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Vision, NPA scrap over schools NPA attacks Vision for corporate donation policy
Cheryl Rossi
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Even as Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson was promising again that the city would double the money spent on breakfast programs in the Vancouver school district, Vision and the NPA were battling over the merits of corporate donations to public schools. Robertson used a press conference Monday to re-announce a promise to spend $400,000 a year on breakfast programs at schools to reach 1,300 children a school day. It was a promise first made by Robertson Sept. 18 in a move that
angered his NPA rival Kirk LaPointe, who argued the proposal was his idea. Robertson also said a Vision board would commit to building childcare centres in every school undergoing a seismic retrofit, and that Vision trustees would work to ensure Vancouver could boast the greenest school district in North America. “This team has an enormous wealth of experience in sharp contrast to the NPA team,” Roberston said. The Vision press conference came in the wake of an attack Friday by NPA mayoral candidate LaPointe on Vision Vancouver school board chairperson Patti Bacchus for rejecting $475,000 from Chevron Canada in March for school projects and new equipment. LaPointe said an NPA school board
wouldn’t be bound by what he called ideology that shortchanged children. Bacchus said corporate money needs to be kept away from class projects. She said Monday afternoon Vancouver School Board superintendent Steve Cardwell met with Chevron and rejected a partnership between the district and the oil company. That partnership proposed signs at Chevron pumps advertising that for every 30 litres of gas purchased, $2 would go towards projects and equipment in Vancouver classrooms. “That is in direct conflict with our goal of being the greenest school district and becoming carbon neutral,” Bacchus said. “That’s not a great fit for a district that’s trying to reduce its carbon footprint, reduce its dependence on fossil fu-
els and promote active transportation.” Bacchus said the decision was based on policy that’s been in place for at least 10 years, including when the NPA led the school board. “If Chevron had said we will write you a cheque to donate to your district, no strings attached, no requirements, this will not be associated with marketing gasoline sales, it will be a gift to your district, it would have fit the criteria and we probably would have accepted it and applied it to some appropriate purpose,” she added. The NPA announced Friday that it would: • keep schools open, • provide at least five more instruction days by reducing district closure days, Continued on page 4
LaPointe on the record First in a three-part series with mayoral candidates
Kirk LaPointe wants to be the next mayor of Vancouver. To do that, the NPA mayoral candidate has to convince voters that he will be a better leader for the city than Mayor Gregor Robertson, who has been in office since 2008 and is seeking a third term at city hall. LaPointe is a longtime media executive, a former CBC ombudsman and presently heads up Self-Counsel Press. He is also an adjunct professor at University of B.C.’s journalism school. Last week, he sat down with the Courier to take our questions. The meeting was live-streamed from Creekside Community Centre and the full interview can be viewed at vancourier.com. Here is a condensed and edited transcript of our conversation.
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couver Sun, I was trying to achieve a strengthening of the community. And a lot of our best projects were involved in that, along with projects that were collaborative, too. So I see this as really an extension of that work. A lot of the work that I did was in management, and I’ve had a lot of experience turning around operations. They come with their challenges, but I think I’ve ended up with some great managerial experience to bring forward to the city.
Courier: Why are you running for mayor?
Courier: What makes you think you can beat Mayor Gregor Robertson when he has previously beaten two NPA mayoral candidates (Peter Ladner and Suzanne Anton), both of whom had more political experience than you?
LaPointe: In all the best journalism that I was associated with at places like CTV and the National Post and, of course, the Van-
LaPointe: I have more managerial experience going into politics than Gregor did going into politics. Continued on page 12
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What I’ve learned, so far, from mayoral debates 12TH AND CAMBIE Mike Howell
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Hands up if you’ve attended any of the mayoral debates. Just as I thought, most of you haven’t. For those keeners who have, I’m fairly certain your attendance was based on your affiliation with one of the candidates, or their parties; it’s the badges, campaign literature, party T-shirts and obligatory hand clapping when your candidate lands a zinger that gives it away. And, of course, there are all those insightful tweets from you guys, which make for a technological twist on what is really a high school cheerleading contest. From my days on the high school basketball beat: “We’ve got the spirit, yes we do, we’ve got the spirit how about you?” Rah, rah, rah. Oh, I know you party types were the minority at the well-attended event at
the Italian Cultural Centre a few weeks back, but that wasn’t a debate, per se. That was just four candidates sort of answering/ largely deflecting questions from representatives of the Metro Vancouver Alliance, which unfortunately didn’t design the format for Mayor Gregor Robertson, the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe, COPE’s Meena Wong or the Greens’ Adriane Carr to engage in a battle of words. (Carr, by the way, is seeking re-election as a councillor but was invited because the Alliance opened the event to parties that had elected people to office over the past two terms.) Anyway, since that event, I’ve attended two actual mayoral debates and was scheduled to ask questions at a televised Shaw television debate at the time of writing this piece. So what do I think, so far? Well, they’re getting more lively, with Robertson and his main rival LaPointe getting in some exchanges and one-liners that have played
Mayor Gregor Robertson, COPE mayoral candidate Meena Wong, NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe and independent candidate Bob Kasting participated in a debate Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral. The CBC’s Andrew Chang (middle) moderated the event. PHOTO MIKE HOWELL
to their cheerleaders. Wong and independent candidate Bob Kasting have also scored points. But it’s really difficult to gauge whether any of this is of importance to the person it should matter most: the voter who wasn’t there. But maybe that elusive voter is smarter than you think.
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Had that same voter shown up Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral, she would have heard candidates avoid answering questions, play loose with the facts and make promises they can’t keep. LaPointe: I won’t meet with developers. Fact: Developers build cities.
Wong: I’ll declare an oil tanker-free zone. Fact: Tankers have been a common sight in Vancouver waters since a pipeline was built from Alberta to Burnaby in the 1950s. Robertson: I’ll end (street) homelessness. Fact: More than 500 people were living on the street, as of March.
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Here’s another fact: The sun was shining when I left the church. And there, all around me, was the elusive voter — reading a book on the lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery, sipping a coffee at a cafe, catching a bus, driving a car, riding a skateboard, playing a guitar. You get the picture. So maybe the reason only 34.5 per cent of voters cast a ballot in the 2011 civic election was because they would rather enjoy the sunshine than listen to more of the same from a group whose public approval rating continues to plummet. Yes, it sure would be refreshing to see the elusive voter show up to the next debate, have the cheerleaders stay home and candidates answer questions and stick to the facts. And then we can all live happily ever after, right? For now, I’m due back on the planet Earth where, if you enjoy political theatre, it’s such a great place to enjoy a mayoral debate. Really, it is. I promise. twitter.com/Howellings
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Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and school board chairperson Patti Bacchus promised Monday to feed more hungry students, provide more childcare centres in schools and make the Vancouver school district the greenest in North America. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
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offers Mandarin electives now. LaPointe said the NPA would accomplish these goals by securing additional revenue through partnerships with childcare providers and by creating a policy to promote appropriate grant and sponsorship arrangements. Bacchus said the Vision-dominated board hasn’t been talking about closing schools since 2010. “We made a commitment in 2011 that we would be keeping public schools open,” she said. “When we voted to do that, the NPA opposed that.” Bacchus noted NPA trustee Fraser Ballantyne said this past April that with lower enrolment, the district could have closed two elementary and three secondary schools to address its budget shortfall for 2014-2015. Robertson said the city isn’t stepping in where the province should be by providing money for breakfast programs. Investing money in the breakfast program is aligned with city council’s priority of addressing child poverty, according to Robertson. Bacchus said she’s proud the Vision-dominated school board has: • fought to keep schools open, • secured hundreds of millions of dollars for seismic upgrades and new school construction, and • made schools safer and more inclusive for students of all backgrounds. Twenty-nine contenders seek election for nine school board trustee positions. Candidates include six incumbents from Vision Vancouver and newcomer Joy Alexander, a retired teacher, parent and school psychologist who holds a doctorate in educational psychology. Allan Wong left the Coalition of Progressive Electors, or COPE, and joined Vision in 2013. Five candidates, including Ballantyne, are running with the NPA. The party expelled Ken Denike and Sophia Woo in June. The pair is running with a new party called Vancouver First. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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Few parents attend candidates’ forum School board candidates address funding, support for special needs
Cheryl Rossi
crossi@vancourier.com
Only 80 people attended the Vancouver District Parent Advisory Council’s school trustee candidates forum, Oct. 23. At least half of those who attended were PAC leaders. “We thought it would be full because of the strike,” said disappointed VDPAC chairperson Melanie Antweiler. Former COPE trustee Jane Bouey, now a candidate with the new Public Education Project party that’s focusing solely on education in the Nov. 15 civic election, earned the most vociferous applause of the evening when she addressed supports for students with special needs. Bouey became a public
education activist in 1993 when it took her son two years to get his learning problems assessed and then she still had to struggle to secure support. She says every time she succeeded in securing help for him, support was removed from another child. “It was a question of underfunding,” she said. “Now things have got worse. The Liberal government’s stripping of contracts made a huge difference in terms of who is directly impacted by cuts in special education… It’s disproportionally students with special needs… So I’m going to agree with COPE. It’s time that we stop being complicit…We won’t continue to cut the supports that students need the most.” Twenty-two of 29 candidates for nine trustee
positions appeared and responded to questions from a VDPAC moderator at John Oliver secondary school. Both Green candidate Janet Fraser and Vision Vancouver candidate and two-time trustee and VSB chairperson Patti Bacchus said trustees need to lobby the provincial government for more money for education. Bouey said trustees need to work with the broader community to persuade the provincial government to better fund education, a tactic that worked when she was a COPE trustee in 2005 and there was a provincial election. “There’s an increasing reliance on private funding, on donations, on parents anteing up. It’s a dangerous erosion of public education and we
completely and totally oppose that,” she said. Non-Partisan Association candidate Penny Noble says trustees need to work collaboratively with the provincial government and to seek other sources of funding. “There are a lot of other opportunities out there that we can be looking at,” she said. “That is something we see as a huge, huge opportunity that’s been done extremely successfully in a number of other school boards around the province.” Expelled former NPA trustee Ken Denike, who is running with a new party called Vancouver First, also said trustees need to seek funding beyond the provincial government. The five-time board
chairperson outlined how he secured federal funding for settlement workers in schools. His party-mate Sophia Woo said trustees wouldn’t need to make any cuts if they set the board’s priorities correctly. PEP candidate Gwen Giesbrecht and COPE candidate Ilana Shecter refused to consider cuts they would make as trustees. “The cut that I would like to see made is the cut to the funding that goes to private schools to fund those [public] programs,” Giesbrecht said. Shecter suggested COPE would deliver to the province an unbalanced budget. She said when the party did so in the 1980s, funding was restored and COPE was reelected with a majority board.
Denike said he and Woo would continue acting as opposition on the board, raising issues that need more parental involvement. He received enthusiastic applause from the same parents who told the Courier they’d attend the meeting because they remain concerned about the board’s revised gender identities and sexual orientation policy that passed in June. Noble worked to shine positive new light on the NPA. “We are not your grandfather’s NPA. We are your daughter’s NPA and we, ourselves, are looking for change,” she said. VDPAC intends to post questions and answers on its website at vancouverdpac.org. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi
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Big events eye security in wake of Ottawa Bob Mackin
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The Remembrance Day ceremony at the Victory Square cenotaph will take on extra meaning this year, after the National War Memorial in Ottawa was the scene of a tragedy that shook the nation Oct. 22. Vancouver’s Nov. 11 ceremony will be Victory Square’s 90th anniversary. The monument was dedicated in April 1924. “It’s our intention to proceed, at the same time we know local authorities are reviewing those plans,” said Cam Cathcart, chair of the Vancouver Remembrance Day Committee. “Once that’s been done then we’ll look at what is concluded and we’ll proceed accordingly.” The city’s biggest sporting event of the year, the 102nd Grey Cup at B.C. Place Stadium, happens the last Sunday of November. Grey Cup Festival general manager Jamie Pitblado was organizer of the Vancouver Sun Run in 2013 when it went ahead
as-scheduled, the weekend after the bombing at the Boston Marathon. “There was a lot of concern and we addressed that accordingly, did all the right checks and balances and had a successful and safe event,” Pitblado said. “We certainly expect the Grey Cup will be the same thing. “Will this incur more costs? There’s probably a good chance that will happen, but part of the thing is about not necessarily overreacting.” A bigger concern for Pitblado is selling the nearly 7,000 remaining tickets. He said he still forecasts a sellout by kickoff. Members of Canada’s army, navy and air force traditionally participate in various elements of the Grey Cup, which is a major recruiting opportunity for the Canadian Forces. “They’ll be involved in our parade, they’ll be involved in our arrival of the Grey Cup into the city, they’ll have an activation area, we have an obstacle course that they’re setting
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up for young fans to participate in,” Pitblado said. “They’re well entrenched with the Grey Cup festivities, as Canadians we all need to recognize the work they do to keep us safe.” Thousands of Canadian Forces members
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will be the FIFA Women’s World Cup with seven match days, including the final, between June 8 and July 6, 2015. National Organizing Committee chair Vic Montagliani said security plans may be affected by the Ottawa shooting. “It’s something we review constantly, our budget is an organic thing and we’ll take everything into account with our security experts,” Montagliani said. “We obviously hope we don’t have to look at anything over and above what we’ve already planned for, but if we need to take any measures, we’ll take them.” The overall budget for this year’s Under 20 Women’s World Cup and next year’s Women’s World Cup is $90 million, he said. The Brazil 2014 World Cup had perimeter fencing at venues with airport-style screening for ticketholders. “On a certain level it will be similar to what you see at other events, to the extent of metal detectors we’ll have to see when we
get closer to the event as to the implementation of that kind of level,” Montagliani said. “If you walk into a Whitecaps’ game you have to open your bags, that’s pretty standard nowadays, but if we have to go over and above what is standard, we will do it if it’s required.” Neither Public Safety Canada nor Sport Canada would comment on taxpayer contributions to securing the six-city tournament. Likewise for Vancouver city hall, whose spokesperson Tobin Postma said: “I imagine that they will request (Vancouver Police) assistance, but it will fall under the (local and national organizing committees’) budget.” The provincial government provided $2 million to the tournament and, according to the Justice Ministry, the organization “has the flexibility to allocate those resources as it sees fit.” Provincial liquor inspectors will be part of the security equation. twitter.com/bobmackin
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NPA attacks mayor over union deal
Mike Howell
mhowell@vancourier.com
NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe announced Monday that housing affordability is no longer the top issue in the campaign since news broke of a private financial deal between Vision Vancouver and the union that represents the city’s outside workers. Though the deal between Mayor Gregor Robertson’s party and CUPE Local 1004 was revealed in a Courier story posted online Oct. 16, LaPointe spent a second consecutive day questioning the mayor on the agreement that resulted in a $34,000 donation from the local and matching funds from CUPE’s B.C. and national offices for a total of $102,000. “I actually don’t believe now that the largest issue is housing affordability,” LaPointe said at a mayoral debate broadcast Monday on Shaw television. “I believe that there is evidence of a problem inside our government, evidence of deals
that have been made. I really would like to know what other deals have been made because it’s very clear that there’s been one made with the city’s outside workers.” The Courier story posted online Oct. 16 and authored by contributor Bob Mackin quoted Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs telling members of Local 1004 that Robertson “has again recommitted to not expand contracting out, to make sure that wherever we can bring in new processes, that members of 1004 will be delivering those services.” Meggs was heard on a leaked recording obtained by Mackin of an Oct. 14 meeting held at the Maritime Labour Centre Auditorium. LaPointe’s comments Monday came shortly after his party issued a press release accompanied by a YouTube link to a debate Sunday at Christ Church Cathedral where Robertson got into an exchange with the NPA leader over the union deal. At Sunday’s debate, LaPointe pressed Robertson on whether he was proud of what his councillor pledged
Robertson told reporters after Monday’s debate that LaPointe’s allegations were “nasty” and “ridiculous.” The mayor said there is a longstanding commitment from Vision Vancouver to fair collective bargaining and to not contract out services at the city. “That’s our practice and principle for six years now,” he said. “We have maintained a balance of city services — some contracted in, some [contracted] out — and we’re committed to continuing that balance. So there’s no additional change. Coun. Meggs was just stating the obvious and our track record to date and commitment to date to continue with that practice.” Asked if his comments at Sunday’s debate in which he declared the city’s hands weren’t tied to future negotiations contradicted Meggs’ promise to the union, the mayor said: “What Coun. Meggs said is that we’re effectively continuing the same consistent policy that we don’t favour contracting out. We think city workers deliver
The NPA hopes Vision’s promises to city hall unions over contracting out will become the issue of the election campaign.
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and whether that commitment “tied the hands” of the city in future negotiations with the union. Robertson said Meggs was “not my councillor” and that he didn’t send representatives to such meetings. As for whether Meggs’ comments would affect negotiations, the mayor replied “absolutely not.” At Monday’s debate, LaPointe accused the mayor of standing back from the
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“All in favour? Opposed? Carried unanimously.” It’s October 2018, and so adjourns the final city council meeting of Vision Vancouver’s third consecutive term of government. The time also will mark the 10th year of Vision Vancouver’s political dynasty, and — very likely — Gregor Robertson’s final days as mayor. Of course, the actual results of the Nov. 15, 2014 election have yet to be tallied up. But polls suggest that Robertson and the Vision slate will cruise into an easy victory at council, and at the school and park boards. The smoldering dissatisfaction felt in many Vancouver communities is probably too dispersed to overcome a powerful and well-funded political machine like Vision’s. Then there is the fact that only one-third of eligible voters will even bother to cast a ballot this year, such is the declining interest in local government elections. Most British Columbians may not realize that their municipal vote is worth 33 per cent more, now that three-year terms are being abandoned for four. It behooves us to be a little more careful with our choices, but the vast majority of voters in Vancouver will vote the slates that most suit their own political leanings. So what will 10 years of Robertson’s Vision government have brought to our city? To understand what lies ahead for Vancouver
between now and 2018, one needs to look back at the mayor’s unfulfilled political promises. You can be sure that Robertson will be determined to leave a political legacy as most long-serving politicians do. Here are five areas to watch. • On ending street homelessness. Some of the brightest minds who have studied homelessness warned Robertson not to promise he could “end” anything, let alone something as complex as our city’s homelessness problem. But all indications are that even more city resources will go into warehousing people to drive numbers of street homeless down. Once the last of the 14 social housing projects promised in a 2007 provincial-city partnership are complete, Vision will have little choice but to dig deeper into city coffers to uphold Robertson’s promise. • On the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts. A city staff study suggested the viaducts could serve out their usefulness for another four decades if properly maintained, but Robertson has too much political capital already invested in tearing them down. It will be billed as a big win for the community, but there is a risk it will make the losses of the Olympic Village construction feel like a walk in the park. It’s a bold plan for sure, but as the Burrard and Granville Bridges continue to crumble, a lot of Vancouverites might question the sense of it. • On public engagement. Robertson leads an activist government that often gets impatient with the process of getting buy-in. If their minds are
set on something, they will stubbornly drive ahead while paying lip service to the public’s viewpoints. Increasingly the city seems to be using the courts to help them plow ahead, such as in the recent case of the CP Rail right-ofway along Arbutus. Watch the city’s legal bills mount. • On the “Greenest City” pledge. 2020 might be the end date, but Vision’s targets toward greening the city are all
laid out today and they will have a considerable financial cost. For example, green building codes for new single-family homes are already increasing home prices. The city has big ambitions for district energy systems, a bikesharing program, and a green enterprise business district on the False Creek Flats — all of which that come with a big price tag. Robertson’s push for green jobs means that
you’ll hear more about e-waste specialists and weatherization experts in the local lexicon. • On blocking tankers. John Horgan may have the title, but the real Leader of the Opposition to Christy Clark’s energy-driven mandate is at 12th and Cambie. Expect Robertson and his activist circle of donors and supporters to continue the pressure on fracking and pipelines right through Clark’s 2017
bid for re-election, when the premier will have to prove her plan to grow the economy is working. You might notice there is no mention of rapid transit to UBC — one of the mayor’s “top” priorities. That, sadly, I predict will be no further along in 2018 than it is today. Mike Klassen is a public affairs and government relations professional. He ran for city council in 2011 with the NPA.
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Opinion Aboriginal candidates City’s laneway homes offer grace and wisdom should be sellable Trish Kelly Guest columnist trishkellyc@gmail.com Last week Brian Bowman, a Metis candidate in Winnipeg’s civic election, won the race for mayor. He became the first indigenous person to claim that seat in the city’s 140-year history. For aboriginal people across the country, this is a significant political moment. In our own upcoming election, there are at least five candidates of aboriginal descent. Vision incumbent Ken Clement from the Ktunaxa First Nation in the Kootenays is on the ballot again for school board. Jamie Lee Hamilton, whose grandparents were from the Blackfeet Nation, is running for park board under the IDEA banner. COPE is running aboriginal candidates at school board, park board and council. It isn’t easy for anyone to make the decision to run for public office, but the fraught history between the federal government and aboriginal communities makes it a uniquely complex decision for indigenous candidates. I asked Audrey Siegl, COPE’s city council candidate from the Musqueam Nation, how her family reacted when she announced her run for Vancouver council. “It’s been a mixed bag of reactions,” Siegl said. Multiple generations of Siegl’s family were forced to attend residential school, a federally mandated program that, according to Reconciliation Canada, saw 150,000 children taken from their homes and subject to a mortality rate of between 40 to 60 per cent. This history was top of mind when Siegl told her family. “When I did the video release of my announcement that I’m running for city council, a lot of people were confused, a lot of people didn’t like it, and there were also a cross-section of people who supported me and said ‘good we need you in there.’” Aside from the historical tensions, there are immediate reasons for aboriginal candidates to step lightly. In August, federal Liberals acclaimed B.C. Regional Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould of the We Wai Kai Nation as their candidate for the new Vancouver Granville riding. Nationally, some members of the Assembly of First Nations criticized Wilson-Raybould for tempting the wrath of the federal Conservative party, which holds the purse strings on funding to aboriginal communities. But aboriginal candidates are stepping forward, with grace and generosity. Diana Day, of the Oneida Nation,
is seeking a spot on school board with COPE. Day graduated with an Honours B.A. in psychology and has worked for years as a leader in aboriginal health initiatives. I asked her by email what aspects of indigenous leadership she would bring to the school board. “As an indigenous woman I have been raised to care for the greater good of all children as a collective and not limited to the well-being of my own children. It is important for me to continue to see a collective community that is inclusive and looking out for the most vulnerable children and youth to ensure continuity of supports are in place throughout the school system.” Both Siegl and Day agree that Vancouver has been missing out by not having more aboriginal voices at the municipal decision making table. Siegl noted that a city in hot pursuit of the title of Greenest City is missing out on the environmental knowledge of her people who have had a relationship with this land for generations. “Vancouver has been missing out, not only on a strong rich history of the land, but that strong rich history includes examples of how a matriarchal society thrived, and how they found success in so many different areas including trade and commerce, including managing the resources.” Not only does the exclusion of aboriginal voices keep important knowledge out of reach for our municipal decision makers, it also hurts our aboriginal citizens. In the end, everyone loses out. “Because we are not at the table there is no level playing field,” Day said. “There is limited cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness among the members of the municipal government. As a result there is no cultural safety in the education system and generations of indigenous people have not been successfully graduating into careers and obtaining their rightful place in society as law makers, visionaries, and contributors to the municipal government.” T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss, COPE’s aboriginal candidate for park board, has extensive experience in urban agriculture, and helped establish a community kitchen and garden for her Squamish community on the North Shore — initiatives very similar to what the Vancouver park board prioritized in last year’s Local Food Action Plan. With such thoughtful, qualified aboriginal candidates on the ballot, perhaps Vancouver can claim a different first. I’d be pretty proud if all five made it across the line. twitter.com/trishkellyc
Michael Geller Columnist michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com Last Saturday, I joined approximately 500 people wandering the back lanes of Vancouver taking their shoes off and then putting them back on. We were participating in the fifth annual Vancouver Heritage Foundation Laneway Housing Tour that showcased eight laneway homes around the city. Now some might wonder why a heritage organization would be organizing a laneway housing tour. The answer is simple. It wanted to demonstrate how adding a laneway house behind a house can be a positive way to retain heritage and character homes. This year’s tour included six houses built after 2009 when the City of Vancouver amended its zoning bylaws to permit laneway houses in some single family zones. However, it also included a 900-square-foot laneway house behind 132 West 11th that was constructed in the 1890s, and a 1,600-square-foot house built in 1990 behind a 1912 character home at 3050 Maple St. What was significant about these two properties was unlike the smaller houses built under the city’s laneway housing program which must be rented, they could be sold. That is because in some zones the city allows a laneway or coach house, as they are sometimes called, to be sold when a heritage house is being preserved. I have had a longstanding interest in laneway houses dating back to the 1960s when I first discovered London mews houses. As a CMHC planner in 1976, I oversaw a study exploring opportunities for “sensitive infill” that proposed laneway housing for Vancouver. In 2008 I formed Laneway Cottages Inc. anticipating changes in Vancouver’s zoning bylaws to permit laneway homes, noting that this had been one of the recommendations of the earlier EcoDensity initiative. Unfortunately, given the way the initial laneway zoning bylaw was drafted, it did not permit the kind of laneway houses many were seeking, namely predominantly single storey cottage-like homes for sale. The earlier Vancouver Heritage Foundation tours demonstrated how laneway houses could be a very effective and charming way to increase the density in
a neighbourhood without significantly compromising its character. However, there was often a shortage of parking since the zoning did not require any parking space for the laneway unit. Furthermore, the garages in many early laneway homes had large windows and in-floor heating, making it obvious they would be converted to living space at some time in the future. Given that some single-family lots could have three dwelling units (a main dwelling, a basement suite and laneway unit) without any off-street parking, this resulted in numerous and valid complaints about parking in some neighbourhoods. The city has hopefully addressed this problem by modifying the regulations to discourage garages from being used as living space. From discussions with laneway house builders it appears a large number are not being constructed as rental units, but rather as homes for relatives. In some instances, the children are moving into a laneway house, with the intention of moving into the big house at a later date. In others, one or both parents are moving into the laneway unit. Despite some complaints, I believe the program is working. However, many would like to see the city permit some laneway units to be sold, rather than remain as rental, resulting in more affordable ownership housing in established neighbourhoods. During my recent trip to England, I learned that the government is exploring ways to encourage those 55 and older to move out of larger homes to free up their homes for families with children. However, for older people, a major constraint is often the lack of appropriate alternative accommodation. A similar problem exists in Vancouver. Many older households would gladly sell their larger houses but they don’t want to move into an apartment. However, they would happily buy a smaller infill house in their neighbourhood if this type of housing was available. Similarly, young couples would buy a small laneway house to get into the market. On Nov. 15 we will go to the polls. This is a good opportunity to vote for those politicians who support innovative approaches to the provision of more affordable housing choices, such as laneway housing for sale. twitter.com/michaelgeller
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Oct. 28, 1922: More than 1,000 UBC students, frustrated by the university being confined to a handful of buildings in the Fairview neighbourhood, marched through the city in order to pressure the provincial government into completing a muchneeded new campus at Point Grey in an event that became known as the Great Trek. After reaching the site of the proposed new school, they clambered up the frame of the applied science building, which construction had begun on in 1914 and was then abandoned. Victoria got the message and kicked in $1.5 million to finish construction of the new academic grounds, which finally opened on Sept. 22, 1925.
One of FBI’s 10 Most Wanted captured Oct. 29, 1960: Joseph Corbett, Jr., a former Fulbright scholar listed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list for kidnapping and murdering the heir to the Coors Brewing empire, is captured in a West End apartment after a Vancouver resident recognizes him from a Reader’s Digest story about the crime. A convicted murderer with a genuis-level IQ, he had escaped from a minimum-security prison in California four years earlier and was living in the former Maxine’s Apartment Hotel on Bidwell Street under the assumed name Thomas C. Wainwright. Corbett was sentenced to life imprisonment and released in 1978. ADVERTISING
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To the editor: Re: “Jacobs’ vision lost among Vancouver’s high towers,” Oct. 24. My husband and I go out of our way to obtain the Courier. Your columns, along with the municipal news, motivate us to make this effort. Jane Jacobs has been greatly on my mind over recent years, so when I saw the title of this article I knew instantly who you would be talking about and why. How can such tested wisdom be so ignored by those planning the future development of Vancouver? This council, in the name of densification, recently replaced a church and beautiful green space with an unattractive high-rise tower at Broughton and Comox. This tower now blocks the light and views from many lower buildings in the neighbourhood. I avoid walking there because, to me, what they did was criminal and against all logic. It ignored completely the human comfort and needs for both the neighbours and those that will soon be living in the new building. The issue of densification and that tower continually remind me of a PBS documentary I watched back in the ’70s. The discussion was around highrise living and the impact to the human condition that resulted — not good as I recall. They did a visual of a tower and laid it on its side, which was much better. All inhabitants would have a view of and connection to the earth. I strongly believe that this connection — the smell, the sight, the very proximity to the earth — is something homo sapiens crave almost as much as air and water.
And no, a potted tree on a deck 20 stories in the air will not suffice. Susan McNicol, Vancouver
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Re: “NPA pushes for LNG jobs in Vancouver,” Oct. 15. I would like to send a message to Mayor Gregor Robertson and all Vancouver voters: We ignore our B.C. resource sector economy at our own peril. For workers in B.C., a job in mining and exploration, for example, is a lowrisk, high-return activity. The mining industry maintains world-leading health, safety and environmental standards, and the environmental review processes that govern whether a new mine can go ahead or not are stringent, fair and science-based. The $10 billion annual gross revenue generated by B.C.’s mining industry also provides a remarkable 300-to-1 return on the government’s investment in the sector. Millions of dollars more are generated for local municipalities through property taxes on head offices, industryrelated trades and suppliers, especially in the Lower Mainland. Any banker, financial adviser or even high school student can see that these are dollars and jobs that should be pursued. I would therefore like to see Gregor Robertson take a stand in support of B.C.’s primary resource industries. Fred Reemeyer, Coquitlam
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COURIER STORY: “Big spenders explain donations to Vancouver civic parties,” Oct. 22. Bill_McCreery: “Vision Coun. Tim Stevenson confessed, ‘I don’t even know what people donate.’ NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball made the same claim, saying ‘most of us don’t have a clue who donated money to either our party or to ourselves...’” BULL! Such cries of innocence are hollow untruths on all sides. I can tell you that as a NPA council candidate in 2011 I received three phone calls from mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton telling me to stop criticizing developers, that they were trying to get money form them and the developers were not wanting to give because of my criticisms. In one instance she told me the specific developer they were trying to extract a donation from. I replied that I wasn’t criticizing developers, I was criticizing the spot rezoning/grossly overdense CAC bonusing planning and development process. AlexB: Here’s an idea, let’s put the list of big donors to Vision in one table and put next to it the projects that were approved for them during the past six years. I bet they would resemble very closely. It’s so clear-cut it’s not even funny. All you needed to do was to attend ANY of the open houses for ANY of the projects of big donor developers, it was ALWAYS a done deal before it was even discussed. COURIER COLUMN: “LGBTQ candidates offer empathy for voters,” Oct. 22. Mischa Oak: Great article, Trish! Thanks for including me. I identify as gay. I’m out and proud! I’m so out in fact, I didn’t think to mention it in my bio. I figured my listed work experience, my rainbow logo, my social media presence, and how openly I talk about being gay makes it pretty clear. cybermorph: Don’t quite get the point of the article. Is this some new form of gay shaming? All the candidates alluded to aren’t OUT enough for you!? And all the comments so far are from those mentioned — clarifying and emphatically proclaiming their credentials as cardcarrying members of the LGBT community. How sad it’s come to this. How loud and proud does one need to be to have street cred these days? Jeesh, move on.
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The NPA’s Kirk LaPointe told the Courier’s Mike Howell and Naoibh O’Connor his poor upbringing helps him “understand how to work with vulnerable sectors” of the community. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
Continued from page 1 I think he spoke maybe four or five times in the provincial legislature when he was an MLA, before he came to city hall. He didn’t have a particularly extensive track record and people elected him and elected him twice. So I believe that it is time for a change, and people do see that. Our research really indicates that it is widely held in the city. Courier: At a recent forum hosted by the Metro Vancouver Alliance, you told the crowd, “I’m not the NPA leader you might think you know.” What were you trying to get at with that? LaPointe: For the record, here’s who I am: I was born to a single mother. I grew up in poverty. My mother had to make this really awful choice. She had another son 11 years earlier and she had to decide which one of us she could afford to keep. And so she sent my brother away to live with friends in New Brunswick. We were in Toronto at
the time. So I grew up in poverty. I have a very different background than I think people might assume. I have not only compassion for people who are vulnerable and who lack the privilege that I’ve been lucky enough to get over my career. But I actually think I understand how to work with vulnerable sectors in order to make sure that we make progress on the issues that matter to them. Courier: You’ve gone after Vision Vancouver for stealing your thunder on their announcement to spend $400,000 to double the amount of money dedicated to the Vancouver School Board’s breakfast program. What’s your plan to ensure kids don’t go hungry? LaPointe: It’s much more comprehensive. It involves a wide range of partners, and I’ve met many of them in this campaign. It validated my own theory on this one, which is that there are a lot of people with a lot of wealth who are prepared to
step up. So we would do that. We would enlist our community centres. We would enlist our neighbourhood houses. We would enlist clubs that now exist because school doesn’t sit 365 days a year. We need to do it 365 days a year. Courier: You’ve told your story of growing up poor many times during the campaign. Why do you think voters need to know that? LaPointe: Well, because I think they see me in a suit. They see my career. They probably think that somehow I was born into some privilege, and I think they need to understand that I have lived a wide life in which I grew up poor, struggled, became somewhat independent, self-sufficient and was able to make my way. But I understand that not everybody’s going to have that good fortune, and that actually the city has an obligation to make sure that those that don’t have those opportunities, have the support they need.
Courier: You mentioned partners are ready to step up to help fund programs for poor children. Is that something we’re going to find out about before Nov. 15? LaPointe: A few of them have said that they’re willing to step up and talk about it. A few of them want to wait for the election outcome. I’ve talked to many of them. They’re prepared to widen what they have. It might be a bit unfair to discuss it, but in one case I can tell you they have more money available than the City of Vancouver will permit them to spend because the City of Vancouver has determined that the program needs to be delivered in a particular way. Courier: Let’s move on and talk about a big issue in the campaign, affordability. Can a city government actually make any gains in this city when housing prices and rents are insanely high for a lot of people?
LaPointe: Well, you don’t want to say that there’s no hope. It’s time for us to have this great conversation about what kind of community we want to build again. It’s not going to take us a long time. There are desired outcomes of housing for seniors, for young families and for first-time homebuyers that would be clearly articulated. I think there would also need to be an objective to deal with our rental situation because we’re clearly not addressing all of that, too.
to just, frankly, live in. So that’s why we look at things like some of our parking issues. That’s why I think we’ll propose, over the next number of days, some ways in which people will be able to enjoy the city more, have more amenities, without paying more.
Courier: You’ve talked about the need to attract higher paying jobs here. You’ve talked about getting the liquefied natural gas industry to set up regional offices in Vancouver.
LaPointe: When we actually sit back and revitalize the CityPlan, we’re going to have to approach the issue and determine if neighbourhood by neighbourhood there is a place for it. I don’t want to predict the outcome on that one. I do know that where development has really gone wrong in the city, is that when neighbourhoods just haven’t been properly consulted. The consultation has been a bit phoney, and it’s been a bit back ended.
LaPointe: Well, not just simply with LNG, but really to basically say that we’re no longer ashamed of being part of a resource economy. But that’s one element of it. Another element that I think is really critical, is that we are an expensive city
Courier: There’s been a lot of pushback from residents about the proliferation of towers to meet density goals. Is there a place for high rises in neighbourhoods?
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That the determination has been made to proceed with a project and then the public hearings have been largely a bit of a sham.
Courier: You said consultation hasn’t worked, but there’s some who would argue, certainly Vision supporters, that say, for the Marpole Community Plan, they had a lot of consultation. They put a draft out. They got a lot of complaints. And so they reeled back a little bit, and they ended up with a plan which a lot of people were comfortable with in the end. So do you not think consultation worked in that case? LaPointe: I think there’s still a lot of dissatisfied people in Marpole. I talked to some of them again last week, and I know our candidates went over the weekend to a neighbourhood all-candidates’ debate there. And certainly the expression was that people were not happy. What [Vision Vancouver] is doing now is they’re not writing reports with pros and cons of every project. They’re writing essentially a high school essay that’s arguing a particular position and looking at the strengths of it from the city’s perspective and then asking the community to kind of fight it down. And so I think at the front end, we need a lot better information. That information will lead to a better consultation. That consultation will get us a better decision. Courier: Let’s talk about the GrandviewWoodland plan for a moment and the Citizens’ Assembly. You were asked about it at the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods meeting last week, and you seemed to suggest that you would stop [the Citizens’ Assembly]. Is that the case? LaPointe: I don’t think the assembly is the answer. I really don’t. We need to also engage other parts of the community when we are dealing with a neighbourhood because they’re not the only ones using the neighbourhood. They’re the ones living there, but there are other users for the neighbourhood. So we can get
LaPointe: Oh, I support them. I just want to make sure that we build them in a way that is safer and that does not create the division that we have now. I actually think the next proposal for a bike lane is going to be a big fight. And it’s going to be a big fight because the last couple that have been built have been over the objections of those that use those roads. Courier: What’s your position on Kinder Morgan’s proposal to build another pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby?
Kirk LaPointe argues the NPA will a better job at consultation on community plans and development: “At the front end, we need a lot better information.” Pictured above is an open house in October 2013 for the Oakridge Mall redevelopment. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
ourselves into a bit of trouble when we only focus in on local residents. And when we handpick them the way the assembly was, I don’t think that that’s necessarily the most impartial way to do it. Courier: Should you be elected, by the time you’re in power, that process will have been underway for almost six months, halfway done. The report is set to be released in June. A lot of money has and will be spent on it. Would you not want to wait until there was a report and see what the report said? LaPointe: We’re not going to stop the clock on absolutely everything. That wouldn’t be responsible economically for the city. So I want to make sure that we don’t stop everything. But we have to take a pause with a few of the projects, and we have to review a few things. And I think that that’s healthy. Courier: So would you hit “pause” or “stop?” LaPointe: I’d certainly hit pause. Courier: When asked about Mayor Gregor Robertson’s promise to end “street homelessness” by 2015, you said, “I’d not only continue the goal, I’d get results from it.” So how do you plan to do that?
LaPointe: We need a different kind of conversation. Where we are really not coming to grips with this as a city is just how out of the national conversation Vancouver is on a variety of fronts. But we need to make homelessness a national concern, not a city concern. Courier: But the mayor has said the city needs more assistance from senior levels of government. LaPointe: But he has no conversation going on at a federal level on justice or health. He has none on a provincial level on housing or education or health. He has none with the First Nations communities that are so important for some of the specific indigenous needs in this case. He has a very, very meagre conversation going on with the for-profit sector, with some of the people that do development down there [in the Downtown Eastside]. Courier: Well, we’ll let him debate that with you. But we want to take you back to what you said — that you would get results from this goal to end street homelessness. What kind of results? LaPointe: Well, a couple of things that need to happen right away. We have about $360 million dollars being spent in that district and only a really small
fraction of it actually stays there. So we need to find ways to make sure that that money stays there. I would propose right away a forensic audit with other levels of government [in it]. Courier: The open drug market in the Downtown Eastside persists. What would an NPA government do to tackle the problem? LaPointe: Some of it, I believe, needs to be stronger enforcement. But a lot of it is, quite honestly, getting the support systems that are necessary there for dealing with addiction issues. So for things like InSite, we need to make sure that we’re foursquare behind it. Courier: So would you want more injection sites in the city? LaPointe: Well, it’s not wanting. It’s whether you have to have them in some cases. Courier: Dr. Patricia Daly of Vancouver Coastal Health says there is a demand for more. LaPointe: If we have to have them, then I just want to make sure that they’re thoroughly supported and that there’s good enforcement around them. Courier: Don’t you think we need more?
LaPointe: I think that we have to have the support services where they belong, absolutely. Courier: So that’s a yes? LaPointe: You love yes or no. [laughs] Courier: Vancouver Coastal Health has talked about the idea of putting injection sites in existing clinics. Is that something you would be in favour of? LaPointe: I’m interested in looking at that, yeah. Courier: Do you support a subway along the Broadway corridor? LaPointe: Yes, I do. I always have, but the difference is that [Gregor Robertson] doesn’t have the support that he says he has. There is no dialogue going on between Vancouver and Ottawa. It’s irresponsible to play disrespectfully with the voters of Vancouver and suggest that there is a deal done or that there is a Broadway subway line coming out to UBC. I can borrow your pen and sketch out something, and that’s about as much of a proposal that exists to go out to UBC. That’s a giant project, and that’s many, many years away. Courier: Do you support building more separated bike lanes?
LaPointe: We worry about Burrard Inlet. We worry about our coast line. We worry about increased tanker traffic. And so if the [National Energy Board] is going to review this project and approve it, it has to be approved as the world’s best built project. Anything short of that, we will oppose it. And I think that’s as firm a position as we can take given the fact that we do not have jurisdictional oversight on the project. Courier: Do you favour a ban on union and corporate donations for election campaigns? LaPointe: I favour a real cap on them, a very low cap. But I’d like to start with having the province set the pace on this one. And the reason is that it’s so easy now for funds to leak in from other territories. So I even worry that a provincial solution to this is not necessarily going to turn the entire thing around. If they want to start disclosing their sources this afternoon, we would do the same. But we actually are the underdogs, and we are the under financed ones in this campaign. Courier: We find that hard to believe, since your party’s former vice-president, Rob Macdonald, donated $960,000 in the 2011 campaign. LaPointe: [He made the donations] in order to make up for what was otherwise going to be a shortfall in the spending. And that was really it. Rob Macdonald’s not doing that this time. Next in the series: COPE’s Meena Wong Oct. 31.
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1. Mandie and Chris Hahm pause for a break in Riley’s trick or treating this past Saturday during the Point Grey Howl. 2. Staking out candy was Kenny Terada, 4, who was one of the many who participated in the Point Grey Howl kids and pets trick or treating this past Saturday. See the online version of this story at vancourier.com to see more photos from the event.
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Every dog has its Halloween day CITY LIVING Rebecca Blissett
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It was so wet Saturday afternoon it was like standing underneath a waterfall at times, but that didn’t stop those belonging to the three-foot-tall set and their fourlegged companions from dashing to and from stores situated between Discovery and Tolmie streets. Princesses with rain-resistant, fantasy book hair, part of the tangle of Wild West cowboys, butterflies in tutus, and many different sizes of Darth Vader crammed the sidewalk for the Point Grey Howl kids and pets trick or treating. All the participating pets were dogs this
year (although cats have reportedly attended in drier years past — remarkably also in costume). Participating stores, identified by having an orange pumpkin on site, handed out fistfuls of candy and dog treats, the latter being what saw English bulldog Ruby through the indignity of being dressed as a pumpkin. “She’ll wear the costume for treats,” said Claire Braaten, 13, who was dressed as an A&W restaurant waitress from the drivethrough era. “Yes,” her dad Torgeir Braaten agreed. “She gets food then all is good, but we don’t have much time here before she gets really, really irritated.” A tiny lion was spotted a little further down the street but turned out to be Riley the dog dressed in a lion’s mane. “He loves it!” said owner Mandie Hahm, referring to how she and husband Chris dress
up the dog for almost every festive holiday. Added Chris: “It’s her idea, and I go along with it.” Riley has made several appearances to the Point Grey Howl, once dressed as a fireman and, another time, a bumblebee. “And on Saint Patrick’s Day, he has a leprechaun costume. For Christmas, antlers,” said Mandie. “And he’s got some nice sweaters for the wintertime.” There were a few dinosaur-dogs, a cheerleader-dog and a panda-dog. But there were no sightings of any poodles dressed as Snooki or the old dachshund in a hotdog bun stand-by, which is somewhat surprising given that the Halloween costume market for dogs has exploded in the past decade. It’s estimated that our neighbours across the border will spend $350 million on their pets’ costumes this year, according to the
U.S.-based National Retail Federation. The kids and pets trick-or-treating idea was initiated by Three Dog Bakery which has moved on from its West 10th location, and the Point Grey Village Business Association has kept the tradition alive. Association manager Michelle Barile was pleased with the turnout on both ends even despite the soggy weather. “It was definitely a wet day but it didn’t stop all the kids from coming out so it was great. There were beautiful costumes, the pet costumes are absolutely adorable” said Barile. “It’s a great community engagement event.” To make the day even more pet-friendly, cash and food donations were accepted for the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “To see the street alive with families and their pets is a beautiful thing.” twitter.com/rebeccablissett
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Choice School What makes a one-of-a-kind school? One answer to this question is to look at Choice School for the Gifted, an independent school located in Richmond. Established in 1985, this school has provided and continues to provide a learning environment specifically tailored for elementary gifted learners. The program offered at Choice is unique. While meeting the requirements of delivering the BC Ministry of Education curriculum, it also draws on a large body of research and best practices for the provision of appropriate learning for students who have identified gifts and talents.
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problem solvers and critical thinkers. To do so, class sizes are limited, staff are experienced in working with these students and the curriculum is designed to provide for the opportunities to explore and express the interests that drive their students. A day spent at Choice might find grades 2 and 3 students learning chemistry or how to count in Greek because their curiosity has taken them there. In every corner books abound, intense discussions are underway, investigations are undertaken as questions about current events, how something is made or change of seasons ignite interest and exploration. As part of the regular weekly schedule,
students undertake challenges in areas of interest not normally available in schools such as calligraphy, robotics, rocketry, needlework or cooking, creating instruments or distinctive and complex works of art – all driven by their interests and all circling back into the learning outcomes of science, social studies, language arts, music, art, and mathematics. Driving all of this is a vision of learning as engaging, active, responsive and personalized so that each learner can work towards meeting their potential and stretch beyond. It is a one-of-a-kind place and we are open to having you come and see us in action!
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Imagine a school where each student is excited about the day ahead; where students are encouraged to be risk-takers and ask questions and where every opportunity is seen as a learning experience Imagine a school where each student is excited about the day ahead; where students are encouraged to be risk-takers and ask questions and where every opportunity is seen as a learning experience Nestled in the vibrant and natural surroundings of Lynn Valley in North Vancouver, Brockton offers a welcoming small school environment with a true sense of community and belonging from grades K to 12. The school is non-denominational, coeducational, K-12, IB World School, and now in its second decade of existence, has established itself as prominent and thriving, offering something exceptional and distinct within the educational world. The Brockton community might best be described as authentic and inclusive, embracing a diverse and welcomed population.
Students at Brockton learn in small class sizes and thrive in an engaging and innovative learning environment. Brockton’s small school model allows for personalized attention, creative approaches, and encourages students to participate in all aspects of school life. With a low student to teacher ratio, Brockton’s faculty and students truly get to know each other and create meaningful learning opportunities. Brockton’s teachers are exceptional: IB and BC certified and committed to the community and their students.
Teachers work to ensure that each and every student is both supported and challenged towards the development of the ‘whole’ person. While the IB World program in itself provides a rigorous, meaningful, and globally minded experience, the Brockton programme ensures that other essential areas of holistic learning are addressed Embedded within all that happens at Brockton is the promotion of students who are principled, confident, caring, effective communicators, risktakers, respectful, socially and globally responsible... and so much more Indeed, Brockton is a community that has created something purposeful, something special, something distinct... something magical.
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In order for young women to flourish in life, they need to feel supported. At York House School, the mandate has always been to nurture students to become the best that they can be, derived from the school motto – ‘Where She Excels.’ “We want to help girls to be set up for success,” says Assistant Head of School, Kathy Kealey. “And that extends beyond their academic achievement,” she says. “Whether it’s athletic ability, talent in the fine arts, music or dancing, or another area, each girl will be able to strive towards adulthood with the confidence and skills she’ll need.” At York House, the students abide by the mantra of ‘Not for Ourselves Alone,’ which means they give back to the community, locally and globally. It fosters maturity and helps set our girls up for success, says Kealey. “By grade 8 they are confident about why
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they are here and where they are going.” With its Capital Campaign completed last year, York House is now focusing on an initiative its Foundation is very proud of. “We want to ensure a diverse learning community,” says Mabel Lim, Director of Admissions. “We are now offering Diamond Scholarships for the 2015-16 entrance year that will allow families (as selected by the trustees of the YHS Foundation) to enroll their daughter at York House, after meeting specific criterion based on individual merit, community leadership endeavours and financial need.” Other types of scholarships are also available; you can visit
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York House on Wed. Oct. 29 at 7 pm for its Scholarship Information evening. Lim also invites parents to attend the annual Open House on the main campus on Wed. Nov. 5 (10-11:30 am or 7-8:30 pm). “It’s an opportunity to explore how our exceptional programs can benefit your daughters, from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12,” says Lim. The deadline for applications to enroll in the 2015-16 school year is Dec.1. Lim encourages parents who have their eye on York House School for their young girl’s education to visit the Open House, or arrange for a coffee break tour of the school. Go to yorkhouse.ca for more information. HELEN K. PETERSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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St. John’s School St. John’s School is a Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12, co-educational, non-denominational, independent, urban, IB World School located in the heart of Kitsilano. St. John’s School is a Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12, co-educational, nondenominational, independent, urban, IB World School located in the heart of Kitsilano. Our mission is to inspire academic excellence in our students who will graduate as confident learners and pursue their goals with passion, integrity and respect for others within the global community. The IB programme offers an internationally-recognized qualification which equips students with the independent learning, critical thinking and analytical skills to pursue their university of choice with knowledge, confidence and success.
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challenges and fully engage in meaningful experiences both in and out of the classroom.
SJS graduates are going places too. 100% of our graduates go on to study in business, science and arts programs all over the world, from UBC, McGill, Queen’s, NYU, University of California, Brown University, Kings College London and more.
Our students pursue their academic, athletic and artistic interests with skill, enthusiasm, collaboration and spirit. Debating, Art, Business, Global Issues in Action, Destination Imagination, Soccer, Jazz Band, Film, Choir, Basketball and Duke of Edinburgh are just some of the co-curricular activities our students can join.
A St. John’s education makes a difference in the lives of our students, staff and parents every day. Find out for yourself – attend our next Open House on November 13 and learn more about our IB Programme, our new MYP and DP Entrance Scholarships and how to apply for the 2015-2016 school year. Discover St. John’s today.
At St. John’s, students are encouraged to develop their talents, take initiative, follow their passions, explore global
KGMS and Maplewood Alternative: Creating Pathways for Success For the past 40 years, Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School has been providing programmes and resources for students who are challenged by learning differences and, this fall, the doors opened on the new KGMS secondary option, Maplewood Alternative High School. The elementary programme at KGMS focuses on helping students master the academic tools and strategies that will enable them to experience school success. Small group instruction, partnered with daily one-to-one tutoring ensures that each child follows a curriculum tailored to her or his needs. For older students, Maplewood offers an alternative high school programme for students with specific learning challenges that combines academics, social interaction, work experience, personal advocacy and life skills. The programme is based on a combination of academic options; individualized and
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small group instruction; job shadowing and cooperative education placements; and specialized skills-based electives such as music, computer programming; culinary arts; woodworking; and, photography/movie making etc. At KGMS/Maplewood, access to a wide variety of digital tools and resources supports a programme that is personal and effective for all learners. Each student is provided with access to a dedicated laptop or iPad and all teaching areas are
equipped with SmartBoards and printers. Students are encouraged to upload work to the cloud and collaborate with their teachers and their peers as they learn. In addition, the school keeps in touch with parents through online blogging, tweets, two websites and a school Facebook page that is updated daily. Come visit us online or in person to see what we are all about.
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Nightshade is so deadly in all its parts that it should be removed with gloves from any garden where it appears.
As Halloween draws near, children and adults in costumes of witches, ghosts, zombies and bloodier characters roam the streets and our homes and the magic of playacting is abroad. But in the long-ago roots of Halloween when people lived with the belief that spirits surrounded their lives and could wreak harm if they
wished, there was another kind of magic and at times real fear. That’s because Halloween (then called Samhain) was the one night when the gates of death stood open and spirits were said to move freely and unobstructed in both directions. That’s why people relied on the magic of certain plants to protect them against any harm that might come from the unseen world. Often the magic of these plants
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was proven by their use in healing. Many of these plants are widely used today. Planted near a door, rosemary could bar evil spirits, protect you from bad dreams and stop you from catching the plague. Ivy could also stop evil spirits from entering but it had to grow on the walls of your house. Garlic was used even more because it was thought to evict evil spirits once they got in and ward off vampires as well. Holly planted near a house was believed to be yet another protection as were hawthorn and rowan (mountain ash). One of the beliefs of the time was that on Halloween witches held ceremonies in which they flew broomsticks with the aid of flying ointment. The reported plant ingredients are interesting since some are poisons/ pain relievers/tranquilizers while others are hallucinogenic. These include: foxglove (digitalis), hemp (marijuana), Aconitum napellus (wolfsbane), deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), hellebore and also poppy juice made from Papaver somniferum (source of opium). All have immense power, but the sad truth is the healing record was not good. Patients tended to die from the medicine. Most are beautifullooking plants but none should be planted anywhere near edibles that might be harvested by an inexperienced gardener. Deadly nightshade
sometimes volunteers from the wild. It’s attractive with red, shiny berries and purple petals with a yellow pointed beak — but so deadly in all its parts it should be removed (with gloves) from any garden where it appears. The tall, blue-flowered garden perennial Aconitum is so poisonous it can burn unprotected skin on susceptible people. (I was susceptible.) Hellebore seeds blister fingers if you collect them too slowly and growing hemp frequently causes difficulties with authorities. Papaver somniferum seed is used by some cooks for baked goods. The decorative, pink double form is the one usually grown and seeds and plants are easily available. But it can get out of hand since it’s a prodigious seeder. One of the magical trees associated with Halloween is willow. In fact, the words ‘‘witch,” “wicked” and “wicker” all come from the same ancient word for willow. The belief was that a witch’s broom had an ash handle and birch twigs while willow stems formed the binding. Another magical tree is the hazel tree. This was believed to supply the wood for witches wands. Today a forked hazel branch is sometimes used for water divining. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her via amarrison@shaw.ca. It helps me if you give the name of your city or region.
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Vancouver MEC moves to new HQ firm joins Ebola fight Glen Korstrom
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Vancouver’s Mission Ready Services Inc. has partnered with one of its clients with the goal of preventing the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the company announced Oct. 27. Protect the Force, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mission Ready, will be working with Kappler Inc., a manufacturer of pathogen-resistant protective equipment, to procure and deploy hazardous material (HAZMAT) gear to the National Nurses United in West Africa. Kappler is donating equipment that includes 10,000 bio-protective suits for frontline workers and volunteers to wear while working with those afflicted with Ebola. “We have made it our mission to protect those who protect us and this certainly includes the thousands of selfless healthcare workers risk-
ing their lives to save others,” said Mission Ready president and CEO Rod Reum. Mission Ready procures and distributes personal protective equipment and cleans service gear for clients that include the American Departments of Defence, Homeland Security and Justice. This is not the only Vancouver-based company involved in the fight against EVD. Tekmira Pharmaceuticals has developed an experimental treatment against the disease that was fast-tracked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September. As of Oct. 24, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a total of almost 5,700 confirmed cases of Ebola and 5,000 deaths in West Africa, calling it the largest outbreak of the disease in history. twitter.com/EmmaHampelBIV
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About 300 of Mountain Equipment Co-op’s (MEC) 820 B.C. staff are moving to a new headquarters in the False Creek Flats. The $28-million, 112,000-square-foot complex at 1077 Great Northern Way near the VCCClark Skytrain station was built to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum standard, which is the highest level possible in that U.S. Green Building Council-operated program. Some sustainable aspects of the four-storey building include that: rainwater is stored, reused and then captured in gardens; heat is drawn from underground geo-thermal wells; and, sensors monitor sunlight to automatically lower and raise blinds and switch lights on and off. “For more than two decades MEC has been developing and operating
More than 300 MEC staff are moving to a new headquarters in the False Creek Flats area.
some of Canada’s most advanced green retail buildings,” said CFO Sandy Treagus. MEC bought the fouracre site in 2008, just before the global economy tanked. Albion Fisheries, which formerly operated on the site, moved to an expanded headquarters of its own in 2012. Once the economy normalized, the outdoor equipment and clothing retailer forged ahead with
its plans to move. Proscenium Architecture applied with the City of Vancouver to rezone MEC’s Great Northern Way site to increase the amount of office space allowed and MEC submitted a detailed development proposal. All the while, hundreds of MEC staff worked out of a 43,000-squarefoot site on West Fourth Avenue, where cubicles were piled high, hallways were narrow and obstacles
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hindered movement. “We’re really cramped for space,” MEC CEO David Labistour told Business in Vancouver in 2011 during a tour of that office. MEC ranked No. 29 on BIV’s list of largest private companies in 2014 with nearly $320.9 million in 2013 revenue. The company has 17 stores and 3.75 members. Shoppers are required to buy a membership in order to buy items. twitter.com/GlemKorstrom
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News Public forum on temporary shelters
The City of Vancouver is inviting the public to provide input on plans to offer two new temporary housing facilities for homeless people during the upcoming winter months. Members of the public are invited to attend a meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m. tonight (Oct. 29) at the Holiday Inn and Suites (1110 Howe St.) about a temporary winter shelter at
900 Pacific St. providing 40 beds expected to remain open until April 30, 2015, and also a new 157-room temporary housing facility opening soon at 1335 Howe St. offering people who are homeless or living in shelters a place to live until more permanent housing becomes available. Representatives from the city, Vancouver Coastal Health, the housing and shelter operators, and the Vancou-
ver Police Department will be on hand at the session to answer questions and listen to any concerns.
B.C. brewers feted
The best in B.C. craft brewing were honoured at the fifth annual B.C. Beer Awards held Oct. 25 at the Croatian Cultural Centre. Hosted by the CBC’s Stephen Quinn, the BCBA doled out 55 awards in 21 categories to brewers across
the province. While there was no prize awarded for top brewery, Vancouver’s Parallel 49 Brewing and Victoria’s Moon Under Water Brewery scored four awards each, more than any other brewery at the event. Port Moody’s Yellow Dog Brewing Company won the Best of Show award with its Shake A Paw Smoked Brown Porter, while Delta’s Four Winds Brewing Company took home the CBC
People’s Choice award for its Sovereign Super Saison. Visit bcbeerawards.com to see to the complete list of 55 awards handed out in a total of 21 categories.
Girl talk
A Day for Girls event takes place Nov. 2 at the Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. G Day is a new global social movement anchored by day-long
events that celebrate and empower girls ages 10 to 12 as they enter adolescence. G Day events are unique, modern, community-based rites of passage that emphasize sisterhood, self-esteem, leadership and the “magic and mystery of the female experience.” The Chan Centre for Performing Arts is located at 6265 Crescent Rd. For more information and tickets, visit gdayforgirls.com.
“We’ve been loading tankers safely here for sixty years.” - Bikram Kanjilal, Master Mariner, Consultant Marine Development
Trans Mountain has been operating at Westridge Terminal for six decades without a single spill from tanker operations, due in part to the stringent precautions we put in place. Close collaboration between Pilotage Authorities, Transport Canada, the Canadian Coast Guard and Port Metro Vancouver ensures vessels navigate our waters safely, guided by highly qualified local pilots.
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Tankers are held to strict, internationally accepted construction and operating standards. Any vessel proposing to visit Westridge must go through pre-screening and physical inspection. Only double hulled tankers of modern design are accepted. The Canadian Coast Guard monitors every vessel’s passage. All employees are trained in operations, safety and emergency response procedures. All vessels have a boom enclosure throughout loading operations. Two local pilots are on board loaded tankers during every movement. Tug escorts are required to accompany all laden tankers. Dedicated local marine-based spill response organization, WCMRC, ensures quick action in the event of a spill. Marine spill response will be enhanced.
For more information, go to blog.TransMountain.com Operating safely in your community since 1953.
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1 Oct. 29-31, 2014 1. The line between the civilized and the primal gets blurred in Staircase Theatre’s Hunter Gatherers. Billed as Lord of the Flies meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, the dark comedy by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb runs Oct. 30 to Nov. 15 at Havana Theatre. Ryan Gladstone directs a cast that includes Jay Clift, Peter Carlone, Maryanne Renzetti and Pippa Mackie. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. Details at staircasetheatre.com. 2. It’s your last chance to visit Judge Dee’s Chinatown Haunted House. Inspired by the gruesome stories of Judge Dee, “China’s Sherlock Holmes,” Vancouver’s only haunted house NOT suitable for children transforms Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden into an adult fright night with more than a dozen actors, dancers and musicians. The chills and thrills run until Oct. 31, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets at the door or online at ticketstonight.ca. Details at chinatownhauntedhouse.com. 3. Saxophones… the cumin of the music world. Use sparingly because a little goes a long way. So what to make of Battle Trance? The New York quartet is not only comprised solely of saxophones, but all of them tenor saxophones. That’s a whole lot of cumin, which taken in such strong doses supposedly will make you hallucinate. Or maybe that’s nutmeg. Anyway, hear and see for yourself when Battle Trance brings its heady blend of contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, black metal, ambient and world music to the Emerald Oct. 30, 9 p.m. in support of its awesomely named debut full length Palace of Wind.
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4. Produced by Theatre in the Raw, written by Bob Sarti, with music by Bill Sample, and directed by Jay Hamburger, The Raymur Mothers uses song to tell the story of single mothers from Strathcona’s Raymur Place Social Housing Project in the 1970s who succeeded in their fight to have a pedestrian overpass built over the CPR railroad tracks to enable their children to walk safely to school. The inspiring musical runs Oct. 29 to Nov. 9 at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell St.) as part of the 11th Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival. For tickets, go to theatreintheraw. com. Details at heartofthecityfestival.com.
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Considering the safe, unadventurous, dull-as-dust programming the CBC normally toils in — we’re looking at you Arctic Air, Heartland, Republic of Doyle, Murdoch Mysteries, Cross Country Checkup, Tom Power et al — it’s been an exciting if disturbing week for our national broadcaster. As you’re probably well aware, the CBC fired its golden boy Jian Ghomeshi on Sunday. The Q radio host promptly responded with a $50-million lawsuit against his former employer and a widely read Facebook post/ PR crisis control strategy revealing a startling assortment a details pertaining to his sexual proclivities (S&M, role play, rough consensual sex) and portraying the oncoming scandal as the work of a jilted ex. The following day, the Toronto Star published an article detailing allegations from three women, who claim Ghomeshi was “physically violent to them without their consent during sexual encounters or in the lead-up to sexual encounters.” Regardless of one’s opin-
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ion on the matter or where allegiances lie, it’s an ugly situation to say the least. And it puts the normally glib, sarcastic minds at K&K in a conundrum. If there hadn’t been allegations that Ghomeshi assaulted women, we would’ve had a field day speculating on Ghomeshi’s safe words (“Vinyl Café”? “Hi There”? “Strombo”?). We would have likely made disparaging remarks about Ghomeshi’s former band Moxy Fruvous, who tortured our ears without consent for much of the ’90s. We would have stolen our co-worker’s idea of coming up with new CBC programs for Ghomeshi to host (Behind the Mask, Whip at My Back, Little S&M on the Prairie, Kinks in the Hall, The Unfriendly Jiant). And undoubtedly we would have imagined a watered down, CBC-produced, PC-version of 50 Shades of
Grey… starring Megan Follows and P.J. Stock. But we can’t do that. Because the allegations against Ghomeshi are creepy and disturbing in a way that makes it hard to joke about without seeming insensitive. Plus there’s not a lot to say that hasn’t already be said. In fact, what some have lazily dubbed “Ghomeshi-gate” has generated more articles, opinions, water cooler discussions, tweets and Facebook comments in the last three days than actual important things that impact our lives. Climate change, the growing inequality between rich and poor, the upcoming municipal election, Prime Minister Harper’s plans to toughen up Canadian security laws, the on-ice chemistry between Radim Vrabata and the Sedins. Of course, none of these topics are particularly titillating or sexy. But put a gimp mask and a few nipple clamps on him, and our prime minister’s primal urges to use a national tragedy to increase the powers of CSIS and the RCMP suddenly become worth discussing with the depth and critical thinking they deserve. twitter.com/KudosKvetches
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Nic Harrison remembers with haunting clarity the day he was brutally attacked in an alley. It was Dec. 7. He was in Grade 5. Two kids, one of them a teenager, knocked him to the snowy ground and proceeded to kick him repeatedly with steel-toed work boots. “They basically left me there for dead,” he says. Sadly, this wasn’t the first time Harrison was beaten and it wouldn’t be the last. As an overweight child growing up in Prince George, Harrison says he was a favourite target for bullies — and not just school-aged bullies. In his earlier years, he attended a Catholic school where he says he was the victim of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his authority figures. Fearing God’s punishment, Harrison says he did not admit the abuse to his parents until one warm day when he could no longer hide the marks left on his skin from an electrical cord lashing. “[My mother] made me put on a shirt and shorts one weekend and I was hesitant to do so, but when I finally did she saw the welts on my arms and legs from being whipped,” he says.
Nic Harrison (left) serves as fight director on Vancouver Opera’s production of Stickboy, which tells spoken word artist Shane Koyczan’s real-life story of being bullied in school.
The truth came out. Harrison’s mother pulled him from the Catholic school in Grade 4 and enrolled him in a local public school. The sexual abuse ended there, he says, but he continued to be physically and emotionally bullied by his peers until well into his teens. Even so, that Dec. 7 attack did mark a turning point of sorts. “When I recovered from that, my parents decided to put me into martial arts to learn how to defend myself because I never struck back, I would just take it.” He started learning selfdefense and karate. After high school, while studying
drama at the London Academy of Performing Arts in England, he discovered kendo, a Japanese form of sword-fighting that allowed him to fulfill his childhood fantasy of being a lightsaber-wielding Jedi, and became a member of the British kendo team. Today Harrison is a professional stunt performer, fight director and director for theatre, film and TV. He is also a veteran improviser and teaches theatre at Capilano University. Currently, Harrison is serving as fight director for Vancouver Opera’s world premiere of Stickboy,
which runs until Nov. 7 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Composed by Neil Weisensel and with libretto by spoken-word artist Shane Koyczan, the opera tells Koyczan’s real-life story of being bullied in school. Harrison jumped at the chance to be part of Stickboy. “This is the kind of show I would work on for free because I really believe in getting the message out about how kids are bullied,” he says. As fight director, he is responsible for choreographing the violent and active moments in the story and, at Koyczan’s request, has
given the simulated fights a realistic look. “It actually makes it quite shocking when some of these moments happen,” he says. Unlike Koyczan, who, after years of torment, says he himself turned into a bully, Harrison became withdrawn in his youth. “When I was abused, instead of lashing out and becoming a bully myself, I completely turned inward and got into hiding within books and hiding within pop culture and things like that. That was my escape,” he says. “Because of the extent of the abuse that hap-
pened to me, and especially the sexual abuse, I think it made me more afraid of any kind of interaction with people, adults and children, so I isolated myself more.” One pop culture phenomenon that Harrison credits with helping him survive school is the movie Star Wars. In fact, he describes just how the film influenced him in an essay published at starwarssavedmylife. wordpress.com. Today, with two children of his own — a 12-year-old son (who has been practising martial arts since he was three) and an eight-yearold daughter — Harrison admits he can be an “overly cautious” parent because of his own past. But his wife keeps him in check, he says. Although Stickboy is Koyczan’s autobiographical tale, Harrison believes the story will resonate with anyone who has ever been bullied, been a bully, or witnessed bullying — regardless of gender. “Just because it’s a male character that this happened to, there’s no boundaries about the extent of bullying and how it affects people, male or female, so it’s something that I think everyone will be able to find a relation to one way or another.” Stickboy runs until Nov. 7 at the Vancouver Playhouse. For tickets and details, go to vancouveropera.ca or call 604-683-0222.
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Telus tells us the future is friendly. I’m not convinced. Playwright Edward Albee takes a hard look at old age in the Pulitzer prize-winning Three Tall Women and, frankly, it doesn’t look like a lot of fun: diapers, loss of mobility, loss of memory, and the inability to stop blithering about the past. In this most autobiographical play of Albee’s, actor Anna Hagan is a 91-year-old woman (or is it 92, she can’t be sure) simply called “A.” Fifty-twoyear-old “B” (Beatrice Zeilinger) is A’s 24-hour, live-in caregiver; and visiting on business from A’s lawyer is 26-year-old “C” (Meaghan Chenosky). Three stages of life. Three outlooks on life. A: muddled, cantankerous, coquettish and proud, adrift between the past and the present. B: patient, accommodating, realistic, no-nonsense. C: impatient, patronizing, fearless but mostly just young. Directing for Western Gold Theatre, Terence Kelly sets the action on a proscenium stage and when the velvet, tasseled curtain gets drawn we find the three women seated in A’s elegant bedroom (designed by Glenn MacDonald and R. Todd Parker). A has led a life of privilege after marrying a short, rich, oneeyed man who bought her expensive gifts and made her laugh. They had a son who, she now claims, never comes to visit. B, however, says he does. (Actor Matt Reznek is the non-speaking son in Act 2.) Act 1 is long and static. B mediates between C and A
Meaghan Chenosky, Anna Hagan and Beatrice Zeilinger star in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women.
who becomes increasingly cranky and, worse, self-pitying. There’s little action. But don’t leave at the intermission. Act 2 really picks up as Albee “unpacks” the frail and whiny A. Hagan is now elegant, rational A at 60-something. Zeilinger is now A as a well turned-out 52-year-old. And Chenosky is A as a sexually liberated 26-year-old flapper. It takes a moment to see what Albee has done. Act 1 is necessary — although arguably too long — to set the stage for Act 2 where Albee shows us what he wants us to see: A interacting with her younger selves. Far from 91 or 92, Hagan is, nevertheless, a believable, acerbic nonagenarian in Act 1 with her shuffling walk and quick transformations from coquette to crone. “I was the strong one,” A repeatedly tells us. “I had to be.” As the 60-odd-year-old in Act 2, however, Hagan charms us with her character’s wit and wisdom. As B in Act 1, Zeilinger is enduring and nonjudgmental. In Act 2, she rages as the mother who discovers her husband has “the morals of a store rat” and finds out her son is a homosexual. Gone are all
the earlier, kindly qualities when Zeilinger lets loose her character’s fury at the way her life has turned out. Albee poses the question: how would we, if we could see our future self, carry on? In Act 2, Chenosky (as A at 26) defiantly says, “I will not become you” when she sees herself at 52 and over 60. But we do become ourselves. And those who say they will never become like their fathers or their mothers, frequently do. Chenosky captures that youthful denial in both Act 1 and 2. Alive, in-the-moment, unwilling to accept what one of the other characters claims: “Children should be made aware they’re dying from the moment they’re born.” Three Tall Women is darkly funny and for those who spend any time contemplating their own demise (and Albee claims we all do) it’s an unsentimental look at growing old. The best part of aging, according to A in her 60s is, “There’s a lot of stuff I don’t have to go through anymore.” Amen to that. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca Three Tall Women runs until Nov. 9 at the Performing Arts Lodge. For tickets, call 604-363-5734 or go to three. brownpapertickets.com.
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Tables updated 11 a.m. Oct. 28
VSSAA SENIOR GIRLS VOLLEYBALL EAST DIVISION
WEST DIVISION
TEAM
GP W L T PT TEAM
KILLARNEY THOMPSON VAN TECH BRITANNIA GLADSTONE TUPPER WINDERMERE TEMPLETON OLIVER
06 06 05 06 06 06 06 06 05
06 05 03 03 03 02 02 02 00
00 01 02 03 03 04 04 04 05
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
12 10 06 06 06 04 04 04 00
CHURCHILL PRINCE OF WALES KITSILANO HAMBER MAGEE POINT GREY LORD BYNG KING GEORGE
GP W L T PT
05 06 05 06 03 03 05 05
05 05 03 03 01 01 01 00
00 01 02 03 02 02 04 05
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
10 10 06 06 02 02 02 00
VSSAA SENIOR BOYS VOLLEYBALL EAST DIVISION
WEST DIVISION
TEAM
GP W L T PT TEAM
VAN TECH THOMPSON GLADSTONE TEMPLETON BRITANNIA WINDERMERE
04 03 03 02 02 02
03 02 02 01 00 00
01 01 01 01 02 02
00 00 00 00 00 00
06 04 04 02 00 00
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04 03 02 03 03 01
04 02 01 01 00 00
00 01 01 02 03 01
00 00 00 00 00 00
08 04 02 02 00 00
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GP W L T PT TEAM
GP W L T PT
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10 08 06 05 05 03 01 00
00 00 05 03 05 06 09 08
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20 16 12 10 10 06 02 00
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04 04 03 02 01 00
00 01 01 03 04 05
01 00 01 00 00 00
09 08 07 04 02 00
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Weekend Scoresheet AAA varsity football, Week Eight
Notre Dame (1-1, 2-3) kept West Vancouver secondary off the scoreboard in a 24-0 win Oct. 24 at Burnaby Lake Park. The Jugglers are fifth in the Western Conference with four points, eight points behind division leaders Mount Douglas. With a third consecutive win, Vancouver College continues its move up the standings. They are fourth in the Western Conference, two points behind New West, a team the Fighting Irish outscored earlier this month. Their most recent win came over Handsworth on Oct. 25. Vancouver College scored five touchdowns before halftime for a 34-0 lead. Both coaches agreed to initiate the mercy rule, which meant the second half was played with running time. Playing through heavy rain, the Irish won 42-0. Quarterback Giordy Belfiore made 10 of 12 passes for 130 yards and one TD. Richard Jarin averaged 25.8 yards per carry, including 42- and 70-yard TD runs.
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The number of Vancouver Giants road losses, which brings their record to 6-7-0-0. The Giants are winless away from the Pacific Coliseum, where they are 6-1. Most recently, against a team only one point ahead before their weekend double-header, Vancouver lost 2-1 to the Royals at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre on Oct. 24 and 3-2 on Oct. 25. The Giants host the Brandon Wheat Kings 7 p.m. tonight.
Kendall Waston celebrates his goal in a 1-0 Whitecaps win over the Colorado Rapids at B.C. Place on Oct. 25. The win clinched a fifthplace conference finish, which sends Vancouver to the knockout round of the MLS post-season. The Whitecaps play the must-win game in Dallas tonight. PHOTO BOB FRID / VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC
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‘Caps scored fewest goals among post-season teams but hold longest MLS shutout streak WHITECAPS
Simon Fudge
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Nearly nine months ago, there was more hope than expectation that Vancouver Whitecaps FC could make this year’s MLS playoffs. After all, this is a club that endured an offseason to forget — much of it driven by the acrimonious departure of last year’s top MLS goal-scorer, Camilo Sanvezzo, to Mexican club Querétaro in January. Replacing Camilo’s 22 goals was an acutely known challenge for Whitecaps head coach Carl Robinson, especially once his most experienced striker, Kenny Miller, returned home to Scotland to join former club Rangers FC in May. And yet despite registering 11 fewer goals this regular season than in 2013, the ‘Caps found a way to secure a postseason berth for only the second time in their young MLS history. Their spot was assured with a 1-0 home win
over the Colorado Rapids in the regular season finale Oct. 25 at B.C. Place. “It’s a fantastic achievement for the group of players I’ve got,” Robinson said after Saturday’s win. “I couldn’t be more proud of them because they’ve probably been written off a few times this year when things didn’t go our way. But we stuck to our beliefs and the boys kept going. It’s credit to the organization, to the supporters and that group of players.” Robinson has good reason to be proud of his squad. Unlike in 2012, when the Blue and White backed into the playoffs, the ‘Caps put together a decisive run of four wins in their last five matches to set a club record of 50 regular season points. In many ways, the 2014 Whitecaps are a fine example of how a soccer team can earn results without scoring a lot of goals. The departed Camilo continues to tear up the net and after 14 rounds, he leads the Mexican Apertura with 10 goals. But in Vancouver, the
Whitecaps enter this MLS post-season having scored the fewest number of goals among the 10 playoffbound clubs this season. One factor was the league-leading 13 shutouts the Whitecaps FC recorded this term. Led by MLS candidate for goalkeeper of the year David Ousted, who is the only player to feature in every minute of Vancouver’s MLS season campaign to date, the ‘Caps proved a difficult side to break down. In fact, Vancouver heads into the playoffs tonight with four-straight clean sheets to their name and having set the league’s longest shutout streak this season at 393 minutes. “It’s credit to David and the back players for those clean sheets, but I said all along that we defend from the front and we attack from the back,” Robinson said. “I knew what we had in that group of players and we were probably lacking a goal-scorer. We’ve got players that can score goals, but not probably enough goals for me. While we haven’t scored enough goals, we’ve
worked hard defensively and you have to do that because, as they all say, championships are won from the defence. “I didn’t want to do that, but once the (summer transfer) window closed and we decided to go that way, it was just an opportunity for me to give my younger players more time and I had to work with what I got, which is why when they got criticized, I would never criticize them because they’re a brilliant group of lads that are trying their best.” As the fifth-place finisher in the MLS Western Conference, the Whitecaps are in Texas to face fourth-place FC Dallas in the Knockout Round game Oct. 29. Kickoff is 6 p.m. Vancouver time. Should the ‘Caps win, they will meet arch-rival Seattle Sounders FC in a Western Conference semifinal series, with the first leg set for B.C. Place this Sunday at 6 p.m. Simon Fudge has covered the beautiful game in Canada and the United Kingdom for print, web and radio.
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St. Patrick’s lost the B.C. Catholics senior girls volleyball championship a year ago, so when the Celtics returned to the final this year in a rematch against Immaculata, they wanted to pull it off for the graduates no longer on the team. They did. St. Pat’s defeated Kelowna’s Immaculata in three sets, winning the third set 15-11 at Notre Dame secondary on Oct. 24 to claim the 2014 title. “They really stepped it up,” said Celtics head coach Adele Renzullo. “When they play, they’re just so alive.” The Celtics have been on a steady upward climb since dropping their first three league games in September and, following a few key adjustments on both defence and offence, they’ve climbed back to .500 with a 5-5 record in the private school league. They have won four consecutive league games and moved up to seventh from ninth in the AA B.C. Volleyball rankings. “My goal is to keep improving every time we play,” said Renzullo. At the annual tournament, which pits 10 B.C. Catholic schools against each other, St. Pat’s lost to Immaculata in the group stage but advanced to eliminate St. Aquinas in the quarterfinal and host Notre Dame in the semifinal, beating both teams in
St. Patrick’s Celtics hitter Beatrice Soberano makes a play at the net in a quarterfinal win over the Notre Dame Jugglers in the B.C. Catholics championship at Notre Dame secondary Oct. 24.
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two sets. “We adjusted well to the teams we were playing. We beat Notre Dame in league last week, which was a booster for the players because we lost to them the first time,” said Renzullo. Against Immaculata, a towering team averaging about six feet, according to Renzullo, St. Pat’s continued to hit its stride. The Celtics are a consistently small team, drawing players slightly taller than average height — which isn’t typical of the extremely tall athletes found
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in volleyball. And in the rematch this time around, the team is especially small, said the coach. “This year we’re even tinier.” “They wanted to make a statement. They said, let’s get it done for the grads of last year,” said Renzullo. “They stuck to the game plan, basically. They put the ball where it needed to be. It was fun to watch — the fans were going crazy.” Celtics captain and power hitter Madison Reyes was named the tournament MVP. twitter.com/MHStewart AL WA PU YS BL W IC EL CO M
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UBC men’s basketball head coach Kevin Hanson leads all coaches in the program’s history with 338 wins. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET
was a forward at Delta’s Seaquam secondary. Hanson never played for Mullins — he retired before the recruit started his postsecondary career at Langara and then UBC. Hanson said it was a privilege to have been connected to Mullins and to have been coached by some of B.C.’s greatest, including Bill Stebbings, a community coach in Delta, Duncan
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There was minimal fanfare when the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball team notched back-toback wins on the road this weekend in Ontario. The games were nonconference, but the wins historic. Kevin Hanson, the head coach now in his 15th season with UBC, became the winningest coach in the program’s history. His 338th win came Oct. 26 in a 77-69 win over the University of Guelph. “It was very memorable,” said Hanson, who, away from UBC at the gymnasiums of other schools, didn’t trumpet the pending record nor the one he finally set. “You look for all the proper clichés not to be too pompous on the road,” he said Tuesday afternoon at centre court of War Memorial Gym before a team practice. Hanson surpassed the late Peter Mullins, the influential and respected Thunder-
McCallum, then the head coach for the Langara Falcons, and Bruce Enns, the Thunderbirds coach whose tenure ended when Hanson’s started in 2000. That year, Vern Knopp started as an assistant coach on the Thunderbirds’ roster. He shares in the record number of wins, said Hanson. “You won’t have a player stay around that long, but to have another coach is a pretty special thing.” He was an assistant at Simon Fraser University before taking the reins at Langara College. He led the Falcons to two national college championships as he amassed 261 wins in nine seasons. These numbers mean Hanson is on the verge of another tremendous milestone. As a head coach of the two programs, he has 599 career wins. The 600th could come this weekend when UBC travels to Oregon for two games. If he reaches the significant benchmark on the road for a second time, there will likely be little fanfare. That will be just fine. twitter.com/MHStewart
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