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Who would have thought that an SFU class project would lead to a successful rap career? See Page A3

Office tower done deal Grant Granger

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Tony Antonias still has the original typewriter he used to write the $1.49 day jingle.

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Tony Antonias coined famous jingle Catchy ad campaign for Woodwards inspired by pique of anger Grant Granger

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Life Magazine led Tony Antonias to two loves in his life—advertising and New Westminster—while a pique of anger led to his most notable inspiration. Antonias grew up in Port Pirie, South Australia. As a teenager he got hooked on the advertising game by looking

at colourful ads in Life Magazine. to the United States after listening They were brought to Port Pirie to stories about it from a relative. by sailors on shore leave from “It’s all I heard. Akron, Ohio is American naval ships docked there. where he wanted to go,” chuckles He even developed Antonias. The his own portfolio friend figured the that he parlayed best way to get into into a copy writing the U.S. was via I’d never been so cold in all job at 5DN, a radio my born days. Canada. When he station in Adelaide asked Antonias to in 1948. go with him, he thought “Why not?” “I was paid four pounds a week, They hopped a Pan-Am flight less a sixpence for tax,” recalls and arrived in February 1954. “I’d Antonias of his first ad biz job. never been so cold in all my born A friend desperately wanted to go days,” says Antonias of arriving

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in Vancouver. They found work at the Harrison Hot Springs hotel. After a few months, Antonias went to New West to apply for a job at CKNW. To his delight he was hired and started as a copywriter Jan. 31, 1955. “I was the happiest man that you could imagine.” Antonias didn’t depart NW until he retired Jan. 31, 1995. The station liked his work. So much so they seconded him to ad agencies and stations in Vancouver and across the country. see ‘THAT WAS BIG-TIME MONEY’, A2

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The Downtown New Westminster office tower deal is done. The sale of the eight-storey complex above the city’s new Anvil Centre announced last March became official on Tuesday with the signing of the sale’s closure papers. The office tower was bought by 777 Columbia Street, a company formed for the project, for $36.5 million. The company is jointly owned by Joe Segal’s Kingswood Capital Corporation and the CRS Group of Companies headed by developer Suki Sekhon. Segal and Sekhon put down a $5 million deposit at that time. The agreement called for them to pay another $6.5 million when the sale closed Dec. 30. But the city received $5 million this week. The purchasers are holding back $1.25 million until some “deficiencies” are corrected by the city’s contractor, PCL Construction, said Mayor Jonathan Coté. He added provisions were made for potential holdbacks when the sale was worked out. see ‘THIS PROJECT’, A7

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A New Year Begins The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to reflect on the values that are important to our society. Dignity Dignity is at the center of our society. The cornerstone of hospice care is characterized as limited medical intervention with patient comfort and needs being paramount. Because each person deals with the situation in a different way, our hospice provides a safe place where death, dying and grieving are all recognized as a normal part of life.

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Just before Easter 1958, Antonias was approached by the station’s sales manager. He wanted Antonias, who was now CKNW’s creative director, to return to come up with a special campaign to sell to Woodward’s Department Stores for its $1.49 day specials. Antonias hit the roof. He felt writing copy simply listing items for a department store sale was beneath him. The other writers watched him fume. Antonias was so mad he slammed the typewriter carriage return. It dinged loudly. He did again. This time it went “dingding.” The sounds inspired a melody. The anger disappeared, and he headed straight to producer Dick Abbott, who was studying music at the time. Within 20 minutes they had banged out the jingle that lived until the day Woodward’s died in 1993: “Dollar 49 day, Woodward’s. Dollar 49 day, Tuesday.” They added a little whistling and the sales manager whisked it to Woodward’s for their approval. “It was one of those flukes,” says Antonias. “I thought it

would never get off the ground. “I got $25 for it. That was big-time money back then.” It also got a big-time response. Antonias recalls a man coming in with a mynah bird that could mimic the jingle. Station general manger Bill Hughes told Antonias about a boy at Woodlands hospital who had never spoken a word before singing it over and over. Antonias won a Hollywood Advertising Club award for the jingle that adorns the hallway wall in his Glenbrooke North home. The jingle was so effective that one of Woodward’s competitors, Eaton’s, came to Antonias a few years later. Eaton’s wanted help with its promotional idea to put balloons on items it wanted to discount. They told him they wanted to call it Surprise Sale. Antonias says by the time he got back to the station in New West from the meeting in East Vancouver, he had come up with another advertising gem that lasted: “Be on the spot, you’ll save a lot, at Eaton’s Surprise Sale.” He also developed memorable campaigns for Safeway, Airwick and many others.

“I made good money in my trade, but I worked hard,” says Antonias. Since his retirement, Antonias has kept his hands in the business writing ads for the Vancouver and New Westminster symphonies, Cartwright Jewelers and others. “I still get lots of ideas,” says the 83-year-old. Antonias regularly attends city council meetings to let councillors and residents watching on television know about happenings in the arts community. “I do that because councillors are not arts people,” says Antonias, New West’s Citizen of the Year in 2006. “The arts are so neglected, although not so much now as they used to be.” The Australian has morphed into an unabashed Canadian who organizes New Westminster’s Canada Day celebrations. He’s also an unabashed cheerleader for the city he adores, the one Life Magazine eventually led him to. “[New Westminster] gave me my first big break in life, and you don’t turn your back on somebody who’s given you a big break.”

SOCIAL KNITWORK: DROP-IN KNITTING GROUP Knitters are invited to join The Social Knitwork at the New Westminster Public Library.

CITYPAGE FREE CITIZENSHIP CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY Prepare for the Canadian citizenship test for free at the New Westminster Public Library. Citizenship classes are offered on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The first classes of 2015 will be held on Wednesday, January 7 and Thursday, January 8. Register at the library at 604-527-4667 or MOSAIC at 604-522-3722 ext. 155. The classes are co-sponsored by New Westminster Public Library and MOSAIC’s Settlement Program.

TECH TOYS JUMP START Did you get a new device this Christmas? Drop by the New Westminster Public Library with your tablet, phone, e-reader or gadget and library staff will help you get started.

This drop-in group meets the first Wednesday of the month and is open to all ages and skill levels. The only requirement is to enjoy knitting and chatting with other knitters. Bring your own yarn, needles, scissors, and supplies. Beginners are welcome.

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NEW WESTMINSTER FIRE FIGHTERS’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY TREE CHIPPING Saturday, January 3, 2015 and Sunday, January 4, 2015 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm at the Canada Games Pool Parking lot, 65 E Sixth Ave Join us for a BBQ, popcorn, face painting, music, and extinguisher demos. Trees will be chipped and recycled. All proceeds go to the New Westminster Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society. Make a donation and support local community charities! The New Westminster Scouts will also be holding a bottle drive. Please bring your recyclable bottles and cans to help bring adventure, outdoor experience and friendship to New West youth.

Tech Toys Jump Start will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and on Saturday, January 10, 2015 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Besides the basics, staff can show you how to download the library app, borrow e-books, e-audiobooks and e-magazines, and access newspapers online.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Baba Brinkman educates through rap Still a rap artist, communicating more science than English literature Wanda Chow

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When the NewsLeader last caught up to Dirk (Baba) Brinkman in 2003, he was a well-read 24-year-old New Westminster rapper about to perform his then-work-inprogress, The Rap Canterbury Tales at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. At the time, he said he aspired to become a full-time performer and rap CD recording artist. “I’d like to see where I can take this.” Fast forward 11 years and it appears he’s living his dream, albeit with a few twists he never would have imagined. Brinkman is the eldest of three children of former New Westminster MLA Joyce Murray (now Liberal MP for Vancouver Quadra) and Dirk Brinkman of treeplanting company Brinkman Associates Reforestation Ltd. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Baba Brinkman attended the alternative Dirk (Baba) Brinkman’s rap career began with a rap version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales he performed Relevant High School then in New as part of a class assignment at Simon Fraser University. Westminster, which has since moved to Surrey. Since then, he’s been getting “It used to be you could labour in While working on his honour’s thesis commissions he never would have expected obscurity in the music industry and no in English literature at Simon Fraser in his Canterbury Tales days. one would ever have a chance to hear you University, he discovered similarities He’s followed that up with a Rap unless the gatekeepers at the record labels between Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Guide to Human Nature, on evolutionary decided you were worthy,” Brinkman said. rap music. psychology, a Rap Guide to Religion, and “But now I can have fans all around the That evolved into a rap show he a Rap Guide to Wilderness, commissioned world and just bypass that whole system performed as a class project and eventually by the Wild Foundation for the World and make it that if people are interested at music festivals and Parks Congress in Sydney, in the subjects I’m rapping about they can university and high school Australia where Brinkman find it.” English classes. performed in November. So while he’s not a multimillionaire It’s kind of turning into the The show was enough The Rap Guide to rapper like he once aspired to be, he’s books for Dummies series. I of a hit he spent three to Wilderness, released last grateful he’s been able to make a living never would have expected four years touring with month as an album, is his with his music. that to happen. it, performing at the most personal work to “I have not had any job except for rap Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and even being date, drawing on his 10 years working as a since 2003. When I think of all the people sponsored by Cambridge University to tree planter with his parents’ company in I knew that were rappers and still are … perform it in British secondary schools. his youth. most of them have day jobs.” The twist came in 2008 when a professor “I identify with the psychology of As for the most memorable moment of of evolutionary biology suggested he’d be yearning for nature but not having it his career so far, Brinkman is quick with the perfect person to do a rap version of anywhere nearby,” he said, summing it up an answer. It was opening for renowned Darwin’s Origin of the Species. as “why I care and why you should care British physicist Stephen Hawking at the And thus, Brinkman started a new phase [about the wilderness and conservation Seattle Science Festival in 2012. of his career, as a science communicator. efforts].” Hawking was the keynote speaker and His Rap Guide to Evolution gave him the His career as a rap artist coincided Brinkman followed him with the grand type of exposure he never achieved with with the advent of the Internet and finale, a performance of his evolution rap Canterbury Tales, enough that in 2011 he social media, making it an ideal time for in front of an audience of 3,000 people. moved to New York where he performed it producing and releasing music on his own Once he started performing, he noticed off-Broadway for five months. label, Lit Fuse Records. Hawking was watching from the side of the

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stage, so he worked in a freestyle segment. In it, he mentioned feeling intimidated by having the legendary scientist watching, ending with: “He keeps looking at me and it feels like a credit check, ’cause I bought his book years ago but I still haven’t read it yet.” That got a big laugh from the crowd. More significantly, Hawking, who has a rare form of ALS that has gradually paralyzed him, still has a bit of control of his facial muscles. “His assistant came up to me and said, ‘He cracked a smile when you said that.’ Make Stephen Hawking laugh. If that was on my bucket list, I can check it off.” Next up for Brinkman is a commission for a rap guide to medicine. “It’s kind of turning into the books for Dummies series. I never would have expected that to happen.” He continues to be a regular contributor of off-Broadway shows and albums (see bababrinkman.com or litfuserecords. com) and is looking for the next subject to give the rap treatment. He’s tagged along to help out with his mother’s election campaigns and even written and released rap music videos taking “pot shots at her opponents,” he said with a laugh, something he plans to continue doing. Meanwhile, Brinkman is working on a relatively new role at age 36—as a husband and father. He married his wife, a cognitive neuroscientist and researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, in 2013. They live in East Meadow, Long Island, N.Y. with their one-year-old daughter. Rap gave Brinkman a voice and a career, and it apparently also brought him love. He met his wife when both were presenting at an event, he with his rap on evolutionary psychology, her with a lecture on the dynamic unconscious. “If I hadn’t stumbled on the science communication thing, I may never have met my wife ’cause that’s what brought me to that event.” Brinkman noted the Rap Guide to Wilderness is his first all-ages friendly album in years. “I was being fairly vulgar and cursing a lot on my albums up until I became a dad. Suddenly that has less appeal, I don’t know if that’s a coincidence or not.”

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Anita Hagen may have retired from politics, but she’s still as active in the community as ever, volunteering with Seniors Services Society and through her church in Sapperton.

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became restless and was ready for a new challenge. It just so happened that in 1986, Dennis Cocke had decided to retire after serving as New Westminster’s MLA since 1969.

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Anita Hagen takes a seat in her quaint kitchen in the West End home she shares with her husband John. It’s a comfy chair. Way more comfortable than the seats of power she once occupied in the provincial legislature. There were many times they were downright uncomfortable. Hagen, 83, grew up in Sydney, N.S., but wanderlust landed her in New Westminster in 1954. She fell in love with New West’s small-town atmosphere and hasn’t left. Hagen was a high school teacher in the Surrey school system when she decided to run for New Westminster school trustee in 1976. She was successful. But after 10 years she

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Sticking with your resolution Most people have cleared out their Christmas tree by now and holiday egg nog, rum cake and turkey with all of the trimmings are but a distant memory. The bills are starting to roll in, along with that feeling of perhaps overdoing it yet again, and, as the new year begins to take shape, we are faced with that desire to do better, to pare back and cut down. But for many of us this feeling lasts but a short while as evidenced by a poll taken early in 2014 which found a quarter of men broke their resolution to lose weight after one day. Who can blame them? Instead of dining on holiday delicacies, we’re back to the detoxing and juice cleanses; instead of spending on gifts, clothes, new phones and TVs at Christmas, we’re now supposed to cut back our spending and start putting something away for RRSP season. It’s a boom and bust cycle that’s hard on the nerves, which is why most people simply ignore the traditional New Year’s resolution in favour of, well, moderation. And perhaps they’re onto something there. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying the season, and treating ourselves and those we love from time to time. But with moderation, a little easing of the gas, we don’t swing too far and suffer so many shocks. Perhaps, that’s the best resolution of all—one which can truly inspire us to say, Happy New Year. And feel it.

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Almost 360 days to plan ahead Well, it’s all over. The carefully selected wrapping paper has been stuffed in garbage bags, the perfect turkey is chopped up into five different sizes of Tupperware containers and you are reading the instructions for new electronic gadgets for the third time. Was everybody happy with their gifts this year? I remember the husband who bought himself an iPhone, his son an iPad, his daughter some iTunes but screwed up when he bought his wife an iRon. Well, that’s what the week after Christmas is for. Taking back the sweater and getting the right size or exchanging the coffee maker, all the while marvelling that everything you bought last week is now 60 per cent off. Did you get some quiet time before the guests arrived? I’ve never figured out why we have a Christmas breakfast and a Christmas lunch on the day we are having the biggest meal of the year.

Jim McGregor How did the Christmas dinner turn out? Did you have everyone at your house or did you get invited out? I have been invited out for the past few years and I always do the “Aw shucks, you don’t have to send home a bunch of leftovers.” But in reality, I will survive on them for the next two days. Even if I am invited out, I do a small turkey for myself on Christmas Eve and let it cook slowly overnight. Awaking to that wonderful aroma of turkey and stuffing sets the scene for my Christmas day, but bringing home some gravy, vegetables and whatever that stuff is with melted cheese on top, just finishes off the leftover meals.

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How did the visiting go? Did everyone behave or did the usual suspects replay the scenes of many Christmas’ past and create some awkward moments? Awkward as they are, it wouldn’t be Christmas without them. After all, we can choose our friends but we’re stuck with our family. I love the story about the five-year-old girl who sat staring across the Christmas table at her uncle visiting for the holidays. After a few minutes, he asked what she was staring at. “I’m waiting to see you drink like a fish. My Mom says you will before the night is over.” Ah yes, little pitchers have big ears. It is said that two types of family members show up for a family dinner. Those that help with the dishes and those that sit and talk about their operations. The hostess is usually polite enough not refuse help tidying up but in reality, having her motherin-law continually putting things in the wrong drawers can be a

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stressful end to an already long day. How about after dinner? Did someone sit down at the piano or pick up the guitar and try to lead a sing-a-long? Maybe an energetic family member searched the hall closet and found some board games or the dice and the dining room table was cleared for action. This is the point in the evening when most of the menfolk doze off or at least pretend they have dozed off if they have not already found some kind of sports on the TV. Often, a year-old dart tournament on the TV is preferable to arguing over how many spaces you moved your game piece. However it turned out, it’s in the bag. If it didn’t work, you have almost 360 days to plan the next one. Jim McGregor is a writer and former Langley City fire chief.

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and big issues in a cooperative Keeping to her 10-year cycle, That included a stint as and consensual manner. Hagen retired in 1996. “I was Health Minister during Premier “You try to make good not ready to commit for another Dave Barrett’s one-and-done things happen in challenging four years.” She was, however, term in power for the NDP in times,” says Hagen. “It was ready to do something different. the early ’70s. very difficult. Education had Since then she’s been involved So she decided to seek the gone through a restraint period in the Seniors Services Society nomination and got it. and strained relationships with where she’s been part of some “It was just kind of the previous [Social Credit] innovative work helping frail, coincidence that these two government. There were a lot of elderly seniors live at home. things came at the same time,” tensions to get sorted out. It all Hagen found she likes being says Hagen. bubbled over into a strike and in charge of projects that have After being elected a beginning and an end, Hagen was named the and not have to worry NDP’s education and about the never-ending Anita Hagen, ex-B.C. Education Minister seniors critic. When bigger picture. I still think there’s things that could be done the party formed A good example was without high costs, but with better vision on the government in heading the initial capital helping these people at challenging times. 1991 under Premier fundraising campaign Mike Harcourt she became new legislation.” for Monarch Place, a women’s Education Minister and the That’s when the province transition house. Minister of Multiculturalism began moving away from “They do wonderful work. and Human Rights. And as if teachers negotiating with We were wanting to establish those portfolios weren’t enough, individual districts and into a transition house in New Harcourt also made her deputy provincial bargaining. Westminster but there were premier. “[Teachers] were expecting those that didn’t want one. The “It was the most challenging a lot with the change of need was very great,” she says. thing I’ve ever done in my government, but like all These days most of her life,” admits Hagen of all the governments we were faced with projects revolve around her responsibility heaped upon her. a lot of big financial challenges, Beacon Unitarian Church in “It was challenging, demanding, some of which we didn’t know Sapperton. “There’s a strong exhilarating. It put me in touch beforehand,” she says. outreach, social justice focus with an enormously large Needless to say, she kept a by the church community.” She section of British Columbia close eye on the nasty dispute also volunteers for the Share life.” between the B.C. Teachers’ Food Bank in Coquitlam and Hagen worked with school Federation and the province the helps some individual seniors boards, major organizations, big last two years. live independently. unions and cultural committees “I had a lot of ideas about “I stay really connected with all over the province. what was happening,” says how our health and community When Hagen reminisces about Hagen. “It’s good for the services are working, and those days she wonders “how did education system there is whether they’re working well for I manage my life at that time?” some stability [with a contract seniors,” she says. Her answer: “I had wonderful settlement] and I remain “I still think there’s things people working with me.” hopeful. We need to respect that could be done better During her tenure she dealt and value our education system without high costs, but with with a teacher’s strike in 1993. more than what has happened. I better vision on helping these She tried to resolve both small believe there’s a way to go there.” people at challenging times.”

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‘This is not going off track’ “We hadn’t been given any signals there were any issues, The deal calls for the final but certainly receiving the balance to be paid on Dec. 30, second deposit makes the city 2017 or when the building is more comfortable there won’t be 75 per cent leased, whichever any more issues,” said Coté. comes first. The city anticipates a full Coté emphasized building will bring in the $10 million the city $650,000 in annual already has in its coffers property tax, and is non-refundable. another $400,000 in “To me the big thing utilities. Adding about was getting a line of 500 jobs would also be credit for another $5 a “tremendous benefit” COTÉ million in hand which to to Downtown New me shows this is not going off Westminster, said Coté. the track,” said Coté. “The deal “That was one of the major is done, there’s been no changes motivating factors in the City of to the deal.” New Westminster taking on not During the civic election only [building Anvil Centre], campaign the possibility of the but there would be significant deal not closing was raised by benefits to having class A office some council candidates. space available along with it,”

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he said. The tower has 137,000 square feet of office space. At the time of the purchase, Sekhon said no leases were expected to be signed until early 2015. Coté said it was the city’s understanding 777 Columbia Street was working with four prospective tenants. “Since it’s sold we haven’t been as hands on, but we want a successful and vibrant downtown and want to see the office side of [the overall project] filled out,” said Coté. He added the city has found a tenant for the complex’s coffee shop. It’s expected to open in the first quarter of 2015. But the 6,000-square-foot restaurant space has yet to be leased out by the city.

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January 2 2015 | Welcome to the driver’s seat

The Volvo V60 T6 R-Design wagon is sublimely quiet at highway speeds.

A relaxing floating device on four wheels sessions and brought Whistler – Each morning, along a friend to enjoy it I wake up to my inbox with me. clogged with a plethora Without going into too of messages boasting of many details on the “great deals.” experience, I floated And while I swiftly send for 90 minutes in my most to the trash, I often room. Note: do entertain the idea of not Driving the 2015 private not rub your eyes! When paying full price for a it was all over, I was very meal, or getting my mani/ V60 wagon can be pedi at a 75 percent off, likened to a floatation relaxed. I am so glad the V60 T6 or occasionally splurging tank experience: R-Design was the chariot on a spa treatment. Not but don’t close your home because I wanted to mention yoga classes eyes and turn off the the feeling of serenity to at a fraction of the cost. last as long as possible. One message in particu- lights to enjoy the The V60 certainly facililar from West Coast Float tranquility! tated this state of being. caught my eye recently Alexandra Straub Driving the 2015 V60 and gave me an excuse wagon can be likened to take the Volvo V60 T6 to a floatation tank experience: but R-Design wagon for a longer drive up don’t close your eyes and turn off the to Whistler. lights to enjoy the tranquility! It glides The image accompanied with the text effortlessly and handles brilliantly in looked like something out of a Sci-Fi whatever environment I put it in. movie. There was this woman, floatThanks to the R-Design Sport chassis, ing in lagoon-blue water, in a rather which has been lowered 15 mm, and interesting contraption. Beside it were spring stiffness is 15 per cent higher words like “sensory deprivation,” compared with the Dynamic chassis in “relaxation,” and “salt.” A colleague the standard V60. That said, it’s stiff in had mentioned to me in conversation all the right places. about these float pods so I bought two

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The Volvo’s cabin offers a simple and stylish setup. The dynamic handling on the sinuous roads made me realize just how much I missed driving the Swedish brand’s vehicles. The smooth-revving 3.0L, turbocharged I-6 engine also helps sweeten the deal. With 325 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque being produced (with Polestar Performance software tuning), it’s no sleeper.

It’s then linked with a six-speed Geartronic automatic transmission with advanced Quick Shift, and a Sport Mode. Haldex electronically controlled allwheel-drive with Instant Traction. I was hoping for some snow on the ground so I could play in it a little, but alas, my request was not answered. Maybe next time.

The cabin offers a simple yet stylish setup – one that has been a common theme through the Volvos I’ve tested over the years - complete with Volvo’s “floating” centre stack. It’s sublimely quiet at highway speeds and because of its Climate Package ($1,350), I had such features as a heated steering wheel and a heated windshield, along with the standard heated front seats, to keep my body blissfully warm in the sub zero temperatures. With room for five inside, a cargo area of 692 litres, and an overall impressive execution, I didn’t want to give this bright red wagon back. Though I wouldn’t call it a deal with a price as tested of $58,700 (then again, the base V60 T5 FWD starts at $38,900), it is the real deal: an incredible wagon that gives you all the pleasure of driving without the salt in your eyes. Just on the roads. Visit www.volvocars.ca for more information on the V60.

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