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City steels throne crown ictoria is flush with pride — our city now boasts the best bathroom in the country.

Victoria’s Langley Street Loo is being named King of the Throne in Cintas’ 2012 Canada’s Best Restroom Contest.

“It’s not just number one that DANIELLE counts with this win — number POPE two counts, too!” Mayor Dean news@ Fortin punned at the winning mondaymag.com announcement on Tue., Nov. 6.

While our loo enjoyed a comfortable advantage in the contest, voters all over Canada had other finalists challenging Victoria’s lead.

In the end, two Toronto facilities notched out second and third place, while a Vancouver location wiped up fourth and a Quebec bathroom, fifth.

But Victoria can’t take all the credit — the readymade stainless steel facility was purchased from the City of Portland for $90,000. It features solar-powered lighting, a unisex toilet, exterior hand-washing station and graffiti-proof coating. Portland has installed four of these washrooms in their downtown over the past two years. Fortin says Victoria hopes to install more as well, and notes that Portland shares in the victory.

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BRIDGING THE CONTROVERSY Our favourite bridge is back in the news again.

On Nov. 1, the request for proposals to build the new Johnson Street bridge closed. Three proponents submitted packages by the deadline: PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc., Peter Kiewit Infrastructure Co. and WCC Construction Canada, ULC. Now, the city says staff will begin an evaluation process, which is expected to take several weeks.

“Following the completion of the evaluation, staff will recommend to council the selection of the preferred proponent and the rationale for the selection based on the set criteria laid out,” says Katie Josephson, the city’s director of corporate communications. “Once selected, the preferred proponent and the city will negotiate a fixed-price contract for the construction of the new bridge.”

Final approval will be required from council prior to an award and execution of the contract. Victorians will have to wait on either side of the bridge debate.

NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER What are the consequences of removing a child from nature? The newest acronym is developed: NDD — Nature Deficit Disorder.

While the disorder is not yet widely known among parents in our region, Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) and Open Cinema have a plan to teach everyone about the side effects with a documentary and panel aimed to examine what happens to youth that play more behind screens than outside.

PLAY AGAIN (2011), billed as a compelling and humorous documentary, follows six digitally-identified teenagers as they take their first unplugged wilderness adventure — with no electricity, no cell phone coverage and no virtual reality. Through the Sale Effective Nov. 8th thru 14th, 2012

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Councillor Chris Coleman (sitting) and Mayor Dean Fortin celebrate the Langley Street Loo’s national win.

voices of children and leading experts, including environmental writer Bill McKibben and geneticist David Suzuki, PLAY AGAIN investigates the consequences of a childhood removed from nature.

And just to inspire action for a sustainable future, a technically ironic open-forum discussion will be livestreamed after the film with Lisa Lockerbie of Sooke Nature Kindergarten, David Segal of Power To Be, Todd Carnahan of the Habitat Acquisition Trust and moderator Dr. Richard Kool from Royal Roads’ School of Enviro & Sustainability.

Join the debate 7pm Wed., Nov. 7, at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). $10-20 suggested donation. Learn more by contacting: mandy@opencinema.ca, 250-882-7441.

ADULT INDUSTRY FOR THE WIN? What does a presidential election and porn have in common? Turns out, quite a lot when one of the candidates declares that fighting adult entertainment will be a top priority.

GameLink, an adult video-on-demand platform, crunched some numbers on their user data to reveal the watching habits of Americans during the 2012 election season. Mitt Romney may be disturbed to learn Utah residents subscribe to adult sites more than anyone else in the nation, according to a report in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, or that eight out of the top-10 adultfilm-consuming states gave their electoral votes to Barack Obama in the 2008 election. And the fans don’t like being threatened.

“We found that the big primary states of California, New York and Texas are the largest consumers of adult material, consuming more than nine million minutes of adult video so far during this election season,” says GameLink executive Andrew Sullivan.

Canada may feel liberated next to its frocked neighbour, but, for now, the U.S. remains the top producer of adult videos, with a new title produced every 39 minutes. While more than 28,000 internet users watch adult films every second around the world, U.S. consumers account for over half of all online adult entertainment revenue. M

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Don’t worry, be happy .C. is going to have a difficult time shaking its hippy reputation with a recent Angus Reid poll saying that an overwhelming two-thirds of British Columbians are now in favour of revamping our country’s outdated criminal code to make smoking and growing marijuana legal.

Somewhere in Alberta, a cowboy just did a spit-take from his bottle of beer while resting his snakeskin boots on the bitumen-encrusted chrome siderail of an SUV GRANT larger than some of Victoria’s new breed of studio conMcKENZIE dos: “for the single person who likes to use the washroom and cook breakfast at the same time.” editor@ The reason for the spit-take, however, is only partially mondaymag.com because of our collective moral stand on both the medical and recreational use of this mild intoxicant, and more on the business model we want to see in place of illegal drug trafficking.

In the poll, released last week, responders said they want to see a move away from prohibition toward a system of regulation and taxation.

In other words: Green Gold.

Alberta has its Black Gold — ours happens to be green, and while Alberta’s oil industry is based on non-replenishing fossil fuels, B.C. could become a world leader in renewable, organic cannabis.

Unfortunately, unlike the oil industry, the legalization of marijuana would only be a small blip on our economic radar. Regulation and taxation won’t suddenly fill our financial coffers with billions of dollars in revenue. Instead, it will turn your neighbourhood dope dealer into the equivalent of your neighbourhood liquor store. Even more likely, is that your neighbourhood liquor store will simply start carrying a fine selection of micro-grown cannabis to complement its selection of micro-brewed beer.

Instead of a discount plastic baggie filled with no-name buds, you’ll be presented with funky packaging, custom labels and manicured product.

Entrepreneurs will research some of your father’s and grandfather’s favourite pipe-tobacco blends to offer hydroponic bud combined with essence of cherry, chocolate, licorice or mint.

Legalization won’t be the downfall of civilization nor will it be our economic saviour, but it will get one more silly regulation off our plate. Our biggest boon will be in saving time and money on policing, prosecution, court costs, jail time, etc., that we are currently flushing down the toilet. Nobody, not even our local police, wants to spend time busting someone for smoking weed when those resources are better spent protecting society from real and dangerous criminals.

The other upside will be fewer loopholes for people who depend on medical marijuana to better their lives. Our current medical marijuana dispenseries are held together on a shoestring — and that’s just wrong. M

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ordon Quan will lay a wreath this weekend to remember how lucky he is to be alive.

The Chinese-Canadian Second World War veteran celebrated his 86th birthday this year, alongside his military cohort and best friend Andrew Wong, 87. Every year, the gentlemen maintain their duty to never forget those who fought with less fortune — and they hope all Victorians will do the same.

“It is an important day to me to remember how lucky I am, but mostly to remember the people, and it matters who they are; those who sacrificed everything for our country,” says Quan. “That’s what’s important.”

As Monday reported last year in a special “Remember Us” feature, the two men fought in the 1940s for a country that wasn’t prepared to support them. “When we were young, there was still discrimination. We weren’t allowed to go to the same schools or swim in the same public pools,” says Wong. “It was no surprise that we weren’t allowed to fight for Canada.

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Quan volunteered to go overseas, but was first drafted into the British army — as were many Chinese Canadians — before being accepted into the Canadian infantry division. Their moves paved the way for a Canadian landscape that would

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eventually recognize Chinese Canadians as citizens, and allow them to vote.

Since 1957, Wong’s Victoria Chinatown Lions Club has played a leading role in organizing Remembrance Day services for veterans in the city. This year will be the first that Wong will have to miss the downtown cenotaph ceremony and special veterans’ dinner due to medical complications. Quan, however, will be present with the Royal Canadian Legion at Saanich’s wreath-laying ceremony.

“What it boils down to, is that we are just not young anymore,” says Wong. “Many of us are still participating in the services, just not physically. We still send our money in to the poppy fund, and we still like to see everyone come out.”

To Gordon Moore, dominion president of the Royal Canadian Legion, community support means more than many people are aware of.

“Remembrance Day should not only be reserved to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. It should also be a practical remembrance of the living … those who served who are in need of a helping hand,” Moore says. “Members of the Royal Canadian Legion are, as one of their core responsibilities, the guardians of remembrance.”

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CITY SOMETHING Get your dance pants on because it's time for Funk Fest

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THEATRE Sara-Jeanne Hosie captures essence of legend Patsy Cline

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SISTERS OF MUSIC: Metric’s Emily Haines’ lifelong friendship with Stars’ Amy Millan has influenced both of their musical tastes.

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Intolerance for bullying is the only solution

Re: "Victoria author tackles bullying" (Nov. 1-7) Kudos to Craig Barton for his keen insights about self-love and his wise advise for all of us in his new book, The Bathroom Mirror. However, I think that Barton is seriously misguided in his call to "love the bully." In the wake of suicides, harm and suffering caused by pond scum who torment others for kicks, I find Barton's views highly offensive and disrespectful to victims. "Love the bully" trivializes and dumbs down a serious social problem that needs a equally serious solution. Only radical intolerance for bullying will end it. Bullies only understand one word: STOP! Any atmosphere of tolerance, with naive beliefs in "love and understanding" just enables these sociopaths among us to continue on their cruel path. It is time to "Love the Victim" standing beside them in solidarity with compassion, support and respect. The bullies can take care of themselves.

DOREEN MARION GEE, VICTORIA

Salmon farms need to be outlawed Now that the three year, $26-million Cohen Report has been released, we are finally told the science shows salmon farms spread diseases and parasites

that decimate wild salmon populations.

(Not to mention that salmon farmers kill thousands of sea lions and seals that protect wild stocks by eating sharks, mackeral and other species that prey on salmon or compete with them for habitat).

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tions from an industry that sees wild salmon stocks as competition, and should have been obvious to the government when these Norwegian corporations were allowed here. They had already trashed wild stocks in Norway and Scotland, and are destroying those of Chile and Peru. They should be outlawed and removed from any waters used by wild salmon for migration to the ocean and return. Will the NDP do this, or are they still as enamoured of Norwegian ecocide as the liberals are?

JIM ERKILETIAN, NANAIMO

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STREET SMARTS How prepared are you if a disaster strikes?

KIERAN REPORT

Ferry townhall is ‘a complete sham’ e r i o u s l y, does Transpor t ation Minister Mary Polak really believe she can solve BC Ferries’ budget woes by inviting grumpy ferry users BRIAN to volunteer ways to KIERAN slash the service they bkieran@ depend on? mondaymag.com Does she really believe coastal residents are fooled for a second when she says the government’s series of 38 community meetings is helping map “a vision” for the future of the perennially cash-strapped public utility?

Polak must be high on Dramamine if she really expects ferry users to drop everything and march off to a bunch of community get-togethers where they will help government identify which ferry runs to eliminate to save $26 million.

Any ferry user with the brains that God gave a goose will tell the minister her government can start saving millions the moment it finds a way to shed a bunch of ferry corporation executives who have fat salaries, fatter pensions and who you never see left behind in a

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It’s not as if this bunch doesn’t have a template to follow. Another agency of government, ICBC, has just announced a significant wave of 250 layoffs that will save the Crown corporation $29 million a year. ICBC committed publicly in August to trim its top-heavy executive branch in response to a government review. The people’s insurance agency did not need to ask the drivers of B.C. to come up with service diminishing options.

Polak’s dog and pony show has predetermination written all over it. The ferry corporation knows exactly which routes and which sailings it wants to eliminate.

It just doesn’t want to pull the trigger.

This is so typical. The government has been trying to put accountability distance between itself and the ferry corporation since 2003 when it was transformed from a taxpayer-supported Crown corporation into BC Ferries Services Inc. The idea was to create an entity that could attract private sector investment and adopt a commercial approach to service delivery.

The goal was not to create a pricey service with shrinking ridership. The experiment in quasi-privatization failed in part because the ferry-using public has refused to allow the government to sidestep its responsibility for the service.

The public also refuses to abandon the

notion that ferries are an integral part of the highway system.

Strathcona Regional District Director Jim Abram cut through the BS this past week when he dismissed Polak’s consultation process as “a complete sham.” This is one dude who bears listening to. He’s a former Quadra Island lighthouse keeper, grassroots politician and former president of the Union of BC Municipalities who has fought loud and long to get Victoria to acknowledge that our ferries are part of our highways infrastructure.

Abram says a group of coastal regional district representatives rejected Polak’s consultation proposal three weeks ago at a meeting in Nanaimo. He says the meeting lasted just two hours and the regional district reps were not even given the courtesy of reviewing material ahead of time, nor were they provided the agenda they’d requested weeks earlier.

“The insulting part of the whole thing was the fact they passed out three documents, including charts of sailings and ridership, and they would not let us keep them.”

It seems to me that Polak and her cronies are about to accomplish the very thing they seek to avoid; they are turning our ferries into a hot button election issue.

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I’m not very prepared, and that’s not good, living here!

AJ NBUMBI, Victoria

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TERRY STEWART, Victoria

I am not very prepared.

CITY WATCHDOG

JANE POTTIE, Victoria

City has little to show for $5-million payout ast Thursday afternoon, Nov. 1, bidding closed for the contract to break ground on the new Johnson Street Bridge. Proving once again that no milestone in this project can pass without controversy, local journalist and director of johnsonstreetbridge.org Ross Crockford set about tearing apart the job description for the soon-to-be-announced conSIMON struction team.

NATTRASS One of Crockford’s main criticisms of snattrass@ the procurement process has been the city’s mondaymag.com decision to allow prospective contractors to assume “technical design responsibility for the complete project,” which he says could result in a radically different bridge than the one taxpayers voted for in 2010.

While Crockford and others have speculated on the potential for public backlash should our long-awaited Signature Bridge become a little more modest, no one seems to have considered the consequences for the City of Victoria’s relationship with consultant MMM Group should the original design fail to become a reality.

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In its initial proposal to the city, MMM promised to “Achieve best value for money, including life cycle costs for the completed project” in providing “an architecturally-significant or iconic superstructure that ... is within the $63m total project budget”

by March 31, 2011. Over a year past that deadline and after paying MMM Group and boutique architect Wilkinson Eyre a total of $5,185,636.47, we have yet to see anything but a few concept sketches and an incomplete design, which, if the critics are correct, could be nothing more than fantasy.

In case this isn’t enough to worry already strapped taxpayers, an internal memo from the city’s finance department dated Jan. 12, 2012 noted that “there are discussions underway to potentially expand the role of the MMM Group [in the JSB project].” The city confirmed this week that it is now in the process of signing a new agreement with MMM, the details of which are not currently available.

As of today, the city has paid MMM Group and Wilkinson Eyre over $5.1 million, while the consultants have consistently failed to deliver a finished product. Why, then, is the city entering into a new contract instead of demanding that MMM go back to the drawing board and come up with a practical design that meets the original criteria? Until the city can answer that question, pundits and taxpayers alike will be justified in their mistrust. M

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The Bravest Canadian VICTORIA HERO’S MILITARY HONOURS SHROUDED IN SECRECY — UNTIL NOW ovember 8 marks the 70th anniversary of the Second World War Allied invasion of North Africa — an epic battle in which an Islander was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour awarded to Canadians.

Until recently, the story of Capt. Frederic Thornton “Fritz” Peters, VC, DSO, DSC and Bar (Sept. 17, 1889 - Nov. 13, 1942) was shrouded MARY ELLEN GREEN in mystery, but arts@mondaymag.com thanks to the discovery of hundreds of personal letters written by Peters to his family, and subsequent research, the legend of “The Bravest Canadian” has come to light.

Peters’ grandnephew, Sam McBride, discovered suitcases filled with letters and other family memorabilia when he returned to Trail, B.C. to help his mother, who was dealing with dementia, organize the family estate.

As the family steward, his intention was to put together a Peters family archive, but as McBride set out to transcribe the letters he realized he had something more on his hands, so he decided to turn his research into a novel, The Bravest Canadian: The Making of a Hero of Two World Wars, published this month by Granville Island Publishing.

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McBride. “Fritz was very low profile — he worked with the secret service, he hated interviews and the media, and he didn’t leave much of a paper trail — but he did send these letters home, especially during World War One.” The letters helped McBride, who often heard tales of his heroic great-uncle growing up, learn more about Peters’ personality and personal philosophies, making The Bravest Canadian much more than a historical tale.

Peters was born in Charlottetown, P.E.I. to Frederick Peters (P.E.I. premier, 1891-1897) and Bertha Hamilton Susan Gray (daughter of Col. John Hamilton Gray, P.E.I. premier and Father of Confederation). Peters senior resigned as premier to move his family west to Victoria in 1897 after the discovery of gold near Dawson City, Yukon.

Peters joined the Royal Navy in Esquimalt in 1905 at the age of 16, but retired in 1913 so he could earn some money to help his struggling family. When the First World War happened a year later, he quickly rejoined the service and set sail to England.

On Jan. 24, 1915, he would receive his first honours for valour in the Battle of Dogger Bank when he saved the lives of many sailors aboard HMS Meteor after it was torpedoed by a German cruiser. Peters became the first Canadian ever to receive the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) medal, second only to the Victoria Cross.

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Three years later, Peters would receive the Distinguished Service Cross (the third highest British honour for valour) from King George V, for “showing exceptional initiative, ability and zeal in submarine hunting

operations and complete disregard of danger, exceptional coolness and ingenuity in his attacks on enemy submarines,” according to the citation.

“Fritz was different — he was so restless, he hated boredom more than anything else,” says McBride. “In fact, he never complained about the prospect of being killed in his letters.”

Peters, then a Lt-Cdr, retired from the Royal Navy again in 1920. “The prospect of peacetime service wasn’t appealing to Fritz,” says McBride. “He had a lot of debt he needed to work off.”

With a shortage of jobs and an influx of veterans, there weren’t many prospects for Peters in B.C., so he followed a friend to Africa’s Gold Coast (in a colony now known as Ghana). He later farmed cocoa.

With war on the horizon, Fritz returned to England in 1939 and was seconded to be commandant of a British Secret Intelligence Service school at Brickendonbury Hall, training spies and saboteurs for anti-Nazi operations in occupied Europe. Very little is known about this time in Peters’ life.

There is only one letter in the Peters family collection from the Second World War, written by Fritz, now a captain, to his sister, Helen (McBride’s grandmother), Continued on Page 16

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Sisters of Music A METRIC’S EMILY HAINES’ LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP WITH STARS’ AMY MILLAN

s an epic storm closes in on a skeptical it causing i lights li ht to t wink i k outt one by b one, city, most New Yorkers wonder whether or not their home will be swept away, but Emily Haines picks that moment to worry about those who are already homeless.

“Everyone at this hotel is getting wasted,” she says over the phone on Oct. 29, just as hurricane Sandy descended on America’s east coast.

The Canadian songstress is in town recording random material for an unknown upcoming project that she ‘isn’t ready to yet clarify.’ Then her schedule was upended by the emergency.

“I think New York was a little unimpressed at first because the last hurricane, Irene, was so small. But now all the power’s being shut down. It made me start to worry about homeless people or the mentally ill out on the street, but I just did some Googling and saw there are a lot of outreach programs to help them right now.”

Oddly enough, that fixation on the destitute and desperate has cropped up throughout her songwriting career. And the front lady of alt-rock troupe Metric is not alone — one of Haines’ dearest, closest Canadian indie cohorts taps into the same vein, unprompted: KYLE MULLIN “If you’re looking at someone who’s asleep on Special to Monday the street, you can’t help but ask yourself why they’re there, if there aren’t enough programs to help them,” says Amy Millan, singer for Montrealrooted troupe Stars, who spent most of her teenage years rocking out with Haines, then most of her adult life distancing herself, despite the fact that they obsess over the same themes.

Millan, reached on the phone the next day in Western Canada, several time zones away from Haines’ storm-sieged locale, began musing about poverty because of Montreal’s formerly ambitious construction. Her band’s latest album, The North, is adorned with a photograph of the Habitat 67 complex.

“What I love about that image is that it looks futuristic, it doesn’t look like something that actually exists. But not only does it exist, it was created in the 1960s, built for the World Fair’s athletes to stay in, now converted into condos,” she says, adding that the complex’s architects likely thought homelessness would be a thing of the past long before 2012. “I think in the late ’60s and early ’70s in Canada, there was this utopian idea of what the country could be. We grew up in that Canada, and its being destroyed by our current government, which cuts funding to social programs and to the arts, silences scientists.

So that album cover, and these new songs, are a way for us to try and ignite the memory of the kind of Canada we want.”

IDYLLIC MEMORIES Both Haines and Millan share those idyllic memories, and will likely have a chance to reminisce for the first time in ages over the next few months as they kick off a joint cross-country tour with the first gig in Victoria on Fri., Nov. 9 at the Save-OnFoods Memorial Centre.

Both indie-divas are 38 now, and they both attended The Etobicoke School of the Arts as teens.

“We grew up together, were best friends in high school, and part of what drove us was wanting to change the way things were,” Millan says. “Emily was the first real inspiration for me, she’d been writing songs since she was a kid, she was the first one to pull me into one of the music practice rooms in high school to sit me down and play me an original song. I’d never heard anyone do that, so I started singing with Emily. And she played piano, so I figured I’d learn to play guitar.”

Haines is sure to mention a few other, more embarrassing details.

“We had a botched evening once in Grade 11. It was so bad that Amy fell and broke her leg,” Haines says with a laugh that offers zero sympathy for her friend’s injury. “I remember she had a cast and couldn’t walk, so she picked up the guitar, and now we have the great guitarist Amy Millan. So I’m going to take a bit of credit for getting her drunk in Grade 11.”

Thi litThings gott a lit tle more serious as er. they grew older. ff They went off to separate uni-versities. While at Concordia, Haines recorded her own, now obscure, solo demo Cut In Half e. One of its highAnd Also Double. lights is “Pink,” a song that, once again, incorh themes of homelessness — this time, porates the harsh ecording of a deranged woman’s ramblings in with an actual recording nds. the closing seconds. w if she was homeless or not,” Haines clarifies “I don’t know ous recording. “I was studying electro acousabout the infamous tics at school at the time, just walking around Parkdale with a microphone and picking up ambient sounds, and this woman stopped me. She was messed up, but saying really heavy, meaningful things, so I put it into the song.”

The demo was far from a break-out success, but it was enough to compel Haines to move to New York with then boyfriend, and current Metric guitarist, James Shaw. They began recording there, and before long crossed paths with Millan again, just as she was joining Stars. They partied and played together during those days, even jumbling with other Canadian alt-rockers in the revolving door supergroup that is Broken Social Scene. But before long, Haines felt it was time to depart for Toronto, while Millan and Stars headed for Montreal — even if that meant leaving their musical homes and risking a lifetime of busking on the streets.

“We didn’t want to be fighting for the same thing,” Haines says. “Metric has always been on a different path; we’re much more aggressive, more rock, more dancey. I’m glad we didn’t get absorbed into Broken Social Scene, and I’m glad I still have all my best friends intact, because the business side of things can be a drag.”

And while Stars’ sound is quite distinctive — especially on early, swollen note hits like “Your Ex-Lover is Dead” — Millan’s description of the band’s latest work doesn’t stray too far from Haines’ criteria for what sets Metric apart.

“I don’t know if The North is more optimistic, I just think there’s more room for dancing on it, as a counterpoint to the last records,” she says.

And as Haines describes some of the themes on Metric’s latest album, Synthetica, a few more parallels pop up. Both have a retro-futuristic motif, with Stars using the Habitat 67 complex and Metric featuring a Lou Reed cameo along with a female android muse.

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“I had this idea for a lady robot character, and I was basing it off some of the people I see every day,” Haines says of her inspiration, before elaborating, “You know, those kind of people you look at and say ‘What is that? Is that a person, or an amalgamation of plastic surgery and online marketing?’”

And while she concedes to a few overlaps, Haines still stresses the differences between Metric and Stars.

“We made a pact back in New York not to do the business side of things together, to become ourselves in our own way.

This tour is really a celebration of that, and I’m very excited to see Stars play every night.”

Millan agrees, adding that aside from a recent Broken Social Scene onstage reunion, where she sang with Haines and Feist, she’s more than content to keep things separate for the sake of friendship.

In fact, that spirit of innocence and evolution is one thing that sets The North apart from Synthetica.

“When I first started working on the lyrics I was about to have a baby, and then later on she was there for the entire recording of the album,” Millan says of her biggest muse, who accompanied Stars on tour as well. “If you listen closely to The North, you can hear the coos of a little girl on a blanket on the floor. That’s one thing I want her to learn someday from seeing me with Stars or with Emily — cherish these kinds of friends forever.” M MONDAY MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 8 - NOVEMBER 14 mondaymag.com

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Few of us really know what we want to do with our lives before we finish school, but the award-winning pâtissier of the Fairmont Empress Hotel had an inkling at the age of 15 in his native Jamaica. It was there that his mother sold her own pastries out of the home. After an initial course in home economics, Christie continued his instruction in food and nutrition after arriving in Toronto

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King Edward Hotel and Auberge Du Pommier, before he headed west.

He landed at Fairmont’s Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta before moving to our Fairmont Empress. Here, Christie leads a brigade of 10 to create the stuff of fantasy for more than 115,000 guests who take afternoon tea each year. One notable sweet tooth included Queen Elizabeth II when she visited the hotel during her Golden Jubilee in 2002. No pressure there.

Despite his credentials, Christie refuses to believe that he has learned everything about his craft.

He participates in workshops and seminars whenever he attends the World Pastry Forum and indulged his inner chocolatier by undertaking further instruction at Valrhona’s Ecole du Grand Chocolat. He also believes that being a mentor is equally important and if you or someone you know wants to get a sliver of his expertise, you can do so by taking one of his pastry apprentice classes at the Fairmont Empress. Classes are available for children ($100) and adults ($120).

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Though no one knows for certain, rumour has it that the first martini was shaken (definitely not stirred) in a Manhattan hotel about 100 years ago by a barman named Martini di Arma di Taggia, who married two-parts London dry gin to one-part dry white vermouth. A star was born. All the rage for the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, who once noted: “I like to have a martini, two at the very most; three, I’m under the table, four I’m under my host!” The martini fell out of favour in the mid-20th century before being resurrected as the beverage of choice of the ultra-sophisticated James Bond.

I have but three questions when someone asks me for a martini: Vodka or gin? Twist or an olive? And, how dry? The latest rage is to spritz a chilled glass with a mist of vermouth. With all respect to its inventor, I lean towards the martini preferred by Winston Churchill, which he believed should be “as dry as dust” and could be perfected by merely looking at a bottle of vermouth, or simply whispering the word itself. Better still, Noel Coward believed the perfect drink was constructed by filling a glass with gin then waving it “in the general direction of Italy.”

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Produced by Best Bitts Productions, this one-night-only show features Jo “Boobs” Weldon (who actually wrote the book on how to perform burlesque and is the headmisstress of the New York School of Burlesque), LELAND BOBBE Amber Ray, The Lady Josephine and our own Rosie Bitts.

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A deep curtsy to country music SARA-JEANNE HOSIE CAPTURES ESSENCE OF LEGEND PATSY CLINE

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t’s my fourth time seeing this show. I watch it every chance I get. I’m such a huge Patsy Cline fan that I wouldn’t miss it.”

So said a 70-something audience member after a recent performance of Blue Ridge Repertory Theatre’s A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline.

I’m confident that the majority of the people at the sold-out performance felt the same way, and for the same reasons: this stage musical is a jukebox packed with Cline tunes (and the odd Perry Como). “There He Goes,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “Back in Baby’s Arms,” among many others, flow from the jukebox. It ably invokes Patsy Cline, her music and the historical milieu from which she walked. Fans of Patsy Cline won’t care, then, that the plot is as thin as a banjo string.

Sara-Jeanne Hosie as Cline, renders a performance that is less an impersonation and more a gesture. She captures Patsy’s vocal stylings and stage mannerisms like some saintly truck-stop waitress. Hosie’s voice is warm, and her charisma is such that you want to glide with her across a dance floor. Those looking for a copy of Patsy Cline will be disappointed; instead, Hosie offers a deep curtsy to the singing legend. As a result, her performance feels authentic, not stilted.

Hosie, as Cline, is a treat, like vanilla ice-cream on hot apple pie.

Wes Borg is perfectly cast as Little Big Man: a character who provides the through-line (flimsy as it is), leading us through highlights of Cline’s career. He acts as a Southern corn-pone radio DJ, and as emcee for Cline’s shows at the Grand Ole Opry and Carnegie Hall. A beloved local comedian, Borg’s timing is fantastic and his improv chops get a bit of play, too.

His emotional warmth comes through on several occasions, helping him to avoid a Foghorn Leghorn stereotype.

In spite of the strength of Borg’s performance, some of the most cringeworthy moments come from his character. Little Big Man’s jokes illustrate the sexism of the time (“My wife is so fat...” etc., etc.), but with little sense of irony. Not Borg’s fault, it is a dilemma of a show like this: nostalgia for the music of a time and place is understandable. But this was also a time and place where segregation was rampant, and gender roles were, at best, traditional.

The choreography, created by Treena Stubel, is wonderful, and provides the single best “wink” of the evening. During “Back in Baby’s Arms,” two female dancers are

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“played” like cellos by their male partners. When they stray, but return, each female dancer receives a few rhythmic spanks on the rump. They’ve learned that their place is “Back in Baby’s Arms,” an instrument to be played. More subtle, witty choreography like this would have helped provide a bit of critical distance. Cline’s musical brilliance should be celebrated, yes, but let’s not turn back the clock on gender roles without a bit of reflection.

The band, too, is first-rate, humbly giving faultless back-up on piano, drum kit, fiddle, acoustic bass and steel guitar. As if that weren’t enough, they also provided back-up harmonies.

Pianist and musical director Nico Rhodes gives Hosie a vital link to her band, keeping the show’s music smooth. Assembled for this production, I’d pay to see this band play anytime, anywhere.

Dean Regan is the creator of A Walk With Patsy Cline — approved by Cline’s widower Charlie Dick — but the show’s librettist (you could say) is left uncredited. A big reason for the

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show’s popularity is the quality of the songs. Cline, like Elvis, wrote very few tunes herself. Donn Hecht, Harlan Howard, Hank Cochran and Don Gibson, among many others, penned these timeless songs, yet receive no mention or credit in Regan’s production. They should. M

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Yogis challenge residents to be kind for 40 days SPREADING KINDESS FOR JOY AND PRIZES

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Canadians are less able to do so.�

To join the 40-day challenge, participants can register at the Fernwood Yoga Den, then self-track ith the holidays encroaching, people can daily kindness activities or share them via email or always use an extra helping of thoughtful- on the group’s Facebook and Twitter sites. Those ness, but performing acts of kindness this who successfully complete the challenge will be month can do more than stretch your comfort zone entered in a draw to win community prizes, includ— it can also mean prizes. ing tickets to the Belfry Theatre, a gift certificate to In the spirit of recognizing World Kindness Day the Fernwood Inn, a gift certificate from Tonic Spa, on Nov. 13, two Fernwood yogis are hosting a com- a one-month pass to the Fernwood Yoga Den and a munity-building partnership that challenges every- gift certificate for a massage from SOMA Wellness.

by CHARLES DICKENS, adapted by MICHAEL SHAMATA one to complete 40 Acts of Kindness in 40 Days, “It’s easy to ask ourselves when the last time is starting Nov. 12. that we baked someone muffins or raked a neighThe mission stems from a similar initiative bour’s yard,� says Storry. “What we don’t always launched in Vancouver that asks participants to pair realize is that generosity spills over — the more their acts of kindness for others with acts of kindness acts of kindness you do, the more they come back, for one’s self — in the form of taking a daily yoga three-fold.� class or other self-serving practice.

Canadian columnist Dianna Rinne believes kindLola Storry and Rachel Sadava, co-owners of ness should be an everyday occurrence, and says it’s the Fernwood Yoga Den, have aligned their initia- the simple things, like holding a door open, letting a tive perfectly: a report published last month by the mom with kids go ahead in the grocery line or stopCanadian Index of Wellbeing says the recession ping to aid someone with a broken-down car, that hasn’t only hurt the economy — it’s also damaged mean the most.

1291Gladstone at Fernwood, Victoria Canadians’ health. Stress about money and employ“Because [people] are perpetually in a hurry, perTickets from $25to$40(+HST) 250-385-6815or tickets.belfry.bc.ca ment is prompting us to spend less on recreation, haps they just don’t think of these things. But they Family Ticket Packs & Student discounts available which, in turn, reduces our quality of life. should,â€? she wrote about this year’s World Kindness “This is especially troubling because Canadians Day. “Time and time again, I’ve seen lines of bumperhave traditionally protected that part of their total to-bumper traffic roll along a street while others sit household expenditures devoted to culture and rec- and wait to pull in ‌ Then, the kindness factor hits reation regardless of shifting economic times,â€? the some random driver and they stop to let a vehicle in report says. “It appears that, since the recession, ... they have made someone’s day a little better.â€?

Storry, a former social worker, says she’s already thinking about ways to be kind, which will include working on her daily gratitude list (she recommends the smart phone app “Gratitude 365�), teaching special traumaIn partnership with the Victoria Regional Transit Commission, BC Transit invites you to sensitive yoga classes, and spontaneously letcomment on the proposed fare adjustments. You can personally address the Victoria ting the day direct her Regional Transit Commission at the Public Hearing on November 13 at 9:00 a.m. into other kindnesses. “What you do on the Presenters must register by calling 250-995-5683. Or, join the 900 plus residents who [yoga] mat really reflects have already commented through the online survey, email or phone. off the mat,� she says. “In North American culture, For a detailed outline of the options, read the Victoria Regional Transit Commission we really try to push away report at www.bctransit.com under Victoria Fare Review. negative emotions, but in yoga we ask ourselves, ‘How can I allow these Fare Category Current Fare Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 We want to hear from you feelings of crankiness or $0.25 Adult $0.50 Adult Single Cash Fare Single Cash Fare Cash increase Cash increase upset to be there, and not Send us your comments by Regular Cash* $2.50 $2.75 $3.00 $2.50 $3.00 just want to get up and November 9, 2012. leave the room?’ Allowing Regular Tickets (10)* $22.50 $24.75 $27.00 $22.50 $27.00 online survey: www.bctransit.com yourself space to feel your Regular Monthly Pass* $85.00 $85.00 $89.00 $85.00 $85.00 (under Victoria) emotions is an act of kindRegular DayPass $7.75 $5.50 $6.00 $5.00 $6.00 email: fareproposal@bctransit.com ness in itself.� phone: 250-995-5683 Youth/Senior Cash $1.65 $2.00 $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 The Yoga Den is offermail: Fare Proposal, Box 610, ing free classes on Nov. Youth/Senior Tickets (10) $15.00 $18.00 $18.00 $15.00 $18.00 520 Gorge Road East, 10 and 11, along with a Youth/Senior Monthly Pass $52.00 $55.00 $55.00 $42.50 $45.00 Victoria, BC V8W 2P3 new free/by donation Youth/Senior DayPass $5.50 $4.00 $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 Public Hearing: weekly drop-in karma Youth Pass $35 /per month $37.50 /per month $37.50 /per month $35 /per month $35 /per month class (more at fernNovember 13, 2012 woodyogaden.com).

9:00 a.m. “It’s so important that * handyDART fares are the same as the Regular Fare Category. All passengers pay regular fare unless BC Transit Office people have access to they are Seniors 65 years or over and Youth 5-18 years with valid I.D. Children 5 or under ride free.

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Slam Dunk's CD release show is Sun., Nov. 11 at Logan's Pub.

Slam Dunk proves it isn’t flash in the pan

By Nick Lyons

Stewart helped the band maintain focus while continuing to cultivate their sense of humour. Welcome to Miami continues lam Dunk is a band that, in this the tradition Slam Dunk initiated with The town at least, requires no intro- Shivers: the album is funny, and proves that duction. For the past five years, as good as this band is, they refuse to take those privy to Slam Dunk’s mono- themselves all that seriously. maniacal mission of fun and fun “Sometimes we’d get to the point where only, have been spoiled. We’ve cast our it’s two in the morning and we’re like ‘oh eager gaze through a thick haze of mosh- my God should we do this ... like, what are pit perspiration as Slam Dunk frantically we doing again?’ So we ask Colin, ‘Colin are evolved from a last-minute party curios- we stupid? Should we not do this joke that ity to a band armed with a first album, The we’re thinking of?’ In those situations he Shivers, (a consummately good one, at that) would give us some guidance.” which is sure to get even The new album also the most conservative parmarks the band’s first ties a-bumpin’. album with a record label.

SLAM DUNK But with the release of The story behind the signSun. Nov. 11 their sophomore album, ing is the kind of story Logan's Pub Welcome to Miami, Slam many bands dream of.

(1821 Cook) Dunk proves our isolationSome staff at File Under 9pm, $8 ist-island-induced worMusic saw Slam Dunk play ries true; this band isn’t a show in Vancouver, and simply a flash-in-the-pan liked what they heard. As conglomerate of ragtags eventually bound a signed act, Slam Dunk no longer has to to fizzle in one of our city’s many gap- do its own promotion; Welcome to Miami ing puddles; Slam Dunk’s star is set to has already been distributed to a number rise well above our beloved volcanic earth. of music magazines and the response has Welcome to Miami places Slam Dunk on par been overwhelmingly good. with bands like The Pixies, and the Velvet “It’s already getting sweet in that we Underground before them, who have man- don’t have to do that lame shit that the aged to change culture for the better. record label does. With the last record, we Many stars have aligned to make this just googled the addresses of radio stations Slam Dunk’s moment. The first has to do and press, put stamps on CDs and with production. Welcome to Miami, set sent them away ... most of those for release on Nov. 13, was produced by probably ended up in the garbage.

Juno award-winning mastermind Colin Now we have somebody to do our Stewart. Stewart, who has previously pro- promotion for us. I don’t see how it duced albums as diverse as Dan Mangan’s could get any better ... well, maybe Oh Fortune, and The Pink Mountaintops’ if we sold enough records, we Outside Love, is a perfect fit for this album. could buy a newer van.”

“We recorded our first seven-inch in a As Slam Dunk prepares to jump shed and the twelve-inch was recorded in in its old van and head down the a barn,” says Slam Dunk singer/guitarist West Coast this month, it will do Duncan McConnell. “Welcome to Miami was so with the assurance that the new recorded in a studio with Colin ... he’s an album has gone before them, no awesome dude and a total pro.” doubt wooing countless critics and Stewart’s role as a producer transcended radio stations on the way. M mic-ing and recording, however. At times, arts@mondaymag.com

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REVIEW: WELCOME TO MIAMI ithin seconds of dropping a needle on Welcome to Miami's opening number, “I Can’t Stand It,” it is obvious that Slam Dunk is in the midst of a change. Welcome to Miami is every bit as fun as the band’s debut: it is equally contagious and the hooks are just as strong, but the album is also a testament to how far the band has come in the two years between recordings. Simply put, The Shivers is good, but Welcome to Miami is great.

As Welcome to Miami opens, “I Can’t Stand It” winds its way through various time signatures and musical arrangements, which include an expanded three-piece brass section. Listeners are forced to marvel at the band’s vast array of reference points. Nowhere is this more evident than the opening track, a strange hybrid of “The Soft Parade” and “London Calling,” which beckons us to follow Slam Dunk into new and exciting territory.

And a diverse territory it is. This album proves to be more than a gem: it’s a multifaceted diamond in the rough. Go pick it up; witness the power of evolution, lest you become a dying breed. M

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NEWS & VIEWS > REMEMBRANCE DAY CONT’D the Second World War. Until this point in the war, it was the Germans who had initiative.

As special operations and naval planner, Fritz was hired for his offence-minded dated March 31, 1942. It was their first com- approach to organizing and executing harmunications in more than a decade. “... I bour attacks. His role was originally only in can indeed give you little news,” he writes. planning and training, but he assigned him“Censorship stops me from saying anything self to go on the lead ship, a Banff Class Sloop about my present job.” (a converted U.S. Coast Guard Cutter), HMS But seven months later, Peters would Walney, when the 53-year-old heard just how find himself in charge of a risky attack on risky this mission would be. the the harbour in Oran, Algeria with a There was a protective boom laying across war correspondent on board. Code-named the 160-yard-wide mouth to the harbour and Operation Reservist, the mission was to cap- eight French warships laying just beyond ture the heavily-fortified harbour intact for it when HMS Walney made her approach, Allied use in the invasion of North Africa. steaming at top speed of 15 knots, smashOperation Reservist was part of Operation ing through the boom of coal barges. After Torch, the first combined operation of British shooting out shore search lights and with the and American forces and a turning point in use of a smoke screen, HMS Walney lowered crew and supplies by canoe, and continued to sail through the harbour, taking heavy gun and artillery fire from almost point-blank range.

With its engines destroyed, HMS Walney reached its destined landing site, but was only able to land some men before explosions forced an abandon ship order.

All survivors were arrested and taken prisoner, including Peters, who survived, even with a terrible head wound. The mission suffered 90-percent casualties. More than 300 died.

Oran surrendered to advancing Celebrate 10 years of American troops two days later and yoga classes and Peters and his fellow troops were celebrated in an impromptu parade community with us! through the streets of Oran.

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“Canada doesn’t have a lot of heroes. We should make the best of the ones we have.” pened in Oran Harbour. Strangely enough, all five passengers on the Sunderland flying boat died, while all 11 crew survived. Peters’ body was never recovered.

Peters was awarded his second U.S. Distinguished Service Cross (a bar issued by Dwight Eisenhower), and the Victoria Cross from the British. A mountain in Nelson, B.C. was also named for Peters in 1946, where his mother was living when he died.

“The Americans went all out,” says McBride. “Two colonels came with a brass band and she was so bed-ridden, they had to bring the celebration into her bedroom.”

The Victoria Cross however, came in the mail as the British didn’t want to upset their French allies by celebrating the deadly attack.

“This is the one Canadian that managed to be a hero in both wars,” says McBride.

“Canada doesn’t have a lot of heroes. We should make the best of the ones we have.”

LEST WE FORGET Continued from Page 4 Public donations sponsor medical equipment, bursaries for students, support services such as meals-on-wheels and drop-in centres and help with basic residential repairs.

For those who don’t carry change for the plastic flowers, the Legion now offers the ultimate in remembrance convenience: donors can text message “POPPY” to 20222 to donate $5 to the campaign and veteran programs.

“It was always a good day for us,” says Wong

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McBride is doing just that this weekend at the Royal BC Museum. Join him and other presenters as they give free talks to honour our veterans, Nov. 10 and 11 from 10am to 5pm. McBride is also giving a presentation at the museum Sun., Nov. 11 at 2pm. Admission is free for military personnel.

McBride has also set up a blog where more information about Peters and his family can be found, including photos of the family home in Oak Bay: thebravestcanadian. wordpress.com.

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REMEMBER ON NOV. 11: ■ Victoria Remembrance Day Ceremony: 10:15am at the Cenotaph on legislature grounds (614 Government).

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■ Pioneer Square Commemorative Ceremony: 10:30am at memorial in Pioneer Square (Quadra and Meares).

■ Remembering Peace: the Spanish Civil War and the White Poppy: 10:45am at the memorial near the intersection of Menzies and Belleville.

■ Veterans’ Cemetery Remembrance Tour with John Azar: 2pm at the Veterans' Cemetery (1200 Colville). Nonmembers $5.

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Celebrate the genius of John Cage LOCAL ARTS ORGANIZATIONS JOIN THE PURPOSELESS PLAY

By Brent Schaus arts@mondaymag.com

can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

– John Cage.

For the next few weeks, Victoria will engage in a bit of purposeless play.

Joining cultural organizations around the world, numerous Victoria arts organizations will observe the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Cage. A composer, philosopher and artist, Cage is considered to be one of the most influential figures of 20th century art. Central to his life and work was the idea of “indeterminacy” — where the results are chosen by chance, or not specified.

“I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry.” - John Cage At least four major institutions in Victoria are participating in the celebrations: the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Victoria Symphony, Open Space and the University of Victoria (School of Music). Cage’s work spanned many disciplines, so requires many hosts.

Cage’s creations act as tonics, encouraging audiences to examine assumptions about music, silence and even truth.

Perhaps his most famous work, 4’ 33” will receive two performances. Sometimes mistakenly called “four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence,” the musicians sit with their instruments for the duration without playing a single note. Cage was quick to point out that the piece is not about silence: “There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something

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On Nov. 11, LaSaM Music in Victoria and Asza Productions in Vancouver invite anyone, anywhere to participate in a rendition of 4’ 33”. The central performance takes place on Clover Point lawn, but anyone can participate from where they are, at noon.

We are invited to listen to the sounds of silence.

“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”

ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA SEASON OPENING:

Thurs., Nov. 8, 7 p.m.

Reception co-hosted with Open Space, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, and UVic. Includes a performance of John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape No.4 (1951), for 12 radios performed by UVIC Sonic Lab. (1040 Moss) 250-384-4171. Aggv.ca.

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Thurs., Nov. 8, 12 p.m.

Opening day for John Cage’s sound installation Essay. Opens to the public at noon and runs until Jan. 12, 2013. Gallery hours noon to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday. (510 Fort) Openspace. ca, 250-383-8833.

ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA:

Nov. 8, 2012 – Jan. 6, 2013 John Cage: Devoted Play Guest curator: Christopher Butterfield Exhibition brings together artifacts which show various aspects of a man now considered among the most influential figures in art and music.

Each object illuminates a part of Cage’s world, whether musical, visual, or philosophical.

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ased on the Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel by Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children spans 60 years of East Indian history. Via a combination of humour, romance, revolution and fable-like tone, the result is an epic whose many characters aspire to embody the contradictions, bloody tragedy and hope that is modern India.

At the core of the film is a strange event at a Bombay hospital at midnight on August 15, 1947 — the moment when India declared its independence from Great Britain. Two newborn babies are switched in the nursery, with an illegitimate lowborn baby being presented to a wealthy couple, while their actual son is given to an impoverished street singer. As these two babies grow to be men, they are bound both to each other and to key national events such as the revolutionary wars that spawned first the modern Muslim state of Pakistan and, in 1971, the creation of Bangladesh out of what was originally East Pakistan. This period of violent unrest inspires harsh military rule from Indira Gandhi, whose lengthy stint as prime minister is represented as a clumsy, literal-minded descent into darkness.

Children, despite its exoticism, expansive timeline, and dramatic narrative, is curiously unengaging. Rushdie’s embrace of magic realism — in this case, the hundreds of children who were born at the moment of Indian independence are telepathically linked, with some possessing strange powers — results in scenes where these implausible characters distract from the dramatic and often dire historical events they are caught up in. The film’s vision of a postmodern South Asia where religious and political differences are healed by love may be an admirable one, but Children itself is often a dull slog. I hate to say it, but these “midnight’s children” should have been sent to bed no later than 9:30pm. M

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Although rightly hailed as a hero, Whip is also an alcoholic, and his life comes under intense scrutiny in the subsequent media circus and crash investigation. Through his interactions with a rep from the pilots’ union (Bruce Greenwood), his lawyer (Don Cheadle), his drug dealer (John Goodman), and a new girlfriend (Kelly Reilly, Sherlock Holmes), we see a person by turns kind, arrogant, funny, abusive, deceitful, and falling-down drunk. While the script has a predictable arc, the audience is asked to make up its own mind about what sort of man the complicated and self-destructive Whip really is.

Flight is directed by Robert Zemeckis, a Hollywood veteran mostly associated with fluff (Back To The Future) and Oscar fluff (Forrest Gump). He does a fine job handling the dramatic chores while maintaining the film’s crucial tone of moral ambiguity. And even if the scenes with Goodman seem to be from a different movie, they are so funny and entertaining it’s hard to complain. M

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MONDAY CALENDAR EVENTS CALENDAR FOR NOV. 8 - 14, 2012 ✓ EVENTS THUS. NOV. 8

REMEMBERING PEACE - The Spanish Civil War and the White Poppy. 10:45am at the memorial near the intersection of Menzies and Belleville. Free.

VETERANS’ CEMETERY REMEMBRANCE TOUR - Learn more about the history of those lost with John Azar, who will tell fascinating stories of the people and their times, from the Crimean War to the present day. 2pm at the Veterans' Cemetery (1200 Colville). $2 members, $5 non-members. 250-598-8870, oldcem.bc.ca/tour.

TEA LEAF READINGS - See into your cup and have your tea leaves read by Ellena. SUNDAYS 2-4pm at James Bay Coffee and Books (143 Menzies). 250-386-4700, jamesbaycoffeeandbooks.com.

BOARD GAMES NIGHT - Scrabble and more. SUNDAYS 5:30pm at the Superior (106 Superior). Free. 250380-9515.

PRE-CHRISTMAS ART AND CRAFT SHOW - Enjoy original paintings in a variety of styles and hand-made crafts by local artists. Find unique gifts for your special loved ones.

To SATURDAY during mall hours at University Heights Shopping Centre (3980 Shelbourne). Free. 250-744-1761.

GVHA FALL OPEN HOUSE - Join the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority for an annual fall open house. This year's event highlights harbour sustainability and features displays from Global Marine Systems, Whitehall Rowing & Sail and many others. Enjoy live music by Causeway artists. 5-7:30pm at Ogden Point, Pier B Building (189 Dallas). Free. 250-383-8300 ext. 239.

BC BITES AND BEVERAGES: FOOD FROM THE HOME FRONT - Wartime food pairings from BC Archive’s recipe books and a presentation by Carolyn Herriot, author of The Zero Mile Diet, on the history of ‘Victory Gardens.’ We pay tribute to those who endured the domestic home front.

19+. 7-9pm at Royal BC Museum (675 Belleville). Museum members $35 plus HST, $40+HST for non-members.

250-356-7226.

CHESS NIGHT - Bring your own game, or use one of ours.

Bring a friend, or come on your own. MONDAYS 6-8:30pm at James Bay Coffee and Books (143 Menzies). Free. 250-386-4700, jamesbaycoffeeandbooks.com.

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TUES. NOV. 13

VOLKSSPORT WALKS - Join in with the 5/10km walk (rated 1A).

Registration 9:30am, walk 10am at Fisherman’s Wharf (Dallas and Erie).

Free. 250-598-9390.

LEST WE FORGET: REMEMBRANCE COMMEMORATIONS - In partnership with Veterans Affairs Canada: public displays by veterans and community groups, curatorial talks and RBCM collections are highlighted. 10am-5pm at Royal BC Museum (675 Belleville). Free. 250356-7226.

SPECTACULAR SPIDERS - Join CRD Regional Parks’ guest naturalists Claudia Copley and Darren Copley as we go on a seaside expedition searching for spiders that make the beach logs and shore their home.

10am-noon at Island View Beach Regional Park (picnic shelter off Homathko Road, Central Saanich).

Free. 250-478-3344.

MILL HILL STORY STROLL (GUIDED WALK) - Join Liz Crocker, CRD Regional Parks’ guest naturalist and author of A Cultural History of Three Regional Parks, to explore the cultural and natural landscape of Mill Hill. 1-2:30pm at Mill Hill Regional Park (in the parking lot off Atkins, Langford).

Free. 250-478-3344.

Remember on Nov. 11.

SUN. NOV. 11 POPPY CAMPAIGN FOR REMEMBRANCE - Purchase a poppy from any volunteer at stations throughout the city. Modern Giving for The Legion’s Poppy Campaign: TEXT “POPPY” to 20222 to donate $5 and support veteran programs. By donation. legionbcyukon.ca.

VICTORIA REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY - Remember our veterans. 10:15am at the Cenotaph on Legislature Grounds (614 Government). Free.

SAANICH REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY - Saanich honours veterans. 10:30am-2:30pm at the Cenotaph in front of Saanich Municipal Hall (770 Vernon). Free.

PIONEER SQUARE COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY For soldiers lost. 10:30am at memorial in Pioneer Square (Quadra and Meares). Free.

MON. NOV 12

ISLAND PROFESSIONAL EVENT NETWORK: DEEPER CONNECTIONS - Learn more about the individual strengths and expertise of members of your professional community, and how everyone can work together. 6-8pm at Temple Events & Catering (525 Fort). $20 for members, $25 for non-members, includes light appies and a complimentary beverage.

250-590-2213.

SCRABBLE NIGHT - Bring a board game and a friend, or play on the in-house boards and find an opponent there. TUESDAYS 6:30-9pm at James Bay Coffee & Books. Free.

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Email your listing info to calendar@mondaymag.com or enter it online at mondaymag.com ECLECTIC GALLERY - Small Works Show, featuring Pat Martin Bates, Alllison Brodie, Desiree Bond, Taryn Coulson, Krys Jervis, John McConnell, Jennifer McIntyre, Marie Nagel, Wendy Oppelt, Irma Soltonovich, Sharon Stone, Sandy Terry, Anthony Thorn, Susan Underwood, Patricia J. Vickers, J. Waelti-Walters and Ron Wilson. Opening reception 6-8pm. To Jan. 5 at 2170 Oak Bay. XCHANGES GALLERY - Reflections on Service: paintings about Canadian Service Man and Women by Eva Campbell. To Nov. 25 at 2333 Government.

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Group leader Daniel Keeran, MSW, will assisting couples to improve their relationships. To Dec. 13. 5-6:30pm at 3460 Shelbourne. Free. 778-433-1547.

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TONGUES OF FIRE - Episode 5, with Ritallin, coming at you live all the way from Toronto to rewire and stimulate your brain for mighty acts of intellect.

7pm at Solstice Cafe (529 Pandora). $5. 250-475-0477.

CAFÉ NIGHT TO SUPPORT THE DIDI SOCIETY - Live entertainment, education, food and a silent auction. All proceeds support the Didi Society, a local non-profit that works to empower women through trade. 7-9pm at the Moka House on Hillside (1633 Hillside). By donation.

778-440-0283.

WRITER'S GROUP - Weekly drop-in with sessions including peer support, story sharing, guest speakers and more. THURSDAYS 10am-noon at Esquimalt Recreation Centre (527 Fraser). $2/free with rec membership.

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QURAAN STUDIES - Join Muslim Faith Advisor Sheikh Afraz Baksh for recitation, explanation, contemplation and deductions for everyday living. All welcome. THURSDAYS 4:30-5:30pm at UVic Multifaith Services Centre (Ring Road, next to UVic Bookstore and bus terminal). Free. 250-885-5635, muslim@ uvic.ca.

FRI. NOV. 9

MARKETS OBJECT ORPHANAGE - Help rescue objects that have been abandoned by their owners. Choose anything at no cost, just by signing adoption form.

Appliances, electronics, books, CDs, clothes, craft and hardware supplies, furniture and fixtures. Nov. 10 to Dec. 1. WEDNESDAYS & THURSDAYS 1-5pm, SATURDAYS 9am-1pm, TUESDAYS 9am-1pm at UVic's Visual Arts Sculpture Yard (off Ring Road).

Free. objectorphanage@gmail.com.

HOLIDAY GIFTS GALORE - The 37th annual Christmas craft sale presented by the Juan de Fuca Arts and Crafts Guild. See a wide variety of handcrafted items, all made locally by vendors, many under $20. Quilting, knitting, handspun, toys, woodwork, purses, jams, decorations, jewellery, from the whimsical to the practical.

Door prizes, live guitar music on Saturday by Brad Prevedoros, Sunday Ron Berod on keyboard. Wheelchair accessible. SATURDAY 9am-4pm, SUNDAY noon-4pm at St. Joseph's School Gym (757 Burnside W). Free.

250-478-8439.

JAMES BAY MARKET - Live music, food, farmers, artisans and service providers offer quality handmade, homemade and homegrown products.

SATURDAYS 9am-3pm at 332 Menzies.

Free. jamesbaymarket.com.

MOSS STREET MARKET - See the market that has vendors making, baking and growing everything they sell. Seasonal food, locally made crafts, artisan bakers and more.

LAST MARKET OF THE SEASON! SATURDAYS 10-noon at Moss and Fairfield. MossStreetMarket.com.

LITTLE GUITAR ARMY -Eleven musicians from other bands come together to create a huge sound.

With Drangler and Buzzard. 9pm at Soprano's (730 Caledonia). $15/12.

ELIANA CUEVAS - Venezuelan born, Toronto based jazz vocalist and musician plays Hermann's Jazz Club (753 View) with Ross MacIntyre, Daniel Barnes, Jeremy Ledbetter and Alexander Brown. 8pm. $22/19.

THE SARDINES-Mike Hann and Tyler Harvey play a happy mix of good time music. $5 after 9pm at Canoe Brewpub (450 Swift).

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"THESE BURNING STREETS" Witness the event with a book launch

by G20 prisoner Kelly Pflug-Back, and readings. 7pm at Camas Books and Infoshop (2620 Quadra). Free.

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PLANETY EARTH POETRY - Open mic followed by Isa Milman and John Barton, both reading from new collections of poetry. 7pm at Moka House (1633 Hillside). $3 planetearthpoetryvictoriabc.blogspot. ca/.

SAT. NOV. 10 HOME SEWN - Do you have a sewing machine but the idea of using it boggles your mind? Start somewhere! Learn new skills and build sewing confidence as you go. Bring your sewing machine to walk through some fun projects for the home. To Dec. 1. SATURDAYS 11:45am-12:45pm at Victoria West Community Centre (521 Craigflower). $40. 250-590-8922.

SUN. NOV. 11 TAKING IT TO THE STREETS - Part 1 of a series (Street Art) with the Ministry of Casual Living. 6pm at Camas Books and Infoshop (2620 Quadra). Free. 250-381-0585.

Classical pianist Shoko Inoue debuts with the Victoria Symphony Mon., Nov. 12.

MON. NOV. 12 MALAHAT/FIDDLEHEAD LAUNCH PARTY - Readers: Lorna Crozier, Patrick Friesen, Bill Gaston, Catherine Greenwood, Lorna Jackson, Patrick Lane, Tim Lilburn, Steve Noyes, Jay Ruzesky, and Jamie Dopp. 7pm at the Fernwood Inn (1302 Gladstone). Free.

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TUES. NOV.13 ROSE COUSINS - East coast folk at the Philip T. Young Recital hall (UVic).

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WINTERSLEEP - With Elliot Brood.

7pm at Alix Goolden Hall (907 Pandora). Tickets $26 at Lyle's Place and Ditch Records.

TUES. NOV. 13 CAFE SCIENTIFIQUE - "Victoria's Sewage Treatment System: A Brief History of Slime." Cafe Scientifique lecture and discussion, Jay Cullen speaker, sponsored by Faculty of Science, UVic. 6:30-8pm at Hermann's Jazz Club (753 View). Free. 250-7217744, astro.uvic.ca/~pritchet/CafSci. THE UGLY CANADIAN : STEPHEN HARPER'S FOREIGN POLICY Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring a series of lectures across Canada by activist and author Yves Engler.

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WED. NOV. 14 SCRIPTURE STUDIES - Join Catholic Chaplain Fr Dean Henderson for guided study. All welcome.

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LEARN TO MEDITATE THE ROSARY - Experience the power of the ancient Catholic tradition of the Rosary: and you don’t have to be Catholic to meditate or pray the Rosary. Free distribution of rosaries with pamphlets to explain the practice. All welcome. WEDNESDAYS 5-6pm at UVic Interfaith Chapel (Ring Road). Free. 250-721-8339, catholic@ uvic.ca.

TASKS OF ADOLESCENCE AND COMMUNICATION - Deepen understanding of developmental process and expand respectful communication tools. Second part of a four-part series, hosted by Boys & Girls Club Services of Greater Victoria, Parenting Programs, and Ecole Bayside Middle School for parents of young teens, age 7-13.

Attend one, some, or all. To Nov. 28.

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GALLERIES THURS. NOV. 8 ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA - CAGE 100: Opening Event, Victoria celebrates John Cage’s 100th Birthday. 7pm at 1040 Moss.

POLYCHROME FINE ARTS GALLERY - 2012: a solo exhibition of paintings by Adam Curry. Opening reception 7-9pm. To Nov. 22 at 977-A Fort.

MINISTRY OF CASUAL LIVING Wheezy Tin Rusted Forms a Pact by Brenna Chekerda. To Nov. 30 at 768 Yates, Odeon Alley.

CACGV ARTS CENTRE - Images Of Japan II: exhibition of works by artists from Japan selected by Ome Art Jam, and by Canadian artists. Opening reception 6-8pm at 3220 Cedar Hill.

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SLIDE ROOM GALLERY _backspace: a photographic exhibition curated by Tara Nicholson.

Opening reception 7:30pm at 2549 Quadra.

ART GALLERY OF GREATER VICTORIA - Devoted Play, Victoria celebrates John Cage, guest curated

by Christopher Butterfield in the LAB Gallery. To Jan. 6 at 1040 Moss.

WEST END GALLERY - "A Fall Collection of Canadian Impressionists," showcasing works from Steven Armstrong, Claudette Castonguay, Paul Paquette, Michael Rozenvain and Claude A. Simard. To Nov. 15 at 1203 Broad.

OCEAN NOISE- With Wolfheart. 8pm at Lucky Bar. $10.

GRATEFUL DEAD NIGHT- Join the Acoustic Dead Night band for a tribute to Grateful Dead. With Adam Cleland, Dennis Seimens, Chris Herbst, Dylan Stone, Adam Reese and Rod Dechaine. 8pm at Fort Cafe (742 Fort). $5.

LISTEN TO THE HEARTPosthumous CD launch and tribute concert for Tony Westlake, local jazz pianist. With Misha Piatigorsku, Neil Swainson and Chris Wabich. 7pm SAT and SUN at Hermann's Jazz Club (753 View).

MUSICAL LANDSCAPES- The Pinnacle Brass Quintet brings beautiful brass music to St. John the Divine Church. 7:30pm. By donation.

DUKE ELLINGTON'S SACRED MUSIC - Fundraising performance benefitting Our Place Society featuring the music of Duke Ellington and the talents of Dee Daniels, Fred Stride Jazz Orchestra, Marcus Mosely, The Sacred Music Gospel Choir and tap dancing by Alex Dugdale.8pm at Alix Goolden Hall (907 Pandora). $35 at eventbrite.com

SAT. NOV. 10 SOOKE HARBOUR HOUSE - A preholiday art show and sale of local art.

10am-7pm at 1528 Whiffen Spit.

THE FIFTY FIFTY ARTS COLLECTIVE - Colour Inside the Lines: young emerging artists.

Opening reception 7-10pm. To Nov. 18 at 2516 Douglas.

MUSIC THURS. NOV. 8 DAVE STRINGER -An innovative artist in the Kirtan movement. 7:30pm at the Yoga Shala (1322 Broad). $TBA..

FUNKFEST - Yes, yes y'all! Four bands for $10. 9:30pm at Upstairs Cabaret (1127 Wharf).

THE ADULTS -Geoff Lundstrom and Jason Cook play high-energy groovebased party music. $5 after 9pm at Canoe Brewpub (450 Swift).

FRI. NOV. 9 MUSIC OF TRUST AND PEACEThe Victoria Baroque Players and St John Chamber Singers present three sacred cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. 7:30pm at Church of St John the Divine (1611 Quadra). $25/23/5.

METRIC- Canadian indie-rockers play Save On Foods Memorial Arena with Stars. 7pm. $29.50/45 at selectyourtickets.com or 250-2207777. See story on Page 9.

COMEBACK KID - Winnipeg hardcore band with Backtrack, Expire, The Villains and Measureless. Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). $15 at Talk's Cheap, BC Smoke Shop and Absolute Underground.

JAKE GALRAITH- Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist brings roots, rock and Hawaiian music to James Bay Coffee and Books (143 Menzies).

After open stage at 8pm. By donation.

SUN. NOV. 11 CAN'T STOP THE AWESOMEAegis Fang, DJ Unky Murge, DJ Jeremy Baker and mullet cuts. 10pm at Lucky Bar (517 yates). $12 at Coastline Surf and Sport (1417 Broad).

A TRIBE CALLED RED- Bring electric pow wow to Sugar Nightclub (858 yates). $12 at Lyle's Place and Ditch Records.

BLUES EMERGENCY -Part of the seventh annual version of Don MacLean's Steel Blues tour. Featuring The Doc and the MD. After open stage at 7:30pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside). $5. victoriafolkmusic.ca.

SLAM DUNK -Welcome to Miami CD Release party. 9pm at Logan's Pub (1821 Cook). $8.

REMEMBRANCE DAY CONCERTVia Choralis chamber choir presents Faure's requiem. 3pm at St. Elizabeth's Church (10030 3rd, Sidney). $15/8.

JIM BYRNES -Multiple Juno winner plays an afternoon set at The Well (821 Fort). $25.

SUNDAY NIGHT JAZZ -Sing along with Carol Sokoloff and Laura Cave.

7pm at the Well (821 Fort). $7.

MON. NOV.12 SHOKO INOUE - Classical pianist debuts with the Victoria Symphony with Saint-Saens Second Piano Concerto. . 8pm at the Royal Theatre (805 Broughton). Tickets $18-75 at rmts.bc.ca or 250-381-6121.

FISH & BIRD - With West My Friend.

Recklessly creative folk music with two of Victoria's most interesting alt-folk bands. 8pm at Hermann's Jazz Club (753 View). $12.

XAVIER RUDD - Aussie multiinstrumentalist comes to the Royal Theatre (805 Broughton). 7pm. $34.50 at rmts.bc.ca or 250-381-6121.

PATRICK WATSON - With Wake Owl. 7pm at Alix Goolden Hall (907 Pandora). $25 at Lyle's Place and Ditch Records.

STAGE THURS. NOV. 8 THE HOBBIT-William Head on Stage presents JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit, adapted and directed by Kate Rubin.

With a cast of 13 inmates and three local actresses. THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY at 7:30pm at 6000 William Head, inside the federal prison. Until November 10. Tickets are $20 and are available at ticketrocket. org or My Chosen Cafe (4480 Happy Valley). 19+. 250-391-7078.

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GOOD PERSON OF SETZUANUVic's Phoenix Theatre presents Bertolt Brecht’s timeless parable play Good Person of Setzuan, opening THURSDAY at 8pm and running until Nov. 24. Set in an international city in today’s globalized world, this play explores the trials of being a good person. Tickets $13-24 at 250-721-8000.

FRI. NOV. 9 BITTS OF TEASE CABARET Some of the world's top burlesque superstars descend on Victoria's Metro Studio (1411 Quadra) for one night only. Starring Jo "Boobs" Weldon, headmistress of the New York City School of Burlesque, Amber Ray, Lady Josephine and Rosie Bitts. Hosted by Jonny Porkpie, the burlesque mayor of New York City.

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SUN. NOV. 11 PHILIPS COMEDY NIGHT-Join host Wes Borg for a night of comedy featuring stand-up, sketch and improv.

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MON. NOV. 12 AUDITIONS-Canada's National Ballet School is holding auditions in the full-time professional ballet program. No prior training required for those 12 and under. More at nbs-enb.ca. 9:30am to 2pm, Dance Victoria (2750 Quadra). 416-964-3780, dparoyan@nbs-enb.ca.

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ger how it manifests in your ll Signs: If you life. We all subconsciously want to row across seek out people who confirm an ocean inlet, it’s our beliefs about relationeasier to row with the tide. In ships. For example, if you other words, you go with the believe others only want you flow. This tide that flows with for what you can do for them, you, making your strokes you will attract takers. You more powerful, is caused by might want to examine your the Moon. Believe it or not, beliefs about relationships we can benefit if we “go with by finishing the sentence: the flow” out of water as well “Whenever I get involved because the Moon has a tidal GEORGIA in a relationship ___.” This pull on all bodies of water NICOLS includes professional partincluding us. (Water or beer.) nerships, close friendships This is why the New Moon and intimate partnerships. is the best time for new beginnings and fresh starts. (Including Mercury retrograde, but with a twist.) New resoluGEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20 tions that are based on self-refection Despite information about how closely and observing habit patterns will have a connected our minds and bodies are, few much better chance of taking hold. If you appreciate the Vulcan mind-meld of this want to stop a habit or start a new one, phenomena! The New Moon this week the New Moon is the perfect time to do is the perfect time to look at your health this. (Luckily, I don’t have any bad habits, and consider how your thoughts and except the occasional lie.) anxieties affect your health and wellness.

This New Moon is also the best time all ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19 year to ask yourself how you can improve This week’s New Moon heightens your your job and your attitude to your work. focus on sex, other people’s money, death The truth is you’re never really workand healing plus inheritances and debt. ing for anyone else – you’re working for It’s time for you to look on your reliance yourself. Whatever you do brings you on the wealth and resources of others self-respect and a sense of fulfillment and versus your own ability to support yourjoy or apathy and resentment. Confucius self. Are you abusing your right to run up said if you like what you do, you never credit-card debt? Are you in over your have to work a day in your life. head? This is the perfect week to make a resolution to reduce your debt, define CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22 what you own jointly with others and It’s time to focus on romance, leisure ask yourself how you can rejuvenate your activities, creativity, the arts, sports and health. You might also want to look at children. How do you like to have fun? your attitude toward your sex life. (Was How do you enjoy yourself? How do you that laughter I heard?) express your creativity? How much time do you set aside to play? Too often we think that creativity is for people who TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20 can make money at it. But when we are This week the only New Moon opposite children, that’s what we do constantly! your sign will take place on Tuesday/ We draw, paint, dance, sing and make Wednesday. This is the optimal time to up stories. Creative expression is hugely ask yourself what you can do to improve energizing! It’s not a silly waste of time. It your partnerships and closest friendships. can actually make you feel healthier, not Your core beliefs about anything will trig-

only in your body but in your mind. Have your crayons all melted together?

LEO JULY 23-AUG 22 The energy of the New Moon this week is your chance to focus on your home and your family relationships. You’ll be thinking a lot about your youth and your relations with family members, especially parents. (Self-deception is a wonderful thing because it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.) But the past is the past, no matter how regrettable. You can’t move forward if you’re dragging too much with you. Lighten up and focus on the present. The past is a memory and the future is a hope, which means we really only have the present moment, constantly reinventing itself, suggesting the illusion of a continuous thread of time. (I’m getting carried away, aren’t I?) VIRGO AUG 23-SEPT 22 It’s time to focus on communications with others and your daily surroundings.

What is your style of communicating?

Do you expect everyone else to speak first? Do they have to come to you? Many Virgos hide behind asking questions and making observations; they control the conversation so that nobody really focuses on them. Does discussing your own needs and the details of your life make you feel vulnerable? We are gregarious creatures and we need human interaction. If you’re not rolling around with sweaty body contact, you need to talk to others. Think about it.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Money, money, money! This is the best week all year to examine your attitude to money. If you think money is the root of all evil, you won’t hang onto it.

That’s because your attitude to something will affect how it manifests in your life.

Money is actually energy; it gets things done. This is also an ideal time to not only think about how you earn and han-

dle your money, but also how you relate to your possessions. Do you take care of what you own? Do you clean, polish and repair? Do you take pride in what you own? On the other hand, do your possessions own you? Are you a slave to them?

It’s tricky finding the right balance (and well-fitting jeans).

SCORPIO OCT 23-NOV 21 The New Moon on Tuesday is the only New Moon all year in your sign, which makes this the perfect week to take a realistic look in the mirror. What do you see? How dated are you? Do you like what you see? Your physical image is important because first impressions really solidify in the minds of others! (Don’t kid yourself.) Physical appearances matter in every society. Does your image reflect who you are or how you want to appear to others? Your image is not just your physical appearance, of course, it’s how you initially greet people. How do you act with strangers? How do you greet your friends? Hmmm SAGITTARIUS NOV 22-DEC 21 More than any other sign, your best opportunities with this New Moon are reflective and meditative. It’s time to look inside yourself to see what really motivates you. This isn’t easy to do because we all deceive ourselves about who we really are, mostly because we just don’t see the truth. But we all have behaviour patterns that are based on something in the past. Generally these patterns began because they were a defensive mechanism or helpful at the time when we were kids.

Many times these patterns no longer have meaning in our adult lives. Like taking your favourite stuffed toy to the office.

CAPRICORN DEC 22-JAN 19 This is a perfect week to think about friendships, interactions with groups and future dreams. The people we hang out with affect our minds and our minds make our choices, right? And these choic-

es lead to how our lives unfold. That’s why your friends hugely influence your life. Are the people you spend time with the people you really want to be around?

The real truth of the matter is you are responsible for the people you attract.

This means you determine who wants to be with you by how you act and where you go. This is the best week this year to ask yourself what your dreams and hopes really are. Our dreams are our maps for the future.

AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 Oh boy! The only New Moon that occurs at the top of your chart in the whole year is happening this week. Why ignore this opportunity? This is the perfect week for you to take a serious look at your life direction in general. Where do you want to be five years from now? Where do you want to be one year from now? What should you start to do this week or this month to go in that direction? It’s easy to live your life willy-nilly just responding to whatever happens — management by crisis. But why not take charge? Why not grab the reins and say, “This is where I want to go and this is what I want to do.”

PISCES FEB 19-MARCH 20 The New Moon this week is the best time all year to take stock of your education and skills. What further training could you get to be better in your job? What further education can enrich your life?

What about learning through travel? It’s time to ask yourself what you can do to feel better prepared to have a richer life.

People who are constantly learning are happier, more vital and they stay younger.

New experiences, new ideas, fresh concepts and meeting people from different backgrounds and different situations are stimulating! These experiences are the sauce to our food. How bland or tasty is your fare? You have much to look forward to in your personal and home life in the next year.

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Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, and Ralph Fiennes.

Starts Thurs. ★★½ MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN -(Odeon) Deepa Mehta (Water) directs a competent but less-thanengaging adaptation of Salman Rushdie's award-winning novel, a sprawling and epic account of 60 years of recent East Indian history.

Starts Fri. See review.

CONTINUING ★★ ALEX CROSS -(Caprice) It's "diabolical serial killer time" as a detective goes up against a brutally clever maniac who has already slaughtered a member of his family.

This unimaginative and badly plotted thriller is literally a hack job.

★★★½ ARGO -(Capitol/Uni 4/ SilverCity/Westshore/Caprice) Despite some liberties taken with the facts, this account of a CIA agent who managed to smuggle six Americans to safety from Iran during the famed 1979-'80 hostage crisis is surprisingly even-handed, very suspenseful and truly entertaining. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck. ★★ THE BOURNE LEGACY -(Caprice) The hyper-kinetic spy series gets a flaccid and disappointing reboot with a new director and new actor (Jeremy Renner). Co-starring Rachel Weisz and Edward Norton. ★★½ CHASING MAVERICKS -(Odeon) Gerard Butler plays a grizzled surf champ who agrees to mentor a young lad desperate to ride really big waves. Decent family fare, albeit a bit plodding. Based on a true story. ★★½ CLOUD ATLAS -(Odeon/ SilverCity) German director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) combines forces with Andy and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix) to take us on an exotic, wildly ambitious trip as characters lead parallel and contrasting lives in six different storylines in the past, present, and future. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Hugh Grant.

★★★½ END OF WATCH -(Caprice) Jake Gyllenhaal stars in a gripping and very realistic crime drama about a pair of L.A. cops who are marked for death after they confiscate some drugs and guns from a violent cartel. ★★★ FLIGHT -(Odeon/SilverCity) Denzel Washington is excellent in a morally complex drama about a heroic pilot who "impossibly" saves an airliner from certain destruction, only to find himself in a world of trouble for unexpected reasons. See review.

FUN SIZE -(Caprice) A teen girl has to babysit her little brother the night of a big Halloween costume party. Hey, what could go wrong? Note: moves here Fri. HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA -(Capitol/ SilverCity/Westshore) A hotel where vampires and sundry other monsters hide out from humans gets a big scare when a backpacking dude shows up looking for a room. This animated comedy features the voices of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Andy Samberg. ★★★½ LOOPER -(Odeon/SilverCity/ Westshore) This trippy, noir-tinged sci-fi thriller is a stylish mash-up of hitmen and time travel. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Premium Rush), Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt.

★★★ MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED -(Caprice) Those mouthy NYC zoo escapees are up to their usual colourful antics in a wittily entertaining animation romp. ★★ THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS -(Odeon/SilverCity) Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu and a small army of martial artists get their "fu" on with a rousing tale of gold fever and blood lust as rival warriors, bandits and assassins descend on a small Chinese village that holds a fortune ready for the plundering. This goofy, gory homage to classic kung fu is fun exploitation entertainment.

THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN -(Caprice) Disney Studios produced this rather fantastical family-friendly tale about a childless couple who end up with a young boy under distinctly magical circumstances. Starring Jennifer Garner. ★★½ PARANORMAN -(Caprice) In an amusingly morbid slice of family animation, a misunderstood boy who can talk to the dead is the only hope to save his town from an army of zombies and ghosts activated by a centuries-old curse.

★★½ THE PAPERBOY -(Odeon) This lurid "swamp gothic" thriller is set in '60s Florida and features a man on death row who may be innocent, and a bunch of scuzzy characters who are certainly guilty of something.

Starring John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey, and Nicole Kidman (who has an unseemly amount of fun playing a white-trash floozy).

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 -(SilverCity/Westshore) The onceinteresting trick of using faux found footage to give a spritz of realism to horror flicks is becomeing duller with every sequel to this series about spooky doings in the suburbs.

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER -(Odeon) This coming-of-age romantic drama focuses on a freshman introvert who is befriended by a small group of slightly crazy friends. ★★½ PITCH PERFECT -(Westshore) It's a gals-versus-the-guys vocal throwdown, as competing campus choirs seem to have gone to college only to major in Glee. Although not exactly Oscar bait, this is lots of fluffy fun.

★★★★ THE SEARCH FOR SUGAR MAN -(Uni 4) This musical documentary, a big Sundance winner, features the incredible quest of two South African men to discover whatever happened to a Bob Dylanstyle troubadour from the early '70s who never amounted to anything in his native America but became a huge superstar -- and revolutionary influence -- in South Africa at the height of the Apartheid era.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS -(Caprice) Greg is totally ready for summer when suddenly his plans all fall apart. What's the poor guy gonna do now? ★★★ SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS -(Capitol) A struggling screenwriter accidentally gets mixed up with some really nasty criminals and lots of people die. With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken.

Not to all tastes, but this is a smart, darkly funny black comedy from the writer-director of In Bruges.

SILENT HILL: REVELATION -(Capitol/Caprice) This video gameinspired horror series goes 3D -- if only to give some depth otherwise lacking to its cliché characters and stock situations. Note: moves from SilverCity to the Caprice on Friday.

SINISTER -(Caprice) Some gruesome "found footage" is at the centre of this horror flick that seems to owe a large debt to The Ring. Starring Ethan Hawke. ★★★ WRECK–IT RALPH -(Capitol/ SilverCity/Uni 4/Westshore) John C. Reilly provides the voice for a video-game villain who tires of being a bad guy and sets out on a quest that throws an entire video arcade into chaos. This occasionally-inspired animation lark includes the voices of Sarah Silverman and Jane Lynch.

LEAVING THURS. ★★½ TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE -(Caprice) ★★½ TAKEN 2 -(Westshore) ★★ RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION -(Caprice)

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Time is running out to protect B.C.’s Sacred Headwaters In 2008, the B.C. government placed a moratorium on Shell’s fracking plans for coal bed methane in the Sacred Headwaters. This remarkable region is the shared birthplace of three of B.C.’s great wild salmon rivers: the Skeena, Nass and Stikine.

The moratorium expires on December 18, 2012. Now is the time to ensure the protection of our jobs, our families and our wild salmon economy.

You can make this happen.

Premier Christy Clark has a decision to make. Give her your support in protecting the Sacred Headwaters. Visit Skeenawatershed.com to find out how.

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