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NPA still without position on Kinder Morgan’s pipeline project Mike Howell
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. Apparently, some British writer named W.E. Hickson is credited with popularizing that proverb. (By the way, why do British writers always have fancy names? Would you read more of my stuff if my byline read, M.P. Howell? Or, how about M. Patrick Howell III?) Anyway, I didn’t succeed in June 2015 in getting to the bottom of whether the NPA’s three city councillors supported or opposed Kinder Morgan’s Albertato-Burrard Inlet pipeline. So what I did last week was try, try, try again. As regular readers will recall, it was back in June 2015 when I posed the question — several times — to NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball after she left a council meeting in which Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain project was discussed. Here’s a reminder of that back-and-forth: Me: “What’s the NPA’s
position on this?” Ball: “Our position is we want to protect Vancouver every possible way we can and we’re not doing it now.” Me: “Does the NPA support Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain proposal, or not?” Ball: “The Trans Mountain proposal doesn’t exist, at this point. Oil is being shipped now. We want a response to that now. So regardless of what happens at the National Energy Board and then to the Parliament of Canada, we’re prepared. Right now, we’re not prepared for anything.” Me: “But does the NPA support the Kinder Morgan project, or not?” Ball: “We support a safe harbour and a clean harbour.” Around and around we went, with no clear answer. Since my Mike Wallacelike interrogation (60 Minutes reference there, kids), the National Energy Board, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Christy Clark have all given the green light to the pipeline project.
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It’ll create jobs and boost Canada’s economy, they say. Mayor Gregor Robertson, his Vision Vancouver crew and Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr remain opposed, as they have for several years. The Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam First Nations have also sought judicial reviews of the federal government’s decision on the pipeline. The risk of an environmental disaster is too great, they say.
Which brings me back to the NPA. I called up Ball and her NPA colleague Melissa De Genova to see if either of them could provide me with a clear answer on the project. (I also called NPA Coun. George Affleck last week and hadn’t heard back at the time of filing this piece for deadline). Ball told me two Wednesdays ago she was going to meet with her fellow councillors and the party’s caucus to discuss Kinder Morgan’s project. She
also mentioned having the NPA’s board involved in a decision on the party’s position. “I don’t want to put you off, but I do want to call you the second I actually know something specific,” she said. “We’ve been certainly not against [the project], but we haven’t committed to any support. So I just want to make it really clear where things are landing, or if we’re still sort of listening to people.” Me: “But don’t you have your own opinion, councillor?” Ball: “I’ve appreciated the five conditions [set by the premier on the project] but none of us, I don’t think, at the NPA have made any kind of commitment one way or another.” It seems De Genova, sort of has. She returned my call shortly after my conversation with Ball. I asked the yes-or-no question and instead got an earful on how much the city spent on fighting the proposal (she said it cost $303,000) and how the mayor’s opposition
to the pipeline will affect relations with the provincial and federal governments. Me: “OK, straight up, do you support or oppose Kinder Morgan’s pipeline project?” De Genova: “I can say that I can’t speak on behalf of the NPA because one of the reasons I chose the NPA is we all are allowed to have independent thoughts and vote the way that we want.” Me: “Huh?” De Genova, continuing: “That being said, just as I said with [the city’s plan to curb the use] of natural gas, this is a type of energy right now that is affordable in our city. If we got rid of this right now, there would not be an alternative and Vision is hell bent on getting rid of natural gas 70 per cent by 2020. I don’t see an alternative right now. So, do I support the project? In some ways, yes. Do I have reservations about other parts of the project, yes I certainly do. So I don’t think it’s that easy.” I tried readers, I tried. @Howellings
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Outbursts of “Shame!” and “Moratorium!” shook the cramped hall at the park board office Monday night as spectators unleashed the full range of their frustration after keeping it somewhat in check while commissioners debated the future of cetaceans at the Vancouver Aquarium. The angry shouts were directed at the seven commissioners but turned to target John Nightingale, the president and CEO of the Vancouver Aquarium, who was sitting in the gallery in the back row. Demonstrators passed out signs that read, “The public demands a whale referendum,” but those opposed to cetaceans being held at the aquarium are not uniform in their preferred political outcome. Some called for a moratorium on whales and dolphins at the aquarium while waiting for the results of plebiscite, if approved, close to two years from now. Vision commissioner Catherine Evans tabled the motion to defer discussion on the plebiscite, arguing it was
a “blunt tool” that did not offer enough information or agency to the park board but instead passes off responsibility to city council to approve. A voice from the crowd interrupted her: “We want something immediately.” Chairman Michael Wiebe, a Green Party commissioner, used his gavel for the third or fourth time to silence the gallery. Leveraging information from staff that a report could be delivered in as little as a month’s time, Evans said the park board must take a greater stance on the issue of cetaceans in captivity. A plebiscite, she said, “is not the only tool of democracy and not necessarily the best tool of democracy.” She added, “We may just be punting it off and not taking our responsibility. I would like there to be other options available to us… If council said, ‘No,’ and we are not going to have a referendum question added to the ballot, we would be back to nowhere then.” Sarah Kirby-Yung, the NPA commissioner who first brought forward the motion on the plebiscite, suggested
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Evans’ request for a deferral was a “delay tactic.” Fellow NPAer John Coupar was drowned out by both jeers and applause when he took the floor and said, “I don’t understand what we need a report on.” He was making the point that a referral had deterred the opportunity for a possible plebiscite in the past. Stuart Mackinnon, the Green Party commissioner who argued for a plebiscite in 2010 as a park board commissioner, supported the deferral. “I came fully expecting to support the motion as it stood. The referral disturbed me because I wasn’t sure when that would come back — six months, nine months, in a year — but the general manager has assured us probably in a month staff could come back with a report,” he said. Kirby-Yung, Coupar and the third NPA commissioner, Casey Crawford, voted against the motion to defer. Evans, Wiebe, Mackinnon and Erin Shum supported the deferral. Staff will prepare a report for the board. Note: A longer version appears at vancourier.com.
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A funding program once opposed by school trustees and district staff alike has now funnelled close to $30,000 into Vancouver classrooms. Chevron’s Fuel Your School program changed its criteria and funding parameters in September, allowing teachers to directly apply for funding that supports learning in four specific areas: science, technology, engineering and math. Previously, Chevron had to approach trustees and district administrators for approval. That change resulted in 23 projects being funded across 11 schools in Vancouver. Some of those initiatives included a new 3-D printer for John Oliver secondary, a butterfly lifecycle kit at Templeton secondary and tools to help Grade 4 and 5 students learn about software coding at David Livingstone elementary. More than 2,200 Vancouver students were reached as part of the program, and $28,000 in funding was distributed between September and November 2016. Outside of Vancouver, 10 other Metro Vancouver school districts participated in the program in 2016, receiving $565,000. Just five districts took part before the program was opened up directly to teachers. “This program is vastly popular with teachers across Metro Vancouver in each of the districts that are participating in the program, including Vancouver,” said
Chevron spokesperson Adrien Byrne. “We’ve been approached by various levels of school board administrators across the region to participate in the program and we’ve had great feedback.” The program works via a third-party charity called My Class Needs. Teachers apply to the project by way of outlining their class-specific needs each September. Chevron first approached the VSB with its proposal in 2014. The proposed funding at that time would have been in the neighbourhood of $475,000, but trustees and staff rejected the deal. Concerns were raised at the time over the optics of a fuel company sponsoring schools and classrooms. The VSB’s policy on corporate partnerships includes mandating that the district and schools maintain control over curriculum, and prevents students from being forced to view advertisements. Former board chair Patti Bacchus told the Courier her principle concern at the time was a month-long promotion Chevron was touting at its gas stations that was connected to the program. That promotion saw $1 contributions made to My Class Needs for every 30 litres of gas purchased, up to a total of $565,000. “The concern was they were using the schools to market gasoline sales,” said Bacchus, who’s now an education editor for the online news site Vancouver Observer. “Even if the corporate branding wasn’t in the classrooms, as kids were in the cars coming home from soccer, they would be filling up at Chevron [and]
they would think ‘Chevron is supporting my school.’ That crosses over into an area the school board is quite sensitive about.” That gas purchasing promotion was once again offered in October 2016, though Bacchus has backed off her outright refusal to endorse the program. “I think it’s better now,” Bacchus said. “It’s fine if they want to make funds available and if they want to be supportive — if there are no strings attached. If an individual teacher thinks that this is a way to get the resources that aren’t being provided, I don’t have a problem with that, so long as kids aren’t exposed to corporate branding.” The district’s refusal to endorse the Chevron program was briefly cited in the forensic audit report released in October 2016. “VSB trustees made a number of decisions which have limited the VSB’s ability to increase revenue,” Peter Milburn’s report noted. VSB spokesperson David Connop Price issued a statement to the Courier Jan. 13 indicating that “VSB has no corporate partnership with Chevron.” “Any grant application submitted by a VSB teacher to any organization has to comply with VSB policy regarding public solicitation,” he said. “VSB is not aware of the My Class Needs Foundation placing any demands on teachers that breach VSB policy regarding public solicitation.” Note: A longer version of this story appears at vancourier.com. @JohnKurucz
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Confronting sexism, racism and other forms of discrimination requires more than selfies and a crowd. The challenging part is questioning our assumptions, reflecting on our privileges and figuring out what we can do about it. I hadn’t expected to feel so emotional, but, after all the sexism and racism on show during the U.S. election, it was exactly what I needed. At the same time, like many in the crowd, I wondered, what’s next? As uplifting as it was to march and watch my social media feeds fill with pictures from friends marching all over the world, I remembered how the bout of sadness that
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history of colonization and discrimination, from the history of residential schools to the fact that First Nations children on reserves still receive 30 per cent less funding for their education than other Canadians. To move forward together, we need to force ourselves to confront who we, as individuals and as a society, are choosing to prioritize, whose needs we have ignored and the ways in which our own actions might be contributing to the problem. The march was exhilarating, but the next steps should be uncomfortable and challenging. ••• Alia Dharssi is a freelance journalist in Vancouver who writes about immigration, women’s rights and international affairs, among other social and political issues. She is the recipient of the 2016 Michelle Lang Fellowship, and her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the National Post, VICE, the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Global BC. @alia_d Allen Garr is on vacation.
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Reclaimed cedar covers the exterior of Samantha Gambling’s tiny home. Parked at Westcoast Outbuildings in North Vancouver, it’s a work in progress but it’s almost completed. Construction tools and materials are scattered about the interior, where partially finished cabinets and a three-burner RV stove are positioned against one wall. A mini fridge sits next to French doors waiting to be installed. The washroom at the far end of the 220-square-foot space is compact although it’s as wide as the home itself, with a shower on one side and space for a toilet on the other. A skylight illuminates the 10-foot-by-10-foot sleeping loft above. To Gambling, this small space represents a big dream to live tiny. She started thinking about moving into a tiny house while at UBC finishing her master’s degree, which focused on integrated studies in land and food systems. Gambling’s goal was to get a job in the non-profit sector working towards food sovereignty and sustainable food systems. She also “wanted and needed” to live at a slower, more mindful pace. “I knew I wasn’t going to be happy trying to pay my way into the current system,” she told the Courier. “I saw tiny houses as a way to be economically free so I could pursue this work that was really meaningful to me in my community.” A documentary called We the Tiny House People deepened Gambling’s interest, convincing her that living in a tiny house was within the realm of possibility. In September 2015, she bought a flatbed trailer for $8,000, which came with some materials. Thus began her effort to turn her dream into reality. After construction is finished on her home, she hopes to transport it to land near 41st and Main. There’s one hitch — tiny houses aren’t legal in Vancouver. That’s where the B.C. Tiny House Collective — co-founded by Gambling and Anastasia Koutalianos in July 2016 — comes in. Last week, the collective submitted a detailed proposal to the City of Vancouver, asking that Gambling’s tiny house be permitted as a demonstration unit and that it be designated as a temporary caretaker dwelling to be
Anastasia Koutalianos and Samantha Gambling (right) cofounded the B.C. Tiny House Collective in July 2016. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.
used for research, community feedback and engagement. There would also be an urban farm on site. It’s one of numerous research, pilot project and public engagement initiatives the collective is working on under its “Go Tiny” campaign, the aim of which is to see tiny houses allowed in municipalities across Metro Vancouver. It’s unclear when or even if the proposed pilot will get the green light, but Gambling is optimistic. “I’m really hopeful. I think that there’s definitely potential. I want to say I’m optimistic because the interaction with the city has, so far, been great. But that said, I don’t know what barriers I’m going to stumble across when I get into the nitty gritty of bylaws.”
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A tiny house, based on a working definition by the B.C. Tiny House Collective in an effort to differentiate it from other small dwellings, is one that’s less than 500 square feet. It’s also a fully functional single housing unit that includes all the basic amenities of a permanent home (detached or semi-attached as part of a housing complex). It’s mobile — on wheels or a temporary foundation, customizable — tailored to individual taste and budget, and designed and built on the principles of affordability, community and ecological sustainability. The hurdles to make them legal aren’t insignificant. Anita Molaro,
assistant director of urban design, said the city currently doesn’t have any policy to support them. “Our policy construct that we have is to allow for micro suites. We’re looking for small, residential units. Our typical condominium size is 398 square feet, but we can relax down to 320 for secured market rental units,” she said. “And then, in the Downtown Eastside plan, we allow for microunits in social housing and again for secured market rental. We can go down to 250 square feet. [But] we don’t, at this point and time, have any construct to consider moveable tiny houses.” Molaro said there would need to be a “fulsome analysis” before tiny houses could be approved, looking at issues like building code implications, how they would be serviced in terms of utilities such as sewer, water and electricity, and what the impact additional dwelling units would have on other city services like community amenities. “It’s quite a broad undertaking to understand [issues including] what the uptake would be on them as a result. There’s a lot of complicating factors,” she said, adding the city would also have to study what other jurisdictions have done. “They are quite broad, complex questions to consider.”
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For her part, Gambling had considered living in a laneway home, which are increasingly popular, but
that didn’t meet her overall objectives because they can only be rented, rent can be steep and they don’t provide long-term housing security. “I was just trying to find a way that I could stay in the city and do the work that I wanted to do without going into massive and impossible debt,” she said. “At the same time, I really crave a home. I think everyone does — a secure place that is yours… I needed a stable home.” Gambling estimates the final tally for her tiny house will be in the $70,000 to $80,000 range. About $6,000 was fundraised, she invested all of her savings, she borrowed money from family and she earned in-kind donations and sponsorships.
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Building a tiny home is one matter. Finding a place to put it is another. In Gambling’s case, a socially conscious developer who’s interested in contributing to the city’s affordable housing stock offered up the site near 41st and Main for use in the pilot while the land is awaiting development. But where future tiny houses could go is among myriad issues the collective is researching. “That’s a big question and I think what goes along with tiny houses is looking at alternative tenure models. Because it’s unique, it’s on wheels, so how do you connect it with the land,” Gambling said. One option being explored is a community land trust where the land would be owned by the city or a non-
profit housing provider and individuals would lease plots on that land. Other options include a co-owned piece of land where individuals would either rent or own a portion of it, an existing landowner could rent a parking pad in their backyard, or underutilized land such as property awaiting a development permit could be used. In any case, the collective has spent months wrestling with these and other subjects arising out of a stakeholder engagement event held last August, which identified three themes that could serve as obstacles to getting tiny houses approved — cultural, financial and legal. They’re working diligently to address those concerns and to turn “barriers into opportunities,” according to Koutalianos, who works in communications and public engagement. Koutalianos is convinced the timing is right for multiple reasons: municipalities such as Vancouver are focusing on affordable housing, they’re considering houses of different sizes and tenure, and they’re championing the principles of sustainability. Metro Vancouver also recently passed its Regional Affordable Housing Strategy, which outlines the importance of issues including increasing the supply and diversity of affordable housing and it recommends some key actions that municipalities can take on. Signals from across the border are also promising. In December, the International Code Council in the U.S. approved a proposed housing standard for houses smaller than 400 square feet, which jurisdictions in the States could adopt in 2018. Koutalianos suspects it makes it more likely something similar will happen in Canada eventually. But the collective is not leaving anything to chance in their Go Tiny campaign. Koutalianos and Gambling have met with experts and city officials in Vancouver and elsewhere in the Lower Mainland. They’re collaborating with innovation hubs, non-profit groups and educational institutions such as UBC, Vancouver Community College, BCIT and Emily Carr University of Art and Design on a vast array of topics, including, but not limited to, sustainability, how to deal with grey and black water, the advisability of going on or off grid, feasibility issues, public health implications
and potential sites for tiny houses. They’ve also reached out to financial institutions to look at financing and the effects to tenure and land value, and they’ve applied for a B.C. Housing grant to explore a tiny house building code. They’ll find out if they get that grant in April. Koutalianos also envisions holding a design and build contest through the collective that uses tiny houses as a model for renewables and the use of deconstructed building materials. “The city of Vancouver is interested… a lot of municipalities are, but I think there’s still a lot of grey zone in terms of is there going to be opposition in terms of cultural, political, zoning bylaws and all that jazz. Financial [too],” she said. “What’s going to happen to land value, tenure, how will this change? Is this the density that the city needs?” Public opinion is another concern. The collective is seeking input through a survey it posted on its website in late December, which runs until the end of March. It’s designed to gauge awareness, support and demand for tiny houses in Metro Vancouver, B.C. and across Canada. Preliminary data found 90 per cent of respondents so far would be interested in living in a tiny house. Support is also coming from people who don’t want to live in a tiny house but are open to seeing them in backyards, on empty lots, in pocket villages or as infill. “Really [the idea is] very new for cities. What we’re trying to do, [what our] Go Tiny project is looking at is research, engagement and piloting to be in service to cities and provide them with the information they need to move this forward,” she said. Back inside her almostfinished home, Gambling is happy the topic of another housing form is being discussed and she remains hopeful the pilot project will ultimately work out. “There’s been a lot of support from the public, from my friends and family, and there’s been a lot of support from the cities that I’ve been talking to, and the experts that I’ve been talking to,” she said. “I’ve been listening closely to them and I think it’s worth pursuing.” @naoibh
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Student who helped victim of stabbing asked to come forward Police want her observations of Halloween altercation Martha Perkins
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Last Halloween, a BCIT nursing student came across a young man who had been stabbed outside the Plaza of Nations. She provided first aid to the victim before leaving the area. The victim later succumbed to his injuries. Vancouver police are now asking this woman to come forward to share her observations from that night. “She was doing the right thing,” Const. Jason Doucette, the VPD’s media relations officer, said at a Jan. 23 press conference. “She stuck around and did her best.” The police have no reason to believe she’s trying to avoid coming forward; she might not know the VPD would appreciate her help, Doucette said.
The 911 call came in at 2 a.m. Nov. 1. Two groups of men were involved in an altercation near the taxi stand at 750 Pacific Blvd. Three men received stab wounds; one of them, 25-year-old Hansen Jia Chen of Burnaby, died. No charges have been laid. Police have already had witnesses come forward with cellphone videos from that night, but the VPD continues to issue an appeal for more videos and photos from 9 p.m. on Oct. 31 to 2 a.m. on Nov. 1. The BCIT nursing student and other people who might have information are asked to call 604-717-2500. “Every little piece of information is important,” Doucette said.
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found inside a car on East Cordova Street last week. However, Doucette did not want to provide further details. Police are still actively investigating the incident, he said, adding, “We don’t have any reason to believe that the public is at any further risk.” Doucette said there was a car pulled over to the side of East Cordova near Hawks Avenue at 9 p.m. on Jan. 19. The car’s four-way flashers were on so police officers in the area pulled over to find out if the person in the car was OK, Doucette said. A 33-year-old West Vancouver man inside the car said he had a homemade pipe bomb in the car. The explosives disposal unit was called in and the bomb was safely destroyed. @MarthaJPerkins
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Richmond astrologer and fortune teller Sherman Tai with coins and turtle shell; the coins are shaken inside the shell, then rolled onto a table like dice to start the forecasting process. PHOTO ROB KRUYT
Fortune teller predicts a down real estate market in tempestuous Year of the Fire Rooster GLEN KORSTROM | GKORSTROM@BIV.COM
Planets and stars are aligning for a resources boom and a dip in real estate prices, particularly in Metro Vancouver, says Richmondbased fortune teller and astrologer Sherman Tai. He bases his predictions on the alignment of stars, the
annually rotating, 12-symbol Chinese zodiac and a connection with one of five lucky elements that rotate at two-year intervals. Each Lunar, or Chinese, New Year is linked with a heavenly zodiac sign and a material element. The year that starts Jan. 28 has the rooster as the zodiac sign and fire as its element.
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Fire burns materials and creates ash, which fertilizes the earth and helps nourish anything that is found within the ground, Tai said. That is why he believes resources, such as petroleum products, metals, minerals, fertilizers and forestry, will have a good year. Digital technology, e-commerce and biotechnology should also have good years because they stem from nourished creativity. Struggling sectors, meanwhile, are likely to be those above ground, such as retail and real estate. Both sectors flow above ground and are more associated with
water, which extinguishes fire, he explained. Tai expects retail sales growth to slow in B.C. from its torrid pace in 2016, when the province led the country. “In the last 12 to 15 years, every year I was telling people that if they have money to invest, to invest it in the property market,” Tai said. “After 2015, and in my last year’s prediction in the Year of the Fire Monkey, I asked them to stop.” His instruction to avoid investing in real estate continues into 2017. Tai thinks Vancouver real estate prices could retreat up to 10 per cent, in part because the city is in the southwest corner of Canada.
The stars say that this is a bad location for real estate, he said.
U.S. President Donald Trump, for example, was born during the Year of the Dog.
“Some stars are good for property, and some stars are bad for property,” Tai said. “This year, the bad star is going into the house.”
“Dogs are very protective,” Tai said.“In the Year of the Rooster, the dog will have more temper.”
Those born in the Year of the Rooster are customarily more aggressive, but when combined with fire the trait is exaggerated, Tai said.“Infants born with the energy of the fire rooster will become more aggressive and quicktempered. They would like to be the leader and to disrupt something and get the respect of other people.” The influence of the element fire and zodiac rooster sign extends to everyone, but they affect people differently, depending on what their astrological sign is.
In B.C., political parties are gearing up for the May 9 election, and Tai holds out more hope for the B.C. Liberals than the New Democratic Party (NDP) because of the astrological signs of the parties’leaders. Liberal leader Christy Clark was born in a Year of the Snake; NDP leader John Horgan was born in a Year of the Boar. “The snake, rooster and ox are all in a good relationship triangle,” Tai said.“The boar does not have a good connection with the rooster.”
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Monkey see, monkey do? MARTHA PERKINS | MPERKINS@VANCOURIER.COM
It’s one thing to predict what the Year of the Rooster is going to be like — no one can tell you that you’re wrong since the year hasn’t started yet. So we decided to go back and look at some of the predictions people were making about the Year of the Monkey. Did the predictions come true? PAT JOHNSON, in a story for the Vancouver Courier “This is the Year of the Monkey, complemented with the element fire — so ‘fire monkey’ — and that has feng shui and geomancy experts warning of various sorts of upheavals and commotion. Who doesn’t love a monkey? But for all their eerily human characteristics, they can be unpredictable and wily. Add this element to the mix and some predict firerelated catastrophes such as volcanoes and forest fires, as well as possibly their economic and military equivalents. Still, some people will have a better year than others, based on the
to illness throughout the year, and those who do not rest could suffer from a breakdown. Dogs looking for love should be cautious in 2016, as the year is full of ups and downs and happiness may soon be followed by sorrow.” PASS OR FAIL: pass
animal and element signs under which they were born.” PASS OR FAIL: pass Buddhist Feng Shui master and Chinese astrologer THUEN Y NANG, from the International Business Times “The presence of two black stars indicates that women are having more power. There will be more women holding top management positions in financial and commercial circles as well as in politics across the world. Thus, the probability of the candidates for president in USA and Taiwan, namely Hillary Clinton and Tsai Ing-wen respectively, is very high.” PASS OR FAIL: a pass with Tsai Ing-wen and an epic fail on Hillary Clinton However, he did predict“the Year of the Fire Monkey will see an increased number of international conflicts, as well a global economic stagnation and political tensions.” PASS OR FAIL: pass HUFFINGTON POST prediction for Dogs, which includes Donald Trump “It will be a relatively smooth year for those born in the Year of the Dog. Careers will thrive and money-making ventures will be steady. People born in the Year of the Dog are susceptible
HUFFINGTON POST prediction for Dragons, which includes Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson “Those born in the Year of the Dragon are in for luck, but only after encountering some bad luck. Personal disputes may arise at work for Dragons, but if they keep an open mind, they will maintain their success. Greed may also be the downfall of the Dragon, as they may make bad investments. Busy dragons are also reminded to aim for balance in their health and relationships, which they are likely to ignore in 2016.” PASS OR FAIL: you be the judge. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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“This is the most colourful, rainbow, family-happy event I have ever seen. But it’s all for good reasons — women’s rights and human rights. And, obviously, we’re not going to be going away anytime soon.” The Vancouver Women’s March was only formally organized through Washington Women’s March two weeks ago by the five locals, none of whom previously knew one another. “Two weeks ago it was nothing,” said Monckton. “And all of a sudden, through some weird synergy thing, all of us contacted the main guys and asked if they had anybody working on Vancouver. They’re like, ‘Nope’ so we said, ‘We’re on it!’” Signs of all kinds punctuated the crowd. They ranged from the popular “Proud Nasty Woman” and “Smash the Patriarchy” to “Don’t Give Kevin O’Leary Any Ideas” and “Too Gay Too Old Too Mouthy To Go Back.” One person wore a banana suit and held the sign “Strength in Bunches” while other demonstrators, such as Judy Alton, held signs that screamed, “I Can’t Believe I’m Still Protesting This Shit.” “I did this for Vietnam and I’m back here after all these years,” said Alton, aged 60. “I thought we were done, you know? I have children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren and it is terrifying to see this world they’re going to grow up in. It’s not only in America; you’re hearing about this happening in Europe as well, this right-wing… I don’t even know what to call it… hatred!” The vocal crowd, many in knit, pink “pussy hats” surged down West Georgia Street and stopped in front of the Trump Tower. Marchers booed the sparkling Trump sign, unveiled just days before, while others gave it the one-finger salute. A man wearing a “Hillary For Prison 2016” T-shirt stood outside the building with a sign that read, “Trump Has Feelings Too” (writer’s note: punctuation and protest signs rarely mix). “I’m just pointing out that he’s a human being, that’s all,” he said before briefly being detained by police after somebody noticed he had a woodworking knife in a sheath on his belt. There were 600 Women’s Marches held around the world the day after Trump’s inauguration. In addition to a
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Managing director Roxanne Duncan, associate curator Joyce Rosario and Club PuSH curator-in-residence Jordan Tannahill helped kick off the three-week winter showcase of thought-provoking works at the PuSH Festival launch and reception.
Italian Cultural Centre executive director Mauro Vescera, Vancouver Opera general director Kim Gaynor and PuSH executive and artistic director Norman Armour opened the PuSh Festival with a reimagined Macbeth presented by South African company Third World Bunfight.
Vancouver Art Gallery patrons Priscilla Lam, Eric Woo and Aya Primbetova enjoyed an exclusive night of shopping and dining at a special dinner at Louis Vuitton, which benefitted the venerable arts institution.
B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation CEO Teri Nicholas thanked philanthropist Sylvia Chen, the Special Giving chairwoman, for her two decades of support for B.C.’s special kids.
A STRONG PUSH: The 13th annual PuSh Festival includes artists from 11 countries presenting 27 works. Executive and artistic director Norman Armour opened the festival with the Canadian premiere of Brett Bailey’s Macbeth presented by South Africa’s Third World Bunfight in partnership with Vancouver Opera and Italian Cultural Centre. Bailey sets Shakespeare’s story of greed, tyranny and remorse in the current war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo. In the past two decades, the region has suffered more deaths than any other conflict since the Second World War. PuSH runs until Feb. 5. For a longer version of this column, go to vancourier.com.
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The PuSh Festival continues its wily ways with Theatre Replacement’s Town Choir. The free, all-ages show features singer/songwriters across the country typing observations of their surrounding environment while the Vancouver Youth Choir transforms these observations in real time into a song in front of a live audience. It all goes down Jan. 29, 12 p.m. at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Details at pushfestival.ca.
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Long Island teen sensations and brothers, the Lemon Twigs bring their retro-fitted pop stylings to the Cobalt, Feb. 1. Savoy Motel opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu and ticketweb.ca.
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The Cinematheque screens Juzo Itami’s newly restored art-house hit Tampopo beginning Jan. 26. The 1985 “Ramen Western” combines food, sex and lots of fun. Details thecinematheque.ca.
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The death of Leonard Cohen added a punctuation mark to the end of an already crappy year. Fans and former lovers can break out the tissues Jan. 30, 7 p.m. as the Rio Theatre screens four short films on Cohen produced by the National Film Board between 1964 and 1977, including the black and white charmer Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen. Info at riotheatre.ca.
5. Get stung
You know Sting? The tantric sex guy? Well, he used to be in a band called the Police and then a fairly successful solo musician. He drops by the Commodore in support of his new, awkwardly titled album 57th & 9th, which we assume are sexual positions. Details at livenation.com.
6. Get Lucky
Despite its name, the Get Lucky art show is not an homage to Loverboy’s leather pants-friendly sophomore album. It’s a free community event celebrating the Chinese New Year where Vancouver artists create artwork on red pocket/lucky envelopes. Check it out Jan. 29, noon to 4 p.m. at Fortune Sound Club’s Special Projects Space. Details at fortunesoundclub.com.
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Have we got a plebiscite for you... Exciting times over at the Vancouver Aquarium… beyond the daily, hot sea-otteron-sea-otter action. On Monday, park board commissioners voted to defer a motion allowing the public to vote in a plebiscite (way down the road in 2018, mind you) on whether or not the aquarium should be allowed to hold whales and
dolphins in captivity. The land-bound mammals at K&K aren’t huge fans of caged cetaceans, particularly as a potential rock band name, but we are down with plebiscites. Letting the people have their say is awesome… except perhaps if you live in the United States. Which is why we’d like to propose the following
plebiscites for Vancouver’s open-minded voters. • Do you support Mayor Gregor Robertson being forced to change his first name to the more Frenchsounding Grégoire? • Should the Canucks wear a uniform made of stonewash denim once a year against the Calgary Flames and dub the contest the Nanaimo Cup?
• A yearlong moratorium on wait staff asking customers, “How are your first bites?” • On the West Side, any new bike lanes should be rebranded “Grumpy Old Person Who Longs for the Days When George Puil Was on Council Terror Highways.” • Mayonnaise… get rid of it. Totally unnecessary. And gross.
Would you support Mayor Gregor Robertson changing his name to the more French-sounding Grégoire and perhaps adopting some stereotypical, possibly offensive, French affectations?
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Local bands pay tribute to musician Paul Leahy, Jan. 27 at the Rickshaw Theatre. Dubbed “The Super Duper Show,” the gig will feature performances by the Pointed Sticks, the Furniture, Polly Suit, Swank and a performance by Leahy’s son.
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Paul Leahy’s musical lineage is such that he rubbed elbows with D.O.A.s’ Joe Keithley and Chi Pig of SNFU before most of western Canada even knew what punk rock was. He helped fuse glam rock with attitude and chutzpah during the 1970s, while eschewing the notoriety, attention and excess that many of his contemporaries obsessively sought. The quiet, unassuming guy in the background, Leahy’s four-decade legacy in the Vancouver music scene will be celebrated with a benefit show Jan. 27 at the Rickshaw Theatre. As is the case whenever terms such as “legacy” and “benefit” get thrown around, Leahy’s health is wavering. At 58, he’s in a palliative care hospice in Surrey, beset by inoperable cancer in his throat and jaw. Show organizers planned to live stream the show to his hospice room, but as the performance date approaches, it’s unclear whether Leahy will be alive to realize one final gig. As such, the show may turn out to be part wake, part fundraiser for Leahy’s wife and son, Finn. “Either way, it is a celebration of one of Vancou-
ver’s greatest rockers ever,” said Northern Electric Records owner Richard Chapman. “Paul’s departure from here is going to hit a lot of people really hard, I think. So this is a healing [event] for a lot of people, too.” Chapman’s label took on Leahy’s most recent band, Polly, five years ago. Their roots together go back 34 years to the seminal Surrey punk band No Fun. “When I was a kid, his band No Fun was my favourite band,” Chapman said. “My girlfriend at the time took me to see them for my 19th birthday. I looked up to him and I remember nervously talking to him at the end of the show. There are not many musicians around Vancouver that I would get so excited about meeting.” Leahy emerged on the Vancouver music scene in the mid-1970s — at the height of glam rock — with his first band, the Toys. Glam gave way to punk in 1980 when he joined the two-piece known as No Fun. They were at the forefront of the first wave of B.C. punk alongside D.O.A., SNFU, the Dayglo Abortions and the Pointed Sticks. Leahy reportedly last performed with No Fun in 2006. The decades that followed saw Leahy head up such bands as the Tranves-
timentals and Pleasure Suit. Polly was his last musical pursuit. On the 2012 album All Messed Up, Leahy played every instrument and sang every note on the album. It was around this time that complications arose in his throat. He underwent an operation and had to retrain his voice to be able to sing again. His current cancer battle emerged in October, and by December he was in palliative care. He’s lost his voice but was still communicating with Chapman via hand gestures as recently as last week. “He’s basically knocking on heaven’s door but he’s still got it,” Chapman said. “If I’d say something funny, he’d still give me the thumbs up. Paul has always been a mild-mannered, quieter guy.” The bands selected for the Jan. 27 fundraiser are all bands Leahy has played with, alongside or are considered his contemporaries. Dubbed “The Super Duper Show,” the gig will feature performances by the Pointed Sticks, the Furniture, Polly Suit, Swank and by Leahy’s son, Finn.
Tickets cost $15 and are available online via ticketfly.com or at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and Neptoon.
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Barbara-Jo McIntosh’s sister owns lots of cookbooks, but when she needs to look up a recipe, she’s more likely to go onto the Internet, prop her computer on her kitchen counter and begin to cook. The recipe she’s following is probably in one of her cookbooks, but there’s an ease to searching for it online rather than on her bookshelf. So McIntosh understands why fewer people are coming to her Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks on West Second Avenue. And now she needs her loyal fans to understand why she’s closing Vancouver’s venerable all-things-culinary destination at the end of February. “It’s a societal shift and you have to find another way. Everything’s changed so I had to change too,” she said. “But I have to change out of my bookshop rather than in it. “I feel no bitterness. I just feel so much joy. I did a good thing for a long time.” Last Christmas was the worst for the 20-year-old shop. “When people aren’t coming into your store, you honestly feel that what you’ve done is not of value,” McIntosh said, adding that she’s been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and memories since the announcement became known. The drop in business wasn’t simply due to the
After 20 years, Barbara-Jo McIntosh will close her beloved Barbara Jo’s Cooks to Books at the end of February. PHOTO TIM PAWSEY
fact that we are all “living a screen life,” as McIntosh says. Ninety-eight per cent of her books come from the United States, so retail prices are hit by the low Canadian dollar. Construction on nearby Burrard Street not only affects traffic coming into her store but, she’s been told, other businesses in the area as well. She could have considered becoming an online book distributor, but “an online business is looking at a computer screen all day, wrapping up books and taking them to the post office. I wanted to be with people, talking to people. I could
never compete with all the discount houses anyway.” McIntosh has deep roots in Vancouver’s food scene. From 1990 to 1993 she owned Barbara-Jo’s Elegant Home Cooking, a concept that was ahead of its time. A trained chef, she worked with Umberto Menghi for five years as well as the Mandarin Hotel and the catering business. “I understand the chefs,” she said. “I know where their heads are.” She’s also written a book, Cooking For Me and Sometimes You, and hopes to finish a second when she returns to France later this year as she decides what’s the next chapter in her life.
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Books to Cooks opened in Yaletown in 1997. When she moved to its current location next to Les Amis du Fromage she asked a business friend for advice. He, of course, advised her to keep renovation costs low. She, as is her wont, wanted to create a place that would give her joy every day that she worked there. The store has warm wooden book shelves, a kitchen area and even a piano that doubles as a book display area. “I created a place where I wanted to be.” It paid off. In March 2014, famed Spanish chef Ferran Adria came to Vancouver to promote his work at the El Bulli Foundation. She arranged an event at the Vancouver Club with all of the city’s top chefs. “It was the honour of being able to see in person the passion he has for what he’s doing,” she said. When he first arrived, however, he wasn’t in the best of moods and seemed more intent on going to his hotel room to rest. The next day, McIntosh invited those top chefs to Books to Cooks to present some of their signature dishes for the famed chef who’d made it his life’s mission to “decode the genome of gastronomy.” “As soon as he walked into the shop, his shoulders dropped and a smile came on his face. You could see him thinking, ‘Oh, so this is who this woman is, this is her passion.’”
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To the untrained eye, it looks like an ordinary blanket. A beautiful one, certainly, crafted by hand with care and precision. But for the Musqueam people, the blanket is a symbol of the power vested in an individual by the community. For a leader, like an elected band chief, going into the world as a representative of their community, the blanket represents communal responsibility. It can also be much more. If a person is in a vulnerable state, if they are ill or going through a rite of passage, they will be wrapped in the blanket as an expression of comfort and protection. Or they will be seated on a stack of blankets. Or stood on a blanket. The symbolism is so rich, yet so obvious: What is more comforting than being wrapped in a blanket? Whether newly born or nearing death, ill with a common cold or simply tired after a long day, a blanket is a welcoming source of protection and comfort. The political and spiritual significance invested in blankets by the Musqueam and many other First Nations is typical of a global phenomenon. Human beings imbue sacred meaning into items of everyday use. Examples of this from around the globe are on display now at the Museum of Anthropology, and the parallels are striking regardless of continent. The exhibit, Layers of Influence, highlights some of the MOA’s most stunning textile artifacts. While the museum is most known for items such as totem poles, of the approximately 40,000 items in the museum’s collections, about 6,000 are categorized as textiles. Jennifer Kramer, an associate professor in UBC’s anthropology department as well as a curator of the Pacific Northwest for the MOA, explains that textile items are difficult to display because they can deteriorate in light. However, the curators collectively decided it was time for a major show of these items,
and Kramer curated it. The intention, when you walk into the O’Brian and Audain Gallery, is to feel enveloped in the colourful and detailed fabrics hanging from the ceilings. In almost every culture on earth, Kramer says, some level of spirituality is invested in articles of clothing. There is special garb worn by clergy, and designated outfits for rites of passage, such as christenings, marriage, even death. Observant Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Mormons and many other religious groups have identifying articles of clothing. Is there any culture or tradition for which clothing does not have some significance, I ask? “I don’t think so,” she replies. Even when the article of clothing is a rejection of materialism, there is deep meaning imbued in that choice. Consider Gandhi: He wore the plainest garment of cotton, handwoven in traditional and simple Indian style, a rejection of British wealth, colonial trade and imperial power. Almost universally, Kramer says, clothing represents pride, power, prestige and protection: Pride in one’s identity, with clothing frequently expressing membership in a group; Power, vested in an individual through such things as a pope’s mitre or a mayor’s chain of office; Prestige, whether walking the red carpets of Hollywood or a smalltown Main Street, is demonstrated through clothing choices; and Protection, which has multiple meanings, including the one that led me to Kramer. “Spiritual protection and connection to the spiritual,” she says, is realized through textiles in many different ways, but is almost universally practised. “Each culture, of course, does it in specific ways,” she adds, but all cultures have some approach to textiles that either embraces or borders on a connection to the divine, however they think about their cosmological beliefs. Looking at one especially ornate piece of weaving, and knowing that, before the weaver crafted the item, they first spun the wool through
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thighlights textile artifacts the most ancient of practices by running their hand over their thigh with the animal fleece between them, Kramer speculates that the craftsperson had to have been in some sort of meditative state. In other cases, the religiosity is more overt. The riga, a Muslim man’s robe of honour from the Hausa people of Nigeria, has explicitly Islamic designs and, in some cases,
would have prayers or Koranic verses embroidered inside the garment. “He’s wearing his belief system to protect him,” Kramer says. In addition to the religious imagery and messaging built into the clothing, in many instances, the handiwork would be done by a Koranic scholar, whose prayers while he works add to the sacredness of the article. One culture believes
that weaving is best practised in springtime, when the overall sense of fertility and creation is at its peak. “It’s as if the weaving connects to the cosmological cycles,” she says. As different as we may be, and the world today seems intent on emphasizing differences over similarities, it is notable that across all cultures, we make existential and spiritual statements through
our choices of what we wear. “We get wrapped in cloth from birth to death and they are significant for rites of passage,” Kramer says, “And even though what we are wrapped in is totally different — it may be bark cloth, it may be silks, it could be dyed with indigo — but the idea is of protecting yourself in clothing.” @Pat604Johnson
Jennifer Kramer says spiritual protection and connection to the spiritual is realized through textiles in many different ways. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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Vancouver Public Library selects storyteller in residence Filmmaker, poet Jules Koostachin began her residency on Jan. 3 John Kurucz
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As the Vancouver Public Library’s aboriginal storyteller in residence, Jules Koostachin is tasked with working on personal art and storytelling projects, while also planning and delivering public events across the city. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
For someone once derided as slow, savage and solitary, Jules Koostachin has reached a point of ultimate redemption. The Vancouver resident is working towards her PhD, has established a niche in the film industry and most recently has added to her successes by
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being named the Vancouver Public Library’s 2017 aboriginal storyteller in residence. That role, which started Jan. 3, will see Koostachin tasked with working on personal art and storytelling projects, while also planning and delivering public events across the city. Her name was selected out of a field of five applicants from across B.C., Canada and the U.S. and she got news of the gig in December. “I was surprised to be chosen,” she told the Courier. “I knew that I did well in the interview process, but when they told me, I fell off my chair. My thinking went from ‘I think I can do this’ to ‘Well, I have to do this now.’” Koostachin is of Cree descent and grew up on the Mushkegowok territory of the Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario. Her artistic specialties are in film, TV and creative writing. She’s the creator of the television series AskiBOYZ, which airs on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. During her residency she’ll produce poetry and other prose that reflects her 44 years’ worth of life experiences. Some of it will be pretty, other points won’t. Koostachin’s mother suffered traumatic violence while living in a residential school setting. Koostachin’s experience in the public school system wasn’t much better. “People knew that my mom was Cree, so there was a lot of racism,” she said. “There was a time when I was assaulted by a teacher and I was called a savage. I had a hearing impairment, so I was the loner at the back of the classroom. Art was my comfort zone.” Koostachin’s work in the
intervening years after high school and before arriving in B.C. was rooted in intergenerational resiliency, a theme that will be present throughout her output in the next few months. The former Ontario resident worked in women’s shelters, crisis relief centres and with women who were incarcerated or on the cusp of being institutionalized. She’s now working towards her PhD in UBC’s Gender, Race, Sexuality, Social Justice program. “Reciprocity was a big thing with my grandparents,” she said. “I was told to not take things for granted. When you are given an opportunity, you need to give it back.” Established in 2008, the library’s storyteller program has previously welcomed carvers, stand-up comics, playwrights, actors and writers into the fold. Those artists have come from First Nations backgrounds spanning the entire country. Some of the application parameters include experience in Aboriginal storytelling and performance, a zest for information sharing, availability to participate in public events and a full-time commitment for the duration of the residency. Koostachin receives a monthly stipend of $4,250 for the duration of the residency, along with resources and dedicated office space at the Central Library in downtown Vancouver. Her residency concludes in early May. “I want to be happy with the work that I create,” Koostachin said. “I really thrive off one-to-one connections with people. You can tell when you’re really connecting with someone, you can tell when the lightbulb goes off. If that happens throughout the residency I’ll know that I did a good job.” @JohnKurucz
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Documentary connects Chinese immigrants and Musqueam
All Our Father’s Relations screens Jan. 28 John Kurucz
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Surrounded by total strangers in a tiny village in southern China, Larry Grant experienced a pivotal, if not uniquely bizarre, moment that instantly tied to him a past generation. It was November 2013, and Grant was flanked by three of his siblings and a documentary film crew tasked with travelling to the family patriarch’s place of birth. Strangers on the surface, some of those Chinese villagers who greeted the Vancouver group turned out to be blood relatives. “They were feeding us and introducing us to cousins, nephews and nieces that we had never met when along comes an uncle I didn’t know that I had,” Grant recalled. “I was taken aback. Holy smokes. He was a spitting image of an uncle that had come to Canada and lived for 20-plus years here before his death. Here was this guy who looked like he stepped out of the grave. It was unbelievable.” The re-unification process that played out is a central theme to the film All Our Father’s Relations, which screens in Vancouver on Jan. 28 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts to coincide with the Chinese New Year. The film follows the interconnected histories, relationships and hardships experienced by both Chinese-Canadian immigrants and First Nations from across Metro Vancouver. The Grant family’s story is a microcosm of those experiences and stories. Grant’s father, Hong Tim
Hing, left the village of Sei Moon and moved to Vancouver in 1920. He worked on farmland located on Musqueam territory, and eventually married Agnes Grant, who was of Musqueam descent. Government legislation of the day, however, prohibited the couple from living together on the reserve; Hing was forced to live apart from the rest of the family. Even though his parents were married, Grant likened his upbringing to being raised in a single-parent home. Barriers upon barriers targeting Chinese-Canadians and indigenous populations are featured throughout the film: the Indian Act, residential schools, the banning of potlatchs and the Chinese Head Tax, among others. The film calls attention to those past wrongs, but also highlights the resilience required to live through those experiences. “All of those hardships that were endured by our ancestors, of not having parity, equality and equity in society — I would like the viewers to have a better understanding of that,” said Grant, who’s now 80 and still living on the main Musqueam reserve in South Vancouver. “A lot of things were said and done. But you just did your best. I just kept pushing and pushing.” Grant graduated from high school in 1955 and went on to a career as an auto machinist and heavy duty mechanic in the longshore industry. He now works at UBC in the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, to help keep the Musqueam language alive. It was at UBC that Grant first crossed paths with Sarah Ling, a history student and fledgling documentary filmmaker at the time. Their initial collaboration was a
trilingual children’s book based on Grant’s life that was published in English, Chinese and the Musqueam language, h n’q’ min’ m.’ The plan to hatch the film was then born in 2013, shortly before the Grants left for China. In her role as producer, Ling helped family members tell their story and lined up the logistics of the filming and editing process. Along with director Alejandro Yoshizawa, Ling
witnessed first-hand the reunification of families once separated by more than 10,000 kilometres. “It was really profound — when they first saw their uncle and embraced him, I think it was hard for them to speak,” she said. “You could see so many memories flooding back. I felt really privileged to be there.” The Grants were in Sei Moon for less than 48 hours. Documenting the
trip, bridging the cultural gap and establishing communication — they had three translators along — was pivotal. A journal written in Cantonese was shown to Grant that traced centuries of his father’s roots in China. “I was told, ‘You are the 17th generation of this house.’ Oh my God. That was my reaction,” he said. “Going there and being hugged and fed, it’s
not just something in a book at that point. To be embraced and hear someone say, ‘This is where you belong, this is where you come from’ was very emotional.” Tickets for All Our Father’s Relations are available online only and cost $15. The screening kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Ticket info is available online at eventbrite.ca. @JohnKurucz
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The praise for Samantha Mew would overflow the gilded brims of all the trophies and cups she’s won. One of the most decorated ultimate players of her generation with five gold medals in four seasons, the Grade 12 student at Prince of Wales last year joined the exclusive club of those athletes who have won both a national and world championship in the same year. An offensive-line handler with two-stepsahead positioning and pin-point passing precision, Mew was named
the junior national female player of the year by Ultimate Canada. The first of its kind at the junior ultimate level, the national honour is for 2016 and was announced Jan. 12. Ultimate Canada singled her out for the “endless endurance” that “terrorizes” the opposition on defence and her offensive intelligence, accuracy and vision that leaves room for remarkably few turnovers. Described as a “coach’s dream,” Mew was praised by Ultimate Canada as “the epitome of selflessness, always understanding that team success is more important than padding her stat sheet.
She will forgo the flashy play for the possession maintaining one, and her steadiness and consistency puts teammates into positions to succeed. As a result, she has made friends from all over the country and the world, and teammates view her as a role model.” With Vancouver’s junior Misfits, Mew won the U20 World Junior Ultimate Championship before claiming the junior women’s title at the Canadian Ultimate Championship less than a week later. The two medals add to her overall haul of 10 gold, one silver and one bronze since she picked up the sport in Grade 8.
Sam Mew won gold last summer with Vancouver club team, the Misfits.
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Lord Byng’s Caitlan Barker (No. 15) protects the ball under pressure from Britannia’s Michelle Huang (No. 6). PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.
For the second year, the Britannia Bruins and Churchill Bulldogs battled it out in the final of the Langara Challenge, but this year the results put the Bruins on top. Britannia won the 10th annual tournament for eight of the city’s top public and private schools with a 67-51 victory over Churchill at Langara College on Jan. 21. The Langara Falcons scooped up two Bulldogs for their 2017 incoming class, as recruits Lex Leynes and Trisha Pajayon both signed a letters of intent inside the gym they intend to call home next season. Three women who played in
the tournament currently compete for the Langara Falcons women’s basketball team. But the spotlight was claimed by Killarney Cougar junior stand-out Janel Tantengco who put in a lights-out, shootem-up performance to win the three-point contest Jan. 20. Tantengco, a six-footer in Grade 10, won the contest in a tiebreaker after she equalled Britannia’s Karalee Antoine with 14 buckets. In a headto-head match-up, Tantengco sunk eight treys. Now running for a decade, the tournament put on by the Vancouver Girls Basketball Association has given away more than $50,000 in scholarships.
It’s one of the few Canadian cities to offer year-round, all-weather golfing, but the park board was forced to close Vancouver’s three public courses Dec. 5 because of uncharacteristic and prolonged winter conditions. Snow and ice on the tee boxes, fairways and greens created what staff identified as a “hazard,” forcing the courses to close for a record number of days. “The golf courses were closed for seven weeks, the longest extended closure in 20 years or more,” said Green commissioner and the board’s chairman Michael Wiebe in a news release. “Warmer temperatures have finally made the greens, tees and fairways playable again. I look forward to getting out there soon as I expect other golfers do, too.” Fraserview, Langara and McCleery golf courses reopened Jan. 23. Typically,
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“Whether a kid dreams of being a Stanley Cup champion or just plays for the pure joy of it…” — Trevor Linden, everyone’s favourite retired Canuck, in a viaSport commercial about stopping bullying in sport. The sentence is picked up by Olympic swimmer Brent Hayden, who says, “The impact of sport will be measured more by the experience they have.”
they are open every day of the year, including holidays such as Christmas, and golfers have already booked into 149 rounds, according to staff. The freezing and thawing cycle seen in December and January was one of the main challenges for course maintenance. Although snow and ice melted, the water could not drain away because of deep ground frost, causing it to refreeze where it pooled on the ground. The greens required additional time to drain and firm up enough to support the weight and activity of golfers. As weather allows, grounds maintenance teams will continue to prepare golf courses for the busier spring season. In a typical year, according to the park board, the three courses host a combined average of 6,500 rounds of golf during the months of December and January. — Megan Stewart
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WEEKLY FORECAST: JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 4, 2017 Sunday through to Tuesday noon, Aries, lay low, play the “behind the scenes” game. Meaning don’t let the opposition see anything, hold your cards close to your chest. Despite this sage advice, you likely feel like a racehorse setting off on the Triple Crown, raring to go, to do, to act, to initiate a program, a plan, a new strategy. With your ruler Mars in Aries over the next 41 days, little can stop you! This means you have carte blanche to “Go for it.”
Oh Libra! Tell me, who can match your physical beauty, your cerebrally gifted balanced mind, your inherent ability to bring peace, tranquility to even the most dire of situations? The answer is: No one. You are the quintessential peace broker, your motto ought be “Peace at all costs.” A true warrior for peace, apologies for the mixed metaphor. Without malice, sans spite, without a cruel bone in your entire being, you were born.
Taurus you start this year in fine fettle. Sunday to Tuesday early PM you are perplexed by an enigmatic, charming mystery afoot in your orbit. Watch as this unfolds over the next three days. Change is a big component of the following mystery. It’s connected with those directly involved with your career, public persona, your boss or your reputation. Likely a social or dance group, perhaps an art lovers’ community are involved.
Scorpio, where to start? Wow, so much to tell you. The big news is since 1984 when Pluto went into Scorpio, therefore over your sun, moon or rising degree, either way, Pluto, our Dark Lord in the black swirling cape, (NB: This is a metaphor, people, not a reference to Satan, OK?) which shimmers, vibrates (his cape, is vibrating right?) constantly with the sheer force of his energy. Our Dark Lord of the outer reaches of our solar system has essentially altered everything in your life.
Here we go Gemini, follow this closely. Sunday to Tuesday PM, your career, professionalism, public persona, authorities, those in positions of power, your CEO, for example, all sit up and take notice of you, maybe. Certainly you have your eyes, ears and nose trained on them. Why? Because there is “something wrong in the state of Denmark.” You have Neptune, the gas giant, in this most concrete, influential of houses in your horoscope, a.k.a. an angular house.
Oh Sagittarius, wise warrior, philosopher, motor mouth – politics for you are a blood sport. And the wonder that is you, you are never without an opinion, a viewpoint to pose to whoever will give you their ear. Often you get accused of ranting, railing on… so what. If they can’t take the heat in the kitchen, ask them to leave. You are never without a cadre of companions anyway. You are an independent person regardless of the responsibilities placed on you.
Sweet tender Cancer, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: you are sensitive, emotional, intuitive, a fabulous cook (or at the very least you know all the best restaurants in town), great with kids, loving towards your family and home. Yet you carry an exterior that most find impenetrable. Your “shell” is there to protect you, especially because of your tender innards, with your “heart on the sleeve” persona. Oh yes, you are shy.
Holy cow! Capricorn, whatever happened to the pocket protectors, the flat shoes, that frumpy look? Since 2008 you have steadily changed, grown into quite the powerful, dynamic, assertive and sophisticated individual, haven’t you. Not that you weren’t like this before ’08, but you are no longer shy about telling it like it is, are you? And you put “power” on notice and in its place should the powers that be dare cross a line or personal boundary with you.
Leo, let’s try and see what’s cookin’ in your neck of the woods, shall we? Over the upcoming seven days partnership, business and marital plus very close personal friends, (you know those you would confide your darkest, deepest secrets to), these people are lit up like a Christmas tree! You are in no position to argue or show your pouty face or be disagreeable with. Do not do act out Leo. No, this is not your time to pivot it all to “me, myself and I.”
Happy Birthday Aquarius! I know it’s the season of Aquarius for a few weeks now but hey, it’s Birthday month. You know and I know, the people, the masses have been duped. They think Aquarius is this humanitarian, loving sign that is consumed with causes, “free the orangutans” Aquarian supposedly shouts en masse. This has been nurtured, in part the result of the 1967 classic hippie show Hair and its anthem to ”Age of Aquarius”... when peace will rule the skies.” You know the one, right?
Oh dear Virgo, chaste, pure, acutely intellectual, physically a classic beauty always and forever. Since November 2015 and continuing until May 2017 you’ve been heading forward, not gazing back. No, you do not turn your head to look at Sodom and Gomorrah fall. No turning into a pillar of salt for you my dear. Rather this period is more like a rush to the goal post at the end of the final quarter.
Pisces, oh sweet Pisces, how do I love thee? Me and everyone you meet. You have a certain magnetism, like a soft summer’s breeze off the warm ocean, you have the habit of growing on people, you’re sort of like a drug. I know it sounds weird but you are intoxicating, seductive, mysterious. And you can really boost a person’s mood – sounds like a drug, doesn’t it?Ms./ Mr./Zer endorphin releaser uou! Tim Stephens is away.
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Electric GT tweaks Tesla for the track
Electric GT takes the Tesla Model S racing
Something you will see often on the intertubes is the Tesla Model S demonstrating its ability to accelerate very fast in a straight line. Something you will not see a lot of is Model S owners ripping around on a racetrack rather than a dragstrip. When it comes to fast sedans, the Model S is more AMG eater than Panamera competitor – it can pull decent Gs in the corners, but lacks the cooling and brakes to hack repeated lapping. Notably, racing driver Robb Holland had a go at lapping one around the Nürburgring, and the car went into reduced power mode after about three minutes. However, it’s not uncommon for a street car to fall on its face when taken racing. And, happily, there’s a company that’s decided to solve the Model S’s problems by releasing a race-spec version. The Electric GT takes the lightning-fast P100D sedan, swaps out the suspension for a dedicated racing setup, straps on some proper racing brakes, cranks up power to 778 horsepower and 734 foot-pounds of torque, and sheds some 500 kilograms from the curb weight. Next, Electric GT plans to take their creation racing in a single-make series. Ten two-person teams of drivers will compete in short (60kilometre) races in Europe and North America, with the racing kicking off this fall. Racing machines and street cars have very different missions, but getting a car to lap quickly often comes with trickle-down effects, especially where weight savings are concerned. Electric GT is a smallscale first foray into the field, but there’s nothing bad about seeing the first properly-prepared Tesla take to the track.
First EV finishes the Dakar rally
Further good news for fans of both motorsport and sustainable vehicle development, the first purely electric car has just completed the 9,000-kilometre Dakar desert rally. Spanish energy company Acconia fielded the purpose-built 4x4, which finished 57th overall. That’s not what you’d
call a podium performance, but even getting to the finish of the Dakar is a huge achievement. The current version of the race takes place over some of the most inhospitable parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, and includes dealing with shifting sands and high altitude. The machine, unimaginatively called the 100% Ecopowered, comes with a 250 kW electric motor supported by six separate battery modules. The modules can be charged independently – sort of like auxiliary fuel tanks – to make for shorter pit stops on some of the stages, and the motor’s 590 foot-pounds of torque is perfect for ascents. Long-distance rally isn’t the sort of thing that electric vehicles excel at, but Acconia’s achievement may be thought of as a first step. One bonus of using electric power is that it’s totally unaffected by altitude, unlike conventional combustion engines. Now that the first EVs run the gauntlet, we may see more taking part.
Mazda finds new life in combustion engine
A couple of years ago, I was sitting through a long and complicated technical briefing in a Yokohama boardroom. Mazda engineers laid out their plans for their Skyactiv brand of technologies, and talked at length about stoichiometric ratios, direct-injection misting, and torque ranges at low r.p.m. After about an hour of Powerpoint presentations, one engineer casually dropped a bombshell that had me sitting up in my chair — they’re putting the concept into production. Essentially, Mazda has figured out how to run a gasoline engine in the same way a diesel engine operates. Let me try to outline how that works without the Powerpoint. In both gasoline and diesel engines, a mix of fuel and air is ignited to produce an explosion that pushes a piston down and makes power. In a gasoline engine, the ignition comes from a spark; in a diesel engine, the ignition comes from the incredible pressure of squeezing the fuel-air mixture. Getting a gasoline-air mixture to ignite under pressure takes all kinds of complex equations and a lot of development. However, it yields greatly improved fuel economy. Anybody
who currently owns a diesel passenger vehicle will tell you that they get great mileage (especially highway) out of their car. Imagine, if you will, a next-generation Mazda3 that zips through the corners with that usual Mazda fizz, but can also slog along Highway 1 with similar fuel economy to a VW TDI. EVs are currently great for city use, but the immediate future of the automobile is a blended fleet, and better fuel economy mixed with
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Mazda fun-to-drive sounds pretty good.
Refreshed Ford Mustang loses V6
After just a couple of years, Ford is freshing up its Mustang with new styling and the addition of its new 10-speed automatic transmission. There’s some improved aerodynamics from the former, and better fuel economy from the latter. Compared to the Camaro, the Mustang is
currently easier to live with (the Camaro’s rear seats are mostly useless), but lags in driving dynamics. The Camaro’s 1LE package is a world beater, with V-8 versions capable of beating up more expensive German competitors, let alone the main rival Mustang. With that in mind, the Mustang is also getting a revised suspension and new enhancements to the optional Performance Package. If you’re looking for a sporting pony-car
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