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Are we becoming a city of renters?

Residents worry home ownership slipping away Mike Howell

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The question is oneVisionVancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs hears a lot: Is it time to declare the future of housing for most people in the city will be rental? It’s a depressing thought for residents bent on home ownership. For others, renting inVancouver for life is not an issue — it’s whether the housing will be available, decent and affordable. Meggs’ question opened up discussion at a public forum Monday night hosted by VisionVancouver at theWISE Hall, where about 150 people attended to listen and weigh in on the future of affordable housing inVancouver. “If we want to change the culture so that

this becomes a city where people have expectations that they’ll rent for life — bring it on,” said panelist Lyndsay Poaps, a former park board commissioner who rents part of a duplex with her family on the East Side. “But the gap between that culture and our reality is like the Grand Canyon.” What Poaps has learned and the city’s housing numbers reveal is thatVancouver has a shortage of decent, affordable rental housing.Vacancy rates are chronically low, averaging 0.9 per cent over the past 30 years. That’s because the majority of the city’s purpose-built rental stock was constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. And since then, as Meggs pointed out, tenants have faced “renovictions” from their rental homes and Vancouver has become the most expensive housing market in Canada and the second

least affordable city in the world. “It’s becoming increasingly impossible for many, many people — perhaps, even the majority — to contemplate living inVancouver, never mind owning a place to live,” Meggs told the crowd. “It’s something that I’m very worried about because it seems to me that housing is a right and it’s important in a city that’s going to function properly.” A common complaint shared by Meggs, Poaps and panelists Jim O’Dea, a housing consultant, andYuri Artibise, the vice-president of the Co-operative Housing Federation of B.C., is the provincial and federal governments are not building enough affordable housing. O’Dea urged senior levels of government to take advantage of low interest rates and invest in more housing.Without that com-

mitment, he said, the absence of housing makes for a dire situation among people who don’t have money to pay high rents. “It’s like going to the edge of the mountain and people just keep falling over the side because there’s nothing there for them,” O’Dea said. Artibise, who lives in a co-op at the OlympicVillage, is worried about a bleak future for tenants of co-ops with more than 3,000 B.C. households facing the loss of rental assistance by 2020 when the Federal Co-operative Housing Program shuts down. “My biggest fear is that the province and the feds won’t step up and we will lose the subsidies — that’s going to be our ﬁght for the next ﬁve or six years,” he said. Continued on page 4

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Getting to the root of Cedar leader 12TH AND CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Does the name Glen Chernen ring a bell? If you’re up on your civic politics, you may have heard about this guy who has rankled Mayor Gregor Robertson and Vision Vancouver with two lawsuits. Some background: Chernen is the leader of the newly formed Vancouver Cedar Party, which aims “to create a drastic change in culture at city hall to one of caring about people and neighbourhoods ﬁrst, not a false green agenda.” So now you know where Chernen is coming from. I should note he drives a muscle car, too. His lawsuits? The ﬁrst one:That Rob-

ertson was in a conﬂict of interest over allegations that he somehow gave Hootsuite a sweet deal on the lease of city property on East Eighth Avenue. Robertson denied the allegations and, in a statement of defence, characterized Chernen’s lawsuit as “an abuse of this court’s process for rank political ends.” The second one: A complicated set of allegations claiming Robertson and his seven Vision councillors were in a conﬂict of interest in voting for the Oakridge Mall rezoning because a consultant tied to the proponent owns a minority interest in an Internet media company that posted a few complimentary blog pieces about Vision Vancouver. I know, long sentence. I’ll give you a moment to read it again. OK, so, yep, Robertson and his Vision mates denied

Cedar Party leader Glen Chernen, who launched two lawsuits against Mayor Gregor Robertson and is seen here via his campaign website, attended the NPA’s fundraiser May 7 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. PHOTO ONLINE SCREENSHOT

the allegations set out in that lawsuit, too, saying it was “reprehensible and deserving of rebuke.” So there’s the background.

Now to the purpose of this masterpiece of storytelling … I met and spoke to Chernen for the ﬁrst time last Wednesday at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

I happened to be there covering the NPA’s fundraiser. I walked up to NPA Coun. George Affleck to ask him something and he was talking to this guy, who I figured out was Chernen; his name tag gave it away. Anyway, I introduced myself and said a few words before he went inside the ballroom for dinner. Before he did though, he took off his name tag and posed for a photograph with Affleck. I didn’t get a chance to ask Chernen what he was doing there, so I called him Friday. Here’s, in part, what he said: “I’m glad I went, spoke to some people but it’s by no means because I want to give an already well-funded party more money,” he said, noting he paid about $350 for a ticket. “That’s the last thing I want to do.” Chernen said he’s not working with the NPA or being funded by the party

but shares a common goal to oust Vision Vancouver from power. So, then, what should the public make of your relationship with the NPA? “It was more an exploratory type of thing to see what they’re up to, what’s cooking and see how organized they are and maybe even poach from them,” he said. “If I’m going to be slamming these guys or not slamming them, I think it’s important for me to get to know them.” So does that mean you’ll be attending Vision Vancouver’s fundraiser May 21? “You can be sure I won’t be there.” twitter.com/Howellings

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With home ownership impossible for many in Vancouver, residents at a public forum Monday urged governments to do more to provide affordable housing. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET.

Meggs calls progress ‘inadequate’ Continued from page 1 Meggs outlined some of the city’s efforts to assist renters, including a rent bank, a database that tracks violations of rental buildings and programs to encourage developers to build rental housing. Meggs said the number of new rental units under the Short Term Incentives for Rental Housing program, or STIR, has gone from zero in 2008 to 1,000 in 2012 and another 1,000 in 2013. Meggs acknowledged the rents at some of the STIR

projects have increased since they were approved by the city but, overall, there is now more rental stock in Vancouver. Additionally, the city has seen a surge in new laneway homes and an increase in secondary suites. More than 350 units are to be developed on four city properties and the city is working on creating a housing authority with the goal of building affordable housing on city land. “I am personally very proud of the work we have done in this area but I’m very, very painfully aware

that it’s inadequate,” he said. Poaps, who has worked for Toronto’s Affordable Housing Ofﬁce and was a member of the Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force, said her biggest hope is Vancouver can one day become “a city for all,” where there is a mix of affordable homes. “My biggest fear is that the residents alone can’t do it, that we’ve missed the boat and this is turning into an executive city. It’s the hollowing out of all the things I love aboutVancouver.” twitter.com/Howellings

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DEVELOPING STORY Naoibh O’Connor

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The exterior of the Santa Fe low-rise apartment building at 2975 Oak St. at West 14th, originally known as The Van Arsdel, is well worn and in obvious need of restoration. That may happen through heritage designation and a Heritage Revitalization Agreement, which would see the façade restored and an 11-storey building constructed behind it. The project, submitted by Aquilini Development and Construction Inc. and CEI Architecture, would produce 50 secured market rental units. The heritage designation and Heritage Revitalization Agreement goes before public hearing May 20. City policy requires council approve an HRA if the

proposed density exceeds 10 per cent over what is permitted, which is the case in this situation, according the City of Vancouver communications department. The Vancouver Heritage Commission has endorsed the proposal, while the Urban Design Panel voted 3-2 against it. City staff considers the UDP’s concerns to be of a detail nature that will be addressed as part of the design development, and it’s not possible to retain the wood interior structure: “The façades being retained are where the primary aesthetic values of the building are located, and the facades’ concrete structure makes retention physically possible in this case.” Heritage expert Donald Luxton prepared a statement of signiﬁcance for the Period Revival-style building for the development application. It was built in 1928 and designed by Townley and

Matheson, who also designed the Stock Exchange Building and Vancouver City Hall. The Van Arsdel was constructed for Empress of Asia Captain Arthur Wellesely Davison. He named it after his wife Eva Van Arsdel Margeson. It was renamed the Santa Fe in 1945. “Constructed to meet the growing residential demand of the 1920s,TheVan Arsdel is valued for its representation of the early densiﬁcation of Vancouver’s streetcar arterials,” the statement of signiﬁcance reads. “…The building, along with many of a similar vintage throughout the neighbourhood and city, stands as a reminder of the austere interwar years, as people settled in smaller spaces, yet still desired a convenient location.” Luxton calls the building “handsome.” “I think it is a very sophisticated building and compares favourably with the betterVancouver apart-

ment buildings of the time,” Luxton told the Courier. “The big issue on this project — like many inVancouver — is where do you put the parking, which requires excavation, so it is proposed that the two main façades will be retained, with the form of the building recreated behind. They are also [dealing with] other technical issues like seismic upgrading that must be accommodated.” Conservationists sometimes criticize saving only the façades of heritage buildings as not good enough. Luxton said while such decisions are not preferred, the decision-making process can be complex, especially when existing zoning allows for increased density. In the case of the Arsdel, Luxton noted he looked at the interior, but it’s extremely plain and the building has been let go. The façade, however, is recoverable and he expects it will look “amazing” when it’s restored. twitter.com/Naoibh

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An urban farming organization hopes that Vancouverites will support their plans to expand production and set up two year-round retail locations in the city. Sean Dory and Michael Ableman founded Sole Food Street Farms in 2009 in a parking lot beside the Astoria Hotel.They started with a team of six staff and produced 10,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables in their ﬁrst year.They now operate 4.5 acres in four sites in the city and grew 20 tonnes of produce last year. Sole Food sells their produce at farmers’ markets and operates a share program where individuals can pay upfront and receive produce for 20 weeks in return. Dory and Ableman want to set up two year-round retail locations, one in Granville Island’s public market and another on the corner of

Main andTerminal. In order to raise money, Sole Foods is starting a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo that will run May 14 to June 1. They aim to raise at least $100,000. “We liked the idea of engaging the broader Vancouver community so that they can participate,” said Dory. The two retail locations would allow Sole Foods to grow their farm business because there’ll be more opportunity to sell produce, according to Dory. Having year-round outlets would also allow the organization to employ people all year instead of seasonally. Dory estimates that with $100,000, he will be able to hire ﬁve or six new staff to support the two new retail locations. Sole Food Farms hires people who normally experience barriers to employment due to mental illness, drug addiction, and poverty. Alain Guy has worked for

Sole Foods since 2009. “Working year round would get me off welfare. I come off of seasonal work and I’m back on welfare,” he said. He works ﬁve to six months per year. The new retail locations would also provide opportunities for a greater range of people. “Some people can’t do the physical labour and we need places for people like that,” said Guy. Sole Food Farms has received grants in the past to fund upgrades or expansions to the organization’s orchard and farms. Sixty per cent of Sole Food’s costs are covered by produce sales, which essentially takes care of day-to-day operational costs. However, Sole Food would need additional funds to set up retail locations. Dory is optimistic about the crowdfunding campaign and hopes it will “engage the community around an idea.” twitter.com/wanyeelii

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SevenVancouver high school students got a trial run in law when they attended a “legal boot camp,” the first of its kind in British Columbia, last week at UBC. The grade 11 and 12 students from East Side schools spent one week away from their regular classes to attend lectures at UBC, sit in on trials at the B.C. Supreme Court, and tour law offices in downtown Vancouver.The students did not have to pay any fees to participate in the program — only their own bus fare. “Knowledge that you can’t take out of a book” is how 16-year-old Halley Sana described what she learned during the week. Although she is known as being a law enthusiast at her school, CharlesTupper secondary, Sana wanted to know more about the profession before committing to it. “I had a little bit of doubt coming into this program. I needed to know what lawyers do on a daily basis. And this program 100 per cent confirmed that this is what I want to do. I don’t have any doubts about that

now,” she said. The weeklong program is the brainchild ofVancouver lawyers Alon Mizrahi, Isaac Filate, and KeriWilliams. They set up theVancouver Summer mentorship Society in anticipation of running the legal boot camp and worked with theVancouver School Board and UBC to organize the logistics. According to Mizrahi, the idea stemmed from a conversation he and Filate had at a bachelor party. Filate had gone to a similar program at the University of Toronto when he was in high school. “My parents were ﬁrst generation Canadians and I liked the idea of becoming a lawyer but I didn’t know what that would look like. But after I attended the program at U of T, I was inspired,” said Filate. Gino Bondi, the school board’s district principal for specialty programs, said that high academic standing was not the only criteria considered when picking students for the program. “We wanted to pick kids who have parents who are not university educated,” he said. “For a lot of kids who don’t have an access point to mentors or profession-

als, this would give kids that access to see what the legal profession was all about.” Social mobility was the main motivation behind the legal boot camp program, according to Mizrahi. “Lawyers come from all walks of life.We like the idea of doing a program that embodies that in terms of trying to increase exposure to it, to kids who may not have access to lawyers,” he said. Seventeen year-old Stephanie Lim takes a law

course at Vancouver Technical secondary but says the legal boot camp took her far beyond what she would learn in class. “It gave us a really diverse knowledge base because all these lawyers have different backgrounds and they specialize in different areas of the law,” she said. “To have the basics multiplied and extrapolated to this level was really interesting.” Touring a law ﬁrm gave students an experience most

people never get.This was Sana’s favourite part of the program. “I really liked when we watched the trials and toured the mentors’ ﬁrm. It just gave you a sense of the life that a lawyer has,” she said. Starting the program small with seven students was intentional, according to Bondi. Plans to expand the program next year are already in motion. “These seven kids will go back to their schools and be

ambassadors for the program. I wouldn’t be surprised if next year if we had 20, 30 students,” said Bondi. For Filate and Mizrahi, legal boot camp is ultimately a way for them to give back to the community. “We view being a lawyer as a privilege and a responsibility.This program gives us an avenue to help provide people with the knowledge that we sometimes take for granted,” said Mizrahi. twitter.com/wanyeelii

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Opinion Report challenges some Affordable housing tops Site C concepts list of voter worries Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com Through 470 pages, the joint review panel report on the Site C dam proposal for the Peace River does everything short of making up its mind on the project. It’s an exhaustive outline of all the issues that lie behind building an $8-billion dam. But the 50 recommendations handed to the federal and provincial governments are a masterpiece of qualified opinions.Taken as a whole, they don’t say yes to the project, because the experts on the panel appear skeptical to the point of suspicion about B.C. Hydro’s timetable and projections of future need. And they don’t say no, because the potential 5,000 gigawatt-hours of relatively cheap, green power a year for 100 years would be a legacy for the ages. Anyone with a shred of optimism about B.C.’s future knows that huge amounts of new electricity are going to be needed in the next generation.The argument is over whether B.C. needs to start building it now, pursue other options, wait for new technologies or commit yet again to energy conservation. So the panel said: “Maybe.” If more independent studies are done by the B.C. Utilities Commission, maybe the case for the dam could be firmed up. Energy Minister Bill Bennett sounded dubious about handing over the future of the project to the BCUC for more timeconsuming studies. His timetable leaves the impression the 35-year history of on-again, off-again consideration of the project is going to come to an end this year — one way or the other. So the review panel might be the last independent look at the Site C idea. As such, it challenges a number of concepts behind the project. Although it noted Hydro has been working on the project for 35 years and doing the estimates to international standards, it “cannot conclude on the likely accuracy of the project cost estimates because it does not have the information, time or resources.” It also casts a dubious eye on Hydro’s financial condition, saying the deferral accounts that the auditor general raised alarm over a few years ago are “immense.” “In effect, the province has been increasing the total of its direct and indirect debt while classifying B.C. Hydro’s portion of it as being supported by rates it did not allow B.C. Hydro to charge.”The government has started work on rectifying the financial picture — most obviously by allowing large rate increases for the next several years. But

Anyone with a shred of optimism about B.C.’s future knows that huge amounts of new electricity are going to be needed in the next generation. the ﬁnancial health is still in the background of any decisions about Site C. The panel said the forecasting techniques are sound, but “uncertainties necessarily proliferate in long-term forecasts. Forecasts are correct only by good fortune.” Conventional thinking is that it’s better to guess high and have too much power, than be low and subject customers to brownouts, emergency purchases and general calamity. Plus, if there’s a surplus it can be sold on the market. But the panel said “times have changed” and if there’s a surplus in 2022, Hydro could be selling Site C power to utilities elsewhere “for only about one-third of their costs, leaving B.C. ratepayers to pay for the rest.” And the power demands of the liqueﬁed natural gas sector “are the biggest wild cards in the load forecast.” The plants would use their own natural gas to power part of the production, but there would still be a big demand for electrical power elsewhere in the process.The panel disputes some of the calculations and notes what is becoming obvious to all: “Allowing plants to generate that much power by burning gas would make provincial (and national) greenhouse gas targets all but impossible to reach.” The panel concluded that a few decades out, the project “could appear as a wonderful gift from the ancestors of that future society, just as B.C. consumers today thank the dam-builders of the 1960s.” But no matter how much more analysis is racked up, pushing the go button on a massive project with an eight-year build-out will always be a gamble. And the North American energy sector has vivid examples of long-range decisions that turned out to be catastrophically wrong. twitter.com/leyneles

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In kilometres, the length of an unused railway line through the Arbutus Corridor that owners Canadian Pacific are “taking steps to use in support of rail operations.”

The average annual percentage of available rental housing in Vancouver over the past 30 years.

In thousands of dollars, the amount awarded to the male and female champions of the Gastown Grand Prix. 2014 will be the first time both champions earn the same prize..

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What civic issues are of major concern to you as a resident of Vancouver? This is one of the questions pollster Barbara Justason asked a select number of Vancouver voters last month.They identified a list of ten issues. Not surprisingly, their top issue was housing affordability. For millennials, trying to rent an affordable apartment, or empty nesters hoping to downsize and sock away money for retirement, Vancouver’s high housing prices are the number one concern. To its credit, city council has followed the advice of economists and approved a number of initiatives in an effort to improve affordability by increasing housing supply.The Short Term Incentive Rental (STIR) program offered density bonuses, relief from development cost charges and speedier approvals to those willing to build new rental housing. Unfortunately, many neighbourhoods claim the resulting developments are often out of scale with their surroundings, and the high rents do not justify the concessions offered. The city has also rezoned properties for higher density condominium developments, such as along the Cambie corridor. However, in return for rezoning, developers have to pay community amenity contributions averaging $55 per square foot of building area. The result is more housing, but not necessarily more affordable housing. Although city planners claim these added costs are not being passed onto buyers, most housing experts believe otherwise. The next civic issue identified by voters was the cost of living.This was not surprising since the cost of many products and services are often higher, due in part to provincial taxes. Unfortunately, as long as healthcare consumes 40 per cent of the provincial budget, these taxes are not likely to be reduced. On the contrary, as the percentage of senior citizen households increases, healthcare costs and related taxes will continue to rise unless we change the way the government delivers healthcare services. The third concern identified by Vancouver voters was transportation and transit. Unfortunately, there is no simple solution to this problem either.

While most of us want improved public transit, we are not prepared to pay for it. This contradiction is going to become more evident as the deadline for the transit funding referendum draws nearer. Sadly, I fear this referendum is likely to be a lose-lose proposition. The survey results did offer some good news. Number 10 on the list was safety and security. This surprised me since so many of us have experienced a home or car break-in in the past few years, or known someone who has been victim to these crimes. However, we should take comfort and pride in the fact that safety and security does not seem to be a major concern for Vancouverites. I was also surprised by the ninth item on the list — the environment.While the mayor wants to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world,Vancouver residents, at least those polled by Justason, do not consider the environment a major issue. Maybe that is because we already enjoy good air and drinking water. Other civic concerns identiﬁed by voters included the social issues so prevalent in the Downtown Eastside: mental illness, drug addiction and homelessness.The recently approved DTES plan is intended to address these concerns. However, many of us worry the plan, with its emphasis on social and rental housing in the heart of the neighbourhood, may exacerbate rather than improve the situation. That is because it will likely result in a greater concentration of low-income households suffering from mental illness and substance abuse. I question whether we can ever end homelessness or effectively deal with mental illness until we open more facilities and provide more support services. Issue number six may be more easily addressed — bike lanes and cyclists. It appears council’s initiatives, including expensive bike lanes, contorted road patterns, ugly barricades at West 41st and Angus, and the recent closure of Point Grey Road, continue to upset many voters. Residents are also frustrated by the increasing sense of entitlement displayed by many cyclists. These ten issues all need to be addressed. But compared to what is happening in Syria, Ukraine and Nigeria, our problems are minor.We should never lose sight of the fact we are fortunate to live here. twitter.com/michaelgeller

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May 14, 1978: Three adventurers set sail for Hawaii in a Haida-style war canoe made of Douglas fir to test a theory the original inhabitants of the Hawaiian islands might have come from British Columbia. Captain James Cook first reported similarities between the Haida and Hawaiians after landing on Vancouver Island in 1778. Boatbuilder Geordie Tocher, Richard Tomkies and navigator Gerhard Kiesel departed from Vancouver in a 12-metre-long dugout canoe named the Orenda II that also featured sails. They reached Waikiki after 54 days at sea.

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May 15, 1995: The Vancouver Canucks score two goals in 17 seconds during a 6-5 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game Five of their conference quarterfinal series to set an NHL playoff record for the fastest two shorthanded goals. Christian Ruuttu put the puck past goalie Curtis Joseph at 4:31 of the second period, followed by Geoff Courtnall at 4:48. The home team won the series 4–3 but were swept by the Chicago Blackhawks in the next round.

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To the editor: Re: “CP ‘explores options’ on Arbutus Line,” May 9. It’s been 12 years and 345 days since the last train ran on the Marpole Spur, lifting two empty hopper cars from the Labatt’s Brewery, and I’ve been waiting ever since to hear that horn blow again. Now it looks like that might actually happen, and I will be standing trackside with a big Welcome Back banner. With the clearcutting of the CPR right-of-way, you’d think that the railway has crafted plans in a distant boardroom to either send in the track maintenance machines or force a decision on the decade long impasse between it and City Hall regarding future ownership and use of the corridor. Good on them. Even though the industrial landscape in Kitsilano has been almost entirely scathed out of existence with nary a thought to heritage preservation, the rail line remains the one link indicating that this part of town was once home to a vibrant and productive manufacturing district. A little train once in a while would remind us of what’s been lost over the years. The Shaughnessy Heights Property Owners’ Association shouldn’t be too hasty decrying the proposed rail operations. Their complaints about negative impacts come across as pissant NIMBY grousing rather than constructive criticism.

I, for one, will be happy to move my strawberry patch to a new location before I get that letter from CPR reminding me that my garden is in fact trespassing on private property. AbeVan Oeveren, Vancouver

Photo needs to bee corrected To the editor:

Re: “Misunderstood insects often good for the garden,” May 7. An excellent article, unfortunately obscured by an inappropriate photo. Education of humans is the single biggest challenge facing the survival of bees — all bees, European honey bees, and our native bees. When I ask people what they think of when they think of bees, the usual answers are: 1) They’re black and yellow; 2) They sting; 3) They make honey; and 4) They live in hives. With very few exceptions, all of that is mostly wrong. The photo unfortunately supports the inaccurate notions listed above. Hover ﬂies (such as the one shown) are indeed pollinators, and many have edgy colour schemes that resemble wasps.They are otherwise harmless. The more we learn about bees, the better we will understand our place in our environment.They are good teachers, and we need to take the time to learn what they have to impart. Peter Finch, Vancouver

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COURIER COLUMN: “Mayor’s derision impoverishes politics,” May 9. Cherry O’Neal: Bahahaha. Seriously, sexist?Won’t someone please think of the poor oppressed white men? Ridiculous.The other irony of course is that Gregor is also a white man, a rich one at that. Interesting he left out the word “rich” probably playing it safe with his own white male funders. Fred Irvine: The mayor apparently prefers to attack the NPA not on the basis of their policies (or lack thereof). It does not appear to be the case that he took Philosophy 100, or if he did, that he learned the logical fallacy behind an ad hominen argument: attacking the source of an argument rather than the logic of the argument itself. He has done this on several occasions in the past but now he is attacking the NPA not on the basis of who they are but on the basis of who their supporters are. Go figure? COURIER STORY: “CP ‘explores options’ on Arbutus line,” May 9. Chris_Van_Ihinger: We are pleased to learn that CP is still considering restoring this important rail corridor. Local residents need not be reminded that this has been a rail corridor since before any of them moved to this area. Indeed, the CP rail Arbutus corridor predates most, if not all, of the housing that has sprung up since the Arbutus neighbourhoods came into being.We look forward to the Arbutus corridor being restored into a high capacity commuter rail system in the near future. Shmo Shmoser: Pressure tactic by CP to force the city to buy.That rail line makes very little sense now.There’s no more industry around the south side of False Creek (where the line dead-ends), so running freight is pointless.A commuter line could be more likely, but I doubt there’s enough demand for train service from Kerrisdale to False Creek? CP are just trying to get the local residents to run screaming to city hall, demanding they do something about it. James Gemmill @jamesgemmill: Remember when “crème de la crème” didn’t want Canada Line to go along Arbutus? Congrats, now you get freight trains. COURIER STORY: “Pilgrims progress in a modernWay,” May 9. Viv: Heading there in three weeks with no technology. Can’t wait!

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Women lock eyes on equal prize

Vancouver’s Sara Neil (right) duels with Kelly Ann Way of Windsor, Ont. to win the 1990 Gastown Grand Prix one year after she pushed for the return of the cancelled race. PHOTO WAYNE LEIDENFROST /THE PROVINCE

Gastown Grand Prix’s purse a sporting landmark

Megan Stewart

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How much is $13,000 worth? For female cyclists on this continent, the value is its equality. With an $8,000 prize for ﬁrst place, last year’s Gastown Grand Prix was already the most lucrative women’s cycling race in North America. Now the storied Vancouver criterium will award the fastest woman the same prize as the fastest man. Both champions will get $13,000. The benchmark established by the race, which is sponsored by Global Relay, will be continued by the other events in B.C. Superweek, a nine-race cycling series held in seven Lower Mainland cities in July. In a step that recognizes equal achievement and will spur heightened competition and perhaps even sponsorship, all races will award men and women equally. It’s one of several new developments that mark a cultural shift that is being led from the very top. Brian Cookson, the president of the UCI, the international governing body for cycling, said recently what many have known for years. “Cycling is quite a male chauvinist sport, culturally it has been for years,” he told England’s CyclingWeekly. The UCI founded a women’s commission and appointed a woman to each

of its 18 committees. A priority is securing sponsorship and television revenue. “You’re missing a trick if you just insist that women’s sport is always going to be an adjunct to men’s,” said Cookson. But 25 years ago back in Vancouver, the women’s Gastown Grand Prix was called off because it wasn’t deemed successful in its own right. In 1989, the organizers cancelled the race for fear the field would be too small.That summer, three national team cyclists were at their homes in the Lower Mainland, including Sara Neil and Alison Sydor, and they were angry about being sidelined. “We had taken a step back in women’s cycling,” said Neil this week. “We had all worked so hard to increase the numbers for women cycling in Vancouver and it was tough to have this potential No. 1 racing goal for the women cancelled.” The first women’s race is officially in the books for 1979 when Dawne Deeley took first place. Before then, she and other pioneers raced alongside the men. One year after it was cancelled, Neil successfully lobbied for the return of the women’s race. In 1990, in an exhilarating breakaway sprint to the finish, Neil won the Gastown Grand Prix in under one second.

As the women’s champion, she earned $1,000.The men’s winner, 7-Eleven team racer Norm Alvis, pocketed $5,000. Sydor, whose impressive list of accomplishments in road racing and mountain biking include three consecutive world championships, said her eyes were opened when she left the sport not long after winning the Gastown Grand Prix in 1991. Her male counterpart that year was Lance Armstrong. “As a young female, that ﬁrst prize was different from the men than it was for me. It’s never been sensible,” she said. Sydor represented Canada at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and remembers the male athletes discussing their professional contracts and ambitions to ride in theTour de France. “When I asked myself ‘What’s next,’ as a woman I had another four years on the amateur circuit to look forward to. It really struck me,” said Sydor. She soon shifted her interest to mountain biking, where unequal, sexist privileges weren’t fundamental to the sport. “I had the good fortune of beginning this sport at the time when mountain biking was just coming onto the scene. As a new sport, a more modern sport, it developed with a totally different sense of equality for men and women in comparison to

road racing,” said Sydor, who lives in West Vancouver and is still involved in the sport as a coach and ambassador. “Mountain biking had equal events for the women as for the men. We raced for equal prize money. It was a given.” Sydor’s ﬁrst role models were the men she saw competing on television. Then her idols became her peers and the women she competed against. She applauds B.C. Superweek and the Gastown Grand Prix for recognizing equal talent equally. But Sydor also shakes her head. “The whole concept of having equal events and equal prize money form women in road cycling, it seems kind of bizarre in this day and age that this should be making a big story,” she said, acknowledging, “It’s great news for the women and it’s richly deserved.” Leah Kirchmann, the 2013 Global Relay Gastown Grand Prix champion, knows the criterium is one of the most desirable races in Canada.The equal prize money is another signiﬁcant incentive for women to travel to Vancouver and compete on the cobblestones. “I really hope that Gastown will help set a precedent for other races by offering both an equal and generous prize purse to the women,” she wrote in an email to the Courier. Kirchmann, 23, a na-

tional team cyclist from Winnipeg who rides with a team sponsored by Optum Pro Cycling and Kelly Beneﬁts Strategies, continues the success of Neil and Sydor. She had her biggest payday last summer when she won Gastown. Before that, she earned close to $5,000 at the 2011 Tour of Elk Grove near Chicago. “I do remember that the men’s prize purse was close to double that of the women’s,” she added. “Some of more shocking comparisons come from the biggest international races on the calendar.” The inaugural Women’s Tour of Britain became the largest stage race for women earlier this month and later this summer when the men in the Tour de France chase mountain peaks and a top prize of 450,00 euro, the women’s equivalent known as La Course will offer the richest prize in women’s cycling, 22,500 euros. The Giro D’Italia holds the Giro Rosa for women, but the discrepancy in prize money indicates the women’s sport is also in a lower class. Mara Abbott, who won the 2013 Giro Rosa in its 24th installment, was awarded 460 euros. Kirchmann made it seem simple. “We train and race just as hard as the men, so there is no reason that we deserve any less,” she said. twitter.com/MHStewart

The elite women’s ﬁeld is introduced in advance of the 2013 Gastown Grand Prix. Leah Kirchmann won. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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We need a refinery, not more oil tankers David Black This is the second of two columns addressing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime. The Alberta oil industry’s Northern Gateway plan is to export bitumen to Asia via tankers from the B.C. coast and wants to ship a great deal more in future. Under no circumstances should we allow that to happen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hundreds of years. My May 9 column discussed the light oil spill by the Exxon Valdez and the terrible toll it took on the Alaskan habitat and fishery. It also gave proof that a bitumen spill would be far worse. A bitumen spill would be almost completely unrecoverable because it would sink and stay on the bottom of our seabed. The solution that is best for Canada is to build refineries. I am promoting and backing this solution. Refineries convert bitumen to very light fuels that would float and evaporate if ever spilled.There are other enormous benefits: • There will be a major reduction in greenhouse gases if we use new cutting-edge Canadian technology in the refineries.They will be so clean that, in combination with oilsands extraction, there will be less CO2 than in the huge conventional oilfields and refineries of Iraq and Nigeria. In other words these clean refineries would neutralize the extra greenhouse gases generated in Canada’s oilsands.The refineries will be built in Asia if not in Kitimat, and if so they will emit double the CO2.This is the reason that Andrew Weaver of the B.C. Green Party is in favour of Canadian refineries. • Asian refineries will also generate 200 train cars a day of very dirty coke (much fouler than B.C. coal) which will be subsequently burnt in the atmosphere to create power.The Canadian refineries will not result in the production of any coke. As we all live on

one planet, it is far better for the global environment to build these refineries in Canada. • Construction of the refineries will create 12,000 jobs in B.C. for five years. Operations at the refineries will result in more permanent jobs than any project have ever created in B.C. with approximately 6,000 direct jobs.These will be highly paid permanent jobs. These jobs will be available for the life of the refineries, which should be in excess of 50 years. In addition there will be thousands of other jobs created in spinoff local petrochemical companies and in indirect employment throughout the province. • The federal and provincial governments, local regional districts and municipalities, and many First Nations will share in billions of new tax dollars each year. Unfortunately our Canadian oil companies are not interested in building new major refineries.They are focused on extraction which is more profitable than refining. One of them challenged me to spearhead a refinery myself, so I am doing that. We have a solid business plan and as a consequence Chinese banks and other institutions are prepared to lend us most of the funds required to build the greenest and most efficient refinery in the world.We are currently moving ahead with engineering design and environmental work. We will also build a safe northern pipeline from Alberta to the refinery in Kitimat, with the active participation of First Nations. Modern pipelines can be built and operated safely. Leak data is available for everyone to see on Canadian and U.S. government websites and it proves recently constructed pipelines are not leaking. Furthermore some of the best pipelining companies in the world are based in Canada. In addition we will build a fleet of new tankers, powered by LNG, rather than Bunker C oil, to transport the refined products to Asia. This way we know the tankers will be state-of-theart and as safe as possible. The fleet will be owned by a

company based in B.C. so it cannot shirk its legal liability if there ever is a spill at sea. Let me be up front about my biases. I am for creating thousands of good permanent jobs in B.C. I am for creating billions of new tax dollars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a modern tanker ﬂeet that carries only reﬁned fuels

that ﬂoat and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers. If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers please contact your local MP and say so.The federal government makes a decision on Northern Gateway in the next few weeks. ••• David Black is the owner of Black Press, which publishes newspapers in Canada and the U.S.

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Despite its reputation for rooting through garbage along with a thieving lifestyle, the crafty crow clearly didn’t present a problem last year to the City of Vancouver for being appointed the 2014 city bird. The Northwestern crow may not be as petite, colourful or quiet (woodpecker species not included on that latter note) as the pretty birds that competed for Vancouver’s ofﬁcial bird of 2015, but of all the Bird Week events, this past Friday’s Crow Night was one of the most popular.

The Alice McKay Room at the Vancouver Central Library was packed with crow lovers, most of whom adhered to the dress code of wearing black, including one woman who had attached a homemade beak to her head and wore a cape of wings (incidentally, there were no sightings all week of a human dressed as a black-capped chickadee, the winner of the bird election). Filmmaker Mike McKinlay introduced his 15-minute Crows documentary rather apologetically with a mention the ﬁlm is now 10 years old and not high-deﬁnition. Nevertheless it is an interesting glimpse into the lives of Vancouver crows

from their days at Jericho beach to their raucous Hitchcock-esque evenings at the Burnaby roost near Willingdon Avenue and Highway One. McKinlay said he didn’t know anything about the bird before beginning his project but wanted to document the creatures because they are part of city life. “I had a really crappy job and to compensate for this crappy job every night I went out and followed crows,” said McKinlay. “They were so unbelievably aware of the camera. They know you’re there and they will wait until you’re completely set up with your exposure set and your aperture, you’re ready to go

— and then they ﬂy away.” Which is no surprise for crow specialist Dr. Rob Butler who has studied the animal for 20 years to the point he said he started to think like one, joking he was fearful that he might be becoming one. A good amount of his studies were at Mitlenatch Island in the Strait of Georgia where he observed the species’ intelligence, socialness, craftiness, and plunderous nature. An all-in-one example: “Crows recognize their young and recognize their relatives so they don’t steal off them as much as the others,” Butler told the crowd. He’s even noted that in Japan, rather than dropping a clam and mussel from

the air to crack it open, the birds take it to the road for a car to run over. “Young crows are learning how to do this and we can see how it’s spreading, which means it’s culturally transmitted,” Butler added. Back home, the Burnaby roost where ﬂocks of crows from Vancouver, the North Shore, Richmond and Coquitlam still congregate to sleep is one that fascinates bird-watchers and scientists alike.The roost is still one of the largest in the province and the birds have overnighted there since the 1970s, even though the size of the treed area has shrunk due to development in recent years. Scientists say the urban roosts are prefer-

able for protection, especially from one of the crow’s greatest enemy — the great horned owl. While the black-capped chickadee described itself in its Twitter account as being a bird that works hard and plays hard, the fact that more than a half million votes were cast in the bird election — ﬁve times as many as in the last municipal election — would’ve no doubt appealed to the crow’s mischievous nature. The goal of BirdWeek is to bring awareness about the importance of birds in Vancouver. Birds, according to the park board, are good indicators of the state of the environment. twitter.com/rebeccablissett

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Continued from previous page\ The longest river in South Africa, the Orange jostles diamonds all the way from Kimberly into the surf along the Namibian coast. At one time these were easy to ﬁnd, but no more. As the day’s last warm rays warmed our skin, we watched birds ﬂit over the water and toasted our voyage with a nip of duty-free Scotch dad had picked up on the way over. A hauntingly beautiful desert distinguishes Namibia, once colonized by Germany.The rich burnt-orange dunes (due to oxidized iron ore) shift very little due to opposing winds. Namib-Naukluft National Park is one of the few places you’re allowed to climb a dune, which we gamely did at 7 a.m. before the heat became too intense. A few ki-

lometres away in Sossusvlei, a former riverbed taken over by a sand ocean, I swung on dead tree branches while Dad wisely stayed out of the sun. Having worked up an appetite, the group stopped in Solitaire, where the population of 25 ekes out a living pumping gas, working in the bakery and selling souvenirs. Dad and I split a hefty slab of apple crumble pie and were stuffed for hours. Namibia is very dry and the wildlife has adapted. At Etosha Park white-ish elephants covered in dusty pale clay cavorted by a waterhole and nearby sleeping lions digested a recent wildebeest feast. Botswana’s Okavango Delta was the opposite of Namibia, full of ﬂoating islands, green marshy grasses and water lily lined canals. At 17,000 square kilometres,

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Camps tell kids to leave gadgets at home Sandra Thomas

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Kids attending Qwanoes summer camp on Vancouver Island quickly get on board with the “no mobile phone” rule, says the camp’s executive director. “For us, we think it helps maintain the specialness of camp,” said Scott Bayley, who noted the camp has never allowed cellphones. The majority of summer camps have a similar policy. “Not having a phone is a big part of leaving the clutter from everyday life behind. For some that’s really hard, especially the older campers, but we’re very upfront about it from the beginning,” he said. But, Bayley said, even the most connected kids quickly get over their withdrawal from technology cold turkey because they’re so busy and having such a great time. Qwanoes is a youth-focused, high-adventure Christian residential camp, founded in 1966, located on 55 acres of waterfront property on Vancouver Island between Victoria and Nanaimo. “We let them know that camp is very special and that they don’t need to update their Facebook accounts or send texts because they’re having personal interactions,” said Bayley. “We also want them to know that

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camp is a safe place. That means campers don’t have to worry an impromptu video of them changing in their cabin or getting goofy during a camp skit will be uploaded and shared online. Bayley said that a sense of security is important because the camp wants young campers to feel comfortable enough to let

loose without any fear their actions will be recorded. “If someone’s caught up in the spirit of camp and acting really silly, they shouldn’t have to worry about a video of them ending up online,” said Bayley. “Campers also don’t need the distraction of looking at videos on their phone when instead they could be look-

ing up more, seeing nature more and seeing other people more.” Bayley said for the sake of fairness and consistency, the same “no-technology” rule applies to staff as well. “We want to pull them all away from their everyday life for just a short time period and it helps with that,” said Bayley. “But we

also recognize how hard that can be so we say to our campers, thanks for doing this, thank you guys for helping us create this special place — and they get it. It gives them some breathing space.” Bayley added the rule also helps even out the playing ﬁeld when it comes to kids of all economic backgrounds.

“They might think, ‘I just have this ﬂip phone and you’ve got a $1,000 iPad,’” said Bayley. “It makes everyone more equal, which is part of the beauty of camp. When campers from all backgrounds share the same cabin they become a team and have a sense of being together.” But, Bayley noted, campers should never feel like they’re trapped at camp so there are a number of payphones located across the camp.The same goes for parents worried about their children. He added a camper might be really excited to share news about something they’ve done or have something they don’t feel comfortable talking about with anyone except their parents. “So if they feel like they need to call home, they can,” said Bayley. Meanwhile there’s an even more important reason for kids to unplug while at camp. “If they spend all their time talking to old friends on the phone they might be too busy to meet the new friend right beside them,” said Bayley. “We don’t want them to be so busy telling their friends about camp they miss out on meeting the amazing new friend who’s right there.” twitter.com/sthomas10

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Choosing the camp for your child Sandra Thomas

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When it comes to choosing a summer camp for children and youth, experts advise parents and guard-

ians to keep their child’s interests in mind. And with summer camps designed for literally every interest, there’s a lot to choose from. This is part one of a twopart series highlighting just

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some of the summer camps available for all ages.

Arts Umbrella Vancouver and South Surrey Summer programs at Arts Umbrella offer an intensive arts-infused learning experience.Through hands-on theatre, dance, visual, digital arts, professional programs and early childhood classes, children have the opportunity to be immersed in creative discovery and fun learning while they’re free from regular school work. Classes for children, youth and teens will be offered at Granville Island, South Surrey,West Vancouver and River District locations beginning June 30.The Teen Theatre Summer Program for ages 13 to 19 begins June 31. For more information, visit artsumbrella.com. Pedalheads Vancouver Pedalheads is a 10-level instructional bike safety and skills program for kids

aged two to 12. From training wheels to trails, each level includes ﬁve learning categories including safety knowledge, safety skills, trail riding, street riding, and bike maintenance.The program offers half-day and full-day camps for kids four and older, as well as toddler camps for kids ages two and three.Vancouver locations includeWest Point Grey, Vancouver Centre, Oakridge and, new this year, Fraserview. For more information, visit pedalheads.com. CircusWest CircusWest is a performing arts society and comprehensive circus arts centre for all ages. Located in the Garden Auditorium on the PNE grounds on East Hastings Street, CircusWest offers children, teens, and adults an opportunity to explore circus arts in an encouraging, non-competitive environment. CircusWest’s programs encourage respect for oneself and others and provide an environment to learn responsible risk-tak-

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ing. CircusWest is a creative space where individuals can dream big, push limits, and defy gravity — all while having fun. Camp Squeah Camp Squeah, a ministry of the Mennonite Church of B.C, is a children’s summer camp, retreat centre and outdoor education facility located in Hope, B.C. Its diverse and very active summer camp program includes children’s camp sessions ranging from three to six days, backpacking trips and junior

and senior leadership training, which encourage the development of skills from a servant leadership perspective.The summer camp program is developed and presented from a Christian perspective. Care for the environment and a “challenge by choice” philosophy for guests is applied to all program planning and activities. Camp Squeah is a place of renewal, learning, play and retreat. For more information visit squeah.com. See part two in the May 21 edition of the Courier.

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Tasty camp recipes you can try Sandra Thomas

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When it comes to finding food and recipes suggestions for camping with kids there’s really only one place to turn — social media. For those looking for gourmet camping recipes, Pinterest offers hundreds of ideas for everything from portabella pizza, campfire mac and cheese, baked bananas foster and blueberry muffins cooked in orange halves. Advice from Facebook was also helpful, and much more practical, when looking for camping ideas and recipes. Longtime camper Brian Snook from Chilliwack suggested hotdogs, roasted corn on the cob and fireroasted potatoes, while Darnelle Moore, co-owner of Eastside Fitness on Fraser Street, said nothing goes over better with her kids than Fruit Loops, which she says they’ll eat all day long. Moore noted Fruit Loops can be substituted with Corn Pops if desired. Calgary-based Tracy Lee Pullman Selock was all about traditional basics in her suggestions, which included s’mores, toasted Marshmallows and pork and beans. North Vancouver-based Tami Esau said Jiffy Pop is easy to make and is a huge hit with her son. Esau advised bringing along a heat-proof mitt to cook the popcorn because the handle gets hot. She also recommended making foil packets of sliced potatoes and onions dabbed with butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper. Esau just throws them

It’s hard to go wrong with cooking hotdogs on a campfire.

on the campfire and waits for them to cook. Another favourite camp recipe from Esau is a Bloody Mary mixmarinated roast, sans vodka. Esau cooks the roast on a stick over the campfire. Courier readers on Twitter were also happy to contribute ideas. Ramona Wildeman (@ramonawildeman ) suggested a recipe with a self-explanatory name she calls Bread on a Stick. Mix together Bisquick, which can be purchased at any grocery store, and water. Once the dough is kneaded, use a stick and roast pieces over a campfire.Wildeman suggested serving with a warm cup of cocoa and sums up her recipe as “#seriousyum.” Besides hotdogs, the following is a top 10 list of easy-to-make camp foods kids are guaranteed to love: 1: Pancakes: Pancakes are an easy breakfast food because all that’s required is a premixed package of

mix and water or milk.Take along an empty ketchup bottle to ﬁll with pancake mix for easy pouring. 2: Franks and beans: Slice up some wieners and fry them in a cast-iron pan before adding a can or two of beans.This recipe is great because you can keep it plain for the kids or spice it up for the adults. 3: Chili: Again, this recipe can be as spicy as your family likes so the amount of chili powder you add is up to you. Brown some ground beef or turkey in a cast iron frying pan and then drain off any excess grease. Depending on your taste, add as many or as few vegetables, such as onions and peppers, as you like and ﬁnish with canned kidney beans. Simmer for at least 30 minutes and serve. 4: Baked potatoes: This could possibly be one of the easiest camp recipes of all time.Wash as many potatoes as you need, poke a couple

of holes in them with a fork to allow the steam to release and then wrap them tightly in tin foil. Bury the wrapped potatoes in the hot coals at the bottom of your campfire and cook for 40 minutes. 5: S’mores: You can go traditional or gourmet, but the basics are graham crackers, marshmallows and pieces of chocolate.Toast marshmallows over a fire and place them between two pieces of graham crackers and chocolate pieces. 6: Foil pouches:You can wrap almost anything in foil and steam it over a campfire.This is an ideal way to cook fish, vegetables, chicken or even tofu. 7:Two-ingredient cake: Mix a 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple with one box of angel food cake mix. Pour into an ungreased Dutch oven and bake per the package directions. 8: Eggs in a bag: Boil a pot of water over the campfire or camp stove. Scramble two eggs and add salt, pepper, cheese and one slice of cooked crumbled bacon. Pour into a Ziploc bag, close the top and cook in the boiling water for between 10 and 12 minutes. 9: Hotdogs or sausage on a stick: Take a refrigerated bread stick, flatten it out and sprinkle with spices. Wrap the dough around a wiener or cooked sausage and pinch the ends. Cook over a fire or coals until the bread is brown. 10: Baked apple and sausage: Core an apple and place a pre-cooked sausage link in the hole. Securely wrap in aluminum foil and cook in campfire coals for 30 to 40 minutes. twitter.com/sthomas10

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TV host serves up favourite hash Broadcast journalist and co-host of Breakfast Television Jody Vance enjoys camping with her large extended family at Kalamalka Lake in the Okanagan each year. She says everyone takes turns cooking a meal and this is her go-to favourite, sure to get everyone up and out of their tents. As far as special equipment goes, Vance says all you need is a platter, skillet, knife, cutting board, paper towel and spatula.

Recipe courtesy of Ned Bell, executive chef at Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver. Bell says these Power Cookies have developed quite a following. Considering the cookies are dairy, nut and gluten free, Bell says they’re not only delicious, but also a healthy choice to pack for any camping trip. He notes the cookies are made from healthy, locally-sourced, energizing ingredients.

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— remove to paper towel and add half the fat. Add potatoes and sauté over medium heat until cooked through, but not browned, about 15 minutes. Add onion and a drizzle of reserved fat and caramelize slowly over low heat. Once browned and delicious, remove to a platter. Turn up the heat, add a bit more fat and put tomato halves cut side down to brown. Assemble plate with potato and onion and crumble bacon overtop, sprinkle with chopper green onion and parsley. Place tomato browned side up on the plate. Scramble or fry eggs to place on top and season well with salt and pepper.

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Veggie delivery service heads for home

Bosa Properties partners with SPUD to bring online grocery delivery to condo dwellers Glen Korstrom

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A local developer is partnering with a Vancouver-based online grocery delivery company to make home grocery delivery more attractive for Vancouver condominium owners. The home-delivery niche has been muchhyped yet remains a tiny part of the overall grocery market in part because of buyers’ fears that their plastic bin of groceries

will either be so warm that the vegetables will wilt or that they will be stolen by neighbours. To ease those fears, Bosa Properties has built what it calls a “BosaFresh” facility — a 200-square-foot, temperature-controlled storage room at its Lido development in southeast False Creek. “We’re programming BosaFresh into all our new buildings at this point,” said Bosa’s senior vicepresident Daryl Simpson.

“We’re not changing the world by doing this but we are making some people’s lives easier so we intend to do it in future projects.” Only residents who are registered in a program to get Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD) to deliver groceries to their building will have their key fobs programmed to be able to access to the room, Simpson said. There will also be a camera in the room to ensure neighbours do not

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How to combat violet offenders Anne Marrison

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Q. I have this horrible weed/ﬂower invading the grass in my front yard. It had little blue ﬂowers in early spring. It has spread through about half my yard. How do I get rid of it? Jean Konda-Witte,Abbotsford A.You have violets in your lawn — and violets are hard to eradicate. I don’t think a broad-leaf herbicide

will kill them and a broad spectrum herbicide would kill everything. You might try covering the lawn with black plastic for a couple of years, then removing the surface soil and violet seeds before bringing in new soil and seeding the grass. But this is so onerous it’s almost unworkable. In any case, I wonder where the violets came from? If the source of the violet seeds (neighbours? city

land?) is still there, seeds could blow in again and you’d have the violets back. Your best bet is to shade the violets out by cutting the grass about 7cm long and treating your lawn so well that it stays lush and thick. The violets will remain because they have very deep roots, but they won’t be as visible because they’d be submerged in long grass. Nor will they spread as fast because grass is a strong competitor.

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paintbrush and brush pollen from the male flowers into the female blooms. Hand pollinating is more work than adding pollinating plants but you’ll need it if your first female zucchini flowers open before the pollinator-attracting flowers do. Q. I want to move some tulips for next spring. Shall I leave them where they are or can I store them until the fall after the foliage has died back? How do I do this? Lorraine Davis,Vancouver A. Digging and storing is best.That’s because tulip bulbs need thorough drying or they tend to get fungus diseases.

Some tulips can come back for several years if the bed they’re in is never watered in summer and we have a dry summer. But if we have a wet summer, fungus diseases will strike. For storing, dig up your tulips when the leaves turn yellow and take them inside until they completely dry. Then clean off the soil, discard any diseased or damaged bulbs and let them dry more.Then store in a mesh bag or in cardboard boxes and replant next fall. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her via amarrison@ shaw.ca. It helps if you can tell me the name of your city or region.

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1 May 14-16, 2014 1. Flying and singing by the seat of their pants, Off Key: An Improvised Musical is pretty much like it sounds: Eight performers, four musicians and four lighting technicians improvising everything from the music, story, characters to the songs, dancing and lighting. No two shows are alike. It runs as part of the rEvolver Festival from May 14 to 18 at the Cultch. Details at revolverfestival.ca. 2. Adapted from the poetry of Lorna Crozier and Erín Moure,Wild Excursions Performance’s Mother Tongue is a heady work of choreographed physical theatre that explores themes of family, mortality, the nature of the poetic act, memory, dreams, angels and (deep breath) “returning to a land that has suffered ethnic strife and bloodshed in order to bury the ashes of a deceased parent.” It runs May 14 to 18 at Scotiabank Dance Centre.Tickets at eventbrite.com. Details at wildexcursions.ca. 3. Singer songwriter Ann Vriend brings her retro soul stylings and tales of the gritty streets of Edmonton to the Railway Club May 14, 7:30 p.m. in support of her latest album For the People in the Mean Time. She shares the bill with Jasmine Netsena. Tickets $10 at the door.

4. Unsung East Vancouver record label and artist collective Northern Electric celebrates its 10th anniversary with “an evening of outlaw country” May 15 at the Fox Cabaret. Performers include Herald Nix, Rodney DeCroo and Mac Pontiac. Details at northern-electric.ca. 5. The sharp-dressed peeps in the Ethos Collective team up with Nu:BC Collective and clarinetist François Houle for an innovative musical programme titled Impulse May 15 at the Orpheum Annex. The concert features the Western Canadian premiere of Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, the Canadian premiere of UK composer Graham Fitkin’s Ardent and the B.C. premiere of Canadian composer Anthony Genge’s Strata, as well as works by local composers Ava Grayson and Jordan Nobles.Tickets and info at ethosmusic.ca.

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All hands on Wreck KUDOS & KVETCHES We all know thatVancouver beaches are little more than cesspools of vice and crime — with a hint of HawaiianTropics and Axe body spray ﬂoating on the surface. So it’s always reassuring to see our men and women in blue patrolling the sandy shores of sin on their ATVs and keeping a watchful eye on our irresponsible drinking, smoking and dog walking habits. Seriously, we cannot be trusted. Which is why we couldn’t be more pleased to learn that RCMP ofﬁcers plan to erect a tent at Wreck Beach, starting this weekend. Although pitching a tent is nothing new at Vancouver’s only nude beach (you’re welcome for that, by the way), the plan is not going over well with beach regulars who bristle at the overreaching reach around

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of the law. (Once again, we should give props to the Province’s headline writers who came up with “Wreck Beach prepares for the full mountie” for their ﬂeshed out exposé on this topic.) Now some of you are probably saying to yourself, why does there need to be a police presence at Wreck Beach anyway? If everyone’s naked, surely they can’t be hiding anything. Well, that’s exactly what the criminal element wants you to think. Admittedly, the beach bums at K&K haven’t been to Wreck Beach in years, due in part to our aversion to kelp and some unfortunate scarring on our body after we spilled a bowl of piping hot macaroni and cheese on ourselves while taking a bubble bath. But during our last visit, we can honestly say we witnessed more body hair crimes and ﬂeshy atrocities than anyone should endure in a lifetime.

To say nothing of all the offleash miniature Shar Peis bouncing around uncontrollably mere feet from our head. At least we think they were Shar Peis. All of this raises an important question, what should RCMP officers wear at a nude beach? Some might argue just a holster and billy club would suffice. Or perhaps a thin coating of body paint made to look like a uniform. But if the RCMP really want to infiltrate the seedy undercarriage of Wreck Beach, we say they need to assimilate as much as possible — take it off and let it all hang out, frolic in the foamy surf, get sand in uncomfortable places and burn their buns like pairs of golden brown pizza pockets. It’s a small price to pay for justice and the comfort of knowing that everyone at Wreck Beach will finally be safe, especially from themselves. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Giving voice to Atwood opera STATE OF THE ARTS Cheryl Rossi

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After 30 years in the opera business, Charles Barber expects the newest opera he’s working on will be “not a flop.” The music director and conductor’s careful optimism is buoyed by the response workshops of Pauline received in October. “One of our singers really got into it and at the end of this particular number was in tears. So was Margaret [Atwood], so was Tobin [Stokes], so was everyone,” said Barber of City Opera Vancouver. “And if you can do that in rehearsal six months out, you know that something is clicking and something is true.” The world premiere of Atwood’s first opera, Pauline, happens at the York Theatre, May 23, with Atwood in attendance. Pauline delves into the cancer and morphineaddled last days of biracial poet and performer Pauline Johnson. “In the first half of her stage show, she came out dressed as a Mohawk princess with the name Tekahionwake and she did her kind of blood-curdling Indian war and love poetry, and people were shocked and amazed and thrilled,” Barber said. “She was a very, very big name in her day.”

Mezzo-soprano Rose-Ellen Nichols plays the title character in Margaret Atwood’s opera Pauline May 23 to 31 at the York Theatre.

To further challenge stereotypes, Johnson would emerge in the second half dressed as a proper Victorian woman and recite herVictorian poetry. Johnson was born in Brantford, Ont. in 1861. Her mother was a Quaker Englishwoman and her father was a Mohawk chief of the Six Nations. Her mother educated her inWestern literature and Johnson made a name for herself performing across North America and Great Britain before she moved toVancouver in 1909 where she died of breast cancer at age 51. She’s the only known person to be buried legitimately in Stanley Park. Atwood, 74, learned about Johnson in school in the 1940s and highlighted Johnson’s work when she included her in her edition of The Oxford Book of CanadianVerse in English in the early 1980s. Atwood wrote a grand opera about Johnson

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for a Toronto company in the 1990s, but that production never happened, so Atwood leapt at the chance to recreate the opera for Vancouver’s chamber opera company. Rose-Ellen Nichols, a 33-year-old mezzo-soprano who plays Johnson, doesn’t recall learning about the mixed-race performer when she grew up in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast. But the Coast Salish woman, who holds a master’s in opera from the University of B.C., feels excited to perform the title role in Pauline. “You’re putting together two great Canadian women of literature and they’re coming together so seamlessly and beautiful,” Nichols said. Atwood’s words meld with those from Johnson’s letters and poems, lifted by Stokes’ lyrical compositions. Barber says Atwood’s libretto is succinct, intelligent and by turns

bitterly funny and poignant. Barber promises “inspired” staging, noting esteemed director Norman Armour has two aboriginal designers shaping projections and hangings. Mara Gottler of Bard on the Beach fame has fashioned the costumes, aboriginal artist Marianne Nicolson is responsible for set and visual design and Jessie Award-winning John Webber for lighting design. It was Nichols who brought Atwood and Stokes to tears in October. “It really means a lot to her,” Barber said. “I didn’t realize how much until she… talked about this before an audience of about 80 people, many of them were First Nations, and she talked with wet eyes.” Nichols knows what it’s like to travel far from home to follow one’s artistic dreams. “[Johnson] made a choice in her life that that’s what she wanted to do,” Nichols said. “I’m doing the same kind of thing.” For Atwood, the opera about Johnson took 20 years to hit the stage, for City Opera, eight. But Barber says it’s the perfect story forVancouver and Canada, now. “It’s premised on the idea of dual identity,” he said. “It then pivots on the very Canadian question, who am I? Am I English, am I Mohawk, or can I learn how to be both.” Pauline runs May 23 to 31. Details at cityoperavancouver.com. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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From theToronto reviews and the press releases, I expected Kim’s Convenience to be light, funny and entertaining. It isn’t. It’s light, funny, entertaining and a really well-crafted script, a splendid production byToronto’s Soulpepper and a very engaging look at corner store culture as experienced by immigrants and their children. It’s more than its billing: “A Corner Store Comedy.” While it was written by Toronto playwright Ins Choi, Kim’s Convenience is a timely and thoroughly appropriate play for Vancouver with its burgeoning immigrant population. Choi’s own father, after a perilous walk from North Korea to South Korea before coming to Canada, worked in his brother’s convenience store by day and went to ESL classes by night. Choi knows firsthand what he’s writing about. In Kim’s Convenience, Appa (“father”) was a teacher in Korea, but after coming to Canada, he could not teach because, “My English is very not good.” He eventually managed to buy a corner store where he and his wife Umma (“mother”) work long hours with no benefits, no pension plan and no holidays.Their children, Jung and Janet, also worked in the store after school and on weekends; it takes the whole family to keep it going and to make ends meet. But as with all families, there are tensions. Jung, at 16, had a fight with his father after accusing him of being “a horrible husband”; he left home, started using drugs and cut off all contact

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and playwright Ins Choi star in the Arts Club’s production of Kim’s Convenience.

with the family except for the occasional visit with his heartsick mother.The family is now a trio: Appa, Umma and Janet. The store, says Appa, “is my story” but he wants it to be his legacy. But Janet, at 30, is a photographer and unmarried; she does not want to take over the family store. Jung, who now has a Tibetan partner and an infant son, is estranged from his father. So what will become of Appa’s “story”? Paul Sun-Hyung Lee brings charm to grouchy, opinionated, bigoted Appa who, in constantly looking back to a 1904 attack by the Japanese on Korea, hates all things Japanese: Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, etc.What would be seen as racist is, in Appa, understandable, even comic. As Umma, Jane Luk is quiet and passive while Chantelle Han’s Janet is forthright, independent and headstrong. The playwright appears as Jung in this production and it is in this character that Kim’s Convenience goes deeper than “a corner store comedy” would imply.The resolution for Jung is both heartwarming and rather sad.The resolution for Appa is an eye-opener for all of us. His “story” is not

the corner store, he discovers; his story is his family. Andre Sills as Rich, Mr. Lee, Mike and Alex, completes this ﬁne cast. Ken MacKenzie’s set — a replica corner store complete with aisles of junk food and canned goods — is appropriate to the play’s realism. Directed byWeyni Mengesha, Kim’s Convenience is 85 minutes of charm, family drama and bitter sweetness. It’s no surprise that it has done so well beginning with the 2011Toronto Fringe Festival and is now touring the country. In the works is a TV comedy series. Choi calls Kim’s Convenience a love letter to his parents. Although the family in the play is Korean-Canadian, the hopes, fears, prejudices and longings of all parents are sensitively portrayed here. Our children, they say, are only loaned to us. After guiding them for so long, letting them go is the hard part. Appa struggles mightily and we are moved by his determination, perseverance, street smarts and, ﬁnally, by the love he has for his family. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca. Kim’s Convenience runs until May 24 at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage until May 24.For tickets,call 604687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

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The Killarney Cougars defeated the Prince of Wales Walesmen 7-4 on May 9 to become Vancouver’s senior badminton city champions. The Prince of Wales’ impressive record of only one loss in its past 21 games fell to 21-2 as a result and stopped their championship streak at three. With the home game win, Killarney earned direct entry to the provincial championships while Prince of Wales will compete at the Lower Mainland regionals in order to secure a provincial spot. David Thompson won their bronze medal match against Eric Hamber 7-4, also May 9, and also advanced to regionals. Killarney and Prince of Wales duelled for the city title last year, with the Walesmen winning 6-5. The Cougars then beat their crosstown rival in the provincial quarterfinals, eventually finishing fourth at provincials. The city final started well for Prince of Wales, and their girls teams quickly won all four doubles games. But the boys doubles from Prince of Wales were unable to deliver, and Killarney won the last two games

of the night. Doubles teams Simon Cheng and Juan Karamoy, and Felix Law and Hayden Yee won their games against Walesmen Henry Ahn and Victor Chen, and Nicholas Chu and Daniel Schultz. Yee/Law versus Chu/ Schultz was without a doubt the most watched game of the night. Students sat on either side of the court, cheering their teams after every rally. Two of the players on court, one from either side of the net, knew each other well. Felix Law and Daniel Shultz, both 17, competed in U19 boys doubles as a pair only two weeks ago at the Canadian junior nationals held at Clearone Badminton Centre in Richmond. Both boys train at Vancouver Racquets Club. Killarney’s Law /Yee won the ﬁrst set with a nail-biting 21-19.The long rallies gave them a chance to warm up for the second set, in which they only gave up nine points. In that crucial second set, Chu and Schultz lost seven rallies in a row, giving momentum to their opponent. “We lost focus and it was downhill from there,” said Schultz. Chu agreed and credited the Killarney duo’s smart strategy. “They were changing the pace of the game, playing tight net shots then pushing [to the back court],” he said. Playing against your partner can have its advantages, said Law. “You know the other

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Killarney player Felix Law goes for a net kill in a game against his Canadian Junior Nationals doubles partner in Friday night’s city championship game against Prince of Wales. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

person’s shots and you know that he knows yours, so that makes it interesting,” he said. “We were playing mind games before the game even started.” Other notable games included the singles match between Lisa Khuc and Nikki Shen. Killarney’s Khuc squeezed by 21-19 in the ﬁrst set, then ﬁnished the match with a solid 21-7 score in the second set. Akina Chan and Nia Ru were stars for the Prince of Wales teams.They won both of their double match-

es with ease: 21-5, 21-4 in their ﬁrst match and 21-11, 21-14 in the second. Teammates Serene Chang and ShavonneYu won their doubles games with similar scores: 21-7, 21-11 and 21-11, 21-13. “They’ve come such a long way.They’re giving 100 per cent and they’ve improved so much even just this season,” said Carmen Tang, assistant coach and a Prince of Wales graduate. She smiled when she added, “This is why I like coming back, for the team

experience.” But it was not enough to stop the Cougars from grabbing the city title. Killarney will now rest and prepare for their second provincial showing in two years. Provincials will run May 29 to 31 in Richmond. The Lower Mainland regionals were played at Burnaby South Secondary, May 12 and 13. As of the Courier’s Tuesday print deadline, both Prince of Wales and David Thompson were in the running

The thrill of the Cougars’ city championship was dampened when Killarney learned their title was in jeopardy because of a complaint from another school. David Thompson filed an official complaint to the Vancouver Secondary School Athletics Association after the two schools met in the semifinals May 6. A DT coach alleged two Killarney players were not on the official team roster, which would have made them ineligible to play. The Vancouver School Board athletic coordinator rejected the complaint, citing a technical or clerical error as the cause of Killarney’s incomplete roster. Harp Sohi, pointed out the distinction between an unregistered and an ineligible player. “There were two players who were not included on the roster, but they were eligible. They had played on previous teams, last year and the year before,” he said. Killarney was fined $200 for their error, and B.C. School Sports has since added the two students to the roster. — Wanyee Li

for one of four guaranteed provincial berths. David Thompson is in pool B, the same pool as last year’s provincial champions, a coed team drawn from players at St. George’s and Crofton House.

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“Scali! Scali!” the crowd at the Richmond Olympic Oval, jacked on crossfit, chanted for Joe Scali as he pushed to finish second overall and win the sixth and final individual men’s event at the Canada West CrossFit Games May 11. Victoria brickhouse Lucas Parker had already secured his seat at the Reebok CrossFit Games, and three athletes in the highly competitive region were fighting for the second regional seat at the international competition later this summer. To get there, Scali, who

trains at Vancouver’s Studeo 55, had 21 minutes to see how much of a brutal physical test he could complete, a test that included 100 box jumps and 100 deadlifts. Only five men in the world, including Brent Fikowski who outpaced Scali by 20 seconds, completed the entire circuit. Scali finished second to Fikowski and lost the threeway tie for third. He finished fourth overall, repeating his results from 2013. In the team event, Vancouver’s CrossFit 604 finished third overall, one place shy of qualifying for the CrossFit Games. — Megan Stewart

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Azariah John sprinted to a first-place finish for Windermere in the senior boys 200 metre race in the city athletics championship May 9 at UBC. Jackson Cheung finished second for David Thompson.

David Thompson’s Sylvia Chan won the senior girls long jump, improving on second place from last year.

Max Trummer was the winner of the senior boys 800 metre race. He’s pursued by teammates Matthew Taylor and Troy Traﬁdlo who, along with Trummer, stacked the podium for Lord Byng. PHOTOS DAN TOULGOET

Trummer powers Byng’s drive for five ATHLETICS

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Lord Byng claimed its ﬁfth consecutive city athletics championship on the heels of Max Trummer and Matthew Taylor who came ﬁrst and second in the senior boys 800 metre, 1,500m and 3,000m events. Trummer also anchored the

4x400m relay. Killarney’s Enid Au also swept the girls’ middle-distance events and won the 800m, 1,500m and 3,000m races and was part of the winning 4x400m relay. “City’s draws a lot of strong competition and I feel a lot of pride running for Byng,” said Trummer, 17, who trains with the Thunderbirds Track and Field club and will run for

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