Vancouver Courier December 8 2016

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Our customers are treated like good neighbours, getting the best service, selection, and quality everyday. From our store to your door, everyone should feel like part of the Stong’s family.

It’s great to be home for the Holidays Continued on next page.

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Landlord agency selling benefits of renting empty homes Mike Howell

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Hey landlords, got your letter yet from the mayor about the empty homes tax?

I know, I know — nothing says welcome to the holidays like a letter from Mayor Gregor Robertson reminding you that you’ll be hit with a one per cent tax if you don’t rent out your second or third home to someone desperate to find a place to live in this city.

Don’t worry snowbirds, you’re fine.

As for the rest of you, well, you’re going to have to visit the city’s website to find out whether your situation qualifies for an exemption from the tax. Here’s a fact that may bring you some relief, or raise your blood pressure: The tax will not apply to properties that are rented out for a minimum of six months of the year, in periods of at least 30 consecutive days.

Deep breaths for those suddenly realizing they’re going to get taxed. Let me do the simple math for you…

The one per cent tax would mean a house assessed at $1 million would be levied with a $10,000 bill, on top of the base property tax bill of $3,165 for a total cost of $13,165.

The overall tab would be in line with what a commercial property assessed at the same $1-million value pays in base property tax.

So if that additional $10,000 is enough to scare or shame you into renting out your condo or house — or whatever else all that cash bought you — then has LandlordBC got a deal for you. That’s the organization of owners and managers of rental housing that is working with the city to get you on board the rental train.

It’s not really a deal, but more of a how-to guide on becoming a landlord — from screening tenants to residential tenancy agreements to move-in, moveout inspection reports.

David Hutniak, CEO of LandlordBC, along with Coun. Geoff Meggs and property manager Krishna Mulder were at city hall Monday to

The city has partnered with LandlordBC to sell property owners on the benefits of renting out their empty homes, instead of paying the new empty homes tax. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

highlight the agency’s website and sell the whole idea of becoming a landlord.

Apparently, there could be up to 20,000 empty homes in Vancouver, according to Meggs, who cited data from a citycommissioned study and another by urban planner Andy Yan of Bing Thom Architects. If at least 2,000 of those homes were opened up for rentals, that would have a significant effect on

the 0.7 per cent vacancy rate, Meggs said.

“We work night and day to produce a thousand additional market rental units a year,” he said, referring to incentive programs for developers of rental housing. “If we could add 2,000 due to this measure, that would be like two years of rental market production at one whack. That has demonstrable impacts in vacancy rates.”

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ty owners will actually want to become landlords, that’s a big unknown. Some might argue that those who can afford two or three homes can afford the $10,000 annual tax, instead of the hassles of being a landlord or hiring a property manager. Others, I’m sure, don’t like governments telling them what they should and shouldn’t do with their property.

“We’re entering into interesting and hard-toforecast territory,” Meggs acknowledged.

But already, Hutniak said, homeowners have pre-registered on LandlordBC’s site to learn more about becoming a landlord and enrolled in webinars planned for the new year.

He didn’t have a total count of registrants but said it was “in the dozens.”

Mulder, who is also a realtor, told reporters after the news conference that renting out one of his homes has greatly benefited him, while at the same time provided a place to live for a person in need of housing. “[My tenant] has consis-

tently, for the past eight years, paid my mortgage, paid my strata fees and paid my property taxes — never mind also paying my mortgage down,” Mulder said. “It’s a no-brainer. It is really smart to have a tenant in place. It’s a win-win for everyone.”

Though the city has begun its sales pitch to property owners to become landlords, the tax won’t actually take effect for a couple of years.

Next December, the city will send out a “property status declaration notice” with the city’s advance property tax notice. Owners must declare the property’s status — i.e., does it qualify to be taxed —

by February 2018.

Homeowners found to have made false declarations will be subject to fines and penalties of up to $10,000 a day. The city says revenue from the tax, which is the first of its kind in Canada, will be set aside for affordable housing initiatives. How much potential tenants of all these empty homes will actually pay in rent is another story. @Howellings

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Anderson’s plea came less than 48 hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in Ottawa that the federal cabinet approved Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

The news quickly spread on social media and led to a protest outside the CBC studios in downtown Vancouver, where hundreds of people, including First Nations leaders, marched in opposition to the government’s decision.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, who was

arrested in November 2014 on Burnaby Mountain for protesting Kinder Morgan’s project, said in a statement last week that he and fellow leaders will do “whatever it takes to stop the pipeline from going through.”

Legal action by First Nations and environmentalists is expected in efforts to prevent the project from going ahead. Anderson said, “We have to take [legal action] as it comes and see what’s presented to us. We’re prepared and ready for challenges that may come.”

The new pipeline will almost triple the number of barrels of oil shipped per day from Edmonton to the shores of Burrard Inlet, increasing from 300,000 to

890,000. Tanker traffic will increase from an average of five per month to 34.

Trudeau pointed out that cabinet’s approval hinges on Kinder Morgan meeting or exceeding 157 conditions set out by the National Energy Board in May. More than 50 conditions are related to the environment and 53 involve engineering and safety.

Trudeau said the Kinder Morgan project will create 15,000 construction jobs and benefit Canadians, particularly those out-of-work Albertans in the energy sector.

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The president of Kinder Morgan Canada has issued a plea to critics of the company’s Edmonton-to-Burnaby pipeline project to protest in a peaceful and lawful manner that will not bring harm to his employees.

Ian Anderson said in a conference call with reporters Nov. 30 that Kinder Morgan is “fully and acutely” aware that people have threatened to oppose the $6.8-billion project “at all costs.”

“What I say to them is this: Our number one and unwavering priority is the safety of our community, the safety of my staff, our neighbours, our assets and the environment, and we will not compromise that under any condition,” said Anderson, noting the company has adhered to all the rules in the regulatory process to get approval from the federal cabinet for its 987-kilometre pipeline that will run from Edmonton to Burnaby. “At the end of the day, the [National Energy Board] and the government has said our project is in the interest of Canadians. So I continue to say to those who will continue to oppose to please respect the process, respect the law and, above all, respect the safety of our communities.”

Added Anderson: “People may continue to disagree and express their views but

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Non-profit needs $80,000 to maintain vital services

Wheelchair-accessible van sought to help clients get to medical appointments and out into the community John Kurucz

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At first blush, it’s little more than four wheels, some metal and a series of wires.

But for residents at a long-term care facility in Kitsilano, it’s their only link to vital medical appointments, visiting family and a feeling of independence.

The Greater Vancouver Community Services Society (GVCSS) is appealing for donations to raise the $80,000 necessary to purchase a new, wheelchair-compatible van used to transport four clients with physical and cognitive disabilities.

The van currently in use is close to a quarter century old and on its last legs: the interior floor is rusting out, the wheelchair lift breaks down and the engine has logged close to 222,000 kilometres.

“Our level of need is urgent at this stage,” said Laura Johnson, fund development officer with GVCSS. “Residents use the van to attend frequent medical appointments, as well as

Laura Johnson, fund development officer with the Greater Vancouver Community Services Society, describes the society’s aging van as a “lifeline” for residents. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

the recreational and social activities that support their independence — they visit with family members, attend worship services, go to sporting events and movies.”

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non-profit society provides homecare to 4,000 clients per year, including the elderly, people with disabilities and those who require support to retain or regain their health and independence.

The four residents living at the home located near Fourth Avenue and Alma Street are all wheelchair bound and non-verbal; some rely on sign language to communicate.

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The society relies on funding from Community Living B.C. to care for group home residents on a permanent basis, but that money isn’t enough to cover the van replacement costs.

A similar fundraising drive on the North Shore came to a head on Nov. 29, when GVCSS members celebrated the purchase of a similar van, albeit a smaller one, that services clientele at the North Vancouver-based Mount Seymour group home.

About $60,000 was raised by way of private donors, family members and money from community foundations.

“The van is a lifeline — it’s how the residents within the group home are able to leave the house,” Johnson said.

Those interested in donating can do so online at gvcss.bc.ca, or by calling Johnson at 604-714-3517. @JohnKurucz

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7. Students will remain in the existing school, built in 1910, until the new facility is opened.

The new three-storey school will have a Neighbourhood Learning Centre and a StrongStart program.

The City of Vancouver also chipped in $6.4 million to build a 69-space childcare centre. “By combining new child care facilities with upgrades to our schools, the city is maximizing its investment and working with the provincial government

Vancouver schools were rife with funding announcements, government ministers and promises of better days ahead last week.

The bonanza kicked off Wednesday at Lord Nelson elementary school, when the province doled out $18.4 million for the school’s seismic replacement. The new school is expected to be ready by the fall of 2018 and will have the same capacity: 57 kids in kindergarten and 373 students in Grades 1 to

to help deliver new child care spaces for Vancouver parents,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said in a prepared statement.

The Liberals’ happy happy, joy joy tour of the city continued Friday, when Vancouver MLAs Andrew Wilkinson and Sam Sullivan attended the opening of the $16.5-million seismic replacement of General Gordon elementary in Kitsilano.

The new school includes two kindergarten classrooms and 16 classrooms for Grades

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All in, the three-storey building accommodates 38 kindergarten and 373 elementary students. It also includes a Neighbourhood Learning Centre that provides space for a music program, a multi-purpose area with a kitchen, a “flexible performance space” and an improved library.

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Opinion

A secure, affordable home is becoming increasingly out of reach ALLEN GARR COLUMNIST

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ur language is littered with cultural tropes about that most important element in our lives: a home. Home is where the heart is, it is home sweet home, there is no place like home and we want to be home for the holidays.

Yet that most essential element to ensure our well-being, a secure, affordable home, whether we are a retired senior, a recovering addict, a refugee on the run or just plain folks trying to make their way in life, has become increasingly out if reach in our part of the world; unaffordable for both those who aspire to own or those who are willing to rent.

This socially destructive situation did not happen all at once, nor was there a single cause, although it can be generally viewed as the de-coupling of personal income and the cost of housing.

Malcolm Gladwell, the Canadian journalist and author, in his insightful book The Tipping Point, noted that when it comes to trends there is no one incident that triggers the phenomenon — rather there are a number of patterns and factors at play. That would certainly be true if you consider the tipping point that has led to Vancouver’s chronic lack of affordable housing.

In one of a series of research studies on housing availability and affordability con-

ducted by the director of SFU’s City Program Andy Yan, he noted that following the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, we saw the first burst of Vancouver single-family houses priced above $1 million. Before that, 10 years ago, about nine per cent of the city’s houses were in that range. Now that represents the city’s average house price. And it was at that point at which the relationship between house prices and income “fell apart.”

The invitation during Expo 86 and the global exposure of Vancouver during the Winter Olympics had its affect. Foreign capital, which had become increasingly mobile, came to town. And immigration accelerated.

Because of the 2008 financial crash, we saw a change in investment patterns.

Rather than putting money into the stock market, real estate was seen as a more secure option for building wealth and not just the traditional factories and commercial buildings, but homes.

At the same time, money was getting cheaper as interest rates were dropping around the world.

Developers, who 30 years ago received Federal Government tax incentives to both build and maintain rental properties, were no longer in that business of building affordable rentals once those incentives were removed. But with low interest rates and the prospect of a new stream of investors shifting from the stock market to residential real estate, there was a boom in condo

This socially destructive situation did not happen all at once, nor was there a single cause, although it can be generally viewed as the de-coupling of personal income and the cost of housing. developments, many of which were sold out before a shovel was even put in the ground.

Cheap money also encouraged locals wanting to own to stretch themselves more than what otherwise would have been prudent.

Then Airbnb and other platform players in the short-term rental market entered the scene half a dozen years ago. That allowed two things to happen. Home buyers could stretch themselves even more by renting out a portion of their homes. And tenants

found they were being pushed out of long-term rentals by landlords who wanted to increase their profits by turning their properties into tourist accommodations.

In a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade last week, CMHC’s president and CEO Evan Siddall presented a grim picture while exploring housing prices particularly in Metro Vancouver. He considered the impact that increased inflow of people and cheap money had on soaring household debt and concluded: “Highly-indebted borrowers are more likely to be younger, first-time homebuyers. With potentially less employment experience due to their age, they would also be at higher risk of losing their jobs in the event of a downturn.”

Siddall also looked at “core housing needs,” which means you spend 30 per cent or more of your income on housing. “Severe core housing needs” means you are spending more than 50 per cent of your before-tax income on housing. And, he noted, Metro Vancouver is among the highest in the country on both counts.

He criticized the “weak and lagging supply response in Vancouver to the need for more housing, making the problem worse.”

“If,” he said, “we are in a crisis, we should all act like it.” Indeed we are and we should. @allengarr

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Affordability crisis

affordable housing that any government in the history of this country has ever made,” Clark boasted at a news conference last month.

Robertson would obviously like to see more but told the Courier that any investment in affordable housing in Vancouver was a good thing. That promised investment comes the same year that saw the city approve more housing, including market and rental, introduce a vacant homes tax, which comes into effect next year, look to regulate short-term rentals like the ones you see on Airbnb and increase the family housing requirement in new buildings to 35 per cent — that essentially means more three-bedroom units.

In April, the city introduced an “affordable home ownership pilot program” targeted at households earning no more than $96,000 per year, approved a modular housing complex for low-income people at Main and Terminal and gave the green light for the development of more lowrise townhomes and stacked townhouses along the Cambie Corridor and in Marpole.

Since 2011, the city claims, council has enabled 12,000 new affordable homes.

mhowell@vancourier.com

An eye roll please…

After months of anguish and sleepless nights endured by the Courier’s editorial staff to settle on the one topic that topped the news in Vancouver this year, we’ve finally agreed on a winner.

It’s affordability — again.

Yep, for the first time in the Courier’s history of picking the Newsmaker of the Year, we’ve got a repeat winner. It was, in all seriousness, an easy call — and a topic we predicted last year would likely contend, if not repeat, for top newsmaker honours in 2016.

Which, in the case of anyone trying to find a place to rent or buy in this city, is not a good thing.

You probably knew that.

Especially if you or people you know were trying to live out a politician’s definition of “affordable:” No more than 30 per cent of your income should be spent on housing.

That number was not pulled out of a hat.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation established that percentage years ago, and politicians rely on the figure when asked to describe their definition of affordable.

Like we said last year, the 30 per cent goal is not only unattainable for many people in Vancouver who want to remain here, but depressing for those who have thoughts of moving into the city.

The richy rich excluded, of course.

The unfortunate reality is dumpy houses on small lots on the East Side continue to fetch way north of $1 million. The price balloons to $3 million and $4 million in well-to-do West Side neighbourhoods, where bidding wars have become a sport.

For renters, who comprise more than 50 per cent of residents, the news is not good, either: Vacancy rates are holding steady below one per cent and rents continue to rise, and two-bedroom apartment rents are roughly 45 per cent higher than the national urban average. Bidding wars, sadly, are now part of that world, too.

It’s no wonder the rest of the country has a collective head shake anytime it hears that bungalows in Vancouver are being sold for more than 10 times Mayor Gregor Robertson’s annual salary of $161,308.

We’ve become a national joke: British Columbia=Bring Cash!

Government intervention

But the doom and gloom that hangs over the city’s housing market got a little less gloomy this year with some intervention by government in the way of taxes, cracking down on shady realtors, promising more affordable housing and introducing new mortgage rules.

Less gloomy and more newsworthy, the Courier concluded, than other contenders for Newsmaker of the Year, including Minister of Education Mike Bernier’s decision to fire the nine trustees on the Vancouver School Board, the overdose drug epidemic that has seen hundreds of deaths in Vancouver and the rest of the province, the federal cabinet’s approval of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, the progress of First Nations in the city and the city’s purchase of the Arbutus Corridor property from Canadian Pacific Railway for the purpose of building a transportation greenway.

The mayor, as you’ve read in these pages,

With high real estate prices, rents climbing and vacancy rates holding steady below one per cent, living in Vancouver has never been less easy for so many. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

has been pretty much on autopilot the past few years on the need to make housing more affordable. It’s an issue that has consumed his third term in office. His fear is the city will become a bland, characterless place to live, with only those with big dollars calling Vancouver home.

Some would argue that’s already happened.

Maybe you’ve heard Robertson say this: “Housing needs to be first and foremost about homes, not to be treated as a commodity but as a human right.”

Nice quote.

But what, you ask, has his administration done this year to address the housing affordability crisis? A lot, he’ll say. Or, as he often qualifies in his statements on housing, the city is doing what it can but needs more help from the provincial and federal governments.

‘Weak and lagging response’

This is the point in the story where the reader should expect to learn more about the city’s work on the housing front. That’s coming in a few paragraphs. But Evan Siddall’s words last week to a crowd of business types belonging to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade need to be dropped in this space for some insight into what the city is not doing, or could do better.

Siddall is the president and chief executive officer of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the same agency that concluded Canadians should be spending no more than 30 per cent of their income on housing.

“Municipal leaders talk of a housing crisis and their primary solution is to demand $12.6 billion in urgent funding from the federal government,” he said in his speech Nov. 30 at the Westin Bayshore, in reference to the funding request from big city mayors, including Robertson. “The weak and lagging response in Vancouver — rezoning restrictions, density limits, development fees and the time it takes for approval of new supply, and not just for affordable housing — needs urgent attention. If there’s a crisis, we should all act like it.”

Sound familiar?

Premier Christy Clark told Robertson something very similar last year when they tangled via a letter exchange over the affordability crisis. The mayor called for the provincial government to build more affordable housing and implement a tax to penalize property speculators and increase the property transfer tax on luxury homes.

The premier wrote back, saying the city could do more to create affordable housing by resorting to better land use planning and lowering fees and levies for new homes.

Sharp words, but neither politician budged.

Foreign buyers’ tax

Then along came 2016.

That political prose punch-up was replaced by some direct action by Clark and Robertson. At the provincial level, Clark announced a 15 per cent tax on foreign real estate transactions in Metro Vancouver and a luxury tax on homes priced over $2 million.

The provincial government also ended self-regulation of the real estate industry by appointing Michael Noseworthy as superintendent of real estate. His job is to crack down on those realtors run amok and engaging in illegal and unethical practices.

Much of the government’s action, we might add, was thanks to some fantastic journalism by Kathy Tomlinson at the Globe and Mail and others on the real estate beat. Suddenly, “shadow flipping” was watercooler talk.

David Eby, the NDP MLA for VancouverPoint Grey, raised his profile over the last year as his party’s housing critic, hosting town hall meetings and calling on Clark and the Liberals to provide more affordable housing.

To address the supply side of housing, Clark and Housing Minister Rich Coleman announced $855 million for affordable housing projects in B.C., with at least 10 in Vancouver. Total number of units promised was 4,900.

“It is the largest single year investment in

2,500 homes in five years

The mayor’s goal is to have another 2,500 affordable homes built in the next five years.

That goal would be accelerated and possibly surpassed if senior governments dole out some serious cash to build more housing on 20 sites offered up by the city.

Back in Ottawa, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has watched the insanity that is Vancouver’s housing market unfold since it took office last year.

Trudeau has promised a national housing strategy and pledged in this year’s budget to spend $2.3 billion over the next two years on a series of affordable housing measures, including low-cost loans for municipalities and developers. Another $2.7 billion is targeted at the rental supply.

In October, the mayor applauded the Trudeau government for closing a capital gains tax loophole that enabled unregulated, speculative global capital to churn up Vancouver’s real estate market.

Robertson said he was also encouraged by new mortgage rules introduced by the Trudeau government to ensure buyers can afford a loan, if interest rates rise, or their personal financial situation changes.

All of what governments are doing on the real estate front, they say, is to cool an overheated housing market. As anyone knows looking to buy or rent, none of the measures appears to have had a significant effect. In time, maybe.

Meanwhile, there are still those out there who put all this madness at the feet of the socalled foreign buyer. B.C. government data shows that from June 10 to Oct. 31, foreign nationals accounted for seven per cent of property transactions in Metro Vancouver.

Is that significant?

To some, yes, to others, no.

Regardless, it’s newsworthy and it satiates the appetite of countless people in this city who love to read, talk and obsess about real estate. Apparently, there’s nothing else going on in Vancouver.

Maybe the Christmas holidays will give us a reprieve.

Property assessments arrive in the mail in January. Good luck everyone. @Howellings

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Newsmaker runners-up: 1. You’re fired

In October, Education Minister Mike Bernier fired the nine-person Vancouver School Board because he said they failed to comply with School Act and adopt a balanced budget on time. “What we have witnessed from the Vancouver School Board is a misplaced focus on political tactics rather than responsible stewardship,” Bernier told reporters. Vision Vancouver’s Mike Lombardi was among trustees who disagreed.

2. Fentanyl crisis

The B.C. Coroners Service says 622 people died of a suspected drug overdose in B.C. between January and October of this year, with 124 recorded in Vancouver. That’s about two people dying every day. The deadly synthetic narcotic, fentanyl, was detected in 60 per cent of those deaths. The epidemic caused harm reduction advocates to set up temporary drug injection sites in the Downtown Eastside.

3. Pipeline fever

Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the federal cabinet approved Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Edmonton-to-Burnaby

pipeline expansion project. The announcement sparked outrage on social media and in the streets of Vancouver, where protests are expected to continue into next year. A seven-fold increase in oil tanker traffic in Vancouver waters is part of the plan.

4. Truth and transformation

As the Courier’s special series showed this year, First Nations are making progress in the city in various areas, including politics, land development, policing, education and at city hall, where Ginger Gosnell-Myers (pictured) is manager of Aboriginal relations.

5. Bye, bye CPR

In March, Mayor Gregor Robertson announced that a years-long battle over the future of the Arbutus Corridor had been resolved in a $55-million deal between the City of Vancouver and Canadian Pacific Railway. The city plans to turn the corridor into a greenway for pedestrians, cyclists and potentially see light rail running along the nine-kilometre route from First Avenue to Milton Street, near Southwest Marine Drive and West 75th Avenue.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER T H U R SDAY, DE C E M B E R 8 , 2 0 1 6

Arts & Entertainment

The Mirror Test reflects themes of body image and self-worth John Kurucz

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When Kevin Kokoska looks in the mirror, it becomes an exercise in existentialism.

With a background spanning counselling, psychotherapy and theatre, Kokoska is challenging the notions of self and self-worth in his one-man comedic production, The Mirror Test.

Running Dec. 9 and 10 at the Orpheum Annex, The Mirror Test follows the lives of two men on either side of the 49th parallel: one character, which is loosely based on Kokoska, is a lean, fit counsellor named Calvin who’s about to travel to his first gig as a licensed therapist in the U.S. The other character, Gus, is U.S.-based, suffers from a binge-eating disorder, and will eventually be counselled by his Canadian counterpart to help him fight his obesity.

Both characters are obsessed with what they see in the mirror: the American loathes his body image, while the Canadian struggles with perfection and identity each time he looks at himself.

A dichotomy unfolds when the two meet and that theme runs throughout the play: Gus can’t understand why Calvin — someone who’s seemingly so physically fit — could suffer from body-image issues.

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Kevin Kokoska’s one-man play The Mirror Test runs at the Orpheum Annex Dec. 9 and 10. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“We look at ourselves all the time and we’re almost obsessed with doing so,” Kokoska said. “But it’s a harder to road to travel when you take an honest look at yourself.”

Kokoska took a circuitous route to acting, and the seed was planted three years ago while he was studying counselling at UBC. He and his classmates were constantly tasked with role-playing scenarios as part of their studies, and that’s where the creative spark was lit.

Kokoska took acting classes on the side and found synergies in the marriage of his professional and artistic pursuits.

“In my experience, actors are doing a lot of the same things therapists are doing except they don’t have the safety net of a counsellor’s chair underneath them,” he said.

In writing and prepping

the production, Kokoska found himself emotionally straying off kilter. He got so worked up in trying to live and understand the characters that he fell into a bout of depression himself.

“Through this process, I’ve inadvertently had little glimpses of it but I had it for a very short period of time,” he said. “Luckily, I have a good self-care program and network around me. But it showed me how this stuff can creep up on you. Sometimes you don’t know where your emotional boundaries are until you actually bump into them.” @JohnKurucz The Mirror Test runs Friday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m., and twice on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets cost $20 and are available at the door, or online at kokoska.co/mirror.

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Landmark play Creeps full of dark humour but no pity

Jo Ledingham joleding@telus.net

It’s hard to say who the creeps are in Creeps, written in 1971 by the late Canadian playwright David Freeman. Certainly the five men disabled by cerebral palsy (CP) and hanging out together in the bathroom of a sheltered workshop are not creeps, although some unenlightened people might have referred to them that way back then. Miss Saunders (Genevieve Fleming) and Mr. Carson (David Bloom), the supervisor and director of the workshop respectively, aren’t creeps; they’re probably well intentioned but are impatient, thoughtless and insensitive.

One might argue that Mr. Carson is a creep because he is benefitting from the men’s unpaid labour — but how much money is there in the blocks of wood that the men endlessly sand?

And what of the Rotary Club, the Shriners and the various churches and charity groups that try to make life bearable for the disabled? Entertaining the men with clowns and balloons is condescending, but chances are, if the Shriners and Rotarians could figure out how to make life better for these CP sufferers, they would.

Described as being savagely funny, Creeps’ humour is more like selfdeprecating desperation.

But what neither the play nor the characters ask for is pity.

Playwright Freeman, who died in 2012 at the age of 67, was himself afflicted with CP but was encouraged as a young man to

RealWheels’ production of Creeps is the only production of the trailblazing play that has included disabled performers, and it reaffirms one of theatre company’s core values: inclusiveness in working with professionally trained artists with disabilities.

write short stories and articles. He spent some time in a sheltered workshop (now called supervised workplaces), and clearly Creeps and the character named Jim grew out of his experience. Opening in 1971 at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, Creeps shocked audiences with its rawness and dark humour; the play is now viewed as a trailblazer in Canadian theatre history.

It says a lot for the performances under the direction of Brian Cochrane that although the press release says that only three of the five actors are disabled, it actually looks as if all five of them are. Aaron Roderick, mildly disabled with a neurological condition, makes an amazing debut performance in his portrayal of Tom, a would be artist who just needs — and asks for — a nudge from Jim (Adam Grant Warren) to leave the workshop and try to make a go of it as an artist. They could, Tom says, get a little apartment

together; he could paint, Jim could write, life could be great. Always ready to throw cold water on everything is bitter, cynical Sam (Brett Harris). Pragmatic Pete (Paul Beckett) thinks they should go for it, but for himself, he seems to have made peace with his situation. A free turkey dinner at the Spastic Club is OK with him. “They want to make life easier for me,” he says.

Fantasy visits by a couple of clowns played by Fleming and David Kaye are bathed in red light and occur fleetingly. We’re not sure they’ve actually happened or not — even though the men are left holding balloon animals.

Kaye also plays Michael, the character most severely disabled in both body and mind. I had to check with the publicist to confirm that Kaye was not actually disabled so authentic was his performance.

Set, light and props designer Lauchlin Johnston transforms the heritage stage of the Cultch into a

grubby men’s washroom with a couple of urinals and a couple of stalls — neither of which is wide enough to accommodate Sam’s wheelchair. The whole set looks like it could use a good scrubbing down with Lysol, and I’m guessing the performers all go home and have a shower.

This production is, apparently, the only production of Creeps that has included disabled performers, and it reaffirms one of RealWheels’ core values: inclusiveness in working with professionally trained artists with disabilities.

Have things improved since the writing of this play? Well, no one would call the disabled “creeps” now, but there’s still a long way to go.

For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca.

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Gifts for the foodie SANDRA THOMAS sthomas@vancourier.com CHOCOLATE SALAMI Following an office taste test of this chocolate salami from Langleybased Well Seasoned Gourmet Food Store, I had to declare this confection “dangerously addictive.” A classic and popular Italian and Portuguese dessert, chocolate salami looks like the regular version, but contains no meat and instead is filled with chocolate, almonds and pistachios combined with hints of sweet and tangy orange rind and dried cherries. Slice and serve as part of an after-dinner dessert platter or alongside a cup of freshly brewed coffee or hot chocolate. Visit wellseasoned.ca.

PURDYS CHOCOLATES Here’s a way to not only enjoy your favourite holiday chocolates, but also feel good about your choice. Purdys Chocolatiers uses only 100 per cent sustainable cocoa, which helps support farmers, their cocoa co-ops and communities. And it’s local — Purdys Chocolatiers launched on Robson Street in Vancouver in 1907, before relocating to West Seventh Avenue in 1949.

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BOOKS FOR FOODIES Vancouver perennial favourite CinCin Ristorante + Bar celebrated its 25th anniversary this year with the release of a beautifully-

Chef James Walt from worldrenowned Araxi Restaurant & Oyster Bar has also created and compiled recipes designed for the home cook in a gorgeous book, Araxi: Roots to Shoots Farm Fresh Recipes. Among its many awards and accolades, this Whistler-based restaurant was also named best restaurant in Canada by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Visit araxi.com.

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It’s suspected that with continued climate change, the Okanagan and Similkameen regions will eventually surpass world-famous Napa Valley when it comes to wine production. But with so many wineries opening across the province, it’s easy to be confused about B.C. wines. And that’s where Rachel von Sturmer comes in with her definitive guide to the wines of these regions, Winetripping: Your Guide to the Best Wineries of British Columbia, complete with easy to navigate descriptions, photos, addresses and contact information. Visit winetripping.ca.

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The Pan Pacific Vancouver is expecting more than 5,000 guests for breakfast at the 29th annual Christmas Wish Breakfast.

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Celebrate mindfully DAVIDICUS WONG, M.D. davidicuswong.wordpress.com

I wonder if Santa knows how many adults dread Christmas.

Mrs. Claus certainly does — she manages the North Pole and their social calendar.

We are definitely stressed by the debt of spending, the busyness of doing everything that needs to be done, checking off every item on an endless list and obligatory social events.

Unhealthy eating and excessive drinking stress the body. With others celebrating around them, those who are missing out, alone or hungry suffer even more.

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singing favourite Christmas carols or playing out the Nativity scene, family members sing sad and angry songs of years gone by and take on the old family roles dating back to childhood.

But we don’t have to carry through the holiday season the same old ways. There is a way to enjoy this time of the year with less stress and more joy. At the heart of all tradition is intention. Let’s celebrate more mindfully.

As we act through our usual holiday traditions, we are reminded of holidays past and how our lives have changed, who is here

and who is not, and how relationships evolve. We are reminded of our connections with one another in the past and present and in our exchanges of good will, our connectedness with all humanity.

When we are mindful, we appreciate that everything changes. Our lives are finite, relationships end, we grow and we grow older. All things good and bad will pass.

When I think of wish lists, I am reminded of all the things I wanted when I was younger, thinking that they would bring happiness, but craving for what we don’t have never brings lasting satisfaction. All things grow old. There is always something new or better.

There is a pervasive myth that we will be happy when we get what we want — the perfect gift or when everything is just right — the perfect life. In mindfulness, we learn to accept all things in this world just as they are. We don’t have to like everything, but we have to accept reality and what we can’t change. We can still work to improve our lives, our relationships and our world.

you don’t have or you can appreciate what you have and be happy today. What we take for granted today is what we will miss tomorrow.

This year, have yourself a mindful holiday season.

Be present for every moment for it will come and go too fast.

We can love ourselves and one another just as we are: imperfect and human.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician.

His Healthwise column appears regularly in this paper. For more on achieving your positive potential in health: davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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The Geysir geothermal area includes the Strokkur geyser, which erupts high into the air several times an hour.

Glacier-filled lagoons and hot springs, geysers and waterfalls, craters and canyons highlights of Icelandic adventure The puffin nesting area at Dyrholaey often rewards visitors with the sight of these colourful birds.

PHOTO: JOANNE BLAIN

Iceland is a destination that’s hard to describe in a few words.

In parts of the island country, rolling green hills dotted with sheep might trick you into thinking you’re in Ireland. In others, lagoons filled with icebergs and flanked by rugged snowtopped peaks evoke thoughts of northern Canada.

And elsewhere in Iceland, which sits high in the Atlantic between Greenland and Norway, you might think you’ve taken a wrong turn and landed on the surface of the moon.

PHOTO: JOANNE BLAIN

Hundreds of years of volcanic eruptions have turned some areas of the country into rock-strewn wastelands, sometimes softened by a rolling carpet of pale green moss.

What you won’t see is a lot of people, except at a handful of tourist sites within a short drive of a cruise-ship terminal. Only about 330,000 people live in Iceland, about two-thirds of them in the capital of Reykjavik. And yes, the sheep outnumber the human inhabitants by a score of about three to one.

Don’t even think about trying to rent a car and see anything off the beaten track in Iceland. You’ll need a four-wheel-drive vehicle to navigate any roads off the main highways, most of which are gravel and some of which require fording

shallow rivers to get to your destination. But those molar-rattling roads lead to some of the country’s most spectacular sights.

As well, the availability of accommodations is lagging behind the boom

in tourism, which has paradoxically taken off since the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajokull snarled worldwide air travel in 2010 and piqued interest in the island. The clerk at one modest hotel I stayed at told me it was booked

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solid two years in advance, so good luck finding a room on shorter notice.

It’s far easier to book a tour and let someone else look after the driving and accommodations. I signed up with Exodus Travels for their eight-day Discover Iceland tour, which covers the southern part of the country.

Our guide, Hoskuldur (Hoski for short, thank goodness) picked up me and 15 other fellow travellers at our Reykjavik

hotel bright and early one morning to set off for Snaefellsnes peninsula on the east coast.

Each day brought us a different version of Iceland’s spectacular scenery. On the first day, we fed apples to Icelandic horses at our picnic spot near a beach where we were divebombed by nesting terns.

Then we moved on to the fishing village of Arnarstapi, where we hiked a ridge along the ocean to see the spectacular rock formations just off the coast.

Even in the summer months, icebergs bob in the lagoons at the edge of the Vatnajokull ice cap. PHOTO: JOANNE BLAIN

You can actually walk behind the Skogafoss waterfall and experience the power of the water falling over the 60-metre-high cliff.

PHOTO: JOANNE BLAIN

Even more impressive was the Eldborg Crater, which we reached after a long hike across a lava field. A steep uphill slog at the end took us to the lip of the crater, where we looked down into the cone of the volcano that last erupted about 5,000 years ago.

The following day brought us our first encounter with the cruise-ship hordes at Geysir, Iceland’s version of Yellowstone National Park.

You’ll wonder why a large group of people is standing around with cameras aimed at a rather nondescript pool of water until it suddenly

erupts 20 metres or so into the air, something it does every five to 10 minutes.

We ticked off our first two of several waterfalls that day — the towering Haifoss, the second tallest in the country, and Gullfoss, a wide, tiered waterfall that drops into the brilliantly green canyon.

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by rushing streams that Hoski expertly forded.

Our reward was being able to lounge in the natural outdoor hot springs at Landmannalaugar before moving on to a hike in the Eldja fissure, a lush green canyon created by a volcanic eruption more than a thousand years ago. We ticked off our third waterfall of the trip there.

columns. But there was even more drama to come.

How many places can you see a glacier-filled lagoon in the height of summer?

At the edge of Vatnajokull ice cap, we zipped up our jackets to our chins against the chill as we tried to catch on video the spectacular sight of an ice formation crashing and capsizing into the frigid water.

Another day, yet another waterfall — Svartifoss, which stands out from the rest because it cascades over dramatic black basalt

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and several species of birds, but we hadn’t yet managed to snap the one iconic Icelandic animal many of us most wanted to see — the puffin. On our final day on the road, our patience was rewarded at Dyrholaey, a nesting area for puffins at the southernmost point of the country. We could swear one was even posing for us on the side of the cliff, turning one way and then the other so we could all capture his profile.

It was only fitting that our trip ended with a visit to two more waterfalls. By then, we were getting a bit blasé about the whole experience until Hoski told us that at Skogafoss, we could actually walk behind the waterfall and feel the power of tonnes of water plummeting off a 60-metre-high cliff. That made the short hike worth the effort.

Don’t expect five-star accommodations in Iceland — especially in smaller communities like the ones we visited, rooms are comfortable, but spartan and often on the small side.

And be prepared to share a washroom with your fellow travellers in some locations, since not all rooms have en suites.

But even at some of the most modest inns, the food was fresh and simply, but artfully prepared. That’s something you’ll appreciate after a hard day of hiking.

Ditto the geothermal spas located near some of the hotels along the route — soaking your tired legs in a pool of warm mineral water is utter bliss.

Our tour ended back in Reykjavik, where our group gathered for one last dinner in a downtown pub. It’s worth spending an extra day or two exploring the country’s capital, which is full of good restaurants, interesting shops and friendly locals.

But when I close my eyes and think back about my trip to Iceland, I have visions of glacier-filled lagoons and hot springs, geysers and waterfalls, horses and puffins, craters and canyons.

It’s hard to think of another small country with such a bounty of natural wonders.

IF YOU GO: Exodus Travels (exodustravels.com) runs hiking, biking and ski trips to Iceland year-round, as well as excursions to see the Northern Lights. The eightday Discover Iceland tour is one of its most popular trips; be prepared to do a bit more hiking than the “leisurely” activity level described on the site might indicate.

From Vancouver, you can fly direct to Reykjavik on Icelandair (icelandair.ca).

A stop for a picnic lunch on the Snaefellsnes peninsula offered an opportunity to feed apples to a group of Icelandic horses. PHOTO: JOANNE BLAIN

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Big gains, bigger stops but Notre Dame fumbles in overtime Jugglers come short of varsity championship after stellar season restores glory to storied program

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BC PLACE --- At the outset of the varsity football season, Notre Dame quarterback Steven Moretto vowed to see his Jugglers through to the Subway Bowl and win the school’s first B.C. championship in nearly a quarter century.

Carrying the team on his shoulders with the ball often in his capable hands, he made good on the first promise, but then fumbled on the second.

Up against the determined Terry Fox Ravens at BC Place on Dec. 3, Moretto met his match in the stand-out multiposition player Jeremie

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Kankolongo. Talent clings to these two teenagers like lint and there’s no brushing it off, but Saturday night under the dome, they exchanged crucial errors that changed the course of the game through four quarters and overtime.

Tied at 14, there was no scoring in the second half but there was no taking your eyes off this classic Subway Bowl either.

Moretto fumbled at the start of the fourth quarter and, as with an intercepted pass earlier on, the ball fell to Kankolongo who recovered and then marched the Ravens to blinking distance of the end zone. But Notre Dame stopped them with an outstanding goal-line stand. Staring down fourthand-one from the third yard line, Kankolongo couldn’t punch through for a first

down or a touchdown.

With less than a minute in the final frame, the Ravens looked to make a big play from their own 20 yard line, but it was the Jugglers who rose to the occasion.

Pauljeet Dhami stripped the ball from Kankolongo, and Dylan Rachel smothered the ball on the Raven’s 30.

Notre Dame brought out the kicking team for a shot at the win. But the elated Jugglers fans sat back in their seats as Lucus Battistin came just short on the 36-yard attempt.

On the opening play of overtime, Moretto took the ball from his own 10 yard line into the gut of the Ravens’ defence and they ate it right up. The ball popped loose in the hands of a Terry Fox linesman.

“I saw the ball going and, honestly, I felt

like every breath left my body,” said Moretto.

The Jugglers defence held up the Ravens and pushed them back a yard over three attempts. A famous name then stepped up to kick the championship field goal at BC Place. Devin Passaglia, his second cousin Lou sitting in the stands with supporters from his Notre Dame alma mater, put the ball through the uprights from 29 yards out, winning the Subway Bowl for the Terry Fox Ravens.

“It was exciting and disappointing all at the same time,” said Jugglers head coach Rich Scott. “We knew it would be hard. We knew it would be close.”

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Notre Dame running back Brice Pumares (no. 32) dodges the low tackle of Terry Fox Raven Mitch Byes to score an 18-yard touchdown to lead the Subway Bowl at BC Place Dec. 3.

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Same as last week, Libra – errands, communications, short travel, paperwork, casual friends, and details. Unlike last week, this one is filled with favourable aspects, especially for affectionate and friendly interactions. Your romantic sense has been quite intense since early November. This intensity will end next week, but the “raw power” is simply giving way to sweetness and gentle affection.

The focus remains on mysteries, secrets, financial opportunities, sexual desires, lifestyle changes, commitment and consequence. Dig deep, look beneath the surface. Don’t start any new projects now, unless you can finish them in one week. Steer your efforts toward completion. Bosses remain impatient and snarky, but they also have recently become gracious and affectionate – you might get portions of each.

Continue to make money wherever you can, Scorpio. Hold a garage sale, ask for a pay raise or extra hours, cultivate new clients, etc. This is also a good time for purchases, especially Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday/ Saturday. Although it will only indirectly affect these, realize a period of slowdown and mistakes begins next week. So don’t start any project that you cannot finish almost immediately.

The main trend of your life right now is romantic, creative, and speculative. That means you’re ready to take a big chance, and if you do the results should please you. This week and the next few should draw you into closer intimacy with someone. Opt for solitude Sunday: rest, contemplate and dream. Don’t attempt to repair anything mechanical and stay away from sharp tools. You and another might declare your love, or even more likely your eternal friendship.

Your energy, magnetism, clout and effectiveness sit atop a yearly peak, Sage. Within reason, you can get almost anything you want – so choose (your path) carefully. You feel friendly and alive and are dealing with many, many people on a casual basis. The odd thing about this is that one or two people whom you consider casual contacts might be seriously interested in you in a romantic or marital way.

Only 10 more days of work and health concerns, Cancer, so dive in and slog away at those chores. Eat, dress and sleep sensibly. Someone is already talking to you about a mutual project – this is well-meant, but be wary, for this person will either change his/ her mind or meet circumstances that change it for him/her. In the same vein, use this week to complete projects rather than start them, as a three week period of slowdowns and mistakes begins next week.

Just ten more days of weariness and solitude, Capricorn. (Pretty easy days, though, with no major problems or decisions facing you.) You have been making and spending money at a heightened pace since early November. Now your income luck increases even more, and you might be tempted to buy a luxury item. Go ahead with this, especially Friday/Saturday when you might buy something that increases in value over time, such as art, jewels, etc.

Relationships have been in intense and perhaps on the argumentative side since early November.

They continue that way for another week, but now a gentle, harmonious and affectionate note enters.

Since you are immersed in a month of romance, this new relationship note could turn romance into something deeper, perhaps a life commitment.

If you are already married, this sweet and sour influence can begin to heal situations of strife.

A wish can still come true, Aquarius! The next 10 days continue your celebratory mood – you’ll feel popular and optimistic. You have been determined and sexually magnetic since early November; now to early January some of that determination will soften and that magnetism will be replaced by affection and a whole lot of good hair days. This week is filled with social delights and romantic opportunities.

Your domestic sphere is still emphasized, Virgo.

This is a good time to look at your security, your retirement plans, the repair of your residence, and your family’s needs. (However, do not start any repair, decorating, or landscaping projects unless you can finish them almost immediately. Next week brings a phase of delays and mistakes.) It’s also an excellent week to examine your relationships and projects, and to prune out what is old and stale.

The accent continues on your career, worldly standing, neighbourhood reputation, and your dealings with authorities, bosses and parents. In general, this should be a good week for all these matters. However, do not start any major projects now. Finish instead, as next week begins a cycle of mistakes and delays. Your inner life has been rather intense the last month or so; you have probably been brewing various moneymaking ideas.

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