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Chasms in the heavens, ice-caps warmed to slush, seagulls choked with Lego, island nations submerged like sandcastles amid gyre-galaxies of swirling plastic trash.

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Re:“Lessons from the longest paternity leave ever,” March 30, 2017 @5kids1condo: Going to rant a bit on this article, bear with me. […]

Everything is OK until the last paragraph. Don’t like the devaluing of one job (work) vs another (childrearing) implied by “work is actually the break.”

That’s not a productive comparison when the ideal for most partners is an equal mix of work and kids for both people. It also perpetuates the stereotype of “men don’t get how hard being a parent is!” – which scares more men off from parenting than encourages them.

Personally, I find parenting

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Broken wellheads vomit black over wetlands, polar bears amble on sidewalks.

Cyclones bigger than any Wizard can fix whirl us up and out of Oz. We can’t turn our heads away fast enough so we bury them instead.

empowering and rewarding. I don’t have time for the well-worn “frazzled dad” cliché.The dads I know are capable, strong, involved and, if anything, would prefer to spend even more time with their kids, versus at work. Unfortunately, full-time work is still a necessity for dads – and many moms – these days. But let’s not say one is easier than the other. If you’ve ever read Josh Levs’ book, All In, you know the concepts of female gatekeeping and male privilege, in the context of parenting/work. Statements like “work is the break” feed into this destructive “who has it harder?” competitive narrative that disadvantages both sexes.

“Any time from now,” they say the missiles will fly.

Satellite and naval missile defences on Watchcon-2.

Next level, war. Wipe out “Imperialist and Puppet Traitors” and the rest of us in between.

Bellicose threats whiz through time zones, foam up in our dreams in a million mushroom clouds.

But today, my son went to school.

It was pizza day, bowling day, no-excuse words spelling day.

Front page news: a colour photo of an earthquake drill.

The children smile. The Premier poses, one manicured pre-electoral hand pointing out toward a future just beyond oblivion.

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A farewell to (Dover) Arms SARAH RIPPLINGER @sarahripplinger

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The problem with 4/20 Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

Maybe it’s what everybody is smoking, but there seems to be a lot of confusion around Vancouver’s largest contraband cannabis festival, otherwise known as 4/20.

There are still some folks in this town who don’t even know what it is, or what it means, or the plume of its legacy. Even stoners! I recently spoke to a couple of clearly baked potatoes at the 7-11 Doritos display.They were stunned to learn that the marijuana prohibition protest event began way back in 1995, on the steps of Vancouver Art Gallery: “What? Dude! I was like one years old then!”

Will you be attending 4/20 this year?

“Fuck, yeah!”

The annual marijuana smoke-in takes place on April 20, because it’s the 20th day of the fourth month, a tip of the rastacap to the ageold belief that chronic pot smokers toke up every day at around 4:20pm. Sure enough, for more than 20 years, the air over Georgia and Hornby Streets was thicker than a

London fog and reeked like an angry skunk at roughly 4:20pm. By roughly 5:20pm, the dollar pizza joints down on Pender Street were doing a ripping trade.

Last year, due to the event’s ever-billowing size and popularity, and the simultaneous art gallery renovations, organizers relocated Canada’s biggest community bong hit to Sunset Beach in the heart of the West End. This sparked reefer madness of a different kind for local residents, many of whom complained of the noise, air quality, trash, and, uh, well, 25,000-plus people lighting doobies all at once.

Therein lies the inherent irony with 4/20. Most Canadians are tolerant and accepting of marijuana. Quite frankly, most of us don’t really care if you smoke pot.We can even mostly agree that it’s taken far too long to legalize it. But the taxes imposed on legal pot will probably be higher than Justin Trudeau at a dinner party, and legalization is coming, so don’t piss us off!

When 25,000 potheads show up without a legal permit for their green day at the beach, citing their fundamental freedom of assembly and protest, it forces the city to be accommodat-

ing, to the tune of about 150K. (I’m not sure where, in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it says it’s cool for 200-ish ganjapreneurs to set up retail booths, or for attendees to break the no-smoking bylaw en masse, but whatever, man!)

As recently as last week, Vancouver city councilor Adriane Carr gamely attempted to put forward a motion to weed out a new location for the fried festivities, but when organizers huffed and puffed that they were going ahead with the Sunset Beach location no matter what, the motion was changed to focus on 2018 and beyond. Included was suggesting the possible new location of the PNE, conveniently located as far away from Sunset Beach as possible. At the PNE, the city could probably find a strip of unused concrete between a derelict barn and a drained swamp that might work.

Look, if 4/20 is your Chronic Christmas, I don’t want to bogart your joint, but let me lay it on the line for you: the celebration has become a harsh toke, and quite frankly has begun to do more harm than good for the marijuana cause. Inhale that, Mary Jane. W

Live bands, marriages, sporting events and neighbourhood gatherings; you name it, the Dover Arms Pub has likely seen it since first welcoming residents into its West End location in the mid-1970s. Now, with a closing date set for April 23, the pub’s soon-to-be-empty retail space is raising questions about how to forge a sustainable future for the area.

“It’s really sad because a lot of customers have been coming here for 30 to 40 years,” said Dover Arms general manager Tristan Vanin, who has worked at the Denman Street location (between Barclay and Nelson streets) for 12 years. “[The customers] treat it like it’s their first home, never mind their second.”

Vanin said a dramatic jump in the pub’s lease rate, which comes due this month, is the main reason the iconic West End institution has decided to shut its doors, and lease rates are likely one of a few obstacles keeping other business out of the area.

“The rent keeps going up,” said Vanin. “We can’t make it work anymore because it’s not economical.”

Vacancy rates along Denman Street have ranged from roughly nine to 12 percent over the past three years or more, with few indicators of a coming shift in this trend.

The loss of Dover Arms and other small independent businesses, such as West Valley Market, “signals that we’re having a rental affordability crisis” in the West End, said Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert.

“It’s affecting our local shops in a much bigger way, and I worry this will start hitting a whole lot of small business owners in the months ahead.”

Changing that tune will, in a large part, come down

The closing of Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhood pub could signal the need for a Gastown-style revitalization initiative in the West End. Dan Toulgoet photo to decisions being made by commercial property owners, said Stephen Regan, executive director with the West End BIA. “We have this great historic neighbourhood that needs maybe some coordinated action … to help it thrive and survive,” he said.

Regan pointed to Gastown as an example of a neighbourhood that underwent a successful revitalization, and how input from property owners likely contributed to its vision and direction.

Recent bylaws prohibit developing mixed-use buildings along the stretch of Denman Street where Dover Arms currently sits. Enacted with the West End Community Plan, which was approved by the City of Vancouver in November 2013, the bylaws bring with them both challenges and opportunities for the neighbourhood.

“There’s an opportunity to have a conversation with the City” of Vancouver about what can be done in the present while some

properties lay vacant, said Regan, such as facade improvements, public realm treatments, improved bus service and other initiatives that could enhance the attractiveness of the neighbhourhood to business owners.

Regan said there are other considerations to take into account, as well, such as getting the right mix of businesses for the area and taking a measured and strategic approach to development.

Grow too fast, he said, and the result could be another spike in rental rates.

While the rent might be too high in their current location, Vanin said the Dover Arms Pub hasn’t completely given up on finding a new home on Denman. They’re looking at options to relocate to a smaller property “if we can find something that makes sense.” If not, he and 10-12 other staff at the pub, some of whom have been there for 20-some years, could be looking for work elsewhere. W

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Healing from pregnancy loss A local entrepreneur is giving women and men tools to cope with losing a child SARAH RIPPLINGER @sarahripplinger

Jailene Romero Montoya was past her due date. At 41 weeks pregnant, Montoya’s amniotic fluid was getting low and doctors decided to induce labour. However, when the now 32-year-old Maple Ridge resident returned to the hospital the next morning, her baby girl’s heartbeat was absent.

“At the time, my husband and I were in utter disbelief,” she recalled of the tragic moment when they found out that they’d lost little Valencia in September of last year.

“One of the hardest things that we dealt with was my husband having to tell our family that our daughter had passed,” she said. “It was such a different day than we’d expected.”

Approximately 3,000 Canadian women experienced a stillbirth in 2013, according to Statistics Canada, and around one in five pregnancies end in a miscarriage in North America.

The prevalence of pregnancy loss and the devastating effect it can have on women, men and families were some of the reasons why Vancouver resident Kimberlee Klein launched a YouTube series called The Unforgotten Ones.

“I was seeing a lot of people suffering and dealing with mental health issues and depression from pregnancy loss,” said Klein. “There are an overwhelming number of stories out there not being told.”

Klein invites women and men who have experienced pregnancy loss into her home where they share their stories on camera in short talk show-style segments.

(The episode with Montoya and her husband, Dave, is scheduled for sometime in April.) Klein also interviews experts and shares information about tools that can help people who have experienced pregnancy loss along their journey towards healing.

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“There’s not a lot of emotional support for women who are going through these experiences,” she said. “Most often the biggest problem I see [with clients] is they

don’t recognize themselves as a mother, or they were not allowed to grieve.”

Not coming to terms with the trauma associated with pregnancy loss, which includes abortions, can lead to feelings of despair, Csapo added. People can retreat into themselves and avoid others.

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pregnancy loss, share their personal stories and gain insights into healing techniques.

Because the videos are free and accessible online, they are also easy to share with friends and family members.

“It means a lot that there are people who didn’t know me personally who are willing to listen about my daughter,” said Montoya. “It really validates her life.”

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Canuck certainly looks like he has something to crow about now that he’s home from hospital. Canuck and I Facebook page

There’s nothing like a meal of fish heads to help a crow celebrate coming home.

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body’s about ready to reclaim his kingdom,” Canuck’s best human friend Shawn Bergman posted on Facebook live on April 4.

In the video, Bergman opens the travel cage door and Canuck gingerly steps out and gains his bearings. “There you go, buddy,” Bergman is heard saying as Canuck wanders around the back porch of Bergman’s home, “welcome

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“It’s good to see you back together,” Bergman says in a second video of the two crows enjoying lunch together.

In the days since the attack, the Canuck and I Facebook page has grown to 45,000 followers, many of whom expressed joy at Canuck’s homecoming.

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for wild birds in emergency situations.

The Italian Canadian Sports Federation, which hosted the game where the volunteer linesman took a swing at Canuck’s head with a pole, immediately launched an investigation into the attack.The information it gleaned has been passed on to the BC SPCA, which has launched its own investigation.

“The ICSF is deeply saddened by the events that transpired on Saturday morning and wish Canuck the Crow a full and speedy recovery,” the organization says on its website.” ICSF would also like to extend our sincerest apologies to any children or adults who witnessed the incident on Saturday morning; we recognize that for many it was a very traumatic experience. ICSF’s Annual Spring Tournament is a safe and supportive environment to celebrate youth soccer in Vancouver. Regrettably, the events on Saturday morning involving Canuck the Crow has overshadowed this and our tournament.” –Story courtesy of the Vancouver Courier

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Spring/Summer 2017 nails created by Gina Edwards/KISS Products Inc for Christian Siriano.

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Nail polish was invented in the early 20th century, and nail art has been around almost as long.There’s even a 1930s picture of Joan Crawford with a very modernlooking half-moon mani. But the technique spent a long time in the fashion doldrums, no doubt thanks to the overthe-top, wacky and tacky designs that we saw in the 1990s. In the past four or five years, though, it’s come right back.We see nail art on virtually every runway for major designers, and then there’s social media. “Beauty blogs, Pinterest, and Instagram have paved the way for nail-art enthusiasts to share their ideas, creativity, and intricate works of art to anyone with even a passing interest,” says Linda Ly, owner of Onyx Aesthetics Studio in Gastown.

Like lipstick, nail polish is a cheap buy for anyone who wants to cheer themselves up, and getting decorated talons is now easier thanks to products such as dotting tools, tape, stick-on decorations, and press-ons that allow the more dextrous to do their own nail art at home.

RUNWAY TO REAL WAY

Spring/Summer runway colours were bright, bold and beautiful – fuchsia and yellow, floral-printed, disco-inspired.

The nails followed suit, and Ly predicts that those hues will spill over into reality.

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little outside of their comfort zones,” she says. “CND’s new Rhythm & Heat Summer Collection is the perfect introduction with bold hues reflective of a hot, tropical vacation.

Nail embellishments using glitter, foil, gems and studs then add interesting dimension to solid colours.”

Gina Edwards, celeb manicurist for KISS Products Inc., created the nail looks for the Christian Siriano show at NewYork Fashion Week. Her trend tips? “Colour-blocking, bold looks and glitter,” she says.

FINGER LOOKING GOOD

Two or three years ago, we were all sporting “accent nails”, where the ring finger is painted a different colour to the other digits, or has an embellishment. Jenny Goldsmith, director of integrated marketing forTheTen Spot inYaletown, says that’s on its way out.

“Instead, people are doing mismatched fingers where there are maybe two nails in one style and the rest in another.

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SPACE INVADERS

Negative-space manicures have been hot for a couple of years.This is where parts of the nail are left bare to create the design, which is usually quite a simple, minimal one.

“These looks are very chic and wearable,” says Goldsmith. “I particularly like looks in black, the inverse French, and half-moon designs.

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It’s one thing wearing these looks on the weekend, on special occasions, or if you work in a creative industry.

But what if you’re in a more conservative profession?

Goldsmith and Ly insist nail art is A-OK nowadays.

“Clients are opting for things like simple embellishments or small, hand-painted accents to dress up their neutral shades,” explains Ly. Edwards suggests two-tone colours. “Also, adding stone work can always add a sophisticated element of surprise to your manicure,” she says.

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When I’m on the hunt for fun new finds to create a seasonal décor refresh, I already have my favourite shops to hit up for inspiration and it’s not often that I’m surprised by a new retailer for great scores at a reasonable price. However, I recently attended the “Spring into Summer” event with the Real Canadian Superstore, where the supermarket brand previewed the fresh new PC Insiders Spring/Summer home collection. Prior to the event, the store hadn’t been on my radar as a go-to for home décor finds.To be honest, I hadn’t realized that the brand even carried such an extensive collection of pieces for décor and everyday entertaining.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a large number of ontrend pieces for all areas of the home, and I was even more impressed to discover the line’s ultra-approachable price points

(i.e. a gold-rimmed rocks glass with playful motif runs at $4!).

I definitely fell for a few of the pieces (which my guests can now expect to see the next time they join me for dinner or a patio soirée), and I love that it won’t break the bank to get a stellar setup for indoor/outdoor tabletop styling.

The most notable details about the collection are the bright colours and bold patterns – two things that always make a space instantly feel like Spring. There are a few design capsules within the collection, but I personally think the strongest element is the tropical vibe.

While palm trees, pineapples and flamingos ruled high-end design last year, this Spring those tropicana mainstays have found their place with the everyday consumer.

The collection’s tropical palette also brings layers of greens to the table, from softer Spring greens to this year’s hottest colour, emerald green, which we have seen take over Pinterest feeds on everything from wallpaper to sofas for 2017. The greens

pop against the hot pinks and bright yellows, and the complementary colourways mean that all the pieces can easily be mixed and matched together for an easy and playful appeal.

Overall, I was most impressed with the attention the brand has put forward to creating continuity within their product lineup for a cohesive design, no matter which pieces you choose.

The colours and overall feel for the season jives even with the type of food that’s serve come Spring; at the event, there was a coconut matcha green tea cheesecake served upon the palms platter that played off the same greens, meanwhile the golden beet slaw colourcoordinated perfectly with the flamingo and pineapple patterns. As a designer, having the food match the serving-ware created a super chic yet totally easy “finished” look to the table.

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DINING OUT MORE PLACES TO BULK UP ON THE GOOD STUFF Tractor Everyday Healthy Foods With several locations around town, this popular “fast-casual” chain offers healthy soups, salads and mains that won’t break the calorie budget or your wallet. tractorfoods.com

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Vancouver restaurants, juiceries and cafes that serve up the good stuff Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday It seems that as soon as the sun starts to make even the faintest of inroads into the perpetual cloud cover, people start worrying again about healthy eating.The resolutions that faded away by the end of January come back into sharp – and guilt-ridden – focus.We’re back! We’re running! We’re jumping!

We’re eating our greens, see?!

It’s probably worth bearing in mind that incorporating healthy meals into your lifestyle should be more than a seasonal endeavour, and it’s not an either-or scenario.

Hmmm, I just ate a platter of ribs with cornbread and drippings… guess that salad will have to wait until spring. If only to allow you to continue eating pork rinds and deep-fried cauliflower for years to come, including some healthier options in the meal plan is a good idea.

Vancouver, fortunately, has a splendid group of establishments that focus on food and drink that does not unduly clog the arteries.

Here are a few choice options for nutritiously slaking your thirst and easing those frequent pangs of hunger.

Be warned: “Healthy” doesn’t always mean “vegetarian/vegan” and/or “gluten-free.” There’s more than one plant-based eatery in this city that serves up enough salt and cholesterol to make the city’s cardiac surgeons rub their hands together in glee. With that proviso, here are few places both delicious and nutritious.

BURDOCK & CO.

Owner and chef Andrea Carlson keeps her meatfriendly and plant-forward menu rotating frequently, but there are always at least a handful of options that will satisfy vegetarians and vegans. Crispy chickpeas and herbs are served with a fermented sunchoke puree, rosemary-smoked potatoes come with a cream that has potato skins as its base, and the “gomae,” here made with kohlrabi and cabbage, will ruin you for the original. burdockandco.com

CHAU VEGGIE EXPRESS

The name Maria Huynh should be familiar to anyone who remembers a small, modern Vietnamese eatery on Robson from almost a decade ago called Chau Kitchen and Bar. Huynh was a generation ahead of her time, serving up classic and contemporary takes on staple Vietnamese fare, and using high-quality ingredients to do it. Sadly, Chau Kitchen closed after a year, when Huynh had to focus on urgent family matters.

Six years ago, she came back to doing what she loved and opened Chau Veggie Express, a Vietnamese restaurant that is entirely vegetarian (and mainly vegan). If the idea of Vietnamese food without pork or fish seems odd, don’t worry. Huyn and her mother – a genius cook who ran several eateries of her own – came up with a vegan version of fish sauce, and you’ll never miss the proteins in dishes like the savoury lychee and date broth soup with organic tofu, bean curd, mushrooms, and rice noodles. Even the ice creams – and they’re delicious – are vegan, and free of gluten or any preservatives. chowatchau.ca

NUBA

What started as one underground location on West Hastings has grown into a mini-empire, with four locations around the city and hints of more to come. This popular Lebanese eatery doesn’t compromise on taste one iota with its super-fresh and brightly healthy fare.

The farm-to-table approach to the menu means it’s mostly organic and socially conscious as well, like its use of Canadian-grown and GMOfree quinoa, and greens from Strathcona’s Vancouver Food Pedalers. Best of all, it tastes good. The popular baba ghanooj (eggplant puree with citrus and tahini) is not to be missed, but even dishes like the lamb hushwie are a guiltfree indulgence, sautéed with onions, bell peppers, pine nuts and spices. nuba.ca

INDIGO AGE CAFÉ

This small downtown café features vegan and gluten-free dishes with some interesting twists. In addition to the usual bowls, smoothies, salads and burgers, this hippie bastion also serves up Ukrainian fare with some serious cred. The perogies are made with wheat, yes, but are stuffed with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut and

cherries, and drizzled with a cashew dressing. Or try the kasha, a hearty serving of buckwheat with mushrooms, miso and onions with a side or Russian vinaigrette salad made with beets, sauerkraut, peas, potatoes and olive oil.

Just like Baba used to make, except with a leeetle less butter. They also have a collection of “mylk” shakes and kefirs, as well as kombucha on tap. indigoagecafe.com

THE JUICE TRUCK

Juiceries are becoming as ubiquitous as sushi joints or Starbucks locations in Vancouver, but they’re a damn sight better for you.

In the growing juice repertoire, cold-pressed is still king, and The Juice Truck was the first producer and purveyor of zingers like the pineapple-cucumberkale-mint concoction that sells under the moniker of “The Remedy.” Even better, the trucks have now been complemented with bricksand-mortar locations that not only serve up the juices and smoothies, but also plant-based bowls and bars, like the kale Caesar with smoky maple tempeh and chipotle coconut “bacon,” or the peanut butter fudge bar. thejuicetruck.ca W

Zend Conscious Lounge This has to be the feel-good vegan restaurant of the decade.

Not only is everything plant-based and 100 per cent organic, but the alcohol-free cocktails (all based on the house elixir made from the kava kava plant) are girls’ night-worthy.

Plus, all profits are donated to charity. zendlounge.com Gorilla Foods It’s been a few years since this popular rawvegan eatery closed its doors, but the news that it recently re-opened in a new location on East Hastings had a good portion of the city’s taste buds watering. gorillafood.com Farmer’s Apprentice Chef and owner David Gunawan’s testament to minimalist locavore cuisine is one of the city’s best places to indulge with excess in plant-forward food paired with an excellent selection from the list of naturalist wines. farmersapprentice.ca

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A selection of gins and botanicals from Vancouver Island’s Ampersand Distilling, at the 2016 BC Distilled festival. BC Distilled photo

Get into the BC spirits boom BC Distilled festival is an opportunity to sample everything from amaro to whisky, all made right here Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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It’s hard to believe that just five years ago, British Columbia had fewer than 10 artisan distilleries.Today, the province has at least 40, with a whole bunch more in the works.

You can thank the provincial government’s Craft Distillery designation, introduced in 2013, for the boom in all this local, handcrafted hooch. But you can also give some of the credit to BC Distilled, Canada’s largest spirits event reserved exclusively for local distilleries.

This Saturday, the fourth annual BC Distilled event will be held at Vancouver’s Croatian Cultural Centre, and never has there been a better opportunity to taste all the sprits this province can produce.

“It’s the biggest so far,” says founder Alex Hamer.

“We have twice the number of distilleries this year as we had the first year.”

This year, 34 BC distilleries are participating.

That’s almost all of the 41 operational micro-distilleries Hamer is aware of in the province.

Not only that, but for the first time, there will be a shop on site, run by Legacy Liquor Store, so guests can take their new discoveries home with them. Hamer expects there will be as many

as 120 different made-in-BC spirits available for purchase.

“That’s a really exciting change because on this one day, it’s the biggest selection of BC product,” he says.

And if you think all of those products are going to be variations of vodka and gin, think again. Guests at BC Distilled will get the chance to try a surprisingly large range of spirits for an industry that’s so young.

“A lot of distilleries, when they open up, they want to make money right away, and that means clear spirits,” Hamer says. “As the industry matures, we see more barrelaged product.Whisky is number one on everyone’s list.”

In Canada, by law, a whisky must be aged three years; the first trickle of rye, single malt and corn whiskies is coming out now from distilleries that put liquid into barrels right after the craft designation came into being.

“There are some exciting whiskies coming out,” Hamer says. But there are other barrel-aged spirits, too: “Maple Leaf Spirits has a six-year-old brandy. Merridale is coming out with a 10-year-old cognac. There’s a lot of possibility there.

Another interesting one that I’m looking forward to trying is the pear brandy that Long Table is doing in collaboration with Deep Cove.”

He adds: “We’ve got more than one vermouth now.

We’ve got at least three amaros. If you look at The Woods amaro guys, they are using a lot of local products; or the Seaside gin from Sheringham, they’re using local kelp. There’s some West Coast character in some of the product for sure.”

In fact, it’s that West Coast character that’s giving many of the young distilleries their craft designation. Under the rules, a “craft” distillery must use 100 per cent BC agricultural product. For that, they get a break on the BC Liquor Distribution Branch’s 163 per cent markup.

Distilleries that use non-BC product – including the neutral grain spirit (NGS) that’s the base of many excellent gins – don’t get this break. But they’re still producing high-quality spirits here in BC by redistilling NGS and adding local botanicals to it. These micro-distilleries are also in the showcase, which is why it’s for “artisan” distilleries, not “craft” ones.

“Our goal is to promote small-batch distilling from local businesses in any form,” Hamer explains.

In addition to all the spirits guests can taste, there will be food from several different outlets, including Timber, Juniper, Cascade Room, Homer Street Café and Lucky’s Doughnuts. Plus Koko Monk is creating a chocolate that features The Woods amaro.

The PADS dogs will be back, too – the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society, which breeds, raises, trains and supports certified assistance dogs, is the event’s charity partner.

But BC Distilled really is all about the growing range of spirits produced in this province, and the vibrant industry that’s being built around it.

“The first year, media were like, ‘There are distilleries in the province?’ Now that’s not enough,” Hamer says. “A lot of the new distilleries are looking for a niche.” W

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hoods, and it’s a far less depressing place to enjoy a beer than many gloomy threadbare pubs and bars. Craft beer brings people together, and that’s a good thing!

Then there are the economic benefits: the province’s 130+ craft breweries and brewpubs employ thousands of people, produce millions in sales, and generate a metric shit-ton of tax dollars. All good things, I think we can agree.

As it turns out, though, the craft beer revolution is also helping spur on the craft spirit scene. Craft beer fans that have ventured down the gin, vodka, or whisky aisles at their local liquor store might have noticed some familiar brands. Central City, Phillips, Yaletown Brewing and Deep Cove Brewing have all gotten into the distilling business in recent years.Trench Brewing and Distilling in Prince George is set open this year, offering both craft beer and distilled spirits. Meanwhile, Victoria Caledonian, makers of Twa Dogs, opened for business last year with the goal of selling beer to British Columbians and single malt whisky to the world.

“The two products are very complementary,” says Graeme Macaloney, founder of Victoria Caledonian. “So it made bang-on sense from a production perspective and from a marketing perspective.”

Producing a distilled spirit requires much of the same equipment and raw materials as brewing beer, so perhaps it’s not surprising so many breweries are getting in on the craft spirit boom. In the case of whisky, which is essentially distilled beer, malted barley is steeped in hot water (without boiling or adding hops) and then fermented to create a beer similar to a pale ale, called a “wash”, clocking in at about 8.0% ABV. The wash is then run through a still, usually two or three times, and then

Central City brewmaster and co-owner Gary Lohin (right) with head distiller Stuart McKinnon.

Contributed photo aged for at least three years in oak casks.

Central City began distilling in 2013 and currently has more than 1,000 barrels of whisky maturing away in oak casks, and launched its first single malt whisky, Lohin McKinnon, earlier this year.

Brewmaster and co-owner Gary Lohin says he first got the idea to get into distilling after travelling to Oregon and California and seeing breweries like Rogue and Ballast Point getting into spirits.

“We already have the set-up to make washes, so it made economic sense for us,” he says.

But as much as it was about adding a second revenue stream, Lohin says he just really, really wanted to make some whisky.

“I’ve been passionate about whisky for years, since the ’80s at least,” he says. “So when I saw other breweries doing this, it was a no-brainer for me. I mean, if you can’t have some fun, what’s the point?”

The market for craftdistilled spirits is largely the same as craft beer: the mature, financially comfortable craft beverage enthusiast (because that’s what we call people who like to drink now) who has the disposable income to afford a

unique premium product, and appreciates the fact that it’s made here in BC. “There’s a lot of overlap,” Macaloney notes.

For a fledgling distillery intending to make whisky, there’s at least a three-year gap between the distillation of the first batch and when it’s bottled, sold, and the money starts coming in. Obviously, that’s a long time to go without revenue, which is why many start-up distilleries focus on gin, vodka and other un-aged spirits early on.They can be produced and sold right away, and that money will keep the lights on.

Breweries don’t have to worry about that, of course, as they have beer to sell in the meantime.

“We have a thousand barrels just waiting to go,” says Lohin. “We just keep making it and keep putting it away, because we can.”

That said, Central City has both a vodka and a gin in their lineup. Victoria Caledonian, however, is opting to go “pure whisky” right off the bat, and in addition to their Twa Dogs craft beer line, they are also bottling “vatted” guest whiskies imported from Scotland (at least until their own whisky hits shelves, in about two to three years).

Lohin believes craft brewers are helping to give the very traditional world of whisky and spirits a muchneeded kick in the junk (my words, not his). Craft brewers are known for their penchant for experimentation, and Lohin, true to form, has a number of experimental whiskies on the go, incorporating non-traditional grain bills and maltings – including one whisky made with 40 per cent chocolate malt (that’s the roasted brewing malt, not the frozen dessert). “[Brewers] have the luxury of being able to wait,” he says. W

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@FoodGirlFriday JS Dupuis has returned to Homer Street Café and Tableau Bar Bistro as beverage director. Dupuis formerly worked at both locations before leaving for stints Charton-Hobbs and Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar. Look for updated cocktail lists at both restaurants.

Savoury Chef Foods has just announced that Geoff Rogers as their new executive chef. Rogers previously worked at Ricer Café, Home Tasting Room, and Market in Calgary, as well as Fable and Blacktail here in Vancouver. Rogers will be working alongside owner Taryn Wa. savourychef.com Royal Dinette also has a new executive chef at its helm. Alden Ong previously served as sous chef under Jack Chen and will be releasing a new spring menu in the coming weeks. royaldinette.ca Popular Paris-based éclair shop, L’Éclair de Genie, is opening its first North American retail location on April 22 at 1210 Robson Street. The store will start with 10 kinds of eclairs and then introduce two new flavours every month. The store will also serve coffee to pair with your choux choices.

The Fish Shack is now offering AYCE classic steamed mussels or clam steamers every Sunday for $29.95. Each one-pound order comes with your choice of fries or bread. glowbalgroup.com/fish-shack The Dirty Apron has launched a new breakfast and brunch menu, with more than a handful of tasty options, including a breakfast sandwich with housecured gravlax or grilled Mennonite sausage, huevos rancheros, acai and smoothie bowls, buddha bowls, and berry hand pies. This is in addition to their daily baked pastries, Friday doughnuts, and more. dirtyapron.com For the month of April, in support of Autism Awareness Month, El Santo has created a feature menu with proceeds going to Canucks Autism Network. The restaurant already donates $1 from every kid’s menu order to the cause. The feature menu includes dishes like local foraged mushrooms, local octopus with squid ink mole, Fraser Valley duck, and more. elsanto.ca Chocolatier Thomas Haas has unveiled his latest collection of handcrafted

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Easter-themed confections – available exclusively at both Thomas Haas Chocolates & Pâtisserie locations – and is bringing back his annual Charitable Easter Egg Raffle benefiting the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre and North Shore Crisis Services Society. The new collection features bunnies, hens and chicks, as well as truffle eggs, roadsters and lollipops, and even an Easter stöllen. thomashaas.com Bel Café is also getting into the Easter mood with the return of its popular hot cross buns, as well as milk chocolate choux puffs and blackberry-citrus desserts, only available April 10 to 16. belcafe.com Beta 5 Chocolates is resurrecting its Cambie Street pop-up location as of April 4, just in time for Easter.

The pop-up will operate through to May 15 and offer a rotating selection of ice cream sandwiches, bright chocolate eggs and chocolate clouds that shower peanut butter rain drops.

Also look for special cream puff flavours and bubble tea. beta5chocolates.com On Tuesday, April 11, Wildebeest will host a special winemaker’s dinner with Tyler Harlton of TH Wines in Summerland. The six-course menu includes cheese panna cotta, sockeye salmon tartare, Magret duck breast, elk loin, and dessert, all paired with various vintages from this estate winery. Tickets $140 per person. wildebeest.ca On Thursday, April 13, come learn the science behind the wines of the Golden Mile Bench at Science World. Origins of Wine will feature lively conversation with moderator Kurtis Kolt and a panel of BC principal wine makers. The event will feature nine Golden Mile wineries, as well as food pairings from Backyard Farms and Miradoro at Tinhorn Creek.

Tickets $65 per person. scienceworld.ca/wines On Friday, April 28, Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise program will host its annual Wine for Waves fundraising event at the Four Seasons Hotel, in partnership with Naramata Bench Wineries Association. Taste the spring offerings from 27 Naramata wineries, as well as food from a dozen Ocean Wise partners and chefs, including Ned Bell of Vancouver Aquarium, Holt’s Café, Forage, Fanny Bay Oyster Bar, Nomad,Yew Seafood & Bar, and more. Tickets $110 per person. All proceeds go to support the Ocean Wise program. vanaqua.org/wineforwaves W

13C is a private wine storage facility that has turned into a hub for wine lovers of all levels. Adam Myhill photo

Where the wine geeks are Michaela Morris By the Bottle

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Most ‘normal’ wine drinkers pick up a bottle at their local shop and crack it within hours of returning home.Then there are those rare individuals who squirrel away cases waiting for the perfect moment to open each precious specimen from their cherished collection.

Drew Malcolm is one of the latter. He doesn’t have a background in the wine industry. Instead, Malcolm boasts a career in sales and marketing as well as real estate investment. He recently founded and consults for e-commerce businesses in the health and wellness industry.

For Malcolm, wine was a hobby.To ensure his modest but prized collection would age gracefully, he invested in a wine fridge programmed at the ideal temperature and humidity for long-term aging.

While he was out of town during the summer of 2010, his fridge died. “When I came home there was a puddle of red wine leaking out of the bottom of the fridge onto the floor,” recalls Malcolm. “All the bottles were cooked and heat damaged, with many of the corks pushed out.”

Rather than abandoning his passion, Malcolm looked for an offsite location to store his wine.While a couple of temperature-controlled storage facilities already existed in Vancouver, he wasn’t satisfied with what he found. Significantly, none allowed free access to one’s own collection.

“A lightbulb popped that such a business would be a good

opportunity,” explains Malcolm. So, he designed a storage facility to his specification, adopting the best elements from spaces he inspected in other cities throughout North America.

He then invested in a centrally located building, which he renovated from the ground up during 2011-2012, essentially creating a refrigerated box. Referring to the ideal wine-storage temperature the space provides, Drew baptized it 13C and, for the all-important climate-control system, he engaged the help of mechanical engineers.Within the facility, each 500-square foot zone has its own digitally controlled thermostat and cooling unit. Besides a constant temperature of 13C, humidity is maintained between 65-75 per cent, and is supplied ondemand via a gentle ultrasonic mist that permeates the space.

“I hope it is obvious how seriously we take climate control,” Malcolm says, with emphasis, as he explains the features.

A tour of the space is convincing, and the high level of security is equally apparent.This aspect is what allows members that coveted 24-hour access, 365 days of the year.The actual location is not disclosed on 13C’s website (13c.ca). Only members receive that information and entry to the premises is by fingerprint and a personal fob.The alarm is monitored and always active. Each locker is individually locked and alarmed, with members holding the only keys to their personal locker; meanwhile, closed-circuit television cameras record all activity inside and outside the building.The facility rents lockers ranging

in size from eight cases ($35/ month) to 275 cases ($685/ month). Lockers are also available to hold the equivalent of 16, 24, 32, 48 and 96 cases. “We are currently at about 80 per cent capacity,” Malcolm asserts.

While wine storage is the main service 13C offers, collectors who store their wine there enjoy a huge perk.

Before reaching the lockers through the front entrance, there is a common room, set at regular room temperature (which is much more conducive to hanging out). It’s furnished with fine glassware, plates and cutlery, dishwasher, fridge, comfy leather chairs, television, AV, an extensive library of wine books and a beautiful wooden table made from reclaimed Douglas fir.

Members can use the room at no extra cost, simply booking it ahead of time.The code of conduct is to leave it in the same state as you found it, which means pristine.

“More than half of our clients use the room for formal and informal tasting events, business meetings, and even as a quiet place to read or study,” Malcolm says.

The afternoon I stopped by to sign the contract for my locker, a group of friends is gathered around the table, blind-tasting random bottles from their personal collections.They immediately pour me a glass, thereby luring me into their guessing game. Jack Madrid is the leader of the pack. An avid wine collector, he has been storing his wine at 13C for almost 2 years. “I like having the peace of mind of having a stable temperature,” explains Madrid. “I also love the tasting room,

which has become my favourite place for blind tastings with friends.”

The space is in use almost every day. Besides casual and business gatherings, formal wine classes are now being conducted there well. 13C is also the Vancouver venue for Wine Plus+, which offers the Wine and Spirit Education Trust courses. “The atmosphere is appropriate for the subject matter, as opposed to a neutral, generic classroom,” says local instructor Iain Philip. “The room is intimate, so it makes it a comfortable environment that encourages students to engage.” Philip is equally enthusiastic about the storage. “The technology for ensuring the proper conditions is modern and reliable and the rental rates are totally fair.”

Whether it’s wine students, trade, or enthusiastic collectors, Malcolm connects with all of his clients and has developed close friendships with many. “Wine can be a common language that unites people with different backgrounds. Folks who appreciate wine are mostly friendly and passionate bon vivants!”

And, surely, they are sharing more than the occasional glass of wine with him, as well.

• Editor’s note: By the Bottle will return April 20. W

• This story is the fourth in a five-part series called Underground Vancouver, delving into little-known subcultures in and around the city.

Next up:Vancouver’s die-hard beach volleyball scene.

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Vancouver World Music Festival Featuring the diverse sounds of Breaking Boundaries, H’Sao, and Locarno, this lineup is rich with passion and rhythm. 8pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $25 at WorldMusicFest.ca

Shadows in the Mirror Finnish artist, Henni Alftan makes her North America solo debut with a thought-provoking collection of oil-on-canvas paintings. 11am at Z Gallery Arts. Free.

MUSIC Vancouver World Music Festival Talented fingerpicking by Toque Flamenco kicks off this year’s launch party, followed by the Latin electro grooves of Tanga.

8pm at Guilt & Company. Tickets $15 at BrownPaperTickets.com

COMEDY Unfinished Works Watch as this hilarious cast improvises finales to half-written scripts. 8pm at Havana Theatre. Tickets $10 at Eventbrite.ca

Brian Wilson Famed Beach Boys singer and producer celebrates 50 years since the release of the Pet Sounds in this special concert.

7:30pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

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SOCIAL Sakura Days Japan Fair Experience Japanese culture under the cherry blossoms with traditional music, food, and theatrical performances. 11am at VanDusen Botanical Garden. Tickets from $6.50 at Eventbrite.ca Coal Harbour Community Centre Easter Carnival Join in the family festivities this Easter with face painting, animal presentations, an Easter Egg Hunt and more. 10am at Coal Harbour Community Centre.

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Total Shred Electric guitarists Ben Yardly, Erol Sora, and more take the stage in this fun concert blasting rock classics. 8pm at The Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at Eventbrite.com

21 Trump Street From the mind of Jordan VanDina comes a wild tale in which Donald Trump loses the election and travels back in time to campaign as Student Council President. A live script reading.

8pm at Seven Dining Lounge.

Tickets $10 at Eventbrite.com

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Genetic Drift In a world where human life cannot sustain itself, Gary 3, a human/creature hybrid, shares his story in this immersive theatre experience. 7:30pm at The Fishbowl. Tickets from $12 at Eventbrite.ca

Reimagine Barista champions give their take on coffee competitions and the industry in this rare Q&A event. 6:30pm at Interurban Art Gallery. Tickets from $25 at Eventbrite.ca

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Camp Still Vancouver’s first mass meditation party takes place with special guest Sound Bath. Expect good music, food, contests, and activities galore. 7pm at Goldcorp Stage. Tickets $25 at Eventbrite.ca

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Whiskey Rain Revue Featuring dancers of all levels, the sensual Luciterra School of Dance delivers its spring student showcase. 7pm at the Rio. Tickets $17 at Universe.com

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Motown Meltdown An evening of soul, rhythm and blues sure to get everybody moving. Hotshot Canadian vocalists, backed by a scorching 12-piece band each bring style and flavour to their own solo tune. 7pm at the Commodore Ballroom. Tickets from $32.50 at Ticketmaster.ca.

Proceeds go to Seva Canada.

What The Day Owes To the Night Compagnie Hervé KOUBI presents a contemporary dance experience that blends martial arts, capoeira, and street dance. 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets from $39.50 at Dancehouse.ca

Mantra Percussion The world-renowned ensemble debuts Mantra Groove, a new work by emerging Quebec composer Paul Dolden.

8pm at The Annex. Tickets from $15 at BrownPaperTickets.com

Six In this film prepared by Van Arts students, an isolated group of undergraduates uncover shocking truths about one another. 8pm at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts. Free tickets at Eventbrite.ca

Vancouver World Music Festival Persian Flamenco singer Farnaz Ohadi and the BC World Music Collective shine in this final evening of world-class talent. 8pm at the Vancouver Academy of Music.

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FOOD BC Distilled This premier tasting event showcases 34 artisan distilleries and their locally-made beer, wine, and spirits. 6pm at the Croatian Cultural Centre. Tickets $70+ fees at BrownPaperTickets.com

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MUSIC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra John William’s popular score of The Chamber of Secrets is relived in this magical performance directed by Justin Freer. 7pm at the Orpheum. Tickets from $26 at VancouverSymphony.ca

COMEDY Audio/Video Taking inspiration from YouTube videos, movies, and singalongs, this improvised show is live entertainment unlike any other. 9pm at Havana Theatre.

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Pints not Pipelines West Coast craft beer flows for a cause in this fundraiser for First Nations lawsuits against the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline. 5pm at Performance Works. Tickets $20 at Eventbrite.ca

BLOOM Enjoy a fresh air picnic surrounded by colourful flowers at the Abbotsford Tulip Festival.

9am at 36737 N Parallel Road.

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The Gentlemen Hecklers Experience the classic ’80s film Footloose like never before in this live commentary show. 9:30pm at the Rio. Tickets $10 at RioTheatre.ca

OUT OF TOWN Embodied Emplacement Inspired by Steph Ceraso, this multi-modal soundwalk features the sights, sounds, and scents captured within New Westminster’s waterfront. 2pm at the Anvil Centre. Free.

Sundays with Sondheim Led

by PSP artistic associate, Chris Allan, this lecture will explore Sondheim’s 1970s musicals and the special relationship between producer and director. 3:30pm at the Anvil Centre. Free tickets at Eventbrite.com

MONDAY, APR. 10 MUSIC Vancouver Legacy Jazz Orchestra Eighteen of the city’s famed composers and musicians pay tribute to celebrated American jazz bandleader, Oliver Nelson.

8pm at Frankie’s Jazz Club. Tickets $15 at Yelp.com A Boogie With Da Hoodie With mesmerizing rhymes and beats, this 20-year-old rap artist from the Bronx delivers a true hip hop performance. 9pm at The Rio. Tickets $25 at TicketWeb.ca Just A Season All-around musician Scott Smith takes the spotlight with this new multi-genre ensemble ranging from folk to country. 8pm at Guilt & Company. Tickets are paywhat-you-can at the door.

TUESDAY, APR. 11 ARTS CINDERELLA Rodger + Hammerstein’s spin on the classic fairy tale arrives to the stage in this Tony-Award winning musical tour.

7:30pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Tickets from $30 at Ticketmaster.ca Room 2048 In this opening night performance, the cultural politics of the Cantonese diaspora is explored in a beautiful blending of dance, theatre, and smoke. 8pm at the Firehall Arts Centre. Tickets $28 at FirehallArtsCentre.ca 12 Minutes Max Dancers Carolina Bergonzoni, Jenn Edwards, Greer Whillans perform innovative new works in this special showcase series. 6pm at The Dance Centre. Free.

MUSIC Han Finckel Setzer Trio Cello, violin, and piano come together to perform Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Archduke and Franz Schubert’s Opus 100. 8pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. Tickets from $15 at FriendsofChamberMusic.ca

SOCIAL The Wonders of the Salish Sea During this six-week course, uncover the secrets behind our unique ecosystem with the help of local marine scientists, environmentalists, and naturalists. 6pm at Mount Pleasant Community Centre.

Tickets $30 at Vancouver.ca

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WEDNESDAY, APR. 12

Les French Gourmands In this Easter celebration, learn to cook a traditional Easter meal while discovering French culture. 6pm at Alliance Française de Vancouver.

Tickets $90 at Eventbrite.ca

MUSIC Madeon The talented French DJ kicks off this year’s Seasons Festival with a special nu-disco and electropop set. 10pm at Celebrities. Tickets $35 at Blueprint.com

SOCIAL Incite Meet with writers Sharon Butala, Michael Harris and Robert Moor in this exclusive free reading series. 7:30pm at the Vancouver Public Library Free tickets at VanWritersFest.com

FOOD Easy Vegan Cooking From avocado hummus to chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, recreate the perfect vegan dinner in this relaxed cooking demonstration.

6pm at the Uncommon Café. Tickets from $59 at Eventbrite.ca

THURSDAY, APR. 13 ARTS Pelle the Conqueror Escaping poverty, a Swedish father and son struggle against class and racial discrimination in 1850s Denmark.

7pm at the Cinematheque. Tickets $11 at TheCinematheque.ca

SOCIAL Jane Goodall Acclaimed primatologist and conservation advocate, Goodall delivers an inspiring talk for sustainable change. 7:30pm at the Chan Centre. Tickets from $85 at Tickets.

UBC.ca Stanley Park Train Easter Fair Kids can play games, do crafts, meet the Easter Bunny, and ride the Easter Train in this family friendly event. 10am at the Stanley Park Railway. Tickets $6.30 at Ticketleader.ca

FOOD Origins of Wine Local wineries of the Okanagan’s Golden Bench Mile are showcased in this tasting event hosted by Kurtis Kolt.

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Redpatch highlights First Nations involvement in the First World War SABRINA FURMINGER @Sabrinarmf

This Sunday marks 100 years since the start of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.You probably learned about it in high school: the 3,598 Canadian lives that were lost over three days of fierce combat in northern France, and the bravery of our homegrown battalions and brigades as they stormed – and ultimately took – Vimy Ridge. A memorial to Canada’s fallen soldiers was unveiled on the top of the windswept crest in 1936.

The battle changed the course of the First World War and (arguably) defined Canadian identity in the decades that followed.

Unless you’ve specifically sought out the information,

though, you probably haven’t heard about the First Nations soldiers who fought for Canada at Vimy Ridge – or the more than 4,000 indigenous soldiers who volunteered to fight for Canada in the First World War. With its new play Redpatch, Vancouver’s Hardlines Theatre aims to change that.

Redpatch is the creation of co-writers Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver, alumni of Studio 58 and co-artistic directors of Hardlines Theatre. The title refers to the red patch that was first worn

by Canadian soldiers in 1916 to distinguish them from their British counterparts.

Redpatch is the fictional account of Jonathon Woodrow, a Métis volunteer soldier from the Nuu-chah-nulth nation of Vancouver Island.

The historical production follows a young Métis volunteer soldier. Contributed photo Set in Canada and the battlefields of France, Redpatch follows Woodrow as he

endures trench warfare and all manner of discrimination. “We explore how these soldiers had to change themselves and what they had to do to survive a war that was as brutal as the First World War was,” says Calvert.

Calvert and Oliver were inspired to learn more about the involvement of indigenous communities in the First World War after Oliver played a First Nations soldier in a 2011 production of Vern Thiessen’s play, Vimy.

Over five years of research, the co-writers uncovered an entire history of indigenous involvement that had largely been forgotten. “Indigenous soldiers were paramount in a lot of the successes that Canada had in that war,” says Calvert, who is Métis

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Redpatch briefly touches on the systemic discrimination faced by indigenou s veterans upon their return to Canada.

“Many aboriginal soldiers returning from the war were denied post-war benefits because they’d had to relinquish their status as First Nations people to be able to enlist in the army in the first place,” says Calvert. “We explore it in Redpatch, but it could be its own show.”

Redpatch features an entirely First Nations cast: Calvert, Reneltta Arluk, Émilie Leclerc, Joel D. Montgrand, Chelsea Rose Tucker, and Deneh Thompson. The six

actors play eight roles, and the style is highly physical, according to Calvert, with movement set to music in the scenes and transitions.

If audiences would like to learn even more about the contributions of indigenous soldiers during the First World War, they can head to redpatch.ca. Hardlines Theatre’s educational website – which was funded in part by Canadian Heritage – features production videos and a graphic novel version of Redpatch, illustrated by Christian Kent. W • Redpatch runs April 12-16 at Studio 16 (1555 West 7th Ave.). Tickets at hardlineproductions.ca.

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Review: Arts Club goes big with ‘Angels in America’ ANGELS IN AMERICA: PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES

At The Stanley until April 23, 2017 Tickets from $29 at artsclub.com JO LEDINGHAM @joledingham

Big, big, big. Under the direction of award-winning Kim Collier (co-founder of the Electric Company Theatre and winner of the prestigious Siminovitch Prize for Directing), Angels in America: Part One, written by American playwright Tony Kushner, is epic.

From Ken MacKenzie’s grand Hall of Justice set with its five towering Greco-Roman columns and steep flight of stairs, to the final image of an angel

descending from on high, lights flashing accompanied by thunderous sound, there’s nothing about this Arts Club production that says ‘small’.

The show takes three hours with two intermissions to complete and that’s just Part One. Part Two: Perestroika comes to The Stanley in the fall.

And yet, stripped to its essentials, Angels in America is about love struggling to survive in America in the Reagan-era, AIDS-afflicted mid-1980s. Two love stories run in tandem: the story of homosexual lovers Louis (Ryan Beil)) and Prior (Damien Atkins), and Mormon couple Joe (Craig Erickson) and his wife Harper (Celine Stubel).

Biblical in its proportions, Angels in America has

a satanic figure at its heart: Roy M. Cohn, henchman to Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover. Cohn, who dismissed rumours he was a homosexual, said just because he liked having sex with men did not make him a homosexual. Brian Markinson’s Cohn is cocksure, brash, bombastic, manipulative and not even superficially charming. If America was a Garden of Eden prior to the 1980s, Cohn was certainly the snake.

But America wasn’t the Garden of Eden and the American Dream was already turning into a nightmare.

The play is subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes and it does bog down in several lengthy polemics that might be better read than spoken.

Beil, who is otherwise rivetting in his portrayal of guilt-stricken Louis, delivers the long, intellectually smug discourses on national themes – like justice – that are his character’s self-protection against reality.

Prior, having been abandoned

by Louis, says to his friend Belize, “I loved his anguish.

Watching him stick his head up his asshole and eat his guts out over some relatively minor moral conundrum – it was the best show in town.”

As for fantasia, we are spectators to the Valium-induced hallucinations of Harper and the feverish nightmares of Prior. Sometimes, their fantasy lives intersect, leaving them – and us – curious as to how this can be.

Atkins’ portrayal of the terrified Prior – sick, weak

and fouling himself – is gut-wrenching. Prior’s little glimmers of humour are just that and Atkins delivers them with sweet simplicity.While it is easy to be critical of Louis, Beil gives such a multi-faceted portrayal, it’s impossible to dismiss him.Who wouldn’t want to run away rather than watch their lover die such a painful, filthy death?

Celine Stubel, as Harper, is so open and transparent, you imagine you can see straight through her baggy cardigan to her wounded heart. Her rumpled knee socks and fluffy slippers add another child-like quality. And yet, for all her seeming naiveté, it is Harper who understands love and wants it with a hunger that is palpable.

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has waned over the years with the development of anti-viral drugs. But under President Trump (who was, as a young man, mentored

by Roy Cohn), America is entering upon another era of intolerance, paranoia and persecution. It is a plague, bristling with ‘alternate truths’ of a different but no less dangerous kind.

Prophetically, Kushner (writing the play in 1993) puts words into the mouth of a nameless, homeless woman in Act 3: “In the new century I think we will all be insane.”

That new century is now.

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Photographer Ross den Otter explained his large format camera and his modifications to Photographer-Assisted Selfie subject Joel Laurino. Rebecca Blissett photo

Photographer offers different perspective on selfies Ross den Otter launches PhotographerAssisted Selfies project as part of Capture Fest REBECCA BLISSETT @rebeccablissett

One camera and one exposure leads to many questions in Ross den Otter’s Strathcona studio – which is exactly the point behind his Photographer-Assisted Selfies open house, which took place as part of Capture Photography Festival last Saturday afternoon.

The Vancouver lens-based artist made all the artistic decisions behind the portrait sessions except for activating the shutter on his large format camera.The kind of film, the format, the type of camera, processing the film, printing and providing the venue – all den Otter’s.Triggering the camera’s shutter was done by the person in front of the lens by gently pulling a piece of string attached to the homemade shutter, made out of a wooden panel and some aluminum from the hardware store and light-sealed by recycled fabric from his wife’s worn-out pajamas.

“There’s a whole series of things involved but that one element of timing may shift the authorship,” said den Otter. Having the subject responsible for pressing the shutter created questions about ownership and copyright – an interesting study considering almost everybody with a smartphone has asked a stranger to take a photo with it at some point.

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on your vacation.You’re not going to be packing this and asking somebody, ‘Hey, would you mind taking a photo of me and my wife?’ This is a little more complicated,” he said. “The selfie stick involved in this one is somewhat unwieldy, it’s a large chunk of lumber you’ve got to carry around.”

Joking aside, the issue of authorship is a real one. An example from popular culture is the celebrity group shot taken at the 2014 Oscars with Ellen DeGeneres’ smartphone. According to US copyright law, the photo – famous because it broke the record for most retweets at the time – doesn’t belong to DeGeneres, the camera’s owner, but instead to the person who took it – the evidently long-armed Bradley Cooper.

So, while den Otter made the decision to use the oldfashioned Cambo camera with a box of old film given to him by a friend and spent the time rigging the camera with a Second World War aerial reconnaissance lens and a gravity-powered shutter, the photograph could very well belong to the subject because they pulled the string to release the shutter. But never fear, den Otter has thought this through and had his subjects sign a release form ensuring him of copyright ownership.

Creating the Photographer-Assisted Selfies project took much thought, even beyond the sticky question of ownership.

“I was thinking about choices and the idea of handing somebody the responsibility of taking a photo of themselves and paralleling that to the ideas that we may have towards the end of our lives,” den Otter said. “This is some-

what tied to my dad’s last days. He made some choices that probably affected his health in somewhat catastrophic ways.”

His father died in January 2016 of organ failure. During the sad lead-up, his son found himself maneuvering through decisions made by other people. So den Otter, in the middle of a conflux of choices along the way, put much thought into the relationship between decisions and outcomes as a result.

With his father still very much on his mind, den Otter decided to experiment with developing some test prints with the old film – he calls it “swamp film” because it’s thin and weak – by developing it in a mixture of beer, washing soda and instant coffee. While Grolsch was used because that was the last beer his father drank, it didn’t have enough reducing acids to process the film properly. Den Otter figures he’ll go back to souping with Guinness beer as he suspects it contains more vitamin C and alpha acids than the Dutch beer (the acids from the hops react to the silver in the film and the vitamin C acts as a stabilizer).

“I was thinking about the little interventions and how they change an outcome.

It parallels to making the subject responsible for the timing,” den Otter said.

“The choices we make here run parallel to the choices that led to my dad’s death.”

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Last week, the Washington Post reported that, if passed, a new bill could make Italy the first country in the West to provide employees with paid leave during their menstrual cycles. Like Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea and Indonesia, Italy’s policy would ensure female employees three extra sick days a month to recover from their cycle.

Progressive or regressive?

It all started in Japan.

After 20 years of push from the labor unions, law passed in 1947 allowing women to have a paid period leave.

Today, most women in Japan refuse to partake in the policy, for various reasons.

“If you take menstrual leave you’re basically broadcasting to the entire office which days of the month you have your period,” a Japanese professional woman told the Guardian in 2016. “It’s not the sort of thing you want to share with your male colleagues, and it could lead to sexual harassment.”

Another women noted that taking menstrual leave is a “sign of weakness” and, when trying to prove yourself in a man’s world, crying for special treatment of your uterus is not a good look. Many other Japanese women said they have taken sick days due to

intense period pain, but just called it a regular paid sick day. Mostly, women denied using the policy because it drew attention to something they didn’t want discussed in their place of work.

In 2001, South Korea made legal one day a month of period leave, but most women there reported feeling uncomfortable asking their male bosses for the day off. In 2014, one 28-year-old Korean woman told the Korean Times she felt “guilty” towards her co-workers, knowing that they would have to make up for her not being at the office.

Marie Claire praised Italy for its potential period policy, calling the move progressive, while Donna Moderna magazine bet that the law would backfire.

Imagine a paid period leave in North America?

Seriously. Imagine.

I think I participated in a total of nine P.E. classes during the 10th grade. Our gym teacher, Mr.Vipon, was an ex-prison guard turned high-school teacher with the red nose of an alcoholic and the discipline of a distracted babysitter. I loved Mr.Vipon’s class because I hated gym.

While the other half of the students in our grade were stuck running sprints across the gravel field while their militant gym teacher, Mrs. Bolls, kept time, those of us in Vipon’s class were stoned and laughing as we sat in the bleachers, unable to participate because we wore sandals

to school “by mistake”. I think I had “my period” for five months straight that year.

This was the ultimate excuse with Mr.Vipon because he didn’t want to hear about it.

He would just wave his hand and tell us to sit out due to our women problems. My lazy girlfriends and I took full advantage. All the fake periods didn’t exactly pay off, though: I barely passed P.E. My point is that uppermiddle class, entitled little c—ts (like myself at a young, naive, annoying age) would take full advantage of a policy like this. Lazy and hungover, they would rely on this policy to recover from their GHB binges, while women with serious medical conditions like endometriosis would be told they require a doctor’s note to prove their suffering. We can’t have this policy here. Our nation is too spoiled. Furthermore, this mandate endorses special treatment in a business world that is supposed to be promoting equality for all workers. I believe most hardworking, discerning women would take the mindset of those Japanese and Korean employees. Perhaps the labor unions knew that back in 1947? That most women would be too embarrassed to ask their male bosses for a period break, so the policy was there as a gesture but never intended for actual use? Who knows. Either way, I call it regressive and pointless. W

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By Rob Brezsny Be interested in first things, Aries. Cultivate your attraction to beginnings. Align yourself with uprisings and breakthroughs. Find out what’s about to hatch, and lend your support. Give your generous attention to potent innocence and novel sources of light. Marvel at people who are rediscovering the sparks that animated them when they first came into their power.

Fantasize about being a curious seeker who is devoted to reinventing yourself over and over again. Gravitate toward influences that draw their vitality directly from primal wellsprings. Be excited about first things.

I hope that by mid-May you will be qualified to teach a workshop called “Sweet Secrets of Tender Intimacy” or “Dirty Secrets of Raw Intimacy” or maybe even “Sweet and Dirty Secrets of Raw and Tender Intimacy.” In other words, Libra, I suspect that you will be adding substantially to your understanding of the art of togetherness. Along the way, you may also have experiences that would enable you to write an essay entitled “How to Act Like You Have Nothing to Lose When You Have Everything to Gain.”

Are you weary of lugging around decayed guilt and regret? Is it increasingly difficult to keep forbidden feelings concealed? Do you ache for redemption? If you answered yes to any of those questions, listen up. The empathetic and earthy saints of the Confession Catharsis Corps are ready to receive your blubbering disclosures.

They are clairvoyant, they’re non-judgmental, and best of all, they’re free. Within seconds after you telepathically communicate with our earthy saints, they will psychically beam you eleven minutes of unconditional love, no strings attached. Do it! You’ll be amazed at how much lighter and smarter you feel. Transmit your sad stories to the Confession Catharsis Corps NOW!

If you have a dream of eating soup with a fork, it might mean that in your waking life you’re using the wrong approach to getting nourished. If you have a dream of entering through an exit, it might mean that in your waking life you’re trying to start at the end rather than the beginning. And if you dream of singing nursery rhymes at a karaoke bar with unlikable people from high school, it might mean that in your waking life you should seek more fulfilling ways to express your wild side and your creative energies. (P.S. You’ll be wise to do these things even if you don’t have the dreams I described.)

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Back in September, a young cat named Jax arrived at the Canadian Animal Rescue & Extended Shelter (C.A.R.E.S.) in Langley in rough shape. His owner had been admitted to a rehabilitation facility, and the three-year-old tuxedo male needed help.

“When he first got here he was covered in some sort of rash – we weren’t entirely sure what it was,” recalls shelter co-ordinator Allison Chapman.

“We suspected it might be ringworm, so we used a steroid cream on his skin and the problem seemed to clear up.”

Unfortunately, Jax’s troubles weren’t quite over. He caught an upperrespiratory infection – in other words, a cat cold –

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“Abscesses are a pretty common skin condition in cats – they’re wounds that contain trapped bacteria that sometimes occur as a result of a bite during a fight,” Chapman explains. “We’re not exactly sure how this abscess happened, but it was another health hurdle that he had to overcome.”

Between the rash, infection and abscess, Jax went through a challenging period during which he lost his appetite, had trouble keeping down his food and generally did not feel well.

But, through it all, shelter staff and volunteers, who hand-fed him and kept him company, marveled at what a sweet cat he was.

“He has been loving,

affectionate and outgoing despite all his trials and tribulations, the trips to the vet and the meds,” she says.

“Some cats would withdraw from the pain or confusion, but not Jax. He’s been our lovely, playful little buddy from the very beginning.”

Now, with a completely clean bill of health, this black-and-white cutie is ready for his forever home.

Gentle and calm with kids and great with other cats – but perfectly content flying solo, too – nearly any type of environment would suit Jax. “He had a run of bad luck at the start, but that’s all behind him,” Chapman says.

“Now, he’d just love a person or family to call his own.”

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Now is an excellent time to free your memories.

To free your memories, you could change the way you talk and feel about your past. Re-examine your assumptions about your old stories, and dream up fresh interpretations to explain how and why they happened. Here’s another way to free your memories: If you’re holding on to an insult someone hurled at you once upon a time, let it go. In fact, declare a general amnesty for everyone who ever did you wrong. By the way, the coming weeks will also be a favorable phase to free your memories that hold you back. Are there any tales you tell yourself about the past that undermine your dreams about the future? Stop telling yourself those tales.

How big is your vocabulary? Twenty thousand words? Thirty thousand? Whatever size it is, the coming weeks will be prime time to expand it. Life will be conspiring to enhance your creative use of language . . . to deepen your enjoyment of the verbal flow . . . to help you become more articulate in rendering the mysterious feelings and complex thoughts that rumble around inside you. If you pay attention to the signals coming from your unconscious mind, you will be shown how to speak and write more effectively. You may not turn into a silver-tongued persuader, but you could become a more eloquent spokesperson for your own interests.

We all need more breaks from the routine – more holidays, more vacations, more days off from work.

We should all play and dance and sing more, and guiltlessly practice the arts of leisure and relaxation.

And I’m nominating you to show us the way in the coming weeks, Leo. Be a ringleader who springs all of us inmates out of our mental prisons. Be the imaginative escape artist who demonstrates how to relieve tension and lose inhibitions.

People in your vicinity may be preoccupied with trivial questions. What’s more nutritious, corn chips or potato chips? Could Godzilla kick King Kong’s ass? I suspect you will also encounter folks who are embroiled in meaningless decisions and petty emotions. So how should you navigate your way through this energy-draining muddle?

Here’s my advice: Identify the issues that are most worthy of your attention. Be selfish in your rapt determination to serve your clearest and noblest and holiest agendas.

If you’re a Quixotic lover, you’re more in love with love itself than with any person. If you’re a Cryptic lover, the best way to stay in love with a particular partner is to keep him or her guessing.

If you’re a Harlequin, your steady lover must provide as much variety as three lovers. If you’re a Buddy, your specialties are having friendly sex and having sex with friends. If you’re a Histrionic, you’re addicted to confounding, disorienting love.

It’s also possible that you’re none of the above. I hope so, because now is an excellent time to have a beginner’s mind about what kind of love you really need and want to cultivate in the future.

Your new vocabulary word is “adytum.” It refers to the most sacred place within a sacred place – the inner shrine at the heart of a sublime sanctuary.

Is there such a spot in your world? A location that embodies all you hold precious about your journey on planet Earth? It might be in a church or temple or synagogue or mosque, or it could be a magic zone in nature or a corner of your bedroom. Here you feel an intimate connection with the divine, or a sense of awe and reverence for the privilege of being alive. If you don’t have a personal adytum, Capricorn, find or create one. You need the refreshment that comes from dwelling in the midst of the numinous.

You could defy gravity a little, but not a lot. You can’t move a mountain, but you may be able to budge a hill. Luck won’t miraculously enable you to win a contest, but it might help you seize a hardearned perk or privilege. A bit of voraciousness may be good for your soul, but a big blast of greed would be bad for both your soul and your ego. Being savvy and feisty will energize your collaborators and attract new allies; being a smartass show-off would alienate and repel people.

Here are activities that will be especially favorable for you to initiate in the near future: 1. Pay someone to perform a service for you that will ease your suffering. 2. Question one of your fixed opinions if that will lead to you receiving a fun invitation you wouldn’t get otherwise. 3. Dole out sincere praise or practical help to a person who could help you overcome one of your limitations. 4. Get clear about how one of your collaborations would need to change in order to serve both of you better. Then tell your collaborator about the proposed improvement with light-hearted compassion.

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Blue Monkey Organic Coconut Water

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Anita’s Organic Flour

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Soup Etc. Soup and Stock

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5.98

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B.C. Grown Long English Cucumbers

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35%

325g • product of Canada

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2.19 to 3.89

31%

4.49

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