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No treatment for drug users in Vancouver when they need it Mike Howell

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Last month, I wrote a story about police reporting a 10-year spike in break-ins to vehicles and businesses.

Not a good news story for the Vancouver Police Department, or the victims of those crimes — and there were lots of victims: Statistics for the first nine months of 2016 show there were 9,484 thefts from vehicles and 1,974 burglaries to businesses.

Why the spike?

Take a guess.

Hint: Think Main and Hastings.

As Police Chief Adam Palmer told me after a police board meeting last month, the crimes are typically committed to feed a drug habit. You’ve probably heard this before, which is unfortunate in a city where politicians have talked for decades about what to do about drug use.

I mentioned this reality in my last entry, when I wrote about federal Health Minister Jane Philpott and provincial Health Minister Terry

Provincial Health Minister Terry Lake says he and federal counterpart, Jane Philpott, are working on a range of options to treat drug users seeking to get clean and sober. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Lake leading a news conference a couple of weeks ago in the Downtown Eastside to talk about the overdose drug death epidemic.

The statistics again: The B.C. Coroners Service says 622 people in B.C. died of a drug overdose between January and October of this year. Of that total, 124 died in Vancouver.

In response, the public

has heard that naloxone is being used by a lot more people, including drug users and firefighters, to prevent overdose victims from dying.

There’s also been news about Vancouver Coastal Health applying to Health Canada to open two new supervised injection sites in health clinics in the Downtown Eastside.

Chief Palmer supports both initiatives.

But when I spoke to him last month, the conversation was more about treatment — treatment on demand, as he phrased it. And what he means by that is this: If police interact with a drug user who needs or wants treatment at that moment, that person can’t get it.

“We have a lot of great programs in place with Vancouver Coastal Health,” he

said. “But the one gap that we do have is with treatment on demand. We don’t have a city where if somebody is addicted to drugs and they need help and they come forward to a police officer, or just want to self-report and get help, they don’t have anywhere to go — and there’s long waiting lists.”

I put the chief’s concern to Philpott and Lake at the news conference. Lake took the question. He gave me a long answer. I’ll first give you what he said at the end of it because I think it’s more on point to Palmer’s frustration.

“We are providing more and more opportunities for people to seek treatment through a range of options because you have to be there when people want treatment, you have to be there with the right type of treatment for that person,” Lake said. “So you need a variety of different options and we’re working hard to provide those.”

This is how Lake began his answer: “We have increased the number of recovery beds,

not just from an abstinence point of view but from a harm reduction point of view. We’re trying to offer a full spectrum of treatment options because we know that you don’t always succeed the first time. We’ve committed to 500 additional supportive recovery beds and we are on target to meet that in 2017. We have put $5 million into the Centre for Substance Use to look at research to help and to train physicians in dealing with addiction issues. So there’s a range of things that we have to do. We spend $1.4 billion on mental health and substance use. The federal government has indicated a desire to partner with us to increase the resources available to help people with mental health and substance uses. We look forward to what that looks like.”

So do, apparently, cops on the beat, drug users in the streets and motorists returning to their cars today to find a door pried open, locks punched or a window smashed. @Howellings

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Body cameras could help resolve cases involving police Review finds investigations of police dog bite cases assisted by camera footage Mike Howell

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The agency that investigates police incidents in B.C. involving death or serious harm says it could better resolve a significant number of cases if officers were equipped with bodyworn cameras.

The Independent Investigations Office said in its annual report that footage from such cameras would have potentially assisted in 93 per cent of 71 investigations reviewed by the agency’s investigators. Of the 71 cases reviewed, 49 involved general duty officers, 17 were related to dog handler teams and five concerned emergency response teams and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit.

“This review was initiated to determine in how many cases the availability of [body-worn camera] footage may have assisted the [agency] in either exonerating officers of the commission of a criminal offence, or in providing Crown counsel with sufficient information to ensure an appropriate charge evaluation,” said the report released this month.

“In all firearms cases [of officer-involved shootings], [body-worn camera] footage would have assisted in providing additional independent evidence. Other video evidence [such as CCTV, video recorded by witnesses, etc.] was available in only 25 per cent of the cases reviewed.”

The agency’s report pointed out body-worn camera footage would have assisted in all 17 dog handler team cases it examined as part of the review. Aside from naming the Combined Forces Special Enforcement

Vancouver police officers wore GoPro cameras in 2014 when they cleared campers from a tent city in Oppenheimer Park. The VPD’s public safety unit has eight of the cameras and officers wear them during events such as the summer fireworks at English Bay. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Unit, the report didn’t indicate which police forces were examined in the review, or the details of each case.

The Investigations Office’s findings come after Pivot Legal Society demanded last month that the provincial government release the most recent data on police dog use in B.C. and review how the VPD deploys its dogs. Pivot also wants dog handlers to wear body cameras.

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when a dog was released upon them,” Pivot lawyer Douglas King wrote in a letter to Clayton Pecknold, the government’s director of police services. “We have also seen an increasing number of cases where the justification for the use of a police dog appears to be based solely on officer safety, with the dog being used as pre-emptive force before an individual resists or presents a threat. Bodyworn cameras would make it easy to analyze whether or not VPD handlers are complying with the limitation imposed by the regulations, and prevent purposeful

deployments against passive subjects, if they have in fact been occurring.”

The Courier reported earlier this month that 116 people were injured severely enough by the VPD’s police dogs this year that a trip to the hospital was necessary to treat the injuries, which ranged from small wounds requiring stitches to broken bones and ligament damage requiring surgery.

In response to Pivot’s call for body cameras, Sgt. Brian Montague, a VPD media liaison officer, told the Courier the department was not opposed to the concept. But, he said, the cost of setting up

a new unit within the department, along with outfitting officers and purchasing new equipment, was estimated at $17.2 million.

VPD officers wore GoPro cameras as an experiment when they cleared the Oppenheimer Park tent city in 2014. Police wrote a report on the experiment, but it has not been released to the public. The VPD has eight GoPro cameras, which are worn by officers of the department’s public safety unit during such events as the summer fireworks at English Bay. In a report to the Vancouver Police Board in July 2015,

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the VPD warned that cameras “will not necessarily prevent a use-of-force incident.”

“The cameras will only provide some additional information, after the fact,” said the report, noting cameras will not improve an officer’s ability to “effectively de-escalate a potential mental health crisis.”

A statement from the provincial Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General to the Courier this week said the government continues to research the use of cameras and consult with police, local governments and the Office of the Information and Privacy Officer about whether they should be implemented in B.C. “The research revealed complex technological, policy and legal issues respecting data management, threshold-of-use and privacy which require careful consideration, as do cost and data management issues,” the statement said.

“The ministry will continue to look at how the cameras may support policing and public safety, and will be developing standards for their use. No decisions have been made at this time, and we do not have a date when this work will be completed.”

Meanwhile, the Investigations Office issued a plea this week for the public to turn over any video of the Nov. 10 shooting outside a Canadian Tire store on Grandview Highway, where a VPD officer shot and killed a man in what appeared to be a botched robbery. A store clerk and an officer were stabbed in the incident. The B.C. Coroners Service identified the 38-year-old man as Daniel Peter Rintoul of Vancouver. @Howellings

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Public Hearing: December 13, 2016 Tuesday, December 13, 2016, at 6pm 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. Miscellaneous Text Amendments Miscellaneous text amendments to the RM-5, RM-5A, RM-5B, RM-5C and RM-5D Districts Schedule, CD-1 (642) By-law No. 11658 for 4375 Arbutus Street (formerly known as 4255 Arbutus Street), CD-1 (582) By-Law No. 11069 for 1768 Cook Street (201 West 2nd Avenue), CD-1 (612) By-law No. 11279 for 1551 Quebec Street, 1600 Ontario Street and 95 East 1st Avenue (Southeast False Creek Areas 3A and 3B). The amendments achieve the intent of the initial rezoning approvals, and correct inadvertent errors.

2. Temporary Modular Housing To add a new definition for “temporary modular housing” (TMH) and associated regulations to the Zoning and Development By-law, and to amend four City-owned CD-1 sites to allow TMH, located at: CD-1 (181) at 2610 Grandview Highway; CD-1 (210) at 4170 Nanaimo Street; CD-1 (247) at 3098 Southeast Marine Drive and 3099 East Kent Avenue North; and CD-1 (310) at 3590 Copley Street, 2275-2355 Vanness Avenue and 3560-3590 Walker Street. Design guidelines are also proposed to ensure high quality design and neighbourhood fit.

3. 315 West 11th Avenue (Doerffler House) To add the existing heritage building (Doerffler House) at 315 West 11th Avenue to the Vancouver Heritage Register in the ‘C’ evaluation category, and to designate the exterior of the heritage building as protected heritage property.

District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of one four-storey and one three-storey townhouse residential buildings, containing 15 dwelling units. A height of 14.3 metres (47 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.86 are proposed.

4. 1001-1015 Denman Street To remove the conditions of use at 1001-1015 Denman Street restricting streel-level uses to retail, service, cultural, and recreational uses, to be consistent with the surrounding C-5 (Commercial) District along Denman Street.

8. 5050-5080 Joyce Street To rezone 5050-5080 Joyce Street from C-2C (Commercial) District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District to permit the development of a 30-storey, mixed-use building with commercial retail units at grade and 256 dwelling units above. A height of 89.33 metres (293 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 15.37 are proposed.

5. 1030 Denman Street To change the limitation on Hotel use at 1030 Denman Street (Coast Plaza Hotel), to allow for the conversion of Levels 2 and 3 of the existing building to a 68-room boutique hotel.

6. 4066 Macdonald Street and 2785 Alamein Avenue To amend CD-1 (328) (Comprehensive Development) District for 4066 Macdonald Street and 2785 Alamein Avenue to permit the development of a three-storey, mixed-use building and a three-storey duplex, with a total of 186 square metres (2,007 square feet) of commercial space and eight dwelling units. A height of 11.3 metres (37 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR) of 1.35 are proposed.

7. 151-157 West 41st Avenue To rezone 151-157 West 41st Avenue from RS-1 (One-Family Dwelling)

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Bart Simpson once proclaimed that you don’t win friends with salad, but the Vancouver Humane Society wants you to believe otherwise.

The local advocacy group recently launched a “Meatless Monday” campaign that’s meant to curb the consumption of animal products, while at the same time calling attention to the spinoff effects that consumption has on the environment, and both human and animal welfare.

Colleges, high schools and hospitals across Vancouver have joined the initiative, which sees meatbased meal options replaced with vegetarian offerings at cafeterias in those facilities once a week.

“The impact of Meatless Monday is a really powerful way for people to make a meaningful difference for issues that are really growing and becoming more concerning,” said Emily Pickett, the society’s program coordinator for Meatless Monday.

“These are all things we can care about. Even changing what we eat a little bit just one day a week can have a significant impact.”

Three post-secondary institutions have joined the effort, including Capilano University, Langara College and BCIT, along with four secondary schools in Vancouver: Eric Hamber, Winston Churchill, David Thompson and Killarney.

Killarney’s kick at the meatless can began Nov. 18, when bowtie pasta, salad and garlic bread replaced the traditional options like chicken sandwiches and spaghetti with meatballs.

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up by Grade 12 student Janelle Huinda. A vegetarian since October 2015, she presented the idea to her clubmates early in the school year to raise awareness around animal welfare and the different types of lifestyle options available to students.

She promoted the idea en masse through social media, though there was some push back. “One person sarcastically asked if we could have Fried Chicken Friday,” she said. “I just ignored that comment.”

Huinda turned to vegetarianism as a means to help her cope with an eating disorder, a move that’s helped her both mentally and physically.

“You don’t have to worry about your calorie intake so much. It makes you feel healthy and you don’t think about the negative effects of the food you eat,” she said.

Killarney’s environment club teacher sponsor, Denise North, said the exercise has bolstered her students’ ability to empathize and has honed their abilities to get messaging out on a grand scale.

“You don’t want them to take on too much at one point, but through their ini-

tiative and word-of-mouth advertising, they’ve set it up for success,” North said.

“It really strengthens their communication and leadership skills.”

The Meatless Monday phenomenon was first introduced at Maryland’s John Hopkins University in 2003. It has since taken off across North America, with the City of Vancouver proclaiming its first Meatless Monday on June 10, 2013.

Langara was the first Vancouver-based school to align itself with the humane society’s efforts in 2014.

The company that oversees its food service, Chartwells, began offering up tofu, lentils and the like in 2015.

Like in the Killarney context, the movement was spurred on by Langara’s environment club. Since its inception, Meatless Monday has become the second most popular day of the week in the cafeteria after Indian food day.

“It’s gone off like gangbusters. That really speaks to how it’s been embraced by the students,” said Chartwells spokesperson Stephanie Baxter. @JohnKurucz

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News VPD ‘heat maps’ detail neighbourhood crime

This VPD heat map shows that thefts from automobiles were concentrated downtown.

Wondering whether your neighbourhood was hit this month by property crime?

The most recent “heat maps” posted on the Vancouver Police Department’s website show that burglaries to residences and businesses, as well as break-ins to vehicles and auto theft, continue at a pace that police haven’t seen in many years.

The Courier reported in October that Vancouver police recorded 10-year highs

in the number of thefts from vehicles and break-ins to businesses — increases that have meant the VPD will not reach its goal to reduce overall property crime this year.

The maps capture property crime that occurred between Nov. 9 and 15. For that week alone, there were 29 burglaries to businesses and 81 break-ins to homes and other properties such as sheds and garages.

A total of 203 thefts from vehicles were recorded for the same period and 29 vehicles

were stolen. One of the maps shows 27 stolen vehicles were recovered, although it’s not clear whether they are the same ones stolen in that week.

Most of the break-ins to vehicles were centred downtown in the West End and central business district. The other crimes occurred in neighbourhoods across the city. See online version of this story at vancourier.com to see whether your neighbourhood was hit.

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Canada and U.S. differences highlighted in actions of Supreme Courts

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f you want to see just how different we are from our southern neighbours, consider the expectations and actions of our respective Supreme Courts.

In the U.S., Supreme Court Justices tend to dance with the political leader who “brung” them. In Canada, not so much.

In the U.S., there is now one vacancy on

But it is more likely that the Supreme Court of Canada will turn governments of any stripe on their heads rather than being willing handmaidens. the top court — and there will be possibly two more before Donald Trump’s term is up. That court is now evenly populated with liberals and conservatives.

Trump says he’ll tip the balance in his favour. Any judge he nominates must be both anti-abortion and support the second amendment to the constitution, which guarantees the right to bear arms. And you can bet those judges will not waver.

Canadian prime ministers tend to be less prescriptive when it comes to judicial appointments although, unlike the American system which requires Senate approval, they do have the final say. Prime ministers are, though, also constrained by the constitution, which prescribes regional pp balance in those appointments.

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But it is more likely that the Supreme Court of Canada will turn governments of any stripe on their heads rather than being willing handmaidens.

For example, we no longer have a law in this country prohibiting abortion.

Back in 1969, Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s government did bring a law legalizing the procedure, provided a committee of doctors signed off on it being necessary for the physical or mental health of the mother.

But 20 years later, and after we had a Charter of Rights, the feds brought a case against our most famous abortionist Henry Morgentaler. In the end, the Supreme Court tossed out the abortion law as unconstitutional.

Brian Mulroney’s Tories tried and failed, thanks, most would say, to a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, ironically by Conservative Pat Carney, to get a new law passed. So the Criminal Code is silent on the matter.

By the way, six of the nine members of the Supreme Court are former conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointments. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin was a Mulroney pick and two others are Liberal choices.

But that Tory majority didn’t help Harper when he tried to shut down Vancouver’s supervised injection site.

And his displeasure with the court in general, and the Chief Justice in particular, burst into an open battle when McLachlin attempted to caution Harper’s justice minister and the Prime Minister about technical “eligibility problems” should he appoint Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court to fill the Quebec seat.

Harper accused McLachlin of meddling.

Legal experts said she was just offering her advice as others before her had done. p went ahead with the appointpp Harper

ment. That led to a constitutional challenge to the Supreme Court, which ruled against Harper and humiliated Nadon, as he had to vacate the position.

Harper’s government also took it on the chin in the Supreme Court decision regarding doctor-assisted deaths. They dragged their feet on rewriting legislation as demanded by the court. The work was still not done when they were finally defeated by the Liberals who managed to crank out a piece of legislation critics say fell short of what the Supreme Court wanted. And now, yet another case to make that point is wending its way back there now that will challenge the Liberals.

The most recent poke in the eye to governments by our Supreme Court came earlier this month with the decision regarding the B.C. Teachers Federation in a legal battle that has been going on since 2002 when the p provincial Liberals

stripped them of the right to bargain class size and composition. As well as the B.C. government, the case drew interveners from provincial governments in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the federal government and a Council of Employers group.

In a move that was historic for its speed, and still has a buzz going in legal circles, the court deliberated for 20 minutes. That was followed by 60 seconds for the Chief Justice to announce the court would uphold the teachers’ appeal.

The Supreme Court agreed with sole dissenter at the B.C. Court of Appeal, Justice Ian Donald, and his opinion that the original trial judge was correct in concluding the government of British Columbia had failed to bargain in good faith. And that the legislation stripping the teachers of their rights was unconstitutional. @ g @allengarr

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Jack Brondwin, a member of Little Mountain Cohousing, is “ecstatic” about progress on a project to build a six-storey cohousing complex in the Riley Park neighbourhood. If all goes to plan, residents could move in by the spring of 2019. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Things looking up for city’s second cohousing complex Six-storey Riley Park development to include shared common areas, meals, duties

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Jack Brondwin’s “family” will soon grow by double digits. At age 70, he’s gearing up to move into Vancouver’s second cohousing complex — a 25-unit building that, if approved following a public hearing early next year, will be constructed at 4983 to 5007 Quebec St. in the Riley Park neighbourhood.

Residents moved into the city’s first cohousing project on East 33rd near Argyle Street in Kensington-Cedar Cottage at the beginning of the year.

Cohousing is a collaborative form of living in which residents develop close ties. Most own their homes within the complex, but they share large common areas, some common meals, as well as duties around the building. They benefit from social relationships and collective skills, which enable them to share responsibilities, interests and activities such as childcare, vehicles, tools and hobbies. Members determine how the cohousing group functions, which may include many or few rules. Decisions are made by consensus.

Brondwin’s group — Little Mountain Cohous-

ing, a reboot of an earlier group of the same name — started recruiting members in 2015, and now its sixstorey building is nearing reality. A model of the project, designed by Cornerstone Architecture, was unveiled at a September open house. Feedback was largely positive, according to city staff.

The Urban Design Panel, an advisory committee to the city, voted in support of the project at a Nov. 2 meeting in a 7-1 decision.

The application is now going through the final staff review before it heads to public hearing sometime in the new year. In the meantime, Little Mountain Cohousing members hold regular meetings and meals to plan their future.

Brondwin said there’s a “great mix” of singles, young families and older people.

“It feels wonderful. I’m ecstatic. I love the people we associate with. We have grown quite a bit from strangers, trying to get to know each other, to [where] it feels a lot more like a family,” he told the Courier.

“Because with all these committees, potlucks and everything else we do, by the time we move in it won’t be like moving into a new building

with new people. You’re moving into a building that you know who is there to help you make all the decisions. You’re moving in with your friends and family.

That’s how we’re beginning to feel about each other — that we’re family.”

Building up

The complex will sit on three lots, together measuring 99 by 110 feet. The group purchased the land for $5.9 million earlier this year. It’s currently zoned single-family. The city is considering the rezoning application under its Little Mountain Adjacent Area Rezoning Policy.

The recent surge in land values in Vancouver means the property is about half the size of the land on which the first cohousing complex is located — that was built on three double lots and consequently looks like a ground-oriented townhouse complex. Little Mountain Cohousing, on the other hand, has to build up instead of out, so it looks similar to an apartment building, although it’s designed with cohousing principles.

Kathy McGrenera, a founding member of the Quayside Village cohousing complex in North Vancouver, is a consultant

on the project.

“The land footprint is not very big, so this is the first urban cohousing project at that density in Canada,” she said. “[But] the group is pretty happy.

Affordability in Vancouver is a huge issue, so you can’t afford to buy a lot of land.

[Members] think we’ve been able to work with our architects to design a building that will work for cohousing even though it’s six storeys.”

The building will have a large, open courtyard in the back. There will be exterior walkways overlooking the courtyard, rather than interior hallways, for travel between units. It’s meant to add to the connectivity.

There will be a rooftop garden and common spaces spread between the ground, second, third and sixth floors. Small meeting areas will also be on every floor outside the elevator.

“The first floor of the building is only four townhouses and the rest of it is common space,” McGrenera explained. “So all the outdoor space and most of the indoor space [on the ground level] is all common space.”

The group will also have the ability to install solar panels if they wish.

‘Wave of the future’

Brondwin suspects their building will be “the wave of the future.”

“It would be impossible now to buy the equivalent of six lots for the price that [Kensington-Cedar Cottage] paid, so they have a lot more land to spare for all kinds of rooms. They have lots of space to use communally…

We’re thinking more of repurposing... We can do everything that they can do but in a tighter spot.”

Prices of the one- to fourbedroom suites are expected to range between $400,000 and $900,000, which is lower than conventional construction in the neighbourhood.

As of press deadline, only one four-bedroom unit designated for a young family was still available. Cohousing members purchase their units at the cost to build them without any profit. The total project cost will be many millions, but the budget isn’t finalized yet since design details aren’t complete and a construction contract isn’t in place. The group has tracked its progress on its Little Mountain Cohousing website.

“We’re all very, very happy with where we are, what we’re getting and we can’t wait to get through this whole process and move in,” Brondwin said.

Airtight investment

The complex will also be the city’s second Passive House multi-family building — the first is being constructed at Skeena and Hastings Street. Passive House is an international standard of energy efficiency, focusing on reducing energy used to heat the building by creating an airtight structure through high-quality windows, super-insulation and good ventilation.

“We’re excited to be in the vanguard of the technology to lead us to a greener way to look after our planet,” Brondwin said.

If all goes as planned, Little Mountain Cohousing members’ move-in date is expected to be in the spring of 2019. McGrenera maintains demand is high for cohousing-style living — 200 people are on Little Mountain Cohousing’s interested list, while 300 are on the interested list for another project under development in North Vancouver.

“Some of the emails I get people are just pleading, ‘Please, put me on your very, very interested list.’ People are looking for alternative ways to find community.”

Next week: Part 2, Cohousing lite.

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Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi takes the ‘purple path’ Mike Klassen

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Last week, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi made a long overdue visit to Vancouver, but this time not at the behest of anyone at Vancouver city hall.

Canadian Club chapter president Ray Greenwood says it was a mutual friend who helped him coax the man who is arguably Canada’s most prominent local government leader out to the West Coast for a speaking engagement.

Nenshi is an icon of progressive voters, often identified as a potential federal Liberal candidate. While he touts the “purple path” to signify his goal to represent all sides of the political spectrum, he’s also not afraid to get into online dust-ups with his critics — quite often conserva-

Once home to the lowest unemployment rate in the country, the city now faces Canada’s highest in just under two years.

Not surprisingly, Nenshi is making a big pitch for his city’s business community, suggesting that companies seeking office space or talent in Vancouver consider Calgary as an alternative.

Vancouver has long struggled in its own right to attract those coveted corporate head offices.

Frequently, these employers would choose Calgary over our city, but somehow the tables have turned. Hard times have truly hit our Alberta kin.

Nenshi has built upon his man-of-the-people image through effective use of social media, particularly Twitter where he has more than four times as many followers

like,” added the mayor.

“Whether or not that’s a good answer… all provinces [should] treat climate as something they’re looking at broadly, not in the narrow interests of their own province.”

On his counterpart Gregor Robertson using city resources to oppose the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Nenshi

whole will suffer very significantly. We will lose a ton of prosperity… in British Columbia and everywhere else,” said Nenshi.

“We are not using our wealth to help us move to a low-carbon world. I think that is bad business, it is bad ethics, and it is bad policy.” @MikeKlassen

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I decided to test Nenshi’s Calgary boosterism by asking him to name one chart-topping music act besides the Stampeders from his home town (his answer: pop duo Tegan and Sara).

We then turned to the more serious subject of energy and pipelines, and what he thinks we can do in our province to overcome challenges facing the oil and gas industry.

“I think it would be extremely helpful for us to look at a national strategy around climate change, or at least a regional one in Alberta and British Columbia,” said Nenshi.

“There has been a lot of discussion about whether Site C [dam] can help Alberta green its grid and what that looks

“Call me naïve, but I like to believe that in this country we do nation-building based on what is right, based on evidence, and not what is politically expedient.”

On what it means if oilsands products do not get to tidewater, Calgary’s mayor is blunt.

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How much political capital Nenshi still has remains to be seen. It will be put to the test next year, as Nenshi recently announced that he’s seeking a third term as mayor.

I asked him why he is running again.

“I think it’s unfashionable to say things like this, but I like my job,” says Nenshi. “I like public service. [As well], all politicians will say, but it is particularly true at the moment, that there’s lots of work left to do.”

Nenshi goes on to describe how — in addition to him being a big voice for “pluralism and diversity” in Canada — he has a role to play in Calgary’s long-planned $5-billion Green Line LRT project.

He does not try to hide that his relationships with both the Trudeau and Notley governments could help to secure the infrastructure funding.

The mayor paints a bleak picture of Calgary’s economy today.

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lights. The 2016 fundraising campaign is on track to raise millions of dollars to improve patient care.

Visit the website for more information and too register for this community event.

Vancouver Christmas Market Nov. 26 – Dec. 31 vancouverchristmasmarket.com The annual Vancouver Christmas Market has relocated from Queen

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Elizabeth Theatre Plaza to Jack Poole Plaza, home of the Olympic Cauldron, a move that means an expansion of 20,000 square-feet of space for a total of 50,000. Besides 40 merchandise vendors and 24 food and beverage kiosks, highlights of the market include the 23-foottall Christmas Pyramid complete with floating, rotating angels and German beverages, the Alpine Haus — a heated tent that can accommodate 250 guests, gingerbread decorating, visits with Santa, a Christmas carousel, entertainment, demonstrations and more.

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Enchant: the world’s largest Christmas light maze Nov. 25 to Dec. 31 enchantchristmas.com Highlights of this familyfriendly festival include a 55,000 square-foot maze of light sculptures, a 64foot Christmas tree, live ENCHANT

performances, an outdoor fire pit and a sprawling marketplace including artists, food and drink vendors serving mulled wine, specialty coffees and holiday beers. Located between Olympic Village and the Cambie Street Bridge, Enchant will also feature seasonal treats from 12 food trucks and a VIP lounge for private parties and holiday get-togethers including an exclusive entrance into the light maze, private bar, access to all of the food trucks and customizable entertainment options. Enchant is also selling a special Christmas book written by local

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storyteller Leanne Johnston and illustrated by Sebastian S.C. The story follows the aftermath of a disastrous snowstorm that hits the North Pole the night before Christmas. Children from around the world are asked to explore an enchanted light field and search for missing reindeer in an attempt to help Santa and save the world’s biggest holiday.

CandyTown Nov. 26 yaletowninfo.com The Yaletown Business Improvement Association presents its fifth annual free outdoor Christmas festival with lights, candy canes and costumed characters.

CandyTown takes place along Mainland Street and a North Pole pop up will be located at the Canada Line Station where kids can visit with Santa for a suggested donation of $5, dedicated to B.C. Children’s Hospital.

It’s not just kids who enjoy CandyTown — adults will want to check out the CandyCane martini at OPUS Bar or take a romantic horsedrawn carriage ride. The Yaletown Rotary Club will be back with its Christmas tree lot and food trucks will

LIGHTS OF HOPE

fill the street. There’s a lot more going on, including the Pokémon Holiday Tour.

For a complete schedule, visit yaletowninfo.com.

Rogers Santa Claus Parade Dec. 4, starting at noon rogerssantaclausparade.com The parade runs through downtown Vancouver, starting at Georgia Street at Broughton, before continuing east along Georgia before turning south on Howe. In a change from previous years,

Tree of Giving UNTIL DECEMBER 23

Pick a card from the Tree of Giving at Kingsgate Mall and help make a needy child’s wish come true this Christmas! Without your help, so many dreams will go unanswered.

Take a card from the tree located near Mark’s—it tells you the age and gender of the child and their special interests. Find a suitable gift and place it (unwrapped) in our Tree of Giving House with the card attached. Our elves will ensure it is delivered in time to create Christmas memories.

Thanks to the generosity of our community, over 1200 gifts were collected last year.

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Capilano Suspension Bridge: Canyon Lights Nov. 24 to Jan. 8 capbridge.com Visit Canyon Lights and recapture some of those feelings of wonder and excitement about the holiday season you enjoyed so much as a child. The park has been decorated with hundreds of thousands of lights, including the suspension bridge, Treetops Adventure, Cliffwalk, the rainforest and canyon. See the world’s tallest living Christmas tree (153 ft.), go on a Snowy Owl Prowl, decorate gingerbread cookies, make your own Christmas card (by donation) in the Winter

Pavilion and sing-along with the holiday band.

New this year is Fireflies, an interactive lighting display in the rainforest. Using giant flashlights, guests can magically awaken waves of tiny lights that glimmer and twinkle like fireflies.

Sea to Sky Gondola Dec. 5 to 22 seatoskygondola.com Access the Spirit of Christmas activities with a season pass or day ticket to the Sea to Sky Gondola. Take part in a Christmas forest walk (daily) along the Spirit Trail, which is wheelchair and stroller friendly, and leads guests back to the Summit Lodge where they can warm up with hot cocoa by the fire. And don’t miss Pancakes and Pictures with Santa Dec. 3 and 4 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Meanwhile Storytime takes place Mondays and Thursdays from 10:30-11 a.m.

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Pop up holiday drinks and dining winter terrace menu has been created by executive chef Harold Lemos, and includes everything from cheese fondue to sausage rolls to mulled wines and an extensive range of whiskies.

Reflections: Winter pop-up on the Garden Terrace Nov. 24 to Dec. 30 rosewoodhotels.com Located within the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, the GardenTerrace has been transformed into a winter wonderland allowing guests to use the terrace for the first time in winter making it an ideal spot to drop by for a warm winter cocktail and quick bite after a day of shopping.

The intimate lounge will be decked out with twinkling Christmas trees, mistletoe and over-sized candles.

Heat lamps and plush blankets mean everyone will stay cozy, no matter how chilly the night. A new

Roof Garten Now through Dec. 31 roofgarten.com Located in the heart of downtown Vancouver,

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GOT ARTS? 604.738.1411 or events@vancourier.com

1 Nov. 24 to 30, 2016 1. Straight outta Beijing, the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra presents the Canadian premiere of Enchanting China: An Orchestral Extravaganza Nov. 29 and 30 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The performances promise a diverse program of Peking Opera, classical hits and traditional folk music on the authentic instruments of the traditional Chinese orchestra. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca.

2. Local riff-a-licious, blues stompin’, garage rock duo the Pack A.D. drop by the Fortune Sound Club, Nov. 26, in support of their latest album Positive Thinking. Dead Quiet and the Uptights open. Pssst — it’s an early show, so doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets at bplive.ca.

3. Vancouver Opera gets family-friendly with its production Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairytale opera Hansel and Gretel, featuring larger than life puppets and costume design courtesy of Calgary’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop. It all goes down Nov. 24 to Dec. 11 at the Vancouver Playhouse. For tickets and information, go to vancouveropera.ca or call 604-683-0222.

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4. The annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival showcases prominent and emerging Jewish writers and nonJewish writers with Jewish interest subject matter in literature, the arts, philosophy, theology, history and current events, Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, 950 West 41st Ave. Authors include Irvin D. Yalom, Danila Botha, Bob Bossin, Robyn Sarah, Ellen Schwartz, Michael Wex and Judy Batalion among others.

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Community

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POWER SURGE: Vancouver Magazine released its annual Power 50 list ranking the year’s top power brokers, movers and shakers, and influencers shaping our city.

Not surprisingly, Premier Christy Clark was crowned the top power player. In a real estate obsessed town, developers, along with politicos and city officials filled the pages. They were once again feted at an awards celebration held at the Vancouver Club. Fronted by newly appointed publisher Dee Dhaliwal and editor-inchief Anicka Quin, the 16-year tradition also welcomed some fresh faces and influential voices who are shaping the spheres of politics, entertainment and culture, including CEO of Creative BC Prem Gill,

Social Concierge’s Jordan Kallman and Tyson Villeneuve, and Daily Hive principals Manny Bahia, Farhan Mohamed and Karm Sumal.

HEAVY LIFTING: Equinox officially opened its first club in Vancouver and 84th globally. The high-end luxury fitness chain catering to the rich and famous made an impressive debut hosting a preview party for select media, influencers and high performing executives. Catering to a market that does not mind spending big money on fitness, the multi-level facility is impressive. Natural light fills the main fitness floor with expansive training options that include six different studios,

including dedicated yoga, cycling, barre, Pilates and boxing studios. Equinox also includes cardio and fitness floors where members can work out on their own or with one of Equinox’s highly skilled personal trainers. Designed for West Coast sensibilities, Equinox’s 33,000 square-foot space features bleached walnut woods, concrete floors and reflective metallics, juxtaposing man-made and natural materials. A spa, lounge and cozy fireplace rounds out this ultra-lux fitness centre on West Georgia, next to Trump Tower.

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

After opening the Pacific Autism Family Centre she established, a “hub and spoke” network to support families living with autism, Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia, businesswoman, entrepreneur and philanthropist picked up her first-ever Power 50 citation at the Vancouver Club.

Carole Taylor co-chaired Carol Lee’s inaugural Vancouver Chinatown Foundation Gala at the Hotel Vancouver. The sold-out affair generated more than $1 million to go towards preserving the district’s cultural heritage.

Chef Juno Kim and wine expert Kurtis Kolt fronted the Equinox dinner that celebrated the opening of the chain’s first club in Vancouver and 84th globally. To join this luxury fitness facility will cost you $171 per month.

Vancouver Magazine’s Dee Dhaliwal and Anicka Quin feted Mayor Gregor Robertson, who was cited as the city’s second most powerful leader, behind Christy Clark. Vacant homes tax, restrictions to Airbnb rentals, outright ban of Uber and density and development decisions made the mayor a contentious figure.

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Arts & Entertainment

Road to success paved with failure Popular speaker series mines inspiration from participants’ worst mistakes

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Hussein Hallak found himself in the darkest of places a decade ago: he was a million dollars in the hole, depressed and on the verge of suicide.

He’s now a successful entrepreneur with 10 companies to his name.

How Hallak got from Point A to Point B is at the heart of a new phenomenon called F***up Nights, a movement that’s part group therapy, part airing of grievances.

The event gives participants roughly six minutes to tell the story of their worst miscue in life and how they got through it.

Ten slides are presented for 40 seconds each and a question-and-answer session follows at the end of the evening’s session.

The movement began in Mexico in 2012 and has spread to more than 150 cities in 50 countries across the world.

“I think Vancouver is a

city that’s kind of obsessed with prestige,” said F***up Night Vancouver producer/host Kei Baritugo. “But the thing is, we don’t really talk about failure and how the road to success is paved with failure. There are a lot of s*** sandwiches that you have to eat first.”

Hallak spoke at the most recent gathering in October and his presentation focused on a period in his life in 2005 and 2006.

He was living in Dubai and attempted to launch a marketplace focused on selling Arabic art. He spent three years building it, invested a million dollars into it, maxed out all his credit cards, sold his house and took out loans left, right and centre.

The business failed within its first year.

“I was so depressed and suicidal,” said Hallak, 42.

“I was going to kill myself and get it over with but I couldn’t bare the fact of leaving my family and my son. So I lived through it

Tonye Aganaba, Kei Baritugo and Hussein Hallak bring tales of failure and redemption to Guilt & Co. Dec. 6. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and had to work and pay everybody back. It was a total disaster.”

It took Hallak three years to get out of debt, and he’s been in Vancouver for just over two years.

He’s now a serial entrepre-

neur and general manager of Launch Academy, one of western Canada’s leading tech start-up hubs.

In his line of work, Hallak finds himself presenting to scores of entrepreneurs all the time.

Coupled with his background as a musician, Hallak is frequently on stage and comfortable with it.

F***up Night was a different animal for him.

“I didn’t expect to be as nervous as I was,” he said.

“I’m talking about my failure and really exposing myself, but the value for the people who were there was that they got to hear that it’s OK. I went through this big horrible thing, but I’m alive. I’m here today.”

Like Hallak, Tonye Aganaba feels at peace on stage. A musician recently signed to 604 Records, she got her time in the F***up limelight earlier this year during the fourth instalment.

Her bombastic booboo involved an email conversation that inadvertently got into the wrong hands: the participants in the conversation were bad mouthing another musician and the email was mistakenly forwarded to the person in question.

Music business parlance suggests you can never have enough friends, but one enemy is too much.

“It was just so brutal,” Aganaba recalled.

“I wasn’t the one who sent the email, but I was complicit because I had spoken in a way that I should never speak about somebody.”

Getting the story off her chest was cathartic for Aganaba, but it also presented an opportunity for others to learn. That instalment of F***up Night took place at the Gastown pub Guilt & Co., where Aganaba works as the operations manager.

“I wanted to stand up in front of my staff and say, ‘Listen, we all make mistakes.’ We’re all human and no one is infallible,” she said. @JohnKurucz The next F***up Night happens Dec. 6 at Guilt & Co. For info, see facebook. com/FUNightsVancouver.

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Living KUDOS AND KVETCHES

Alcohol and scissors… together at last

Who of us hasn’t sat down at our local barber/dry merchant/blacksmith to have mink oil lovingly applied to our handlebar moustache and imagined how nice it would be to consume a refreshing glass of mead or corn whiskey if our stingy legislators would just allow it?

That Gold Rush fever dream is closer to reality thanks to those fun-lovin’ galoots in the B.C. government. Earlier this month it was announced that as of Jan. 23, 2017, businesses such as barber shops, salons, spas, cooking schools, art galleries and book stores will

be able to apply for a liquor license. Community newspapers? Maybe next year.

Not surprisingly, much fanfare was made for the announcement, with MLA John “Just Giv’r” Yap, parliamentary secretary for liquor policy, sharing the news in an old-timey Victoria

barbershop alongside store owner Matthew Conrad looking like a cast member of McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

Naturally, it wouldn’t be a government announcement without some bureaucracy thrown in. Barber shops and their staff will be required to get their Serving it Right cer-

tificate just to be considered for the privilege of cracking a cold one for their customers. Wielding a straight razor precariously around said customer’s jugular? Have at ’er.

Don’t get us wrong. We’re all for more opportunities to drink in public, but barber shops, hair salons and

cooking schools are pretty far down on our priority list.

What about drinking during parent-teacher interviews?

Or at the dentist office to take the edge off? Or on the sidelines of your kid’s kindof-lame soccer game?

That’s why God invented thermoses and wineskins.

“I go on board to make sure the tanker conforms with international safety guidelines.”

– Captain Robert Scott, Loading Master, Kinder Morgan Canada

Tankers calling at Trans Mountain’s loading dock must comply with internationally accepted oil-handling safety protocols and best practices. If the expansion is approved, enhanced measures will make sure that risks to our waterways from Trans Mountain tanker traffic will remain extremely low. We have been committed to safety for over 60 years – and we intend to keep it that way.

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Tankers calling at Westridge Marine Terminal are held to strict, internationally accepted construction and operating standards.

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All vessels must go through rigid pre-screening and physical inspection.

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Only double hulled tankers are allowed.

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Two expert local pilots are on board loaded tankers to Victoria. In future, pilots will disembark at Race Rocks, extending the piloted distance.

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An expanded tug escort regime will cover the entire tanker route – from Burnaby past the North Shore, through the Strait of Georgia and the Juan de Fuca Strait.

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Transport Canada’s certified marine-based spill response organization, Western Canada Marine Response Corporation (WCMRC), is on call 24/7.

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I turn from the display of pastries to see a smiling construction worker, clad in a reflective vest, a steaming bowl of soup and a stacked sandwich in front of him. “I’ve tried everything at least once, right?” he asks the server behind the counter, who nods.

If my iridescent friend has tried everything once, that’s a pretty impressive accomplishment. The menu at Swiss Bakery includes everything from burnished croissants to Nanaimo bars, salt-crusted pretzels to creamy cheesecake. (Pro tip: the braided brioche is the perfect substrate for French toast.)

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Continued from page 27 Through various jobs he picked up German and French techniques and in 1993, took over an existing business called Swiss Bakery.

Siu joined Swiss Bakery full-time seven years ago.

Prior to that, she’d worked at its original location in Kitsilano while she was going to school. “We did basic things, sandwiches and pastries. It wasn’t elaborate because we were punching everything into the cash register by hand — now we have a point-ofsales system.”

In 2004, Swiss Bakery moved to Mount Pleasant, which afforded them more space. They also have a separate production facility for breads, which Siu’s brother runs.

“It’s a weird transitional time,” says Siu. “We’re second-generation now with this company and we’re taking some time to decide where to go next.”

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tion has had its pull on the business. In 2013, when the world first glommed onto the deep-fried, croissant-doughnut love child known as the cronut, Siu saw an opportunity. Taking the idea to her dad (“It took us a month to figure out the right recipe”), the frissant — a portmanteau of fritter and croissant — was born. “To see customers lined up before we opened was a game-changer. I don’t think my dad has ever witnessed that, because the wholesale side was always his focus.”

Siu pauses. “I think I aged my dad a bit, but he enjoyed it.”

Today, frissants still sell out consistently, but you don’t have to queue at dawn to get one. The always-classic vanilla bean is usually available, plus a monthly seasonal flavour. The fruity ones tend to be less sweet and heavy, but let’s be honest — these are trivial concerns when we’re talking about deepfried croissant dough filled with pastry cream.

If the lunch rush is any indication, Swiss Bakery has a robust and loyal clientele.

But it hasn’t always been easy. Siu has noticed more acceptance of their business — a Swiss bakery run by Chinese people. She points to restaurant Kissa Tanto in Chinatown, with its melding of Japanese and Italian cuisines, as an example of how lines have blurred.

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One lady told us we should be making stuff out of rice. I was like, ‘What?’” she says.

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Maggie Rayner was 10 or 11 years old when her church in Richmond received visitors she will never forget. Her family belonged to a mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called Mormons. The guests, from the village of Bountiful in the east Kootenays, were part of a breakaway sect.

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While Canadians may be increasingly accustomed to a live-and-let-live attitude around sexuality, subscribing to Pierre Trudeau’s assertion that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, polygamy as it is practised in Bountiful is something quite specific.

As Daphne Bramham has written extensively in the Vancouver Sun and in a related book, the issue goes beyond individual choice and into dark subjects of abuse, the “marriage” of underage girls to men decades older than themselves and the exploitation of hundreds of oppressed followers by religious leaders who amass fortunes while their congregants/family members live lives of isolation, ignorance and poverty.

This was the life that could have been Rayner’s.

“The Bountiful polygamists came down to our congregation in Richmond and were trying to basically poach families with young girls,” she recalls. “My family, with three girls, was one that they set out to woo. My mother lived in fear that my father would want to take up polygamy.”

Her father, to Rayner’s great relief, nixed the idea of his 16-year-old daughter marrying the grandfatherly visitor.

“My father said no,” she says. “I was very lucky that he did or it would have followed that all three of us girls would now be married to polygamists.”

Rayner never rejected Mormonism because she never accepted it in the first place, she says. Alone among seven siblings, she — the middle child — never accepted what her church was offering. She spent most of Sunday in church, then there were evening meetings throughout the week, and Maggie played the piano for

the under-12 class.

“At the same time, I had never adopted the doctrine of the church,” she says.

“Why, I don’t know. I’m the only one of the seven children that ever questioned it. Mormons are baptized at eight and I knew at eight that I was a fraud, that I did not believe any of the Mormon principles. Black patent shoes and white bobby socks to celebrate baptism day were more important to me than the baptism. So I had never had a belief in the doctrine.”

At age 18, Rayner broke from her church and, by necessary extension, her family.

She made a life for herself, found a room in a shared house with other young women and began a career.

One day, she saw a notice for a discussion about polygamy at SFU’s downtown campus.

She headed over, assuming the theatre would be packed with people ready to discuss what Rayner considers a subject that should be of wide concern.

“There were maybe five people there,” she remembers. “I was shocked.”

Despite the poor turnout, Rayner met a core group who shared her concerns, including Debbie Palmer, who had escaped Bountiful and whose experiences were featured in the film Leaving Bountiful, and on CBC’s The Fifth Estate.

Rayner went on to write the book In Polygamy’s Shadow and will be the keynote speaker at the 13th annual luncheon marking the National Day Of Remembrance and Action On Violence Against Women, taking place Dec. 6 at Hycroft. She is proud to call herself an activist on behalf of women trying to escape religious oppression.

At its root, she says, polygamy as it is practised in Bountiful treats women like possessions.

“The very, very bottom line is an unequal balance of power between male and female and women being treated as commodities and their children even more so,” she says. “In a closed society, with no opportunity to develop any personhood, it just perpetuates itself. The women are taught in the belief system that to get into Mormon heaven and to have eternal salvation, the women are required to do this. This is what they believe and this is what they teach their children. So unless they submit and are obedient to this doctrine, their eternal salvation is on the line.” @Pat604Johnson

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vitrification. This is a flash freezing process that allows women to preserve their eggs for future use. But you may be waiting too long. Doctors recommend women freeze their eggs before age 38, with optimal years between 32 and 36. ➌ Are you missing your fertile window? If you rely on taking your basal body temperature (BBT) to determine the best time to have intercourse, you may be too late. The rise in your BBT occurs after you have ovulated. The sperm will live in the body for approximately 3 days but the egg only lives for 24-48 hours, so it is important to have intercourse before you ovulate rather than after.

The easiest way to find out if you are ovulating is to use an Ovulation Predictor Kit (OPK), where you pee on a stick and it measures a surge in the luteinizing hormone (LH) in your urine. Ovulation predictor kits are useful because they tell you when you are about

to ovulate, so you can have intercourse before you ovulate. The 12 to 36 hours from the time you test positive for ovulation, carries the highest likelihood for becoming pregnant. ➍ Are you a fertile weight? A healthy BMI (Body Mass Index) is 18.5 - 24.9. Just losing 5 to 10 pound if you are overweight (or gaining a few pounds if you are underweight) can significantly increase your chances of getting pregnant.

Weight is just as important for men. The National Institutes of Health found that overweight men are 20 per cent more likely to be infertile than men with a low to normal BMI, while obese men were 36 per cent more likely to be infertile.

Fat can affect fertility hormones and, in men, can lead to reduced sperm movement and increased sperm DNA fragmentation.

➎ Be proactive. Talk to your doctor if you are under

the age of 35 and have been trying to get pregnant for 12 months or more, or if you are over 35 and have been trying to conceive for six months or more. The chances of fertility treatment being successful become progressively less with advancing age.

Remember for the majority of couples who have difficulty conceiving most will go on to have a baby.

In BC, your consultations with a fertility specialist as well as the initial investigations for infertility and some surgical treatments are covered by MSP. Dr. Tallon is a fertility specialist at Olive Fertility Centre and a Clinical Assistant Professor at UBC. She works as part of a team of healthcare providers at the Women’s Reproductive Health Program, BCWH, dealing with early pregnancy .

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UBC HOSPITAL SLEEP DISORDERS PROGRAM IS EXPANDING SLEEP AND HEALTH CONDITIONS Poor sleep or sleep deprivation can weaken the body’s immune system, leaving people susceptible to infection, impaired quality of life and mental health issues. Many sleep disorders can be traced to lifestyle such as poor sleep hygiene, shift work and jet lag, but some sleep disorders, like sleep apnea and narcolepsy, require accurate diagnosis and treatment.

That’s where the UBC Hospital Sleep Disorders Program comes in.

The UBC Hospital Sleep Disorders Program is a specialized multi-disciplinary team comprised of psychiatrists, respirologists, a neurologist, sleep technologists, as well as coordinators and administrative support staff. The program was established in 1981 and is about to undergo its largest expansion in 35 years.

The new expanded sleep disorders clinic and lab will grow from six to nine beds and the dual-purpose space will be better equipped to operate 24/7. The expansion is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2017. It was made possible through donations to the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.

EXCITING TIMES FOR SLEEP AND SLEEP RESEARCH The new space will be innovatively designed. According to Tracey Taulu,

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Inquiring minds want to know, is it possible to catch up on sleep?

Many of us will look to the yearly time change to catch up on our sleep.

But our body clocks are far too complex to be so easily reset. Dr. Fleetham says we operate on a 24-hour clock.

Any change in the body’s routine can cause fatigue and sleepiness. We know increased fatigue is often a factor in motor vehicle accidents and workplace accidents.

According to Dr. Fleetham, the three ingredients of a long, healthy life are diet, exercise and sleep. “We tend to focus on diet and exercise, but ignore sleep, which is a mistake, given that 40 per cent of Canadians will suffer from some form of a sleep disorder in their lifetime,” he says.

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The weeks ahead continue to emphasize secrets, mysteries, sexual urges, research, detective work, hidden forces, medical matters and possible surgery, lifestyle changes, large financial options, and commitment and consequence, especially Monday afternoon to Wednesday midnight. All these have a mildly favourable green light these few weeks, especially as events in your work sphere will cooperate with these matters.

This is your money month, Scorpio – until December 20.

Chase new clients, ask the boss for a raise, seek new employment, have a garage sale, etc. This can also be a good time for significant purchases. Mercury retrograde begins around mid December, and the closer you get to that point, the more likely that you are negotiating for a lemon. The three days that doubly emphasize this earning and spending trend are not exactly “purely lucky” — that is, Monday noon to Wednesday midnight.

The emphasis remains on relationships until late December. Since this year (September 2016 – October 2017) holds a valuable romantic treasure for you – best in 13 years for many Geminis –these two influences can combine to help you find a splendid, loving life mate. Still, not everything is easy — this week, a major relationship influence arises Monday noon to Wednesday midnight, and the picture isn’t exactly pretty.

You’re at the top of your game, Sagittarius. Your charisma, energy and effectiveness remain high – and in fact grow higher this week. Rest, contemplate and plan Sunday to noon Monday. Re-gather your energies, be charitable and spiritual. Your surging vitality returns Monday noon to Wednesday midnight. Be a leader, start significant projects, get out and make new contacts or impress those you need to – but realize there are also obstacles in your way.

Work, drudgery, and nagging health concerns visit everyone at least once a year – the few weeks ahead are your time, so you might as well dig in and get it done. Realize that a slowdown and environment of mistakes comes December 19 to January 8. Plan your work and projects so they complete before the 19th. Your sex drive is still powerful until mid month and this week continues a minor thread that brings compatible relationships.

Continue to lie low, Cap — rest, contemplate and plan, deal with government and institutional workers as well as your own head office. Delegate tasks rather than doing them yourself. Be charitable, and dive into your own spiritual centre. Money continues to favour you – but if you don’t control your spending, you could end up with less. Late December will start a new personal year for you, with new beginnings, new plans, and new energy.

Ah, sweet romance! Single or married, Leo, this week and the next few will immerse you in pleasure. The pleasure can be romantic, creative, speculative, from games or sports, or from the deep beauty that nature breathes. This Monday noon to Wednesday midnight doubly emphasizes these lovely things. However, the aspects are very mixed. Be cautious during a disruptive first half of Tuesday and a deceptive daytime Wednesday.

You are immersed in a very social few weeks, Aquarius, and these weeks occur in the midst of a longer-term trend that favours higher education, intellectual pursuits, far travel, international affairs, cultural and religious venues, and love. A longheld wish could come true in any of these zones now to late December, and especially Monday noon to Wednesday midnight this week.

Sunday and the first half of Monday bring errands, details, paperwork, short distance travel, communications and casual acquaintances. All is well – pay attention to the “start nothing” period.

The three weeks ahead continue to emphasize your domestic situation: family, security, retirement, children and their future, gardening, landscaping, renos and repairs, etc. DON’T start any projects which you cannot finish before mid December.

The general focus remains on your career and worldly ambitions, Pisces, especially Monday noon to Wednesday midnight. Monday is fine; Tuesday flows against you in the morning but aids you this afternoon right to predawn Wednesday. Do all you can to elevate your profile and/or start ambitious projects and/or start a “workplace partnership.” A confidential discussion could be involved. One caution: don’t start any project that cannot be finished by mid December.

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Sports & Recreation VOLLEYBALL | B.C. SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Championship dreams alive for entire eight-team league All six Vancouver private schools still in the hunt for B.C. title

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When every single team in a league advances to the championship tournament, you know you’ve got a good thing going.

For the first time, all eight teams in the Lower Mainland Independent Secondary School Athletic Association (LMISSAA) are in the running to attend the B.C. School Sport senior girls volleyball championships next month.

Five of six Vancouver schools have qualified for B.C.s at the AA and AAA levels and one more plays in a wildcard playoff this weekend in the Okanagan.

(Sports teams throughout the province are classified based on senior girls or boys respective school population.)

“It shows you the strength of our league, again,” said Chris Ruse, a teacher at York House and a former head coach of the AA Tigers who finished second at this year’s Lower Mainland qualifying tournament.

At the AAA level, Little

Flower Academy and Crofton House will advance. For AA, the qualifying teams are St. Patrick’s, York House and Notre Dame, while West Point Grey Academy must finish in the top two at a backdoor tournament this weekend. The seasons are still alive for the remaining two teams in the LMISSAA: Burnaby’s St. Thomas More will try to qualify along with WPGA, and Burnaby’s Carver Christian will compete at the single-A provincial championship.

The Celtics finished in first place at the AA regional championship after leading the league with a 6-1 record, and St. Pat’s head coach Adele Renzullo said the already competitive private school league benefitted from that tournament opening to more teams than in previous seasons.

“Our league this year was amazing,” she said.

“So strong.”

The reason all eight LMISSAA teams stand to advance is because the Lower Mainland AA and AAA tournaments ex-

Little Flower Academy Angels Chanel Larrabure (No. 5) and Maria Liaskas (No. 14) rise above the net to block a shot in a semi-final win over Richmond’s McNair Marlins on Nov. 18. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

panded from eight to 12 teams, meaning contenders weren’t facing the end of their season before playoffs really got started.

“We are no longer knocking each other out of contention before Lower Mainlands and are representing our league at

provincials because of it,” said Ruse. “Eight teams in the league and all eight at the provincial championships — we must be doing something right.”

At the AAA tournament, Little Flower Academy and Crofton House finished first and second after an electric

final hosted by the Angels.

Ross Ballard, the head coach of the LFA Angles for eight seasons, says the league’s depth is from a competitive spirit as well as coaching experience and stability.

“It is a testament to the consistency of coaching as well as the quality of coaching. Many of the teams in our league have long-time coaches who are both teachers and coaches at their respective schools and that type of consistency at the very top makes all the difference in my opinion,” he said.

The AA tournament is in Abbotsford and the AAA tournament is in Kelowna. Both run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.

AAAA senior girls

The two-time city champion Churchill Bulldogs were knocked out of the Lower Mainland tournament after failing to advance from the group stage. Head coach Pearl Ling said attendance at practice was low, and the players didn’t show what they were capable of.

“The girls had a slow start

on the first round,” she said.

Four Vancouver teams will compete at provincials: Lord Byng, Killarney, Magee and Van Tech head to B.C.s, held on the North Shore in December. Seeding is yet to be determined.

AAA senior boys

The Van Tech Talismen withstood another five-set final after taking a 2-0 lead over the Moscrop Panthers in the senior boys AAA Lower Mainland final on Nov. 18 at David Thompson secondary. After going up two sets, the Talismen dropped the next two and let Moscrop back in the game.

The province’s No. 3-ranked Talismen won the decisive fifth set with Coltyn Liu earning tournament MVP honours.

Moscrop advances to the B.C. tournament next weekend in Langley, as do Killarney and David Thompson. Seeding is still undetermined. @MHStewart

FOOTBALL | B.C. CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINAL

Notre Dame one win away from shot at B.C. championship Quarterback Steven Moretto leads the playoff charge Megan Stewart

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Breaking out on what would be a 50-yard-run touchdown, Alfred Dela Cruz (No. 7) scored the only major for Vancouver College in the quarter-final loss. PHOTO CHUNG CHOW

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The number of Vancouver field hockey players selected to the men’s national junior team that will represent Canada at the World Cup, beginning Dec. 8 in Lucknow, India. On the roster of 18, only four players are drawn from outside B.C.

They are the winningest program in B.C.’s varsity football history with 14 provincial titles, and now the Notre Dame Jugglers are one win away from playing for the 2016 championship.

Last week in the AAA

quarter-finals at BC Place on Nov. 19, the Jugglers defeated cross-town rival Vancouver College by holding the Fighting Irish to a scoreless second half. Quarterback Steven Moretto ran for two touchdowns in a 27-10 victory.

Joseph Santalucia opened scoring for Notre Dame before Vancouver

College answered with a field goal off the foot of Eddie Gonzalez and a massive touchdown run by Alfred Dela Cruz. Notre Dame fell back 10-7, but after the break, the Jugglers stopped all Vancouver College scoring and surged ahead for the win.

The Jugglers meet the New Westminster Hyacks

: On building legacies near and far…

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The position on the coaching hierarchy of the junior men’s national field hockey team for Vancouver’s Inderpal “Indy” Sehmbi, a former national team player and teacher at Eric Hamber secondary.

Canada plays powerhouse India in its first match at the World Cup.

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The number of seasons Ryan Birt lead the women’s soccer team at Langara College.

The longest-serving coach in the history of the program, with an all-time record of 113-59-37 and three national collegiate championship titles, Birt announced his retirement this month.

The relationships forged with both players and coaches are what I loved the most about coaching at Langara.

— Ryan Birt, on the decision to retire as the head coach of the Langara Falcons women’s soccer program. A high school teacher in North Vancouver and father of two sons, Birt is retiring to focus on family and education career ambitions.

in the AAA varsity semifinal at 5 p.m. Nov. 26 at BC Place. In a Western Division league meeting in September, Notre Dame came out ahead in a roughand-tumble contest. They beat the Hyacks 44-28 at Burnaby Lake Park.

South Delta and Terry Fox play in the second semifinal game at 7:30 p.m.

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