Vancouver Courier March 30 2017

12TH & CAMBIE CITY SHIFTS HOMELESSNESS FOCUS TO REGION 4 NEWS MEET THE VET CARING FOR CANUCK THE CROW 7 OPINION VISION STILL IN DENIAL OVER VSB BULLYING 10 LIVING TRAVEL GRITTY TACOMA GETS ITS GROOVE BACK 18 THURSDAY

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Has the city given up on the homeless in Vancouver?

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Has the city given up on the homeless?

That was a question I put to two of the city’s top bureaucrats — Gil Kelley and Kathleen Llewellyn-Thomas — in a scrum last Thursday after reporters received an update on the city’s new housing and homelessness plan. Kelley is the city’s head planner, Llewellyn-Thomas is the general manager of community services and responsible for the housing file at city hall.

“We’re taking new looks at homelessness, and we’re going to be reporting on that in the middle of April,” said Llewellyn-Thomas, after acknowledging the city has expanded the focus of its housing and homelessness plan to address people at various income levels. But, she cautioned, the city is not abandoning homeless people.

Added Kelley: “I would just echo that this is not an either or choice... we’re not giving up on the homeless by any means, or

the lowest income.”

Now that I’ve had a few days to consider my question, I could have re-framed it. It was probably unfair.

Of course, the city hasn’t given up on homeless people, although with 1,847 counted in the city’s homeless count in March 2016, that conclusion could be reached; it was the highest homeless population ever recorded in Vancouver.

There’s a lot of evidence from over the years to show the city has made efforts to get people off the street, including working with nonprofits and the provincial government to open new social housing, modular housing and shelters. The city has secured temporary housing buildings, funded outreach programs, opened a “rent bank” and set up a task force with the goal of improving conditions in single-roomoccupancy hotels.

In the winter, the city opened community centres to give homeless people a temporary refuge from the cold. The city also recently created what it calls a homelessness services team.

The city has created a new housing and homeless plan that focuses more on keeping young families from leaving the city than finding homes for people living on the street. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

All of the measures are positive.

But if you look through the city’s “housing and homelessness strategy reset,” as it is referred to in a report that went before city council Tuesday, you could probably appreciate why I asked the question about giving up on the homeless.

The report is clearly focused on how best a municipality — without the money and tools from senior levels of government — can address the city’s housing affordability crisis.

I posted a story on our

website last week about the nuts and bolts of the 10year plan. Some of the highlights include building new housing tied to a person’s income to prevent young people and young families from leaving the city, allowing more townhouses, rowhouses and duplexes in single-family neighbourhoods and developing 1,000 affordable housing units on city properties.

Where I heard a lot about homelessness this year was at a news conference in February at the Metro Vancouver offices, where

four of the region’s mayors slammed the provincial government for not getting more people into housing.

Mayor Gregor Robertson, with mayors from Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Maple Ridge, launched a campaign aimed at government to tackle what they say is a crisis not just in Vancouver, but across the region.

Their evidence: There are more than 70 homeless camps spread across municipalities, with an estimated 4,000 people in need of a home. Shelters are at 97 per cent capacity and approximately five people per week are becoming homeless. Another 10,000 people are on B.C. Housing’s waiting list for a permanent home.

Aha, so there’s the shift: What was once predominantly a Vancouver problem is now a regional crisis — a move that better explains why the city is talking more these days about getting young families homes than those people on the street.

Hence the creation in November 2016 of a regional homelessness task force,

which is co-chaired by some guy named Robertson — who failed in his promise to end (street) homelessness by 2015 — and Maple Ridge Mayor Nicole Read, whose voice was refreshing to hear over those of the usual suspects on this file.

“This is a crisis that is moving in the wrong direction,” Read told reporters at the news conference. “We have no plan here in the province of British Columbia to address homelessness, and local governments are scrambling to do their best — with no resources, no funding to be able to deal with the citizens on their streets who need care.”

But whether it’s a city problem, or a regional problem, or a shift in the city’s focus to respond to young families — or the provincial government’s fault that thousands are homeless — let me go back to my original question and completely re-phrase it: How do you explain all this to the guy I saw this morning begging for money at Main and Terminal? @Howellings

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Mayor Gregor Robertson is calling the federal government’s promise to provide $2.2 billion for transit investment in the region “a game changer” and a big step to getting a subway built along the Broadway corridor.

The mayor’s comment came after the federal government revealed its 2017-2018 budget Wednesday and committed to spend $20.1 billion over 11 years on transit across the country.

The spending hinges on bilateral agreements with provinces and territories.

The region’s share is $2.2 billion, which builds on $370 million committed to local transit projects in 2016.

“Today’s historic federal investment in transit and transportation is a game changer for our region and the largest in Metro Vancouver in 20 years,” said Robertson, the chairperson of the mayors’ council on regional transportation, in a March 22 statement.

Robertson acknowledged mayors still had work to do to secure all the funding to get the subway and a lightrapid transit line built in Surrey. That work includes convincing the provincial government to match the federal government’s $2.2 billion contribution to fund the projects, which combined will cost more than $4 billion. The $2.2 billion will also be used to fund major upgrades to the region’s transit system.

If the province doesn’t match the federal amount, the mayors will be forced to find ways to raise up to 27 per cent of the cost. Fund-

The federal government announced in its budget Wednesday that $2.2 billion will be spent on transit in the region, including partial funding for the construction of a subway along the congested Broadway corridor. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

ing sources haven’t been determined, but it could mean a hike in property taxes, road pricing, tolls or a combination.

The federal government’s budget did not provide any details about funding the replacement of the Pattullo Bridge, which links New Westminster and Surrey.

The replacement is estimated to cost $1 billion.

The mayors’ council issued a news release last Wednesday saying the funding could come through the federal Infrastructure Bank or Trade Transportation Corridor Initiative. The provincial government has committed to provide onethird of the cost.

“The mayors’ council and TransLink are reviewing new details about these programs and will work immediately with the federal and provincial governments to finalize their investments in this project,” the council’s release said.

Robertson said he was also encouraged by the Trudeau government’s commitment to spend $11.2 billion over the next

11 years on housing across the country and maintain operating agreements for coop housing complexes. The government said the money will be spent “on a range of initiatives designed to build, renew and repair Canada’s stock of affordable housing and help to ensure that Canadians have adequate and affordable housing that meets their needs.”

The Carnegie Community Action Project said in a release that the spending will not be enough to eradicate homelessness in the region, where more than 4,000 people are in need of housing. Vancouver alone counted 1,847 homeless people in March 2016.

“If you divide the $11.2 billion over 11 years, it boils down to only $1 billion a year to be spent across the whole country,” the anti-poverty advocacy group said. “If the $1 billion were all spent on building new social housing, it would be enough to build about 5,000 social housing units across the country. B.C. alone needs 10,000 units a year.” @Howellings

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The B.C. SPCA and the Italian Canadian Sports Federation have launched separate investigations into the March 25 attack that sent Vancouver’s well-known crow to a wildlife animal hospital.

Canuck the crow showed signs of head trauma after being “blindsided” by a linesman’s flag at a soccer game.

Canuck’s human companion, Shawn Bergman, said Canuck is being taken care of by “quite arguably the best bird doctor in North America,” Dr. Anne McDonald at Vancouver’s Night Owl Animal Hospital.

“In the long run, time will tell,” Bergman wrote on the “Canuck and I” Facebook page.

Canuck is famous for stealing a knife from a crime scene and hopping on the SkyTrain to see if any of the passengers had food for him. A documentary is being made of the special relationship between Bergman and Canuck.

On March 25, Canuck was taking in a soccer game at Adanac Park when one of the volunteer linesman deliberately “cracked Canuck on the head with his flag.”

The B.C. SPCA’s Lorie Chortyk says the agency takes all cases of animal cruelty seriously, no matter what the animal.

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On March 25, celebrity crow Canuck was assaulted by a linesman at a soccer game. The bird is receiving medical attention at the Night Owl Animal Hospital. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

of the Criminal Code of Canada, charges can be laid on anyone who “willfully causes or, being the owner, willfully permits to be caused unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to an animal or a bird.”

“It’s about ensuring every animal gets justice,” Chortyk said.

The outpouring of support for Canuck, who gained thousands of new Facebook followers over the weekend, is encouraging, she adds, because it shows many animals are valued in our society.

The SPCA investigates about 10,000 allegations a year. “Even if they don’t have such a Facebook presence, we’d take the case equally as

seriously.”

The Italian Canadian Sports Federation, which hosted the soccer tournament where the assault took place, was quick to respond.

On March 26 it posted a message on its website saying that it did not condone violence of any kind against animals.

It assigned one of its board members, Don Faccone, to investigate what happened.

“What we have been able to determine so far is that the person involved in this incident was not a member of ICSF and was not employed or directed

by ICSF,” the release said.

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Anyone with information about the attack on Canuck is asked email Faccone at jkfdon@telus.net.

The SPCA also encourages witnesses to help with its investigation. People with any evidence of the assault should contact the investigating officer at 604-575-2249 or the animal cruelty hotline, 1-855-622-7722.

In the meantime, in his most recent Facebook post, Bergman wonders if he should break the news to Canuck’s girlfriend, Cassiar.

“Through this whole ordeal, there is one person that this has affected greatly and I wanted to mention it today,” he wrote. “That person is Cassiar. She is the one individual that seems worried sick about Canuck and I can’t even tell her what’s going on.

It’s been three days since she’s seen Canuck and I can tell she’s worried. She has greeted me for the past two mornings by landing on the railing by my door and squawking at me. The only other time she did this was when Canuck went missing but as it turns out he was just up in Whistler. I wish I could tell her and for her to understand what’s going on. Breaks my heart. However I’m sure she will be excited to see him when he does come home.”

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On March 27, the Courier talked to Dr. Anne McDonald, the veterinarian at Night Owl Bird Hospital who’s treating Canuck the crow.

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How is Canuck?

I would say today he’s stable and he’s more active and certainly more alert.

For an injury like this, what do you do in terms of an examination or how do you determine what’s wrong and the treatment?

A lot of it is watching and looking for things like what is his vision like, what is his ability to walk like, what is his ability to use his wings like. It’s basic, progressive examination over time and seeing how he responds.

Then, there’s radiographing and laboratory work, those sorts of things. We’ve been working our way through it.

What’s the prognosis?

He’s in pretty good shape, I would say. But the concern is how well does he have to be to go back out

One of the reasons, and probably the single most important reason for keeping him, is to keep him confined and quiet.

Because when you look at his injuries, and he was evidently hit with a pole, then you’re talking about things that will do best if your blood pressure stays even and you don’t do things like, if you’re a bird, fly.

Rest is a really major part of all of this… he just needs to be treated with medicine for discomfort, anti-inflammatories and things that facilitate the body healing.

Sleep is one of the most important things.

Is it unusual to have a case like Canuck?

Well, we do crows but most crows don’t come attached to the public or with the public attached.

What would you like people to know about birds that you don’t think they know?

If you’re in a situation

where you have a wild bird that is a baby, if it can possibly be raised in community with other birds of its own species, that would be preferable. I just hope Canuck is a little bit wiser in his choices of activities as he goes back into the real world. Crows are smart, so I’m hoping he will not be as trusting as he is now.

He really assumes everybody is his best friend and, of course, that’s not the case. When you’re raised by your parents, they teach you things. When you’re raised by humans, they just don’t have the same skills... [Canuck] is a great individual. Just great. It’s a wonderful thing for people of [the] community to have an individual like him. He’s a great ambassador for crows in general, and he’s a wonderful thing for children to see and learn about. But the cost to him so far… I mean, he’s done well to get as far as he has in age and not have something terrible happen to him, but I can only really hope that he’s a little bit wiser for it.

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Two public, membersonly recreational sports clubs have the board’s endorsement to apply for liquor primary licenses to sell booze without requesting a special event permit through the city, saving them money and time.

The Kitsilano Yacht Club and Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club can get permits to sell liquor to members and guests, not to the general public. Neither club has had a noise complaint in their combined 183 years, and both will stop liquor sales by 11 p.m.

The commissioners got a kick out of speaking with the commodore of the yacht club (“I’ve just always wanted to address a person as ‘Commodore,’” said the Green’s Stuart Mackinnon).

New deal for Strathcona

The community centre in Strathcona is saddled with unique, complex demands

that set it apart from most others in the city and should have a distinct contract and secure funding.

This was the unanimous decision taken March 27 by the park board, now wrapping up a year-long effort to sign the city’s 21 community centre associations to a joint operating agreement.

Proposing a different deal marks a new direction for Strathcona and potentially other community centres that struggle financially.

and any other community centre with similar financial limits and burdens.

“Something needed to be done differently,” said Vision commissioner Catherine Evans.

The Strathcona community centre association fundraises $1 million of its annual $1.7 million operating budget each year. Park board staff is tasked with researching models to follow or innovations to dream up and will present interim,

I’ve just always wanted to address a person as ‘Commodore.’

Park board commissioner Stuart Mackinnon The park board is also prepared to put its hand out.

It will consider “potential funding partners” that can “develop an interim as well as a long-term strategy for a sustainable funding model.”

The new direction was supported by the Strathcona Community Centre Association president.

“Over the last several months, it became clear that we couldn’t be supported very significantly through the JOA,” said Shannon Williams. “It is a significant shift that the park board is saying they need to support communities such as ours, so we are really heartened by that.”

The decisions has two phases and will begin with recommendations specific to Strathcona on a shortterm basis before long-term options are considered for it

short-term suggestions to the board by June 30.

Long-term models will be presented by Nov. 30.

“I would suggest staff was already working toward a solution with Strathcona, but I think it’s important we separate the process and formalize this so the commissioners and staff all recognize that we are ready to address this,” said NPA commissioner Casey Crawford, who is the park board liaison to the Strathcona Community Centre and proposed an initial motion that he later revised alongside Evans because she had proposed a similar but separate motion of her own.

“Poverty isn’t restricted to one neighbourhood or two or three, it is throughout our city,” said Evans. @MHStewart

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What were they thinking?

Nominations for questionable City of Vancouver decisions

Michael Geller geller@sfu.ca

As I travel around the city, I often come across things that cause me to scratch my bald head and question “What were they thinking?”

Occasionally, I post comments on social media or write a blog post to see if I’m the only one who notices or cares.

Increasingly, I am not alone questioning some of the things going on. This prompted me to suggest on Facebook that someone should launch a What Were They Thinking awards program, which one Facebook follower suggested be called the WTFWTT awards.

To get the ball rolling, here are some initial nominees:

Point Grey Road sidewalk

Many were disturbed by the initial council decision to turn a portion of Point Grey Road into a gated community. While some nearby residents were pleased, others questioned the benefits, especially given the considerable costs and other more pressing city needs.

However, the latest construction activities seem to have almost everybody upset.

As respected UBC landscape architect Patrick Condon recently noted, “the clear-cutting of mature trees and planting to create a wider concrete sidewalk demonstrates the city seems incapable of anything approaching a light touch when it comes to their Greenest City agenda.”

I would add that it’s bordering on the insane to incur such costs to install an ugly plain concrete sidewalk and expensive new power poles, reminiscent of developing nations. This is not going to be a pleasant addition to Vancouver’s waterfront walkway system.

What were they thinking?

Burrard Bridge

The upgrading of the Burrard Bridge seems to have been underway for an excessive amount of time.

While the need to carry out structural improvements was understood, the sequencing of work and certain design decisions seem most questionable.

I like landscaped medians in roads. I was therefore pleased when, after installing an asphalt pavement at the south end of the bridge,

the city dug it up to install a planter. Then it sat vacant for a season, gathering weeds.

Then it was planted and soon overrun by more weeds.

Now a portion of the landscaped median has been paved over to accommodate temporary lane realignments. I can’t help but wonder when there will be a serious accident as drivers struggle to adjust to these changes, not to mention the drifting orange traffic cones.

What were they thinking?

This is supposed to be a public art program. Why can’t the process select art installations that most of the public might enjoy?

Are there projects around the city that have you questioning what were they thinking? If so, write and tell me about them. I’ll include them in future columns. @michaelgeller

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Marine Drive bicycle lanes

I was pleased when I heard that bicycle lanes would be installed along both sides of Marine Drive westward from Granville Street. However, when the road finally opened, I questioned the decision to install flimsy white plastic posts into the asphalt to protect cyclists on turns.

Not surprisingly, many of these posts were soon knocked over, leaving metal brackets in the asphalt, and many remaining posts leaning at odd angles. It’s most unsightly.

Now, large metal pipes have appeared alongside portions of the street. Please don’t tell me city workers are going to again tear up Marine Drive.

If so, what were they thinking?

Public art around Vancouver

I have had concerns with Vancouver’s Public Art Program ever since I was told I could not hire Susan Point to create a two-block sculpture and fountain along Georgia Street in front of the Bayshore project. Why? The city’s program manager thought there was already too much native art in the city. Instead, his art selection process came up with giant, garish, gold-coloured sand buckets with water pouring out the top. My client had to pay the city a lot of money to buy his way out of that one.

I recently upset Facebook followers by questioning another garish, gold art installation — Douglas Coupland’s Golden Tree on a small plaza at Cambie and Marine. I also questioned the decision to install bright white cones of salt near the Olympic Village, which quickly attracted graffiti and debris.

While I am at it, I also dislike the condom sculpture (they are supposed to be condoms, aren’t they?) at Davie and Howe.

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Vision Vancouver in denial about VSB bullying Allen Garr

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his is earth calling fired Vision Vancouver school board trustees. You may still be on another planet.

We have now received a second in-depth report — this one from WorkSafe B.C. — which confirms you were indeed engaged in activities that can clearly be classified as bullying and harassing senior school board staff.

And yet you have remained in some kind of state of denial for the longest time.

When the first report looking into allegations of harassment and bullying, the one by labour lawyer Roslyn Goldner, was made public earlier this month and confirmed those charges, you wrote her off as a stooge. Vision’s Patti Bacchus explained in her piece for the online magazine the Vancouver Observer: “I suppose it’s not surprising an investigator hired by senior managers and reporting to

government-appointed senior managers would reach this conclusion.”

I’m sure that Steve Cardwell found this charge, um, interesting. When six members of the board’s senior management, including the superintendent and the secretary-treasurer, went on “indefinite leave” practically en masse late last September, Cardwell, the former VSB superintendent, put his work at UBC on hold and returned to help out.

At the time, Vision trustees held this up as a sign that things couldn’t be all that bad. After all, the much-respected Cardwell was willing to come back.

Within days of the mass departure, a letter surfaced — conveniently leaked to the media — from the president of the B.C. School Superintendents Association, Sherry Elwood, to the deputy minister of education. It alleged a toxic workplace and harassment of senior staff at the VSB. The minister of education asked WorkSafe B.C. to investigate.

Following rules set out

by WorkSafe B.C., and the VSB’s own board policy, Cardwell began the process of investigating the allegations.

On Oct. 12, and a week before the board was fired, Cardwell confirmed the engagement of Goldner to conduct an independent

staff was the September 26, 2016 private and public meetings held at Charles Tupper Secondary School” to deal with school closures.

A statement from Vision’s executive director Stepan Vdovine, following release of the Goldner report, attempted to deflect

Senior staff also realized that there was ‘nothing anyone could do to the trustees’ short of the minister of education. investigation, in accordance with the district’s policy and WorkSafe B.C.’s requirement.

Her report, as you know by now, confirmed the board’s abuse of staff, particularly by Vision trustees, and pointed specifically at Bacchus and board chair Mike Lombardi.

Goldner wrote that “The ‘tipping point’ for

the findings of bullying and harassment to the issue of forced school closures: “The Vision Vancouver school board trustees were elected by the citizens of Vancouver on a platform of advocacy for students’ learning, not to do provincial the government’s dirty work of closing neighbourhood schools.”

All the Vision trustees were

doing was “asking difficult questions of senior staff at public meetings.”

Lombardi came off sounding like Sgt. Schultz in the TV sitcom Hogan’s Heroes who would famously duck trouble by exclaiming, “I know nothing.”

And then last week, the WorkSafe B.C. report was released.

It is much more technical than the Goldner report. The investigators retained the services of an expert in the field of bullying and harassment. As well, they provided a definition of those activities.

And they looked at what could be considered “reasonable actions” as employers relate to employees and what could be defined as “work direction” provided by trustees to senior staff.

Then, following the description of each incident reported to them, they would conclude whether that could be defined as bullying or harassment.

The investigators also concluded that the reason acts of bullying and harass-

ment by trustees were not reported to the board was because those being abused were “fearful for their jobs and future careers.” Senior staff also realized there was “nothing anyone could do to the trustees” short of the minister of education.

But in the end, they focused, as Goldner had, on that meeting at Tupper, the “tipping point.” And they concluded, as she had, that the trustees’ actions and words, and again particularly Bacchus’, constituted harassment and bullying by holding the senior staff members up to ridicule and intimidation.

This time there was no official statement from Vision and no suggestion the investigators were government stooges.

Instead, there was this comment from Bacchus to CBC radio: “I didn’t see or experience, to me, behaviour that I thought was ever intended to do that.” And she added, “I didn’t see how hard that was on staff and I regret that terribly.”

Indeed. @allengarr

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Open House: Proposed commemorative design in George Wainborn Park to honour Irish-Canadians

Act before July 1 or you’ll be charged a 1% tax on its assessed value.

If your property is not a principal residence, eligible for an exemption, or rented out for at least six months* in 2017, it will be subject to the Empty Homes Tax.

On behalf of the Ireland Canada Monument Society, the Vancouver Park Board will erect a monument in George Wainborn Park, commemorating the contributions of Irish-Canadians to Vancouver, the provinces and Canada.

Residential properties that have not yet been rented will therefore need to be occupied by a tenant no later than July 1 and remain occupied for the remainder of 2017 - in order to be excluded from the tax.

Provide your feedback on two proposed designs at our open house.

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If you’re thinking about going somewhere to eat Thursday, March 30, why not pick a restaurant that’s participating in Dining Out for Life.

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The organization supplies an average of 100,000 meals a year, offers nutritional counselling and meal planning, provides Easter dinner cooked by local chefs, created the Family Pantry Program, which supplies families with fruits, vegetables and other essentials, and delivers snack packs to clients, which include fresh fruit, yogurt, bread, juice, milk and more.

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Judging by some recent Facebook chatter, many of us have a lot to say about litter, and the sorry state of streets, boulevards and schoolyards in our city.

I think it is time to be blunt, Vancouver. On far too many of your blocks and alleyways, you are a mess.

We may aspire to be the greenest city, but we are quickly being branded as a gritty city for all the litter we leave behind.

Vancouver’s shabby appearance has been a subject of past columns for me and Courier scribe Michael Geller. As far back as 2013, he and I have offered suggestions on how to address this problem through public awareness campaigns and other initiatives.

Apart from vague statements around its waste collection budget, the City has largely ignored calls to advocate for a tidier town.

The fact is, clean streets have never been a political priority for the governing Vision party, and their unsightly appearance proves that point.

When it comes to issues relating to dumping, potholes or non-functioning street lamps, the City’s website advises us to report them via the VanConnect smartphone app, which I frequently do, accompanied by a photo and a short description of the issue.

If I were to begin reporting everything I see in my travels, however, I would be on that app non-stop for days.

Last weekend, as on many occasions, I picked up our old 20-gallon plastic garbage can and a slightly bent pair of tongs and spent 45 minutes on a litter-collection sweep on my block and back lane.

The container had to be emptied twice for me to finish the task. When tidying our block (which can be great exercise, by the way), I wonder why so few others take the same initiative. If anyone is observing me at the time, perhaps they think I have court-ordered community service hours.

It is plausible that most of us do not care about litter, but I doubt it.

I am told that anti-litter

campaigns are featured prominently in our elementary schools. Kids must wonder then why we grownups tolerate so much mess here in Vancouver.

The public awareness campaigns I remember were American made, spotted while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Today, Woodsy the Owl saying “give a hoot, don’t pollute” and the “crying Indian” commercial seem quaint. The latter was produced by a business-led consortium known as “Keep America Beautiful.” The stated aim of that campaign — which began in the early 1950s — was to encourage litter prevention, waste reduction and sponsor community beautification projects.

Critics have dismissed it as corporate greenwashing, but the fact is we are still talking about their most famous advertisement nearly five decades later. Such is the power of marketing to instill an idea that we appear to have lost here — that we all are responsible for the public realm.

We have the annual city-led Keep Vancouver Spectacular initiative, which can bring out

volunteers in droves. These clean-ups can have short-term benefits, but not enough to sustain tidy streets and alleys throughout the year.

Much of Vancouver’s mess is on our commercial high streets, which is why more effort should be directed at business and property owners as to their responsibility to maintain the property’s exterior. Those that do deserve our praise.

On occasion I have reminded shop owners in my area to clear litter, leaves, snow or ice, from outside their premises, but they respond that the property owner is responsible, not the shopkeeper.

In most cases we’re talking about a few minutes with a broom and a dustpan, folks.

Thankfully, it is not just me who gets to be the nattering nabob when it comes to Vancouver’s litter problem. Many of us wish to see things improved.

For that to happen, it will require our communities and small businesses, as well as our local government, to come together to clean up our messy city. @MikeKlassen

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Simon Woodcock and his son, Luka, enjoy a cookie and coffee at the recently opened Federal Store in Mount Pleasant. Neighbourhood “mom-and-pop shops” are making a comeback, although in MacKenzie Heights, where barber Christos Kaskamanidis works, they’ve never gone away. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

TALK OF THE BLOCK

New breed of corner stores brings convenience and community Christopher Cheung

bychrischeung@gmail.com

When Karen Hamill’s daughter learned to walk, the mom-and-pop shops of MacKenzie and West 33rd were her first destination.

“You come here to meet people,” said Hamill, who lives 15 minutes away. “[Eventually], everyone knows your name. They speak with my children, they ask for life updates…

You don’t get that from chain stores.”

There’s Christos Kaskamanidis, the 79-year-old neighbourhood barber who gives haircuts and plays you the accordion.

There’s Earl Morris, the neighbourhood baker, who set up here with his sister after they ran Kerrisdale’s beloved Red Onion restaurant for 26 years.

There’s Jessica Clark, the neighbourhood florist, who always knows what you’d like. Maybe it helps that her middle name is Blossom.

And there’s India Daykin, 23, the newest on the block, who runs a beauty store on the corner. She’s very excited to be here.

There’s something unusual about this hub. There aren’t many places like it in Vancouver for one reason: in every direction are houses, houses, houses.

It’s hard to find commercial spaces in residential neighbourhoods because city planners for decades have tried to keep them out.

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at MacKenzie Heights were zoned in before planners decided it was inappropriate to have them near homes.

And yet today, the new businesses that have taken over grandfathered commercial space in residential neighbourhoods are gaining popularity. They bring convenience, but also community.

In early March, the mayor gave a speech about bringing “gentle density” to singlefamily home neighbourhoods.

But when that happens, what about the amenities?

A glimpse of a vibrant future for Vancouver’s neighbourhoods can be seen in residential communities like MacKenzie Heights, thanks to the mom-and-pops from the past that are making a comeback.

Zoned out

The 1950s, ’60s and ’70s were the age of the automobile, and that was reflected in North American cities. Planners encouraged the separation of residential, industrial and commercial land.

“Pristine low-density neighbourhoods and a drive to a shopping centre — that was the paradigm,” said Gil Kelley, Vancouver’s chief planner.

As for convenience stores, groceries and neighbourhood pubs inside residential neighbourhoods, a lot of them were zoned out because they were considered a “non-conforming use” for their area, said Kelley.

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groceries left vacant for too long. However, some remained, and attracted new business owners. These locations were walkable, had nostalgic charm and were often on visible corner lots. Why not resurrect them into gathering places for the neighbourhood?

One pioneer was Le Marché St. George, nestled between Main and Fraser and all the Vancouver Specials by East 28th. Once owned by a Japanese family that ran a classic corner store (they say you could buy single cigarettes out of a back closet), Le Marché brought the laidback allure of a European café to the neighbourhood.

But the new bustle in the area drew a complaint, and initiated a face-off that the media framed into a David and Goliath battle. The corner store vs. city hall! The stakes? Whether neighbourhood groceries were allowed to prepare food.

Petition signatures and letters poured in to support Le Marché. After all, asked residents, aren’t spots like this what creates vibrant communities in the city?

City council unanimously voted to allow the stores to serve prepared food and have a maximum of 16 seats, as long as the stores’ primary use was “selling groceries and convenience goods.”

In a thank you note to supporters, Le Marché wrote, “This is huge for us and all other little shops like ours. It gives these kinds of stores a fair chance at succeeding and

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contributing to their communities creatively without being burdened by outdated ideas.”

Federal intervention

There are a number of treasures like Le Marché tied to and tucked into their neighbourhoods.

Classics like Benny’s in Strathcona and Arbutus Coffee in Kitsilano. Now among their ranks are the Wilder Snail and Finch’s, also in Strathcona, and the Mighty Oak in Riley ParkLittle Mountain.

One of the latest is the Federal Store in Mount Pleasant, opened by Chris Allen and Colette Griffiths last November. They live nearby and wanted to bring new life to the corner after the convenience store of the same name closed.

“We took inspiration from the sign,” said Allen.

It still hangs on the corner, bright red with Federal Store in white letters and an elegant, curved stripe.

Think Coca-Cola.

Unlike the other grocery cafés in lower density residential neighbourhoods, there are more apartments near the Federal Store. The only other like it is Greenhorn among the West End’s towers and walkups, which shares the block with a dry cleaners. With density, you need amenities, something that the City of Toronto recently introduced to liven up its out-of-the-way concrete tower neighbourhoods.

“Many residents don’t really see their neighbours

everyday if they live in an apartment or townhouse,” said Allen. He estimates that 90 per cent of the Federal Store’s customers live within a two-block radius.

Chief planner Kelley thinks there’s something to be learned from their popularity: “This shows you that the market — meaning both the consumers and the use— is somehow way ahead of where zoning policy needs to be,” he said.

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Adding residents to Vancouver’s low-density singlefamily neighbourhoods is one challenge, but Kelley is looking at the bigger picture as the city plans its housing reset.

“The big questions for me are what makes a good neighbourhood, what makes a complete neighbourhood, what makes a healthy neighbourhood,” said Kelley.

Today’s city planning ideas of walkable, mixeduse neighbourhoods that balance pedestrians, bikes, transit and cars would upset the planners of old. When Kelley was Portland’s planning director, he helped develop the idea of 20-minute neighbourhoods, with everything you need within 20 minutes by foot.

Kelley hopes to welcome businesses back to Vancouver’s residential areas, but notes it has to be done sensitively by consulting individual neighbourhoods.

New street improvements go hand-in-hand, too: “Wider sidewalks, café tables and

bike racks are part of the mix... Maybe there’s a corner that needs rental housing above a corner store?”

Close to home

Back at MacKenzie and West 33rd, Earl Morris the baker is worried. A three-storey development is proposed for his block, with residential on top, and two or three commercial spaces on the bottom to replace the nine shops there today.

This means more housing units, and the commercial spots retained. So what’s wrong?

“No small independent business can afford it,” said Morris. “Starbucks is not interested in it because there’s not enough traffic... It will destroy the community.”

Life here is about making and meeting friends, whether that’s your neighbours, or the man baking your bread.

“We have customers that meet other customers and go, ‘Don’t you live near me?’

And they sit down and start talking and become friends.

That’s community.”

A few doors down, it’s something Christos Kaskamanidis the barber knows.

He can show you community on his wall: time-worn photos of children getting their first haircuts from his 19 years in the neighbourhood. He watched them grow up. If you lived nearby, you’d recognize them too.

“Good people,” he said with a smile. @bychrischeung

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Community

SHARING THE WEALTH: While Canadians are blessed to live in a country where we have access to leading cancer research, knowledge and treatments, others are less fortunate — particularly in resource-challenged countries such as Nepal, Peru and Brazil.

That’s where the Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Foundation comes in. A registered charity founded in 2010, the organization led by founder and president Dr. Simon Sutcliffe aims to work with care professionals in developing areas to reduce the burden of cancer.

Volunteers give of their time to share their expertise and skills for the betterment of all.

To facilitate their mission, the firm recently staged its flagship fundraiser. The sold-out event attracted 500 guests for the Rhythms of India Dinner and Dance. Yours truly emceed the colourful affair — the fourth annual — to support palliative care efforts in India.

Henri William’s the Holy Crab in Vancouver’s West End is the latest to join a growing list of restaurants offering the traditional seafood boil.

Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration party chair Zahra Lalani and founder and president Dr. Simon Sutcliffe led the $100,000 Rhythms of India Dinner and Dance to reduce the burden of cancer in countries with fewer resources.

Dancers Parvathi Menon, Bertina Bino and Nandita Menon performed at the Rhythms of India fundraiser staged at Vancouver’s Fraserview Hall.

Nikkei Place Foundation president Robert Banno and director Glenn Tanaka hosted 200 guests at their Feels Like Home-themed Sakura Gala.

UBC HOMECOMING: More than 200 attendees gathered for Nikkei Place’s Sakura Gala to raise funds in support of the Japanese community centre, an impressive facility in Burnaby that houses the National Nikkei Heritage Centre, the Japanese Canadian National Museum and Nikkei Seniors Health Care and Housing Society. UBC’s 15th president Santa Ono was the night’s keynote at the Feels Like Home-themed dinner and auction staged at the Pan Pacific Hotel. Ono spoke fondly of his return home last August — at a considerable pay cut — to join the institution that was transformative in his family’s life.

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Arts & Entertainment

From the Downtown Eastside to DiCaprio Duane Howard left a life of substance abuse for acting and self-empowerment

John Kurucz

jkurucz@vancourier.com

Duane Howard has travelled to the ends of the earth, all in the name of bear attacks.

That type of man-versus-nature confrontation has been central to his acting career over the last three years and plays out in his latest film, The Sun at Midnight, which screens April 2 and 4 at Vancity Theatre.

Howard played the role of Arikara leader Elk Dog in the 2015 Oscar-winning film The Revenant, which featured a hyper-realistic bear attack scene involving Leonardo DiCaprio.

Howard was due to head to southern Argentina to finish his final scenes for The Revenant when he auditioned via Skype for his role in The Sun at Midnight. His upcoming gig would see him starring as a trapper in Northern B.C. who ends up getting attacked by a bear.

“I don’t what it is about me and bears in these last few movies, but The Revenant was great experience for me as an actor and I was glad I got that role,” he told the Courier.

The overlap between shooting The Revenant and The Sun at Midnight presented challenges, specifi-

Duane Howard plays the role of an Indigenous trapper in the film The Sun at Midnight, which screens at Vancity Theatre April 2 and 4.

cally in the way of a 35-hour commute from one end of the earth to the other.

Howard flew from southern Argentina to Yellowknife and immediately began shooting the film, which is set between the subarctic community of Fort McPherson, N.W.T. and Dawson Creek.

Released in September 2016, the film’s plot follows a 16-year-old girl named Lia who is sent to live with her grandmother in Fort McPherson after

the death of her mother.

A city girl by choice and upbringing, Lia runs away in the hopes of making it to Dawson Creek, and by extension, escaping from isolation.

She gets lost along the way and runs into Howard’s character, a solitary trapper named Alfred who’s reeling from the recent death of his wife.

A loner by choice, Alfred fills his days looking for an elusive heard of caribou.

Despite being together

in the film for a matter days, life-changing bonds are made: both are grieving, both are searching and both are growing.

When Alfred is mauled by a bear, Lia is the one to intervene and save his life.

“There is a lot of teaching happening between us; I’m like a father figure for her,” said Howard, 54.

“Our relationship is about me putting the onus on her and having her take responsibility over her life.”

Off the screen, Howard is a case study in taking responsibility. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol by his early teens, living on the Downtown Eastside. He got sober at 23 and went on to become a substance abuse counsellor and a motivational speaker.

“My body was giving out and I couldn’t do anything anymore,” Howard said. “It was literally a realization that drinking and drugging was too much. I turned around and walked

away from it. I have an understanding of how life is in that community. It’s full circle, because I came to a point in my life where I wanted to give back.” @JohnKurucz

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Tacoma gets its groove back

Craft beer is on tap across Tacoma’s South Sound Craft Crawl.

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Jump on the free Tacoma Link Light Rail line and check out some of the crawl’s other beer destinations, from 7 Seas Brewing’s impressive 80,000 sq. ft. space, which originally housed the famous Heidelberg

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Museum musing

If beer swilling, sorry, sampling, isn’t your thing, you can always experience Tacoma’s more refined side.

In addition to the Chihuly collection, the Tacoma Art Museum is currently hosting an outstanding portrait exhibit on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery — the Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today. The gallery’s third-floor balcony also boasts one of the bests views of the city.

For a more heated experience, visit the Museum of Glass’s hot shop where glass artists work their magic before your eyes.

Then of course there’s LeMay—America’s Car Museum. If you’ve driven past Tacoma in the past five years, you’ve probably noticed the gleaming structure in the distance that looks like a cross between a stylish quanset hut and airport hangar. Under its curved roof lies North America’s largest car museum, with more than 300 vehicles on display spanning more than a 100 years of automotive history. Not being a car buff, I was initially leery but,

honestly, the two hours I spent ogling autos of all shapes and sizes breezed by like a 1954 Lincoln Capri Bardahl convertible.

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First female Canadian monster truck driver has girl appeal Monster Jam rolls into Pacific Coliseum April 7 Sandra Thomas

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The first female monster truck driver in Canada has noticed a surprising shift in the sport’s audience demographic.

“I’m seeing a lot of moms bringing their daughters to our shows,” Cynthia Gauthier told the Courier during a phone interview from Florida. “They see us driving the same trucks on the same tracks as men and after the show a lot of girls ask us how they can become drivers. That means a lot to us.”

Gauthier will be behind the wheel of Monster Mutt when the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series makes its Vancouver debut at the Pacific Coliseum the weekend of April 7, with a Pit Party taking place Saturday, April 8.

Besides Gauthier and Monster Mutt, other popular trucks and driv-

ers bringing the speed to the Coliseum include Max-D driven by Jared Eichelberger, El Toro Loco driven by Mark List, Zombie driven by Tyler Groth, New Earth Authority driven by Travis Groth, Scooby Doo driven by rookie Myranda Cozad and Mohawk Warrior driven by Bryce Kenny.

At about 12-feet tall and just as wide, Monster Jam trucks are customdesigned machines that sit atop 66-inch-tall tires and weigh a minimum of 10,000 pounds. They generate 1,500 to 2,000 horsepower and can fly 125 to 130 feet in distance and up to 35 feet in the air. Because of the sheer size of her truck, Gauthier says she needs to work out regularly.

“Even with the best safety equipment, driving these trucks can be hard on the body,” says Gauthier.

“It takes a lot of energy and working out helps me.”

And instead of relaxing after each show, Gauthier uses any energy she has left to help maintain the

track at whatever stadium she happens to be at. A fan of big rigs of all kinds, she’s convinced the heavy equipment operators who travel with the show to teach her how to drive massive machinery.

“I grew up on a farm, welding and operating machinery,” she says. “So after every show I love to stay and they let me work on the heavy equipment.”

Gauthier started her racing career in Motocross, but after a couple of serious injuries followed by surgery she was forced to fulfil her need for speed in other ways and joined a Monster Jam truck team as part of the crew maintaining the vehicle. It was the Maple Leaf Tour in 2015 when Gauthier got her first shot at driving. She describes it as a non-dirt show in a small arena in New Hampshire where, during her first attempt to race over a crushed car, she found herself upside down. Gauthier managed to right her truck and went on to win the race.

Gauthier says driving a monster truck has affirmed a lesson she wants to share with not only young girls, but all fans of the sport.

“If you put your mind to something and work really, really hard, you can achieve anything you want,” says Gauthier, who admits to driving with a plush toy moose that acts as her lucky charm riding shotgun.

And so what does Gauthier like to do when she’s not driving monster trucks and heavy equipment?

“I’m a chartered public accountant,” says Gauthier. “I love numbers.”

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Cynthia Gauthier will be behind the wheel of Monster Mutt when the Monster Jam Triple Threat Series makes its Vancouver debut at the Pacific Coliseum the weekend of April 7.

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If you want to know why one of Christianity’s most important celebrations — and our next statutory holiday — is so late this year, you have to look to the Jewish calendar.

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Easter Sunday takes place April 16 this year.

Christians it commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ and is a day off for most British Columbians.

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That meal was a traditional Passover feast to herald the day God rescued the Jewish people from slavery and made them a nation under Moses.

Afterwards, according to the Bible, Jesus goes for a walk in the Garden of Gethsemane where he betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, whose kiss identifies Jesus to the waiting soldiers.

The Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles so when the First Council of Nicaea gathered in the early days of Christianity to decide when to commemorate Christ’s death and resurrection, they also needed to follow the Jewish calendar.

“According to a Fourth Century ruling, the date of Easter is set for the first Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon, which is the first Full Moon of Spring, occurring on or shortly after the Vernal Equinox. March 22 is the earliest Easter can occur on any given year, and April 25 is the latest,” the Farmers’ Almanac says.

If you think Easter Sunday is late this year on April 16, Easter will fall on April 25 in 2038. Those hoping for it to come extra early on March 22 have to wait until 2285.

While the Easter weekend is still a time of deep religious relevance to many people, for others it’s an opportunity to get the only long weekend between Family Day in February and Victoria Day in late May. Good Friday is a statutory holiday in British Columbia so most people will have Friday, April 14 off.

Alas, most of us have to work Easter Monday because it’s not a stat holiday. People who do get an extra-long long weekend include: • Federal and provincial government employees.

Easter Monday is a paid holiday for them.

• Elementary and high school staff. The Vancouver School Board schools are closed both Good Friday and Easter Monday.

• Vancity credit union staff. Vancity closes its branches on Easter Monday, giving staff time to be with their families.

Easter Monday is often referred to as a “bank holiday.” The concept of this paid holiday originated in Britain, where bank holidays became public holidays starting in 1871. Easter Monday was one of them.

As happy as that might have made bank employees, the website learnenglish.de notes that “prior to 1834, the Bank of England observed about 33 saints’ days and religious festivals as holidays.”

That all changed in 1834, when the number of bank holidays was reduced to four: 1 May, 1 November, Good Friday, and Christmas Day. Hence the jubilation over the Bank Holidays Act, which added four more holidays, including Easter Monday and Boxing Day, of 1871.

In the United Kingdom, Easter Monday remains a bank holiday, but that’s not the case here in Vancouver. Banks are closed on Good Friday but open on Easter Monday.

The latest Easter Sunday can fall is April 25. The next time that happens is 2038.

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WEEKLY FORECAST: APRIL 2 - APRIL 8, 2017 Your energy and charisma remain at a yearly peak, Aries.

But your clout and effectiveness might be lacking. Use this week to finish projects rather than start them. You have faced some delays during March, but even deeper ones await you (and everyone) next week into early May. In some ways, delay is your friend. That said, you could receive a money/career boost this week. A former management role or interaction with head office or the government, might return and need attention this week and next.

An exciting, hopeful, frustrating, promising and complicated April, Libra. First, you will be meeting many people, old and new, and will be asked to commit, perhaps to pick sides. This is your partnership month, yet no partnerships which start in April will survive, especially if they begin this week. One exception: next week through early May might bring back an old flame: judge it by what happened to it long ago. Of them all, this one can go forward.

Rest, lie low, contemplate this week and next — but don’t plan in the ordinary sense, dates and actions, etc.

Instead, examine your whole life. How did you get here?

Where, generally, do you want to go in life? You can look at your old actions now and next week, and judge whether they were good or bad. Someone might return to bring you a revelation, or you could spend an afternoon with old photos. Indecision can bug you until early May. For 17 months, your wishes have tended to fall flat.

Lots of work to do, Scorpio. Might as well just plunge in — rather, step in, as this month is complicated. One, finish rather than start any project.

Two, prepare: make sure you have enough supplies and/or that you understand what your bosses want for the month ahead, work-wise.

Next week to early May, a former job might return.

DO NOT buy any machinery or equipment after Wed. (through May 2).

Wishes can come true during the three weeks ahead, Gemini. These could be connected to an institution, government, head office, agent, charity or spiritual organization. Something or someone from your past might appear anytime now to May, but it’s likely that these will NOT bring any wishes true, UNLESS it/he/she appears after April 19. Before the 19th, look to the present and the future to make wishes come true — and to social contacts, friendly romance, entertainment, and club activity.

Ah, sweet romance! (And for you non-romantics, fine creative surges, risk-taking “wins,” pleasure and beauty — and charming kids.) You’re going to love April, but you’re also going to be confused by the plethora of entrants and exits, by missed meetings and indecision, and the new desires that blossom.

An old flame might appear after the 19th — he/she might be a viable life-mate. All month, a domestic matter might return, needing attention.

The three weeks ahead emphasize ambition, career, prestige relations, worldly status and neighbourhood reputation. Your role as a parent (and child!) becomes important. You might have to deal with authorities or judges, especially if you’ve misbehaved. Generally, this is a time of advancement and practical growth. However, the past can return in the form of friends and social groups. A former international, intellectual or legal matter might also return — so could a former love.

Part of you feels tied down, and restful, and homeoriented, while another part of you feels restless, adventurous and romantic. April is going to be a very complicated month. Until the 15th, an old friend might reappear. From the 9th to May 2nd, and old lover might appear. And any time now through late May, a new romantic interest might appear. But DON’T begin a new attraction this week — it would eventually break your heart.

Your world widens this month; so does your understanding. If you’re single and in love, you have one small window to wed: May 3 to 9. Don’t wed this week, nor start a new love attraction, as one of you would turn out to be cold, critical and love-denying.

That said, love in general surrounds you and informs your thoughts and actions this month. Mostly this is a compassionate, understanding love — but it can still be pretty hot for ongoing couples.

April is a busy but non-important month, Aquarius.

Which is good, as it’s also very complicated. Best advice: get everything completed, done, mailed, this week, as April 9 begins three weeks of slowdowns, indecisions and dead-ends. So the things you should be doing now — errands, travelling, mailing and communications and paperwork — can run into several glitches. Just keep at it, and stay alert: double-check addresses, bank transfers, etc.

Four things above all else, Virgo: 1) finish rather than start any projects; 2) strictly avoid lawsuits; 3) your sexual urge is high now, even to the point where you’re willing to marry for sex (not usually a good idea); and 4) any NEW love formed this week will wither and choke your heart or his/hers. Don’t leap in with anyone new! That said, an old flame or ex-spouse could appear during the two weeks ahead, even the next three. I can’t tell whether this is good or not.

The main accent lies on money and possessions, memory and sexual attractions, Pisces.

April is a very complicated month with many distractions – you will do best if you keep yourself focused on earning money, period. Any sexual relationship begun now will almost certainly fail and could hurt your heart on the way down. This is also not a particularly good time to purchase anything important.

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At 705,000 Euros, buying this car would be RUF Brendan McAleer

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Return of the yellowbird

For such a rare car, the 1987 RUF CTR casts a long shadow. Only 29 of them were ever built, making other 1980s supercars look positively common by comparison. And yet the RUF stands head and shoulders above the rest by virtue of being the fastest of them.

If you’re not familiar with the CTR, here’s a thumbnail sketch. Based on the standard narrow-body 911, the Pfaffenhausen-based RUF reworked the chassis for rigidity, lightness, and improved aerodynamics, and added a very powerful twin-turbocharged 3.4L engine. This last made 469 horsepower, though it’s rumoured that RUF heavily underrated the car.

Whatever the case, the CTR had enough power to run up to 340 km/h and above, good enough at the time to best factory supercar heroes such as the Ferrari F40 and the Porsche 959.

In a high-speed shootout held by Road&Track, a yellow CTR walked away with the laurels. The legend of the Yellowbird was born.

And now it’s back, sort of. On the 30th anniversary of the CTR’s debut, RUF is releasing 30 models of a

reborn version of their bestknown car. This time it’s their own unique carbonfibre chassis, shaped to look like the original, but entirely modern underneath. Power is a staggering 710 h.p., and a six-speed manual is the only transmission offering.

All 30 are spoken for at a price of 750,000 Euros, proving that RUF can still trade on the strength of a 30-year-old hero.

New MR2 rumoured

While the CTR made for a great poster car, and I highly recommend watching the Youtube video of RUF’s test driver slinging it around the Nurburgring almost entirely sideways, both the old car and the new car are completely unaffordable.

What about a sporting machine for the everyman?

Both generations of the Toyota MR2 are brilliant little cars, providing supercar-like thrills at saner speeds and operating costs.

The first-generation car is a lightweight wedge with a willing four-cylinder engine, and the second generation Turbo models can be genuinely fast. However, Canada had to make do without the MRS roadster, and we haven’t had anything since.

However, Toyota’s sports car team is hinting that the MR2 may be coming back.

Currently, Toyota’s busy co-developing a reborn

Supra with BMW. That should be great news for inline-six fans. Toyota reliability and BMW performance? Sign me up.

Also in the lineup is the Toyota 86, which we knew as the Scion FR-S while Scion was still around.

A nicely balanced 2+2, it’s a great alternative to

an MX-5 if you prefer a coupe, or occasionally have to haul kids around.

However, ++magazine is reporting that Tetsuya Tada, the head of the 86 project, is calling for a third sportscar to join Toyota’s lineup, and soon. With the Supra providing a halo and the 86 hitting the middle

notes, that means there is room for a new, compact performance car.

What might that look like? Well, a mid-engined car might not be that likely again, not with the manufacturing realities of global vehicle architecture.

However, the S-FR concept from a few years back

might work: it’s essentially a GT86 built along the scale of the original Miata as a two-seater only.

Of course, if the MR2 does come back, it might be a Japan-only prospect, not unlike the current mid-engined Honda S660. C’mon Toyota, let Canada shake hands with Mr. Two again.

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