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The cat who joined council BIRCH LAND, COMMUNITY GRANTS AND OTHER MUNI MORSELS

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WHO’S THERE? Barred owl chicks watch passerby at Killarney Lake after a froggy dinner from their parents. Photographer

Hannah Rowsell and her boyfriend spotted the pair while on a day trip to the island.

Local actor receives 4th Leo nod

SUSAN HOGAN UP FOR B.C. FILM AND TV AWARD MARCUS HONDRO

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Whether or not long-time islander Susan Hogan brings home the acting award she is up for at the 2019 Leo Gala Awards ceremony June 1, she is certain to remain among Canada’s finest and most successful actors.

The Leos were established in 1999 to celebrate excellence in the B.C. film and television industry.

This year the well-known Bowen actor is up for Best Female Lead Performance in a TV movie for her role as Nell in Welcome to Christmas.

It’s her fourth Leo nomination.

The Hallmark film, from screenwriter Rick Garman, who specializes in Christmas movies, was shot in Vancouver and Revelstoke in September. It aired last Christmas and will air again over the holiday season for years to come.

Hogan, who owns a lengthy list of

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The film is about a town in Colorado called Christmas (while there are five U.S. states with a town called Christmas, this town is fictional).

In order to land a resort likely to be built elsewhere in the region, Christmas must prove the spirit of the holidays is alive and well there.

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The following are briefs from the May 27 regular council meeting.

All jokes aside. James Glave and family have a very cute cat.

Plugging into the feline demographic: The mews outside the window of Monday night’s council meeting were soft at first but grew more insistent. After a couple shooing attempts by the public works manager (who colleagues report is in fact a cat person) the feline found his furry way into chambers.

Seated on councillor Maureen Nicholson’s lap, the cat heard about the three potential locations for Bowen’s first electric vehicle charging station. The cat had a vested interest in this conversation as one of his owners, James Glave, is chair of the transportation committee.

In the end, council unanimously opted to place the station in the library parking lot immediately beside the hydro pole. Councillors heard that public works was giving up a parking space to make this location possible.

Councillor Sue Ellen Fast was particularly enthusiastic about the space, noting that the visibility of the spot allows the municipality to lead by example in terms of climate action.

The charging station is one of two the municipality purchased in October 2018 with funds from BC Hydro. The municipality will hold off on installing a second station as it watches usage of the first.

But no money for scratching posts: Council awarded just over $42,000 in community grants Monday evening. The Caring Circle and children’s centre received substantial amounts of $13,000 and $10,000 respectively. The rest of the money was divvyed up among eleven projects in amounts between $3000 and $750.

Organizations that received funding include the agricultural alliance, Bowfest committee, disc golf club, SwimBowen and Light Up Bowen. Unlike years past, the municipality had just one grant intake for 2019.

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ISLAND NEWS

Rural patients have a lot to say RURAL HEALTH NEEDS SURVEY FLOODED WITH “THOUGHTFUL” RESPONSES

BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

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UBC researcher Dr. Jude Kornelsen didn’t know what she was getting into when she and her team started asking rural residents about their health care needs.

The co-director of the Centre for Rural Health Research and her team set out to find some guidance for their research but when they started sending out surveys, a flood of responses answered.

“I was really surprised at the time people are taking to write very thoughtful comments down about the challenges they experience,” says Kornelsen. “We get quite a few responses that are saying, you know, thanks for doing this, we don’t feel like we have a voice in health planning.”

Rural Evidence Review (as it’s called) team has reached out to each of the province’s 168 rural communities (as identified by the Ministry of Health) through newspapers, chambers of commerce, and other means of engagement. So far, they’ve received around 1,200 responses.

“We’re pretty confident that we’re getting a really good cross section of rural B.C.,” says Kornelson. “We can write it up and then we can use it as advocacy with the health authorities and the Ministry of Health around what needs attention across rural communities.”

Calling the Undercurrent from Salt Spring, Kornelson sympathises with the joys and trials of living surrounded by water.

“I have the privilege of living on and working from Salt

Spring Island and that’s actually where a lot of my interest in access to rural health services comes from. Kind of a lived experience,” she says.

And despite Bowen’s proximity to world class medical facilities, Kornelson maintains that the island has much in common with its more isolated counterparts (Bowen is considered by the Ministry of Health as rural).

“Anytime you’re surrounded by water with a ferry that doesn’t go 24-seven, you’re pretty rural,” she says.

Common issues Kornelson and team have heard so far include access to family physicians, getting to and from appointments (especially for people who don’t drive), seniors’ care, maternity care and support for mental health and substance use.

While the team will start analyzing the responses at the end of May, they’re keeping the survey open for anyone in rural communities who would still like to participate.

“We’re recognizing that this is really important for citizen patients to be able to articulate their priorities for health services in B.C. and there’s not, that we’ve come across anyway, not a lot of other venues to do that.”

The team is also putting together a rural citizen patient expert panel for residents to give feedback about what kind of research and data is needed.

For more information and to fill out the survey go to ubc. ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_77zOjfWWBNV3wax. There’s phone support for those who have difficulty online (call project coordinator Christine Carthew at (604) 827-2193).

Nicole found a place! After a year of searching (and two large Undercurrent ads) Nicole Thomas Zyczynski has

found a rental home on Bowen. It was the eleventh hour when Nicole finally got the keys to her new home and she notes that she’s one of the easier renters to find a home for as she has no children and no pets, and it still took a year. She says she’s very grateful for and touched by islanders’ help and support over the past year.

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BYSTANDER SAVES MT. GARDNER HIKER BRENT RICHTER

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North Shore Rescue is crediting a bystander with saving the life of a man who collapsed on Bowen Island’s Mount Gardner.

The 63-year-old man and his sons had reached the summit around 1 p.m. Sunday when the man collapsed, raising concern he was in cardiac distress.

“He had been unconscious for about a minute. They actually started doing CPR on him,” said Mike Danks, North Shore Rescue team leader.

While they were working, another man arrived at the summit and recognized something else was amiss.

“He noticed right away that the man’s tongue was blocking his airway,” Danks said.

The man performed a tongue-jaw lift first aid manoeuvre, clearing the subject’s airway.

“As soon as he did that, the man started to breathe on his own,” Danks said. “Having that intervention from the bystander was critical.”

Danks called in a helicopter to move a rescue team, including an NSR volunteer who is also an emergency physician, to the top of the mountain.

By the time they arrived, the subject was conscious and able to walk under his own strength to the helipad, which, luckily, was just five minutes away. The subject was flown back to the Capilano Gate SAR station and transferred by ambulance to Lions Gate Hospital for tests to help determine what caused him to collapse in the first place, Danks said.

Danks said the amateur hero could be in line for some kind of commendation.

Bowen Veterinary Services re-opened on Tuesday, May 21st.

The hospital is now open Tuesday through Friday from 9:00am – 5:00pm, and Saturdays from 9:00am – 1:00pm.

Dr. Midge Ritchie and veterinary assistants are also available 24/7 for urgent care services – just phone the regular phone line at 604.947.9247 and press “1” to be forwarded to the doctor.

The hospital offers wellness appointments, preventative care, full body x-rays, in-house bloodwork, full pharmacy, and routine and urgent surgeries.

We can see dogs, cats, birds, exotics (including rabbits, guinea pigs, and more), and wildlife.

Some background on Dr. Ritchie: “I lost both of my parents when I was young - my dad when I was 13, and my mom when I was 21. Shortly after graduating from university and losing my mom, I adopted a dog named Oliver. He was a silly little pug who had abnormally long legs, and his tongue hung out the side of his mouth. Through caring for him and witnessing how he helped me heal from my grief, I realized that my calling was to be a veterinarian - not just to help animals, but to help their owners as well. I began work in the vet industry as a kennel assistant and worked my way up to technician. I consider Oliver my guardian angel as he is the reason I became a vet, as well as the reason that I met my son Xander’s father, ultimately giving me Xander.

I studied at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine in St. Kitts, and completed my clinical year at Texas A & M, graduating in 2010. After graduation I worked with endocrinologist Mark Peterson, and in several emergency clinics in New York and Calgary. My first job in Vancouver was at Cats Only Veterinary Clinic, and then I worked at Shaughnessy Veterinary Hospital in Port Coquitlam before moving here to Bowen Island.

I currently have a pug named Dexter, a cat named Gia (my vet school rescue), and my newest addition is a mixed breed dog named Ziba. Xander and I are looking forward to learning all about Bowen and enjoying everything the island has to offer, and I personally look forward to meeting all the pets, and their people, of Bowen Island.”

Bowen Veterinary Services will be having an open house on Friday, June 14th from 6:00 – 8:00pm. We welcome everyone to come by and meet Dr. Ritchie, tour the hospital, and enter draws for gift certificates, pet food, treats, and more.

Dr. Ritchie plans to hold client education evenings to offer learning opportunities and open-floor discussions on various topics such as the benefits of routine dental surgeries for your pet, the effects of lyme disease and more.

The dates of these education evenings will be listed in the Undercurrent and posted on our Facebook page.

To book your next appointment, please call 604.947.9247 or email reception@bowenvet.com.

If you happen to be in Artisan Square, the team at Bowen Veterinary Services encourages you to come by with your dog just to say hi and have a treat so that we can build positive experiences for the island dogs with the hospital.

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Tackling climate change going to take more than paper straws

ROB WYNEN

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It was likely the largest mobilization of humans in both Canadian and world history.

In Canada alone roughly one million men were sent overseas. They put their life on hold and left their families behind to fight in the Second World War. Many had never been to Europe, let alone put their lives in harms way to fight for a cause bigger than them. It was an incredible example of not only the sacrifice these Canadians were willing to make but also the degree to which the world could mobilize to protect the larger whole of society.

It seems like there has been a big upsurge in talk around the environment lately. It started with a report detailing the incredible changes we have seen in Canada related to climate change, Canada seeing climate temperature increases at nearly double the rate of world a climate change event at our BICS, “Walk to temperature increases. It was not too long Municipal Hall” and high school students put ago that the predictions by scientists such as on a big march in the city calling for action on David Suzuki were considered alarmist and this issue. What was so sad, other than the fact radical. Not so now, in fact most of these sci- that there is an entire generation afraid that entists were very conservative in their predic- they have a bleak future ahead of them, was tions, their 50-year predictions of temperature that I had seen this rodeo before. change are now a reality and there is every I remember many protests and calls for indication that future temperaaction decades ago. It seems ture increases will be exponential. like we have been spinning “It seems like we We are starting to see some of the our wheels for so long it is are all on a sinking changes on our island, the storm hard to know if we will ever that severely damaged the governget any traction. Even scarTitanic, the kids are ment dock in the cove, the three ier is the talk about adaptascreaming in fear damaged road culverts which will tion, forgetting about makeat up a sizeable chunk of our road and all the adults are ing the situation better, it budget, big investments in fire supis happening, let’s just get in the back fixing a pression. The costs of years of inacused to the new normal and tion are now showing up in budaccept our fate. I’m not sayleaky tap.” gets across the Metro region. Bigger ing we shouldn’t adapt to an storms happening much more freever-changing environment, –Rob Wynen quently was a big topic recently at it is just sad that we may be the regional level. Municipalities at this stage, past the point of across Metro are dealing with costs that few no return, assuming there ever was one. had anticipated and the projections are for Following the “Walk to Municipal Hall” many more to come. event I came across a post on Facebook’s A Bowen father emailed me recently to see Everything Else group which really got under if there was interest in a climate strike event at my skin.

Rockridge School, my son attends Rockridge The post was meant to be helpful, supand understandably their child wanted to portive of the students taking action. People make sure she was not going to be the only started chiming in on all the things they were one walking out of class. I don’t think the doing to help the planet, that’s what set me off. event happened at the school but we did have So many of the changes were, well, pathetic. “I

collect all my bottle caps and recycle them at the end of the year,” and “I just set up a mason bee home.” It took until about the tenth post that someone said what was running through my head, are you people serious? Is this what you think is going to fix the problem? It seems like we are all on a sinking Titanic, the kids are screaming in fear and all the adults are in the back fixing a leaky tap.

I find it difficult to see a clear path forward, it seems like all the talk has inoculated us from action and let’s face a fact, living on Bowen in our current state of wealth has an incredible impact on our environment. While we may only be a few, our individual carbon footprints are large compared to the average human being. How do we reconcile that? How do we as a community honestly face this issue and show our next generation that we more than care about their future but we are doing something about it? Will we continue on the road of looking for technological solutions to this problem or will we do the tough work of changing our behaviors, our expectations and our wants?

If it is true as recently declared by the Island Trust, the provincial government and the federal government that we are in a state of a “climate change emergency” it behooves us to act accordingly. We need all hands on deck, we need to be honest at what the task is going to require from us and we need to then take action, move beyond talk, stop drinking the

“every little bit counts cool aid” and show our youth that we are able to act responsibly and appropriately when we are hit by an emergency. But where is this mobilization? Is this how we react to an emergency in this day and age? I suspect a generation past, including my grandfather, who risked life and limb when an emergency hit their generation would just be shaking their heads.

I’m not here to trumpet a solution, I’ve done enough of that over the years to know better.

As with any problem in life, understanding the issue and being honest with oneself about the changes that need to be made is step one, a step which unfortunately after four decades of this issue being raised we still haven’t addressed.

We have become so accustomed to airline travel, owning cars, living in large homes heated to our preferred temperature, eating copious amounts of meat, the list goes on. The lifestyle has just become so normalized that I wonder if we will ever see beyond the lens we have put in front of us, or if we even want to remove that lens. What I do think is so important if this issue is to ever be tackled, is that we as adults need to be honest with our youth. If they are going to take up the mantel, let’s at the very least let them know what that mantel will look like and be forthright with the changes that need to be made.

It is going to take a lot more than collecting bottle caps or drinking out of paper straws.

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Emergency Support Service seeking volunteers BRUCE STEELE

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The Bowen Island Emergency Support Service (or ESS) team performed their first exercise last week with great success.

We tested many of the skills we trained for in the last three years, to care for our fellow islanders in need.

ESS is an provincially mandated emergency service which

provides assistance for people and families on Bowen who have been evacuated from their residence i.e. by a house fire, or natural disaster’s etc.

ESS can provide 72 hours of food, clothing and shelter to get people back up on their feet in this critical time frame of need.

Interested in volunteering? Contact boweness@bimbc.ca attn: Carolyn McDonald.

Maybe it’s a good fit for you?

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

CRC revisited: OCP must be respected DEAR EDITOR: I am writing to support John Sbragia’s letter in the Undercurrent May 23 regarding Cape Roger Curtis.

After failing to reach consensus with a previous BIM council on a development plan which was deemed to fall short of the requirements of the Official Community Plan, the owner-developer opted to revert to the rural option of 10 acre lots.

This was a fall-back business decision that has resulted in a collection of luxurious mansions owned and built by the super-rich. Let’s not even mention the mega-docks for the private float planes and the ocean-going 100-foot luxury yachts which are yet to appear.

So now it seems there are not enough billionaires interested in buying the remaining 30-odd lots that remain unsold and council is to be asked to consider forgiving the failed business plan and to reconsider something closer to the original plan?

In my opinion, Cape Roger Curtis has already been destroyed for the average Bowen Islander but if we are to allow the owner-developer to draw up a new zoning application for land use, it must meet the letter of the OCP. Nothing less should be acceptable to council.

Jerry Kaehne Bluewater

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Originally from Toronto, the ever-energetic Hogan—often seen out walking her dogs or hiking on Bowen trails (sometimes with grandchildren in tow)—needed all that energy to bring to the role.

“Nell is a spitfire of a woman, a real force of nature,” she said.

“She organizes the town, secretly, to resurrect the town’s ‘holiday traditions’—of which there are many—in order to impress the developer.”

Those 122 plus credits read as a kind of “who’s who” of Canadian film and TV productions and include roles on iconic shows like The Littlest Hobo, Street Legal and Danger Bay. She also played a lead on our country’s first soap opera Family Passions, acting in 130 episodes of that show.

She’s done American television shows by the dozens, too, among them Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The L Word (a recurring character in that one) and Men in Trees. Movie roles have also been plenty.

She said working with veteran Canadian director Gary Harvey on Welcome to Christmas was a bonus for her. Harvey, with over 40 directional credits, including Murdoch Mysteries and Robson Arms, is, for Hogan, an actor’s director, one who takes the time to get to know his cast and listen to their thoughts on the characters they’re playing.

For 10 years an acting teacher at Studio 58, Hogan said a cast that takes the time to get to know one another leads to great ensemble work in film and TV, just as it does in theatre. She gives Harvey credit for encouraging connections and creating a warm and fun work environment.

“I can’t say enough about Gary,” she said of the director.

“He’s brilliant, creative, thinks on his feet, creates a strong bond between himself and the actors, and his direction is very specific.”

The cast includes Eric Mabius (a lead in a series of TV movies called Signed, Sealed, Delivered), Jennifer Finnigan (Hogan: “She’s a dream to work with”), Taylor Hastings, Sarah Edmondson, Lorne Cardinal and up-and-coming young actors Lauren McNamara and Payton Lepinski.

Hogan called Welcome to Christmas “far and away” the best of the seven Christmas shows she’s been cast in.

Also a stage actor, she’s had numerous lead roles in major Canadian productions, such as Copenhagen at the Playhouse

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Local actor Susan Hogan at the Village Baker recently. Hogan, who has amassed a lengthy list of film, TV and theatre credits, has been nominated for a 2019 Leo Award. The awards ceremony goes on Saturday, June 1 at Vancouver’s Hyatt Regency. (with Brent Carver), Michael MacLennan’s Grace, for which she received a Jessie nomination (emblematic of Vancouver theatre excellence), Communicating Doors at the Arts Club (another Jessie nom) and Kayak at the Cultch (still another Jessie nom).

As a young actress she trained at the National Theatre School in Montreal—meeting husband Michael Hogan there—and was for five years a player at the Shaw Festival at Niagara-onthe-Lake. She was also a resident actor at Stratford.

One of the early plays she performed in, this back in Ontario, in Ottawa, was the First Nations play Jessica. In that production she worked with a trio of Canadian acting legends: Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal and Tom Jackson.

Acting is very much in her family. For years Michael played Colonel Saul Tigh on Battlestar Galactica and he, too, has a lengthy list of camera credits, with regular roles on The Man in the High Castle, Fargo, Artic Air and many others. He’s also worked extensively in the theatre.

Susan and Michael’s son Gabriel Hogan is currently shooting a TV show in L.A. called Tacoma FD, a comedy about small town firefighters who rarely encounter a fire and are forever seeking things to do. Among a plethora of other work, Gabriel has appeared in 81 episodes of the Canadian show, Heartland.

Daughter-in-law Inga Cadranel also has dozens of credits.

Cadranel recently matched her mother-in-law by landing a recurring role in a soap opera, General Hospital, the longest running soap (1963) in American television history. Inga’s also a musician and a singer/songwriter.

Then there’s daughter Jennie Rebecca Hogan, she won a Jessie for her role in a stage adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat (Jennie has since moved on to other career opportunities).

The Hogan’s youngest child, Charlie Hogan, having grown up on Bowen, got the nature bug and became a successful landscaper; however his partner, Milly Evans, likewise an islander, recently began working in film and TV production.

Susan Hogan’s first Leo nomination came the year the awards began, for Rupert’s Land, an early offering from the now-established Canadian scriptwriter, Graeme Manson (Rent-a-Goalie, Orphan Black, Snowpiercer).

She was also nominated for the show Dead Man’s Gun and the film Marker.

This would be her first Leo win but Hogan is fine with having been a “bridesmaid” in the past. She said it is not about winning so much as it is about being recognized with peers.

“Yeah, it’s pretty exciting for me,” she said. “I’ve been a runner up a few times (and) I’m really happy to have been offered another chance. But honestly, it’s the old adage: just being nominated at all is such a great honour.”

This year’s Leo award ceremony is at the Hyatt Regency and Hogan plans to be there. With her list of credits and history of strong work, regardless of the outcome the island thespian is certain to return home on the Queen of Capilano a distinguished winner.

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SUN. OCEAN VIEWS. GOLF COURSE LIVING. Bowen’s newest development in Seymour Landing at Cowan Point Bright and spacious, this two-storey walk-out home slated for 881 Russell Lane (Lot 4) captures the best of golf course living. Enjoy watching golfers tee off down the 9th fairway while soaking up the sun on your south-facing deck with views toward Seymour Bay. Construction to start July 2019. Move in early 2020. Contact us for pre-construction incentives. Starting at $1,225,000 plus GST.

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Slow market predicted for next 2 years TIMOTHY RHODES CONTRIBUTOR

Sales on Bowen Island during April continued to be flat with only ten sales from November 2018 through April 2019. The number of sales year-over-year (YoY) was down -31.8 per cent and year-todate (YtD) was down -65.0 per cent, while dollar volume of sales was down YoY -42.9 per cent and YtD -72.4 per cent. These significant reductions were underlined by an increase in the median days on market of 86.4 per cent.

Central 1 Credit Union’s Deputy Chief Economist, Bryan Yu, predicts Metro Vancouver home values will decline between five and seven per cent over the next year and three percent in 2020, while prices in West Vancouver and Vancouver’s west side luxury markets could drop another 20 per cent.

He explains the current stagnation in the market. “Sellers do not want or need to sell at a lower price. This contrasts with an economic recession where sellers are forced to sell due to job losses, wage declines or other economic circumstances.” (https://www. central1.com/news/b-c-s-firsthouse-price-drop-since-2012-willleave-sellers-sour/) On the buyer side, the mortgage stress test, the foreign buyer tax, and speculation tax continue to contribute to stagnation.

Metro Vancouver Municipalities

Overall statistics for Metro Vancouver paint a different picture than those for individual municipalities where eight municipalities showed growth in the MLS®HPI, with the largest YoY increase of +5.3 per cent in the Bowen Island market. Twelve municipalities showed a drop in MLS®HPI YoY value, typically those with significant luxury home markets.

Bowen’s growth curve remained flat YoY while the REBGV continued to trend down, reaching April 2017 levels.

It will not serve buyers or sellers on Bowen to make assumptions based on general statistics or media reports for the larger REBGV region.

Timothy Rhodes, REALTOR® Angell Hasman & Associates, Realty, Ltd. For more information: www.rhodesonbowen.com/blog-main

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PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN MLS® HOME PRICE INDEX O1 MAY 2017—30 APR 2019

Bowen Island Year Over Year at 30 April 2019 • MLS®HPI: $ 995,992 • Median Sales Price: $ 870,000 • Average Sales Price: $1,012,266

Year over Year Median Sales Price

Bowen Island Year Over Year at 31 March 2019 • MLS®HPI: $ 996,142 • Median Sales Price: $ 974,500 • Average Sales Price: $1,060,030

MLS®Home Price Index 12 MONTHS ENDING 30 April 2019

PERCENTAGE CHANGE AT 30 APRIL

Data represents the MLS® detached home data only as at 30 April 2019. Data source © 2019 BC Northern Real Estate Board, Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, and Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. All rights reserved. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

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A simple addition and subtraction equation might not add up to the right answer when calculating money laundering’s impact on the B.C. economy, according to some experts.

A May report led by Simon Fraser University public policy professor and former B.C. deputy attorney general Maureen Maloney concluded $5.3 billion was laundered through the province’s real estate market in 2018.

This activity in turn inflated homes prices by 3.7 per cent to 7.5 per cent, according to the report.

Meanwhile, the Business Council of British Columbia (BCBC) estimated in 2016 about one-third of the province’s economic growth was tied to what it described as the residential real estate industrial complex: home building, home renovation, real estate sales, mortgage underwriting, home appraisals and other linked activities So what would happen, in theory, to the B.C. real estate market if money laundering were to instantly evaporate?

“The true answer is we don’t know,” BCBC chief policy officer Jock Finlayson said.

“The difficulty is that [real estate prices] are already going down in the major urban markets, and they’ve been going down by a lot more than five per cent before the Maloney report ever saw the light of day.”

Average residential prices in B.C. slid seven per cent to $680,671 in April compared with a year earlier, according to data released in May by the BC Real Estate Association.

Home sales, meanwhile, plummeted 18.2 per cent last month compared with the same period a year ago, to 6,652 units.

The B.C. real estate market slowdown has been underway since 2017, long before the release of multiple high-profile reports on

money laundering from former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German.

Finlayson attributed the declines to two main factors.

The first is the federal government’s so-called mortgage stress test, which has made it more difficult for first-time homebuyers to qualify for a mortgage. The second is the introduction of a foreign-buyers tax on the provincial level, which grew to 20 per cent from 15 per cent between 2016 and 2018.

“The money laundering thing to me is some added colour to that narrative, but it’s not what’s driving the bus, either on the way up or the way down,” Finlayson said.

But even the starting point for a definitive answer may be difficult to determine, according to BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic.

“We pretty much know just using common sense, and looking at what’s happening with the sales and the price data, that certain types of activity are going on,” he told Business in Vancouver. “But to back it up with good hard data would be a better situation.”

Kavcic said economists and policy-makers need access to a “clean and historical” set of data on both non-resident and domestic investment activity to effectively determine what economic impact on B.C.’s real estate sector should be expected if an effective money laundering crackdown were to unfold.

“At the end of the day, it’s the calculus around cost and benefits that will drive the behaviour,” Finlayson said.

“And so far the benefits of money laundering have been extensive and the likelihood of being caught and convicted have been infinitesimal. So no wonder the activity has flourished.”

This piece was edited for length from that originally published by Business in Vancouver. For the full article visit: biv.com/article/2019/05/ money-laundering-driving-bc-real-estate-bus.

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The TED talks of middle school: Island Pacific School’s grade nine Masterworks JENNIFER HENRICHSEN

Island Pacific School

Can a 14-year-old be expected to conduct a public presentation similar to a TED talk?

Island Pacific School students have been doing so for over 20 years through a program called Masterworks. Our middle school curriculum recognizes the importance of independent study.

Self-selected, self-directed, and self-presented, this year-long Masterworks independent study project is compulsory for every grade nine student and marks a significant

academic achievement at IPS. Masterworks projects include big, guiding questions such as, “Flying in Tune: Bridging the Gap Between Computers and Humans” and “Fruit of the Forbidden Tree: Power, Morality and Personal Choice” or “Growing North: Food Security in the Arctic.”

The project requires that students produce work that surpasses their previous accomplishments. They conduct in-depth research to write a 20 to 40 page paper, then communicate their understanding to the general public in an oral presentation that is also a defense of their scholarly and creative pursuits.

Students are mentored through the process by expert advisors—leaders in their respective fields—who act as external advisors. Working collaboratively with IPS faculty, advisory committees guide grade nines through the Masterworks process that puts students at the centre of their learning and that provides a foundation for academic achievement.

In past years, students have made documentary and animated films, created original works of art, written extensive research papers, written and published a novella and built an actual boat. These activities and projects reflect the interests of our unique students.

We love the diversity of projects the students come up with and, while each project is unique, what is common among them is that a highly focused level of scholarship, academic inquiry, and creativity underpin original questions asked by our students about the world in which they live. This diversity is reflected in our middle school curriculum.

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BOWEN BEAT Telecommunicating On Tuesday afternoon the Bowen Island Community Economic Development Committee and Bowen Island Municipality held a “listen and learn lunch” with twenty telecommuters. The purpose of the session was to ask how the CEDC and BIM might better support those who work from home with a particular emphasis on technology and communications. For many, the library annex has become the community’s de facto free working space.

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Councillor Maureen Nicholson with event moderator Robyn Fenton, library board chair Susan Munro and BIM’s Stef Shortt.

Rod Marsh, EDC chair, sets the stage for discussion.

Many around the table were in agreement that Shaw’s high speed fibre upgrade has made an enormous difference to many who work from home. Dwayne Matthews and Peter Matthews listen while Kiersten Enemark, who lives on Bowen and works remotely for Shaw says “Bowen can be the best place anywhere to telecommute.”

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THURSDAY MAY 30

Bowen Island Pub 7 - 10 p.m.

Live music, no cover, and dinner specials.

FRIDAY MAY 23

A Song of Middle Earth Tir-na-nOg Theatre 7 p.m.

Tir-na-nOg Theatre School’s Annual Youth Festival of Plays, Theatre by Young People for the World. Tickets at the Door. Adult $10 Seniors & Children $5 www. tirnanogtheatreschool.org

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m.

Info call Irene 604-947-2955

Dinner at the Legion Bowen Island Legion Doors at 5:30 Dinner served at 6:30 Don’t miss the last dinner of the season. Members and guests welcome.

FRIDAY MAY 31

Friday Night Live at the Pub

SATURDAY JUNE 1

Bowen Island Farmers’ Market

BICS 10 a.m. -12:30 p.m. A mix of fresh produce from local farms and gardens as well as homemade jams, baked goods, preserves, coffee, garden crafts, tea, seedlings, herbs, buskers and more!

SUNDAY JUNE 2

Irly Golf Swing Tournament Bowen Island Golf Course Don’t miss the Building Centre’s Spring Swing Contact Lena or Bob for details at 604-947-9622.

Outdoor Meditation Circle Meet at the picnic tables at the entrance to Crippen Park 11 a.m. Open to everyone.

Dress warmly. Tea will be served. No cost. More info: lisa.shatsky@gmail.com

A Song of Middle Earth Tir-na-nOg Theatre 3 p.m.

Tir-na-nOg Theatre School’s Annual Youth Festival of Plays, Theatre by Young People for the World. Tickets at the Door. Adult $10 Seniors & Children $5 www. tirnanogtheatreschool.org.

MONDAY JUNE 3

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Board of Directors of the Bowen Island Community School Association hereby give notice that the Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held at The Gallery @ Cove Commons on Wednesday, June 12

Seniors Keeping Young 1070 Miller Road Exercise at 9, coffee at 9:45, Robyn Fenton from BIRCH speaking at 10 and yoga at 11:15 a.m. Yearly membership is $20 and drop in fees are $3for first time and $2 for members.

TUESDAY JUNE 4

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Bowen Island AA Collins Hall 7:15 p.m.

For the following purposes: • To receive the financial statements of the Association • To receive reports of Board Members • To elect Board Members of the Association to fill required vacancies on the Board; and most importantly • To welcome new members and invite them to learn more about the CSA! Mission Statement: The CSA supports the Bowen Island Community School as the hub of community life on Bowen by encouraging community development and life-long learning, leading to strong families, a healthier community and enhancement of the quality of life for all ages.

Women’s Golf Day Bowen Island Golf Club 4 - 8 p.m. Bowen Island Golf Club is celebrating International Women’s Golf Day with free golf for women and high school students. Anyone new to the game or interested in learning about golf are invited to participate and will play

Patient of the Week MEET MARLEY Beautiful Marley visited the newly renovated Bowen Veterinary Services with a small laceration. She was given some sedation to relieve the pain and stress of the wound cleaning. She was able to go home with some antibiotics and pain control. Hopefully she can attend the hospital’s Open House celebration on June 14th!

alongside experienced golfers in a fun and relaxed scramble format. Pre re- register by May 28 at Bowen Community Rec at 604-947-2216 or online at bowencommunityrec.com

WEDNESDAY JUNE 5

Caring Circle AGM Collins Hall 6:30- 8:30 p.m.

Celebrate the Caring Circle’s accomplishments and learn about their new goals. Hear new ideas from an ongoing forum of health and wellness practioners that’s in motion to opitimize health and well being on island. Everyone welcome.

Manage Your Money Bowen Library Annex 6:308:30 p.m. “Manage Your Money” with Liz Schieck, New School of Finance financial coach. Banish unhappy spending and meet your financial goals! Coffee, tea, and snacks provided. Free event presented by the Bowen Children’s Centre, Bowen Library, and sponsored

by Allan Financial.

THURSDAY JUNE 6

Duplicate Bridge Bowen Court 6:45 - 10 p.m.

Info call Irene 604-947-2955 Short term rentals openhouse BIM 3-7 p.m. Learn more

about Short Term Rentals, and the options we are looking at to regulate them

FRIDAY JUNE 7

Jazz Night Live at the Pub Bowen Island Pub 7 - 10 p.m.

Live music, no cover, and dinner specials.

SATURDAY JUNE 8

Bowen Island Farmers’ Market BICS 10 a.m. -12:30 p.m. A mix of fresh produce from local farms and gardens as well as homemade jams, baked goods, preserves, coffee, garden crafts, tea, seedlings, herbs, buskers and more!

World Knit in Public Day Ruddy Potato patio 1 p.m.

Knit together to celebrate World Knit in Public Day Five Golden Tickets Tir-na-nOg Theatre 7 p.m.

Tir-na-nOg Theatre School’s Annual Youth Festival of Plays, Theatre by Young People for the World. Tickets at the Door. Adult $10 Seniors & Children $5 www. tirnanogtheatreschool.org 4SQUARE Championships BICS 6-8 p.m. Bowen’s first 4Square Chammpionships!

All ages FREE competion.

Must pre-register at bowencommunityrecreation. com.

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Kiana and Sophia, 9, are two of the Bowen Island Gymnastics Club World Gymnaestrada Team’s youngest members. Their lemonade and cookie stand raised $113!

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Do you have what it takes to be Bowen’s first four square champion?

RYLEY MCLEOD

Bowen Island Community Recreation

A ball and four boxes are all that are needed for Bowen Island Community Recreation’s latest championship. Well, those and some eager participants convinced that they have what it takes to be Bowen’s first four square champion (or who just want to have fun).

Last summer, new lines were painted in the Bowen Island Community School yard, funded through a BICS and Bowen Island Community Recreation partnership and from a Vancouver Coastal Health grant.

After these lines added various games and activities to the yard, there was a clear favourite. The four square court quickly drew the attention of students. During any given recess there’s at least one game running.

If you don’t know how to play four square it’s pretty simple: just try to keep the ball in play and make sure it doesn’t land in your square and bounce out (think inside the box).

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Four square, true to its name, is played on four squares.

While the students may not see it, anyone who watches them

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play can see the clear communication, sportsmanship and physical literacy skills built in every match.

Seeing the four square interest at BICS inspired Bowen Island Community Recreation to apply for the Participaction Community Better Challenge grant. The successful application earned us the opportunity to put together a Four Square Championship.

This championship is for anyone who wants to come out for a night of music, fun, prizes and to try their hand in the art of four square.

The championship is a free two hour event that’s happening on June 8 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the BICS gym. This is an all ages event so parents have the chance to prove their skill on the courts and earn some bragging rights.

The only requirement is pre-registration through BICR online, by phone or in person at our office by Wednesday, June 5.

We hope to see you there and to continue the four square mania!

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Though council had previously turned down Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH)’s community grant application for $25,000 in operational funding for 2019 , council voted to request that staff find funding elsewhere in the budget for BIRCH. The thinking in initially denying BIRCH’s request was so as to not deplete the community grants pot. Basically, councillors said they would like to see BIRCH get the money, they’re just not sure from where yet.

The path forward: By next year’s bike to school week, given no more bumps in the road, youth should be able to bike along at least 180 metres of the multiuse cross-island path.

Council approved a $270,000 increase to the phase one project budget Monday. Community planner Emma Chow said the budget discrepancy was due to inaccurate engineering estimates. Though councillors voiced disappointment in the additional funds required, only Councillor Alison Morse voted against the motion (though her quibble was with the placement of phase one).

The multiuse path is part of the muni’s 20-year transportation plan adopted last year (Chow called it the “spine” of the plan). The five-phase project of a path alongside Trunk/ Grafton/Adams Road is slated for completion in the early 2030s but construction of the first part is expected to take eight weeks starting in June.

Instead of starting at one end of the island, phase one covers the Charlie’s Lane area of Grafton Road. With a cliff on one side, steep slope on the other and the road turning a sharp corner, Chow says in her report that the section is one of the most dangerous of the path’s route. She also says it’s likely the costliest phase (due to the aforementioned obstacles). The awarded contract price comes out at nearly $600,000.

Landing on a resolution: Bowen Island Resilient Community Housing (BIRCH) and Bowen Island Health Centre Foundation (BIHCF) will each receive .15 hectare (just over a third of an acre) parcels of Lot 3 of the Community Lands. Both are adjacent to the fire hall lot with the health centre bordering Miller Road and BIRCH’s housing project behind it.

The allocations come after months of discussion between the Mayor’s Standing Committee on the Community Lands and the two organizations as to how to best use the valuable stretch of flat Cove land.

“We’re very, very pleased,” BIRCH executive director Robyn Fenton told council about the new plan.

In a letter to council, Tim Rhodes, president of BIHCF, said that his organization too supported the plan.

It passed unanimously.

How many of those visitors were deer?

Nicholson, who is on the Metro’s parks committee, told council that Metro parks’ statistics show Crippen Park’s visitation was up 4.5 per cent in 2018. With 290,000 visitors, Crippen had record high visitation last year.

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Scottish filmmaker Richard Burke (father of local Elle Burke) screened three of his productions for friends and colleagues last Friday at the library.

The first, Whistle My Lad (2014), was a short Scottish Romeo and Juliet story filmed on the overseas isle. Burke wrote the script and says he’s working on a full-length version.

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48 hours: A Critical Timeframe in Solving a Homicide

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Neil Boyd, Jodi-Anne Warren

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Nia DavisMcGregor

What is the Meaning Behind our Dreams? A Cultural and Historical look at Dream Analysis

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Claude Giguere, Elaine Taylor

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My Journey through Animation

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Curtis Wright, Josh Mepham

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Jason Ford, Reed Bement

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John Stiver

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Impressionism: Exploring the First Major Art Movement through Painting

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Janet Essevia, Ann Beaty

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Mechanical Engineering of High End Bicycles

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Social Engineering - the Psychological Methods Hackers use to Steal your Information

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The Basics of Film Acting

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Anne Marie DeLuise, Michelle Harrison

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Are Ghosts Real? - A study of the Paranormal

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Edward Watchman, Lorraine Ashdown

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Chris and Ryan getting medals for 6th place at West Vancouver Yacht Club’s Pumpkin Bowl.

Bowen’s sailing youth BRONWYN BEAIRSTO

Editor

With school winding down, sailing season is gathering speed.

Island youth Ryan Champoux, 12, and Chris Oben, 11, have been sailing for half their lives (six years). The sailing partners race two-person dinghies, double-handed RS Fevas. While most of their classmates are landlubbers (or at the very least not competitive sailors) approximately twice a week Ryan and Chris head out on the water.

“It’s just fun to feel the breeze in your hair when you’re sailing,” says Ryan.

“It’s just awesome,” says Chris.

Ryan and Chris do sail in Bowen waters in the summer but the tacking duo usually practices at the West Vancouver Yacht Club.

Though they estimate that they’re about 10th in B.C. in the RS Feva class, the partners say their goal this season is to win a race. While they’re entering the Round Bowen Race, they’re more hopeful about some of the smaller cups and regattas.

What do sailors need to be aware of?

“Definitely just working on your reaction to things I think is a big part of it. Just knowing what to do in the right situation,” says Ryan.

“And your reflexes if the boom ever comes swinging,” says Chris.

What would they tell someone who wants to get into sailing?

“That it’s really fun. And if you get seasick, you shouldn’t do it,” says Ryan.

“They should just try out a boat and see how it goes,” says Chris.

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Ryan and Chris sailing a RS Feva at the Bluenose Regatta last Nov.