Vancouver Courier September 10 2014 by Vancouver Courier

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September 10 2014 Vol. 105 No. 73

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NPA promises restored senior centre funding Sandra Thomas

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WALK THE LINE Teachers walk the picket line at Kitsilano senior secondary school Monday afternoon. See story page 7. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Mayoral race now a three-way VANCOUVER VOTES 2014

Mike Howell

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The two-person mayoral races that have dominated city politics for more than a decade ofﬁcially ended Sunday with COPE overwhelmingly endorsing Meena Wong as its candidate for mayor in the Nov. 15 election. The 53-year-old mental health worker and longtime community organizer will battle Mayor Gregor Robertson and NPA challenger Kirk LaPointe for votes in a multicultural city that has never had a female mayor or one of Chinese descent. “I can’t believe that,” Wong told the Courier by telephone Monday. “And we call ourselves a progressive city?” Almost 200 COPE members endorsed Wong at the party’s nomination meeting held Sunday at the Japanese Hall in the Downtown Eastside. Party members also nominated eight council candidates, in-

cluding former councillor Tim Louis and First Nations’ activist Audrey Siegl. Though a mayor’s race attracts several candidates, many of whom are typically unknown and members of fringe parties, the contest for the city hall throne in Vancouver has historically been between the NPA and COPE. That changed in the 2005 election when a split within COPE led to the newly created Vision Vancouver, which unsuccessfully ran former COPE councillor Jim Green against the NPA’s Sam Sullivan. Despite the split, COPE ran so-called coordinated campaigns with Vision in 2005, 2008 and 2011. But in all three campaigns, COPE opted not to run a mayoral candidate, effectively endorsing Robertson as the party’s choice for mayor. In running Wong, this is COPE’s ﬁrst mayoral candidate since 2002 when Larry Campbell and COPE almost annihilated the NPA in an election night knockout that showed COPE’s political might. Subsequent elections saw COPE’s standing on the civic scene diminish as

Vision won majorities in 2008 and 2011. The Green Party also elected Adriane Carr to a council seat in the 2011 election. Wong now has the formidable job of bringing the party back to its mainstream status by winning seats on council, park board and school board. School trustee Allan Wong was COPE’s lone elected official until he joined Vision Vancouver in December 2013. “One community at a time,” she replied when asked how she will rebuild the party. Though Wong believes COPE can draw votes from people who voted previously for Vision and the NPA, particularly those interested in an affordable housing plan, she pointed to her profile in the Chinese community as a factor in boosting COPE’s vote. Born in Beijing and fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, Wong worked as an interpreter, outreach worker and got her start with COPE in 2005 as the party’s point person to mobilize the Chinese vote. Continued on page 9

NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe says if elected in the November municipal election, he’ll restore the full $3.7 million committed by the Vision Vancouverdominated city council towards a new seniors centre for southeast Vancouver. “It’s an unconscionable claw back,” said LaPointe. “On so many levels it is such bad management.” The city recently announced it would no longer commit $1.2 million of that $3.7 million towards the project due to the fact the provincial government ﬁnally agreed to a long-awaited contribution. In 2009, the park board committed land adjacent to the Killarney Community Centre for the project, and in 2011 the city earmarked $2.5 million in capital funds towards the estimated $7.5 million cost. In 2012, the provincial government pledged $1.3 million, much less than the $2.5 million hoped for by the city and members of the Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society. When the provincial government continued to drag its feet on the extra funding, city council agreed in February to contribute another $1.2 million. That announcement followed a $2.5-million commitment from the federal government. But then in April the provincial government made the extra $1.2 million contribution ofﬁcial. Seniors reacted with disappointment in July when the Courier obtained a memo from city manager Penny Ballem to council saying the April commitment from the provincial government eliminated “the need for the additional $1.2-million commitment by council.” LaPointe said due to labour demands in the city, Vancouver is an expensive place to build. He noted it’s common for developers to expect projects to come in 15 to 18 per cent over budget. “They’re using a 2009 budget for this decision,” said LaPointe. “I’m not an economist, but my hunch is that the cost will be much higher [than $7.5 million] by the time they get started on this project in 2015 or 2016. This to me is atrocious.” In response to the memo, Ainslie Kwan, president of the Killarney Community Centre Society said in a statement, “We were extremely concerned to learn that the current city council removed $1.2 million that was previously committed to building the much-needed southeast Vancouver seniors centre.” Continued on page 6

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12TH&CAMBIE Mike Howell

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This just in: Mayor Gregor Robertson wants a subway built along the Broadway corridor! Of course, I’m kidding — not about the mayor’s subway campaign but that it’s breaking news. So why then did Robertson hold a press conference Thursday at the VCC-Clark SkyTrain station to tell us media types what we have reported since 2012? That was the first question posed to Robertson. The CBC’s Steve Lus: “Mr. Mayor, forgive me, maybe I’m a little slow here, but did you just call us here to reiterate your support for a Broadway subway line and tell us about an NPA flip-flop, or are you telling us something new right now?” Robertson: “Well, I’m basically laying out the case for the Broadway subway and reinforcing my support — Vision’s support — which [has

been] very clear for many months and contrasting that to the NPA’s flip-flop. Mr. LaPointe hedged out of the gate, saying he may support it and he’s flip-flopped to say he does support it.” OK, let’s stop right there. A flip-flop? Metro’s Emily Jackson: “Can you talk a little bit about how [LaPointe] flipflopped?” Robertson: “Mr. LaPointe, on the first day of his campaign announced that he may support the Broadway subway, which I would call a hedge. It’s definitely not clear support for a Broadway subway after years of the city working on this, advocating and knowing full well what my position is and Vision’s position has been. Mr. LaPointe came out hedging on day one and since that time he’s now said he does support a Broadway subway.” Jackson: “So the flip-flop is from ‘may’ support to ‘does’ support?” Robertson: “Yeah.” According to a quick online search for the definition of flip-

Did Kirk LaPointe flip-flop on the Broadway subway issue, as Mayor Gregor Robertson suggested in a press conference last week? PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

flop, I found this at MerriamWebster.com: To make an abrupt reversal of policy. So not exactly a flip-flop, I would say. But let’s look at another occasion where Vision used “flip-flop” to criticize LaPointe and the NPA. I just happen to have a Vision press release issued a couple of days before the subway press conference. Here’s the headline: LaPointe inexperience

leads to NPA flip-flop on transportation. The release refers to NPA Coun. George Affleck announcing in January that, if his party were to be elected in November, the NPA would re-open Point Grey Road. (I listened to the audio recording of what Affleck said on that day and, yes, that’s what he said). LaPointe, however, told me the NPA would, in fact, review the controversial

road upgrades on Point Grey Road which include closures to vehicles and improvement for cyclists and pedestrians, including separated bike lanes. “My view is we would examine other options for Point Grey Road, but our approach would involve extensive consultation, a comprehensive look at options to share the public road and we would also take into context the city’s ﬁnan-

cial picture, if we decided to proceed,” LaPointe said by telephone Wednesday. “We have a hard time understanding what was spent to build that, so we don’t know what any modifications would also cost.” What about Affleck’s promise to re-open the road? “It’s never been a position that the project would be ripped up,” LaPointe said. Me: I thought Affleck said that? “No, what I think was said is that car traffic might be brought back to it — but that’s not ripping it up. That again is Vision’s black and white world — a blunt instrument world [using] hyperbole for effect to obviously, emotionally, trigger people.” So, ladies and gents, was it: • a flip-flop? • a contradiction? • rhetoric? • more reason for a reporter to book an extended holiday until policy platforms are released and the he-said, he-said stories find a special place in campaign journalism hell? twitter.com/Howellings

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COPE guns for the mayor’s office

Green Party and Coalition of Progressive Electors both announce ﬁnal candidates Andrew Fleming

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For the first time in 12 years, the Coalition of Progressive Electors is running a candidate for mayor. Meena Wong was chosen Sept. 7 at a party nomination meeting held at the Japanese Hall, two days after a press conference was held on the steps of city hall to announce her candidacy. COPE is the city’s only political party where candidates are chosen by members, and it turns out yet another member, Anthony Guitar, also wanted to run for mayor but hit a paperwork filing error. Not that it was close. Wong earned 193 votes of the 216 ballots cast to become the left-wing party’s first mayoral candidate since Larry Campbell won a landslide victory in 2002. It is the Vancouver Coastal Health mental health recovery worker’s second stab at seeking public office after running as the NDP candi-

date for Vancouver South in the 2011 federal election, where she came in third with 19 per cent of votes. If elected, Wong would be the city’s first female mayor and first one of Chinese descent. She also served previously as an assistant to former Toronto city councillor and NDP MP Olivia Chow, who is running for mayor of Toronto. Wong, 53, said she wants to make North America’s most expensive city more affordable for non-affluent residents. “We have a duty to each other and to this city to right what is wrong,” said Wong. “We have a duty to our children who cannot afford to live in this city, we have a duty to seniors who cannot afford to age with dignity… I think Vancouver housing prices are way too high and as a city government, we need to look at that.” Seven candidates for city council were also picked from a total of 12 nominees. Tim Louis, party co-chair

Former NDP Vancouver South federal election candidate Meena Wong is running as COPE’s candidate for mayor. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and a former two-time councillor, earned the most votes overall with 179, followed by Sid Chow Tan, Audrey Siegl, Gayle Gavin, Lisa Barrett, Keith Higgins and Jennifer O’Keeffe. John Yano and Wilson Munoz tied for the eighth and ﬁnal spot and a decision of which of them will run has not yet been announced.

Diana Day, Ilana Shecter, Ralph Fraatz, Heidi Nagtegaal and Kombii Nanjalah are COPE’s ﬁve candidates for school board. Four candidates for park board — Imtiaz Popat, Urooba Jamal, Ezra Bloom and Anita Romaniuk — were also chosen. The plan was to choose ﬁve park board candidates

but party policy requires at least one be of aboriginal descent. Jamie Lee Hamilton, one of two candidates who ﬁt the bill, withdrew from the race last week while Tracey Morrison was mysteriously absent. According to executive director Sean Antrim, the party’s indigenous equity caucus will instead decide on a ﬁfth candidate.

The Green Party confirmed its own candidates at a special general meeting also held Sunday. Park board candidates Stuart Mackinnon and Michael Wiebe and school board candidates Mischa Oak and Janet Fraser are now part of a Green slate that includes Pete Fry, Cleta Brown and incumbent councillor Adriane Carr running for city council. There will not be a Green candidate for mayor. “I’m thrilled to have our whole team in place — and what a fabulous team,” said Carr in a press release announcing the decision. “By electing three Greens to council, two Greens to park board and two Greens to school board, Vancouverites will get not only incredibly hard-working representatives who will put public interest first, but also strong teams that will bring sorely needed balance and a collaborative approach to each governing body.” The election is Nov. 15. twitter.com/flematic

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Chinese parents likely to side with government: survey Cheryl Rossi

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Sara Yuan spent $450 on tutoring for her son this past July because summer school wasn’t in session. Her son usually studies math and English free of charge in summer school. Yuan, a single parent, wants him to excel in high school. “The ﬁrst year of high school is very important,” she said. “And Killarney’s a big high school.” Yuan, who works as an esthetician six days a week, could have spent the $450 elsewhere. “This year I didn’t get him a computer. For high school you need a computer, right,” she said. “But that’s OK. Maybe next year I can.” As with 12.5 per cent of Chinese parents surveyed in June by market research ﬁrm Social Insights, Yuan isn’t sure she has a solid grasp on the labour dispute between the government

and teachers. But she’s certain about one thing. “I want no strike. I want to have school, education,” she said. “Of course government have to do something for the teacher.” Social Insights, formed in June to focus on Chinese consumers, surveyed parents on Chinese social media platform WeChat, which is similar to Twitter, and Weibo, which is similar to Facebook, and released its ﬁndings Aug. 28. The company found that 44 per cent of Chinese parents blamed both the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the government for the labour dispute, while 39 per cent blamed the BCTF and just four per cent blamed only the government. Social Insights surveyed 313 Chinese-Canadian residents and reports seeing consistent results after surveying just 200 respondents. Polling ﬁrm Angus Reid reported in June that B.C.

parents supported teachers over the government twoto-one. “The fact that the results seemed to contrast with what the rest of the population was thinking was something that we thought was noteworthy,” said Sonny Wong, a partner at Social Insights. “Because when you look at the demographics of the Lower Mainland and British Columbia, clearly we are seeing through immigration and other market forces the increase in ethnic communities with the Chinese community growing the fastest.” He added, “The strike may very well affect the Chinese community a little bit more because if you’ve been in B.C. for a shorter period of time, your ability to develop social networks and support for childcare is going to be much less.” Wong noted Chinese families often immigrate to Canada for the clean air,

nature and education. “They may even see education a little bit in the way of an essential service,” he said. Yuan wants to see her son concentrating on books instead of video games. “If could afford it I would do more tutoring or send him to a private school, but I can’t afford it,” said Yuan, who emigrated from China to Canada in 1999 and has lived in Vancouver nine years. Social Insights hasn’t surveyed Chinese parents since June but Wong believes congruent sentiments were heard at a rally attended by many Chinese parents outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday. Yuan was unaware of the survey, but said she’s seen anger at teachers from Chinese parents on social media. She said the parents don’t understand why the teachers are allowed to strike. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Louie says funding intact

NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe calls the city’s handling of a new seniors centre for southeast Vancouver “bad management.” PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Continued from page 1 “Seniors in the area have long advocated for a dedicated space that will meet their programming needs and will be sustainable over the long term. Removing any committed funds now will jeopardize the quality of the centre and demonstrates a lack of compassion and respect for seniors in Vancouver. “This about-face is disappointing. We have written to [Vision Vancouver] Mayor Robertson, councillor Raymond Louie and their colleagues requesting that our community and local seniors

associations be directly involved in planning activities moving forward. To date, none have acknowledged or responded to our requests. We call on the current city council to reinstate the previously committed $1.2 million.” But Louie told the Courier the city is absolutely not withdrawing funding and accused LaPointe of playing politics. “He’s using misinformation to scare seniors,” said Louie. “There is no money being pulled and his comments are totally inexcusable.” Louie said the city is

conﬁdent the project can be completed with all of the necessary amenities, including a kitchen and elevator, within that initial $7.5 million budget. “We have gone to great efforts to get this facility built,” said Louie. “We’re the ones that secured the funding and the park board committed the land. It’s clear [LaPointe] is attempting to deﬂect from his inexperience. We’re showing good value for the dollar by not spending more than we need to. We believe the centre can be built for the original $7.5 million and that’s good

news for the taxpayer.” Seniors advocate Lorna Gibbs agreed that Vision Vancouver, and in particular Louie, has worked closely with the Seniors’ Arts and Cultural Society in making the new centre a reality, but she added this loss of what was assumed to be conﬁrmed funding is a blow. “I was surprised and disappointed to hear about this loss of funding,” said Gibbs. “You have no idea how many times I’ve addressed council or written letters and now I have to wonder what was the point.” twitter.com/sthomas10

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Teachers to vote on binding arbitration Cheryl Rossi

The BCTF also wants the government and the B.C. Public School Employer’s Association to delete the E80 proposal that includes: “Note: These provisions supersede and replace all previous Articles that addressed class size, composition and staffing levels.” Fassbender said: “There is no sinister attempt here to undermine any process that’s currently underway.” He believes the BCTF opposes E80 because it states staffing recommendations to improve classroom learning shouldn’t be limited to teachers. The BCTF and BCPSEA are one per cent and one year apart on wages. The BCTF wants a $5,000 signing bonus for teachers, who haven’t been paid since June. The parties differ on benefits. The government has proposed $375 million over five years to improve learning conditions in classrooms. The BCTF wants $175 in the first year and $225 million thereafter to address problems the union says intensified after 2002 when language about class size and

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Two days after Education Minister Peter Fassbender rejected a call by the B.C. Teacher’s Federation for binding arbitration, he scorned the BCTF’s plan to have teachers vote Sept. 10 on suspending the strike in favour of binding arbitration. “I’m standing here again and I feel a little bit like Groundhog Day, like I’m reliving this discussion time and time again and having real difﬁculty understanding why we’re not seeing a change in position by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation,” Fassbender said Monday afternoon. “I believe that the BCTF executive knew when they called for [binding arbitration] that this government would not agree to it and that ploy was to make them look like they’re trying to be reasonable.” Fassbender repeated his call for the BCTF to have teachers vote on suspending the strike in favour of negotiation and mediation, to get the

Teachers picket at Lord Tennyson elementary school. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

federation’s wage and beneﬁts proposals into the “affordability zone” so they could focus on ways to improve class size and composition. Veteran mediator Vince Ready determined the parties were too far apart for mediation Aug. 30. BCTF president Jim Iker announced the vote on binding arbitration Monday morning. “The B.C. Liberal

government’s rejection of binding arbitration was a political knee-jerk reaction,” Iker said. “Binding arbitration remains the fastest and most effective way to end the strike, to reach a fair settlement and get students back in classrooms. Today we’re giving government another chance.” Iker proposed sending salary, a proposed contract signing bonus and dental,

teacher on call, pregnancy leave top-up and preparation time issues to binding arbitration Friday morning. The BCTF’s framework for binding arbitration proposes the parties would negotiate a new fund to address learning needs concurrently to binding arbitration. If the parties can’t agree on a new fund, the fund would then go to binding arbitration.

composition was stripped from the teachers’ contract. The BCTF has also proposed a $100-million fund to deal with grievances that could ﬂow from court decisions. Iker questioned government priorities. He said the BCTF’s learning improvement fund and improvements to teachers’ preparation time would cost an extra $3 a day per student over a ﬁve year term. He said the government paid California Power $750 million to settle a dispute. “Minister [Bill] Bennett said that’s a good deal for British Columbia,” Iker said. “$225 million in a fund to start addressing some of the learning needs for our students is not a good deal for British Columbians? We say it is.” The Vancouver School Board has been calling for binding arbitration since July and the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council renewed its call for binding arbitration Tuesday morning. Fassbender says the government won’t legislate teachers back to work. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Greens not endorsing any mayoral candidates

Continued from page 1 Even with that experience, Wong acknowledged, voting patterns are more complex than voters simply casting a ballot for someone of the same race or similar backgrounds. “I don’t think it’s automatic — I don’t believe in automatic,” said Wong, who previously ran unsuccessfully for a COPE council nomination in 2008 and was the NDP’s candidate in Vancouver-South in the 2011 federal election. “I believe that people will look at who I am and what I stand for. But there’s a section of the [Chinese] community that doesn’t

participate particularly well in the electoral process. We have to make people more politically literate.” Simon Fraser University’s Terri Evans, who is the program manager of urban studies, said she doubted COPE would pull votes from Vision or the NPA in the Nov. 15 election. That’s because COPE’s politics are a lot further left of centre than Vision and the NPA, Evans said. “I’m not sure that they can capture sufﬁcient numbers to make that swing,” she said. But Evans said Wong’s entrance into the race will bring new ideas and debate

on issues that will challenge the points of view expressed by Vision and the NPA. She pointed out media attention historically favours the mayoral race, so COPE will

gain from that coverage. That coverage, she added, could hurt the Vancouver Greens, which decided not to run a mayoral candidate or endorse Robertson,

LaPointe or Wong. The Greens also decided not to seek an alliance with COPE or other parties. “But COPE has a lot of work to do to let people

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A TV soap-opera synopsis would cover the storyline like this: Athana is furious at Rob, who slagged her in an email to all his friends. Rob was standing on the sidelines of the teachers’ strike desperately trying to get noticed. So he took some shots at her to get some attention. He got her lawyer’s attention instead. The lawyer filed a claim and Rob filed a counterclaim. Will a judge make Rob apologize? Will Athana eventually give it up and drop the fight? Will Athana’s friend Christy have to testify? Stay tuned for the next As the Rockpile Turns. For newcomers to this show, Athana is Athana Mentzelopoulos, a powerful deputy minister. Rob is Rob Fleming, NDP MLA. Christy is Christy Clark, the premier of the government that Athana serves. Longtime watchers will remember that in a much earlier episode, Athana was a bridesmaid at Christy’s wedding. Their relationship lasted longer than the marriage did, and both women’s careers have progressed beautifully. Mentzelopoulos toiled in the federal government for a time, then signed on with the province in 2004. She went back to the federal government for a time and bounced back to the provincial scene after Clark, who was also trending upward, as they say, became premier. Mentzelopoulos’ salary has matched her career trajectory. It’s now in the stratosphere: a quarter-million a year. Fast forward a bunch of episodes to the school strike, where Fleming has a walk-on role as the Opposition education critic. Casting about for a way to make a lame petition calling on the government to do something about the shutdown look interesting, Fleming seized on the pair’s relationship. He wrote an email that made various linkages between Mentzelopoulos’s last pay raise and her alleged “buddy” relationship with the premier and the acknowledged stint as bridesmaid in 1996. One of his lines was: “While Christy Clark can’t find a single new penny to help kids … she’s found plenty of our money to give to her friends. It’s outrageous.” Turns out the NDP people who sign these sorts of petitions weren’t the only

ones outraged. So was Mentzelopoulos. She filed suit, claiming malicious defamation. Fleming countered, saying it was all fair comment on a matter of public interest. The legality of all this is obviously up to the judge. But politically, it’s a bit unusual for the Opposition to attack a bureaucrat, even a politically appointed deputy minister. And by social conventions, Fleming was just plain rude, although that’s never been much of a consideration at the legislature. The claims are filed in B.C. Supreme Court and future episodes will determine how it all plays out. The plot may not grab too many people’s attention. (I personally don’t watch soap operas. There are never any car chases.) But the striking thing about this one — as reported by Vancouver Sun colleague Rob Shaw — is that taxpayers are covering at least half the production costs. Mentzelopoulos is indemnified by the government of B.C., meaning taxpayers are paying her legal costs. Fleming’s are being covered by his party. The government spent considerable time agonizing over its indemnification policy in light of the notorious Basi-Virk case. It was reviewed independently and reported on by the auditor general. Eventually, a new policy was laid out in a regulation. Mentzelopoulos applied for coverage and the Justice Ministry has decided she qualifies. Defamation is one of the few instances where bureaucrats can be covered as plaintiffs, rather than as defendants. And eligibility is determined after a senior government lawyer concludes it’s in the public interest to file suit. Considerations listed in the regulation include the need to rehabilitate the employee’s usefulness for employment, restore the integrity of the office or generally curb the practice of slagging bureaucrats. Dropping this argument would save us all a lot of money. But being an MLA means never having to say you’re sorry. And being an aggrieved deputy minister apparently means you can rely on taxpayers to cover the cost of rectifying personal slights. So you might as well watch future episodes. Because you’re paying for them. twitter.com/leyneles

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The percentage of ChineseCanadian parents who feel the B.C. Liberals are mainly to blame for the ongoing teachers strike, according to a recent survey.

In thousands of dollars, the salary deputy minister Athana Mentzelopoulos earned in 2013 after receiving a $30,000 pay raise.

The total number of Green Party candidates running in the November civic election — three for city council and two each for park and school board.

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I will never forget the first time I met Sam Davis, a former mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick. I had just been introduced to him as the new federal government project manager for his city’s Market Square Project when he looked at me and said “10D.” “I beg your pardon” I replied. “10D, that’s your shoe size. I used to be in the shoe business.” I have not forgotten the first time I met Gregor Robertson. He had just won the Vision mayoral contest and a mutual friend invited us to meet over breakfast at Paul’s Omelettery on Granville Street. I have no recollection of what we discussed, but I remember what he ate. While my friend and I ordered omelettes, the future mayor ordered pancakes with whipped cream and fruit. But first he enquired whether the fruit was fresh. The server returned to say the fruit had been frozen, but he ordered it anyway. Subsequently, I have run into the mayor at various occasions and found him to be a pleasant person, but cannot say I have gotten to know him. Media acquaintances who have often interviewed him over the past six years have told me the same thing. Despite their interactions, they, too, do not feel they know him at all. I first met Robertson’s opponent Kirk LaPointe at his summer NPA mayoral announcement. We have subsequently been together on a few occasions. I attended a session he organized to discuss housing affordability with neighbourhood planning and housing experts, and one of the many breakfast meetings being arranged so others can get to know him. I invited him to speak to a lunchtime discussion group I belong to — the Vancouver Roundtable — which has been meeting every Tuesday since 1926. Yes, 1926! There he did not need to be introduced. He knew most of the people in the room. I greatly enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink and like many of the characters in the book, think I can generally assess situations and people from first impressions. However Kirk LaPointe is not so easy to typecast. My first impression was of an intel-

The number of COPE members who ran to be the left wing party’s candidate for mayor in the November election.

ligent, urbane guy who probably grew up in an afﬂuent neighbourhood. I subsequently learned he is quite cerebral but was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He was raised by a single mother and did not meet a brother who was put up for adoption until later in life.

I did not ask if he played the tuba but somehow doubt it. I was also surprised to learn he coaches girls’ softball, which did not quite fit with my first impression. I should add this was a pleasant surprise. Just prior to our recent breakfast meeting I heard Bruce Allen ranting about bicycle lanes and asked LaPointe if he knew Allen. “Quite well” he replied. “I met him when I was writing for Billboard Magazine.” It turns out he was Canadian editor of Billboard in 1983 and stayed for eight years, reporting weekly on the music industry. I did not ask if he played the tuba, but somehow doubt it. While Vancouver media may not feel they know Gregor Robertson, they know Kirk LaPointe. After all, many worked for him when he was managing editor of the Vancouver Sun. Others know him from CTV where he was senior vice-president, news or the CBC where he was host on Newsworld in the early ‘90s, and more recently the network’s ombudsman. Given his very impressive background in Canadian media and other activities, one of the questions LaPointe is often asked is why he decided to enter politics. He responds that politicians and the media have much in common in that they both want to change society. They just go about it in different ways. Moreover, many media personalities have gone on to be very successful politicians including Rene Levesque, Ralph Klein and Winston Churchill. I am sure we will all learn much more about Kirk LaPointe in the coming months. Hopefully we will also learn a more about Gregor Robertson. But first we need to end the school strike which unfortunately, but quite rightly, is dominating the news. twitter.com/michaelgeller

The percentage of votes won by COPE mayoral candidate Meena Wong when she ran as the NDP candidate for Vancouver South in the 2011 federal election.

The number of years in a row the Vancouver Canadians won the Northwest League title. The C’s lost a best-of-three series over the weekend to new champs the Hillsboro Hops.

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To the editor: Re: “Premier mum on ending strike,” Sept. 5. The current impasse between the teachers and the province reminds me of my experiences during the 1990s and early 2000s advocating for adults with severe mental illnesses — two outwardly appearing as rational parties taking what are plainly out-of-touch-with-reality bargaining positions, made worse by both sides not basing their objectives on neutrally established service-delivery criteria. The establishment of an impartial, permanent, provincial public education standards authority (PPESA) for B.C.’s K-12 public schools is badly needed. Terms of reference would include setting standards for class sizes, the number of special-needs students and classroom assistants per class, paid prep-work time

for teachers, et cetera... In order to insulate a PPESA from improper interference, it would best be established under the impartial aegis of B.C.’s lieutenant governor. Once established, a PPESA’s education standards should be evaluated and updated on a regular basis through a transparent and inclusive consultative process involving representatives of the main stakeholders: teachers, the education ministry and parents, with avenues for taxpayer-input as well. B.C.’s auditor general or a similar ﬁnancial watchdog should be tasked with projecting the annual costs of delivering K-12 education— based upon the PPESA’s standards — while factoring in potential salary levels for teachers and other provincial school districts’ employees. Then, during future contract talks, both sides would know the potential costs, so they would, hopefully, be obliged to act responsibly and come to agreements before putting the interests of B.C.’s children at risk. Roderick V. Louis, White Rock

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COURIER STORY: “Pipeline opponents sabotage Chevron pumps,” Sept. 5. Jim Pook: Jail them. Bear_Code: Jail the corporations that dump millions of gallons a year of oil into our environment, and jail the people that blindly support them. It’s just a matter of screwing your head on correctly. COURIER COLUMN: “A ‘whale of a good time’ prohibited,” Sept. 5. jansumi: Geez, talk about over-complicated red herrings. It’s just about breeding, not sex, in captivity. Birth control medication must surely be possible? Does anyone know? Marcus: That is actually not true. The only male and female pair are rescued harbour porpoises Jack and Daisy, and contraceptives have never been used for their species anywhere in the world. Surgery on cetaceans is potentially life-threatening (they need to be awake in order to breath), so separating these two animals would be the only way to prevent them from mating -— and that would just be cruel. COURIER STORY: “Premier mum on ending strike,” Sept. 5. jsomm: Lots of smoke and mirrors on the government side. Fassbender keeps saying BCTF requests for fringe benefits are far too rich. Most people equate that with medical, dental and prep time. What he fails to mention is that in the figures he is throwing around include support staff: teachers’ aides, librarians, and teacher aides. Don’t know about you, but these are learning supports for children. Slight of hand by a minister who worked in PR and who is well-practiced in spin. COURIER COLUMN: “$30K cycling counter ticks off NPA,” Sept. 5. Jack: Despite the endless spin from the Vision crowd, the facts are clear. The number of people cycling to work in Vancouver is not increasing. Six years ago 3.2 per cent cycled to work. Today, after tens of millions of $ spent on bike lanes that number is around 3.8 per cent and that number has been flat for several years. Less than a one per cent increase, and it isn’t going higher. Portland — the holy grail of cycling cities in North America — called a halt to any more spending on bike lanes after they found that the number of cyclists plateaued at 6 per cent and hasn’t risen in years. Arno S: TransLink’s Trip Diary research shows that cycling was the most rapidly increasing mode of transportation, rising from 2.9 to 3.8 per cent of trips between 2008 and 2011. During the same period, automobile transportation mode share fell from 57.9 to 54.3 per cent of trips. Statistics Canada reports that cycling to work mode share increased from 3.7 in 2006 to 4.4 per cent in 2011. Investments in cycling are paying off in a big way. With more people cycling and less people driving, roads are much less congested. People who enjoy driving should encourage the city to invest more in cycling infrastructure and also in the promotion of cycling. With more people cycling, everybody is better off. KUDOS & KVETCHES: “Summer housecleaning,” Sept. 5. Gloria Macarenko @CBCGloria: KK XO

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1. Saheed Khan and his border collie Moti wait for their turn to compete in Saturday’s pet pageant as part of Renfrew Community Centre’s 50th anniversary party. 2. Renfrew Park Community Association president Hazel Hollingdale stands near the ravine that runs through the community centre property. 3. People were encouraged to add to the community centre’s time capsule during Saturday’s celebration. Photographs of the pet pageant winners were also included. 4. The festivities kicked off with a performance from the Shung Ying Kung Fu Club. See photo gallery of the event at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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If streets are the arteries that connect a neighbourhood, then the community centre is the neighbourhood’s heart. The Renfrew Community Centre celebrated its 50th birthday this past Saturday with a seemingly endless amount of activities that included guided tours, a free Greek lunch, zumba and yoga demonstrations, a lion dance performance by the Shung Ying Kung Fu Club, a pet pageant, and — in the spirit of Sept. 11, 1964, when Canadian swimming world champion Mary Stewart opened the centre and pool — a free swim in the recently rebuilt pool. “We’re not a ﬂashy centre but we have a lot of heart,” said Renfrew Park Com-

munity Association president Hazel Hollingdale. “Renfrew is different in that all community centres are different from each other, they’re very much built from their community. For us, we have a lot of Chinese seniors programming, multi-lingual programming, food programming… We have an incredible grassroots community engagement at Renfrew.” The spirit of the Renfrew Community Centre goes back even beyond the half century mark as the association, during information-gathering for Saturday’s popular history room where photographs and news clippings of the centre during the past decades were on display, learned that neighbourhood residents decided they wanted a meeting place 70 years ago. The owner of the corner store that once stood at Rupert and 26th got together with his friends every day after work and built a one-room centre with donated materials.

“Looking through the pictures, it has given us a real sense of continuity,” said Hollingdale, who grew up in the neighbourhood. “How that heart, which is the same of what we see today, is about amazing community members who are willing to give so much of their time and talent and skills.” One of the items on display in the history room was a dusted-off crown once worn by winners of the Miss Renfrew pageant. While beauty contests don’t meet today’s politically correct standards, at least for Vancouver’s community centres, there are staffers at Renfrew who remember competing during the 1970s. And though past association president David Sexton never showed interest in beauty pageants, the once-coveted crown by the neighbourhood girls sparked inspiration for a different kind of contest — one for animals. Sexton introduced big dogs, little dogs and rabbits to the crowd on the ﬁeld behind the

centre to vie for one of the many titles (baldest, grumpiest, best behaved, cuddliest, etc.) that ensured that, unlike a human pageant, almost everybody went home with a prize. Proving Renfrew does indeed pride itself on acceptance and diversity, Sexton mused out loud about some of the contestants. “We have many entries for the ‘top other’ category and here we have pet shrimp,” he said. “I wasn’t sure about pet shrimps being pets but it looks legitimate, we have a video!” In the same category was Myrtle, a rescue rabbit that had 217 likes on the centre’s Facebook page. Owner Marina Hebert was cautiously optimistic. “We’re up against a shrimp, a turtle, a gecko and another bunny,” she said while cradling Myrtle across her shoulder. “It’s going to be a tough race.” twitter.com/rebeccablissett

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10,000 patients that do not meet the VCH Primary Care criteria, will be receiving care with their regular doctor or a doctor they know. VCH’s “redesign” will target a new client group. “We believe this redesign is going to provide better access and care to a client group that is marginalized, that has complex care needs, mental health challenges … It’s absolutely not about cutting costs. It’s about having capacity and meeting the needs of the client group,” D’Angelo said. D’Angelo added in an email statement to the Courier that, “there are 900 patients who meet VCH primary care criteria who have or are being transferred for care at Raven Song. We will be adding six physicians, ﬁve registered nurses, two social workers and one nurse practitioner to Raven Song to our existing team for primary care clients to accommodate the transferred patients.” twitter.com/jennypengnow

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Anyone who’s a fan of functional spaces, linear planes and basic materials — in particular wood — won’t want to miss the 2014 Mid-Century Modern House Tour presented by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. This definitive West Coast Modern architectural style is based on a deliberate relationship to the outdoors and natural landscape. According to the foundation, the design embraces our unique climate, works with the West Coast’s challenging natural landscape and showcases local materials. On Sept. 20, the foundation is offering a self-guided tour from 1 to 5 p.m. showcasing five examples of this regional style, including an opportunity to visit a home by Duncan McNab with landscaping by internationally-renowned landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. This home sits atop a massive natural rock Oberlander had to fight to retain because it protrudes three feet onto city property. Every ticket includes an invitation to the post-tour reception at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, designed by CBK Van Norman & Associates, where University of B.C. associateprofessor Sherry McKay will give a short talk on the history of modernism in Vancouver. The reception runs from 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets will only be sold until

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Men aged 55 and older have an opportunity to join a recreational curling league based out of Hillcrest Centre, adjacent to Nat Bailey Stadium. The Vancouver Men’s Curling League is looking for members who want to get healthy and stay active while making new friends. Learn the basics of delivery, sweeping and scoring while having fun. Games take place Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:45 to 3:30 p.m. and the 45-game season runs Oct. 1 to April 10. The league also offers free curling instruction before or after games. To join, contact John Reid at 604224-1127 or visit vancurl. com/leagues/senior-men. There is also a women’s league.

Downtown

A Spanish reading circle takes place at the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library, Sept. 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. This free session, conducted in Spanish, is an opportunity to discuss books in a friendly setting with others in the same language. The library is located at 350 West Georgia St. and the session takes place in the Morris J. Wosk board room on level seven. For a complete list of events, visit vpl.ca/events. Canadian Women Voters Congress is hosting a forum Friday, Oct. 3, at SFU Harbour Centre called “Let Us In: A Forum on Sexism in Politics.” Taking part in the discussion is activist and politician Trish Kelly, who recently withdrew from seeking a Vision Vancou-

ver nomination for park board after an old performance art video discussing masturbation was spread via social media. Joining Kelly will be former park board commissioner Lyndsay Poaps, curator of engagement at the Museum of Vancouver Hanna Cho, and trans ﬁlmmaker and activist Gwen Haworth. The presenters will discuss from 6:30 to 9 p.m. the barriers women face when considering a career in politics. Tickets are free but preregistration is required. To registers search for “Let Us In: A Forum on Sexism in Politics” at eventbrite com.

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You should learn one thing from the recent infamous hacking of celebrity accounts for nude pictures: a password, however strong or complicated, is not enough to protect your email, Facebook and Twitter accounts. The dozens of actresses, musicians and models whose Apple iCloud and other online accounts were hacked last week all had passwords. Yet their most intimate moments were tossed about online for all to see after their accounts were hacked. Whether by brute force calculations or fraud, someone guessed their passwords. What could they have done differently? Security experts advise using something called two-factor authentication. It’s a bit complicated to set up and will make your online life more annoying since any extra security necessarily sacriﬁces convenience. But it could save you grief. If you’re not a celebrity, the chances of being hacked by an anonymous prankster or stalker are admittedly tiny. But someone you know, an ex-spouse, alienated relative or disgruntled colleague, might be targeting you online, especially if they have a good chance at guessing your passwords or, just as bad, the security questions needed to change your passwords. Do you want your ex taking over your Twitter account

because they know you use your dog’s name as a password? Probably not. (Tip: don’t use your dog’s name as a password.) Two-factor support is enabled on a wide range of online services, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter and Facebook. In very simple terms, it works by pairing something that you know, usually your online user name and password, with something that you possess, often a smartphone, and requiring that both be present when you log in to an online account for the ﬁrst time on a new computer or device. Let’s say you enable twofactor authentication on your Twitter account. You do so by logging into your account, going into settings, and giving Twitter the number of your smartphone. Every time you log into twitter.com, your phone will receive a text message containing a code you will also need to enter to complete the log-in. (Apps already installed on your existing devices will work without needing an additional code.) The same goes for an attempt to log into your Twitter account from a new computer or device. Even if your ex guesses your canine-based password, they won’t be able to log into your account on their computer or smartphone without having direct access to the phone linked to your account. (Bonus tip: keep your phone in sight and protect it with a PIN.) There are tradeoffs. Entering an additional code

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texted to you every time you log into Twitter on the web can get tedious. After enabling two-factor on a Google or Microsoft account, you might need to enter a code texted to your phone each time you log in with a new machine or device or the first time you log in with your existing devices. I had to do that even with my Xbox 360. You also might find yourself needing authentication but can’t get a confirmation text because you’re not in cellphone service range or are travelling abroad and not using your phone to avoid costly roaming fees. As a way around that, both Google and Microsoft provide authenticator apps that you can install on your phone or tablet. Once paired with your account, the apps will generate a code every 30 seconds as needed that can be used as authentication. They will work even when offline. Twitter allows you to use its iOS and Android apps to provide the same function.

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tip: protect your PC with a password or PIN.) Two-factor authentication is not perfect. It, too, apparently can be hacked, although not as easily as a password. But just as in physical security, the idea is to be a difﬁcult target so that the bad guys go after easier prey. The tech sites Lifehacker

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1 Sept. 10 to 12, 2014 1. Josh Dolgin a.k.a. Socalled kicks off the seventh annual Accordion Noir Festival with style. The eclectic Montrealbased musician brings his puppet-infused mix of turbo-folk, hip hop and klezmer funk to Fox Theatre Sept. 11, 8 p.m. along with local 14-piece chamber rock ensemble Pathetic Fallacy. Other acts performing at the festival include friend of the Courier Geoff Berner, Miss Murgatroid, Lonesome Leash, Wintermitts, Ol’ Crocodile, Robyn Carrigan, Demon Squadron and the Creaking Planks, among others. Details at accordionnoirfest.com. 2. As part of the Vancouver edition of the Acoustic Guitar Project, 10 musicians had one week each to write and record a song using the guitar before signing the instrument and passing it on to the next musician — kind of like a songwriting chain letter. See and hear the results when Jasper Sloan Yip, Daniel McBurnie (Good for Grapes), Jenny Ritter, Melissa Bandura (Familiar Wild), Adrian Glynn (The Fugitives), David Newberry, Lydia Hol, Neil Hammond (Cleia, Thereafter), Winston Hauschild and Sarah Wheeler perform their new songs at WISE Hall Sept. 10, 8 p.m. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat and northerntickets.com. Proceeds go to MusicHeals. Details at theacousticguitarproject.com. 3. Stand-up comedian, stubble model and Hot Pockets aficionado Jim Gaffigan brings the funny to the Orpheum Theatre Sept. 11, 7 p.m. as part of his White Bread tour. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. 4. The Cinematheque screens the Vancouver premiere of Jonathan Demme’s latest, A Master Builder, Sept. 11 to 14. Not only is the film a modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play about an egomaniacal architect seeking solace during his twilight years, it reunites the players from Louis Malle’s 1981 film My Dinner with André, also screening at the Cinematheque Sept. 12 to 14. Details at thecinematheque.ca.

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Last week, Olympic swimmer Brent Hayden jumped into the political pool, so to speak, and announced his candidacy for park board commissioner under the ﬂag of ﬂedgling party Vancouver First. We don’t know much about Hayden, apart from the fact he won bronze in the 100 metre freestyle at the London 2012 Olympics, he rocks a chrome dome and is practically a human dolphin, which would make us a manatee. But we still wonder why he’d hitch his wagon to a party whose other notable candidates include school trustees Ken Denike and Sophia Woo. As you may know, Denike and Woo, or Woonike as we like to call them, were expelled in June from the NPA over a controversy regarding the school board’s revised sexual orientation and gender identities policy. Hint: they’re not fans of it. Hayden, on the other hand, says he is a supporter of LGBTQ rights.

Still, having a high proﬁle ﬁgure and quasi celebrity such as Hayden running makes the park board race more interesting than it’s been in years, if not forever. Even more entertaining is Hayden’s Instagram account, which lists his many accomplishments in the pool as well as the fun fact he’s married to Lebanese pop artist Nadina. However, the photos are the real meat in the sandwich. Or beefcake, we should say. Hayden’s most recent Instagram pics indicate he visited the Scandinave Spa in Whistler where he apparently spent most of the time either shirtless or relaxing in a white terrycloth robe. Honestly, when was the last time you saw a Vancouver political candidate lounging spread eagle in a sauna or washing his glistening six-pack abs under a hand-pull shower. Former NPA councillor George Puil, perhaps. But we’re pretty sure it was a Turkish mud bath, and it was the free-spirited 1980s, after all. The strangest image on Hayden’s Instagram site, however, is a short video of a couple lounging in a pool

at the spa, staring wistfully at a waterfall, when all of sudden out from under the surface jumps Hayden, ﬂopping like a ﬁsh towards the cascading water. Under the video Hayden writes, “I hear getting into city hall is like swimming upstream. Challenge accepted!!!” A couple things. First off, good on Hayden for having the wherewithal and online savviness to have an actual Instagram account. To the best of our knowledge, Mayor Gregor Robertson or the social media team posing as him, doesn’t even have an Instagram account, though he’d probably just post pictures of himself riding a bike and DJ-ing with captions like “Had totally cool time spinning mad wax with the 19 to 34-year-old demographic that I dig so much #YOLO #VOTEGREGOR.” But we hate to break it to Hayden, the park board isn’t located at city hall. It’s actually at 2099 Beach Ave. in the West End, technically downstream from city hall. Then again, Hayden would have known that if he had ever attended a park board meeting. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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The Vancouver Fringe Festival runs until Sept. 14. Details at vancouverfringe. com.

Peter ‘n Chris and the Kinda OK Corral

Performance Works Sept. 10-12 These guys — Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson — are Best of Fest awardwinningly funny. This is an all-new show with some hilarious physical comedy: imagine Peter “milking” Chris who masquerades — sometimes — as cowpoke Pete Erp’s beloved cow Winifred. Throw in a wicked oil baron (Peter again) and his upper-crusty English hired killer (Chris again) and you have a recipe for a gun-totin’, cow milkin’, citrus fruit destroyin’ romp somewhere in Alberta. Heck, there’s even sagebrush rolling around as the gang of two set out to shoot the bad guy in “cold blood” or “C.B.” Yep, they’re tough, more than a bit clueless and very, very funny.

... Didn’t See That Coming

Performance Works Sept. 10, 12 and 14 Beverley Elliott disparages her big-boned body but let me tell you, it’s all heart inside. On a cold winter night you could warm your hands on this show. “Aunt Bev” is, undoubtedly, everyone in the family’s favourite aunt but her luck with men, she admits, is “crappy.” With a teenaged daughter but never married, Elliott goes looking online for love but didn’t see what was coming: 47 (!) coffee dates looking for “Mr. Right.” Not all the material is about finding romance, however; one scenario relates falling in love as a teenager with the Guess Who and discovering there’s more to the world than her Presbyterian parents had led her to believe. With a show created from episodes, it’s tough to build an ever-increasing arc and this show feels as if it has several endings. Elliott is at her best when she’s in a rage; she can lift the finish off a laminate floor when she gets going — all that curly red hair ablaze. And although it’s clear she’s trying for some balance, the

Peter ‘n Chris and the Kinda OK Corral is rootin’, tootin’ fun.

quieter bits feel somewhat sentimental by comparison. But it’s a terriﬁc show by an amazingly generous performer. Icing on this cake is her gorgeous voice.

Jesus Made Me Funny

Toast Collective (Fraser and Kingsway) Sept. 10, 12 and 13 Writer/performer Craig Erickson has an intensity that keeps directors casting him in serious, often villainous roles. Who knew he could be funny? In a “know thyself” moment, Erickson penned his own show to showcase a completely different side of himself: a lighter, gooﬁer Erickson, ﬂexible enough to play Calvin (an insurance salesman), Calvin’s wife Sarah, Sarah’s old boyfriend Skip, nerdish Bruce, evangelical Josh and even a ventriloquist’s dummy. When Calvin joins a support group for closet comedians, his world changes: Calvin gets serious about being funny. Jesus Made Me Funny sends a good message: “Go with your gut” and if you’re a praying sort of person, “Pray for the best.” Funky little venue on Kingsway and Fraser; entrance is off the well-lit alley, parking is free and easy.

The Dark Fantastic

Waterfront Theatre Sept. 11, 13 and 14 Mesmerizing. Storyteller Martin Dockery begins in the dark, his deep voice breaking the silence: “Imagine. Imagine.” And then he takes you on a mysterious journey across the desert to a house with an old man sitting on the front porch. Backwards and forwards through time. It’s a bewildering yet somehow fascinating tale. Lines like, “I’m not the man you think I am,” “I am not the woman you think I am” and her son, “half man, half child, two

hearts” repeat and repeat like a mournful tolling bell. And just when you begin to feel you, too, are lost in the desert, Dockery wraps it up in a moment so poignant it’s almost painful. I’m not sure where Dockery intends us to go but I went to my mother’s story: abandoned as an infant by her mother, she spent her entire adult life wondering why. In Dockery’s tale, the half man/half boy, “a child without a name” who never knew his mother, is given to violence and vomiting as an art form — surely a reference to compulsive storytelling. With his hands ﬂying like pigeons on speed, Dockery is a riveting spinner of tales. This one feels painfully, cathartically personal.

Moonlight After Midnight

Waterfront Theatre Sept. 12 and 14 Back-to-back Martin Dockery for me. A surreal experience. But he’s not alone in this show. Billed as a “puzzle piece,” Dockery shares the stage with Vanessa Quesnelle. As with The Dark Fantastic, Dockery wraps it all up in a surprise ending. Along the way, however, there’s lots of parry and thrust between the two characters. It appears the male character has phoned for “a brunette” to come to his hotel room. She’s been instructed to pretend to be his wife. He denies the phonecall but is prepared to go along with her, to “go with the flow,” an expression he says he’s never used but, later, uses. He also says he never “riffs,” but does. There’s terrific chemistry here; Quesnelle’s character gets feisty, Dockery’s gets defensive. There’s huge pain buried here somewhere and we don’t find out why until the very end. It all makes sense is a crazy, fantastical sort of way. Continued next page

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Aboard SS Master Sept. 10-14 Fact: Greenland is 83.1 per cent water — most of it in glaciers. Written by Nicolas Billon, Greenland begins and ends on the bow of SS Master with 14-year-old Tanya Morrisey (Kirsten Slenning) preparing a factfilled report for school. We get lots of information but what’s even more interesting is the mystery at the heart of the play: Tanya’s twin brother has died and an island — emerging as a consequence of global warming — has been named for him in Kalaallisut, the language of Greenland. In Part 2, on the stern of the boat, we meet Tanya’s Aunt Judith (Lindsay Drummond), unhappily married to glaciologist Jonathan (Billy Marchenski). His first love is ice; Judith doesn’t even come close. In the wheelhouse in Part 3, Jonathan — heavily into his scotch on, what else, “rocks” — describes his love of glaciers and how the history of the planet can be read in them. Back on the bow for the epilogue. All is not exactly revealed but what we do, finally, discover is how young Tanya learns to cope with the tragedy of losing her sibling.

No Tweed Too Tight: Another Grant Canyon Mystery

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There’s no mystery here: writer/performer Ryan Gladstone is super-skilled as he takes us along with Grant Canyon (an insurance fraud investigator for the Des Moines Trust Insurance Company) who’s hot on the trail of the recently stolen Bombay Sapphire. Tied to a chair, he’s being beaten when we ﬁrst meet him. With each blackout, Canyon remembers more of how he ended up where he is. Imaginary bodies eventually litter the stage as Canyon fumblingly solves the mystery and pockets the Bombay Sapphire in his tweed suit jacket. Film noir-ish, the cast includes the obligatory femmes fatales, a Mexican drug lord, crooked insurance company president and a host of others — all played by Gladstone. There’s lots of goofy wordplay: “blood pouring outta me like jelly at an all-night café,” “wrapped tighter than a burrito at a Grateful Dead Concert.” Terriﬁc performance and lots of fun. Can-yon!

Dirty Old Woman

Studio 16 Sept. 11, 13 and 14 And here I thought actor Susinn McFarlen was spilling the beans. But playwright Loretta Seto really exists and she really wrote Dirty Old Woman. McFarlen, however, so completely embraces this 50-something mother of two grown kids, you’d swear it was her own story. And congratulate her on her good fortune. In the play, Nina (recently dumped by her husband of 27 years for a younger woman) goes looking online for Mr. Right Enough. It’s a bust and she ends up taking a course in expressive dance. She “jumps the bones” of the 20-year younger teacher (Robert Salvador) and ends up in a relationship fraught with the disapproval of her kids, her ex and even some friends. This is rich territory for McFarlen who not only has great comedic chops but an air of wry wisdom about her.

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Sportshorts FOOTBALL The pre-season opening weekend for the AA and AAA varsity football seasons was short seven games, all cancelled because of the province-wide teachers’ strike. The league otherwise lumbered on as public school coaches decided to either lead their team or allow community volunteers to manage the program off-campus in their absence. Vancouver’s two AAA varsity teams (both from private schools) kicked into action on Sept. 5. The Vancouver College Fighting Irish (0-1, 0-0) travelled south of the border to play fellow Catholic boys school, O’Dea. The Americans won 44-7 on their own turf. Vancouver College hosts St. Thomas More at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 13. Notre Dame (0-1, 0-0) was shutout by St. Thomas More 34-0 at Burnaby Lakes. The Jugglers play Mt. Boucherie at 5 p.m. Sept. 12 at Burnaby Lakes.

Globetrotters GOLDEN MERALOMAS

1 1. Ryan McBroom, who is called out at second base in Game 1 of the Northwest League championship, led the league with 11 home runs. 2. Starter Chase Mallard began Game 1 with a 0.53 ERA at home. He gave up six hits and four runs, including a home run, in five innings against Hillsboro in the last home game of the seasons Sept. 6.

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Canadians lose back-to-back games in best-of-three Northwest League championship VANCOUVER HILLSBORO

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The record books — and that made-up but still momentous word “fourpeat” — were on the minds of the Vancouver Canadians players and staff before the ﬁrst pitch of the Northwest League Championship was thrown Saturday night at Nat Bailey Stadium. Just don’t mistake it for pressure they couldn’t handle. “The guys did great. I don’t think the moment was too big for anyone of them,” said C’s manager John Schneider. “The biggest thing for me and Jeff [Ware, pitching coach] and Dave [Pano, batting coach] was we didn’t want to lose sight of the fact it’s hard to get to where we got to. We didn’t want for the guys to take that for granted and say, OK, we’re back here and let’s go win it.” The C’s had gone seven playoff games without losing at home, a streak that dated to 2011 when Vancouver

won the first of their three championships by eliminating Eugene on the road in the division series and then beating the Tri-City Dust Devils at home for the Northwest League title. It was their first season as a Blue Jays affiliate and they won both seasons after that. As in the past, this year the C’s squeaked into the post-season with three must-win games against Spokane and then, playing for the North Division pennant, swept them to advance to the championship against the Hillsboro Hops. In their second year in the Northwest League as the Diamondbacks’ affiliate, the Hops had the best overall record (48-28) and also won both the first and second halves of the short, single-A season’s South Division. Vancouver came second with a 46-31 overall record, finished the first half in second and won the second half of the North Division two games ahead of the Eugene Emeralds. Hosting Hillsboro on Saturday night, history was in the making (so it seemed) as the C’s leapt to a three-run lead in the first inning and

then added two more runs in their next at-bat. But the Hops dug out of the hole in unforgettable fashion by hitting two home runs, both over the fence along near identical trajectories over right field. Hillsboro, which had the lowest ERA in the league (3.64) during the regular season, kept Vancouver from scoring again as they came back with four runs in the third inning, took the lead in the sixth with two runs and then added insurance in the seventh with their seventh run to go up 7-5 and win Game 1. In Game 2, the Hops got right to the point. Outside Portland at Ron Tonkin Field in front of 3,328 fans, they went up 4-0 in the first two innings and then held their breath as Vancouver scored three runs on 11 hits before the ninth inning when the league-leading closer, Hops’ Zac Curtis who had 14 saves in 15 attempts, finally shut the door on Vancouver. The championship loss was laced with just a little added grief, said Schneider, who joined the C’s in 2011 for the start of the season. “Everyone was very

aware of what the team had done the past three years. You never want to be the manger that ends that run. Sometimes, and we talked about it amongst ourselves, sometimes we realised more about what we accomplished. Instead of jumping up and down, you get to really reﬂect on the effort and improvement we made. It was really tough in the change room for a lot of guys. It wasn’t fun at all. It made you realise just how much the guys wanted to win it and how much we enjoyed coming to the park each day. It was not what you wanted to see but it was nice to see because it also had that much passion and that much emotion.” Schneider, who was reached at the Dallas airport after leaving Oregon for his home in Florida, said he expected to see the majority of players moving up the Blue Jays system. “The group that was here this summer was awesome. They loved going to work every day and our goal was to try and make it a fun atmosphere every day for them.” twitter.com/MHStewart

Building on their bronze medal from last year, the Vancouver Meraloma men’s fastpitch team returned from Kelowna as the Senior “D” provincial champions. The Lomas scored five runs in the sixth inning to blow open a scoreless championship game against Ladner on Aug. 17. Murray Margolis pitched a complete game in the win and allowed only one run in the final inning. In the photo, left to right back row: Curtis Ballard, Eric Orton, Ryan Austin, Marshall Shields, Ryan Shields, Dillon Finskars, Serge Hache, Lance Finskars. Bottom row: Murray Margolis, Matt McCann, Ken Godfrey, Adam Tuck.

Full count The GTU standing of Vancouver’s Carlos Tesler-Mabe, who will drive the No. 8 Honda Civic Si at the Mission Raceway road course at the Sports Car Club of B.C.’s “September Sizzle” race Sept. 13 and 14. Scott Cameron, also of Vancouver, sits at No. 3 in the IP3 class and will race the No. 32 Honda Civic.

Almost one year to the day... “The surgery which was performed on Travis’ shoulder last winter has essentially been undone.”

— B.C. Lions team physician Dr. Bob McCormack in a statement, released Sept. 8 after Lions quarterback Travis Lulay dislocated his right shoulder Sept. 5 in Ottawa. Lulay ﬁrst injured his shoulder Sept. 15, 2013 and returned to action in the ﬁnal week of the regular season. The QB took to Twitter Sept. 6 to say: “It was an absolute joy to be back out there and earn a win with my teammates last night. As tough as it is to get re-injured, my sincere thanks goes out to all CFL players, coaches, chaplains, fans and everyone who reached out with encouraging words of support. I’m humbled by your kind words, thoughts, and prayers. God bless!”

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Sports&Recreation

Teachers who coach struggle with strike

School sports on hold as labour dispute continues Megan Stewart

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Public high school sports leagues are on hold for the season until the teachers’ strike comes to an end and the labour dispute is resolved. At least two picketing teachers are, to differing degrees, finding ways for their fall sports programs to continue. Others are concerned for the long-term viability of their programs while still others are discussing the logistics of a shortened season, depending when teachers return to classrooms and volunteering as coaches. At Hamber secondary where the Griffins play Tier II varsity football, head coach Bobby Gibson is not training the team but is allowing community coaches to access equipment and hold practices off school grounds at Montgomery Park. At Van Tech, Mike Allina said he is making the difficult and unpopular decision to cross picket lines. He will coach the senior boys soccer team and register with B.C. School Sports although he doesn’t know what teams the Talismen will play. No school is running cross-country practices, but coaches are preparing a contingency plan for the last-possible date a city meet could be held in order for student-athletes to attend the B.C. Championship in Victoria on Nov. 1. Fall sports include volleyball, cross-country, swimming, girls field hockey, boys soccer and rugby, and football. Schools have until Oct. 6 to register teams with B.C. School Sports. The time teachers put into extra-curricular activities like sports is considered volunteer work, but the majority of teachers who coach and sponsor teams view this work as integral to their professional life as an educator. “In my view, crossing picket lines and continuing extra-curricular activities would go against achieving the best results in bargaining and getting back to schools quickly,” said David Lopez, a teacher and volleyball coach at Killarney secondary. The boys and girls volleyball season is on hold. “There is some leverage in withholding extra-curriculars during this bargaining process, but since it is volunteer work each teacher

continues to do what they view is right.” Gibson, the football coach at Hamber, has the opening day of the season etched in his mind. But if Sept. 26 comes along and teachers are still striking, he will leave the team in the hands of community coaches and parents. “I will potentially go as a fan as long as I’m not crossing the picket line. But I won’t go as a coach.” It will be “extremely” difﬁcult, he said, “Especially when there are other teachers coaching at other [public] schools. That’s their choice.” In previous week, seven AA and AAA varsity football games were cancelled. Doing more than volunteering to coach the senior boys soccer team at Van Tech, Allina is crossing picket lines. “I let my union rep know in June that I would not picket in September, so I’m not picketing. Basically, I’m not picketing because I don’t agree with the union leadership,” said Allina, who is the athletic director at Van Tech. For the soccer team to play, he will have to register the school with B.C. School Sports at a cost of $2,600. As the governing body for all high school sports in the province, B.C. School Sports is not beholden to the government, unions or any public or private school. All competitive seasons are scheduled to begin, even if no public school teams register. Sport commissioners, including those who teach at public schools, have been talking with B.C. School Sports before the start of competition, said the organization’s director Christine Bradstock. “Right now I don’t think there is anything that needs to change with regards to location or timing [of provincial championships] in time for November,” she said. “If you look at the calendar, we’ve got a little bit of time before that.” At Lord Byng secondary, Ian MacPhee has helped grow the program by developing a competitive team and a pre-season tour to Australia and New Zealand. A teacher for 21 years, he said it’s a struggle to stay optimistic. “I think that how the provincial government chooses to end this dispute

could have an impact on extra-curricular activities in the public schools,” he said. “Teachers might start to question why they are volunteering countless hours of their own time.” twitter.com/MHStewart

The Hamber football team is practising off-campus with community coaches while the teachers strike continues. They hosted the Campbell River Timberline Wolves Sept. 13, 2013. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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