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Federallawsgovernpotshops,sayscouncillorTHREESHOPSONEASTHASTINGSBLOCKWORRYRAY-CAMCENTREMIKEHOWELLStaff writer

The complicated issue of why 29 illegal marijuana dispensaries areallowed to operate in Vancouver has become more complicatedfor residents and politicians now that three such shops set up al-most side-by-side within a half-block of a community centre.

The three storefront operations are located along a strip of East Hast-ings within 100 feet of the Ray-Cam Community Centre, which is a hubfor neighbourhood children and has a childcare facility.

So why haven’t they been shut down?The short answer is because the Vancouver Police Department is fo-

cused on targeting violent drug activity connected to the sale of cocaine,heroin and methamphetamines, as a VPD report outlined last week.

In addition, as Vision Vancouver Coun. Kerry Jang told the CourierMonday, there is no city bylaw governing cannabis sales “as cannabis islegal and not legal at the same time under federal law.”

Jang is referring to Health Canada’s rules that allow certain people togrow marijuana and sell it to people who are legally allowed to buy it formedicinal use. The recipient requires a prescription from a medical doctor.

“Federal law trumps city bylaws,” said Jang, acknowledging the con-fusion the general public has about the sale and production of marijua-na. “So, it’s not a simple problem. At the end of the day, the real issue isensuring patients have access to their medication.”

That confusion could be eradicated next April when the federal gov-ernment plans to have all marijuana cultivated for medicinal purposescome from a government dispensary and delivered by mail.

Any attempts by the city to create a new bylaw and enforce it wouldlikely lead to legal battles in the courts, according to Jang. And, he add-ed, such a bylaw would be irrelevant when the government adopts thenew rules governing medicinal marijuana.

That assessment, however, shouldn’t give the public the wrong im-pression that police and the city are simply allowing illegal pot dispensa-ries to proliferate without intervention by authorities, Jang said.

“If any dispensary is not dispensing under Health Canada guidelines,then the city does investigate and shut down [the dispensary] and turnit over to VPD to pursue criminal charges on the operators,” he said.

But until new legislation is adopted, Judy McGuire of the Inner CitySafety Society and member of the Ray-Cam board of directors said suchshops are hurting a neighbourhood that has its struggles with childrenand teenagers. McGuire said the city should have created a bylaw yearsago to prevent pot shops operating near a community centre, childcarefacility or school. “You don’t expose kids to this,” she said. “And weknow, anecdotally, some of these shops are willing to deal with kids —kids wander in there instead of going to basketball practice. I’ve heardthis from families and parents in the area.”

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CHERYL ROSSIStaff writer

The two families that started the DunbarHaunted House were still taking down theirelaborate sets in the middle of Decemberlast year. A short time later, they started

building their disturbing displays for 2013, the finalyear for the Vancouver Halloween institution.

“We’ve basically become old farts,” said 47-year-oldteacher Brad Leith who started the attraction withstylist, painter and filmmaker Gideon Flitt, nurse An-namaria Spanier and dentist Sakura Iwagami.

Leith can’t believe the haunted house that swelledfrom 100 visitors in 2005 to more than 15,000 in2010 lasted in deepest Dunbar as long as it did, untilit moved to a Marpole warehouse in 2011.

When Leith and friends bought their Dunbar homenear West 48th Avenue, he figured it was time to be aresponsible adult, which meant shovelling snow, plant-ing a garden and entertaining children at Halloween.

He was disappointed with what he discovered.“Halloween had kind of gotten cutesy,” said Leith.

“We grew up, you made your own costumes and thepoint of Halloween was to scare.”

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Brad Leith and his friends are putting the finishing touches on their final Halloween haunted house,which attracted more than 15,000 visitors in previous years. Scan page with Layar to see photos ofthis year’s displays and from previous years.

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MIKEHOWELLStaff writer

The provincial government is review-ing its mental health plan in responseto Mayor Gregor Robertson and Po-lice Chief Jim Chu calling for urgent

investments to help people with severe mentalhealth problems in Vancouver.

But Health Minister Terry Lake said he’s wor-ried the topic has turned political at a time whenthe government, police department and City ofVancouver should work together to find solu-tions for what the mayor and chief call a crisis.

“It feels political to me and I don’t think itshould be political,” Lake told the Courier Mon-day. “We should be working together on this,not kind of working against each other. I don’twant that. I’ve never taken that approach. I’msomeone who wants to be collaborative.”

Lake’s comments come after the mayor andchief reiterated their positions last week that thecityis inamentalhealthcrisis,despitethehealthminister’s cautious assessment of the situationin Vancouver.

Robertson urged Lake, whose constituency

office is in Kamloops, to spend time on Vancou-ver streets with police officers. The chief said hisofficers continue to respond to calls daily involv-ing the mentally ill. “It’s difficult for our officerson the front lines because they’re dealing withvery volatile, difficult situations and many of thepeople they deal with they dealt with the nightbefore, the week before,” Chu said.

SinceJanuary2012,Vancouverpoliceofficersresponded to more than 100 serious incidentsranging from suicides to random violent attacksagainst citizens. All were committed by people

with severe mental health issues.Incidents included elderly women being

stomped in the head, multiple stabbings and as-saults on children as young as three years old.One man was eviscerated in front of a movietheatre.

Within the past three years, the emergencyroom at St. Paul’s Hospital saw a 43 per centincrease in patients with severe mental illnessand/or addiction. Mental illness is a factor inapproximately 21 per cent of incidents handledby VPD officers and 25 per cent of the total time

spent on calls where a report is written.Lake said he doesn’t want to “downplay the

significant challenge” of the number of mentalhealthcalls involvingpolice.But,hesaid,healsodoesn’t want to amend the government’s 10-year mental health plan before his staff reviewsthe plan and analyzes the VPD’s latest report.

“It’s appropriate to review this whole issueand determine if there are new strategies thatwe need to employ,” he said. “I just don’t wantto jump to conclusions before we’ve done thatprocess. It shouldn’t take long.”

Themayorandchiefrecommended300long-term and secure mental health treatment bedsbe opened in Vancouver. But Lake said more re-search has to be done to determine whether thebeds are needed. “To just rush out and build 300beds without having the data behind it to knowthat that’s the right thing to do, I think would beamistake,”hesaid,notingtheprovincialgovern-ment spends more than $1.3 billion each yearon mental health and addiction services in B.C.“We need to fully understand what the needsare before we say, yes, 300 is the right number.”

Lake said he welcomes a meeting with Rob-ertson,althoughneitherthemayornoranyVan-couver city councillors requested time with himduring the recent Union of B.C. Municipalities’conference in Vancouver.

City manager Penny Ballem was expectedto deliver a presentation to council Tuesday onthe mayor’s mental health and addictions taskforce.

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Within the past three years, the emergency room at St. Paul’s Hospital saw a 43 per centincrease in patients with severe mental illness and/or addiction. Health Minister TerryLake says the government is reviewing its mental health plan.

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The route of the Kits and Haddenparks bike path might be “tweaked”but it’s still going to be built, accord-ing to park board commissioner

Constance Barnes.Barnes spoke to the Courier Monday, a

day after hundreds gathered at a “Save KitsBeach” rally to demand that the park boardrethink the location of the planned 12-foot-wide paved path.

The board approved the path Oct. 7 as partof the overall Seaside Greenway plan con-necting Canada Place to Stanley Park to FalseCreek and finally Jericho. It’s an extension ofthe Cornwall-Point Grey bike lane.

Budgeted at $2.2 million, the path will runfrom Hadden Park along Kits Beach and westto the outdoor pool.

Some residents and sports and recreationorganizations argued the park board con-ducted insufficient consultation. They insistthe path will interfere with other activities atKits Beach.

In response, the park board issued a pressrelease Friday Oct. 18 to say the final routehadn’t been determined and that the boardhad only approved a preliminary route. Anexternal consultant team was to develop aspecific route that accounted for park uses, aswell as trees, benches and picnic areas.

The park board also promised to establishan advisory group of park users, includingsports groups, seniors, youth and residents, towork with park staff and the consultant in thefinal design of the route.

Barnes attended Sunday’s rally.“I heard a lot of good suggestions. My rea-

soning for going was to listen to the people,”she said, while stressing the park board ismoving forward with the separated bike and

pedestrian path and that it’s still expected tobe completed in 2014.

“It’s a matter of tweaking. There is a paththat’s laid out. I don’t see that we’re goingto make huge changes at this point. I thinkwhat we’ll do is tweak the existing route,”she said. “I don’t see that there’s reason tobe delaying when the money is there. We’relooking for safety. We want to make surepeople are safe.”

Bill Hooker, a resident who took part inthe rally and helped publicize it, said hehas mixed feelings about the latest develop-ments.

“I have a hope [for the advisory commit-tee] and a suspicion. My hope is that it ac-tually convenes and works effectively andcomes up with a practical result that satisfiesall players,” he said. “But I suspect it might bejust a diversionary tactic — it takes the heatoff and lets the park board go ahead and dowhat they want to do anyway. My best resultwould be that it turns out it’s unnecessaryand that there’s a revision of the plan.”

Hooker, who estimated the rally attractedupwards of 300 people, questions how biga “tweak” to the route might be, but said it’spossible to make changes that would satisfyconcerns.

“One possibility is that they move the pathonto the grass outside the trees immediatelynext to the sidewalk, so they’re moving closerto Arbutus Street,” he said. “Another is to puta path on Arbutus Street. There was some talkabout even making Arbutus, as it parallels thepark and swings around to Ogden [Avenue],to make those one-way streets — so, it shouldbe one way and contain a bike lane.”

Barnes said park board staff would work onthe terms of reference for the advisory groupthis week.

“This has all happened very quickly in re-sponse to the amount of concern we’ve heard.So we need to make sure the terms of refer-ence are clear before we start putting peopletogether and names together,” she said. “Iknow a lot of people have emailed in thatthey’d love to be on it.”

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Continued from page 1Jim Harrison, manager of

Weeds dispensary on the strip,said he sells his cannabis prod-ucts only to customers who are19 or older and have been givena prescription from a doctor.Harrison said he has a HealthCanada licence for personalpossession of marijuana and agrower’s licence.

Weeds opened in May, join-ing two neighbouring dispensa-ries — The Medicinal CannabisDispensary and the VancouverSeed Bank — that have oper-ated on the strip for at least fiveyears.

Harrison, a 65-year-old mili-tary veteran, doesn’t have abusiness licence from the citybut has a posted document onhis wall that he obtained underthe Society Act of B.C. to oper-ate a compassion club. Duringthe Courier’s visit, customers

purchased marijuana at a coun-ter and smoked it outside theback entrance to the shop.

“We’re part of the communityand we want to be accepted by thecommunity,” said Harrison, whosaid he has 300 members and an-other 895 on a waiting list.

Harrison said his businessdonates money and empty popcans to Ray-Cam every month.As a public service, he added,he “chases the hookers off thecorners” so parents and theirchildren aren’t exposed to pros-titution.

“I tell all parents who walk bywith kids that if they’re ever introuble, they can knock on thedoor,” he said, describing hisbusiness as safe and providinga service for people’s ailmentsthat are best treated with can-nabis products.


Customers openly smoke behind dispensary

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Marijuana dispensaries along one block of East Hastings close to the Ray-Cam Community Centre includeWeeds, the Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary and the Vancouver Seed Bank.

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Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Constance Barnes at Kits Beach where acontroversial $2.2 million bike path will be built.


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Continued from page 1In 2006, Leith and his housemates spent

several weeks decorating the front of theirhouse with scrap materials, Halloweenprops, masks and costumes and at leastthree live spooks. They noticed that of theup to 600 people crowding their yard, fewwere children. Instead, it was mainly visi-tors aged 30 to 60.

“As you get older and older it gets harderand harder to be emotionally spontaneous,”Leith said. “Part of being responsible is havingyour emotions in check. You can’t be freakingout and acting in distress all the time… So it’sreally fun for adults to put themselves in a po-sition where they’ll actually scream. They’rescreaming at paint and latex… or they’re star-tled, something comes out, they know some-thing’s going to come out, but they still end upscreaming.”

One of their visitors in 2006 suggested theyestablish a donation box and they easily col-lected $3,000 for the firefighters Burn Fund.

Last year, they raised $63,000 for three char-ities. Visitors this year will tour the Terror ofHistory. “When we started out, we would justdo, like, werewolves, vampires, zombies andthere’d be no rhyme or reason,” Leith said.

This year’s haunted house progresses fromhorrific scenes in the ancient past to the fu-ture. Sets include an Egyptian necropolis, aGreek tragedy, the Crusades, the Spanish In-

quisition, sorcery, the Plague, piracy, a mon-ster’s ball, an asylum and the Apocalypse.

The monster’s ball has been a hit.“There are werewolves and vampires

dressed up in regal Mozart-style clothing andthey all have masquerade masks on,” Leithsaid. “They’re sitting around with glasses ofblood and chatting.”

The haunted house includes dummies min-gled with live actors who play hide and seekwith nighttime visitors. Weekend daytimesare actor-free to make the attraction morechild-friendly. Leith is proud to have orga-nized a low-priced, community-minded eventfor 10 years. He recalls more fundraisingevents hosted by regular people when he wasyounger, but says permits, regulations and ex-penses related to heightened safety concernsmake planning such affairs unwieldy now.

Leith remembers one woman thankedthem for having a place in her neighbour-hood where she could “burn two hours” withher kids for pocket change when the HauntedHouse ran by donation in Dunbar.

“Now if you want to go to the PumpkinPatch, Aquarium, it doesn’t really matterwhere you go, nothing’s free anymore, noth-ing’s really relatively inexpensive,” Leith said.

For more information, see dunbarhaunted-house.com.

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From the Cambie Street headquartersof the Vancouver Police Department…it’sTuesday afternoon live with….the Vancou-ver Police Board!..

(…Cue applause meter…)Yep, it’s true — the Vancouver Police

Board is now on the air.The first episode was broadcast Oct.15 via

the VPD’s website.“Welcome to all those who are watching

online,” said Mayor Gregor Robertson at thebeginning of the meeting. “We welcome theopenness and transparency. This is a civilianboard representing the citizens of Vancouver.”

That it is.And if you’re wondering what Robertson

was doing there, he’s the chairperson of thepolice board. It’s a position he inherited whenhe was elected mayor in November 2008. Heleads a board of six civilians appointed by theprovincial and municipal governments.

The board is the governing body of thepolice department. So it has a pretty impor-tant role when it comes to finances, policyand complaints against officers. It’s also re-sponsible for hiring and, if need be, firingthe chief. Anybody remember the board not

renewing the contract of some guy namedBruce Chambers?

If you tune in, you’ll see Police Chief JimChu and his three deputy chiefs — WarrenLemcke, Adam Palmer and Doug LePard— in attendance to answer questions fromthe board.

Speaking from experience, not many citi-zens attend these meetings. In fact, media

usually outnumber regular folk. Maybe it’sbecause board meetings are scheduled for 1p.m., once a month on Tuesdays. Or maybeit’s because people can’t be bothered.

Board members have long lamented thefact that the police board is essentially theRodney Dangerfield of city agencies — get-ting no respect — and want the public tounderstand more about what they do.

The topics can be interesting.Tuesday’s meeting covered racism, mari-

juana, troubled kids and crime statistics.Chu also talked about his decision to joinTwitter, which he used to advertise Tues-day’s meeting.

Yes, the chief is on Twitter (@ChiefJim-Chu).

Sadly, the handle @BigLeagueChu is al-ready taken but that hasn’t stopped Chufrom inflecting humour in his tweets.

A sample from his recent night out with adowntown patrol team:

• Working patrol shift Friday and will tweetcalls. Last time, a guy was surprised it was mearresting him. I told him he was special.

• Working tonight with officers that keepdowntown safe. This is some of them at rollcall. Yep, that’s a donut box (The chief at-tached a pic of officers at a table with a boxof donuts.)

• 4 Aussie tourists lit fireworks on beachin English Bay. Told this not OK, but shrimpon barbie is OK.

• We checked 2 Lambos, white one hadan N. Drivers were wondering when themounted unit showed up as back-up. (Thechief was referring to Lamborghinis and hetweeted out a photo with officers on horse-back, who happened to be in the area, be-hind the luxury cars.)

So there you go, faithful readers, you nolonger have to take my word for what’s go-ing on at police board or have me informyou what the chief is up to. Hashtag: #buti-fyouwantanalysiskeepreadingmystories


Police board meetings now online12TH &CAMBIEwithMike Howell

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Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu (l) and Mayor Gregor Robertson, who both sit on theVancouver Police Board, hope putting meetings online will help people better understandwhat the board does.


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Among the estimated 20,000 stu-dents and teachers at We Day Van-couver Oct. 18 were 22 Grade 6and 7 students from Sir Matthew

Begbie elementary in Hastings-Sunrise. Trueto the event’s spirit, they’ve given 50 micro-loans to projects around the world over thepast five years to help alleviate poverty.

We Day is an event and a movementof young people leading local and globalchange. Participants must earn their en-trance with local and global service.

Teacher M.J. Moran’s Grade 6 and 7 stu-dents have donated to B.C. Children’s Hos-pital, the food bank and the DowntownEastside. They jog in the Terry Fox Run andraise money for the Stephen Lewis Founda-tion, UNICEF and micro-loans for the SanFrancisco-based nonprofit Kiva.

The students sell blank greeting cardswith their art on the front on parent-teach-er night to raise money for Kiva. Pairs ofstudents choose which project will receivetheir $25 micro-loan. Photos of the peopleconnected to the projects they’ve chosen

and an explanation about their choice areposted at the school.

“I like global [work] because you get tolearn about different lives and how theylive,” said 12-year-old Kaylin Chan.

“[Students] can relate to having a singlemom trying to get a job or somebody tryingto open a farm business in different placesaround the world,” added Moran.

“I have learned that if we keep on doing thiswe can make a difference, far more lives wouldbe saved and with hard work we can do any-

thing,” said Grade 7 student Mursal Amani.“Awesome,” was how the students de-

scribed We Day Vancouver, which includedKofi Annan, former secretary-general of theUnited Nations and Nobel peace laureate,Avril Lavigne, pop star and founder andpresident of the Avril Lavigne Foundation,and the honourable Roméo Dallaire, lieu-tenant-general and author. The event washeld at Rogers Arena.

Krystal Tan was most taken with MartinLuther King III, who told students to let go,

have fun and that anything is possible.Tan likes the requirement for students to

earn their entrance with meaningful work.“It makes me feel really, really proud,” the

12-year-old said.Others wonder how Moran can fit extra

activities in with the curriculum.“It is thecurriculum,” she said. “There’s no separatingthis from social studies and science and lan-guage. The novels we read have to do withthis kind of work and the math we do, it istextbook math, but it’s connected to how weraise money and how other people live andscience is like that as well.”

Since 2007, youth involved with We Dayhave raised $37 million for more than 1,000local and global causes.

CITYWIDE PACMEETINGSeismic safety, money for playgrounds, ac-cess to technology and playground safetywere reported to be of greatest concern toparents at the citywide parent advisorycouncil meeting Oct. 17. The VancouverDistrict Parent Advisory Council hosted 81participants from more than 41 schools, animprovement from last year’s attendance by68 parents from 31 schools.

Having up-to-date textbooks and one forevery student in a class was also identifiedas a concern.

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Begbie elementary grade 7 students Mursal Amani (l-r), teacher M.J. Moran, KaylinChan and Krystal Tam all attended last Friday’s annual We Day Vancouver.

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Larry Shapiro carefully lifted a small black cloth toreveal a square grave marker engraved with the words“Anne Rosen 20 — Aug. 1918.”

Shapiro was one of the approximately 75 people whoattended an unveiling ceremony Oct. 20 in the Jewish section ofMountain View Cemetery to honour and identify 150 formerlyunmarked graves.

The project is part of the Jewish Cemetery at Mountain ViewRestoration Project under the auspices of the Schara TzedeckCemetery Board. Its goals over the final two years of the effortinclude publicizing the cemetery, researching and document-ing the 450 burials at the site, physical restoration including thecleaning and repair of gravestones, creating a pathway throughthe site, developing tours, and installing benches, a washing sta-tion and new fencing.

The Jewish Cemetery revitalization is the brainchild of Shir-ley Barnett who said her appreciation of the site started as achild when she came to visit her grandfather’s grave.

“I liked the setting and I have done a lot of projects in the Jew-ish community and I thought I would like to do this,” she said,adding that after several acts of vandalism in the Jewish Cem-etery, including the tipping of headstones in July 2012, it waseasier to get volunteers to help with the project.

Shapiro said he was touched by the fact incidents of vandal-ism led to the revitalization. He said such a reaction is a com-mon aspect of Jewish culture by turning sadness into triumph.

“I felt personally very special unveiling them [the mark-ers]. It’s almost like a rebirth of the death. It is something verystrange. You don’t get a chance to do that every day,” he said.

According to Barnett, discovering the names of the menwomen, children, and infants, sometimes buried two or threeto a grave, took extensive research. The unmarked graves so farhave dated between 1892 and 2000, but Barnett said they arestill finding graves, including several found under hedges lastweek, so the final tally and dates aren’t known.

The wooden markers unveiled at the ceremony will remainunless family members come forward to purchase larger head-stones.

While no one can say for sure why some graves were not givena marker originally, Barnett said reasons might include poverty,the practice of not marking the graves of babies who died withina week of birth, or because a family moved away or didn’t re-main Jewish.

Regardless of the reason, Barnett and her volunteers believe itis important to name and honour those who died.

Rabbi Andrew Rosenblatt, who officiated the ceremony,said burials are a function of Jewish tradition. “Cemeteries area preservation of our historical consciousness, our legacy,” he

said. “I think this project has such a beautiful character becauseit embodies both of these elements: the elements of kindnesswhich are so prevalent in our tradition, but also these ideas ofpreserving history.”

The restoration project is funded by grants from several sourc-es including the Schara Tzedeck Cemetery Board, the HeritageLegacy Fund of B.C., the Jewish Community Foundation andJewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, as well as from contri-butions of family foundations and individual donors.

For more information, contact Myra Adirim at [email protected]

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The thinking in some B.C. NewDemocrat circles now goes some-thing like this: If only there was asoftware package the party could

buy to win an election.Download BeatChristy 1.0 (for Mac and

PC) from Amazon, say, and install it at head-quarters. The program would analyze voterinformation, format the right micro-targetedmessages and “devise a data-driven actionprogram,” to quote from the experts. Followthe prompts and the program would deliveran NDP government as smoothly as Googledelivers search results.

There’snosuchthing,butsomeNDPmem-bers on Monday unveiled what looks like an attempt to build something similar.I don’t think it’s going to do the trick, but you can’t fault the enthusiasm of thebackers of the Winch Institute, which opened its online doors for business thisweek.It’sgoingtosponsorresearchin“thescienceofvotercontactanddataman-agement” by gathering like-minded statisticians and mathematicians to modelsystems that pull the vote and win elections.

Andrew Mercier, a young former candidate who lost his race in May, said theconcept sprang from admiration for the data management and outreach done bythe Democratic Party in winning the U.S. 2012 presidential election.

NDPMLABruceRalstontalkedwithothersaboutmodellingthatworkandtheWinch Institute, named after former NDP leader Harold Winch, was hatched.

The Democratic Party’s effort has become the stuff of legend. After John Ker-ry’s defeat in 2008, the party made over its backshop voter analysis and get-out-the-vote operations. The Winch Institute has a vision of “serving as the analyticsdepartment for the progressive movement” in Canada.

“Through rigorous application of the most current techniques in analytics, theWinch Data Initiative will give the progressive movement a decisive advantage infuture elections.”

There’s a lot of emphasis on the success of the Democratic Party model. Butthat discounts another key factor — Barack Obama. He had at least as much todo with their two wins as the backshop did. And one of the big differences be-tween the Kerry loss and Obama’s wins wasn’t just a computer-program upgrade— they came up with a better candidate, as well.

Another point about the new analytics shop is that the NDP’s opponents aredoing exactly the same thing.

A B.C. Liberal strategist wouldn’t go into details but left the impression the Lib-erals will not be left behind when it comes to staying current with political dataanalysis. He said the topic has a certain allure as it is viewed as a mysterious blackbox that can work miracles. But it’s not that complicated. The NDP lost in Maybecause people didn’t like their policies, he said.

They can tinker with the mechanical works, but they were driving the wrongcar in the wrong direction, “with probably the wrong driver, as well.”

The NDP already has a similar operation established within the party. FormercampaignmanagerBrianToppdescribeditinhispost-mortemofthelossreleasedlast month. He said they implemented a number of interesting new campaigntools in 2012, “including a micro-targeting system that helped us predict, quiteaccurately, which voters might tell us they supported us and would contributefinancially to our campaign.

“This micro-targeting system was part of a larger data-management systemthatallowedustotrack,recordandpreservesubstantiallyallofourlocalandcen-tral voter identification work, for the first time.”

But Topp concluded it didn’t work.“It is more than a little depressing to compare the ‘marks’ we recorded in tar-

get ridings through these well-designed and impressive systems with the actualturnout,” he wrote.

Maybe that’s an argument for the Winch Institute to step in and design a bettersystem. But maybe it shows there’s too much emphasis on analytic projectionsthat can’t be trusted.

Just So You Know: The party executive is now recommending May 25, 2014,as the date to pick a new leader. The idea has to be approved by the provincialcouncil. Thirty-six of the 133 council members are on the executive, so the votewill indicate how restive the party is when it comes to taking direction.

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COURIER STORY: “Senior wants safer East Vancouver intersection,” Oct. 16DirtyOldTown: I drive that route every day and the comment about parked cars blockingvisibility on the crosswalk is spot on. It is absolutely impossible to see someone approachingthe crosswalk when there is a car or van parked right next to it. Sidewalk bulges might preventpeople from parking right next to the crosswalk, or possibly increased ticketing (city regulationsrequire parking at least six metres from the nearest edge of the closest sidewalk on anintersecting street). Obviously, drivers have a duty to slow down when visibility at the crosswalkis blocked, but unfortunately, relying solely on driver caution at that intersection is bound to leadto another tragedy. It’s completely negligent for the city to allow this to continue.

COURIER STORY: “Illegal pot shops not a VPD priority,” Oct. 17Patrick: “VPD’s focus should be on disrupting violent drug activity, saying that’s where “theprecious dollars” need to be spent. Drug dealers who sell cocaine, heroin and methamphetaminereceive greater priority than enforcement of marijuana, the report said. Except that grow-opsproducing illegal BC grown marijuana may fund the purchase of cocaine from down south.

COURIER STORY: “LBGT youth make up chunk of ‘invisible’ homeless numbers,” Oct. 11Janet Hudgins: To parents who kick their kids out: Ignorance is a terrible thing. All it does isdestroy and it particularly destroys minds.

BARRIERSACOST-EFFECTIVECOMPROMISETo the editor:

Re: “Kits Beach bike path adone deal,” Oct. 16.The park board would bewise to reconsider its “donedeal” approach to the sepa-rated paved bike path throughthe picnic area at Kits beach.Even if only two tables need tobe moved, the public reactionis loud and clear on the matterand in stark contrast to the“solid process” staff undertookwhen they spoke to a smallnumber of beach goers.I’m sure many will writeletters screaming about thelack of public consultation,cost, poor design and removalof green space. All are validarguments. So today I offer areasonable compromise thatshould satisfy nearly everyone:install barriers on the exist-ing shared path like at ThirdBeach. Require bike riders todismount and skateboarders/in-line skaters to slow down toa walking pace. I frequent ThirdBeach a lot in the summer. It’sbusy, but everyone abides bythe direction and gets along.Barriers offer a cost effectivemeasure that achieves the parkboard’s stated safety goals. Andif it doesn’t work, in two years,the next park board — what-ever that looks like — canreconsider a separated path.Trevor Boudreau,Vancouver

ASSISTANCE,NOTPUNISHMENT,BESTFORTEENAGEPOTUSERSTo the editor:Re: “It’s time to really talkabout pot, say educators,”Oct. 16.I appreciated reading FionaHughes’ column. As a drugpolicy reform researcher andthe director of Educators forSensible Drug Policy alongwith Dr. Rodney Skager, wehave proposed fundamentalchanges in drug preventioneducation for the past decadein Canada and the U.S.First and foremost mostdrug education should bemoved up into secondaryschools.Currently there is very littledrug education for teenag-ers and what there is merelyrepeats earlier messages thatoften are no longer cred-ible to high school students.Continued widespread useby teenagers of alcohol andother drugs suggests that“inoculating” most childrenagainst experimentation anduse later on as teenagers hasfailed.Our public schools when-ever possible under the lawshould emphasize assistancerather than punishment. Ef-fective assistance strategieswill reduce negative statisticson low achievement, poor at-tendance and dropping out ofschool.

Educators for SensibleDrug Policy (EFSDP) and ourrespected consultants havefound:1. Substance use remainscommon among high schoolstudents.2. The goal of inoculatingchildren against later alcoholand drug experimentation hasbeen unrealistic.3. School punishmentpolicies have not deterredwidespread use of alcoholand other drugs among highschool students .4. Youth has a voice and itdeserves to be heard.5. Drug education forteenagers must be genuinelyinteractive.6. Student assistance offersan appropriate structureExamples of these findingsare readily available throughEFSDP. Student assistanceprograms have proved ef-fective and very successful.These findings suggest thatworking with young peopleto facilitate self-examinationand development for self andothers is highly recommendedby educators who want towork with health care profes-sionals and drug educators inour public schools.Our goal is to provide ideasover ideology, compassionover coercion and rehabilita-tion over punishment.Judith Renaud, ExecutiveDirector Educators for SensibleDrug Policy, Gibsons, B.C.

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Illegal pot shops raisetaxing questionsHere I go again writing about mari-

juana. Apparently, I just can’t stopmyself.

In case you missed it, my colleagueMike Howell wrote a story in last Friday’s paperabout the Vancouver Police Department’s lais-sez-faire attitude toward 29 illegal marijuana dis-pensaries in the city. According to the VPD, noneare licensed by Health Canada, endorsed by anymedical body or associated with any legitimatehealth service provider.

I can understand the police not getting toobotheredifonlyhalfadozenofthesedispensarieswere operating in the city, but 29 (at last count) isa whopping number. Clearly there are profits to be made.

The VPD, as Howell reported, is not making these shops a priority, preferring tofocus their resources on violent drug activity. Fair enough, but surely the police haveconsidered that some of these “dispensaries” could be gang-owned with profits usedto purchase harder drugs like heroin and cocaine or to purchase weapons. But I findcomfort at least in the fact that the police are keeping track of how many are opening.

The VPD’s current attitude is a far cry from how it once dealt with similar shops.Do you remember the 2004 brouhaha over the Dutch-style Da Kine café on Com-mercial Drive? Dozens of undercover cops, weapons drawn and clad in balaclavas,raided the popular pot shop and arrested owner Carol Gwilt and seven employeeson charges of possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Gwilt was alsocharged with possessing proceeds from a crime.

Talk about overkill. Fastforward nine years and the VPD has had a seismic shift inattitude. The police report Howell cited in his Friday story included this statement:“criminal enforcement could be very damaging to employees of the dispensaries,who are generally young, entry-level employees who could face criminal chargesandthepossible impactthatwouldhaveonotherfutureemploymentortheirabilityto travel.”

Sensible words. But I’m not really bothered that these places are operating — aslong as they’re being good neighbours, are filing tax returns, and deducting CPP,EI and income tax from their employees paycheques like my employer does on mymine? Forget the police. It’s the tax man I’d be worried about. If these businessesare allowed to operate, as the VPD and city are allowing them to, I hope the CRA ispaying close attention to these illegal businesses to ensure they are complying withthe federal laws requiring them to file income tax returns. But apparently it’s a veryhazy area at the moment.

But back to the city’s involvement. What I find odd is why the city can’t answera simple question as to whether these shops obtained a business license in orderto operate. Instead of replying to Howell’s straightforward question he asked lastweek, the city emailed a prepared statement about these dispensaries being a “larg-er Health Canada issue” with “a lack of clarity around the regulations.”

We all know that massage parlours pay the city to obtain a business license to op-erate so what was with the city’s fecklessness in answering Howell’s question on potdispensaries?

According to Howell’s story on page 1 in today’s issue, a pot shop on East Hastingscalled Weeds doesn’t have a business licence and has never been visited by a city in-spector.Heck,theownerhasasandwichboardoutsideadvertisingmarijuanafor$5a gram. If the police and city are going to allow these shops to operate as if pot werelegal, thentheyshouldberequiredtofollowthesamerulesandregulationsaseveryother business in town. Or are they just letting rules slide until April 1 when HealthCanadaintroducesitsnewpoliciesonmedicalmarijuana?Whateverthereason,thecity is ragging the puck on answering certain questions.

Atthemoment, itappearssomeillegalpotdispensariesaregivenafreepasswhilelegalbusinessesmust jumpthroughhoopstocomplywithstringentcityregulations,especiallyconcerningwindowfronts.TakeforexamplethestorefrontsofWestCoastMedcann at 2931 Cambie St. or Medpotnow at 4170 Fraser St. (See photos online.)Frostedpanewindowscovermorethanhalf thewindowfrontsofthesedispensariesmaking it impossible to see activity inside. Why is that allowed when a friend whorecentlyopenedasmallcafé/eateryontheWestSidewastoldinnouncertaintermsthat she couldn’t put anything on the windows that would obscure the view inside?

I’mall fortheclearwindowpolicyasperC1-C2zoningregulationsgivenit’saboutcreating a friendly street atmosphere. I’d just like to see the rule applied fairly. Thecity says it will investigate — but only if it gets a complaint. So dear citizens, call 311if you question any business in your neighbourhood commercial zone whose win-dows are covered preventing you from seeing inside. But I surmise the city is fullyaware of the pot shops’ window coverings. There are 29 of them after all.

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communitygfv`lthuYou know it’s a thriller, thriller afternoon Oct. 26 beginningat 4 p.m. outside the Roundhouse Community Centre (181Roundhouse Mews) as Vancouver Improv Anywhere hostsits annual zombie dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”Hundreds of costumed dancers are expected to turn out torecreate the dance moves from the classic 1983 music vid-eo as part of a fundraiser for the Greater Vancouver FoodBank. Spectators and participants are asked to bring non-perishable food or cash donations. Prizes include double-passes to Fright Night and the new Fly Over Canada flightsimulator at Canada Place, improv shows at the Rio The-atre, and a prize pack from the Storm Crow Tavern. Make-up artists will be on-hand beginning at noon for last-minuteparticipants, and a impromptu rehearsal will be held Fridaynight at the Roundhouse beginning at 7 p.m. Check out im-provanywhere.com to find out more.

dxwuflthuDr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden will be hauntedby Seven Tyrants Theatre beginning Oct. 24 as the troupeperforms stories about the intrepid Judge Dee, a semi-fic-tional sleuth based on 18th century magistrate Di Renjie— who has become a bit like China’s version of SherlockHolmes. Billing itself as Vancouver’s only haunted housenot suitable for children, Judge Dee’s Chinatown HauntedHouse features more than 12 actors, dancers and musicianstelling a typically terrifying tale. Entry is every 10 minutesstarting at 7 until 10 p.m. Tickets are 12 bones and $10 forstudents, available at the door, over the phone at 604-662-3207 or online from ticketstonight.ca. More informationavailable at seventyrants.com.

kuwi`nmwlg ty e\d\There will be blood discussed at the Chan Centre for thePerforming Arts Oct. 23 when Blood: The Stuff of Life au-thor Lawrence Hill gives a presentation as part of the CBCMassey Lecture series. Hill, best known for his bestsellerThe Book of Negroes, will discuss the scientific history of thenutrient-rich red liquid that keeps us all going and, in thesame vein, explore the many different social impacts thesubstance famously thicker than water has had on humanhistory, ranging from ideas on blood purity regarding raceand religious ramifications to the popularity of the Twilightfranchise and the always topical question of violence in

hockey. Tickets are $32, available in advance at ticketmas-ter.ca. It runs 8 p.m. at 6265 Crescent Rd. The lecture willair on CBC Radio’s Ideas in early November.

bthulthuVancouver Airport Authority president and CEO Craig Rich-mond touches down at the Four Seasons Hotel Oct. 23 totalk about how much Vancouver International Airport mat-ters to the province and, presumably, why it is a bad ideafor people to fly out of nearby Bellingham or Seattle at afraction of the cost. Find out more about Canada’s secondbusiest airport, which last year saw nearly 300,000 planesland and handled 228,000 tonnes of cargo at this two-hourVancouver Board of Trade event titled YVR: Connections,scheduled to begin at 11:45 a.m. inside the Park Ballroomat 791 W. Georgia. Ticket prices start at $79 or $158 fornon-members. More info is available at boardoftrade.com.

bthulthu `fmlmwb`The Hastings Street Band will lead a procession of art enthu-siasts from Oppenheimer Park tomorrow (Oct. 24) to nearbyGastown as part of the sixth annual Oppenheimer Park Com-munity Art Show starting at 5 p.m. Park-a-Palooza debutsat Gallery Gachet (88 East Cordova St.) and showcases thework of 35 different artists from the surrounding community,including the special exhibit Birds That Play of birds paintedthrough a series of art workshops curated by Carrie Camp-bell. The exhibition runs until Dec. 1. For more information,call 604-253-8830 or email [email protected].

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OCT 20-26 Because small businessesgenerally stem fromentrepreneurship – whetherit’s a micro-brewery,

a boutique, a tech start-up or abookkeeping service – the visionariesbehind them tend to be devoted totheir craft. After all, it’s their baby,and they probably went throughhoops (and a lot of late nights andstart-up cash) to make their businessgrow successfully.

It’s Small Business Week in Canada(Oct. 20 to 26), and here in B.C.,Minister of State for Tourism andSmall Business, Naomi Yamamoto,recently said, “Small businesses arethe heart and soul of communities,and this recognition week gives usan opportunity to celebrate small

business successhere and beyondour provincialborder.”

Yamamoto said theB.C. Governmentis committed tomaking B.C. themost small-businessfriendly jurisdictionin Canada, “andwe are workinghard to ensure that small businesseshave the support they need to growand succeed. We have been workingclosely with the Canadian Federationof Independent Business (CFIB) togrow our small-business sector.

“As part of Small Business Daycelebrations, CFIB is promoting ShopSmall Business Day on Oct. 25,” saysYamamoto. I encourage [everyone]to celebrate small businesses in theircommunities by getting out andshopping local this Friday!”

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Calcium can be found in milk productsas well as kale, sesame seeds, tofu,and almonds. Fish, eggs, orange juice,and sunshine are excellent sources ofVitamin D.

However, sometimes this is not enoughto ward off the bone-weakening effectsof osteoporosis. “For some womenwith osteoporosis, particularly thoseat higher risk of breaking a bone,prescription medication is needed tobuild bones and keep them strong,”said Dr. David Kendler, director of theProhealth Clinical Research Centreand the Osteoporosis Program atProvidence Health Care in Vancouver.

In a recent survey of women over theage of 55, 80 per cent knew it wasimportant to take the medication asprescribed by their doctor. Nearly all ofthe respondents – 90 per cent – saidthat they always took their medicationat the recommended time and dose,and only 17 per cent thought it wasokay to occasionally miss a dosebecause their bones would still beprotected from breaking.

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“Other treatment options with differentdosing options, such as a twice-yearlyinjection, are available for women agedover 55 who are at high risk of breakinga bone,” said Dr. Kendler.

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Live to 120: Thriving:Is the Medical SystemFailing the Elderly?– will explore varioustopics, for example…are medications, withoutregard, used as a cureall? When are pills really

needed and when arethey promoted? Ismedication always theanswer or are there otherconcepts of medicalcare?

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on medical myths, andit’s time to exposethese before it’s toolate. Featured speakersinclude Dr, MargaretMcGregor; a familyphysician and clinicalassociate professor anda director of communitygeriatrics with the UBCDepartment of Familypractice.

She promotes qualityof life, supportingpatients to self managedisease effectively, andresearches the topic ofchronic disease related toaging and health servicesfor the frail and elderly.

Speaker Dr. JamesMcCormack is aProfessor, UBCPharmaceuticalSciences. He hasextensive experience,both locally andinternationally, talking

to health professionalsand consumers aboutthe rational use ofmedications. His focusis shared/informeddecision-making,using evidence basedinformation and rationaltherapeutic principlesby analyzing scientific

reports, the methodsused and the conclusions.

Johanna Trimble hasspoken extensively on herpersonal experience, with“Is your Mom on Drugs?Ours Was and Here’sWhat We Did About It.”She is a member of the

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From Nov. 10 to 17, visitthe “Nature VancouverPhotography Exhibit” in the

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Sweep! Meet new people, getactive, get healthy and get involvedat Hill Crest Centre Senior Men’sCurling Club. Recreational curling

is starting up soon, and is open tomen aged 55-plus. (Senior women’sleague is also available.) Learn thebasics of deliver, sweeping andscoring, and have a great deal offun while doing it. Games takeplace Tuesdays or Thursdays from12:45 to 3:30 pm, and the 45-gameseason runs from October throughto Apr. 10. Plus, they offer freecurling instruction, before or aftergames. To join, contact John Reidat 604-224-1127 or visit vancurl.com/leagues/senior-men.

Watch for our exciting Nov. 13edition of Seniors. We’ll take avisit through the newly refurbishedareas (as if it could get any morebeautiful,) and functional upgrades,at Terraces on Seventh retirementresidence, located on West 7th, justoff Fir. All that, and more, for ourgolden-agers!

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Mark your calendarPat Fornelli, volunteer for theVancouver/Kerrisdale Branchof the Canadian OsteoporosisSociety reminds us they will behosting an important lecture:“Height Loss may be a WarningSign of a Spinal Fracture”and Stand Tall Canada Clinic.(Following the talk, attendeeswill be offered a measurementof their height.) It’s presentedby Jacek Kobza, MPT,Director, Bentall MedicentrePhysiotherapy Clinic, onTuesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., atthe Seniors Centre, KerrisdaleCommunity Centre, 5851 WestBoulevard. Admission is free,and no registration required.For more info., call 604-731-4755 or 604-224-5063.TERRACES ON SEVENTH

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1 Music, art, theatre, film, dance, processions, spoken word, forums, workshops, discussions,mixed media and history walks, oh my. THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE HEART OF THE CITYFESTIVAL celebrates its 10th year with all the aforementioned razzmatazz and a whole lot moreOct. 23 to Nov. 3. For info on the more than 80, mostly free, events throughout the Downtown

Eastside, go to heartofthecityfestival.com.

2 Three icons for the price of one. American acting icon ELIZABETH PARRISH and Canadiandance iconMARGIE GILLIS join forces to liberate agoraphobic American literary icon EmilyDickinson in BULLETINS FROM IMMORTALITY... FREEING EMILY DICKINSON Oct. 23 to26 at the Cultch. For tickets and more details, go to thecultch.com.

3 Award-winning journalist, novelist and playwright GEORGE PACKER, wait for it, packs apunch at the VANCOUVER WRITERS FEST. The staff writer for the New Yorker and authorof The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq will be at Frederic Wood Theatre, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. toread from and discuss his latest book THE UNWINDING: AN INNER HISTORY OF THE

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4 Enjoyably off-kilter and extremely funny standup comedianMARIA BAMFORD will be atVancouver FanClub, Oct. 24, along with local talents Graham Clark and Dino Archie, to helpkick off and announce the lineup for theNORTHWEST COMEDY FEST, which takes placein February. The “exclusive early show” starts at 6:30 p.m. with the “less exclusive late show”

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TAKING TWO-WHEELEDDEMONS AND THEHELLIONSWHO RIDETHEM TO TASKAsoppositiontothecity’splansforapavedbike path through Kits Beach Park growslouder and more shrill, even going so faras to draw self-comparisons to icons of thecivil rights movement, K&K has decidedto take a closer look at this two-wheeleddemon commonly known as the bicycle.What makes it tick? Why doesn’t it havefour wheels like a proper vehicle? Justwho are the hellions who insist on ridingthese death machines across Vancouver’scharred landscape like the spandex-wear-ing Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Why dobikes want to assault defenseless childrenand families as they take part in Vancou-ver’s oldest pastime… picnicking? Howmany more basic rules of grammar, punc-tuation and capitalization will have to dieon comment boards, Facebook sites andonline petitions before enough is enough?

Here’s what we’ve discovered:• Bicycles travel at alarmingly fast

speeds with no regard for the livesof their innocent victims. Fuelled bywind, blood and the cries of children,they drive on roads made of pavement,

broken bones and crushed dreams.• Even though Mayor Gregor Robert-

son and his Vision council were electedtwice in a row with a mandate that pre-sumably included increasing Vancouverbike routes, putting a bike path througha recreation area is sheer insanity. Every-one knows recreation areas are for kickingballs, throwing Frisbees and enjoyment byfamilies who can’t prevent their childrenfrom walking in front of moving objects.That’s it. There’s no sharing of space in arecreation area — just good old fashionedspreading out and hunkering down. Theway our ancestors intended.

• The mayor’s aim to make Vancou-ver the greenest city? More like “mean-est city.” Trademark.

• We’ve already witnessed the devas-tation that rampant cycling has inflictedupon once pristine Xanadus such as Stan-ley Park, English Bay, Sunset Beach, CoalHarbour, False Creek, Jericho Beach,Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach. Drivedown there in your SUV and you’ll seewhat we’re talking about. It’s practicallylike a scene from Mad Max — a lawlesswasteland filled with strangely dressedmarauders except happier, more fit andin search of the nearest Starbucks.

• You know where else a lot of bikesare found? Communist China. You knowwho plans to visit China next month?Comrade Mayor Gregor Robertson.

• You know who didn’t ride a bike,at least on one important day in his-tory? Rosa Parks.

FACE OFFOnce again technology has proven tobe a cruel mistress. Earlier this month,Rogers Wireless went down for nearlyTWO HOURS preventing voice andtext messages on what will forever beknown as “Black LOL-less Wednesday.”

Now we’ve learned that Facebook ex-perienced a short-lived outage Mondaymorning that prevented users from send-ing messages, posting photos, status up-dates and comments — particularly thosethat would have expressed impotent rageover the inability to send messages, postphotos, status updates and comments.

The real tragedy, however, is that we willnever know all the important informationwe lost Monday morning until our friendspick themselves off the floor and repost allthose unfiltered thoughts, casual observa-tions and never ending content to the web.So until then, we eagerly await Dave’s Ins-tagram photo of the tofu scramble he wasabout to scarf down, Tanya’s cryptic statusupdate that she’s “having the worst morn-ing ever,” Ethan’s video post of the Bangles’“Manic Monday,” Debra’s “like” of Ethan’svideo post, Dylan’s “totally know what that’slike LOL” comment and repost of Ethan’svideo post, Lara’s “hmmm” comment underDave’s tofu scramble photo, Tammy’s birth-daywishestoherone-year-olddaughterwhoprobably doesn’t possess the manual dexter-ity to access Facebook yet and our mom’sscore on her most recent game of CandyCrush. You’re really “crushing it,” Mom!

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arts&entertainmentA new approach to bringing classical music to‘the rest of us’

Mark Haney wantsto strip new Cana-dian music of itspretension, so he’s

re-launching the Little ChamberMusic Series That Could on Oct.26 with a Halloween dance party.

The double-bassist, composer andartist in residence at the field housein Renfrew’s Falaise Park is re-launch-ing the beloved chamber music seriesafter nearly a decade to commissionand produce new works by Canadiancomposers and introduce new audi-ences to “new classical” music.

“When I went on a tour last fallacross Western Canada, I talked tothe audience every night about howI felt the classical performing arts, ofwhich I am a practitioner, owed thegeneralaudienceanapologyforthreeor four decades of sort of thrustingthem away, pretensions and snob-bery and elitism,” Haney said. “And itreally, really struck a chord, far morethan I thought it would.”

The event at the Roundhouse,called Back on Track, features Mon-treal composer Nicole Lizée, whofirst gained attention more than adecade ago when she developedtechniques to include a turntable inorchestra pieces. “She was a heavymetal drummer as a teenager andshe does a lot of stuff with electron-ics now,” Haney said.

As Montreal’s SaskPower, Lizéecontrols the electronics and videoalongside guitarist Steve Raegeleand percussionist Ben Reimer, whowill be joined by Little ChamberStrings, which is Haney on doublebass, Cam Wilson on violin and Mar-cus Takizawa on viola. “It’s a perfor-mance meant to emulate a rave,”Haney said. “It’s constant pulsingrhythms that shift and morph with avisual display and it’s meant to takethe audience on a journey.”

Admission will be $10 for adultsin costume, students, artists andseniors. It’s $20 for “adults dressedlike adults.”

“We want to produce work atthe highest level,” Haney said. “Wewant to work with people at thehighest level and we want every-one to love it and have a good time.It’s not just for a small group.”

The series is also presenting the

world premiere of Lizée’s piece“Ouijist” at a free, communityevent on Halloween, at All Soulsat Mountain View Cemetery.

This summer on Friday eveningsat Falaise Park near GrandviewHighway and Boundary Road,Haney performed what he called“Sunset Sounds,” 90 minutes of mel-low, improvised bass looping on thefront porch of the field house justbefore the sun lowered in the sky.“And the last one, there were about

a hundred people there,” he said.“It’s simply the reality that there aretons of people and tons of familiesliving in these areas not near Com-mercial [Drive] or Main [Street] ordowntown, or whatever… Maybeit’s time to start finding ways tobring artists to these other areas.”

Haney has been composing newmusic with elementary schoolchildren for the East Side AnimalsProject that will culminate with acommunity performance in Feb-

ruary. The name of the work is in-spired by a stone mosaic in FalaisePark that includes animals. “Wehave Sir Chubby the Bear, Craniumthe Crane,” Haney said. “These arenames by democracy, which is howwe ended up with Justin Beaver.”

Government grants Haney appliedfor didn’t come through so he’s beenfundraising for the series online. “It’snice to know I can actually put onEast Side Animals,” he said.

Haney wrote in an August blogpost there are two Vancouvers.“There’s the Vancouver for thepeople with money (bonus pointsif you’re a property developer),”he said. “And then there’s the Van-couver for the rest of us.”

“It’s time for those of us who cre-ate and live on the ‘have-not’ side ofthe fence to start creating for andwith the audience on the same sideof that line,” he suggested.

Haney, who last year premiered apiece called “3339” that celebrateshis hero Terry Fox, hopes to pre-miere the piece he’s been workingon for more than a year based onthe graphic novel George Sprott bySeth in June, “funding dependent.”

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arts&entertainmentOf Mice and Men still wields power but feels dated

John Steinbeck’s stage adaptation of hisclassic novella Of Mice and Men is a sur-prising choice for young director Gene-vieve Fleming. The play is so early 20th

century American and so masculine it smells ofdust and sweat: nine men, one woman.

The story doesn’t exactly deal with a univer-sal human experience: a migrant field workerwith a dream of owning his own spread isprevented from achieving this because he hastaken under his protection a big, strong, men-tally challenged sidekick. Wherever this hulk-ing, simple-minded guy goes, things die: mice,puppies and who knows what else as George

(Sean Harris Oliver) and childlike Lennie (Se-bastian Kroon) drift from farm to farm.

Probably what hooked Fleming is the beau-ty of George’s concern for Lennie in spite of theendless frustration and trouble Lennie causeshim. The painful last act of kindness to whichGeorge is driven is one of those moments inthe theatre that Tennessee Williams describedas an audience united in a “universal sob.”

What isuniversalisGeorgeandLennie’sdreamof owning their own farm; that desire is as strongtodayasitwasbackinCaliforniaduringtheGreatDepression when Steinbeck sets his play.

Sean Harris Oliver, as George, is dynamic; hemoves quickly and reacts sharply with an air ofdesperation. Although we know there is softnessin this character, we only see it when Lennie per-suades him to tell — again and again — how life

will be on their own farm where there will be,George promises, rabbits; Lennie’s compulsion,which leads to the tragedy, is to stroke soft things.

Kroon’sLennieisproblematic.Kroon’s lumber-ingphysicalityisrightonbutthedecisiontomakeLennie sound like a baby doesn’t feel right. Here’sthe challenge: how do you make a tall, strap-ping, articulate actor sound mentally deficientwithout reducing him to baby talk. I don’t knowand I expect Fleming and Kroon agonized overit. What Kroon does get right is Lennie’s bursts ofhappiness when he and George talk about “livingoff the fat of the land” on their own farm. Kroonlights up the whole place in those moments.

IfAlecWillowswereapieceofmachinery,you’doil him. His gravel-voiced, derelict take on Candymakes him almost endearing but you’d have toclean him up before you took him home. Jesse

Martyn is so natural as clean-cut, decent Slim thatyou’d think Martyn had just ridden his horse infrom Ashcroft. Robert Olguin makes his character,Carlson, as dangerous as the barbed wire aroundthe place. The trampy but lonely boss’s daughter-in-law is played by Christine Quintana, who getssome sympathy for her character by revealing thepoor young wife’s unhappiness and loneliness.

There is power in this play and in this produc-tion but it feels like a piece of early 20th centuryAmericana now. Its greatest contribution is theintroduction to audiences not raised on Stein-beck, to a major work by a major American writ-er. That’s justification enough for Hardline Pro-ductions to mount this 1937 American classic.

—reviewed by Jo LedinghamA longer version of this story can be found

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League play has been so closethis year that the city seniorboys soccer championship willbe claimed by a team that came

in either fourth or sixth place.Three points separated the top four

teams in the senior boys soccer league,and the tables were so tight all butone of top four was knocked out of theplayoffs.

Coaches say they can’t remember aseason with a tighter field.

“Really, any of the five teams that gothrough to the next phase of the LowerMainland championships could beatone another on a given day,” said AndyJohnston, the head coach of the LordByng Grey Ghosts, who competed Tues-day in the city final.

Kitsilano and Point Grey tied for firstwith parallel 4-1-1 records and 13 pointsapiece. In their one meeting, there wasno score after 90 minutes and a shoot-out gave Point Grey the win, which hadrepercussions at the end of the seasonand put the Grey Hounds into top place

heading into the playoffs.Hamber (4-2) followed with 12 points

and Churchill (3-2-1) was next with 10points. Lord Byng’s losing record of 1-4-1 and four points didn’t stop the upstartfrom surging ahead.

Lord Byng played Churchill Tues-day for the city championship. Resultsweren’t known before the Courier’s printdeadline. Go to vancourier.com/sportsfor results and photos.

Churchill’s route though the playoffsstarted against Van Tech (1-4-1) andthe Bulldogs won 2-0. They advanced tothe semi-finals against Kitsilano and thegame was scoreless after regulation time.Churchill won in a shootout, knockingthe 2012 defending city championshipfrom the final.

In the post-season, the Lord Byng GreyGhosts defeated Eric Hamber 4-1 Oct. 15thentwodayslaterupsetNo.1PointGrey1-0 on the Grey Hounds’ own turf.

The Hamber Griffins were justifiablyhighly ranked, said Byng’s Johnston.“Hamber had outplayed us, defeatingus 2-0 during league play. In the playoffgame at their park, again they lookedthe better team in the early going but we

scored and suddenly we took back a lot ofthe play.”

In an email to the Courier, Johnstonoutlined the four key factors for Byng’slate-season surge. This timely “soccerrenaissance” comes from dedication toteam play and “a commitment to playat the level that we know we can play athaving been at the B.C. Championshipslast year.”

The return of Ben Houtman was alsofine timing as well as tightening up theback end while managing to score goalsat the offensive end.

“Despite having some talented return-ing Grade 11s from last year, we strug-gledtoscoregoalswhichIthoughtwouldbe one of our strengths this year as lastyear’s graduating players were my stron-ger defensive players. However, we onlyscored four goals in six regular seasongames and three of those were againstChurchill,” said Johnston.”

The top five Vancouver teams advanceto the zone tournament where they meettwo Richmond teams and a Vancouverprivate school team.

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Magee’s Dallin Akune (in foreground) fights for positionagainst George Brand-McFarland of Van Tech.

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A lignment changes proposed for cross-country inVancouver could be a backdoor attempt to changezoning in the more politically fraught sport ofbasketball, said the president of the city’s public

school sports association.Mike Allina, who leads the Vancouver Secondary School Ath-

leticAssociation,metwithfellowpublicschoolathleticdirectorsand said their concern is that a zoning change in one sport willopen the door for similar changes in other sports, specificallybasketball.

“We all agreed — why all this is happening is because ofbasically two schools and basically basketball. We feel theyare trying to go through other sports and say, look, they’redoing it in cross-country. Why can’t we do it in basketball?”

Rezoning was also proposed in the spring for badmintonand track and field. Both proposals were defeated, said Allina.

He does not believe the cross-country amalgamation pro-posal will pass at the sport’s annual general meeting Nov. 1.The proposal is to merge three different zones into a largerLower Mainland zone. Vancouver public and private schoolscompete in separate leagues. They would join a zone includ-ing Richmond, Burnaby and New Westminster.

Each zone holds its own regional championship and eachsends a number of its fastest athletes reflective of the over-all zone population. An amalgamated zone would send 30athletes — 25 fewer individual racers than the total numbersent now by the three separate zones.

Zones are aligned differently depending on the sport, butAllina said all berthing is based on numbers and this man-date underpins high school sports in the province.

B.C. School Sports is putting additional emphasis ongeographic representation and the cross-country commis-sioner, who is from a public Surrey school, is urging all Van-

couver schools to merge.Allina said the prominence of geographical alignment arrived

with the new BCSS executive director Christine Bradstock.He resists any pressure for the VSSAA to change its sea-

sonal leagues and asserted that merging with privateschools is not an option because they are ultimately busi-nesses that operate differently than public schools.

“They run under different rules than we do and we can-not accept [merging],” he said in a phone interview Monday.“They run half-page adds recruiting athletes, they run ontheir own budgets, they’re not limited by elected trustees.”

Sean Dawson, a teacher at West Point Grey Academy andthe independent zone commissioner for cross-country, saidpublic and private school coaches in the sport have the fun-damentals in common. “That’s the beautiful thing aboutrunning,” he said.

Whereas a football team may be dependent on more re-sources, cross-country requires relatively little infrastruc-ture beyond time, transportation and leadership.

He does not think cross-country amalgamation would un-duly favour independent schools but does support a largerLower Mainland zone because it would elevate the level ofcompetition and reward performance.

He could not say if issues affecting other sports were in-fluencing the amalgamation proposal. “I think cross-coun-try has to do what’s right for its sport,” he said.

“I’d like to see it go through because it’s good for thissport and it’s good for the kids having bigger, more compet-itive meets. More coaches involved can only be a good thingwith an organization. Who knows, it could be the spark thatcould bring public and private together.”

The independent cross-country final was Tuesday at Jeri-cho. The public final is today at Fraserview. Visit vancou-rier.com/sports for results and pictures.

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HEAVY HITTER: David Thompson’s Kevin Chau (No. 2)places a spike past Killarney blockers Peter Pham (No. 8)and Jakob Stamatakis (No. 9). DT won 3-0 at Killarney Oct.21, adding another perfect game to their season. Theyhave not lost a set in Vancouver league play and enter thesenior boys city championship at the top of the tables. Thetournament begins this week at Magee.


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