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Film-savvy Vancouverites recognize Ben Ratner as an intuitive film director – his 2013 drama Down River recently received a whopping 13 Leo nominations – but his directing skills easily translate to the stage. Exhibit A: White Hot, a sexually charged dramedy by American playwright Tommy Smith about a frail woman, her frenetic sister, and her emotionally disjointed husband. Ratner’s cast – which includes Loretta Walsh, Noel Johansen and Stefania Indelicato – delivers rapid-fire dialogue in stomach-churning scenarios while still finding nuances in their surreal roles. Until May 17 at The Shop Theatre (125 E. 2nd). $21-$23 at KindredEntertainment.com.

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Say Wha?! Last show until September?

Toward abstraction This month, the Federation Gallery on Granville Island is presenting a group show of seven of Canada’s most exciting contemporary artists.

One of several juried shows throughout the year that are curated from the works of the Canadian Federation of Artists’ 2,000 members, toward abstraction features creations by Lori Bagneres and Hazel Breitkreutz, gallery director Mila Kostic, Jutta Kaiser, Chris Kazeil, Leslie Gregory and Mena Martini, who was part of a multimedia installation at the 2011 Venice Biennale. The opening reception is May 15 from 5-7pm.

The group show runs May 13-25 at 1241 Cartwright Street. Artists.ca Pictured: Spring Mood by Mena Martini, 24x30, acrylic

Have you ever read a poorly written novel and thought to yourself, who publishes this crap? Or come across a hilariously out of date self-help book in a thrift store? Perhaps you flipped through any celebrity autobiography and guffawed at her/his life story. Well, that’s what Say Wha?! is all about – funny people reading from terrible books. The show, created and hosted by Sara Bynoe, has been going for nearly four years years and Bynoe has plans to take a sabbatical from Vancouver for a while, so this could be your last chance to see the show! Features readings by Brent Constantine, John Cullen, Riel Hahn, Cameron Macleod and Lauren McGibbon.

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Are we becoming a city of renters?

Residents worry home ownership slipping away

By Mike Howell

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he question is one Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs hears a lot: Is it time to declare that the future of housing for most people in the city will be rental?

It’s a depressing thought for residents bent on home ownership.

For others, renting in Vancouver for life is not an issue — it’s whether the housing will be available, decent and affordable.

Meggs’ question opened up discussion at a public forum Monday night hosted by Vision Vancouver at the WISE Hall.

“If we want to change the culture so that this becomes a city where people have expectations that they’ll rent for life — bring it on,” said panelist Lyndsay Poaps, a former park board commissioner who rents part of an East Side duplex with her family.

What Poaps has learned and the city’s housing numbers reveal is that Vancouver has a shortage of decent, affordable rental housing. Vacancy rates are chronically low, averaging 0.9% over the past 30 years.

That’s because the majority of the city’s purpose-built rental stock was constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. And since then, as Meggs pointed out, tenants have faced “renovictions” from their rental homes and Vancouver has become the most expensive housing market in Canada and the second

least affordable city in the world.

A common complaint shared by Meggs, Poaps and panelists Jim O’Dea, a housing consultant, and Yuri Artibise, the vice-president of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC, is the provincial and federal governments are not building enough affordable housing.

O’Dea urged senior levels of government to take advantage of low interest rates and invest in more housing. Without that commitment, he said, the absence of housing makes for a dire situation among people who don’t have money to pay high rents.

Artibise, who lives in a co-op at Olympic Village, is worried about a bleak future for tenants of co-ops with more than 3,000 BC households facing the loss of rental assistance by 2020 when the Federal Co-operative Housing Program shuts down.

Meggs outlined some of the city’s efforts to assist renters, including a rent bank, a database that tracks violations of rental buildings and programs to encourage developers to build rental housing.

Meggs said the number of new rental units under the Short Term Incentives for Rental Housing program, or STIR, has gone from zero in 2008 to 1,000 in 2012 and another 1,000 in 2013.

Additionally, the city has seen a surge in new laneway homes and an increase in secondary suites. More than 350 units are to be developed on four city properties and the city is working on creating a housing authority with the goal of building affordable housing on city land.

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Seann Dory is hoping to raise $100,000 on Indiegogo; it would enable him and his partner to hire staff for Sole Food’s retail locations. Dan Toulgoet photo

City farmers hope to grow Island’s public market and another on the corner of Main and Terminal. In order to raise money for this project, Sole Food is n urban farming organization starting a crowdfunding campaign on Indihopes that Vancouverites will supegogo that will run May 14 to June 1. They port their plans to expand producaim to raise at least $100,000. tion and set up two year-round “We liked the idea of engaging the retail locations in the city. broader Vancouver community so that they Seann Dory and Michael Ableman can participate,” said Dory. founded Sole Food Street Farms in 2009 in The two retail locations would allow Sole a parking lot beside the Astoria Hotel. They Food to grow their farm business because started with a team of six staff and produced there’ll be more opportunity to sell pro10,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables in duce, according to Dory. Having year-round their first year. They now operate 4.5 acres outlets would also allow the organization to in four sites in the city and grew 20 tonnes employ people all year instead of seasonally. of produce last year.

Dory estimates that with $100,000, he Sole Food sells their produce at farmers’ will be able to hire five or six new staff to markets and operates a share program where support the two new retail locations. individuals can pay upfront and receive Sole Food Farms hires people who norproduce for 20 weeks in return. mally experience barriers to employment Dory and Ableman want to set up two due to mental illness, drug addiction, or year-round retail locations, one in Granville poverty. Alain Guy has worked for Sole Food since 2009. “Working year round would get me off welfare. I come off of seasonal work and I’m back on welfare,” he said. He works five to six 9th Annual months per year.

The new retail locations would also provide opportunities for a greater range of people.

“Some people can’t do Come put your the physical labour and memories in motion we need places for people like that,” said Guy. Sunday, May 25, 9:00am Sole Food Farms has Locarno Beach received grants to fund upgrades or expansions to 2 or 4km Hike the organization’s orchard Everyone welcome! and farms. Sixty per cent Awards, Entertainment, of Sole Food’s costs are Healing Touch Therapy Available, covered by produce sales, Charity Shop Booths which essentially takes & Refreshments care of day-to-day operational costs. HowFor more information and to download HIKE DAY SCHEDULE ever, Sole Food would pledge forms visit our web site at need additional funds to Rain or shine www.vancouverhospice.org set up retail locations.

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woman who as a child witnessed her father bludgeoning her mother to death and later had to flee a violent marriage.

A man who was forced against his will to live in an institution and was abused when he tried to demand his rights.

A former full-patch Hells Angel member whose drug addiction spiraled so out of control that he was even outlawed by his fellow gang members.

A teenager who was misdiagnosed with anorexia after a series of devastating events led her to develop post-traumatic stress disorder.

An inspiring advocate for the disabled whose forceful personality never let her give up on her own goals after she was told she would never walk again.

A pioneer whose appreciation for the peaceful environment she found in psychiatric hospital units led her to convince three levels of government to introduce supportive housing for the mentally ill in Vancouver.

Is it any wonder that, after hearing these six people’s stories, the 1,200 people gath-

ered in the Vancouver Convention Centre’s ballroom on Thursday night collectively raised almost $2.2 million for the organization that is dedicated to helping people find the spirit to survive such challenges?

“We will all leave tonight with our souls nourished,” Loren Segal said at the close of the Courage to Come Back awards gala on May 8. “By giving, caring, faith, hope and endurance, we will find the strength to face our own fears and achieve our own dreams.

These [award winners] are symbols of the possibility that lies within us all.”

The gala saluted the six award winners – Brenda Gardiner, Paul Caune, Joe Calendino, Kennedy Baker, Kristine Stanbra and Jackie Hooper and raised money for the evening’s host, the Coast Mental Health Foundation. Segal, whose father Joe is a long-time Coast supporter, is the chairman of the annual event which, this year, had a record-breaking sold-out crowd.

Among the attendees were several provincial cabinet members and mayors. At one point, Terry Lake, minister of health, “spontaneously” got up to whisper into the ear of finance minister Mike de Jong. Lake then announced that de Jong had approved of a $1-million commitment to Coast Mental Health’s at-risk youth program, which provides housing and support for youth between the ages of 18 and 25 who are living with mental illness. “Make sure you get a receipt,” de Jong quipped.

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hen Paul Caune arrives in his wheelchair, it’s obvious that he has a visible disability. “But my most serious disability is invisible – I don’t have a way to guarantee my civil rights,” he said when he accepted his Courage to Come Back Award in the medical category.

Caune is the executive director of Civil Rights Now!, and with so many politicians in the room, he didn’t waste the opportunity to strongly demand that governments formally recognize the rights of the disabled.

“When your civil rights are violated, you don’t need a good hug by someone in a pink T-shirt,” he said. “You need a good lawyer.”

Caune was born with muscular dystrophy and is now reliant on a wheelchair and ventilator. When authorities tried to transfer him to a long-term care hospital for people with severe disabilities, he fought back. It didn’t make him popular with authorities but he finally was able to secure an apartment in a Vancouver Resource Society building in Burnaby.

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ackie Hooper was “lost in a dark place” when she was admitted to the psychiatric ward of Vancouver General Hospital. But her time there was so beneficial that she emerged committed to the idea of bringing light into the world of other people living with mental illness.

In her quest to create the same sort of supportive environment that she had found at VGH, she was able to convince politicians at all levels of government to draft legislation for and dedicate funds to co-housing initiatives. The first building welcomed formerly hospitalized residents in 1994. In Vancouver, there are now 18 apartment buildings housing 1,000 residents, with staff on hand to help them when and if they need it. One of those buildings in the West End now bears her name as a sign of gratitude.

“Was it courage that has kept me going for the past 40 years,” she asked in her acceptance speech for the Courage To Come Back Award in the mental health category.

“Certainly not the only thing because if I had been alone, I would have been gone and mostly forgotten so long ago.

“I am here only because every time I fell, someone was there to catch me....

That support gave me strength through the dark days, and weeks, and months, to keep going, to stay with the living. It also gave me the wonderful opportunity to seize my manic moments, to listen to those annoying voices in my head, and use some of their really great ideas.”

After suffering from depression after a series of severe challenges, Hooper was later diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. She went back to school and got her Master’s of Social Work, working as a social worker

Jackie Hooper convinced governments to fund supportive co-housing for people with mental illness. Debra Stringfellow photo long past retirement age. She self-published books and wrote newspaper columns, including in the Vancouver Courier.

She made special mention of the Mental Health Patients Association.

“These were real people for me, a growing backstop, in an unread time in my life.”

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How to make small spaces work

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es, size matters. In fact, it’s often the most important factor. When looking for a new abode, space (along with location) is the key discussion point to choosing whether to move in or keep on the home hunt. Some of us prefer bigger in the bedroom, others want lots of room for entertaining and many opt for a chef-worthy kitchen space.

Living within the urban setting, most of us learn to juggle the small-space living sacrifices. Our furnishings, however, should not be one of them.

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by Jennifer Scott we need to seek out furniture pieces and creative uses that accommodate our lives yet fit the layout we’re working with. Traditional pieces often don’t work in the scaled-down size of downtown living; we want to enhance the features of our homes, not enhance the lack of space.

Many of my clients come to me with this exact dilemma: How do I create a chic, well-designed pad that doesn’t feel cramped meets my lifestyle needs?

Here are my top tips for making a small space work:

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1. Source out retailers that specialize in condo-sized furniture. There are many shops in Vancouver that have recognized the need for pieces tailored to condo living; these furnishings rival full-sized pieces in style, yet are a perfect fit for a smaller space. It’s not just about shortening the sofa – it becomes about minimizing many of the design details, such as lessening the width of the arms to visually suit the overall length. You don’t want to end up with a couch that looks like it simply had the middle section removed.

2. Opt out of some larger traditional pieces. When living life in a small space, feel free to get creative with your layout. For many people, having a larger entertaining or family space is key, but it then becomes a struggle to fit in some of the other large items like a dining table. Don’t feel pressured to make it all fit: Even if you like to

Small-space-approved: When thinking about bringing pieces home, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start. Here are a few of Jennifer Scott’s fave finds that make the cut when size matters.

host, a coffee table can make a super chic spot to dine. Try out a larger round or square coffee table and keep a cool collection of floor pillows that can offer seating when it’s time to eat. The overall effect becomes an effortlessly casual yet intimate experience that allows you to use more of your space for the pieces you really want. Make your pieces work double duty!

3. Don’t shy away from “over decorating.” We all have collections or favourite things we want to incorporate into our decor – the treasured items that we feel defines our signature style. It becomes tricky, however, to find space to display everything when size is limiting. I often work with clients to feel comfortable using whatever surfaces they have available for display. This often means using a coffee or dining table as a library. For a super styled look, colour block your book spines within the piles, or try a monochromatic look by wrapping the covers with a single-coloured or singlepatterned paper. If you use trays under your display, it makes the transition a cinch when you need to use the table surface for its intended purpose. If you don’t have the floorspace for additional bookshelves, think about wall-mounted units that allow you to decorate yet maximize your space.

Note: rather than opting for just one shelf, consider lining one wall with the same unit to create a cool, streamlined look that gives the illusion of built-ins.

4. Go custom. If you can’t find the piece you want in the size you need, think about having it custom made. Not nearly as expensive as it may seem, working with local artisans to create your pieces ensures that you get that perfect fit, and allows you to get more involved with the actual aesthetic appeal. Some of my favourite pieces to go custom with are tables (dining or coffee), bedframes and/or headboards and shelving.

These pieces are the largest that you’ll bring into your home and often the most difficult to get the right fit; getting a custom fit with the bigger purchases will affect the overall feel of your home once you’ve completed all your decorating.

Jennifer Scott is the founder of A Good Chick to Know, a Vancouver style and design business based in Strathcona.

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Interior designer Karla Dryer mixes things up near Main What is it: Bungalow near Main Street.

Major selling feature: The neighbourhood, open floor plan and basement for the kiddos.

First thing I changed: I painted the entire house Cloud White.

Feature I brag about: Definitely the amazing deal I got on my Saarinen dining table on eBay. That one conversation piece: My brass chandelier from The Cross – I’m in love with it.

The decor: I like a little bit of everything!

And I really like white! It’s a contemporary space with a few mid-century pieces and new and vintage accessories mixed in. And I always like a little bit of bling to my place as well.

The story behind the art/antiques/collectibles: We have inherited a mirrored cabinet from my mom that I love. I also love visiting thrift shops with my daughters and some of the old books, boxes and lamps I have found have been some of my best pieces. I also have my eye out for vintage milk glass in travels. My mother-in-law is an artist and has given us some great pieces for our home.

Downsides: It’s hard to have privacy with a two-and-a-half-year-old and six-year-old in a bungalow.

Building relationships one room at a time!

Neighbourhood haunts: Hands down favourite place is Le Marche St. George Coffee Shop – I am pretty much there every day.

The kids love Rocky Mountain Flatbread Company. My husband and I enjoy a good beer at Portland Craft.

Compared to your last place: We lived in White Rock for three years so we are all so happy to be back near Main Street and walking distance to everything!

Favourite house activity: We have a large back yard for the first time. On a sunny day hanging out on our deck while the girls play in the backyard is fantastic.

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hen was the last time you jumped for joy? If you’re like most adults, it was probably when you were a kid.

But the ability to jump for joy is still there inside us as we age – and Vancouver photographer Eyoälha Baker has spent the last couple of years helping hundreds of people locate that feeling again.

Baker has travelled the world shooting willing subjects for her Jump for Joy! Photo Project. Suspended in the air in an array of outdoor locations (including beaches, alleys, and mountaintops), the happy people in Baker’s images represent a wide range of ages and professions.

Despite the differences, they share a willingness to take a leap for Baker’s camera and revel in a moment of childlike joy.

“It’s co-creative,” says Baker over dinner in Gastown. “I’m capturing the essence of what they’re bringing.”

Baker launched the Jump for Joy! as a response to the steady stream of negative images she glimpsed every time she switched on the news.

“It was heartbreak over and over, and I thought, ‘Why don’t they ever do stories about what’s being done about the heartbreak?’”

The negative news items were compounded by heartbreak in Baker’s own life. “I wanted to feel joy again, and I asked myself how to do that.” Jump for Joy! was her answer.

To date, her jumping images have been displayed on Baker’s website (JumpForJoyPhotoProject.com), and filed away for inclusion in a future book.

Soon, however, Baker’s shots of jumping Vancouverites will grace the side of a building on Vancouver’s Eastside. Baker has joined forces with Murality, a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to enhance lives and transform neighbourhoods through public art murals.

Through Murality, Baker will create a photo col-

Shop Talk Retail news from around Vancouver Fresh from a buying trip to the womenrun co-operative workshops of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Bingo Bill Exchange is back for its second pop-up at Chinatown Experiment (585 E. Broadway).

Partial proceeds from the sale of beautiful cushions, ottomans, wool felt carpets (pictured at right) and jewelry will benefit the Hope in Shadows photo project of the DTES community. Opening reception May 13 6-9pm; pop-up runs May 13-18.

It is hosting another trunk show at its studio (1956 Parker) May 20 to 25, 10am to 6pm. BingoBillExchange.com The Float House is now open in Kitsilano, at 1926 W. 4th. To celebrate, the sensory deprivation purveyor is offering a grand opening special: three 90-minute floats for $119, good at both Vancouver locations. FloatHouse.ca

A “jumping selfie” from Jump for Joy! photographer Eyoälha Baker. lage of more than 100 Vancouverites jumping for joy. The collage will adorn a 9,000-square-foot wall at 161 E. Pender for the duration of the summer.

Baker has launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to cover printing and pasting costs; as of press time, she’s nearly halfway to her $5,000 goal.

Among the many perks of supporting the project is the opportunity to jump for joy with Baker and be part of the photo collage.

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Amy, the type of neighbour who makes you look forward to the small talk, has always prioritized the less pursued pleasures of life.

When my husband and I first moved onto our Strathcona street, getting to know her involved seeing her leaving her house every day, just a few hours before sundown, with her bike.

When asked where she was off to, she’d always reply “Kits Pool!” with a wave of her hand or a story about her day, depending on how much of a hurry she was in.

That answer didn’t change all summer.

Amy was introduced to Kits Pool shortly after moving to Vancouver by her friend Pam. It was right before Amy’s wedding, and she recalls with a smile how, the day of her bridal shower, she asked her girlfriends if they’d mind moving the party to the pool.

She jokes she’s not a Parks user but a Parks abuser. Even at her poorest, the college instructor still made sure to buy a pass; but she’s not the only person who never misses a day of the season. Even going back the 10 years she’s been a true regular, there are others who have been using it longer.

But Amy is as much a part of the Kits Pool story as the pool is part of hers.

August is her favourite time of year to go, when the pink of the summer sunsets gets picked up by the mountains and the water and she feels like she’s “swimming through light.” She says it’s only after that many weeks of aquatic communion that she becomes the best Amy she can be.

An I Saw You ad once inquired as to what she did “the other eight months of the year.”

She never replied to the woman who wrote it, but the answer was and continues to be that she bikes the seawall in the off season. Every day, for the entire winter. In the height of foul weather, it’s sometimes just her and one other man who greet each other as they pedal past.

If that doesn’t surprise you, then you’re starting to get to know Amy, too.

It drives her husband Mark a little crazy, losing his wife to Vancouver’s public spaces for three hours a day. But he spends his own alone time in their yard hewing wood and carving wooden spoons as a hobby. After their time apart, Amy always walks through the door of their charming carriage house with the supplies for that evening’s dinner, and their quietly dedicated routines reunite.

She says the pool never changes, but the people do. She lists off some familiar faces she doesn’t see anymore, and shakes her head with a grin at a bit of excitement – a ladies’ locker room brawl involving a broken vodka bottle and pulled hair – that shocked them all last summer. Then there is the growing mermaid fad that sees women of all ages flitting down the length of the pool with a flash of their sparkly, artificial tails.

There’s apparently room for everyone across the pool’s 137 metres.

She says the vastness of Kits Pool is actually part of the appeal – one of its joys lying in how long it takes to do just one lap. You don’t even notice how far you’ve swum, she says, because its so incremental.

Alongside the other aficionados – extreme athletes of inspiring tenacity and humbling ennui – is Amy, often with a kick board, cruising along the edge of the pool, past the other pleasure users and aquacizers, and out of their way.

Largely ignored by these tours de force, it isn’t until the final day of the season that a commiserative bond tentatively bridges the gap.

But, admittedly, Amy doesn’t go to Kits pool to meet people or make friends. She says it’s swimming that fends off depression, with the languid journey through nature putting her problems in perspective. And it was her long swims alone that helped her cope when her friend Pam, the one who introduced her to Kits Pool and accompanied her on many of her outings, was dying of cancer.

Now, when she dips in her foot on opening day, she says it’s 15 years of wonderful memories that warm her in the undisturbed waters. And when she emerges after her last lap, she’ll know there’s four more months of it to come.

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s the Vancouver shoreline became a thin line of reality in the early light of May 23, 1914, the 376 South Asian passengers aboard the Komagata Maru readied themselves to be received.

Bags packed, some donned their finest western suits while others smoothed the wrinkles out of old military uniforms with pride.

Jubilant smiles creased their sea-weary faces; they had just sailed for two months across the Pacific to a better life in Canada, and, within a few hours, it was set to begin.

But those men would be labelled by Canadian politicians as unwanted and by early history as naive. Most of the men would never be allowed off the boat.

Now known as one of the darkest days in Canadian history, the Komagata Maru’s arrival was a spectacle for Vancouverites. Pleasure craft flocked to the harbour to inspect and ridicule the “Hindoo” invaders while the passengers’ resources and morale dwindled.

Conditions on board rapidly became dire.

Only 20 passengers who already had resident status or the requisite funds were allowed to disembark and join the small Sikh community that had been growing in Kitsilano since 1897.

While their fates could be considered lucky compared to the more than 350 who were forced to languish in Burrard Inlet for two months before being escorted away by gunboat (onlookers expressed disappointment that the ship wasn’t “blown up” upon departure), or the 19 “suspected seditionists” who would be killed in a shootout with British authorities upon return to India, the landed immigrants faced an uncertain future spent fighting for every basic right.

That they and their descendants were eventually successful is part of what makes the Komagata Maru more than just a South Asian story, says Komagata Maru 1914-2014: Generations, Geographies and Echoes project manager Naveen Girn.

Girn, 34, grew up in Vancouver unaware of the battle that had raged so many decades

earlier. Only one day of the curriculum at his high school was dedicated to minority histories: the Chinese head tax, Japanese internment and the Komagata Maru.

It wasn’t until a history class at SFU that he learned the true extent of this South Asian legacy, and he is among a large number of Indo-Canadians interested in expanding what we know about its impact.

There was little formal record of early South Asian life in Canada, so Girn began tracking down and preserving what little remained. As he researched, the ridges and whorls of the South Asian fingerprint embedded in presentday society rose very clearly into view.

“The Komagata Maru links so strongly to other narratives,” he says softly over the phone. “Stories of female immigration, of trying to get the right to vote, of citizenship rights or labour histories, of arts and culture organizations. It all stems from this story.”

Around the time of WWI, Vancouver was a city trying to define itself. At the political level, BC was being cordoned off as a white man’s province, but at the grassroots level, years before multiculturalism became a Pierre Trudeau buzzword, there was an established practice of Chinese, Japanese, South Asian and First Nations building communities together.

Girn explains with awe how, in Punjabi, there is a word for First Nations that exists only in the Vancouver vernacular and is based around the term for ‘cousin’, born out of the two groups working and living side by side.

Girn also recalls an article in the Hindustani at the turn of the last century that stated the best restaurants in Vancouver were Chinese restaurants, because, unlike the ones in Gastown, they didn’t discriminate against South Asian patrons.

Vancouver was also the site of North America’s first Sikh gurdwara, or temple, located at Burrard and 2nd and surrounded by South Asian businesses. The first Sikh wedding in North America was in fact performed there between Munsha Singh Sheanh, a Punjabi pioneer, and Annie Wright, his English tutor.

But most of what historians could discern of this vibrant, wholly masculine community (there were only two landed South Asian women documented between 1898 and 1914) was gleaned from dry government surveil-

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cause there were practically none in town,” Johnston says of the clash that would leave considerable damage to Chinese and Japanese property, “but that was the background. That riot impressed [Prime Minister Wilfrid] Laurier particularly. He thought it was going to give the West Coast a bad reputation and turn people and money away.”

The Canadian government solved the immigration problem by halting it entirely.

“After 1908, no one was allowed in,” Johnston explains. That decision was pivotal for the Indian immigrants who had previously enjoyed easy entry, as members of the community on both sides of the ocean immediately began working towards reversing it.

It was one of the motivating factors for Gurdit Singh. By chartering the Komagata Maru, the wealthy Punjabi was attempting to set the precedent that British citizens were free to travel anywhere in the Commonwealth.

“Simply put,” says Johnston, “they wanted to come through the front door.”

It was an ambition he categorizes as dangerously misinformed, but the voyage still stands

lance reports, land documents and archival newspaper clippings.

“There is this large silence,” says Girn. “Trying to find South Asian stories in libraries or university archives, there’s not much there.”

Hugh Johnston, the professor who taught Girn, was one of the first historians to recognize the importance of the Komagata Maru.

Revised for the centenary of the Komagata Maru incident, the opening pages of his book The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar explain how Punjabi immigrants “received far more attention and generated far more public anxiety than their numbers warranted.”

Their presence in the west was the subject of vicious objection, from local media to the highest levels of government.

The anti-Asian riots of 1907, sparked by the imminent arrival of a CPR ship carrying 901 Punjabi immigrants, prompted the creation of the discriminatory continuous passage law that would ultimately block the passengers of the Komagata Maru.

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The facts remain the same, but Johnston emphasizes the significance of the challenge more now than he did in his first edition of Voyage, written 35 years ago.

“They kept [at it] by petition, by sending eminent people to Ottawa on their behalf; they didn’t ever quit trying to get a full place here. And it took a long, long time.

But all the way through you can see the community’s effort.”

Within minutes the gifted storyteller has laid out the impact of the Komagata Maru: By the 1920s, South Asians had succeeded in bringing their wives over; they achieved amnesty for illegal immigrants, who made up nearly 40 per cent of the population, in 1939; the right to vote was granted in 1947; then, in 1951, came the first quota for immigration.

Perhaps the biggest impact can be seen in the current size of BC’s Indo-Canadian population – 274,065 as of 2011.

“It was extremely small when I started this research,” Johnston says. “When I came to Vancouver in 1968, there couldn’t have been more than 12,000 in BC. History is about the winners; about people who are dominant. At the time of the Komagata Maru, the tiny South Asian population lost.

But they only lost temporarily. Over time they have become winners in Canada, and now we hear their history.”

But it didn’t come soon enough for some.

Vancouver resident Sukhi Ghuman’s great-grandfather, Harnam Singh Sohi, was one of the passengers on board the Komagata Maru. After being sent back to India, his dream for his family was eventually realized by the marriage of his daughter to a Canadian, but he refused to ever return.

As a student, Ghuman, 34, doesn’t remember learning about the Komagata Maru or this chapter of her family’s history.

She stumbled upon it by chance when a Punjabi professor shared a poem he had written about the incident. She rushed to ask her father about it, and then learned about her great-grandfather’s ordeal.

“I was really shocked and disappointed,” she says of the belated discovery. “Shocked at the fact that this was such a historical moment not only for South Asians living in Canada, but for

Canadian history, and it wasn’t something that came up in school. And I was really disappointed because soon after I found out about the incident and realized that I had a family connection, my grandma passed away. So I didn’t have the opportunity to talk to her about it.”

Meanwhile Girn has slowly been gaining the trust of other community elders, sitting down with them in their homes and going through their private archives. Much of what he has gathered will be on display in honour of the centenary.

“The anniversary is a great opportunity to increase awareness and education about this historical moment, because the Komagata Maru needs to be woven into how we tell the story of Canada. It’s a very genuine moment that speaks to the way people experienced life in Canada.”

In the last decade, the city, province, and federal governments have apologized for the episode. The federal government’s 2008 apology, delivered by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a Surrey park, however, was largely dismissed as too informal.

And the wound was reopened earlier this year when a man was seen urinating on the Komagata Maru memorial in Coal Harbour. The man, a Downtown Eastside resident with a history of mental illness, apologized for his actions, but comments on message boards revealed a discouraging disconnect between many Canadians and the story of those South Asian pioneers.

So all eyes will again be on Vancouver over the next few weeks to see how the city responds to its historical responsibility.

“From start to finish it is a sad story, but it is the story of my life,” writes Gurdit Singh in the The Voyage of the Komagata Maru Or, India’s Slavery Abroad. “If my story paves the way for repetition of any such single inequity being impossible, on any one in the future, I shall die in happiness to know that I had done my duty.”

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Interactive events exploring the Komagata Maru are scheduled this month at the above locations and through the Khalsa Diwan Society at the Ross Street Temple.

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John Blakely’s Bistro Pastis has been dishing up classic French fare for 15 years. Rob Newell photo Owner John Blakely has a wine list that rivals some of the best in the city. (In case you were wondering, despite the British name, Blakely is, in fact, French and has been awarded Le Medaille du Merite Agricole by the French Consul, making him akin to a knight in France.) The wines for the anniversary evening covered everything from an amazing Cote du Rhones Ogier to a W. Feves Petit Chablis and a Valmoissine Latour. In other words, truly outstanding wines. It was disappointing then, that some of the courses, including those of the current chef, lacked flavour and failed to do justice to the libations. Exceptions were Miller’s terrine de champagne with celery remoulade and Grignon’s boudin noir “cabbage roll” with seared scallop.

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The late 90s/early 2000s were legendary days. That was the time when the perfectly cooked frites and the heavenly steak tartare were lauded as some of the best in the city. Subsequent successful toques were worn by chefs such as Brad Miller (Bistro Wagon Rouge), Dino Renaerts (Bon Vivant Group) and Tobias Grignon (Mamie Taylor’s). All three, along with current chef Spencer Watts, banded together at last week’s 15th anniversary celebration to create a multi-course, multi-chef menu that spanned the life of the restaurant.

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The new facility will see the Kits House, previously housed in the former St. George Greek Orthodox Church, expanded to include the 1911 George Hay House, with an all new, modern building connecting the two.

The project is being built to LEED Gold environmental certifications, and while the historic exteriors of the two heritage buildings will remain intact, the inside of the facility will be completely new and modern.

“Once you’re on the inside, you wouldn’t know there are three different buildings,” executive director Catherine Leach. “It all flows together so perfectly.”

Retaining the two historic buildings was a message Leach and the Kits House staff and volunteers heard loud and clear when they started the community consultation and planning process for the project close to seven years ago.

“It would have been cheaper to start from scratch, but that’s not what the community wanted,” says Leach Also high on the community’s priority list was affordable, subsidized seniors housing, as well as childcare. Leach says she hopes that having children and seniors using the facility together will open the opportunity for mentorship programs for the young ones, and encourage active lifestyles for residents.

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“It would have been cheaper to start from scratch but that’s not what the community wanted,” says Catherine Leach, left, the executive director of Kits House.

Volunteer programmer Julie Rieter says donations are still welcome. Robert Mangelsdorf photo Kits House for the past 25 years and says he’s excited to see the refurbished and expanded community facility finally take shape. “It’s going to revitalize the whole neighbourhood.”

Kits House has had a long history as the heart of Kitsilano.

Greenpeace held one of its first meetings at the hall, and it has long played host to live folk music and community plays.

The $19.5 million tab for the project was funded in part by the provincial government ($9.6 million), the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC ($6.4 million), and the City of Vancouver ($1.6 million), and others ($220,000).

That leaves $1.7 million Kits House still need to raise. Of that, Kits Neighbourhood House has already raised more than $330,000, but that still leaves a considerable funding gap. “We have some fundraisers coming up... There are naming opportunities available, and we are accepting donations online,” says volunteer programmer and fund developer Julie Rieter. “Every little bit helps.”

The new and improved Kits House is expected to open in the late summer/early fall, with a grand opening celebration tentatively planned for October.

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ixty-three thousand YouTube subscribers, one million Instagram followers, 22,000 Facebook fans, a clothing line and a growing entertainment company might be a sign of success in the Internet age, but it’s not the secret to it. For that, you have to look to fun.

The three friends behind High On Life SundayFundayz figured the fun out while still in grade school and on their way to making a living at it.

Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Parker Heuser started shooting videos while students at McRoberts in Richmond.

Lyakh was the ring leader, showing a prodigious talent for filming and editing videos in the Jackass vein. Between school assignments and kicks, the pals produced nearly 40 videos, now filed safely away in a folder entitled Too Awesome, before graduating and going on to university.

Gamble attended UVic for psychology, Lyakh studied marketing at SFU, and Heuser took business at Kwantlen.

Reunited next as roommates in Vancouver, they would plan weekly hang outs they called Sunday Fundayz.

In June 2011, on a whim, Lyakh uploaded How To Dance When You’re High On Life – a three-minute-long Bollywood dance-off they had shot in their living room.

And for a while nothing happened; but then it exploded, making the front pages of sites like Reddit and making one of YouTube star Ray William Johnson’s videos.

The High On Life dance now has close to 10 million views when you add it all up, and was the nudge they needed to start making videos again.

Joined by friend Max Gatfield in 2012, the four went travelling, starting in India with a friend’s wedding where they were asked to perform their dance in living colour.

India turned into South East Asia and, as their footage got more epic, their social media presence grew.

Around this time, Contiki tours picked up the scent and offered the guys free travel experiences as long as they kept doing what they were doing. That deal took them on adventures through Europe before they ran out of their own money.

Back home, Lyakh spent four months editing and emerged from his room with

SundayFundayz members Max Gatfield, Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh, and Parker Heuser. a 15-episode travel series.

Now, at 26 years old, theirs is a career that you could take to your guidance counsellor with a straight face.

They teamed up with Blueprint, one of Vancouver’s premier event organizers, and the entertainment division of High On Life was born.

The guys now host regular, high-production parties at Celebrities and Venue.

And they still make videos – December’s Keeping People Company offering an insightful look at lonely Vancouver.

Meanwhile their next trip is

to Nicaragua to film a Free The Children school being built with $10,000 they raised.

Which takes us back to the definition of success. Gamble says the hardest part of their business plan is devoting so much time to the idea without knowing what will come of it. They only make media and memories, but the company’s slogan is “If You Can, You Should.” And they should, because they’re good at it; and, well, the world could afford to be a little more High On Life.

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The home-delivery niche has been muchhyped yet remains a tiny part of the overall grocery market in part because of buyers’ fears that their plastic bin of groceries will either be so warm that the vegetables will wilt or that they will be stolen by neighbours.

To ease those fears, Bosa Properties has built what it calls a “BosaFresh” facility – a 200-square-foot, temperature-controlled storage room at its Lido development in southeast False Creek.

“We’re programming BosaFresh into all our new buildings at this point,” says Bosa’s senior vice-president Daryl Simpson.

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There will also be a camera in the room to ensure neighbours do not snatch carrots or leeks. The room will be kept at a cool temperature and will have enough space for 30 grocery deliveries each day.

SPUD CEO Peter Van Stolk told Business in Vancouver that SPUD’s commitment to the program did not come as part of a financial contribution nor discounts to home owners.

Instead, SPUD will boost its number of deliveries to the building to daily from weekly, as it is in most parts of Metro Vancouver.

Van Stolk may be best known for being the creative genius that turned a small juice company named Jones Soda Co. into a venture that had a US$900 million market capitalization on the NASDAQ in 2006.

SPUD keeps expanding and closed a deal last week to buy Vancouver meal-delivery company Licious Living, which operates four cafés.

“We’re up to 350 employees and we’re growing like crazy,” Van Stolk told BIV.

Unrivaled splendor. Vancouver’s premiere waterfront residences combining two suites and conceived over 2 years of design & construction • 270 degree views flr-ceiling views of marinas, False Crk, Granville Island & cityscapes • House size 3255 sqft complimented by a 360 degree elliptical flrplan centered around a glass wine room, 4 bdrms, 4 bathrms, 5 parking & 2 storage lckrs • Featuring: 12 piece Miele & Thermador S/S appliances, Capolavaro granite, Zebrano bookmatched cabinetry, 2 home theatre systems, surround audio thruout, marble & onyx flooring thruout, T5 wired, video security system, Lutron one touch light & shades control, all rooms are a unique design & statement, Swarovski chandeliers, 6 piece master bath with 273 spray & steam shower, air jet tub, his/hers sinks; W/I closet, a ‘pink mosaic Bisazza’ bathroom, family room, great room, formal & informal dining areas, formal living room, dual entry, two balconies, two gas f/p, nanny quarters & much more • Simply spectacular!

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STUNNING UNOBSTRUCTED VIEWS OF GEORGE WAINBORN PARK & FALSE CREEK – upfront and personal! • Boasting 9’4” ceilings (only on this floor), 1098sf 2bdrm + 2bath + den, sleek & sexy European finishings, air conditioning, hardwood flrs, oversized bedrooms, master w/ walk-in closet & 5 piece ensuite, closet organizers thruout, pantry off kitchen, Silver LEED certified, gorgeous floorplan with open kitchen, views from every room & opposite bedrooms for max privacy • BBQ on covered 89sf balcony w/gas line! • 1 prkg & huge storage locker • 24/7 concierge, I/D pool, hot tub, theatre, club house & more • Like Central Park location in NYC – right at the park, seawall, aquabus & miles of recreation.

Location, Location, Location – David Lam Park, seawall, False Creek, Elsie Roy School, Urban Fare, Canada OPEN SAT. & SUN. MAY 17 & 18, 2-4PM Line to YVR & Yaletown all at your doorstep • Views of park, water & overlooking Yaletown, 962 sqft 2 large bdrms, 2 baths, granite counters, S/S appl, laminate floors, great floorplan – all rooms spacious, 1 parking, solid building, I/D pool, hot tub, caretaker & more! • Rent for $2300/mo. & great for families or wanting a waterfront lifestyle.

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180° unobstructed views of Burrard Inlet, mtns & city • 682 sqft 1 bdrm in Gastown’s landmark building & destination • A tourist haven, tech hub & Vancouver’s trendiest neighborhood • 9’ ceilings, german cabinets, stone counter tops, h/w flrs, 5 pc. bathroom, S/S appliances w/ gas stove, rollerblinds, Juliet balcony – features are endless & ultra modern • Rooftop 2 storey Sky club w/ gym, O/D hot tub, climbing wall, social rooms w/ killer views • 1 parking, rentals allowed.

Forget buying a townhouse or a half duplex and move right into this beautiful character house on a 33’x99’ lot in a family neighbourhood. No maintenance fees to pay, no strata to deal with, and no work to do! The finished space of 1475sf of 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms has all the charm and upgrades guaranteed to please you. Newer roof, high ceilings on the main floor, renovated kitchen and baths, fully landscaped gardens, newer windows throughout, 200amp electrical service, to name a few. There is also an unfinished basement of 880sf awaiting your ideas for future expansion. Easy walk to Joyce-Collingwood station, shopping and parks. Act fast!

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RARELY ON THE MARKET – High above the horizon, SW corner with gorgeous unobstructed False Creek & Marina views as far as you can see • Sprawling 1264 sqft, 2 bdrm, 2 baths, large den for an office, breakfast nook, S/S appliances with gas stove, luxury hardwood floors throughout, floor to ceiling windows to maximize views, sleek rollerblinds, generous bedrooms, master fits king size bed, 5 piece master ensuite bathroom with separate shower, gas fireplace, beautiful open modern floorplan, covered balcony for bbq’ing all year round.

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1203-918 COOPERAGE WAY MARINER: $1,150,000

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9E-139 DRAKE STREET CONCORDIA II: $659,000

1603-189 DAVIE STREET AQUARIUS III: $608,000

503-1018 CAMBIE STREET

YALETOWN LTD EDITION: $419,000

1209-1783 MANITOBA STREET RESIDENCES AT WEST: $490,900

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202-1190 WEST 6TH AVENUE ALDER CROSSING: $759,900

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3103-1438 RICHARDS STREET AZURA I: $999,000

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1008-1250 Burnaby Street, 703-288 East 8th Avenue, $248,000, “The Horizon” $333,000, “Metrovista” • Tastefully Renovated Junior 1 Bedroom in Horizon!

• Stunning Views From Upper South Facing Suite • Fits King Size Bed and Large Furniture • Full Size (apt.) Fridge and Stove • Roof Top Pool and 360 Degree View Deck • Rentals Allowed (Even Short Term).

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• Stunning Newly Built 1.25 Acre Estate & Guest House Near Transit • “Castle-Like Home” – Perched Atop an Exclusive 7 Lot, 1+ Acre Homes Cul-de-Sac • Forever Views Facing West • 5 Min. Drive to Newport Village • Built 2012 - No GST! 2-5-10 New Home Warranty • 7 Bdrms, 6 Baths, 1 Bdrm Nanny/Guest Suite in Main House • Whistler Inspired Sweeping Ceilings, Must See

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• Upper Level Stunning View South Facing 1 Bedroom • Great Condition & Immaculately Clean • 560sq.ft. 1 Bdrm & Solarium/Den • New Indoor Pool, Gym & Lobby • Great In-House Building Manager • Walk to Financial District, Skytain, Movies, Shops • Solid Concrete Building in Heart Between West End & Downtown!

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4489 Oak Street – South Facing 120’ Laneway BUILDING LOT, $1,598,000 • Shaugnessy “2” Building Lot • 120’ South-Facing Frontage • 4500sq.ft. Home and 900sq.ft. Laneway House • Rented 4 Bed, 2 Bath Bungalow Currently • Best Schools and Amenities in Catchment • Call For More Details

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West of Denman garden level suite with a private entrance, your pooch will love it. Well laid out 1,048 sq.ft. 2 bdrm, 2 bath with some updating, waiting for your personal touch. Includes gas f/p, laundry, parking & storage in this wellmanaged bldg. Pets & rentals welcome. 1 blk to Stanley Park & 2 blks to English Bay.

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Large 625 sq. ft. 1 bedroom and den. North facing with great views, hardwood and tile floors, 1 secured parking and storage.

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RENOVATED STUDIO LOFT. VAN HORNE. Renovated studio loft with hardwood floors, granite countertops and new fridge & stove.

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660 sq.ft., one bedroom & den. Just looking for the perfect owner!

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Fantastic opportunity to live or invest in a spacious 1 bedroom city home.

Quiet southfacing garden suite with many upgrades. Situated in a well-maintained building w/ a proactive strata. Recent building upgrades include a new roof (2013), piping (2008), hot water tanks, elevator, common area upgrades & money for a new boiler. 1 parking and 1 storage locker included. Rentals and pets allowed! All this in the heart of the West End, just steps to the seawall, English Bay, shopping and all the great amenities downtown has to offer. www.candiceelliott.com

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Irreplaceable park like setting across from lost lagoon, views of Stanley Park, Lost Lagoon, + mtns • This 1600sf beauty has been completely renovated w/ the highest quality millwork, tiling, lighting, doors, moulding, etc. • This is old world charm at its finest! • A dream kitchen right for entertaining + warm bathrooms to luxuriate in • No expense has been spared... • Quiet cul-de-sac, the city’s premier coop! (Taxes +bldg insurance incl in maintenance fees).

NEW LISTING LOFT 33, $425,000 708-33 W PENDER ST

Ultra modern 1 bdrm + 1 flex rm/den + Juliet balcony + 1 parking @ 33 West lofts with great city views! • Extra large suite in superb Crosstown location. Steps from seawall, shopping, skytrain, parks etc.

• TRUE LOFT AMBIANCE w/ modern quality finishings • 10’ ceilings, spa-bath, slate tiling throughout, blt-in storage, S/S appliances, designer lighting, granite counters etc • Truly a unique home!

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PARK 360, $348,000 2005-7088 18TH AVE, BURNABY

• This 1 bdrm plus den is Cressey built with all the premium finishing including 9’ ceilings, open plan kitchen w/ SS appl., granite counters, engineered h/w floors, custom built-ins & more • Enjoy the large balcony for BBQs & gardening, the unit has terrific easterly views • Building amenities incl. fully equipped exercise room, sauna, steam room, swirl pool, lounge & recreation room w/ billiards table • Great access to transit, be downtown in minutes • Shopping is convenient with Metrotown, High Gate Mall and Big Bend strip mall on Marine Way.

NEW PRICE LONDON PLACE, $349,000 306-1177 HORNBY

Completely renoed designer 1 bdrm & den @ London Place • Fantastic open concept + light thruout • Warm & bright designer colors, brand new kitchen w/quartz countertops, new s/s backsplash tiles & appls., gooseneck faucet & double undermount sink • Brand new coffee laminate h/w flrs thruout... Tinted wall to wall windows, commercial grade construction converted to condos in 1994 (built to last Proactive Complex) • Low strata fees incl heat + hot water + free laundry + rooftop patio with views + 2 storage lockers, parking, gym, sauna, hot tub • Pets allowed, rentals with restrictions • Unbelievable central location close to everything!!!

THE OLIVE $428,800 406-3225 TUPPER ST • Great 1 BR + den w/ gourmet kitchen w/ granite counters, quality cabinetry, KitchenAid s/s appl. • Fabulous north views & a balcony ideal for BBQs • Unit has a cozy living room with wide plank h/w flooring & fireplace • Great lifestyle unit in South Cambie steps to transit, shopping, cafes & restaurants • Pets & rentals welcome

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Jazz festival gets social New LED screens create interactive way to share the love of live concerts

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s it possible to do anything these days and not feel compelled to share it on social media?

Of all the experiences that you shouldn’t keep to yourself, the joy of listening to live music is definitely one of them.

The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is getting more social this year. It’s introducing 9’ by 12’ LED screens at the downtown Georgia stage and David Lam Park. The screens will give audience members a chance to share their impressions with everyone else in the crowd as well as enter contests to win free tickets and give-aways.

“It’s becoming very interactive so people aren’t just static audience members, they’re participating in the event,” says festival co-founder John Orysik. “We’re engaging audience members in the experience, which makes it more memorable.”

David Ward is the social media co-ordinator. He recently interviewed George Strombolopolis about why we feel so compelled to share everything we do. Strombo’s theory?

We’re pack animals who want to know what the rest of the pack is doing.

By sharing people’s social media impressions of the jazz festival, Ward says, “you’re getting everyone in on the same conversation and everyone can get excited together.

Bobby McFerrin is one of the featured performers in this year’s Vancouver jazz festival.

It comes down to the power of communication.”

Prime time for social media contests will be the 15-minute lull between concerts.

But the screens will also be used to share behind-the-scenes footage, including interviews with musicians, as well as the perfor-

mances themselves.

Other changes this year include moving the festival’s Howe Street bistro in front of the Georgia stage so people can eat while they enjoy the music and moving the kid zone into the Howe Street space.

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The 2014 jazz festival runs June 20 to July 1 and features 1,800 artists in 300 shows — and 150 of them are free. Highlight performances include Bobby McFerrin, Medeski Scoeld, Martin & Wood, Hiromi: The Trio Project, Arturo Sandoval, Jill Barber, Maceo Parker, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Cassandra Wilson, Christian McBride Trio, Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet, The Boom Booms, Arturo Sandoval and King Khan and the Shrines.

The free concerts include the Downtown Jazz Weekend (June 21-22), the David Lam Park Jazz Weekend (June 28-29), and on four stages on Granville Island during Canada Day. For details go to VanJazzFest.ca; to purchase tickets go to NorthernTickets. com or call 604-569-1144.

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t’s rare that I devote a full column to profiling a winery’s entire flight of new releases, but I’ve made it an annual tradition to make an exception for Naramata’s JoieFarm.

While there are a host of reasons, one of the big ones is that their new wines always come out this time of year so, for many people, the big release has become synonymous with spring having officially arrived.

Another is that I sincerely believe that these wines by owners Heidi Noble and Michael Dinn and winemaker Robert Thielicke are quintessentially Okanagan wines. When their first releases came out 10 years ago, they were embarking on what has become de rigueur for British Columbian wine: minimal intervention winemaking that allows our natural terroir to be honestly expressed. This means a natural, buoyant acidity to the wines due to our short summer, a smattering of minerality in every drop as lent by our mineral-rich soils, and gleaming fruit that’s as delicious as the many Okanagan orchards of apples, cherries, peaches and so on.

Vintage 2013 wasn’t an easy one in the Okanagan. There were major issues with wasps, which would puncture and consequently devastate grapes, and there was a good dose of sour rot in the Valley where undesirable yeasts and bacteria cross paths, resulting in the decay of fruit. Those wasp punctures also provided a clear route for the rot to permeate grapes. The team at JoieFarm felt these issues, as did many, but the fruit that remained issue-free allowed for yet another solid vintage for them.

Here’s a rundown of what you can expect from 2013’s offerings. Prices are winery-direct; expect a few bucks more tacked on when they make it to local store shelves.

JoieFarm 2013 ‘A Noble Blend’ | $24 This time around we’re looking at a blend of Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Auxerrois and Schonberger, awash with honeycrisp apples, Bartlett pears and a wee bit of quince.

JoieFarm 2013 Un-Oaked Chardonnay | $23 A fresh outing of papaya, pineapple and a small squeeze of lime that’s bright with acidity and charm.

JoieFarm 2013 Riesling | $23 Aromatic and lively, but definitely off-dry. Enjoy food-pairings that are good and spicy, and wash them down with this swirl of lychee, gooseberry and the smallest hint of Pez candy.

JoieFarm 2013 Muscat | $23 The team’s annual take on a dry Muscat has thirst-quench-

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JoieFarm 2013 Rosé | $21 Due to the aforementioned vintage issues, their popular Rosé almost didn’t happen this year, so let’s not take it for granted. Enjoy the summery mix of strawberry patch aromatics, watermelon, cream soda and peaches.

As always, if you’re having trouble finding something or just want to say hi, find me via KurtisKolt.com or on Twitter @ KurtisKolt For the entire month of June, local restaurants will be adding $1 to a popular menu item to help fund the Growing Chefs Classroom Gardening Project. Participating restaurants include Tableau Bar Bistro, Wild Rice, Homer St. Café, Market by Jean-Georges and Chambar. GrowingChefs.ca

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It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. House Wine, in support of The Last Project’s cancer research, has collected donations of some of the most legendary bottles from Bordeaux’ 1982 vintage and will be showcasing them in a monumental tasting. Try 13 of the top chateaux of the region, paired with a multi-course menu from Hawksworth Restaurant. It’s June 7, and tickets are $7,500 per person. Email info@housewine.ca.

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JoieFarm 2013 Pinot Blanc | $23 Baked apples and a drizzle of honey with a finish that goes on and on.

Fairmont Pacific Rim has launched The Curator’s Table overlooking the Lobby Lounge. Guests can book the table for eight for a customized private dinner party. Fairmont.com

Mealshare has launched in 14 new restaurants in Vancouver, including Fable, Medina, The Parker, Tuc Kitchen, Bestie, Burdock & Co, Graze and Edible Canada. The “buy one, give one” concept is simple. Buy a meal at any participating restaurant branded with the Mealshare logo and one meal will be donated. Mealshare.ca

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After more than 75 years in business, Galloway’s in Burnaby and Richmond has closed. There is some talk of re-opening at some point in the future, but no firm plans as of yet.

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Chocolate Arts is holding a single malt and chocolate pairing event on May 28. Taste five different single malts with six different chocolates. $68 per person. ChocolateArts.com The Food 4 Thought Gala in support of the Backpack Buddies program will take place at Science World on May 23. Backpack Buddies provides students in Vancouver’s inner city schools with backpacks filled with nutritious food to help sustain them through the weekend.

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1) Scones at Xi Shi Lounge at the Shangri-La Hotel – The scones are the most beloved item on their signature Afternoon Tea menu, which they actually call by proper name “Afternoon Tea” and not High Tea. The scones are of my favourites in the city with a crisp exterior, buttery flavour, and a touch of sweetness and salt.

ust before Mother’s Day, I wrote about the distinction between High Tea and Afternoon Tea. They are historically very different but often seen as the same thing in North America. (Basically, what the majority of North Americans call High Tea is actually Afternoon Tea.) Following the article, I started to get questions about the difference between scones and biscuits. Again, the world would not end without knowing the distinction, but terminology is important.

Scones and biscuits are very similar; depending on who you ask, even pastry chefs could agree that they are essentially the same.

Scones are a type of quick bread or pastry originating from the United Kingdom (people debate whether credit goes to the Scottish or English) and biscuits can refer to a variety of baked goods. In North America, biscuit tends to refer to a flour-based baked good similar to a scone. Both can be sweet or savoury, but scones tend to be sweeter and biscuits savoury.

The Southern buttery biscuit is part of American culture, but the word “biscuit” is still used in the UK. However it would generally refer to a cookie biscuit known as a Digestive cookie in North America.

It’s the same thing with the words “chips” or “puddings”, which are words for “fries” or “desserts” in North America.

In terms of the recipe, it varies for scones and biscuits. Some argue one has more butter or cream, or one should be flakier. Then there are the debates over buttermilk or cream, butter or lard, which has more sugar etc....

People tend to think of biscuits as buttery, fluffier, bigger and flakier, but those aren’t a definition; they are just common characteristics associated with them.

Now we know the difference, let’s

2) Cheese scone at Beaucoup Bakery – It is one of owner Jackie Kai’s most popular baked goods which sells out earliest. It’s very rich and substantial with a tender melt-inyour-mouth crumb. She uses white cheddar cheese and gruyère for intense cheesiness and salty flavour. It’s almost a meal in itself.

3) Burgoo biscuit at Burgoo – I haven’t had one in a while, but it’s supposed to be a Kentucky-style biscuit. Yes, biscuits vary according to States, but those differences are for another article. For local biscuits they are good; they’re not as cheesy as Beaucoup Bakery’s, although nice for dipping into their variety of soups.

4) Biscuits and Gravy at Jethro’s Fine Grub – A local favourite for brunch. They’re not my favourite although they are still good. It’s a generous serving of Southern buttermilk biscuits smothered in gravy. The

gravy steals the show with bits of sausage links, ham and bacon cooked into it.

Follow Mijune’s culinary adventures on her blog, or follow @followmefoodie and #FMFinBarcelona on Twitter and Facebook for live updates.

The scones at Xi Shi Lounge are part of what makes the Shangri-La’s Afternoon Tea so popular. Mijune Pak photo

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Move over, quinoa; barley wants to be new darling of ancient grains

By Martha Perkins

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n ancient Rome, gladiators ate so much barley to improve their odds that they were also known as hordearii — barley men.

Barley seems to have had few champions since then.

Enter Linda Whitworth into the arena. The market development manager for Alberta Barley not only launched GoBarley.com last year, she’s now helped compile a book of 109 recipes called Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain. (And no, its subhead isn’t “109 variations of beef and barley soup.”)

No offence to quinoa, the current darling of the ancient grain world, but barley’s documented lineage goes back 10,000 years compared to quinoa’s 7,000. Most of the world’s quinoa is imported from Peru and Bolivia but, here in Canada, Alberta produces half of our barley crop. Of that, 80 per cent is used to feed livestock, creating the white marbling that makes Alberta beef so highly prized, 19 per cent is used for malt by beer makers and one per cent enters the human food chain.

Where quinoa has barley beat is on gluten-free diets.

Barley, which is low in gluten, is safe for people with wheat sensitivities but not people who are celiac.

In 2012, the Canadian government gave barley “superfood” status. While it’s missing two of the amino acids that make quinoa a complete protein, if you add beans to a barley dish, your protein needs are met.

One local chef who needs no convincing that barley deserves a place on his menu is Pino Posteraro, the owner of Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill in Yaletown (and Vancouver magazine’s 2014 Chef of the Year.)

“It marries beautifully with beans,” he said at a recent dinner with Whitworth that featured two barley-inspired appetizers: barley with fermented cabbage, green chick peas and sidestripe shrimp that he’d pounded with a mortar; and then barley with pork belly and watercress.

The barley has a perfect Goldilocks consistency — neither too crunchy nor too mushy. (Posteraro suggests blanching the barley in vegetable stock first.) Whether it is providing the foundation for the more refined nuances of the shrimp or the comfort-food heartiness of the pork belly, the barley somehow manages to both meld into the background and play a starring role.

In Italian cuisine, barley is called orzo, not to be confused with the rice-shaped orzo pasta, and parTip: Because ents who don’t want caffeinated children barley takes often offer them caffeine-free caffe d’orzo, a bit longer made with roasted barley. When Posteraro to cook than suggests barley with maple syrup, cinnarice, cook a big mon and apple sauce as a breakfast option, batch and then Whitworth adds that for sweet dishes you store it in the can cook the barley with fruit juice instead fridge for up of water. to a week; it Joining Whitworth at the dinner is Craig will keep three Stowe, the founder of the Chinese Resweeks in the taurant Awards. Whitworth’s goal is to infreezer. troduce more Alberta barley into Chinese cuisine and they talk about the possibility of using barley instead of rice to make congee.

Barley has the lowest glycemic index of all the cereal grains and, as a result, “you don’t get those insulin spikes,” says Whitworth, a trained home economist. Not only is it a healthier choice for diabetics, it lowers cholesterol, too, and because of its higher fibre content, keeps you feeling full longer.

As China becomes a more affluent country, problems with diabetes and obesity are on the rise, making Alberta’s barley growers feeling optimistic that they can make more inroads into Asian cuisine.

“Barley’s always been the bridesmaid,” Whitworth says. Her quest is to make everyone realize it’s time to say, “I do.”

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ASIAN BARLEY AND WILD RICE SALAD 2 cups (500 mL) chopped pecans 1 cup (250 mL) wild rice 4 cups (1 L) chicken or vegetable broth, or water 1 cup (250 mL) pot or pearl barley 2 medium sweet red peppers, chopped 1/4 cup (60 mL) chopped green onions 2 cups (500 mL) frozen corn kernels, thawed 1/3 cup (75 mL) soy sauce 1/3 cup (75 mL) rice vinegar 1/4 cup (60 mL) sesame oil Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). On an ungreased baking pan, spread pecan pieces evenly. Bake for 5 minutes.

In a large saucepan over high heat, bring wild rice and broth or water to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Add barley and continue simmering for an additional 40 minutes. Cover pan and let stand until all moisture is absorbed. Cool.

Put barley mixture in a large serving bowl. Add peppers, onions, corn, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil; mix well. Place in fridge for 2 hours or overnight.

Add pecans just before serving.

Makes approximately 12 servings.

Nutritional Information (per serving): Calories: 312, Protein: 7 g, Carbohydrate: 32 g, Fiber: 6 g, Sugars: 4 g, Fat: 18 g, Saturated Fat: 2 g, Trans Fat: 0 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Sodium: 719 mg, Potassium: 291 mg

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Skye & Chang: Girl power, Eastside-style Reel People

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Loretta Sarah Todd’s new series brings martial arts, thrills & sci-fi fun to DTES

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oretta Sarah Todd might be responsible for one of the most wildly inventive series premises to hit Canadian TV screens in eons.

How wildly inventive? Two young women — one Aboriginal, one Asian — operate a martial arts dojo together on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. They juggle their dojo duties with a bodyguard business and outof-this-world abilities (as in, of the superhero variety).

A sci-fi action-adventure martial arts series set in the DTES and starring two powerful minority women? That’s just the jumping-off point for Skye & Chang, the pilot for which airs on APTN on May 20 and stars Sera-Lys McArthur (Arctic Air) and Olivia Cheng (Supernatural) in the title roles.

“I wanted to make something that was accessible and beautiful and hip and cool, and yet at the same time had that idea that everyone has their own power, and we don’t have to keep giving up our power to politicians, or drug pushers, or consumer society,” says Todd, the acclaimed Cree/ Metis filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced Skye & Chang.

It’s a fun first foray into the world of sci-fi television for Todd. The self-described sci-fi

Take that, stereotypes! Sera-Lys McArthur (Arctic Air) and Olivia Cheng (Supernatural) embody bravado, heroism and humour in Skye & Chang. nerd was yearning to create a genre piece that harkened back to the genre’s earliest roots as a truth-telling medium while also empowering young women.

“Young women are being pigeonholed into this overly sexualized role, and the idea

of having your own power and being comfortable with who you are is being forgotten,” says Todd.

So when Skye and Chang strut onto the small screen, they’re embodying characteristics such as bravado, heroism, and humour:

kicking ass and crushing gender stereotypes in a single bound.

Also challenged are stereotypes about a neighbourhood close to Todd’s heart. “Often the Downtown Eastside is portrayed as depressed and full of problems, which it is, but it’s also full of people with big hearts,” says Todd, who worked from an office in the area for many years. “I wanted to reflect back that these are real people with real lives.”

Todd speaks highly of her cast – “Sera-Lys and Olivia took their roles so seriously that they let their chemistry naturally develop, because they knew they needed that chemistry to live onscreen” – as well as her crew, who helped her squeeze the most out of a modest budget.

“The budget didn’t allow us to do some things that we would have liked, but what we did, we did really well,” says Todd.

They made ample use of three locations, two cameras, and animation segments. “I like to think that we made it look much bigger than our budget was,” she says.

The pilot was made under licence from APTN, with the support of the Aboriginal Program Canada Media Fund.

Most recently, it won the award for Best Short Feature at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.

Skye & Chang is enjoyable as a stand-alone hour of television but Todd’s goal is a full series order. “We had so many companies that gave us great discounts because they really want this project to happen for Vancouver,” says Todd.

Skye & Chang airs Tuesday at 8:30pm on APTN. SkyeAndChang.com

Reel People: Nerd Corps, Cruel & Unusual, Cineworks • An East Vancouver animation studio is embarking on a journey with one of the smartest families on the planet. Nerd Corps is hard at work with world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his daughter (and author) Lucy Hawking, and Pure Grass Films to develop a new television series based on the Hawkings’ George Greenby book series for children. Nerd Corps — which has found global success with Slugterra and Monster High — will develop and produce 26 half-hour episodes.

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Frat House comedies come and go – from Animal House to Old School, the age-old brotherly institution of pledging and hazing has provided a breadth of on-screen laughs but never with much substance.

Nicholas Stoller’s Neighbors stands apart from the rest because it actually has something to say about modern class distinctions and America’s machismo youth culture. Local boy Seth Rogen and the underappreciated Rose Byrne star as a suburban couple who are raising a toddler and trying to keep the romantic spontaneity alive.

Their idyllic life is soon interrupted when a boisterous fraternity moves next door, led by a buff and often shirtless Zac Efron and chirpy Dave Franco (James’ younger brother).

After repeatedly trying to curb the club’s all-night partying, Rogen and Byrne engage in a ‘no holds barred’ status war that pits young and hip against old and uncool. The sheer number of gags and rapid fire quips in Neighbors is staggering at times and, while the repetitive physical comedy grows tiresome, the written and improvised script works in nearly every scene.

Rogen still entertains as the bumbling but lovable leading man while Efron and Franco have never been better, flexing comedic muscle and expert timing. However, the film belongs to the scenestealing Rose Byrne, who proves she is an asset to the genre and one of the wittiest women working in Hollywood.

Stoller keeps the pace brisk, the visuals dynamic and offers a relentless parade of jokes, making Neighbors one of the funniest films of the year.

centre, is flanked by musician Stephen Lyons and David Ward, the Vancouver International Jazz Festivals’ social media co-ordinator at the May 7 Sutton Place media launch of Vancouver’s largest music festival.

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When the 2012 Honda Civic emerged as a new, less-expensive, de-contented model, the critics were unequivocal in their denigration. “This isn’t a proper Civic!” they cried, and scurried to their keyboards to ladle out the vitriol.

The public was aghast, and recoiled in horror. Like ripples in a pond, the effects of the criticisms quickly spread, and soon the Honda Civic was still the best-selling car in Canada, by a landslide, for like the sixteenth year in a row. Wait. What?

Yep, even if the Emperor does occasionally doff his undergarments, Canadians still can’t get enough of the efficient Honda Civic. We’ve been smitten since the days of the CVCC, and the love affair continues even when the big H makes a gaffe.

Honda, to their credit, responded to the finger-pointing with admirable rapidity, and now brings out a face lifted and updated version of their perennial best-seller. Here, in the coupe, the Honda fan can find a marriage of a bit of personal style with that same sensible efficiency and durability. But has Honda done enough here to make sure they aren’t just resting on their laurels?

Design:

Redesigned sheet metal might not seem like a big deal to you or me, but when we’re talking about a volume-selling car with thousands made around the globe, a dollar or two per car soon skyrockets into the millions. Happily, that’s apparently a cost Honda is willing to pay.

The new 2014 Civic coupe gets an entirely new front end, and a reworked rear treatment. It now looks even more differentiated from the sedan, and why else would you be buying the less-practical two-door except for stylistic reasons?

Where the old one had more than a passing resemblance to a four-wheeled Dustbuster, the new Coupe looks more like a scaled-down version of the Accord Coupe. 16” alloys are standard on this EX mid-range EX model, and while there’s a lot of faux grille up front, the overall effect is a more aggressive little car. It’s sleek, and just a little bit interesting.

Environment:

Inside, the Civic Coupe’s compromises might outweigh the style benefits for the practically-minded consumer. That cut-down roof certainly shrinks the headroom, and the

mounted to the steering wheel and a optional S-mode for the automatic transmission. It’s no replacement for the manual transmission – which is only available as a 5-speed on base and EX models – but it does provide a little more control over proceedings.

Still, the trunk remains a useable size, and the cabin space for the front passengers is really quite reasonable.

The forward view is just as good as the sedan, although the same cannot be said for the shrunken rear window, which restricts visibility to pillbox levels.

Like all Civics, the Coupe continues its split-level instrumentation, which some love and some hate. Benefits include a high-mounted speedometer that removes the need for a heads-up display, and two colour-changing strips that provide instant feedback on the gas-sipping grade of your driving style.

The bigger news here is the sheer level of available technology at a mid-range level. All Civic Coupes have things like heated seats, Bluetooth, and streaming audio, but the volume-selling mid-range model comes with stuff like a power moonroof, leather-wrapped steering wheel, USB input, and Honda’s HondaLink system for infotainment.

Then there’s stuff like the LaneWatch blind spot display.

Debuting in the Accord sedan, this camera-based system shows a high-resolution view of the right side of the car every time the right indicator is put on, helping to show cyclists or other obstacles lurking in your blind spot. It’s not a substitute for vigilant shoulder-checking or properly setting your mirrors, but it is a handy assist.

Beyond that, the trunk is usefully-sized, though not as gargantuan as that of the Scion tC’s hatchback, and the rear seats fold with a 60/40 split. The cloth seat-covering is grippy and durable, and similar to that found in the Civic Si – it’s very comfortable after several hours of highway travel.

Performance:

Besides that, this is a willing little car that’s a bit let down by its overly light steering. Improvements to the chassis include a new firmed-up rear stabilizer bar, and the CVT does its best to keep the engine in its modest 143hp powerband.

It’s actually quite good, though not quite as much of a driver’s car as all Hondas seemed to be in the heyday of the early 1990s. Having said that, the Civic is easily capable of effortless high-speed highway travel and the light steering removes most elements of fatigue from racking up the miles.

If you want zippy performance, you’re pretty much going to have to skip right up to the Si model, but the standard Civic Coupe does manage to do a good job of re-introducing some of the zip and verve that was missing from the 2012 models.

Features:

As mentioned, the Civic Coupe includes heated seats, Bluetooth, and front USB and auxiliary inputs. Move up to the EX and you get a power moonroof and the HondaLink connectivity which can use your iPhone to provide navigation functions.

It’s all handled through a great-looking touchscreen, though I did find myself wishing for a volume knob. The LaneWatch blind-spot system is nicely high-resolution and points the way for great camera coverage in compact cars.

A new exhaust system gives the Civic Coupe a very mild performance bump. The 1.8L VTEC-equipped four-cylinder engine now makes 143hp, and it makes it fairly high up the rev range.

Fuel economy is better than ever, thanks to the CVT, with official ratings at 6.9L/100kms city and 5.1L/100kms on the highway. More realistically, highway mileage hovers in the high 5s at best.

The major powertrain change is the addition of a CVT as the option for the automatic transmission. Honda claims that their CVT actually improves both acceleration as well as fuel economy, but often these belt-driven transmissions can sap the last vestiges of fun out of any car.

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Not here though. It you’d prefer to shift your own gears, the Civic Coupe comes equipped with paddle-shifters

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Improved styling; nippier handling; excellent on-board tech

Stop Sign:

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): When the path ahead divides in two, Aries, I am hoping you can work some magic that will allow you to take both ways at once. If you do master this riddle, if you can creatively figure out how to split yourself without doing any harm, I have a strong suspicion that the two paths will once again come together no later than August 1, possibly before. But due to a curious quirk in the laws of life, the two forks will never again converge if you follow just one of them now.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): I see you as having more in common with a marathon runner than a speed racer.

Your best qualities tend to emerge when you’re committed to a process that takes a while to unfold. Learning to pace yourself is a crucial life lesson. That’s how you get attuned to your body’s signals and master the art of caring for your physical needs. That’s also how you come to understand that it’s important not to compare yourself constantly to the progress other people are making. Having said all that, Taurus, I want to recommend a temporary exception to the rule. Just for now, it may make sense for you to run fast for a short time.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): If you fling handfuls of zucchini seeds on the ground of a vacant lot today, you shouldn’t expect neat rows of ripe cucumbers to be growing in your backyard in a couple of weeks. Even if you fling zucchini seeds in your backyard today, you shouldn’t expect straight rows of cucumbers to be growing there by June 1.

Let’s get even more precise here. If you carefully plant zucchini seeds in neat rows in your backyard today, you should not expect ripe cucumbers to sprout by August. But here’s the kicker: If you carefully plant cucumbers seeds in your backyard today, and weed them and water them as they grow, you can indeed expect ripe cucumbers by August.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): “If we want the rewards of being loved,” says cartoonist Tim Kreider, “we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.” How are you doing with this trade-off, Cancerian? Being a Crab myself, I know we are sometimes inclined to hide who we really are.

We have mixed feelings about becoming vulnerable and available enough to be fully known by others. We might even choose to live without the love we crave so as to prop up the illusion of strength that comes from being mysterious, from concealing our depths. The coming weeks will be a good time for you to revisit this conundrum.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): There’s a piece of art on the moon: a ceramic disk inscribed with six drawings by noted American artists. It was carried on the landing module of the Apollo 12 mission, which delivered two astronauts to the lunar surface in November 1969. One of the artists, Leo maverick Andy Warhol, drew the image of a stylized penis, similar to what you might see on the wall of a public restroom. “He was being the terrible bad boy,” the project’s organizer said about Warhol’s contribution. You know me, Leo. I usually love playful acts of rebellion. But in the coming weeks, I advise against taking Warhol’s approach. If you’re called on to add your self-expression to a big undertaking, tilt in the direction of sincerity and reverence and dignity.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): The planet we live on is in constant transformation. Nothing ever stays the same. To succeed, let alone survive, we need to acclimate ourselves to the relentless forward motion. “He not busy being born is busy dying,” was Bob Dylan’s way of framing our challenge.

How are you doing with this aspect of life, Virgo? Do you hate it but deal with it grudgingly? Tolerate it and aspire to be a master of it someday? Whatever your current attitude is, I’m here to tell you that in the coming months you could become much more comfortable with the ceaseless flow – and even learn to enjoy it. Are you ready to begin?

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): “It isn’t that I don’t like sweet disorder,” said English author Vita Sackville-West, “but it has to be judiciously arranged.” That’s your theme for the week, Libra. Please respect how precise a formulation this is. Plain old ordinary disorder will not provide you with the epiphanies and breakthroughs you deserve and need. The disorder must be sweet. If it doesn’t make you feel at least a little excited and more in love with life, avoid it. The disorder must also be judiciously arranged. What that means is that it can’t be loud or vulgar or profane. Rather, it must have wit and style and a hint of crazy wisdom.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): I have three sets of questions for you, Scorpio. First, are you anyone’s muse? Is there a person who draws inspiration from the way you live? Here’s my second query: Are you strong medicine for anyone? Are you the source of riddles that confound and intrigue them, compelling them to outgrow their narrow perspectives?

Here’s my third inquiry: Are you anyone’s teacher? Are you an influence that educates someone about the meaning of life? If you do play any of these roles, Scorpio, they are

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PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Author Eva Dane defines writer’s block as what happens “when your imaginary friends stop talking to you.” I suspect that something like this has been happening for you lately, Pisces -- even if you’re not a writer. What I mean is that some of the most reliable and sympathetic voices in your head have grown quiet: ancestors, dear friends who are no longer in your life, ex-lovers you still have feelings for, former teachers who have remained a strong presence in your imagination, animals you once cared for who have departed, and maybe even some good, old-fashioned spirits and angels. Where did they go? What happened to them? I suspect they are merely taking a break. They may have thought it wise to let you fend for yourself for a while. But don’t worry. They will be back soon.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should draw inspiration from this Chinese proverb: “Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.” In other words, Sagittarius, you need extra downtime. So please say NO to any influence that says, “Do it now! Be maniacally efficient! Multitask as if your life depended on it! The more active you are the more successful you will be!” Instead, give yourself ample opportunity to play and daydream and ruminate.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): In Raymond Chandler’s pulp fiction novel Farewell, My Lovely, his main character is detective Philip Marlowe. At one point Marlowe says, “I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.” In accordance with your astrological omens, Capricorn, I’m asking you to figure out how you might be like Marlowe. Are there differences between what you think you need and what you actually have? If so, now is an excellent time to launch initiatives to fix the discrepancies.

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