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The day before Police Chief Jim Chuannounced he will retire this spring froma 36-year career with the VancouverPolice Department, he sat down to lunchwith a table of strangers in the CarnegieCentre at Main and Hastings.Kelvin Bee, a residential school

survivor, and Jasper Joseph, who haschallenged authority since he was a kid,were two of Chu’s lunch mates. They allseemed to get along, despite the conflict-ing histories of the three men.“I’ve got to commend the chief with

taking a chance with our women who stillmight be in the [sex] trade and with peoplethat are addicted with alcohol or drugs —some of them even coming in here underthe influence,” Bee told the Courier afterChu left the table to lead a raffle draw for80 of his guests at the fourth “Lunch withthe Chief” at the Carnegie.Eight other tables at the centre were

occupied by a mix of police officers andDowntown Eastside residents, all there toget to know each other, ask and answertough questions and keep the conversationmoving along well enough to encourageanother lunch date.It was Joseph’s second luncheon.“I thought this was going to be one

of those places where I was going to getuncomfortable,” he said after finishing hissandwich. “I don’t like people in author-ity. Whether they shake my hand or not, orsmile, I have a hard time with it. I’ve beenthat way since I was a kid. But my emotionstoday are more different than they used tobe. I can shake [a police officer’s] hand nowand feel comfortable around them and notfeel like they’re going to arrest me.”It’s a revealing quote that Chu would

consider a gain — a term he used at hisnews conference last Friday when askedabout his legacy in the Downtown Eastsideand whether his seven-and-a-half yearsof leadership has improved relationshipsbetween the VPD and residents.With the bungling of the missing and

murdered women investigation, theunprecedented ticketing of low-incomeresidents for jaywalking and vending andincidents of police using excessive force on

residents, Chu has had to answer for hisdepartment’s failures and wrongdoing inthe low-income neighbourhood.“In policing, there’s never a time to

declare victory,” he told reporters at theCambie Street police station. “You’realways looking if you’re moving in the rightdirection. Are things improving at the rightpace? And then, as you have a gain, youwant to work harder to get more gains. Sowe’re going to continue to work with all ourpartners, including those in the DowntownEastside, to assure them that we care aboutsafety for every person in Vancouver.”While observers of the 55-year-old Chu’s

tenure as chief may point to his leadershipduring the 2010Winter Olympics or hisdepartment’s response to the Stanley Cupriot in 2011 as hallmarks of his career, hisrecord in the Downtown Eastside bringsa more guarded reaction from residentsand agencies who have watched the VPDleader’s moves in the community.“We have a long way to go, but we’re

taking steps forward and doing the workthat needs to be done for safety in this com-munity,” said MonaWoodward, formerexecutive director of the Aboriginal FrontDoor Society, as she left the luncheon.

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A course University of B.C. artsstudent Rosemary Chen took in Grade12 helped her see the big picture ofsustainability.“To understand the economic side

of things, the social side of things, thepolitical side of things as well as the en-vironmental side of things,” the formerSir Winston Churchill student said.The Vancouver School Board’s

global sustainability course includesfield visits to sustainability initiativesand companies that have improvedtheir operations, and Chen said thoseexperiences helped her recognize thatsustainability isn’t a “far away in thefuture idea.”Andrew Humphries, head teacher at

Prince of Wales Mini School, startedthe course, which is heading into itsthird year in 2015-2016.“Sustainability is the topic, is the is-

sue of our time,” he said. “It is affectingand will affect virtually everything.”The global sustainability course

welcomes 30 Grade 11 and 12 studentsfrom across the district to examinesustainability through field studies,discussion and debate, film analysis,case studies and a six-month-long self-directed action project. It’s a cross-cur-ricular course that combines aspects ofscience, social studies and leadership.“Young people are really aware that

these issues are rising around them,and they want some factual informa-tion about, really, what is going onand then an ability to respond to that,”Humphries said.“The content and delivery methods

help students move from a narrative ofdoom and gloom to one of adventureand hope,” he told the Courier. “Be-cause if you don’t look at it that way, itjust becomes too depressing.”Students toured the Village at

False Creek with principal landscapearchitect Margot Long to learn aboutthe sustainable design there. They’veheard from Rashid Sumaila of theUBC Fisheries Centre about globaloceans and fisheries economics, andfrom Daniel McLeod, immigrationand citizenship lawyer, about humanmigration and refugees.

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High school programcombines science, socialstudies and leadership

Police chief’s tenure filledwith gains and pains

SALUTE TOTHECHIEF After almost eight years as head of the Vancouver Police Department, Police Chief JimChu announced Friday that hewill retire in the spring. Now it’s up toMayor Gregor Robertson and the Vancouver Police Board to find a successor. PHOTODANTOULGOET

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Mayor Gregor Robertsonand Coun. Geoff Meggssay the B.C. SupremeCourt petition aimed atremoving them from officeis intended to damage them“politically and profession-ally under the protectivecloak of absolute privilege.”Ex-Vision Vancouver

member Randy Helten andfour other citizens launchedthe conflict of interest caseDec. 12, relying on a leakedrecording of Meggs promis-ing the city’s outside work-ers’ union on Oct. 14 thata re-elected Vision major-ity would not contract outwork. About 40 membersof CUPE Local 1004 votedat the same meeting to giveVision $34,000, which wasmatched by CUPE’s B.C.and national offices for a$102,000 sum.“The petition and sup-

porting affidavits containfalse and defamatory allega-tions and innuendo,” statesRobertson andMeggs’s Jan.20 court filing. “The grava-men of the petitioner’s com-plaint is that the respon-dents are corrupt. Moreparticularly, the petitionersallege that the respondents,as representatives of Vision,engaged in a ‘pay to play’scheme with the (Local1004) executive.”The recording also

captured a unionmembersaying support for Vision “isnot unconditional” and thedonation wasmade to “carryfavour with Vision in the

next round of negotiations.”The city’s contract with1,600 Local 1004membersexpires at the end of 2015.The petition asks for a

judge to replace Robert-son andMeggs with thenext-highest vote-getters,NPA’s Kirk LaPointe formayor and Ian Robertsonfor councillor, or to banRobertson andMeggs fromnegotiating or voting on Lo-cal 1004’s next contract.But Vision lawyer Bryan

Baynhamwants a judge todeclare the clips inadmissibleas hearsay, or second-handevidence, at a scheduledFeb. 2 hearing. “The audiorecording is the only factualevidence offered by the pe-titioners that could conceiv-ably suggest impropriety bythe respondents,” states theJan. 20 application, whichincorrectly said the unionmeeting was Oct. 12.Hearsay, however, can be

allowed if a judge deems itnecessary and reliable.Lawyer Jon Festinger,

who is also an instructorat the Centre for DigitalMedia, told the Courier apure audio recording can bemore reliable than a witness.“So what would you prefer,

audio which is verbatim orvideo that is 100 per cent ac-curate or an individual witnessaccount?” Festinger said. “Ithink the digital age is defi-nitely changing themeaningof what’s the best evidence.”A confidential source

gave the Courier three digitalaudio files of the meetingtotaling 77 minutes and 48seconds on Oct. 14. Neither

Vision nor CUPE contestedthe authenticity of twoclips that were posted withthe story published Oct.16. CUPE official JustinSchmid asked Oct. 21 byemail for the clips, totaling9:33, to be removed fromYouTube, claiming breachof privacy. The Courierdeclined, citing public inter-est. On Nov. 13, two daysbefore the election, CUPEconvinced YouTube toremove the clips from itsCanadian site. The filecontaining Meggs’s speechwas reinstated.In a Nov. 20 Courier

story, Meggs did not denyhis words on the record-ing: “I went to a meeting atthe request of the union, Itold them our position andthey made a later decisionwithout my presence thatwound up supporting us.”Robertson, in an Oct. 27

story, said Meggs “was juststating the obvious and ourtrack record to date andcommitment to date to con-tinue with that practice.”LaPointe called it a

corrupt deal and Visionresponded with a defama-tion lawsuit filed Nov. 6,the same day an internalpoll claimed LaPointe wasonly four per cent behindRobertson. LaPointe calledthe Vision lawsuit a ploy torestrict freedom of speech.On Nov. 15, Robertson

and Vision retained theircity council majority, buttheir party lost its majoritieson park and school boards.—with files fromMike Howell

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Bruce Knapp admitshe’s surprised by therecent onslaught of criti-cism directed the Water-front “origami” Towerproposed for 555 WestCordova St.The 26-storey mod-

ern glass office highrise,proposed by CadillacFairview, is designed tosit next to the historicWaterfront Station andoverhang part of the build-ing. The Landing heritagebuilding is on the otherside. Critics, includingCourier columnist MichaelGeller, former city plannerRay Spaxman and heritageactivists, have questionedthe tower’s appearance, aswell as its relationship toand proximity to the adja-cent heritage buildings.“Design always attracts

discussion, but I think thelevel of criticism is quiteunexpected,” Knapp toldthe Courier Monday.Knapp is managing

principal of B+H Archi-tects’ Vancouver office.Adrian Smith and GordonGill Architecture designedthe tower, but as an inter-national firm, it’s requiredto team up with a localcollaborating firm on theproject, which in this caseis B+H Architects.The project goes before

the city’s Urban DesignPanel Jan. 28, whichSmith and Gill plan toattend. Brian Jackson, thecity’s manager of planningand development, saysif the UDP supports theapplication the city will set

up a public open housebefore the application goesbefore the DevelopmentPermit Board in March.(The UDP could alsorecommend a re-design.)More than 100 peoplehave already submittedfeedback to the city aboutthe project.Knapp maintains the

building responds to siteconditions and the city’sguidelines, urban designobjectives and overalldevelopment plans forthis part of Vancouver.He added that the designteam has been workingwith city staff for morethan a year to come upwith an appropriate ap-plication and it’s goingthrough all the properreviews.

“I think the challengethat Smith and Gill werebrought into is it’s achallenging site and it’s asignificant design chal-lenge to place a new officebuilding in this part of thecity,” Knapp said.“The major thing that

Adrian and Gordon aretrying to achieve is howthis tower comes down tothe ground, comes downto the street and the plazaadjacent to what they alsobelieve [are] significantheritage buildings onboth sides. I don’t thinkthe heritage buildings arebeing disregarded in anyway. It’s really trying tofigure out what’s the bestsolution for a tower that istaller than both of them tocome down to the street.”

Jim Vasto, projectmanager for B+H, saidthat the tower “yields” tothe heritage building andbends out of its way toform what’s been describedas the origami shape.While the look of the

building has been debated,Knapp said it’s designed todeviate from a traditionalshaft-like imposing tower.“If you look over at the

plaza building at the footof Hastings, there’s a largeconcrete building withopenings. It’s very impos-ing. Adjacent buildingsare large, masonry brickbuildings with large open-ings. So something thatwas not glassy or quitetransparent, I think, wouldbe even more imposing forthe size of these [heritage]

buildings. So, obviouslythe decision to go with avery high performance,custom façade of glass wasthe approach and then totry and work all the sidesof the building to reallynot make a big shaft tow-er. That’s why you can seeall the facades push outand then pull back in —so an almost sculpted orfaceted tower was thoughtto be the answer… I think[Gordon and Gill] weretrying to get a distinctiveand appropriate buildingexpression from all thevantage points.”Knapp believes some

of the negative reaction isbased on a lack of under-standing about what thecity is trying to accomplishin the area through new

street extentions, land-scaping and building sites.Although the Vancou-

ver Heritage Commissionsupported the project at itsmeeting in early Decem-ber, the two members whovoted against it, AnthonyNorfolk and MichaelKluckner, remain critical.Norfolk says he’s re-

ceived support from thepublic about his criticismof the project and that thecommon theme has beenthe failure of the proposedtower to relate respectfullyto the station and TheLanding.Vasto said a dispropor-

tionate amount of nega-tive comments have beenprinted considering themajority of heritage com-mission members sup-ported the project.While some question

whether a building shouldoverhang a building,Knapp said the overhangtakes place quite high upin the air.“It’s not a situation

where the building is try-ing to look like it’s landingon another one or is builtout of another adjacentbuilding,” he said. “Andthat’s a condition we’veseen in a lot of build-ings in Vancouver whereheritage buildings arestripped down, slapped upagainst the side of anotherbuilding and people callit a day. So that overhangis of some discussion.It’s not something thatwould be typically done,but given the constraintson other parts of the siteto achieve the roadwaydown to the waterfront, toachieve generosity in theroadway width and build-ing setbacks, it’s resultedin this. And it seemed tobe acceptable enough tomake the submission onthat basis.”

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Continued from page 1Students of the global

sustainability coursestarted and continuedKids for Climate Action,have worked to conservea species of frog in theFraser Valley and haveshared what they’velearned with elementaryschool students. They canreceive course credit forindependent learning thatincludes attending a film,participating in a confer-ence or reading a bookrelated to sustainability.Global sustainability is

an off-timetable coursethat runs from 4 to 6 p.m.on Thursdays at Prince ofWales, in Kerrisdale, withfield trips some Saturdays

and Sundays. It is a full-year elective course thatHumphries would like tosee roll out at every school.

“But having said that,part of the fun of thecourse is that we get kidsfrom different schoolsrubbing shoulders, shar-ing ideas and then goingback to their schools todo some initiatives andsuch,” he said.“They key for me is

drawing together studentsthat have similar interestsand then sending themback to their schools to do

great things,” Humphriessaid. “And drawingtogether experts fromaround Vancouver to rubshoulders with these kids,as well.”The application dead-

line for the global sustain-ability course is Feb. 27.

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Former student Rosemary Chen and Prince ofWales teacher AndrewHumphries visited the CamosunbogMondaymorning. Humphries started the cross-curricular course, which examines sustainabilitythrough field studies, debate, film analysis, case studies and a six-month-long self-directed project.PHOTODANTOULGOET

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The B.C. government’sstart date for allowinggrocers to sell alcohol is justover two months away, butconsumers will be disap-pointed if they expect to add

beer, wine or spirits to gro-cery carts starting April 1.“We don’t know what’s

going to happen until thegovernment tells us, andthey haven’t really been thatclear,” said Jim PattisonGroup (JPG) presidentGlen Clark.

“They’ve said that grocerystores can sell wine, whichwe’re delighted with, but wedon’t know how.”JPG owns Save-On-

Foods, Overwaitea, NestersMarket, Buy-Low FoodsandMeinhardt Fine Foods.Attorney General Suzanne

Anton has outlined two pos-sible ways that grocers cansell beer, wine or spirits. Thefirst would be a store-within-a-store model whereby a gro-cery would have to be at least10,000 square feet and havea separate section designatedfor alcohol sales.

The second wouldrequire a grocer to applyfor a licence to carry B.C.wine on store shelves. ButAnton has yet to detailhow many of the in-aislelicences will be availableor how a grocer gets one.Clark said the store-

within-a-store modelwould be virtually impos-sible to execute becausegovernment regulations,with few exceptions, allowit only if the grocery storeis at least one kilometrefrom a liquor outlet.“There’ll be very few

grocery stores selling wineif the geographic restrictionis maintained,” he said.Choices Markets CEO

Ishkandar Ahmed agreed.He said that only two of

his seven stores are morethan one kilometre from aliquor store. One of thoseis less than 10,000 squarefeet and therefore toosmall to sell alcohol.City regulations ban alco-

hol sales at the other loca-tion, onWest 16th Avenue.The City of Vancouver

requires all alcohol retailersto be at least 100 metresfrom a school or church.The Choices onWest 16thAvenue is across the streetfrom a church.“I couldn’t say for sure

what we’re going to beable to do,” said ThriftyFoods communicationsmanager Erin Coulson. “Itseems that there are a fewsteps that need to be done

[by the government toclarify the process].”She estimated that only

one of Thrifty Foods’26 stores would likely beboth large enough and farenough away from a liquorstore to be eligible to sellalcohol using the store-within-a-store model.Even then, Thrifty

Foods would have tobuy and relocate a liquorlicence from another busi-ness that already has alicence, which could be anexpensive proposition.Coulson is “excited” by

the in-aisle option as wellbut said there needs to bemore clarity on how to geta licence.Add to this a legal

wrinkle.Wine industry lawyer

Mark Hicken said thatVictoria’s plan to expandpreferential treatment forB.C. wines beyond thecurrent network of 21stores which exclusivelysell B.C. Vintners QualityAlliance products wouldcontravene the Canada-European CommunityWine and Spirits Agree-ment.“I don’t think the gov-

ernment’s plan is trade-agreement-compliant,” hesaid. “You’d be openingCanada up to a potentialtrade agreement challenge,which I think we wouldlose. That could meanfinancial penalties.”

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Choices Group is buy-ing the Drive Organicsindependent grocer onCommercial Drive for anundisclosed amount andplans to rebrand the store asa Choices Markets locationwithin a few months.“We bought the store,”

said CEO IshkandarAhmed. “It will take us abit of time to rebrand itbut eventually it will be aChoices Markets store.”The addition will increase

the Vancouver-basedgrocer’s store-count to eightlocations, seven in MetroVancouver and one inKelowna.It also operates a rice bak-

ery and a flower store thatis connected with one of itsVancouver stores.

Ahmed said he expecteda Choices Market on Com-mercial Drive would do wellbecause it is a well-knownbrand in Metro Vancouver.“It’s like with Starbucks.

Customers know whatthey’re getting and theyknow that we stand forcertain quality for our freshproduce, our deli and ourmeat offerings.”Ahmed agreed the store’s

purchasing costs could godown because of ChoicesMarkets’ larger economiesof scale. He doubted thatit would mean price cuts,however.“Prices are pretty low

on Commercial Drive,”Ahmed said. “It’s a verycompetitive area.”

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NewsKwangunning forVancouver EastLong-running NDP

MLA Jenny Kwan an-nounced Jan. 25 at the Ab-original Friendship Centreshe will seek the federalNDP nomination in theVancouver East riding longheld by veteran MP LibbyDavies.Davies announced in

December she will not runagain after serving the rid-ing since 1997.Kwan, a former COPE

city councillor, has repre-sented Vancouver-MountPleasant in the B.C.legislature since 1996. Lastmonth, NDP MLA MabelElmore also announcedshe is seeking the NDPnomination for VancouverEast. Elmore has repre-sented Vancouver-Kens-ington since she was firstelected in 2009.Kwan’s public image

took a hit last year after itwas disclosed her then-husband, Dan Small, hadbilled his employer, thenon-profit PHS Communi-ty Services Society, nearly$35,000 in 2012 for tripsto Disneyland, the UnitedKingdom and Vienna shejoined him on. The couplehave since filed for divorceand she has repaid themoney.A date hasn’t yet been

announced for the nomina-tion meeting.

Port defendsdrivers decisionPort Metro Vancouver is

defending a decision that

has left approximately 550port truckers looking forwork elsewhere.On Jan. 23, the port au-

thority released a list of 68trucking companies it hadgiven licenses to in order toaccess port terminals. Thosecompanies represented1,450 trucks, out of the en-tire fleet of roughly 2,000.In a press release, Port

Metro Vancouver says limit-ing the number of truckswas necessary to preventpersistent undercutting.“For years, the local

container trucking sectorthat serves Port Metro Van-couver has been unstableand drivers have foundit increasingly difficult tomake a living,” stated theport authority.Themove follows aMarch

2014 truckers’ strike that sawVancouver-area port termi-nals paralyzed for a month.Truckers went on strike thento protest long wait times atterminals and lowwages.The port said it used a

broad range of criteria tomake its recent decision, in-cluding the ability to pay thecharges to fund the provin-cial auditing program, PortMetro Vancouver’s costs,whether the company wasable to provide a compli-ance bond and insurance,and to meet environmentalstandards.Companies that didn’t

make the cut can meet withPort Metro Vancouverofficials to review why theyweren’t successful, accord-ing to the port.Truckers represented by

Unifor have been unhappywith a wage structure theB.C. government intro-duced in December and arecurrently in talks with theprovince.

UBC faculty votingon fossil fueldivestmentUBC faculty will vote in

an online referendum beingheld by the UBC FacultyAssociation this week andnext. The results will bereleased Feb. 9.UBC students voted a year

ago to support divestment.Currently, the fund hasmorethan $100million invested infossil fuel companies, accord-ing to UBCC350, a groupof UBC professors who arepolitically active in environ-mental issues.“If these two groups

vote for divestment, thenthe board of governors isobliged to consider fos-sil fuel divestment,” saidGeorge Hoburg, a politicalscience professor at UBCwho teaches energy policyand has been campaigningfor divestment.The UBC vote follows

other successful divest-ment campaigns at NorthAmerican universities,including Concordia Uni-versity in Montreal. Afterstudents voted to divest atConcordia, the universityannounced it would createa $5 million sustainableinvestment fund.In November, the board

of governors at DalhousieUniversity in Halifax de-cided against divestment.

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The development permit application was processed through the HeritageBuilding Rehabilitation Program to restore the designated heritage buildingin exchange for incentives, including a property tax exemption. The legaldescription of the property is: PID: 009-354-492: Lot B Block 2 Old GranvilleTownsite Plan 10753.

The proposed exemption would be for a value of $358,680 or a period of10 years, whichever comes first. If the City issues the occupancy permit beforeOctober 31 in any given year, the exemption will begin January 1 of the followingyear. But, if it is issued after October 31, it will begin January 1 of the year afterthe following year.

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Depending on your moodor, more likely, your adven-turous spirit, there’s a drinkmade from a mixture ofBaileys and white chocolateganache delivered to yourmouth from a comicallygiant syringe.Or, if you prefer, hot

chocolate in a more civilizedplain old mug topped witha sprinkling of insects on aspiral of whipped cream.People lined up at Mink

Chocolates’ downtown lo-cation Saturday afternoon,and the orders were splitdown the middle betweenthe “Flu Shot” and “Don’tBugMe,” the store’srespective feature drinks forthe fifth annual VancouverHot Chocolate Festival.

Store owner and drinkcreatorMarc Lieberman hasthe ideal creative recipe foran entrepreneurial spirit—not being afraid to try newthings and having a genuinegreat sense of humour.Mink’s festival drink last

year was the “Paula DeenWhite Trash Train Wreck”— a concoction he cheer-fully admits was “disgust-ing” with its ingredientsof sickly-sweet and slow-pouring condensed milktopped with potato chips.Yet people came in longafter the special ended toorder the drink.“I’m telling you, we

couldn’t make them fastenough during the festi-val,” he said. “There werecrestfallen faces when theyfound out it was no longerbeing made.”The idea of eating free-

range crickets on top of“Don’t BugMe” doesn’t

appeal to everybody (yes,Lieberman gets a kick out ofwatching those who dawdlewith their decision-makingoutside the store’s windows),but there’s more to it thanthe potential gross-out factor.Lieberman usually gets

his ideas while dreaming,waking up in the middleof the night and scribblingthem down on a sticky note.“If I can read what I wrotein the morning, I act onit. If I can’t read what I’vewritten, I throw them out.”Serving crickets, however,came from the mailbox.TheUniversity of B.C.’s

alumni magazine is deliv-ered to Lieberman’s housecompliments of his formerdownstairs tenant who hasn’tupdated her mailing address.The issue that drew his inter-est featured 2010 graduateAndrew Brentano, who hadmoved to the States to pur-sue a life promoting edible

insects. Lieberman found thestory fascinating, especiallyfrom an environmental andnutritional standpoint. Bugpeople say that insect farmsare less land-dependent thanconventional livestock farmsand that bugs are nutritiouswith protein content compa-rable tomeat and fish (not tomention FDA-approved).So Lieberman contacted

an insect farmer in the Statesand, in December, orderedwhat he thought wouldbe enough crickets to lastthrough the Jan. 17 to Feb.14 festival. He ran out daysin, and his supplier had todrive 100miles to the nearestFedEx depot in Texas toshipmore crickets overnight.“They taste a bit nutty but

they don’t taste like much,”said Lieberman. “Crunchy.The legs and wings get stuckbetween your teeth. That’sinteresting.”Also interesting, in that

same sarcastic tone, is thatsomebody complained toVancouver Coastal Healthabout the sharps containerLieberman had playfully setup on the napkin station togive customers the optionof recycling their giant,plastic syringes.The container is set up

on the same surface asan advertisement for thefestival, as well as a stackof walking maps that alsoindicate the festival is afundraiser for the Down-town Eastside women’sjob training program of thePHS Community ServicesSociety through East VanRoasters. (Incidentally,Mink Chocolates and its“Paula Deen White TrashTrain Wreck” came in atnumber one last year.)Mink was the second

stop of the day for CarolynJack and RJ Hatch. They’dbeen to Bella Gelateria

earlier for the “Earl GoesBoom” white hot choco-late steeped in Earl Greytea and lavender, and laterplanned on sampling EastVan Roasters’ “MonkeyManna” made with Peru-vian chocolate, peppercornand vanilla.But first, the Flu Shot.“It’s sort of like pud-

ding,” mused Hatch. “WithBaileys,” added Jack. “Ithought you’d be up for thecricket!”“I need to save the

room,” said Hatch, thoughit was unclear if he didn’thave room or he simplycouldn’t stomach the idea.After all, more women haveordered “Don’t BugMe”than men, said Lieber-man who summed up hiscreative efforts: “I like to getpeople out of their comfortzones and get them to dosomething different.”

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Hot Chocolate Festival abuzzwith insectsandother unusual concoctions

1.Mink Chocolates baristaMason Lamprepares a double order of “Don’t BugMe,” which features a sprinkling of dried crickets. Mink is one of 21 shops participating in the fifth annual Vancouver Hot Choco-late Festival that runs until Feb. 14. 2. Carolyn Jack puts some time aside Saturday afternoon to take her “Flu Shot.” 3. Even children didn’t shy away from eating crickets. 4. In keepingwith the fun, ownerMarc Lieberman supplied a sharps container for customerswanting to recycle the giant syringe their “Flu Shot” drinkwas delivered in.See photo gallery online at vancourier.com.PHOTOSREBECCA BLISSETT

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Theweek in num6ers...

10In thousandsofdollars, theamountofmoney theparkboard spent to replace17

maple trees illegally cutdownbyanunknownpersonJan. 6

onWest 29thAvenue.

6In thepast 10 years, the

numberof times city councilhasunsuccessfully petitionedtheB.C. government requestingtobeallowed tomake its ownrules aroundcampaign finance.

36Thenumberof yearsChief JimChuhas spent asamemberof theVancouverPolice

Department. Chuannouncedhis retirement Friday.

5The soon-to-benumberofChoicesMarketsoutlets inVancouver after theupscalegrocery chainpurchasedDriveOrganicsonCommercialDrivefor anundisclosed sum.

2Thenumberof confirmedNDPcandidates seeking toreplaceLibbyDavies asMP forVancouver East.MLAs JennyKwanandMableElmoreareboth seekinganew job.

1Thenumberof firedbulletscaughtbetween the teethof ScottishmagicianRobDrummondduringhis show

BulletCatch runninguntil Feb. 7onGranville Island.

Michael GellerColumnistmichaelarthurgeller@gmail.com

The CPR Station has long been oneof my favourite Vancouver buildings.For 16 years I had my offices on the

second floor and watched the water-front transform around me. I oftenwalked past the adjacent parking lotwondering what might one day be builtthere.Perhaps this is why I was so shocked

a few weeks ago when I saw an illus-tration in the Vancouver Courier of aproposed new office tower to replacethe parking lot.It did not fit in. It looked all wrong.Many years ago, I participated in the

planning and rezoning of the propertyimmediately north of the station. Itcomprised two parcels bisected by alane. In order to create one taller build-ing, we transferred the building massthat could have been built along Hast-ings Street across the lane to CordovaStreet.In return for rezoning approval, we

proposed a public plaza at Seymour andHastings Streets and raised a portionof the building on columns to minimizeview blockage of the station.Unfortunately, Narod Developments,

the company for which I worked, wentinto receivership and another firm tookover.While I never liked their shiny

chrome design, I did like the conceptof a public space on Hastings and thegreenery that was planted on the build-ings.I mention this since, in September

2014, the city rezoned this public plazafor a 25-storey office building. Thefloor space ratio (FSR), which is ameasure of the building size in relationto the site area, increased from .09 to24.34, almost three times the permitteddowntown zoning.City planners recommended approval

since they claimed no one was usingthe plaza and council wanted new officebuilding development.It may be noteworthy that the firm of

architects that designed this building isalso associated with the proposed build-ing on the CPR station parking lot,along with Adrian Smith and GordonGill. The latter are world-renownedarchitects, having designed the tall-est building in the world in Dubai andwhat will be a 3,300 foot building in

Saudi Arabia.So why do I find their design for the

building next to the station so objec-tionable?Let me begin by declaring I like mod-

ern buildings juxtaposed with historicbuildings. During my travels I haveseen many wonderful modern additionsto heritage buildings and new buildingsbuilt beside them.My fundamental problem with this

design is that it is neither an architec-turally pleasing addition to the station,nor a complementary new buildingbeside it.With its contrived geometric shapes

at the street level and first few floorswhere it almost touches the heritagebuilding, it looks and feels both awk-ward and disrespectful.The building also feels too big for

its site and does not keep Vancouver’stradition of respecting the pedestrian atstreet level. This is why former direc-tor of planning Ray Spaxman called thebuilding “a horror.”I think he’s right.I suspect city planners know this

building design is not as good as itcould be. I am told one of the reasonsit is so jammed up against the stationis that city engineers insisted upon agreater separation from the historicLanding building for a future roadway.A second reason is the building has

been squeezed by a required view cor-ridor of the mountains from QueenElizabeth Park.Personally, I would relax the require-

ment for this distant view corridor if itwould result in improved views at thestreet level, along with a more sym-pathetic relationship between the newand old buildings, and a more slenderbuilding shape.Alternatively, I would encourage the

city to grant the developer approval totransfer some of the building densityallowed on this site to another site.This afternoon (Jan. 28), the city’s

Urban Design Panel will review thecurrent proposal. If it supports thedesign, the public will have an oppor-tunity to see the plan at an open housebefore it goes before the DevelopmentPermit Board.If the panel does not support the

design, it will be back to the drawingboard.I hope it will be the latter.

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Les LeyneColumnistlleyne@timescolonist.com

One of the best things about socialmedia is that it’s a forum for politiciansto continue goading each other dur-ing the off-season when the legislatureisn’t sitting. They only get a scant fewmonths to go face to face during ses-sions. But through the miracle of Twit-ter, they can keep the argument goinglong after the house adjourns. Throughthe weekends and late into the night aswell, for that matter.Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP MLA Doug

Routley has been leading the chargelately. He’s taken the requisite numberof digs at the B.C. Liberal government,of course. The day before ChristmasEve, he noted: “Balanced #bcpoli bud-get? Nope,jst anthr lie. Robbed $1bilfrom BCHydro,despite losses,forcingBCHydro in2mor debt&higher rateincrses.” (Those aren’t typos, it’s justcompressed writing.)The same day, there was this plain-

tive question: “Have the BCLiberalsever told a single truth? I can make along list of their lies, but seriously, cananyone point to a single truth?”The intriguing thing about his Twit-

ter feed lately, however, is his focus onOak Bay-Gordon Head Green PartyMLA Andrew Weaver.Routley is listed as the deputy critic

of forestry and community services,but in social-media world, he’s more awatchdog on Weaver.Last month, Weaver was quoted

after the Site C dam announcement assaying hydroelectric qualifies as greenpower.Routley tweeted: “Gosh, amazing

how @AJWVictoriaBC can leap ovrprinciples w a singl bound.”After Weaver tweeted a news story

about the Pope going Green, Routleyresponded with: “That’s (g)reen, not(G)reen...2go (G)reen by ur standard,he wld have 2 dclare hmslf as truthfullybeing jewish :)”It was obviously meant as a joke, albe-

it a laboured one. But when he tried toexplain the joke was based on Weaver’sperceived hypocrisy, Weaver responded:“I’m beginning to think u r the only 1who understands ur tweets Doug.”Routley shot back: “Only u appar-

ently knew what u meant when u ran asa progressive.”The dogfight is viewed by some as

further proof the NDP are worriedabout the Greens. But some of it juststems from personal differences. Rout-ley said he was talking to a dignitarylast year in the hallway and Weaverinterrupted him with an objection tosomething he said in a speech. Heviewed that as rude, and the argumentwas on. Weaver said he just pointedout Routley was wrong on some facts.After Weaver started a petition to

cut MSP premiums, Routley launched:“Mor hypocrisy frm Weaver.Votes42Lib bdgts w phony balance on back offee incrses incl MSP&now calls4abol-ishmnt ofMSP prems.”Routley’s past weekend on Twitter

was also inadvertently revealing. He senta tweet Saturday to NDP Leader JohnHorgan’s chief of staff, John Heaney,with an intriguing partial reference that’sopen to interpretation. He mentioned aferry worker as “my guy. We can plantanything we need to through him. Hedoes a lot of mudline research and alsocreates memes.”He also noted some of the ferry

workers’ memes (generally, graphicconcepts designed to be spread easily)are actually Routley’s, but “not what Inecessarily wanted to own.”There’s an indication he thought the

message was being sent privately. Itwas deleted from his feed soon after.But it sparked some speculation

about what’s being planted, whatare the ideas Routley wanted spreadwithout being seen to own, and mostexciting of all — what is “mudlineresearch?”Routley said he meant it as research

to counter what he views as erroneousattacks on NDP hypocrisy by (guesswho?) Weaver.Horgan shrugged off the spat, noting

Twitter is a “sensitive beast,” but back-ing Routley, who’s “his own man.”Weaver produced some examples

from the “mudline” on Monday, abunch of posters from Facebook fea-turing his face and text attacking hisstands on various issues.No doubt B.C. Liberal social-media

savants are engaged in some fascinatingbehind-the-scenes manoeuvres as well.But you don’t normally see it referredto in public.The legislature resumes Feb. 10, so

they can get back to face-to-face argu-ments

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Jan. 27, 2005: The Burrard Corner Store at 1010 Burnaby St. suffered seriousdamage after someone threw aMolotov cocktail through the front window.Although the fire it startedwas small, the flames triggered the sprinklers, andwater caused extensive damage to the building and contents of the conveniencestore. No suspect was ever identified and police said there is no reason to believeit was a targeted attack. “It’s a randomact at this point,” said VPD spokespersonConst. Sarah Bloor. One other deliberately set fire also occurred that night but itwas in south Vancouver in a parked car.

West End store firebombed

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Tech teacheraclass actTo the editor:Re: “Student developing videogame

for visually impaired,’ Jan. 16.I was a previous student of Ms. Ali.

I worked though Programming 8-12,Networking 11 and various other techprograms at Killarney. By far, the bestknowledge retention I have is from Ms.Ali, and the practices she taught me Iuse every day.Since graduating, I have acquired a

Business Technology position workingwith servers, production environmentsand network infrastructures. I was ableto learn the spectrum of technology —from setup of desktops to server-sideknowledge to Flash animation to gamedesign. She really knows how to teach itall — and well.

Michael Jang, via Comments section

Assailing thetaxi industryTo the editor:Re: “It’s time to fix our broken taxi

system,” Jan. 21.New York has nearly three times as

many cabs per capita as Metro Van-couver. On top of this, Uber has a hugepresence in New York, as do Lyft andother ride sharing services. New Yorkalso has a sophisticated public transitsystem with numerous train lines, anextensive bus system, and aquatic trans-port options.What we have in Metro Vancouver,

and B.C. generally, is a ridiculous pro-tection system that ensures an astro-nomical price for cab licenses on thegrey market by restricting the supply tothe extent that taxis are next to uselessat peak times — which is of course whenwe need them the most.I hold the opinion that the only ben-

eficiary of our current regime are the cablicense owners. Drivers, whether theyare leasing a license or driving as an em-ployee, get shorted because the paucityof cabs overall means people don’t eventhink about using a taxi.If there were more taxis, there would

be more drivers and more riders. Morerevenue overall. But what would defi-nitely drop is the value of the cab licenseon the grey market, and that wouldthreaten $400M of capital held by thelicense holders today.The solution? Depends on who you

want to benefit. I think our licensingregime should be adjusted to benefitthe traveling public, not the taxi licenseholders. There should be no problemre-jigging the licensing system to enable

a much larger number of licensed drivers— whether they are driving cabs or Ubercars — without sacrificing the safety ofthe public in any measurable way.

Rockerguy, via Comments section

‘Barbaric’ termunderdebateTo the editor:Re: “‘Barbaric practices’ legislation

called racist,” Jan. 21.I think ‘barbaric’ is a well-chosen

term. It lets new immigrants know thatsome specific practices are not just il-legal in Canada. It lets new immigrantsknow that those practices are taboo.Practicing them will not only get you introuble in the eyes of the law but alsoin the eyes of your neighbours. Canadahas a culture all its own and it is usingthis term as it has always been used: todenote a practice that makes its practi-tioners anathema in the culture.

Rilvis, via Reddit•••

The term “barbaric” is offensive ashell and does not belong in any law.

TaylorS1986, via Reddit

HomeownershamperedbyheritagebylawsTo the editor:Re: “Heritage, land use studies on

2015 planning agenda,” Jan. 21.That is great news except the city’s

bylaws are still strict when it comes tomaintaining, upgrading and bringingto code these old houses. Bringing a100-year-old house to conform with to-day’s code can result in a hefty bill thatoutweighs the actual value of the house.For “the vast majority of Vancouver”

to look exactly the same 10, 20, 30 yearsfrom now, the city has to relax its bylawsfor older houses and allow them to ex-ist in their “as is layout” that is livablespace, basement suite, ceiling height,staircases, etc. with minor changes so asto ensure safety and allow homeownersto truly maintain the houses within areasonable budget.Homeowners who own an old house

live in fear that one day if they need todo the simplest upgrade/renovation thatthey will have to go through the city;which may very well result in a home in-spection that may burden the homeown-er to bring conformity to other upgradesand/or additions that were done overthe years by whomever owned the housemany years ago.

A Vancouver Homeowner, via Com-ments section

First Gung Haggis Fat Choy heldJan. 28, 1998: Simon Fraser University student ToddWong, a.k.a. ToddishMcWong, hosts a private dinner party for 16 friends intended to celebrateVancouver’s Scottish and Chinese cultural heritage and cuisine aswell asmarkboth Robbie Burns Day and the beginning of the Chinese New Year. The annualGungHaggis Fat Choy eventwent on to become amajormainstay of the city’ssocial calendar and has spread to other cities in the Pacific Northwest. In 2005, thedinnermoved to Floata, the largest Chinese restaurant in the country, althoughthe Vancouver event has been postponed this year for undisclosed reasons.

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Continued from page 1“That’s why there was

such outrage down herebefore because nothing wasbeing done.”

NeighbourhoodwatchChu’s commitment to

improve relationships inthe Downtown Eastsidewas evident more than fouryears ago when officers andwomen from the neighbour-hood created Sisterwatch, aninitiative aimed at preventingviolence against women.Woodward is co-chair-

person of Sisterwatch butpointed out the crime pre-vention network probablywouldn’t have formed had itnot been for a tragedy. Herniece, 22-year-old AshleyMachiskinic, fell to herdeath Sept. 15, 2010 froma room at the back of theRegent Hotel.The death led toWood-

ward and a group of womenoccupying the then-policeheadquarters at 312Main St.to pressure Chu and his of-ficers to investigate what theybelieved to be amurder.Chu called and attended

a town hall meeting, whichled to the creation of Sister-watch and regular meet-ings with residents. Theluncheons, which began lastyear, are an extension ofthose initiatives. Investiga-tors, meanwhile, continueto treat Machiskinic’s deathas a “sudden death” file,according to the chief.“The positive thing is

that Ashley didn’t die invain, right?” Woodwardsaid of the community’spush for better relationswith the VPD. “That from

her death something beau-tiful happened.”At his news conference

Friday, Chu said the workof Sisterwatch has led towitnesses and victims ofcrime confiding in policeand sharing informationthat has helped capturecriminals. In another firstfor the VPD, the chief andseveral police officers havebeen regular participantsin the Missing WomenMemorial March held inFebruary each year.But with steps forward

have come steps backward.Back in June 2010, one of

Chu’s officers, Const. TaylorRobinson, was captured onvideo footage shoving SandyDavidsen, who has cerebralpalsy, to the ground on EastHastings. Robinson, whohad graduated from theJustice Institute six monthsbefore the incident, wassuspended without pay forsix days. He claimedDa-vidsen was going for his gunbut later apologized for theincident and was transferredto another district.Chu reacted immedi-

ately, imposing a mandatorypolicy that stated rookieswould no longer be de-ployed in the DowntownEastside. The new policyrequires only officers witha minimum of two years’experience to be consideredto work the beat in theneighbourhood.Watching Chu and the

department closely overthe years in the DowntownEastside has been the PivotLegal Society, which haslodged complaints againstofficers and called forpolicy changes, including

stopping the ticketing oflow-income residents.Pivot lawyer Douglas

King, who acted on behalfof Davidsen in the Rob-inson case, said Chu mayhave built better relation-ships with service providersin the Downtown Eastsidebut confrontations betweenpolice and officers continue.“If you’re still giving out

tickets for jaywalking, ifyou’re still hounding peopleas they walk down thestreet, you’re still not goingto improve that relation-ship,” King told the Courier.“So I think there’s a lack ofunderstanding of what thecore issue is.”That said, King added,

the legal society saw somepositive moves by the VPDunder Chu’s leadership,including backing off on theenforcement of sex tradeworkers to focus on preven-tion of violence. The VPDcontinues to be supporters ofthe Insite supervised drug in-jection site, too, King noted.King acknowledged one

of the first moves Chumade when he became chiefwas to have breakfast withformer Pivot leaders JohnRichardson and David Eby,where he apologized for of-ficers’ conduct that led to 52complaints against the VPD.“Our relationship with

the VPD is so much betterunder chief Chu than it wasunder [Police Chief Jamie]Graham,” King said. (Gra-ham once told the Courierthat Pivot had no credibilityas an organization). “It wasactively hostile with chiefGraham. It’s been a worldof difference and we hopeit’s going to stay that way

with whoever is going toreplace him.”

PublicrelationsChu’s work outside

the Downtown Eastside,particularly during the 2010Winter Olympics, may bemore familiar to people liv-ing in other parts of the cityand across the country.Using a so-called meet-

and-greet style of policing,which arguably saw morecops at any time in theforce’s history pose for pho-tographs with tourists, theVPD welcomed hundredsof thousands of people tothe city during the WinterGames. There were fewskirmishes, although therewere protests and arrests.Chu’s non-aggressive ap-

proach to the Occupy protestat the Vancouver Art Galleryin 2011 and last year’s Op-penheimer Park tent city,where campers eventuallyleft both properties withouta clash with police, earnedhigh praise fromMayorGregor Robertson and civilliberties’ watchdogs.But the recreational

hockey player’s biggest testcame in June 2011 whenthe Vancouver Canucks lostGame 7 of the Stanley CupFinal to the Boston Bruinsat Rogers Arena. Hundredsof people went on a rampagedowntown, burning vehicles,looting stores and assaultingpolice officers. Chu and hisdepartment were criticizedfor allowing the riot to hap-pen, althoughmany peoplethanked the VPD for thework they did that night,covering a cruiser in yellowsticky thank-you notes thenext day and overwhelm-

ing VPD email inboxes andmailboxes with well wishes.“We assured the citizens

of Vancouver that we wouldhold the rioters account-able,” said Chu, recallingthe fallout from the riot. “Iknow there was some criti-cism about us taking sometime. As I said, we want doit fast, we want to do it rightbut if we couldn’t do both,we would do it right. I thinktime has vindicated our deci-sion to do it right.We’re over300 people charged. That’sthe largest number of peoplecharged out of one incidentin Canadian history.”That same year, Chu

was rocked by the embar-rassing and shocking newsthat one of his own officerswas charged with sellingmarijuana. At the time, Chutold the Courier, it was hisworst day on the job. Const.Peter Hodson was fired andserved time in prison.“It was a bad day but then

it was a good day,” he said atthe time. “The bad day wasone officer violated the trustwe placed in him. The goodday was 30 other officerssaid they would investigate,appear in court, no prob-lem. They were resourceful,energetic, committed andthey got significant amountsof evidence to prove that hewas a rogue cop.”Robertson, who joined

Chu at Friday’s news con-ference, credited the chiefand his leadership for thesteady drop in crime acrossthe city, pointing out howpolice diffused a gang warin 2008 and 2009. Propertycrime continues to plummetand homicides are at an all-time low, Robertson added.

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“He and his team haveachieved in succeedingagain and again in achiev-ing remarkable successesfor our city,” said themayor, who doubles aschairperson of the policeboard, which conducts an-nual performance reviewsof the chief.Robertson applauded

the chief’s ongoing effortsto shine the light on themental health crisis inVancouver, where policeare often the first respond-ers to incidents involvingpeople in need of treat-ment for their illnesses.In recent years, the mayorand the chief have joinedtogether to lobby theprovincial and federalgovernments for bettertreatment, services and fa-cilities for the mentally ill.“A special thank you to

Jim for his very brave lead-ership on mental healthand I know his commit-ment on that is somethingthat runs very deep in theVancouver Police Depart-ment,” Robertson said.Chu was hired under a

police board led by then-mayor Sam Sullivan. Itwill now be up to Rob-ertson and the board tochoose a successor, whichwill include a Canada-wide search for a candi-date. The job pays well,with Chu earning morethan $300,000 a year inrecent years.“These are big shoes to

fill, there are some incred-ible candidates within thedepartment,” the mayorsaid. “We look forward tothem being in the mix andwe’ll also open our doorsacross the country to makesure we’ve done every-thing to find the next bestchief for Vancouver.”

Political footballSo what’s Chu’s next

move?While Chu reasoned at

the news conference thathis early departure fromhis contract was to giveone of his deputy chiefs ashot at the top job, Chufound himself deflectingquestions about a possiblefederal run in politics.“I don’t know what

I’m going to do next,”said Chu, whose contractwas set to expire in 2017.“Other than some timeoff, I don’t know whatthe future entails. I didn’twant to be actively lookingfor the next step while I’mserving as chief.”Chu acknowledged

that political parties haveapproached him over the

years but he declined of-fers. He said he will givethe same answer until heretires, which is scheduledfor the spring but couldbe later if the police boardhasn’t found his successor.He is no stranger to

politicians or how theworld of politics works: Aschief, he’s met with PrimeMinister Stephen Harperand led tours of the cityand Downtown Eastsidewith federal ministers.Chu has made contactsacross the country as headof the Canadian Asso-ciation of Chiefs of Policeand lobbied for progres-sive changes related tomarijuana possessionsuch as ticketing insteadof enforcement. And he’smade national news for aVPD-led program dubbed“Con-Air” that fliescriminals back to citieswhere they are wanted onoutstanding warrants.His successor will likely

need to possess the samecampaigning style, whichwas directed by a policeboard that wanted Chuto speak out and be heardwhen issues such as thecity’s mental health crisisis directly affecting polic-ing; the VPD’s “Lost inTransition” report onthe mental health crisisin 2008 was an example.Several times during thenews conference, Chumade it clear that thepolice board should lookwithin the VPD’s seniorranks for the next chief.Three deputy chiefs —

Warren Lemcke, AdamPalmer and Doug LeP-ard — work under Chu,who won the job in June2007 after Jamie Grahamretired. Chu noted hisexecutive members arebeing actively recruitedfor jobs with other policedepartments.“It would be a shame for

this organization if one ortwo of these senior leadersleft without the opportunityto compete to be policechief in the best city in theworld in the best policeagency in the world,” hesaid. “For me to step asideright now, it gives those tal-ented senior executives whothe police board have beendirecting me to develop,mentor and coach the op-portunity to be a leader inthis organization.”In an interview following

the news conference, LeP-ard, 53, said he is thinkingabout pursuing the job.The Courier was unable toreach Lemcke and Palmerbefore deadline.

“It’s a very importantjob and it’s not a deci-sion that I would makelightly,” said LePard, whopraised Chu for his leader-ship and relationships heestablished with peoplein the city, including inthe Downtown Eastsidewhere LePard joined thechief last Thursday at theluncheon.

Next chapterWhether LePard or

some other candidatebecomes Chu’s suc-cessor, that person willundoubtedly have to sellthe police board on howhe or she will handle thechallenges of policing theDowntown Eastside.Chu appears to have

set a precedent, with

no other chief in recentmemory hosting regularlunches with sex tradeworkers, drug users andhomeless people — andgiving out door prizessuch as Tim Horton’sgift cards, jewelry andrain ponchos to hisguests.Asked about this legacy

as he left the luncheon,

Chu credited the workof fellow officers for therelationships they’veestablished with residents.Then he finished with this:“Well,” he said. “I’m

around at a lot of othervenues in the city, aswell. But this is im-portant for the policedepartment.”

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COMMUNITYCALENDAR

Sandra Thomassthomas@vancourier.com

WestPointGreyThe West Point Grey

Community Centre is of-fering a free falls preven-tion workshop entitled“Walk Tall, Don’t Fall.”The workshop, designed

with baby boomers andolder adults in mind, willteach participants proper

gait, posture and thebody’s balance systemsand provide an overviewof how to effectively trainfor better balance both athome and at the gym.The workshop, taught

by Kate Maliha from LoveYour Age Fitness Inc.,takes place Saturday, Feb.28, from 10 a.m. to noon.To register, contact theWest Point Grey Commu-nity Centre at 604-257-8140 or visit vancouver.ca/westpointgreyrec.

OakridgeAn art exhibit taking

place at Oakridge Centreis the result of the firstlarge-scale Chinese artscompetition specificallyfeaturing Canadian artists.Last August, Katherine

and John Chan of theInternational Arts Gallery,launched a call to artistsacross Canada to submittheir work in one of threecategories: Western paint-ing, Chinese painting orcalligraphy. Supported bythe federal government ofCanada, the Arts BridgeCompetition endeavouredto connect Western andChinese cultures andshowcase both establishedand emerging artists.A jury made up from

several Asian communityarts groups and mem-bers of the Federation of

Canadian Artists workedtogether to determine thewinners in each category.The paintings will hangin the West Galleria atOakridge Centre, 650West 41st Ave., nowthrough Feb. 9.

DowntownThe Vancouver Public

Library wants to demon-strate how one person’strash is another’s treasure.At a workshop dubbed

“TRASHy Books,” par-ticipants will learn how tomake a personal, one-of-a-kind notebook withmaterials typically thrownaway. Using thrift storeitems and a bit of ingenu-ity, participants can maketheir book as romantic asa mixed tape or funny asa comic. Instruction andmaterials will be pro-vided. The workshop runsfrom 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.,Thursday, Feb. 12, at theCentral Library.Also at the Central

Library is an afternoon ofbig band jazz with Urba-na, Saturday Feb. 14 from3 to 4:30 p.m.Urbana, an 18-piece

big band, is directed byrenowned jazz musicianRobin Schier. Both eventsare free and take place at350 West Georgia. Formore information, call604-331-3603.

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nee series offers popular,lighter classics, woventogether with stories aboutthe composers and theirmusic. Take a world tourthrough music with Mo-zart’s Prague Symphony,Mendelssohn’s ode to theScottish Hebrides islands,Borodin’s In the Steppesof Central Asia, Grieg’sNorwegian Dance No.2 and Lalo’s Symphonieespagnole with conductorGordon Gerrard. Christo-pher Gaze, artistic direc-tor of Bard on the BeachShakespeare Festival,hosts and narrates theperformance. ColleenVenables is guest violin-ist. Tea and Trumpetscomes complete with teaand cookies served in thelobby one hour beforeeach concert, complimentsof Tetley Tea and LUBiscuits. Tea and Trum-pets takes place Feb. 5from 2 to 3:15 p.m. at theOrpheum, 601 Smithe St.

Mount Pleasant“I drink beer whenever I

can get my hands on any,”Thomas Merton onceconfessed. “I love beer,and by that very fact, theworld.”This Saturday, Jan.

31, the Thomas MertonSociety of Canada andfriends will celebrate whatwould have been Merton’s100th birthday with beerand jazz. To that end,they’re hosting a “Beerth-day” party in celebrationof the American author,poet, social activist, monkand mystic at Our TownCafé, 245 East Broadway,from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. At8:30 p.m., local Mertonscholars Donald Grayston,Judith Hardcastle, AngusStuart and Ron Dart willread from their contribu-tions to the 2015 testi-monial volume We Are

Already One: Reflectionsin Honor of ThomasMerton’s Centenary. Beer,wine, coffee, non-alcohol-ic drinks and edibles willbe available for purchase.Everyone is welcome. Formore information, call604-988-8835.

KillarneyIn partnership with the

Alzheimer Society, Killar-ney Community Centreis offering a new sessioncalled Minds in Motion,which combines a fitnessclass with social programsfor people experiencingearly stages of memory loss.Participants are welcome toattend on their own or witha friend, family memberor caregiver. A certifiedfitness instructor conductsthe exercise section of theprogram while a facilita-tor ensures participantsare welcomed and assistswith social interaction andinvolvement in activities,guided by the needs andinterests of the participants.The sessions take placeThursdays from 10:45 a.m.to 12:45 p.m. now throughMarch 26 in room 203at the community centre,

6260 Killarney St. Thecost is $58.50 per couple.While the Killarney loca-tion is new, the program isongoing at Kitsilano, WestEnd, Marpole-Oakridgeand Hillcrest communitycentres.

Mount PleasantMayor Gregor Robert-

son and council invite thepublic to a Black HistoryMonth launch celebrationthis Friday, Jan. 30 from 2to 3 p.m.Enjoy a celebration of

community and culturalperformances as the mayorproclaims February asBlack History Month inVancouver. The accom-plishments of the Hon-ourable Justice SelwynRomilly will be recognized,and Canada Post will un-veil the 2015 Black HistoryMonth stamps. A light,catered reception will fol-low. This event, open to allages, takes place in councilchambers on the third floorof city hall, 453 West 12thAve. The celebration isfree, but registration is amust by emailing rsvp@vancouver.ca to attend.

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MaplemurderSeriously, did whoever

cut down those 17 youngmaple trees on West 29thAvenue truly believe thepark board wouldn’t re-place them?If it was up to me they’d

be replaced with 34 mapletrees just to prove a point,but it’s not, so the boardis planting another 17 intheir place at a cost ofalmost $10,000. To date,the identity of the personwho took what is suspect-ed to be a power saw tothe trees sometime duringthe night of Jan. 6 is stilla mystery — as is why itcosts almost $10,000 toplant 17 trees.The truncatum maples,

cut off at about 50 centi-metres above the ground,were planted by the parkboard on the city boule-vard in November 2010.According to the board,the matter is still underinvestigation by police. Amulti-lingual leaflet was

delivered to nearby homeslast week appealing forassistance in catching theperpetrator.Meanwhile, park board

staff finished replacingthe trees Monday after-noon accompanied byNPA chair John Coupar,acting manager of UrbanForestry and SpecialtyParks Howard Normannand urban forestry crews.The replanting supportsthe City of Vancouver’sUrban Forest Strategy,which provides tools forgrowing and maintaininga healthy, resilient urbanforest for future genera-tions. The park board asksthat anyone with informa-tion contact the Vancou-ver Police Department at604-717-3321 and quotefile No. VA15-3826.

Trans swimwinThe trans-inclusive

public swim at Temple-ton Pool was such a hit itwill continue weekly nowthrough March with sup-port from the park board’sTrans and Gender VariantInclusion Working Group.It was former VisionVancouver commissionerTrevor Loke who pushed

to get the ball rolling onthis much-needed andongoing change to policy.The swim has been

ongoing unofficially since2010, when it was firstorganized by trans ad-vocates, but the city andpark board recently madeit official and threw theirsupport behind it.The swimwas organized

to provide a safe environ-ment for people to access thepool, change rooms, wash-rooms and showers withoutfear of discrimination basedon their gender identity.On Jan. 11, trained staff

were at Templeton to helpeducate patrons regardinggender sensitivity, answerquestions and help directpeople to the appropriatechange rooms, washroomsand showers. In April,the park board accepted77 recommendations,including new signs, stafftraining and updated com-munity programming, tomake public spaces morewelcoming and inclusiveof trans and gender queerindividuals. The signs atTempleton Pool no longeruse traditional male andfemale symbols for wash-rooms and change rooms.

Instead the signs reflectfunction and are open toall. The weekly swim takesplace from noon to 2 p.m.on Sundays, beginning.The working group hopesthis is just the first step inexpanding the program toother community centres.

FeelingflexiIs getting in shape on

your list of New Year’sresolutions?Well, the park board is

here to help. New userscan pick up a park boardFlexipass and get accessto 21 fitness centres, 13pools and eight arenas.Enjoy lunchtime work-outs, skating with friends,family time at the poolor run indoors on a rainyday. From now throughFeb. 8 you can also pickup a 30-day Flexipass for$30. Flexipass purchaserswill also receive an extramonth free when they pur-chase a three-month passand $50 off a five-sessionpersonal training package.There are some restric-tions, so drop by yourlocal community centreor visit vancouver.ca formore information.

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1. InOneMan, Two Guvnors, Brit-ish playwright Richard Bean updates theItalian comedy Servant of Two Masters andsets the farce in 1963 Brighton, England,complete with gangsters and a live skiffleband. Directed by David Mackay, theArtsClub production runs until Feb. 22 at theStanley. For tickets and info, call 604-687-1644 or visit artsclub.com.

2. Ruby Slippers Theatre presents twoEnglish translations of French-Canadianplays Aprés Moi and The List Jan. 28 toFeb. 1 at Studio 16. Christian Begin’s AprésMoi is six versions of the same story set in amotel, while Jennifer Tremblay’s The Listis a monologue about a woman who feelsguilty about the death of her neighbour.Details at rubbyslippers.ca.

3. The Four on the Floor String Quartethosts its third annual String Fling Jan. 28and 29 at the Biltmore. Each year the groupinvites a few special guests to join them onstage and perform several songs with stringaccompaniment. This year’s collabora-tors includes Jim Byrnes, Ryan Gulde-mond, Dustin Bentall, Parker Bossley, Han-nah Epperson, Dominique Fricot, DanMoxon and Tonye Aganaba. Tickets at RedCat, Zulu and hipcity.ca. Details at face-book.com/FourOnTheFloorStringQuartet.

4.Oxford, Mississippi’sBass Drumof Death brings its enjoyably knuckle-dragging amalgam of primitive blues andlo-fi garage rock to Fox Cabaret, Jan. 29, insupport of the duo’s latest fuzzed out andsweaty albumRip This. Local howlers NoSinner opens. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat andbplive.ca.

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Arts&Entertainment

STATEOFTHEARTSCheryl Rossicrossi@vancourier.com

Actress and producerEmelia Symington Fedy co-cooned herself and her babyin her car during a miserabledownpour Friday morningto talk to the Courier.Her baby started crying

mere minutes into the inter-

view, but Symington Fedyremained unfazed.“He’s number two,” she

said. “So I’m comfortablewith him crying.”Coping with motherhood

the first time around wasanother story.Symington Fedy had

just lost her mother andfound herself wandering upCommercial Drive with hernewborn feeling isolated,sad and alone while othermothers and babies buzzedaround her.So she gathered other

actor-mothers with differentparenting styles together andasked them to share their in-nermost thoughts and expe-riences. They raisedmoneyto pay for childcare and spuntheir intimate stories intoa show,Motherload, whichpremieres at the Cultch andruns Feb. 3 to 21.Motherload is meant to be

aMom’s the Word for a newgeneration.“It’s been exactly 20

years, to the year, of theirfirst show,” SymingtonFedy said of the acclaimedand long-running Arts Clubproduction. “It’s time for anew one.”There weren’t 1,500mod-

els of strollers to peruse 20years ago and no apps alertedparents about their children’sstage of development.“All of our husbands

have this rule that you can’task Dr. Google,” Syming-ton Fedy said. “You go‘child,’ ‘rash,’ ‘face,’ and itsays, like, ‘death.’”Symington Fedy, accom-

plished stage actor Jody-KayMarklew, comedic actorJuno Rinaldi, film and TVactor Sonja Bennett andanother mother who had todrop out because her childhas a rare disease, spenta year-and-a-half creatingMotherload, while pumpingmilk and holding babieson their breasts and laps.Courtenay Dobbie, artisticdirector of Caravan FarmTheatre in Armstrong, di-rected and choreographed.Motherload highlights the

bittersweet experience ofdiscovering a profound senseof placement, or home, andmothers’ struggles tomain-tain their identity.“My truth about be-

ing a mom in this pieceis that I’m a much bettermom when I’m working,”Symington Fedy said. “Toaccept that, in this day andage when being so there foryour kid is so highly valued,I felt like a bad mother forthe first year.”Marklew is her opposite.

“She is the quintessentialblissed-out stay-at-homemom that you’re just likef*** you, how can you beso happy and content,”Symington Fedy said.There are scenes about

what a sleep-deprived momwould love to scream ather whiny child, anotherabout sex and motherhood,“or how there isn’t any,”and what it’s like to realizethat your son’s behaviouralproblems mirror your own.The four women refer

to their own childhoods,their relationships with theirmothers and how they wereas daughters.“As my first son was be-

ing born, my mom died,”Symington Fedy said.“The one time in my lifewhen I wanted my mother,and she wasn’t there, and Ihad to learn how to parentwithout her, and how Ididn’t do a very good jobin the beginning.”The production includes

actors’ home videos andphotos, old and new.“Our projection design-

er, Cande [Andrade], he’sworking with all these pho-tos we have of our moth-ers and so you see us andthen you see our motherson this big 12-by-16 [foot]screen,” Symington Fedysaid. “We’ve seen him,playing with the projec-tions, crying. It’s emotionalto see these huge images offamily on the stage.”Symington Fedy says

comedic actor Rinaldishares the tale of her severepost-partum depression ina way that’s simultaneouslyhysterical and heartbreaking.It’s the hysterical that

Symington Fedy hopes willbe the takeaway.“Mymain goal in this

show is for moms to laughtheir asses off,” she said.“And to go, ‘Oh these wom-en are saying everything thatI was terrified of being. Oh,so if they’re willing to saythis, I’m not so bad.’”She’s confident Mother-

load will be worth securing asitter, washing your hair anddonning a spit-up-free shirt.“You only make a few

special plays in your life,”said Symington Fedy, whoalso co-runs Chop Theatre.“And I know this is one ofthem… I know when we’reon stage, we’re going to besavouring every minute,and then we go home toour messy houses and thepoop all over the floor.”For more information,

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I am the perfect target forRob Drummond’s magicshow, Bullet Catch. Skepti-cal but willing to be amazedand even when an illusion isrevealed — as Drummonddoes with one of his tricks(but only after asking if wewant to know how it wasdone) — I’m still amazed.Drummond plays on

our impressionability in thesubtlest ways: no cape, no“Ladies and Gentlemen”hyperbole, no rabbits pop-ping out of hats. In a plainwoolen vest and with a dis-armingly low-key approach,this charming Glaswegianplays it down. And he’s justso nice. How many illusion-ists have you wanted to hugat the end of the show?Oh, but there is hype and

you can see it coming. “Bul-let Catch” is a famous illu-sionist’s trick going back to16th century France when amagician caught a bullet inhis hand but was clubbed todeath in 1613 with his owngun by his angry assistant.Drummond, through

letters and references to abadly botched Bullet Catchduring which the performerwas fatally shot by his assis-tant, makes sure we realizehow dangerous the trickis. Tales of actual fatalitiesabound and are generallydue to defective firearms.Progressing through various

less dangerous illusions,Drummond builds to theclimax: the moment whenan audience volunteerwho has been with him onstage since moments afterthe start of the show, donseye and ear protection andsqueezes the trigger. Bam.Our volunteer, Jojo, was

so enthusiastic and will-ing. Do I think she reallywas a volunteer and not aset-up? I do. Either that orJojo deserves an Oscar forher performance. Eventu-ally, however, Jojo becamequite fearful; she had, shesaid, shot a deer before butnever a man. She could, asDrummond pointed outmany times, back out; ap-parently, some volunteers,completely overwhelmed bywhat Drummond has askedthem to do, have walkedaway. Our plucky Jojo hungin there.But you just know that

gun isn’t loaded with realbullets. And you just know

that Drummond, whomyou’ve come to like, isn’t go-ing to die tonight on stage.Tickets have been sold forthe remainder of the run;think of all those cancelledtickets. It’s Arts Club artisticmanaging director BillMillerd’s nightmare.So what’s going for this

show if not the scary pos-sibility you might see some-one actually die on stage?Performance. Fun. Curi-osity. And a conversationabout free will. Drummonddoesn’t believe in it; Jojothought maybe sometimesshe did.His argument— and it

may be Philosophy 100—is that everything we do,we do because of eventsthat preceded the present,extending all the way backto our own birth, over whichwe exercised no free will.Hence, there can be nofree will. That he’s onstageand about to be shot by acomplete stranger is, Drum-

mond would argue, not anact of free will. It might becrazy but he can’t really beblamed for it. And even ifwe don’t have free will, whatwe do have, he says, is hu-man connection and Drum-mond really connects.“Arguably one of the

most dangerous and daringillusions that a magiciancan attempt,” says Wiki-pedia; legend says at leasta dozen men have diedattempting it. But if you likemagic, relish the thought ofspending 75 minutes in thecompany of a truly engag-ing fellow with the sweetestbrogue this side of Glasgowand are curious about theBullet Catch, exercise yourfree will and check out thisshow, presented as partof the PuSh InternationalPerforming Arts Festival.For more reviews, go to

joledingham.caBullet Catch runs until Feb.

7 at the Revue Stage. Detailsat to artsclub.com.

Bullet Catchhits itsmarkMagic and philosophy collide in moving theatrical target

RobDrummondexplores thenotionof freewill inhis theatricalmagic showBulletCatch.

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Falcons double up for 120-point averageThe Langara

Falcon’smen’sbasketball teamaveraged 120points per game inback-to-back winsover the KwantlenEagles Jan. 22 andColumbia BibleCollege BearcatsJan. 24. TheFalcons lead thePacwest with 89points per gameand are also thebest in the leaguedefensively forallowing only 66.7points per game.The wins extend Langara’s streak to five, which includesa decisive 75-62 victory over Vancouver Island Univer-sity Jan. 16. VIU had been undefeated against all CCAAteams until Langara took them down.Over the Eagles this weekend, Jitinder Lohcham

scored 26 points, netted eight rebounds and blockedtwo shots in a 114-66 victory. The Falcons combinedfor a season-high 34 assists in the lopsided win. Visitingthe Bearcats in Abbotsford, Langara recorded its mostsingle-game points this season in a 126-75 win to reachan overall PacWest record of 10-2. They put up 63 pointsin the first half and followed that with 40 points in thethird quarter. They topped their season-high assist tallyfrom the previous game with 36 against the Bearcats.Elliot Mason impressed with 20 first half points on hisway to 25 overall and seven assists. Lohcham dominatedthe paint with 20 points, five rebounds and three blockedshots, and Vancouver College alumGarrett Ling-Leehad a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds.“We really got back to our fast break fundamentals,”

said head coach Paul Eberhardt. “We ran hard and movedthe ball very well and as a result we scored a ton of points.”The Falcons trail VIU (11-1) by two points and are tied

for second place with Quest University (10-2). Langarahosts Quest 8 p.m. Jan. 30 to determine who jumps in front.The women’s team isn’t faring as successfully. They sit

last in the Pacwest in eighth sport with a 2-10 record. Un-defeated Quest leads the standings, followed by VIU (9-3)and Douglas (8-4). They host Quest at 6 p.m. Jan. 30.

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During an atom rep gameat Kerrisdale Cyclone TaylorArena on a Friday night, ashot deflected over the headof the referee and grazed theout-of-bounds netting beforebouncing loudly off the glassand back onto the ice.Two coaches on compet-

ing benches shouted at theofficials, the oldest who’donly turned 14 a week ear-lier and was only a few yearsolder than the rep playerson the ice.From across the rink, the

coach whose team was ondefence threw his arms inthe air. “It hit the net!”He was right. But since

the whistle wasn’t blown,play continued.Watching from a corner

of the near-century-old rink,Vancouver ThunderbirdsAmateur Hockey Associa-tion assistant referee in chiefDan Hanoomansingh madea few notes. He was super-vising the game as part ofthe T-Birds three-year-oldmentoring program to helpdevelop novice officials.Linesmen and referees

with only one year’s experi-ence are more effective thanolder peers who haven’tbeen shadowed on the iceor supervised from thestands, said Hanooman-singh. The attrition rate hasalso dropped slightly, mean-

ing fewer teens are beingdriven away from the job.After the peewee game (in

which the first period lasted20 minutes, eight minutestoo long) the referee andtwo linesmen were told whatthey did well — one made adeliberate wash-out sign ata clutch moment when fanswere certain there was a goal— and what they didn’t —failing to stop play when thepuck went out of bounds,for example.“That’s primarily your job

to catch that,” Hanooman-singh, 21, told the two lines-men. He praised them andalso explained the reasonsbehind his feedback. “Idon’t want him [the referee]looking up into the sky forthe puck. He’s watching theplayers and the puck wentout right behind him.”Jeffrey Hemlin, 14, started

officiating games last season.Also a bantam rep playerfor the T-Birds, the Grade 8student at Hamber second-ary signed up to wield thewhistle to make a little cash.As a 12-year-old player, hesaid he saw a referee crybecause of abuse from thestands and benches.The pressure and outrage

can be overwhelming, butHemlin said a good officialwill withstand the burdenof making a ruling — likeother decision-makers.“You have to be unbi-

ased. It’s almost like beinga judge,” he said, addingthat it takes work to copewith the heated scrutiny ofspectator criticism and stillstay focused. “You just have

to face it head on. That’swhat they teach you.“Let’s say there is a trip

and you didn’t see it. Thefans will go crazy, the coachwill go crazy. You have tostand there and take it. Youdidn’t see it. You have tofight for you.”Some of the worst heck-

ling Hemlin heard cameafter what he considereda “dirty” hit from behindand for which he ejectedthe peewee player.“Don’t crack under pres-

sure— you have to stand foryour call,” he said. “Somecoaches get angry, some yellat you. It’s pretty harsh.“They teach you, if a

coach ever yells at you forsomething like that, yougo up to them and say, ‘Idon’t want people gettinginjured. Do you?’”Trevor Boudreau cre-

ated the Western CanadaReferee School after a13-year career as a WHLand AHL official and is alsothe referee in chief for theT-Birds, where he workswith Hanoomansingh. Hesaid the passion Canadiansfeel for hockey is an impor-tant aspect of the country’snational winter sport.“Hockey is a game of

emotion so we don’t want totake that emotion out of thegame. That’s what makes itthe best game in the world,”said Boudreau. “That’swhere the confidence comesin for referees to knowthey’re doing the right thing.Having an adult — a parentor maybe even one you’vehad as a coach— tell you

you’re wrong when you’re12, 13 or 14 years old, isvery difficult.”Teaching confidence be-

gins with knowing the rulesof the game, said Boudreau.Applying that knowledge,effective communicationskills and correct on-ice po-sitioning are the backboneto good officiating. Butlittle can prepare a youngreferee for personal attacksand verbal abuse, whichare some of the reasons theVancouver Island AmateurHockey Association earlierthis month proposed ban-ning all spectators from allminor games over the oneweekend.In the worst cases,

spectators wait outsidethe locker room to berateofficials or launch racist,personal attacks, or even“been told to go die,” asone 17-year-old told thebroadcast news last week.The Thunderbirds men-

toring program is unique inthe province for an associa-tion its size. Thousands ofplayers are scheduled in asmany as 140 games a week,including league matchesand tournament play.Keeping a roster of goodreferees is crucial.Hemlin, a second-year T-

Bird official and bantam repplayer, said confidence goesa long way to maintainingcontrol in the rare occasiona spectator or coach loses it.“In reffing, you have a lot

of power,” he said. “Youcan kick people out. It’s agood thing to learn.”

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For a good ref, add confidenceMentoringprogram helpsretain teen officials

Eight Vancouver representa-tives are among the finalists forthe 49th annual B.C. SportAthlete of the Year Awards.The annual honours recognizeoutstanding amateur athletes,teams, coaches and officials fortheir performance in 2014. Eachfinalist was nominated by theirprovincial sport organization,high school, college or univer-sity. Each of the 19 categorieshas three nominees.For Male Coach of the

Year, Langara men’s basket-ball coach Paul Eberhardtis in the running against UBC athletics coach MarekJedrzejek. The Falcons basketball team is also nomi-nated for Team of the Year.St. John’s senior Jordan Lu is nominated for the

Male High School Athlete of the Year while golferDoug Roxburgh and orienteering racer Brian El-lis are nominated in the Master Athlete of the Year.UBC swimmer Coleman Allen, who’s from Spokane,Wash., and volleyball left-side hitter Lisa Barclay,originally from Manitoba, are both nominated as theUniversity Athlete of the Year.The winners will be announced March 12 at the

Fairmont Vancouver.

Brian Ellis

DanHanoomansingh helped pioneer amentoring program to improve officiating in the Thunderbirdminor hockey association. Hesupervises novice referees and now can’t watch a hockey gamewithout assessing the refs, even in the NHL. PHOTODANTOULGOET

BCSports awards for best of 2014

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