’t been married in a church. As Catholics, they wanted to tie the knot with God’s blessing. “It was the only thing missing for us,” said Sherly Heck, a former caregiver who got married 18 years ago in front of her employer’s fireplace. Today, she’s even wearing the same dress. It fits perfectly. It’s raining outside, but no one’s bothered. Fifteen love stories are about to reach a new chapter, stories like a factory encounter in Taiwan, a bar friendship in Burnaby and an office romance in the Philippines government.
Taoyuan, Taiwan. 1998.
Eusebio Noynay met Jiffy on the production floor of Acer’s computer factory. He did repairs; she made parts. Both were from the Philippines. Eusebio would see her when he repaired faulty motherboards. “That’s how our relationship developed,” he said. “We got free food and housing, but life was so boring there. The company wanted us to work on our days off, and we worked to send money to our families. But sometimes we got out and explored Taipei, the big city.”
And what drew Jiffy to Eusebio? “He’s one of the tallest in the company,” she said. Joking aside, their relationship was tested by distance. Eventually, Jiffy went back to the Philippines and Eusebio ended up in Canada. They were apart for three years, though in between, they got married in 2003. “I wanted to prove we had a future together, even though I was in Canada,” said Eusebio. “I would call her, email, text. I still have a box of our letters and cards.” In 2005, Jiffy joined him in Canada, and today, three of their kids are about to watch mom and dad say their wedding vows. All thanks to faulty motherboards.
Burnaby, Canada. 2006.
Iona and Kelly Matiowsky were drinking buddies at the Firefighters’ Public House. He was the manager; she was a customer. “I was just one of the boys,” said Iona. “He’d tease me, like a kid in kindergarten. He kept saying, ‘Why don’t you like me?’” Kelly had this to share: “We were both in our 40s, and things work a bit differently in the timeline of how you proceed.”
Six years later... “I saw him individually,” said Iona, “and he was actually a very nice person! He was responsible, funny, and smart. So wasn’t just into teasing girls after all! He could actually be a gentleman, and be romantic. “I fell very strongly for him. One of the things he did for me was prepare a Ukrainian Christmas meal for me. He prepared cabbage rolls, perogies and pirozhki — little buns cooked with ham and cheese and onions — and he prepared it with candlelight, flowers and everything.” They were married in 2014.
quits,” said Renida. In 1999, Renida travelled to Rome and visited the Trevi Fountain. “Our guide said if you toss one coin into the fountain, you’d come back to Rome, two coins and you’d get married, and three if you want a divorce,” she said. She tossed in one coin. Sure enough, Renida returned in 2001. But this time, she thought of Gerardo, who she had recently reconnected with, thanks to the advent of cellphones. She tossed in two coins. They were civilly married later that year.
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In western countries, marriages are on the decline, and when they do happen, they’re happening later. That’s what a 2007 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts has found. As for why, the study gives many answers. A slowly closing gender wage gap. Birth control. Liberal divorce laws. Cohabitation. Even the advancement of washing machine technology, which made men less likely to marry low-earning women to do chores and gave more women time to pursue careers. The change is reflected in our censuses. In 1961, mar-
Gerardo Magpoc was the executive assistant of the secretary; Renida was an accountant. Gerardo sent flowers to Renida a few times a week, so many that he got the nickname “the gardener.” A romance began, but soon, Gerardo was transferred to the office of the president for a more demanding position. “I guess the stress of not seeing nor talking to each other for several weeks took a toll on our budding relationship, so we called it
State of the union
ried couples accounted for about 92 per cent of Canadian families. In 2011, the stat dropped to 67 per cent due to the rise of commonlaw couples (the Vancouver stat is about the same). Even the Pope is more liberal now. At the Vatican in 2014, Pope Francis conducted a mass wedding for 20 couples. Some were already living together, and one woman was a mother, formerly married. Traditionalists might consider this sin. Back at St. Mary’s — as a little girl munches on cheese crackers in the pews and another boy eats a sandwich — Father LeBlond gives a nod to the Bishop of Rome. “I know Pope Francis would rejoice if he knew about today, but we forgot to invite him,” he said. As a song plays, Sherly Heck cries tears of joy. A woman rushes to her with Kleenex. Sherly collects herself for the vows. “I’m sorry it took so long for this!” she said to her husband Joseph. “I marry you with no hesitation or doubt. May we have adventures and grow together.” In a church beneath the storm, they kiss. @bychrischeung
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T H U R SDAY, N OV E M B E R 3 , 2 0 1 6 THE VANCOUVER COURIER
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and leaving town in search of a place big enough for their family. But without the right to housing enshrined in law that demands it is adequately funded in perpetuity, there is nothing to prevent future governments from cancelling the program and landing us right back in this mess. Back on that conference stage, every housing expert up there voiced that without consistent contributions from senior governments, they don’t see a way out of the cycle of gentrification, displacement and commodification of housing. Well, every place except for Vienna, Austria, which receives hundreds of millions of euros each year from senior governments that go to producing up to 9,000 units of subsidized housing annually. Why? Because in Austria housing is a right. @JM_Barrett
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housing is not legally protected, governments are not legally obligated to fund it. It leaves housing policies vulnerable to fluctuating finances and political whims. It’s why the federal government, under the Liberals, was able to pull out of longterm funding for social housing back in 1994, laying the groundwork for the many, many protests that would follow. It’s why this new Liberal government can swoop in and play the hero with the promise of a national housing strategy. That’s welcome news that is long overdue for people struggling in this city, whether they’re facing nights on the streets, renovictions or the prospect of packing up
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presence of people in the throes of grinding poverty. But it is easy to tune it out, or rather, drown it out as it has been of late by the rising chorus of middle class people — myself among them — who have only recently encountered the fearful prospect of having nowhere to live. After the protest, the panel of experts — who graciously gave way for the activists to say their piece — I was reminded of another disturbing phenomenon I used to puzzle over back when I spent more time writing about tent cities in the Downtown Eastside than condo developments in Mount Pleasant: Housing in this country is not a legal right.
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Lest we forget NOVEMBER 5 Royal Canadian Legion salute to veterans during the B.C. Lions half-time show Game time is 7 p.m. and the salute takes place at 8:15 p.m., B.C. Place, 777 Pacific Blvd. NOVEMBER 6 Moral Injury and Peace: Remembrance Sunday at Canadian Memorial United Church Join author, speaker and globally-renowned theologian Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock as she takes attendees through her latest book, Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral
Injury after War. The book is considered to be the first to explore the idea and effect of moral injury on veterans, their families and their communities. Following a morning session, the historic church will host an open house. The public is invited to spend time in the peace and quiet of the sanctuary and take in the unique stained glass windows created as a Canadian memorial for peace after the Second World War. The Books of Remembrance will also be opened allowing individuals to find names of family members who gave their
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by Rev. Brock entitled The Invisible Wounds of Trauma and Pathways to Recovery. All events are free and open to the public. 10:30 a.m. Worship with Rev. Brock. 1–3 p.m. Books of Remembrance and open house
lives in the hope of peace. Remembrance Sunday concludes with a public lecture co-hosted with the Vancouver School of Theology and presented
The celebration of a lifetime
canadianmemorial.org. NOVEMBER 8 National Aboriginal Veterans Day 9 a.m. Welcoming remarks, veterans’ introduction and ceremony at Carnegie Centre, 401 Main St.
7 p.m. Public lecture with Rev. Brock
10:15 a.m. March to the cenotaph at Victory Square, 200 West Hastings St.
The church is located at 1806 West 15th Ave. at Burrard.
10:45 a.m. Veterans will lay wreaths at the cenotaph.
For more information, call 604-731-3101or visit
11:11 a.m. Moment of silence.
Noon–3 p.m. Reception and tributes at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre, 1607 East Hastings St. The ceremony and reception are open to the public. NOVEMBER 10 We Remember: Vancouver Orpheus Male Choir, 7:30 p.m. The Vancouver Orpheus Male Choir, formed in 1992 for men of all ages who enjoy singing, will perform a special concert Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at West Point Grey United Church, 4595 West Eighth Ave.
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Vancouver Orpheus Male Choir
The group, part of the city’s thriving community choir scene, focuses on popular songs from many eras and lands, including Broadway show tunes, spirituals, sea shanties and rousing male vocal classics. For more information about the choir and tickets, visit vancouverorpheus.org. NOVEMBER 11 Remembrance Day Ceremony at Victory Square Cenotaph, 200 West Hastings St. 10–11:30 a.m. The city’s largest Remembrance Day Ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. with opening remarks, music and prayers followed by the annual parade of veterans, military marching units and bands. At 11 a.m., the Last Post will sound followed by two minutes of silence.
Photos and music at Celebration Hall Mountain View Cemetery, 5455 Fraser St. 10:30 a.m. For 11 minutes, ending in a minute of silence, a solo trumpet will cue 11 stringed instruments, each representing a fallen soldier or veteran of the World Wars. First presented in 2014, Mark Haney’s composition and Diane Park’s installation of photos were inspired by the Renfrew Heights Veterans Housing Project. The event was created as part of a community history project by the Little Chamber Music Series That Could. This is a free, accessible, all-ages event.
65th Remembrance Day Ceremony at UBC War Memorial Gym, doors open at 10 a.m. This special ceremony is an opportunity for faculty, staff, students and members of the on and off-campus community to honour and remember all those who served in times of war, military conflict and peace. The event includes short readings, remarks from special guests and musical performances by the UBC Opera Ensemble.
Due to construction near the gym, access and parking are limited. Please visit ceremonies.ubc.ca for information.
LEST WE FORGET “Only those who have experienced war know the true meaning of peace.”
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Art thieves target church
John Kurucz
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What was intended to be a soul journey turned into a soul-sucking nightmare for a pair of Metro Vancouver artists after their works were recently stolen from a Vancouver church. Katie Stein Sather and Karen Johnson were slated to open up a textile arts and quilting show called Soul Journey at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, located at West 49th Avenue and Oak Street, on Oct. 23. The pair arrived early that day to set up for the show and realized nine of their pieces had been stolen, along with other personal information, including pricing lists. The pair valued those nine pieces in the range of $5,000 and had to cancel the show entirely after the break in. “I think we were both in shock for the whole day,” Johnson said. “Dealing with it was one thing, but then people started arriving and having to tell all these people about what had happened was difficult.” That the pricing lists and personal effects were also stolen leads the pair to believe the art was specifically
Artwork for a textile arts and quilting show by Katie Stein Sather and Karen Johnson was stolen from the Unitarian Church of Vancouver last month. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW
targeted for re-sale. Metro Vancouver has seen a rash of art-specific thefts in the last five years. Earlier this year, a studio in the South Granville Street district was targeted and an oil painting reportedly worth around $4,000 was stolen. In 2013, more than $100,000 worth of First Nations art was targeted in Gastown. A Golden Maltese Falcon worth close to $10 million was stolen in Ladner in late May. Vancouver Police Department media liaison Const. Brian Montague was unable to quantify the volume of art-related thefts in the
city, though he said those incidences are rare. Reuniting owners with their art, however, can be akin to finding a needle in a haystack. “When you compare [art theft] to car theft for example, the numbers are far easier to track and the stolen items much easier to identify and return to the owner because of identification numbers,” Montague said. “In cases with stolen art, if pieces are recovered, it can often be years later, and when suspicious art items are found by police it is far more challenging to confirm the items are
in fact stolen and who the rightful owner is.” Montague noted the theft likely occurred on either Oct. 19 or 20. There were no signs of forced entry and no alarm was triggered, leading police to believe the theft happened while the church was open. As of Oct. 28, no witnesses, suspect descriptions, or video footage was available to assist the VPD’s investigation. Johnson and Stein Sather put more than 500 hours’ worth of work collectively into their stolen pieces. Both are retired and don’t necessarily rely on art-related income to keep them afloat financially. But $5,000 is $5,000, and now they’re contemplating how, and if, they’ll display their work in the future. “Certainly, I will think about the level of security at venues that I will go to in the future,” Stein Sather said. “That is the biggest disappointment, that the show is not out there for people to see. That is why I make stuff — for people to see it.” Images of the pair’s stolen works can be found online at lostquilt.com. @johnkurucz
Pruning and removing hazard trees and plants Vancouver Protecting our power lines When: October 21 to December 30, 2016 Time: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. As important as they are, trees and other plants can cause significant power interruptions. Contact between trees and power lines can be very dangerous, which is why over the next few months, we’ll be pruning and removing trees and other plants in the Victoria-Fraserview area in Vancouver. Project boundaries: North: East 33rd Avenue East: Nanaimo Street and Elliot Street South: Fraser River West:
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1. Conceived by renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and co-curated with Evan Pricco, editor-in-chief of Juxtapoz Art & Culture magazine, Juxtapoz x Superflat showcases the work of more than 30 artists from Japan, Korea, Canada, the U.S. and Europe. The exhibit runs Nov. 5 to Feb. 5 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Details at vanartgallery.bc.ca. 2. Ballet BC kicks off its 31st season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Nov. 3 to 5, with a program of works by Ballet BC resident choreographer Cayetano Soto. Details and tickets at balletbc.com.
3. Vancity Theatre screens Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch’s peanut buttersplattered doc about one of the greatest rock’n’roll bands ever, the Stooges. Get your fill of Iggy and the gang Nov. 4 to 10. Details at viff.org. 4. Former Dixie’s Death Pool and Le PLus Simple shapeshifter Lee Hutzulak is back with a dreamy dose of improvised electronics courtesy of his new outfit Moth Mouth. They’re celebrating the release of their new album Mirror Universe with guests Death Drive Nov. 5, 9 p.m. at Selectors Records (8 East Pender).
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UNITED TOGETHER: The United Way’s Pathfinders Dinner is a yearly event recognizing the organization’s major supporters who make life better for hundreds of thousands of children, families and seniors across the Lower Mainland. Soon to assume a position at Anthem Properties as the firm’s communications director, outgoing Global TV anchor Randene Neill emceed the stewardship dinner honouring the United Way’s major gifts and Legacy Giving donors. For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com. email yvrflee@hotmail.com twitter @FredAboutTown
Michael McKnight, president and CEO of United Way of the Lower Mainland, feted Debra Doucette Hewson, president and CEO at Odlum Brown, recipient of the 2016 Joseph and Rosalie Segal United Way Community Vision Award.
Susan Aitchison and Kate Raven fundraised to support tutoring services for kids with learning disabilities.
Café Medina’s Robbie Kane and 2015 Vancouver Sommelier of the Year Jason Yamasaki fronted the CLICK — Contributing to the Lives of Inner City Kids — dinner. The Mediterranean-inspired wine paired dinner netted more than $20,000 for CLICK.
Conni Smudge co-hosted the Richmond romp orchestrated by Heart of Richmond AIDS Society’s Carl Bailey. The society was founded in 1999 to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals in the Richmond area through support, prevention and education.
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Arts & Entertainment Priced-out artist sings familiar tune
John Kurucz
jkurucz@vancourier.com
Melissa Bandura has taken a page out of the George Costanza playbook. Her message: it’s not you Vancouver, it’s me. Well, sort of. Bandura is the lyricist and principle songwriter of Vancouver folk band Familiar Wild. The group is slated to release its new album, Things We Forgot, on Nov. 10 and its central theme speaks to the concept of home. The band formed in 2013, and Vancouver was Bandura’s home for more than a decade. Earlier this year she moved to Victoria because life in Metro Vancouver got too expensive and unmanageable. Her lyrics from the song entitled “Home” lament the cost of living in the big smoke: “Home, it’s not what you think, it’s a diamond ring that discoloured. Home, it’s an empty nest we try to fill our best like good lovers.” “Housing is a lot more affordable in Victoria compared to Vancouver,” Bandura told the Courier. “It’s still an unaffordable city relative to other cities.
Familiar Wild’s Melissa Bandura recently relocated to Victoria.
But compared to what I was used to, it’s a lot better.” Bandura taught music and yoga in Vancouver, while her husband worked from home as a programmer. The couple lived in Mount Pleasant. Their Island Time transition has allowed Bandura to focus exclusively on music — that’s her bread and butter day job — and her husband retained his programming gig. “There wasn’t a future that we could see for ourselves in the city,” she said. “We’re not bitter about it. I love Vancouver. It would be great to be able to live there.” Bandura’s four other bandmates still live in Vancouver. Bandura said they perform and rehearse less often nowadays, but focus their efforts on land-
ing higher-profile gigs. The intention is to do more with less, and take a quality-overquantity approach to gigs and promotional efforts. Bandura suggests her move has not crippled the band’s progress, nor the internal dynamic. The Courier attempted contacting Bandura’s bandmates. No dice. “I don’t want them to think that I’m breaking up with them, because I’m not,” she said. “We’ve had the talk. We have to take it month by month to make sure everything is still working for everyone. They saw it coming, it was sort of expected, so it was fine. It ended up being a great conversation.” The group plays its album release party at the Media Club, Nov. 10.
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Choirs in Concert 8pm Saturday, November 19, 2016 | Ryerson United Church Vancouver Chamber Choir Pacifica Singers Vancouver Youth Choir Jon Washburn, Carrie Tennant, Kevin Zakresky, Conductors The Vancouver Chamber Choir and its family of associated choirs present a Choral-Festival-in-One-Night. Highlights include Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia and Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine.
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There’s a gift waiting for you at the Stanley and it’s Nicola Cavendish. She’s simply a knockout in Stephen Sachs’ Bakersfield Mist in spite of — or possibly because of — being more foul-mouthed and brash in a role than you’ve ever seen her before. There’s a gasp from the audience followed by roars of laughter when Cavendish, as Maude Gutman, offers oral sex to the snooty art expert Lionel Percy (Jonathan Monro). Her advances rejected by a horrified Lionel who accuses her of being drunk, Maude snorts, “I wouldn’t smoke your pipe if I was sober.” Cavendish, in her 60s, is as ballsy and gutsy as ever. But she goes both ways; in the most intimate moments of Bakersfield Mist, her f-bombing Maude tugs at your heartstrings. Bakersfield Mist — the title comes from Jackson Pollock’s Lavender Mist painting — is criticized for being too “binary” or too “polarized,” and it’s true: the playwright sets poorly educated, out-of-work bartender, trailer park-dwelling Maude up against Lionel, an uptight, patronizing,
former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. We are invited to view her as authentic and salt-of-theearth, and him as condescending, class conscious, pretentious and full of himself. But it’s not that simple, and Cavendish, Monro and director Roy Surette mine the script for humanizing nuances that make it difficult to see Lionel as merely a contrivance for talking about authenticity — aesthetic and personal. Shock at Maude’s surroundings is written all over Lionel’s face when he arrives to assess the authenticity of a painting, a five dollar purchase that just might be a Jackson Pollock. “How much is it worth? How much? How much?” Maude brays. When Lionel refuses, at first, to take a guess, Maude encourages him, “Be a person. Be a person.” The play tells us Maude is a person; Lionel, not so much, although when Monro delivers what is really a lover’s ode to Pollock and goes into almost orgasmic delight describing the painter’s method of drizzling, hurling, pouring paint on the canvas, Lionel is definitely “a person.” From the beginning, we love Maude but it takes
work on Monro’s part to get sympathy for Lionel. The playwright does not go to some places that would have made Bakersfield Mist deeper and more satisfying. He gives Maude a rich backstory that explains her obsession and passion for the painting whether it’s authentic or not and, to some extent, the reason for her refusal to sell it. “It’s not about money,” she says — although that doesn’t completely explain exactly why she has borrowed money from her brother to bring Lionel from New York to Bakersfield, Calif. to assess the painting. “It’s about the truth,” she says. Quibbles aside, this Arts Club production is a lovely, thoroughly entertaining night at the theatre. And it’s an opportunity to watch Cavendish twist an entire audience around her little finger so that every gesture and every word resonates. The painting may or may not be authentic, but Cavendish certainly is. A longer version of this review appears at vancourier.com. Bakersfield Mist is at the Stanley until Nov. 20. For tickets, call 604-687-5315 or go to artsclub.com.
Public Hearing: November 15 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 6 pm City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue Third Floor, Council Chamber Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing to consider zoning for these locations: 1. 1102 Commercial Drive To designate the existing building at 1102 Commercial Drive, which is listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register, in the ‘B’ category. 2. 7638-7664 Cambie Street To rezone 7638-7664 Cambie Street from RT-1 (Two Family Dwelling) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a six-storey residential building, containing 34 dwelling units. A height of 21.3 metres (70 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 2.40 are proposed. 3. 454 West Pender Street To rezone 454 West Pender Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to increase the floor space
ratio from 6.00 to 8.56 to allow for the construction of an 11-storey, mixed-use building with commercial at grade and residential units above, all of which will be secured as market rental housing. A height of 32 metres (105 feet) is proposed. 4. 424-428 West Pender Street To rezone 424-428 West Pender Street from DD (Downtown) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to increase the floor space ratio from 6.00 to 8.14 to allow for the construction of an 11-storey mixed-use building with commercial at grade and residential units above, all of which will be secured as market rental housing. A height of 32 metres (105 feet) is proposed. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE APPLICATIONS INCLUDING LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES: vancouver.ca/rezapps or 604-873-7038
Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-law amendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please register individually beginning at 8:30 am beginning on November 4 until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by emailing publichearing@vancouver.ca or by phoning 604-829-4238. You may also register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the day of the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email to mayorandcouncil@vancouver.ca, or by mail to: City of Vancouver, City Clerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4. All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on the City’s website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for important details. Copies of the draft by-laws will be available for viewing beginning on November 4 at the City Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
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For an old place, Jerusalem certainly is in the news a lot. The religious history of a tiny piece of real estate caused a global stir last month when UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — passed a resolution that ignores the Jewish connection to Judaism’s holiest site and recognized only Muslim claims there. The place is called Temple Mount to the Jewish people. It is where the ancient Temple of Solomon stood before its destruction 2,600 years ago. At the same location, a Second Temple was built, only to be destroyed again by the Romans in the year 70. The Western Wall, the remnant of that ancient temple, is the holiest site in Judaism. To Muslims, the place is called Haram al-Sharif and it is the site of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. The Quran
One Rock Three Religions runs at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6 at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas. It’s part of the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, which continues until Nov. 13.
tells of Muhammad’s Night Journey from Mecca to the “Farthest Mosque” and then on to heaven. A hadith, a commentary second in Islam only to the Quran, says this Farthest Mosque was in Jerusalem. For Christians, the site is also deeply relevant because the location figures prominently in the narrative of Jesus. While UNESCO may be taking sides in who owns the sacred space, a film being
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you divide it in half? The rock will always be there. It will be Jewish and it will be Muslim at the same time. It tells you something very important about Jerusalem it seems to me. Jerusalem belongs to more than one faith. No one person, no one faith can claim it.” Coexisting, perhaps, will be more difficult than amicable divorce, as other scenes in the film, many very violent, suggest. Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN, is one of many voices that acknowledge the need to get along. “You have to show a certain respect for the narrative of the other side,” he says. “That is part of coexistence. That is part of peacemaking. If you deny that history, you deny that past, you’ll never reach peace.” Yet every so often provocations on one side or another upends any progress. Maher Hathout, founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, implies that the Muslim holy site is under threat, an idea that has been prevalent since Israel took
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Continue to chase money, Libra. This weekend and next help you line your pocketbook – more gridlock then bad luck exists. Wednesday begin six weeks of romantic intensity; during this time some Libran’s will meet their life mate, especially in late November and early December. Your casual relations with others have been affectionate and gracious for a few weeks – this changes Friday night, to start a month of affection in the home.
The accent remains on relationships, Taurus. “Relationship” includes dealing with the public, anything from a chance meeting to a crucial confrontation, fresh horizons and new opportunities, relocation themes, contracts, agreements, and litigation. Be diplomatic and cooperative – these bring you the most success you can acquire. Competing, challenging or fighting will bring loss.
Your charisma, effectiveness, energy and clout remain high for two more weeks. Tuesday begins six weeks of possible friction in your home – you would be wise to turn this energy into repairs, renovations, etc. (If renovating, start early, as mid-December brings slow downs and mistakes.) Your recent mild good luck in money continues until Friday night, so make hay while you can. A nice friend will come into your life mid-November to mid-December.
The emphasis remains on work, machinery, daily health, and service personnel. These will go fairly well this week and next, but don’t buy tools or machinery Wednesday before 5 PM (PDT), Friday before 7:30 PM, nor Saturday after 6 PM. You are still being treated affectionately by others, perhaps by one special other – this could grow into a kind of declaration of love, perhaps even a proposal or wedding, from Wednesday into mid December.
A money project might go awry in late December (Dec. 19 to Jan. 8, technically), so adjust your long-term appointments/schedule accordingly. You have probably gained some attention lately, as you have been more affectionate and gracious than usual. That lasts until Friday; after this, for a month, you will experience good luck and money and earnings. Tuesday night begins six weeks of intense but not necessarily important work, such as errands and paperwork.
The general beauty, pleasure, and romantic atmosphere continues, this week and next. After Tuesday, the intensity you’d felt in relations fades: peace lies on the horizon. Don’t worry if true love doesn’t strike this month — your big chance will come October 2017 to November 2018. On the other hand, don’t be surprised if romance does appear now, especially Tues. to Thurs. (and, NEXT WEEK, Sun./Mon., and Wed. to Sat.).
Chase money Sunday dawn (PDT) to midday Tuesday. Buy/sell, cultivate new clients, ask for a pay raise, collect what’s owed you. It’s a good, productive interval. Errands, short trips, paperwork, details, communications and casual contacts fill Tuesday midday to Thursday suppertime. Don’t get bogged down in this area: until mid May 2017, you can waste a lot of time chasing results that don’t really matter much in the big picture.
Be home, or close to it. The two weeks ahead remain focused on domesticity, kids and mate, security, garden, nutrition, retirement plans, etc. Six weeks of hard work ease now (Wed. onward) while six weeks of intensified relations starts. You could meet true love — more likely November 21 onward than now. Still, even this week holds an intriguing romantic and “winning risk” thread — and Sunday dawn to Tues. afternoon brings you face-to-face with mate prospects.
The emphasis remains on your reputation, worldly status, career, ambitions, and your relations with parents, bosses and authorities – for two more weeks. Your luck in this area is mixed, neither terrible nor splendid. For weeks, I have been advising you to stay away from violent situations and belligerent people. (This same influence can have brought you success in competitive sports.)
The general trend channels you into busy but not important chores for the two weeks ahead, Virgo. An affectionate streak at home continues, but will turn into a sweet romantic streak (or joy with kids) late this week through early December. On the other hand, the romantic/sexual excitement you have experienced all October now turns to six weeks of hard work. So you get a little and you lose a little.
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The most overlooked skill in volleyball is arguably the most important. In the opinion of the province’s top spiker, an aggressive and effective offense begins with the humble pass. “A lot of people will look at the big bangs and think, whoa,” said Coltyn Liu, a six-foot-four outside hitter with the defending senior boys city champion Van Tech Talisman. “But the big part is knowing how to pass because you can’t get those big bangs without a good pass coming off.” Liu knows a thing or two about being set up to succeed. The Talisman offence drives the ball toward the agile 17-year-old named Volleyball BC’s male player of the year last season, but there was a time Liu and his family needed exceptional amounts of support and care. Before his impressive hang time became what it is today, Liu’s future hung in the balance. As a toddler on a shopping trip for birthday supplies with his mom and older sister, Liu was struck by a wheeled, metal crate
and sent flying into a wall where he lay in his own blood with catastrophic head injuries. Liu was two years old. “The years since the injury has been filled with so much more trauma, ups and downs, tears or sorrow and of joy,” Liu wrote two years ago in a mission statement for K.A.R.E. Power, the charity he started a decade ago with his mom and sister. His world changed with sport, specifically volleyball. It was his miracle, you could say. “So many people said that Coltyn wouldn’t be able to do many things, and I don’t live by that kind of thinking,” said his mother Kathleen Shiels, who keeps a swear jar for which the most profane offence is “can’t.” Liu was home schooled until he began taking a few classes a week at West Coast Christian School in Abbotsford. Eventually, he was enrolled simultaneously at the private school and the public Van Tech secondary, in an exceptional example of the school systems coming together to serve a high-needs student who,
for years, walked and talked differently than his peers, some who bullied him to extreme ends. Because of his brain injury, Liu endures sensory overload and suffers painful exposure to high-pitch noises and other stimuli. Shiels insisted her children play sports, and both Liu and his older sister Parys were drawn to volleyball, a sport their mother also played. Incredibly, because of Liu’s elevated sensory sensitivity, the physical pain of digging or blocking a powerful smash brings him relief. “You can see his face relax when he takes a hit,” said Shiels. “He talks about how volleyball saved him,” she added. Miraculous, you could say. Ahead for the Grade 12 student are a string of tournaments that could put Van Tech in line for a chance at the B.C. title. Also in the future for the Team B.C. all-star is university; no less than 20 programs around the continent have been in touch with the remarkable and talented athlete who won’t be told he “can’t.” The Talismen are
ranked second in the province at the AAA level. “We want to finish as high as possible rather than rank as high as possible,” said coach Aaron Lock. Undefeated in the VSSAA public school league this season, Van Tech looks to defend its 2015 city title and advance through the Lower Mainland regional tournament to compete at the B.C. Championships, set for Nov. 30 to Dec. 3 at the Langley Events Centre. For a longer version of this story, visit vancourier.com/sports
Volleyball titles up for grabs For the first time — finally! — the senior boys and girls Vancouver Secondary School Athletic Association volleyball championship will be held at the same location. However, unfortunately, both championship finals will run at the same time. Both tournaments started Tuesday, Nov. 1. The senior boys championship final is 5 p.m. Nov. 4 at Van Tech secondary. The senior girls championship is also at 5 p.m. Nov. 4 at Van Tech secondary.
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Terms of Sale: Sold on an “as is where is” basis. Contact the undersigned at 604-529-9328. The highest bid or offer not necessarily accepted. Sale may be subject to cancellation without notice. Bids must be submitted to the Court Bailiff on or before 12:00 noon Monday, November 14,2016. Each bid must be accompanied by a bank draft or money order drawn in favor of West Coast Court Bailiffs Inc. for a minimum of 10% of the bid price which is non-refundable if the said offer is accepted and the bidder fails to complete the sale by 4:00 PM on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. D. Fjermestad, Senior Court Bailiff West Coast Court Bailiffs Inc. #101-668 Carnarvon Street New Westminster BC V3M 5Y6 Tel: 604-529-9328 Fax: 604-529-9102 Email: info@wccb.ca
NOTICE UNDER THE UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL TRUST ACT
(of estate(s) in fee simple for life, extraterritorially); NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT; I Bernard Bedu Yankson, Private Canadian National, non statutory citizen of Canada, hereby claim all right title and interest of the property described herein as. 2. RN082663732CA-001 thru RN082663732CA-999, 4. RN082663817CA-001 thru RN082663817CA-999, 6. RN082663879CA-001 thru RN082663879CA-999, 8. RN082663777CA-001 thru RN082663777CA-999; conveyed by rn.024886633.ca-001 thru DEED - rn.024886633.ca-999 (aka. declaration of the trust rn.057.320.421.ca; conveyed 2016/10/12 and accepted by trustees 2016/10/18), whereby all Legal interests by nature by characteristic in Corporate Sole BERNARD BEDU YANKSON and YANKSON, BERNARD BEDU, including its property and then to CONVEY said Legal interests by nature to the Trustee(s) while retaining and holding all Equitable interests by nature in Corporate Sole (or, potentially Foundation, or, etc.), BERNARD BEDU YANKSON and YANKSON, BERNARD BEDU, including its property), are without notice of any bona fide or would be bona fide purchasers for value or bona fide adverse claimant either by nature or characteristic by legal or equitable rights of claim and I; Bernard Bedu Yankson believe no such adverse claims exist. All written objections on the ownership or superior claim of trust(s) and estate(s), should be directed, no later than 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, please contact: covenantor: private canadian national (of union of counties, regions, provinces, territories of Dominion of Canada), mail in care of: 1545 - 55th avenue, county of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [V5P1Z2] covenantor/grantor expressly reserves all rights and liberties.
All tech Transport Ltd dba Busters Towing has claimed possession of the following vehicles under the Warehouse Lien Act. Any person(s) with claim to these vehicles should contact Kyle Schrump at 604-871-9452. Vehicles are being held at 435 Industrial Ave, Van, BC. Notice is hereby given that on Nov 25, 2016 or thereafter, unclaimed vehicles will be sold: 13 Dodge Charger VIN 2C3CDXHG1DH633141, r/o Hoang Donald to 06 Chevrolet Cobalt VIN recover $10,062; 1G1AJ58F067683656, r/o Nahanee Harold Martin to recover $11,159; 89 Chevrolet Corvette VIN 1G1YY2180K5120424, r/o Hoogbruin Spencer to recover $5,887; 82 Mercedes 280SL VIN WDB10704210013223, r/o Cameron Richard Owen to recover $3,362; 01 Ford Mustang VIN 1FAFP46V11F233938, r/o Mann Salina to recover $8,690; 10 Jeep Grand VIN 1J4PR5GK4AC139227, r/o Dalmau Flores Carlos Andres to recover $5,476; 06 BMW 325Ci VIN WBABW33416PX85715, r/o Monteith Michael Brandon to recover $4,869; 10 Dodge Avenger VIN 1B3CC4FBXAN104750, r/o Kirkbride Arthur John, and TD Auto Finance (Canada) Inc and Carfinco Inc to recover $5,620; 09 Mitsubishi Lancer VIN JA3AU26U69U600573, r/o Reddy Leela Wati,and Scotia Dealer Advantage Inc to recover $8,575; 11 GMC Terrain VIN 2CTALMEC4B6340062, r/o Sam Angie Larissa to recover $4,031; 16 KTM 350EX VIN VBKEXK406GM246754, r/o Smyth Francis John to recover $5,039; 08 Ford Ranger VIN 1FTYR10D98PA43403, r/o Gartley Nathan Gordon to recover $5,440; 10 Dodge Caravan VIN 2D4RN4DE9AR370993, r/o Alviar Miguel Angel and Hall Leonard Joseph to recover $10,256; 05 Ford F150 VIN 1FTPW14565KC96677, r/o Wilson Tiffany Delores to recover $10,179; 05 Honda Civic VIN 2HGES16615H019887, r/o Yule Lara Cristina to recover $7,349; 93 Mercedes 600SL VIN WDB1290761F074127, r/o Reveal Industries Ltd to recover $3,721; 14 Honda Civic VIN 2HGFB2F45EH016807, r/o Salitra Patrick Michel,and Honda Canada Finance Inc to recover $12,075; 08 Ford Mustang VIN 1ZVHT80N085144521, r/o Calliou Kaylon Norman to recover $8,555; 10 Chrysler Town&Country VIN 2A4RR5DX6AR478653, r/o Ziko Stevie Ryan to recover $8,199; 07 Pontiac G5 VIN 1G2AL18FX77300953, r/o Smith Kerianne, and Carfinco Inc to recover $5,906; 07 Chevrolet Avalanche VIN 3GNFK12327G299960, r/o Wolfe Katsuyuki to recover $13,585; 07 Honda Civic VIN 2HGFA16337H020734, r/o Mai Jin Xiang to recover $11,663.
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#101 - 621 W. 57th Ave, Van Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments & Townhouses. Heat, hot water & lrg storage locker included. Many units have in-suite laundry and lrg patios/balconies with gorgeous views. Tasteful gardens, swim pools, hot tub, gym, laundry, gated parking, plus shops & services. Near Oakridge Ctrl, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School & more. Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com
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A 1 Retaining Walls, Stairs, Driveway, Patio, Sidewalk. Any concrete work. Free Est. Since 1977. Basile 604-617-5813.
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