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END OF AN ERA: Ho Sung Hing Printers owner Hilda Lam ﬁlls a tray with assorted chinese typeset characters to be sold to interested hobbyists. The 104-year-old

Chinatown business on East Georgia Street closes its doors for good this Sunday. See related story on page 8. To view a photo gallery, scan this page using the Layar app.

Shakeup instead of receivership for PHS BOB MACKIN Contributing writer

new board that includes Vancouver Coastal Health chief medical health ofﬁcer Dr. Patty Daly and B.C. Housing vice-president Craig Crawford is poised to assume control of the Downtown Eastside’s biggest charity. Mark Townsend and Liz Evans, the couple that founded PHS Community Services Society in 1993, are quitting, along with policy

director Dan Small, human resources director Kerstin Steurzbecher and the nine-member board. The announcement came the day before the Housing Ministry released a damning July 2013 KPMG forensic audit critical of PHS governance, management and spending. Minister Rich Coleman had threatened PHS with receivership. “We basically said, given this stark choice, which was ‘do this or we’ll burn the village,’ we’ll do what you want,” co-executive director Townsend told the Courier on March 19.

“All programs and staff are staying in place, so hopefully our departure, to the human beings that we care about most on the ground, will just be a blip they won’t even notice.” PHS houses 1,200 people across 16 sites, employs 500 people and runs a community bank and dental clinic, but it may be bestknown for operating the Insite supervised drug injection clinic with VCH. The shakeup appeared to be a reversal of fortune for PHS, which passed a B.C. Housing operational review in December 2011

with ﬂying colours. A year later, however, Townsend fell out of favour with VCH CEO Dr. David Ostrow over protesting the end of funding for a women’s substance abuse treatment program at the PHS-managed Rainier Hotel. Last November, B.C. Housing revealed PHS was being audited. Financial reports provided to the Courier by PHS show it racked up deﬁcits totaling $1,827,949 between 2009 and 2012. See NOT page 5

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Rally calls on province to restore ESL funding CHERYL ROSSI Staff writer

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Homa Aghighi (left) and Tayebeh Nasrian (r) took part in a rally at VCC Tuesday calling for the government to restore funding to ESL programs. To view a photo gallery, scan this page using the Layar app. longer transfer money to B.C. to fund ESL courses at post-secondary institutions. A provincial press release says the federal government favours a model where Citizen and Immigration Canada would fund ESL programs through non-proﬁt settlement organizations and a limited number of postsecondary institutions. The old Canada-B.C. Immigration Agreement ends April 1. CIC told the Courier in an email the federal government wants to make sure immigrants can access the same level of services regardless of where they choose to settle. CIC says provinces supplement “general, multipurpose” CIC-funded language classes

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aeideh Ghaffarifar wants to return to her career as a family physician. “If I want to work as a medical doctor here, I need to understand every word of my patients,” said Ghaffarifar, who entered Canada as a skilled worker. The woman, who emigrated from Iran with her family has been improving her English at Vancouver Community College, plans to take an English for health professionals course and then take a pharmacy technician course at VCC so she can work in her ﬁeld while she secures credentials to become a doctor in Canada. “I chose VCC because of its reputation as the best place to learn English,” Ghaffarifar said. But Karen Shortt, president of VCC’s Faculty Association, says VCC has 44 per cent of the funding it had last year to offer English as a second language courses in the upcoming ﬁscal year. Ghaffarifar is worried she won’t be able to continue as planned. The 40-year-old resident of North Vancouver spoke in front of 300 people at a rally at VCC’s East Broadway campus Tuesday lunchtime to launch the ESL Matters campaign, which calls on Premier Christy Clark and Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk to restore full funding to ESL training at VCC. Langara College and other post-secondary institutions are also affected. Shortt says the federal government announced two years ago that it would no

to offer ESL classes last year. According to Shortt, Virk said the government could undertake a gap analysis, but she wasn’t sure what that meant. She’s requested another meeting. “It is the province’s responsibility to fund adult education so we think the province has a critical role here that they need to fulﬁll,” she said. Shortt said 40 per cent of VCC’s offerings are ESL courses so funding cuts spell drastic class reductions and layoffs. Shortt said VCC serves 3,000 ESL students per term with more waitlisted. An Advanced Education representative said Virk couldn’t speak to the Courier before its press deadline. Speakers at the rally included VCC’s student council chairperson, president of the Post-Secondary Educators of B.C., secretarytreasurer of the B.C. Federation of Labour and Vancouver-Point Grey NDP MLA David Eby. Ebysaidhighlytrainedimmigrantsneedmore than conversation courses. “To get that academic level of English to be an engineer, to be a doctor, to be a nurse, it’s not something you’re going to pick up at a small non-proﬁt organization,” he said. “When you move from an introductory English course into advanced English and then into the skills training at the college, at the same institution, it’s the perfect system.” CIC says it has increased settlement funding to B.C. from $39.5 million in 2005-2006 to $100.6 million in 2013-2014. crossi@vancourier.com twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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evere and chronic alcoholics seem to benefit from receiving housing and regular doses of alcohol, a new study has found, and communities appear to save money due to decreases in police and hospital incidents. These findings hail from Canada’s first controlled study of a managed alcohol program, or MAP, in Thunder Bay, Ont. by the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C. CARBC published a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of a MAP in Vancouver in December that informed the Thunder Bay study. Vancouver Coastal Health and PHS Community Services started a MAP at the Station Street social housing building near Main Street and Terminal Ave. in October 2011. Eight participants were provided one drink per hour up to a maximum of 12 per day. CARBC’s study followed seven heavy drinkers, four of whom had drunk nonbeverage alcohol such as mouthwash, hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol, up to nine months after the program started. CARBC noted participants maintained their housing, reported greater wellbeing

and mental health, improved relationships and access to services, a reduction in the frequency of non-beverage alcohol consumption and reductions in social, ﬁnancial and some physical alcohol-related harms. Social and cultural programming is provided at Station Street. Researchers also found that self-rated physical health declined for most participants and after six months, liver function deteriorated for some and alcohol consumption increased, possibly due to public drinking being more prevalent in the summer months. Bernie Pauly, associate professor in the School of Nursing and a researcher with CARBC, which is based at the University of Victoria, said participants might have reported worse health as they became more concerned about their health. She said a national controlled study will explore concerns about liver function and that people in MAPs need to be clinically monitored. “And so then if you see changes like that, you can have a discussion with the person and determine do they need a break,” Pauly said. “It’s not harm reduction only. It’s harm reduction and how does that complement other approaches to treatment.” CARBC secured funding for a national

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Not first time Coleman has seen a DTES housing charity go awry Continued from page 1 It would have registered a $2,070,566 deficit in 2013 until a $6 million gain on the sale of the Stanley/New Fountain property to 23 Cordova Property Inc., a company whose sole director is developer Ian Gillespie, turned it into a $3,929,434 surplus. B.C. Housing ($8.7 million), VCH ($8.3 million), rent ($4.12 million) and Health Canada ($2.27 million) were the top revenue sources last year. PHS received just under $100,000 in donations. It also had $30.6 million in expenses, including more than $14 million on staffing and $7.2 million combined for repairs, maintenance and residential services operations. General administration was $2.7 million, approximately nine per cent of expenses. Ten employees were paid more than $80,000 in 2013, according to Canada Revenue Agency’s website. Townsend said his base pay was $142,000. Evans and four others were also in the $120,000 to $159,999 bracket. None of the figures above are listed on PHS. ca. The website contains links to staff webmail and a photo blog, but no information about PHS services or finances. Townsend admitted PHS had yet to use a donation that was directed to website development. “From our mind, websites are about pro-

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he fall-down was so enormous that the amends being attempted look puny in comparison. Authorities took another step in the make-up effort on Tuesday, announcing a deal that will deliver $50,000 each to 98 children whose mothers were murdered or have gone missing. Will they be hand-delivered? That would involve an official looking a young person in the eye, acknowledging jurisdictional responsibility for the death or disappearance of their mother and then making a token effort to make things right. It’s a job not to be wished on anyone. Scores of women started disappearing from downtown Vancouver in the 1990s. Police did next to nothing, then mounted an inept and disjointed investigation that stalled out. They eventually got the killer entirely on a fluke. But police weren’t the only ones to blame. Hardly anyone else cared about the cases. It was an entirely communal fall-down that this province has been grappling with for years. A dim-witted loser outfoxed all the public-safety systems, and no one cared or managed to catch him for years. Former attorney general Wally Oppal’s inquiry commission following Robert Pickton’s trial identified 67 women who were murdered or have disappeared in suspicious circumstances. The number is almost incomprehensible. Maybe that’s why Tuesday’s 20-minute news conference about the token make-ups seemed so perfunctory. Also, it’s been in the works for months, and a payment to 13 specific claimants in a lawsuit was announced earlier. Still, there’s almost nothing you can say. “An unspeakable tragedy,” summed up Justice Minister Suzanne Anton. The $4.9-million total payment is the latest in a series of responses to the murder spree, most of them following the blueprint by Oppal. A watchdog group last October gave the government a D grade on its overall response to the dozens of recommendations. But Anton reeled off a list of new initiatives she said represents substantive progress on three-quarters of the ideas. Legislative changes to toughen oversight of unsolved cases. New standards for bias-free policing, $70 million on integrating police departments. (The standalone fiefdoms in Metro Vancouver were a major reason why the killer ran free for so long.) A fancy new intelligence centre is opening this year. New missing-persons legislation was passed last week that allows for faster, more thorough responses. And a few million dollars in civil forfeiture funds is earmarked for supporting vulnerable women. Also evident is a new attitude. Different police departments spent years excusing themselves from responsibility and pointing fingers, before a Vancouver inspector finally compiled an exhaustive report that admitted fault all around. Vancouver chief Jim Chu expressed the latest in a long list of abject apologies for how the cases were handled. “I’ll always regret we did not catch this killer sooner,” he said. “I regret every life that was lost and those murders we failed to prevent. There is no real compensation for these lost loved ones… Perhaps it may serve as a reminder, on the record at least, that mistakes were made and that we’ve made a commitment to do everything we can to prevent this from happening again.” Still, one of the central recommendations for truly regional police forces to replace the multitude of different departments in both Vancouver and Victoria is still just sitting there. It looks like integrating various units will bleed off all the initiative required to get that enormous change done. And a specific safety measure on Northern B.C.’s Highway 16 where women have gone missing is still unfulfilled. What will 98 different young people do with their $50,000 cheques? They could fund a few years of courses or upgrade their circumstances to some degree. Anton said she hopes families find some solace in the broader ongoing response. It “will ensure that ‘missing’ never again means ‘forsaken.’ ” The greater contribution to the memory of all those missing mothers would be a continued push on all the active fronts to make sure it couldn’t happen again. That’s a trite wish. It can happen again. It would be more realistic to hope if it does happen again, it gets taken seriously. lleyne@timescolonist.com

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limate change. Resource wars. GMO foods. Fracking, hacking, government secrecy and surveillance. You name it — in the list of news-making things to kvetch about, the institutional art scene hardly warrants mention, it seems. Yet art is one of the main ways we make sense of the world — or cloak it with meaning or beauty it sometimes seems to lack. In theory. In practice and in person, I’m rarely moved by giant cibachromes or text-based installation art. Most of Vancouver’s outdoor installation art resembles elephantine paperweights to me. Often it’s not so much the art itself that disappoints as the pompous, esoteric lingo attached to it. Four years ago, David Levine, a 42-year-old American artist joined forces with Alix Rule, a 29-year-old critic and sociology student. The pair combed through gallery press releases from around the world for examples of what they deemed “International Art English.” “We spent hours just printing them out and reading them to each other,” Levine told the Guardian in 2013. “We’d find some super-outrageous sentence and crack up about it.” The duo took thousands of exhibition announcements and ran them through language-analyzing software, trying to find a signal in the noise. Levine’s conclusion: this “unique language” has “everything to do with English, but is emphatically not English. [It] is oddly pornographic: we know it when we see it.” (Common IAE terms include transgressive, hermeneutic, metonymy and narrativisation). In last week’s column I mentioned some eye-catching Haitian masks made from oil drums, hanging on the walls of a filmmaker friend’s home. How did the street artists of Port-au-Prince ever figure out what they were doing — or even do it, for that matter — without years of instruction in IAE? Perhaps there’s a clue in anthropologist David Graeber’s 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In an aside, the author parallels the societies of Central Africa and Bali. Historically, both “saw a magnificent outburst of artistic creativity ... at the exact moment that ordinary life became a game of constant peril in which any misstep might lead to being sent away [into debt slavery].” In other words, when things were at their worst for both peoples, it appeared their collective creativity was near a peak (African masks were a major influence on Picasso, Graeber reminds readers). Of course, the linkage between creativity, suffering and social transformation is easily lampooned, as on a button I once saw: “I suffer for my art and now it’s your turn.” That line probably resonates with more than a few gallery-goers who’ve wandered out of exhibits of big-name artists thinking, “What was that all about?” “Visit art schools or galleries, and you get the impression that a substantial portion of the art world is content to serve as support staff to a global ruling class,” observes Holland Cotter in a recent New York Times editorial. Globally, institutional art now falls into two categories: the portfolio playthings of billionaire buyers and the hamfisted propaganda of demagogues and dictators. In North Korea, for example, public art exists to service the cult of personality Kim Jong-un inherited from his dad. (I’m thankful I do my creative work here rather than some nightmare regime run by some autocratic applause junkie, though I start to get fidgety whenever I hear Canada’s Prime Minstrel turn state dinners into karaoke bar nights with his teeth-gritting performances of “Hey Jude” and “Sweet Caroline.”) But I digress. Unless they hit the auction house jackpot, younger cultural creatives schooled in IAE find better work opportunities outside the gallery world, in animation, film, television, and gaming — fields where pompous, obscure communication is generally a hindrance rather than a requirement. But what of my friend’s eye-catching Haitian masks, which came from a place far from the hermetically-sealed world of billionaire buyers, mysterymongering artists and obscurantist copywriters? The street artists of Port-auPrince were not labouring under the dead weight of theory, and fabricating giant baubles for corporate-sponsored exhibits. They were doing something playful and creative — and saleable — in a land of immense social challenges. As the Persian poet Jalaluddin Rumi wrote in the 13th century, “Gold becomes more and more beautiful from the blows the jeweler inflicts on it.” geoffolson.com

GEOFF OLSON

NOT SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE HOLLOW TREE

To the editor: Re: “Sculpture rings Hollow for activist,” March 14. It is very revealing to hear the responses from supporters of “homo economicus vancouverus” as they justify the present building boom that is sweeping our city. In Marpole, 100 living, breathing trees — net contributors to our common space — have been traded for 443 market condos, 110 rental units, 836 sq. metres of commercial space and a sculpture by artist Douglas Coupland costing $75,000 of Stanley Park’s Hollow Tree. And how does Bob Rennie, real estate marketer extraordinaire, defend this imbalance? To him the loss of trees are adequately offset because the project is being built next to transit and 100 residents will not have cars. So well over a thousand people in heated spaces who ﬂush toilets, wash dishes and do laundry, use electricity, produce garbage and — yes — drive cars at least some of the time, will not have much impact because some of them will use transit? Human expansion — no matter

how green — is always going to diminish natural capital. The constant growth and excessive development that has recently descended on Vancouver at a rapid pace has come at a great human cost to the soul of our wonderful city. It also has a political cost as people turn to better alternatives. We would be wiser to reconsider putting clear ecological economic values on a healthy natural world and human communities. Because a world with too many concrete towers and paved roads surrounded by polluted land and water systems and devoid of plants and animals is a sad legacy to leave future generations. Celia Brauer, Vancouver

SAVE THE WHALES

To the editor: Re: “Vision Vancouver’s Sarah Blyth leaving politics for son’s sake,” March 7. I was so pleased to read park commissioner Sarah Blyth’s comments stating that she thinks it’s time to end the cruel and unnecessary captivity of dolphins and whales in captivity. I couldn’t agree more. Scientiﬁc research and movies like The Cove and more

recently Blackﬁsh have created a bigger overall awareness of what it is like for cetaceans living in captivity that we can no longer ignore. As a not so small example, whales need to swim dozens of miles daily. Can we imagine what it is like for them to have to do this in a small ﬁshbowl? It is time for the Vancouver Aquarium to do the right thing and announce that it will no longer keep dolphins and whales in captivity. The aquarium does amazing work with their conservation, education and rescue efforts which could be expanded and does not need to include breeding or bringing new Cetaceans into their programme. People would support the aquarium even more for their principled stand. Hopefully the aquarium will do the right thing . If so, I will applaud them. If not, I urge all of the individuals and parties running for the park board this November to announce that when elected they will ensure that policy changes will be made that will no longer allow this barbaric practice to continue. Mel Lehan, Vancouver

ON YOUR MIND ONLINE COURIER STORY: “Oakridge redevelopment gets go-ahead,” March 19. Don Barthel: A major reason given for the increased density is ready access to transit. I’m a regular commuter on the Canada Line and I know it’s full for much of the week day and I haven’t heard anything from TransLink or SNC Lavalin (the private operator) about the ability to increase the frequency of trains. And that’s before the all the new mega developments at Marine Gateway, George Pearson Lands, Oakridge, and in Richmond. Jordan Bober: This development does not say “greener, more sustainable, resilient and connected city” to me. It is a suburban-style development in the heart of Vancouver, reflecting not what Vancouverites or the people in those communities want, but the extreme cognitive dissonance of Vision councilors who claim to be green on the one hand, but cannot say no to massive unsustainable projects such as this one on the other hand. It is a sad reflection of their failure to understand the interconnectedness of urban geography with human and environmental wellbeing and all of the other systems that enable human and other life to thrive. Why would we want people who fail to understand this deep and important truth to be running our city? COURIER COLUMN: “MLAs will treat Speaker gently,” March 12. Shiv: Mr. Leyne states that Ms. Reid will be treated with deference and timidity because she can make life miserable for others (in ways which aren’t specified, but they must be really, really scary.) Yeah, that’s how democratic politics should work; bullies shouldn’t be confronted or made upset because then they’ll get even more nasty. Look, Ms. Reid has obviously made some questionable expenditures, and in a democratic system, politicians are responsible for what they do. If she abuses her position even further by extracting petty revenge on her “enemies,” she’ll be accountable for that, as well. Mr. Leyne seems to have some sort of deeply rooted fear of authority figures, I’d say. COURIER STORY: “Long-running Metro Theatre looks to the future, March 14. Michael Geller @michaelgeller: Nice piece on Metro Theatre. Sadly one of Vancouver’s best kept secrets! Follow us on Facebook: The VancouverCourierNewspaper and Twitter: @VanCourierNews

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OAKRIDGE The Vancouver Orchid Society 2014 Show and Sale takes place this weekend in the Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden. The annual event brings together horticultural hobbyists and enthusiasts of all kinds to celebrate the beauty and diversity of orchids. It’s also a great opportunity for plant lovers

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to purchase unique orchids and supplies from hobby and commercial vendors from B.C., Ontario, the U.S. and Taiwan. The highlight of the event is the show area where experienced growers will display some of their most exquisite orchids. The American Orchid Society will judge orchids registered for display. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 22, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 23. General admission is $7 and $6 for students and seniors. For more information, visit vancouverorchidsociety.ca. VanDusen Botanical Garden is located at 5251 Oak St.

WEST POINT GREY The Little Mountain Brass Band will perform Brass on Broadway, Sunday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m. at West Point Grey United Church, 4595 West Eighth Ave. Enjoy brass versions of popular songs such as “Singing in the Rain,” “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” and more. Admission is by donation. For information, visit lmbb.ca. sthomas@vancourier.com twitter.com/sthomas10

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Mustang marks 50th anniversary at auto show SANDRA THOMAS Staff writer

ccording to futurist Sheryl Connelly, consumers are romanticizing how things used to be and are ﬁnding comfort and connection in products, brands and experiences that evoke nostalgia. So it should be no surprise the Ford Mustang is making a huge splash at this year’s Vancouver International Auto Show, which starts next week at the Trade and Convention Centre. The iconic Mustang celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. “People who are experiencing economic malaise and social uncertainty may long for the past and the good old days,” said Connelly. Connelly works as a futurist with the Ford Motor Company and it’s her job to study consumer habits and behaviours and then predict global trends. Her top 10 trend report for 2014 predicts in part that consumers will seek more meaningful connections with retailers and service providers, that downtime has given away to ﬁlling every moment with bitesized chunks of information, education and entertainment, and that there’s a growing concern for the planet’s water. Connelly used denim jeans to explain the difference between macro and micro trends. She explained that while denim will never go out of style, some designs, such as acid wash, should likely never have seen the light of day. And while jeans don’t have much to do with the automotive industry, Connelly said the acid wash reference demonstrates just how terribly some trends can go if not developed with consumers in mind. The Ford Mustang, she added, is an example of a successful design that’s never gone out of style. Speaking of Mustangs, a one-of-a-kind model will be auctioned off at the auto show March 29, with net proceeds going to the New Car Dealers Foundation, a charitable group that provides scholarships and bursaries to students entering automotive galafabrics.com

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industry education programs. In celebration of the Mustang’s 50th anniversary, the Vancouver International Auto Show collaborated with a team from the Vancouver Collector Car Show and Auction to get their hands on a 1966 Ford Mustang Coupe. The car was found in Los Angeles and restored by Terry Deacon, owner of Prince George-based Uptown Cruisers. The auction will take place at 2 p.m. at the Red Line Stage. In celebration of the car’s 50th anniversary, the Mustang will be also featured in show’s Hagerty Classic Alley, a collection of vintage cars from the 1950s and 1960s.

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eave the car at home, plan for two nights away and kick the new spring season off with a fun, doable getaway, focusing on the arts in Seattle, Wash. Nothing puts a damper on the excitement of a weekend away quite like long border lineups. Skip them this trip, by hopping aboard the 6:40 a.m. Amtrak Cascades train from Vancouver to Seattle — it’s affordable, fast (about a four-hour journey), and you can use the time to grab a few extra zzz’s, or catch up on emails with free Wi-Fi. Customs ofﬁcers hop on board at the U.S. border, check passports, collect customs forms — and you’re done! You’re chugging back along that fast track to fun-town. Here are a few suggestions easily enjoyed in just two days.

The trip will put you at the Seattle train station around 11 a.m., just a few blocks away from the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. Check in and leave your bags with the bell desk until your room is ready. Rather than wait in the lobby until that time, hit the city for some sightseeing. Westlake Centre is few walkable blocks away. Hop on the iconic monorail to the Seattle Centre and Space Needle, especially if you’ve never done so before. Right next-door is Chihuly Garden and Glass, opened in 2012, which is an absolute must-visit. Best deal is the Weekend Brunch Package, which includes admission to the gorgeous indoor and outdoor, spectacular blown-glass exhibits and a prix-ﬁxe brunch menu in the Collections Café for $40, plus tax and gratuity. Enjoy the salmon benedict on rosti or get all-American and try the shrimp and grits. Collections Café is a minigallery in itself with Dale Chihuly’s personal

collections of quirky collectables, including a wall of vintage Bakelite clocks and tables with window boxes filled with retro tin toys. At the Seattle Art Museum, until May 18, check out Miró: The Experience of Seeing exhibit. Some 50 works from the 20th century surrealist are on display, created during the last 20 years of his life between 1963 and 1983. The EMP Museum is featuring Block By Block: Inventing Amazing Architecture until April 20. The exhibit features 10 notable architectural feats from across the globe constructed entirely of Lego bricks by artist Dan Parker. Seattle’s Space Needle, London’s 30 St. Mary Axe, and the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, are just some of the replications, each between five to nine-feet tall. Time to refuel? Definitely do dinner at Ballard Annex Oyster House, in the Ballard

district, but get there in time to stroll the streets a bit ﬁrst, since this hipster ‘hood is worth a peek. Once seated in this funky eatery, be sure and sample the absolute freshest oysters and something from the steam bar. Old school classic dishes like the Crab Louise salad and Oysters Rockefeller show clearly that if it ain’t broke don’t ﬁx it. Theatre buff? Book your tickets in advance for anything playing at the Fifth Avenue Theater — a Broadway-style Grande dame of a playhouse built in 1926. A Room With a View starts on April 15. Next weekend, March 29 and 30, check out Taste Washington, the largest single-region wine and food event in America, giving you access to more than 225 Washington state wineries and 65 restaurants. Now in its 17th year and partnering with more than a dozen Seattle hotels offering exclusive packages for the two-day event.

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An adaptation of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View opens at Fifth Avenue Theater April 15.

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Hotshot ﬂamenco artist ISRAEL GALVÁN makes his Vancouver debut when he teams up with cantor David Lagos and guitarist Alfredo Lagos for LA EDAD DE ORO — covering “The Golden Age” of ﬂamenco from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Presented as part of the VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL, the performances run March 22 and 23, 8 p.m. at the Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets and info at vidf.ca.

One half of local defunct indie rockers APOLLO GHOSTS have joined forces with multi-talented SHAWN MRAZEK to form a new musical outfit appropriately called COOL. As melodic as its predecessor, COOL adds a dancier, more rhythmic element to the mix reminiscent of the Talking Heads. Hear what all the fuss is about and shake your moneymaker when COOL performs March 22, 8 p.m. at Red Gate (855 East Hastings) in support of its debut album, PAINT. Pups and KMVP open. Admission at the door is a “cool” five bucks. Described by his publisher as a wry and at times outrageous chronicler of contemporary gay life, BILLEH NICKERSON has used his nimble poetic powers in the past to explore everything from the Titanic to fast food jobs. His latest collection of poetry, ARTIFICIAL CHERRY, is just as eclectic, filled with Elvis Presley impersonators, glass eyes, phantom lovers and something called “Anal R.V.s.” Google it. NICKERSON celebrates the launch of his new book March 23, 7 p.m. at Café Deux Soleils. Dina Del Bucchia, Amber Dawn, Leah Horlick and Daniel Zomparelli share the bill. Edinburgh Festival Fringe festival favourite MIES JULIE makes its Canadian premiere at the Cultch March 25 to April 19. Presented by South Africa’s Baxter Theatre Centre and written and directed by Yael Farber, MIES JULIE is an adaptation of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, set in “the remote, bleak beauty of South Africa.” Touching on such weighty themes as power, sexuality, memory, mothers and land, the play is billed as a passionate and menacing allegory for a post-apartheid state in transition. For tickets and details, call 604-251-1363 or go to the cultch.com.

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f you haven’t guessed by all the people walking the streets of Vancouver wearing headset microphones and giving unsolicited advice to strangers that they need to take stock of their personal inventory and embody the future they want to become, TED Talks are in town. The travelling global empowerment conference and YouTube sensation hunkered down in Vancouver this week to bring people willing to shell out $7,500 the chance to be inspired by the likes of anthropologist Wade Davis, musician Imogen Heap, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, musician and Kickstarter fan Amanda Palmer, and a host of people who’ve done incredible things and think incredible things and get paid incredible amounts of money to talk about the incredible things they do and think, which in turn makes us feel a tiny bit bitter and resentful — but that’s probably just our reactive mind talking. Needless to say, K&K didn’t fork out the equivalent of our yearly booze bill to get our mental chakras realigned by the walking TED. We’ve copyrighted that by the way, so

don’t even try. However, we were particularly dismayed by the fact that no one from TED Talks reached out to K&K and asked us to dispense some of our sage wisdom and inspirational “soul lubricant” (that’s copyrighted, too) on the moneyed masses. In fact, we had several “talks” already in the can. Here’s what you missed out on Vancouver: • It’s OK to Delete Your Dad’s Mass Joke Emails Without Opening Them: He’ll Never Know and They’re Just Not That Funny. • Let’s Re-Examine the Pleated Jean. • In Case You Didn’t Already Know, the Cyndi Lauper song “She-Bop” is About Masturbation. • Sometimes it Feels Good to Shoplift. • Enough with the Bacon Worship. • Why Mitsou’s “Bye Bye Mon Cowboy” Could End Quebec’s Sovereignty Debate. • We’d Sleep With Justin Trudeau if Given the Chance… Just Sayin’. • Roberto Luongo Deserves a Big Hug. • Embrace the Citrusy Power of Drakkar Noir. • We’re All a Bunch of Guilt-Ridden Lemmings in Search of Our Moral Compass So Let’s Stop Worrying, Throw Some Luther Vandross on the Stereo and Learn to Love the Crap Out of Each Again. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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ildebeest doesn’t have a dedicated pastry chef. At most restaurants, this would result in the mighty troika of pleasingbut-pedestrian desserts: molten chocolate cake, lemon tart and panna cotta. Dessert on plate, dollop of whipped cream, half a strawberry shivering in the middle of winter. Things are different at Wildebeest (120

crumble that hints at graham cracker crust. That sweet, tangy, pillowy texture comes from spraying cheesecake base out of a pressurized canister, the sort you might use for whipped cream. Guerin recalls former executive chef David Gunawan and another cook playing with cheesecake recipes. “They put it in a canister and then it was all foamy and light and really pleasant to eat, so we decided to do that.” Manypastrychefswouldtryshowingoffmore complicated techniques, so leave it to cooks to put cheesecake batter in a canister and squoosh it into a bowl. It’s so popular that Guerin can’t take it off the menu. “The owners, they really want to keep it,” she says in her French accent. Continued on page 19

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West Hastings). “We don’t have a proper department for pastry, [so] we try to do simple desserts, not too complicated in technique,” says sous chef Brigitte Guerin. Here, not too complicated takes on new meaning. Consider the signature dessert, the “cheesecake.” When I order it, the server points out the quotation marks on the menu — not because she shares my love of punctuation, but because the dessert isn’t a cake at all. Instead, it arrives in a bowl: a pillow of cream cheese with a touch of goaty tang, more substantial than a foam but airier than a mousse. A quenelle of blood orange sorbet sits on top, adding a hit of acidity and freshness. Finally, it’s all speckled with toasty

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DANCE PARTY: Founded in 1986, Kinesis Dance continues to push the envelope of modern dance through innovative choreography with multimedia, text, design and original musical composition. Led by founder and artistic director Paraskevas Terezakis, the company fronted its signature soiree, Kitchen Decadance. Several hundred supporters packed the Miele Showroom on Smithe for the evening of fine wine, food and dance. Terezakis’ partner — Denis Blais executive chef of Capilano Golf and Country Club — fronted the kitchen party that raised around $30,000.

UBC Athletics Steve Tuckwood and Michelle Lindsay saw $25,000 raised from the Palm Springs golf tourney Marty Zlotnik founded for UBC’s golf program, one of 24 teams that have retained varsity status.

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Scotiabank’s Patty Scrase (President’s Award) and Dr. Candace Woodman (Merit Award) were among ten individuals honoured at the 14th Toothfairy Gala, presented by the B.C. Dental Association.

Toothfairy Gala chair and emcee Dr. David Baird and his wife Robin greeted 300 guests to the dinner and cake auction that raised $100,000 for UBC Dentistry’s community outreach program.

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Chef Quang Dang, acclaimed mixologists Lauren Mote, Justin Taylor, David Wolowidnyk and Jonathan Chovancek backed Yew’s Ned Bell, host of Caviar & Cocktails culinary collaborative event.

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Sous chef Guerin is one to watch Continued from page 17 On the savoury side, Wildebeest’s menu is meat-forward, with emphasis on the odd bits. “People are not used to it, but I think that people are trying to go for it more than before,” says Guerin. That penchant for the unusual (veal necks, hay jus) extends to the dessert menu (dehydrated chocolate mousse, tonka bean ice cream). Tonka beans taste like a less-ﬂoral vanilla, with more fruit and spice notes. “People don’t really know about the tonka bean and how ﬂavourful it is, and how it goes really well in ice cream,” says Guerin. Guerin attended culinary school in France, where she trained in both cui-

sine and pastry. She had her heart set on being a pastry chef but ended up in a lacklustre restaurant. “I was pretty disappointed in being there. I quit and I couldn’t ﬁnd another job in pastry, so I went in a kitchen to cook meat. I don’t know for which reason, [but] it pleases me more than doing pastry.” Guerin’s relatively unknown in Vancouver, but she’s one to watch. She’s cooked at one- and three-Michelin star restaurants in France, as well as Vancouver’s West Restaurant — where she ﬁrst met David Gunawan, who asked her to help him open Wildebeest in the summer of 2012. (Gunawan left last January and now helms the kitchen at

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START NOTHING: 3:40 a.m. to 1:03 p.m. Sunday, 5:35 a.m. to 3:39 p.m. Tuesday, 6:13 a.m. to 5:10 p.m. Thursday, and 6:44 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. Saturday. ALL SIGNS: Life sets up one of the most frustrating temptations possible Saturday (March 29). Venus trines Mars at noon, indicating great romance; then Venus squares Saturn two hours later, indicating emotional coldness of the worst kind. It’s not the day we should worry about, but its future. People who ﬁrst meet Saturday and fall in love will almost certainly separate, sometimes years later, after much tragic struggle. The struggle will be worse than usual, for the Venus/Mars trine will nudge these unhappy lovers to keep believing the romance will succeed. Don’t fall in love this day… In fact, you’d be wise not to begin a romance any time this week.

Your energy, charisma and effectiveness reach a yearly peak now to late April. Start important projects, make contacts, urge others to action, see and be seen — you’re the leader now! A frustrating relationship continues to July. Could be anything from a hot but challenging attraction, to merely an enemy. This person could give you an answer by May/June.

The weeks ahead hold relationships of all kinds. You’re very much in charge of most (at least one) relationships now through July but that can be a double-edged situation. You could steer you and another in the wrong direction, and the wrong direction, oddly enough, will be toward increased/intensiﬁed partnership. In general, until November 2015, you would be wisest to exercise your independence and to avoid interdependence.

Lie low, Taurus, to late April. Avoid competitive situations and the kind of temptations that can tarnish your reputation. Not the best period to impress a (potential or real) lover or even business associates. It’s a good few weeks, though, for R&R, contemplating, planning, meditation or otherwise connecting with spirit, health regimens and investigations, for helping or nursing others, especially the disadvantaged.

The month ahead accents work and health concerns, Scorpio. Live up to your commitments here, tackle neglected chores and protect your health with sensible eating/dressing, but don’t go beyond this. Now to November 2015, avoid overwork, refuse to be your kids’ slave, and don’t use work as an excuse to avoid deeper or riskier or more intimate things.

Your mood rises, Gemini. The weeks ahead bring you a swelling popularity, social delights, possibly a light, ﬂirty romance, entertainment and celebration. A wish might come true about a deep, signiﬁcant (and probably former) romantic prospect or about a creative or speculative venture. Announce your plans to the public, to friends. Life equals happiness!

The few weeks ahead emphasize romance, creativity, speculation (risk taking) beauty, charming kids, pleasure and teaching. View these as promising more, probably, than they will deliver — and possibly producing loss. This holds until November 2015. To that month, you’d be wise to aim in a similar but different direction: toward light romance, playing the ﬁeld, socializing, group affairs, entertainment and popularity.

The weeks ahead emphasize ambition, status, prestige relations, your skills, and your reputation — at work and in the neighbourhood. Be duteous, don’t shirk. Approach bosses, parents and VIPs — demonstrate your talents or lay out your proposals. You could be handed a whole new job! There’s one glitch in the whole career area; your career planet, Mars, is stuck in your security/family sign until July.

The weeks ahead accent home, security, nature, rest (hibernation) digestion, food, soul, retirement, and foundations. Don’t spend too much time on these, and don’t buy real estate, now to mid-November, 2015. Instead, be ambitious, get out of the home. Now to July, you might ﬁnd home and ambition mix — e.g., your might be ambitious about real estate or your parent promotes you (or that a boss complains that you spend too much time at home.)

The weeks ahead emphasize intellectual pursuits, higher learning, publishing, far travel, gentle love, cultural venues and social rituals, law, and widened understanding. Don’t seek these too eagerly, now to November 2015; they will promise more than they deliver and could even get you into difﬁculty (e.g., an expensive lawsuit). Aim for a more casual, friendly, humble (rather than profound, proud) approach.

The month ahead brings the very things you should be quietly avoiding for the next 20 months — errands, chatter, short trips, acquaintances, siblings, communications, paperwork and details. Handle what you must and what’s routine here, but turn your spare energy and your faith to the broader, deeper side of these: far (international) travel, profound communications, publishing, law, higher education, social rituals and cultural venues.

The weeks ahead emphasize mysteries, research, subconscious promptings, dreams, large ﬁnances (debt and investment) sexual urges, health concerns/diagnoses, lifestyle changes, commitments and consequences. You’d be wise to enter these zones only lightly and cautiously through November 2015. For example, invest only one-tenth in an alluring stock, then see what happens.

Money becomes the main topic of your thoughts for the several weeks ahead, Pisces. This time emphasizes earnings, sales, spending, as well as sensual attractions and memory. Don’t depend on these for the 20 months ahead — they will be like cloth covering empty pots (or worse, empty pits). Instead, to stay safe, focus on the deeper side of these: mutual money, investments, debt, deep sexual commitment (e.g., pregnancy).

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he sport of lawn bowling has a public relations problem. The stereotype is that it is an almost sedentary activity for retirees with a predilection for wearing all white. While there are certainly older, well-heeled men who partake in the sport (and why not, they are allowed their fun, too), it is not the uptight, upper crust, exciting-aswatching-paint-dry sport some assume it is. Just ask the Dunbar Lawn Bowling Club’s president, Wendy Primeau, who happens to be a 53year-old, gainfully employed police ofﬁcer. Sgt. Primeau said lawn bowling is the perfect antidote to her stressful job in Vancouver law enforcement. “I like to enjoy my time off,” she said, “and it is a wonderful release.” The lawn bowling season in the Lower Mainland is from May to September, so getting out in the sunshine to play is a beneﬁt in itself, she said. For the uninitiated, lawn bowling is similar to both curling and the Italian game of bocce. Popular in countries around the world, including Scotland, China and Japan, lawn bowling involves

Wendy Primeau and Dennis Patterson are members of the Dunbar Lawn Bowling Club. three or four players per team and three or four bowls — wooden balls. Before the start of each game, a small white ball, called a jack, is thrown toward the opposing end of the green. The idea is to throw the bowls as close to the jack as possible. “It is a science,” said Primeau.

Bowler Ray Grifﬁn, who has been at the Dunbar club for 10 years, said players can make it as simple or as complicated as they like. “You don’t have to be an expert at it to have a lot of fun,” he said. According to Grifﬁn, the 90year-old Dunbar club has members of all abilities from all walks

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of life. The club has 60 members and 25 “associates” who come to play croquet or attend social functions. “Every trade and profession is represented,” he said. According to Grifﬁn, 76, the club has members in their 30s, up to a few in their 90s.

Primeau started playing when in her early 40s more than 10 years ago, joining her parents who are longtime members. The club has tried to bring kids into the mix, but unlike countries such as Australia, where schools have lawn bowl teams (a Young Australians Lawn Bowls Academy Facebook page describes lawn bowling as “a young persons sport, which older people can play), in Vancouver there hasn’t been much youth interest, Primeau said. Many of her peers who have taken up the sport have regretted their late start. “They wished they had started it younger,” Primeau said. The best thing about lawn bowling is that it is “come-as-you-are” — the all-white attire is for Sundays, competitions or special events and not a daily occurrence. The sport also doesn’t require a big commitment, which is great for busy professionals like Primeau, who’s a shift worker and unable to adhere to a strict schedule because of her job. “If I can make it, I go, if I can’t, that is OK,” she said. The Dunbar club will be having a free open house on May 10. For more information to go dunbarlawnbowling.com. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/thuncher

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nyone who’s owned a bike for any length of time knows the satisfaction of doing your own repairs. From the ﬁrst time you change a ﬂat to trying something more complicated like pulling off a rear cassette, there’s a big sense of accomplishment in carrying out the work yourself rather than paying a bike shop to do it for you. From doing your own repairs it’s a short step to planning your own build, where you buy a frame and then hand-pick the compo-

nents to make an entirely unique bike. But imagine that you could take that one step further. Imagine that you could actually design and make your own frame, the basic building block of your bike, tailoring it exactly to your size, shape and riding goals. How great would that be? The exciting news is that for those of us in the Vancouver area, this isn’t just a dream — it’s something we can actually do, thanks to the University of the Fraser Valley’s Frame Building 101 program. For someone like me, who’s pretty inept with tools, it’s particularly encouraging that the course welcomes students who have no previous experience in metal work or welding. All you have to do is have a clear idea of the kind of bike you’d like to build when you enroll. It’s not a completely blank slate, as the course focuses on building hard tail moun-

tain bike frames. However, with the right fork and components, a steel hardtail can be perfect for all kinds of cycling, from trail riding to commuting. Course instructor Paul Brodie promises to take students through everything from the history of mountain biking to frame design, geometry, tube selection and mitring, welding and brazing, and the detail work of ﬁnishing the bike. It takes a surprisingly short time to learn how to design and build a bike frame. The course takes two weeks and currently there are six different sets of dates available for 2014. All shop supplies and the use of any tools required are included in the course fees, and students have the option of buying a gruppo (from the Italian for “group,” the component set required to complete the bike) at wholesale pricing. For anyone who doesn’t feel fully conﬁdent in their welding skills after

the ﬁrst part of the course, the instructors can help with the ﬁnal assembly of the frame. To my mind, the most exciting things about this program is that you get to build your own bike frame and take it away to ride on — how cool is that? Plus, you gain a whole bunch of very transferable, useful shop skills along the way. Frame building 101 costs $2,800, which isn’t a bad deal at all when you consider that you get to leave with your own brand-new bike. For more information, check the promotional videos at ufv.ca/bicycle-technology/gallery/. But be careful — once you’ve watched them, you’ll want to sign up for a class right away. Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian who believes bikes are for life, not just for commuting. Read more at sidecut.ca, or send a comment to kay@sidecut.ca.

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JENNIFER THUNCHER Contributing writer

ritish Columbia’s high school version of March Madness has come to a close. Quite a few Vancouver teams made it onto the hardwood for the 2014 B.C. High School Basketball Championships held at the Langley Events Centre the ﬁrst two weeks of March — too many teams to cover thoroughly, to be honest. So here is a post-tourney wrap up detailing how our Vancouver teams fared. • In the junior boys division, the Killarney Cougars, Kitsilano Blue Demons and the Vancouver College Fighting Irish

made it to the Big Dance. Though all three teams battled hard, none made it into the top nine. “My team showed commitment, hard work and teamwork all season and to me that is also a marker of success for youth today,” Demons coach Mer Marghetti told the Courier by email. “The Vancouver College junior varsity team made the school proud with their sportsmanship on the court and their dedication to sports as part of their lifestyle.” • It was an incredible showing in the single-A boys division for the St. Patrick’s Regional Celtics and the West Point Grey Academy Grey Wolves. The teams faced each other in the ﬁnal match for ﬁrst and second spot. “It was the team’s third visit to the championship game in

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the past six years so it was their turn to win, as they defeated rival St. Patrick’s 73 to 56,” said Grey Wolves coach Bob Dodds. • In the double-A boys category, only the Notre Dame Regional Jugglers made it to the provincials. Though the team didn’t crack the top 10, players can take pride in being the only Vancouver team in their division to make it. “This year’s version of the Notre Dame Jugglers senior boys basketball team can be summed up as fighters,” said Jugglers coach Jamie Boreham, who pointed to senior, captain and team most valuable player, point guard Aldrich Berrios as a huge part of Notre Dame making the provincial tournament for the first time in 10 years. Unfortunately, Berrios was injured and couldn’t take part in the provincials. “The Jugglers fought hard but ended up in four tough games at the tournament without their leader,” said Boreham. • In the boys triple-A division, only the Tigers made it to the show. The Sir Charles Tupper Tigers finished in fifth spot — the highest finish in the school’s history. “I can’t express how proud I am of the entire group and how much pride of their actions on and off the court,” said head couch Jeff Gourley. “They are a special group of young men.” • The first year for the boys quad-A tier saw the Vancouver College Fighting Irish and the Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs battle it out against the best of the best in the province. The Lower Mainland Zone Tournament champ VC took eighth spot in the province, while Churchill took the title. “I have a great group of kids, a great group of parents, a great school, a great P.E. department at Churchill,” said Bulldogs head coach Rick Lopez, summing up his feelings on the historic first place win for his team. “This isn’t just about us and about me this is about everyone at the school and the community who contributed.” • In the double-A girls division, the Britannia Bruins and York House Tigers made their schools proud with strong efforts in an extremely competitive tournament. Britannia finished out of the top 10, while the York House Tigers placed fifth in the province. “We entered the B.C.’s seeded ninth and placed fifth… losing only to the No. 1 seed,” said the Tigers’ athletic director David Prissinotti in an email to the Courier. “Our performance was arguably the best in the entire tournament when you consider expectations versus outcome. Ask anyone who the surprise of the tournament was — that is something to be very proud of.” Congratulations to all Vancouver teams. thuncher@shaw.ca twitter.com/thuncher

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Vancouver College guard Jordan Lum-Tong gets a shot off as Walnut Grove defenders Jadon Cohee (left) and Tyler Anderson (right) look on at the BC Boys 4A Provincial Basketball Championship at Langley Events Centre March 15.

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B.C. to see biggest jump in housing resales: CREA EMMA CRAWFORD HAMPEL Contributing writer

ritish Columbia is forecast to have the biggest jump in housing resale activity in 2014 in Canada, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). The CREA expects B.C. to see an increase in resale activity of 8.3 per cent year-overyear — well above the anticipated national growth of 1.3 per cent. While this means the province will be the biggest contributor to the expected

growth across the country, the association said this is due to having had particularly slow sales in 2013, mostly in the early part of the year. The opposite holds true for Canada as a whole, with 2014 starting out with low levels of growth compared with previous years. This is due to the particularly strong activity in the summer and fall of 2013. “I expect ﬁxed mortgage rates will edge marginally higher in the second half of 2014 as evidence conﬁrms an anticipated pick-up in economic growth,” said CREA chief economist Gregory Klump.

VANCOUVER FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS EXPECT TO PAY 60% MORE THAN CANADIAN AVERAGE

High real estate prices in Vancouver are leading ﬁrsttime home buyers to set budgets considerably higher than the Canadian average across the country, delaying their purchases and leading to cutbacks in their lifestyles, according to a March 18 BMO report. The report found ﬁrst-time buyers in Vancouver expect

“Marginally higher mortgage rates are likely to counterbalance the lift provided by stronger economic and continuing job growth, and restrain the momentum for sales activity.” National sales are expected to climb to 463,700 units this year and a further 1.2 per cent in 2015 to 469,400 units. The national average home price across the country is expected to rise by 3.8 per cent in 2014, with similar gains in British Columbia. ecrawford@biv.com twitter.com/ EmmaHampelBIV

to spend more than half a million dollars — $506,600 — on their ﬁrst homes, compared with $316,100 nationwide. By comparison, those in Toronto plan to spend $408,300 and Calgarians expect to spend $363,400. Of those surveyed in Vancouver, 57 per cent said their timelines have been delayed due to rising real estate prices, compared with 39 per cent across the country. Laura Parsons, mortgage expert for BMO Bank of Montreal, said these delays are not surprising.

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Spring Car Care continued from previous page Usually, the back of a vehicle’s owner’s manual will list how often you should have speciﬁc service performed. If you don’t have the original manual, take a look online.

It seems like a no brainer: winter tires are for winter and summer tires are for summer. Still, it’s easy to forget that bulky treads can do more harm than good once the rain lets up. “People forget it’s a good idea to have summer tires as well,” said Griffiths. “[Winter tires] definitely hurt your fuel efficiency.They’re also softer, so they don’t work as well on hot pavement.”

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Make sure the fluids in your cooling system are topped up as the temperature warms. “[Low fluid levels] will give you problems going into summer. Cooling systems are prone to failure in higher temperatures,” says Griffiths. Any leaks from the undercarriage should be an immediate cause for concern. They’re called winter tires for a reason

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“You should also check out the wear on tires,” says Grifﬁths. “Which way are they worn? If it’s to one side or another, that could indicate an alignment issue.”

Run the numbers If you’re looking to buy an older car, make sure to get as much of the paperwork as possible. It’s unlikely a used dealer will have much of the vehicle’s repair receipt history, but you can run the vehicle identiﬁcation number [VIN] through an online vehicle history reporting service like CarProof to check for major accidents. The VIN is a (usually) 17-digit number that will alert you to red ﬂags in the vehicle’s past. Also, be sure to check your prospective ride with AirCare to make sure you’re not getting a truly noxious clunker.

Dealerships versus mom and pop shops Griffiths points out that the repair shops at dealerships are often required to bring a car up to the factory recommended service level. “That sometimes means things cost a little more [than non-factory repair shops],” he says. If you go to a smaller shop, make sure the repair staff are Red Seal certified.The seal means the repairperson has gone through a recognized automotive program. “There are quite a few [repair shops] in the Lower Mainland where the person is not [Red Seal] certified,” he said.

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The price of auto insurance can be a little daunting, especially if you don’t know what type of coverage you need. There are a number of variables to consider when shopping around for insurance, and while factors like your driving record and the make, model and year of your car can alter your rates, there are other things to take into consideration.

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What your vehicle is being used for Whether you drive for pleasure, to commute to and from work or school or drive for business purposes or delivery, there are different types of insurance for each rate class. Rate classes vary as well, depending on how far you commute daily. Who will be driving your car? Will you be the sole driver or do you have a partner or child who will also be using your vehicle? It is important to know that regardless of who is driving your car, if it gets into an accident, the registered owner is held responsible. If there will be multiple drivers, a higher level of coverage beyond the standard $200,000 third-party liability coverage included in standard insurance is likely needed.

Where you live The area where you live will affect your insurance premium due to certain areas of the city being more prone to theft and break-ins. Unfortunately, regardless of where it is parked, on the street or in underground parking, your postal code will determine how much you pay. What discounts you might be eligible for While having 10 or more years of driving experience qualiﬁes you for a discount, there are other money-saving discounts that might apply to you. Anti-theft devices such as immobilizers offer a discount and will also qualify you for rebates. Drivers over 65 years of age who aren’t using their vehicle for commuting can also receive up to 25 per cent off their insurance. Being a member of BCAA and insuring through them can also offer you a 10 per cent discount. Do you drive your car year-round? While most people opt for year-long auto insurance, which can be divided into a monthly payment plan, if you are away for extended periods of time, you might go for a short-term plan, which offers coverage from three to 11 months. It’s important to keep in mind that when the car is not in use, it still needs to be insured under what is called “vehicle in storage” coverage.

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badges of the 1990s. The problem is, as shiny and fast as the upcoming sports car might be, it’s just not important. Mid-engine supercars are neat, and I certainly look forward to not actually being allowed to drive the thing (and possibly being told to stop licking its paintwork), but they’re not the kinds of cars Acura sells in any number. This seven-seat machine is. Totally new for 2014, the Acura MDX is a vehicle that will more directly affect everyone’s lives, not least those of the folks working in the Acura dealership. It’s the backbone of the company, the real ﬂagship of the brand. It’s the heavy lifter that carries that Acura banner into the battle for sales — where excellence really counts.

Design

As far as that whole “totally new” thing goes, you might not really have noticed the changes. Let’s walk through them together. Up front, the MDX retains the beaky prow of a robotic snapping turtle, but now it’s a robot with eyes formed of LEDs. They’re not just the year-round Christmas lights that Audi ﬁrst popularized either. These clustered “Jewel Eyes” actually work slightly better than regular xenon headlights and run cooler than the more conventional projector headlamps. Continued on page 34

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PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until March 31, 2014. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,540 and includes $1,545 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. *Lease example: 1.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $87 with $900 cash back applied as a down payment. Total Lease obligation is $11,340. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. 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As the MDX rides on an entirely new platform, you won’t be surprised to hear that things have been shufﬂed around inside a bit. Noticeably, width is down, giving a little less elbow room for side-by-side seating. The old car ran on the old Odyssey chassis and was a bit more capacious. However, rear seat room is up, particularly in the third row. It’s also easier for small fry to clamber back there with a new button-operated folding system, and they have a bit more space to ﬁll with Lego and Skylanders and what-have-you. Acura includes a pair of entertainment systems for your unruly rear-seat passengers, with a single DVD player available as part of the Technology package and an extra-wide screen on the Elite car. This can also run in split-screen mode, meaning no squabbling over what to watch. Up front, driver and passenger get really comfortable seats, with lots of power adjustability and a little bit more lateral support than in the main Japanese rivals. Where the MDX once relied on a graphing calculator’s worth of buttons, it’s now controlled by a large touchscreen. It’s easy to use, but you wonder if they shouldn’t maybe have kept the heated seats and so forth as regular buttons.

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Just like any newly released model, the MDX has even more power than before. Formerly propelled by a lusty 3.7L V6 with 300hp, the new truck now gets 290hp from a 3.5L powerplant. Wait, I must have read that wrong. Nope. This year’s MDX gets less power overall. The rationale for the mild reduction in horsepower is simple: less ﬁlling, still drives great. Acura has shaved the weight off with the new chassis, and can therefore get away with fewer horses under the hood without hurting performance. The drive is very good. While the six-speed automatic isn’t as slick as the octo-boxes in some of the Germanic competition, it does feel durable, reliable and smooth. The V6 is frankly excellent, with plenty of power and smoothness. Passing and acceleration are not a problem at all, and you’d never notice that a few horses have been put out to pasture. Handling has also been positively affected by the reduction in mass, although the power steering has a little too much lightness to be really sporting. Not that anything in this segment is supposed to handle like a roller-coaster, but there’s a very slight amount of play in the steering — one small way the old model was superior. The actual grip levels are great, with most of the credit going to Acura’s comedy-named Super Handling All-WheelDrive. This provides not just good handling, but super handling. It says so right in the owner’s manual. Despite being quite large, though nimbler than the old vehicle, the MDX’s trick torque-vectoring rear axle can shunt power to an outside wheel, helping rotate it through a corner. You’ll hardly be burning up the back roads on the school run, but the system is very good in the wet and should help bring a little extra driver conﬁdence behind the wheel if the weather turns snowy.

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They also give the MDX something of an insectoid look, but it’s the sole rough edge on a smoothed-over shape that does everything it can to be inoffensive. Bulging fender ﬂares, plasticized wheel-arches and big chrome wheels? You won’t ﬁnd those here. Instead, you get a very conventional, very conservative, handsome but anonymous shape. To my mind, it’s a bit like that line of business attire from Arc’teryx: sensible, capable, no shouting please.

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Meat Department Way Better Snacks Tortilla Chips

Liberté Classique Yogurt assorted varieties

assorted varieties

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27%

Anita’s Organic Morning Rush assorted varieties

2.99

assorted varieties

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37%

8.49

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33%

27%

15 sachets

product of USA

Meadowvale Creamery Butter

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20%

3.99

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1.79

40g product of Thailand

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6 pack product of Canada

34%

Daiya Frozen Pizza

3 varieties

assorted varieties

Pacific Foods Organic Soup assorted varieties

Floradix Herbal Iron Extract

38.59

Wholesome Country Sourdough Bread

3.99

500ml

• Helps to prevent iron deficiency (anemia). • Iron gluconate with B vitamins & vitamin C offers enhanced absorption.

Megafood B Complex Dailyfood

44.99

90 tablets

MegaFood Balanced B Complex promotes energy and health of the nervous system.

575g

Inno-Vite Magnesium Citrate

11.99

Wholesome Flaxseed Bread

assorted varieties

2.99

Health Care Department

Gluten Free

Simply Pure Cheese 340g • product of Canada

20% off

package of 6

739ml product of USA

434-471g product of Canada

product of Netherlands

Coarse Sea Salt

2.99-5.99

2/6.98

5.99

350g

Bulk Department

All Regular or Mini Muffins

assorted varieties

Penotti Organic Chocolate Spread

3.99-5.99

Bakery Department

Simply Natural Organic Pasta Sauce

6.99

product of Mexico

reg 4.99-5.49

assorted varieties

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

3.99-4.49

1kg product of Canada

Blue Monkey Coconut Chips

454g product of Canada

Cascades Extreme Paper Towels Family Pack

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Choices’ Own Individual Quiche

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product of Mexico

710ml • reg 6.49

Anita’s Organic Mill Flour

5.99

3.98

454g

4.99

100g

product of Canada

assorted varieties

each

Organic Strawberries

Choices’ Own Fresh Soup

assorted varieties

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340g

Two Leaves Organic Tea

5.99

Deli Department

Efruti Fruit Juice Gummies

assorted varieties

4.98

12.99lb/ 28.64kg

100g

30%

product of Canada

Earthbound Farm Power Bowl Salad: Organic Blueberries and Quinoa with Baby Spinach

Wild Coho Salmon Fillets

2.59

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Produce Department

4.99lb/ 11.00kg

156g

product of USA

Want Want Super Slim Rice Crisps

330g

Granville Island Fair Trade Organic Ground Coffee

29%

32%

3.99

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Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

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$649,000

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