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I know it’s been severalmonths since it hit thenews, but do you remem-ber Paige’s story?This was the sad tale

about a 19-year-old womanwho died of a drug overdosein a washroom adjacent toOppenheimer Park in 2013after years of abuse, neglectand “persistent inactionfrom front-line profession-als and an indifferent socialcare system that led to thisyoung woman’s demise.”The quoted part of that

sentence comes from areport released in May 2015by B.C.’s Representative forChildren and Youth, MaryEllen Turpel-Lafond. Thefindings stunned the public.Well, here’s another sto-

ry about a person who ap-pears to have not receivedthe support he neededwhen he was a child. Butwhen I tell you his nameand why he’s in the news,I don’t expect the samesympathetic reaction.Kind of hard to shed a

tear for a person described

by the Combined ForcesSpecial Enforcement Unitof B.C. as “a long-timegang associate with previ-ous drug and violence-related convictions.”But when I read Pro-

vincial Court Judge RegHarris’s written reasonslast week for sentencingDustin Robert AlexanderWadsworth to two years injail for his involvement ina drug-dealing operation, Icame across an illuminatingbit of information that gavesome perspective for the33-year-old’s behaviour.“When he was young, his

parents were addicted todrugs,” Harris wrote. “Hehad little support or super-vision and he frequentlyassociated with older kidswho were criminally active.Mr. Wadsworth was firstincarcerated at 12 yearsold. Thereafter, he was inand out of custody withthe result that he spent themajority of his youth incustody.”Once he became an adult,

Wadsworth continued toget in trouble with the law.His first conviction as a

grown-up was for robbery,use of an imitation firearmand break and enter withintent. A judge sentencedWadsworth to four yearsand five months in prison.In 2009, he got into

similar trouble and wassentenced to another

three years in prison forpossession of a firearm,wearing a disguise andbreak and enter.The reasonWadsworth

was before the courts thismonth is because he wasconvicted of two counts ofpossessing cocaine for the

purpose of trafficking.The charges relate to

police arresting him in Oc-tober 2014 after opening hisbackpack to find 10 ouncesof cocaine, two kilograms ofa cutting agent, baking sodaand Pyrex glassware.The Crown’s posi-

tion was that the itemswere used to make crackcocaine. A search warrantexecuted at a place he wassharing with another manon Vancouver Island un-covered $57,000 in cash,1,300 grams of a cuttingagent, drug paraphernaliaand 291 ecstasy pills.Wadsworth’s associ-

ate, Isaac Drennan, wascharged with various drugpossession and firearmcharges. He was sentencedto seven years in jail.So what did Wadsworth

receive?Two years in jail.But the way the justice

system works, he got creditfor the time he served incustody since his arrest inOctober 2014. He now hasa balance of 245 days toserve before his release.Harris, who described

Wadsworth as a “mid-leveldealer,” said the sentence“addresses the requisitedenunciation and deter-rence and yet preservesMr. Wadsworth’s rehabili-tative prospects.”The judge noted the

man’s mother was back inthe picture and attendedevery one of her son’s courtappearances. She has beendrug free for 10 years.Wadsworth has also shownremorse, the judge added.So what happens after

Wadsworth serves his time?“Mr. Wadsworth plans

to finish his sentence andthen move forward withhis life,” said Harris, not-ing Wadsworth has takenthe preliminary steps toapply to receive training asa machinist.Paige, meanwhile, never

got to move forward witha life that Turpel-Lafonddescribed as beginning with“real signs of promise.” Andunlike Wadsworth’s mother,Paige’s mother never kickeddrugs. She died of a drugoverdose 19 months afterher daughter’s death.

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A team of nine aca-demics from the Univer-sity of British Columbiaand Simon Fraser Uni-versity have proposeda 1.5 per cent propertytax surcharge, designedso that homeownerswho live in the propertyand pay income taxes inBritish Columbia would

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in taxes, their prop-erty surcharge wouldbe $5,000. Veterans,disabled people andCanadians of retirementage would be exempt.Along with cities such

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from emerging economycountries to “park” theirmoney in real estate,especially during periodsof economic or politicalturmoil.The policy authors

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ability Fund (BCHAF)property surchargewould be redistributedas lump-sum paymentsto Canadian tax filers ina designated area.However, the policy

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It cost $4.9million toprosecute 300 people chargedin the riot that erupteddowntown in June 2011 afterthe Vancouver Canucks lostGame 7 to the Boston Bruinsin the Stanley Cup Finalplayed at Rogers Arena.That cost, along with

details of an unprecedentedinvestigation and results ofcourt proceedings, are con-tained in a report releasedMonday by B.C.’s Prosecu-tion Service, which requiredmore than 500 court daysto complete trials and sen-tencing hearings.“[In summary], the police

and the prosecution serviceexpended considerableresources to ensure thatthose who participated inthe Vancouver 2011 riotwere held to account,” thereport concluded. “Hope-fully, this prosecution willdeter — even prevent — thereoccurrence of events likethe 2011 riot, as those whowould riot and commitother crimes under cover ofa crowd now know they doso at their peril.”The majority of the

$4.9 million was spent onstaff ($4.8 million) andthe remainder ($170,699)covered costs related towitnesses, travel, transcripts,cellular phones, officeexpenses, building chargesand Law Society fees.The Crown’s work

resulted in 912 charges ap-proved against 300 allegedrioters, 246 of whom wereadults and 54 youth. In theend, 284 pleaded guilty, 10chose to go to trial (ninewere convicted) and theCrown entered a stay ofproceedings against sixpeople. Only 17 per cent ofpersons charged in the riothad a criminal record.The report said 94 per

cent of the adults weresentenced for their crimes,with 47 per cent of thoseserving time in an institu-tion. Another 47 per centwere given conditionalsentences. Of the youth,two per cent went to jailand 17 per cent receiveda sentence to be servedin the community underwhat’s called a deferredcustody and supervisionorder, which comes withconditions.“The conditions restrict

the liberty of the offend-er,” the report said. “If anoffender disobeys any ofthe conditions, the judgecan order the offenderto serve a portion of theremaining sentence or thewhole of the remainingsentence in an institution.The remaining adultsand youth offenders weresentenced to communitysupervision.”Much of the Crown’s

work, which the report de-scribed as labour intensive,involved reviewing videoand photographic evidence.Police collected 402 videoand photo exhibits from304 sources. That trans-lated to 5,500 hours ofvideo and almost 30,000photographs, totaling morethan 30 terabytes of data.That’s the equivalent of7,500 DVDs, or 45,000CDs. In comparison, the1994 Stanley Cup riot inVancouver produced 100hours of evidence.“The vast majority of

the riot-related accusedpleaded guilty due to theorganized and compellingCrown case, in particularthe photographic evidence,”the report said.

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rioters cost $4.9 million

“The countless hoursspent by the [prosecutionteam] organizing this evi-dence [and by the policein carefully gathering andcataloguing this evidence]resulted in great savings incourt time.”The riot broke out on the

evening of June 11, 2011,turning the downtown intoan atmosphere of lawless-ness, destruction andviolence, which 928 policeofficers eventually broughtunder control. Fires wereset, 122 vehicles were

damaged or destroyed and52 assaults were reportedagainst citizens, police andother emergency personnel.The rampage caused $2.7

million in damages to busi-nesses, $540,000 to citizensand $525,000 to the Cityof Vancouver, B.C. Ambu-lance Services and St. Paul’sHospital. London Drugsand its neighbour, Hudson’sBay, were at the epicentreof the riot and sustainedextensive damage and losthundreds of thousands ofdollars in merchandise.

What the prosecutionteam’s report couldn’tcapture as a cost was thepsychological impact onpeople caught in the riot.“Some people were ter-

rified of losing their lives,having barricaded them-selves inside businessesfor safety, while others de-fended property or otherpersons at risk to them-selves,” the report said.“The riot stripped a senseof safety and security frommany citizens.”

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Continued from page 5Based on vacancy data, the

report authors think around$90million per year could beraised in Vancouver.“There’s a lot of good

things you could do with therevenue and we don’t havea particularly strong standon that as long as it’s used tosomehow benefit people whoare struggling with prices,”

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allowed to offset their sur-charge with rental revenuereported to the CanadaRevenue Agency, the policywould be an incentive to rentout housing instead of leav-ing it vacant.The policy would be

enforceable, Davidoff said:the same penalties for notpaying the current propertytax would apply.In a Jan. 12Vancouver

Sun op-ed, Rhys Kesselman,a professor of economics atSFU, proposed a progres-sive property surtax onhomes worth over a certainamount, such as $1million.Kesselman’s proposal wouldhave the taxation revenuesfunneled back intomunicipalgovernments for affordablehousing initiatives.Like Davidoff’s proposal,

Kesselman believes thesurtax could bemodified fordifferent real estate marketsacross the province. He alsosuggests homeowners could

credit their B.C. incometax against the property taxsurcharge.Davidoff said it would be

“terrific” if both policies wereapplied. However, there islittle interest from the currentB.C. government in interven-ing in the real estate market.

“I think they’ve beenpretty clear that the thingthat they value is makingsure there’s more homeequity for people who ownhouses,” he said.

Davidoff is critical of theB.C. government’s first-timehome buyer’s grant, whichallows qualifying buyersto pay less or no propertytransfer tax. Themeasureprovides no relief to renters,he said, and pushes homeprices higher by increasingthe demand for housing.Demand to immigrate to

B.C. is high andDavidoffdoesn’t believe the BCHAFwould deter new immigrantswith capital to invest.“We think this satisfies

the [BC] Liberals’ demandthat this not adversely affectproperty values.”

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Academics fromUBCandSFUhaveproposeda1.5per centproperty tax surcharge, designed so thathomeownerswho livein theproperty andpay income taxes inB.C.wouldbeexempt.PHOTODANTOULGOET


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TheCity of Vancouver isstill a fewmonths away fromissuing a business licence toan illegal marijuana dispen-sary, according to the city’schief licence inspector.That’s because city staff

continues to sort throughapplications, collect feedbackfrom neighbours of pot shopsandwait for results of appealsby applicants initially rejectedunder the new regulations.Many dispensary operatorsare also looking for or havefound new locations for theirbusinesses, said AndreeaToma, who is overseeing theregulations brought in by citycouncil in June 2015.“We could be looking

at issuing the first businesslicence probably in the springof this year,” she said.That first licence will

likely go to one of 12 ap-plicants who cleared thecity’s first hurdle of being atleast 300 metres away fromschools, community centresand neighbourhood houses.The 12 applicants will benotified possibly within twoweeks whether they canproceed to the next step.That step involves the city

examining an applicant’spast business practices andwhether he or she has beenin trouble with the law.Signing a “good neighbour”agreement andmeetingbuilding codes related tohealth, fire and signs are alsorequired to get a licence.The 12 locations under

review are spread across thecity, with three onKingsway,two onMain Street andothers on East 41st Avenue,East 57th Avenue,West 10thAvenue,West 4th Avenue,East Broadway, CommercialDrive and Renfrew Street.TheHerb Co. Society is

one of the applicants andoperates a dispensary at1189Main St., across thestreet fromThornton Park.One of the co-owners, whoidentified himself as Sunnyand declined to provide hissurname, said feedback fromneighbours about the dispen-sary has beenmixed.“There’s been some posi-

tive and some negative,” hesaid, noting he and his part-ners recently purchased thedispensary from a previousowner. “We received lettersfrom some businesses thatsaid they haven’t had anyinterruptions with their busi-ness and they’re not againstour application.”Sunny applied to the

city for a $30,000 annuallicence to operate a retailmedical marijuana outlet.The dispensary is only ac-cessible by members whorequire a doctor’s certificateto obtain Herb Co.’s mari-juana products, he said.“We don’t sell to anybody.

I want a business licence, Iwant to operate in a propermanner,” said Sunny, whenasked why he applied for alicence. “I only took over thedispensary after the city saidthey were going to do thebusiness licences.”TheMain Street dispen-

sary is among an estimated100 illegal pot shops inthe city. In June 2015, citycouncil voted 8-3 to proceedwith a staff proposal that callsfor $30,000 annual licencefees ($1,000 for non-profit“compassion clubs”), crimi-nal record checks and zoningregulations that prohibit potshops from operating within300metres of schools, com-munity centres, neighbour-hood houses and each other.Though council’s purposeis to regulate the business— not themarijuana— thenew regulations also allowfor the sale of marijuana oils,tinctures and capsules.Toma said the city con-

tinues to sort out which potshops located in so-calledclusters of dispensaries willbe granted the right to pro-ceed with an application fora development permit, whichis one of the steps to getting abusiness licence.“There has to be one

winner within all of theseclusters, and I believe wehave about six or sevenclusters,” Toma said.The “winners” will be de-

termined by the city’s demer-it point system. For example,if a pot shop has a history ofpoor business practices orhas had police execute searchwarrants at the business, thenthe city would penalize themfor four points. If demeritpoints are equal in a clusterof pot shops, a lottery wouldtake place.When the city announced

in October 2015 that at least11 applicants had passed thefirst hurdle to getting a busi-ness licence, it notedmorethan 130 had not met zoningrequirements. But Tomasaid those applicants are stillin the system and some indi-cated they have found newlocations, which allows themto begin the process to seek abusiness licence.There are alsomany—

Toma didn’t have a countat the time of the interview

— that have chosen to gobefore the Board of Varianceto argue their case to remainin their present location. Thefirst hearings are expected tobegin inmid-February andcould run until November ifthe board keeps to five ap-plicants per meeting.Meanwhile, Toma said the

public should know the cityhas taken enforcement againstat least two pot shops that didnot apply for a business li-cence. She saidmore enforce-ment will come, saying, “It’snot that we’re not enforcing,it’s just that a lot of these folksare in stream in our process.”

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Isuspect that, following the most recentSupreme Court of Canada decision, alaw legalizing physician-assisted deathis a done deal in this country. The

court granted the new Liberal federal gov-ernment a four-month extension to comeup with legislation effectively making thatpractice no longer a crime.And, as such, it will bring about one of

the biggest cultural changes we have seenin our country since Dr. Henry Morgental-er finally won his decades-long battle andabortion became a legal right back in 1988.Both of these historic shifts in our

country’s ethical perspective came aboutwith the aid of the federal Charter ofRights and Freedoms. Ironically, whileit was Pierre Trudeau’s Liberals thatbrought in that piece of legislation, hisgovernment actively upheld the law thatmade Morgentaler’s work illegal. Thatwas until the courts, considering theCharter, finally weighed in.But like the issue of doctor-assisted

death, the general public was way ahead

of the government and the courts ofthat day. In Quebec in particular, whereMorgentaler was repeatedly charged andtried for providing abortions, in spite ofthe very clear prohibition under federalcriminal law, successive juries chose toacquit him rather than find him guilty.It led to the extraordinary situation of

higher courts overturning jury decisions.But in the end, the Quebec governmentsimply threw up its hands and declaredthat, in spite of the law, abortions couldtake place in free-standing clinics.Quebec, having thrown off the yolk

of Premier Maurice Duplessis and theCatholic church back in the ’60s in its“Quiet Revolution,” has become amongthe most socially progressive jurisdictionsin the country. While cases were makingtheir way up to the Supreme Court ofCanada, Quebec legislators spent yearsconsidering the issue of physician-assist-ed death.And while we awaited a response from

Stephen Harper’s Tories to follow theSupreme Court’s demand to rewrite thelaw and legalize that practice, Quebecpassed its own legislation in December.(There has been at least one sanctioneddeath in that province since.)This issue, which ultimately can touch

us all either personally or through a fam-ily member, had its most recent historymore than a quarter of a century ago inthe case of Sue Rodriguez.She was a Victoria resident suffer-

ing with the fatal neurodegenerativedisease ALS. Her case ended up in theSupreme Court of Canada but led to asplit decision of 5-4 against her in 1993.She would die a few months later, itwas suspected, with the assistance of ananonymous physician.It would be another 20 years before we

finally saw a victory on the issue. It waswhere the case of another woman, GloriaTaylor also suffering with ALS, along withfour other plaintiffs, all represented by theB.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA)and its lead litigator Grace Pastine, wasbrought before the Supreme Court ofCanada. And this time they won.That was almost a year ago, and the

court ordered the Tories to come up witha new law within 12 months.Among the Tories’ first acts under

Justice Minister Peter MacKay was toset up a panel of three doctors to con-sider the matter. As evidence that theTories were simply dragging their feet,the BCCLA pointed out two of the threedoctors had previously testified in courtcases against doctor-assisted deaths. Itseemed unlikely Harper’s crew woulddo anything before the October election,which proved accurate.

As for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, theyare on the record supporting legalizationand one can assume they will meet theextended deadline.Meanwhile, the court granted an

exemption to the government of Quebec,allowing them to carry on under theirlegislation. They also, in an extraordinarymove, granted an exemption to individu-als who, in the meantime, could meetthe criteria set out in the court’s originalruling to seek a superior court judge’spermission for a doctor-assisted death.As Pastine notes, the technical legisla-

tive task before the Liberals “is verysimple.” As for the politics, well, theydid promise, and the most recent poll Icould find shows that 77 per cent of Ca-nadians, including all ages and politicalpersuasions, would welcome this mostprofound change.

@allengarr

The technical legislative taskbefore the Liberals ‘is verysimple.’ As for the politics,well, theydid promise, andthemost recent poll I couldfind shows that 77 per cent ofCanadians, including all agesandpolitical persuasions,wouldwelcome thismostprofound change.

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Assessment angstRe: “Vancouver single-family prop-erty assessments jump dramatically,”Jan. 4.My East Side neighbourhood was wiped

out of its Home Owners Grant in oneswoop by the latest assessments. It wentfrom having a lot of room to being wellabove the threshold — about 30 per centis the average increase. The provincial gov-ernment only raised the limit by a measly100k which works out to 9 per cent.So you can do themath and deduce that

is a stealth tax grab of about $600 fromeach and every homeowner. The grant limitshould have been raised about another 500kjust so we could catch up with all the yearsthey didn’t raise it. There are apparentlyonly two houses on the East Side that areunder amillion and the average Vancouverhouse price is $2.25million.Too little too late! A lot of people

haven’t come to the conclusion that theylost the grant. Wait till the next tax bill.They are going to be mad as hornets look-ing for someone to blame. The water andgarbage services were increased this year4.6 per cent and 10 per cent, taxes 2.89per cent.... who can afford this?B. Bailas, Vancouver

Property tax increase‘no fun’ for businessesRe: “Soaring property assessmentsdestroying Vancouver,” Jan. 14.Mr. Garr is correct, soaring property

values are destroying the heart and soul ofour city.As a restaurant and artist space owner,

I have seen our business property taxes atmost of our locations go up a constant 20to 30 per cent per year to the point whereit’s almost double what it was just threeyears ago. This obviously has a crazy majorimpact on our bottom line of thousands ofdollars a year. It’s destroying our ability tooperate. We can’t just double all our foodprices or raise our artists’ rents because noone would pay it. When I look four or fiveyears down the road I worry that we willnot be able to afford to be open.The reality is that without affordable

retail and restaurants spaces there willbe no one innovating in our industries.There will be no one taking changes andno new young risk takers trying new funkycool things. We will be right back to theNO FUN city of a few years ago and thatwould be a drag.David Duprey, Vancouver

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Vancouver direct some CAC funds intosupporting co-operative or cohousing is agreat example of the proverb “The road tohell is paved with good intentions.” Doesshe really believe that CAC funds representdeveloper dollars? I suppose technicallythey do, in that the developer pays them tothe city. Businesses also collect GST andPST from consumers, but do we say thatthose businesses contribute those taxes tovarious levels of government?As anyone with a basic understanding

of finance knows, if businesses in a givensector of the economy have an additionalcost levied on them, they will simply passthat cost onto the purchaser. I don’t agreewith much that Christy Clark says, but sheis correct when she says all the fees (includ-ing CAC fees) the city adds on propertydevelopments end up greatly increasing thecost of new housing.If we really want to help solve the afford-

able housing issue in Vancouver, we willhave to look at changing the demand sideof the market. Vancouver’s former chiefcity planner was correct when he statedthat upward pressure on housing priceswon’t change unless Ottawa shifts im-migration policy or applies land purchaserestrictions on foreign buyers or interestrates increase.MalcolmMackay, Vancouver

Fourth AvenuechangingRe: “Doors close on old Kitsilanostores,” Jan. 13.Shame, there goes more style for money.

Vancouver is like a kid trashing its room—too young to know what it’s doing and willregret it later. Some of us regret it now.PI via Online Comments

• • •Care should be taken with redevelop-

ment — but look at what is coming down.It would fit well in any backwater lane in ashanty town in a third world country. I’msure the original builders didn’t expect it tostill be around 90 years later. Most likelyan energy pig too. We can do better. Weshould expect better.Ron van der Eerden via OnlineComments


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You may have missedthe fact that last Sundaywas World Religion Day.It hasn’t quite crept upthe hierarchy of holidays.It’s not accompanied byfireworks or a countdownof shopping days. In fact,there is no proscribed wayof marking it at all.World Religion Day

was launched in 1950 byAmerican Baha’is and, inmany ways, reflects thebroad principles of theBaha’i faith.“It is to celebrate that

spiritual principles areuniversal and that all worldreligions are fundamentallyone,” says Susan Ardekany,a member of the SpiritualAssembly of the Baha’is ofVancouver. “They’re all in-tended to unify and to bringpeople together.”The Baha’i faith emerged

in 19th century Persia, butpersecution there (whichcontinues under the IslamicRepublic of Iran today)resulted in the globalheadquarters of the religionbeing in Haifa, Israel.Baha’is, she says, believe

in “progressive revelation,”the idea that, as mankindmatures, God renews hiscovenant. This is consistentwith the Christian view thatJesus represents the mani-

festation of God and super-sedes, if you want to lookat it that way, the covenantwith Moses that is the foun-dation of Judaism and theMuslim view that Muham-mad was the last prophetsent by God. Baha’is viewBahá’u’lláh (1817-1892) asGod’s prophet.Unlike some other reli-

gions, though, Baha’is arenot evangelical.“We don’t have that con-

cept where everyone whois not a Baha’i is damned,”says Ardekany. “We don’thave that concept becausewe believe that everyone, allsouls, are loved by God.”There is no denying

the differences between re-ligions, especially it seemsat this moment in history,yet Baha’is cleave to theview that “the earth is butone country and mankindits citizens.”Regardless of theological

division, Baha’is believethat all religions are unifiedby connection to a singledeity and that, Ardekanysays, “God will never leavehumanity and humanitywill follow God’s spiritualprinciples.”“There are fundamental

verities that are spiritual innature and that all faithsfollow,” she adds.Still, it must be hard to

look at the state of inter-religious warfare in the

world and try to see themanifestation of thesegood ideas, I suggest.“When Baha’is look at

the condition of the world,we see that there are twoprocesses going on, one isintegrative and one is disin-tegrative,” she says. “Whilethere is this tremendous

societal disintegration, thereis also kind of an efflores-cence of light and good thatyou can also see. We tendto focus on the dark sideof what’s going on and welook at it as human naturehas both those aspects to it.It has a higher nature and alower nature.

“We think all men havebeen created to carryforward an ever-advancingcivilization and so I thinkthat the message that theBaha’is have is really one ofhope and love,” she says.“But having said that, inorder to achieve that, whatwe have to look at whatneeds to be done.”To bring to fruition their

ideals, Ardekany says,Baha’is teach the equalityof men and women, theharmony of science andreligion, that human rightsneed to be recognized.The goal is for people torecognize the fundamentalhumanity in one anotherand that we are all spiritualbeings, find that humanconnectedness and thenstop focusing on the thingsthat divide us, our differ-ent cultures, the differentplaces that we come from,she says.“We’re definitely not there

yet,” she admits, but Baha’istake a hopeful outlook.“Many people think there’sa lot of evil in the world,there’s a lot of darkness.Well what is it that dispelsthe darkness?We need thelight. The absence of lightis darkness. If we can createthe conditions of light in theworld, then it dispels thedarkness. Themore fear andhate and all these very darkemotions, the antidote tothem is love.”

She quotes Abdu’l-Bahá,the son of Baha’i’s founderBahá’u’lláh and his anoint-ed successor as head of thefaith: “When a thought ofwar comes, oppose it by astronger thought of peace.”World Religion Day may

have been last weekend, butArdekany says the ideas itperpetuates can be practisedany day, in any way.“There is no right way

to commemorate WorldReligion Day,” she says.“It would be great formore people to knowabout World Religion Dayand feel free to observe itin their own way. Initiatean open invitation to oneanother as neighboursto come together andcelebrate our diversity andlook at that concept ofunity in diversity.”It is, she says, exactly

what the world needs now.The world headlines maybe bad, but look at the posi-tive work of the Truth andReconciliation Commission,she says, or the welcom-ing way Canadians haveresponded to refugees fromSyria and Iraq.“It’s one thing that distin-

guishes Canada as a nationtoo, that sense of plural-ism,” Ardekany says. “Wehave it faith-wise and wehave it culture-wise to reallyjust embrace one another inour humanity.”

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Four months after citycouncil decided to partways with city managerPenny Ballem, the personacting in the role as thecity’s top bureaucrat is notgiving any hints whetherhe’s interested in the job.In fact, Sadhu Johnston,

who was deputy manager toBallem, won’t even say if heapplied for the position.“That is something I’m

going to defer, in terms of theconversation here,” Johnstonsaid in an interview this weekon a wide range of topics,including the Oakridge de-velopment, the KinderMor-gan pipeline proposal andwhether Vancouver will everget a bike share program.An international search

continues for a city manager,and Johnston said he expectsa person will be chosen in thefirst quarter of the year. Untilthen, he’s in charge and satdownwith theCourier in hisoffice to provide an updateon some of themajor issuesfacing the city.

Thedeveloperof thepro-posedOakridgedevelopmentannouncedthisweekthat theprojectwillbescaledbackbyupto25percent.Sodoesthatmeanall thecity’sworkonthisfile, includingapublichearing,willhavetoberedone?We still have to determine

that. It definitely means, tosome degree, going back tothe drawing board and re-en-gaging the public.We heard a

lot from the public in the firstround of public hearings. Aswe get a sense of the scope ofthe changes, we’ll craft ourthoughts on it and see whata public engagement processmight look like. I don’tthink it’s a full re-start but Idefinitely think there will bea lot of new stuff that we’regoing to need to go back tothe drawing board on.

Including a public hearing?I imagine we’ll have to

redo that process, yes.

Let’s talk about the KinderMorgan pipeline proposal. Ina release issued from the Cityof Vancouver thisweek, thepointwasmade that the Cityis the only intervenor thatwill present its oral summary

argument in person in Cal-gary nextmonth at the Na-tional Energy Board hearings.Why does the City need to go,knowing the process doesn’tallow for cross-examination?Everything has been in

writing and you don’t knowhowmuch actually gets read.There’s thousands of pagesbeing handed back and forth,and with only a fewmem-bers on theNational EnergyBoard, you don’t know ifthey’re actually reading thesereports.Maybe the staff are.This is a chance for us toreally make our case and tobring forward the observa-tions that we’vemade, theresearch and the feedbackfrom the public.We feel likeit is an important opportunityto do it in person and we

wanted to do it in Calgary. Iwould imagine you’re goingto hear more of the opposi-tion to the project here in theLowerMainland and there, inCalgary, you’re going to hearmore of a support perspec-tive. So we wanted tomakesure that the audience there,themedia there and theNEBare hearing LowerMainlandconcerns about the project.

We’ve heard for severalyears now that Vancouver isgetting a bike share system.In fact, onewas supposedto be in place last year. IsVancouver ever going to get abike share program?It’s definitely going to hap-

pen, we’re very committed todoing it. It’s been a councilobjective for a long time.We

did a procurement process,selected vendors that eventu-ally went bankrupt and thenthe other one changed own-ership. So it certainly hasn’tbeen an easy process.Manyother cities that we’ve talkedto have gone throughmul-tiple rounds of procurement.The fact that we didn’t getit, in a way, is a bit of an op-portunity because this new“smart bike” technology iscoming out, which is prettyunique and perhaps providesan opportunity to leapfrogsome of the other large sys-tems inNorth America.

So do you have a companyinmind?We’re evaluating propos-

als right now and are indiscussions with the top twovendors. We are hoping fora 2016 rollout.

Let’s talk about affordabil-ity. With property assess-ments seeing increases of upto 25 per cent in Vancouver,people aremore than fed upwith howmuch it costs to livein this city. People are point-ing fingers at the city, sayingthe city could domore tomake Vancouvermore afford-able.What do you tell them?It’s broadly understood

that this is a threat to the veryfabric of this community, andwe really need to solve it. It’sa major, major issue.We hearfrom businesses that it’s hardto recruit here, we hear frompeople that it’s hard to stayhere. Ourmayor and councilare really attuned to that. Asstaff, we’re getting very clear

direction from council that wehave to focus on this. Thereare things that we can do andthat we have been doing, us-ing our policies, for instance,to get more rental housing.And we’ve seen the largest in-crease in rental housing in thelast 20 or 30 years. But this isnot all in our control. A lot ofthis is global dynamics.Weneed the federal governmentand the provincial govern-ment andmunicipalities inthe LowerMainland to beworking together.

Therewas a lot of contro-versy late last yearwhenU.S.president hopeful DonaldTrump called to ban all Mus-lims fromentering theUnitedStates. That led to a call herein Vancouver,whichwassupported by themayor, toremove the Trumpname fromthe tower under constructiondowntown. Can the city reallydo anything about that?No, not really. In terms of

freedom of expression, it’snot really the city’s jurisdic-tion to indicate that theycan’t put that name on thebuilding. There may beenough political and publicpressure to change thatbut at this point there’s notreally a regulatory path thatwe would be pursuing thatwould enable us to do that.

Asadualcitizen,couldyoupleaseexplaintoCanadiansthepopularityofDonaldTrump?I cannot. Not because I

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There’s somuch informa-tion packed into a short hall-way at the Vancouver PoliceMuseum. The space is aboutthree-and-a-half feet wide and20 feet long and is home to themuseum’s newest permanentexhibition, Bridging the Gap:Vancouver’s Youth and theLaw, which opened Saturday.The physical size of the

exhibition is in contrast tothemountain of facts; itscreators layered stories sowell that it could possibly bethemost informative hallwayin the city.Underneath four electro-

static screens on the wall, atimeline winds its way from1905 when themost commonyouth crime was incorrigibility(often blamed on “drunken-ness and loose living on thepart of the father”) to 2015when youth crime is mostlyshoplifting, assault and drugpossession. The timeline re-flects changes in youth crimetrends, adapting legislationand policing in Vancouver.As a bonus feature, the

timeline is bookended with

two tablet computers wherepeople can play Caughtin the Act, a video gameproduced by local companyA.C.R.O.N.Y.M.Digital,where players can commitcrimes in 1950, 1970, 1990,or 2010. Crimes are set lo-cally and can, for instance,involve stirring up trouble atthe Rolling Stones concertat the Coliseum, or assault-ing a senior in Stanley Park.Players are always bustedat the game’s end, and theconsequences are the actualjudicial sentences of each era.There’s more. The hallway

has a graffiti mural by localartist Larissa Healey, other-wise known as Gurl TwentyThree, who is a facilitatorwith RestART, a Vancouvergraffiti management pro-gram that works with innercity youth. There are also abunch of “Hello my nameis” stickers people can sign,in a nod toNewYork streetartists who, during in the1980s, avoided trouble byslapping a wall with their arton a sticker.Finding space for new

exhibitions (there’s anotheropening later this year on

policing in a diverse city) is achallenge for the self-fundedmuseum.While the oldestpolice museum inNorthAmerica has roots that goback to 1921, it attractedattention in 1986 when itmoved into theDowntownEastside heritage buildingthat once held the court-room, coroner’s office andcity morgue, whichmeans itisn’t exactly open plan.JamesHighet is the pro-

grammer with the VancouverPoliceMuseum and one ofhis favourite things abouthis job, he said, is shiftingperceptions.“My hope for this exhibit is

that it will break down someof the barriers between policeand youth,” he said. “Therest of us look at teenagers asa totally different species—they’re them and we’re us.And so you can imagine howthey feel about us, and how

they feel in the presence of auniform. It’s very rare for ateenager to look at somebodyin a uniform and say, ‘That’ssomebody I can go talk to,that’s somebody I can askfor help, or ask questions if Ineed.’”Like any great historian,

Highet has a knack for find-ing threads of commonalitythroughout time. One ofhis favourite stops in themuseum is not its famousnaturally-lit morgue andautopsy rooms, but in frontof an old backlit photographof Vancouver’s first policechief John Stewart standingin front of a tent, which wasCity Hall. This was in 1886and the city had issues withdrug addiction (the drug ofchoice, then, was whiskey).“When we talk about pov-erty or drugs in the city, wesometimes think it started inthe ’60s or the ’70s,” Highetsaid. “But no, this is some-thing the very first policedepartment and the very firstcity council recognized.”The VPD is the first

police force in the country tohire female officers. Con-stables LurancyHarris and

MinnieMiller were hiredJune 19, 1912 to deal withfemale prisoners and youth.“They were the first policein Vancouver to reach outto youth on the street,” saidHighet. “The first outreachin schools, talking to kidsabout organized crime— alot of these programs you seetoday, started with these twofemale constables.”It was, again, another

female VPD officer whobrought the idea for themuseum’s new exhibition todirector Rosslyn Shipp andKristin Hardie.Const.Mariya Zhalovaga,

who once volunteered andworked for themuseum asa summer student, and nowconnects with youth throughvarious VPD programs,visited the exhibition onopening day.“It feels amazing,” she said

as she looked over it froma nearby doorway. “I’m soexcited the public will finallybe able to see this. RosslynandKristin put somuch workinto the exhibition and I’m sopleased, and so thankful, theywere able to fulfill my dream.”

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Eric Fu, 8, checks out the Vancouver PoliceMuseum’s newest exhi-bition, Bridging the Gap: Vancouver’s Youth and the Law.PHOTOREBECCA BLISSETT.See photo gallery at vancourier.com.


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My late father was oftenfond of saying that we judgepeople by what they sayand do, but expect others tojudge us by our motives.This was certainly true

following my last Couriercolumn on property as-sessments and the need toreform our property taxsystem.As anticipated, the

increase in property assess-ments for many Vancouversingle-family propertieswas considerably higherthan the average 16.8 percent city-wide increase.It must be emphasized

that one’s property taxincrease is not equal totheir percentage increasein assessment. That is nothow the system works.Rather, an individual’s

property tax increase takesinto account numerousfactors, including Vancou-ver’s overall property taxincrease. This year it is 2.3per cent.It is also based on the

“mill rate,” which the citycalculates by dividing thetotal amount to be raisedfrom property taxes by thetotal assessed value of allproperty, multiplied by1,000.Put another way, if

your property assessmentincrease was less than 16.8per cent, your increase inthe city’s portion of prop-erty tax will be less than 2.3per cent. However, if yourassessment is greater than16.8 per cent, the increasein taxes paid to the city willbe more than 2.3 per cent.This will be reflected in

your Advanced Tax Bill,which must be paid byFeb. 2.Knowing that many

people would be concernedabout property taxes, fol-lowing the release of theB.C. Assessment data, Itweeted out that those 55and over and worried abouttheir property taxes, shouldlet Christy Clark pay themon their behalf.While I admit this was

a bit cheeky, my inten-tion was to let peopleknow about the province’sProperty Tax Deferralprogram, which has beenin place for decades butgenerally not well known.The program provides

low interest loans (cur-rently prime less 2 percent or 0.85 per cent) toassist eligible homeownerssuch as seniors 55+ andothers to pay their annualproperty tax.Households can qualify

for the program providedthey are the registeredowner of a principal

residence, and a Cana-dian citizen or permanentresident living in BC for atleast one year.Details of the program

can be found at http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/con-tent/taxes/property-taxes/annual-property-tax/pay/defer-taxes.I subsequently received

a call from a CBC reporterwho was not familiar withthe program. During ourconversation she asked ifI deferred my taxes and Iresponded that indeed Ihad deferred $60,000 inrecent years.I acknowledged that I

did not really need to dothis since I could afford topay my taxes. However,given the very low inter-est rate and the fact thatthe program is available toanyone 55 and over regard-less of income or assets, Ithought it foolish not to.I told her I invest the

money, and have generallyreceived a better returnthan the interest ratecharged by the province.The next morning I

awoke to hear myself onthe CBC Early Editionnews, and was subse-quently approachedby other media outletsthroughout the day.While I certainly raisedawareness about theprogram, what I did not

expect was the outragethat people like me weresomehow exploiting aloophole in the programto make money, while thecity was having to do with-out essential tax dollars topay for services.What many did not un-

derstand is that municipali-ties are not losing out; theprovince pays the propertytaxes on behalf of those reg-istered in the program. It inturn gets the money back,with interest, usually on thesale of the property.While many thanked me

for letting them know aboutthis program, others weredisgusted. It was as if I wastaking food from a foodbank. They chastised mefor threatening the future ofa much-needed program,even though I made itclear I was not advocatingan end to the program. Ijust questioned why it wasavailable to anyone 55 orover, without any incomeor means testing.Within a few days, the

media storm was over.However, I still believe theprovince should reconsiderthe terms of the PropertyTax Deferral Program. Inthe meanwhile, if you areworried about paying yourtaxes, you might want toinvestigate it before theFeb. 2 deadline.

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SALUTI: The 38th annual VancouverInternational Wine Festival will takeplace Feb. 20 to 28 at the VancouverConvention Centre and various venuesthroughout the city. The festival willshowcase 155 wineries from 14 coun-tries, including 60 wineries from Italy,this year’s theme country, pouring 1,450-plus wines at 54 events to a projected25,000 oenophiles. Harry Hertscheg, ex-ecutive director of the Wine Fest Society,recently hosted Festival Taste at CinCin.Wine aficionados, scribes and marketerswere on hand for the preview party andfirst sips of exclusive Italian wines fromthe country’s diverse growing regions.The Bacchanalia Gala, the festival’s pre-miere fundraiser, takes place Feb. 20 tobenefit Christopher Gaze’s Bard on theBeach Shakespeare Festival.

Claire Sakaki and Christopher Gaze’s Bard onthe Beach arts organization will benefit fromthe Feb. 20 Bacchanalia Gala, the Vancouver In-ternational Wine Festival’s premiere fundraiser.

Wally Chung and Carol Lee attended Lionsdinner at Floata, which benefitted the Van-couver Chinatown Foundation and its effortsto revitalize the city’s historic Chinatown andpreserve its cultural heritage.

Warren Tsoi and Tristan Sawtellwill chair thefirst ever Science of Cocktails fundraiser ben-efiting Telus World of Science and its commu-nity outreach efforts to provide underservedstudents access to the Vancouver attraction.

Ambrosia and Dave Vertesi, founders of SingIt Forward, hosted its finale concerts at theVogue Theatre. The couple capped off fiveyears of staging the musical benefit in supportof Saint James Musical Academy.

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CommunityTHURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016 THE VANCOUVER COURIER A21


The following persons have been nominated as candidates for the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant by-election.

Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Electoral DistrictCandidate’s Name and Party: Financial Agent: Official Agent:

Gavin DewBC Liberal Party

Heather DurossPO Box 21014,RPOWaterfront Ctr,Vancouver, BC,V6C 3K3

Carling Dick300-576 Seymour St,Vancouver, BC,V6B 3K1

Pete FryBC Green Party

Peter FryPO Box 8088 Stn Central,Victoria, BC,V8W 3R7

Jeremy GustafsonYPP

James Filippelli313-2040 York Ave,Vancouver, BC,V6J 1E7

Bonnie Boya HuLibertarian

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Arts & Entertainment

1.Local funny dude and proud social-istCharlieDemers asks what the heckhappened to the political left since he firstwrapped himself in its loving arms duringthe 1980s. Created withMarcus Youssefof Neworld Theatre,Leftovers is billed asa storytelling tour de force about personalloss, ideology and unfulfilled dreams. It’s atthe York Theatre Jan. 26 to 30 as part of thePuSh International PerformingArtsFestival. Details at pushfestival.ca.

3.California’s garage-rock wunderkindTySegall rips into town in support of his newalbumEmotionalMugger Jan. 22 at theVogue Theatre. Tickets at RedCat, Nep-toon, Zulu and ticketfly.com.

4. Seattle-by-way-of-Virginia’sCar SeatHeadrest is themoniker of young buckWillToledowho’s amassed a loyal followingby releasing a staggering 11 albums on theInternet, with vocals recorded in the fam-ily car.Toledo now has a band behind himand recently released his excellentMatadorRecords debut,Teens of Style, marrying thelo-fi anthems of Guided by Voice with theloud-quiet dynamics of the Pixies. Check ’emout Jan. 24 at the Cobalt along with local actMilk. Tickets at RedCat and ticketmaster.ca.

4. Break out the tissues as the Rio Theatrescreens a double bill ofDavid Bowie good-ness Jan. 23. At 7 p.m. it’s Labyrinth inwhichBowie plays Jareth the Goblin King.Then at 9:30 it’s Tony Scott’s stylish, 1983New York-set vampire flickThe HungerstarringBowie, Catherine Deneuve andSusan Sarandon. Details at riotheatre.ca.

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Picture a wide white bowl.Spoon in lemon-verbenasyrup, and accent it withgin-drunk blueberries. Topit with a scoop of ice cream.On top, place a perfectlyround cream puff the sizeof a softball, topped with acrackly cookie layer. Us-ing the knife your server sohelpfully placed beside youmoments earlier, cut into thepuff to discover an airy, richmixture of Neufchatel cheese— a lighter version of creamcheese. Construct a perfectbite that includes everycomponent. Taste. Lemon-blueberry cheesecake.The man behind the

dish is Welbert Choi, thechef de cuisine at Forage inthe Listel Hotel. Choi hasworked his way up from linecook (at Forage’s previousincarnation, O’Doul’s),to pastry chef, to chef decuisine. As line cook, henoticed that pastry was justanother kitchen to-do, andtook the initiative to make

the restaurant’s pastries.That initiative has helpedhim move up the ranks tohis current role.At Forage, themenu can

change weekly, so it’s a creditto Choi that the Neufcha-tel cheese puff, made withcheese fromGolden EarsCheesecrafters inMaple

Ridge, is a mainstay on thedessert menu. Right now,the drunken blueberries areserved in a lemon-verbenasyrup, but it was originallydesigned for elderflower.“Elderflower’s one of my

favourite ingredients,” hesays. “Every year we havea two-week window andduring that time, I’ll ask theforager to pick whatever theycan give me.” He makesa syrup and hopes it’ll lastuntil the next harvest. Therestaurant used the 2015batch more quickly than an-ticipated, hence the lemon-verbena that I got.Forage’s mandate for

local and seasonal can bechallenging for the pastrydepartment. “You have tofind a way to preserve yourflavour,” says Choi. Citrusand chocolate are particu-larly challenging. “Lemon-verbena has the flavour, butnot the tang [of lemon].” Asfor chocolate… well, somethings have no substitute, soChoi has sourced his from acompany whose values alignwith those of Forage’s.Since stepping into his

new role, Choi works moreon the restaurant’s opera-tions side and sets the menuwith executive chef ChrisWhittaker. While Choi stillhas a hand in pastry, he’shanded off the day-to-daypastry duties to two of hisstaff. “My job is mostly toshow them how it shouldbe done. I really want everycook who works here togrow— not just followinstructions.”Choi credits his family

with his love of food. “Onmy mother’s side, the wholefamily, they’re really goodcooks. Especially my uncleand my mom.”

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But he didn’t immediatelybecome a cook—he was anautomechanic and a cell-phone technician before en-rolling in Dubrulle (now theArts Institute) culinary andpastry programs in 2003.Choi’s family also sparked

another love: photography.A high-school photographyclass turned into a hobby,then a side business. Eventu-ally, Choi started bringing hiscamera to work to documentthe dishes they weremak-ing at Forage. “The photosremindme of people’s reac-tions, and of the flavours.They helpme build the nextdish,” he says.The photography has

taken a back seat as he fo-cuses on his role as chef decuisine. But even duringpeak times, Choi makessure to get one day a weekoff to spend time withhis wife and six-year-olddaughter.

“My daughter likes tocook. She canmake scram-bled eggs, but she’s a pickyeater. I hope that’ll change.”

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FormerVancouver Courierphotographer James (Jim)Harrison passed away sud-denly on Jan. 7 in Vancouver.Born Aug. 24, 1945, Har-rison worked at theCourierfrom themid-1980s to themid-’90s and kept photog-raphy as a hobby after hisretirement. He became activeas a freemason and was amember of Heritage Lodge#63, Acacia Lodge #22 andKeystone Lionsgate #115.Harrison spent the past 20years as a member of theShriners of B.C. and Yukon,the last 18 as amember ofthe board where he devotedhis life to helping childrenthrough the Shriners Hospitalfor Children.Most recently,Harrison sat as a boardmem-ber for Shriners CanadianHospital inMontreal.FormerCourier editor

MickMaloney describedHarrison as “the consum-mate newspaper shooter whonever came back from an as-signment empty.” Althoughhe was quiet and reserved inhis personal life, he never lethis shyness stand in the wayof a good picture, recalledMaloney. “He would wadeinto a scrum of aggressivereporters, newspaper pho-tographers and TV camera-

men, his camera held at armslength above his head, andsomehow come away with ashot.”Unlike many photogra-

phers Maloney encountered,he said Harrison was lowmaintenance. “He neverthought of himself as an ‘ar-tiste,’ though he certainly wasan accomplished photogra-pher in those cost-consciousdays of film photography.The walls of his studio werelined with 11-by-14 blackand white portraits of everycelebrity, politician or musi-cian who stopped over inVancouver, from Bob Hopeto Pierre Trudeau to SteveTyler to Sophia Loren.”

Maloney saidHarrisonleft home at a young age tomake his way in the worldand never forgot those earlyhardscrabble years. “He wasall about giving back andwas always involved in acharitable enterprise with theMasons, though he kept thatpart of his life quiet.”A celebration of Harrison’s

life will be held at the GizehShrine Centre in Burnabyon Friday, Jan. 23, 1 p.m.Memorial remembrancescan bemade inHarrison’smemory to Shriners Hospitalfor Children Canada, c/oGizeh Shrine Centre, 3550WayburneDr., Burnaby,B.C., V5G 3K9.

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After retiring from the Vancouver Courier, photographer Jim Har-rison became active as a freemason. Most recently Harrison satas a board member for Shriners Canadian Hospital in Montreal.PHOTO DAN TOULGOET


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Expect good results in travel, love, intellectualpursuits, higher learning, legal affairs and culturalvenues now to mid-February. (To do so, you mighthave to abandon anything started in the last 3weeks.) You’re at your intellectual peak, but it’sa smooth, calm peak. The weeks ahead alsoemphasize ambition, prestige relations, and yourcommunity standing. Show the boss your skills,accomplishments. Relationships remain volatile.

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Recent delays and false starts are over (byMonday noon) especially in monetary, earningsand shopping zones. (All of these hold some niceluck for you until February16.) Now to late Feb.,the general accent lies on busyness – errands,paperwork, details, trips, casual acquaintances,curiosity. (DO be curious – you can learnvaluable things.) Be cautious with romance untilMarch 5, and again May 27 to August 2.

Recent delays end Monday, Cancer, so you cancharge ahead, especially in relationship, financialand health zones. The general accent lies onsecrets, research/investigation, large finances,lifestyle changes, health diagnoses/surgery, andphysical intimacy. You might take a major stepthat can change your life. (For best results youmight want to wait until February 1 onward tograb/seriously pursue any of these.)

Recent delays and indecision dissolve afterMonday. (However, as Mercury, the centralcause of those delays, has been in your ownsign, it might take you a week or two to feelsolidly decisive again. The delays, though,end immediately, except in governmental,management, legal and far travel zones. UntilApril, maintain the status quo in these areas.)

Recent delays end in work and health spheresby Monday pm, Leo. (And as they end, you letthe whole work thing subside, as exciting newhorizons loom. Despite this, work grows easier, yourworkplace more affectionate until mid-February.)The general accent, into late Feb., is on marriage,business partnerships, opportunities, relocationthemes, agreements, contracts, negotiation,litigation, dealings with the public, even renown.

Recent delays end Monday, so you can chargeahead in many areas. Luckily, this “clear road”comes just as your energy, charisma and cloutswoop into a month-long rise. You’re on yourway, you’re in charge, others wait for you to lead– so do so! Begin significant projects, impressthat attractive person, see and be seen. (Despitethis energy, your inner or private life will remainsweet, rejuvenating, until mid-February.

An atmosphere of delays and false starts endsMonday afternoon, so you can charge ahead afterthis, especially in love, romance, creative andspeculative projects, and in “children’s interests.”The general emphasis, now to late February, lies onwork, daily health, dependants, service personnel,repairs, machinery and tools. You’re comfortable inthis zone, so charge ahead. (Be careful Fri. daytimewith tools, driving, etc.) First, retreat, rest and relaxSun./Mon. (Pick up neglected chores Sunday.)

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TheNHLCentralScoutingrankforVancouverGiants forwardTylerBenson.ReleasedJan.19, inadvanceof theNHLDraftinJune,Benson is injuredbuthas26points in28WHLgamesthis season.U.S.-bornLondonKnights forwardMatthewTkachuk is rankedNo.1.

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“If I did it again, I would just havetaken skates and sticks becausethat’s all they need to get playing.They didn’t evenwearmitts,definitely not hockey gloves.”—Nate Leslie, Vancouver hockey coach on running clinics inminus-30 degree weather in Mongolia in February. Last year’sjourney and an ongoing fundraiser are the focus of a documentaryfilm, Rinks of Hope: Project Mongolia.

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Megan [email protected]

The hallways at Britan-nia secondary were buzzinglast week before tipoff in the42nd annual invitationalbasketball tournament, oneof the first in B.C. to hostsenior boys and girls at thesame time, same place.The excitement was

about that place, specificallythe Bruins basketball courtand its flanking bleachers,and about one person, acoach who since 1980 hasmade that gym a secondhome not only for himselfbut also a welcoming andsafe space for hundreds ofteenage athletes.On Jan. 14 before the

senior girls won their owntournament for a ninth timein 11 years, the school paidspecial tribute to BruinscoachMike Evans. Theynamed the place after him.More than 120 former

student-athletes and numer-ous retired teachers dressedin red and walked out onthe floor. The stands werealready packed. As Evansled the Bruins in a pre-gamepep talk under blue bannersfor city and regional cham-

pionships and their cher-ished 2012 B.C. AA title,the players made sure tohold his attention and keephis back to the larger crowd.Tina Turner’s “Simply theBest” blared on the PA.The reveal was a surprise.Evans, whose first day as

a Britannia counsellor wasin 1980, turned aroundto see a few words newlyprinted on the wall: MikeEvans Gymnasium.“I wonder if it’s legal, but

anyway…” Evans said afew days later, characteristi-cally humble and funny. “Itwas overwhelming and as itturns out, it was a well-keptsecret.”Mitra Tshan, the bantam

and junior girls coach aswell as a community educa-tor at Britannia, organizedthe ceremony with TrevorStokes, who coaches withEvans and teaches in theStreetfront alternativeschool, and Bob Fitzpatrick,an I.B. teacher and studentcouncil sponsor. The revealwas public knowledge andwidely shared on social me-dia, but Evans said he wasnone the wiser.“It was a complete

surprise and a shock at

first,” he said. “You couldprobably list quite a fewpeople, some of whom haveretired long ago who haveput in a lot of time and whoare legendary in the historyof this school. The gymwas built in the ’50s eventhough the school itself is100 or so years old. I feelvery humbled that there aresome pretty famous peoplewho did not have a gymnamed after them. Thereare other worthy people,too,” said Evans.“I’m aware of other

schools where gyms havebeen named after people,who I knew as well. Maybeit’s a little unusual that I’mnot a PE teacher. Otherstended to be PE teach-ers who lived in the gym,though I lived there, too.”Evans, a NCAAmiddle-

distance sprinter, came toBritannia in 1980 as a coun-sellor and began to build abroad network for students,including the many immi-grants and refugees who ar-rived in Canada in the ’70sand ’80s from SoutheastAsia and China. Accordingto a biography prepared byStokes, 30 years ago Evans“set the standard for how a

school was going to best ad-dress the specific needs anddesires for these vulnerablestudents. His work with theESL Project is still com-mented on and used as anexample.”He coached the senior

boys basketball team— aswell as many others since heidentified sports as an effec-tive and meaningful way toengage students — and in1987, he was approachedby a few young women.“That one nervous requeststarted his legacy,” wroteStokes.“I have been teaching

here for 42 years and wewill never see the likesof Mike Evans again atBritannia secondary,” saidFitzpatrick in an interviewTuesday.He added that Evans has

high expectations for hisplayers. “He treats them asequal. He’s a no-nonsensebasketball coach. He doesnot allow them to play anycards, if you know what Imean. And it’s no surprisethat many of these basket-ball players are also excel-lent students.”Fitzpatrick described a

coach who works 24 hours

a day, seven days a week tohelp kids succeed.“This has carried over

to the men’s team becausesuccess breeds successand it’s also carried overto keeping kids in school.It helps keep marginalizedkids in school because theyare experiencing success,”he said. “Mike is a coach,not a critic.”Evans was a counsellor

until 2002 and then becamea community educationcoordinator for the highschool and its associatedelementary schools. Heretired in August and fornearly 40 years has livedin Ladner with his wife,Pat. Their daughter is anelementary school teacherin Vancouver.Now in his 70s, Evans

will continue coaching theBruins and is taking theyear to work out an ad-justed schedule. “If there’s apractice at 3:30 p.m., I leavefor the school at 2 p.m. Ifthere’s a practice at 5 p.m.,I leave at 2 p.m.,” he said.“Because of the traffic.”He is part of the Britannia

Support Society, which rais-es money to enrich the livesof students. And he is also

on the board of CLICK(Contributing to the Livesof Inner City Kids).“Plus I’m coaching,” he

said. “I don’t really see anend in sight.”

@MHStewart

Honour for Evans: never a critic, always a coachBritannia secondary names gym after senior girls basketball coach

Sports & Recreation

Left: Mike Evans takes in the scene at the Britannia secondarygymnasium thatwas named in his honour on Jan. 14. Above: Thecoach gets a hug from former player and 2008 graduate JenniferJu. PHOTOSDANTOULGOET

At Vancouver secondaryschools, the Mike EvansGymnasium is on a shortlist of gyms named forinfluential coaches. Evanswas a counsellor and inthese five other cases,the coaches were alsorespected teachers.

Eric Hamber secondary:Norma McDermott andBruce Ashdown

John Oliver secondary:Hugh Marshall and MaryMacdonald

Killarney secondary: DaveRenwick and the mainbasketball court is namedafter Tom Tagami

Kitsilano secondary:Stan Lawson and LomaMcKenzie

Prince of Wales sec-ondary: Bill Seggie andDarlene Currie

In honour of…


Sports & Recreation

HOT SHOT Britannia Bruin Julian Duong (No. 6) squares up for a shot in a 78-37win over the PittMeadowsMarauders in the first game played in the newly namedMike Evans Gymnasiumon Jan.14. The senior girls won the 42nd annual invitational basketball tournament, and Duongwas namedtheMVP. The senior boys finished fifth overall, conceding first place to theWindsor Dukes of NorthVancouver. PHOTODANTOULGOET


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Europeans like to sellbricks. Example A: Lego.Example B: Volvo. Butwait — what’s this?Yes, the stalwart Volvo

240/740/940 has beendead for ages, and in itsplace a curvier sort ofSwede has sprung up. Nolonger are Volvos merelya rectangular resting placefor a labradoodle and a“Coexist” bumper sticker,they’re now supposed tobe svelte luxury cars with apremium feel.To anyone who

stomped through the snowin a 544, raced a 122S atWestwood, or hauled aload of firewood home inthe trunk of a 240 wagon,the shift upmarket maycome as a bit of a surprise.However, old Volvo’srough-and-tumble imagehas largely been co-optedby Subaru, so the Swedesnow tout safety and com-fort above all else.It’s a tough go against

the likes of BMW andMercedes; the Germanbrands would seem tohave the market sewn uptight. However, Volvo’srenaissance is arrivingwith a distinctly differ-ent flavour, something todifferentiate itself from theaggressive styling and bigengines of the Teutonictitans.So no, they don’t sell

bricks any more, but inthe new XC90, Volvo’sgot something that’s farbeyond the ordinary.

Design:Probably the prettiest

Volvo of all time was theItalian-designed P1800coupe, the car popularizedby Roger Moore’s TheSaint. While Volvo hasrelied from outside helpfrom time-to-time to givetheir cars a little pizzazz,this new handsome cross-over is distinctly Scandi-navian in form.And that means the old

Norse gods are going toshow up. Check out theXC90’s headlights andyou’ll see a T-shapedLED bar that’s meant asa nod to Thor’s hammer.

The diagonally-slashedgrille and that iconicbadge (the symbol means“rolling strength”) let youknow it’s a Volvo rightaway. The shape makesthe most of the footprint,and the greenhouse islarge enough that youngrear-seat passengers willactually be able to see out— remember that, kids?Really though, the main

takeaway from the XC90’soutwards appearance is anair of reserve. The roof-to-mid-tailgate rear taillightshave the same basic shapethat’s been there sinceVolvo’s of the 1990s, butthe overall silhouette of thecar borders on anonymous.It’s well-cut clothing with-out the obvious labelling:no fender gills, no crazyside-surface styling.Taken as a whole, the

XC90’s appearance isbusinesslike and unfussy.You can tell it’s not a Ger-man car, but only becauseit’s not shouting about it.

Environment:If the exterior whispers,

then the interior mur-murs. Volvos have alwayshad some of the best andmost comfortable seats inthe business, and this cartakes that comfort to ahigher level with an infu-sion of subtly simple style.The digital dashboard

(and expect to see one ofthese in every new luxurycar by next year) is brightand clear, and the centraltouchscreen is both quickand powerful. Actually,the latter — Volvo callstheir infotainment systemSensus — is one of thebest things about the car.Essentially an iPad intouch-and-swipe opera-tion, it both has an endlessamount of adjustability forvehicle systems, and anease-of-use that’s simplerthan a dial controller.The use of unpolished

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615L cargo-carryingcapacity will rate an im-pressed nod from that old240. Perhaps the best trickit pulls is what happenswhen you’re only usingpart of the space: a flip-upcargo divider with elasti-cized band for securingloose objects works betterthan almost anyone else’ssolution. It’s the sort ofthing you’d hope to find inany car.

Performance:While the XC90 is a

large and heavy machine,the only engine offering is a2.0L four-cylinder. On pa-per, that doesn’t seem likeenough at all but if there’sone thing Volvo knowsabout getting their cars todisplay a little maximumbork, its adding forcedinduction, and plenty ofit. The XC90’s diminu-tive powerplant is actuallytwincharged: superchargedand turbocharged. The for-mer adds low-end torque,while the latter spools upas you charge down anonramp. Once at cruisingspeed, it’s back to four-cylinder fuel economy.That’s the theory anyway,

but it is surprising to experi-ence how lively the big ‘90feels when on the move.In regular driving modes,it reacts smoothly and lei-surely, and if you have theradio off, you can hear thewhistling and whirring ofall those fans pumping airinto the engine. It’s not anunpleasing sound, thoughlacking the character ofthe old straight-five andstraight-six engines Volvoused to sell.

But when you popthings into dynamic, theXC90 wakes up a bit.The old car was nevera driver’s delight, evenwhen V8 power was onthe option list. This newone feels considerablylighter on its feet, thanksin part to the new ar-chitecture underpinningeverything, and thanks inpart to the solid reservedof low-end torque. Powerratings for the twin-charged 2.0L are a useful316hp, and 295lb-ft oftorque from 2200rpm.

Features:As mentioned, the

XC90’s central pieceis its 9.3” touchscreen.Icons are large and clear,and side-swiping throughthe various sub-menusis just as easy as usingthe tablet or smartphoneyou’re already used to.Other optional nicetiesinclude a 360-degreecamera for making park-ing that much easier, anda suite of heated features(everything from steer-ing wheel to windshieldwashers) that you’dexpect to come out of aScandinavian country.Despite the XC90’s

large size, the twincharg-ing trickery results inmore reasonable fuelmileage. Official fig-ures rate 9.4L/100kmson the highway, and11.8L/100kms in thecity. Real-world econ-omy hovered between10-11L/100kms, excel-lent for such a large car.

GreenLight:Conservative, yet hand-

some; beautiful interior;solid infotainment.

StopSign:Like all luxury offerings,

options get expensive;premium fuel required.

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