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A woman will no longer be able to get an abortion... nada. Even tough(er) on crime legislation is Milquetoast compared with what would happen to a burglar caught by the owner of a house who happened to get the upper hand.

Mr. Kawano should be writing scripts for James Cameron.

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CHANGE IS NIGH

I am voting because recent extreme weather events mean bold and immediate action on climate change is critical.The fires in BC are prime example of why this is so important.

I am voting in this election because I believe all Canadians have the right to live in a healthy environment with clean air, water and soil.

I believe that Canadians will come out in unprecedented

numbers this year to vote.Will you? Momentum is building in this federal election and the stakes are high.Together we can get out and vote in record numbers and choose the Canada we want.

–Steve Anderson

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE

Re: “Vote for the Canada you want on Oct. 19”, Oct. 1, 2015.

Oh hyperbole...Kawano is thy name! From his opening statement James Kawano spares no literary expense of expression, adding to the overall electioneering mix of exaggeration, hyperbole, and distortion. The kicker implied that a Conservative win provides us with a life that will be “poor, brutish, nasty and short” can be viewed as either laughable or sickening.

Ten years back Liberal

I commute to work and home by bike, and often find myself astounded by my fellow cyclists’ lack of road sense. This morning the woman who passed me on the inside lane – I am grateful that she isn’t driving a car, and would it bust your budget to buy a bell?

There are rules of the road, even for bicycles. Now that our wet weather is here, would the staff at the art gallery stop blowing their leaves into the bike lanes, they are a serious danger when wet. Please don’t put them in our route home, as it is nearly impossible to brake on wet leaves (ask any motorist).

I am very pleased to have bike lanes and would be even more pleased if they weren’t getting leaves blown into them by gallery staff.

–JC McElroy W

IF HEALTH CARE LIKE THIS MAKES YOU SICK, VOTE By 2027, the Conservatives will have cut $52.5 billion from federal health funding. This will leave community patients on their own, seniors without residential care, and sick people in hospital halls. Help your family get the health care they deserve. Vote for better health care on October 19th.

Major Health Care Commitments (positive, negative)

PARTY

FEDERAL FUNDING

NATIONAL DRUG PLAN

SENIORS’ CARE

Conservative

$52.5 billion total cut by 2027 from current levels

No commitment

No commitment

Green

Renew Health Accord with 6% annual increase

Yes

Support for home care

Renew Health Accord

Supports bulk buying of drugs

$3 billion over 4 years for home care, prioritize seniors’ facilities in infrastructure plan

Yes

Homecare for 41,000 more seniors, 5,000 more long-term care beds

Liberal

Renegotiate funding

NDP

Renew Health Accord with 6% annual increase

Data from Canadian Health Coalition & CFNU

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Election 2015: Vancouver votes GLACIER MEDIA STAFF @westendervan

The political landscape of Vancouver – and indeed Canada – is changing.Thirty new electoral districts have been created since 2011, including the new riding of Vancouver Granville.The latest Nanos national poll, released Oct. 10, shows a three-way race between the Liberals (35.1 per cent), Conservatives (29.0 per cent), and NDP (25.0 per cent).The Oct. 19 federal election is truly any party’s to win, and the six Vancouver ridings could help tip the balance of power on Monday in this tightly contested election campaign. Here now is a look at the candidates from the four major parties running in the four ridings in and around downtown Vancouver.

VANCOUVER-CENTRE

The downtown core’s riding has shrunk since the last election after losing its southern tail to the newly minted Vancouver-Granville riding. A Liberal stronghold for the past 22 years ever since a first-time candidate put an end to the brief reign of Prime Minister Kim Campbell.

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-Source: Elections Canada Photo illustration by Tara Rafiq LIBERAL: HEDY FRY (I) Incumbent Hedy Fry first won the riding in 1993 and is now the longest-serving Liberal MP in BC history. Born into poverty in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Fry became a family physician who worked at the West End’s St. Paul’s Hospital for 20 years after immigrating to Canada.

She is currently the party’s health critic. Fry served as Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women from 1996 to 2002, when she was shuffled out of Cabinet not long after making infamous claims in Parliament about crosses burning on lawns in Prince George. She ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Liberal Party in 2006 and has also served as president of the Vancouver and British Columbia Medical Associations.

CONSERVATIVE: ELAINE ALLEN Elaine Allan has an extensive background in the non-profit sector and has served as executive director of Shelter Net BC and director of the John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland. Due to her role as a former manager of the Downtown Eastside’s WISH Drop-in Centre, she became a key witness at the murder trial of Robert “Willie” Pickton and testified that police lied to her when she attempted to file a Missing Person’s Report regarding one of his victims. Journalist Stevie Cameron dedicated her book On the Farm about the botched investigation in her honour.

GREEN: LISA BARRETT A former mayor of Bowen Island, Air Canada flight attendant,Yaletown art gallery owner and COPE’s top vote earner running for city council in the 2014 municipal election, Lisa Barrett now practices mediation and is a member of the British Columbia Arbitration and Mediation Institute. She also serves as a director with Pacific Policies and works with Rising Tide, a grassroots orga-

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nization dedicated to fighting climate change, as well as the Canadian Community Economic Development Network.

Barrett holds a law degree from Cambridge University and also serves on the fundraising board for Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada.

NDP: CONSTANCE BARNES A former two-term Vision Vancouver park board commissioner and current senior executive at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Constance Barnes is the daughter of the late MLA Emery Barnes and was instrumental in the creation of a newYaletown park named in his honour. Barnes is an outspoken opponent of keeping cetaceans inside the Vancouver Aquarium. She is a member of the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and is a former trustee of the Vancouver Public Library Board.

A recovering alcoholic who was charged with DUI after crashing her car into a house in 2009, she currently sits on the board of directors of the Avalon Recovery Society.

VANCOUVER-EAST

The riding, which includes the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Strathcona and Grandview-Woodland neighbourhoods, is known for its working class roots.Voters have, apart from two brief flirtations with the Liberal party, elected NDP candidates every election since the party was founded back in 1961. Deputy NDP leader Libby Davies, who has held the seat since 1997, has chosen to retire at age 60 rather than run for a seventh term.

NDP: JENNY KWAN After nearly 20 years as the NDP MLA for VancouverMount Pleasant, Jenny Kwan is hoping to make the jump to federal politics. Kwan moved to Canada from Hong Kong as a child and, at age 26, became the youngest person in Vancou-

ver history to be elected to city council. In 1996, she became one of the first Chinese-Canadians to sit in the provincial legislature and went on to serve as Minister of Municipal Affairs, Minister of Women’s Equality and Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers. Kwan has also drawn controversy for playing a key role in the ousting of Carole James as NDP party leader in 2010 and for an expense scandal last year over her ex-husband Dan Small having billed the non-profit Portland Hotel Society for a family trip to Disneyland.

CONSERVATIVE: JAMES LOW James Low has a low profile.

The ruling party’s website doesn’t offer any biographical information about the bald, bespectacled man of Asian heritage seen in campaign posters, and Low has no discernible online presence. He also chose not to appear at a recent all-candidates meeting.

GREEN: WES REGAN A long-time East Side resident, the Inuvik-born Wes Regan is an urban geographer and former executive director of the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association. He also teaches at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development and is a co-founder of Groundswell, a grassroots “alternative to business” school.

LIBERAL: EDWARD WONG Edward Wong is a lawyer who has served as a director of Junior Achievement of British Columbia and on the executive committee of Junior Achievement of Canada.

VANCOUVERGRANVILLE

The city’s newest riding was created by taking chunks of Vancouver-Centre (38 per cent),Vancouver-Quadra (18 per cent),Vancouver-South (26 per cent) and VancouverKingsway (19 per cent); ridings

that, respectively, voted in two Liberals, one Conservative and one NDPer last time around.

CONSERVATIVE: ERINN BROSHKO Erinn Broshko is a corporate lawyer and former CEO of a biotechnology company who now works as managing director of an international investment firm. He serves as a director of the non-profit Down Syndrome Research Foundation.

GREEN: MICHAEL BARKUSKY A certified general accountant, Michael Barkusky is the president of the Pacific Institute for Ecological Economics and one of the founders of the Adam Va-Adamah Jewish Environmental Society. He has served on the boards of the BC Mountaineering Club, the False Creek Watershed Society, the BC Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.

LIBERAL: JODY WILSONRAYBOULD Jody Wilson-Raybould is a lawyer, member of the We Wai Kai Nation and Regional Chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations. She began her legal career as a crown prosecutor in Vancouver and later served as an advisor at the BC Treaty Commission.Wilson-Raybould carries the Kwak’wala name Puglaas, which means “woman born to noble people.”

NDP: MIRA ORECK Mira Oreck is the director of public engagement for the Broadbent Institute, a left wing think tank, and a veteran Vision Vancouver campaign strategist. Oreck has also worked as a developer of media campaigns and helped produce two popular ads featuring Sarah Silverman and Samuel L. Jackson endorsing US President Barack Obama as part of his 2012 re-election bid (Silverman endorsed Oreck via Twitter). Oreck serves on

the City of Vancouver Renters Advisory Committee and as a member of the PuSh International Performing Arts festival fundraising committee.

VANCOUVER-QUADRA

This West Side riding is the sixth wealthiest riding in Canada and its most highly educated, with more than half of voters holding some sort of university degree or certificate.

Vancouver-Quadra, which has lost some of its former territory east of Arbutus Street, has consistently voted Liberal since electing former Prime Minister John Turner in 1984.

LIBERAL: JOYCE MURRAY (I) A former provincial environment and government services minister, incumbent Joyce Murray was elected an MP in 2008 after first running in 2006. Murray came in second place behind Justin Trudeau to be the new party leader in 2013 and is currently the party’s critic for both national defence and Western diversification and chair of its Northern and Western Caucus.

CONSERVATIVE: BLAIR LOCKHART Blair Lockhart is a lawyer specializing in securities, corporate and mining law. She was the founding faculty lead of BCIT’s Centre for Mine Economics and Business and has taught environmental law at Capilano University and UBC.

GREEN: KRIS CONSTABLE Kris Constable is an IT security specialist and advisor for a consulting firm specializing in the areas of privacy law who has worked with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic as well as to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia. He also blogs for the Huffington Post, helped organize three IdeaWave conferences on Vancouver Island and is a former president of the Canadian Pacific Lawn Bowling Club and director of the Together Against Poverty Society.

NDP: SCOTT ANDREWS Scott Andrews is a regional manager for Pivot Point Family Growth Centre, which helps support adults with disabilities, and is a co-founder ofYouth in Development, a Vancouverbased organization that offers Canadian university students hands-on experience with international development work in Uganda. W

WHERE DO I VOTE? To find out which polling station you should vote at, or for more info about the 2015 federal election, visit Elections.ca.

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YOUR COUNTRY Let’s vote for the values that make Canada great David Suzuki Science Matters @DavidSuzuki

When my grandparents arrived from Japan in the early 1900s, Canada was far less tolerant than it is today.Women and minorities couldn’t vote, nor could Indigenous people who had lived here from time immemorial. In 1942, the government took away my Canadian-born family’s property and rights and sent us to an internment camp in the BC Interior simply because of our ancestry.

Canada has come a long way in my lifetime.Women can vote, as can Asians, other minorities and Indigenous people. Homosexuality is no longer a crime punishable by imprisonment, as it was until 1969.We’ve learned to take better care of each other through rational social programs like universal health care, welfare and unemployment insurance, and a culture of tolerance for the many people from diverse backgrounds who contribute so much to our peace and prosperity – many of whom came here as refugees or immigrants seeking better lives.

Because of my family back-

access to clean drinking water and who are still overcoming the effects of the systemic racism perpetrated in residential schools.We should be talking about ethics, the Senate, corruption and the ways in which our political leaders communicate – or not – to us.We should be talking about trade deals, endangered species, protecting water resources, our responsibilities to the rest of the world and so much more.

Instead, this election has bogged down into “dead cat” distractions like niqabs, an issue that affects almost no one!

Many people see the niqab as a symbol of women’s oppression, but this isn’t about protecting women’s rights.Whether or not we agree with the custom of wearing niqabs – or burkas or turbans or beards, or the Christian fundamentalist belief that women should submit to their husbands – our Constitution guarantees the right of people to practise their religions as long as doing so doesn’t impinge on the rights of others. Our courts have repeatedly reaffirmed these rights.Very few women have even asked to wear veils at the citizenship ceremony, and those who do must remove the face covering for identification beforehand.

For any party to stoop to or

ground and all I’ve witnessed, I take democracy and voting seriously.That’s why I’m dismayed to see the current federal election descend into a divisive discourse that reminds me of all we’ve worked to overcome.

Canada is the envy of the world, thanks to our diverse population and the politicians from all parties who have steered us on a course of increasing tolerance and acceptance. Despite our differences, we’ve built a country that has avoided much of the insanity afflicting our neighbours to the south, such as mass shootings, rampant racism and politicians who reject science and, apparently, rational thought.

Canada isn’t perfect, but if we want to continue down a progressive path we must talk about the real challenges facing our country, including maintaining and strengthening our respect for diversity.This election should also be about our response to the greatest threat humanity faces, climate change, and the many ways we can confront it by moving to a clean-energy future that will benefit our health, well-being and economy.

We should be talking about the challenges faced by First Nations, Inuit and Metis people, many of whom don’t have

fall for this deflection is deplorable and un-Canadian. For voters to allow this small-minded bigotry to distract them from issues that really matter is a step backwards. History has shown where scapegoating minorities can lead.

Fortunately, most Canadians share the values of tolerance and acceptance. And most want a government that leads on issues that matter. A recent poll by the Environics Institute for Survey Research and the David Suzuki Foundation found a strong majority of Canadians want the government to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and confront climate change. It also showed Canadians have confidence in the renewable energy sector and support carbon pricing through carbon taxes or cap-and-trade.

In the final days of this long election, we must demand more from those who hope to govern us.We need to ensure that this election is decided on real issues that affect all Canadians, and not on pointless distractions. Most importantly, we all need to get out and vote! Our country’s future is at stake. W Dr. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. DavidSuzuki.org

Artist Timothy Hoey gives West Coast icons the abstract treatment.

Canadian nostalgia goes pop Grant Lawrence Vancouver Shakedown @GrantLawrence

What do Kraft Dinner, Bruno Gerussi, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, and Old Style Pilsner all have in common? Besides being Canadian, they’re all subjects that have been lovingly painted by Victoria artist and “hopeless nostalgist”Timothy Wilson Hoey. For the past 10 years, Hoey has been busy passionately creating his O-Canada series, mostly 8”x10” oil and acrylic paintings of Canada’s “icons, heroes, and collective kitsch”, according to his busy Facebook page. Hoey’s paintings have shown everywhere from Canmore, Alberta, to London, England.This Friday, his paintings will be featured in Vancouver at a one-night-only pop-up event called O-Canada Goes (West) Coastal.

One glance at Hoey’s work should make the average red-blooded Canadian stop in their tracks and mist up with true patriot love.Within the OCanada series there are plenty of subsets, like the people series, complete with brilliant captures of Pierre Elliott Trudeau,Terry Fox, Bill Vander Zalm, and Harold Snepsts.

There’s the food series that includes vintage Canadian staples like Pink Elephant popcorn, the Big Turk candy bar, and Pop Shoppe pop.Tim has a signage series as well, some capturing Vancouver’s bygone neon era, with renditions of the Woodwards “W”, the Bow-Mac sign, and the recently departed Only Seafoods. Every painting in the O-Canada series is framed with wooden hockey sticks, and all of the paintings have the backdrop of the iconic Hudson’s Bay stripes.

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@NikiMHope ILIA, an organic line of makeup, available at Yaletown’s Beauty Mark and Olympic Village’s Kiss and Makeup boutique, recently expanded its cosmetics line with the launch of a new silky eye shadow, creamy eyeliner (with a built-in sharpener), and foundation, which is filled with botanicals that help calm the skin.

The ILIA line is a madein-Vancouver success story that began in 2011 when Sasha Plavsic made a line of six organic tinted lip conditioners. Today, the company is headquartered in Malibu but still has strong connections and a loyal customer base, who will likely be thrilled with the expansion.

Whether you’re looking to play make-believe, bake spooky treats or dress up your little one, Etsy has this Halloween covered.

Look for BC-made offerings this year with Etsy, including a black cat tee courtesy of Bloom Bloom Wear, hand-cut bat-shaped earrings from Images by

Kent Olinger, and personalized candy baskets from Kelowna’s Good Wishes Quilts. Keep the kiddies warm in crochet Ninja Turtles hats from Cats Crafty Corner in Kamloops and decorate dessert with cupcake toppers from Vancouver’s Confetti Crown Design.

Looking for that perfect, effortless chic clutch? Vancouver’s Lolo Jewellery & Accessories’ new fall pieces, the Elly envelope clutch or the Lola clutch with tassel details, just might be it. Designer Lorena Ponis added the new bag to her list of designs that includes an extensive collection of handmade jewelry and accessories. See Lolo.ca for more.

GapKids will introduce an exclusive, limited edition collection celebrating the Peanuts characters by Charles M. Schulz at Gap stores across Canada and online at gapcanada.ca on Oct. 19. The line, ranging in price from $16.95 - $85, includes offerings for newborn, toddler, boys and girls, which boasts playful and cheery ready-to-wear clothes and accessories. W

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@NikiMHope “This is my baby,” Alexandra Thompson says, waving her arm around her charming Gastown boutique.

The 29-year-old fashionista’s baby, called Wardrobe Apparel, is filled with some of the most unforgettable and inventive clothes found in Vancouver, with an array of designers who aren’t overly represented in the Canadian market.The racks carry stunningly crafted luxury European lines from London and Paris – quality investment pieces (with prices ranging from $40 to the $2,500) that are about as far from fastfashion as you can get.

“That’s how we justify our price point – that’s our goal,” Thompson says. “We are here to find your investment pieces.”

And there are some lovely pieces to invest in – including a gorgeously tailored rich purple dress with billowing sleeves from Greta Constantine, and a camel-coloured high-waisted long wool skirt by Jean-Pierre Braganza, which promises to be a forever favourite.

Her typical clientele are professional women in their late 20s to late 30s – lawyers, accountants, and those in the financial world – a place Thompson knows well.

Thompson, who majored in finance at Dalhousie University and has an MBA from

Continued from page 5 “In all honesty, those Hudson’s Bay stripes are one of the few things that tie this country together”,Tim explained. “Our flag is way too new, as much as I love it, but it’s only 40+ years old. But the Hudson’s Bay blanket with its familiar stripes has been with us for hundreds of years”.

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Alexandra Thompson brings the feel of a luxury Parisian boutique to Vancouver, carrying clothes that aren’t readily available in the Canadian market. Dan Toulgoet photo UBC, previously worked in financial services, travelling the globe for business, and shopping unique boutiques along the way. During her travels, she spent her off time hunting for interesting one-off boutiques – the very shops that would later inspire Wardrobe Apparel’s current format.

The idea to switch careers came to Thompson during an eight-day trek through Nepal, where she had a light-bulb moment, realizing her dream was to open a boutique in her hometown that would carry the unique designers she encountered on her travels.

After Nepal, she headed for London, where she met with her friend Brian Macinnes.

When she told him about her idea to open a boutique in Vancouver, he wanted to be

part of it.

“He said, ‘I’m in … I don’t know what part I’m in, but I’m in,’”Thompson laughs, recalling how easily the partnership was formed.

They talked about the challenge of shopping in Vancouver – a market that is somewhat saturated with a lot of the same brand names – meaning there is a good chance of bumping into people wearing the same clothes.That embarrassing situation wasn’t a concern for Thompson because of her access to smallrun designers in Europe.

Thompson’s concept was to offer the same option to other women in Vancouver.With the concept of exclusivity in mind, Wardrobe Apparel carries just a single size of each item – including shoes. Meaning,

when a shopper scoops up a pair of darling lace-up Chelsea Paris heels, or a J. JS Lee dress, there is a good chance she will be wearing one of just a few in town.

Wardrobe Apparel officially opened in May, so it’s still early days for the boutique.With her financial background, Thompson doesn’t harbour any illusions about how long it will take to make the business profitable – she estimates they’re looking at four to five years down the road.

“It’s retail,”Thompson says, sitting on the love seat at the front of the boutique, which has floor to ceiling windows, allowing the natural light to shine in.The blonde straightshooter adds, “We are in the rag trade, but it’s a fun rag trade.” W

How did the O-Canada series begin? According to Hoey, a long timeVictoria resident, it was all by happy accident.

“I had been known as an abstract painter, but about 10 years ago, on Boxing Day, my wife sent me downstairs and told me to just paint something different, because I was going stir crazy over the holidays”, said Hoey. “I painted Pierre El-

liott Trudeau. A few days later, a gallery came by to pick up a bunch of the abstract stuff for a show.They saw the painting of Trudeau, loved it, and suggested I do a big Canada Day show. I had about half a year to paint enough for that show, and I’ve been doing it ever since”.

In preparation for Friday’s event inVancouver, Hoey specifically chose subjects with

our city and its iconography in mind. “I painted several Vancouver landmarks, like the classic Smilin’ Buddha Cabaret sign, the Tomahawk Barbecue in NorthVancouver, and some of the famous neon signs.

There’s also plenty ofVancouver faces, likeVander Zalm, Bill Bennett, Dave Barrett, Nat Bailey, Jimmy Pattison, Nardwuar, and Stan Smyl, to name a few.”

Hoey, a former punk rock musician in the 1980s, used to rail against figures like Bennett andVander Zalm.The irony that he now paints them isn’t lost on him.

“Look, they’re icons.Whether you love them or hate them, they still made an impact.

When I choose people to paint, I ask myself what sort of legacy do they have, good or bad?”

When I asked if Hoey had a current favourite painting for hisVancouver show, he didn’t hesitate. “Pat John, also known as Jesse from The Beachcombers.

Thank goodness they made him such a key character. He was awesome!” W

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Every year, in the calm before the storm that is the start of ski season in Whistler, a small food and drink festival takes place over a couple of weeks.You may have heard of it. It has the fanciful title of Cornucopia and for almost 20 years, people have been flocking up in droves to participate in bacchanalian feasts and epic wine galas. (As its name might imply, this is a festival about all things indulgent, imbibable and edible.)

If you’re thinking, however, that this is the sum total of what Cornucopia is all about – think again. Sure, in its early years, this was the festival known for such events as the infamous Masquarave, where terms like “party ‘til you drop” and “drunken rout” were fully realized.

These days, though, Cornucopia places almost as much

Fairmont Chateau Whistler’s bar manager Guillaume Noel and sommelier Franz Zimmerman are among those presenting innovative and educational cocktail and wine events during Cornucopia. Anya Levykh photo emphasis on healthy living and educational seminars as it does on wine and cocktail tastings.

The Nourish series encompasses everything from yoga-meditation sessions to healing foods workshops and

how-to seminars on paleo and raw food diets. There’s even a four-day health and wellness retreat over the first weekend of the festival.

Looking to get educated?

Vancouver-based DJ Kearney, one of the top wine

educators and sommeliers in North America, is leading a WSET Level 1 course (because, what could be better than learning about wine during a food and wine festival?).You even get your own set of ISO-certified

glasses and a free ticket to Cellar Door’s Grand Tasting Gala.

Sommelier certification a bit too intense for you? Try the less demanding tasting seminar with renowned Italian winery Masi, as they lead you through their unique blending system that uses both fresh and semidried grapes indigenous to the Valpolicella wine region.

“It’s truly something unique and very special,” says Franz Zimmermann, sommelier at Fairmont Chateau Whistler, where the event takes place.

“This method has been used for centuries in the area, and Masi has established their own institute – a university, really – to study and develop this technique.”

Other seminars during the festival include focused looks at specific varietals, like Chenin Blanc: Greatness in a Glass and the Grenache seminar led by Westender’s own wine writer, Michaela Morris. (Morris is also hosting individual seminars on the wines of southern Italy, Amarone, and Shiraz/ Syrah, as well as co-hosting a seminar on special occa-

sion wines with DJ Kearney, Sid Cross and Daenna Van Mulligen.)

Want to learn more about the art of mixology? The marTeani Party at the Chateau might be a great place to start. A classic afternoon tea is elevated with tea-based cocktails and incredible infusions. The bar staff at the Chateau, led by Guillaume Noel, manager of The Mallard Lounge, creates everything from old-style shrubs (a type of tincture) with strawberry-peach-thyme flavours to lemon oil syrups and bitters made from local ingredients found on the hotel’s roof garden, including the housemade honey from the rooftop apiaries.

Local writer and spirits expert Joanne Sasvari can teach you all about how to stock your home bar, create the ultimate hangover cures, as well as give you a history on the sometimes troubled (and often troublemaking) relationship between women and cocktails (and the women who make cocktails).

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The City is working to create an exciting and vibrant new plaza at the heart of Davie Village that celebrates the history of the local LGBTQ community and the life and legacy of Jim Deva. We hosted open houses in April and June to identify and refine a preferred concept for the plaza, and we are now ready to share the proposed final design with you.

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DINING OUT Continued from page 7 Beer and distilled spirits are also not overlooked, with seminars covering how to pair beer with cheese, beer and wine comparative tastings, how to start a distillery in BC, matching spirits with charcuterie (what, you thought wine was the only option?).

Even the extremelyindulgent winery dinners that make up the main focus of the festival have incredible learning opportunities attached to them. Araxi’s legendary Big Guns dinner features top-tier wines from around the world, and includes the people who make and sell those wines. The restaurant is also hosting a series of more intimate dinners with wineries from BC, Italy, California, Australia, and France. Fairmont Chateau Whistler is also hosting Masi for a special winery dinner that allows you taste and learn about the wines from the blending seminar (plus several others) in greater detail. Not to miss is their winery dinner with Craggy Range from New Zealand, makers of one of the finest Pinot Noirs I’ve

Whistler’s Peak 2 Peak gondola is a popular year-round attraction. Thinkstock photo tasted in a goodly while.

The Chateau also has some good stay ‘n’ play packages, allowing you to combine hotel stays with event tickets.

Newcomer Basalt Wine Bar & Salumeria is hosting a winery dinner with Fairview Cellars from the South Okanagan that should make for an excellent night out, and a great chance to try this new restaurant’s excellent nosh paired with the Bordeaux-style varietals of this boutique winery.

Whatever your tastes, this year’s Cornucopia is fairly sure to leave you

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Roughly in the centre of Italy, the region of EmiliaRomagna is surely the country’s stomach. This is saying a lot in food-centric Italy.

It’s ground zero for Italian classics with a hit list including prosciutto di Parma, Parmigiano-Reggiano, balsamic vinegar and spaghetti Bolognese. The latter is the name foreigners assigned this slow-cooked tomato and meat sauce. Locally, it’s simply called ragù and more likely served with tagliatelle.

Stuffed pasta is equally typical and a comforting bowl of hand-made tortellini in brodo (broth) greeted me after the long journey to Bologna.

The fascinating city of Bologna is the region’s capital and it positively buzzes. Locals and tourists crowd into bars, spilling outside onto pedestrian streets (even in October) to enjoy copious platters of cheese and charcuterie.

The most enthusiastic eaters then move onto trattorias to further indulge in the area’s hearty and rich fare.

And of course, everyone is drinking wine. Quite frankly, it’s necessary in order to digest the robust cuisine. Emilia-Romagna produces plenty of wine but honestly, this isn’t what it’s famous for.

The region’s most familiar wine reference is Lambrusco.

A complex and fascinating family of grapes, one of the many Lambruscos plays the starring role in a variety of wines. Made as a sparkling red, Lambrusco may be dry or off-dry. It might be difficult to wrap your head around fizzy red, but believe me, those bubbles help cleanse the palate and push down every bite.

Beyond sparkling, lots of weird and wonderful still wines exist but barely ever

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The exception is Sangiovese.

Italy’s most planted grape, Sangiovese is more renowned in neighbouring Tuscany where it is responsible for fine wines like Chianti Classico and Brunello di Montalcino.

Emilia-Romagna proposes its own versions with their own flair and usually boasting affordable prices.

Alas, offerings from Emilia-Romagna are limited in British Columbia. Thankfully the Lambrusco selection is growing with some positively delicious examples gracing our shelves. Just a reminder to serve them chilled.

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Serve it with a regional assortment of meat like mortadella and coppa as well as cheeses such as grana padano, provolone and pecorino.

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A step up in complexity (and price), it sports a similarly pale colour and is also made dry. Sour red cherry, rhubarb and red currants coupled with appetite-stimulating acidity make it a surprisingly tasty match with tortellini in chicken broth.

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2011 Poderi dal Nespoli, ‘Il Nespoli’ Sangiovese di Romagna Superiore Riserva %,& 8 $B1-1+.'=B+4@+( 52+-A 8 $20.79, BC Liquor Stores I’ve recommended this wine in the past but it’s really the only Sangiovese from Emilia-Romagna that’s widely available here. Very similar to a Chianti, though slightly darker and richer than most, it’s perfect for ravioli stuffed with spinach or a classic ragù sauce.

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There’s one bathroom stall here, which is going to be problematic, with dozens of dudes gathered to drink beer all day.This could get ugly.

Oh, wait. It’s ugly now.The bowl is filled, not with the liquid form of urine I’ve come rightfully to expect, but a bowlful of a foamy, frothy variety, rising like dish soap bubbles over the porcelain rim.

Someone needs a doctor – my first glimpse in to the world of professional beer judging. Is this a bad omen?

Oh dear.

I’ve been asked to be a judge for the BC Beer Awards, despite not being Beer Judge Certification Program (or BCJP) certified, or feeling particularly qualified. For example, I don’t know what Marzen is exactly, or why it’s different than an Altbier, which is causing me a fountain of dread.There are 32 beer judges gathered here among the chilly, industrial Direct Tap warehouse in East Vancouver.The bulk of these people are highly experienced and knowledgeable about beer.

They are also, incidentally, white men, between the ages of 25 and 60. Some are bearded, many are not.They are lean, they are robust.They are naturally talking only about beer, using technical language that only aggravates my inferiority complex.

One of these is Danny Seeton, a Parallel 49 brewer and nationally-certified beer judge, leading the conversation among a loose semi-circle of a half-dozen other men, sporting a sizeable BCJP badge on his shirt.

“Are you ready for this?” I ask him.

“I was born ready,” he says.

Our mission is simple: Everyone is paired up and given a dozen blind tasting samples of beers in a single category to evaluate and award a score to out of 50, based on aroma, appearance, flavour, mouthfeel and overall impression.There are several pairings evaluating beers in each category.The best of these beers compete for the best in that category, where one judge from every pairing chooses the winner. At the end of the day, the winning beers from all categories compete for the Best in Show.

“This is not as fun as it sounds,” says Ben Coli, Dageraad’s head brewer and owner.

“It gets exhausting after awhile, tasting and pulling all the beers apart.”

I’m paired up with Danny and assigned to amber and dark lagers, a style of category that, naturally, has to include Marzen and Altbier.

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ing, each table is topped with growlers full of water, score sheets more nuanced than blood work charts, and several copies of the BCJP guidelines handbook, which is 80 pages thick and breaks down every beer style in minute detail.

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It begins. Everyone’s dipping their noses in their tiny plastic cups, swirling them about, holding them up to the light.The score sheet has a list of aromas that I’m taking for suggestions. Does it smell toasty or roasty? What’s the difference? Am I supposed to even smell anything? Because I don’t. Is it the beer that’s faulty, or am I cursed with a lousy nasal cavity?

Some of the judges are burying their noses in the crooks of their arms, which looks like some bizarre cultic rite, but I’m told it’s actually a way to recalibrate their sense of smell.

I give it a shot. I can’t tell the difference.

Danny’s describing our beers with words that I’m worried I’ll need a brewmaster’s diploma or PhD in linguistics to decipher.

NOON-ISH

My palate and sense of smell have adjusted to the evaluating process. It’s fascinating to actually feel how the brain adjusts in a new context like this, in witnessing the subtle changes in how I perceive taste. It’s immediate, automatic.

It turns out that, while I don’t have the language to adequately describe beer in the way that Danny does, I can accurately evaluate these beers based on their technical elements. It’s like critiquing any creative product – music, film, food – it’s equal parts sensing and intellectualizing that sensation. Danny and I are consistently within one to three points apart from each other on every beer.

“Of course we are,” he says.

“This isn’t complicated. It’s fucking beer.”

3PM-ISH

Judging American pale ales.

Fatigued. Grumpy, following a run of terrible entries. I’m told there are way fewer lousy entries this year over last, which is fine, but doesn’t suppress my grumpiness any. Nor has it helped lift the energy in the area. Our numbers are dwindling and the warehouse area stark, almost-haunted quality of a high school exam room.

There’s grumbling abound, which makes sense. Ben was right. Judging is exhausting work – breaking down and intellectualizing every element of every single beer, a dozen at a time.

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ROD DAVIS Founding member of the Quarrymen, with John Lennon, Davis brings the music of the Beatles to town with the help of locals Jim Byrnes, Pail Pigat & Co. 8pm at St. James Community Hall. Tickets $28 at Red Cat, Highlife, Prussin Music, Rufus’ Guitar Shop and RogueFolk.bc.ca

DESTROYER Canadian indierock outfit fronted by singersongwriter Dan Bejar, play tunes from their new full-length album, Poison Season, with special guest Frog Eyes. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $23.50+ at Red Cat, Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com

STEEL AUDREY RECORD RELEASE PARTY Friends and family of the late Audrey announce the posthumous release of his full-lengeth album From Which I Came, celebrated with performances from The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, The Lion The Bear The Fox, The Reckoners, Nat Jay, Matt Ellis and others. 8pm at St. James Hall. Tickets $12 at SteelAudrey.

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COMEDY MICHAEL KOSTA Known for his humour and sarcastic wit, Kosta brings a sports background to comedy, as heard daily on Crowd Goes Wild on Fox; with appearances on Chelsea Lately, The Tonight Show and Conan, and his first stand-up special on Comedy Central. 8:30pm at Comedy Mix. Tickets $15 at TheComedyMix.com

THEATRE/DANCE UNWRAPPING CULTURE Dance company Co. ERSAGA, in collaboration with Thailand’s revered Khon dancer, Pichet Klunchun perform and construct a dialogue around the inquisition into ‘what and who creates culture’ in this new creation, unwrapping a fascinating journey of complex tradition and contemporary global societal issues. 8pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tickets at TicketsTonight.ca. Runs until Oct. 17.

CHEAP & FUN VANCOUVER HALLOWEEN PARADE & EXPO Three days of arts, concerts, performances, cosplay, films, comics, anime, games, make-up, and costumes to kick off Halloween celebrations culminating in the annual downtown Halloween parade. Visit VanHalloween. com for details. Runs until Oct. 18.

RIPPLE ILLUSION Vancouver funk-rock band play tunes from their recently released self-titled EP with special guests Soatoa, and Mark Adams. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $10 at TicketFly.com GWAR Ultimate heavy metal rockers, the alien monsters banished to Earth millions of years ago, celebrate 29 years as a band with special guests Cryptopsy and Battlecross.

8pm at Commodore Ballroom.

Tickets $34+ at LiveNation.com

COMEDY EDDIE PEPITONE A force of nature on stage, this standout comic and character actor, host of the comedy podcast, Pep Talks and writer/star of Puddin’, performs his bluecollar angsty, calmly chaotic stand-up. 7pm at Rickshaw Theatre. Tickets $20 at NorthWestComedyFest.com

THEATRE/DANCE EMPIRE OF THE SON Tetsuro Shigematsu wrote and stars in this story of his personal relationship with his father.

Separated by a generation, but connected by blood, Tetsuro and his father speak different languages, possessing different values, but what has ultimately kept them apart is their similarities. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

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TECH N9NE American rapper tours in support of his latest release, Special Effects, with special guest Doug Crawford.

8pm at Vogue Theatre. Tickets $40 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, Beatstreet and TicketWeb.ca LE YOUTH Electronic musician-DJ-producer from LA on tour in support of the hit singles, “Real” and “Touch”.

10pm at Alexander Gastown.

Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet and TicketWeb.ca GOOD RIDDANCE California punk rockers, on tour in support of their first release in nine years, Peace In Our Time, with special guests Off With Their Heads, Fire Next Time, and Oldage. 9pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife, Scrape and TicketWeb. ca THE 17TH ANNUAL WEST COAST GUITAR NIGHT An evening of acoustic jazz, Middle Eastern, folk, Filipino, Celtic and Flamenco with Kent Hillman, Itamar Erez, Les Finnigan, Edgar Avelino, Simon Fox, and John Gilliat with Rossi Tzonkov. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets $29 at Tickets.TheCultch.com ANGELI ARCHANGELI Artistic director Paula Kremer will lead the Vancouver Cantata Singers as they open their 2015-2016 season with a program celebrating the enduring influence of angels, featuring works from Heinrich Isaac, and John Taverner, among others. 7:30pm at Ryerson United Church.

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WEST COAST JAZZ INVITATIONAL A full day of jazz big band entertainment starting at noon and carrying well into the evening featuring Forward Motion Jazz Orchestra, Urbana, Mighty Fraser Big Band, Bruce James Orchestra and The Randers Big Band from Denmark.

12:30pm at Unity of Vancouver (5840 Oak). Tickets for all shows at WestCoastJazzInvitational. com. All ages event.

COMEDY MIKE MACDONALD Veteran of the North American comedy circuit, with various late night appearances (Letterman, Arsenio Hall) and three CBC comedy specials including, Happy As I Can Be performs a stand-up set with opener Brett Martin. 7pm and 9:30pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $20 at YukYuks.com

THEATRE/DANCE ROMEO + JULIET Studio 58’s season begins with a fresh, unique interpretation of the Shakespeare classic, where the two star-crossed lovers are young women who meet in Andy Warhol’s Factory circa 1965. 3pm at Studio 58 at Langara College.

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CHEAP & FUN VANCOUVER ART/BOOK FAIR The only international art book fair in Canada returns to the Art Gallery with a selection of local, national, and international artists, illustrators, designers, publishers, collectives and artist-run centres displaying books, magazines, zines, chapbooks and print ephemera. 12-6pm at Vancou-

BOLZER Covenant Festival presents the Swiss metal band with Ritual Necromancy and local guests Spell and Harrow. 8pm at The Astoria. Tickets $10 at Scrape Records or $15 at the door.

COMEDY THE SUNDAY SERVICE A high energy comedic production that carries the audience through a kaleidoscopic trip, this group builds, demolishes and builds again in an absurd patchwork of scenes and stories favouring discovery over structure. 9pm at Fox Cabaret. Tickets $7 at the door.

THEATRE/DANCE DISGRACED Conversations around faith and politics lead to startling conclusions that burn with tension and release when a Pakistani-American lawyer and his artist wife, host a dinner for his African-American co-worker and her Jewish art curator husband in the Canadian premiere of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

2pm at Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com.

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A SIMPLE SPACE This dizzying collection of works in new circus pushes physical limits to the brink, exposing the reality of failure and weakness in this simultaneously raw, frantic, and delicate performance where seven skilled acrobats thumb their noses at the rules of gravity. 2pm at York Theatre. Tickets at Tickets.TheCultch.com. Runs until Oct. 24.

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DJANGO DJANGO British rock band appears in support of their latest offering, Born Under Saturn with special guest Wild Belle. 9pm at The Imperial. Tickets $25 at Red Cat, Zulu and TicketWeb.ca WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS American folk singer-songwriter out of Illinois, tours in support of his new record Pittsburgh, with special guest Jake Phillips. 9pm at Biltmore Cabaret.

Tickets $20 at Red Cat, Zulu, Highlife and TicketWeb.ca MS MR New York based indie dream pop duo play tunes from their latest release, How Does It Feel, with special guests Tigertown, and Jack Garratt.

8pm at Commodore Ballroom.

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THEATRE THE WAITING ROOM A moving story about family, healing, and hope, this production is the highly anticipated collaboration between John Mann (Spirit of the West) and Canadian playwright Morris Panych; drawn from Mann’s own experience as he navigates life before and after a diagnosis. 7:30pm at Granville Island Stage. Tickets at ArtsClub.com. Runs until Oct. 31.

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DEAFHEAVEN San Francisco black metal-shoegaze rockers return to Vancouver to play tunes from the justreleased New Bermuda, with special guest Tribulation.

9pm at Rickshaw Theatre.

Tickets $18 at Red Cat, Zulu, Neptoon, Scrape and TicketWeb.ca

DANIEL ROMANO Welland, Ontario, native and Junonominated country and visual artist swings through town in support of his latest release, If I’ve Only One Time Askin’, with special guest Steven Lambke. 9pm at The Fox. Tickets $18.50 at Red Cat and LiveNation.com

THE BROS. LANDRETH Juno Award-winning folks-rootsrock band out of Winnipeg play tunes from Let It Lie, with special guest Donovan Woods. 8pm at Biltmore Cabaret. Tickets $13.50 at Red Cat and TicketWeb.ca

LIDO Electronic music producer/remixer from Norway performs a live set with special guest Brasstracks. 9pm at The Imperial. Tickets $18 at Red Cat, Zulu, Beatstreet and TicketWeb.ca

BARENAKED LADIES Canadian pop-rock favourites, on tour in support of their forthcoming record, Silverball, with special guest Alan Doyle.

7:30pm at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets $37.50+ at LiveNation.com

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD American experimental rock band from California on tour in support of their forthcoming record, Wiped Out! With special guests Bad Suns, and Hunny. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom. Tickets $42.50+ at Ticketmaster.ca and LiveNation.com NATHANIEL KRIKKE Multiinstrumentalist from Abbotsford brings his old-time country, blues and gospel to the stage with special guest Janaya Salmond. 8pm at Backstage Lounge. Tickets $6 at the door only.

THEATRE/DANCE THE DAMAGE IS DONE – A TRUE STORY Renowned author-thinker-speaker Dr. Gabor Mate, onstage in collaboration with actor-writerdirector-therapist Rita Bozi, combine theatre, dialogue, essay, video, music and modern dance to explore cultural history and family dynamics in the scope of depression, addiction, and suicide. 8pm at Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Tickets at Tickets.

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VOX HUMANA Top Line Vocal Collective presents this program of contemporary hits, in an inspiring mix of performances by the collective and smaller ensembles, accompanied by a visual multi-media experience, with partial proceeds benefitting the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. 7pm at HR MacMillan Space Centre. Tickets $30 at EventBrite.ca

THEATRE/DANCE ALIEN CONTAGION: RISE OF THE ZOMBIE SYNDROME The Virtual Stage presents this all-new, immersive, and spine-tingling theatrical adventure where the audience is responsible for saving the human race from the brink of distinction after a UFO crashes on earth and the alien pilot is reported missing. 6:30pm onward at a secret rendezvous revealed the day before the mission.

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GIVERS Indie pop group, groomed by the sweaty dancehalls of Lafayette, Louisiana tour in support of their upcoming release, New Kingdom, with special guests Caddywhompus. 9:30pm at The Cobalt. Tickets $15 at Red Cat, Zulu, and TicketWeb.ca XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS Australian singer-songwriter-multiinstrumentalist known for his command of the didgeridoo, plays the first of two nights in support of Nanna, with special guests Jon and Roy. 8pm at Commodore Ballroom.

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COMEDY DAMONDE TSCHRITTER Perhaps Canada’s finest comedic storyteller, the Globe & Mail calls him “comedy’s new superhero” with appearances on CBC’s The Debaters, and the first ever Canadian to win the Seattle International Comedy Competition. 8pm at Yuk Yuk’s. Tickets $10 at YukYuks.comg

ART GENERATION SACRIFIEE Iranian artist Sayeh Sarfarez, of Montreal, translates political movements and uprising occurring in Iran into a drawing series, challenging the viewer with naïve forms and innocent aesthetics, juxtaposed with threatening motifs. 7-10pm at Grunt Gallery. Runs until Nov. 28.

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Most families aren’t like the one featured in Blood and Water, and we should all be thankful for that.

If all families were as dysfunctional as the fictional billionaire Xie family, most of us would be exhausted and angst-ridden 24/7, and OMNI’s new multilingual drama wouldn’t be nearly as engrossing.

The title of the series harkens back to that famous proverb, ‘Blood runs thicker than water,’ and audiences will witness the truth (or lack thereof) of this saying in action, says Elfina Luk. The Vancouver actress portrays Anne Xie, one of three children born to a wealthy and tyrannical

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Starring Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman Directed by Joe Wright Near-disastrous box office earnings aside, Joe Wright’s revision of the classic Peter Pan tale may not have been completely necessary but it does offer enough whimsical charm to give the film a passing grade.

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Vancouver-based real estate developer, in the locally produced family drama.

Two of the three adult children (Anne and one of her brothers) are making papa proud; the same can’t be said of their brother.

The eight-episode series kicks off with the blacksheep brother at the centre of a murder investigation.

“As this family is being interrogated and investigated and pulled apart, you’re able to see, ‘How thick does blood run? How close are these people? How much do they actually know each other?’” says Luk. “And it’s based in Vancouver, so you get to see the landscape in action.”

Luk describes Anne as “quite strong. She’s basically working to take over the family business, and she’s had to mature a bit to be able to handle the business world,” says Luk, whose previous credits include Smallville, Caprica, and recurring roles on DaVinci’s City Hall and The Guard.

“I feel like she’s the glue between the characters on the show, because she has a lot of interaction with Steph Song’s character, the cop

that’s investigating the family, and she’s the one who’s standing up to her, and reflecting back to her what she doesn’t want to see.”

Being one of the few true multilingual series on television, Blood andWater required Luk to deliver lines in three languages: English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.

Doing so impacted her performance in surprising ways, she says.

“There’s a certain cadence that comes with speaking a different language,” says Luk. “There were moments when I thought, ‘That’s very Asian of me,’ or, ‘I’ve seen my mom act this way.’ I found things I wouldn’t normally find if I were speaking English.

Luk’s multi-faceted Blood andWater role (“From an actor point of view, Anne gets to go through what any actor would be excited to have the opportunity to go through”) is a culmination of a dream that began in childhood.

Her mother wanted her to be an accountant, says Luk, but despite several attempts at professional numbercrunching, she just couldn’t make a go of it, because her desire to be an actress was

too strong.

In her 20s – after booking a couple of acting jobs – Luk came face to face with her childhood desires when she unearthed a letter she’d written to herself decades before and hidden away in her closet. “[The letter] said, ‘All I want to do one day is act, sing, and dance,’ and when I read that, I sat there and I started crying,” says Luk. “I didn’t even remember writing that to myself. It was a deep, hidden desire that I wasn’t sharing with anybody, because it didn’t even seem possible, so when I read that, I was like, ‘Oh, okay, this is something that I’ve always wanted to do,’ and it made so much sense that I was doing it, and I was where I was.”

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ing a young boy who was mysteriously deserted by his mother and raised in a Dickensian orphanage, only to be whisked away to Neverland one night by the villainous Blackbeard (a striking Hugh Jackman) and his band of cronies in their flying pirate ship. Slaves toiling in a pixie dust mine inexplicably chant Nirvana and Ramones songs, Captain Hook (a scenery-chewing Garrett Hedlund) actually befriends Peter, and some

bizarre Avatar-esque bone birds with animated eyes all add to the visual and thematic insanity.

Not surprisingly, the movie relies on millions of dollars in visual effects and, though most of the scenery is dreamlike and breathtaking, some of Peter’s flying sequences have a shoddy, cartoonish sheen. And yet, through it all, Wright manages to keep the crazy train rolling. Adult-oriented films like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement put him on the

map so it’s refreshing to see the director tackle some family fare.

Pan contains a lot of ideas and they don’t all work but the attention to detail in the production design and costume departments is remarkable.

The performances are also convincing, with Miller and Jackman proving effective.

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premieres on OMNI Television on Nov. 8. Visit OMNITV.ca for more info.

The Vancouver International Film Festival capped off its 2015 edition on Oct. 9 by handing out a slew of awards. Winners included Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (VIFF Most Popular International Documentary); Room (VIFF Most Popular Canadian Feature); Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of theWorld (VIFF Most Popular Canadian Documentary); Landfill Harmonic (International Audience Award); Fractured Land (Canadian Audience Award/ Best BC Film); and Ninth Floor (Women in Film + Television Artistic Merit Award). On Oct. 3, the BC Spotlight jury awarded Connor Gaston, director of The Devout, the BC Emerging Filmmaker award.

VIFF REPEATS

Missed VIFF but hungry for festival fare? The VIFF Repeats program features some of the most popular films from the 2015 edition.

This year’s lineup includes Sleeping Giant,The Devout, The Lobster, Rams, Umrika, Marshland, 100Yen Love, and Home Care. Oct. 10-16 at Vancity Theatre. VIFF.org

FROM VIFF TO VAFF

The 19th Annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival runs Nov. 5-8 at Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas. This year’s schedule includes 37 feature-length and short films, including one world premiere, four North American premieres, and 13 Canadian premieres – all designed to encourage audiences to “examine the complications within the search for personal and cultural identity.” Details at VAFF.org.

SPARK ANIMATION FESTIVAL

Vancouver’s digital media industry is among the busiest on the planet, which makes our city the ideal venue for a festival dedicated to animation. Presented by the SPARK CG Society, the SPARK Animation Festival celebrates the animation sphere with screenings, an industry conference, a job fair, and the inaugural Women and the Business of Animation Conference, which will feature 20 guest speakers (among them: Kirsten Newlands from DHX and Brenda Gilbert from Bron Studios).

The screening schedule includes April and the ExtraordinaryWorld; Extraordinary Tales;The Iron Giant: Signature Edition;Asterix:The Mansions of the Gods;The Boy and the Beast; SummerWars; and a couple of shorts programs. Oct. 21-25.

Tickets, trailers, and schedule at SparkFX.ca.

FROM OUR DARK SIDE

Women in Film andTelevisionVancouver (WIFTV) is accepting submissions for From Out Dark Side, its genre film competition. Entrants are asked to submit a three- to five-page genre film concept covering thriller, horror, fantasy, sci-fi, or a combination thereof. Five projects will be selected to receive a comprehensive mentorship package, a cash prize, subsidy to travel to theVancouver International Women in Film Festival, and full accreditation for and promotion at the Montreal Edition of the Frontières International Co-Production Market. Applications will be accepted until Nov. 16.WomenInFilm.ca

CRAZY 8S

It’s time to get crazy: The 2016 edition of Crazy 8s – in which the winning six filmmaking teams will shoot and lock a short film in only eight days – kicks off with an information session on Oct. 17. Noon-5pm at Vancity Theatre. Details at Facebook.com/groups/Crazy8sFilm/. W

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The limited edition comp features some of Vancouver’s most exciting indie bands, including Woolworm, Dead Soft, Mesa Luna, Reef Shark, and The Good In Everyone.

The compilation format is a great gateway for music fans to discover new bands, despite the fact that, financially, the release is a loss leader, Sharp admits.

However, while vinyl is expensive to produce, it gets noticed.

“In time, I hope it’s a good choice,” he says. “Go big or go home, I guess.”

Sharp says he wanted to highlight the best bands in the city that no one has heard of, yet.

“I have faith in my own taste, hopefully other people like it too,” he says.

“Woolworm, I think they’re the best band in Vancouver right now. I don’t think even they realize how good they are.”

Big Smoke’s next release will be Reef Shark’s EP cassette, Mind Race, available Nov. 27. Sharp says his goal is to release six albums in 2016, and work closely with the bands featured on the comp to help get them exposure outside of Vancouver.

“America is such a big music market, and it needs to be attacked head-on,” he says. “I want to send bands down the coast and I’m not going to limit myself to just Vancouver bands.”

The Vancouver Connection Vol. 1 is available at Neptoon Records, Zulu Records,Vinyl Records, Luke’s General Store, Red Cat Records, Dandelion Records, Audiopile Records, Horses Records, as well as online at BigSmokeVancouver.Bandcamp.com. W

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Big Smoke. Raised “just outside of London”, Sharp ended up in Vancouver after stops in Massachusetts, Oregon and New York.

“It was a happy accident,” he says. Sharp’s visa had run out in the US, and Vancouver was the nearest city he could travel to on his UK passport.

“I didn’t really know anyone here,” he says. “I just knew I didn’t want to be in England.”

Sharp says it wasn’t long before he fell in love with the city, and its music scene.

Through Craigslist of all places, he soon found musicians to play with, eventually forming the bands Mercy Years and his current project, Altona.

After working as a Mint Records “Mintern” for a year and a half, where he learned how a record label operates and all about how albums are produced and promoted, he decided to strike out on his own with Big Smoke.

“I’ve always liked the aesthetic of a record label, as a family of bands that represents a scene,” he says.

Through Big Smoke, Sharp says he hopes to support the local music scene and share the many amazing bands in this city with a wider audience.

“People in Vancouver complain about the music scene here, but when I was in New York, people were complaining about the music scene there!” he says.

“I love it here. I’ll always come back to Vancouver.”

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It’s common in the grassroots world to say something “started in someone’s living room,” but in the case of theWhistler Writers Festival, it’s true.

When writer Stella Harvey moved home from Europe in 2000, she was searching for a support network inWhistler for her writing. She put an ad in the local newspaper looking for other writers to critique and discuss each other’s work, and that weekend 26 people showed up at her door.

Just over a year later, she embraced the demand and hosted the first of what would become theWhistlerWriters Festival, inviting UBC instructor Andreas Schroeder to come up toWhistler and lead a weekend of workshops, lectures and readings.

“The first festival, if you could really call it that, was in my living room with 20 people and Andreas Schroeder. And everybody stayed with us, which was interesting…” she laughs, speaking by phone on a rare break from pre-festival planning. “The focus in those early days, the first three to four years, was really on writing and developmental workshops for writers, and people stayed with us because we didn’t have any money. I had somebody fromVancouver I had never met before stay with us. Andreas stayed with us.

And that went on for a while.”

With the support of her writers’ circle, Harvey would go on to write two novels and grow the festival to what it is has achieved this year: 55 guest authors and publishers from around the world, and an expected 1,500 visitors from as far as Saskatchewan, Ontario andWashington. Even more impressive, the influx comes in what is typically considered a slow season forWhistler.

“The festival used to be like 80/20, locals versus visitors, and now I would say it’s flipped – about 70 per cent come from outside ofWhistler,” says Harvey, who just received Whistler’s 2015 Champion of the Arts award this summer.

“AfterThanksgiving is a slower time forWhistler, but it draws in a different crowd. And the fall can be absolutely specular here with the colours and the weather.”

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Top: Whistler Writers Festival founder Stella Harvey.

Bottom: The Book of Negroes author Lawrence Hill.

Running Oct. 15-18, the festival (WhistlerWritersFest. com) has expanded toThursday night and will launch with a fun evening of comedy quickies and writerly humdingers hosted by Charlie Demers (CBC’s The Debaters).

Meanwhile, on Friday highlights include Cooks with Books – a chefs reception and book signing with star blogger EmilyWight (Well Fed, Flat Broke), award-winning poet and author Susan Musgrave (ATaste of Haida Gwaii) and best-selling wine writer James Nevison (Had a Glass 2015) – as well as a new full-day workshop on pitching your book ideas to publishers, led by agents, editors and publishers from Anvil Press, Random House of Canada and more.

It’s a prime opportunity to rub shoulders with industry leaders and glean practical advice for your own projects.

“The intimacy is one thing that we have tried hard to preserve,” confirms Harvey, who organizes it so the majority of events take place within the confines of the Fairmont ChateauWhistler, where festival attendees can stay at a discounted rate. “It’s the thing that everyone says every year on their evaluation forms: the festival was intimate and they The 2015 finalists, which cover non-fiction, short stories, poetry, and children’s literature are Aaron Chapman for Live at the Commodore (Arsenal Pulp Press); Wayde Compton for The Outer Harbour (Arsenal Pulp Press); Bren Simmers for

were able to have a drink with so-and-so or do this with soand-so.”

On Saturday, in addition to the always-popular workshops on writing for young readers, plotting storylines and writing memoirs, the festival will mix things up with its first-ever workshops on writing comics and writing short films, as well as a reading salon starring the graphic novel. If you’re craving some fresh air, however, you can also take off for a few hours and hit the hiking and biking trails, theVillage shops, or any ofWhistler’s acclaimed spas.

You’ll want to be back in time for the crowning event of the weekend, though. Saturday night’s main stage reading features an evening with CBC (and Westender) personality Grant Lawrence in conversation with Order of Canada recipient Lawrence Hill. Hill is the author of nine books, including The Book of Negroes, the story of an 11-year-old child abducted from her village inWest Africa and forced into slavery, which won the Rogers Writers’Trust Fiction Prize, the CommonwealthWriters’ Prize for Best Book, and both CBC Radio’s Canada Reads and Radio-Canada’s Combat des livres. Hill’s latest novel, The Illegal, tells the timely story of a young marathon runner, Keita Ali, fleeing for his life from a repressive government and forced into hiding.

“We’ve had Larry here a few times before and we’ve been really keen to have him back.

He’s a Canadian icon and a wonderful reader,” explains Harvey.

If you don’t manage to get your fix up inWhistler, though, theVancouverWriters Festival (WritersFest.bc.ca) follows hot on its heels Oct- 20-25, featuring more time with Lawrence Hill, and panel discussions with the likes of JohnVaillant (The Golden Spruce) and Anakana Schofield (shortlisted for the 2015 Giller prize for Martin John).

TheVancouver Art/Book Fair (VancouverArtBookFair. com), the only international art book fair in Canada, is also in town, setting up at theVancouver Art Gallery Oct. 16-18.

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@WholeNourishBC Hormones: we all got ‘em. As a woman, I am very aware of the ups and downs and ebb and flow of my body. Most men seem to think that being “hormonal” is more of a lady thing, especially when it’s “that time of the month”. (By the way, stop saying that. I don’t need to be bleeding to go crazy on your ass if you deserve it, and trust me, some of you do, but I digress.)

Well, buckle up boys, because I have news for you: you have hormones too, you can also get hormonal, and your hormones can also get imbalanced. Has your head exploded yet?

Our bodies use hormones as a communication tool.

Just think of them as the hip, beard-sporting bike couriers of the endocrine system.

They send messages from organs and tissues to regulate physiological and behavioural activities which include metabolism (energy), stress, digestion, reproduction, mood, sleep and the list goes on. Needless to say, if your hormones are out of whack then these areas will be unbalanced and sluggish.

Hormones can be over- or under-produced, with both having negative effects on your body and your overall health. Hormones are made from good fats and cholesterol, so if you are lacking

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To make matters even more complicated, there are toxins that mimic hormones, and prevent your body from creating real ones, or confuse your body into thinking it has the right materials to make hormones.This results in all sorts of problems with your health.These toxins include pesticides, plastics and even your general beauty products that you use daily, to name a few.

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Here’s actor Bill Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.

Some firefighters use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us. It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it ten times more effective in dousing blazes. With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a BBC TV minseries set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.”

If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.

We humans have put buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental — meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been one-dimensional. Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things.

You would be wise to rediscover and revive your primal innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence.

That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys, and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth.

While still a young man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than ten o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day. Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.

Many astronomers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang. An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right? Actually, no. Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels – less than the volume of a live rock concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes.

For now, you are excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down.

You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible.

One afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, six-foot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished. What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon.

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript. It’s called Scribbler Moon. But it won’t be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future L ibrary.” The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?” With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.

Every hour of your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago.

If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times. Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism.

The coming weeks will NOT be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before. But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom, or an answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints, or desensitizes you.

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@MyszkaWay As of early this week, iconic men’s magazine Playboy announced that it will no longer be printing nudes of women. According to the NewYork Times, chief executives met with 89-year-old founder Hugh Hefner to discuss the failing magazine. Circulation had dropped from 5.6 million in 1975 to 800,000, and although online attempts at capturing the politically correct conversations of the millennial liberals had worked (Playboy’s “Cat Calling Sheet” went viral and pleased feminists), the decision to take a new direction had more to do with free online porn. In other words, Playboy has been overrun by the thing it helped pioneer.

“That battle has been fought and won,” Scott Flanders, Playboy’s chief executive told the New York Times. “You’re now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free.

And so it’s just passé at this juncture.”

The whole idea now is to focus towards lifestyle, politics and sex. Its sex columnist, chief content officer Cory Jones said, will be a “sex-positive female,”

writing enthusiastically about dating and sex. They will fall back on the long form investigative journalism they once published.

Remember when Playboy talked about current events and supported Camille Paglia’s work? Apparently, the new Playboy will provide all the things to millennials that Vice cannot (because, as Flaunders said, “the difference between [Playboy] and Vice is that we’re going after the guy with a job.”)

They will still do a Playmate of the Month photo except it will be PG-13.

This is the magazine for men who work 9-5, fuck via Tinder, sport fedoras and turn their nose up at alpha males.

Dear people who are sexually attracted to females: do you remember when you first saw a Playboy? Do you remember getting a glimpse at Pamela Anderson’s creamy, cartoon body and then having the page slammed shut by one of your friends who ripped it over into his own hands?

Remember how you had to savor that image of Pamela all day, until you got home, maybe even to the next, because that was the most access to a hot nude woman you were ever going to get?

Remember when masturbating was imaginative?

When you had to remember a woman and not just click

on a little button to see a 3D dog pile of anal sex?

I sound like an old fart. I don’t care. Wasn’t Playboy rather tame, classy and dapper to begin with? Hustler was the “smut” magazine, no? Penthouse tried to compete with the increase of free sex online by upping the raunch in their magazine and it failed miserably.

Playboy has to revamp to save jobs, to save it’s iconic trademark, and this means creating content that provokes the increasingly PC culture as well as realizing that nudity is not special and given away for free everywhere from RedTube to Chaturbate.com to some young girl’s Instagram feed.

It just seems ironic that two completely opposing forces (free hardcore pornography available at the click of a button and hyperpolitically correct millennial scholars who are offended by everything) are causing a modest, iconoclastic business that celebrates the beauty of the female body to kick the thing it’s most famous for.

How ridiculously porn-ified is our society if Playboy can’t compete? W

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30%

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Casbah Side Dishes

20% off

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Imagine Organic Soup

assorted varieties

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

750g – 1kg product of BC

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4.49

assorted varieties

Canadian Heritage Organic Maple Syrup

assorted varieties

700-750g product of BC

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UP TO

7.99lb/ 17.61kg

DELI

assorted varieties

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Turkey Breakfast Sausages

value pack

3.98

Rogers Granola

UP TO

6.99lb/ 15.41kg

Imported Grass Fed Free Range Top Sirloin Steaks

GROCERY

SAVE

value pack

10.99lb/ 24.23kg

3.98

Organic Fair Trade Extra Large Hass Avocados

1846 BC Pure Lean Ground Beef

.49 singles 12.99 box of 30

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480-530g

4.99

Pumpkin Sales Campaign October 1 – 31 For every carving pumpkin sold at Choices Markets between October 1 and 31 $1.00 will be donated to local elementary schools. In 2014, Choices collected over $4,500 – all of it donated in support of community elementary schools. Please see your local Choices to determine which schools will receive this years proceeds.

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