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Sex, lies, corruption — accusations heat up in community centre brouhaha Sandra Thomas

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It has the makings of a best-selling novel, including accusations of alleged political corruption, financial misdealings and online advertisements for sexual services. But as it turns out, the scandalous plot is not the creation of an author’s imagination, but rather recent events surrounding the Riley Park/Hillcrest Community Centre Association. And depending on whom you ask, the association’s board of directors is either the target of unwarranted attacks or at the root of all that’s plaguing the community centre and non-profit association. Association member Art Bomke said he and other neighbours are concerned with the way president Jesse Johl is managing the board of directors. “I’m a member but just started getting active with what’s happening about a week and a half ago when more and more neighbours started to realize we need to step in and do something,” said Bomke, a long time Riley Park resident. “The fact they’ve filed no minutes for two years, as a member I find that inappropriate. How are we supposed to attend an AGM with no information?” Bomke said he and other neighbours were also concerned because the annual general meeting was called for this Thursday afternoon, the day before Good Friday, with little notice, especially in light of proposed changes to the association’s bylaw, which were to be decided at the AGM. One of those changes would mean society

members must purchase a valid membership at least 90 days in advance in order to vote at meetings. Other changes laid out grounds for removing a member of the board of directors, including letting their membership to the association lapse, missing two board or committee meetings and engaging in “unprofessional, abusive, disruptive or unseemly conduct.” Hillcrest is embroiled in a lawsuit against the park board alongside Hastings, Kensington, Kerrisdale, Sunset and Killarney community centre associations. In January, the B.C. Supreme Court halted the attempted eviction of the six associations and the injunction will remain in effect until a full court case can be heard regarding violations of the joint operating agreements alleged by the six associations, which have also ﬁled for damages against the park board. In light of the court case, there have been suggestions Johl is carrying out a not-so private vendetta against the Vision Vancouver-dominated park board. Johl is a former NPA candidate and founder of a new civic party called Vancouver First. Bomke added he knows of at least one person who purchased a membership to the association and later found her credit card was billed to a charity called the Way to Give Foundation, which lists Johl as director. But Johl said that was simply a matter of a computer glitch that took place when the centre’s website was recently redesigned, which has since been rectiﬁed. see RILEDUPon page 13

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Non-profits feel the fallout from PHS scandal 12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Geez, I should really check my junk email inbox more often. That’s where I came across a write-up from Housing Minister Rich Coleman addressing the obvious concerns people have about whether non-proﬁts in the Downtown Eastside are unwisely spending taxpayers’ money. This comes, of course, after Coleman’s government revealed the scandalous ﬁnancial mess of the PHS Community Services Society and all its extravagance. I happened to be away when the news broke but by now you’ve heard about the pricey hotel rooms, travel costs, limousine services, restaurant bills, international trips, etc. The audits conducted by the government and Vancouver Coastal Health also ensnared Jenny Kwan, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-

Mount Pleasant. Kwan, at the time, said words could not adequately express how shocked and sorry she was about the ﬁndings. I have more to say about Kwan. First to Coleman’s words. “As the Province helps the Portland Hotel Society to restructure, I feel it is important to remind British Columbians that close to 50 other agencies deliver a wide range of programs and services to some of society’s poorest, most troubled individuals on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside,” he wrote in what was described as an “opinion-editorial.” “These agencies employ hundreds of staff and manage thousands of social housing units.They are unsung heroes who deserve our appreciation and respect because they deal with the problems that go beyond many of our families’ ability to manage.” Interestingly, I heard him say pretty much the same thing over the years about the Portland when he led

Karen O’Shannacery, the executive director of the Lookout Emergency Aid Society, says fallout from the PHS spending scandal is hurting other non-profits in the Downtown Eastside. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

press conferences to open a new or renovated hotel. That was then, this is now: “Its spending practices have tarnished PHS’s image and cast a shadow over a lot of good work in the community, services that support those in need and some remarkable progress can suffer.” Thinking about this, I called up Karen

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O’Shannacery, the executive director of the Lookout Emergency Aid Society, to talk what effect, if any, the PHS story has had on her non-proﬁt. O’Shannacery said Lookout is currently seeking donations and sponsors for its annual H’Arts for the Homeless fundraiser gala in October. She said the society’s board is deﬁnitely

hearing from donors who were spooked by the PHS scandal. “The reluctance is absolutely there,” she said, noting the society relies on about a half-million dollars per year to augment programs and services. “It is having an impact and we can’t afford to have that.” O’Shannacery encouraged potential donors to

check out Lookout’s web page to understand its mandate and history.There’s also a link to the society’s 2012-2013 ﬁnancial report. “For me, it’s very important to get the word out that Lookout does have good governance,” she added. “We believe very strongly in accountability to both our private and public funders.” As for Kwan, NDP leader Adrian Dix welcomed her back to the Legislature last Wednesday after she took an unpaid leave over the PHS mess; she claims she didn’t know her then-husband and PHS executive Dan Small billed the non-proﬁt for family trips to the UK, Vienna and Disneyland. She has since paid $34,922.57 to the PHS, which now has a new board of directors. Kwan, however, doesn’t appear to be hurting for money. As the Vancouver Sun reported last week, Kwan now lives in a $1.9 million house in Kitsilano, which is not exactly in her Mount Pleasant riding. twitter.com/Howellings

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New PHS board hires city’s former director of finance Bayne likely part of new management team behind beleaguered service provider

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The former director of ﬁnance, planning and treasury for the City of Vancouver has been hired by the new board of directors of the Portland Hotel Society,

likely as part of the management team. When reached by phone Monday morning, Ken Bayne conﬁrmed he’d been hired by the new board, but added he could not at this time conﬁrm exactly what his new position will be.

Bayne retired from the city in April 2012, where he also worked as comptroller of budgets and research from 1989 to 1999 and held the position of general manager of business planning and services from 2008 to 2012. Bayne also sits on

the Municipal Pension Plan Board of Trustees. The Portland Hotel Society went into receivership last month after an internal audit by Vancouver Coastal Health accused its board of directors of misspending, including more than

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housing, said in response to the recent upheaval to the society, a new “highly-professional and capable board of directors” will hire a management team with the “proper values and administrative skills necessary to do the job right this time.” “I am optimistic the new board can renew the organization in a way that does not adversely affect clients,” Coleman wrote. Coleman added he’s conﬁdent the society’s network of service providers can continue to improve the housing and services available for low-income individuals both in the Downtown Eastside and across the province. “Together we will push the status quo and pursue ideas,” wrote Coleman. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Proposed music program cuts hit bum note Cheryl Rossi

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Advocates of early education in music and collaboration are sounding alarms. They don’t want to see the itinerant band and strings program for elementary schools silenced by the Vancouver School Board. Senior board staff have recommended either eliminating the program for a savings of $630,651 or increasing the annual program fee from $25 to $250 a year to generate $350,000 in the board’s preliminary 2014-2015 budget. The equivalent of nearly nine music teachers instruct approximately 2,000 students by travelling between 52 elementary schools in Vancouver to teach band or strings, usually partially outside of the regular school timetable. It’s these music teacher positions that could be eliminated. Proponents of band programs note learning an instrument aids brain development, physical endurance

and discipline. “It’s kind of learning a second language,” said ElkaYarlowe, president and CEO of the Access to Music Foundation. Bandmates learn to communicate and collaborate. “Which is a very, very different experience than, say, studying privately,”Yarlowe said. “One of our big concerns is that this will create an enormous economic disparity, so parents in Shaughnessy can afford to have their kids study privately or put them into a regional ensemble or something like that and the kids whose parents can’t afford that will have nothing.” Access to Music has provided $85,000 to needy Vancouver schools since 2007 to buy music instruments. The music teacher at Queen Alexandra elementary told Yarlowe a former student who copes with attention deﬁcit hyperactivity disorder and fetal alcohol syndrome recently reported listening to and playing

Proponents of band programs say learning an instrument aids brain development and physical endurance. . PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

classical music helps him calm down, focus and function. “And there are hundreds of kids like him,” she said. The foundation launched an #investinVanKidsTwitter campaign that has received support from Juno awardwining musical duo Tegan and Sara. The Ministry of Education’s learning outcomes for elementary music education don’t require students to

learn how to play musical instruments. The VSB proposed eliminating the band and strings program in 2010, but instead introduced the annual $25 fee. The Coalition for Music Education in B.C. notes the Richmond School District dealt with potential cuts to its itinerant elementary school band program by making band mandatory for Grades 6 and 7 students,

taught by itinerant music specialists during their classroom teacher’s prep time. Christin Reardon MacLellan, president of the non-proﬁt coalition, said its members want “equal cuts across the board in every program and every bit of theVSB’s infrastructure, rather than preying on music programs.” Access to Music Foundation provides an instrument repair fund, instrument rental bursaries and subsidies to parents who can’t afford fees.Yarlowe said students already drop out of music programs to avoid admitting their families can’t afford related costs. The VSB has to deliver a balanced budget to the

province.The board faces an estimated shortfall of $12.34 million for 20142015.The board’s operating budget is $497.19 million, and staff expect to spend approximately 92 per cent of this amount on salaries and beneﬁts. Yarlowe suggested the VSB should conserve money for band and strings by cutting the salaries for trustees and administrators. Both Reardon MacLellan andYarlowe are to speak to the preliminary budget April 15, after the Courier’s press deadline. For more information, search for “preliminary budget” at vsb.bc.ca or see vsbdpac.ca. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Critics of the Rize development planned for Mount Pleasant didn’t appear to be molliﬁed by updated details on the project unveiled at an open house Monday evening. City council approved the rezoning application for the site in April 2012. Residents are now being asked for their thoughts on the revised development permit application for the project, which features a 21-storey tower, 258 residential units, 7,295 square feet of commercial space, 399 parking stalls and 350 bicycle stalls. It goes before the Urban Design Panel April 23 and before the Development Permit Board June 30. Chris Vollan, Rize’s vicepresident of development, told the Courier before the open house that the design conforms to council’s directions at the rezoning and also responds to some feedback gathered at a previous open house last July. “I think the major moves are in reducing the height of the Broadway building by 30 feet and really introducing a lot of character and craft into the building that really does complement the neighbourhood.This is a really unique structure that would ﬁt nowhere else in our city other than Mount

Pleasant,” he said. Vollan pointed to the mosaic brick for the exterior of the building on Broadway, which he said speaks to the century-old Lee Building nearby. “That level of detail and understanding the context just doesn’t happen in Vancouver. It’s taken a long time to design and it’s crafted versus pushed out of a computer,” he said. “Mount Pleasant is a very unique, crafty neighbourhood and this building is designed to ﬁt it and move it forward. It’s a contemporary expression of a very cool neighbourhood.” At the open house, Marilyn Gardner, who’s lived in the neighbourhood for six years, remained unconvinced. “I really feel they don’t listen to any input we’ve provided at community input sessions,” she said, adding residents were told there wouldn’t be a lot of parking because it’s a transit hub, yet parking spaces have increased from 320 to 399. “[The development] doesn’t ﬁt into the Mount Pleasant plan — never has,” she said. “Basically Vision [Vancouver] doesn’t listen. It’s all smoke and mirrors.” Barbara Jeffery said the project is out of place and fears it will spur further development and turn Mount Pleasant into “another Yaletown.” “I can’t imagine this in the middle of Kerrisdale or

Kitsilano,” she said. “Mount Pleasant is losing its friendly neighbourhood feeling when you start to do things like this.” Project supporters included architects Juan Gurrola and Antonio Vasquez, who filled out feedback forms. “The architects have gone through great lengths to do something coherent in the neighbourhood,” said Gurrola, who works in Mount Pleasant and lived in the area when he first moved to Vancouver 13 years ago. He said he looked forward to finding out what commercial tenants will lease space, although he hopes potential competition won’t drive out Buy-Low Foods at nearby Kingsgate Mall. He also thinks the tower should be higher, arguing highrises offer a sensible approach to density in the city. “Yes, I do like the building. I do like the project. I liked it better when it was higher and more playful in its massing. Now it’s more practical,” he said. Vasquez added that he appreciates the use of colours and texture in design features and how the architects played with heights and scale. “I look forward to seeing how it will animate the street,” he said. The city will accept written comments about the development application until May. 5. Comments may also be considered up until the date of the decision. twitter.com/naoibh

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How safe is Vancouver? According to an annual survey conducted on behalf of the Vancouver Police Department, one in 10 respondents said they were victims of a crime in the 12 months preceding the survey. “Of those who were victimized, nearly all experienced a property crime (less than one per cent experienced a violent crime),” said the survey from NRG Research Group.

But of those crime victims, only 53 per cent of people reported the incidents to police, which was a decrease of nine per cent in 2013. The reasons for not reporting the crime were because the victims thought it was too insigniﬁcant (77 per cent) while others (15 per cent) believed the police couldn’t do anything about it. The survey’s results will go before the Vancouver Police Board Thursday where members will also review the department’s year-end business plan for 2013.

The VPD’s business plan showed a 1.5 per cent increase in property crime in 2013 over 2012. But the plan said the increase is in line with the city’s population growth and that residential burglaries dropped by 10 per cent and business break-ins by six per cent. The VPD’s goal is to reduce property crime by ﬁve per cent every year for a total reduction of 25 per cent over the next ﬁve years. What could hamper that goal is the sudden rise in “minor thefts,” with 4.6 per

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Violent crime was down in Vancouver last year. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and community members together to improve safety for vulnerable women. Information on suspects and potential crimes continues to be disseminated from a tip line that generated 194 calls in 2013. “A baseline for tracking violence against women in the DTES has not been established,” said the VPD plan. “The VPD is currently working with an external consultant to determine the overall effectiveness of the

SisterWatch program.” Added the plan: “The VPD is committed to continue building strong working relationships with the DTES community.The ongoing improvement in this relationship has allowed theVPD to address myths and inaccurate rumours concerning its ofﬁcers.These untruths have caused long standing fear of theVPD among DTES community members in the past.” twitter.com/Howellings

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Opinion Departing B.C. Lotto CEO hits the jackpot Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com It’s things like the kiss-off Michael Graydon got when he left the B.C. Lottery Corp. that make you wonder about the core review and the B.C. Liberals’ purported vigilance when it comes to maintaining austerity. For inexplicable reasons, the corporation paid out more than appears required to the boss after he informed the company he was quitting. Bringing a CEO’s contract to a close can be a complicated affair. But there doesn’t look to be any onus on the Crown corporation to be as generous as it was to an ex-employee, particularly one who was immediately joining a casino company where, no doubt, he will be making far more. Graydon dealt the hands out to the industry for the six years he ran the corporation. Now he’s walked around the table and elected to play one of them, as the new CEO of a partnership involving Paragon Gaming. It has big plans for a casino next to B.C. Place. Deputy ministers have a one-year cooling-off period before they can take jobs that might relate to their public-service expertise.There’s no good reason why Crown CEOs shouldn’t chill out for the same period of time. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said this week he shared concerns expressed by the NDP about the arrangement. The only stricture on Graydon is a conﬁdentiality agreement that forbids him from using information that belongs to the corporation. That’s unenforceable and absurd. As the master of the gambling industry in B.C, his knowledge about the sector is precisely why he was hired. But it’s the terms of his departure that rankle the most. BCLC disclosures show he made $421,000 in 2010-11, $461,000 in 2011-12 and $465,000 in 2012-13. He tendered his resignation Jan. 30, to take effect March 31. The board decided to shorten the notice period to just four days and make his last day Feb. 4. The move was obviously because he was joining the gambling industry, which suggests they were aware of the perception problem. But then they put together a ﬁnal payout that seems to be based on him staying until March 31, after all. Under questioning from the NDP, de Jong outlined Graydon’s last paycheque. It included $8,600 in regular pay, a

What’s left is an illustration of a Crown corporation that shelled out more than it needed to, for no good reason, when the boss left. $35,600 salary-holdback payout and severance pay of $48,000. And de Jong approved the amount at the time, since it complied with the rules. He has ordered a review of the potential conflict-of-interest angle in Graydon joining a casino right after leaving the corporation. It s not likely to turn up much, because there are no rules forbidding what just happened. What’s left is an illustration of a Crown corporation that shelled out more than it needed to, for no good reason, when the boss left. (Coincidentally, the lottery corporation laid off 67 people this week to cope with financial pressures.) The lax approach is the kind of thing Core Review Minister Bill Bennett should be all over. But he’s preoccupied with defending the redesign of the agricultural land reserve, which has nothing to do with efficiency or austerity. There is some kind of internal audit underway at the corporation. But it started two weeks before Graydon left, which only compounds the mystery. You think a corporation in the middle of an audit would be a little more conscious of its outlays. But even while spending was supposedly under scrutiny, the board paid out $48,000 in severance to someone who quit voluntarily and had a new job waiting for him. ••• Just SoYou Know: After the legislature digested that burst of generosity, the next issue that came up was single mothers’ welfare rates.They collect $945 a month, but if they manage to get any child support, it comes off the welfare cheque. Hard to defend at the best of times, but particularly after seeing the easy-going BCLC approach to spending, and an earlier round of concerns about politicians’ travel costs.

To boldly go where science fears to tread Matthew Claxton Columnist mclaxton@langleyadvance.com

The human capacity to deny the obvious is truly inﬁnite. The latest explosion of ostrich behaviour comes courtesy of a minor scandal involving renowned physicists, a known anti-Semite, and the former captain of the United Federation of Planets starship Voyager. We’ll start with Kate Mulgrew, the actress who played Capt. Kathryn Janeway on the fourth Star Trek series. A snippet of Mulgrew’s voice turned up in the narration of a trailer released earlier this week for a movie called The Principle. What is The Principle about? Judging by the barrage of talking heads, CGI of whirling galaxies, and stock footage from around the globe, it’s hard to tell. Dark matter? Physics? Religion? That leads us back to the man who pushed for the movie’s creation, and who is featured as one of its talking heads, Robert Sungenis.

Despite the mountains of evidence on the side of Earth-orbitssun, Sungenis’s documentary will have fans. In 2006, Sungenis released a toe-crushing 1,000-page tome, entitled GalileoWas Wrong, which claims that the Earth is still the centre of the universe. Sungenis is a proponent of the — to put it lightly — dubious idea that the sun, moon, stars, galaxies, and all that we can see in the night sky orbits around the Earth. Why would Sungenis believe this, exactly? It only goes against about half a millennium of recorded scientiﬁc observations. Heliocentrism (the idea that the sun is the centre of the solar system) was an immensely useful idea for astronomers

when it was first proposed. Until then, explaining the strange behaviour of the planets had baffled and frustrated starwatchers for thousands of years. A vast and shaky structure of “crystal spheres” had been thought to hold the many visible celestial objects, some of them rotating back and forth through complex epicycles to produce what Earthbound observers saw. Sungenis likes to think that humans have an important place in the universe, but apparently not all humans. Kate Mulgrew, for instance, wasn’t important enough to inform that she was recording dialogue for a movie about geocentrism — she’s had to publicly point out that she does not support this odd notion. One of the key scientists quoted was Lawrence Krauss, who was apparently asked about cosmic microwave background radiation. This is a pretty big deal, physics-wise, but the film’s producers say it raises questions such as, is the Earth is the centre of the universe? (Short answer: no.) Should you believe Sungenis? No. First, because there’s lots of evidence for a rotating Earth in a heliocentric solar system. Like the fact that you can use your GPS-enabled phone. Second, because Sungenis isn’t an expert — he’s a man with a doctorate from a diploma mill on Vanuatu with a history of anti-Semitic writings. He is not qualified to talk science. Despite the controversy and despite the mountains of evidence on the side of Earth-orbits-sun, sun-circles-galaxy, Sungenis’s documentary will have fans. It will convince some people. Why? For the same reason these ideas have taken hold of Sungenis himself. “If you see the Earth as just a humdrum planet among stars circling in a vast universe, then we’re not significant, we’re just part of a crowd,” he said in an interview after the release of his book. Sungenis wants to believe that he’s important, and to believe that, he has to believe that the Earth is special, and to believe that, he has to believe it is the literal centre of the universe, to the point that he’s rejected every piece of evidence, from Foucault’s pendulum to the moon landing. I try not to let my need for importance blind me quite that much.

The week in num6ers...

1.9 201 2 657 4.1 25

In millions of dollars, the amount embattled NDP VancouverMount Pleasant MLA Jenny Kwan paid for a house in Kitsilano last year after separating from her husband.

As of last Sunday, the number of consecutive binners markets held at Pigeon Park in the Downtown Eastside.

The number of goals scored by Daniel Sedin in the Canucks’ last game of the season, a meaningless 5-1 win over the Flames, before a hit from behind by Paul Byron sent him to the hospital on a stretcher.

The number of jobs at the CBC being eliminated over the next two years after the broadcaster announced $130 million in cuts to this year’s operating budget.

The percentage that violent crime decreased in 2013 from the previous year, according to the Vancouver Police Department.

The number of years the annual Vaisakhi Day parade has been held on the streets of South Vancouver.

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Mailbox VSB budget has to face the music

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Gordon Campbell elected premier April 16, 2001: Gordon Campbell’s B.C. Liberals sweep to power after winning 77 of the province’s then-total of 79 seats as voters end 10 years of NDP rule. Premier Ujjal Dosanjh loses his own seat in Vancouver-Kensington to Patrick Wong and steps down as party leader. The only NDP MLAs to survive the second-worst defeat of a sitting provincial government in Canadian history are Joy MacPhail in the Vancouver-Hastings riding and Jenny Kwan in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant.

Canucks make post-season debut April 17, 1975: Five years after joining the NHL as an expansion team, the Vancouver Canucks appear in the playoffs for the first time. Their first home game at the Pacific Coliseum was a 4-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, who went on to win the opening round series in five games. Left winger John Gould scored the first playoff goal for Vancouver and led the team in scoring that season with 34 goals and 65 points.

To the editor: Re: “Vancouver DPAC chair gets vocal about budget cuts,” April 11. In 2007, Access to Music Foundation received an urgent plea from a music teacher in Vancouver’s West End. Sixty Grade 6 and 7 students wanted to learn how to play an instrument so they could take part in their school band. However, the school had just a handful of instruments, most that were old and broken, to share among all the students that wanted to participate. The bigger challenge was that the VSB had defunded music programs. We raised $40,000 through an anonymous donor just in time to prepare for a holiday school concert.Thanks to these efforts 60 students succeeded in learning to play new instruments and had discovered the real beneﬁts of playing in a band. And that, we thought, was the end of our work. But in fact, our work was just beginning. Over the next few years we received dozens of urgent requests for assistance from other Vancouver schools. From dedicated music specialists who could no longer teach effectively on broken instruments to parents who could not afford instrument rental fees and enthusiastic new teachers who wanted to start a band and string program that theVSB board could not or would not fund. And so, Access to Music became the “ﬁrst respond-

ers” to music education.We responded to the most critical needs by contributing $85,000 to the most needy elementary and secondary schools.We recognized that it was a simple triage approach, but it meant a world of hope and opportunity to students and their parents. It brought sense of pride to their schools. Your schools. Seven years later, the budget proposal to cut elementary school band and strings is, again, extinguishing every hope and putting at risk e very opportunity for young people. This single act will have disastrous effects on the overall learning experience for thousands of elementary students now and for generations to come. I am extremely dism ayed to learn of these proposed cuts. I now ﬁnd it hard to believe that the VSB is not as committed to supporting music programs as our individual and corporate donors. Our donors are not parents of children in your schools.They are not people of extreme wealth nor are they elite musicians. They are regular people who understand that for elementary school children, playing in a band or orchestra is key to building literacy and math skills, developing self-esteem, and yes, playing in a band is fun! I hope the Vancouver School Board will invest as enthusiastically in the future of Vancouver’s children as do our foundation, our board, the corporate and private donors who support our efforts and our partners in education. ElkaYarlowe, President Access to Music Foundation

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marine parks, it is whether captivity itself is acceptable. The last thing we need is for the park board to waste time studying this issue that they created by not dealing with it for the past 20 years. No more “studies,” listen to your mayor and end this nonsense now. COURIER STORY: “Point Grey condo owners can’t stop the music,” April 9. Marge Sato: The defendants made every effort to cooperate by curbing the piano sounds

with various solutions. If the complainants were more cooperative the decision may have gone their way. I, too, experienced the same problems when a four-year old girl whose parents owned the suite directly above practiced piano scales daily. There was some acrimony between her parents and me but eventually we reached a peaceful solution. COURIER STORY: “Pappas wraps up family fur store,” March 25. Steven Bigatti: Great read! Wish they’d gone 100 years ago. Would have saved the skins of so

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Vancouver could be joining the ranks of cities around the world that are providing free Wi-Fi in public spaces. The Vancouver park board passed a notice of motion put forth by Vision commissioner Trevor Loke on April 14 to develop a plan that will provide free wireless Internet to Vancouver’s parks and beaches. Loke said Wi-Fi would beneﬁt businesses, residents and tourists by providing them with more options to use these spaces. “There’s a lot of utility in people enjoying our parks in different ways,” Loke told the Courier Monday. “Perhaps people want to be on a Kindle in a park and read there, andWi-Fi would allow them to do that.They should be able to choose how they use the public space.” When it comes to an

Madelaine Beaumont works on an iPad at Kits Beach. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

installation timeline and budget, Loke hopes a report by city staff will inform park board commissioners on the

appropriate action. “We would be very targeted about where theWi-Fi rolls out initially.When

you’re dealing with technology, you have to think on the basis that there will be perhaps things that aren’t

working and it needs to be rolled out as we ﬁx any bugs...We want to take a cautious approach on this.” However, Kitsilano resident James Goodman quickly raised concerns with several commissioners when he heard of Loke’s proposal. Goodman told the Courier Wi-Fi shouldn’t be a priority given park board’s “tight budget.” “I see people on their cellphones, on their iPad, on their laptop working in the park all the time,” the retired electrical engineer said. “It doesn’t really seem like Wi-Fi is an issue. It’s a simple matter of tethering your laptop to your iPhone if you need access.” Goodman suspects that the board is addressing the issue because it’s election year and it “sounds catchy.” “They need to... get on with managing the park,” he added. Although some cities such as Quebec City,Taipei and ®

NewYork City have free WiFi in some public spaces, Tourism Vancouver spokesperson Amber Sessions believes it could differentiate Vancouver from other cities that currently don’t have free Wi-Fi. “From a tourism promotional perspective, social media is such a big travel inﬂuence over people. People seeing photos and status updates of their friends on vacation can really inspire people to actually visit a place themselves. “So allowing some of our international travelers who don’t have data packages [in] Canada—allowing them to easily share great Vancouver experiences in parks and beaches would be great for tourism.” Sessions isn’t worried about those who go to the city’s parks and beaches to unplug. She says it’s as simple as turning one’s phone off or putting it away. twitter.com/jennypengnow

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Annual Vaisakhi parade mixes food, celebration and motorcycles Rebecca Blissett

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Twenty-seven boxes of pizza doesn’t go very far in the presence of thousands of people. But for Pravh Jaswal’s family, it was enough to feed relatives, friends and neighbours who lingered in front of their Marine Drive home a block away from the Ross StreetTemple where Saturday’sVaisakhi parade started. “It’s a celebration of our religion,” said Jaswal, a student at SirWinston Churchill secondary who spent her childhood living in the Marine Drive home. “Our family feels that if we contribute food, it makes us feel like part of the festivities.” Many Sikh families had tables and warming dishes set up outside their homes along the parade route that meandered along Marine and then up Main Street to East 49th to Fraser then to East 57th before heading back to the temple.The vegetarian food, given out for free, is a cultural part of the festival as it pays tribute to India’s ancient harvest celebration. Since 1699, Vaisakhi also marks the birthday of Sikhism.To give an idea of how much food is served outside of a single house, Amajil Grewal, who helped his family serve food near Main and 57th, said they started the morning with 50 pounds of chickpeas

and 100 pounds of roti. The parade moved like a slow-moving wave.The divide between spectator and participant colourfully overlapped as everybody was welcome to walk alongside the handful of decorated trailer trucks including one that commemorated the centennial year of the Komagata Maru incident where mostly Sikh immigrants were denied entry into Canada in 1914. There were also South Asian combat-training demonstrations called gatka where practitioners, including Hardeep Singh, tirelessly and expertly (thanks to his 23 years of practice) leapt and danced with two wooden swords. Loudly present, also, was the Sikh Motorcycle Club in a mix of gleaming chrome, orange turbans, white shirts and black leather vests. Club vice-president Amadeep Singh Garcha left his bike at home to walk alongside his riders and invite people to ride the club’s latest edition — a ﬂoat where volunteers had their hands full teaching anybody and everybody how to wrap a turban. “Why we wear a turban on our motorcycles is all about Sikh dignity and we try our best to give a positive message to the mainstream,” said Garcha, adding many of the club

members grew up in India where riding with a turban is a non-issue. The Sikh Motorcycle Club is the only one of its kind in Canada, forming after British Columbian Sikhs successfully fought to amend the province’s Motor Vehicle Act to allow those of the Sikh religion to legally ride with turbans in 1999. As the 25th annual parade stopped every half block or so, riders dismounted while parade spectators put down their paper plates of traditional food from nearby homes to rush over and pose with the bikes for photos. And it’s this aspect of the festival that is a favourite for Jaswal. “It’s the walking with the parade. I walk it every single year — it’s way too long ago to remember the ﬁrst time because I was one when I attended my ﬁrst Vaisakhi,” said the 16-yearold. “It’s fun because I get to see a lot of other friends and relatives. And there’s more food, and different varieties as you walk along. There’s so much walking up and down the hills but if you have fun you don’t really notice the time.” The annual Vancouver Vaisakhi festival, hosted by the Khalsa Diwan Society, is one of the largest in Canada behind this Saturday’s Vaisakhi parade in Surrey, one of the largest in the world.

2 1. Many homes along the Vaisakhi parade route, which went along Marine Drive, up Main Street, down East 49th Avenue, and down Fraser Street back to the Ross Street Temple, offered free vegetarian food for those in attendance. 2. A young girl decided to take part of the gatka combat training demonstration during the Vaisakhi parade. To see more photos, go to vancourier.com or scan this page with the Layar app. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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• Designate a window of time to go shopping for supplies. I shouldn’t need to say it, but leave the kids at home! •You can decide if you want to boil and decorate real eggs or keep those for omelets at brunch.You will, however, want to pick up themed decorations, small toys and, of course, an endless array of chocolate. Don’t forget the woven basket in which children can carry their cherished stash. • If your eggs are destined to be painted, you can channel Fabergé, but otherwise be sure kids are at the table. Have a supply of dyes, felt pens, stickers and glitter. Of course, food-safe dyes or dyes created from food such as beats, turmeric and cabbage mean eggs can be stained and then eaten. Read labels carefully. • Outdoors is an ideal location for an egg hunt. Unless the weather interferes, ﬁnd any treed corner in your neighbourhood, be it a small or large park, a yard or even a boulevard garden. I have a friend whose grandma didn’t have a yard but stashed chocolate eggs in her houseplants. Her

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grandkids had a blast. • Send an adult ahead of the gang to stash the goodies. Sidewalk chalk, balloons and signage work wonders to make your hunt festive and colourful. • Remember to keep track of where you hid the eggs and think through the rules of the hunt in advance. Communicate landmarks and boundaries before the hunt commences and give the youngest a head start.When staging an egg hunt, the more the merrier. Drop a few eggs in obvious view for the little ones and outsmart the older kids with a challenge like a scavenger hunt. Finally, you can then enjoy the rewards of your preparation and sit back with a latte and a zoom lens while the kids do all the work.

Happenings and hunts in your ’hood

Stanley Park – Hop on the Easter train and be sure to bring your own basket. Stanley Park miniature train festivities include games, crafts and face painting. The train is open April 16 to 21. Monday to Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Adults $3.75, children 3 -17 $8.75 and children under 2 $5.25. All tickets must be used the

day they are purchased. Community Centers – Kids love being close to home at Easter so thankfully we can always depend on our community centre event planners to come up with creative and affordable activities (most are free or less than $5). The following community centres will offer Easter egg hunts this weekend. Carnival games, crafts, open gyms, breakfast and of course a visit from the Easter bunny vary depending on location. The Easter festivities at Kitsilano Community Centre are always popular, said manager Celia Deluca.The message: arrive early. “Our Easter Eggstravaganza is an opportunity for neighbours, families and community members to come together for a fun event,” said Deluca. “Aside from our outdoor egg hunt, special visits from the Purple Pirate and the Easter Bunny are a big hit.” Creekside hosts its Easter event on April 17; Killarney and Mount Pleasant on April 18; False Creek, Hillcrest. Kensington, Kitsilano, Marpole, Renfrew and the Roundhouse host on April 19; and Sunset on April 20. Visitvancouver.ca to register and learn more.

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Easter Day, April 20 8:30 am Low Mass of the Resurrection 10:30 am High Mass of the Resurrection, with Procession

An open-hearted community journeying with Christ…come join us!

HOLY WEEK & EASTER WORSHIP SERVICES

Maundy Thursday

Curious about Christianity? Want to get connected (again) with faith and religion?

The New Covenant

Everyone is welcome at these family-friendly worship services.

Supper 6 PM • Worship 730 PM

Good Friday

Palm Sunday: Maundy Thursday: April April 13th, 17th, 10:30 7:30pma.m. Outdoor procession with palm Foot-washing & Eucharist and eucharist. Good Friday: April 17th, 18th, 7:30pm 12 noon Maundy Thursday: April Foot-washing Church available&atEucharist 11am for private prayers Good Friday: April 18th, 12 noon Meditation on the Cross & Church available at 11am for private prayers Distributionon of the Communion Meditation Cross & Distribution of Communion Easter Sunday: April 20th, 10:30am Easter Sunday: April 20th, 10:30am Service of Light & Eucharist Service of Light & Eucharist + Easter Easter Egg Egg Hunt Hunt +

Find Joy This Easter!

The Passion According to St. John

Faith Fellowship Baptist Church

Worship 10 AM

Easter Sunday

Festive Service of Holy Communion

Pancake Breakfast 830 AM Worship 10 AM

Palm Sunday Service

Spirit of Life Lutheran Church is a welcoming and all-inclusive congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Come and join us!

375 W 10th Ave • Vancouver, BC 604.874.2212 www.spiritoflifelutheran.ca

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Holy Trinity Vancouver (12th Avenue & Hemlock)

Palm Sunday 9 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Maundy Thursday 7 p.m. Good Friday 10 a.m. 10.30 a.m. Easter Sunday 9 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Holy Communion (Prayer Book) Holy Communion (Contemporary) with Children’s Church Holy Communion Hot Cross buns & coffee Good Friday Service Holy Communion Holy Communion (Contemporary) with Children’s Church

Saint Helen’s Point Grey (8th Avenue & Trimble)

Palm Sunday 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Maundy Thursday 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Good Friday 12 p.m. Holy Saturday 7.30 p.m. Easter Sunday 8 a.m. 10 a.m.

Thursday Prayer Service 7:00 PM

week Holy Eucharist Potluck Supper Maundy Thursday Liturgy Worship (VST Epiphany Chapel) Messy Church’ Family Liturgy (Saint Anselm’s)

6.30 8 p.m.

Supper Holy Eucharist

10 a.m. 12 noon

Children’s Worship Good Friday Liturgy

Great Vigil of Easter

8 p.m.

Great Vigil of Easter

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist

8 a.m. 10 a.m. 6.00 p.m.

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist Choral Evensong

Maundy Thursday Dinner Maundy Thursday Liturgy Good Friday Liturgy

Good Friday Holy Saturday Easter Sunday

Saint Augustine’s Marpole (71st Avenue & Hudson) Palm Sunday 10 a.m. Good Friday 11 a.m. Easter Sunday 10 a.m.

604-321-7101 Email: info@stmstl.org Facebook: StMatthiasStLukeAnglicanChurch

www.stmstl.org

Good Friday Liturgy Holy Eucharist

Saint Mary’s Kerrisdale (37th Avenue & Larch)

Palm Sunday

8 a.m. Holy Eucharist 9.15 a.m. Holy Eucharist 11.15 a.m. Holy Eucharist Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 7 p.m. Compline

Maundy Thursday

6. p.m.

Good Friday

10 a.m. 12 noon

Maundy Thursday Liturgy

All-Age Service Solemn Service

Holy Saturday

9 p.m.

Great Vigil of Easter

Easter Sunday

8 a.m. 9.15 a.m. 11.15 a.m.

Saint Faith’s Vancouver (57th Avenue & Cypress) Palm Sunday 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Maundy Thursday 5:30 p.m. 6.30 p.m. Holy Saturday 7 p.m. Easter Sunday 8 a.m. 10 a.m. 1:30 p.m.

Holy Eucharist

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist

Maundy Thursday

2 blocks west of the Langara-49 Ave Canada Line SkyTrain Station

Great Vigil of Easter

Saint John’s Shaughnessy (Nanton Avenue & Granville)

Palm Sunday

680 West 49 Ave Vancouver, BC V5Z 2S4

CELEBRATE HOLY WEEK & EASTER AT YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD ANGLICAN CHURCH!

Saint Anselm’s Endowment Lands (5210 University Boulevard) Palm Sunday 10:30 a.m. Maundy Thursday 5:30 p.m. 7.00 p.m. Good Friday 10:30 a.m. 3 p.m. Holy Saturday 9.30 p.m. Easter Sunday 10.30 a.m.

April 17

Easter Sunday Service 10:00 AM April 20 (2551 49 Ave E. - Elliott & 49th)

8 a.m. 10 a.m.

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist

10:00 AM April 13

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist Potluck Supper Maundy Thursday Liturgy Great Vigil of Easter Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist

Saint Philip’s Dunbar

(one block west of Dunbar on 27th Avenue)

Palm Sunday 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Maundy Thursday 6 p.m. Good Friday 10 a.m. 12 noon Holy Saturday 8.30 p.m. Easter Sunday 6 a.m. 8 a.m. 10 a.m.

Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist Supper & Holy Eucharist Family Service Good Friday Liturgy Great Vigil of Easter Easter Day Service (Jericho Beach) Holy Eucharist Holy Eucharist

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Arts&Entertainment

GOT ARTS? 604.738.1411 or events@vancourier.com

April 16 - 18, 2014 1. Is that a beatbox I see before me? Billed as a “fast-paced, musical ‘ad-rap-tation” of Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities,” The Bomb-Itty of Errors returns to the stage, mixing Elizabethan times with hip-hop ﬂavour. Madcap hilarity ensues, yo. Check it out at Granville Island’s Revue Stage until May 10. Details at artsclub.ca. 2. Nomadic Australian folk rocker Kim Churchill hauls his sun-bleached mop and beat-up acoustic to the Biltmore April 16 for an evening of beach-friendly tunes in support of his new album SilenceWin. Manitoba’s Matt Epp opens.Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu Records and northerntickets. com. Info at biltmorecabaret.com. 3. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star in David Cronenberg’s ooey-gooey 1986 version of the sci-ﬁ classic The Fly. It screens April 17 and 18 at the Cinematheque as part of its ongoing FromWithin: The Films of David Cronenberg retrospective. Details at thecinematheque.ca.

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NEWSPAPER RETRACTION FOR THE FUTURE SHOP APRIL 11 CORPORATE FLYER Please be advised that the Case-Mate Samsung GS5 Wallet Folio – Brown (WebID: 10290670) advertised in the April 11 ﬂyer, page 7, will not be available for purchase due to production delays. Stock is estimated to arrive April 25, 2014. Customers may take rainchecks for the duration of the current ﬂyer period. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our valued customers.

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Wireless in Vancouver KUDOS & KVETCHES

On Now at The Brick! For more details go instore or online @thebrick.com.

As reported in this issue of the Courier, it appears that freeWi-Fi is coming toVancouver parks and beaches… because how else can one truly enjoy this city’s soothing shores and wooded wonderland if they’re forced to upload pics of said soothing shores and wooded wonderland to Instagram, text friends, shop online or watch cat videos using crappy cellular networks. Get real. Vision park board cyborg Trevor Loke is a big proponent of unleashing the power of the web on city parks and beaches, especially when it comes to such bad-ass activities as enjoying the latest AmyTan tome on your ereader. “Perhaps people want to be on a Kindle in a park and read there, andWi-Fi would allow that,” Loke told the Courier, perhaps not realizing the fact that you don’t needWi-Fi to use a Kindle. Although our cyber-savvy editor was quick to tell us that Kindle works better with

Because how else can one truly enjoy this city’s soothing shores if they’re forced to upload pics of said soothing shores to Instagram,using crappy cellular networks. Wi-Fi and allows you to upload books faster. Although not pre-loading your Kindle before heading to the beach is just poor planning is you ask us. Plus taking a Kindle to the beach tells the world you lack imagination and are probably celibate. At least, that’s been our experience. So congratulations, Vancouver park goers and beach bums.You can soon kick back, get away and become one with nature while at the same time remaining even more tethered to the modern world and all of its digital accoutrements. Just wait until Google Glass comes in sunglasses. Sweet.

Cuban twit-wich

According to a recent item in the Associated Press, the U.S. government secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” to undermine Cuba’s communist government by causing unrest among its citizens.Which, if you ask us, sounds both creepy and kind of absurd. The project, dubbed “ZunZuneo,” which is slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet, was launched in 2009 and lasted more than two years, attracting more than 40,000 subscribers.The project’s mandate was “to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive

social media platform… build a Cuban audience, mostly young people…. then to push them toward dissent.” According to the article, ofﬁcials eventually pulled the plug on ZunZuneo in September 2012, not for ethical reasons or because it probably broke several international agreements, but because the project’s government grant ended.Wa-waaaaaa. All of which leaves the comrades at K&K wondering what kind of tweets the U.S. government would send out to cause unrest among Cuban citizens. Here’s a sample: @CubaLibre69: @Castro thinks he’s all that and a bag of chips.Well he’s not. #justsayin P.S.Where can I buy a bag of chips? @NoCigarz69: America rox. LOL.Why can’t we b more like them? Comunizm blows @FidelOnTheRoof69: #FreeHealthCare is OVERRATED. Stop being pussies. @HavanaKnight69: Are you kidding me @BreakingBad_AMC? #GustavoFring so sexy.

Notice of Development Permit Applications - DP14010 + DP13021

Public Open House

1 Housing Project on Lot 45 2 Cellular Antennas on Tapestry

You are invited to attend an Open House on Tuesday, April 29 to view and comment on the above two development proposals in Wesbrook Place.

Date: Tuesday,April29, 2014 Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM Place: Wesbrook Village Welcome Centre, 3378 Wesbrook Mall Representatives from the project teams and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about these projects. The public is also invited to attend the Development Permit Board Meeting for the Lot 45 project on May 14. Check link below for details. For further information: Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager Development Services karen.russell@ubc.ca 604-822-1586 For more information on this project, please visit: www.planning.ubc.ca This event is wheelchair accessible.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING

The Board of Directors of Vancouver Airport Authority announces that the Annual Public Meeting will be held to present the Airport Authority’s 2013 Annual & Sustainability Report and ﬁnancial statements. THE MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR:

3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 08, 2014 East Concourse, Departures Level International Terminal Building Vancouver International Airport Richmond, B.C. A live stream of this meeting will be available at www.yvr.ca The 2013 Annual Report will be available at www.yvr.ca on Thursday, April 24, 2014 Please submit advance questions to Community_Relations@yvr.ca by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 06, 2014. Vancouver Airport Authority is a community-based, not-for-proﬁt organization that operates Vancouver International Airport (YVR).

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Satire wears its political stripes proudly It’s spooky how like Stephen Harper actor Andrew Wheeler is in Proud and it’s not all in the grey, plastereddown wig.Wheeler affects so well the stiff, squareshouldered posture and the one-button adjustment of the suit jacket whenever the PM wants to look really, really important or when things get really, really dicey. And in Michael Healey’s Proud, they do get dicey. And down. And dirty. Healey plays fast and loose with Canadian history when he sets Proud just after the 2011 federal election with the Conservatives having won an even bigger majority than they actually did and ushering in a lot of rookies who hadn’t a clue — which they actually didn’t. Among these newbies is Jisbella (Emmelia Gordon), also known as Jiz. Close to the top of the

Craig Erickson, Andrew Wheeler and Emmelia Gordon star in Michael Healey’s play Proud.

Proud is very funny:Wheeler wears Harper’s awkward physicality well and when it looks like the PM will have to have sex with Jiz to shut her up,Wheeler looks like he’s going into shock.Where to put the hands. How to do the deed. Gordon is a ﬁrecracker in this role. Full bosomed and luscious, Gordon’s Jiz just ﬂaunts it.Wearing low-cut tops, short-short skirts you’re almost afraid she’s going to

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take it all off right then and there.When Gordon grabs Wheeler’s hand and thrusts it under her shirt, shock waves run through the theatre and everything stands still for a minute. As Harper’s chief of staff, Erickson is appropriately conniving and he does “take care” of Jiz but probably not in the way you’d expect. A mysterious character (earnestly played by Scott Button) sits in shadow stage

right with a big CBC logo projected behind him.We don’t ﬁnd out who he is until the end and it makes for a clever wrap-up. In a way, it’s where the playwright has wanted us to go all along. This is not a real exposé of how the political wheels turn; it’s satire. But buried in all the Rick Mercer-style lampooning, there’s some truth. No one doubts that red herrings are raised in the House to obscure

thorny issues that the PMO wants buried. And no one doubts that this prime minister exerts unprecedented control over who says what. However, even given the manipulative side of Harper, the playwright — to some extent — gives him his due. Harper’s passion for politics can’t be denied even if that enthusiasm is misguided in the minds of the many Canadians who don’t vote Conservative. Proud is clever and funny and along the way, Healey actually manages to humanize the Right Honourable Stephen Harper without getting Wheeler to sit down at a piano and rock out. Well, rock out Harper-style. Entertaining and satirical, Proud does the Firehall Arts Centre proud. Should be a winner for director Spencer and a must-see for the leftleaning. Proud runs until April 26 at the Firehall Arts Centre. For tickets call 604-6890926 or go to ﬁrehallartscentre.ca. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca

John Oliver Secondary Renewal Open House You are invited to a drop-in open house as we plan for the renewal of John Oliver Secondary School.

WHEN:

Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:00pm - 7:30pm

The Vancouver School Board will be renewing John Oliver to improve earthquake safety and, as part of this process, we are consulting with the local neighbourhood. This open house will provide details on our plans and give you a chance to share your ideas.

If you cannot attend please visit: www.vsb.bc.ca/districtfacilities/projects/johnoliversecondary

WHERE:

John Oliver Secondary (Learning Commons)

530 E 41st Avenue Vancouver BC V5W 1P3 41st Ave.

Fraser St.

Jo Ledingam

joled@telus.net

play she barges into the PM’s office asking if he or Cary, his chief of staff (Craig Erickson) has a condom. Jiz, a single mother with a healthy appetite for hot but casual sex, is a loose cannon that Cary says he’ll take care of. But Healey’s Harper, canny politician that he is, sees opportunity in Jiz’s flamboyant, foul-mouthed attitude. She is, however, much smarter than he gives her credit for.The tables get turned and there’s almost sex on the PM’s desk. And much foul language. There’s a huge controversy around Proud;Toronto playwright Healey either resigned or was fired after 11 years as TarragonTheatre’s writer in residence.The possibility that the play was libelous — although it never mentions Stephen Harper — scared everyone off and Healey ended up producing the play himself. Even though the libel threat has been discounted, this Firehall Arts Centre production, directed by the Firehall’s artistic producer Donna Spencer, is only the fourth production.

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For further information: Tim McGeer, John Oliver Principal 604-713-8938 tmcgeer@vsb.bc.ca

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Arts&Entertainment Douglas exhibit recalls Vancouver’s seedy past ARTS Jeremy Shepherd

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Film noir is a kingdom of corruption. There are cops on the take and dames who’ll take all they’ve got.There are box men, wheel men, fall guys, bar ﬂies, stool pigeons, grifters, drifters, thugs, lugs, pugs and reporters. That world of rainslicked city streets and lonely ﬁgures smoking cigarettes under lampposts is recalled in Stan Douglas: Synthetic Pictures. The exhibition, currently showing at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver, includes a series of black and white photographs that tie to Vancouver’s own seedy history. The most jaw dropping of Douglas’s works is Hogan’s Alley. The photo illustration gives the viewer a big, blackand-white look at ramshackle shelters and small houses. You can see details like rotten

boards and the way the light spills out of a window and onto the rust eating away at a corrugated tin roof. But there’s something else about the picture. Looking about the gallery, exhibit curator Helga Pakasaar hesitates to describe it. “It’s truly realistic,” she says. “And yet...” She doesn’t ﬁnish her thought, as though the picture has some quality that lies beyond description. The work was inspired by photos of the mixed race neighbourhood that was destined for destruction in 1972 to make way for the Georgia Viaduct. The perspective is both wide and deep. Pakasaar compares the viewer’s vantage point to what a movie director can see from atop a crane. “It’s like you’re going to swoop into something,” she says. The photo realism and depth of perspective is startling. “He could never have captured that in a photograph.The lens limits what it sees, this is lensless,”

A selection of works by acclaimed Vancouver artist Stan Douglas, including “Suspect” and “Machine” are on display at Presentation House Gallery as part of the exhibit Stan Douglas: Synthetic Pictures, until May 25.

Pakasaar says. The history of ﬁlm noir is littered with bits of concrete poetry like: “He hasn’t got enough blood left in him to keep a chicken alive,” or “I’d hate to take a bite out of you.You’re a cookie full of arsenic.” But aside from pulp ﬁction and chiaroscuro lighting, the genre may owe its greatest debt to Weegee. Also known as Arthur Fellig,Weegee was a freelance photographer who worked the graveyard shift,

using flash bulbs to illuminate NewYork’s night in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. With a darkroom in his trunk and a police radio by the dashboard,Weegee caught violence and death in 1/200th of a second. Those crime photos are also recalled in Douglas’s collection. “Suspect” shows one man flanked by what we assume are two overworked detectives.The camera’s flash casts each dent and

divot in their faces in stark relief.With his arms crossed, the suspect seems to be staring right at you, but his eyes are hidden behind sunglasses. “Intrigue” is a pair of women’s shoes reﬂected in a ﬂawless background, almost like they were sitting on a lake of oil. “Burlap” appears to show a body beneath a cover, but when you look a little closer, you begin to notice the proportions of the background

don’t make sense. “It unravels into something kind of curious or mysterious,” Pakasaar says. One of Douglas’s most striking pictures is Cache. A square section of wall has been taken off, and inside we can see a pile of goodies including cash, cards, dominoes, dice, poker chips and London Dry Gin. There’s a single hand in the frame holding one-third of a cigar and pointing at the cheap treasures with a stubby index ﬁnger. Pakasaar suggests the picture may have been inspired by the lore of the Penthouse. In Courier contributor Aaron Chapman’s book Liquor, Lust, and the Law:The Story ofVancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub, heir to theVIP room Danny Filippone recounts ﬁnding a similar hidden spot. Fittingly enough, that cache was a pile of classic pictures. Stan Douglas: Synthetic Pictures runs until May 25 at Presentation House Gallery. Details at presentationhousegallery.org.

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Saito a powerful known ‘unknown’ Nighthawks host San Francisco Sunday in MLU home opener ULTIMATE NIGHTHAWKS STAGS

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Takuya Saito, one of 10 new faces on the Vancouver Nighthawks, is the first Japanese player to sign with a Major League Ultimate team. The national team player from Tokyo competes in the same sport as his new Canadian teammates but he plays a different game. When everyone zigs, Saito zags. “The Japanese players have a unique style that’s different from North American ultimate,” said Morgan Hibbert, a Nighthawks captain and longtime member of the legendary team, Furious George. “The way he moves on the fly, the way he goes from one part of the field to another is very different. For example, we would make big, long vertical cuts, kind of like a football wide receiver.They make more horizontal, slashing cuts across the width of the field as a fundamental part of their game.” Saito, 28, is designated to Vancouver’s defensive unit as a lane cutter because he has a potent combination of foot speed and throwing accuracy. Part of his role is to prevent opponent’s scoring chances, but he can also power the Nighthawks transition offence by chasing down the disk and helping launch a new attack. The sharper, shorter passes customary to Japanese ultimate will throw off opponents, but Saito will

also have to adapt to play alongside his hosts. “I have to look to go deep first,” he said. “Then, finally, I will get two choices: go deep or cut back under.” Hibbert and Nighthawks general manager Andrew Lugsdin first saw Saito play in 2007 when he travelled to Vancouver.When he returned four years later, he had made remarkable improvement and was invited to compete at a tournament with Furious George, a team that has incorporated players visiting fromVenezuela, Colombia and Japan. The Nighthawks are adapting to him and Saito to them, said Hibbert. Opponents will have a harder time catching up. “You want to utilize the unique skill that he has,” Hibbert said. “He’s definitely a bit of an unknown. I don’t know if he’s a secret weapon because everybody is very aware of him and that he’s something, but people don’t know what that thing is. It’s more like an unknown weapon.” Saito, who played soccer for Hosei University in Tokyo, is living with close friend and former Nighthawk Mike Aizawa. He hopes to open the door for more Japanese players to compete in the MLU but knows few of his compatriots are as adventurous as he is. He had been on two tours with the Japanese national team when they won the 2011 Asia-Oceanic championship in Taiwan and played for the illustrious Buzz Bullets, a team that won the All Japan Ultimate Championship for five consecutive years and finished third in the open division at the 2010 World Ultimate Club

Of the 10 new additions to the Nighthawks, Takuya Saito travelled the farthest to play for Vancouver. PHOTO SCOBEL WIGGINS / ULTIPHOTOS

Championships in Prague. Saito’s credentials are an important component in what the club intends to be a championship season. “We have the talent

St. George’s blanks Byng, both through to B.C.’s RUGBY 7S ST. GEORGE’S LORD BYNG

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St. George’s and Lord Byng nearly shut out the competition at the Lower Mainland rugby 7s championships, but the Saints kept the Grey Ghosts off the scoreboard when the two met in the ﬁnal at Klahanie Park on April 12. Ranked as the top team from the region, St. George’s scored 141 points

and allowed none in three games. In the semifinal, Carson Graham snuck in 12 points to Saints’ 41. Lord Byng was also undefeated through the group stage, outscoring its opponents 111-7.They beat Argyle 31-5 in the semifinal. The top five teams were playing for a seat at the B.C. rugby 7s championship, set April 26 and 27 at UBC. In the title game, St. George’s dominated Lord Byng. Byng head coach Ian MacPhee said the Grey

Ghosts felt the effects of a long day. “Our boys did very well,” he wrote in an email, “We were only down 10-0 at the half in the ﬁnal but just ran out of gas in the second half. Six games of 7s in one day is a lot of rugby for the boys.” Magee was the third Vancouver team at the Lower Mainland tournament. They beat Handsworth 35-0 and Howe Sound 29-7 but lost 52-0 to Argyle and were bumped from a semiﬁnal meeting with Byng. — Megan Stewart

on paper and now it’s a question of if we can come together as a team and produce,” said Hibbert. “Anything less than that will be a disappointment.”

The Nighthawks lost their season opener 21–23 on the road April 12 to the Portland Stags despite winning all three meetings last year. They host the San Fran-

cisco Dogﬁsh in their ﬁrst home game at Thunderbird Stadium April 20 at 2 p.m. Look for Saito. He’ll be the one zagging. twitter.com/MHStewart

Mistake won’t ground Mah Aaron Mah lost his grip on the high bar in the middle of the most difficult routine attempted by a Canadian junior gymnast, but the fall won’t stop him from trying again at nationals next month. Mah, 16, finished 13th in the high bar and 18th overall at the Pacific Rim Championships, held at the Richmond Olympic Oval April 9 to 12. “I didn’t do as well as I wanted to,” said Mah. “I had a break on high bar.

I fell off. On one release move, I didn’t catch. That was the big routine I wanted to hit.” Mah, who trains with Vancouver Phoenix Gymnastics, was attempting a routine with a 5.7 difficulty. The score sheet shows the routine he eventually completed had a value of 5.0, still more difficult than all but three competitors at the international meet. His best individual performance was in the pommel horse — he fin-

ished eighth — and didn’t compete in the floor or vault because of a previous knee injury. Despite the slip on the high bar, Mah said he had a lot to gain from the competition. “It was a big boost of confidence to see all those great gymnasts and be able to compete with them,” he said. The Canadian junior boys finished in third place behind the U.S. and Japan. — Megan Stewart

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Birston PICs her spot with new team Competing together for the ﬁrst time, Birston rink reaches ﬁnal at Challenge Cup CURLING TEAM BIRSTON TEAM LANGLANDS

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Shelley Birston and her team finished in second place at the Mainland B.C. Cup Challenge to qualify for the Pacific International Cup. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Curling together for the first time was not a problem for Shelley Birston and her team. The women’s rink from the Vancouver Curling Club reached the final in the Mainland B.C. Cup Challenge, held at the Richmond Curling Centre April 11 to 13.They finished second to qualify for the Pacific International Challenge (PIC), which will be held at the same rink April 16 to 20. The gold-medal game against Team Langlands from Cloverdale was a highlight for skip Birston and her team of Allison DenToom, Siobhan Holladay and Krista Frazee. “It was competitive but at that point we already knew that we qualified, so we just played that game and had fun,” Birston said. They lost 8-3 to Cloverdale. A win over the team from Golden Ears in the semifinal earlier that day clinched

their spot in the PIC since the top three teams advance. Birston said the win demanded intense focus. “In curling you never know that you have it all the time. Anything can happen even at the club level,” Birston explained. “You just hope you have a decent game and that the sweepers are calling the right weights.” They narrowly reached the semifinal. After the round robin, Birston’s team was tied with the Richmond rink but in a tiebreaker, they pulled off a 6-5 win against the home team. They carried that momentum into the semifinal. “It feels extremely good,” said Birston. “It’s a lot of hard work but at the end of the year, we have a chance to get entered into the Pacific International. So we’re very pleased that we’ve done so well.” The tournament was the first time the foursome competed together, although Birston and Frazee had played together before. The four women play in theThursday night league at theVancouver Curling Club and agreed to form a team specifically for the Mainland B.C. Challenge Cup. Earlier this month, Birston defended a national

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title with a co-ed team and became a three-time Canadian Gay Curling Champion. She said the women’s team came together at the Challenge Cup and thrived under pressure. “It was so easy to play as a team, we all clicked together,” said Birston. “We practised so we could feel out each other’s releases and sweeping abilities, but it was easy right from the very start.” The team will face stiff competition at the 15th annual PIC, where they will play against teams from around British Columbia. The top eight teams in the province will compete for three playoff spots with the winner going on to face an international team in the tournament ﬁnal. “Our goal is play well, play solid games, be in the top 3.We want to give our team a chance to be the champion,” said Birston. Teams from across North America as well as China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea will be competing at the PIC for this year’s title. Birston has been on the ice for 20 years and said the best games feel effortless. “Curling is never supposed to be work,” she said. twitter.com/wanyeelii

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Two-Hour Kayak Rental with Lesson Option LOCATION: Vancouver, BC

$ 27

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$ 69

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Rejuvenating Laser Genesis Treatment for Full Face OR Full Face & Neck LOCATION: Vancouver, BC

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$ 25

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$50 Worth of French Fare LOCATION: Vancouver, BC

Orchid in a Ceramic Pot and a Box of Truffle Pig Chocolates, Tax and Delivery Included LOCATION: Online

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Brazilian Wax Treatment LOCATION: Vancouver, BC

$ 19

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Prices effective: April 16th to 20th, 2014 *While Quantities Last Sweet & Tasty (1lb box)

Fresh & Juicy

Strawberries

Seedless Mini Watermelons

2 boxes

2/$4.00

for $4.00

Fresh & Nutritious (2lb bag)

Organic Bag Carrots

$1.99/bag California Grown

Mexico Grown

California Grown

Fresh & Flavourful, California Grown

Green Kale

25¢/bunch

*Reg Price $1.19/bunch

Valid with coupon only at all Kin’s locations Valid April 16th to 20th, 2014

Limit One Per Family - While Quantities Last - 5522

Davie Street

Between Bute St. & Thurlow St. 604.687.8081 OPEN 10am to 9pm everyday

Champlain Square Kerr St. & 54th Ave. 604.451.1329 OPEN 9am to 8pm everyday

West 10th

4516 West 10th Ave. 604.221.1330 OPEN 9am to 8pm everyday

Oakridge Centre

Beside Public Library 604.264.6800 Check website for store hours

Check our website for Easter hours!

City Square

Across from Starbucks 604.873.6491 *1 HR PARKING VALIDATION*

Check website for store hours