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Leave it in the ground or our children and grandchildren will fry.

–Larry Colcy

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Beside the fact of disrespecting the idling engine by-laws and severely adding to poor air quality, when I approached an official from the station to express my concerns, I was cut off and, in a very unprofessional defensive attitude, told that their only concern was the “viewing audience”. I have asked the station for an apology to the veterans, the

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I go yearly to the cenotaph Victory Square Remembrance Day ceremony and stand in the same place, just off Dunsmuir Street.

This year the pinheads at Global Television decided to park their on-location truck where, in years past, I would stand and partake in this quite somber ocasison.

Besides taking up prime real estate, the constant noise from running the truck impeded us from hearing the

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Election aftershocks: Hard work and love trump fear and hate David Suzuki Science Matters @DavidSuzuki

Now what? Many people in the United States and around the world are dismayed that a bigoted, misogynistic climate-change denier has been elected to the highest office in what is still the world’s most powerful nation. His party controls the House and Senate, meaning pro-fossilfuel, anti-climate-action representatives who reject overwhelming and alarming scientific evidence will hold the reins. It will be a government firmly in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. But global warming isn’t going to pause for four years. It’s going to accelerate. Do we give up?

No way! Governments move slowly at the best of times. People were filled with hope when Barack Obama became America’s first black president. Sure, there was progress in some areas, but the fossil fuel industry continued to expand as the world got warmer. Here in Canada, after a decade of watching our political representatives backtrack on environmental and climate policies, Canadians elected a party that promised climate leadership.

Despite many progressive and positive initiatives, our

US President-elect Donald Trump. iStock photo government is still encouraging, subsidizing and approving fossil fuel projects and infrastructure.

We can’t count on governments to make the changes we so desperately need. It’s up to us. We must be the change. We have our work cut out for us, but work we must. Perhaps this is even an opportunity, albeit one fraught with great challenges. The election exposed nasty currents in US society, but it also revealed a profound and rising dissatisfaction with the status quo. There’s good reason for that. The gap between rich and poor has grown, globalization and chang-

ing technologies have left many people behind in an outdated economic system, we witness racism daily on social media and television, education standards have declined, traditional media is breaking down, war and violence continue, and the effects of climate change worsen every day.

The answer isn’t to throw more gas on the fire. Many Americans just did that.

Now, it’s up to those of us who believe in a brighter future to bring the fire under control without killing the flame. On the day after the election, the David Suzuki Foundation’s Alaya Boisvert posted, “Let the fire that

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ignites from this madness outshine the darkness that precipitated it.”

Despite Donald Trump’s promises to overturn what progress has been made on environmental and climate policies and initiatives, there’s no stopping the wave already underway. As Foundation Quebec and Atlantic Canada director Karel Mayrand wrote in a blog after election day, renewable energy investments have surpassed fossil fuel investments every year since 2010, and the gap continues to grow; American states and cities are putting a price on carbon, investing in renewable energy and in transit; electric vehicles will achieve price parity with gas vehicles by 2022; and the global movement against climate change is not going to stop.

We can’t be complacent.

We can’t let fear and despair stop us from working to make the world a better place for everyone, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, physical appearance or limitations, country of origin, political leanings, education or social circumstance. And let’s face it; the planet isn’t in trouble, humanity is.

Earth’s natural systems always find balance, but the corrections they make to overcome the damage we’ve caused – from putting too many emissions into the atmosphere to destroying habitat to make way for mining, industry and agriculture – don’t favour our species and the path we’re on.

We have so many possibilities and so much potential.

We have knowledge and amazing technologies. We have ancient wisdom that teaches us how to be a part of this miraculous, complex, interconnected existence.

Most of us want the same things: health, happiness and connection with others.

We mustn’t let fear overcome us. It’s time to stand together to work for justice and human rights, for equity, for liberty, for a cleaner environment, for governments that serve the people rather than corporations – for the values the United States of America was supposedly founded on.

We must listen to each other and promote dialogue rather than debate.

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Norman Zerbes in his Yaletown shop. Grant Lawrence photo

The German Watchmaker keeps Vancouver ticking Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

His shop is tight and tidy, tucked into an unassuming mini-mall in Yaletown. He’s usually bent over his brightly lit desk, working with tiny tools and tinier parts. He has a soft German accent, even though he’s lived in Vancouver half his life. Now in his early fifties, he exudes a natural calmness – a good aura to have when you’re the man who pretty much single-handedly keeps Vancouver ticking. He is Norbert Zerbes, the self-proclaimed German Watchmaker.

“I’ve always been attracted to small things, ever since I was a boy,” Norbert says gently, as he works on a customer’s quartz. He came of age in Transylvania, but his family is from Germany and he considers himself German. “Growing up, I collected butterflies, beetles, moths and dragonflies. I did taxidermy and kept dead squirrels in the freezer – things like that”.

As a young adult, Norbert studied watchmaking at a school in Transylvania before moving to Germany to put his education into practice.

After falling in love with the West Coast on a trip, he relocated to Vancouver to start his business. Don’t be fooled by the name of his shop, though: Norbert doesn’t actually make watches. “The term ‘watchmaker’ goes back to the 1800s,” he explains.

“It simply means to restore or repair watches.”

And that’s just what Norbert has been doing in Vancouver, five days a week, for the past 25 years. He’s also one of the last of his kind. I’ve been taking my various crappy watches to Norbert for years.

“I service a lot of antique watches – pocket watches; vintage watches from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s – but I do modern watches like yours, too,” he says. “Whatever is worth repairing.”

In other words, despite having made an exception

for my Tintin timepiece, don’t bother bringing him that fake Rolex you bought for a couple of American greenbacks in Phuket. But if your Timex needs a new battery, Norbert will help you out.

Occasionally, a customer will show up with an extremely valuable piece. “A bike courier once came in with an 18-karat gold Patek Phillipe that was worth a quarter of a million dollars.”

Despite their staggering value, some watches also come with a serious potential health hazard. “Usually, any watch that is pre-1960 and that glows in the dark is radioactive, still to this day. It’s the luminous paint, and if the paint crumbles, it can be very dangerous. I always make sure I wash my hands and avoid touching my nose or mouth.

You don’t want to ingest it.”

Besides poison, you’d think the ergonomics of watchmaking wouldn’t be great. Norbert spends most of his day hunched over, staring down at parts that are often smaller than a match head and contain hundreds of intricacies. Norbert balances out his sedentary livelihood by tackling the Grouse Grind after work, three nights a week, 52 weeks a year. He’s done the Grind over 3,000 times.

Back at the shop, the smartphone revolution (not to mention the Apple Watch) hasn’t been a distraction.

“I’m busier than ever, likely because there are so few watchmakers, not only here in Vancouver but in North America. It’s a job I love to do, so I’m lucky. I like coming in to work.”

Norbert often listens to Tom Waits while working on a particularly difficult watch – it can sometimes take 10 or 15 tries to get a miniscule screw to catch an even smaller groove. Quoting a lyric in the Waits song “Raised Right Men,” Norbert smiles when he shares the secret to being a watchmaker: “You need the patience of a glacier”.

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Your guide to the BC mountains ROBERT MANGELSDORF @robmangelsdorf

Winter can be a trying time for many here on the Wet Coast. Constant rain, little or no sunshine, and the constant damp cold can make Vancouver a particularly depressing place, for some.

Of course, there are those who seem to actually like – if not love – this time of year.

They’re usually wearing Gore-Tex, drive a Subaru, and seem so damn chipper, despite the never-ending drizzle.

That’s because they know that rain in the city means snow on the mountains.They know that if they want to get their hands on some vitamin D, they have to go above the clouds, to that land of soft white powder, where the sun shines and the air is fresh.

With dozens of world-class ski resorts from within a few minutes to a few hours away – some that are even accessible by public transit – Vancouver is unique amongst major cities on this planet.

This winter, La Niña conditions are expected to bring cold and wet conditions, so that’s means heaps of snow for the local mountains. So get out there and take advantage of what BC has to offer!

CYPRESS MOUNTAIN

Runs: 53 Lifts: 9 (6 chairlifts, 3 surface lifts) Skiable area: 240ha Peak elevation: 1,440m Vertical drop: 610m Annual snowfall: 620cm Night-skiing: Yes; 21 runs Cross-country: 19km (7.5km night-skiing) Cost of a day pass: $73 Best place for après-ski: Crazy Raven Bar & Grill is the one and only place to grab a beer on the mountain (the Hurricane fries are a must!).

Don’t miss: If you’re crosscountry skiing, be sure to check out the newly-refurbished Hollyburn Lodge for live music every Saturday

newly refurbished Garibaldi Lift Company is always a safe bet.

Don’t miss: You’re going to miss something, just accept it.This mountain is so big, you could hit it all season and still find surprises. One day is never, ever enough.

Perfect for: People with time and/or money. Because to do Whistler right, you really need both.

MOUNT WASHINGTON

Clockwise from left: There’s no shortage of spectacular terrain at Whistler-Blackcomb (Whistler-Blackcomb photo). Riding among the snow ghosts at Big White (Big White photo). Grouse Mountain offers incredible views of Vancouver at night (Contributed photo). night starting in January.

Perfect for: Those looking for a big mountain experience close to home.

GROUSE MOUNTAIN

Runs: 26 Lifts: 5 (4 chairlifts, 1 surface lift) Skiable area: 86ha Peak elevation: 1,231m Vertical drop: 344m Annual snowfall: 869cm Night skiing:Yes; 14 runs Cross-country: No Cost of a day pass: $61 Best place for après-ski: Skip the mountaintop options and hit the Queen’s Cross Pub instead (2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver).

Don’t miss: Grouse Mountain is celebrating its 90th season this year with the opening of the Grouse Woods terrain area.

Perfect for: First-timers, locals sneaking out of work early, and boarders with bus passes.

MOUNT SEYMOUR

Runs: 40

Mountain brews Rob Mangelsdorf The Growler

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BC’s mountain resorts have a lot going for them; however, slopeside options for craft beer are often pretty slim.Thankfully, some of the province’s best craft breweries are located just a short drive down the road from your winter destination of choice.

So put in a bit of effort and seek out these superior

breweries. Because life is too short for bad beer.

CUMBERLAND BREWING COMPANY

Located in the historic former mining town of Cumberland at the base of Mount Washington, Cumberland Brewing has been putting out consistently awesome beer since it opened in 2014.

The man behind the beer is the immensely talented Mike Tymchuk, who has some serious craft beer cred;Tymchuk co-founded Calgary’s Wild Rose Brewery and was

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Lifts: 5 (3 chairlifts, 2 surface lifts) Skiable area: 81ha Peak elevation: 1,449m Vertical drop: 330m Annual snowfall: 1,000cm Night-skiing: Yes; 40ha of terrain Cross-country: No Cost of a day pass: $56 Best place for après-ski: If you’re heading back to Vancouver, Seymour’s Pub (720 Old Lillooet Rd., North Vancouver) is as good a place as any to unwind.

Don’t miss: The bus! Seymour now has a shuttle bus running from Rupert SkyTrain Station right to the mountaintop for $8 a pop.

Perfect for: Boarders – with four terrain parks with more than 30 features (all lit for night boarding), Seymour is a jibber’s paradise.

HEMLOCK VALLEY

Runs: 35 Lifts: 4 (3 chairlifts, 1 surface lift) Skiable area: 121ha the former brewmaster at Spinnakers in Victoria.

The brewery itself is a great place to drain a flight, and the pizza, made by Rider’s Pizza across the street and walked over, is the perfect refuel after a long day on the slopes.

You should try: Czech Pilsner.Tymchuk only rolls out this crisp, refreshing winner once a year, so grab a pint while you’re able.

RED COLLAR BREWING

On your way through Kamloops to and from Sun Peaks Resort, make sure you give yourself enough time to

Peak elevation: 1,372m Vertical drop: 397m Annual snowfall: 970cm Night-skiing: Yes; 3 runs (Fridays and Saturdays only) Cross-country: 13km of trails Cost of a day pass: $53.33 Best place for après-ski: the Sasquatch Inn (46001 Lougheed Hwy., Harrison Mills) is a popular biker bar, but don’t worry, the locals don’t bite.

Don’t miss: The homemade beef jerky at the Deroche General Store.

Perfect for: Fraser Valley locals, and families looking for a (relatively) cheap weekend on the mountain.

MANNING PARK

Runs: 34 Lifts: 4 (2 chairlifts, 2 surface lifts) Skiable area: 57ha Peak elevation: 1,789m Vertical drop: 432m Annual snowfall: 546cm Night-skiing: No Cross-country: Yes; 64km of trails stop in at Red Collar and see what owner and brewmaster David Beardsell is up to. As you’ll discover, what he’s up to is making incredible European-inspired beers.

You should try: Black Dog Quad. At 11.7%, this Belgian-style strong ale is sure to warm your bones.

ARROWHEAD BREWING COMPANY

This roadhouse-themed brewery is just down the road from the Panorama ski resort in Invermere, nestled in the shadow of the Rockies. That oh-so-hip stark minimalism of the big city craft brewery doesn’t fly

Cost of a day pass: $55 Best place for après-ski: the quaint Bear’s Den Pub is pretty much your only option.

At least it has a pool table.

Don’t miss: Unwind after a day on the slopes at the Loon Lagoon Rec Centre. For just $5, you can go for a swim, soak in the hot tub or relax in the sauna.

Perfect for: Dry powder and wide open runs all to yourself.

WHISTLERBLACKCOMB

Runs: 200+(!!!)

Lifts: 39 (5 gondolas, 18 chairlifts, 16 surface lifts) Skiable area: 3,300ha Peak elevation: 2,184m Vertical drop: 1,530m Annual snowfall: 1,170cm Night-skiing: No Cross-country: Yes; 32km of trails Cost of a day pass: $278 (twoday pass) Best place for après-ski: There’s no shortage of après options in Whistler, but the out here, and Arrowhead’s tasting room is appropriately unpretentious and lots of kitschy fun, not unlike the beer. The selection runs the gamut from pedestrian lagers to hop-laden double IPAs, and is clearly designed with the locals in mind, no doubt with the aim of turning them into craft beer connoisseurs (which has largely been successful).

There’s no food, but the organic pepperoni will stave off your hunger, for a little while, at least.

You should try: Doc Tegart’s ESB. At 6.5% and 60 IBUs, it’s stronger and hoppier than traditional ex-

Runs: 81 Lifts: 9 (5 chairlifts, 4 surface lifts) Skiable area: 690ha Peak elevation: 1,588m Vertical drop: 505m Annual snowfall: 1,150cm Night-skiing: Yes; 6 runs Cross-country: Yes; 55km of trails Cost of a day pass: $85 Best place for après-ski: The Waverley in Cumberland is legendary for its live music.

Don’t miss: Adrenalin junkies should check out the doubleblack-diamond paradise that is the Outback, off the Boomerang chair.

Perfect for: This mountain has something for everyone, regardless of skill-level.

APEX

Runs: 73 Lifts: 4 (2 chairlifts, 2 surface lifts) Skiable area: 450ha Peak elevation: 2,180m Vertical drop: 605m Annual snowfall: 600cm Night-skiing: Yes (Fridays and Saturdays only) Cross-country:Yes; 56km of trails Cost of a day pass: $78 Best place for après-ski: Without a doubt, the Gunbarrel Saloon – possibly the best ski bar in Canada.

Don’t miss: The fourth annual Brewski on Feb. 18. More than 20 BC craft breweries, cideries and distilleries will be taking part in this tasting event.

Perfect for: Experienced skiers and riders looking for a challenge close to home. tra special bitters, with gobs of tropical fruit and citrus on the nose.

BREWSKI CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL

The fourth annual edition of this craft beer tradition returns to Apex Mountain Resort, Feb. 18. More than 20 craft breweries, cideries and distilleries will be setting up in the infamous Gunbarrel Saloon, one of the best ski bars anywhere.This event sells out every year, so if you’re interested, get on it.

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MOUNTAIN GUIDE BIG WHITE

Runs: 118 Lifts: 15 (1 gondola, 10 chairlifts, 4 surface lifts) Skiable area: 1,147ha Peak elevation: 2,319m Vertical drop: 777m Annual snowfall: 750cm Night-skiing:Yes (Tuesday to Saturday only) Cross-country: Yes; 25km of trails Cost of a day pass: $91 Best place for après-ski: Snowshoe Sam’s is the place to go for live music and a late night.

Don’t miss: Riding among the “snow ghosts” at the top of the Alpine T-bar.

Perfect for: With plenty of activities to entertain nonskiers and -riders, Big White is a great family destination.

SILVER STAR

Runs: 132 Lifts: 11 (6 chairlifts, 5 surface lifts) Skiable area: 1,328ha Peak elevation: 1,915m Vertical drop: 760m Night-skiing: Yes; 4km of lit trails (Fridays, Saturdays only) Cross-country: Yes; 105km of trails Annual snowfall: 700cm Cost of a day pass: $92 Best place for après-ski: 1609 is the bar of choice for craft beer lovers, with nine rotating taps.

Don’t miss: Silver Star’s newest black-diamond run,

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Hurtzwinkle’s Delight, on the mountain’s back side.

Perfect for: Another great family-friendly resort; in fact, it was named Canada’s Best Family Resort by Ski Canada magazine this year.

SUN PEAKS

Runs: 135 Lifts: 12 (6 chairlifts, 6 surface lifts) Skiable area: 1,728ha Peak elevation: 2,152m Vertical drop: 882m Annual snowfall: 600cm Night-skiing: No Cross-country:Yes; 37km Cost of a day pass: $92 Best place for après-ski: Most of the après action centers around the Morrisey’s Public House.

Don’t miss: The Sun Peaks Winter Wine Festival, running Jan. 13-22.

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Ascend the Sea-to-Sky for these three standout restaurants Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday Whistler’s annual food-anddrink festival, Cornucopia, is drawing to a close (it ends Nov. 20), but the resort town is just about to kick into high-octane mode. Despite an unseasonably warm November, winter is indeed coming, which means fuelling yourself après-ski (now more commonly known as happy hour) or later in the day is serious business. Even if you’re not into strapping on skinny pieces of wood and sliding down a mountain, food is always a good incentive to get out into nature. New spaces and faces mean there are more than a few options for the hungry mountain enthusiast in all of us. Here are three spots to help keep the heart and palate warm.

BAR OSO

Araxi has long been the standard-bearer for high-end locavore dining in Whistler.

New sister restaurant Bar Oso takes a more casual, fun and wallet-friendly spin.

This bright wine bar offers

Left: Bar Oso (Brandon Hart photo).

Above: Nita Lake Lodge (Contributed photo). Right: The Salted Vine Kitchen + Bar (Joern Rohde photo).

Spanish-influenced share plates, cheese and charcuterie boards, meat and seafood entrées, and more – all with decided panache, thanks to the playful yet precise ethos of chef Jorge Muñoz Santos. Ajo blanco ($6.50), a chilled almond soup dotted with thinly sliced grapes, is smooth and creamy, delivering a pronounced zing to the taste buds. Pair it with Matane shrimp (a species native to Quebec’s St. Lawrence River) and avocado bocadillo ($8.50), served with a smear of yuzu mayo that takes this classic combo to next-level deliciousness. In the evening, wild scallop crudo ($15.50) and slow-cooked lamb meatballs in a pungent and zesty tomato sauce ($17.50) go well with one of the charcuterie boards.

The beverage program is overseen by bar manager Jason Redmond, who has a healthy fascination with the G&T; he offers it in six iterations, ranging from a cucumber-mint version using local Long Table gin, to a more complex sipper with Tanqueray and Fentimans tonic, with notes of kaffir lime, juniper and citrus. Sit at the bar and watch Iberico ham being slowly sliced off a massive leg (and maybe try some yourself). 150-4222Village Square, 604-962-4540, BarOso.ca

its local focus doesn’t rob it of innovation. A recent visit saw us trying chestnut “cappuccino” made with local chestnuts and whisky-soaked cherries, a lovely wild quail glazed with Lillooet honey over a local-beet purée, and a whisky crème caramel with pecan sandies. Most of the produce comes from Pemberton or the Okanagan, as do the proteins, and the menu changes based on what’s available. 2131 Lake Placid Rd., 1-888-755-6482, NitaLakeLodge.com/Dining

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THE SALTED VINE KITCHEN + BAR

Located just a few minutes outside of the Village, this quiet retreat is home to a small restaurant run by executive chef Dean Hassock.The seasonal menu is simple, but

Taking the Sea-to-Sky up to Whistler is always a fun drive, but don’t forget to stop along the way in the mountain town of Squamish to load up on

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beautiful local fare at the newly opened Salted Vine, a joint venture between Araxi alumni Pat Allan and Jeff Park.

Here, “locally sourced” goes beyond food and straight into the restaurant’s wood, which comes from Raven Timberworks in nearby Paradise Valley. Everything from the wall panels and tables, to the maple boards used for charcuterie are hand-harvested, milled, cut and finished

by Timberworks owner Ian Annett. Annett’s neighbour, Sandra Hutchinson, created the plates that hold standouts like grilled Pacific squid ($17) in gochuchang sauce over a local take on a mirepoix, with zucchini, eggplant, peppers and legumes from a farm in Brackendale. (The crispy

lotus-root chips that sit on top offer nice textural contrast.)

A nice surprise is the cheese soufflé ($14) found in the menu’s ‘Vegetable’ section; topped with frisée and with a lightly-crusted exterior, it’s twice-baked, giving it a slightly denser and cheesier texture. I would make the hour’s drive from Vancouver for this perfect dish alone.Well, that and the beautiful house pickles and charcuterie, as well as the stellar burrata (imported from Italy twice a month) served with local beets, granola and slivers of citrus ($15).

Unlike many share-platefocused restaurants, the portions here are actually designed to be shared by a few people, or could easily be a light main for one. The wine list is well selected and offers great value, while the cocktails from bar manager Dave Warren – like the one he whipped up on the fly using Sheringham gin, a house-made pear-and-fennel shrub, Cointreau, lemon, and a light violet wash – are brilliant. Most cocktails are $12-$14, and all tinctures, shrubs, bitters, etc., are made in-house by Warren.

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Wines that give back Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

BC restaurants employ approximately 170,000 people in over 11,000 establishments that generate $10 billion in sales. It’s a pretty significant industry for our province, with plenty of career opportunities.

Based on the votes collected in Westender’s Best of the City Dining readers poll, excellence within that industry is prized. But honing one’s skills to become a celebrated chef, bartender or sommelier takes time and education – and this, of course, costs money.

Thankfully, scholarships exist for people who wish to further their culinary or drinks education. And you can pitch in by simply having a glass (or bottle) of wine.

Les Dames d’Escoffier is an international organization of professional women in the culinary, wine and hospitality industries.The BC chapter has been going strong for 25 years, awarding scholarships to local women pursuing careers in food and beverage. In 2004, I was granted one of those scholarships to help pay my tuition for the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) diploma program. Last year, Les Dames BC awarded scholarships, valued at over $21,000, to 22 recipients.

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sommelier and a member of Les Dames, is the winemaker for the project, which launched two wines earlier this year.The 2015 Dames White is predominately Pinot Blanc with a touch of Riesling and Gewürztraminer to lift the aromas, while the 2015 Dames Red is based on Merlot (BC’s most planted grape) with help from Syrah.

Both sell for $25-$32 at private wine stores like Marquis Wine Cellars, Liberty Wine Merchants and Legacy Liquor Store.

Okanagan Crush Pad (OCP) is a custom crush facility in Summerland, Okanagan.

Besides making wine under its Haywire and Narrative labels, OCP provides other growers and wineries with the equipment and expertise needed to help them create their own brands.The team have also

established a wine campus where, each year, one selected BC sommelier collaborates with them to craft a new wine.The OCP Okanagan Wine Campus imposes no constraints on the sommeliers.

“We encourage them to create something they’re passionate about,” says OCP owner Christine Coletta.

The sommelier is expected to help sell the limited production of approximately 100 cases. Each year, $5,000 of the proceeds goes to the BC Hospitality Foundation scholarship program for industry professionals pursuing a higher level of wine-education certification.

The OCP’s Wine Campus’s latest release comes from JasonYamasaki, formerly of Chambar and now Group Sommelier at JOEY Restaurant Group. A fan of

BC bubble, he worked with OCP’s sparkling-winemaker Jordan Kubek to produce the jy. 2015 Pinot Noir Ancient Method Sparkling. Made with organically grown fruit from OCP’s new Garnet Valley Ranch vineyard site, it’s creamy and vibrant, with flavours of red berries and brioche, and a modest 11.5 per cent alcohol. “I’m thrilled about the drinkability and crushability,” says a beaming Yamasaki.

Available through OCP for a retail price of $39.90, it’s also listed by the bottle at selected JOEY locations.

Yamasaki’s pairing suggestions from the menu? “Sushi cones or fish tacos.”

The jy. Sparkling represents the sixth project through OCP’s wine campus.There’s still a smattering left of last year’s release from sommelier Mike Bernardo: head to Vij’s or Rangoli to try his 2014 Mike Bernardo Riesling Cabinett, a medium-dry Riesling that pairs perfectly with Vancouver’s favourite Indian cuisine. For the 2016 vintage, Fairmont Pacific Rim wine director Jill Spoor has been working with OCP to make an aromatic white blend.

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We all know how it goes: By whatever means necessary, stress will raise its miserable head – and this time of year, for some reason, sees it popping up more than usual.

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Stress can make anyone feel gloomy and defeated, and all too often it’s something we do to ourselves.

Among the many ways its symptoms manifest, it can make an already overwhelmed and vulnerable digestive system worse, or heighten symptoms of a pre-existing digestive disorder. And because stress can very easily become chronic, it’s of upmost importance

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SPICE GIRLS VS. BACKSTREET BOYS Local musicians take on ’90s pop for a battle of the cover bands. Featuring Ashleigh Ball, Willa, Louise Burns, David Vertesi, JP Maurice and more.

8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Neptoon and TicketFly.com

OFF! LA punk band returns to Vancouver with special guests Lié and Glad Rags. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca

18TH ANNUAL WEST COAST GUITAR NIGHT Acoustic jazz, classical, folk, Brazilian, Flamenco and more from some of western Canada’s best guitarists, including John Gilliat, Rossi Tzonkov, Les Finnigan, Kent Hillman and more.

7:30pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets $29 at TheCultch.com

SEU GEORGE Brazilian singersongwriter performs a special tribute to David Bowie with songs from The Life Aquatic, the film in which his character, Pele dos Santos, sang several Bowie compositions in Portuguese. 7pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $42.50+ at TicketFly.com. All-ages show.

YG American hip-hop artist from Compton brings his “F*** Donald Trump Tour” to town for two shows in one evening, in support of his latest release, Still Brazy. With special guests RJ and Kamaiyah. 6pm at Vogue Theatre.

Tickets $40.50 at TicketFly.com

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Christopher Gaze hosts a program of some of Russia’s best composers – including Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Liadov and Stravinsky – conducted

by William Rowson. 2pm at Orpheum Theatre. Tickets at VancouverSymphony.ca

HANNAH EPPERSON New York City violinist and vocalist plays in support of her debut record, Upsweep. 7pm at Fox Cabaret.

Tickets $12 at TicketFly.com WATERSTRIDER Bay Area musician Nate Salman comes north to play tunes from his debut album, Nowhere Now. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12.50 at Ticketmaster.ca

PORTUGAL. THE MAN American rockers from Wasilla, Alaska, on tour in support of Gloomin + Doomin, with special guest Boone Howard. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $29.50 at Ticketmaster.com

COMEDY BRIAN SCOLARO American actor and comedian – best known for his Comedy Central special and roles on Stacked, Sullivan & Son and Three Sisters – takes to the stage, with opening sets from Chris James and Gavin Matts.

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

THEATRE/DANCE AVENUE Q The musical story of Princeton – a bright-eyed college graduate who arrives in New York City looking for love, work and purpose – is told in part felt, part flesh, as puppets rub shoulders with humans in the multicultural neighbourhood of Avenue Q. 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub. com. Runs until Dec. 31.

EVENTS RECORD CLUB Rain City Chronicles and Here There team up with the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre to focus their evening of storytelling on one of their favourite albums: David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars.

7pm at the Space Centre. Tickets $20 at HereThereStudio.com/

DISCORDER HIP-HOP SHOWCASE The magazine from CiTR presents this showcase of emerging Vancouver-based hip hop, featuring SO Loki, Missy D, R.O.M.I., Something August, Spotty Josif, Freeman Young and more. 8pm at Media Club. Tickets $10 at BrownPaperTickets.com JIM BYRNES AND PAUL PIGAT Byrnes and Pigat join forces to present a tribute to Chuck Berry on his 90th birthday, in a special fundraiser for the renovation of St. James Hall. 7pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $30 at Red Cat, Rufus’ Guitar Shop, Tapestry Music, Highlife and RogueFolk.bc.ca ISLAND PUNK INVASION Vancouver Island punk bands Fu Kon Riots, Awkward A/C, Riffheist, and Lou Danger & the Thrills hit the stage. 8pm at SBC Restaurant.

Cover is $10.

ENCHOR An eclectic choral programme on the theme of ‘Reminiscences’ in a nostalgic exploration of the past, with trust for a hopeful future. 6:30pm at St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church. Tickets $20 at TicketForce.com

COMEDY DANE COOK Stand-up comedian from Boston appears on the Just for Laughs Canadian Comedy Tour with special guests Vinny Fasline and John Campanelli. 6:30pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $65.50 at TicketFly.com

BUCKMAN COE AND KOSTAMAN DUB SQUAD Two of BC’s top reggae acts come together for an evening of interesting and captivating sound, with special guest Drew Temple. 9pm at Eternal Abundance. Tickets $10 at EventBrite.ca. All ages show.

FANTASTIC! BARBARA PRITCHARD Award-winning pianist from Nova Scotia conjures up surreal worlds generated by Canada’s leading composers.

7:30pm at Canadian Music Centre (837 Davie St). Tickets $10+ at the door only. All-ages show.

FESTIVA! Vancouver Chamber Choir – along with Pacifica Singers, Vancouver Youth Choir, Jon Washburn, Carrie Tennant and Kevin Zakresky – sing individually and in combination, with a repertoire featuring Rheinberger, Elgar and others.

7pm at Ryerson United Church.

Tickets $29+ at Ticketmaster.ca.

All-ages show.

BALKAN ROOTS An evening of Balkan music with Stefce Stojkovski and special guests Grupa Dunbarov, Djeram Tamburtiza Band, Zlatna Mountain and David Bilides.

7pm at WISE Hall. Tickets $25 at BrownPaperTickets.com THE 13TH ANNUAL FM PARTY Celebrate CJSF 90.1 FM’s presence on the airwaves with performances from Other Jesus, Mourning Coup, Swim Team, Mu, Hick and Non La. 8pm at the Astoria. Tickets $10 at the door only.

WINTERSLEEP Juno Awardwinning Halifax indie-rockers play tunes from their new album, The Great Detachment, with special guests Fake Palms. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $25 at Ticketmaster.ca

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DIEGO EL CIGALA Flamenco vocalist melds the traditional sounds of his Spanish heritage with the rhythms and melodies of salsa. 7pm at Chan Shun Concert Hall (UBC). Tickets at ChanCentre. com

COMEDY DANE COOK Stand-up comedian from Boston appears on the Just for Laughs Canadian Comedy Tour, with special guests Vinny Fasline and John Campanelli.

6:30pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $65.50 at TicketFly.com

COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE The award-winning improv comedy troupe bring 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. 9pm at Fox Cabaret.

Tickets $7 at the door.

JOHN CULLEN The charismatic comedian brings a variety of life experiences – as a curler, a highschool teacher and a drummer – to his stand-up, with opening sets from James Ball and Kortney Williams. 7pm & 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

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THEATRE/DANCE THE ABC DOUBLE D’S OF BURLESQUE The world premiere of the coffee-table book and full-length theatrical feature of the same name.

April O’Peel, Sparkle Plenty, Scarlet Lux and a host of others perform live. 8pm at the Rio Theatre. Tickets $20 at BrownPaperTickets.com or $25 at the door.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA One of Shakespeare’s more obscure productions comes to life on the Studio 58 stage, telling the story of a Trojan prince who falls for the daughter of a Trojan priest who has defected to the Greek side. 3pm at Studio 58 (Langara College). Tickets at TicketForce. com. Runs until Dec. 4.

GHOSTS Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her husband. Determined to escape the ghosts of her past by telling her son the truth about his father, Helene learns he’s already inherited the legacy of Alving’s dissolute life. 8pm at Jericho Arts Centre. Tickets FormSite.com.

Runs until Nov. 27.

BAKERSFIELD MIST A comedy about discovering art in unexpected places, set in a trailer park in Bakersfield, California, where Maude – totally broke and on the wrong side of 50 – stumbles across a longlost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. Or is it? 2pm & 8pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com.

Runs until Nov. 20.

PUP Toronto punk-rockers play tunes from their second album, The Dream is Over, with special guests Meatwave and Chastity.

8pm at the Cobalt. Tickets $13 at Red Cat and Zulu.

A TRIBE CALLED RED Canadian electronic trio perform their signature mix of instrumental hip-hop, reggae and dubstep with First Nations elements. With special guests OKA and Saul Williams. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $25 at Ticketmaster.ca PETUNIA AND THE VIPERS A weekly residence with Vancouver’s Americana-style roots/country/western swing band, playing two sets every Monday evening with surprise guests. 8pm at WISE Hall Lounge.

Admission by donation.

JACK DANIEL’S NIGHT OF DIXIELAND JAZZ Join Brand Ambassador Gerry Jobe as he guides a private tasting of the most famous Tennessee whiskey in the world, set against the sounds of the Dixieland Jazz Band. 7pm at Blarney Stone.

Tickets $55 at TicketLeader.ca

COMEDY BREWHAHA COMEDY NIGHT An evening of comedy and beer featuring Ivan Decker, Chris Griffin, Steve Letter, Maddy Kelly, Roman Cancini, Joey Commisso, and headliner James Kennedy.

7:30pm at Granville Island Brewing. Cover is $5.

BFF CLUB COMEDY At this bimonthly event, up-and-coming and professional comedians from across Canada take the stage alongside local improv and sketch acts. Hosted by Stefan MacNeil, Jenny Toews and Brad Dorion. 7pm at Yagger’s Downtown. Cover $5.

CHEAP & FUN EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL Now in its 20th year, this four-day festival of visual art, design and crafts features eastside artists who open their studios, inviting visitors inside to showcase their work and processes. Details at CultureCrawl. ca. Runs until Nov. 20.

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FAR OUT Vancouver’s monthly garage-psych night features Colby Morgan, Highland Eyeway, and Thee Magic Circle – plus free Jim Beam for the first 50 people through the door. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $10 at the door only.

JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Irish singer-songwriter on tour in support of his third studio album, We Move, with special guest Allan Rayman. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $32.50 at Ticketmaster.ca

JULY TALK Juno Award-winning alt-rock band from Toronto play in support of their third studio album, Touch, with special guests Adam Baldwin and Mona. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $ 25 at Ticketmaster.ca

RAYGUN COWBOYS Psychobilly rock band from Edmonton plays with hometown favourites Rick Hope & His Evil Doers. 8pm at WISE Hall. Tickets $15 at BPT.me

COMEDY CHRISTMAS QUEEN 3: THE BACHELORETTE EDITION Vancouver TheatreSports League present their annual holiday improv show, in which a bachelorette stars in her own reality TV show, looking for love with Elf on a Shelf, Jack Frost, Scrooge, the Grinch, and even Santa. 7:30pm at the Improv Centre. Tickets at VTSL.com Runs until Dec. 23.

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MUSIC MR. LITTLE JEANS Dreamy electronic-pop project from Norway’s Monica Birkenes, with special guests Trace & Imur. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $18 at TicketFly.com

COMEDY IMPROV X LADIES NIGHT Some of the funniest women in Vancouver take over for an all-women improv comedy show. Stick around to join in on the action in the Long Form Jamboree open mixer. 8pm at Café deux Soleil. Tickets $7 at TheFictionals.com

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VAN DAMSEL Kamloops-based alt-rock quartet play tunes from their self-titled debut album, with special guests Amistad and 45 Spacer. 7pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $12 at Red Cat, Neptoon and TicketFly.com THE WIDDLER AND THELEM Two of dubstep’s greatest innovators team up for a fall tour featuring special guest Damage. 9pm at Red Room Ultra Bar. Tickets $12 at Beat Street, Puff Commercial Drive and MyShowPass.com

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WORLDS OF ENCHANTMENT Favourite Disney stories take to the ice in this action-packed spectacular featuring characters from Cars, Toy Story 3, The Little Mermaid and Frozen. 7pm at Pacific Coliseum.

Tickets $25+ at DisneyOnIce.com.

Runs until Nov. 27.

HANSEL & GRETEL The classic children’s story, set against Engelbert Humperdinck’s dramatic score, with astonishing puppets and playful surprises.

7:30pm at Vancouver Playhouse.

Tickets at VancouverOpera.ca.

Runs until Dec. 11.

MISS SHAKESPEARE The mad mind of Judith Shakespeare explodes in this musical inspired by the Bard’s daughter, whose own creative aspirations come alive as she leads a group of women in the secret, subversive and illegal staging of a play. 8pm at Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets at FirehallArtsCentre.ca. Runs until Nov. 26.

THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS In this infectious comedy, Alex is a perfectionist who holds fast to her Christmas traditions. But in the midst of juggling family, work, and a movie star, she loses control of her holiday plans and her home becomes a disaster.

7:30pm at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Dec. 24.

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Westender is technically catching PUP drummer Zack Mykula at home in Toronto when he answers his phone, but you could make the argument that the percussionist’s full-time quarters are wherever he sets up his kit. Since the spring release of the poppunk band’s second album, The Dream is Over, he’s been bashing out beats in countless venues worldwide.Two days removed from a US tour that wrapped up in Pennsylvania, and just a couple of days from starting up a leg of Canadian dates, Mykula’s return to civilian life is feeling a little weird.

“When you’re on the road for so long, it kind of takes over your life and you forget how to function otherwise,” the musician explains, admitting that despite trying to get some rest and relaxation in TO, he’s actually been spending his brief reprieve working out the details for a hometown show in December. “When you get back from tour – re-adjusting, kind of decompressing – it can result in what

they call post-tour depression.”

PUP are definitely a dedicated pack of road dogs, but judging by their latest record’s opening track, “If This Tour Doesn’t KillYou, I Will,” their day-to-day travels might not always go smoothly. Smarmand-distortion-driven, the song is a psyche-damaged ode to the rigours of spending too much time in a band’s closequartered van. Singer/guitarist Stefan Babcock drives it home with snotty-but-sweet melodies about how another PUP member’s idiosyncrasies make him want to gouge out his eyes with a power drill.

Although delivered tongue-incheek, Mykula notes there’s some truth to the tune.

“You have to co-exist without driving each other nuts. I tell everybody it’s like being in a family, and you’re basically travelling with your siblings.

You know exactly how to piss each other off, but that’s not a power that you should be employing habitually.

“There’s no ritual other than wake up as late as possible and get out in time to get to the show,” he continues, after being pressed about the

Toronto punk-rockers PUP (from left: Steve Sladkowski, Zack Mykula, Stefan Babcock and Nestor Chumak) are road dogging their way through a gruelling tour. Vanessa Heins photo coping mechanisms within the combo.The trick is to just stay the course and give each other space when needed.

Considering PUP are booked well into the new year, the quartet have clearly worked out whatever problems they may have. And when they come together, they have a hell of a good time.This is obvious through

the album’s various highenergy pieces about dead pets (“Sleep in the Heat”), getting caught masturbating (“My Life is Over and I Couldn’t Be Happier”), and drinking too much (“DVP”). Live shows are a blast, too – try searching for a recent video of Babcock crowd-surfing to the back of a club mid-song to grab a shot from the bar.

“They run the gamut from respectfully rowdy, kind of staying in place and playfully shoving each other, to going off the rails completely,” Mykula says of the crowd reaction his band receives. In particular, he praises some punks in London, England, for attempting a reckless double-decker stage dive, but badmouths a fan in Philadel-

phia that was ejected from the venue for getting too disorderly and taking a swing at a security guard.The key, ultimately, is to have fun.

A well-reported element to the PUP story is that the group were faced with the prospect of calling it quits last year when frontman Babcock received news that he had a potentially career-clipping cyst on his vocal cords (The Dream is Over takes its name from what a doctor said to him).

Instead of resting, he opted to run the risk of permanent damage by going out on tour, and somehow his voice came back on its own.

“It was scary, but I think we were more concerned with whether or not Stefan was OK,” Mykula remembers, adding that Babcock has, miraculously, almost completely recovered since then.

Even through the internal squabbles, the monstrous tour schedules, and health issues, PUP are sticking together.

If these things haven’t killed them yet, it’s hard to imagine what will. | PUP play the Cobalt on Monday, Nov. 21. W

Gabrielle Rose’s way Prolific actress on Atom Egoyan, her storied career, and the family business Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

There is a famous Scottish play whose cursed name, it’s said, must never be uttered in a theatre space. It’s a superstition yes, but one that thespians generally adhere to with the utmost respect.

So, it’s remarkable to watch what happens when Gabrielle Rose unwittingly utters the play’s name while in a room that has the capacity to convert into a theatre – in this case, Kitsilano’s Neverland Tea Salon, which has a Murphy Bed-style stage concealed in a sideboard.

“I have to get up, and I’ll knock wood,” exclaims the award-winning actress, after Reel People mentions the hidden stage. Rose dashes out the door, turns around several times, runs back in, slides back into her seat, and speaks a few lines of Shakespeare – all to the astonishment of a couple of tea drinkers at a nearby table.

But Rose – who was born in Kamloops and is a familiar face to local and

national film, television and theatre audiences – has good reason for taking that old theatre superstition (which declares that saying the title Macbeth in a theatre is a bad omen) seriously. Her father, Ian Rose, played Fleance in a particularly fraught production of Mac… – ahem, “the play” – that starred Sir Laurence Olivier in the title role.

“It was infamous because [producer] Lilian Bayliss died two days before it opened, and it was delayed – which is unheard of in the theatrical profession – partly because part of the set fell on Sir Laurence Olivier and broke his arm,” says Rose.

“It was one of those beset productions that cemented the superstition. That’s why I have to twirl. I have it in my blood memory.”

And you could say, as Rose does, that performing is the family business.

Her grandfather, L. Arthur Rose, was a playwright, producer, and Vaudeville artist.

(Incredible fact: “Lambeth Walk,” a song from L. Arthur Rose’s musical Me and My Girl, was used during the Second World War as a secret greeting among members of the Allied war resistance.)

Rose herself is a legend in her own time on the Vancouver screen scene: winner of four Leo Awards (and a nine-time nominee), and recipient of numerous career achievement awards

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from UBCP/ACTRA and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Her lengthy credit list includes dozens of films (The BFG, Two 4 One, The Dick Knost Show, Sisters & Brothers, The Devout) and TV series (Continuum, Dark Angel, Sanctuary, Robson Arms).

This has been a particularly busy year for Rose. She played the title character’s aunt in Maudie, a biopic about Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis that opened the 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival and won the coveted Super Channel People’s Choice Award.

Director Siobhan Devine’s 2015 drama The Birdwatcher (in which Rose plays the estranged biological mother of a dying woman, portrayed by local powerhouse Camille Sullivan) is still scooping up accolades on the festival circuit. She logged roles in Once Upon a Time, The Man in the High Castle, and several television movies, and accepted the Maven Award at Whistler Film Festival’s (WFF) summer event for (according to the press release) “helping to unite strong women in film.”

And at WFF’s 16th edition (which runs Nov. 30-Dec. 4), Rose appears in two films: Hoods, an action fantasy short from emerging filmmaker Maja Aro (Rose plays a bow-and-arrowwielding badass grandma named Robyn Hood), and Grand Unified Theory, the

Veteran film and theatre actress Gabrielle Rose in ‘The Birdwatcher’. Contributed photo sophomore feature film from Vancouver filmmaker David Ray that looks at a family in crisis through the lens of quantum physics.

“I’ve always wanted to act, and I always wanted to do really interesting, challenging, fun roles,” says Rose, who earlier this year appeared in Blackbird Theatre’s The Rivals at the Cultch. “I love making people laugh. I love making people cry.”

Rose fell in love with theatre as a child attending plays in the UK (“My father took me to Regent’s Park to watch Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Puck landed right next to me, and I went, ‘I want to do that’”) and studied the craft at the venerable Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Rose worked steadily in the UK theatre scene for a

decade before returning to Canada to perform on stages across the country. Her first major foray into the screen world came after a spell of unemployment, when her agent called her with the news that a young film director wanted to cast her in his feature. “I went, ‘Okay, what’s his name?’ and my agent said, ‘Adam McGorian.’ So I wrote that down, thinking, ‘Oh, some Scottish fellow’,” says Rose. “And Atom Egoyan phoned me and sent me this script.”

That film was Family Viewing, and it was on that particular set that Rose learned how “to take my theatre [skills] and bring it, because the big problem with theatre is that everything is very displayed, and so I learnt that display was not what film does. Film is

very interior. It takes so little to express anything, and if you’re not honest, then the film rejects you. That was something I learned through Atom.”

Egoyan and Rose would work together again on Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, and on what Rose describes as an iconic film in her career: The Sweet Hereafter, a gripping drama about the aftermath of a deadly school bus crash (Rose played the bus driver). “I hold it extremely dear in my heart, and I am forever grateful to it, and there were certainly moments when filming where I don’t think I’ve ever found that joy again.” | Follow Gabrielle Rose on Twitter @gabriellerose79. Peruse theWhistler Film Festival schedule atWhistlerFilmFestival.com. W

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East Van Panto bikes through Little Red Riding’s hood Holiday comedy classic returns with ‘Pajama Man’ Mark Chavez behind the pen KELSEY KLASSEN @kelseyklassen

Pantos are a funny thing, both literally and figuratively.

They’re politically savvy yet patently ridiculous.They’re freewheeling physical theatre mixed with witty cabaret.

They’re classic storytelling blended with cutaways for cheeky one-liners.

Thus, it takes a particular talent to be able to write a script that respects the Old World source material (in this case, the woodsy and wolf-y plight of Little Red Riding Hood), yet also adds in ripe, biting humour – for an audience of adults and children, no less – while saving room for the goofball musical numbers, traditional call-and-responses and camp of the panto format.

Which is perhaps why Theatre Replacement, producer of the annual East Van Panto (Nov. 23-Dec. 31 at theYork Theatre), calls in the muscle each year to mine for comedy gold in the Brothers Grimm.

Last year saw comedianauthor Charles Demers reworking Hansel and Gretel to ribald effect.This year we have Mark Chavez, one half of internationally renowned comedy duo the Pajama Men, wielding the pen.

With his nimble narrative comedy sketches, Chavez (alongside Pajama Men partner Shenoah Allen) has graced stages in London’s West End and the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as developed scripts for establishments like HBO, BBC and Film 4. Meanwhile the Albuquerque, New Mexico, export also makes a home locally with award-winning

Vancouver improv troupe the Sunday Service for roughly six months of the year.

It’s no wonder Chavez’s name rose to the top for the multi-faceted Panto, which this year stars the likes of Andrew McNee (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Rachel Aberle (Chelsea Hotel).

“It’s just a dream project for a comedian,” says Chavez.

“Because on one side it’s an ‘issue show’.We’re actually attacking and looking at real problems and real issues. But on the other side it’s a kid’s family show, so it can be super ridiculous. And so I love the ridiculousness of it, and being able to take a character and go as far as I want [with it],” he laughs. “At the beginning I would be like, ‘Is this too much?’ [...] And usually what I would get back is, ‘You can go further,’ which is always such a great thing to hear.”

To that end, last year’s Panto poked fun at everything from Vancouver’s coffee shop culture to the infamous transit plebiscite of 2015, to the city’s latent hatred of Stephen Harper as the protagonists waltzed through the wilds of Stanley Park.

This time out, Chavez says that petty East Van “problems” will be examined alongside larger regional pressure points like the Downtown Eastside, as Red makes her hero’s journey along the Adanac bike path from Boundary Road to the Woodward’s Building. (Get it?

Wood-wards?)

And Chavez notes that he has worked in the occasional global talking point. Despite his American origins, however, don’t expect much time spent on Trump.

“We do tackle it a little bit,” he says, the ‘we’ referring to director Anita Rochon and songwriter Veda Hille, who were all heavily involved in shaping the final product.

“But first of all,” he contin-

ues, “Trump was the villain two Pantos ago, and what I said was, ‘He’s just taken over my country; he’s not taking over my panto!’

“I think we’re just exhausted,” he adds, “and I want the audience to come and have a great time and feel like it is a little bit of escapism, and celebrate being in the room with each other.”

Which fits with the model that has made the East Van Panto such a critical and commercial success four years running: it’s a chance to poke fun at the tropes and idiosyncrasies that make East Van tick, while basking in a little bit of holiday cheer.

“That’s the most important thing about the show,”

Chavez explains. “It’s a show that can exist only in the holiday season of 2016 in Vancouver – specifically in East Van – and that’s what makes it so great. Like, it’s not a show that we would just take up and re-tweak and throw over to Baltimore, you know? And I think that really makes it very, very special for the au-

dience. They know that they are part of an ephemeral piece of work that they have one chance to see. […] They have a specific time that they can see and be a part of [it], and then it’s gone.” | EastVan Panto: Little Red Riding Hood runs Nov. 23-Dec. 31 at theYork Theatre (639 Commercial).Tickets from $20; TheCultch.com W

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Most of us experiment with fashion in our teens, but eventually find our style and, thereafter, stick to it. It’s not necessarily age-related – I pity the fool who tells me I’m too old to wear something. It’s more to do with having developed an aesthetic that suits our lifestyle and our overall sensibility – that, and the fact that we don’t have the time or inclination to try on a new fashion persona every week.

I don’t claim to be original when I say I like Audrey Hepburn’s style – capri pants, Breton tops, ballet flats or loafers. I occasionally throw in something a little more fashion-y, but largely, I’m all about safe, classic pieces and a bold lip. So it’s fair to say that I’d usually give Kanye West’s Yeezy brand a wide berth.

His first collections, Season 1 (Fall 2015) and Season 2 (Spring 2016), were almost universally slammed as unwearable and overpriced – so much so that Season 2 never went into production. Mostly monochrome and athleisure/ streetwear inspired, critics highlighted the Spanx-like

Yeezy green camouflage zipup hooded jacket ($928) and military boots ($868). aesthetic and high fashion prices ($4,000 for a coat).

This time, for Season 3, Kanye’s created a comparatively affordable line of unisex streetwear that starts at $308 for a T-shirt.The collection comprises oversized hoodies, tees and jogging bottoms in earthy tones and camo with pops of yellow, orange and red.Yes, we’ve seen it before – it’s reminiscent of the fashion world’s current favourite label, Vetements, for example. But

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This month, British beauty brand Lush – which has its North American headquarters in Vancouver – announced the winners of its 2016 Lush Prize.This £350,000 (CA$590,000) award is split between scientists, researchers, educators, lobbyists and campaigners working toward eradicating animal testing. It’s just one example of the way cruelty-free cosmetics brands continue to be disruptive, 40 years after Anita Roddick founded the Body Shop and changed the beauty industry for good.

EARLY DAYS

Starting out was tough for the Body Shop. “A number of challenges presented themselves, such as managing the first audits, persuading suppliers to change, and reacting to criticism from the industry and media about safety concerns,” says Kate Levine, the brand’s international director of commitment and corporate communications. Originally focused on animal welfare, the Body Shop later became a pioneer with its campaigning on community trade and environmental issues. It also spawned Lush, founded in 1995 by a group of former Body Shop suppliers. It’s now the other major crueltyfree beauty player in highstreet retail.

Left: Stella McCartney fur-free fur coat, US$1,955.

Above: The Iconic Collection: 40 Years of The Body Shop’s best, $149. Right: Matt & Nat Block Pacific Gemini vegan leather backpack, $160.

“BUNNY HUGGERS”

Initially, Lush didn’t position itself as cruelty-free, although animal welfare has always been one of its fundamental beliefs. “Having come out of the Body Shop stable, we didn’t want to be a Mini-Me, so sticking ‘Against Animal Testing’ in the window wasn’t an option,” says Hilary Jones, Lush’s ethical director.

Besides, the brand was creating unfamiliar products – like its now-famous bath bombs and packaging-free solid shampoos – so it had to educate customers. “At what point do people start thinking, ‘Guys, you’re just a load of sandal-wearing bunny huggers’ and stop buying your products?” says Jones.

STILL DISRUPTIVE

Gradually, Lush ‘came out,’ and it’s now a vocal activist and donor to campaigns including animal welfare, freedom of information, Guantanamo Bay and the refugee crisis. “We give

money to people trying to change the world in their own communities, whether they’re taking in injured hedgehogs or trying to address human-rights issues,” says Jones. “We get, ‘Why are you talking about this when you make soap?’ all the time.

My answer is always, ‘We’re human beings, and every human being should have an opinion about how other humans are being treated.’” To preserve its integrity, Lush never monitors how sales are affected by campaigns.

The Body Shop remains active on animal rights, community trade and environmental campaigning; it’s currently focusing on regenerating wildlife corridors so endangered species can reconnect. “Our new commitment, Enrich Not Exploit, is not simply about doing less harm, but about actively working toward a clear destination: a future in which humanity and other life can

flourish on Earth forever,” says Levine. “We believe this is pushing the boundaries of what brands normally do.”

matter what the legislators do because animals are out of the mix,” she explains.

IS THE ANIMAL-TESTING BATTLE WON?

Meanwhile, the fashion industry is decades behind beauty when it comes to being cruelty free and ethical.

“It hasn’t even got over the ‘easy’ hurdles of child labour and whether its manufacturers are behaving in an ethical way, let alone animal testing of dyes, or water pollution,” says Jones. In terms of luxury brands, Stella McCartney is committed to sustainability and responsible sourcing, and it uses no animal products.

At a more affordable level, there’s Montreal’s vegan and sustainable accessories brand, Matt & Nat. But environmental, ethical and animalwelfare issues don’t seem prominent for many mainstream fashion companies.

“Fashion is the secondmost-polluting industry on the planet. It’s responsible

There’s a perception that, thanks to legislation, crueltyfree is the norm for even mainstream beauty brands.

But Jones doesn’t believe this is the case. “The job is not done – not even in Europe, where we’ve got the strongest laws – because we get contradictory pieces of legislation,” she says. That’s why the brand started the Lush Prize, which is now in its fifth year. The Science and Young Researcher Awards are given to those working in all areas of science, not only cosmetics. “We realized we needed to go back to the scientists. If animals are not required and there is an absolute alternative for everything that scientists may want to test, it doesn’t

FIVE FINDS: Where to shop local this holiday season Jennifer Scott A Good Chick to Know

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With November more than half over and retailers in full seasonal swing, getting prepped for Christmas (or whichever holiday you celebrate) is an imminent inevitability. But if you’re already over the mass commercialization – and massive crowds – that define this time of year, consider supporting our city’s small businesses when tackling your gift list.

I’m always eager to support local talents and shops, so one like-minded initiative I’m loving right now isYellow Pages’ Shop the Neighbourhood campaign. Launching next week, it encourages Vancouverites to hit up our independent boutiques not only for the holiday season, but for year-round shopping.

This week, I’m sharing five of my fave small businesses, all of which should be essential visits when you’re checking off

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everyone on your “nice” list.

With gift ideas for everyone from family to friends to that special someone (maybe even a little something for yourself!), your get-it-done-early holiday shopping just got a little easier.

furniture and art, unique décor accessories, and a healthy library of beautiful books, Vancouver Special has a super-stylish find for anyone you’re looking to impress this season. 3612 Main, Shop.

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The Lodge is home to three thriving local businesses: Space Lab, the city’s hottest spot for salvaged, vintage and unique treasures; Bootleg Barbers, hands-down the most popular cut-and-shave destination on the East Side, with a stellar lineup of shaving and hair-care products; and Aubade Coffee, run by one of Vancouver’s premier coffee connoisseurs, where each cup is meticulously prepared. All three offer gift certificates, retail goods and customized services that will appeal to even the hardestto-shop-for in your life. 230 E. Pender, LongwalkLodge.com

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Gift ideas from Front & Co. Dan Toulgoet photo try since 2003, this locally owned boutique is revered internationally for its broad inventory of all things style.

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The playful aesthetic of this little Main Street gem draws in décor addicts by the dozens, and is one of the best-kept secrets among onestop shops. Offering modern

Known for the city’s best fashion consignment and a wide range of décor finds and charming trinkets, Front & Company is one of my first stops for nailing my entire gift list. Whatever your price point, you’re sure to find a fun item to gift to your loved ones – and you’ll likely leave with a few consignment scores for yourself. 3772 Main, FrontAndCompany.com

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With a product lineup that includes décor finds, apothecary and beauty goods, leather wares, lighting, and stellar kids’ items, Nineteen Ten is always on my go-to list.

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ETHICAL FASHION

for keeping millions of garment workers in poverty, and it’s a major contributor to the archaic use of animal products,” says Sica Schmitz, founder of LA multi-brand boutique Bead and Reel.

Her store only stocks pieces that are vegan and sweatshop free, with an emphasis on eco-friendly materials. “I’m very optimistic that vegan and ethical fashion will become the norm. There has been such progress in beauty and food, and I do think that fashion will be next,” she adds.

Hilary Jones is less confident. “The high street is getting worse. We’re getting brands that build their whole business on fast, cheap fashion,” she says.

IS THERE A SOLUTION?

Schmitz says we all need to consume less. “Globally, 80 billion new pieces of clothing are made each year.This is 400 per cent more than even just a few decades ago.

By buying less and investing in quality pieces, all these numbers will go down.”

Jones believes emailing companies and calling them out publicly can also be effective.

“It’s heartening to see crueltyfree bloggers in the fashion and beauty industries – grassroots movements, people taking it upon themselves to push, peer to peer,” she says.

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By Rob Brezsny There is a 97 per cent chance that you will not engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: naked skydiving, tightrope walking between two skyscrapers, getting drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic exploits – although less risky ones – that will require you to summon more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had.

The Onion, my favourite news source, reported that “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sandwiches other than the one currently in their hands.”

You shouldn’t feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I appreciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaveringly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior – as much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.”

I hesitate to deliver the contents of this horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse the information I’m about to present.

So please ignore it unless you can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: Now is a favourable time for greyer truths, wilder leaps of the imagination, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas, and more outlandish stories seasoned with crazy wisdom.

Kavachi is an underwater volcano in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, stingrays and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them to thrive in such an extreme environment?

Scientists don’t know. I’m going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful creatures living near Kavachi. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in circumstances that normal people might find daunting.

By the time he died at the age of 87 in 1983, free-thinker Buckminster Fuller had licenced his inventions to more than 100 companies.

But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary creations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept, but will eventually be ready to embrace.

Does the word “revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months.

As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”

“We all have ghosts inside us, and it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri Hustvedt. The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your personal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists on old stories you thought you had all figured out. The bad news is that they don’t seem to want to shut up.

Also, less than 25 per cent of what they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fantastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation.

In the film Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being reaches out by phone. (His number is 716-776-2323.) A series of conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller-coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt that 716-776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection.

Seventeenth-century British people used the now-obsolete word “firktytoodle.” It meant “cuddling and snuggling accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking, and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to carry out extensive experiments in this activity.

But here’s an interesting question: Will the near future also be a favourable phase for record levels of orgasmic release? The answer: maybe, but if and only if you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself; if and only if you relish the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards, and don’t relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just to your intimate connections, but to everything else in your life as well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination.

Some spiders are both construction workers and artists. The webs they spin are not just strong and functional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.”

These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biologists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider hide, and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you enter the web-building phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate your support system. Be artful as well as practical.

(Thanks to Mother Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.)

Here’s an experiment worth trying: Reach back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In other words, seek out an old, perhaps even partially forgotten influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted your efforts to master it. This is one time when it may make good sense to temporarily resurrect a lost dream. You could energize your future by drawing inspiration from possibilities that might have been but never were.

“Aren’t there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and more skilled at not fuelling the parts of yourself that are better left unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of yourself that should be well-fed.

Feed them with care and artistry!

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Ask Mish: Is my jealousy justified?

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@MyszkaWay I’ve been going out with a man for two years now and he’s great, loving, kind, etc. However, I’m not sure if it’s my gut telling me not to trust him or it’s just my own insecurities. Here’s the problem: My boyfriend is always checking out other women [in my presence]. He’s not exactly subtle – he looks at random women on Facebook, and sexual photos of one woman in particular. Yes, I know this isn’t exactly a crime, but it makes me wonder if we’re on the same page. I have my own fantasies, but I love my boyfriend and I seriously don’t look at anyone else. I feel put off, annoyed, and reminded of a terrible past relationship. Am I dreaming that there is a man out there who doesn’t do this? Maybe I would be OK with it if I didn’t feel disrespected and if he was better at keeping his online stuff on the down-low.

My friend and I had a running joke about my husband’s Instagram activity before I started dating him. All the accounts he followed were cheesy psuedoporn sites like Big Booty Babes or Jiggling Jugs – whatever Instagram could get away with before the morality police shut them down. It’s the kind of harmless “boys will be boys” behaviour that makes you shake your head and laugh.

Straight men will always like to look at women. Can you blame them? We’re beautiful. As my friend, photographer Mandy-Lyn Antoniou, once said, “Women were designed by the artist, and men by the engineer.

A sexy guy elicits a reaction in me similar to seeing a killer fourby-four truck. My body responds to the strength, power and proficiency of the design. Man is pretty impressive, designed to get it done. Seeing a sexy girl, on the other hand, is like seeing a sports car: you can hear it coming from up the block, you crane your neck to see, the body responds to its form, style, how it seems to purr down the

How much is too much when checking out other people? iStock photo road and take curves so effortlessly. Aesthetically, women are all about poetry in motion.”

When you’re out of town, he may jerk off to porn.When a woman on the street smiles at him, he’s probably going to smile back.When his female co-worker asks him to have a drink after work, he might go.These things are not a threat when there is a solid foundation of trust and understanding within the relationship.That’s what the whole thing boils down to.There are no rules except for the rules you create together. Do you trust him to respect these rules? I don’t think you do. If you did, you wouldn’t be writing me.

We all have ridiculous insecurities – it’s called being a human being.

Yours, however, are being propelled by his behaviour. First off, if he’s checking out other women in such an obvious fashion that you notice it, then he needs to work on his tact.

There is nothing wrong with subtly looking at the world around you, and if someone attractive happens to be in view, he doesn’t have to become a blind man. However, he has no form, and it’s pissing you off and making him look like a cartoon.

Now, the Facebook stalking: Random women on the street is nothing compared to this. Facebook stalking requires intent and time.

It’s worse than porn because these people are only a few degrees away.

Porn stars are majestic unicorns – it’s like lusting after a celebrity.

Of course, his particular Facebook habits have left you feeling jealous and insecure; these girls are receiving the attention from your boyfriend that you thought you deserved.

As Suzanne VeggesWhite PhD writes in Psychology Today, jealousy causes a backwards

metamorphosis in which your brain forgets its advanced functioning and your “reptilian brain” kicks in. “In ‘reptilian mode,’ we are ready to engage in fight, flight or freeze responses to danger, and for some individuals, the threat of losing a partner to a rival can catapult them back thousands of years to the reptilian way of processing information,” she explains.The modern version comes out in classics like the “cold shoulder,” or when he asks you to pass him the remote and you whip it directly at his chest.

Despite being the male sex hormone, testosterone is amped up in both males and females when jealousy occurs. In one study, researchers found that females experienced higher levels of emotional jealousy than sexual jealousy. For example, a woman would become far more jealous imagining her mate flirting with a potential suitor than she would imagining him receiving a kiss from someone with whom he had no prior engagement.

This is fight-or-flight mode.You have to confront your boyfriend about his annoying behaviour.Taking revenge by “giving him a taste of his own medicine” will not work.

It’s a stupid “reptilian” tactic.You should sit your boyfriend down and tell him in a calm, stern voice what’s bothering you. If he doesn’t change his ways, cut him loose.

For every woman he eye-fucks, there are that many men you could potentially date. If he isn’t willing to respect the monogamy the two of you agreed upon, I don’t think it’s worth curbing your sanity for a man who would rather fantasize about women on Facebook than be with the one in front of his face. W

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