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WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?

On Monday morning, I did a really stupid thing.

I didn’t listen to my wife, who definitely always knows best, and I let our new dog off the leash to pee. In my defense, the dog is ridiculously small, it was in our partially fenced back yard, and it did encourage her to relieve herself. However,

I had no idea that dogs could run that fast. So a HUGE thank you to Chris, the off-duty fireman, who saw me frantically trying to catch up to the pup as she rocketed down the sidewalk, who offered me a ride in his truck so we could get ahead of her, and gave me a blanket to bundle her back up and bring her home. I couldn’t have

done it without you man, and I would NOT have been allowed to come home without her.

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DEAR JUSTIN TRUDEAU...

Re: “BC breweries battle it out in court,” Jan. 28, 2016.

Just a note. You missed a legal issue in BC that’s not that old.

The brewery in Nelson named Torchlight Brewing was originally known as Beacon Brewing but Lighthouse Brewing in Victoria threatened a lawsuit.

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Melanie Mark has become the first indigenous woman to be elected to the BC legislature after she cruised to victory Tuesday night as the NDP candidate for the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant.

In a byelection race that wasn’t even close, the 40-yearold Mark, whose aboriginal heritage is a mix of Cree, Gitxsan, Nisga’a and Ojibway, collected 5,353 votes for 60 per cent of the popular vote.

Green Party candidate Pete Fry finished with 2,325 votes, or 26 per cent of the vote.

Gavin Dew of the Liberals could only pull 11 per cent of the vote for 994 votes.

“I’m so proud to be here, it’s the most exhilarating journey that I’ve ever been on,” Mark said through tears to a packed room at the Heritage Hall on Main Street, where she was welcomed to the stage by a steady beat of drums from supporters.

While Mark’s win strengthened the NDP’s hold on a riding the party has represented for more than 80 years, the celebration Tuesday was clearly about the history Mark made in becoming the first First Nations’ woman to win a seat in the legislature.

Not, perhaps, since 1949 when Frank Calder of the Nisga’a Nation was elected as the first indigenous person in Canada to a legislature – it also happened to be in BC – has there been such excitement in the aboriginal community

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Melanie Mark thanks supporters following her byelection victory in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant at the Heritage Hall on Main Street. Dan Toulgoet photo about a new voice in Victoria.

The hall was filled with dozens of aboriginal people, many of whom bursting with pride and admiration for what the single mother of two young children achieved for herself and the community.

“It’s huge because the riding has the largest number of indigenous people in the province,” said Scott Clark, executive director of Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement (ALIVE), an organization that works to support vulnerable children and families. “I’m very excited, very proud. Her background is rock solid.We need a strong voice in Victoria to support our children and families, so that’s why I’m here tonight.”

Mark made her heritage a central part of her campaign, elaborating on her family’s history in interviews, newspaper editorials and campaign videos. She used the narrative to show what she overcame as a child growing up in social housing “projects” on the East

Side, where she was exposed to domestic violence and related substance abuse by her parents.

When she was 23, Mark lost her father to a drug overdose in the Downtown Eastside. Her mother,Yvonne, also battled addictions but is 10 years sober and played a part in the campaign.

Those early days, Mark has said, is what made her a fighter, a drive that got her a political science degree from Simon Fraser University and, most recently, work as associate deputy to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, BC’s Representative for Children andYouth.

Tuesday’s byelection was necessary to fill the seat left vacant by former NDP MLA Jenny Kwan, who resigned to run successfully in last fall’s federal election for the vacant MP’s seat in Vancouver-East.

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The rain falls down in cold, cascading sheets against a slate-coloured sky, dousing everything and everyone beneath it. And yet, they’re here, week in, week out, selling the food and drink they make, they bake, they grow, for you, and they’re here all winter long. Behold, the rain-soaked beauty of the Vancouver Winter Farmers Market.

It was my wife who forcibly turned me onto this open-air world of tents and collapsible tables. Attending Queens University in Kingston, her apartment overlooked the historic Springer Market Square, a continuous outdoor market since 1801 (what?!). Later, living in Halifax, she never missed the Saturday morning market, where the entire community would shop, chat, and chew.You can imagine my wife’s excitement when a winter farmers’ market sprouted up right around the corner from our new home here on the Best Coast.

The Vancouver Farmers Market non-profit society (VFM) celebrated its 20th year in 2015.You’re likely familiar with their bustling summer markets under those easy, breezy sunny skies, boasting kiosks filled with colourful and delicious fruits and veggies, in ‘hoods like the West End, Trout Lake, Kitsilano, Main Street Station, Mount Pleasant and Yaletown. What you may not be as aware of, and what

Vancouver Winter Farmers Market employees Laura Gibson and Ron Braunagel with volunteer Ken Kwok. Grant Lawrence photo I desire to draw your taste buds to, is the much tougher gig that is our winter farmers’ markets.

It all started back in 2006 with a monthly indoor winter market in the WISE Hall on Adanac Street. Since then, a regular Saturday winter market has been ongoing for years at Nat Bailey Stadium. According to Roberta LaQuaglia, operations manager for the VFM, “the Nat Bailey winter market has the most vendors at any location in the summer or winter, and has a very loyal following.”

The newest winter farmers’ market is at Hastings Park, every Sunday until May on the PNE grounds, offering what has to be the healthiest food sold in that park.

There is not a mini donut, chilli dog, or churro in sight.

But it’s not all dusky root vegetables, either. “You can find pretty much anything – meat, seafood, baking, crafts, beer, wine, spirits, and food trucks”, says Roberta. “Fresh crops are already starting to show up: sprouts, mush-

rooms, and wild greens.”

When I was recently searching for a cookie at the market, I realized to my surprise that I knew the burly man in the apron behind the baked goods table. It was Laurie Mercer, a former kingpin of the Vancouver alternative music scene, responsible for guiding the careers of such BC punk rock staples as DOA and NoMeansNo through their glory years. Sweet Thea is now the booming baking business of Laurie and his partner and baker Thea Willgress.

“I left the music business because of a deepening disconnect between my love of music and the snake pit that is the music industry,” says Laurie. “What I immediately felt at the markets was a connection with real people. At its best, our music scene had a great sense of community, of shared values, and I found that same spirit and sensibility in many of the market customers, vendors, and organizers. And I love that we can share in the amazing bounty that others bring to us.We eat better than anyone I know!”

Thanks to my wife, slowly, over time, I too have come to appreciate these village square-like gathering places of artisan culture and commerce. The market has not only deepened my appreciation for the people who grow, make, and harvest our food (meeting and chatting with them face to face is a great bonus), but it has also given me a chance to reconnect with neighbours and friends. I think that’s called community. See you at the market. W

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With February freshly upon us, the inevitable air of panic amongst men has begun to set in. As the shops and media remind us on the daily that the countdown to Valentine’s Day is on, the hopes of romance for women are high and the pressure is on for partners to find the perfect gifts to express their love. Rather than resorting to the last-minute standards of chocolates and flowers, I’ve rounded up a few picks for gifts that not only will add some serious style to your Valentine’s life, but also keep that reminder of love going year round.

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Classic Little Kiss sculpture by Kelly Wearstler; available at Peridot Decorative Homeware, 1512 West 14th.

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Available in classic marble or semi-precious materials like rose quartz, these glamorous little lips are a love note that even the most discerning minimalist will appreciate. Inspired by Wearstler’s love for classical sculpture and figurative work, this piece is sure to add a sense of sultry style and elegance to your Valentine’s décor, whether displayed in the bedroom, the coffee table or even the office.

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Heart Mylars by Zoe Pawlak; available at www.zoepawlak.com.

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Receiving art is always a special occasion, and the collection of heart-shaped Mylars that Pawlak has created are ideal tokens of romance. Simplistic and ultimately chic, these pieces are a perfect blend of femininity and modernity; graceful yet abstract, the hearts send a message of love with the use of palette, finish and silhouette. No words required.

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True Grace Moroccan Rose candle; available at Provide Home, 1805 Fir Street. $55 each.

After a month travelling Morocco, I have become especially keen to the importance of scent to an experience. This Moroccan Rose candle, created with natural wax, evokes memories of lavish teahouses and warm environments with its floral and woody undertones. Offering both ambient light and seductive scents (and a 40-hour burn time), this is the perfect gift to set your romantic scene and light her fire.

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Muse Pitcher by Jonathan Adler; available at MINT Interiors, Shop.MintInteriors.ca. $139 each.

In classic Jonathan Adler style, this piece incorporates high-gloss glam with quirky elements. Inspired

by Adler’s love affair with Dali and Misia, the white porcelain pitcher features raised lips on one side and a moustache on the reverse, offering up a kiss from both genders. Whether you’re serving up a Valentine’s breakfast in bed or looking for a vessel to deliver flowers, this pitcher serves functionality with a smile. W

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Let’s skip the expected bouquet of “Valentine’s Special” cut flowers that last only a week (at best) and let’s move toward something that shows a little thought behind the choice. Mayhew Sherwood florist offers a Terrarium Bar in store, allowing you to custom create an air plant terrarium, complete with the vessel, sands and stones, uniquely for your Valentine. Or, if your green thumb is a little lacking, you can also purchase a gift certificate for your beloved to go in and create their own special creation.

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With more than 150 weddings a year under her belt and a decade in the beauty biz, makeup artist Denise Elliott knows a thing or two about

Fraud cheats everyone and comes in all shapes and sizes.

Some fraud is organized and orchestrated by a group of individuals, namely, staged accidents and stolen vehicle rings.

Fraudulent claims take a toll on B.C. drivers

While most B.C. drivers are honest when it comes to making insurance claims, there are a few that are hurting things for the rest of us in the province.

Industry studies estimate that about 10 to 20 per cent of all insurance claims contain an element of fraud or exaggeration. Applying those estimates here means fraud is costing us up to $600 million per year, or more than $100 annually on every auto insurance policy.

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Other types of fraud are less obvious. Fraud like this includes exaggerating the extent of an injury, misrepresenting a previous medical condition or slanting the situation when reporting a claim. It s not unheard of for people to embellish their claim by including vehicle damage unrelated to the crash, or to claim they can t work when they re actually back on the job. These tactics may not make the news, but the costs add up and come out of all of our pockets we all end up paying for those who cheat the system.

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By stepping up efforts to reduce fraudulent and exaggerated claims, along with managing injury claims costs, ICBC is working to take pressure off rising insurance rates.

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The beauty dynamo has brushed and highlighted her way to success, with a team of nine women who help her meet the huge demand for her makeup services.

“My style is pretty much about enhancing your natural beauty. I’m not really a fan of that cakey makeup look,” Elliott says. “That’s my whole approach, is making them look like themselves, but even better.”

To do so, Elliott offers up a few essential beauty tips, including her suggestion to get those brows groomed.

“Shaping your brows really frames your face,” she offers.

Next up – and this one is crucial – she warns, make sure to properly blend that foundation.This critical step, she believes, is one element that is essential to her success as a makeup pro.

“Honestly, it’s all about blending,” she says.

Really watch for the twotone look – where the face is a strikingly different shade than the neck. Pick the right shade at the makeup counter.

Don’t forget to brighten with mascara, which wakes up your eyes, and blush, to get a soft glow.

Along with a ton of bridal and grad work, Elliott also offers makeup parties where she, or her team, come to your house and go through a whole makeup lesson (for day or night).The service is popular with moms who want to offer their daughters an introduction into the world of tasteful makeup application. Along with running through the importance of skincare (make sure to cleanse, tone, and moisturize, Elliott insists), everyone at the party gets a face chart that they can refer to when they apply their makeup on their own at home.

Elliott asks everyone at the party to bring in their current makeup products to see what they are using. She’s uncovered some horrifying surprises: makeup that is 15 years old, lipstick samples of hideous colours, piles and

piles of old stuff that just sits in the bag, wasting space.

The cost of a private lesson is $135, but with parties the price lowers as the number of people rises. So, for a group of six or more, it’s about $75 per person.

For wedding makeup, applications costs $150 for an Elliott team member, and $250 if it is done by Elliott herself.

But there will soon be an easier and thriftier way to access the “Elliott look.”The beauty maven is set to open her own makeup bar in Lower Lonsdale. Called The Studio

by Denise Elliott, the shop will be like the Blo hair bar of makeup, where clients can come in and get gussied up for a party, date, event, or just cause they need a freshen up.

The new bar is expected to open in July and will feature a selection of makeup products, along with the beauty service.

Elliott is still hammering out the details, but expects makeup applications will cost about $60, with additional charges for add-ons such as eyelashes.

Elliott is no stranger to retail; she worked behind various makeup counters at Holt Renfrew before she took the plunge as a full-time freelancer. Her latest plan for expansion is just one more layer to her busy life in the beauty biz. W

DENISE ELLIOTT’S MAKEUP MUST-HAVES 1. Bobbi Brown corrector (for under eyes, help to hide the dark circles) 2. Clé de Peau Beauté concealer 3. Bobbi Brown longwear gel liner 4. Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk foundation 5. Stila Convertible cream blush in Peony 6. Anastasia Beverly Hills brow products 7. L’Oréal voluminous mascara 8. Glo mineral cream glaze lipstick in Chiffon or Laura Mercier lipgloss

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1225 Burrard 604-336-6554 MolliCafe.com Open Monday-Friday, 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 9am-7pm.

It’s a common story. Two young chefs meet during their university gastronomy studies in Mexico, then separate to do stages at El Bulli and El Celler de Can Roca. Then they meet up again while working Pujol, one of Mexico’s most famous restaurants. They then emigrate to Canada, and, after working for a few years at star kitchens like Tableau, Raincity Grill, and Diva at the Met, they decide to open their own little taqueria.

Yeah, completely typical.

It shouldn’t be a surprise then, that the food at Molli Café is as unique and complex as its owners’ culinary backgrounds. Rafael Flores and Berenice Balbuena have opened their little loncheria (lunch café) on Burrard, just

off Davie, in a small, unassuming space that features a few tables, some hightop seating, and a long counter at which to order. The menu is equally tiny, mainly covering some tacos and tortas, but each item boasts big flavours and is monumentally delicious.

Take the lamb soup (only available on Saturdays). This is a classic central Mexican recipe that’s popular for breakfast, and at $4.75 per bowl, it’s a ridiculous bargain. The clean and slightly sour broth (a consommé, really) is made from lamb neck that’s been braised for 12 hours. It’s then filled with chickpeas, avocado, rice, cilantro, onion and lime juice.

Hearty, refreshing, with licks of heat that contrast perfectly with the brightness of the cilantro and lime, it’s a beautiful way to greet the day.

The lamb is also pulled and made into barbacoa tacos (again, only on Saturdays).

All of the tacos are $2.50$2.75 each and are the traditional, hand-held, doubleshelled numbers that places like La Taqueria have made popular. Molli’s tacos are addictive, especially the cochinita pibil with its juicy pulled pork

Clockwise from top left: Rafael Flores and Berenice Balbuena, coowners of Molli Café; Cochinita pibil, frijol con queso and papas con chorizo tacos; Tortilla soup; Pollo tortas. Dan Toulgoet photos (thanks to the achiote-chili marinade), slow-cooked black beans and locally-made fresh cheese.The version with just the cheese and beans is also excellent, suitable for a lighter appetite.

For something with more heft, the tortas ($8.50-$9.50) are revelatory. The Milanese,

with its lightly-breaded beef, havarti and pickled jalapenos, almost beat out the pollo for my favourite torta ever. The latter is a succulent brined and pulled chicken paired with cheddar, avocado, spiced onions, tomato and cilantro.

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Ever wonder what goes on in Rogers Arena when the Canucks aren’t chasing a puck down the ice? Imagine three sommeliers facing off to test their mettle in the art of wine service. Last Monday (Jan. 25) Rogers played host to the Best Sommelier of BC competition. No body checking with ice buckets or smashing into sideboards with wine glasses, this was a much more civilized competition than hockey.

All that went flying were the Champagne corks when the winner was announced.

The competition is an initiative of the Canadian Association of Professional Sommeliers, or CAPS for short.This trade association traces its lineage to the Association de la

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Sommellerie Internationale based in Paris, France. CAPS has chapters in Atlantic Canada, Québec, Ontario, Manitoba and, as of 2014, British Columbia. Establishing a provincial competition was top priority for BC chapter president Michelle Bouffard who believes “it raises awareness of the sommelier profession while helping build a strong community for those working in it.”

JasonYamasaki, sommelier at Chambar Restaurant, triumphed at the inaugural competition just over a year ago and is living proof of Bouffard’s sentiments.This year, rather than compete again, he assumed the role of mentor holding a series of practice sessions leading up to the competition.

“It’s my way of giving back to everything that CAPS has given to me in the last year.”

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Given the horrendous state of the Canadian dollar, I have a feeling you’re all looking for some solid staycation ideas. Might we suggest the Circle Route Ale Trail? Yes? OK. The Ale Trail is the first phase of an inter-agency tourism program designed to boost the profile of North Vancouver Island and Sunshine Coast that includes Nanaimo, the Comox Valley, Powell River and Gibsons. I took time out of my extremely busy schedule to show you exactly what you’ll see while you’re there.You’re welcome.

Though we mostly ignore discussing the beer here, but you can find more in-depth information on all these breweries in the next edition of The Growler, out March 1.

DAY 1: NANAIMO

It’s easy to write Nanaimo off as one sprawling urban dive – what with the dearth of refined cultural spaces, confounding layout and pervasive sense of desperation in the downtown core. But what we all take for granted is just how beautiful the city is. Nanaimo’s worth the visit, if just for the day, and if just for these breweries.

White Sails Brewing Located across from Sutton Park, Nanaimo’s newest brewery is an effective billboard for craft beer for the Lucky-lovin’ locals.

The tasting room is spacious, bright and hip while avoiding pretension. The beers are all sessionable, ap-

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proachable and tasty without overdoing the flavour.

By summer, White Sails will have the introductory craft beer segment nailed.

Longwood Brewery Longwood is one of the most underappreciated breweries in the province.

This is likely due to the fact that it’s in Nanaimo, which is a shame. Several of its beers are interstellar, including (fittingly) the Stoutnik Russian Imperial Stout. The tasting room is modest, and located in an industrial area that takes a bit of effort to get to if you’re prone to laziness, but it’s worth the trek.

DAY 2: COMOX VALLEY

There’s a renaissance happening in the Valley, as young families and professionals flee larger urban areas for a calmer lifestyle and more affordable real estate. The area’s small enough that locals with enough savvy and ambition can mold the area into something sophisticated and funky, but large enough that these concepts will be embraced – which is how three craft breweries are now operating in an area with less than 45,000 people.

30-something mothers are sitting next to a foursome of seniors, one of whom is holding Gladstone’s stout up to the light and saying, “It truly is a revolution,” to which The Growler assumes is referring to the craft beer revolution. But who really knows.

Forbidden Brewing Co. A small, extremely laid back brewery located in ground floor of the Best Western, which makes it easy to miss. The beers are largely West Coast in style, but again, without any of the fuss or muss that tends to dominate tasting rooms in bigger cities. It’s the sort of place that, according to head brewer Nicholas Williams, closes when “people stop coming.”

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ince. They’ve also shaped the town’s entire attitude, not just about beer – though they have turned an entire town of blue-collar, Blueswilling locals on to craft – but about what a small business can be in Powell River, helping to kick off a time of renewal in the area.

A must-see.

DAY 4: GIBSONS

Let’s take a little time to talk about the ferry. You need to take four on this trip, which means a total cost of $251.85 for two people and a car. People complain constantly about BC Ferry fees, but as The Growler was reminded constantly – mainly by Islanders and Coasters who are evidently obligated to address the issue whenever it comes up – BC actually has some of the lowest ferry rates in the world.

Which, OK, whatever.

The real treat, when viewed objectively, is that these four ferry rides are more like miniature cruises – smooth, comfortable passages through some of the most spectacular coastal views on the planet.

Tourists pay thousands of dollars for actual cruises for a glimpse of this stuff, and locals certainly take it for granted.

Cumberland Brewing Co. Cumberland’s a former mining town turned mountain biking haven and mid-Island hipster paradise, peppered with little character homes sold at reasonable prices. The brewery captures and expands on the eclectic, down-home vibes. A dependable, ever-rotating tap list and some of the friendliest people you’re likely to come across.

There’s a Gilmore Girls-y quality to this town, where one gets the sense there’s a single degree of separation between everyone, and everyone’s extraordinarily friendly (and a little peppy), and they’re all apparently aware of your business.

The town’s divided in two parts: Westview, which is more populated and offers mind-blowing views of the Salish Sea; and the historic Townsite – or “the armpit” as one local disingenuously described it. If it’s an armpit, it’s certainly a charming armpit, and something of a time warp.

If you ignore the 2013 model Ford pickups and the marquee outside the Patricia Theatre that reads “Star Wars 3D,” you’ll get a good look of how the area looked in the ‘50s.

Gladstone Brewing Co. The tasting room has a distinct auto garage theme, and is made up of two wooden long tables, enhancing the community feel.

Today, a hippie Millennial is working the bar. A pair of

Townsite Brewing Thanks to a real-life Belgian brewer, Cedric Dauchot (who opened the brewery with his wife Chloe Smith in 2012), Townsite offers the most authentically Belgian brews in the prov-

Persephone Brewing Co. The piece de resistance of the trip. Am I using that correctly? It’s certainly a highlight of BC breweries.

The tasting room itself has all comforts of a family cabin – plus lots of great beer, and crowds of locals who embrace Persephone as if it is, indeed, their very own cabin. It’s a family place with a picnic license, where folks can fill growlers and drink them on site.

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which all sat a written theory exam and blind tasting.The top three scorers went on to compete live as an audience of their peers cheers them on.

The challenges included a simulated service of sparkling wine and wine decantation as well as food and wine pairing, wine list correction and an oral blind tasting.

First-time competitor Sean Nelson of Vij’s made it to the final round and earned the title Best Taster of the Day. But he had stiff competition overall.

As a returning finalist, Shane Taylor, wine director at CinCin noted: “My advantage is that I went through it last year.”This didn’t quell his nerves completely though.

“The live component is the most daunting. Really you are just hoping not to embarrass yourself in front of your peers.”

Taylor’s performance was impressive and he lost by a mere single point. Certainly nothing to be ashamed of.

After deliberating for three and a half hours, the judges awarded the title of Best BC Sommelier 2016 to Alistair Veen of Tap restaurant in South Surrey.Veen can bask in the glory for now but he has his sights set on grander goals. In one year’s time he’ll be competing in not just one but two languages against some of Canada’s most talented sommeliers.That sounds worthy of centre ice. W

Note thatYamasaki is essentially grooming his opponent, as both he and this year’s winner will compete at the national level next year.Yamasaki prefers to think of the winner as his co-representative.

“The camaraderie that I witnessed among the Ontario and Québec teams last year showed that each province was really proud of its own competitors as a whole rather than each going head to head against each other.”

So who will be representing BC withYamasaki next year?

Ten professional sommeliers threw their hat in the ring.

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Liz Santoro brings her dance laboratory to PuSh Fest KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Relative Collider is a performance steeped in science: the dance steps (the walks, skips, jumps and jetés) are studies in thermodynamics, gathering energy and colliding with the audience’s gaze.

The piece can also be considered a machine, with the performers’ bodies reduced to the binary of arms and legs, left foot and right foot, moving through a set of 64 repeating motions.

But, like any machine, the show won’t really do anything unless you turn it on.

“When we were beginning Relative Collider, or, rather, the research for it, [I wondered if it would] be possible for the audience to directly influence the piece, even if what we are doing is a sort of... a written machine,” says choreographer Liz Santoro, speaking by phone from Paris, where she lives when not working out of NewYork. “We had these ideas of creating a machine that gets turned on, like a power button – a switch that the audience creates – so that the piece is actually being created in real time.”

It’s an altogether complex idea – meant to explore what happens to the audience, and the performance, when we pay attention – informed largely

by Santoro’s unconventional background.

In fact, the dancer, who trained at Boston Ballet School and has worked with choreographers such as Alexandra Bachzetsis, Jack Ferver, Philipp Gehmacher, DavidWampach and Ann LivYoung, chose to deviate from her artistic endeavours to study neuroscience at Harvard, where she completed a bachelor’s degree in 2001.

She was ultimately drawn back to dance, but says her in-

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terest in science never waned.

“I have a fantasy to visit the particle [accelerator] in Switzerland,” she laughs. “It’s this sort of metaphor for Relative Collider in the sense that when you put two objects in front of each other – an audience and the performers – […] and you send them at each other at extremely high speeds, when they collide you can sort of see what they’re made up of.”

But how does that translate here?Very precisely, as it turns out.

In the midst of explaining how it works, Santoro stops and decides it might just be easier to email over a dossier that breaks the 45 meticulous minutes of Relative Collider (taking place Feb. 4-6 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre as part of the ongoing PuSh International Performing Arts Festival) down.

The document reads like a graduate thesis statement but, amidst all the charts and diagrams, lies the theory that the piece – through every flexed wrist or lifted heel – offers the opportunity to see and experience an exchange of information, based on the physics of how we give and receive attention.

Santoro calls it the “collision of watching”.

It begins with the performers – Santoro, her partner and collaborator Pierre Godard, and dancers Cynthia Koppe and Stephen Thompson – filing into the pristine, laboratory-white space.

They are neatly and sportily dressed, as if they were out for a walk and decided to pop in for the show.

Godard silently takes his position behind a podium and activates a metronome track on his laptop.

Then, the three remaining dancers start to move, slowly at first, beginning with the feet.

Left, right, left, right.

Right, left, right, right...

As tension mounts, you notice the dancers’ arms are also switched on, moving in patterns based on choreography from Santoro’s Bessie-

nominated 2012 piece, We Do Our Best.

Eventually, their motions become more dramatic, more determined, and the dancers prance and lunge and begin to fill the space around them, as if guided by an unseen rule.

“We wanted to sort of take the machine through its paces in the actual space that we’re in,” says Santoro, “so it’s a bit like pouring water into a container, where the water takes the form of the container it’s in.”

Just when the performers seem to have the footwork down, however – about halfway through the hypnotically contemplative piece – they are forced to switch, to perform the complete reverse of what they have been doing: lefts where there were rights, rights where there were lefts.

“It’s a bit of a... trick? I’m trying to think of a way to not say the word mind-fuck,” she laughs. “Because the arm sequence does not change at all, but the feet do. It’s this thing where […] we’re putting our nervous systems and our capacity [for performance] at risk.”

Meanwhile, in addition to the click of the metronome, Relative Collider unfolds to a live, randomly generated vocal score.The text comes from a program written by Godard (an engineer with his master of natural language processing) that searched through 50,000 books in Project Gutenburg’s digital library to find words and phrases that sync up with the desired beat.

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When Vancouver artist Marisa Pahl wanted to get back to her personal painting practice, she didn’t just pick up her watercolour brushes and start aimlessly inking. Instead, Pahl challenged herself to do 100 paintings in 100 days, based on photos taken by environmental advocates.

Paintings for the project, entitled ThisWild Road, are being publicly auctioned off on Instagram each week, with 50 per cent of the proceeds going to the BC-based environmental organization Pacific Wild.

The paintings, done in Instagram’s instantly recognizable square format, will be exhibited together later this year before going to their buyers.

Pahl kick-started the project on Jan. 1 by inviting a slew of eco-minded locals to submit

On the left, a photo submitted by food writer Erin Ireland to Marisa Pahl’s This Wild Road project. On the right, Pahl’s watercolour painting inspired by it. Instagram/Marisa Pahl photo their photos and stories, and describe one small action they do to help the environment.

These participants range from eco-fashion designer Nicole Bridger to food writer Erin Ireland.

Now, with a month of momentum under her canvas, Pahl is opening it up to the public to take part.

Those interested are asked to submit an Instagram photo of nature with the hashtag #ThisWildRoad and tag @marisapahl in the description.

She’ll then be in touch to find out more about you, and what your one small action is.

For Pahl, her action is all about eliminating plastic.

“When I was doing my undergrad, I studied for a little bit in Queensland in Australia, and I spent some time in some marine research stations,” she recalls. “It’s kind of a weird association I have now: after seeing coral dying covered in plastic, it really kind of makes me gag a little bit. I know it sounds crazy,” she laughs, “but it’s just a really strong reaction I have. Plastic is what it is, I’m fine with it, but when I’m thinking about purchasing it [...] it’s not something that I need.” W x To learn more about the project head toWestender.com.

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WHAT’S ON Th/04 MUSIC JULIA HOLTER Indie singersongwriter and multi-instrumentalist from LA, on tour in support of her latest release, Have You In My Wilderness, with special guest Circuit Des Yeux. 8pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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MODERN SPACE Five-piece Toronto-based rock band play their second Vancouver show in a week in support of their EP, Before Sunrise, with special guest Derrival. 9pm at Media Club. Tickets $12.50+ at LiveNation.com

COMEDY CHRIS JAMES Vancouver comic featured on the CBC radio program LOL, and host of the live talk show, Talk Showcase at Little Mountain Gallery, headlines with opening sets from Kevin Banner and Erica Sigurdson.

8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE RELATIVE COLLIDER A dance performance as pleasurable to contemplate as it is to watch, as longtime collaborators Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard move in time to a metronome, dictated by patterns of numbers and random spoken text cues. 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Tickets at PuShFestival.ca. Runs until Feb. 6.

A NIGHT IN VENICE Considered one of the most beautiful of the Strauss operettas and the only to premiere outside of Vienna, this romantic comedy casts an array of colourful characters with a plot packed full of as many twists and turns as the city of Venice itself. 7:30pm at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

Tickets at Som.Sites.Olt.UBC.ca.

Runs until Feb. 7.

MUSIC YUKON BLONDE Local indie rock darlings take the stage in support of On Blonde, with special guests On an On. 9:30pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $20+ at Red Cat, TicketWeb.ca and LiveNation.com BAIO American electronic musician, and member of Vampire Weekend, on tour in support of his debut solo release, The Names. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $13 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca LOGIC Twenty-five year old rapper out of Baltimore, Maryland appears in support of his sophomore album, The Incredible True Story, with special guest Dizzy Wright. 9pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $30+ at LiveNation.com. All ages show.

CAROLYN MARK Ex-Vinaigrettes front lady and country-punk chanteuse sings songs to tickle your heart and break your funny bone in an intimate evening of original material. 8pm at Skinny Fat Jack’s. Admission by donation.

OLD MAN LUEDECKE Modern day people’s poet, travelling bard and balladeer from Nova Scotia appears with Tim O’Brien in support of their third collaboration, Domestic Eccentric. 8pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $24+ at Red Cat, Highlife, Rufus’ Guitars, Prussin Music and RogueFolk.bc.ca

COMEDY DAMONDE TSCHRITTER Hilarious and unique in his stand-up style, with comedy specials on CTV, CBC, HBO, and Comedy Central, the Canadian comic shares the stage this weekend with Pat

MacDonald and Howie Miller.

8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE CENTURY SONG A wordless chronicle of the ages, with the subject nothing less than the 20th century. The star, powerhouse soprano Neema Bickersteth, uses her voice and body to move us through the decades, sonically exploring the many identities our history connects her to. 8pm at The Cultch.

Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com.

Runs until Feb. 6.

ETERNAL A radical adventure in time, the subject at first appears to be love, but creator Daniel Fish has a wild card up his sleeve, in this cunning piece of avant-garde theatre based on the Charlie Kaufman-penned film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

8pm at Western Front. Tickets at PuShFestival.ca and TicketFly. com. Runs until Feb. 6.

HUFF One of Canada’s rising theatre stars, indigenous writer Cliff Cardinal presents this award-winning show, a raw and darkly comic tale of a First Nations boy who is lost in a torrent of solvent sniffing, sexual abuse and suicide. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre.

Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca.

Runs until Feb. 6.

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS What happens when a young, single man from New Jersey tells his Italian-American family he’s moving to Seattle for a promotion? What follows is a series of schemes imbued with hilarity and tenderness, in an effort to keep Nick around. 8pm at Metro Theatre. Tickets at MetroTheatre. com. Runs until Feb. 6.

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PROPAGANDHI Legendary Winnipeg punk rockers add a second show after a sold-out performance the evening before, with special guests After The Fall and Slip Ons. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $22.50 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

EN VOGUE R&B girl group behind hits like “Free Your Mind” and “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)” come back to Vancouver for the first time in over 25 years, as part of Slow Jam Sundays. 9pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $35+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

MUSICA INTIMA The professional vocal ensemble presents a lively and fun afternoon of music for the entire family with sing-anddance-along pieces, and guest performances from young vocalists and refreshments after the show.

4pm at St. Philip’s Anglican Church.

Tickets $12-$25 at EventBrite.ca

THE TOASTERS America’s longest running ska band from the lower east side of Manhattan, play from their incredible catalogue, with special guests Los Furios and Jesse LeBourdais. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $12 at TicketFly.com

MARK HUMMEL’S HARMONICA BLOWOUT Canadian Pacific Blues Society presents this 25th anniversary show by harmonica greats Little Charlie Baty, Curtis Salgado, Aki Kumar, Big Jon Atkinson, Anson Funderburgh, RW Grigsby, and Wes Starr. 8pm at Rio Theatre. Tickets $40 at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, Highlife, Beat Merchant and RioTheatre.ca

MOTORAMA Revved up rock’n’roll from the garage punk band, with special guests Spring Breaks and Dried Out. 9pm at LanaLou’s.

Tickets $10 at the door only. All ages show.

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Experimental-psych Welsh rockers return to Vancouver with special guest Dead Meadow. 8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

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RICH HOPE AND HIS EVIL DOERS Top shelf, low down and dirty blues rock and soul from an expanded four-piece Evil Doers, as the band plays the finale of the Marpole Curling Club’s annual Bonspiel. 9:30pm at Marpole Curling Club. Open to the public, admission by donation.

COMEDY SNOWED IN Four incredible comedians create one amazing show, each bringing a unique and hilarious take to provide a little something for everyone, featuring Dan Quinn, Paul Myrehaug, Pete Zedlacher, and Craig Campbell.

8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $20+ at TicketFly.com

THEATRE/DANCE FOUR PLAY The 11th season of this popular festival of one-act plays returns with new work from excited writers running in repertory; original pieces from the students of Studio 58 under the tutelage of award-winning playwright Aaron Bushkowsky. 8pm at Studio 58, Langara College.

Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Runs until Feb. 14.

YAMATO: THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN This heart-thumping, athletically charged spectacle of remarkable strength, expertise and unmistakable sound balances the preservation of the traditions of the ancient art of Japanese Taiko drumming, while exploring new possibilities for the majestic instrument. 8pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at TicketsTonight.

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COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improv comedy troupe brings their high-energy commitment to comedy with a little slapstick shtick, carrying the audience through a kaleidoscopic trip where scenes barrel into tangents and stories smash together creating comedy gold. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at the door

THEATRE/DANCE THE (POST) MISTRESS This quirky one-woman cabaret-style show with original music, is the story of Marie-Louise, a postal worker in the fictional Northern Ontario town of Lovely and gossip queen in a place of sealed secrets.

7:30pm at Goldcorp Stage at BMO Centre. Tickets at ArtsClub.com.

Runs until Feb. 28.

CHEAP & FUN DR. SKETCHY’S OCTOPUSSY Part-cabaret, part-art class, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti Art School presents live figure drawing, drinking, and decadence with the fabulous April O’Peel. 6pm at The Emerald. Tickets $12 at DrSketchyVancouver. com or at the door.

TRIVIUM American heavy metal band out of Orlando, Florida, take the stage with special guests Saints of Death and Meridius.

8pm at Venue. Tickets $23 at Red Cat, Neptoon, Zulu, and BPLive.

ElectroStub.com FAMILY DAY CONCERT WITH MARNIE Come join one of Vancouver’s best loved children’s musicians Marnie Grey, with furried friend Mumbu the Monkey and Tula the Kangaroo for an eclectic mix of music for the little ones in your brood.

Free Family Time Gym 10am12noon, and concert at 10:30 am at Jewish Community Centre. Tickets $18-$25 at TicketPeak.com

THEATRE/DANCE BOOM Canada’s own Rick Miller presents “25 years in 100 minutes” in this innovative mixedmedia work. Historical characters and events are weaved together, documentary-style, using archival videos, photography, and spoton impersonations. 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Feb. 13.

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ART ROCK NO5: POPULAR ESOTERIC A series for and inspired by the performers of sounds, visuals and poetics presents an evening with Revered, Joan, Snoozer and Zen Finger. 8pm at The Astoria. Tickets $5 at the door only.

WET Brooklyn indie-rock trio play tunes from their new release, Don’t You, with special guest Kelsey Lu. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $13.50 at Red Cat and LiveNation.com

HOT JAZZ JAM Join the jam on Fat Tuesday for the sounds inspired by New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gras with sizzling live jazz and dancing with Fourth Avenue Five. Masks and beads encouraged! 9:30pm at Backstage Lounge. Tickets $12 at the door.

SUE DECKER Acoustic roots and blues from the slide guitar songstress from Edmonton who performs with special guest Gavin Hodgins.

8pm at Café Deux Soleils. Admission by donation. All ages show.

YOUNG GALAXY Indie-dream pop from Vancouver play tunes from their latest release, Falsework.

8pm at The Imperial. Tickets $15 at Red Cat and TicketFly.com

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KINGS HEAD COMEDY Weekly comedy night features a guest performance from Cheap Smokes, the comedy duo hitting town for the first time, hot off filming an appearance on The Trailer Park Boys. 8pm at Kings Head Pub.

PRIDE & PREJUDICE Relive the charm and wit of one of literature’s most beloved romantic comedies in this elegant and lavish production, as a series of tumultuous events threatens the Bennet sisters’ position in society and their prospects of marriage.

1:30pm & 7:30pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Feb. 28.

THEATRE/DANCE GASTOWN CABARET: MAD LOVE Whether you’ve fallen for someone, for your cat, or even just yourself, the folks at Gastown Cabaret enhance the romance just in time for Valentine’s Day with performances from Scarlet Lux, Vixen Von Flex, April O’Peel, Sparkle Plenty, Sweet Munish and DJ K-Tel with special guest Jordan Daniel. 8pm at Guilt & Co. Admission by suggested donation of $10.

LITTLE ONE Told from the now-adult voices of its two main characters, this story weaves tales of childhood horror and teenage humiliation into a twisted, wryly funny, and ultimately haunting narrative. 7pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre. ca. Runs until Feb. 13.

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SPACE ELEVATOR An evening of experimental jazz from the 19-piece band marking their debut performance under the direction of composer Mike Allen, brining jazz out of the traditional club and into the heart of Mount Pleasant. 7:30pm at Fox Cabaret.

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COMEDY CAMERON ESPOSITO LA comic, actor and writer who Jay Leno famously called “the future of comedy” makes good on promise to get to Vancouver with opening sets from Rhea Butcher and Dino Archie. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $20 at TheComedyMix.com

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Dene lawyer Caleb Behn battles personal and industrial demons in ‘Fractured Land’ Sabrina Furminger Reel People

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A war for the planet is being waged in northeastern British Columbia.

In one corner stands a formidable tag-team: the Province of British Columbia and the oil and gas industry.

The other side is equally impressive: determined, never-say-die environmental activists, many from First Nations communities.

The stakes are high: natural resources; billions of dollars; the sustainability and health of humans, animals, and the environment.

Five years ago, few Canadians were even aware of the existence of this war, so one BC man – Caleb Behn – granted permission to a couple of local filmmakers to train their cameras on his life, and tell the story of the war through his eyes.

Behn is a Dene Nation activist, and, when filming began, a second-year law student.

Behn’s father is a survivor of the residential school system, and vehemently opposed to the oil and gas industry.

His mother works in the industry, striving to change it from within.

Before they’d met Behn, filmmakers Damien Gillis and Fiona Rayher were keen to make a film about hydraulic fracturing. But in Behn, Gillis and Rayher found a charismatic character whose personal fractures mirrored the environmental issues he championed.

“Once we started talking to him and met him in person, we recognized that he was an

eloquent, intelligent young fellow who not only knew a lot about the industry, but was willing to welcome us into his world and introduce us to his family, and would also potentially make an ideal character, and subject, through whose eyes we could examine these issues,” says Gillis.

“As cheesy as it sounds, I saw a leader in the making,” says Rayher in a recent phone interview.

The result of five years of filming is Fractured Land, a feature-length documentary that premiered at last year’s Hot Docs and won the award for Best BC Film at the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival.

It’s perhaps more commonly known as fracking, but no matter what it’s called, hydraulic fracturing is a controversial form of natural gas extraction in which a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals is blasted into shale formations to release methane gas.

Critics of fracking object to the toll the process takes upon the environment, particularly the water supply. There’s also a documented correlation between fracking and earthquakes.

Fracking bans and moratoria exist throughout Canada and countries all over the world – but not in BC, where the multibillion dollar industry contaminates up to 11 billion litres of water per year, the bulk of it on parcels of land that the government has sold to the industry with (according to critics) minimal consultation with First Nations communities.

And so Fractured

Dene lawyer and activist Caleb Behn has devoted his life to fighting the environmentally harmful practices of the oil and gas industry in Northern BC, including the “fracking” method of natural gas extraction used by the Horn River shale gas rig near Fort Nelson. Contributed photos

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Land shines the spotlight on the complex issues swirling around natural gas extraction in BC. Later this month, it will screen as part of Kwantlen Polytechnique’s KDocs Film Festival.

The film has served to make something of a celebrity of Behn, who is now a lawyer and the executive director of Keepers of the Water, an Aboriginal-led organization dedicated to protecting fresh water in the Arctic drainage basin.

This framing of Behn as a hero is reflected in the film’s

official synopsis: “What would it be like to live alongside one of the shapers of human events, in their youth, before they transformed history?... [Behn] may become one of this generation’s great leaders, if he can discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, his community and the world around him, blending modern tools of the law with ancient wisdom.”

Reviewers and festivals make much of the fact that Behn sports a mohawk and tattoos, hunts moose, and wears a business suit. In

the film, he’s introduced to a group he’s about to address as follows: “Anybody who can throw a hatchet and sue you is a force to be reckoned with.”

Today, in addition to his role as executive director of Keepers of the Water, Behn is the lands manager for the West Moberly First Nations, which is one of two nations still opposing the Site C dam project in court.

“I spent a lot of time while I was in law school and afterwards raising awareness, but my true skill set, I think, is actually the work.

The head-to-head, face-toface, technician-to-technician engagement of legislation, on policy, on the technical aspects of given development,” Behn told Reel People in between meetings in Vancouver.

The stakes in this war for the planet are high, says Behn.

“Nowadays, our destructive potential is unparalleled. In the old days, a man wielding an axe could knock down a forest in a few months. Nowadays, a man wielding a modern feller-buncher and skidder can knock down a forest in an afternoon,” says Behn. “Think of all these dynamics, and the law of unintended consequences means that our extractive development is putting us in a very dangerous place.”

In Fractured Land, Behn “was trying to convey that, but not just using science and talking heads and complex graphs showing the mechanisms of developmental toxicity and their implications. It’s got to be a bit more subtle.”

And so Behn shared a lot of himself in Fractured Land. We see him studying; shaving his mohawk; hunting; sitting beside as his father as the elder Behn addresses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

We learn about Behn’s successes and failures; his history of abuse; his infidelities in personal relationships.

Behn says he’s suffered for revealing as much as he did.

“I came into my emotional maturity after 29, and there is a trail of broken hearts behind me,” says Behn.

“My reputation is terrible in certain circles. I suffer lateral violence regularly, and I internalize the shame, and I had to figure a way not to kill myself while the film was coming forward into production.”

Behn is quick to point out that filmmakers honoured him with his film; still, he contends that, as a result of the film, he’s found himself in what he describes as a challenging place. “[That’s] the price of being honest in a world so rife with dishonesty,” says Behn.

“That’s the price of being real in a world of bias, and I’ll pay the price, but I didn’t realize how much it would cost.”

His one regret with the film is that it doesn’t do enough to tease out and convey the correlation between the violation of land and the violation of the vulnerable, especially women and children.

“And I would suffer 10 times the consequences if we could convey that connection in a very meaningful way, because it’s one of the greatest modern injustices,” he says.

Behn has travelled extensively with the film as it screens at festivals, participating in Q&As and learning from audiences. He says he’s learning that people feel disempowered; that people are frustrated; that people, although open to education, have difficulty coming to the table without preconceived notions.

“I’m learning to be humble before the plight that we’re all sharing in,” says Behn.

And somewhere between his work for the planet and his ongoing learning, Behn is working on a book that will ultimately be published by HarperCollins.

The memoir will be an analysis of larger issues using the only things Behn says he has a right to: his story, his thoughts, his analytical capacities, and his experiences.

“I believe this province, and especially the northeast of this province, holds an as yet unexplored lesson of global significance, and I’m trying to use the book as a mechanism to learn from what’s happened in that territory, because it’s a rich history.” W

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If it feels like a long time since you heard from You Say Party, it’s not just your imagination. The Abbotsford-bred band’s most recent album was 2009’s XXXX, which they released back when they were called You Say Party! We Say Die!; drummer Devon Clifford tragically passed away the next year after collapsing on-stage, and the group went on hiatus in 2011.

So what was it that inspired the ensemble to reform and create a self-titled fourth album?

“To totally sound cheesy, it’s the friendships,” answers singer Becky Ninkovic. “It’s the amount of experiences and memories we’ve accumulated through the last 10 years together – almost 12 years as a band.

We’re past friendship – we’re kind of like a family now, at this point.”

Ninkovic is sipping tea on a cozy-looking couch in her New Westminster apartment that’s laden with her young daughter’s toys. She speaks softly, often addressing her answers directly to keyboardist Krista Loewen, who sits beside her. Loewen, who had temporarily quit the band prior to their hiatus, explains, “There’s a certain ease that comes from having that long history. As soon as we got back into the room together, things fell into place.”

Although the band briefly adopted a new lineup with a different drummer, they’ve now settled on a core formation that includes Ninkovic, Loewen, guitarist Derek Adam and

(L-R) You Say Party are Stephen O’Shea, Becky Ninkovic, Krista Loewen and Derek Adam. Tetsuomi Anzai photo bassist Stephen O’Shea.

They have opted not to replace Clifford, and instead use a drum machine.

“We wanted to honour the space that Devon left.

It didn’t feel right when we tried to fill that space,” reflects Ninkovic. “For us to get back into the writing room again, it had to

feel right every step of the way.”

The four-piece worked slowly and without an agenda. One of their first new compositions was “Friend,” an aching lament for Clifford that’s filled with moody synths à la the Cure’s Disintegration and haunting refrains of “I can

see my friend no more / He’s gone for good, he’s gone for sure.”

Ninkovic explains, “That song was written during the months following Devon’s passing. It definitely came from a raw place.”

Eventually, the group had eight new songs, which they recorded in a scatter-

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The results are a big change from the hard-charging dance-punk that they were initially known for. Gone are the explosive rhythms and brashly shouted vocals,

replaced instead by sprawling dreamscapes filled with icy post-punk guitars, swooning synth ambience and soft vocal coos that sit low in the mix.

“Everyone was more concerned with hanging back than standing out,” Loewen says about the understated sound.

But while the album isn’t quite as assertive as past efforts, its restraint is riveting. Opener “112” gradually swells from ominously thrumming bass to a cathartic new wave finale, while “Ignorance” soars with sweetly cinematic melodies and percussive guitar strums taken from the Edge’s playbook, and seven-and-a-half-minute closer “Heading in the Direction of the Rising Sun” closes the album with breathy chants and spooky, gothic drama.

Now that the LP is finished, the future is uncertain for You Say Party. The band members are all busy pursuing new careers, and they have no intention of ever playing live; they will throw release parties in Vancouver and Toronto, which will feature projected visuals and pre-recorded music. They are eager to write new material, but have no immediate plans for where it might lead.

For now, they are basking in the beauty of their new album, which Ninkovic sees as a creative rebirth. “I needed to be able to listen to this album over and over again after we had made it,” she reflects. “And I can – I love that I can put on this album and listen to it and feel moved by it every time.” W

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By Rob Brezsny The Bible’s Book of Exodus tells the story of the time Moses almost met God. “Show me your glory, please,” the prophet says to his deity, who’s hiding.

“You cannot see my face,” God replies, “but I will show you my back parts.” That’s good enough for Moses. He agrees. I hope that you, too, will be satisfied with a tantalizingly partial epiphany, Aries.

I’m pretty sure that if you ask nicely, you can get a glimpse of a splendor that’s as meaningful to you as God was to Moses. It may only be the “back parts,” but that should still stir you and enrich you.

The archaic English word “quaintrelle” refers to a woman who treats her life as a work of art. She is passionate about cultivating beauty and pleasure and wit in everything she is and does. But she’s not a narcissistic socialite. She’s not a snooty slave to elitist notions of style. Her aim is higher and sweeter: to be an impeccable, well-crafted fount of inspiration and blessings. I propose that we resuscitate and tinker with this term, and make it available to you. In 2016, you Tauruses of all genders will be inclined to incorporate elements of the quaintrelle, and you will also be skilled at doing so. If you have not yet dived in to this fun work, start now!

Sufi teacher (and Gemini) Idries Shah offered this teaching: “They say that when Fortune knocks, you should open the door. But why should you make Fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?” Let’s make this your featured meditation, Gemini. If there is anywhere in your life where proverbial doors are shut – either in the world outside of you or the world inside of you – unlock them and open them wide.

Make it easy for Fortune to reach you.

Many Cancerians harbor a chronic ache of melancholy about what they’re missing. The unavailable experience in question could be an adventure they wish they were having or an absent ally they long to be near or a goal they wish they had time to pursue.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that you can harness the chronic ache. In fact, it’s your birthright as a Cancerian to do so. If you summon the willpower to pull yourself up out of the melancholy, you can turn its mild poison into a fuel that drives you to get at least some of what you’ve been missing. Now is a favorable time to do just that.

“To hell with my suffering,” wrote Arthur Rimbaud in his poem “May Banners.” I suggest you make that your mantra for now. Anytime you feel a sour thought impinging on your perceptions, say, “To hell with my suffering.” And then immediately follow it up with an expostulation from another Rimbaud poem, “It’s all too beautiful.” Be ruthless about this, Virgo. If you sense an imminent outbreak of pettiness, or if a critical voice in your head blurts out a curse, or if a pesky ghost nags you, simply say, “To hell with my suffering,” and then, “It’s all too beautiful.” In this way, you can take advantage of the fact that you now have more power over your emotional pain than usual.

The African Association was a 19th-century British group dedicated to exploring West Africa. Its members hoped to remedy Europeans’ ignorance about the area’s geography. In one of the Association’s most ambitious projects, it commissioned an adventurer named Henry Nicholls to discover the origin and to chart the course of the legendary Niger River.

Nicholls and his crew set out by ship in their quest, traveling north up a river that emptied into the Gulf of Guinea. They didn’t realize, and never figured out, that they were already on the Niger River. I’m wondering if there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Scorpio. You may be looking for something that you have already found.

Richard P. Feynman was a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1965 for his pioneering work in quantum electrodynamics. He also played the bongo drums and was a competent artist. But excessive pride was not a problem for him. “I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb,” he testified.

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.” I suggest you adopt him as your role model for the next two weeks, Sagittarius. All of us need periodic reminders that we’ve got a lot to learn, and this is your time. Be extra vigilant in protecting yourself from your own misinformation and misdirection.

Food connoisseur Anthony Bourdain has a TV show that enables him to travel the globe indulging in his love of exotic cuisine. He takes his sensual delights seriously. In Charleston, South Carolina, he was ecstatic to experience the flavorful bliss of soft-shell crab with lemon pasta and shaved bottarga. “Frankly,” he told his dining companion, “I’d slit my best friend’s throat for this.” Bourdain was exaggerating for comic effect, but I’m concerned you may actually feel that strongly about the gratifications that are almost within your grasp. I have no problem with you getting superintense in pursuit of your enjoyment. But please stop short of taking extreme measures. You know why.

You may sometimes be drawn to people or places or ideas long before they can give you their gifts. Although you sense their potential value, you might have to ripen before you’ll be ready to receive their full bounty.

Here’s how author Elias Canetti expressed it: “There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation.” I foresee a comparable transition happening for you, Aquarius.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is eight stories high, including its belfry, and tilts sideways at a four-degree angle. When builders started construction back in 1173, they laid a weak foundation in unstable soil, and the building has never stood straight since then. And yet it is the most lucrative tourist attraction in the city of Pisa, and one of the top ten in Italy. Its flaw is the source of its fame and glory. What’s the equivalent in your world, Pisces? Now is a favorable time to take new or extra advantage of something you consider imperfect or blemished.

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I heard about this thing called scrotal inflation, and it seems insane. What do you think and why are we so obsessed with messing with our genitals?

–Going Saline There is no eloquent way to talk about balls.

You either say “scrotum” or use all the slang terms, which become vulgar when attached to the image of testicles. I’m not into balls, or even talking about them.

It’s a rare four per cent who are ball freaks. Balls are cargo.

I once dated a guy who knew a guy who had massive balls. Real huge, low hanging balls that most people would wince at.

Some chicks were deeply into it, though. He made his way through Craigslist, escorting his giant balls to all the scrotum fetishists in his city. Why not get paid to have some manicured lady hand go wild on your sack?

So, why is scrotal inflation becoming increasingly popular? Scrotal inflation (or infusion) is process where someone takes a needle and injects a saline solution into their testicles to temporarily inflate them, giving that full, plump look.

Some cases reported that men have injected up to

Mish Way wants you to think long and hard before injecting anything into your penis.

900mL into their balls, and the result is that your scrotum looks like a big, red water balloon. Apparently, the fluid is absorbed by the body and the scrotum will go back to its original size in a few days. However, this process can be painful, especially if things are not deflating as quickly as they should. Furthermore, this weird process can cause permanent infertility (if you accidentally inject the solution into your actual testicle) or “scrotal emphysema” (this is when air gets trapped in the tissue beneath the skin – you’ll hear a cracking sound like your balls have become bubble wrap and you’ll hot-step it to the emergency room). Of course, there’s always the risk of gangrene or embolisms.

Any fetish that involves a needle comes with high risk and scrotal inflation is no different. I just do not get this. Who is this into balls?

Who is this into their own balls? Have we gone so fully demented and bored that this how some people have

to express their individuality? Does it feel good? I wish I had an answer for you.

I know this guy who used to be a famous porn performer. He left the industry after a few dangerous episodes of priapism. The guy was under intense pressure and when Cialis and Viagra no longer worked, he started using a designer injection to give himself an instant boner before scenes. During one painful episode of priapism, he could not go to the doctor and had to take care of the problem himself. This meant, instead of having a medical professional numb you, and drain the blood from your penis, he had to sit alone in his house and flick the needle.

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How will the next chapter of your story unfold? I suspect there are two possible scenarios. In one version, the abundance of choices overwhelms you.

You get bogged down in an exciting but debilitating muddle, and become frazzled, frenetic, and overwrought. In the other possible scenario, you navigate your way through the lavish freedom with finesse. Your intuition reveals exactly how to make good use of the fertile contradictions. You’re crafty, adaptable, and effective. So which way will you go?

How will the tale unfold? I think it’s completely up to you. Blind fate will have little to do with it. For best results, all you have to do is stay in close touch with the shining vision of what you really want.

“I like people who unbalance me,” says Irish writer Colum McCann. Normally I wouldn’t dream of encouraging you to make the same declaration, Libra.

My instinct is to help you do everything necessary to maintain harmony. But now is one of those rare times when you can thrive on what happens when you become a bit tilted or uneven or irregular. That’s because the influences that unbalance you will be the same influences that tickle your fancy and charge your batteries and ring your bell and sizzle your bacon.

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CHINESE NEW YEAR YEAR OF THE MONKEY Prices Effective February 4 to 10, 2016.

100% BC Owned and Operated PRODUCE

MEAT California Organic Fancy Sweet Meyer Lemons

California Blue Jay Stem and Leaf Satsuma Oranges

Organic Chicken Stir Fry Meat

1.81kg package

2.98lb/ 6.57kg

7.99lb/ 17.61kg

9.98

California Broccoli Crowns

California Cauliflower

Hot Price!

1.98lb/ 4.37kg

Siwin Dumplings and Pot Stickers

340g

454-500g

assorted varieties

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Lundberg Organic Rice

assorted sizes product of BC

32% 2.29 9.99

Thai Kitchen Sauces, Noodles and Coconut Milk

32%

SAVE

31%

SAVE

While quantities last. Not all items available at all stores. We reserve the right to correct printing errors.

250-500g product of New Zealand

3/3.99

26%

3.69

WELLNESS Essential Silver Premium Ionic Silver Liquids, Gels or SilverMed Assorted Sizes and Varieties

20% off

Regular Retail Price

Sealicious Omega-3 Fish Oil

Platinum Naturals Mulitvitamins

Assorted Sizes and Varieties

Assorted Sizes and Varieties

Regular Retail Price

package of 2

2.99

2L • product of Canada

BAKERY xxx

xxx • product of xxx

assorted sizes product of Switzerland

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2/5.50

4.29

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

GLUTEN FREE

assorted varieties

30% 15.99 27.99

Pur Gum

18 bags product of USA

Dairyland Trutaste Lactose Free Milk

UP TO

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25% off

27%

assorted varieties

product of USA

29.99 500ml

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Wedderspoon Manuka Honey

156g

Prairie Naturals Liquid B Complex, or Magnesium Solution

assorted varieties

28% 6.49

assorted varieties

6/5.40

Stash Organic Tea

product of BC

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3.99 - 4.99

UP TO

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400g • product of BC

Vegetarian Spring Rolls

assorted sizes product of USA

31% 2.49 - 5.69

assorted varieties

assorted varieties

1.791.99/100g

2.88

assorted varieties

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Olympic Yogurt

31% 10.99

31%

UP TO

36%

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Kikkoman Sauces, Soup Mix and Bread Crumbs

3/2.88 3/6.88

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Salt Spring Organic Fair Trade Coffee

900ml • +deposit +eco fee product of Canada

Vegan

assorted varieties assorted sizes • product of Canada

2.29 - 2.99

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6.49 - 8.79

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assorted sizes • product of USA

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907g • product of USA

UP TO

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assorted varieties 198 - 227g product of USA

assorted varieties

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Miracle Noodle Shirataki Pasta and Rice

( Brown, Basmati, Jasmine & Sushi )

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UP TO

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34%

4.99lb/ 11.00kg

Ocean Wise Shrimp 31/40

GROCERY

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Pork Stir Fry Meat

Maple Hill Organic Extra Large Eggs

Organic Sourdough Bread Levain Style sliced or unsliced

1 dozen • product of BC

530g

4.99

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21%

5.49

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As Choices continues to grow, our team is looking to fill key management roles at all of our Vancouver locations. We are looking for individuals who share our vision of sustainability, healthy living and supporting local growers and communities. If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@choicesmarkets.com or visit our website: choicesmarkets.com.

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