Burnaby Now February 20 2015

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Crash leaves woman dead

Rumours about street racing untrue – RCMP

By Cayley Dobie

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A few skid marks, some torn up lawn and a bouquet of flowers is all that marks the location of a fatal crash on Canada Way Tuesday afternoon.

A 22-year-old woman died shortly after a car hit her around 1:30 p.m. on Canada Way near BCIT. Burnaby RCMP Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis said police chose not to publicly release the fact that the woman had died on Tuesday because they were having trouble contacting her next of kin.

“We wanted to get a hold of next of kin before it was released that she’d passed,” Buis said. “It’s very tragic, and it was just an unbelievable event.”

The driver of the vehicle that hit the pedestrian and two passengers were taken to Vancouver General hospital with varying degrees of non-life-threatening injuries. Buis said the driver and his two passengers were all about 18 years old.

The driver of the second vehicle, a woman in her 50s, and her son, who is in his early 20s, were also taken to Burnaby Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Buis couldn’t say whether or not any of them had been released yet.

While the investigation is still ongoing,

CRASH SCENE Burnaby RCMP was on scene at Canada Way between Wayburne Drive and Willingdon Tuesday afternoon to investigate a two-car crash that killed a pedestrian and injured two drivers and two passengers. PHOTO LARRY WRIGHT

Buis said the crash was caused by the first vehicle – a white Infiniti.

Investigators believe it crashed into the second vehicle as it turned right on to Can-

ada Way from Beta Avenue.The collision pushed the second vehicle, a grey Volkswagen, into a bus shelter on the south side of Canada Way. Luckily no one was at the bus

stop when the car crashed into it, Buis added.

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Balanced budget blasted by NDP NDP MLA Kathy Corrigan says the surplus is being accomplished on the backs of average families

By Tereza Verenca

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The provincial budget unveiled this week in the legislature isn’t sitting well with the Burnaby-Deer Lake MLA. Kathy Corrigan argues while British Columbia is expected to post an $879-million surplus this year, it’s being accomplished on the backs of average families.

“The reason there is a balanced budget is because the government has cut services and will increase fees for average families,” the NDP MLA told the NOW. In his speech on Tuesday, Finance Minister Mike de Jong announced MSP premiums will go up by four per cent, while B.C. Hydro, ICBC and B.C. Ferries rates are also expected to rise.

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the surcharge on high-income earners imposed in the 2013 budget that Corrigan says is “incomprehensible.”

“Particularly when we have the highest level of inequality in the country, it doesn’t make sense that the government would give a $230 million tax cut to the richest two per cent of British Columbians, while giving a measly $5 million to low income earners.”

Applauded by all parties was the elimination of the Liberals’ policy to claw back child-support payments to single parents on income assistance.

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Other items from the $46.5-billion budget include $3 billion to the health care sector over three years, a tax credit worth $12.65 per child for fitness equipment, and more money for Community Living B.C. What didn’t carry much weight in de Jong’s plan was talk of B.C.’s much anticipated liquefied natural gas industry, with eighteen proponents considering setting up shop across the province.

“We remain optimistic, but what we won’t do is make budgetary assumptions until that first final investment decision is taken,” de Jong said.

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Ian Anderson Occupation PRESIDENT, KINDER MORGAN CANADA Why is he in the news?

As the National Energy Board reviews Kinder Morgan’s proposal for a new pipeline through Burnaby, all eyes are on

Can we start with just a brief review of the project, where it’s at now and what the next steps are?

We’re about halfway through the NEB process.

We’re in the midst of responding to our second round of information requests.Those get filed next Wednesday (Feb. 18).We have about 5,600 of those to respond to … . After that, there will be a couple of other small rounds of information requests related to Transport Canada’s TERMPOL report for some late intervenors participating and the NEB has another round, but really the next major, I would say, milestone will be intervenors and their evidence will be presented to the board early this summer.

With the last round of information requests, there was some criticism from the City of Burnaby,Vancouver, the provincial government and some intervenors that the questions weren’t answered fully. Can participants in the hearing expect a more fulsome response in the second round?

The short answer is yes.The longer answer is that the process itself is defined by the board. So the board defines the scope of the issues that are relevant to their consideration.We then have to work within that. … So the second round, what we found is there are still questions that are being asked that, in our view, aren’t relevant to the scope before the board. Having said that, we’re doing, I think, a more fulsome job of responding to as much as we possibly can within that scope, and I think intervenors will find that as they see the answers. …

the NEB, Kinder Morgan and the proposal. NOW reporter Jennifer Moreau sat down with Anderson for a chat last week.

I wanted to bring up something the City of Burnaby has been quite critical of lately, it’s the firm service fees being used to fund the development costs of the project, and the city has concerns that money is being used to pay for the advertising costs for the pipeline and that the firm service fees are going to drive up crude costs, which will eventually get passed to the consumer, so it’s almost like a consumer fee to help pay for the advertising.What do you think about that?

There will be no correlation between what our shippers have agreed to pay for service on our pipeline, to access the dock facilities, to export crude, and local prices and local gasoline prices.Those are globally set, based on global markets and local taxes. … We’re spending more in development than we’re collecting in firm service fees. So we’re at risk for that, but there’s no correlation between firm service fees that shippers are paying and the price of gasoline at the pump.

Are you confident the pipeline project will get approval from the NEB? I am. I fully expect that approval to come with conditions, as did Northern Gateway.We’re very attuned to what we expect those conditions to be and are working hard to reduce the number of them. …

Briefly, what are the conditions you’re expecting?

For example, there will be some final routing decision to be determined in some areas that will need conditions.There will likely be more work on natural habitat and species impact of the project. For example, the south coast resident whale population and ef-

THE MAN WITH A PLAN Ian Anderson, president of Kinder Morgan Canada, is confident the National Energy Board will approve his company’s plan to nearly triple capacity on the Trans Mountain pipeline. PHOTO JENNIFER MOREAU

We’d like very much to be talking directly to the City of Burnaby… forts we are going to make to work collectively with the port and the aquarium and others, to understand their habitat and health better.There will be conditions around the development of the next version of the development of our emergency response plan that has local input that has stakeholder consultation built into it.There will likely be conditions around how we are going to cross some rivers or highways and so forth, which methods of construction we use in some places, where valving might be located.There’s a whole range of things we expect.

I think there will be conditions around completion of detailed engineering and design, which is right now in its initial stages.

In November, we saw quite a bit of unrest and protesting on Burnaby Mountain, and that was only for survey work. If you are confident this project will get approval from the NEB, what do you expect will happen when you actually start building the pipeline?

I think there will be pockets where there will be opposition stronger than elsewhere. I think we are confident that we can have a construction and operational plan to ensure that everything happens safely and in accordance with what cities and municipalities would want us to do in terms of local construction impacts, the impact on residents and businesses and so forth, to minimize those impacts. I have no doubt that there’s going to be pockets where opposing voices are going to be louder than elsewhere, and we’ll deal with those on a local basis. … Obviously, we’d very much like to be talking directly to the City of Burnaby more about the city’s concerns and observations so we can plan accordingly.

Do you think there’s any hope in winning over the City of Burnaby or some of the residents, because Burnaby seems to be ground zero for this project and a hotbed of antipipeline activity.

It’s hard to equate what happened on Burnaby Mountain and the protest activity with the views of Burnaby.The Burnaby Mountain protest was an aggregation of multiple voices, everything from climate change activists, to large multinational environmental organizations, to local opposition groups, to

mothers and children who were interested and concerned.There’s a wide spectrum of voices there that I don’t think we take as representative of Burnaby’s views.

For many of the opponents to the project I’ve interviewed, climate change is a front-ofmind concern for them.

We have the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change saying we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground to prevent a two-degree warming of the planet’s atmosphere.

What are your thoughts on that, given you’re proposing to nearly triple capacity on the Trans Mountain line?

The Trans Mountain pipeline is a small component of the overall Canadian production, the overall global demand for fossil fuels, of which oil is a part. And the demands that we’re looking to satisfy are real and present today, markets looking to be accessed, countries looking to have access to Canadian production.

And over the next two to three decades, that’s not going to change.The globe’s reliance on fossil fuels is not going to change so dramatically as to make any current pipeline project redundant.

And as far as the climate change aspirations of those who use it as a reason to oppose, we’re not of differ-

ent mind.We acknowledge that as a planet, we need to understand better the impacts of fossil fuel development and use on climate change, establish policies in order to minimize those impacts and improve environmental footprints, etc., and I think there’s no better way to develop the technologies that are going to get us there from here than off the riches of the resource development we have.

Do you ever worry about what kind of planet your kids or grandkids may inherit?

I think that my son will inherit a planet that continues to progress and continues to change, and continues to evolve and hopefully continues to improve, and I hope that geo-political and government actions don’t get in the way of that. And in fact, they help harvest that, and I think he will have a bright future ahead, because I think the future, everybody in our industry respects is necessary, and like I say, that the prosperity necessary to create those technologies comes from somewhere, and in this country, we are a natural-resource rich country.

For the full interview with Anderson, see Jennifer Moreau’s blog, Community Conversations, www.burnaby now.com.

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Making points on the potty SFU students want ‘genderinclusive’ washrooms Cornelia Naylor

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A group of university students proclaimed an SFU washroom liberated from “gender policing” for a short time Wednesday.

The students – transgender, gender-variant and allies – staged a “shit-in” at a men’s washroom in the academic quad at the Burnaby campus.

Their aim was to raise awareness about the need for gender-inclusive washrooms and to collect signatures for a petition urging university officials to act on the issue.

“There’s no shitting involved,” co-organizer Bonnie Thornbury told the NOW at the event.

Thornbury and other demonstrators sat – pants

pulled down to their ankles – in front of the washroom holding signs that stated “Say No to Gender Policing” and “Support Gender Inclusive Washrooms.”

Other volunteers handed out flyers, directing passing students to the online petition.

That petition, which had 181 signatures as of Thursday morning, calls on the university to convert all single-stall washrooms – those with icons depicting a wheelchair, a man in pants and a woman in a dress – into all-gender washrooms.

It also calls for a percentage of multi-stall washrooms to be converted into all-gender washrooms and for future building plans to incorporate such washrooms.

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PROTEST : From left to right, SFU students Nadine Boulay , Bonnie Thornbury and Nathan Lyndsay pulled down their pants to protest the lack of all-gender-inclusive washrooms at the university Wednesday. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

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Balanced budget cold comfort for many For the third time in three years, the province (arguably) boasts a balanced or surplus budget.

As expected, there’s give and take in all directions.

Monthly MSP premiums are going up for the sixth time in five years. At the same time, a higher tax on those making more than $150,000 per year is being rolled back to 2013 levels. Families on disability or income assistance will no longer have their payments

clawed back if they received child support.

And though the total dollar amount going into health and education is going up, we can say right now that in 2015/2016 both sectors will continue to feel the strain as demand on the system grows.

It’s important to remember the human costs here.

News of a balanced budget will be cold comfort for someone struggling to get access to mental health

care.The same goes for school boards, which will have to find $29 million in “efficiencies” to keep the lights on.

As Judy Darcy, New Westminster’s NDP MLA, is quick to point out, given her school district’s challenges, any budget that does not effectively increase ongoing funding issues has to hurt students. As Darcy says, “Our school district is really lean. It has gotten to the point where parents

are speaking out and saying, ‘We get that you have really focused on classroom learning, but we also need to make sure we have computers, we have books and we have people who know how to take care of our finances.’”

Chances are what she says rings true for other school districts in B.C. As the NDP health critic, Darcy is also acutely aware that there are major problems with delivering health

care in the province. “Hallway medicine,” where patients reside in corridors instead of rooms, seems to be an almost acceptable practice now.

But our current government did not campaign and win on making sure the government met the needs of every disadvantaged group. So thinking that they would produce a budget that would consider those groups is, of course, pretty ridiculous.

Thankfully, B.C. isn’t hurting the way Canada’s other provinces are, especially Alberta with its fortunes tied so tightly to a plummeting barrel of oil.

But we also aren’t seeing any of the “trillion dollar” LNG bonanza that was the Liberals’ raison d’être in its 2013 provincial election campaign.

All in all, it’s a budget that promises more of the same – and for many folks that’s a curse and a blessing.

MY VIEW PAUL KERSHAW

A generation is being squeezed A new study published by Generation Squeeze finds that governments combine to spend $33,000 to $40,000 per retiree, $14,000 to $15,000 per person age 45 to 54, and less than $12,000 per person under age 45. One key question all Canadians should be asking is whether this age distribution is fair?

The answer depends on how different age groups are doing. In previous research, we’ve shown that Canadians aged 55-plus enjoy increases in household income that surpass those under 45, who are squeezed by lower earnings, less time and higher housing costs compared to a generation ago. High housing prices generate big wealth gains for those age 55-plus, while weighing down those under 45 with large debts.

Retirees now report the lowest rates of low-income status of any age group, yet more than a quarter of Canadian children start kindergarten vulnerable in ways that make them more likely to fail in school, commit crimes and fall ill. Canadians in their 40s and younger also inherit larger government and environmental debts than did their parents a generation ago.

Younger generations need to become a greater priority for policy adaptation by Canadian governments.When new investments are being made this budget season, younger Canadians should receive at least as much as

retirees. Unfortunately, the new Task Force on Aging suggests that the premiers are prioritizing population aging.This narrow focus risks overlooking generational equity.

Our new study shows that governments spend $150 billion annually on medical care – nearly half of which goes to the 15 per cent of Canadians age 65-plus. The same age group receives another $40 billion in Old Age Security (OAS). Medical care and OAS come from general taxes each year, dwarfing spending on families with kids.

Provincial and federal governments can and should budget equitably for aging parents and grandparents, as well as for their kids and grandchildren.

Fortunately, Canadians in their 40s and under are getting better organized to make this happen. Under the banner of Generation Squeeze, we’re squeezing back by building Canada’s most overdue lobby. It will match the good work of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, which has lobbied on behalf of Canadians 50-plus for decades.

So long as older Canadians have a strong lobby, younger Canadians deserve one too … so that provincial and federal budgets work for all generations.

Dr. Paul Kershaw is founder of Generation Squeeze (gensqueeze.ca) and a UBC policy professor in the School of Population Health.

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What the city isn’t saying about taxes

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Dear Editor For the City of Burnaby to operate status quo in 2015, the mayor and council want an additional $6.62 million from taxpayers (this is an added 2.98 per cent tax levy on top of the $222.18 million taxes required in 2014). Here is what your councillors should be discussing at the city’s public budget consultation meetings.

Your city councillors said that the tax increase is mainly to cover pay raises for RCMP, firefighters and CUPE staff. This may be part of the story, but why has your city council and your finance chair neglected to mention the management pay that council is responsible for? See below a handful of management positions, per the Statement of Financial Information reports on the City of Burnaby’s website. ! Assistant director of golf services: Remuneration of $152,702 in 2013, up 9.51 per cent from $139,441 in 2012. ! Deputy city manager: $208,719 in 2013, up 6.99 per cent from $195,090 in 2012. ! Assistant director, applications support: $132,897 in 2013, up 8.25 per cent from $122,764 in 2012. ! Director, parks recreation and culture: $187,775 in 2013, up 7.76 per cent from $174,252 in 2012. ! Assistant director, current planning: $144,805 in 2013, up 12.87 per cent from $128,291 in 2012.

When was the last time a Burnaby RCMP member had an annual increase in remuneration of more than $10,000 like the city management employees above? Councillors should be discussing all areas of the organization to ensure value for your tax dollars; councillors should not simply state that tax increases are necessary because of external factors and then point a finger at the RCMP. Does the city have a structured evaluation process with annual documented reviews to determine which management employees have met their yearly objectives and are deserving of salary increases? How does council determine the percentage increase? Why is city management receiving higher salary increases than what unions negotiated?

Your councillors should be discussing ways to operate the city more efficiently. Can Burnaby residents and businesses afford to pay 15 per cent more in taxes? Because the city mayor and council already approved a 2014 Financial Plan that says they will take $255 million from current properties by 2018 just to operate the city with the current level of services. That is almost a $33 million increase in property taxes during one term of council.

Daren Hancott, President of Burnaby First Coalition and mayoral candidate 2014, and Matthew Hartney, council candidate 2014

Punish drivers who endanger pedestrians Dear Editor There should be an automatic 30-day suspension for drivers who endanger the lives of innocent pedestrians.

It is one thing to be involved in a traffic accident – like it or not, we all assume risks when we enter a vehicle.

It is another thing to be such an irresponsible driver as to harm innocent pedestrians.

ICBC seems more concerned about punishing bridge toll evaders than drivers who endanger the lives of innocent pedestrians.

B. Hechter, by email

Heisenberg not surprised people drive like lunatics here – no one ever learns anything and police enforcement is very poor in Metro Vancouver for driving offences and enforcement. canali but not to worry: we’ll swallow the pain with increased insurance rates. Only in stupid, socialist BC do we all start out on ‘equal’ footing with auto insurance, regardless of age: yet we know, statistically, that it’s young male drivers who cause the most accidents.

Yet another accident @andrea_flores @CityofBurnaby 2nd bike accident in a month at gilmore/ lougheed. Pls evaluate signage/signals! #burnaby #cyclists #accident #injury #notcool

Is the NEB biased?

Here’s one ‘yes’ earlrichards The NEB decisions are not thorough, fair and rigorous, because the Kinder Morgan corrupted NEB will not permit cross-examination of its decisions and has denied citizens from making presentations. What happened to democracy?

So do firefighters deserve their pay?

Barb Overpaid and underworked. If it weren’t for medical assistance calls where they provide the skill level of a first aider, firefighters would be out of legitimate work. A million dollar fire truck with four overpaid city employees racing to often over prioritized shortness of breath calls. Downsize and reallocate those funds to more paramedics.

Jim Bob Sorry that you work for BCAS barb.

IslandintheSun Barb, don’t be concerned about Jim Bob’s (is that your fire hall nickname?) opinion. He obviously can’t argue against your valid points. Approximately sixty (60%) of calls are for medical. The fire services only opts in as first responders on these calls to make their stats look good and justify their budget.

Erik H. Vogel Barb, you should cancel your fire insurance, why have it if you will never have a fire!? Medical calls aren’t our job, just a bonus to taxpayers and we are happy to do them. (unlike you)

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Continued from page 5 Thornbury said the icons of a man wearing pants and a woman wearing a dress reinforce outdated gender stereotypes that need to change.

“I personally don’t identify with a gender, and I don’t like having to choose a gender every time that I go to the washroom,” she said.

For more obviously gender-nonconforming people than Thornbury, gendersegregated washrooms also present a threat, said the demonstrators.

“A lack of gender-neutral washrooms is a major safety concern for trans and gender-variant students who are often harassed or assaulted for not meeting gender expectations,” thirdyear gender studies student

Nathan Lyndsay stated in a press release before the protest.

Lyndsay went on to say SFU recently made positive steps towards a trans-inclusive campus by allowing students to use preferred names on student ID cards and class lists, and that addressing the washroom issue was the next step.

Shit-in co-organizer Theron Meyer uses neither men’s nor women’s washrooms.

“I can’t because I can’t enter a washroom without receiving at least three scrutinizing double takes,” Meyer said. “It makes me feel like a freak. It would make anyone feel like a freak.”

The gender studies student said there are not enough single-stall wash-

rooms on campus, and it’s not fair that trans people have to search them out.

Besides addressing the unfairness and inconvenience, however, Meyer said washrooms should be desegregated to promote equality among all genders.

“Because this is an issue that will affect everyone at the end of the day, I’m hoping we’ll get all kinds of people to talk about it,” Meyer said.

Response to the protest was mostly positive, according to Thornbury, except for a few negative comments on social media.

“Ultimately, one of our main goals is to get public education around this issue,” she told the NOW Thursday, “and I think we’ve achieved that goal.”

Crash under investigation Continued from page 1 “There’s rumours about … street racing, but I can say that the two cars didn’t acknowledge or meet each other until one vehicle struck the other,” he said.

Investigators are looking at the possibility that speed may have been a factor in the crash, but at this time they don’t believe drugs or alcohol were involved, Buis added.

“We can’t confirm any of that, but from the distances and from the impact and everything else that’s what it suggests to us,” he said.

The victim’s identity has not been released at this time. Buis didn’t know if she was a Burnaby resident but confirmed she worked in Burnaby near the crash site.

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vice, which should provide additional insight into what caused the fatal collision, Buis added.

Canada Way was closed for several hours Tuesday and eventually reopened shortly before 7 p.m.

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Board of trade backs balanced B.C. budget Jacob Zinn

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The Burnaby Board of Trade is backing the B.C. Liberals’ “stay the course” 2015 budget.

In a press release, the board voiced its support of the new provincial budget, released Tuesday by Finance Minister Mike de Jong, after watching him deliver the budget speech live in the B.C. Legislature.

“The BBOT is generally satisfied with this ‘stay-thecourse’ budget and is happy to see that there were no big surprises for the business community,” said BBOT president and CEO Paul Holden in the statement.

The budget notes the surplus for 2014-15 is on pace to reach $879 million – almost doubling previous forecasts – and projects a $284 million surplus for the fiscal year of 2015-16.

It also boasts funding increases of $3 billion and

$564 million for health care and education, respectively, over the next three years, along with a number of benefits for families and young children.

Starting April 1, about 180,000 families will begin receiving the B.C. Early Childhood Tax Benefit, which provides up to $660 per year for child care for children under six. Additionally, children born on or after Jan. 1, 2007 will be eligible for a one-time Training and Education Savings grant of $1,200.

“The diversity in our economy and export markets have insulated B.C. from the worst of the economic downturn,” said de Jong in a statement.

“The discipline we showed through the recession to bring the budget into balance has given us the flexibility to make modest, strategic investments that maintain public services like health care and education,

as well as strengthen and encourage growth in key sectors.”

The BBOT praised the B.C. government for providing supports for the film and television industries, including an expansion of the Digital Animation orVisual Effects Tax Credit and an extension of the Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit to 2018.

“Having a balanced provincial budget and proving we can keep our fiscal house in order is just one more thing that sets B.C. apart and makes this an attractive place to do business,” stated Holden.

De Jong is scheduled to appear at a reception with BBOT members on Thursday, March 19. Attendees will be able to network before hearing from the minister on the budget and what the coming months hold in store for B.C. For more information, visit bbot.ca.

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Old art form for a new year Julie MacLellan LIVELY CITY

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Want to try your hand at one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world?

Everyone is invited to stop by the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Saturday to take part in Chinese brush painting.The activity, in celebration of Chinese New Year, is this month’s free Art on the Spot demonstration.

Longtime students from the Shadbolt’s Chinese brush painting/watercolour classes will be on hand to demonstrate and instruct people on the use of Chinese brushes, ink and paint.

You can stop by and try your hand at basic techniques, creating your own simple painting on rice paper.

Interested? Just drop by the Shadbolt Centre, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21.

And, while you’re at it, mark your calendar for the next Art on the Spot session coming up in March – on Saturday, March 7, instructor Arlynn Nobel will demonstrate the art of throwing clay on a potter’s wheel. She’ll be at the Shadbolt from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. that day.

Check out www.shadbolt centre.com or follow @ShadboltCentre on Twitter to stay on top of all the happenings at the city’s busy arts centre on Deer Lake.

OPERA THIS WEEKEND A reminder to opera fans that you can catch a pro-

duction of the perennial favourite Madama Butterfly right here at home, starting this weekend.

Burnaby Lyric Opera is staging the Puccini classic at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Feb. 21 to 28.

The opera follows the story of a beautiful young geisha, Cio-Cio-San, who falls in love and marries B.F. Pinkerton, an American naval lieutenant. Shortly after their wedding, he returns to America, and Cio-Cio-San waits three years with their son for this return – only to find that when he comes back, it is to take his son back to America with him.

Music director David Boothroyd and stage director Adam DaRos will lead a cast of emerging B.C. opera artists in this classic production, sung in Italian with English surtitles.The ensemble features Gina McLellan Moral, Nicolas Rhind, Francesca Corrado – who, by the way, is a Burnaby native – and Geoffrey Schellenberg.

It’s on Feb. 21, 26 and 28 at 8 p.m., and Feb. 23 and 25 at 2 p.m.

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You can also find out more at www.burnabylyric opera.org.

THEATRE BOOSTERS It’s a partnership that works on many levels.

The Michael J. Fox Theatre Society recently received a $9,000 cheque from Align Entertainment – one night’s ticket profits from the company’s current Continued on page 12

Lights, camera … A production still from Outside the Lines, starring Cameron Bright as D.J. PHOTO BETTINA STRAUSS, CONTRIBUTED

Film producer goes Crazy

Local resident part of winning Crazy 8s team

It’s been a tradition in Vancouver’s film scene for 16 years – and a Burnaby producer was part of the mayhem for this year’s Crazy 8s competition.

The Crazy 8s filmmaking challenge is designed to help emerging filmmakers produce a short film.This year’s challenge started with a field of 196 applicants, which was whittled down to 40 short-listed projects, 12 semifinalists and then, in the end, six finalists.

Those six teams were then given $1,000, a pro-

duction support sourced overseas package and eight – and finds himdays to produce self lured by the their films, starting rewards of the luon Friday, Feb. 13. crative world of Among those telephone fraud. teams was BurnA film synopaby’s Keli Moore, sis describes it as a one of the produc“gritty, uncomproers on Outside the mising look at the Lines. initiation of a novKeli Moore The Heights res- Film producer ice into the dark ident returned to side.” the Crazy 8s film world for Moore is no stranger to a second time after producthe world of filmmaking, ing last year’s science fiction having worked her way up comedy Earthlickers. through the trenches startThis year’s entry, Outside ing as a production assisthe Lines, is co-produced by tant, becoming a Directors’ Dave Rice and directed by Guild of Canada member Scott Belyea. It tells the sto- and working as a director’s ry of D.J., who is left jobassistant on both low-budless and broke after the call get and multimillion-dolcentre he works at is outlar feature films – including

Juno, X-Men 2, Catwoman and Superman: Man of Steel.

She also writes, produces and directs projects under the brand name Mr. and Mrs. Myth, with co-creator Tony Mirza.That label gave birth to the funny and successful Advice 4 Men campaign for Diane’s Lingerie, which is still gathering international publicity andYouTube viewership.

Film lovers can see Moore’s film and the other five winners at a gala screening set for Saturday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at The Centre, 777 Homer St. in Vancouver.There’s also an after-party at Science World.

Check out www.crazy8s. cc for all the details.

– Julie MacLellan

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Entertainment now Theatre group helps out Continued from page 11 run of The Addams Family musical, which is onstage until Feb. 21 at the Michael J. Fox Theatre.

Chad Matchette, one of the founders of Align Entertainment and the owner of the Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts, presented the cheque to John White, a director and acting chair of the theatre society.

“In our world, this is a wonderful partnership where Lindbjerg Academy for the Performing Arts teaches and helps encourage young people to express themselves and find their voice through musical theatre and dance, where Align Entertainment allows them the opportunity to master and practise their craft through recognized professional productions, and where the Michael J. Fox Theatre gets to showcase these productions in front of live audiences of up to 613 people,” writes Russ Read, a director of the theatre society, in an email to the Burnaby NOW. It’s the second straight year for Align Entertain-

Theatre boosters: John White, left, a director and acting chair of the Michael J. Fox Theatre Society, receives a $9,000 cheque from Chad Matchette, one of the founders of Align Entertainment. The theatre company presented the profits of one night’s tickets to the Michael J. Fox Theatre’s scholarship account. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

ment to make such a donation – it did the same thing during last year’s run of Shrek the Musical, which was the new company’s inaugural production.

Kudos to all for helping to boost local theatre on many levels.

For more about the company or tickets for the final couple of shows, see www. alignentertainment.ca.

SAVE THE DATES Here are a couple of upcoming dates for arts lov-

ers to note, courtesy of the Shadbolt Centre. ! Continuum Dance Company:The resident dance company and special guests will perform Sunday, March 1 at 7 p.m. in the Studio Theatre.Tickets are $10. ! Footprints:The Shadbolt’sYouth in Motion group, along with special guests, performs on Saturday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio Theatre.Tickets are $10.

Find Julie MacLellan on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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February is celebrated as pet dental month across North America. Every year, veterinary clinics offer free oral exams as well as freebies related to oral care for pets, in an effort to raise awareness about the importance of oral care for companion pets. Dental disease is a very common problem for pets; we all have said to our pooch at one time or another, “Oh, you have stinky breath”. Halitosis (bad breath) and gingivitis should be hard to ignore in dog as they love giving kisses and being in our faces a lot!

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Recently, it has become very fashionable to pursue “non-sedation dentistry”. I should point out that such a form of teeth cleaning is not recommended or approved. In fact, in provinces like Ontario, it is regarded malpractice. Such a service is of cosmetic benefit to the teeth only, and offers no additional health benefits to pets. Dental care for pets is not an art, it is science.

An authentic dental cleaning and prophylaxis for pets is exactly the same as would be performed for humans, except all pets need some form of sedation. All pets need sedation because you cannot explain the process away to pets, as you would to a human. A dental procedure includes scaling the tartar off the teeth, probing under the gum line to assess for cavities, polishing, dental x-rays and extractions where indicated. Decades back veterinarians used to scale teeth on animals that were awake as part of dental care; but this practice was learnt to be of no benefit. In fact “nonsedation dentistry” for pets can be harmful as it may help mask or hide gum infections which can lead to bad breath, cavities, loose teeth, kidney & heart infections etc. If your pet hasn’t had an oral exam for longer than a year, it is time to book a vet appointment.

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She was a very good mom and her kitten was adopted quite quickly. Now it is Grizzly’s turn to shine and find herself a fabulous home. Grizzly has lived with children but prefers quieter, respectful kids that allow her to slowly come to them. She can be quite shy initially and gets spooked by loud noises.

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Meet Jaxon, a gentle man looking for a constant companion. He will require an adult only home, with an experienced guardian. Jaxon has unique markings and once he knows you, his personality really starts to shine! Jaxon can feel very anxious and tends to whine, he will require a guardian who works from home, retired or has a very flexible schedule. He is very sweet and affectionate with the people he loves. Jax is playful and loves to play fetch...hiking buddy anyone?

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Ebony would be best suited to a home with older children. Come meet gorgeous Ebony today!

Bailey is gorgeous! Ever wonder where the money you donate goes? Well, here’s an example of beautiful Bailey, who just had surgery. After coming to us from a home at which Bailey’s guardian had passed, our trained staff discovered that she had a limp. Well turns out it was a broken toe. With the help of the SPCA Hospital Trust Fund, the branch covered the rest of the cost of her surgery to repair the toe and ensure she was spayed. In her case, a total of around $800 was spent. This sweet girl deserves to get into a forever home to recover from surgery and a broken heart!

The BCSPCA cares for more than 32,000 homeless, abused and injured animals each year, including more than 1,000 animals in Burnaby. The non-profit society receives no provincial government funding and is completely reliant on community support for most of its services. To find out how you can help or to view adoptable animals on line, visit spca.bc.ca or call the Burnaby SPCA Branch at 604.291.7201.

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BY DAVID CHAO

Kia tends to be often ignored in the marketplace, simply because people don’t talk about this brand often. However, every model in its lineup is worth consideration in its respective market segment thanks to the fact that their products have been updated continuously.

On that note, if you need a practical family sedan that has amazing styling, the Kia Optima deserves a thorough examination.

The Kia Optima has the styling that turns heads, but it has more than just good looks. It boasts a lineup of efficient and powerful engines, a comfortable and premium-looking interior – all for a non-premium price.

To be fair, there are many worthy competitors in the midsize sedan segment. To highlight a few, rivals include the Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.

Significantly refreshed last year, the 2015 Optima receives subtle interior updates and upgraded tech.

Design

The Kia Optima shares its architecture with the Hyundai Sonata, though the Optima has unique styling inside and out. The exterior lines of the Optima are cleaner and more crisp compared to the Sonata.

The Optima’s cross-hatch front grille and long sweptback headlights give it the impression of a “moving vehicle” even when it’s not. A strong shoulder line flows smoothly into the wraparound tail lamps and tie the look of the whole vehicle together. The blacked out roof works well with all colour combinations and hides the available panoramic sunroof.

A similar approach was taken inside the cabin as it is

very driver focused and cleanly laid out. While some of the materials in the base model are not up to the same quality as its rivals, it does come with some premium standard features like heated side mirrors and Bluetooth phone connectivity.

The front seats are very comfortable and are well bolstered. All but the base model come with leather seats, which can be finished in a classy quilted look.

In the rear seats, passengers will find plenty of legroom.

However, due to the Optima’s sharply raked roofline, taller people will find headroom to be lacking.

Performance

Most Optima models will have a 2.4-litre four-cylinder under the hood. This motor is rated at a respectable 192 hp and 181 lb-ft of torque.

Those seeking more performance can opt for a 2.0-litre twin-scroll turbocharged four-cylinder. Producing 274 hp and 269 lb-ft of torque, this engine is capable of delivering a thrilling 0-100km run, yet still return admirable fuel economy.

Aiding the turbo’s surprising economy is the fact that Kia only recommends regular unleaded gasoline, saving the cost of high octane fuel. One drawback is that there is some noticeable turbo lag under hard acceleration.

A separate Optima Hybrid is also available. This uses a 2.4-litre Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder creating 159 hp.

That is boosted 46 hp by an electric motor to improve both efficiency and off-the-line acceleration.

Mated to both the base and hybrid motors is a sixspeed automatic with Sportmatic clutchless manual shifting. The turbo still uses a six-speed auto, but the gear ratios are closer and it adds steering wheel mounted paddle shifters.

Regardless of which powerplant you choose, the Optima provides smooth and quiet driving. The suspension is calibrated more for comfort and highway cruising than hard cornering. The steering is light and doesn’t give enough feedback for a spirited drive. In general, the driving character is uninspiring but it feels predicable and sensible nevertheless.

Unlike some of its rivals, the Optima is only available in front-wheel drive. However, those concerned about winter driving can purchase the LX AT Winter Edition, which includes a set of winter tires.

Environment

The cabin of the Optima is quite welcoming - especially in the upper-end trim levels - and would not look out of place in a premium automobile. Some upscale features include heated and cooled front seats, a massive dual-panel moonroof, and a voice activated navigation and infotainment system.

There is also plenty of cargo capacity for all your luggage or sporting equipment. All 437 litres of trunk space is also easy to access with three ways to open the trunk lid – a button on the key fob, a button on the drivers door, and a release above the licence plate.

Most models run the next-generation UVO eServices infotainment system. This system has features to keep the owner informed about the vehicle, whether they are behind the wheel or remotely via a smartphone. Also, new parental controls are included such as Geo Fencing, Driving Score, Speed Alerts and Curfew Alerts.

Features

Starting prices range from $24,795 to $35,895 as the Optima is available in five trim levels. The Optima Hybrid comes with two trim choices and starts at either $30,095 or $33,695.

Standard equipment includes heated front seats, power driver seat, power windows and locks, steering wheel mounted controls, automatic headlights, cooling glove box, and keyless entry.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include air-cooled front seats, heated rear seats, heated steering wheel, smart key, remote start, push button ignition, fully automatic dual zone climate control, auto dimming rearview mirror, LED daytime running lights, rain sensing windshield, and a rearview camera.

Fuel efficiency numbers (L/100km) for the 2.4-litre engine are 10.2 city and 6.9 highway, and the Turbo returns 11.7 city and 7.7 highway. The Optima Hybrid LX is rated at 6.6 city and 5.9 highway, while the EX model is 6.7 city and 6.1 highway.

Thumbs Up

Despite the exterior styling being a few years old, the Kia Optima still looks fresh and new. All three engine choices are powerful and efficient.

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If you want the added security of all-wheel drive, you will need to look elsewhere. Also, if you are looking for something that has a great driving character, this car may not be the answer.

The Bottom Line

The 2015 Kia Optima offers all the practical elements needed in a family sedan, while still providing classy looks and premium features.

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CARS POWER BUILDINGS DURING PEAK HOURS Several Japanese automakers, Nissan chief among them, are exploring electric-vehicle-to-building systems to power homes and offices in the event of outages.With just six all-electric Leaf sedans, Nissan has shown it can power the company’s Advanced Technology Centre in Atsugi City, Japan.There might be other benefits in the offing aside from providing power in blackouts: Nissan says the technology’s main purpose could be used to reduce energy use at times of peak demand.When power is cheaper during off-peak

clude in-wheel motors that can handle gradients up to 21 per cent, making it suitable for hilly areas, while providing a claimed range of almost 290 kilometres, all while carrying a load of 120 passengers.

BATTERY-ELECTRIC BUS IS WORLD’S LARGEST While others are using electrification as a means to improve fuel economy and eliminate or reduce emissions, China-based auto and battery maker BYD is going the other way, recently unveiling what it claims is the world’s largest battery electric vehicle: a city bus.The Lancaster eBus, named after the California city where it was designed and built over the past two years, looks like any other articulated bus, reports emerging technologies magazine Gizmag, but it hides some advanced electricdrive technology.These in-

FORTWO’S NEW DUDS STILL A YEAR OUT Mercedes-Benz’s Smart division will bring its newly designed ForTwo coupe to buyers this year, but the Electric Drive version will carry on wearing the outgoing model’s body parts until late 2016 as a 2017 model.The gasoline-powered ForTwo will arrive in showrooms this summer.

More than a year later, the redesigned ForTwo Electric Drive is scheduled to go on sale, presumably with an updated drivetrain, as well as sporting the new look.

Smart USA general manager, Mark Webster, said the Electric Drive accounts for about a quarter of Smart’s

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CVTS COULD HELP MEET EMISSIONS TARGETS General Motors is in the late stages of developing an in-house continuously variable transmission (CVT) for use around the world, to meet ever-tightening fuel economy and carbon-dioxide emissions. Industry trade journal,WardsAuto, says the CVT will find its way into several high-volume products by 2019, including some U.S. models.

It will be mated to the company’s new family of smalldisplacement three- and four-cylinder engines rolling out this year.The CVT has reached a point in its development where GM has hosted suppliers at its global powertrain headquarters in Pontiac, Mich., to solicit bids for parts. “We can’t

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the facility reflects the importance of Silicon Valley to future development in electronic autonomous (driverless) cars and in-car computing. “We’re driving to be both a product and a mobility company,” he said.

FORD CHALLENGES OTHER AUTOMAKERS Announcing it will open a research-and-development center in California’s Silicon Valley makes Ford just the latest automaker to set up shop there, in the backyard of California electric car startup,Tesla Motors.

The new facility, called the Ford Research and Innovation Center, will be in Palo Alta, less than three miles from Tesla’s headquarters at Stanford University. Industry watchdog Automotive News says Ford has posted job listings for 16 positions at the center, primarily for engineers, researchers and programmers. Ford Motor Co. CEO Mark Fields says

SHIFT POINTS • Volkswagen says its Golf GTE plug-in hybrid offers eco-conscious buyers “the best of both worlds,” being a compact hatchback that can be driven up to 50 kilometres in city driving on electric power, or up to almost 1,000 kilometres on highways using its on-board gasoline engine.

• Toyota says it likes the new large-scale array at its United Kingdom engine production centre in Deeside, North Wales. Almost 13,000 solar panels provide up to 10 per cent of all electricity required for manufacturing at the site, which is enough to produce 22,500 car engines per year.

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Communitynow School District No. 41 students hike, code, argue Cornelia Naylor

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BANK PITCHES IN A new Burnaby school district program for at-risk youth got a boost from a local credit union last month.

Take a Hike is an alternative education program that offers a combination of adventure-based learning, academics, therapy and community involvement for students who have had trouble succeeding in the regular classroom environment.

Based at the Canada Way Education Centre, the joint School District No. 41 – Take a Hike Foundation program started here in September.

On Jan. 27, the Burnaby Westminster Savings Credit Union donated $5,000 to the initiative.

“I strongly believe every child is a puzzle piece and no matter what obstacles get in their way, each one de-

serves a chance to find their place in this puzzle,” customer service representative and Take a Hike volunteer Davina Sam said. “Take a Hike provides youth with the tools to gain the confidence to find their place and make a difference.”

For more information about the Grade 10 to 12 program, visit takeahikefoundation.org or contact CEO Matthew Coyne at matthew@takeahikefoundation.org or 604-630-5818.

KINDERGARTENERS CODE Cameron Elementary students from kindergarten to Grade 7 recently got a taste of computer coding, and now they’re getting ready to use their newfound skills to program robots.

In December, at the urging of a Cameron parent, teacher-librarian Jacqueline Kirzner got the school involved in the Hour of Code, an online introduction to computer science designed to demystify code

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“This isn’t a scary new world,” Kirzner said of learning code. “You go through one step at a time.”

She is now preparing to launch a once-a-week computer club for students in kindergarten to Grade 7 this spring.The main ac-

tivity will be to program six school robots acquired through the FuelYour School program.

For more information on the Hour of Code, visit code.org.

ALPHA ARGUES Alpha Secondary debaters took top spot in the senior and novice categories at the Lower Mainland Central Regional Debate Tour-

nament at Burnaby Mountain Secondary last month.

Hamish Clinton took first place as individual speaker, while Drew Powell came fifth.The pair then went on to win first place as a team, earning a spot at the provincial tournament, also known as the Law Foundation Cup, Feb. 27 and 28.

In the novice category (grades 6 to 8) Alpha’s Lucas Fleming took top spot

as individual speaker, while Cole Diepold came second. Fleming and Diepold then won first place as a team and will also head to the provincials, to be hosted at St. George’s School in Vancouver.

Do you have an item for Class Act? Send ideas from Burnaby schools to Cornelia, cnaylor@burnabynow.com, or find her on Twitter, @CorNaylor.

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City Beat

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CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF THE RAM IN THE HEIGHTS. The annual Lunar Year celebration is being hosted by the Heights Merchants Association on Saturday, between noon and 3 p.m. Hastings Street will come alive with music and dance! Colourful lions will perform special blessings to bring luck to local businesses. If you happen to be shopping in the area, you may even receive a fortune cookie and a red envelope containing a special message. Don’t miss out! Who knows, you may even win a Heights gift certificate.

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HEAD OVER TO THE BURNABY ART GALLERY for a special exhibit showcasing Chinese export water-colour painting.This unique genre took form when Chinese artists began learning from their western counterparts, and then started shipping their work out-of-country.This is your chance to explore the influential role western art traditions had on Chinese export paintings.The exhibition, curated by Barry Till, runs Sunday from noon un-

til 5 p.m. A donation of $5 is suggested.

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TAKE IN AN OPERA AT THE SHADBOLT CENTRE. Follow the tale of Madama Butterfly and Cio-Cio-San, a young geisha who falls in love and marries an American naval lieutenant named B.F. Pinkerton.The pair is apart for three long years, with Pinkerton in America and Cio-Cio-San raising their young son. After reuniting with his fam-

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by Lyric Opera production team, in combination with the best of B.C.’s young opera singers, bring this ‘must see’ to life.The show, which will be sung in Italian with English surtitles, runs from 8 p.m. to 10 on Saturday.

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Question: How long do I need to dry the seeds from a Thai chili before planting?

– MiVuong,Vancouver Answer: Dry them until they resist when you try to bend them.

If they do bend, they need drying even more. But not all Thai chili pepper seeds are suitable for sprouting.

Seed from some grocery store chili peppers may not grow at all, depending on their handling.The best kind of grocery store source for Thai chili peppers is an organic store, or perhaps an ethnic store where people know how their chili peppers have been treated.

These chili peppers need to be completely ripe before the seeds are close to being ready for harvesting.The mature colour of the peppers may vary. It’s usually red but could be purple, orange, brown or black.

After cleaning the seeds with plain water, you need

to store them in a gently warm place.The top of a refrigerator or water heater should be OK. They shouldn’t be in direct sunlight, not above a heat vent and not in an oven. Shake or stir the seeds a little bit as they dry.

Question: I’ve tried sprouting some camellia cuttings in a bucket of water since September. I put some others deep in root hormone before I stuck them in pots. But all those with growth hormone died.After three months, one of the camellia cuttings has two sprouts that are still alive, but it looks like they’re stagnant. I really want to save them.

– Addy,Vancouver Answer: It’s very rare to succeed in rooting a camellia in water.Virtually all need rooting in soil. An acidic sandpeat mix is best with modest amounts of rooting hormone. Huge amounts of rooting hormone are very hard on plants.

For rooting plants that do succeed in water, rain wa-

ter is much healthier than city water or well water.Tap water can contain additions such as chlorine while well water may contain various minerals.

Camellias love humid, moist conditions but do need to be rooted in soil.

About three, four or five stem nodes is a good length for cuttings, but stems this long won’t contain enough nourishment to support whole leaves and make roots as well. So the leaves should be snipped in half to reduce the drain on the cutting’s energy.

Once the cuttings are planted in soil, they should be misted and placed in a large plastic bag (or propagator) to hold in the moisture. It would be useful to place them on a greenhouse heat mat.

Your camellia pots are best in a warm shady-but bright place that’s kept gently misted and moist but not drenching wet.

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Nothing says “lab” like a set of calipers and a treadmill test that involves hooking your subject up to a breathing hose.

This is the realm of Fortius Sport & Health exercise physiologist Elizabeth Gnatiuk, and I have fallen into her clutches.

Part one of our appointment involves some pinchylooking calipers.

Finding out Gnatiuk is a qualified “anthropometrist” does little to put me at ease, but it turns out that’s not as sinister as it sounds.

Besides being an exercise physiologist, Gnatiuk is also a “people measurer,” and the calipers she uses are quite harmless.

Gently pulling the skin from eight different parts of my body (bicep, tricep, shoulder, hip, thigh, calf, and two different places on my tummy) with her thumb

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and forefinger, she uses the calipers to measure the “soft tissue” (a.k.a. subcutaneous fat) in each spot.

Using a tape measure, she then measures five different “girths” – arm, waist, hip, thigh and calf.

Each measurement is taken at least twice and carefully conforms to protocols set out by the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK).

By itself, this basic body composition assessment is useful as a general health indicator that puts me right in the middle of the healthy zone, according to Gnatiuk.

But one test in isolation is not very exciting.

“When it gets exciting is when you come back,” Gnatiuk says. “You have a goal, you go away, you train, you have a diet program that you’re working with, and then you come back and you see the changes.”

And because she’s an ISAK certified pro with a two per cent margin of error or less, Gnatiuk’s clients can be sure the changes are real and not the result of mea-

surement error.

The second part of my time with Gnatiuk involves more effort from me than being gently pinched all over.

After plugging my nose with a clip and hooking me up to a snorkel-like mouthpiece attached to a hose outfitted with a oneway valve, she sets me on a treadmill.

“I’m just going to increase the intensity until you can’t go anymore,” she said.

The point of this so-called ramp test is to gauge my aerobic power, or VO2 max, which basically shows how efficiently my body produces power out of the air I breathe.

The snorkel-hose is designed to collect everything I exhale and funnel it into an automated metabolic gas-analysis system.

Gnatiuk also measures my maximum pulse and breathing rate.

It’s supposed to be a minimum six-minute test, but as the whirr of the treadmill grows into a higher and higher pitched whine, I call it quits at 5:27.

Panting, I ask whether there is any conclusion Gnatiuk can still salvage from the prematurely aborted test.

“You like to stay in your comfort zone is what it told me,” she says wryly.

Like a lot of recreational runners, I do most of my running in the “junk zone,” which Gnatiuk describes the “comfortably uncomfortable” intensity folks like me gravitate to because we want to work out hard enough to get sweaty and feel like we’ve done something, but not hard enough to reach maximum thresholds.

It burns calories, to be sure, but it won’t lead to improvements in performance, Gnatiuk says.

To do that, she encourages athletes to polarize their training into workouts that are mostly either very easy or very hard.

Counter-intuitive as that sounds to the recreational athlete, elite runners, crosscountry skiers, rowers, cyclists, etc. have been training that way for years.

Gnatiuk can help by testing weekend warriors and elites alike, giving them targets to work with and baseline data to measure improvements against.

After my tests, she presents me with a sheaf of papers showing my results.

If I’m serious about making improvements, she sug-

gests I use them to push myself out of my comfort zone, possibly with the help of a Fortius conditioning coach who would work in collaboration with the lab.

“That’s what I do,” she said. “I eliminate guessing.

This is what it is whether you like it or not.This is what you need to do. It makes you accountable, and you know you’re working exactly where you need to.That’s my motto – guess less.”

Next stop, hydrotherapy.

Ramp test: Fortius exercise physiologist Elizabeth Gnatiuk, left, gets NOW health reporter Cornelia Naylor ready for a treadmill test that will gauge her aerobic power.

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Burnaby trio to u-17 qualifier

Whitecaps residents in tough pool at CONCACAF championships in Honduras Tom Berridge

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Three Burnaby soccer players will be looking to put their collective feet forward towards qualifying Canada for the under-17 world championships.

Former u-15 national team players forward Terran Campbell and defender Matthew Baldisimo will join goalkeeper Luciano Trasolini, who made his u-17 national team debut last month, at the CONCACAF u-17 soccer championships in Honduras next week.

The three Vancouver Whitecaps FC residency products were officially named members of Canada’s 20-man national team squad on Tuesday for the upcoming world championship qualifier set to begin on Feb. 28, when Canada takes on Haiti.

“I’m excited, very excited. I just kept thinking about my dad and grandpa. that’s who I’m doing it for,” said Trasolini. “They’ve been so involved in my future.”

Campbell and Baldisimo, who both made their national team debuts in Mexico at u-15, agreed it’s always a good feeling to put on the Maple Leaf jersey.

The Canadian team also has dates against Costa Rica on March 3; Mexico on March 6; St. Lucia on March 9; and Panama on March 12.

The Burnaby boys prepared themselves for the task ahead on Canada’s pre-qualifying camp to Central America in January, where they played games against Guatemala and El Salvador.

“I’ve come a long way from when I first started,” said Campbell. “I’m getting

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We three: Matthew Baldisimo, above, Terran Campbell, right, and Luciano Trasolini, below, will be looking to qualify the Canadian national men’s soccer team to an unprecedented third straight under-17 world championship. PHOTOS COURTESY OF VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC

a lot more comfortable putting the jersey on.”

Baldisimo also displayed a similar confidence.

“I know I was going up against two of the best countries in the world. I thought I played pretty well against them. I was chosen. It’s like a sense of pride mixed with nervousness.”

Canada qualifed for the last two u-17 world championships.They also had back-to-back appearances at the worlds in 1993 and ’95.

But winning three consecutive appearances at the worlds has so far eluded the red and white.

“It’s going to take a very disciplined, committed team effort,” said Canada’s head coach Sean Fleming in a Canada Soccer press release. “We know with

the qualifying procedure how difficult it will be with games every third day with the heat, and we know the quality of the opponents.

It’s a very tough group compared to the other group, in my opinion.”

The two group winners

advance to the final, while also earning a berth into the worlds.

The second- and thirdplace teams play off for the two remaining spots at the world championships.

“We have a great group of players. I have confi-

dence we’ll qualify,”Trasolini said. “Yeah, I’m going to take (the opportunity). I just got to be myself.”

Campbell agreed.

“You want to get into the game and just play your game,” Campbell said. “I hope our squad can do the best we can.There is a lot of pressure. Every single player on our team wants that, and I know we can achieve it.”

Baldisimo, who at 5-8 is used to defending against bigger and taller opponents, is equally ready to take on this challenge.

“It’s like a whole country not just a city,” he said. “I step on the field and it all comes back to me, doing all the right things. …

“It’s more like willpower, it’s a mental game.”

Clan women win four medals on mats Tom Berridge

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Simon Fraser University picked up four medals and finished in fourth spot at the Women’s College wrestling national championships.

Freshman Abby Lloyd was a runner-up at 109 pounds, while Clan senior Bailley Halvorson, junior Darby Huckle and

EDC FC blank Rino’s in Cup

freshman Payten Smith all picked up bronze medals at the nationals in St. Louis, Missouri last weekend.

Lloyd, ranked third in the tournament, won her first four matches and was leading on points in the final before she was caught in an attempted throw and pinned in the first round

by Cody Pfau of Oklahoma City University in the championship final.

Lloyd upset second seeded Breonah Neal of King University in a narrow decision in the semifinal.

Halvorson, the No. 2-ranked wrestler at 155 lbs., was upset in the quarter-final by Diaysha Moore of Lindenwood University, but came back to earn the bronze with a 7-3 decision over Alexis Porter of Mckendree University.

Huckle also won bronze

at 101 lbs. in her third consecutive All-American showing at the women’s nationals. She lost to the eventual titlist four-time champion Emily Webster of Oklahoma City by a technical fall in the semifinal.

Huckle went on to defeat Tayler Resuriz of Mckendree by a 3-0 decision before taking the bronze on a forfeit.

Smith was a surprise

of the nationals, earning SFU’s third bronze medal despite coming into the tournament ranked ninth at 191 lbs.

The Sport B.C. high school athlete of the year finalist won five of her six matches at the nationals by a fall. Her lone loss came in the quarter-finals to Jackie Williams of King University.

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EDC FC Burnaby moved into the quarter-finals of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League Imperial Cup. The premier division club blanked first-division opponent Rino’s Vancouver A 3-0 at Point Grey turf last Sunday.

Brendan Djambarov, with an unstoppable first-half strike from 20 yards out off a Chris Kyd corner kick, scored what proved to be the game winner.

Michael North and Tarek Yassing tallied second-half counters for EDC, while Hugo Vasquez registered the shutout in goal.

Leading team scorer Rizal Ganief did much of the work on the second marker, winning a couple of battles at the top of the box before passing off to North, who went man-on-man with the Vancouver keeper.

Ducivan Desouza set up Estrella de Chile’s 3-0 goal in the 18-yard box with Yassing beating the charging keeper to the ball with a sliding score.

“Rino’s came out very strong and were really working hard – a little more effort than skill – But we played a very sound match and our experience showed in the end,” said EDC head coach Claudio Ramirez.

Chile play league secondplace ICST Pegasus in the third round of the Imperial Cup. The Burnaby-based Chiliens defeated Pegasus 4-2 in a league meeting a few weeks back, but Ramirez has no delusions that Friday’s meeting will be nothing less than a very tough matchup. “(Pegasus) plays a similar brand and likes to keep the ball on the ground.They have a very experienced team and are extremely organized.We like playing them because of those reasons and have built a very good rivalry with them,” Ramirez said. “We look forward to challenging them and giving them a solid run.”

EDC and Peg play off at Newton Athletic Park today (Friday) at 8:45 p.m.

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STM and South move on Zion Corrales-Nelson led a fourth-quarter charge that put St.Thomas More in the final of the B.C. high school girls’ AA Lower Mainland basketball final.

Trailing by six points to Independent No. 3 Notre Dame with four minutes left to play, STM went on a final 14-4 run to win 63-59 and advance to the championship final at STM tonight (Friday) at 5:30 p.m.

Corrales-Nelson netted 13 points, including 11 in the second half. Leilani Carney and Xenia Dumont

chipped in with 11 points apiece.

Notre Dame’s Jolene Robinson led all scorers with 27 points.

SOUTH TO 4A SEMIFINAL Burnaby South put up a century against Kitsilano, winning 102-82, to earn a spot in the semifinals of the B.C. high school Lower Mainland quad A boys’ basketball championships.

South had three players boast 20-point games, including guard Jermaine Haley, who led all scorers with

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26 points, including four alley-oop dunks. Nic Trninic and Tyus Batiste scored 23 and 20 points, respectively.

Kits shooters showed a weakness in South’s defensive game, something Rebel coach Mike Bell says the team must work on.

“We’re not going to be able to play that loose,” Bell said after the game. “We’ll have to play a little tighter.

It’s going to get tougher.”

South faces David Thompson at Richmond Oval on Feb. 25 at 6:15 p.m.

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Smith upset No. 2 seed Heather O’Connor of Oklahoma City by a pin in the consolation semifinal. She went on to earn the bronze by fall over Jackie Williams of King in the third-place match.

SFU had four other wrestlers earn All-

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