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Cloverdale: home of the nation’s next Top Chef?
Matthew Stowe competes on Food Network Canada show By Kristine Salzmann Canada’s next Top Chef could hail from Cloverdale. Matthew Stowe is one of 16 chefs from across the country who will compete in season three of Top Chef Canada, set to air March 18 on Food Network Canada. Stowe, 30, says he’s had a number of great opportunities from a young age that enabled him to hone his culinary skills – and he wanted to see how he measured up against other chefs across the country.
“I’d watched the last couple of seasons. Now it was time to put my money where my mouth was,” he says. The Cloverdale resident got his start cooking at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary’s culinary program under the guidance of instructor Guy Ethier. Through the program, Stowe found work placements at the Pan Pacific Hotel and Fairmont Vancouver, and continued to work at the latter through his senior year. Ethier also enrolled
him in competitions Stowe otherwise wouldn’t have heard of – ones he went on to win. His father encouraged him to move to New York after graduating in 2000 and attend the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). While at the CIA he interned at Lutèce, a classic French restaurant where he was given much more responsibility than he might have received elsewhere. See WATCH STOWE / Page 10
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Cloverdale’s Matthew Stowe competes on season three of Top Chef Canada, which premieres March 18.
Bus driver assaults down: Translink Union says stiffer sentences involving jail time needed By Wanda Chow Assaults against bus drivers are on the decline, dropping to the lowest level in seven years, says TransLink. Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) statistics show there were 116 such assaults in 2012, 30 fewer than the year before and a 52 per cent reduction from a high of 242 in 2006. The number of serious as-
saults involving violence declined by five per cent to make up 23 per cent of the 2012 total. Since 2006, safety improvements to the company’s buses include onboard cameras which serve as a deterrent and a source of evidence for catching and prosecuting suspects. Peter Arkell, CMBC’s assault and WorkSafe prevention specialist, said
only the oldest buses which can’t accommodate the cameras have yet to be outfitted with them, but cameras will be on all new replacement buses as the old ones are retired. “We’re not too far off seeing a day when every single coach has cameras on board.” The company has also installed systems that, with a touch of a but-
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Perhaps more significantly, there have recently been “more appropriate sentencing decisions in line with assaulting a transit operator,” he said. TransLink has been lobbying the courts to, during sentencing, treat people who assault bus drivers similarly to those who assault a
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