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the week ahead Pete Seeger tribute “I’d sing out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land.”

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Recently the world lost a pioneer of folk music and activism. Pete Seeger’s contributions in both these fields have inspired generations of musicians, and activists, including a cross section of BC’s best musicians and songwriters. For local presenters Khari McClelland and Anna Hilliar, it felt fitting to rally together a selection of Vancouver’s current folk singers and activists, in tribute to Pete’s life and music, and use proceeds to contribute to ongoing music education programming through the Power of Hope and Metaphor facilitators. On March 15 at the Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings), eight local acts will take the stage and sing the songs of Pete Seeger, as well as their own songs influenced by the troubadour — the amazing vocal harmonies of The Sojourners and Company B, the haunting stories of Ben Rogers, the poignant politics of CR Avery among them. Doors at 8pm. Tickets $10 at Highlife, RedCat Records, Zulu Records, Neptoon Records and online at NorthernTickets.com; $15 at the door.

Irish pride parade Get ready to paint the town green as iIrish dancers, acrobats and stilt walkers frolic down the streets at this year’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the parade on March 16 is estimated to draw a crowd of more than 200,000 people. It will follow the same route as last year, beginning at Howe and Davie, then heading north along Howe towards Georgia and ending at Georgia and Granville. This very green display of culture and pride starts at 11am. Donald McKillican photo

Janet Echelman will be revealing a massive, aerial, crowd-controlled sculpture to coincide with the start of TED. Artist rendering

TED takes over Vancouver Were you not one of the 1,200 people who could pay $7,500 (US) for tickets to TED2014 in Vancouver? No worries. Vancouverites can watch this week’s TED conference, featuring speakers such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Chris Hadfield and Sting, for free. You just can’t be in the audience at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Among the downtown locations streaming TED live are BC Place’s Terry Fox Plaza (please note there is limited seating and patrons should bring an umbrella) and the Vancouver Public Library. Other locations in the Lower Mainland include BCIT, Kwantlen University, SFU, Langara College, Douglas College, Corpus Christi College, Coquitlam Library, New Westminster Public Library, Richmond Public Library, North Vancouver District Public Library, Surrey Libraries, and Grouse Mountain. UBC will be streaming at four different locations, including the Sauder School of Business. The TED team asks that patrons check in with a location before attending. TED Talks starts March 17 at 10:30am. And be sure to check out artist Janet Echelman’s 745-foot long sculpture, currently being hung between the rooftops of the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel and the convention centre. The ambitious creation is meant to coincide with this, the 30th anniversary of TED, and will be unveiled to the public at 7pm on March 15.

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Province won’t pony up for $1-billion DTES plan Housing minister says Vancouver ‘has done very well by us’ Bt Mike Howell

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ousing Minister Rich Coleman says the provincial government will not contribute money to the city’s $1 billion plan to revitalize the Downtown Eastside over the next 30 years.

And his counterpart in Ottawa, Social Development Minister Candice Bergen, is leaving it up to Coleman’s government to make any spending decisions on federal money set aside for affordable housing in BC. “We’re not going to be involved,” Coleman said in an interview. “It doesn’t meet any of our priorities or match up to anything we are doing.”

He said his government already committed $300 million to build 14 social housing buildings on city property, purchased more than 25 single-room-occupancy hotels to be renovated and supplies rent subsidies to Vancouver residents. The provincial government also regularly funds the city’s shelter program.

“This city has done very well by us,” he said.

Coleman’s comments come as city council prepares to review Wednesday the $1 billion renewal plan for the Downtown Eastside. The plan calls for $525 million from senior levels of government and nonprofits and an additional $245 million in fees from developers.

The most controversial piece of the plan calls for a condofree zone in the Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer District, which is essentially a large chunk of the neighbourhood around Oppenheimer Park and runs west along the East Hastings corridor from Heatley to almost Carrall.

Developers have told the city’s director of planning, Brian Jackson, that only allowing social housing and rental units in the district will prevent revitalization and limit development.

Coleman said he favours a more integrated housing mix

in the district, saying concentrating social housing in one area “stigmatizes the population.” He believes providing rent subsidies to people who live throughout the city is a better way to go.

“We find that we get way better social outcomes because people are integrated into the community and they’re not stigmatized by being put in to a single sort of location that says that’s where all the people on social assistance or whatever live,” he said. “You have to have integration.”

Last week, Coleman and Bergen agreed to extend both governments’ ongoing affordable housing fund, meaning another $300 million can be used for housing and rent subsidy programs in BC over the next five years.

The Vancouver Courier contacted Bergen’s office to ask whether the federal minister thought some of the money should be used to fund the Downtown Eastside plan. Bergen responded in an email saying BC has the “flexibility to use the funding to design and deliver programs that meet local needs and priorities.”

When told of Coleman’s lack of commitment to the plan, Mayor Gregor Robertson said the provincial government “needs to pay attention to the people who live in the Downtown Eastside.”

Robertson noted the success the city has had previously with the provincial government, having received money for the 14 social housing sites, the renovation of single-roomoccupancy hotels and money for shelters.

“We need to continue making that progress,” the mayor told the Courier. “The community is making it clear that we need to go farther.”

A memo from city manager Penny Ballem to senior staff March 7 outlined the need for governments, developers and nonprofits to work together in order to achieve the plan’s outcomes.

“Based on the extensive work done, staff have confidence that the housing goals in the DTES community plan goals are achievable on the understanding that projects will require a sophisticated approach, in some cases additional form of financial support, and the involvement of multiple partners,” the memo said.

The plan calls for 4,400 new housing units in the Down-

City council will review Wednesday a $1 billion revitalization plan for the Downtown Eastside, which relies on more than half a million dollars from senior levels of government. Dan Toulgoet photo town Eastside and 1,650 rent subsidies. The city also wants another 3,350 social housing units to be built outside the Downtown Eastside.

Coleman estimated 4,400 units would cost $1.3 billion and operating costs of about $70 million per year. He said rental assistance for 10,000 families in B.C. costs about $50 million per year.

The Downtown Eastside has 18,500 residents, with up to 67 per cent considered low income, with a median household income of $13,691. Unemployment is at 12 per cent and more than 6,300 people receive social assistance.

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Trash recycling changes: coalition

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n ad hoc alliance of industry groups from across BC wants the provincial government to toss out a controversial new recycling system they say will drive up the cost of everything from food and beverage packaging to newspapers by forcing new fees on businesses.

The various business associations — including representatives from the newspaper, recycling, agriculture and waste management sector — have launched a public awareness campaign with ads in more than 130 newspapers as well as on social media. The hope is that BC residents will write Premier Christy Clark asking her to rethink the plan of handing over BC’s recycling systems to a consortium of multinational corporations.

“The premier all along made it very clear in speeches, you know, ‘cut read tape, we need to get to yes on economic development as soon as possible.’ She wants to get BC’s economy kicked into gear, [but] this is the way to do just the opposite,” said Mike Klassen, BC director of provincial affairs for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, at a news conference Monday.

Three years ago, the BC Liberal government changed environmental regulation laws to make manufacturers of packaging and printed paper (PPP) products responsible for

the lifecycle of their goods instead of municipal governments starting in May 2014. It put control of the program, which is seeking to reuse at least 75 per cent of materials, in the hands of Ontario-based Multi Materials BC (MMBC), a not-forprofit agency created in 2011 whose board of directors includes executives from large corporations such as Wal-Mart and Coca Cola.

Critics argue the move will result in companies charging consumers more for goods to offset costs that were previously subsidized by the government.

Producers that sign up with MMBC will pay a volume-based fee to cover the cost of collecting and recycling goods, which for newspapers works out to 20 cents per kilogram compared to less than two cents in Manitoba and half a penny in Ontario.

“Our concern here is with this particular regulation doesn’t address anything to do with the environment and is simply a tax shift,” said Canadian Newspaper Association chairman Peter Kvarnstrom, whose industry is already facing tough times. “Don’t think for a minute that the price of your Tim Hortons coffee or the products that you buy at Wal-Mart, that those companies are going to suck it up.

That money will be coming out of your pockets one way or another.”

BC is the only province in Canada to require producers to pay for the full cost of recycling, and Kvarnstrom estimates the cost for

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the newspaper industry could be as high as $14 million a year.

Kvarnstrom is president of BC operations for Glacier Media Group, the parent company of WE. MMBC managing director Allen Langdon said his hands are tied.

“In Ontario, they have municipalities subsidize their participation and in Manitoba the provincial government subsidizes their participation,” Langdon told the Vancouver Courier. “I’m sympathetic for the newspapers but I’m not sure I have a solution for them because the solution they’ve proposed is that the other members of MMBC subsidize it.”

Vancouver is one of 67 municipalities that have agreed to contract in-house recycling services to MMBC and receive a portion of $60 million in financial incentives for signing up. The current curbside Blue Box collection will be expanded to allow for recycling paper containers such as milk cartons and paper/metal containers such as frozen juice cans.

Corinne Atwood, the executive director of the BC Bottle and Recycling Depot Association, said changes would hit independent recycling contractors in the pocket.

“These recyclers were in business long before it was trendy or sexy,” said Atwood. “The industry has been built on the backs of independent businesses and now the government, we feel, is using regulation to knock competition out.”

Green lights have popped up in False Creek in a unique form of protest. Martha Perkins photo

Residents give park the green light

By Raman Kang

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alse Creek residents are illuminating the night sky to shed light on a broken promise.

Twenty-four years ago, a parking lot near Pacific and Quebec was promised as a park but the neighbourhood is still waiting. Residents are hoping that by placing green lights in their windows they will get the city’s attention — and their green space.

The space is being used by Concord Pacific, which continues to develop the former Expo 86 lands.

It had promised to create the park if 7,000 units were sold in the neighbourhood; there are now more than 10,000 units.

Residents, such as Andrea Macken-

zie, have had enough.

The entire community feels the need for green space, says Mackenzie, a member of the False Creek Residents’ Association’s park committee.

Desperate and not willing to wait another 24 years, Mackenzie pitched the “green lights” idea to fellow park committee members.

They created a volunteer-run campaign that includes selling $5 green light bulbs to residents in buildings from False Creek north to BC Place.

“People consider green lights to be their daily email or daily letter to city hall,” she says. In just over a month, they have sold more than 500 light bulbs, and these green lights will continue to glow until residents get what they want.

“The green lights are on and no one can turn them off but us!”

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Why I let my daughter play with princesses A feminist mother examines princess culture

By Sabrina Furminger

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y three-year-old daughter wanted a Rapunzel doll for Christmas. She first told me about this desire in mid-November when we sat down to write her letter to Santa.

“Why do you like Rapunzel?” I asked, not that her gift request came as any big surprise; at the time, she was watching Tangled three times a week.

“Rapunzel is funny and brave and magic,” she replied as she drew elaborate flourishes in crayon all over the envelope.

It wasn’t until a couple of weeks before Christmas that I found out that I could do one better than a Rapunzel doll simply by picking up the phone and calling in a professional.

Fast-forward to Christmas Eve. As the dinner dishes soaked and my husband arranged Santa cookies on a plate, my mother and daughter sat chatting about elves, reindeer and gift wishes (which, for my daughter, was still the Rapunzel doll).

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could actually meet Rapunzel?” my mother asked as I idled near the front door.

“I would love it,” my daughter replied.

My mother grinned. “Then let’s close our eyes and imagine that Rapunzel is knocking at the door.”

My daughter closed her eyes, and suddenly we heard a knock at the door.

I opened the door to reveal Rapunzel, who with her purple gown and long golden braid looked almost exactly as she did in the film.

My daughter stood frozen in place, eyes wide and dancing. Rapunzel knelt in front of her, offered her a candy cane, and greeted her by name.

For the next 20 minutes, they sat side by side in front of the Christmas tree. Rapunzel related a tale from her well-documented life as my daughter, now unfrozen, peppered her with questions. Next, they sang a song from Tangled, and then White Christmas, for which the grown-ups (who had been watching from across the room) joined in.

And then photos were taken, hugs were given and received, and Rapunzel was out the door.

“I am happy!” my daughter cried as she twirled around the room. “I am magic! I am princess!”

Christmas morning came, and the Rapunzel doll was a big hit, but nothing before or since has been as magical as those 20 minutes with the actual princess. *** The young woman who knocked on my door that evening was 23-year-old Chelsea Scantland, the convivial force behind Bippity Boppity Birthdays (VancouverPrin-

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Belle (Chelsea Scantland) and Mariana have a tea party at Neverland Tea Salon. You can hire a princess to bring magic to your child’s next birthday; but should you? Rob Newell photo cessParties.com). Her company has been dispatching princesses to events all over the Lower Mainland since 2011.

To date, Bippity Boppity princesses have appeared at more than 300 parties. Although she’s got a handful of other singing princesses on standby for busy weekends, it’s Scantland in full princess garb at the bulk of them.

“I’m four years old at heart,” she said in a recent phone interview. “Wearing these dresses and doing these parties, I’m happy all of the time.”

The princesses in the Bippity Boppity roster resemble the ones in the Disney films — although for legal reasons, they’re referred to by their fairytale names: Cinderella; Rapunzel; the Little Mermaid; Belle; the Highland Princess; the Arabian Princess; Snow White; the Snow Queen. Scantland sews and maintains the intricate costumes herself; the wigs are custom made (the Rapunzel wig alone cost $800).

If there’s one thing Scantland admires about all of the princesses in her roster, it’s their nuances. “I think each of the princesses has a flaw as well as strengths,” she said. “You can’t expect every princess to be perfect, or else it wouldn’t be an interesting

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Sometimes Scantland will encounter mothers who disapprove of some aspect of princess life. “Some moms, when they hear that I’ll be teaching curtsying or manners, or that the girls might be getting their nails done, they’ll pull their girl aside and say, ‘No, we can’t get that today.’”

And so Scantland will tell young partygoers who compliment her make-up that it’s only for a special occasion, and that Cinderella loves soccer and baseball, just like they do — “to show that a princess can be more than just dancing.” *** Princess culture is big business. If you’re so inclined, your daughter can be adorned in princess garments from head to toe while she plays with her princess toys, eats her princess snacks and dreams her princess dreams.

I’m so inclined. My daughter plays with princess dolls, watches princess movies, and (sometimes) plays with princesses (see above). And I call myself a feminist.

It makes it easier that the Mouse House — the primary pusher of Princess Culture — is

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resetting the tone of its princess movies. In movies like Brave, Tangled, The Princess & the Frog, and Frozen, the focus isn’t scoring True Love’s Kiss. It’s about Living Fearlessly. Being Independent. Working Hard. Accepting Yourself.

That said, I’ve let my daughter watch Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and I get guff — almost entirely from other mothers — for exposing my daughter to princess culture.

But I think the example I set, the totality of the experiences of her childhood, and our conversations have more of an impact than any movie. If we see something in a princess movie that doesn’t ring true for our family, we talk about it (and this is true for anything with which we come in contact, not just princesses). We’ve talked about how it’s better to take control of your destiny than be rescued, and how you should get to know someone really well before you marry them.

But mostly when we talk about the princesses we love, we talk about magical hair and talking animals, because why not?

My daughter is three years old and she believes in magic. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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demonstrations, and documentary screenings in the Planetarium Star Theatre. 1100 Chestnut, Vanier Park. SpaceCentre.ca VANCOUVER MARITIME MUSEUM Peruse a treasure trove of artifacts befitting pirates of yore, and step aboard the St. Roch, a 1928 schooner that was the first vessel to circumnavigate North America. Ahoy! 1905 Ogden, Vanier Park.

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eghan Gardiner has performed in a lot of plays over the years, but rarely has she had to prepare for heckling.

“We’ll be doing a run-through and [director Carole Higgins] will suddenly start yelling random things at us,” says the veteran Vancouver-based actress. “We need to be prepared to respond.”

It’s not a typical rehearsal tactic. Then again, Gardiner isn’t performing for a typical audience.

Gardiner is appearing in Busytown, an adaptation of Richard Scarry’s bestselling 1968 children’s book What Do People Do All Day? Adapted for the stage by Michael Koerner and Kevin Kling and presented by Carousel Theatre for Young People, Busytown is geared towards children ages three to seven.

The hour-long musical finds the animal residents of Busytown going about their daily business under the watchful eye of Huckle Cat, who is trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up.

Carousel’s production features six actors performing nearly 40 roles. “There’s probably just as entertaining a show going on offstage with costume changes and props,” laughs Gardiner, who plays nine different characters, including Farmer Alfalfa, a goat.

Scarry’s book overflows with detailed illustrations, and Carousel’s production design is faithful to the source material. “When you think of all the cars in those books — the carrot cars and T:10.25” apple cars and crayon cars — they’ve all been

Vancouver children can get their first taste of live theatre with Busytown. specially designed and built for this show,” says Gardiner.

For many in the audience, Busytown marks an important milestone in their lives: a first taste of the magic of the theatre. That’s why the performers prepare for heckling: “They haven’t been exposed to theatre etiquette, so their reactions are so honest; they let you know how they feel,” says Gardiner.

And this an era of touchscreens and multitasking, there’s much to be gained from an hour in a darkened theatre. “The lights go down, and all you have to do is allow yourself to be entertained by the actors on the stage,” says Gardiner. “I think that’s really important to instill in kids early on.”

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Three local chefs vie for Top Chef Canada

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W MasterChef Canada finalist Josh Gale and Annika Reinhardt are teaming up for #dinnerpartyYVR. Rob Newell photo

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oodies all over the city can tap into their inner-chef with Social Bites’ second #dinnerpartyYVR. And it’s all for charity.

On April 5, 30 hobby chefs will welcome strangers into their homes and cook a meal to remember. The chefs are from all walks of life, including an 11-yearold boy and three-time Olympian.

Annika Reinhardt, the founder of Social Bites and organizer of #dinnerpartyYVR, says the goal is to bring Vancouverites together for a good cause through good food. “There’s an opportunity here to do something great and big that will have an impact on the community.”

This event has paired up with the Charitable Impact Foundation (CHIMP) and all proceeds

will be donated to the hobby chefs’ charities of choice. Also, Modo The Car Co-op will be supplying rides to participants.

“It’s a really neat way for [charities] to interact through a non-’give me money’ type of way. It’s more like ‘Hey, we care about this. What do you care about?’” she says.

Guests who purchase their $40 ticket (at DinnerPartyYVR. com) before March 19 will be entered to win a dinner party, courtesy of Cressey Development Group, hosted by Josh Gale, a top 12 finalist of MasterChef Canada.

Gale was a hobby chef before making it on the TV show. “It is someone who shows and has a real passion for cooking and likes to explore the kitchen and likes to have fun and share that with other people,” he says.

hen it comes to hot food trends, Vancouver looks to the world to find inspiration, Michael Robbins says.

That’s what the executive chef at the Oakwood Canadian Bistro thought would give him and the two other Vancouver competitors — Shelley Robinson and Dawn Doucette — an edge on the new season of Top Chef Canada.

But, to his surprise, his inspiration fell flat. Robbins was eliminated on the season four premiere on Monday.

Fourteen chefs from across the country are duking it out with creativity, skill and talent in hopes of landing the $100,000 prize and the title of Top Chef Canada.

When the pressure is on, Robbins is known to have a brash tongue and while to him he’s just letting off steam, “For the average person it’s like ‘ Okay, that guy is definitely an asshole,’” he says.

Robbins’ tendency to get a little hot under the chef’s toque was apparent in the first episode.

For the first time ever the show is a battle of the sexes: the men make up one team, the women the other. Rich Francis, the first aboriginal chef on the show, was team captain in the elimination challenge.

“Once I heard what his main dish was I didn’t want to be partners,” says Robbins. He then decided to aid Vittorio Collacitti, owner of food consulting company, Born and Raised Food Co.

Shelley Robinson, Dawn Doucette and Michael Robbins had their Top Chef Canada début on Monday night. Martha Perkins photo The angst continued as the challenge played itself out. “I was pretty frustrated in the kitchen on the way the dish was coming together.”

After describing Francis’ dish as “immature cooking” and “old school”, he was shocked he was sent home, seeing as how he didn’t prepare a dish himself.

Getting eliminated early is something Vancouver isn’t used to. Last year’s winner was Matthew Stowe of the Cactus Club Café.

In season two, Fable’s Trevor Bird made it right up until the final episode while in the show’s Canadian premier, Dale McKay catapulted his success into the opening of two Vancouver restaurants, the now defunct Ensemble and eTap. (He opened Ayden Kitchen and Bar in his home town of Saskatoon.)

The reason Robinson auditioned was to show that not all chefs are “handsome young men.”

“Where are the tenured people?

Where are the older people?

Where are the lesbians?” says Robinson. She sees them in the industry all the time, so why not on television?

For Doucette it was personal gain. “I’ve always worked behind the scenes [here],” says Doucette, who had her own café in Ontario before having kids and moving to Vancouver.

As for Robbins, he will continue to watch the show at home, rooting for Collacitti, with whom he’s kept in touch, and, of course, Robinson and Doucette.

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Don’t argue with this pizza… okay, maybe just a little The Dish

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izza in Vancouver has come full circle (pardon the pun) over the past five years.

What used to be nothing more than fast food take-out for a lazy night in has slowly worked itself into the Verace Napoletana ethos of places such as Nicli Antica and Via Tevere. In some cases, a focus on other regions, such as Lazio (Trilussa) or Emilia-Romagna (Campagnolo), offers some variation on the thin-crust and fior di latte mantra. But, for the most part, the more traditional American-style pizza has fallen out of favour. Until now.

Don’t Argue! Pizzeria is one of the newest additions to the ‘za scene. It comes from business and life partners Nathaniel Geary and Anna de Courcy.

Both are first-time owners, as well as industry neophytes. With no previous food service experience on either side, what drew them to the oft-crazy world of restaurant ownership in Vancouver?

Previous experience in the film industry can certainly toughen one up, as can starting a family (the pair just had their first child).

“We wanted to have our own shop,” explains Geary. “We needed a career change and went for it in

all our naiveté.”

Not so naïve, perhaps. Geary took the time to learn how to make pizza. He studied in San Francisco at Tony Gemignani’s International School of Pizza, learning how to make New York, Chicago and California styles of pizza. The school also offers instruction in Sicilian, Roman and Neapolitan styles.

The name was inspired by their first location pick on East Hastings, home to the old Don’t Argue tobacco shop. When the deal fell through, they decided to keep the name as an homage to a bit of East Van history. The Main Street room has enough seats for people to get comfortable without getting crowded, with mainly banquette seating fronted by round wooden tables.

Geary’s dough is closer to New York than anything. It’s thicker than a Napoletana (cooked in a gas-fired oven at 650°), but not as thick as a Roman. And, there’s a bit of crunch there that plays nicely with the chewiness. The sauce is minimalist in the extreme.

Tomatoes, salt, that’s it. Interesting pairings like pesto ricotta ($15) work very well, with housemade basil-arugula pesto, ricotta, Santa Lucia mozza and fresh basil, all over a solid béchamel. My daughter fell in love with their cheese with mushroom added — simple, salty

and tasty. Sausage and kale ($17) was delicious, but inconsistent; one night the sausage was the clear star another night it was all about the kale. And, like in any good New York shop, several are also available by the slice, although I’ve never been a fan of re-heating.

Pies come in 12- and 18-inch sizes (no half-pies).

Don’t Argue sources its meats from Windsor Meats up the street, and chef Alex Tung at La Grotta has consulted with them, as well as helping them source their cheeses.

Beers focus on local producers such as Driftwood, 33 Acres and Four Winds (Delta), but there’s also a solid Dunkelweizen on tap from Portland, as well as one red and one white on rotation.

The dessert menu consists solely of panna cotta, but it’s all you need to follow up on a pie and sleeve, and finish off a decent night out.

All ratings out of five stars.

Food: ★★★ Service: ★★★ Ambiance: ★★1/2 Overall: ★★★ Open Tuesday-Friday, 3pm-11pm; Saturday, 1pm-11pm; Sunday, 1pm-10pm.

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Nathaniel Geary learned how to make pizza at at Tony Gemignani’s International School of Pizza before opening Don’t Argue Pizza with his wife Anna de Courcy. Rob Newell photo

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Our first 100% Ocean Wise sushi Fresh Follow Me Foodie

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s a pioneer in the sustainable seafood movement, Vancouver has a lot to be proud of. More and more restaurants are signing up for Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise program and one of the latest is The RawBar at Fairmont Pacific Rim. It’s Vancouver’s first sushi restaurant to be 100 per cent Ocean Wise. When I heard this I was skeptical since I though Hapa Izakaya was first, but it is actually the first izakaya restaurant to be Ocean Wise. There are other Ocean Wise Japanese restaurants in the city, but they have selective Ocean Wise options.

I’ve always had a hard time with this branding because it can be a bit misleading when a restaurant has the logo and markets itself Ocean Wise. It’s easy to assume it applies to the whole menu yet only items with the Ocean Wise symbol are certified sustainable. Another thing to remember is that Ocean Wise is just one of a few sustainable seafood organizations — just because a restaurant does not have the right to use the symbol doesn’t necessarily mean it is not offering sustainable seafood.

I was invited to try out the omakase (chef’s choice menu) at The RawBar, which is more or less equivalent to a sushi bar. It is one component of the many things going on at Fairmont Pacific Rim. The sashimi options include the usual suspects such as albacore tuna and steelhead salmon, but some of my favourite things such as the unagi (eel) and hamachi (Japanese amberjack) were missing. Even though they are not Ocean Wise, I can’t deny that they still taste good (not that I’m encouraging people to eat them.)

While I would come for the ambiance first — the live piano seven nights a week is one of the main attractions — the RawBar is a nice complement. It wasn’t my favourite omakase in the city, but Master Sushi Chef Taka uses top quality soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, local miso, real wasabi and artisan sake from Granville Island. He pays attention to details, but is perhaps a bit limited in what he can show off

especially since it is a raw bar before a hot kitchen.

It’s truly a challenge to provide an authentic Japanese sashimi experience when none of the fish are from Japan.

That being said, it’s not a bad thing. It caters to a market that is environmentally conscious and it’s an excellent option for diners concerned about the sustainability of the food they’re eating.

I admire The RawBar’s commitment to the Ocean Wise program. They’ve done a good job replacing unsustainable seafood with local and ocean-friendly options.

Find out more about Mijune at FollowMeFoodie.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @followmefoodie.

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SCENE | HEARD Kaplan’s Deli on Oak Street off West 49th has suddenly closed, with a bailiff’s sign on the front door stating seizure of assets due to unpaid rent.

There’s a petition on Change.org to fight the closure of the Rumpus Room. The kitchsy Main Street eatery says she has to close at the end of the month because the building is being torn down for a four-storey rental building. “This wonderful wonderful place. I’m going to miss you so much!” co-owner Rachel Zottenberg writes on Facebook.

The Chinese Restaurant Awards have announced the winners of the 20 Diners’ Choice categories, including Best Egg Tart, Best Wonton Noodles and Best Hunan Restaurant. See full list of winners at ChineseRestaurantAwards.com.

Join Dining Out for Life on social media and be entered to win $500. Just dine at a participating restaurant on March 25, then post a food pic with the hashtag #DOFL20 to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram (@VanDOFL works on all three platforms). Don’t forget to tag @VanDOFL and your restaurant. DiningOutForLife.ca Vancouver International Wine Festival has announced the theme region for 2015. Australia will be taking centre stage, with the global focus on Syrah. VanWineFest.ca

Chef Angus An and Mijune Pak judged the Chef’s Table Society’s first ever Curry Cup competition at Heritage Hall March 4. Taryn Wa from Savoury Chef Catering took home people’s choice and judge’s choice for her Malaysian style Beef Rendang.

DRINK | DINE On March 30, celebrate the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival with an inspired evening at Tojo’s. Enjoy a standing dinner with dishes from top Japanese chefs from Miku, Zen, Seventeen89, Fairmont Pacific Rim, and, of course, Tojo’s.

Tickets $150. VCBF.ca Cuban music virtuoso Gerardo Contino and his ensemble Los Habaneros make a special two-day appearance in Vancouver April 3-4. On April 4, combine dinner with dancing at Provence Marinaside with Contino and his group. Only 80 tickets available at $65 each. GerardoInVancouver.com The Reef on Main Street is bringing back its popular Caribbean rum nights. On the last Thursday of each month enjoy a free rum tasting at 6pm. For March, Ron Matusalem rum will be on offer. TheReefRestaurant.com/Events Underground dining is still going strong, now with a new entrant. The Endless Meal offers a different communal-style menu each week at a mystery spot in Gastown. Based on fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. Next event is March 21. Tickets $51.45. TheEndlessMeal.ca The French Table on Main has launched its Burgundy beef fondue for $36 per person (minimum two people). The FrenchTable.ca

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few months back, I was invited by the Viña San Pedro Tarapaca Wine Group to fly down to Chile for a week-long tour of their Chilean properties, which include six wineries. I was last in Chile four years ago and I was eager to follow up on glimpses of an industry that was really stepping up its commitment to quality and building a strong reputation globally.

Fast forward to 2014, and I’m seeing very positive strides, although there was one distinct aspect that concerns me. (I’ll get to that.)

What impresses me is an increasing emphasis on regionality. Wineries that focus either in single-vineyard or regional-specific wines are keenly conveying the various aspects of terroir the country enjoys. After all, there is much variety to play around with in a country that spans 40 degrees of latitude.

Let’s look at some of the reds which I felt showed clear typicity of their regions while offering tremendous value, rounded out by a step up onto the ol’ soapbox.

Viña Leyda 2012 Pinot Noir Reserva | Leyda Valley, Chile | $16.99 | BC Liquor Stores Winemaker Viviana Navarrete is leading the charge in the newer Leyda Valley coastal region about 90 kilometres west of Santiago with a notable focus on Pinot Noirs. Different plantings of various clones at different elevations allow her to hone in on varietal distinctiveness; this version a light and breezy study on cherries, truffles and charm with a pinch of spice.

Viña San Pedro 1865 2011 Syrah | Cachapoal Valley, Chile | $25-30 | Private Wine Stores This region is nestled up against the sun-

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Altaïr 2009 Sideral | Rapel Valley, Chile | $26 | BC Liquor Stores This Cabernet-dominated blend mingles with a little Syrah and Carménère and is all dark fruit, tobacco and spice with crisp minerality that keeps things lively. A gentleman’s club of a wine; hunting trophies on the wall, dark wood and all. A steal at 26 bucks.

Viña San Pedro Epica Red | Chile | $16.99 | BC Liquor Stores A few years back, Australia veered away from regional, honest and expressive wines in favour of ultra-sweet, factory-made styles with critters on the label that swept the world until most markets turned their backs on them and sales plummeted. It’s frustrating to see Chile take the first few steps in that same direction. With the current global fashion and market dominance of cloyingly sweet and uninspired red wines (see California’s Apothic Red with its 19 grams of residual sugar per litre), Chile is starting to follow the same fashionable-but-doomed route with bottles such as Epica (which has over 13 grams of residual sugar and zero grams of character), just so they can elbow in on this part of the market share. Just as the world is taking notice of Chile’s dedication to quality, it would be a shame to undo recent achievements by championing these styles.

Chile, and San Pedro wineries including Tarapaca, Altaïr, Leyda and more: When it comes to quality, style and value, you truly kick ass. I’d hate to see you fall on your own. Keep fightin’ the good fight!

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n the Mexican-American war of 1846-48, a group of soldiers in the American army discovered that they were more sympathetic with the Mexicans’ cause than they were with the Americans’. Called the Saint Patrick’s Battalion because so many of them were of Irish origin, they earned their place in history books by defecting and joining the Mexican army.

Tom Landa gets it. He isn’t a descendent of a San Patricio but he was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and Canadian mother of Irish descent. And he’s the lead singer of The Paperboys, a band that somehow manages to combine Mexican Son Jarocho with Irish jigs and reels (not to mention bluegrass, ska, soul, pop and funk.)

On March 13 and 14, he’ll be performing with The Paperboys and other musicians as part of CelticFest Vancouver, a nine-day celebration that culminates with the festive St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 16.

In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is more of a religious holiday.

“Here,” he says, “it’s become much more like Hallowe’en — a day to be someone who’s not who you are.”

For some people, CelticFest will be a chance to honour their roots, or at least feel Irish for a week. For others, it’s a chance to drink and have some fun.

Landa started a different version of a Celtic festival around

1998. He was doing a gig with another Irish band, who told him about a festival that brought the Irish and wannabe Irish together. Landa not only thought it would be a cool idea, but he also welcomed the chance to play in his home base in Vancouver. The first year it was held in the now defunct Starfish Room on Hornby. (“That’s back in the day when Vancouver had a lot of live music venues but that’s another story....”)

CelticFest Vancouver, which started in 2004 but took a year off for the Vancouver Olympics, now takes up much of the downtown, with forays into East Van and False Creek.

“It’s not just about St. Patrick’s Day,” he says, noting that the five other Celtic nations are Brittany, Cornwall, Isle of Man, Scotland and Wales. He’s proud that CelticFest is right up there with all the other festivals — Fringe, Authors, Folk and Jazz — that honour the city’s vast cultural experience.

But he likes that everyone likes to be Irish, at least for a little while. “At the end of the day,” he says, “Ireland’s got some of the best music in the world.”

Tom Landa and Kalissa Hernandez of The Paperboys are hosting the who’s who of local Celtic music at Ceili’s Kitchen Party on March 13 at Ceili’s Modern Irish Pub on Granville. On March 14, The Paperboys are one of four bands playing at the CelticFest 10th anniversary gala with The Once, Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project and Hermitage Green at the Vogue Theatre on Granville.

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This year’s party will be extra special. The band, which recorded its first album in 1984, is being inducted into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame on March 15, which comes with a bronze star on Vancouver’s Starwalk on Theatre Row for John Mann, Geoffrey Kelly, Hugh McMillan, Tobin Frank, Matthew Harder and Vince Ditrich. And, as the icing on the cake, frontman and acclaimed solo artist John Mann is receiving the Beautiful Heart Award from the Access to Music Foundation in recognition of his “charitable spirit and musical contributions.” The charitable spirit? His efforts towards Bulembu.org, a Swazi-based children’s charity, and the BC Cancer Foundation. Tickets to the concert, which includes Dustin Bentall and The Smokes and presentation, are $46 at TicketMaster.ca.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Unconsoled. At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven’t imagined yet.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In May 2011, two Nepali men reached the top of Mt. Everest after a six-week climb. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the mountain.

Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical version of a shortcut like that, Taurus. Don’t do the next part of the journey the same way you did the previous phase.

Take a more direct route. Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Seeking wisdom and chasing after pleasure are polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both. True? No. No. No. False. Wrong. Here’s the bigger truth: Now and then, grace periods come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini?

Here’s the answer: It’s here now!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Humans walked on the moon before anyone ever had the simple idea to put wheels on suitcases. Unbelievable, right? Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, travelers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless containers full of their belongings. I suspect that a comparable out-ofsequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian. In some ways you are totally up-to-date, and in other ways you are lagging behind. Now would be a good time to identify any discrepancies and start correcting them.

Metaphorically speaking, I’d love you to have rolling luggage by the next time you take a journey.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever heard of the sasquatch, also known as bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that walks upright and lives in dense forests?

Scientists assure us that there is no such thing.

But then they used to say the same thing about the platypus. It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers’ vivid imaginations. A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist. When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Kyoka is a Japanese word that means a flower reflected in a mirror. I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what’s happening in your life right now. Here are some clues to jumpstart your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A British researcher poured 300 million facts into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in history. The winner was April 11, 1954.

It was selected because almost nothing important happened except an election in Belgium.

I’m wondering if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The astrological omens suggest it’s a possibility. And frankly, I hope that’s exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated activity. You would benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your psychic batteries.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You won’t be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion. That word is “shluck.”

Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backwards luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn’t even realize you needed. To take maximum advantage of shluck’s benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the old fairy tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, “open sesame.” This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says “open sesame” himself. The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers’ plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of “open sesame.”

It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high.

You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links.

Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I’m not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I’m not ruling them out, either. You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My friend Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. “Are you kidding?” I asked him incredulously.

“The dullest game on the planet?” He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. “Name one,” I challenged him. He told me that “Volkswagen” is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good. “Hmmm,” I replied. “That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you remember being in your mother’s womb? Probably not.

But here’s what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigor, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now.

So let’s be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It’s basically a good thing. Just be aware that you may experience growing pains.

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Developers are keen to build smaller apartments because the per-square-foot rental income is much higher for studio and onebedroom suites than it is for larger units.

The downside of a proliferation of smaller units is that it makes it impossible for families to find appropriate units, said City of Vancouver GM of planning Brian Jackson.

“We’re trying to make sure we provide the opportunity for families to remain along major arterials, in the core and throughout Vancouver,” he said.

“In the past we haven’t pushed for the rental projects to have a higher number of two-bedroom units, but we’re certainly doing this now.”

Vancouver has 63 rental projects in various stages of development. Most units in those projects are smaller, but Jackson said the city has made recent strides to include larger units.

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Edward Burtynsky, “Nickel Tailings #6, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 1995,” chromogenic print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, gift of the artist. © Edward Burtynsky, Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary

This land is our land

Edward Burtynsky and Lawren Harris exhibits at the Vancouver Art Gallery explore our relationship with landscape

By Martha Perkins

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efore the Group of Seven arrived on the Canadian art scene in the 1920s, landscape paintings often showed bucolic scenes of wilderness tamed. People were placed in the painting and while they were small in proportion to the land around them, they were also deliberately present. Nature, on its own, had little value.

Lawren Harris and the other six members of the Group of Seven were initially vilified for painting scenes that to many Canadians had no value aesthetically or culturally — the mountains of Lake Superior, the sometimes bleak forests of Northern Ontario, the strange beauty of the Arctic. Why paint places — ugly ones at that — that did not evoke a sense of man’s dominion over the land?

Two floors above the Vancouver Art Gallery’s marvellous Lawren Harris: Canadian Visionary exhibit is an equally compelling exhibition of photos by Edward Burtynsky, A Terrible Beauty. Although it’s not a deliberate pairing, the two exhibits, taken together, force us to examine our complex relationship

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Lawren Harris, “First Snow, North Shore of Lake Superior, 1923,” Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. What would the Group of Seven artist think of Burtynsky’s photos of how our actions alter our landscapes? Trevor Mills photo with what can loosely be called “nature.”

When do we value it for its own sake and when are we willing to sacrifice it for our own benefit — especially if we don’t have to see the impact of our choices?

Harris’s evolution as an artist was entwined with his interest in theosophy which, as the exhibit guide says, believed that “materialism had separated humanity from reality.” Its goal was to “reconstitute lost truths.”

What truths would Harris — who died in 1970 — find if he were exposed to the scenes that Burtynsky chronicles with absolute clarity and an observer’s detached passion?

Burtynsky puts humans back into the landscape, and how. Man’s dominion over the land? It’s there, in spades. But what gives his photographs their punch is that he

Edward Burtynsky, “Homesteads #32, View from Highway 8, British Columbia, Canada, 1985,” chromogenic print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist. © Edward Burtynsky, Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto/Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary.

manages to judge what he captures through his lens — simply by choosing that scene — while providing a seemingly dispassionate commentary. The photos have such serene grace that we are like materialistic moths to the consumer flame, all while saying we want to protect the nature that is destroyed to produce the goods we want to buy.

“He chooses things which clearly need our attention,” says senior curator Bruce Grenfell.

“If you stop and look at them, you can’t be comfortable with what you’re seeing.”

Comfortable, no. Entranced, yes.

Also at VAG... Myfanwy MacLeod

On March 18 at 7pm, Bruce Grenville leads a public tour of A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky and Emily Carr: Scorned. Vancouverbased painter Eli Bornowsky will discuss the Lawren Harris exhibit on April 1 at 7pm. They are free for members or with gallery admission.

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Burroughs and The Beats rage on in Underbelly Fringe Critics’ Choice winner returns with William S. Burroughsinspired show

By Kelsey Klassen

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saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked….”

Such is the picture poet Allen Ginsberg painted at the dawn of the nuclear age — a time when, according to Underbelly creator Jayson McDonald, many artists felt the anger of a youth with no future.

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry,” added On The Road writer Jack Kerouac to his friends’ postWorld War II discourse.

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death,” observed William S. Burroughs, one of The Beat Generation’s more obscure self-flagellators, dryly.

You don’t have to be familiar with the work of Ginsberg, Kerouac or Burroughs to appreciate the theatre of McDonald, however. And it’s easy to see how a playwright from small town Ontario, who grew up in the privilege and prosperity of the ‘80s, wouldn’t necessarily wish to have been born in the divested

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decade of the ‘50s, but could still be drawn in by the fearlessness of its artists. And the promise of a challenge.

“It is, at its heart, an exploration of an artist forged at that time, during the atomic age. What drove them, what moved them and what foiled them,” McDonald says of his poetic tour de force.

“They had just come off of the Second World War, which was a gigantic global nightmare, and now there was this brand new threat — nuclear Armageddon. And at the time it was still very new and very real. We’re a little divorced from it now, because it hasn’t happened since then. But at the time I’m sure these people felt that their future had been robbed from them. How do you plan for anything when everything could be annihilated?”

We could ask the same thing; how do you start the script?

In the various styles and cadences of The Beat Generation’s biggest names, but largely inspired by Burroughs’ unflinching, almost mythical ability to abandon editorial right — chopping up his prose and collaging it to create new meanings — McDonald takes you on a masterful, entirely original, slightly more accessible free fall.

“The idea was to really give it that flavour of the time. To make everything sound as though it could have come from that era,

from those men. There’s some translation that needs to happen as you bring it forward through the decades.”

McDonald was lucky he didn’t get lost in that translation. Engaging with the work of William Burroughs is akin to swimming through space — if the blackness were molasses and the stars just an illusion of escape. But just when you think McDonald can’t possibly talk his way out of this one, Underbelly sees the sky for the mushroom clouds.

“It’s not super fun touring with this character. Usually I’m doing kind of a lighter show with some lovable character I can take with me. But now it’s just me and Burroughs propping up the end of a bar… lamenting things,” he laughs. “[But] even though there’s a lot of doom and calamity and misadventure involved, there is a very positive emotional arc in the show — it goes somewhere that is a lovely, pleasant place.”

Which is appropriate since, one way or another, the atomic age was always going to end with a flash of light.

Underbelly, Critics’ Pick winner at the Fringe, is March 18-30 (8pm) at The Historic Theatre at The Cultch.

Matinees March 23 and 30 (2pm).

Tickets $31. Tickets.thecultch.com; 604.251.1363.

Ontario-based writer/performer Jayson McDonald brings his unmissable journey into the mind of William S. Burroughs to the Cultch March 18-30. James Travis photo

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On the set of Continuum Behind the scenes of Showcase’s hit sci-fi series Reel People

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by Sabrina Furminger

t’s a sunny morning in late January when I step onto Continuum’s permanent set, located in the basement of the CBC’s downtown headquarters.

My goal is to get a glimpse into the inner workings of a Vancouver television series, and it doesn’t get more “Vancouver” than Continuum.

Showcase’s hit sci-fi series — which stars Rachel Nichols as a cop from 2077 who follows a group of terrorists back in time to 2012 — is both shot and set in Vancouver.

More than 160 cast and crew are required to bring each episode of Continuum from concept to completion, the unit publicist tells me as we pass through a cavernous set-building workshop and into a hallway lined with doors where my footsteps are the only ones that seem to echo.

First lesson of the day: only unknowing journalists would wear clickety-clackety heels to set. (I spend the remainder of the day treading lightly on the balls of my feet.)

We pop our heads through the door of the main soundstage, which contains the tech-heavy office set for Alec Sadler (played

by Erik Knudsen). The crew is setting up for the first scene of the day, and so we begin combing through the adjoining dressing rooms in search of a crew member with a few minutes to chat about life on the Continuum set.

When we stumble upon Courtney Frey, 1st assistant makeup artist, she’s studying continuity pictures of Nichols. Such photos are essential tools when you’re shooting scenes for two episodes — and from two distinctly different time periods — in a single day. “There’s a lot of stuff happening, and we need to be prepared,” she explains. “It keeps you on your toes.”

As we soft-shoe our way back to the main set, I nearly bump into Amanda Tapping, who is directing back-to-back episodes after directing one in the previous season.

The previous day, she’d tweeted that she was “psyched and scared and excited” to be back in the Continuum director’s chair (she used the hashtag “directorangst”), but moments from shooting I observe only calm and ease — no visible traces of fear or angst.

She slides into a chair in front of a couple of monitors, confers with director of photography Dave Pelletier seated beside her, and calls “action!”

The scene is a tense interaction between Alec and Madga Apanowicz’s Emily, who I am shocked to see because her character was killed in one of the episodes I’d watched during my research binge. (The publicist tells me it’s okay to mention Emily’s presence because photos of the actors shooting new scenes together had already surfaced on the internet; just remember that Continuum regularly switches between time periods, and so she might or might not be a flashback.)

During the take, Tapping is laser-focused on the monitors.

Once she calls “cut!” she’s out of her chair, quietly consulting with the actors. They shoot the scene a few more times; during and after every take, Tapping smiles broadly.

There is laughter between takes. The vibe on the set is happy.

The crew is delighted with Tapping. They wrapped early the

Actors Victor Webset (Carlos) and Rachel Nichols (Kiera) can be seen filming Continuum in front of CBC Vancouver. But what do the rest 160 cast and crew do behind the scenes to create the made-inVancouver hit TV show? Photo courtesy Continuum day before and, given the speed with which they’re moving through the current shot list, they’re poised to do so again today.

Soon Apanowicz is wrapped and has a moment to chat. “[Continuum] is lightning in a bottle,” she says.

“You don’t get it in every show, and you don’t get it in every cast and crew, but there are times when everything comes together, and everyone appreciates it, and I feel like Continuum is one of those.”

In the middle of the afternoon, Continuum’s executive producer, Amanda Tapping Simon Barry, arrives. He sits down with me in the middle of a yet-to-air set that wows me with its steampunk detailing.

As Continuum’s chief architect, Barry holds to the answer to a question I’ve pondered since the pilot: why did he decide to set Continuum in Vancouver when so many other locally shot series choose not to?

In short, Continuum is set in Vancouver because no one said it couldn’t be. “The idea [for the show] was locationproof. These are big concepts — time travel, and the politics of corporations, the politics of freedom fighters and terrorists, and the politics of what the present means to the future — and so where the show was filmed, or what city it was set in, was

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As a storyteller, he draws his inspiration from “the world that we live in.”

“One of the traditions of science fiction,” he says, “is you get to talk about things directly in an indirect way, draw real-world events, real-world concerns, plug them in to the show, and because we’re telling the story through the prism of science fiction, no one really looks at it as being overt. Yet our fans and the people who watch the show know that we’re tackling things like globalization, terrorism, corporatization, and privacy issues.”

Back on the main stage, they’re shooting a scene involving Kiera and Alec. Standing next to Tapping is Luvia Petersen, who portrays future terrorist Garza. Today, however, Petersen is shadowing Tapping, soaking up knowledge from an actress who learned about directing the very same way: by shadowing directors on her breakout series, Stargate SG-1. “[Tapping] knows when to step in and give a piece of direction, and she knows when to step out of the way,” Petersen tells me between takes. “This is a great crew, and they know what they’re doing. She is so good at picking her moments.”

At 5pm, dinner is called. Cast and crew head upstairs to eat while Tapping darts into a dressing room to review shot lists for the following day’s location shoot and answer a few of my burning questions. I ask about the anxiety she mentioned on Twitter.

“I think each time, I would like to say you get more confident, but that’s not true because I still feel like throwing up the first morning on set,” she says. “My job is to tell the story and to tell it in a visually beautiful way, [and] to understand technically what I’m doing, but then the actors have to understand their process through the arc of the story, so that weighs heavily on me, coming from an acting background. ” Tapping feels other big responsibilities, too: to create a joyful mood — “the more joyful the mood, the more productive you are, and the more creative people feel”— and to ensure that everyone — producers, writers, actors, and crew — feels “safe.”

“Sometimes you’re on sets where you can barely get the air into your lungs,” she says. “This is a joyful set. I get nervous, but I love it.”

My day ends as it begins, at the main entrance to the CBC. The sun is setting; I realize I haven’t seen it in nearly seven hours. As I make my way home through the rush-hour crowds, I think of the Continuum cast and crew who still have a few hours to go before wrapping for the day.

Continuum’s characters live in our future and recent past; in the present, the show is contributing much to the fabric of Vancouver, on screen and in the heart of downtown.

Continuum returns for its third season on March 16.

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The Lab will assist jury-selected teams of female filmmakers to secure financing for “genre” films (sci-fi, horror, fantasy and thriller) that have a strong representation of female roles both on and off the screen. It’s the inaugural phase of WIFTV’s National Accelerator Project, designed to address the gender imbalance in leadership in Canadian feature films.

• The UBCP/ACTRA Women’s Committee celebrated International Women’s Day by honouring Nicole Oliver for “outstanding contributions to the Union, the industry, and causes of social justice.”

The veteran Vancouver-based actress, producer and director (best known for voicing Princess Celestia on the wildly popular My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon) has been nominated for several Leo Awards for work on screens big and small. “[Oliver] is such a great example of a woman balancing a career and family while still finding the time to contribute so much to the Union,” UBCP/ ACTRA’s Women’s Committee Chair Jo Bates said in a press release.

• Stage and screen converge this week when Helen Lawrence opens at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Set in 1948 Vancouver, the Noir-style mixed media spectacle is the brainchild of visual artist Stan Douglas and awardwinning screenwriter Chris Haddock (Boardwalk Empire, Intelligence, Da Vinci’s Inquest). Until April 13.

• The Canadian International Film Festival is March 28-29 at Edgewater Casino. This year’s fest will screen independent features and shorts from Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Albania, and the United States, and conclude with an awards ceremony.

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Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori Directed by Wes Anderson Wes Anderson maintains such a remarkable degree of control over his immaculate films that they often seem to unfold in their own hermetically sealed realities. And while The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps his most exacting work yet, its narrative is very much informed by real world events, bringing a melancholic air to the often antic comedy.

Employing a structure indebted to wellcrafted nesting dolls, Anderson transports us through three distinct eras before depositing us in the fictitious country of Zubrowka in 1932. While fascist forces amass nearby, The Grand Budapest Hotel remains an opulent oasis of civility. Within its candy-coloured walls, concierge Gustave (Fiennes) tends to the

As usual, Wes Anderson has assembled quite the cast for his new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Artwork courtesy of Fox Searchlight guests’ every need, including those of the carnal variety. When his octogenarian paramour (Tilda Swinton, in outrageous makeup) dies under mysterious circumstances, he’s targeted by her malicious son (Adrian Brody) and his henchman (Willem Dafoe), thrusting him into a picaresque caper flick that takes countless deliriously entertaining twists and offers inspired sight gags and sublime dialogue at every turn.

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Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon Directed by Denis Villeneuve Sometimes it takes an outsider to identify solutions to a problem.

For example? Jake Gyllenhaal seemed to have lost his way of late, playing charmless lunkheads and anonymous action heroes.

Enter Quebec director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies), who’s quickly steered him back on track by recognizing that the sturdy actor is best as a fragile, obsessive, anxiety-ridden mess (as in Zodiac, his career high point).

Villeneuve and Gyllenhaal follow up last year’s Prisoners with another stylish thriller. However, whereas their previous collaboration was the cinematic equivalent of a pulpy page-turner, Enemy is more akin to riddle that’s heavy on symbolism, parallels and metaphor. Staid Toronto history professor Adam (Gyllenhaal, truly exceptional here) is startled to discover his perfect döppelganger in the background of a movie scene. Tracking down the actor (also portrayed by Gyllenhaal), he realizes too late the high cost of meddling with the uncanny.

Enemy isn’t shy about wear-

ing its influences on its sleeve (or slapping a telling Vertigo poster on a wall), with David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers an obvious influence. However, Villeneuve immerses us in a perverse, hallucinatory realm of his own design.

Titillating and confounding in equal measure, there’s almost the sense that you’ve wandered into someone else’s dream, leaving you aroused by the intimacy, yet aware that you must escape before being found out.

The mystery that Villeneuve spins here cleverly dispenses its vague clues, demanding that the viewer be the one to assign some order to a seemingly irrational scenario. However, the moment you think you have Enemy cracked, the filmmaker plays a trump card that forces you to piece it all together again. — Curtis Woloschuk

Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green Directed by Noam Murro You won’t be getting any kind of Thor realistic history Diakow lesson in 300: Rise of an Empire but it sure is a damn fine looking superficial spectacle.

The movie follows up the hugely successful 2006 film with a parallel story that takes place during the plot of the first one.

Greek general Themistokles (Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton) leads an inexperienced and weary army against invading Persian forces led by the scene-stealing Artemisia (an incredibly watchable Eva Green, best known for Casino Royale and Dark Shadows) in a series of intense naval battles.

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The off-putting jingoistic tone, which essentially pits Caucasians (the Greeks) against Middle Easterns (the Persians), will rub many more culturally sensitive viewers the wrong way. The overuse of slow motion violence also gets redundant but such is the genre.

Overall, the film is a bloody good romp. All the actors fill their clichéd parts well and strong female roles, including Green’s wacky villainess and Game of Thrones star Lena Headey’s Gorgo, keep things refreshing. 300: Rise of an Empire may be brainless fun but there’s no denying its kinetic energy and expert pacing.

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Here is a very important vehicle. And, judging from the squint, it’s forgotten its bifocals.

Kidding aside, the Cherokee represents a vital sales segment, both for Jeep/Chrysler and its new Fiat owners. Based on the same Italian underpinnings as the Dodge Dart, if this crossover does well, it’ll have the profits flooding in.

Overall, you could claim Jeep’s been having a bit of a renaissance of late. They’ve had the good sense not to fiddle with the Wrangler’s burly character too much, and the Grand Cherokee is, frankly, excellent, a sort of Americanized Range Rover. The SRT version is possibly my favourite SUV of all time.

With the resurrection of the Cherokee nameplate, not seen in over a decade, Jeep hopes to offer a smaller version of its successful full-size SUV. Never mind the way this rig’s giving you a suspicious glare – it’s how it fares from behind the wheel that’s important.

Design:

Obviously, we first have to talk a little more about that front end. It’s certainly striking. Striking, that is, in the manner of a frying pan to the face.

When it first showed its squinty schnoz, the Cherokee generated all kinds of hilarious jests, jeers, and japes.

Having seen the thing in the flesh, I actually kinda like it.

I know, I know: maybe it’s me who needs the bifocals.

Here’s the thing though, in the Trailhawk trim, with big burly boots and plenty of plastic cladding, the Cherokee looks like something that could have rolled right off the set of the original Robocop.

It’s futuristic, and polarizing, and I’m sure you’ve already got an opinion on it. This Limited Trim tester came with 18” polished alloys and I will say that the more basic versions of the Cherokee can’t quite pull off the scowl as well as those with the beefier wheel and tire packages.

Environment:

On the inside, the Cherokee benefits from a great deal of parts-sharing across the Chrysler line-up. While I’ve heard other colleagues complain about the odd bit of flimsiness in the plastics and stitching issues here and there, my particular tester didn’t seem to have too many foibles.

Jeep delayed the launch of its new crossover significantly, focussing on tweaking things based on early reviewer feedback, and this mostly shines through in the Cherokee’s interior. It looks good, and the infotainment controls are among the best on the market. It’s worth noting, for instance, that both Maserati and Ferrari use similar versions of the Uconnect system, with its big, bright icons, and easy-to-use interface.

Compared to others in the class, this Jeep is not quite the utilitarian box the old Cherokee was. It’s fine for passenger space, especially as it’s equipped with a sliding rear seat, but the overall cargo room is smaller than either an Escape or a CR-V. As a Limited, this tester came fully equipped with leather and the highest grades of interior trim, and was actually a fairly snazzy ride. Both of the volume-selling Japanese vehicles in this segment, the CR-V and RAV4, seem to have a greater amount of hard plastics. The Cherokee does look like a little Grand Cherokee from behind the wheel.

Performance:

It also drives like one, but not all the time. As mentioned, this crossover sits on a Fiat platform rather than the Grand Cherokee’s Mercedes-Benz underpinnings, and it feels it.

The Cherokee is more like the base car, with somewhat numb steering, a ride tuned for comfort rather than speed, and an overall woolly and isolated drive.

That’s fine. We already have several crossovers that pretend convincingly to be sports cars, from the Mazda CX-5 to the Ford Escape. Comfort and smoothness are favoured in the Cherokee over corner-carving, and thus it’ll probably appeal to a broader range of tastes.

However, a little more feel could be wished for, and slightly better behaviour from the 9-speed automatic transmission. You read that right: nine speeds — wasn’t eight supposed to be enough? Is this thing a crossover or a mountain bike?

The 3.2L V6 engine can’t really be held to blame here.

It’s not crazy powerful, but does have a worthy 271hp, if only a modest 239lb/ft of torque. It does feel slightly less grunty than other offerings, particularly the turbocharged ecoboost offerings from Ford, but it’s a

durable powerplant, and quite smooth.

Software updates for the 9-speed are probably on the way. The electric power steering and the slight sponginess of the brakes are unlikely to change.

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Having said that, the Cherokee is entirely competent, and then there’s what happens when you take it even mildly off-road. It’s a

Jeep’s active drive system has the ability to adapt to nearly any terrain, and the chassis is composed and unstickable even in the non-trail-rated version. The Trailhawk looks the toughest, but this city slicker Limited could quite easily follow a Wrangler down even a difficult trail.

Frankly, I’d almost call the Cherokee’s capabilities an unfortunate temptation. So you’re on the run to pick up the kids from school? You might take a shortcut right up the side of Grouse. Picking up the groceries? Why not check the back-country for morels instead of shelling out for them?

Add in a 2000kg towing capacity and you’ve got the makings of a Jeep-serious utility vehicle with relatively smooth and composed road manners. When the going gets rough, the Cherokee proves itself worthy of the seven-hole Jeep grille it wears out front.

Features:

Like the Grand Cherokee, this smaller Jeep has an overwhelming amount of tech on-tap. The 8.4” touchscreen display pairs with a customizable gauge cluster, and voice commands are easy to use.

For safety, available features include the usual blind spot monitoring and lane departure warning, but also extend to automatic cruise control and adaptive high-beams.

The $1795 technology package also includes forward collision mitigation and parking assist.

The only drawback to all the goodies available is the way the cost for this compact crossover can shoot up.

Equipped with a luxury group including power liftgate, 9-speaker audio, towing package, and a dual-pane sunroof, this tester Cherokee cracked the $43K mark.

That’s quite a bit.

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A bike path on hand is worth two in the bush I want to rant about our spineless Parks Board backing down on twinning the Kitsilano Beach seaside path. Here’s a harmless beneficial project that was cancelled merely because of a handful of gullible busy-bodies who were hoodwinked by a slick propaganda film that filled their heads with unfounded fears. I’m suspicious about who is really behind this as we’re coming up to an election.

So disappointing. The people deserve better.

A few years in the future, when the recent anti-cyclist demonizing trend blows over, these people will look as foolish as any homophobe or anti-semite does today.

So the next time you’re walking along Kits Beach and some tourist on a rental bike whizzed by too close because no parallel cycle path exists, you have no one to blame except (maybe) the NPA. “Dick Sappointed”

A war of words Thanks for the crossword, from a cruciverbalist addict. No, it’s not The Times (Rant: “What’s a four letter word for...”

Feb. 13), and because it isn’t, it makes me take a different mental path to get the clue. Also, crossword aficionados don’t know all or every word(s). So, instead of complaining about the clue, perhaps one should be thankful that one has learnt something new.

The Septuagenarian

Don’t miss this bus We took the C23 from Terminal Avenue to Davie St. and had the nicest friendliest driver ever. He looks like a big biker with his long hair and tats, but don’t be fooled by appearances. He is the most pleasant, helpful driver on that route.

He had to detour because of the road construction, but he got all of us to our proper stops with a smile. I don’t know his name, but huge kudos to you my friendly bus driver and thank you for a great random act of kindness to a couple of tourists.

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WE VANCOUVER STORY: “New column about Vancouver’s dynamic film and TV industry,” March 6.

• SADinVAN @sadinvan: @sabrinarmf #ReelPeople will help #savebcfilm -inspiring that @WEVancouver recognizes need for weekly #bcfilm info #strongertogether RT WE VANCOUVER COLUMN: “FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Going underground with Farm 2 Fork,” March 6.

• CCW @cdnchoice: @WEVancouver @followmefoodie @CBCVancouver great to hear about another hidden gem @Farm2ForkVan! WE VANCOUVER COLUMN: “FOLLOW ME FOODIE: Should food photography be allowed?” Feb. 27.

• carebear @carolinechan_: @followmefoodie @WEVancouver — well whenever I make resos & want to try somewhere new, I always check out foodblogs & foodpix. Who wouldn’t!

PLEASE READ THE FINE PRINT: Offers valid until March 31, 2014. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between Toyota prices, rates and/or other information contained on toyotabc.ca and that contained on toyota.ca, the latter shall prevail. Errors and omissions excepted. 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual BURCEM-A MSRP is $17,540 and includes $1,545 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. *Lease example: 1.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $87 with $900 cash back applied as a down payment. Total Lease obligation is $11,340. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.07. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. **Finance example: 1.9% finance for 84 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Corolla CE 6M. Applicable taxes are extra. ***Up to $900 Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Corolla models. Stackable cash back on 2014 Corolla CE 6M Manual is $900. 2014 RAV4 Base FWD LE Automatic ZFREVT-A MSRP is $25,685 and includes $1,815 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. †Lease example: 4.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $139 with $2,450 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $19,130. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. ††Finance example: 2.9% finance for 60 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 RAV4. Applicable taxes are extra. 2014 Tacoma Double Cab V6 4x4 Automatic MU4FNA-A MSRP is $32,965 and includes $1,815 freight and pre-delivery inspection, tire levy, battery levy and air conditioning federal excise tax. ‡Lease example: 4.9% Lease APR for 60 months on approved credit. Semi-Monthly payment is $165 with $3,980 down payment. Total Lease obligation is $23,720. Lease 60 mos. based on 100,000 km, excess km charge is $.10. Applicable taxes are extra. Down payment, first semi-monthly payment and security deposit plus GST and PST on first payment and full down payment are due at lease inception. A security deposit is not required on approval of credit. ‡‡Finance example: 0.9% finance for 36 months, upon credit approval, available on 2014 Tacoma. Applicable taxes are extra. ‡‡‡Up to $1000 Non-Stackable Cash Back available on select 2014 Tacoma models. Non-stackable cash back on 2014 Tacoma Double Cab V6 4x4 Automatic is $1,000. Stackable Cash Back offers may be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. Vehicle must be purchased, registered and delivered by March 31, 2014. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. Non-stackable Cash Back offers may not be combined with Toyota Financial Services (TFS) lease or finance rates. If you would like to lease or finance at standard TFS rates (not the above special rates), then you may be able to take advantage of Cash Customer Incentives. Vehicle must be purchased, registered and delivered by March 31, 2014. Cash incentives include taxes and are applied after taxes have been charged on the full amount of the negotiated price. See toyota.ca for complete details on all cash back offers. ‡‡‡‡Semi-monthly lease offer available through Toyota Financial Services on approved credit to qualified retail customers on most 48 and 60 month leases (including Stretch leases) of new and demonstrator Toyota vehicles. First semi-monthly payment due at lease inception and next monthly payment due approximately 15 days later and semi-monthly thereafter throughout the term. Toyota Financial Services will waive the final payment. Semi-monthly lease offer can be combined with most other offers excluding the First Payment Free and Encore offers. First Payment Free offer is valid for eligible TFS Lease Renewal customers only. Toyota semi-monthly lease program based on 24 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 120 payments, with the final 120th payment waived by Toyota Financial Services.

Competitive bi-weekly lease programs based on 26 payments per year, on a 60-month lease, equals 130 payments. Not open to employees of Toyota Canada, Toyota Financial Services or TMMC/TMMC Vehicle Purchase Plan. Some conditions apply. See your Toyota dealer for complete details. Visit your Toyota BC Dealer or www.toyotabc.ca for more details. Some conditions apply; offers are time limited and may change without notice. Dealer may lease/sell for less.

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• Burger Junkies @burgerjunkies: @followmefoodie @WEVancouver I ate at The French Laundry over the weekend and the server encouraged pics “take as many pics as you want :)” • Christian Alvarez @DJ_C_Alvarez: @followmefoodie @WEVancouver I’m with you. Only place I wasn’t allowed to take photos was @momofuku Ko, at the time 2 Michelin stars. I was pretty bummed. And the meal ran the pair of us about $700. I say shoot away. Without flash of course.

• i ate a cat @iateacat: @followmefoodie @WEVancouver I selfishly think to myself “yay, no more annoying people when I’m eating!” but it all sounds way excessive,

WE VANCOUVER ONLINE STORY: “Poll finds little B.C. appetite for GM foods,” March 4 • Bruce Batchelor: GMO crops produce lower yields and much lower profitability when compared to heritage or hybrid crops. Except for the profits to the suppliers of GMO seeds, there is no benefit. Indeed, the crops may be poisonous to human and animal genetics. The public is apparently reflecting reality.

• Rob Bairos: Bruce are you a farmer? Can you please explain to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have knowingly switched to biotech crops, how they’ve somehow missed something that you are privy too? Do you take them all for idiots?

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A St. Paddy’s Tradition: Corned Beef and Cabbage Did you know cabbage is one of the healthiest veggies you can eat and it’s incredibly affordable? Compounds called glucosinolates and a high-fibre content are both implicated in cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention. And this benefit can be enhanced by light cooking.After slow-cooking your corned beef, add root vegetables like carrots and potatoes to the broth and cook until tender. Then add in loads of shredded cabbage and cook for only 5 minutes until softened. Avoid cooking the cabbage for too long or it will lose some of its health properties. Have a moderate serving of meat (2.5 oz) with a hearty serving (1-2 cups) of cabbage plus the other veggies for a traditional Irish meal. Don’t forget the pint of Guinness!

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