Vancouver Courier October 30 2013 by Vancouver Courier

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Vol. 104 No. 87 • Established 1908

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Former Musqueam chiefdiesat72 ERNIE CAMPBELL SERVED A COMBINED 14 YEARS AS CHIEF MIKE HOWELL

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Supreme Court ruling a victory, say six community centres SANDRA THOMAS

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he six community centre associations battling the park board in Supreme Court over an interim joint-operating agreement are calling a decision in the ﬁrst phase of the overall lawsuit a victory, despite an Oct. 28 judgment against them. In September, that ﬁrst stage of the court case addressed a request for an injunction against mandatory use of the OneCard at Hillcrest, Killarney, Hastings, Ker-

risdale, Sunset and Kensington community centres. Spokesperson Ainslie Kwan said while the judge ruled the case didn’t meet the test for an injunction, the park board stopped the implementation of the cards at the six centres as a result of the request in court. “And that’s the result we were hoping for,” said Kwan, who added the argument over the use of the OneCard is a minor component of a much larger lawsuit about what the centres are calling the park board’s continual violations of the decades-old joint-operating agreement. See JUDGE on page 9

any knew him as the pugnacious leader of the Musqueam Indian Band who fought for what he thought was right for his members — whether it was at the boardroom table to negotiate significant land deals, or on the water where he literally got in a tug of war with fisheries officers in the mid-1990s. But the image of Ernie Campbell as the tough-talking chief is softened somewhat when his dedication to another part of his life is revealed: For 40 years, the former Golden Gloves boxing champion drove Musqueam children to school and picked them up in the afternoon. “That’s going to be one of the hardest things for the community — to see somebody else driving the bus is going to be a tough pill to swallow for a lot of people,” said Musqueam Chief Wayne Sparrow, who is a son-in-law to Campbell and replaced him as leader in December 2012. Campbell, who served a combined 14 years as chief, died Saturday after being admitted to hospital Friday. He died from complications related to diabetes. He was 72. His death comes less than a year after he decided not to seek another term as chief. In making his decision, he told

Sparrow “my fight was done” and he wanted to turn the leadership over to someone else in the band. Sparrow, 48, said he learned a great deal from Campbell, having watched him negotiate agreements on behalf of the band and deal with concerns raised by band members. Putting personal feelings aside to reach consensus was a key teaching to Sparrow’s education as a member of the band’s council. “He was firm, strong but respectful and that’s all he asked for in return,” said Sparrow, pointing to the agreement reached for the 2010 Winter Olympics in which the band was ensured economic, social and cultural benefits from the Games. Campbell negotiated another landmark agreement in 2008 that saw the provincial government turn over the University of B.C. Golf Course lands, property near Sea Island Way in Richmond and two parcels in Pacific Spirit Regional Park. The deal included a payment of $20.3 million. “To get those chunks of land back was quite an accomplishment for our community,” said Sparrow, who recalled a meeting that thenpremier Gordon Campbell and the chief had at a golf course to discuss the band’s needs. See FORMER on page 4

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City/VPD’s mental health stats not what they appear under the Act this year is already 23 per cent higher than 2012. So, as I said, there is a signiﬁcant problem that needs to be addressed in Vancouver. But telling the story of that signiﬁcant problem — or crisis, as it’s been dubbed by the mayor and police chief — with accurate facts would be helpful when Robertson convenes his task force on mental health and addictions before the end of the year.

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o you’ve probably heard our world-class city is experiencing a disturbing trend of more people suffering from severe, untreated mental illnesses and causing problems for authorities. A crisis is how Mayor Gregor Robertson and Police Chief Jim Chu have described what’s happening on city streets and they’ve provided the sad and violent stories over the past two months as evidence. In one 15-month period, 26 innocent victims were attacked and injured, some very seriously, in 11 separate incidents. Police have said 21 per cent of calls they handle every day are related to mental illness. No doubt there’s a problem that needs to be addressed.

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City manager Penny Ballem, Police Chief Jim Chu and Mayor Gregor Robertson have referred to a “ﬁve-fold increase” in mental health apprehensions by police since 2002. A VPD policy change in late 2009 suggests the increase is questionable. But when I hear the mayor and the chief — and last Tuesday at council, city manager Penny Ballem — talk about a “ﬁve-fold increase” in the number of section 28 Mental Health Act apprehensions police made since 2002, I’m left scratching my head. I’ll tell you why… As I learned in July this year when I wrote a story about the number of arrests police made under the Mental Health Act, police have changed the way they record interactions with mentally ill people. Prior to 2010, police would not record an incident under the Act if,

say, a person voluntarily decided to check in to a hospital rather than be escorted by an officer. A policy change in late 2009 directed police to record all interactions, regardless of whether the officer escorts a person to hospital. So when you look at stats for 2002, police recorded 539 incidents under the Act. In 2012, with the shift in policy, that number jumped to 2,636. In other words, “a five-fold increase.” See what I’m getting at, here? You can’t say there’s been a “five-fold increase” because there was no consistent record keeping

of apprehensions under the Act that could allow the mayor, police chief and city manager to give an accurate picture of the incidents between 2002 and 2012. The more accurate period is from 2010 to 2012. In 2010, there were 2,278 incidents and that jumped to 2,489 in 2011. And I’ve already written there were 2,636 in 2012. So, yes, you can accurately say police arrested 358 more people under the Act in 2012 than in 2010. And, as police recently released, the number of incidents recorded

YES, IT’S A CRISIS Spoke to provincial Health Minister Terry Lake last week about Robertson calling for the province and the feds to do more to help mentally ill people. Maybe you read my story. What I didn’t include in the story was Lake’s response to whether it was fair to describe the mental health situation in Vancouver as a crisis. Here’s what he said: “A crisis is something that needs action. We’re taking action. It’s been a crisis since 2007. What I’m trying to say is that we’ve been dealing with it in a structured way. Are there more things that we can do? That’s what I want to ﬁnd out.” mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

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news No charges against cop in fatal Boyd shooting SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SAYS CONVICTION IN 2007 INCIDENT UNLIKELY MIKE HOWELL Staff writer

special prosecutor appointed to review a report on the police-involved shooting death of a mentally ill Vancouver man in 2007 has concluded that no charge will be approved against the officer who fired the gun. The criminal justice branch of the B.C. government released a six-page statement Monday explaining the decision of Mark Jette, who was tasked with reviewing a report to Crown counsel prepared by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, or ASIRT. “After considering all of the available evidence as presented by the investigators, including new video evidence that surfaced in May 2012, the special prosecutor has concluded that there is no substantial likelihood of conviction on a criminal charge,” the statement said. “In other words, it is his assessment that the evidence is not sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the shooting of Mr. Boyd constitutes a culpable homicide within the meaning of the Criminal Code of Canada.” In May 2012, the government asked ASIRT to re-open the investigation into the death of Paul Boyd after amateur video surfaced showing Const. Lee Chipperfield

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The VPD officer who shot and killed Paul Boyd in 2007 on Granville Street will not face criminal charges. of the Vancouver Police Department firing his gun at Boyd. The criminal justice branch decided not to approve a charge despite ASIRT executive director Clifton Purvis’s assessment that he had “reasonable and probable grounds” to believe Chipperfield committed a homicide. However, as the criminal branch pointed out, Purvis did not consider

any potential defences that might apply to Chipperﬁeld in light of the evidence. A special prosecutor, when assessing whether there is a substantial likelihood of conviction for criminal charges, must consider viable defences, the statement said. Boyd, who suffered from bipolar disorder and associated paranoia, was killed after a series of events on Aug. 13, 2007 that escalated

to Chipperfield firing his gun nine times in 81 seconds at Boyd. The case was essentially closed after the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner concluded in March 2012 that Chipperfield did not use unnecessary or excessive force in the incident. Chipperfield told investigators and testified at a coroner’s inquest that he shot Boyd in the head with the last shot because he still believed him to be a threat and potentially wearing body armour, which he wasn’t. The grainy, dimly lit video, which was filmed by a Winnipeg tourist, showed Boyd crawling unarmed on his hands and knees towards Chipperfield and other officers near the intersection of Granville Street and West 12th Avenue. An SUV stopped on Granville Street obscures the final gunshot but it is clearly heard on the video, which was filmed by Andreas Bergen, who said he released the video after learning the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner cleared Chipperfield of any wrongdoing. The statement from the criminal justice branch noted the video captured the last 49 seconds of the shooting. The last three shots can be heard on the video. However, the video does not show the initial confrontation between Boyd and police at a bus stop.

When police arrived, they said Boyd was clenching a hammer. He dropped it after one of the officers drew his gun. The officer attempted to put Boyd in handcuffs but Boyd grabbed a bike chain with a lock attached to it and struck the officer in the head. “Nor does [the video] show Mr. Boyd’s body position when the last shot was fired,” the statement said. “At that point, he had crawled in front of a vehicle which blocked the view of the camera operator. The video does not show that Mr. Boyd was crawling on his hands and knees, attempting to stand up or was in fact standing up when the final shot was fired.” The video does confirm that prior to the last two shots, an officer approached Boyd, pulled the chain and padlock away and tossed it out of Boyd’s reach. Boyd’s father, David, told the Courier in a previous interview that he disputes some of the evidence, saying he doesn’t believe his son had a hammer or was using the type of chain as described by police. He said his son’s notebook revealed he was in the area to visit a medical clinic, although he believes it might have been closed, which likely upset him. David Boyd couldn’t be reached for comment Monday. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

Formerpremierwillmiss‘tenaciousleader’ Continued from page 1 Sparrow said the former premier, who is now Canada’s high commissioner in London, sent a telegram over the weekend to Campbell’s family, expressing his condolences. Campbell told the Courier in an email from London the former chief was a tenacious leader with a sense of humour. The pair often had what the former chief called “summit meetings” over coffee at the Musqueam golf course. “I will miss him, his chuckle, the twinkle in his eye,” he wrote, noting the chief referred to him as “cousin.” Premier Christy Clark and Mayor Gregor Robertson, who considered Campbell a friend and supported the band’s recent successful ﬁght to stop a condominium development in Marpole, issued public statements over the weekend. “Chief Campbell was a thoughtful, determined leader who helped build bridges and foster greater understanding between all cultures,” Robertson said. “I had great respect for how he conducted himself and

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Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell (l) and former Musqueam Indian Chief Ernie Campbell (R) came to an agreement regarding the UBC golf course in 2007. The chief died Saturday from complications related to diabetes. always enjoyed our conversations.” Clark described Campbell as one of B.C.’s “foremost First Nations leaders” and said

“his strong voice and unswerving leadership ensured the concerns of his people remained at the forefront through issues that

could have divided us.” That style of leadership not only played out in the boardroom but on the water. In one memorable exchange in the mid1990s on the Fraser River, Campbell engaged in a tug of war with Department of Fisheries and Oceans officers after they attempted to pull up fishing nets set in the water. More recently, Sparrow said, Campbell’s leadership led to the construction of a new $10 million community centre, cultural centre and sports fields — all venues that have brought band members a sense of pride. “He knew how to negotiate, he knew what we needed and this was the outcome,” he said, noting the ceremony to mark Campbell’s death will occur Wednesday in the community centre’s gymnasium. Campbell, who attended St. Paul’s residential school and was a graduate of Magee high school, leaves behind his wife, Carol, one son, three daughters, two grandsons and a granddaughter. mhowell@vancourier.com twitter.com/Howellings

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2013 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

news 18 residents groups unite to influence city planning DEVELOPING STORY with Naoibh O’Connor

ighteen residents associations from across Vancouver have banded together to “fix” what they consider a “planning mess.” They cite concerns such of those surrounding the Marpole, Grandview-Woodland, Downtown Eastside and West End community plans, as well as questions about developments around False Creek, Norquay, on the Pearson-Dogwood lands, the Rize project in Mount Pleasant and what they’ve dubbed the “downtownification” of Oakridge through the proposed redevelopment of the mall. “We’re going to work amongst ourselves to create a new sort of planning paradigm, which we’ll present probably between now and the election,” Jak King, a spokesman for the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods and the president of the GrandviewWoodland Area Council told the Courier last week. “We’ll work on it over the next few months and we’ll present it sometime next year and see how it flies.” King, who’s retired, has lived in Grand-

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Grandview-Woodland’s Jak King.

view-Woodland for 23 years. City council recently extended the timeline for the Grandview-Woodland Community Plan following widespread opposition to its initial proposals. Council also granted the controversial Marpole Community Plan a short extension. King said he’s not afﬁliated with any political party and that it would be a mistake to think that the coalition is politically motivated or aims to unseat the current Vision

Vancouver-dominated council. “There’s no political party behind any of this coalition. We’re all much more concerned with our local areas,” he said. King contacted groups from other neighbourhoods whose community plans were being updated this summer after the contentious Grandview-Woodland initial plan was revealed. “It’s strength in numbers and I think it’s to try to explain to the council that their relationship with the neighbourhoods has simply failed for a number of years, but certainly this summer,” he said. “It’s going to be more difﬁcult for them to try and divide and conquer — picking off one neighbourhood after another. We will be working together, making sure that we act as a group.” The Dunbar Residents’ Association also belongs to the coalition. Its president Jonathan Weisman says communities should play a central role in planning decisions that affect the look and feel of neighbourhoods and that the coalition can play a role in developing a better framework to make sure that happens. “The city is fairly keen to have a single plan in place for what it terms consultation and what we have to say is we think there are improvements that can be made,” he said.

Although city staff recently rejected a rezoning proposal for a high-end seniors facility in Dunbar, as well as a proposed development on the Stong’s Market site, Weisman said the residents’ association is interested in improving the planning process. Criticism about development has been growing. Between 200 and 250 protesters rallied at city hall Sept. 24, a day before council debated the community plans, although rally organizers had hoped for 600. King maintains concern about development and planning has existed for several years. “Many of us think that a lot of the problem started with Sam Sullivan’s EcoDensity, which was an NPA initiative, so it’s not strictly Vision [that’s responsible],” he said. “I think Vision took over that view of life, so at the moment it’s definitely Vision pushing this, but as I say, historically it goes back to the NPA times. “We all understand and everyone recognizes that the city is growing and so we need to deal with that. Because of our geographic situation, obviously densification is a requirement — it’s how that densification is handled and most specifically it’s a question of the neighbourhoods having some significant influence on how that’s handled.” noconnor@vancourier.com twitter.com/naoibh

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news Digital-citizenship training urged for students WI-FI STILL BEING ROLLED OUT ACROSS DISTRICT CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

s vice president of IT for a digital marketing company, Nathan Wilkes believes Vancouver’s students should be learning to create micro blogs and videos to express themselves. The District Parent Advisory Council (DPAC) representative to the Vancouver School Board’s ICT committee and a member of Hamber’s parent advisory council, Wilkes plans to make a presentation to DPAC Nov. 14. He hopes the discussion will lead to DPAC pushing for key improvements and changes related to technology in schools. “I’ve been advocating also on active transportation, cycling safety and whatnot for the past year and what I’ve noticed is that often there’s a lot of talk but not a lot of doing,” he said. The school board is still rolling out wireless Internet at Vancouver schools, an effort superintendent of schools Steve Cardwell says has been made difﬁcult by the district’s large, old brick buildings. Once Wi-Fi is in place, the district will work with the province and providers to increase bandwidth so students could use Wi-Fi to watch videos,

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Parents, students and administrators want mobile devices to be used in the classroom to inspire learning as seen here in this ﬁle photo from John Oliver in 2011. videoconference and perhaps Skype with students in other countries. Cardwell says the district is developing a policy to allow students to use their own devices on district Wi-Fi in classrooms. When the school board allows students to use its wireless Internet, it will have to make sure its wireless connection is secure, students avoid inappropriate searches and that all students will be able to use Wi-Fi, not just those whose families can afford to buy them mobile devices. Wilkes is concerned students bringing their own devices to school would require

students to share their personal devices and could lead to privacy and other problems. He wants district-wide digital citizenship training for students. The school board worked to increase the number of mobile carts with tablets, laptops and iPod touches for student use at schools. Two-thirds of Vancouver schools have a cart with mobile devices. In many cases PACs pay for this equipment. Audrey Van Alstyne, district principal of learning technology, said up to 10 secondary and 30 elementary schools in the district have minimal access to mobile devices

but district carts get moved around. She said most of the inner city schools have mobile devices. Wilkes notes it’s difficult for teachers to integrate tools that can excite students about lessons when they’re sharing one cart. He notes, “parent fundraising fatigue is definitely occurring,” particularly at the secondary level. “The technology isn’t very well integrated into the curriculum,” he said. “You can’t be surprised because the people doing the teaching were educated at a time when there was no Internet, by and large… At some point either we have to wait for the teachers to change a generation or we have to enable the teachers to make some significant change, because the kids are passing them by. It’s not possible to simply say education is about text-based learning, reading and writing like it was a hundred years ago.” Cardwell wants students to access online applications. “Some of the apps that you can download about space and the planets or about the elements, for example, are just amazing and you just can’t get that information, that knowledge out of a textbook,” he said. “It is something that is right up to date.” Cardwell said the district is exploring how students could safely store the digital work they’re creating online and access it from different devices. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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group of 20 angry Renfrew-Collingwood residents gathered for a rally Oct. 25 at the intersection where their friend and neighbour was killed just a few weeks ago. As reported previously in the Courier, Wilma Yerex, 72, died after being hit by a car while crossing the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Earles Street Oct. 7. Marlene White, 70, was a friend of Yerex and organized the rally to call for a pedestrian crossing light at the intersection. She said she has been in touch with the city several times to say the crosswalk is dangerous but nothing has been done. “I am not a leader, I don’t do things like this … but I just got so discouraged and I just felt sick about Wilma getting hit there like that. I felt like I had to do something,” said White. Jerry Dobrovolny, director of transportation for the City of Vancouver, said the city held a review of the crosswalk in 2011 and deemed no changes were necessary. “This intersection itself is equipped with signage — it has a zebra-paint crosswalk mark-

ing and it has got curb bulging on either side so it actually has got quite a bit of the safety features that we design in to improve safety at crosswalks,” said Dobrovolny. Dobrovolny added that in the past five years no other pedestrian or bicyclist fatalities were reported at the crosswalk, but once the Vancouver Police Department completes its investigation of the Yerex accident the city will go over the police report and review the crosswalk again if necessary. Orlando Rodriguez, who was at the rally waving a sign at passing cars that read “We need a light,” has lived across from the intersection for over 10 years. “I cross this street and I knew that there is really something wrong here and I knew that something was going to happen and it happened. I myself, when I cross the street, there are so many cars that don’t respect the rules and the pedestrians,” he said. White said the residents will keep up their fight for crossing light as a way to honour their friend Yerex, whom she described as a fixture in the neighbourhood who always helped others. “She was a very kind person,” she said. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/Thuncher

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Judge sides with park board Continued from page 1 The six associations are concerned because the OneCard eliminates the need for individual community centre association memberships. According to the provincial Society’s Act, the associations must have a membership list to qualify as a non-profit society. The associations say non-profit status is vital to their ability in obtaining government funding or grants. Included within a 26-page document is a six-page decision from Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen who wrote in part: “Regarding the plaintiffs assertions about the impact of the defendant’s implementation of the OneCard system on their ability to sustain or sell memberships, as the defendant points out, for all intents and purposes it is ‘business as usual’ at all but one of the plaintiff’s centres.” Cohen also sided with the park board in allowing the OneCard to be advertised and sold at the six centres, writing in part: “While I am mindful that the OneCard system is not and will not be implemented at the plaintiff’s centres for plaintiff-operated programs for the duration of the JOAs, nevertheless, members of the public may wish to obtain and use a OneCard for defendant-operated facilities at one of the plaintiff’s centres, or at another centre. Thus, I find that it is reasonable for the defendant to be able to advertise the availability of the plaintiff’s centres.” Kwan, president of the Killarney Community Centre Association, said despite the court decision on the OneCard, the associations are

buoyed by the fact two weeks ago the court ordered the park board to cease implementing its takeover plans until the matter can be heard in Supreme Court Nov. 18. In response to the complaints ﬁled against the park board by the associations in Supreme Court, in August the six associations were given eviction notices by the board dated for Dec. 31, 2013. On Tuesday, Vision Vancouver park board chair Sarah Blyth released a statement regarding Monday’s decision: “Yesterday Mr. Justice Cohen of the Supreme Court of British Columbia released reasons for judgment in the case in which six community associations sought an injunction against the Vancouver Park Board preventing the park board from advertising its OneCard program in the six community centres the associations are involved with. Mr. Justice Cohen dismissed the associations’ application. This is an important decision, which supports the work of the park board in increasing equity of access across the network of community centres in the city. At this time over 75,000 OneCard passes have been issued to residents across the city. “The OneCard is free and is designed to enable access for all Vancouver residents to the entire park board network of rinks, pools, ﬁtness centres and community centres, just as a library card provides access for everyone to all public libraries across the city.” sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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atching the New Democratic Party’s pre-leadership fight recalls those nature documentaries about how prides of lions sort themselves out. There’s usually that moment when one of the younger lions, after skulking around through two commercial breaks, decides to make his move. He challenges the old alpha male and drives him off, then takes over. Poor old lion, you think, watching the old boy limp across the savannah. But inside the pride, the other lions scarcely bat an eye. The doddering old fool got exactly what he deserved, they think. Then they go kill an antelope to celebrate. It must be tough on NDP Leader Adrian Dix and president Moe Sihota right now to be in a vaguely similar position. There’s no single young upstart who is challenging them. It’s more like the whole party is suddenly balking, arguing every move Dix and Sihota want to make. Even when they try to be open and inclusive and hold a conference call to talk things over — as they did this week — it goes sideways on them. To add insult, the feeling in some quarters is that all of a sudden they are old-guard fogies who need to be shuffled off. They’ve already agreed to shuffle off themselves. But that doesn’t seem to be good enough. More than a few members have stopped accepting any of their decisions on their way out the door. It’s gotten to the point where even the idea of putting one of their decisions to a vote had to be postponed, because the argument on that conference call got so strident. The specific point being argued is boring to most people outside the party. It’s whether to hold a leadership convention on May 25, 2014, as Dix recommends, or wait until later. Nobody but them cares about this. But they care a lot. Partly because the ramifications of each option compound on each other. If they go early, some federal MPs like Skeena’s Nathan Cullen, might rule themselves out. And the race isn’t exactly off to a furious start. It has been five weeks since Dix announced he was stepping down, and the only news so far is that obvious contender John Horgan isn’t interested in running. If they go late, they might find some better candidates. But that means treading water for a year or more. It’s a bit of a paradox that the old guard wants to move quicker than the impatient upstarts do. But if the movement to hold off for a while gains ground, it could easily morph into a movement to not only wait a while, but to wait a while with an interim leader. Some of them appear bloody-minded enough at this point to dump Dix overboard just because he’s still around. The timing issue is a surrogate argument. What they really want is a chance to lash out at the leadership for blowing the election. It might seem unlikely to get that far. But then again, it was unlikely that 133 people on the provincial council wouldn’t concur with a decision made by the 36 of them who are on the executive. That’s what happened this week, though. It amounts to an unpleasant milestone for Sihota and Dix. They made their names two decades ago as aggressive young keeners, ready to take on all comers. Sihota was a charismatic, problematic cabinet minister in the NDP governments of the 1990s, while Dix was a hard-driving aide to Glen Clark as a cabinet minister, and chief of staff when Clark became premier. On their climbs up the ladder, they stepped on a few toes and had more than their share of spats with members of their own team. They took time outs after the NDP government crashed in 2001, and returned a few years later, Dix as an MLA and eventually leader, Sihota as the paid president of the party. It looked like a winning combination until May, when they lost a sure thing. Now the former young Turks are the establishment, and a crowd of impatient younger Turks are eyeing them resentfully. The circle of life can be a vicious one. lleyne@timescolonist.com twitter.com/LeyneLes

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ver the last few days, women have made headlines in the Courier and around the world. Two out of three were for good reasons, the other not so much. I’ll get to the latter later. In today’s Courier on page 14, you will find a story by reporter Cheryl Rossi about Narinjan Kaur Mand who made local Sikh history when the membership of the Ross Street Gurdwara endorsed her and two other women to sit on the Khalsa Diwan Society’s executive two years ago. It only took 105 years. (The society was founded in 1906.) Mand’s story went online Friday as part of our Vancouver Special feature on the Sunset community and generated a number of website hits. The comments from the 78-year-old society recording secretary were refreshing to read. She was gentle in her wording but honest. You could sense some of her frustration with the proverbial glass ceiling within her community. As I read the quote, “As usual, it’s a man’s world,” I couldn’t help but think of my mother, who has repeated those same words numerous times over the years. (To briefly digress, my mother and her fellow nurses went on strike in Quebec in the early 1980s because the government planned to roll back their wages. The nurses’ efforts failed. But why did the government choose nurses’ salaries to roll back over other government workers? Nurses were almost exclusively women at the time, which is precisely why the government targeted them. On that I have no doubt. “It’s a man’s world,” I heard my mother say at the time, among some choice observations.) I worry, however, that Mand’s frankness may cause some consternation within the Ross Street temple community. I hope no one gives her grief and she continues on in her role as society recording secretary. In fact, I’d love to hear other women and likeminded men rally around her if she ever faces any kind of blowback. Mostly, I hope Mand doesn’t regret speaking out. Hers is a voice that should be heard, not silenced. Meanwhile, way over in Saudi Arabia, women of that country vow to keep up the campaign against a driving ban. According to the Guardian newspaper, activists are still asking Saudi women to go on driving in public and posting online photographs of themselves after doing so. While there is no specific law in Saudi Arabia that bans women from driving, women cannot apply for driving licences. Saudi women held a day of action Saturday to challenge the kingdom’s ban and their efforts seem to be paying off. According to the Guardian, authorities appear to be willing to consider reform despite strong opposition by the clerical establishment. Saudi journalists are offering potential support, wrote the Guardian’s Ian Black. “Now the mainstream press is getting involved too, a telling indication of a thaw on this issue. ‘It’s time to end this absurd debate about women driving,’ wrote Dr. Thuraya al-Arid in al-Jazirah newspaper. In another paper, al-Sharq al-Awsat, Mshari al-Zaydi said: ‘The time has come to turn the page on the past and discuss this issue openly.’” May this little action grow into something bigger. A Saudi spring? Of course, I’d like all Saudi women to get behind the wheel. Police can’t arrest the entire adult female population. While these two stories gave me a modicum of hope, I was disheartened by the feminist “Janettes” march in support of Quebec’s charter of values on Saturday. As you know, the Parti Québécois government wants to ban public employees from wearing obvious religious symbols, including the Muslim headscarf, in the workplace. The concept is known in French as “laïcité.” Proponents believe it will lead to equality. I disagree. As a feminist, I don’t want another woman or man telling me what I can or cannot wear. That’s not equality. It’s oppression and a serious impingement on my freedom. And what it’s morphing into is a growing comfort among some French-speaking Quebecers to harass if not denigrate and discriminate against those who aren’t like them. That’s hardly a step forward in the feminist movement or for humanity. I do however — and this might sound hypocritical — personally draw the line at the burka. Everything about that horrid piece of clothing screams oppression of women and does nothing to create a friendly encounter whether it’s at the park, the grocery store or on the bus. In the words of Malala Yousefzai: “Why should I cover my face? This is my identity.” But I doubt burka-wearing women are applying for jobs in the Quebec public service or any other level of government in Canada. So that becomes a moot point. But in the end, it’s a woman’s business to wear one I suppose. I dislike it as much as I dislike young girls in sexualized clothing. As long as I can see someone face, it’s all good. fhughes@vancourier.com

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To the editor: Re: “Federal laws govern Vancouver pot shops, says councillor,” Oct. 23. As a proud member of the East Vancouver community and a manager with The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary I am writing to respond to this story in your paper. The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary shares Ray-Cam’s core value of community and compassion for those in need. I have seen ﬁrst hand the positive impacts The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary has had within our community and beyond. Throughout our ﬁve years in operation we have put great effort into building positive relationships and trust within our community/neighbourhood — working diligently to uphold very strict policies, including those surrounding our memberships’ behaviour in the community. Members of the Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary are expected to consume their medicine responsibly — not in front of the store on the corner or near Ray-Cam Community Centre. Members are not to loiter or congregate in front of our store or surrounding businesses. Members are expected to be respectful. This expectation extends beyond our store. Membership services are suspended if a member cannot behave responsibly and

respectfully in our store and in the community. Minors are not permitted in The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary unless they are accompanied by their parent/legal guardian. If ever “kids wander” into our store, they are immediately turned away at the door. Kids are not subjected to anything negative because of our presence. We provide our members with safe access to medicine. There is nothing negative in that, it is the stigma and illegality that continues to loom a dark shadow. Kids get access to cannabis through street dealers, not dispensaries. We are committed to our community, to our neighbourhood and value the positive relationships we have built. We ask that community centre workers, community members (residents) and parents with any concerns share those with us so we can work together to ensure a safe neighbourhood. Dani Russo, Vancouver

KITS LETTER WRITER DIDN’T REVEAL ALL To the editor: Re: “Bike path will encourage more cycling to Kits,” Letters, Oct. 25. When Lisa Slakov identiﬁed herself in her letter, she stated only that she is a resident in the Kits Point area. Somewhat disingenuous of her, as she is

the co-chair of Vancouver/UBC HUB, the main advocate for bicycling in Vancouver and the organization that Vancouver Vision councillors, in my opinion, serve very well. Mike Tropp, Vancouver

PEDESTRIAN URGES DRIVERS TO SLOW DOWN To the editor: Re: “Senior wants safer East Vancouver intersection,” Oct. 16. Because of recent pedestrian fatalities, this letter is for a young man in the SUV that refused to allow me to cross at Renfrew and Pender streets at 8:05 a.m. last Friday. When I started across, there were no cars and here you came hell bent for leather. If I had not abruptly stopped at the centre line you, would have killed me. I waved my walking poles at you because I was not sure that you saw me or if you did you would allow me to cross. You yelled out “use a crosswalk.” When I took a defensive driving course and then drove for many years, we were taught that pedestrians had the right of way and one must yield. I don’t believe the rules have changed. You refused to do this. You need to show more respect to pedestrians, slow down and pay attention to the “rules of the road” before you kill an innocent person. Lee Turner, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Sunset: Comics club floats on fantasy,” Oct. 24 Candy Meister @CandyMeisterCA: Really happy to see Cloudscape get some PR! Fantastic society for comic artists. COURIER STORY: “Vancouver mayor sets up task force on mental health.” Oct. 24 Nicholas Ellan @njellan: how many task forces have we set up again? I’ve lost track. how much have they actually done? #vanpoli COURIER STORY: “Sunset: Halal meats growing in popularity,” Oct. 25 Just_a_man: Halal slaughter of animals is the most cruel, inhumane and barbaric way to kill any animal. Where are the animal rights groups that recently chastised Egg producing farms in Edmonton? Mohamed Labdu says: “animal must be killed by hand, with a sharp knife, across the throat by a mature Muslim man while the name of Allah is invoked” I am sure the animal takes great comfort knowing the name of Allah is invoked, while its throat is cut and, and it’s left to bleed to death in agony for 2-4 minutes! Is that what you are promoting here? Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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While many Halloween parties and activities took place last weekend, the ofﬁcial date is Oct. 31. So to wrap things up, here’s a list and recap of events on now through Nov. 3. Bob Scott’s Halloween Tyme is an annual art exhibit on now through Oct. 31 at Neptoon Records, 3561 Main St. Scott uses recycled wine corks and found objects in his innovative paintedcarvings.Hisfolkartcarvingshavebeenseen in solo and group shows across North America, including repeatedly at the MF Gallery’s Annual Halloween Art Show in Brooklyn, New York. This third annual Halloween Tyme exhibit will showcase new cork carvings and drawings, as well as hand-painted magnets, noisemakers and treat bags. Check out bobscottartwork.ca.

SECRET LOCATIONS There are select tickets still available for Zombie Syndrome: On Death Island, back for its second year. The Zombie Syndrome presents an opportunity to survive, or not, the Zombie Apocalypse as part of an interactive show by award-winning artist Andy Thompson. One smartphone per group is necessary to navigate Vancouver while escaping hordes of zombies. Locations aren’t released until just prior to each event. On now through Nov. 3. For more information and tickets visit thevirtualstage.org.

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Artist Bob Scott used recycled wine corks and found objects to create Halloween-inspired sculptures at Neptoon Records on Main Street. ish tales with stops at some of this city’s most haunted locations. The adults-only tour includes stops at Mountain View Cemetery and the autopsy room of the Vancouver Police Museum. On now through Oct. 31. Check out vancouvertrolley.com.

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As reported previously in the Courier, this is the last year for the popular Dunbar Haunted House, which has early showings for the kids and scarier themes with costumed actors for the adults after 7 p.m. The cost is $10 per adult with all proceeds going to local charities. For more information visit dunbarhauntedhouse.com.

Another adult-themed, chill-inspiring event is Judge Dee’s Chinatown Haunted House at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall St. on now through Oct. 31. Produced by Seven Tyrants Theatre, the event uses actors, dancers and musicians to tell the gruesome stories of Judge Dee: China’s Sherlock Holmes. The terror runs every 10 minutes from 7 to 10 p.m., through Oct. 31. Check out vancouverchinesegarden.com.

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Oct. 31 at 6:30 p.m. The F.W. Murnau classic 1922 German expressionist horror movie is considered by many to be the best screen version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula ever made. Visit thecinematheque.ca for more information.

GASTOWN The Lost Souls of Gastown tours continues now through Nov. 1 with departures from Cathedral Square at Dunsmuir and Richards, opposite Holy Rosary Cathedral. These tours explore some of the city’s earliest and most gruesome history dating back to the 1800s when Vancouver was a violent frontier town. Don’t expect a conventional walking or ghost tour, this experience is described as gothic theatre. Call 604-839-3126 or visit forbiddenvancouver.ca for ticket information.

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These 30-minute, lantern-lit tours allow participants a glimpse into the creatures that lurk in the park once the sun goes down. A must if you love things that go bump in the night, including spiders, creepy-crawlies and the occasional owl. The tours leave from the Stanley Park Children’s Farmyard and Miniature Train, where the Ghost Train also continues to run through Nov. 2. For ticket information and to register, call 604-718-6522 or visit stanleyparkecology.ca.

HASTINGS PARK And ﬁnally, Fright Nights at the PNE is the place where guests can face their fears in six haunted houses and, for those who survive, risk their lives on 12 rides and be entertained by the Monsters of Schlock, a two-man comedy, circus act and stunt show inﬂuenced by the early days of vaudeville, the Three Stooges and “carnivals of yore.” Visit frightnights.ca. sthomas@vancourier.com

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wo years into her term as the ﬁrst woman on the Khalsa Diwan Society’s executive, Narinjan Kaur Mand says the Sikh society has come a long way. But she says the South Asian community is still behind mainstream Vancouver when it comes to seeing women in positions of power. Three women were endorsed by the membership of the Ross Street Gurdwara, or Sikh temple, in 2011. Mand serves as recording secretary for the society that runs on Southeast Marine Drive and Nasib Kaur Badyal and Shindo Kaur Mangat were chosen to be members at large. Sikhs founded the Khalsa Diwan Society in Vancouver in 1906. It took 105 years from the society’s inception to see a woman on the executive for a couple of reasons, Mand said. “First of all, the old women are not educated,” she said, adding that’s the case for some women in India even still. “As usual, it’s a man’s world.” Mand wants changes in the gurdwara and Sikh society. “But we can’t do that,” said the 78year-old who wore an orange headscarf during an interview last week.

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Narinjan Kaur Mand is the ﬁrst woman to sit on the 105-year-old Khalsa Diwan Society’s executive at the Ross Street Gurdwara. Mandbelievestraditionsthataren’ttruetothe Guru Granth Sahib, or Sikh scriptures, should be more closely aligned with the holy text, but she suspects saying so would make other women think she’s uppity. “It’s very hard to change people,” she said. Mand wouldn’t be more speciﬁc about the traditions she’d change, saying: “I don’t want to be in trouble.” ShesayswhenSikhscametoVancouverinthe early 1900s, they tried to mix with general society. But now that their population has grown,

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Mand completed high school English and the equivalent of an honours bachelor of arts in Punjabi in the Punjab before moving to Canada in 1966. Both her mother and her grandmother believed in equal education for boys and girls. Mand is fluent in English, Punjabi and Hindi. Outside her office, bearded men with turbans chatted in one corner of the cafeteria and other solo men and women sat apart and ate at long tables in room scented with coriander, cumin seeds, cloves and black pepper. The room of worship sits above the offices and cafeteria. There are cubbies just outside for shoes and the carpet inside is plush, the ceilings high and the vast room is lit with skylights and a massive chandelier. Recorded hymns sung in Punjabi filled the air. Men worship on the right side, women on the left and there are benches near the back for those who can no longer sit on the floor, which Mand says defies the beliefs of fundamentalists. “We are moderate,” she said. Head priest Harminder Bal Singh said, “Wisdom is the main thing we worship.” SinghsayswomencanbeSikhpriestsbutthey “hesitate.” They can recite the scripture and can lead prayers “if they’re given the chance.” But this doesn’t usually happen. Women who lead prayers typically do so at functions in private homes. So what needs to change? “I have no idea,” Mand said. “It’s up to the women now.” crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Project will balance past and present to create a new landmark site in the evolving South East False Creek neighbourhood president. “We are striving to preserve some of South False Creek’s industrial heritage while blending them with a modern building design that maximizes light and capitalizes on views.” Upwards from the 16th floor, the suites’ sprawling floor to ceiling windows will offer its owners sweeping views of the ocean and glistening mountains. Opsal’s timber-framed structure stands as a visible reminder of the area’s industrial history. Bastion has salvaged and incorporated many of the heritage foundry’s characteristics. Some of its most unique features include the dramatic glass entrance with heritage-inspired water feature, and the residences’ expansive open-air balconies (select homes) with unique staggered design to maximize outdoor enjoyment. Meantime, inside each condominium, the attention to detail is second to none. Allison Evans, interior designer/owner of Allison Evans Design Corporation, included some the historical aspects of the former steel company. Opsal’s beautifully designed interiors feature 8’6” ceilings and open and bright spaces with lots of natural light pouring in. But it’s the kitchens that gourmet

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he rise of award-winning Bastion Development Corporation’s new tower on a former industrial site has created a lot of excitement – so much so that more than 80 per cent of the homes are already sold. With more than three decades of excellence, the renowned developer will soon unveil Opsal, the tallest 24 storey concrete and glass building in South East False Creek, which encompasses 175 exclusive condominiums. “You will be able to see from Point Atkinson to Mount Baker,” says Kim Maust, Bastion’s vice

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old world charm with a contemporary ﬂair.’ He went on to say that the Thomas family has owned this property for many years and wanted to leave behind an iconic symbol for the community to enjoy for decades to come. Of the 13 boutique opulent residences, four have already sold, including the two penthouse suites. From seascapes to skylines, The Vermeer delivers sweeping vistas of English Bay, the cityscape, the North Shore Mountains and downtown skyline to Howe Sound. With floor-to-ceiling windows and stunning outdoor patios, residents can enjoy their coffee while taking in the spectacular views from the north facing homes. The Thomas daughters wanted to create a lasting legacy to the patriarch of the family, Andries Thomas. The visionary purchased the land back in seventies and the family believes the building truly represents his vision, says his son-in-law Richard Hall.

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In order to accomplish that, Thomas Properties Limited hired world-class artisans to create a stunning architectural building that would become a landmark in the community for decades to come.

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In addition to its prime location, the masterful architecture of concrete and limestone of this four-storey mixed-use boutique low-rise is already garnering praise.

“Andries wanted to raise the bar by creating a European-style building with modern, timeless interiors,” says Hall, adding the homes all come with air conditioning and a smart-wired home automation system that you can run from your Smart phone, iPad or iPhone.

“This iconic building is unseen in Vancouver, let alone in Kitsilano,” says Ken Chong, of Macdonald Realty Ltd. who adds the architect and interiors were created by the award-winning firm of Formweks Architectural & Interior Design. “It has

With that thought in mind, Hall says they were able to salvage the 300-year-old reclaimed Douglas Fir beams from the old building, to be incorporated into the homes, “We preserved the old beams and incorporated them into each of the

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Rocky Mountaineer train creates unforgettable Canadian memories TWO-DAY TRAIN RIDE A TRIP OF A LIFETIME SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer

illing around the Rocky Mountaineer station on Terminal Avenue on a rain-soaked September morning, the unmistakable skirl of a bagpipe could be heard over the din of the growing crowd. Maybe it’s my Scottish heritage, but hearing the shrill tone from that chanter pipe was an immediate indication this was going to be a special couple of days. As it turned out, our trip exceeded even those early expectations. Following the call for “All aboard!” we ﬁled out of the station towards our GoldLeaf Dome Coach and manoeuvred through the downpour assisted by uniformed staff, graciously holding umbrellas, as we made our way to the red carpet leading to the start of our two-day adventure. But before enjoying those jaw-dropping views, we settled into our plush seats while the train meandered through Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland giving us an opportunity to chat with fellow passengers. The travellers my partner and I met were largely from Eastern Canada, the U.K. and Australia, enjoying what

each described as the “trip of a lifetime.” One such visitor was Patricia Henderson from Norton, County Durham in England, who said she’d been dreaming of this trip for 58 years after studying about British Columbia in geography class at age 10. Henderson’s dream vacation started with a road trip from Calgary, where her son lives, to Vancouver via Jasper, Clearwater and Kelowna. “The return journey to Calgary via the Rocky Mountaineer was the icing on the cake or the cherry on the top,” Henderson told me via email not long after our trip. Like myself, Henderson was impressed by not only the scenery, but the attentive staff and quality of the service and food during trip. The cuisine offered on the train has a focus on regional, fresh ingredients, including smoked steelhead salmon and caviar for breakfast, and spot prawn, Alberta short ribs and Fraser Valley chicken as menu items offered at lunch. Meanwhile, senior steward Ewen Cameron kept his passengers entertained and informed as he shared his extensive knowledge of the history and ecology of each area we passed, as well as anecdotal tales of everything from the building of the railroad, to the First Nations peoples living along the route to the spawning habits of salmon. During one section of our journey we could actually see hundreds of bright-red salmon struggling upstream towards their spawning grounds. The train doesn’t stop along its route,

but instead moves at such a leisurely pace it’s easy to snap photos of landmarks such as Craigellachie, where the last spike of the Canadian Paciﬁc Railway was driven in 1885, the engineering feat known as the Spiral Tunnels, Castle Mountain, the Columbia River Bridge, Three Sisters Mountain and more. That pace is also why it takes almost 13 hours to get to Kamloops where Rocky Mountaineer passengers overnight. We stayed at Hotel 540, which has been recently renovated and again exceeded our expectations. (The train only travels during the day so none of the scenery is lost to the dark.) Early on day two, we ﬁnally entered the Rockies and I got goose-bumps. I especially enjoyed watching fellow passengers stare in awe as we climbed through the snow-capped peaks through valleys of blue, green and grey that eventually surrounded us. As we neared Banff on that second evening, a passenger requested Cameron play the John Denver classic “Rocky Mountain High” over the sound system. I suspect that prior to this trip, playing the 1972 hit might have been greeted with some eye rolling from this well-travelled group. But on this night, it was the ideal musical accompaniment as our blue and gold cavalcade slowed to a halt. And as so many fellow passengers told us during our two-days of travel, even for a couple of Vancouverites it was the trip of a lifetime. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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health Unhappy?Visualize yourself in the future LIST 100 THINGS YOU WANT TO DO IN LIFE from losses, disease and accidents, and the unexpected happens. We change as the people around us change. We grow closer and further apart. Change might be welcomed. When people are unhappy and don’t know why or feel that they’re stuck in a rut, they may break off a relationship or quit their job though they may be no happier in the end. If our current circumstances are not great — we’re

DAVIDICUS WONG Change is an unavoidable reality of life. Children grow up, and we all age. We suffer

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When confronted by problems, we can seek the positive. What can we do to rise above complacency, surrender and self-pity? How can we launch into action? What can we do with what we have? How can we make our lives and the lives of others better? The transformation of problems into goals can energize and empower us. Yet we must ensure that our actions are considered and deliberate and not shortterm reactions. Visualization of your future self is a key to success. In clinical hypnosis, we engage the powerful subconscious mind with vivid imagery appealing to all the senses. Dr. Lee Pulos, a well-

known clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist, recommended an ecology check on our goals to ensure that it was not harmful in any way to others. Visualize yourself in the future. Where do you want to be in a year from now? In ﬁve years? In 10? At the end of life? How would you like to be remembered? When considering our short-term goals, we ought to consider our mega-goals. If our short-term goals are unplanned and reactive, we will ﬁnd ourselves far from where we want to be. If we don’t align our daily actions with our deepest values and our noblest calling, we may not realize the life we were meant to live.

FREE SEAWEED LECTURE Nature Vancouver’s Marine Biology Section presents Dr. Patrick Martone (UBC botany) talking about seaweed ecology. Martone leads a lab that studies the biomechanics, evolution and ecophysiology of marine macroalgae.

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Many of us have considered the 100 places we’d like to see before we die, but a more signiﬁcant list include the top things we would like to do in life. What actions would bring you the greatest meaning and fulﬁllment? What can you say and what can you do to realize the potential of this life and your relationships? The answers should resonate in your goals. What will you do today to move in the direction of those goals? Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician at PrimeCare Medical. His column appears regularly in this paper. Read more about achieving your positive potential for health at davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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ANNA HAGAN and TERENCE KELLY star in Alan Ayckbourn’s RELATIVELY SPEAKING Oct. 31 to Dec. 1 at Coal Harbour’s PAL Studio Theatre. Anthony F. Ingram directs this Western Gold Theatre production, which is billed as a classic farce that skilfully weaves a tangle of love, mischief and mistaken identities. For tickets and more details, go to westerngoldtheatre.org. Looking for some old school chills and thrills this Halloween? It doesn’t get more old school than 1922’s NOSFERATU by German expressionist F.W. Murnau. The Cinematheque screens the silent-era vampire classic starring MAX SCHRECK in the title role Oct. 31, 6:30 p.m. More details at thecinematheque.ca.

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For those who’ve put it off until the last minute, there’s still time to throw together a disappointing Halloween costume. The ancient Celtic-based holiday, a day the veil between the world of the living and the dead is said to be the thinnest, is probably one of our most cherished because it offers something for everyone. Children get to wear fancy costumes, break the usually non-negotiable taboo of accepting candy from strangers and then spend days getting high on high-fructose corn syrup. Young adults or those pretending to be have an opportunity to escape their mundane existences for at least one night of the year, embracing the whimsy of childhood innocence that never truly disappears, and don ridiculous and/or skimpy outﬁts, drink their faces off and potentially have weird sex with someone dressed as a zombie or a Smurf. Lonely seniors, meanwhile, get to have adorably dressed children visit them at their homes for a fraction of a second. Plus there’s no need to purchase expensive presents, attend awkward family dinners or feign lapsed religious beliefs. Of course, most grown-up Halloween enthusiasts already ventured out over the weekend into a costumed sea of Avengers, Heisenbergs, stale Internet memes and sexy Hannah Montanas because Oct. 31 falls on a Thursday this year. All Hallow’s Eve has essentially become All Hallow’s Week, a bit like how Boxing Day morphed into the discounted shopping frenzy now known as Boxing Week. But while Team K&K can see the appeal of stretching out a holiday, we’ve never understood why it is considered OK to terrify pets, small children and/or jittery war vets with a week of sporadic explosions at all hours of the night.

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While it’s true Vancouverites are known for their love of sparking up illicit substances in general, we’re not sure what’s up with this obsession with bright lights and loud noises. It’s just not as big a deal in other Canadian cities. The Chinese were the ones who first came up with the idea of blowing things up for fun centuries ago, so maybe it’s partly to do with the city’s considerable Asian population. Could be it’s exacerbated by Diwali, the five-day, fireworks-friendly Indian festival of light, which takes place around the same time. But you can’t buy or launch cherry bombs, M-80s or Roman candles in neighbouring Richmond or Surrey, which probably has something to do with the fact that around a dozen people die each year from fireworks and many more blow off important body parts. According to Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services, fireworks can also cause more than half a million dollars of damage on a single clear night, but the city nonetheless remains one of the few in the Lower Mainland where people are cheerfully allowed to set off pyrotechnic devices cooked up in overseas factories with sketchy safety standards. The fireworks fetish even goes all the way to the top. Despite city hall’s oft-trumpeted plan to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city, each year it encourages thousands of people to cart their trash into the West End and enjoy the visual splendor provided by countless kilos of aluminum arsenic, barium nitrate, lead dioxide, mercury, nitric oxide and more belching into the night sky. City council is also considering allowing fireworks permits for New Year’s Eve, Chinese New Year and Vaisakhi, although to be fair some of the explosions would at least probably be the colour green. While we hope the city’s love affair with sparkly noise pollution will someday fizzle, for now we have to accept that celebrating Halloween responsibly is simply another thing Vancouverites are collectively bad at. Like driving on snow, dealing with Stanley Cup final defeats or calmly discussing the pros and cons of adding bike lanes. Boom. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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arts&entertainment Making Jewish humour doc was no joke STATE OF THE ARTS with Cheryl Rossi

lan Zweig stood in a line outside Schwartz’s deli in Montreal a few years back and found himself captivated by the conversation of an old Jewish clan. “I couldn’t get enough of this family from Philadelphia just displaying their Jewishness in their conversation,” the documentary filmmaker said. “I realized I missed something.” It was one of a number of incidents that got Zweig, who’s in his 60s, yearning for a greater connection to the old, funny Jews he grew up with. So the secular Jew decided “the easiest and most enjoyable way” to connect to Jewish culture would be through humour. “It seemed to me that almost everything you could talk about being Jewish sort of came from there,” the filmmaker from Toronto said. “I just wanted to make a film about the humour of my grandparents and whether that was still a strong factor in the world or not. I just wanted to talk about it.” Zweig speaks to a host of comics in his documentary film When Jews Were Funny, which recently won best Canadian feature at its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It screens as part of the 25th annual Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, which runs Nov. 7 to 14 at Fifth Avenue Cinemas. But the old comics Zweig recalls watching in the 1950s and ’60s didn’t appreciate his line of questioning. “This whole interview is about Jewishness,” says 90-year-old comedian, actor and host Jack Carter, who opens the film. “I have nothing to contribute.” The reactions of the old-time comedians surprised Zweig. Zweig’s parents had told him the comics he loved on TV were Jewish. He hadn’t realized many of them had changed their names and weren’t necessarily “out.” “When they imagine these guys hanging out, everybody imagines [the 1984 film] Broadway Danny Rose,” he said. “Broadway Danny Rose is a Woody Allen film where he’s a Jewish agent and he’s in New York and he meets with these guys every day at this

deli and it’s all a bunch of Jewish entertainers and a lot of them in the film are played by old Jewish comedians, and they’re just attacking each other, ribbing each other in a very recognizably Jewish way these guys used to be. So on some level, I hoped that these old guys would talk to me like they talked to their old friends at the deli.” Instead, he says, with the cameras rolling, they just wanted to tell him about the time they met famous American singer and actor Robert Goulet. Carter isn’t the only subject who balks at Zweig’s ideas and questions. As the film progresses from exploring the role of Jewish comedians in the entertainment industry, Jewish humour in general and then what it means to be Jewish, Bob Einstein, a.k.a. stuntman Super Dave Osborne, and others give him a hard time. “I don’t think we can solve all your problems,” comic Cory Kahaney tells Zweig. Focusing the film on professional comedians wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, Zweig says, because they’re so used to being interviewed and sticking to their talking points. His previous self-referential films Vinyl and I, Curmudgeon focused on regular people. But despite his struggles as filmmaker, the self-described curmudgeon concedes that winning Best Canadian Feature in Toronto means he overcame these challenges. Comics including Shelley Berman, Marc Maron, Howie Mandel, David Brenner and Gilbert Gottfried provide their views on

the essence and state of Jewish humour in When Jews Were Funny and Zweig has interspersed their insights with standup routines from the 1960s performed by comics that include Jackie Mason, Henry Youngman and Rodney Dangerfield on the Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows. Other festival highlights include whimsical coming-of-age film, The Zig Zag Kid, the cast of which includes actress Isabella Rossellini, the Canadian premiere of the Israeli and Palestinian documentary Two Sided Story and the closing film Hunting Elephants, a comedy that includes Star Trek’s Patrick Stewart and acclaimed Israeli actor Sasson Gabai. For more information, see vjff.org. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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his script by Colleen Murphy, enjoying its premiere production at the Arts Club Revue Stage, is an excellent vehicle for a couple of young performers. Fourteen-year-old Matreya Scarrwener makes her stage debut as 12-year-old Halley, a volunteer reader in a rehab centre for young PTSD-suffering soldier Michael (Mik Byskov). Scarrwener is near enough in age to Halley to remember and faithfully reproduce the enthusiastic gushing, the overload of feeling, the youthful optimism of adolescence — in spite of Halley being confined to a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury; Lucy Maud Montgomery couldn’t have written her any spunkier. It’s undeniably an impressive first performance and Scarrwener gets Brownie points for portraying with such honesty and fidelity her character’s unwavering determination to earn her Pathfinder badge for community service. A recent graduate of UVic’s acting program, Byskov makes his Vancouver

stage debut in Armstrong’s War, too. As a wounded Afghanistan war hero, Byskov is initially intense, angry and in denial about his mental state. What Michael does not need is a terminally chirpy, cheerful kid in pigtails reading teenaged mysteries or Wuthering Heights to him. It takes only a few minutes — even less — to know that by curtain these two will make a difference in each other’s life. More than that, we know without a doubt that her zest for living will heal him. There will be some surprises along the way but we know where this script is going. After Halley gets advice from the school librarian as to what sort of book Michael might prefer, there are long sessions of Scarrwener reading from; the plot goes nowhere as Halley relentlessly emotes over Stephen Crane’s novel. Amazingly, unbelievably, Michael gets hooked on this book. Under Mindy Parﬁtt’s direction, Scarrwener and Byskov work this script well but for a very long time, Armstrong’s War feels like TYA: theatre for young audience. While we’re charmed by Halley’s perkiness and understand the irritation

she feels at the constant phonecalls from her over-anxious mother, I found it hard to invest a whole lot in a character so young. Two stumbling blocks prevented me from complete satisfaction: I have no idea why a soldier who has been wounded, gone through hell and who confesses that the Afghanis don’t want him there in the first place, would be so keen to suit up and go back. And, as a firm believer in the right to die, I’m not persuaded by the opinion of a 12-year-old who thinks Michael’s best friend — blown to bloody bits — is still better alive than dead. Perhaps Armstrong’s War could have ended on a slightly less ‘heroic’ note; perhaps the playwright and the director could have left us with a greater sense of why Michael, now standing tall inhisuniformandmedals,feelscompelled to risk coming to the same end as his friend Robbie. Michael learns to let go of the past but remaining “unvanquished” may be difficult with IEDs planted along the Afghanistan roadsides. Does going back to the war show courage or craziness? Will the next body bag be Michael’s? —reviewed by Jo Ledingham See more reviews at joledingham.ca

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laying for the region’s third and final seat at the B.C. girls field hockey championships, the Eric Hamber Griffins defeated the Churchill Bulldogs 2-1 in a shootout. The Griffins knocked off the defending city champs in the must-win game Oct. 24 to advance to the provincial tournament Nov. 13 to 15 at Burnaby Lakes. Olivia Cabral put the Griffins on the board in the first minutes of the game when she scored off a penalty corner. The Bulldogs spent the rest of the half looking for an answer. They got it in the final minutes from Thora Rae, one of three Grade 9s on the Bulldogs’ young roster.

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Hamber’s Jocelyn Tucker (No. 9) drives into Churchill’s Kaelin Fleming (No. 5). “Unfortunately, we let in an easy goal in the ﬁrst ﬁve minutes and it was just about trying to play catch up,” said Churchill’s head coach Andrea May. “They had many

scoring opportunities and it wasn’t until the second half that we scored our only goal.” Hamber controlled more of the play in the ﬁrst half but after the break, Churchill

came on strong, said the Griffins co-coach Indy Sehmbi. “Both teams had a number of field chances and earned some penalty corners Churchill looked the most dangerous on PCs but weren’t able to hit the net,” said Sehmbi, who coaches with Jill Polukoshko. The game remained tied 1-1 after 10 minutes of overtime and for the second year in a row, Hamber pulled off the shoot-out win in a do-or-die game. With a provincial spot on the line, rookie goalie Shyann Gilmour stopped the first and then the third Churchill shooters. Her clutch performance opened the door for Hamber’s shooters and all four scored: Emma Pattle, Antonia Pardos-Rupp, Maddie Friesen and Olivia Cabral again. Kitsilano and Richmond’s McMath secondary also advance to the AAA provincials. Although the zone championship wrapped up last week, the city championships begin Tuesday with a double-header at Hamber. Churchill (4-0) finished first among Vancouver schools and plays David Thompson (0-4) at 3:45 p.m. followed by Kitsilano (12-1) and Hamber (0-3-1) at 5 p.m. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

Griffins extend season for first time

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or the first time in the four seasons since Eric Hamber started a football program, the varsity Griffins will play in the post-season. The achievement is one of the few bright spots in the city’s only public school football program, one that has been overshadowed by struggles and fair-weather attendance despite a small core of committed players and strong coaching leadership. “It’s big for us,” said head coach Bobby Gibson. “Our Grade 12s haven’t known a lot of success. They have spent the rest of their football careers on the wrong end of some pretty lopsided games.” Since the 2011 season, Hamber’s numbers don’t amount to much and for that reason are hard to count. The Griffins are a combined 2-16 in three seasons, the first and third spent in the second AA Varsity tier after a very difficult second year against more established programs in the top AA tier. In three seasons, Hamber scored 50 points and allowed 472. “The guys that have been with us since the beginning have only won

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Eric Hamber Griffins running back Shahryer Khan pushed ahead in a 20-0 loss to Howe Sound Oct. 26. two games,” said Gibson. James Hanoomansingh and Jordie Ginter were in Grade 10 when they played up with the varsity team during Hamber’s first win in 2011. They are now in Grade 12 and are the program’s first and only four-year Griffins. “They […] have been rock solid for

us this season,” said the coach. “It’s also been amazing to watch them develop as sound players and excellent young men.” Hanoomansingh, like all Hamber football players, does double time on offence and defence. He’s glad the Grifﬁns will play at least one more week but said the accomplishment

isn’t the same since his teammates have dropped out of the program. “It means less to me than if would if we had played this year with the same group of guys we started with,” said Hanoomansingh. “Regardless, I am excited to have a chance to compete in my last season of high school football.”

The Griffins’ second-ever win came in the first week of this month and is the reason their 1-3 record earned them a playoff spot ahead of winless EarlMarriott.Hanoomansinghputon an incredible show in a 10-8 win and Hamber’s defence was essential to putting the Griffins on the board. The Griffins scored a safety and blocked a punt, which Hanoomansingh returned for a touchdown. Then, as quarterback, he ran for a two-point conversion. “Our defence has been great all season. They keep us in the game through at least the first half and give our offence a chance with the ball,” said Gibson. The first week of the post-season begins Friday for the Griffins. Hamber meets the undefeated Moscrop Panthers (4-0) 3:30 p.m. at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. “We’ll need more than 10 points to beat Moscrop,” said Gibson.“The key for us against Moscrop will be to let the game come to us. It sounds cliché, but we get anxious and try to force things too much. If we can slow down and turn our emotions down, go play football and have fun, we’ll get to do this for another week.” mstewart@vancourier.com

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n this city of lanky power hitters and crafty liberos, the best high school sports entertainment this week is at two West Side schools for the senior boys and girls city volleyball championships. Magee hosts the senior boys and Prince of Wales the senior girls. Both tournament’s final games are set for 6 p.m. Nov. 1. Boys championship The David Thompson Trojans finished first in the East and rolled to a flawless 5-0 finish in a season that didn’t see them lose a set to another Vancouver school. On Monday against John Oliver, the Trojans dropped two sets to the Jokers but pulled out the 3-2 win to advance and meet Magee in the semi-finals Tuesday. In the West division, the top four schools — Eric Hamber, Magee, Gladstone and John Oliver — were tied at three wins and two losses. Hamber, the defending 2012 champs, edged into No. 1 for claiming more sets against their opponents. On Monday, Hamber dispatched Tupper 3-1 and met Van Tech Tuesday. Girls championship The Point Grey Greyhounds and Killarney Cougars topped the tables for the West and East Divisions, respectively, with matching 7-0 records. On Monday at Prince of Wales, the Greyhounds defeated Magee 3-0 to reach Tuesday’s west semi-final against the host Walesmen. Killarney beat Kitsilano 3-0 and faced Eric Hamber in the East semi-final Tuesday. The 2012 champion David Thompson Trojans finished sixth in the east and had two must-win games to extent their season. They beat Gladstone 2-1 in the first tiebreaker but were eliminated from the playoffs in a 2-1 loss to Van Tech. Visit vancourier.com/sports for results and photos from the tournaments. mstewart@vancourier.com twitter.com/MHStewart

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Smash and grab: Top right, Greyhound Saya Engleson (No. 5) rises against Magee’s Carol Lee (No. 17) Oct. 28 at Prince of Wales. Above: John Oliver Joker Mark Penner (No. 10) smashes the ball at David Thompson blockers Kalvin Liang (No. 7) and Brandon Lam (No. 10) Oct. 28 at Magee.

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