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Julie Angus has a fascination with olives.

The allure of the olive took the Victoria resident on a four-month odyssey to discover the secrets of the tiny fruit that has seduced the world.

Sailing from Spain to the Middle East in 2011, Angus with her husband Colin and 10-month-old baby in tow, wanted to discover who ate the first olive and learned to glean oil from it, why it became such an influential commodity for many of the greatest civilizations, and how it expanded from its earliest roots in the Middle East to the rest of the world.

The result is her new book Olive Odyssey.

The idea for the expedition was piqued while Angus was visiting family in Syria, and learning more about how the olive tree had influenced her family, its wealth, culture, religion – and the great pride they took in the fruit.

“It was all very fascinating aspects of the olive tree, and the more I started to research the more I became intrigued with it all,” Angus says.

The project was based on the question that if the olive tree was taken from the Middle East and planted on distant shores, who did this and how could they prove they did it?

To find out, Angus, a molecular scientist and adventurer, wanted to retrace trading routes by stopping in the places where merchants traded and the colonies they founded and searching for olive trees that bore their mark – a genetic signature linking them to ancient Phoenicia.

The best way to do this, she surmised, was to sail through the Mediterranean by boat. There was only one problem: Angus had never sailed before and she and Colin had a baby in tow.

The sailing voyage had its challenges as fierce winds and relentless waves rocked the boat – and the baby wouldn’t sleep.

“It was challenging because babies cry a lot and you don’t get much sleep,” Angus says. “Sailing

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Victoria adventurer and author Julie Angus and son Leif beside an ancient olive tree in the Mediterranean. with a baby is like sailing singlehanded because someone always has to be with the child.”

It turned out to be one great adventure but different from her past endurance accomplishments, such as being the first woman to row across the Atlantic ocean from mainland to mainland or cycling across continents.

“This trip was different from the others because it didn’t entail so much a physical endurance challenge, but it was still about exploring and discovering new things and new lands,” Angus says.

“I loved the treasure hunt of finding ancient olive trees. It took us to places we wouldn’t normally go.”

Olive Odyssey, published by Greystone Books, is available in local bookstores. Angus has two public book signings and presentations coming up in Victoria. She’ll appear at Olive the

Senses on May 24 (1 to 3 p.m.) and May 25 (11 a.m. To 1 p.m.); and at Bolen Books on June 3 for a book reading and Q&A at 7 p.m. klaird@blackpress.ca

Olive oil facts Olive oil facts compiled by Julie Angus in her research: n Olive oil was the original oil. It was highly valued, fought over and prized for a myriad of uses n It was once worth its weight in silver, and cutting down an olive tree was punishable by death n To the great civilizations of the Mediterranean, olive oil was one of the most important commodities – used in everything from tanning hides to anointing the pious n During war, it was thrown from castle walls to deep-fry attackers n The Punic Wars were fought over olive oil trading routes

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An aging population also comes into play, as increasing numbers of people are requiring elective surgeries. Nationally, cardiac surgeries are going down, but with people living longer there are increasing numbers of joint replacements and other age-related surgeries.

Varicose vein surgeries, for instance, have the longest wait times of any surgeries for Victoriaarea hospitals, with 50 per cent of cases completed in 147 weeks and 90 per cent completed in 228.7 weeks, well above provincial averages.

Vascular surgeons are also in demand, there are only four for Vancouver Island, contributing to the substantial wait times. Those who are available are often held up doing emergency surgeries for aneurisms and clots, and varicose vein surgeries are bottom of the list in terms of priority.

The recruitment of a fifth surgeon is being considered, Whelan said, which would improve those weight times also.

“The quality of the work that’s done in this area, the South Island, is outstanding and I think really the access piece, improving the wait times, is our key priority,” Whelan said.

“I really am very excited about some of the things we’re going to be doing in terms of improving access, improving capacity and getting our anesthesia group up to speed.” editor@vicnews.com

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Vancouver Island hospitals have the longest wait times for scheduled surgeries in B.C., says the provincial Health Ministry.

Island Health administrators blame the numbers on a shortage of anesthesiologists, a problem they hope to solve by this fall.

“This is one of our top priorities,” said Dr. Paul Whelan, chief of surgery for Island Health. “We really spend a great deal of our time working on this particular issue.”

The two main benchmarks the province uses to gauge surgical waits is how long it takes to complete 50 per cent of cases and 90 per cent of cases in each hospital, specialty or region.

From Jan. 1 to March 31,Victoria General Hospital and Royal Jubilee Hospital showed a combined average wait time of eight weeks for 50 per cent of surgeries and nearly 35 weeks for 90 per cent of surgeries.

In comparison, the provincial average for completed surgeries is six weeks for 50 per cent of cases and 28.3 weeks for 90 per cent.

Vancouver Island in general saw 50 per cent of surgeries completed in 7.3 weeks and 90 per cent completed in 33.1, well above the provincial average and the worst for a health authority in B.C. For example, Vancouver Coastal Health, which serves the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast, saw 50 per cent of its surgeries complete within 5.1 weeks and 90 per cent completed in 23 weeks.

The problem, said Island Health spokesperson Sarah Plank, is that normally there are 35 fulltime equivalent anesthesiologists working within Island Health, whereas since last summer the health authority has been down to 31 anesthesiologists. The shortage is causing a five to 10 per cent increase in wait times.

Whelan said the shortage is the result of some unexpected early retirements as well as illnesses.

“An anesthesiologist probably participates in surgery on five patients a day, five times a week, plus the on-call,” Whelan said. “Each anesthesiologist is probably involved in 1,000 surgeries a year, so it’s a huge impact when we lose (one).”

Three new anesthesiologists have been recruited and are set to start working in September. A further three recruitments are being sought and Whelan said once the six are working the wait times should drop significantly.

Whelan pointed out these numbers do not include emergency surgeries, which can often cause scheduled surgeries to be postponed, due to a lack of resources.

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Victoria’s 8th Wonder The start of summer brings a renewed desire to get outside, out on the water or along the Galloping Goose trail to explore our amazing city.

With mostly sunny days ahead, last week the News provided some motivation by selecting the Seven Wonders of B.C.’s capital, from the world-renowned gardens of Beacon Hill Park and Government House to the former opium dens of Fan Tan Alley.

But after careful reflection, we believe this city still has an eighth wonder to be revealed: the soon-to-be-replaced Johnson Street Bridge in all its $93-million glory.

Having more than doubled in price since Victoria residents approved its construction by referendum, the single leaf bascule lift bridge will provide an architectural wonder for the Inner Harbour once complete in 2016, all at the eye-popping cost of about $780,000 per metre (for now).

An estimated 30,000 vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians and boats from all over the Capital Region and beyond pass over or under the bridge every day, yet Victoria is still picking up the tab for the mega-project.

All of these incredible facts make the pending Johnson Street Bridge (and the arthritic Blue Bridge slated for retirement) our reason to wonder in amazement.

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The proposed Johnston Street Bridge: we wonder in amazement.

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YOUR VIEW

Education or victim studies?

American-style stereotyping from The B.C. School Trustees’ his own schooling in Ontario.

Association is calling for a But mostly he demanded social mandatory high school course on engineering in schools that must of the history of residential schools course include more funding, more set up to assimilate aboriginal teacher professional development children into European culture. time and an affirmative Trustees propose action program to recruit a 25-hour course more aboriginal teachers. required for all Do Hansman’s graduating students, allegations reflect the using interviews with kind of attitude that residential school would lead to truth and survivors, presentations reconciliation? Or are by aboriginal leaders and they signs of another discussion of current unfortunate legacy, that events. of the victim studies This would build mentality that permeates on aboriginal courses Tom Fletcher our universities? already offered in B.C. B.C. Views Here’s a suggestion for schools, and a public this mandatory course. education effort that Students could spend a couple began with Prime Minister of hours on one of the definitive Stephen Harper’s 2008 apology works of B.C. aboriginal history, and compensation for Canada’s Stó:lo Coast Salish Historical Atlas. residential school policy.

A long-term project of the Stól:lo B.C. Teachers’ Federation Nation, the atlas has meticulously vice-president Glen Hansman documented chapters on European gave a speech on the need for contact and residential schools, mandatory education to a 2012 teacher conference. He said current and others that piece together oral histories and what few written aboriginal culture courses are records there are of B.C. First poorly attended, and went on to Nations life at the time of European denounce a school system he said is still based on “colonialism” and a contact.

A journal kept at Fort Langley “settler construct” of history. from 1827 to 1830 documents “We need to acknowledge that some of the raids between racism is the norm in public aboriginal communities on the schools – still today,” Hansman Fraser River and Vancouver Island, said. corroborating elders’ accounts.

Is it really? He also claimed During those three years, Cowichan that the purpose and legacy of men attacked the Chilliwack Stó:lo the residential schools have been community four times. In the “deliberately hidden” from school same period, the journal records curriculum.

30 incidents of inter-community In lieu of evidence, Hansman violence, some reaching down to recounted old anecdotes of

present-day Washington state.

Atlas editor Keith Thor Carlson summarized the research this way: “Viewed from the perspective of the aggressor, raids and attacks appear to have been motivated primarily by a desire to obtain quick wealth (in the form of slaves and property such as dried and smoked salmon) or to exact revenge for previous insults.”

Archaeological study of stone fortifications and weapons at fishing sites in the Fraser Canyon traces a history of inter-community violence back at least 3,000 years.

Historians characterize some of this as warfare. British colonial authorities had some “settler constructs” about these activities: they saw them as assault, robbery, abduction and murder as well as slavery.

This is the seldom-discussed backdrop for the European settlement of British Columbia, the imposition of British law and the later establishment of church-run residential schools.

None of this is to excuse the forced removal of aboriginal children from their families, the horrendous abuse and neglect or the multi-generational damage to a culture already weakened by waves of smallpox. This 1928 plan to fix what was called the “Indian problem” deserves to be understood by everyone.

But glossing over historical context and presenting a guilt trip to students would serve no one well.

••• Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Human skull discovered in shed

Osoko said. VicPD is also liaising with the B.C. Coroner’s Service to examine and potentially identify the skull.

A resident in the 800-block of Lampson Street came across a human skull while cleaning out a storage shed on the Rotary helps out Macaulay property, according to the Victoria Police Department.

Victoria’s Macaulay School has five new “It looks as though the skull has projectors, thanks to the Oak Bay Rotary probably been there for many, many years Club. as it’s bare bone,” said Bowen Osoko, Recently, the club presented a $3,500 VicPD spokesman. cheque to the school. A total of $1,100 Victoria police conducted a search was raised through Thrifty Foods Smile TTT_Hillside_GO_Week_16_Weds.pdf 1 2014-05-16 12:32 PM of the area for other human remains, Card program and the remaining through

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Oak Bay Rotary Club past-president Heather Aked added: “In the past years the Thrifty Smile Card funds have enabled our club to purchase dictionaries for Quadra elementary and smart boards for George Jay and Quadra schools.

This is one way where a local business assists institutions such as Rotary in their fundraising activities.”

Questers take a look at eyesight Natural improvement vision expert Joy Thompson is the guest speaker at the next Canadian Society of Questers meeting.

Thompson has not worn glasses for 16 years.

The Questers meeting is May 28 at Oaklands Community Centre, 2827 Belmont St., from 7 to 9 p.m. There is a $5 cover charge at the door.

For more info go to: questers.ca.

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Cameron’s latest general wage proposal, a 6.5 per cent increase over six years. BCTF president Jim Iker termed that a “lowball offer” that B.C.’s 40,000 teachers would be unlikely to accept.

Fassbender and Cameron have maintained that the government’s wage offer is consistent with settlements with other public sector employee groups.

The new term length is a small modification of the earlier proposal, which was for a 10-year deal with wage negotiations to resume for the final four years.

That proposal would have meant the BCTF couldn’t strike after six years if they didn’t accept the wage extension, because they would still be under contract.

Iker said Thursday the 10-year term was never workable, and after 16 months of Premier Christy Clark’s promises, he’s pleased to see it off the table.

“The government has put various offers on the table, but we’ve also been listening to the feedback,” Fassbender said. “The premier and I have been talking and we are absolutely committed to long-term stability, to a decade of labour peace in our school system.”

The latest BCTF proposal is for a four-year term with wage and cost of living increases Iker estimates at 13.25 per cent over the term.

Unions representing 47,000 health care workers announced Thursday they are recommending their members accept a fiveyear settlement that includes a 5.5 per cent wage increase. Workers in hospitals, residential care facilities, emergency health services and supply and logistics will begin voting on the settlement next week.

The BCTF began work-to-rule action in April. editor@vicnews.com

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Outdoor club hits the trails The Outdoor Club of Victoria is taking on Goldstream Provincial Park this weekend – and it’s looking for new members.

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B.C. apologizes for anti-Chinese laws Tom Fletcher Black Press

The B.C. government has presented a formal apology for its historic anti-Chinese policies that accompanied a federal “head tax” to discourage immigrants.

“Today we express our sorrow and regret for historical provincial government practices that were once considered appropriate,” says the apology, presented in the B.C. legislature Thursday by Premier Christy Clark.

“We believe this formal apology is required to ensure that closure can be reached on this dark period period in our province’s history.

“The entire legislative assembly acknowledges the perseverance of Chinese Canadians that was demonstrated with grace and dignity throughout our history while being oppressed by unfair and discriminatory historical laws.”

The apology ends with the vow: “We will ensure that this never happens again.”

Research has identified more than 100 B.C. laws and policies that explicitly discriminated against Chinese people in the early years

of B.C. They restricted employment, banned voting and property ownership and imposed provincial taxes and fees based on Chinese origin.

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EmbraceBC.ca) The federal government apologized in 2006 and offered compensation of $20,000 to survivors or spouses of those who paid the federal “head tax” that was in place from 1885 to 1923. After raising the tax to $500, Ottawa blocked most Chinese immigrants from entering Canada from 1923 to 1947.

Clark said consultations with B.C.’s Chinese community led

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“The community feedback that Minister Wat got didn’t generally favour compensation,” Clark said.

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Cyclist takes on driver in Commuter Challenge Bike to Work Week begins May 26 Dan Palmer News staff

Few activities bring all ages, skill levels and neighbourhoods together in Greater Victoria quite like cycling.

And while nearly six per cent of Greater Victorians commute to work via bicycle (about five times the Canadian average), most residents don’t see cycling as a viable option for commuting, said Frank Hudson, executive director of the Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week Society.

“There’s actually not much of a difference between taking a bike or a vehicle into downtown (Victoria), even from as far away as Colwood corners,” he said.

To prove the point, Hudson and his team organize an annual commuter challenge in the runup to Bike to Work Week, pitting cyclists against drivers on their morning commutes.

Colwood Coun. Judith Cullington works from home most days, but is jumping in her electric Nissan Leaf to challenge Colwood resident Randy Scott to his workplace in downtown Victoria

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“I may drive an electric car, but I’m also an avid cyclist,” she said.

Cullington often makes the quick trip to city hall via bicycle, but said longer distances do require more than a willing rider.

“If you live on the top of Triangle Mountain, you’re not going to want to make that trip home every day to Victoria,” she said.

“It also depends on what’s on the other end. If you arrive at your office and there are showers, that makes a big difference. All these pieces need to come together.”

The Bike to Work Week commuter challenge takes place today (May 21), while Bike to

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Interested workplaces or commuters can register throughout the week, as the goal is to get more people riding.

“We had about 7,000 cyclists participate last year, and we want 1,000 more this year,” Hudson said. “If people are uncomfortable riding, they can take one of our bike skills courses. They’re $20 for a four-hour session, and they’re a bargain. I took one years ago and I was surprised by how much I learned from it.”

To learn more about Bike to Work Week or to register, visit biketowork.ca/victoria. dpalmer@vicnews.com

Celebration stations Organizers will have celebration stations at Dockside Green and the central branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library all next week, May 26 to June 2. A celebration mega-station at Centennial Square will top off the week on Saturday, May 31 from 1 to 4 p.m.

“Expect tonnes of free food, giveaways and more than $30,000 in prizes,” Hudson said. “It’s a celebration for the community.”

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Dozens of music, dance and theatre acts return home for the 100th birthday of the Royal Theatre and McPherson Playhouse this week, beginning with the fascinatingly beautiful choreography of Crystal Pite and her Kidd Pivot Production of The Tempest Replica Pite has been wowing seasoned dance critics across the globe with her modern dance routines, and she started it all right here in Victoria. (tonight, 8 p.m., Royal).

••• The Victoria Conservatory of Music is planning a unique pairing of choral masterworks as their contribution to the centennial celebration: The Magnificat by J.S. Bach, and the Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass) by contemporary Estonian

composer Arvo Pärt. Vox Humana, the city’s leading chamber choir, will be joined by two dozen members of the Victoria Symphony for this performance. (May 22, 8 p.m., McPherson).

••• Daniel Lapp is hosting a West Coast Roots Celebration on Friday, with appearances from the B.C. Fiddle Orchestra Mae Moore, Adam Dobres, Ivonne Hernandez, Carolyn Mark, Ollie Swain, Doug Cox and more. Sure to be a fiddlin’ good time for all. (May 23, 8 p.m., McPherson).

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Great Viking ships sailing towards the shoreline would have been a terrifying sight for the coastal communities of Europe more than a century ago.

The fierce Scandinavian warriors of old spread to Iceland, Greenland and even to the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador five hundred years before Columbus.

But a new exhibition at the Royal B.C. Museum is proving the lasting legacy of the Old Norse culture goes much deeper than pillaging and horn-rimmed helmets.

“People think of the Viking culture as quite primitive, but they were actually very skilled craftsmen to a pedigree of impressive quality,” said Kent Andersson, producer of Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends, which opened at the museum on Friday.

Andersson – visiting from the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm – walks towards an intricate box, about a metre in length, and points out the “almost grotesque” animal heads that decorate its

sides like a crown.

“It’s a Christian object, but its form is a Viking house made of gilded bronze,” he said. “It belonged to the museum in Hamburg which was bombed during the Second World War, so the original is lost.

But it’s very, very high quality craftsmanship.”

More than 500 Viking artifacts – from priceless jewelry to weaponry and clothing is now on display beyond the doors of the museum. Many objects have never been seen outside Scandinavia.

Hands-on artifacts at the exhibition include a replica Viking sword that illustrates the advanced metal-working techniques of the ancient Scandinavians, as well as digital boat-building and excavation games.

“The blacksmiths were so good making blades, you could actually bend them over your knee and they’d snap back,” said Andersson, lifting the sword handle to feel the weight.

Though the word Viking is commonly used to describe the Old Norse culture, the word actually refers to exploring or

adventuring, Andersson said.

“You would go on a viking, on a commercial trip or a raid,” he said. “But you weren’t a Viking.”

The Norse people dominated vast areas of the North Atlantic for about 350 years beginning in 750 A.D. The resulting archeological finds from this period are a mishmash of cultures from as far away as India, Anderson said.

“You can see the influence of other cultures in nearly all of these objects, but they remain unique,” Andersson said.

“There are pendants of Thor that contain a Christian cross, it’s quite fascinating.”

A small Buddha statue on display proves just how far Viking boats reached on their centuries of journeying, said Royal BC Museum CEO Jack Lohman.

“What’s a Buddha doing in a Viking archeological site,” Lohman said at the opening. “It’s an incredible testament to the reach of these explorers.”

Vikings: Lives Beyond the Legends runs until Sept. 27 before heading to Montreal and Chicago. dpalmer@vicnews.com

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