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Tiny house movement goes big at Science World event Naoibh O’Connor

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Wood is piled on the ground at Callahan Tufts’ outdoor “research lab” at Granville Island near the public market. Much of it is brand new, but there are odd sizes. It’s excess material from construction sites that he collected at transfer stations where it was destined to be recycled — possibly chipped for use in compost or to be burned as fuel.

Tufts, an industrial design student who just graduated from Emily Carr University of Arts and Design, has a different plan.

He’s using the material for a “tiny house” build taking place outside Science World May 20. The socalled tiny house “barn-raising” is part of a B.C. Tiny House Collective day-long event called Go, Go Tiny, which will also feature tiny houses to tour, community pop-up tents and an evening panel discussion.

Tiny houses, according to the collective, are typically less than 500 square feet,

function as a single housing unit with the basic amenities of permanent homes, are mobile — on wheels or a temporary foundation, are customizable and are designed and built on the principles of affordability, community and ecological sustainability.

Saturday’s tiny house build is an extension of Tufts’ larger Rescued Homes project he worked on at Emily Carr, which saw him plan and construct shelters made out of recycled material — a dog house, a small wheeled urban dwelling and a cabin. They all share the same design language in terms of their shape, but for each version Tufts scaled up how many materials he had to collect.

Part of the inspiration for Rescued Homes came from his job at 1-800-GotJunk? He saw how much potentially usable and often untouched material winds up at transfer stations. He maintains it could serve as material for smaller-scale homes or shelters.

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Callahan Tufts and a crew of volunteers will be building a tiny home as part of B.C. Tiny House Collective’s Go, Go Tiny event outside Science World May 20. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

recycled, but I feel like recycling shouldn’t be the answer. It should be the last resort,” he said.

In preparation for the tiny house build, he’s been visiting transfer stations early in the morning to collect material.

The rest of Tufts’ days have been spent fine-tuning the home’s design and prefabricating portions of it, so it can be put together more easily within a limited time frame on Saturday.

“The fun thing about this design project is you really have to adapt depending on the materials you get,” he said.

The house is being constructed on a 26-foot trailer that’s meant specifically for tiny houses.

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On build day, Tufts and an army of about 30 volunteers — including BCIT students, designers, architects and carpenters — plan to complete the framing, install windows and doors and waterproof the structure. The interior won’t be finished due to the time constraints.

“I’m still trying to figure out siding and roofing, but at the very least it will have all the waterproofing membranes, all the windows. So it’ll look like a house. It just might be missing the fancier finishes to the exterior,” Tufts told the Courier May 12.

Eventually, he plans to park the tiny home at another location, finish the interior and display it at future B.C. Tiny House Collective events. He also hopes to live in it one day, assuming the city eventually adopts regulations approving them.

But on Saturday, his objective is simple — he wants the conversation to be about the materials.

“At the end of this, I want not only the public, but city officials and the people who make decisions, to have a different conversation about

what’s going on with the materials that we’re getting rid of,” he said.

Anastasia Koutalianos, one of the B.C. Tiny House Collective founders, is organizing Go, Go Tiny.

“The whole day, really, is about sustainable design and construction, innovation and showcasing local talent,” she said.

Components that go into tiny houses such as compost toilets will be featured.

Koutalianos wants to educate the public and city officials about what a tiny house is, as well as get buy-in and feedback.

Ultimately, she hopes the city considers tiny houses as a viable housing form as part of its overall “reset” of Vancouver’s housing strategy.

For more information about Saturday’s Go, Go Tiny event, see bctinyhousecollective.com/ events.

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The Vancouver chapter of Our Revolution organized a demonstration outside the U.S. Consulate General on earlier this year to protest moves by U.S. President Donald Trump. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

U.S. ex-pats invite Vancouverites to ‘feel the Bern’ John Kurucz

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It’s safe to suggest scores of Vancouverites woke up May 10, the day after the B.C. election, feeling the burn.

Julie Coton can relate on a few different levels.

As the lead spokesperson for Our Revolution Vancouver, Coton has first felt the Bern in 2015. She then felt the burn twice over in 2016: first after U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was ousted from the Democratic primaries in June and then again after Donald Trump’s presidential victory five months later.

The highs and lows of U.S. politics, coupled with her standing as a dual U.S./ Canadian citizen, prompted Coton to help found the Vancouver chapter of Our Revolution, which serves as an extension of Sanders’ political movement and ideals.

Formerly known as B.C. for Bernie, the group was accepted under the more formalized Our Revolution banner earlier this spring.

“We’re an advocacy group dedicated to advancing progressive politics, pre-

serving and protecting democracy throughout North America,” Coton said. “We are active in events and activities to further that.”

Because the group is still in its infancy and meets infrequently, the numbers are constantly in flux depending on the issue of the day. A formal web page isn’t up yet, though it’s under development. A mailing list is maintained to fire up the troops ahead of protest rallies or key decisions about to be made south of the 49th parallel.

The group has had a presence at several Vancouver-based protests since Trump took office last November, and that’s where Coton feels the group’s biggest strengths are found: communication and advocacy. Outside of protests, group members actively participate in “phone banking” ahead of critical decisions in the U.S. to help mobilize voters in America, whether it be to contact their elected officials or to remind them of key voting opportunities.

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Revolution members are American ex-pats who still have a say down south.

Coton and her husband moved to Vancouver from Chicago a decade ago.

U.S. government statistics suggest Canada has the highest number of voters — 660,000 — eligible to participate in U.S. elections.

Of that number, 183,000 are based in Metro Vancouver, representing the largest concentration in the world outside of the U.S. That’s all well and good, but what about those Canadians don’t have a say in U.S. votes or don’t care what happens to our neighbours to the south?

“For Canadian citizens, nothing could be more important now than what’s happening in the United States,” Coton said. “What’s happening in the U.S., these are worldwide issues. This is just as relevant to Canada and Canadians as it is everywhere else.”

Those looking to get their Bernie on can link up with the Vancouver group online at ourrevolution.com/groups.

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Park board upholds ban on CENTRAL PARK Megan Stewart

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The CEO of the Vancouver Aquarium vowed he and his supporters would “not give up” in the face of a decision at the park board May 15. The board voted to not only uphold a ban against the importation of new cetaceans to city parks but also to strengthen that ban by prohibiting performances.

John Nightingale did not immediately rule out legal action and said such restrictions could mean job losses and restructuring at the aquarium, which hosted a record 1.2 million visitors last year and planned to phase out some cetacean displays on its own timeline by 2029.

“I know you will stand with me and not give up, so we will continue to oppose what the park board has just done in various ways,” Nightingale told supporters following the vote.

The park board received thousands of correspondence on the topic following a plea by the aquarium that their fans speak up. While

12,866 messages supported the aquarium, more were opposed to cetaceans in captivity. Park board reported they received 14,695 messages supporting the ban.

The three cetaceans currently at the aquarium — a Pacific white-sided dolphin, harbour porpoise and a false killer whale — will be allowed to stay in the Stanley Park tourist attraction but cannot perform for public entertainment.

The ban took effect immediately. The decision was supported 6-1 with independent commissioner Erin Shum the one dissenting vote to a previously unanimous decision taken March 9.

Protesters shouted, “Do the right thing,” “Every animal matters” and “Whales need help,” and did not let up for three hours.

Discussion was brief and the majority of commissioners held fast as they sat around the board room table as if in a fishbowl of their own. Roughly 300 protesters, the vast majority of them supporting the aquarium, pushed onto the lawns around the park

board office. Their stamina was as ceaseless as the rain.

At one point, protesters cried, “Hear our voices!

Hear our voices!” While certainly heard, they were not heeded.

“The time for display of all cetaceans in Vancouver parks has come to an end,” said NPA commissioner Casey Crawford.

Although the rescue and rehabilitation of wild marine mammals was not curtailed by the park board, the ability to treat injured cetaceans will become more fraught for the aquarium since none can be housed in Stanley Park in the event the animal cannot return to the wild.

The Marine Mammal Rescue Centre is located in the port, not on park land.

The ban does not apply to any animal other than cetaceans, written in the bylaw as baleen whales, narwhals, dolphins, porpoises, killer whales and beluga whales. The aquarium treats hundreds of seals and sea lions at the rescue centre and last rehabilitated a cetacean, Chester the false killer whale, in 2015.

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new cetaceans at aquarium “I hope all marine mammals stay safe swimming around in the ocean for a while, while this gets sorted out,” said Nightingale. “All I can say is if we let this stop here, we give up on the animal that needs help the most.”

The tone and information of much public discourse did not represent the facts of the ban or the discussion, said several commissioners.

Indeed, such “fear-mongering,” as Vision’s Catherine Evans labelled it, as well as the moral imperative of their decision, appeared to unify what is otherwise a politically diverse and outspoken board. She said the decision was informed by science but guided by ethics.

“It is a lie to say the park board does not support the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre,” said Stuart Mackinnon, a Green commissioner. “It is a lie to say this board favours euthanasia for large animals. It has done a disservice to the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, to the aquarium and to this board to suggest otherwise.”

As the one dissenting vote, Shum pushed the general

manager to make public some of the in-camera legal counsel the board had received. She feared the financial and legal repercussions of a ban were too great to bear.

“I supported this amendment on the basis it would provide long-term information to satisfy those and other questions and concerns, but as I sit here today, I am not convinced.”

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Monday night was a tale of two sittings. The park board ran through its regular course of business as it addressed committee affairs, heard from staff on various issues and were updated on chairman Michael Wiebe’s recent public appearances.

For the most part, commissioners remained focused in spite of the hundreds chanting metres away and drowning out their discussions, which at that point, had nothing to do with the protests.

The board discussed and approved two other topics of note. The Honda Celebration of Light Fireworks Festival will move its licenced entertainment area from

Sunset Beach Park to Ceperley Meadow in Stanley Park near Second Beach Park. It previously accommodated 740 people but lost money because it suffered low attendance, which the organizers attributed to location.

The temporary festival space, which may be renamed from Sunsetter Bistro to something new once it moves location, will open from 2 to 9 p.m. July 29 and Aug. 2 and 5.

The park board also approved the construction of a new skate park, its location still undecided but likely downtown.

City plans to demolish the viaducts and build a destination-park in their place on the shore of False Creek mean the Downtown Skateboard Park will be ripped up along with the aging would-be highway infrastructure. At 2,000 square metres, the massive, covered urban skate park is the only one in the downtown and its popularity reflects this.

The park board approved building a new one, and commissioners said they hoped it would be made permanent.

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It’s as if spring could not get wetter. Still, the city of Vancouver followed through with its annual water restrictions May 15 in an announcement that may not draw attention out of alarm, as in previous years, but because of the irony.

“We do live in a rainy climate, we acknowledge that,” said Donny Wong, a manager with the city’s water design branch. “But then we are also very wasteful in terms of how much water we use.”

A dry, hot and prolonged summer two years ago put water consumption at the forefront. Despite ample reserves now, such a risk later this year is why the city is urging residents to conserve water early in the season.

Vancouverites turn on the tap more often than most, said Wong.

“On average, we are using 100 litres per person per day more than comparable cities in North America. We can be using this treated resource much more efficiently.”

The Stage 1 watering restrictions apply to lawns

residents… is to cut our outdoor water use.”

A year ago, Vancouver temperatures hit 15 C decrees 16 times and peaked at 24 C degrees on April 18, according to the Weather Network. This year, however, the daytime high has been lower than average at 12 C degrees and the monthly rainfall 50 millimetres above the long-term average.

Furthermore, flooding throughout the province this year has put Okanagan towns like Kelowna in peril.

March 28 set a single-day record for rainfall while the month itself — with only 70.5 hours of sunshine compared to the average 138.4 — was labelled the “gloomiest!” on record by Environment Canada. Exclamation mark is theirs.

Wong advised residents to talk to their neighbours if they see them watering their lawns and properties at times or on days outside the specified hours.

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It’s complicated… What the election means for education Tracy Sherlock

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School closures, seismic upgrades, an elected school board and teacher bargaining all hang in the balance as B.C. waits for an election decision.

The Liberals campaigned on their education record, saying B.C. schools are among the best in the world. But they didn’t mention a six-week school strike in 2014 or a 15-year court battle won by the teachers last fall.

The NDP said they would provide $30 million a year for school supplies, as well as new technology, lab equipment, learning material and professional development for teachers.

The Greens, who may hold the balance of power, made some of the most ambitious promises — pledging to increase funding by $1.46 billion for education by 2020 and to provide 25 hours a week of education for preschoolers.

For Vancouver schools specifically, how the district will manage its space, education funding and the fate of school trustees loom large.

“There are a lot of things that feel like they are on pause,” said Rory Brown, president of the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association. “We thought they were on pause until the election… [Now] we really feel like we are still in the writ period.”

As far as funding goes, it’s complicated.

The VSB was able to balance its budget this year, using some of a fund designed to pay for hiring teachers needed as a result of a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that reinstates 2002 rules on class size, class composition and specialist teacher numbers.

A possible $14.9-million budget shortfall was reduced to just $2.13 million, thanks in large part to that fund.

At first, the provincial government said VSB couldn’t use it to eliminate its deficit, but when asked a few days later, government

couldn’t answer because the election writ had dropped.

“The changes to how the classroom enhancement fund could be used were very ambiguous and… the provincial government was changing the rules very quickly,” Brown said.

If the NDP-Greens are in charge, the rules may change yet again. If the Liberals form government, they will have to explain the budget shuffle.

When it comes to space, some schools — downtown or in the Cambie corridor — are so full they turned away neighbourhood kindergarten students. Other schools, in single family home areas, particularly on the east side, have lots of empty seats.

Last year, the VSB started a school-closure process that could have shuttered 12 schools, including Gladstone secondary, where more than 1,000 students attend class.

Suddenly, as heat from parents grew and the election loomed, the government removed a requirement that the VSB operate at 95-per-cent capacity.

With that rule gone, the VSB decided to keep all of its schools open.

But now, school closures could be back on the table. Obviously, no party campaigned on a promise to close schools, but the challenges of excess space, tight budgets and the need to make schools safe in an earthquake remain.

The VSB has been operating without elected trustees since last fall when the board was fired for failing to pass a balanced budget.

In the months since, two investigations have found that trustees bullied VSB staff. One report said staff felt “attacked, humiliated and devalued” when hard questions were asked in public during the school closure process. The bullying was also linked to the dysfunctional dynamics of the board, which was split with four Vision trustees, four NPA trustees and a Green trustee holding the balance of power. (Sound familiar?)

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The NDP and the Green party have said they want an elected board at VSB, while the Liberals, under former education minister Mike Bernier, said the official trustee would be in place a minimum of one year.

Brown says teachers want clarity on who will be running the VSB and the ministry of education.

“We need to know to move forward in the district.

We needed to have an an-

swer on May 9. Now we’re going to be waiting for those nine votes in CourtneyComox,” Brown said.

Those nine votes could decide the fate of the province for the next four years.

Whoever comes out ahead, much is at stake for students, parents and teachers.

Tracy Sherlock writes about education and social issues.

Contact her at tracy.sherlock@gmail.com. @tracysherlock

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ll politics is local. Nowhere has that been more obvious than in the results of last week’s provincial election, which until the final recount next week remains a work in progress.

It would certainly explain why Christy Clark and her Liberals took such a beating in Metro Vancouver and four Liberal cabinet ministers got the boot.

Look at Vancouver.

Local politicians tend not to get involved in provincial battles. After all, they have to deal with whoever wins. Even so there is little love lost between the Mayor Gregor Robertson and the provincial Liberals. Think Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Then nine days before the actual vote, while Clark was in a full-blown attack against U.S. president Donald Trump over his imposition of a tariff on softwood lumber, the Liberals shifted a part of their artillery barrage to target Vancouver.

They declared that the city’s latest escalating plan to reduce emissions in new construction projects would result in a “ban” on natural gas. Clark’s gang threatened to amend the Vancouver Charter, weakening the city’s powers over development.

Robertson denied that there was any ban. And with the prospect of the city’s foundational governance document about to be shredded, he joined the battle.

Vision councillors actively and publicly supported NDP candidates up to an including pulling the vote on election day.

None benefited more than their former council colleague George Chow. He took down Liberal Attorney General Suzanne Anton in the long-held Liberal stronghold of Vancouver-Fraserview.

(One notable Anton supporter was Vision founder and former Vancouver mayor, sort-of-Liberal Senator Larry Campbell. He didn’t respond to my interview request. But I figure it could be payback to Clark’s ex Mark Marissen. He was helping run Clark’s campaign. When Marissen was working for Prime Minister Paul Martin, he had a hand in Campbell getting that Senate gig.)

But I digress. Through it all, Vision councillors and the mayor laid out a litany of issues where Vancouver’s needs were not being met. There was insufficient support for the opioid crisis; the Liberals are insisting on yet another transit funding referendum, which put federal money at risk; and,

Despite campaigning in Vancouver on election day, Premier Christy Clark and the Liberals did not have much success in Metro Vancouver. Four cabinet ministers also got the boot. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

finally, there was the slow response to the housing crisis while the province raked in millions in property transfer taxes.

Vision councillors actively and publicly supported NDP candidates up to an including pulling the vote on Election Day. None benefited more than their former council colleague George Chow.

The folks in Surrey were equally peeved about local issues, and that cost Liberal cabinet minister Peter Fassbender his seat. In a piece in the Vancouver Sun earlier this week,

Douglas Todd looked at how the Liberals failed to meet the needs of that community’s residents, particularly South Asians.

(The Liberals lost all eight Metro Vancouver ridings with large South Asian populations.)

In Surrey and North Delta, South Asians working in the trucking and taxi industry felt betrayed by the Liberals. Specifically on taxis, the Liberals support cheaper rideshare companies such as Uber.

But, more generally, Surrey residents were upset by the Liberals’ failure to meet education needs by building permanent school rooms for the 7,000 kids who use portables.

They also failed to deliver plans for a second Surrey Hospital.

And then there is the issue of toll bridges. Surrey residents feel fenced in.

Like a “Mexican Wall.” There’s the Port Mann and soon the new tolled Pattullo Bridge. Then there’s the planned toll bridge to replace the Massey Tunnel.

Finally, there is the small matter of the

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Rude, but not politically fatal, until Marissen (see above) back at Liberal campaign HQ tweeted Higgins was “an NDP plant.”

That turned out to be a total fabrication. #IamLinda hit the Twitter-sphere and began trending, producing mounds of antiChristy vitriol. It took five days for Clark to recant. By then the damage was done.

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Vancouver Coastal Health, the British Columbia Cancer Agency and accessibility advocates are all endorsing city staff’s proposed new street plan.

“It’s a great compromise considering all the stakeholders and the traffic of all modes,” said Stan Leyenhorst of Barrier-free B.C. “The city recognizes we’re trying something innovative… We’re building an environment so, regardless of ability, you have access, including the senior who has cancer using a walker who is slightly sight impaired and can’t hear well.”

“I’m very excited that pedestrians have been heavily factored in, i.e. the vulnerable patient,” agrees Bruce Gilmore, also of Barrier-free B.C.

The two men were reacting to a May 16 presentation to Vancouver council by Paul Storer, the city’s manager of transportation design and engineering services.

“This has been a new and unique process,” said Laura Case, chief operating officer of VCH’s Vancouver community.

“When we first were walking into this, there was a lot of conversation about bike lanes. This is not about bike lanes. It’s about severe congestion and lack of safety.”

There are numerous healthcare facilities along 10th between Cambie and Oak, including Vancouver General Hospital (and its emergency entrance), BCCA, the Eye Care Centre, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre and the Arthritis Society centre.

VGH sees an average of seven ambulances an hour pull into the ER, with 3,800 patients spread across its “campus,” and 8,000 full- and part-time staff, including 1,800 doctors who need to travel from site to site. BCCA sees 800 patients a day.

Add to that the delivery trucks, poor access for Handydart buses, families who come to visit or drop patients off and thousands of cyclists, many of whom are hoping to avoid Broadway one block north, and you have a narrow street trying to accommodate a myriad of conflicting needs.

“It’s not working well for anyone,” Storer said.

Between 2009 and 2015 there were 69 collisions involving vehicles; the new design would have mitigated 75 to 90 per cent of them, he added.

The response to the redesign has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Stephanie Aldridge of the BCCA told council. She especially appreciated that the design takes into consideration the patients’ and families’ stress and anxiety.

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The future of British Columbia’s government hangs on about 176,000 absentee ballots that won’t be counted until May 22.

Based on the initial vote count, which includes advance and general ballots, the Liberals lead with 43 seats, the NDP hold 41 and the Greens have three.

Those numbers could change because of five tight races. The Liberals could have as many as 45 seats or as few as 40.

The NDP could have 39 to 44.

While attention is focused on CourtenayComox, where nine votes separate the NDP and Liberal candidates, at least four other districts could also swing from one leading party to the other when the final count is in.

The 43-41 split on election night is based on the Liberals leading in three of these ridings, and the

NDP leading in two.

If the Liberals take Courtenay-Comox and Maple Ridge-Mission from the NDP, and retain the other three tight seats, it would have a comfortable majority of 45 seats.

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While we wait for the absentee ballots to decide who wins this election, there is this sure thing: The Greens have three seats.

39. The Liberals would be able to pick a Speaker from their own ranks and still pass legislation without depending on support from the other parties.

The NDP and Greens would lose the power to form a coalition, formal or otherwise, to outvote

the Liberals.

On the other hand, the NDP would have 44 seats, a slim majority, if it retains the two ridings where it has slim leads, and takes CoquitlamBurke Mountain, Richmond-Queensborough and Vancouver-False Creek from the Liberals.

The Liberals would be left with 40.

A third possibility is a tie, with the NDP winning one seat from the Liberals, putting each party at 42 seats — giving the Greens significant bargaining power.

In the event of a tie, Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon would offer one of the two leaders a chance to be premier. Liberal Leader Christy Clark, as the current premier, would likely be given the first opportunity to form government.

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Liberal Sam Sullivan and NDP Morgane Oger came within 560 votes of one another in the May 9 provincial election. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET (LEFT), CHUNG CHOW (RIGHT)

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NDP candidate Morgane Oger’s request for a recount in Vancouver-False Creek was rejected but she’ll still get her wish.

Elections B.C. received two requests for a recount after Oger fell short of toppling incumbent Liberal MLA Sam Sullivan in the May 9 election by 560 votes.

BC Citizens First Party candidate Phillip James Ryan’s request for a recount in Vancouver-False Creek was accepted because an advance voting ballot account records 403 votes for one candidate, and the tally sheet and parcel envelope

containing ballots for that candidate lists 399, Elections B.C. announced Saturday.

Oger’s request was denied, however, because the Elections Act says that “in cases where the difference between the top two candidates is greater than 100 votes, recount requests must include factual basis that ballots were not correctly accepted or rejected, or that a ballot account does not accurately record the number of votes for a candidate.”

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Oger has not yet conceded the election to Sullivan. “If on [May 22] the number of absentee votes is too small and nothing else comes up, we will certainly concede at that time,” she told the Courier on Friday.

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Yet you don’t have to wear running tights, cycling shorts or a swimsuit, and you don’t have to go to the gym. The variety and range of healthy physical activity is broader than formal exercise alone. To many, exercise is a dirty word.

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What looked like an unassuming white tent outside TELUS Garden on Georgia Street Saturday

Canuck Place ambassador Charlie-Anne Cox helped Daniel Sedin cut the ribbon to officially open the Best Day Ever Blanket Fort event at TELUS Garden May 13.

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afternoon turned out to be anything but, especially when Canuck fan favourite Daniel Sedin arrived, sharpie in hand and ready to sign autographs. An hour before the event officially began, Sedin fans began lining up outside the tent.

But before signing any autographs, Sedin crawled around on the floor with kids from Canuck Place Children’s Hospice helping to build a blanket fort surrounded by oversized pillows. The Canucks hockey team, and in particular, Daniel and his twin brother Henrik, are huge supporters of the hospice.

As part of a month-long Best Day Ever celebration, Canuck Place and a whole pile of dedicated supporters took it upon themselves to build the Best Day Ever Blanket Fort — and the children approved.

Sedin also helped Canuck Place ambassador CharlieAnne Cox cut the ribbon before the event started.

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Three-year-old Elizabeth brought her Sedin doll to the Canuck Place Best Day Ever Blanket Fort — in this case it was a Henrik Sedin stuffie. PHOTO SANDRA THOMAS

Also on hand were Earnest Ice Cream, Kidsilano Lemonade and Mom’s Grilled Cheese. As well, Glowbal provided free cupcakes, Dang Good Booths brought in a

photobooth and intricate facepainting was created by volunteers from John Casablanca Institute. And in the TELUS Movie Lounge, Toy Story was a big hit with the kids.

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West End bakery to close its doors

Sarah Ripplinger westender.com

Joan McGregor has watched two of the Maple Leaf Bakery staff grow up.

Since moving to the area in 2001, the 79-year-old West End resident visited the bakery, which sells fresh bread, cakes, muffins and other pastries, on a daily basis.

“I really truly will miss them,” says McGregor.

“They’re like family to me.”

Maple Leaf Bakery, on Davie Street near Bute Street, will soon close its doors, following in the steps of a number of businesses in the West End as of late, including Dover Arms Pub, West Valley Market, Hapa Izakaya on Robson Street at Nicola Street and the Upper Deck (formerly Speakeasy) restaurant that sits across the street from Maple Leaf Bakery.

The Tam family purchased the bakery in 1988 after co-owner Raymond Tam, 58, attended culinary classes at Vancouver Community College and apprenticed in local bakeries.

Five years ago, the family was shocked when their property lease jumped by

Lisa Tam’s Maple Leaf Bakery will join a growing list of West End businesses that have closed up shop. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

30 per cent. To make ends meet, they opened the shop on Sundays. Raymond often works seven days a week, 12 hours a day, and his co-owner and wife Lisa, 61, is often at the shop six days a week.

With their lease coming due again this year, Stephen Tam, 30, says his parents didn’t even bother asking what the new rate would be before deciding to shut their doors.

“It seems like on Davie Street, if you don’t serve alcohol and if you’re not a chain, it’s really hard to keep up with the rents that they’re asking for today,” says Tam. “There’s only so much you can increase your

prices, and then everything just goes to rent.”

Instead, the family has decided to go into the wholesale business, relocating to a yet-to-be-determined location where they will continue to bake, but will no longer run the shop.

“Ideally, we would like to have someone take over and maybe continue it as a bakery and know that our customer base will be well taken care of,” says Tam who, along with his sister, was one of the staff members McGregor watched growing up.

“A lot of our customers are regulars. We see them

every day and we know them on a first-name basis.”

The Tams plan to shut down sometime this summer, closing a chapter in their lives that leaves Tam with mixed emotions.

“I’m sad in a sense that we’ve been there for so long,” says Tam. “We know a lot of people in the neighbourhood, but I’m happy that my parents won’t have to work as long and as hard.”

The closing of the Maple Leaf Bakery storefront is part of a larger shift in the neighbhourhood — and the retail sector in general — in which many small family-run businesses are being replaced by larger chains and condos.

McGregor notes that, above and beyond the joy of getting fresh baked goods that she once routinely made herself, there is also a sense of community in the shop where customers and staff would help out with change and where you could count on seeing a familiar face.

“We used to have four bakeries out here and now we only have the Cobs and Maple Leaf Bakery left,” McGregor says. “It makes you wonder where to go.”

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During recent bargaining with CUPE 1816 — representing more than 600 workers who handle the dental, life and disability coverage case files for more than 2 million British Columbians — PBC went after the workers’ retiree benefits, extended health plan, and other benefits.

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Obituary ‘Marco Polo’ founder remembered Sarah Ripplinger westender.com

Rino Vultaggio was a jackof-all-trades whose people skills and generosity led him to become a successful entrepreneur and leader in Vancouver’s Italian community.

Vultaggio travelled to Vancouver in 1967 to visit his sister. He immediately fell in love with the city and, with $300 in his pocket, decided to leave behind a budding photography career in Milan, Italy, to start life anew amid the mountains and ocean that reminded him of his birthplace in Sicily. To save up some money, Vultaggio travelled to Cassiar to work in the mines and as a part-time dishwasher. His next move was to Commercial Drive, where he opened a photography shop called Tivoli Fotostudio.

“That’s how he became well known in the Italian community,” says Vultaggio’s son Christian, 40, over the phone from their Vancouver home, where he moved last year to be close during his father’s illness. “He would take their wedding and anniversary photos, and that’s how he got his name out.”

The social and extroverted

Vultaggio was soon offered a spot on the multilingual radio station CJVB, which first aired in June 1972.

After cutting his teeth on radio, Vultaggio launched Marco Polo in 1974, an Italian-language newspaper that marked a progression in his lifelong passion for promoting Italian culture. There were a few stops in between for the serial entrepreneur, including launching several restaurants: Il Favorito Trattoria in 1981 and Andiamo Ristorante, at Hastings and Howe streets, in 1988, and involvement in the Jolt Cola energy drink enterprise.

Yet, throughout his many endeavours, Vultaggio continued to pursue and build upon his deep love for the Italian community and culture, particularly through his work with the newspaper and the Italian Cultural Centre, which he co-founded.

“He believed that you have to communicate news to the community, so the media was important to him,” recalls West Vancouver resident Orazio Scaldaferri, 67, who first met Vultaggio at an event at the Italian Cultural Centre 30 years ago. “But his energy came from enjoying contact

with people.”

Vultaggio was often one of the first points of contact for Italian immigrants through his involvement with the Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver, connecting them with resources in the community. “He was someone that would welcome people and help them adapt to a new country,” says Scaldaferri. “He was a point of reference for a lot people.”

Vultaggio was diagnosed with cancer last year and handed off Marco Polo, which now has a weekly distribution of around 5,000 copies, shortly after.

“My dad had a real zest for life,” says Christian. “He was a people person and leaving a legacy was always important to him.”

Vultaggio died May 11 at the age of 76, surrounded by family in his Vancouver home. He leaves behind his son Christian, daughters Jordana and Lisa, four grandchildren and his wife, Sofia Chen.

Friends and family are invited to attend a funeral service for Vultaggio on Friday, May 19 at 11 a.m. at Blessed Sacrament church, 3040 Heather St., Vancouver.

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Community

THE BIG REVEAL: The Canucks Autism Network has positioned itself as a leader and change maker in the field of adaptive sports and recreation for those with autism by breaking down barriers to increase awareness and opportunities for those living with the condition.

Clara and Paolo Aquilini, who have a child with autism and are members of the family that owns the Canucks franchise, fronted the Reveal Gala fundraiser held at Rogers Arena. The ice rink was transformed into a party palace for the Evening in Venice-themed affair. An impressive 544 guests gathered around 68 beautifully appointed tables for the event’s sophomore running. The Aquilinis welcomed guests to the magical night, which revealed the spectrum of challenges, gifts and possibilities that autism can bring. In return, attendees showed their generosity by emptying their wallets of more than $1 million.

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

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Christi Yassin and Clara Aquilini fronted the big Reveal Gala at Rogers Arena, bringing in $1,025,000 for the Canucks Autism Network.

Canucks owner Paolo Aquilini welcomed SAP’s Andy Cobbold and Kirsten Sutton, the presenting sponsors of Reveal and corporate leaders paving the way for inclusiveness in the workplace for individuals with autism.

Victoria chef Peter Zambri, the newest inductee into the B.C. Restaurant Hall of Fame, partied down with his sister Jo at the annual do that recognized seven individuals for their contributions and achievements to the industry.

Dress for Success Vancouver executive director Jennifer Halinda, client Cheryl Ann Henning and board chair Carla Wood were all smiles after their fashion fundraiser posted a stylish $110,000.

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Seven years of silence end at Pub 340 Cambie Street venue staged its first gigs since 2010 over Easter weekend

John Kurucz

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Pub 340 has quietly made its return as a full-time music venue.

For a live music hub to take such a low-key approach may seem confusing on the surface, but it’s a very much a calculated move for bar manager Jayme Black.

For starters, noise complaints were the primary reason music was forced out of the Cambie Street joint seven years ago. But above and beyond that, Black wants to stress quality over quantity.

“We can technically have shows any time now, but I’m not opening it up to anyone or any gig,” Black told the Courier. “If there isn’t something good happening, we’re not going to just put something on for no reason. I want to create a demand for entertainment.”

Located near Victory Square and up the street from the Cambie Pub, Pub 340 staged its first two gigs over the Easter weekend.

The bar offered weekly karaoke nights during the live music absence.

Pub 340’s live music offerings ended around 2009 and 2010 — the same period that saw The Cobalt, Richards on Richards, the Brickyard and other live music venues go silent.

“A lot of places got shut down around that time

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Pub 340 manager Jayme Black is booking acts on a full-time basis at Pub 340 for the first time in close to a decade. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

right before the Olympics,” he said. “I don’t want to point fingers, but I think somebody wanted those shut down. Vancouver was known as a real rock town in the ’80s and even in the ’90s to a lesser extent.

We’ve had a really detrimental decline in not only venues, but also live acts coming here.”

Black has spent years in bands, managing bars and promoting shows across Vancouver, Vancouver Island, the Interior and in Toronto. He said it took four years to get to where he’s at now: dealing with red tape

at the city, soundproofing the room, getting acoustic consultants in and putting together a feasible business case for the both the previous owners and the city.

“We’ve had zero problems on our band nights,” Black said. “Everyone is well behaved, they’re super happy to have the shows back. It’s been nothing but positive.”

When he can’t accommodate a show — Pub 340’s capacity is about 110 — it’s Black’s intent to link touring acts with promoters in town who can. He points to locally-grown and locally-

promoted events such as Taco Fest, Psych Fest, Burger Fest and the upcoming Modified Ghost Festival as examples that prove live music is still viable in the city.

“There are amazing musicians here and I want to have a place for them to showcase their talent,” he said. “I love the scene, I love the music and I love people getting together.

They just need a place to play that’s affordable, feasible and in a location that’s not too far out of the way.”

Pub 340 gig listings are online at pub340.ca.

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2017 SUMMER PROJECTS AND NORTH RUNWAY OPERATIONS SUMMER PROJECTS Starting May 29 the Runway End Safety Area (RESA) construction on the South Runway will commence six nights a week (Sun-Fri). This work is scheduled to be completed on September 16. During this time the North Runway will be used to accommodate any take-offs or landings between the hours of 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.

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When Leef Evans first started to hang out in the art room at Coast Mental Health’s resource centre, his artwork was a lot like his life: locked up in a very tightly constrained space.

“I have an enormous facility for isolation,” he says. “I’ve stayed in my apartment for an entire month.”

Today, Evans is a talented painter whose prodigious output adorns the walls of many board rooms, offices and living rooms. A painting of Coast’s club room on West 11th Avenue is also featured on all the promotional materials of the 2017 Courage To Come Back awards, Coast’s annual major fundraiser.

While he’s proud of his work, the paintings are not what’s important to him. “I don’t care about the painting. I care about painting the painting...

“If the painting is going well, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. You’re in the joy. That’s why nothing I do is precious.

Painting is the verb, not the noun — it’s the act of painting, it’s not the painting.”

Evans has had severe depression since he was 18. Before he discovered painting, he expressed himself with words.

Although he’s extremely articulate and insightful, writing took him too deep into his mind. The problems he was trying to escape became even more present as he put thought to paper.

“With writing you have to go after honest things and they’re at the top of a lot of refuse,” he says.

“It takes me back to a bad place.”

His paintings, however, are deliberately non-autobiographical.

The Vancouver scenes he paints are sometimes mundane, sometimes iconic and always intriguing, just as photographer Fred Herzog celebrated the everyday life of Vancouver that most of us take for granted.

Jeanne Krabbendam remembers when Evans first arrived at her weekly sessions in the art room.

He sat apart from the others, head and shoulders bent over a piece of paper on which he drew highly detailed designs on a very small surface, not talking to anyone.

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For Leef Evans, the art room at Coast Mental Health’s resource centre on Seymour Street is his refuge, his therapist and his salvation. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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coping with depression Eventually, Evans started to look up and engage, if even briefly, with those around him.

It’s a far cry from how he works today, paint brush in one hand, a photo of his subject in the other, freely moving over the canvas and being willing to paint over anything he doesn’t like.

Krabbendam, who is a professional artist and Emily Carr university instructor, has been the volunteer facilitator of the Thursday morning drop-in since 2004. It’s not to be confused with an art class.

“They only get direction when they ask for it,” she says. Pop-up

classes sometimes occur when she’s working on one of her own pieces and someone comes over to ask about her technique, but the goal is to provide a welcoming and inclusive space for everyone.

Most importantly, the art that’s created in the room is never critiqued.

“There’s such a thing as constructive criticism but so often it’s a way to rip someone to shreds,” Krabbendam says. “We look immediately at what’s good with it — ‘I love what you’re doing here….’ It gives members the knowledge that they are accepted and respected people.”

“Art has a huge door — it’s immediately inclusive,” Evans adds.

“Whatever you want to do is available to you.”

It’s also refreshing to be around people who have shared similar experiences, Evans says.

“We often sit around and share horror stories.

There are things you

can’t even say to your shrink. It’s gallows humour, that’s what it is.”

You can view Leef Evans’ art at leefevans. carbonmade.com and find out more about Coast’s programs at coastmentalhealth.com. There is a video of Evans at work in the online version of this story at vancourier.com.

‘Nothing, no medication, has ever done what painting has done as a therapy’ I’ve suffered from severe depression since I was 18.

When I was young it was confusing and scary; now I understand the signs and see a pattern.

There’s a nihilistic element in depression.

When you’re happy, you’re suspicious of it.

You torpedo your own life. For instance, I’d be in a relationship and move 3,000 miles away and not understand why it didn’t work out. You don’t trust being emotionally close to people so you throw a

grenade into your emotional turret; you wreck it.

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My guide to the

artwork takeover is the founder of the mural festival, Mario E. Figueroa Jr. — a pioneer of the graffiti art scene in Houston better known by his tag, Gonzo247. Decked out in paint-splattered jeans and cowboy hat, he certainly looks the part when we meet at the Graffiti and Street Art Museum of Texas, which he opened last year.

Gonzo has been working to bring graffiti out of the shadows in Houston since 1990, when he started the Aerosol Warfare project to document the city’s emerging street artists.

Over a lifetime of street artistry, he’s become a passionate advocate for the importance of recognizing graffiti as a legitimate art form that has the power to transform communities.

“When a property owner, a community, a city forgets an area, darkness grows,” he says. “The mind tunes out dilapidated areas — there’s no point in seeing it. But I have to see it every day, so I’m going to make it beautiful for me.”

Gonzo’s work with property owners and officials to create space for vibrant, legal street art in Houston has helped make graffiti murals an iconic art form in the city. He remains heavily involved in the festival, helping to select the artists who will leave their mark on Houston, coordinating logistics and even leading tours to see the artists at work. Since many of this year’s artists are from Latin America, he also serves as a passionate translator, relaying the artists’ words to the media, tourists and locals as they explain in Spanish the stories behind their work.

Diego Alvarez, who works under the tag Ocote, is a social psychologist from Mexico. We find him at the Talento Bilingue Houston building, where several Mexican artists are creating new works for the HUE Mural Festival. Ocote has a challenging wall to work with — it includes a light fixture, which could interfere with the design.

Instead, he’s found a way to incorporate the light as a radiant point of connection between male and female. His piece, Anima/ Animus, portrays Carl Jung’s masculine and feminine archetypes as ancient Mexican gods, captured

in modern fluorescent colour. Chatting about the message behind the piece, he echoes Gonzo’s thoughts about the role of public art in the urban environment.

“Through your art, you can start something in the public that will start a fire in your consciousness,” he says.

A couple of kilometres away, in an area informally known as Graffiti Park, Houston native Sayra Vallejo is working on a wall with two roll-up metal doors. She’s tackling the right-hand side when we arrive, layering on thick lines of paint that drip and slide, blending into each other to create new colours as they fall.

“As it drips it all comes together and it just works,” she says. “It’s all love.”

Back at the museum to end the tour, we have a celebrity sighting of sorts: brothers Icy and Sot, graffiti world superstars who sought asylum in New York after several arrests in their native Iran.

They have just come from working on their Justice mural at Graffiti Park.

They’re shy when the tour group comes in, but it’s clear they’re enjoying the camaraderie of the festival, just hanging out and chatting about the art that is the centre of their lives.

Having brought artists together from around the world, the mural festival has transformed Houston into a Texas-sized openair gallery that radiates with colour and passion.

Lucky for visitors, the art is there to stay long after the mural festival ends, right on the walls, just waiting for you to come and see.

If you go: Works from the 2016 HUE Mural Festival can be found in Houston’s EaDo, East End and Northside neighbourhoods. You can download a list and Google map of mural locations from the festival’s website: HUEMuralfestival.com.

If you’re short on time, head straight to the Re/ Max Inner Loop building at 2011 Leeland Street, which anchors Graffiti Park. You’ll spot a Gonzo247 Houston mural backed by the city skyline at the corner of Leeland and St. Emanuel streets, and a quick stroll reveals dozens of murals by well-known international street artists, including Icy & Sot.

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As steam rises from dish, the vegetables’ aromas also drift up, their flavours released after exposure to the high heat and oils of the heavy cast-iron wok. It’s this combination of heat and freshness that Chinese chefs pride themselves on, Yuen says at a recent media dinner she organized at the East Hastings restaurant.

“It’s the magic or alchemy of how fast the chefs can use the spatula,” adds fellow diner and journalist Claudia Kwan, who, from the age of three, has been visiting Chinese restaurants across Vancouver, listening to her family judge and rate the chefs’ techniques.

In the kitchen, creating this magic takes an incredible amount of strength and stamina. Some of the woks are 32 inches wide and a quarterinch thick. Heavy enough on their own, when filled with enough vegetables to fill the

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By the end of the night, executive chef Kuen Kwan, chef de cuisine Tommy Yip and the rest of the Pink Pearl’s kitchen staff are visibly tired. The media dinner is over, but they’re still feeding the 20 or so tables of 10 for a Lions Club dinner in the banquet hall.

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It had a three-year hiatus after a fire in 2009, and this year, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its reopening, Yuen has pored over menus from the past to come up with 10-course dinner that highlights favourite dishes from each decade.

In those early years, chefs didn’t have access to the delicate Chinese greens they were accustomed to so they adapted by taking traditional dishes, such as stuffed deboned chicken wings, and incorporating local vegetables.

By the 1990s, dishes such as wintermelon soup and delicious lotus root patties could appear on the menu.

Broccoli was joined by an array of bok choy and various greens. A decade later, the Fraser Valley began supplying ducks that were worth the time-consuming task of creating steamed eight treasure duck — the duck is marinated, hung to dry, deep fried, stuffed and steamed (which is why the restaurant requires 48-hours notice).

The recent influx of rich Chinese immigrants is changing the dining scene in Vancouver, Yuen says.

“These folks show off and don’t understand about food and wine,” she says. Vancouver’s conventional Chinese restaurants remain more

focused on a cornerstone of a family’s dining out experience — taste and value.

For instance, the chefs don’t put much emphasis on plating because if they do, too much time will have elapsed between the time the food is in the wok and in front of a customer. “At a family dinner, dishes come out in 30 seconds so you get the aroma. People don’t care too much about plating because then there’s not much wok energy,” Yuen says.

Each dish arrives with very little of the plate still visible under the mound of food to show how much value you

are getting for your money.

Likewise, there’s an obvious lack of attention to décor.

When you drive past the Pink Pearl, screens are pulled down on the windows, giving an already nondescript building even less curb appeal.

Traditional Chinese restaurants such as the Pink Pearl “don’t want to ‘waste’ money on the décor,” says Kwan. “The value on the plate is the most important.”

With so much emphasis on freshness, diners prefer money is spent on such things as a properly maintained fish tank, she adds.

To celebrate its anniversary, Pink Pearl is present-

ing a 10-course meal that Yuen has curated with favourite menu choices from each of its four decades.

When people book a table for 10 to 12 people, net proceeds will benefit the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and the Vancouver Sowers Society. The menu is available until Aug. 31 for $568, inclusive of tax and gratuity.

The menu is skewered prawns on Asian greens (1980s), deboned and stuffed golden wings (1980s), dried

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Jayne Seagrave was 40 interviews into research for a book about Bard on the Beach when she realized no one had said anything bad about the Shakespearian theatre festival’s founder and artistic director. Surely Gaze couldn’t be that perfect, she thought to herself.

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It’s not that she didn’t try. Seagrave asked the actors Gaze has worked with, behind-the-scenes staffers, board members and even his wife Jennifer to dish the dirt.

Seagrave says the worst that Jennifer Gaze could come up with is that if she, Jennifer, were ever to write a book it would be called Waiting for Gazey. (Jennifer’s one of the few people who can call him anything other than Christopher or Mr. Gaze.)

“Christopher always thinks he has more time than he does, so he’s rushing out at the last minute to get to something he’s supposed to get to. So if there is a flaw, it’s managing his time,” she told Seagrave.

Note the “if there is a flaw…”

After initially being stumped by Seagrave’s question, a board member rushed to tell her, “I’ve thought of something wrong about Christopher!”

Ah, finally, the big reveal.

“He cheats at golf,” the board member gushed, pleased with finally having come up with an answer.

“But everyone cheats at golf,” Seagrave replied.

Over and over again, people involved with Bard on the Beach kept telling Seagrave how much they admired and respected Gaze. The one defining feature was his willingness to let the talents of others shine as brightly as his.

“He is not frightened at all at giving major decisions and responsibilities to people he believes he can trust,” a board member tells Seagrave. “This empowers them. So you think, ‘Gee, if you have this confidence in me that you think I could do this, then I’m going to do a good job and I’m going to give that extra little bit,’ and that’s what he gets out of people over and over again.”

This talent extends to everyone who works with Bard.

Gaze is not the stereotypical impresario whose mercurial ego needs constant nourishment. For a man who “is the Bard and the Bard is him,” he knows that while he’s instrumental in the success of Canada’s ninth largest private theatre company, it takes a cast of hundreds to pull off such a gigantic feat summer after summer. He learns everyone’s names and lets them know, with genuine intent, that each of them plays an important role.

This capacity of Gaze to manage and lead is what sets him apart from many

other actors who say, “I’d like to form a theatre company,” Seagrave says.

Gaze had studied theatre companies that had failed and knew that Bard needed a management structure and board from the get go. Without his business acumen, she’s convinced the festival would not have grown from its first season in 1990 with 6,000 attendees to its current $6-million budget and annual audience of 100,000.

Gaze moved to Canada at the prompting of Douglas Campbell. Campbell, one of the original Stratford Festival actors, had hired Gaze for his theatre company in England.

He sent him on his way with “six letters of introduction on blue airmail paper to six influential individuals he knew in Canada who would help his prodigy build a career.”

The letters were helpful but official paperwork turned out to be more of a requisite. To work, Gaze needed landed immigrant status. To get status, he had to leave the country. A friend offered him an unpaid job as a ranch hand in Montana, providing Gaze with one of the most improbable starts to his new life in North America. The strategy, however, worked and Gaze arrived in Vancouver in October 1975 with $60 in his pocket and a job offer from Vancouver Playhouse.

Seagrave has a very pleasant and engaging writing style that takes the reader through the next 42-plus years with an entertaining ease that offers insight without all the academic language that belies her SFU PhD in criminology. It actually helps that, apart from being a huge Bard fan since she arrived from England in 1991, she knows relatively little about Shakespearian theatre. She has sat under the Vanier Park tent, sometimes bewildered by the play’s plot lines, and let her mind take in lushness of her surroundings instead — the costumes, the sets, the trees billowing in the background. All the questions she’s asked herself in her 26 years of watching the festival grow and adapt guide her way through the book’s 192 pages (many of which are adorned with photos).

Did you know, for instance, that a pregnant Colleen Wheeler once put icepacks into her heavy Elizabethan costume to help keep her cool?

As much as no one has anything bad to say about Gaze, they are not as reticent when describing their feelings about Vancouver’s rain, and its ability to negatively affect the cast and crew as well as the festival’s bottom line.

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Raccoon poop is a nuisance and the festival does its own laundry, paying to get the grey water removed every three days. Only 3.4 per cent of 2015’s budget came from public-sector grants, a huge increase from the previous year’s 1.3 per cent. (Seagrave thinks it’s a shame the festival doesn’t get more government funding.) Two of the 250 festival volunteers met at the Bard and are now married. And when management heard of the young volun-

teer who has finally found a backstage community where he feels at home, they offered him a seasonal contract.

As Seagrave writes in her epilogue, Bard on the Beach is an adopted family for both everyone involved in pulling it off and everyone who enjoys the fruits of their labours. When each season, each play begins, “the Bard family greets us with open arms, as if we have never been away. We are home.”

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Until early October, Libra, lucky Jupiter travels through your sign. This imbues you with optimism, friendliness and good luck. You might also undertake an international journey, attend school, publish, advertise, dig into legalities or social ethics/structures, or find gentle, profound love. If you’re a student, teachers/ profs will applaud! All these themes are emphasized now to June 20. Your luck is good, solid; your mind is alert, fair; and your heart is cheerful, welcoming.

Retreat Sun./Mon., be restful, contemplate and plan. Monday, after noon (PDT) is a good time to contact the government or institutions. Avoid a legal or philosophical argument earlier Monday.

Your energy and charisma surge upward Tuesday/ Wednesday. Do three things (try ‘em in this order): communicate, especially about money or love; work to make a (medium-level) wish come true or dive into a social situation.

The main accent, Scorpio, lies in an area you naturally gravitate to, and are skilled in: sex, finances, therapy, research, detective work, occultism, et al. These themes will reach a peak Thursday/Friday. In some ways, these “activities” need a partner or advisor — however, don’t even contemplate cooperation or partnership before Thursday noon (PDT) as it just won’t exist (or if it seems to exist, take care, it could be false).

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Many Gemini men have noticed women giving them an extra look or squeezing their hand over the last 30 days. That’s because Mars has been in Gemini.

If you were born after June 10, that “female attention” is still to come, sometime before June 4. (This of course gives the lie to the age-old assertion that men want sex, and women flee it. When women sense Mars, they chase it.)

The four weeks ahead emphasize relationships, marriage, contracts and agreements, relocation, fresh horizons and opportunities. Relations are intense, and you’re dealing with someone (or ones) who aren’t impressed by your hair-trigger temper or your bravado — so leave the temper in your sports locker.

This sounds negative, but in fact you might meet someone (Gemini? Libra? Aries?) who could be a lively (perhaps volatile) romantic and brave lover.

Lie low for four weeks, Cancer. Rest, meditate and contemplate, deal with government agencies, institutions, head office, make plans, be spiritual and charitable — especially Thursday/Friday. Early June (9) might spark a lucky real-estate/home search. If you haven’t in the last eight months, the four ahead give you splendid opportunities (best in a decade) to sell/buy or acquire real estate, perform major renovations, etc.

The month ahead emphasizes work, duties, service personnel, dependents, machinery — and your daily health. In other words, drudgery! Ah, well, just dive in and get it done. Eat, dress sensibly. Your work pace intensifies until June 4, then abates. Your family remains affectionate, supportive. A wee streak of romance, mostly “communication,” will add some relief to all that work. If you’re with an ongoing love, pleasure and paradise are in the air!

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The general emphasis for the 4 weeks ahead, Virgo, lies on your ambitions, your career scene, prestige relations and neighbourhood reputation. These will be doubly-accented Thursday/Friday, so you might be wise to prepare a presentation or project start, then show it, maybe launch it, Thurs. noon to 2 a.m.

Friday (all PDT). All May and the first week of June, bosses will be impatient, temperamental — just grin and bear it, for these bosses won’t hold a grudge.

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Doing so means he’ll miss the Monaco Grand Prix, but McLaren’s F1 team has granted Alonso special clearance to do so. It probably doesn’t hurt that his car has been anything but competitive this season.

How many drivers have clinched the elusive three-fold victory? In all of racing history, only one: dashing English racer Graham Hill. If he manages to win at the Indy 500, Alonso will have completed two of the three legs, and an appearance at Le Mans wouldn’t be out of the question. It should be noted that former F1 driver Mark Webber successfully moved to endurance racing with Porsche, winning the 2015 race.

Further, Alonso has a pretty good mentor in Mario Andretti, who also has two of the three pieces of the triple crown prize under his belt. The Spaniard will need all the help he can get, with Indy’s constant ovaltrack speed. Using spotters to set strategy and hitting corners at 350 kilometres per hour is very different from running an F1 road course.

However Alonso does, the result will be more eyeballs on the Indy, and that’s a good thing for the sport. If you’re planning on watching the Indy — held Sunday, May 28 — be sure to cheer on Canada’s favourite, James Hinchcliffe.

He’s not quite our hometown hero, but years ago he gave a pair of Greg Moore’s red gloves their long-awaited lap around the course, tucked inside his racing suit.

Nissan armrest could save your life

Sometimes the simplest ideas are best. If you have trouble resisting the urge to sneak a peek at your phone every time you hear the ding of a text, Nissan’s got some assistance for you. It’s called the Signal Shield, and it’s basically a way to remove the temptation to glance at your phone while driving.

Essentially a Faraday cage built into the armrest of a Juke, the Signal Shield is pretty straightforward. Just plunk your phone in or plug it into the USB ports so music still works, and off you

go. With the lid shut, your phone can’t receive calls or texts, so you won’t be tempted by that tell-tale ding.

While still only a concept, the Signal Shield does at least show that manufacturers recognize that it’s not enough to create slicker integrations of technology into our cars, but that they also need to assist owners to drive as safely as possible — and that includes keeping your eyes on the road.

If you don’t want to wait for something similar to be available in a road car, I’ve got a simple trick for you. Just toss your phone in the glovebox, and lock it. It takes less time than turning on airplane mode, and is far enough out of your grasp that you won’t be tempted to check the screen when you’re stopped at a light.

No Corvette factory tours for 18 months

There are a lot of Corvette fans in British Columbia. The local club is very active, and with more than 60 years of ‘Vettes to spark passions, there are everything from track days to show and shines, right through the summer.

However, most Corvette fans consider a trip to Bowling Green, Ky., to be like heading to Mecca — it’s something you have to do at least once in your life. If you’re a ‘Vette fan who’s been putting off the trip, then bad news: the factory has suspended its popular tour program for the next year and a half.

Why’d they do something like that? Well, it’s not a safety concern or a lack of interest. GM isn’t saying, but the hint here is that the factory is setting up for some kind of overhaul. Further, it’s got to be the kind of retooling that GM wants to keep prying eyes away from.

After enduring myth after myth about the change to a mid-engined version of the Corvette, could the change finally be occurring? The current C7 shares many basics as far back as the C5, but moving to a midengined layout will take a complete reworking of the assembly line.

This shutout might be a clue. There’ll likely be others.

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