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LAST LAP: Donovan Tildesley, 29 and blind, swam his first laps at age nine at the Arbutus Club. The Paralympian holds four world swimming records and was Canada’s flag bearer at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. He announced his retirement this month. See story on page 26. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Teachers prepare for Monday strike

Rotating job action rolls out across province Cheryl Rossi

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Parents need to make other arrangements for their kids asVancouver schoolteachers are set to strike next Monday.

B.C.Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker announced Tuesday morning that rotating strikes across the province would run May 26 to 29. Schools will close inVancouver May 26.

“Last week, teachers were hopeful when they saw the government and BCPSEA [BC Public School Employers’ Association] put out an olive branch by backing off the unrealistic 10-year term,” said Iker, according to a press release. “But the next day, hope that this government would start negotiating in good faith faded when the em-

ployer announced a series of threats around wage rollbacks, lockouts, and attempts to divide teachers, parents, and students.”

Iker said strikes would be undertaken in response to unwillingness by the provincial government and the BCPSEA to offer improvements class size, composition and learning conditions for students, as well as unfair wage demands.

“It’s disappointing but it’s not surprising,” saidVancouver School Board chairperson, Patti Bacchus, of the strike news. “The government made some fairly provocative announcements on Friday afternoon and I anticipated that the BCTF would have a response.This is clearly going to be challenging for parents and students as we’re in the home stretch of the school year.”

The BCPSEA tabled an offer with a six-

year term and a $1,200 signing bonus for teachers last Friday if an agreement could be reached by June 30.

But, according to the BCPSEA, the BCTF refused to move on wages, benefits, class size and composition and more.

The BCPSEA noted Friday that the BCTF has applied to the Labour Relations Board to challenge government’s decision to have the union pay the cost of teacher benefits, which could mean another legal battle.

BCPSEA also noted Friday that it told the BCTF the association would apply more pressure unless the BCTF cancelled its initial stage of strike action, which is administrative only. (Teachers continue to participate in extracurricular activities, write report cards and communicate with parents.

Teachers are not to be at school more than an hour before or after class times, except for arranged voluntary activities. Meetings and written communications with administrators are limited.)

When the BCTF wouldn’t budge, the BCPSEA announced Friday that June 27 would remain a cancelled day for teachers across the province and June 25 and 26 would be cancelled days for all secondary schools across the province.

The BCPSEA announced a five per cent reduction in all teacher pay resulting from cuts in work hours related to the administrative strike action. BCPSEA said the requirement for the union to pay the cost of benefits would be tabled, “at least for the time being.”

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The city, Kinder Morgan and climate of risk 12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell

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Climate change is real.

How real is it?

It’s so real that the hard working communications staff at the City of Vancouver gave up part of their Saturday to send out a press release about the evils of climate change.

So evil, in fact, that Mayor Gregor Robertson was quoted throughout the release, saying quotable stuff like this: “The impacts of climate change are real and must be accounted for.”

The purpose of the release was to update the public via us media types about what Robertson and his crew at city hall are doing to scuttle Kinder Morgan’s proposal to twin its existing oil pipeline.

If the project goes ahead, more tankers will travel in and out of Burrard Inlet and Vancouver waters.

But Saturday’s release wasn’t so much targeted at Kinder Morgan as it was at

the National Energy Board, or NEB, and its need to pay attention to climate change as it applies to insurance companies.

Say what?

Apparently, insurance companies have begun to factor climate change into their economic risk assessments, according to the release.

More from the mayor: “It makes no sense for the NEB to ignore the economic impacts of climate change, while insurance companies around the world are adjusting their business models because of it. Climate change has significant economic costs that cannot be swept aside when evaluating a pipeline project of this magnitude.”

The city also got Mark Jaccard, a professor at Simon Fraser University with a PhD in energy and economics, to weigh in on the environmental impacts of giving the Kinder Morgan proposal the green light.

Jaccard says the project would increase greenhouse gas emissions by 270 mil-

The City of Vancouver is urging the National Energy Board to consider how twinning Kinder Morgan’s existing oil pipeline in Burnaby and adding more tankers to local waters is harmful to the environment.

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lion tonnes over 35 years.

Which isn’t exactly helpful in meeting the mayor’s goal of Vancouver being the greenest city in the world by 2020.

Earlier in the week, city council heard a presentation from deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston who argued Kinder Morgan’s proposal was flawed and downplays or ignores the risk to Vancouver’s economy and

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Johnston’s presentation came one week after the NEB rejected a request for oral public hearings and cross examination on Kinder Morgan’s proposal.

Now the mayor wants the city to set up a series of “public events” where residents can have their say about the project. He wants Kinder Morgan to participate, too.

Green Party Coun.

Adriane Carr attempted to sway council last week to tie a referendum on the project to this November’s civic election.

That failed.

However,VisionVancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer urged the feds to hold a vote after NEB completes the hearings.The mayor also worried a referendum tied to the election would have “no

spending limits, no donation limits and no disclosure requirements for people or groups involved in it.”

Coincidentally, this November’s civic election will have no spending limits or donation limits.Though parties have to disclose contributors’ names and donations, I couldn’t get an answer before deadline on whether that applies only to the election year.

If that’s the case, parties wouldn’t have to disclose contributors’ names or the amount of money they accepted between the 2011 election and Dec. 13. 2013.

“With absolutely no financing rules to guide it, tying that in to the civic election is a dangerous proposition,” the mayor added.

To clarify, he was talking about a plebiscite — not an election campaign in which VisionVancouver and the NPA spent more than $2 million each in the 2011 race.

No wonder independent candidates are calling for a political climate change. twitter.com/Howellings

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use the line “in support of rail operations.”

Vision Vancouver Coun.

Heather Deal explained her support for the motion.

“The reason we wanted to put this motion forward was to reiterate the city’s position that although CP owns the lands, the city in fact was given the right to make decisions about the use of that land and right now it is an extremely popular and active greenway.

That’s the use the neighbours have grown to love and the use that we’d like to see going forward into the future,” she said.

“We think cargo trains [are] not the correct use for a track that no longer goes from any industrial site to any other industrial site and goes through a lot of residential neighbourhoods.”

CP spokesman Ed Greenberg told the Courier the company doesn’t have a direct comment about

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Council unanimously passed a motion last week that Mayor Gregor Robertson write a letter to Canadian Pacific on behalf of council that expresses the city’s opposition “to the proposed reactivation of cargo trains along the Arbutus Corridor, and encourage them to respect the city and neighbourhood wishes of maintaining the Corridor as a greenway for public use, until a light-rail transit line can be implemented.”

As reported in the Courier May 8, CP has been contacting residents along the Arbutus Corridor to inform them access will be affected as CP clears brush and surveys the land along its 9.5-kilometre rail track, which hasn’t been used for more than a decade.

CP indicated it plans to

city council’s motion, but is open to “continued dialogue.”

“The fact is that this is CP property and the reason for the survey is to outline our property lines once again and it is a step-by-step process that our railway has started in exploring operational options for the line and ensuring the corridor continues to meet Canadian Transportation Act requirements,” he said.

“For many years, our railway has been involved in conversations to convert the corridor for a number of combined public uses such as a greenway, public transportation [and] eco-density.

Despite the efforts of our company and other parties, we’re unable to achieve a plan for this asset. CP is certainly open to further dialogue and discussions with the City of Vancouver.”

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‘Anything’s possible’ says BCTF Continued from page 1 The BCSPSEA and the BCTF are scheduled to continue bargaining May 22 and 23.

When asked Tuesday morning whether agreements at the table this week could see rotating strikes cancelled, “anything’s possible,” was Iker’s reply.

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The battle to preserve Vancouver’s heritage homes continues this week in front of the Legg Residence in Vancouver’s West End. Conservationists plan to hold a demonstration at the property at 1241 Harwood St. at 3 p.m., May 25 to call attention to concerns that heritage homes are being knocked down at an alarming rate.

The Legg Residence is slated for demolition to make way for a 17-storey tower unless someone pays to move it to another location — a costly endeavor, which would need to happen quickly to accommodate construction timelines.

Caroline Adderson, who’s behind the popular Vancouver Vanishes Facebook page, is one of the people involved in the protest.

The City ofVancouver issued more than 1,000 demolition permits in 2013. Most of them were for single-family homes, and many of those pre-1940s houses built with a high level of craftsmanship and quality materials, including first growth wood, according to a press release from organizers.

“The majority of these homes are already adapted, or adaptable, to modern living requirements and are a more affordable and ecologically sustainable option than the houses that currently replace them,” it stated. “Each demolition sends more than 50 tonnes of waste to the landfill, taking with it the history and character of the streetscape and the mature gardens that grace our established neighbourhoods.”

Demonstrators plan to bring messages for coun-

This house on West 37th was torn down last week.

cil, as well as pictures and mementoes of “vanishing Vancouver” to attach to the orange construction fences.

The images will be photographed and sent to the mayor and council.

The possibility that someone might pay to move the Legg Residence offsite doesn’t affect the protest plans, Adderson said.

“We’re using the Legg house to symbolize all the demolitions happening in the city.We’ll be thrilled if the Legg house is spared, but what of the more than 900 other houses?” Adderson told the Courier.

She pointed to a home at 1722 West 37th Ave., which was demolished last week.

“Moving houses is wonderful, but obviously quite expensive and arduous.The more sensible option is to offer protection of our pre1940s heritage and character houses through zoning changes, incentives for retention and disincentives for demolitions. People who wish to build their dream home might then choose other houses to demolish. Better yet, they might recognize the inherent value of these beautifully crafted homes made of natural materials, including old growth wood, and opt for restoration,” she added.

Heritage house tour

Speaking of heritage, the Vancouver Heritage Foundation Heritage House Tour takes place from 10 to 5 p.m., June 1.

Eleven homes are included in the tour.

A late and interesting addition is Casa Mia at 1920 Southwest Marine Dr., which has been mentioned often in this column.

In March, the city delayed a public hearing on a rezoning proposal for the property.The hearing has yet to be rescheduled.

The Care Group wants the site rezoned from single-family residential to comprehensive development so it can build a care facility on the property.

The 20,700 square foot Spanish Revival-style heritage home, designed by architect Ross Anthony Lort, was built in 1932 for George Reifel, a liquor magnate and rumrunner during the Prohibition era.

The HeritageVancouver Foundation notes that the home has never been open on this scale before and will only be open for one day during the Heritage House Tour. For information and ticket prices for the tour, see vancouverheritagefoundation.org twitter.com/naoibh

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UBC pool hits deep end of woe Wanyee Li

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The UBC pool has seen better days.

The aquatic centre’s sauna, weight room, two steam rooms and bathrooms are closed until June due to a chlorine leak that was discovered April 29. The changing rooms and pool remain open, but according to longtime users of the university pool, the closures are no surprise given what they say is the lack of maintenance the facility has seen in the past eight years.

“I swim five to six times a week but I go to Hillcrest or Vancouver Aquatic Centre now because the UBC pool is in such bad shape,” said Ivan Szasz, a member of the UBC Masters Swimming Club.

Before the university’s athletics department took over responsibility of the aquatic centre in 2006, “it was in pristine shape,” according to Szasz. Since then, there have been multiple unscheduled shutdowns of the pool and other facilities such as the showers and steam rooms have gradually degraded.

The men’s steam room and sauna has been out of operation for more than five years, although the women’s (now co-ed) sauna has only been closed for six months.

Chris Neale was the facilities manager at the

UBC Aquatic Centre for 16 years until 2006. UBC Athletics consulted with him last month when a main valve in the aquatic centre broke.

He called the state of the facilities “unsightly.”

The main valve needed to be replaced and as a result the pool was closed from April 2 to 22. According to Linda Finch, the senior manager of programs and operations for UBC Athletics and Recreation, general maintenance was done during that time as well. Finch, who was hired in December 2013, recognizes that the pool has not been well maintained in recent years.

“Those annual shutdowns should occur every one to two years. My understanding was that there hadn’t been a shutdown for a few years,” she said.

She told the Courier that from now on, pool maintenance would be done every one to two years.

UBC’s facilities department is optimistic about the pool’s future. “Clearly we’ve had a lot of issues in the past few months but there’s been a lot of effort put in to make sure these issues don’t keep reoccurring,” said director Kavie Toor.

According to Toor, the pool’s repair and maintenance budget last year was $590,000. However, Neale said that while he was pool manager, when

the student union owned the aquatic centre, it took about $800,000 per year to maintain the facilities.

That amount included the upkeep of the outdoor pool, which was shut down permanently in February.

Neale questions the thoroughness of last month’s pool maintenance. Regular annual pool maintenance, like the one Hillcrest Community Centre preformed last month, takes on aver-

age four to five weeks to complete.The UBC pool had not had annual maintenance for eight years.The UBC pool’s maintenance and valve replacement took 20 days.

The pool’s woes are not caused by old age or poor design.

“It’s a tragedy because this facility is one of the best built facilities around,” said Neale, who has managed sev-

eral aquatic centres in the Lower Mainland including Watermania in Richmond.

Szasz compares the situation with his experience in Hungary, where he was raised. “I swam in the pool I grew up in last May, which was built in 1936 and it’s still in perfectly good condition,” he said. “It’s just a matter of maintenance.”

UBC is planning to build a new aquatic centre

that will include a 50-metre competition pool, a 25-metre recreational pool and a hot tub. Construction was scheduled to begin in the spring but has now been delayed until early July, according to Finch. The new facility’s completion date is anticipated to be in 2016.

UBC Athletics intends to keep the aquatic centre open until then. twitter.com/wanyeelii

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Opinion Appalling head tax reflected the times

New homes a shadow of what they could be

Les Leyne Columnist lleyne@timescolonist.com

Michael Geller Columnist

The B.C. legislature tried to make amends last week for the racist provincial policies and attitude that led to the Chinese head tax.

I wonder what all the long-gone newspaper hacks — my professional ancestors — would make of the day’s events. Because they put in years of work whipping up the hysteria on which the policies were based and egging on the politicians to go further in excluding Chinese from British Columbia and curbing the lives of those already here.

Press gallery group photos stretching back a century grace a stairwell at the legislature. They show a shifting collection of white men, most of whom helped keep readers outraged at the prospect of Chinese people coming to B.C. to make lives for their families, exactly as Europeans did. They are the working stiffs who filed copy as directed to keep the story going.

They reported to editors who responded to the public appetite and wrote raving commentaries about the horrors represented by Asian immigrants, then demanded that politicians react.

When it comes to making a judgment on a public issue, it’s pretty clear — retrospectively — the media of the day blew the call. The only saving grace is that almost the entire society of the day was on the same wavelength. Pretty much every group ended up on what turned out to be the wrong side of the issue. But as someone who watches history go by from the same seats, it’s fascinating for me to think about how comprehensively wrong those generations of newspapermen were.

Historian Patricia Roy has spent years reading their copy in researching her books on the topic. In The Oriental Question, she made observations about the role of newspapers.

Whether they make or reflect public opinion, is always debatable. “Had they followed lines of argument incompatible with the majority opinion of their readers and advertisers, they were unlikely to survive.”

Maybe that’s what led to observations like this, from the Prince George Herald: “If you believe in the superiority of the white race, do your duty (by not patronizing Asian-run businesses).”

TheVancouverWorld was one of the most vehement anti-Asian papers. After some

When it comes to making a judgment on a public issue, it’s pretty clear — retrospectively — the media of the day blew the call.

laundries in Vancouver closed, the paper suggested that Chinese-run businesses didn’t contribute to the economy because owners sent their money “home to the Flowery Kingdom to await the exigencies of pleasant old age.”

After a Chinese student came second in a school scholastic event, the Daily Colonist in Victoria opined: “We hold no brief for Chinese children, nor to the mixture of the Orient and the Occident in the schools.” The writer concluded that if white children were spurred to further study, the Chinese may be “a blessing in disguise.”

Over the run of the anti-Asian chapter, it was a rare example of (back-handed) tolerance. A year later an Asian student won the contest outright. TheVancouver Sun responded with this: “The yellow peril is not yellow battleships or yellow settlers, but yellow intelligence.”

Linking Chinese immigrants to drugs, gambling and squalor was a standard story in those years. The Nanaimo Free Press observed: “Individually we like and admire them. But those foreign characteristics we find interesting … lead to a veritable Chinese puzzle when these people are placed in the same social conditions as ourselves … by reason of their divergent standards of living and conduct.”

TheWestern Methodist Recorder said in 1921 that B.C. should teach respect for laws, “remembering that if we fail to Canadianize the Oriental, he will not fail to Orientalise us.”

It’s just a scant sampling of appalling coverage. It’s not for me to apologize for how media long ago reflected or amplified the world as it was.

But it’s for all of us to remember how the prevailing view of the day doesn’t always turn out to be the right one. twitter.com/leyneles

The week in num6ers...

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In storeys, the height of a proposed condo tower for a site currently home to the Legg Residence heritage building in the West End.

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The number of city councillors who opposed a motion for the mayor to write CP expressing the city’s opposition to them re-activating the railway along the Arbutus Corridor.

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The number of years that have passed since the last train trundled down the Arbutus line.

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What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?

When I was a child, my father often challenged me to think about this classic paradox.Today, I continue to think about it as I travel around Vancouver.

The irresistible force is the need for change and regeneration.The immovable object is the desire to protect the past and keep things the way they are.

I think about this paradox when driving along Southwest Marine Drive where heritage mansions are being demolished and replaced with large houses often appearing to belong to another time and place. Nearby is a questionable proposal to build a seniors care facility in return for heritage designation of Casa Mia. I think about this paradox when driving through Shaughnessy where more than 20 applications have been submitted to demolish what many of us would consider important heritage structures. I think about this paradox every time I see orange protective fencing being installed around boulevard street trees in my neighbourhood. It generally means an older home and its mature landscaping is to be demolished to make way for a new house I probably will not like as much as what was there before.

Moreover, [zoning] does not result in smaller, more affordable ownership choices

An example can be found on Blenheim Street between West 41st and West 49th where a lovely old house forming part of a special streetscape was demolished and a large boxy house with a red clay tile roof is under construction.

When finished and landscaped, it will probably look better than it does right now.

But it may never look as good as the older house it replaced. Furthermore, based on what has happened elsewhere around the city, without a change in zoning, it is inevitable that the remaining character houses in the block will one day be replaced by similar boxy houses with red clay tile roofs.

These older houses are being demolished for a number of reasons.The most signifi-

cant is they do not take advantage of the maximum floor area permitted under the zoning. Also, they are often energy inefficient and not likely to last without expensive upgrading.

Ironically, while it is often said the most sustainable building is an existing building, these houses are also being demolished in the name of sustainability.The city wants to gently densify single-family neighbourhoods and create affordable housing choices.

Consequently, these older houses are often replaced by three new units: a principal dwelling, a basement suite and a laneway suite. Unfortunately, the zoning does not always require the degree of design review to ensure new structures fit in. Moreover, it does not result in smaller, more affordable ownership choices many households, especially empty nesters, are seeking in established neighbourhoods.

There is a solution.We could take lessons from zoning changes implemented 20 years ago that encouraged builders to retain and renovate older homes by allowing construction and sale of an adjacent coach house, along with subdivision of older houses into smaller suites.We could do the same thing in single-family zones. Builders could be encouraged to retain older character houses by allowing them to build and sell a coach house equal in size to the “unused density.”

Alternatively, in return for taking special care to design a development that fits in with neighbouring properties, they might be permitted to build smaller duplex homes with or without a coach house.

These proposals were included in reports prepared as part of the Mayor’s 2012 Affordable Housing Task Force; including the Roundtable on Building Form and Design which I was pleased to chair. The city has made good on one of these recommendations by appointing a chief housing officer, Mukhtar Latif, an international property consultant from the U.K. The city also initiated an interim rezoning policy to encourage more affordable housing choices close to transit and commercial areas. Sadly, given the program’s ill-conceived regulations, not one new affordable ownership unit has proceeded to date.

Hopefully Mukhtar and the planning department will now take another look at the task force’s findings and recommendations and follow up with innovative zoning changes to both encourage protection of older character houses, and offer much needed affordable ownership housing choices.This is not a paradox. twitter.com/michaelgeller

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The number of shows being performed in five Granville Island venues as part of the 37th annual International Children’s Festival running May 27 to June 1.

In billions of U.S. dollars, the estimated worth of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté.

The world-renowned company’s latest show Totem runs in Vancouver until July 6.

Jordan Lu’s five-under-par round at McCleery Golf Course on May 15. The Prince of Wales senior led the Walesmen to their second straight city title.

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Mailbox RCMP at Wreck ‘unacceptable and dumb’ To the editor: Re: “All hands on Wreck,” Kudos & Kvetches, May 14.

The UBC RCMP decision to place a tent full time for several hours a day is both unacceptable and dumb.

As a long time resident ofVancouver, a nearby the beach resident and someone who has both observed and appreciated the uniqueness of that beach over time, I can only shake a head in disbelief at an action that will infuriate those who value the beach and likely prove a blunder from a PR perspective for the UBC RCMP detachment... and maybe even the BC RCMP. What makes this particular beach like no other in the Lower Mainland is both its natural beauty and atmosphere.The natural beauty is under constant attack from pollution and development, however it’s atmosphere is also threatened by the presence of armed and uniformed individuals.

That’s where both the RCMP and GVRD come in.Why is it necessary for two administrations to be patrolling the beach? Especially that beach?

The battle over Wreck Beach and who has the right to use it was won decades ago.

It’s a clothing-optional beach and therefore LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Man in Motion returns home May 22, 1987: Rick Hansen completes the first world tour by wheelchair and is greeted by cheering crowds at B.C. Place 792 days after departing Oakridge Mall on his Man in Motion tour. Hansen, 29, raised $20 million for spinal cord research after travelling more than 40,000 kilometres through 34 countries on four continents, during which he wore out a total of 117 tires and 11 pairs of gloves.

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attracts a particular demographic. Some, it seems, just can’t get over it.

Among other things, providing law enforcement is a matter of prioritizing. It’s doubtful that too many users of that beach support the level of attention by police to the degree it has been, let alone setting up virtually a full time presence there for several hours a day.

MLA Harry Bains was on the radio this week lamenting lack of RCMP manpower for serious crime in Surrey.There are serious crimes, including the murder of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry which took place in UBC RCMP’s jurisdiction, that remain unsolved. Unwanted and unnecessary presence in a location that is essentially self-policing looks bad for the RCMP and its members.

An action like this can only add fuel to the fire for those who will inevitably ask: “Have the RCMP nothing better to do?”

Few are unaware of what goes on down at that beach. Nothing’s changed and nothing will change... except some officer in charge of an RCMP detachment has chosen to draw the line in the sand.

The result of this action will be beachgoers who are upset, bad media publicity and yet again more public attention to bad management and misallocation of police / taxpayer resources by the RCMP. Like I said, unacceptable and dumb.

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COURIER COLUMN: “A modest proposal for the UFC,” May 16.

Menkar:Ticket prices are simply insane for this event. Nosebleed seats are going for close to $100.That far away you’ll be able to make out next to nothing.That price buys you the PPV. Philequal: Unfortunately, it’s pretty standard that main events below 170lbs don’t garner nearly the same attention as the heavier guys. Barao vs. Faber at UFC 169 was the emptiest I’ve ever seen the sports bar near my place, and those guys are total warriors. It’s the nature of the beast, sadly.

Sinky13: I agree. If this was aVelasquez or Jones fight the tickets would be snapped up.

COURIER COLUMN: “Report challenges some Site C concepts,” May 14.

BitCoinBuyer:The only catastrophically wrong energy “investments” have been those in solar and wind. Many many examples, as recent as Solyndra, thanks to [Obama] and his demoncrats, to the antiquated broken down windmill farms in the CoachellaValley of California. Hydroelectric power has long been the smartest of all energy producers. Look at the Bennett dam. 50 years of reliable power.There will be nothing but growth int his province, and as long as everybody wants multiple computers and flatscreenTVs in their homes, more power is a necessity. Bring on Site C and get on it already.

COURIER STORY: “Arbutus Corridor: One track minds,” May 14.

Gerald Dobronov: Please don’t pave it and invite everyone to use it.A ‘Greenway’ should be for greenery and the animals that live in it.The number of people using it right now isn’t having a major negative impact and plants are free to grow wherever they can. Even though most of the vegetation is non-native at least it’s flourishing and creating its own ecosystem.As soon as you pave it and increase usage by people and their dogs (who do the most damage) it’ll become sterile and less productive. I wish we could get away from the stone age thinking that a piece of land not being altered for human use is evil. If you want to bring nature in to the city (greening) then you have to let nature take its own course. I hope that the huge number of neighbourhoods that this line crosses through make their wishes known.

COURIER STORY: “CP ‘explores options’ on Arbutus line,” May 9.

Nati Herron: If Vancouver is really thinking about the future and a green city they would seriously include this vital piece of rail for a green rail commuting option, linking various cities and neighbourhoods.Vancouver should be looking at this as a perfect smart city project!

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1 & 2. Before the service came to an end in 2001, the Molson Brewery was Canadian Pacific’s only customer along the Arbutus Corridor rail line. PHOTOS ABE VAN OEVEREN 3. East Boulevard near West 51st Avenue. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT See photo gallery at vancourier.com or scan this page with the Layar app.

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A walk down the Arbutus Corridor Gardens, party zones and train buffs found along unused rail line CITY LIVING Rebecca Blissett rblissett@telus.net

Bramble bushes with stems the size of a child’s wrist strangle the old railway tracks underneath the south side of the Burrard Street bridge now, but up until 1982 they met the Kitsilano trestle over which the B.C. Electric Railway once trundled.

The trestle was torn down just four years shy of its 100th birthday and while the slip of land where the tracks lead out is overgrown and unremarkable, evidence of Vancouver’s railway history pokes out here and there on the gravel access road under the bridge.

It’s a good place to start a walk along the Arbutus rail line heading north to south.

The line crosses West

First Avenue with the long-silent crossing signals — markers perhaps purposefully kept by Canadian Pacific Railway as a reminder of who really owns this corridor of land.

The scenery changes from one side of the road to the other; wild growth and somebody’s camp gives way to orderly gardening with a sign warning not to steal anything or risk making Esme, a young gardener, upset.

The tracks cut across West Fourth and the trimmed grass between metal and wood is the only greenery, otherwise the space is a backyard for car lots and garbage bins. Across the tracks at the entrance to the lush garden at Fir Avenue sits a beat-up Chevy cargo van, a bookend between industry and persistent nature.The

garden at West Sixth has reached park proportions with a subdivision of planter boxes with edibles, flowers and apple trees.Weeds stuffed into gardening bags lean against CPR’s faded and rusty No Trespassing sign, cheerfully ignored like children no longer avoiding the neighbourhood crank’s house because he’s moved into a care home.

The track cuts over West Seventh and up Arbutus Street for the longest straightaway of the Arbutus Corridor line’s journey.

The ragged stretch of track between West Broadway and West 12th is known as a “party zone” according to a woman who sniffed her disapproval during her walk to work. A few steps down the line, to prove her point, a couple of guys were cracking open beer and sitting on a concrete box.

Oddly out of place are the rail crossing signs at West 14th.The posts have a new coat of paint and the X is sparkly clean, interesting considering the last time engine 1237 dropped off its malt and barley at the Molson Brewery was May 2001.

Abe Van Oeveren, who tends to his trackside garden nearby the crossing, is a bit of a train buff. He’s lived in the neighbourhood since 1984 and remembers how Dave the engineer used to wave, sometimes blowing his horn, when they saw one another. “I miss the trains,” he said. “I used to have to straighten all the pictures in the house after it would rumble by.”

Down the slight valley and up the tracks turn near Quilchena Park where a view of the ocean is seen over the tops of the houses.

The tracks have plenty of

cow-catching room at West 42nd so the extra space seems to lend itself to a feeling of more permanency for gardens as sheds have been built complete with cottage fencing, not to mention a scarecrow dressed as a cyclist.The closeness of the Vancouver International Airport is evident by low-flying aircraft near West 60th Avenue. Just past Rand Avenue there’s a typed plea by the exasperated-sounding Wits End Co-Op not to build a garden near the tracks because an endangered bird species likes to hide in the underbrush.

A few metres down the way, young Ben and brothers Lars and Rainier hung out with their “attack” tabby cat named Barney in their hang-out they carved out of the bushes, complete with a couple of abandoned office chairs.The cat ran

off, and Rainer, while playing the guitar, mentioned there was a secret tunnel nearby but it meant crawling through blackberry bushes to find it.The boys didn’t seem to care much for the idea of their hideout being ruined by a train.

“The train would probably take out all the gardens, too,” said Lars.

“That’s bull!”

The temperature felt about 10 degrees warmer by Southwest Marine Drive’s rush hour. Here the tracks pass by warehouse, car lots, and concrete piping makers.

Yet in the middle of all the noise and industry of the riverside there was a small garden with a bathtub of flowers.The Arbutus line, and the five-hour walk, ended with a padlock at two gate doors leading to a swing bridge over the river to Richmond.

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4 4. Secret hide-out belonging to Ben, Lars, and Rainier near Rand Street.

5. West 6th Avenue near Burrard Street.

6. South of West 1st Avenue. One of the lines heading in the direction of Granville Island is filled with garden pots and planters.

7. East Boulevard near West 55th Avenue.

8. South of West 1st Avenue. The first garden, tended to by locals, along the Arbutus Line uses one side of the metal railway as a garden bed. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT See photo gallery at vancourier.com or scan this page with the Layar app.

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Tracking the Arbutus line’s history

• The Arbutus Corridor line was built in 1902 after the province granted the land to Canadian Pacific.

• The Kitsilano Trestle, which spanned False Creek near where the current Burrard Street Bridge is today, was built by Canadian Pacific in 1886 and torn down in 1982.

It was said to be a navigational hazard for passing boats.

• The last passenger train ran along the Arbutus Corridor in 1954 and the last freight train in 2001.

• Canadian Pacific’s only customer on the Arbutus line was Molson Brewery when it stopped running.

• The Arbutus Corridor line starts near Granville Island and passes through Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge/ Shaughnessy, Kerrisdale and Marpole before crossing a swing bridge into Richmond.

• The Arbutus Corridor sits on combined land roughly the size of 45-acres.

• After pubic hearings in 2000, the city passed the

Arbutus Corridor Official Development Plan that designated the land for transportation, parks, and/or greenways even though the land is private property. The CPR took the city to court saying that the city had taken its property for which compensation was due.

• Suggestions were made the city should buy the land or make a deal with CPR but formal discussions faded during years of contentious court battles.

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On a recent Saturday morning, I met with 15 of my patients each of whom suffered from chronic pain.

The group medical visit is a relatively new way for a physician to provide care to patients suffering from a common condition.They are more commonly used for conditions such as diabetes, congestive heart failure or chronic lung disease.

I chose to use this special type of visit for my patients to allow sufficient time to explain new concepts in the approach to chronic pain, discuss how pain affects our lives and introduce them to new evidence-based self-management tools to improve function and enjoyment of life.

Pain itself plays an important physiological role.When it is acute and caused by harm or injury to the body, it provides useful information to us so that we can take immediate steps to attend to the affected area and remove it from danger. If you could feel no pain, you wouldn’t know that you had stepped on a nail or that you were developing a serious foot infection.

The central nervous system is very efficient.When certain patterns of thought and behaviour are repeated, particular patterns of neural connections become more entrenched. If we take the same way home each day, it becomes so automatic that we don’t have to think about it. If we think the

same good or bad thoughts day in and day out, they become patterns of thought and limit our ability to perceive anything else.

When pain becomes chronic, it can affect every aspect of our lives — the activities of daily living, our relationships, our enjoyment of life — how we see ourselves and our future.

Because pain is at the root of these negative changes, it can become the focus of our attention and our daily lives.

Pain can shade our emotions and shape our thoughts.

When we are anxious, we catastrophize (imagining the worse), we overestimate the challenges before us and we underestimate our ability to manage them.When we are depressed, we think negative thoughts about ourselves, our world and our future.

We can get stuck in a vortex of negative thinking and emotion, and this cognitive state actually worsens the pain.

There is no single pain generator in the human nervous system.The pain we experience is the product of the interplay of the original injury, the nervous system’s ability to modulate sensations, and how we cope.

Even if the original injury has resolved, we can become stuck in a maladaptive reaction to pain, and the nervous system becomes very efficient in signaling pain. In fact, less of a stimulus (perhaps just a light touch) can trigger a greater pain response.

We now know that we need not remain stuck.

Through functional MRI, we know that meditation, cognitive therapy and hypnosis can change how our brains process sensations and perceive pain.

The relatively new field of neuroplasticity has shown us how we can retrain and change our own brains.

The first key to mastering chronic pain and enhancing our levels of comfort is to recognize how our thoughts, emotions and behaviours influence our experience of pain. By adopting and practicing more adaptive approaches, we can increase our comfort, be more functional and again enjoy the activities we value most in our lives.

After ensuring that a patient’s condition has been sufficiently investigated and appropriate medication and physical therapies applied, I now offer my patients three self-management tools. Mindfulness meditation helps us to centre our minds, increase our awareness and calm our nervous systems. Cognitive therapy trains us to uncover our underlying beliefs and assumptions, control our conscious thoughts, reframe our situation and shape our emotions. Self-hypnosis engages our subconscious minds to reinforce positive thoughts, emotions and behaviours and allows us to visualize a healthier future.

With these three tools, we can regain our sense of control, transforming helplessness and hopelessness to engagement and empowerment.

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Brain tumours require quick action Cheryl Rossi

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For six months, Kim Jang knew something was wrong with her six-year-old son.

Various doctors attributed Nate’s headaches and vomiting to anxiety because Jang had started a job outside the home.

But an MRI she insisted on showed a brain tumour resting on his optic nerve. He went immediately to B.C. Children’s Hospital for surgery.

Dr. Arjun Sahgal, deputy chief of the department of radiation oncology at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto, says signs of a brain tumour are often non-specific and can be difficult to diagnose.

He advises parents to make multiple visits to the emergency room when their child is not receiving the attention they believe they need.

“That also triggers the fact that hey something’s wrong here, we’ve got to look a little bit further,” Sahgal said.

Nate’s tumour grew two centimetres within two weeks of his first surgery, so Nate faced a year of chemotherapy. In three years, Nate underwent eight surgeries and chemotherapy.

Now nine years old, he copes with left-side weakness and wears a brace on his left leg but is otherwise fine. His six-month MRI also looked good.

“The chemo shrunk [the tumour] significantly but he still has a piece of it there,” Jang said. “There’s always, obviously, the chance that it could grow.”

Six months after Nate was diagnosed with a brain tumour, his classmate, Adam, was diagnosed with the same type of tumour.

Adam’s grew in a different spot in his brain and was

immediately removed.

Sahgal says children tend to grow less aggressive brain tumours than adults. Doctors avoid using radiation on children because the treatment can damage their brains or cause cancer to reoccur.

Every day, 27 Canadians are diagnosed with a brain tumour. It’s estimated the average patient will make 52 visits to their healthcare team in the first year after diagnosis.

The most common type

of malignant brain tumour in adults is glioblastoma multiforme. Average survival, even with aggressive treatment, is less than a year. Brain tumours are the leading cause of solid cancer death (as opposed to blood- or lymph-based cancers) in children under age 20. Brain tumours are the third leading cause of solid cancer death in those aged 20 to 39.

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Brain tumour survivors Nate (left) and Adam (right) helped raise thousands of dollars in Vancouver Spring Sprint for the Brain Tumour Foundation last year.

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May is Speech & Hearing Month Back by Popular Demand! The 2014 Hearing Health Fair, a FREE workshop open to the general public.

This unique event will focus on hearing health care issues.

Features: • Special Guest: Gael Hannan, www.gaelhannan.com, Hearing Loss Consultant and Advocate • Free Hearing Screenings, Lectures, Exhibit Hall, Light Lunch • Fully Hearing Accessible (Sign Language Interpreters and Real Time Captioning) • Registered Audiologists on hand to answer questions • Q&A Session: The High Cost of Hearing Aids in BC

2014 Hearing Health Fair Holiday Inn Vancouver Centre - Ballroom 711 West Broadway Vancouver, BC Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:00am to 3:30pm Come out and learn about your Ears and your Hearing!

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Sahgal says quick decisions typically must be made following diagnosis of a brain tumour. A board member of the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, he suggests the foundation’s website as a resource.Visitors can submit medical questions that are answered by specialists and watch videos about various treatments.

Jang likes that the foundation organizes events for children who’ve had brain tumours.

“Nathan feels that these kids are kind of the same as me,” she said.

For the third year in a row, Nate and Adam’s families, friends and neighbours

Spring Sprint:

• Spring Sprint happens at Burnaby Lake Rugby Club, 3760 Sperling Ave. in Burnaby. Registration opens at 10 a.m., but pre-registration online is encouraged.

•The sprint starts at 11 a.m. and wraps up at 1 p.m.

• For more information, see springsprint.ca.

will participate as team Nate ‘n’ Adams Peeps in the Vancouver Spring Sprint, May 25, which raises money for the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. Participants can walk or run 2.5 or five kilometres.

There’s no registration fee or minimum amount one must raise. Every dollar raised supports the production of Brain Tumour Handbooks for adults and children, a national network of support groups, education events and the provision of information online.

Donations help ensure health care professionals across the country are educated about brain tumours and patients needs and supports research projects. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

Common symptoms of a brain tumour:

• Behavioural changes • Cognitive changes • Dizziness or unsteadiness • Double or blurred vision • Frequent headaches • Hearing impairment • Morning nausea and vomiting • Seizures • Weakness or paralysis

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Family

Fun and frolicking at the Children’s Festival Eating out raises money for Growing Chefs programs COMMUNITY CALENDAR Sandra Thomas

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Granville Island

The 37th AnnualVancouver International Children’s Festival takes place May 27 to June 1 on Granville Island with programs that travel from prehistoric to present day.

Ten professional performing artists from as far away as Australia, Israel and Germany will perform 73 shows in five Granville Island venues, including four indoor and one Big Top tent.The festival’s Activity Village makes it easy for the whole family to be creatively adventurous together with activities such as mask making, bicycle spin-art, origami, circus skills, the Twist & Toddle play area and much more.The festival expects 30,000 children and adults in attendance next weekend.

Highlights of this year’s

festival include: Fred Penner, one of Canada’s best-loved children’s singers; the North American premiere of Invisi’BALL — a show that combines dance, theatre and pantomime in a game of soccer, the eye-popping performance of the Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo — large-scale dinosaur puppets kids get to see, feel and touch up close; the English-language premiere of Where I Live, a play that invites small children to explore their place in the world; and five special evening performances including Pajama Nights.

Tickets for featured performances are on sale now.

Visit childrensfestival.ca for more information.

Various locations

For all of June some of this city’s restaurants will be adding $1 to a popular menu item to help fund Growing Chefs Classroom Gardening Program.

Over the course of a three-month Growing Chefs classroom program,

help students harvest their gardens and give cooking lessons with the vegetables they grew.

Last year the non-profit’s Eat, Give, Grow campaign raised $8,000 towards the program, which teaches children about urban agriculture, local food, healthy cooking and proper nutrition.

With programs in 34 classrooms across the province, Growing Chefs has a $10,000 goal for this year’s event. Just some of the restaurants taking part include Tableau Bar Bistro, Homer St. Cafe, MARKET by Jean-Georges and Chambar. For a complete list visit growingchefs.ca.

The Growing Chef’s Program sees chefs visit classrooms to teach kids about urban agriculture, local food, healthy cooking and proper nutrition.

more than 1,000 children will grow, harvest, and taste a variety of organic and delicious greens. Students plant windowsill gardens n the chefs’ first visit to a class-

room.The chefs then return every two weeks to give lessons on plant growth, nutrition, urban agriculture and sustainability. At the end of the program, the chefs

Downtown

Parents might want to get in on these two workshops taking place at the Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch in June.

The first, Getting to Know Facebook, is designed to teach the basics of the social media site.

Learn how to stay connected with friends and family by sharing on Facebook. Parents with kids active on Facebook might also find this session informative.

The free sessions takes place June 3, 13 and 25 in the computer training room of the library.

On June 2, the library is hosting a workshop called Raising Financially Responsible Teens.

Parents will learn strategies to help their teenager become a financially responsible adult by planning for school, buying a vehicle and even saving for a home.

This session is being presented in partnership with the Credit Counselling Society of B.C. in the Alma VanDusen Room on the lower level of the Central Library, 350 West Georgia St.This session is free but registration is required.

For more information and times on all of these sessions, call 604-331-3603 or visit vpl.ca/events. twitter.com/sthomas10

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2014 South Hill Festival Saturday, May 24, 2014

A MULTI-CULTURAL EVENT The 2014 South Hill Festival will provide you with food for thought. As we celebrate sustenance that is local, sustainable, healthy and bursting with world flavours, we also want to explore how a healthy community provides nourishment for the body, mind and soul.

The festival takes place on Saturday, May 24th from 12:00-4:00pm in the parking lots west of Fraser Street from 46th to 48th Avenue. For more information and a complete list of activities, visit southhillbia.ca.

See you there!

What to do at the South Hill Festival: ■ Enjoy dance, music and demos on the main stage and at various street level locations ■ Help create the Food Mandala ■ Climb the 24’wall ■ Visit the Makermobile ■ Check out the Fire truck and VPD Dog Squad ■ Carry out your city hall business at the mobile city hall ■ Get involved in the Sunset Ice Rink Mural Project ■ Make a new friend in the ball tank ■ Learn about growing vegetables ■ Make a garden marker ■ Visit the multi-cultural food fair ■ Get active in the sports area ■ Try a smoothie blended by bike power ■ Make a face in the photo booth ■ Create a VPL Button

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Pop-Up City Hall Drop by our mobile City Hall for municipal services. Get recycling boxes or bags. Register to vote. Pick up maps and brochures. Find out about emergency planning courses, City jobs, recreation programs, public consultations and more!

Thursday, May 22, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm Grandview Park

Saturday, May 31, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm Collingwood BIA Festival

Saturday, May 24, 12 noon - 4 pm South Hill Festival

Sunday, June 1, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm Killarney Community Centre

Saturday, May 24, 4:30 - 7:30 pm Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School

Wednesday, June 4, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm Sunset Community Centre

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More camps, more choices for your kids

Part two of our roundup of summer camps Sandra Thomas

sthomas@vancourier.com

When it comes to choosing a summer camp for children and youth, experts advise parents and guardians 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 the second instalment in a roundup of summer camps.

MacSailing

MacSailing’s popular summer camps run Monday to Friday at the Jericho Sailing Centre and Kitsilano Yacht Club for kids aged five to 14.

Programs offered include: Beach Kids: For young children five to seven years old who want to learn about sailing and water safety.

Sail Optis:These courses are for beginner and intermediate sailors aged seven to 10 years old.

Sail Escapes: Courses are for beginner and intermediate sailors aged 10 to 14 years old.

CampOUT!

Craving a canoe ride?

Yearning for a good campfire sing-a-long? Dreaming of queer and trans friendly

MacSailing, a summer camp operated out of the Jericho Sailing Centre, has a focus on water safety and sailing for kids ages five to 14.

CampOUT! is a free summer camp for queer, transgender, questioning and allied youth ages 14 to 21.

arts and crafts sessions and spending time with 90 other like-minded folks and supportive allies? CampOUT! is for you.

CampOUT! is a community-based, outdoor summer camp for queer, transgendered, questioning and allied youth age 14 to 21.

And thanks to the support of donors, the camp is free.

Organized in conjunction with the University of B.C., the camp provides opportunities for these youth to

There are only a limited number of spaces available for this July’s camp, but it’s also a good time to be thinking about 2015.

For more information visit campout.ubc.ca.

develop leadership skills, build self-esteem, inspire each other, foster hope and resilience and connect with resources to support their health and well being — physical, mental, social, sexual, educational and spiritual. CampOUT! provides a supportive space for youth to be themselves.

UBC’sYouth Sexual Health Team organized the pilot camp, but it’s now a program that falls under the university’s Equity Office.

YMCA overnight and day camps

TheYMCA offers numerous summer programs for boys and girls, including overnight camps.Through these overnight camps, kids work together with

their cabinmates to build independence and life-long friendships. Fun-filled days of physical activity in the outdoors promote healthy habits and environmental stewardship to last a lifetime.Whether it’s learning interdependence in a cabin group or mastering the art of archery, theY’s overnight camps offer kids a chance to gain new skills and friendships in the great outdoors. Meanwhile the YMCA’s day camps are a

time for kids to be kids by offering an opportunity for them to run, play and be free from their busy school schedules.Through fun physical activities, kids learn about themselves, increase their self-confidence and make new friends in a safe and caring environment.

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Licensed Preschool Summer Daycamps

Children ages 3 – 5 Years

(Child must have turned 3 &/or 4 by December 31st, 2013)

Camp Location: Mount Pleasant Community Centre #1 Kingsway, 2nd Floor.

This fun Daycamp allows Preschoolers to develop social and cooperative skills through a well-rounded learning program that includes free play, art, music, singing, games, stories, and outside play!

July 2nd - August 29th, 2014 5 Days/Week - $111 4 Days/Week - $89* (Week #6) 3 Days/Week - $67* (Week #1) Registration is ongoing. wwwmountpleasantcc.ca 604-257-3080 or in person at #1 Kingsway.

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Camp Pringle on Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island offers numerous themed camps for kids.

Keep kids’ interests in mind

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Teen Summer Lab Improv Camp

The Vancouver TheatreSports League offers two daily sessions of its Teen Summer Lab Improv Camp — mornings for Grade 7 to 9 and afternoons for Grade 10 to 12.

During these two-week improv-intensive workshops in July, teachings consist of quick-witted workouts with a focus on creativity, openness, humour, valuing the ideas of others, selfconfidence and the art of listening. At the end of the workshop is the Graduates’

Performance for family and friends. For more information visit vtsl.com.Vancouver TheatreSports League is located on Granville Island.

Vancouver Phoenix Gymnastics

Phoenix Gymnastics offers summer camps and classes beginning July 3, with action-packed full and half-day camps and weekly classes with a focus on gymnastics skills and activities with creative arts and crafts projects, as well as fun in the gym.

Camps run Monday to Friday. For more information visit phoenixgymnastics.com.

Kid City Camp

Emerging Generations presents Kid City Day Camp at the Vancouver Chinese Pentecostal Church on East 18th Avenue beginning June 30 through Aug. 22.This camp is a summer program for all kids entering kindergarten through Grade 7 this coming fall. Each week has its own theme with lots of activities, swimming, field trips, music and more. Sign up for one week or for all eight. For more information visit egmin. ca/daycamp.

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Camp Pringle

Located on Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island, this summer camp offers a variety of programs, including cycling, science, watersports, family, girls, theatre, ultimate adventure camp and more. The Wilderness Camp is another option with a program dedicated to fostering a connection between young people and the natural world with a goal to inspire kids to appreciate and respect the environment and their communities.

Campers learn fundamental backcountry skills and outdoor leadership appropriate to age and ability. They will undertake a group challenge such as building a raft and paddling to Mosquito Island.

For a complete list of camps and schedules visit camppringle.com.

Camp Qwanoes

Qwanoes is a youthfocused, high-adventure Christian residential camp, founded in 1966, located on 55 acres of waterfront property on Vancouver Island between Victoria and Nanaimo.

This summer camp offers more than 75 activities, including everything from wakeboarding and archery to mountain boarding, the Sky Station and outdoor laser tag. For more information visit qwanoes.ca/summer.

West Point Grey Academy

The summer camps offered at West Point Grey Academy include everything from Lego to pho-

A group of campers from the girls’ cabin at Camp Qwanoes on Vancouver Island.

tography, cooking, sports, computers and musical theatre.

Junior camps for kids aged four to six include camps with a focus on astronauts, dinosaurs, Mini Olympics, Pirates and Mermaids, Princess Tea Party, the rainforest, and undersea exploration. Hands on Camp for kids aged six to 10, offers programs including Art Venture, Computer Creations, Diamonds & Rubies jewellery design, I Love Lego, Knitting Power, Makers’ and Inventors’ Bootcamp, Photography, Rainbow Loom, Video Game Creator and Weird Science.

Meanwhile, active camps for the six to 10 crowd include All Sports, Cheerleading, Mega Fun and Skimboarding at Spanish Banks.

Also for ages six to 10 are Drama and Music camps, including Advanced Violin, Actors’ Studio, Early Violin, Hol-

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Many of the Vancouver Park Board’s community centres also offer summer day camps. Drop by your local centre or visit vancouver.ca/parksrecreation-culture.aspx for information on the programs offered. twitter.com/sthomas10

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I hope we see some kids this weekend!

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SHEEP SHEARING FESTIVAL Come and watch the Sheep Shearing festival on Sunday the 25th. There will be shearing demonstrations, sheep dog herding exhibitions and wool crafters as well as face painting, pony rides and more.

Maplewood Farm is a great local destination.

There’s plenty of free parking, a chance to see and interact with domesticated animals up close and learn about farming practices old and new. It’s an unbeatable family day out.

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1 May 21 - 23, 2014 1. Taking a break from keeping Leonardo DiCaprio gainfully employed, director Martin Scorsese has organized and curated a series of 21 newly restored classic films from some of Poland’s most accomplished and lauded filmmakers, spanning the period 1957 to 1987. Scorsese’s Masterpieces of Polish Cinema, including Andrei Wajda’s medieval blockbuster Black Cross, runs May 22 to June 23 at the Cinematheque. For info and show times, go to thecinematheque.ca.

2. The sixth edition of Next Music from Tokyo — a non-profit cross-Canada tour showcasing the best independent and underground music from Japan — rolls into the Biltmore Cabaret May 21.

Performers include shoegazers Kinoko Teikoku, geeky emo outfit Happy!Mari, “math pop” band Uchu Conbini and post-rock instrumental act Jizue. Details at nextmusicfromtokyo.com.

3. Giller Prize-winning author Lynn Coady (Hellgoing) heads up a trifecta of Canadian literary talent at the latest edition of the Vancouver Writers Fest’s Incite Reading series, May 21, 7:30 p.m. at the Central Library’s Alice MacKay room. Coady will be joined by Eufemia Fantetti, who’ll be reading from her new short fiction collection A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love, and Nancy Lee, whose new novel, The Age, is described as “a heartbreaking journey through adolescent recklessness and desire and a portrait of a generation shaped by nuclear anxiety.” Admission is free. Details at writersfest.bc.ca.

4. Boca del Lupo’s latest site-specific “micro performance” is one for the tastebuds.

Described as a “wacky and fun culinary exploration of global food domination and the conquest for our appetites,” A Taste Empire features writer and performer Jovanni Sy crafting a Filipino fish dish called Rellenong Bangus in 90 minutes, all while taking the audience through the history of food. Dig in May 22 to 25 at the Granville Island Public Market Courtyard.

Details at bocadellupo.com.

5. The lovely and talented Sara Bynoe is putting her monthly Say Wha?! Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing on hiatus for the summer, but not before she celebrates the fourth anniversary of the literary cringe show, where funny people read from terribly written books. It all goes down May 21, 8 p.m. at the Cottage Bistro with comic readings courtesy of John Cullen, Brent Constantine, Riel Hahn, Cameron Macleod and Lauren McGibbon. Details at sarabynoe.com/shows/say-wha.

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Selfie reflection

Good news, smartphoneaddicted narcissists. At long last, “selfie” has been added to the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, having already been declared 2013’s international word of the year

by Oxford Dictionary and responsible for breaking the Internet thanks to Oscar host Ellen and her crew of celebrity photo whores at the last Academy Awards.

We’re looking at you, Kevin Spacey.

Selfie joins an esteemed list of 149 other words added to the lexicon log, including hashtag, baby bump and Auto-Tune, which makes us suspect the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary was supposed to be published five years ago but got delayed considering how long some of these words have been around.

Other new entries include tweep, unfriend, paywall, crowdfunding and big data.

Yes, that’s a lot of computer-savvy words, you and your Google Glass-adorned head are probably saying.

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In case you missed it, the Black-capped Chickadee has been named Vancouver’s “official” City Bird for 2015 Bird Week. In your smug little pointed face, Northern Flicker.

The avian crown was placed atop the Black-capped Chickadee’s oversized round head after four weeks of intense competition, social media shenanigans that includedTwitter accounts set up for all six bird entries and

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But there’s other less techy but equally annoying words on the list such as steampunk, freegan and dubstep, which coincidentally are also the top three ingredients to the worst house party ever.

And while we’re all for expanding our vocabulary and enriching the English language with new words, K&K still feels snubbed that our yearly submissions to the clearly uptight panel at Merriam-Webster continue to get ignored, namely freerange crotch chicken, penile hydra, man-gina and bwanff (the sound a HostessTwinkie makes when you’re under the influence and hold it up to your ear and squeeze it in your bare hand).

a whopping 704,000 votes cast, eclipsing the voter turnout at the 2011Vancouver civic election, which garnered a scant 144,823 votes out of 418,878 registered voters, which we’ll remind you is even less than the number of “eligible” voters. So hooray for democracy.

Of course, those who partook inVancouver’s bird election could vote for their favourite winged crusader repeatedly, likely while still wearing their bathrobe at 3 in the afternoon. And the city maintains the exercise was a “lighthearted competition aimed to raise awareness about the importance of birds inVancouver, as they are visible markers of a healthy ecosystem and an experiential link between people and local biodiversity.”

But that still doesn’t excuse the fact that a good chunk of those who voted for the Black-capped Chickadee probably won’t bother voting in the upcoming municipal election on Nov. 15 because it’s not as “fun” as voting for birds that you can follow on Twitter.To say nothing of the fact that the Pileated Woodpecker was totally robbed. Just saying. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Cirque du Soleil’s latest spectacle, Totem, includes humankind’s evolution from primordial swamps, “Crystal Ladies” who turn spinning a cushion cover into high art, and an assortment of gravity-defying acrobats, trapeze artists and unicyclists.

Cirque continues to evolve with Totem THEATRE REVIEW Jo Ledingham

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Ah, there’s something about pushing aside the tent flap and entering the big blue-and-yellow Cirque du Soleil tent: the smell of popcorn, the anticipation of fearless high-flying aerialists, the clowns working the crowd before the show, the music, the lights. It’s the whole circus package sans elephants, lions and tigers.

And, as always, Cirque is a big, big package fabulously wrapped and explosively presented. Although the title Totem, conceived and written by Canadian theatre icon Robert Lepage, suggests either a First Nations focus or, perhaps, totemic images from other cultures, it’s really an imaginative tracing of humankind’s evolution from primordial swamps — complete with human “frogs” — to a briefcase-toting business man rushing off to work.The frogs certainly look happier and they are definitely more exuberant than “the suit” in the act called “Carapace” where the performers — in ®

fantastic, body-clinging, green spandex — hop and whirl within an open, tortoise-shell framework.

Frogs give way to apes and a couple of cavemen or early Homo sapiens.

Threaded through is an outrageous dude called Valentino: an Italian wouldbe ladies man with slicked back hair and tight yellow trousers. (Not sure where he is on the evolutionary ladder.) Another continuing character amidst all the high tech razzle-dazzle is a fisherman whose re-occurrence throughout Totem harkens back to our early circus experience when a hapless clown in a rowboat could keep us in gales of laughter.

The staging is fantastic with a wide (maybe 12 to 15 metre) sloping performers’ entrance on the surface of which is projected “watery” light — dappled, moving, rippled. It’s like a slow, gently moving waterfall on which boats float and frogs cavort and under which figures appear to swim.

Music is always a huge part of Cirque: percussive and blood-stirring.

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The big closing number — 10 guys on flexible Russian bars — is spectacular with aerialists flying through the air and miraculously landing on their feet on the narrow bar.

As with everything Cirque does, the attention to detail is phenomenal: every sequin, ribbon and feather; exquisite makeup; and everyone either in motion or watching with rapt attention.

What started small is now

huge — 100 million people have seen a Cirque show.

It’s an unmatched Canadian success story in the entertainment industry.

Is it getting too big?This year, Cirque did not hire the local marketing outfit Artsbiz Public Relations, a “boutique”Vancouver company specializing in publicizing arts and entertainment events. Another company with offices fromVancouver to Montreal and with clients fromThe Gap to Future Shop and Best Buy to Bayer, got the nod. If the co-founder of Cirque, Guy Laliberté (whose worth is estimated at

US$2.6 billion), can rocket himself into space aboard a Russian spacecraft, I think he could have kept his feet firmly planted onVancouver soil and stayed with a local, hands-on PR firm like Artsbiz who has successfully promoted Cirque in this town for the past eight years.

Cirque du Soleil is a big, big show, but sometimes smaller is better.

For more reviews go to joledingham.ca Cirque du Soleil:Totem runs until July 6, under the BigTop at Concord Pacific Place. For tickets, call 1-800-450-1480 or go to cirquedusoleil.com.

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World record holder retires Donovan Tildesley ends his swimming career on top Jim Morris

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Deciding to retire is never an easy decision for an athlete.

For the last two years, Donovan Tildesley, one of Canada’s most successful Paralympic athletes and the national record holder in four events, watched the rest of the world get faster.

The 29-year-old blind swimmer managed to keep pace but finally decided he wanted to leave the sport on his own terms.

During his career, Tildesley, who attended St. George’s and graduated from the University of British Columbia, won five medals at four Paralympics.

He was Canada’s flagbearer at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

A career highlight was the 2002 swimming world championships in which he won five gold and a silver medal. He retires holding the world record in four distances and having qualified to compete at the 2014 Para Pan-Pacific Swimming Championships this August in Pasadena, Calif.

But the competition didn’t lure him any more.

“I thought, ‘Do I really want to be in a hotel for a swim meet on my 30th birthday?’ As much as I still love the sport, I think I need to move on,” said Tildesley.

“Maybe it’s time to get

off the train while I’m still ahead rather than be pushed. Step aside with head held high.”

Like many people around the world,Tildesley has followed the trial of Oscar Pistorius, maybe the world’s most prominent Paralympic athlete, who is accused of murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend.

Tildesley can see the positive side of the tragedy because the publicity surrounds a Paralympic athlete.

“It shows they face the same demons,” he said.

“They are human.They are not perfect.”

Paralympic athletes, he said, may also be emotionally or socially stunted like so many athletes who dedicate themselves to one specialty at a young age.

“They had adversity to overcome but there might be aspects of their personalities that, because they have focused 110 per cent of their effort on sport, they haven’t developed in other ways. I have seen that same kind of […] delayed growth in other athletes that I have trained with.”

Over the last several years there have been questions about people with an impairment competing on the same playing field as able-bodied athletes.

Blind cross-country skier Brian McKeever of Canmore, Alta., earned a spot on the Canadian team at

the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, who lost her left leg after she was hit by a car, competed at both the 2008 Paralympic and Olympic Games.

Pistorius, who had both his legs amputated below the knee, battled for the right to run at the Olympics on his carbon fibre blades.

Tildesley supports paraathletes competing against the able-bodied, but said there are some grey areas.

At the 2012 London Paralympics,Tildesley raced against Bradley Snyder, a U.S. navy officer who lost his eyesight from an explosion while serving in Afghanistan. Snyder, who won two gold and a silver medal in London, swam competitively in high school and was captain of the swim team at the U.S. Naval Academy prior to his accident.

“I take my hat of to Bradley Snyder for who he is and want he stands for,” said Tildesley. “But you can argue it is cheating in some ways.”

The International Paralympic Committee classifies all athletes based on the severity of their impairment and has extensive guidelines for establishing each one because they draw doubters and therefore frequent revision.

McKeever, the cross-country skier, for example, is classified S13.Tildesley is classified S11, which means his visual impairment is complete.

Paralympian Donovan Tildesley, 29, announced his retirement earlier this month. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“An S12 can see a hand in front of their face, and an S13 is legally blind but often can see quite a bit,” Tildesley said.

In an email to the Courier, he expanded his point about the U.S. swimmer.

“Having had sight for the first 20-some years of his life, there’s no question that Brad has an advantage over me.

“He was taught how to swim as a sighted person and he’s competed at a high level as a sighted person prior to losing his vision.Yet despite this advantage, he’s now just as blind as me and competing at an elite level.Where do

you change that and how do you draw the line?”

Tildesley was born with a condition called Leiber’s congenital amaurosis, which left him without retinas.

Growing up he took piano and drum lessons, skied and ran cross-country in elementary school. His parents introduced him to the pool when he was six months old. By age nine he had joined the swim team at the Arbutus Club.

Water became a second home forTildesley, who works as an insurance broker and inspirational speaker.

“Just being in the water

was very therapeutic, a very freeing feeling,” he said.

“You feel this sense of nothing that is all around you.

You can splash around, you can flip around. It’s just this wide-open body that you can take on.”

Leaving competitive swimming won’t keep Tildesley out of the pool.

“If I don’t swim, I go crazy. I’m still in the pool two or three times a week,” he said.

“That for me has always been a form of relaxation.”

Jim Morris is a veteran reporter who has covered sports for 30 years.

Lu’s ‘blistering’ 5-under 66 pins city title Prince ofWales andVancouver College advance to golf provincials

The Walesmen’s Jordan Lu tees off on the par-three third hole at McCleery Golf Course. He led the field with a five-under-par 66 at the city golf championship on May 15. See photo gallery at vancourier.com PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Prince of Wales senior Jordan Lu shot the lowest score of the single-round city golf championship at McCleery Golf Course on May 15 to lead the Walesmen to their second consecutive title.

The five-memberWalesmen outshot Point Grey by 33 strokes. Lu finished with a 5-under 66 and played what school coachVirginia Lam called a “blistering” game.

Grade 10 prospect James Kim posted an even-par

71, while Ashley Cai, also in Grade 10, was six strokes back. Patrick Tan shot 78 and Natalie Chu, who is in Grade 9, was 10 over par at 81.

Point Grey finished second but forfeited their regional playoff to third-place Kitsilano.The Blue Demons lost toVancouver College, which advances with Prince ofWales to provincials at the Squamish Valley Golf and Country Club from May 26 to 28.

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