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I hope all West Enders are aware of the revolving art shows by local artists hung in the West End Community Centre and in the window of Vanity on Robson at Denman. Currently in that window, Tony Schuh’s story and art are so wonderful and inspiring and, in the words of a friend of mine, “These great paintings could be the medicine that get people through their day. I say... they’re anti-misery medicine.

Yes, yes, yes.”

In these days we could all use some joy and, lucky us – we can find it in this art around town. Thanks to all the artists, VanCity and the WECC. —D.McArthur

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Re:“Park board introduces pay parking to Spanish Banks,” Nov. 15, 2017. westender.com What’s next? Paying “breathing tax?” This is ridiculous. —Aida Sánchez Good. Pay up, drivers.

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Poem of the week Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week: P.M. Jang.

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THE VIOLINIST on the corner near the entrance to the department store a young woman with red and yellow hair earrings like diamonds painted eyes closed for dreaming she wears lace and shorts and bold striped stockings clothes combined for clashing unlike the music she intently plays for tinkling coins to come her way the open case beseeches the music begs offers provides on this grey pavement joy anguish grief and longing P.M. Jang has lived in the West End now for a little more than a decade, and is the author of the self-published eBooks PoemsWhere We Are and HollyhocksWould Be Too Lovely, a short story collection.

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NEWS // ISSUES

Part-time gig: Is the sharing economy worth it?

WhatVancouverites should know about this largely unregulated market SARAH RIPPLINGER @sarahripplinger

There was once a time, on any given Friday night, when Warren Isbister would put away his tools and start priming himself for an evening of driving.

The 36-year-old journeyman welder began moonlighting as an UberX driver – or “partner” in the Uber vernacular – in Edmonton, soon after the ride-sharing service launched there in December 2014. On a typical weekend, you would find him checking his phone app for trip requests and picking up passengers – on their way to a show, on a date, back home after the bar –into the early hours of the morning.

It was a side job for Isbister, and one that he did for the love of conversation and driving – definitely not for the money. When all his costs – such as gas, taxes, cleaning supplies, snacks for customers, and added wear and tear on his vehicle – and time were factored in, his side gig was barely worth it.

“That’s why Uber has such a high turnover,” says Isbister over the phone from his home in Edmonton. “Basically, people come in, they’re enthused, they realize it’s not so great, and they quit.”

Isbister, like millions of people around the world, was part of what is being called the gig economy or, more broadly, the sharing economy. Facilitated by digital technologies – such as smartphone apps – companies like Airbnb, Upwork, Lyft, Uber and AskforTask, to name a few, have cropped up to offer part-time work opportunities to enterprising, be-your-own-boss-oriented entrepreneurs.

According to Stats Canada, an estimated 2.7

Left: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick (left) speaking on a panel in Vancouver in 2016. Dan Toulgoet photo. Top right: Gig economy researcher Alexandrea Ravenelle. Contributed photo. Bottom right: SFU political science professor Anil Hira. Contributed photo million Canadians aged 18 years and older “participated in the sharing economy” from November 2015 to October 2016, and that’s just counting people using ride sharing services and private accommodation rentals.

Sharing economy organizations are often unregulated or operate in legislative grey areas.

However, governments are gradually passing laws in an attempt to get a better deal for local economies and workers.

Vancouver City Council recently voted 7-4 in favour of imposing restrictions on the estimated 6,000 shortterm housing rentals operating in the city. Meanwhile, the B.C. NDP is investigating whether or not to allow ride-sharing services like Uber to open up shop.

However, new laws take time to develop. On the whole, says Anil Hira, a professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, “governments are really behind the eight ball when it comes to keeping up with technical regulations.” For example, online transactions, such as those conducted by companies like Amazon, may be made using a different sales tax, giving web-based platforms an unfair advantage over brick-and-mortar storefronts.

On top of that, online gig work opportunities, like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

– a so-called “marketplace” that enables businesses to hire workers to perform tasks that a computer can’t do – can be completed by anyone around the world. This, says Hira, can “lead to potentially major outsourcing of traditional jobs” to workers outside of British Columbia and Canada, a further decline of labour unions, and “residual unemployment – where certain segments of the population just won’t have steady work because of the gig economy.”

THE PAST REVISITED

The gig economy gained popularity during the recession of the 1980s and 1990s, when North American companies started outsourcing their workforces to reduce costs associated with wages, according to researcher and sociologist Alexandrea Ravenelle.

“Now, it [the gig economy] is a much bigger trend that’s been made cool,” she says.

“If it’s a technology company, you’re working off an app, so people don’t question it the same way that they did when companies were laying off their white collar workforce in the ’80s and ’90s.”

Ravenelle, who studied the gig economy in NewYork for her PhD dissertation, The New Entrepreneur:Worker Experiences in the Sharing Economy, notes

that professional downsizers, like disgraced former corporate executive Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap, even made names for themselves by helping companies turn a larger profit through massive layoffs.

Gig economy workers don’t necessarily have a guaranteed number of paid hours, a pension plan, disability insurance or benefits. The result, she says, is a growing number of people who are precariously employed – also called the precariat – people who work long hours for little pay and live with a great deal of uncertainty.

The reality we’re faced with now, she says, is that the profits being made by the sharing economy often come at a cost to workers. “We are moving back into almost a pre- or early-industrial era when it comes to workers’ rights and protections,” she says.

WHY MANY OF US ARE ALONG FOR THE RIDE

Isbister says he sees the upsides and downsides of his former part-time gig. On the plus side, he appreciates the quality of service Uber offers to its customers in terms of the availability and cost of rides.

“Most people said that their ride was anywhere from 40 to 80 per cent cheaper than a cab,” he recalls from his expe-

rience, “and typically drivers would respond in anywhere from one to 10 minutes. On the other hand, people would tell me stories where they had to wait 30 minutes to two hours for a cab.”

Drivers also have an opportunity to make money, but likely as a side gig on top of one or more other jobs.

“The only people that maybe have some repercussions are the [Uber] drivers,” he says. “It would be nice if they could take more of a cut of the fare.”

Indeed, Uber drivers have recently been demanding better wages and working conditions, with protests staged in NewYork and San Francisco last year over wage cuts. But the fact is that Uber can offer its customers lower fares because it doesn’t pay its drivers a guaranteed salary, require certain permits (unless mandated), or lease vehicles to drivers, as is often the case with taxi companies.

What’s worrying about the growth of the gig/sharing economy, say experts, is the impact it’s having on the number of full-time jobs now and into the future.

Already, between 2006 and October 2017, the number of self-employed British Columbians grew by around 43 per cent, according to Statistics Canada

figures, while the number of employees in B.C. grew by less than eight per cent. Over that same time period, parttime work in B.C. increased by almost 19 per cent and full-time work by about 14 per cent.

For the sake of protecting the rights and financial security of workers, Ravenelle notes, there is an urgent need for governments to step in and regulate.

“The default categorization for workers should be ‘employee,’” she says, to ensure part-time workers will still qualify for benefits, workers compensation and other workplace protections afforded to full-time employees.

“Research shows that there are companies in the sharing economy that have categorized their workers as employees and they are succeeding,” such as housecleaning company MyClean, she says.

These companies find success because of lower worker and customer turnover, as workers tend to be better trained and happier with their employment situation overall.

“The problematic aspect for some sectors is that it [the gig economy] is global in scope,” says Hira. “So, at the local level, for companies like Uber, you need to have sensible regulations, but for the [larger] gig economy, you need a global set of regulations, and that, of course, is going to be a much more evolutionary process.”

Meanwhile, a steady stream of new companies – like Vancouver’s own Quupe online product rental/lending platform – are coming onto the market to compete with traditional businesses, such as equipment rental storefronts.

For Isbister, it’s a matter of choice. If people want to participate in the gig economy as Uber drivers, he says, governments shouldn’t stand in their way.

“I think Vancouver should welcome a service like Uber,” he says. “It’s up to every driver to figure out their situation and if it’s worth their while.” W

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NEWS // ISSUES

70 sinful years of the Penthouse Nightclub Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown

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“WE TAKE OFF MORE THAN WESTJET” …

“POLES MORE RELIABLE THAN CNN” …

“MORE NUDE SCENES THAN GAME OF THRONES” …

Those are just a few of the cheeky messages that have been displayed in recent years on the marquee of the Penthouse Nightclub.

Four brothers named Joe (Philliponi), Jimmy, Ross, and Mickey Filippone opened the notorious downtown landmark at 1019 Seymour St. in 1947. The family had purchased two lots on Seymour in 1941 for $1,400. Both are still in the Filippone name today.

The 70-year legacy of Vancouver’s most infamous strip club is rocky one, including murder, fire, accusations of profiting from prostitution (a case that eventually went to the Supreme Court of Canada, clearing all Filippones accused) and more celebrity appearances than a David Foster Gala.

Everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Sting has hung out at the Penthouse.

More than 65 movies and TV shows have been filmed within its glittery walls. And the Penthouse didn’t even get a liquor licence until 1968.

After years of negative press and police raids, the Penthouse finally started receiving positive appreciation from heritage groups in the 1990s.

But it wasn’t until 2012, shortly after a fire almost shuttered the nightclub for good, that the Penthouse and all those involved experi-

The Penthouse, located on Seymour St., with 54-year-old owner Danny Filippone. Grant Lawrence photo enced what could only be called a cultural awakening.

That’s when local historian and author Aaron Chapman published Liquor, Lust and the Law:The Story ofVancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub.

The book was an immediate hit, and a No. 1 bestseller in B.C. It showcased the club in a new light for a wide audience, many of whom had never set foot inside.

Chapman portrayed the Penthouse as a historically relevant site, a building that holds a thousand stories, and the setting for the saga of the rags-to-riches immigrant Filippone family.

A new, updated edition of Liquor, Lust and the Law has been released this month in time for the Penthouse’s 70th anniversary party.

“That book changed my life. It changed my family’s life,” emoted Danny Filippone when I met up with the ever-gregarious 54-year-old Penthouse owner last week.

“You have no idea. That book legitimized the legacy of the Penthouse and the legacy of my family. My kids can walk proud now because of that book.”

Interest in the Penthouse has only grown in the five years since the book was published. The monthly

Secrets of the Penthouse tours often sell out in advance and attract a broad, gender-balanced audience, all interested in the stories of the club.

“We get people from 19 years old to 105 years old,” Filippone extolled. “We get ’em on their first dates and their last dates!”

Not everyone is a convert.

Some critics have called out the Penthouse for being a relic from another time, a business that continues to objectify women during the dawning of a new age of feminism, all in the name of “exotic entertainment.”

“That’s nothing new,” sighed Filippone. “That’s something I take very seriously and I’ve dealt with from the moment I took over the club.

Look, stripping is a profession, and a very old one at that.

“What we do at the Penthouse we do with class.We try to keep stripping in the burlesque art form,” reasoned Filippone. “We’ve always done our best to diversify.We have comedy, live music and we’ve worked with the Pride Festival for decades, with plenty of nights for just guys and just girls.”

The question Filippone is asked most often has nothing to do with the ethics of stripping and everything to do with

FRESH CHOICES

Vancouver’s favourite topic of conversation: real estate.

The downtown land that the aging Penthouse and the original Filippone home sit on is now worth millions upon millions of dollars.

“Before he was murdered, my Uncle Joe taught me a lesson I’ve never forgotten,” Filippone said. (Joe Philliponi was murdered at the Penthouse in 1983 in what family describes as a robbery gone wrong.) “He told me to stay on my toes because Vancouver is always changing.You can’t sit still.

“So, yes, I’m listening to what the developers have to say, and yes, they’re very interested, and they have been for years.”

Does that mean the Penthouse as we know it will be no longer?

“I’m not saying that,” Filippone answered with a wry grin. “I want the Penthouse to be around for another 70 years, but this is a very old building.

My dad [Ross Filippone] is gone, my uncles are all gone.

You have to adapt with the times, and I know they would have appreciated that.

“Let’s just say that no matter what happens, the Penthouse will be here in one form or another, maybe brand new, and better than ever before.”

The Penthouse’s 70th-anniversary party is on Thursday, Nov. 30 and promises to be a star-studded night, with a retro burlesque show complete with a live band and fourpiece brass section, as well as vintage cars parked out front representing all seven sinful decades of the Penthouse.

Doors are at 6:30 p.m., the show starts at 7 p.m., tickets are $20. And to quote that famous marquee one more time: “NO CAMERAS, LEAVE THE FLASHING TO US.” W

Bike sharing and bad weather

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I haven’t ridden a bike in this city for a few weeks now. In part, it’s because my bike – a beautiful vintage one – was stolen. Of course, the persistent and aggressive rain hasn’t helped, and the replacement bike I bought off a friend is sitting in my living room, tires deflated.

Weather not withstanding, I decided I should look into Vancouver’s bike sharing program. But nay, my enthusiasm was abruptly thwarted: not only does the bike share not (yet) have stations in my neighbourhood, but it’s pricing structure is awkward (we’ll get to that).

Last Friday, the city announced that Mobi would be expanding with approximately 15 new stations and 500 more bikes, to cover the Commercial Drive area as far east as Victoria Drive, as well as more of Mount Pleasant and the Downtown Eastside.

I spoke with Mia Kohout, general manager of Vancouver Bike Share, to discuss the program’s expansion. “We’re going to be beginning that rollout in 2018, with the goal of being completed by the summer,” she explained.

Kohout estimates that the expansion will cost $3 million. One million will come from TransLink’s Bicycle Infrastructure Capital Cost Sharing Fund, and Vancouver Bike Share Inc. (a subsidiary of U.S. company Cycle Hope) will cover the rest.

We also discussed the payment structure. Despite the considerable public funding, signing up for Mobi requires a credit card, which

is something my lowerincome friends don’t have.

A day pass costs $9.75, and, if you want anything more, the price jumps to $75 for 90 days, with several higher priced options available. As someone who wants to see whether Mobi is compatible with my lifestyle, these subscription options are not what I’m looking for.

I asked Kohout why there isn’t a $20 one-week option for Vancouver residents.

“The goal, and really our focus is annual membership, so that’s really what we push most locals to actually sign up for, because that gives you unlimited access… and the cost is quite low if you use it regularly.”

My frustration with a lack of trial pricing options remains, but there is some consolation. Mobi regularly offers free one-day trial passes, and there’s one on now. What luck!

But, just as I am wrapping up this bike column due to winter weather, I wondered what affect the rainy days have on the bike share program.

As it enters its second winter in operation, Mobi has in fact seen a decrease in ridership. During the winter, the number of trips taken drops by about 40 to 70 per cent.

According to the company’s latest numbers, August 2017 saw nearly 95,000 rides, September saw 64,208, and,

by October, it dropped to 43,440.

As for myself, my cycling has dropped by 100 percent, and will likely remain there until the spring, when I hope to resurrect the Vicious Cycle column (and re-inflate those tires). W

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EAT // DRINK

Seafood for the people Anya Levykh Nosh

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Despite Vancouver’s location next to a rather large body of water – not to mention numerous fish-inhabited rivers and streams – seafood restaurants have not historically been plentiful on the ground.

For many years, our choices seemed limited to fish ‘n’ chips dives or admittedly delicious but high-end restaurants like Blue Water Café.Where was that happy medium?

A solid choice was – and still is – one of the many Chinese restaurants that specialize in seafood; not just for dim sum, but as part of the multi-course dinner extravaganzas that mark traditional family celebrations.

But, where were those modern Canadian restaurants focusing on seafood?

Instead of elk and poutine, where was the seafood bistro that would deliver tasty fish for a reasonable price, and maybe even a cocktail or craft beer to go with it?

WildTale was one of the first iterations of casual seafood in Vancouver, and the last five years has seen a veritable explosion of casual, fin-to-table options that

Anya Levykh Fresh Sheet

@FoodGirlFriday Chef Chris Stewart, formerly of Hawksworth and Mission Hill Winery Restaurant, has joined the Donnelly Group as its new culinary director. Stewart will be working with executive chef Alvin Pillay and product and development chef Sarah Stewart (no relation) to oversee menu development and execution at Donnelly’s 12 pubs and three cocktail bars in Vancouver and Toronto, as well as a new beer hall opening in Toronto later this winter. donnellygroup.ca Long-time Commercial

chicken for non-pescetarians.

It also has a rather nice wine list and a solid cocktail list, including the perfect summer sipper, a frozen Pimm’s Cup (why has no one thought of this before?).

Not to mention, lobster guacamole. Some of the seafood isn’t local, FYI, but the BLT with soft-shell crab and poached prawns is worth a visit. hookseabar.com

like these, Holy Crab is the place to go.The paper-covered tables and plastic gloves, along with the massive paper towel roll, are all not-so-subtle hints that things are going to get messy. Order a whole crab or lobster, or some frog

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ODDFISH

Clockwise from top: Oddfish co-owner James Maxwell. Dan Toulgoet photo. Crab Park Chowdery. Contributed Holy Crab.

Contributed. Oddfish’s crab and shrimp cakes. Dan Toulgoet won’t break the bank. Here are a few of the latest.

CRAB PARK CHOWDERY

This tiny room on Abbott Street in the heart of Gastown is named in part after the nearby and enormous park of the same name. The menu, however, is just the right size and features oldfashioned San Franciscostyle bread bowls filled with chowders and hearty soups.

The classic New England clam chowder is thick and heavily studded with clams

and double-smoked bacon.

Smoky tomato soup, made with plum tomatoes and coconut milk, is vegan and delicious, and perfectly paired with the on-point grilled cheese sandwich. chowdery.com

HOOK SEABAR

Located in the West End, in the old Milestones location on Denman at Davie, Hook casts a wide net with a menu that includes sushi, fish ‘n’ chips, steamed mussels, shellfish platters, oysters, and burgers and fried

From the owners of Nook and Tavola comes this fish-and-vegetable-focused spot in Kitsilano.The menu rotates frequently, based on what’s locally available and in season, but expect dishes like potted shrimp, a ceviche of some kind, and mains that are simply prepared, often on the cast iron plancha grill. If you have the coin – and the company – go for the “Hot Mess.” At $65, it’s not affordable at first glance, but this is a massive amount of seafood and usually includes half a lobster, squid, prawns, mussels, scallops, clams, etc. It’s definitely meant to be shared among two or three hungry friends. oddfishrestaurant.com

THE HOLY CRAB

Sometimes, all you want is a knock-down, drag-out experience from a meal; a chance to literally get your hands dirty, let the sauce run down your chin, and cast aside all utensils. For nights

Drive institution Havana Restaurant has been bought by the owners of the Settlement Building, which houses Belgard Kitchen,Vancouver UrbanWinery and Postmark Brewing. No word yet on any changes that might be made to the space.

Campania Tomato Sauce. For every jar of sauce sold between now and Dec. 31 at all Famoso locations in Western Canada, one meal will be provided to a Canadian youth in the community where the sauce was sold. famoso.ca/campania

Powell St. in December.The new café is the first solo venture from husband-and-wife team Haitham El Khatib and Fiona Hepher.The restaurant will feature staples of Middle Eastern cuisine, from multiple regions. alepheatery.com

After almost nine years in operation, La Taqueria is closing the original Hastings Street location for renovations until January 2018. Last day of service is Nov. 24, which will be celebrated with twofor-one tacos 2-5 p.m.The Hornby Street location will remain open. lataqueria.com

Sammy Piccolo, owner of the Prado cafes, has opened Spade on Commercial Drive.

The new venture will see the space function as a café and restaurant, offering pastries, coffee, daily brunch, lunch, and dinner, as well as cocktails, wine and local craft beer.

The menu will be overseen by chef and GM Kathleen Pearce. spadecoffee.ca

Rocky Mountain Flatbread has added a new plant-based menu to its regular offerings. The new vegan additions include appetizers, artisan pizzas, soups, salads and organic pastas.

Gluten-free alternatives are also available. Instead of nut cheeses, chef Oliver Zulauf has created a cauliflowerbased cheese and drizzle (the restaurant is entirely nut-free) for vegan items. rockymountainflatbread.ca

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Fasten your seatbelts: A highflying new lounge has taken off at the Westin Bayshore.

The HJU:Z Lounge, named after Howard Hughes, takes its cues from the legendary aviator, filmmaker, entrepreneur and philanthropist who famously took over the top three floors at the Bayshore for six months in 1972.

Westender got a sneak peek of the plush but comfy 155-seat lounge, its food and cocktail program, ahead of a grand opening last Saturday, courtesy of general manager Philippe Grandbois.

Grandbois, formerly of Chambar and the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, has been working on the Bayshore’s new lounge for seven months, with the HJU:Z concept – the name is fashioned as a plane’s call sign – one of 12 initial ideas for the space.

The room has a distinct art deco design recalling Hughes’s heyday.There is low-slung, pastel-coloured furniture and ornate detailing in golden brass, while a delicate chandelier of Bohemian glass spirals up to the ceiling.

Nods to the billionaire playboy are everywhere, from the

HJU:Z Lounge has numerous art deco touches in its plush interior, along with inventive cocktails (top left) inspired by Howard Hughes’s around-the-world flight. Jan Zeschky photos aviation design on the cloth coasters, to the motto “Rules Don’t Apply” etched into the bar’s spill tray.

Behind the bar, Grandbois’ team has put together a range of dramatic but well balanced cocktails that evoke stops on Hughes’s recordbreaking around-the-world flight in 1938. They include the gin-based Alaska No. 2, featuring an iceberg and sliver of gold leaf; the aniseflavoured Foshay Tower, founded on akvavit; the Cognac-powered, Champagnefuelled Eiffel 75; and the Muscovite, featuring vodka, lime and haskap berry. Try

all seven on the list and you’ll unlock a secret, eighth recipe.

The bar is admirably stocked with an impressive range of wine, Champagne and spirits – most notably a bottle of pre-phylloxera Cognac, though that’s likely something only Hughes could afford a glass of.

The food is far from an afterthought. In fact, Grandbois spent months headhunting Hong Kong-born chef Alex Mok, until he finally got his man.

At HJU:Z, Mok gives classic dishes a distinct flair, such as a sumptuous piece of

coffee-crusted, 28-day-aged, sous-vide Angus striploin, while he also offers inventive, adventurous options like baked abalone with ponzu seaweed, and scrambled duck egg served inside the shell with sturgeon caviar.

You can’t help but think the great man himself would feel very much at home here. W • HJU:Z Lounge at the Westin Bayshore is open seven days a week, 5 p.m. until late; a lunch service is in development. hjuzlounge.com

Lumière set to light up West End LINDSAY WILLIAM-ROSS @viawesome

Vancouver’s West End will once again light up with exciting art installations and community events this year with the return of the annual Lumière event.

With a full week of programming that includes things like dance parties, pop-up ping pong (from public space visionaries frida&frank), DJs, live mural painting, and more, Lumière aims to bring the community together with this free arts festival.

Running Dec. 2-9, Lumière will feature visually exciting pieces of art, including Luna the Whale by MK Illuminations.

This year, MK Illuminations will also have a tree set up in English Bay for the event, and once again the festival is crowd-sourcing a name for the work. Here’s a full list of this year’s featured artwork: • Sham–Real Shadows by Trevor Van den Eijnden • Sol and his Cubes at the Dancehall by Chris Mills • Blue by Khan Lee

Luna the Whale stars at this year’s Lumière event. Contributed photo • Luminous Birds by Kathy Hinde, produced by Cryptic Glasgow • Shine with Pride by Tangible Interaction, curated by the Burrard Arts Foundation • Postures in Protest by Erdem Ta?delen, curated by Burrard Arts Foundation • The Limitation of Words to Describe Feelings by Hfour, curated by Jamie Hughes • Luna the Whale by MK Illumination Canada. W

FULL PROGRAM OF EVENTS, JIM DEVA PLAZA Dec. 2 – Launch night – DJs, light-inspired performances, umbrella parade and more (also at English Bay) Dec. 3 – Art exhibition; dance party hosted by Sam’s Dance Dec. 4 – Art exhibition Dec. 5 – Art exhibition Dec. 6 – Pop-up ping pong hosted by frida&frank; Talk series hosted by Places for People Dec. 7 – Black light mural painting; Infinity Boxes by Trevor Van den Eijnden Dec. 8 – Pop-up ping pong hosted by frida&frank; Party in the Plaza Dec. 9 – Art exhibition; public disco

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Qmunity youth workers Molly Billows and Esther McPhee with some examples of chest wear, available at the centre for trans and gender variant youth. Tessa Vikander photo

Binders, bras and breast forms Qmunity provides access to genderaffirming chest wear not covered by health insurance TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

For trans and gender variant youth, access to gender-affirming gear or chest wear has a huge impact, says Qmunity youth worker Molly Billows.

“The BBB program can really be life-changing for youth,” Billows says, referring to the Bras, Binders and Breast forms program they coordinate through the LGBTQ community centre in the West End. “You see it with so many youth who come in and go to try on a binder... and come out and [are] still wearing it and are like, ‘Do I have to take it off?’”

A binder is a specially designed, tight-fitting undershirt that compresses a person’s breasts, giving them the appearance of a flatter chest.

Along with breast forms, usually made of silicone, these products fall into the category of chest wear.

“You can just tell that maybe it’s the first time that they’re feeling comfortable in the clothes that they’re wearing,” Billows continues, “or, seeing a reflection of themselves [in the mirror], the way they want themselves to look.

“On the flip side it can be a very devastating experience when we don’t have a garment that fits a youth, or a garment that matches with what they’re looking for.”

The BBB program runs

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year-round and provides chest wear, free of charge and with no questions asked, to youth in need around the province. Billows and her coworker, Esther McPhee, say they help 10 to 20 youth access chest wear each month, either by mail or out of Qmunity’s Bute Street office.

Qmunity, which hosts the BBB program, receives funding from corporate and government grants as well as private donors. Billows and McPhee have a small budget with which they make bulk orders every year, but, to meet the demand, they also rely on community members donating new or lightly used chest gear.

Finding the courage to reach out for support can be tough for youth, and that’s why Billows says it’s important to have enough gear on hand.

“It takes a lot of courage to walk in that door for the first time, and so, to turn them away at that point, without being able to give them something, is a devastating moment. I wish we just had enough to give everyone who was seeking [chest wear].”

While the province covers certain health services for trans people – such as gender-affirming surgery – chest wear is not included.

Westender reached out to Trans Care B.C. for comment, but did not hear back before press deadline.

Steve Morgan, professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, says the fact that the province does not cover chest wear is part of a larger issue in health insurance coverage. “Canadians may be surprised

to realize that our health care system is not nearly as comprehensive as originally planned,” he says. Medical services, hospital care, dental care, pharmaceuticals, homecare and medical devices were originally in the federal government’s plans after the Second World War, but, after negotiations broke down between the federal government and the provinces, it was decided that universal health care would be rolled out in stages.

As a “consequence of moving slowly,” the various governments only established coverage of hospital and physician services, Morgan says. “We didn’t see any other stage of Medicare be developed at a national level… so Canadians actually go without universal public coverage for a number of things that would be routinely publicly covered in comparable health systems abroad.”

Coverage of medical devices (the category that chest wear would fall into) varies by province, and Morgan says the fact that they aren’t covered in B.C. doesn’t necessarily equate to a disregard for trans health.

Many different population groups go without coverage for necessary or preventative medical devices or services, he says.

However, Billows says the question of why chest wear isn’t covered is “part of a wider conversation about why care for trans folk and trans youth isn’t more widely available or easily available in general.”

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When Attiya Khan was in her teens, she lived with her boyfriend, Steve, for two years. And for the entirety of those two years, Steve assaulted Khan, relentlessly and viciously, until the day she escaped with her life.

For many domestic abuse survivors, this is where direct contact with their abuser ends.

But more than two decades after Khan fled that violent relationship, she had questions for Steve – and he agreed to answer them, on camera.

Those conversations, and Khan’s journey to hear Steve and be heard by him, form A Better Man, her feature-length documentary debut that screens in Vancouver this week as part of Reel Causes.

In A Better Man, abuse survivor Attiya Khan engages in a series of heart to hearts with her former boyfriend, Steve. The doc was executive produced by Sarah Polley. Contributed photo More than 23 years have passed since Khan began her life anew, and for the bulk of those years, Khan had little contact with Steve, save for chance meetings on the streets of downtown Toronto.

“When I saw him that first time [after their relationship] I almost fainted and I was terrified, and then, a few years later, I saw him again,” says Khan in a recent phone interview.

Those encounters always brought forth a storm of emotions in Khan: “I’d end up having more nightmares than usual, and all of the trauma that I had associated with it would heighten.”

But a paradigm shift occurred when Khan (who had since built a career as a professional advocate for women who experience domestic violence) ran into Steve, and “for first time I looked at him not as the person who had hurt me, and I think that happened because he didn’t look well, and he looked unhappy, and I thought, ‘I don’t wish that on anyone, even the person that hurt me.’

“That’s when I became curious about him and thought, ‘I wonder if the abuse that he inflicted on me has affected his life?’”

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive

human rights violations in the world: the United Nations reports that roughly 70 per cent of women have been subject to a form of physical or sexual abuse from an intimate partner or loved one.

In Canada, the rate of violent crime against young women aged 15 to 24 (the group that Khan fell into at the time of the assaults) is 42 per cent higher than the rate for women aged 25 to 34, and nearly double the rate for women aged 35 to 44.

Also in Canada: Approximately every six days, a woman is killed at the hands of her intimate partner.

Khan had long been dedicated to ending gender-based violence through her work when the idea for A Better Man began to take shape.

When she asked Steve to participate in the film, she didn’t expect him to say yes.

“I said, ‘I have this idea: I think it’s incredible that you and I can stand here and have a conversation, and I’ve been thinking that I’d like to make a documentary about preventing domestic violence, and I thought that it would be really helpful to show you and I having a conversation together,” recalls Khan. “And he was just looking at me in disbelief.

I let him sit with that, and he said, ‘You know, my gut is

telling me that this is the right thing to do, and to be honest, if I could help one young man change his path and not use violence, then I think it would be worth it.’”

Their initial conversation took place in a Toronto café. Khan’s friend operated the camera while Khan questioned Steve about the violence he’d inflicted on her, and what he remembered about specific assaults.

Khan had originally intended to edit that first conversation into a short film, but how she felt after that initial interview (as well as the response she received when she told people about it) compelled her forward into feature-length documentary territory.

Steve consented to participate in what ended up being a four-year journey.

A Better Man was produced by the National Film Board of Canada and co-directed by Lawrence Jackman. It began its festival tour earlier this year at Hot Docs. W • A Better Man screens Nov. 23 at SFU Woodward’s Djavad Mowafaghian Theatre. The screening will support We Can BC and Battered Women’s Support Services. reelcauses.org

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When Brianne Nord-Stewart shot the first season of The Dangers of Online Dating in 2012, online dating was still widely considered an alter-

native way to meet potential lovers instead of the established norm it is today.

Granted, more people were doing it than ever before, but “they weren’t talking about it,” says Nord-Stewart, who will premiere not one but two seasons of her comedy web series on Nov. 23.

These days, “online dating is definitely a part of our social

fabric,” observes Nord-Stewart, an emerging filmmaker of shorts (Beat Around the Bush) and web series (Young & Reckless) who took home the Encore Vancouver Newcomer Spotlight Award from Women in Film and Television Vancouver this past June.

“Everyone’s done it, or is doing it, or a friend of theirs has done it,” says

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Nord-Stewart. “It’s a game or a source of entertainment for people now: you use the app and you get the instant gratification that comes from if you do have a match.”

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With the help of her roommate Molly (Stacy Mahieux, Complexity), Paula finds a parade of seemingly respectable men to join her for new

adventures; over the course of the series, best friend Alexandre (Byron Noble, Fargo) pushes Paula closer to the kinky and farther away from increasingly outdated rules of sex and dating.

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Paula Burrows stars as Nurse Paula – a sexual health nurse who deep-dives into the world of online dating after a year of sexual abstinence – in The Dangers of Online Dating, a new comedy web series from Brianne Nord-Stewart. Contributed photo

Continued from page 11 in sexual health, and also I thought it was a good conflict for somebody going out in the world of online dating to know some of the consequences of being sexually active, whether casual sex or not,” says Nord-Stewart.

Here’s where the plot thickens: when plotting Nurse Paula’s zany journey, Nord-Stewart mined from her own life.

“There were more than a few instances [where people misrepresented who they were], and I started telling people about it, and one of my friends said, ‘Brianne, you have to make a show about this,’ and my reaction was, ‘Fuck no, I’m not writing about,’” laughs Nord-Stewart.

Reel People doesn’t do spoilers, but one of Nord-Stewart’s most memorable dating experiences that made it to The Dangers of Online Dating involves religion (in an episode entitled “Date, Pray, Eat”).

“I took a lot of creative liberties to exaggerate certain things or change certain things about characters to heighten the conflict, to make more

conflict, or to give them characteristics that are more humorous,” says Nord-Stewart.

Nord-Stewart doesn’t think the world of online dating is intrinsically dangerous or negative; for some, it’s been a wholly positive game-changer.

“On one hand it’s much more curated and focused, and for the people who are niche and looking for something niche, it’s easier for them to find it,” says Nord-Stewart.

“For other people, it just seems like a giant ocean of despair.”

Nord-Stewart filmed the first season of The Dangers of Online Dating in 2012 and the second season earlier this year.

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Welcome to Leap of Faith, a weekly blog hosted by veteran religion reporter Alicia Ambrosio, exploring faith, spirituality andVancouver’s sacred spaces.

Sister Chita Torres is just about five feet tall and not exactly an imposing figure, but there is purpose in her steps and a spark in her eyes as she receives and hands off plastic bags down an assembly line, after adding a can of soup to each bag.

“We will pack 180 bags today,” she says, keeping one eye on me and one eye on her bags. “But probably 200 people will turn up.”

Torres is the co-director of The Door is Open, a drop-in centre for people living on the streets – or struggling to make ends meet – that’s funded by Catholic Charities and supported by local Catholic churches.

Originally located at 373 Cordova St., the centre moved to its current site at 255 Dunlevy Ave. about four years ago, taking over the site where the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement used to run a soup kitchen. Due to advancing age and a lack of new sisters, the Sisters of the Atonement had to close their ministry in Vancouver.

On this Thursday morning, Torres is helping pack food delivered by the Greater Vancouver Food Bank into bags that clients will pick up from a side window. Meanwhile, a crew of five volunteers down in the kitchen chatters away and chops vegetables for lunch.

Lunch is served at the

centre every day at 11 a.m.

Wednesday is “Ladies Day,” when breakfast is served at 8:30 a.m. in addition to lunch. Some of the women stay to take part in an arts and crafts program, talk to a social worker or counsellor, or just spend the day in a warm, safe place chatting with other ladies.

In the dining room, which can hold about 100 people, a simple but healthy lunch is served: tuna salad sandwiches and vegetable soup.

Once food bank distribution is over, volunteers will serve coffee and dessert from the same window.

Food is not the only thing on offer at the centre.

Torres takes me upstairs to the clothes bank, where volunteers sort and distribute donated clothing to clients as needed.

“We need underwear, men’s and ladies’, and socks,” Torres says.

Though The Door is Open is small compared to other outreach centres in the area, and cannot offer shelter services, there are regulars who consider the centre “theirs.”

Scott Small, the director of Catholic Charities, tells me on the phone that “it’s the Cheers factor. [Clients] seek out places where they are known.”

Some regulars have told Torres they come back because “it’s not about the food, it’s about the way we treat them.”

When doors open for lunch, Torres and the volunteers lead a short song that serves as a prayer before meals – the only overtly religious element to the centre’s services. One volunteer is sent out to greet the people

The Door is Open co-director Sister Chita Torres at the busy DTES drop-in centre, where groceries, lunch, clothing and counselling are available for those in need. Dan Toulgoet photo waiting in line and find out if anyone needs anything from the clothes bank. In the dining room, Torres and two fellow sisters walk among the people, chatting and greeting diners.

“We don’t judge,” she says, “and they are honest with us.

Some will tell us if they are on drugs, if they are high or whatever.”

Over time, relationships are established between those who use the centre and its staff, which can have a profound impact on the former.

“We have one [longtime] regular, Jack, who was sleeping in Stanley Park. He came to volunteer. He was homeless but he volunteered. Last month he told me all about his life. After that I suggested to him to talk to the social worker. He did.

“Now, one month later, he is in a house, but he is still in line here because the money

he gets is only enough for rent,” Torres says.

Guests like Jack can speak to counsellors and a social worker at the centre, or get help accessing housing with case workers from the Men’s Hostel on Cambie and Robson, which is also run by Catholic Charities.

For Torres, Small and the team of volunteers at the centre, providing meals and a warm place to hang out is not just a nice thing to do, it is a visible expression of the faith they profess.

Catholic teaching pulls no punches when it comes to social justice (to the chagrin of some). The Catechism of the Catholic Church – a book that contains official church teaching on most matters under the sun – says, “God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor and rebukes those who turn away from them” and backs

it up with biblical references for good measure.

Christians of all denominations share this view and make it visible in myriad ways across the city.

Both Union Gospel Mission and First United Church cite their belief in Jesus as the motivation behind their missions. Across the city, churches big and small offer a variety of services aimed at creating community, showing care for those in need and offering some measure of practical help.

Christ Church Cathedral operates Maundy Cafe five days a week, alternating between serving lunch and dinner. The cafe is open to everyone in the neighbourhood: seniors, tourists and homeless. Similarly, St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Kerrisdale hosts a community lunch every Tuesday.

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community health workers is on hand every two weeks to meet with participants.

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We all need teachers. We all need guides and instructors and sources of inspiration from the day we’re born until the day we die. In a perfect world, each of us would always have a personal mentor who’d help us fill the gaps in our learning and keep us focused on the potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don’t have that personal mentor, we have to fend for ourselves. We’ve got to be proactive as we push on to the next educational frontier.

The next four weeks will be an excellent time for you to do just that, Libra.

It may seem absurd for a dreamy oracle like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac’s top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don’t already know? Well, maybe you’re not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your long-term financial plans. It’s possible you haven’t guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019. And maybe you don’t realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth into your life by raising your generosity levels.

This is your last warning! If you don’t stop fending off the happiness and freedom that are trying to worm their way into your life, I’m going to lose my cool. Damn it! Why can’t you just accept good luck and sweet strokes of fate at face value?! Why do you have to be so suspicious and mistrustful?! Listen to me: the abundance that’s lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke. It’s not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.

I used to have a girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas. The poor woman had been raised in a fanatical fundamentalist Christian sect, and she drew profound solace and pleasure from rebelling against that religion’s main holiday. One of her annual traditions was to buy a small Christmas tree and hang it upsidedown from the ceiling. She decorated it with ornamental dildos she had made out of clay.

While I understood her drive for revenge and appreciated the entertaining way she did it, I felt pity for the enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than mocking the old ways, wouldn’t her energy have been much better spent inventing new ways? If there is any comparable situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment to the negative emotions that arose in response to past frustrations and failures. Focus on the future.

Journalist James A. Fussell defined “thrashing” as “the act of tapping helterskelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find ‘hidden’ keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program.” I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks. Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.

So begins the “I Love To Worry” season for you Cancerians. Even now, bewildering self-doubts are working their way up toward your conscious awareness from your unconscious depths. You may already be overreacting in anticipation of the anxiety-provoking fantasies that are coalescing. But wait! It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m here to tell you that the bewildering self-doubts and anxiety-provoking fantasies are at most ten percent accurate. They’re not even close to being half-true! Here’s my advice: Do NOT go with the flow, because the flow will drag you down into ignominious habit. Resist all tendencies towards superstition, moodiness, and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing beloved songs with maximum feeling.

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4. “The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful.” 5. “Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”

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Your lucky numbers are 55 and 88. By tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction. These catalytic codes could wake you up to a useful secret you’ve been blind to. They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success. You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.

What exactly is the epic, overarching goal that you live for? What is the higher purpose that lies beneath every one of your daily activities? What is the heroic identity you were born to create but have not yet fully embodied? You may not be close to knowing the answers to those questions right now, Virgo. In fact, I’m guessing your fear of meaninglessness might be at a peak. Luckily, a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around the corner.

Be alert for it. In a metaphorical sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will strengthen your centre of gravity as it reveals lucid answers to the questions I posed in the beginning of this horoscope.

Let’s observe a moment of silence for the illusion that is in the process of disintegrating. It has been a pretty illusion, hasn’t it? Filled with hope and gusto, it has fueled you with motivation. But then again – on second thought – its prettiness was more the result of clever packaging than inner beauty. The hope was somewhat misleading, the gusto contained more than a little bluster, and the fuel was an inefficient source of motivation. Still, let’s observe a moment of silence anyway. Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion.

Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the upcoming weeks will be a favourable time for you to engage in experiments befitting a mad scientist.

You can achieve interesting results as you commune with powerful forces that are usually beyond your ability to command.

You could have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules. What pleasures have you considered to be beyond your capacity to enjoy? It wouldn’t be crazy for you to flirt with them. You have license to be saucy, sassy, and extra sly.

A snail can slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained experts, specialists in the art of mind over matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of hot coals without getting burned. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, you now have the metaphorical equivalent of powers like these. To ensure they’ll operate at peak efficiency, you must believe in yourself more than you ever have before. Luckily, life is now conspiring to help you do just that.

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1888 W 57th Ave,Vancouver 604.263.4600

Yaletown

1202 Richards St,Vancouver 604.633.2392

Commercial Drive

1045 Commercial Dr,Vancouver 604.678.9665

Burnaby Crest

8683 10th Ave, Burnaby 604.522.0936

Burnaby Marine Way

8620 Glenlyon Pkwy, South Burnaby 778.379.5757

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