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Parents take VSB to court Cheryl Rossi

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Mayor Gregor Robertson was re-elected Saturday night and his Vision Vancouver council team kept its majority at city hall. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Re-elected Robertson now focused on winning transit referendum Mike Howell

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Having secured his re-election bid Saturday night, Mayor Gregor Robertson is now putting energy into his campaign to urge Metro Vancouver voters to cast a ballot for one of his biggest priorities: a Broadway subway. Robertson told reporters Monday that a winning vote in next spring’s transit referendum would send a message to senior levels of government that a subway is needed along the Broadway corridor. “We need a strong positive vote for that,” he said, standing on a piece of land off Great Northern Way that would serve as part of the subway’s route. “That’ll

send the signal that we’re ready to roll here and we need those big investments overall from the federal and provincial governments, along with the operating funding to run the new system.” Robertson’s pitch for the subway is not new and, as he did during his re-election bid, he continues to answer questions about whether senior levels of government are prepared to pay for the $1.9-billion system. His main challenger in the mayoral race, Kirk LaPointe, repeatedly criticized him in debates, saying he was being disingenuous in his campaign to get a subway since he had no funding commitments from ministers in Victoria or Ottawa. “My sense is, as their budgets go into

the black and the capital [money] comes available, that those commitments are going to come forward,” the mayor said in response to the question of funding. Back in June, Robertson and mayors from around the region approved a 10-year transit plan that will cost $7.5 billion and include the construction of the 5.1-kilometre subway line from the VCC-Clark SkyTrain station to Arbutus. The plan relies on $3.9 billion from senior levels of government and funding mechanisms such as reallocating $250 million per year of the provincial government’s carbon tax, bridge tolls and possibly charging vehicle drivers for the distance they drive. Continued on page 5

One of the first duties of the newly elected Vancouver School Board could be to deal with a lawsuit from parents over the board’s sexual orientation and gender identities policy passed in June. Three Vancouver parents filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of B.C. Oct. 31 requesting the Vancouver School Board re-examine the revised policy. The lawsuit is reportedly supported by more than 175 affidavits from parents. Lawyer Masao Morinaga states parents Xiaofeng Huang, Yuen Cheng Li and Shaohui Li want the board to reconsider washroom and information sharing clauses in the policy. The policy uses the term trans with an asterisk and states: “The use of washrooms and change rooms by trans* students shall be assessed on a caseby-case basis” and “trans* students shall have access to the washroom and change room that corresponds to their gender identity.” The board will work to make singlestall, gender-neutral washrooms available. Morinaga calls the use of the term “trans*” vague and problematic because gender nonconforming is included under the term trans* in the VSB policy. “A lot of criticisms against the parents has been, oh, they’re just being fearful, fear mongering, what kind of a boy would pretend that he’s transgendered so that he can access these washrooms?” Morinaga said. “But it’s like how you wouldn’t want a man to access a woman’s washroom. Ninety-nine per cent of men, or maybe a hundred, would just go in and come out, but it’s a matter of comfort.” Morinaga, a lawyer with Lawrence Wong and Associates, acknowledged statistics indicate trans people face a greater risk of harm from others. “But harm is at the extreme point of the spectrum,” Morinaga said. “Many other students deal with body image issues, some people of modest religions, they cover themselves even in public. Continued on page 7

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Grandview-Woodland sticks with Vision

NPA increases presence on civic bodies

12TH & CAMBIE Mike Howell

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So, yes, Gregor Robertson is still your mayor. Hopefully, you caught our comprehensive coverage online Saturday and came away informed about what transpired on a very interesting day and night. Where do I start? Lots to consider but wanted to get to the chief complaint for many parties battling Vision Vancouver during the campaign: A broken public consultation system. That was certainly voiced loudly and clearly by many residents and activists in GrandviewWoodland, who were riled up over a proposed community plan that called for a forest of new highrises in the neighbourhood. Robertson acknowledged

last Thursday the plan “infuriated” residents. He promised to do a better job in his third term and “find better ways to hear from people and to make decisions, accordingly.” So how did Vision do at the polls in GrandviewWoodland? At Britannia Community Centre, Robertson won 1,406 votes to 397 for COPE’s Meena Wong. The NPA’s Kirk LaPointe finished third at 264 votes. The same polling station showed support for seven of Vision’s eight council candidates (Tony Tang finished in 12th spot) and the Green’s Adriane Carr, Pete Fry and Cleta Brown. The exact same results for council and mayor were recorded at Queen Victoria School Annex. And almost the same mix of candidates were the choice of voters at Grandview elementary, where the only change was COPE’s Lisa Barrett taking the 10th council spot by six votes over Brown. But while Vision may have won those polls, my

NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe won an impressive 73,443 votes Saturday. It was the former longtime media executive’s first run at politics. PHOTO REBECCA BLISSETT

colleague Jeff Lee over at the Vancouver Sun wrote a story Monday that showed the ruling party lost 10.6 per cent of its vote in Grandview-Woodland from 2011 and a further 12.4 per cent in Strathcona. Interesting, no? In fact, many voters across the city voted for a party other than Vision, with the NPA increasing its presence on council,

school board and park board from seven seats in 2011 to 11 this time around. The Greens, led by Adriane Carr topping the council polls, won two seats on park board and one on school board. Despite it being his ﬁrst run at politics, LaPointe had an impressive showing, pulling in 73,443 votes. Not bad at all for a rookie who used to manage typists in newsrooms.

In his concession speech Saturday at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, LaPointe wished Robertson well and called Vision’s three-peat at council a signiﬁcant accomplishment. Earlier in the day, some of us reporters caught up with LaPointe and asked what it was like for a former managing editor of the Sun to be the centre of media attention.

“I wish I asked tougher questions when I was on your side because I feel that I left a few off the table,” he said after dropping off lunch for NPA scrutineers outside Templeton secondary school. LaPointe said he “learned a lot about media in all of this” and knew reporters wouldn’t be “soft” on him because he used to be on the other side of the camera/notebook/microphone. And he obviously paid attention to what we scribes were writing about him. “A couple of things that journalists have written, I thought they could have done a better job. But, you know, overall I’ve been treated quite fairly. For a newcomer, I’ve been given every opportunity to make my point.” One other note on the election: Voter turnout, at 44 per cent, climbed 10 per cent over the 2011 contest, which is good news. The bad news is more than half of eligible voters don’t seem to care about city government. Shame, shame. twitter.com/Howellings

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Priority is community centres not whales, says NPA park board incumbent Sandra Thomas

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Despite what some media is reporting, working to repeal the July decision to ban whale and dolphin breeding at the Vancouver Aquarium is not the ﬁrst item on the newly-elected, NPA-dominated park board’s to-do list, says NPA incumbent John Coupar. “But unfortunately that’s the story making headlines,” said Coupar. “It’s the community centre associations that have really resonated with our communities because they haven’t felt valued.” In 2012, the then Vision Vancouver-dominated park board presented a controversial new management agreement to the city’s community centre associations, which would centralize core programs and introduced the universal OneCard. The most contentious of the recommendations was one that

could see the board pool community centre revenues from room rentals and programs — money traditionally retained by the associations — to be distributed amongst “have not” centres. In response to conﬂicts regarding the interim agreement, Hastings, Riley Park-Hillcrest, Killarney, Kensington, Kerrisdale and Sunset community centre associations dropped out of the negotiations and last August began the ﬁrst of three legal proceedings against the park board in B.C. Supreme Court. Two months ago, the B.C. Supreme Court halted the attempted eviction of the self-described “Group of Six” by the park board. Recently Renfrew Community Centre Association also left the negotiating table. Preliminary results from the Nov. 15 civic election for park board showed Vision Vancouver newcomer Catherine Evans with 64,707 votes, followed by Coupar (62,970)

Repealing a breeding ban at the Vancouver Aquarium is not the NPA’s top priority, according to park board incumbent John Coupar. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

and the NPA’s Casey Crawford (59,882), Sarah KirbyYung (56,828) and Erin Shun (56,762). The Green Party’s Stuart Mackinnon placed sixth with 56,762 votes followed by the Green’s Michael Wiebe with 55,607. Kirby-Yung was vice president of marketing

and communications with the Vancouver Aquarium from 2008 to 2010. Coupar said the two years of negotiations completed so far by the park board and the associations on a joint operating agreement will not be wasted.

“Some of it is good,” said Coupar. “But the way it was pushed on the centres is what they’re not happy about. I believe we’ll be able to come to a resolution reasonably quickly.” Coupar said his sense is residents are tired of the “top-down approach” to park board decisions, something the NPA is determined to change. As for issues surrounding whales and dolphins at the Vancouver Aquarium, Coupar noted the new park board isn’t even ofﬁcially sworn in yet. “But it was part of our platform,” said Coupar. “There was not a lot of consultation and it was done hurriedly, right at the end of [outgoing Vision commissioners’] term, even though Vision had six years to deal with it before that.” Coupar noted he recused himself from the vote regarding the breeding ban at the Vancouver Aquarium because at the time his sales

and marketing company represented a business that sold products to the facility. “It had nothing to do with me, but I recused myself because it could be perceived as conﬂict,” said Coupar. “But I am no longer working with that company and have cleared the decks.” Coupar added one of his priorities remains bringing maintenance in parks, gardens and green spaces back to where it was prior to budget cuts of recent years. “My big concern is we only have 33 gardeners for 230 parks and then all of these people in [city] communications,” said Coupar. “We need more boots on the ground to get these parks looking great again.” Coupar does not believe a Vision Vancouver majority council will be less cooperative with an NPA-dominated park board. “How can a green mayor be against parks and ﬂowers?” said Coupar. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Continued from page 1 Transportation Minister Todd Stone has, so far, balked at the carbon tax request and said any new funding for transit must be decided in a referendum, which will occur sometime in the spring. Ironically, Robertson and the mayors’ council on regional transportation went on record in June 2013 of opposing a referendum, saying government should commit to the transit plan like it did to building a new Port Mann Bridge and widening the TransCanada Highway. The provincial government continues to work on a question for the referendum and date for the vote, which would only be open to Metro Vancouver voters. Details could be revealed next month. The transit plan also calls for a $2.1-billion light-rail system in Surrey, where that city’s new mayor, Linda Hepner, promised to get a ﬁrst phase of light rail built by

2018, if the referendum fails. (Hepner has not said speciﬁcally how a system would be built without funding from senior levels of government but suggested a private partnership). Asked whether he had a Plan B, Robertson said he would look at one if the referendum fails. “At this point, all of my efforts are going into winning this referendum and making sure that it is approved and that we have a regional focus with our transportation improvements.” Robertson was re-elected Saturday along with six incumbent councillors. Vision Coun. Tony Tang lost his seat, reducing Vision’s majority to seven, with the NPA re-electing incumbents George Afﬂeck and Elizabeth Ball, and former park board commissioner Melissa De Genova. Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr was re-elected, topping the council polls. Vision’s reduced majority means it will have to convince at least one of

the four opposition councillors to be on side when eight required votes are needed to rescind a resolution or approve money grants to non-proﬁts and community groups. “I’m anticipating that most, if not all of those votes, will take place with consensus,” Robertson said. “Historically, council has supported all of the grants that get made, almost unanimously.” Robertson and his new council will be inaugurated in the ﬁrst week of December. If the mayor completes his third term, he will be the longest serving mayor in modern times, with Louis D. Taylor serving 10 years between 1924 and 1934. Voter turnout this election, at 44 per cent, was the highest since 2002, when it was 50 per cent and COPE won the mayor’s chair, council, school board and park board. COPE didn’t win any seats this time. twitter.com/Howellings

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Fraser holds balance of power on VSB Cheryl Rossi

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Janet Fraser didn’t anticipate securing such a powerful position on the Vancouver School Board when she ran to be trustee. “It’s not quite what I expected…” she said. “This is the situation it is and I’m going to make the best of it I can.” The victorious Green Party candidate will hold the deciding vote on issues that split trustees of Vision Vancouver and the NPA. Vancouverites elected Fraser, four Vision and four NPA trustees Saturday night. Twenty-nine candidates vied for nine board spots. Those elected will be sworn in Dec. 8 and select a chairperson and vicechair. Vision’s Patti Bacchus, who attracted the most votes of any trustee, has chaired the board since she was elected in 2008. But Vision lost three incumbents on the board — Ken Clement, Cherie Payne and Rob Wynen. So will Fraser be chair? “It’s not a role I expected to take on,” Fraser said. “Obviously, I’ll be talking with the other trustees and getting to know them and their parties and I’ll have to think about it.” In order of votes from

most to least, the trustees for the next four years will be: • Patti Bacchus, Vision incumbent • Joy Alexander, Vision • Fraser Ballantyne, NPA • Allan Wong, Vision incumbent • Mike Lombardi, Vision incumbent • Penny Noble, NPA • Janet Fraser, Green • Stacy Robertson, NPA • Christopher Richardson, NPA. Fraser said she’s been contacted by most of the elected trustees since Saturday night. She wouldn’t say whether she feels more philosophically aligned with Vision or the NPA. In terms of priorities, Fraser wants to see the revised gender identities and sexual orientation policy passed in June fully implemented. “That having a policy on the books translates into a better environment in the schools,” she said. She wants the VSB to take more action towards its goal of becoming the greenest school district in North America and is keen to hear options being devised to keep the elementary band and strings program humming. Trustees are to hire a new superintendent, and Fraser wants Steve Cardwell’s successor to be someone who will work

to support children living in poverty and aboriginal students. Fraser has served as chair or co-chair on PACs for 10 years, co-founded the Marpole Matters community group, worked as a scientist in the pharmaceutical biotech industry for a decade and has been an at-home parent for a decade. Her children attend Laurier elementary, Churchill secondary and the TREK program at Prince of Wales. Ken Denike, who was ﬁrst elected in 1984, lost his spot on school board, as did his running mate Sophia Woo. Expelled by the NPA in June over comments regarding the gender and sexual orientation policy, the duo ran with a new civic party called Vancouver 1st. The Vancouver Elementary School Teachers’ Association and the Vancouver Secondary Teachers’ Association endorsed all seven Vision candidates and the two candidates with the new Public Education Project. But neither Jane Bouey nor Gwen Giesbrecht of PEP was elected. Fraser will be the VSB’s second Green trustee. Voters elected Vision Vancouver Coun. Andrea Reimer as Green trustee in 2002. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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Continued from page 1 What are they supposed to do when they go into these washrooms where they might have to expose themselves to somebody who’s gender nonconforming?” Morinaga says the gender policy of Edmonton public schools better respects a diverse student body because it states: “Staff shall consistently demonstrate sensitivity to the needs and safety of all students with respect to restroom access.” Tash Wolfe, who works for the transgender health information program of Vancouver Coastal Health and has worked with homeless, queer and trans youth, notes Muslim people are trans, too. “Trans people come from all different cultural backgrounds,” Wolfe said. Morinaga also argues the policy violates the city’s building code, which requires sexsegregated washrooms. The parents in the lawsuit are concerned the VSB policy states: “Students’ rights to discuss and express their

gender identity and/or gender expression openly and to decide when, with whom, and how much private information to share will be respected.” Parents want to be informed about what’s going on with their children as soon as possible, Morinaga said. VSB associate superintendent Maureen Ciarniello told the Courier in May, “Very few [trans students] have parents who aren’t aware. Their families knew this before the schools knew this.” Morinaga says the parents believe the clause hints at the possibility of subsequent abuse. “They feel that they’ve been presumed guilty before even doing anything,” he said. Wolfe said youth questioning their gender identity sometimes turn to friends or a trusted teacher before they come out to their parents. Morinaga says the board has 21 days to respond to the court petition in writing. VSB chairperson Patti Bacchus, who was re-elected

Saturday in a board that split between Vision Vancouver and the NPA with a lone Green trustee holding the balance of power, said Nov. 12 the board hadn’t received official notice of the petition so she couldn’t respond directly to the lawsuit. Bacchus defended the policy. “We had a [trans] student that had stopped going to school because they didn’t feel safe and comfortable and they said they were now thinking of going back to school because this policy was in place,” she said. “That’s a serious thing.” A redacted version of the petition filed with the court states the petitioners want a declaration that the board had no authority under the School Act to approve the policy in June. Morinaga says the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is investigating the VSB for a possible breach of duty under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act regarding redacted materials related to the policy. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

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With Vancouverites allowed to vote at any polling station across the city for the ﬁrst time ever, it’s tough to know for sure if individual results are a true reﬂection of each neighbourhood. But from looking at the numbers, I’m guessing a lot of Vancouver residents voted close to home. And, as it turns out, a lot of residents did take the time to vote — an estimated 44 per cent (187,000 eligible voters) up from the 34 per cent who made the effort during the 2011 municipal election. Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson was reelected and Vision maintained control of city council but was almost shut out on park board. Vision tied for seats on school board, leaving the lone Green Party

If it was up to a majority of Coal Harbour voters, NPA candidate Kirk LaPointe would be the new mayor. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

trustee Janet Fraser to play tie breaker. Preliminary results for park board show that while

Vision Vancouver newcomer Catherine Evans topped the ballot with 64,707 votes, the NPA was close behind

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The Green Party’s Stuart Mackinnon placed sixth with 56,762 votes followed by the Green’s Michael Wiebe with 55,607. It will be interesting to watch how the now NPA-dominated park board operates over the next four years when the Vision-dominated city council still holds the purse strings. Like many journalists, I work better with a deadline so despite the eight days of advanced voting available to Vancouver residents, I found myself in line at Killarney Community Centre at 11 a.m. on election day. As I waited to have my ballot validated, I noticed a couple of Elections B.C. staffers discussing a ballot that had been purposely spoiled out of protest — scribbles across the ballot were visible from where I stood. I thought to myself, who gets up, presumably gets dressed, travels to a voting location in freezing weather and then waits in line to waste a vote? Thankfully, many other residents asserted their democratic right, which was demonstrated by long lineups at most voting stations. But back to individual results for communities across the city, which give a glimpse of how election night might have gone had a ward system been in place instead of the current “at large” system. A ward is one section of a larger authority — for example, Kitsilano could be one ward of Vancouver. While searching through

the individual results I found that while some candidates didn’t win a seat in the overall election, they did very well in specific communities, including former Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Niki Sharma. She failed in her run for council but she placed first at the Ross Street Temple poll in Sunset. She also would have won a seat had it been up to voters in False Creek, where incumbent park board candidate Trevor Loke also did well. Loke did not win a second term on park board. NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe would have won by a landslide if it was up to Coal Harbour voters, who also gave the nod to seven NPA councillors out of 10, five park board commissioners out of seven and five out of nine school board trustees. (The school board is a provincially regulated body selected by voters during the municipal election.) Voters in Killarney and Dunbar favoured LaPointe as mayor. In Killarney, the majority of votes went to seven NPA councillors, five park board commissioners and five school board trustees. In Dunbar, voters favoured eight NPA and two Green Party councillors and six NPA and one Green Party park board commissioner. Some have suggested the ongoing dispute between the city’s community centre associations and park board accounted for Vision’s loss of control of the board, which could be the case in Killarney, Sunset and Kerrisdale. According to the numbers in Kerrisdale, the NPA would have almost swept mayor and council, park board and school board, while the party also dominated in Sunset. But while Hastings Community Centre Association is one of six centres embroiled in a lawsuit with the park board, results in that neighbourhood show Vision Vancouver dominated across the board, with a little help from the Green Party. So whether or not a ward system is the way to go in future elections is up for debate, but one thing is for certain — these newly elected and re-elected politicians have their work cut out for them in specific neighbourhoods following a lengthy and sometimes bitter election season. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Mayor needs to live Ten predictions for up to promise to listen the next four years Stanley Tromp Guest columnist stanleytromp@gmail.com The value of open government is by now self-evident. Governments usually dismiss complaints about their secrecy as being the media’s “inside baseball” talk, but nothing could be further from the truth. Journalists work to bring you news of health and safety risks, environmental harm, public sector wrongdoing, and the waste of your tax dollars. For this, the public needs all the facts. Information is also essential for democracy, for without it citizens cannot properly participate. Yet since Mayor Gregor Robertson took office, getting this information has become far more difficult. In 2010, city manager Penny Ballem brought in a new policy, one that forbade city staffers to speak directly to journalists and filtering all media questions through the “corporate communications” branch. As in Stephen Harper’s Ottawa, even the most banal details are strained through a politicizing filter, as though governing in eternal campaign mode. Last year the gag order went a debasing step further, when for a public relations staffer insisted on monitoring the Courier’s interview with city planner Matt Shillito by speakerphone. (This week the branch said such monitoring “is only at the request of the city staff member being interviewed.”) The city’s PR branch grew to 22 staffers and its budget tripled from 2006 to 2014 for $1.94 million per year. Newspapers Canada gave the city a “C” grade overall for freedom of information request handling in its annual national audit of public bodies, and an “F” for slow responses. I was compelled to use FOI to see line items for the mayor’s private “discretionary fund,” while reporter Bob Mackin had to appeal to the B.C. information commissioner to order the city to reveal details of contract bids. Both records should have been published freely. Open government moved to a higher profile in this civic election. At debates, other candidates repeatedly slammed Vision’s bloated PR branch and opaqueness on its neighbourhood development plans, to hearty audience applause. Meena Wong, mayoral candidate for COPE, said the policy reminded her of growing up in communist China and that such PR spending was wasteful and should have gone to hungry local children. Kirk LaPointe, the NPA’s mayoral candidate, placed openness at the top

of his platform, saying he would create “Canada¹s most open government,” and “this is the policy hill I will die on.” (How well his pledge would have been fulfilled will remain unknown.) Before the vote, I sent each party a survey with seven questions on open government. Vision Vancouver was by far the vaguest on specific queries. For example, on FOI request delays, it said only that the party “will work to continue making Vancouver a leader in open data, and online engagement.” When asked: “Will you maintain or cut this PR budget and staff level, and by exactly how much money and how many people?,” COPE was the most specific, pledging to cut the PR staff and budget in half. All the other parties pledged to end the Ballem media-gag policy. After the vote, Vision supporters may say that Robertson’s re-election was a public endorsement of the information status quo. LaPointe says that, on the contrary, the fact his party made FOI its number one topic and ended up in a tight race with Vision was a clear sign of public discontent. LaPointe and Wong told the Courier they doubted anything would improve, yet Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr is hopeful. “As an eternal optimist, I expect that transparency will get better,” she said, adding she hopes for more openness especially on operating budget details. There were two more hopeful signs: All parties voluntarily revealed their election funding sources before Nov. 15, and Vision spokesperson Marcella Munro said her party is “open to the idea of a lobbyist registry.” Governmental secrecy leads to perennial conflict with the media and mistrust from the public, who should never forget that the main goal of most PR branches is not to inform but to influence. The way forward is clear: open the city books on all budget line items, contract bids and neighbourhood plans, speed up the FOI process, place more council meeting topics in open session, restore the pre2010 media-to-staff access policy, stop monitoring staff interviews, and start a lobbyist registry. Vancouver has spoken out for open government. In Mayor Robertson’s desperate “general apology” to voters on CBC radio a few days before the vote (a move which might have won him the election), he pledged to “listen” more to the people and “do better.” Now is his chance to demonstrate that promise.

The week in num6ers...

The number of years the new crop of civic politicians will serve in office after the B.C. government quietly extended term limits earlier this year.

In thousands, the approximate number of votes Mayor Gregor Robertson received more than NPA runner-up Kirk LaPointe in Saturday’s election.

The number of minutes voting was extended at four East Side polling stations after they ran out of ballots. Advance polling wasn’t made available at any of them.

Michael Geller Columnist michaelarthurgeller@gmail.com So what did you think of the election? While I and no doubt many of you were pleased with some of the results and disappointed with others, there is no doubt Vancouver residents were far more engaged in this election compared to previous years. Furthermore, although the council makeup has not changed signiﬁcantly, the election campaign may well change how Vision Vancouver governs over the coming four years. On election night, I was pleased to join fellow columnist Allen Garr and Courier editor Barry Link in a live streaming video as we analyzed the results and discussed what might be in store for the coming term. If you missed us, you can watch the 20-minute video at vancourier.com or youtube.com/vancouriernews. During the course of our election night coverage I made a number of predictions. While this can often be as dangerous as making promises, let me share 10 predictions for the coming four years. 1. While there will be increased calls to adopt a ward system with elected representatives from different neighbourhoods around the city, this will not happen. However, some election reforms will occur. The province will approve much-needed limits on donations from individuals, corporations, unions and other organizations prior to the next election. 2. Others will join me in speaking out for a need to redesign ballots to neutralize the unfair advantage granted to those whose names begin at the top of the alphabet. Consideration will be given to multiple ballots with each candidate’s name at the top, and an arbitrary scrambling of the names. However, both will be rejected, along with a proposal to have a round ballot. 3. Considerable effort will be devoted to seeking public support for the referendum on transit funding. The Courier will do special features on alternative funding mechanisms and the experiences of other jurisdictions. The referendum will pass, although many residents will claim they did not really understand the question. 4. Council will deliberate on whether to remove the viaducts. Despite opposition from NPA councillors and Adriane

The number of seats won by COPE candidates. The city’s former ruling party ran a total of 19 candidates, including a mayoral one for the first time since 2002.

Carr, council will approve their demolition. However, four years from now they will still be standing as a result of numerous unforeseen cost considerations. 5. There will be a lot of discussion about the design and funding requirements for the Broadway subway. However, construction will not begin during the four-year term as a result of numerous unforeseen cost considerations. 6. Concern about foreign ownership of vacant properties will continue. Council will approve a study on what measures should be put in place to address the problem. However, the study will conclude this is beyond the control of municipal government and nothing will be done. 7. The Vancouver Affordable Housing Authority will get underway with much fanfare. There will be much criticism from the public on the composition of the board of directors. While a few sites will be offered for lease, the VAHA will not have much impact on housing affordability in the city over the next four years. 8. Senior city staff will agree with Kirk LaPointe’s campaign claim that it is time to dust off the Mayor’s Task Force on Affordable Housing report. The city will implement the proposal for a transition zone between arterials and single family zones where row houses and other forms of more compact housing will be allowed. A demonstration program allowing laneway and infill housing to be sold under certain conditions will also be successful. 9. More rental housing will be built on parking lots and through regeneration of older rental properties. A few older non-profit projects will also be redeveloped to provide additional housing and generate revenues to upgrade the balance of the units. However, rental housing will remain expensive four years from now. 10. There will be repeated calls for city manager Penny Ballem to leave city hall. However, she will still be with us four years from now, albeit with a more consensus-driven management style. At least one senior park board official will be gone, and despite praise for his governance, the mayor will decide not to complete his term. Four years from now, Vancouver will have its first ChineseCanadian mayor. Next week I’ll offer 10 more predictions. twitter.com/michaelgeller

The number of new faces at city hall. After their parties spent a combined $4.3 million dollars on the campaign, Vision’s Tony Tang was voted out and the NPA’s Melissa De Genova got in.

The percentage of eligible voters who cast ballots in this year’s election, up nine per cent from the 2011 election and four more than the city’s declared target.

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Mailbox Allowance needed for new park board

To the editor: Re: “NPA takes Vancouver Park Board,” online only. With the change in power within the park board, I cannot wait to truly see the independence of that organization within the City of Vancouver. One can only hope that city council, which gives the park board its operating budget,will not penalize the park board as a result of the voters choices for [mostly nonVision Vancouver] commissioners. It will be like mom and dad withholding your allowance because you have been bad. One can only hope Vision doesn’t go there or Gregor will really have to apologize. Rick Evans, Vancouver

City council selections lack vision

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Gino Odjick sets new record for penalties Nov. 16, 1996: In an away game against the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks forward Gino Odjick becomes the team’s all-time penalty minute leader after passing Garth Butcher’s record of 1,668. The former enforcer eventually reached an arguably unreachable overall record of 2,217 in 444 games before being traded to the New York Islanders two years later. At last count of active players, Alex Burrows, after eight years with the team, is in eighth place with 896. Odjick, 44, announced earlier this year he has been diagnosed with the rare terminal disease AL amyloidosis and was only given months to live.

Lions win ﬁfth Grey Cup championship Nov. 19, 2006: The B.C. Lions beat the Montreal Alouettes 25–14 at Winnipeg’s Canad Inns Stadium in the 94th CFL Grey Cup final. Paul McCallum’s record-tying six field goals and a touchdown by Ian Smart were enough to get the job done. Although the Alouettes put up a fight in the second half, their last hopes were dashed when tailback Robert Edwards fumbled on the goal-line and Otis Floyd recovered with 4:26 left in a game the Leos never trailed. It was the home team’s fifth Grey Cup and its first since again beating Montreal in 2000.

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To the editor: Re: “Vancouver rewards Robertson with third term as mayor,” online only. Vancouver voters have admitted they are sick but it seems they are unwilling to take their daily medicine in the full dosage. It was a beginning with the election results

that turfed the Vision park board and neutered the unworldly school board. No longer will Moonbeam and his ilk be able to skirt the blame and lay it off on Visionaries on the park board to propose unworkable projects that deny our citizens the full use of our parks and community facilities. On council, the top four positions went for change with the Green Party and three NPA candidates comfortably outpolling the trained seals of Vision who took the ﬁnal six spots With a fast fading Vision core on council, the future of the city is clearly not in concert with the direction of the past six years. Unfortunately the puppet masters in the Vision support team may try to fast-track their disruptive programs in full knowledge this is their last kick at the cat. Rick Angus, Vancouver

COPE on the ropes

To the editor: Re: “COPE sees victory in defeat,” online only. I recall a letter to the Vancouver Courier by Tim Louis, COPE internal co-chair, which conﬁdently stated that “COPE is on the way up and Vision is on the way down.” Given the results in the latest election, I think he must have meant the other way around. John Clench, Vancouver

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1. Kits House held its housewarming this past weekend to celebrate its renovation and expansion. The neighbourhood house has been a part of the Kitsilano since the early 1970s. 2. Kits House executive director Catherine Leach, right, stands on the front steps of the George Hay House with board chair Tamara Little during Saturday’s housewarming. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

Neighbourhood gathers for Kits housewarming

CITY LIVING Rebecca Blissett

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The brick plaza in front of Kits House was packed with people of all ages who came to celebrate its housewarming Saturday afternoon. The demographic was a perfect reﬂection of the kind of community the neighbourhood house represents: seniors volunteered as tour guides, children raced about underfoot, adults gathered in groups with coffee mugs in hand, youth huddled together near the food truck. Charlotte Roch was one of the day’s volunteer tour leaders. Incidentally, Roch moved into one of the building’s new apartments so she was, in fact, giving tours of her new home. “I’m excited about it. I live in a basement suite, ground level, and I realize I’m getting older so I want to be off the ground level,”

said the 69-year-old. “And I wanted to be in a community and also be in an area that has really good bus services. This is off a busy street but it’s a busy residential area so I’m not walking the streets at night when it’s dark.” As Roch showed off her bright one-bedroom apartment, she said that the intergenerational programs the house offers are a big draw; Kits House has everything from childcare and daycare to art classes for teenagers and cooking classes for new families to computer courses for seniors. Kits House is as beautiful on the outside as it is on the inside, too. On the leafy residential street of West Seventh Avenue at Vine, the $19.5-million expansion and renovation includes a new modern building with bright programming rooms, muchneeded seniors housing and a rooftop garden. It is bookmarked by the former St. George Greek Orthodox Church on the east corner, which Kits House has operated out of since the early 1970s, and the 1911

George Hay House with its fresh coat of paint — done in, naturally, a Vancouver Heritage Foundation-approved shade called Kitsilano Gold. Inside, the buildings are so well designed by Kitsilano architect Sean McEwen that it feels like one, big updated home that has kept true to its historic roots (the exposed brick walls of the church are still visible, as is the piping), but doesn’t feel cramped or dark. McEwen is no stranger to making the most of the city’s heritage roots; he was involved in the West End’s Mole Hill housing project in the 1990s that turned historic homes that would have otherwise been torn down into social housing. Ken Annandale, one of the directors of Kits House, became involved in the neighbourhood house movement in the 1980s. He was an English teacher at Gladstone secondary and noted how much students beneﬁted from volunteer work at the Cedar Cottage Neighbourhood House.

“It provides services that aren’t usually accessible for some of the residents who either don’t have a lot of money or don’t always have the wherewithal to advocate for themselves,” he said. Kits House board chair Tamara Little agrees. “We have people who may not be ﬁnancially at risk, but they are socially at risk,” she said. “We have more senior women in Kitsilano than any part of the city.” A widowed senior showed up at Kits House earlier in the day’s celebration and she ended up walking away with volunteer forms, Little added. “So, really, for her this is a housewarming experience and now we have a connection to her and this is what this is all about.” Kits House is truly about community, says executive director Catherine Leach. “Know your neighbours, support each other. It matters in all areas of the city, including the West Side,” she said. twitter.com/rebeccablissett

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Disneyland has always been a favourite holiday destination for my family. When my daughter was small, we could spend more time in lineups to meet her favourite princesses than to get on the busiest rides, but fairytale magic had no power over nature; we would often arrive at the front of the line, when a princess had to take a break. It happened so often that my daughter started to harbor grudges against Cinderella. Disney has raised generations of women with more positive identiﬁcation with princesses’ and their stories. Virtually every young woman I know has a favourite Disney princess. Some may still dream of the magic of true love’s kiss. Unrealistic expectations can set us up for disappointment. Falling in love is like a psychosis that prevents us from clearly seeing the other as a real person: qualities are exaggerated and faults minimized. In the grip of infatuation,

we may not be capable of making rational decisions. If patients with advanced dementia, delirium or psychosis are not able to make their own medical decisions, should those madly in love not be allowed to get married (at least until the end of a cooling off period when a prince turns back into a toad or a beast and has the opportunity to leave the lily pad up once too often)? When infatuation fades (as it always does), many ask with sober reﬂection, “What was I thinking?” When the honeymoon ends, we become disenchanted and “happily ever after” becomes work. We can start competing with one another and keeping track of what we compromise. In the ledger of what we give and take from a relationship, we all lose. To avoid disappointment, should we give up the search for the one true love who is our perfect partner and soul mate? The love we seek is an emotional, spiritual and social ideal but is within our

reach. The love we have sought from someone else is what we must nurture within our own hearts. It is unconditional love. It is like a physician’s unconditional positive regard for his patient, wherein the needs of the patient take precedence over those of the physician. The wellbeing of the other comes ﬁrst. We are human and we love imperfectly. More often than not, our affections for one another are conditional. If our partners disappoint and displease us, we hold back our love. We project our own ideals and identity onto our children and if they fail to live up to our standards and rules, they may feel we love them less. Unconditional love does not judge but easily forgives. It is like a best friend who knows everything about you, but accepts you and loves you anyway; who tells you what you need to know, sees the best in you and pushes you to live your potential. We are human and we love imperfectly, but we must accept ourselves and

the love we have received as imperfect as it may be. Our world is not perfect, but there is still beauty in it. We are not perfect but still worthy of love. By nurturing unconditional love, we may live more happily ever after, accepting ourselves, improving our relationships and becoming better parents. As an exercise to develop more unconditional love, ﬁrst picture someone you care about and say, “May you be happy, healthy, peaceful and safe.” Then picture in turn someone you feel neutral about (no particular feelings whatsoever), someone you have a quarrel with, and yourself, while saying, “May you be happy, healthy, peaceful and safe.” If you practice this exercise regularly, you will become an agent of positive change — beginning ﬁrst in your own heart and spreading to the world around you. Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. For more on achieving your positive potential in health visit davidicuswong.wordpress.com.

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A free clinic organized to check blood pressure, might just make it rise. Drop by one of three Vancouver fire halls, meet the firefighters and get your blood pressure checked — no appointment is necessary and it only takes a few minutes. Firefighter technicians will review your results and give you a record card to take and later discuss with your doctor. The clinics take place Nov. 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. at No. 7 Firehall, 1090 Haro St. (604-665-6007),

No. 17 Firehall, 7070 Knight St. (604-6656017) and Firehall Branch Library, 1455 West 10th Ave. (604-665-6004). Meanwhile, there are still copies of the 2015 Hall of Flame Greater Vancouver Firefighters Calendar available for sale with proceeds benefitting the B.C. Professional Firefighters Burn Fund and selected charities. The firefighters are also raising funds through a new charitable movement called FundAid. For more information, visit vancourier.com and search for “FundAid: New Burn Fund Centre to help families.” For more information about the calendar, visit vancouverfirefighters.ca.

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Join the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation at Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard St., Nov. 29 for Voices of Hope, a National World AIDS Day concert. Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, Maison du Parc and Casey House, three leading HIV/AIDS charities, have collaboratively produced the Voices of Hope/Voix D’Espoir concert in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto since 2008. In 2013, the initiative welcomed the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research as a new partner. The non-proﬁts hope the associated publicity of these national events each year draws attention to issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, including the need to support vulnerable people living with the disease and understand their challenges; the need for ongoing healthcare, education and prevention initiatives; and the reality that HIV/AIDS continues to be a threat to the lives of an increasing number of Canadians. Voices of Hope/Voix D’Espoir began in Montreal in 2000 as a creative response in the international effort to recognize World AIDS Day and as a way to raise awareness and funds to help people living with HIV/AIDS. Voices of Hope/Voix D’Espoir is the only National World AIDS Day event in Canada. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:30. Tickets are by a suggested donation of $20. For more information, visit drpeter.org.

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new Vancouver Native Housing Society building located at the corner of Fraser and Broadway streets. Seniors, youth and all Mount Pleasant community members are invited to the welcome dinner and meet their new neighbours. This new Vancouver Native Housing Society housing was speciﬁcally built for the homeless and at-risk youth and adults. Anyone planning on attending the Nov. 20 event should call 604-879-8208 or drop by Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, 800 East Broadway, to be included on the list. Dinner runs from 5 to 6:30 p.m. twitter.com/sthomas10

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Fern Jeffries, a spokesperson for the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods, hopes Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s last-minute pre-election apology translates into an improved relationship with resident associations. The coalition, which is comprised of 25 resident groups, has been critical of city hall’s handling of planning and development in Vancouver. It has drafted its own principles and goals document that pushes for a more collaborative relationship, but Vision has refused to endorse it. At a candidates’ forum before the election, councillor Andrea Reimer cited concerns such as a lack of language around inclusion to ensure groups such as renters and minorities are represented. Mayor Robertson was re-elected for a third term

Saturday, along with six Vision councillors, including Reimer. Three NPA and one Green councillor will ﬁll the remaining seats. Earlier this week, the coalition requested a meeting with Robertson to talk about neighbourhoods’ involvement in planning and development. “We’re hopeful that the mayor will meet with us and we’ll be able to talk in a productive dialogue about how neighbourhoods can participate in planning. It’s no secret that there’s a feeling that this administration has ignored neighbourhood associations and we want to ensure there is good, open dialogue and a good opportunity for us to pursue mutual objectives,” Jeffries told the Courier. “The mayor has apologized and made a commitment to do better. We certainly take him at his word and want to give him an opportunity to live up to his word.” Jeffries, who said she’s optimistic the meeting will happen, said the group still wants the mayor to endorse its goals and principles.

Fern Jeffries, a spokesperson for the Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods, helped organize an all-candidates forum before the election. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

“We are proposing a 100 per cent household survey, so I’m not sure how you could be more inclusive than 100 per cent. But we would take that as our starting point in discussions. If they had other issues with our

principles and goals, they certainly haven’t communicated [it] to us. That’s the only comment they’ve made — that it isn’t sufﬁciently inclusive and we want to make it inclusive. If they have a better way to do that rather than a

100 per cent household survey, terriﬁc.” Reimer told the Courier Tuesday that she wasn’t aware a meeting had been requested. The Vision caucus hadn’t met yet since the election. “Certainly, it’s been an ongoing issue that we’ve heard from people — that while they support the agenda and the goals, they’re looking for ways we can include more people, a broader spectrum of people, within each neighbourhood. We hear the message loud and clear. Figuring out how to do that is a challenge. Certainly, the Engaged City Task Force, with 22 of the brightest minds in the city on engagement, they too were perplexed,” Reimer said. “Just because you live next to someone doesn’t mean you agree with them about any number of different policy issues, so ﬁguring out how to get residents feeling like they’re included, but also having residents with differing viewpoints and differing ideas about where their

neighbourhood should go — how they can sit down and hear each other and ﬁnd ways to collaborate is going to be the challenge moving forward.” Reimer said that the city’s approach to planning and development has evolved over the past six years, and she expects it to continue evolving, noting quite a few action items from the Engaged City Task Force still need to be implemented. “A lot of the biggest disagreements have come where there’s just been confusion over where and how you [can provide input] into a decision and that’s a fair criticism,” she said. “We had some of our opposition complaining about how many [communication] people we have, but the reality is for a big city like ours, we don’t have a lot and that makes it a challenge to get out messages around how you get engaged in something, but message heard that we need to ﬁnd a way to do even better.” twitter.com/naoibh

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Nov. 19 to 21, 2014 1. Jennifer Copping directs Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire’s Tony Award-winning play Good People. Set in the working class, Irish-American neighbourhood of South Boston, make that “Bahhhhston,” the insightful comedy about class, culture and bingo runs Nov. 20 to 29 at Granville Island’s Studio 1398. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. 2. Dust off your walking shoes and put on your fleece jackets (or maybe you’re more of a shawl person) for the 18th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Nov. 20 to 23. The four-day art show/craft market/open house brings thousands of visitors to the neighbourhoods bounded by Main Street, First Avenue, Victoria Drive and the waterfront to check out the wares and workspaces of painters, jewelers, sculptors, potters, photographers, glassblowers, furniture designers and metalwork artists such as Stefanie Dueck. Details at culturecrawl.ca. 3. Comedian Dino Archie headlines Is This a Joke?, a monthly comedy showcase featuring local and international stand-up comics, Nov. 19, 9 p.m. at Electric Owl. He’ll share the stage with fellow funny dudes Graham Clark, Ivan Decker and Sunee Dhaliwal. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, Neptoon and ticketweb.ca. 4. Jeff Pace is the man behind the local folk pop outfit Old Man Canyon. After many months of touring, he’s finally bringing his tired, young bones back to town for a homecoming show Nov. 20 at the Biltmore. Hey Ocean’s David Vertesi opens. Tickets at Red Cat, Zulu Records and ticketweb.ca.

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With Vancouver’s civic election behind us, it’s a good time to sift through the rubble, dust off our leather pants and evaluate the lay of the land. Here are a few things we’ve learned: • $4.3 million (the combined amount of money spent by Vision and the NPA) is what it costs to elect the same mayor and nine out of 10 of the same city councillors. Vision loses strong silent type Tony Tang and the NPA gains former park board commissioner and Sarah Blyth frenemy Melissa De Genova. It’s kind of like Ground Hog Day but with an absence of humour. • The percentage of eligible voters who managed to stop shopping or tweeting pictures of their meals for a few minutes and vote improved considerably from 2011’s embarrassing turnout of 34 per cent. But before we go patting ourselves on the back for having the highest voter turnout in 10 years, let’s acknowledge that 44 per cent voter turnout is still pretty shameful. To put it in

Kerry Jang (r) channels his inner Joe Biden. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

perspective, even with more than 187,000 ballots cast for Saturday’s election, more people attended the B.C. Lions’ nine home games this season than voted for the people running this city. And the B.C. Lions are terrible. • NPA’s failed mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe had some interesting words for his former co-workers at the Vancouver Sun. In his concession speech, the Sun’s former managing editor praised his campaign team with this little bon mot: “First of all let’s start by congratulating the magniﬁcent NPA team… if I had a newsroom like that I would have stayed in journalism a long time.” Ouch. It’s not like LaPointe worked at the Province. We kid, we kid. Sort of. • With the NPA winning four of the seven seats

on park board it’s likely they’ll keep their campaign promise of repealing a July decision by the Vision dominated board to ban the breeding of whales and dolphins at the Vancouver Aquarium. So expect to see a lot of whale on whale action over the next year. Think Caligula but with horny belugas. • Vision councillor Kerry Jang is basically the Joe Biden of city hall. The dude drives a Miata, builds model boats in his basement and likes wearing cream coloured suits. And there’s a great photo of him above on election night, grinning and pointing to someone in the audience. We’re placing bets on how long it takes Jang to say that being a councillor is a bitch. twitter.com/KudosKvetches

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Small Parts big on heart and risks

Autobiographical labour of love explores family, illness THEATRE REVIEW Jo Ledingham

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David Hudgins, a founding member of the Electric Company Theatre and associate director at Studio 58, bites off a very large chunk with Small Parts. Anton Chekhov wrote plays about boredom and managed not to bore audiences; Hudgins writes about a bad play and ends up with a play that could have been a lot better. Risky venture. This is extremely personal stuff: Hudgins’ mother, called Irene Perkins in Small Parts and sensitively portrayed by Eileen Barrett, was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer 10 years ago. Part of her reaction to the diagnosis was to write her ﬁrst — and last — play, The Ovarian Dialogues. The characters were body parts: Liver, Lymph Nodes,

Ovaries, Heart, Soul, etcetera — a sort of Woody Allen-ish thing without the humour — although calling a character Madame Ovary is pretty funny. As Hudgins’ mother’s disease progressed, she asked for her son’s directorial expertise and Hudgins, leaving his wife and new baby behind, ﬂew back east to “help” direct. Right away he knew just how bad the play was but also how important it was to his mother: “It means everything to me.” No way out. On top of everything, his mother wanted Hudgins to convince his sister, who suffered from adult ADHD and whom he felt to be “trouble,” to be in it. The Ovarian Dialogues was eventually produced mostly for friends and relatives at the University of Waterloo. In an interview, Hudgins confessed, “I have to say at the time I was kind of embarrassed by what was on stage.” In hindsight,

David Hudgins’ Small Parts is based on his experience producing a badly written play by his ailing mother.

he knew there was a play waiting for him to write; however, labours of love — and that’s what Small Parts is — don’t always work out. Small Parts, leaning heavily on his mother’s material including interpretive dance, goofy costumes (Laura Fukumoto), old style theatrics and overblown poetic language, tells the story of Hudgins’ emotional reconnection

with his mother and sister through the rehearsal and production of The Ovarian Dialogues. Marisa Smith, directing for Solo Collective Theatre, brings together a cast fully committed to Hudgins’ story. I suspect rehearsals were emotional roller coasters: silliness mingling with sadness as Hudgins — called Nathan Perkins (Jeff Gladstone) in Small Parts

— revisits the past. Imagine Andrew McNee (as Dan) wearing a ﬂesh-coloured, body-clinging body stocking (and you can only imagine to which particular body parts it clings) “swimming” toward Polly (Christine Reinfort) and Nory (Lauren Jackson) who are rigged out as egg-ﬁlled ovaries. Juxtapose this scene with a heart-wrenching scene between Irene and her son Nathan: “Go home, I don’t need you anymore,” she says. He replies, tearfully, “I think you’re gonna die and it scares the living shit out of me.” Or scenes between Nathan and his badly broken, drug and alcohol addicted sister Ariel (Meaghan Chenosky). It’s a safe bet there were tears on the stage as both Hudgins’ sister and his mother have since succumbed to their illnesses. But there was probably plenty of laughter, too. Wind McNee up and let him go; there will be laughter although, personally,

I’ve never found drunks or stoners all that funny. Still, a lot of people do and McNee is the go-to guy for this sort of thing. Autobiography is tough. Even tougher is being tough on it. Not only is his mother’s play embedded in the play Hudgins has written, but his heart is embedded in it, too. In fact, with all those silly body parts running around, what is memorable about Small Parts is the size of Hudgins’ heart. This play is not one rewrite away from Broadway. It’s ﬁnished and Hudgins is moving on. He is currently working on an orchestral-physical experiment with composer Peggy Lee for Electric Company Theatre and The Elbow. He’s a risk-taker, no doubt about it. For more reviews, go to joledingham.ca Small Parts runs until Nov. 23 at Performance Works. For tickets, call 1-800-838-3006 or go to brownpapertickets.com.

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Concert combines feminism and chocolate STATE OF THE ARTS Cheryl Rossi

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Listeners are to slip a morsel of chocolate on their tongues at certain points in

Lisa Cay Miller’s new composition at an event called Rippled Modality, Nov. 21. Concertgoers will receive a box of chocolates specially designed by chocolatier Greg Hook of Chocolate Arts to correspond to the movements in her piece. Shadow

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puppet duo Mind of a Snail will project symbols that signal when a tidbit of chocolate is to be consumed. That’s why Miller, artistic director of the New Orchestra Workshop (NOW) Society, says the event is called Rippled Modality. Senses are to be stimulated through sight, sounds and taste. Amsterdam-based composer/ﬂautist and electronics musician Anne La Berge and Montreal composer/ clarinetist Lori Freedman will collaborate with Mind of a Snail and the NOW Society’s Orkestra Futura to create Rippled Modality. La Berge incorporates electronic recordings of bugs and combines structured and random patches. LED light boxes on the musicians’ stands will signal who’s to play and when. Musicians include Mike Dowler on bass clarinet, JP Carter on trumpet, Jesse Zubot on violin, Peggy Lee on cello, and Miller and Chris Gestrin playing piano with Orkestra Futura. Miller’s new work is “a compositional expression of

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So what inspired Miller to focus on the status of women in Canada? “I guess I’m getting kind of pissed off,” she said. She sees complacency and denial when it comes to missing and murdered women in Canada and the marginalization and abuse of women in general. The CCPA report notes women in Vancouver earn 30 per cent less than their male peers. “Often with these sort of statistics, you think, oh it’s far away or it’s another time or it’s a poor country and that wouldn’t happen here, but this is this city, right here, right now,” said Miller. “The best way you can make a change is through your actions,” she said. “By me doing what I do, I feel like I might make a difference because I’m quite earnest and I work very hard.” Rippled Modality takes place Nov. 21 at the Pyatt Hall of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s School of Music. Details at nowsociety.org. twitter.com/Cheryl_Rossi

Lisa Cay Miller rehearses for the Nov. 21 performance of Rippled Modality. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Canadian feminist history,” according to the event’s press release. Her ﬁrst movement draws on Nellie McClung and the Manitoba Political Equality League’s satirical play from 1914 The Parliament of Women. The second movement is set 50 years later, the birth year of Marc Lepine, the man who murdered 14 female engineering students while screaming “I hate feminists!” in Montreal in 1989. Miller’s entire work is named Alea Jacta Est, with which Lepine ended his

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Weekend Scoresheet AA senior girls volleyball, regionals

York House won the No. 1 Lower Mainland seed at the AA senior girls volleyball B.C. Championships, held in the Cowichan Valley Nov. 27 to 29. The Tigers defeated St. Thomas More in the regional final and both qualify for provincials along with Elphinstone and St. Patrick’s. Although they finished fifth at the tournament, the season is not over for Notre Dame. They will play in a wildcard tournament with five other teams to determine the final qualifier.

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After winning the LMISSAA zone tournament, Little Flower Academy took home the Lower Mainland regional title last weekend over Prince of Wales. Both teams qualify for the AAA senior girls B.C. Championships, scheduled for Parksville Nov. 27 to 29.

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St. George’s continued its unprecedented winning streak in the pool with a 14th consecutive senior boys provincial swimming title Nov. 15 at Richmond’s Watermania. The Saints also won the top, overall prize, an impressive feat for a single-sex school. York House won silver in the girls event, and two swimmers from West Point Grey Academy put in strong individual performances. Justin Leung set four school records and hauled in one gold and three silver medals, while Frank Zhou set three school records and won gold and two silver medals.

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The post-season continues for the Vancouver College Fighting Irish following a 43-30 home win over Mouat. Combining for 428 total offensive yards, four different players scored on the rush and Rysen John caught a 19-yard pass from Giordy Belfiore. In a two-pronged scoring role for Vancouver College, Belfiore went seven for 16 on 105 yards in addition to kicking four converts and a field goal as the back-up kicker. Chris Ellis had 15 tackles (nine solo) to lead the defence. The Notre Dame Jugglers will hang up their boots on the 2014 season after a 46-12 road loss to Kelowna.

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At an afternoon practice at Hamber secondary, Griffins football players have hand-warmers shoved in their gloves, some wear sweatpants over their pads and everyone pants out a cloud through their facemask. “It’s a frozen wasteland,” said starting centre Noah Abramson, as he toed frost on the grass. He loved every minute of being there. Far from desolate tundra, it was a football field in November — not something the Griffins have seen before. “Usually, unfortunately, the season is over for us by now,” said Abramson, who wore a ski mask that covered his mouth like Batman’s rival Bane. He didn’t want to be anywhere else. “Right now there is definitely a lot of excitement around the team and practice. Everyone is really excited to go up to the main stage and show people what we’re worth,” he said. For the first time in five seasons since launching a football program in 2010,

Hamber won a playoff game. The varsity Girffins knocked off Burnaby Central in a 21-6 win at Burnaby Lake Park Nov. 14. They meet Earl Marriott on Friday in the varsity football Tier II B.C. Championship. The challenge is new and welcome territory for a young program that hasn’t known a lot of success other than safely teaching a complex, physical sport to novices. A love of the game wasn’t enough for all students, some who turned their back on the team because the Griffins couldn’t string together many wins. Abramson, a Grade 11 student who will become one of the first five-year Griffins in 2015, said former players are now rethinking their departure and might suit up next fall. After five seasons, it’s players’ experience that has led the Griffins to the post-season. Abramson, along with quarterback Alex Parrotta and his twin, receiver Zac Parrotta, came to the game in Grade 7 when Hamber seniors introduced a flag football program at neighbourhood elementary schools. The Griffins play in Tier II, a developmental

league outside the AA and AAA leagues. They play a few blocks from Vancouver College, perhaps the most legendary high school football program in Canada, and one that helped the Griffins get started by giving them essential equipment. The team has an expanded coaching staff that includes alumni, and Griffins head coach Bobby Gibson said the team has finally bought in. “We are at the point where we can actually be choosy about who goes on the field as opposed to saying, ‘You’re here so you’re going to play.’ We dress 25 players each game and we still have a lot of kids going both ways [by playing defence and offence] but we’re not just playing for participation anymore.” The difference this season, in addition to a dynamic quarterback and deeper roster, has been the offensive line, said Gibson. “They’re all undersized, fast guys that just work their faces off. That’s how we’ve had success. The biggest difference has been the fact our linemen have all bought in and they all realize just because they’re not the star with the ball, doesn’t mean they’re not the difference

makers. Those guys have been the reason we get points this year.” At left guard, Sean Imperial is the smallest on the O line. “I definitely have to go against people a lot bigger, all of sudden I find myself going against someone who is 300 pounds,” said the five-foot-four, 155-pound linesman. “I just keep pumping my feet and even though they’re bigger, I could hold them and give my QB enough time.” Hamber had only two losses this season, a winning record for a team that in past seasons has gone winless. One of those losses came against Marriott, the team to beat for the B.C. Tier II title. Starting pivot Alex Parrotta said the team has already proven itself this season, but he wants the win on Friday. “I want to help the program grow. I want to see this program succeed, move up and do well,” he said. “The playoffs are exciting. It feels good, the progress that we’ve made. Our team is just getting better from here.” The Tier II B.C. Championship begins 8:30 p.m. Nov. 21 on the turf field at Burnaby Lake Park. twitter.com/MHStewart

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On a world championship orienteering course in southern Brazil, Brian Ellis discovered that running through a deep layer of pine needles is like slogging through snow. If he’d known, he’d have stayed out of a forest that had looked so inviting. “It’s a strange landscape,” said Ellis, 70. “These were mature pines and they’ve been laying needles down for years and year, sometimes the needles are 20 centimetres deep and the branches that had been trimmed over the years had never been cleared away. It looked beautiful but it was tough running. And the temperature at this time of year can be from 20 to 35 degrees. I’m in there, thinking, ‘Oh lord, this is hard work.’” After one foray among the oldest pines, he wasn’t tempted again. “You only figure that out when you step in it.” At the World Masters Orienteering Championship earlier this month, the course was held, in part, on a pine plantation in the state of Port Alegre. Competitors used a map and compass to find controls scattered over the terrain in a test of mental acuity, decision-making and foot speed. Ellis, a member of the Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club, won gold in his age group. He sought out 12 controls and covered roughly five kilometres in 51 minutes and 31 seconds, barely beating his closest competitor by one second. After two qualifying races in the long event, Ellis was seventh out of 68 men from around the world aged 70 to 74. During the final, the slowest racers started first. Ellis was near the back of the pack but running through rows of pines and scaling hills, he could have been on his own out there. “I only saw two or three people, even though there were almost 80 or so on the course.” A semi-retired UBC plant biology professor who lives in Kitsilano, Ellis was drawn to the sport 40 years ago when his wife Marg signed up for an event in Ontario.

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They were both hooked and have since travelled the world to race. “It’s a test of your ability to run and think and I really like that combination,” he said. “Also, it’s in a beautiful setting.” Orienteering, in theory, is the straight-forward exercise of running from one place to another. But this is no trail run, and taking a straight line is not always the best way to get ahead. “It’s a real head game,” said Ellis. “You can run and maybe you can run really well and actually be able to ﬁnd a number of controls but if you don’t maintain the discipline to know where you are on the map all the time, sooner or later the wheels will fall off and you’ll ﬁnd you’re standing at a place in the forest where you don’t really know where you are.” After reaching the second control and starting the third leg of the championship race, Ellis looked up and realized he wasn’t exactly sure where he was. His map — which shows elevation, water courses and even the density of forest — was turned 90 degrees and, in haste, he’d gone the wrong way.

“I thought I was supposed to be going up over a gentle hill, but instead I was running alongside this hill and looking at a clearing on my right,” he said. “I couldn’t afford to be lost. I realized what I’d done, I could recognize that from looking at map. I had to wheel around.” He wouldn’t have made the error if he’d taken a few seconds to get oriented, he said. “If I had used my compass, I wouldn’t have gone off like that.” A race of survivalist skill that balances time, judgement and hustle, sometimes slowing down can mean a better result. “You have to convince yourself that the discipline it takes to not make a mistake actually pays off,” said Ellis. “I’ve said that to myself for 30 years and sometimes I can do it. I’ve had lots of good races, but in a situation like these ﬁnals, the pressure is really hard to ignore. The urgency to go faster because you know there are countless other good people against you, it can break through that discipline. If nothing else, I’ll remember how well it turned out because I man-

aged to hold it together.” On the final leg in view of the finish line, Ellis burst out of the forest toward the last control. “I had no idea how I was doing, but I knew I had been fast,” he said. He reached his final mark and perked up when he heard his wife’s voice, intently driving him on. “She yelled at me so urgently, the feeling was just electric,” he said. “She was yelling at me to run, and I didn’t know why this was so important, but I just took off like an antelope. I don’t think my feet touched the ground.” Ellis, whose six-foot-three height is “all legs,” didn’t see any other racers around him but took off like a predator was at his heels. “It was like some puma had just come out of the woods behind me,” he said. “I doubt I’ve ever run faster in a finish shoot.” They watched as his closest competitor approached the end of the race. His time was ahead of Ellis’s at the last control but he was not moving as swiftly. “I had gone down the finish shoot so fast,” said Ellis, “by the time he finished, he was one second behind me.” twitter.com/MHStewart

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